Analytical Skills Contracts in the North of England

Analytical Skills
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 22 28
Rank change year-on-year +1 +6 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 349 355 447
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 7.25% 6.51% 6.24%
As % of the General category 13.39% 11.65% 12.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 228 283
10th Percentile £325 £292 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £486 £463
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% +5.08% +2.78%
75th Percentile £569 £563 £538
90th Percentile £629 £638 £600
England median daily rate £525 £530 £530
% change year-on-year -0.94% - +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 12 36
10th Percentile £11.56 £23.15 £12.25
25th Percentile £12.14 £28.29 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.73 £35.00 £24.75
Median % change year-on-year -52.21% +41.41% +20.73%
75th Percentile £33.44 £53.84 £48.75
90th Percentile £46.83 £62.34 £52.16
England median hourly rate £19.50 £43.86 £32.00
% change year-on-year -55.54% +37.06% +56.10%

All General Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,606 3,046 3,686
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 54.15% 55.82% 51.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,493 2,099 2,592
10th Percentile £263 £280 £213
25th Percentile £400 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £478
Median % change year-on-year -1.10% +4.71% +6.11%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £575
90th Percentile £650 £688 £650
England median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 323 97 183
10th Percentile £12.13 £13.98 £10.75
25th Percentile £13.50 £16.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £22.00 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -27.00% +14.32% +7.21%
75th Percentile £35.23 £35.00 £33.91
90th Percentile £48.75 £50.84 £57.50
England median hourly rate £31.50 £30.65 £21.99
% change year-on-year +2.78% +39.40% +4.44%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in the North of England

Analytical Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Analytical Skills in the North of England

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the North of England

Analytical Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Skills in the North of England

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Skills in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the North of England

Analytical Skills
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 9 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
North West +3 179 £488 +3.45% 424
Yorkshire +9 143 £500 -4.76% 222
North East +19 25 £575 +39.39% 86
Analytical Skills
England

