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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 27 34
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 +3
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,484 1,865 1,712
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.49% 6.66% 5.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.84% 7.33% 6.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,254 1,225 1,157
10th Percentile £360 £363 £356
25th Percentile £433 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 44 27
10th Percentile £17.25 £17.10 £23.65
25th Percentile £25.50 £24.38 £27.00
Median hourly rate £52.49 £34.99 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.01% +7.66% -8.13%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.48 £57.53
90th Percentile £85.25 £79.63 £69.34
UK median hourly rate £46.50 £34.74 £32.50
% change year-on-year +33.85% +6.89% -8.13%

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 39,430 25,460 28,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.71% 90.97% 86.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,919 16,157 17,165
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,918 1,560 1,201
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.42 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.25
Median hourly rate £40.08 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.36% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.00 £67.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.28 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.72 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +53.96% -40.82% -

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 2 October 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 1,927 £550 - 7,023
North of England +13 482 £489 +2.89% 1,055
Midlands -1 369 £490 -4.85% 585
South East +14 353 £513 -2.38% 1,182
West Midlands 0 300 £488 -6.70% 381
North West +2 232 £530 +11.58% 601
Yorkshire +11 189 £463 -2.63% 330
South West +21 173 £525 +10.53% 450
East of England -12 104 £600 +8.35% 379
North East +7 68 £445 +13.02% 128
East Midlands -3 67 £490 +7.40% 204
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
1 168 (4.82%) Apache Airflow
2 129 (3.70%) Apache Spark
3 103 (2.96%) SAS
4 102 (2.93%) Apache
5 82 (2.35%) Confluence
6 62 (1.78%) CMS
7 49 (1.41%) SharePoint
8 35 (1.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 28 (0.80%) Jupyter
9 28 (0.80%) Palantir Foundry
10 22 (0.63%) Oracle Application Server
11 9 (0.26%) Drupal
11 9 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
12 8 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
12 8 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
13 6 (0.17%) Apache Superset
13 6 (0.17%) WordPress
14 4 (0.11%) nginx
15 3 (0.086%) IIS
16 2 (0.057%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 167 (4.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 29 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (0.60%) Chatbot
5 17 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
6 15 (0.43%) MS Visio
7 13 (0.37%) CPLEX
8 12 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
9 5 (0.14%) Trello
10 3 (0.086%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.086%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.086%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.057%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.057%) PlantUML
11 2 (0.057%) Sketch
12 1 (0.029%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.029%) InDesign
12 1 (0.029%) LaTeX
12 1 (0.029%) Notion
12 1 (0.029%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 85 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 36 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (0.57%) Workday HCM
4 17 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
5 15 (0.43%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 14 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
7 13 (0.37%) Aladdin
8 12 (0.34%) SAP HR
9 11 (0.32%) SAP FI
10 10 (0.29%) SAP CO
11 9 (0.26%) SAP HCM
11 9 (0.26%) SAP MM
11 9 (0.26%) Shopify
11 9 (0.26%) Workfront
12 8 (0.23%) SAP Payroll
13 7 (0.20%) SAP MDG
14 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
14 6 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
14 6 (0.17%) SAP GRC
14 6 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 994 (28.53%) Azure
2 704 (20.21%) Power Platform
3 593 (17.02%) AWS
4 317 (9.10%) GCP
5 269 (7.72%) Snowflake
6 236 (6.77%) Azure DevOps
7 226 (6.49%) Azure Data Factory
8 215 (6.17%) dbt
