Analytics Contracts in England

Analytics
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytics over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 38 35
Rank change year-on-year +11 -3 -3
Contract jobs citing Analytics 1,680 1,764 2,773
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 6.90% 4.74% 5.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.57% 5.48% 6.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,144 1,210 1,948
10th Percentile £346 £356 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £683 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 48 52
10th Percentile £15.60 £14.90 £20.60
25th Percentile £22.56 £25.00 £22.16
Median hourly rate £31.64 £32.94 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% +6.24% -11.43%
75th Percentile £37.50 £50.00 £52.19
90th Percentile £78.58 £74.38 £76.70
UK median hourly rate £31.85 £30.37 £32.00
% change year-on-year +4.86% -5.09% -8.57%

All Process and 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 22,183 32,201 45,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.14% 86.52% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,119 31,974
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £766
UK median daily rate £521 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 923 2,240 1,592
10th Percentile £14.67 £12.91 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.44 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.83 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.27% -4.45% +53.20%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%

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 30 April 2025.

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

Analytics
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytics in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 2025. 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 +10 1,061 £600 +4.35% 2,798
South East +16 169 £482 -12.36% 409
North of England +8 145 £463 -7.50% 512
North West +10 98 £463 -7.50% 346
Midlands -12 88 £500 -14.19% 307
East of England +48 86 £600 +20.00% 142
South West +12 61 £475 -7.32% 186
West Midlands -18 59 £512 -10.89% 185
Yorkshire -1 38 £475 -5.00% 125
East Midlands +10 28 £358 -41.55% 114
North East -1 9 £358 -24.95% 44
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 90 (5.36%) Apache Spark
2 60 (3.57%) Confluence
3 53 (3.15%) Apache Airflow
4 51 (3.04%) Apache
5 37 (2.20%) SAS
6 19 (1.13%) CMS
6 19 (1.13%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (0.48%) Drupal
8 8 (0.48%) WordPress
9 7 (0.42%) WebLogic
10 5 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.30%) JBoss
11 4 (0.24%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
12 2 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
12 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 92 (5.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.95%) Oracle Smart View
5 14 (0.83%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.42%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.36%) Adobe XD
8 6 (0.36%) Sketch
8 6 (0.36%) Trello
9 3 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.12%) Camtasia
10 2 (0.12%) Notepad++
11 1 (0.060%) InVision
11 1 (0.060%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.060%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.060%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 85 (5.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (1.61%) Aladdin
3 12 (0.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 10 (0.60%) SAP BPC
5 8 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.48%) Oracle Assets
5 8 (0.48%) Oracle Cash Management
5 8 (0.48%) Oracle General Ledger
5 8 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
6 6 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
6 6 (0.36%) SAP CO
6 6 (0.36%) SAP FI
6 6 (0.36%) SAP FI/CO
6 6 (0.36%) Workday HCM
7 4 (0.24%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 4 (0.24%) Maximo
7 4 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.24%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 432 (25.71%) Azure
2 305 (18.15%) Power Platform
3 302 (17.98%) AWS
4 135 (8.04%) GCP
5 90 (5.36%) GitHub
6 88 (5.24%) Snowflake
7 80 (4.76%) dbt
8 79 (4.70%) Azure Data Factory
9 77 (4.58%) Azure DevOps
10 60 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 58 (3.45%) SaaS
12 52 (3.10%) Google Analytics
13 45 (2.68%) Serverless
14 43 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
15 41 (2.44%) Amazon S3
