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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 27 34
Rank change year-on-year +4 +7 +3
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,537 1,804 1,769
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.72% 6.52% 5.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.07% 7.17% 6.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,365 1,187 1,265
10th Percentile £363 £352 £356
25th Percentile £433 £439 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £688
90th Percentile £750 £793 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 47 24
10th Percentile £20.87 £16.01 £22.83
25th Percentile £28.31 £27.98 £27.00
Median hourly rate £52.75 £34.98 £31.75
Median % change year-on-year +50.80% +10.17% -1.70%
75th Percentile £76.88 £71.73 £43.75
90th Percentile £87.44 £80.41 £71.39
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £34.98 £30.37
% change year-on-year +50.09% +15.18% -5.98%

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 38,995 25,146 28,578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.11% 90.84% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,229 16,020 18,598
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £629 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £755
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,544 1,434 1,645
10th Percentile £14.45 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.87 £18.35
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%
75th Percentile £68.60 £50.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +67.00% -39.40% -1.19%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 1,932 £550 -0.90% 4,054
North of England +15 444 £495 +9.03% 533
Midlands +8 428 £493 -4.37% 264
South East +11 363 £500 -2.44% 629
West Midlands +3 344 £492 -5.70% 171
North West +1 222 £525 +10.53% 319
Yorkshire +13 181 £463 +2.66% 159
South West +10 177 £500 +6.38% 239
East of England -9 106 £565 -2.16% 168
East Midlands +5 77 £525 +27.27% 93
North East -6 51 £450 +7.46% 57
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
1 161 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
2 149 (4.21%) Apache Spark
3 128 (3.62%) SAS
4 100 (2.83%) Apache
5 74 (2.09%) Confluence
6 51 (1.44%) SharePoint
7 48 (1.36%) CMS
8 31 (0.88%) Jupyter
9 29 (0.82%) Palantir Foundry
10 26 (0.74%) Oracle Application Server
11 20 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 13 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
13 9 (0.25%) Apache Superset
13 9 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
14 8 (0.23%) Drupal
14 8 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
15 6 (0.17%) IIS
15 6 (0.17%) WordPress
16 2 (0.057%) ArcGIS
16 2 (0.057%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 157 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (0.59%) Chatbot
5 17 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
6 15 (0.42%) CPLEX
7 11 (0.31%) MS Visio
8 10 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
9 4 (0.11%) Trello
10 3 (0.085%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.085%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.057%) InDesign
11 2 (0.057%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.057%) Sketch
12 1 (0.028%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.028%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.028%) Notion
12 1 (0.028%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.028%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 65 (1.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
4 14 (0.40%) Workday HCM
5 13 (0.37%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 10 (0.28%) Aladdin
6 10 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
7 9 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
7 9 (0.25%) Shopify
8 8 (0.23%) SAP ERP
9 7 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
9 7 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 6 (0.17%) NetSuite
10 6 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
10 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.17%) SAP BPC
10 6 (0.17%) SAP GRC
11 5 (0.14%) Sage X3
11 5 (0.14%) SAP CO
11 5 (0.14%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 1,035 (29.26%) Azure
2 720 (20.36%) Power Platform
3 623 (17.61%) AWS
4 305 (8.62%) GCP
5 237 (6.70%) Azure DevOps
6 236 (6.67%) Snowflake
7 231 (6.53%) Azure Data Factory
8 189 (5.34%) dbt
9 188 (5.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 160 (4.52%) GitHub
