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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 30 38
Rank change year-on-year +8 +8 -1
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,636 1,546 1,834
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.54% 6.09% 4.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.63% 6.76% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,791 1,019 1,263
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £418 £444 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £505 £544 £550
% change year-on-year -7.17% -1.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 26 70
10th Percentile £20.64 £23.13 £17.00
25th Percentile £37.81 £25.82 £25.00
Median hourly rate £57.30 £35.00 £39.38
Median % change year-on-year +63.71% -11.11% +23.05%
75th Percentile £75.00 £63.00 £59.66
90th Percentile £83.83 £71.11 £78.79
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +57.14% -12.50% +19.40%

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 30,532 22,872 32,975
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.28% 90.11% 87.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,556 14,324 21,897
10th Percentile £313 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £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 1,892 747 2,040
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.48 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - -
75th Percentile £63.40 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.18 £72.00
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £33.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -21.91% -2.94% -2.86%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +4 1,540 £525 -12.50% 827
Midlands +29 283 £492 +3.14% 203
North of England +8 281 £492 +5.75% 284
West Midlands +20 210 £499 +1.79% 127
South East -6 187 £489 +2.89% 504
North West +10 171 £480 +2.56% 159
South West +37 140 £525 +5.53% 131
East of England -2 102 £505 -15.83% 102
Yorkshire -3 89 £520 +9.42% 88
East Midlands +14 72 £447 +6.43% 75
North East +5 25 £450 +25.70% 40
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
1 118 (4.48%) Apache Spark
2 108 (4.10%) SAS
3 90 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
4 78 (2.96%) Apache
5 60 (2.28%) Confluence
6 47 (1.78%) SharePoint
7 30 (1.14%) CMS
8 20 (0.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 11 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
10 10 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
11 9 (0.34%) Jupyter
12 8 (0.30%) GeoServer
12 8 (0.30%) Smallworld
13 7 (0.27%) ArcGIS
13 7 (0.27%) WordPress
14 6 (0.23%) WebLogic
15 5 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
15 5 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 5 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
16 4 (0.15%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 125 (4.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (1.06%) MS Visio
5 21 (0.80%) Chatbot
6 14 (0.53%) 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
10 2 (0.076%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.038%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.038%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.038%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.038%) CapCut
11 1 (0.038%) FrameMaker
11 1 (0.038%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.038%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.038%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 70 (2.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.42%) SAP HR
4 9 (0.34%) SAP EHS
4 9 (0.34%) SAP FI
5 8 (0.30%) Maximo
5 8 (0.30%) SAP MM
6 7 (0.27%) Aladdin
6 7 (0.27%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 7 (0.27%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 6 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 5 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 5 (0.19%) SAP BPC
9 4 (0.15%) NetSuite
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
1 852 (32.32%) Azure
2 585 (22.19%) Power Platform
3 561 (21.28%) AWS
4 267 (10.13%) GCP
5 203 (7.70%) Azure Data Factory
6 190 (7.21%) Azure DevOps
7 177 (6.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 172 (6.53%) Snowflake
9 150 (5.69%) GitHub
10 128 (4.86%) Serverless
11 111 (4.21%) Azure Monitor
12 109 (4.14%) Amazon S3
13 106 (4.02%) dbt
14 102 (3.87%) SaaS
