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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 35
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 0
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,160 1,648 1,872
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.40% 6.70% 4.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.69% 7.33% 5.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,157 1,087 1,303
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £788
UK median daily rate £523 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.48% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 36 47
10th Percentile £19.25 £14.55 £14.70
25th Percentile £35.00 £19.12 £25.00
Median hourly rate £56.15 £32.05 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +75.20% +6.83% -7.12%
75th Percentile £75.00 £62.44 £43.75
90th Percentile £85.73 £79.35 £70.25
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £34.50 £29.00
% change year-on-year +56.52% +18.97% -10.22%

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 36,362 22,469 32,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.16% 91.35% 85.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,009 14,533 20,781
10th Percentile £325 £304 £300
25th Percentile £415 £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 2,276 1,038 2,365
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.79 £18.13 £16.02
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.85 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.76% -25.73% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.66 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.13 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.06% -25.68% +1.67%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 1,746 £550 -4.35% 1,115
North of England +4 372 £475 +2.37% 357
Midlands +9 357 £493 -2.72% 201
West Midlands +15 279 £492 -5.37% 130
South East -2 276 £500 - 449
South West +35 197 £500 - 162
North West +1 184 £495 +4.21% 224
Yorkshire +1 148 £500 +7.76% 92
East of England -8 117 £511 -14.88% 83
East Midlands +3 72 £525 +35.14% 71
North East +4 51 £450 +9.09% 42
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
1 156 (4.94%) Apache Spark
2 130 (4.11%) Apache Airflow
3 101 (3.20%) SAS
4 83 (2.63%) Apache
5 72 (2.28%) Confluence
6 44 (1.39%) SharePoint
7 27 (0.85%) CMS
8 26 (0.82%) Jupyter
9 20 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
10 15 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 15 (0.47%) Oracle Application Server
11 14 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
12 9 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
13 8 (0.25%) Apache Superset
14 6 (0.19%) IIS
14 6 (0.19%) WordPress
15 5 (0.16%) ArcGIS
16 4 (0.13%) Drupal
17 3 (0.095%) Oracle SOA Suite
18 2 (0.063%) OpenStack
Applications
1 135 (4.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (0.60%) Chatbot
4 17 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
5 15 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
6 13 (0.41%) MS Visio
7 9 (0.28%) CPLEX
8 7 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
10 2 (0.063%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.063%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.063%) Sketch
10 2 (0.063%) Trello
11 1 (0.032%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.032%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.032%) InDesign
11 1 (0.032%) PlantUML
11 1 (0.032%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 70 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
4 10 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.25%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 8 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.22%) Aladdin
6 7 (0.22%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.19%) Sage X3
8 5 (0.16%) BambooHR
8 5 (0.16%) Maximo
9 4 (0.13%) iTrent
9 4 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 4 (0.13%) SAP BPC
9 4 (0.13%) Shopify
9 4 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 3 (0.095%) Adobe Campaign
10 3 (0.095%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 960 (30.38%) Azure
2 701 (22.18%) Power Platform
3 624 (19.75%) AWS
4 270 (8.54%) GCP
5 228 (7.22%) Azure Data Factory
6 227 (7.18%) Azure DevOps
7 207 (6.55%) Snowflake
