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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 34
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 +3
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,546 1,788 1,810
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.79% 6.48% 5.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.13% 7.14% 6.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,379 1,183 1,301
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £438 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £664 £688
90th Percentile £750 £813 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 47 25
10th Percentile £20.78 £15.27 £21.44
25th Percentile £35.00 £22.75 £27.00
Median hourly rate £54.50 £34.50 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.97% +11.29% -3.58%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.81 £43.75
90th Percentile £87.13 £80.41 £73.25
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £34.50 £30.19
% change year-on-year +52.17% +14.30% -6.11%

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 38,823 25,045 28,976
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.31% 90.74% 85.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,257 16,045 18,963
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £523 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.60% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,475 1,380 1,752
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.87 £17.80
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.03
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -40.16% -1.11%
75th Percentile £68.75 £51.65 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 1 August 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 1,954 £550 -3.51% 2,154
North of England +12 443 £490 +8.83% 436
Midlands +8 415 £492 -3.93% 232
South East +11 344 £500 -2.44% 498
West Midlands +12 330 £488 -7.04% 155
North West 0 221 £513 +7.89% 253
South West +14 189 £500 +5.26% 164
Yorkshire +11 175 £463 +1.31% 136
East of England -10 110 £563 -3.02% 107
East Midlands +7 78 £525 +27.27% 77
North East +3 57 £450 +9.09% 49
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
1 158 (4.46%) Apache Airflow
2 156 (4.40%) Apache Spark
3 124 (3.50%) SAS
4 102 (2.88%) Apache
5 77 (2.17%) Confluence
6 49 (1.38%) SharePoint
7 43 (1.21%) CMS
8 31 (0.87%) Jupyter
8 31 (0.87%) Palantir Foundry
9 23 (0.65%) Oracle Application Server
10 17 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 12 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
12 9 (0.25%) Apache Superset
13 8 (0.23%) Drupal
14 7 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
14 7 (0.20%) WordPress
15 6 (0.17%) IIS
15 6 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
16 4 (0.11%) ArcGIS
17 2 (0.056%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 163 (4.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 23 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
4 20 (0.56%) Chatbot
4 20 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
5 15 (0.42%) CPLEX
6 12 (0.34%) MS Visio
7 11 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
8 4 (0.11%) Sketch
9 3 (0.085%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.085%) Trello
10 2 (0.056%) InDesign
10 2 (0.056%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.028%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.028%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.028%) Notion
11 1 (0.028%) PlantUML
11 1 (0.028%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 65 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 36 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
4 13 (0.37%) Aladdin
4 13 (0.37%) Workday HCM
5 10 (0.28%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 10 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
6 9 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.23%) SAP ERP
7 8 (0.23%) Shopify
8 7 (0.20%) NetSuite
8 7 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
9 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
9 6 (0.17%) Sage X3
9 6 (0.17%) SAP GRC
10 5 (0.14%) BambooHR
10 5 (0.14%) Infor LN
10 5 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
10 5 (0.14%) SAP BPC
10 5 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,034 (29.16%) Azure
2 723 (20.39%) Power Platform
3 649 (18.30%) AWS
4 315 (8.88%) GCP
5 241 (6.80%) Azure DevOps
6 239 (6.74%) Snowflake
7 221 (6.23%) Azure Data Factory
8 191 (5.39%) dbt
