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 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 27 34
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 +3
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,461 1,872 1,716
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.47% 6.67% 5.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.82% 7.33% 6.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,238 1,230 1,160
10th Percentile £360 £363 £356
25th Percentile £433 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £530 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% -0.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 46 27
10th Percentile £17.30 £17.50 £23.65
25th Percentile £25.69 £23.13 £27.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £34.99 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.04% +7.66% -8.78%
75th Percentile £73.75 £71.13 £57.53
90th Percentile £85.23 £82.50 £69.34
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £34.74 £32.50
% change year-on-year +36.73% +6.89% -8.78%

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 39,229 25,540 27,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.68% 90.96% 86.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,740 16,195 17,136
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £643
90th Percentile £738 £734 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,947 1,574 1,191
10th Percentile £13.81 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.54 £17.87 £20.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.47 £46.55 £67.01
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.62 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +53.57% -40.82% -

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 4 October 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 0 1,920 £550 - 7,198
North of England +10 475 £481 +1.32% 1,190
Midlands +3 365 £490 -4.85% 668
South East +16 351 £513 -1.44% 1,240
West Midlands -2 294 £488 -6.25% 414
North West +2 230 £528 +11.05% 668
Yorkshire +15 184 £463 -2.63% 375
South West +25 171 £525 +10.53% 499
East of England -8 104 £600 +8.60% 474
East Midlands 0 69 £500 +9.59% 254
North East +4 68 £445 +7.88% 152
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
1 164 (4.74%) Apache Airflow
2 129 (3.73%) Apache Spark
3 102 (2.95%) Apache
4 99 (2.86%) SAS
5 78 (2.25%) Confluence
6 62 (1.79%) CMS
7 49 (1.42%) SharePoint
8 34 (0.98%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 28 (0.81%) Palantir Foundry
10 27 (0.78%) Jupyter
11 22 (0.64%) Oracle Application Server
12 9 (0.26%) Drupal
12 9 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
13 8 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
14 7 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
15 6 (0.17%) Apache Superset
15 6 (0.17%) WordPress
16 5 (0.14%) nginx
17 3 (0.087%) IIS
18 2 (0.058%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 166 (4.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 29 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
4 20 (0.58%) Chatbot
5 16 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
6 15 (0.43%) MS Visio
7 13 (0.38%) CPLEX
8 12 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
9 5 (0.14%) Trello
10 3 (0.087%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.087%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.087%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.058%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.058%) PlantUML
11 2 (0.058%) Sketch
12 1 (0.029%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.029%) InDesign
12 1 (0.029%) LaTeX
12 1 (0.029%) Notion
12 1 (0.029%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 86 (2.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 36 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (0.58%) Workday HCM
4 17 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
5 15 (0.43%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 15 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
6 13 (0.38%) Aladdin
7 12 (0.35%) SAP HR
8 11 (0.32%) SAP FI
9 10 (0.29%) SAP CO
9 10 (0.29%) SAP HCM
10 9 (0.26%) SAP MM
10 9 (0.26%) Shopify
10 9 (0.26%) Workfront
11 8 (0.23%) SAP Payroll
12 7 (0.20%) SAP MDG
13 6 (0.17%) NetSuite
13 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
13 6 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
13 6 (0.17%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 983 (28.40%) Azure
2 700 (20.23%) Power Platform
3 582 (16.82%) AWS
4 318 (9.19%) GCP
5 272 (7.86%) Snowflake
6 234 (6.76%) Azure DevOps
7 221 (6.39%) Azure Data Factory
