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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 30 37
Rank change year-on-year +5 +7 -2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,153 1,763 1,957
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.01% 5.69% 5.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.81% 6.50% 5.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,442 1,164 1,352
10th Percentile £360 £356 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £553 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.28% -1.64% -2.17%
75th Percentile £625 £694 £688
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 28 73
10th Percentile £20.84 £25.26 £17.81
25th Percentile £31.18 £27.38 £22.50
Median hourly rate £45.75 £33.75 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year +35.56% -5.28% +1.80%
75th Percentile £70.48 £60.23 £67.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £64.73 £76.95
UK median hourly rate £45.25 £32.50 £37.19
% change year-on-year +39.23% -12.61% +6.26%

All Process and 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 27,575 27,131 34,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.77% 87.57% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,561 16,585 23,601
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.48% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,784 990 1,459
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £14.63
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.27 £19.18
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.02 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.17% -21.31% +19.85%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.04 £43.84
% change year-on-year -23.87% -24.65% +25.26%

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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025. 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 +4 1,264 £525 -12.50% 826
North of England +9 246 £475 -5.00% 252
Midlands +18 236 £515 +3.00% 229
West Midlands +17 189 £515 +1.48% 132
North West +8 152 £492 -1.60% 150
South East -13 144 £513 +2.50% 715
South West +34 88 £510 -11.30% 148
Yorkshire +13 84 £475 -9.52% 68
East of England +7 83 £551 +5.00% 123
East Midlands +11 49 £447 -2.56% 95
North East -2 11 £380 -18.54% 39
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
1 103 (4.78%) Apache Airflow
2 95 (4.41%) SAS
3 80 (3.72%) Apache Spark
4 75 (3.48%) Apache
5 43 (2.00%) Confluence
6 37 (1.72%) CMS
6 37 (1.72%) SharePoint
7 16 (0.74%) WebLogic
8 15 (0.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 11 (0.51%) Jupyter
10 8 (0.37%) Oracle Application Server
10 8 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 8 (0.37%) WordPress
11 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
12 6 (0.28%) GeoServer
12 6 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
12 6 (0.28%) Smallworld
13 3 (0.14%) Apache Superset
13 3 (0.14%) Drupal
13 3 (0.14%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 136 (6.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
3 35 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (1.35%) MS Visio
5 23 (1.07%) Chatbot
6 13 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.14%) Sketch
9 2 (0.093%) Maple
9 2 (0.093%) Trello
10 1 (0.046%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.046%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.046%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.046%) CapCut
10 1 (0.046%) FrameMaker
10 1 (0.046%) InDesign
10 1 (0.046%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.046%) Simulink
10 1 (0.046%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 71 (3.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.65%) SAP EHS
4 11 (0.51%) SAP FI
4 11 (0.51%) SAP HR
5 10 (0.46%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.33%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 7 (0.33%) SAP MM
7 6 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 5 (0.23%) Aladdin
8 5 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
8 5 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.23%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.19%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
9 4 (0.19%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.19%) SAP IBP
10 3 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 679 (31.54%) Azure
2 460 (21.37%) AWS
3 446 (20.72%) Power Platform
4 227 (10.54%) GCP
5 147 (6.83%) Snowflake
6 134 (6.22%) Azure DevOps
