Analytics Contract Job Trends in England

Analytics
UK > England

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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 35
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,489 1,773 1,764
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.64% 6.44% 5.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.00% 7.09% 6.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,300 1,170 1,247
10th Percentile £363 £350 £354
25th Percentile £433 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% -2.61%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £688
90th Percentile £750 £791 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 49 21
10th Percentile £20.82 £16.26 £21.25
25th Percentile £28.06 £26.80 £27.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £34.50 £30.37
Median % change year-on-year +52.17% +13.60% -13.23%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.16 £38.75
90th Percentile £87.08 £79.00 £60.06
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £34.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +44.93% +15.00% -14.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 38,747 25,016 28,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.82% 90.80% 85.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,944 15,923 18,325
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,477 1,517
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.23 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.80 £17.87 £18.13
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £69.79 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.06 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +63.26% -37.90% -4.71%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Analytics job vacancy trend in England

Analytics
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Analytics

Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Analytics in England

Analytics
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Analytics

Analytics
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytics in England over the 6 months to 26 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytics in England

Analytics
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 26 August 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
London +2 1,924 £550 - 2,923
North of England +9 450 £492 +7.54% 536
Midlands +6 404 £500 -2.91% 224
South East +12 353 £513 -0.49% 332
West Midlands +3 323 £493 -5.01% 146
North West +4 233 £525 +10.53% 335
Yorkshire +14 175 £463 +2.72% 142
South West +11 164 £500 +7.53% 310
East of England -6 109 £575 - 125
East Midlands +5 74 £525 +27.27% 78
North East -6 50 £450 +18.03% 62
Analytics
UK