8 184 (5.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 163 (5.16%) GitHub
10 157 (4.97%) dbt
11 140 (4.43%) Amazon S3
12 139 (4.40%) Serverless
13 110 (3.48%) Azure Monitor
14 94 (2.97%) AWS Lambda
15 88 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
16 86 (2.72%) SaaS
17 82 (2.59%) Microsoft 365
18 75 (2.37%) Entra ID
19 50 (1.58%) Azure Key Vault
20 48 (1.52%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 41 (1.30%) Firewall
2 26 (0.82%) Network Security
3 24 (0.76%) VPN
4 19 (0.60%) WAN
5 18 (0.57%) SD-WAN
6 15 (0.47%) DNS
6 15 (0.47%) SMS
7 14 (0.44%) BGP
8 8 (0.25%) OSPF
8 8 (0.25%) VXLAN
9 7 (0.22%) 5G
9 7 (0.22%) HTTP
9 7 (0.22%) LAN
9 7 (0.22%) MPLS
9 7 (0.22%) Wireless
9 7 (0.22%) WLAN
10 6 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (0.16%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (0.16%) Ethernet VPN
11 5 (0.16%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 655 (20.73%) Power BI
2 414 (13.10%) Data Warehouse
3 263 (8.32%) Data Lake
4 218 (6.90%) Tableau
5 190 (6.01%) Metadata
6 115 (3.64%) BigQuery
7 109 (3.45%) Delta Lake
7 109 (3.45%) SQL Server
8 95 (3.01%) Big Data
9 84 (2.66%) Amazon Redshift
10 83 (2.63%) Relational Database
11 79 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
12 70 (2.22%) Snowflake Schema
13 66 (2.09%) NoSQL
14 65 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
15 64 (2.03%) Azure SQL Database
16 57 (1.80%) Looker
17 56 (1.77%) Power Query
17 56 (1.77%) Star Schema
18 49 (1.55%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 178 (5.63%) Git
2 164 (5.19%) JIRA
3 74 (2.34%) Jenkins
4 66 (2.09%) GitLab
5 20 (0.63%) ERwin
6 13 (0.41%) MLflow
7 11 (0.35%) fastlane
7 11 (0.35%) Selenium
8 10 (0.32%) JUnit
9 9 (0.28%) ER Studio
10 8 (0.25%) MSI
11 7 (0.22%) Postman
11 7 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
12 6 (0.19%) Android Studio
12 6 (0.19%) Crashlytics
12 6 (0.19%) Gradle
12 6 (0.19%) Xcode
13 5 (0.16%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.16%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 793 (25.09%) Finance
2 780 (24.68%) Social Skills
3 534 (16.90%) Analytical Skills
4 357 (11.30%) Public Sector
5 217 (6.87%) Banking
6 162 (5.13%) Marketing
7 116 (3.67%) Retail
8 75 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
9 69 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 64 (2.03%) Legal
11 55 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
12 54 (1.71%) Investment Banking
13 52 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
14 48 (1.52%) Manufacturing
15 43 (1.36%) Front Office
16 42 (1.33%) Telecoms
17 40 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
18 33 (1.04%) Financial Institution
19 28 (0.89%) Automotive
20 26 (0.82%) Military
Job Titles
1 607 (19.21%) Data Engineer
2 389 (12.31%) Analyst
3 382 (12.09%) Senior
4 377 (11.93%) Architect
5 332 (10.51%) Developer
6 273 (8.64%) Lead
7 176 (5.57%) Data Architect
8 161 (5.09%) Data Analyst
9 131 (4.15%) Consultant
10 110 (3.48%) Senior Data Engineer
11 109 (3.45%) Business Analyst
12 97 (3.07%) Azure Engineer
13 96 (3.04%) Solutions Architect
14 95 (3.01%) Data Scientist
15 68 (2.15%) Data Manager
16 61 (1.93%) Designer
17 58 (1.84%) Project Manager
18 55 (1.74%) Business Intelligence Developer
19 54 (1.71%) AWS Engineer
20 50 (1.58%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (5.82%) PySpark
2 127 (4.02%) Kafka
3 108 (3.42%) REST
4 58 (1.84%) React
5 57 (1.80%) Pandas
6 49 (1.55%) HTML
6 49 (1.55%) JSON
7 47 (1.49%) CSS
8 44 (1.39%) RESTful
9 43 (1.36%) PyTorch
10 41 (1.30%) .NET
10 41 (1.30%) TensorFlow
11 37 (1.17%) Middleware
12 32 (1.01%) Oracle Fusion
12 32 (1.01%) scikit-learn
12 32 (1.01%) Web Services
13 31 (0.98%) AngularJS
13 31 (0.98%) ARM Templates
14 30 (0.95%) SOAP
15 28 (0.89%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 222 (7.03%) Cloud Native
2 164 (5.19%) Product Ownership
3 119 (3.77%) Data Structures
4 97 (3.07%) Onboarding
5 94 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
6 67 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
7 59 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
8 45 (1.42%) Algorithms
9 44 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
10 43 (1.36%) Management Information System
11 40 (1.27%) AI Agents
11 40 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
