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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 37
Rank change year-on-year +2 +10 -2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,106 1,650 1,842
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.35% 6.74% 4.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.64% 7.38% 5.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,120 1,085 1,280
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -1.79%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £788
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 36 49
10th Percentile £19.25 £14.55 £15.10
25th Percentile £35.00 £19.12 £25.00
Median hourly rate £56.15 £31.85 £30.37
Median % change year-on-year +76.32% +4.86% -5.98%
75th Percentile £75.00 £43.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £82.70 £79.35 £76.75
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £32.05 £30.19
% change year-on-year +68.49% +6.18% -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 35,948 22,351 32,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.10% 91.35% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,764 14,463 20,809
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,246 1,016 2,371
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.81
25th Percentile £20.75 £18.12 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +67.86% -25.33% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.28 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.14% -25.26% +1.39%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 10 June 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 1,723 £550 -4.35% 863
North of England +4 364 £475 +2.70% 327
Midlands +9 355 £493 -2.72% 186
West Midlands +16 275 £492 -5.32% 122
South East -4 266 £500 - 418
South West +38 193 £500 - 134
North West 0 182 £495 +4.98% 198
Yorkshire -3 147 £500 +8.11% 84
East of England -8 112 £511 -14.88% 60
East Midlands -1 74 £519 +33.53% 64
North East +4 46 £450 +9.09% 46
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 (4.99%) Apache Spark
2 128 (4.12%) Apache Airflow
3 101 (3.25%) SAS
4 83 (2.67%) Apache
5 70 (2.25%) Confluence
6 43 (1.38%) SharePoint
7 26 (0.84%) CMS
8 25 (0.80%) Jupyter
9 18 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
10 16 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 14 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
11 14 (0.45%) Oracle Application Server
12 9 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
13 8 (0.26%) Apache Superset
14 6 (0.19%) IIS
14 6 (0.19%) WordPress
15 5 (0.16%) ArcGIS
16 4 (0.13%) Drupal
17 3 (0.097%) Oracle SOA Suite
18 2 (0.064%) OpenStack
Applications
1 133 (4.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 18 (0.58%) Chatbot
4 16 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
5 15 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
6 13 (0.42%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.26%) CPLEX
8 6 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
10 3 (0.097%) Trello
11 2 (0.064%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.064%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.064%) Sketch
12 1 (0.032%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.032%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.032%) InDesign
12 1 (0.032%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.032%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 65 (2.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
4 8 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
5 7 (0.23%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.23%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 7 (0.23%) NetSuite
6 6 (0.19%) Sage X3
7 5 (0.16%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.16%) Maximo
8 4 (0.13%) iTrent
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 4 (0.13%) SAP BPC
8 4 (0.13%) Shopify
8 4 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.097%) Distributed Ledger
9 3 (0.097%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 943 (30.36%) Azure
2 690 (22.22%) Power Platform
3 620 (19.96%) AWS
4 273 (8.79%) GCP
5 228 (7.34%) Azure Data Factory
6 220 (7.08%) Azure DevOps
7 198 (6.37%) Snowflake
8 185 (5.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 160 (5.15%) GitHub
10 155 (4.99%) dbt
11 140 (4.51%) Amazon S3
12 137 (4.41%) Serverless
13 105 (3.38%) Azure Monitor