11 137 (3.87%) Serverless
12 133 (3.76%) Azure Monitor
13 129 (3.65%) Amazon S3
14 113 (3.19%) Entra ID
15 100 (2.83%) SaaS
16 93 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
17 88 (2.49%) GitHub Actions
18 83 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
19 61 (1.72%) Google Analytics
20 55 (1.55%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 60 (1.70%) Firewall
2 51 (1.44%) Network Security
3 37 (1.05%) DNS
4 34 (0.96%) VPN
5 26 (0.74%) WAN
6 23 (0.65%) SD-WAN
7 20 (0.57%) BGP
7 20 (0.57%) TCP/IP
8 13 (0.37%) DHCP
9 11 (0.31%) OSPF
10 10 (0.28%) SMS
11 9 (0.25%) Broadband
11 9 (0.25%) Wireless
12 8 (0.23%) LAN
13 7 (0.20%) 5G
13 7 (0.20%) HTTP
13 7 (0.20%) Internet
13 7 (0.20%) VXLAN
13 7 (0.20%) WLAN
14 6 (0.17%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 687 (19.42%) Power BI
2 464 (13.12%) Data Warehouse
3 265 (7.49%) Data Lake
4 230 (6.50%) Tableau
5 219 (6.19%) Metadata
6 138 (3.90%) BigQuery
7 101 (2.86%) SQL Server
8 99 (2.80%) Big Data
9 97 (2.74%) Delta Lake
10 92 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
11 87 (2.46%) Relational Database
12 74 (2.09%) Looker
12 74 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
13 72 (2.04%) NoSQL
13 72 (2.04%) Snowflake Schema
14 67 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
15 66 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
16 60 (1.70%) Semantic Layer
17 56 (1.58%) Power Query
18 54 (1.53%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 205 (5.80%) Git
2 170 (4.81%) JIRA
3 81 (2.29%) Jenkins
4 53 (1.50%) GitLab
5 17 (0.48%) ERwin
6 11 (0.31%) Selenium
7 10 (0.28%) fastlane
7 10 (0.28%) JUnit
8 9 (0.25%) ER Studio
8 9 (0.25%) SonarQube
9 8 (0.23%) MLflow
10 7 (0.20%) Bitbucket
10 7 (0.20%) Gradle
10 7 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
11 6 (0.17%) Android Studio
11 6 (0.17%) Crashlytics
11 6 (0.17%) Postman
12 5 (0.14%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.14%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.14%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 914 (25.84%) Social Skills
2 886 (25.05%) Finance
3 628 (17.76%) Analytical Skills
4 424 (11.99%) Public Sector
5 256 (7.24%) Banking
6 219 (6.19%) Marketing
7 158 (4.47%) Retail
8 92 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 89 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
10 73 (2.06%) Legal
11 67 (1.89%) Manufacturing
12 64 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
13 60 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
14 58 (1.64%) Front Office
15 54 (1.53%) Investment Banking
16 50 (1.41%) Telecoms
17 46 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
18 40 (1.13%) Financial Institution
19 38 (1.07%) Publishing
20 35 (0.99%) Military
Job Titles
1 635 (17.95%) Data Engineer
2 454 (12.84%) Architect
3 440 (12.44%) Senior
4 433 (12.24%) Analyst
5 344 (9.73%) Developer
6 306 (8.65%) Lead
7 198 (5.60%) Data Architect
8 175 (4.95%) Data Analyst
9 155 (4.38%) Consultant
10 126 (3.56%) Solutions Architect
11 111 (3.14%) Senior Data Engineer
12 108 (3.05%) Data Scientist
13 107 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
14 106 (3.00%) Business Analyst
15 75 (2.12%) Data Manager
16 64 (1.81%) Product Manager
17 62 (1.75%) Python Developer
18 61 (1.72%) Project Manager
19 60 (1.70%) Azure Data Engineer
20 58 (1.64%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 212 (5.99%) PySpark
2 136 (3.85%) REST
3 119 (3.36%) Kafka
4 64 (1.81%) Pandas
5 57 (1.61%) RESTful
6 51 (1.44%) React
7 50 (1.41%) HTML
8 49 (1.39%) .NET
9 48 (1.36%) JSON
10 45 (1.27%) CSS
11 43 (1.22%) OAuth
12 38 (1.07%) NumPy
13 37 (1.05%) ARM Templates
13 37 (1.05%) Oracle Fusion
14 35 (0.99%) OpenID
14 35 (0.99%) SOAP
15 34 (0.96%) Web Services
16 33 (0.93%) OAuth2
17 30 (0.85%) Microsoft Graph
18 29 (0.82%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 243 (6.87%) Cloud Native
2 184 (5.20%) Product Ownership
3 144 (4.07%) Data Structures
4 124 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
5 118 (3.34%) Onboarding
6 72 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
7 64 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
8 57 (1.61%) Management Information System
9 50 (1.41%) AI Agents
10 48 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
11 45 (1.27%) Algorithms
12 43 (1.22%) NHS
13 42 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
13 42 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
13 42 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
14 37 (1.05%) Marketing Technology
