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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 26 34
Rank change year-on-year 0 +8 +3
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,438 1,854 1,710
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.45% 6.68% 5.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.81% 7.35% 6.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,240 1,220 1,160
10th Percentile £363 £363 £356
25th Percentile £435 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £682
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 44 26
10th Percentile £17.21 £17.10 £23.25
25th Percentile £26.06 £24.38 £27.00
Median hourly rate £51.75 £34.99 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.89% +7.66% -8.62%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.48 £52.19
90th Percentile £85.13 £79.63 £70.49
UK median hourly rate £46.50 £34.98 £31.75
% change year-on-year +32.93% +10.17% -10.73%

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 39,007 25,232 28,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.55% 90.97% 86.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,733 16,031 17,231
10th Percentile £325 £295 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,853 1,544 1,222
10th Percentile £13.90 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.85 £20.26
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.00 £67.02
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +55.07% -40.82% -1.16%

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 28 September 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 28 September 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 28 September 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 1,912 £550 - 5,339
North of England +9 465 £489 +2.89% 893
Midlands +1 362 £490 -5.18% 518
South East +14 342 £515 -1.90% 834
West Midlands 0 295 £490 -6.67% 346
North West +1 224 £525 +10.53% 513
Yorkshire +11 183 £464 -2.37% 275
South West +22 171 £525 +10.53% 348
East of England -10 107 £600 +8.35% 296
North East +7 65 £445 +13.02% 109
East Midlands -5 65 £490 +7.40% 172
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
1 167 (4.86%) Apache Airflow
2 129 (3.75%) Apache Spark
3 108 (3.14%) SAS
4 100 (2.91%) Apache
5 79 (2.30%) Confluence
6 59 (1.72%) CMS
7 50 (1.45%) SharePoint
8 36 (1.05%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 28 (0.81%) Jupyter
9 28 (0.81%) Palantir Foundry
10 22 (0.64%) Oracle Application Server
11 9 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
11 9 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
12 8 (0.23%) Apache Superset
12 8 (0.23%) Drupal
12 8 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
13 6 (0.17%) WordPress
14 4 (0.12%) nginx
15 3 (0.087%) IIS
16 2 (0.058%) OpenStack
Applications
1 164 (4.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 27 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
4 22 (0.64%) Chatbot
5 16 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (0.38%) CPLEX
7 12 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
7 12 (0.35%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.15%) Trello
9 3 (0.087%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.087%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.058%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.058%) PlantUML
10 2 (0.058%) Sketch
11 1 (0.029%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.029%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.029%) InDesign
11 1 (0.029%) Notion
11 1 (0.029%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 75 (2.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.55%) Workday HCM
4 17 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
5 15 (0.44%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 15 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
6 13 (0.38%) Aladdin
7 10 (0.29%) SAP HR
8 9 (0.26%) SAP CO
8 9 (0.26%) SAP FI
9 8 (0.23%) Shopify
10 7 (0.20%) SAP ERP
10 7 (0.20%) SAP HCM
10 7 (0.20%) SAP MDG
10 7 (0.20%) Workfront
11 6 (0.17%) NetSuite
11 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
11 6 (0.17%) SAP GRC
11 6 (0.17%) SAP Payroll
11 6 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 980 (28.50%) Azure
2 696 (20.24%) Power Platform
3 592 (17.22%) AWS
4 309 (8.99%) GCP
5 261 (7.59%) Snowflake
6 229 (6.66%) Azure DevOps
7 224 (6.52%) Azure Data Factory
8 208 (6.05%) dbt
9 171 (4.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 147 (4.28%) GitHub
