Analytical Skills Contracts

Analytical Skills
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 25 29
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 +6
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,455 4,230 5,671
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 8.02% 7.29% 6.50%
As % of the General category 13.83% 12.47% 11.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,216 2,757 3,662
10th Percentile £312 £300 £313
25th Percentile £413 £414 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £486 £463
% change year-on-year +3.03% +5.08% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 125 168
10th Percentile £11.75 £21.00 £12.68
25th Percentile £13.25 £22.50 £18.91
Median hourly rate £18.00 £43.86 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.96% +12.46% +69.57%
75th Percentile £28.02 £58.75 £52.85
90th Percentile £49.38 £72.98 £64.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.29 £48.65 £33.39
% change year-on-year -64.47% +45.71% +78.07%

All General Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 24,981 33,919 49,055
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.02% 58.48% 56.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,767 23,530 34,017
10th Percentile £275 £313 £320
25th Percentile £413 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £770 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -0.80% +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,939 1,040 1,403
10th Percentile £12.77 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.48 £17.72 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.60 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.96% +48.16% -2.22%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £47.25
90th Percentile £65.35 £72.50 £58.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.42 £28.16 £18.70
% change year-on-year +0.92% +50.59% -4.10%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Analytical Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Top 18 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 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 +5 2,918 £538 +2.38% 3,663
UK excluding London +2 1,589 £501 +3.03% 2,473
London +3 1,474 £550 -4.35% 1,315
Work from Home +5 1,142 £500 -3.66% 1,359
South East -2 417 £538 -1.01% 569
North of England +3 327 £500 +5.26% 665
South West +18 260 £525 - 336
Midlands +2 232 £525 +13.21% 488
Scotland -2 210 £475 - 129
West Midlands -1 173 £538 +13.26% 288
North West 0 166 £488 +10.80% 364
Yorkshire +13 137 £514 -2.10% 234
East of England 0 109 £500 +33.33% 269
East Midlands +6 54 £450 +2.86% 201
Wales +13 33 £525 +13.51% 62
North East +19 23 £590 +124.76% 75
Northern Ireland -3 12 £500 +17.65% 31
Isle of Man - 2 £388 - 5

Analytical Skills
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
1 139 (4.02%) Confluence
2 93 (2.69%) SharePoint
3 65 (1.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 54 (1.56%) Apache Spark
5 32 (0.93%) Apache
6 19 (0.55%) SAS
7 17 (0.49%) CMS
8 15 (0.43%) Tomcat
9 11 (0.32%) nginx
10 9 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
10 9 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2013
11 8 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2010
11 8 (0.23%) IIS
11 8 (0.23%) JBoss
11 8 (0.23%) WebSphere
12 6 (0.17%) ArcGIS
13 5 (0.14%) Appian
13 5 (0.14%) CICS
14 4 (0.12%) IBM Domino
14 4 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 322 (9.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 202 (5.85%) Microsoft Office
