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 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 30 38
Rank change year-on-year +8 +8 -2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,597 1,567 1,841
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.45% 6.04% 4.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.53% 6.71% 5.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,766 1,023 1,262
10th Percentile £350 £338 £363
25th Percentile £413 £444 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -0.77%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £503 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -6.81% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 25 76
10th Percentile £20.64 £22.75 £17.00
25th Percentile £37.81 £25.26 £25.00
Median hourly rate £56.40 £35.00 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year +61.14% -15.15% +23.13%
75th Percentile £75.00 £60.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £83.83 £64.73 £78.38
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +57.14% -17.65% +21.43%

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 30,443 23,357 32,953
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.38% 90.01% 87.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,446 14,532 21,897
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £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 1,911 750 2,006
10th Percentile £15.22 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.32 £21.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £26.61 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.99% - -
75th Percentile £62.29 £64.73 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.28 £72.90
UK median hourly rate £25.64 £32.50 £34.77
% change year-on-year -21.12% -6.52% -0.67%

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 20 February 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 20 February 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 20 February 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 +5 1,534 £525 -12.50% 1,441
Midlands +26 276 £492 +3.14% 219
North of England +8 271 £480 +3.78% 361
West Midlands +19 206 £500 +1.01% 135
South East -6 184 £490 +2.08% 510
North West +12 169 £478 +2.74% 215
South West +39 134 £525 +5.53% 140
East of England -5 99 £509 -15.21% 96
Yorkshire -18 79 £515 +11.24% 107
East Midlands +13 69 £440 +4.73% 84
North East +5 25 £450 +25.70% 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
1 112 (4.31%) Apache Spark
2 103 (3.97%) SAS
3 87 (3.35%) Apache Airflow
4 77 (2.96%) Apache
5 58 (2.23%) Confluence
6 48 (1.85%) SharePoint
7 30 (1.16%) CMS
8 20 (0.77%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 11 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
10 10 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
11 8 (0.31%) GeoServer
11 8 (0.31%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.31%) Smallworld
12 7 (0.27%) ArcGIS
12 7 (0.27%) WordPress
13 6 (0.23%) Oracle Application Server
13 6 (0.23%) WebLogic
14 5 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 5 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
15 3 (0.12%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 125 (4.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 27 (1.04%) MS Visio
5 20 (0.77%) Chatbot
6 14 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
7 9 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.19%) Adobe XD
8 5 (0.19%) Sketch
8 5 (0.19%) Trello
9 3 (0.12%) Notion
10 2 (0.077%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.039%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.039%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.039%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.039%) CPLEX
11 1 (0.039%) FrameMaker
11 1 (0.039%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.039%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.039%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 68 (2.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.42%) SAP HR
4 9 (0.35%) SAP EHS
4 9 (0.35%) SAP FI
5 8 (0.31%) Maximo
5 8 (0.31%) SAP MM
6 7 (0.27%) Aladdin
6 7 (0.27%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 7 (0.27%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 6 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 5 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 5 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.15%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
9 4 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.15%) SAP BPC
10 3 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 843 (32.46%) Azure
