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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 27 38
Rank change year-on-year +3 +11 -3
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,001 1,680 1,764
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.44% 6.91% 4.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.76% 7.57% 5.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,063 1,144 1,210
10th Percentile £356 £346 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -
75th Percentile £625 £688 £683
90th Percentile £750 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 32 48
10th Percentile £21.34 £15.60 £14.90
25th Percentile £45.25 £22.56 £25.00
Median hourly rate £58.90 £31.64 £32.94
Median % change year-on-year +86.14% -3.93% +6.24%
75th Percentile £75.00 £37.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £78.58 £74.38
UK median hourly rate £57.40 £31.85 £30.37
% change year-on-year +80.25% +4.86% -5.09%

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 34,270 22,183 32,209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.00% 91.18% 86.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,910 14,537 21,121
10th Percentile £318 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,134 920 2,242
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.75 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.38 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £35.68
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -15.92% -4.85%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.35 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £29.07 £35.00
% change year-on-year +42.95% -16.94% -6.17%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 30 April 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 1,650 £540 -10.00% 714
Midlands +20 354 £492 -1.65% 176
North of England +8 324 £476 +2.81% 262
West Midlands +17 262 £492 -3.98% 113
South East -3 255 £500 +3.73% 358
South West +25 193 £500 +5.26% 96
North West +1 172 £500 +8.11% 162
Yorkshire +7 131 £475 - 63
East of England -6 118 £525 -12.50% 67
East Midlands +6 86 £473 +31.98% 63
North East +3 31 £450 +25.70% 41
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
1 159 (5.30%) Apache Spark
2 110 (3.67%) Apache Airflow
3 91 (3.03%) SAS
4 85 (2.83%) Apache
5 75 (2.50%) Confluence
6 47 (1.57%) SharePoint
7 29 (0.97%) CMS
8 18 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
9 17 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 15 (0.50%) Jupyter
11 14 (0.47%) Oracle Application Server
12 10 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
13 9 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
14 8 (0.27%) Apache Superset
15 6 (0.20%) ArcGIS
15 6 (0.20%) WordPress
16 5 (0.17%) Drupal
16 5 (0.17%) IIS
17 3 (0.100%) Oracle SOA Suite
18 2 (0.067%) GeoServer
Applications
1 129 (4.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 21 (0.70%) Chatbot
3 21 (0.70%) MS Visio
4 14 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
5 9 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.20%) CPLEX
7 4 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
7 4 (0.13%) Trello
8 3 (0.100%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.100%) Notion
8 3 (0.100%) Sketch
9 2 (0.067%) Autodesk Smoke
9 2 (0.067%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.033%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.033%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.033%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.033%) InDesign
10 1 (0.033%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 63 (2.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.27%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 7 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
5 6 (0.20%) Maximo
5 6 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
5 6 (0.20%) Sage X3
6 5 (0.17%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.17%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.17%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 4 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
7 4 (0.13%) iTrent
7 4 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
7 4 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.13%) SAP BPC
7 4 (0.13%) Shopify
7 4 (0.13%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 938 (31.26%) Azure
2 661 (22.03%) Power Platform
3 619 (20.63%) AWS
4 298 (9.93%) GCP
5 242 (8.06%) Azure Data Factory
