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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 36
Rank change year-on-year +2 +9 -1
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,306 1,712 1,917
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.53% 6.56% 5.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.82% 7.21% 6.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,243 1,135 1,336
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -2.65%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 38 43
10th Percentile £19.25 £14.83 £13.90
25th Percentile £35.00 £19.50 £25.00
Median hourly rate £54.75 £33.28 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +64.54% +10.92% -6.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £63.31 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.90 £79.09 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £34.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year +52.17% +23.21% -12.91%

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 37,490 23,760 31,971
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.37% 91.05% 85.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,605 15,276 20,748
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,362 1,184 2,308
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.23 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.79 £17.95 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.45%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 3 July 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 1,802 £550 -4.35% 1,547
Midlands +11 402 £492 -1.57% 231
North of England +6 401 £490 +8.77% 348
West Midlands +15 310 £491 -4.22% 139
South East 0 297 £500 -4.76% 503
North West +4 204 £500 +6.04% 204
South West +25 190 £500 +5.26% 147
Yorkshire -2 156 £500 +11.05% 93
East of England -6 117 £525 -9.48% 116
East Midlands +6 85 £509 +23.71% 91
North East +1 52 £450 +9.09% 51
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
1 154 (4.66%) Apache Spark
2 142 (4.30%) Apache Airflow
3 101 (3.06%) SAS
4 90 (2.72%) Apache
5 66 (2.00%) Confluence
6 42 (1.27%) SharePoint
7 33 (1.00%) CMS
8 30 (0.91%) Jupyter
9 29 (0.88%) Palantir Foundry
10 15 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
10 15 (0.45%) Oracle Application Server
11 13 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 8 (0.24%) Apache Superset
13 7 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
14 6 (0.18%) IIS
14 6 (0.18%) WordPress
15 5 (0.15%) Drupal
16 3 (0.091%) ArcGIS
17 2 (0.060%) Apache Synapse
17 2 (0.060%) OpenStack
Applications
1 148 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (0.57%) Chatbot
3 19 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
4 16 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
5 14 (0.42%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.36%) CPLEX
7 10 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
9 3 (0.091%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.091%) Sketch
10 1 (0.030%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.030%) InDesign
10 1 (0.030%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.030%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.030%) Trello
10 1 (0.030%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 68 (2.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
4 10 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
4 10 (0.30%) Workday HCM
5 9 (0.27%) Aladdin
6 8 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.21%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 7 (0.21%) NetSuite
7 7 (0.21%) SAP ERP
8 6 (0.18%) Sage X3
9 5 (0.15%) BambooHR
9 5 (0.15%) Infor LN
9 5 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
9 5 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 4 (0.12%) iTrent
10 4 (0.12%) SAP BPC
10 4 (0.12%) Shopify
11 3 (0.091%) Adobe Campaign
11 3 (0.091%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 988 (29.89%) Azure
2 706 (21.36%) Power Platform
3 647 (19.57%) AWS
4 288 (8.71%) GCP
5 229 (6.93%) Azure DevOps
6 225 (6.81%) Snowflake
7 217 (6.56%) Azure Data Factory
8 179 (5.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 176 (5.32%) dbt
10 164 (4.96%) GitHub
11 144 (4.36%) Amazon S3
12 140 (4.23%) Serverless
13 112 (3.39%) Azure Monitor
14 94 (2.84%) AWS Lambda
15 93 (2.81%) GitHub Actions
15 93 (2.81%) SaaS
