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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 36
Rank change year-on-year +2 +9 -1
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,152 1,650 1,865
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.39% 6.73% 4.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.68% 7.37% 5.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,151 1,085 1,295
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £449 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -1.79%
75th Percentile £626 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £795
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 36 49
10th Percentile £19.25 £14.55 £15.10
25th Percentile £35.00 £19.12 £25.00
Median hourly rate £57.30 £31.85 £30.37
Median % change year-on-year +79.93% +4.86% -5.98%
75th Percentile £75.00 £43.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £86.20 £79.35 £76.75
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £32.05 £30.19
% change year-on-year +68.49% +6.18% -6.55%

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 36,315 22,393 32,018
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.15% 91.34% 85.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,987 14,479 20,805
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £414 £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 2,273 1,020 2,369
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.80
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +69.64% -25.33% +5.63%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.21 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.56% -25.45% +4.20%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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% 886
North of England +6 369 £475 +2.70% 319
Midlands +11 356 £493 -2.72% 173
West Midlands +16 278 £492 -5.37% 115
South East -3 273 £500 - 423
South West +34 197 £500 - 160
North West +5 183 £495 +4.21% 197
Yorkshire 0 147 £500 +8.11% 80
East of England -7 115 £511 -14.88% 69
East Midlands +1 72 £525 +35.14% 58
North East -1 50 £450 +9.09% 43
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
1 157 (4.98%) Apache Spark
2 130 (4.12%) Apache Airflow
3 101 (3.20%) SAS
4 84 (2.66%) Apache
5 71 (2.25%) Confluence
6 44 (1.40%) SharePoint
7 26 (0.82%) CMS
7 26 (0.82%) Jupyter
8 19 (0.60%) Palantir Foundry
9 16 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 15 (0.48%) Oracle Application Server
11 14 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
12 9 (0.29%) 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
1 133 (4.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (0.60%) Chatbot
4 16 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
5 14 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
6 13 (0.41%) MS Visio
7 9 (0.29%) CPLEX
8 7 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
10 3 (0.095%) Trello
11 2 (0.063%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.063%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.063%) Sketch
12 1 (0.032%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.032%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.032%) InDesign
12 1 (0.032%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.032%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 69 (2.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
4 9 (0.29%) 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%) Adobe Campaign
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%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 955 (30.30%) Azure
2 697 (22.11%) Power Platform
3 624 (19.80%) AWS
4 271 (8.60%) GCP
5 229 (7.27%) Azure Data Factory
6 224 (7.11%) Azure DevOps
7 204 (6.47%) Snowflake
8 184 (5.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 161 (5.11%) GitHub
10 156 (4.95%) dbt
11 141 (4.47%) Amazon S3
12 139 (4.41%) Serverless
13 109 (3.46%) Azure Monitor
14 95 (3.01%) AWS Lambda
15 87 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