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 26 (7.45%) Confluence
2 5 (1.43%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.15%) Apache
3 4 (1.15%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.57%) IBM Notes
4 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.57%) Mule
5 1 (0.29%) CMS
5 1 (0.29%) JBoss
5 1 (0.29%) nginx
5 1 (0.29%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.29%) Smallworld
5 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
Applications
1 28 (8.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (7.74%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (3.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (3.15%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (1.72%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.15%) MicroStation
6 2 (0.57%) Trello
7 1 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.29%) Autodesk Inventor
Business Applications
1 10 (2.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.86%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.29%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.29%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.29%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.29%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 56 (16.05%) Azure
2 52 (14.90%) AWS
3 44 (12.61%) Power Platform
4 31 (8.88%) GCP
5 14 (4.01%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (2.87%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (2.58%) GitHub
7 9 (2.58%) Kong
8 8 (2.29%) PowerApps
8 8 (2.29%) SaaS
9 6 (1.72%) Apigee
10 4 (1.15%) Google Analytics
11 3 (0.86%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (0.86%) Google Tag Manager
11 3 (0.86%) Snowflake
12 2 (0.57%) AWS Data Pipeline
12 2 (0.57%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (0.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (0.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.44%) VLAN
2 18 (5.16%) TCP/IP
3 14 (4.01%) DNS
3 14 (4.01%) VPN
4 12 (3.44%) LAN
5 11 (3.15%) Firewall
5 11 (3.15%) WAN
5 11 (3.15%) Wi-Fi
6 9 (2.58%) HTTP
6 9 (2.58%) SSL
7 6 (1.72%) BGP
7 6 (1.72%) OSPF
8 5 (1.43%) HTTPS
9 4 (1.15%) DHCP
9 4 (1.15%) MPLS
9 4 (1.15%) Value-Added Service
9 4 (1.15%) Wireshark
10 3 (0.86%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 3 (0.86%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (0.86%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (11.75%) Power BI
2 16 (4.58%) Tableau
3 14 (4.01%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (3.44%) Relational Database
5 11 (3.15%) Data Lake
6 9 (2.58%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (2.29%) SQL Server
8 5 (1.43%) GIS
9 4 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (1.15%) Big Data
9 4 (1.15%) Geospatial Data
9 4 (1.15%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.15%) Metadata
9 4 (1.15%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (0.86%) MySQL
10 3 (0.86%) QGIS
10 3 (0.86%) Spatial Data
11 2 (0.57%) Apache Hive
11 2 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 27 (7.74%) JIRA
2 26 (7.45%) Git
3 15 (4.30%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 9 (2.58%) CircleCI
4 9 (2.58%) GitLab
4 9 (2.58%) Travis CI
5 8 (2.29%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.86%) Burp Suite
6 3 (0.86%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.86%) Selenium
7 2 (0.57%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.57%) Log4j
7 2 (0.57%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.29%) GoCD
8 1 (0.29%) Pa11y
8 1 (0.29%) Postman
8 1 (0.29%) PyCharm
8 1 (0.29%) RStudio
8 1 (0.29%) TestCafe
General
1 188 (53.87%) Social Skills
2 65 (18.62%) Finance
3 44 (12.61%) Public Sector
4 20 (5.73%) Banking
5 16 (4.58%) Manufacturing
6 12 (3.44%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (3.44%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (2.58%) Pharmaceutical
8 8 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.72%) Police
10 5 (1.43%) Retail
11 4 (1.15%) Legal
11 4 (1.15%) Marketing
11 4 (1.15%) Publishing
12 3 (0.86%) German Language
12 3 (0.86%) Local Government
12 3 (0.86%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.57%) Billing
13 2 (0.57%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 62 (17.77%) Analyst
2 29 (8.31%) Senior
3 27 (7.74%) Consultant
4 24 (6.88%) Developer
5 19 (5.44%) Business Analyst
6 18 (5.16%) Architect
7 17 (4.87%) Lead
8 15 (4.30%) Data Analyst
9 14 (4.01%) Capacity Manager
10 13 (3.72%) Network Engineer
11 12 (3.44%) Availability Manager
11 12 (3.44%) Capacity and Availability Manager
11 12 (3.44%) Storage Engineer
12 11 (3.15%) Automation Engineer
12 11 (3.15%) IT Engineer
12 11 (3.15%) Senior Analyst
13 9 (2.58%) Administrator
14 8 (2.29%) Data Engineer
15 7 (2.01%) DevOps Automation Engineer
15 7 (2.01%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.87%) Kafka
1 10 (2.87%) XML
2 9 (2.58%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (2.58%) JSON
2 9 (2.58%) YAML
3 8 (2.29%) Web Services
4 7 (2.01%) GraphQL
