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

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 36
Rank change year-on-year +2 +9 -2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,091 1,645 1,825
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.31% 6.75% 4.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.60% 7.40% 5.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,109 1,080 1,267
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £793
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 36 48
10th Percentile £21.34 £14.55 £14.90
25th Percentile £36.25 £19.12 £25.00
Median hourly rate £58.90 £31.85 £32.94
Median % change year-on-year +84.94% -3.31% +1.97%
75th Percentile £75.00 £43.25 £53.84
90th Percentile £83.45 £79.35 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £57.30 £32.05 £30.37
% change year-on-year +78.78% +5.53% -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 35,956 22,238 31,935
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.08% 91.27% 85.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,774 14,379 20,744
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £624 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,258 999 2,354
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.81
25th Percentile £20.80 £18.11 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.55 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.37% -23.87% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.88 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.00 £74.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.53 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.68% -24.58% +1.39%

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 8 June 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 8 June 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 8 June 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 1,706 £550 -4.35% 1,387
North of England +7 367 £475 +2.70% 390
Midlands +12 358 £495 -1.00% 221
West Midlands +11 275 £493 -3.96% 134
South East -5 262 £500 - 451
South West +28 189 £500 - 155
North West +5 185 £492 +4.35% 236
Yorkshire +4 148 £500 +7.76% 102
East of England -6 118 £513 -14.58% 81
East Midlands +2 77 £525 +35.14% 87
North East +1 45 £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
1 156 (5.05%) Apache Spark
2 128 (4.14%) Apache Airflow
3 99 (3.20%) SAS
4 84 (2.72%) Apache
5 71 (2.30%) Confluence
6 43 (1.39%) SharePoint
7 28 (0.91%) CMS
8 24 (0.78%) Jupyter
9 17 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 15 (0.49%) Oracle Application Server
10 15 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
11 14 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
12 9 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
13 8 (0.26%) Apache Superset
14 6 (0.19%) IIS
14 6 (0.19%) WordPress
15 5 (0.16%) ArcGIS
16 4 (0.13%) Drupal
17 3 (0.097%) Oracle SOA Suite
18 2 (0.065%) OpenStack
Applications
1 128 (4.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 18 (0.58%) Chatbot
4 16 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
5 14 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
6 13 (0.42%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.26%) CPLEX
8 5 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
10 3 (0.097%) Trello
11 2 (0.065%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.065%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.065%) Sketch
12 1 (0.032%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.032%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.032%) Autodesk Smoke
12 1 (0.032%) InDesign
12 1 (0.032%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.032%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 64 (2.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.45%) 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
7 5 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.13%) iTrent
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
9 3 (0.097%) Distributed Ledger
9 3 (0.097%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 950 (30.73%) Azure
2 680 (22.00%) Power Platform
3 617 (19.96%) AWS
4 283 (9.16%) GCP
