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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 30 38
Rank change year-on-year +6 +8 -3
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,188 1,729 1,913
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.02% 5.65% 5.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.85% 6.44% 5.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,465 1,145 1,319
10th Percentile £358 £356 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.07% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £625 £688 £688
90th Percentile £749 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 27 68
10th Percentile £20.55 £25.26 £17.45
25th Percentile £30.32 £27.25 £22.00
Median hourly rate £45.25 £32.50 £35.32
Median % change year-on-year +39.23% -7.97% +0.90%
75th Percentile £70.16 £59.41 £67.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £64.14 £74.33
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £35.63
% change year-on-year +38.46% -8.78% +1.80%

All Process and 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 27,869 26,864 33,636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.46% 87.86% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,747 16,503 22,915
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £417 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,797 957 1,425
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.24 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.90%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.35 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.75 £43.63
% change year-on-year -23.21% -24.93% +24.64%

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 4 December 2025.

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 4 December 2025.

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 4 December 2025. 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 +5 1,289 £525 -12.50% 677
North of England +9 245 £475 -5.00% 308
Midlands +21 237 £515 +3.00% 240
West Midlands +14 190 £515 +3.00% 141
North West +16 155 £484 -3.30% 181
South East -14 146 £513 +1.49% 564
South West +25 93 £510 -11.30% 130
East of England +6 85 £553 +5.24% 135
Yorkshire +9 81 £475 -9.52% 88
East Midlands +12 49 £447 -3.35% 96
North East -5 10 £378 -19.08% 45
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
1 101 (4.62%) Apache Airflow
2 96 (4.39%) SAS
3 80 (3.66%) Apache Spark
4 77 (3.52%) Apache
5 43 (1.97%) Confluence
6 41 (1.87%) SharePoint
7 38 (1.74%) CMS
8 16 (0.73%) WebLogic
9 15 (0.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 11 (0.50%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.37%) Oracle Application Server
11 8 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 8 (0.37%) WordPress
12 7 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
13 6 (0.27%) GeoServer
13 6 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
13 6 (0.27%) Smallworld
14 3 (0.14%) Drupal
14 3 (0.14%) IIS
14 3 (0.14%) JBoss
Applications
1 139 (6.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (1.46%) MS Visio
5 24 (1.10%) Chatbot
6 15 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.14%) Sketch
8 3 (0.14%) Trello
9 2 (0.091%) Notion
10 1 (0.046%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.046%) Autodesk Smoke
10 1 (0.046%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.046%) CapCut
10 1 (0.046%) FrameMaker
10 1 (0.046%) Simulink
10 1 (0.046%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 72 (3.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.64%) SAP EHS
4 11 (0.50%) SAP FI
4 11 (0.50%) SAP HR
5 10 (0.46%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.32%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 7 (0.32%) SAP MM
7 6 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 5 (0.23%) Aladdin
8 5 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
8 5 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.23%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
9 4 (0.18%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.18%) SAP IBP
10 3 (0.14%) Maximo
10 3 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 682 (31.17%) Azure
2 461 (21.07%) Power Platform
3 457 (20.89%) AWS
4 222 (10.15%) GCP
5 149 (6.81%) Snowflake
6 135 (6.17%) Azure DevOps
7 129 (5.90%) Azure Data Factory
8 116 (5.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 107 (4.89%) Azure Monitor
10 103 (4.71%) Serverless
11 99 (4.52%) GitHub
12 87 (3.98%) SaaS
