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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 30 39
Rank change year-on-year +6 +9 -3
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,289 1,520 1,766
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.23% 5.68% 4.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.19% 6.37% 5.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,548 982 1,224
10th Percentile £356 £356 £381
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £551
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -0.14% -4.22%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £799 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 25 65
10th Percentile £21.03 £25.26 £17.26
25th Percentile £30.96 £27.00 £27.50
Median hourly rate £46.00 £34.50 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -20.69% +24.29%
75th Percentile £70.16 £60.06 £67.50
90th Percentile £78.95 £64.34 £78.70
UK median hourly rate £45.50 £32.92 £46.78
% change year-on-year +38.20% -29.62% +33.65%

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 27,954 23,866 31,707
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.33% 89.11% 87.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,831 14,651 21,413
10th Percentile £304 £310 £305
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £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 1,737 769 1,474
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.60 £14.23
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.50 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.10% -18.82% +21.43%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.79 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +15.71%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 1,362 £525 -12.50% 750
Midlands +27 242 £513 +2.60% 303
North of England +2 240 £475 -3.66% 437
West Midlands +23 194 £515 +3.00% 118
North West +10 157 £475 - 203
South East -3 151 £500 +10.13% 851
South West +30 101 £525 +16.67% 266
East of England +1 94 £550 +10.00% 327
Yorkshire -8 69 £500 -2.44% 167
East Midlands +7 49 £431 -6.16% 178
North East -3 15 £400 -14.26% 70
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 99 (4.33%) SAS
2 86 (3.76%) Apache Airflow
3 81 (3.54%) Apache Spark
4 71 (3.10%) Apache
5 60 (2.62%) Confluence
6 49 (2.14%) SharePoint
7 36 (1.57%) CMS
8 21 (0.92%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 16 (0.70%) WebLogic
10 9 (0.39%) Jupyter
10 9 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
11 8 (0.35%) GeoServer
11 8 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
11 8 (0.35%) Smallworld
12 7 (0.31%) Oracle Application Server
13 6 (0.26%) WordPress
14 5 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 4 (0.17%) ArcGIS
16 3 (0.13%) IIS
17 2 (0.087%) Drupal
Applications
1 131 (5.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
3 33 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (1.27%) MS Visio
5 25 (1.09%) Chatbot
6 14 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.26%) Trello
8 5 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.17%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.13%) Notion
10 3 (0.13%) Sketch
11 2 (0.087%) Autodesk Smoke
12 1 (0.044%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.044%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.044%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.044%) CapCut
12 1 (0.044%) FrameMaker
12 1 (0.044%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.044%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 77 (3.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.61%) SAP EHS
4 11 (0.48%) 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%) IBM Planning Analytics
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 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
10 4 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 4 (0.17%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 745 (32.55%) Azure
2 505 (22.06%) Power Platform
3 475 (20.75%) AWS
4 220 (9.61%) GCP
5 166 (7.25%) Azure Data Factory
6 163 (7.12%) Azure DevOps
7 147 (6.42%) Snowflake
