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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 35
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,516 1,795 1,766
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.70% 6.50% 5.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.07% 7.16% 6.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,340 1,181 1,261
10th Percentile £363 £353 £356
25th Percentile £435 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £551
Median % change year-on-year - -4.72% -4.17%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £688
90th Percentile £750 £790 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 48 23
10th Percentile £20.82 £16.13 £22.30
25th Percentile £27.40 £26.35 £27.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £34.74 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.12% +12.06% -4.08%
75th Percentile £74.69 £71.59 £43.75
90th Percentile £87.08 £80.30 £59.05
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £34.74 £30.19
% change year-on-year +43.93% +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 38,776 25,061 28,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.95% 90.80% 85.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,043 15,975 18,472
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £530
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -3.77% -3.64%
75th Percentile £630 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,543 1,444 1,583
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.22 £14.05
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.88 £18.12
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.83%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.21 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.63 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +65.54% -38.57% -0.24%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +1 1,925 £550 - 1,822
North of England +11 449 £495 +6.34% 410
Midlands +7 415 £496 -3.64% 206
South East +14 358 £513 -0.49% 531
West Midlands +3 331 £492 -5.11% 139
North West +5 226 £525 +10.53% 227
Yorkshire +9 184 £463 +2.66% 130
South West +15 172 £500 +6.38% 174
East of England -6 108 £565 -1.74% 103
East Midlands +6 77 £525 +27.27% 67
North East -2 50 £445 +6.27% 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
1 159 (4.52%) Apache Airflow
2 142 (4.04%) Apache Spark
3 117 (3.33%) SAS
4 98 (2.79%) Apache
5 75 (2.13%) Confluence
6 51 (1.45%) SharePoint
7 48 (1.37%) CMS
8 31 (0.88%) Palantir Foundry
9 30 (0.85%) Jupyter
10 26 (0.74%) Oracle Application Server
11 20 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 13 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
13 10 (0.28%) Apache Superset
13 10 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
14 8 (0.23%) Drupal
14 8 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
15 6 (0.17%) IIS
15 6 (0.17%) WordPress
16 2 (0.057%) ArcGIS
16 2 (0.057%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 157 (4.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (0.60%) Chatbot
5 16 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
6 15 (0.43%) CPLEX
7 11 (0.31%) MS Visio
8 10 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.11%) Trello
10 3 (0.085%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.085%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.085%) Oracle Smart View
11 2 (0.057%) InDesign
11 2 (0.057%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.057%) Sketch
12 1 (0.028%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.028%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.028%) Notion
12 1 (0.028%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.028%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 68 (1.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
4 15 (0.43%) Workday HCM
5 13 (0.37%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 10 (0.28%) Aladdin
7 9 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
7 9 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
7 9 (0.26%) Shopify
8 8 (0.23%) SAP ERP
9 7 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
9 7 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 6 (0.17%) NetSuite
10 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.17%) SAP CO
10 6 (0.17%) SAP FI
10 6 (0.17%) SAP GRC
11 5 (0.14%) Infor LN
11 5 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
11 5 (0.14%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 1,046 (29.75%) Azure
2 708 (20.14%) Power Platform
3 622 (17.69%) AWS
4 303 (8.62%) GCP
5 241 (6.85%) Azure DevOps
6 238 (6.77%) Snowflake