13 77 (3.52%) dbt
14 72 (3.29%) Amazon S3
14 72 (3.29%) Entra ID
15 70 (3.20%) GitHub Actions
16 66 (3.02%) Microsoft 365
17 62 (2.83%) Azure Logic Apps
18 61 (2.79%) Google Analytics
19 54 (2.47%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 48 (2.19%) Firewall
2 37 (1.69%) Network Security
3 31 (1.42%) DNS
4 19 (0.87%) VPN
4 19 (0.87%) WAN
5 13 (0.59%) HTTP
5 13 (0.59%) SSL
6 10 (0.46%) LAN
6 10 (0.46%) SD-WAN
7 9 (0.41%) SMS
8 8 (0.37%) FTP
8 8 (0.37%) SMTP
9 7 (0.32%) DHCP
10 6 (0.27%) 2G
10 6 (0.27%) 5G
10 6 (0.27%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.23%) Ethernet
11 5 (0.23%) Wireless
12 4 (0.18%) 4G
12 4 (0.18%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 431 (19.70%) Power BI
2 248 (11.33%) Data Warehouse
3 153 (6.99%) Tableau
4 139 (6.35%) Data Lake
5 118 (5.39%) Metadata
6 75 (3.43%) BigQuery
7 64 (2.93%) Big Data
8 59 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
9 51 (2.33%) SQL Server
10 50 (2.29%) Relational Database
11 48 (2.19%) Looker
12 46 (2.10%) Power Query
13 45 (2.06%) Snowflake Schema
14 44 (2.01%) Azure SQL Database
14 44 (2.01%) Hadoop
15 42 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
16 38 (1.74%) Delta Lake
17 37 (1.69%) NoSQL
18 35 (1.60%) Pentaho
19 34 (1.55%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 165 (7.54%) Git
2 143 (6.54%) JIRA
3 82 (3.75%) Jenkins
4 53 (2.42%) GitLab
5 22 (1.01%) Selenium
6 18 (0.82%) JUnit
7 15 (0.69%) ERwin
7 15 (0.69%) MLflow
8 11 (0.50%) PowerDesigner
9 9 (0.41%) Android Studio
9 9 (0.41%) ER Studio
9 9 (0.41%) Postman
9 9 (0.41%) SonarQube
9 9 (0.41%) Visual Website Optimizer
10 8 (0.37%) DBeaver
10 8 (0.37%) Gradle
11 7 (0.32%) TeamCity
11 7 (0.32%) Xcode
12 6 (0.27%) PVCS
12 6 (0.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 790 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 627 (28.66%) Finance
3 469 (21.44%) Analytical Skills
4 215 (9.83%) Banking
5 187 (8.55%) Public Sector
6 176 (8.04%) Marketing
7 74 (3.38%) Front Office
8 71 (3.24%) Retail
9 57 (2.61%) Investment Banking
10 54 (2.47%) Legal
10 54 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
11 48 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
12 44 (2.01%) Manufacturing
13 39 (1.78%) Pharmaceutical
14 37 (1.69%) Financial Institution
14 37 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
15 35 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 29 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
17 28 (1.28%) Publishing
17 28 (1.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 352 (16.09%) Analyst
2 291 (13.30%) Developer
3 240 (10.97%) Senior
4 233 (10.65%) Data Engineer
5 216 (9.87%) Architect
6 132 (6.03%) Lead
7 130 (5.94%) Data Analyst
8 126 (5.76%) Business Analyst
9 121 (5.53%) Consultant
10 76 (3.47%) Data Architect
11 73 (3.34%) Data Scientist
12 72 (3.29%) Azure Engineer
13 65 (2.97%) Senior Developer
14 50 (2.29%) Project Manager
15 42 (1.92%) Senior Analyst
16 39 (1.78%) Python Developer
17 38 (1.74%) Solutions Architect
18 37 (1.69%) SAP Consultant
19 33 (1.51%) Data Modeller
19 33 (1.51%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (5.07%) REST
2 88 (4.02%) Kafka
3 80 (3.66%) PySpark
4 52 (2.38%) React
5 51 (2.33%) Pandas
6 45 (2.06%) RESTful
7 44 (2.01%) SOAP
8 43 (1.97%) Node.js
9 41 (1.87%) .NET
9 41 (1.87%) NumPy
10 40 (1.83%) HTML
11 36 (1.65%) TensorFlow
12 33 (1.51%) scikit-learn
13 32 (1.46%) AngularJS
13 32 (1.46%) CSS
13 32 (1.46%) PyTorch
14 28 (1.28%) OAuth
15 27 (1.23%) ARM Templates
16 25 (1.14%) pytest
17 24 (1.10%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 108 (4.94%) Product Ownership
2 87 (3.98%) Cloud Native
3 69 (3.15%) Data Structures
4 63 (2.88%) Onboarding
5 60 (2.74%) Algorithms
6 56 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
7 55 (2.51%) Analytical Mindset
7 55 (2.51%) Management Information System
8 48 (2.19%) Derivative
9 43 (1.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 41 (1.87%) Equities
10 41 (1.87%) Mobile App
11 39 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
12 33 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
12 33 (1.51%) Virtual Team
13 31 (1.42%) Fixed Income
14 30 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
15 27 (1.23%) Social Media
16 25 (1.14%) Life Science
17 24 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 71 (3.24%) Linux
2 69 (3.15%) Windows
3 28 (1.28%) Unix
4 20 (0.91%) Apple iOS
5 19 (0.87%) Android
