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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 37
Rank change year-on-year +2 +10 -2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,973 1,636 1,758
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.30% 6.76% 4.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.62% 7.41% 5.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,044 1,109 1,209
10th Percentile £355 £349 £352
25th Percentile £419 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £514 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.37% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 29 46
10th Percentile £20.00 £15.28 £14.50
25th Percentile £46.88 £21.25 £25.00
Median hourly rate £60.50 £31.64 £29.19
Median % change year-on-year +91.21% +8.41% -8.80%
75th Percentile £75.00 £36.25 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.85 £79.16 £70.63
UK median hourly rate £58.00 £31.85 £28.00
% change year-on-year +82.13% +13.73% -12.50%

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 34,498 22,079 31,531
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.70% 91.24% 86.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,001 14,439 20,650
10th Percentile £320 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,129 933 2,247
10th Percentile £15.34 £14.44 £12.90
25th Percentile £20.38 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £29.07 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.68% -20.36% -2.67%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.01 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +47.83% -21.23% +0.29%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +2 1,639 £545 -5.30% 1,041
Midlands +16 347 £492 -2.80% 186
North of England +8 330 £475 +2.04% 336
West Midlands +13 261 £492 -4.00% 100
South East -9 245 £500 +1.83% 417
South West +30 195 £500 +5.26% 122
North West +10 173 £492 +4.35% 193
Yorkshire +5 134 £488 -0.51% 97
East of England -13 113 £525 -12.50% 92
East Midlands +8 80 £525 +46.65% 86
North East +2 34 £450 +25.70% 53
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
1 157 (5.28%) Apache Spark
2 106 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
3 88 (2.96%) SAS
4 80 (2.69%) Apache
5 74 (2.49%) Confluence
6 44 (1.48%) SharePoint
7 25 (0.84%) CMS
8 17 (0.57%) Jupyter
9 15 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 15 (0.50%) Oracle Application Server
10 14 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
11 9 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
12 8 (0.27%) Apache Superset
12 8 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
13 7 (0.24%) WordPress
14 6 (0.20%) ArcGIS
14 6 (0.20%) IIS
15 5 (0.17%) Drupal
16 3 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
17 2 (0.067%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 124 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 20 (0.67%) MS Visio
4 16 (0.54%) Chatbot
5 12 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.24%) CPLEX
6 7 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
7 4 (0.13%) Trello
8 3 (0.10%) Notion
9 2 (0.067%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.067%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.067%) Sketch
10 1 (0.034%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.034%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.034%) Autodesk Smoke
10 1 (0.034%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.034%) InDesign
10 1 (0.034%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 58 (1.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.27%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 8 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
3 8 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (0.24%) NetSuite
4 7 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.20%) Sage X3
6 5 (0.17%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.17%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.17%) Maximo
7 4 (0.13%) iTrent
7 4 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 4 (0.13%) SAP BPC
7 4 (0.13%) Shopify
7 4 (0.13%) Sprinklr
8 3 (0.10%) Adobe Campaign
8 3 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 926 (31.15%) Azure
2 657 (22.10%) Power Platform
3 598 (20.11%) AWS
4 282 (9.49%) GCP
5 239 (8.04%) Azure Data Factory
6 202 (6.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 200 (6.73%) Azure DevOps