3 100 (2.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 67 (1.94%) MS Visio
5 60 (1.74%) Microsoft Project
6 51 (1.48%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.32%) Sketch
7 11 (0.32%) SPSS
8 8 (0.23%) Acrobat
9 6 (0.17%) Adobe XD
10 5 (0.14%) AutoCAD
10 5 (0.14%) InVision
11 4 (0.12%) Revit
12 3 (0.087%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.087%) MicroStation
12 3 (0.087%) Windchill
13 2 (0.058%) Chatbot
13 2 (0.058%) Mingle
14 1 (0.029%) Camtasia
14 1 (0.029%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 67 (1.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 31 (0.90%) Oracle EBS
3 28 (0.81%) Dynamics AX
4 25 (0.72%) Endur
5 23 (0.67%) Oracle Payables
6 22 (0.64%) Oracle EBS R12
7 18 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
8 17 (0.49%) Maximo
9 16 (0.46%) Oracle General Ledger
9 16 (0.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 16 (0.46%) SAP HCM
10 15 (0.43%) Oracle Assets
10 15 (0.43%) SAP CO
10 15 (0.43%) SAP FI
10 15 (0.43%) SAP FI/CO
10 15 (0.43%) SAP SD
11 13 (0.38%) Aligne
11 13 (0.38%) Oracle AGIS
11 13 (0.38%) Teamcenter
12 12 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 503 (14.56%) Azure
2 350 (10.13%) Power Platform
3 293 (8.48%) AWS
4 148 (4.28%) Microsoft 365
5 114 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
6 113 (3.27%) GCP
7 77 (2.23%) Dynamics 365
8 69 (2.00%) PowerApps
9 64 (1.85%) Power Automate
10 58 (1.68%) Azure Data Factory
11 57 (1.65%) Serverless
11 57 (1.65%) Snowflake
12 53 (1.53%) GitHub
13 41 (1.19%) Entra ID
14 40 (1.16%) SaaS
15 35 (1.01%) Cloud Computing
15 35 (1.01%) OCI
16 27 (0.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 27 (0.78%) Azure Functions
17 26 (0.75%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 110 (3.18%) Firewall
2 92 (2.66%) Network Security
3 79 (2.29%) DNS
4 70 (2.03%) VPN
5 56 (1.62%) WAN
6 51 (1.48%) LAN
7 43 (1.24%) DHCP
8 38 (1.10%) TCP/IP
8 38 (1.10%) Wireless
9 33 (0.96%) BGP
10 31 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
11 30 (0.87%) Intrusion Detection
12 27 (0.78%) MPLS
13 26 (0.75%) OSPF
14 25 (0.72%) VLAN
15 23 (0.67%) Cisco Nexus
15 23 (0.67%) SAN
16 22 (0.64%) HTTP
16 22 (0.64%) Internet
17 16 (0.46%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 335 (9.70%) Power BI
2 166 (4.80%) Tableau
3 156 (4.52%) SQL Server
4 103 (2.98%) Data Warehouse
5 102 (2.95%) Big Data
5 102 (2.95%) Relational Database
6 82 (2.37%) Data Lake
7 65 (1.88%) NoSQL
8 50 (1.45%) Hadoop
9 46 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
10 44 (1.27%) Metadata
11 41 (1.19%) MongoDB
12 37 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 36 (1.04%) Data Mining
14 33 (0.96%) Oracle Reports
15 28 (0.81%) RDBMS
16 27 (0.78%) Oracle Database
17 25 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 23 (0.67%) BigQuery
18 23 (0.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 300 (8.68%) JIRA
2 114 (3.30%) Git
3 87 (2.52%) Jenkins
4 58 (1.68%) GitLab
5 56 (1.62%) Selenium
6 41 (1.19%) Cucumber
7 33 (0.96%) TeamCity
8 32 (0.93%) Bitbucket
9 27 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 25 (0.72%) Cypress.io
10 25 (0.72%) REST Assured
11 24 (0.69%) SonarQube
12 21 (0.61%) webpack
13 20 (0.58%) Maven
14 14 (0.41%) JUnit
14 14 (0.41%) Oracle APEX
14 14 (0.41%) Visual Studio
15 13 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
16 12 (0.35%) Postman
17 11 (0.32%) JMeter
General
1 1,908 (55.22%) Social Skills
2 969 (28.05%) Finance
3 315 (9.12%) Public Sector
4 240 (6.95%) Banking
