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 24 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 30 38
Rank change year-on-year +6 +8 -1
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,397 1,544 1,822
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.37% 5.78% 4.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.38% 6.46% 5.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,631 992 1,247
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £799 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 23 77
10th Percentile £20.66 £25.26 £17.38
25th Percentile £31.11 £27.25 £25.00
Median hourly rate £46.50 £35.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.86% -17.65% +32.81%
75th Percentile £71.00 £60.41 £67.50
90th Percentile £79.00 £64.53 £78.47
UK median hourly rate £46.25 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +32.14% -17.65% +26.87%

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 28,619 23,884 32,830
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.03% 89.35% 87.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,307 14,637 22,019
10th Percentile £305 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £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 1,784 768 1,764
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.83 £20.94 £17.20
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.03% -9.33% +11.41%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £69.89 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -22.62% -10.76% +16.69%

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 24 January 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 24 January 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 24 January 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 +7 1,412 £525 -12.50% 767
Midlands +28 270 £513 +4.70% 368
North of England +1 247 £475 -3.66% 481
West Midlands +23 209 £515 +4.04% 138
South East -8 159 £500 +11.05% 1,002
North West +4 156 £492 +3.58% 220
South West +39 110 £525 +11.11% 304
East of England +1 97 £538 -6.52% 377
Yorkshire -14 76 £500 -2.44% 189
East Midlands +13 60 £440 -2.79% 223
North East -1 18 £405 -13.18% 75
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
1 107 (4.46%) SAS
2 87 (3.63%) Apache Airflow
3 86 (3.59%) Apache Spark
4 76 (3.17%) Apache
5 62 (2.59%) Confluence
6 47 (1.96%) SharePoint
7 38 (1.59%) CMS
8 20 (0.83%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 16 (0.67%) WebLogic
10 10 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
11 9 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
12 8 (0.33%) GeoServer
12 8 (0.33%) Jupyter
12 8 (0.33%) Smallworld
13 7 (0.29%) Oracle Application Server
14 6 (0.25%) WordPress
15 5 (0.21%) ArcGIS
15 5 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 3 (0.13%) IIS
17 2 (0.083%) WebSphere
Applications
1 123 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (1.84%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (1.21%) MS Visio
5 22 (0.92%) Chatbot
6 14 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.25%) Trello
8 5 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.17%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.13%) Notion
10 3 (0.13%) Sketch
11 2 (0.083%) Autodesk Smoke
12 1 (0.042%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.042%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.042%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.042%) CapCut
12 1 (0.042%) FrameMaker
12 1 (0.042%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.042%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 88 (3.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.58%) SAP EHS
4 11 (0.46%) SAP HR
5 10 (0.42%) SAP FI
6 8 (0.33%) Maximo
6 8 (0.33%) SAP MM
7 7 (0.29%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 7 (0.29%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 6 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
8 6 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 5 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
9 5 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
9 5 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.21%) Workday HCM
10 4 (0.17%) NetSuite
10 4 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
10 4 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 4 (0.17%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 782 (32.62%) Azure
2 519 (21.65%) Power Platform
3 499 (20.82%) AWS
4 226 (9.43%) GCP
5 176 (7.34%) Azure DevOps
6 173 (7.22%) Azure Data Factory
7 157 (6.55%) Snowflake
8 152 (6.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 126 (5.26%) GitHub
