Analytics Contracts

Analytics
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Analytics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Analytics over the 6 months to 4 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 38 33
Rank change year-on-year +2 -5 +5
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,102 2,919 5,438
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.90% 5.22% 6.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.74% 5.82% 6.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,433 2,048 3,828
10th Percentile £355 £350 £402
25th Percentile £438 £460 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £674
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £504 £515 £513
% change year-on-year -2.09% +0.49% +5.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 56 72
10th Percentile £15.32 £21.00 £14.68
25th Percentile £25.00 £22.16 £31.69
Median hourly rate £30.37 £32.30 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -7.71% +29.63%
75th Percentile £48.75 £58.13 £51.75
90th Percentile £74.75 £78.00 £67.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £31.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.63% -10.00% +52.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Analytics 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 36,635 50,134 80,023
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.39% 89.72% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,488 34,705 56,273
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,523 1,664 1,886
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.51
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +10.64%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.07
% change year-on-year +8.91% +74.43% -4.45%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytics over the 6 months to 4 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytics over the 6 months to 4 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analytics within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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
England -3 1,792 £550 - 2,049
London -2 1,055 £575 -4.17% 1,016
Work from Home +5 783 £550 +2.33% 1,022
UK excluding London +4 779 £504 -2.09% 1,062
South East +6 205 £545 +9.00% 234
North of England -6 178 £501 -8.17% 339
Midlands +7 141 £550 +7.84% 189
North West +4 113 £500 -5.88% 230
West Midlands +12 109 £550 +3.68% 107
Scotland +19 104 £488 -2.21% 79
South West +32 101 £531 +3.66% 111
Yorkshire -14 61 £507 -6.97% 81
East of England -2 40 £475 -5.00% 93
East Midlands +1 32 £475 +5.56% 83
Wales +27 18 £550 -4.30% 16
North East +4 7 - - 31
Northern Ireland +3 6 £400 -5.88% 16

Analytics
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 71 (3.38%) Apache Spark
2 55 (2.62%) SharePoint
3 48 (2.28%) SAS
4 44 (2.09%) Confluence
5 39 (1.86%) Apache
6 35 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
7 33 (1.57%) CMS
8 29 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
9 13 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 9 (0.43%) WordPress
11 5 (0.24%) Headless CMS
12 4 (0.19%) govService
13 3 (0.14%) Drupal
13 3 (0.14%) Umbraco
14 2 (0.095%) ArcGIS
14 2 (0.095%) CICS
14 2 (0.095%) GeoServer
14 2 (0.095%) Jupyter
14 2 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
14 2 (0.095%) WebLogic
Applications
1 77 (3.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (0.71%) Chatbot
6 13 (0.62%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.38%) SPSS
8 7 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
9 6 (0.29%) Sketch
10 5 (0.24%) CPLEX
10 5 (0.24%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.095%) Adobe Captivate
12 2 (0.095%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.095%) Simulink
12 2 (0.095%) Trello
13 1 (0.048%) Adobe Premiere
13 1 (0.048%) InVision
13 1 (0.048%) Stata
13 1 (0.048%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 33 (1.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.48%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 10 (0.48%) SAP FI-AP
5 7 (0.33%) NetSuite
5 7 (0.33%) SAP BPC
5 7 (0.33%) Shopify
6 6 (0.29%) Endur
6 6 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (0.29%) SAP ERP
7 5 (0.24%) MIS ActiveH
7 5 (0.24%) NEC Housing
7 5 (0.24%) OpenLink RightAngle
7 5 (0.24%) Oracle EBS R12
8 4 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
8 4 (0.19%) ION MarketView
8 4 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (0.19%) SAP MM
8 4 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 524 (24.93%) Azure
