Analytical Skills Contracts in the UK excluding London

Analytical Skills
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 20 30
Rank change year-on-year +2 +10 0
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,574 1,803 1,924
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.75% 7.84% 6.32%
As % of the General category 14.26% 13.86% 11.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 986 1,227 1,250
10th Percentile £275 £257 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £498 £465
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% +6.99% +9.41%
75th Percentile £613 £594 £550
90th Percentile £700 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 63 125
10th Percentile £11.75 £20.59 £12.30
25th Percentile £12.75 £22.63 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.50 £49.57 £32.40
Median % change year-on-year -66.71% +52.99% +72.80%
75th Percentile £25.27 £58.75 £51.45
90th Percentile £43.75 £66.00 £58.16
UK median hourly rate £18.00 £40.25 £39.50
% change year-on-year -55.28% +1.90% +74.05%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,038 13,006 16,989
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.38% 56.52% 55.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,309 8,866 11,696
10th Percentile £208 £230 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +5.26% +8.94%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,650 739 1,034
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.90 £14.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £29.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +52.63% -2.56%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.16 £36.12
90th Percentile £67.04 £70.00 £55.81
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +44.44% -

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Analytical Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London

Analytical Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London

Analytical Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London

Analytical Skills
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
South East -1 414 £534 -2.85% 726
North of England +3 335 £500 +5.26% 738
South West +20 254 £525 - 328
Midlands +1 231 £525 +10.53% 516
Scotland +1 204 £475 -0.78% 126
West Midlands 0 174 £532 +11.89% 309
North West -1 168 £475 +6.74% 382
Yorkshire +13 143 £503 -4.29% 270
East of England -1 104 £500 +33.33% 283
East Midlands +1 52 £450 +2.86% 208
Wales +10 33 £525 +40.00% 68
North East +18 22 £590 +45.23% 92
Northern Ireland -5 10 £513 +20.59% 27
Isle of Man - 2 £388 - 4
Analytical Skills
UK