6 205 (6.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 202 (6.73%) Azure DevOps
8 181 (6.03%) Snowflake
9 171 (5.70%) GitHub
10 136 (4.53%) Amazon S3
11 135 (4.50%) Serverless
12 130 (4.33%) dbt
13 109 (3.63%) Azure Monitor
14 95 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
15 92 (3.07%) Microsoft 365
16 82 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
17 77 (2.57%) SaaS
18 76 (2.53%) Entra ID
19 65 (2.17%) Azure Key Vault
20 59 (1.97%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 46 (1.53%) Firewall
2 33 (1.10%) Network Security
3 26 (0.87%) VPN
4 23 (0.77%) DNS
5 14 (0.47%) SD-WAN
5 14 (0.47%) WAN
6 12 (0.40%) HTTP
6 12 (0.40%) SMS
7 8 (0.27%) FTP
7 8 (0.27%) MPLS
8 7 (0.23%) 5G
8 7 (0.23%) BGP
8 7 (0.23%) OSPF
8 7 (0.23%) SSL
8 7 (0.23%) TCP/IP
8 7 (0.23%) VXLAN
9 6 (0.20%) DHCP
9 6 (0.20%) Internet
9 6 (0.20%) LAN
9 6 (0.20%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 613 (20.43%) Power BI
2 395 (13.16%) Data Warehouse
3 242 (8.06%) Data Lake
4 213 (7.10%) Tableau
5 183 (6.10%) Metadata
6 110 (3.67%) Delta Lake
7 108 (3.60%) BigQuery
8 105 (3.50%) SQL Server
9 93 (3.10%) Big Data
10 80 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
11 73 (2.43%) Azure SQL Database
12 71 (2.37%) Relational Database
12 71 (2.37%) Snowflake Schema
13 68 (2.27%) NoSQL
14 67 (2.23%) Amazon Athena
15 59 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
16 58 (1.93%) Looker
17 56 (1.87%) Power Query
17 56 (1.87%) Star Schema
18 54 (1.80%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 180 (6.00%) Git
2 177 (5.90%) JIRA
3 70 (2.33%) GitLab
4 67 (2.23%) Jenkins
5 20 (0.67%) ERwin
6 15 (0.50%) MLflow
7 12 (0.40%) Selenium
8 8 (0.27%) MSI
8 8 (0.27%) PowerDesigner
9 7 (0.23%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.23%) ER Studio
9 7 (0.23%) Gradle
9 7 (0.23%) JUnit
9 7 (0.23%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.20%) Android Studio
10 6 (0.20%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.17%) Postman
11 5 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 5 (0.17%) XCTest
12 4 (0.13%) TeamCity
General
1 800 (26.66%) Social Skills
2 764 (25.46%) Finance
3 542 (18.06%) Analytical Skills
4 311 (10.36%) Public Sector
5 194 (6.46%) Banking
6 166 (5.53%) Marketing
7 92 (3.07%) Retail
8 84 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
9 56 (1.87%) Legal
10 51 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
11 50 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
12 49 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 48 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
14 47 (1.57%) Telecoms
15 46 (1.53%) Investment Banking
16 43 (1.43%) Front Office
17 40 (1.33%) Manufacturing
18 34 (1.13%) Financial Institution
19 24 (0.80%) Military
20 21 (0.70%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 572 (19.06%) Data Engineer
2 359 (11.96%) Senior
3 357 (11.90%) Analyst
4 352 (11.73%) Architect
5 335 (11.16%) Developer
6 261 (8.70%) Lead
7 149 (4.97%) Data Architect
8 145 (4.83%) Data Analyst
9 122 (4.07%) Consultant
10 105 (3.50%) Azure Engineer
11 101 (3.37%) Business Analyst
12 99 (3.30%) Data Scientist
13 97 (3.23%) Senior Data Engineer
14 86 (2.87%) Solutions Architect
15 65 (2.17%) Project Manager
16 60 (2.00%) Designer
17 59 (1.97%) Data Manager
18 52 (1.73%) Business Intelligence Developer
19 50 (1.67%) Python Developer
19 50 (1.67%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (5.96%) PySpark
2 149 (4.97%) Kafka
3 125 (4.17%) REST
4 69 (2.30%) Pandas
5 60 (2.00%) PyTorch
5 60 (2.00%) TensorFlow
6 59 (1.97%) React
7 54 (1.80%) JSON
8 46 (1.53%) HTML
9 44 (1.47%) CSS
9 44 (1.47%) scikit-learn
10 42 (1.40%) NumPy
10 42 (1.40%) SOAP
11 41 (1.37%) AngularJS
12 39 (1.30%) .NET
12 39 (1.30%) Node.js
13 35 (1.17%) Middleware
14 34 (1.13%) Oracle Fusion
15 32 (1.07%) RESTful
16 29 (0.97%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 199 (6.63%) Cloud Native
2 134 (4.47%) Product Ownership
3 100 (3.33%) Data Structures
4 86 (2.87%) Onboarding
5 72 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
6 61 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
7 55 (1.83%) Management Information System
8 54 (1.80%) Algorithms
9 53 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
10 46 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
11 39 (1.30%) Public Cloud
12 36 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
13 34 (1.13%) AI Agents
14 33 (1.10%) NHS