7 234 (6.66%) Azure Data Factory
8 187 (5.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 181 (5.15%) dbt
10 161 (4.58%) GitHub
11 143 (4.07%) Serverless
12 138 (3.92%) Azure Monitor
13 127 (3.61%) Amazon S3
14 114 (3.24%) Entra ID
15 102 (2.90%) SaaS
16 94 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
17 87 (2.47%) GitHub Actions
18 83 (2.36%) Microsoft 365
19 63 (1.79%) Google Analytics
20 55 (1.56%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 63 (1.79%) Firewall
2 56 (1.59%) Network Security
3 39 (1.11%) DNS
4 35 (1.00%) VPN
5 26 (0.74%) WAN
6 23 (0.65%) SD-WAN
6 23 (0.65%) TCP/IP
7 20 (0.57%) BGP
8 15 (0.43%) DHCP
9 11 (0.31%) OSPF
10 10 (0.28%) Broadband
10 10 (0.28%) SMS
11 9 (0.26%) Wireless
12 8 (0.23%) LAN
13 7 (0.20%) HTTP
13 7 (0.20%) Internet
13 7 (0.20%) VXLAN
13 7 (0.20%) WLAN
14 6 (0.17%) 5G
14 6 (0.17%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 674 (19.17%) Power BI
2 450 (12.80%) Data Warehouse
3 262 (7.45%) Data Lake
4 224 (6.37%) Tableau
5 222 (6.31%) Metadata
6 139 (3.95%) BigQuery
7 98 (2.79%) SQL Server
8 93 (2.65%) Amazon Redshift
8 93 (2.65%) Big Data
9 90 (2.56%) Delta Lake
10 86 (2.45%) Relational Database
11 76 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
12 72 (2.05%) Looker
12 72 (2.05%) NoSQL
13 69 (1.96%) Snowflake Schema
14 65 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
15 64 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
16 59 (1.68%) Semantic Layer
17 56 (1.59%) Power Query
18 53 (1.51%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 193 (5.49%) Git
2 168 (4.78%) JIRA
3 70 (1.99%) Jenkins
4 50 (1.42%) GitLab
5 15 (0.43%) ERwin
6 10 (0.28%) fastlane
7 9 (0.26%) SonarQube
8 8 (0.23%) Bitbucket
8 8 (0.23%) ER Studio
8 8 (0.23%) MLflow
9 7 (0.20%) Gradle
9 7 (0.20%) Selenium
9 7 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (0.17%) Android Studio
10 6 (0.17%) Crashlytics
10 6 (0.17%) JUnit
11 5 (0.14%) Postman
11 5 (0.14%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.14%) RStudio
11 5 (0.14%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 913 (25.97%) Social Skills
2 889 (25.28%) Finance
3 635 (18.06%) Analytical Skills
4 427 (12.14%) Public Sector
5 259 (7.37%) Banking
6 219 (6.23%) Marketing
7 164 (4.66%) Retail
8 94 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 89 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
10 75 (2.13%) Legal
11 68 (1.93%) Manufacturing
12 65 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
13 62 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
14 58 (1.65%) Front Office
15 55 (1.56%) Investment Banking
16 46 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
16 46 (1.31%) Telecoms
17 40 (1.14%) Financial Institution
17 40 (1.14%) Publishing
18 36 (1.02%) Military
Job Titles
1 613 (17.43%) Data Engineer
2 458 (13.03%) Architect
3 439 (12.49%) Senior
4 432 (12.29%) Analyst
5 336 (9.56%) Developer
6 304 (8.65%) Lead
7 206 (5.86%) Data Architect
8 169 (4.81%) Data Analyst
9 161 (4.58%) Consultant
10 126 (3.58%) Solutions Architect
11 109 (3.10%) Senior Data Engineer
12 108 (3.07%) Azure Engineer
13 106 (3.01%) Data Scientist
14 103 (2.93%) Business Analyst
15 75 (2.13%) Data Manager
16 64 (1.82%) Product Manager
17 62 (1.76%) Project Manager
18 61 (1.73%) Python Developer
19 60 (1.71%) Azure Data Engineer
20 59 (1.68%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 263 (7.48%) Terraform
2 215 (6.11%) PySpark
3 136 (3.87%) REST
4 114 (3.24%) Kafka
5 64 (1.82%) Pandas
6 56 (1.59%) RESTful
7 50 (1.42%) React
8 49 (1.39%) .NET
8 49 (1.39%) HTML
9 46 (1.31%) JSON
10 45 (1.28%) CSS
11 42 (1.19%) ARM Templates
11 42 (1.19%) OAuth
12 38 (1.08%) NumPy
13 36 (1.02%) Oracle Fusion
14 35 (1.00%) SOAP
15 34 (0.97%) OpenID
16 33 (0.94%) Web Services
17 32 (0.91%) OAuth2
18 29 (0.82%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 244 (6.94%) Cloud Native
2 184 (5.23%) Product Ownership
3 140 (3.98%) Data Structures
4 122 (3.47%) Legacy Systems
5 120 (3.41%) Onboarding
6 71 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
7 65 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
8 60 (1.71%) Management Information System
9 54 (1.54%) AI Agents
10 49 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
11 43 (1.22%) Algorithms
11 43 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
11 43 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
12 42 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
13 41 (1.17%) NHS
14 38 (1.08%) Virtual Team
15 37 (1.05%) Marketing Technology
16 34 (0.97%) Mobile App
17 31 (0.88%) Derivative