10 116 (4.84%) Serverless
11 109 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
12 95 (3.96%) SaaS
13 87 (3.63%) Amazon S3
14 83 (3.46%) dbt
15 82 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
16 80 (3.34%) Microsoft 365
17 74 (3.09%) Entra ID
18 58 (2.42%) AWS Lambda
19 56 (2.34%) Power Automate
20 53 (2.21%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 44 (1.84%) Firewall
2 24 (1.00%) VPN
3 21 (0.88%) DNS
3 21 (0.88%) Network Security
4 17 (0.71%) SMS
5 11 (0.46%) SSL
6 9 (0.38%) WAN
7 7 (0.29%) DHCP
7 7 (0.29%) HTTP
7 7 (0.29%) LAN
8 6 (0.25%) 2G
8 6 (0.25%) 5G
8 6 (0.25%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.21%) FTP
9 5 (0.21%) SMTP
10 4 (0.17%) 4G
10 4 (0.17%) Radio Access Network
11 3 (0.13%) Internet
11 3 (0.13%) MPLS
11 3 (0.13%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 480 (20.03%) Power BI
2 246 (10.26%) Data Warehouse
3 171 (7.13%) Data Lake
4 140 (5.84%) Tableau
5 132 (5.51%) Metadata
6 74 (3.09%) SQL Server
7 68 (2.84%) BigQuery
8 66 (2.75%) Big Data
9 58 (2.42%) Delta Lake
9 58 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
10 54 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
10 54 (2.25%) Relational Database
11 52 (2.17%) Snowflake Schema
12 51 (2.13%) Looker
13 43 (1.79%) Star Schema
14 41 (1.71%) Hadoop
15 39 (1.63%) Data Vault
15 39 (1.63%) NoSQL
15 39 (1.63%) Pentaho
15 39 (1.63%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 180 (7.51%) JIRA
2 165 (6.88%) Git
3 83 (3.46%) Jenkins
4 75 (3.13%) GitLab
5 24 (1.00%) Selenium
6 18 (0.75%) ERwin
6 18 (0.75%) JUnit
7 14 (0.58%) MLflow
8 11 (0.46%) PowerDesigner
9 10 (0.42%) Android Studio
9 10 (0.42%) Gradle
10 9 (0.38%) ER Studio
10 9 (0.38%) Postman
10 9 (0.38%) Visual Website Optimizer
11 8 (0.33%) Xcode
12 6 (0.25%) DBeaver
12 6 (0.25%) MSI
12 6 (0.25%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.25%) Visual Studio
13 5 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
General
1 801 (33.42%) Social Skills
2 644 (26.87%) Finance
3 464 (19.36%) Analytical Skills
4 218 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 192 (8.01%) Banking
6 173 (7.22%) Marketing
7 78 (3.25%) Retail
8 69 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
9 63 (2.63%) Front Office
10 51 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
11 48 (2.00%) Legal
12 47 (1.96%) Manufacturing
13 42 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 42 (1.75%) Investment Banking
14 41 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
15 35 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
16 33 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
17 31 (1.29%) Financial Institution
18 26 (1.08%) Telecoms
19 20 (0.83%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 336 (14.02%) Analyst
2 329 (13.73%) Data Engineer
3 308 (12.85%) Developer
4 267 (11.14%) Senior
5 249 (10.39%) Architect
6 180 (7.51%) Lead
7 134 (5.59%) Consultant
8 122 (5.09%) Data Analyst
9 120 (5.01%) Business Analyst
10 94 (3.92%) Data Architect
11 89 (3.71%) Azure Engineer
12 76 (3.17%) Data Scientist
13 62 (2.59%) Project Manager
14 58 (2.42%) Senior Developer
15 56 (2.34%) Senior Data Engineer
16 53 (2.21%) Solutions Architect
17 45 (1.88%) Snowflake Engineer
18 40 (1.67%) Designer
18 40 (1.67%) DevOps Engineer
19 38 (1.59%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (5.92%) REST
2 109 (4.55%) PySpark
3 98 (4.09%) Kafka
4 58 (2.42%) React
5 56 (2.34%) Pandas
6 54 (2.25%) HTML
7 47 (1.96%) TensorFlow
8 45 (1.88%) Node.js
8 45 (1.88%) scikit-learn
9 44 (1.84%) NumPy
9 44 (1.84%) SOAP
10 43 (1.79%) PyTorch
11 41 (1.71%) CSS
12 40 (1.67%) .NET
13 39 (1.63%) JSON
13 39 (1.63%) RESTful
14 36 (1.50%) AngularJS
15 34 (1.42%) ARM Templates
16 30 (1.25%) OAuth
17 25 (1.04%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 110 (4.59%) Cloud Native
2 98 (4.09%) Product Ownership
3 74 (3.09%) Data Structures
4 65 (2.71%) Onboarding
5 52 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
5 52 (2.17%) Management Information System
6 51 (2.13%) Algorithms
7 46 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
8 44 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
9 41 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
9 41 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 39 (1.63%) Equities
11 37 (1.54%) Derivative
11 37 (1.54%) Mobile App
12 29 (1.21%) Public Cloud
13 28 (1.17%) Fixed Income
13 28 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
13 28 (1.17%) Life Science
13 28 (1.17%) NHS
14 27 (1.13%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 75 (3.13%) Windows
2 71 (2.96%) Linux
