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 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 27 37
Rank change year-on-year +4 +10 -2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,989 1,680 1,755
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.58% 6.86% 4.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.88% 7.53% 5.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,059 1,132 1,207
10th Percentile £356 £338 £357
25th Percentile £425 £443 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -
75th Percentile £625 £681 £688
90th Percentile £750 £825 £793
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 31 49
10th Percentile £26.93 £15.28 £15.50
25th Percentile £45.25 £22.13 £25.00
Median hourly rate £60.25 £31.64 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +90.42% -10.87% +10.94%
75th Percentile £75.00 £38.00 £49.08
90th Percentile £82.40 £78.70 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £58.70 £31.64 £32.94
% change year-on-year +85.52% -3.93% +2.92%

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 33,651 22,305 32,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.36% 91.07% 86.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,531 14,664 21,253
10th Percentile £313 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,083 886 2,215
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.80 £12.85
25th Percentile £20.27 £18.51 £15.75
Median hourly rate £41.86 £31.64 £34.21
Median % change year-on-year +32.29% -7.51% -6.66%
75th Percentile £67.13 £63.75 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.38 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £33.78
% change year-on-year +25.00% -11.18% -5.92%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 18 April 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 +1 1,650 £539 -10.21% 887
Midlands +18 367 £492 +3.21% 215
North of England +12 327 £475 +2.70% 349
West Midlands +20 279 £493 -2.72% 116
South East -6 237 £500 - 418
South West +29 183 £500 +5.26% 131
North West +3 178 £495 +7.03% 216
Yorkshire +5 127 £475 - 90
East of England -5 118 £525 -12.50% 96
East Midlands +4 82 £450 +26.40% 99
North East +9 32 £450 +25.70% 48
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
1 153 (5.12%) Apache Spark
2 118 (3.95%) SAS
3 114 (3.81%) Apache Airflow
4 91 (3.04%) Apache
5 70 (2.34%) Confluence
6 51 (1.71%) SharePoint
7 27 (0.90%) CMS
8 18 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
9 17 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 16 (0.54%) Jupyter
11 11 (0.37%) Oracle Application Server
12 10 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
13 9 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
14 8 (0.27%) Apache Superset
15 6 (0.20%) ArcGIS
16 4 (0.13%) WordPress
17 3 (0.10%) Drupal
17 3 (0.10%) IIS
17 3 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
18 2 (0.067%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 130 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (0.74%) Chatbot
4 21 (0.70%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.20%) CPLEX
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
8 4 (0.13%) Trello
9 3 (0.10%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.10%) Notion
9 3 (0.10%) Sketch
10 2 (0.067%) Autodesk Smoke
10 2 (0.067%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.033%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.033%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.033%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.033%) InDesign
11 1 (0.033%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 65 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.30%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 9 (0.30%) SAP MM
4 8 (0.27%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 8 (0.27%) SAP FI
5 7 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.20%) Maximo
6 6 (0.20%) Sage X3
7 5 (0.17%) Aladdin
7 5 (0.17%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.17%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.13%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 921 (30.81%) Azure
2 647 (21.65%) Power Platform
3 619 (20.71%) AWS
4 297 (9.94%) GCP
5 234 (7.83%) Azure Data Factory
6 209 (6.99%) Azure DevOps
7 203 (6.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 179 (5.99%) GitHub
9 178 (5.96%) Snowflake
10 141 (4.72%) Amazon S3
11 139 (4.65%) Serverless
12 129 (4.32%) dbt
