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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 39 31
Rank change year-on-year +3 -8 +7
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,090 3,047 5,457
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.91% 5.32% 6.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.71% 5.93% 6.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,408 2,142 3,815
10th Percentile £358 £355 £400
25th Percentile £438 £458 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £663
90th Percentile £788 £800 £772
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +2.34% +2.60% +4.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 54 68
10th Percentile £15.26 £20.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £25.00 £21.29 £28.63
Median hourly rate £28.00 £32.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.91% -8.14% +29.63%
75th Percentile £43.75 £55.56 £50.44
90th Percentile £68.75 £78.00 £66.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £22.16 £35.00
% change year-on-year +12.82% -36.69% +54.22%

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 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 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 -2 1,765 £550 - 2,425
London -3 1,032 £575 -4.17% 1,322
Work from Home +6 809 £550 +2.33% 1,101
UK excluding London +2 772 £525 +2.34% 1,335
South East +3 201 £550 +10.00% 409
North of England -9 169 £501 -7.31% 375
Midlands +5 142 £550 +8.86% 203
West Midlands +8 112 £570 +8.57% 126
North West 0 105 £500 -3.61% 233
Scotland +13 104 £494 +0.97% 93
South West +22 98 £531 +1.19% 117
Yorkshire -10 61 £507 -6.11% 106
East of England +9 50 £500 - 109
East Midlands +7 30 £475 - 77
Wales +26 19 £551 -6.30% 24
North East +7 8 £710 +18.33% 39
Northern Ireland +2 3 £400 -3.03% 20

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 64 (3.06%) Apache Spark
2 56 (2.68%) SharePoint
3 51 (2.44%) Confluence
4 38 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
5 36 (1.72%) CMS
5 36 (1.72%) SAS
6 32 (1.53%) Apache
7 24 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
8 13 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 7 (0.33%) WordPress
10 5 (0.24%) Headless CMS
11 4 (0.19%) govService
12 3 (0.14%) Drupal
12 3 (0.14%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.096%) Apache Solr
13 2 (0.096%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.096%) CICS
13 2 (0.096%) GeoServer
13 2 (0.096%) Sitecore CMS
13 2 (0.096%) WebSphere
Applications
1 82 (3.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
3 34 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.86%) MS Visio
5 15 (0.72%) Chatbot
5 15 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.38%) SPSS
7 5 (0.24%) Photoshop
7 5 (0.24%) Sketch
7 5 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.19%) CPLEX
9 3 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.096%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.096%) Simulink
10 2 (0.096%) Trello
11 1 (0.048%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.048%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.048%) InVision
11 1 (0.048%) Stata
11 1 (0.048%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 44 (2.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.81%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.48%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 10 (0.48%) SAP FI-AP
5 9 (0.43%) Endur
6 8 (0.38%) Shopify
7 7 (0.33%) NetSuite
7 7 (0.33%) Oracle EBS R12
7 7 (0.33%) SAP BPC
7 7 (0.33%) SAP ERP
8 6 (0.29%) Oracle 11i
9 5 (0.24%) OpenLink RightAngle
9 5 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
10 4 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
10 4 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
10 4 (0.19%) ION MarketView
10 4 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 4 (0.19%) SAP MM
10 4 (0.19%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 518 (24.78%) Azure
2 331 (15.84%) Power Platform
3 321 (15.36%) AWS
4 167 (7.99%) GCP
5 120 (5.74%) Azure Data Factory
6 110 (5.26%) Google Analytics
7 89 (4.26%) Snowflake
8 82 (3.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 72 (3.44%) Serverless
10 69 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
11 61 (2.92%) Azure Monitor
12 45 (2.15%) GitHub
