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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 39 31
Rank change year-on-year +2 -8 +7
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,097 3,100 5,468
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.88% 5.35% 6.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.65% 5.96% 6.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,413 2,167 3,786
10th Percentile £358 £350 £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 £660
90th Percentile £788 £795 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +2.34% +2.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 55 67
10th Percentile £15.23 £20.74 £12.50
25th Percentile £25.00 £21.58 £26.06
Median hourly rate £29.19 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.80% -8.57% +29.63%
75th Percentile £43.75 £54.63 £46.94
90th Percentile £68.75 £78.00 £65.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £24.83 £35.00
% change year-on-year +0.68% -29.06% +52.91%

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 37,090 51,996 79,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,884 36,030 55,497
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,721 1,893
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

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 10 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 10 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 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 -2 1,764 £550 - 1,982
London -1 1,029 £575 -4.17% 1,024
Work from Home +6 815 £550 +2.33% 948
UK excluding London +5 774 £525 +2.34% 1,004
South East +5 202 £550 +10.00% 234
North of England -7 163 £500 -7.41% 307
Midlands +9 150 £560 +9.22% 188
West Midlands +11 118 £573 +9.05% 114
Scotland +10 106 £500 +2.56% 70
North West +3 104 £490 -3.21% 200
South West +26 95 £500 -9.09% 103
Yorkshire -14 56 £501 -7.31% 75
East of England +6 49 £498 -7.44% 85
East Midlands +16 32 £550 +22.22% 74
Wales +21 18 £550 -6.34% 19
North East +6 8 £710 +23.48% 33
Northern Ireland +4 3 £400 -3.03% 14

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 58 (2.77%) Apache Spark
2 57 (2.72%) SharePoint
3 49 (2.34%) Confluence
4 38 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
5 36 (1.72%) CMS
6 33 (1.57%) SAS
7 30 (1.43%) Apache
8 24 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
9 14 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 7 (0.33%) WordPress
11 4 (0.19%) govService
12 3 (0.14%) Drupal
12 3 (0.14%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.14%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.095%) Apache Solr
13 2 (0.095%) CICS
13 2 (0.095%) GeoServer
13 2 (0.095%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
13 2 (0.095%) WebSphere
Applications
1 80 (3.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
3 35 (1.67%) 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 3 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.14%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.095%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.095%) Simulink
9 2 (0.095%) Trello
10 1 (0.048%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.048%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.048%) InVision
Business Applications
1 46 (2.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (1.00%) Oracle EBS
3 19 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.48%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 10 (0.48%) SAP FI-AP
5 9 (0.43%) Endur
5 9 (0.43%) Oracle EBS R12
6 8 (0.38%) Oracle 11i
6 8 (0.38%) Shopify
7 7 (0.33%) NetSuite
7 7 (0.33%) SAP BPC
7 7 (0.33%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.24%) Adobe Campaign
8 5 (0.24%) OpenLink RightAngle
8 5 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
9 4 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 4 (0.19%) SAP MM
9 4 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.19%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 519 (24.75%) Azure
2 339 (16.17%) Power Platform
3 318 (15.16%) AWS
4 159 (7.58%) GCP
5 119 (5.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 108 (5.15%) Google Analytics
7 89 (4.24%) Snowflake
8 84 (4.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 69 (3.29%) Serverless
10 68 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
11 60 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
12 46 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
