Analytical Skills Contracts in the UK excluding London

Analytical Skills
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 17 20 30
Rank change year-on-year +3 +10 -1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,659 1,791 1,934
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.87% 7.88% 6.33%
As % of the General category 14.75% 14.05% 11.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,016 1,214 1,248
10th Percentile £270 £263 £213
25th Percentile £382 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £551
90th Percentile £691 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 65 115
10th Percentile £11.75 £20.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £12.75 £23.15 £14.25
Median hourly rate £17.39 £52.30 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -66.74% +97.34% +43.24%
75th Percentile £25.69 £58.75 £50.32
90th Percentile £42.88 £66.00 £56.52
UK median hourly rate £19.00 £45.00 £32.40
% change year-on-year -57.78% +38.89% +50.70%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,250 12,749 17,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 53.34% 56.13% 55.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,331 8,646 11,769
10th Percentile £205 £230 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £655
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,709 737 1,044
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.37 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £28.42 £27.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% +41.03% +2.63%
75th Percentile £53.75 £60.00 £37.43
90th Percentile £67.50 £69.25 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £30.12 £32.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.88% +42.22% +6.89%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Analytical Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London

Analytical Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London

Analytical Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London

Analytical Skills
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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
South East -2 451 £525 -4.55% 592
North of England +1 349 £500 +2.88% 718
Midlands +1 252 £525 +10.53% 495
South West +18 250 £525 -4.55% 367
Scotland -1 203 £463 -3.65% 142
West Midlands 0 187 £525 +8.53% 287
North West +3 179 £488 +3.45% 424
Yorkshire +9 143 £500 -4.76% 222
East of England -5 110 £475 +18.75% 276
East Midlands +1 60 £450 -4.00% 209
Wales +17 35 £425 +21.43% 55
North East +19 25 £575 +39.39% 86
Northern Ireland +4 19 £513 +79.82% 33
Isle of Man - 2 £388 - 4
Analytical Skills
UK

