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

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 29 38
Rank change year-on-year +5 +9 -1
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,536 1,547 1,867
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.44% 5.95% 4.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.51% 6.63% 5.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,715 1,011 1,278
10th Percentile £350 £338 £363
25th Percentile £413 £442 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -3.08%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £505 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -6.48% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 25 78
10th Percentile £20.55 £22.75 £17.00
25th Percentile £33.75 £25.26 £25.00
Median hourly rate £54.25 £35.00 £42.35
Median % change year-on-year +55.00% -17.35% +26.40%
75th Percentile £69.86 £60.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £78.93 £64.73 £74.33
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +54.29% -17.65% +21.43%

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 29,784 23,344 33,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.41% 89.82% 87.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,034 14,461 22,141
10th Percentile £310 £309 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £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 1,874 730 1,983
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £18.23 £21.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.89 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.04% - -
75th Percentile £60.41 £64.73 £60.32
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.03 £72.90
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.28
% change year-on-year -22.62% -2.35% -1.12%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +5 1,501 £525 -12.50% 634
North of England +2 273 £478 +1.38% 245
Midlands +29 262 £492 +3.14% 180
West Midlands +23 193 £500 +2.04% 107
South East -8 175 £490 +2.08% 434
North West +9 170 £492 +3.58% 137
South West +35 128 £525 +5.53% 111
East of England -3 99 £514 -14.38% 61
Yorkshire -20 81 £510 +7.37% 79
East Midlands +14 68 £436 +3.81% 72
North East +7 24 £450 +25.70% 31
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
1 109 (4.30%) Apache Spark
2 89 (3.51%) SAS
3 87 (3.43%) Apache Airflow
4 83 (3.27%) Apache
5 60 (2.37%) Confluence
6 48 (1.89%) SharePoint
7 31 (1.22%) CMS
8 20 (0.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 11 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
10 10 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
11 8 (0.32%) GeoServer
11 8 (0.32%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.32%) Smallworld
12 7 (0.28%) ArcGIS
12 7 (0.28%) WordPress
13 6 (0.24%) Oracle Application Server
13 6 (0.24%) WebLogic
14 5 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 5 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
15 3 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 128 (5.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (1.10%) MS Visio
5 21 (0.83%) Chatbot
6 14 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
7 8 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.20%) Adobe XD
8 5 (0.20%) Sketch
8 5 (0.20%) Trello
9 3 (0.12%) Notion
10 2 (0.079%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.039%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.039%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.039%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.039%) CapCut
11 1 (0.039%) CPLEX
11 1 (0.039%) FrameMaker
11 1 (0.039%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.039%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 72 (2.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.55%) SAP EHS
4 11 (0.43%) SAP HR
5 9 (0.35%) SAP FI
6 8 (0.32%) Maximo
6 8 (0.32%) SAP MM
7 7 (0.28%) Aladdin
7 7 (0.28%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 7 (0.28%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 7 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 6 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
9 5 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
9 5 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
10 4 (0.16%) NetSuite
10 4 (0.16%) Oracle General Ledger
10 4 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.16%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 3 (0.12%) SAP BPC
11 3 (0.12%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 830 (32.73%) Azure
2 555 (21.88%) Power Platform
3 542 (21.37%) AWS
4 252 (9.94%) GCP
5 194 (7.65%) Azure Data Factory
6 181 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