2 333 (15.84%) Power Platform
3 317 (15.08%) AWS
4 162 (7.71%) GCP
5 108 (5.14%) Azure Data Factory
5 108 (5.14%) Google Analytics
6 95 (4.52%) Snowflake
7 81 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 69 (3.28%) Serverless
9 67 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
10 66 (3.14%) Azure Monitor
11 48 (2.28%) Microsoft 365
12 47 (2.24%) Amazon S3
13 45 (2.14%) GitHub
14 40 (1.90%) SaaS
15 39 (1.86%) dbt
16 36 (1.71%) Entra ID
17 32 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
17 32 (1.52%) PaaS
18 31 (1.47%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 54 (2.57%) Firewall
2 35 (1.67%) DNS
2 35 (1.67%) Network Security
3 30 (1.43%) DHCP
3 30 (1.43%) WAN
4 26 (1.24%) VPN
5 21 (1.00%) LAN
6 20 (0.95%) VoIP
7 18 (0.86%) Intranet
8 14 (0.67%) Intrusion Detection
9 12 (0.57%) Internet
10 10 (0.48%) SD-WAN
11 9 (0.43%) Cisco ISE
11 9 (0.43%) CTI
11 9 (0.43%) MPLS
11 9 (0.43%) PBX
11 9 (0.43%) WLAN
12 7 (0.33%) TCP/IP
13 6 (0.29%) HTTP
13 6 (0.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 320 (15.22%) Power BI
2 239 (11.37%) Data Warehouse
3 185 (8.80%) Tableau
4 152 (7.23%) Big Data
5 139 (6.61%) Data Lake
6 84 (4.00%) SQL Server
7 66 (3.14%) Relational Database
8 64 (3.04%) Amazon Redshift
9 60 (2.85%) BigQuery
10 55 (2.62%) NoSQL
11 53 (2.52%) Azure SQL Database
12 44 (2.09%) Looker
13 41 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
14 40 (1.90%) Hadoop
14 40 (1.90%) MySQL
15 37 (1.76%) KDB
16 33 (1.57%) Amazon Athena
17 32 (1.52%) Data Mining
18 29 (1.38%) Metadata
19 27 (1.28%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 100 (4.76%) JIRA
2 88 (4.19%) Git
3 59 (2.81%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.00%) GitLab
5 18 (0.86%) Postman
6 17 (0.81%) Cypress.io
7 14 (0.67%) JMeter
8 13 (0.62%) Selenium
9 11 (0.52%) Subversion
9 11 (0.52%) Visual Studio
10 9 (0.43%) Artifactory
11 8 (0.38%) JUnit
11 8 (0.38%) MLflow
11 8 (0.38%) Visual Website Optimizer
12 6 (0.29%) Appium
12 6 (0.29%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.29%) ERwin
12 6 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (0.24%) Cucumber
13 5 (0.24%) Robot Framework
General
1 598 (28.45%) Social Skills
2 519 (24.69%) Finance
3 403 (19.17%) Analytical Skills
4 172 (8.18%) Public Sector
5 142 (6.76%) Marketing
6 131 (6.23%) Banking
7 93 (4.42%) Retail
8 91 (4.33%) Front Office
9 77 (3.66%) Legal
10 70 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
11 61 (2.90%) Telecoms
12 53 (2.52%) Manufacturing
13 43 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 42 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
14 42 (2.00%) Investment Banking
15 30 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
16 25 (1.19%) Advertising
17 15 (0.71%) German Language
18 14 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
19 13 (0.62%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 393 (18.70%) Analyst
2 297 (14.13%) Developer
3 250 (11.89%) Architect
4 213 (10.13%) Data Engineer
5 200 (9.51%) Senior
6 164 (7.80%) Data Analyst
7 157 (7.47%) Lead
8 110 (5.23%) Consultant
9 96 (4.57%) Data Architect
10 74 (3.52%) Azure Engineer
11 69 (3.28%) Project Manager
12 68 (3.24%) Business Analyst
13 64 (3.04%) Solutions Architect
14 52 (2.47%) Senior Analyst
15 49 (2.33%) Software Engineer
16 47 (2.24%) Azure Data Engineer
17 43 (2.05%) Analytics Manager
18 41 (1.95%) Product Manager
19 40 (1.90%) Product Owner
20 39 (1.86%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (3.62%) PySpark
2 75 (3.57%) HTML
3 61 (2.90%) .NET
4 59 (2.81%) CSS
5 56 (2.66%) React
6 55 (2.62%) Middleware
7 53 (2.52%) REST
8 50 (2.38%) Web Services
9 44 (2.09%) Kafka
10 43 (2.05%) JSON
11 35 (1.67%) Pandas
12 34 (1.62%) ARM Templates
12 34 (1.62%) XML
13 27 (1.28%) .NET Core
14 26 (1.24%) RESTful
15 24 (1.14%) AngularJS
16 23 (1.09%) NumPy
17 20 (0.95%) Node.js
18 19 (0.90%) FastAPI
18 19 (0.90%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 117 (5.57%) Management Information System
2 109 (5.19%) Product Ownership
3 73 (3.47%) Fixed Income
4 65 (3.09%) Data Structures
5 63 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
6 59 (2.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 56 (2.66%) Derivative
8 53 (2.52%) Algorithms
8 53 (2.52%) Equities
9 45 (2.14%) Credit Risk
10 43 (2.05%) Hedge funds
11 36 (1.71%) Social Media
12 34 (1.62%) Onboarding
13 31 (1.47%) Data Centre
13 31 (1.47%) Security Operations Centre
14 28 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
15 27 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
