Analytical Skills Contracts in the North of England

Analytical Skills
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England. 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 22 22 28
Rank change year-on-year 0 +6 -1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 332 355 442
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 7.00% 6.44% 6.20%
As % of the General category 12.78% 11.59% 12.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 229 278
10th Percentile £316 £288 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £486 £463
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% +5.08% +2.78%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £538
90th Percentile £638 £640 £600
England median daily rate £525 £536 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% +2.14% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 11 37
10th Percentile £11.69 £23.15 £12.45
25th Percentile £12.88 £32.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £17.11 £35.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.11% +40.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £30.31 £54.69 £48.75
90th Percentile £44.78 £63.00 £52.07
England median hourly rate £19.00 £43.43 £35.50
% change year-on-year -56.25% +22.34% +73.17%

All General Skills
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,597 3,062 3,657
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 54.78% 55.57% 51.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,503 2,103 2,581
10th Percentile £263 £283 £208
25th Percentile £400 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £575
90th Percentile £656 £688 £650
England median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 319 96 179
10th Percentile £12.13 £13.98 £11.09
25th Percentile £13.31 £16.59 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £22.52 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.69% +17.02% +7.21%
75th Percentile £35.00 £35.00 £33.91
90th Percentile £48.75 £51.19 £58.11
England median hourly rate £30.44 £31.92 £21.50
% change year-on-year -4.65% +48.47% +2.14%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in the North of England

Analytical Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Analytical Skills in the North of England

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the North of England

Analytical Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Skills in the North of England

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the North of England

Analytical Skills
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North West 0 165 £475 - 411
Yorkshire +9 143 £500 -4.76% 216
North East +15 22 £590 +45.23% 85
Analytical Skills
England

