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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 35
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 +2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,534 1,798 1,763
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.73% 6.51% 5.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.09% 7.17% 6.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,362 1,184 1,262
10th Percentile £363 £352 £358
25th Percentile £433 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £554
Median % change year-on-year - -5.19% -3.70%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £688
90th Percentile £750 £790 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 48 23
10th Percentile £20.91 £16.13 £22.30
25th Percentile £28.19 £26.35 £27.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £34.74 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.12% +12.06% -4.02%
75th Percentile £75.63 £71.59 £43.75
90th Percentile £87.14 £80.30 £59.05
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £34.74 £30.19
% change year-on-year +51.11% +15.09% -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 38,860 25,068 28,450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.96% 90.79% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,105 15,945 18,530
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £627 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,559 1,442 1,597
10th Percentile £14.28 £14.20 £14.15
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.87 £18.16
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +5.94%
75th Percentile £68.55 £50.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +67.00% -38.57% +0.86%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 1,927 £550 - 2,923
North of England +12 451 £495 +9.94% 587
Midlands +7 425 £493 -4.37% 263
South East +11 363 £513 -0.24% 621
West Midlands +5 340 £491 -5.89% 165
North West 0 227 £525 +10.53% 347
Yorkshire +5 185 £463 +2.78% 163
South West +11 175 £500 +6.38% 251
East of England -7 108 £565 -1.74% 147
East Midlands +4 78 £525 +27.27% 98
North East -3 50 £445 +6.27% 80
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
1 158 (4.47%) Apache Airflow
2 148 (4.19%) Apache Spark
3 128 (3.62%) SAS
4 99 (2.80%) Apache
5 74 (2.09%) Confluence
6 51 (1.44%) SharePoint
7 48 (1.36%) CMS
8 31 (0.88%) Palantir Foundry
9 30 (0.85%) Jupyter
10 26 (0.74%) Oracle Application Server
11 20 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 13 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
13 10 (0.28%) Apache Superset
13 10 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
14 8 (0.23%) Drupal
14 8 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
15 6 (0.17%) IIS
15 6 (0.17%) WordPress
16 2 (0.057%) ArcGIS
16 2 (0.057%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 158 (4.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 23 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (0.59%) Chatbot
5 17 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
6 15 (0.42%) CPLEX
7 11 (0.31%) MS Visio
8 10 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.11%) Trello
10 3 (0.085%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.085%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.085%) Oracle Smart View
11 2 (0.057%) InDesign
11 2 (0.057%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.057%) Sketch
12 1 (0.028%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.028%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.028%) Notion
12 1 (0.028%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.028%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 65 (1.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
4 14 (0.40%) Workday HCM
5 13 (0.37%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 10 (0.28%) Aladdin
7 9 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
7 9 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
7 9 (0.25%) Shopify
8 8 (0.23%) SAP ERP
9 7 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
9 7 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 6 (0.17%) NetSuite
10 6 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
10 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.17%) SAP BPC
10 6 (0.17%) SAP GRC
11 5 (0.14%) Infor LN
11 5 (0.14%) SAP CO
11 5 (0.14%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 1,039 (29.40%) Azure
2 721 (20.40%) Power Platform
3 626 (17.71%) AWS
4 303 (8.57%) GCP
5 237 (6.71%) Azure DevOps
6 235 (6.65%) Snowflake
7 232 (6.56%) Azure Data Factory
