Analytical Skills Contracts in the UK excluding London

Analytical Skills
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 16 20 29
Rank change year-on-year +4 +9 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,624 1,810 1,933
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.80% 7.95% 6.34%
As % of the General category 14.50% 14.13% 11.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 999 1,225 1,250
10th Percentile £269 £263 £213
25th Percentile £381 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £550
90th Percentile £700 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 66 111
10th Percentile £11.75 £18.16 £12.50
25th Percentile £12.75 £22.85 £14.25
Median hourly rate £17.11 £51.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.55% +70.49% +62.16%
75th Percentile £26.66 £58.75 £51.12
90th Percentile £43.75 £66.00 £58.43
UK median hourly rate £18.35 £44.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -58.30% +23.94% +69.05%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,199 12,812 17,062
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 53.77% 56.25% 55.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,339 8,701 11,756
10th Percentile £205 £228 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +8.45%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,693 722 1,032
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £28.42 £27.84 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% +42.77% +2.63%
75th Percentile £53.75 £60.00 £37.43
90th Percentile £67.38 £68.75 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.30 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.12% +43.56% +4.65%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Analytical Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London

Analytical Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London

Analytical Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London

Analytical Skills
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
South East -2 448 £530 -3.64% 589
North of England 0 332 £500 +2.88% 705
South West +16 252 £525 - 376
Midlands 0 243 £513 +7.89% 485
Scotland -1 202 £463 -3.39% 152
West Midlands +1 184 £525 +9.38% 286
North West 0 165 £475 - 412
Yorkshire +9 143 £500 -4.76% 221
East of England -2 113 £488 +22.33% 285
East Midlands -2 54 £450 -2.70% 202
Wales +12 33 £500 +53.85% 51
North East +15 22 £590 +45.23% 85
Northern Ireland -2 12 £513 +79.82% 41
Isle of Man - 2 £388 - 5
Analytical Skills
UK

