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 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 37
Rank change year-on-year +2 +10 -2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,977 1,639 1,770
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.25% 6.74% 4.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.57% 7.38% 5.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,038 1,110 1,218
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £420 £445 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -
75th Percentile £625 £679 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £514 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -3.93% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 31 46
10th Percentile £20.13 £15.25 £14.50
25th Percentile £47.69 £20.25 £25.00
Median hourly rate £60.50 £31.64 £29.19
Median % change year-on-year +91.21% +8.41% -8.80%
75th Percentile £75.00 £36.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.70 £78.70 £70.63
UK median hourly rate £58.50 £31.85 £28.00
% change year-on-year +83.70% +13.73% -12.91%

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 34,728 22,194 31,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.62% 91.24% 86.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,149 14,504 20,626
10th Percentile £322 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £507 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -1.65% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,129 949 2,251
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.38 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.22 £15.97
Median hourly rate £45.78 £29.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.86% -20.55% +0.29%
75th Percentile £67.84 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.40 £28.18 £36.02
% change year-on-year +50.46% -21.77% +0.06%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 19 May 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 1,646 £550 -4.35% 1,069
Midlands +17 338 £492 -3.91% 179
North of England +10 336 £475 +2.70% 355
West Midlands +14 253 £489 -4.66% 94
South East -9 245 £500 +3.95% 410
South West +34 194 £500 +2.56% 143
North West +10 176 £492 +5.13% 205
Yorkshire +2 135 £500 +5.26% 102
East of England -10 116 £525 -12.50% 101
East Midlands +8 79 £525 +46.65% 85
North East +1 36 £450 +25.70% 53
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
1 158 (5.31%) Apache Spark
2 108 (3.63%) Apache Airflow
3 83 (2.79%) SAS
4 81 (2.72%) Apache
5 74 (2.49%) Confluence
6 44 (1.48%) SharePoint
7 24 (0.81%) CMS
8 17 (0.57%) Jupyter
9 15 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 15 (0.50%) Oracle Application Server
10 14 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
11 9 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
12 8 (0.27%) Apache Superset
12 8 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
13 7 (0.24%) WordPress
14 6 (0.20%) ArcGIS
14 6 (0.20%) IIS
15 5 (0.17%) Drupal
16 3 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
17 2 (0.067%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 122 (4.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 28 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (0.64%) MS Visio
5 15 (0.50%) Chatbot
6 13 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.24%) CPLEX
7 7 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
8 4 (0.13%) Trello
9 3 (0.10%) Notion
10 2 (0.067%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.067%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.067%) Sketch
11 1 (0.034%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.034%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.034%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.034%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.034%) InDesign
11 1 (0.034%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 59 (1.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
4 8 (0.27%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 8 (0.27%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
5 7 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.20%) Aladdin
6 6 (0.20%) Sage X3
7 5 (0.17%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.17%) Maximo
8 4 (0.13%) iTrent
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 4 (0.13%) SAP BPC
8 4 (0.13%) Shopify
8 4 (0.13%) Sprinklr
9 3 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
9 3 (0.10%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 922 (30.97%) Azure
2 652 (21.90%) Power Platform
