Analytical Skills Contracts

Analytical Skills
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 25 28
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 +7
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,471 4,294 5,766
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 8.04% 7.27% 6.50%
As % of the General category 13.83% 12.43% 11.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,231 2,796 3,725
10th Percentile £306 £300 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.38%
75th Percentile £639 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £485 £463
% change year-on-year +3.30% +4.86% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 127 176
10th Percentile £11.75 £21.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.25 £22.50 £18.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £43.86 £37.83
Median % change year-on-year -58.96% +15.95% +64.47%
75th Percentile £26.98 £58.67 £51.75
90th Percentile £46.68 £72.98 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.50 £49.57 £32.40
% change year-on-year -64.70% +52.99% +72.80%

All General Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 25,093 34,536 49,876
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.14% 58.47% 56.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,826 23,949 34,580
10th Percentile £275 £313 £319
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.34%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £766 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,938 1,057 1,434
10th Percentile £12.77 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.98 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +47.73% -2.22%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £47.25
90th Percentile £65.01 £72.50 £58.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.25 £29.00 £18.75
% change year-on-year -2.59% +54.67% -5.71%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Analytical Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Top 18 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 5 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
England +5 2,933 £538 +2.38% 4,247
UK excluding London +2 1,600 £501 +3.30% 2,691
London +2 1,483 £550 -4.35% 1,704
Work from Home +6 1,156 £500 -3.29% 1,559
South East 0 420 £538 +0.23% 632
North of England +5 332 £500 +5.26% 705
South West +25 259 £525 - 391
Midlands +1 233 £525 +11.70% 509
Scotland -1 211 £475 - 147
West Midlands 0 175 £550 +15.79% 297
North West +2 172 £488 +11.11% 379
Yorkshire +13 135 £514 -2.10% 258
East of England -4 112 £500 +33.33% 279
East Midlands +4 53 £450 - 212
Wales +9 33 £525 +16.67% 71
North East +24 24 £590 +124.76% 75
Northern Ireland +1 13 £419 -1.47% 35
Isle of Man - 2 £388 - 4

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 142 (4.09%) Confluence
2 93 (2.68%) SharePoint
3 63 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 54 (1.56%) Apache Spark
5 33 (0.95%) Apache
6 19 (0.55%) SAS
7 17 (0.49%) CMS
7 17 (0.49%) Tomcat
8 11 (0.32%) nginx
9 10 (0.29%) IIS
10 9 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
10 9 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2013
11 8 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2010
11 8 (0.23%) JBoss
11 8 (0.23%) WebSphere
12 6 (0.17%) ArcGIS
13 5 (0.14%) Appian
13 5 (0.14%) CICS
14 4 (0.12%) IBM Domino
14 4 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 331 (9.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 215 (6.19%) Microsoft Office
3 108 (3.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 72 (2.07%) MS Visio
5 60 (1.73%) Microsoft Project
6 49 (1.41%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.32%) SPSS
8 10 (0.29%) Sketch
9 8 (0.23%) Acrobat
10 6 (0.17%) Adobe XD
11 5 (0.14%) AutoCAD
11 5 (0.14%) InVision
12 4 (0.12%) Revit
13 3 (0.086%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 3 (0.086%) MicroStation
13 3 (0.086%) Windchill
14 2 (0.058%) Mingle
15 1 (0.029%) Abaqus
15 1 (0.029%) Simulink
15 1 (0.029%) Trello
Business Applications
1 61 (1.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (0.84%) Oracle EBS
3 28 (0.81%) Dynamics AX
4 26 (0.75%) Endur
5 22 (0.63%) Oracle EBS R12
5 22 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
6 17 (0.49%) Maximo
6 17 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
7 16 (0.46%) Oracle General Ledger
8 15 (0.43%) Oracle Assets
8 15 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 15 (0.43%) SAP HCM
8 15 (0.43%) SAP SD
9 13 (0.37%) Aligne
9 13 (0.37%) Oracle AGIS
9 13 (0.37%) SAP CO
9 13 (0.37%) SAP FI
9 13 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
9 13 (0.37%) Teamcenter
10 12 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 504 (14.52%) Azure
