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 3 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 38
Rank change year-on-year +2 +11 -2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,997 1,688 1,760
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.40% 6.92% 4.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.72% 7.59% 5.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,067 1,146 1,212
10th Percentile £356 £348 £353
25th Percentile £425 £450 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -
75th Percentile £625 £688 £680
90th Percentile £750 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 30 46
10th Percentile £21.11 £15.28 £14.50
25th Percentile £45.25 £21.69 £25.00
Median hourly rate £59.45 £31.49 £32.94
Median % change year-on-year +88.77% -4.38% +2.92%
75th Percentile £75.00 £36.13 £47.50
90th Percentile £82.25 £78.93 £70.63
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £31.64 £30.37
% change year-on-year +81.73% +4.18% -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 34,370 22,228 32,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.91% 91.19% 86.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,972 14,556 21,057
10th Percentile £316 £309 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,137 921 2,257
10th Percentile £15.34 £14.70 £12.97
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -16.67% -3.59%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year +43.29% -18.31% -1.39%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 3 May 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 1,640 £540 -10.00% 1,057
Midlands +16 356 £492 -1.57% 232
North of England +7 324 £475 +2.70% 344
West Midlands +18 264 £492 -3.98% 123
South East -6 256 £500 - 417
South West +29 195 £500 +5.26% 121
North West +1 171 £498 +7.57% 207
Yorkshire +8 132 £475 - 93
East of England -9 117 £525 -12.50% 95
East Midlands +4 86 £473 +31.98% 109
North East 0 32 £450 +25.70% 47
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 (5.27%) Apache Spark
2 106 (3.54%) Apache Airflow
3 91 (3.04%) SAS
4 84 (2.80%) Apache
5 76 (2.54%) Confluence
6 47 (1.57%) SharePoint
7 28 (0.93%) CMS
8 17 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 16 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
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 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
18 2 (0.067%) GeoServer
Applications
1 130 (4.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 29 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (0.70%) Chatbot
4 21 (0.70%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.20%) CPLEX
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
8 4 (0.13%) Trello
9 3 (0.10%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.10%) Notion
9 3 (0.10%) Sketch
10 2 (0.067%) Autodesk Smoke
10 2 (0.067%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.033%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.033%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.033%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.033%) InDesign
11 1 (0.033%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 61 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (0.60%) 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
1 941 (31.40%) Azure
2 660 (22.02%) Power Platform
3 613 (20.45%) AWS
4 295 (9.84%) GCP
5 245 (8.17%) Azure Data Factory
6 205 (6.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 201 (6.71%) Azure DevOps
8 175 (5.84%) Snowflake
9 169 (5.64%) GitHub
10 133 (4.44%) Amazon S3
11 132 (4.40%) Serverless
12 128 (4.27%) dbt
13 109 (3.64%) Azure Monitor
14 94 (3.14%) GitHub Actions
15 93 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
16 78 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
17 77 (2.57%) SaaS
18 76 (2.54%) Entra ID
19 64 (2.14%) Azure Key Vault
20 59 (1.97%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 44 (1.47%) Firewall
2 31 (1.03%) Network Security
3 23 (0.77%) DNS
3 23 (0.77%) VPN
4 14 (0.47%) SD-WAN
5 13 (0.43%) 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
9 6 (0.20%) DHCP
9 6 (0.20%) SMTP
9 6 (0.20%) VXLAN
10 5 (0.17%) LAN
10 5 (0.17%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 613 (20.45%) Power BI
2 396 (13.21%) Data Warehouse
3 243 (8.11%) Data Lake
4 212 (7.07%) Tableau
5 180 (6.01%) Metadata
6 110 (3.67%) Delta Lake
7 109 (3.64%) BigQuery
8 106 (3.54%) SQL Server
9 93 (3.10%) Big Data
10 77 (2.57%) Amazon Redshift
11 73 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
11 73 (2.44%) Relational Database
12 70 (2.34%) NoSQL
13 67 (2.24%) Amazon Athena
13 67 (2.24%) Snowflake Schema
14 59 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
15 58 (1.94%) Looker
16 57 (1.90%) Power Query
17 55 (1.84%) Star Schema
18 54 (1.80%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 180 (6.01%) Git
2 179 (5.97%) JIRA
3 67 (2.24%) Jenkins
4 64 (2.14%) GitLab
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
1 789 (26.33%) Social Skills
2 758 (25.29%) Finance
3 535 (17.85%) Analytical Skills
4 313 (10.44%) Public Sector
5 193 (6.44%) Banking
6 164 (5.47%) Marketing
7 93 (3.10%) Retail
8 82 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
9 56 (1.87%) Legal
10 51 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
10 51 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
11 49 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 47 (1.57%) Telecoms
13 46 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
13 46 (1.53%) Investment Banking
14 43 (1.43%) Front Office
