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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 27 36
Rank change year-on-year +4 +9 0
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,757 1,585 1,853
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.59% 6.42% 4.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.77% 7.09% 5.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,884 1,078 1,277
10th Percentile £356 £327 £362
25th Percentile £424 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £542 £550
% change year-on-year -5.49% -1.41% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 26 69
10th Percentile £21.03 £19.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £35.75 £25.06 £25.00
Median hourly rate £57.30 £31.08 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year +84.39% -12.78% +14.38%
75th Percentile £75.00 £60.25 £54.13
90th Percentile £83.75 £75.00 £78.83
UK median hourly rate £54.75 £34.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year +58.70% -2.82% +10.94%

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 31,421 22,365 33,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.55% 90.61% 86.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,102 14,445 21,880
10th Percentile £313 £308 £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 1,952 795 2,164
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £13.02
25th Percentile £18.80 £21.01 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.53
90th Percentile £74.26 £76.81 £71.83
UK median hourly rate £29.61 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -8.89% - -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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +3 1,564 £530 -11.67% 1,108
Midlands +24 333 £492 +3.58% 227
North of England +7 289 £500 +5.26% 365
West Midlands +22 248 £494 +0.77% 129
South East -6 205 £500 +7.47% 572
North West +6 172 £500 +5.26% 202
South West +33 159 £520 +5.05% 152
East of England -8 103 £505 -15.83% 157
Yorkshire -5 94 £500 - 117
East Midlands +8 82 £450 +24.48% 98
North East +13 29 £450 +25.70% 48
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
1 134 (4.86%) Apache Spark
2 111 (4.03%) SAS
3 90 (3.26%) Apache Airflow
4 81 (2.94%) Apache
5 58 (2.10%) Confluence
6 53 (1.92%) SharePoint
7 27 (0.98%) CMS
8 20 (0.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 19 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
10 12 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
11 8 (0.29%) GeoServer
11 8 (0.29%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.29%) Smallworld
12 7 (0.25%) ArcGIS
13 6 (0.22%) WordPress
14 5 (0.18%) Oracle Application Server
14 5 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
15 4 (0.15%) Apache Superset
16 3 (0.11%) IIS
16 3 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 126 (4.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (0.94%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.65%) Chatbot
6 14 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
7 10 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.18%) Adobe XD
8 5 (0.18%) Sketch
8 5 (0.18%) Trello
9 4 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
10 3 (0.11%) Notion
11 2 (0.073%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.073%) CPLEX
12 1 (0.036%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.036%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.036%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.036%) InDesign
12 1 (0.036%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.036%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 72 (2.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.40%) SAP HR
4 8 (0.29%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 8 (0.29%) SAP FI
4 8 (0.29%) SAP MM
5 7 (0.25%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.25%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 7 (0.25%) Maximo
5 7 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.22%) Sage X3
7 5 (0.18%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 5 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.18%) SAP BPC
7 5 (0.18%) SAP EHS
8 4 (0.15%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
8 4 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 879 (31.88%) Azure
2 608 (22.05%) Power Platform
3 576 (20.89%) AWS
4 279 (10.12%) GCP
5 214 (7.76%) Azure Data Factory
6 204 (7.40%) Azure DevOps
7 184 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 176 (6.38%) Snowflake
9 172 (6.24%) GitHub
10 127 (4.61%) Serverless
