Analytics Contracts in England

Analytics
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 35 32
Rank change year-on-year -3 -3 +5
Contract jobs citing Analytics 1,746 2,783 4,476
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 4.72% 5.51% 6.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.46% 6.10% 6.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,195 1,954 3,124
10th Percentile £356 £350 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £683 £688 £670
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 54 58
10th Percentile £14.90 £20.69 £11.90
25th Percentile £25.00 £22.16 £20.93
Median hourly rate £32.94 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.92% -8.57% +31.33%
75th Percentile £50.00 £52.56 £46.09
90th Percentile £74.38 £78.00 £64.95
UK median hourly rate £30.37 £32.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year -5.54% -8.14% +29.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,985 45,619 64,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.25% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,974 32,022 45,804
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,225 1,607 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytics in England

Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Analytics in England

Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytics in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analytics in England

Analytics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytics in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytics in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytics in England

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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 Analytics within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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 -3 1,025 £575 -4.17% 993
South East +4 197 £550 +12.24% 201
North of England -7 161 £500 -6.98% 338
Midlands +5 144 £585 +10.27% 179
West Midlands +10 117 £583 +8.36% 108
North West +2 103 £500 -2.44% 229
South West +25 96 £513 -6.82% 107
Yorkshire -22 53 £500 -7.41% 77
East of England -6 47 £500 -9.09% 96
East Midlands +6 27 £613 +28.95% 71
North East +9 10 £477 -17.04% 35
Analytics
UK

