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

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 30 38
Rank change year-on-year +7 +8 -2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,267 1,564 1,749
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.19% 5.72% 4.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.13% 6.43% 5.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,528 1,018 1,222
10th Percentile £358 £356 £377
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £550 £556
Median % change year-on-year -5.82% -0.99% -3.39%
75th Percentile £630 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £799 £788
UK median daily rate £514 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.55% - -2.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 26 59
10th Percentile £21.95 £25.26 £19.93
25th Percentile £31.56 £27.13 £27.50
Median hourly rate £50.25 £33.50 £46.06
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -27.26% +31.59%
75th Percentile £72.38 £59.73 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.43 £64.24 £79.29
UK median hourly rate £46.25 £32.50 £48.50
% change year-on-year +42.31% -32.99% +38.57%

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 27,872 24,320 31,532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.34% 88.88% 87.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,782 14,954 21,308
10th Percentile £304 £310 £306
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -2.18%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,755 794 1,429
10th Percentile £15.20 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.96 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -23.53% +21.43%

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 8 January 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 8 January 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 8 January 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 +6 1,355 £525 -12.50% 856
Midlands +26 238 £515 +3.00% 320
North of England +5 238 £475 -3.06% 462
West Midlands +21 192 £515 +1.48% 134
North West +9 158 £475 - 209
South East -13 142 £488 +6.38% 822
South West +40 102 £525 +11.11% 285
East of England 0 92 £575 +12.20% 365
Yorkshire -11 67 £500 -2.44% 182
East Midlands +3 48 £436 -4.96% 175
North East -3 14 £405 -13.18% 71
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 98 (4.32%) SAS
2 89 (3.93%) Apache Airflow
3 81 (3.57%) Apache Spark
4 75 (3.31%) Apache
5 59 (2.60%) Confluence
6 49 (2.16%) SharePoint
7 37 (1.63%) CMS
8 21 (0.93%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 16 (0.71%) WebLogic
10 9 (0.40%) Jupyter
10 9 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
11 8 (0.35%) GeoServer
11 8 (0.35%) Smallworld
12 7 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
12 7 (0.31%) Oracle Application Server
12 7 (0.31%) WordPress
13 5 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 4 (0.18%) ArcGIS
15 3 (0.13%) Apache Superset
15 3 (0.13%) IIS
Applications
1 129 (5.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (1.28%) MS Visio
5 24 (1.06%) Chatbot
6 14 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.26%) Trello
8 4 (0.18%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.13%) Notion
9 3 (0.13%) Sketch
10 2 (0.088%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.044%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.044%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.044%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.044%) CapCut
11 1 (0.044%) FrameMaker
11 1 (0.044%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.044%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 71 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.62%) SAP EHS
4 11 (0.49%) SAP HR
5 10 (0.44%) SAP FI
6 8 (0.35%) Maximo
7 7 (0.31%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 7 (0.31%) SAP MM
8 6 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
8 6 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 5 (0.22%) Aladdin
9 5 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
9 5 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
9 5 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.22%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.22%) Workday HCM
10 4 (0.18%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 4 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.18%) SAP IBP
11 3 (0.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 740 (32.64%) Azure
2 500 (22.06%) Power Platform
3 469 (20.69%) AWS
4 222 (9.79%) GCP
5 160 (7.06%) Azure Data Factory
6 156 (6.88%) Azure DevOps
7 144 (6.35%) Snowflake