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 16 (4.82%) Confluence
2 5 (1.51%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.20%) Apache
3 4 (1.20%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.60%) IBM Notes
4 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.60%) Mule
5 1 (0.30%) CMS
5 1 (0.30%) JBoss
5 1 (0.30%) nginx
5 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.30%) Smallworld
5 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
Applications
1 31 (9.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (8.73%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (3.92%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (3.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (2.41%) MS Visio
6 4 (1.20%) MicroStation
7 1 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.30%) Autodesk Inventor
Business Applications
1 9 (2.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.90%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.30%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.30%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.30%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.30%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 44 (13.25%) Azure
2 43 (12.95%) Power Platform
3 42 (12.65%) AWS
4 29 (8.73%) GCP
5 16 (4.82%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (3.01%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (2.71%) GitHub
7 9 (2.71%) Kong
8 8 (2.41%) PowerApps
9 6 (1.81%) Apigee
10 4 (1.20%) Google Analytics
10 4 (1.20%) OneDrive
11 3 (0.90%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (0.90%) Entra ID
11 3 (0.90%) Google Tag Manager
11 3 (0.90%) SaaS
11 3 (0.90%) Snowflake
12 2 (0.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (0.60%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.72%) VLAN
2 18 (5.42%) TCP/IP
3 15 (4.52%) DNS
4 13 (3.92%) LAN
4 13 (3.92%) VPN
5 12 (3.61%) Firewall
5 12 (3.61%) WAN
5 12 (3.61%) Wi-Fi
6 9 (2.71%) HTTP
6 9 (2.71%) SSL
7 6 (1.81%) BGP
7 6 (1.81%) OSPF
8 5 (1.51%) DHCP
8 5 (1.51%) HTTPS
9 4 (1.20%) MPLS
9 4 (1.20%) Value-Added Service
9 4 (1.20%) Wireshark
10 3 (0.90%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 3 (0.90%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (0.90%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (12.05%) Power BI
2 16 (4.82%) Tableau
3 14 (4.22%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (3.61%) Relational Database
5 11 (3.31%) Data Lake
6 9 (2.71%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (2.71%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.51%) GIS
8 4 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (1.20%) Big Data
8 4 (1.20%) Geospatial Data
8 4 (1.20%) Hadoop
8 4 (1.20%) Metadata
8 4 (1.20%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (0.90%) QGIS
9 3 (0.90%) Spatial Data
10 2 (0.60%) Apache Hive
10 2 (0.60%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.60%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.60%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 24 (7.23%) Git
2 17 (5.12%) JIRA
3 15 (4.52%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 9 (2.71%) CircleCI
4 9 (2.71%) GitLab
4 9 (2.71%) Travis CI
5 3 (0.90%) Burp Suite
5 3 (0.90%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.60%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.60%) Log4j
6 2 (0.60%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.30%) GoCD
7 1 (0.30%) Pa11y
7 1 (0.30%) Postman
7 1 (0.30%) PyCharm
7 1 (0.30%) RStudio
7 1 (0.30%) Selenium
7 1 (0.30%) TestCafe
7 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio
General
1 184 (55.42%) Social Skills
2 52 (15.66%) Finance
3 43 (12.95%) Public Sector
4 17 (5.12%) Banking
5 16 (4.82%) Manufacturing
6 13 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.71%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (2.71%) Pharmaceutical
8 8 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.81%) Police
10 5 (1.51%) Legal
10 5 (1.51%) Retail
11 4 (1.20%) Marketing
11 4 (1.20%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.90%) German Language
12 3 (0.90%) Local Government
12 3 (0.90%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.60%) Billing
13 2 (0.60%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 60 (18.07%) Analyst
2 30 (9.04%) Senior
3 23 (6.93%) Developer
4 17 (5.12%) Business Analyst
4 17 (5.12%) Consultant
5 16 (4.82%) Architect
5 16 (4.82%) Lead
6 15 (4.52%) Data Analyst
7 14 (4.22%) Capacity Manager
8 13 (3.92%) IT Engineer
8 13 (3.92%) Network Engineer
9 12 (3.61%) Availability Manager
9 12 (3.61%) Capacity and Availability Manager
9 12 (3.61%) Storage Engineer
10 11 (3.31%) Senior Analyst
11 9 (2.71%) Administrator
11 9 (2.71%) Automation Engineer
12 8 (2.41%) Coordinator
12 8 (2.41%) Data Engineer
12 8 (2.41%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.01%) Kafka
1 10 (3.01%) XML
2 9 (2.71%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (2.71%) JSON
2 9 (2.71%) YAML
3 8 (2.41%) Web Services
4 6 (1.81%) ActiveMQ
4 6 (1.81%) GraphQL
4 6 (1.81%) RESTful
4 6 (1.81%) Swagger
5 5 (1.51%) .NET
5 5 (1.51%) gRPC