6 14 (0.64%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.27%) VMS
8 6 (0.27%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.091%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.046%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.046%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.046%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 586 (26.78%) Business Intelligence
2 572 (26.14%) Agile
3 502 (22.94%) Problem-Solving
4 481 (21.98%) Data Modelling
5 409 (18.69%) CI/CD
6 375 (17.14%) DevOps
7 356 (16.27%) ETL
8 351 (16.04%) AI
9 329 (15.04%) Data Pipeline
9 329 (15.04%) Decision-Making
10 319 (14.58%) Data Governance
11 301 (13.76%) Data Analytics
12 297 (13.57%) Stakeholder Management
13 290 (13.25%) Data Science
14 281 (12.84%) Visualisation
15 276 (12.61%) Machine Learning
16 250 (11.43%) Data Engineering
17 244 (11.15%) Continuous Improvement
18 242 (11.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 238 (10.88%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 740 (33.82%) SQL
2 679 (31.03%) Python
3 132 (6.03%) Java
4 105 (4.80%) JavaScript
5 92 (4.20%) PowerShell
6 70 (3.20%) R
7 62 (2.83%) C#
8 49 (2.24%) Bash
9 48 (2.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 48 (2.19%) TypeScript
10 45 (2.06%) Bicep
11 37 (1.69%) Kusto Query Language
12 30 (1.37%) C++
12 30 (1.37%) Scala
13 28 (1.28%) VBA
14 23 (1.05%) T-SQL
15 17 (0.78%) PL/SQL
16 16 (0.73%) ABAP
17 13 (0.59%) Swift
18 12 (0.55%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 341 (15.59%) Security Cleared
2 287 (13.12%) SC Cleared
3 229 (10.47%) Degree
4 69 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 57 (2.61%) Master's Degree
6 41 (1.87%) Azure Certification
7 28 (1.28%) CISSP
8 26 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
9 25 (1.14%) AWS Certification
10 22 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
11 20 (0.91%) PMI Certification
12 19 (0.87%) DV Cleared
13 16 (0.73%) CISM
14 15 (0.69%) PMP
15 10 (0.46%) CBAP
15 10 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
16 9 (0.41%) PhD
17 7 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 6 (0.27%) GIAC
18 6 (0.27%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 316 (14.44%) Data Quality
2 123 (5.62%) GDPR
3 79 (3.61%) Accessibility
3 79 (3.61%) QA
4 33 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 26 (1.19%) NIST
6 19 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
7 18 (0.82%) PMO
8 14 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 12 (0.55%) GRC
9 12 (0.55%) HIPAA
9 12 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 11 (0.50%) WCAG
11 10 (0.46%) NCSC
12 9 (0.41%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.37%) Solvency II
14 7 (0.32%) GxP
14 7 (0.32%) PERC
15 6 (0.27%) COBIT
15 6 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 158 (7.22%) Docker
2 58 (2.65%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.46%) HDFS
4 10 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.23%) zsh
6 3 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.091%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.046%) GPFS
8 1 (0.046%) Lustre
8 1 (0.046%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.046%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.046%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.046%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 163 (7.45%) Kubernetes
2 149 (6.81%) Terraform
3 34 (1.55%) Ansible
4 20 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
5 17 (0.78%) Grafana
5 17 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (0.59%) SCCM
7 12 (0.55%) Puppet
8 10 (0.46%) Kibana
8 10 (0.46%) Prometheus
9 8 (0.37%) Kubeflow
10 7 (0.32%) Hadoop YARN
11 6 (0.27%) logstash
11 6 (0.27%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.23%) WSUS
13 4 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.18%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.18%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 3 (0.14%) Argo
14 3 (0.14%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 408 (18.65%) Microsoft
2 242 (11.06%) Databricks
3 162 (7.40%) Google
4 150 (6.86%) Oracle
5 134 (6.12%) SAP
6 72 (3.29%) ServiceNow
7 69 (3.15%) Salesforce
8 56 (2.56%) Adobe
9 50 (2.29%) Talend
10 45 (2.06%) Splunk
11 37 (1.69%) Denodo
12 34 (1.55%) Workday
13 32 (1.46%) Informatica
14 31 (1.42%) Cisco
15 27 (1.23%) Dynatrace
16 24 (1.10%) Foundry
16 24 (1.10%) OpenAI
17 22 (1.01%) Alteryx
17 22 (1.01%) AppDynamics
18 17 (0.78%) Amplitude