Analytical Skills Contracts in the South East

Analytical Skills
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 17 15 30
Rank change year-on-year -2 +15 -4
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 448 500 510
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 7.94% 8.86% 6.64%
As % of the General category 15.98% 15.19% 11.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 355 324
10th Percentile £270 £350 £250
25th Percentile £380 £450 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +15.79% -2.06%
75th Percentile £638 £676 £575
90th Percentile £725 £800 £657
England median daily rate £525 £536 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% +2.14% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 31 27
10th Percentile £7.43 £15.21 £12.25
25th Percentile £13.10 £22.05 £13.00
Median hourly rate £18.18 £55.00 £29.11
Median % change year-on-year -66.95% +88.94% +4.98%
75th Percentile £28.75 £58.75 £55.77
90th Percentile £54.13 £60.00 £65.12
England median hourly rate £19.00 £43.43 £35.50
% change year-on-year -56.25% +22.34% +73.17%

All General Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,804 3,291 4,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 49.69% 58.34% 55.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,527 2,221 2,864
10th Percentile £213 £233 £213
25th Percentile £356 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.76%
75th Percentile £608 £629 £588
90th Percentile £688 £721 £662
England median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 159 208
10th Percentile £12.88 £15.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £18.32 £23.75 £15.47
Median hourly rate £45.00 £50.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +150.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.00 £33.75
90th Percentile £70.09 £74.20 £52.65
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in the South East

Analytical Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Analytical Skills in the South East

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in the South East over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the South East

Analytical Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Skills in the South East

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the South East

Analytical Skills
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +3 268 £530 - 239
Berkshire +1 207 £578 +5.05% 115
Hampshire -10 103 £580 +5.45% 121
Buckinghamshire +15 53 £370 -26.00% 56
Surrey -9 39 £425 -37.13% 65
West Sussex +11 13 £425 +44.68% 26
East Sussex +7 10 £313 -55.36% 28
Kent +7 10 £533 -11.25% 43
Oxfordshire +2 8 £488 -4.41% 70
Middlesex - 6 £350 - 6
Sussex - 1 £600 -
Analytical Skills
England

