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 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 34
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 +3
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,524 1,802 1,797
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.77% 6.49% 5.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.11% 7.15% 6.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,363 1,192 1,291
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £438 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £663 £688
90th Percentile £750 £813 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 47 24
10th Percentile £20.79 £15.27 £21.39
25th Percentile £30.13 £22.75 £27.00
Median hourly rate £54.25 £34.50 £30.69
Median % change year-on-year +57.25% +12.43% -5.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.81 £43.75
90th Percentile £87.11 £80.41 £69.88
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £34.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +52.17% +15.00% -7.12%

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 38,664 25,206 28,667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.24% 90.74% 85.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,131 16,135 18,803
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
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 £757
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,474 1,396 1,685
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £20.69 £17.87 £18.16
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £51.14 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.85 £70.08 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.63% -5.12%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 3 August 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 1,942 £550 -3.51% 2,112
North of England +8 440 £492 +9.21% 432
Midlands +6 414 £493 -3.90% 260
South East +8 341 £500 -2.44% 516
West Midlands +11 329 £490 -6.67% 168
North West 0 221 £514 +8.96% 239
South West +15 188 £500 +5.26% 169
Yorkshire +4 175 £463 +1.31% 145
East of England -8 108 £564 -2.80% 106
East Midlands +6 78 £525 +27.27% 92
North East +2 54 £450 +9.09% 51
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
1 158 (4.48%) Apache Airflow
2 156 (4.43%) Apache Spark
3 122 (3.46%) SAS
4 102 (2.89%) Apache
5 77 (2.19%) Confluence
6 49 (1.39%) SharePoint
7 43 (1.22%) CMS
8 31 (0.88%) Jupyter
8 31 (0.88%) Palantir Foundry
9 23 (0.65%) Oracle Application Server
10 17 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 12 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
12 9 (0.26%) Apache Superset
13 8 (0.23%) Drupal
14 7 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
14 7 (0.20%) WordPress
15 6 (0.17%) IIS
15 6 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
16 3 (0.085%) ArcGIS
17 2 (0.057%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 163 (4.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 23 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
4 20 (0.57%) Chatbot
5 19 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
6 15 (0.43%) CPLEX
7 12 (0.34%) MS Visio
8 11 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
9 4 (0.11%) Sketch
10 3 (0.085%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.085%) Trello
11 2 (0.057%) InDesign
11 2 (0.057%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.028%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.028%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.028%) Notion
12 1 (0.028%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.028%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 65 (1.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 36 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
4 13 (0.37%) Workday HCM
5 12 (0.34%) Aladdin
6 10 (0.28%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 10 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
7 9 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
8 8 (0.23%) SAP ERP
8 8 (0.23%) Shopify
9 7 (0.20%) NetSuite
9 7 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
10 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.17%) Sage X3
10 6 (0.17%) SAP GRC
11 5 (0.14%) BambooHR
11 5 (0.14%) Infor LN
11 5 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
11 5 (0.14%) SAP BPC
11 5 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,028 (29.17%) Azure
2 723 (20.52%) Power Platform
3 640 (18.16%) AWS
4 311 (8.83%) GCP
5 240 (6.81%) Azure DevOps
6 239 (6.78%) Snowflake
7 220 (6.24%) Azure Data Factory
