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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 36
Rank change year-on-year +2 +9 -2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,253 1,683 1,915
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.49% 6.70% 5.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.78% 7.34% 5.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,208 1,119 1,322
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.22%
75th Percentile £630 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 38 46
10th Percentile £19.25 £14.83 £14.50
25th Percentile £35.00 £20.19 £25.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £33.28 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.29% +14.74% -9.80%
75th Percentile £75.00 £63.31 £43.75
90th Percentile £84.35 £79.09 £70.63
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £34.50 £26.75
% change year-on-year +52.17% +28.97% -16.80%

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 37,051 22,942 31,995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.33% 91.40% 85.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,408 14,828 20,735
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £416 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £514 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.78% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,328 1,099 2,362
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.76
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £26.45 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +77.69% -29.47% +6.72%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.48
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +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 25 June 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 25 June 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 25 June 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 0 1,777 £550 -4.35% 633
North of England +3 393 £488 +5.41% 265
Midlands +11 381 £493 -2.72% 170
West Midlands +14 294 £492 -4.47% 102
South East -1 293 £500 - 400
North West +2 197 £500 +5.26% 159
South West +20 196 £500 +5.26% 122
Yorkshire -3 154 £500 +11.11% 68
East of England -8 118 £525 -11.02% 79
East Midlands +4 81 £525 +28.05% 68
North East +4 53 £450 +9.09% 39
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 (4.86%) Apache Spark
2 139 (4.27%) Apache Airflow
3 102 (3.14%) SAS
4 88 (2.71%) Apache
5 72 (2.21%) Confluence
6 46 (1.41%) SharePoint
7 30 (0.92%) Jupyter
8 28 (0.86%) CMS
9 27 (0.83%) Palantir Foundry
10 15 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
10 15 (0.46%) Oracle Application Server
11 12 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 9 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
13 8 (0.25%) Apache Superset
14 6 (0.18%) IIS
14 6 (0.18%) WordPress
15 5 (0.15%) ArcGIS
16 4 (0.12%) Drupal
17 2 (0.061%) OpenStack
17 2 (0.061%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 147 (4.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (0.58%) Chatbot
3 19 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
4 16 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (0.40%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.37%) CPLEX
7 10 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.061%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.061%) Sketch
10 1 (0.031%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.031%) InDesign
10 1 (0.031%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.031%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.031%) Trello
10 1 (0.031%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 68 (2.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
4 10 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
5 9 (0.28%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 8 (0.25%) Aladdin
6 8 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.22%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.18%) Sage X3
8 6 (0.18%) SAP ERP
8 6 (0.18%) Workday HCM
9 5 (0.15%) BambooHR
9 5 (0.15%) Infor LN
9 5 (0.15%) Maximo
9 5 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 4 (0.12%) iTrent
10 4 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
10 4 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
10 4 (0.12%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 4 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 987 (30.34%) Azure
2 719 (22.10%) Power Platform
3 642 (19.74%) AWS
4 287 (8.82%) GCP
5 234 (7.19%) Azure DevOps
6 226 (6.95%) Azure Data Factory
