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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 38
Rank change year-on-year +2 +11 -3
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,001 1,690 1,763
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.43% 6.94% 4.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.75% 7.61% 5.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,066 1,151 1,209
10th Percentile £356 £346 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -
75th Percentile £625 £688 £681
90th Percentile £750 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 30 47
10th Percentile £21.11 £15.28 £14.70
25th Percentile £45.25 £21.69 £25.00
Median hourly rate £59.45 £31.49 £30.37
Median % change year-on-year +88.77% +3.70% -2.03%
75th Percentile £75.00 £36.13 £46.25
90th Percentile £82.25 £78.93 £70.25
UK median hourly rate £58.00 £31.64 £30.19
% change year-on-year +83.31% +4.82% -5.67%

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 34,314 22,202 32,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.00% 91.20% 86.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,947 14,537 21,107
10th Percentile £318 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,131 918 2,248
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.69 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.38 £18.50 £16.02
Median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.53% -16.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.50 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.65
% change year-on-year +43.29% -18.65% -4.42%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 1,646 £539 -10.21% 1,007
Midlands +14 358 £492 -1.64% 211
North of England +6 323 £475 +2.70% 316
West Midlands +17 266 £492 -3.98% 113
South East -1 255 £500 +3.95% 400
South West +25 194 £500 +5.26% 113
North West 0 170 £500 +8.11% 198
Yorkshire +8 132 £475 - 78
East of England -5 117 £525 -12.50% 89
East Midlands +8 86 £473 +31.98% 97
North East 0 31 £450 +25.70% 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
1 159 (5.30%) Apache Spark
2 108 (3.60%) Apache Airflow
3 91 (3.03%) SAS
4 85 (2.83%) Apache
5 76 (2.53%) Confluence
6 47 (1.57%) SharePoint
7 29 (0.97%) CMS
8 17 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 16 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
10 15 (0.50%) Jupyter
11 14 (0.47%) Oracle Application Server
12 10 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
13 9 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
14 8 (0.27%) Apache Superset
15 6 (0.20%) ArcGIS
15 6 (0.20%) WordPress
16 5 (0.17%) Drupal
16 5 (0.17%) IIS
17 3 (0.100%) Oracle SOA Suite
18 2 (0.067%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 129 (4.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 28 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (0.70%) Chatbot
4 21 (0.70%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.20%) CPLEX
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
8 4 (0.13%) Trello
9 3 (0.100%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.100%) Notion
9 3 (0.100%) Sketch
10 2 (0.067%) Autodesk Smoke
10 2 (0.067%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.033%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.033%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.033%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.033%) InDesign
11 1 (0.033%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 62 (2.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.27%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 7 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
5 6 (0.20%) Maximo
5 6 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
5 6 (0.20%) Sage X3
6 5 (0.17%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.17%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.17%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 4 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
7 4 (0.13%) iTrent
7 4 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
7 4 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.13%) SAP BPC
7 4 (0.13%) Shopify
7 4 (0.13%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 939 (31.29%) Azure
2 659 (21.96%) Power Platform
3 614 (20.46%) AWS
4 295 (9.83%) GCP
5 245 (8.16%) Azure Data Factory
6 205 (6.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 201 (6.70%) Azure DevOps
8 177 (5.90%) Snowflake
9 170 (5.66%) GitHub
