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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 29 38
Rank change year-on-year +8 +9 -2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,670 1,610 1,845
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.51% 6.27% 4.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.62% 6.95% 5.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,821 1,071 1,273
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £423 £444 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £510 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -6.42% -0.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 28 70
10th Percentile £20.64 £19.10 £17.00
25th Percentile £37.81 £25.19 £25.00
Median hourly rate £57.30 £32.92 £39.38
Median % change year-on-year +74.05% -16.39% +23.05%
75th Percentile £75.00 £59.25 £59.66
90th Percentile £83.83 £68.56 £78.79
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £35.00 £38.75
% change year-on-year +57.14% -9.68% +15.67%

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 30,972 23,170 33,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.17% 90.22% 87.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,848 14,569 21,913
10th Percentile £313 £308 £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 £617 £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 1,919 779 2,056
10th Percentile £15.24 £15.59 £13.42
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £34.77
Median % change year-on-year -18.57% +0.68% -0.67%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £59.93
90th Percentile £72.51 £75.30 £72.17
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £33.50
% change year-on-year -15.38% -2.99% -4.29%

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 +3 1,542 £525 -12.50% 689
Midlands +27 293 £492 +3.14% 209
North of England +10 282 £500 +5.26% 271
West Midlands +23 220 £500 +2.04% 127
South East -3 198 £500 +5.26% 476
North West +7 169 £500 +5.26% 143
South West +30 145 £525 +5.00% 127
East of England -4 104 £509 -15.21% 86
Yorkshire -8 93 £520 +3.95% 91
East Midlands +16 72 £447 +6.43% 81
North East +7 25 £450 +25.70% 39
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
1 124 (4.64%) Apache Spark
2 110 (4.12%) SAS
3 91 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
4 77 (2.88%) Apache
5 60 (2.25%) Confluence
6 46 (1.72%) SharePoint
7 28 (1.05%) CMS
8 20 (0.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 13 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
10 11 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
11 8 (0.30%) GeoServer
11 8 (0.30%) Smallworld
12 7 (0.26%) ArcGIS
12 7 (0.26%) Jupyter
12 7 (0.26%) WordPress
13 5 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
13 5 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 5 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
14 4 (0.15%) Apache Superset
14 4 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 127 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (1.05%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.71%) Chatbot
6 14 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
7 9 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.19%) Adobe XD
8 5 (0.19%) Sketch
8 5 (0.19%) Trello
9 3 (0.11%) Notion
9 3 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
10 2 (0.075%) Autodesk Smoke
10 2 (0.075%) CPLEX
11 1 (0.037%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.037%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.037%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.037%) InDesign
11 1 (0.037%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.037%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 72 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.41%) SAP HR
4 9 (0.34%) SAP FI
5 8 (0.30%) Maximo
5 8 (0.30%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 8 (0.30%) SAP EHS
5 8 (0.30%) SAP MM
6 7 (0.26%) Aladdin
6 7 (0.26%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 6 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 5 (0.19%) SAP BPC
8 5 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
9 4 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.15%) Sage X3
9 4 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 864 (32.36%) Azure
2 598 (22.40%) Power Platform
3 561 (21.01%) AWS
4 272 (10.19%) GCP
5 209 (7.83%) Azure Data Factory
6 195 (7.30%) Azure DevOps
7 179 (6.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 179 (6.70%) Snowflake
8 153 (5.73%) GitHub
9 128 (4.79%) Serverless