16 85 (2.70%) SaaS
17 82 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
18 74 (2.35%) Entra ID
19 49 (1.55%) Azure Key Vault
20 48 (1.52%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 40 (1.27%) Firewall
2 25 (0.79%) Network Security
3 24 (0.76%) VPN
4 19 (0.60%) WAN
5 18 (0.57%) SD-WAN
6 16 (0.51%) SMS
7 15 (0.48%) DNS
8 14 (0.44%) BGP
9 8 (0.25%) OSPF
9 8 (0.25%) VXLAN
10 7 (0.22%) 5G
10 7 (0.22%) HTTP
10 7 (0.22%) LAN
10 7 (0.22%) MPLS
10 7 (0.22%) Wireless
10 7 (0.22%) WLAN
11 6 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.16%) 802.11
12 5 (0.16%) DHCP
12 5 (0.16%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 651 (20.65%) Power BI
2 409 (12.98%) Data Warehouse
3 262 (8.31%) Data Lake
4 218 (6.92%) Tableau
5 187 (5.93%) Metadata
6 115 (3.65%) BigQuery
7 109 (3.46%) Delta Lake
7 109 (3.46%) SQL Server
8 95 (3.01%) Big Data
9 85 (2.70%) Relational Database
10 83 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
11 80 (2.54%) Amazon Athena
12 68 (2.16%) Snowflake Schema
13 66 (2.09%) NoSQL
13 66 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
14 64 (2.03%) Azure SQL Database
15 58 (1.84%) Looker
16 55 (1.74%) Power Query
17 54 (1.71%) Star Schema
18 49 (1.55%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 178 (5.65%) Git
2 164 (5.20%) JIRA
3 73 (2.32%) Jenkins
4 66 (2.09%) GitLab
5 20 (0.63%) ERwin
6 13 (0.41%) MLflow
7 11 (0.35%) Selenium
8 10 (0.32%) fastlane
8 10 (0.32%) JUnit
9 9 (0.29%) 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
13 5 (0.16%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.16%) SonarQube
13 5 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 5 (0.16%) Xcode
General
1 793 (25.16%) Finance
2 776 (24.62%) Social Skills
3 531 (16.85%) Analytical Skills
4 352 (11.17%) Public Sector
5 218 (6.92%) Banking
6 163 (5.17%) Marketing
7 113 (3.59%) Retail
8 75 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
9 66 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 64 (2.03%) Legal
11 55 (1.74%) Investment Banking
11 55 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
12 52 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
13 46 (1.46%) Manufacturing
14 44 (1.40%) Front Office
15 42 (1.33%) Telecoms
16 40 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
17 33 (1.05%) Financial Institution
18 28 (0.89%) Automotive
19 26 (0.82%) Military
Job Titles
1 608 (19.29%) Data Engineer
2 386 (12.25%) Analyst
3 383 (12.15%) Senior
4 371 (11.77%) Architect
5 336 (10.66%) Developer
6 274 (8.69%) Lead
7 173 (5.49%) Data Architect
8 159 (5.04%) Data Analyst
9 130 (4.12%) Consultant
10 111 (3.52%) Senior Data Engineer
11 109 (3.46%) Business Analyst
12 97 (3.08%) Azure Engineer
13 94 (2.98%) Data Scientist
13 94 (2.98%) Solutions Architect
14 70 (2.22%) Data Manager
15 61 (1.94%) Designer
16 60 (1.90%) Project Manager
17 55 (1.74%) AWS Engineer
18 54 (1.71%) Business Intelligence Developer
19 50 (1.59%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (5.81%) PySpark
2 128 (4.06%) Kafka
3 110 (3.49%) REST
4 59 (1.87%) React
5 58 (1.84%) Pandas
6 52 (1.65%) HTML
6 52 (1.65%) JSON
7 51 (1.62%) CSS
8 44 (1.40%) RESTful
9 43 (1.36%) PyTorch
10 41 (1.30%) .NET
10 41 (1.30%) TensorFlow
11 36 (1.14%) Middleware
12 32 (1.02%) AngularJS
12 32 (1.02%) scikit-learn
12 32 (1.02%) Web Services
13 31 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
14 30 (0.95%) ARM Templates
14 30 (0.95%) SOAP
15 28 (0.89%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 223 (7.07%) Cloud Native
2 162 (5.14%) Product Ownership
3 119 (3.78%) Data Structures
4 96 (3.05%) Onboarding
5 91 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
6 68 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
7 58 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
8 46 (1.46%) Algorithms
9 44 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
10 43 (1.36%) Management Information System
11 40 (1.27%) AI Agents
11 40 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
12 38 (1.21%) Public Cloud
