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 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 30 39
Rank change year-on-year +7 +9 -3
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,363 1,524 1,793
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.32% 5.72% 4.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.31% 6.40% 5.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,606 981 1,233
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 24 72
10th Percentile £21.03 £25.26 £17.06
25th Percentile £30.96 £27.38 £25.19
Median hourly rate £46.50 £34.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.81% -18.24% +32.81%
75th Percentile £70.16 £60.23 £67.50
90th Percentile £78.95 £64.43 £79.05
UK median hourly rate £46.00 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +31.43% -17.65% +26.87%

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 28,450 23,808 32,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.12% 89.33% 87.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,222 14,593 21,730
10th Percentile £305 £310 £300
25th Percentile £409 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £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 1,765 770 1,701
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £38.16
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -8.27% +9.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.01 £63.29
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.00 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -13.33% +17.19%

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 21 January 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 21 January 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 21 January 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 +6 1,402 £525 -12.50% 747
Midlands +25 259 £513 +4.59% 335
North of England +9 246 £475 - 453
West Midlands +26 201 £515 +3.00% 125
South East -5 159 £494 +9.18% 914
North West +7 158 £475 - 203
South West +39 103 £525 +16.67% 267
East of England -3 94 £550 +10.00% 329
Yorkshire -8 73 £500 - 184
East Midlands +6 58 £431 -5.38% 202
North East -4 16 £390 -16.40% 70
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
1 104 (4.40%) SAS
2 86 (3.64%) Apache Spark
3 85 (3.60%) Apache Airflow
4 75 (3.17%) Apache
5 60 (2.54%) Confluence
6 48 (2.03%) SharePoint
7 36 (1.52%) CMS
8 20 (0.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 16 (0.68%) WebLogic
10 10 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
11 9 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
12 8 (0.34%) GeoServer
12 8 (0.34%) Jupyter
12 8 (0.34%) Smallworld
13 7 (0.30%) Oracle Application Server
14 6 (0.25%) WordPress
15 5 (0.21%) ArcGIS
15 5 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 3 (0.13%) IIS
17 2 (0.085%) Drupal
Applications
1 125 (5.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 29 (1.23%) MS Visio
4 24 (1.02%) Chatbot
5 14 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.25%) Trello
7 5 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.17%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.13%) Notion
9 3 (0.13%) Sketch
10 2 (0.085%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.042%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.042%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.042%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.042%) CapCut
11 1 (0.042%) FrameMaker
11 1 (0.042%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.042%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 87 (3.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.59%) SAP EHS
4 11 (0.47%) SAP HR
5 10 (0.42%) SAP FI
6 8 (0.34%) Maximo
7 7 (0.30%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 7 (0.30%) SAP MM
8 6 (0.25%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 6 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
8 6 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 5 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
9 5 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
9 5 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.21%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.21%) Workday HCM
10 4 (0.17%) NetSuite
10 4 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 4 (0.17%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 768 (32.50%) Azure
2 510 (21.58%) Power Platform
3 489 (20.69%) AWS
4 226 (9.56%) GCP
5 172 (7.28%) Azure DevOps
6 168 (7.11%) Azure Data Factory
7 151 (6.39%) Snowflake
