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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 27 38
Rank change year-on-year +4 +11 -2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,927 1,627 1,803
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.69% 6.70% 4.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.94% 7.38% 5.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,001 1,109 1,234
10th Percentile £356 £326 £356
25th Percentile £424 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £813 £800
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 29 59
10th Percentile £26.55 £15.28 £17.51
25th Percentile £41.94 £23.00 £25.00
Median hourly rate £58.90 £31.64 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year +86.14% -18.35% +29.17%
75th Percentile £75.00 £58.75 £53.94
90th Percentile £84.20 £77.74 £79.29
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £31.64 £35.50
% change year-on-year +81.73% -10.87% +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 32,752 22,033 32,691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.09% 90.76% 86.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,983 14,520 21,608
10th Percentile £313 £312 £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 2,011 860 2,165
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £20.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.34 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £31.88 £32.50
% change year-on-year +11.36% -1.91% -10.48%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 +2 1,643 £530 -11.67% 896
Midlands +22 343 £492 +3.65% 212
North of England +6 308 £495 +7.03% 331
West Midlands +24 261 £493 +1.86% 110
South East -5 230 £500 - 433
South West +29 181 £500 - 149
North West +5 179 £498 +7.57% 192
East of England -7 114 £511 -14.88% 103
Yorkshire 0 106 £500 +1.01% 91
East Midlands +5 76 £447 +23.65% 102
North East +12 32 £450 +25.70% 52
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
1 144 (4.92%) Apache Spark
2 115 (3.93%) SAS
3 101 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
4 88 (3.01%) Apache
5 63 (2.15%) Confluence
6 54 (1.84%) SharePoint
7 31 (1.06%) CMS
8 19 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
9 16 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 10 (0.34%) Jupyter
11 9 (0.31%) Apache Superset
11 9 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
12 8 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
13 7 (0.24%) ArcGIS
13 7 (0.24%) Oracle Application Server
14 6 (0.20%) WordPress
15 3 (0.10%) IIS
15 3 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 3 (0.10%) WebLogic
16 2 (0.068%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 130 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (0.82%) MS Visio
5 20 (0.68%) Chatbot
6 14 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
8 5 (0.17%) CPLEX
8 5 (0.17%) Trello
9 4 (0.14%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.14%) Oracle Smart View
9 4 (0.14%) Sketch
10 3 (0.10%) Notion
11 2 (0.068%) Autodesk Smoke
12 1 (0.034%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.034%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.034%) CapCut
12 1 (0.034%) InDesign
12 1 (0.034%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.034%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 66 (2.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.31%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 9 (0.31%) SAP MM
4 8 (0.27%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 8 (0.27%) SAP FI
5 7 (0.24%) Maximo
5 7 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.20%) Sage X3
6 6 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.17%) Aladdin
7 5 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 4 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
8 4 (0.14%) iTrent
8 4 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
8 4 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.14%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 921 (31.47%) Azure
2 642 (21.93%) Power Platform
3 611 (20.87%) AWS
4 299 (10.22%) GCP
5 220 (7.52%) Azure Data Factory
6 210 (7.17%) Azure DevOps
7 192 (6.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 184 (6.29%) Snowflake
9 179 (6.12%) GitHub
10 133 (4.54%) Serverless
11 129 (4.41%) Amazon S3
12 124 (4.24%) dbt
13 114 (3.89%) Azure Monitor
14 108 (3.69%) GitHub Actions
