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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 27 38
Rank change year-on-year +4 +11 -3
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,004 1,649 1,762
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.68% 6.77% 4.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.96% 7.45% 5.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,068 1,114 1,213
10th Percentile £356 £332 £350
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% - -
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £813 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 32 54
10th Percentile £26.15 £15.63 £17.19
25th Percentile £44.02 £24.50 £25.00
Median hourly rate £59.45 £31.64 £32.94
Median % change year-on-year +87.89% -3.93% +2.92%
75th Percentile £75.00 £59.25 £50.96
90th Percentile £83.75 £78.58 £71.38
UK median hourly rate £58.00 £32.05 £30.37
% change year-on-year +80.97% +5.53% -5.54%

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 33,539 22,147 32,451
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.75% 90.94% 86.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,506 14,596 21,405
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £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 2,075 867 2,189
10th Percentile £15.43 £14.99 £12.92
25th Percentile £19.91 £19.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -4.41% -9.33%
75th Percentile £65.74 £65.00 £58.70
90th Percentile £77.80 £76.25 £70.78
UK median hourly rate £36.70 £31.64 £33.07
% change year-on-year +15.99% -4.31% -8.15%

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 9 April 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 9 April 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 9 April 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 1,672 £537 -10.46% 896
Midlands +22 361 £492 +3.43% 212
North of England +13 324 £491 +6.16% 331
West Midlands +25 276 £493 -0.56% 110
South East -7 236 £500 - 433
South West +36 186 £500 - 149
North West +9 181 £500 +8.11% 192
Yorkshire +2 121 £500 +5.26% 91
East of England -6 116 £520 -13.33% 103
East Midlands +4 79 £450 +22.62% 102
North East +9 32 £450 +25.70% 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
1 150 (4.99%) Apache Spark
2 120 (3.99%) SAS
3 112 (3.73%) Apache Airflow
4 89 (2.96%) Apache
5 71 (2.36%) Confluence
6 53 (1.76%) SharePoint
7 31 (1.03%) CMS
8 19 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
9 16 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 16 (0.53%) Jupyter
10 10 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
11 9 (0.30%) Oracle Application Server
11 9 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
12 8 (0.27%) Apache Superset
13 7 (0.23%) ArcGIS
14 6 (0.20%) WordPress
15 4 (0.13%) Drupal
16 3 (0.100%) IIS
16 3 (0.100%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 3 (0.100%) WebLogic
Applications
1 132 (4.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (0.77%) MS Visio
5 21 (0.70%) Chatbot
6 15 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
8 5 (0.17%) CPLEX
8 5 (0.17%) Trello
9 4 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
10 3 (0.100%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.100%) Notion
10 3 (0.100%) Sketch
11 2 (0.067%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.067%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.033%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.033%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.033%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.033%) InDesign
12 1 (0.033%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 65 (2.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.30%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 9 (0.30%) SAP MM
4 8 (0.27%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 8 (0.27%) SAP FI
5 7 (0.23%) Maximo
5 7 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.20%) Sage X3
7 5 (0.17%) Aladdin
7 5 (0.17%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 5 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
8 4 (0.13%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
8 4 (0.13%) SAP BPC
8 4 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 942 (31.36%) Azure
2 659 (21.94%) Power Platform
3 634 (21.11%) AWS
4 304 (10.12%) GCP
5 229 (7.62%) Azure Data Factory
6 212 (7.06%) Azure DevOps
7 200 (6.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 187 (6.23%) Snowflake
