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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 26 35
Rank change year-on-year 0 +9 0
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,509 1,788 1,710
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.59% 6.53% 5.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.96% 7.19% 6.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,288 1,170 1,176
10th Percentile £363 £353 £355
25th Percentile £431 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.59% -4.30%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 45 24
10th Percentile £18.00 £17.30 £22.83
25th Percentile £26.25 £30.96 £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 £70.16 £56.27
90th Percentile £86.65 £79.50 £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 39,157 24,863 28,050
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.69% 90.87% 86.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,010 15,784 17,561
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 £638 £625 £648
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 2,714 1,478 1,320
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.29 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.74 £66.53
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 1,944 £550 - 7,585
North of England +8 466 £490 +8.83% 1,120
Midlands +3 368 £493 -4.37% 614
South East +17 367 £513 -2.38% 994
West Midlands +2 302 £492 -6.26% 414
North West +4 229 £525 +15.70% 671
Yorkshire +12 186 £463 -1.65% 328
South West +15 170 £525 +10.53% 439
East of England -13 108 £575 +3.84% 363
East Midlands -2 62 £490 +8.89% 200
North East -1 61 £450 +18.03% 127
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
1 168 (4.79%) Apache Airflow
2 129 (3.68%) Apache Spark
3 113 (3.22%) SAS
4 98 (2.79%) Apache
5 78 (2.22%) Confluence
6 60 (1.71%) CMS
7 50 (1.42%) SharePoint
8 29 (0.83%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 29 (0.83%) Palantir Foundry
9 28 (0.80%) Jupyter
10 26 (0.74%) Oracle Application Server
11 11 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
12 9 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
13 8 (0.23%) Apache Superset
13 8 (0.23%) Drupal
13 8 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
14 6 (0.17%) WordPress
15 3 (0.085%) IIS
15 3 (0.085%) nginx
16 2 (0.057%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 164 (4.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 27 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
4 22 (0.63%) Chatbot
5 16 (0.46%) CPLEX
5 16 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
6 12 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
6 12 (0.34%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.14%) Trello
8 3 (0.085%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.085%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.057%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.057%) Sketch
10 1 (0.028%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.028%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.028%) InDesign
10 1 (0.028%) Notion
10 1 (0.028%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.028%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 71 (2.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 36 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
3 17 (0.48%) Workday HCM
4 14 (0.40%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 12 (0.34%) Aladdin
6 11 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
7 10 (0.28%) Shopify
8 9 (0.26%) SAP CO
8 9 (0.26%) SAP FI
9 7 (0.20%) SAP ERP
9 7 (0.20%) SAP MDG
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 HR
10 6 (0.17%) SAP MM
10 6 (0.17%) SAP Oil and Gas
11 5 (0.14%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1,024 (29.18%) Azure
2 710 (20.23%) Power Platform
3 609 (17.36%) AWS
4 308 (8.78%) GCP
5 260 (7.41%) Snowflake
6 231 (6.58%) Azure DevOps
7 228 (6.50%) Azure Data Factory
8 198 (5.64%) dbt
9 181 (5.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 150 (4.27%) GitHub
11 148 (4.22%) Serverless
12 127 (3.62%) Amazon S3
