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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 27 38
Rank change year-on-year +4 +11 -3
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,003 1,677 1,748
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.46% 6.90% 4.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.78% 7.57% 5.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,060 1,139 1,196
10th Percentile £356 £346 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -
75th Percentile £625 £688 £685
90th Percentile £750 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 32 48
10th Percentile £21.57 £15.60 £14.90
25th Percentile £44.02 £22.56 £25.00
Median hourly rate £58.70 £31.64 £32.94
Median % change year-on-year +85.52% -3.93% +6.24%
75th Percentile £75.00 £37.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £78.58 £74.38
UK median hourly rate £57.30 £31.85 £30.37
% change year-on-year +79.93% +4.86% -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 34,200 22,151 32,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.97% 91.14% 86.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,858 14,510 20,977
10th Percentile £318 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.48% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,144 918 2,231
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.74 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £44.00 £30.45 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +44.50% -14.23% -5.33%
75th Percentile £67.31 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £40.66 £29.07 £35.00
% change year-on-year +39.87% -16.94% -6.17%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 1,654 £538 -10.42% 719
Midlands +18 351 £492 -3.91% 193
North of England +11 331 £476 +2.81% 269
West Midlands +21 259 £492 -4.06% 118
South East -8 251 £500 +1.83% 370
South West +26 192 £500 +5.26% 96
North West +9 177 £500 +6.84% 166
Yorkshire +4 133 £475 -1.55% 64
East of England -9 117 £525 -12.50% 76
East Midlands +5 86 £473 +32.72% 75
North East +6 31 £450 +25.70% 43
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
1 158 (5.26%) Apache Spark
2 111 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
3 93 (3.10%) SAS
4 85 (2.83%) Apache
5 75 (2.50%) Confluence
6 49 (1.63%) SharePoint
7 29 (0.97%) CMS
8 18 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
9 17 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 15 (0.50%) Jupyter
11 14 (0.47%) Oracle Application Server
12 10 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
13 9 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
14 8 (0.27%) Apache Superset
15 6 (0.20%) ArcGIS
15 6 (0.20%) WordPress
16 5 (0.17%) Drupal
16 5 (0.17%) IIS
17 3 (0.100%) Oracle SOA Suite
18 2 (0.067%) GeoServer
Applications
1 131 (4.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (0.73%) Chatbot
3 22 (0.73%) MS Visio
4 14 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
5 9 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.20%) CPLEX
7 4 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
7 4 (0.13%) Trello
8 3 (0.100%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.100%) Notion
8 3 (0.100%) Sketch
9 2 (0.067%) Autodesk Smoke
9 2 (0.067%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.033%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.033%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.033%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.033%) InDesign
10 1 (0.033%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 62 (2.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.27%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 7 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
5 6 (0.20%) Maximo
5 6 (0.20%) Sage X3
6 5 (0.17%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.17%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.17%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 5 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
7 4 (0.13%) iTrent
7 4 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
7 4 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.13%) SAP BPC
7 4 (0.13%) Shopify
7 4 (0.13%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 945 (31.47%) Azure
2 663 (22.08%) Power Platform
3 622 (20.71%) AWS
4 300 (9.99%) GCP
5 245 (8.16%) Azure Data Factory
6 208 (6.93%) Azure DevOps
7 205 (6.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 179 (5.96%) Snowflake
9 176 (5.86%) GitHub
