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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 39 31
Rank change year-on-year +3 -8 +7
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,093 3,033 5,394
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.92% 5.33% 6.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.71% 5.93% 6.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,413 2,130 3,758
10th Percentile £358 £350 £400
25th Percentile £438 £458 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £663
90th Percentile £788 £800 £766
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 54 66
10th Percentile £15.26 £20.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £25.00 £21.29 £29.06
Median hourly rate £28.00 £32.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.91% -8.14% +29.63%
75th Percentile £43.75 £55.56 £51.31
90th Percentile £68.75 £78.00 £66.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £22.16 £35.00
% change year-on-year +12.82% -36.69% +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 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
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% -4.99%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 18 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 -2 1,770 £550 - 2,279
London -4 1,033 £575 -4.17% 1,235
Work from Home +6 810 £550 +2.33% 1,068
UK excluding London +2 773 £525 +2.44% 1,253
South East +8 201 £550 +10.00% 374
North of England -5 170 £501 -7.31% 360
Midlands +7 145 £550 +8.86% 198
West Midlands +10 112 £570 +8.57% 118
North West +6 105 £500 -3.61% 227
Scotland +13 102 £494 +0.97% 81
South West +22 97 £525 - 114
Yorkshire -13 62 £507 -6.11% 102
East of England +2 50 £500 - 98
East Midlands +9 33 £550 +15.79% 80
Wales +24 19 £551 -6.30% 25
North East +7 8 £710 +18.33% 34
Northern Ireland +3 3 £400 -3.03% 19

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 64 (3.06%) Apache Spark
2 54 (2.58%) SharePoint
3 52 (2.48%) Confluence
4 38 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
5 37 (1.77%) SAS
6 36 (1.72%) CMS
7 32 (1.53%) Apache
8 24 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
9 13 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 7 (0.33%) WordPress
11 5 (0.24%) Headless CMS
12 4 (0.19%) govService
13 3 (0.14%) Drupal
13 3 (0.14%) Umbraco
14 2 (0.096%) Apache Solr
14 2 (0.096%) ArcGIS
14 2 (0.096%) CICS
14 2 (0.096%) Jupyter
14 2 (0.096%) Sitecore CMS
14 2 (0.096%) WebSphere
Applications
1 79 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
3 34 (1.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.86%) MS Visio
5 15 (0.72%) Chatbot
5 15 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.38%) SPSS
7 5 (0.24%) Photoshop
7 5 (0.24%) Sketch
7 5 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.19%) CPLEX
9 3 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.096%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.096%) Simulink
10 2 (0.096%) Trello
11 1 (0.048%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.048%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.048%) InVision
11 1 (0.048%) Stata
11 1 (0.048%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 44 (2.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.86%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.48%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 10 (0.48%) SAP FI-AP
5 9 (0.43%) Endur
6 8 (0.38%) Oracle EBS R12
6 8 (0.38%) Shopify
7 7 (0.33%) NetSuite
7 7 (0.33%) Oracle 11i
7 7 (0.33%) SAP BPC
7 7 (0.33%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.24%) OpenLink RightAngle
8 5 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
9 4 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
9 4 (0.19%) ION MarketView
9 4 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 4 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.19%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 521 (24.89%) Azure
2 334 (15.96%) Power Platform
3 325 (15.53%) AWS
4 166 (7.93%) GCP
5 119 (5.69%) Azure Data Factory
6 110 (5.26%) Google Analytics
7 89 (4.25%) Snowflake
8 82 (3.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 72 (3.44%) Serverless
10 68 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
11 61 (2.91%) Azure Monitor
