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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 27 37
Rank change year-on-year +4 +10 0
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,941 1,632 1,797
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.69% 6.73% 4.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.94% 7.41% 5.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,015 1,108 1,230
10th Percentile £357 £326 £355
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £816 £800
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 29 56
10th Percentile £26.63 £15.28 £17.32
25th Percentile £42.36 £23.00 £25.00
Median hourly rate £58.70 £31.64 £37.13
Median % change year-on-year +85.52% -14.77% +23.75%
75th Percentile £75.00 £58.75 £52.12
90th Percentile £84.13 £77.74 £78.96
UK median hourly rate £57.40 £31.64 £35.50
% change year-on-year +81.42% -10.87% +10.94%

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 32,913 22,023 32,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.03% 90.83% 86.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,101 14,513 21,559
10th Percentile £313 £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 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,010 854 2,155
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.34 £20.00 £15.92
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.88 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +10.94% -1.54% -11.33%

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 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 2 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 2 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 1,648 £528 -12.08% 896
Midlands +25 345 £492 +3.65% 212
North of England +6 314 £492 +6.38% 331
West Midlands +24 264 £493 -0.56% 110
South East -8 227 £500 - 433
South West +32 184 £500 - 149
North West +6 180 £498 +7.57% 192
East of England -4 113 £513 -14.58% 103
Yorkshire +1 110 £500 +1.01% 91
East Midlands +5 75 £447 +23.65% 102
North East +13 33 £450 +25.70% 52
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
1 148 (5.03%) Apache Spark
2 118 (4.01%) SAS
3 107 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
4 91 (3.09%) Apache
5 64 (2.18%) Confluence
6 53 (1.80%) SharePoint
7 31 (1.05%) CMS
8 19 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
9 16 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 10 (0.34%) Jupyter
11 9 (0.31%) Apache Superset
11 9 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
11 9 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
12 7 (0.24%) ArcGIS
12 7 (0.24%) Oracle Application Server
13 5 (0.17%) WordPress
14 3 (0.10%) IIS
14 3 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.10%) WebLogic
15 2 (0.068%) GeoServer
Applications
1 127 (4.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (0.75%) MS Visio
5 20 (0.68%) Chatbot
6 15 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
8 5 (0.17%) CPLEX
8 5 (0.17%) Trello
9 4 (0.14%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.14%) Oracle Smart View
9 4 (0.14%) Sketch
10 3 (0.10%) Notion
11 2 (0.068%) Autodesk Smoke
12 1 (0.034%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.034%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.034%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.034%) InDesign
12 1 (0.034%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.034%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 66 (2.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.31%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 9 (0.31%) SAP MM
4 8 (0.27%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 8 (0.27%) SAP FI
5 7 (0.24%) Maximo
5 7 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.20%) Sage X3
6 6 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.17%) Aladdin
7 5 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 4 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
8 4 (0.14%) iTrent
8 4 (0.14%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.14%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 929 (31.59%) Azure
2 645 (21.93%) Power Platform
3 615 (20.91%) AWS
4 298 (10.13%) GCP
5 224 (7.62%) Azure Data Factory
6 210 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
7 194 (6.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 181 (6.15%) GitHub
8 181 (6.15%) Snowflake
9 128 (4.35%) Amazon S3
9 128 (4.35%) Serverless