15 39 (1.30%) Manufacturing
16 36 (1.20%) Financial Institution
17 23 (0.77%) Military
18 22 (0.73%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 574 (19.15%) Data Engineer
2 360 (12.01%) Analyst
3 359 (11.98%) Senior
4 355 (11.85%) Architect
5 336 (11.21%) Developer
6 260 (8.68%) Lead
7 153 (5.11%) Data Architect
8 146 (4.87%) Data Analyst
9 121 (4.04%) Consultant
10 106 (3.54%) Azure Engineer
11 103 (3.44%) Business Analyst
12 98 (3.27%) Data Scientist
13 97 (3.24%) Senior Data Engineer
14 85 (2.84%) Solutions Architect
15 69 (2.30%) Project Manager
16 60 (2.00%) Designer
17 59 (1.97%) Data Manager
18 52 (1.74%) Business Intelligence Developer
19 50 (1.67%) Python Developer
19 50 (1.67%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (5.94%) PySpark
2 147 (4.90%) Kafka
3 123 (4.10%) REST
4 68 (2.27%) Pandas
5 60 (2.00%) PyTorch
5 60 (2.00%) TensorFlow
6 59 (1.97%) React
7 56 (1.87%) JSON
8 47 (1.57%) HTML
9 45 (1.50%) CSS
10 44 (1.47%) scikit-learn
11 41 (1.37%) AngularJS
11 41 (1.37%) SOAP
12 40 (1.33%) .NET
12 40 (1.33%) NumPy
13 39 (1.30%) Node.js
14 35 (1.17%) Middleware
15 34 (1.13%) Oracle Fusion
16 32 (1.07%) RESTful
17 29 (0.97%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 200 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 137 (4.57%) Product Ownership
3 101 (3.37%) Data Structures
4 84 (2.80%) Onboarding
5 72 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
6 62 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
7 53 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
8 52 (1.74%) Algorithms
9 51 (1.70%) Management Information System
10 45 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
11 39 (1.30%) Public Cloud
12 36 (1.20%) AI Agents
12 36 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
13 34 (1.13%) NHS
14 32 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
15 31 (1.03%) Mobile App
16 30 (1.00%) Derivative
17 29 (0.97%) Equities
17 29 (0.97%) Fixed Income
17 29 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 86 (2.87%) Windows
2 79 (2.64%) Linux
3 33 (1.10%) 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 6 (0.20%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.10%) CentOS
11 2 (0.067%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.067%) zOS
12 1 (0.033%) Rocky
12 1 (0.033%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 834 (27.83%) Business Intelligence
2 818 (27.29%) Data Modelling
3 667 (22.26%) AI
4 663 (22.12%) Agile
5 625 (20.85%) Data Pipeline
6 605 (20.19%) CI/CD
7 596 (19.89%) Data Engineering
8 583 (19.45%) ETL
9 517 (17.25%) Problem-Solving
10 512 (17.08%) DevOps
11 505 (16.85%) Data Governance
12 484 (16.15%) Decision-Making
13 388 (12.95%) Stakeholder Management
14 372 (12.41%) Machine Learning
15 364 (12.15%) Data Science
16 340 (11.34%) Data Analytics
17 339 (11.31%) Continuous Improvement
18 325 (10.84%) Migration
19 298 (9.94%) Validation
20 290 (9.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,033 (34.47%) SQL
2 949 (31.66%) Python
3 145 (4.84%) Java
4 115 (3.84%) PowerShell
5 101 (3.37%) C#
6 96 (3.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 84 (2.80%) R
8 74 (2.47%) JavaScript
9 72 (2.40%) Bicep
10 45 (1.50%) Kusto Query Language
10 45 (1.50%) T-SQL
11 44 (1.47%) TypeScript
12 43 (1.43%) Scala
13 41 (1.37%) Bash
14 27 (0.90%) C++
15 26 (0.87%) Shell Script
16 25 (0.83%) PL/SQL
17 22 (0.73%) VBA
18 10 (0.33%) Kotlin
19 8 (0.27%) Korn
Qualifications
1 524 (17.48%) Security Cleared
2 413 (13.78%) SC Cleared
3 232 (7.74%) Degree
4 68 (2.27%) Azure Certification
4 68 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 53 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
6 45 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 42 (1.40%) DV Cleared
8 37 (1.23%) Master's Degree
9 27 (0.90%) PMI Certification
10 23 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
10 23 (0.77%) CISSP
11 22 (0.73%) PMP
12 17 (0.57%) AWS Certification
13 16 (0.53%) CCNP
14 14 (0.47%) PhD
15 13 (0.43%) CISM
15 13 (0.43%) IIBA
16 12 (0.40%) CCIE
17 8 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 545 (18.18%) Data Quality
2 159 (5.31%) GDPR
3 125 (4.17%) QA
4 99 (3.30%) Accessibility
5 37 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 35 (1.17%) WCAG
7 29 (0.97%) 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 12 (0.40%) PERC
12 11 (0.37%) Solvency II
13 10 (0.33%) NCSC
14 9 (0.30%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.27%) HL7
15 8 (0.27%) ISO 20022
16 7 (0.23%) NIST 800
17 6 (0.20%) IFRS
System Software
1 183 (6.11%) Docker
2 76 (2.54%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.67%) 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
1 250 (8.34%) Terraform
2 189 (6.31%) Kubernetes
3 41 (1.37%) Ansible
3 41 (1.37%) Grafana
4 37 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 31 (1.03%) Prometheus
6 20 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (0.50%) 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 (0.10%) Nagios
12 3 (0.10%) SysTrack
13 2 (0.067%) Apache Ranger
13 2 (0.067%) Nessus
13 2 (0.067%) SCOM
Vendors
1 550 (18.35%) Microsoft
2 402 (13.41%) Databricks
3 171 (5.71%) Google
4 157 (5.24%) Oracle
5 148 (4.94%) SAP
6 70 (2.34%) ServiceNow
7 69 (2.30%) Adobe
7 69 (2.30%) Salesforce
8 65 (2.17%) Informatica
9 53 (1.77%) Splunk
10 52 (1.74%) Talend
11 44 (1.47%) OpenAI
12 41 (1.37%) Denodo
13 38 (1.27%) Foundry
14 36 (1.20%) Workday
15 24 (0.80%) IBM
16 21 (0.70%) VMware
17 19 (0.63%) Dynatrace
18 16 (0.53%) Cisco
19 14 (0.47%) Ariba