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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 27 37
Rank change year-on-year +3 +10 -2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,078 1,623 1,780
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.33% 6.76% 4.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.62% 7.40% 5.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,101 1,079 1,236
10th Percentile £355 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £449 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £794
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 36 47
10th Percentile £20.58 £14.55 £14.70
25th Percentile £35.00 £19.12 £25.00
Median hourly rate £58.50 £31.85 £30.37
Median % change year-on-year +83.70% +4.86% -5.98%
75th Percentile £75.00 £36.44 £48.75
90th Percentile £83.45 £79.35 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £55.50 £32.05 £29.19
% change year-on-year +73.17% +9.82% -9.64%

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 35,705 21,941 31,586
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.00% 91.32% 85.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,665 14,273 20,637
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,224 953 2,305
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.84
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.55 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +64.62% -23.21% -0.85%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.30 £27.97 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.26% -23.38% -1.35%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 1,715 £550 -4.35% 568
North of England +6 354 £475 +1.50% 254
Midlands +12 347 £493 -1.60% 119
West Midlands +10 262 £492 -4.06% 65
South East -10 253 £500 +4.17% 383
South West +28 195 £500 +5.26% 95
North West +3 178 £492 +3.58% 147
Yorkshire 0 146 £500 +5.26% 67
East of England -9 120 £519 -13.54% 59
East Midlands +3 79 £525 +34.70% 54
North East +4 41 £450 +9.09% 44
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 (5.13%) Apache Spark
2 120 (3.90%) Apache Airflow
3 86 (2.79%) Apache
4 85 (2.76%) SAS
5 74 (2.40%) Confluence
6 48 (1.56%) SharePoint
7 28 (0.91%) CMS
8 23 (0.75%) Jupyter
9 17 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 15 (0.49%) Oracle Application Server
11 14 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
12 10 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
13 9 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
14 8 (0.26%) Apache Superset
15 6 (0.19%) ArcGIS
15 6 (0.19%) IIS
15 6 (0.19%) WordPress
16 4 (0.13%) Drupal
17 3 (0.097%) Oracle SOA Suite
18 2 (0.065%) GeoServer
Applications
1 135 (4.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 25 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (0.62%) Chatbot
4 19 (0.62%) MS Visio
5 15 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.23%) CPLEX
7 6 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
9 3 (0.097%) Notion
9 3 (0.097%) Trello
10 2 (0.065%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.065%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.065%) Sketch
11 1 (0.032%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.032%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.032%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.032%) InDesign
11 1 (0.032%) PlantUML
11 1 (0.032%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 64 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
4 8 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
5 7 (0.23%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.23%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 7 (0.23%) NetSuite
6 6 (0.19%) Sage X3
7 5 (0.16%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.16%) Maximo
8 4 (0.13%) iTrent
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 4 (0.13%) SAP BPC
8 4 (0.13%) Shopify
8 4 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.13%) Sprinklr
9 3 (0.097%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 948 (30.80%) Azure
2 686 (22.29%) Power Platform
3 612 (19.88%) AWS
4 282 (9.16%) GCP
5 237 (7.70%) Azure Data Factory
6 217 (7.05%) Azure DevOps
7 196 (6.37%) Snowflake
8 194 (6.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 160 (5.20%) GitHub
10 149 (4.84%) dbt
11 127 (4.13%) Amazon S3
12 123 (4.00%) Serverless
13 108 (3.51%) Azure Monitor