12 127 (3.62%) Azure Monitor
13 110 (3.13%) SaaS
14 109 (3.11%) Entra ID
15 95 (2.71%) AWS Lambda
16 87 (2.48%) Microsoft 365
17 77 (2.19%) GitHub Actions
18 65 (1.85%) Azure Databricks
19 63 (1.80%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 56 (1.60%) Firewall
2 52 (1.48%) Network Security
3 37 (1.05%) DNS
4 32 (0.91%) VPN
5 23 (0.66%) TCP/IP
6 21 (0.60%) WAN
7 19 (0.54%) Broadband
8 17 (0.48%) SD-WAN
9 16 (0.46%) DHCP
10 15 (0.43%) BGP
11 9 (0.26%) SMS
12 8 (0.23%) Wireless
13 7 (0.20%) HTTP
13 7 (0.20%) LAN
14 6 (0.17%) OSPF
14 6 (0.17%) SSH
14 6 (0.17%) WLAN
15 5 (0.14%) Cisco IPT
15 5 (0.14%) Kerberos
15 5 (0.14%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 681 (19.41%) Power BI
2 439 (12.51%) Data Warehouse
3 258 (7.35%) Data Lake
4 233 (6.64%) Metadata
5 221 (6.30%) Tableau
6 146 (4.16%) BigQuery
7 93 (2.65%) SQL Server
8 88 (2.51%) Delta Lake
9 87 (2.48%) Big Data
10 85 (2.42%) Amazon Redshift
10 85 (2.42%) Relational Database
11 79 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
12 76 (2.17%) Looker
13 65 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
14 62 (1.77%) Semantic Layer
15 60 (1.71%) NoSQL
16 58 (1.65%) Snowflake Schema
17 54 (1.54%) Star Schema
18 53 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
19 52 (1.48%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 193 (5.50%) Git
2 163 (4.65%) JIRA
3 62 (1.77%) Jenkins
4 54 (1.54%) GitLab
5 12 (0.34%) MLflow
6 11 (0.31%) ERwin
7 10 (0.28%) fastlane
7 10 (0.28%) SonarQube
8 9 (0.26%) RStudio
9 8 (0.23%) Gradle
10 7 (0.20%) ER Studio
10 7 (0.20%) Selenium
10 7 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
11 6 (0.17%) Android Studio
11 6 (0.17%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.17%) Crashlytics
11 6 (0.17%) JUnit
11 6 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
12 5 (0.14%) Visual Website Optimizer
12 5 (0.14%) Xcode
General
1 953 (27.16%) Social Skills
2 906 (25.82%) Finance
3 656 (18.69%) Analytical Skills
4 418 (11.91%) Public Sector
5 266 (7.58%) Banking
6 229 (6.53%) Marketing
7 177 (5.04%) Retail
8 107 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
9 89 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 80 (2.28%) Manufacturing
11 79 (2.25%) Legal
12 73 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
13 71 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
14 60 (1.71%) Front Office
15 56 (1.60%) Investment Banking
16 49 (1.40%) Publishing
17 46 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
18 41 (1.17%) Telecoms
19 40 (1.14%) Financial Institution
19 40 (1.14%) Military
Job Titles
1 577 (16.44%) Data Engineer
2 468 (13.34%) Senior
3 456 (13.00%) Analyst
4 450 (12.82%) Architect
5 311 (8.86%) Developer
6 290 (8.26%) Lead
7 207 (5.90%) Data Architect
8 174 (4.96%) Consultant
9 172 (4.90%) Data Analyst
10 125 (3.56%) Solutions Architect
11 116 (3.31%) Senior Data Engineer
12 112 (3.19%) Data Scientist
13 107 (3.05%) Business Analyst
14 99 (2.82%) Azure Engineer
15 76 (2.17%) Data Manager
16 69 (1.97%) Senior Manager
17 64 (1.82%) Product Manager
18 60 (1.71%) Project Manager
19 59 (1.68%) Python Developer
20 56 (1.60%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 267 (7.61%) Terraform
2 206 (5.87%) PySpark
3 132 (3.76%) REST
4 107 (3.05%) Kafka
5 61 (1.74%) Pandas
6 56 (1.60%) HTML
7 55 (1.57%) RESTful
8 53 (1.51%) React
9 52 (1.48%) CSS
10 46 (1.31%) JSON
11 44 (1.25%) .NET
12 40 (1.14%) ARM Templates
12 40 (1.14%) OAuth
13 39 (1.11%) NumPy
14 33 (0.94%) OpenID
15 30 (0.85%) OAuth2
16 29 (0.83%) Oracle Fusion
16 29 (0.83%) Web Services
17 27 (0.77%) LDAP
18 26 (0.74%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 238 (6.78%) Cloud Native
2 189 (5.39%) Product Ownership
3 140 (3.99%) Data Structures
4 135 (3.85%) Onboarding
5 99 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
6 79 (2.25%) Management Information System
7 70 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
8 64 (1.82%) AI Agents
9 62 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
10 48 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