16 37 (2.20%) Azure Monitor
16 37 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
17 34 (2.02%) Adobe Analytics
18 33 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
19 26 (1.55%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (2.14%) Firewall
2 34 (2.02%) Network Security
3 26 (1.55%) DNS
3 26 (1.55%) VPN
4 14 (0.83%) WAN
5 12 (0.71%) SSL
6 10 (0.60%) HTTP
6 10 (0.60%) Internet
7 8 (0.48%) BGP
7 8 (0.48%) OSPF
8 7 (0.42%) FTP
8 7 (0.42%) Intrusion Detection
8 7 (0.42%) LAN
8 7 (0.42%) MPLS
8 7 (0.42%) SD-WAN
8 7 (0.42%) SMTP
9 6 (0.36%) IPsec
9 6 (0.36%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.30%) DHCP
11 3 (0.18%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 289 (17.20%) Power BI
2 200 (11.90%) Data Warehouse
3 143 (8.51%) Tableau
4 109 (6.49%) Data Lake
5 101 (6.01%) Big Data
6 56 (3.33%) Hadoop
7 54 (3.21%) Metadata
8 53 (3.15%) Relational Database
9 44 (2.62%) SQL Server
10 40 (2.38%) BigQuery
11 38 (2.26%) Oracle Reports
12 37 (2.20%) Amazon Redshift
13 34 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
14 33 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
15 30 (1.79%) Looker
16 28 (1.67%) NoSQL
17 24 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
17 24 (1.43%) Oracle BI Publisher
18 23 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
19 21 (1.25%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 89 (5.30%) JIRA
2 52 (3.10%) Git
3 37 (2.20%) Jenkins
4 23 (1.37%) ERwin
5 12 (0.71%) Selenium
6 11 (0.65%) SonarQube
7 10 (0.60%) GitLab
8 8 (0.48%) MLflow
9 7 (0.42%) PowerDesigner
9 7 (0.42%) Visual Studio
10 6 (0.36%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.36%) JUnit
10 6 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
10 6 (0.36%) TeamCity
11 5 (0.30%) ER Studio
11 5 (0.30%) Postman
11 5 (0.30%) Terragrunt
12 4 (0.24%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.24%) Gradle
12 4 (0.24%) IntelliJ
General
1 585 (34.82%) Finance
2 573 (34.11%) Social Skills
3 378 (22.50%) Analytical Skills
4 184 (10.95%) Banking
5 153 (9.11%) Marketing
6 131 (7.80%) Front Office
7 120 (7.14%) Public Sector
8 71 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
9 53 (3.15%) Investment Banking
10 52 (3.10%) Retail
11 38 (2.26%) Pharmaceutical
12 37 (2.20%) Legal
13 31 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
13 31 (1.85%) Manufacturing
13 31 (1.85%) Telecoms
14 27 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 24 (1.43%) Financial Institution
16 19 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
17 17 (1.01%) Back Office
18 16 (0.95%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 281 (16.73%) Analyst
2 225 (13.39%) Developer
3 205 (12.20%) Senior
4 201 (11.96%) Data Engineer
5 183 (10.89%) Architect
6 137 (8.15%) Lead
7 110 (6.55%) Business Analyst
8 103 (6.13%) Data Analyst
9 91 (5.42%) Consultant
10 69 (4.11%) Data Architect
11 48 (2.86%) Product Manager
12 47 (2.80%) Project Manager
13 46 (2.74%) Data Manager
14 44 (2.62%) Senior Developer
15 42 (2.50%) Business Manager
15 42 (2.50%) Data Scientist
15 42 (2.50%) Senior Data Engineer
16 41 (2.44%) Azure Engineer
17 38 (2.26%) Solutions Architect
18 37 (2.20%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (5.71%) Kafka
2 56 (3.33%) PySpark
3 47 (2.80%) .NET
4 46 (2.74%) Pandas
5 45 (2.68%) React
6 43 (2.56%) Web Services
7 41 (2.44%) AngularJS
7 41 (2.44%) HTML
8 40 (2.38%) NumPy
9 34 (2.02%) CSS
10 31 (1.85%) Oracle Fusion
11 29 (1.73%) .NET Core
11 29 (1.73%) REST
12 24 (1.43%) ASP.NET
13 23 (1.37%) TensorFlow
14 22 (1.31%) PyTorch
15 21 (1.25%) Jinja
15 21 (1.25%) scikit-learn
15 21 (1.25%) XML
16 20 (1.19%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 81 (4.82%) Product Ownership
2 75 (4.46%) Derivative
2 75 (4.46%) Fixed Income
3 72 (4.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 63 (3.75%) Hedge funds
5 58 (3.45%) Onboarding
6 56 (3.33%) Algorithms
7 48 (2.86%) Equities
8 39 (2.32%) Cloud Native
8 39 (2.32%) Management Information System
8 39 (2.32%) Market Risk
9 36 (2.14%) Data Structures
10 32 (1.90%) Credit Risk
10 32 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
11 31 (1.85%) Life Science
12 27 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
13 26 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
14 25 (1.49%) Social Media
15 21 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
15 21 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 57 (3.39%) Linux
2 46 (2.74%) Windows
3 22 (1.31%) Apple iOS
4 18 (1.07%) Windows Server