7 172 (6.78%) Snowflake
8 167 (6.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 142 (5.60%) GitHub
10 123 (4.85%) Serverless
11 109 (4.30%) Azure Monitor
12 103 (4.06%) Amazon S3
13 102 (4.02%) SaaS
14 97 (3.82%) dbt
15 87 (3.43%) GitHub Actions
15 87 (3.43%) Microsoft 365
16 75 (2.96%) Entra ID
17 65 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
18 58 (2.29%) Power Automate
19 54 (2.13%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 45 (1.77%) Firewall
2 25 (0.99%) VPN
3 23 (0.91%) Network Security
4 22 (0.87%) DNS
5 16 (0.63%) SMS
6 10 (0.39%) SSL
6 10 (0.39%) WAN
7 8 (0.32%) DHCP
8 7 (0.28%) HTTP
8 7 (0.28%) LAN
9 6 (0.24%) 2G
9 6 (0.24%) 5G
9 6 (0.24%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.20%) FTP
10 5 (0.20%) SMTP
11 4 (0.16%) 4G
11 4 (0.16%) MPLS
11 4 (0.16%) Radio Access Network
12 3 (0.12%) Internet
12 3 (0.12%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 510 (20.11%) Power BI
2 270 (10.65%) Data Warehouse
3 188 (7.41%) Data Lake
4 163 (6.43%) Tableau
5 145 (5.72%) Metadata
6 78 (3.08%) BigQuery
7 75 (2.96%) SQL Server
8 71 (2.80%) Big Data
8 71 (2.80%) Delta Lake
9 69 (2.72%) PostgreSQL
10 63 (2.48%) Snowflake Schema
11 59 (2.33%) Relational Database
12 55 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
12 55 (2.17%) Looker
13 50 (1.97%) NoSQL
14 48 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
15 47 (1.85%) Hadoop
16 42 (1.66%) Amazon Athena
16 42 (1.66%) Data Vault
16 42 (1.66%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 161 (6.35%) Git
2 156 (6.15%) JIRA
3 77 (3.04%) GitLab
4 74 (2.92%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.99%) Selenium
6 22 (0.87%) ERwin
7 20 (0.79%) JUnit
8 14 (0.55%) MLflow
9 13 (0.51%) PowerDesigner
10 11 (0.43%) ER Studio
11 10 (0.39%) Android Studio
11 10 (0.39%) Gradle
12 8 (0.32%) Visual Website Optimizer
12 8 (0.32%) Xcode
13 6 (0.24%) MSI
13 6 (0.24%) Postman
13 6 (0.24%) SonarQube
14 5 (0.20%) DBeaver
14 5 (0.20%) Visual Studio
14 5 (0.20%) XCTest
General
1 815 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 687 (27.09%) Finance
3 492 (19.40%) Analytical Skills
4 229 (9.03%) Public Sector
5 206 (8.12%) Banking
6 163 (6.43%) Marketing
7 76 (3.00%) Retail
8 72 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
9 62 (2.44%) Front Office
10 53 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
11 48 (1.89%) Legal
12 47 (1.85%) Investment Banking
13 44 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
14 43 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 43 (1.70%) Manufacturing
15 39 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
16 35 (1.38%) Financial Institution
17 25 (0.99%) Telecoms
18 23 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
19 21 (0.83%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 376 (14.83%) Data Engineer
2 353 (13.92%) Analyst
3 313 (12.34%) Developer
4 289 (11.40%) Senior
5 283 (11.16%) Architect
6 192 (7.57%) Lead
7 135 (5.32%) Data Analyst
8 130 (5.13%) Consultant
9 123 (4.85%) Business Analyst
10 113 (4.46%) Data Architect
11 97 (3.82%) Azure Engineer
12 92 (3.63%) Data Scientist
13 65 (2.56%) Project Manager
14 62 (2.44%) Senior Data Engineer
14 62 (2.44%) Solutions Architect
15 60 (2.37%) Senior Developer
16 49 (1.93%) Designer
17 47 (1.85%) Snowflake Engineer
18 40 (1.58%) DevOps Engineer
19 39 (1.54%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (5.44%) REST
2 127 (5.01%) Kafka
3 124 (4.89%) PySpark
4 61 (2.41%) Pandas
5 60 (2.37%) React
6 56 (2.21%) TensorFlow
7 53 (2.09%) PyTorch
8 50 (1.97%) scikit-learn
9 49 (1.93%) NumPy
10 46 (1.81%) JSON
11 45 (1.77%) Node.js
12 44 (1.74%) HTML
13 42 (1.66%) .NET
14 41 (1.62%) RESTful
15 40 (1.58%) AngularJS
15 40 (1.58%) CSS
16 37 (1.46%) ARM Templates
17 33 (1.30%) SOAP
18 31 (1.22%) Middleware
19 28 (1.10%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 122 (4.81%) Cloud Native
2 96 (3.79%) Product Ownership
3 82 (3.23%) Data Structures
4 73 (2.88%) Onboarding
5 60 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
6 56 (2.21%) Management Information System
7 54 (2.13%) Algorithms
8 48 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
8 48 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
9 46 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
10 45 (1.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 42 (1.66%) Equities
12 37 (1.46%) Derivative
12 37 (1.46%) Mobile App
13 35 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
14 29 (1.14%) NHS
15 28 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
15 28 (1.10%) Fixed Income
15 28 (1.10%) Public Cloud