13 44 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
14 40 (1.91%) Amazon S3
15 39 (1.87%) dbt
16 36 (1.72%) SaaS
17 34 (1.63%) Adobe Analytics
18 32 (1.53%) PowerApps
19 31 (1.48%) Cloud Computing
20 29 (1.39%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.39%) Firewall
2 32 (1.53%) DNS
3 31 (1.48%) Network Security
4 28 (1.34%) WAN
5 27 (1.29%) DHCP
6 24 (1.15%) VPN
7 20 (0.96%) LAN
7 20 (0.96%) VoIP
8 18 (0.86%) Intranet
9 11 (0.53%) Internet
10 10 (0.48%) Intrusion Detection
11 9 (0.43%) Cisco ISE
11 9 (0.43%) CTI
11 9 (0.43%) MPLS
11 9 (0.43%) PBX
11 9 (0.43%) SD-WAN
11 9 (0.43%) WLAN
12 7 (0.33%) TCP/IP
13 6 (0.29%) Wireless
14 5 (0.24%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 324 (15.50%) Power BI
2 245 (11.72%) Data Warehouse
3 171 (8.18%) Tableau
4 134 (6.41%) Big Data
5 130 (6.22%) Data Lake
6 80 (3.83%) SQL Server
7 61 (2.92%) Amazon Redshift
8 60 (2.87%) BigQuery
9 55 (2.63%) Relational Database
10 53 (2.54%) NoSQL
11 52 (2.49%) Azure SQL Database
12 47 (2.25%) Looker
13 45 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
14 39 (1.87%) MySQL
15 38 (1.82%) KDB
16 33 (1.58%) Amazon Athena
17 32 (1.53%) Hadoop
18 30 (1.44%) Metadata
19 27 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
20 25 (1.20%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 105 (5.02%) JIRA
2 84 (4.02%) Git
3 55 (2.63%) Jenkins
4 18 (0.86%) GitLab
4 18 (0.86%) Postman
5 14 (0.67%) Cypress.io
5 14 (0.67%) JMeter
6 12 (0.57%) Selenium
6 12 (0.57%) Visual Studio
7 11 (0.53%) Subversion
8 9 (0.43%) Artifactory
9 8 (0.38%) MLflow
9 8 (0.38%) Visual Website Optimizer
10 7 (0.33%) JUnit
11 6 (0.29%) Appium
11 6 (0.29%) ERwin
11 6 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
12 5 (0.24%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.24%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.24%) Maven
General
1 602 (28.80%) Social Skills
2 512 (24.50%) Finance
3 411 (19.67%) Analytical Skills
4 173 (8.28%) Public Sector
5 145 (6.94%) Marketing
6 123 (5.89%) Banking
7 92 (4.40%) Retail
8 90 (4.31%) Front Office
9 75 (3.59%) Legal
10 70 (3.35%) Presentation Skills
11 60 (2.87%) Telecoms
12 57 (2.73%) Manufacturing
13 42 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
13 42 (2.01%) Investment Banking
14 39 (1.87%) Pharmaceutical
15 38 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 23 (1.10%) Advertising
17 16 (0.77%) Local Government
18 15 (0.72%) German Language
18 15 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 381 (18.23%) Analyst
2 294 (14.07%) Developer
3 249 (11.91%) Architect
4 209 (10.00%) Data Engineer
5 202 (9.67%) Senior
6 162 (7.75%) Data Analyst
7 156 (7.46%) Lead
8 98 (4.69%) Consultant
9 96 (4.59%) Data Architect
10 75 (3.59%) Project Manager
11 74 (3.54%) Azure Engineer
12 66 (3.16%) Business Analyst
13 65 (3.11%) Solutions Architect
14 54 (2.58%) Senior Analyst
15 51 (2.44%) Software Engineer
16 50 (2.39%) Azure Data Engineer
17 46 (2.20%) Analytics Manager
18 42 (2.01%) Product Owner
19 38 (1.82%) Data Analytics Manager
19 38 (1.82%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (3.44%) PySpark
2 71 (3.40%) HTML
3 58 (2.78%) .NET
4 55 (2.63%) CSS
4 55 (2.63%) React
5 54 (2.58%) Middleware
6 51 (2.44%) REST
7 49 (2.34%) Web Services
8 42 (2.01%) JSON
9 37 (1.77%) Kafka
10 34 (1.63%) Pandas
10 34 (1.63%) XML
11 29 (1.39%) ARM Templates
12 25 (1.20%) RESTful
13 24 (1.15%) .NET Core
13 24 (1.15%) AngularJS
13 24 (1.15%) Node.js
14 23 (1.10%) NumPy
15 22 (1.05%) gRPC
16 19 (0.91%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 112 (5.36%) Management Information System
2 111 (5.31%) Product Ownership
3 64 (3.06%) Fixed Income
4 61 (2.92%) Data Structures
5 58 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
6 52 (2.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 51 (2.44%) Algorithms
8 50 (2.39%) Equities
9 49 (2.34%) Derivative
10 42 (2.01%) Credit Risk
11 37 (1.77%) Social Media
12 34 (1.63%) Hedge funds
13 33 (1.58%) Onboarding
14 31 (1.48%) Security Operations Centre
15 30 (1.44%) Data Centre
16 29 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
16 29 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
17 25 (1.20%) Cloud Native
17 25 (1.20%) CSOC
18 24 (1.15%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 119 (5.69%) Windows
2 111 (5.31%) Linux