11 46 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
12 44 (1.25%) Algorithms
12 44 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
13 42 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
13 42 (1.20%) Virtual Team
14 40 (1.14%) NHS
15 39 (1.11%) Social Media
16 36 (1.03%) Marketing Technology
17 35 (1.00%) Derivative
18 33 (0.94%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 91 (2.59%) Windows
2 85 (2.42%) Linux
3 41 (1.17%) Unix
4 35 (1.00%) Windows Server
5 18 (0.51%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.31%) Mac OS
8 9 (0.26%) Android
8 9 (0.26%) VMS
9 6 (0.17%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.085%) Solaris
10 3 (0.085%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.057%) AIX
11 2 (0.057%) CentOS
11 2 (0.057%) HPUX
12 1 (0.028%) Rocky
12 1 (0.028%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 941 (26.82%) AI
2 911 (25.96%) Data Modelling
3 886 (25.25%) Business Intelligence
4 813 (23.17%) Agile
5 776 (22.11%) Stakeholder Management
6 706 (20.12%) Data Pipeline
7 672 (19.15%) Data Engineering
8 664 (18.92%) Decision-Making
9 644 (18.35%) CI/CD
10 566 (16.13%) Data Governance
11 546 (15.56%) ETL
12 517 (14.73%) DevOps
13 512 (14.59%) Problem-Solving
14 468 (13.34%) Migration
15 443 (12.62%) Continuous Improvement
16 434 (12.37%) Roadmaps
17 432 (12.31%) Machine Learning
18 430 (12.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 408 (11.63%) Data Science
20 402 (11.46%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1,118 (31.86%) SQL
2 977 (27.84%) Python
3 157 (4.47%) PowerShell
4 109 (3.11%) Java
5 97 (2.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 85 (2.42%) JavaScript
7 78 (2.22%) Bicep
8 74 (2.11%) C#
9 65 (1.85%) R
10 62 (1.77%) Bash
11 38 (1.08%) Scala
12 37 (1.05%) TypeScript
13 32 (0.91%) Shell Script
14 30 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
15 27 (0.77%) T-SQL
16 20 (0.57%) PL/SQL
17 19 (0.54%) C++
18 14 (0.40%) LookML
18 14 (0.40%) VBA
19 12 (0.34%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 628 (17.90%) Security Cleared
2 499 (14.22%) SC Cleared
3 286 (8.15%) Degree
4 86 (2.45%) Azure Certification
5 80 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
6 76 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 72 (2.05%) DV Cleared
8 53 (1.51%) Master's Degree
8 53 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
9 41 (1.17%) CISSP
10 35 (1.00%) AWS Certification
11 29 (0.83%) PMI Certification
12 25 (0.71%) DBS Check
13 22 (0.63%) PMP
14 19 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
15 12 (0.34%) CISA
16 11 (0.31%) MBA
17 10 (0.28%) PhD
17 10 (0.28%) SANS
18 9 (0.26%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 732 (20.86%) Data Quality
2 153 (4.36%) GDPR
3 143 (4.08%) QA
4 135 (3.85%) Accessibility
5 48 (1.37%) WCAG
6 47 (1.34%) GRC
7 38 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 34 (0.97%) NIST
9 31 (0.88%) PMO
10 30 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
11 20 (0.57%) SLA
12 13 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 12 (0.34%) NCSC
13 12 (0.34%) PERC
14 11 (0.31%) IFRS
14 11 (0.31%) PCI DSS
15 10 (0.28%) Solvency II
16 8 (0.23%) GMP
17 7 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
18 6 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 156 (4.45%) Docker
2 91 (2.59%) Active Directory
3 28 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.54%) 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
9 3 (0.085%) 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
1 164 (4.67%) Kubernetes
2 46 (1.31%) Ansible
3 37 (1.05%) Grafana
4 27 (0.77%) 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
1 662 (18.87%) Microsoft
2 456 (13.00%) Databricks
3 212 (6.04%) Oracle
4 198 (5.64%) SAP
5 184 (5.24%) Google
6 90 (2.56%) Adobe
7 87 (2.48%) Salesforce
8 86 (2.45%) ServiceNow
9 56 (1.60%) Workday
10 47 (1.34%) Splunk
11 43 (1.23%) Foundry
12 41 (1.17%) Dynatrace
13 40 (1.14%) Informatica
14 36 (1.03%) Palantir
15 32 (0.91%) Talend
16 31 (0.88%) VMware
17 30 (0.85%) Denodo
18 29 (0.83%) Cisco
19 27 (0.77%) OpenAI
20 26 (0.74%) Alteryx