10 126 (4.28%) dbt
11 117 (3.98%) Azure Monitor
12 108 (3.67%) GitHub Actions
13 101 (3.43%) Microsoft 365
14 85 (2.89%) SaaS
15 84 (2.86%) Entra ID
16 74 (2.52%) AWS Lambda
17 67 (2.28%) Azure Key Vault
18 63 (2.14%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 48 (1.63%) Firewall
2 34 (1.16%) Network Security
3 31 (1.05%) VPN
4 26 (0.88%) DNS
5 15 (0.51%) SMS
6 14 (0.48%) WAN
7 13 (0.44%) SD-WAN
8 11 (0.37%) 5G
9 9 (0.31%) HTTP
9 9 (0.31%) MPLS
9 9 (0.31%) SSL
10 8 (0.27%) DHCP
11 7 (0.24%) 4G
11 7 (0.24%) BGP
11 7 (0.24%) TCP/IP
12 6 (0.20%) Internet
12 6 (0.20%) OSPF
12 6 (0.20%) Radio Access Network
12 6 (0.20%) SMTP
12 6 (0.20%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 590 (20.06%) Power BI
2 367 (12.48%) Data Warehouse
3 229 (7.79%) Data Lake
4 187 (6.36%) Tableau
5 182 (6.19%) Metadata
6 102 (3.47%) Delta Lake
7 99 (3.37%) BigQuery
8 97 (3.30%) SQL Server
9 95 (3.23%) Big Data
10 74 (2.52%) Relational Database
10 74 (2.52%) Snowflake Schema
11 71 (2.41%) Azure SQL Database
12 69 (2.35%) Amazon Redshift
13 66 (2.24%) NoSQL
14 63 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
15 56 (1.90%) Looker
15 56 (1.90%) Power Query
16 55 (1.87%) Amazon Athena
16 55 (1.87%) Star Schema
17 54 (1.84%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 207 (7.04%) Git
2 170 (5.78%) JIRA
3 99 (3.37%) Jenkins
4 84 (2.86%) GitLab
5 28 (0.95%) Selenium
6 24 (0.82%) JUnit
7 21 (0.71%) ERwin
8 16 (0.54%) MLflow
9 9 (0.31%) SonarQube
10 8 (0.27%) Bitbucket
10 8 (0.27%) Gradle
10 8 (0.27%) MSI
11 7 (0.24%) Android Studio
11 7 (0.24%) PowerDesigner
12 6 (0.20%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.17%) ER Studio
13 5 (0.17%) XCTest
14 4 (0.14%) fastlane
14 4 (0.14%) JMeter
14 4 (0.14%) Postman
General
1 859 (29.21%) Social Skills
2 738 (25.09%) Finance
3 562 (19.11%) Analytical Skills
4 302 (10.27%) Public Sector
5 208 (7.07%) Banking
6 173 (5.88%) Marketing
7 89 (3.03%) Retail
8 81 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
9 60 (2.04%) Front Office
10 51 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 49 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
12 47 (1.60%) Legal
13 46 (1.56%) Investment Banking
14 45 (1.53%) Telecoms
15 44 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
16 42 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
17 39 (1.33%) Manufacturing
18 31 (1.05%) Financial Institution
19 27 (0.92%) Advertising
20 23 (0.78%) Military
Job Titles
1 524 (17.82%) Data Engineer
2 359 (12.21%) Analyst
3 342 (11.63%) Architect
4 337 (11.46%) Developer
5 330 (11.22%) Senior
6 254 (8.64%) Lead
7 145 (4.93%) Data Analyst
8 142 (4.83%) Data Architect
9 130 (4.42%) Consultant
10 107 (3.64%) Azure Engineer
11 103 (3.50%) Business Analyst
12 92 (3.13%) Data Scientist
13 82 (2.79%) Senior Data Engineer
14 78 (2.65%) Solutions Architect
15 64 (2.18%) Project Manager
16 61 (2.07%) Designer
17 54 (1.84%) Senior Developer
18 51 (1.73%) Python Developer
18 51 (1.73%) Snowflake Engineer
19 48 (1.63%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (5.41%) Kafka
1 159 (5.41%) PySpark
2 154 (5.24%) REST
3 69 (2.35%) Pandas
4 60 (2.04%) React
5 59 (2.01%) TensorFlow
6 56 (1.90%) PyTorch
7 53 (1.80%) JSON
8 50 (1.70%) NumPy
9 49 (1.67%) scikit-learn
10 44 (1.50%) .NET
10 44 (1.50%) AngularJS
10 44 (1.50%) Node.js
11 42 (1.43%) HTML
12 41 (1.39%) CSS
13 38 (1.29%) ARM Templates
14 37 (1.26%) SOAP
15 35 (1.19%) pytest
16 34 (1.16%) Middleware
17 33 (1.12%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 179 (6.09%) Cloud Native
2 113 (3.84%) Product Ownership
3 94 (3.20%) Data Structures
4 85 (2.89%) Onboarding
5 67 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
6 57 (1.94%) Algorithms
7 54 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
7 54 (1.84%) Management Information System
8 52 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
9 49 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
10 41 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 38 (1.29%) Equities
11 38 (1.29%) Public Cloud
12 36 (1.22%) NHS
13 33 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
14 32 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
14 32 (1.09%) Marketing Technology
15 30 (1.02%) Derivative
15 30 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
16 27 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 88 (2.99%) Windows
2 77 (2.62%) Linux
3 34 (1.16%) Unix
