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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 27 34
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 +2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,482 1,862 1,714
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.48% 6.64% 5.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.83% 7.30% 6.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,251 1,226 1,158
10th Percentile £360 £363 £356
25th Percentile £434 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £530 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 44 27
10th Percentile £17.40 £17.10 £23.65
25th Percentile £26.06 £24.38 £27.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £34.99 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.04% +7.66% -8.45%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.48 £57.53
90th Percentile £85.18 £79.63 £69.34
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £34.74 £32.50
% change year-on-year +36.73% +6.89% -8.45%

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 39,417 25,490 28,010
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.73% 90.96% 86.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,890 16,169 17,141
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,564 1,197
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.44 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.59 £17.87 £20.25
Median hourly rate £40.08 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.36% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.00 £67.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.43 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.72 £25.15 £42.27
% change year-on-year +53.96% -40.49% -0.55%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 3 October 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 0 1,931 £550 - 6,900
North of England +14 478 £490 +3.16% 1,164
Midlands +2 370 £490 -4.85% 612
South East +17 352 £513 -1.44% 1,208
West Midlands +2 299 £488 -6.70% 392
North West +3 231 £530 +11.58% 639
Yorkshire +13 186 £463 -2.63% 373
South West +20 172 £525 +10.53% 463
East of England -12 104 £600 +8.35% 413
East Midlands -5 69 £495 +8.49% 220
North East +4 68 £445 +13.02% 157
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
1 166 (4.77%) Apache Airflow
2 129 (3.70%) Apache Spark
3 102 (2.93%) Apache
3 102 (2.93%) SAS
4 81 (2.33%) Confluence
5 62 (1.78%) CMS
6 49 (1.41%) SharePoint
7 35 (1.01%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 28 (0.80%) Jupyter
8 28 (0.80%) Palantir Foundry
9 22 (0.63%) Oracle Application Server
10 9 (0.26%) Drupal
10 9 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
11 8 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
12 7 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
13 6 (0.17%) Apache Superset
13 6 (0.17%) WordPress
14 5 (0.14%) nginx
15 3 (0.086%) IIS
16 2 (0.057%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 167 (4.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 29 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (0.60%) Chatbot
5 16 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
6 15 (0.43%) MS Visio
7 13 (0.37%) CPLEX
8 12 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
9 5 (0.14%) Trello
10 3 (0.086%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.086%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.086%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.057%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.057%) PlantUML
11 2 (0.057%) Sketch
12 1 (0.029%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.029%) InDesign
12 1 (0.029%) LaTeX
12 1 (0.029%) Notion
12 1 (0.029%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 86 (2.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 36 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (0.57%) Workday HCM
4 17 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
5 15 (0.43%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 15 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
6 13 (0.37%) Aladdin
7 12 (0.34%) SAP HR
8 11 (0.32%) SAP FI
9 10 (0.29%) SAP CO
9 10 (0.29%) SAP HCM
10 9 (0.26%) SAP MM
10 9 (0.26%) Shopify
10 9 (0.26%) Workfront
11 8 (0.23%) SAP Payroll
12 7 (0.20%) SAP MDG
13 6 (0.17%) NetSuite
13 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
13 6 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
13 6 (0.17%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 990 (28.43%) Azure
2 706 (20.28%) Power Platform
3 589 (16.92%) AWS
4 319 (9.16%) GCP
5 272 (7.81%) Snowflake
6 234 (6.72%) Azure DevOps
