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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 26 34
Rank change year-on-year 0 +8 +2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,465 1,867 1,714
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.47% 6.69% 5.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.84% 7.36% 6.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,256 1,227 1,163
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 £684
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 44 26
10th Percentile £17.22 £17.10 £23.25
25th Percentile £26.25 £24.38 £27.00
Median hourly rate £52.49 £34.99 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.01% +7.66% -8.45%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.48 £52.19
90th Percentile £85.10 £79.63 £70.49
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £34.98 £31.75
% change year-on-year +35.79% +10.17% -10.56%

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 39,218 25,382 28,205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.59% 90.90% 86.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,880 16,110 17,293
10th Percentile £325 £300 £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 2,852 1,550 1,234
10th Percentile £13.90 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.26
Median hourly rate £41.03 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.14% -41.51% -2.27%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.41 £66.61
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.28 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +57.06% -40.82% -

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 1,923 £550 - 5,243
North of England +10 467 £481 +1.32% 866
Midlands +2 367 £490 -5.18% 495
South East +16 346 £525 - 819
West Midlands +2 299 £490 -6.67% 329
North West +3 225 £525 +10.53% 497
Yorkshire +9 185 £473 -0.53% 268
South West +28 175 £525 +10.53% 340
East of England -8 107 £600 +8.35% 288
East Midlands -5 65 £490 +7.40% 166
North East +6 64 £445 +18.67% 104
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
1 170 (4.91%) Apache Airflow
2 131 (3.78%) Apache Spark
3 111 (3.20%) SAS
4 102 (2.94%) Apache
5 79 (2.28%) Confluence
6 59 (1.70%) CMS
7 50 (1.44%) SharePoint
8 36 (1.04%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 29 (0.84%) Jupyter
10 28 (0.81%) Palantir Foundry
11 22 (0.63%) Oracle Application Server
12 10 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
13 9 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
14 8 (0.23%) Apache Superset
14 8 (0.23%) Drupal
14 8 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
15 6 (0.17%) WordPress
16 4 (0.12%) nginx
17 3 (0.087%) IIS
18 2 (0.058%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 166 (4.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 27 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
4 22 (0.63%) Chatbot
5 16 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (0.38%) CPLEX
7 12 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
7 12 (0.35%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.14%) 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 76 (2.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.55%) Workday HCM
4 17 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
5 15 (0.43%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 15 (0.43%) 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
8 9 (0.26%) Shopify
9 7 (0.20%) SAP ERP
9 7 (0.20%) SAP HCM
9 7 (0.20%) SAP MDG
9 7 (0.20%) Workfront
10 6 (0.17%) NetSuite
10 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
10 6 (0.17%) SAP GRC
10 6 (0.17%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 988 (28.51%) Azure
2 700 (20.20%) Power Platform
3 600 (17.32%) AWS
4 309 (8.92%) GCP
5 262 (7.56%) Snowflake
6 229 (6.61%) Azure DevOps
7 224 (6.46%) Azure Data Factory
8 208 (6.00%) dbt
9 172 (4.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 147 (4.24%) GitHub
11 144 (4.16%) Serverless
12 130 (3.75%) Amazon S3
13 123 (3.55%) Azure Monitor
14 114 (3.29%) SaaS
15 109 (3.15%) Entra ID
16 92 (2.66%) AWS Lambda
17 82 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
18 73 (2.11%) GitHub Actions
19 65 (1.88%) Adobe Analytics
20 63 (1.82%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 57 (1.65%) Firewall
2 50 (1.44%) Network Security
3 36 (1.04%) DNS
4 32 (0.92%) VPN
5 22 (0.63%) TCP/IP
6 20 (0.58%) Broadband
7 19 (0.55%) WAN
8 15 (0.43%) BGP
8 15 (0.43%) DHCP
8 15 (0.43%) SD-WAN
9 9 (0.26%) SMS
10 8 (0.23%) Wireless
11 7 (0.20%) HTTP
11 7 (0.20%) LAN
12 6 (0.17%) Kerberos
12 6 (0.17%) NGFW
12 6 (0.17%) OSPF
12 6 (0.17%) SSH
12 6 (0.17%) WLAN
13 5 (0.14%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 674 (19.45%) Power BI
2 436 (12.58%) Data Warehouse
3 259 (7.47%) Data Lake
4 239 (6.90%) Metadata
5 221 (6.38%) Tableau
6 156 (4.50%) BigQuery
7 89 (2.57%) Amazon Redshift
8 85 (2.45%) SQL Server
9 83 (2.40%) Delta Lake
10 82 (2.37%) Big Data
10 82 (2.37%) Looker
11 78 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
12 75 (2.16%) Relational Database
13 69 (1.99%) Amazon Athena
14 60 (1.73%) Semantic Layer
15 56 (1.62%) NoSQL
16 52 (1.50%) Snowflake Schema
17 51 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
18 49 (1.41%) Power Query
19 44 (1.27%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 188 (5.43%) Git
2 154 (4.44%) JIRA
3 63 (1.82%) GitLab
4 60 (1.73%) 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 (0.14%) Android Studio
10 5 (0.14%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.14%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 978 (28.23%) Social Skills