8 191 (5.42%) dbt
9 186 (5.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 165 (4.68%) GitHub
11 137 (3.89%) Serverless
12 134 (3.80%) Amazon S3
13 130 (3.69%) Azure Monitor
14 109 (3.09%) Entra ID
15 100 (2.84%) SaaS
16 93 (2.64%) GitHub Actions
17 92 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
18 80 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
19 56 (1.59%) Google Analytics
20 53 (1.50%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 59 (1.67%) Firewall
2 44 (1.25%) Network Security
3 36 (1.02%) VPN
4 33 (0.94%) DNS
5 26 (0.74%) WAN
6 24 (0.68%) SD-WAN
7 21 (0.60%) BGP
8 20 (0.57%) TCP/IP
9 13 (0.37%) DHCP
10 12 (0.34%) OSPF
11 10 (0.28%) SMS
11 10 (0.28%) Wireless
12 9 (0.26%) 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
1 690 (19.58%) Power BI
2 465 (13.20%) Data Warehouse
3 261 (7.41%) Data Lake
4 245 (6.95%) Tableau
5 202 (5.73%) Metadata
6 138 (3.92%) BigQuery
7 102 (2.89%) Big Data
8 101 (2.87%) SQL Server
9 97 (2.75%) Delta Lake
10 96 (2.72%) Amazon Redshift
11 88 (2.50%) Relational Database
12 77 (2.19%) Snowflake Schema
13 75 (2.13%) NoSQL
13 75 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
14 74 (2.10%) Looker
15 69 (1.96%) Amazon Athena
16 61 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
17 56 (1.59%) Power Query
18 55 (1.56%) Semantic Layer
19 52 (1.48%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 200 (5.68%) Git
2 169 (4.80%) JIRA
3 77 (2.19%) Jenkins
4 51 (1.45%) GitLab
5 18 (0.51%) ERwin
6 10 (0.28%) ER Studio
6 10 (0.28%) fastlane
6 10 (0.28%) JUnit
7 9 (0.26%) MLflow
7 9 (0.26%) Selenium
7 9 (0.26%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.20%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.20%) Gradle
8 7 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
8 7 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (0.17%) Android Studio
9 6 (0.17%) Crashlytics
9 6 (0.17%) Postman
10 5 (0.14%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.14%) Xcode
General
1 900 (25.54%) Social Skills
2 891 (25.28%) Finance
3 616 (17.48%) Analytical Skills
4 422 (11.98%) Public Sector
5 260 (7.38%) Banking
6 212 (6.02%) Marketing
7 151 (4.28%) Retail
8 86 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 84 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
10 73 (2.07%) Legal
11 70 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
12 68 (1.93%) Manufacturing
13 63 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
14 57 (1.62%) Front Office
15 56 (1.59%) Investment Banking
16 51 (1.45%) Telecoms
17 44 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
18 40 (1.14%) Financial Institution
19 37 (1.05%) Military
20 35 (0.99%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 629 (17.85%) Data Engineer
2 452 (12.83%) Architect
3 444 (12.60%) Senior
4 437 (12.40%) Analyst
5 357 (10.13%) Developer
6 300 (8.51%) Lead
7 198 (5.62%) Data Architect
8 182 (5.16%) Data Analyst
9 148 (4.20%) Consultant
10 123 (3.49%) Solutions Architect
11 122 (3.46%) Data Scientist
12 110 (3.12%) Azure Engineer
12 110 (3.12%) Business Analyst
13 107 (3.04%) Senior Data Engineer
14 74 (2.10%) Data Manager
15 64 (1.82%) Product Manager
15 64 (1.82%) Python Developer
16 62 (1.76%) Azure Data Engineer
17 60 (1.70%) Project Manager
18 58 (1.65%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 212 (6.02%) PySpark
2 134 (3.80%) REST
3 133 (3.77%) Kafka
4 68 (1.93%) Pandas
5 58 (1.65%) RESTful
6 51 (1.45%) JSON
6 51 (1.45%) React
7 50 (1.42%) .NET
8 46 (1.31%) HTML
9 43 (1.22%) NumPy
10 42 (1.19%) CSS
11 38 (1.08%) ARM Templates
11 38 (1.08%) Web Services
12 37 (1.05%) OAuth
13 34 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
13 34 (0.96%) SOAP
14 33 (0.94%) PyTorch
15 32 (0.91%) scikit-learn
16 31 (0.88%) TensorFlow
17 30 (0.85%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 237 (6.73%) Cloud Native
2 181 (5.14%) Product Ownership
3 147 (4.17%) Data Structures
4 129 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
5 112 (3.18%) Onboarding
6 71 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
7 68 (1.93%) Distributed Systems
8 54 (1.53%) Management Information System
9 49 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
10 48 (1.36%) Algorithms
11 47 (1.33%) AI Agents
12 44 (1.25%) NHS
13 43 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
14 42 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
15 39 (1.11%) Virtual Team
16 38 (1.08%) Mobile App
17 37 (1.05%) Marketing Technology
18 35 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