4 7 (2.01%) Swagger
5 6 (1.72%) ActiveMQ
5 6 (1.72%) gRPC
5 6 (1.72%) JWT
5 6 (1.72%) OAuth
5 6 (1.72%) OpenAPI
5 6 (1.72%) RESTful
6 5 (1.43%) .NET
6 5 (1.43%) React
6 5 (1.43%) REST
7 4 (1.15%) FastAPI
7 4 (1.15%) Middleware
7 4 (1.15%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 38 (10.89%) Management Information System
2 19 (5.44%) Replication
3 18 (5.16%) Analytical Mindset
3 18 (5.16%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (3.44%) Data Structures
4 12 (3.44%) NHS
5 11 (3.15%) CMDB
6 9 (2.58%) Product Ownership
7 7 (2.01%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 7 (2.01%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
8 6 (1.72%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.43%) Life Science
9 5 (1.43%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.15%) Cyberattack
10 4 (1.15%) Derivative
10 4 (1.15%) Reference Data
11 3 (0.86%) Cyber Defence
11 3 (0.86%) EMC VNX
11 3 (0.86%) Lidar
Operating Systems
1 45 (12.89%) Windows
2 33 (9.46%) Linux
3 11 (3.15%) Unix
4 7 (2.01%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.43%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.15%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.86%) AIX
7 3 (0.86%) Kali Linux
7 3 (0.86%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.86%) Solaris
8 2 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.29%) Android
9 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.29%) VMS
9 1 (0.29%) Windows 8
9 1 (0.29%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (62.46%) Problem-Solving
2 66 (18.91%) Agile
3 58 (16.62%) Change Management
4 56 (16.05%) Project Management
5 45 (12.89%) Business Intelligence
6 43 (12.32%) Service Management
7 42 (12.03%) Stakeholder Management
8 40 (11.46%) Continuous Improvement
9 34 (9.74%) Mentoring
10 33 (9.46%) CI/CD
11 31 (8.88%) Computer Science
11 31 (8.88%) Quality Management
12 28 (8.02%) DevOps
12 28 (8.02%) ITIL
12 28 (8.02%) Service Delivery
13 27 (7.74%) Data Modelling
13 27 (7.74%) Test Automation
14 25 (7.16%) Data Protection
14 25 (7.16%) Statistics
15 24 (6.88%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 46 (13.18%) SQL
2 40 (11.46%) Python
3 22 (6.30%) PowerShell
4 17 (4.87%) Java
5 11 (3.15%) Bash
6 8 (2.29%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.72%) C#
8 5 (1.43%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.15%) MATLAB
9 4 (1.15%) Scala
9 4 (1.15%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.15%) VB.NET
9 4 (1.15%) VBA
10 3 (0.86%) ActionScript
10 3 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.86%) R
11 2 (0.57%) Perl
11 2 (0.57%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.29%) ABAP
12 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 62 (17.77%) Degree
2 41 (11.75%) Security Cleared
3 30 (8.60%) SC Cleared
4 10 (2.87%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (1.72%) CCNA
7 5 (1.43%) CCNP
8 4 (1.15%) CCIE
8 4 (1.15%) MCSE
8 4 (1.15%) Network+ Certification
8 4 (1.15%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.15%) PMP
8 4 (1.15%) VCAP
9 3 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.86%) CISSP
9 3 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.86%) Numerate Degree
9 3 (0.86%) OSCP
10 2 (0.57%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.44%) GDPR
2 18 (5.16%) QA
3 17 (4.87%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.72%) GxP
4 6 (1.72%) HIPAA
5 5 (1.43%) GAMP
5 5 (1.43%) NIST
5 5 (1.43%) SLA
6 4 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.86%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.86%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.57%) PMO
9 1 (0.29%) COREP
9 1 (0.29%) HL7
9 1 (0.29%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 30 (8.60%) Docker
2 12 (3.44%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.15%) BitLocker
5 3 (0.86%) SRDF
6 2 (0.57%) HDFS
7 1 (0.29%) Firmware
7 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.29%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (0.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (10.32%) Ansible
2 28 (8.02%) Puppet
3 22 (6.30%) Kubernetes
4 15 (4.30%) NetBackup
5 13 (3.72%) Terraform
6 10 (2.87%) Grafana
6 10 (2.87%) Kibana
6 10 (2.87%) Progress Chef
7 9 (2.58%) Docker Swarm
7 9 (2.58%) logstash
7 9 (2.58%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (1.43%) SCCM
9 3 (0.86%) EMC TimeFinder
10 2 (0.57%) HP Quality Center
10 2 (0.57%) Nagios
10 2 (0.57%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 2 (0.57%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.29%) Nessus
11 1 (0.29%) yum
Vendors
1 58 (16.62%) Microsoft
2 23 (6.59%) SAP
3 22 (6.30%) ServiceNow
4 15 (4.30%) Cisco
4 15 (4.30%) Veritas
5 14 (4.01%) Brocade
5 14 (4.01%) Google
6 13 (3.72%) VMware
7 12 (3.44%) Citrix
8 11 (3.15%) 3Com
8 11 (3.15%) Aruba
8 11 (3.15%) Juniper
8 11 (3.15%) Meraki
8 11 (3.15%) Splunk
9 10 (2.87%) Salesforce
10 8 (2.29%) Atlassian
10 8 (2.29%) SolarWinds
10 8 (2.29%) Tanium
11 7 (2.01%) IBM
11 7 (2.01%) Oracle