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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 29 38
Rank change year-on-year +7 +9 -3
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,658 1,612 1,842
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.51% 6.31% 4.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.62% 7.00% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,813 1,077 1,267
10th Percentile £350 £339 £363
25th Percentile £423 £440 £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 £510 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -6.42% -0.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 29 70
10th Percentile £20.64 £19.15 £17.00
25th Percentile £37.81 £25.26 £25.00
Median hourly rate £57.30 £34.50 £39.38
Median % change year-on-year +66.09% -12.38% +23.05%
75th Percentile £75.00 £60.75 £59.66
90th Percentile £83.83 £73.50 £78.79
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £35.00 £37.19
% change year-on-year +57.14% -5.89% +11.01%

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 30,846 23,044 33,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.12% 90.26% 87.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,757 14,550 21,943
10th Percentile £313 £307 £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 £617 £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 1,917 778 2,099
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £13.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £28.55 £35.00 £34.21
Median % change year-on-year -18.43% +2.31% -2.92%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £59.94
90th Percentile £73.41 £75.73 £72.07
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% -1.52% -5.71%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 1,536 £525 -12.50% 1,128
Midlands +26 292 £492 +3.14% 318
North of England +10 279 £500 +5.26% 439
West Midlands +20 219 £499 +1.79% 173
South East -7 198 £500 +8.11% 743
North West +8 167 £500 +5.26% 228
South West +31 144 £525 +5.00% 247
East of England -6 104 £509 -15.21% 257
Yorkshire -9 92 £515 +2.90% 153
East Midlands +13 72 £447 +6.43% 141
North East +8 25 £450 +25.70% 60
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
1 124 (4.67%) Apache Spark
2 110 (4.14%) SAS
3 91 (3.42%) Apache Airflow
4 76 (2.86%) Apache
5 60 (2.26%) Confluence
6 45 (1.69%) SharePoint
7 28 (1.05%) CMS
8 20 (0.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 13 (0.49%) 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
1 126 (4.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (1.05%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.71%) Chatbot
6 14 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
7 9 (0.34%) 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 (0.075%) Autodesk Smoke
10 2 (0.075%) CPLEX
11 1 (0.038%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.038%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.038%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.038%) InDesign
11 1 (0.038%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.038%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 70 (2.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.41%) SAP HR
4 9 (0.34%) 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 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.23%) 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%) Oracle General Ledger
9 4 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.15%) Sage X3
9 4 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 858 (32.28%) Azure
2 595 (22.39%) Power Platform
3 559 (21.03%) AWS
4 272 (10.23%) GCP
5 209 (7.86%) Azure Data Factory
6 196 (7.37%) Azure DevOps
7 179 (6.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 179 (6.73%) Snowflake
8 154 (5.79%) GitHub
9 127 (4.78%) Serverless
10 111 (4.18%) Amazon S3
11 109 (4.10%) dbt
12 107 (4.03%) Azure Monitor
13 97 (3.65%) SaaS
14 94 (3.54%) GitHub Actions
15 85 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
16 77 (2.90%) Entra ID
17 68 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
18 55 (2.07%) Power Automate
19 54 (2.03%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 47 (1.77%) Firewall
2 27 (1.02%) Network Security
3 26 (0.98%) VPN
4 22 (0.83%) DNS
5 17 (0.64%) SMS
6 13 (0.49%) WAN
