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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 35
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 +2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,432 1,794 1,865
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.65% 6.57% 5.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.97% 7.25% 6.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,308 1,185 1,330
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £433 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% -2.36% -2.22%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 44 32
10th Percentile £20.40 £15.26 £21.30
25th Percentile £35.00 £22.31 £25.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £34.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.42% +15.00% -7.12%
75th Percentile £75.00 £71.71 £43.75
90th Percentile £88.01 £80.71 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £52.75 £34.50 £29.50
% change year-on-year +52.90% +16.95% -8.67%

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 38,278 24,745 30,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.32% 90.65% 85.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,038 15,865 19,799
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £645
90th Percentile £737 £738 £751
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,361 1,324 1,984
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.23 £13.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.95 £17.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.98%
75th Percentile £69.50 £53.56 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £74.31
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -10.31%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 22 July 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 1,869 £550 -4.35% 1,600
North of England +8 427 £492 +9.27% 328
Midlands +11 415 £490 -2.00% 177
South East +4 329 £500 -3.61% 405
West Midlands +12 326 £481 -6.13% 105
North West +2 216 £513 +9.51% 180
South West +14 188 £490 +3.16% 122
Yorkshire +7 167 £475 +2.37% 103
East of England -12 110 £563 -3.02% 67
East Midlands +6 82 £513 +24.24% 72
North East +1 55 £450 +9.09% 46
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
1 153 (4.46%) Apache Spark
2 148 (4.31%) Apache Airflow
3 112 (3.26%) SAS
4 97 (2.83%) Apache
5 75 (2.19%) Confluence
6 45 (1.31%) SharePoint
7 40 (1.17%) CMS
8 30 (0.87%) Jupyter
9 27 (0.79%) Palantir Foundry
10 21 (0.61%) Oracle Application Server
11 18 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 12 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
13 9 (0.26%) Apache Superset
14 7 (0.20%) Drupal
14 7 (0.20%) WordPress
15 6 (0.17%) IIS
15 6 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
16 4 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
17 3 (0.087%) ArcGIS
18 2 (0.058%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 154 (4.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (0.55%) Chatbot
3 19 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
5 13 (0.38%) CPLEX
6 12 (0.35%) MS Visio
7 10 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.12%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
8 4 (0.12%) Sketch
9 3 (0.087%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.058%) InDesign
10 2 (0.058%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.058%) Trello
11 1 (0.029%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.029%) Notion
11 1 (0.029%) PlantUML
11 1 (0.029%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 63 (1.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 36 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
4 12 (0.35%) Aladdin
4 12 (0.35%) Workday HCM
5 10 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
6 8 (0.23%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 8 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.20%) NetSuite
7 7 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
7 7 (0.20%) SAP ERP
7 7 (0.20%) Shopify
8 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
8 6 (0.17%) Sage X3
8 6 (0.17%) SAP GRC
8 6 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 5 (0.15%) BambooHR
9 5 (0.15%) Infor LN
9 5 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
9 5 (0.15%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 1,013 (29.52%) Azure
2 705 (20.54%) Power Platform
3 643 (18.74%) AWS
4 302 (8.80%) GCP
5 232 (6.76%) Azure DevOps
6 231 (6.73%) Snowflake
7 221 (6.44%) Azure Data Factory
8 187 (5.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 185 (5.39%) dbt
10 152 (4.43%) GitHub
11 144 (4.20%) Amazon S3