2 574 (22.10%) Power Platform
3 556 (21.41%) AWS
4 262 (10.09%) GCP
5 196 (7.55%) Azure Data Factory
6 182 (7.01%) Azure DevOps
7 172 (6.62%) Snowflake
8 171 (6.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 145 (5.58%) GitHub
10 124 (4.77%) Serverless
11 109 (4.20%) Azure Monitor
12 108 (4.16%) Amazon S3
13 107 (4.12%) dbt
14 101 (3.89%) SaaS
15 90 (3.47%) GitHub Actions
16 88 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
17 74 (2.85%) Entra ID
18 68 (2.62%) AWS Lambda
19 59 (2.27%) Power Automate
20 54 (2.08%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 44 (1.69%) Firewall
2 26 (1.00%) VPN
3 23 (0.89%) Network Security
4 21 (0.81%) DNS
5 16 (0.62%) SMS
6 10 (0.39%) WAN
7 9 (0.35%) SSL
8 8 (0.31%) DHCP
9 7 (0.27%) 5G
9 7 (0.27%) HTTP
9 7 (0.27%) LAN
10 6 (0.23%) 2G
10 6 (0.23%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.19%) 4G
11 5 (0.19%) FTP
11 5 (0.19%) SMTP
12 4 (0.15%) Intrusion Detection
12 4 (0.15%) MPLS
12 4 (0.15%) Radio Access Network
13 3 (0.12%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 528 (20.33%) Power BI
2 291 (11.21%) Data Warehouse
3 194 (7.47%) Data Lake
4 168 (6.47%) Tableau
5 149 (5.74%) Metadata
6 83 (3.20%) BigQuery
7 81 (3.12%) Delta Lake
8 78 (3.00%) SQL Server
9 77 (2.96%) Big Data
10 69 (2.66%) PostgreSQL
11 65 (2.50%) Snowflake Schema
12 63 (2.43%) Relational Database
13 61 (2.35%) Looker
14 56 (2.16%) Azure SQL Database
15 51 (1.96%) NoSQL
16 50 (1.93%) Amazon Redshift
17 46 (1.77%) Data Vault
17 46 (1.77%) Hadoop
18 45 (1.73%) Amazon Athena
19 43 (1.66%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 178 (6.85%) Git
2 158 (6.08%) JIRA
3 87 (3.35%) Jenkins
4 81 (3.12%) GitLab
5 29 (1.12%) Selenium
6 24 (0.92%) JUnit
7 23 (0.89%) ERwin
8 15 (0.58%) MLflow
9 13 (0.50%) PowerDesigner
10 11 (0.42%) ER Studio
11 10 (0.39%) Android Studio
11 10 (0.39%) Gradle
12 8 (0.31%) Visual Website Optimizer
12 8 (0.31%) Xcode
13 7 (0.27%) SonarQube
14 6 (0.23%) Cypress.io
14 6 (0.23%) MSI
14 6 (0.23%) Postman
15 5 (0.19%) Visual Studio
15 5 (0.19%) XCTest
General
1 833 (32.08%) Social Skills
2 696 (26.80%) Finance
3 493 (18.98%) Analytical Skills
4 238 (9.16%) Public Sector
5 206 (7.93%) Banking
6 165 (6.35%) Marketing
7 75 (2.89%) Retail
8 71 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
9 64 (2.46%) Front Office
10 54 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
11 48 (1.85%) Investment Banking
12 46 (1.77%) Legal
13 45 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
13 45 (1.73%) Manufacturing
14 44 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 41 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
16 34 (1.31%) Financial Institution
17 30 (1.16%) Telecoms
18 24 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
19 21 (0.81%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 402 (15.48%) Data Engineer
2 357 (13.75%) Analyst
3 319 (12.28%) Developer
4 301 (11.59%) Senior
5 293 (11.28%) Architect
6 199 (7.66%) Lead
7 138 (5.31%) Data Analyst
8 128 (4.93%) Consultant
9 123 (4.74%) Business Analyst
10 116 (4.47%) Data Architect
11 96 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
12 94 (3.62%) Data Scientist
13 67 (2.58%) Project Manager
13 67 (2.58%) Senior Data Engineer
14 63 (2.43%) Solutions Architect
15 61 (2.35%) Senior Developer
16 50 (1.93%) Designer
17 47 (1.81%) Snowflake Engineer
18 40 (1.54%) DevOps Engineer
19 39 (1.50%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (5.39%) REST
2 134 (5.16%) Kafka
3 128 (4.93%) PySpark
4 60 (2.31%) Pandas
4 60 (2.31%) React
5 57 (2.19%) TensorFlow
6 54 (2.08%) PyTorch
7 49 (1.89%) scikit-learn
8 48 (1.85%) NumPy
9 47 (1.81%) JSON
10 44 (1.69%) Node.js
11 43 (1.66%) HTML
12 42 (1.62%) .NET
13 40 (1.54%) AngularJS
13 40 (1.54%) RESTful
14 39 (1.50%) CSS
15 37 (1.42%) ARM Templates
16 33 (1.27%) SOAP
17 29 (1.12%) OAuth
17 29 (1.12%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 127 (4.89%) Cloud Native
2 98 (3.77%) Product Ownership
3 84 (3.23%) Data Structures
4 74 (2.85%) Onboarding
5 60 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
6 56 (2.16%) Management Information System
7 53 (2.04%) Algorithms
8 49 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
9 48 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
10 47 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
11 46 (1.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 42 (1.62%) Equities
13 38 (1.46%) Derivative
14 36 (1.39%) Mobile App
15 35 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
16 31 (1.19%) NHS
17 29 (1.12%) Public Cloud
18 28 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
18 28 (1.08%) Fixed Income