13 37 (1.17%) Mobile App
14 36 (1.14%) NHS
15 31 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
16 29 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
17 28 (0.89%) Derivative
18 27 (0.86%) Virtual Team
19 26 (0.82%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 86 (2.73%) Windows
2 70 (2.22%) Linux
3 38 (1.21%) Unix
4 24 (0.76%) Mac OS
5 23 (0.73%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.51%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.38%) Android
8 5 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.095%) CentOS
9 3 (0.095%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.063%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.063%) VMS
11 1 (0.032%) Rocky
11 1 (0.032%) Solaris
11 1 (0.032%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 871 (27.63%) Business Intelligence
2 869 (27.57%) Data Modelling
3 737 (23.38%) AI
4 662 (21.00%) Data Pipeline
5 660 (20.94%) Agile
6 645 (20.46%) Data Engineering
7 641 (20.34%) CI/CD
8 565 (17.93%) ETL
9 530 (16.81%) DevOps
10 497 (15.77%) Decision-Making
11 496 (15.74%) Data Governance
12 486 (15.42%) Problem-Solving
13 461 (14.63%) Stakeholder Management
14 372 (11.80%) Data Science
15 371 (11.77%) Machine Learning
16 365 (11.58%) Migration
17 357 (11.33%) Continuous Improvement
18 356 (11.29%) Data Analytics
19 333 (10.56%) Validation
20 318 (10.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,064 (33.76%) SQL
2 956 (30.33%) Python
3 131 (4.16%) Java
4 108 (3.43%) PowerShell
5 101 (3.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 88 (2.79%) C#
7 72 (2.28%) R
8 69 (2.19%) Bicep
9 67 (2.13%) JavaScript
10 45 (1.43%) T-SQL
11 44 (1.40%) TypeScript
12 42 (1.33%) Scala
13 38 (1.21%) Kusto Query Language
14 32 (1.02%) Shell Script
15 31 (0.98%) Bash
16 27 (0.86%) PL/SQL
17 23 (0.73%) C++
18 16 (0.51%) VBA
19 11 (0.35%) Korn
20 10 (0.32%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 548 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 433 (13.74%) SC Cleared
3 236 (7.49%) Degree
4 72 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 71 (2.25%) Azure Certification
6 68 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
7 52 (1.65%) DV Cleared
8 46 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 35 (1.11%) Master's Degree
10 24 (0.76%) CISSP
11 23 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
11 23 (0.73%) PMI Certification
12 20 (0.63%) AWS Certification
13 19 (0.60%) DBS Check
13 19 (0.60%) PMP
14 15 (0.48%) CCNP
15 12 (0.38%) CCIE
16 10 (0.32%) IIBA
17 9 (0.29%) PhD
17 9 (0.29%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 599 (19.00%) Data Quality
2 157 (4.98%) GDPR
3 118 (3.74%) QA
4 102 (3.24%) Accessibility
5 43 (1.36%) WCAG
6 35 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (1.02%) NIST
8 27 (0.86%) PMO
9 19 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
9 19 (0.60%) GRC
10 15 (0.48%) SLA
10 15 (0.48%) Solvency II
11 13 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 11 (0.35%) NCSC
13 10 (0.32%) IFRS
14 9 (0.29%) ISO 20022
15 8 (0.25%) PCI DSS
16 7 (0.22%) GAAP
17 6 (0.19%) HL7
18 5 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 153 (4.85%) Docker
2 69 (2.19%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.48%) 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
1 245 (7.77%) Terraform
2 165 (5.23%) Kubernetes
3 33 (1.05%) Grafana
4 32 (1.02%) 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%) Kibana
13 2 (0.063%) Nessus
13 2 (0.063%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.063%) Rancher
13 2 (0.063%) SCOM
Vendors
1 552 (17.51%) Microsoft
2 417 (13.23%) Databricks
3 164 (5.20%) Oracle
4 157 (4.98%) SAP
5 145 (4.60%) Google
6 70 (2.22%) ServiceNow
7 67 (2.13%) Salesforce
8 65 (2.06%) Adobe
9 57 (1.81%) Informatica
10 52 (1.65%) Splunk
11 43 (1.36%) Talend
12 40 (1.27%) Foundry
12 40 (1.27%) OpenAI
13 39 (1.24%) Workday
14 37 (1.17%) Denodo
15 30 (0.95%) Dynatrace
16 22 (0.70%) Cisco
16 22 (0.70%) Palantir
17 21 (0.67%) IBM
17 21 (0.67%) VMware