7 128 (5.95%) Azure Data Factory
8 113 (5.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 105 (4.88%) Azure Monitor
10 101 (4.69%) Serverless
11 99 (4.60%) GitHub
12 87 (4.04%) SaaS
13 78 (3.62%) dbt
14 70 (3.25%) Entra ID
15 69 (3.20%) GitHub Actions
16 68 (3.16%) Amazon S3
17 64 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
18 61 (2.83%) Google Analytics
19 60 (2.79%) Azure Logic Apps
20 49 (2.28%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 47 (2.18%) Firewall
2 36 (1.67%) Network Security
3 30 (1.39%) DNS
4 19 (0.88%) VPN
4 19 (0.88%) WAN
5 13 (0.60%) HTTP
5 13 (0.60%) SSL
6 10 (0.46%) LAN
6 10 (0.46%) SD-WAN
7 9 (0.42%) SMS
8 8 (0.37%) FTP
8 8 (0.37%) SMTP
9 6 (0.28%) 2G
9 6 (0.28%) 5G
9 6 (0.28%) DHCP
10 5 (0.23%) Ethernet
10 5 (0.23%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.23%) Wireless
11 4 (0.19%) MPLS
11 4 (0.19%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 416 (19.32%) Power BI
2 248 (11.52%) Data Warehouse
3 148 (6.87%) Tableau
4 138 (6.41%) Data Lake
5 115 (5.34%) Metadata
6 80 (3.72%) BigQuery
7 66 (3.07%) Big Data
8 60 (2.79%) PostgreSQL
9 54 (2.51%) SQL Server
10 52 (2.42%) Looker
11 50 (2.32%) Relational Database
12 46 (2.14%) Hadoop
13 45 (2.09%) Azure SQL Database
14 44 (2.04%) Power Query
14 44 (2.04%) Snowflake Schema
15 43 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
16 38 (1.76%) NoSQL
17 37 (1.72%) Delta Lake
17 37 (1.72%) Pentaho
18 33 (1.53%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 165 (7.66%) Git
2 137 (6.36%) JIRA
3 82 (3.81%) Jenkins
4 53 (2.46%) GitLab
5 22 (1.02%) Selenium
6 18 (0.84%) JUnit
7 16 (0.74%) ERwin
7 16 (0.74%) MLflow
8 11 (0.51%) PowerDesigner
9 9 (0.42%) Android Studio
9 9 (0.42%) ER Studio
9 9 (0.42%) Postman
9 9 (0.42%) SonarQube
9 9 (0.42%) Visual Website Optimizer
10 8 (0.37%) DBeaver
10 8 (0.37%) Gradle
11 7 (0.33%) TeamCity
11 7 (0.33%) Xcode
12 6 (0.28%) PVCS
12 6 (0.28%) Visual Studio
General
1 777 (36.09%) Social Skills
2 610 (28.33%) Finance
3 467 (21.69%) Analytical Skills
4 212 (9.85%) Banking
5 182 (8.45%) Public Sector
6 173 (8.04%) Marketing
7 76 (3.53%) Front Office
8 73 (3.39%) Retail
9 57 (2.65%) Investment Banking
10 54 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
11 53 (2.46%) Legal
12 49 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
13 44 (2.04%) Manufacturing
14 39 (1.81%) Pharmaceutical
15 36 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
16 35 (1.63%) Financial Institution
16 35 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 30 (1.39%) Telecoms
18 28 (1.30%) Publishing
19 24 (1.11%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 345 (16.02%) Analyst
2 291 (13.52%) Developer
3 237 (11.01%) Senior
4 231 (10.73%) Data Engineer
5 214 (9.94%) Architect
6 129 (5.99%) Lead
7 123 (5.71%) Data Analyst
8 122 (5.67%) Business Analyst
9 119 (5.53%) Consultant
10 75 (3.48%) Data Architect
11 72 (3.34%) Azure Engineer
12 68 (3.16%) Data Scientist
13 64 (2.97%) Senior Developer
14 49 (2.28%) Project Manager
15 43 (2.00%) Senior Analyst
16 38 (1.76%) Python Developer
16 38 (1.76%) Solutions Architect
17 37 (1.72%) SAP Consultant
18 33 (1.53%) Azure Data Engineer
18 33 (1.53%) Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (5.20%) REST
2 87 (4.04%) Kafka
3 80 (3.72%) PySpark
4 56 (2.60%) React
5 49 (2.28%) Pandas
6 45 (2.09%) RESTful
7 44 (2.04%) HTML
8 43 (2.00%) SOAP
9 42 (1.95%) Node.js
10 40 (1.86%) .NET
11 39 (1.81%) NumPy
12 35 (1.63%) CSS
12 35 (1.63%) TensorFlow
13 34 (1.58%) AngularJS
14 32 (1.49%) scikit-learn
15 31 (1.44%) PyTorch
16 29 (1.35%) OAuth
17 27 (1.25%) ARM Templates
18 25 (1.16%) JSON
18 25 (1.16%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 106 (4.92%) Product Ownership
2 84 (3.90%) Cloud Native
3 66 (3.07%) Data Structures
4 63 (2.93%) Onboarding
5 61 (2.83%) Algorithms
6 55 (2.55%) Analytical Mindset
6 55 (2.55%) Management Information System
7 54 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
8 47 (2.18%) Derivative
9 44 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 42 (1.95%) Mobile App
11 40 (1.86%) Equities
12 39 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
13 33 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
13 33 (1.53%) Virtual Team
14 31 (1.44%) Fixed Income
15 30 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
16 27 (1.25%) Social Media
17 25 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
17 25 (1.16%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 72 (3.34%) Linux