2 349 (10.05%) Power Platform
3 291 (8.38%) AWS
4 154 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
5 112 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
6 108 (3.11%) GCP
7 76 (2.19%) Dynamics 365
8 71 (2.05%) PowerApps
9 66 (1.90%) Power Automate
10 59 (1.70%) Azure Data Factory
11 57 (1.64%) Snowflake
12 55 (1.58%) Serverless
13 53 (1.53%) GitHub
14 43 (1.24%) SaaS
15 39 (1.12%) Entra ID
16 36 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
17 35 (1.01%) OCI
18 27 (0.78%) Azure Sentinel
19 26 (0.75%) Amazon S3
19 26 (0.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 115 (3.31%) Firewall
2 94 (2.71%) Network Security
3 77 (2.22%) DNS
4 75 (2.16%) VPN
5 59 (1.70%) WAN
6 53 (1.53%) LAN
7 42 (1.21%) Wireless
8 41 (1.18%) DHCP
9 39 (1.12%) TCP/IP
10 34 (0.98%) BGP
10 34 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
11 30 (0.86%) Intrusion Detection
12 28 (0.81%) OSPF
13 26 (0.75%) HTTP
13 26 (0.75%) MPLS
14 24 (0.69%) Internet
14 24 (0.69%) VLAN
15 22 (0.63%) Cisco Nexus
15 22 (0.63%) SAN
16 15 (0.43%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 332 (9.56%) Power BI
2 164 (4.72%) Tableau
3 153 (4.41%) SQL Server
4 104 (3.00%) Relational Database
5 102 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
6 101 (2.91%) Big Data
7 80 (2.30%) Data Lake
8 63 (1.82%) NoSQL
9 50 (1.44%) Hadoop
10 49 (1.41%) Metadata
11 45 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
12 40 (1.15%) MongoDB
13 39 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 35 (1.01%) Data Mining
15 34 (0.98%) Oracle Reports
16 31 (0.89%) RDBMS
17 27 (0.78%) Oracle Database
18 26 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 23 (0.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
20 22 (0.63%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 308 (8.87%) JIRA
2 115 (3.31%) Git
3 86 (2.48%) Jenkins
4 57 (1.64%) GitLab
5 54 (1.56%) Selenium
6 40 (1.15%) Cucumber
7 34 (0.98%) TeamCity
8 32 (0.92%) Bitbucket
9 27 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 25 (0.72%) REST Assured
11 24 (0.69%) Cypress.io
11 24 (0.69%) SonarQube
12 22 (0.63%) webpack
13 20 (0.58%) Maven
14 14 (0.40%) Oracle APEX
15 13 (0.37%) JUnit
15 13 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
15 13 (0.37%) Visual Studio
16 11 (0.32%) Postman
17 10 (0.29%) JMeter
General
1 1,917 (55.23%) Social Skills
2 971 (27.97%) Finance
3 318 (9.16%) Public Sector
4 237 (6.83%) Banking
5 198 (5.70%) Presentation Skills
6 151 (4.35%) Marketing
7 144 (4.15%) Legal
8 141 (4.06%) Organisational Skills
9 121 (3.49%) Retail
10 105 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
11 103 (2.97%) Front Office
12 101 (2.91%) Manufacturing
13 95 (2.74%) Telecoms
14 63 (1.82%) Investment Banking
15 51 (1.47%) Law
16 46 (1.33%) General Ledger
17 44 (1.27%) Military
18 42 (1.21%) Local Government
19 39 (1.12%) Financial Institution
20 35 (1.01%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 793 (22.85%) Analyst
2 401 (11.55%) Developer
3 267 (7.69%) Architect
4 253 (7.29%) Business Analyst
5 251 (7.23%) Senior
6 249 (7.17%) Consultant
7 230 (6.63%) Lead
8 167 (4.81%) Data Analyst
9 142 (4.09%) Project Manager
10 108 (3.11%) Data Engineer
11 100 (2.88%) Solutions Architect
12 69 (1.99%) Senior Analyst
13 68 (1.96%) IT Engineer
14 63 (1.82%) Network Engineer
15 60 (1.73%) Support Engineer
16 59 (1.70%) Service Analyst
17 56 (1.61%) Administrator
18 54 (1.56%) Full Stack Developer
19 53 (1.53%) IT Analyst
20 52 (1.50%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (3.17%) React
2 99 (2.85%) HTML
2 99 (2.85%) REST
3 98 (2.82%) CSS
4 91 (2.62%) .NET
5 70 (2.02%) AngularJS
6 58 (1.67%) XML
7 56 (1.61%) Kafka
8 48 (1.38%) Node.js
9 46 (1.33%) Web Services
10 41 (1.18%) JSON
10 41 (1.18%) RESTful
11 35 (1.01%) .NET Core
12 34 (0.98%) Middleware
13 33 (0.95%) PySpark
14 28 (0.81%) Spring
14 28 (0.81%) WebSockets
15 25 (0.72%) Java EE
16 22 (0.63%) ASP.NET
16 22 (0.63%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 269 (7.75%) Management Information System
2 188 (5.42%) Analytical Mindset
3 146 (4.21%) Self-Motivation
4 129 (3.72%) Product Ownership
5 91 (2.62%) Data Structures
6 77 (2.22%) Algorithms
7 56 (1.61%) Data Centre
8 47 (1.35%) Derivative
9 46 (1.33%) Cyber Defence
9 46 (1.33%) Onboarding
10 43 (1.24%) Cyber Threat
11 38 (1.09%) Fixed Income
12 35 (1.01%) Virtual Team
13 33 (0.95%) Security Operations Centre
14 32 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
15 31 (0.89%) Credit Risk
15 31 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 31 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
15 31 (0.89%) PKI
15 31 (0.89%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 318 (9.16%) Windows