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 93 (5.61%) Confluence
2 45 (2.71%) SharePoint
3 43 (2.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.96%) Apache
5 12 (0.72%) Apache Spark
6 11 (0.66%) SAS
7 9 (0.54%) CMS
7 9 (0.54%) Tomcat
8 8 (0.48%) IIS
8 8 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
9 6 (0.36%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 5 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
11 4 (0.24%) Appian
11 4 (0.24%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.18%) Drupal
12 3 (0.18%) IBM HTTP Server
12 3 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.18%) WebSphere Application Server
12 3 (0.18%) WebSphere Portal
13 2 (0.12%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 187 (11.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 120 (7.23%) Microsoft Office
3 46 (2.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 44 (2.65%) Microsoft Project
5 41 (2.47%) Spreadsheet
6 21 (1.27%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.48%) Acrobat
8 6 (0.36%) Sketch
9 4 (0.24%) MicroStation
9 4 (0.24%) SPSS
10 2 (0.12%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.12%) Autodesk Inventor
10 2 (0.12%) InVision
10 2 (0.12%) Trello
11 1 (0.060%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.060%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.060%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.060%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.060%) PTC Creo
11 1 (0.060%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 37 (2.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.84%) Oracle EBS
2 14 (0.84%) Oracle EBS R12
3 12 (0.72%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 9 (0.54%) Oracle Receivables
4 9 (0.54%) Teamcenter
5 8 (0.48%) Maximo
5 8 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.48%) Primavera
5 8 (0.48%) SAP CO
5 8 (0.48%) SAP FI
5 8 (0.48%) SAP FI/CO
5 8 (0.48%) SAP HCM
6 7 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
6 7 (0.42%) SAP HR
7 6 (0.36%) Oracle Cash Management
7 6 (0.36%) Oracle HRMS
7 6 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.36%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.24%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 219 (13.20%) Azure
2 177 (10.67%) Power Platform
3 116 (6.99%) AWS
4 68 (4.10%) Microsoft 365
5 47 (2.83%) GCP
6 45 (2.71%) Snowflake
7 40 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
8 35 (2.11%) Azure Data Factory
9 30 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
10 24 (1.45%) Entra ID
11 23 (1.39%) OCI
12 21 (1.27%) Azure Monitor
12 21 (1.27%) SaaS
13 20 (1.21%) PowerApps
14 18 (1.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 17 (1.02%) Serverless
16 15 (0.90%) GitHub
17 13 (0.78%) Azure Functions
17 13 (0.78%) Power Automate
18 12 (0.72%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 53 (3.19%) Network Security
2 49 (2.95%) Firewall
3 44 (2.65%) DNS
4 41 (2.47%) VPN
5 32 (1.93%) DHCP
6 29 (1.75%) WAN
7 28 (1.69%) LAN
8 27 (1.63%) TCP/IP
9 26 (1.57%) Wi-Fi
10 22 (1.33%) Intrusion Detection
11 21 (1.27%) VLAN
12 19 (1.15%) SAN
13 18 (1.08%) Internet
14 17 (1.02%) MPLS
15 16 (0.96%) HTTP
16 14 (0.84%) Wireless
17 13 (0.78%) Cisco Nexus
18 12 (0.72%) Intranet
18 12 (0.72%) SSL
19 10 (0.60%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (10.13%) Power BI
2 93 (5.61%) Tableau
3 50 (3.01%) SQL Server
4 38 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
5 35 (2.11%) Big Data
6 29 (1.75%) Relational Database
7 24 (1.45%) Data Lake
8 22 (1.33%) Oracle Reports
9 21 (1.27%) NoSQL
10 19 (1.15%) Data Mining
11 18 (1.08%) Metadata
12 17 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 16 (0.96%) GIS
13 16 (0.96%) Oracle Database
13 16 (0.96%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 14 (0.84%) Microsoft Analysis Services
15 12 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
16 11 (0.66%) Hadoop
17 9 (0.54%) Power Query
18 7 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 162 (9.76%) JIRA
2 64 (3.86%) Jenkins
3 53 (3.19%) Git
4 48 (2.89%) Selenium
5 28 (1.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 28 (1.69%) Bitbucket
6 26 (1.57%) Cucumber
7 25 (1.51%) GitLab
8 24 (1.45%) REST Assured
8 24 (1.45%) SonarQube
9 12 (0.72%) Oracle APEX
10 10 (0.60%) Travis CI
11 9 (0.54%) CircleCI
11 9 (0.54%) Oracle Forms
12 8 (0.48%) LoadRunner
13 7 (0.42%) JMeter
14 6 (0.36%) Robot Framework
14 6 (0.36%) Visual Studio
15 4 (0.24%) JUnit
16 3 (0.18%) ERwin
General
1 933 (56.24%) Social Skills
2 350 (21.10%) Finance
3 193 (11.63%) Public Sector
4 93 (5.61%) Presentation Skills
5 80 (4.82%) Organisational Skills
6 79 (4.76%) Legal
7 67 (4.04%) Manufacturing
8 66 (3.98%) Banking
9 57 (3.44%) Telecoms
10 55 (3.32%) Marketing
11 46 (2.77%) Retail
12 40 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
13 36 (2.17%) Aerospace
13 36 (2.17%) Military
14 26 (1.57%) Law
15 25 (1.51%) Local Government
16 23 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
16 23 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
17 22 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 22 (1.33%) Police
Job Titles
1 395 (23.81%) Analyst
2 135 (8.14%) Developer
3 128 (7.72%) Lead
4 123 (7.41%) Architect
5 120 (7.23%) Senior
6 94 (5.67%) Data Analyst
7 92 (5.55%) Consultant
8 70 (4.22%) Business Analyst
9 68 (4.10%) Project Manager
10 48 (2.89%) Solutions Architect
11 44 (2.65%) IT Engineer
12 41 (2.47%) Data Engineer
12 41 (2.47%) Network Engineer
13 39 (2.35%) Service Analyst
14 37 (2.23%) Senior Analyst
14 37 (2.23%) Service Desk Analyst
15 33 (1.99%) Support Engineer
16 29 (1.75%) Administrator
16 29 (1.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 29 (1.75%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (2.83%) REST