16 86 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
17 84 (2.54%) Entra ID
18 49 (1.48%) Power Automate
19 48 (1.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (1.42%) Firewall
2 34 (1.03%) Network Security
3 26 (0.79%) VPN
4 25 (0.76%) WAN
5 23 (0.70%) SD-WAN
6 20 (0.60%) DNS
7 17 (0.51%) BGP
8 11 (0.33%) SMS
9 10 (0.30%) OSPF
10 9 (0.27%) TCP/IP
10 9 (0.27%) Wireless
11 8 (0.24%) VXLAN
12 7 (0.21%) 5G
12 7 (0.21%) DHCP
12 7 (0.21%) HTTP
12 7 (0.21%) Internet
12 7 (0.21%) LAN
12 7 (0.21%) MPLS
12 7 (0.21%) WLAN
13 6 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 663 (20.05%) Power BI
2 422 (12.76%) Data Warehouse
3 255 (7.71%) Data Lake
4 231 (6.99%) Tableau
5 192 (5.81%) Metadata
6 124 (3.75%) BigQuery
7 107 (3.24%) Delta Lake
8 100 (3.02%) SQL Server
9 96 (2.90%) Big Data
10 91 (2.75%) Amazon Redshift
11 83 (2.51%) Relational Database
12 79 (2.39%) Snowflake Schema
13 74 (2.24%) Amazon Athena
14 71 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
15 68 (2.06%) NoSQL
16 67 (2.03%) Looker
17 60 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
18 53 (1.60%) Power Query
19 50 (1.51%) Star Schema
20 48 (1.45%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 188 (5.69%) Git
2 159 (4.81%) JIRA
3 77 (2.33%) Jenkins
4 62 (1.88%) GitLab
5 19 (0.57%) ERwin
6 12 (0.36%) MLflow
7 11 (0.33%) JUnit
8 10 (0.30%) ER Studio
8 10 (0.30%) fastlane
8 10 (0.30%) Selenium
9 7 (0.21%) Postman
9 7 (0.21%) PowerDesigner
10 6 (0.18%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.18%) Crashlytics
10 6 (0.18%) MSI
11 5 (0.15%) Android Studio
11 5 (0.15%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.15%) Gradle
11 5 (0.15%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.15%) SonarQube
General
1 843 (25.50%) Finance
2 834 (25.23%) Social Skills
3 559 (16.91%) Analytical Skills
4 387 (11.71%) Public Sector
5 236 (7.14%) Banking
6 183 (5.54%) Marketing
7 137 (4.14%) Retail
8 76 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 75 (2.27%) Legal
10 71 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
11 62 (1.88%) Manufacturing
12 58 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
13 56 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
14 53 (1.60%) Investment Banking
15 49 (1.48%) Front Office
16 44 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
16 44 (1.33%) Telecoms
17 40 (1.21%) Financial Institution
18 29 (0.88%) Automotive
19 27 (0.82%) Military
Job Titles
1 628 (19.00%) Data Engineer
2 413 (12.49%) Analyst
3 402 (12.16%) Architect
4 400 (12.10%) Senior
5 331 (10.01%) Developer
6 284 (8.59%) Lead
7 185 (5.60%) Data Architect
8 168 (5.08%) Data Analyst
9 137 (4.14%) Consultant
10 114 (3.45%) Data Scientist
11 109 (3.30%) Business Analyst
11 109 (3.30%) Solutions Architect
12 105 (3.18%) Senior Data Engineer
13 97 (2.93%) Azure Engineer
14 70 (2.12%) Data Manager
15 64 (1.94%) Project Manager
16 60 (1.81%) Designer
17 56 (1.69%) AWS Engineer
17 56 (1.69%) Lead Data Engineer
17 56 (1.69%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (5.96%) PySpark
2 131 (3.96%) Kafka
3 111 (3.36%) REST
4 62 (1.88%) Pandas
5 50 (1.51%) JSON
5 50 (1.51%) React
6 49 (1.48%) RESTful
7 43 (1.30%) .NET
8 38 (1.15%) HTML
8 38 (1.15%) PyTorch
9 37 (1.12%) NumPy
10 36 (1.09%) CSS
10 36 (1.09%) Middleware
11 35 (1.06%) TensorFlow
12 34 (1.03%) Web Services
13 33 (1.00%) scikit-learn
14 32 (0.97%) Microsoft Graph
15 31 (0.94%) SOAP
16 29 (0.88%) ARM Templates
17 25 (0.76%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 232 (7.02%) Cloud Native
2 161 (4.87%) Product Ownership
3 129 (3.90%) Data Structures
4 106 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
5 102 (3.09%) Onboarding
6 66 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
7 59 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
8 49 (1.48%) Algorithms
9 48 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
10 45 (1.36%) AI Agents
11 41 (1.24%) Management Information System
11 41 (1.24%) NHS
12 40 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
13 37 (1.12%) Public Cloud
14 35 (1.06%) Mobile App
15 32 (0.97%) Virtual Team
16 31 (0.94%) Marketing Technology
17 30 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
18 29 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
18 29 (0.88%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 89 (2.69%) Windows
2 77 (2.33%) Linux