5 199 (5.76%) Presentation Skills
6 150 (4.34%) Marketing
7 145 (4.20%) Legal
8 140 (4.05%) Organisational Skills
9 122 (3.53%) Retail
10 102 (2.95%) Manufacturing
11 101 (2.92%) Front Office
12 96 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
13 91 (2.63%) Telecoms
14 63 (1.82%) Investment Banking
15 51 (1.48%) Law
16 46 (1.33%) General Ledger
17 45 (1.30%) Military
18 42 (1.22%) Local Government
19 38 (1.10%) Financial Institution
19 38 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 787 (22.78%) Analyst
2 403 (11.66%) Developer
3 266 (7.70%) Architect
4 261 (7.55%) Senior
5 250 (7.24%) Consultant
6 244 (7.06%) Business Analyst
7 222 (6.43%) Lead
8 169 (4.89%) Data Analyst
9 141 (4.08%) Project Manager
10 109 (3.15%) Data Engineer
11 105 (3.04%) Solutions Architect
12 77 (2.23%) Senior Analyst
13 65 (1.88%) Network Engineer
14 64 (1.85%) IT Engineer
15 58 (1.68%) Full Stack Developer
16 56 (1.62%) Service Analyst
17 55 (1.59%) Administrator
17 55 (1.59%) Support Engineer
18 53 (1.53%) Java Developer
19 52 (1.51%) Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (3.21%) React
2 98 (2.84%) REST
3 96 (2.78%) HTML
4 94 (2.72%) .NET
5 93 (2.69%) CSS
6 67 (1.94%) AngularJS
7 62 (1.79%) XML
8 58 (1.68%) Kafka
9 50 (1.45%) Web Services
10 43 (1.24%) JSON
10 43 (1.24%) Node.js
11 42 (1.22%) RESTful
12 39 (1.13%) Middleware
13 36 (1.04%) .NET Core
14 34 (0.98%) PySpark
15 28 (0.81%) Spring
16 27 (0.78%) WebSockets
17 25 (0.72%) Java EE
18 24 (0.69%) SOAP
19 23 (0.67%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 268 (7.76%) Management Information System
2 186 (5.38%) Analytical Mindset
3 141 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
4 132 (3.82%) Product Ownership
5 93 (2.69%) Data Structures
6 77 (2.23%) Algorithms
7 56 (1.62%) Data Centre
8 47 (1.36%) Derivative
8 47 (1.36%) Onboarding
9 46 (1.33%) Cyber Defence
10 42 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
11 38 (1.10%) Fixed Income
12 34 (0.98%) Virtual Team
13 32 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
14 31 (0.90%) Credit Risk
14 31 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 31 (0.90%) Renewable Energy
15 30 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
15 30 (0.87%) Security Operations Centre
16 28 (0.81%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 316 (9.15%) Windows
2 221 (6.40%) Linux
3 130 (3.76%) Unix
4 96 (2.78%) Windows Server
5 44 (1.27%) Windows 10
6 39 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 37 (1.07%) Windows 7
8 36 (1.04%) Windows Server 2012
9 33 (0.96%) Apple iOS
10 30 (0.87%) Android
11 20 (0.58%) Mac OS
12 12 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
12 12 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
13 7 (0.20%) AIX
13 7 (0.20%) Kali Linux
13 7 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
13 7 (0.20%) zOS
14 4 (0.12%) Solaris
15 3 (0.087%) Ubuntu
16 2 (0.058%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,965 (56.87%) Problem-Solving
2 861 (24.92%) Agile
3 529 (15.31%) Project Management
4 433 (12.53%) Business Intelligence
5 419 (12.13%) Analytics
6 357 (10.33%) Decision-Making
7 342 (9.90%) Continuous Improvement
8 335 (9.70%) Computer Science
9 327 (9.46%) Stakeholder Management
10 320 (9.26%) DevOps
11 277 (8.02%) Data Modelling
12 267 (7.73%) Data Analysis
13 231 (6.69%) Migration
14 224 (6.48%) Visualisation
15 219 (6.34%) Change Management
16 215 (6.22%) Cybersecurity
17 214 (6.19%) ITIL
18 210 (6.08%) Customer Service
18 210 (6.08%) Roadmaps
