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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 34
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 +2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,538 1,801 1,802
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.79% 6.52% 5.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.14% 7.19% 6.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,374 1,196 1,290
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £439 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £637 £663 £688
90th Percentile £750 £813 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 47 24
10th Percentile £20.75 £15.27 £21.39
25th Percentile £28.50 £22.75 £27.00
Median hourly rate £54.50 £34.50 £30.69
Median % change year-on-year +57.97% +12.43% -5.00%
75th Percentile £76.25 £70.81 £43.75
90th Percentile £87.16 £80.41 £69.88
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 38,695 25,047 28,792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.19% 90.72% 85.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,133 16,039 18,801
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
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 £758
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,478 1,391 1,685
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £20.69 £17.87 £18.16
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.90% -4.71%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 1,950 £550 -3.93% 2,486
North of England +11 438 £492 +9.21% 511
Midlands +7 426 £493 -4.37% 283
South East +6 349 £500 -2.91% 573
West Midlands +9 342 £492 -6.29% 188
North West +2 218 £522 +10.73% 304
South West +12 183 £500 +5.26% 196
Yorkshire +5 177 £463 +1.31% 156
East of England -10 106 £565 -2.59% 127
East Midlands +8 77 £525 +27.27% 95
North East +2 53 £450 +9.09% 54
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
1 158 (4.47%) Apache Airflow
2 154 (4.35%) Apache Spark
3 127 (3.59%) SAS
4 101 (2.85%) Apache
5 78 (2.20%) Confluence
6 49 (1.38%) SharePoint
7 46 (1.30%) CMS
8 31 (0.88%) Jupyter
9 30 (0.85%) Palantir Foundry
10 24 (0.68%) Oracle Application Server
11 20 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 11 (0.31%) Apache Superset
12 11 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
13 8 (0.23%) Drupal
13 8 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
14 7 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
14 7 (0.20%) WordPress
15 6 (0.17%) IIS
16 2 (0.057%) ArcGIS
16 2 (0.057%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 162 (4.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 23 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
4 20 (0.57%) Chatbot
5 18 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
6 15 (0.42%) CPLEX
7 12 (0.34%) MS Visio
8 11 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
9 4 (0.11%) Sketch
9 4 (0.11%) Trello
10 3 (0.085%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.057%) InDesign
11 2 (0.057%) Photoshop
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 64 (1.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
4 13 (0.37%) Workday HCM
5 12 (0.34%) Aladdin
6 10 (0.28%) IBM Planning Analytics
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
10 6 (0.17%) NetSuite
10 6 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
10 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.17%) Sage X3
10 6 (0.17%) SAP GRC
11 5 (0.14%) BambooHR
11 5 (0.14%) Infor LN
11 5 (0.14%) SAP BPC
11 5 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,038 (29.34%) Azure
2 730 (20.63%) Power Platform
3 640 (18.09%) AWS
4 318 (8.99%) GCP
5 241 (6.81%) Azure DevOps
5 241 (6.81%) Snowflake
6 223 (6.30%) Azure Data Factory
7 188 (5.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 186 (5.26%) dbt
9 163 (4.61%) GitHub
10 138 (3.90%) Serverless
11 132 (3.73%) Amazon S3
12 131 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
13 109 (3.08%) Entra ID
14 99 (2.80%) SaaS
15 93 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
16 90 (2.54%) GitHub Actions
17 82 (2.32%) Microsoft 365
18 58 (1.64%) Google Analytics
