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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 28 37
Rank change year-on-year +5 +9 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,796 1,593 1,843
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.59% 6.45% 4.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.78% 7.12% 5.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,909 1,084 1,273
10th Percentile £356 £331 £360
25th Percentile £424 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.07% - -
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 28 66
10th Percentile £21.21 £17.70 £17.00
25th Percentile £36.13 £24.50 £25.00
Median hourly rate £57.30 £31.08 £37.19
Median % change year-on-year +84.39% -16.44% +19.97%
75th Percentile £75.00 £61.50 £59.66
90th Percentile £83.75 £77.86 £78.96
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £34.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year +59.42% -2.82% +10.94%

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 31,861 22,379 32,986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.57% 86.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,379 14,469 21,822
10th Percentile £313 £310 £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 1,986 803 2,148
10th Percentile £15.31 £15.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.03 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.32 £34.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.12% +6.15% -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 1,592 £530 -11.67% 1,061
Midlands +22 335 £492 +3.58% 216
North of England +8 289 £500 +5.26% 356
West Midlands +21 251 £492 +0.41% 120
South East -2 208 £500 +8.11% 556
North West +7 173 £500 +5.26% 194
South West +35 165 £520 +4.00% 162
East of England -10 104 £505 -15.83% 133
Yorkshire 0 92 £500 - 116
East Midlands +8 80 £449 +22.21% 96
North East +12 30 £450 +25.70% 49
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
1 138 (4.94%) Apache Spark
2 108 (3.86%) SAS
3 93 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
4 84 (3.00%) Apache
5 58 (2.07%) Confluence
6 53 (1.90%) SharePoint
7 27 (0.97%) CMS
8 19 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 19 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
9 12 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
10 9 (0.32%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.29%) GeoServer
11 8 (0.29%) Smallworld
12 7 (0.25%) ArcGIS
13 6 (0.21%) Apache Superset
13 6 (0.21%) WordPress
14 5 (0.18%) Oracle Application Server
14 5 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
15 3 (0.11%) IIS
15 3 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 126 (4.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (0.89%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.64%) Chatbot
6 13 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
7 11 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.18%) Adobe XD
8 5 (0.18%) Sketch
8 5 (0.18%) Trello
9 4 (0.14%) Oracle Smart View
10 3 (0.11%) Notion
11 2 (0.072%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.072%) CPLEX
12 1 (0.036%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.036%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.036%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.036%) InDesign
12 1 (0.036%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.036%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 72 (2.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.39%) SAP HR
4 8 (0.29%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 8 (0.29%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 8 (0.29%) SAP FI
4 8 (0.29%) SAP MM
5 7 (0.25%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.25%) Maximo
5 7 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.21%) Sage X3
7 5 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.18%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 5 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.18%) SAP BPC
7 5 (0.18%) SAP EHS
7 5 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.14%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
8 4 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 905 (32.37%) Azure
2 619 (22.14%) Power Platform
3 586 (20.96%) AWS
4 285 (10.19%) GCP
5 222 (7.94%) Azure Data Factory
6 215 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
7 187 (6.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 181 (6.47%) GitHub
