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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 25 28
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 +6
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,456 4,233 5,675
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 8.04% 7.31% 6.50%
As % of the General category 13.85% 12.49% 11.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,221 2,754 3,664
10th Percentile £313 £300 £313
25th Percentile £413 £415 £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 £464
% change year-on-year +3.09% +4.74% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 125 170
10th Percentile £11.75 £21.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.25 £22.50 £18.53
Median hourly rate £18.00 £43.86 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.96% +20.16% +58.70%
75th Percentile £28.02 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £49.38 £72.98 £63.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.29 £48.65 £31.85
% change year-on-year -64.47% +52.75% +69.87%

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 24,955 33,889 49,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.03% 58.54% 56.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,747 23,499 34,070
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 £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,935 1,038 1,413
10th Percentile £12.76 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.75 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.16 £33.91 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.06% +54.14% -2.22%
75th Percentile £52.89 £61.25 £47.40
90th Percentile £65.55 £72.50 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £29.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -1.72% +54.07% -5.50%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 2,923 £538 +1.42% 3,691
UK excluding London +2 1,591 £501 +3.09% 2,488
London +4 1,475 £550 -4.35% 1,319
Work from Home +5 1,142 £500 -3.85% 1,406
South East -2 419 £538 -1.24% 573
North of England +2 329 £500 +5.26% 676
South West +21 261 £525 - 341
Midlands +2 233 £525 +11.70% 482
Scotland -3 209 £475 - 133
West Midlands +1 174 £544 +14.53% 282
North West -3 166 £488 +10.80% 370
Yorkshire +12 138 £514 -2.10% 236
East of England 0 107 £500 +33.33% 271
East Midlands +5 54 £450 +5.88% 201
Wales +11 33 £525 +23.53% 62
North East +22 23 £590 +124.76% 77
Northern Ireland -3 11 £425 - 28
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
1 141 (4.08%) Confluence
2 94 (2.72%) SharePoint
3 67 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 54 (1.56%) Apache Spark
5 33 (0.95%) 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
1 321 (9.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 202 (5.84%) 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%) SPSS
8 10 (0.29%) Sketch
9 8 (0.23%) Acrobat
10 6 (0.17%) Adobe XD
11 5 (0.14%) AutoCAD
11 5 (0.14%) InVision
12 4 (0.12%) Revit
13 3 (0.087%) MicroStation
13 3 (0.087%) Windchill
14 2 (0.058%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 2 (0.058%) Chatbot
14 2 (0.058%) Mingle
15 1 (0.029%) Camtasia
15 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
1 505 (14.61%) Azure
2 349 (10.10%) Power Platform
3 293 (8.48%) AWS
4 150 (4.34%) Microsoft 365
5 115 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
5 115 (3.33%) GCP
6 77 (2.23%) Dynamics 365
7 70 (2.03%) PowerApps
8 65 (1.88%) Power Automate
9 58 (1.68%) Azure Data Factory
10 57 (1.65%) Serverless
10 57 (1.65%) Snowflake
11 56 (1.62%) GitHub
12 41 (1.19%) Entra ID
13 40 (1.16%) SaaS
14 35 (1.01%) Cloud Computing
14 35 (1.01%) OCI
15 27 (0.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 27 (0.78%) Azure Functions
16 26 (0.75%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 112 (3.24%) Firewall
2 92 (2.66%) Network Security
3 82 (2.37%) DNS
4 72 (2.08%) VPN
5 56 (1.62%) WAN
6 51 (1.48%) LAN
7 44 (1.27%) DHCP
8 40 (1.16%) TCP/IP
9 38 (1.10%) Wireless
10 33 (0.95%) BGP
