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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 34
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 +3
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,485 1,798 1,830
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.73% 6.55% 5.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.07% 7.22% 6.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,344 1,190 1,312
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £432 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 46 27
10th Percentile £20.76 £15.27 £18.15
25th Percentile £35.00 £22.63 £26.75
Median hourly rate £54.75 £34.50 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.70% +11.29% -4.02%
75th Percentile £75.00 £71.13 £43.75
90th Percentile £87.14 £80.51 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £34.50 £30.19
% change year-on-year +52.17% +14.30% -6.55%

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 38,425 24,898 29,471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.24% 90.75% 85.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,067 15,953 19,300
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £424 £405 £416
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 £521 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.10% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,400 1,362 1,833
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.21 £13.69
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £17.69
Median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +86.48% -37.63% -5.12%
75th Percentile £69.46 £51.65 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 28 July 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 1,907 £550 -4.35% 1,429
North of England +7 435 £492 +9.33% 323
Midlands +10 413 £492 -3.89% 179
South East 0 339 £500 -2.44% 423
West Midlands +12 325 £488 -6.14% 118
North West +2 219 £514 +8.96% 177
South West +16 190 £500 +5.26% 148
Yorkshire +6 171 £463 +2.66% 100
East of England -9 113 £563 -3.02% 62
East Midlands +5 81 £519 +25.76% 61
North East -1 56 £450 +9.09% 47
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
1 155 (4.45%) Apache Spark
2 149 (4.28%) Apache Airflow
3 121 (3.47%) SAS
4 99 (2.84%) Apache
5 74 (2.12%) Confluence
6 47 (1.35%) SharePoint
7 40 (1.15%) CMS
8 31 (0.89%) Jupyter
9 30 (0.86%) Palantir Foundry
10 23 (0.66%) Oracle Application Server
11 19 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 12 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
13 9 (0.26%) Apache Superset
14 7 (0.20%) Drupal
14 7 (0.20%) WordPress
15 6 (0.17%) IIS
15 6 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
15 6 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
16 4 (0.11%) ArcGIS
17 2 (0.057%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 159 (4.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (0.55%) Chatbot
3 19 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
5 15 (0.43%) CPLEX
6 11 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
6 11 (0.32%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
7 4 (0.11%) Sketch
8 3 (0.086%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.086%) Trello
9 2 (0.057%) InDesign
9 2 (0.057%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.029%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.029%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.029%) Notion
10 1 (0.029%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.029%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 64 (1.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 36 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
4 13 (0.37%) Aladdin
4 13 (0.37%) Workday HCM
5 10 (0.29%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 10 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
6 9 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.23%) Shopify
8 7 (0.20%) NetSuite
8 7 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
8 7 (0.20%) SAP ERP
9 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
9 6 (0.17%) Sage X3
9 6 (0.17%) SAP GRC
9 6 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 5 (0.14%) BambooHR
10 5 (0.14%) Infor LN
10 5 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
10 5 (0.14%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 1,024 (29.38%) Azure
2 716 (20.55%) Power Platform
3 644 (18.48%) AWS
4 312 (8.95%) GCP
5 236 (6.77%) Azure DevOps
6 234 (6.71%) Snowflake
7 218 (6.26%) Azure Data Factory
8 184 (5.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 183 (5.25%) dbt
10 159 (4.56%) GitHub
