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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 27 38
Rank change year-on-year +4 +11 -3
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,965 1,646 1,759
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.67% 6.75% 4.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.94% 7.43% 5.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,038 1,111 1,211
10th Percentile £356 £331 £350
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% - -
75th Percentile £625 £679 £688
90th Percentile £750 £813 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 30 54
10th Percentile £26.85 £15.28 £17.19
25th Percentile £43.61 £23.50 £25.00
Median hourly rate £58.90 £31.64 £32.94
Median % change year-on-year +86.14% -3.93% +2.92%
75th Percentile £75.00 £60.25 £50.96
90th Percentile £83.75 £78.93 £71.38
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £33.07 £30.37
% change year-on-year +73.87% +8.89% -5.09%

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 33,181 22,150 32,359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.82% 90.86% 86.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,274 14,593 21,355
10th Percentile £313 £311 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £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 2,050 865 2,166
10th Percentile £15.49 £14.99 £12.89
25th Percentile £19.48 £19.00 £15.85
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -1.52% -13.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.95 £70.44
UK median hourly rate £35.91 £31.58 £32.50
% change year-on-year +13.71% -2.83% -13.33%

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 6 April 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 6 April 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 6 April 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 1,653 £537 -10.46% 896
Midlands +21 352 £492 +3.39% 212
North of England +1 321 £492 +6.38% 331
West Midlands +27 268 £493 -1.60% 110
South East -5 229 £500 - 433
South West +38 185 £500 - 149
North West +4 178 £500 +8.11% 192
Yorkshire +4 120 £500 +2.04% 91
East of England -5 115 £514 -14.38% 103
East Midlands +6 78 £449 +24.07% 102
North East +10 32 £450 +25.70% 52
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
1 150 (5.06%) Apache Spark
2 120 (4.05%) SAS
3 111 (3.74%) Apache Airflow
4 91 (3.07%) Apache
5 69 (2.33%) Confluence
6 52 (1.75%) SharePoint
7 30 (1.01%) CMS
8 19 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
9 17 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 13 (0.44%) Jupyter
11 10 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
12 9 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
13 8 (0.27%) Apache Superset
14 7 (0.24%) ArcGIS
14 7 (0.24%) Oracle Application Server
15 6 (0.20%) WordPress
16 3 (0.10%) IIS
16 3 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 3 (0.10%) WebLogic
17 2 (0.067%) GeoServer
Applications
1 129 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (0.74%) MS Visio
5 20 (0.67%) Chatbot
6 15 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
8 5 (0.17%) CPLEX
8 5 (0.17%) Trello
9 4 (0.13%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
9 4 (0.13%) Sketch
10 3 (0.10%) Notion
11 2 (0.067%) Autodesk Smoke
12 1 (0.034%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.034%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.034%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.034%) InDesign
12 1 (0.034%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.034%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 66 (2.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.30%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 9 (0.30%) SAP MM
4 8 (0.27%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 8 (0.27%) SAP FI
5 7 (0.24%) Maximo
5 7 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.20%) Sage X3
6 6 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.17%) Aladdin
7 5 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 4 (0.13%) BambooHR
8 4 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
8 4 (0.13%) iTrent
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.13%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 931 (31.40%) Azure
2 652 (21.99%) Power Platform
3 623 (21.01%) AWS
4 298 (10.05%) GCP
5 225 (7.59%) Azure Data Factory
6 209 (7.05%) Azure DevOps
7 193 (6.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 181 (6.10%) Snowflake