15 94 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
16 85 (3.22%) Microsoft 365
17 76 (2.88%) Entra ID
18 69 (2.62%) AWS Lambda
19 59 (2.24%) Power Automate
20 54 (2.05%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 45 (1.71%) Firewall
2 27 (1.02%) VPN
3 25 (0.95%) Network Security
4 22 (0.83%) DNS
5 17 (0.64%) SMS
6 10 (0.38%) WAN
7 9 (0.34%) SSL
8 8 (0.30%) DHCP
9 7 (0.27%) 5G
9 7 (0.27%) HTTP
9 7 (0.27%) LAN
10 6 (0.23%) 2G
10 6 (0.23%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.19%) 4G
11 5 (0.19%) FTP
11 5 (0.19%) SMTP
12 4 (0.15%) Intrusion Detection
12 4 (0.15%) MPLS
12 4 (0.15%) Radio Access Network
13 3 (0.11%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 538 (20.41%) Power BI
2 298 (11.31%) Data Warehouse
3 200 (7.59%) Data Lake
4 170 (6.45%) Tableau
5 151 (5.73%) Metadata
6 85 (3.22%) BigQuery
7 82 (3.11%) Delta Lake
8 80 (3.03%) SQL Server
9 78 (2.96%) Big Data
10 68 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
11 67 (2.54%) Snowflake Schema
12 63 (2.39%) Looker
12 63 (2.39%) Relational Database
13 60 (2.28%) Azure SQL Database
14 55 (2.09%) NoSQL
15 51 (1.93%) Hadoop
16 50 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
17 47 (1.78%) Data Vault
18 46 (1.75%) Amazon Athena
18 46 (1.75%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 187 (7.09%) Git
2 161 (6.11%) JIRA
3 92 (3.49%) Jenkins
4 83 (3.15%) GitLab
5 30 (1.14%) Selenium
6 24 (0.91%) JUnit
7 23 (0.87%) ERwin
8 15 (0.57%) MLflow
9 13 (0.49%) PowerDesigner
10 11 (0.42%) ER Studio
11 10 (0.38%) Android Studio
11 10 (0.38%) Gradle
12 8 (0.30%) SonarQube
12 8 (0.30%) Xcode
13 7 (0.27%) Cypress.io
13 7 (0.27%) Visual Website Optimizer
14 6 (0.23%) MSI
14 6 (0.23%) Postman
15 5 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
15 5 (0.19%) XCTest
General
1 843 (31.98%) Social Skills
2 708 (26.86%) Finance
3 498 (18.89%) Analytical Skills
4 248 (9.41%) Public Sector
5 207 (7.85%) Banking
6 166 (6.30%) Marketing
7 75 (2.85%) Retail
8 70 (2.66%) Documentation Skills
9 64 (2.43%) Front Office
10 54 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
11 47 (1.78%) Investment Banking
11 47 (1.78%) Manufacturing
12 46 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
13 44 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 44 (1.67%) Legal
14 41 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
15 34 (1.29%) Financial Institution
16 30 (1.14%) Telecoms
17 24 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
18 21 (0.80%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 413 (15.67%) Data Engineer
2 359 (13.62%) Analyst
3 324 (12.29%) Developer
4 306 (11.61%) Senior
5 294 (11.15%) Architect
6 211 (8.00%) Lead
7 139 (5.27%) Data Analyst
8 130 (4.93%) Consultant
9 121 (4.59%) Business Analyst
10 116 (4.40%) Data Architect
11 99 (3.76%) Azure Engineer
12 93 (3.53%) Data Scientist
13 66 (2.50%) Project Manager
13 66 (2.50%) Senior Data Engineer
14 60 (2.28%) Solutions Architect
15 59 (2.24%) Senior Developer
16 53 (2.01%) Designer
17 48 (1.82%) Snowflake Engineer
18 40 (1.52%) AWS Engineer
18 40 (1.52%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (5.39%) REST
2 134 (5.08%) PySpark
3 133 (5.05%) Kafka
4 61 (2.31%) React
5 60 (2.28%) Pandas
6 57 (2.16%) TensorFlow
7 54 (2.05%) PyTorch
8 49 (1.86%) NumPy
8 49 (1.86%) scikit-learn
9 48 (1.82%) JSON
10 44 (1.67%) HTML
11 43 (1.63%) Node.js
12 41 (1.56%) .NET
12 41 (1.56%) RESTful
13 40 (1.52%) AngularJS
13 40 (1.52%) CSS
14 39 (1.48%) ARM Templates
15 33 (1.25%) SOAP
16 31 (1.18%) pytest
17 30 (1.14%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 134 (5.08%) Cloud Native
2 102 (3.87%) Product Ownership
3 90 (3.41%) Data Structures
4 75 (2.85%) Onboarding
5 66 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
6 56 (2.12%) Management Information System
7 53 (2.01%) Algorithms
8 51 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
9 50 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
10 47 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
11 45 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 41 (1.56%) Equities
13 37 (1.40%) Mobile App
14 36 (1.37%) Derivative
15 35 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
16 31 (1.18%) NHS
17 30 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
17 30 (1.14%) Public Cloud
18 26 (0.99%) Fixed Income
18 26 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 86 (3.26%) Windows
