Analytical Skills Contracts in the Thames Valley

Analytical Skills
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 16 25
Rank change year-on-year +3 +9 0
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 268 263 255
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 10.15% 9.18% 7.11%
As % of the General category 18.33% 15.02% 11.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 181 147
10th Percentile £243 £360 £306
25th Percentile £363 £450 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £530 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +17.78% -4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £638
South East median daily rate £530 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -3.64% +15.79% -2.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 5 12
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.04 £12.07
25th Percentile £18.00 £17.25 £12.25
Median hourly rate £23.22 £21.00 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.55% +61.54% +0.15%
75th Percentile £48.75 £25.50 £13.19
90th Percentile £61.74 £28.34 £50.88
South East median hourly rate £18.18 £55.00 £29.11
% change year-on-year -66.95% +88.94% +4.98%

All General Skills
Thames Valley

Analytical Skills is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,462 1,751 2,179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 55.36% 61.14% 60.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 773 1,126 1,413
10th Percentile £205 £275 £213
25th Percentile £333 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +3.26%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 43 68
10th Percentile £17.62 £14.45 £11.18
25th Percentile £22.58 £20.25 £13.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £28.16 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +77.56% +60.91% -16.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.56 £23.75
90th Percentile £77.19 £75.40 £49.88
South East median hourly rate £45.00 £50.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -10.00% +150.00% -23.08%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Analytical Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in the Thames Valley

Analytical Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Analytical Skills in the Thames Valley

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the Thames Valley

Analytical Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Skills in the Thames Valley

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Skills in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the Thames Valley

Analytical Skills
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analytical Skills within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +1 207 £578 +5.05% 115
Buckinghamshire +15 53 £370 -26.00% 56
Oxfordshire +2 8 £488 -4.41% 70
Analytical Skills
South East

