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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 35
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 -1
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,212 1,662 1,919
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.43% 6.67% 5.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.72% 7.30% 5.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,177 1,104 1,324
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.22%
75th Percentile £630 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 37 46
10th Percentile £19.25 £14.69 £14.50
25th Percentile £35.00 £19.25 £25.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £32.05 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.61% +10.52% -10.22%
75th Percentile £75.00 £62.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £84.50 £79.22 £70.63
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £34.50 £26.75
% change year-on-year +52.17% +28.97% -17.18%

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 36,836 22,759 32,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.26% 91.40% 85.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,282 14,723 20,802
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +2.19% -4.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,303 1,078 2,398
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.10 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £27.40 £37.63
Median % change year-on-year +73.36% -27.18% +4.81%
75th Percentile £68.75 £56.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +72.39% -32.00% +7.05%

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 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 20 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 20 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 1,758 £550 -4.35% 839
North of England +4 385 £475 +2.70% 269
Midlands +10 375 £493 -2.72% 164
West Midlands +13 294 £492 -4.47% 104
South East -6 286 £500 - 405
South West +26 197 £500 +2.56% 116
North West -2 191 £500 +5.26% 174
Yorkshire 0 152 £500 +7.76% 62
East of England -10 116 £513 -14.58% 69
East Midlands +1 75 £525 +28.05% 59
North East +4 53 £450 +9.09% 35
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
1 161 (5.01%) Apache Spark
2 137 (4.27%) Apache Airflow
3 105 (3.27%) SAS
4 87 (2.71%) Apache
5 74 (2.30%) Confluence
6 47 (1.46%) SharePoint
7 30 (0.93%) Jupyter
8 28 (0.87%) CMS
9 24 (0.75%) Palantir Foundry
10 15 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
10 15 (0.47%) Oracle Application Server
11 12 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 9 (0.28%) 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 (0.12%) Drupal
17 2 (0.062%) Smallworld
17 2 (0.062%) WebSphere
Applications
1 144 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (0.59%) Chatbot
3 19 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
4 16 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (0.40%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.37%) CPLEX
7 9 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.062%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.062%) Sketch
10 1 (0.031%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.031%) InDesign
10 1 (0.031%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.031%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.031%) Trello
10 1 (0.031%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 67 (2.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
4 10 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.25%) Aladdin
5 8 (0.25%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 8 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.22%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.19%) Sage X3
7 6 (0.19%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.16%) BambooHR
8 5 (0.16%) Maximo
8 5 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 5 (0.16%) Workday HCM
9 4 (0.12%) iTrent
9 4 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.12%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 4 (0.12%) SAP BPC
9 4 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 975 (30.35%) Azure
2 719 (22.38%) Power Platform
3 642 (19.99%) AWS
4 282 (8.78%) GCP
5 233 (7.25%) Azure DevOps
6 225 (7.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 210 (6.54%) Snowflake