11 31 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
12 30 (0.87%) Intrusion Detection
13 27 (0.78%) MPLS
14 26 (0.75%) OSPF
15 25 (0.72%) VLAN
16 24 (0.69%) HTTP
17 23 (0.67%) Cisco Nexus
17 23 (0.67%) SAN
18 22 (0.64%) Internet
19 17 (0.49%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 334 (9.66%) Power BI
2 166 (4.80%) Tableau
3 154 (4.46%) SQL Server
4 104 (3.01%) Data Warehouse
5 103 (2.98%) Big Data
6 102 (2.95%) Relational Database
7 83 (2.40%) Data Lake
8 64 (1.85%) NoSQL
9 49 (1.42%) Hadoop
10 44 (1.27%) Metadata
10 44 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
11 39 (1.13%) MongoDB
12 36 (1.04%) Data Mining
13 35 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 33 (0.95%) Oracle Reports
15 28 (0.81%) RDBMS
16 27 (0.78%) Oracle Database
17 26 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 23 (0.67%) BigQuery
18 23 (0.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 305 (8.83%) JIRA
2 115 (3.33%) Git
3 88 (2.55%) Jenkins
4 60 (1.74%) GitLab
5 58 (1.68%) Selenium
6 42 (1.22%) Cucumber
7 33 (0.95%) TeamCity
8 32 (0.93%) Bitbucket
9 29 (0.84%) 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 15 (0.43%) JUnit
15 14 (0.41%) Oracle APEX
15 14 (0.41%) Visual Studio
16 13 (0.38%) Appium
16 13 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
16 13 (0.38%) Postman
General
1 1,912 (55.32%) Social Skills
2 974 (28.18%) Finance
3 314 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 243 (7.03%) Banking
5 200 (5.79%) Presentation Skills
6 151 (4.37%) Marketing
7 145 (4.20%) Legal
8 138 (3.99%) Organisational Skills
9 123 (3.56%) Retail
10 102 (2.95%) Front Office
11 101 (2.92%) Manufacturing
12 97 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
13 90 (2.60%) Telecoms
14 64 (1.85%) Investment Banking
15 51 (1.48%) Law
16 46 (1.33%) General Ledger
17 43 (1.24%) Military
18 42 (1.22%) Local Government
19 39 (1.13%) Financial Institution
20 38 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 789 (22.83%) Analyst
2 403 (11.66%) Developer
3 269 (7.78%) Architect
4 260 (7.52%) Senior
5 247 (7.15%) Consultant
6 244 (7.06%) Business Analyst
7 221 (6.39%) Lead
8 169 (4.89%) Data Analyst
9 140 (4.05%) Project Manager
10 109 (3.15%) Data Engineer
11 106 (3.07%) Solutions Architect
12 79 (2.29%) Senior Analyst
13 65 (1.88%) Network Engineer
14 64 (1.85%) IT Engineer
15 59 (1.71%) Full Stack Developer
16 56 (1.62%) Service Analyst
17 55 (1.59%) Administrator
17 55 (1.59%) Support Engineer
18 54 (1.56%) Java Developer
19 52 (1.50%) Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (3.13%) React
2 99 (2.86%) REST
3 95 (2.75%) .NET
3 95 (2.75%) HTML
4 92 (2.66%) CSS
5 68 (1.97%) AngularJS
6 63 (1.82%) XML
7 57 (1.65%) Kafka
8 50 (1.45%) Web Services
9 45 (1.30%) JSON
10 42 (1.22%) Node.js
10 42 (1.22%) RESTful
11 39 (1.13%) Middleware
12 36 (1.04%) .NET Core
13 34 (0.98%) PySpark
14 28 (0.81%) Spring
15 27 (0.78%) WebSockets
16 25 (0.72%) Java EE
16 25 (0.72%) SOAP
17 23 (0.67%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 269 (7.78%) Management Information System
2 182 (5.27%) Analytical Mindset
3 140 (4.05%) Self-Motivation
4 136 (3.94%) Product Ownership
5 93 (2.69%) Data Structures
6 78 (2.26%) Algorithms
7 57 (1.65%) 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 33 (0.95%) Virtual Team
13 32 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
13 32 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 31 (0.90%) Credit Risk
14 31 (0.90%) Renewable Energy
15 30 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
15 30 (0.87%) PKI
15 30 (0.87%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 317 (9.17%) Windows
2 222 (6.42%) Linux
3 128 (3.70%) Unix
4 97 (2.81%) Windows Server
5 46 (1.33%) Windows 10
6 39 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 38 (1.10%) Windows Server 2012
8 37 (1.07%) Windows 7
9 32 (0.93%) Apple iOS
10 29 (0.84%) Android
11 20 (0.58%) Mac OS
12 12 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