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 88 (5.59%) Confluence
2 41 (2.60%) SharePoint
3 39 (2.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.76%) Apache
4 12 (0.76%) SAS
5 11 (0.70%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.51%) Tomcat
7 7 (0.44%) CMS
7 7 (0.44%) IIS
8 4 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.25%) Appian
9 3 (0.19%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.19%) Drupal
9 3 (0.19%) IBM HTTP Server
9 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.19%) WebSphere Application Server
9 3 (0.19%) WebSphere Portal
10 2 (0.13%) IBM Domino
10 2 (0.13%) IBM Notes
10 2 (0.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 185 (11.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 122 (7.75%) Microsoft Office
3 46 (2.92%) Microsoft Project
4 45 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 38 (2.41%) Spreadsheet
6 22 (1.40%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.51%) Acrobat
8 4 (0.25%) Sketch
8 4 (0.25%) SPSS
9 3 (0.19%) MicroStation
10 2 (0.13%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.13%) InVision
11 1 (0.064%) Abaqus
11 1 (0.064%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.064%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.064%) Autodesk Inventor
11 1 (0.064%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.064%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.064%) Simulink
11 1 (0.064%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 36 (2.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.89%) Oracle EBS
2 14 (0.89%) Oracle EBS R12
3 12 (0.76%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 9 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
4 9 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
4 9 (0.57%) SAP ERP
4 9 (0.57%) SAP HCM
4 9 (0.57%) Teamcenter
5 8 (0.51%) Maximo
5 8 (0.51%) Primavera
5 8 (0.51%) SAP HR
6 7 (0.44%) SAP CO
6 7 (0.44%) SAP FI
6 7 (0.44%) SAP FI/CO
6 7 (0.44%) SAP SD
7 6 (0.38%) Oracle Cash Management
7 6 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
9 4 (0.25%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 196 (12.45%) Azure
2 175 (11.12%) Power Platform
3 103 (6.54%) AWS
4 62 (3.94%) Microsoft 365
5 44 (2.80%) GCP
5 44 (2.80%) Snowflake
6 39 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
7 35 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
8 28 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
9 25 (1.59%) OCI
10 21 (1.33%) Entra ID
10 21 (1.33%) PowerApps
11 19 (1.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 18 (1.14%) SaaS
13 17 (1.08%) Azure Monitor
14 16 (1.02%) Serverless
15 15 (0.95%) GitHub
16 14 (0.89%) SuccessFactors
17 13 (0.83%) Power Automate
18 12 (0.76%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 54 (3.43%) Network Security
2 46 (2.92%) DNS
3 39 (2.48%) Firewall
4 37 (2.35%) VPN
5 33 (2.10%) DHCP
6 29 (1.84%) WAN
7 28 (1.78%) LAN
8 27 (1.72%) TCP/IP
9 25 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
10 20 (1.27%) SAN
10 20 (1.27%) VLAN
11 19 (1.21%) Intrusion Detection
12 17 (1.08%) HTTP
12 17 (1.08%) Internet
12 17 (1.08%) MPLS
13 13 (0.83%) Wireless
14 12 (0.76%) SSL
15 10 (0.64%) BGP
15 10 (0.64%) Cisco Nexus
16 9 (0.57%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (10.67%) Power BI
2 91 (5.78%) Tableau
3 51 (3.24%) SQL Server
4 35 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
5 33 (2.10%) Big Data
6 28 (1.78%) Relational Database
7 22 (1.40%) Oracle Reports
8 21 (1.33%) Data Lake
9 20 (1.27%) Data Mining
9 20 (1.27%) NoSQL
10 19 (1.21%) Oracle Database
11 17 (1.08%) Metadata
11 17 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 15 (0.95%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 14 (0.89%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 12 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
14 12 (0.76%) GIS
14 12 (0.76%) Hadoop
15 11 (0.70%) Power Query
16 7 (0.44%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 155 (9.85%) JIRA
2 67 (4.26%) Jenkins
3 49 (3.11%) Git
4 44 (2.80%) Selenium
5 29 (1.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 26 (1.65%) Cucumber
7 25 (1.59%) GitLab
8 24 (1.52%) REST Assured
8 24 (1.52%) SonarQube
9 21 (1.33%) Bitbucket
10 13 (0.83%) Oracle APEX
11 10 (0.64%) Oracle Forms
11 10 (0.64%) Travis CI
12 9 (0.57%) CircleCI
13 6 (0.38%) LoadRunner
13 6 (0.38%) Robot Framework
14 5 (0.32%) JMeter
14 5 (0.32%) Visual Studio
15 4 (0.25%) JUnit
16 3 (0.19%) ERwin
General
1 903 (57.37%) Social Skills
2 332 (21.09%) Finance
3 182 (11.56%) Public Sector
4 89 (5.65%) Presentation Skills
5 85 (5.40%) Legal
6 83 (5.27%) Organisational Skills
7 66 (4.19%) Manufacturing
8 59 (3.75%) Banking
9 55 (3.49%) Telecoms
10 49 (3.11%) Marketing
11 42 (2.67%) Retail
12 41 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
13 37 (2.35%) Military
14 35 (2.22%) Aerospace
15 27 (1.72%) Law
16 23 (1.46%) Local Government
16 23 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
17 22 (1.40%) Police
18 17 (1.08%) Electronics
18 17 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 374 (23.76%) Analyst
2 130 (8.26%) Lead
3 123 (7.81%) Developer
4 118 (7.50%) Architect
5 117 (7.43%) Senior
6 88 (5.59%) Data Analyst
7 77 (4.89%) Consultant
8 73 (4.64%) Business Analyst
9 69 (4.38%) Project Manager
10 49 (3.11%) Solutions Architect
11 46 (2.92%) IT Engineer
12 43 (2.73%) Data Engineer
13 35 (2.22%) Network Engineer
14 34 (2.16%) Service Analyst
14 34 (2.16%) Support Engineer
15 32 (2.03%) Senior Analyst
16 31 (1.97%) Field Engineer
17 30 (1.91%) Service Desk Analyst
17 30 (1.91%) Test Engineer
18 29 (1.84%) Field Service Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (3.05%) REST
2 43 (2.73%) .NET
3 31 (1.97%) HTML
4 30 (1.91%) CSS
5 27 (1.72%) React
