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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 30 38
Rank change year-on-year +6 +8 -2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,536 1,531 1,825
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.47% 5.87% 4.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.53% 6.54% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,718 991 1,250
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £413 £444 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -3.08%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £505 £548 £550
% change year-on-year -7.76% -0.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 22 77
10th Percentile £21.21 £25.03 £17.00
25th Percentile £34.44 £25.82 £25.00
Median hourly rate £54.75 £35.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +56.43% -17.65% +32.81%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £78.93 £64.73 £74.85
UK median hourly rate £54.50 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +55.71% -17.65% +32.81%

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 29,739 23,407 32,830
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.55% 89.77% 87.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,003 14,473 21,878
10th Percentile £308 £310 £300
25th Percentile £412 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £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 1,861 738 1,959
10th Percentile £15.09 £15.62 £13.39
25th Percentile £18.00 £21.05 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.37% - -
75th Percentile £60.61 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £72.90
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.07
% change year-on-year -22.62% -1.71% +1.74%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +6 1,497 £525 -12.50% 728
North of England +3 275 £480 +1.05% 239
Midlands +29 263 £492 +3.14% 183
West Midlands +26 194 £500 +2.04% 113
South East -10 175 £495 +3.13% 432
North West +11 170 £492 +3.58% 139
South West +36 125 £525 +6.06% 121
East of England -2 99 £515 -14.17% 59
Yorkshire -12 83 £510 -0.49% 70
East Midlands +16 68 £436 +3.81% 70
North East +2 24 £450 -3.54% 32
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
1 108 (4.26%) Apache Spark
2 90 (3.55%) SAS
3 88 (3.47%) Apache Airflow
4 83 (3.27%) Apache
5 61 (2.41%) Confluence
6 49 (1.93%) SharePoint
7 35 (1.38%) CMS
8 22 (0.87%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 11 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
10 9 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
11 8 (0.32%) GeoServer
11 8 (0.32%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.32%) Smallworld
12 7 (0.28%) ArcGIS
12 7 (0.28%) Oracle Application Server
13 6 (0.24%) WebLogic
13 6 (0.24%) WordPress
14 5 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 5 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
15 3 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 129 (5.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (1.10%) MS Visio
5 21 (0.83%) Chatbot
6 13 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.24%) Trello
9 5 (0.20%) Adobe XD
9 5 (0.20%) Sketch
10 3 (0.12%) Notion
11 2 (0.079%) Autodesk Smoke
12 1 (0.039%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.039%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.039%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.039%) CapCut
12 1 (0.039%) CPLEX
12 1 (0.039%) FrameMaker
12 1 (0.039%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.039%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 72 (2.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.55%) SAP EHS
4 11 (0.43%) SAP HR
5 9 (0.35%) SAP FI
6 8 (0.32%) Maximo
6 8 (0.32%) SAP MM
7 7 (0.28%) Aladdin
7 7 (0.28%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 7 (0.28%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 7 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 6 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
9 5 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
9 5 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
9 5 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
10 4 (0.16%) NetSuite
10 4 (0.16%) Oracle General Ledger
10 4 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.16%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 3 (0.12%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 833 (32.85%) Azure
2 553 (21.81%) Power Platform
3 538 (21.21%) AWS
4 251 (9.90%) GCP
5 194 (7.65%) Azure Data Factory
6 184 (7.26%) Azure DevOps
7 170 (6.70%) Snowflake
8 167 (6.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 140 (5.52%) GitHub
10 125 (4.93%) Serverless
