Analytical Skills Contracts in the South West

Analytical Skills
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 18 34 38
Rank change year-on-year +16 +4 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 252 182 199
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 7.75% 5.38% 5.41%
As % of the General category 15.44% 11.16% 10.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 143 129
10th Percentile £260 £366 £363
25th Percentile £315 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.67%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £600
90th Percentile £700 £681 £688
England median daily rate £525 £536 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% +2.14% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 9 22
10th Percentile £11.80 £43.87 £25.89
25th Percentile £15.75 £51.83 £38.19
Median hourly rate £40.00 £56.30 £48.99
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +14.92% +34.22%
75th Percentile - £72.98 £55.75
90th Percentile £42.50 £73.58 £63.22
England median hourly rate £19.00 £43.43 £35.50
% change year-on-year -56.25% +22.34% +73.17%

All General Skills
South West

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 West with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,632 1,631 1,879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 50.20% 48.21% 51.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 980 1,199 1,331
10th Percentile £244 £275 £250
25th Percentile £413 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +10.74%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £600
90th Percentile £700 £718 £675
England median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 275 109 138
10th Percentile £13.69 £17.50 -
25th Percentile £20.91 £39.55 £15.90
Median hourly rate £45.00 £60.00 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +42.86% -1.75%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £55.84
90th Percentile £73.90 £88.00 £63.60
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in the South West

Analytical Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Analytical Skills in the South West

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the South West

Analytical Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Skills in the South West

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the South West

Analytical Skills
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Wiltshire +12 98 £525 - 47
Gloucestershire +32 49 £475 -13.64% 56
Somerset +15 32 £588 -4.08% 84
Bristol -20 25 £488 +2.63% 108
Devon +6 20 £178 +10.94% 41
Cornwall +4 10 £150 -40.00% 9
Dorset +1 4 £175 -75.00% 25
Analytical Skills
England

