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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 29 38
Rank change year-on-year +7 +9 0
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,747 1,607 1,817
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.56% 6.34% 4.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.70% 7.01% 5.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,873 1,082 1,247
10th Percentile £350 £338 £363
25th Percentile £424 £444 £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 £513 £548 £550
% change year-on-year -6.39% -0.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 28 68
10th Percentile £20.66 £19.10 £17.00
25th Percentile £38.25 £25.19 £25.00
Median hourly rate £57.30 £32.92 £37.19
Median % change year-on-year +74.05% -11.47% +16.22%
75th Percentile £75.00 £59.25 £55.97
90th Percentile £83.75 £67.06 £78.88
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £35.00 £35.32
% change year-on-year +57.14% -0.89% +10.36%

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 31,583 22,934 32,620
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.97% 90.41% 87.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,210 14,556 21,603
10th Percentile £313 £308 £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 £618 £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 1,944 784 2,086
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £13.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.24 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.32 £35.00 £33.78
Median % change year-on-year -16.23% +3.63% -5.26%
75th Percentile £63.81 £65.00 £59.33
90th Percentile £73.46 £75.18 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £32.50 £32.85
% change year-on-year -13.85% -1.05% -6.16%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 +2 1,579 £525 -12.50% 1,092
Midlands +27 315 £494 +3.95% 263
North of England +6 287 £500 +5.26% 391
West Midlands +25 234 £500 +2.15% 149
South East -6 204 £500 +6.67% 624
North West +7 171 £500 +5.26% 206
South West +32 151 £525 +5.53% 203
East of England -7 105 £505 -15.83% 193
Yorkshire -9 96 £510 +2.00% 132
East Midlands +11 79 £450 +14.36% 111
North East +11 26 £450 +25.70% 55
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
1 129 (4.70%) Apache Spark
2 112 (4.08%) SAS
3 95 (3.46%) Apache Airflow
4 80 (2.91%) Apache
5 60 (2.18%) Confluence
6 53 (1.93%) SharePoint
7 28 (1.02%) CMS
8 20 (0.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 19 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
10 11 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
11 8 (0.29%) GeoServer
11 8 (0.29%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.29%) Smallworld
12 7 (0.25%) ArcGIS
12 7 (0.25%) WordPress
13 5 (0.18%) Oracle Application Server
13 5 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 5 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
14 4 (0.15%) Apache Superset
15 3 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 128 (4.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (1.02%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.69%) Chatbot
6 14 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
7 9 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.18%) Adobe XD
8 5 (0.18%) Sketch
8 5 (0.18%) Trello
9 3 (0.11%) Notion
9 3 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
10 2 (0.073%) Autodesk Smoke
10 2 (0.073%) CPLEX
11 1 (0.036%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.036%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.036%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.036%) InDesign
11 1 (0.036%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.036%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 75 (2.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.40%) SAP HR
4 9 (0.33%) SAP FI
5 8 (0.29%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 8 (0.29%) SAP MM
6 7 (0.25%) Aladdin
6 7 (0.25%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 7 (0.25%) Maximo
7 6 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.22%) Sage X3
7 6 (0.22%) SAP EHS
8 5 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.18%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 5 (0.18%) SAP BPC
8 5 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.15%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
9 4 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 888 (32.33%) Azure
2 612 (22.28%) Power Platform
3 576 (20.97%) AWS
4 277 (10.08%) GCP
5 216 (7.86%) Azure Data Factory
6 207 (7.54%) Azure DevOps
