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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 34
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,525 1,821 1,780
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.73% 6.58% 5.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.09% 7.25% 6.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,356 1,205 1,274
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £431 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £660 £688
90th Percentile £750 £803 £796
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 49 25
10th Percentile £20.60 £15.28 £21.44
25th Percentile £28.31 £25.00 £27.00
Median hourly rate £52.75 £34.50 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.90% +11.29% -4.05%
75th Percentile £76.88 £70.16 £43.75
90th Percentile £87.44 £80.20 £69.78
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £34.50 £30.19
% change year-on-year +52.17% +14.30% -6.58%

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 38,794 25,132 28,630
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.10% 90.79% 85.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,129 16,058 18,629
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,535 1,418 1,653
10th Percentile £14.56 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £41.08
% change year-on-year +68.99% -38.77% -1.96%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 1,930 £550 -2.44% 4,454
North of England +14 440 £492 +9.27% 719
Midlands +7 424 £493 -4.37% 326
South East +8 357 £500 -2.68% 729
West Midlands +3 341 £492 -5.70% 201
North West 0 220 £525 +10.53% 435
South West +18 181 £500 +6.38% 309
Yorkshire +6 178 £463 +2.72% 205
East of England -11 105 £565 -2.59% 188
East Midlands +10 76 £525 +27.27% 125
North East -3 52 £450 +9.09% 83
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
1 163 (4.62%) Apache Airflow
2 148 (4.20%) Apache Spark
3 127 (3.60%) SAS
4 99 (2.81%) Apache
5 74 (2.10%) Confluence
6 48 (1.36%) SharePoint
7 47 (1.33%) CMS
8 31 (0.88%) Jupyter
9 30 (0.85%) Palantir Foundry
10 26 (0.74%) Oracle Application Server
11 20 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 11 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
13 9 (0.26%) Apache Superset
13 9 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
14 8 (0.23%) Drupal
14 8 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
15 7 (0.20%) WordPress
16 6 (0.17%) IIS
17 2 (0.057%) ArcGIS
17 2 (0.057%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 159 (4.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (0.60%) Chatbot
5 18 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
6 15 (0.43%) CPLEX
7 11 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
7 11 (0.31%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
8 4 (0.11%) Trello
9 3 (0.085%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.085%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.057%) InDesign
10 2 (0.057%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.057%) Sketch
11 1 (0.028%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.028%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.028%) Notion
11 1 (0.028%) PlantUML
11 1 (0.028%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 64 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
4 13 (0.37%) Workday HCM
5 12 (0.34%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 10 (0.28%) Aladdin
6 10 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
7 9 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
7 9 (0.26%) Shopify
8 8 (0.23%) SAP ERP
9 7 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
10 6 (0.17%) NetSuite
10 6 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
10 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.17%) SAP GRC
10 6 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 5 (0.14%) BambooHR
11 5 (0.14%) Infor LN
11 5 (0.14%) Sage X3
11 5 (0.14%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 1,029 (29.19%) Azure
2 719 (20.40%) Power Platform
3 622 (17.65%) AWS
4 304 (8.62%) GCP
5 239 (6.78%) Azure DevOps
5 239 (6.78%) Snowflake
6 225 (6.38%) Azure Data Factory
7 189 (5.36%) dbt
8 186 (5.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 163 (4.62%) GitHub
10 137 (3.89%) Serverless
11 135 (3.83%) Azure Monitor
12 130 (3.69%) Amazon S3
13 112 (3.18%) Entra ID
14 97 (2.75%) SaaS
15 93 (2.64%) AWS Lambda
16 91 (2.58%) GitHub Actions
17 81 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
