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 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 29 38
Rank change year-on-year +7 +9 0
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,606 1,566 1,847
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.51% 6.10% 4.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.61% 6.77% 5.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,768 1,029 1,270
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £418 £444 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £505 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -7.34% -0.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 26 73
10th Percentile £20.63 £23.13 £17.00
25th Percentile £37.38 £25.82 £25.00
Median hourly rate £57.30 £35.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year +63.71% -9.68% +10.71%
75th Percentile £75.00 £63.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £83.90 £71.11 £77.55
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £35.00 £39.38
% change year-on-year +57.14% -11.11% +12.50%

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 30,251 23,118 33,030
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.20% 90.09% 87.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,354 14,421 21,936
10th Percentile £313 £309 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,884 749 2,031
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.40 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.21 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.26% - -
75th Percentile £63.34 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.84 £72.33
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £32.91 £34.25
% change year-on-year -21.68% -3.93% -2.14%

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 23 February 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 23 February 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 23 February 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 +5 1,527 £525 -12.50% 884
North of England +8 278 £500 +7.47% 277
Midlands +25 277 £492 +3.14% 203
West Midlands +19 206 £500 +2.04% 126
South East -1 184 £489 +1.40% 544
North West +11 171 £480 +2.56% 152
South West +36 137 £525 +6.06% 133
East of England -4 101 £505 -15.83% 107
Yorkshire -8 86 £525 +10.53% 91
East Midlands +14 70 £444 +5.65% 76
North East +2 23 £450 +25.70% 37
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
1 116 (4.45%) Apache Spark
2 106 (4.07%) SAS
3 88 (3.38%) Apache Airflow
4 77 (2.95%) Apache
5 59 (2.26%) Confluence
6 47 (1.80%) SharePoint
7 30 (1.15%) CMS
8 20 (0.77%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 11 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
10 10 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
11 8 (0.31%) GeoServer
11 8 (0.31%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.31%) Smallworld
12 7 (0.27%) ArcGIS
12 7 (0.27%) WordPress
13 6 (0.23%) WebLogic
14 5 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
14 5 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 5 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
15 4 (0.15%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 123 (4.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (1.07%) MS Visio
5 21 (0.81%) Chatbot
6 14 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
7 9 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.19%) Adobe XD
8 5 (0.19%) Sketch
8 5 (0.19%) Trello
9 3 (0.12%) Notion
10 2 (0.077%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.038%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.038%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.038%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.038%) CapCut
11 1 (0.038%) FrameMaker
11 1 (0.038%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.038%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.038%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 70 (2.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.42%) SAP HR
4 9 (0.35%) SAP EHS
4 9 (0.35%) SAP FI
5 8 (0.31%) Maximo
5 8 (0.31%) SAP MM
6 7 (0.27%) Aladdin
6 7 (0.27%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 7 (0.27%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 6 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 5 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 5 (0.19%) SAP BPC
9 4 (0.15%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
9 4 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.12%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 846 (32.46%) Azure
2 579 (22.22%) Power Platform
3 557 (21.37%) AWS
4 264 (10.13%) GCP