5 5 (1.51%) JWT
5 5 (1.51%) OAuth
5 5 (1.51%) OpenAPI
5 5 (1.51%) React
5 5 (1.51%) REST
6 4 (1.20%) .NET Framework
6 4 (1.20%) FastAPI
6 4 (1.20%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 40 (12.05%) Management Information System
2 19 (5.72%) Analytical Mindset
2 19 (5.72%) Replication
3 17 (5.12%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (3.61%) CMDB
4 12 (3.61%) Data Structures
4 12 (3.61%) NHS
5 9 (2.71%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.11%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.81%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 5 (1.51%) Life Science
9 4 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.20%) Derivative
9 4 (1.20%) Reference Data
10 3 (0.90%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.90%) Cyber Defence
10 3 (0.90%) Driving Licence
10 3 (0.90%) EMC VNX
10 3 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.90%) Lidar
Operating Systems
1 38 (11.45%) Windows
2 29 (8.73%) Linux
3 8 (2.41%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.11%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.81%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.20%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.90%) AIX
7 3 (0.90%) Kali Linux
7 3 (0.90%) Solaris
7 3 (0.90%) Unix
7 3 (0.90%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.30%) Android
8 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.30%) VMS
8 1 (0.30%) Windows 8
8 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.30%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (61.75%) Problem-Solving
2 62 (18.67%) Agile
3 53 (15.96%) Project Management
4 44 (13.25%) Business Intelligence
4 44 (13.25%) Service Management
5 41 (12.35%) Change Management
6 39 (11.75%) Stakeholder Management
7 36 (10.84%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (10.24%) Mentoring
9 31 (9.34%) Quality Management
10 30 (9.04%) CI/CD
10 30 (9.04%) ITIL
11 28 (8.43%) Service Delivery
12 27 (8.13%) Customer Service
13 26 (7.83%) Data Protection
13 26 (7.83%) DevOps
13 26 (7.83%) Statistics
14 25 (7.53%) Data Modelling
15 24 (7.23%) Analytics
16 22 (6.63%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 46 (13.86%) SQL
2 39 (11.75%) Python
3 22 (6.63%) PowerShell
4 13 (3.92%) Java
5 11 (3.31%) Bash
6 8 (2.41%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.81%) C#
8 5 (1.51%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.51%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.20%) MATLAB
9 4 (1.20%) VB.NET
9 4 (1.20%) VBA
10 3 (0.90%) ActionScript
10 3 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.90%) R
11 2 (0.60%) Perl
11 2 (0.60%) Scala
11 2 (0.60%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.30%) ABAP
12 1 (0.30%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 44 (13.25%) Degree
2 42 (12.65%) Security Cleared
3 31 (9.34%) SC Cleared
4 10 (3.01%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.81%) CCNA
8 5 (1.51%) CCNP
8 5 (1.51%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.20%) CCIE
9 4 (1.20%) MCSE
9 4 (1.20%) Network+ Certification
9 4 (1.20%) VCAP
10 3 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.90%) CISSP
10 3 (0.90%) Numerate Degree
10 3 (0.90%) OSCP
10 3 (0.90%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.90%) PMP
11 2 (0.60%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.02%) Data Quality
2 18 (5.42%) GDPR
3 16 (4.82%) QA
4 8 (2.41%) SLA
5 6 (1.81%) GxP
6 5 (1.51%) GAMP
6 5 (1.51%) HIPAA
7 4 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.20%) PMO
8 3 (0.90%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.90%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.30%) COREP
9 1 (0.30%) HL7
9 1 (0.30%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (6.33%) Docker
2 13 (3.92%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.90%) SRDF
5 2 (0.60%) HDFS
5 2 (0.60%) vSphere
6 1 (0.30%) Firmware
6 1 (0.30%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.30%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (0.30%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 36 (10.84%) Ansible
2 28 (8.43%) Puppet
3 21 (6.33%) Kubernetes
4 15 (4.52%) NetBackup
5 13 (3.92%) Terraform
6 10 (3.01%) Grafana
6 10 (3.01%) Kibana
7 9 (2.71%) Docker Swarm
7 9 (2.71%) logstash
7 9 (2.71%) Progress Chef
7 9 (2.71%) Prometheus
8 6 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (1.81%) SCCM
9 4 (1.20%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 3 (0.90%) EMC TimeFinder
11 2 (0.60%) HP Quality Center
11 2 (0.60%) Nagios
11 2 (0.60%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.30%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.30%) Nessus
Vendors
1 54 (16.27%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.02%) SAP
3 18 (5.42%) ServiceNow
4 16 (4.82%) Cisco
5 15 (4.52%) Veritas
6 14 (4.22%) Brocade
6 14 (4.22%) VMware
7 13 (3.92%) Citrix
8 12 (3.61%) Aruba
8 12 (3.61%) Google
9 11 (3.31%) 3Com
9 11 (3.31%) Juniper
9 11 (3.31%) Meraki
9 11 (3.31%) Splunk
10 8 (2.41%) SolarWinds
11 7 (2.11%) IBM
11 7 (2.11%) Oracle
12 6 (1.81%) Solace
13 5 (1.51%) EMC
13 5 (1.51%) Salesforce