Analytics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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
1 158 (4.53%) Apache Airflow
2 132 (3.78%) Apache Spark
3 111 (3.18%) SAS
4 97 (2.78%) Apache
5 74 (2.12%) Confluence
6 53 (1.52%) SharePoint
7 49 (1.40%) CMS
8 30 (0.86%) Palantir Foundry
9 29 (0.83%) Jupyter
10 26 (0.75%) Oracle Application Server
11 20 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 15 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
13 10 (0.29%) Apache Superset
13 10 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
14 8 (0.23%) Drupal
14 8 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
15 6 (0.17%) WordPress
16 5 (0.14%) IIS
17 2 (0.057%) ArcGIS
17 2 (0.057%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 155 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
4 20 (0.57%) Chatbot
5 17 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (0.40%) CPLEX
7 11 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
7 11 (0.32%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.11%) Trello
9 3 (0.086%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.086%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.057%) InDesign
10 2 (0.057%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.057%) Sketch
11 1 (0.029%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.029%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.029%) Notion
11 1 (0.029%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.029%) PlantUML
11 1 (0.029%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 69 (1.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
4 15 (0.43%) Workday HCM
5 13 (0.37%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 12 (0.34%) Aladdin
7 10 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
8 9 (0.26%) Shopify
9 8 (0.23%) SAP ERP
10 7 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
10 7 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 6 (0.17%) NetSuite
11 6 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
11 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
11 6 (0.17%) SAP CO
11 6 (0.17%) SAP FI
11 6 (0.17%) SAP GRC
12 5 (0.14%) BambooHR
12 5 (0.14%) Infor LN
12 5 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,039 (29.78%) Azure
2 702 (20.12%) Power Platform
3 612 (17.54%) AWS
4 300 (8.60%) GCP
5 238 (6.82%) Snowflake
6 236 (6.76%) Azure DevOps
7 229 (6.56%) Azure Data Factory
8 185 (5.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 185 (5.30%) dbt
9 157 (4.50%) GitHub
10 141 (4.04%) Serverless
11 134 (3.84%) Azure Monitor
12 123 (3.53%) Amazon S3
13 113 (3.24%) Entra ID
14 105 (3.01%) SaaS
15 94 (2.69%) AWS Lambda
16 87 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
17 81 (2.32%) GitHub Actions
18 62 (1.78%) Google Analytics
19 56 (1.61%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.78%) Firewall
2 54 (1.55%) Network Security
3 39 (1.12%) DNS
4 35 (1.00%) VPN
5 26 (0.75%) WAN
6 23 (0.66%) SD-WAN
6 23 (0.66%) TCP/IP
7 19 (0.54%) BGP
8 16 (0.46%) DHCP
9 11 (0.32%) Broadband
10 10 (0.29%) OSPF
10 10 (0.29%) Wireless
11 9 (0.26%) SMS
12 8 (0.23%) LAN
13 7 (0.20%) HTTP
13 7 (0.20%) Internet
13 7 (0.20%) WLAN
14 6 (0.17%) SSH
14 6 (0.17%) VLAN
14 6 (0.17%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 669 (19.17%) Power BI
2 446 (12.78%) Data Warehouse
3 258 (7.39%) Data Lake
4 227 (6.51%) Tableau
5 225 (6.45%) Metadata
6 139 (3.98%) BigQuery
7 92 (2.64%) SQL Server
8 91 (2.61%) Amazon Redshift
9 90 (2.58%) Big Data
9 90 (2.58%) Delta Lake
10 85 (2.44%) Relational Database
11 73 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
12 71 (2.03%) Looker
13 63 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
13 63 (1.81%) Snowflake Schema
14 62 (1.78%) Amazon Athena
14 62 (1.78%) NoSQL
15 60 (1.72%) Semantic Layer
16 53 (1.52%) Star Schema
17 50 (1.43%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 182 (5.22%) Git
2 163 (4.67%) JIRA
3 61 (1.75%) Jenkins
4 46 (1.32%) GitLab
5 15 (0.43%) ERwin
6 10 (0.29%) fastlane
6 10 (0.29%) MLflow
7 8 (0.23%) ER Studio
7 8 (0.23%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.20%) Gradle
8 7 (0.20%) Selenium
8 7 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (0.17%) Android Studio
9 6 (0.17%) Crashlytics
9 6 (0.17%) JUnit
9 6 (0.17%) RStudio
10 5 (0.14%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
10 5 (0.14%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.14%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 905 (25.94%) Social Skills
2 880 (25.22%) Finance
3 632 (18.11%) Analytical Skills
4 418 (11.98%) Public Sector
5 257 (7.37%) Banking
6 220 (6.31%) Marketing
7 170 (4.87%) Retail
8 96 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
9 94 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 76 (2.18%) Legal
11 67 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
12 65 (1.86%) Manufacturing
13 62 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
14 60 (1.72%) Front Office
15 55 (1.58%) Investment Banking
16 46 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
16 46 (1.32%) Telecoms
17 42 (1.20%) Financial Institution
18 41 (1.18%) Publishing
19 36 (1.03%) Military
Job Titles
1 592 (16.97%) Data Engineer
2 452 (12.96%) Architect
3 439 (12.58%) Analyst
4 437 (12.53%) Senior
5 325 (9.31%) Developer
6 296 (8.48%) Lead
7 203 (5.82%) Data Architect
8 167 (4.79%) Data Analyst
9 164 (4.70%) Consultant
10 126 (3.61%) Solutions Architect
11 109 (3.12%) Senior Data Engineer
12 106 (3.04%) Business Analyst
13 104 (2.98%) Data Scientist
14 103 (2.95%) Azure Engineer
15 76 (2.18%) Data Manager
16 66 (1.89%) Product Manager
17 61 (1.75%) Python Developer
17 61 (1.75%) Senior Manager
18 60 (1.72%) Project Manager
19 56 (1.61%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 257 (7.37%) Terraform