7 9 (0.34%) HTTP
7 9 (0.34%) SSL
8 8 (0.30%) 5G
8 8 (0.30%) DHCP
8 8 (0.30%) TCP/IP
9 7 (0.26%) LAN
9 7 (0.26%) MPLS
10 6 (0.23%) 2G
10 6 (0.23%) 4G
10 6 (0.23%) SD-WAN
10 6 (0.23%) SMTP
11 5 (0.19%) FTP
11 5 (0.19%) Radio Access Network
12 4 (0.15%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 549 (20.65%) Power BI
2 308 (11.59%) Data Warehouse
3 204 (7.67%) Data Lake
4 165 (6.21%) Tableau
5 156 (5.87%) Metadata
6 86 (3.24%) SQL Server
7 84 (3.16%) BigQuery
7 84 (3.16%) Delta Lake
8 82 (3.09%) Big Data
9 70 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
10 69 (2.60%) Snowflake Schema
11 64 (2.41%) Relational Database
12 61 (2.29%) Azure SQL Database
12 61 (2.29%) NoSQL
13 56 (2.11%) Hadoop
14 55 (2.07%) Looker
15 53 (1.99%) Amazon Redshift
16 47 (1.77%) Amazon Athena
16 47 (1.77%) Data Vault
16 47 (1.77%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 195 (7.34%) Git
2 165 (6.21%) JIRA
3 95 (3.57%) Jenkins
4 85 (3.20%) GitLab
5 30 (1.13%) Selenium
6 24 (0.90%) JUnit
7 22 (0.83%) ERwin
8 15 (0.56%) MLflow
9 12 (0.45%) PowerDesigner
10 10 (0.38%) Android Studio
10 10 (0.38%) ER Studio
10 10 (0.38%) Gradle
11 8 (0.30%) SonarQube
11 8 (0.30%) Xcode
12 7 (0.26%) Cypress.io
12 7 (0.26%) MSI
13 6 (0.23%) Bitbucket
13 6 (0.23%) Visual Website Optimizer
14 5 (0.19%) Maven
14 5 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
General
1 846 (31.83%) Social Skills
2 705 (26.52%) Finance
3 509 (19.15%) Analytical Skills
4 253 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 209 (7.86%) Banking
6 166 (6.25%) Marketing
7 77 (2.90%) Retail
8 74 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
9 62 (2.33%) Front Office
10 49 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
11 46 (1.73%) Investment Banking
12 45 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 45 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
12 45 (1.69%) Manufacturing
13 44 (1.66%) Legal
14 40 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
15 33 (1.24%) Financial Institution
16 30 (1.13%) Telecoms
17 24 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
18 21 (0.79%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 433 (16.29%) Data Engineer
2 352 (13.24%) Analyst
3 322 (12.11%) Developer
4 307 (11.55%) Architect
5 302 (11.36%) Senior
6 221 (8.31%) Lead
7 142 (5.34%) Data Analyst
8 131 (4.93%) Consultant
9 121 (4.55%) Data Architect
10 114 (4.29%) Business Analyst
11 99 (3.72%) Azure Engineer
12 95 (3.57%) Data Scientist
13 71 (2.67%) Senior Data Engineer
14 68 (2.56%) Project Manager
15 62 (2.33%) Solutions Architect
16 55 (2.07%) Senior Developer
17 49 (1.84%) Designer
17 49 (1.84%) Snowflake Engineer
18 42 (1.58%) Azure Data Engineer
19 41 (1.54%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (5.38%) REST
2 137 (5.15%) PySpark
3 133 (5.00%) Kafka
4 60 (2.26%) Pandas
5 59 (2.22%) React
6 57 (2.14%) TensorFlow
7 55 (2.07%) PyTorch
8 50 (1.88%) scikit-learn
9 49 (1.84%) NumPy
10 48 (1.81%) JSON
11 43 (1.62%) .NET
12 42 (1.58%) HTML
12 42 (1.58%) Node.js
13 41 (1.54%) RESTful
14 40 (1.50%) AngularJS
15 39 (1.47%) CSS
16 38 (1.43%) ARM Templates
17 35 (1.32%) SOAP
18 32 (1.20%) OAuth
19 31 (1.17%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 140 (5.27%) Cloud Native
2 104 (3.91%) Product Ownership
3 84 (3.16%) Data Structures
4 75 (2.82%) Onboarding
5 62 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
6 54 (2.03%) Management Information System
7 53 (1.99%) Algorithms
8 49 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
9 48 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
9 48 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
10 44 (1.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 41 (1.54%) Equities
12 36 (1.35%) Mobile App
13 35 (1.32%) Derivative
14 32 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
14 32 (1.20%) Public Cloud
15 30 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
15 30 (1.13%) NHS
16 26 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
17 25 (0.94%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 83 (3.12%) Windows
2 69 (2.60%) Linux
3 26 (0.98%) Apple iOS
3 26 (0.98%) Mac OS
4 25 (0.94%) Unix
5 20 (0.75%) Android
6 8 (0.30%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.19%) VMS