5 199 (7.64%) Azure Data Factory
6 188 (7.21%) Azure DevOps
7 174 (6.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 171 (6.56%) Snowflake
9 150 (5.76%) GitHub
10 127 (4.87%) Serverless
11 111 (4.26%) Azure Monitor
12 109 (4.18%) Amazon S3
13 106 (4.07%) dbt
14 101 (3.88%) SaaS
15 94 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
16 85 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
17 76 (2.92%) Entra ID
18 69 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
19 59 (2.26%) Power Automate
20 54 (2.07%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 45 (1.73%) Firewall
2 27 (1.04%) VPN
3 24 (0.92%) Network Security
4 22 (0.84%) DNS
5 17 (0.65%) SMS
6 10 (0.38%) WAN
7 9 (0.35%) SSL
8 8 (0.31%) DHCP
9 7 (0.27%) 5G
9 7 (0.27%) HTTP
9 7 (0.27%) LAN
10 6 (0.23%) 2G
10 6 (0.23%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.19%) 4G
11 5 (0.19%) FTP
11 5 (0.19%) SMTP
12 4 (0.15%) Intrusion Detection
12 4 (0.15%) MPLS
12 4 (0.15%) Radio Access Network
13 3 (0.12%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 532 (20.41%) Power BI
2 292 (11.20%) Data Warehouse
3 198 (7.60%) Data Lake
4 169 (6.49%) Tableau
5 150 (5.76%) Metadata
6 83 (3.18%) BigQuery
7 81 (3.11%) Delta Lake
8 77 (2.95%) Big Data
8 77 (2.95%) SQL Server
9 67 (2.57%) PostgreSQL
10 65 (2.49%) Snowflake Schema
11 62 (2.38%) Looker
11 62 (2.38%) Relational Database
12 59 (2.26%) Azure SQL Database
13 54 (2.07%) NoSQL
14 49 (1.88%) Amazon Redshift
14 49 (1.88%) Hadoop
15 46 (1.77%) Amazon Athena
15 46 (1.77%) Data Vault
16 43 (1.65%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 184 (7.06%) Git
2 158 (6.06%) JIRA
3 90 (3.45%) Jenkins
4 82 (3.15%) GitLab
5 30 (1.15%) Selenium
6 24 (0.92%) JUnit
7 23 (0.88%) ERwin
8 15 (0.58%) MLflow
9 13 (0.50%) PowerDesigner
10 11 (0.42%) ER Studio
11 10 (0.38%) Android Studio
11 10 (0.38%) Gradle
12 8 (0.31%) SonarQube
12 8 (0.31%) Xcode
13 7 (0.27%) Cypress.io
13 7 (0.27%) Visual Website Optimizer
14 6 (0.23%) MSI
14 6 (0.23%) Postman
15 5 (0.19%) Maven
15 5 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
General
1 830 (31.85%) Social Skills
2 700 (26.86%) Finance
3 494 (18.96%) Analytical Skills
4 242 (9.29%) Public Sector
5 204 (7.83%) Banking
6 166 (6.37%) Marketing
7 75 (2.88%) Retail
8 70 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
9 64 (2.46%) Front Office
10 54 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
11 46 (1.77%) Investment Banking
11 46 (1.77%) Manufacturing
12 45 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
13 44 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 44 (1.69%) Legal
14 41 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
15 34 (1.30%) Financial Institution
16 30 (1.15%) Telecoms
17 24 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
18 21 (0.81%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 407 (15.62%) Data Engineer
2 355 (13.62%) Analyst
3 319 (12.24%) Developer
4 303 (11.63%) Senior
5 291 (11.17%) Architect
6 209 (8.02%) Lead
7 138 (5.30%) Data Analyst
8 128 (4.91%) Consultant
9 120 (4.60%) Business Analyst
10 115 (4.41%) Data Architect
11 99 (3.80%) Azure Engineer
12 93 (3.57%) Data Scientist
13 66 (2.53%) Project Manager
13 66 (2.53%) Senior Data Engineer
14 60 (2.30%) Solutions Architect
15 58 (2.23%) Senior Developer
16 53 (2.03%) Designer
17 48 (1.84%) Snowflake Engineer
18 40 (1.53%) AWS Engineer
18 40 (1.53%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (5.45%) REST
2 133 (5.10%) Kafka
2 133 (5.10%) PySpark
3 61 (2.34%) React
4 59 (2.26%) Pandas
5 57 (2.19%) TensorFlow
6 54 (2.07%) PyTorch
7 49 (1.88%) scikit-learn
8 48 (1.84%) JSON
8 48 (1.84%) NumPy
9 44 (1.69%) HTML
10 43 (1.65%) Node.js
11 41 (1.57%) .NET
11 41 (1.57%) RESTful
12 40 (1.53%) AngularJS
12 40 (1.53%) CSS
13 39 (1.50%) ARM Templates
14 33 (1.27%) SOAP
15 31 (1.19%) pytest
16 30 (1.15%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 131 (5.03%) Cloud Native
2 99 (3.80%) Product Ownership
3 87 (3.34%) Data Structures
4 74 (2.84%) Onboarding
5 62 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
6 56 (2.15%) Management Information System
7 53 (2.03%) Algorithms
8 50 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
8 50 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
9 47 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
10 45 (1.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 41 (1.57%) Equities
12 37 (1.42%) Mobile App
13 36 (1.38%) Derivative
14 35 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
15 31 (1.19%) NHS
16 30 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
16 30 (1.15%) Public Cloud
17 26 (1.00%) Fixed Income
