Analytical Skills Contracts with Work from Home Options

Analytical Skills
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 27 33
Rank change year-on-year +5 +6 +2
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,096 1,671 2,674
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 7.45% 6.98% 6.02%
As % of the General category 12.72% 11.89% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 734 1,174 1,937
10th Percentile £313 £350 £320
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £613 £643 £645
90th Percentile £724 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 49 31
10th Percentile £11.00 £21.24 £12.75
25th Percentile £12.75 £23.15 £13.75
Median hourly rate £21.00 £40.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.15% +35.00% +22.45%
75th Percentile £37.50 £62.50 £59.25
90th Percentile £54.66 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £19.00 £44.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -56.82% +25.71% +55.56%

All General Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,619 14,055 24,462
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 58.58% 58.67% 55.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,650 9,923 17,874
10th Percentile £325 £363 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £775 £776 £745
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 460 318 338
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.59 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.69 £25.71 £19.50
Median hourly rate £38.12 £49.50 £33.45
Median % change year-on-year -22.99% +47.98% +48.67%
75th Percentile £52.50 £67.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.23 £65.27
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -6.25% +42.22% +4.65%

Analytical Skills
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Analytical Skills trend for jobs with a WFH option

Analytical Skills
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 Analytical Skills.

Analytical Skills daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Analytical Skills daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Analytical Skills
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 Analytical Skills.

