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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 30 37
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 -3
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,174 1,727 1,953
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.02% 5.70% 5.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.86% 6.48% 5.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,460 1,141 1,353
10th Percentile £360 £350 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £625 £688 £688
90th Percentile £739 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 28 68
10th Percentile £20.53 £25.26 £17.45
25th Percentile £30.11 £27.38 £22.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £33.50 £35.32
Median % change year-on-year +34.33% -5.14% +0.90%
75th Percentile £70.16 £59.08 £67.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £64.04 £74.33
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £35.63
% change year-on-year +38.46% -8.78% +1.80%

All Process and 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 27,655 26,658 34,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.31% 87.92% 88.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,614 16,424 23,309
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £406 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £648 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,796 941 1,445
10th Percentile £14.92 £15.25 £14.85
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.24 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +21.43%

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 8 December 2025.

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 8 December 2025.

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 8 December 2025. 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 +6 1,278 £525 -12.50% 838
North of England +11 245 £475 -4.26% 1,039
Midlands +19 235 £515 +3.00% 973
West Midlands +12 190 £515 +3.00% 492
North West +22 155 £500 +3.09% 522
South East -13 142 £503 +0.50% 1,360
South West +21 95 £511 -9.11% 544
East of England +3 85 £553 +5.24% 707
Yorkshire 0 81 £482 -8.14% 425
East Midlands +7 47 £450 -2.70% 416
North East 0 10 £378 -19.08% 98
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 96 (4.42%) SAS
2 94 (4.32%) Apache Airflow
3 75 (3.45%) Apache
3 75 (3.45%) Apache Spark
4 45 (2.07%) Confluence
5 42 (1.93%) SharePoint
6 38 (1.75%) CMS
7 16 (0.74%) WebLogic
8 15 (0.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 11 (0.51%) Jupyter
10 8 (0.37%) Oracle Application Server
10 8 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 8 (0.37%) WordPress
11 7 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
12 6 (0.28%) GeoServer
12 6 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
12 6 (0.28%) Smallworld
13 3 (0.14%) Apache Superset
13 3 (0.14%) Drupal
13 3 (0.14%) IIS
Applications
1 137 (6.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (1.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 33 (1.52%) MS Visio
5 24 (1.10%) Chatbot
6 14 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.14%) Notion
8 3 (0.14%) Sketch
8 3 (0.14%) Trello
9 1 (0.046%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.046%) Autodesk Smoke
9 1 (0.046%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.046%) CapCut
9 1 (0.046%) FrameMaker
9 1 (0.046%) Simulink
9 1 (0.046%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 70 (3.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.64%) SAP EHS
4 11 (0.51%) SAP FI
4 11 (0.51%) SAP HR
5 10 (0.46%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.32%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 7 (0.32%) SAP MM
7 6 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 5 (0.23%) Aladdin
8 5 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
8 5 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.23%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
9 4 (0.18%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.18%) SAP IBP
10 3 (0.14%) NEC Housing
10 3 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
10 3 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 670 (30.82%) Azure
2 461 (21.21%) Power Platform
3 449 (20.65%) AWS
4 217 (9.98%) GCP
5 147 (6.76%) Snowflake
6 132 (6.07%) Azure DevOps
7 128 (5.89%) Azure Data Factory
8 115 (5.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 104 (4.78%) Azure Monitor
9 104 (4.78%) Serverless
