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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 27 37
Rank change year-on-year +4 +10 0
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,830 1,606 1,815
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.62% 6.57% 4.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.81% 7.24% 5.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,942 1,086 1,251
10th Percentile £356 £327 £358
25th Percentile £423 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £809 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £541 £550
% change year-on-year -5.35% -1.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 31 61
10th Percentile £23.04 £15.28 £17.64
25th Percentile £39.13 £24.00 £25.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £31.64 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +81.73% -20.90% +33.33%
75th Percentile £75.00 £59.75 £61.50
90th Percentile £84.35 £77.50 £79.17
UK median hourly rate £55.25 £31.64 £37.13
% change year-on-year +74.62% -14.77% +16.02%

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 32,109 22,180 32,789
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.44% 90.75% 86.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,603 14,473 21,697
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.19% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £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 1,967 822 2,143
10th Percentile £15.45 £15.07 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.00 £16.04
Median hourly rate £32.50 £33.26 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +2.32% -12.87%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.47 £71.13
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%

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 20 March 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 20 March 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 20 March 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 1,602 £538 -10.42% 991
Midlands +25 333 £492 +4.96% 212
North of England +6 294 £495 +4.21% 345
West Midlands +23 252 £494 +3.51% 116
South East -5 221 £500 +6.04% 521
North West +7 174 £495 +4.98% 198
South West +29 169 £505 +1.00% 156
East of England -5 105 £505 -15.83% 134
Yorkshire -5 97 £505 +3.06% 98
East Midlands +4 77 £447 +21.80% 96
North East +13 31 £450 +25.70% 53
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
1 140 (4.95%) Apache Spark
2 108 (3.82%) SAS
3 94 (3.32%) Apache Airflow
4 86 (3.04%) Apache
5 59 (2.08%) Confluence
6 54 (1.91%) SharePoint
7 30 (1.06%) CMS
8 19 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
9 18 (0.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 13 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
11 9 (0.32%) Jupyter
12 8 (0.28%) GeoServer
12 8 (0.28%) Smallworld
13 7 (0.25%) Apache Superset
13 7 (0.25%) ArcGIS
14 6 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
14 6 (0.21%) WordPress
15 5 (0.18%) Oracle Application Server
16 3 (0.11%) IIS
16 3 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 123 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (0.92%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.67%) Chatbot
6 12 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
7 11 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.18%) Trello
9 4 (0.14%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.14%) CPLEX
9 4 (0.14%) Oracle Smart View
9 4 (0.14%) Sketch
10 3 (0.11%) Notion
11 2 (0.071%) Autodesk Smoke
12 1 (0.035%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.035%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.035%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.035%) InDesign
12 1 (0.035%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.035%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 66 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.32%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 8 (0.28%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 8 (0.28%) SAP FI
4 8 (0.28%) SAP MM
5 7 (0.25%) Maximo
5 7 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.21%) Aladdin
6 6 (0.21%) Sage X3
7 5 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.18%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 5 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.18%) SAP HR
8 4 (0.14%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
8 4 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.11%) BambooHR
Cloud Services
1 910 (32.16%) Azure
2 629 (22.23%) Power Platform
