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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 26 39
Rank change year-on-year +3 +13 -4
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,969 1,682 1,734
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.51% 6.86% 4.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.81% 7.54% 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,040 1,136 1,194
10th Percentile £356 £339 £352
25th Percentile £424 £448 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -0.77%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £688
90th Percentile £750 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.77% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 31 48
10th Percentile £27.43 £15.28 £15.50
25th Percentile £45.25 £22.13 £25.00
Median hourly rate £60.25 £31.64 £32.94
Median % change year-on-year +90.42% -3.93% +2.92%
75th Percentile £75.00 £38.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £78.70 £74.38
UK median hourly rate £58.70 £31.64 £30.37
% change year-on-year +85.52% +4.18% -5.54%

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 33,718 22,322 32,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.24% 91.07% 86.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,550 14,669 21,082
10th Percentile £315 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £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 2,104 894 2,218
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.84 £12.85
25th Percentile £20.32 £18.51 £15.86
Median hourly rate £41.94 £31.64 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.55% -9.60% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67.25 £64.31 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.18 £72.33
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% -6.67%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 1,651 £540 -10.00% 989
Midlands +21 345 £493 +3.25% 223
North of England +14 331 £475 +2.70% 376
West Midlands +19 255 £493 -2.72% 118
South East -12 237 £500 +1.83% 435
South West +28 182 £500 +2.56% 125
North West +11 182 £495 +7.03% 235
Yorkshire +3 128 £475 - 102
East of England -5 117 £525 -12.50% 124
East Midlands +7 84 £450 +26.40% 105
North East +8 31 £450 +25.70% 44
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
1 155 (5.22%) Apache Spark
2 115 (3.87%) Apache Airflow
3 93 (3.13%) Apache
4 92 (3.10%) SAS
5 72 (2.43%) Confluence
6 50 (1.68%) SharePoint
7 27 (0.91%) CMS
8 18 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
9 17 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 15 (0.51%) Jupyter
11 11 (0.37%) Oracle Application Server
12 10 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
13 9 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
14 8 (0.27%) Apache Superset
15 6 (0.20%) ArcGIS
16 4 (0.13%) WordPress
17 3 (0.10%) Drupal
17 3 (0.10%) IIS
17 3 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
18 2 (0.067%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 132 (4.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (0.74%) Chatbot
4 21 (0.71%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.34%) 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 (0.034%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.034%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.034%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.034%) InDesign
11 1 (0.034%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 65 (2.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.30%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 9 (0.30%) SAP MM
4 8 (0.27%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 8 (0.27%) SAP FI
5 7 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.20%) Maximo
6 6 (0.20%) Sage X3
6 6 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.17%) Aladdin
7 5 (0.17%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.17%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.13%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 926 (31.19%) Azure
2 649 (21.86%) Power Platform
3 618 (20.82%) AWS
4 297 (10.00%) GCP
5 238 (8.02%) Azure Data Factory
6 210 (7.07%) Azure DevOps
7 204 (6.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 179 (6.03%) GitHub
9 177 (5.96%) Snowflake
10 140 (4.72%) Amazon S3
11 139 (4.68%) Serverless
12 127 (4.28%) dbt
13 116 (3.91%) Azure Monitor