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 87 (5.36%) Confluence
2 45 (2.77%) SharePoint
3 43 (2.65%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (0.80%) Apache
5 11 (0.68%) SAS
6 10 (0.62%) Apache Spark
7 9 (0.55%) Tomcat
8 8 (0.49%) CMS
8 8 (0.49%) IIS
9 7 (0.43%) Oracle Workflow
10 5 (0.31%) Oracle Self-Service HR
11 4 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
11 4 (0.25%) Appian
11 4 (0.25%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.18%) Drupal
12 3 (0.18%) IBM HTTP Server
12 3 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.18%) WebSphere Application Server
12 3 (0.18%) WebSphere Portal
13 2 (0.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 187 (11.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 120 (7.39%) Microsoft Office
3 46 (2.83%) Microsoft Project
4 45 (2.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 41 (2.52%) Spreadsheet
6 23 (1.42%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.49%) Acrobat
8 5 (0.31%) Sketch
9 4 (0.25%) MicroStation
9 4 (0.25%) SPSS
10 2 (0.12%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.12%) Autodesk Inventor
10 2 (0.12%) InVision
11 1 (0.062%) Abaqus
11 1 (0.062%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.062%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.062%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.062%) PTC Creo
11 1 (0.062%) Simulink
11 1 (0.062%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 38 (2.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.86%) Oracle EBS
2 14 (0.86%) Oracle EBS R12
3 12 (0.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 9 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
4 9 (0.55%) Teamcenter
5 8 (0.49%) Maximo
5 8 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.49%) Primavera
5 8 (0.49%) SAP CO
5 8 (0.49%) SAP ERP
5 8 (0.49%) SAP FI
5 8 (0.49%) SAP FI/CO
5 8 (0.49%) SAP HCM
6 7 (0.43%) SAP HR
6 7 (0.43%) SAP SD
7 6 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
7 6 (0.37%) Oracle Cash Management
8 5 (0.31%) Oracle HRMS
8 5 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 202 (12.44%) Azure
2 175 (10.78%) Power Platform
3 103 (6.34%) AWS
4 70 (4.31%) Microsoft 365
5 45 (2.77%) GCP
6 43 (2.65%) Snowflake
7 38 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
8 35 (2.16%) Azure Data Factory
9 30 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
10 25 (1.54%) Entra ID
11 24 (1.48%) OCI
12 22 (1.35%) PowerApps
13 21 (1.29%) Azure Monitor
14 19 (1.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 17 (1.05%) Serverless
16 16 (0.99%) SaaS
17 15 (0.92%) GitHub
18 13 (0.80%) Azure Functions
18 13 (0.80%) Power Automate
19 12 (0.74%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 54 (3.33%) Network Security
2 51 (3.14%) Firewall
3 45 (2.77%) DNS
4 40 (2.46%) VPN
5 33 (2.03%) DHCP
6 30 (1.85%) WAN
7 29 (1.79%) LAN
8 27 (1.66%) TCP/IP
9 26 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
10 22 (1.35%) Intrusion Detection
11 21 (1.29%) VLAN
12 19 (1.17%) SAN
13 18 (1.11%) Internet
14 17 (1.05%) MPLS
15 16 (0.99%) HTTP
16 14 (0.86%) Wireless
17 13 (0.80%) Cisco Nexus
18 12 (0.74%) Intranet
18 12 (0.74%) SSL
19 10 (0.62%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (10.22%) Power BI
2 92 (5.67%) Tableau
3 53 (3.26%) SQL Server
4 38 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
5 35 (2.16%) Big Data
6 29 (1.79%) Relational Database
7 24 (1.48%) Data Lake
8 21 (1.29%) NoSQL
8 21 (1.29%) Oracle Reports
9 18 (1.11%) Data Mining
9 18 (1.11%) Metadata
10 17 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 16 (0.99%) Oracle Database
11 16 (0.99%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 15 (0.92%) GIS
13 14 (0.86%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 12 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
15 11 (0.68%) Hadoop
15 11 (0.68%) Power Query
16 7 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 156 (9.61%) JIRA
2 65 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 51 (3.14%) Git
4 46 (2.83%) Selenium
5 29 (1.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 26 (1.60%) Cucumber
7 25 (1.54%) GitLab
8 24 (1.48%) REST Assured
8 24 (1.48%) SonarQube
9 21 (1.29%) Bitbucket
10 12 (0.74%) Oracle APEX
11 10 (0.62%) Travis CI
12 9 (0.55%) CircleCI
12 9 (0.55%) Oracle Forms
13 6 (0.37%) LoadRunner
13 6 (0.37%) Robot Framework
13 6 (0.37%) Visual Studio
14 5 (0.31%) JMeter
15 4 (0.25%) JUnit
16 3 (0.18%) ERwin
General
1 922 (56.77%) Social Skills
2 334 (20.57%) Finance
3 187 (11.51%) Public Sector
4 92 (5.67%) Presentation Skills
5 81 (4.99%) Organisational Skills
6 80 (4.93%) Legal
7 68 (4.19%) Manufacturing
8 61 (3.76%) Banking
9 58 (3.57%) Telecoms
10 51 (3.14%) Marketing
11 46 (2.83%) Retail
12 38 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
12 38 (2.34%) Military
13 35 (2.16%) Aerospace
14 26 (1.60%) Law
15 24 (1.48%) Local Government
16 22 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
16 22 (1.35%) Police
17 21 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 18 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 385 (23.71%) Analyst
2 132 (8.13%) Developer
3 127 (7.82%) Lead
4 122 (7.51%) Architect
5 114 (7.02%) Senior
6 93 (5.73%) Data Analyst
7 81 (4.99%) Consultant
8 67 (4.13%) Business Analyst
8 67 (4.13%) Project Manager
9 49 (3.02%) Solutions Architect
10 47 (2.89%) IT Engineer
11 41 (2.52%) Network Engineer
12 40 (2.46%) Data Engineer
13 36 (2.22%) Service Analyst
14 35 (2.16%) Support Engineer
15 34 (2.09%) Senior Analyst
15 34 (2.09%) Service Desk Analyst
16 31 (1.91%) Field Engineer
16 31 (1.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 30 (1.85%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (2.89%) REST