18 61 (1.73%) Google Analytics
19 54 (1.53%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 59 (1.67%) Firewall
2 48 (1.36%) Network Security
3 35 (0.99%) DNS
4 34 (0.96%) VPN
5 26 (0.74%) WAN
6 23 (0.65%) SD-WAN
7 20 (0.57%) BGP
7 20 (0.57%) TCP/IP
8 13 (0.37%) DHCP
9 11 (0.31%) OSPF
10 10 (0.28%) SMS
11 9 (0.26%) Broadband
11 9 (0.26%) Wireless
12 8 (0.23%) LAN
13 7 (0.20%) 5G
13 7 (0.20%) HTTP
13 7 (0.20%) Internet
13 7 (0.20%) VXLAN
13 7 (0.20%) WLAN
14 6 (0.17%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 686 (19.46%) Power BI
2 466 (13.22%) Data Warehouse
3 266 (7.55%) Data Lake
4 225 (6.38%) Tableau
5 215 (6.10%) Metadata
6 138 (3.91%) BigQuery
7 100 (2.84%) Big Data
8 99 (2.81%) SQL Server
9 96 (2.72%) Delta Lake
10 94 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
11 87 (2.47%) Relational Database
12 73 (2.07%) Looker
12 73 (2.07%) Snowflake Schema
13 71 (2.01%) NoSQL
13 71 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
14 67 (1.90%) Amazon Athena
15 66 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
16 62 (1.76%) Semantic Layer
17 57 (1.62%) Power Query
18 53 (1.50%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 205 (5.82%) Git
2 169 (4.79%) JIRA
3 79 (2.24%) Jenkins
4 53 (1.50%) GitLab
5 16 (0.45%) ERwin
6 10 (0.28%) ER Studio
6 10 (0.28%) fastlane
6 10 (0.28%) JUnit
6 10 (0.28%) MLflow
6 10 (0.28%) Selenium
7 9 (0.26%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.20%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.20%) Gradle
8 7 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (0.17%) Android Studio
9 6 (0.17%) Crashlytics
9 6 (0.17%) Postman
10 5 (0.14%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.14%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.14%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 909 (25.79%) Social Skills
2 881 (24.99%) Finance
3 630 (17.87%) Analytical Skills
4 426 (12.09%) Public Sector
5 255 (7.23%) Banking
6 216 (6.13%) Marketing
7 157 (4.45%) Retail
8 88 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 87 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
10 73 (2.07%) Legal
11 68 (1.93%) Manufacturing
12 65 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
13 60 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
14 58 (1.65%) Front Office
15 54 (1.53%) Investment Banking
16 49 (1.39%) Telecoms
17 46 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
18 40 (1.13%) Financial Institution
19 38 (1.08%) Publishing
20 36 (1.02%) Military
Job Titles
1 632 (17.93%) Data Engineer
2 453 (12.85%) Architect
3 438 (12.43%) Senior
4 431 (12.23%) Analyst
5 344 (9.76%) Developer
6 304 (8.62%) Lead
7 199 (5.65%) Data Architect
8 173 (4.91%) Data Analyst
9 152 (4.31%) Consultant
10 127 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
11 109 (3.09%) Azure Engineer
11 109 (3.09%) Business Analyst
11 109 (3.09%) Data Scientist
12 108 (3.06%) Senior Data Engineer
13 75 (2.13%) Data Manager
14 63 (1.79%) Product Manager
15 62 (1.76%) Project Manager
15 62 (1.76%) Python Developer
16 61 (1.73%) Azure Data Engineer
17 59 (1.67%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 209 (5.93%) PySpark
2 134 (3.80%) REST
3 118 (3.35%) Kafka
4 66 (1.87%) Pandas
5 56 (1.59%) RESTful
6 49 (1.39%) .NET
7 48 (1.36%) HTML
7 48 (1.36%) JSON
7 48 (1.36%) React
8 43 (1.22%) CSS
9 41 (1.16%) OAuth
10 40 (1.13%) NumPy
11 38 (1.08%) ARM Templates
12 37 (1.05%) Oracle Fusion
13 35 (0.99%) SOAP
14 34 (0.96%) Web Services
15 33 (0.94%) OpenID
16 31 (0.88%) OAuth2
17 28 (0.79%) scikit-learn
17 28 (0.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 240 (6.81%) Cloud Native
2 184 (5.22%) Product Ownership
3 145 (4.11%) Data Structures
4 126 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
5 116 (3.29%) Onboarding
6 71 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
7 64 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
8 54 (1.53%) Management Information System
9 50 (1.42%) AI Agents
10 48 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
11 45 (1.28%) Algorithms
12 44 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
13 43 (1.22%) NHS
13 43 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
14 40 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
15 37 (1.05%) Marketing Technology
15 37 (1.05%) Virtual Team
16 33 (0.94%) Mobile App
17 31 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 30 (0.85%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 89 (2.52%) Linux
