Analytical Skills Contracts

Analytical Skills
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 25 28
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 +5
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,397 4,172 5,744
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 7.98% 7.33% 6.56%
As % of the General category 13.76% 12.52% 11.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,190 2,734 3,695
10th Percentile £308 £308 £313
25th Percentile £413 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £498 £465
% change year-on-year +0.50% +6.99% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 120 168
10th Percentile £11.75 £21.00 £12.68
25th Percentile £13.10 £22.16 £18.59
Median hourly rate £18.00 £40.25 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -55.28% +1.90% +74.05%
75th Percentile £27.57 £58.63 £52.86
90th Percentile £48.38 £72.55 £64.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.50 £49.57 £32.40
% change year-on-year -66.71% +52.99% +72.80%

All General Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 24,687 33,324 49,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 57.98% 58.52% 56.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,577 23,107 34,304
10th Percentile £275 £313 £320
25th Percentile £413 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -0.80% +5.26% +8.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,927 1,007 1,407
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.41 £17.74 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +44.44% -
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £66.45 £72.50 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £29.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -3.45% +52.63% -2.56%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Top 18 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 18 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 +5 2,879 £532 -0.14% 4,058
UK excluding London +2 1,574 £500 +0.50% 2,726
London +3 1,440 £550 -4.35% 1,561
Work from Home +4 1,117 £500 -4.76% 1,472
South East -1 414 £534 -2.85% 718
North of England +3 335 £500 +5.26% 744
South West +20 254 £525 - 327
Midlands +1 231 £525 +10.53% 517
Scotland +1 204 £475 -0.78% 128
West Midlands 0 174 £532 +11.89% 311
North West -1 168 £475 +6.74% 388
Yorkshire +13 143 £503 -4.29% 270
East of England -1 104 £500 +33.33% 282
East Midlands +1 52 £450 +2.86% 207
Wales +10 33 £525 +40.00% 69
North East +18 22 £590 +45.23% 92
Northern Ireland -5 10 £513 +20.59% 28
Isle of Man - 2 £388 - 4

Analytical Skills
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
1 148 (4.36%) Confluence
2 93 (2.74%) SharePoint
3 63 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 53 (1.56%) Apache Spark
5 32 (0.94%) Apache
6 19 (0.56%) SAS
7 17 (0.50%) CMS
8 14 (0.41%) Tomcat
9 9 (0.26%) nginx
10 8 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
10 8 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2013
10 8 (0.24%) WebSphere
11 7 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2010
11 7 (0.21%) IIS
11 7 (0.21%) JBoss
12 6 (0.18%) ArcGIS
13 5 (0.15%) Appian
13 5 (0.15%) CICS
14 4 (0.12%) Drupal
14 4 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 318 (9.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 200 (5.89%) Microsoft Office
3 99 (2.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 65 (1.91%) MS Visio
5 61 (1.80%) Microsoft Project
6 51 (1.50%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.32%) SPSS
8 10 (0.29%) Sketch
9 8 (0.24%) Acrobat
10 6 (0.18%) Adobe XD
11 5 (0.15%) AutoCAD
11 5 (0.15%) InVision
12 4 (0.12%) Revit
13 3 (0.088%) MicroStation
13 3 (0.088%) Windchill
14 2 (0.059%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 2 (0.059%) Chatbot
14 2 (0.059%) Mingle
15 1 (0.029%) Autodesk Inventor
15 1 (0.029%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 65 (1.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 31 (0.91%) Oracle EBS
3 28 (0.82%) Dynamics AX
4 25 (0.74%) Endur
5 23 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
6 22 (0.65%) Oracle EBS R12
7 18 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
8 17 (0.50%) Maximo
9 16 (0.47%) Oracle General Ledger
9 16 (0.47%) SAP CO
9 16 (0.47%) SAP FI
9 16 (0.47%) SAP FI/CO
10 15 (0.44%) Oracle Assets
10 15 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 15 (0.44%) SAP SD
11 14 (0.41%) SAP HCM
12 13 (0.38%) Aligne
12 13 (0.38%) Oracle AGIS
12 13 (0.38%) Teamcenter
13 12 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 508 (14.95%) Azure
2 357 (10.51%) Power Platform