10 111 (4.16%) Amazon S3
11 110 (4.12%) Azure Monitor
12 109 (4.08%) dbt
13 98 (3.67%) SaaS
14 94 (3.52%) GitHub Actions
15 85 (3.18%) Microsoft 365
16 79 (2.96%) Entra ID
17 68 (2.55%) AWS Lambda
18 58 (2.17%) Power Automate
19 54 (2.02%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 47 (1.76%) Firewall
2 28 (1.05%) VPN
3 27 (1.01%) Network Security
4 22 (0.82%) DNS
5 17 (0.64%) SMS
6 13 (0.49%) WAN
7 9 (0.34%) HTTP
7 9 (0.34%) SSL
8 8 (0.30%) 5G
8 8 (0.30%) DHCP
8 8 (0.30%) TCP/IP
9 7 (0.26%) LAN
9 7 (0.26%) MPLS
10 6 (0.22%) 2G
10 6 (0.22%) 4G
10 6 (0.22%) SD-WAN
10 6 (0.22%) SMTP
11 5 (0.19%) FTP
11 5 (0.19%) Radio Access Network
12 4 (0.15%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 550 (20.60%) Power BI
2 308 (11.54%) Data Warehouse
3 204 (7.64%) Data Lake
4 166 (6.22%) Tableau
5 156 (5.84%) Metadata
6 86 (3.22%) SQL Server
7 84 (3.15%) BigQuery
8 83 (3.11%) Delta Lake
9 82 (3.07%) Big Data
10 70 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
11 69 (2.58%) Snowflake Schema
12 64 (2.40%) Relational Database
13 62 (2.32%) NoSQL
14 60 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
15 57 (2.13%) Looker
16 56 (2.10%) Hadoop
17 53 (1.99%) Amazon Redshift
18 47 (1.76%) Amazon Athena
18 47 (1.76%) Data Vault
18 47 (1.76%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 194 (7.27%) Git
2 165 (6.18%) JIRA
3 95 (3.56%) Jenkins
4 85 (3.18%) GitLab
5 30 (1.12%) Selenium
6 24 (0.90%) JUnit
7 22 (0.82%) ERwin
8 15 (0.56%) MLflow
9 12 (0.45%) PowerDesigner
10 10 (0.37%) Android Studio
10 10 (0.37%) ER Studio
10 10 (0.37%) Gradle
11 8 (0.30%) SonarQube
11 8 (0.30%) Xcode
12 7 (0.26%) Cypress.io
12 7 (0.26%) MSI
13 6 (0.22%) Bitbucket
13 6 (0.22%) Postman
13 6 (0.22%) Visual Website Optimizer
14 5 (0.19%) XCTest
General
1 850 (31.84%) Social Skills
2 707 (26.48%) Finance
3 509 (19.06%) Analytical Skills
4 254 (9.51%) Public Sector
5 210 (7.87%) Banking
6 167 (6.25%) Marketing
7 77 (2.88%) Retail
8 74 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
9 62 (2.32%) Front Office
10 49 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
11 46 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 46 (1.72%) Investment Banking
11 46 (1.72%) Manufacturing
12 45 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
12 45 (1.69%) Legal
13 40 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
14 33 (1.24%) Financial Institution
15 30 (1.12%) Telecoms
16 24 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
17 21 (0.79%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 433 (16.22%) Data Engineer
2 354 (13.26%) Analyst
3 325 (12.17%) Developer
4 309 (11.57%) Architect
5 306 (11.46%) Senior
6 221 (8.28%) Lead
7 142 (5.32%) Data Analyst
8 132 (4.94%) Consultant
9 121 (4.53%) Data Architect
10 114 (4.27%) Business Analyst
11 100 (3.75%) Azure Engineer
12 95 (3.56%) Data Scientist
13 71 (2.66%) Senior Data Engineer
14 67 (2.51%) Project Manager
15 62 (2.32%) Solutions Architect
16 57 (2.13%) Senior Developer
17 50 (1.87%) Designer
18 49 (1.84%) Snowflake Engineer
19 42 (1.57%) Azure Data Engineer
20 41 (1.54%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (5.43%) REST
2 137 (5.13%) PySpark
3 133 (4.98%) Kafka
4 60 (2.25%) Pandas
5 59 (2.21%) React
6 57 (2.13%) TensorFlow
7 55 (2.06%) PyTorch
8 50 (1.87%) JSON
8 50 (1.87%) scikit-learn
9 49 (1.84%) NumPy
10 43 (1.61%) .NET
11 42 (1.57%) HTML
11 42 (1.57%) Node.js
12 41 (1.54%) RESTful
13 40 (1.50%) AngularJS
14 39 (1.46%) ARM Templates
14 39 (1.46%) CSS
15 35 (1.31%) SOAP
16 33 (1.24%) OAuth
17 31 (1.16%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 142 (5.32%) Cloud Native
2 104 (3.90%) Product Ownership
3 85 (3.18%) Data Structures
4 75 (2.81%) Onboarding
5 64 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
6 54 (2.02%) Management Information System
7 53 (1.99%) Algorithms
8 49 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
8 49 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
9 48 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
10 44 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 41 (1.54%) Equities
12 36 (1.35%) Mobile App
13 35 (1.31%) Derivative
14 34 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
15 32 (1.20%) Public Cloud
16 31 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
17 30 (1.12%) NHS
18 26 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
19 25 (0.94%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 84 (3.15%) Windows
2 70 (2.62%) Linux
3 26 (0.97%) Apple iOS
3 26 (0.97%) Mac OS
3 26 (0.97%) Unix
