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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 38 33
Rank change year-on-year +2 -5 +6
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,132 2,906 5,398
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.92% 5.23% 6.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.78% 5.83% 6.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,454 2,043 3,803
10th Percentile £350 £350 £400
25th Percentile £431 £458 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.34% -0.49% +7.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 58 71
10th Percentile £15.32 £21.00 £14.50
25th Percentile £25.00 £22.16 £30.88
Median hourly rate £30.37 £32.30 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -7.71% +29.63%
75th Percentile £48.75 £56.50 £51.75
90th Percentile £74.75 £78.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £28.16 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.22% -19.54% +45.83%

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 36,914 49,809 79,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 89.64% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,469 55,846
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,564 1,687 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -2 1,818 £550 -1.79% 2,029
London 0 1,065 £575 -4.17% 973
Work from Home +4 800 £550 +2.33% 1,002
UK excluding London +4 794 £501 -2.34% 1,069
South East +1 210 £525 +5.00% 230
North of England -8 183 £507 -6.97% 363
Midlands +5 148 £488 -2.50% 201
North West +6 118 £500 -7.62% 244
West Midlands +14 116 £550 +4.76% 117
Scotland +12 103 £487 -2.50% 71
South West +30 99 £531 +3.66% 111
Yorkshire -17 61 £507 -6.54% 87
East of England -6 39 £475 -5.00% 81
East Midlands 0 32 £475 +11.76% 84
Wales +27 18 £550 -3.46% 16
North East +4 7 - - 34
Northern Ireland +5 6 £400 -5.88% 17

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 73 (3.42%) Apache Spark
2 54 (2.53%) SharePoint
3 50 (2.35%) SAS
4 45 (2.11%) Confluence
5 43 (2.02%) Apache
6 34 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
7 33 (1.55%) CMS
8 29 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
9 15 (0.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 10 (0.47%) WordPress
11 5 (0.23%) Headless CMS
12 4 (0.19%) govService
13 3 (0.14%) Drupal
13 3 (0.14%) Umbraco
14 2 (0.094%) ArcGIS
14 2 (0.094%) CICS
14 2 (0.094%) GeoServer
14 2 (0.094%) Jupyter
14 2 (0.094%) Sitecore CMS
14 2 (0.094%) WebLogic
Applications
1 77 (3.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (0.70%) Chatbot
6 13 (0.61%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.38%) SPSS
8 7 (0.33%) Sketch
9 6 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
10 5 (0.23%) CPLEX
10 5 (0.23%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.094%) Adobe Captivate
12 2 (0.094%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.094%) Simulink
12 2 (0.094%) Trello
13 1 (0.047%) Adobe Premiere
13 1 (0.047%) InVision
13 1 (0.047%) Stata
13 1 (0.047%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 33 (1.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.47%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 10 (0.47%) SAP FI-AP
5 7 (0.33%) Adobe Campaign
5 7 (0.33%) NetSuite
5 7 (0.33%) SAP BPC
5 7 (0.33%) Shopify
6 6 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (0.28%) SAP ERP
7 5 (0.23%) Endur
7 5 (0.23%) MIS ActiveH
7 5 (0.23%) NEC Housing
7 5 (0.23%) OpenLink RightAngle
7 5 (0.23%) Oracle EBS R12
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
1 532 (24.95%) Azure
2 337 (15.81%) Power Platform
3 325 (15.24%) AWS
4 163 (7.65%) GCP
5 112 (5.25%) Google Analytics
6 107 (5.02%) Azure Data Factory
7 97 (4.55%) Snowflake
8 81 (3.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 71 (3.33%) Serverless
10 65 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
11 64 (3.00%) Azure Monitor
12 48 (2.25%) Amazon S3
12 48 (2.25%) GitHub
12 48 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
13 41 (1.92%) dbt
13 41 (1.92%) SaaS
14 35 (1.64%) Entra ID
15 33 (1.55%) Cloud Computing
16 32 (1.50%) Adobe Analytics
16 32 (1.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (2.49%) Firewall
2 38 (1.78%) Network Security
