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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 27 35
Rank change year-on-year +1 +8 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,524 1,810 1,734
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.60% 6.51% 5.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.95% 7.16% 6.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,302 1,186 1,194
10th Percentile £363 £355 £353
25th Percentile £431 £432 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% -2.61%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £688
90th Percentile £750 £792 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 47 24
10th Percentile £18.88 £16.00 £22.83
25th Percentile £26.25 £30.54 £27.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £34.98 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.09% +7.63% -7.47%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.81 £56.27
90th Percentile £87.02 £79.25 £72.79
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £34.98 £32.50
% change year-on-year +35.79% +7.63% -7.47%

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 39,380 25,274 28,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.88% 90.84% 85.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,176 16,039 17,819
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £634 £625 £650
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 2,707 1,489 1,353
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.33 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.30 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.19% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +3.61%

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 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 11 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 11 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 1,968 £550 - 3,779
North of England +9 455 £481 +6.94% 527
Midlands +3 371 £493 -4.37% 304
South East +20 367 £513 -2.38% 681
West Midlands +3 306 £492 -5.09% 198
North West +3 227 £525 +16.67% 300
Yorkshire +7 180 £463 -1.65% 165
South West +18 170 £515 +8.42% 270
East of England -10 108 £580 +4.74% 194
East Midlands -2 60 £495 +10.00% 106
North East -4 58 £450 +18.03% 64
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
1 169 (4.80%) Apache Airflow
2 131 (3.72%) Apache Spark
3 112 (3.18%) SAS
4 99 (2.81%) Apache
5 78 (2.21%) Confluence
6 58 (1.65%) CMS
7 50 (1.42%) SharePoint
8 29 (0.82%) Jupyter
8 29 (0.82%) Palantir Foundry
9 28 (0.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 26 (0.74%) Oracle Application Server
11 11 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
12 10 (0.28%) Apache Superset
13 9 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
14 8 (0.23%) Drupal
14 8 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
15 6 (0.17%) WordPress
16 3 (0.085%) IIS
17 2 (0.057%) ArcGIS
17 2 (0.057%) nginx
Applications
1 162 (4.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 26 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
4 22 (0.62%) Chatbot
5 16 (0.45%) CPLEX
5 16 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
6 12 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
7 11 (0.31%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.14%) Trello
9 3 (0.085%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.085%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.057%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.057%) Sketch
11 1 (0.028%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.028%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.028%) InDesign
11 1 (0.028%) Notion
11 1 (0.028%) PlantUML
11 1 (0.028%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 69 (1.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 36 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
4 16 (0.45%) Workday HCM
5 15 (0.43%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 12 (0.34%) Aladdin
7 11 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
8 10 (0.28%) Shopify
9 9 (0.26%) SAP CO
9 9 (0.26%) SAP FI
10 7 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
10 7 (0.20%) SAP ERP
10 7 (0.20%) SAP MDG
11 6 (0.17%) NetSuite
11 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
11 6 (0.17%) SAP GRC
11 6 (0.17%) SAP MM
11 6 (0.17%) SAP Oil and Gas
11 6 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
12 5 (0.14%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 1,044 (29.63%) Azure
2 713 (20.23%) Power Platform
3 613 (17.40%) AWS
4 307 (8.71%) GCP
5 258 (7.32%) Snowflake
6 240 (6.81%) Azure DevOps