Analytical Skills hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Analytical Skills hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Analytical Skills
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 45 (4.11%) Confluence
2 34 (3.10%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.00%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.73%) Apache
5 6 (0.55%) SAS
5 6 (0.55%) WebSphere
6 5 (0.46%) CMS
7 4 (0.36%) Appian
8 3 (0.27%) IBM HTTP Server
8 3 (0.27%) JBoss
8 3 (0.27%) nginx
8 3 (0.27%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.27%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.27%) WebSphere Application Server
8 3 (0.27%) WebSphere Portal
9 2 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.18%) CICS
9 2 (0.18%) ColdFusion
9 2 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 88 (8.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (6.11%) Microsoft Office
3 42 (3.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (2.28%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.36%) SPSS
8 3 (0.27%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.18%) Autodesk Inventor
9 2 (0.18%) Revit
9 2 (0.18%) Trello
10 1 (0.091%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.091%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.091%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.091%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.091%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 28 (2.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (2.01%) Dynamics AX
3 12 (1.09%) Oracle EBS
4 11 (1.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 10 (0.91%) SAP HCM
6 9 (0.82%) Oracle EBS R12
6 9 (0.82%) SAP HR
7 8 (0.73%) Endur
8 7 (0.64%) SAP SD
9 6 (0.55%) Oracle Assets
9 6 (0.55%) Oracle General Ledger
9 6 (0.55%) SAP CO
9 6 (0.55%) SAP FI
9 6 (0.55%) SAP FI/CO
10 5 (0.46%) Oracle AGIS
10 5 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
10 5 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
10 5 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
11 4 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
11 4 (0.36%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 173 (15.78%) Azure
2 128 (11.68%) Power Platform
3 91 (8.30%) AWS
4 47 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
5 43 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
6 41 (3.74%) PowerApps
7 40 (3.65%) Dynamics 365
8 37 (3.38%) Power Automate
9 32 (2.92%) GCP
10 24 (2.19%) GitHub
11 17 (1.55%) OCI
12 14 (1.28%) Entra ID
13 12 (1.09%) SaaS
14 11 (1.00%) SuccessFactors
15 10 (0.91%) Azure Data Factory
15 10 (0.91%) Snowflake
16 8 (0.73%) Cloud Computing
16 8 (0.73%) Google Sheets
17 7 (0.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 7 (0.64%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 36 (3.28%) Firewall
2 30 (2.74%) VPN
3 21 (1.92%) Network Security
4 20 (1.82%) DNS
5 17 (1.55%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.09%) BGP
6 12 (1.09%) Internet
7 11 (1.00%) DHCP
7 11 (1.00%) VLAN
8 10 (0.91%) OSPF
8 10 (0.91%) WAN
9 9 (0.82%) Cisco Nexus
9 9 (0.82%) VoIP
10 8 (0.73%) Intrusion Detection
11 7 (0.64%) HTTP
11 7 (0.64%) LAN
11 7 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (0.64%) Wireless
12 6 (0.55%) Cisco ASA
13 5 (0.46%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (11.04%) Power BI
2 43 (3.92%) SQL Server
3 37 (3.38%) Relational Database
4 35 (3.19%) Data Lake
4 35 (3.19%) Tableau
5 31 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (1.55%) Metadata
7 16 (1.46%) Hadoop
8 14 (1.28%) Big Data
8 14 (1.28%) MongoDB
8 14 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
9 13 (1.19%) NoSQL
9 13 (1.19%) Oracle Reports
10 12 (1.09%) MySQL
11 11 (1.00%) GIS
11 11 (1.00%) Oracle Database
12 10 (0.91%) Power Query
12 10 (0.91%) Qlik Sense
13 9 (0.82%) QlikView
14 7 (0.64%) PostHog
Development Applications
1 92 (8.39%) JIRA
2 38 (3.47%) Git
3 23 (2.10%) Jenkins
4 22 (2.01%) GitLab
5 17 (1.55%) Selenium
6 9 (0.82%) Cucumber
7 8 (0.73%) Cypress.io
7 8 (0.73%) Oracle Forms
7 8 (0.73%) REST Assured
7 8 (0.73%) SonarQube
8 6 (0.55%) Eclipse
8 6 (0.55%) JMeter
8 6 (0.55%) LoadRunner
8 6 (0.55%) MLflow
9 5 (0.46%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.46%) Oracle APEX
9 5 (0.46%) TeamCity
9 5 (0.46%) webpack
10 4 (0.36%) Appium
10 4 (0.36%) RStudio
General
1 594 (54.20%) Social Skills
2 332 (30.29%) Finance
3 102 (9.31%) Public Sector
4 84 (7.66%) Banking
5 54 (4.93%) Presentation Skills
6 53 (4.84%) Retail
7 49 (4.47%) Marketing
8 48 (4.38%) Organisational Skills
9 40 (3.65%) Telecoms
10 38 (3.47%) Manufacturing
11 34 (3.10%) Front Office
12 31 (2.83%) Legal
13 29 (2.65%) General Ledger
14 23 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
14 23 (2.10%) Investment Banking
15 22 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 20 (1.82%) Law
17 16 (1.46%) Financial Institution
18 13 (1.19%) Electronics
19 12 (1.09%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 253 (23.08%) Analyst
2 131 (11.95%) Developer
3 103 (9.40%) Consultant
4 90 (8.21%) Senior
5 89 (8.12%) Business Analyst
6 75 (6.84%) Architect
7 66 (6.02%) Lead
8 59 (5.38%) Data Analyst
9 52 (4.74%) Project Manager
10 42 (3.83%) Data Engineer
11 29 (2.65%) Solutions Architect
12 24 (2.19%) Full Stack Developer
13 21 (1.92%) Functional Consultant
13 21 (1.92%) Senior Developer
14 20 (1.82%) Network Engineer
14 20 (1.82%) Senior Analyst
15 19 (1.73%) C# Developer
15 19 (1.73%) Support Engineer
16 18 (1.64%) Designer
16 18 (1.64%) Full-Stack C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (2.92%) RESTful
