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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 27 37
Rank change year-on-year +4 +10 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,848 1,615 1,804
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.61% 6.59% 4.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.80% 7.27% 5.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,955 1,091 1,238
10th Percentile £356 £325 £358
25th Percentile £420 £429 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £747 £806 £800
UK median daily rate £513 £541 £550
% change year-on-year -5.22% -1.68% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 31 62
10th Percentile £23.31 £15.28 £18.04
25th Percentile £39.56 £24.00 £25.00
Median hourly rate £58.00 £31.64 £39.38
Median % change year-on-year +83.31% -19.64% +31.25%
75th Percentile £75.00 £59.75 £59.66
90th Percentile £84.28 £77.50 £79.13
UK median hourly rate £55.50 £31.64 £35.50
% change year-on-year +75.41% -10.87% +14.52%

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 32,374 22,226 32,746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.47% 90.74% 86.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,766 14,506 21,651
10th Percentile £313 £310 £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 £615 £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 1,980 825 2,147
10th Percentile £15.49 £15.07 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +4.62% -10.48%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.83
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.81 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £30.32 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -6.71% - -7.14%

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 21 March 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 21 March 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 21 March 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 +1 1,611 £537 -10.50% 1,012
Midlands +24 335 £492 +3.58% 220
North of England +11 297 £495 +4.21% 353
West Midlands +24 253 £495 +3.77% 123
South East -5 224 £500 +6.04% 519
North West +5 176 £495 +4.98% 207
South West +35 169 £505 +1.00% 160
East of England -7 105 £505 -15.83% 137
Yorkshire -1 98 £500 +2.04% 97
East Midlands +5 77 £447 +23.65% 97
North East +11 31 £450 +25.70% 53
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
1 140 (4.92%) Apache Spark
2 108 (3.79%) SAS
3 94 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
4 86 (3.02%) Apache
5 60 (2.11%) Confluence
6 54 (1.90%) SharePoint
7 30 (1.05%) CMS
8 19 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
9 18 (0.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 13 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
11 9 (0.32%) Jupyter
12 8 (0.28%) GeoServer
12 8 (0.28%) Smallworld
13 7 (0.25%) Apache Superset
13 7 (0.25%) ArcGIS
14 6 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
14 6 (0.21%) WordPress
15 5 (0.18%) Oracle Application Server
16 3 (0.11%) IIS
16 3 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 124 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (0.91%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.67%) Chatbot
6 12 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
7 11 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.18%) Trello
9 4 (0.14%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.14%) CPLEX
9 4 (0.14%) Oracle Smart View
9 4 (0.14%) Sketch
10 3 (0.11%) Notion
11 2 (0.070%) Autodesk Smoke
12 1 (0.035%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.035%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.035%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.035%) InDesign
12 1 (0.035%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.035%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 66 (2.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.32%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 8 (0.28%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 8 (0.28%) SAP FI
4 8 (0.28%) SAP MM
5 7 (0.25%) Maximo
5 7 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.21%) Aladdin
6 6 (0.21%) Sage X3
7 5 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.18%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 5 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.18%) SAP HR
8 4 (0.14%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
8 4 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.11%) BambooHR
Cloud Services
1 916 (32.16%) Azure