2 76 (2.16%) Windows
3 41 (1.16%) Unix
4 28 (0.79%) Windows Server
5 16 (0.45%) Apple iOS
6 13 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.34%) Mac OS
8 10 (0.28%) Android
9 6 (0.17%) VMS
10 4 (0.11%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.085%) Solaris
12 2 (0.057%) AIX
12 2 (0.057%) CentOS
12 2 (0.057%) HPUX
12 2 (0.057%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.028%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 961 (27.26%) Data Modelling
2 918 (26.04%) Business Intelligence
3 845 (23.97%) AI
4 820 (23.26%) Agile
5 748 (21.22%) Data Pipeline
6 693 (19.66%) Data Engineering
7 685 (19.43%) CI/CD
8 655 (18.58%) Stakeholder Management
9 617 (17.50%) Decision-Making
10 602 (17.08%) ETL
11 555 (15.74%) DevOps
12 554 (15.72%) Data Governance
13 514 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
14 447 (12.68%) Migration
15 433 (12.28%) Continuous Improvement
16 426 (12.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 415 (11.77%) Machine Learning
18 406 (11.52%) Data Science
19 403 (11.43%) Validation
20 377 (10.70%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,148 (32.57%) SQL
2 1,004 (28.48%) Python
3 150 (4.26%) PowerShell
4 110 (3.12%) Java
5 105 (2.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 86 (2.44%) C#
7 80 (2.27%) Bicep
8 72 (2.04%) JavaScript
9 59 (1.67%) R
10 50 (1.42%) Bash
11 37 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
11 37 (1.05%) Shell Script
12 36 (1.02%) Scala
12 36 (1.02%) TypeScript
13 32 (0.91%) T-SQL
14 28 (0.79%) PL/SQL
15 19 (0.54%) C++
15 19 (0.54%) VBA
16 11 (0.31%) Kotlin
17 10 (0.28%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 643 (18.24%) Security Cleared
2 511 (14.50%) SC Cleared
3 277 (7.86%) Degree
4 83 (2.35%) Azure Certification
5 80 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 77 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 70 (1.99%) DV Cleared
8 53 (1.50%) Master's Degree
9 41 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
10 36 (1.02%) CISSP
11 28 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
12 27 (0.77%) AWS Certification
13 26 (0.74%) PMI Certification
14 22 (0.62%) PMP
15 20 (0.57%) DBS Check
16 15 (0.43%) CCNP
17 14 (0.40%) CCIE
18 12 (0.34%) PhD
19 11 (0.31%) CISA
20 10 (0.28%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 684 (19.40%) Data Quality
2 167 (4.74%) GDPR
3 139 (3.94%) QA
4 130 (3.69%) Accessibility
5 51 (1.45%) GRC
6 48 (1.36%) WCAG
7 39 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 32 (0.91%) NIST
9 26 (0.74%) PMO
10 25 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
11 16 (0.45%) SLA
12 13 (0.37%) PCI DSS
12 13 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 13 (0.37%) Solvency II
13 11 (0.31%) PERC
14 10 (0.28%) IFRS
15 9 (0.26%) NCSC
16 7 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
17 6 (0.17%) GAAP
18 5 (0.14%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 161 (4.57%) Docker
2 88 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 25 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.20%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.14%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.085%) HDFS
8 2 (0.057%) Snort
8 2 (0.057%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.057%) vSphere
9 1 (0.028%) iptables
9 1 (0.028%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.028%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 261 (7.40%) Terraform
2 178 (5.05%) Kubernetes
3 49 (1.39%) Ansible
4 38 (1.08%) Grafana
5 25 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
6 24 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (0.48%) Prometheus
8 12 (0.34%) SCCM
9 8 (0.23%) Control-M
9 8 (0.23%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.17%) SCOM
11 4 (0.11%) Podman
11 4 (0.11%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.11%) QRadar
12 3 (0.085%) Apache Ranger
12 3 (0.085%) Kibana
12 3 (0.085%) NetBackup
13 2 (0.057%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.057%) MOM
13 2 (0.057%) Puppet
Vendors
1 617 (17.50%) Microsoft
2 456 (12.94%) Databricks
3 228 (6.47%) Oracle
4 180 (5.11%) SAP
5 178 (5.05%) Google
6 89 (2.52%) ServiceNow
7 83 (2.35%) Salesforce
8 82 (2.33%) Adobe
9 52 (1.48%) Workday
10 50 (1.42%) Splunk
11 47 (1.33%) Foundry
12 44 (1.25%) Denodo
12 44 (1.25%) Informatica
13 43 (1.22%) Talend
14 40 (1.13%) Dynatrace
15 38 (1.08%) Palantir
16 31 (0.88%) Cisco
17 26 (0.74%) OpenAI
17 26 (0.74%) VMware
18 19 (0.54%) Amplitude