13 45 (2.15%) GitHub
14 39 (1.86%) dbt
15 36 (1.72%) Adobe Analytics
15 36 (1.72%) SaaS
16 33 (1.57%) PowerApps
17 32 (1.53%) Amazon S3
18 30 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
19 29 (1.38%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 53 (2.53%) Firewall
2 33 (1.57%) Network Security
3 31 (1.48%) DNS
4 26 (1.24%) DHCP
4 26 (1.24%) WAN
5 24 (1.14%) VPN
6 20 (0.95%) VoIP
7 19 (0.91%) Intranet
7 19 (0.91%) LAN
8 11 (0.52%) Internet
9 10 (0.48%) Intrusion Detection
10 9 (0.43%) Cisco ISE
10 9 (0.43%) CTI
10 9 (0.43%) MPLS
10 9 (0.43%) PBX
10 9 (0.43%) WLAN
11 8 (0.38%) SD-WAN
11 8 (0.38%) TCP/IP
12 6 (0.29%) Wireless
13 5 (0.24%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 331 (15.78%) Power BI
2 246 (11.73%) Data Warehouse
3 164 (7.82%) Tableau
4 129 (6.15%) Big Data
5 124 (5.91%) Data Lake
6 83 (3.96%) SQL Server
7 55 (2.62%) Amazon Redshift
8 54 (2.58%) Relational Database
9 53 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
9 53 (2.53%) BigQuery
9 53 (2.53%) NoSQL
10 45 (2.15%) Looker
10 45 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
11 38 (1.81%) MySQL
12 35 (1.67%) KDB
13 32 (1.53%) Metadata
14 28 (1.34%) Hadoop
15 26 (1.24%) Amazon Athena
16 25 (1.19%) Data Mining
16 25 (1.19%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 103 (4.91%) JIRA
2 77 (3.67%) Git
3 50 (2.38%) Jenkins
4 16 (0.76%) GitLab
4 16 (0.76%) Postman
5 14 (0.67%) JMeter
6 13 (0.62%) Cypress.io
7 11 (0.52%) Selenium
7 11 (0.52%) Subversion
8 10 (0.48%) Visual Studio
9 9 (0.43%) Artifactory
10 8 (0.38%) MLflow
10 8 (0.38%) Visual Website Optimizer
11 6 (0.29%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.29%) ERwin
11 6 (0.29%) JUnit
11 6 (0.29%) Maven
12 5 (0.24%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
12 5 (0.24%) TeamCity
General
1 596 (28.42%) Social Skills
2 516 (24.61%) Finance
3 418 (19.93%) Analytical Skills
4 175 (8.35%) Public Sector
5 147 (7.01%) Marketing
6 119 (5.67%) Banking
7 93 (4.43%) Retail
8 89 (4.24%) Front Office
9 75 (3.58%) Legal
10 70 (3.34%) Presentation Skills
11 62 (2.96%) Telecoms
12 59 (2.81%) Manufacturing
13 41 (1.96%) Investment Banking
14 39 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 39 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
14 39 (1.86%) Pharmaceutical
15 22 (1.05%) Advertising
16 16 (0.76%) Local Government
17 15 (0.72%) German Language
17 15 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 375 (17.88%) Analyst
2 293 (13.97%) Developer
3 248 (11.83%) Architect
4 215 (10.25%) Data Engineer
5 199 (9.49%) Senior
6 160 (7.63%) Data Analyst
7 157 (7.49%) Lead
8 97 (4.63%) Consultant
8 97 (4.63%) Data Architect
9 78 (3.72%) Project Manager
10 77 (3.67%) Azure Engineer
11 67 (3.20%) Solutions Architect
12 63 (3.00%) Business Analyst
13 53 (2.53%) Software Engineer
14 52 (2.48%) Azure Data Engineer
15 51 (2.43%) Senior Analyst
16 46 (2.19%) Analytics Manager
17 42 (2.00%) Product Owner
18 40 (1.91%) Data Manager
19 38 (1.81%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (3.53%) PySpark
2 67 (3.20%) HTML
3 58 (2.77%) .NET
4 54 (2.58%) React
5 53 (2.53%) CSS
6 51 (2.43%) REST
7 50 (2.38%) Middleware
8 47 (2.24%) Web Services
9 44 (2.10%) JSON
10 33 (1.57%) Pandas
10 33 (1.57%) XML
11 32 (1.53%) Kafka
12 28 (1.34%) ARM Templates
13 25 (1.19%) Node.js
14 24 (1.14%) .NET Core
15 23 (1.10%) NumPy
15 23 (1.10%) RESTful
16 22 (1.05%) gRPC
17 21 (1.00%) AngularJS
18 20 (0.95%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 111 (5.29%) Management Information System
2 107 (5.10%) Product Ownership
3 62 (2.96%) Fixed Income
4 60 (2.86%) Data Structures
5 56 (2.67%) Algorithms
5 56 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
6 48 (2.29%) Equities
6 48 (2.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 47 (2.24%) Derivative
8 38 (1.81%) Credit Risk
9 37 (1.76%) Onboarding
10 35 (1.67%) Security Operations Centre
10 35 (1.67%) Social Media
11 33 (1.57%) Hedge funds
12 32 (1.53%) Data Centre
13 29 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
13 29 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
14 25 (1.19%) Cloud Native
14 25 (1.19%) CSOC
15 23 (1.10%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 117 (5.58%) Windows
2 108 (5.15%) Linux
3 43 (2.05%) Unix
4 41 (1.96%) Windows Server
5 20 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
6 16 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
7 13 (0.62%) Android