11 107 (4.22%) Azure Monitor
12 103 (4.06%) Amazon S3
13 101 (3.98%) SaaS
14 97 (3.82%) dbt
15 86 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
16 84 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
17 75 (2.96%) Entra ID
18 63 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
19 57 (2.25%) Power Automate
20 55 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 47 (1.85%) Firewall
2 27 (1.06%) VPN
3 23 (0.91%) Network Security
4 22 (0.87%) DNS
5 16 (0.63%) SMS
6 10 (0.39%) SSL
6 10 (0.39%) WAN
7 8 (0.32%) DHCP
8 7 (0.28%) HTTP
8 7 (0.28%) LAN
9 6 (0.24%) 2G
9 6 (0.24%) 5G
9 6 (0.24%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.20%) FTP
10 5 (0.20%) SMTP
11 4 (0.16%) 4G
11 4 (0.16%) MPLS
11 4 (0.16%) Radio Access Network
12 3 (0.12%) RTP
12 3 (0.12%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 509 (20.07%) Power BI
2 265 (10.45%) Data Warehouse
3 185 (7.29%) Data Lake
4 165 (6.51%) Tableau
5 142 (5.60%) Metadata
6 77 (3.04%) BigQuery
7 75 (2.96%) SQL Server
8 71 (2.80%) Big Data
9 69 (2.72%) Delta Lake
9 69 (2.72%) PostgreSQL
10 61 (2.41%) Snowflake Schema
11 58 (2.29%) Relational Database
12 57 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
12 57 (2.25%) Looker
13 50 (1.97%) NoSQL
14 48 (1.89%) Hadoop
15 46 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
16 44 (1.74%) Star Schema
17 42 (1.66%) Amazon Athena
17 42 (1.66%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 162 (6.39%) Git
2 161 (6.35%) JIRA
3 76 (3.00%) GitLab
4 75 (2.96%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.99%) Selenium
6 22 (0.87%) ERwin
7 20 (0.79%) JUnit
8 13 (0.51%) PowerDesigner
9 12 (0.47%) MLflow
10 10 (0.39%) Android Studio
10 10 (0.39%) ER Studio
10 10 (0.39%) Gradle
11 9 (0.35%) Visual Website Optimizer
12 8 (0.32%) Xcode
13 7 (0.28%) Postman
14 6 (0.24%) DBeaver
14 6 (0.24%) MSI
14 6 (0.24%) SonarQube
14 6 (0.24%) Visual Studio
15 5 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
General
1 821 (32.37%) Social Skills
2 685 (27.01%) Finance
3 493 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
4 229 (9.03%) Public Sector
5 206 (8.12%) Banking
6 164 (6.47%) Marketing
7 79 (3.12%) Retail
8 71 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
9 61 (2.41%) Front Office
10 52 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
11 48 (1.89%) Legal
12 46 (1.81%) Investment Banking
13 44 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 44 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
14 42 (1.66%) Manufacturing
15 37 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
16 35 (1.38%) Financial Institution
17 26 (1.03%) Telecoms
18 23 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
19 21 (0.83%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 371 (14.63%) Data Engineer
2 357 (14.08%) Analyst
3 315 (12.42%) Developer
4 285 (11.24%) Senior
5 282 (11.12%) Architect
6 190 (7.49%) Lead
7 135 (5.32%) Data Analyst
8 133 (5.24%) Consultant
9 123 (4.85%) Business Analyst
10 111 (4.38%) Data Architect
11 96 (3.79%) Azure Engineer
12 90 (3.55%) Data Scientist
13 64 (2.52%) Project Manager
14 62 (2.44%) Senior Data Engineer
14 62 (2.44%) Solutions Architect
15 59 (2.33%) Senior Developer
16 49 (1.93%) Designer
17 48 (1.89%) Snowflake Engineer
18 40 (1.58%) DevOps Engineer
18 40 (1.58%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (5.60%) REST
2 126 (4.97%) Kafka
3 120 (4.73%) PySpark
4 66 (2.60%) React
5 59 (2.33%) Pandas
6 55 (2.17%) TensorFlow
7 52 (2.05%) PyTorch
8 50 (1.97%) HTML
9 48 (1.89%) Node.js
9 48 (1.89%) scikit-learn
10 47 (1.85%) NumPy
11 46 (1.81%) JSON
12 44 (1.74%) CSS
12 44 (1.74%) RESTful
13 43 (1.70%) .NET
14 41 (1.62%) AngularJS
15 38 (1.50%) SOAP
16 36 (1.42%) ARM Templates
17 31 (1.22%) Middleware
18 28 (1.10%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 124 (4.89%) Cloud Native
2 100 (3.94%) Product Ownership
3 81 (3.19%) Data Structures
4 73 (2.88%) Onboarding
5 59 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
6 57 (2.25%) Management Information System
7 54 (2.13%) Algorithms
8 51 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
9 48 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
10 46 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
11 44 (1.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 41 (1.62%) Equities
13 40 (1.58%) Mobile App
14 37 (1.46%) Derivative
15 34 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
16 29 (1.14%) Fixed Income
16 29 (1.14%) NHS
17 28 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
17 28 (1.10%) Public Cloud
18 26 (1.03%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 85 (3.35%) Windows
2 76 (3.00%) Linux
