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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 27 35
Rank change year-on-year +1 +8 0
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,480 1,752 1,756
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.63% 6.40% 5.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.99% 7.05% 6.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,280 1,152 1,217
10th Percentile £363 £355 £354
25th Percentile £430 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% -2.61%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £688
90th Percentile £750 £805 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 46 23
10th Percentile £20.15 £15.88 £22.30
25th Percentile £27.60 £30.32 £27.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £34.74 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.12% +12.06% -11.43%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.16 £49.38
90th Percentile £87.06 £79.38 £73.95
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £34.74 £31.00
% change year-on-year +43.93% +12.06% -11.74%

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 38,700 24,856 28,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.86% 90.77% 85.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,864 15,818 18,112
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,605 1,463 1,438
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.87 £18.56
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +2.41%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 2 September 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 +2 1,942 £550 - 5,286
North of England +11 446 £475 +5.56% 799
Midlands +2 377 £493 -4.37% 353
South East +17 359 £500 -4.76% 753
West Midlands +5 307 £492 -5.11% 225
North West +2 231 £515 +12.57% 500
Yorkshire +7 171 £463 - 221
South West +20 168 £500 +6.38% 388
East of England -5 105 £578 +4.52% 207
East Midlands -1 64 £500 +17.65% 128
North East -8 52 £450 +18.03% 84
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
1 161 (4.63%) Apache Airflow
2 130 (3.74%) Apache Spark
3 112 (3.22%) SAS
4 98 (2.82%) Apache
5 75 (2.16%) Confluence
6 54 (1.55%) CMS
7 47 (1.35%) SharePoint
8 30 (0.86%) Palantir Foundry
9 29 (0.83%) Jupyter
10 27 (0.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 26 (0.75%) Oracle Application Server
12 11 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
13 10 (0.29%) Apache Superset
14 9 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
15 8 (0.23%) Drupal
15 8 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
16 6 (0.17%) WordPress
17 3 (0.086%) IIS
18 2 (0.057%) ArcGIS
18 2 (0.057%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 154 (4.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (1.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 23 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
4 20 (0.57%) Chatbot
5 17 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
6 16 (0.46%) CPLEX
7 12 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
7 12 (0.34%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.14%) Trello
9 3 (0.086%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.086%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.057%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.057%) Sketch
11 1 (0.029%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.029%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.029%) InDesign
11 1 (0.029%) Notion
11 1 (0.029%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.029%) PlantUML
11 1 (0.029%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 66 (1.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
4 16 (0.46%) Workday HCM
5 13 (0.37%) Aladdin
5 13 (0.37%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 10 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
7 9 (0.26%) Shopify
8 8 (0.23%) SAP CO
8 8 (0.23%) SAP ERP
8 8 (0.23%) SAP FI
9 7 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
9 7 (0.20%) SAP MDG
9 7 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 6 (0.17%) NetSuite
10 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.17%) SAP GRC
11 5 (0.14%) Infor LN
11 5 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
11 5 (0.14%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 1,025 (29.45%) Azure
2 697 (20.03%) Power Platform
3 610 (17.53%) AWS
4 298 (8.56%) GCP
5 247 (7.10%) Snowflake
6 235 (6.75%) Azure DevOps
7 229 (6.58%) Azure Data Factory