7 186 (6.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 183 (6.66%) Snowflake
9 166 (6.04%) GitHub
10 129 (4.70%) Serverless
11 115 (4.19%) Azure Monitor
12 113 (4.11%) dbt
13 112 (4.08%) Amazon S3
14 103 (3.75%) GitHub Actions
15 97 (3.53%) SaaS
16 94 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
17 88 (3.20%) Entra ID
18 70 (2.55%) AWS Lambda
19 62 (2.26%) Azure Key Vault
20 57 (2.07%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 51 (1.86%) Firewall
2 31 (1.13%) Network Security
3 28 (1.02%) VPN
4 24 (0.87%) DNS
5 17 (0.62%) SMS
6 14 (0.51%) WAN
7 10 (0.36%) 5G
8 9 (0.33%) DHCP
8 9 (0.33%) HTTP
8 9 (0.33%) MPLS
8 9 (0.33%) SSL
9 8 (0.29%) LAN
9 8 (0.29%) SD-WAN
9 8 (0.29%) TCP/IP
10 7 (0.25%) 4G
11 6 (0.22%) 2G
11 6 (0.22%) BGP
11 6 (0.22%) Radio Access Network
11 6 (0.22%) SMTP
12 5 (0.18%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 564 (20.53%) Power BI
2 325 (11.83%) Data Warehouse
3 210 (7.64%) Data Lake
4 173 (6.30%) Tableau
5 163 (5.93%) Metadata
6 89 (3.24%) BigQuery
7 88 (3.20%) SQL Server
8 87 (3.17%) Delta Lake
9 84 (3.06%) Big Data
10 74 (2.69%) Snowflake Schema
11 69 (2.51%) PostgreSQL
12 66 (2.40%) Azure SQL Database
12 66 (2.40%) Relational Database
13 62 (2.26%) NoSQL
14 60 (2.18%) Amazon Redshift
15 58 (2.11%) Looker
16 56 (2.04%) Hadoop
17 51 (1.86%) Amazon Athena
17 51 (1.86%) Power Query
18 48 (1.75%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 199 (7.24%) Git
2 164 (5.97%) JIRA
3 97 (3.53%) Jenkins
4 85 (3.09%) GitLab
5 30 (1.09%) Selenium
6 24 (0.87%) JUnit
7 23 (0.84%) ERwin
8 15 (0.55%) MLflow
9 12 (0.44%) PowerDesigner
10 10 (0.36%) Android Studio
10 10 (0.36%) ER Studio
10 10 (0.36%) Gradle
11 8 (0.29%) SonarQube
11 8 (0.29%) Xcode
12 7 (0.25%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.25%) Cypress.io
12 7 (0.25%) MSI
13 6 (0.22%) Visual Website Optimizer
14 5 (0.18%) Maven
14 5 (0.18%) XCTest
General
1 868 (31.60%) Social Skills
2 724 (26.36%) Finance
3 522 (19.00%) Analytical Skills
4 264 (9.61%) Public Sector
5 211 (7.68%) Banking
6 171 (6.22%) Marketing
7 78 (2.84%) Retail
8 74 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
9 64 (2.33%) Front Office
10 49 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
11 48 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 47 (1.71%) Investment Banking
12 47 (1.71%) Manufacturing
13 46 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
13 46 (1.67%) Legal
14 42 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
15 32 (1.16%) Financial Institution
16 31 (1.13%) Telecoms
17 25 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
18 21 (0.76%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 454 (16.53%) Data Engineer
2 356 (12.96%) Analyst
3 331 (12.05%) Developer
4 321 (11.69%) Architect
5 309 (11.25%) Senior
6 228 (8.30%) Lead
7 142 (5.17%) Data Analyst
8 134 (4.88%) Consultant
9 129 (4.70%) Data Architect
10 113 (4.11%) Business Analyst
11 106 (3.86%) Azure Engineer
12 95 (3.46%) Data Scientist
13 76 (2.77%) Senior Data Engineer
14 70 (2.55%) Project Manager
15 64 (2.33%) Solutions Architect
16 53 (1.93%) Senior Developer
16 53 (1.93%) Snowflake Engineer
17 49 (1.78%) Designer
18 45 (1.64%) Azure Data Engineer
18 45 (1.64%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (5.39%) REST
2 142 (5.17%) PySpark
3 136 (4.95%) Kafka
4 63 (2.29%) React
5 60 (2.18%) Pandas
6 58 (2.11%) TensorFlow
7 56 (2.04%) PyTorch
8 50 (1.82%) .NET
9 48 (1.75%) scikit-learn
10 47 (1.71%) JSON
10 47 (1.71%) NumPy
11 43 (1.57%) Node.js
12 42 (1.53%) HTML
13 41 (1.49%) AngularJS
13 41 (1.49%) RESTful
13 41 (1.49%) SOAP
14 40 (1.46%) ARM Templates
15 39 (1.42%) CSS
16 32 (1.16%) Middleware
17 31 (1.13%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 150 (5.46%) Cloud Native
2 105 (3.82%) Product Ownership
3 87 (3.17%) Data Structures
4 80 (2.91%) Onboarding
5 67 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
6 55 (2.00%) Algorithms
7 54 (1.97%) Management Information System
8 51 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
9 49 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
10 47 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
11 44 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 41 (1.49%) Equities
13 38 (1.38%) Public Cloud
14 36 (1.31%) Mobile App
15 35 (1.27%) Derivative
16 34 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
17 32 (1.16%) NHS
18 29 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
19 27 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
20 25 (0.91%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 87 (3.17%) Windows