14 103 (3.47%) GitHub Actions
15 98 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
16 83 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
17 77 (2.59%) SaaS
18 76 (2.56%) Entra ID
19 66 (2.22%) Azure Key Vault
20 60 (2.02%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 44 (1.48%) Firewall
2 34 (1.15%) Network Security
3 26 (0.88%) VPN
4 25 (0.84%) DNS
5 14 (0.47%) SD-WAN
6 13 (0.44%) WAN
7 12 (0.40%) SMS
8 11 (0.37%) HTTP
9 9 (0.30%) SSL
10 8 (0.27%) MPLS
11 7 (0.24%) 5G
11 7 (0.24%) BGP
11 7 (0.24%) DHCP
11 7 (0.24%) FTP
11 7 (0.24%) OSPF
11 7 (0.24%) TCP/IP
11 7 (0.24%) VXLAN
12 6 (0.20%) Internet
12 6 (0.20%) SMTP
13 5 (0.17%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 596 (20.07%) Power BI
2 384 (12.93%) Data Warehouse
3 237 (7.98%) Data Lake
4 208 (7.01%) Tableau
5 189 (6.37%) Metadata
6 110 (3.70%) Delta Lake
7 109 (3.67%) BigQuery
8 100 (3.37%) SQL Server
9 88 (2.96%) Big Data
10 78 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
11 75 (2.53%) Snowflake Schema
12 71 (2.39%) Azure SQL Database
13 70 (2.36%) Relational Database
14 69 (2.32%) NoSQL
15 65 (2.19%) Amazon Athena
16 61 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
17 59 (1.99%) Looker
18 57 (1.92%) Power Query
18 57 (1.92%) Star Schema
19 52 (1.75%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 175 (5.89%) Git
2 170 (5.73%) JIRA
3 72 (2.43%) Jenkins
4 65 (2.19%) GitLab
5 22 (0.74%) ERwin
6 16 (0.54%) MLflow
7 14 (0.47%) Selenium
8 9 (0.30%) JUnit
8 9 (0.30%) PowerDesigner
9 8 (0.27%) MSI
9 8 (0.27%) SonarQube
10 7 (0.24%) Bitbucket
10 7 (0.24%) ER Studio
10 7 (0.24%) Gradle
11 6 (0.20%) Android Studio
11 6 (0.20%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.17%) Postman
12 5 (0.17%) XCTest
13 4 (0.13%) JMeter
14 3 (0.10%) TeamCity
General
1 818 (27.55%) Social Skills
2 756 (25.46%) Finance
3 558 (18.79%) Analytical Skills
4 307 (10.34%) Public Sector
5 192 (6.47%) Banking
6 170 (5.73%) Marketing
7 86 (2.90%) Retail
8 80 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
9 52 (1.75%) Legal
10 50 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
11 49 (1.65%) Front Office
11 49 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 49 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
12 48 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
13 45 (1.52%) Telecoms
14 44 (1.48%) Investment Banking
15 40 (1.35%) Manufacturing
16 30 (1.01%) Financial Institution
17 24 (0.81%) Advertising
18 22 (0.74%) Military
Job Titles
1 558 (18.79%) Data Engineer
2 352 (11.86%) Analyst
3 351 (11.82%) Architect
4 342 (11.52%) Senior
5 331 (11.15%) Developer
6 262 (8.82%) Lead
7 148 (4.98%) Data Architect
8 142 (4.78%) Data Analyst
9 124 (4.18%) Consultant
10 110 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
11 100 (3.37%) Business Analyst
12 98 (3.30%) Data Scientist
13 90 (3.03%) Senior Data Engineer
14 84 (2.83%) Solutions Architect
15 63 (2.12%) Project Manager
16 58 (1.95%) Designer
17 55 (1.85%) Data Manager
18 52 (1.75%) Snowflake Engineer
19 49 (1.65%) Business Intelligence Developer
19 49 (1.65%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (5.89%) PySpark
2 153 (5.15%) Kafka
3 131 (4.41%) REST
4 71 (2.39%) Pandas
5 62 (2.09%) React
6 61 (2.05%) PyTorch
6 61 (2.05%) TensorFlow
7 55 (1.85%) JSON
8 47 (1.58%) NumPy
9 46 (1.55%) scikit-learn
10 45 (1.52%) AngularJS
11 44 (1.48%) HTML
11 44 (1.48%) Node.js
12 43 (1.45%) .NET
13 42 (1.41%) CSS
14 40 (1.35%) SOAP
15 36 (1.21%) Middleware
16 34 (1.15%) ARM Templates
16 34 (1.15%) Oracle Fusion
17 31 (1.04%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 193 (6.50%) Cloud Native
2 130 (4.38%) Product Ownership
3 94 (3.17%) Data Structures
4 82 (2.76%) Onboarding
5 72 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
6 59 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
7 54 (1.82%) Algorithms
8 53 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
8 53 (1.79%) Management Information System
9 49 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
10 39 (1.31%) Public Cloud
11 37 (1.25%) NHS
12 36 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
13 33 (1.11%) Equities
13 33 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 32 (1.08%) AI Agents
14 32 (1.08%) Marketing Technology
15 31 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
16 30 (1.01%) Mobile App