10 135 (4.50%) Amazon S3
11 133 (4.43%) Serverless
12 128 (4.27%) dbt
13 110 (3.67%) Azure Monitor
14 94 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
15 91 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
16 80 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
17 76 (2.53%) Entra ID
17 76 (2.53%) SaaS
18 64 (2.13%) Azure Key Vault
19 59 (1.97%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 45 (1.50%) Firewall
2 32 (1.07%) Network Security
3 23 (0.77%) DNS
3 23 (0.77%) VPN
4 14 (0.47%) SD-WAN
5 13 (0.43%) WAN
6 12 (0.40%) HTTP
6 12 (0.40%) SMS
7 8 (0.27%) FTP
7 8 (0.27%) MPLS
8 7 (0.23%) 5G
8 7 (0.23%) BGP
8 7 (0.23%) OSPF
8 7 (0.23%) SSL
8 7 (0.23%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.20%) DHCP
9 6 (0.20%) SMTP
9 6 (0.20%) VXLAN
10 5 (0.17%) LAN
10 5 (0.17%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 613 (20.43%) Power BI
2 396 (13.20%) Data Warehouse
3 244 (8.13%) Data Lake
4 214 (7.13%) Tableau
5 183 (6.10%) Metadata
6 110 (3.67%) Delta Lake
7 108 (3.60%) BigQuery
8 106 (3.53%) SQL Server
9 92 (3.07%) Big Data
10 79 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
11 73 (2.43%) Azure SQL Database
12 71 (2.37%) Relational Database
13 69 (2.30%) Snowflake Schema
14 68 (2.27%) NoSQL
15 67 (2.23%) Amazon Athena
16 59 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
17 58 (1.93%) Looker
18 56 (1.87%) Power Query
19 55 (1.83%) Star Schema
20 54 (1.80%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 180 (6.00%) Git
2 178 (5.93%) JIRA
3 67 (2.23%) Jenkins
4 65 (2.17%) GitLab
5 20 (0.67%) ERwin
6 15 (0.50%) MLflow
7 12 (0.40%) Selenium
8 8 (0.27%) MSI
8 8 (0.27%) PowerDesigner
9 7 (0.23%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.23%) ER Studio
9 7 (0.23%) Gradle
9 7 (0.23%) JUnit
9 7 (0.23%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.20%) Android Studio
10 6 (0.20%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.17%) Postman
11 5 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 5 (0.17%) XCTest
12 4 (0.13%) TeamCity
General
1 794 (26.46%) Social Skills
2 761 (25.36%) Finance
3 540 (17.99%) Analytical Skills
4 312 (10.40%) Public Sector
5 193 (6.43%) Banking
6 165 (5.50%) Marketing
7 91 (3.03%) Retail
8 84 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
9 56 (1.87%) Legal
10 50 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
10 50 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
11 49 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 49 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
12 46 (1.53%) Investment Banking
12 46 (1.53%) Telecoms
13 42 (1.40%) Front Office
14 39 (1.30%) Manufacturing
15 35 (1.17%) Financial Institution
16 24 (0.80%) Military
17 22 (0.73%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 573 (19.09%) Data Engineer
2 359 (11.96%) Senior
3 357 (11.90%) Analyst
4 356 (11.86%) Architect
5 334 (11.13%) Developer
6 259 (8.63%) Lead
7 153 (5.10%) Data Architect
8 144 (4.80%) Data Analyst
9 121 (4.03%) Consultant
10 106 (3.53%) Azure Engineer
11 102 (3.40%) Business Analyst
12 99 (3.30%) Data Scientist
13 97 (3.23%) Senior Data Engineer
14 86 (2.87%) Solutions Architect
15 67 (2.23%) Project Manager
16 61 (2.03%) Designer
17 60 (2.00%) Data Manager
18 52 (1.73%) Business Intelligence Developer
19 51 (1.70%) Python Developer
20 50 (1.67%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (5.90%) PySpark
2 149 (4.97%) Kafka
3 125 (4.17%) REST
4 69 (2.30%) Pandas
5 60 (2.00%) PyTorch
5 60 (2.00%) TensorFlow
6 59 (1.97%) React
7 55 (1.83%) JSON
8 47 (1.57%) HTML
9 45 (1.50%) CSS
10 44 (1.47%) scikit-learn
11 42 (1.40%) NumPy
12 41 (1.37%) AngularJS
12 41 (1.37%) SOAP
13 39 (1.30%) Node.js
14 38 (1.27%) .NET
15 35 (1.17%) Middleware
16 34 (1.13%) Oracle Fusion
17 32 (1.07%) RESTful
18 28 (0.93%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 201 (6.70%) Cloud Native
2 136 (4.53%) Product Ownership
3 101 (3.37%) Data Structures
4 86 (2.87%) Onboarding
5 71 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
6 62 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
7 55 (1.83%) Management Information System
8 53 (1.77%) Algorithms
8 53 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
9 45 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
10 39 (1.30%) Public Cloud
11 36 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
12 34 (1.13%) AI Agents
13 33 (1.10%) NHS
14 32 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
15 31 (1.03%) Mobile App