2 632 (22.19%) Power Platform
3 585 (20.54%) AWS
4 288 (10.11%) GCP
5 224 (7.87%) Azure Data Factory
6 212 (7.44%) Azure DevOps
7 194 (6.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 181 (6.36%) Snowflake
9 176 (6.18%) GitHub
10 131 (4.60%) Serverless
11 121 (4.25%) Azure Monitor
12 120 (4.21%) Amazon S3
13 119 (4.18%) dbt
14 106 (3.72%) GitHub Actions
15 99 (3.48%) Microsoft 365
16 84 (2.95%) Entra ID
16 84 (2.95%) SaaS
17 72 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
18 65 (2.28%) Azure Key Vault
19 62 (2.18%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 53 (1.86%) Firewall
2 34 (1.19%) Network Security
3 30 (1.05%) VPN
4 25 (0.88%) DNS
5 17 (0.60%) WAN
6 16 (0.56%) SMS
7 11 (0.39%) SD-WAN
8 10 (0.35%) 5G
8 10 (0.35%) MPLS
9 9 (0.32%) HTTP
9 9 (0.32%) SSL
10 8 (0.28%) DHCP
10 8 (0.28%) LAN
11 7 (0.25%) 4G
11 7 (0.25%) BGP
11 7 (0.25%) TCP/IP
12 6 (0.21%) Internet
12 6 (0.21%) OSPF
12 6 (0.21%) Radio Access Network
12 6 (0.21%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 579 (20.33%) Power BI
2 348 (12.22%) Data Warehouse
3 218 (7.65%) Data Lake
4 178 (6.25%) Metadata
5 177 (6.21%) Tableau
6 95 (3.34%) Delta Lake
7 94 (3.30%) SQL Server
8 92 (3.23%) BigQuery
9 89 (3.13%) Big Data
10 75 (2.63%) Relational Database
11 72 (2.53%) Snowflake Schema
12 71 (2.49%) Azure SQL Database
13 68 (2.39%) NoSQL
13 68 (2.39%) PostgreSQL
14 66 (2.32%) Amazon Redshift
15 57 (2.00%) Hadoop
16 53 (1.86%) Looker
17 52 (1.83%) Amazon Athena
17 52 (1.83%) Power Query
18 50 (1.76%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 200 (7.02%) Git
2 168 (5.90%) JIRA
3 95 (3.34%) Jenkins
4 81 (2.84%) GitLab
5 28 (0.98%) Selenium
6 24 (0.84%) ERwin
6 24 (0.84%) JUnit
7 14 (0.49%) MLflow
8 11 (0.39%) Gradle
9 10 (0.35%) Android Studio
10 9 (0.32%) PowerDesigner
11 8 (0.28%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.25%) Cypress.io
12 7 (0.25%) MSI
12 7 (0.25%) SonarQube
12 7 (0.25%) Xcode
13 6 (0.21%) ER Studio
14 5 (0.18%) fastlane
14 5 (0.18%) Maven
14 5 (0.18%) XCTest
General
1 855 (30.02%) Social Skills
2 731 (25.67%) Finance
3 541 (19.00%) Analytical Skills
4 291 (10.22%) Public Sector
5 212 (7.44%) Banking
6 167 (5.86%) Marketing
7 77 (2.70%) Retail
8 76 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
9 65 (2.28%) Front Office
10 52 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 50 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
12 48 (1.69%) Investment Banking
13 46 (1.62%) Legal
14 45 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
15 41 (1.44%) Manufacturing
15 41 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
16 35 (1.23%) Telecoms
17 31 (1.09%) Financial Institution
18 23 (0.81%) Advertising
18 23 (0.81%) Military
Job Titles
1 495 (17.38%) Data Engineer
2 349 (12.25%) Analyst
3 338 (11.87%) Developer
4 326 (11.45%) Architect
5 317 (11.13%) Senior
6 243 (8.53%) Lead
7 139 (4.88%) Data Analyst
8 136 (4.78%) Data Architect
9 133 (4.67%) Consultant
10 107 (3.76%) Azure Engineer
11 103 (3.62%) Business Analyst
12 95 (3.34%) Data Scientist
13 78 (2.74%) Senior Data Engineer
14 69 (2.42%) Project Manager
14 69 (2.42%) Solutions Architect
15 56 (1.97%) Designer
15 56 (1.97%) Senior Developer
16 52 (1.83%) Snowflake Engineer
17 47 (1.65%) Python Developer
18 46 (1.62%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (5.44%) Kafka
1 155 (5.44%) REST
2 154 (5.41%) PySpark
3 66 (2.32%) Pandas
4 61 (2.14%) React
5 59 (2.07%) TensorFlow
6 57 (2.00%) PyTorch
7 50 (1.76%) scikit-learn
8 49 (1.72%) NumPy
9 48 (1.69%) JSON
10 45 (1.58%) AngularJS
11 42 (1.47%) .NET
11 42 (1.47%) Node.js
12 41 (1.44%) HTML
13 40 (1.40%) CSS
14 39 (1.37%) SOAP
15 38 (1.33%) ARM Templates
16 37 (1.30%) RESTful
17 34 (1.19%) pytest
18 31 (1.09%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 170 (5.97%) Cloud Native
2 103 (3.62%) Product Ownership
3 88 (3.09%) Data Structures
4 83 (2.91%) Onboarding
5 77 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
6 57 (2.00%) Management Information System
7 55 (1.93%) Algorithms
8 52 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
9 51 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
10 48 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
11 42 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 40 (1.40%) Equities
13 38 (1.33%) Public Cloud
14 36 (1.26%) NHS
15 34 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
16 33 (1.16%) Derivative
16 33 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
16 33 (1.16%) Mobile App
