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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 27 39
Rank change year-on-year +4 +12 -5
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,011 1,653 1,765
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.70% 6.79% 4.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.98% 7.47% 5.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,069 1,121 1,214
10th Percentile £356 £338 £357
25th Percentile £425 £449 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% - -
75th Percentile £625 £679 £688
90th Percentile £750 £825 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 31 52
10th Percentile £26.85 £15.28 £17.06
25th Percentile £45.25 £24.00 £25.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £31.64 £32.94
Median % change year-on-year +89.63% -3.93% +2.92%
75th Percentile £75.00 £49.88 £50.25
90th Percentile £82.55 £78.70 £72.13
UK median hourly rate £58.50 £32.05 £32.94
% change year-on-year +82.53% -2.69% +2.44%

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 33,512 22,139 32,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.65% 90.95% 86.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,469 14,586 21,356
10th Percentile £313 £313 £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 £613 £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 2,076 869 2,188
10th Percentile £15.44 £14.84 £12.86
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.87 £15.85
Median hourly rate £40.52 £32.05 £33.78
Median % change year-on-year +26.43% -5.11% -9.93%
75th Percentile £66.00 £64.52 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.50 £76.25 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £31.04 £33.07
% change year-on-year +18.27% -6.12% -8.15%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 1,680 £538 -10.42% 896
Midlands +20 364 £492 +3.21% 212
North of England +13 324 £490 +5.95% 331
West Midlands +20 279 £493 -1.60% 110
South East -9 234 £500 - 433
South West +32 186 £500 - 149
North West +8 180 £500 +8.11% 192
Yorkshire +6 122 £475 - 91
East of England -4 117 £520 -13.33% 103
East Midlands 0 79 £450 +22.62% 102
North East +9 32 £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
1 150 (4.98%) Apache Spark
2 120 (3.99%) SAS
3 114 (3.79%) Apache Airflow
4 89 (2.96%) Apache
5 68 (2.26%) Confluence
6 53 (1.76%) SharePoint
7 31 (1.03%) CMS
8 19 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
9 17 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 16 (0.53%) Jupyter
11 10 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
12 9 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
13 8 (0.27%) Apache Superset
13 8 (0.27%) Oracle Application Server
14 7 (0.23%) ArcGIS
15 6 (0.20%) WordPress
16 4 (0.13%) Drupal
17 3 (0.100%) IIS
17 3 (0.100%) Oracle SOA Suite
17 3 (0.100%) WebLogic
Applications
1 132 (4.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (0.76%) Chatbot
5 22 (0.73%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
8 5 (0.17%) CPLEX
9 4 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
9 4 (0.13%) Trello
10 3 (0.100%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.100%) Notion
10 3 (0.100%) Sketch
11 2 (0.066%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.066%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.033%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.033%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.033%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.033%) InDesign
12 1 (0.033%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 65 (2.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (0.70%) 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%) Salesforce CRM
4 8 (0.27%) SAP FI
5 7 (0.23%) Maximo
5 7 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.20%) Sage X3
7 5 (0.17%) Aladdin
7 5 (0.17%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 4 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
8 4 (0.13%) iTrent
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.13%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 941 (31.25%) Azure
2 659 (21.89%) Power Platform
3 633 (21.02%) AWS
4 302 (10.03%) GCP
5 230 (7.64%) Azure Data Factory
6 211 (7.01%) Azure DevOps
7 201 (6.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 183 (6.08%) Snowflake
9 181 (6.01%) GitHub
10 136 (4.52%) Amazon S3
11 133 (4.42%) Serverless
