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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 30 37
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 -3
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,158 1,766 1,952
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.02% 5.67% 5.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.81% 6.48% 5.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,442 1,165 1,348
10th Percentile £359 £356 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £557 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.83% -1.07% -2.17%
75th Percentile £626 £694 £688
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 28 73
10th Percentile £21.03 £25.26 £17.81
25th Percentile £31.25 £27.38 £22.50
Median hourly rate £45.50 £33.75 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year +34.81% -5.28% +1.80%
75th Percentile £70.16 £60.23 £67.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £64.73 £76.95
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £37.19
% change year-on-year +38.46% -12.61% +6.26%

All Process and 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 27,627 27,254 34,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.85% 87.54% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,569 16,646 23,463
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.53% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,791 1,000 1,454
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £14.68
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.29 £19.15
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.14% -19.10% +19.85%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.88
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.24% +25.37%

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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025. 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 +3 1,264 £525 -12.50% 887
North of England +7 248 £475 -5.00% 263
Midlands +15 239 £515 +3.00% 243
West Midlands +12 191 £515 +1.48% 145
North West +9 152 £475 -4.63% 160
South East -15 145 £513 +0.49% 742
South West +29 87 £510 -9.33% 147
Yorkshire +2 86 £475 -9.52% 72
East of England +2 83 £551 +5.00% 132
East Midlands +10 50 £436 -4.18% 95
North East -2 11 £380 -18.54% 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
1 102 (4.73%) Apache Airflow
2 94 (4.36%) SAS
3 82 (3.80%) Apache Spark
4 78 (3.61%) Apache
5 48 (2.22%) Confluence
6 38 (1.76%) SharePoint
7 37 (1.71%) CMS
8 16 (0.74%) WebLogic
9 15 (0.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 11 (0.51%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.37%) Oracle Application Server
11 8 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 8 (0.37%) WordPress
12 7 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
13 6 (0.28%) GeoServer
13 6 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
13 6 (0.28%) Smallworld
14 4 (0.19%) JBoss
15 3 (0.14%) Drupal
15 3 (0.14%) IIS
Applications
1 139 (6.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
3 35 (1.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (1.44%) MS Visio
5 23 (1.07%) Chatbot
6 13 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.14%) Sketch
9 2 (0.093%) Maple
9 2 (0.093%) Trello
10 1 (0.046%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.046%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.046%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.046%) CapCut
10 1 (0.046%) FrameMaker
10 1 (0.046%) InDesign
10 1 (0.046%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.046%) Simulink
10 1 (0.046%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 72 (3.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.65%) SAP EHS
4 11 (0.51%) SAP FI
4 11 (0.51%) SAP HR
5 10 (0.46%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.32%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 7 (0.32%) SAP MM
7 6 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 5 (0.23%) Aladdin
8 5 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
8 5 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.23%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
9 4 (0.19%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.19%) SAP IBP
10 3 (0.14%) NetSuite
10 3 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
10 3 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 678 (31.42%) Azure
2 461 (21.36%) AWS
3 443 (20.53%) Power Platform
4 227 (10.52%) GCP
5 146 (6.77%) Snowflake
6 137 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
