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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 34
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 +2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,531 1,805 1,780
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.74% 6.53% 5.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.10% 7.19% 6.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,359 1,191 1,274
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £430 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £632 £660 £688
90th Percentile £750 £806 £796
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 48 25
10th Percentile £20.60 £15.27 £21.44
25th Percentile £28.31 £24.50 £27.00
Median hourly rate £52.75 £34.74 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.84% +12.06% -4.05%
75th Percentile £76.88 £70.48 £43.75
90th Percentile £87.44 £80.30 £69.78
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £34.74 £30.19
% change year-on-year +51.12% +15.09% -6.58%

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 38,792 25,089 28,626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.08% 90.79% 85.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,117 16,022 18,624
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £422
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 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,537 1,415 1,654
10th Percentile £14.56 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.87 £18.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.78%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +68.99% -38.57% -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 11 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 11 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 11 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 1,939 £550 -2.22% 2,402
North of England +12 440 £492 +9.21% 485
Midlands +6 427 £495 -3.88% 254
South East +7 355 £500 -2.91% 543
West Midlands +4 344 £492 -6.29% 179
North West +5 217 £525 +11.35% 295
Yorkshire +7 181 £463 +1.31% 141
South West +17 179 £500 +5.26% 197
East of England -12 106 £565 -2.59% 119
East Midlands +8 76 £525 +27.27% 75
North East -3 52 £450 +9.09% 52
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
1 161 (4.56%) Apache Airflow
2 148 (4.19%) Apache Spark
3 126 (3.57%) SAS
4 96 (2.72%) Apache
5 76 (2.15%) Confluence
6 49 (1.39%) SharePoint
7 47 (1.33%) CMS
8 31 (0.88%) Jupyter
9 30 (0.85%) Palantir Foundry
10 26 (0.74%) Oracle Application Server
11 20 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 11 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
13 9 (0.25%) Apache Superset
13 9 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
14 8 (0.23%) Drupal
14 8 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
15 7 (0.20%) WordPress
16 6 (0.17%) IIS
17 2 (0.057%) ArcGIS
17 2 (0.057%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 159 (4.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (0.59%) Chatbot
5 18 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (0.40%) CPLEX
7 11 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
7 11 (0.31%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
8 4 (0.11%) Trello
9 3 (0.085%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.085%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.057%) InDesign
10 2 (0.057%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.057%) Sketch
11 1 (0.028%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.028%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.028%) Notion
11 1 (0.028%) PlantUML
11 1 (0.028%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 64 (1.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
4 13 (0.37%) Workday HCM
5 11 (0.31%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 10 (0.28%) Aladdin
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%) SAP GRC
11 5 (0.14%) BambooHR
11 5 (0.14%) Infor LN
11 5 (0.14%) Sage X3
11 5 (0.14%) SAP BPC
11 5 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,033 (29.26%) Azure
2 722 (20.45%) Power Platform
3 627 (17.76%) AWS
4 303 (8.58%) GCP
5 239 (6.77%) Azure DevOps
5 239 (6.77%) Snowflake
6 225 (6.37%) Azure Data Factory
7 190 (5.38%) dbt
