Analytical Thinking Contracts

Analytical Thinking
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Analytical Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Analytical Thinking over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 429 496 536
Rank change year-on-year +67 +40 0
Contract jobs citing Analytical Thinking 145 207 337
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.36% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.40% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 115 215
10th Percentile £296 £381 £339
25th Percentile £413 £416 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £625
90th Percentile £725 £800 £733
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 10
10th Percentile £18.97 £26.46 £12.38
25th Percentile £22.33 £37.65 £13.06
Median hourly rate £24.65 £43.86 £19.77
Median % change year-on-year -43.80% +121.85% -58.85%
75th Percentile £63.75 £51.02 £31.85
90th Percentile £67.91 £63.91 £34.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.65 - £19.77
% change year-on-year - - -50.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Analytical Thinking is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,687 51,295 79,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.22% 89.83% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,611 35,552 55,630
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £476
% change year-on-year - +5.04% +8.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,428 1,693 1,906
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.77 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.52
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Analytical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Thinking in the UK

Analytical Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Analytical Thinking in the UK

Analytical Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Thinking over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Thinking in the UK

Analytical Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Thinking in the UK

Analytical Thinking
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Thinking over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Thinking in the UK

Analytical Thinking
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analytical Thinking within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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 +54 133 £538 +2.38% 209
London +87 70 £575 - 81
Work from Home +110 68 £563 +18.42% 120
UK excluding London +16 59 £483 -3.50% 136
Midlands +40 30 £475 +5.56% 29
West Midlands +25 25 £525 +16.67% 21
North of England +21 13 £475 -13.64% 45
North West +25 11 £475 -3.80% 22
South East -1 7 £325 -33.33% 31
East Midlands +17 5 £173 - 8
East of England +6 5 £700 +27.27% 11
Scotland +35 2 £490 -6.67% 6
South West +14 1 - - 17
Yorkshire +13 1 - - 17
Wales - 1 £425 - 1
North East - 1 - - 10

