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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 36
Rank change year-on-year +2 +9 -2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,370 1,748 1,910
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.58% 6.55% 5.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.87% 7.21% 6.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,277 1,166 1,334
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -2.22%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 38 44
10th Percentile £19.58 £14.83 £14.10
25th Percentile £35.00 £19.50 £25.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £33.28 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.29% +10.92% -6.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £63.31 £43.75
90th Percentile £84.95 £79.09 £71.38
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £34.50 £29.00
% change year-on-year +52.17% +18.97% -9.80%

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 37,991 24,251 31,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.46% 90.90% 85.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,934 15,590 20,626
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.65% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £729 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £517 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +2.28% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,364 1,224 2,273
10th Percentile £15.32 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.88 £17.98 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -4.70%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.81 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.20 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -6.25%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 1,832 £550 -4.35% 1,276
Midlands +13 414 £492 -1.57% 216
North of England +8 412 £491 +8.99% 345
West Midlands +14 319 £491 -4.20% 119
South East -2 309 £500 -4.76% 485
North West +3 206 £511 +9.25% 196
South West +20 189 £500 +5.26% 143
Yorkshire +2 164 £494 +6.76% 98
East of England -4 117 £525 -9.48% 116
East Midlands +8 88 £509 +23.71% 97
North East +2 53 £450 +9.09% 51
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
1 156 (4.63%) Apache Spark
2 145 (4.30%) Apache Airflow
3 103 (3.06%) SAS
4 93 (2.76%) Apache
5 65 (1.93%) Confluence
6 43 (1.28%) SharePoint
7 34 (1.01%) CMS
8 30 (0.89%) Jupyter
9 29 (0.86%) Palantir Foundry
10 20 (0.59%) Oracle Application Server
11 15 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
12 14 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 9 (0.27%) Apache Superset
14 7 (0.21%) WordPress
15 6 (0.18%) Drupal
15 6 (0.18%) IIS
15 6 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
16 3 (0.089%) ArcGIS
17 2 (0.059%) Moodle
17 2 (0.059%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 151 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 20 (0.59%) Chatbot
4 19 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
5 18 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
6 14 (0.42%) MS Visio
7 12 (0.36%) CPLEX
8 9 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
10 3 (0.089%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.089%) Sketch
11 2 (0.059%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.030%) InDesign
12 1 (0.030%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.030%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.030%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 69 (2.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
4 10 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
4 10 (0.30%) Workday HCM
5 9 (0.27%) Aladdin
6 8 (0.24%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 8 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.21%) NetSuite
7 7 (0.21%) SAP ERP
8 6 (0.18%) Sage X3
9 5 (0.15%) BambooHR
9 5 (0.15%) Infor LN
9 5 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
9 5 (0.15%) Shopify
9 5 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 4 (0.12%) iTrent
10 4 (0.12%) SAP BPC
10 4 (0.12%) Workfront
11 3 (0.089%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 1,008 (29.91%) Azure
2 712 (21.13%) Power Platform
3 651 (19.32%) AWS
4 292 (8.66%) GCP
5 228 (6.77%) Azure DevOps
6 221 (6.56%) Snowflake
7 220 (6.53%) Azure Data Factory
8 186 (5.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 182 (5.40%) dbt
10 166 (4.93%) GitHub
11 144 (4.27%) Amazon S3
12 141 (4.18%) Serverless