12 38 (1.20%) Mobile App
12 38 (1.20%) Public Cloud
13 37 (1.17%) NHS
14 31 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
14 31 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
15 27 (0.85%) Derivative
15 27 (0.85%) Virtual Team
16 26 (0.82%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 86 (2.72%) Windows
2 70 (2.22%) Linux
3 38 (1.20%) Unix
4 24 (0.76%) Apple iOS
4 24 (0.76%) Mac OS
5 16 (0.51%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.38%) Android
7 5 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.095%) CentOS
8 3 (0.095%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.063%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.063%) VMS
10 1 (0.032%) Rocky
10 1 (0.032%) Solaris
10 1 (0.032%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 878 (27.78%) Business Intelligence
2 872 (27.59%) Data Modelling
3 744 (23.54%) AI
4 664 (21.01%) Agile
5 662 (20.95%) Data Pipeline
6 645 (20.41%) CI/CD
7 644 (20.38%) Data Engineering
8 568 (17.97%) ETL
9 532 (16.84%) DevOps
10 503 (15.92%) Decision-Making
11 494 (15.63%) Data Governance
12 488 (15.44%) Problem-Solving
13 463 (14.65%) Stakeholder Management
14 372 (11.77%) Data Science
14 372 (11.77%) Machine Learning
15 369 (11.68%) Migration
16 359 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
17 358 (11.33%) Data Analytics
18 332 (10.51%) Validation
19 319 (10.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,064 (33.67%) SQL
2 955 (30.22%) Python
3 131 (4.15%) Java
4 109 (3.45%) PowerShell
5 102 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 86 (2.72%) C#
7 71 (2.25%) Bicep
7 71 (2.25%) R
8 63 (1.99%) JavaScript
9 45 (1.42%) T-SQL
10 44 (1.39%) TypeScript
11 42 (1.33%) Scala
12 38 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
13 32 (1.01%) Shell Script
14 31 (0.98%) Bash
15 27 (0.85%) PL/SQL
16 21 (0.66%) C++
17 17 (0.54%) VBA
18 11 (0.35%) Korn
18 11 (0.35%) Swift
Qualifications
1 548 (17.34%) Security Cleared
2 433 (13.70%) SC Cleared
3 241 (7.63%) Degree
4 74 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 71 (2.25%) Azure Certification
6 69 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
7 53 (1.68%) DV Cleared
8 47 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
9 37 (1.17%) Master's Degree
10 24 (0.76%) CISSP
11 23 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
11 23 (0.73%) PMI Certification
12 19 (0.60%) AWS Certification
12 19 (0.60%) DBS Check
12 19 (0.60%) PMP
13 15 (0.47%) CCNP
14 12 (0.38%) CCIE
15 10 (0.32%) IIBA
16 9 (0.28%) PhD
16 9 (0.28%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 602 (19.05%) Data Quality
2 158 (5.00%) GDPR
3 120 (3.80%) QA
4 103 (3.26%) Accessibility
5 44 (1.39%) WCAG
6 35 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (1.01%) NIST
8 27 (0.85%) PMO
9 20 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
10 19 (0.60%) GRC
11 15 (0.47%) SLA
11 15 (0.47%) Solvency II
12 14 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 11 (0.35%) NCSC
14 10 (0.32%) IFRS
15 9 (0.28%) ISO 20022
16 8 (0.25%) PCI DSS
17 7 (0.22%) GAAP
18 6 (0.19%) HL7
19 5 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 153 (4.84%) Docker
2 70 (2.22%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.22%) 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
1 247 (7.82%) Terraform
2 165 (5.22%) Kubernetes
3 33 (1.04%) Grafana
4 32 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
5 30 (0.95%) Ansible
6 29 (0.92%) Prometheus
7 22 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.25%) SCCM
9 6 (0.19%) Control-M
10 5 (0.16%) Argo
10 5 (0.16%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.13%) CSIRT
12 3 (0.095%) Nagios
12 3 (0.095%) Puppet
12 3 (0.095%) QRadar
13 2 (0.063%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.063%) Nessus
13 2 (0.063%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.063%) Rancher
13 2 (0.063%) SCOM
Vendors
1 555 (17.56%) Microsoft
2 418 (13.23%) Databricks
3 165 (5.22%) Oracle
4 157 (4.97%) SAP
5 146 (4.62%) Google
6 70 (2.22%) ServiceNow
7 67 (2.12%) Salesforce
8 62 (1.96%) Adobe
9 57 (1.80%) Informatica
10 52 (1.65%) Splunk
11 43 (1.36%) Talend
12 41 (1.30%) Foundry
13 40 (1.27%) OpenAI
14 39 (1.23%) Workday
15 37 (1.17%) Denodo
16 31 (0.98%) Dynatrace
17 24 (0.76%) Palantir
18 22 (0.70%) Cisco
19 21 (0.66%) IBM
19 21 (0.66%) VMware