3 40 (1.21%) Unix
4 24 (0.73%) Mac OS
5 23 (0.70%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.48%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.33%) Android
8 8 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.15%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.15%) VMS
10 3 (0.091%) CentOS
10 3 (0.091%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.030%) Rocky
11 1 (0.030%) Solaris
11 1 (0.030%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 915 (27.68%) Data Modelling
2 881 (26.65%) Business Intelligence
3 795 (24.05%) AI
4 719 (21.75%) Agile
5 696 (21.05%) Data Pipeline
6 683 (20.66%) Data Engineering
7 666 (20.15%) CI/CD
8 561 (16.97%) ETL
9 547 (16.55%) Decision-Making
10 523 (15.82%) DevOps
11 518 (15.67%) Stakeholder Management
12 515 (15.58%) Data Governance
13 502 (15.18%) Problem-Solving
14 407 (12.31%) Machine Learning
15 401 (12.13%) Data Science
16 397 (12.01%) Migration
17 380 (11.49%) Data Analytics
17 380 (11.49%) Validation
18 375 (11.34%) Continuous Improvement
19 351 (10.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,119 (33.85%) SQL
2 993 (30.04%) Python
3 135 (4.08%) Java
4 116 (3.51%) PowerShell
5 100 (3.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 86 (2.60%) C#
7 70 (2.12%) R
8 66 (2.00%) Bicep
9 57 (1.72%) JavaScript
10 44 (1.33%) Scala
11 43 (1.30%) TypeScript
12 39 (1.18%) Kusto Query Language
12 39 (1.18%) T-SQL
13 35 (1.06%) Bash
13 35 (1.06%) Shell Script
14 26 (0.79%) PL/SQL
15 20 (0.60%) VBA
16 19 (0.57%) C++
17 10 (0.30%) Korn
17 10 (0.30%) Swift
Qualifications
1 546 (16.52%) Security Cleared
2 430 (13.01%) SC Cleared
3 265 (8.02%) Degree
4 79 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 75 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 68 (2.06%) Azure Certification
7 52 (1.57%) DV Cleared
8 39 (1.18%) Master's Degree
9 34 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
10 29 (0.88%) CISSP
11 26 (0.79%) AWS Certification
12 25 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
13 22 (0.67%) PMI Certification
14 19 (0.57%) DBS Check
15 18 (0.54%) PMP
16 16 (0.48%) CCNP
17 15 (0.45%) CCIE
18 11 (0.33%) CISA
19 10 (0.30%) PhD
19 10 (0.30%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 626 (18.94%) Data Quality
2 165 (4.99%) GDPR
3 127 (3.84%) QA
4 111 (3.36%) Accessibility
5 45 (1.36%) WCAG
6 35 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 29 (0.88%) NIST
8 27 (0.82%) PMO
9 20 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
10 19 (0.57%) GRC
11 16 (0.48%) Solvency II
12 15 (0.45%) SLA
13 10 (0.30%) IFRS
13 10 (0.30%) NCSC
13 10 (0.30%) PCI DSS
13 10 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.21%) PERC
15 6 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 6 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.18%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 161 (4.87%) Docker
2 72 (2.18%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.21%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.12%) HDFS
6 4 (0.12%) Snort
6 4 (0.12%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.030%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.030%) GPFS
7 1 (0.030%) iptables
7 1 (0.030%) Lustre
7 1 (0.030%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.030%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.030%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 247 (7.47%) Terraform
2 171 (5.17%) Kubernetes
3 34 (1.03%) Ansible
4 32 (0.97%) Grafana
5 31 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
6 28 (0.85%) Prometheus
7 21 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.24%) FortiGate
8 8 (0.24%) SCCM
9 5 (0.15%) Argo
10 4 (0.12%) Control-M
10 4 (0.12%) CSIRT
10 4 (0.12%) Podman
11 3 (0.091%) Nagios
11 3 (0.091%) Puppet
11 3 (0.091%) QRadar
12 2 (0.060%) Kibana
12 2 (0.060%) OpenVAS
12 2 (0.060%) Rancher
12 2 (0.060%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 558 (16.88%) Microsoft
2 444 (13.43%) Databricks
3 169 (5.11%) Oracle
4 167 (5.05%) SAP
5 156 (4.72%) Google
6 74 (2.24%) Salesforce
7 70 (2.12%) ServiceNow
8 64 (1.94%) Adobe
9 53 (1.60%) Informatica
9 53 (1.60%) Splunk
10 48 (1.45%) Foundry
11 44 (1.33%) Talend
11 44 (1.33%) Workday
12 38 (1.15%) OpenAI
13 36 (1.09%) Denodo
13 36 (1.09%) Palantir
14 32 (0.97%) Dynatrace
15 27 (0.82%) Cisco
16 22 (0.67%) VMware
17 15 (0.45%) IBM