2 30 (2.74%) React
2 30 (2.74%) REST
3 29 (2.65%) HTML
4 28 (2.55%) Web Services
5 26 (2.37%) AngularJS
6 25 (2.28%) CSS
6 25 (2.28%) Kafka
7 23 (2.10%) .NET
8 21 (1.92%) XML
9 18 (1.64%) Middleware
10 14 (1.28%) RabbitMQ
10 14 (1.28%) Spring Boot
11 12 (1.09%) .NET Framework
11 12 (1.09%) SOAP
12 11 (1.00%) JSON
12 11 (1.00%) PySpark
12 11 (1.00%) Spring
13 10 (0.91%) Oracle Fusion
14 8 (0.73%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 67 (6.11%) Management Information System
2 50 (4.56%) Data Structures
3 48 (4.38%) Self-Motivation
4 47 (4.29%) Analytical Mindset
5 35 (3.19%) Algorithms
6 25 (2.28%) Derivative
7 23 (2.10%) Product Ownership
8 16 (1.46%) Onboarding
9 14 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
9 14 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 13 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
11 12 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.09%) Fixed Income
11 12 (1.09%) NHS
12 11 (1.00%) Data Centre
12 11 (1.00%) Mobile App
12 11 (1.00%) Renewable Energy
12 11 (1.00%) Security Posture
13 10 (0.91%) Cyber Threat
14 9 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 79 (7.21%) Windows
2 53 (4.84%) Linux
3 24 (2.19%) Unix
4 18 (1.64%) Windows Server
5 17 (1.55%) Windows 7
6 10 (0.91%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.73%) Android
8 7 (0.64%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.27%) zOS
12 2 (0.18%) AIX
12 2 (0.18%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.091%) CentOS
13 1 (0.091%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.091%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 607 (55.38%) Problem-Solving
2 249 (22.72%) Agile
3 163 (14.87%) Project Management
4 162 (14.78%) Business Intelligence
5 119 (10.86%) Analytics
6 117 (10.68%) DevOps
7 113 (10.31%) Computer Science
8 101 (9.22%) Stakeholder Management
9 100 (9.12%) Decision-Making
10 97 (8.85%) Data Analysis
11 96 (8.76%) Continuous Improvement
12 82 (7.48%) Data Modelling
13 73 (6.66%) Visualisation
14 70 (6.39%) Analytical Thinking
15 64 (5.84%) ITIL
16 63 (5.75%) SDLC
17 62 (5.66%) Business Analysis
18 60 (5.47%) Data Governance
18 60 (5.47%) Data Management
19 57 (5.20%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 177 (16.15%) SQL
2 126 (11.50%) Python
3 72 (6.57%) Java
4 47 (4.29%) JavaScript
5 46 (4.20%) C#
6 26 (2.37%) R
7 25 (2.28%) PowerShell
8 24 (2.19%) Shell Script
9 23 (2.10%) C++
10 21 (1.92%) PL/SQL
11 19 (1.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 18 (1.64%) TypeScript
13 14 (1.28%) Go
14 13 (1.19%) Scala
15 7 (0.64%) Bash
16 5 (0.46%) Perl
16 5 (0.46%) PHP
16 5 (0.46%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.46%) VB.NET
17 4 (0.36%) C
Qualifications
1 249 (22.72%) Degree
2 131 (11.95%) Security Cleared
3 104 (9.49%) SC Cleared
4 78 (7.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 50 (4.56%) Master's Degree
6 25 (2.28%) CISSP
7 21 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 21 (1.92%) CISM
8 19 (1.73%) DV Cleared
9 17 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
10 16 (1.46%) PMP
11 15 (1.37%) ITIL Certification
12 14 (1.28%) PMI Certification
13 12 (1.09%) Numerate Degree
14 11 (1.00%) CCNA
15 9 (0.82%) CCNP
16 8 (0.73%) MCSE
17 6 (0.55%) CBAP
17 6 (0.55%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (6.66%) Data Quality
2 63 (5.75%) QA
3 40 (3.65%) GDPR
4 28 (2.55%) SLA
5 23 (2.10%) NIST
6 20 (1.82%) Accessibility
7 19 (1.73%) PMO
8 17 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 11 (1.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 7 (0.64%) Disclosure Scotland
11 6 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.46%) NIST 800
12 5 (0.46%) P3O
12 5 (0.46%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.36%) GAAP
13 4 (0.36%) IFRS
13 4 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 4 (0.36%) NCSC
14 3 (0.27%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 32 (2.92%) Docker
2 30 (2.74%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 5 (0.46%) Snort
6 3 (0.27%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.27%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.18%) Firmware
7 2 (0.18%) HDFS
8 1 (0.091%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.091%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.091%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.091%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.091%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.091%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.091%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 43 (3.92%) Kubernetes
2 27 (2.46%) Terraform
3 25 (2.28%) Ansible
4 16 (1.46%) SCCM
5 14 (1.28%) Grafana
5 14 (1.28%) Prometheus
6 11 (1.00%) Consul
6 11 (1.00%) Docker Swarm
7 10 (0.91%) Puppet
8 8 (0.73%) Podman
9 7 (0.64%) Kibana
9 7 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.46%) NetBackup
11 4 (0.36%) QRadar
12 3 (0.27%) Data Guard
12 3 (0.27%) logstash
12 3 (0.27%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.18%) Nessus
13 2 (0.18%) Nexpose
13 2 (0.18%) WSUS
Vendors
1 218 (19.89%) Microsoft
2 88 (8.03%) Oracle
3 67 (6.11%) SAP
4 29 (2.65%) Google
5 28 (2.55%) ServiceNow
6 19 (1.73%) Databricks
7 16 (1.46%) Salesforce
7 16 (1.46%) VMware
8 15 (1.37%) Cisco
8 15 (1.37%) Splunk
9 13 (1.19%) IBM
10 11 (1.00%) SaltStack
11 10 (0.91%) Palo Alto
12 9 (0.82%) Atlassian
13 8 (0.73%) F5
13 8 (0.73%) Genesys
14 7 (0.64%) Adobe
14 7 (0.64%) Computacenter
14 7 (0.64%) IFS
14 7 (0.64%) OneTrust