Analytics Contracts with Work from Home Options

Analytics
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 39 35
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 0
Contract jobs citing Analytics 801 1,244 2,641
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 5.47% 5.16% 5.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.25% 5.76% 6.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 578 928 1,894
10th Percentile £363 £383 £400
25th Percentile £450 £460 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £653
90th Percentile £800 £779 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 24 19
10th Percentile £13.50 - £13.58
25th Percentile £25.00 £21.00 £28.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £30.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -44.44% +157.14%
75th Percentile £54.66 £43.06 £72.50
90th Percentile £73.30 £61.05 £77.30
UK median hourly rate £30.37 £32.30 £35.00
% change year-on-year -5.98% -7.71% +29.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,820 21,608 40,174
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.57% 89.66% 91.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,645 15,332 29,227
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 503 516
10th Percentile £14.89 £18.49 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.19 £25.85 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £57.72
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.60 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

Analytics
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Analytics trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Analytics.

Analytics daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Analytics over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Analytics daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Analytics
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Analytics.

Analytics hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Analytics
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Analytics over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Analytics hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Analytics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 28 (3.50%) Apache Spark
2 21 (2.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (2.37%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (2.25%) CMS
5 17 (2.12%) Apache
5 17 (2.12%) SAS
6 16 (2.00%) Confluence
7 13 (1.62%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.50%) WordPress
10 3 (0.37%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.12%) CICS
12 1 (0.12%) Drupal
12 1 (0.12%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.12%) IBM Notes
12 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.12%) Moodle
12 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 19 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.87%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.75%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.37%) SPSS
6 2 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.25%) Sketch
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.12%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.12%) InVision
7 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.12%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.12%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 20 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.12%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (1.00%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 8 (1.00%) SAP FI-AP
4 6 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.75%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.62%) MIS ActiveH
5 5 (0.62%) NEC Housing
6 4 (0.50%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.50%) Shopify
6 4 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.37%) Endur
7 3 (0.37%) OPENHousing
7 3 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.37%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 2 (0.25%) OpenLink RightAngle
8 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.25%) PeopleSoft HCM
8 2 (0.25%) SAP BPC
8 2 (0.25%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 212 (26.47%) Azure
2 162 (20.22%) AWS
3 105 (13.11%) Power Platform