15 100 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
16 85 (2.90%) SaaS
17 83 (2.84%) Entra ID
18 77 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
19 66 (2.25%) Azure Key Vault
20 64 (2.19%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 48 (1.64%) Firewall
2 34 (1.16%) Network Security
3 31 (1.06%) VPN
4 26 (0.89%) DNS
5 15 (0.51%) SMS
5 15 (0.51%) WAN
6 13 (0.44%) SD-WAN
7 11 (0.38%) 5G
8 9 (0.31%) HTTP
8 9 (0.31%) MPLS
8 9 (0.31%) SSL
9 8 (0.27%) DHCP
10 7 (0.24%) 4G
10 7 (0.24%) BGP
10 7 (0.24%) TCP/IP
11 6 (0.20%) 2G
11 6 (0.20%) Internet
11 6 (0.20%) OSPF
11 6 (0.20%) Radio Access Network
11 6 (0.20%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 589 (20.12%) Power BI
2 361 (12.33%) Data Warehouse
3 224 (7.65%) Data Lake
4 186 (6.35%) Tableau
5 181 (6.18%) Metadata
6 99 (3.38%) BigQuery
6 99 (3.38%) Delta Lake
7 96 (3.28%) SQL Server
8 92 (3.14%) Big Data
9 76 (2.60%) Relational Database
10 72 (2.46%) Azure SQL Database
10 72 (2.46%) Snowflake Schema
11 67 (2.29%) Amazon Redshift
11 67 (2.29%) NoSQL
12 65 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
13 57 (1.95%) Power Query
14 56 (1.91%) Looker
15 54 (1.84%) Amazon Athena
15 54 (1.84%) Hadoop
15 54 (1.84%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 204 (6.97%) Git
2 170 (5.81%) JIRA
3 99 (3.38%) Jenkins
4 84 (2.87%) GitLab
5 28 (0.96%) Selenium
6 24 (0.82%) JUnit
7 20 (0.68%) ERwin
8 16 (0.55%) MLflow
9 8 (0.27%) Bitbucket
9 8 (0.27%) Gradle
9 8 (0.27%) MSI
9 8 (0.27%) SonarQube
10 7 (0.24%) Android Studio
10 7 (0.24%) PowerDesigner
11 6 (0.20%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.17%) Maven
12 5 (0.17%) XCTest
13 4 (0.14%) ER Studio
13 4 (0.14%) fastlane
13 4 (0.14%) Postman
General
1 859 (29.35%) Social Skills
2 741 (25.32%) Finance
3 567 (19.37%) Analytical Skills
4 294 (10.04%) Public Sector
5 210 (7.17%) Banking
6 174 (5.94%) Marketing
7 87 (2.97%) Retail
8 82 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
9 60 (2.05%) Front Office
10 52 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 50 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
12 46 (1.57%) Investment Banking
13 45 (1.54%) Legal
13 45 (1.54%) Telecoms
14 43 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
15 42 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
16 39 (1.33%) Manufacturing
17 32 (1.09%) Financial Institution
18 27 (0.92%) Advertising
19 23 (0.79%) Military
Job Titles
1 518 (17.70%) Data Engineer
2 359 (12.27%) Analyst
3 340 (11.62%) Developer
4 338 (11.55%) Architect
5 327 (11.17%) Senior
6 254 (8.68%) Lead
7 144 (4.92%) Data Analyst
8 143 (4.89%) Data Architect
9 131 (4.48%) Consultant
10 103 (3.52%) Azure Engineer
10 103 (3.52%) Business Analyst
11 93 (3.18%) Data Scientist
12 78 (2.66%) Senior Data Engineer
13 76 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
14 65 (2.22%) Project Manager
15 61 (2.08%) Designer
16 55 (1.88%) Senior Developer
17 52 (1.78%) Snowflake Engineer
18 50 (1.71%) Python Developer
19 49 (1.67%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (5.50%) Kafka
2 157 (5.36%) PySpark
2 157 (5.36%) REST
3 68 (2.32%) Pandas
4 60 (2.05%) TensorFlow
5 59 (2.02%) React
6 57 (1.95%) PyTorch
7 53 (1.81%) JSON
8 50 (1.71%) NumPy
8 50 (1.71%) scikit-learn
9 44 (1.50%) .NET
9 44 (1.50%) AngularJS
9 44 (1.50%) Node.js
10 42 (1.43%) HTML
11 41 (1.40%) CSS
12 39 (1.33%) SOAP
13 37 (1.26%) ARM Templates
14 34 (1.16%) Oracle Fusion
14 34 (1.16%) pytest
15 33 (1.13%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 177 (6.05%) Cloud Native
2 112 (3.83%) Product Ownership
3 94 (3.21%) Data Structures
4 86 (2.94%) Onboarding
5 69 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
6 58 (1.98%) Algorithms
7 55 (1.88%) Management Information System
8 54 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
9 53 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
10 50 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
11 40 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 38 (1.30%) Equities
12 38 (1.30%) Public Cloud
13 34 (1.16%) NHS
14 33 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
15 32 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
15 32 (1.09%) Marketing Technology
16 30 (1.02%) Derivative
16 30 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
17 26 (0.89%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 88 (3.01%) Windows
2 77 (2.63%) Linux
3 34 (1.16%) Unix