4 30 (1.02%) Mac OS
5 19 (0.65%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.54%) Android
7 9 (0.31%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.24%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.14%) VMS
10 3 (0.10%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.068%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.068%) zOS
12 1 (0.034%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.034%) CentOS
12 1 (0.034%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 813 (27.64%) Business Intelligence
2 790 (26.86%) Data Modelling
3 647 (22.00%) Agile
4 614 (20.88%) CI/CD
5 591 (20.10%) AI
5 591 (20.10%) ETL
6 584 (19.86%) Data Pipeline
7 580 (19.72%) Data Engineering
8 566 (19.25%) Problem-Solving
9 535 (18.19%) DevOps
10 499 (16.97%) Data Governance
11 450 (15.30%) Decision-Making
12 388 (13.19%) Stakeholder Management
13 361 (12.27%) Data Science
14 358 (12.17%) Machine Learning
15 354 (12.04%) Data Analytics
16 327 (11.12%) Continuous Improvement
17 299 (10.17%) Migration
18 293 (9.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 293 (9.96%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1,022 (34.75%) SQL
2 951 (32.34%) Python
3 158 (5.37%) Java
4 113 (3.84%) PowerShell
5 96 (3.26%) C#
6 92 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 79 (2.69%) R
8 78 (2.65%) JavaScript
9 75 (2.55%) Bicep
10 50 (1.70%) Kusto Query Language
11 46 (1.56%) Bash
12 43 (1.46%) T-SQL
13 40 (1.36%) TypeScript
14 39 (1.33%) Scala
15 32 (1.09%) PL/SQL
16 30 (1.02%) VBA
17 28 (0.95%) C++
18 25 (0.85%) Shell Script
19 12 (0.41%) Kotlin
20 9 (0.31%) Swift
Qualifications
1 530 (18.02%) Security Cleared
2 418 (14.21%) SC Cleared
3 234 (7.96%) Degree
4 73 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 68 (2.31%) Azure Certification
6 50 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 39 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 37 (1.26%) DV Cleared
8 37 (1.26%) Master's Degree
9 28 (0.95%) PMI Certification
10 27 (0.92%) CISSP
11 23 (0.78%) PMP
12 21 (0.71%) AWS Certification
12 21 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
13 18 (0.61%) CISM
14 16 (0.54%) CCNP
15 14 (0.48%) IIBA
15 14 (0.48%) PhD
16 13 (0.44%) CCIE
17 8 (0.27%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 525 (17.85%) Data Quality
2 166 (5.64%) GDPR
3 119 (4.05%) QA
4 97 (3.30%) Accessibility
5 39 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (1.09%) WCAG
7 27 (0.92%) NIST
8 25 (0.85%) PMO
9 21 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
10 15 (0.51%) GRC
10 15 (0.51%) NCSC
11 13 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 13 (0.44%) Solvency II
12 12 (0.41%) PERC
12 12 (0.41%) SLA
13 10 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 9 (0.31%) HL7
15 8 (0.27%) NIST 800
15 8 (0.27%) SOC 2
16 7 (0.24%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 208 (7.07%) Docker
2 75 (2.55%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.20%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.14%) HDFS
6 4 (0.14%) Snort
7 2 (0.068%) GPFS
7 2 (0.068%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.068%) Lustre
7 2 (0.068%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.034%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.034%) iptables
8 1 (0.034%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.034%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.034%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 253 (8.60%) Terraform
2 224 (7.62%) Kubernetes
3 40 (1.36%) Ansible
4 37 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
5 33 (1.12%) Grafana
6 29 (0.99%) Prometheus
7 22 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
8 16 (0.54%) SCCM
9 9 (0.31%) Puppet
10 7 (0.24%) Kibana
11 6 (0.20%) logstash
12 5 (0.17%) Argo
13 4 (0.14%) Control-M
13 4 (0.14%) CSIRT
13 4 (0.14%) WSUS
14 3 (0.10%) Fluentd
14 3 (0.10%) Nagios
14 3 (0.10%) SysTrack
15 2 (0.068%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 2 (0.068%) CASB
Vendors
1 538 (18.29%) Microsoft
2 399 (13.57%) Databricks
3 181 (6.15%) Google
4 162 (5.51%) Oracle
5 138 (4.69%) SAP
6 72 (2.45%) Salesforce
7 70 (2.38%) ServiceNow
8 65 (2.21%) Adobe
9 64 (2.18%) Talend
10 62 (2.11%) Informatica
11 54 (1.84%) Splunk
12 46 (1.56%) Denodo
13 45 (1.53%) OpenAI
14 39 (1.33%) Foundry
15 31 (1.05%) Workday
16 25 (0.85%) IBM
17 22 (0.75%) VMware
18 21 (0.71%) Cisco
19 14 (0.48%) Dynatrace
19 14 (0.48%) Palantir