10 138 (4.60%) Amazon S3
11 137 (4.56%) Serverless
12 130 (4.33%) dbt
13 111 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
14 98 (3.26%) GitHub Actions
15 95 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
16 84 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
17 78 (2.60%) Entra ID
17 78 (2.60%) SaaS
18 65 (2.16%) Azure Key Vault
19 60 (2.00%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 47 (1.57%) Firewall
2 34 (1.13%) Network Security
3 26 (0.87%) VPN
4 25 (0.83%) DNS
5 14 (0.47%) SD-WAN
5 14 (0.47%) WAN
6 12 (0.40%) SMS
7 11 (0.37%) HTTP
8 8 (0.27%) FTP
8 8 (0.27%) MPLS
9 7 (0.23%) 5G
9 7 (0.23%) BGP
9 7 (0.23%) DHCP
9 7 (0.23%) OSPF
9 7 (0.23%) SSL
9 7 (0.23%) TCP/IP
9 7 (0.23%) VXLAN
10 6 (0.20%) Internet
10 6 (0.20%) LAN
10 6 (0.20%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 613 (20.41%) Power BI
2 398 (13.25%) Data Warehouse
3 240 (7.99%) Data Lake
4 212 (7.06%) Tableau
5 183 (6.09%) Metadata
6 110 (3.66%) Delta Lake
7 108 (3.60%) BigQuery
8 104 (3.46%) SQL Server
9 91 (3.03%) Big Data
10 81 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
11 74 (2.46%) Azure SQL Database
12 71 (2.36%) Snowflake Schema
13 70 (2.33%) Relational Database
14 67 (2.23%) Amazon Athena
14 67 (2.23%) NoSQL
15 59 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
16 58 (1.93%) Looker
17 57 (1.90%) Power Query
17 57 (1.90%) Star Schema
18 53 (1.76%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 180 (5.99%) Git
2 176 (5.86%) JIRA
3 70 (2.33%) GitLab
4 67 (2.23%) Jenkins
5 20 (0.67%) ERwin
6 15 (0.50%) MLflow
7 12 (0.40%) Selenium
8 8 (0.27%) MSI
8 8 (0.27%) PowerDesigner
8 8 (0.27%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.23%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.23%) ER Studio
9 7 (0.23%) Gradle
9 7 (0.23%) JUnit
10 6 (0.20%) Android Studio
10 6 (0.20%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.17%) Postman
11 5 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 5 (0.17%) XCTest
12 4 (0.13%) TeamCity
General
1 804 (26.77%) Social Skills
2 765 (25.47%) Finance
3 549 (18.28%) Analytical Skills
4 311 (10.36%) Public Sector
5 191 (6.36%) Banking
6 164 (5.46%) Marketing
7 86 (2.86%) Retail
8 83 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
9 56 (1.86%) Legal
10 52 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
11 50 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
12 49 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
13 48 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 46 (1.53%) Telecoms
15 44 (1.47%) Front Office
16 43 (1.43%) Investment Banking
17 40 (1.33%) Manufacturing
18 34 (1.13%) Financial Institution
19 24 (0.80%) Military
20 22 (0.73%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 570 (18.98%) Data Engineer
2 355 (11.82%) Senior
3 354 (11.79%) Analyst
4 353 (11.75%) Architect
5 340 (11.32%) Developer
6 260 (8.66%) Lead
7 148 (4.93%) Data Architect
8 145 (4.83%) Data Analyst
9 122 (4.06%) Consultant
10 107 (3.56%) Azure Engineer
11 99 (3.30%) Business Analyst
12 98 (3.26%) Data Scientist
13 95 (3.16%) Senior Data Engineer
14 86 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
15 65 (2.16%) Project Manager
16 61 (2.03%) Designer
17 58 (1.93%) Data Manager
18 52 (1.73%) AWS Engineer
18 52 (1.73%) Business Intelligence Developer
19 50 (1.67%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (5.93%) PySpark
2 151 (5.03%) Kafka
3 126 (4.20%) REST
4 69 (2.30%) Pandas
5 60 (2.00%) PyTorch
5 60 (2.00%) React
5 60 (2.00%) TensorFlow
6 55 (1.83%) JSON
7 46 (1.53%) HTML
8 44 (1.47%) CSS
8 44 (1.47%) scikit-learn
9 42 (1.40%) AngularJS
9 42 (1.40%) NumPy
9 42 (1.40%) SOAP
10 41 (1.37%) Node.js
11 40 (1.33%) .NET
12 35 (1.17%) Middleware
13 34 (1.13%) Oracle Fusion
14 32 (1.07%) RESTful
15 29 (0.97%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 198 (6.59%) Cloud Native
2 137 (4.56%) Product Ownership
3 95 (3.16%) Data Structures
4 87 (2.90%) Onboarding
5 72 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
6 61 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
7 55 (1.83%) Management Information System
8 54 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
9 51 (1.70%) Algorithms
10 46 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
11 39 (1.30%) Public Cloud
12 36 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
13 34 (1.13%) AI Agents
13 34 (1.13%) NHS
14 31 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