7 219 (6.73%) Snowflake
8 183 (5.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 168 (5.16%) dbt
10 164 (5.04%) GitHub
11 141 (4.33%) Amazon S3
12 137 (4.21%) Serverless
13 116 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
14 93 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
15 92 (2.83%) SaaS
16 90 (2.77%) GitHub Actions
17 84 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
18 81 (2.49%) Entra ID
19 50 (1.54%) PaaS
19 50 (1.54%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 47 (1.44%) Firewall
2 30 (0.92%) Network Security
3 28 (0.86%) VPN
4 23 (0.71%) WAN
5 21 (0.65%) SD-WAN
6 18 (0.55%) DNS
7 17 (0.52%) BGP
8 13 (0.40%) SMS
9 10 (0.31%) OSPF
10 8 (0.25%) VXLAN
11 7 (0.22%) 5G
11 7 (0.22%) DHCP
11 7 (0.22%) HTTP
11 7 (0.22%) Internet
11 7 (0.22%) LAN
11 7 (0.22%) MPLS
11 7 (0.22%) TCP/IP
11 7 (0.22%) Wireless
11 7 (0.22%) WLAN
12 6 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 675 (20.75%) Power BI
2 421 (12.94%) Data Warehouse
3 260 (7.99%) Data Lake
4 226 (6.95%) Tableau
5 191 (5.87%) Metadata
6 120 (3.69%) BigQuery
7 108 (3.32%) Delta Lake
8 105 (3.23%) SQL Server
9 96 (2.95%) Big Data
10 89 (2.74%) Amazon Redshift
11 85 (2.61%) Relational Database
12 74 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
12 74 (2.27%) Snowflake Schema
13 72 (2.21%) PostgreSQL
14 68 (2.09%) NoSQL
15 63 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
15 63 (1.94%) Looker
16 59 (1.81%) Power Query
17 51 (1.57%) Star Schema
18 50 (1.54%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 180 (5.53%) Git
2 169 (5.20%) JIRA
3 75 (2.31%) Jenkins
4 64 (1.97%) GitLab
5 20 (0.61%) ERwin
6 11 (0.34%) MLflow
7 10 (0.31%) ER Studio
7 10 (0.31%) fastlane
7 10 (0.31%) JUnit
7 10 (0.31%) Selenium
8 8 (0.25%) MSI
9 7 (0.22%) Postman
9 7 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
10 6 (0.18%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.15%) Android Studio
11 5 (0.15%) Crashlytics
11 5 (0.15%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.15%) Gradle
11 5 (0.15%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.15%) SonarQube
General
1 824 (25.33%) Finance
2 822 (25.27%) Social Skills
3 554 (17.03%) Analytical Skills
4 370 (11.37%) Public Sector
5 233 (7.16%) Banking
6 169 (5.20%) Marketing
7 130 (4.00%) Retail
8 75 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 73 (2.24%) Legal
10 72 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
11 58 (1.78%) Manufacturing
11 58 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
12 54 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
12 54 (1.66%) Investment Banking
13 45 (1.38%) Front Office
14 43 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
14 43 (1.32%) Telecoms
15 38 (1.17%) Financial Institution
16 30 (0.92%) Automotive
17 27 (0.83%) Military
Job Titles
1 624 (19.18%) Data Engineer
2 402 (12.36%) Analyst
3 399 (12.27%) Senior
4 397 (12.20%) Architect
5 326 (10.02%) Developer
6 279 (8.58%) Lead
7 179 (5.50%) Data Architect
8 165 (5.07%) Data Analyst
9 140 (4.30%) Consultant
10 111 (3.41%) Senior Data Engineer
11 110 (3.38%) Business Analyst
12 106 (3.26%) Data Scientist
12 106 (3.26%) Solutions Architect
13 101 (3.10%) Azure Engineer
14 72 (2.21%) Data Manager
15 62 (1.91%) Project Manager
16 59 (1.81%) Designer
17 56 (1.72%) AWS Engineer
18 55 (1.69%) Business Intelligence Developer
19 53 (1.63%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (6.09%) PySpark
2 129 (3.97%) Kafka
3 109 (3.35%) REST
4 59 (1.81%) Pandas
5 52 (1.60%) React
6 47 (1.44%) JSON
7 46 (1.41%) RESTful
8 43 (1.32%) PyTorch
9 42 (1.29%) .NET
10 40 (1.23%) HTML
10 40 (1.23%) TensorFlow
11 38 (1.17%) CSS
11 38 (1.17%) Middleware
12 34 (1.05%) ARM Templates
13 33 (1.01%) Web Services
14 32 (0.98%) NumPy
14 32 (0.98%) scikit-learn
15 31 (0.95%) SOAP
16 30 (0.92%) Microsoft Graph
17 28 (0.86%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 225 (6.92%) Cloud Native
2 162 (4.98%) Product Ownership
3 128 (3.93%) Data Structures
4 101 (3.10%) Onboarding
5 99 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
6 67 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
7 63 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
8 47 (1.44%) Algorithms
8 47 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
9 43 (1.32%) AI Agents
9 43 (1.32%) Management Information System
10 41 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
11 39 (1.20%) NHS
12 38 (1.17%) Public Cloud
13 35 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
13 35 (1.08%) Mobile App