7 126 (5.84%) Azure Data Factory
8 109 (5.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 105 (4.87%) Azure Monitor
10 99 (4.59%) Serverless
11 98 (4.54%) GitHub
12 87 (4.03%) SaaS
13 81 (3.75%) dbt
14 70 (3.24%) Entra ID
15 68 (3.15%) GitHub Actions
16 67 (3.10%) Amazon S3
17 65 (3.01%) Microsoft 365
18 60 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
18 60 (2.78%) Google Analytics
19 49 (2.27%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 47 (2.18%) Firewall
2 36 (1.67%) Network Security
3 30 (1.39%) DNS
4 19 (0.88%) VPN
4 19 (0.88%) WAN
5 13 (0.60%) HTTP
5 13 (0.60%) SSL
6 10 (0.46%) LAN
6 10 (0.46%) SD-WAN
7 9 (0.42%) SMS
8 8 (0.37%) FTP
8 8 (0.37%) SMTP
9 6 (0.28%) 2G
9 6 (0.28%) 5G
9 6 (0.28%) DHCP
10 5 (0.23%) Ethernet
10 5 (0.23%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.23%) Wireless
11 4 (0.19%) MPLS
11 4 (0.19%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 412 (19.09%) Power BI
2 249 (11.54%) Data Warehouse
3 146 (6.77%) Tableau
4 141 (6.53%) Data Lake
5 116 (5.38%) Metadata
6 77 (3.57%) BigQuery
7 66 (3.06%) Big Data
8 61 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
9 55 (2.55%) SQL Server
10 51 (2.36%) Relational Database
11 50 (2.32%) Looker
12 46 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
12 46 (2.13%) Hadoop
13 45 (2.09%) Snowflake Schema
14 43 (1.99%) Power Query
15 41 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
16 38 (1.76%) Delta Lake
16 38 (1.76%) NoSQL
17 37 (1.71%) Pentaho
18 32 (1.48%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 165 (7.65%) Git
2 141 (6.53%) JIRA
3 82 (3.80%) Jenkins
4 53 (2.46%) GitLab
5 22 (1.02%) Selenium
6 20 (0.93%) ERwin
7 18 (0.83%) JUnit
8 15 (0.70%) MLflow
9 12 (0.56%) ER Studio
10 11 (0.51%) PowerDesigner
11 9 (0.42%) Android Studio
11 9 (0.42%) Postman
11 9 (0.42%) SonarQube
11 9 (0.42%) Visual Website Optimizer
12 8 (0.37%) DBeaver
12 8 (0.37%) Gradle
12 8 (0.37%) TeamCity
13 7 (0.32%) Xcode
14 6 (0.28%) PVCS
14 6 (0.28%) Visual Studio
General
1 781 (36.19%) Social Skills
2 615 (28.50%) Finance
3 467 (21.64%) Analytical Skills
4 214 (9.92%) Banking
5 182 (8.43%) Public Sector
6 172 (7.97%) Marketing
7 76 (3.52%) Retail
8 75 (3.48%) Front Office
9 61 (2.83%) Investment Banking
10 54 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
11 52 (2.41%) Legal
12 51 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
13 44 (2.04%) Manufacturing
14 39 (1.81%) Pharmaceutical
15 37 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 35 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
17 34 (1.58%) Financial Institution
18 30 (1.39%) Telecoms
19 26 (1.20%) Publishing
20 24 (1.11%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 350 (16.22%) Analyst
2 293 (13.58%) Developer
3 238 (11.03%) Senior
4 227 (10.52%) Data Engineer
5 214 (9.92%) Architect
6 128 (5.93%) Lead
7 127 (5.89%) Data Analyst
8 126 (5.84%) Business Analyst
9 119 (5.51%) Consultant
10 76 (3.52%) Data Architect
11 72 (3.34%) Azure Engineer
12 68 (3.15%) Data Scientist
13 65 (3.01%) Senior Developer
14 49 (2.27%) Project Manager
15 45 (2.09%) Senior Analyst
16 38 (1.76%) Python Developer
17 37 (1.71%) SAP Consultant
17 37 (1.71%) Solutions Architect
18 36 (1.67%) Data Modeller
19 33 (1.53%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (5.14%) REST
2 88 (4.08%) Kafka
3 76 (3.52%) PySpark
4 56 (2.59%) React
5 48 (2.22%) Pandas
6 45 (2.09%) RESTful
7 44 (2.04%) HTML
8 43 (1.99%) SOAP
9 42 (1.95%) Node.js
10 40 (1.85%) .NET
11 38 (1.76%) NumPy
12 35 (1.62%) CSS
12 35 (1.62%) TensorFlow
13 34 (1.58%) AngularJS
14 32 (1.48%) scikit-learn
15 31 (1.44%) PyTorch
16 29 (1.34%) OAuth
17 27 (1.25%) ARM Templates
18 25 (1.16%) JSON
19 24 (1.11%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 105 (4.87%) Product Ownership
2 84 (3.89%) Cloud Native
3 67 (3.10%) Data Structures
4 62 (2.87%) Onboarding
5 61 (2.83%) Algorithms
6 58 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
7 57 (2.64%) Management Information System
8 55 (2.55%) Analytical Mindset
9 47 (2.18%) Derivative
10 44 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 42 (1.95%) Mobile App
12 39 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
12 39 (1.81%) Equities
13 33 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
13 33 (1.53%) Virtual Team
14 31 (1.44%) Fixed Income
15 30 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
16 27 (1.25%) Social Media
17 25 (1.16%) Data Centre
17 25 (1.16%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 73 (3.38%) Linux
2 72 (3.34%) Windows