13 115 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
14 104 (3.48%) GitHub Actions
15 100 (3.35%) Microsoft 365
16 83 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
17 77 (2.58%) SaaS
18 76 (2.54%) Entra ID
19 66 (2.21%) Azure Key Vault
20 61 (2.04%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 44 (1.47%) Firewall
2 34 (1.14%) Network Security
3 26 (0.87%) VPN
4 25 (0.84%) DNS
5 14 (0.47%) SD-WAN
6 13 (0.43%) WAN
7 12 (0.40%) SMS
8 11 (0.37%) HTTP
9 10 (0.33%) SSL
10 8 (0.27%) MPLS
11 7 (0.23%) 5G
11 7 (0.23%) BGP
11 7 (0.23%) DHCP
11 7 (0.23%) FTP
11 7 (0.23%) OSPF
11 7 (0.23%) TCP/IP
11 7 (0.23%) VXLAN
12 6 (0.20%) Internet
12 6 (0.20%) SMTP
13 5 (0.17%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 594 (19.87%) Power BI
2 385 (12.88%) Data Warehouse
3 234 (7.83%) Data Lake
4 203 (6.79%) Tableau
5 190 (6.36%) Metadata
6 109 (3.65%) BigQuery
7 108 (3.61%) Delta Lake
8 100 (3.35%) SQL Server
9 88 (2.94%) Big Data
10 79 (2.64%) Amazon Redshift
11 76 (2.54%) Snowflake Schema
12 71 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
12 71 (2.38%) Relational Database
13 69 (2.31%) NoSQL
14 66 (2.21%) Amazon Athena
15 62 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
16 58 (1.94%) Looker
17 57 (1.91%) Power Query
17 57 (1.91%) Star Schema
18 51 (1.71%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 196 (6.56%) Git
2 174 (5.82%) JIRA
3 94 (3.14%) Jenkins
4 78 (2.61%) GitLab
5 25 (0.84%) Selenium
6 22 (0.74%) ERwin
7 20 (0.67%) JUnit
8 16 (0.54%) MLflow
9 9 (0.30%) PowerDesigner
10 8 (0.27%) Bitbucket
10 8 (0.27%) Gradle
10 8 (0.27%) MSI
10 8 (0.27%) SonarQube
11 7 (0.23%) Android Studio
11 7 (0.23%) ER Studio
12 6 (0.20%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.17%) Postman
13 5 (0.17%) XCTest
14 4 (0.13%) JMeter
15 3 (0.10%) TeamCity
General
1 836 (27.97%) Social Skills
2 753 (25.19%) Finance
3 556 (18.60%) Analytical Skills
4 309 (10.34%) Public Sector
5 194 (6.49%) Banking
6 170 (5.69%) Marketing
7 85 (2.84%) Retail
8 81 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
9 52 (1.74%) Legal
10 50 (1.67%) Front Office
10 50 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 50 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
11 49 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
12 48 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
13 45 (1.51%) Investment Banking
13 45 (1.51%) Telecoms
14 40 (1.34%) Manufacturing
15 30 (1.00%) Financial Institution
16 24 (0.80%) Advertising
17 22 (0.74%) Military
Job Titles
1 555 (18.57%) Data Engineer
2 355 (11.88%) Architect
3 353 (11.81%) Analyst
4 340 (11.38%) Senior
5 334 (11.17%) Developer
6 265 (8.87%) Lead
7 150 (5.02%) Data Architect
8 141 (4.72%) Data Analyst
9 125 (4.18%) Consultant
10 109 (3.65%) Azure Engineer
11 100 (3.35%) Business Analyst
12 96 (3.21%) Data Scientist
13 87 (2.91%) Senior Data Engineer
14 85 (2.84%) Solutions Architect
15 63 (2.11%) Project Manager
16 58 (1.94%) Designer
17 52 (1.74%) Data Manager
17 52 (1.74%) Snowflake Engineer
18 51 (1.71%) Python Developer
19 50 (1.67%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (5.75%) PySpark
2 154 (5.15%) Kafka
3 147 (4.92%) REST
4 72 (2.41%) Pandas
5 61 (2.04%) React
6 60 (2.01%) PyTorch
6 60 (2.01%) TensorFlow
7 55 (1.84%) JSON
8 49 (1.64%) NumPy
9 47 (1.57%) scikit-learn
10 45 (1.51%) AngularJS
11 44 (1.47%) HTML
11 44 (1.47%) Node.js
12 43 (1.44%) .NET
13 42 (1.41%) CSS
14 40 (1.34%) SOAP
15 37 (1.24%) Middleware
16 34 (1.14%) ARM Templates
16 34 (1.14%) Oracle Fusion
17 32 (1.07%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 192 (6.42%) Cloud Native
2 130 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 96 (3.21%) Data Structures
4 82 (2.74%) Onboarding
5 71 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
6 59 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
7 54 (1.81%) Algorithms
7 54 (1.81%) Management Information System
8 53 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
9 48 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
10 39 (1.30%) Public Cloud
11 38 (1.27%) NHS
12 35 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
13 34 (1.14%) Equities
13 34 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 32 (1.07%) AI Agents
14 32 (1.07%) Marketing Technology
15 30 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
15 30 (1.00%) Mobile App
16 29 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 85 (2.84%) Windows