16 26 (1.03%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 85 (3.35%) Windows
2 76 (3.00%) Linux
3 26 (1.03%) Mac OS
3 26 (1.03%) Unix
4 25 (0.99%) Apple iOS
5 20 (0.79%) Android
6 8 (0.32%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.20%) VMS
7 5 (0.20%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.079%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.079%) zOS
9 1 (0.039%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.039%) CentOS
9 1 (0.039%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.039%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 680 (26.81%) Business Intelligence
2 615 (24.25%) Data Modelling
3 590 (23.26%) Agile
4 519 (20.47%) Problem-Solving
5 497 (19.60%) CI/CD
6 490 (19.32%) AI
7 469 (18.49%) ETL
8 451 (17.78%) DevOps
9 432 (17.03%) Data Pipeline
10 412 (16.25%) Data Engineering
11 395 (15.58%) Data Governance
12 369 (14.55%) Decision-Making
13 348 (13.72%) Stakeholder Management
14 325 (12.82%) Data Science
15 310 (12.22%) Machine Learning
16 309 (12.18%) Data Analytics
17 277 (10.92%) Visualisation
18 272 (10.73%) Continuous Improvement
19 265 (10.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 250 (9.86%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 876 (34.54%) SQL
2 814 (32.10%) Python
3 154 (6.07%) Java
4 96 (3.79%) PowerShell
5 92 (3.63%) JavaScript
6 78 (3.08%) C#
7 73 (2.88%) R
8 67 (2.64%) Bicep
9 65 (2.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 48 (1.89%) Bash
11 46 (1.81%) TypeScript
12 41 (1.62%) Kusto Query Language
13 37 (1.46%) Scala
14 36 (1.42%) C++
15 34 (1.34%) T-SQL
16 28 (1.10%) VBA
17 23 (0.91%) PL/SQL
18 20 (0.79%) Shell Script
19 16 (0.63%) Swift
20 14 (0.55%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 400 (15.77%) Security Cleared
2 318 (12.54%) SC Cleared
3 247 (9.74%) Degree
4 72 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 63 (2.48%) Azure Certification
6 52 (2.05%) Master's Degree
7 44 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 39 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
9 30 (1.18%) DV Cleared
10 26 (1.03%) PMI Certification
11 25 (0.99%) AWS Certification
11 25 (0.99%) CISSP
12 20 (0.79%) PMP
13 18 (0.71%) CISM
14 14 (0.55%) IIBA
15 12 (0.47%) PhD
16 11 (0.43%) CBAP
17 9 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
18 8 (0.32%) CCNP
18 8 (0.32%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 436 (17.19%) Data Quality
2 148 (5.84%) GDPR
3 94 (3.71%) Accessibility
4 91 (3.59%) QA
5 36 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 29 (1.14%) NIST
7 23 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
8 22 (0.87%) WCAG
9 19 (0.75%) PMO
10 15 (0.59%) NCSC
10 15 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 12 (0.47%) Solvency II
12 10 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 10 (0.39%) SLA
13 9 (0.35%) HIPAA
13 9 (0.35%) NIST 800
14 8 (0.32%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.32%) PERC
15 7 (0.28%) GRC
15 7 (0.28%) HL7
System Software
1 185 (7.29%) Docker
2 66 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.43%) HDFS
6 6 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.20%) zsh
8 2 (0.079%) GPFS
8 2 (0.079%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.079%) Lustre
8 2 (0.079%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.079%) Snort
8 2 (0.079%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.039%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.039%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.039%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.039%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 217 (8.56%) Terraform
2 200 (7.89%) Kubernetes
3 35 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 29 (1.14%) Ansible
4 29 (1.14%) Prometheus
5 18 (0.71%) Grafana
5 18 (0.71%) SCCM
6 17 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (0.55%) Puppet
8 8 (0.32%) Kibana
9 7 (0.28%) Hadoop YARN
9 7 (0.28%) logstash
10 5 (0.20%) WSUS
11 3 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.12%) Argo
11 3 (0.12%) Cisco CUCM
11 3 (0.12%) Fluentd
11 3 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 2 (0.079%) CASB
12 2 (0.079%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 485 (19.12%) Microsoft
2 332 (13.09%) Databricks
3 160 (6.31%) Google
4 142 (5.60%) SAP
5 124 (4.89%) Oracle
6 67 (2.64%) Salesforce
7 64 (2.52%) Adobe
8 58 (2.29%) ServiceNow
9 47 (1.85%) Talend
10 46 (1.81%) Informatica
11 44 (1.74%) OpenAI
12 43 (1.70%) Splunk
13 36 (1.42%) Foundry
14 27 (1.06%) Denodo
14 27 (1.06%) Workday
15 25 (0.99%) IBM
16 20 (0.79%) VMware
17 18 (0.71%) Amplitude
17 18 (0.71%) Cisco
18 16 (0.63%) Dynatrace