2 73 (2.77%) Linux
3 26 (0.99%) Apple iOS
3 26 (0.99%) Mac OS
3 26 (0.99%) Unix
4 21 (0.80%) 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 (0.076%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.076%) zOS
9 1 (0.038%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.038%) CentOS
9 1 (0.038%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 728 (27.62%) Business Intelligence
2 674 (25.57%) Data Modelling
3 632 (23.98%) Agile
4 539 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
5 536 (20.33%) CI/CD
6 511 (19.39%) AI
7 504 (19.12%) ETL
8 485 (18.40%) DevOps
9 477 (18.10%) Data Pipeline
10 446 (16.92%) Data Engineering
11 424 (16.08%) Data Governance
12 388 (14.72%) Decision-Making
13 364 (13.81%) Stakeholder Management
14 343 (13.01%) Data Science
15 320 (12.14%) Machine Learning
16 313 (11.87%) Data Analytics
17 301 (11.42%) Continuous Improvement
18 287 (10.89%) Visualisation
19 275 (10.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 250 (9.48%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 935 (35.47%) SQL
2 847 (32.13%) Python
3 149 (5.65%) Java
4 97 (3.68%) PowerShell
5 94 (3.57%) JavaScript
6 81 (3.07%) C#
7 75 (2.85%) R
8 73 (2.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 70 (2.66%) Bicep
10 49 (1.86%) Bash
11 48 (1.82%) TypeScript
12 39 (1.48%) Kusto Query Language
13 37 (1.40%) T-SQL
14 36 (1.37%) C++
14 36 (1.37%) Scala
15 31 (1.18%) VBA
16 25 (0.95%) PL/SQL
17 16 (0.61%) Swift
18 15 (0.57%) Shell Script
19 14 (0.53%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 438 (16.62%) Security Cleared
2 350 (13.28%) SC Cleared
3 253 (9.60%) Degree
4 73 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 65 (2.47%) Azure Certification
6 53 (2.01%) Master's Degree
7 43 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 39 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
9 30 (1.14%) DV Cleared
10 27 (1.02%) PMI Certification
11 24 (0.91%) CISSP
12 23 (0.87%) AWS Certification
13 21 (0.80%) PMP
14 18 (0.68%) CISM
15 14 (0.53%) IIBA
16 12 (0.46%) PhD
17 11 (0.42%) CBAP
18 10 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
19 8 (0.30%) CCNP
19 8 (0.30%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 468 (17.75%) Data Quality
2 149 (5.65%) GDPR
3 99 (3.76%) QA
4 98 (3.72%) Accessibility
5 37 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 27 (1.02%) NIST
6 27 (1.02%) WCAG
7 22 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
8 21 (0.80%) PMO
9 15 (0.57%) NCSC
9 15 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 13 (0.49%) Solvency II
11 9 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 9 (0.34%) HIPAA
11 9 (0.34%) NIST 800
12 8 (0.30%) PERC
12 8 (0.30%) SLA
13 7 (0.27%) GRC
13 7 (0.27%) HL7
13 7 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 201 (7.63%) Docker
2 67 (2.54%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.19%) HDFS
7 4 (0.15%) Snort
7 4 (0.15%) zsh
8 2 (0.076%) GPFS
8 2 (0.076%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.076%) Lustre
8 2 (0.076%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.076%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.038%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.038%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.038%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.038%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 231 (8.76%) Terraform
2 219 (8.31%) Kubernetes
3 34 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 29 (1.10%) Prometheus
5 27 (1.02%) Ansible
6 21 (0.80%) Grafana
7 18 (0.68%) SCCM
8 17 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (0.38%) Puppet
10 9 (0.34%) Kibana
11 7 (0.27%) logstash
12 5 (0.19%) WSUS
13 4 (0.15%) CSIRT
14 3 (0.11%) Argo
14 3 (0.11%) Cisco CUCM
14 3 (0.11%) Fluentd
15 2 (0.076%) Control-M
15 2 (0.076%) OpenVAS
15 2 (0.076%) Progress Chef
15 2 (0.076%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 494 (18.74%) Microsoft
2 355 (13.47%) Databricks
3 169 (6.41%) Google
4 142 (5.39%) SAP
5 135 (5.12%) Oracle
6 70 (2.66%) Salesforce
7 68 (2.58%) Adobe
8 64 (2.43%) ServiceNow
9 55 (2.09%) Talend
10 48 (1.82%) Informatica
10 48 (1.82%) Splunk
11 43 (1.63%) OpenAI
12 36 (1.37%) Denodo
13 35 (1.33%) Foundry
14 26 (0.99%) Workday
15 25 (0.95%) IBM
16 20 (0.76%) Amplitude
16 20 (0.76%) VMware
17 17 (0.64%) Cisco
17 17 (0.64%) Dynatrace