12 129 (4.28%) dbt
13 117 (3.89%) Azure Monitor
14 106 (3.52%) GitHub Actions
15 100 (3.32%) Microsoft 365
16 83 (2.76%) SaaS
17 80 (2.66%) AWS Lambda
17 80 (2.66%) Entra ID
18 66 (2.19%) Azure Key Vault
19 60 (1.99%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 48 (1.59%) Firewall
2 35 (1.16%) Network Security
3 30 (1.00%) VPN
4 26 (0.86%) DNS
5 15 (0.50%) SD-WAN
6 14 (0.46%) WAN
7 13 (0.43%) SMS
8 11 (0.37%) 5G
8 11 (0.37%) HTTP
9 10 (0.33%) SSL
10 9 (0.30%) MPLS
11 8 (0.27%) BGP
11 8 (0.27%) DHCP
12 7 (0.23%) FTP
12 7 (0.23%) Internet
12 7 (0.23%) OSPF
12 7 (0.23%) TCP/IP
12 7 (0.23%) VXLAN
13 6 (0.20%) 4G
13 6 (0.20%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 606 (20.13%) Power BI
2 387 (12.85%) Data Warehouse
3 235 (7.80%) Data Lake
4 196 (6.51%) Tableau
5 190 (6.31%) Metadata
6 104 (3.45%) BigQuery
6 104 (3.45%) Delta Lake
7 102 (3.39%) SQL Server
8 93 (3.09%) Big Data
9 77 (2.56%) Relational Database
9 77 (2.56%) Snowflake Schema
10 76 (2.52%) Amazon Redshift
11 70 (2.32%) Azure SQL Database
12 65 (2.16%) NoSQL
13 63 (2.09%) Amazon Athena
14 62 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
15 58 (1.93%) Looker
16 56 (1.86%) Power Query
17 54 (1.79%) Star Schema
18 53 (1.76%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 209 (6.94%) Git
2 175 (5.81%) JIRA
3 100 (3.32%) Jenkins
4 82 (2.72%) GitLab
5 28 (0.93%) Selenium
6 24 (0.80%) JUnit
7 23 (0.76%) ERwin
8 16 (0.53%) MLflow
9 9 (0.30%) PowerDesigner
9 9 (0.30%) SonarQube
10 8 (0.27%) Bitbucket
10 8 (0.27%) Gradle
10 8 (0.27%) MSI
11 7 (0.23%) Android Studio
11 7 (0.23%) ER Studio
12 6 (0.20%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.17%) XCTest
14 4 (0.13%) fastlane
14 4 (0.13%) JMeter
14 4 (0.13%) Postman
General
1 868 (28.83%) Social Skills
2 758 (25.17%) Finance
3 573 (19.03%) Analytical Skills
4 311 (10.33%) Public Sector
5 208 (6.91%) Banking
6 175 (5.81%) Marketing
7 89 (2.96%) Retail
8 82 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
9 57 (1.89%) Front Office
10 53 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 52 (1.73%) Legal
12 48 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
12 48 (1.59%) Investment Banking
12 48 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
12 48 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
12 48 (1.59%) Telecoms
13 40 (1.33%) Manufacturing
14 30 (1.00%) Financial Institution
15 26 (0.86%) Advertising
16 22 (0.73%) Military
Job Titles
1 555 (18.43%) Data Engineer
2 360 (11.96%) Analyst
3 358 (11.89%) Architect
4 348 (11.56%) Senior
5 337 (11.19%) Developer
6 259 (8.60%) Lead
7 152 (5.05%) Data Architect
8 147 (4.88%) Data Analyst
9 126 (4.18%) Consultant
10 110 (3.65%) Azure Engineer
11 102 (3.39%) Business Analyst
12 94 (3.12%) Data Scientist
13 89 (2.96%) Senior Data Engineer
14 86 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
15 65 (2.16%) Project Manager
16 60 (1.99%) Designer
17 54 (1.79%) Senior Developer
17 54 (1.79%) Snowflake Engineer
18 53 (1.76%) Python Developer
19 51 (1.69%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (5.51%) PySpark
2 159 (5.28%) REST
3 158 (5.25%) Kafka
4 74 (2.46%) Pandas
5 61 (2.03%) React
6 57 (1.89%) PyTorch
6 57 (1.89%) TensorFlow
7 55 (1.83%) JSON
8 51 (1.69%) NumPy
9 49 (1.63%) scikit-learn
10 46 (1.53%) AngularJS
11 45 (1.49%) HTML
12 43 (1.43%) .NET
12 43 (1.43%) CSS
12 43 (1.43%) Node.js
13 42 (1.39%) SOAP
14 37 (1.23%) ARM Templates
15 35 (1.16%) Middleware
15 35 (1.16%) pytest
16 34 (1.13%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 188 (6.24%) Cloud Native
2 123 (4.09%) Product Ownership
3 98 (3.25%) Data Structures
4 82 (2.72%) Onboarding
5 68 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
6 59 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
7 58 (1.93%) Algorithms
8 54 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
8 54 (1.79%) Management Information System
9 50 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
10 39 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 38 (1.26%) NHS
11 38 (1.26%) Public Cloud
12 36 (1.20%) Equities
13 33 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
14 32 (1.06%) AI Agents
14 32 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
14 32 (1.06%) Marketing Technology
15 31 (1.03%) Derivative
16 30 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 89 (2.96%) Windows
2 77 (2.56%) Linux
3 34 (1.13%) Unix