12 141 (4.11%) Serverless
13 128 (3.73%) Azure Monitor
14 104 (3.03%) Entra ID
15 97 (2.83%) SaaS
16 96 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
17 85 (2.48%) GitHub Actions
17 85 (2.48%) Microsoft 365
18 50 (1.46%) Azure AKS
18 50 (1.46%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 58 (1.69%) Firewall
2 44 (1.28%) Network Security
3 37 (1.08%) VPN
4 34 (0.99%) DNS
5 25 (0.73%) WAN
6 23 (0.67%) SD-WAN
7 21 (0.61%) BGP
8 20 (0.58%) TCP/IP
9 14 (0.41%) DHCP
10 12 (0.35%) OSPF
11 9 (0.26%) SMS
11 9 (0.26%) Wireless
12 8 (0.23%) VXLAN
13 7 (0.20%) 5G
13 7 (0.20%) Broadband
13 7 (0.20%) HTTP
13 7 (0.20%) Internet
13 7 (0.20%) LAN
13 7 (0.20%) MPLS
13 7 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 669 (19.49%) Power BI
2 447 (13.02%) Data Warehouse
3 256 (7.46%) Data Lake
4 238 (6.93%) Tableau
5 199 (5.80%) Metadata
6 136 (3.96%) BigQuery
7 100 (2.91%) Big Data
8 98 (2.86%) Delta Lake
9 95 (2.77%) Amazon Redshift
9 95 (2.77%) SQL Server
10 81 (2.36%) Relational Database
11 78 (2.27%) Snowflake Schema
12 72 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
13 71 (2.07%) Amazon Athena
13 71 (2.07%) Looker
13 71 (2.07%) NoSQL
14 62 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
15 51 (1.49%) Power Query
16 50 (1.46%) Semantic Layer
17 49 (1.43%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 193 (5.62%) Git
2 163 (4.75%) JIRA
3 71 (2.07%) Jenkins
4 51 (1.49%) GitLab
5 18 (0.52%) ERwin
6 12 (0.35%) JUnit
7 10 (0.29%) ER Studio
7 10 (0.29%) fastlane
7 10 (0.29%) MLflow
7 10 (0.29%) Selenium
8 7 (0.20%) Gradle
8 7 (0.20%) Postman
8 7 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
9 6 (0.17%) Android Studio
9 6 (0.17%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.17%) Crashlytics
9 6 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.15%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.15%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.15%) Xcode
General
1 861 (25.09%) Finance
2 859 (25.03%) Social Skills
3 594 (17.31%) Analytical Skills
4 404 (11.77%) Public Sector
5 251 (7.31%) Banking
6 200 (5.83%) Marketing
7 142 (4.14%) Retail
8 79 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 74 (2.16%) Legal
10 72 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
11 70 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
12 64 (1.86%) Manufacturing
13 58 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
14 53 (1.54%) Front Office
15 52 (1.52%) Investment Banking
16 49 (1.43%) Telecoms
17 43 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
18 36 (1.05%) Financial Institution
18 36 (1.05%) Military
19 32 (0.93%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 619 (18.04%) Data Engineer
2 436 (12.70%) Architect
3 433 (12.62%) Analyst
4 424 (12.35%) Senior
5 354 (10.31%) Developer
6 287 (8.36%) Lead
7 189 (5.51%) Data Architect
8 183 (5.33%) Data Analyst
9 135 (3.93%) Consultant
10 116 (3.38%) Data Scientist
10 116 (3.38%) Solutions Architect
11 107 (3.12%) Azure Engineer
11 107 (3.12%) Business Analyst
12 102 (2.97%) Senior Data Engineer
13 71 (2.07%) Data Manager
14 63 (1.84%) Python Developer
15 61 (1.78%) Product Manager
15 61 (1.78%) Project Manager
16 60 (1.75%) Azure Data Engineer
17 56 (1.63%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (5.74%) PySpark
2 135 (3.93%) Kafka
3 129 (3.76%) REST
4 61 (1.78%) Pandas
5 57 (1.66%) RESTful
6 53 (1.54%) JSON
7 51 (1.49%) React
8 48 (1.40%) .NET
9 41 (1.19%) HTML
10 40 (1.17%) CSS
11 38 (1.11%) Web Services
12 37 (1.08%) NumPy
13 36 (1.05%) ARM Templates
14 32 (0.93%) Microsoft Graph
14 32 (0.93%) OAuth
14 32 (0.93%) PyTorch
14 32 (0.93%) SOAP
15 29 (0.84%) Middleware
15 29 (0.84%) TensorFlow
16 28 (0.82%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 235 (6.85%) Cloud Native
2 179 (5.22%) Product Ownership
3 142 (4.14%) Data Structures
4 121 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
5 110 (3.21%) Onboarding
6 71 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
7 65 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
8 50 (1.46%) Management Information System
9 49 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
10 48 (1.40%) Algorithms
11 43 (1.25%) AI Agents
12 42 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
12 42 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
13 41 (1.19%) NHS
14 38 (1.11%) Mobile App
14 38 (1.11%) Virtual Team
15 34 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
15 34 (0.99%) Marketing Technology
16 29 (0.84%) Fixed Income
16 29 (0.84%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 92 (2.68%) Linux
1 92 (2.68%) Windows