11 144 (4.13%) Amazon S3
11 144 (4.13%) Serverless
12 132 (3.79%) Azure Monitor
13 109 (3.13%) Entra ID
14 100 (2.87%) SaaS
15 98 (2.81%) AWS Lambda
16 87 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
17 83 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
18 53 (1.52%) Google Analytics
19 52 (1.49%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 59 (1.69%) Firewall
2 45 (1.29%) Network Security
3 37 (1.06%) VPN
4 34 (0.98%) DNS
5 25 (0.72%) WAN
6 23 (0.66%) SD-WAN
7 21 (0.60%) BGP
8 20 (0.57%) TCP/IP
9 14 (0.40%) DHCP
10 12 (0.34%) OSPF
11 10 (0.29%) SMS
12 9 (0.26%) Wireless
13 8 (0.23%) Broadband
13 8 (0.23%) VXLAN
14 7 (0.20%) 5G
14 7 (0.20%) HTTP
14 7 (0.20%) Internet
14 7 (0.20%) LAN
14 7 (0.20%) MPLS
14 7 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 679 (19.48%) Power BI
2 459 (13.17%) Data Warehouse
3 261 (7.49%) Data Lake
4 246 (7.06%) Tableau
5 202 (5.80%) Metadata
6 136 (3.90%) BigQuery
7 102 (2.93%) Big Data
8 99 (2.84%) Delta Lake
9 97 (2.78%) SQL Server
10 93 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
11 85 (2.44%) Relational Database
12 77 (2.21%) Snowflake Schema
13 75 (2.15%) NoSQL
14 74 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
15 73 (2.09%) Looker
16 71 (2.04%) Amazon Athena
17 63 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
18 54 (1.55%) Power Query
19 52 (1.49%) Semantic Layer
20 51 (1.46%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 197 (5.65%) Git
2 163 (4.68%) JIRA
3 74 (2.12%) Jenkins
4 51 (1.46%) GitLab
5 19 (0.55%) ERwin
6 12 (0.34%) JUnit
7 11 (0.32%) ER Studio
8 10 (0.29%) fastlane
8 10 (0.29%) MLflow
8 10 (0.29%) Selenium
9 7 (0.20%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.20%) Gradle
9 7 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
9 7 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (0.17%) Android Studio
10 6 (0.17%) Crashlytics
10 6 (0.17%) Postman
10 6 (0.17%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.14%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.14%) REST Assured
General
1 879 (25.22%) Social Skills
2 872 (25.02%) Finance
3 605 (17.36%) Analytical Skills
4 413 (11.85%) Public Sector
5 257 (7.37%) Banking
6 207 (5.94%) Marketing
7 142 (4.07%) Retail
8 80 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 76 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
10 74 (2.12%) Legal
11 73 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
12 65 (1.87%) Manufacturing
13 62 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
14 56 (1.61%) Front Office
15 52 (1.49%) Investment Banking
16 50 (1.43%) Telecoms
17 42 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
18 38 (1.09%) Military
19 36 (1.03%) Financial Institution
20 35 (1.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 624 (17.91%) Data Engineer
2 449 (12.88%) Architect
3 433 (12.42%) Analyst
4 429 (12.31%) Senior
5 358 (10.27%) Developer
6 291 (8.35%) Lead
7 194 (5.57%) Data Architect
8 184 (5.28%) Data Analyst
9 138 (3.96%) Consultant
10 122 (3.50%) Data Scientist
11 118 (3.39%) Solutions Architect
12 109 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
13 104 (2.98%) Business Analyst
13 104 (2.98%) Senior Data Engineer
14 72 (2.07%) Data Manager
15 64 (1.84%) Python Developer
16 63 (1.81%) Product Manager
17 60 (1.72%) Azure Data Engineer
18 59 (1.69%) Project Manager
19 56 (1.61%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 205 (5.88%) PySpark
2 134 (3.85%) Kafka
3 133 (3.82%) REST
4 67 (1.92%) Pandas
5 58 (1.66%) RESTful
6 56 (1.61%) JSON
7 52 (1.49%) React
8 51 (1.46%) .NET
9 43 (1.23%) HTML
10 42 (1.21%) CSS
10 42 (1.21%) NumPy
11 39 (1.12%) Web Services
12 37 (1.06%) ARM Templates
13 36 (1.03%) OAuth
14 35 (1.00%) PyTorch
15 32 (0.92%) SOAP
15 32 (0.92%) TensorFlow
16 31 (0.89%) scikit-learn
17 30 (0.86%) Microsoft Graph
18 29 (0.83%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 238 (6.83%) Cloud Native
2 181 (5.19%) Product Ownership
3 144 (4.13%) Data Structures
4 124 (3.56%) Legacy Systems
5 114 (3.27%) Onboarding
6 71 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
7 69 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
8 51 (1.46%) Management Information System
9 49 (1.41%) Algorithms
10 47 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
11 46 (1.32%) AI Agents
12 43 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
12 43 (1.23%) NHS
13 42 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
14 38 (1.09%) Mobile App
14 38 (1.09%) Virtual Team
15 37 (1.06%) Marketing Technology
16 34 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