14 31 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 31 (1.03%) Mobile App
15 30 (1.00%) Equities
15 30 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
15 30 (1.00%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 87 (2.90%) Windows
2 80 (2.66%) Linux
3 35 (1.17%) Unix
4 31 (1.03%) Mac OS
5 19 (0.63%) Apple iOS
6 14 (0.47%) Android
7 12 (0.40%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.23%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.100%) CentOS
11 2 (0.067%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.067%) zOS
12 1 (0.033%) Rocky
12 1 (0.033%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 833 (27.74%) Business Intelligence
2 822 (27.37%) Data Modelling
3 666 (22.18%) Agile
4 661 (22.01%) AI
5 627 (20.88%) Data Pipeline
6 617 (20.55%) CI/CD
7 596 (19.85%) Data Engineering
8 578 (19.25%) ETL
9 527 (17.55%) Problem-Solving
10 523 (17.42%) DevOps
11 513 (17.08%) Data Governance
12 486 (16.18%) Decision-Making
13 383 (12.75%) Stakeholder Management
14 374 (12.45%) Data Science
15 373 (12.42%) Machine Learning
16 342 (11.39%) Data Analytics
17 338 (11.26%) Continuous Improvement
18 325 (10.82%) Migration
19 299 (9.96%) Validation
20 285 (9.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,033 (34.40%) SQL
2 954 (31.77%) Python
3 146 (4.86%) Java
4 115 (3.83%) PowerShell
5 99 (3.30%) C#
6 97 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 83 (2.76%) R
8 74 (2.46%) Bicep
8 74 (2.46%) JavaScript
9 47 (1.57%) Kusto Query Language
10 46 (1.53%) T-SQL
11 44 (1.47%) TypeScript
12 43 (1.43%) Scala
13 41 (1.37%) Bash
14 26 (0.87%) Shell Script
15 25 (0.83%) C++
15 25 (0.83%) PL/SQL
16 24 (0.80%) VBA
17 10 (0.33%) Kotlin
18 9 (0.30%) Korn
Qualifications
1 528 (17.58%) Security Cleared
2 416 (13.85%) SC Cleared
3 242 (8.06%) Degree
4 71 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 69 (2.30%) Azure Certification
6 53 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 41 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 40 (1.33%) DV Cleared
9 37 (1.23%) Master's Degree
10 27 (0.90%) PMI Certification
11 25 (0.83%) CISSP
12 22 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
12 22 (0.73%) PMP
13 19 (0.63%) AWS Certification
14 16 (0.53%) CCNP
14 16 (0.53%) CISM
15 14 (0.47%) IIBA
15 14 (0.47%) PhD
16 12 (0.40%) CCIE
17 8 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 545 (18.15%) Data Quality
2 161 (5.36%) GDPR
3 125 (4.16%) QA
4 97 (3.23%) Accessibility
5 38 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 35 (1.17%) WCAG
7 31 (1.03%) NIST
8 27 (0.90%) PMO
9 21 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
10 14 (0.47%) GRC
10 14 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 14 (0.47%) SLA
11 13 (0.43%) Solvency II
12 12 (0.40%) PERC
13 10 (0.33%) NCSC
14 9 (0.30%) HL7
15 8 (0.27%) ISO 20022
15 8 (0.27%) PCI DSS
16 7 (0.23%) NIST 800
17 6 (0.20%) IFRS
System Software
1 186 (6.19%) Docker
2 77 (2.56%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.17%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.13%) HDFS
7 4 (0.13%) Snort
8 2 (0.067%) GPFS
8 2 (0.067%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.067%) Lustre
8 2 (0.067%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.033%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.033%) iptables
9 1 (0.033%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.033%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.033%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.033%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 256 (8.52%) Terraform
2 194 (6.46%) Kubernetes
3 43 (1.43%) Ansible
4 40 (1.33%) Grafana
5 37 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 31 (1.03%) Prometheus
7 20 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
8 16 (0.53%) SCCM
9 9 (0.30%) Puppet
10 6 (0.20%) Kibana
11 5 (0.17%) Argo
12 4 (0.13%) Control-M
12 4 (0.13%) CSIRT
12 4 (0.13%) logstash
12 4 (0.13%) WSUS
13 3 (0.100%) Fluentd
13 3 (0.100%) Nagios
13 3 (0.100%) SCOM
13 3 (0.100%) SysTrack
14 2 (0.067%) Apache Ranger
Vendors
1 548 (18.25%) Microsoft
2 402 (13.39%) Databricks
3 173 (5.76%) Google
4 156 (5.19%) Oracle
5 148 (4.93%) SAP
6 70 (2.33%) ServiceNow
7 69 (2.30%) Adobe
7 69 (2.30%) Salesforce
8 65 (2.16%) Informatica
9 56 (1.86%) Splunk
10 49 (1.63%) Talend
11 45 (1.50%) OpenAI
12 41 (1.37%) Denodo
13 37 (1.23%) Foundry
13 37 (1.23%) Workday
14 24 (0.80%) IBM
15 23 (0.77%) VMware
16 19 (0.63%) Dynatrace
17 16 (0.53%) Cisco
18 14 (0.47%) Ariba