4 32 (1.06%) Mac OS
5 20 (0.66%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.53%) Android
7 9 (0.30%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.23%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.100%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.100%) VMS
10 2 (0.066%) CentOS
10 2 (0.066%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.066%) zOS
11 1 (0.033%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 835 (27.73%) Business Intelligence
2 813 (27.00%) Data Modelling
3 672 (22.32%) Agile
4 635 (21.09%) AI
5 634 (21.06%) CI/CD
6 615 (20.43%) Data Pipeline
7 594 (19.73%) ETL
8 590 (19.59%) Data Engineering
9 565 (18.76%) Problem-Solving
10 545 (18.10%) DevOps
11 512 (17.00%) Data Governance
12 468 (15.54%) Decision-Making
13 404 (13.42%) Stakeholder Management
14 380 (12.62%) Data Science
15 374 (12.42%) Machine Learning
16 352 (11.69%) Data Analytics
17 340 (11.29%) Continuous Improvement
18 310 (10.30%) Migration
19 308 (10.23%) Validation
20 300 (9.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,045 (34.71%) SQL
2 972 (32.28%) Python
3 152 (5.05%) Java
4 115 (3.82%) PowerShell
5 101 (3.35%) C#
6 94 (3.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 81 (2.69%) R
8 78 (2.59%) JavaScript
9 75 (2.49%) Bicep
10 47 (1.56%) Bash
10 47 (1.56%) Kusto Query Language
11 46 (1.53%) T-SQL
12 43 (1.43%) TypeScript
13 42 (1.39%) Scala
14 30 (1.00%) PL/SQL
14 30 (1.00%) VBA
15 28 (0.93%) C++
16 25 (0.83%) Shell Script
17 12 (0.40%) Kotlin
18 9 (0.30%) Swift
Qualifications
1 540 (17.93%) Security Cleared
2 429 (14.25%) SC Cleared
3 234 (7.77%) Degree
4 72 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 69 (2.29%) Azure Certification
6 53 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 39 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
8 37 (1.23%) Master's Degree
9 36 (1.20%) DV Cleared
10 28 (0.93%) PMI Certification
11 26 (0.86%) CISSP
12 23 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
12 23 (0.76%) PMP
13 20 (0.66%) AWS Certification
14 18 (0.60%) CCNP
14 18 (0.60%) CISM
15 14 (0.46%) CCIE
15 14 (0.46%) IIBA
15 14 (0.46%) PhD
16 8 (0.27%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 547 (18.17%) Data Quality
2 167 (5.55%) GDPR
3 119 (3.95%) QA
4 96 (3.19%) Accessibility
5 35 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 31 (1.03%) WCAG
7 26 (0.86%) NIST
8 25 (0.83%) PMO
9 20 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
10 14 (0.46%) GRC
10 14 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 14 (0.46%) SLA
11 13 (0.43%) PERC
11 13 (0.43%) Solvency II
12 12 (0.40%) NCSC
13 9 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 9 (0.30%) HL7
14 8 (0.27%) NIST 800
15 7 (0.23%) PCI DSS
15 7 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 206 (6.84%) Docker
2 75 (2.49%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.50%) 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 (0.066%) GPFS
8 2 (0.066%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.066%) Lustre
8 2 (0.066%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.033%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.033%) iptables
9 1 (0.033%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.033%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.033%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.033%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 256 (8.50%) Terraform
2 220 (7.31%) Kubernetes
3 42 (1.39%) Ansible
4 37 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 32 (1.06%) Grafana
6 28 (0.93%) Prometheus
7 20 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
8 16 (0.53%) SCCM
9 9 (0.30%) Puppet
10 6 (0.20%) Kibana
11 5 (0.17%) Argo
11 5 (0.17%) logstash
12 4 (0.13%) Control-M
12 4 (0.13%) CSIRT
12 4 (0.13%) WSUS
13 3 (0.100%) Fluentd
13 3 (0.100%) Nagios
13 3 (0.100%) SysTrack
14 2 (0.066%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.066%) Apache Ranger
Vendors
1 547 (18.17%) Microsoft
2 404 (13.42%) Databricks
3 178 (5.91%) Google
4 162 (5.38%) Oracle
5 143 (4.75%) SAP
6 74 (2.46%) Salesforce
7 71 (2.36%) Adobe
7 71 (2.36%) ServiceNow
8 61 (2.03%) Informatica
9 60 (1.99%) Talend
10 58 (1.93%) Splunk
11 47 (1.56%) OpenAI
12 46 (1.53%) Denodo
13 39 (1.30%) Foundry
14 36 (1.20%) Workday
15 26 (0.86%) IBM
16 23 (0.76%) Cisco
17 20 (0.66%) VMware
18 16 (0.53%) Dynatrace
19 14 (0.46%) Palantir