3 35 (1.64%) DNS
4 30 (1.41%) DHCP
4 30 (1.41%) WAN
5 27 (1.27%) VPN
6 21 (0.98%) LAN
7 20 (0.94%) VoIP
8 18 (0.84%) Intranet
9 14 (0.66%) Intrusion Detection
10 12 (0.56%) Internet
11 11 (0.52%) SD-WAN
12 10 (0.47%) MPLS
13 9 (0.42%) Cisco ISE
13 9 (0.42%) CTI
13 9 (0.42%) PBX
13 9 (0.42%) WLAN
14 7 (0.33%) TCP/IP
15 6 (0.28%) HTTP
15 6 (0.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 322 (15.10%) Power BI
2 247 (11.59%) Data Warehouse
3 191 (8.96%) Tableau
4 155 (7.27%) Big Data
5 145 (6.80%) Data Lake
6 88 (4.13%) SQL Server
7 75 (3.52%) Amazon Redshift
8 68 (3.19%) Relational Database
9 62 (2.91%) BigQuery
10 58 (2.72%) NoSQL
11 52 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
12 49 (2.30%) MySQL
13 45 (2.11%) Looker
14 42 (1.97%) Hadoop
14 42 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
15 36 (1.69%) KDB
16 34 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
17 32 (1.50%) Data Mining
17 32 (1.50%) Metadata
18 27 (1.27%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 101 (4.74%) JIRA
2 99 (4.64%) Git
3 61 (2.86%) Jenkins
4 21 (0.98%) GitLab
5 18 (0.84%) Postman
6 17 (0.80%) Cypress.io
7 14 (0.66%) JMeter
7 14 (0.66%) Selenium
8 11 (0.52%) Subversion
8 11 (0.52%) Visual Studio
9 10 (0.47%) MLflow
10 9 (0.42%) Artifactory
11 8 (0.38%) JUnit
11 8 (0.38%) Visual Website Optimizer
12 6 (0.28%) Appium
12 6 (0.28%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (0.23%) Cucumber
13 5 (0.23%) ERwin
13 5 (0.23%) Robot Framework
General
1 600 (28.14%) Social Skills
2 526 (24.67%) Finance
3 407 (19.09%) Analytical Skills
4 170 (7.97%) Public Sector
5 145 (6.80%) Marketing
6 134 (6.29%) Banking
7 95 (4.46%) Retail
8 90 (4.22%) Front Office
9 79 (3.71%) Legal
10 69 (3.24%) Presentation Skills
11 62 (2.91%) Telecoms
12 54 (2.53%) Manufacturing
13 44 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 44 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
14 43 (2.02%) Investment Banking
15 28 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
16 23 (1.08%) Advertising
17 15 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
18 14 (0.66%) Local Government
19 13 (0.61%) German Language
Job Titles
1 394 (18.48%) Analyst
2 297 (13.93%) Developer
3 257 (12.05%) Architect
4 216 (10.13%) Data Engineer
5 204 (9.57%) Senior
6 165 (7.74%) Data Analyst
7 158 (7.41%) Lead
8 117 (5.49%) Consultant
9 98 (4.60%) Data Architect
10 72 (3.38%) Azure Engineer
11 69 (3.24%) Business Analyst
11 69 (3.24%) Project Manager
12 62 (2.91%) Solutions Architect
13 55 (2.58%) Software Engineer
14 53 (2.49%) Senior Analyst
15 46 (2.16%) Azure Data Engineer
16 44 (2.06%) Product Manager
17 42 (1.97%) Analytics Manager
18 41 (1.92%) Product Owner
19 38 (1.78%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (3.61%) PySpark
2 76 (3.56%) HTML
3 62 (2.91%) CSS
4 61 (2.86%) .NET
5 59 (2.77%) React
6 57 (2.67%) REST
7 56 (2.63%) Middleware
8 51 (2.39%) Web Services
9 47 (2.20%) Kafka
10 43 (2.02%) JSON
11 35 (1.64%) Pandas
12 34 (1.59%) ARM Templates
12 34 (1.59%) XML
13 28 (1.31%) .NET Core
14 26 (1.22%) RESTful
15 24 (1.13%) AngularJS
16 23 (1.08%) NumPy
17 20 (0.94%) gRPC
17 20 (0.94%) Node.js
18 19 (0.89%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 120 (5.63%) Management Information System
2 111 (5.21%) Product Ownership
3 75 (3.52%) Fixed Income
4 67 (3.14%) Data Structures
5 64 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
6 61 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 58 (2.72%) Derivative
8 56 (2.63%) Algorithms
9 54 (2.53%) Equities
10 46 (2.16%) Credit Risk
11 45 (2.11%) Hedge funds
12 39 (1.83%) Social Media
13 33 (1.55%) Onboarding
14 32 (1.50%) Data Centre
15 31 (1.45%) Security Operations Centre
16 29 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
17 28 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
18 25 (1.17%) Cloud Native
18 25 (1.17%) CSOC
18 25 (1.17%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 132 (6.19%) Windows
2 127 (5.96%) Linux
3 47 (2.20%) Unix
4 45 (2.11%) Windows Server
5 22 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
6 20 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
7 17 (0.80%) Android
8 15 (0.70%) Apple iOS