11 143 (4.16%) Serverless
12 128 (3.72%) Amazon S3
13 123 (3.58%) Azure Monitor
14 114 (3.32%) SaaS
15 109 (3.17%) Entra ID
16 91 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
17 82 (2.39%) Microsoft 365
18 73 (2.12%) GitHub Actions
19 64 (1.86%) Adobe Analytics
20 62 (1.80%) Azure Databricks
Communications & Networking
1 57 (1.66%) Firewall
2 50 (1.45%) Network Security
3 36 (1.05%) DNS
4 32 (0.93%) VPN
5 22 (0.64%) TCP/IP
6 20 (0.58%) Broadband
7 19 (0.55%) WAN
8 15 (0.44%) BGP
8 15 (0.44%) DHCP
9 14 (0.41%) SD-WAN
10 9 (0.26%) SMS
11 7 (0.20%) HTTP
11 7 (0.20%) LAN
11 7 (0.20%) Wireless
12 6 (0.17%) Kerberos
12 6 (0.17%) NGFW
12 6 (0.17%) OSPF
12 6 (0.17%) SSH
13 5 (0.15%) FTP
13 5 (0.15%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 670 (19.49%) Power BI
2 436 (12.68%) Data Warehouse
3 258 (7.50%) Data Lake
4 237 (6.89%) Metadata
5 221 (6.43%) Tableau
6 157 (4.57%) BigQuery
7 88 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
8 83 (2.41%) SQL Server
9 82 (2.39%) Looker
10 81 (2.36%) Delta Lake
11 80 (2.33%) Big Data
12 78 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
13 75 (2.18%) Relational Database
14 68 (1.98%) Amazon Athena
15 59 (1.72%) Semantic Layer
16 56 (1.63%) NoSQL
17 52 (1.51%) Snowflake Schema
18 51 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
19 49 (1.43%) Power Query
20 44 (1.28%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 187 (5.44%) Git
2 153 (4.45%) JIRA
3 62 (1.80%) GitLab
4 59 (1.72%) Jenkins
5 12 (0.35%) MLflow
6 9 (0.26%) fastlane
6 9 (0.26%) RStudio
6 9 (0.26%) SonarQube
7 8 (0.23%) Gradle
8 7 (0.20%) ER Studio
8 7 (0.20%) ERwin
8 7 (0.20%) Selenium
8 7 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (0.17%) Crashlytics
9 6 (0.17%) JUnit
9 6 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
9 6 (0.17%) Postman
10 5 (0.15%) Android Studio
10 5 (0.15%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.15%) Xcode
General
1 972 (28.27%) Social Skills
2 897 (26.09%) Finance
3 643 (18.70%) Analytical Skills
4 417 (12.13%) Public Sector
5 268 (7.80%) Banking
6 234 (6.81%) Marketing
7 176 (5.12%) Retail
8 113 (3.29%) Influencing Skills
9 88 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 84 (2.44%) Legal
10 84 (2.44%) Manufacturing
11 72 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
12 66 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
13 61 (1.77%) Front Office
14 54 (1.57%) Investment Banking
15 49 (1.43%) Publishing
16 42 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
17 41 (1.19%) Military
18 40 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
19 37 (1.08%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 558 (16.23%) Data Engineer
2 463 (13.47%) Senior
3 451 (13.12%) Analyst
4 443 (12.89%) Architect
5 288 (8.38%) Developer
6 283 (8.23%) Lead
7 204 (5.93%) Data Architect
8 172 (5.00%) Consultant
9 167 (4.86%) Data Analyst
10 120 (3.49%) Senior Data Engineer
11 119 (3.46%) Data Scientist
11 119 (3.46%) Solutions Architect
12 108 (3.14%) Business Analyst
13 98 (2.85%) Azure Engineer
14 70 (2.04%) Data Manager
15 64 (1.86%) Senior Analyst
15 64 (1.86%) Senior Manager
16 63 (1.83%) Product Manager
17 60 (1.75%) AWS Engineer
17 60 (1.75%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 274 (7.97%) Terraform
2 199 (5.79%) PySpark
3 131 (3.81%) REST
4 101 (2.94%) Kafka
5 58 (1.69%) Pandas
6 56 (1.63%) HTML
7 53 (1.54%) React
8 51 (1.48%) CSS
9 50 (1.45%) RESTful
10 43 (1.25%) OAuth
11 42 (1.22%) .NET
12 40 (1.16%) ARM Templates
13 37 (1.08%) NumPy
14 36 (1.05%) JSON
14 36 (1.05%) OpenID
15 32 (0.93%) OAuth2
15 32 (0.93%) Web Services
16 31 (0.90%) SOAP
17 28 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
18 27 (0.79%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 244 (7.10%) Cloud Native
2 189 (5.50%) Product Ownership
3 142 (4.13%) Onboarding
4 134 (3.90%) Data Structures
5 101 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
6 82 (2.39%) Management Information System
7 68 (1.98%) AI Agents
8 65 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
9 59 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
10 48 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
11 45 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
12 43 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
13 42 (1.22%) Algorithms
14 40 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
15 38 (1.11%) Social Media
15 38 (1.11%) Virtual Team
16 37 (1.08%) NHS
17 35 (1.02%) Derivative
17 35 (1.02%) Marketing Technology