1 72 (3.34%) Windows
2 29 (1.35%) Unix
3 20 (0.93%) Apple iOS
4 19 (0.88%) Android
5 14 (0.65%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.28%) VMS
7 6 (0.28%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.093%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.046%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.046%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.046%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 574 (26.66%) Business Intelligence
2 566 (26.29%) Agile
3 496 (23.04%) Problem-Solving
4 476 (22.11%) Data Modelling
5 409 (19.00%) CI/CD
6 374 (17.37%) DevOps
7 354 (16.44%) ETL
8 349 (16.21%) AI
9 329 (15.28%) Data Pipeline
10 317 (14.72%) Decision-Making
11 314 (14.58%) Data Governance
12 301 (13.98%) Data Analytics
13 294 (13.66%) Stakeholder Management
14 288 (13.38%) Data Science
15 278 (12.91%) Machine Learning
16 277 (12.87%) Visualisation
17 253 (11.75%) Data Engineering
18 237 (11.01%) Continuous Improvement
18 237 (11.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 231 (10.73%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 729 (33.86%) SQL
2 664 (30.84%) Python
3 132 (6.13%) Java
4 107 (4.97%) JavaScript
5 89 (4.13%) PowerShell
6 64 (2.97%) R
7 56 (2.60%) C#
8 52 (2.42%) TypeScript
9 48 (2.23%) Bash
10 43 (2.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 42 (1.95%) Bicep
12 36 (1.67%) Kusto Query Language
13 31 (1.44%) Scala
14 29 (1.35%) C++
15 27 (1.25%) VBA
16 24 (1.11%) T-SQL
17 17 (0.79%) PL/SQL
18 16 (0.74%) ABAP
19 13 (0.60%) Swift
20 12 (0.56%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 337 (15.65%) Security Cleared
2 284 (13.19%) SC Cleared
3 218 (10.13%) Degree
4 69 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 58 (2.69%) Master's Degree
6 42 (1.95%) Azure Certification
7 27 (1.25%) CISSP
8 26 (1.21%) AWS Certification
9 23 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
9 23 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
10 19 (0.88%) DV Cleared
10 19 (0.88%) PMI Certification
11 15 (0.70%) CISM
11 15 (0.70%) PMP
12 10 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
13 9 (0.42%) PhD
14 7 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 7 (0.33%) CBAP
15 6 (0.28%) ACCA
16 5 (0.23%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 312 (14.49%) Data Quality
2 120 (5.57%) GDPR
3 79 (3.67%) QA
4 78 (3.62%) Accessibility
5 33 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 26 (1.21%) NIST
7 18 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
7 18 (0.84%) PMO
8 14 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 12 (0.56%) GRC
9 12 (0.56%) HIPAA
10 11 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 11 (0.51%) WCAG
11 10 (0.46%) NCSC
12 9 (0.42%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.37%) Solvency II
14 7 (0.33%) GxP
15 6 (0.28%) COBIT
15 6 (0.28%) NIST 800
15 6 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 155 (7.20%) Docker
2 56 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.46%) HDFS
4 10 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.23%) zsh
6 3 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.093%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.046%) GPFS
8 1 (0.046%) Lustre
8 1 (0.046%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.046%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.046%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.046%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 164 (7.62%) Kubernetes
2 144 (6.69%) Terraform
3 33 (1.53%) Ansible
4 20 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
5 17 (0.79%) Grafana
6 16 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (0.60%) SCCM
8 11 (0.51%) Kibana
8 11 (0.51%) Prometheus
8 11 (0.51%) Puppet
9 9 (0.42%) Kubeflow
10 7 (0.33%) Hadoop YARN
11 6 (0.28%) logstash
11 6 (0.28%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.19%) Argo
12 4 (0.19%) RSA Archer
12 4 (0.19%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 4 (0.19%) WSUS
13 3 (0.14%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 399 (18.53%) Microsoft
2 235 (10.92%) Databricks
3 163 (7.57%) Google
4 152 (7.06%) Oracle
5 132 (6.13%) SAP
6 71 (3.30%) ServiceNow
7 67 (3.11%) Salesforce
8 55 (2.55%) Adobe
9 49 (2.28%) Talend
10 45 (2.09%) Splunk
11 37 (1.72%) Denodo
12 34 (1.58%) Workday
13 31 (1.44%) Cisco
14 28 (1.30%) Dynatrace
14 28 (1.30%) Informatica
15 24 (1.11%) Foundry
15 24 (1.11%) OpenAI
16 22 (1.02%) AppDynamics
17 20 (0.93%) Alteryx
18 16 (0.74%) Optimizely