7 5 (0.19%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.11%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.075%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.075%) zOS
10 1 (0.038%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.038%) CentOS
10 1 (0.038%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 742 (27.92%) Business Intelligence
2 687 (25.85%) Data Modelling
3 632 (23.78%) Agile
4 558 (20.99%) CI/CD
5 539 (20.28%) Problem-Solving
6 522 (19.64%) ETL
7 515 (19.38%) AI
8 506 (19.04%) DevOps
9 498 (18.74%) Data Pipeline
10 462 (17.38%) Data Engineering
11 434 (16.33%) Data Governance
12 398 (14.97%) Decision-Making
13 365 (13.73%) Stakeholder Management
14 346 (13.02%) Data Science
15 324 (12.19%) Machine Learning
16 313 (11.78%) Data Analytics
17 300 (11.29%) Continuous Improvement
18 279 (10.50%) Visualisation
19 270 (10.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 250 (9.41%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 941 (35.40%) SQL
2 861 (32.39%) Python
3 150 (5.64%) Java
4 95 (3.57%) PowerShell
5 89 (3.35%) JavaScript
6 81 (3.05%) C#
7 77 (2.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 76 (2.86%) R
9 68 (2.56%) Bicep
10 48 (1.81%) Bash
10 48 (1.81%) TypeScript
11 39 (1.47%) Kusto Query Language
11 39 (1.47%) T-SQL
12 38 (1.43%) Scala
13 37 (1.39%) C++
14 31 (1.17%) VBA
15 28 (1.05%) PL/SQL
16 16 (0.60%) Swift
17 15 (0.56%) Shell Script
18 14 (0.53%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 447 (16.82%) Security Cleared
2 352 (13.24%) SC Cleared
3 247 (9.29%) Degree
4 71 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 66 (2.48%) Azure Certification
6 47 (1.77%) Master's Degree
7 40 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 37 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
9 32 (1.20%) DV Cleared
10 26 (0.98%) PMI Certification
11 24 (0.90%) CISSP
12 23 (0.87%) AWS Certification
13 22 (0.83%) PMP
14 16 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
14 16 (0.60%) CISM
15 14 (0.53%) IIBA
16 13 (0.49%) PhD
17 12 (0.45%) CCNP
18 9 (0.34%) CBAP
19 8 (0.30%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 483 (18.17%) Data Quality
2 145 (5.46%) GDPR
3 101 (3.80%) QA
4 93 (3.50%) Accessibility
5 35 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 26 (0.98%) WCAG
7 25 (0.94%) NIST
8 22 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
8 22 (0.83%) PMO
9 17 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 15 (0.56%) NCSC
11 13 (0.49%) Solvency II
12 9 (0.34%) SLA
13 8 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 8 (0.30%) GRC
13 8 (0.30%) HIPAA
13 8 (0.30%) NIST 800
13 8 (0.30%) PERC
14 7 (0.26%) HL7
14 7 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 204 (7.67%) Docker
2 69 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.23%) HDFS
5 6 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.15%) Snort
6 4 (0.15%) zsh
7 3 (0.11%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.075%) GPFS
8 2 (0.075%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.075%) Lustre
8 2 (0.075%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.038%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.038%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.038%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.038%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 234 (8.80%) Terraform
2 220 (8.28%) Kubernetes
3 35 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 32 (1.20%) Ansible
5 29 (1.09%) Prometheus
6 23 (0.87%) Grafana
7 18 (0.68%) SCCM
8 16 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (0.34%) Kibana
9 9 (0.34%) 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 (0.075%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.075%) OpenVAS
14 2 (0.075%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.075%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 494 (18.59%) Microsoft
2 362 (13.62%) Databricks
3 163 (6.13%) Google
4 144 (5.42%) Oracle
5 143 (5.38%) SAP
6 71 (2.67%) Salesforce
7 68 (2.56%) Adobe
8 67 (2.52%) ServiceNow
9 58 (2.18%) Talend
10 52 (1.96%) Informatica
11 50 (1.88%) Splunk
12 43 (1.62%) OpenAI
13 40 (1.50%) Denodo
14 39 (1.47%) Foundry
15 27 (1.02%) Workday
16 23 (0.87%) IBM
17 22 (0.83%) VMware
18 19 (0.71%) Amplitude
19 16 (0.60%) Cisco
20 15 (0.56%) Palantir