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 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 27 37
Rank change year-on-year +4 +10 0
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,868 1,616 1,822
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.62% 6.67% 4.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.83% 7.34% 5.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,964 1,102 1,251
10th Percentile £356 £325 £358
25th Percentile £422 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £813 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 30 60
10th Percentile £26.48 £15.28 £17.58
25th Percentile £41.85 £23.50 £25.00
Median hourly rate £58.70 £31.64 £39.38
Median % change year-on-year +85.52% -19.64% +31.25%
75th Percentile £75.00 £60.25 £55.97
90th Percentile £84.28 £77.62 £79.23
UK median hourly rate £57.30 £33.07 £35.50
% change year-on-year +73.27% -6.85% +18.33%

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 32,472 22,014 32,706
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.22% 90.86% 86.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,793 14,527 21,615
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,988 846 2,159
10th Percentile £15.37 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £20.33 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.91 £32.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.49% -1.52% -12.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.70
90th Percentile £76.55 £76.72 £71.87
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +9.38% -1.54% -9.72%

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 27 March 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 27 March 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 27 March 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 1,619 £528 -12.08% 896
Midlands +24 334 £492 +3.58% 212
North of England +7 302 £495 +7.03% 331
West Midlands +25 253 £493 +1.86% 110
South East -7 225 £500 +3.95% 433
North West +10 176 £495 +7.03% 192
South West +35 172 £503 +0.50% 149
East of England -7 111 £507 -15.50% 103
Yorkshire +1 103 £500 +1.01% 91
East Midlands +5 76 £447 +23.65% 102
North East +13 32 £450 +25.70% 52
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
1 143 (4.99%) Apache Spark
2 110 (3.84%) SAS
3 96 (3.35%) Apache Airflow
4 86 (3.00%) Apache
5 63 (2.20%) Confluence
6 54 (1.88%) SharePoint
7 31 (1.08%) CMS
8 19 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
9 15 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 9 (0.31%) Jupyter
10 9 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
11 7 (0.24%) Apache Superset
11 7 (0.24%) ArcGIS
11 7 (0.24%) Oracle Application Server
12 6 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
12 6 (0.21%) WordPress
13 3 (0.10%) IIS
13 3 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.10%) WebLogic
14 2 (0.070%) GeoServer
Applications
1 128 (4.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (0.84%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.66%) Chatbot
6 14 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
8 5 (0.17%) CPLEX
8 5 (0.17%) Trello
9 4 (0.14%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.14%) Oracle Smart View
9 4 (0.14%) Sketch
10 3 (0.10%) Notion
11 2 (0.070%) Autodesk Smoke
12 1 (0.035%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.035%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.035%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.035%) InDesign
12 1 (0.035%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.035%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 63 (2.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.31%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 9 (0.31%) SAP MM
4 8 (0.28%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 8 (0.28%) SAP FI
5 7 (0.24%) Maximo
5 7 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.21%) Sage X3
7 5 (0.17%) Aladdin
7 5 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
7 5 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 5 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.14%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.14%) SAP HR
8 4 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.14%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 915 (31.90%) Azure
2 632 (22.04%) Power Platform
3 595 (20.75%) AWS
4 301 (10.50%) GCP
5 222 (7.74%) Azure Data Factory
6 213 (7.43%) Azure DevOps
7 193 (6.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 182 (6.35%) Snowflake