17 29 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 84 (2.83%) Windows
2 76 (2.56%) Linux
3 34 (1.15%) Unix
4 32 (1.08%) Mac OS
5 19 (0.64%) Apple iOS
6 14 (0.47%) Android
7 9 (0.30%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.24%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.067%) CentOS
10 2 (0.067%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.067%) zOS
11 1 (0.034%) Rocky
11 1 (0.034%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 818 (27.55%) Business Intelligence
2 806 (27.15%) Data Modelling
3 646 (21.76%) Agile
3 646 (21.76%) AI
4 609 (20.51%) Data Pipeline
5 608 (20.48%) CI/CD
6 593 (19.97%) Data Engineering
7 579 (19.50%) ETL
8 534 (17.99%) Problem-Solving
9 522 (17.58%) DevOps
10 504 (16.98%) Data Governance
11 471 (15.86%) Decision-Making
12 382 (12.87%) Stakeholder Management
13 380 (12.80%) Data Science
14 372 (12.53%) Machine Learning
15 340 (11.45%) Data Analytics
16 329 (11.08%) Continuous Improvement
17 318 (10.71%) Migration
18 299 (10.07%) Validation
19 289 (9.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,027 (34.59%) SQL
2 953 (32.10%) Python
3 145 (4.88%) Java
4 110 (3.70%) PowerShell
5 102 (3.44%) C#
6 93 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 82 (2.76%) R
8 77 (2.59%) JavaScript
9 74 (2.49%) Bicep
10 47 (1.58%) Kusto Query Language
11 46 (1.55%) T-SQL
12 44 (1.48%) Bash
13 43 (1.45%) Scala
13 43 (1.45%) TypeScript
14 28 (0.94%) PL/SQL
14 28 (0.94%) VBA
15 26 (0.88%) C++
16 24 (0.81%) Shell Script
17 10 (0.34%) Kotlin
18 8 (0.27%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 514 (17.31%) Security Cleared
2 408 (13.74%) SC Cleared
3 234 (7.88%) Degree
4 72 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 68 (2.29%) Azure Certification
6 52 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 38 (1.28%) Master's Degree
8 37 (1.25%) DV Cleared
8 37 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 26 (0.88%) CISSP
9 26 (0.88%) PMI Certification
10 23 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
11 21 (0.71%) PMP
12 20 (0.67%) AWS Certification
13 18 (0.61%) CCNP
14 17 (0.57%) CISM
15 15 (0.51%) PhD
16 14 (0.47%) CCIE
16 14 (0.47%) IIBA
17 8 (0.27%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 542 (18.26%) Data Quality
2 159 (5.36%) GDPR
3 115 (3.87%) QA
4 93 (3.13%) Accessibility
5 33 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (1.08%) WCAG
7 26 (0.88%) NIST
7 26 (0.88%) PMO
8 20 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
9 15 (0.51%) SLA
10 14 (0.47%) GRC
10 14 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 14 (0.47%) Solvency II
11 12 (0.40%) PERC
12 10 (0.34%) NCSC
13 9 (0.30%) HL7
14 8 (0.27%) ISO 20022
14 8 (0.27%) PCI DSS
15 7 (0.24%) IFRS
15 7 (0.24%) NIST 800
System Software
1 187 (6.30%) Docker
2 73 (2.46%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.17%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.13%) HDFS
7 4 (0.13%) Snort
8 2 (0.067%) GPFS
8 2 (0.067%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.067%) Lustre
8 2 (0.067%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.034%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.034%) iptables
9 1 (0.034%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.034%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.034%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.034%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 257 (8.66%) Terraform
2 196 (6.60%) Kubernetes
3 43 (1.45%) Ansible
4 36 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
5 34 (1.15%) Grafana
6 30 (1.01%) Prometheus
7 17 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
8 16 (0.54%) SCCM
9 9 (0.30%) Puppet
10 5 (0.17%) Argo
10 5 (0.17%) Kibana
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%) Fluentd
12 3 (0.10%) Nagios
12 3 (0.10%) SysTrack
13 2 (0.067%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.067%) Apache Ranger
Vendors
1 535 (18.02%) Microsoft
2 406 (13.67%) Databricks
3 175 (5.89%) Google
4 147 (4.95%) Oracle
5 145 (4.88%) SAP
6 72 (2.43%) ServiceNow
7 71 (2.39%) Salesforce
8 69 (2.32%) Adobe
9 60 (2.02%) Informatica
10 58 (1.95%) Splunk
11 50 (1.68%) Talend
12 48 (1.62%) OpenAI
13 40 (1.35%) Denodo
14 39 (1.31%) Foundry
15 35 (1.18%) Workday
16 25 (0.84%) IBM
17 20 (0.67%) Cisco
17 20 (0.67%) VMware
18 17 (0.57%) Dynatrace
19 14 (0.47%) Palantir