10 100 (4.60%) GitHub
11 87 (4.00%) SaaS
12 73 (3.36%) Amazon S3
13 71 (3.27%) dbt
13 71 (3.27%) GitHub Actions
14 69 (3.17%) Entra ID
15 65 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
16 59 (2.71%) Google Analytics
17 58 (2.67%) Azure Logic Apps
18 53 (2.44%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 49 (2.25%) Firewall
2 31 (1.43%) DNS
3 30 (1.38%) Network Security
4 20 (0.92%) VPN
5 17 (0.78%) WAN
6 13 (0.60%) HTTP
6 13 (0.60%) SSL
7 10 (0.46%) SD-WAN
8 9 (0.41%) SMS
9 8 (0.37%) FTP
9 8 (0.37%) LAN
9 8 (0.37%) SMTP
10 7 (0.32%) DHCP
11 6 (0.28%) 2G
11 6 (0.28%) 5G
11 6 (0.28%) TCP/IP
12 5 (0.23%) Ethernet
12 5 (0.23%) Wireless
13 4 (0.18%) MPLS
13 4 (0.18%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 432 (19.87%) Power BI
2 237 (10.90%) Data Warehouse
3 155 (7.13%) Tableau
4 135 (6.21%) Data Lake
5 118 (5.43%) Metadata
6 70 (3.22%) BigQuery
7 63 (2.90%) Big Data
8 59 (2.71%) PostgreSQL
9 50 (2.30%) Relational Database
9 50 (2.30%) SQL Server
10 48 (2.21%) Looker
11 47 (2.16%) Snowflake Schema
12 46 (2.12%) Power Query
13 43 (1.98%) Azure SQL Database
14 41 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
15 40 (1.84%) Hadoop
16 39 (1.79%) Delta Lake
17 35 (1.61%) NoSQL
17 35 (1.61%) Pentaho
18 33 (1.52%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 167 (7.68%) Git
2 144 (6.62%) JIRA
3 83 (3.82%) Jenkins
4 55 (2.53%) GitLab
5 22 (1.01%) Selenium
6 18 (0.83%) JUnit
7 15 (0.69%) ERwin
8 12 (0.55%) MLflow
9 11 (0.51%) PowerDesigner
10 9 (0.41%) Android Studio
10 9 (0.41%) ER Studio
10 9 (0.41%) Postman
10 9 (0.41%) SonarQube
10 9 (0.41%) Visual Website Optimizer
11 8 (0.37%) DBeaver
11 8 (0.37%) Gradle
12 7 (0.32%) TeamCity
12 7 (0.32%) Xcode
13 6 (0.28%) PVCS
13 6 (0.28%) Visual Studio
General
1 780 (35.88%) Social Skills
2 623 (28.66%) Finance
3 467 (21.48%) Analytical Skills
4 214 (9.84%) Banking
5 185 (8.51%) Public Sector
6 168 (7.73%) Marketing
7 75 (3.45%) Front Office
8 70 (3.22%) Retail
9 56 (2.58%) Investment Banking
10 54 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
11 53 (2.44%) Legal
12 49 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
13 44 (2.02%) Manufacturing
14 39 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
15 37 (1.70%) Financial Institution
15 37 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
16 35 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 29 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
18 28 (1.29%) Publishing
18 28 (1.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 350 (16.10%) Analyst
2 288 (13.25%) Developer
3 232 (10.67%) Senior
4 230 (10.58%) Data Engineer
5 217 (9.98%) Architect
6 134 (6.16%) Lead
7 130 (5.98%) Data Analyst
8 124 (5.70%) Business Analyst
9 119 (5.47%) Consultant
10 77 (3.54%) Data Architect
11 75 (3.45%) Data Scientist
12 70 (3.22%) Azure Engineer
13 65 (2.99%) Senior Developer
14 52 (2.39%) Project Manager
15 40 (1.84%) Senior Analyst
16 39 (1.79%) Python Developer
17 38 (1.75%) Solutions Architect
18 36 (1.66%) SAP Consultant
19 33 (1.52%) Data Modeller
19 33 (1.52%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (5.11%) REST
2 89 (4.09%) Kafka
3 79 (3.63%) PySpark
4 54 (2.48%) Pandas
5 50 (2.30%) React
6 45 (2.07%) RESTful
7 44 (2.02%) SOAP
8 43 (1.98%) NumPy
9 42 (1.93%) Node.js
10 40 (1.84%) .NET
11 38 (1.75%) TensorFlow
12 36 (1.66%) HTML
13 35 (1.61%) scikit-learn
14 33 (1.52%) PyTorch
15 32 (1.47%) AngularJS
16 28 (1.29%) CSS
17 27 (1.24%) OAuth
18 25 (1.15%) pytest
19 24 (1.10%) JSON
20 23 (1.06%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 102 (4.69%) Product Ownership
2 83 (3.82%) Cloud Native
3 70 (3.22%) Data Structures
4 67 (3.08%) Onboarding
5 58 (2.67%) Algorithms
6 57 (2.62%) Management Information System
7 55 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
8 54 (2.48%) Analytical Mindset
9 49 (2.25%) Derivative
10 43 (1.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 42 (1.93%) Equities
12 40 (1.84%) Mobile App
13 39 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
14 33 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
15 31 (1.43%) Fixed Income
16 30 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
17 27 (1.24%) Social Media
17 27 (1.24%) Virtual Team
18 25 (1.15%) Life Science
19 24 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 70 (3.22%) Linux
2 69 (3.17%) Windows
3 28 (1.29%) Unix
4 20 (0.92%) Apple iOS
5 19 (0.87%) Android
6 14 (0.64%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.28%) VMS