9 180 (6.28%) GitHub
10 132 (4.60%) Serverless
11 124 (4.32%) Amazon S3
11 124 (4.32%) dbt
12 118 (4.11%) Azure Monitor
13 108 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
14 98 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
15 85 (2.96%) Entra ID
16 82 (2.86%) SaaS
17 75 (2.62%) AWS Lambda
18 66 (2.30%) Azure Key Vault
19 64 (2.23%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 49 (1.71%) Firewall
2 34 (1.19%) Network Security
3 31 (1.08%) VPN
4 25 (0.87%) DNS
5 16 (0.56%) WAN
6 14 (0.49%) SMS
7 12 (0.42%) SD-WAN
8 10 (0.35%) 5G
8 10 (0.35%) MPLS
9 9 (0.31%) HTTP
9 9 (0.31%) SSL
10 8 (0.28%) DHCP
11 7 (0.24%) 4G
11 7 (0.24%) BGP
11 7 (0.24%) TCP/IP
12 6 (0.21%) Internet
12 6 (0.21%) OSPF
12 6 (0.21%) Radio Access Network
12 6 (0.21%) SMTP
12 6 (0.21%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 580 (20.22%) Power BI
2 358 (12.48%) Data Warehouse
3 222 (7.74%) Data Lake
4 179 (6.24%) Metadata
4 179 (6.24%) Tableau
5 99 (3.45%) BigQuery
6 97 (3.38%) Delta Lake
7 93 (3.24%) SQL Server
8 92 (3.21%) Big Data
9 76 (2.65%) Relational Database
10 73 (2.55%) Snowflake Schema
11 72 (2.51%) Azure SQL Database
12 68 (2.37%) NoSQL
13 65 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
13 65 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
14 55 (1.92%) Hadoop
14 55 (1.92%) Looker
14 55 (1.92%) Power Query
15 54 (1.88%) Star Schema
16 52 (1.81%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 201 (7.01%) Git
2 170 (5.93%) JIRA
3 97 (3.38%) Jenkins
4 81 (2.82%) GitLab
5 28 (0.98%) Selenium
6 24 (0.84%) JUnit
7 21 (0.73%) ERwin
8 15 (0.52%) MLflow
9 8 (0.28%) Bitbucket
9 8 (0.28%) Gradle
9 8 (0.28%) MSI
9 8 (0.28%) PowerDesigner
9 8 (0.28%) SonarQube
10 7 (0.24%) Android Studio
11 6 (0.21%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.17%) ER Studio
12 5 (0.17%) fastlane
12 5 (0.17%) Maven
12 5 (0.17%) XCTest
13 4 (0.14%) Postman
General
1 851 (29.67%) Social Skills
2 737 (25.70%) Finance
3 554 (19.32%) Analytical Skills
4 287 (10.01%) Public Sector
5 210 (7.32%) Banking
6 170 (5.93%) Marketing
7 82 (2.86%) Retail
8 79 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
9 61 (2.13%) Front Office
10 53 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 50 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
12 46 (1.60%) Investment Banking
13 45 (1.57%) Legal
14 44 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
15 41 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
16 40 (1.39%) Telecoms
17 38 (1.32%) Manufacturing
18 30 (1.05%) Financial Institution
19 26 (0.91%) Advertising
20 22 (0.77%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 508 (17.71%) Data Engineer
2 352 (12.27%) Analyst
3 336 (11.72%) Developer
4 331 (11.54%) Architect
5 318 (11.09%) Senior
6 251 (8.75%) Lead
7 141 (4.92%) Data Analyst
8 140 (4.88%) Data Architect
9 130 (4.53%) Consultant
10 104 (3.63%) Azure Engineer
11 101 (3.52%) Business Analyst
12 92 (3.21%) Data Scientist
13 77 (2.68%) Senior Data Engineer
14 73 (2.55%) Solutions Architect
15 65 (2.27%) Project Manager
16 61 (2.13%) Designer
17 54 (1.88%) Senior Developer
18 51 (1.78%) Snowflake Engineer
19 49 (1.71%) AWS Engineer
19 49 (1.71%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (5.58%) Kafka
2 159 (5.54%) PySpark
3 156 (5.44%) REST
4 66 (2.30%) Pandas
5 60 (2.09%) TensorFlow
6 59 (2.06%) React
7 57 (1.99%) PyTorch
8 52 (1.81%) JSON
9 50 (1.74%) scikit-learn
10 49 (1.71%) NumPy
11 44 (1.53%) .NET
11 44 (1.53%) AngularJS
11 44 (1.53%) Node.js
12 41 (1.43%) HTML
13 40 (1.39%) CSS
14 38 (1.32%) ARM Templates
14 38 (1.32%) SOAP
15 34 (1.19%) pytest
16 33 (1.15%) Oracle Fusion
17 32 (1.12%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 174 (6.07%) Cloud Native
2 110 (3.84%) Product Ownership
3 94 (3.28%) Data Structures
4 85 (2.96%) Onboarding
5 71 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
6 58 (2.02%) Algorithms
7 56 (1.95%) Management Information System
8 53 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
9 52 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
10 49 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
11 39 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 38 (1.32%) Equities
12 38 (1.32%) Public Cloud
13 33 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
13 33 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
13 33 (1.15%) NHS
14 31 (1.08%) Marketing Technology
15 30 (1.05%) Derivative
16 27 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