2 899 (25.95%) Finance
3 652 (18.82%) Analytical Skills
4 420 (12.12%) Public Sector
5 269 (7.76%) Banking
6 234 (6.75%) Marketing
7 179 (5.17%) Retail
8 113 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
9 88 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 85 (2.45%) Manufacturing
11 84 (2.42%) Legal
12 72 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
13 67 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
14 61 (1.76%) Front Office
15 54 (1.56%) Investment Banking
16 49 (1.41%) Publishing
17 42 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
18 41 (1.18%) Military
19 40 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
20 38 (1.10%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 564 (16.28%) Data Engineer
2 468 (13.51%) Senior
3 456 (13.16%) Analyst
4 445 (12.84%) Architect
5 290 (8.37%) Developer
6 286 (8.25%) Lead
7 205 (5.92%) Data Architect
8 173 (4.99%) Consultant
9 169 (4.88%) Data Analyst
10 121 (3.49%) Senior Data Engineer
11 120 (3.46%) Solutions Architect
12 118 (3.41%) Data Scientist
13 110 (3.17%) Business Analyst
14 98 (2.83%) Azure Engineer
15 72 (2.08%) Data Manager
16 65 (1.88%) Senior Analyst
16 65 (1.88%) Senior Manager
17 64 (1.85%) Product Manager
18 60 (1.73%) AWS Engineer
18 60 (1.73%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 275 (7.94%) Terraform
2 199 (5.74%) PySpark
3 131 (3.78%) REST
4 101 (2.91%) Kafka
5 59 (1.70%) Pandas
6 56 (1.62%) HTML
7 53 (1.53%) React
8 51 (1.47%) CSS
9 50 (1.44%) RESTful
10 43 (1.24%) OAuth
11 42 (1.21%) .NET
12 40 (1.15%) ARM Templates
13 38 (1.10%) NumPy
14 37 (1.07%) JSON
15 36 (1.04%) OpenID
16 32 (0.92%) OAuth2
16 32 (0.92%) Web Services
17 31 (0.89%) SOAP
18 28 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
19 27 (0.78%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 246 (7.10%) Cloud Native
2 190 (5.48%) Product Ownership
3 142 (4.10%) Onboarding
4 137 (3.95%) Data Structures
5 101 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
6 82 (2.37%) Management Information System
7 69 (1.99%) AI Agents
8 66 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
9 60 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
10 48 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
11 45 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
12 43 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
13 42 (1.21%) Algorithms
14 41 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
15 39 (1.13%) Virtual Team
16 38 (1.10%) NHS
16 38 (1.10%) Social Media
17 35 (1.01%) Derivative
17 35 (1.01%) Marketing Technology
18 34 (0.98%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 90 (2.60%) Windows
2 85 (2.45%) Linux
3 40 (1.15%) Unix
4 35 (1.01%) Windows Server
5 18 (0.52%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.43%) 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
1 948 (27.36%) AI
2 906 (26.15%) Data Modelling
3 866 (24.99%) Business Intelligence
4 816 (23.55%) Stakeholder Management
5 806 (23.26%) Agile
6 691 (19.94%) Data Pipeline
7 678 (19.57%) Decision-Making
8 657 (18.96%) Data Engineering
9 641 (18.50%) CI/CD
10 561 (16.19%) Data Governance
11 530 (15.30%) ETL
12 512 (14.78%) DevOps
13 490 (14.14%) Problem-Solving
14 465 (13.42%) Migration
15 458 (13.22%) Continuous Improvement
16 447 (12.90%) Roadmaps
17 436 (12.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 423 (12.21%) Machine Learning
19 412 (11.89%) Validation
20 410 (11.83%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 1,126 (32.50%) SQL
2 963 (27.79%) Python
3 157 (4.53%) PowerShell
4 101 (2.91%) Java
5 89 (2.57%) JavaScript
6 88 (2.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 77 (2.22%) Bicep
8 69 (1.99%) C#
9 63 (1.82%) Bash
10 60 (1.73%) R
11 39 (1.13%) Scala
12 38 (1.10%) TypeScript
13 30 (0.87%) Shell Script
14 28 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
15 23 (0.66%) T-SQL
16 20 (0.58%) C++
17 17 (0.49%) PL/SQL
18 15 (0.43%) ABAP
19 14 (0.40%) LookML
19 14 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 617 (17.81%) Security Cleared
2 496 (14.31%) SC Cleared
3 293 (8.46%) Degree
4 88 (2.54%) Azure Certification
5 87 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
6 76 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 74 (2.14%) DV Cleared
8 55 (1.59%) Master's Degree
9 52 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
10 44 (1.27%) CISSP
11 37 (1.07%) AWS Certification
12 33 (0.95%) PMI Certification
13 28 (0.81%) PMP
14 27 (0.78%) DBS Check
15 20 (0.58%) 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
1 757 (21.85%) Data Quality
2 155 (4.47%) GDPR
3 141 (4.07%) QA
4 131 (3.78%) Accessibility
5 47 (1.36%) GRC
6 41 (1.18%) WCAG
7 39 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 33 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
8 33 (0.95%) NIST
9 31 (0.89%) PMO
10 24 (0.69%) 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
1 150 (4.33%) Docker
2 93 (2.68%) Active Directory
3 27 (0.78%) 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
1 159 (4.59%) Kubernetes
2 45 (1.30%) Ansible
3 34 (0.98%) Grafana
4 25 (0.72%) 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 (0.14%) 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
1 659 (19.02%) Microsoft
2 444 (12.81%) Databricks
3 197 (5.69%) Oracle
3 197 (5.69%) SAP
4 189 (5.45%) Google
5 98 (2.83%) Adobe
6 88 (2.54%) Salesforce
7 85 (2.45%) ServiceNow
8 57 (1.65%) Workday
9 50 (1.44%) Splunk
10 40 (1.15%) Dynatrace
10 40 (1.15%) Foundry
11 34 (0.98%) Palantir
12 32 (0.92%) Informatica
13 30 (0.87%) VMware
14 29 (0.84%) Talend
15 28 (0.81%) Cisco
16 27 (0.78%) Denodo
17 26 (0.75%) OpenAI
18 24 (0.69%) Amplitude