9 179 (6.40%) Snowflake
10 129 (4.61%) Serverless
11 122 (4.36%) Azure Monitor
12 118 (4.22%) dbt
13 117 (4.18%) Amazon S3
14 110 (3.93%) GitHub Actions
15 93 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
16 91 (3.25%) SaaS
17 89 (3.18%) Entra ID
18 71 (2.54%) AWS Lambda
19 66 (2.36%) Azure Key Vault
20 59 (2.11%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 55 (1.97%) Firewall
2 32 (1.14%) Network Security
3 29 (1.04%) VPN
4 25 (0.89%) DNS
5 17 (0.61%) SMS
6 16 (0.57%) WAN
7 10 (0.36%) 5G
7 10 (0.36%) MPLS
7 10 (0.36%) SD-WAN
8 9 (0.32%) HTTP
8 9 (0.32%) SSL
9 8 (0.29%) DHCP
9 8 (0.29%) LAN
10 7 (0.25%) 4G
10 7 (0.25%) BGP
10 7 (0.25%) TCP/IP
11 6 (0.21%) Internet
11 6 (0.21%) OSPF
11 6 (0.21%) Radio Access Network
11 6 (0.21%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 567 (20.28%) Power BI
2 340 (12.16%) Data Warehouse
3 213 (7.62%) Data Lake
4 176 (6.29%) Tableau
5 174 (6.22%) Metadata
6 95 (3.40%) Delta Lake
7 93 (3.33%) BigQuery
8 90 (3.22%) SQL Server
9 87 (3.11%) Big Data
10 71 (2.54%) Azure SQL Database
11 70 (2.50%) Relational Database
11 70 (2.50%) Snowflake Schema
12 68 (2.43%) NoSQL
12 68 (2.43%) PostgreSQL
13 65 (2.32%) Amazon Redshift
14 57 (2.04%) Hadoop
15 56 (2.00%) Looker
16 52 (1.86%) Amazon Athena
17 50 (1.79%) Power Query
18 48 (1.72%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 199 (7.12%) Git
2 157 (5.62%) JIRA
3 92 (3.29%) Jenkins
4 84 (3.00%) GitLab
5 28 (1.00%) Selenium
6 24 (0.86%) JUnit
7 23 (0.82%) ERwin
8 14 (0.50%) MLflow
9 11 (0.39%) PowerDesigner
10 10 (0.36%) Android Studio
10 10 (0.36%) Gradle
11 8 (0.29%) ER Studio
11 8 (0.29%) SonarQube
12 7 (0.25%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.25%) Cypress.io
12 7 (0.25%) MSI
12 7 (0.25%) Xcode
13 5 (0.18%) Maven
13 5 (0.18%) XCTest
14 4 (0.14%) Postman
General
1 859 (30.72%) Social Skills
2 722 (25.82%) Finance
3 538 (19.24%) Analytical Skills
4 283 (10.12%) Public Sector
5 208 (7.44%) Banking
6 162 (5.79%) Marketing
7 76 (2.72%) Retail
8 74 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
9 68 (2.43%) Front Office
10 52 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 50 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
12 49 (1.75%) Legal
13 48 (1.72%) Investment Banking
14 44 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
15 42 (1.50%) Manufacturing
16 38 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
17 34 (1.22%) Telecoms
18 32 (1.14%) Financial Institution
19 22 (0.79%) Military
20 21 (0.75%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 479 (17.13%) Data Engineer
2 345 (12.34%) Analyst
3 335 (11.98%) Developer
4 326 (11.66%) Architect
5 310 (11.09%) Senior
6 238 (8.51%) Lead
7 138 (4.94%) Consultant
8 137 (4.90%) Data Analyst
9 133 (4.76%) Data Architect
10 108 (3.86%) Azure Engineer
11 105 (3.76%) Business Analyst
12 96 (3.43%) Data Scientist
13 79 (2.83%) Senior Data Engineer
14 68 (2.43%) Solutions Architect
15 66 (2.36%) Project Manager
16 55 (1.97%) Designer
17 53 (1.90%) Senior Developer
18 51 (1.82%) Snowflake Engineer
19 45 (1.61%) Lead Data Engineer
19 45 (1.61%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (5.51%) PySpark
2 153 (5.47%) REST
3 150 (5.36%) Kafka
4 65 (2.32%) Pandas
5 60 (2.15%) React
5 60 (2.15%) TensorFlow
6 58 (2.07%) PyTorch
7 50 (1.79%) scikit-learn
8 49 (1.75%) .NET
8 49 (1.75%) NumPy
9 46 (1.65%) JSON
10 44 (1.57%) AngularJS
11 42 (1.50%) Node.js
12 41 (1.47%) ARM Templates
12 41 (1.47%) HTML
12 41 (1.47%) SOAP
13 39 (1.39%) CSS
14 38 (1.36%) RESTful
15 33 (1.18%) OAuth
15 33 (1.18%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 170 (6.08%) Cloud Native
2 103 (3.68%) Product Ownership
3 88 (3.15%) Data Structures
4 77 (2.75%) Onboarding
5 76 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
6 57 (2.04%) Management Information System
7 56 (2.00%) Algorithms
8 51 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
9 49 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
10 45 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
11 44 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 41 (1.47%) Equities
13 39 (1.39%) Public Cloud
14 36 (1.29%) Derivative
15 34 (1.22%) Mobile App
15 34 (1.22%) NHS
16 33 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
17 31 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
18 27 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
19 26 (0.93%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 87 (3.11%) Windows
2 73 (2.61%) Linux