8 188 (5.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 163 (4.62%) GitHub
10 138 (3.91%) Serverless
11 133 (3.77%) Azure Monitor
12 131 (3.71%) Amazon S3
13 110 (3.12%) Entra ID
14 98 (2.78%) SaaS
15 94 (2.66%) AWS Lambda
16 91 (2.58%) GitHub Actions
17 80 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
18 61 (1.73%) Google Analytics
19 55 (1.56%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 59 (1.67%) Firewall
2 47 (1.33%) Network Security
3 34 (0.96%) VPN
4 33 (0.93%) DNS
5 26 (0.74%) WAN
6 23 (0.65%) SD-WAN
7 20 (0.57%) BGP
7 20 (0.57%) TCP/IP
8 13 (0.37%) DHCP
9 11 (0.31%) OSPF
10 10 (0.28%) SMS
11 9 (0.25%) Broadband
11 9 (0.25%) Wireless
12 8 (0.23%) LAN
13 7 (0.20%) 5G
13 7 (0.20%) HTTP
13 7 (0.20%) Internet
13 7 (0.20%) VXLAN
13 7 (0.20%) WLAN
14 6 (0.17%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 689 (19.51%) Power BI
2 467 (13.23%) Data Warehouse
3 268 (7.59%) Data Lake
4 227 (6.43%) Tableau
5 216 (6.12%) Metadata
6 136 (3.85%) BigQuery
7 100 (2.83%) Big Data
8 99 (2.80%) SQL Server
9 98 (2.78%) Delta Lake
10 94 (2.66%) Amazon Redshift
11 89 (2.52%) Relational Database
12 73 (2.07%) NoSQL
12 73 (2.07%) Snowflake Schema
13 70 (1.98%) Looker
14 69 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
15 67 (1.90%) Amazon Athena
16 65 (1.84%) Azure SQL Database
17 61 (1.73%) Semantic Layer
18 57 (1.61%) Power Query
19 53 (1.50%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 206 (5.83%) Git
2 171 (4.84%) JIRA
3 79 (2.24%) Jenkins
4 53 (1.50%) GitLab
5 15 (0.42%) ERwin
6 10 (0.28%) ER Studio
6 10 (0.28%) fastlane
6 10 (0.28%) JUnit
6 10 (0.28%) MLflow
6 10 (0.28%) Selenium
7 9 (0.25%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.20%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.20%) Gradle
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%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.14%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.14%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 912 (25.83%) Social Skills
2 881 (24.95%) Finance
3 629 (17.81%) Analytical Skills
4 430 (12.18%) Public Sector
5 258 (7.31%) Banking
6 216 (6.12%) Marketing
7 155 (4.39%) Retail
8 88 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 87 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
10 72 (2.04%) Legal
11 67 (1.90%) Manufacturing
12 66 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
13 61 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
14 59 (1.67%) Front Office
15 56 (1.59%) Investment Banking
16 51 (1.44%) Telecoms
17 46 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
18 40 (1.13%) Financial Institution
19 38 (1.08%) Publishing
20 36 (1.02%) Military
Job Titles
1 632 (17.90%) Data Engineer
2 456 (12.91%) Architect
3 437 (12.38%) Senior
4 434 (12.29%) Analyst
5 347 (9.83%) Developer
6 305 (8.64%) Lead
7 202 (5.72%) Data Architect
8 176 (4.98%) Data Analyst
9 152 (4.30%) Consultant
10 128 (3.63%) Solutions Architect
11 110 (3.12%) Business Analyst
11 110 (3.12%) Data Scientist
12 109 (3.09%) Azure Engineer
13 108 (3.06%) Senior Data Engineer
14 75 (2.12%) Data Manager
15 63 (1.78%) Python Developer
16 62 (1.76%) Azure Data Engineer
16 62 (1.76%) Product Manager
17 61 (1.73%) Project Manager
18 58 (1.64%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 208 (5.89%) PySpark
2 134 (3.79%) REST
3 123 (3.48%) Kafka
4 67 (1.90%) Pandas
5 57 (1.61%) RESTful
6 49 (1.39%) .NET
7 48 (1.36%) HTML
7 48 (1.36%) JSON
7 48 (1.36%) React
8 43 (1.22%) CSS
9 42 (1.19%) NumPy
10 41 (1.16%) OAuth
11 37 (1.05%) ARM Templates
11 37 (1.05%) Oracle Fusion
12 35 (0.99%) SOAP
13 34 (0.96%) Web Services
14 33 (0.93%) OpenID
15 31 (0.88%) OAuth2
15 31 (0.88%) scikit-learn
16 28 (0.79%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 239 (6.77%) Cloud Native
2 185 (5.24%) Product Ownership
3 145 (4.11%) Data Structures
4 128 (3.63%) Legacy Systems
5 115 (3.26%) Onboarding
6 71 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
7 64 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
8 54 (1.53%) Management Information System
9 50 (1.42%) AI Agents
10 48 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
11 46 (1.30%) Algorithms
12 44 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