8 214 (6.18%) dbt
9 165 (4.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 147 (4.25%) GitHub
11 144 (4.16%) Serverless
12 125 (3.61%) Amazon S3
12 125 (3.61%) Azure Monitor
13 118 (3.41%) SaaS
14 114 (3.29%) Entra ID
15 91 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
16 78 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
17 72 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
18 65 (1.88%) Adobe Analytics
19 63 (1.82%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 58 (1.68%) Firewall
1 58 (1.68%) Network Security
2 38 (1.10%) DNS
3 32 (0.92%) VPN
4 22 (0.64%) TCP/IP
5 21 (0.61%) Broadband
6 19 (0.55%) WAN
7 15 (0.43%) BGP
7 15 (0.43%) DHCP
7 15 (0.43%) SD-WAN
8 8 (0.23%) LAN
8 8 (0.23%) SMS
8 8 (0.23%) Wireless
9 6 (0.17%) HTTP
9 6 (0.17%) Kerberos
9 6 (0.17%) NGFW
9 6 (0.17%) OSPF
9 6 (0.17%) SSH
9 6 (0.17%) WLAN
10 5 (0.14%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 677 (19.56%) Power BI
2 427 (12.34%) Data Warehouse
3 253 (7.31%) Data Lake
4 241 (6.96%) Metadata
5 219 (6.33%) Tableau
6 160 (4.62%) BigQuery
7 89 (2.57%) Amazon Redshift
8 84 (2.43%) Delta Lake
8 84 (2.43%) SQL Server
9 82 (2.37%) Looker
10 79 (2.28%) Big Data
11 78 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
12 77 (2.22%) Relational Database
13 67 (1.94%) Amazon Athena
14 59 (1.70%) Semantic Layer
15 58 (1.68%) NoSQL
16 56 (1.62%) Azure SQL Database
17 52 (1.50%) Snowflake Schema
18 50 (1.44%) Power Query
19 42 (1.21%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 193 (5.58%) Git
2 151 (4.36%) JIRA
3 58 (1.68%) Jenkins
4 57 (1.65%) GitLab
5 11 (0.32%) MLflow
6 9 (0.26%) fastlane
6 9 (0.26%) RStudio
7 8 (0.23%) Gradle
7 8 (0.23%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.20%) Postman
8 7 (0.20%) Selenium
8 7 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (0.17%) Crashlytics
9 6 (0.17%) ER Studio
9 6 (0.17%) ERwin
9 6 (0.17%) JUnit
9 6 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
9 6 (0.17%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.14%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.14%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 989 (28.58%) Social Skills
2 919 (26.55%) Finance
3 654 (18.90%) Analytical Skills
4 409 (11.82%) Public Sector
5 276 (7.97%) Banking
6 238 (6.88%) Marketing
7 179 (5.17%) Retail
8 116 (3.35%) Influencing Skills
9 91 (2.63%) Legal
10 87 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 87 (2.51%) Manufacturing
11 73 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
12 63 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
13 61 (1.76%) Front Office
14 55 (1.59%) Investment Banking
15 49 (1.42%) Publishing
16 44 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
17 42 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
18 41 (1.18%) Military
19 38 (1.10%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 557 (16.09%) Data Engineer
2 472 (13.64%) Senior
3 458 (13.23%) Analyst
4 440 (12.71%) Architect
5 294 (8.49%) Developer
6 284 (8.21%) Lead
7 200 (5.78%) Data Architect
8 183 (5.29%) Consultant
9 167 (4.83%) Data Analyst
10 124 (3.58%) Senior Data Engineer
11 120 (3.47%) Data Scientist
12 117 (3.38%) Solutions Architect
13 112 (3.24%) Business Analyst
14 99 (2.86%) Azure Engineer
15 72 (2.08%) Data Manager
16 66 (1.91%) Senior Analyst
16 66 (1.91%) Senior Manager
17 65 (1.88%) Product Manager
18 64 (1.85%) AWS Engineer
19 62 (1.79%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 280 (8.09%) Terraform
2 199 (5.75%) PySpark
3 137 (3.96%) REST
4 105 (3.03%) Kafka
5 60 (1.73%) Pandas
6 56 (1.62%) React
7 55 (1.59%) HTML
8 52 (1.50%) RESTful
9 50 (1.44%) CSS
10 46 (1.33%) OAuth
11 44 (1.27%) .NET
12 42 (1.21%) ARM Templates
13 39 (1.13%) JSON
13 39 (1.13%) NumPy
14 38 (1.10%) OpenID
15 33 (0.95%) OAuth2
16 32 (0.92%) Web Services
17 31 (0.90%) SOAP
18 28 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
19 27 (0.78%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 247 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 187 (5.40%) Product Ownership
3 148 (4.28%) Onboarding
4 137 (3.96%) Data Structures
5 102 (2.95%) Legacy Systems
6 84 (2.43%) Management Information System
7 74 (2.14%) AI Agents
8 66 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
9 60 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
10 50 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
11 45 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
12 44 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
13 42 (1.21%) Algorithms
14 40 (1.16%) Marketing Technology
14 40 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