9 188 (5.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 166 (4.68%) GitHub
11 139 (3.92%) Serverless
12 138 (3.89%) Amazon S3
13 130 (3.67%) Azure Monitor
14 108 (3.05%) Entra ID
15 100 (2.82%) SaaS
16 94 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
17 93 (2.62%) GitHub Actions
18 80 (2.26%) Microsoft 365
19 56 (1.58%) Google Analytics
20 53 (1.49%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 59 (1.66%) Firewall
2 44 (1.24%) Network Security
3 36 (1.02%) VPN
4 32 (0.90%) DNS
5 26 (0.73%) WAN
6 24 (0.68%) SD-WAN
7 21 (0.59%) BGP
8 20 (0.56%) TCP/IP
9 13 (0.37%) DHCP
10 12 (0.34%) OSPF
11 10 (0.28%) SMS
11 10 (0.28%) Wireless
12 9 (0.25%) Broadband
13 8 (0.23%) VXLAN
14 7 (0.20%) 5G
14 7 (0.20%) HTTP
14 7 (0.20%) Internet
14 7 (0.20%) LAN
14 7 (0.20%) MPLS
14 7 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 690 (19.46%) Power BI
2 468 (13.20%) Data Warehouse
3 264 (7.45%) Data Lake
4 245 (6.91%) Tableau
5 203 (5.72%) Metadata
6 141 (3.98%) BigQuery
7 102 (2.88%) Big Data
8 101 (2.85%) SQL Server
9 98 (2.76%) Amazon Redshift
9 98 (2.76%) Delta Lake
10 88 (2.48%) Relational Database
11 78 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
12 77 (2.17%) Snowflake Schema
13 75 (2.12%) Looker
13 75 (2.12%) NoSQL
14 71 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
15 62 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
16 56 (1.58%) Power Query
17 55 (1.55%) Semantic Layer
18 53 (1.49%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 202 (5.70%) Git
2 169 (4.77%) JIRA
3 79 (2.23%) Jenkins
4 54 (1.52%) GitLab
5 18 (0.51%) ERwin
6 12 (0.34%) JUnit
7 10 (0.28%) ER Studio
7 10 (0.28%) fastlane
7 10 (0.28%) MLflow
7 10 (0.28%) Selenium
8 9 (0.25%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.20%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.20%) Gradle
9 7 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
9 7 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (0.17%) Android Studio
10 6 (0.17%) Crashlytics
10 6 (0.17%) Postman
10 6 (0.17%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.14%) Xcode
General
1 907 (25.58%) Social Skills
2 899 (25.35%) Finance
3 619 (17.46%) Analytical Skills
4 424 (11.96%) Public Sector
5 266 (7.50%) Banking
6 211 (5.95%) Marketing
7 149 (4.20%) Retail
8 87 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 84 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
10 73 (2.06%) Legal
11 71 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
12 69 (1.95%) Manufacturing
13 63 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
14 58 (1.64%) Investment Banking
15 57 (1.61%) Front Office
16 51 (1.44%) Telecoms
17 44 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
18 40 (1.13%) Financial Institution
19 37 (1.04%) Military
20 35 (0.99%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 632 (17.82%) Data Engineer
2 454 (12.80%) Architect
3 449 (12.66%) Senior
4 439 (12.38%) Analyst
5 359 (10.12%) Developer
6 301 (8.49%) Lead
7 199 (5.61%) Data Architect
8 183 (5.16%) Data Analyst
9 148 (4.17%) Consultant
10 125 (3.53%) Data Scientist
11 123 (3.47%) Solutions Architect
12 112 (3.16%) Business Analyst
13 109 (3.07%) Azure Engineer
14 108 (3.05%) Senior Data Engineer
15 74 (2.09%) Data Manager
16 64 (1.80%) Product Manager
16 64 (1.80%) Python Developer
17 62 (1.75%) Azure Data Engineer
18 61 (1.72%) Project Manager
19 58 (1.64%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 212 (5.98%) PySpark
2 137 (3.86%) REST
3 136 (3.84%) Kafka
4 68 (1.92%) Pandas
5 58 (1.64%) RESTful
6 52 (1.47%) .NET
6 52 (1.47%) JSON
6 52 (1.47%) React
7 46 (1.30%) HTML
8 43 (1.21%) NumPy
9 42 (1.18%) CSS
10 39 (1.10%) Web Services
11 37 (1.04%) ARM Templates
11 37 (1.04%) OAuth
12 35 (0.99%) PyTorch
12 35 (0.99%) SOAP
13 34 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
14 32 (0.90%) scikit-learn
14 32 (0.90%) TensorFlow
15 30 (0.85%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 240 (6.77%) Cloud Native
2 184 (5.19%) Product Ownership
3 147 (4.15%) Data Structures
4 130 (3.67%) Legacy Systems
5 112 (3.16%) Onboarding
6 71 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
7 68 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
8 55 (1.55%) Management Information System
9 49 (1.38%) Algorithms
9 49 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
10 48 (1.35%) AI Agents
11 44 (1.24%) NHS
12 43 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
13 42 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
14 39 (1.10%) Virtual Team
15 38 (1.07%) Mobile App
16 37 (1.04%) Marketing Technology