17 27 (0.95%) Marketing Technology
18 26 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 88 (3.09%) Windows
2 75 (2.63%) Linux
3 32 (1.12%) Unix
4 28 (0.98%) Mac OS
5 23 (0.81%) Apple iOS
6 20 (0.70%) Android
7 9 (0.32%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.25%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.14%) VMS
10 3 (0.11%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.070%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.070%) zOS
12 1 (0.035%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.035%) CentOS
12 1 (0.035%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 786 (27.60%) Business Intelligence
2 756 (26.54%) Data Modelling
3 654 (22.96%) Agile
4 594 (20.86%) CI/CD
5 573 (20.12%) AI
6 568 (19.94%) ETL
7 554 (19.45%) Problem-Solving
8 541 (19.00%) Data Pipeline
9 537 (18.86%) Data Engineering
9 537 (18.86%) DevOps
10 477 (16.75%) Data Governance
11 433 (15.20%) Decision-Making
12 376 (13.20%) Stakeholder Management
13 353 (12.39%) Data Science
14 349 (12.25%) Machine Learning
15 338 (11.87%) Data Analytics
16 313 (10.99%) Continuous Improvement
17 296 (10.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 280 (9.83%) Visualisation
19 276 (9.69%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1,002 (35.18%) SQL
2 924 (32.44%) Python
3 157 (5.51%) Java
4 110 (3.86%) PowerShell
5 91 (3.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 89 (3.13%) C#
7 79 (2.77%) JavaScript
8 76 (2.67%) R
9 75 (2.63%) Bicep
10 51 (1.79%) Kusto Query Language
11 48 (1.69%) Bash
12 44 (1.54%) TypeScript
13 40 (1.40%) Scala
14 39 (1.37%) T-SQL
15 32 (1.12%) VBA
16 31 (1.09%) C++
17 28 (0.98%) PL/SQL
18 22 (0.77%) Shell Script
19 15 (0.53%) Kotlin
20 13 (0.46%) Swift
Qualifications
1 497 (17.45%) Security Cleared
2 389 (13.66%) SC Cleared
3 247 (8.67%) Degree
4 77 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 68 (2.39%) Azure Certification
6 47 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 44 (1.54%) Master's Degree
8 40 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
9 36 (1.26%) DV Cleared
10 27 (0.95%) PMI Certification
11 24 (0.84%) CISSP
12 23 (0.81%) PMP
13 22 (0.77%) AWS Certification
14 20 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
15 17 (0.60%) CISM
16 15 (0.53%) CCNP
17 14 (0.49%) IIBA
18 13 (0.46%) PhD
19 12 (0.42%) CCIE
20 8 (0.28%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 508 (17.84%) Data Quality
2 167 (5.86%) GDPR
3 114 (4.00%) QA
4 101 (3.55%) Accessibility
5 39 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 31 (1.09%) WCAG
7 26 (0.91%) NIST
8 24 (0.84%) PMO
9 20 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
10 15 (0.53%) NCSC
11 14 (0.49%) Solvency II
12 13 (0.46%) GRC
12 13 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 10 (0.35%) PERC
13 10 (0.35%) SLA
14 9 (0.32%) HL7
15 8 (0.28%) NIST 800
15 8 (0.28%) SOC 2
16 7 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 7 (0.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 197 (6.92%) Docker
2 75 (2.63%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.18%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.14%) HDFS
7 4 (0.14%) Snort
8 2 (0.070%) GPFS
8 2 (0.070%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.070%) Lustre
8 2 (0.070%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.035%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.035%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.035%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.035%) vSphere
9 1 (0.035%) zsh
Systems Management
1 247 (8.67%) Terraform
2 216 (7.58%) Kubernetes
3 38 (1.33%) Ansible
4 35 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 29 (1.02%) Grafana
5 29 (1.02%) Prometheus
6 22 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (0.56%) SCCM
8 9 (0.32%) Puppet
9 7 (0.25%) Kibana
10 6 (0.21%) logstash
11 4 (0.14%) CSIRT
11 4 (0.14%) WSUS
12 3 (0.11%) Argo
12 3 (0.11%) Cisco CUCM
12 3 (0.11%) Control-M
12 3 (0.11%) Fluentd
12 3 (0.11%) SysTrack
13 2 (0.070%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.070%) CASB
Vendors
1 540 (18.96%) Microsoft
2 383 (13.45%) Databricks
3 175 (6.14%) Google
4 146 (5.13%) Oracle
5 135 (4.74%) SAP
6 70 (2.46%) Salesforce
7 68 (2.39%) ServiceNow
8 63 (2.21%) Adobe
9 62 (2.18%) Informatica
10 59 (2.07%) Talend
11 51 (1.79%) Splunk
12 46 (1.62%) OpenAI
13 43 (1.51%) Foundry
14 41 (1.44%) Denodo
15 30 (1.05%) Workday
16 25 (0.88%) IBM
17 23 (0.81%) VMware
18 21 (0.74%) Cisco
19 18 (0.63%) Palantir
20 14 (0.49%) Dynatrace