15 39 (1.13%) Social Media
16 37 (1.07%) Virtual Team
17 36 (1.04%) Derivative
18 35 (1.01%) NHS
18 35 (1.01%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 91 (2.63%) Windows
2 85 (2.46%) Linux
3 39 (1.13%) Unix
4 37 (1.07%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.29%) Android
8 9 (0.26%) VMS
9 8 (0.23%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.17%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.087%) Solaris
11 3 (0.087%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.058%) AIX
12 2 (0.058%) CentOS
12 2 (0.058%) HPUX
13 1 (0.029%) Rocky
13 1 (0.029%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 966 (27.91%) AI
2 902 (26.06%) Data Modelling
3 868 (25.08%) Business Intelligence
4 847 (24.47%) Stakeholder Management
5 822 (23.75%) Agile
6 694 (20.05%) Decision-Making
7 685 (19.79%) Data Pipeline
8 657 (18.98%) Data Engineering
9 641 (18.52%) CI/CD
10 561 (16.21%) Data Governance
11 529 (15.28%) ETL
12 506 (14.62%) DevOps
13 486 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
14 468 (13.52%) Continuous Improvement
15 455 (13.15%) Roadmaps
16 452 (13.06%) Migration
17 439 (12.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 420 (12.14%) Machine Learning
19 418 (12.08%) Validation
20 409 (11.82%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 1,133 (32.74%) SQL
2 963 (27.82%) Python
3 159 (4.59%) PowerShell
4 100 (2.89%) Java
5 92 (2.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 90 (2.60%) JavaScript
7 77 (2.22%) Bicep
8 69 (1.99%) C#
9 65 (1.88%) Bash
10 61 (1.76%) R
11 40 (1.16%) Scala
11 40 (1.16%) TypeScript
12 29 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
12 29 (0.84%) Shell Script
13 19 (0.55%) C++
14 18 (0.52%) ABAP
14 18 (0.52%) T-SQL
15 15 (0.43%) LookML
15 15 (0.43%) PL/SQL
16 14 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 608 (17.57%) Security Cleared
2 484 (13.98%) SC Cleared
3 295 (8.52%) Degree
4 89 (2.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 88 (2.54%) Azure Certification
6 79 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 75 (2.17%) DV Cleared
8 57 (1.65%) Master's Degree
9 52 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
10 43 (1.24%) CISSP
11 38 (1.10%) AWS Certification
12 33 (0.95%) PMI Certification
13 28 (0.81%) PMP
14 27 (0.78%) DBS Check
15 20 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
16 13 (0.38%) MBA
17 11 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 11 (0.32%) CISA
17 11 (0.32%) SANS
17 11 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 767 (22.16%) Data Quality
2 158 (4.57%) GDPR
3 140 (4.05%) QA
4 134 (3.87%) Accessibility
5 49 (1.42%) GRC
6 41 (1.18%) WCAG
7 39 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 36 (1.04%) Actionable Recommendations
9 34 (0.98%) NIST
10 33 (0.95%) PMO
11 24 (0.69%) SLA
12 15 (0.43%) NCSC
13 13 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 12 (0.35%) IFRS
14 12 (0.35%) PCI DSS
15 10 (0.29%) PERC
15 10 (0.29%) Solvency II
16 8 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 8 (0.23%) GMP
17 7 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 145 (4.19%) Docker
2 96 (2.77%) Active Directory
3 27 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.26%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.12%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 3 (0.087%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.087%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.087%) vSphere
8 3 (0.087%) XenApp
9 2 (0.058%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.029%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.029%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 153 (4.42%) Kubernetes
2 43 (1.24%) Ansible
3 32 (0.92%) Grafana
4 24 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (0.49%) Prometheus
7 13 (0.38%) SCCM
8 9 (0.26%) Progress Chef
9 8 (0.23%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.23%) SCOM
10 6 (0.17%) Control-M
10 6 (0.17%) Kibana
10 6 (0.17%) Podman
11 5 (0.14%) QRadar
12 4 (0.12%) SysTrack
13 3 (0.087%) CASB
14 2 (0.058%) Docker Swarm
14 2 (0.058%) MOM
14 2 (0.058%) NetBackup
14 2 (0.058%) Puppet
Vendors
1 663 (19.16%) Microsoft
2 441 (12.74%) Databricks
3 205 (5.92%) SAP
4 193 (5.58%) Google
5 188 (5.43%) Oracle
6 102 (2.95%) Adobe
7 87 (2.51%) Salesforce
8 86 (2.48%) ServiceNow
9 60 (1.73%) Workday
10 50 (1.44%) Splunk
11 40 (1.16%) Dynatrace
11 40 (1.16%) Foundry
12 34 (0.98%) Palantir
13 32 (0.92%) Informatica
14 30 (0.87%) VMware
15 28 (0.81%) Cisco
16 26 (0.75%) Talend
17 25 (0.72%) OpenAI
18 24 (0.69%) Amplitude
18 24 (0.69%) Denodo