Analytics
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 48 (2.75%) SharePoint
2 46 (2.63%) Apache Spark
3 40 (2.29%) Apache Airflow
4 37 (2.12%) Confluence
5 31 (1.78%) CMS
6 30 (1.72%) Apache
6 30 (1.72%) SAS
7 22 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
8 17 (0.97%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 7 (0.40%) WordPress
10 4 (0.23%) Drupal
10 4 (0.23%) govService
11 3 (0.17%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.11%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.11%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.11%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
13 1 (0.057%) GeoServer
13 1 (0.057%) IBM Notes
13 1 (0.057%) WebLogic
Applications
1 62 (3.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.74%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.34%) SPSS
7 5 (0.29%) Photoshop
7 5 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.23%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.11%) Simulink
10 2 (0.11%) Sketch
11 1 (0.057%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.057%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 42 (2.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.46%) Shopify
5 7 (0.40%) Adobe Campaign
5 7 (0.40%) Endur
6 6 (0.34%) NetSuite
6 6 (0.34%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 6 (0.34%) SAP ERP
6 6 (0.34%) SAP FI-AP
7 5 (0.29%) SAP BPC
8 4 (0.23%) SAP MM
8 4 (0.23%) WebTrends
9 3 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
9 3 (0.17%) MIS ActiveH
9 3 (0.17%) NEC Housing
9 3 (0.17%) OpenLink RightAngle
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 3 (0.17%) SAP SD
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Utilities
Cloud Services
1 430 (24.63%) Azure
2 279 (15.98%) Power Platform
3 238 (13.63%) AWS
4 136 (7.79%) GCP
5 105 (6.01%) Azure Data Factory
6 101 (5.78%) Google Analytics
7 79 (4.52%) Snowflake
8 68 (3.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 54 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
10 52 (2.98%) Azure Monitor
11 49 (2.81%) Serverless
12 40 (2.29%) Adobe Analytics
12 40 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
13 33 (1.89%) dbt
14 27 (1.55%) Entra ID
15 26 (1.49%) SaaS
16 25 (1.43%) Amazon S3
16 25 (1.43%) Azure Storage
17 24 (1.37%) GitHub
18 22 (1.26%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 42 (2.41%) Firewall
2 31 (1.78%) DNS
3 25 (1.43%) DHCP
4 21 (1.20%) Network Security
5 19 (1.09%) Intranet
5 19 (1.09%) WAN
6 17 (0.97%) LAN
7 15 (0.86%) VPN
8 13 (0.74%) Internet
9 11 (0.63%) VoIP
10 10 (0.57%) Intrusion Detection
11 9 (0.52%) MPLS
11 9 (0.52%) PBX
11 9 (0.52%) WLAN
12 8 (0.46%) Cisco ISE
13 5 (0.29%) Cisco ASA
13 5 (0.29%) Cisco Firepower
13 5 (0.29%) SD-WAN
13 5 (0.29%) Wireless
14 4 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 275 (15.75%) Power BI
2 216 (12.37%) Data Warehouse
3 135 (7.73%) Tableau
4 104 (5.96%) Big Data
5 96 (5.50%) Data Lake
6 72 (4.12%) SQL Server
7 49 (2.81%) BigQuery
8 45 (2.58%) Amazon Redshift
9 43 (2.46%) NoSQL
10 39 (2.23%) Azure SQL Database
10 39 (2.23%) Looker
11 35 (2.00%) Metadata
12 34 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
12 34 (1.95%) Relational Database
13 32 (1.83%) KDB
14 28 (1.60%) Amazon Athena
15 26 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 25 (1.43%) MySQL
17 22 (1.26%) Delta Lake
18 21 (1.20%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 65 (3.72%) JIRA
2 58 (3.32%) Git
3 39 (2.23%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.63%) Subversion
5 9 (0.52%) Artifactory
5 9 (0.52%) JMeter
5 9 (0.52%) Postman
5 9 (0.52%) Visual Website Optimizer
6 8 (0.46%) GitLab
6 8 (0.46%) Visual Studio
7 6 (0.34%) ERwin
7 6 (0.34%) MLflow
7 6 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
8 5 (0.29%) Bitbucket
8 5 (0.29%) Maven
9 4 (0.23%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.23%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.23%) kappa
9 4 (0.23%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.23%) TeamCity
General
1 501 (28.69%) Social Skills
2 437 (25.03%) Finance
3 335 (19.19%) Analytical Skills
4 133 (7.62%) Marketing
5 113 (6.47%) Banking
6 110 (6.30%) Public Sector
7 90 (5.15%) Front Office
8 85 (4.87%) Retail
9 60 (3.44%) Presentation Skills
10 58 (3.32%) Legal
11 48 (2.75%) Telecoms
12 46 (2.63%) Investment Banking
13 43 (2.46%) Manufacturing
14 31 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
15 29 (1.66%) Pharmaceutical
16 25 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 21 (1.20%) Advertising
18 15 (0.86%) Local Government
19 14 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
19 14 (0.80%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 306 (17.53%) Analyst
2 256 (14.66%) Developer
3 204 (11.68%) Architect
4 186 (10.65%) Data Engineer
5 178 (10.19%) Senior
6 124 (7.10%) Lead
7 118 (6.76%) Data Analyst
8 91 (5.21%) Data Architect
9 80 (4.58%) Consultant
10 71 (4.07%) Project Manager
11 67 (3.84%) Azure Engineer
12 52 (2.98%) Software Engineer
13 50 (2.86%) Business Analyst
14 46 (2.63%) Solutions Architect
15 43 (2.46%) Analytics Manager
16 42 (2.41%) Azure Data Engineer
17 39 (2.23%) Data Manager
18 38 (2.18%) Product Manager
18 38 (2.18%) Senior Analyst
19 36 (2.06%) Data Analytics Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (3.04%) HTML
