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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 27 33
Rank change year-on-year +1 +6 +4
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,459 1,851 1,705
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.47% 6.67% 5.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.81% 7.33% 6.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,230 1,219 1,153
10th Percentile £360 £363 £356
25th Percentile £435 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £530 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 45 26
10th Percentile £17.35 £17.30 £23.25
25th Percentile £25.88 £22.50 £27.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £34.98 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.09% +7.63% -8.62%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.16 £55.98
90th Percentile £86.65 £79.50 £70.49
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £34.50 £31.75
% change year-on-year +37.68% +8.66% -10.73%

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 39,251 25,237 27,768
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.73% 90.91% 86.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,728 16,010 16,947
10th Percentile £325 £297 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £642
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,965 1,563 1,177
10th Percentile £13.82 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.57 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.47 £45.75 £66.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £25.15 £41.08
% change year-on-year +53.08% -38.77% -3.91%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 6 October 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 0 1,923 £550 - 6,534
North of England +12 469 £490 +3.16% 1,115
Midlands 0 362 £490 -4.85% 614
South East +15 353 £506 -3.57% 1,123
West Midlands -2 292 £490 -5.77% 388
North West +2 227 £528 +11.05% 624
Yorkshire +15 180 £463 -2.63% 348
South West +23 172 £525 +10.53% 370
East of England -8 107 £600 +8.60% 383
North East +9 69 £445 +7.88% 146
East Midlands +2 69 £490 +7.40% 226
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
1 162 (4.68%) Apache Airflow
2 128 (3.70%) Apache Spark
3 102 (2.95%) Apache
4 100 (2.89%) SAS
5 76 (2.20%) Confluence
6 62 (1.79%) CMS
7 49 (1.42%) SharePoint
8 33 (0.95%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 29 (0.84%) Palantir Foundry
10 25 (0.72%) Jupyter
11 22 (0.64%) Oracle Application Server
12 11 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
13 9 (0.26%) Drupal
14 8 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
15 7 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
16 6 (0.17%) Apache Superset
16 6 (0.17%) WordPress
17 5 (0.14%) nginx
18 3 (0.087%) IIS
19 2 (0.058%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 168 (4.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 30 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (0.61%) Chatbot
5 16 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
6 15 (0.43%) MS Visio
7 13 (0.38%) CPLEX
8 12 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
9 5 (0.14%) Trello
10 3 (0.087%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.087%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.087%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.058%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.058%) PlantUML
11 2 (0.058%) Sketch
12 1 (0.029%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.029%) InDesign
12 1 (0.029%) LaTeX
12 1 (0.029%) Notion
12 1 (0.029%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 87 (2.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 37 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (0.61%) Workday HCM
4 17 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
5 15 (0.43%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 15 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
6 13 (0.38%) Aladdin
7 12 (0.35%) SAP FI
7 12 (0.35%) SAP HR
8 11 (0.32%) SAP CO
9 10 (0.29%) SAP HCM
10 9 (0.26%) SAP MM
10 9 (0.26%) Shopify
10 9 (0.26%) Workfront
11 8 (0.23%) SAP Payroll
12 7 (0.20%) SAP MDG
12 7 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
13 6 (0.17%) Eloqua
13 6 (0.17%) NetSuite
13 6 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 988 (28.56%) Azure
2 698 (20.18%) Power Platform
3 575 (16.62%) AWS
4 317 (9.16%) GCP
5 269 (7.78%) Snowflake
6 242 (7.00%) Azure DevOps
7 221 (6.39%) Azure Data Factory
8 211 (6.10%) dbt
9 165 (4.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 154 (4.45%) GitHub