19 29 (0.82%) Derivative
19 29 (0.82%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 89 (2.53%) Linux
2 84 (2.38%) Windows
3 42 (1.19%) Unix
4 24 (0.68%) Windows Server
5 23 (0.65%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.43%) Mac OS
7 13 (0.37%) Android
8 11 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (0.20%) VMS
10 4 (0.11%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.085%) Solaris
12 2 (0.057%) AIX
12 2 (0.057%) CentOS
12 2 (0.057%) HPUX
12 2 (0.057%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.028%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 970 (27.53%) Data Modelling
2 920 (26.11%) Business Intelligence
3 829 (23.52%) AI
4 816 (23.16%) Agile
5 741 (21.03%) Data Pipeline
6 710 (20.15%) Data Engineering
7 686 (19.47%) CI/CD
8 627 (17.79%) Stakeholder Management
9 611 (17.34%) Decision-Making
10 598 (16.97%) ETL
11 550 (15.61%) Data Governance
12 539 (15.30%) DevOps
13 509 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
14 432 (12.26%) Migration
15 428 (12.15%) Continuous Improvement
16 426 (12.09%) Data Science
17 424 (12.03%) Machine Learning
18 421 (11.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 411 (11.66%) Validation
20 388 (11.01%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,174 (33.31%) SQL
2 1,027 (29.14%) Python
3 138 (3.92%) PowerShell
4 114 (3.23%) Java
5 102 (2.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 88 (2.50%) C#
7 76 (2.16%) Bicep
8 71 (2.01%) R
9 70 (1.99%) JavaScript
10 45 (1.28%) Bash
11 41 (1.16%) TypeScript
12 38 (1.08%) Shell Script
13 36 (1.02%) Scala
14 35 (0.99%) Kusto Query Language
15 32 (0.91%) T-SQL
16 28 (0.79%) PL/SQL
17 21 (0.60%) C++
17 21 (0.60%) VBA
18 12 (0.34%) Kotlin
19 11 (0.31%) Swift
Qualifications
1 623 (17.68%) Security Cleared
2 493 (13.99%) SC Cleared
3 283 (8.03%) Degree
4 86 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 77 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 74 (2.10%) Azure Certification
7 65 (1.84%) DV Cleared
8 54 (1.53%) Master's Degree
9 38 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
10 33 (0.94%) CISSP
11 28 (0.79%) AWS Certification
12 27 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
13 26 (0.74%) PMI Certification
14 22 (0.62%) PMP
15 20 (0.57%) DBS Check
16 16 (0.45%) CCNP
16 16 (0.45%) PhD
17 15 (0.43%) CCIE
18 11 (0.31%) CISA
19 10 (0.28%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 684 (19.41%) Data Quality
2 168 (4.77%) GDPR
3 139 (3.94%) QA
4 131 (3.72%) Accessibility
5 51 (1.45%) WCAG
6 48 (1.36%) GRC
7 37 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 32 (0.91%) NIST
9 26 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
9 26 (0.74%) PMO
10 15 (0.43%) SLA
10 15 (0.43%) Solvency II
11 12 (0.34%) PCI DSS
11 12 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 11 (0.31%) PERC
13 10 (0.28%) IFRS
14 9 (0.26%) NCSC
15 7 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
16 6 (0.17%) GAAP
17 5 (0.14%) HL7
System Software
1 158 (4.48%) Docker
2 86 (2.44%) Active Directory
3 23 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
3 23 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.17%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.17%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.11%) HDFS
7 3 (0.085%) Snort
8 2 (0.057%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.057%) vSphere
9 1 (0.028%) iptables
9 1 (0.028%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.028%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 252 (7.15%) Terraform
2 180 (5.11%) Kubernetes
3 45 (1.28%) Ansible
4 35 (0.99%) Grafana
5 26 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
6 24 (0.68%) Prometheus
6 24 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (0.34%) SCCM
8 8 (0.23%) FortiGate
9 6 (0.17%) Control-M
10 4 (0.11%) Podman
10 4 (0.11%) QRadar
11 3 (0.085%) Apache Ranger
11 3 (0.085%) CSIRT
11 3 (0.085%) Kibana
11 3 (0.085%) NetBackup
11 3 (0.085%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.085%) SCOM
12 2 (0.057%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.057%) MOM
Vendors
1 602 (17.08%) Microsoft
2 456 (12.94%) Databricks
3 219 (6.21%) Oracle
4 180 (5.11%) SAP
5 172 (4.88%) Google
6 82 (2.33%) ServiceNow
7 81 (2.30%) Salesforce
8 79 (2.24%) Adobe
9 53 (1.50%) Splunk
10 52 (1.48%) Workday
11 47 (1.33%) Foundry
12 43 (1.22%) Informatica
13 41 (1.16%) Talend
14 40 (1.14%) Denodo
15 39 (1.11%) Palantir
16 37 (1.05%) Dynatrace
17 30 (0.85%) Cisco
18 24 (0.68%) OpenAI
18 24 (0.68%) VMware
19 20 (0.57%) Amplitude