8 146 (6.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 117 (5.11%) GitHub
10 111 (4.85%) Serverless
11 108 (4.72%) Azure Monitor
12 89 (3.89%) SaaS
13 84 (3.67%) Amazon S3
14 79 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
15 77 (3.36%) dbt
16 72 (3.15%) Entra ID
16 72 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
17 56 (2.45%) AWS Lambda
18 54 (2.36%) Azure Logic Apps
18 54 (2.36%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 46 (2.01%) Firewall
2 27 (1.18%) Network Security
3 26 (1.14%) DNS
4 24 (1.05%) VPN
5 16 (0.70%) SMS
6 13 (0.57%) SSL
7 10 (0.44%) WAN
8 9 (0.39%) HTTP
9 8 (0.35%) DHCP
10 7 (0.31%) FTP
10 7 (0.31%) LAN
10 7 (0.31%) SMTP
10 7 (0.31%) TCP/IP
11 6 (0.26%) 2G
11 6 (0.26%) 5G
12 4 (0.17%) 4G
12 4 (0.17%) Radio Access Network
13 3 (0.13%) Internet
13 3 (0.13%) MPLS
13 3 (0.13%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 472 (20.62%) Power BI
2 244 (10.66%) Data Warehouse
3 165 (7.21%) Data Lake
4 142 (6.20%) Tableau
5 131 (5.72%) Metadata
6 74 (3.23%) SQL Server
7 67 (2.93%) BigQuery
8 66 (2.88%) Big Data
9 58 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
10 55 (2.40%) Azure SQL Database
11 54 (2.36%) Relational Database
12 50 (2.18%) Delta Lake
13 48 (2.10%) Looker
13 48 (2.10%) Snowflake Schema
14 43 (1.88%) Power Query
15 42 (1.83%) Star Schema
16 40 (1.75%) Hadoop
17 36 (1.57%) NoSQL
17 36 (1.57%) Pentaho
17 36 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 174 (7.60%) JIRA
2 162 (7.08%) Git
3 79 (3.45%) Jenkins
4 69 (3.01%) GitLab
5 24 (1.05%) Selenium
6 18 (0.79%) ERwin
6 18 (0.79%) JUnit
7 15 (0.66%) MLflow
8 11 (0.48%) PowerDesigner
9 10 (0.44%) Android Studio
9 10 (0.44%) Gradle
10 9 (0.39%) ER Studio
10 9 (0.39%) 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%) Oracle Forms
13 5 (0.22%) TeamCity
General
1 777 (33.94%) Social Skills
2 637 (27.83%) Finance
3 457 (19.97%) Analytical Skills
4 200 (8.74%) Banking
5 187 (8.17%) Public Sector
6 166 (7.25%) Marketing
7 73 (3.19%) Retail
8 67 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
9 65 (2.84%) Front Office
10 50 (2.18%) Legal
10 50 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
11 49 (2.14%) Investment Banking
12 43 (1.88%) Manufacturing
13 41 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
14 40 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 36 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
16 32 (1.40%) Financial Institution
17 29 (1.27%) Telecoms
18 28 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
19 21 (0.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 342 (14.94%) Analyst
2 304 (13.28%) Developer
3 287 (12.54%) Data Engineer
4 258 (11.27%) Senior
5 237 (10.35%) Architect
6 159 (6.95%) Lead
7 129 (5.64%) Consultant
8 126 (5.50%) Data Analyst
9 120 (5.24%) Business Analyst
10 90 (3.93%) Data Architect
11 82 (3.58%) Azure Engineer
12 73 (3.19%) Data Scientist
13 61 (2.66%) Senior Developer
14 56 (2.45%) Project Manager
15 50 (2.18%) Senior Data Engineer
16 46 (2.01%) Solutions Architect
17 39 (1.70%) Python Developer
18 37 (1.62%) Snowflake Engineer
19 36 (1.57%) DevOps Engineer
19 36 (1.57%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (6.12%) REST
2 103 (4.50%) PySpark
3 98 (4.28%) Kafka
4 55 (2.40%) Pandas
5 54 (2.36%) React
6 50 (2.18%) HTML
7 46 (2.01%) TensorFlow
8 45 (1.97%) Node.js
9 44 (1.92%) scikit-learn
9 44 (1.92%) SOAP
10 42 (1.83%) .NET
10 42 (1.83%) NumPy
10 42 (1.83%) PyTorch
11 41 (1.79%) RESTful
12 37 (1.62%) CSS
12 37 (1.62%) JSON
13 34 (1.49%) AngularJS
14 33 (1.44%) ARM Templates
15 29 (1.27%) OAuth
16 22 (0.96%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 99 (4.33%) Cloud Native
1 99 (4.33%) Product Ownership
2 75 (3.28%) Data Structures
3 59 (2.58%) Onboarding
4 54 (2.36%) Algorithms
4 54 (2.36%) Management Information System
5 51 (2.23%) Analytical Mindset
6 50 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
7 42 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
8 41 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 38 (1.66%) Derivative
9 38 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
10 37 (1.62%) Equities
11 36 (1.57%) Mobile App