9 179 (6.04%) GitHub
10 133 (4.49%) Serverless
11 132 (4.45%) Amazon S3
12 128 (4.32%) dbt
13 118 (3.98%) Azure Monitor
14 106 (3.58%) GitHub Actions
15 98 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
16 84 (2.83%) SaaS
17 80 (2.70%) Entra ID
18 79 (2.66%) AWS Lambda
19 67 (2.26%) Azure Key Vault
20 59 (1.99%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 48 (1.62%) Firewall
2 35 (1.18%) Network Security
3 30 (1.01%) VPN
4 26 (0.88%) DNS
5 15 (0.51%) SMS
6 14 (0.47%) WAN
7 13 (0.44%) SD-WAN
8 11 (0.37%) 5G
9 10 (0.34%) HTTP
10 9 (0.30%) MPLS
10 9 (0.30%) SSL
11 8 (0.27%) DHCP
12 7 (0.24%) 4G
12 7 (0.24%) BGP
12 7 (0.24%) FTP
12 7 (0.24%) TCP/IP
13 6 (0.20%) Internet
13 6 (0.20%) OSPF
13 6 (0.20%) Radio Access Network
13 6 (0.20%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 598 (20.17%) Power BI
2 372 (12.55%) Data Warehouse
3 233 (7.86%) Data Lake
4 192 (6.48%) Tableau
5 184 (6.21%) Metadata
6 103 (3.47%) Delta Lake
7 101 (3.41%) BigQuery
8 98 (3.31%) SQL Server
9 96 (3.24%) Big Data
10 76 (2.56%) Snowflake Schema
11 74 (2.50%) Relational Database
12 71 (2.39%) Amazon Redshift
13 70 (2.36%) Azure SQL Database
14 66 (2.23%) NoSQL
15 62 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
16 59 (1.99%) Amazon Athena
17 57 (1.92%) Looker
18 55 (1.85%) Power Query
18 55 (1.85%) Star Schema
19 53 (1.79%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 207 (6.98%) Git
2 175 (5.90%) JIRA
3 99 (3.34%) Jenkins
4 83 (2.80%) GitLab
5 28 (0.94%) Selenium
6 24 (0.81%) JUnit
7 21 (0.71%) ERwin
8 16 (0.54%) MLflow
9 9 (0.30%) SonarQube
10 8 (0.27%) Bitbucket
10 8 (0.27%) Gradle
10 8 (0.27%) MSI
11 7 (0.24%) Android Studio
11 7 (0.24%) PowerDesigner
12 6 (0.20%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.17%) ER Studio
13 5 (0.17%) XCTest
14 4 (0.13%) fastlane
14 4 (0.13%) JMeter
14 4 (0.13%) Postman
General
1 859 (28.97%) Social Skills
2 742 (25.03%) Finance
3 563 (18.99%) Analytical Skills
4 304 (10.25%) Public Sector
5 208 (7.02%) Banking
6 175 (5.90%) Marketing
7 90 (3.04%) Retail
8 82 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
9 60 (2.02%) Front Office
10 51 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 50 (1.69%) Legal
12 49 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
13 48 (1.62%) Investment Banking
14 47 (1.59%) Telecoms
15 46 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
16 45 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
17 38 (1.28%) Manufacturing
18 30 (1.01%) Financial Institution
19 27 (0.91%) Advertising
20 22 (0.74%) Military
Job Titles
1 536 (18.08%) Data Engineer
2 359 (12.11%) Analyst
3 347 (11.70%) Architect
4 340 (11.47%) Senior
5 331 (11.16%) Developer
6 255 (8.60%) Lead
7 146 (4.92%) Data Analyst
8 145 (4.89%) Data Architect
9 130 (4.38%) Consultant
10 107 (3.61%) Azure Engineer
11 101 (3.41%) Business Analyst
12 93 (3.14%) Data Scientist
13 85 (2.87%) Senior Data Engineer
14 83 (2.80%) Solutions Architect
15 65 (2.19%) Project Manager
16 60 (2.02%) Designer
17 54 (1.82%) Senior Developer
18 53 (1.79%) Snowflake Engineer
19 52 (1.75%) Python Developer
20 51 (1.72%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (5.46%) PySpark
2 158 (5.33%) Kafka
3 155 (5.23%) REST
4 74 (2.50%) Pandas
5 59 (1.99%) React
5 59 (1.99%) TensorFlow
6 58 (1.96%) PyTorch
7 53 (1.79%) JSON
8 52 (1.75%) NumPy
9 51 (1.72%) scikit-learn
10 44 (1.48%) .NET
10 44 (1.48%) AngularJS
11 43 (1.45%) Node.js
12 41 (1.38%) CSS
12 41 (1.38%) HTML
13 38 (1.28%) ARM Templates
13 38 (1.28%) SOAP
14 35 (1.18%) pytest
15 34 (1.15%) Middleware
16 33 (1.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 182 (6.14%) Cloud Native
2 119 (4.01%) Product Ownership
3 97 (3.27%) Data Structures
4 85 (2.87%) Onboarding
5 66 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
6 57 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
7 56 (1.89%) Algorithms
8 54 (1.82%) Management Information System
9 53 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
10 50 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
11 39 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 38 (1.28%) NHS
12 38 (1.28%) Public Cloud
13 37 (1.25%) Equities
14 33 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
15 32 (1.08%) Marketing Technology
15 32 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
16 31 (1.05%) Derivative
16 31 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
17 28 (0.94%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 88 (2.97%) Windows