8 143 (6.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 111 (4.90%) GitHub
10 109 (4.81%) Serverless
11 107 (4.72%) Azure Monitor
12 86 (3.79%) SaaS
13 79 (3.48%) Amazon S3
14 75 (3.31%) Entra ID
15 74 (3.26%) dbt
15 74 (3.26%) GitHub Actions
16 72 (3.18%) Microsoft 365
17 56 (2.47%) Azure Logic Apps
18 54 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
18 54 (2.38%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 47 (2.07%) Firewall
2 34 (1.50%) DNS
3 33 (1.46%) Network Security
4 25 (1.10%) VPN
5 19 (0.84%) SSL
6 16 (0.71%) HTTP
7 15 (0.66%) SMS
8 13 (0.57%) FTP
8 13 (0.57%) SMTP
9 10 (0.44%) WAN
10 8 (0.35%) DHCP
10 8 (0.35%) TCP/IP
11 7 (0.31%) LAN
12 6 (0.26%) 2G
12 6 (0.26%) 5G
13 4 (0.18%) 4G
13 4 (0.18%) Radio Access Network
14 3 (0.13%) Internet
14 3 (0.13%) MPLS
14 3 (0.13%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 468 (20.64%) Power BI
2 247 (10.90%) Data Warehouse
3 162 (7.15%) Data Lake
4 143 (6.31%) Tableau
5 129 (5.69%) Metadata
6 70 (3.09%) BigQuery
7 68 (3.00%) SQL Server
8 67 (2.96%) Big Data
9 56 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
10 55 (2.43%) Azure SQL Database
11 53 (2.34%) Relational Database
12 50 (2.21%) Snowflake Schema
13 47 (2.07%) Delta Lake
13 47 (2.07%) Looker
14 45 (1.99%) Power Query
15 41 (1.81%) Star Schema
16 40 (1.76%) Hadoop
17 39 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
18 38 (1.68%) NoSQL
19 36 (1.59%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 172 (7.59%) JIRA
2 165 (7.28%) Git
3 77 (3.40%) Jenkins
4 65 (2.87%) GitLab
5 24 (1.06%) Selenium
6 18 (0.79%) ERwin
6 18 (0.79%) JUnit
7 14 (0.62%) MLflow
8 11 (0.49%) PowerDesigner
9 10 (0.44%) Android Studio
9 10 (0.44%) Gradle
10 9 (0.40%) ER Studio
10 9 (0.40%) Visual Website Optimizer
11 8 (0.35%) Postman
11 8 (0.35%) Xcode
12 6 (0.26%) DBeaver
12 6 (0.26%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.26%) Visual Studio
13 5 (0.22%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
General
1 785 (34.63%) Social Skills
2 638 (28.14%) Finance
3 456 (20.11%) Analytical Skills
4 203 (8.95%) Banking
5 186 (8.20%) Public Sector
6 167 (7.37%) Marketing
7 74 (3.26%) Retail
8 68 (3.00%) Front Office
9 65 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
10 51 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
11 50 (2.21%) Investment Banking
12 48 (2.12%) Legal
13 43 (1.90%) Manufacturing
14 39 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
15 37 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 36 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
17 33 (1.46%) Financial Institution
18 29 (1.28%) Telecoms
19 28 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
20 21 (0.93%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 350 (15.44%) Analyst
2 300 (13.23%) Developer
3 273 (12.04%) Data Engineer
4 254 (11.20%) Senior
5 232 (10.23%) Architect
6 154 (6.79%) Lead
7 127 (5.60%) Data Analyst
8 125 (5.51%) Consultant
9 122 (5.38%) Business Analyst
10 85 (3.75%) Data Architect
11 81 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
12 76 (3.35%) Data Scientist
13 62 (2.73%) Senior Developer
14 55 (2.43%) Project Manager
15 46 (2.03%) Senior Data Engineer
16 43 (1.90%) Solutions Architect
17 40 (1.76%) Python Developer
18 37 (1.63%) Senior Analyst
18 37 (1.63%) Snowflake Engineer
19 35 (1.54%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (6.00%) REST
2 99 (4.37%) PySpark
3 96 (4.23%) Kafka
4 58 (2.56%) Pandas
5 52 (2.29%) React
6 49 (2.16%) HTML
7 46 (2.03%) TensorFlow
8 45 (1.99%) Node.js
8 45 (1.99%) scikit-learn
9 44 (1.94%) SOAP
10 43 (1.90%) .NET
10 43 (1.90%) NumPy
11 42 (1.85%) RESTful
12 40 (1.76%) PyTorch
13 37 (1.63%) CSS
13 37 (1.63%) JSON
14 33 (1.46%) AngularJS
15 30 (1.32%) ARM Templates
16 29 (1.28%) OAuth
17 24 (1.06%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 101 (4.46%) Product Ownership
2 92 (4.06%) Cloud Native
3 75 (3.31%) Data Structures
4 59 (2.60%) Management Information System
4 59 (2.60%) Onboarding
5 57 (2.51%) Analytical Mindset
6 53 (2.34%) Algorithms
7 48 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
8 42 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
8 42 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 40 (1.76%) Derivative
10 37 (1.63%) Equities
10 37 (1.63%) Mobile App
11 36 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
12 28 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
12 28 (1.24%) Life Science
13 27 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
13 27 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
14 26 (1.15%) Fixed Income