17 35 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
18 30 (0.85%) Derivative
19 29 (0.82%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 89 (2.51%) Linux
2 86 (2.43%) Windows
3 43 (1.21%) Unix
4 23 (0.65%) Apple iOS
4 23 (0.65%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.48%) Mac OS
6 13 (0.37%) Android
7 11 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.20%) VMS
9 4 (0.11%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.085%) Solaris
11 2 (0.056%) AIX
11 2 (0.056%) CentOS
11 2 (0.056%) HPUX
11 2 (0.056%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.056%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 979 (27.61%) Data Modelling
2 921 (25.97%) Business Intelligence
3 835 (23.55%) AI
4 820 (23.12%) Agile
5 744 (20.98%) Data Pipeline
6 717 (20.22%) Data Engineering
7 692 (19.51%) CI/CD
8 631 (17.79%) Stakeholder Management
9 615 (17.34%) Decision-Making
10 602 (16.98%) ETL
11 553 (15.60%) Data Governance
12 544 (15.34%) DevOps
13 511 (14.41%) Problem-Solving
14 434 (12.24%) Migration
15 431 (12.15%) Data Science
16 429 (12.10%) Machine Learning
17 427 (12.04%) Continuous Improvement
18 421 (11.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 417 (11.76%) Validation
20 392 (11.05%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,181 (33.31%) SQL
2 1,041 (29.36%) Python
3 137 (3.86%) PowerShell
4 117 (3.30%) Java
5 102 (2.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 89 (2.51%) C#
7 75 (2.12%) Bicep
8 71 (2.00%) R
9 70 (1.97%) JavaScript
10 44 (1.24%) Bash
11 41 (1.16%) TypeScript
12 38 (1.07%) Shell Script
13 37 (1.04%) Scala
14 35 (0.99%) Kusto Query Language
15 32 (0.90%) T-SQL
16 28 (0.79%) PL/SQL
17 22 (0.62%) VBA
18 21 (0.59%) C++
19 12 (0.34%) Kotlin
20 11 (0.31%) Swift
Qualifications
1 628 (17.71%) Security Cleared
2 496 (13.99%) SC Cleared
3 284 (8.01%) Degree
4 90 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
5 77 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 75 (2.12%) Azure Certification
7 66 (1.86%) DV Cleared
8 54 (1.52%) Master's Degree
9 38 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
10 33 (0.93%) CISSP
11 29 (0.82%) AWS Certification
12 27 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
13 26 (0.73%) PMI Certification
14 22 (0.62%) PMP
15 20 (0.56%) DBS Check
16 16 (0.45%) CCNP
16 16 (0.45%) PhD
17 15 (0.42%) CCIE
18 11 (0.31%) CISA
19 10 (0.28%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 690 (19.46%) Data Quality
2 170 (4.79%) GDPR
3 140 (3.95%) QA
4 132 (3.72%) Accessibility
5 51 (1.44%) WCAG
6 48 (1.35%) GRC
7 37 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 32 (0.90%) NIST
9 26 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
9 26 (0.73%) PMO
10 15 (0.42%) SLA
10 15 (0.42%) Solvency II
11 12 (0.34%) PCI DSS
11 12 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 11 (0.31%) PERC
13 10 (0.28%) IFRS
14 9 (0.25%) NCSC
15 7 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
16 6 (0.17%) GAAP
17 5 (0.14%) HL7
System Software
1 160 (4.51%) Docker
2 85 (2.40%) Active Directory
3 25 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.17%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.17%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.11%) HDFS
8 3 (0.085%) Snort
9 2 (0.056%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.056%) vSphere
10 1 (0.028%) iptables
10 1 (0.028%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.028%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 254 (7.16%) Terraform
2 184 (5.19%) Kubernetes
3 45 (1.27%) Ansible
4 36 (1.02%) Grafana
5 27 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
6 25 (0.71%) Prometheus
7 24 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (0.37%) SCCM
9 8 (0.23%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.17%) Control-M
11 4 (0.11%) Podman
11 4 (0.11%) QRadar
12 3 (0.085%) Apache Ranger
12 3 (0.085%) CSIRT
12 3 (0.085%) Kibana
12 3 (0.085%) NetBackup
12 3 (0.085%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.085%) Rancher
12 3 (0.085%) SCOM
13 2 (0.056%) MOM
Vendors
1 603 (17.01%) Microsoft
2 459 (12.94%) Databricks
3 220 (6.20%) Oracle
4 179 (5.05%) SAP
5 175 (4.94%) Google
6 82 (2.31%) ServiceNow
7 81 (2.28%) Salesforce
8 79 (2.23%) Adobe
9 54 (1.52%) Splunk
10 52 (1.47%) Workday
11 47 (1.33%) Foundry
12 43 (1.21%) Informatica
13 41 (1.16%) Talend
14 40 (1.13%) Denodo
15 39 (1.10%) Palantir
16 37 (1.04%) Dynatrace
17 30 (0.85%) Cisco
18 26 (0.73%) OpenAI
18 26 (0.73%) VMware
19 20 (0.56%) Amplitude