7 234 (6.64%) Azure Data Factory
8 197 (5.59%) dbt
9 185 (5.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 155 (4.40%) GitHub
11 149 (4.23%) Serverless
12 131 (3.72%) Azure Monitor
13 124 (3.52%) Amazon S3
14 110 (3.12%) SaaS
15 108 (3.06%) Entra ID
16 96 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
17 85 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
18 82 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
19 70 (1.99%) Azure Databricks
20 64 (1.82%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 57 (1.62%) Firewall
2 51 (1.45%) Network Security
3 38 (1.08%) DNS
4 31 (0.88%) VPN
5 22 (0.62%) TCP/IP
6 21 (0.60%) WAN
7 17 (0.48%) SD-WAN
8 16 (0.45%) Broadband
8 16 (0.45%) DHCP
9 15 (0.43%) BGP
10 9 (0.26%) SMS
11 8 (0.23%) Wireless
12 7 (0.20%) HTTP
12 7 (0.20%) LAN
13 6 (0.17%) OSPF
13 6 (0.17%) SSH
13 6 (0.17%) WLAN
14 5 (0.14%) Cisco IPT
14 5 (0.14%) Internet
14 5 (0.14%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 680 (19.30%) Power BI
2 445 (12.63%) Data Warehouse
3 257 (7.29%) Data Lake
4 233 (6.61%) Metadata
5 228 (6.47%) Tableau
6 143 (4.06%) BigQuery
7 92 (2.61%) Delta Lake
7 92 (2.61%) SQL Server
8 88 (2.50%) Big Data
9 87 (2.47%) Amazon Redshift
10 83 (2.36%) Relational Database
11 78 (2.21%) PostgreSQL
12 77 (2.19%) Looker
13 63 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
14 61 (1.73%) Semantic Layer
15 60 (1.70%) Snowflake Schema
16 56 (1.59%) NoSQL
17 55 (1.56%) Star Schema
18 54 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
19 50 (1.42%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 187 (5.31%) Git
2 164 (4.65%) JIRA
3 62 (1.76%) Jenkins
4 53 (1.50%) GitLab
5 14 (0.40%) ERwin
6 12 (0.34%) MLflow
7 10 (0.28%) fastlane
7 10 (0.28%) SonarQube
8 9 (0.26%) RStudio
9 8 (0.23%) ER Studio
9 8 (0.23%) Selenium
10 7 (0.20%) Gradle
10 7 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
11 6 (0.17%) Android Studio
11 6 (0.17%) Crashlytics
11 6 (0.17%) JUnit
11 6 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
11 6 (0.17%) Postman
12 5 (0.14%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.14%) Terragrunt
General
1 946 (26.84%) Social Skills
2 907 (25.74%) Finance
3 659 (18.70%) Analytical Skills
4 416 (11.80%) Public Sector
5 262 (7.43%) Banking
6 230 (6.53%) Marketing
7 178 (5.05%) Retail
8 104 (2.95%) Influencing Skills
9 89 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 78 (2.21%) Legal
10 78 (2.21%) Manufacturing
11 72 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
12 69 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
13 62 (1.76%) Front Office
14 55 (1.56%) Investment Banking
15 50 (1.42%) Publishing
16 45 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
17 42 (1.19%) Telecoms
18 41 (1.16%) Financial Institution
19 40 (1.14%) Military
Job Titles
1 588 (16.69%) Data Engineer
2 468 (13.28%) Senior
3 455 (12.91%) Analyst
4 448 (12.71%) Architect
5 310 (8.80%) Developer
6 287 (8.14%) Lead
7 206 (5.85%) Data Architect
8 173 (4.91%) Data Analyst
9 171 (4.85%) Consultant
10 122 (3.46%) Solutions Architect
11 116 (3.29%) Senior Data Engineer
12 112 (3.18%) Data Scientist
13 106 (3.01%) Business Analyst
14 103 (2.92%) Azure Engineer
15 79 (2.24%) Data Manager
16 69 (1.96%) Senior Manager
17 64 (1.82%) Product Manager
18 62 (1.76%) Project Manager
19 60 (1.70%) Python Developer
20 56 (1.59%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 267 (7.58%) Terraform
2 211 (5.99%) PySpark
3 134 (3.80%) REST
4 108 (3.06%) Kafka
5 65 (1.84%) Pandas
6 56 (1.59%) HTML
7 54 (1.53%) RESTful
8 52 (1.48%) CSS
9 49 (1.39%) React
10 44 (1.25%) JSON
11 42 (1.19%) .NET
11 42 (1.19%) ARM Templates
12 41 (1.16%) NumPy
13 38 (1.08%) OAuth
14 32 (0.91%) OpenID
15 31 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
16 30 (0.85%) OAuth2
17 28 (0.79%) scikit-learn
17 28 (0.79%) Web Services
18 27 (0.77%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 237 (6.73%) Cloud Native
2 189 (5.36%) Product Ownership
3 141 (4.00%) Data Structures
4 134 (3.80%) Onboarding
5 105 (2.98%) Legacy Systems
6 79 (2.24%) Management Information System
7 69 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
8 61 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
9 60 (1.70%) AI Agents
10 49 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
11 48 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
12 47 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
13 44 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
14 43 (1.22%) Algorithms
15 42 (1.19%) NHS
16 41 (1.16%) Virtual Team
17 39 (1.11%) Marketing Technology
18 36 (1.02%) Social Media
