Analytical Thinking Contracts

Analytical Thinking
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Analytical Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Analytical Thinking over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 439 486 514
Rank change year-on-year +47 +28 +39
Contract jobs citing Analytical Thinking 140 198 357
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.35% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.39% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 118 238
10th Percentile £265 £381 £341
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.02%
75th Percentile £683 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £800 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +10.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 6
10th Percentile £20.18 £26.46 £12.00
25th Percentile £21.47 £37.65 £13.06
Median hourly rate £24.65 £43.86 £23.93
Median % change year-on-year -43.80% +83.32% -51.75%
75th Percentile £53.62 £51.02 £31.85
90th Percentile £67.64 £63.91 £51.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.65 - £16.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Analytical Thinking 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 36,816 50,571 79,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.44% 89.70% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,638 35,025 55,934
10th Percentile £300 £325 £348
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,533 1,671 1,865
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.57 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%

Analytical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Thinking in the UK

Analytical Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Analytical Thinking in the UK

Analytical Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Thinking over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Thinking in the UK

Analytical Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Thinking in the UK

Analytical Thinking
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Thinking over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Thinking in the UK

Analytical Thinking
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analytical Thinking within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
England +60 130 £550 +4.76% 244
London +89 71 £600 +4.35% 94
Work from Home +89 66 £575 +15.00% 121
UK excluding London +18 57 £450 -14.29% 140
Midlands +36 27 £450 -5.26% 22
West Midlands +23 22 £450 -5.26% 14
North of England +27 11 £463 -13.95% 57
North West +21 10 £463 -6.57% 32
South East -9 9 £262 -44.01% 27
East Midlands +13 5 £173 - 8
East of England +1 5 £700 +27.27% 15
Scotland +30 2 £490 -10.91% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 1
North East - 1 - - 9
Wales - 1 £425 -