9 10 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 8 (0.38%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.14%) VMS
11 3 (0.14%) zOS
12 2 (0.094%) AIX
12 2 (0.094%) ThreadX
12 2 (0.094%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.047%) CentOS
13 1 (0.047%) Solaris
13 1 (0.047%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 555 (26.03%) Agile
2 479 (22.47%) Data Analytics
3 448 (21.01%) Business Intelligence
4 376 (17.64%) Data Modelling
5 349 (16.37%) Problem-Solving
6 303 (14.21%) ETL
7 243 (11.40%) Visualisation
8 237 (11.12%) DevOps
9 213 (9.99%) Data Science
10 207 (9.71%) Data Analysis
11 205 (9.62%) Data Management
12 203 (9.52%) Decision-Making
13 183 (8.58%) Data Pipeline
14 175 (8.21%) Data Engineering
14 175 (8.21%) Machine Learning
15 174 (8.16%) CI/CD
16 171 (8.02%) Computer Science
17 169 (7.93%) Project Management
18 165 (7.74%) Roadmaps
19 163 (7.65%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 628 (29.46%) SQL
2 495 (23.22%) Python
3 141 (6.61%) Java
4 118 (5.53%) JavaScript
5 100 (4.69%) C#
6 74 (3.47%) PowerShell
7 57 (2.67%) R
8 50 (2.35%) TypeScript
9 47 (2.20%) Scala
10 45 (2.11%) C++
11 34 (1.59%) Bicep
12 31 (1.45%) Bash
13 28 (1.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 24 (1.13%) T-SQL
15 23 (1.08%) VB
16 20 (0.94%) ABAP
16 20 (0.94%) VBScript
17 17 (0.80%) PL/SQL
18 16 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
19 15 (0.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 342 (16.04%) Degree
2 292 (13.70%) Security Cleared
3 211 (9.90%) SC Cleared
4 97 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 89 (4.17%) DV Cleared
6 77 (3.61%) Master's Degree
7 40 (1.88%) Azure Certification
8 29 (1.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 26 (1.22%) SANS
10 24 (1.13%) CISSP
11 21 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
12 18 (0.84%) Numerate Degree
13 17 (0.80%) PMI Certification
14 16 (0.75%) PMP
15 14 (0.66%) AWS Certification
16 13 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
17 12 (0.56%) PhD
18 11 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 11 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
19 9 (0.42%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 207 (9.71%) Data Quality
2 96 (4.50%) QA
3 47 (2.20%) Accessibility
3 47 (2.20%) GDPR
4 27 (1.27%) Actionable Recommendations
5 21 (0.98%) PMO
6 16 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (0.70%) SLA
8 14 (0.66%) HIPAA
8 14 (0.66%) PCI DSS
9 13 (0.61%) NIST
10 12 (0.56%) IFRS
11 11 (0.52%) GxP
12 10 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
13 8 (0.38%) NCSC
13 8 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (0.38%) SOC 2
14 7 (0.33%) IFRS 9
15 6 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 5 (0.23%) GAMP
System Software
1 55 (2.58%) Active Directory
2 44 (2.06%) Docker
3 31 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
4 27 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (0.33%) HDFS
7 5 (0.23%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.14%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.094%) Firmware
9 2 (0.094%) Time Sharing Option
10 1 (0.047%) NFS
10 1 (0.047%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 90 (4.22%) Terraform
2 69 (3.24%) Kubernetes
3 44 (2.06%) Grafana
4 30 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 27 (1.27%) SCOM
6 26 (1.22%) Ansible
7 22 (1.03%) SCCM
7 22 (1.03%) WSUS
8 21 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 10 (0.47%) ITRS Geneos
10 9 (0.42%) BladeLogic
11 6 (0.28%) Nagios
11 6 (0.28%) Prometheus
12 5 (0.23%) SysTrack
13 4 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.19%) Trend Micro Deep Security
14 3 (0.14%) Graylog
14 3 (0.14%) Kibana
14 3 (0.14%) Matomo
14 3 (0.14%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 377 (17.68%) Microsoft
2 177 (8.30%) Google
3 163 (7.65%) Databricks
4 123 (5.77%) SAP
5 122 (5.72%) Oracle
6 75 (3.52%) Adobe
7 48 (2.25%) Salesforce
8 46 (2.16%) Alteryx
9 38 (1.78%) ServiceNow
10 33 (1.55%) Talend
11 32 (1.50%) Atlassian
12 29 (1.36%) Denodo
12 29 (1.36%) Splunk
13 27 (1.27%) Cisco
14 22 (1.03%) Informatica
15 20 (0.94%) Optimizely
15 20 (0.94%) Red Hat
16 17 (0.80%) OpenAI
17 16 (0.75%) Citrix
18 15 (0.70%) Dynatrace