8 181 (5.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 164 (5.11%) dbt
9 164 (5.11%) GitHub
10 143 (4.45%) Amazon S3
11 141 (4.39%) Serverless
12 112 (3.49%) Azure Monitor
13 96 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
14 88 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
14 88 (2.74%) SaaS
15 82 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
16 76 (2.37%) Entra ID
17 49 (1.53%) Power Automate
18 47 (1.46%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 43 (1.34%) Firewall
2 28 (0.87%) Network Security
3 26 (0.81%) VPN
4 22 (0.68%) WAN
5 20 (0.62%) SD-WAN
6 16 (0.50%) BGP
6 16 (0.50%) DNS
7 13 (0.40%) SMS
8 9 (0.28%) 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%) DHCP
11 6 (0.19%) Internet
11 6 (0.19%) TCP/IP
11 6 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 675 (21.01%) Power BI
2 418 (13.01%) Data Warehouse
3 253 (7.88%) Data Lake
4 227 (7.07%) Tableau
5 192 (5.98%) Metadata
6 119 (3.70%) BigQuery
7 108 (3.36%) Delta Lake
7 108 (3.36%) SQL Server
8 98 (3.05%) Big Data
9 86 (2.68%) Relational Database
10 85 (2.65%) Amazon Redshift
11 76 (2.37%) Amazon Athena
12 72 (2.24%) Snowflake Schema
13 70 (2.18%) PostgreSQL
14 68 (2.12%) NoSQL
15 65 (2.02%) Azure SQL Database
16 62 (1.93%) Looker
17 59 (1.84%) Power Query
18 54 (1.68%) Star Schema
19 51 (1.59%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 181 (5.64%) Git
2 170 (5.29%) JIRA
3 76 (2.37%) Jenkins
4 66 (2.05%) GitLab
5 21 (0.65%) ERwin
6 12 (0.37%) MLflow
7 10 (0.31%) ER Studio
7 10 (0.31%) fastlane
7 10 (0.31%) JUnit
7 10 (0.31%) Selenium
8 8 (0.25%) MSI
9 7 (0.22%) Postman
9 7 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
10 6 (0.19%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.16%) Android Studio
11 5 (0.16%) Crashlytics
11 5 (0.16%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.16%) Gradle
11 5 (0.16%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.16%) Xcode
General
1 816 (25.40%) Finance
2 809 (25.19%) Social Skills
3 551 (17.15%) Analytical Skills
4 363 (11.30%) Public Sector
5 223 (6.94%) Banking
6 164 (5.11%) Marketing
7 122 (3.80%) Retail
8 74 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
9 72 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 67 (2.09%) Legal
11 57 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
12 54 (1.68%) Investment Banking
13 53 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
14 50 (1.56%) Manufacturing
15 44 (1.37%) Front Office
16 43 (1.34%) Telecoms
17 42 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
18 36 (1.12%) Financial Institution
19 29 (0.90%) Automotive
20 27 (0.84%) Military
Job Titles
1 619 (19.27%) Data Engineer
2 400 (12.45%) Analyst
3 396 (12.33%) Senior
4 387 (12.05%) Architect
5 329 (10.24%) Developer
6 275 (8.56%) Lead
7 175 (5.45%) Data Architect
8 168 (5.23%) Data Analyst
9 137 (4.27%) Consultant
10 112 (3.49%) Senior Data Engineer
11 110 (3.42%) Business Analyst
12 102 (3.18%) Solutions Architect
13 101 (3.14%) Data Scientist
14 96 (2.99%) Azure Engineer
15 70 (2.18%) Data Manager
16 59 (1.84%) Designer
17 58 (1.81%) Project Manager
18 57 (1.77%) Business Intelligence Developer
19 55 (1.71%) AWS Engineer
20 54 (1.68%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (5.95%) PySpark
2 131 (4.08%) Kafka
3 108 (3.36%) REST
4 59 (1.84%) Pandas
5 55 (1.71%) React
6 48 (1.49%) JSON
7 46 (1.43%) RESTful
8 44 (1.37%) HTML
8 44 (1.37%) PyTorch
9 42 (1.31%) CSS
10 41 (1.28%) .NET
10 41 (1.28%) TensorFlow
11 38 (1.18%) Middleware
12 33 (1.03%) scikit-learn
13 32 (1.00%) NumPy
13 32 (1.00%) Web Services
14 31 (0.97%) SOAP
15 30 (0.93%) ARM Templates
16 29 (0.90%) Microsoft Graph
16 29 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 224 (6.97%) Cloud Native
2 165 (5.14%) Product Ownership
3 127 (3.95%) Data Structures
4 98 (3.05%) Onboarding
5 97 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
6 66 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
7 62 (1.93%) Distributed Systems
8 47 (1.46%) Algorithms
8 47 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
9 45 (1.40%) Management Information System
10 42 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
11 41 (1.28%) AI Agents
12 37 (1.15%) Public Cloud
13 35 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
13 35 (1.09%) Mobile App
13 35 (1.09%) NHS
14 33 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
15 29 (0.90%) Virtual Team
16 27 (0.84%) Derivative