11 117 (4.24%) Amazon S3
12 115 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
13 114 (4.13%) dbt
14 103 (3.74%) GitHub Actions
15 94 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
16 92 (3.34%) SaaS
17 88 (3.19%) Entra ID
18 71 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
19 63 (2.29%) Azure Key Vault
20 59 (2.14%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 54 (1.96%) Firewall
2 32 (1.16%) Network Security
3 29 (1.05%) VPN
4 24 (0.87%) DNS
5 17 (0.62%) SMS
6 16 (0.58%) WAN
7 10 (0.36%) 5G
7 10 (0.36%) MPLS
7 10 (0.36%) SD-WAN
8 9 (0.33%) HTTP
8 9 (0.33%) SSL
9 8 (0.29%) DHCP
9 8 (0.29%) LAN
10 7 (0.25%) 4G
10 7 (0.25%) BGP
10 7 (0.25%) TCP/IP
11 6 (0.22%) OSPF
11 6 (0.22%) Radio Access Network
11 6 (0.22%) SMTP
11 6 (0.22%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 560 (20.31%) Power BI
2 327 (11.86%) Data Warehouse
3 208 (7.54%) Data Lake
4 170 (6.17%) Tableau
5 165 (5.98%) Metadata
6 92 (3.34%) BigQuery
7 90 (3.26%) Delta Lake
8 89 (3.23%) SQL Server
9 86 (3.12%) Big Data
10 69 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
11 68 (2.47%) NoSQL
11 68 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
11 68 (2.47%) Relational Database
11 68 (2.47%) Snowflake Schema
12 64 (2.32%) Amazon Redshift
13 58 (2.10%) Looker
14 56 (2.03%) Hadoop
15 52 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
16 50 (1.81%) Power Query
17 47 (1.70%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 202 (7.33%) Git
2 161 (5.84%) JIRA
3 97 (3.52%) Jenkins
4 84 (3.05%) GitLab
5 28 (1.02%) Selenium
6 24 (0.87%) JUnit
7 20 (0.73%) ERwin
8 14 (0.51%) MLflow
9 10 (0.36%) Android Studio
9 10 (0.36%) Gradle
10 9 (0.33%) PowerDesigner
11 8 (0.29%) SonarQube
11 8 (0.29%) Xcode
12 7 (0.25%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.25%) ER Studio
12 7 (0.25%) MSI
13 6 (0.22%) Cypress.io
14 5 (0.18%) Maven
14 5 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
14 5 (0.18%) XCTest
General
1 853 (30.94%) Social Skills
2 710 (25.75%) Finance
3 523 (18.97%) Analytical Skills
4 277 (10.05%) Public Sector
5 208 (7.54%) Banking
6 161 (5.84%) Marketing
7 77 (2.79%) Retail
8 75 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
9 65 (2.36%) Front Office
10 51 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 50 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
12 48 (1.74%) Investment Banking
13 47 (1.70%) Legal
14 44 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
15 41 (1.49%) Manufacturing
16 38 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
17 33 (1.20%) Financial Institution
17 33 (1.20%) Telecoms
18 21 (0.76%) Advertising
18 21 (0.76%) Military
Job Titles
1 458 (16.61%) Data Engineer
2 350 (12.69%) Analyst
3 334 (12.11%) Developer
4 322 (11.68%) Architect
5 310 (11.24%) Senior
6 234 (8.49%) Lead
7 138 (5.01%) Consultant
8 137 (4.97%) Data Analyst
9 129 (4.68%) Data Architect
10 110 (3.99%) Business Analyst
11 103 (3.74%) Azure Engineer
12 96 (3.48%) Data Scientist
13 76 (2.76%) Senior Data Engineer
14 67 (2.43%) Solutions Architect
15 65 (2.36%) Project Manager
16 55 (1.99%) Senior Developer
17 54 (1.96%) Designer
18 50 (1.81%) Snowflake Engineer
19 45 (1.63%) AWS Engineer
20 44 (1.60%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (5.40%) PySpark
1 149 (5.40%) REST
2 147 (5.33%) Kafka
3 61 (2.21%) Pandas
3 61 (2.21%) React
4 59 (2.14%) TensorFlow
5 57 (2.07%) PyTorch
6 49 (1.78%) .NET
7 48 (1.74%) scikit-learn
8 47 (1.70%) JSON
8 47 (1.70%) NumPy
9 43 (1.56%) AngularJS
10 42 (1.52%) HTML
10 42 (1.52%) Node.js
10 42 (1.52%) SOAP
11 40 (1.45%) CSS
12 39 (1.41%) ARM Templates
13 38 (1.38%) RESTful
14 32 (1.16%) Middleware
14 32 (1.16%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 156 (5.66%) Cloud Native
2 102 (3.70%) Product Ownership
3 83 (3.01%) Data Structures
4 78 (2.83%) Onboarding
5 70 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
6 56 (2.03%) Algorithms
7 55 (1.99%) Management Information System
8 50 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
9 48 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
10 45 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
11 44 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 41 (1.49%) Equities
13 39 (1.41%) Public Cloud
14 36 (1.31%) Derivative
15 34 (1.23%) Mobile App
16 32 (1.16%) NHS
17 31 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
18 29 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
19 26 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
20 25 (0.91%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 87 (3.16%) Windows