5 231 (7.47%) Azure Data Factory
6 219 (7.09%) Azure DevOps
7 197 (6.37%) Snowflake
8 190 (6.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 162 (5.24%) GitHub
10 153 (4.95%) dbt
11 127 (4.11%) Amazon S3
12 125 (4.04%) Serverless
13 105 (3.40%) Azure Monitor
14 90 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
15 88 (2.85%) GitHub Actions
16 83 (2.69%) SaaS
17 82 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
18 76 (2.46%) Entra ID
19 49 (1.59%) Azure Key Vault
20 46 (1.49%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 37 (1.20%) Firewall
2 32 (1.04%) Network Security
3 23 (0.74%) VPN
4 21 (0.68%) DNS
5 18 (0.58%) SD-WAN
6 17 (0.55%) SMS
7 15 (0.49%) WAN
8 12 (0.39%) HTTP
9 10 (0.32%) BGP
10 8 (0.26%) FTP
10 8 (0.26%) OSPF
10 8 (0.26%) VXLAN
11 7 (0.23%) 5G
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
1 633 (20.48%) Power BI
2 398 (12.88%) Data Warehouse
3 248 (8.02%) Data Lake
4 211 (6.83%) Tableau
5 184 (5.95%) Metadata
6 116 (3.75%) BigQuery
7 110 (3.56%) Delta Lake
8 109 (3.53%) SQL Server
9 94 (3.04%) Big Data
10 81 (2.62%) Relational Database
11 71 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
12 69 (2.23%) Amazon Athena
13 67 (2.17%) NoSQL
13 67 (2.17%) Snowflake Schema
14 66 (2.14%) Azure SQL Database
15 62 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
16 57 (1.84%) Looker
17 55 (1.78%) Star Schema
18 52 (1.68%) Power Query
19 50 (1.62%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 177 (5.73%) Git
2 166 (5.37%) JIRA
3 71 (2.30%) Jenkins
4 67 (2.17%) GitLab
5 20 (0.65%) ERwin
6 13 (0.42%) MLflow
7 12 (0.39%) Selenium
8 10 (0.32%) JUnit
9 9 (0.29%) fastlane
10 8 (0.26%) MSI
11 7 (0.23%) Cypress.io
11 7 (0.23%) ER Studio
11 7 (0.23%) PowerDesigner
12 6 (0.19%) Gradle
12 6 (0.19%) Postman
12 6 (0.19%) SonarQube
13 5 (0.16%) Android Studio
13 5 (0.16%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.16%) Crashlytics
13 5 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 767 (24.81%) Finance
2 762 (24.65%) Social Skills
3 541 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
4 341 (11.03%) Public Sector
5 210 (6.79%) Banking
6 164 (5.31%) Marketing
7 109 (3.53%) Retail
8 75 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
9 63 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 61 (1.97%) Legal
11 55 (1.78%) Investment Banking
12 54 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
13 53 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
14 46 (1.49%) Manufacturing
15 43 (1.39%) Telecoms
16 41 (1.33%) Front Office
17 40 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
18 32 (1.04%) Financial Institution
19 28 (0.91%) Automotive
20 26 (0.84%) Military
Job Titles
1 593 (19.18%) Data Engineer
2 383 (12.39%) Analyst
3 377 (12.20%) Senior
4 364 (11.78%) Architect
5 329 (10.64%) Developer
6 267 (8.64%) Lead
7 167 (5.40%) Data Architect
8 155 (5.01%) Data Analyst
9 123 (3.98%) Consultant
10 110 (3.56%) Senior Data Engineer
11 107 (3.46%) Business Analyst
12 97 (3.14%) Azure Engineer
13 94 (3.04%) Data Scientist
14 91 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
15 69 (2.23%) Data Manager
16 62 (2.01%) Project Manager
17 61 (1.97%) Designer
18 52 (1.68%) Business Intelligence Developer
19 48 (1.55%) AWS Engineer
19 48 (1.55%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (5.99%) PySpark
2 130 (4.21%) Kafka
3 114 (3.69%) REST
4 58 (1.88%) Pandas
5 57 (1.84%) React
6 53 (1.71%) JSON
7 52 (1.68%) HTML
8 51 (1.65%) CSS
9 45 (1.46%) PyTorch
10 44 (1.42%) TensorFlow
11 43 (1.39%) RESTful
12 42 (1.36%) .NET
13 37 (1.20%) Middleware
14 33 (1.07%) scikit-learn
15 31 (1.00%) AngularJS
15 31 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
15 31 (1.00%) SOAP
16 30 (0.97%) ARM Templates
16 30 (0.97%) Web Services
17 28 (0.91%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 214 (6.92%) Cloud Native
2 154 (4.98%) Product Ownership
3 115 (3.72%) Data Structures
4 91 (2.94%) Onboarding
5 83 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
6 68 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
7 53 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
8 51 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
