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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 34
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 +3
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,518 1,788 1,816
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.76% 6.50% 5.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.10% 7.16% 6.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,363 1,182 1,304
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £438 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £669 £688
90th Percentile £750 £813 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 46 26
10th Percentile £20.78 £15.27 £21.49
25th Percentile £35.00 £22.63 £27.00
Median hourly rate £54.50 £34.50 £30.69
Median % change year-on-year +57.97% +12.43% -5.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £71.13 £43.75
90th Percentile £87.13 £80.51 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £34.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +52.17% +15.00% -7.12%

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 38,641 24,977 29,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.26% 90.76% 85.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,154 16,016 19,101
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,462 1,371 1,780
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.25 £13.87
25th Percentile £20.92 £17.98 £17.72
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -39.40% -2.35%
75th Percentile £68.75 £52.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 31 July 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 1,939 £550 -3.51% 1,605
North of England +14 441 £490 +8.83% 329
Midlands +10 413 £492 -3.99% 181
South East +2 337 £500 -2.44% 437
West Midlands +9 328 £488 -7.14% 118
North West -2 220 £513 +7.89% 174
South West +15 188 £500 +5.26% 152
Yorkshire +4 175 £463 +1.31% 109
East of England -10 109 £563 -3.02% 73
East Midlands +7 78 £525 +27.27% 63
North East +1 56 £450 +9.09% 48
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 (4.41%) Apache Airflow
1 155 (4.41%) Apache Spark
2 123 (3.50%) SAS
3 102 (2.90%) Apache
4 77 (2.19%) Confluence
5 49 (1.39%) SharePoint
6 42 (1.19%) CMS
7 31 (0.88%) Jupyter
7 31 (0.88%) Palantir Foundry
8 23 (0.65%) Oracle Application Server
9 17 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 12 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
11 9 (0.26%) Apache Superset
12 8 (0.23%) Drupal
13 7 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
13 7 (0.20%) WordPress
14 6 (0.17%) IIS
14 6 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
15 4 (0.11%) ArcGIS
16 2 (0.057%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 161 (4.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 23 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
4 20 (0.57%) Chatbot
4 20 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
5 15 (0.43%) CPLEX
6 12 (0.34%) MS Visio
7 11 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
8 4 (0.11%) Sketch
9 3 (0.085%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.085%) Trello
10 2 (0.057%) InDesign
10 2 (0.057%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.028%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.028%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.028%) Notion
11 1 (0.028%) PlantUML
11 1 (0.028%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 64 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
4 13 (0.37%) Aladdin
4 13 (0.37%) Workday HCM
5 10 (0.28%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 10 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
6 9 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.23%) SAP ERP
7 8 (0.23%) Shopify
8 7 (0.20%) NetSuite
8 7 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
9 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
9 6 (0.17%) Sage X3
9 6 (0.17%) SAP GRC
10 5 (0.14%) BambooHR
10 5 (0.14%) Infor LN
10 5 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
10 5 (0.14%) SAP BPC
10 5 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,026 (29.16%) Azure
2 717 (20.38%) Power Platform
3 644 (18.31%) AWS
4 313 (8.90%) GCP
5 239 (6.79%) Snowflake
6 238 (6.77%) Azure DevOps
7 219 (6.23%) Azure Data Factory
8 189 (5.37%) dbt
9 186 (5.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 163 (4.63%) GitHub
11 138 (3.92%) Amazon S3
11 138 (3.92%) Serverless
12 130 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
13 108 (3.07%) Entra ID