7 6 (0.28%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.092%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.046%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.046%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.046%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.046%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 584 (26.86%) Business Intelligence
2 561 (25.80%) Agile
3 487 (22.40%) Problem-Solving
4 478 (21.99%) Data Modelling
5 398 (18.31%) CI/CD
6 368 (16.93%) DevOps
7 352 (16.19%) ETL
8 349 (16.05%) AI
9 327 (15.04%) Decision-Making
10 326 (15.00%) Data Pipeline
11 323 (14.86%) Data Governance
12 298 (13.71%) Data Analytics
13 290 (13.34%) Stakeholder Management
14 284 (13.06%) Data Science
15 279 (12.83%) Visualisation
16 271 (12.47%) Machine Learning
17 253 (11.64%) Data Engineering
18 243 (11.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 240 (11.04%) Continuous Improvement
20 239 (10.99%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 735 (33.81%) SQL
2 672 (30.91%) Python
3 132 (6.07%) Java
4 101 (4.65%) JavaScript
5 88 (4.05%) PowerShell
6 71 (3.27%) R
7 62 (2.85%) C#
8 48 (2.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 46 (2.12%) Bash
9 46 (2.12%) TypeScript
10 41 (1.89%) Bicep
11 37 (1.70%) Kusto Query Language
12 31 (1.43%) C++
13 30 (1.38%) Scala
14 28 (1.29%) VBA
15 24 (1.10%) T-SQL
16 17 (0.78%) PL/SQL
17 15 (0.69%) ABAP
18 13 (0.60%) Swift
19 12 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 345 (15.87%) Security Cleared
2 290 (13.34%) SC Cleared
3 225 (10.35%) Degree
4 69 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 59 (2.71%) Master's Degree
6 40 (1.84%) Azure Certification
7 28 (1.29%) CISSP
8 26 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
9 25 (1.15%) AWS Certification
10 22 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
11 21 (0.97%) PMI Certification
12 19 (0.87%) DV Cleared
13 16 (0.74%) CISM
13 16 (0.74%) PMP
14 11 (0.51%) CBAP
14 11 (0.51%) PhD
15 10 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
16 7 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 6 (0.28%) GIAC
17 6 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 317 (14.58%) Data Quality
2 123 (5.66%) GDPR
3 79 (3.63%) Accessibility
4 75 (3.45%) QA
5 33 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 26 (1.20%) NIST
7 19 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
8 18 (0.83%) PMO
9 13 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 12 (0.55%) HIPAA
10 12 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 11 (0.51%) GRC
11 11 (0.51%) WCAG
12 10 (0.46%) NCSC
12 10 (0.46%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.37%) Solvency II
14 7 (0.32%) GxP
14 7 (0.32%) PERC
15 6 (0.28%) IFRS
15 6 (0.28%) NIST 800
System Software
1 159 (7.31%) Docker
2 55 (2.53%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.46%) HDFS
4 10 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.23%) zsh
6 3 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.092%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.046%) GPFS
8 1 (0.046%) Lustre
8 1 (0.046%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.046%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.046%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.046%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 160 (7.36%) Kubernetes
2 151 (6.95%) Terraform
3 33 (1.52%) Ansible
4 19 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
5 17 (0.78%) Grafana
5 17 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (0.60%) SCCM
7 12 (0.55%) Puppet
8 10 (0.46%) Kibana
8 10 (0.46%) Prometheus
9 7 (0.32%) Hadoop YARN
10 6 (0.28%) logstash
10 6 (0.28%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.23%) Kubeflow
11 5 (0.23%) WSUS
12 4 (0.18%) RSA Archer
12 4 (0.18%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 3 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.14%) Fluentd
13 3 (0.14%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 403 (18.54%) Microsoft
2 244 (11.22%) Databricks
3 160 (7.36%) Google
4 151 (6.95%) Oracle
5 131 (6.03%) SAP
6 74 (3.40%) ServiceNow
7 71 (3.27%) Salesforce
8 56 (2.58%) Adobe
9 50 (2.30%) Talend
10 44 (2.02%) Splunk
11 37 (1.70%) Denodo
12 33 (1.52%) Workday
13 32 (1.47%) Informatica
14 31 (1.43%) Cisco
15 27 (1.24%) Dynatrace
16 24 (1.10%) OpenAI
17 22 (1.01%) Alteryx
17 22 (1.01%) AppDynamics
18 21 (0.97%) Foundry
19 17 (0.78%) Amplitude