2 43 (1.25%) Unix
3 23 (0.67%) Apple iOS
3 23 (0.67%) Windows Server
4 19 (0.55%) Mac OS
5 12 (0.35%) Android
5 12 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.20%) VMS
7 5 (0.15%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.087%) CentOS
8 3 (0.087%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.058%) Solaris
9 2 (0.058%) zOS
10 1 (0.029%) AIX
10 1 (0.029%) HPUX
10 1 (0.029%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 944 (27.51%) Data Modelling
2 887 (25.84%) Business Intelligence
3 798 (23.25%) AI
4 773 (22.52%) Agile
5 720 (20.98%) Data Pipeline
6 702 (20.45%) Data Engineering
7 664 (19.35%) CI/CD
8 578 (16.84%) ETL
9 577 (16.81%) Decision-Making
9 577 (16.81%) Stakeholder Management
10 531 (15.47%) Data Governance
11 529 (15.41%) DevOps
12 497 (14.48%) Problem-Solving
13 423 (12.33%) Migration
14 418 (12.18%) Machine Learning
15 412 (12.00%) Data Science
16 410 (11.95%) Continuous Improvement
17 407 (11.86%) Validation
18 385 (11.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 383 (11.16%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,142 (33.28%) SQL
2 1,005 (29.28%) Python
3 132 (3.85%) PowerShell
4 124 (3.61%) Java
5 99 (2.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 89 (2.59%) C#
7 72 (2.10%) Bicep
8 69 (2.01%) R
9 66 (1.92%) JavaScript
10 42 (1.22%) Bash
10 42 (1.22%) TypeScript
11 38 (1.11%) Shell Script
12 37 (1.08%) Scala
13 36 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
14 32 (0.93%) T-SQL
15 26 (0.76%) PL/SQL
16 22 (0.64%) VBA
17 19 (0.55%) C++
18 11 (0.32%) Cypher
19 10 (0.29%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 591 (17.22%) Security Cleared
2 463 (13.49%) SC Cleared
3 276 (8.04%) Degree
4 86 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
5 75 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 74 (2.16%) Azure Certification
7 64 (1.86%) DV Cleared
8 48 (1.40%) Master's Degree
9 36 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
10 32 (0.93%) CISSP
11 29 (0.84%) AWS Certification
12 28 (0.82%) PMI Certification
13 27 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
14 24 (0.70%) PMP
15 20 (0.58%) DBS Check
16 16 (0.47%) CCNP
17 15 (0.44%) CCIE
18 11 (0.32%) CISA
19 10 (0.29%) MBA
19 10 (0.29%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 647 (18.85%) Data Quality
2 173 (5.04%) GDPR
3 138 (4.02%) QA
4 123 (3.58%) Accessibility
5 49 (1.43%) WCAG
6 40 (1.17%) GRC
7 36 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 31 (0.90%) NIST
9 27 (0.79%) PMO
10 21 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
11 16 (0.47%) SLA
11 16 (0.47%) Solvency II
12 12 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 11 (0.32%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.29%) IFRS
14 10 (0.29%) NCSC
14 10 (0.29%) PERC
15 7 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
16 6 (0.17%) GAAP
17 5 (0.15%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 150 (4.37%) Docker
2 85 (2.48%) Active Directory
3 25 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.17%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.17%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.12%) HDFS
7 4 (0.12%) Snort
8 2 (0.058%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.058%) vSphere
9 1 (0.029%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.029%) GPFS
9 1 (0.029%) iptables
9 1 (0.029%) Lustre
9 1 (0.029%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.029%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.029%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 250 (7.28%) Terraform
2 172 (5.01%) Kubernetes
3 42 (1.22%) Ansible
4 37 (1.08%) Grafana
5 31 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
6 29 (0.84%) Prometheus
7 23 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (0.41%) SCCM
9 8 (0.23%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.12%) Control-M
10 4 (0.12%) CSIRT
10 4 (0.12%) Podman
10 4 (0.12%) QRadar
11 3 (0.087%) Apache Ranger
11 3 (0.087%) Argo
11 3 (0.087%) Kibana
11 3 (0.087%) Rancher
11 3 (0.087%) SCOM
12 2 (0.058%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.058%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 594 (17.31%) Microsoft
2 441 (12.85%) Databricks
3 196 (5.71%) Oracle
4 169 (4.92%) Google
4 169 (4.92%) SAP
5 81 (2.36%) ServiceNow
6 77 (2.24%) Salesforce
7 74 (2.16%) Adobe
8 55 (1.60%) Splunk
9 48 (1.40%) Workday
10 45 (1.31%) Foundry
11 44 (1.28%) Informatica
12 41 (1.19%) Talend
13 35 (1.02%) Dynatrace
13 35 (1.02%) Palantir
14 33 (0.96%) Denodo
15 31 (0.90%) OpenAI
16 30 (0.87%) Cisco
17 26 (0.76%) VMware
18 18 (0.52%) Alteryx