8 178 (5.99%) Snowflake
9 162 (5.45%) GitHub
10 136 (4.57%) dbt
11 124 (4.17%) Amazon S3
12 122 (4.10%) Serverless
13 101 (3.40%) Azure Monitor
14 89 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
15 82 (2.76%) Microsoft 365
16 81 (2.72%) SaaS
17 76 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
18 69 (2.32%) Entra ID
19 57 (1.92%) Azure Key Vault
20 49 (1.65%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 40 (1.35%) Firewall
2 30 (1.01%) Network Security
3 22 (0.74%) VPN
4 21 (0.71%) DNS
5 14 (0.47%) SD-WAN
5 14 (0.47%) SMS
6 12 (0.40%) WAN
7 11 (0.37%) HTTP
8 8 (0.27%) BGP
8 8 (0.27%) FTP
8 8 (0.27%) OSPF
9 7 (0.24%) MPLS
9 7 (0.24%) SSL
9 7 (0.24%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.20%) DHCP
10 6 (0.20%) SMTP
10 6 (0.20%) VXLAN
10 6 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (0.20%) Wireless
10 6 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 610 (20.52%) Power BI
2 394 (13.25%) Data Warehouse
3 243 (8.17%) Data Lake
4 213 (7.16%) Tableau
5 175 (5.89%) Metadata
6 117 (3.94%) BigQuery
7 110 (3.70%) Delta Lake
8 106 (3.57%) SQL Server
9 93 (3.13%) Big Data
10 74 (2.49%) Amazon Redshift
10 74 (2.49%) Relational Database
11 67 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
11 67 (2.25%) NoSQL
11 67 (2.25%) Snowflake Schema
12 66 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
13 62 (2.09%) Looker
14 56 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
14 56 (1.88%) Star Schema
15 53 (1.78%) Hadoop
15 53 (1.78%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 178 (5.99%) Git
2 174 (5.85%) JIRA
3 70 (2.35%) Jenkins
4 63 (2.12%) 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 (0.24%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.24%) ER Studio
9 7 (0.24%) JUnit
9 7 (0.24%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.20%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.17%) fastlane
11 5 (0.17%) Postman
11 5 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 5 (0.17%) XCTest
12 4 (0.13%) Gradle
12 4 (0.13%) TeamCity
General
1 747 (25.13%) Social Skills
2 736 (24.76%) Finance
3 510 (17.15%) Analytical Skills
4 312 (10.49%) Public Sector
5 194 (6.53%) Banking
6 163 (5.48%) Marketing
7 98 (3.30%) Retail
8 77 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
9 53 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 53 (1.78%) Legal
10 51 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
11 48 (1.61%) Investment Banking
12 46 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
13 45 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
13 45 (1.51%) Telecoms
14 40 (1.35%) Manufacturing
15 36 (1.21%) Financial Institution
15 36 (1.21%) Front Office
16 25 (0.84%) Military
17 23 (0.77%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 583 (19.61%) Data Engineer
2 371 (12.48%) Analyst
3 352 (11.84%) Architect
4 351 (11.81%) Senior
5 328 (11.03%) Developer
6 251 (8.44%) Lead
7 163 (5.48%) Data Architect
8 152 (5.11%) Data Analyst
9 120 (4.04%) Consultant
10 110 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
11 107 (3.60%) Business Analyst
12 99 (3.33%) Senior Data Engineer
13 91 (3.06%) Data Scientist
14 86 (2.89%) Solutions Architect
15 63 (2.12%) Project Manager
16 61 (2.05%) Data Manager
17 60 (2.02%) Designer
18 52 (1.75%) Business Intelligence Developer
19 51 (1.72%) AWS Engineer
20 50 (1.68%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (6.16%) PySpark
2 140 (4.71%) Kafka
3 108 (3.63%) REST
4 62 (2.09%) Pandas
5 53 (1.78%) JSON
5 53 (1.78%) React
6 50 (1.68%) PyTorch
7 49 (1.65%) TensorFlow
8 46 (1.55%) HTML
9 44 (1.48%) CSS
10 37 (1.24%) .NET
10 37 (1.24%) RESTful
11 36 (1.21%) Middleware
12 35 (1.18%) scikit-learn
12 35 (1.18%) SOAP
13 33 (1.11%) AngularJS
13 33 (1.11%) NumPy
14 30 (1.01%) Node.js
14 30 (1.01%) Oracle Fusion
15 28 (0.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 195 (6.56%) Cloud Native
2 138 (4.64%) Product Ownership
3 106 (3.57%) Data Structures
4 84 (2.83%) Onboarding
5 74 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
6 64 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
7 52 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
8 45 (1.51%) Management Information System
9 44 (1.48%) Algorithms
10 43 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
11 38 (1.28%) Public Cloud
