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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 29 38
Rank change year-on-year +6 +9 -1
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,701 1,590 1,826
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.51% 6.32% 4.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.63% 6.99% 5.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,846 1,069 1,254
10th Percentile £350 £338 £363
25th Percentile £424 £444 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £511 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.05% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 28 68
10th Percentile £20.66 £19.10 £17.00
25th Percentile £38.25 £25.19 £25.00
Median hourly rate £57.30 £32.92 £37.19
Median % change year-on-year +74.05% -11.47% +16.22%
75th Percentile £75.00 £59.25 £55.97
90th Percentile £83.75 £67.06 £78.88
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £35.00 £35.32
% change year-on-year +57.14% -0.89% +10.36%

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 31,295 22,746 32,794
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.03% 90.36% 87.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,032 14,434 21,722
10th Percentile £313 £308 £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 £618 £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 1,939 776 2,084
10th Percentile £15.24 £15.50 £13.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £33.78
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +3.63% -6.18%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £59.44
90th Percentile £73.46 £75.38 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £27.94 £32.50 £32.85
% change year-on-year -14.03% -1.05% -6.16%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 +3 1,554 £525 -12.50% 1,117
Midlands +26 308 £492 +3.41% 276
North of England +6 284 £500 +5.26% 411
West Midlands +21 228 £499 +1.89% 146
South East -5 200 £500 +6.67% 658
North West +7 169 £500 +5.26% 217
South West +37 147 £525 +5.00% 232
East of England -6 105 £505 -15.83% 261
Yorkshire -6 95 £510 +2.00% 135
East Midlands +13 78 £450 +7.14% 128
North East +7 25 £450 +25.70% 61
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
1 127 (4.70%) Apache Spark
2 112 (4.15%) SAS
3 92 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
4 78 (2.89%) Apache
5 60 (2.22%) Confluence
6 52 (1.93%) SharePoint
7 28 (1.04%) CMS
8 20 (0.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 19 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
10 11 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
11 8 (0.30%) GeoServer
11 8 (0.30%) Smallworld
12 7 (0.26%) ArcGIS
12 7 (0.26%) Jupyter
12 7 (0.26%) WordPress
13 5 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
13 5 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 5 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
14 4 (0.15%) Apache Superset
15 3 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 127 (4.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (1.04%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.67%) Chatbot
6 14 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
7 9 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.19%) Adobe XD
8 5 (0.19%) Sketch
8 5 (0.19%) Trello
9 3 (0.11%) Notion
9 3 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
10 2 (0.074%) Autodesk Smoke
10 2 (0.074%) CPLEX
11 1 (0.037%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.037%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.037%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.037%) InDesign
11 1 (0.037%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.037%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 75 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.41%) SAP HR
4 9 (0.33%) SAP FI
5 8 (0.30%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 8 (0.30%) SAP MM
6 7 (0.26%) Aladdin
6 7 (0.26%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 7 (0.26%) Maximo
7 6 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.22%) Sage X3
7 6 (0.22%) SAP EHS
8 5 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 5 (0.19%) SAP BPC
8 5 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.15%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.15%) Oracle EBS R12
9 4 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 873 (32.32%) Azure
2 603 (22.33%) Power Platform
3 567 (20.99%) AWS
4 275 (10.18%) GCP
5 214 (7.92%) Azure Data Factory
6 204 (7.55%) Azure DevOps
7 184 (6.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 180 (6.66%) Snowflake
9 164 (6.07%) GitHub