7 224 (6.43%) Azure Data Factory
8 214 (6.15%) dbt
9 168 (4.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 148 (4.25%) GitHub
11 146 (4.19%) Serverless
12 127 (3.65%) Amazon S3
13 125 (3.59%) Azure Monitor
14 118 (3.39%) SaaS
15 114 (3.27%) Entra ID
16 93 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
17 78 (2.24%) Microsoft 365
18 72 (2.07%) GitHub Actions
19 66 (1.90%) Adobe Analytics
20 63 (1.81%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 57 (1.64%) Firewall
1 57 (1.64%) Network Security
2 37 (1.06%) DNS
3 32 (0.92%) VPN
4 22 (0.63%) TCP/IP
5 21 (0.60%) Broadband
6 19 (0.55%) WAN
7 15 (0.43%) BGP
7 15 (0.43%) DHCP
7 15 (0.43%) SD-WAN
8 8 (0.23%) LAN
8 8 (0.23%) SMS
8 8 (0.23%) Wireless
9 7 (0.20%) HTTP
10 6 (0.17%) Kerberos
10 6 (0.17%) NGFW
10 6 (0.17%) OSPF
10 6 (0.17%) SSH
10 6 (0.17%) WLAN
11 5 (0.14%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 683 (19.62%) Power BI
2 431 (12.38%) Data Warehouse
3 256 (7.35%) Data Lake
4 242 (6.95%) Metadata
5 221 (6.35%) Tableau
6 162 (4.65%) BigQuery
7 90 (2.58%) Amazon Redshift
8 86 (2.47%) SQL Server
9 84 (2.41%) Delta Lake
10 83 (2.38%) Looker
11 79 (2.27%) Big Data
12 78 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
13 77 (2.21%) Relational Database
14 67 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
15 60 (1.72%) Semantic Layer
16 58 (1.67%) NoSQL
17 56 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
18 53 (1.52%) Snowflake Schema
19 52 (1.49%) Power Query
20 42 (1.21%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 192 (5.51%) Git
2 156 (4.48%) JIRA
3 58 (1.67%) GitLab
3 58 (1.67%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.32%) MLflow
5 9 (0.26%) fastlane
5 9 (0.26%) RStudio
6 8 (0.23%) Gradle
6 8 (0.23%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.20%) Postman
7 7 (0.20%) Selenium
7 7 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
8 6 (0.17%) Crashlytics
8 6 (0.17%) ER Studio
8 6 (0.17%) ERwin
8 6 (0.17%) JUnit
8 6 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
8 6 (0.17%) REST Assured
9 5 (0.14%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.14%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 995 (28.58%) Social Skills
2 926 (26.59%) Finance
3 658 (18.90%) Analytical Skills
4 412 (11.83%) Public Sector
5 278 (7.98%) Banking
6 239 (6.86%) Marketing
7 181 (5.20%) Retail
8 116 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
9 92 (2.64%) Legal
10 87 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 87 (2.50%) Manufacturing
11 73 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
12 62 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
12 62 (1.78%) Front Office
13 57 (1.64%) Investment Banking
14 49 (1.41%) Publishing
15 44 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
16 42 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
17 41 (1.18%) Military
18 38 (1.09%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 561 (16.11%) Data Engineer
2 476 (13.67%) Senior
3 462 (13.27%) Analyst
4 443 (12.72%) Architect
5 294 (8.44%) Developer
6 288 (8.27%) Lead
7 203 (5.83%) Data Architect
8 183 (5.26%) Consultant
9 170 (4.88%) Data Analyst
10 125 (3.59%) Senior Data Engineer
11 120 (3.45%) Data Scientist
12 117 (3.36%) Solutions Architect
13 113 (3.25%) Business Analyst
14 98 (2.81%) Azure Engineer
15 73 (2.10%) Data Manager
16 67 (1.92%) Senior Analyst
16 67 (1.92%) Senior Manager
17 66 (1.90%) Product Manager
18 64 (1.84%) AWS Engineer
19 62 (1.78%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 280 (8.04%) Terraform
2 199 (5.72%) PySpark
3 137 (3.93%) REST
4 105 (3.02%) Kafka
5 61 (1.75%) Pandas
6 56 (1.61%) React
7 55 (1.58%) HTML
8 52 (1.49%) RESTful
9 50 (1.44%) CSS
10 46 (1.32%) OAuth
11 44 (1.26%) .NET
12 42 (1.21%) ARM Templates
13 40 (1.15%) NumPy
14 39 (1.12%) JSON
15 38 (1.09%) OpenID
16 33 (0.95%) OAuth2
17 32 (0.92%) Web Services
18 31 (0.89%) SOAP
19 28 (0.80%) Oracle Fusion
20 27 (0.78%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 250 (7.18%) Cloud Native
2 191 (5.49%) Product Ownership
3 149 (4.28%) Onboarding
4 138 (3.96%) Data Structures
5 102 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
6 84 (2.41%) Management Information System
7 73 (2.10%) AI Agents
8 67 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
9 62 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
10 50 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
11 46 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
12 44 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
13 43 (1.23%) Algorithms
14 40 (1.15%) Marketing Technology
14 40 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