13 114 (3.38%) Azure Monitor
14 94 (2.79%) AWS Lambda
14 94 (2.79%) GitHub Actions
15 92 (2.73%) SaaS
16 88 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
17 87 (2.58%) Entra ID
18 51 (1.51%) Power Automate
19 48 (1.42%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 50 (1.48%) Firewall
2 37 (1.10%) Network Security
3 29 (0.86%) VPN
4 25 (0.74%) WAN
5 23 (0.68%) DNS
5 23 (0.68%) SD-WAN
6 20 (0.59%) BGP
7 12 (0.36%) TCP/IP
8 11 (0.33%) OSPF
8 11 (0.33%) SMS
9 9 (0.27%) Wireless
10 8 (0.24%) VXLAN
11 7 (0.21%) 5G
11 7 (0.21%) DHCP
11 7 (0.21%) HTTP
11 7 (0.21%) Internet
11 7 (0.21%) LAN
11 7 (0.21%) MPLS
11 7 (0.21%) WLAN
12 6 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 670 (19.88%) Power BI
2 432 (12.82%) Data Warehouse
3 255 (7.57%) Data Lake
4 235 (6.97%) Tableau
5 196 (5.82%) Metadata
6 127 (3.77%) BigQuery
7 107 (3.18%) Delta Lake
8 101 (3.00%) SQL Server
9 97 (2.88%) Big Data
10 91 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
11 83 (2.46%) Relational Database
12 80 (2.37%) Snowflake Schema
13 74 (2.20%) Amazon Athena
14 71 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
15 69 (2.05%) NoSQL
16 68 (2.02%) Looker
17 59 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
18 51 (1.51%) Power Query
19 50 (1.48%) Star Schema
20 48 (1.42%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 190 (5.64%) Git
2 156 (4.63%) JIRA
3 78 (2.31%) Jenkins
4 62 (1.84%) GitLab
5 18 (0.53%) ERwin
6 12 (0.36%) JUnit
7 11 (0.33%) MLflow
8 10 (0.30%) ER Studio
8 10 (0.30%) fastlane
8 10 (0.30%) Selenium
9 7 (0.21%) Postman
9 7 (0.21%) PowerDesigner
10 6 (0.18%) Android Studio
10 6 (0.18%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.18%) Crashlytics
10 6 (0.18%) Gradle
11 5 (0.15%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.15%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.15%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.15%) Xcode
General
1 851 (25.25%) Social Skills
2 849 (25.19%) Finance
3 572 (16.97%) Analytical Skills
4 395 (11.72%) Public Sector
5 241 (7.15%) Banking
6 188 (5.58%) Marketing
7 138 (4.09%) Retail
8 77 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 77 (2.28%) Legal
9 73 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
10 62 (1.84%) Manufacturing
11 61 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
12 57 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
13 53 (1.57%) Investment Banking
14 50 (1.48%) Front Office
15 46 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
16 45 (1.34%) Telecoms
17 39 (1.16%) Financial Institution
18 30 (0.89%) Military
19 29 (0.86%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 642 (19.05%) Data Engineer
2 421 (12.49%) Analyst
3 411 (12.20%) Architect
4 410 (12.17%) Senior
5 341 (10.12%) Developer
6 287 (8.52%) Lead
7 187 (5.55%) Data Architect
8 171 (5.07%) Data Analyst
9 137 (4.07%) Consultant
10 114 (3.38%) Data Scientist
11 112 (3.32%) Solutions Architect
12 111 (3.29%) Business Analyst
13 108 (3.20%) Senior Data Engineer
14 104 (3.09%) Azure Engineer
15 69 (2.05%) Data Manager
16 63 (1.87%) Project Manager
17 61 (1.81%) Designer
18 58 (1.72%) Python Developer
19 57 (1.69%) AWS Engineer
20 56 (1.66%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (5.85%) PySpark
2 134 (3.98%) Kafka
3 113 (3.35%) REST
4 62 (1.84%) Pandas
5 51 (1.51%) JSON
6 50 (1.48%) React
6 50 (1.48%) RESTful
7 44 (1.31%) .NET
8 37 (1.10%) HTML
8 37 (1.10%) NumPy
8 37 (1.10%) PyTorch
9 36 (1.07%) CSS
10 35 (1.04%) Middleware
11 34 (1.01%) TensorFlow
11 34 (1.01%) Web Services
12 32 (0.95%) Microsoft Graph
12 32 (0.95%) scikit-learn
13 31 (0.92%) SOAP
14 28 (0.83%) ARM Templates
15 25 (0.74%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 239 (7.09%) Cloud Native
2 163 (4.84%) Product Ownership
3 130 (3.86%) Data Structures
4 112 (3.32%) Legacy Systems
5 105 (3.12%) Onboarding
6 69 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
7 61 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
8 52 (1.54%) Algorithms
9 49 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
10 45 (1.34%) AI Agents
11 42 (1.25%) Management Information System
11 42 (1.25%) NHS
12 40 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
13 38 (1.13%) Public Cloud
14 37 (1.10%) Mobile App
15 33 (0.98%) Virtual Team
16 31 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
16 31 (0.92%) Marketing Technology
17 30 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
17 30 (0.89%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 89 (2.64%) Windows