9 171 (4.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 149 (4.28%) GitHub
11 144 (4.13%) Serverless
12 127 (3.65%) Amazon S3
12 127 (3.65%) Azure Monitor
13 116 (3.33%) SaaS
14 114 (3.27%) Entra ID
15 93 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
16 79 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
17 74 (2.12%) GitHub Actions
18 66 (1.89%) Adobe Analytics
19 64 (1.84%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 56 (1.61%) Firewall
2 55 (1.58%) Network Security
3 36 (1.03%) DNS
4 32 (0.92%) VPN
5 22 (0.63%) TCP/IP
6 21 (0.60%) Broadband
7 19 (0.55%) WAN
8 15 (0.43%) BGP
8 15 (0.43%) DHCP
8 15 (0.43%) SD-WAN
9 8 (0.23%) LAN
9 8 (0.23%) SMS
9 8 (0.23%) Wireless
10 7 (0.20%) HTTP
11 6 (0.17%) Kerberos
11 6 (0.17%) NGFW
11 6 (0.17%) OSPF
11 6 (0.17%) SSH
11 6 (0.17%) WLAN
12 5 (0.14%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 680 (19.52%) Power BI
2 434 (12.46%) Data Warehouse
3 255 (7.32%) Data Lake
4 240 (6.89%) Metadata
5 220 (6.31%) Tableau
6 159 (4.56%) BigQuery
7 90 (2.58%) Amazon Redshift
8 89 (2.55%) SQL Server
9 85 (2.44%) Delta Lake
10 82 (2.35%) Looker
11 80 (2.30%) Big Data
12 78 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
13 77 (2.21%) Relational Database
14 67 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
15 60 (1.72%) Semantic Layer
16 58 (1.66%) NoSQL
17 56 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
18 55 (1.58%) Snowflake Schema
19 51 (1.46%) Power Query
20 42 (1.21%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 191 (5.48%) Git
2 156 (4.48%) JIRA
3 60 (1.72%) GitLab
4 58 (1.66%) Jenkins
5 11 (0.32%) MLflow
6 9 (0.26%) fastlane
6 9 (0.26%) RStudio
6 9 (0.26%) SonarQube
7 8 (0.23%) Gradle
8 7 (0.20%) Postman
8 7 (0.20%) Selenium
8 7 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (0.17%) Crashlytics
9 6 (0.17%) ER Studio
9 6 (0.17%) ERwin
9 6 (0.17%) JUnit
9 6 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
9 6 (0.17%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.14%) Android Studio
10 5 (0.14%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 992 (28.47%) Social Skills
2 919 (26.38%) Finance
3 654 (18.77%) Analytical Skills
4 414 (11.88%) Public Sector
5 276 (7.92%) Banking
6 238 (6.83%) Marketing
7 183 (5.25%) Retail
8 117 (3.36%) Influencing Skills
9 92 (2.64%) Legal
10 87 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 87 (2.50%) Manufacturing
11 72 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
12 64 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
13 62 (1.78%) Front Office
14 57 (1.64%) Investment Banking
15 49 (1.41%) Publishing
16 44 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
17 42 (1.21%) Military
17 42 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
18 37 (1.06%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 567 (16.27%) Data Engineer
2 475 (13.63%) Senior
3 461 (13.23%) Analyst
4 444 (12.74%) Architect
5 295 (8.47%) Developer
6 286 (8.21%) Lead
7 203 (5.83%) Data Architect
8 182 (5.22%) Consultant
9 170 (4.88%) Data Analyst
10 127 (3.65%) Senior Data Engineer
11 119 (3.42%) Data Scientist
12 117 (3.36%) Solutions Architect
13 112 (3.21%) Business Analyst
14 100 (2.87%) Azure Engineer
15 71 (2.04%) Data Manager
16 66 (1.89%) Senior Analyst
17 65 (1.87%) Senior Manager
18 64 (1.84%) AWS Engineer
18 64 (1.84%) Product Manager
19 62 (1.78%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 282 (8.09%) Terraform
2 201 (5.77%) PySpark
3 137 (3.93%) REST
4 105 (3.01%) Kafka
5 60 (1.72%) Pandas
6 57 (1.64%) React
7 55 (1.58%) HTML
8 52 (1.49%) RESTful
9 50 (1.44%) CSS
10 46 (1.32%) OAuth
11 44 (1.26%) .NET
12 43 (1.23%) ARM Templates
13 40 (1.15%) NumPy
14 39 (1.12%) JSON
15 38 (1.09%) OpenID
16 33 (0.95%) OAuth2
17 32 (0.92%) Web Services
18 31 (0.89%) SOAP
19 27 (0.77%) LDAP
19 27 (0.77%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 251 (7.20%) Cloud Native
2 191 (5.48%) Product Ownership
3 148 (4.25%) Onboarding
4 137 (3.93%) Data Structures
5 103 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
6 83 (2.38%) Management Information System
7 71 (2.04%) AI Agents
8 67 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
9 62 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
10 48 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
11 46 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
12 44 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
13 43 (1.23%) Algorithms
14 40 (1.15%) Marketing Technology
14 40 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
15 39 (1.12%) Social Media
16 37 (1.06%) Derivative
16 37 (1.06%) NHS