6 25 (1.59%) Java EE
7 23 (1.46%) .NET Core
8 19 (1.21%) Kafka
9 18 (1.14%) XML
10 17 (1.08%) Web Services
11 15 (0.95%) Apache NiFi
12 14 (0.89%) JSON
13 12 (0.76%) ARM Templates
13 12 (0.76%) Middleware
14 11 (0.70%) Elastic Stack
14 11 (0.70%) PySpark
15 10 (0.64%) .NET Framework
15 10 (0.64%) Oracle Fusion
16 9 (0.57%) RESTful
16 9 (0.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 152 (9.66%) Management Information System
2 88 (5.59%) Analytical Mindset
3 76 (4.83%) Product Ownership
4 69 (4.38%) Self-Motivation
5 38 (2.41%) Data Centre
6 37 (2.35%) Cyber Defence
7 30 (1.91%) Data Structures
8 24 (1.52%) Credit Risk
9 23 (1.46%) PKI
10 22 (1.40%) Client/Server
10 22 (1.40%) Onboarding
10 22 (1.40%) Operational Technology
10 22 (1.40%) Virtual Team
11 21 (1.33%) Distributed Applications
11 21 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
11 21 (1.33%) Replication
12 20 (1.27%) Security Operations Centre
13 18 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
14 16 (1.02%) Clustering
14 16 (1.02%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 185 (11.75%) Windows
2 115 (7.31%) Linux
3 57 (3.62%) Windows Server
4 55 (3.49%) Unix
5 28 (1.78%) Apple iOS
6 25 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 24 (1.52%) Windows Server 2012
8 20 (1.27%) Android
8 20 (1.27%) Windows 10
9 15 (0.95%) Windows 7
10 13 (0.83%) Mac OS
11 6 (0.38%) AIX
12 5 (0.32%) Solaris
13 4 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
14 3 (0.19%) Kali Linux
15 2 (0.13%) CentOS
16 1 (0.064%) VMS
16 1 (0.064%) Windows 8
16 1 (0.064%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 911 (57.88%) Problem-Solving
2 371 (23.57%) Agile
3 249 (15.82%) Project Management
4 198 (12.58%) Business Intelligence
5 177 (11.25%) Stakeholder Management
6 167 (10.61%) Decision-Making
7 164 (10.42%) Analytics
8 162 (10.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 153 (9.72%) DevOps
10 122 (7.75%) Customer Service
11 114 (7.24%) Cybersecurity
12 112 (7.12%) Change Management
13 111 (7.05%) Computer Science
14 109 (6.93%) ITIL
15 101 (6.42%) Data Analysis
16 93 (5.91%) Migration
17 91 (5.78%) Service Management
18 89 (5.65%) Project Delivery
19 88 (5.59%) Visualisation
20 86 (5.46%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 207 (13.15%) SQL
2 159 (10.10%) Python
3 92 (5.84%) Java
4 84 (5.34%) PowerShell
5 43 (2.73%) JavaScript
6 28 (1.78%) C#
7 22 (1.40%) PL/SQL
8 20 (1.27%) T-SQL
9 16 (1.02%) C
9 16 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 16 (1.02%) R
10 14 (0.89%) Bash
10 14 (0.89%) VBScript
11 12 (0.76%) Shell Script
12 10 (0.64%) Scala
13 9 (0.57%) Perl
13 9 (0.57%) VBA
14 8 (0.51%) TypeScript
15 5 (0.32%) Apex Code
15 5 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 381 (24.21%) Security Cleared
2 298 (18.93%) Degree
3 223 (14.17%) SC Cleared
4 150 (9.53%) DV Cleared
5 74 (4.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 54 (3.43%) Microsoft Certification
7 47 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
8 42 (2.67%) MCSE
9 40 (2.54%) Master's Degree
10 32 (2.03%) CCNA
11 28 (1.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 27 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
13 26 (1.65%) CISSP
14 25 (1.59%) APMP
15 21 (1.33%) MCSA
16 20 (1.27%) CCNP
17 19 (1.21%) PMI Certification
18 16 (1.02%) Network+ Certification
18 16 (1.02%) PMP
19 15 (0.95%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (4.38%) QA
2 68 (4.32%) SLA
3 54 (3.43%) Data Quality
4 51 (3.24%) PMO
5 47 (2.99%) GDPR
6 23 (1.46%) Accessibility
7 19 (1.21%) Actionable Recommendations
8 17 (1.08%) Disclosure Scotland
9 14 (0.89%) NIST
10 12 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 8 (0.51%) NIST 800
12 7 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.44%) GRC
12 7 (0.44%) GxP
12 7 (0.44%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.38%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.32%) GAMP
15 4 (0.25%) Def Stans
15 4 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 4 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 89 (5.65%) Active Directory
2 70 (4.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (2.10%) Docker
4 15 (0.95%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
5 10 (0.64%) vSphere
6 9 (0.57%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.57%) VMware Workstation
7 8 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.32%) Firmware
9 3 (0.19%) OpenAM
9 3 (0.19%) OpenIDM
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (0.19%) SRDF
9 3 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.13%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.13%) HDFS
10 2 (0.13%) KVM
10 2 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.064%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 84 (5.34%) Ansible
2 42 (2.67%) Kubernetes
3 38 (2.41%) SCCM
4 34 (2.16%) Terraform
5 30 (1.91%) Puppet
6 26 (1.65%) NetBackup
7 21 (1.33%) Docker Swarm
8 20 (1.27%) PowerCLI
9 14 (0.89%) Kibana
10 13 (0.83%) Grafana
10 13 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
11 12 (0.76%) Podman
11 12 (0.76%) Prometheus
12 11 (0.70%) logstash
12 11 (0.70%) Progress Chef
13 10 (0.64%) Nagios
14 8 (0.51%) Microsoft Clustering
15 6 (0.38%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
15 6 (0.38%) vCenter Server
16 5 (0.32%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 315 (20.01%) Microsoft
2 104 (6.61%) SAP
3 92 (5.84%) Oracle
4 83 (5.27%) VMware
5 46 (2.92%) Cisco
6 35 (2.22%) ServiceNow
7 34 (2.16%) Alteryx
7 34 (2.16%) Splunk
8 33 (2.10%) Dell
9 31 (1.97%) Atlassian
9 31 (1.97%) Google
10 29 (1.84%) Salesforce
11 24 (1.52%) HP
12 22 (1.40%) Red Hat
13 19 (1.21%) Citrix
14 18 (1.14%) Veritas
15 17 (1.08%) IBM
15 17 (1.08%) Juniper
16 15 (0.95%) Brocade
17 13 (0.83%) Adobe