19 189 (5.47%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 587 (16.99%) SQL
2 431 (12.47%) Python
3 248 (7.18%) Java
4 154 (4.46%) JavaScript
5 134 (3.88%) PowerShell
6 132 (3.82%) C#
7 68 (1.97%) TypeScript
8 60 (1.74%) Scala
9 57 (1.65%) PL/SQL
9 57 (1.65%) R
10 43 (1.24%) Shell Script
11 37 (1.07%) C++
12 36 (1.04%) T-SQL
13 34 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 30 (0.87%) Perl
15 21 (0.61%) Go
16 20 (0.58%) Bash
17 18 (0.52%) C
18 17 (0.49%) VBA
18 17 (0.49%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 746 (21.59%) Degree
2 584 (16.90%) Security Cleared
3 381 (11.03%) SC Cleared
4 233 (6.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 183 (5.30%) DV Cleared
6 128 (3.70%) Master's Degree
7 85 (2.46%) CISSP
8 76 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
9 74 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
10 58 (1.68%) PMP
11 57 (1.65%) PMI Certification
12 49 (1.42%) CISM
13 45 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
13 45 (1.30%) MCSE
14 44 (1.27%) CCNA
15 39 (1.13%) CCNP
16 36 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
17 34 (0.98%) Azure Certification
18 30 (0.87%) APMP
19 26 (0.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 188 (5.44%) Data Quality
1 188 (5.44%) QA
2 112 (3.24%) SLA
3 91 (2.63%) GDPR
4 87 (2.52%) PMO
5 51 (1.48%) NIST
6 47 (1.36%) Accessibility
7 34 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
7 34 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 22 (0.64%) PCI DSS
9 17 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
10 14 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 14 (0.41%) NIST 800
11 13 (0.38%) EMIR
12 12 (0.35%) GAAP
13 11 (0.32%) GRC
13 11 (0.32%) ISO 20022
14 10 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
14 10 (0.29%) HIPAA
14 10 (0.29%) MiFID
System Software
1 147 (4.25%) Active Directory
2 85 (2.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 54 (1.56%) Docker
4 21 (0.61%) VMware NSX
5 12 (0.35%) Firmware
5 12 (0.35%) Hyper-V
5 12 (0.35%) vSphere
6 11 (0.32%) HDFS
7 10 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 10 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
8 9 (0.26%) VMware Workstation
9 7 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
11 5 (0.14%) Snort
12 4 (0.12%) KVM
12 4 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
13 3 (0.087%) NFS
13 3 (0.087%) OpenAM
13 3 (0.087%) OpenIDM
13 3 (0.087%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 92 (2.66%) Ansible
2 82 (2.37%) Kubernetes
3 57 (1.65%) Terraform
4 53 (1.53%) SCCM
5 28 (0.81%) NetBackup
6 27 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
6 27 (0.78%) Puppet
7 23 (0.67%) Grafana
8 22 (0.64%) Prometheus
9 21 (0.61%) Kibana
10 20 (0.58%) PowerCLI
11 18 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
12 15 (0.43%) logstash
12 15 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
13 14 (0.41%) Podman
14 10 (0.29%) Microsoft Clustering
14 10 (0.29%) Nagios
14 10 (0.29%) Progress Chef
15 9 (0.26%) Consul
16 8 (0.23%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 680 (19.68%) Microsoft
2 279 (8.08%) Oracle
3 228 (6.60%) SAP
4 110 (3.18%) VMware
5 90 (2.60%) Cisco
6 82 (2.37%) Google
7 69 (2.00%) ServiceNow
8 64 (1.85%) Salesforce
9 58 (1.68%) Databricks
10 48 (1.39%) Splunk
11 44 (1.27%) Alteryx
12 41 (1.19%) IBM
13 39 (1.13%) Atlassian
14 37 (1.07%) Dell
15 31 (0.90%) HP
16 30 (0.87%) Red Hat
17 29 (0.84%) Adobe
18 26 (0.75%) Citrix
18 26 (0.75%) F5
19 24 (0.69%) Juniper