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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 30 38
Rank change year-on-year +6 +8 -1
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,505 1,516 1,851
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.46% 5.87% 4.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.52% 6.54% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,701 978 1,266
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £446 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £505 £548 £550
% change year-on-year -7.76% -0.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 22 77
10th Percentile £21.40 £25.03 £17.00
25th Percentile £33.75 £25.82 £25.00
Median hourly rate £54.50 £35.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.71% -17.65% +32.81%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £78.90 £64.73 £74.85
UK median hourly rate £54.25 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +55.00% -17.65% +32.81%

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 29,411 23,191 33,300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.56% 89.73% 87.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,824 14,242 22,230
10th Percentile £306 £310 £300
25th Percentile £411 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £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 1,845 729 1,976
10th Percentile £15.13 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.00 £21.05 £16.30
Median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.37% - -
75th Percentile £60.25 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £72.90
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.07
% change year-on-year -22.62% -1.71% +1.74%

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 10 February 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 10 February 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 10 February 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 +5 1,481 £525 -12.50% 793
North of England +4 270 £486 +2.32% 247
Midlands +31 259 £492 +3.14% 177
West Midlands +25 192 £500 +2.04% 102
South East -4 174 £490 +2.62% 476
North West +11 169 £496 +4.42% 141
South West +39 122 £525 +8.25% 128
East of England 0 96 £514 -14.38% 88
Yorkshire -11 79 £510 +2.00% 77
East Midlands +12 66 £444 +5.65% 75
North East +5 24 £450 -3.54% 32
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
1 103 (4.11%) Apache Spark
2 90 (3.59%) Apache Airflow
2 90 (3.59%) SAS
3 80 (3.19%) Apache
4 62 (2.48%) Confluence
5 48 (1.92%) SharePoint
6 35 (1.40%) CMS
7 22 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 11 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
10 8 (0.32%) GeoServer
10 8 (0.32%) Jupyter
10 8 (0.32%) Smallworld
11 7 (0.28%) ArcGIS
11 7 (0.28%) Oracle Application Server
12 6 (0.24%) WebLogic
12 6 (0.24%) WordPress
13 5 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 5 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
14 3 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 128 (5.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 27 (1.08%) MS Visio
5 21 (0.84%) Chatbot
6 13 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.24%) Trello
9 4 (0.16%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.16%) Sketch
10 3 (0.12%) Notion
11 2 (0.080%) Autodesk Smoke
12 1 (0.040%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.040%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.040%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.040%) CapCut
12 1 (0.040%) CPLEX
12 1 (0.040%) FrameMaker
12 1 (0.040%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.040%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 72 (2.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.56%) SAP EHS
4 11 (0.44%) SAP HR
5 9 (0.36%) SAP FI
6 8 (0.32%) Maximo
6 8 (0.32%) SAP MM
7 7 (0.28%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 7 (0.28%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 7 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 6 (0.24%) Aladdin
8 6 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
9 5 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
9 5 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
9 5 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
10 4 (0.16%) NetSuite
10 4 (0.16%) Oracle General Ledger
10 4 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.16%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 3 (0.12%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 828 (33.05%) Azure
2 544 (21.72%) Power Platform
3 530 (21.16%) AWS
4 250 (9.98%) GCP
5 194 (7.74%) Azure Data Factory
6 186 (7.43%) Azure DevOps
7 169 (6.75%) Snowflake