3 583 (20.60%) AWS
4 288 (10.18%) GCP
5 223 (7.88%) Azure Data Factory
6 212 (7.49%) Azure DevOps
7 192 (6.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 179 (6.33%) Snowflake
9 176 (6.22%) GitHub
10 131 (4.63%) Serverless
11 120 (4.24%) Amazon S3
11 120 (4.24%) Azure Monitor
12 119 (4.20%) dbt
13 106 (3.75%) GitHub Actions
14 98 (3.46%) Microsoft 365
15 84 (2.97%) Entra ID
15 84 (2.97%) SaaS
16 72 (2.54%) AWS Lambda
17 65 (2.30%) Azure Key Vault
18 62 (2.19%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 53 (1.87%) Firewall
2 34 (1.20%) Network Security
3 30 (1.06%) VPN
4 25 (0.88%) DNS
5 17 (0.60%) WAN
6 16 (0.57%) SMS
7 11 (0.39%) SD-WAN
8 10 (0.35%) 5G
8 10 (0.35%) MPLS
9 9 (0.32%) HTTP
9 9 (0.32%) SSL
10 8 (0.28%) DHCP
10 8 (0.28%) LAN
11 7 (0.25%) 4G
11 7 (0.25%) BGP
11 7 (0.25%) TCP/IP
12 6 (0.21%) Internet
12 6 (0.21%) OSPF
12 6 (0.21%) Radio Access Network
12 6 (0.21%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 576 (20.35%) Power BI
2 346 (12.23%) Data Warehouse
3 217 (7.67%) Data Lake
4 177 (6.25%) Metadata
4 177 (6.25%) Tableau
5 94 (3.32%) Delta Lake
6 93 (3.29%) SQL Server
7 92 (3.25%) BigQuery
8 89 (3.14%) Big Data
9 73 (2.58%) Relational Database
10 71 (2.51%) Azure SQL Database
10 71 (2.51%) Snowflake Schema
11 68 (2.40%) NoSQL
11 68 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
12 65 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
13 57 (2.01%) Hadoop
14 53 (1.87%) Looker
15 52 (1.84%) Amazon Athena
16 51 (1.80%) Power Query
17 49 (1.73%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 200 (7.07%) Git
2 167 (5.90%) JIRA
3 95 (3.36%) Jenkins
4 81 (2.86%) GitLab
5 28 (0.99%) Selenium
6 24 (0.85%) ERwin
6 24 (0.85%) JUnit
7 14 (0.49%) MLflow
8 11 (0.39%) Gradle
9 10 (0.35%) Android Studio
10 9 (0.32%) PowerDesigner
11 8 (0.28%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.25%) Cypress.io
12 7 (0.25%) MSI
12 7 (0.25%) SonarQube
12 7 (0.25%) Xcode
13 6 (0.21%) ER Studio
14 5 (0.18%) fastlane
14 5 (0.18%) Maven
14 5 (0.18%) XCTest
General
1 852 (30.11%) Social Skills
2 724 (25.58%) Finance
3 535 (18.90%) Analytical Skills
4 289 (10.21%) Public Sector
5 211 (7.46%) Banking
6 165 (5.83%) Marketing
7 77 (2.72%) Retail
8 76 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
9 65 (2.30%) Front Office
10 52 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 50 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
12 48 (1.70%) Investment Banking
13 46 (1.63%) Legal
14 45 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
15 41 (1.45%) Manufacturing
16 40 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
17 35 (1.24%) Telecoms
18 31 (1.10%) Financial Institution
19 23 (0.81%) Advertising
20 22 (0.78%) Military
Job Titles
1 495 (17.49%) Data Engineer
2 347 (12.26%) Analyst
3 337 (11.91%) Developer
4 325 (11.48%) Architect
5 316 (11.17%) Senior
6 237 (8.37%) Lead
7 138 (4.88%) Data Analyst
8 136 (4.81%) Data Architect
9 130 (4.59%) Consultant
10 107 (3.78%) Azure Engineer
11 102 (3.60%) Business Analyst
12 95 (3.36%) Data Scientist
13 78 (2.76%) Senior Data Engineer
14 68 (2.40%) Project Manager
14 68 (2.40%) Solutions Architect
15 56 (1.98%) Designer
15 56 (1.98%) Senior Developer
16 52 (1.84%) Snowflake Engineer
17 47 (1.66%) Python Developer
18 46 (1.63%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (5.48%) Kafka
2 154 (5.44%) PySpark
2 154 (5.44%) REST
3 66 (2.33%) Pandas
4 61 (2.16%) React
5 59 (2.08%) TensorFlow
6 57 (2.01%) PyTorch
7 50 (1.77%) scikit-learn
8 49 (1.73%) NumPy
9 48 (1.70%) JSON
10 45 (1.59%) AngularJS
11 42 (1.48%) .NET
12 41 (1.45%) HTML
12 41 (1.45%) Node.js
13 40 (1.41%) CSS
14 39 (1.38%) SOAP
15 38 (1.34%) ARM Templates
16 37 (1.31%) RESTful
17 34 (1.20%) pytest
18 31 (1.10%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 170 (6.01%) Cloud Native
2 103 (3.64%) Product Ownership
3 87 (3.07%) Data Structures
4 80 (2.83%) Onboarding
5 76 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
6 56 (1.98%) Management Information System
7 55 (1.94%) Algorithms
8 51 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
8 51 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
9 47 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
10 42 (1.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 40 (1.41%) Equities
12 38 (1.34%) Public Cloud
13 36 (1.27%) NHS
14 34 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
15 33 (1.17%) Derivative
15 33 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
15 33 (1.17%) Mobile App