5 14 (0.83%) Unix
6 13 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.18%) Android
8 3 (0.18%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.12%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.060%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 431 (25.65%) Agile
2 384 (22.86%) Business Intelligence
3 325 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
4 310 (18.45%) Data Modelling
5 288 (17.14%) Data Analytics
6 267 (15.89%) Decision-Making
7 242 (14.40%) Visualisation
8 225 (13.39%) ETL
9 219 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
10 217 (12.92%) Data Governance
11 208 (12.38%) Machine Learning
12 202 (12.02%) DevOps
13 192 (11.43%) Artificial Intelligence
13 192 (11.43%) Data Science
14 189 (11.25%) CI/CD
15 186 (11.07%) Data Analysis
15 186 (11.07%) Data Pipeline
16 172 (10.24%) Data Engineering
17 171 (10.18%) Migration
18 156 (9.29%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 518 (30.83%) SQL
2 486 (28.93%) Python
3 96 (5.71%) Java
4 85 (5.06%) JavaScript
5 71 (4.23%) R
6 57 (3.39%) C#
7 56 (3.33%) C++
8 44 (2.62%) PowerShell
9 32 (1.90%) Scala
10 28 (1.67%) PL/SQL
10 28 (1.67%) TypeScript
11 23 (1.37%) Bicep
11 23 (1.37%) T-SQL
12 17 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 13 (0.77%) Bash
13 13 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
14 7 (0.42%) MATLAB
14 7 (0.42%) Perl
14 7 (0.42%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 220 (13.10%) Security Cleared
2 217 (12.92%) Degree
3 172 (10.24%) SC Cleared
4 55 (3.27%) Master's Degree
5 40 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (1.67%) Azure Certification
7 26 (1.55%) DV Cleared
8 23 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
9 21 (1.25%) PMI Certification
10 20 (1.19%) PMP
11 18 (1.07%) AWS Certification
12 16 (0.95%) PhD
13 14 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 12 (0.71%) CISSP
15 10 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
16 9 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
17 8 (0.48%) CBAP
17 8 (0.48%) MBA
18 7 (0.42%) CISM
18 7 (0.42%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (11.01%) Data Quality
2 72 (4.29%) QA
3 69 (4.11%) GDPR
4 55 (3.27%) Accessibility
5 23 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (0.95%) NIST
7 15 (0.89%) IFRS
8 13 (0.77%) IFRS 9
8 13 (0.77%) PMO
9 11 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
10 10 (0.60%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 9 (0.54%) WCAG
12 8 (0.48%) Def Stans
13 7 (0.42%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.36%) MiFID
14 6 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 5 (0.30%) SLA
16 4 (0.24%) Basel II
17 3 (0.18%) Basel III
System Software
1 61 (3.63%) Docker
2 32 (1.90%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.30%) vSphere
6 4 (0.24%) Platform Symphony
7 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.12%) BitLocker
8 2 (0.12%) IAG
8 2 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.060%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.060%) Firmware
9 1 (0.060%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.060%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 1 (0.060%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.060%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.060%) OpenIDM
9 1 (0.060%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.060%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.060%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 105 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 103 (6.13%) Terraform
3 26 (1.55%) Ansible
4 24 (1.43%) Grafana
5 22 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (0.77%) Kibana
8 9 (0.54%) Prometheus
9 7 (0.42%) Argo
9 7 (0.42%) SCCM
10 6 (0.36%) logstash
10 6 (0.36%) MOM
10 6 (0.36%) Puppet
11 5 (0.30%) ITRS Geneos
11 5 (0.30%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.30%) QRadar
12 4 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.24%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.24%) Kubeflow
12 4 (0.24%) Salt
Vendors
1 195 (11.61%) Microsoft
2 154 (9.17%) Databricks
3 150 (8.93%) SAP
4 109 (6.49%) Google
5 101 (6.01%) Oracle
6 73 (4.35%) Adobe
7 56 (3.33%) ServiceNow
8 44 (2.62%) Salesforce
9 29 (1.73%) Splunk
10 22 (1.31%) Ariba
10 22 (1.31%) BISAM
11 20 (1.19%) VMware
11 20 (1.19%) Workday
12 16 (0.95%) Sparx
13 15 (0.89%) IBM
14 14 (0.83%) Alteryx
15 12 (0.71%) Informatica
16 11 (0.65%) Talend
17 9 (0.54%) Foundry
17 9 (0.54%) Palantir