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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 34
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 +2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,483 1,784 1,840
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.72% 6.51% 5.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.04% 7.18% 6.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,341 1,178 1,324
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £431 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.65%
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 89 46 29
10th Percentile £20.45 £15.27 £19.70
25th Percentile £35.00 £22.63 £26.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £34.50 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.42% +11.29% -4.02%
75th Percentile £75.00 £71.13 £43.75
90th Percentile £87.73 £80.51 £70.25
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £34.50 £30.69
% change year-on-year +52.17% +12.43% -5.00%

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 38,549 24,860 29,801
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.39% 90.73% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,182 15,935 19,502
10th Percentile £325 £300 £311
25th Percentile £420 £405 £413
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 £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,381 1,342 1,889
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.26 £13.67
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.90 £17.50
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -37.13% -6.98%
75th Percentile £69.50 £52.00 £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 25 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 25 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 25 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% 1,374
North of England +8 433 £492 +9.33% 326
Midlands +12 417 £492 -1.60% 164
South East +6 335 £500 -3.61% 422
West Midlands +16 328 £483 -5.76% 107
North West -2 218 £513 +8.70% 177
South West +17 189 £500 +5.26% 145
Yorkshire +3 170 £463 +1.31% 100
East of England -7 111 £563 -3.02% 69
East Midlands +8 82 £513 +24.24% 57
North East 0 56 £450 +9.09% 50
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
1 160 (4.59%) Apache Spark
2 151 (4.34%) Apache Airflow
3 115 (3.30%) SAS
4 102 (2.93%) Apache
5 76 (2.18%) Confluence
6 45 (1.29%) SharePoint
7 39 (1.12%) CMS
8 31 (0.89%) Jupyter
9 30 (0.86%) Palantir Foundry
10 21 (0.60%) Oracle Application Server
11 18 (0.52%) 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
16 4 (0.11%) ArcGIS
16 4 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
17 2 (0.057%) Moodle
Applications
1 157 (4.51%) 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
9 2 (0.057%) InDesign
9 2 (0.057%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.057%) Trello
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
5 12 (0.34%) Workday HCM
6 10 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
7 9 (0.26%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 9 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
8 7 (0.20%) NetSuite
8 7 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
8 7 (0.20%) SAP ERP
8 7 (0.20%) Shopify
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 1,026 (29.46%) Azure
2 716 (20.56%) Power Platform
3 654 (18.78%) AWS
4 316 (9.07%) GCP
5 234 (6.72%) Azure DevOps
6 231 (6.63%) Snowflake
7 221 (6.35%) Azure Data Factory
8 188 (5.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 187 (5.37%) dbt
10 156 (4.48%) GitHub
11 149 (4.28%) Amazon S3
12 143 (4.11%) Serverless
13 131 (3.76%) Azure Monitor
14 107 (3.07%) Entra ID
15 99 (2.84%) SaaS
16 98 (2.81%) AWS Lambda
17 87 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
18 83 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
19 52 (1.49%) Azure AKS
19 52 (1.49%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 58 (1.67%) 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
1 680 (19.52%) Power BI
2 457 (13.12%) Data Warehouse
3 263 (7.55%) Data Lake
4 243 (6.98%) Tableau
5 203 (5.83%) Metadata
6 139 (3.99%) BigQuery
7 103 (2.96%) Big Data
8 100 (2.87%) Delta Lake
9 97 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
10 96 (2.76%) SQL Server
11 83 (2.38%) Relational Database
12 78 (2.24%) Snowflake Schema
13 76 (2.18%) NoSQL
14 73 (2.10%) Looker
14 73 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
15 72 (2.07%) Amazon Athena
16 63 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
17 54 (1.55%) Power Query
18 52 (1.49%) Semantic Layer
19 51 (1.46%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 197 (5.66%) Git
2 163 (4.68%) JIRA
3 71 (2.04%) 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
10 6 (0.17%) Android Studio
10 6 (0.17%) Crashlytics
10 6 (0.17%) Postman
10 6 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (0.14%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.14%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.14%) Xcode
General
1 882 (25.32%) Finance
2 881 (25.29%) Social Skills
3 601 (17.26%) Analytical Skills
4 413 (11.86%) Public Sector
5 256 (7.35%) Banking
6 205 (5.89%) Marketing
7 142 (4.08%) Retail
8 81 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 76 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
10 74 (2.12%) Legal
11 72 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