14 26 (1.15%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 68 (3.00%) Linux
2 66 (2.91%) Windows
3 30 (1.32%) Unix
4 20 (0.88%) Apple iOS
5 19 (0.84%) Android
6 16 (0.71%) Mac OS
7 9 (0.40%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.22%) VMS
9 4 (0.18%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.044%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.044%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.044%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.044%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.044%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 641 (28.28%) Business Intelligence
2 565 (24.92%) Agile
3 510 (22.50%) Data Modelling
4 476 (21.00%) Problem-Solving
5 420 (18.53%) CI/CD
6 410 (18.09%) DevOps
7 403 (17.78%) ETL
8 388 (17.12%) AI
9 363 (16.01%) Data Pipeline
10 347 (15.31%) Data Governance
11 334 (14.73%) Decision-Making
12 296 (13.06%) Data Engineering
13 294 (12.97%) Stakeholder Management
14 285 (12.57%) Data Analytics
15 280 (12.35%) Data Science
16 273 (12.04%) Machine Learning
17 271 (11.95%) Visualisation
18 253 (11.16%) Continuous Improvement
18 253 (11.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 238 (10.50%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 775 (34.19%) SQL
2 704 (31.05%) Python
3 122 (5.38%) Java
4 104 (4.59%) JavaScript
5 96 (4.23%) PowerShell
6 72 (3.18%) C#
7 71 (3.13%) R
8 55 (2.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 54 (2.38%) Bicep
10 45 (1.99%) Bash
11 40 (1.76%) TypeScript
12 37 (1.63%) Kusto Query Language
13 35 (1.54%) C++
14 32 (1.41%) T-SQL
15 26 (1.15%) Scala
15 26 (1.15%) VBA
16 21 (0.93%) PL/SQL
17 15 (0.66%) Kotlin
18 14 (0.62%) Swift
19 13 (0.57%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 378 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 309 (13.63%) SC Cleared
3 217 (9.57%) Degree
4 61 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 55 (2.43%) Azure Certification
6 54 (2.38%) Master's Degree
7 36 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
8 31 (1.37%) CISSP
8 31 (1.37%) DV Cleared
9 24 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (1.06%) PMI Certification
10 22 (0.97%) AWS Certification
11 20 (0.88%) PMP
12 19 (0.84%) CISM
13 13 (0.57%) IIBA
14 10 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
15 9 (0.40%) PhD
16 8 (0.35%) CBAP
16 8 (0.35%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
17 7 (0.31%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 355 (15.66%) Data Quality
2 135 (5.96%) GDPR
3 84 (3.71%) Accessibility
4 82 (3.62%) QA
5 37 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 33 (1.46%) NIST
7 19 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
8 18 (0.79%) PMO
9 17 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 11 (0.49%) WCAG
11 10 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 10 (0.44%) HIPAA
11 10 (0.44%) NCSC
11 10 (0.44%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.40%) GRC
12 9 (0.40%) NIST 800
13 8 (0.35%) PERC
13 8 (0.35%) Solvency II
14 7 (0.31%) GxP
14 7 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 174 (7.68%) Docker
2 57 (2.51%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.44%) HDFS
6 5 (0.22%) zsh
7 4 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.088%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.044%) GPFS
9 1 (0.044%) Lustre
9 1 (0.044%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.044%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.044%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.044%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 178 (7.85%) Kubernetes
2 167 (7.37%) Terraform
3 30 (1.32%) Ansible
4 21 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (0.79%) Grafana
5 18 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
6 16 (0.71%) SCCM
7 12 (0.53%) Prometheus
8 11 (0.49%) Puppet
9 9 (0.40%) Kibana
10 8 (0.35%) logstash
11 7 (0.31%) Hadoop YARN
12 6 (0.26%) WSUS
13 4 (0.18%) Kubeflow
14 3 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.13%) Fluentd
14 3 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
15 2 (0.088%) CASB
15 2 (0.088%) Cisco CUCM
15 2 (0.088%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 427 (18.84%) Microsoft
2 272 (12.00%) Databricks
3 153 (6.75%) Google
4 149 (6.57%) Oracle
5 134 (5.91%) SAP
6 71 (3.13%) Salesforce
7 70 (3.09%) Adobe
8 66 (2.91%) ServiceNow
9 49 (2.16%) Talend
10 41 (1.81%) Splunk
11 38 (1.68%) Denodo
12 34 (1.50%) Informatica
13 32 (1.41%) Workday
14 29 (1.28%) OpenAI
15 27 (1.19%) Dynatrace
16 26 (1.15%) Cisco
17 24 (1.06%) Foundry
18 19 (0.84%) AppDynamics
18 19 (0.84%) IBM
19 18 (0.79%) Alteryx