19 34 (0.96%) Mobile App
20 33 (0.94%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 89 (2.53%) Windows
2 88 (2.50%) Linux
3 41 (1.16%) Unix
4 34 (0.96%) Windows Server
5 18 (0.51%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.31%) Mac OS
8 10 (0.28%) Android
9 9 (0.26%) VMS
10 6 (0.17%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.085%) Solaris
11 3 (0.085%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.057%) AIX
12 2 (0.057%) CentOS
12 2 (0.057%) HPUX
13 1 (0.028%) Rocky
13 1 (0.028%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 924 (26.22%) AI
2 922 (26.16%) Data Modelling
3 891 (25.28%) Business Intelligence
4 815 (23.13%) Agile
5 768 (21.79%) Stakeholder Management
6 706 (20.03%) Data Pipeline
7 676 (19.18%) Data Engineering
8 662 (18.79%) Decision-Making
9 652 (18.50%) CI/CD
10 566 (16.06%) Data Governance
11 550 (15.61%) ETL
12 527 (14.95%) DevOps
13 509 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
14 466 (13.22%) Migration
15 443 (12.57%) Continuous Improvement
16 432 (12.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 428 (12.15%) Machine Learning
18 426 (12.09%) Roadmaps
19 410 (11.63%) Data Science
20 403 (11.44%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1,125 (31.92%) SQL
2 987 (28.01%) Python
3 160 (4.54%) PowerShell
4 102 (2.89%) Java
5 96 (2.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 83 (2.36%) Bicep
6 83 (2.36%) JavaScript
7 73 (2.07%) C#
8 67 (1.90%) R
9 63 (1.79%) Bash
10 38 (1.08%) Scala
11 34 (0.96%) Shell Script
12 33 (0.94%) TypeScript
13 30 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
14 27 (0.77%) T-SQL
15 21 (0.60%) PL/SQL
16 19 (0.54%) C++
17 14 (0.40%) LookML
18 13 (0.37%) VBA
19 11 (0.31%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 633 (17.96%) Security Cleared
2 503 (14.27%) SC Cleared
3 284 (8.06%) Degree
4 87 (2.47%) Azure Certification
5 79 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
6 78 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 72 (2.04%) DV Cleared
8 53 (1.50%) Master's Degree
9 51 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
10 41 (1.16%) CISSP
11 33 (0.94%) AWS Certification
12 30 (0.85%) PMI Certification
13 24 (0.68%) DBS Check
14 23 (0.65%) PMP
15 19 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
16 12 (0.34%) CISA
17 11 (0.31%) MBA
17 11 (0.31%) PhD
18 10 (0.28%) SANS
19 9 (0.26%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 725 (20.57%) Data Quality
2 161 (4.57%) GDPR
3 140 (3.97%) QA
4 136 (3.86%) Accessibility
5 49 (1.39%) WCAG
6 47 (1.33%) GRC
7 38 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 34 (0.96%) NIST
9 30 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
10 29 (0.82%) PMO
11 20 (0.57%) SLA
12 13 (0.37%) PERC
12 13 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 12 (0.34%) NCSC
13 12 (0.34%) Solvency II
14 11 (0.31%) IFRS
14 11 (0.31%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.23%) GMP
16 7 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
17 6 (0.17%) PSD2
System Software
1 153 (4.34%) Docker
2 88 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 27 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.26%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.14%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.11%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 3 (0.085%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.085%) vSphere
10 2 (0.057%) XenApp
10 2 (0.057%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.028%) iptables
11 1 (0.028%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.028%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 163 (4.63%) Kubernetes
2 46 (1.31%) Ansible
3 38 (1.08%) Grafana
4 26 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (0.51%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.40%) SCCM
8 8 (0.23%) Control-M
8 8 (0.23%) FortiGate
8 8 (0.23%) Progress Chef
8 8 (0.23%) SCOM
9 6 (0.17%) Podman
10 5 (0.14%) SysTrack
11 4 (0.11%) QRadar
12 3 (0.085%) Apache Ranger
12 3 (0.085%) CASB
12 3 (0.085%) Kibana
13 2 (0.057%) Argo
13 2 (0.057%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.057%) Puppet
Vendors
1 655 (18.59%) Microsoft
2 458 (13.00%) Databricks
3 214 (6.07%) Oracle
4 197 (5.59%) SAP
5 183 (5.19%) Google
6 88 (2.50%) Adobe
7 86 (2.44%) Salesforce
8 85 (2.41%) ServiceNow
9 55 (1.56%) Workday
10 48 (1.36%) Splunk
11 43 (1.22%) Foundry
12 41 (1.16%) Informatica
13 40 (1.14%) Dynatrace
14 36 (1.02%) Palantir
15 33 (0.94%) Talend
16 30 (0.85%) VMware
17 29 (0.82%) Cisco
17 29 (0.82%) Denodo
18 27 (0.77%) OpenAI
19 24 (0.68%) Alteryx