3 594 (19.95%) AWS
4 284 (9.54%) GCP
5 239 (8.03%) Azure Data Factory
6 201 (6.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 200 (6.72%) Azure DevOps
8 177 (5.95%) Snowflake
9 159 (5.34%) GitHub
10 137 (4.60%) dbt
11 124 (4.17%) Amazon S3
12 122 (4.10%) Serverless
13 104 (3.49%) Azure Monitor
14 88 (2.96%) GitHub Actions
15 82 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
15 82 (2.75%) SaaS
16 77 (2.59%) AWS Lambda
17 72 (2.42%) Entra ID
18 57 (1.91%) Azure Key Vault
19 48 (1.61%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 40 (1.34%) Firewall
2 30 (1.01%) Network Security
3 23 (0.77%) DNS
4 22 (0.74%) VPN
5 15 (0.50%) SD-WAN
5 15 (0.50%) SMS
6 13 (0.44%) WAN
7 12 (0.40%) HTTP
8 8 (0.27%) BGP
8 8 (0.27%) DHCP
8 8 (0.27%) FTP
8 8 (0.27%) OSPF
9 7 (0.24%) MPLS
9 7 (0.24%) SSL
9 7 (0.24%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.20%) LAN
10 6 (0.20%) SMTP
10 6 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (0.20%) Wireless
10 6 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 605 (20.32%) Power BI
2 395 (13.27%) Data Warehouse
3 242 (8.13%) Data Lake
4 215 (7.22%) Tableau
5 175 (5.88%) Metadata
6 119 (4.00%) BigQuery
7 112 (3.76%) Delta Lake
8 107 (3.59%) SQL Server
9 92 (3.09%) Big Data
10 74 (2.49%) Amazon Redshift
10 74 (2.49%) Relational Database
11 67 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
11 67 (2.25%) NoSQL
12 66 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
13 65 (2.18%) Snowflake Schema
14 62 (2.08%) Looker
15 56 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
15 56 (1.88%) Star Schema
16 52 (1.75%) Hadoop
16 52 (1.75%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 174 (5.84%) Git
2 169 (5.68%) JIRA
3 67 (2.25%) Jenkins
4 63 (2.12%) GitLab
5 20 (0.67%) ERwin
6 15 (0.50%) MLflow
7 12 (0.40%) Selenium
8 8 (0.27%) MSI
8 8 (0.27%) PowerDesigner
9 7 (0.24%) ER Studio
9 7 (0.24%) fastlane
9 7 (0.24%) JUnit
10 6 (0.20%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.20%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.20%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.17%) Gradle
11 5 (0.17%) Postman
11 5 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 5 (0.17%) XCTest
12 4 (0.13%) Android Studio
General
1 744 (24.99%) Social Skills
2 741 (24.89%) Finance
3 513 (17.23%) Analytical Skills
4 311 (10.45%) Public Sector
5 193 (6.48%) Banking
6 163 (5.48%) Marketing
7 99 (3.33%) Retail
8 75 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
9 54 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 53 (1.78%) Legal
11 50 (1.68%) Investment Banking
12 48 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
13 47 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
13 47 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
14 46 (1.55%) Telecoms
15 40 (1.34%) Manufacturing
16 37 (1.24%) Front Office
17 35 (1.18%) Financial Institution
18 25 (0.84%) Military
19 24 (0.81%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 582 (19.55%) Data Engineer
2 364 (12.23%) Analyst
3 356 (11.96%) Senior
4 347 (11.66%) Architect
5 331 (11.12%) Developer
6 253 (8.50%) Lead
7 161 (5.41%) Data Architect
8 150 (5.04%) Data Analyst
9 122 (4.10%) Consultant
10 109 (3.66%) Azure Engineer
11 104 (3.49%) Business Analyst
12 101 (3.39%) Senior Data Engineer
13 91 (3.06%) Data Scientist
14 86 (2.89%) Solutions Architect
15 67 (2.25%) Data Manager
16 66 (2.22%) Project Manager
17 59 (1.98%) Designer
18 52 (1.75%) Business Intelligence Developer
19 51 (1.71%) AWS Engineer
20 50 (1.68%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (6.18%) PySpark
2 141 (4.74%) Kafka
3 107 (3.59%) REST
4 61 (2.05%) Pandas
5 53 (1.78%) JSON
5 53 (1.78%) React
6 49 (1.65%) PyTorch
7 48 (1.61%) TensorFlow
8 46 (1.55%) HTML
9 44 (1.48%) CSS
10 39 (1.31%) RESTful
11 37 (1.24%) .NET
12 35 (1.18%) Middleware
12 35 (1.18%) scikit-learn
12 35 (1.18%) SOAP
13 33 (1.11%) AngularJS
14 32 (1.07%) NumPy
15 30 (1.01%) Oracle Fusion
16 28 (0.94%) Web Services
17 27 (0.91%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 195 (6.55%) Cloud Native
2 145 (4.87%) Product Ownership
3 109 (3.66%) Data Structures
4 87 (2.92%) Onboarding
5 75 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
6 66 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
7 52 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
8 45 (1.51%) Management Information System
9 44 (1.48%) Algorithms
10 42 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
11 38 (1.28%) Public Cloud
12 35 (1.18%) AI Agents
13 34 (1.14%) Mobile App