19 25 (0.96%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 86 (3.31%) Windows
2 75 (2.89%) Linux
3 27 (1.04%) Unix
4 26 (1.00%) Mac OS
5 25 (0.96%) Apple iOS
6 20 (0.77%) Android
7 8 (0.31%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.19%) VMS
8 5 (0.19%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.12%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.077%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.077%) zOS
11 1 (0.039%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.039%) CentOS
11 1 (0.039%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 711 (27.38%) Business Intelligence
2 652 (25.11%) Data Modelling
3 623 (23.99%) Agile
4 531 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
5 519 (19.98%) CI/CD
6 500 (19.25%) AI
7 488 (18.79%) ETL
8 473 (18.21%) DevOps
9 459 (17.67%) Data Pipeline
10 430 (16.56%) Data Engineering
11 414 (15.94%) Data Governance
12 379 (14.59%) Decision-Making
13 358 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
14 337 (12.98%) Data Science
15 319 (12.28%) Machine Learning
16 314 (12.09%) Data Analytics
17 289 (11.13%) Continuous Improvement
18 284 (10.94%) Visualisation
19 272 (10.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 248 (9.55%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 914 (35.19%) SQL
2 831 (32.00%) Python
3 151 (5.81%) Java
4 96 (3.70%) PowerShell
5 93 (3.58%) JavaScript
6 79 (3.04%) C#
7 76 (2.93%) R
8 67 (2.58%) Bicep
8 67 (2.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 50 (1.93%) Bash
10 47 (1.81%) TypeScript
11 41 (1.58%) Kusto Query Language
12 37 (1.42%) C++
12 37 (1.42%) T-SQL
13 35 (1.35%) Scala
14 29 (1.12%) VBA
15 23 (0.89%) PL/SQL
16 16 (0.62%) Swift
17 15 (0.58%) Shell Script
18 14 (0.54%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 428 (16.48%) Security Cleared
2 344 (13.25%) SC Cleared
3 255 (9.82%) Degree
4 73 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 63 (2.43%) Azure Certification
6 54 (2.08%) Master's Degree
7 42 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
8 39 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 30 (1.16%) DV Cleared
10 27 (1.04%) PMI Certification
11 25 (0.96%) AWS Certification
12 24 (0.92%) CISSP
13 21 (0.81%) PMP
14 18 (0.69%) CISM
15 14 (0.54%) IIBA
16 12 (0.46%) PhD
17 11 (0.42%) CBAP
18 10 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
19 8 (0.31%) CCNP
19 8 (0.31%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 458 (17.64%) Data Quality
2 148 (5.70%) GDPR
3 96 (3.70%) QA
4 94 (3.62%) Accessibility
5 37 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 28 (1.08%) NIST
7 23 (0.89%) WCAG
8 22 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
9 19 (0.73%) PMO
10 15 (0.58%) NCSC
10 15 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 12 (0.46%) Solvency II
12 10 (0.39%) SLA
13 9 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 9 (0.35%) HIPAA
13 9 (0.35%) NIST 800
14 8 (0.31%) PERC
15 7 (0.27%) GRC
15 7 (0.27%) PCI DSS
15 7 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 197 (7.59%) Docker
2 65 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.19%) HDFS
6 5 (0.19%) zsh
7 4 (0.15%) Snort
8 2 (0.077%) GPFS
8 2 (0.077%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.077%) Lustre
8 2 (0.077%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.077%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.039%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.039%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.039%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.039%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 222 (8.55%) Terraform
2 216 (8.32%) Kubernetes
3 34 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
4 30 (1.16%) Prometheus
5 25 (0.96%) Ansible
6 20 (0.77%) Grafana
7 18 (0.69%) SCCM
8 17 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (0.39%) Puppet
10 9 (0.35%) Kibana
11 7 (0.27%) logstash
12 5 (0.19%) WSUS
13 4 (0.15%) CSIRT
14 3 (0.12%) Argo
14 3 (0.12%) Cisco CUCM
14 3 (0.12%) Fluentd
15 2 (0.077%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 2 (0.077%) Hadoop YARN
15 2 (0.077%) Progress Chef
15 2 (0.077%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 489 (18.83%) Microsoft
2 347 (13.36%) Databricks
3 164 (6.31%) Google
4 138 (5.31%) SAP
5 132 (5.08%) Oracle
6 67 (2.58%) Adobe
6 67 (2.58%) Salesforce
7 65 (2.50%) ServiceNow
8 52 (2.00%) Talend
9 46 (1.77%) Informatica
10 44 (1.69%) OpenAI
10 44 (1.69%) Splunk
11 35 (1.35%) Foundry
12 32 (1.23%) Denodo
13 27 (1.04%) Workday
14 25 (0.96%) IBM
15 20 (0.77%) VMware
16 19 (0.73%) Amplitude
17 18 (0.69%) Cisco
18 16 (0.62%) Dynatrace