14 93 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
15 86 (2.77%) GitHub Actions
16 85 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
16 85 (2.74%) SaaS
17 77 (2.48%) Entra ID
18 49 (1.58%) Azure Key Vault
19 47 (1.51%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 36 (1.16%) Firewall
2 26 (0.84%) Network Security
3 24 (0.77%) VPN
4 18 (0.58%) SD-WAN
5 17 (0.55%) SMS
6 15 (0.48%) DNS
6 15 (0.48%) WAN
7 10 (0.32%) BGP
8 8 (0.26%) OSPF
8 8 (0.26%) VXLAN
9 7 (0.23%) 5G
9 7 (0.23%) HTTP
9 7 (0.23%) LAN
9 7 (0.23%) MPLS
9 7 (0.23%) Wireless
9 7 (0.23%) WLAN
10 6 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (0.16%) 802.11
11 5 (0.16%) DHCP
11 5 (0.16%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 644 (20.73%) Power BI
2 402 (12.94%) Data Warehouse
3 257 (8.27%) Data Lake
4 211 (6.79%) Tableau
5 186 (5.99%) Metadata
6 116 (3.73%) BigQuery
7 108 (3.48%) Delta Lake
7 108 (3.48%) SQL Server
8 94 (3.03%) Big Data
9 82 (2.64%) Amazon Redshift
9 82 (2.64%) Relational Database
10 81 (2.61%) Amazon Athena
11 67 (2.16%) Snowflake Schema
12 65 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
13 64 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
13 64 (2.06%) NoSQL
14 58 (1.87%) Looker
15 54 (1.74%) Power Query
15 54 (1.74%) Star Schema
16 49 (1.58%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 176 (5.67%) Git
2 161 (5.18%) JIRA
3 71 (2.29%) Jenkins
4 65 (2.09%) GitLab
5 20 (0.64%) ERwin
6 12 (0.39%) MLflow
7 11 (0.35%) Selenium
8 10 (0.32%) JUnit
9 9 (0.29%) fastlane
10 8 (0.26%) MSI
11 7 (0.23%) ER Studio
11 7 (0.23%) Postman
11 7 (0.23%) PowerDesigner
12 6 (0.19%) SonarQube
13 5 (0.16%) Android Studio
13 5 (0.16%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.16%) Crashlytics
13 5 (0.16%) Gradle
13 5 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 5 (0.16%) Xcode
General
1 774 (24.92%) Finance
2 765 (24.63%) Social Skills
3 528 (17.00%) Analytical Skills
4 347 (11.17%) Public Sector
5 216 (6.95%) Banking
6 164 (5.28%) Marketing
7 107 (3.44%) Retail
8 76 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
9 64 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 63 (2.03%) Legal
11 56 (1.80%) Investment Banking
12 53 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
13 52 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
14 47 (1.51%) Manufacturing
15 43 (1.38%) Telecoms
16 41 (1.32%) Front Office
17 39 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
18 32 (1.03%) Financial Institution
19 28 (0.90%) Automotive
20 26 (0.84%) Military
Job Titles
1 602 (19.38%) Data Engineer
2 381 (12.27%) Analyst
3 377 (12.14%) Senior
4 364 (11.72%) Architect
5 329 (10.59%) Developer
6 270 (8.69%) Lead
7 168 (5.41%) Data Architect
8 155 (4.99%) Data Analyst
9 122 (3.93%) Consultant
10 111 (3.57%) Senior Data Engineer
11 108 (3.48%) Business Analyst
12 98 (3.16%) Azure Engineer
13 95 (3.06%) Data Scientist
14 92 (2.96%) Solutions Architect
15 68 (2.19%) Data Manager
16 61 (1.96%) Designer
17 60 (1.93%) Project Manager
18 55 (1.77%) AWS Engineer
19 52 (1.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
20 48 (1.55%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (5.89%) PySpark
2 128 (4.12%) Kafka
3 111 (3.57%) REST
4 59 (1.90%) React
5 58 (1.87%) Pandas
6 53 (1.71%) JSON
7 52 (1.67%) HTML
8 51 (1.64%) CSS
9 44 (1.42%) PyTorch
10 43 (1.38%) TensorFlow
11 42 (1.35%) RESTful
12 41 (1.32%) .NET
13 36 (1.16%) Middleware
14 32 (1.03%) AngularJS
14 32 (1.03%) scikit-learn
14 32 (1.03%) Web Services
15 31 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
15 31 (1.00%) SOAP
16 30 (0.97%) ARM Templates
17 28 (0.90%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 220 (7.08%) Cloud Native
2 158 (5.09%) Product Ownership
3 116 (3.73%) Data Structures
4 94 (3.03%) Onboarding
5 91 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
6 68 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
7 56 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
8 45 (1.45%) Algorithms
9 44 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
10 41 (1.32%) Management Information System
11 40 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
12 39 (1.26%) AI Agents
13 38 (1.22%) Public Cloud
14 36 (1.16%) Mobile App
14 36 (1.16%) NHS
15 30 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
16 29 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
17 27 (0.87%) Derivative
17 27 (0.87%) Virtual Team