13 34 (1.14%) NHS
13 34 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
14 29 (0.97%) Derivative
14 29 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
15 28 (0.94%) Marketing Technology
16 27 (0.91%) Fixed Income
16 27 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 90 (3.02%) Windows
2 75 (2.52%) Linux
3 33 (1.11%) Mac OS
4 32 (1.07%) Unix
5 24 (0.81%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.50%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.40%) Android
8 7 (0.24%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.10%) CentOS
11 2 (0.067%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.067%) VMS
11 2 (0.067%) zOS
12 1 (0.034%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 826 (27.75%) Data Modelling
2 816 (27.41%) Business Intelligence
3 648 (21.77%) AI
4 627 (21.06%) Agile
5 623 (20.93%) Data Pipeline
6 602 (20.22%) Data Engineering
7 591 (19.85%) CI/CD
8 569 (19.11%) ETL
9 498 (16.73%) DevOps
10 491 (16.49%) Data Governance
11 480 (16.12%) Problem-Solving
12 475 (15.96%) Decision-Making
13 391 (13.13%) Stakeholder Management
14 342 (11.49%) Data Science
15 338 (11.35%) Machine Learning
16 336 (11.29%) Data Analytics
17 329 (11.05%) Continuous Improvement
17 329 (11.05%) Migration
18 291 (9.77%) Validation
19 285 (9.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,010 (33.93%) SQL
2 915 (30.74%) Python
3 130 (4.37%) Java
4 121 (4.06%) PowerShell
5 97 (3.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 94 (3.16%) C#
7 81 (2.72%) R
8 69 (2.32%) Bicep
9 60 (2.02%) JavaScript
10 47 (1.58%) T-SQL
11 42 (1.41%) Kusto Query Language
11 42 (1.41%) Scala
12 41 (1.38%) TypeScript
13 36 (1.21%) Bash
14 27 (0.91%) Shell Script
15 26 (0.87%) C++
16 25 (0.84%) PL/SQL
17 14 (0.47%) VBA
18 11 (0.37%) Kotlin
19 9 (0.30%) Swift
Qualifications
1 511 (17.16%) Security Cleared
2 403 (13.54%) SC Cleared
3 225 (7.56%) Degree
4 68 (2.28%) Azure Certification
5 63 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 57 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
7 47 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
8 45 (1.51%) DV Cleared
9 38 (1.28%) Master's Degree
10 26 (0.87%) PMI Certification
11 23 (0.77%) CISSP
12 22 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
12 22 (0.74%) PMP
13 17 (0.57%) AWS Certification
14 15 (0.50%) CCNP
14 15 (0.50%) PhD
15 14 (0.47%) DBS Check
16 13 (0.44%) IIBA
17 11 (0.37%) CCIE
18 10 (0.34%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 569 (19.11%) Data Quality
2 157 (5.27%) GDPR
3 120 (4.03%) QA
4 104 (3.49%) Accessibility
5 38 (1.28%) WCAG
6 36 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 27 (0.91%) NIST
8 21 (0.71%) PMO
9 20 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
10 16 (0.54%) SLA
11 14 (0.47%) GRC
12 13 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 10 (0.34%) PERC
14 9 (0.30%) ISO 20022
14 9 (0.30%) Solvency II
15 8 (0.27%) NCSC
15 8 (0.27%) PCI DSS
16 6 (0.20%) HL7
17 5 (0.17%) GAAP
17 5 (0.17%) IFRS
System Software
1 162 (5.44%) Docker
2 74 (2.49%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.13%) HDFS
6 4 (0.13%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.13%) Snort
6 4 (0.13%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.034%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.034%) GPFS
7 1 (0.034%) iptables
7 1 (0.034%) Lustre
7 1 (0.034%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.034%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.034%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.034%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 229 (7.69%) Terraform
2 167 (5.61%) Kubernetes
3 40 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
4 37 (1.24%) Grafana
5 34 (1.14%) Ansible
6 29 (0.97%) Prometheus
7 19 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (0.50%) SCCM
9 6 (0.20%) Puppet
10 5 (0.17%) Argo
11 4 (0.13%) Control-M
11 4 (0.13%) CSIRT
11 4 (0.13%) Kibana
11 4 (0.13%) WSUS
12 3 (0.10%) Nagios
12 3 (0.10%) QRadar
12 3 (0.10%) SysTrack
13 2 (0.067%) Apache Ranger
13 2 (0.067%) Nessus
13 2 (0.067%) SCOM
Vendors
1 536 (18.00%) Microsoft
2 404 (13.57%) Databricks
3 161 (5.41%) Google
4 147 (4.94%) Oracle
5 146 (4.90%) SAP
6 70 (2.35%) ServiceNow
7 65 (2.18%) Adobe
8 62 (2.08%) Informatica
9 61 (2.05%) Salesforce
10 51 (1.71%) Splunk
11 46 (1.55%) Talend
12 41 (1.38%) OpenAI
13 36 (1.21%) Denodo
14 35 (1.18%) Workday
15 33 (1.11%) Foundry
16 23 (0.77%) Dynatrace
16 23 (0.77%) VMware
17 22 (0.74%) IBM
18 17 (0.57%) Cisco
19 13 (0.44%) Ariba