14 100 (2.84%) SaaS
15 94 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
16 91 (2.59%) GitHub Actions
17 81 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
18 55 (1.56%) Google Analytics
19 52 (1.48%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 59 (1.68%) Firewall
2 44 (1.25%) Network Security
3 36 (1.02%) VPN
4 32 (0.91%) DNS
5 26 (0.74%) WAN
6 24 (0.68%) SD-WAN
7 21 (0.60%) BGP
8 20 (0.57%) TCP/IP
9 13 (0.37%) DHCP
10 12 (0.34%) OSPF
11 10 (0.28%) SMS
11 10 (0.28%) Wireless
12 9 (0.26%) Broadband
13 8 (0.23%) VXLAN
14 7 (0.20%) 5G
14 7 (0.20%) HTTP
14 7 (0.20%) Internet
14 7 (0.20%) LAN
14 7 (0.20%) MPLS
14 7 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 684 (19.44%) Power BI
2 468 (13.30%) Data Warehouse
3 263 (7.48%) Data Lake
4 244 (6.94%) Tableau
5 203 (5.77%) Metadata
6 140 (3.98%) BigQuery
7 101 (2.87%) Big Data
8 100 (2.84%) SQL Server
9 97 (2.76%) Delta Lake
10 95 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
11 86 (2.44%) Relational Database
12 77 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
12 77 (2.19%) Snowflake Schema
13 74 (2.10%) NoSQL
14 73 (2.08%) Looker
15 70 (1.99%) Amazon Athena
16 63 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
17 56 (1.59%) Power Query
18 54 (1.53%) Semantic Layer
19 52 (1.48%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 198 (5.63%) Git
2 167 (4.75%) JIRA
3 78 (2.22%) Jenkins
4 54 (1.53%) GitLab
5 18 (0.51%) ERwin
6 12 (0.34%) JUnit
7 10 (0.28%) ER Studio
7 10 (0.28%) fastlane
7 10 (0.28%) MLflow
7 10 (0.28%) Selenium
8 7 (0.20%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.20%) Gradle
8 7 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
8 7 (0.20%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (0.17%) Android Studio
9 6 (0.17%) Crashlytics
9 6 (0.17%) Postman
9 6 (0.17%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.14%) Cypress.io
General
1 899 (25.55%) Social Skills
2 890 (25.30%) Finance
3 614 (17.45%) Analytical Skills
4 421 (11.97%) Public Sector
5 264 (7.50%) Banking
6 208 (5.91%) Marketing
7 147 (4.18%) Retail
8 83 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 80 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
10 73 (2.08%) Legal
11 71 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
12 69 (1.96%) Manufacturing
13 63 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
14 56 (1.59%) Investment Banking
15 55 (1.56%) Front Office
16 51 (1.45%) Telecoms
17 44 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
18 39 (1.11%) Financial Institution
19 37 (1.05%) Military
20 35 (0.99%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 627 (17.82%) Data Engineer
2 451 (12.82%) Architect
3 445 (12.65%) Senior
4 437 (12.42%) Analyst
5 358 (10.18%) Developer
6 296 (8.41%) Lead
7 198 (5.63%) Data Architect
8 182 (5.17%) Data Analyst
9 145 (4.12%) Consultant
10 123 (3.50%) Data Scientist
11 120 (3.41%) Solutions Architect
12 111 (3.16%) Business Analyst
13 109 (3.10%) Azure Engineer
14 108 (3.07%) Senior Data Engineer
15 74 (2.10%) Data Manager
16 63 (1.79%) Product Manager
16 63 (1.79%) Python Developer
17 62 (1.76%) Azure Data Engineer
18 61 (1.73%) Project Manager
19 57 (1.62%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 209 (5.94%) PySpark
2 137 (3.89%) REST
3 135 (3.84%) Kafka
4 68 (1.93%) Pandas
5 57 (1.62%) RESTful
6 52 (1.48%) .NET
6 52 (1.48%) JSON
7 51 (1.45%) React
8 44 (1.25%) HTML
9 43 (1.22%) NumPy
10 41 (1.17%) CSS
11 39 (1.11%) Web Services
12 37 (1.05%) ARM Templates
13 36 (1.02%) OAuth
14 35 (0.99%) PyTorch
14 35 (0.99%) SOAP
15 34 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
16 32 (0.91%) scikit-learn
16 32 (0.91%) TensorFlow
17 29 (0.82%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 240 (6.82%) Cloud Native
2 182 (5.17%) Product Ownership
3 146 (4.15%) Data Structures
4 128 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
5 112 (3.18%) Onboarding
6 71 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
7 68 (1.93%) Distributed Systems
8 55 (1.56%) Management Information System
9 49 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
10 48 (1.36%) AI Agents
10 48 (1.36%) Algorithms
11 44 (1.25%) NHS
12 42 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
12 42 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
13 39 (1.11%) Virtual Team
14 38 (1.08%) Mobile App
15 37 (1.05%) Marketing Technology
16 35 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
17 29 (0.82%) Derivative