12 44 (1.25%) NHS
13 43 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
14 40 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
15 37 (1.05%) Marketing Technology
15 37 (1.05%) Virtual Team
16 34 (0.96%) Mobile App
17 31 (0.88%) Derivative
17 31 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 88 (2.49%) Linux
2 76 (2.15%) Windows
3 41 (1.16%) Unix
4 27 (0.76%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 13 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.34%) Mac OS
8 10 (0.28%) Android
9 6 (0.17%) 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
1 969 (27.44%) Data Modelling
2 923 (26.14%) Business Intelligence
3 844 (23.90%) AI
4 822 (23.28%) Agile
5 750 (21.24%) Data Pipeline
6 704 (19.94%) Data Engineering
7 688 (19.48%) CI/CD
8 648 (18.35%) Stakeholder Management
9 620 (17.56%) Decision-Making
10 608 (17.22%) ETL
11 557 (15.77%) DevOps
12 554 (15.69%) Data Governance
13 516 (14.61%) Problem-Solving
14 447 (12.66%) Migration
15 435 (12.32%) Continuous Improvement
16 426 (12.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 419 (11.87%) Machine Learning
18 407 (11.53%) Data Science
19 406 (11.50%) Validation
20 374 (10.59%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,153 (32.65%) SQL
2 1,005 (28.46%) Python
3 147 (4.16%) PowerShell
4 112 (3.17%) Java
5 105 (2.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 86 (2.44%) C#
7 79 (2.24%) Bicep
8 72 (2.04%) JavaScript
9 59 (1.67%) R
10 49 (1.39%) Bash
11 38 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
12 37 (1.05%) Shell Script
13 36 (1.02%) TypeScript
14 35 (0.99%) Scala
15 32 (0.91%) T-SQL
16 28 (0.79%) PL/SQL
17 19 (0.54%) C++
17 19 (0.54%) VBA
18 11 (0.31%) Kotlin
19 10 (0.28%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 645 (18.27%) Security Cleared
2 513 (14.53%) SC Cleared
3 276 (7.82%) Degree
4 83 (2.35%) Azure Certification
5 82 (2.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 76 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 69 (1.95%) DV Cleared
8 52 (1.47%) Master's Degree
9 41 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
10 36 (1.02%) CISSP
11 28 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
12 27 (0.76%) AWS Certification
13 25 (0.71%) PMI Certification
14 21 (0.59%) PMP
15 20 (0.57%) DBS Check
16 15 (0.42%) CCNP
17 14 (0.40%) CCIE
18 12 (0.34%) PhD
19 11 (0.31%) CISA
20 10 (0.28%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 689 (19.51%) Data Quality
2 168 (4.76%) GDPR
3 140 (3.96%) QA
4 130 (3.68%) Accessibility
5 51 (1.44%) GRC
6 48 (1.36%) WCAG
7 39 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 32 (0.91%) NIST
9 26 (0.74%) PMO
10 23 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
11 16 (0.45%) SLA
12 13 (0.37%) PCI DSS
12 13 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 13 (0.37%) Solvency II
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
1 161 (4.56%) Docker
2 86 (2.44%) Active Directory
3 24 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.17%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.14%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.085%) HDFS
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
1 259 (7.34%) Terraform
2 182 (5.15%) Kubernetes
3 48 (1.36%) Ansible
4 37 (1.05%) Grafana
5 24 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 24 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
6 20 (0.57%) Prometheus
7 11 (0.31%) SCCM
8 8 (0.23%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.20%) Control-M
10 6 (0.17%) SCOM
11 4 (0.11%) Podman
11 4 (0.11%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.11%) QRadar
12 3 (0.085%) Apache Ranger
12 3 (0.085%) CSIRT
12 3 (0.085%) Kibana
12 3 (0.085%) NetBackup
13 2 (0.057%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.057%) MOM
Vendors
1 618 (17.50%) Microsoft
2 455 (12.89%) Databricks
3 226 (6.40%) Oracle
4 181 (5.13%) SAP
5 176 (4.98%) Google
6 88 (2.49%) ServiceNow
7 84 (2.38%) Salesforce
8 83 (2.35%) Adobe
9 52 (1.47%) Splunk
9 52 (1.47%) Workday
10 47 (1.33%) Foundry
11 44 (1.25%) Denodo
12 43 (1.22%) Informatica
13 42 (1.19%) Talend
14 40 (1.13%) Dynatrace
15 38 (1.08%) Palantir
16 29 (0.82%) Cisco
17 26 (0.74%) OpenAI
18 25 (0.71%) VMware
19 19 (0.54%) Alteryx