4 20 (0.75%) Android
5 8 (0.30%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.19%) VMS
6 5 (0.19%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.11%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.075%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.075%) zOS
9 1 (0.037%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.037%) CentOS
9 1 (0.037%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 744 (27.87%) Business Intelligence
2 687 (25.73%) Data Modelling
3 634 (23.75%) Agile
4 559 (20.94%) CI/CD
5 542 (20.30%) Problem-Solving
6 524 (19.63%) ETL
7 515 (19.29%) AI
8 506 (18.95%) DevOps
9 497 (18.61%) Data Pipeline
10 462 (17.30%) Data Engineering
11 433 (16.22%) Data Governance
12 400 (14.98%) Decision-Making
13 366 (13.71%) Stakeholder Management
14 345 (12.92%) Data Science
15 325 (12.17%) Machine Learning
16 313 (11.72%) Data Analytics
17 303 (11.35%) Continuous Improvement
18 282 (10.56%) Visualisation
19 272 (10.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 251 (9.40%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 943 (35.32%) SQL
2 862 (32.28%) Python
3 151 (5.66%) Java
4 97 (3.63%) PowerShell
5 89 (3.33%) JavaScript
6 83 (3.11%) C#
7 77 (2.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 76 (2.85%) R
9 70 (2.62%) Bicep
10 48 (1.80%) Bash
10 48 (1.80%) TypeScript
11 39 (1.46%) Kusto Query Language
11 39 (1.46%) T-SQL
12 37 (1.39%) C++
12 37 (1.39%) Scala
13 31 (1.16%) VBA
14 28 (1.05%) PL/SQL
15 16 (0.60%) Swift
16 15 (0.56%) Shell Script
17 14 (0.52%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 450 (16.85%) Security Cleared
2 355 (13.30%) SC Cleared
3 248 (9.29%) Degree
4 72 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 68 (2.55%) Azure Certification
6 47 (1.76%) Master's Degree
7 41 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
8 38 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 33 (1.24%) DV Cleared
10 26 (0.97%) PMI Certification
11 25 (0.94%) CISSP
12 23 (0.86%) AWS Certification
13 22 (0.82%) PMP
14 17 (0.64%) CISM
15 16 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
16 14 (0.52%) IIBA
17 13 (0.49%) PhD
18 12 (0.45%) CCNP
19 9 (0.34%) CBAP
20 8 (0.30%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 483 (18.09%) Data Quality
2 145 (5.43%) GDPR
3 101 (3.78%) QA
4 94 (3.52%) Accessibility
5 36 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 26 (0.97%) NIST
6 26 (0.97%) WCAG
7 22 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
7 22 (0.82%) PMO
8 17 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 15 (0.56%) NCSC
10 13 (0.49%) Solvency II
11 9 (0.34%) NIST 800
11 9 (0.34%) SLA
12 8 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 8 (0.30%) GRC
12 8 (0.30%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.30%) PERC
13 7 (0.26%) HL7
13 7 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 204 (7.64%) Docker
2 70 (2.62%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.22%) HDFS
5 6 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.15%) Snort
6 4 (0.15%) zsh
7 3 (0.11%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.075%) GPFS
8 2 (0.075%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.075%) Lustre
8 2 (0.075%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.037%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.037%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.037%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.037%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 235 (8.80%) Terraform
2 222 (8.31%) Kubernetes
3 35 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
4 32 (1.20%) Ansible
5 29 (1.09%) Prometheus
6 23 (0.86%) Grafana
7 18 (0.67%) SCCM
8 16 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (0.34%) Kibana
9 9 (0.34%) Puppet
10 7 (0.26%) logstash
11 5 (0.19%) WSUS
12 4 (0.15%) CSIRT
13 3 (0.11%) Argo
13 3 (0.11%) Cisco CUCM
13 3 (0.11%) Fluentd
14 2 (0.075%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.075%) OpenVAS
14 2 (0.075%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.075%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 497 (18.61%) Microsoft
2 362 (13.56%) Databricks
3 165 (6.18%) Google
4 145 (5.43%) Oracle
4 145 (5.43%) SAP
5 71 (2.66%) Salesforce
6 68 (2.55%) Adobe
7 67 (2.51%) ServiceNow
8 58 (2.17%) Talend
9 52 (1.95%) Informatica
10 51 (1.91%) Splunk
11 43 (1.61%) OpenAI
12 40 (1.50%) Denodo
13 39 (1.46%) Foundry
14 27 (1.01%) Workday
15 24 (0.90%) IBM
16 22 (0.82%) VMware
17 19 (0.71%) Amplitude
18 17 (0.64%) Cisco
19 16 (0.60%) Dynatrace