Analytics Contract Job Trends in Dorset

Analytics
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring Analytics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 20 25
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 +3
Contract jobs citing Analytics 9 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 4.69% 2.30% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.32% 2.44% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 2
10th Percentile - - £380
25th Percentile £350 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £595 £525
Median % change year-on-year -34.87% +13.33% -
75th Percentile £825 - £650
90th Percentile - - £710
South West median daily rate £500 £475 £531
% change year-on-year +5.26% -10.59% +1.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £25.00 -
South West median hourly rate £28.50 £78.70 £25.00
% change year-on-year -63.79% +214.80% -67.95%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Dorset

Analytics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 123 82 142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 64.06% 94.25% 84.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 57 92
10th Percentile £350 £194 £175
25th Percentile £381 £313 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £413
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +15.15% -19.51%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £630
90th Percentile £688 £675 £767
South West median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 10 34
10th Percentile £21.00 £14.49 £11.87
25th Percentile £22.00 £15.18 £13.69
Median hourly rate £63.14 £16.88 £15.22
Median % change year-on-year +274.13% +10.91% -72.97%
75th Percentile £72.54 £56.88 £56.49
90th Percentile £74.68 £67.50 £61.87
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £36.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +59.72% -34.55% -6.22%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Analytics relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset.

Analytics job vacancy trend in Dorset

Analytics
Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Analytics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Analytics

Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in Dorset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytics in Dorset over the 6 months to 26 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Analytics in Dorset

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Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Analytics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Analytics

Analytics
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analytics within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 26 May 2026. 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
Bournemouth -7 6 £350 -41.18% 4
Analytics
South West

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (66.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
2 6 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
2 6 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 6 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (66.67%) Datadog
2 6 (66.67%) Serverless
3 3 (33.33%) Azure
3 3 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) Flink
1 6 (66.67%) Relational Database
2 5 (55.56%) NoSQL
3 3 (33.33%) Power BI
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Developer
1 6 (66.67%) Java Developer
2 5 (55.56%) Backend Developer
3 3 (33.33%) Architect
3 3 (33.33%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) Kafka
1 6 (66.67%) RESTful
1 6 (66.67%) Spring
1 6 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 5 (55.56%) Java Concurrency
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 6 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 6 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 6 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 6 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 6 (66.67%) DevOps
2 6 (66.67%) Microservices
2 6 (66.67%) Observability
3 5 (55.56%) Concurrent Programming
3 5 (55.56%) Multithreading
4 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (33.33%) Data Architecture
4 3 (33.33%) Data Governance
4 3 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
4 3 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
4 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Java
1 6 (66.67%) Python
1 6 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 6 (66.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Databricks