12 65 (1.87%) Manufacturing
13 61 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
14 56 (1.61%) Front Office
15 52 (1.49%) Investment Banking
16 50 (1.44%) Telecoms
17 42 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
18 38 (1.09%) Financial Institution
19 37 (1.06%) Military
20 34 (0.98%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 626 (17.97%) Data Engineer
2 448 (12.86%) Architect
3 433 (12.43%) Analyst
4 430 (12.35%) Senior
5 355 (10.19%) Developer
6 294 (8.44%) Lead
7 194 (5.57%) Data Architect
8 185 (5.31%) Data Analyst
9 138 (3.96%) Consultant
10 121 (3.47%) Solutions Architect
11 120 (3.45%) Data Scientist
12 108 (3.10%) Azure Engineer
13 104 (2.99%) Business Analyst
14 103 (2.96%) Senior Data Engineer
15 71 (2.04%) Data Manager
16 64 (1.84%) Python Developer
17 63 (1.81%) Product Manager
18 61 (1.75%) Project Manager
19 60 (1.72%) Azure Data Engineer
20 56 (1.61%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 205 (5.89%) PySpark
2 139 (3.99%) Kafka
3 133 (3.82%) REST
4 66 (1.89%) Pandas
5 59 (1.69%) RESTful
6 56 (1.61%) JSON
7 53 (1.52%) React
8 50 (1.44%) .NET
9 41 (1.18%) HTML
9 41 (1.18%) NumPy
10 40 (1.15%) CSS
11 38 (1.09%) Web Services
12 37 (1.06%) ARM Templates
13 35 (1.00%) OAuth
14 34 (0.98%) PyTorch
15 32 (0.92%) SOAP
16 31 (0.89%) Microsoft Graph
16 31 (0.89%) TensorFlow
17 30 (0.86%) scikit-learn
18 29 (0.83%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 241 (6.92%) Cloud Native
2 182 (5.23%) Product Ownership
3 144 (4.13%) Data Structures
4 124 (3.56%) Legacy Systems
5 114 (3.27%) Onboarding
6 70 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
7 69 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
8 51 (1.46%) Management Information System
9 49 (1.41%) Algorithms
9 49 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
10 46 (1.32%) AI Agents
11 43 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
11 43 (1.23%) NHS
12 42 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
13 38 (1.09%) Mobile App
13 38 (1.09%) Virtual Team
14 37 (1.06%) Marketing Technology
15 34 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
16 30 (0.86%) Derivative
16 30 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 92 (2.64%) Windows
2 91 (2.61%) Linux
3 43 (1.23%) 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
1 962 (27.62%) Data Modelling
2 901 (25.87%) Business Intelligence
3 814 (23.37%) AI
4 786 (22.57%) Agile
5 730 (20.96%) Data Pipeline
6 716 (20.56%) Data Engineering
7 677 (19.44%) CI/CD
8 595 (17.08%) Stakeholder Management
9 594 (17.05%) Decision-Making
10 591 (16.97%) ETL
11 545 (15.65%) Data Governance
12 540 (15.50%) DevOps
13 502 (14.41%) Problem-Solving
14 434 (12.46%) Migration
15 426 (12.23%) Machine Learning
16 419 (12.03%) Data Science
17 417 (11.97%) Continuous Improvement
18 413 (11.86%) Validation
19 397 (11.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 384 (11.02%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,164 (33.42%) SQL
2 1,027 (29.49%) Python
3 134 (3.85%) PowerShell
4 126 (3.62%) Java
5 100 (2.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 91 (2.61%) C#
7 75 (2.15%) Bicep
8 71 (2.04%) R
9 65 (1.87%) JavaScript
10 43 (1.23%) TypeScript
11 42 (1.21%) Bash
12 38 (1.09%) Scala
12 38 (1.09%) Shell Script
13 37 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
14 32 (0.92%) T-SQL
15 26 (0.75%) PL/SQL
16 22 (0.63%) VBA
17 20 (0.57%) C++
18 11 (0.32%) Kotlin
18 11 (0.32%) Swift
Qualifications
1 606 (17.40%) Security Cleared
2 474 (13.61%) SC Cleared
3 279 (8.01%) Degree
4 89 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 78 (2.24%) Azure Certification
6 76 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 66 (1.89%) DV Cleared
8 52 (1.49%) Master's Degree
9 37 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
10 32 (0.92%) CISSP
11 29 (0.83%) AWS Certification
12 28 (0.80%) PMI Certification
13 27 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
14 24 (0.69%) PMP
15 20 (0.57%) DBS Check
16 16 (0.46%) CCNP
17 15 (0.43%) CCIE
18 14 (0.40%) PhD
19 11 (0.32%) CISA
20 10 (0.29%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 662 (19.01%) Data Quality
2 175 (5.02%) GDPR
3 137 (3.93%) QA
4 125 (3.59%) Accessibility
5 48 (1.38%) WCAG
6 43 (1.23%) GRC
7 36 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 31 (0.89%) NIST
9 27 (0.78%) PMO
10 22 (0.63%) 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
1 154 (4.42%) Docker
2 86 (2.47%) Active Directory
3 25 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.63%) 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
1 253 (7.26%) Terraform
2 177 (5.08%) Kubernetes
3 41 (1.18%) Ansible
4 37 (1.06%) Grafana
5 30 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
6 28 (0.80%) Prometheus
7 23 (0.66%) 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%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.057%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 595 (17.08%) Microsoft
2 446 (12.81%) Databricks
3 204 (5.86%) Oracle
4 176 (5.05%) Google
5 169 (4.85%) SAP
6 81 (2.33%) ServiceNow
7 79 (2.27%) Adobe
7 79 (2.27%) Salesforce
8 55 (1.58%) Splunk
9 49 (1.41%) Foundry
10 48 (1.38%) Workday
11 43 (1.23%) Informatica
12 41 (1.18%) Talend
13 38 (1.09%) Palantir
14 36 (1.03%) Denodo
15 35 (1.00%) Dynatrace
16 32 (0.92%) OpenAI
17 30 (0.86%) Cisco
18 26 (0.75%) VMware
19 18 (0.52%) IBM