17 29 (0.83%) Fixed Income
17 29 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 93 (2.67%) Windows
2 89 (2.55%) Linux
3 40 (1.15%) Unix
4 23 (0.66%) Apple iOS
4 23 (0.66%) Windows Server
5 19 (0.55%) Mac OS
6 12 (0.34%) Android
7 11 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.20%) VMS
9 4 (0.11%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.086%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.057%) CentOS
11 2 (0.057%) Solaris
11 2 (0.057%) zOS
12 1 (0.029%) AIX
12 1 (0.029%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 960 (27.55%) Data Modelling
2 901 (25.85%) Business Intelligence
3 812 (23.30%) AI
4 794 (22.78%) Agile
5 730 (20.95%) Data Pipeline
6 711 (20.40%) Data Engineering
7 676 (19.40%) CI/CD
8 595 (17.07%) Decision-Making
9 594 (17.04%) ETL
10 592 (16.99%) Stakeholder Management
11 542 (15.55%) Data Governance
12 539 (15.47%) DevOps
13 504 (14.46%) Problem-Solving
14 429 (12.31%) Migration
15 426 (12.22%) Machine Learning
16 423 (12.14%) Data Science
17 421 (12.08%) Continuous Improvement
18 412 (11.82%) Validation
19 397 (11.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 387 (11.10%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,161 (33.31%) SQL
2 1,024 (29.38%) Python
3 136 (3.90%) PowerShell
4 121 (3.47%) Java
5 99 (2.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 90 (2.58%) C#
7 75 (2.15%) Bicep
8 70 (2.01%) R
9 67 (1.92%) JavaScript
10 43 (1.23%) Bash
11 42 (1.21%) TypeScript
12 38 (1.09%) Shell Script
13 37 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
13 37 (1.06%) Scala
14 32 (0.92%) T-SQL
15 28 (0.80%) PL/SQL
16 22 (0.63%) VBA
17 20 (0.57%) C++
18 11 (0.32%) Kotlin
18 11 (0.32%) Swift
Qualifications
1 615 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 482 (13.83%) SC Cleared
3 278 (7.98%) Degree
4 88 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 78 (2.24%) Azure Certification
6 77 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 67 (1.92%) DV Cleared
8 52 (1.49%) Master's Degree
9 38 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
10 32 (0.92%) CISSP
11 29 (0.83%) AWS Certification
12 28 (0.80%) PMI Certification
13 27 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
14 24 (0.69%) PMP
15 20 (0.57%) DBS Check
16 16 (0.46%) CCNP
17 15 (0.43%) CCIE
17 15 (0.43%) PhD
18 11 (0.32%) CISA
19 10 (0.29%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 669 (19.20%) Data Quality
2 169 (4.85%) GDPR
3 140 (4.02%) QA
4 127 (3.64%) Accessibility
5 47 (1.35%) WCAG
6 46 (1.32%) GRC
7 36 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 32 (0.92%) NIST
9 26 (0.75%) PMO
10 23 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
11 16 (0.46%) SLA
12 15 (0.43%) Solvency II
13 11 (0.32%) PCI DSS
13 11 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 10 (0.29%) IFRS
14 10 (0.29%) PERC
15 9 (0.26%) NCSC
16 7 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
17 6 (0.17%) GAAP
18 5 (0.14%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 156 (4.48%) Docker
2 87 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 25 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.17%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.17%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.11%) HDFS
7 4 (0.11%) Snort
8 2 (0.057%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.057%) vSphere
9 1 (0.029%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.029%) iptables
9 1 (0.029%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.029%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 251 (7.20%) Terraform
2 179 (5.14%) Kubernetes
3 42 (1.21%) Ansible
4 37 (1.06%) Grafana
5 30 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
6 28 (0.80%) Prometheus
7 24 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (0.40%) SCCM
9 8 (0.23%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.11%) Control-M
10 4 (0.11%) CSIRT
10 4 (0.11%) Podman
10 4 (0.11%) QRadar
11 3 (0.086%) Apache Ranger
11 3 (0.086%) Argo
11 3 (0.086%) Kibana
11 3 (0.086%) Rancher
11 3 (0.086%) SCOM
12 2 (0.057%) Nagios
12 2 (0.057%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 594 (17.04%) Microsoft
2 449 (12.88%) Databricks
3 212 (6.08%) Oracle
4 174 (4.99%) Google
5 172 (4.94%) SAP
6 83 (2.38%) ServiceNow
7 80 (2.30%) Adobe
8 79 (2.27%) Salesforce
9 54 (1.55%) Splunk
10 50 (1.43%) Foundry
11 49 (1.41%) Workday
12 42 (1.21%) Talend
13 41 (1.18%) Informatica
14 38 (1.09%) Denodo
14 38 (1.09%) Palantir
15 35 (1.00%) Dynatrace
16 31 (0.89%) OpenAI
17 30 (0.86%) Cisco
18 26 (0.75%) VMware
19 19 (0.55%) IBM