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

 6 months to
5 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 29 38
Rank change year-on-year +6 +9 -2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,185 1,735 1,933
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.01% 5.65% 5.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.84% 6.43% 5.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,466 1,151 1,335
10th Percentile £358 £356 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% -3.51% -0.87%
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 27,877 26,975 33,843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.47% 87.88% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,778 16,586 23,069
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £649 £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 1,797 956 1,438
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.24 £14.72
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.23 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.04 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.21% -22.94% +21.43%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 1,284 £525 -12.50% 920
North of England +9 247 £475 -5.00% 837
Midlands +17 237 £515 +3.00% 665
West Midlands +14 190 £515 +3.00% 344
North West +16 156 £500 +0.39% 451
South East -11 144 £508 +0.50% 1,186
South West +24 94 £510 -11.30% 404
East of England +4 85 £553 +5.24% 498
Yorkshire +10 82 £475 -9.52% 309
East Midlands +12 49 £447 -3.35% 289
North East -2 10 £378 -19.08% 84
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 96 (4.39%) Apache Airflow
1 96 (4.39%) SAS
2 75 (3.43%) Apache
2 75 (3.43%) Apache Spark
3 44 (2.01%) Confluence
4 42 (1.92%) SharePoint
5 39 (1.78%) CMS
6 16 (0.73%) WebLogic
7 15 (0.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 11 (0.50%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.37%) Oracle Application Server
9 8 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 8 (0.37%) WordPress
10 7 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.27%) GeoServer
11 6 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
11 6 (0.27%) Smallworld
12 3 (0.14%) Apache Superset
12 3 (0.14%) Drupal
12 3 (0.14%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 139 (6.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (1.46%) MS Visio
5 24 (1.10%) Chatbot
6 14 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.14%) Notion
8 3 (0.14%) Sketch
8 3 (0.14%) Trello
9 1 (0.046%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.046%) Autodesk Smoke
9 1 (0.046%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.046%) CapCut
9 1 (0.046%) FrameMaker
9 1 (0.046%) Simulink
9 1 (0.046%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 72 (3.30%) 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%) NEC Housing
10 3 (0.14%) SAP BPC
10 3 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 675 (30.89%) Azure
2 463 (21.19%) Power Platform
3 453 (20.73%) AWS
4 216 (9.89%) GCP
5 148 (6.77%) Snowflake
6 133 (6.09%) Azure DevOps
7 129 (5.90%) Azure Data Factory
8 116 (5.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 104 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
9 104 (4.76%) Serverless
10 100 (4.58%) GitHub
11 89 (4.07%) SaaS
12 72 (3.30%) dbt
13 71 (3.25%) Amazon S3
13 71 (3.25%) Entra ID
13 71 (3.25%) GitHub Actions
14 66 (3.02%) Microsoft 365
15 61 (2.79%) Google Analytics
16 59 (2.70%) Azure Logic Apps
17 53 (2.43%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 48 (2.20%) Firewall
2 34 (1.56%) 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%) MPLS
12 4 (0.18%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 434 (19.86%) Power BI
2 240 (10.98%) Data Warehouse
3 157 (7.19%) Tableau
4 136 (6.22%) Data Lake
5 119 (5.45%) Metadata
6 70 (3.20%) BigQuery
7 63 (2.88%) Big Data
8 59 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
9 50 (2.29%) Relational Database
9 50 (2.29%) SQL Server
10 48 (2.20%) Looker
11 46 (2.11%) Power Query
11 46 (2.11%) Snowflake Schema
12 43 (1.97%) Azure SQL Database
13 41 (1.88%) Hadoop
14 40 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
15 39 (1.78%) Delta Lake
16 35 (1.60%) NoSQL
16 35 (1.60%) Pentaho
17 33 (1.51%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 166 (7.60%) Git
2 143 (6.54%) JIRA
3 82 (3.75%) Jenkins
4 53 (2.43%) GitLab
5 22 (1.01%) Selenium
6 18 (0.82%) JUnit
7 15 (0.69%) ERwin
8 12 (0.55%) MLflow
9 11 (0.50%) PowerDesigner
10 9 (0.41%) Android Studio
10 9 (0.41%) ER Studio
10 9 (0.41%) Postman
10 9 (0.41%) SonarQube
10 9 (0.41%) Visual Website Optimizer
11 8 (0.37%) DBeaver
11 8 (0.37%) Gradle
12 7 (0.32%) TeamCity
12 7 (0.32%) Xcode
13 6 (0.27%) PVCS
13 6 (0.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 783 (35.84%) Social Skills
2 626 (28.65%) Finance
3 466 (21.33%) Analytical Skills
4 217 (9.93%) Banking
5 185 (8.47%) Public Sector
6 172 (7.87%) Marketing
7 74 (3.39%) Front Office
8 71 (3.25%) Retail
9 58 (2.65%) Investment Banking
10 54 (2.47%) Legal
10 54 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
11 48 (2.20%) 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
1 353 (16.16%) Analyst
2 290 (13.27%) Developer
3 238 (10.89%) Senior
4 233 (10.66%) Data Engineer
5 218 (9.98%) Architect
6 134 (6.13%) Lead
7 131 (6.00%) Data Analyst
8 127 (5.81%) Business Analyst
9 122 (5.58%) Consultant
10 76 (3.48%) Data Architect
11 74 (3.39%) Data Scientist
12 70 (3.20%) Azure Engineer
13 66 (3.02%) Senior Developer
14 51 (2.33%) Project Manager
15 42 (1.92%) Senior Analyst
