Analytical Skills Contracts in England

Analytical Skills
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 25 28
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 +4
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 2,919 3,545 4,745
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 7.90% 7.43% 6.71%
As % of the General category 13.74% 12.55% 11.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,895 2,372 3,041
10th Percentile £300 £315 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% +1.90% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £675
90th Percentile £769 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 110 149
10th Percentile £11.75 £20.95 £12.75
25th Percentile £13.63 £22.16 £15.00
Median hourly rate £19.00 £43.43 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.25% +24.09% +70.73%
75th Percentile £32.30 £58.71 £52.56
90th Percentile £46.45 £66.28 £65.06
UK median hourly rate £18.35 £44.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -58.30% +23.94% +65.12%

All General Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,251 28,243 40,424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 57.55% 59.16% 57.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,633 19,891 28,416
10th Percentile £280 £313 £320
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,819 896 1,282
10th Percentile £12.88 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.68 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.50 £31.92 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% +48.47% +2.14%
75th Percentile £52.20 £60.03 £46.23
90th Percentile £67.38 £70.00 £59.94
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.40 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.41% +44.00% +4.65%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Analytical Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in England

Analytical Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Analytical Skills in England

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in England

Analytical Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Skills in England

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in England

Analytical Skills
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region 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
London +4 1,429 £550 -4.35% 1,589
South East -2 448 £530 -3.64% 605
North of England +2 332 £500 +2.88% 724
South West +16 252 £525 - 376
Midlands +2 243 £513 +7.89% 489
West Midlands +1 184 £525 +9.38% 292
North West +2 165 £475 - 425
Yorkshire +11 143 £500 -4.76% 223
East of England -3 113 £488 +22.33% 287
East Midlands -1 54 £450 -2.70% 200
North East +15 22 £590 +45.23% 89
Analytical Skills
UK