2 210 (6.02%) PySpark
3 135 (3.87%) REST
4 113 (3.24%) Kafka
5 64 (1.83%) Pandas
6 54 (1.55%) RESTful
7 51 (1.46%) React
8 49 (1.40%) HTML
9 47 (1.35%) .NET
10 45 (1.29%) CSS
11 44 (1.26%) JSON
12 41 (1.18%) ARM Templates
12 41 (1.18%) OAuth
13 38 (1.09%) NumPy
14 34 (0.97%) SOAP
15 33 (0.95%) OpenID
15 33 (0.95%) Web Services
16 32 (0.92%) OAuth2
17 30 (0.86%) Microsoft Graph
18 29 (0.83%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 233 (6.68%) Cloud Native
2 185 (5.30%) Product Ownership
3 134 (3.84%) Data Structures
4 127 (3.64%) Onboarding
5 114 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
6 73 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
7 63 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
8 60 (1.72%) Management Information System
9 57 (1.63%) AI Agents
10 46 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
11 45 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
12 43 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
13 42 (1.20%) Algorithms
14 41 (1.18%) NHS
15 40 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
16 39 (1.12%) Marketing Technology
17 38 (1.09%) Virtual Team
18 34 (0.97%) Mobile App
19 33 (0.95%) Derivative
20 31 (0.89%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 87 (2.49%) Linux
2 81 (2.32%) Windows
3 37 (1.06%) Unix
4 32 (0.92%) Windows Server
5 16 (0.46%) Apple iOS
6 13 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.32%) Mac OS
8 10 (0.29%) Android
9 9 (0.26%) VMS
10 5 (0.14%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.086%) Solaris
11 3 (0.086%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.057%) AIX
12 2 (0.057%) CentOS
12 2 (0.057%) HPUX
13 1 (0.029%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 910 (26.08%) Data Modelling
2 888 (25.45%) Business Intelligence
3 859 (24.62%) AI
4 796 (22.81%) Agile
5 711 (20.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 700 (20.06%) Data Pipeline
7 675 (19.35%) Data Engineering
8 653 (18.72%) CI/CD
9 625 (17.91%) Decision-Making
10 561 (16.08%) ETL
11 549 (15.74%) Data Governance
12 528 (15.13%) DevOps
13 505 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
14 450 (12.90%) Migration
15 431 (12.35%) Continuous Improvement
16 423 (12.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 410 (11.75%) Machine Learning
18 402 (11.52%) Validation
19 393 (11.26%) Data Science
19 393 (11.26%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,108 (31.76%) SQL
2 970 (27.80%) Python
3 161 (4.61%) PowerShell
4 107 (3.07%) Java
5 98 (2.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 85 (2.44%) Bicep
7 83 (2.38%) C#
8 75 (2.15%) JavaScript
9 62 (1.78%) R
10 55 (1.58%) Bash
11 36 (1.03%) Scala
12 35 (1.00%) Kusto Query Language
12 35 (1.00%) Shell Script
12 35 (1.00%) TypeScript
13 29 (0.83%) T-SQL
14 22 (0.63%) PL/SQL
15 19 (0.54%) C++
16 15 (0.43%) VBA
17 12 (0.34%) Kotlin
18 10 (0.29%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 624 (17.88%) Security Cleared
2 493 (14.13%) SC Cleared
3 278 (7.97%) Degree
4 83 (2.38%) Azure Certification
5 77 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
6 76 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 74 (2.12%) DV Cleared
8 52 (1.49%) Master's Degree
9 46 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
10 39 (1.12%) CISSP
11 28 (0.80%) AWS Certification
11 28 (0.80%) PMI Certification
12 26 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
13 22 (0.63%) DBS Check
13 22 (0.63%) PMP
14 14 (0.40%) CCNP
15 13 (0.37%) CCIE
16 12 (0.34%) CISA
17 11 (0.32%) MBA
17 11 (0.32%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 683 (19.58%) Data Quality
2 165 (4.73%) GDPR
3 137 (3.93%) QA
4 133 (3.81%) Accessibility
5 52 (1.49%) GRC
6 45 (1.29%) WCAG
7 38 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 32 (0.92%) NIST
9 29 (0.83%) PMO
10 27 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
11 20 (0.57%) SLA
12 15 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 14 (0.40%) PCI DSS
14 12 (0.34%) PERC
14 12 (0.34%) Solvency II
15 10 (0.29%) IFRS
15 10 (0.29%) NCSC
16 7 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
17 6 (0.17%) PSD2
18 5 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 149 (4.27%) Docker
2 92 (2.64%) Active Directory
3 27 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.23%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.20%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.086%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 2 (0.057%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.057%) vSphere
9 2 (0.057%) XenApp
9 2 (0.057%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.029%) iptables
10 1 (0.029%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.029%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 161 (4.61%) Kubernetes
2 49 (1.40%) Ansible
3 36 (1.03%) Grafana
4 24 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
5 23 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (0.40%) Prometheus
7 13 (0.37%) SCCM
8 8 (0.23%) Control-M
8 8 (0.23%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.20%) SCOM
10 6 (0.17%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.11%) Podman
11 4 (0.11%) QRadar
11 4 (0.11%) SysTrack
12 3 (0.086%) Apache Ranger
12 3 (0.086%) CASB
12 3 (0.086%) Kibana
12 3 (0.086%) NetBackup
12 3 (0.086%) Thomson Reuters DACS
13 2 (0.057%) MOM
Vendors
1 634 (18.17%) Microsoft
2 455 (13.04%) Databricks
3 208 (5.96%) Oracle
4 188 (5.39%) SAP
5 179 (5.13%) Google
6 84 (2.41%) ServiceNow
7 79 (2.26%) Adobe
7 79 (2.26%) Salesforce
8 54 (1.55%) Workday
9 46 (1.32%) Splunk
10 45 (1.29%) Foundry
11 42 (1.20%) Informatica
12 39 (1.12%) Dynatrace
13 37 (1.06%) Palantir
14 35 (1.00%) Talend
15 34 (0.97%) Cisco
16 33 (0.95%) Denodo
17 28 (0.80%) VMware
18 26 (0.75%) OpenAI
19 22 (0.63%) Alteryx