3 27 (1.06%) Unix
4 26 (1.03%) Mac OS
5 25 (0.99%) Apple iOS
6 20 (0.79%) Android
7 8 (0.32%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.20%) VMS
8 5 (0.20%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.079%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.079%) zOS
10 1 (0.039%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.039%) CentOS
10 1 (0.039%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.039%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 680 (26.81%) Business Intelligence
2 606 (23.90%) Data Modelling
3 598 (23.58%) Agile
4 524 (20.66%) Problem-Solving
5 492 (19.40%) CI/CD
6 487 (19.20%) AI
7 464 (18.30%) ETL
8 448 (17.67%) DevOps
9 423 (16.68%) Data Pipeline
10 404 (15.93%) Data Engineering
11 392 (15.46%) Data Governance
12 368 (14.51%) Decision-Making
13 345 (13.60%) Stakeholder Management
14 323 (12.74%) Data Science
15 310 (12.22%) Data Analytics
16 307 (12.11%) Machine Learning
17 278 (10.96%) Visualisation
18 271 (10.69%) Continuous Improvement
19 268 (10.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 249 (9.82%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 870 (34.31%) SQL
2 805 (31.74%) Python
3 156 (6.15%) Java
4 99 (3.90%) JavaScript
5 96 (3.79%) PowerShell
6 79 (3.12%) C#
7 73 (2.88%) R
8 66 (2.60%) Bicep
9 64 (2.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 49 (1.93%) Bash
11 46 (1.81%) TypeScript
12 39 (1.54%) Kusto Query Language
13 38 (1.50%) Scala
14 36 (1.42%) C++
15 34 (1.34%) T-SQL
16 29 (1.14%) VBA
17 23 (0.91%) PL/SQL
18 19 (0.75%) Shell Script
19 16 (0.63%) Swift
20 14 (0.55%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 404 (15.93%) Security Cleared
2 322 (12.70%) SC Cleared
3 244 (9.62%) Degree
4 72 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 63 (2.48%) Azure Certification
6 51 (2.01%) Master's Degree
7 44 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 39 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
9 31 (1.22%) DV Cleared
10 27 (1.06%) PMI Certification
11 25 (0.99%) AWS Certification
11 25 (0.99%) CISSP
12 21 (0.83%) PMP
13 18 (0.71%) CISM
14 14 (0.55%) IIBA
15 12 (0.47%) PhD
16 11 (0.43%) CBAP
17 9 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
18 8 (0.32%) CCNP
18 8 (0.32%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 432 (17.03%) Data Quality
2 149 (5.88%) GDPR
3 93 (3.67%) Accessibility
4 91 (3.59%) QA
5 37 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 30 (1.18%) NIST
7 23 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
8 22 (0.87%) WCAG
9 18 (0.71%) PMO
10 15 (0.59%) NCSC
10 15 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 12 (0.47%) Solvency II
12 10 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 10 (0.39%) SLA
13 9 (0.35%) HIPAA
13 9 (0.35%) NIST 800
14 8 (0.32%) GRC
14 8 (0.32%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.32%) PERC
15 7 (0.28%) HL7
System Software
1 181 (7.14%) Docker
2 65 (2.56%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
3 16 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.43%) HDFS
5 8 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.20%) zsh
7 2 (0.079%) GPFS
7 2 (0.079%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.079%) Lustre
7 2 (0.079%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.079%) Snort
7 2 (0.079%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.039%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.039%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.039%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.039%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 212 (8.36%) Terraform
2 196 (7.73%) Kubernetes
3 33 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 31 (1.22%) Ansible
5 27 (1.06%) Prometheus
6 18 (0.71%) Grafana
6 18 (0.71%) SCCM
7 17 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (0.55%) Puppet
9 8 (0.32%) Kibana
10 7 (0.28%) Hadoop YARN
10 7 (0.28%) logstash
11 5 (0.20%) WSUS
12 3 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.12%) Argo
12 3 (0.12%) Cisco CUCM
12 3 (0.12%) Fluentd
12 3 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 2 (0.079%) RSA Archer
13 2 (0.079%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 483 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 329 (12.97%) Databricks
3 161 (6.35%) Google
4 141 (5.56%) SAP
5 126 (4.97%) Oracle
6 70 (2.76%) Salesforce
7 67 (2.64%) Adobe
8 61 (2.41%) ServiceNow
9 47 (1.85%) Talend
10 46 (1.81%) Informatica
11 43 (1.70%) OpenAI
12 42 (1.66%) Splunk
13 34 (1.34%) Foundry
14 28 (1.10%) Denodo
15 27 (1.06%) Workday
16 25 (0.99%) IBM
17 20 (0.79%) VMware
18 18 (0.71%) Amplitude
18 18 (0.71%) Cisco
19 16 (0.63%) Dynatrace