8 191 (5.49%) dbt
9 180 (5.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 152 (4.37%) GitHub
11 148 (4.25%) Serverless
12 129 (3.71%) Azure Monitor
13 127 (3.65%) Amazon S3
14 110 (3.16%) SaaS
15 106 (3.05%) Entra ID
16 97 (2.79%) AWS Lambda
17 82 (2.36%) Microsoft 365
18 76 (2.18%) GitHub Actions
19 74 (2.13%) Azure Databricks
20 61 (1.75%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 59 (1.70%) Firewall
2 50 (1.44%) Network Security
3 37 (1.06%) DNS
4 32 (0.92%) VPN
5 23 (0.66%) WAN
6 22 (0.63%) TCP/IP
7 19 (0.55%) SD-WAN
8 16 (0.46%) BGP
8 16 (0.46%) DHCP
9 14 (0.40%) Broadband
10 9 (0.26%) SMS
11 8 (0.23%) Wireless
12 7 (0.20%) LAN
12 7 (0.20%) OSPF
13 6 (0.17%) SSH
13 6 (0.17%) WLAN
14 5 (0.14%) HTTP
14 5 (0.14%) Internet
14 5 (0.14%) VLAN
15 4 (0.11%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 665 (19.11%) Power BI
2 440 (12.64%) Data Warehouse
3 254 (7.30%) Data Lake
4 229 (6.58%) Metadata
5 223 (6.41%) Tableau
6 139 (3.99%) BigQuery
7 92 (2.64%) Delta Lake
7 92 (2.64%) SQL Server
8 88 (2.53%) Amazon Redshift
9 87 (2.50%) Big Data
10 85 (2.44%) Relational Database
11 74 (2.13%) Looker
11 74 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
12 63 (1.81%) Snowflake Schema
13 62 (1.78%) Semantic Layer
14 61 (1.75%) Amazon Athena
14 61 (1.75%) NoSQL
15 56 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
16 53 (1.52%) Star Schema
17 49 (1.41%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 183 (5.26%) Git
2 163 (4.68%) JIRA
3 60 (1.72%) Jenkins
4 50 (1.44%) GitLab
5 14 (0.40%) ERwin
6 11 (0.32%) MLflow
7 10 (0.29%) fastlane
8 9 (0.26%) RStudio
9 8 (0.23%) ER Studio
9 8 (0.23%) Selenium
9 8 (0.23%) SonarQube
10 7 (0.20%) Gradle
10 7 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
11 6 (0.17%) Android Studio
11 6 (0.17%) Crashlytics
11 6 (0.17%) JUnit
11 6 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
12 5 (0.14%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.14%) Visual Website Optimizer
12 5 (0.14%) Xcode
General
1 917 (26.35%) Social Skills
2 892 (25.63%) Finance
3 644 (18.51%) Analytical Skills
4 410 (11.78%) Public Sector
5 260 (7.47%) Banking
6 228 (6.55%) Marketing
7 173 (4.97%) Retail
8 102 (2.93%) Influencing Skills
9 92 (2.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 73 (2.10%) Legal
11 72 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
12 71 (2.04%) Manufacturing
13 70 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
14 61 (1.75%) Front Office
15 56 (1.61%) Investment Banking
16 45 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
17 44 (1.26%) Telecoms
18 43 (1.24%) Publishing
19 42 (1.21%) Financial Institution
20 39 (1.12%) Military
Job Titles
1 586 (16.84%) Data Engineer
2 448 (12.87%) Senior
3 446 (12.82%) Analyst
4 440 (12.64%) Architect
5 315 (9.05%) Developer
6 290 (8.33%) Lead
7 200 (5.75%) Data Architect
8 169 (4.86%) Data Analyst
9 168 (4.83%) Consultant
10 123 (3.53%) Solutions Architect
11 109 (3.13%) Senior Data Engineer
12 108 (3.10%) Data Scientist
13 105 (3.02%) Business Analyst
14 100 (2.87%) Azure Engineer
15 75 (2.16%) Data Manager
16 65 (1.87%) Product Manager
17 63 (1.81%) Project Manager
17 63 (1.81%) Senior Manager
18 61 (1.75%) Python Developer
19 55 (1.58%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 261 (7.50%) Terraform
2 214 (6.15%) PySpark
3 129 (3.71%) REST
4 113 (3.25%) Kafka
5 64 (1.84%) Pandas
6 56 (1.61%) HTML
7 54 (1.55%) RESTful
8 52 (1.49%) CSS
9 51 (1.47%) React
10 43 (1.24%) .NET
10 43 (1.24%) JSON
11 41 (1.18%) ARM Templates
12 39 (1.12%) NumPy
13 38 (1.09%) OAuth
14 31 (0.89%) OpenID
15 30 (0.86%) OAuth2
16 29 (0.83%) Django
17 28 (0.80%) Oracle Fusion
17 28 (0.80%) Web Services
18 27 (0.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 234 (6.72%) Cloud Native
2 184 (5.29%) Product Ownership
3 136 (3.91%) Data Structures
4 133 (3.82%) Onboarding
5 111 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
6 71 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
7 70 (2.01%) Management Information System
8 63 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
9 56 (1.61%) AI Agents
10 48 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
11 45 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
11 45 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
12 44 (1.26%) Algorithms
12 44 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
13 40 (1.15%) NHS
14 39 (1.12%) Marketing Technology
14 39 (1.12%) Virtual Team