19 53 (1.50%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 59 (1.67%) Firewall
2 45 (1.27%) Network Security
3 36 (1.02%) VPN
4 33 (0.93%) DNS
5 27 (0.76%) WAN
6 24 (0.68%) SD-WAN
7 21 (0.59%) 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 (0.25%) Broadband
13 8 (0.23%) LAN
13 8 (0.23%) VXLAN
14 7 (0.20%) 5G
14 7 (0.20%) HTTP
14 7 (0.20%) Internet
14 7 (0.20%) MPLS
14 7 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 696 (19.67%) Power BI
2 468 (13.23%) Data Warehouse
3 265 (7.49%) Data Lake
4 238 (6.73%) Tableau
5 209 (5.91%) Metadata
6 140 (3.96%) BigQuery
7 101 (2.85%) Big Data
8 100 (2.83%) SQL Server
9 98 (2.77%) Delta Lake
10 93 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
11 89 (2.52%) Relational Database
12 80 (2.26%) NoSQL
13 76 (2.15%) Snowflake Schema
14 73 (2.06%) Looker
14 73 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
15 69 (1.95%) Amazon Athena
16 64 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
17 58 (1.64%) Power Query
18 56 (1.58%) Semantic Layer
19 52 (1.47%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 206 (5.82%) Git
2 172 (4.86%) JIRA
3 78 (2.20%) Jenkins
4 51 (1.44%) GitLab
5 18 (0.51%) ERwin
6 10 (0.28%) ER Studio
6 10 (0.28%) fastlane
6 10 (0.28%) JUnit
7 9 (0.25%) MLflow
7 9 (0.25%) Selenium
7 9 (0.25%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.20%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.20%) Gradle
8 7 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
8 7 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (0.17%) Android Studio
9 6 (0.17%) Crashlytics
9 6 (0.17%) Postman
10 5 (0.14%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.14%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 909 (25.69%) Social Skills
2 898 (25.38%) Finance
3 624 (17.64%) Analytical Skills
4 424 (11.98%) Public Sector
5 260 (7.35%) Banking
6 214 (6.05%) Marketing
7 155 (4.38%) Retail
8 87 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 85 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
10 73 (2.06%) Legal
11 69 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
12 68 (1.92%) Manufacturing
13 64 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
14 56 (1.58%) Front Office
15 55 (1.55%) Investment Banking
16 51 (1.44%) Telecoms
17 44 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
18 40 (1.13%) Financial Institution
19 36 (1.02%) Publishing
20 35 (0.99%) Military
Job Titles
1 635 (17.95%) Data Engineer
2 457 (12.92%) Architect
3 440 (12.44%) Senior
4 434 (12.27%) Analyst
5 353 (9.98%) Developer
6 304 (8.59%) Lead
7 202 (5.71%) Data Architect
8 177 (5.00%) Data Analyst
9 151 (4.27%) Consultant
10 126 (3.56%) Solutions Architect
11 118 (3.34%) Data Scientist
12 110 (3.11%) Business Analyst
13 109 (3.08%) Azure Engineer
14 107 (3.02%) Senior Data Engineer
15 75 (2.12%) Data Manager
16 64 (1.81%) Product Manager
16 64 (1.81%) Python Developer
17 62 (1.75%) Project Manager
18 60 (1.70%) Azure Data Engineer
19 58 (1.64%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 211 (5.96%) PySpark
2 135 (3.82%) REST
3 132 (3.73%) Kafka
4 69 (1.95%) Pandas
5 59 (1.67%) RESTful
6 51 (1.44%) JSON
7 49 (1.38%) .NET
7 49 (1.38%) React
8 46 (1.30%) HTML
9 43 (1.22%) NumPy
10 42 (1.19%) CSS
11 38 (1.07%) ARM Templates
11 38 (1.07%) OAuth
12 35 (0.99%) Oracle Fusion
12 35 (0.99%) Web Services
13 34 (0.96%) SOAP
14 33 (0.93%) PyTorch
15 32 (0.90%) scikit-learn
16 31 (0.88%) OpenID
16 31 (0.88%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 241 (6.81%) Cloud Native
2 185 (5.23%) Product Ownership
3 148 (4.18%) Data Structures
4 128 (3.62%) Legacy Systems
5 115 (3.25%) Onboarding
6 72 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
7 69 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
8 52 (1.47%) Management Information System
9 50 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
10 48 (1.36%) AI Agents
10 48 (1.36%) Algorithms
11 45 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
12 43 (1.22%) NHS
12 43 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
13 39 (1.10%) Virtual Team
14 38 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