12 44 (2.10%) GitHub
12 44 (2.10%) Microsoft 365
13 40 (1.91%) Amazon S3
14 39 (1.86%) dbt
15 35 (1.67%) SaaS
16 34 (1.62%) Adobe Analytics
17 32 (1.53%) PowerApps
18 30 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
19 29 (1.39%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 51 (2.44%) Firewall
2 32 (1.53%) DNS
3 31 (1.48%) Network Security
4 27 (1.29%) DHCP
4 27 (1.29%) WAN
5 24 (1.15%) VPN
6 20 (0.96%) VoIP
7 19 (0.91%) LAN
8 18 (0.86%) Intranet
9 11 (0.53%) Internet
10 10 (0.48%) Intrusion Detection
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%) SD-WAN
11 9 (0.43%) WLAN
12 7 (0.33%) TCP/IP
13 6 (0.29%) Wireless
14 5 (0.24%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 327 (15.62%) Power BI
2 247 (11.80%) Data Warehouse
3 170 (8.12%) Tableau
4 136 (6.50%) Big Data
5 129 (6.16%) Data Lake
6 82 (3.92%) SQL Server
7 61 (2.91%) Amazon Redshift
8 59 (2.82%) BigQuery
9 53 (2.53%) NoSQL
10 52 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
10 52 (2.48%) Relational Database
11 47 (2.25%) Looker
12 45 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
13 38 (1.82%) KDB
13 38 (1.82%) MySQL
14 33 (1.58%) Amazon Athena
15 32 (1.53%) Hadoop
16 30 (1.43%) Metadata
17 27 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
18 25 (1.19%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 106 (5.06%) JIRA
2 84 (4.01%) Git
3 56 (2.68%) Jenkins
4 17 (0.81%) GitLab
4 17 (0.81%) Postman
5 15 (0.72%) JMeter
6 13 (0.62%) Cypress.io
7 12 (0.57%) Selenium
7 12 (0.57%) Visual Studio
8 11 (0.53%) Subversion
9 9 (0.43%) Artifactory
10 8 (0.38%) MLflow
10 8 (0.38%) Visual Website Optimizer
11 7 (0.33%) JUnit
12 6 (0.29%) Appium
12 6 (0.29%) ERwin
12 6 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (0.24%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.24%) Cucumber
13 5 (0.24%) Maven
General
1 595 (28.43%) Social Skills
2 514 (24.56%) Finance
3 411 (19.64%) Analytical Skills
4 172 (8.22%) Public Sector
5 144 (6.88%) Marketing
6 122 (5.83%) Banking
7 92 (4.40%) Retail
8 90 (4.30%) Front Office
9 75 (3.58%) Legal
10 70 (3.34%) Presentation Skills
11 62 (2.96%) Telecoms
12 58 (2.77%) Manufacturing
13 42 (2.01%) Investment Banking
14 41 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
15 39 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 39 (1.86%) Pharmaceutical
16 23 (1.10%) Advertising
17 17 (0.81%) Local Government
18 15 (0.72%) German Language
18 15 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 379 (18.11%) Analyst
2 294 (14.05%) Developer
3 253 (12.09%) Architect
4 209 (9.99%) Data Engineer
5 202 (9.65%) Senior
6 160 (7.64%) Data Analyst
7 159 (7.60%) Lead
8 98 (4.68%) Data Architect
9 97 (4.63%) Consultant
10 76 (3.63%) Azure Engineer
10 76 (3.63%) Project Manager
11 69 (3.30%) Solutions Architect
12 66 (3.15%) Business Analyst
13 54 (2.58%) Senior Analyst
14 51 (2.44%) Software Engineer
15 50 (2.39%) Azure Data Engineer
16 47 (2.25%) Analytics Manager
17 42 (2.01%) Product Owner
18 39 (1.86%) Data Analytics Manager
18 39 (1.86%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (3.44%) PySpark
2 70 (3.34%) HTML
3 58 (2.77%) .NET
4 55 (2.63%) CSS
5 54 (2.58%) React
6 52 (2.48%) Middleware
7 51 (2.44%) REST
8 48 (2.29%) Web Services
9 42 (2.01%) JSON
10 37 (1.77%) Kafka
11 34 (1.62%) Pandas
11 34 (1.62%) XML
12 29 (1.39%) ARM Templates
13 25 (1.19%) RESTful
14 24 (1.15%) .NET Core
14 24 (1.15%) AngularJS
14 24 (1.15%) Node.js
15 23 (1.10%) NumPy
16 22 (1.05%) gRPC
17 19 (0.91%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 111 (5.30%) Management Information System
2 110 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 65 (3.11%) Fixed Income
4 61 (2.91%) Data Structures
5 58 (2.77%) Self-Motivation
6 52 (2.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 51 (2.44%) Algorithms
8 50 (2.39%) Equities
9 49 (2.34%) Derivative
10 40 (1.91%) Credit Risk
11 35 (1.67%) Social Media
12 34 (1.62%) Hedge funds
12 34 (1.62%) Onboarding
13 31 (1.48%) Data Centre
13 31 (1.48%) Security Operations Centre
14 29 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
15 28 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
16 25 (1.19%) Cloud Native
16 25 (1.19%) CSOC
17 22 (1.05%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 118 (5.64%) Windows