10 125 (4.63%) Serverless
11 112 (4.15%) Azure Monitor
12 111 (4.11%) Amazon S3
13 109 (4.04%) dbt
14 101 (3.74%) GitHub Actions
15 97 (3.59%) SaaS
16 92 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
17 83 (3.07%) Entra ID
18 67 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
19 61 (2.26%) Azure Key Vault
20 56 (2.07%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 48 (1.78%) Firewall
2 31 (1.15%) Network Security
3 27 (1.00%) VPN
4 23 (0.85%) DNS
5 17 (0.63%) SMS
6 13 (0.48%) WAN
7 9 (0.33%) 5G
7 9 (0.33%) DHCP
7 9 (0.33%) HTTP
7 9 (0.33%) SSL
8 8 (0.30%) LAN
8 8 (0.30%) TCP/IP
9 7 (0.26%) MPLS
9 7 (0.26%) SD-WAN
10 6 (0.22%) 2G
10 6 (0.22%) 4G
10 6 (0.22%) SMTP
11 5 (0.19%) BGP
11 5 (0.19%) FTP
11 5 (0.19%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 556 (20.58%) Power BI
2 317 (11.74%) Data Warehouse
3 206 (7.63%) Data Lake
4 170 (6.29%) Tableau
5 160 (5.92%) Metadata
6 86 (3.18%) BigQuery
6 86 (3.18%) SQL Server
7 84 (3.11%) Delta Lake
8 82 (3.04%) Big Data
9 70 (2.59%) Snowflake Schema
10 69 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
11 65 (2.41%) Azure SQL Database
11 65 (2.41%) Relational Database
12 62 (2.30%) NoSQL
13 56 (2.07%) Hadoop
13 56 (2.07%) Looker
14 55 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
15 50 (1.85%) Power Query
16 48 (1.78%) Amazon Athena
17 47 (1.74%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 196 (7.26%) Git
2 163 (6.03%) JIRA
3 97 (3.59%) Jenkins
4 85 (3.15%) GitLab
5 30 (1.11%) Selenium
6 24 (0.89%) JUnit
7 23 (0.85%) ERwin
8 15 (0.56%) MLflow
9 12 (0.44%) PowerDesigner
10 10 (0.37%) Android Studio
10 10 (0.37%) ER Studio
10 10 (0.37%) Gradle
11 8 (0.30%) SonarQube
11 8 (0.30%) Xcode
12 7 (0.26%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.26%) Cypress.io
12 7 (0.26%) MSI
13 6 (0.22%) Visual Website Optimizer
14 5 (0.19%) Maven
14 5 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
General
1 856 (31.69%) Social Skills
2 711 (26.32%) Finance
3 513 (18.99%) Analytical Skills
4 261 (9.66%) Public Sector
5 209 (7.74%) Banking
6 169 (6.26%) Marketing
7 77 (2.85%) Retail
8 74 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
9 62 (2.30%) Front Office
10 49 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
11 46 (1.70%) Investment Banking
11 46 (1.70%) Manufacturing
12 45 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 45 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
13 43 (1.59%) Legal
14 40 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
15 32 (1.18%) Financial Institution
16 29 (1.07%) Telecoms
17 24 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
18 21 (0.78%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 443 (16.40%) Data Engineer
2 351 (13.00%) Analyst
3 329 (12.18%) Developer
4 314 (11.63%) Architect
5 305 (11.29%) Senior
6 225 (8.33%) Lead
7 142 (5.26%) Data Analyst
8 132 (4.89%) Consultant
9 124 (4.59%) Data Architect
10 112 (4.15%) Business Analyst
11 100 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
12 94 (3.48%) Data Scientist
13 73 (2.70%) Senior Data Engineer
14 70 (2.59%) Project Manager
15 64 (2.37%) Solutions Architect
16 53 (1.96%) Senior Developer
17 50 (1.85%) Snowflake Engineer
18 49 (1.81%) Designer
19 43 (1.59%) Azure Data Engineer
20 42 (1.55%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (5.44%) REST
2 136 (5.04%) Kafka
2 136 (5.04%) PySpark
3 63 (2.33%) React
4 59 (2.18%) Pandas
5 58 (2.15%) TensorFlow
6 56 (2.07%) PyTorch
7 50 (1.85%) .NET
8 48 (1.78%) scikit-learn
9 47 (1.74%) NumPy
10 46 (1.70%) JSON
11 43 (1.59%) Node.js
12 42 (1.55%) HTML
13 41 (1.52%) AngularJS
13 41 (1.52%) RESTful
13 41 (1.52%) SOAP
14 39 (1.44%) ARM Templates
14 39 (1.44%) CSS
15 32 (1.18%) Middleware
16 31 (1.15%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 147 (5.44%) Cloud Native
2 104 (3.85%) Product Ownership
3 85 (3.15%) Data Structures
4 78 (2.89%) Onboarding
5 66 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
6 54 (2.00%) Management Information System
7 53 (1.96%) Algorithms
8 51 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
9 48 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
10 47 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
11 44 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 41 (1.52%) Equities
13 38 (1.41%) Public Cloud
14 36 (1.33%) Mobile App
15 35 (1.30%) Derivative
16 32 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
17 31 (1.15%) NHS
18 29 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
19 27 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
20 25 (0.93%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 84 (3.11%) Windows