8 150 (6.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 124 (5.25%) GitHub
10 116 (4.91%) Serverless
11 108 (4.57%) Azure Monitor
12 92 (3.89%) SaaS
13 85 (3.60%) Amazon S3
14 82 (3.47%) GitHub Actions
15 79 (3.34%) dbt
16 77 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
17 73 (3.09%) Entra ID
18 58 (2.45%) AWS Lambda
19 55 (2.33%) Power Automate
20 53 (2.24%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 44 (1.86%) Firewall
2 24 (1.02%) VPN
3 23 (0.97%) DNS
3 23 (0.97%) Network Security
4 17 (0.72%) SMS
5 11 (0.47%) SSL
6 9 (0.38%) WAN
7 8 (0.34%) DHCP
8 7 (0.30%) HTTP
8 7 (0.30%) LAN
8 7 (0.30%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.25%) 2G
9 6 (0.25%) 5G
10 5 (0.21%) FTP
10 5 (0.21%) SMTP
11 4 (0.17%) 4G
11 4 (0.17%) Radio Access Network
12 3 (0.13%) Internet
12 3 (0.13%) MPLS
12 3 (0.13%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 473 (20.02%) Power BI
2 240 (10.16%) Data Warehouse
3 168 (7.11%) Data Lake
4 140 (5.92%) Tableau
5 131 (5.54%) Metadata
6 76 (3.22%) SQL Server
7 69 (2.92%) BigQuery
8 67 (2.84%) Big Data
9 58 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
10 55 (2.33%) Delta Lake
11 54 (2.29%) Relational Database
12 53 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
13 50 (2.12%) Looker
14 49 (2.07%) Snowflake Schema
15 44 (1.86%) Hadoop
16 42 (1.78%) Star Schema
17 40 (1.69%) Data Vault
17 40 (1.69%) Power Query
18 39 (1.65%) Pentaho
19 36 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 178 (7.53%) JIRA
2 165 (6.98%) Git
3 84 (3.55%) Jenkins
4 75 (3.17%) GitLab
5 24 (1.02%) Selenium
6 18 (0.76%) ERwin
6 18 (0.76%) JUnit
7 14 (0.59%) MLflow
8 11 (0.47%) PowerDesigner
9 10 (0.42%) Android Studio
9 10 (0.42%) Gradle
10 9 (0.38%) ER Studio
10 9 (0.38%) Visual Website Optimizer
11 8 (0.34%) Postman
11 8 (0.34%) Xcode
12 6 (0.25%) DBeaver
12 6 (0.25%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.25%) Visual Studio
13 5 (0.21%) MSI
13 5 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
General
1 797 (33.73%) Social Skills
2 647 (27.38%) Finance
3 457 (19.34%) Analytical Skills
4 211 (8.93%) Public Sector
5 195 (8.25%) Banking
6 173 (7.32%) Marketing
7 76 (3.22%) Retail
8 69 (2.92%) Documentation Skills
9 63 (2.67%) Front Office
10 52 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
11 49 (2.07%) Legal
12 46 (1.95%) Manufacturing
13 44 (1.86%) Investment Banking
14 41 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 41 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
15 35 (1.48%) Pharmaceutical
16 33 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
17 32 (1.35%) Financial Institution
18 25 (1.06%) Telecoms
19 20 (0.85%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 337 (14.26%) Analyst
2 310 (13.12%) Data Engineer
3 305 (12.91%) Developer
4 266 (11.26%) Senior
5 245 (10.37%) Architect
6 175 (7.41%) Lead
7 131 (5.54%) Consultant
8 125 (5.29%) Data Analyst
9 119 (5.04%) Business Analyst
10 92 (3.89%) Data Architect
11 87 (3.68%) Azure Engineer
12 77 (3.26%) Data Scientist
13 62 (2.62%) Project Manager
14 58 (2.45%) Senior Developer
15 55 (2.33%) Senior Data Engineer
16 52 (2.20%) Solutions Architect
17 43 (1.82%) Snowflake Engineer
18 39 (1.65%) DevOps Engineer
19 38 (1.61%) Senior Analyst
20 37 (1.57%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (5.97%) REST
2 109 (4.61%) PySpark
3 100 (4.23%) Kafka
4 56 (2.37%) Pandas
4 56 (2.37%) React
5 53 (2.24%) HTML
6 46 (1.95%) TensorFlow
7 44 (1.86%) Node.js
7 44 (1.86%) NumPy
7 44 (1.86%) scikit-learn
7 44 (1.86%) SOAP
8 42 (1.78%) PyTorch
9 40 (1.69%) .NET
9 40 (1.69%) CSS
10 39 (1.65%) JSON
10 39 (1.65%) RESTful
11 35 (1.48%) AngularJS
12 34 (1.44%) ARM Templates
13 30 (1.27%) OAuth
14 24 (1.02%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 107 (4.53%) Cloud Native
2 100 (4.23%) Product Ownership
3 74 (3.13%) Data Structures
4 66 (2.79%) Onboarding
5 54 (2.29%) Algorithms
6 52 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
7 50 (2.12%) Management Information System
8 46 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
9 44 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
10 41 (1.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 40 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
12 39 (1.65%) Equities
13 37 (1.57%) Derivative
14 35 (1.48%) Mobile App
15 28 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
15 28 (1.18%) Life Science
15 28 (1.18%) NHS
16 27 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
16 27 (1.14%) Fixed Income
16 27 (1.14%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 73 (3.09%) Windows