16 39 (1.78%) Python Developer
17 38 (1.74%) SAP Consultant
17 38 (1.74%) Solutions Architect
18 33 (1.51%) Data Modeller
18 33 (1.51%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (5.08%) REST
2 89 (4.07%) Kafka
3 80 (3.66%) PySpark
4 52 (2.38%) Pandas
5 51 (2.33%) React
6 45 (2.06%) RESTful
7 44 (2.01%) SOAP
8 43 (1.97%) Node.js
9 42 (1.92%) NumPy
10 40 (1.83%) .NET
11 37 (1.69%) HTML
11 37 (1.69%) TensorFlow
12 34 (1.56%) scikit-learn
13 33 (1.51%) PyTorch
14 32 (1.46%) AngularJS
15 29 (1.33%) CSS
16 27 (1.24%) OAuth
17 25 (1.14%) pytest
18 24 (1.10%) ARM Templates
18 24 (1.10%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 105 (4.81%) Product Ownership
2 84 (3.84%) Cloud Native
3 70 (3.20%) Data Structures
4 66 (3.02%) Onboarding
5 59 (2.70%) Algorithms
6 56 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
6 56 (2.56%) Management Information System
7 54 (2.47%) Analytical Mindset
8 49 (2.24%) Derivative
9 43 (1.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 41 (1.88%) Equities
10 41 (1.88%) Mobile App
11 39 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
12 33 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
13 31 (1.42%) Fixed Income
14 30 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
15 29 (1.33%) Virtual Team
16 27 (1.24%) Social Media
17 25 (1.14%) Life Science
18 24 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 70 (3.20%) Linux
2 69 (3.16%) Windows
3 28 (1.28%) Unix
4 20 (0.92%) Apple iOS
5 19 (0.87%) Android
6 14 (0.64%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.27%) VMS
7 6 (0.27%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.092%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.046%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.046%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.046%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 586 (26.82%) Business Intelligence
2 565 (25.86%) Agile
3 493 (22.56%) Problem-Solving
4 479 (21.92%) Data Modelling
5 401 (18.35%) CI/CD
6 373 (17.07%) DevOps
7 356 (16.29%) ETL
8 350 (16.02%) AI
9 329 (15.06%) Decision-Making
10 327 (14.97%) Data Pipeline
11 320 (14.65%) Data Governance
12 299 (13.68%) Data Analytics
13 292 (13.36%) Stakeholder Management
14 284 (13.00%) Data Science
15 281 (12.86%) Visualisation
16 273 (12.49%) Machine Learning
17 252 (11.53%) Data Engineering
18 245 (11.21%) Continuous Improvement
19 243 (11.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 238 (10.89%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 739 (33.82%) SQL
2 675 (30.89%) Python
3 133 (6.09%) Java
4 102 (4.67%) JavaScript
5 89 (4.07%) PowerShell
6 70 (3.20%) R
7 61 (2.79%) C#
8 48 (2.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 48 (2.20%) TypeScript
9 47 (2.15%) Bash
10 42 (1.92%) Bicep
11 37 (1.69%) Kusto Query Language
12 30 (1.37%) C++
12 30 (1.37%) Scala
13 28 (1.28%) VBA
14 24 (1.10%) T-SQL
15 17 (0.78%) PL/SQL
16 16 (0.73%) ABAP
17 13 (0.59%) Swift
18 12 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 344 (15.74%) Security Cleared
2 289 (13.23%) SC Cleared
3 226 (10.34%) Degree
4 69 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 58 (2.65%) Master's Degree
6 41 (1.88%) 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 (0.92%) PMI Certification
12 19 (0.87%) DV Cleared
13 16 (0.73%) CISM
14 15 (0.69%) PMP
15 11 (0.50%) CBAP
16 10 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
16 10 (0.46%) PhD
17 7 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 6 (0.27%) GIAC
18 6 (0.27%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 319 (14.60%) Data Quality
2 123 (5.63%) GDPR
3 80 (3.66%) Accessibility
4 76 (3.48%) QA
5 33 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 26 (1.19%) NIST
7 19 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
8 18 (0.82%) PMO
9 14 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 12 (0.55%) GRC
10 12 (0.55%) HIPAA
10 12 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 11 (0.50%) WCAG
12 10 (0.46%) NCSC
13 9 (0.41%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.37%) Solvency II
15 7 (0.32%) GxP
15 7 (0.32%) PERC
16 6 (0.27%) COBIT
16 6 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 158 (7.23%) Docker
2 57 (2.61%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.69%) 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 (0.092%) 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
1 160 (7.32%) Kubernetes
2 149 (6.82%) Terraform
3 33 (1.51%) Ansible
4 20 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
5 17 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
6 16 (0.73%) Grafana
7 13 (0.59%) SCCM
8 12 (0.55%) Puppet
9 10 (0.46%) Kibana
9 10 (0.46%) Prometheus
10 7 (0.32%) Hadoop YARN
11 6 (0.27%) logstash
11 6 (0.27%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.23%) Kubeflow
12 5 (0.23%) WSUS
13 4 (0.18%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.18%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 3 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.14%) Fluentd
14 3 (0.14%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 407 (18.63%) Microsoft
2 244 (11.17%) Databricks
3 163 (7.46%) Google
4 150 (6.86%) Oracle
5 134 (6.13%) SAP
6 75 (3.43%) ServiceNow
7 71 (3.25%) Salesforce
8 56 (2.56%) Adobe
9 50 (2.29%) Talend
10 45 (2.06%) Splunk
11 37 (1.69%) Denodo
12 33 (1.51%) Informatica
12 33 (1.51%) Workday
13 31 (1.42%) Cisco
14 27 (1.24%) Dynatrace
15 24 (1.10%) OpenAI
16 22 (1.01%) Alteryx
16 22 (1.01%) AppDynamics
16 22 (1.01%) Foundry
17 17 (0.78%) Amplitude
4,185 Analytics jobs in England