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 21 (4.69%) Confluence
2 12 (2.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.79%) SAS
4 5 (1.12%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.67%) Appian
5 3 (0.67%) CMS
6 2 (0.45%) Apache
6 2 (0.45%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.45%) IBM Domino
6 2 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.22%) Drupal
Applications
1 33 (7.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (6.03%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.79%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.67%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.67%) Sketch
4 3 (0.67%) SPSS
5 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.22%) Abaqus
Business Applications
1 11 (2.46%) Oracle EBS R12
1 11 (2.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 9 (2.01%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (1.56%) Primavera
4 5 (1.12%) Maximo
4 5 (1.12%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.89%) SAP IS-U
5 4 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.67%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.67%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.67%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.45%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.22%) PeopleSoft HRMS
8 1 (0.22%) SAP LE
8 1 (0.22%) SAP PLM
8 1 (0.22%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 89 (19.87%) Azure
2 35 (7.81%) Power Platform
3 31 (6.92%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (6.70%) AWS
5 27 (6.03%) Snowflake
6 17 (3.79%) Azure Monitor
6 17 (3.79%) Entra ID
7 15 (3.35%) Azure Data Factory
7 15 (3.35%) Serverless
8 14 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 13 (2.90%) Azure Functions
9 13 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (1.34%) IaaS
12 5 (1.12%) PowerApps
12 5 (1.12%) SaaS
12 5 (1.12%) Smartsheet
13 4 (0.89%) Figma
13 4 (0.89%) Power Automate
14 3 (0.67%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.23%) DNS
1 10 (2.23%) Firewall
1 10 (2.23%) Network Security
2 9 (2.01%) DHCP
3 8 (1.79%) VPN
3 8 (1.79%) WAN
4 5 (1.12%) Cisco Nexus
4 5 (1.12%) MPLS
4 5 (1.12%) Software-Defined Networking
5 4 (0.89%) Radio Access Network
5 4 (0.89%) Wireless
6 3 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (0.67%) Internet
6 3 (0.67%) Intranet
6 3 (0.67%) Reverse Proxy
6 3 (0.67%) SSL
6 3 (0.67%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.45%) BGP
7 2 (0.45%) Cisco Firepower
7 2 (0.45%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (7.81%) Tableau
2 34 (7.59%) Power BI
3 15 (3.35%) NoSQL
4 14 (3.13%) SQL Server
5 10 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (1.79%) Data Lake
7 6 (1.34%) Big Data
8 5 (1.12%) Power Query
9 4 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.67%) Data Mining
10 3 (0.67%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.67%) PowerPivot
10 3 (0.67%) Qlik Sense
10 3 (0.67%) SAS Enterprise Guide
10 3 (0.67%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (0.45%) Looker
11 2 (0.45%) Metadata
11 2 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.45%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.45%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 41 (9.15%) JIRA
2 40 (8.93%) Selenium
3 27 (6.03%) Jenkins
4 26 (5.80%) Cucumber
5 24 (5.36%) REST Assured
5 24 (5.36%) SonarQube
6 17 (3.79%) Git
7 15 (3.35%) GitLab
8 9 (2.01%) Oracle Forms
9 6 (1.34%) Robot Framework
10 3 (0.67%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.45%) Postman
11 2 (0.45%) SoapUI
11 2 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
12 1 (0.22%) MLflow
12 1 (0.22%) Rational DOORS
12 1 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.22%) SpecFlow
12 1 (0.22%) Travis CI
12 1 (0.22%) WebDriver
General
1 244 (54.46%) Social Skills
2 93 (20.76%) Finance
3 36 (8.04%) Legal
4 28 (6.25%) Telecoms
5 23 (5.13%) Retail
6 21 (4.69%) Public Sector
7 20 (4.46%) Law
8 19 (4.24%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (2.90%) Billing
9 13 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (2.90%) Manufacturing
9 13 (2.90%) Military
9 13 (2.90%) Police
10 12 (2.68%) Marketing
11 11 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (2.01%) Banking
13 7 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (0.89%) Automotive
14 4 (0.89%) Electronics
14 4 (0.89%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 105 (23.44%) Analyst
2 49 (10.94%) Architect
3 47 (10.49%) Developer
4 39 (8.71%) Lead
5 31 (6.92%) Consultant
5 31 (6.92%) Solutions Architect
6 25 (5.58%) Data Analyst
6 25 (5.58%) Java Architect
7 22 (4.91%) Java Solutions Architect
7 22 (4.91%) Senior
8 19 (4.24%) Full Stack Developer
9 18 (4.02%) Functional Consultant
9 18 (4.02%) Java Engineer
10 16 (3.57%) Project Manager
11 14 (3.13%) Test Engineer
12 13 (2.90%) Azure Developer
12 13 (2.90%) Oracle Consultant
12 13 (2.90%) Oracle Functional Consultant
13 12 (2.68%) Business Analyst
13 12 (2.68%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (6.47%) REST
2 25 (5.58%) Java EE
3 18 (4.02%) HTML
3 18 (4.02%) React
4 16 (3.57%) CSS
5 12 (2.68%) .NET
5 12 (2.68%) ARM Templates
6 9 (2.01%) AngularJS
7 7 (1.56%) ASP.NET
7 7 (1.56%) ASP.NET MVC
8 5 (1.12%) PySpark
8 5 (1.12%) Web Services
9 4 (0.89%) Node.js