15 31 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
15 31 (1.03%) Mobile App
16 30 (1.00%) Equities
16 30 (1.00%) Marketing Technology
17 29 (0.97%) Derivative
17 29 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 87 (2.90%) Windows
2 79 (2.63%) Linux
3 34 (1.13%) Unix
4 32 (1.07%) Mac OS
5 20 (0.67%) Apple iOS
6 14 (0.47%) Android
7 12 (0.40%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.23%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.100%) CentOS
11 2 (0.067%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.067%) zOS
12 1 (0.033%) Rocky
12 1 (0.033%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 832 (27.72%) Business Intelligence
2 822 (27.39%) Data Modelling
3 667 (22.23%) AI
4 665 (22.16%) Agile
5 627 (20.89%) Data Pipeline
6 610 (20.33%) CI/CD
7 597 (19.89%) Data Engineering
8 580 (19.33%) ETL
9 525 (17.49%) Problem-Solving
10 516 (17.19%) DevOps
11 515 (17.16%) Data Governance
12 483 (16.09%) Decision-Making
13 388 (12.93%) Stakeholder Management
14 374 (12.46%) Machine Learning
15 371 (12.36%) Data Science
16 341 (11.36%) Data Analytics
17 335 (11.16%) Continuous Improvement
18 327 (10.90%) Migration
19 299 (9.96%) Validation
20 287 (9.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,033 (34.42%) SQL
2 952 (31.72%) Python
3 145 (4.83%) Java
4 115 (3.83%) PowerShell
5 100 (3.33%) C#
6 97 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 82 (2.73%) R
8 74 (2.47%) JavaScript
9 72 (2.40%) Bicep
10 46 (1.53%) Kusto Query Language
11 45 (1.50%) T-SQL
12 44 (1.47%) TypeScript
13 42 (1.40%) Scala
14 40 (1.33%) Bash
15 26 (0.87%) C++
15 26 (0.87%) Shell Script
16 25 (0.83%) PL/SQL
17 23 (0.77%) VBA
18 10 (0.33%) Kotlin
19 9 (0.30%) Korn
Qualifications
1 527 (17.56%) Security Cleared
2 416 (13.86%) SC Cleared
3 244 (8.13%) Degree
4 71 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 68 (2.27%) Azure Certification
6 53 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
7 44 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
8 41 (1.37%) DV Cleared
9 38 (1.27%) Master's Degree
10 27 (0.90%) PMI Certification
11 26 (0.87%) CISSP
12 23 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
13 22 (0.73%) PMP
14 20 (0.67%) AWS Certification
15 16 (0.53%) CCNP
15 16 (0.53%) CISM
16 14 (0.47%) PhD
17 13 (0.43%) IIBA
18 12 (0.40%) CCIE
19 8 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 544 (18.13%) Data Quality
2 162 (5.40%) GDPR
3 125 (4.17%) QA
4 97 (3.23%) Accessibility
5 39 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 35 (1.17%) WCAG
7 31 (1.03%) NIST
8 26 (0.87%) PMO
9 21 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
10 14 (0.47%) GRC
10 14 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 14 (0.47%) SLA
11 13 (0.43%) Solvency II
12 12 (0.40%) PERC
13 10 (0.33%) NCSC
14 8 (0.27%) HL7
14 8 (0.27%) ISO 20022
14 8 (0.27%) PCI DSS
15 7 (0.23%) NIST 800
16 6 (0.20%) IFRS
System Software
1 184 (6.13%) Docker
2 75 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 21 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.13%) HDFS
6 4 (0.13%) Snort
6 4 (0.13%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.067%) GPFS
7 2 (0.067%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.067%) Lustre
7 2 (0.067%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.033%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.033%) iptables
8 1 (0.033%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.033%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.033%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 251 (8.36%) Terraform
2 193 (6.43%) Kubernetes
3 40 (1.33%) Ansible
3 40 (1.33%) Grafana
4 37 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 31 (1.03%) Prometheus
6 20 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (0.53%) SCCM
8 9 (0.30%) Puppet
9 6 (0.20%) Kibana
10 5 (0.17%) Argo
11 4 (0.13%) Control-M
11 4 (0.13%) CSIRT
11 4 (0.13%) logstash
11 4 (0.13%) WSUS
12 3 (0.100%) Fluentd
12 3 (0.100%) Nagios
12 3 (0.100%) SCOM
12 3 (0.100%) SysTrack
13 2 (0.067%) Apache Ranger
Vendors
1 547 (18.23%) Microsoft
2 398 (13.26%) Databricks
3 172 (5.73%) Google
4 155 (5.16%) Oracle
5 149 (4.97%) SAP
6 71 (2.37%) ServiceNow
7 69 (2.30%) Adobe
7 69 (2.30%) Salesforce
8 65 (2.17%) Informatica
9 57 (1.90%) Splunk
10 49 (1.63%) Talend
11 44 (1.47%) OpenAI
12 41 (1.37%) Denodo
13 37 (1.23%) Foundry
13 37 (1.23%) Workday
14 24 (0.80%) IBM
15 22 (0.73%) VMware
16 19 (0.63%) Dynatrace
17 15 (0.50%) Cisco
18 14 (0.47%) Ariba