15 34 (0.98%) Derivative
15 34 (0.98%) Mobile App
15 34 (0.98%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 87 (2.50%) Linux
2 84 (2.41%) Windows
3 39 (1.12%) Unix
4 32 (0.92%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.32%) Mac OS
8 10 (0.29%) Android
9 9 (0.26%) VMS
10 5 (0.14%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.086%) Solaris
11 3 (0.086%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.057%) AIX
12 2 (0.057%) CentOS
12 2 (0.057%) HPUX
13 1 (0.029%) Rocky
13 1 (0.029%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 913 (26.24%) Data Modelling
2 894 (25.69%) AI
3 881 (25.32%) Business Intelligence
4 804 (23.10%) Agile
5 728 (20.92%) Stakeholder Management
6 698 (20.06%) Data Pipeline
7 681 (19.57%) Data Engineering
8 649 (18.65%) CI/CD
9 631 (18.13%) Decision-Making
10 560 (16.09%) Data Governance
11 553 (15.89%) ETL
12 520 (14.94%) DevOps
13 503 (14.45%) Problem-Solving
14 452 (12.99%) Migration
15 431 (12.39%) Continuous Improvement
16 422 (12.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 415 (11.93%) Machine Learning
18 410 (11.78%) Roadmaps
19 400 (11.49%) Data Science
20 395 (11.35%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1,108 (31.84%) SQL
2 981 (28.19%) Python
3 158 (4.54%) PowerShell
4 106 (3.05%) Java
5 96 (2.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 83 (2.39%) JavaScript
7 82 (2.36%) Bicep
8 78 (2.24%) C#
9 64 (1.84%) R
10 60 (1.72%) Bash
11 39 (1.12%) Scala
12 34 (0.98%) Shell Script
13 33 (0.95%) TypeScript
14 30 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
15 27 (0.78%) T-SQL
16 21 (0.60%) PL/SQL
17 19 (0.55%) C++
18 13 (0.37%) VBA
19 11 (0.32%) Kotlin
19 11 (0.32%) LookML
Qualifications
1 618 (17.76%) Security Cleared
2 486 (13.97%) SC Cleared
3 288 (8.28%) Degree
4 82 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 79 (2.27%) Azure Certification
5 79 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 69 (1.98%) DV Cleared
7 53 (1.52%) Master's Degree
8 47 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
9 39 (1.12%) CISSP
10 30 (0.86%) AWS Certification
11 29 (0.83%) PMI Certification
12 23 (0.66%) DBS Check
12 23 (0.66%) PMP
13 19 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
14 12 (0.34%) CISA
15 11 (0.32%) MBA
15 11 (0.32%) PhD
16 10 (0.29%) SANS
17 9 (0.26%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 697 (20.03%) Data Quality
2 162 (4.66%) GDPR
3 135 (3.88%) QA
4 134 (3.85%) Accessibility
5 48 (1.38%) GRC
6 46 (1.32%) WCAG
7 39 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 33 (0.95%) NIST
9 29 (0.83%) PMO
10 28 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
11 20 (0.57%) SLA
12 13 (0.37%) PCI DSS
12 13 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 12 (0.34%) PERC
13 12 (0.34%) Solvency II
14 10 (0.29%) IFRS
14 10 (0.29%) NCSC
15 7 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
15 7 (0.20%) GMP
16 6 (0.17%) PSD2
System Software
1 150 (4.31%) Docker
2 85 (2.44%) Active Directory
3 26 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.23%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.17%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.086%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 3 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.086%) vSphere
9 2 (0.057%) XenApp
9 2 (0.057%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.029%) iptables
10 1 (0.029%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.029%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 160 (4.60%) Kubernetes
2 48 (1.38%) Ansible
3 39 (1.12%) Grafana
4 24 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (0.49%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.40%) SCCM
8 8 (0.23%) Control-M
8 8 (0.23%) FortiGate
8 8 (0.23%) Progress Chef
8 8 (0.23%) SCOM
9 5 (0.14%) Podman
10 4 (0.11%) QRadar
10 4 (0.11%) SysTrack
11 3 (0.086%) Apache Ranger
11 3 (0.086%) CASB
11 3 (0.086%) Kibana
12 2 (0.057%) Argo
12 2 (0.057%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.057%) Puppet
Vendors
1 633 (18.19%) Microsoft
2 451 (12.96%) Databricks
3 208 (5.98%) Oracle
4 187 (5.37%) SAP
5 180 (5.17%) Google
6 86 (2.47%) Adobe
7 85 (2.44%) Salesforce
8 84 (2.41%) ServiceNow
9 54 (1.55%) Workday
10 44 (1.26%) Splunk
11 43 (1.24%) Foundry
12 41 (1.18%) Dynatrace
12 41 (1.18%) Informatica
13 38 (1.09%) Palantir
14 33 (0.95%) Talend
15 31 (0.89%) Denodo
16 30 (0.86%) Cisco
17 29 (0.83%) VMware
18 23 (0.66%) Alteryx
18 23 (0.66%) OpenAI