16 27 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 87 (3.03%) Windows
2 75 (2.62%) Linux
3 33 (1.15%) Unix
4 28 (0.98%) Mac OS
5 19 (0.66%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.56%) Android
7 9 (0.31%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.24%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.14%) VMS
10 3 (0.10%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.070%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.070%) zOS
12 1 (0.035%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.035%) CentOS
12 1 (0.035%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 799 (27.86%) Business Intelligence
2 775 (27.02%) Data Modelling
3 649 (22.63%) Agile
4 601 (20.96%) CI/CD
5 583 (20.33%) AI
6 581 (20.26%) ETL
7 561 (19.56%) Data Pipeline
8 559 (19.49%) Data Engineering
8 559 (19.49%) Problem-Solving
9 527 (18.38%) DevOps
10 487 (16.98%) Data Governance
11 438 (15.27%) Decision-Making
12 385 (13.42%) Stakeholder Management
13 355 (12.38%) Data Science
14 353 (12.31%) Machine Learning
15 346 (12.06%) Data Analytics
16 317 (11.05%) Continuous Improvement
17 289 (10.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 284 (9.90%) Visualisation
19 283 (9.87%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1,014 (35.36%) SQL
2 936 (32.64%) Python
3 156 (5.44%) Java
4 110 (3.84%) PowerShell
5 94 (3.28%) C#
6 92 (3.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 78 (2.72%) R
8 76 (2.65%) JavaScript
9 74 (2.58%) Bicep
10 50 (1.74%) Kusto Query Language
11 46 (1.60%) Bash
12 40 (1.39%) T-SQL
12 40 (1.39%) TypeScript
13 39 (1.36%) Scala
14 31 (1.08%) VBA
15 30 (1.05%) PL/SQL
16 29 (1.01%) C++
17 23 (0.80%) Shell Script
18 11 (0.38%) Kotlin
19 10 (0.35%) Swift
Qualifications
1 510 (17.78%) Security Cleared
2 398 (13.88%) SC Cleared
3 236 (8.23%) Degree
4 72 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 66 (2.30%) Azure Certification
6 48 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 39 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
8 38 (1.32%) Master's Degree
9 37 (1.29%) DV Cleared
10 28 (0.98%) PMI Certification
11 26 (0.91%) CISSP
12 23 (0.80%) PMP
13 22 (0.77%) AWS Certification
14 20 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
15 18 (0.63%) CISM
16 15 (0.52%) CCNP
17 14 (0.49%) IIBA
17 14 (0.49%) PhD
18 12 (0.42%) CCIE
19 8 (0.28%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 511 (17.82%) Data Quality
2 167 (5.82%) GDPR
3 114 (3.97%) QA
4 100 (3.49%) Accessibility
5 39 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (1.12%) WCAG
7 27 (0.94%) NIST
8 24 (0.84%) PMO
9 20 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
10 15 (0.52%) GRC
10 15 (0.52%) NCSC
11 14 (0.49%) Solvency II
12 13 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 11 (0.38%) PERC
13 11 (0.38%) SLA
14 10 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 9 (0.31%) HL7
16 8 (0.28%) NIST 800
16 8 (0.28%) SOC 2
17 7 (0.24%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 201 (7.01%) Docker
2 74 (2.58%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.21%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.14%) HDFS
6 4 (0.14%) Snort
7 2 (0.070%) GPFS
7 2 (0.070%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.070%) Lustre
7 2 (0.070%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.035%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.035%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.035%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.035%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 251 (8.75%) Terraform
2 219 (7.64%) Kubernetes
3 38 (1.32%) Ansible
4 36 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
5 31 (1.08%) Grafana
6 30 (1.05%) Prometheus
7 21 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
8 16 (0.56%) SCCM
9 9 (0.31%) Puppet
10 7 (0.24%) Kibana
11 6 (0.21%) logstash
12 4 (0.14%) CSIRT
12 4 (0.14%) WSUS
13 3 (0.10%) Argo
13 3 (0.10%) Control-M
13 3 (0.10%) Fluentd
13 3 (0.10%) SysTrack
14 2 (0.070%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.070%) Apache Ranger
14 2 (0.070%) CASB
Vendors
1 530 (18.48%) Microsoft
2 392 (13.67%) Databricks
3 179 (6.24%) Google
4 154 (5.37%) Oracle
5 132 (4.60%) SAP
6 71 (2.48%) ServiceNow
7 68 (2.37%) Salesforce
8 63 (2.20%) Informatica
9 62 (2.16%) Adobe
9 62 (2.16%) Talend
10 53 (1.85%) Splunk
11 46 (1.60%) OpenAI
12 43 (1.50%) Denodo
13 39 (1.36%) Foundry
14 31 (1.08%) Workday
15 25 (0.87%) IBM
16 24 (0.84%) VMware
17 20 (0.70%) Cisco
18 15 (0.52%) Dynatrace
19 14 (0.49%) Palantir