18 30 (0.85%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 87 (2.47%) Linux
2 79 (2.25%) Windows
3 40 (1.14%) Unix
4 33 (0.94%) Windows Server
5 16 (0.46%) Apple iOS
6 13 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.34%) Mac OS
8 10 (0.28%) Android
9 9 (0.26%) VMS
10 5 (0.14%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.085%) Solaris
11 3 (0.085%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.057%) AIX
12 2 (0.057%) CentOS
12 2 (0.057%) HPUX
13 1 (0.028%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 935 (26.59%) Data Modelling
2 906 (25.77%) Business Intelligence
3 861 (24.49%) AI
4 806 (22.92%) Agile
5 722 (20.53%) Data Pipeline
6 689 (19.60%) Data Engineering
7 687 (19.54%) Stakeholder Management
8 671 (19.08%) CI/CD
9 626 (17.80%) Decision-Making
10 582 (16.55%) ETL
11 552 (15.70%) Data Governance
12 540 (15.36%) DevOps
13 512 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
14 452 (12.86%) Migration
15 430 (12.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 429 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
17 410 (11.66%) Machine Learning
18 404 (11.49%) Validation
19 399 (11.35%) Data Science
20 383 (10.89%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,132 (32.20%) SQL
2 989 (28.13%) Python
3 160 (4.55%) PowerShell
4 111 (3.16%) Java
5 102 (2.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 87 (2.47%) Bicep
6 87 (2.47%) C#
7 74 (2.10%) JavaScript
8 57 (1.62%) R
9 53 (1.51%) Bash
10 37 (1.05%) Scala
11 35 (1.00%) Shell Script
11 35 (1.00%) TypeScript
12 34 (0.97%) Kusto Query Language
13 30 (0.85%) T-SQL
14 28 (0.80%) PL/SQL
15 18 (0.51%) C++
16 17 (0.48%) VBA
17 12 (0.34%) Kotlin
18 10 (0.28%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 633 (18.00%) Security Cleared
2 499 (14.19%) SC Cleared
3 278 (7.91%) Degree
4 85 (2.42%) Azure Certification
5 78 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 78 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 74 (2.10%) DV Cleared
7 53 (1.51%) Master's Degree
8 44 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 38 (1.08%) CISSP
10 28 (0.80%) AWS Certification
11 27 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
12 25 (0.71%) PMI Certification
13 21 (0.60%) DBS Check
13 21 (0.60%) PMP
14 15 (0.43%) CCNP
15 14 (0.40%) CCIE
16 12 (0.34%) PhD
17 11 (0.31%) CISA
17 11 (0.31%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 691 (19.65%) Data Quality
2 167 (4.75%) GDPR
3 140 (3.98%) QA
4 133 (3.78%) Accessibility
5 52 (1.48%) GRC
6 48 (1.37%) WCAG
7 38 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 32 (0.91%) NIST
9 26 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
9 26 (0.74%) PMO
10 18 (0.51%) SLA
11 14 (0.40%) PCI DSS
11 14 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 13 (0.37%) Solvency II
13 12 (0.34%) PERC
14 10 (0.28%) IFRS
14 10 (0.28%) NCSC
15 7 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
16 6 (0.17%) GAAP
16 6 (0.17%) PSD2
System Software
1 153 (4.35%) Docker
2 93 (2.65%) Active Directory
3 28 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.23%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.20%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.085%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 3 (0.085%) HDFS
9 2 (0.057%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.057%) vSphere
9 2 (0.057%) XenApp
9 2 (0.057%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.028%) iptables
10 1 (0.028%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.028%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 167 (4.75%) Kubernetes
2 52 (1.48%) Ansible
3 40 (1.14%) Grafana
4 24 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
5 23 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (0.40%) Prometheus
7 13 (0.37%) SCCM
8 8 (0.23%) Control-M
8 8 (0.23%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.20%) SCOM
10 6 (0.17%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.11%) Podman
11 4 (0.11%) QRadar
11 4 (0.11%) SysTrack
12 3 (0.085%) Apache Ranger
12 3 (0.085%) CASB
12 3 (0.085%) NetBackup
12 3 (0.085%) Thomson Reuters DACS
13 2 (0.057%) MOM
13 2 (0.057%) Rancher
Vendors
1 631 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 459 (13.05%) Databricks
3 224 (6.37%) Oracle
4 185 (5.26%) SAP
5 179 (5.09%) Google
6 83 (2.36%) Salesforce
7 81 (2.30%) Adobe
7 81 (2.30%) ServiceNow
8 54 (1.54%) Workday
9 49 (1.39%) Splunk
10 47 (1.34%) Foundry
11 45 (1.28%) Informatica
12 41 (1.17%) Denodo
13 40 (1.14%) Dynatrace
13 40 (1.14%) Talend
14 38 (1.08%) Palantir
15 34 (0.97%) Cisco
16 29 (0.82%) VMware
17 25 (0.71%) OpenAI
18 22 (0.63%) Alteryx