Analytical Thinking
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 7 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.14%) Confluence
4 2 (1.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (1.43%) SAS
5 1 (0.71%) Appian
Applications
1 16 (11.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (7.86%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (5.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (3.57%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (2.14%) MS Visio
6 2 (1.43%) Mingle
7 1 (0.71%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.71%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.71%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
1 7 (5.00%) SAP SD
2 5 (3.57%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (2.14%) SAP CO
3 3 (2.14%) SAP FI
3 3 (2.14%) SAP FI/CO
3 3 (2.14%) SAP Hybris
4 2 (1.43%) Endur
4 2 (1.43%) SAP ERP
4 2 (1.43%) SAP SCM
5 1 (0.71%) Eikon
5 1 (0.71%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.71%) SAP CX
5 1 (0.71%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.71%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 16 (11.43%) Azure
2 13 (9.29%) AWS
3 11 (7.86%) Power Platform
4 7 (5.00%) GCP
5 6 (4.29%) PaaS
6 5 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (3.57%) OCI
6 5 (3.57%) Oracle Service Cloud
7 3 (2.14%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.14%) IaaS
7 3 (2.14%) OneDrive
7 3 (2.14%) SaaS
7 3 (2.14%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 2 (1.43%) Adobe Analytics
8 2 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.43%) Figma
8 2 (1.43%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.71%) BrowserStack
9 1 (0.71%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.57%) Firewall
2 3 (2.14%) DNS
2 3 (2.14%) Kerberos
2 3 (2.14%) VPN
3 2 (1.43%) Intranet
4 1 (0.71%) BGP
4 1 (0.71%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.71%) HTTP
4 1 (0.71%) OSPF
4 1 (0.71%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.71%) SSL
4 1 (0.71%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.71%) VLAN
4 1 (0.71%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.14%) MongoDB
2 11 (7.86%) Power BI
3 7 (5.00%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.57%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.86%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (2.14%) PostHog
6 3 (2.14%) Tableau
7 1 (0.71%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.71%) Big Data
7 1 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.71%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.71%) Impala
7 1 (0.71%) MS Access
7 1 (0.71%) MySQL
7 1 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.71%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.71%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.71%) SQL Navigator
7 1 (0.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (7.14%) JIRA
2 9 (6.43%) Git
3 3 (2.14%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.43%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.43%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.43%) FitNesse
4 2 (1.43%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.43%) Maven
4 2 (1.43%) SpecFlow
4 2 (1.43%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.71%) Axure RP
5 1 (0.71%) GoCD
5 1 (0.71%) Pa11y
5 1 (0.71%) TestCafe
5 1 (0.71%) Toad
General
1 140 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 80 (57.14%) Social Skills
3 43 (30.71%) Finance
4 9 (6.43%) Manufacturing
5 8 (5.71%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (4.29%) Telecoms
7 5 (3.57%) German Language
7 5 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.86%) Banking
8 4 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.86%) French Language
8 4 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.86%) Marketing
8 4 (2.86%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.86%) Publishing
9 3 (2.14%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.14%) Legal
9 3 (2.14%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.43%) Law
Job Titles
1 29 (20.71%) Analyst
2 14 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 13 (9.29%) Architect
3 13 (9.29%) Developer
4 12 (8.57%) Senior
4 12 (8.57%) Site Engineer
4 12 (8.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 9 (6.43%) Consultant
6 8 (5.71%) Python Engineer
6 8 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (4.29%) Incident Manager
8 5 (3.57%) Business IT Analyst
8 5 (3.57%) Insight Analyst
8 5 (3.57%) IT Analyst
8 5 (3.57%) IT Business Analyst
8 5 (3.57%) Java Developer
8 5 (3.57%) Java Engineer
8 5 (3.57%) Report Analyst
9 4 (2.86%) Lead
9 4 (2.86%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.29%) RESTful
2 12 (8.57%) Kafka
3 11 (7.86%) RabbitMQ
4 9 (6.43%) HTML
5 7 (5.00%) CSS
5 7 (5.00%) JSON
5 7 (5.00%) Middleware
6 5 (3.57%) Node.js
6 5 (3.57%) XML
7 4 (2.86%) .NET
7 4 (2.86%) Spring
7 4 (2.86%) Swagger
8 3 (2.14%) Flask
8 3 (2.14%) Hibernate
8 3 (2.14%) LDAP
8 3 (2.14%) OpenID
8 3 (2.14%) React
8 3 (2.14%) Regular Expression
8 3 (2.14%) SAML
8 3 (2.14%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 13 (9.29%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (8.57%) Algorithms
3 12 (8.57%) Data Structures
3 12 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (5.00%) IoT
5 6 (4.29%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.57%) Data Centre
6 5 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (3.57%) SCADA
6 5 (3.57%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 4 (2.86%) Industry 4.0
7 4 (2.86%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.86%) Taxonomies
8 3 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.43%) Credit Risk
9 2 (1.43%) Derivative
9 2 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.86%) Linux
2 7 (5.00%) Windows
3 5 (3.57%) Unix
3 5 (3.57%) Windows 10
3 5 (3.57%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.71%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 41 (29.29%) Agile
3 26 (18.57%) Computer Science
3 26 (18.57%) Critical Thinking
4 25 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 21 (15.00%) Decision-Making
5 21 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 18 (12.86%) Roadmaps
7 17 (12.14%) DevOps
7 17 (12.14%) Microservices
8 15 (10.71%) Project Management
9 14 (10.00%) Change Management
9 14 (10.00%) ERP
10 13 (9.29%) Business Intelligence
10 13 (9.29%) CI/CD
10 13 (9.29%) ITIL
10 13 (9.29%) Task Automation
11 12 (8.57%) Customer Service
11 12 (8.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 12 (8.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 23 (16.43%) Java
2 18 (12.86%) Python
3 15 (10.71%) SQL
4 12 (8.57%) JavaScript
5 11 (7.86%) Shell Script
6 9 (6.43%) C++
6 9 (6.43%) Go
7 5 (3.57%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.86%) C#
9 3 (2.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (2.14%) Perl
9 3 (2.14%) PHP
9 3 (2.14%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.43%) R
11 1 (0.71%) ABAP
11 1 (0.71%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 41 (29.29%) Degree
2 14 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (4.29%) Master's Degree
4 4 (2.86%) CISSP
5 3 (2.14%) APMG
5 3 (2.14%) MCSE
5 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.14%) SAP Certification
5 3 (2.14%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.14%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 2 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.43%) MBA
6 2 (1.43%) PhD
6 2 (1.43%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.71%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.71%) CCNA
7 1 (0.71%) CCNP
7 1 (0.71%) MCP
7 1 (0.71%) MCSA
7 1 (0.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.57%) Accessibility
1 5 (3.57%) PMO
1 5 (3.57%) QA
2 4 (2.86%) SLA
3 1 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.71%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.71%) GDPR
3 1 (0.71%) GxP
3 1 (0.71%) IFRS
3 1 (0.71%) IFRS 9
3 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.71%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (7.86%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 5 (3.57%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.43%) Docker
3 2 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.71%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (0.71%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (8.57%) Grafana
2 11 (7.86%) Consul
2 11 (7.86%) Kubernetes
2 11 (7.86%) Prometheus
3 3 (2.14%) PingFederate
3 3 (2.14%) SCCM
3 3 (2.14%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.43%) Podman
5 1 (0.71%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.71%) Kibana
5 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.71%) Nessus
5 1 (0.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 40 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 20 (14.29%) SAP
3 11 (7.86%) Oracle
3 11 (7.86%) SaltStack
4 5 (3.57%) BMC
4 5 (3.57%) VMware
5 4 (2.86%) Adobe
5 4 (2.86%) CA
5 4 (2.86%) Qualys
6 3 (2.14%) Ping Identity
6 3 (2.14%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.43%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.43%) OpenText
7 2 (1.43%) Splunk
7 2 (1.43%) Workday
8 1 (0.71%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.71%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.71%) Pega
8 1 (0.71%) Reuters
8 1 (0.71%) ServiceNow