3 284 (8.36%) AWS
4 146 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
5 120 (3.53%) GCP
6 116 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
7 80 (2.36%) Dynamics 365
8 71 (2.09%) PowerApps
9 65 (1.91%) Power Automate
10 58 (1.71%) Azure Data Factory
10 58 (1.71%) GitHub
11 55 (1.62%) Snowflake
12 51 (1.50%) Serverless
13 40 (1.18%) Entra ID
14 39 (1.15%) SaaS
15 36 (1.06%) OCI
16 35 (1.03%) Cloud Computing
17 28 (0.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 27 (0.79%) Azure Functions
19 24 (0.71%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 100 (2.94%) Firewall
2 86 (2.53%) Network Security
3 78 (2.30%) DNS
4 72 (2.12%) VPN
5 51 (1.50%) WAN
6 49 (1.44%) LAN
7 45 (1.32%) DHCP
8 41 (1.21%) TCP/IP
9 36 (1.06%) Wireless
10 30 (0.88%) Intrusion Detection
11 29 (0.85%) BGP
11 29 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
12 27 (0.79%) MPLS
13 26 (0.77%) VLAN
14 25 (0.74%) OSPF
15 23 (0.68%) HTTP
16 22 (0.65%) Cisco Nexus
16 22 (0.65%) Internet
16 22 (0.65%) SAN
17 18 (0.53%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 341 (10.04%) Power BI
2 169 (4.97%) Tableau
3 152 (4.47%) SQL Server
4 100 (2.94%) Big Data
4 100 (2.94%) Relational Database
5 96 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
6 80 (2.36%) Data Lake
7 64 (1.88%) NoSQL
8 46 (1.35%) Hadoop
9 44 (1.30%) Metadata
10 42 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
11 36 (1.06%) MongoDB
12 35 (1.03%) Oracle Reports
13 34 (1.00%) Data Mining
13 34 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 28 (0.82%) RDBMS
15 27 (0.79%) Oracle Database
16 26 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 21 (0.62%) BigQuery
17 21 (0.62%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 308 (9.07%) JIRA
2 124 (3.65%) Git
3 94 (2.77%) Jenkins
4 63 (1.85%) GitLab
5 60 (1.77%) Selenium
6 41 (1.21%) Cucumber
7 31 (0.91%) Bitbucket
7 31 (0.91%) TeamCity
8 30 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 25 (0.74%) REST Assured
10 24 (0.71%) SonarQube
11 23 (0.68%) Cypress.io
12 19 (0.56%) webpack
13 15 (0.44%) JUnit
13 15 (0.44%) Maven
13 15 (0.44%) Postman
14 13 (0.38%) Appium
14 13 (0.38%) Oracle APEX
14 13 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
14 13 (0.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,882 (55.40%) Social Skills
2 964 (28.38%) Finance
3 308 (9.07%) Public Sector
4 241 (7.09%) Banking
5 190 (5.59%) Presentation Skills
6 144 (4.24%) Marketing
7 141 (4.15%) Legal
8 134 (3.94%) Organisational Skills
9 122 (3.59%) Retail
10 98 (2.88%) Manufacturing
11 95 (2.80%) Front Office
12 91 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
13 88 (2.59%) Telecoms
14 60 (1.77%) Investment Banking
15 50 (1.47%) Law
16 47 (1.38%) General Ledger
17 43 (1.27%) Military
18 41 (1.21%) Financial Institution
18 41 (1.21%) Local Government
19 38 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 781 (22.99%) Analyst
2 401 (11.80%) Developer
3 266 (7.83%) Architect
4 259 (7.62%) Senior
5 245 (7.21%) Consultant
6 236 (6.95%) Business Analyst
7 213 (6.27%) Lead
8 171 (5.03%) Data Analyst
9 138 (4.06%) Project Manager
10 106 (3.12%) Solutions Architect
11 102 (3.00%) Data Engineer
12 79 (2.33%) Senior Analyst
13 64 (1.88%) IT Engineer
14 63 (1.85%) Full Stack Developer
15 61 (1.80%) Network Engineer
16 54 (1.59%) Support Engineer
17 53 (1.56%) Administrator
17 53 (1.56%) Service Analyst
18 52 (1.53%) Java Developer
19 50 (1.47%) Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (3.06%) React
2 98 (2.88%) .NET
3 97 (2.86%) REST
4 94 (2.77%) HTML
5 89 (2.62%) CSS
6 64 (1.88%) XML
7 62 (1.83%) AngularJS
8 56 (1.65%) Kafka
9 50 (1.47%) Web Services
10 45 (1.32%) JSON
10 45 (1.32%) RESTful
11 41 (1.21%) Middleware
12 36 (1.06%) .NET Core
13 35 (1.03%) Node.js
14 32 (0.94%) PySpark
15 28 (0.82%) Spring
16 26 (0.77%) SOAP
17 25 (0.74%) Java EE
17 25 (0.74%) WebSockets
18 23 (0.68%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 263 (7.74%) Management Information System
2 178 (5.24%) Analytical Mindset
3 140 (4.12%) Self-Motivation
4 133 (3.92%) Product Ownership
5 94 (2.77%) Data Structures
6 74 (2.18%) Algorithms
7 57 (1.68%) Data Centre
8 47 (1.38%) Derivative
9 46 (1.35%) Cyber Defence
9 46 (1.35%) Onboarding
10 41 (1.21%) Cyber Threat
11 36 (1.06%) Fixed Income
12 34 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 33 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
14 31 (0.91%) Credit Risk
14 31 (0.91%) Renewable Energy
14 31 (0.91%) Virtual Team
15 28 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
15 28 (0.82%) PKI