4 80 (9.99%) GCP
5 46 (5.74%) Google Analytics
6 37 (4.62%) Azure Data Factory
7 36 (4.49%) Azure Monitor
8 30 (3.75%) Serverless
9 28 (3.50%) Snowflake
10 26 (3.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 26 (3.25%) dbt
11 25 (3.12%) Azure DevOps
11 25 (3.12%) Microsoft 365
12 24 (3.00%) Azure Storage
12 24 (3.00%) Entra ID
13 21 (2.62%) SaaS
14 19 (2.37%) GitHub
15 18 (2.25%) Amazon S3
16 17 (2.12%) AWS Lambda
17 15 (1.87%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.12%) Firewall
2 21 (2.62%) DNS
3 20 (2.50%) DHCP
4 13 (1.62%) WAN
5 12 (1.50%) LAN
6 8 (1.00%) VoIP
7 7 (0.87%) Network Security
7 7 (0.87%) VPN
8 5 (0.62%) CTI
9 4 (0.50%) 3GPP
9 4 (0.50%) 4G
9 4 (0.50%) 5G
9 4 (0.50%) 5G NR
9 4 (0.50%) LTE
9 4 (0.50%) Radio Access Network
10 3 (0.37%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (0.37%) HTTP
10 3 (0.37%) PBX
10 3 (0.37%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.37%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (12.61%) Power BI
2 96 (11.99%) Data Warehouse
3 50 (6.24%) Tableau
4 47 (5.87%) Data Lake
5 46 (5.74%) Big Data
6 33 (4.12%) SQL Server
7 29 (3.62%) Amazon Redshift
8 25 (3.12%) BigQuery
9 21 (2.62%) NoSQL
10 20 (2.50%) Looker
11 18 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
11 18 (2.25%) Relational Database
12 17 (2.12%) Snowflake Schema
13 16 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
14 14 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
14 14 (1.75%) Dremio
14 14 (1.75%) Hadoop
15 13 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
16 12 (1.50%) Apache Arrow
17 11 (1.37%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 39 (4.87%) JIRA
2 38 (4.74%) Git
3 27 (3.37%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.37%) JMeter
5 10 (1.25%) Postman
6 8 (1.00%) GitLab
7 7 (0.87%) Cypress.io
7 7 (0.87%) MLflow
8 5 (0.62%) Appium
8 5 (0.62%) Selenium
8 5 (0.62%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.50%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.50%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.50%) Subversion
10 3 (0.37%) Maven
11 2 (0.25%) Bugzilla
11 2 (0.25%) JUnit
11 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 2 (0.25%) TestNG
11 2 (0.25%) TestRail
General
1 232 (28.96%) Social Skills
2 208 (25.97%) Finance
3 120 (14.98%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (8.49%) Public Sector
5 59 (7.37%) Front Office
6 55 (6.87%) Banking
7 36 (4.49%) Marketing
8 35 (4.37%) Retail
9 27 (3.37%) Manufacturing
10 25 (3.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 24 (3.00%) Investment Banking
12 23 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
13 22 (2.75%) Telecoms
14 21 (2.62%) Legal
15 20 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
16 18 (2.25%) Pharmaceutical
17 11 (1.37%) Advertising
18 6 (0.75%) Financial Institution
19 5 (0.62%) Automotive
20 4 (0.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 142 (17.73%) Analyst
2 122 (15.23%) Developer
3 102 (12.73%) Data Engineer
4 95 (11.86%) Architect
5 77 (9.61%) Senior
6 63 (7.87%) Data Analyst
7 59 (7.37%) Lead
8 51 (6.37%) Consultant
9 40 (4.99%) Business Analyst
10 36 (4.49%) Data Architect
11 29 (3.62%) Product Manager
12 27 (3.37%) Azure Engineer
12 27 (3.37%) Project Manager
13 25 (3.12%) Software Engineer
14 24 (3.00%) Product Owner
15 21 (2.62%) Solutions Architect
16 20 (2.50%) Active Directory Support
17 19 (2.37%) Financial Analyst
18 18 (2.25%) Finance Manager
19 17 (2.12%) Finance Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (4.12%) PySpark
2 30 (3.75%) Middleware
3 28 (3.50%) HTML
4 23 (2.87%) ARM Templates
4 23 (2.87%) REST
5 22 (2.75%) CSS
5 22 (2.75%) JSON
5 22 (2.75%) React
5 22 (2.75%) Web Services
6 20 (2.50%) .NET
7 18 (2.25%) Node.js
8 17 (2.12%) Pandas
9 15 (1.87%) AngularJS
9 15 (1.87%) XML
10 13 (1.62%) gRPC
11 12 (1.50%) FastAPI
11 12 (1.50%) Kafka
11 12 (1.50%) Material-UI
11 12 (1.50%) Protocol Buffers
11 12 (1.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 50 (6.24%) Product Ownership
2 46 (5.74%) Derivative
3 42 (5.24%) Fixed Income
3 42 (5.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 40 (4.99%) Equities
5 35 (4.37%) Hedge funds
5 35 (4.37%) Self-Motivation
6 30 (3.75%) Management Information System
7 23 (2.87%) Algorithms
8 20 (2.50%) Data Structures