18 26 (0.84%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 85 (2.74%) Windows
2 69 (2.22%) Linux
3 37 (1.19%) Unix
4 27 (0.87%) Mac OS
5 24 (0.77%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.52%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.39%) Android
8 6 (0.19%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.097%) CentOS
11 2 (0.064%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.064%) VMS
12 1 (0.032%) Rocky
12 1 (0.032%) Solaris
12 1 (0.032%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 862 (27.75%) Business Intelligence
2 855 (27.53%) Data Modelling
3 718 (23.12%) AI
4 651 (20.96%) Data Pipeline
5 644 (20.73%) Agile
6 639 (20.57%) Data Engineering
7 634 (20.41%) CI/CD
8 551 (17.74%) ETL
9 523 (16.84%) DevOps
10 488 (15.71%) Decision-Making
11 486 (15.65%) Data Governance
12 478 (15.39%) Problem-Solving
13 440 (14.17%) Stakeholder Management
14 369 (11.88%) Data Science
15 360 (11.59%) Machine Learning
16 353 (11.37%) Migration
17 352 (11.33%) Continuous Improvement
18 349 (11.24%) Data Analytics
19 330 (10.62%) Validation
20 315 (10.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,053 (33.90%) SQL
2 946 (30.46%) Python
3 131 (4.22%) Java
4 110 (3.54%) PowerShell
5 98 (3.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 89 (2.87%) C#
7 71 (2.29%) R
8 69 (2.22%) Bicep
9 66 (2.12%) JavaScript
10 45 (1.45%) T-SQL
10 45 (1.45%) TypeScript
11 42 (1.35%) Scala
12 38 (1.22%) Kusto Query Language
13 34 (1.09%) Bash
14 32 (1.03%) Shell Script
15 27 (0.87%) PL/SQL
16 23 (0.74%) C++
17 16 (0.52%) VBA
18 11 (0.35%) Korn
19 10 (0.32%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 539 (17.35%) Security Cleared
2 426 (13.72%) SC Cleared
3 235 (7.57%) Degree
4 72 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 69 (2.22%) Azure Certification
6 67 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
7 50 (1.61%) DV Cleared
8 47 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
9 34 (1.09%) Master's Degree
10 25 (0.80%) CISSP
11 24 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
12 21 (0.68%) PMI Certification
13 20 (0.64%) AWS Certification
14 19 (0.61%) DBS Check
15 17 (0.55%) PMP
16 16 (0.52%) CCNP
17 12 (0.39%) CCIE
18 10 (0.32%) IIBA
18 10 (0.32%) PhD
19 9 (0.29%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 591 (19.03%) Data Quality
2 152 (4.89%) GDPR
3 117 (3.77%) QA
4 102 (3.28%) Accessibility
5 41 (1.32%) WCAG
6 38 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (1.03%) NIST
8 26 (0.84%) PMO
9 19 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
10 16 (0.52%) GRC
11 15 (0.48%) SLA
12 12 (0.39%) Solvency II
13 11 (0.35%) NCSC
13 11 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 9 (0.29%) ISO 20022
15 8 (0.26%) IFRS
15 8 (0.26%) PCI DSS
16 6 (0.19%) GAAP
16 6 (0.19%) HL7
17 5 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 153 (4.93%) Docker
2 72 (2.32%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.23%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.13%) HDFS
7 4 (0.13%) Snort
7 4 (0.13%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.032%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.032%) GPFS
8 1 (0.032%) iptables
8 1 (0.032%) Lustre
8 1 (0.032%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.032%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.032%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 240 (7.73%) Terraform
2 165 (5.31%) Kubernetes
3 35 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 33 (1.06%) Grafana
5 30 (0.97%) Ansible
6 29 (0.93%) Prometheus
7 22 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (0.32%) SCCM
9 6 (0.19%) Control-M
10 5 (0.16%) Argo
11 4 (0.13%) CSIRT
12 3 (0.097%) Nagios
12 3 (0.097%) Puppet
12 3 (0.097%) QRadar
13 2 (0.064%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.064%) Kibana
13 2 (0.064%) Nessus
13 2 (0.064%) Rancher
13 2 (0.064%) SCOM
13 2 (0.064%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 547 (17.61%) Microsoft
2 411 (13.23%) Databricks
3 159 (5.12%) Oracle
4 151 (4.86%) SAP
5 149 (4.80%) Google
6 67 (2.16%) ServiceNow
7 65 (2.09%) Salesforce
8 64 (2.06%) Adobe
9 57 (1.84%) Informatica
10 52 (1.67%) Splunk
11 43 (1.38%) Talend
12 40 (1.29%) OpenAI
13 39 (1.26%) Foundry
13 39 (1.26%) Workday
14 37 (1.19%) Denodo
15 30 (0.97%) Dynatrace
16 24 (0.77%) VMware
17 22 (0.71%) Cisco
18 21 (0.68%) Palantir
19 20 (0.64%) IBM