13 11 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
14 7 (0.20%) AIX
14 7 (0.20%) Kali Linux
14 7 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
14 7 (0.20%) zOS
15 5 (0.14%) Solaris
16 3 (0.087%) CentOS
16 3 (0.087%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,964 (56.83%) Problem-Solving
2 863 (24.97%) Agile
3 526 (15.22%) Project Management
4 432 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
5 418 (12.09%) Analytics
6 353 (10.21%) Decision-Making
7 343 (9.92%) Continuous Improvement
8 334 (9.66%) Computer Science
9 332 (9.61%) Stakeholder Management
10 323 (9.35%) DevOps
11 276 (7.99%) Data Modelling
12 263 (7.61%) Data Analysis
13 230 (6.66%) Migration
14 223 (6.45%) Visualisation
15 219 (6.34%) Change Management
16 215 (6.22%) ITIL
17 212 (6.13%) Cybersecurity
18 210 (6.08%) Customer Service
18 210 (6.08%) Roadmaps
19 190 (5.50%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 587 (16.98%) SQL
2 434 (12.56%) Python
3 246 (7.12%) Java
4 152 (4.40%) JavaScript
5 137 (3.96%) PowerShell
6 136 (3.94%) C#
7 68 (1.97%) TypeScript
8 59 (1.71%) Scala
9 57 (1.65%) PL/SQL
9 57 (1.65%) R
10 42 (1.22%) Shell Script
11 38 (1.10%) C++
12 36 (1.04%) T-SQL
13 34 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 30 (0.87%) Perl
15 21 (0.61%) Bash
15 21 (0.61%) Go
16 20 (0.58%) C
17 17 (0.49%) VBA
17 17 (0.49%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 744 (21.53%) Degree
2 580 (16.78%) Security Cleared
3 378 (10.94%) SC Cleared
4 231 (6.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 181 (5.24%) DV Cleared
6 128 (3.70%) Master's Degree
7 85 (2.46%) CISSP
8 78 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
9 74 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
10 55 (1.59%) PMP
11 54 (1.56%) PMI Certification
12 49 (1.42%) CISM
13 47 (1.36%) MCSE
14 45 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
15 44 (1.27%) CCNA
16 39 (1.13%) CCNP
17 36 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
18 34 (0.98%) Azure Certification
19 30 (0.87%) APMP
20 27 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (5.41%) Data Quality
2 185 (5.35%) QA
3 114 (3.30%) SLA
4 91 (2.63%) GDPR
5 87 (2.52%) PMO
6 51 (1.48%) NIST
7 47 (1.36%) Accessibility
8 34 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
8 34 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 22 (0.64%) PCI DSS
10 17 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
11 14 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 14 (0.41%) NIST 800
12 13 (0.38%) EMIR
13 12 (0.35%) GAAP
14 11 (0.32%) GRC
14 11 (0.32%) ISO 20022
15 10 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
15 10 (0.29%) HIPAA
15 10 (0.29%) MiFID
System Software
1 150 (4.34%) Active Directory
2 87 (2.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 55 (1.59%) 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%) BitLocker
13 3 (0.087%) OpenAM
13 3 (0.087%) OpenIDM
13 3 (0.087%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 94 (2.72%) Ansible
2 83 (2.40%) Kubernetes
3 60 (1.74%) Terraform
4 54 (1.56%) SCCM
5 29 (0.84%) Puppet
6 28 (0.81%) NetBackup
7 27 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
8 25 (0.72%) Grafana
9 24 (0.69%) Prometheus
10 23 (0.67%) Kibana
11 20 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
11 20 (0.58%) PowerCLI
12 17 (0.49%) logstash
13 15 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
14 14 (0.41%) Podman
15 12 (0.35%) Progress Chef
16 10 (0.29%) Microsoft Clustering
16 10 (0.29%) Nagios
17 9 (0.26%) Consul
18 8 (0.23%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 684 (19.79%) Microsoft
2 279 (8.07%) Oracle
3 226 (6.54%) SAP
4 112 (3.24%) VMware
5 90 (2.60%) Cisco
6 81 (2.34%) Google
7 71 (2.05%) ServiceNow
8 63 (1.82%) Salesforce
9 58 (1.68%) Databricks
10 50 (1.45%) Splunk
11 44 (1.27%) Alteryx
12 43 (1.24%) IBM
13 38 (1.10%) Atlassian
14 37 (1.07%) Dell
15 33 (0.95%) HP
16 31 (0.90%) Red Hat
17 28 (0.81%) Adobe
17 28 (0.81%) F5
18 26 (0.75%) Citrix
19 24 (0.69%) Juniper