3 45 (2.15%) Unix
4 41 (1.96%) Windows Server
5 20 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
6 17 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
7 13 (0.62%) Android
8 11 (0.53%) Apple iOS
9 9 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 8 (0.38%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.14%) zOS
12 2 (0.096%) VMS
12 2 (0.096%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.048%) CentOS
13 1 (0.048%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 514 (24.59%) Agile
2 462 (22.11%) Business Intelligence
3 439 (21.00%) Data Analytics
4 369 (17.66%) Data Modelling
5 356 (17.03%) Problem-Solving
6 289 (13.83%) ETL
7 250 (11.96%) Visualisation
8 237 (11.34%) DevOps
9 203 (9.71%) Data Analysis
10 202 (9.67%) Data Science
11 199 (9.52%) Data Management
12 193 (9.23%) Decision-Making
13 176 (8.42%) Data Pipeline
13 176 (8.42%) Project Management
14 169 (8.09%) Data Engineering
15 167 (7.99%) Roadmaps
16 163 (7.80%) Computer Science
16 163 (7.80%) Migration
17 161 (7.70%) CI/CD
18 159 (7.61%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 591 (28.28%) SQL
2 477 (22.82%) Python
3 145 (6.94%) Java
4 113 (5.41%) JavaScript
5 100 (4.78%) C#
6 67 (3.21%) PowerShell
7 52 (2.49%) Scala
7 52 (2.49%) TypeScript
8 44 (2.11%) R
9 43 (2.06%) C++
10 31 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 30 (1.44%) Bicep
12 29 (1.39%) Bash
13 24 (1.15%) T-SQL
14 20 (0.96%) ABAP
15 19 (0.91%) VB
16 17 (0.81%) VBScript
17 15 (0.72%) Shell Script
18 14 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
19 13 (0.62%) Perl
Qualifications
1 317 (15.17%) Degree
2 282 (13.49%) Security Cleared
3 214 (10.24%) SC Cleared
4 95 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 77 (3.68%) DV Cleared
6 71 (3.40%) Master's Degree
7 37 (1.77%) Azure Certification
8 26 (1.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 26 (1.24%) SANS
9 24 (1.15%) CISSP
10 21 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
11 16 (0.77%) AWS Certification
11 16 (0.77%) PMI Certification
12 15 (0.72%) PMP
13 13 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (0.62%) Numerate Degree
14 11 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 11 (0.53%) PhD
15 10 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
16 9 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (9.33%) Data Quality
2 97 (4.64%) QA
3 47 (2.25%) Accessibility
3 47 (2.25%) GDPR
4 22 (1.05%) PMO
5 20 (0.96%) Actionable Recommendations
6 16 (0.77%) SLA
7 14 (0.67%) HIPAA
7 14 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (0.67%) NIST
8 13 (0.62%) IFRS
8 13 (0.62%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.57%) GxP
10 11 (0.53%) Disclosure Scotland
11 8 (0.38%) IFRS 9
11 8 (0.38%) NCSC
11 8 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 8 (0.38%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (0.24%) GAMP
System Software
1 46 (2.20%) Active Directory
2 40 (1.91%) Docker
3 27 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
4 23 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.19%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.14%) HDFS
7 3 (0.14%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.096%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.048%) NFS
9 1 (0.048%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 85 (4.07%) Terraform
2 64 (3.06%) Kubernetes
3 35 (1.67%) Grafana
4 27 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
5 26 (1.24%) Ansible
6 24 (1.15%) SCOM
7 19 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 19 (0.91%) SCCM
7 19 (0.91%) WSUS
8 10 (0.48%) ITRS Geneos
9 9 (0.43%) BladeLogic
10 6 (0.29%) Nagios
10 6 (0.29%) Prometheus
11 5 (0.24%) SysTrack
12 4 (0.19%) Trend Micro Deep Security
13 3 (0.14%) Graylog
13 3 (0.14%) Kibana
13 3 (0.14%) Matomo
13 3 (0.14%) Opsgenie
13 3 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 365 (17.46%) Microsoft
2 174 (8.33%) Google
3 164 (7.85%) Databricks
4 129 (6.17%) SAP
5 118 (5.65%) Oracle
6 75 (3.59%) Adobe
7 45 (2.15%) Salesforce
8 41 (1.96%) Alteryx
9 34 (1.63%) Splunk
10 31 (1.48%) ServiceNow
11 29 (1.39%) Atlassian
12 27 (1.29%) Cisco
13 25 (1.20%) Informatica
13 25 (1.20%) Talend
14 21 (1.00%) Optimizely
15 20 (0.96%) Ariba
16 19 (0.91%) Denodo
17 18 (0.86%) OpenAI
18 17 (0.81%) Dynatrace
19 16 (0.77%) Red Hat