2 76 (2.56%) Linux
3 34 (1.15%) Unix
4 30 (1.01%) Mac OS
5 19 (0.64%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.54%) Android
7 9 (0.30%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.24%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.13%) VMS
10 2 (0.067%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.067%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.067%) zOS
11 1 (0.034%) CentOS
11 1 (0.034%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 822 (27.72%) Business Intelligence
2 798 (26.91%) Data Modelling
3 657 (22.16%) Agile
4 626 (21.11%) CI/CD
5 608 (20.51%) AI
6 599 (20.20%) Data Pipeline
7 589 (19.87%) ETL
8 586 (19.76%) Data Engineering
9 559 (18.85%) Problem-Solving
10 541 (18.25%) DevOps
11 508 (17.13%) Data Governance
12 458 (15.45%) Decision-Making
13 391 (13.19%) Stakeholder Management
14 372 (12.55%) Data Science
15 368 (12.41%) Machine Learning
16 353 (11.91%) Data Analytics
17 333 (11.23%) Continuous Improvement
18 303 (10.22%) Migration
19 300 (10.12%) Validation
20 294 (9.92%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1,030 (34.74%) SQL
2 961 (32.41%) Python
3 151 (5.09%) Java
4 113 (3.81%) PowerShell
5 98 (3.31%) C#
6 91 (3.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 79 (2.66%) R
8 76 (2.56%) Bicep
8 76 (2.56%) JavaScript
9 48 (1.62%) Kusto Query Language
10 46 (1.55%) Bash
11 43 (1.45%) T-SQL
12 40 (1.35%) Scala
13 39 (1.32%) TypeScript
14 30 (1.01%) PL/SQL
14 30 (1.01%) VBA
15 28 (0.94%) C++
16 24 (0.81%) Shell Script
17 12 (0.40%) Kotlin
18 9 (0.30%) Swift
Qualifications
1 534 (18.01%) Security Cleared
2 425 (14.33%) SC Cleared
3 233 (7.86%) Degree
4 72 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 68 (2.29%) Azure Certification
6 51 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 39 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
8 38 (1.28%) DV Cleared
9 37 (1.25%) Master's Degree
10 28 (0.94%) PMI Certification
11 26 (0.88%) CISSP
12 23 (0.78%) PMP
13 21 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
14 20 (0.67%) AWS Certification
15 18 (0.61%) CISM
16 16 (0.54%) CCNP
17 14 (0.47%) IIBA
17 14 (0.47%) PhD
18 13 (0.44%) CCIE
19 8 (0.27%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 534 (18.01%) Data Quality
2 169 (5.70%) GDPR
3 118 (3.98%) QA
4 94 (3.17%) Accessibility
5 38 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 31 (1.05%) WCAG
7 27 (0.91%) NIST
8 25 (0.84%) PMO
9 20 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
10 15 (0.51%) NCSC
11 14 (0.47%) GRC
12 13 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 13 (0.44%) SLA
12 13 (0.44%) Solvency II
13 12 (0.40%) PERC
14 10 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 9 (0.30%) HL7
16 8 (0.27%) NIST 800
16 8 (0.27%) SOC 2
17 7 (0.24%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 206 (6.95%) Docker
2 75 (2.53%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.20%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.13%) HDFS
6 4 (0.13%) Snort
7 2 (0.067%) GPFS
7 2 (0.067%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.067%) Lustre
7 2 (0.067%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.034%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.034%) iptables
8 1 (0.034%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.034%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.034%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 256 (8.63%) Terraform
2 222 (7.49%) Kubernetes
3 41 (1.38%) Ansible
4 36 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
5 32 (1.08%) Grafana
6 28 (0.94%) Prometheus
7 22 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
8 16 (0.54%) SCCM
9 9 (0.30%) Puppet
10 6 (0.20%) Kibana
11 5 (0.17%) Argo
11 5 (0.17%) logstash
12 4 (0.13%) Control-M
12 4 (0.13%) CSIRT
12 4 (0.13%) WSUS
13 3 (0.10%) Fluentd
13 3 (0.10%) Nagios
13 3 (0.10%) SysTrack
14 2 (0.067%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.067%) Apache Ranger
Vendors
1 539 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 405 (13.66%) Databricks
3 180 (6.07%) Google
4 161 (5.43%) Oracle
5 141 (4.76%) SAP
6 71 (2.39%) Salesforce
7 69 (2.33%) ServiceNow
8 68 (2.29%) Adobe
9 63 (2.12%) Talend
10 61 (2.06%) Informatica
11 56 (1.89%) Splunk
12 46 (1.55%) Denodo
12 46 (1.55%) OpenAI
13 39 (1.32%) Foundry
14 33 (1.11%) Workday
15 26 (0.88%) IBM
16 21 (0.71%) Cisco
16 21 (0.71%) VMware
17 15 (0.51%) Dynatrace
18 14 (0.47%) Palantir