14 91 (2.96%) Microsoft 365
15 88 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
16 85 (2.76%) SaaS
17 78 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
18 75 (2.44%) Entra ID
19 52 (1.69%) Azure Key Vault
20 51 (1.66%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 39 (1.27%) Firewall
2 32 (1.04%) Network Security
3 24 (0.78%) VPN
4 22 (0.71%) DNS
5 17 (0.55%) SD-WAN
6 16 (0.52%) SMS
7 14 (0.45%) WAN
8 12 (0.39%) HTTP
9 9 (0.29%) BGP
10 8 (0.26%) FTP
10 8 (0.26%) OSPF
11 7 (0.23%) 5G
11 7 (0.23%) DHCP
11 7 (0.23%) LAN
11 7 (0.23%) MPLS
11 7 (0.23%) SSL
11 7 (0.23%) TCP/IP
11 7 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (0.23%) Wireless
11 7 (0.23%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 639 (20.76%) Power BI
2 394 (12.80%) Data Warehouse
3 246 (7.99%) Data Lake
4 221 (7.18%) Tableau
5 183 (5.95%) Metadata
6 116 (3.77%) BigQuery
7 111 (3.61%) Delta Lake
8 108 (3.51%) SQL Server
9 94 (3.05%) Big Data
10 80 (2.60%) Relational Database
11 70 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
12 69 (2.24%) Amazon Athena
12 69 (2.24%) Snowflake Schema
13 67 (2.18%) Azure SQL Database
14 66 (2.14%) NoSQL
15 60 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
16 59 (1.92%) Looker
17 54 (1.75%) Power Query
18 53 (1.72%) Star Schema
19 50 (1.62%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 174 (5.65%) Git
2 172 (5.59%) JIRA
3 66 (2.14%) GitLab
3 66 (2.14%) Jenkins
4 20 (0.65%) ERwin
5 13 (0.42%) MLflow
6 11 (0.36%) Selenium
7 8 (0.26%) fastlane
7 8 (0.26%) MSI
8 7 (0.23%) Cypress.io
8 7 (0.23%) ER Studio
8 7 (0.23%) PowerDesigner
9 6 (0.19%) Gradle
9 6 (0.19%) JUnit
9 6 (0.19%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.16%) Android Studio
10 5 (0.16%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.16%) Crashlytics
10 5 (0.16%) Postman
10 5 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 775 (25.18%) Finance
2 773 (25.11%) Social Skills
3 542 (17.61%) Analytical Skills
4 327 (10.62%) Public Sector
5 210 (6.82%) Banking
6 165 (5.36%) Marketing
7 105 (3.41%) Retail
8 73 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
9 64 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 56 (1.82%) Legal
11 55 (1.79%) Investment Banking
12 53 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
13 50 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
14 45 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
15 43 (1.40%) Manufacturing
15 43 (1.40%) Telecoms
16 41 (1.33%) Front Office
17 33 (1.07%) Financial Institution
18 27 (0.88%) Military
19 26 (0.84%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 597 (19.40%) Data Engineer
2 393 (12.77%) Analyst
3 367 (11.92%) Senior
4 359 (11.66%) Architect
5 321 (10.43%) Developer
6 267 (8.67%) Lead
7 169 (5.49%) Data Architect
8 164 (5.33%) Data Analyst
9 124 (4.03%) Consultant
10 114 (3.70%) Business Analyst
11 108 (3.51%) Senior Data Engineer
12 102 (3.31%) Azure Engineer
13 95 (3.09%) Data Scientist
14 89 (2.89%) Solutions Architect
15 72 (2.34%) Data Manager
16 65 (2.11%) Project Manager
17 61 (1.98%) Designer
18 51 (1.66%) Business Intelligence Developer
19 49 (1.59%) AWS Engineer
20 46 (1.49%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (5.88%) PySpark
2 131 (4.26%) Kafka
3 106 (3.44%) REST
4 62 (2.01%) Pandas
5 56 (1.82%) React
6 51 (1.66%) JSON
7 48 (1.56%) HTML
8 47 (1.53%) CSS
8 47 (1.53%) PyTorch
8 47 (1.53%) TensorFlow
9 41 (1.33%) RESTful
10 40 (1.30%) .NET
11 36 (1.17%) scikit-learn
12 33 (1.07%) Middleware
13 32 (1.04%) AngularJS
14 31 (1.01%) NumPy
14 31 (1.01%) SOAP
15 30 (0.97%) ARM Templates
15 30 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
16 27 (0.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 212 (6.89%) Cloud Native
2 152 (4.94%) Product Ownership
3 116 (3.77%) Data Structures
4 88 (2.86%) Onboarding
5 83 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
6 66 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
7 51 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
8 50 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
9 46 (1.49%) Algorithms
9 46 (1.49%) Management Information System
10 38 (1.23%) AI Agents
10 38 (1.23%) Public Cloud
11 37 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
12 35 (1.14%) Mobile App
12 35 (1.14%) NHS
13 31 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