Analytical Thinking
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 5 (3.45%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.07%) Confluence
3 2 (1.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (1.38%) SAS
4 1 (0.69%) Appian
4 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 14 (9.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (8.28%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (5.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.07%) MS Visio
4 3 (2.07%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (1.38%) Mingle
5 2 (1.38%) Sketch
6 1 (0.69%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.69%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 8 (5.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (4.83%) SAP SD
3 5 (3.45%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (2.07%) SAP CO
4 3 (2.07%) SAP FI
4 3 (2.07%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (2.07%) SAP Hybris
5 2 (1.38%) Endur
5 2 (1.38%) SAP ERP
5 2 (1.38%) SAP SCM
6 1 (0.69%) Eikon
6 1 (0.69%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 1 (0.69%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.69%) SAP CX
6 1 (0.69%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.69%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 15 (10.34%) Azure
2 12 (8.28%) AWS
3 11 (7.59%) Power Platform
4 7 (4.83%) GCP
5 6 (4.14%) PaaS
6 5 (3.45%) OCI
6 5 (3.45%) Oracle Service Cloud
7 4 (2.76%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.76%) SaaS
8 3 (2.07%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.07%) Figma
8 3 (2.07%) IaaS
8 3 (2.07%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 2 (1.38%) Adobe Analytics
9 2 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.38%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.69%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.69%) BrowserStack
10 1 (0.69%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.76%) Firewall
2 3 (2.07%) DNS
2 3 (2.07%) Kerberos
2 3 (2.07%) Network Security
2 3 (2.07%) VPN
3 2 (1.38%) Intranet
4 1 (0.69%) BGP
4 1 (0.69%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.69%) HTTP
4 1 (0.69%) OSPF
4 1 (0.69%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.34%) MongoDB
2 11 (7.59%) Power BI
3 7 (4.83%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.45%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.76%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (2.07%) PostHog
6 3 (2.07%) Tableau
7 1 (0.69%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.69%) Big Data
7 1 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.69%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.69%) Impala
7 1 (0.69%) MS Access
7 1 (0.69%) MySQL
7 1 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.69%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.69%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.69%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.69%) SQL Navigator
7 1 (0.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 10 (6.90%) JIRA
2 9 (6.21%) Git
3 3 (2.07%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.38%) Axure RP
4 2 (1.38%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.38%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.38%) FitNesse
4 2 (1.38%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.38%) Maven
4 2 (1.38%) SpecFlow
4 2 (1.38%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.69%) GoCD
5 1 (0.69%) Pa11y
5 1 (0.69%) TestCafe
5 1 (0.69%) Toad
General
1 145 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 85 (58.62%) Social Skills
3 44 (30.34%) Finance
4 9 (6.21%) Manufacturing
5 7 (4.83%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (4.14%) Banking
6 6 (4.14%) German Language
6 6 (4.14%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (4.14%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (4.14%) Telecoms
7 5 (3.45%) Legal
8 4 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.76%) French Language
8 4 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.76%) Marketing
8 4 (2.76%) Publishing
9 3 (2.07%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.07%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (2.07%) Retail
10 2 (1.38%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 31 (21.38%) Analyst
2 16 (11.03%) Business Analyst
3 15 (10.34%) Architect
4 14 (9.66%) Senior
5 13 (8.97%) Developer
6 10 (6.90%) Site Engineer
6 10 (6.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 9 (6.21%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (5.52%) Consultant
8 8 (5.52%) Python Engineer
9 6 (4.14%) Lead
10 5 (3.45%) Business IT Analyst
10 5 (3.45%) Incident Manager
10 5 (3.45%) Insight Analyst
10 5 (3.45%) IT Analyst
10 5 (3.45%) IT Business Analyst
10 5 (3.45%) Java Developer
10 5 (3.45%) Java Engineer
10 5 (3.45%) Report Analyst
11 4 (2.76%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.59%) RESTful
2 10 (6.90%) Kafka
3 9 (6.21%) HTML
3 9 (6.21%) RabbitMQ
4 7 (4.83%) CSS
4 7 (4.83%) JSON
4 7 (4.83%) Middleware
5 5 (3.45%) Node.js
5 5 (3.45%) XML
6 4 (2.76%) .NET
6 4 (2.76%) Spring
6 4 (2.76%) Swagger
7 3 (2.07%) Flask
7 3 (2.07%) Hibernate
7 3 (2.07%) LDAP
7 3 (2.07%) OpenID
7 3 (2.07%) React
7 3 (2.07%) Regular Expression
7 3 (2.07%) SAML
7 3 (2.07%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.66%) Management Information System
2 13 (8.97%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (6.90%) Algorithms
3 10 (6.90%) Data Structures
3 10 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.52%) IoT
5 7 (4.83%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.45%) Data Centre
6 5 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (3.45%) Industry 4.0
6 5 (3.45%) SCADA
6 5 (3.45%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.76%) Taxonomies
8 3 (2.07%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (2.07%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.38%) Credit Risk
9 2 (1.38%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.38%) Derivative
9 2 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.21%) Linux
2 7 (4.83%) Windows
3 5 (3.45%) Unix
3 5 (3.45%) Windows 10
3 5 (3.45%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (49.66%) Problem-Solving
2 48 (33.10%) Agile
3 30 (20.69%) Computer Science
4 29 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 26 (17.93%) Critical Thinking
6 25 (17.24%) Project Management
7 22 (15.17%) Decision-Making
8 20 (13.79%) Roadmaps
9 19 (13.10%) Stakeholder Management
10 16 (11.03%) ITIL
11 15 (10.34%) DevOps
11 15 (10.34%) ERP
11 15 (10.34%) Microservices
12 14 (9.66%) Change Management
13 13 (8.97%) Business Intelligence
13 13 (8.97%) Validation
14 12 (8.28%) Risk Management
15 11 (7.59%) Business Transformation
15 11 (7.59%) Migration
15 11 (7.59%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 21 (14.48%) Java
2 16 (11.03%) Python
3 15 (10.34%) SQL
4 12 (8.28%) JavaScript
5 9 (6.21%) Shell Script
6 7 (4.83%) C++
6 7 (4.83%) Go
7 4 (2.76%) C#
7 4 (2.76%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (2.07%) Perl
8 3 (2.07%) PHP
8 3 (2.07%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.38%) R
10 1 (0.69%) ABAP
10 1 (0.69%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 41 (28.28%) Degree
2 15 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (4.83%) Master's Degree
4 4 (2.76%) CISSP
5 3 (2.07%) MBA
5 3 (2.07%) MCSE
5 3 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.07%) SAP Certification
5 3 (2.07%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.38%) PhD
6 2 (1.38%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.69%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.69%) CCNA
7 1 (0.69%) CCNP
7 1 (0.69%) CIMA
7 1 (0.69%) MCP
7 1 (0.69%) MCSA
7 1 (0.69%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.69%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.14%) Accessibility
1 6 (4.14%) QA
1 6 (4.14%) SLA
2 5 (3.45%) PMO
3 2 (1.38%) Automotive SPICE
3 2 (1.38%) AUTOSAR
4 1 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.69%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.69%) GDPR
4 1 (0.69%) GxP
4 1 (0.69%) IFRS
4 1 (0.69%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 9 (6.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 4 (2.76%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.38%) Docker
4 1 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.69%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 10 (6.90%) Grafana
2 9 (6.21%) Consul
2 9 (6.21%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.21%) Prometheus
3 3 (2.07%) PingFederate
3 3 (2.07%) SCCM
3 3 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.38%) Podman
5 1 (0.69%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.69%) Kibana
5 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (22.76%) Microsoft
2 25 (17.24%) SAP
3 11 (7.59%) Oracle
4 9 (6.21%) SaltStack
5 5 (3.45%) BMC
6 4 (2.76%) Adobe
6 4 (2.76%) CA
6 4 (2.76%) VMware
7 3 (2.07%) Ping Identity
7 3 (2.07%) Qualys
8 2 (1.38%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (1.38%) OpenText
8 2 (1.38%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.38%) Splunk
9 1 (0.69%) Ariba
9 1 (0.69%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.69%) Cisco
9 1 (0.69%) IBM
9 1 (0.69%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.69%) Reuters