9 181 (6.03%) GitHub
10 136 (4.53%) Amazon S3
11 135 (4.49%) Serverless
12 130 (4.33%) dbt
13 118 (3.93%) Azure Monitor
14 106 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
15 101 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
16 85 (2.83%) SaaS
17 81 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
17 81 (2.70%) Entra ID
18 67 (2.23%) Azure Key Vault
19 60 (2.00%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 48 (1.60%) Firewall
2 35 (1.17%) Network Security
3 30 (1.00%) VPN
4 26 (0.87%) DNS
5 14 (0.47%) SD-WAN
6 13 (0.43%) SMS
6 13 (0.43%) WAN
7 12 (0.40%) 5G
8 10 (0.33%) HTTP
9 9 (0.30%) MPLS
9 9 (0.30%) SSL
10 8 (0.27%) DHCP
11 7 (0.23%) 4G
11 7 (0.23%) BGP
11 7 (0.23%) FTP
11 7 (0.23%) Internet
11 7 (0.23%) TCP/IP
12 6 (0.20%) OSPF
12 6 (0.20%) Radio Access Network
12 6 (0.20%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 606 (20.17%) Power BI
2 385 (12.82%) Data Warehouse
3 238 (7.92%) Data Lake
4 195 (6.49%) Tableau
5 187 (6.23%) Metadata
6 104 (3.46%) BigQuery
7 102 (3.40%) Delta Lake
7 102 (3.40%) SQL Server
8 93 (3.10%) Big Data
9 78 (2.60%) Snowflake Schema
10 77 (2.56%) Relational Database
11 73 (2.43%) Amazon Redshift
12 70 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
13 65 (2.16%) NoSQL
14 63 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
15 60 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
16 59 (1.96%) Looker
17 56 (1.86%) Power Query
18 55 (1.83%) Star Schema
19 53 (1.76%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 210 (6.99%) Git
2 178 (5.93%) JIRA
3 100 (3.33%) Jenkins
4 82 (2.73%) GitLab
5 28 (0.93%) Selenium
6 24 (0.80%) JUnit
7 23 (0.77%) ERwin
8 16 (0.53%) MLflow
9 9 (0.30%) PowerDesigner
9 9 (0.30%) SonarQube
10 8 (0.27%) Bitbucket
10 8 (0.27%) Gradle
10 8 (0.27%) MSI
11 7 (0.23%) Android Studio
11 7 (0.23%) ER Studio
12 6 (0.20%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.17%) XCTest
14 4 (0.13%) fastlane
14 4 (0.13%) JMeter
14 4 (0.13%) Postman
General
1 872 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 755 (25.13%) Finance
3 574 (19.11%) Analytical Skills
4 311 (10.35%) Public Sector
5 206 (6.86%) Banking
6 175 (5.83%) Marketing
7 89 (2.96%) Retail
8 82 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
9 58 (1.93%) Front Office
10 53 (1.76%) Legal
11 52 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 49 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
13 48 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
13 48 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
13 48 (1.60%) Telecoms
14 46 (1.53%) Investment Banking
15 39 (1.30%) Manufacturing
16 31 (1.03%) Financial Institution
17 26 (0.87%) Advertising
18 22 (0.73%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 547 (18.21%) Data Engineer
2 361 (12.02%) Analyst
3 355 (11.82%) Architect
4 345 (11.48%) Senior
5 337 (11.22%) Developer
6 261 (8.69%) Lead
7 148 (4.93%) Data Analyst
8 147 (4.89%) Data Architect
9 126 (4.19%) Consultant
10 109 (3.63%) Azure Engineer
11 104 (3.46%) Business Analyst
12 92 (3.06%) Data Scientist
13 88 (2.93%) Senior Data Engineer
14 86 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
15 66 (2.20%) Project Manager
16 60 (2.00%) Designer
17 54 (1.80%) Senior Developer
17 54 (1.80%) Snowflake Engineer
18 53 (1.76%) Python Developer
19 52 (1.73%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (5.39%) PySpark
2 158 (5.26%) Kafka
2 158 (5.26%) REST
3 74 (2.46%) Pandas
4 60 (2.00%) React
5 58 (1.93%) TensorFlow
6 57 (1.90%) PyTorch
7 55 (1.83%) JSON
8 51 (1.70%) NumPy
9 49 (1.63%) scikit-learn
10 46 (1.53%) AngularJS
11 45 (1.50%) HTML
12 44 (1.46%) .NET
13 43 (1.43%) CSS
13 43 (1.43%) Node.js
14 41 (1.36%) SOAP
15 38 (1.26%) ARM Templates
16 35 (1.17%) pytest
17 34 (1.13%) Middleware
18 33 (1.10%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 187 (6.23%) Cloud Native
2 122 (4.06%) Product Ownership
3 96 (3.20%) Data Structures
4 84 (2.80%) Onboarding
5 68 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
6 59 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
7 56 (1.86%) Algorithms
8 54 (1.80%) Management Information System
9 53 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
10 49 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
11 40 (1.33%) NHS
12 39 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 38 (1.26%) Public Cloud
14 36 (1.20%) Equities