15 37 (1.05%) Marketing Technology
15 37 (1.05%) Mobile App
16 29 (0.82%) Derivative
16 29 (0.82%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 88 (2.49%) Linux
2 81 (2.29%) Windows
3 42 (1.19%) Unix
4 24 (0.68%) Windows Server
5 23 (0.65%) Apple iOS
6 14 (0.40%) Mac OS
7 13 (0.37%) Android
8 11 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (0.20%) 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
1 980 (27.70%) Data Modelling
2 933 (26.37%) Business Intelligence
3 841 (23.77%) AI
4 827 (23.37%) Agile
5 750 (21.20%) Data Pipeline
6 705 (19.93%) Data Engineering
7 691 (19.53%) CI/CD
8 639 (18.06%) Stakeholder Management
9 614 (17.35%) Decision-Making
10 608 (17.18%) ETL
11 556 (15.72%) Data Governance
12 555 (15.69%) DevOps
13 518 (14.64%) Problem-Solving
14 440 (12.44%) Migration
15 432 (12.21%) Continuous Improvement
16 426 (12.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 423 (11.96%) Machine Learning
18 416 (11.76%) Data Science
19 414 (11.70%) Validation
20 380 (10.74%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,167 (32.98%) SQL
2 1,025 (28.97%) Python
3 140 (3.96%) PowerShell
4 117 (3.31%) Java
5 105 (2.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 86 (2.43%) C#
7 79 (2.23%) Bicep
8 69 (1.95%) JavaScript
9 66 (1.87%) R
10 45 (1.27%) Bash
11 39 (1.10%) TypeScript
12 38 (1.07%) Shell Script
13 35 (0.99%) Scala
14 34 (0.96%) Kusto Query Language
15 33 (0.93%) T-SQL
16 27 (0.76%) PL/SQL
17 20 (0.57%) C++
17 20 (0.57%) VBA
18 12 (0.34%) Kotlin
19 11 (0.31%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 635 (17.95%) Security Cleared
2 506 (14.30%) SC Cleared
3 285 (8.06%) Degree
4 85 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
5 79 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 77 (2.18%) Azure Certification
7 65 (1.84%) DV Cleared
8 51 (1.44%) Master's Degree
9 39 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
10 34 (0.96%) CISSP
11 28 (0.79%) AWS Certification
11 28 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
12 25 (0.71%) PMI Certification
13 21 (0.59%) PMP
14 20 (0.57%) DBS Check
15 16 (0.45%) CCNP
15 16 (0.45%) PhD
16 15 (0.42%) CCIE
17 11 (0.31%) CISA
18 10 (0.28%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 686 (19.39%) Data Quality
2 168 (4.75%) GDPR
3 140 (3.96%) QA
4 131 (3.70%) Accessibility
5 50 (1.41%) WCAG
6 49 (1.38%) GRC
7 39 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 32 (0.90%) NIST
9 26 (0.73%) PMO
10 24 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
11 15 (0.42%) SLA
11 15 (0.42%) 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 (0.25%) NCSC
16 7 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
17 6 (0.17%) GAAP
18 5 (0.14%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 162 (4.58%) Docker
2 87 (2.46%) Active Directory
3 23 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.17%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.17%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.11%) HDFS
6 4 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.085%) 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
1 257 (7.26%) Terraform
2 187 (5.29%) Kubernetes
3 47 (1.33%) Ansible
4 36 (1.02%) Grafana
5 25 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
6 24 (0.68%) Prometheus
6 24 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (0.31%) SCCM
8 8 (0.23%) FortiGate
9 6 (0.17%) Control-M
10 4 (0.11%) Podman
10 4 (0.11%) QRadar
11 3 (0.085%) Apache Ranger
11 3 (0.085%) CSIRT
11 3 (0.085%) Kibana
11 3 (0.085%) NetBackup
11 3 (0.085%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.085%) SCOM
12 2 (0.057%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.057%) MOM
Vendors
1 608 (17.18%) Microsoft
2 462 (13.06%) Databricks
3 222 (6.27%) Oracle
4 182 (5.14%) SAP
5 177 (5.00%) Google
6 84 (2.37%) ServiceNow
7 83 (2.35%) Adobe
8 81 (2.29%) Salesforce
9 54 (1.53%) Splunk
10 51 (1.44%) Workday
11 46 (1.30%) Foundry
12 44 (1.24%) Denodo
13 42 (1.19%) Informatica
14 41 (1.16%) Talend
15 39 (1.10%) Dynatrace
16 38 (1.07%) Palantir
17 30 (0.85%) Cisco
18 24 (0.68%) OpenAI
19 23 (0.65%) VMware
20 22 (0.62%) Amplitude