2 44 (2.65%) .NET
3 34 (2.05%) HTML
4 32 (1.93%) CSS
5 31 (1.87%) React
6 25 (1.51%) Java EE
7 22 (1.33%) Web Services
8 21 (1.27%) .NET Core
9 19 (1.15%) Kafka
9 19 (1.15%) XML
10 18 (1.08%) Apache NiFi
11 16 (0.96%) Middleware
12 14 (0.84%) JSON
12 14 (0.84%) RESTful
13 12 (0.72%) .NET Framework
13 12 (0.72%) ARM Templates
13 12 (0.72%) PySpark
14 11 (0.66%) AngularJS
14 11 (0.66%) Elastic Stack
14 11 (0.66%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 149 (8.98%) Management Information System
2 86 (5.18%) Analytical Mindset
3 75 (4.52%) Self-Motivation
4 72 (4.34%) Product Ownership
5 43 (2.59%) Data Centre
6 41 (2.47%) Cyber Defence
7 33 (1.99%) Data Structures
8 24 (1.45%) Credit Risk
9 23 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
9 23 (1.39%) Distributed Applications
9 23 (1.39%) Onboarding
10 22 (1.33%) PKI
10 22 (1.33%) Virtual Team
11 21 (1.27%) Client/Server
11 21 (1.27%) Operational Technology
11 21 (1.27%) Replication
12 19 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
12 19 (1.15%) NHS
12 19 (1.15%) Security Operations Centre
12 19 (1.15%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 199 (12.00%) Windows
2 121 (7.29%) Linux
3 64 (3.86%) Unix
4 57 (3.44%) Windows Server
5 27 (1.63%) Apple iOS
6 24 (1.45%) Android
6 24 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 23 (1.39%) Windows Server 2012
8 17 (1.02%) Windows 10
9 14 (0.84%) Windows 7
10 13 (0.78%) Mac OS
11 6 (0.36%) AIX
12 5 (0.30%) Solaris
13 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
14 3 (0.18%) Kali Linux
15 2 (0.12%) CentOS
16 1 (0.060%) VMS
16 1 (0.060%) Windows 8
16 1 (0.060%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 955 (57.56%) Problem-Solving
2 371 (22.36%) Agile
3 244 (14.71%) Project Management
4 210 (12.66%) Business Intelligence
5 179 (10.79%) Stakeholder Management
6 169 (10.19%) Analytics
6 169 (10.19%) Decision-Making
7 165 (9.95%) Continuous Improvement
8 160 (9.64%) DevOps
9 137 (8.26%) Change Management
10 131 (7.90%) Cybersecurity
11 128 (7.72%) Computer Science
12 126 (7.59%) Customer Service
13 120 (7.23%) ITIL
14 106 (6.39%) Data Analysis
15 95 (5.73%) Data Management
16 94 (5.67%) Data Modelling
17 93 (5.61%) Actionable Insight
18 92 (5.55%) Migration
18 92 (5.55%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 226 (13.62%) SQL
2 177 (10.67%) Python
3 105 (6.33%) Java
4 91 (5.49%) PowerShell
5 47 (2.83%) JavaScript
6 30 (1.81%) C#
7 22 (1.33%) C
7 22 (1.33%) PL/SQL
8 21 (1.27%) R
9 20 (1.21%) T-SQL
10 15 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 14 (0.84%) Bash
11 14 (0.84%) VBScript
12 13 (0.78%) Shell Script
13 10 (0.60%) C++
13 10 (0.60%) Scala
14 9 (0.54%) VBA
15 7 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
15 7 (0.42%) Perl
15 7 (0.42%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 387 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 320 (19.29%) Degree
3 215 (12.96%) SC Cleared
4 154 (9.28%) DV Cleared
5 78 (4.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 57 (3.44%) Microsoft Certification
7 45 (2.71%) Cisco Certification
8 42 (2.53%) MCSE
9 36 (2.17%) Master's Degree
10 31 (1.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 30 (1.81%) CCNA
12 28 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
13 27 (1.63%) CISSP
14 25 (1.51%) APMP
15 22 (1.33%) MCSA
15 22 (1.33%) PMI Certification
16 20 (1.21%) PMP
17 19 (1.15%) CCNP
18 17 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
19 16 (0.96%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (4.58%) QA
1 76 (4.58%) SLA
2 53 (3.19%) GDPR
3 52 (3.13%) Data Quality
4 51 (3.07%) PMO
5 24 (1.45%) NIST
6 23 (1.39%) Actionable Recommendations
7 22 (1.33%) Accessibility
8 18 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 16 (0.96%) Disclosure Scotland
10 9 (0.54%) HIPAA
10 9 (0.54%) NIST 800
11 7 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.42%) GRC
11 7 (0.42%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.36%) GxP
13 5 (0.30%) GAMP
13 5 (0.30%) ISO 9001
14 4 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 4 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 98 (5.91%) Active Directory
2 72 (4.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (2.59%) Docker
4 16 (0.96%) VMware NSX
5 14 (0.84%) vSphere
6 9 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
6 9 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (0.54%) VMware Workstation
7 8 (0.48%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.42%) BitLocker
9 5 (0.30%) Firmware
9 5 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.18%) OpenAM
10 3 (0.18%) OpenIDM
10 3 (0.18%) SRDF
11 2 (0.12%) HDFS
11 2 (0.12%) KVM
12 1 (0.060%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.060%) Snort
12 1 (0.060%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 81 (4.88%) Ansible
2 42 (2.53%) Kubernetes
3 39 (2.35%) Terraform
4 37 (2.23%) SCCM
5 28 (1.69%) Puppet
6 25 (1.51%) NetBackup
7 21 (1.27%) Docker Swarm
8 19 (1.15%) PowerCLI
9 14 (0.84%) Kibana
10 12 (0.72%) Grafana
10 12 (0.72%) Podman
11 11 (0.66%) logstash
11 11 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
11 11 (0.66%) Progress Chef
11 11 (0.66%) Prometheus
12 10 (0.60%) Nagios
13 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Clustering
14 6 (0.36%) vRealize
14 6 (0.36%) vRealize Orchestrator
15 5 (0.30%) Nessus
Vendors
1 333 (20.07%) Microsoft
2 110 (6.63%) SAP
3 93 (5.61%) Oracle
4 86 (5.18%) VMware
5 50 (3.01%) Cisco
6 44 (2.65%) ServiceNow
7 39 (2.35%) Splunk
8 38 (2.29%) Salesforce
9 36 (2.17%) Dell
10 35 (2.11%) Atlassian
10 35 (2.11%) Google
11 34 (2.05%) Alteryx
12 24 (1.45%) Red Hat
13 22 (1.33%) HP
14 17 (1.02%) IBM
14 17 (1.02%) Juniper
14 17 (1.02%) Veritas
15 16 (0.96%) Citrix
16 15 (0.90%) Brocade
17 13 (0.78%) Adobe