2 219 (6.31%) Linux
3 129 (3.72%) Unix
4 92 (2.65%) Windows Server
5 46 (1.33%) Windows 10
6 38 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 37 (1.07%) Windows 7
8 35 (1.01%) Windows Server 2012
9 31 (0.89%) Apple iOS
10 29 (0.84%) Android
11 20 (0.58%) Mac OS
12 12 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
13 11 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
14 7 (0.20%) AIX
14 7 (0.20%) Kali Linux
14 7 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
14 7 (0.20%) zOS
15 4 (0.12%) Solaris
16 3 (0.086%) Ubuntu
17 1 (0.029%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,981 (57.07%) Problem-Solving
2 868 (25.01%) Agile
3 536 (15.44%) Project Management
4 430 (12.39%) Business Intelligence
5 412 (11.87%) Analytics
6 359 (10.34%) Decision-Making
7 344 (9.91%) Continuous Improvement
8 331 (9.54%) Computer Science
9 323 (9.31%) Stakeholder Management
10 317 (9.13%) DevOps
11 275 (7.92%) Data Modelling
12 272 (7.84%) Data Analysis
13 232 (6.68%) Migration
14 222 (6.40%) Customer Service
15 221 (6.37%) Change Management
16 220 (6.34%) Cybersecurity
16 220 (6.34%) Visualisation
17 218 (6.28%) ITIL
18 205 (5.91%) Roadmaps
19 188 (5.42%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 578 (16.65%) SQL
2 426 (12.27%) Python
3 245 (7.06%) Java
4 156 (4.49%) JavaScript
5 131 (3.77%) PowerShell
6 130 (3.75%) C#
7 71 (2.05%) TypeScript
8 62 (1.79%) Scala
9 59 (1.70%) R
10 58 (1.67%) PL/SQL
11 41 (1.18%) Shell Script
12 37 (1.07%) C++
12 37 (1.07%) T-SQL
13 34 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 30 (0.86%) Perl
15 21 (0.61%) Go
16 20 (0.58%) Bash
17 17 (0.49%) C
17 17 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
17 17 (0.49%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 748 (21.55%) Degree
2 589 (16.97%) Security Cleared
3 386 (11.12%) SC Cleared
4 228 (6.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 181 (5.21%) DV Cleared
6 120 (3.46%) Master's Degree
7 86 (2.48%) CISSP
8 79 (2.28%) Microsoft Certification
9 74 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
10 59 (1.70%) PMI Certification
10 59 (1.70%) PMP
11 47 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
11 47 (1.35%) CISM
12 45 (1.30%) CCNA
13 44 (1.27%) MCSE
14 40 (1.15%) CCNP
15 36 (1.04%) Azure Certification
15 36 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
16 30 (0.86%) APMP
17 26 (0.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (5.47%) QA
2 188 (5.42%) Data Quality
3 110 (3.17%) SLA
4 90 (2.59%) GDPR
5 89 (2.56%) PMO
6 48 (1.38%) NIST
7 47 (1.35%) Accessibility
8 35 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
9 31 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 21 (0.61%) PCI DSS
11 18 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
12 14 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 13 (0.37%) EMIR
13 13 (0.37%) NIST 800
14 12 (0.35%) GAAP
15 10 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
15 10 (0.29%) GRC
15 10 (0.29%) HIPAA
15 10 (0.29%) ISO 20022
15 10 (0.29%) MiFID
System Software
1 142 (4.09%) Active Directory
2 84 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 53 (1.53%) Docker
4 21 (0.61%) VMware NSX
5 12 (0.35%) Hyper-V
5 12 (0.35%) vSphere
6 11 (0.32%) Firmware
6 11 (0.32%) HDFS
7 10 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
8 9 (0.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 9 (0.26%) VMware Workstation
9 6 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.14%) Snort
10 5 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
11 4 (0.12%) KVM
11 4 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (0.086%) NFS
12 3 (0.086%) OpenAM
12 3 (0.086%) OpenIDM
12 3 (0.086%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 92 (2.65%) Ansible
2 80 (2.30%) Kubernetes
3 57 (1.64%) Terraform
4 53 (1.53%) SCCM
5 28 (0.81%) NetBackup
6 27 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
6 27 (0.78%) Puppet
7 24 (0.69%) Grafana
8 21 (0.61%) Kibana
8 21 (0.61%) Prometheus
9 20 (0.58%) PowerCLI
10 18 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
11 15 (0.43%) logstash
11 15 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
12 14 (0.40%) Podman
13 11 (0.32%) FortiGate
13 11 (0.32%) Progress Chef
14 10 (0.29%) Microsoft Clustering
14 10 (0.29%) Nagios
15 8 (0.23%) Consul
Vendors
1 681 (19.62%) Microsoft
2 275 (7.92%) Oracle
3 219 (6.31%) SAP
4 108 (3.11%) VMware
5 92 (2.65%) Cisco
6 79 (2.28%) Google
7 75 (2.16%) ServiceNow
8 63 (1.82%) Salesforce
9 57 (1.64%) Databricks
10 50 (1.44%) Splunk
11 44 (1.27%) Alteryx
12 40 (1.15%) Atlassian
13 39 (1.12%) IBM
14 37 (1.07%) Dell
15 31 (0.89%) HP
15 31 (0.89%) Red Hat
16 29 (0.84%) Adobe
17 28 (0.81%) Juniper
18 27 (0.78%) Citrix
19 24 (0.69%) F5