8 189 (5.35%) dbt
9 188 (5.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 157 (4.44%) GitHub
11 137 (3.88%) Serverless
12 133 (3.76%) Azure Monitor
13 130 (3.68%) Amazon S3
14 114 (3.23%) Entra ID
15 101 (2.86%) SaaS
16 94 (2.66%) AWS Lambda
17 86 (2.43%) GitHub Actions
18 83 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
19 62 (1.75%) Google Analytics
20 56 (1.58%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.75%) Firewall
2 53 (1.50%) Network Security
3 38 (1.08%) DNS
4 34 (0.96%) VPN
5 26 (0.74%) WAN
6 23 (0.65%) SD-WAN
7 21 (0.59%) TCP/IP
8 20 (0.57%) BGP
9 14 (0.40%) DHCP
10 11 (0.31%) OSPF
11 10 (0.28%) Broadband
11 10 (0.28%) SMS
12 9 (0.25%) Wireless
13 8 (0.23%) LAN
14 7 (0.20%) HTTP
14 7 (0.20%) Internet
14 7 (0.20%) VXLAN
14 7 (0.20%) WLAN
15 6 (0.17%) 5G
15 6 (0.17%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 687 (19.44%) Power BI
2 460 (13.02%) Data Warehouse
3 262 (7.41%) Data Lake
4 229 (6.48%) Tableau
5 224 (6.34%) Metadata
6 139 (3.93%) BigQuery
7 100 (2.83%) SQL Server
8 99 (2.80%) Big Data
9 92 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
10 91 (2.57%) Delta Lake
11 87 (2.46%) Relational Database
12 76 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
13 75 (2.12%) Looker
14 73 (2.07%) NoSQL
15 71 (2.01%) Snowflake Schema
16 66 (1.87%) Amazon Athena
17 65 (1.84%) Azure SQL Database
18 60 (1.70%) Semantic Layer
19 56 (1.58%) Power Query
20 54 (1.53%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 202 (5.72%) Git
2 170 (4.81%) JIRA
3 79 (2.24%) Jenkins
4 53 (1.50%) GitLab
5 17 (0.48%) ERwin
6 11 (0.31%) Selenium
7 10 (0.28%) fastlane
7 10 (0.28%) JUnit
8 9 (0.25%) ER Studio
8 9 (0.25%) SonarQube
9 8 (0.23%) MLflow
10 7 (0.20%) Bitbucket
10 7 (0.20%) Gradle
10 7 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
11 6 (0.17%) Android Studio
11 6 (0.17%) Crashlytics
12 5 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
12 5 (0.14%) Postman
12 5 (0.14%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.14%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 913 (25.83%) Social Skills
2 886 (25.07%) Finance
3 633 (17.91%) Analytical Skills
4 429 (12.14%) Public Sector
5 259 (7.33%) Banking
6 220 (6.23%) Marketing
7 161 (4.56%) Retail
8 94 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 90 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
10 74 (2.09%) Legal
11 65 (1.84%) Manufacturing
12 64 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
13 61 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
14 56 (1.58%) Front Office
15 54 (1.53%) Investment Banking
16 49 (1.39%) Telecoms
17 46 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
18 40 (1.13%) Financial Institution
18 40 (1.13%) Publishing
19 35 (0.99%) Military
Job Titles
1 631 (17.86%) Data Engineer
2 457 (12.93%) Architect
3 442 (12.51%) Senior
4 434 (12.28%) Analyst
5 341 (9.65%) Developer
6 309 (8.74%) Lead
7 204 (5.77%) Data Architect
8 174 (4.92%) Data Analyst
9 155 (4.39%) Consultant
10 126 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
11 112 (3.17%) Senior Data Engineer
12 108 (3.06%) Azure Engineer
13 107 (3.03%) Data Scientist
14 105 (2.97%) Business Analyst
15 73 (2.07%) Data Manager
16 64 (1.81%) Product Manager
17 61 (1.73%) Azure Data Engineer
17 61 (1.73%) Python Developer
18 60 (1.70%) Project Manager
19 59 (1.67%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 212 (6.00%) PySpark
2 135 (3.82%) REST
3 117 (3.31%) Kafka
4 64 (1.81%) Pandas
5 57 (1.61%) RESTful
6 50 (1.41%) React
7 49 (1.39%) .NET
7 49 (1.39%) HTML
8 47 (1.33%) JSON
9 45 (1.27%) CSS
10 42 (1.19%) OAuth
11 38 (1.08%) ARM Templates
11 38 (1.08%) NumPy
12 37 (1.05%) Oracle Fusion
13 35 (0.99%) SOAP
14 34 (0.96%) OpenID
14 34 (0.96%) Web Services
15 32 (0.91%) OAuth2
16 30 (0.85%) Microsoft Graph
17 28 (0.79%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 244 (6.90%) Cloud Native
2 187 (5.29%) Product Ownership
3 142 (4.02%) Data Structures
4 123 (3.48%) Legacy Systems
5 118 (3.34%) Onboarding
6 71 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
7 64 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
8 60 (1.70%) Management Information System
9 51 (1.44%) AI Agents
10 49 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
11 44 (1.25%) Algorithms
12 42 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
12 42 (1.19%) NHS
12 42 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
13 41 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
14 37 (1.05%) Marketing Technology
14 37 (1.05%) Virtual Team
15 34 (0.96%) Mobile App