16 27 (0.84%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 87 (2.71%) Windows
2 71 (2.21%) Linux
3 38 (1.18%) Unix
4 24 (0.75%) Mac OS
5 23 (0.72%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.50%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.34%) Android
8 5 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.093%) CentOS
9 3 (0.093%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.062%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.062%) VMS
11 1 (0.031%) Rocky
11 1 (0.031%) Solaris
11 1 (0.031%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 896 (27.90%) Business Intelligence
2 891 (27.74%) Data Modelling
3 760 (23.66%) AI
4 687 (21.39%) Agile
5 676 (21.05%) Data Pipeline
6 663 (20.64%) Data Engineering
7 653 (20.33%) CI/CD
8 568 (17.68%) ETL
9 543 (16.91%) DevOps
10 525 (16.34%) Decision-Making
11 501 (15.60%) Data Governance
12 497 (15.47%) Problem-Solving
13 489 (15.22%) Stakeholder Management
14 389 (12.11%) Machine Learning
15 386 (12.02%) Data Science
16 376 (11.71%) Migration
17 371 (11.55%) Data Analytics
18 368 (11.46%) Continuous Improvement
19 353 (10.99%) Validation
20 344 (10.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,087 (33.84%) SQL
2 979 (30.48%) Python
3 132 (4.11%) Java
4 109 (3.39%) PowerShell
5 101 (3.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 85 (2.65%) C#
7 70 (2.18%) R
8 67 (2.09%) Bicep
9 60 (1.87%) JavaScript
10 43 (1.34%) Scala
11 42 (1.31%) TypeScript
12 41 (1.28%) T-SQL
13 38 (1.18%) Kusto Query Language
14 34 (1.06%) Bash
15 33 (1.03%) Shell Script
16 25 (0.78%) PL/SQL
17 20 (0.62%) C++
18 19 (0.59%) VBA
19 11 (0.34%) Korn
20 10 (0.31%) Swift
Qualifications
1 553 (17.22%) Security Cleared
2 441 (13.73%) SC Cleared
3 249 (7.75%) Degree
4 76 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 71 (2.21%) Azure Certification
5 71 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
6 55 (1.71%) DV Cleared
7 43 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
8 38 (1.18%) Master's Degree
9 28 (0.87%) CISSP
10 26 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
11 23 (0.72%) PMI Certification
12 21 (0.65%) AWS Certification
13 19 (0.59%) DBS Check
13 19 (0.59%) PMP
14 17 (0.53%) CCNP
15 14 (0.44%) CCIE
16 10 (0.31%) CISM
16 10 (0.31%) IIBA
17 9 (0.28%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 618 (19.24%) Data Quality
2 160 (4.98%) GDPR
3 123 (3.83%) QA
4 104 (3.24%) Accessibility
5 44 (1.37%) WCAG
6 37 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 35 (1.09%) NIST
8 30 (0.93%) PMO
9 22 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
10 19 (0.59%) GRC
11 17 (0.53%) SLA
12 15 (0.47%) Solvency II
13 14 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 11 (0.34%) NCSC
15 10 (0.31%) IFRS
16 8 (0.25%) ISO 20022
16 8 (0.25%) PCI DSS
17 7 (0.22%) GAAP
17 7 (0.22%) PERC
18 6 (0.19%) HL7
System Software
1 156 (4.86%) Docker
2 71 (2.21%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.22%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.12%) HDFS
6 4 (0.12%) Snort
6 4 (0.12%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.031%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.031%) GPFS
7 1 (0.031%) iptables
7 1 (0.031%) Lustre
7 1 (0.031%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.031%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.031%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 245 (7.63%) Terraform
2 168 (5.23%) Kubernetes
3 33 (1.03%) Grafana
4 31 (0.97%) Ansible
4 31 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
5 29 (0.90%) Prometheus
6 22 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.25%) SCCM
8 7 (0.22%) FortiGate
9 6 (0.19%) Control-M
10 5 (0.16%) Argo
11 4 (0.12%) CSIRT
12 3 (0.093%) Nagios
12 3 (0.093%) Puppet
12 3 (0.093%) QRadar
13 2 (0.062%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.062%) Kibana
13 2 (0.062%) Nessus
13 2 (0.062%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.062%) SCOM
Vendors
1 563 (17.53%) Microsoft
2 420 (13.08%) Databricks
3 167 (5.20%) Oracle
4 160 (4.98%) SAP
5 144 (4.48%) Google
6 71 (2.21%) Salesforce
6 71 (2.21%) ServiceNow
7 59 (1.84%) Adobe
8 56 (1.74%) Informatica
9 51 (1.59%) Splunk
10 45 (1.40%) Foundry
10 45 (1.40%) Talend
11 42 (1.31%) OpenAI
11 42 (1.31%) Workday
12 37 (1.15%) Denodo
13 31 (0.97%) Dynatrace
14 29 (0.90%) Palantir
15 23 (0.72%) Cisco
16 22 (0.68%) VMware
17 21 (0.65%) IBM