2 109 (5.21%) Linux
3 45 (2.15%) Unix
4 42 (2.01%) Windows Server
5 20 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
6 17 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
7 13 (0.62%) Android
8 11 (0.53%) Apple iOS
9 10 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 8 (0.38%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.14%) zOS
12 2 (0.096%) VMS
12 2 (0.096%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.048%) CentOS
13 1 (0.048%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 513 (24.51%) Agile
2 462 (22.07%) Business Intelligence
3 441 (21.07%) Data Analytics
4 369 (17.63%) Data Modelling
5 356 (17.01%) Problem-Solving
6 291 (13.90%) ETL
7 249 (11.90%) Visualisation
8 236 (11.28%) DevOps
9 201 (9.60%) Data Analysis
9 201 (9.60%) Data Management
9 201 (9.60%) Data Science
10 192 (9.17%) Decision-Making
11 175 (8.36%) Project Management
12 173 (8.27%) Data Engineering
12 173 (8.27%) Data Pipeline
13 168 (8.03%) Migration
14 167 (7.98%) Roadmaps
15 163 (7.79%) Computer Science
16 160 (7.64%) CI/CD
17 158 (7.55%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 587 (28.05%) SQL
2 471 (22.50%) Python
3 146 (6.98%) Java
4 110 (5.26%) JavaScript
5 100 (4.78%) C#
6 65 (3.11%) PowerShell
7 52 (2.48%) Scala
7 52 (2.48%) TypeScript
8 43 (2.05%) C++
9 42 (2.01%) R
10 33 (1.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 30 (1.43%) Bicep
12 29 (1.39%) Bash
13 24 (1.15%) T-SQL
14 20 (0.96%) ABAP
15 17 (0.81%) VB
15 17 (0.81%) VBScript
16 15 (0.72%) Shell Script
17 14 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
18 12 (0.57%) Perl
Qualifications
1 317 (15.15%) Degree
2 283 (13.52%) Security Cleared
3 216 (10.32%) SC Cleared
4 95 (4.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 75 (3.58%) DV Cleared
6 71 (3.39%) Master's Degree
7 37 (1.77%) Azure Certification
8 26 (1.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 26 (1.24%) SANS
9 24 (1.15%) CISSP
10 21 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
11 16 (0.76%) AWS Certification
11 16 (0.76%) PMI Certification
12 15 (0.72%) PMP
13 13 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (0.62%) Numerate Degree
14 11 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 11 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
14 11 (0.53%) PhD
15 9 (0.43%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (9.32%) Data Quality
2 95 (4.54%) QA
3 47 (2.25%) GDPR
4 46 (2.20%) Accessibility
5 22 (1.05%) PMO
6 20 (0.96%) Actionable Recommendations
7 16 (0.76%) SLA
8 14 (0.67%) HIPAA
8 14 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 14 (0.67%) NIST
9 13 (0.62%) IFRS
9 13 (0.62%) PCI DSS
10 12 (0.57%) GxP
11 11 (0.53%) Disclosure Scotland
12 8 (0.38%) IFRS 9
12 8 (0.38%) NCSC
12 8 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 8 (0.38%) SOC 2
13 6 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.24%) GAMP
System Software
1 45 (2.15%) Active Directory
2 42 (2.01%) Docker
3 27 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
4 23 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.19%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.14%) HDFS
7 3 (0.14%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.096%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.048%) NFS
9 1 (0.048%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 84 (4.01%) Terraform
2 67 (3.20%) Kubernetes
3 35 (1.67%) Grafana
4 27 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
5 26 (1.24%) Ansible
6 24 (1.15%) SCOM
7 19 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 19 (0.91%) SCCM
7 19 (0.91%) 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%) Trend Micro Deep Security
13 3 (0.14%) Graylog
13 3 (0.14%) Kibana
13 3 (0.14%) Matomo
13 3 (0.14%) Nessus
13 3 (0.14%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 364 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 173 (8.27%) Google
3 164 (7.84%) Databricks
4 130 (6.21%) SAP
5 120 (5.73%) Oracle
6 74 (3.54%) Adobe
7 43 (2.05%) Salesforce
8 40 (1.91%) Alteryx
9 34 (1.62%) Splunk
10 31 (1.48%) ServiceNow
11 29 (1.39%) Atlassian
12 28 (1.34%) Cisco
13 25 (1.19%) Informatica
13 25 (1.19%) Talend
14 21 (1.00%) Optimizely
15 20 (0.96%) Ariba
16 19 (0.91%) Denodo
17 18 (0.86%) OpenAI
18 17 (0.81%) Dynatrace
18 17 (0.81%) Red Hat