16 26 (1.24%) Cloud Native
17 25 (1.19%) CSOC
18 24 (1.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 132 (6.28%) Windows
2 125 (5.95%) Linux
3 48 (2.28%) Unix
4 45 (2.14%) Windows Server
5 23 (1.09%) Windows Server 2016
6 20 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
7 17 (0.81%) Android
8 15 (0.71%) Apple iOS
9 10 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 8 (0.38%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.14%) VMS
11 3 (0.14%) zOS
12 2 (0.095%) AIX
12 2 (0.095%) ThreadX
12 2 (0.095%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.048%) CentOS
13 1 (0.048%) Solaris
13 1 (0.048%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 535 (25.45%) Agile
2 459 (21.84%) Data Analytics
3 448 (21.31%) Business Intelligence
4 368 (17.51%) Data Modelling
5 346 (16.46%) Problem-Solving
6 286 (13.61%) ETL
7 243 (11.56%) Visualisation
8 239 (11.37%) DevOps
9 212 (10.09%) Data Science
10 203 (9.66%) Data Analysis
11 200 (9.51%) Data Management
12 198 (9.42%) Decision-Making
13 174 (8.28%) Data Pipeline
14 173 (8.23%) Data Engineering
15 172 (8.18%) CI/CD
16 170 (8.09%) Computer Science
17 168 (7.99%) Machine Learning
18 166 (7.90%) Roadmaps
19 165 (7.85%) Project Management
20 156 (7.42%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 617 (29.35%) SQL
2 488 (23.22%) Python
3 140 (6.66%) Java
4 115 (5.47%) JavaScript
5 100 (4.76%) C#
6 74 (3.52%) PowerShell
7 53 (2.52%) R
8 49 (2.33%) TypeScript
9 46 (2.19%) C++
10 45 (2.14%) Scala
11 34 (1.62%) Bicep
12 31 (1.47%) Bash
13 30 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 23 (1.09%) T-SQL
14 23 (1.09%) VB
15 20 (0.95%) ABAP
15 20 (0.95%) VBScript
16 17 (0.81%) PL/SQL
17 16 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
18 15 (0.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 336 (15.98%) Degree
2 282 (13.42%) Security Cleared
3 204 (9.71%) SC Cleared
4 97 (4.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 88 (4.19%) DV Cleared
6 74 (3.52%) Master's Degree
7 40 (1.90%) Azure Certification
8 29 (1.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 26 (1.24%) SANS
10 24 (1.14%) CISSP
11 22 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
12 17 (0.81%) Numerate Degree
12 17 (0.81%) PMI Certification
13 16 (0.76%) PMP
14 15 (0.71%) AWS Certification
15 13 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
16 12 (0.57%) PhD
17 11 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 10 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
19 9 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 202 (9.61%) Data Quality
2 96 (4.57%) QA
3 47 (2.24%) Accessibility
3 47 (2.24%) GDPR
4 26 (1.24%) Actionable Recommendations
5 22 (1.05%) PMO
6 15 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (0.71%) SLA
7 14 (0.67%) HIPAA
7 14 (0.67%) PCI DSS
8 13 (0.62%) NIST
9 12 (0.57%) IFRS
10 11 (0.52%) GxP
11 10 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
12 8 (0.38%) NCSC
12 8 (0.38%) SOC 2
13 7 (0.33%) IFRS 9
13 7 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.24%) GAMP
System Software
1 55 (2.62%) Active Directory
2 45 (2.14%) Docker
3 32 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
4 27 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.29%) HDFS
7 5 (0.24%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.14%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.095%) Firmware
9 2 (0.095%) Time Sharing Option
10 1 (0.048%) NFS
10 1 (0.048%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 88 (4.19%) Terraform
2 68 (3.24%) Kubernetes
3 34 (1.62%) Grafana
4 30 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 27 (1.28%) SCOM
6 26 (1.24%) Ansible
7 22 (1.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 22 (1.05%) SCCM
7 22 (1.05%) WSUS
8 10 (0.48%) ITRS Geneos
9 9 (0.43%) BladeLogic
10 6 (0.29%) Nagios
10 6 (0.29%) Prometheus
11 5 (0.24%) SysTrack
12 4 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.19%) Trend Micro Deep Security
13 3 (0.14%) Kibana
13 3 (0.14%) Matomo
13 3 (0.14%) Nessus
13 3 (0.14%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 373 (17.75%) Microsoft
2 171 (8.14%) Google
3 162 (7.71%) Databricks
4 122 (5.80%) SAP
5 119 (5.66%) Oracle
6 72 (3.43%) Adobe
7 47 (2.24%) Salesforce
8 45 (2.14%) Alteryx
9 36 (1.71%) ServiceNow
10 31 (1.47%) Atlassian
11 29 (1.38%) Splunk
12 27 (1.28%) Cisco
13 23 (1.09%) Talend
14 22 (1.05%) Informatica
15 20 (0.95%) Optimizely
15 20 (0.95%) Red Hat
16 19 (0.90%) Denodo
17 17 (0.81%) OpenAI
18 16 (0.76%) Citrix
19 15 (0.71%) Dynatrace