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (2.99%) SAS
2 7 (2.61%) Confluence
3 4 (1.49%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.12%) Appian
5 2 (0.75%) Apache
5 2 (0.75%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 27 (10.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (9.33%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (2.61%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (1.12%) Sketch
4 3 (1.12%) SPSS
5 2 (0.75%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (4.10%) Oracle EBS R12
2 10 (3.73%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 7 (2.61%) Primavera
4 6 (2.24%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (1.87%) Maximo
6 3 (1.12%) SAP IS-U
6 3 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.37%) Epicor Tropos
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.37%) PeopleSoft HRMS
7 1 (0.37%) SAP PLM
7 1 (0.37%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 62 (23.13%) Azure
2 26 (9.70%) Power Platform
3 24 (8.96%) Snowflake
4 21 (7.84%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (5.97%) Azure Monitor
6 15 (5.60%) Azure Data Factory
7 14 (5.22%) AWS
7 14 (5.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 14 (5.22%) Serverless
8 13 (4.85%) Azure Functions
9 12 (4.48%) Entra ID
10 6 (2.24%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (1.87%) Smartsheet
12 4 (1.49%) Figma
12 4 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (1.49%) Power Automate
12 4 (1.49%) PowerApps
13 3 (1.12%) SaaS
14 2 (0.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 2 (0.75%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.61%) VPN
2 5 (1.87%) WAN
3 4 (1.49%) Firewall
3 4 (1.49%) Radio Access Network
4 3 (1.12%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (1.12%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (1.12%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.75%) Intranet
6 1 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.37%) LAN
6 1 (0.37%) LTE
6 1 (0.37%) MPLS
6 1 (0.37%) Network Security
6 1 (0.37%) SSL
6 1 (0.37%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (11.94%) Tableau
2 25 (9.33%) Power BI
3 13 (4.85%) NoSQL
4 8 (2.99%) Data Lake
5 6 (2.24%) Big Data
5 6 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.87%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.49%) Power Query
8 3 (1.12%) Data Mining
8 3 (1.12%) PowerPivot
8 3 (1.12%) Qlik Sense
8 3 (1.12%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 3 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.75%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.75%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (0.75%) SSDT
10 1 (0.37%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.37%) DTS
10 1 (0.37%) MySQL
10 1 (0.37%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 34 (12.69%) Selenium
2 25 (9.33%) Cucumber
2 25 (9.33%) Jenkins
3 24 (8.96%) JIRA
3 24 (8.96%) REST Assured
3 24 (8.96%) SonarQube
4 16 (5.97%) Git
5 13 (4.85%) GitLab
6 9 (3.36%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (1.12%) Robot Framework
7 3 (1.12%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.75%) Postman
8 2 (0.75%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.37%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.37%) ERwin
9 1 (0.37%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.37%) MLflow
9 1 (0.37%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.37%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.37%) Xcode
General
1 139 (51.87%) Social Skills
2 60 (22.39%) Finance
3 32 (11.94%) Legal
4 26 (9.70%) Telecoms
5 20 (7.46%) Law
6 19 (7.09%) Retail
7 13 (4.85%) Police
8 12 (4.48%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (4.10%) Public Sector
10 8 (2.99%) Marketing
11 7 (2.61%) Billing
11 7 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (2.61%) Manufacturing
12 6 (2.24%) Banking
13 5 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.49%) Automotive
14 4 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (1.12%) General Ledger
15 3 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
16 2 (0.75%) Environmental Health
Job Titles
1 82 (30.60%) Analyst
2 30 (11.19%) Developer
3 29 (10.82%) Lead
4 24 (8.96%) Consultant
5 22 (8.21%) Data Analyst
6 18 (6.72%) Functional Consultant
6 18 (6.72%) Senior
7 17 (6.34%) Java Engineer
8 14 (5.22%) Full Stack Developer
9 13 (4.85%) Azure Developer
9 13 (4.85%) Oracle Consultant
9 13 (4.85%) Oracle Functional Consultant
10 11 (4.10%) Architect
10 11 (4.10%) Financial Analyst
10 11 (4.10%) Performance Manager
11 9 (3.36%) Project Manager
12 8 (2.99%) IT Manager
12 8 (2.99%) IT Operations Manager
12 8 (2.99%) Oracle P2P Consultant
13 7 (2.61%) Project Planner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (9.33%) Java EE
1 25 (9.33%) REST
2 17 (6.34%) React
3 12 (4.48%) ARM Templates
4 10 (3.73%) HTML
5 9 (3.36%) CSS
6 4 (1.49%) PySpark
7 3 (1.12%) .NET
7 3 (1.12%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.12%) D3.js
7 3 (1.12%) EDI
7 3 (1.12%) Node.js
7 3 (1.12%) XML
8 2 (0.75%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.75%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (0.75%) Snowpark
8 2 (0.75%) YAML
9 1 (0.37%) Google JAX
9 1 (0.37%) PyTorch
9 1 (0.37%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.34%) Credit Risk
2 15 (5.60%) Product Ownership
3 10 (3.73%) Management Information System
4 7 (2.61%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (2.61%) Client/Server
4 7 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.24%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (1.49%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.49%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.12%) Biopharmaceutical
8 3 (1.12%) CCTV
8 3 (1.12%) Life Science
8 3 (1.12%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.12%) SCADA
8 3 (1.12%) Wiki
9 2 (0.75%) PMI
9 2 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.37%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.21%) Windows
2 12 (4.48%) Linux
3 9 (3.36%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.87%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.75%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.37%) Android
7 1 (0.37%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (50.75%) Problem-Solving
2 68 (25.37%) DevOps
3 66 (24.63%) Decision-Making
4 65 (24.25%) Agile
5 42 (15.67%) Analytics
6 39 (14.55%) Test Automation
7 32 (11.94%) Continuous Improvement
8 31 (11.57%) Business Intelligence
9 28 (10.45%) Technical Leadership
10 26 (9.70%) Actionable Insight
10 26 (9.70%) Continuous Integration
11 25 (9.33%) Software Architecture
12 24 (8.96%) Software Engineering
13 23 (8.58%) Project Management
14 22 (8.21%) Change Management
15 21 (7.84%) CI/CD
16 20 (7.46%) Customer Experience
16 20 (7.46%) Dashboard Development
16 20 (7.46%) Data Protection
17 19 (7.09%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 39 (14.55%) Python
2 33 (12.31%) Java
3 27 (10.07%) SQL
4 9 (3.36%) JavaScript
4 9 (3.36%) PowerShell
5 8 (2.99%) VBScript
6 6 (2.24%) C
7 5 (1.87%) R
8 4 (1.49%) VBA
9 3 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.75%) C#
10 2 (0.75%) PHP
11 1 (0.37%) C++
11 1 (0.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 60 (22.39%) Security Cleared
2 45 (16.79%) Degree
3 39 (14.55%) SC Cleared
4 21 (7.84%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.49%) ACCA
5 4 (1.49%) CIMA
5 4 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.49%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.12%) CCNA
6 3 (1.12%) CCNP
6 3 (1.12%) Network+ Certification
6 3 (1.12%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.75%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.75%) MBA
7 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.75%) PgMP
8 1 (0.37%) ACSP
8 1 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.96%) QA
2 13 (4.85%) GDPR
3 6 (2.24%) SLA
4 5 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (1.12%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.75%) PMO
8 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.37%) IFRS
8 1 (0.37%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.37%) NIST
8 1 (0.37%) P3O
System Software
1 14 (5.22%) Active Directory
2 12 (4.48%) Docker
3 10 (3.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (8.96%) Ansible
2 15 (5.60%) Terraform
3 14 (5.22%) Kubernetes
4 12 (4.48%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (4.48%) Podman
5 2 (0.75%) SCOM
6 1 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 43 (16.04%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.96%) Alteryx
3 17 (6.34%) Oracle
4 14 (5.22%) Salesforce
5 10 (3.73%) VMware
6 8 (2.99%) SAP
6 8 (2.99%) Splunk
7 6 (2.24%) OneTrust
8 5 (1.87%) Databricks
8 5 (1.87%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.49%) Apple
9 4 (1.49%) BT
9 4 (1.49%) CheckPoint
9 4 (1.49%) Cisco
9 4 (1.49%) OpenText
9 4 (1.49%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.49%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.12%) IFS
11 2 (0.75%) Adobe
12 1 (0.37%) IBM