2 75 (2.51%) Linux
3 33 (1.10%) Unix
4 32 (1.07%) Mac OS
5 20 (0.67%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.50%) Android
7 8 (0.27%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.23%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.067%) CentOS
10 2 (0.067%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.067%) zOS
11 1 (0.033%) Rocky
11 1 (0.033%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 823 (27.53%) Business Intelligence
2 813 (27.20%) Data Modelling
3 667 (22.32%) Agile
4 642 (21.48%) AI
5 630 (21.08%) CI/CD
6 616 (20.61%) Data Pipeline
7 595 (19.91%) Data Engineering
8 588 (19.67%) ETL
9 548 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
10 539 (18.03%) DevOps
11 506 (16.93%) Data Governance
12 466 (15.59%) Decision-Making
13 394 (13.18%) Stakeholder Management
14 380 (12.71%) Data Science
15 371 (12.41%) Machine Learning
16 345 (11.54%) Data Analytics
17 332 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
18 318 (10.64%) Migration
19 305 (10.20%) Validation
20 295 (9.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,030 (34.46%) SQL
2 960 (32.12%) Python
3 148 (4.95%) Java
4 108 (3.61%) PowerShell
5 102 (3.41%) C#
6 93 (3.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 82 (2.74%) R
8 77 (2.58%) JavaScript
9 74 (2.48%) Bicep
10 47 (1.57%) Kusto Query Language
11 46 (1.54%) T-SQL
12 43 (1.44%) Bash
12 43 (1.44%) Scala
13 42 (1.41%) TypeScript
14 29 (0.97%) PL/SQL
14 29 (0.97%) VBA
15 26 (0.87%) C++
16 24 (0.80%) Shell Script
17 11 (0.37%) Kotlin
18 8 (0.27%) Swift
Qualifications
1 537 (17.97%) Security Cleared
2 431 (14.42%) SC Cleared
3 233 (7.80%) Degree
4 72 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 67 (2.24%) Azure Certification
6 52 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
7 38 (1.27%) Master's Degree
8 37 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
9 36 (1.20%) DV Cleared
10 26 (0.87%) PMI Certification
11 25 (0.84%) CISSP
12 23 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
13 21 (0.70%) PMP
14 20 (0.67%) AWS Certification
15 18 (0.60%) CCNP
16 17 (0.57%) CISM
17 15 (0.50%) PhD
18 14 (0.47%) CCIE
18 14 (0.47%) IIBA
19 8 (0.27%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 538 (18.00%) Data Quality
2 161 (5.39%) GDPR
3 119 (3.98%) QA
4 93 (3.11%) Accessibility
5 32 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 32 (1.07%) WCAG
6 25 (0.84%) NIST
6 25 (0.84%) PMO
7 20 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
8 15 (0.50%) SLA
9 14 (0.47%) GRC
9 14 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 14 (0.47%) Solvency II
10 13 (0.43%) PERC
11 11 (0.37%) NCSC
12 9 (0.30%) HL7
13 8 (0.27%) ISO 20022
14 7 (0.23%) IFRS
14 7 (0.23%) NIST 800
14 7 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 203 (6.79%) Docker
2 73 (2.44%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.17%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.13%) HDFS
7 4 (0.13%) Snort
8 2 (0.067%) GPFS
8 2 (0.067%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.067%) Lustre
8 2 (0.067%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.033%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.033%) iptables
9 1 (0.033%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.033%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.033%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.033%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 256 (8.56%) Terraform
2 214 (7.16%) Kubernetes
3 43 (1.44%) Ansible
4 36 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
5 34 (1.14%) Grafana
6 30 (1.00%) Prometheus
7 18 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (0.50%) SCCM
9 9 (0.30%) Puppet
10 5 (0.17%) Argo
10 5 (0.17%) Kibana
11 4 (0.13%) Control-M
11 4 (0.13%) CSIRT
11 4 (0.13%) logstash
11 4 (0.13%) WSUS
12 3 (0.10%) Fluentd
12 3 (0.10%) Nagios
12 3 (0.10%) SysTrack
13 2 (0.067%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.067%) Apache Ranger
Vendors
1 537 (17.97%) Microsoft
2 405 (13.55%) Databricks
3 176 (5.89%) Google
4 162 (5.42%) Oracle
5 143 (4.78%) SAP
6 73 (2.44%) Salesforce
7 71 (2.38%) Adobe
7 71 (2.38%) ServiceNow
8 60 (2.01%) Informatica
9 58 (1.94%) Talend
10 57 (1.91%) Splunk
11 48 (1.61%) OpenAI
12 47 (1.57%) Denodo
13 39 (1.30%) Foundry
14 35 (1.17%) Workday
15 25 (0.84%) IBM
16 21 (0.70%) Cisco
17 19 (0.64%) VMware
18 17 (0.57%) Dynatrace
19 14 (0.47%) Palantir