16 30 (0.85%) Social Media
17 29 (0.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 87 (2.46%) Linux
2 78 (2.21%) Windows
3 41 (1.16%) Unix
4 32 (0.91%) Windows Server
5 16 (0.45%) Apple iOS
6 14 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.34%) Mac OS
8 10 (0.28%) Android
9 6 (0.17%) VMS
10 5 (0.14%) Windows 10
11 4 (0.11%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.085%) Solaris
13 2 (0.057%) AIX
13 2 (0.057%) CentOS
13 2 (0.057%) HPUX
14 1 (0.028%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 959 (27.14%) Data Modelling
2 917 (25.95%) Business Intelligence
3 851 (24.08%) AI
4 827 (23.40%) Agile
5 743 (21.02%) Data Pipeline
6 700 (19.81%) Data Engineering
7 684 (19.35%) CI/CD
8 677 (19.16%) Stakeholder Management
9 626 (17.71%) Decision-Making
10 593 (16.78%) ETL
11 561 (15.87%) Data Governance
12 552 (15.62%) DevOps
13 518 (14.66%) Problem-Solving
14 448 (12.68%) Migration
15 433 (12.25%) Continuous Improvement
16 429 (12.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 415 (11.74%) Machine Learning
18 401 (11.35%) Data Science
18 401 (11.35%) Validation
19 380 (10.75%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,146 (32.43%) SQL
2 991 (28.04%) Python
3 155 (4.39%) PowerShell
4 110 (3.11%) Java
5 103 (2.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 86 (2.43%) C#
7 82 (2.32%) Bicep
8 75 (2.12%) JavaScript
9 55 (1.56%) R
10 49 (1.39%) Bash
11 36 (1.02%) Scala
12 35 (0.99%) Shell Script
12 35 (0.99%) TypeScript
13 34 (0.96%) Kusto Query Language
14 31 (0.88%) T-SQL
15 28 (0.79%) PL/SQL
16 17 (0.48%) C++
16 17 (0.48%) VBA
17 11 (0.31%) Kotlin
18 10 (0.28%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 649 (18.36%) Security Cleared
2 516 (14.60%) SC Cleared
3 282 (7.98%) Degree
4 85 (2.41%) Azure Certification
5 79 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
6 77 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 73 (2.07%) DV Cleared
8 55 (1.56%) Master's Degree
9 44 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
10 38 (1.08%) CISSP
11 28 (0.79%) AWS Certification
11 28 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
12 26 (0.74%) PMI Certification
13 22 (0.62%) PMP
14 20 (0.57%) DBS Check
15 15 (0.42%) CCNP
16 14 (0.40%) CCIE
17 12 (0.34%) PhD
18 11 (0.31%) CISA
18 11 (0.31%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 696 (19.69%) Data Quality
2 167 (4.73%) GDPR
3 141 (3.99%) QA
4 133 (3.76%) Accessibility
5 52 (1.47%) GRC
6 48 (1.36%) WCAG
7 39 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 32 (0.91%) NIST
9 26 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
10 25 (0.71%) PMO
11 16 (0.45%) SLA
12 14 (0.40%) PCI DSS
12 14 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 13 (0.37%) Solvency II
14 11 (0.31%) PERC
15 10 (0.28%) IFRS
15 10 (0.28%) NCSC
16 7 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
17 6 (0.17%) GAAP
17 6 (0.17%) PSD2
System Software
1 158 (4.47%) Docker
2 91 (2.57%) Active Directory
3 28 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.23%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.20%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.085%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 3 (0.085%) HDFS
9 2 (0.057%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.057%) vSphere
9 2 (0.057%) XenApp
9 2 (0.057%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.028%) iptables
10 1 (0.028%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.028%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 257 (7.27%) Terraform
2 175 (4.95%) Kubernetes
3 51 (1.44%) Ansible
4 38 (1.08%) Grafana
5 24 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
6 23 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
7 15 (0.42%) Prometheus
8 13 (0.37%) SCCM
9 8 (0.23%) Control-M
9 8 (0.23%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.20%) SCOM
11 6 (0.17%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.11%) Podman
12 4 (0.11%) QRadar
12 4 (0.11%) SysTrack
13 3 (0.085%) Apache Ranger
13 3 (0.085%) CASB
13 3 (0.085%) NetBackup
14 2 (0.057%) MOM
14 2 (0.057%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 625 (17.69%) Microsoft
2 458 (12.96%) Databricks
3 230 (6.51%) Oracle
4 182 (5.15%) SAP
5 181 (5.12%) Google
6 85 (2.41%) ServiceNow
7 84 (2.38%) Salesforce
8 82 (2.32%) Adobe
9 53 (1.50%) Workday
10 50 (1.41%) Splunk
11 47 (1.33%) Foundry
12 45 (1.27%) Denodo
12 45 (1.27%) Informatica
13 44 (1.25%) Talend
14 40 (1.13%) Dynatrace
15 39 (1.10%) Palantir
16 34 (0.96%) Cisco
17 29 (0.82%) VMware
18 25 (0.71%) OpenAI
19 21 (0.59%) Amplitude