3 29 (1.04%) Unix
4 26 (0.93%) Mac OS
5 24 (0.86%) Apple iOS
6 21 (0.75%) Android
7 9 (0.32%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.25%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.14%) VMS
10 3 (0.11%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.072%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.072%) zOS
12 1 (0.036%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.036%) CentOS
12 1 (0.036%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 768 (27.47%) Business Intelligence
2 737 (26.36%) Data Modelling
3 643 (23.00%) Agile
4 588 (21.03%) CI/CD
5 558 (19.96%) ETL
6 554 (19.81%) Problem-Solving
7 543 (19.42%) AI
8 539 (19.28%) DevOps
9 527 (18.85%) Data Pipeline
10 512 (18.31%) Data Engineering
11 466 (16.67%) Data Governance
12 422 (15.09%) Decision-Making
13 367 (13.13%) Stakeholder Management
14 353 (12.63%) Data Science
15 338 (12.09%) Machine Learning
16 330 (11.80%) Data Analytics
17 315 (11.27%) Continuous Improvement
18 292 (10.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 282 (10.09%) Visualisation
20 275 (9.84%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1,003 (35.87%) SQL
2 910 (32.55%) Python
3 155 (5.54%) Java
4 112 (4.01%) PowerShell
5 90 (3.22%) C#
6 87 (3.11%) JavaScript
7 84 (3.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 78 (2.79%) Bicep
9 77 (2.75%) R
10 50 (1.79%) Bash
11 49 (1.75%) TypeScript
12 47 (1.68%) Kusto Query Language
13 41 (1.47%) Scala
14 40 (1.43%) T-SQL
15 33 (1.18%) C++
15 33 (1.18%) VBA
16 27 (0.97%) PL/SQL
17 20 (0.72%) Shell Script
18 16 (0.57%) Kotlin
19 15 (0.54%) Swift
Qualifications
1 487 (17.42%) Security Cleared
2 381 (13.63%) SC Cleared
3 249 (8.91%) Degree
4 75 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 70 (2.50%) Azure Certification
6 48 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 48 (1.72%) Master's Degree
7 42 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 36 (1.29%) DV Cleared
9 26 (0.93%) PMI Certification
10 24 (0.86%) CISSP
11 23 (0.82%) AWS Certification
12 22 (0.79%) PMP
13 20 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
14 16 (0.57%) CISM
15 15 (0.54%) CCNP
16 14 (0.50%) IIBA
17 13 (0.46%) PhD
18 12 (0.43%) CCIE
19 9 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 503 (17.99%) Data Quality
2 166 (5.94%) GDPR
3 108 (3.86%) QA
4 97 (3.47%) Accessibility
5 37 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 26 (0.93%) WCAG
7 25 (0.89%) NIST
8 22 (0.79%) PMO
9 21 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
10 15 (0.54%) NCSC
10 15 (0.54%) Solvency II
11 14 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 12 (0.43%) GRC
13 10 (0.36%) SLA
14 9 (0.32%) HL7
14 9 (0.32%) PERC
15 8 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 8 (0.29%) NIST 800
15 8 (0.29%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 201 (7.19%) Docker
2 79 (2.83%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.18%) HDFS
7 4 (0.14%) Snort
7 4 (0.14%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.072%) GPFS
8 2 (0.072%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.072%) Lustre
8 2 (0.072%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.072%) zsh
9 1 (0.036%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.036%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.036%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.036%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 252 (9.01%) Terraform
2 218 (7.80%) Kubernetes
3 38 (1.36%) Ansible
4 33 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
5 29 (1.04%) Prometheus
6 27 (0.97%) Grafana
7 22 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
8 16 (0.57%) SCCM
9 9 (0.32%) Puppet
10 8 (0.29%) Kibana
11 7 (0.25%) logstash
12 4 (0.14%) CSIRT
12 4 (0.14%) WSUS
13 3 (0.11%) Argo
13 3 (0.11%) Cisco CUCM
13 3 (0.11%) Fluentd
14 2 (0.072%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.072%) CASB
14 2 (0.072%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.072%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 528 (18.88%) Microsoft
2 385 (13.77%) Databricks
3 167 (5.97%) Google
4 144 (5.15%) SAP
5 141 (5.04%) Oracle
6 69 (2.47%) Salesforce
7 67 (2.40%) ServiceNow
8 66 (2.36%) Adobe
9 58 (2.07%) Talend
10 56 (2.00%) Informatica
11 54 (1.93%) Splunk
12 45 (1.61%) OpenAI
13 41 (1.47%) Foundry
14 40 (1.43%) Denodo
15 28 (1.00%) Workday
16 24 (0.86%) IBM
17 22 (0.79%) VMware
18 20 (0.72%) Cisco
19 17 (0.61%) Palantir
20 14 (0.50%) Amplitude