18 34 (0.99%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 90 (2.62%) Windows
2 85 (2.47%) Linux
3 40 (1.16%) Unix
4 35 (1.02%) Windows Server
5 18 (0.52%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.29%) Android
7 10 (0.29%) Mac OS
8 9 (0.26%) VMS
9 6 (0.17%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.087%) Solaris
10 3 (0.087%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.058%) AIX
11 2 (0.058%) CentOS
11 2 (0.058%) HPUX
12 1 (0.029%) Rocky
12 1 (0.029%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 944 (27.46%) AI
2 900 (26.18%) Data Modelling
3 860 (25.01%) Business Intelligence
4 817 (23.76%) Stakeholder Management
5 805 (23.41%) Agile
6 680 (19.78%) Data Pipeline
7 673 (19.58%) Decision-Making
8 651 (18.94%) Data Engineering
9 636 (18.50%) CI/CD
10 556 (16.17%) Data Governance
11 527 (15.33%) ETL
12 507 (14.75%) DevOps
13 486 (14.14%) Problem-Solving
14 460 (13.38%) Migration
15 453 (13.18%) Continuous Improvement
16 446 (12.97%) Roadmaps
17 431 (12.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 417 (12.13%) Machine Learning
19 408 (11.87%) Data Science
19 408 (11.87%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1,119 (32.55%) SQL
2 957 (27.84%) Python
3 157 (4.57%) PowerShell
4 100 (2.91%) Java
5 89 (2.59%) JavaScript
6 87 (2.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 77 (2.24%) Bicep
8 68 (1.98%) C#
9 63 (1.83%) Bash
10 59 (1.72%) R
11 39 (1.13%) Scala
12 38 (1.11%) TypeScript
13 30 (0.87%) Shell Script
14 28 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
15 23 (0.67%) T-SQL
16 20 (0.58%) C++
17 17 (0.49%) PL/SQL
18 15 (0.44%) ABAP
19 14 (0.41%) LookML
19 14 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 611 (17.77%) Security Cleared
2 490 (14.25%) SC Cleared
3 293 (8.52%) Degree
4 88 (2.56%) Azure Certification
5 86 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 76 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 74 (2.15%) DV Cleared
8 55 (1.60%) Master's Degree
9 52 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
10 44 (1.28%) CISSP
11 37 (1.08%) AWS Certification
12 33 (0.96%) PMI Certification
13 28 (0.81%) PMP
14 27 (0.79%) DBS Check
15 19 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
16 11 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 11 (0.32%) CISA
16 11 (0.32%) MBA
16 11 (0.32%) SANS
17 10 (0.29%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 751 (21.84%) Data Quality
2 155 (4.51%) GDPR
3 138 (4.01%) QA
4 131 (3.81%) Accessibility
5 47 (1.37%) GRC
6 41 (1.19%) WCAG
7 39 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 33 (0.96%) Actionable Recommendations
8 33 (0.96%) NIST
9 31 (0.90%) PMO
10 24 (0.70%) SLA
11 13 (0.38%) NCSC
11 13 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 12 (0.35%) IFRS
13 11 (0.32%) PCI DSS
13 11 (0.32%) PERC
14 10 (0.29%) Solvency II
15 8 (0.23%) GMP
16 7 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
17 6 (0.17%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 148 (4.30%) Docker
2 93 (2.71%) Active Directory
3 27 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.26%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.12%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 3 (0.087%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.087%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.087%) vSphere
8 3 (0.087%) XenApp
9 2 (0.058%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.029%) iptables
10 1 (0.029%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.029%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 156 (4.54%) Kubernetes
2 45 (1.31%) Ansible
3 34 (0.99%) Grafana
4 25 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (0.49%) Prometheus
7 13 (0.38%) SCCM
8 8 (0.23%) FortiGate
8 8 (0.23%) Progress Chef
8 8 (0.23%) SCOM
9 7 (0.20%) Control-M
10 6 (0.17%) Kibana
10 6 (0.17%) Podman
11 5 (0.15%) QRadar
12 4 (0.12%) SysTrack
13 3 (0.087%) CASB
14 2 (0.058%) Argo
14 2 (0.058%) Docker Swarm
14 2 (0.058%) MOM
14 2 (0.058%) Puppet
Vendors
1 655 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 441 (12.83%) Databricks
3 194 (5.64%) Oracle
4 193 (5.61%) SAP
5 188 (5.47%) Google
6 96 (2.79%) Adobe
7 87 (2.53%) Salesforce
8 85 (2.47%) ServiceNow
9 57 (1.66%) Workday
10 50 (1.45%) Splunk
11 40 (1.16%) Dynatrace
11 40 (1.16%) Foundry
12 34 (0.99%) Palantir
13 31 (0.90%) Informatica
14 30 (0.87%) VMware
15 28 (0.81%) Talend
16 27 (0.79%) Cisco
17 26 (0.76%) Denodo
17 26 (0.76%) OpenAI
18 24 (0.70%) Amplitude