16 30 (1.00%) Equities
17 29 (0.97%) Derivative
17 29 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
17 29 (0.97%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 86 (2.87%) Windows
2 79 (2.63%) Linux
3 33 (1.10%) Unix
4 32 (1.07%) Mac OS
5 20 (0.67%) Apple iOS
6 14 (0.47%) Android
7 12 (0.40%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.20%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.100%) CentOS
11 2 (0.067%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.067%) zOS
12 1 (0.033%) Rocky
12 1 (0.033%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 834 (27.79%) Business Intelligence
2 820 (27.32%) Data Modelling
3 665 (22.16%) AI
4 664 (22.13%) Agile
5 627 (20.89%) Data Pipeline
6 606 (20.19%) CI/CD
7 596 (19.86%) Data Engineering
8 583 (19.43%) ETL
9 524 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
10 513 (17.09%) Data Governance
11 510 (16.99%) DevOps
12 482 (16.06%) Decision-Making
13 387 (12.90%) Stakeholder Management
14 373 (12.43%) Machine Learning
15 368 (12.26%) Data Science
16 343 (11.43%) Data Analytics
17 336 (11.20%) Continuous Improvement
18 324 (10.80%) Migration
19 297 (9.90%) Validation
20 291 (9.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,031 (34.36%) SQL
2 952 (31.72%) Python
3 145 (4.83%) Java
4 115 (3.83%) PowerShell
5 99 (3.30%) C#
6 95 (3.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 82 (2.73%) R
8 74 (2.47%) JavaScript
9 72 (2.40%) Bicep
10 46 (1.53%) Kusto Query Language
11 45 (1.50%) T-SQL
12 44 (1.47%) TypeScript
13 42 (1.40%) Scala
14 41 (1.37%) Bash
15 26 (0.87%) C++
15 26 (0.87%) Shell Script
16 25 (0.83%) PL/SQL
17 23 (0.77%) VBA
18 10 (0.33%) Kotlin
19 8 (0.27%) Korn
Qualifications
1 527 (17.56%) Security Cleared
2 416 (13.86%) SC Cleared
3 242 (8.06%) Degree
4 71 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 69 (2.30%) Azure Certification
6 53 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
7 45 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 41 (1.37%) DV Cleared
9 38 (1.27%) Master's Degree
10 27 (0.90%) PMI Certification
11 23 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
11 23 (0.77%) CISSP
12 22 (0.73%) PMP
13 20 (0.67%) AWS Certification
14 16 (0.53%) CCNP
15 14 (0.47%) PhD
16 13 (0.43%) CISM
16 13 (0.43%) IIBA
17 12 (0.40%) CCIE
18 8 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 545 (18.16%) Data Quality
2 161 (5.36%) GDPR
3 125 (4.17%) QA
4 99 (3.30%) Accessibility
5 37 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 35 (1.17%) WCAG
7 29 (0.97%) NIST
8 26 (0.87%) PMO
9 21 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
10 14 (0.47%) GRC
10 14 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 14 (0.47%) SLA
11 13 (0.43%) Solvency II
12 12 (0.40%) PERC
13 10 (0.33%) NCSC
14 9 (0.30%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.27%) HL7
15 8 (0.27%) ISO 20022
16 7 (0.23%) NIST 800
17 6 (0.20%) IFRS
System Software
1 184 (6.13%) Docker
2 76 (2.53%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.13%) HDFS
6 4 (0.13%) Snort
6 4 (0.13%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.067%) GPFS
7 2 (0.067%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.067%) Lustre
7 2 (0.067%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.033%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.033%) iptables
8 1 (0.033%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.033%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.033%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 252 (8.40%) Terraform
2 190 (6.33%) Kubernetes
3 41 (1.37%) Ansible
3 41 (1.37%) Grafana
4 37 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 31 (1.03%) Prometheus
6 20 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (0.50%) SCCM
8 9 (0.30%) Puppet
9 6 (0.20%) Kibana
10 5 (0.17%) Argo
11 4 (0.13%) Control-M
11 4 (0.13%) CSIRT
11 4 (0.13%) logstash
11 4 (0.13%) WSUS
12 3 (0.100%) Nagios
12 3 (0.100%) SysTrack
13 2 (0.067%) Apache Ranger
13 2 (0.067%) Nessus
13 2 (0.067%) SCOM
Vendors
1 547 (18.23%) Microsoft
2 402 (13.40%) Databricks
3 172 (5.73%) Google
4 155 (5.16%) Oracle
5 148 (4.93%) SAP
6 70 (2.33%) ServiceNow
7 69 (2.30%) Adobe
7 69 (2.30%) Salesforce
8 65 (2.17%) Informatica
9 54 (1.80%) Splunk
10 52 (1.73%) Talend
11 44 (1.47%) OpenAI
12 41 (1.37%) Denodo
13 37 (1.23%) Foundry
14 36 (1.20%) Workday
15 24 (0.80%) IBM
16 21 (0.70%) VMware
17 19 (0.63%) Dynatrace
18 16 (0.53%) Cisco
19 14 (0.47%) Ariba