12 35 (1.18%) AI Agents
13 34 (1.14%) NHS
13 34 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
14 32 (1.08%) Mobile App
15 30 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
16 29 (0.98%) Marketing Technology
17 28 (0.94%) Derivative
18 27 (0.91%) Fixed Income
19 26 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 86 (2.89%) Windows
2 76 (2.56%) Linux
3 33 (1.11%) Mac OS
4 32 (1.08%) Unix
5 23 (0.77%) Apple iOS
6 13 (0.44%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.37%) Android
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%) VMS
11 2 (0.067%) zOS
12 1 (0.034%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 828 (27.85%) Data Modelling
2 825 (27.75%) Business Intelligence
3 651 (21.90%) AI
4 636 (21.39%) Agile
5 620 (20.85%) Data Pipeline
6 599 (20.15%) Data Engineering
7 595 (20.01%) CI/CD
8 571 (19.21%) ETL
9 504 (16.95%) DevOps
10 488 (16.41%) Data Governance
10 488 (16.41%) Problem-Solving
11 481 (16.18%) Decision-Making
12 386 (12.98%) Stakeholder Management
13 342 (11.50%) Data Science
14 341 (11.47%) Machine Learning
15 336 (11.30%) Data Analytics
16 331 (11.13%) Continuous Improvement
17 329 (11.07%) Migration
18 294 (9.89%) Validation
19 289 (9.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,012 (34.04%) SQL
2 917 (30.84%) Python
3 131 (4.41%) Java
4 115 (3.87%) PowerShell
5 96 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 94 (3.16%) C#
7 82 (2.76%) R
8 67 (2.25%) Bicep
9 63 (2.12%) JavaScript
10 46 (1.55%) T-SQL
11 43 (1.45%) Kusto Query Language
12 42 (1.41%) Scala
13 40 (1.35%) TypeScript
14 37 (1.24%) Bash
15 27 (0.91%) Shell Script
16 26 (0.87%) C++
17 25 (0.84%) PL/SQL
18 17 (0.57%) VBA
19 10 (0.34%) Kotlin
20 8 (0.27%) Swift
Qualifications
1 516 (17.36%) Security Cleared
2 407 (13.69%) SC Cleared
3 226 (7.60%) Degree
4 68 (2.29%) Azure Certification
5 64 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 57 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 47 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
8 45 (1.51%) DV Cleared
9 39 (1.31%) Master's Degree
10 25 (0.84%) PMI Certification
11 23 (0.77%) CISSP
12 22 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
13 21 (0.71%) PMP
14 17 (0.57%) AWS Certification
15 15 (0.50%) CCNP
15 15 (0.50%) PhD
16 13 (0.44%) DBS Check
16 13 (0.44%) IIBA
17 11 (0.37%) CCIE
18 10 (0.34%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 563 (18.94%) Data Quality
2 159 (5.35%) GDPR
3 123 (4.14%) QA
4 103 (3.46%) Accessibility
5 37 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 36 (1.21%) WCAG
7 28 (0.94%) NIST
8 23 (0.77%) PMO
9 20 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
10 14 (0.47%) GRC
10 14 (0.47%) SLA
11 13 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 11 (0.37%) PERC
12 11 (0.37%) Solvency II
13 9 (0.30%) ISO 20022
14 8 (0.27%) NCSC
14 8 (0.27%) PCI DSS
15 6 (0.20%) HL7
15 6 (0.20%) IFRS
16 5 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 171 (5.75%) Docker
2 72 (2.42%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.54%) 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%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.034%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.034%) GPFS
8 1 (0.034%) iptables
8 1 (0.034%) Lustre
8 1 (0.034%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.034%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.034%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 231 (7.77%) Terraform
2 174 (5.85%) Kubernetes
3 37 (1.24%) Grafana
3 37 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
4 34 (1.14%) Ansible
5 29 (0.98%) Prometheus
6 19 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (0.50%) SCCM
8 6 (0.20%) Puppet
9 5 (0.17%) Argo
10 4 (0.13%) Control-M
10 4 (0.13%) CSIRT
10 4 (0.13%) Kibana
10 4 (0.13%) WSUS
11 3 (0.10%) Nagios
11 3 (0.10%) QRadar
11 3 (0.10%) SysTrack
12 2 (0.067%) Apache Ranger
12 2 (0.067%) Nessus
12 2 (0.067%) SCOM
Vendors
1 536 (18.03%) Microsoft
2 405 (13.62%) Databricks
3 160 (5.38%) Google
4 154 (5.18%) Oracle
5 144 (4.84%) SAP
6 70 (2.35%) ServiceNow
7 68 (2.29%) Adobe
8 61 (2.05%) Informatica
9 60 (2.02%) Salesforce
10 52 (1.75%) Splunk
11 51 (1.72%) Talend
12 41 (1.38%) Denodo
12 41 (1.38%) OpenAI
13 35 (1.18%) Workday
14 34 (1.14%) Foundry
15 22 (0.74%) Dynatrace
15 22 (0.74%) IBM
16 21 (0.71%) VMware
17 17 (0.57%) Cisco
18 13 (0.44%) Ariba