16 37 (1.06%) Virtual Team
17 34 (0.98%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 90 (2.58%) Windows
2 83 (2.38%) Linux
3 39 (1.12%) Unix
4 37 (1.06%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.29%) Android
8 9 (0.26%) VMS
9 8 (0.23%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.17%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.086%) Solaris
11 3 (0.086%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.057%) AIX
12 2 (0.057%) CentOS
12 2 (0.057%) HPUX
13 1 (0.029%) Rocky
13 1 (0.029%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 965 (27.70%) AI
2 906 (26.00%) Data Modelling
3 873 (25.06%) Business Intelligence
4 838 (24.05%) Stakeholder Management
5 823 (23.62%) Agile
6 694 (19.92%) Decision-Making
7 691 (19.83%) Data Pipeline
8 661 (18.97%) Data Engineering
9 649 (18.63%) CI/CD
10 558 (16.02%) Data Governance
11 535 (15.36%) ETL
12 516 (14.81%) DevOps
13 486 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
14 471 (13.52%) Continuous Improvement
15 457 (13.12%) Roadmaps
16 455 (13.06%) Migration
17 440 (12.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 426 (12.23%) Machine Learning
19 416 (11.94%) Validation
20 411 (11.80%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 1,142 (32.78%) SQL
2 969 (27.81%) Python
3 161 (4.62%) PowerShell
4 101 (2.90%) Java
5 92 (2.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 90 (2.58%) JavaScript
7 80 (2.30%) Bicep
8 70 (2.01%) C#
9 63 (1.81%) Bash
10 60 (1.72%) R
11 41 (1.18%) Scala
11 41 (1.18%) TypeScript
12 29 (0.83%) Shell Script
13 28 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
14 23 (0.66%) T-SQL
15 20 (0.57%) C++
16 18 (0.52%) ABAP
17 15 (0.43%) LookML
17 15 (0.43%) PL/SQL
18 14 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 618 (17.74%) Security Cleared
2 494 (14.18%) SC Cleared
3 294 (8.44%) Degree
4 90 (2.58%) Azure Certification
5 88 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 78 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 75 (2.15%) DV Cleared
8 57 (1.64%) Master's Degree
9 52 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
10 43 (1.23%) CISSP
11 37 (1.06%) AWS Certification
12 33 (0.95%) PMI Certification
13 28 (0.80%) PMP
14 27 (0.77%) DBS Check
15 20 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
16 13 (0.37%) MBA
17 11 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 11 (0.32%) CISA
17 11 (0.32%) SANS
17 11 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 770 (22.10%) Data Quality
2 158 (4.54%) GDPR
3 140 (4.02%) QA
4 134 (3.85%) Accessibility
5 49 (1.41%) GRC
6 41 (1.18%) WCAG
7 39 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 36 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
9 34 (0.98%) PMO
10 33 (0.95%) NIST
11 23 (0.66%) SLA
12 15 (0.43%) NCSC
13 13 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 12 (0.34%) IFRS
15 11 (0.32%) PCI DSS
16 10 (0.29%) PERC
16 10 (0.29%) Solvency II
17 8 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 8 (0.23%) GMP
18 7 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 148 (4.25%) Docker
2 96 (2.76%) Active Directory
3 27 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.26%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.11%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 3 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.086%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.086%) vSphere
8 3 (0.086%) XenApp
9 2 (0.057%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.029%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.029%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 155 (4.45%) Kubernetes
2 44 (1.26%) Ansible
3 33 (0.95%) Grafana
4 24 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (0.49%) Prometheus
7 13 (0.37%) SCCM
8 8 (0.23%) FortiGate
8 8 (0.23%) Progress Chef
8 8 (0.23%) SCOM
9 6 (0.17%) Control-M
9 6 (0.17%) Kibana
9 6 (0.17%) Podman
10 5 (0.14%) QRadar
11 4 (0.11%) SysTrack
12 3 (0.086%) CASB
13 2 (0.057%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.057%) MOM
13 2 (0.057%) Nagios
13 2 (0.057%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 665 (19.09%) Microsoft
2 445 (12.77%) Databricks
3 205 (5.88%) SAP
4 193 (5.54%) Google
5 190 (5.45%) Oracle
6 103 (2.96%) Adobe
7 87 (2.50%) Salesforce
8 84 (2.41%) ServiceNow
9 60 (1.72%) Workday
10 50 (1.44%) Splunk
11 40 (1.15%) Dynatrace
11 40 (1.15%) Foundry
12 34 (0.98%) Palantir
13 32 (0.92%) Informatica
14 30 (0.86%) VMware
15 28 (0.80%) Cisco
16 27 (0.77%) Talend
17 26 (0.75%) OpenAI
18 25 (0.72%) Denodo
19 24 (0.69%) Amplitude