2 69 (2.51%) Linux
3 27 (0.98%) Mac OS
4 26 (0.95%) Apple iOS
5 25 (0.91%) Unix
6 20 (0.73%) Android
7 8 (0.29%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.29%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.18%) VMS
9 3 (0.11%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.073%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.073%) zOS
11 1 (0.036%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.036%) CentOS
11 1 (0.036%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 767 (27.92%) Business Intelligence
2 712 (25.92%) Data Modelling
3 643 (23.41%) Agile
4 574 (20.90%) CI/CD
5 556 (20.24%) Problem-Solving
6 541 (19.69%) ETL
7 530 (19.29%) AI
8 525 (19.11%) DevOps
9 514 (18.71%) Data Pipeline
10 480 (17.47%) Data Engineering
11 446 (16.24%) Data Governance
12 413 (15.03%) Decision-Making
13 374 (13.61%) Stakeholder Management
14 351 (12.78%) Data Science
15 334 (12.16%) Machine Learning
16 326 (11.87%) Data Analytics
17 316 (11.50%) Continuous Improvement
18 285 (10.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 282 (10.27%) Visualisation
20 262 (9.54%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 977 (35.57%) SQL
2 879 (32.00%) Python
3 152 (5.53%) Java
4 104 (3.79%) PowerShell
5 90 (3.28%) JavaScript
6 87 (3.17%) C#
7 82 (2.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 77 (2.80%) R
9 72 (2.62%) Bicep
10 51 (1.86%) TypeScript
11 50 (1.82%) Bash
12 46 (1.67%) Kusto Query Language
13 40 (1.46%) T-SQL
14 38 (1.38%) Scala
15 35 (1.27%) C++
16 33 (1.20%) VBA
17 28 (1.02%) PL/SQL
18 16 (0.58%) Shell Script
18 16 (0.58%) Swift
19 15 (0.55%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 464 (16.89%) Security Cleared
2 366 (13.32%) SC Cleared
3 250 (9.10%) Degree
4 72 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 70 (2.55%) Azure Certification
6 47 (1.71%) Master's Degree
7 42 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 41 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
9 35 (1.27%) DV Cleared
10 26 (0.95%) PMI Certification
11 24 (0.87%) AWS Certification
11 24 (0.87%) CISSP
12 22 (0.80%) PMP
13 19 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
14 16 (0.58%) CISM
15 15 (0.55%) CCNP
16 14 (0.51%) IIBA
17 13 (0.47%) PhD
18 11 (0.40%) CCIE
19 8 (0.29%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 494 (17.98%) Data Quality
2 152 (5.53%) GDPR
3 107 (3.90%) QA
4 94 (3.42%) Accessibility
5 35 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 26 (0.95%) WCAG
7 25 (0.91%) NIST
8 22 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
8 22 (0.80%) PMO
9 17 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 15 (0.55%) NCSC
11 14 (0.51%) Solvency II
12 11 (0.40%) GRC
13 9 (0.33%) SLA
14 8 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 8 (0.29%) HIPAA
14 8 (0.29%) NIST 800
14 8 (0.29%) PERC
15 7 (0.25%) HL7
15 7 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 208 (7.57%) Docker
2 79 (2.88%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.22%) HDFS
5 6 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.15%) Snort
7 3 (0.11%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.11%) zsh
8 2 (0.073%) GPFS
8 2 (0.073%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.073%) Lustre
8 2 (0.073%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.036%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.036%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.036%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.036%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 242 (8.81%) Terraform
2 224 (8.15%) Kubernetes
3 35 (1.27%) Ansible
3 35 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 29 (1.06%) Prometheus
5 24 (0.87%) Grafana
6 20 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (0.66%) SCCM
8 9 (0.33%) Kibana
8 9 (0.33%) Puppet
9 7 (0.25%) logstash
10 5 (0.18%) WSUS
11 4 (0.15%) CSIRT
12 3 (0.11%) Argo
12 3 (0.11%) Cisco CUCM
12 3 (0.11%) Fluentd
13 2 (0.073%) Control-M
13 2 (0.073%) Nessus
13 2 (0.073%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.073%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 520 (18.93%) Microsoft
2 372 (13.54%) Databricks
3 167 (6.08%) Google
4 148 (5.39%) SAP
5 145 (5.28%) Oracle
6 72 (2.62%) Salesforce
7 69 (2.51%) ServiceNow
8 67 (2.44%) Adobe
9 60 (2.18%) Talend
10 52 (1.89%) Informatica
10 52 (1.89%) Splunk
11 45 (1.64%) OpenAI
12 42 (1.53%) Denodo
13 39 (1.42%) Foundry
14 29 (1.06%) Workday
15 23 (0.84%) IBM
16 22 (0.80%) VMware
17 19 (0.69%) Cisco
18 18 (0.66%) Amplitude
19 15 (0.55%) Dynatrace