14 37 (1.05%) Virtual Team
15 34 (0.96%) Mobile App
16 30 (0.85%) Derivative
16 30 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 88 (2.49%) Linux
2 75 (2.12%) Windows
3 41 (1.16%) Unix
4 28 (0.79%) Windows Server
5 16 (0.45%) Apple iOS
6 13 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.34%) Mac OS
8 10 (0.28%) Android
9 6 (0.17%) VMS
10 4 (0.11%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.085%) Solaris
12 2 (0.057%) AIX
12 2 (0.057%) CentOS
12 2 (0.057%) HPUX
12 2 (0.057%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.028%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 962 (27.20%) Data Modelling
2 921 (26.04%) Business Intelligence
3 849 (24.00%) AI
4 828 (23.41%) Agile
5 745 (21.06%) Data Pipeline
6 694 (19.62%) Data Engineering
7 687 (19.42%) CI/CD
8 667 (18.86%) Stakeholder Management
9 622 (17.59%) Decision-Making
10 600 (16.96%) ETL
11 562 (15.89%) Data Governance
12 555 (15.69%) DevOps
13 521 (14.73%) Problem-Solving
14 451 (12.75%) Migration
15 434 (12.27%) Continuous Improvement
16 432 (12.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 416 (11.76%) Machine Learning
18 406 (11.48%) Data Science
19 401 (11.34%) Validation
20 380 (10.74%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,153 (32.60%) SQL
2 998 (28.22%) Python
3 153 (4.33%) PowerShell
4 109 (3.08%) Java
5 105 (2.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 86 (2.43%) C#
7 81 (2.29%) Bicep
8 75 (2.12%) JavaScript
9 57 (1.61%) R
10 49 (1.39%) Bash
11 37 (1.05%) Scala
12 36 (1.02%) Kusto Query Language
12 36 (1.02%) Shell Script
12 36 (1.02%) TypeScript
13 33 (0.93%) T-SQL
14 28 (0.79%) PL/SQL
15 18 (0.51%) C++
15 18 (0.51%) VBA
16 11 (0.31%) Kotlin
17 10 (0.28%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 647 (18.29%) Security Cleared
2 515 (14.56%) SC Cleared
3 282 (7.97%) Degree
4 83 (2.35%) Azure Certification
5 79 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 78 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 70 (1.98%) DV Cleared
8 55 (1.55%) Master's Degree
9 42 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
10 37 (1.05%) CISSP
11 28 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
12 27 (0.76%) AWS Certification
13 26 (0.74%) PMI Certification
14 22 (0.62%) PMP
15 20 (0.57%) DBS Check
16 15 (0.42%) CCNP
17 14 (0.40%) CCIE
18 12 (0.34%) PhD
19 11 (0.31%) CISA
19 11 (0.31%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 692 (19.56%) Data Quality
2 166 (4.69%) GDPR
3 143 (4.04%) QA
4 133 (3.76%) Accessibility
5 51 (1.44%) GRC
6 48 (1.36%) WCAG
7 39 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 32 (0.90%) NIST
9 26 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
10 25 (0.71%) PMO
11 16 (0.45%) SLA
12 14 (0.40%) PCI DSS
12 14 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 13 (0.37%) Solvency II
14 11 (0.31%) PERC
15 10 (0.28%) IFRS
16 9 (0.25%) NCSC
17 7 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
18 6 (0.17%) GAAP
18 6 (0.17%) PSD2
System Software
1 160 (4.52%) Docker
2 86 (2.43%) Active Directory
3 25 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.20%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.14%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.085%) HDFS
8 2 (0.057%) Snort
8 2 (0.057%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.057%) vSphere
9 1 (0.028%) iptables
9 1 (0.028%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.028%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 259 (7.32%) Terraform
2 178 (5.03%) Kubernetes
3 51 (1.44%) Ansible
4 39 (1.10%) Grafana
5 24 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
6 23 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
7 15 (0.42%) Prometheus
8 12 (0.34%) SCCM
9 8 (0.23%) Control-M
9 8 (0.23%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.17%) SCOM
11 5 (0.14%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.11%) Podman
12 4 (0.11%) QRadar
13 3 (0.085%) Apache Ranger
13 3 (0.085%) CASB
13 3 (0.085%) Kibana
13 3 (0.085%) NetBackup
14 2 (0.057%) ITRS Geneos
14 2 (0.057%) MOM
Vendors
1 621 (17.56%) Microsoft
2 462 (13.06%) Databricks
3 230 (6.50%) Oracle
4 181 (5.12%) SAP
5 180 (5.09%) Google
6 88 (2.49%) ServiceNow
7 84 (2.37%) Salesforce
8 83 (2.35%) Adobe
9 53 (1.50%) Workday
10 52 (1.47%) Splunk
11 45 (1.27%) Denodo
11 45 (1.27%) Foundry
11 45 (1.27%) Informatica
12 44 (1.24%) Talend
13 40 (1.13%) Dynatrace
14 37 (1.05%) Palantir
15 34 (0.96%) Cisco
16 26 (0.74%) VMware
17 25 (0.71%) OpenAI
18 21 (0.59%) Amplitude