2 71 (3.00%) Linux
3 31 (1.31%) Unix
4 20 (0.85%) Mac OS
5 19 (0.80%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.76%) Android
7 9 (0.38%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.21%) VMS
8 5 (0.21%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.042%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.042%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.042%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.042%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 649 (27.47%) Business Intelligence
2 578 (24.46%) Agile
3 533 (22.56%) Data Modelling
4 495 (20.95%) Problem-Solving
5 451 (19.09%) CI/CD
6 436 (18.45%) DevOps
7 419 (17.73%) AI
8 417 (17.65%) ETL
9 387 (16.38%) Data Pipeline
10 356 (15.07%) Data Governance
11 338 (14.30%) Decision-Making
12 324 (13.71%) Data Engineering
13 308 (13.03%) Stakeholder Management
14 301 (12.74%) Data Analytics
15 289 (12.23%) Data Science
16 276 (11.68%) Visualisation
17 271 (11.47%) Machine Learning
18 264 (11.17%) Continuous Improvement
19 257 (10.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 236 (9.99%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 802 (33.94%) SQL
2 724 (30.64%) Python
3 134 (5.67%) Java
4 102 (4.32%) JavaScript
5 95 (4.02%) PowerShell
6 72 (3.05%) C#
6 72 (3.05%) R
7 62 (2.62%) Bicep
8 56 (2.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 50 (2.12%) Bash
10 39 (1.65%) TypeScript
11 37 (1.57%) Kusto Query Language
12 36 (1.52%) C++
13 34 (1.44%) Scala
13 34 (1.44%) T-SQL
14 25 (1.06%) VBA
15 22 (0.93%) PL/SQL
16 16 (0.68%) Shell Script
17 14 (0.59%) Kotlin
18 13 (0.55%) Swift
Qualifications
1 392 (16.59%) Security Cleared
2 321 (13.58%) SC Cleared
3 218 (9.23%) Degree
4 67 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 59 (2.50%) Azure Certification
6 51 (2.16%) Master's Degree
7 38 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
8 31 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
9 29 (1.23%) CISSP
10 27 (1.14%) DV Cleared
11 26 (1.10%) PMI Certification
12 24 (1.02%) AWS Certification
13 20 (0.85%) PMP
14 19 (0.80%) CISM
15 14 (0.59%) IIBA
16 9 (0.38%) CBAP
16 9 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
17 8 (0.34%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
17 8 (0.34%) PhD
18 7 (0.30%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 380 (16.08%) Data Quality
2 141 (5.97%) GDPR
3 89 (3.77%) Accessibility
4 80 (3.39%) QA
5 37 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 30 (1.27%) NIST
7 21 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
8 18 (0.76%) PMO
9 17 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 14 (0.59%) WCAG
11 13 (0.55%) NCSC
12 11 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 10 (0.42%) PCI DSS
14 9 (0.38%) HIPAA
14 9 (0.38%) NIST 800
15 8 (0.34%) GRC
15 8 (0.34%) PERC
15 8 (0.34%) SLA
15 8 (0.34%) Solvency II
16 7 (0.30%) GxP
System Software
1 185 (7.83%) Docker
2 58 (2.45%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.42%) HDFS
6 5 (0.21%) zsh
7 4 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.085%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.042%) GPFS
9 1 (0.042%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.042%) Lustre
9 1 (0.042%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.042%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.042%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.042%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 188 (7.96%) Kubernetes
2 186 (7.87%) Terraform
3 30 (1.27%) Ansible
4 27 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (0.72%) SCCM
7 15 (0.63%) Grafana
8 14 (0.59%) Puppet
9 13 (0.55%) Prometheus
10 8 (0.34%) Kibana
11 7 (0.30%) Hadoop YARN
11 7 (0.30%) logstash
12 6 (0.25%) WSUS
13 3 (0.13%) Fluentd
13 3 (0.13%) Kubeflow
13 3 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 2 (0.085%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.085%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.085%) RSA Archer
14 2 (0.085%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 445 (18.83%) Microsoft
2 292 (12.36%) Databricks
3 157 (6.64%) Google
4 155 (6.56%) SAP
5 152 (6.43%) Oracle
6 71 (3.00%) Salesforce
7 65 (2.75%) Adobe
8 64 (2.71%) ServiceNow
9 54 (2.29%) Talend
10 44 (1.86%) Splunk
11 42 (1.78%) Informatica
12 41 (1.74%) Denodo
13 35 (1.48%) OpenAI
14 32 (1.35%) Workday
15 28 (1.18%) Foundry
16 27 (1.14%) Dynatrace
17 26 (1.10%) Cisco
18 22 (0.93%) IBM
19 19 (0.80%) AppDynamics
20 18 (0.76%) VMware