1 53 (3.04%) PySpark
2 52 (2.98%) .NET
3 40 (2.29%) React
4 39 (2.23%) CSS
4 39 (2.23%) JSON
5 38 (2.18%) REST
6 33 (1.89%) Pandas
7 32 (1.83%) XML
8 30 (1.72%) Web Services
9 29 (1.66%) Middleware
10 28 (1.60%) Kafka
11 25 (1.43%) ARM Templates
11 25 (1.43%) gRPC
11 25 (1.43%) NumPy
12 22 (1.26%) Protocol Buffers
13 20 (1.15%) .NET Core
14 19 (1.09%) AngularJS
14 19 (1.09%) Node.js
15 18 (1.03%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 83 (4.75%) Product Ownership
2 80 (4.58%) Management Information System
3 62 (3.55%) Fixed Income
4 54 (3.09%) Algorithms
5 53 (3.04%) Data Structures
6 51 (2.92%) Equities
7 49 (2.81%) Derivative
7 49 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
8 47 (2.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 35 (2.00%) Onboarding
10 32 (1.83%) Hedge funds
10 32 (1.83%) Security Operations Centre
11 30 (1.72%) Credit Risk
11 30 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
12 29 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
13 27 (1.55%) Social Media
14 25 (1.43%) CSOC
15 23 (1.32%) Cloud Native
16 20 (1.15%) Data Centre
16 20 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 102 (5.84%) Windows
2 84 (4.81%) Linux
3 39 (2.23%) Unix
4 36 (2.06%) Windows Server
5 19 (1.09%) Windows Server 2016
6 15 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
7 13 (0.74%) Android
8 11 (0.63%) Apple iOS
9 8 (0.46%) Windows 10
10 4 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.11%) VMS
11 2 (0.11%) zOS
12 1 (0.057%) CentOS
12 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 408 (23.37%) Agile
2 391 (22.39%) Business Intelligence
3 371 (21.25%) Data Analytics
4 330 (18.90%) Data Modelling
5 288 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
6 244 (13.97%) ETL
7 194 (11.11%) Visualisation
8 177 (10.14%) Decision-Making
9 176 (10.08%) Data Analysis
10 172 (9.85%) DevOps
11 169 (9.68%) Data Science
12 162 (9.28%) Data Management
13 148 (8.48%) Data Engineering
14 146 (8.36%) Project Management
15 141 (8.08%) Data Pipeline
16 139 (7.96%) Migration
17 135 (7.73%) Actionable Insight
18 132 (7.56%) Roadmaps
19 128 (7.33%) Stakeholder Management
20 127 (7.27%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 483 (27.66%) SQL
2 390 (22.34%) Python
3 122 (6.99%) Java
4 103 (5.90%) JavaScript
5 95 (5.44%) C#
6 63 (3.61%) PowerShell
7 48 (2.75%) Scala
8 45 (2.58%) C++
9 39 (2.23%) R
9 39 (2.23%) TypeScript
10 26 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 25 (1.43%) Bicep
12 22 (1.26%) T-SQL
13 21 (1.20%) Bash
14 16 (0.92%) Shell Script
14 16 (0.92%) VB
14 16 (0.92%) VBScript
15 13 (0.74%) ABAP
16 12 (0.69%) PL/SQL
17 11 (0.63%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 256 (14.66%) Degree
2 225 (12.89%) Security Cleared
3 170 (9.74%) SC Cleared
4 66 (3.78%) DV Cleared
5 61 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 44 (2.52%) Master's Degree
7 26 (1.49%) SANS
8 25 (1.43%) CISSP
8 25 (1.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 21 (1.20%) Azure Certification
10 16 (0.92%) PMI Certification
11 14 (0.80%) Numerate Degree
11 14 (0.80%) PMP
12 13 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
13 11 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
14 9 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
14 9 (0.52%) CCIE
14 9 (0.52%) CCIE Data Center
14 9 (0.52%) CISM
14 9 (0.52%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (9.91%) Data Quality
2 76 (4.35%) QA
3 30 (1.72%) GDPR
4 24 (1.37%) Accessibility
5 20 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
6 16 (0.92%) PMO
7 15 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (0.74%) SLA
9 12 (0.69%) IFRS
9 12 (0.69%) NIST
10 10 (0.57%) GxP
11 8 (0.46%) IFRS 9
12 6 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (0.29%) GAMP
13 5 (0.29%) NCSC
13 5 (0.29%) PCI DSS
14 4 (0.23%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.23%) IFRS 17
15 3 (0.17%) Solvency II
System Software
1 39 (2.23%) Active Directory
2 30 (1.72%) Docker
3 23 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
4 22 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.17%) HDFS
6 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.057%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.057%) NFS
8 1 (0.057%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 60 (3.44%) Terraform
2 57 (3.26%) Kubernetes
3 24 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (1.15%) Ansible
5 19 (1.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 19 (1.09%) SCCM
6 18 (1.03%) SCOM
7 17 (0.97%) Grafana
7 17 (0.97%) WSUS
8 10 (0.57%) ITRS Geneos
9 9 (0.52%) BladeLogic
10 5 (0.29%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.29%) SysTrack
11 4 (0.23%) Trend Micro Deep Security
12 3 (0.17%) Matomo
12 3 (0.17%) Nagios
12 3 (0.17%) Nessus
12 3 (0.17%) Opsgenie
13 2 (0.11%) CASB
13 2 (0.11%) Graylog
Vendors
1 289 (16.55%) Microsoft
2 144 (8.25%) Databricks
3 140 (8.02%) Google
4 111 (6.36%) SAP
5 85 (4.87%) Oracle
6 74 (4.24%) Adobe
7 42 (2.41%) Salesforce
8 40 (2.29%) Splunk
9 33 (1.89%) Informatica
10 30 (1.72%) Alteryx
11 29 (1.66%) ServiceNow
12 23 (1.32%) Optimizely
13 18 (1.03%) Dynatrace
14 17 (0.97%) Cisco
14 17 (0.97%) Talend
15 16 (0.92%) Citrix
16 15 (0.86%) IFS
17 14 (0.80%) Red Hat
18 13 (0.74%) Workday
19 12 (0.69%) OpenAI