17 26 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 86 (3.30%) Windows
2 73 (2.80%) Linux
3 26 (1.00%) Apple iOS
3 26 (1.00%) Mac OS
4 25 (0.96%) Unix
5 21 (0.81%) Android
6 8 (0.31%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.19%) VMS
7 5 (0.19%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.12%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.077%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.077%) zOS
10 1 (0.038%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.038%) CentOS
10 1 (0.038%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 717 (27.51%) Business Intelligence
2 662 (25.40%) Data Modelling
3 624 (23.94%) Agile
4 533 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
5 529 (20.30%) CI/CD
6 505 (19.38%) AI
7 495 (18.99%) ETL
8 480 (18.42%) DevOps
9 467 (17.92%) Data Pipeline
10 441 (16.92%) Data Engineering
11 420 (16.12%) Data Governance
12 381 (14.62%) Decision-Making
13 361 (13.85%) Stakeholder Management
14 337 (12.93%) Data Science
15 317 (12.16%) Machine Learning
16 310 (11.90%) Data Analytics
17 294 (11.28%) Continuous Improvement
18 285 (10.94%) Visualisation
19 270 (10.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 249 (9.55%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 919 (35.26%) SQL
2 835 (32.04%) Python
3 148 (5.68%) Java
4 97 (3.72%) PowerShell
5 93 (3.57%) JavaScript
6 81 (3.11%) C#
7 75 (2.88%) R
8 70 (2.69%) Bicep
8 70 (2.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 49 (1.88%) Bash
10 47 (1.80%) TypeScript
11 39 (1.50%) Kusto Query Language
12 37 (1.42%) T-SQL
13 36 (1.38%) C++
14 35 (1.34%) Scala
15 30 (1.15%) VBA
16 23 (0.88%) PL/SQL
17 16 (0.61%) Swift
18 15 (0.58%) Shell Script
19 14 (0.54%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 432 (16.58%) Security Cleared
2 346 (13.28%) SC Cleared
3 251 (9.63%) Degree
4 72 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 64 (2.46%) Azure Certification
6 53 (2.03%) Master's Degree
7 41 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 39 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 30 (1.15%) DV Cleared
10 27 (1.04%) PMI Certification
11 24 (0.92%) CISSP
12 23 (0.88%) AWS Certification
13 21 (0.81%) PMP
14 18 (0.69%) CISM
15 14 (0.54%) IIBA
16 12 (0.46%) PhD
17 11 (0.42%) CBAP
18 10 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
19 8 (0.31%) CCNP
19 8 (0.31%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 459 (17.61%) Data Quality
2 149 (5.72%) GDPR
3 98 (3.76%) Accessibility
3 98 (3.76%) QA
4 37 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 27 (1.04%) NIST
5 27 (1.04%) WCAG
6 21 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
7 20 (0.77%) PMO
8 15 (0.58%) NCSC
8 15 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 13 (0.50%) Solvency II
10 9 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 9 (0.35%) HIPAA
10 9 (0.35%) NIST 800
11 8 (0.31%) PERC
11 8 (0.31%) SLA
12 7 (0.27%) GRC
12 7 (0.27%) HL7
12 7 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 199 (7.64%) Docker
2 67 (2.57%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.15%) HDFS
6 4 (0.15%) Snort
6 4 (0.15%) zsh
7 2 (0.077%) GPFS
7 2 (0.077%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.077%) Lustre
7 2 (0.077%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.077%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.038%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.038%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.038%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.038%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 228 (8.75%) Terraform
2 217 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 34 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 29 (1.11%) Prometheus
5 26 (1.00%) Ansible
6 20 (0.77%) Grafana
7 18 (0.69%) SCCM
8 17 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (0.38%) Puppet
10 9 (0.35%) Kibana
11 7 (0.27%) logstash
12 5 (0.19%) WSUS
13 4 (0.15%) CSIRT
14 3 (0.12%) Argo
14 3 (0.12%) Cisco CUCM
14 3 (0.12%) Fluentd
15 2 (0.077%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 2 (0.077%) OpenVAS
15 2 (0.077%) Progress Chef
15 2 (0.077%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 491 (18.84%) Microsoft
2 350 (13.43%) Databricks
3 166 (6.37%) Google
4 142 (5.45%) SAP
5 131 (5.03%) Oracle
6 70 (2.69%) Salesforce
7 67 (2.57%) Adobe
8 64 (2.46%) ServiceNow
9 53 (2.03%) Talend
10 47 (1.80%) Splunk
11 46 (1.77%) Informatica
12 43 (1.65%) OpenAI
13 35 (1.34%) Foundry
14 33 (1.27%) Denodo
15 26 (1.00%) Workday
16 25 (0.96%) IBM
17 20 (0.77%) Amplitude
17 20 (0.77%) VMware
18 17 (0.65%) Cisco
19 16 (0.61%) Dynatrace