9 47 (1.52%) Algorithms
10 45 (1.46%) Management Information System
11 38 (1.23%) Public Cloud
11 38 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
12 37 (1.20%) AI Agents
13 36 (1.16%) Mobile App
14 34 (1.10%) NHS
15 30 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
16 29 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
17 27 (0.87%) Derivative
18 26 (0.84%) Fixed Income
19 24 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 89 (2.88%) Windows
2 70 (2.26%) Linux
3 39 (1.26%) Unix
4 29 (0.94%) Mac OS
5 24 (0.78%) Apple iOS
6 17 (0.55%) 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
12 1 (0.032%) Rocky
12 1 (0.032%) Solaris
12 1 (0.032%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 855 (27.66%) Data Modelling
2 843 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
3 694 (22.45%) AI
4 642 (20.77%) Agile
5 640 (20.71%) Data Pipeline
6 624 (20.19%) CI/CD
7 621 (20.09%) Data Engineering
8 553 (17.89%) ETL
9 524 (16.95%) DevOps
10 491 (15.88%) Data Governance
11 487 (15.76%) Decision-Making
12 477 (15.43%) Problem-Solving
13 432 (13.98%) Stakeholder Management
14 359 (11.61%) Continuous Improvement
15 357 (11.55%) Data Science
16 355 (11.48%) Machine Learning
17 349 (11.29%) Data Analytics
18 346 (11.19%) Migration
19 324 (10.48%) Validation
20 310 (10.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,041 (33.68%) SQL
2 930 (30.09%) Python
3 133 (4.30%) Java
4 118 (3.82%) PowerShell
5 94 (3.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 88 (2.85%) C#
7 72 (2.33%) R
8 69 (2.23%) Bicep
9 66 (2.14%) JavaScript
10 43 (1.39%) T-SQL
11 42 (1.36%) Scala
11 42 (1.36%) TypeScript
12 40 (1.29%) Kusto Query Language
13 35 (1.13%) Bash
14 33 (1.07%) Shell Script
15 28 (0.91%) PL/SQL
16 22 (0.71%) C++
17 14 (0.45%) VBA
18 11 (0.36%) Korn
18 11 (0.36%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 549 (17.76%) Security Cleared
2 431 (13.94%) SC Cleared
3 228 (7.38%) Degree
4 71 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 68 (2.20%) Azure Certification
6 62 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
7 56 (1.81%) DV Cleared
8 44 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 34 (1.10%) Master's Degree
10 25 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
10 25 (0.81%) CISSP
11 22 (0.71%) PMI Certification
12 20 (0.65%) AWS Certification
12 20 (0.65%) DBS Check
13 18 (0.58%) PMP
14 16 (0.52%) CCNP
15 12 (0.39%) CCIE
16 10 (0.32%) IIBA
16 10 (0.32%) PhD
17 9 (0.29%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 583 (18.86%) Data Quality
2 157 (5.08%) GDPR
3 118 (3.82%) QA
4 107 (3.46%) Accessibility
5 42 (1.36%) WCAG
6 41 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 33 (1.07%) NIST
8 25 (0.81%) PMO
9 19 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
10 16 (0.52%) GRC
10 16 (0.52%) SLA
11 12 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 11 (0.36%) NCSC
12 11 (0.36%) Solvency II
13 9 (0.29%) ISO 20022
14 8 (0.26%) IFRS
14 8 (0.26%) PCI DSS
15 6 (0.19%) GAAP
15 6 (0.19%) HL7
15 6 (0.19%) PERC
System Software
1 158 (5.11%) Docker
2 73 (2.36%) Active Directory
3 24 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.23%) 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
1 228 (7.38%) Terraform
2 170 (5.50%) Kubernetes
3 38 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
4 35 (1.13%) Grafana
5 30 (0.97%) Ansible
5 30 (0.97%) Prometheus
6 22 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (0.42%) SCCM
8 6 (0.19%) Control-M
9 5 (0.16%) Argo
10 4 (0.13%) CSIRT
10 4 (0.13%) Kibana
10 4 (0.13%) Puppet
11 3 (0.097%) Nagios
11 3 (0.097%) QRadar
12 2 (0.065%) logstash
12 2 (0.065%) Nessus
12 2 (0.065%) Rancher
12 2 (0.065%) SCOM
12 2 (0.065%) WSUS
Vendors
1 541 (17.50%) Microsoft
2 410 (13.26%) Databricks
3 158 (5.11%) Oracle
4 153 (4.95%) Google
5 150 (4.85%) SAP
6 66 (2.14%) Salesforce
6 66 (2.14%) ServiceNow
7 63 (2.04%) Adobe
8 57 (1.84%) Informatica
9 52 (1.68%) Splunk
10 43 (1.39%) Talend
11 41 (1.33%) OpenAI
12 38 (1.23%) Workday
13 37 (1.20%) Denodo
13 37 (1.20%) Foundry
14 30 (0.97%) Dynatrace
15 26 (0.84%) VMware
16 22 (0.71%) Cisco
17 20 (0.65%) IBM
18 18 (0.58%) Palantir