3 29 (1.34%) Unix
4 20 (0.93%) Apple iOS
5 19 (0.88%) Android
6 13 (0.60%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.28%) VMS
8 6 (0.28%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.093%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.046%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.046%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.046%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 571 (26.46%) Business Intelligence
2 570 (26.41%) Agile
3 500 (23.17%) Problem-Solving
4 478 (22.15%) Data Modelling
5 408 (18.91%) CI/CD
6 376 (17.42%) DevOps
7 351 (16.27%) ETL
8 349 (16.17%) AI
9 325 (15.06%) Data Pipeline
10 318 (14.74%) Decision-Making
11 317 (14.69%) Data Governance
12 304 (14.09%) Data Analytics
13 296 (13.72%) Stakeholder Management
14 288 (13.35%) Data Science
15 278 (12.88%) Visualisation
16 277 (12.84%) Machine Learning
17 249 (11.54%) Data Engineering
18 238 (11.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 237 (10.98%) Actionable Insight
20 235 (10.89%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 729 (33.78%) SQL
2 660 (30.58%) Python
3 133 (6.16%) Java
4 107 (4.96%) JavaScript
5 89 (4.12%) PowerShell
6 62 (2.87%) R
7 55 (2.55%) C#
8 52 (2.41%) TypeScript
9 48 (2.22%) Bash
10 42 (1.95%) Bicep
11 41 (1.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 36 (1.67%) Kusto Query Language
13 29 (1.34%) Scala
14 28 (1.30%) C++
14 28 (1.30%) VBA
15 25 (1.16%) T-SQL
16 17 (0.79%) PL/SQL
17 16 (0.74%) ABAP
18 13 (0.60%) Swift
19 12 (0.56%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 339 (15.71%) Security Cleared
2 286 (13.25%) SC Cleared
3 219 (10.15%) Degree
4 69 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 57 (2.64%) Master's Degree
6 42 (1.95%) Azure Certification
7 27 (1.25%) CISSP
8 26 (1.20%) AWS Certification
9 25 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
10 24 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
11 19 (0.88%) DV Cleared
11 19 (0.88%) PMI Certification
12 15 (0.70%) CISM
12 15 (0.70%) PMP
13 10 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (0.37%) PhD
15 7 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 7 (0.32%) CBAP
16 6 (0.28%) ACCA
17 5 (0.23%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 315 (14.60%) Data Quality
2 118 (5.47%) GDPR
3 78 (3.61%) Accessibility
4 77 (3.57%) QA
5 33 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 26 (1.20%) NIST
7 18 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
7 18 (0.83%) PMO
8 14 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 12 (0.56%) GRC
9 12 (0.56%) HIPAA
10 11 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 11 (0.51%) Solvency II
10 11 (0.51%) WCAG
11 10 (0.46%) NCSC
12 8 (0.37%) PCI DSS
13 7 (0.32%) GxP
14 6 (0.28%) COBIT
14 6 (0.28%) NIST 800
14 6 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 155 (7.18%) Docker
2 56 (2.59%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.46%) HDFS
4 10 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.23%) zsh
6 3 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.093%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.046%) GPFS
8 1 (0.046%) Lustre
8 1 (0.046%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.046%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.046%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.046%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 164 (7.60%) Kubernetes
2 144 (6.67%) Terraform
3 33 (1.53%) Ansible
4 20 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
5 17 (0.79%) Grafana
6 16 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (0.60%) SCCM
8 12 (0.56%) Kibana
9 11 (0.51%) Prometheus
9 11 (0.51%) Puppet
10 9 (0.42%) Kubeflow
11 7 (0.32%) Hadoop YARN
11 7 (0.32%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.28%) logstash
13 4 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.19%) Argo
13 4 (0.19%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.19%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 4 (0.19%) WSUS
14 3 (0.14%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 403 (18.67%) Microsoft
2 228 (10.57%) Databricks
3 162 (7.51%) Google
4 152 (7.04%) Oracle
5 132 (6.12%) SAP
6 69 (3.20%) ServiceNow
7 65 (3.01%) Salesforce
8 54 (2.50%) Adobe
9 49 (2.27%) Talend
10 46 (2.13%) Splunk
11 37 (1.71%) Denodo
12 35 (1.62%) Workday
13 31 (1.44%) Cisco
14 28 (1.30%) Dynatrace
15 27 (1.25%) Informatica
16 24 (1.11%) Foundry
16 24 (1.11%) OpenAI
17 23 (1.07%) AppDynamics
18 20 (0.93%) Alteryx
19 16 (0.74%) Optimizely