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 130 (4.45%) Confluence
2 70 (2.40%) SharePoint
3 64 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
4 47 (1.61%) Apache Spark
5 30 (1.03%) Apache
6 21 (0.72%) SAS
7 18 (0.62%) CMS
8 12 (0.41%) Tomcat
9 8 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2013
9 8 (0.27%) IIS
9 8 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
10 7 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
10 7 (0.24%) ArcGIS
10 7 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2010
11 6 (0.21%) nginx
12 5 (0.17%) Appian
12 5 (0.17%) Oracle Self-Service HR
12 5 (0.17%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.14%) Drupal
13 4 (0.14%) JBoss
Applications
1 260 (8.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 186 (6.37%) Microsoft Office
3 77 (2.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 58 (1.99%) Microsoft Project
5 54 (1.85%) MS Visio
6 53 (1.82%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.31%) SPSS
8 7 (0.24%) Sketch
9 4 (0.14%) MicroStation
9 4 (0.14%) Windchill
10 3 (0.10%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.10%) AutoCAD
10 3 (0.10%) InVision
11 2 (0.069%) Autodesk Inventor
11 2 (0.069%) Mingle
11 2 (0.069%) Revit
12 1 (0.034%) Abaqus
12 1 (0.034%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.034%) PTC Creo
12 1 (0.034%) Trello
Business Applications
1 60 (2.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 26 (0.89%) Dynamics AX
3 20 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
4 19 (0.65%) Endur
5 17 (0.58%) Oracle EBS R12
6 14 (0.48%) SAP CO
6 14 (0.48%) SAP FI
6 14 (0.48%) SAP FI/CO
7 13 (0.45%) Aligne
7 13 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
7 13 (0.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 13 (0.45%) SAP SD
7 13 (0.45%) Teamcenter
8 11 (0.38%) Maximo
8 11 (0.38%) SAP HCM
9 10 (0.34%) NetSuite
10 9 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
10 9 (0.31%) SAP ERP
11 8 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
11 8 (0.27%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 460 (15.76%) Azure
2 309 (10.59%) Power Platform
3 235 (8.05%) AWS
4 136 (4.66%) Microsoft 365
5 103 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
5 103 (3.53%) GCP
6 76 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
7 63 (2.16%) PowerApps
8 55 (1.88%) Azure Data Factory
9 54 (1.85%) Power Automate
10 46 (1.58%) GitHub
10 46 (1.58%) Serverless
11 45 (1.54%) Snowflake
12 44 (1.51%) Entra ID
13 37 (1.27%) SaaS
14 32 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
15 28 (0.96%) Azure Functions
16 26 (0.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 26 (0.89%) Azure Monitor
17 21 (0.72%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 84 (2.88%) Firewall
2 70 (2.40%) DNS
3 67 (2.30%) VPN
4 64 (2.19%) Network Security
5 50 (1.71%) WAN
6 46 (1.58%) LAN
7 43 (1.47%) DHCP
8 34 (1.16%) Wireless
9 33 (1.13%) TCP/IP
10 31 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
11 28 (0.96%) BGP
12 27 (0.92%) MPLS
13 25 (0.86%) Cisco Nexus
13 25 (0.86%) Intrusion Detection
14 23 (0.79%) OSPF
15 21 (0.72%) VLAN
16 20 (0.69%) HTTP
17 15 (0.51%) Internet
17 15 (0.51%) Intranet
18 14 (0.48%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 295 (10.11%) Power BI
2 139 (4.76%) SQL Server
2 139 (4.76%) Tableau
3 92 (3.15%) Big Data
4 89 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
5 87 (2.98%) Relational Database
6 77 (2.64%) Data Lake
7 67 (2.30%) NoSQL
8 40 (1.37%) Hadoop
9 37 (1.27%) MongoDB
9 37 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
10 31 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 30 (1.03%) Metadata
12 29 (0.99%) Data Mining
13 26 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 22 (0.75%) RDBMS
15 20 (0.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 18 (0.62%) Oracle Reports
17 17 (0.58%) Power Query
18 16 (0.55%) GIS
Development Applications
1 267 (9.15%) JIRA
2 122 (4.18%) Git
3 90 (3.08%) Jenkins
4 57 (1.95%) Selenium
5 56 (1.92%) GitLab
6 39 (1.34%) Cucumber
7 29 (0.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 29 (0.99%) Bitbucket
8 28 (0.96%) TeamCity
9 25 (0.86%) REST Assured
10 24 (0.82%) SonarQube
11 20 (0.69%) Cypress.io
12 17 (0.58%) JUnit
12 17 (0.58%) webpack
13 14 (0.48%) Maven
13 14 (0.48%) Visual Studio
14 13 (0.45%) Postman
15 12 (0.41%) Appium
15 12 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
16 11 (0.38%) CircleCI
General
1 1,610 (55.16%) Social Skills
2 833 (28.54%) Finance
3 234 (8.02%) Public Sector
4 218 (7.47%) Banking
5 169 (5.79%) Presentation Skills
6 130 (4.45%) Marketing
7 115 (3.94%) Retail
8 97 (3.32%) Organisational Skills
9 96 (3.29%) Legal
10 94 (3.22%) Manufacturing
11 87 (2.98%) Influencing Skills
12 83 (2.84%) Telecoms
13 81 (2.77%) Front Office
14 55 (1.88%) Investment Banking
15 43 (1.47%) Military
16 41 (1.40%) Financial Institution
17 40 (1.37%) General Ledger
18 38 (1.30%) Law
19 35 (1.20%) Aerospace
20 34 (1.16%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 645 (22.10%) Analyst
2 371 (12.71%) Developer
3 217 (7.43%) Architect
4 211 (7.23%) Consultant
5 206 (7.06%) Senior
6 189 (6.47%) Business Analyst
7 173 (5.93%) Lead
8 144 (4.93%) Data Analyst
9 123 (4.21%) Project Manager
10 97 (3.32%) Data Engineer
11 79 (2.71%) Solutions Architect
12 71 (2.43%) Senior Analyst
13 61 (2.09%) Network Engineer
14 60 (2.06%) Full Stack Developer
15 52 (1.78%) Java Developer
16 50 (1.71%) Support Engineer
17 48 (1.64%) IT Engineer
17 48 (1.64%) Service Analyst
18 44 (1.51%) Administrator
18 44 (1.51%) Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (3.12%) .NET
1 91 (3.12%) React
1 91 (3.12%) REST