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 37 (14.68%) Confluence
2 19 (7.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 41 (16.27%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (15.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 32 (12.70%) Microsoft Project
4 24 (9.52%) Spreadsheet
5 8 (3.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (2.78%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.40%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 6 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.98%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.98%) SAP HCM
2 5 (1.98%) SAP HR
3 3 (1.19%) ENOVIA
3 3 (1.19%) SAP PLM
3 3 (1.19%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.40%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.40%) Primavera
4 1 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.40%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.40%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.40%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 24 (9.52%) Power Platform
2 18 (7.14%) Azure
3 12 (4.76%) AWS
3 12 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (1.98%) SuccessFactors
5 4 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (0.79%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.40%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.40%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.40%) GCP
7 1 (0.40%) Google Analytics
7 1 (0.40%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.40%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.14%) DNS
2 17 (6.75%) DHCP
3 16 (6.35%) Network Security
4 11 (4.37%) LAN
5 9 (3.57%) SAN
6 8 (3.17%) Firewall
6 8 (3.17%) MPLS
6 8 (3.17%) WAN
6 8 (3.17%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (2.38%) Cisco Nexus
7 6 (2.38%) VSAN
8 5 (1.98%) Wireless
9 3 (1.19%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.79%) Skype
11 1 (0.40%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (0.40%) IP Telephony
11 1 (0.40%) Software-Defined Networking
11 1 (0.40%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (9.52%) Power BI
2 22 (8.73%) SQL Server
3 13 (5.16%) Relational Database
3 13 (5.16%) Tableau
4 12 (4.76%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 12 (4.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 12 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (0.79%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.79%) Data Mining
5 2 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.79%) Metadata
5 2 (0.79%) MySQL
5 2 (0.79%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 70 (27.78%) JIRA
2 21 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 20 (7.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 20 (7.94%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.19%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.79%) JMeter
5 2 (0.79%) JUnit
5 2 (0.79%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.79%) Selenium
6 1 (0.40%) Git
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle APEX
General
1 162 (64.29%) Social Skills
2 53 (21.03%) Finance
3 33 (13.10%) Presentation Skills
4 29 (11.51%) Public Sector
5 28 (11.11%) Aerospace
6 22 (8.73%) Military
7 11 (4.37%) Legal
7 11 (4.37%) Manufacturing
8 9 (3.57%) Telecoms
9 8 (3.17%) Electronics
9 8 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (2.78%) Marketing
11 6 (2.38%) Banking
12 4 (1.59%) Retail
13 3 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.79%) General Ledger
14 2 (0.79%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.79%) Local Government
15 1 (0.40%) Advertising
15 1 (0.40%) Billing
Job Titles
1 57 (22.62%) Analyst
2 38 (15.08%) Lead
3 24 (9.52%) Project Leader
4 22 (8.73%) Developer
5 21 (8.33%) Service Analyst
5 21 (8.33%) Service Desk Analyst
6 20 (7.94%) Project Manager
7 17 (6.75%) Data Engineer
8 11 (4.37%) IT Analyst
8 11 (4.37%) Network Engineer
8 11 (4.37%) Test Engineer
9 10 (3.97%) Technical Support
10 9 (3.57%) Consultant
10 9 (3.57%) Data Analyst
10 9 (3.57%) Senior
11 8 (3.17%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 8 (3.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (3.17%) Integration Engineer
11 8 (3.17%) Support Engineer
11 8 (3.17%) Test and Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (7.94%) .NET
1 20 (7.94%) .NET Core
2 5 (1.98%) Flash
3 2 (0.79%) PySpark
4 1 (0.40%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.40%) React
4 1 (0.40%) REST
4 1 (0.40%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.40%) Vue
4 1 (0.40%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.94%) Management Information System
2 14 (5.56%) Cyber Defence
3 13 (5.16%) Analytical Mindset
3 13 (5.16%) Clustering
3 13 (5.16%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (4.76%) Data Centre
4 12 (4.76%) PKI
5 10 (3.97%) Onboarding
5 10 (3.97%) Security Operations Centre
6 8 (3.17%) Client/Server
6 8 (3.17%) Cyber Threat
7 7 (2.78%) Operational Technology
7 7 (2.78%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.59%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.19%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.79%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.79%) Blog
10 2 (0.79%) NHS
10 2 (0.79%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.40%) Solar Power
Operating Systems
1 30 (11.90%) Windows
2 29 (11.51%) Linux
3 11 (4.37%) Windows Server
3 11 (4.37%) Windows Server 2012
4 9 (3.57%) Unix
5 3 (1.19%) Kali Linux
5 3 (1.19%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.79%) CentOS
7 1 (0.40%) Android
7 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (56.75%) Problem-Solving
2 84 (33.33%) Agile
3 51 (20.24%) Project Management
4 40 (15.87%) Project Delivery
5 39 (15.48%) Stakeholder Management
6 32 (12.70%) Business Intelligence
7 31 (12.30%) Data Management
8 30 (11.90%) PRINCE2
8 30 (11.90%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 29 (11.51%) Project Planning
10 28 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
11 25 (9.92%) Creative Problem-Solving
12 24 (9.52%) Commercial Awareness
12 24 (9.52%) Configuration Management
13 22 (8.73%) Continuous Improvement
13 22 (8.73%) Deployment Automation
14 21 (8.33%) CI/CD
14 21 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
14 21 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
14 21 (8.33%) OO
Programming Languages
1 34 (13.49%) Python
2 31 (12.30%) PowerShell
3 30 (11.90%) SQL
4 12 (4.76%) T-SQL
5 6 (2.38%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.59%) C
6 4 (1.59%) Java
7 3 (1.19%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.79%) C++
8 2 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.79%) Perl
8 2 (0.79%) R
8 2 (0.79%) Scala
8 2 (0.79%) Search Processing Language
8 2 (0.79%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.40%) Bash
9 1 (0.40%) ProC
9 1 (0.40%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 151 (59.92%) Security Cleared
2 82 (32.54%) SC Cleared
3 72 (28.57%) DV Cleared
4 44 (17.46%) Degree
5 25 (9.92%) APMP
6 20 (7.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (5.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 12 (4.76%) MCSE
8 12 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (3.57%) CISSP
9 9 (3.57%) Master's Degree
9 9 (3.57%) MCSA
10 8 (3.17%) CCNA
11 7 (2.78%) CISM
12 5 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (1.59%) Chartered Engineer
13 4 (1.59%) OSCP
14 3 (1.19%) CCNP
14 3 (1.19%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (12.30%) SLA
2 30 (11.90%) PMO
3 13 (5.16%) QA
4 12 (4.76%) NIST
5 8 (3.17%) NIST 800
6 5 (1.98%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.98%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.19%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.19%) GDPR
7 3 (1.19%) GRC
8 2 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.40%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.40%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.40%) SOC 2
System Software
1 30 (11.90%) Active Directory
2 27 (10.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (3.17%) Virtual Servers
3 8 (3.17%) VMware Workstation
4 7 (2.78%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.38%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.79%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.40%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.40%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 20 (7.94%) PowerCLI
2 19 (7.54%) Ansible
3 16 (6.35%) SCCM
4 8 (3.17%) Microsoft Clustering
4 8 (3.17%) Nagios
4 8 (3.17%) NetBackup
5 6 (2.38%) vCenter Server
6 4 (1.59%) Terraform
7 2 (0.79%) MOM
7 2 (0.79%) WSUS
8 1 (0.40%) Dell DRAC
8 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.40%) Puppet
Vendors
1 58 (23.02%) Microsoft
2 28 (11.11%) VMware
3 25 (9.92%) Atlassian
4 20 (7.94%) Dell
5 19 (7.54%) HP
6 17 (6.75%) SAP
7 14 (5.56%) Cisco
8 8 (3.17%) Hitachi
8 8 (3.17%) NetApp
9 7 (2.78%) Splunk
10 5 (1.98%) Remedy
11 4 (1.59%) Juniper
12 3 (1.19%) F5
12 3 (1.19%) Fortinet
12 3 (1.19%) Oracle
12 3 (1.19%) Red Hat
13 2 (0.79%) Citrix
13 2 (0.79%) Google
13 2 (0.79%) IBM
13 2 (0.79%) Nokia