8 166 (6.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 139 (5.55%) GitHub
10 124 (4.95%) Serverless
11 108 (4.31%) Azure Monitor
12 102 (4.07%) Amazon S3
13 97 (3.87%) dbt
13 97 (3.87%) SaaS
14 85 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
14 85 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
15 76 (3.03%) Entra ID
16 62 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
17 56 (2.24%) Power Automate
18 54 (2.16%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 46 (1.84%) Firewall
2 26 (1.04%) VPN
3 23 (0.92%) Network Security
4 22 (0.88%) DNS
5 16 (0.64%) SMS
6 11 (0.44%) SSL
7 9 (0.36%) WAN
8 8 (0.32%) DHCP
9 7 (0.28%) HTTP
9 7 (0.28%) LAN
10 6 (0.24%) 2G
10 6 (0.24%) 5G
10 6 (0.24%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.20%) FTP
11 5 (0.20%) SMTP
12 4 (0.16%) 4G
12 4 (0.16%) Radio Access Network
13 3 (0.12%) Internet
13 3 (0.12%) MPLS
13 3 (0.12%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 500 (19.96%) Power BI
2 262 (10.46%) Data Warehouse
3 180 (7.19%) Data Lake
4 161 (6.43%) Tableau
5 139 (5.55%) Metadata
6 77 (3.07%) BigQuery
7 75 (2.99%) SQL Server
8 68 (2.71%) Big Data
8 68 (2.71%) PostgreSQL
9 67 (2.67%) Delta Lake
10 61 (2.44%) Snowflake Schema
11 58 (2.32%) Azure SQL Database
11 58 (2.32%) Looker
12 56 (2.24%) Relational Database
13 46 (1.84%) Amazon Redshift
13 46 (1.84%) NoSQL
14 45 (1.80%) Hadoop
15 44 (1.76%) Star Schema
16 43 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
17 42 (1.68%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 164 (6.55%) JIRA
2 160 (6.39%) Git
3 75 (2.99%) GitLab
4 73 (2.91%) Jenkins
5 25 (1.00%) Selenium
6 21 (0.84%) ERwin
7 20 (0.80%) JUnit
8 12 (0.48%) MLflow
8 12 (0.48%) PowerDesigner
9 10 (0.40%) Android Studio
9 10 (0.40%) ER Studio
9 10 (0.40%) Gradle
10 9 (0.36%) Visual Website Optimizer
11 8 (0.32%) Xcode
12 7 (0.28%) Postman
13 6 (0.24%) DBeaver
13 6 (0.24%) MSI
13 6 (0.24%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.24%) Visual Studio
14 5 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
General
1 811 (32.38%) Social Skills
2 673 (26.87%) Finance
3 491 (19.60%) Analytical Skills
4 227 (9.06%) Public Sector
5 204 (8.14%) Banking
6 162 (6.47%) Marketing
7 76 (3.03%) Retail
8 68 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
9 62 (2.48%) Front Office
10 51 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
11 49 (1.96%) Legal
12 45 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
13 44 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 44 (1.76%) Investment Banking
14 42 (1.68%) Manufacturing
15 38 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
16 33 (1.32%) Financial Institution
17 24 (0.96%) Telecoms
18 23 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
19 21 (0.84%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 365 (14.57%) Data Engineer
2 349 (13.93%) Analyst
3 314 (12.53%) Developer
4 282 (11.26%) Senior
5 275 (10.98%) Architect
6 189 (7.54%) Lead
7 132 (5.27%) Consultant
8 130 (5.19%) Data Analyst
9 121 (4.83%) Business Analyst
10 106 (4.23%) Data Architect
11 97 (3.87%) Azure Engineer
12 87 (3.47%) Data Scientist
13 63 (2.51%) Project Manager
14 60 (2.40%) Senior Data Engineer
14 60 (2.40%) Solutions Architect
15 57 (2.28%) Senior Developer
16 49 (1.96%) Snowflake Engineer
17 47 (1.88%) Designer
18 41 (1.64%) Snowflake Data Engineer
19 40 (1.60%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (5.79%) REST
2 119 (4.75%) PySpark
3 118 (4.71%) Kafka
4 66 (2.63%) React
5 57 (2.28%) Pandas
6 53 (2.12%) TensorFlow
7 51 (2.04%) HTML
8 50 (2.00%) PyTorch
9 48 (1.92%) Node.js
10 45 (1.80%) NumPy
11 44 (1.76%) CSS
11 44 (1.76%) scikit-learn
12 43 (1.72%) .NET
12 43 (1.72%) JSON
13 42 (1.68%) RESTful
13 42 (1.68%) SOAP
14 41 (1.64%) AngularJS
15 36 (1.44%) ARM Templates
16 29 (1.16%) Middleware
17 28 (1.12%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 123 (4.91%) Cloud Native
2 98 (3.91%) Product Ownership
3 80 (3.19%) Data Structures
4 73 (2.91%) Onboarding
5 58 (2.32%) Management Information System
6 56 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
7 53 (2.12%) Algorithms
8 51 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
9 46 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
9 46 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
10 44 (1.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 42 (1.68%) Equities
12 37 (1.48%) Derivative
12 37 (1.48%) Mobile App
13 30 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
14 29 (1.16%) Public Cloud
15 28 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
15 28 (1.12%) Fixed Income
15 28 (1.12%) NHS
16 26 (1.04%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 84 (3.35%) Windows