2 69 (2.50%) Linux
3 27 (0.98%) Mac OS
4 26 (0.94%) Apple iOS
4 26 (0.94%) Unix
5 20 (0.73%) Android
6 8 (0.29%) Windows 10
6 8 (0.29%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.15%) VMS
8 3 (0.11%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.073%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.073%) zOS
10 1 (0.036%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.036%) CentOS
10 1 (0.036%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 764 (27.71%) Business Intelligence
2 720 (26.12%) Data Modelling
3 638 (23.14%) Agile
4 580 (21.04%) CI/CD
5 552 (20.02%) ETL
6 551 (19.99%) Problem-Solving
7 537 (19.48%) AI
8 528 (19.15%) DevOps
9 519 (18.82%) Data Pipeline
10 492 (17.85%) Data Engineering
11 453 (16.43%) Data Governance
12 412 (14.94%) Decision-Making
13 367 (13.31%) Stakeholder Management
14 346 (12.55%) Data Science
15 339 (12.30%) Machine Learning
16 332 (12.04%) Data Analytics
17 314 (11.39%) Continuous Improvement
18 289 (10.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 275 (9.97%) Visualisation
20 266 (9.65%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 985 (35.73%) SQL
2 888 (32.21%) Python
3 153 (5.55%) Java
4 107 (3.88%) PowerShell
5 90 (3.26%) C#
6 88 (3.19%) JavaScript
7 84 (3.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 75 (2.72%) R
9 72 (2.61%) Bicep
10 51 (1.85%) Bash
11 49 (1.78%) TypeScript
12 47 (1.70%) Kusto Query Language
13 40 (1.45%) Scala
13 40 (1.45%) T-SQL
14 33 (1.20%) C++
14 33 (1.20%) VBA
15 26 (0.94%) PL/SQL
16 16 (0.58%) Shell Script
16 16 (0.58%) Swift
17 15 (0.54%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 476 (17.27%) Security Cleared
2 373 (13.53%) SC Cleared
3 248 (9.00%) Degree
4 73 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 68 (2.47%) Azure Certification
6 47 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 47 (1.70%) Master's Degree
7 42 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
8 36 (1.31%) DV Cleared
9 25 (0.91%) PMI Certification
10 24 (0.87%) AWS Certification
10 24 (0.87%) CISSP
11 21 (0.76%) PMP
12 20 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
13 16 (0.58%) CISM
14 15 (0.54%) CCNP
15 14 (0.51%) IIBA
16 13 (0.47%) PhD
17 12 (0.44%) CCIE
18 8 (0.29%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 490 (17.77%) Data Quality
2 159 (5.77%) GDPR
3 106 (3.84%) QA
4 95 (3.45%) Accessibility
5 37 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 25 (0.91%) NIST
6 25 (0.91%) WCAG
7 22 (0.80%) PMO
8 21 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
9 15 (0.54%) NCSC
10 14 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 13 (0.47%) Solvency II
12 12 (0.44%) GRC
13 10 (0.36%) SLA
14 9 (0.33%) PERC
15 8 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 8 (0.29%) NIST 800
15 8 (0.29%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.29%) SOC 2
16 7 (0.25%) HIPAA
System Software
1 204 (7.40%) Docker
2 80 (2.90%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.18%) HDFS
7 4 (0.15%) Snort
7 4 (0.15%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.073%) GPFS
8 2 (0.073%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.073%) Lustre
8 2 (0.073%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.073%) zsh
9 1 (0.036%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.036%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.036%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.036%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 245 (8.89%) Terraform
2 223 (8.09%) Kubernetes
3 37 (1.34%) Ansible
4 34 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 29 (1.05%) Prometheus
6 26 (0.94%) Grafana
7 21 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
8 17 (0.62%) SCCM
9 9 (0.33%) Puppet
10 8 (0.29%) Kibana
11 7 (0.25%) logstash
12 4 (0.15%) CSIRT
12 4 (0.15%) WSUS
13 3 (0.11%) Argo
13 3 (0.11%) Cisco CUCM
13 3 (0.11%) Fluentd
14 2 (0.073%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.073%) CASB
14 2 (0.073%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.073%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 524 (19.01%) Microsoft
2 377 (13.67%) Databricks
3 168 (6.09%) Google
4 144 (5.22%) Oracle
5 143 (5.19%) SAP
6 71 (2.58%) Salesforce
7 67 (2.43%) Adobe
8 66 (2.39%) ServiceNow
9 62 (2.25%) Talend
10 55 (1.99%) Informatica
11 53 (1.92%) Splunk
12 45 (1.63%) OpenAI
13 44 (1.60%) Denodo
14 41 (1.49%) Foundry
15 28 (1.02%) Workday
16 23 (0.83%) IBM
16 23 (0.83%) VMware
17 20 (0.73%) Cisco
18 17 (0.62%) Palantir
19 15 (0.54%) Amplitude