2 68 (2.52%) Linux
3 27 (1.00%) Mac OS
4 26 (0.96%) Apple iOS
5 25 (0.93%) Unix
6 20 (0.74%) Android
7 8 (0.30%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.19%) VMS
8 5 (0.19%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.11%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.074%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.074%) zOS
11 1 (0.037%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.037%) CentOS
11 1 (0.037%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 754 (27.92%) Business Intelligence
2 702 (25.99%) Data Modelling
3 636 (23.55%) Agile
4 567 (20.99%) CI/CD
5 546 (20.21%) Problem-Solving
6 528 (19.55%) ETL
7 521 (19.29%) AI
8 520 (19.25%) DevOps
9 505 (18.70%) Data Pipeline
10 466 (17.25%) Data Engineering
11 441 (16.33%) Data Governance
12 404 (14.96%) Decision-Making
13 372 (13.77%) Stakeholder Management
14 346 (12.81%) Data Science
15 327 (12.11%) Machine Learning
16 319 (11.81%) Data Analytics
17 309 (11.44%) Continuous Improvement
18 282 (10.44%) Visualisation
19 281 (10.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 258 (9.55%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 958 (35.47%) SQL
2 866 (32.06%) Python
3 151 (5.59%) Java
4 101 (3.74%) PowerShell
5 90 (3.33%) JavaScript
6 86 (3.18%) C#
7 81 (3.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 77 (2.85%) R
9 69 (2.55%) Bicep
10 51 (1.89%) TypeScript
11 50 (1.85%) Bash
12 46 (1.70%) Kusto Query Language
13 40 (1.48%) T-SQL
14 38 (1.41%) Scala
15 35 (1.30%) C++
16 33 (1.22%) VBA
17 28 (1.04%) PL/SQL
18 16 (0.59%) Swift
19 15 (0.56%) Kotlin
19 15 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 457 (16.92%) Security Cleared
2 361 (13.37%) SC Cleared
3 245 (9.07%) Degree
4 70 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 68 (2.52%) Azure Certification
6 46 (1.70%) Master's Degree
7 40 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 39 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
9 33 (1.22%) DV Cleared
10 26 (0.96%) PMI Certification
11 24 (0.89%) CISSP
12 23 (0.85%) AWS Certification
13 22 (0.81%) PMP
14 18 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
15 16 (0.59%) CISM
16 14 (0.52%) CCNP
16 14 (0.52%) IIBA
17 13 (0.48%) PhD
18 10 (0.37%) CCIE
19 8 (0.30%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 489 (18.10%) Data Quality
2 149 (5.52%) GDPR
3 106 (3.92%) QA
4 94 (3.48%) Accessibility
5 35 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 26 (0.96%) WCAG
7 25 (0.93%) NIST
8 22 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
8 22 (0.81%) PMO
9 17 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 15 (0.56%) NCSC
11 14 (0.52%) Solvency II
12 11 (0.41%) GRC
13 9 (0.33%) SLA
14 8 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 8 (0.30%) HIPAA
14 8 (0.30%) NIST 800
14 8 (0.30%) PERC
15 7 (0.26%) HL7
15 7 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 206 (7.63%) Docker
2 74 (2.74%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.22%) HDFS
5 6 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.15%) Snort
7 3 (0.11%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.11%) zsh
8 2 (0.074%) GPFS
8 2 (0.074%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.074%) Lustre
8 2 (0.074%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.037%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.037%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.037%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.037%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 238 (8.81%) Terraform
2 222 (8.22%) Kubernetes
3 35 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 34 (1.26%) Ansible
5 29 (1.07%) Prometheus
6 24 (0.89%) Grafana
7 20 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
8 18 (0.67%) SCCM
9 9 (0.33%) Kibana
9 9 (0.33%) Puppet
10 7 (0.26%) logstash
11 5 (0.19%) WSUS
12 4 (0.15%) CSIRT
13 3 (0.11%) Argo
13 3 (0.11%) Cisco CUCM
13 3 (0.11%) Fluentd
14 2 (0.074%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.074%) OpenVAS
14 2 (0.074%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.074%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 508 (18.81%) Microsoft
2 364 (13.48%) Databricks
3 164 (6.07%) Google
4 148 (5.48%) SAP
5 145 (5.37%) Oracle
6 72 (2.67%) Salesforce
7 67 (2.48%) Adobe
8 66 (2.44%) ServiceNow
9 60 (2.22%) Talend
10 52 (1.93%) Informatica
10 52 (1.93%) Splunk
11 43 (1.59%) OpenAI
12 42 (1.55%) Denodo
13 37 (1.37%) Foundry
14 27 (1.00%) Workday
15 23 (0.85%) IBM
16 22 (0.81%) VMware
17 18 (0.67%) Amplitude
17 18 (0.67%) Cisco
18 15 (0.56%) Palantir