2 79 (2.34%) Linux
3 40 (1.19%) Unix
4 24 (0.71%) Mac OS
5 23 (0.68%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.47%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.36%) Android
8 10 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.15%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.15%) VMS
10 3 (0.089%) CentOS
10 3 (0.089%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.030%) Rocky
11 1 (0.030%) Solaris
11 1 (0.030%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 940 (27.89%) Data Modelling
2 887 (26.32%) Business Intelligence
3 807 (23.95%) AI
4 730 (21.66%) Agile
5 713 (21.16%) Data Pipeline
6 696 (20.65%) Data Engineering
7 670 (19.88%) CI/CD
8 574 (17.03%) ETL
9 562 (16.68%) Decision-Making
10 528 (15.67%) Stakeholder Management
11 523 (15.52%) Data Governance
12 522 (15.49%) DevOps
13 507 (15.04%) Problem-Solving
14 417 (12.37%) Machine Learning
15 408 (12.11%) Migration
16 406 (12.05%) Data Science
17 390 (11.57%) Validation
18 387 (11.48%) Data Analytics
19 386 (11.45%) Continuous Improvement
20 361 (10.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,134 (33.65%) SQL
2 1,005 (29.82%) Python
3 138 (4.09%) Java
4 118 (3.50%) PowerShell
5 98 (2.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 87 (2.58%) C#
7 71 (2.11%) R
8 66 (1.96%) Bicep
9 57 (1.69%) JavaScript
10 44 (1.31%) Scala
11 43 (1.28%) TypeScript
12 39 (1.16%) Kusto Query Language
13 37 (1.10%) T-SQL
14 36 (1.07%) Bash
15 35 (1.04%) Shell Script
16 26 (0.77%) PL/SQL
17 22 (0.65%) VBA
18 20 (0.59%) C++
19 10 (0.30%) Korn
19 10 (0.30%) Swift
Qualifications
1 565 (16.77%) Security Cleared
2 447 (13.26%) SC Cleared
3 269 (7.98%) Degree
4 80 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 78 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
6 69 (2.05%) Azure Certification
7 55 (1.63%) DV Cleared
8 41 (1.22%) Master's Degree
9 35 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
10 29 (0.86%) CISSP
11 26 (0.77%) AWS Certification
12 25 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
13 22 (0.65%) PMI Certification
14 20 (0.59%) DBS Check
15 18 (0.53%) PMP
16 16 (0.47%) CCNP
17 15 (0.45%) CCIE
18 11 (0.33%) CISA
19 10 (0.30%) PhD
19 10 (0.30%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 635 (18.84%) Data Quality
2 169 (5.01%) GDPR
3 129 (3.83%) QA
4 114 (3.38%) Accessibility
5 45 (1.34%) WCAG
6 35 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 28 (0.83%) NIST
8 26 (0.77%) PMO
9 20 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
9 20 (0.59%) GRC
10 16 (0.47%) Solvency II
11 15 (0.45%) SLA
12 11 (0.33%) NCSC
12 11 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 10 (0.30%) IFRS
13 10 (0.30%) PCI DSS
14 7 (0.21%) PERC
15 6 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 6 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.18%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 160 (4.75%) Docker
2 72 (2.14%) Active Directory
3 23 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.21%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.15%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.12%) HDFS
7 4 (0.12%) Snort
8 2 (0.059%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.030%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.030%) GPFS
9 1 (0.030%) iptables
9 1 (0.030%) Lustre
9 1 (0.030%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.030%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.030%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.030%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 250 (7.42%) Terraform
2 175 (5.19%) Kubernetes
3 36 (1.07%) Ansible
4 35 (1.04%) Grafana
5 31 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 31 (0.92%) Prometheus
6 21 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.24%) FortiGate
7 8 (0.24%) SCCM
8 5 (0.15%) Argo
9 4 (0.12%) Control-M
9 4 (0.12%) CSIRT
9 4 (0.12%) Podman
10 3 (0.089%) Kibana
10 3 (0.089%) Nagios
10 3 (0.089%) Puppet
10 3 (0.089%) QRadar
10 3 (0.089%) Rancher
11 2 (0.059%) Nessus
11 2 (0.059%) SCOM
Vendors
1 568 (16.85%) Microsoft
2 450 (13.35%) Databricks
3 175 (5.19%) Oracle
4 168 (4.99%) SAP
5 158 (4.69%) Google
6 75 (2.23%) Salesforce
7 72 (2.14%) ServiceNow
8 65 (1.93%) Adobe
9 53 (1.57%) Informatica
9 53 (1.57%) Splunk
10 48 (1.42%) Foundry
11 44 (1.31%) Talend
11 44 (1.31%) Workday
12 38 (1.13%) OpenAI
13 36 (1.07%) Denodo
13 36 (1.07%) Palantir
14 33 (0.98%) Dynatrace
15 28 (0.83%) Cisco
16 25 (0.74%) VMware
17 16 (0.47%) IBM