2 73 (2.91%) Linux
3 28 (1.12%) Mac OS
4 27 (1.08%) Unix
5 23 (0.92%) Apple iOS
6 20 (0.80%) Android
7 10 (0.40%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.20%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.16%) VMS
10 2 (0.080%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.080%) zOS
11 1 (0.040%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.040%) CentOS
11 1 (0.040%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.040%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 667 (26.63%) Business Intelligence
2 592 (23.63%) Agile
3 590 (23.55%) Data Modelling
4 520 (20.76%) Problem-Solving
5 487 (19.44%) CI/CD
6 479 (19.12%) AI
7 452 (18.04%) ETL
8 450 (17.96%) DevOps
9 413 (16.49%) Data Pipeline
10 387 (15.45%) Data Governance
11 386 (15.41%) Data Engineering
12 365 (14.57%) Decision-Making
13 345 (13.77%) Stakeholder Management
14 319 (12.73%) Data Science
15 313 (12.50%) Data Analytics
16 301 (12.02%) Machine Learning
17 277 (11.06%) Visualisation
18 272 (10.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 268 (10.70%) Continuous Improvement
20 249 (9.94%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 854 (34.09%) SQL
2 791 (31.58%) Python
3 153 (6.11%) Java
4 103 (4.11%) JavaScript
5 99 (3.95%) PowerShell
6 78 (3.11%) C#
7 73 (2.91%) R
8 66 (2.63%) Bicep
9 62 (2.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 51 (2.04%) Bash
11 45 (1.80%) TypeScript
12 39 (1.56%) Kusto Query Language
13 38 (1.52%) Scala
14 35 (1.40%) C++
15 34 (1.36%) T-SQL
16 28 (1.12%) VBA
17 24 (0.96%) PL/SQL
18 19 (0.76%) Shell Script
19 14 (0.56%) Kotlin
19 14 (0.56%) Swift
Qualifications
1 401 (16.01%) Security Cleared
2 322 (12.85%) SC Cleared
3 243 (9.70%) Degree
4 73 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 64 (2.55%) Azure Certification
6 51 (2.04%) Master's Degree
7 41 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
8 38 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
9 30 (1.20%) DV Cleared
10 28 (1.12%) PMI Certification
11 26 (1.04%) CISSP
12 25 (1.00%) AWS Certification
13 22 (0.88%) PMP
14 18 (0.72%) CISM
15 14 (0.56%) IIBA
16 11 (0.44%) CBAP
16 11 (0.44%) PhD
17 8 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
17 8 (0.32%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
18 7 (0.28%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 422 (16.85%) Data Quality
2 151 (6.03%) GDPR
3 94 (3.75%) Accessibility
4 89 (3.55%) QA
5 38 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 30 (1.20%) NIST
7 23 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
8 21 (0.84%) WCAG
9 18 (0.72%) PMO
10 15 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 14 (0.56%) NCSC
12 11 (0.44%) Solvency II
13 10 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 10 (0.40%) HIPAA
13 10 (0.40%) SLA
14 9 (0.36%) NIST 800
14 9 (0.36%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.32%) GRC
15 8 (0.32%) PERC
16 7 (0.28%) HL7
System Software
1 180 (7.19%) Docker
2 66 (2.63%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
3 16 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.40%) HDFS
5 8 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.20%) zsh
7 2 (0.080%) GPFS
7 2 (0.080%) Lustre
7 2 (0.080%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.080%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.040%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.040%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.040%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.040%) Snort
8 1 (0.040%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.040%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 211 (8.42%) Terraform
2 189 (7.54%) Kubernetes
3 35 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 30 (1.20%) Ansible
5 21 (0.84%) Prometheus
6 20 (0.80%) SCCM
7 18 (0.72%) Grafana
8 17 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (0.56%) Puppet
10 8 (0.32%) Kibana
11 7 (0.28%) Hadoop YARN
11 7 (0.28%) logstash
12 5 (0.20%) WSUS
13 3 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.12%) Argo
13 3 (0.12%) Fluentd
13 3 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 2 (0.080%) Control-M
14 2 (0.080%) Nagios
14 2 (0.080%) Nessus
Vendors
1 483 (19.28%) Microsoft
2 322 (12.85%) Databricks
3 162 (6.47%) Google
4 138 (5.51%) SAP
5 127 (5.07%) Oracle
6 69 (2.75%) Salesforce
7 66 (2.63%) ServiceNow
8 65 (2.59%) Adobe
9 47 (1.88%) Talend
10 45 (1.80%) Informatica
11 43 (1.72%) OpenAI
12 38 (1.52%) Splunk
13 34 (1.36%) Foundry
14 28 (1.12%) Denodo
14 28 (1.12%) Workday
15 25 (1.00%) IBM
16 21 (0.84%) VMware
17 18 (0.72%) Amplitude
18 17 (0.68%) Cisco
19 16 (0.64%) Dynatrace