11 142 (4.11%) Serverless
12 132 (3.82%) Azure Monitor
13 124 (3.58%) SaaS
14 122 (3.53%) Amazon S3
15 121 (3.50%) Entra ID
16 88 (2.54%) AWS Lambda
17 79 (2.28%) Microsoft 365
18 72 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
19 63 (1.82%) Adobe Analytics
19 63 (1.82%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 59 (1.71%) Firewall
2 58 (1.68%) Network Security
3 39 (1.13%) DNS
4 33 (0.95%) VPN
5 22 (0.64%) Broadband
5 22 (0.64%) TCP/IP
6 20 (0.58%) WAN
7 16 (0.46%) DHCP
7 16 (0.46%) SD-WAN
8 15 (0.43%) BGP
9 9 (0.26%) LAN
9 9 (0.26%) Wireless
10 7 (0.20%) SMS
11 6 (0.17%) HTTP
11 6 (0.17%) Internet
11 6 (0.17%) Kerberos
11 6 (0.17%) NGFW
11 6 (0.17%) OSPF
11 6 (0.17%) SSH
11 6 (0.17%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 672 (19.43%) Power BI
2 424 (12.26%) Data Warehouse
3 252 (7.29%) Data Lake
4 243 (7.03%) Metadata
5 212 (6.13%) Tableau
6 157 (4.54%) BigQuery
7 87 (2.52%) Amazon Redshift
7 87 (2.52%) SQL Server
8 82 (2.37%) Delta Lake
9 81 (2.34%) Looker
9 81 (2.34%) PostgreSQL
10 79 (2.28%) Relational Database
11 78 (2.25%) Big Data
12 62 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
13 60 (1.73%) Semantic Layer
14 59 (1.71%) NoSQL
15 58 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
16 50 (1.45%) Power Query
16 50 (1.45%) Snowflake Schema
17 42 (1.21%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 193 (5.58%) Git
2 152 (4.39%) JIRA
3 59 (1.71%) Jenkins
4 57 (1.65%) GitLab
5 11 (0.32%) MLflow
6 9 (0.26%) fastlane
6 9 (0.26%) RStudio
7 8 (0.23%) Gradle
7 8 (0.23%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.20%) Postman
8 7 (0.20%) Selenium
8 7 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (0.17%) Crashlytics
9 6 (0.17%) ER Studio
9 6 (0.17%) ERwin
9 6 (0.17%) JUnit
9 6 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
9 6 (0.17%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.14%) Terragrunt
10 5 (0.14%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 995 (28.77%) Social Skills
2 918 (26.54%) Finance
3 652 (18.85%) Analytical Skills
4 414 (11.97%) Public Sector
5 279 (8.07%) Banking
6 241 (6.97%) Marketing
7 179 (5.17%) Retail
8 115 (3.32%) Influencing Skills
9 91 (2.63%) Legal
10 89 (2.57%) Manufacturing
11 86 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 72 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
13 61 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
14 60 (1.73%) Front Office
15 56 (1.62%) Investment Banking
16 50 (1.45%) Publishing
17 43 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
18 42 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
19 41 (1.19%) Military
20 38 (1.10%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 550 (15.90%) Data Engineer
2 473 (13.67%) Senior
3 455 (13.15%) Analyst
4 445 (12.86%) Architect
5 293 (8.47%) Developer
6 288 (8.33%) Lead
7 201 (5.81%) Data Architect
8 184 (5.32%) Consultant
9 166 (4.80%) Data Analyst
10 123 (3.56%) Senior Data Engineer
11 119 (3.44%) Data Scientist
12 118 (3.41%) Solutions Architect
13 111 (3.21%) Business Analyst
14 101 (2.92%) Azure Engineer
15 71 (2.05%) Data Manager
16 65 (1.88%) Product Manager
16 65 (1.88%) Senior Analyst
17 64 (1.85%) AWS Engineer
17 64 (1.85%) Senior Manager
18 62 (1.79%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 283 (8.18%) Terraform
2 197 (5.70%) PySpark
3 141 (4.08%) REST
4 104 (3.01%) Kafka
5 57 (1.65%) Pandas
6 56 (1.62%) React
7 55 (1.59%) HTML
8 52 (1.50%) RESTful
9 49 (1.42%) CSS
10 48 (1.39%) OAuth
11 45 (1.30%) .NET
12 42 (1.21%) ARM Templates
13 40 (1.16%) OpenID
14 39 (1.13%) JSON
14 39 (1.13%) NumPy
15 35 (1.01%) OAuth2
16 32 (0.93%) Web Services
17 29 (0.84%) SOAP
18 28 (0.81%) LDAP
18 28 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 247 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 186 (5.38%) Product Ownership
3 148 (4.28%) Onboarding
4 138 (3.99%) Data Structures
5 105 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
6 91 (2.63%) Management Information System
7 74 (2.14%) AI Agents
8 63 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
9 62 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
10 56 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
11 45 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
11 45 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
12 42 (1.21%) Algorithms
13 41 (1.19%) Marketing Technology
14 40 (1.16%) Social Media
15 38 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
16 37 (1.07%) Derivative
16 37 (1.07%) Virtual Team
17 36 (1.04%) Taxonomies