12 28 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
12 28 (1.22%) Life Science
13 27 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
14 26 (1.14%) Fixed Income
14 26 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
15 25 (1.09%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 69 (3.01%) Linux
2 67 (2.93%) Windows
3 31 (1.35%) Unix
4 19 (0.83%) Apple iOS
5 18 (0.79%) Android
6 16 (0.70%) Mac OS
7 9 (0.39%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.22%) VMS
9 4 (0.17%) 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
1 645 (28.18%) Business Intelligence
2 565 (24.68%) Agile
3 516 (22.54%) Data Modelling
4 481 (21.01%) Problem-Solving
5 434 (18.96%) CI/CD
6 421 (18.39%) DevOps
7 410 (17.91%) ETL
8 401 (17.52%) AI
9 371 (16.21%) Data Pipeline
10 351 (15.33%) Data Governance
11 331 (14.46%) Decision-Making
12 309 (13.50%) Data Engineering
13 294 (12.84%) Stakeholder Management
14 289 (12.63%) Data Analytics
15 283 (12.36%) Data Science
16 270 (11.80%) Visualisation
17 268 (11.71%) Machine Learning
18 253 (11.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 251 (10.97%) Continuous Improvement
20 231 (10.09%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 781 (34.12%) SQL
2 711 (31.06%) Python
3 125 (5.46%) Java
4 102 (4.46%) JavaScript
5 93 (4.06%) PowerShell
6 73 (3.19%) C#
7 71 (3.10%) R
8 59 (2.58%) Bicep
9 56 (2.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 47 (2.05%) Bash
11 40 (1.75%) TypeScript
12 36 (1.57%) C++
12 36 (1.57%) Kusto Query Language
13 33 (1.44%) T-SQL
14 28 (1.22%) Scala
15 26 (1.14%) VBA
16 22 (0.96%) PL/SQL
17 14 (0.61%) Kotlin
17 14 (0.61%) Shell Script
18 13 (0.57%) Swift
Qualifications
1 377 (16.47%) Security Cleared
2 311 (13.59%) SC Cleared
3 218 (9.52%) Degree
4 64 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 57 (2.49%) Azure Certification
6 54 (2.36%) Master's Degree
7 37 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
8 31 (1.35%) CISSP
9 28 (1.22%) DV Cleared
10 24 (1.05%) AWS Certification
10 24 (1.05%) PMI Certification
11 22 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
12 20 (0.87%) PMP
13 19 (0.83%) CISM
14 14 (0.61%) IIBA
15 10 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
16 9 (0.39%) PhD
17 8 (0.35%) CBAP
17 8 (0.35%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
18 7 (0.31%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 366 (15.99%) Data Quality
2 138 (6.03%) GDPR
3 85 (3.71%) Accessibility
4 81 (3.54%) QA
5 36 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (1.40%) NIST
7 19 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
8 18 (0.79%) PMO
9 17 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 12 (0.52%) WCAG
11 11 (0.48%) NCSC
12 10 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 10 (0.44%) HIPAA
12 10 (0.44%) PCI DSS
13 9 (0.39%) GRC
13 9 (0.39%) NIST 800
14 8 (0.35%) PERC
14 8 (0.35%) SLA
14 8 (0.35%) Solvency II
15 7 (0.31%) GxP
System Software
1 181 (7.91%) Docker
2 54 (2.36%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.44%) HDFS
6 5 (0.22%) zsh
7 4 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.087%) 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
1 182 (7.95%) Kubernetes
2 179 (7.82%) Terraform
3 31 (1.35%) Ansible
4 22 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (0.74%) Grafana
7 16 (0.70%) SCCM
8 14 (0.61%) Puppet
9 13 (0.57%) Prometheus
10 8 (0.35%) Kibana
11 7 (0.31%) Hadoop YARN
11 7 (0.31%) logstash
12 6 (0.26%) WSUS
13 4 (0.17%) Kubeflow
14 3 (0.13%) Fluentd
14 3 (0.13%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
15 2 (0.087%) CASB
15 2 (0.087%) Cisco CUCM
15 2 (0.087%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 436 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 284 (12.41%) Databricks
3 153 (6.68%) Google
4 149 (6.51%) Oracle
5 142 (6.20%) SAP
6 70 (3.06%) Salesforce
7 67 (2.93%) Adobe
8 65 (2.84%) ServiceNow
9 49 (2.14%) Talend
10 42 (1.83%) Splunk
11 38 (1.66%) Denodo
12 35 (1.53%) Informatica
13 32 (1.40%) OpenAI
14 31 (1.35%) Workday
15 27 (1.18%) Dynatrace
16 26 (1.14%) Cisco
17 25 (1.09%) Foundry
18 20 (0.87%) IBM
19 19 (0.83%) AppDynamics
20 18 (0.79%) Alteryx