8 20 (2.50%) PKI
9 15 (1.87%) Public Cloud
10 12 (1.50%) Mobile App
11 11 (1.37%) Onboarding
12 10 (1.25%) Reference Data
13 9 (1.12%) CMDB
13 9 (1.12%) Credit Risk
13 9 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
13 9 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
13 9 (1.12%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 61 (7.62%) Windows
2 53 (6.62%) Linux
3 33 (4.12%) Windows Server
4 20 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
4 20 (2.50%) Windows Server 2019
5 17 (2.12%) Unix
6 2 (0.25%) Android
6 2 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.25%) ThreadX
6 2 (0.25%) VMS
6 2 (0.25%) zOS
7 1 (0.12%) AIX
7 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (30.34%) Agile
2 158 (19.73%) Business Intelligence
3 151 (18.85%) Data Analytics
4 150 (18.73%) Data Modelling
5 113 (14.11%) Problem-Solving
6 108 (13.48%) ETL
7 106 (13.23%) DevOps
8 86 (10.74%) Data Management
9 82 (10.24%) CI/CD
10 81 (10.11%) Data Science
11 75 (9.36%) Visualisation
12 73 (9.11%) Roadmaps
13 69 (8.61%) Machine Learning
14 67 (8.36%) Data Pipeline
15 62 (7.74%) Software Engineering
16 60 (7.49%) Data Governance
16 60 (7.49%) Decision-Making
17 59 (7.37%) Data Analysis
18 58 (7.24%) Artificial Intelligence
19 57 (7.12%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 249 (31.09%) SQL
2 203 (25.34%) Python
3 70 (8.74%) Java
4 58 (7.24%) JavaScript
5 52 (6.49%) C#
6 36 (4.49%) PowerShell
7 29 (3.62%) TypeScript
8 27 (3.37%) Bicep
9 22 (2.75%) Scala
10 21 (2.62%) C++
10 21 (2.62%) VB
11 20 (2.50%) VBScript
12 17 (2.12%) R
13 14 (1.75%) ABAP
14 11 (1.37%) Bash
14 11 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 9 (1.12%) Perl
15 9 (1.12%) PL/SQL
16 8 (1.00%) Ruby
17 6 (0.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 115 (14.36%) Security Cleared
2 102 (12.73%) SC Cleared
3 98 (12.23%) Degree
4 30 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (3.50%) DV Cleared
6 23 (2.87%) Master's Degree
7 20 (2.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 10 (1.25%) Azure Certification
9 7 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.75%) AWS Certification
10 6 (0.75%) Numerate Degree
10 6 (0.75%) PMP
11 5 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.62%) CISM
11 5 (0.62%) CISSP
11 5 (0.62%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.37%) CCIE
13 3 (0.37%) CCNP
13 3 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (10.36%) Data Quality
2 44 (5.49%) QA
3 22 (2.75%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.37%) GDPR
4 11 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.00%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.87%) NCSC
6 7 (0.87%) NIST
7 6 (0.75%) PMO
8 5 (0.62%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.62%) IFRS
8 5 (0.62%) SLA
9 4 (0.50%) IFRS 9
9 4 (0.50%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.37%) COBIT
10 3 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
10 3 (0.37%) ISO 22301
10 3 (0.37%) WCAG
11 2 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 33 (4.12%) Active Directory
2 23 (2.87%) Virtual Machines
3 21 (2.62%) Virtual Desktop
4 15 (1.87%) Docker
5 2 (0.25%) Firmware
5 2 (0.25%) HDFS
5 2 (0.25%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 30 (3.75%) Kubernetes
2 27 (3.37%) Terraform
3 24 (3.00%) SCOM
4 22 (2.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (2.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 20 (2.50%) SCCM
5 20 (2.50%) WSUS
6 13 (1.62%) Ansible
7 12 (1.50%) Grafana
8 4 (0.50%) BladeLogic
8 4 (0.50%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (0.50%) Trend Micro Deep Security
9 2 (0.25%) Kibana
9 2 (0.25%) Nessus
9 2 (0.25%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.12%) CASB
10 1 (0.12%) Matomo
10 1 (0.12%) McAfee ePO
10 1 (0.12%) SCOrch
10 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 142 (17.73%) Microsoft
2 70 (8.74%) Databricks
2 70 (8.74%) Google
3 55 (6.87%) SAP
4 46 (5.74%) Oracle
5 26 (3.25%) Adobe
6 14 (1.75%) Salesforce
7 13 (1.62%) Splunk
8 11 (1.37%) Ariba
8 11 (1.37%) Cisco
9 10 (1.25%) ServiceNow
10 9 (1.12%) Dynatrace
11 8 (1.00%) Informatica
11 8 (1.00%) OpenAI
11 8 (1.00%) OpenText
11 8 (1.00%) Optimizely
12 6 (0.75%) Facebook
12 6 (0.75%) IBM
12 6 (0.75%) IFS
12 6 (0.75%) Twitter