16 26 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
16 26 (0.92%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 87 (3.07%) Windows
2 75 (2.65%) Linux
3 32 (1.13%) Unix
4 27 (0.95%) Mac OS
5 23 (0.81%) Apple iOS
6 20 (0.71%) Android
7 9 (0.32%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.25%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.14%) VMS
10 3 (0.11%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.071%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.071%) zOS
12 1 (0.035%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.035%) CentOS
12 1 (0.035%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 783 (27.67%) Business Intelligence
2 751 (26.54%) Data Modelling
3 650 (22.97%) Agile
4 593 (20.95%) CI/CD
5 569 (20.11%) AI
6 567 (20.04%) ETL
7 551 (19.47%) Problem-Solving
8 539 (19.05%) Data Pipeline
9 537 (18.98%) DevOps
10 534 (18.87%) Data Engineering
11 473 (16.71%) Data Governance
12 427 (15.09%) Decision-Making
13 373 (13.18%) Stakeholder Management
14 353 (12.47%) Data Science
15 348 (12.30%) Machine Learning
16 337 (11.91%) Data Analytics
17 312 (11.02%) Continuous Improvement
18 293 (10.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 280 (9.89%) Visualisation
20 276 (9.75%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1,001 (35.37%) SQL
2 924 (32.65%) Python
3 156 (5.51%) Java
4 110 (3.89%) PowerShell
5 89 (3.14%) C#
5 89 (3.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 79 (2.79%) JavaScript
7 76 (2.69%) R
8 75 (2.65%) Bicep
9 50 (1.77%) Kusto Query Language
10 48 (1.70%) Bash
11 44 (1.55%) TypeScript
12 40 (1.41%) Scala
13 39 (1.38%) T-SQL
14 32 (1.13%) VBA
15 31 (1.10%) C++
16 28 (0.99%) PL/SQL
17 22 (0.78%) Shell Script
18 15 (0.53%) Kotlin
19 13 (0.46%) Swift
Qualifications
1 496 (17.53%) Security Cleared
2 388 (13.71%) SC Cleared
3 245 (8.66%) Degree
4 75 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 67 (2.37%) Azure Certification
6 47 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
7 44 (1.55%) Master's Degree
8 40 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
9 36 (1.27%) DV Cleared
10 26 (0.92%) PMI Certification
11 23 (0.81%) CISSP
12 22 (0.78%) PMP
13 21 (0.74%) AWS Certification
14 20 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
15 16 (0.57%) CISM
16 15 (0.53%) CCNP
17 14 (0.49%) IIBA
18 13 (0.46%) PhD
19 12 (0.42%) CCIE
20 8 (0.28%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 506 (17.88%) Data Quality
2 167 (5.90%) GDPR
3 114 (4.03%) QA
4 101 (3.57%) Accessibility
5 38 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 31 (1.10%) WCAG
7 25 (0.88%) NIST
8 24 (0.85%) PMO
9 20 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
10 15 (0.53%) NCSC
11 14 (0.49%) Solvency II
12 13 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 12 (0.42%) GRC
14 10 (0.35%) PERC
14 10 (0.35%) SLA
15 9 (0.32%) HL7
16 8 (0.28%) NIST 800
16 8 (0.28%) SOC 2
17 7 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 7 (0.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 197 (6.96%) Docker
2 74 (2.61%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.18%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.14%) HDFS
7 4 (0.14%) Snort
8 2 (0.071%) GPFS
8 2 (0.071%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.071%) Lustre
8 2 (0.071%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.035%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.035%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.035%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.035%) vSphere
9 1 (0.035%) zsh
Systems Management
1 247 (8.73%) Terraform
2 215 (7.60%) Kubernetes
3 38 (1.34%) Ansible
4 34 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
5 29 (1.02%) Grafana
5 29 (1.02%) Prometheus
6 22 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (0.57%) SCCM
8 9 (0.32%) Puppet
9 7 (0.25%) Kibana
10 6 (0.21%) logstash
11 4 (0.14%) CSIRT
11 4 (0.14%) WSUS
12 3 (0.11%) Argo
12 3 (0.11%) Cisco CUCM
12 3 (0.11%) Control-M
12 3 (0.11%) Fluentd
12 3 (0.11%) SysTrack
13 2 (0.071%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.071%) CASB
Vendors
1 537 (18.98%) Microsoft
2 382 (13.50%) Databricks
3 175 (6.18%) Google
4 144 (5.09%) Oracle
5 135 (4.77%) SAP
6 70 (2.47%) Salesforce
7 68 (2.40%) ServiceNow
8 63 (2.23%) Adobe
9 60 (2.12%) Informatica
10 59 (2.08%) Talend
11 51 (1.80%) Splunk
12 46 (1.63%) OpenAI
13 43 (1.52%) Foundry
14 41 (1.45%) Denodo
15 29 (1.02%) Workday
16 25 (0.88%) IBM
17 23 (0.81%) VMware
18 21 (0.74%) Cisco
19 18 (0.64%) Palantir
20 14 (0.49%) Dynatrace