4 30 (1.02%) Mac OS
5 19 (0.65%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.55%) Android
7 9 (0.31%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.24%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.14%) VMS
10 3 (0.10%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.068%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.068%) zOS
12 1 (0.034%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.034%) CentOS
12 1 (0.034%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 815 (27.84%) Business Intelligence
2 786 (26.85%) Data Modelling
3 652 (22.28%) Agile
4 608 (20.77%) CI/CD
5 592 (20.23%) AI
6 584 (19.95%) ETL
7 578 (19.75%) Data Pipeline
8 572 (19.54%) Data Engineering
9 567 (19.37%) Problem-Solving
10 532 (18.18%) DevOps
11 494 (16.88%) Data Governance
12 447 (15.27%) Decision-Making
13 389 (13.29%) Stakeholder Management
14 359 (12.27%) Data Science
15 358 (12.23%) Machine Learning
16 357 (12.20%) Data Analytics
17 322 (11.00%) Continuous Improvement
18 295 (10.08%) Migration
18 295 (10.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 292 (9.98%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1,020 (34.85%) SQL
2 945 (32.29%) Python
3 159 (5.43%) Java
4 110 (3.76%) PowerShell
5 96 (3.28%) C#
6 93 (3.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 80 (2.73%) R
8 78 (2.66%) JavaScript
9 73 (2.49%) Bicep
10 50 (1.71%) Kusto Query Language
11 45 (1.54%) Bash
12 40 (1.37%) T-SQL
12 40 (1.37%) TypeScript
13 38 (1.30%) Scala
14 31 (1.06%) PL/SQL
15 30 (1.02%) VBA
16 29 (0.99%) C++
17 25 (0.85%) Shell Script
18 11 (0.38%) Kotlin
19 9 (0.31%) Swift
Qualifications
1 527 (18.00%) Security Cleared
2 415 (14.18%) SC Cleared
3 237 (8.10%) Degree
4 73 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 65 (2.22%) Azure Certification
6 49 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 39 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 38 (1.30%) Master's Degree
9 37 (1.26%) DV Cleared
10 28 (0.96%) PMI Certification
11 27 (0.92%) CISSP
12 23 (0.79%) PMP
13 22 (0.75%) AWS Certification
14 21 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
15 18 (0.61%) CISM
16 16 (0.55%) CCNP
17 14 (0.48%) IIBA
17 14 (0.48%) PhD
18 13 (0.44%) CCIE
19 8 (0.27%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 518 (17.70%) Data Quality
2 169 (5.77%) GDPR
3 120 (4.10%) QA
4 99 (3.38%) Accessibility
5 39 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (1.09%) WCAG
7 27 (0.92%) NIST
8 24 (0.82%) PMO
9 21 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
10 15 (0.51%) GRC
10 15 (0.51%) NCSC
11 14 (0.48%) Solvency II
12 13 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 12 (0.41%) PERC
14 11 (0.38%) SLA
15 10 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 9 (0.31%) HL7
17 8 (0.27%) NIST 800
17 8 (0.27%) SOC 2
18 7 (0.24%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 205 (7.00%) Docker
2 74 (2.53%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.20%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.14%) HDFS
6 4 (0.14%) Snort
7 2 (0.068%) GPFS
7 2 (0.068%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.068%) Lustre
7 2 (0.068%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.034%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.034%) iptables
8 1 (0.034%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.034%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.034%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 250 (8.54%) Terraform
2 224 (7.65%) Kubernetes
3 38 (1.30%) Ansible
4 37 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
5 32 (1.09%) Grafana
6 30 (1.02%) Prometheus
7 20 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
8 16 (0.55%) SCCM
9 9 (0.31%) Puppet
10 7 (0.24%) Kibana
11 6 (0.20%) logstash
12 4 (0.14%) Argo
12 4 (0.14%) CSIRT
12 4 (0.14%) WSUS
13 3 (0.10%) Control-M
13 3 (0.10%) Fluentd
13 3 (0.10%) SysTrack
14 2 (0.068%) Cisco CUCM
14 2 (0.068%) Nagios
14 2 (0.068%) Nessus
Vendors
1 538 (18.38%) Microsoft
2 391 (13.36%) Databricks
3 180 (6.15%) Google
4 161 (5.50%) Oracle
5 137 (4.68%) SAP
6 72 (2.46%) Salesforce
7 71 (2.43%) ServiceNow
8 65 (2.22%) Adobe
9 64 (2.19%) Informatica
9 64 (2.19%) Talend
10 54 (1.84%) Splunk
11 46 (1.57%) OpenAI
12 45 (1.54%) Denodo
13 40 (1.37%) Foundry
14 31 (1.06%) Workday
15 25 (0.85%) IBM
16 24 (0.82%) VMware
17 21 (0.72%) Cisco
18 14 (0.48%) Dynatrace
18 14 (0.48%) Palantir