17 29 (0.82%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 88 (2.50%) Linux
2 86 (2.44%) Windows
3 43 (1.22%) Unix
4 23 (0.65%) Apple iOS
4 23 (0.65%) Windows Server
5 18 (0.51%) Mac OS
6 13 (0.37%) Android
7 11 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.20%) VMS
9 4 (0.11%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.057%) CentOS
10 2 (0.057%) Solaris
10 2 (0.057%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.057%) zOS
11 1 (0.028%) AIX
11 1 (0.028%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 974 (27.69%) Data Modelling
2 914 (25.98%) Business Intelligence
3 828 (23.54%) AI
4 813 (23.11%) Agile
5 739 (21.01%) Data Pipeline
6 711 (20.21%) Data Engineering
7 684 (19.44%) CI/CD
8 621 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
9 611 (17.37%) Decision-Making
10 601 (17.08%) ETL
11 550 (15.63%) Data Governance
12 537 (15.26%) DevOps
13 505 (14.35%) Problem-Solving
14 430 (12.22%) Migration
15 429 (12.19%) Data Science
16 424 (12.05%) Machine Learning
17 423 (12.02%) Continuous Improvement
18 417 (11.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 413 (11.74%) Validation
20 388 (11.03%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,170 (33.26%) SQL
2 1,029 (29.25%) Python
3 135 (3.84%) PowerShell
4 116 (3.30%) Java
5 101 (2.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 88 (2.50%) C#
7 74 (2.10%) Bicep
8 70 (1.99%) R
9 68 (1.93%) JavaScript
10 44 (1.25%) Bash
11 41 (1.17%) TypeScript
12 37 (1.05%) Shell Script
13 35 (0.99%) Kusto Query Language
13 35 (0.99%) Scala
14 32 (0.91%) T-SQL
15 28 (0.80%) PL/SQL
16 22 (0.63%) VBA
17 21 (0.60%) C++
18 12 (0.34%) Kotlin
19 11 (0.31%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 624 (17.74%) Security Cleared
2 493 (14.01%) SC Cleared
3 280 (7.96%) Degree
4 90 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 77 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 75 (2.13%) Azure Certification
7 66 (1.88%) DV Cleared
8 53 (1.51%) Master's Degree
9 38 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
10 33 (0.94%) CISSP
11 29 (0.82%) AWS Certification
12 27 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
13 26 (0.74%) PMI Certification
14 22 (0.63%) PMP
15 20 (0.57%) DBS Check
16 16 (0.45%) CCNP
16 16 (0.45%) PhD
17 15 (0.43%) CCIE
18 11 (0.31%) CISA
19 10 (0.28%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 685 (19.47%) Data Quality
2 168 (4.78%) GDPR
3 139 (3.95%) QA
4 131 (3.72%) Accessibility
5 51 (1.45%) WCAG
6 48 (1.36%) GRC
7 36 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 32 (0.91%) NIST
9 26 (0.74%) PMO
10 25 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
11 15 (0.43%) SLA
11 15 (0.43%) Solvency II
12 12 (0.34%) PCI DSS
12 12 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 11 (0.31%) PERC
14 10 (0.28%) IFRS
15 9 (0.26%) NCSC
16 7 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
17 6 (0.17%) GAAP
18 5 (0.14%) PSD2
System Software
1 157 (4.46%) Docker
2 85 (2.42%) Active Directory
3 25 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.17%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.17%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.11%) HDFS
8 3 (0.085%) Snort
9 2 (0.057%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.057%) vSphere
10 1 (0.028%) iptables
10 1 (0.028%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.028%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 250 (7.11%) Terraform
2 181 (5.14%) Kubernetes
3 43 (1.22%) Ansible
4 36 (1.02%) Grafana
5 28 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
6 25 (0.71%) Prometheus
7 24 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (0.37%) SCCM
9 8 (0.23%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.17%) Control-M
11 4 (0.11%) Podman
11 4 (0.11%) QRadar
12 3 (0.085%) Apache Ranger
12 3 (0.085%) CSIRT
12 3 (0.085%) Kibana
12 3 (0.085%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.085%) Rancher
12 3 (0.085%) SCOM
13 2 (0.057%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.057%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 598 (17.00%) Microsoft
2 455 (12.93%) Databricks
3 219 (6.23%) Oracle
4 177 (5.03%) SAP
5 174 (4.95%) Google
6 82 (2.33%) ServiceNow
7 80 (2.27%) Salesforce
8 79 (2.25%) Adobe
9 54 (1.53%) Splunk
10 52 (1.48%) Workday
11 47 (1.34%) Foundry
12 43 (1.22%) Informatica
13 40 (1.14%) Talend
14 39 (1.11%) Denodo
14 39 (1.11%) Palantir
15 36 (1.02%) Dynatrace
16 30 (0.85%) Cisco
17 26 (0.74%) OpenAI
17 26 (0.74%) VMware
18 20 (0.57%) Amplitude