18 34 (0.98%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 92 (2.66%) Windows
2 87 (2.52%) Linux
3 40 (1.16%) Unix
4 37 (1.07%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.29%) Android
8 9 (0.26%) VMS
9 8 (0.23%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.20%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.087%) Solaris
11 3 (0.087%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.058%) AIX
12 2 (0.058%) CentOS
12 2 (0.058%) HPUX
13 1 (0.029%) Rocky
13 1 (0.029%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 968 (27.98%) AI
2 898 (25.96%) Data Modelling
3 858 (24.80%) Business Intelligence
3 858 (24.80%) Stakeholder Management
4 820 (23.71%) Agile
5 689 (19.92%) Decision-Making
6 677 (19.57%) Data Pipeline
7 657 (18.99%) Data Engineering
8 642 (18.56%) CI/CD
9 561 (16.22%) Data Governance
10 529 (15.29%) ETL
11 509 (14.72%) DevOps
12 484 (13.99%) Problem-Solving
13 473 (13.67%) Continuous Improvement
14 464 (13.41%) Roadmaps
15 459 (13.27%) Migration
16 437 (12.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 419 (12.11%) Machine Learning
18 416 (12.03%) Validation
19 402 (11.62%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 1,127 (32.58%) SQL
2 955 (27.61%) Python
3 160 (4.63%) PowerShell
4 101 (2.92%) Java
5 92 (2.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 90 (2.60%) JavaScript
7 82 (2.37%) Bicep
8 69 (1.99%) C#
9 66 (1.91%) Bash
10 60 (1.73%) R
11 41 (1.19%) TypeScript
12 38 (1.10%) Scala
13 31 (0.90%) Shell Script
14 29 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
15 19 (0.55%) C++
16 18 (0.52%) ABAP
16 18 (0.52%) T-SQL
17 16 (0.46%) PL/SQL
18 15 (0.43%) LookML
19 14 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 614 (17.75%) Security Cleared
2 490 (14.17%) SC Cleared
3 295 (8.53%) Degree
4 92 (2.66%) Azure Certification
5 89 (2.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 79 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 74 (2.14%) DV Cleared
8 57 (1.65%) Master's Degree
9 52 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
10 43 (1.24%) CISSP
11 39 (1.13%) AWS Certification
12 33 (0.95%) PMI Certification
13 28 (0.81%) PMP
14 27 (0.78%) DBS Check
15 20 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
16 14 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
17 13 (0.38%) MBA
18 11 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 11 (0.32%) CISA
18 11 (0.32%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 761 (22.00%) Data Quality
2 155 (4.48%) GDPR
3 139 (4.02%) QA
4 135 (3.90%) Accessibility
5 50 (1.45%) GRC
6 41 (1.19%) WCAG
7 39 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 36 (1.04%) Actionable Recommendations
9 34 (0.98%) NIST
9 34 (0.98%) PMO
10 23 (0.66%) SLA
11 15 (0.43%) NCSC
12 13 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 12 (0.35%) IFRS
13 12 (0.35%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.29%) PERC
14 10 (0.29%) Solvency II
15 8 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 8 (0.23%) GMP
16 7 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 146 (4.22%) Docker
2 97 (2.80%) Active Directory
3 27 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.26%) Hyper-V
5 9 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.12%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 3 (0.087%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.087%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.087%) vSphere
7 3 (0.087%) XenApp
8 2 (0.058%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.029%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.029%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 153 (4.42%) Kubernetes
2 44 (1.27%) Ansible
3 39 (1.13%) Grafana
4 25 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (0.52%) Prometheus
6 17 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (0.38%) SCCM
8 9 (0.26%) Progress Chef
9 8 (0.23%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.23%) SCOM
10 6 (0.17%) Control-M
10 6 (0.17%) Kibana
10 6 (0.17%) Podman
11 5 (0.14%) QRadar
12 4 (0.12%) SysTrack
13 3 (0.087%) CASB
14 2 (0.058%) Docker Swarm
14 2 (0.058%) MOM
14 2 (0.058%) NetBackup
14 2 (0.058%) Puppet
Vendors
1 669 (19.34%) Microsoft
2 437 (12.63%) Databricks
3 204 (5.90%) SAP
4 194 (5.61%) Google
5 189 (5.46%) Oracle
6 101 (2.92%) Adobe
7 87 (2.52%) Salesforce
7 87 (2.52%) ServiceNow
8 58 (1.68%) Workday
9 47 (1.36%) Splunk
10 45 (1.30%) Dynatrace
11 41 (1.19%) Foundry
12 35 (1.01%) Palantir
13 32 (0.93%) Informatica
14 30 (0.87%) Cisco
14 30 (0.87%) VMware
15 26 (0.75%) OpenAI
15 26 (0.75%) Talend
16 24 (0.69%) Amplitude
16 24 (0.69%) Denodo