9 4 (0.89%) Oracle Fusion
9 4 (0.89%) SOAP
9 4 (0.89%) XML
10 3 (0.67%) .NET Framework
10 3 (0.67%) D3.js
10 3 (0.67%) EDI
10 3 (0.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 44 (9.82%) Product Ownership
2 19 (4.24%) Management Information System
3 17 (3.79%) Credit Risk
4 15 (3.35%) Data Centre
5 13 (2.90%) Client/Server
5 13 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (2.23%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (2.01%) PKI
8 8 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.12%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (0.89%) Biopharmaceutical
10 4 (0.89%) Data Structures
10 4 (0.89%) Mobile App
10 4 (0.89%) Operational Technology
11 3 (0.67%) CCTV
11 3 (0.67%) Life Science
11 3 (0.67%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.67%) SCADA
11 3 (0.67%) Security Posture
11 3 (0.67%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 55 (12.28%) Windows
2 32 (7.14%) Linux
3 30 (6.70%) Windows Server
4 18 (4.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (2.90%) Unix
6 10 (2.23%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (1.12%) Windows 7
8 4 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.67%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.45%) Android
10 2 (0.45%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.45%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.22%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 115 (25.67%) Agile
3 89 (19.87%) DevOps
4 78 (17.41%) Decision-Making
5 52 (11.61%) Continuous Improvement
6 50 (11.16%) Analytics
7 47 (10.49%) Project Management
8 46 (10.27%) Test Automation
9 44 (9.82%) Business Intelligence
10 42 (9.38%) Technical Leadership
11 35 (7.81%) Customer Service
12 30 (6.70%) Translating Business Requirements
13 29 (6.47%) Actionable Insight
13 29 (6.47%) Continuous Integration
14 28 (6.25%) Process Improvement
15 27 (6.03%) GAP Analysis
16 26 (5.80%) CI/CD
16 26 (5.80%) Visualisation
17 25 (5.58%) Change Management
17 25 (5.58%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 61 (13.62%) Java
2 58 (12.95%) Python
3 53 (11.83%) SQL
4 29 (6.47%) PowerShell
5 20 (4.46%) JavaScript
6 15 (3.35%) C
7 14 (3.13%) VBScript
8 13 (2.90%) C#
9 7 (1.56%) PL/SQL
10 6 (1.34%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.12%) ProC
11 5 (1.12%) R
11 5 (1.12%) VBA
12 4 (0.89%) C++
13 3 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.67%) PHP
14 2 (0.45%) Bash
14 2 (0.45%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.22%) Perl
15 1 (0.22%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 125 (27.90%) Security Cleared
2 84 (18.75%) Degree
3 60 (13.39%) SC Cleared
4 55 (12.28%) DV Cleared
5 14 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (2.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 10 (2.23%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (2.01%) MCSA
8 9 (2.01%) MCSE
9 8 (1.79%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.34%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.34%) CCNP
11 4 (0.89%) ACCA
11 4 (0.89%) CCNA
11 4 (0.89%) CIMA
11 4 (0.89%) Postgraduate
11 4 (0.89%) VCAP
12 3 (0.67%) CISSP
12 3 (0.67%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (6.70%) QA
2 13 (2.90%) GDPR
2 13 (2.90%) PMO
3 9 (2.01%) SLA
4 8 (1.79%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 3 (0.67%) Def Stans
7 3 (0.67%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.45%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.45%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.22%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.22%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.22%) IFRS
9 1 (0.22%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.22%) NIST
9 1 (0.22%) P3O
9 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 37 (8.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 35 (7.81%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.90%) Docker
4 12 (2.68%) vSphere
5 10 (2.23%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.67%) BitLocker
6 3 (0.67%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.45%) KVM
7 2 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.22%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 25 (5.58%) Ansible
2 18 (4.02%) Terraform
3 16 (3.57%) Kubernetes
4 12 (2.68%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (2.68%) Podman
5 5 (1.12%) vRealize
5 5 (1.12%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 4 (0.89%) SCCM
7 3 (0.67%) MOM
8 2 (0.45%) Endace
8 2 (0.45%) Nessus
8 2 (0.45%) SCOM
9 1 (0.22%) Grafana
9 1 (0.22%) Istio
9 1 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.22%) Kibana
9 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.22%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.22%) QRadar
9 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 73 (16.29%) Microsoft
2 42 (9.38%) VMware
3 30 (6.70%) Oracle
4 24 (5.36%) Alteryx
5 19 (4.24%) SAP
6 15 (3.35%) Salesforce
7 12 (2.68%) Cisco
8 9 (2.01%) Splunk
9 7 (1.56%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.34%) OneTrust
11 5 (1.12%) Apple
11 5 (1.12%) CheckPoint
11 5 (1.12%) Databricks
11 5 (1.12%) Dynatrace
11 5 (1.12%) F5
11 5 (1.12%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.89%) BT
12 4 (0.89%) IBM
12 4 (0.89%) OpenText
12 4 (0.89%) Palo Alto