14 33 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
15 30 (0.92%) Virtual Team
16 27 (0.83%) Derivative
16 27 (0.83%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 88 (2.71%) Windows
2 76 (2.34%) Linux
3 39 (1.20%) Unix
4 24 (0.74%) Mac OS
5 23 (0.71%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.49%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.34%) Android
8 8 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.15%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.092%) CentOS
10 3 (0.092%) VMS
10 3 (0.092%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.031%) Rocky
11 1 (0.031%) Solaris
11 1 (0.031%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 905 (27.82%) Data Modelling
2 897 (27.57%) Business Intelligence
3 779 (23.95%) AI
4 705 (21.67%) Agile
5 687 (21.12%) Data Pipeline
6 676 (20.78%) Data Engineering
7 663 (20.38%) CI/CD
8 568 (17.46%) ETL
9 544 (16.72%) DevOps
10 532 (16.35%) Decision-Making
11 506 (15.55%) Data Governance
12 505 (15.52%) Stakeholder Management
13 502 (15.43%) Problem-Solving
14 396 (12.17%) Machine Learning
15 394 (12.11%) Data Science
16 383 (11.77%) Migration
17 377 (11.59%) Data Analytics
18 371 (11.40%) Continuous Improvement
19 357 (10.97%) Validation
20 352 (10.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,098 (33.75%) SQL
2 978 (30.06%) Python
3 132 (4.06%) Java
4 113 (3.47%) PowerShell
5 103 (3.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 84 (2.58%) C#
7 67 (2.06%) Bicep
7 67 (2.06%) R
8 57 (1.75%) JavaScript
9 43 (1.32%) Scala
9 43 (1.32%) T-SQL
10 41 (1.26%) TypeScript
11 38 (1.17%) Kusto Query Language
12 34 (1.05%) Bash
12 34 (1.05%) Shell Script
13 26 (0.80%) PL/SQL
14 20 (0.61%) VBA
15 19 (0.58%) C++
16 11 (0.34%) Korn
17 10 (0.31%) Swift
Qualifications
1 557 (17.12%) Security Cleared
2 442 (13.59%) SC Cleared
3 253 (7.78%) Degree
4 76 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 73 (2.24%) Azure Certification
6 72 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
7 56 (1.72%) DV Cleared
8 42 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
9 38 (1.17%) Master's Degree
10 30 (0.92%) CISSP
11 27 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
12 24 (0.74%) PMI Certification
13 22 (0.68%) AWS Certification
14 20 (0.61%) PMP
15 19 (0.58%) DBS Check
16 18 (0.55%) CCNP
17 15 (0.46%) CCIE
18 10 (0.31%) CISM
18 10 (0.31%) SnowPro
19 9 (0.28%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 621 (19.09%) Data Quality
2 159 (4.89%) GDPR
3 125 (3.84%) QA
4 103 (3.17%) Accessibility
5 44 (1.35%) WCAG
6 37 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 35 (1.08%) NIST
8 30 (0.92%) PMO
9 21 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
10 20 (0.61%) GRC
11 16 (0.49%) Solvency II
12 15 (0.46%) SLA
13 14 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 12 (0.37%) IFRS
15 11 (0.34%) NCSC
16 9 (0.28%) PCI DSS
17 8 (0.25%) GAAP
18 7 (0.22%) ISO 20022
18 7 (0.22%) PERC
19 6 (0.18%) HL7
System Software
1 158 (4.86%) Docker
2 73 (2.24%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
3 20 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.22%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.12%) HDFS
5 4 (0.12%) Snort
5 4 (0.12%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.031%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.031%) GPFS
6 1 (0.031%) iptables
6 1 (0.031%) Lustre
6 1 (0.031%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.031%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.031%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 245 (7.53%) Terraform
2 172 (5.29%) Kubernetes
3 32 (0.98%) Ansible
3 32 (0.98%) Grafana
4 31 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
5 28 (0.86%) Prometheus
6 21 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.25%) FortiGate
7 8 (0.25%) SCCM
8 6 (0.18%) Control-M
9 5 (0.15%) Argo
10 4 (0.12%) CSIRT
11 3 (0.092%) Nagios
11 3 (0.092%) Puppet
11 3 (0.092%) QRadar
12 2 (0.061%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.061%) Nessus
12 2 (0.061%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.061%) Rancher
12 2 (0.061%) SCOM
Vendors
1 569 (17.49%) Microsoft
2 440 (13.53%) Databricks
3 171 (5.26%) Oracle
4 163 (5.01%) SAP
5 148 (4.55%) Google
6 73 (2.24%) Salesforce
7 68 (2.09%) ServiceNow
8 59 (1.81%) Adobe
9 55 (1.69%) Informatica
10 51 (1.57%) Splunk
11 48 (1.48%) Foundry
12 45 (1.38%) Talend
13 42 (1.29%) OpenAI
13 42 (1.29%) Workday
14 37 (1.14%) Denodo
15 34 (1.05%) Palantir
16 31 (0.95%) Dynatrace
17 23 (0.71%) Cisco
18 22 (0.68%) IBM
18 22 (0.68%) VMware