15 33 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
15 33 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
16 32 (1.07%) Marketing Technology
17 31 (1.03%) AI Agents
17 31 (1.03%) Derivative
17 31 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 91 (3.03%) Windows
2 77 (2.56%) Linux
3 34 (1.13%) Unix
4 32 (1.07%) Mac OS
5 20 (0.67%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.53%) Android
7 9 (0.30%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.23%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.13%) VMS
10 3 (0.100%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.067%) CentOS
11 2 (0.067%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.067%) zOS
12 1 (0.033%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 833 (27.73%) Business Intelligence
2 810 (26.96%) Data Modelling
3 671 (22.34%) Agile
4 636 (21.17%) CI/CD
5 629 (20.94%) AI
6 608 (20.24%) Data Pipeline
7 594 (19.77%) ETL
8 590 (19.64%) Data Engineering
9 572 (19.04%) Problem-Solving
10 547 (18.21%) DevOps
11 509 (16.94%) Data Governance
12 467 (15.55%) Decision-Making
13 405 (13.48%) Stakeholder Management
14 375 (12.48%) Data Science
15 374 (12.45%) Machine Learning
16 351 (11.68%) Data Analytics
17 339 (11.28%) Continuous Improvement
18 308 (10.25%) Migration
19 306 (10.19%) Validation
20 298 (9.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,044 (34.75%) SQL
2 973 (32.39%) Python
3 151 (5.03%) Java
4 115 (3.83%) PowerShell
5 101 (3.36%) C#
6 94 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 82 (2.73%) R
8 79 (2.63%) JavaScript
9 76 (2.53%) Bicep
10 47 (1.56%) Bash
10 47 (1.56%) Kusto Query Language
11 46 (1.53%) T-SQL
12 40 (1.33%) Scala
12 40 (1.33%) TypeScript
13 30 (1.00%) PL/SQL
13 30 (1.00%) VBA
14 28 (0.93%) C++
15 25 (0.83%) Shell Script
16 12 (0.40%) Kotlin
17 9 (0.30%) Swift
Qualifications
1 538 (17.91%) Security Cleared
2 428 (14.25%) SC Cleared
3 236 (7.86%) Degree
4 73 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 70 (2.33%) Azure Certification
6 52 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
7 40 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 37 (1.23%) Master's Degree
9 36 (1.20%) DV Cleared
10 28 (0.93%) PMI Certification
11 26 (0.87%) CISSP
12 23 (0.77%) PMP
13 22 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
14 21 (0.70%) AWS Certification
15 18 (0.60%) CISM
16 17 (0.57%) CCNP
17 14 (0.47%) CCIE
17 14 (0.47%) IIBA
17 14 (0.47%) PhD
18 8 (0.27%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 543 (18.08%) Data Quality
2 172 (5.73%) GDPR
3 121 (4.03%) QA
4 97 (3.23%) Accessibility
5 35 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (1.07%) WCAG
7 26 (0.87%) NIST
8 25 (0.83%) PMO
9 20 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
10 15 (0.50%) GRC
11 14 (0.47%) SLA
12 13 (0.43%) PERC
12 13 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 13 (0.43%) Solvency II
13 12 (0.40%) NCSC
14 10 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 9 (0.30%) HL7
16 8 (0.27%) NIST 800
17 7 (0.23%) PCI DSS
17 7 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 208 (6.92%) 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
5 6 (0.20%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.13%) HDFS
6 4 (0.13%) Snort
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%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.033%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 260 (8.66%) Terraform
2 221 (7.36%) Kubernetes
3 42 (1.40%) Ansible
4 37 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 32 (1.07%) Grafana
6 28 (0.93%) Prometheus
7 20 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
8 16 (0.53%) SCCM
9 9 (0.30%) Puppet
10 6 (0.20%) Kibana
11 5 (0.17%) Argo
11 5 (0.17%) logstash
12 4 (0.13%) Control-M
12 4 (0.13%) CSIRT
12 4 (0.13%) WSUS
13 3 (0.100%) Fluentd
13 3 (0.100%) Nagios
13 3 (0.100%) SysTrack
14 2 (0.067%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.067%) Apache Ranger
Vendors
1 546 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 406 (13.52%) Databricks
3 178 (5.93%) Google
4 161 (5.36%) Oracle
5 140 (4.66%) SAP
6 73 (2.43%) Salesforce
6 73 (2.43%) ServiceNow
7 69 (2.30%) Adobe
8 61 (2.03%) Informatica
8 61 (2.03%) Talend
9 57 (1.90%) Splunk
10 47 (1.56%) OpenAI
11 46 (1.53%) Denodo
12 39 (1.30%) Foundry
13 36 (1.20%) Workday
14 26 (0.87%) IBM
15 22 (0.73%) Cisco
16 21 (0.70%) VMware
17 16 (0.53%) Dynatrace
18 14 (0.47%) Palantir