2 79 (2.71%) HTML
3 71 (2.43%) CSS
4 57 (1.95%) XML
5 56 (1.92%) AngularJS
6 55 (1.88%) Kafka
7 46 (1.58%) Web Services
8 44 (1.51%) JSON
9 43 (1.47%) RESTful
10 33 (1.13%) Middleware
11 31 (1.06%) .NET Core
11 31 (1.06%) PySpark
12 27 (0.92%) Node.js
12 27 (0.92%) Spring
13 25 (0.86%) Java EE
14 24 (0.82%) SOAP
15 23 (0.79%) WebSockets
16 18 (0.62%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 218 (7.47%) Management Information System
2 149 (5.10%) Analytical Mindset
3 126 (4.32%) Self-Motivation
4 117 (4.01%) Product Ownership
5 94 (3.22%) Data Structures
6 71 (2.43%) Algorithms
7 52 (1.78%) Data Centre
8 47 (1.61%) Cyber Defence
9 46 (1.58%) Derivative
10 39 (1.34%) Onboarding
11 37 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 34 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
12 34 (1.16%) Fixed Income
13 29 (0.99%) Cyber Threat
13 29 (0.99%) Distributed Applications
14 28 (0.96%) Virtual Team
15 27 (0.92%) NHS
15 27 (0.92%) PKI
16 26 (0.89%) Hedge funds
16 26 (0.89%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 260 (8.91%) Windows
2 200 (6.85%) Linux
3 107 (3.67%) Unix
4 83 (2.84%) Windows Server
5 41 (1.40%) Windows 10
6 35 (1.20%) Windows Server 2012
7 34 (1.16%) Apple iOS
8 33 (1.13%) Windows 7
9 31 (1.06%) Android
10 30 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 11 (0.38%) Mac OS
12 9 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
13 8 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
14 7 (0.24%) Kali Linux
14 7 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
15 5 (0.17%) zOS
16 4 (0.14%) AIX
16 4 (0.14%) Solaris
17 3 (0.10%) VMS
18 2 (0.069%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,627 (55.74%) Problem-Solving
2 727 (24.91%) Agile
3 416 (14.25%) Project Management
4 379 (12.98%) Business Intelligence
5 340 (11.65%) Analytics
6 305 (10.45%) DevOps
7 299 (10.24%) Decision-Making
8 291 (9.97%) Continuous Improvement
9 269 (9.22%) Stakeholder Management
10 265 (9.08%) Computer Science
11 245 (8.39%) Data Modelling
12 222 (7.61%) Data Analysis
13 206 (7.06%) Migration
14 192 (6.58%) Change Management
15 183 (6.27%) Visualisation
16 182 (6.24%) CI/CD
17 181 (6.20%) Roadmaps
18 175 (6.00%) Customer Service
19 173 (5.93%) ITIL
20 170 (5.82%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 526 (18.02%) SQL
2 409 (14.01%) Python
3 232 (7.95%) Java
4 139 (4.76%) PowerShell
5 132 (4.52%) JavaScript
6 120 (4.11%) C#
7 56 (1.92%) R
7 56 (1.92%) TypeScript
8 47 (1.61%) Shell Script
9 45 (1.54%) Scala
10 44 (1.51%) C++
11 41 (1.40%) PL/SQL
12 36 (1.23%) T-SQL
13 29 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 24 (0.82%) C
14 24 (0.82%) Perl
15 23 (0.79%) Go
16 22 (0.75%) Bash
17 18 (0.62%) VBScript
18 16 (0.55%) VBA
Qualifications
1 603 (20.66%) Degree
2 490 (16.79%) Security Cleared
3 287 (9.83%) SC Cleared
4 180 (6.17%) DV Cleared
5 175 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 101 (3.46%) Master's Degree
7 57 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
7 57 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
8 52 (1.78%) CISSP
9 40 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
10 36 (1.23%) PMI Certification
10 36 (1.23%) PMP
11 34 (1.16%) MCSE
12 31 (1.06%) CCNP
12 31 (1.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 30 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
14 29 (0.99%) CCNA
15 28 (0.96%) CISM
15 28 (0.96%) Numerate Degree
16 25 (0.86%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 171 (5.86%) Data Quality
2 154 (5.28%) QA
3 108 (3.70%) SLA
4 81 (2.77%) GDPR
4 81 (2.77%) PMO
5 43 (1.47%) NIST
6 39 (1.34%) Actionable Recommendations
7 31 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 29 (0.99%) Accessibility
9 23 (0.79%) PCI DSS
10 13 (0.45%) HIPAA
11 12 (0.41%) EMIR
12 11 (0.38%) GRC
12 11 (0.38%) NIST 800
13 9 (0.31%) MiFID
14 8 (0.27%) Dodd-Frank
14 8 (0.27%) ISO 20022
15 7 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 6 (0.21%) GxP
16 6 (0.21%) IFRS
System Software
1 150 (5.14%) Active Directory
2 90 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 68 (2.33%) Docker
4 19 (0.65%) VMware NSX
5 17 (0.58%) vSphere
6 12 (0.41%) HDFS
7 11 (0.38%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 11 (0.38%) Hyper-V
8 10 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
9 9 (0.31%) Firmware
9 9 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
9 9 (0.31%) VMware Workstation
10 4 (0.14%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.14%) KVM
11 3 (0.10%) OpenAM
11 3 (0.10%) OpenIDM
11 3 (0.10%) SRDF
12 2 (0.069%) Snort
12 2 (0.069%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 96 (3.29%) Ansible
2 94 (3.22%) Kubernetes
3 60 (2.06%) Terraform
4 43 (1.47%) SCCM
5 33 (1.13%) Puppet
6 26 (0.89%) Grafana
6 26 (0.89%) NetBackup
7 25 (0.86%) Prometheus
8 21 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
9 20 (0.69%) PowerCLI
10 19 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
11 18 (0.62%) Kibana
12 15 (0.51%) logstash
13 14 (0.48%) Podman
14 13 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
15 11 (0.38%) Consul
15 11 (0.38%) Progress Chef
16 10 (0.34%) Microsoft Clustering
16 10 (0.34%) Nagios
17 8 (0.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 587 (20.11%) Microsoft
2 195 (6.68%) Oracle
3 190 (6.51%) SAP
4 112 (3.84%) VMware
5 81 (2.77%) Cisco
6 69 (2.36%) Google
7 64 (2.19%) ServiceNow
8 59 (2.02%) Salesforce
9 50 (1.71%) Databricks
10 43 (1.47%) Splunk
11 37 (1.27%) Alteryx
12 35 (1.20%) IBM
13 30 (1.03%) F5
14 29 (0.99%) Atlassian
14 29 (0.99%) HP
15 28 (0.96%) Dell
16 27 (0.92%) Citrix
16 27 (0.92%) Red Hat
17 22 (0.75%) Juniper
18 18 (0.62%) Adobe