2 46 (2.83%) .NET
3 33 (2.03%) HTML
4 32 (1.97%) CSS
5 30 (1.85%) React
6 25 (1.54%) Java EE
7 22 (1.35%) .NET Core
7 22 (1.35%) Web Services
8 19 (1.17%) Kafka
8 19 (1.17%) XML
9 18 (1.11%) Apache NiFi
10 14 (0.86%) JSON
10 14 (0.86%) Middleware
10 14 (0.86%) RESTful
11 12 (0.74%) .NET Framework
11 12 (0.74%) ARM Templates
12 11 (0.68%) Elastic Stack
12 11 (0.68%) PySpark
12 11 (0.68%) YAML
13 10 (0.62%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 149 (9.17%) Management Information System
2 89 (5.48%) Analytical Mindset
3 75 (4.62%) Self-Motivation
4 74 (4.56%) Product Ownership
5 43 (2.65%) Data Centre
6 41 (2.52%) Cyber Defence
7 32 (1.97%) Data Structures
8 24 (1.48%) Credit Risk
9 23 (1.42%) Distributed Applications
10 22 (1.35%) Client/Server
10 22 (1.35%) Onboarding
10 22 (1.35%) Operational Technology
10 22 (1.35%) PKI
11 21 (1.29%) Replication
11 21 (1.29%) Virtual Team
12 20 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
13 19 (1.17%) Security Operations Centre
14 18 (1.11%) NHS
15 17 (1.05%) Cyber Threat
16 16 (0.99%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 187 (11.51%) Windows
2 118 (7.27%) Linux
3 58 (3.57%) Windows Server
4 55 (3.39%) Unix
5 29 (1.79%) Apple iOS
6 24 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 24 (1.48%) Windows Server 2012
7 23 (1.42%) Android
8 19 (1.17%) Windows 10
9 14 (0.86%) Mac OS
9 14 (0.86%) Windows 7
10 6 (0.37%) AIX
11 5 (0.31%) Solaris
11 5 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.18%) Kali Linux
13 2 (0.12%) CentOS
14 1 (0.062%) VMS
14 1 (0.062%) Windows 8
14 1 (0.062%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 934 (57.51%) Problem-Solving
2 366 (22.54%) Agile
3 241 (14.84%) Project Management
4 204 (12.56%) Business Intelligence
5 174 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
6 170 (10.47%) Decision-Making
7 167 (10.28%) Analytics
8 162 (9.98%) Continuous Improvement
9 154 (9.48%) DevOps
10 124 (7.64%) Customer Service
11 118 (7.27%) Change Management
12 117 (7.20%) ITIL
13 115 (7.08%) Cybersecurity
14 111 (6.83%) Computer Science
15 104 (6.40%) Data Analysis
16 95 (5.85%) Data Management
17 94 (5.79%) Actionable Insight
18 92 (5.67%) Migration
18 92 (5.67%) Visualisation
19 90 (5.54%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 218 (13.42%) SQL
2 170 (10.47%) Python
3 99 (6.10%) Java
4 91 (5.60%) PowerShell
5 46 (2.83%) JavaScript
6 28 (1.72%) C#
7 21 (1.29%) PL/SQL
8 20 (1.23%) C
8 20 (1.23%) T-SQL
9 19 (1.17%) R
10 15 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 14 (0.86%) Bash
11 14 (0.86%) VBScript
12 13 (0.80%) Shell Script
13 9 (0.55%) VBA
14 8 (0.49%) Perl
14 8 (0.49%) TypeScript
15 7 (0.43%) C++
15 7 (0.43%) Scala
16 6 (0.37%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 387 (23.83%) Security Cleared
2 301 (18.53%) Degree
3 217 (13.36%) SC Cleared
4 156 (9.61%) DV Cleared
5 75 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 57 (3.51%) Microsoft Certification
7 46 (2.83%) Cisco Certification
8 42 (2.59%) MCSE
9 39 (2.40%) Master's Degree
10 31 (1.91%) CCNA
10 31 (1.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 27 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
12 26 (1.60%) CISSP
13 25 (1.54%) APMP
14 22 (1.35%) MCSA
15 20 (1.23%) PMI Certification
16 19 (1.17%) CCNP
17 18 (1.11%) PMP
18 16 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
18 16 (0.99%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (4.68%) QA
2 72 (4.43%) SLA
3 54 (3.33%) Data Quality
4 52 (3.20%) PMO
5 51 (3.14%) GDPR
6 23 (1.42%) Accessibility
6 23 (1.42%) Actionable Recommendations
7 17 (1.05%) NIST
8 16 (0.99%) Disclosure Scotland
8 16 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.49%) HIPAA
9 8 (0.49%) NIST 800
10 7 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.43%) GRC
10 7 (0.43%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.37%) GxP
12 5 (0.31%) GAMP
13 4 (0.25%) ISO 9001
13 4 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 4 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 97 (5.97%) Active Directory
2 75 (4.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (2.09%) Docker
4 17 (1.05%) VMware NSX
5 14 (0.86%) vSphere
6 10 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (0.55%) Hyper-V
7 9 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
7 9 (0.55%) VMware Workstation
8 5 (0.31%) Firmware
8 5 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.18%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.18%) OpenAM
9 3 (0.18%) OpenIDM
9 3 (0.18%) SRDF
10 2 (0.12%) HDFS
10 2 (0.12%) KVM
10 2 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.062%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.062%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 82 (5.05%) Ansible
2 40 (2.46%) Kubernetes
3 38 (2.34%) SCCM
3 38 (2.34%) Terraform
4 29 (1.79%) Puppet
5 25 (1.54%) NetBackup
6 21 (1.29%) Docker Swarm
7 20 (1.23%) PowerCLI
8 14 (0.86%) Kibana
9 12 (0.74%) Grafana
9 12 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
9 12 (0.74%) Podman
10 11 (0.68%) logstash
10 11 (0.68%) Prometheus
11 10 (0.62%) Nagios
11 10 (0.62%) Progress Chef
12 8 (0.49%) Microsoft Clustering
13 6 (0.37%) vCenter Server
14 5 (0.31%) vRealize
14 5 (0.31%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 327 (20.14%) Microsoft
2 107 (6.59%) SAP
3 91 (5.60%) Oracle
4 89 (5.48%) VMware
5 52 (3.20%) Cisco
6 39 (2.40%) Splunk
7 36 (2.22%) ServiceNow
8 34 (2.09%) Alteryx
9 33 (2.03%) Dell
9 33 (2.03%) Google
10 32 (1.97%) Salesforce
11 29 (1.79%) Atlassian
12 24 (1.48%) HP
12 24 (1.48%) Red Hat
13 19 (1.17%) Citrix
14 17 (1.05%) IBM
14 17 (1.05%) Juniper
14 17 (1.05%) Veritas
15 15 (0.92%) Brocade
16 13 (0.80%) F5