8 11 (0.52%) Apple iOS
9 10 (0.48%) Windows 10
10 9 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.14%) zOS
12 2 (0.095%) VMS
12 2 (0.095%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.095%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.048%) CentOS
13 1 (0.048%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 499 (23.80%) Agile
2 474 (22.60%) Business Intelligence
3 448 (21.36%) Data Analytics
4 374 (17.84%) Data Modelling
5 355 (16.93%) Problem-Solving
6 287 (13.69%) ETL
7 251 (11.97%) Visualisation
8 227 (10.82%) DevOps
9 205 (9.78%) Data Analysis
10 200 (9.54%) Data Management
11 196 (9.35%) Data Science
12 192 (9.16%) Decision-Making
13 177 (8.44%) Project Management
14 176 (8.39%) Data Pipeline
15 173 (8.25%) Data Engineering
15 173 (8.25%) Migration
16 166 (7.92%) Roadmaps
17 161 (7.68%) Stakeholder Management
18 158 (7.53%) Computer Science
19 157 (7.49%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 573 (27.32%) SQL
2 461 (21.98%) Python
3 141 (6.72%) Java
4 111 (5.29%) JavaScript
5 103 (4.91%) C#
6 66 (3.15%) PowerShell
7 53 (2.53%) Scala
7 53 (2.53%) TypeScript
8 43 (2.05%) R
9 42 (2.00%) C++
10 34 (1.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 29 (1.38%) Bash
11 29 (1.38%) Bicep
12 25 (1.19%) T-SQL
13 20 (0.95%) ABAP
14 16 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
14 16 (0.76%) Shell Script
14 16 (0.76%) VB
14 16 (0.76%) VBScript
15 12 (0.57%) Perl
Qualifications
1 312 (14.88%) Degree
2 289 (13.78%) Security Cleared
3 223 (10.63%) SC Cleared
4 95 (4.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 74 (3.53%) DV Cleared
6 69 (3.29%) Master's Degree
7 38 (1.81%) Azure Certification
8 28 (1.34%) CISSP
9 26 (1.24%) SANS
10 25 (1.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 23 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
12 17 (0.81%) AWS Certification
13 16 (0.76%) PMI Certification
14 15 (0.72%) PMP
15 13 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
15 13 (0.62%) CompTIA Security+
16 12 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
16 12 (0.57%) Numerate Degree
17 11 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 10 (0.48%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 194 (9.25%) Data Quality
2 97 (4.63%) QA
3 47 (2.24%) GDPR
4 46 (2.19%) Accessibility
5 22 (1.05%) PMO
6 20 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
7 16 (0.76%) SLA
8 14 (0.67%) HIPAA
8 14 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 14 (0.67%) NIST
9 13 (0.62%) IFRS
9 13 (0.62%) PCI DSS
10 12 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
11 11 (0.52%) GxP
12 8 (0.38%) IFRS 9
12 8 (0.38%) NCSC
12 8 (0.38%) SOC 2
13 7 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.24%) GAMP
System Software
1 45 (2.15%) Active Directory
2 43 (2.05%) Docker
3 26 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
4 23 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.19%) HDFS
7 3 (0.14%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.14%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.095%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.095%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.048%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.048%) NFS
9 1 (0.048%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.048%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.048%) XenApp
9 1 (0.048%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 79 (3.77%) Terraform
2 67 (3.20%) Kubernetes
3 35 (1.67%) Grafana
4 28 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
5 27 (1.29%) Ansible
6 21 (1.00%) SCOM
7 19 (0.91%) SCCM
8 18 (0.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 18 (0.86%) WSUS
9 11 (0.52%) ITRS Geneos
10 9 (0.43%) BladeLogic
11 7 (0.33%) Prometheus
12 6 (0.29%) SysTrack
13 5 (0.24%) Nagios
14 4 (0.19%) Graylog
14 4 (0.19%) Trend Micro Deep Security
15 3 (0.14%) Kibana
15 3 (0.14%) Matomo
15 3 (0.14%) Nessus
15 3 (0.14%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 369 (17.60%) Microsoft
2 169 (8.06%) Databricks
3 165 (7.87%) Google
4 137 (6.53%) SAP
5 122 (5.82%) Oracle
6 74 (3.53%) Adobe
7 43 (2.05%) Salesforce
8 39 (1.86%) Alteryx
9 38 (1.81%) Splunk
10 33 (1.57%) ServiceNow
11 29 (1.38%) Atlassian
11 29 (1.38%) Cisco
12 28 (1.34%) Informatica
13 24 (1.14%) Talend
14 21 (1.00%) Ariba
14 21 (1.00%) Optimizely
15 18 (0.86%) Denodo
15 18 (0.86%) OpenAI
16 17 (0.81%) Citrix
16 17 (0.81%) Red Hat