15 28 (0.82%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 308 (9.07%) Windows
2 214 (6.30%) Linux
3 126 (3.71%) Unix
4 95 (2.80%) Windows Server
5 45 (1.32%) Windows 10
6 36 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 36 (1.06%) Windows 7
7 34 (1.00%) Apple iOS
7 34 (1.00%) Windows Server 2012
8 29 (0.85%) Android
9 18 (0.53%) Mac OS
10 9 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
12 7 (0.21%) AIX
12 7 (0.21%) Kali Linux
12 7 (0.21%) zOS
13 6 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.15%) Solaris
15 2 (0.059%) CentOS
15 2 (0.059%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,916 (56.40%) Problem-Solving
2 853 (25.11%) Agile
3 512 (15.07%) Project Management
4 432 (12.72%) Business Intelligence
5 411 (12.10%) Analytics
6 341 (10.04%) Decision-Making
7 335 (9.86%) Computer Science
8 331 (9.74%) DevOps
9 326 (9.60%) Continuous Improvement
10 325 (9.57%) Stakeholder Management
11 273 (8.04%) Data Modelling
12 256 (7.54%) Data Analysis
13 227 (6.68%) Migration
14 222 (6.54%) Visualisation
15 210 (6.18%) Change Management
16 208 (6.12%) Cybersecurity
17 206 (6.06%) Customer Service
18 201 (5.92%) Roadmaps
19 197 (5.80%) ITIL
20 191 (5.62%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 581 (17.10%) SQL
2 434 (12.78%) Python
3 242 (7.12%) Java
4 152 (4.47%) JavaScript
5 147 (4.33%) PowerShell
6 134 (3.94%) C#
7 65 (1.91%) TypeScript
8 57 (1.68%) PL/SQL
9 56 (1.65%) R
10 53 (1.56%) Scala
11 48 (1.41%) Shell Script
12 38 (1.12%) C++
12 38 (1.12%) T-SQL
13 36 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 30 (0.88%) Perl
15 24 (0.71%) Bash
16 21 (0.62%) Go
17 20 (0.59%) C
18 17 (0.50%) VBA
18 17 (0.50%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 731 (21.52%) Degree
2 562 (16.54%) Security Cleared
3 362 (10.66%) SC Cleared
4 236 (6.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 184 (5.42%) DV Cleared
6 126 (3.71%) Master's Degree
7 82 (2.41%) CISSP
8 78 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
9 71 (2.09%) Cisco Certification
10 52 (1.53%) PMP
11 51 (1.50%) PMI Certification
12 49 (1.44%) CISM
12 49 (1.44%) MCSE
13 44 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
14 42 (1.24%) CCNA
15 35 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
16 34 (1.00%) CCNP
17 32 (0.94%) Azure Certification
18 30 (0.88%) APMP
19 28 (0.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (5.36%) Data Quality
1 182 (5.36%) QA
2 113 (3.33%) SLA
3 96 (2.83%) GDPR
4 87 (2.56%) PMO
5 52 (1.53%) NIST
6 47 (1.38%) Accessibility
7 35 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
8 33 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 22 (0.65%) PCI DSS
10 17 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
11 14 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 14 (0.41%) HIPAA
11 14 (0.41%) NIST 800
12 13 (0.38%) EMIR
13 12 (0.35%) GAAP
14 11 (0.32%) GRC
14 11 (0.32%) ISO 20022
15 10 (0.29%) MiFID
16 9 (0.26%) GxP
System Software
1 145 (4.27%) Active Directory
2 87 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 65 (1.91%) Docker
4 17 (0.50%) VMware NSX
5 13 (0.38%) vSphere
6 12 (0.35%) Firmware
6 12 (0.35%) Hyper-V
7 10 (0.29%) HDFS
7 10 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
8 9 (0.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 9 (0.26%) VMware Workstation
9 8 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
11 5 (0.15%) Snort
12 4 (0.12%) KVM
12 4 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
13 3 (0.088%) BitLocker
13 3 (0.088%) OpenAM
13 3 (0.088%) OpenIDM
13 3 (0.088%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 99 (2.91%) Ansible
2 92 (2.71%) Kubernetes
3 61 (1.80%) Terraform
4 54 (1.59%) SCCM
5 33 (0.97%) Puppet
6 28 (0.82%) NetBackup
7 26 (0.77%) Grafana
8 25 (0.74%) Prometheus
9 24 (0.71%) Kibana
9 24 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
10 21 (0.62%) Docker Swarm
11 20 (0.59%) PowerCLI
12 18 (0.53%) logstash
13 14 (0.41%) Podman
13 14 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
14 12 (0.35%) Progress Chef
15 11 (0.32%) Nagios
16 10 (0.29%) Microsoft Clustering
17 9 (0.26%) Consul
18 8 (0.24%) WSUS
Vendors
1 683 (20.11%) Microsoft
2 277 (8.15%) Oracle
3 219 (6.45%) SAP
4 108 (3.18%) VMware
5 84 (2.47%) Google
6 81 (2.38%) Cisco
7 69 (2.03%) ServiceNow
8 61 (1.80%) Salesforce
9 56 (1.65%) Databricks
10 49 (1.44%) Splunk
11 45 (1.32%) Alteryx
12 42 (1.24%) IBM
13 37 (1.09%) Atlassian
13 37 (1.09%) Dell
14 30 (0.88%) Adobe
14 30 (0.88%) HP
15 28 (0.82%) Red Hat
16 27 (0.79%) F5
17 26 (0.77%) Citrix
18 24 (0.71%) Juniper