3 32 (1.34%) Unix
4 21 (0.88%) Mac OS
5 20 (0.83%) Apple iOS
6 19 (0.79%) Android
7 9 (0.38%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.21%) VMS
8 5 (0.21%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.083%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.042%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.042%) CentOS
10 1 (0.042%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.042%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.042%) Rocky
10 1 (0.042%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 657 (27.41%) Business Intelligence
2 587 (24.49%) Agile
3 547 (22.82%) Data Modelling
4 503 (20.98%) Problem-Solving
5 462 (19.27%) CI/CD
6 443 (18.48%) DevOps
7 433 (18.06%) AI
8 430 (17.94%) ETL
9 398 (16.60%) Data Pipeline
10 361 (15.06%) Data Governance
11 343 (14.31%) Decision-Making
12 334 (13.93%) Data Engineering
13 315 (13.14%) Stakeholder Management
14 299 (12.47%) Data Analytics
15 292 (12.18%) Data Science
16 277 (11.56%) Machine Learning
17 275 (11.47%) Visualisation
18 264 (11.01%) Continuous Improvement
19 260 (10.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 236 (9.85%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 806 (33.63%) SQL
2 725 (30.25%) Python
3 140 (5.84%) Java
4 105 (4.38%) JavaScript
5 95 (3.96%) PowerShell
6 72 (3.00%) C#
7 67 (2.80%) R
8 62 (2.59%) Bicep
9 56 (2.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 49 (2.04%) Bash
11 40 (1.67%) TypeScript
12 37 (1.54%) Kusto Query Language
13 36 (1.50%) C++
14 35 (1.46%) Scala
15 34 (1.42%) T-SQL
16 25 (1.04%) VBA
17 22 (0.92%) PL/SQL
18 16 (0.67%) Shell Script
19 14 (0.58%) Kotlin
20 13 (0.54%) Swift
Qualifications
1 407 (16.98%) Security Cleared
2 334 (13.93%) SC Cleared
3 220 (9.18%) Degree
4 68 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 59 (2.46%) Azure Certification
6 49 (2.04%) Master's Degree
7 38 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
8 31 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
9 29 (1.21%) CISSP
10 28 (1.17%) DV Cleared
11 26 (1.08%) AWS Certification
11 26 (1.08%) PMI Certification
12 20 (0.83%) PMP
13 19 (0.79%) CISM
14 14 (0.58%) IIBA
15 9 (0.38%) CBAP
15 9 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
16 8 (0.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 8 (0.33%) PhD
17 7 (0.29%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 384 (16.02%) Data Quality
2 138 (5.76%) GDPR
3 93 (3.88%) Accessibility
4 83 (3.46%) QA
5 38 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 31 (1.29%) NIST
7 20 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
8 18 (0.75%) PMO
8 18 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 17 (0.71%) WCAG
10 14 (0.58%) NCSC
11 10 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 10 (0.42%) HIPAA
11 10 (0.42%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.38%) NIST 800
12 9 (0.38%) Solvency II
13 8 (0.33%) GRC
13 8 (0.33%) PERC
13 8 (0.33%) SLA
14 7 (0.29%) GxP
System Software
1 187 (7.80%) Docker
2 61 (2.54%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.42%) HDFS
6 5 (0.21%) zsh
7 4 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.083%) GPFS
8 2 (0.083%) Lustre
8 2 (0.083%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.083%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.042%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.042%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.042%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.042%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 190 (7.93%) Kubernetes
1 190 (7.93%) Terraform
2 30 (1.25%) Ansible
3 28 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 18 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
5 16 (0.67%) Grafana
5 16 (0.67%) SCCM
6 15 (0.63%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.58%) Puppet
8 8 (0.33%) Kibana
9 7 (0.29%) Hadoop YARN
9 7 (0.29%) logstash
10 5 (0.21%) WSUS
11 3 (0.13%) Fluentd
11 3 (0.13%) Kubeflow
11 3 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 2 (0.083%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.083%) Argo
12 2 (0.083%) RSA Archer
12 2 (0.083%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 454 (18.94%) Microsoft
2 296 (12.35%) Databricks
3 157 (6.55%) SAP
4 154 (6.42%) Google
4 154 (6.42%) Oracle
5 70 (2.92%) Salesforce
6 64 (2.67%) Adobe
6 64 (2.67%) ServiceNow
7 54 (2.25%) Talend
8 45 (1.88%) Splunk
9 43 (1.79%) Informatica
10 41 (1.71%) Denodo
11 34 (1.42%) OpenAI
12 32 (1.34%) Workday
13 28 (1.17%) Foundry
14 27 (1.13%) Dynatrace
15 26 (1.08%) Cisco
16 23 (0.96%) IBM
17 19 (0.79%) AppDynamics
18 18 (0.75%) VMware