15 39 (1.12%) Social Media
16 37 (1.06%) Derivative
16 37 (1.06%) Virtual Team
17 35 (1.01%) NHS
17 35 (1.01%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 91 (2.61%) Windows
2 85 (2.44%) Linux
3 39 (1.12%) Unix
4 37 (1.06%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.29%) Android
8 9 (0.26%) VMS
9 8 (0.23%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.17%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.086%) Solaris
11 3 (0.086%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.057%) AIX
12 2 (0.057%) CentOS
12 2 (0.057%) HPUX
13 1 (0.029%) Rocky
13 1 (0.029%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 973 (27.94%) AI
2 908 (26.08%) Data Modelling
3 874 (25.10%) Business Intelligence
4 847 (24.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 826 (23.72%) Agile
6 696 (19.99%) Decision-Making
7 688 (19.76%) Data Pipeline
8 660 (18.95%) Data Engineering
9 646 (18.55%) CI/CD
10 564 (16.20%) Data Governance
11 533 (15.31%) ETL
12 511 (14.68%) DevOps
13 486 (13.96%) Problem-Solving
14 473 (13.58%) Continuous Improvement
15 459 (13.18%) Roadmaps
16 456 (13.10%) Migration
17 443 (12.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 424 (12.18%) Machine Learning
19 419 (12.03%) Validation
20 412 (11.83%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 1,141 (32.77%) SQL
2 969 (27.83%) Python
3 159 (4.57%) PowerShell
4 100 (2.87%) Java
5 93 (2.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 90 (2.58%) JavaScript
7 78 (2.24%) Bicep
8 71 (2.04%) C#
9 64 (1.84%) Bash
10 61 (1.75%) R
11 41 (1.18%) TypeScript
12 40 (1.15%) Scala
13 29 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
13 29 (0.83%) Shell Script
14 20 (0.57%) C++
15 19 (0.55%) T-SQL
16 18 (0.52%) ABAP
17 15 (0.43%) LookML
17 15 (0.43%) PL/SQL
18 14 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 614 (17.63%) Security Cleared
2 490 (14.07%) SC Cleared
3 295 (8.47%) Degree
4 88 (2.53%) Azure Certification
4 88 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 79 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 75 (2.15%) DV Cleared
7 57 (1.64%) Master's Degree
8 52 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
9 43 (1.23%) CISSP
10 38 (1.09%) AWS Certification
11 33 (0.95%) PMI Certification
12 28 (0.80%) PMP
13 27 (0.78%) DBS Check
14 20 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
15 13 (0.37%) MBA
16 11 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 11 (0.32%) CISA
16 11 (0.32%) SANS
16 11 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 771 (22.14%) Data Quality
2 159 (4.57%) GDPR
3 141 (4.05%) QA
4 134 (3.85%) Accessibility
5 49 (1.41%) GRC
6 41 (1.18%) WCAG
7 39 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 36 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
9 34 (0.98%) NIST
10 33 (0.95%) PMO
11 24 (0.69%) SLA
12 15 (0.43%) NCSC
13 13 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 12 (0.34%) IFRS
14 12 (0.34%) PCI DSS
15 10 (0.29%) PERC
15 10 (0.29%) Solvency II
16 8 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 8 (0.23%) GMP
17 7 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 145 (4.16%) Docker
2 96 (2.76%) Active Directory
3 27 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.26%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.11%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 3 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.086%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.086%) vSphere
8 3 (0.086%) XenApp
9 2 (0.057%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.029%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.029%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 153 (4.39%) Kubernetes
2 44 (1.26%) Ansible
3 32 (0.92%) Grafana
4 24 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (0.49%) Prometheus
7 13 (0.37%) SCCM
8 9 (0.26%) Progress Chef
9 8 (0.23%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.23%) SCOM
10 6 (0.17%) Control-M
10 6 (0.17%) Kibana
10 6 (0.17%) Podman
11 5 (0.14%) QRadar
12 4 (0.11%) SysTrack
13 3 (0.086%) CASB
14 2 (0.057%) Docker Swarm
14 2 (0.057%) MOM
14 2 (0.057%) NetBackup
14 2 (0.057%) Puppet
Vendors
1 664 (19.07%) Microsoft
2 444 (12.75%) Databricks
3 205 (5.89%) SAP
4 193 (5.54%) Google
5 189 (5.43%) Oracle
6 103 (2.96%) Adobe
7 87 (2.50%) Salesforce
8 86 (2.47%) ServiceNow
9 60 (1.72%) Workday
10 50 (1.44%) Splunk
11 40 (1.15%) Dynatrace
11 40 (1.15%) Foundry
12 34 (0.98%) Palantir
13 32 (0.92%) Informatica
14 30 (0.86%) VMware
15 28 (0.80%) Cisco
16 26 (0.75%) OpenAI
16 26 (0.75%) Talend
17 24 (0.69%) Amplitude
17 24 (0.69%) Denodo