14 29 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
15 28 (0.91%) Derivative
16 27 (0.88%) Fixed Income
17 25 (0.81%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 89 (2.89%) Windows
2 72 (2.34%) Linux
3 34 (1.10%) Unix
4 29 (0.94%) Mac OS
5 23 (0.75%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.52%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.39%) Android
8 8 (0.26%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.097%) CentOS
11 2 (0.065%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.065%) VMS
11 2 (0.065%) zOS
12 1 (0.032%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 852 (27.68%) Data Modelling
2 845 (27.45%) Business Intelligence
3 685 (22.25%) AI
4 650 (21.12%) Agile
5 634 (20.60%) Data Pipeline
6 623 (20.24%) Data Engineering
7 613 (19.92%) CI/CD
8 561 (18.23%) ETL
9 519 (16.86%) DevOps
10 495 (16.08%) Data Governance
11 493 (16.02%) Decision-Making
12 490 (15.92%) Problem-Solving
13 424 (13.78%) Stakeholder Management
14 361 (11.73%) Data Science
15 358 (11.63%) Continuous Improvement
16 357 (11.60%) Machine Learning
17 350 (11.37%) Data Analytics
18 347 (11.27%) Migration
19 311 (10.10%) Validation
20 310 (10.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,043 (33.89%) SQL
2 936 (30.41%) Python
3 132 (4.29%) Java
4 119 (3.87%) PowerShell
5 98 (3.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 90 (2.92%) C#
7 79 (2.57%) R
8 72 (2.34%) Bicep
9 60 (1.95%) JavaScript
10 45 (1.46%) T-SQL
11 42 (1.36%) Scala
12 41 (1.33%) Kusto Query Language
13 39 (1.27%) TypeScript
14 36 (1.17%) Bash
15 28 (0.91%) Shell Script
16 24 (0.78%) PL/SQL
17 23 (0.75%) C++
18 15 (0.49%) VBA
19 11 (0.36%) Kotlin
20 10 (0.32%) Korn
Qualifications
1 536 (17.41%) Security Cleared
2 420 (13.65%) SC Cleared
3 244 (7.93%) Degree
4 72 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 70 (2.27%) Azure Certification
6 56 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 51 (1.66%) DV Cleared
8 48 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 36 (1.17%) Master's Degree
10 24 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
10 24 (0.78%) CISSP
10 24 (0.78%) PMI Certification
11 21 (0.68%) DBS Check
12 19 (0.62%) PMP
13 18 (0.58%) AWS Certification
14 16 (0.52%) CCNP
15 13 (0.42%) IIBA
16 12 (0.39%) CCIE
16 12 (0.39%) PhD
17 9 (0.29%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 582 (18.91%) Data Quality
2 156 (5.07%) GDPR
3 118 (3.83%) QA
4 106 (3.44%) Accessibility
5 41 (1.33%) WCAG
6 38 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 30 (0.97%) NIST
8 24 (0.78%) PMO
9 19 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
10 16 (0.52%) SLA
11 15 (0.49%) GRC
12 13 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 11 (0.36%) Solvency II
14 9 (0.29%) ISO 20022
14 9 (0.29%) NCSC
15 8 (0.26%) IFRS
16 7 (0.23%) PCI DSS
16 7 (0.23%) PERC
17 6 (0.19%) GAAP
17 6 (0.19%) HL7
System Software
1 160 (5.20%) Docker
2 74 (2.40%) Active Directory
3 23 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.16%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.13%) HDFS
7 4 (0.13%) Snort
7 4 (0.13%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.032%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.032%) GPFS
8 1 (0.032%) iptables
8 1 (0.032%) Lustre
8 1 (0.032%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.032%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.032%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 232 (7.54%) Terraform
2 168 (5.46%) Kubernetes
3 39 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 37 (1.20%) Grafana
5 31 (1.01%) Ansible
6 30 (0.97%) Prometheus
7 20 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (0.45%) SCCM
9 5 (0.16%) Argo
9 5 (0.16%) Control-M
9 5 (0.16%) Puppet
10 4 (0.13%) CSIRT
10 4 (0.13%) Kibana
11 3 (0.097%) Nagios
11 3 (0.097%) QRadar
11 3 (0.097%) WSUS
12 2 (0.065%) logstash
12 2 (0.065%) Nessus
12 2 (0.065%) Rancher
12 2 (0.065%) SCOM
Vendors
1 555 (18.03%) Microsoft
2 418 (13.58%) Databricks
3 153 (4.97%) Google
4 150 (4.87%) SAP
5 147 (4.78%) Oracle
6 68 (2.21%) ServiceNow
7 65 (2.11%) Adobe
8 64 (2.08%) Salesforce
9 60 (1.95%) Informatica
10 52 (1.69%) Splunk
11 44 (1.43%) Talend
12 40 (1.30%) OpenAI
13 37 (1.20%) Denodo
14 35 (1.14%) Workday
15 34 (1.10%) Foundry
16 28 (0.91%) Dynatrace
17 24 (0.78%) VMware
18 21 (0.68%) Cisco
19 20 (0.65%) IBM
20 13 (0.42%) Ariba