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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 30 38
Rank change year-on-year +5 +8 -3
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,147 1,731 1,975
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.05% 5.60% 5.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.83% 6.42% 5.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,424 1,145 1,368
10th Percentile £358 £357 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £563 £564
Median % change year-on-year -7.56% -0.22% -1.96%
75th Percentile £630 £694 £688
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 27 73
10th Percentile £20.29 £26.30 £17.81
25th Percentile £30.75 £28.75 £22.50
Median hourly rate £45.50 £35.00 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -1.77% -5.62%
75th Percentile £70.48 £60.41 £67.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £64.73 £76.95
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £37.19
% change year-on-year +38.46% -12.61% -8.17%

All Process and 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 27,406 26,969 34,678
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.94% 87.30% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,388 16,451 23,708
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £649 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,797 990 1,453
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.10 £14.59
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.24 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.14% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%

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 25 November 2025.

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 25 November 2025.

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 25 November 2025. 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 1,258 £525 -12.50% 863
North of England +6 246 £475 -5.00% 266
Midlands +17 243 £515 +3.00% 262
West Midlands +16 190 £515 +1.48% 146
North West +7 153 £475 -5.00% 152
South East -8 144 £513 - 721
Yorkshire +7 85 £463 -11.86% 74
South West +24 84 £508 -9.78% 156
East of England +8 83 £551 +2.56% 138
East Midlands +11 55 £447 -1.76% 113
North East -4 9 £410 -12.11% 44
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
1 100 (4.66%) Apache Airflow
2 94 (4.38%) SAS
3 77 (3.59%) Apache Spark
4 75 (3.49%) Apache
5 48 (2.24%) Confluence
6 39 (1.82%) SharePoint
7 38 (1.77%) CMS
8 16 (0.75%) WebLogic
9 14 (0.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 10 (0.47%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.37%) Oracle Application Server
11 8 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 8 (0.37%) WordPress
12 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
13 6 (0.28%) GeoServer
13 6 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
13 6 (0.28%) Smallworld
14 4 (0.19%) JBoss
15 3 (0.14%) Drupal
15 3 (0.14%) IIS
Applications
1 145 (6.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
3 35 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (1.44%) MS Visio
5 23 (1.07%) Chatbot
6 13 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.14%) Sketch
9 2 (0.093%) Maple
9 2 (0.093%) Trello
10 1 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.047%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.047%) Autodesk Smoke
10 1 (0.047%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.047%) FrameMaker
10 1 (0.047%) InDesign
10 1 (0.047%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.047%) Simulink
10 1 (0.047%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 74 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.65%) SAP EHS
4 11 (0.51%) SAP FI
4 11 (0.51%) SAP HR
4 11 (0.51%) Workday HCM
5 7 (0.33%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 7 (0.33%) SAP MM
6 6 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 5 (0.23%) Aladdin
7 5 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
7 5 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.23%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.19%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.19%) SAP IBP
8 4 (0.19%) Sprinklr
9 3 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 671 (31.25%) Azure
2 454 (21.15%) AWS
3 448 (20.87%) Power Platform
4 223 (10.39%) GCP
5 148 (6.89%) Snowflake
6 136 (6.33%) Azure DevOps
7 126 (5.87%) Azure Data Factory
8 110 (5.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 103 (4.80%) Azure Monitor
10 97 (4.52%) Serverless
11 96 (4.47%) GitHub
12 90 (4.19%) SaaS
13 80 (3.73%) dbt
14 70 (3.26%) Entra ID
15 66 (3.07%) GitHub Actions
16 65 (3.03%) Amazon S3
16 65 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
17 62 (2.89%) Google Analytics
18 59 (2.75%) Azure Logic Apps
19 50 (2.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 47 (2.19%) Firewall
2 35 (1.63%) Network Security
3 29 (1.35%) DNS
4 19 (0.88%) VPN
4 19 (0.88%) WAN
5 13 (0.61%) HTTP
5 13 (0.61%) SSL
6 10 (0.47%) LAN
6 10 (0.47%) SD-WAN
7 9 (0.42%) SMS
8 8 (0.37%) FTP
8 8 (0.37%) SMTP
9 6 (0.28%) 2G
9 6 (0.28%) 5G
10 5 (0.23%) DHCP
10 5 (0.23%) Ethernet
10 5 (0.23%) Wireless
11 4 (0.19%) MPLS
11 4 (0.19%) TCP/IP
11 4 (0.19%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 417 (19.42%) Power BI
2 252 (11.74%) Data Warehouse
3 144 (6.71%) Tableau
4 141 (6.57%) Data Lake
5 113 (5.26%) Metadata
6 76 (3.54%) BigQuery
7 66 (3.07%) Big Data
8 60 (2.79%) PostgreSQL
9 55 (2.56%) SQL Server
10 52 (2.42%) Relational Database
11 51 (2.38%) Looker
12 48 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
13 45 (2.10%) Hadoop
13 45 (2.10%) Power Query
14 44 (2.05%) Snowflake Schema
15 40 (1.86%) Amazon Redshift
16 38 (1.77%) NoSQL
17 37 (1.72%) Pentaho
18 36 (1.68%) Delta Lake
19 31 (1.44%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 164 (7.64%) Git
2 140 (6.52%) JIRA
3 82 (3.82%) Jenkins
4 51 (2.38%) GitLab
5 22 (1.02%) Selenium
6 21 (0.98%) ERwin
7 18 (0.84%) JUnit
8 14 (0.65%) MLflow
9 12 (0.56%) ER Studio
10 11 (0.51%) PowerDesigner
11 9 (0.42%) Android Studio
11 9 (0.42%) Postman
11 9 (0.42%) SonarQube
11 9 (0.42%) Visual Website Optimizer
12 8 (0.37%) DBeaver
12 8 (0.37%) Gradle
12 8 (0.37%) TeamCity
13 7 (0.33%) Xcode
14 6 (0.28%) PVCS
14 6 (0.28%) Visual Studio
General
1 780 (36.33%) Social Skills
2 621 (28.92%) Finance
3 466 (21.70%) Analytical Skills
4 218 (10.15%) Banking
5 179 (8.34%) Public Sector
6 174 (8.10%) Marketing
7 77 (3.59%) Retail
8 75 (3.49%) Front Office
9 65 (3.03%) Investment Banking
10 54 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
11 52 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
12 50 (2.33%) Legal
13 41 (1.91%) Manufacturing
14 39 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
15 37 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 34 (1.58%) Financial Institution
17 33 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
18 30 (1.40%) Telecoms
19 26 (1.21%) Publishing
20 25 (1.16%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 358 (16.67%) Analyst
2 290 (13.51%) Developer
3 240 (11.18%) Senior
4 224 (10.43%) Data Engineer
5 214 (9.97%) Architect
6 131 (6.10%) Data Analyst
7 130 (6.05%) Business Analyst
8 127 (5.92%) Lead
9 119 (5.54%) Consultant
10 79 (3.68%) Data Architect
11 68 (3.17%) Azure Engineer
12 67 (3.12%) Senior Developer
13 62 (2.89%) Data Scientist
14 47 (2.19%) Project Manager
14 47 (2.19%) Senior Analyst
15 38 (1.77%) SAP Consultant
16 37 (1.72%) Python Developer
16 37 (1.72%) Solutions Architect
17 36 (1.68%) Data Modeller
18 32 (1.49%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (5.03%) REST
2 82 (3.82%) Kafka
3 70 (3.26%) PySpark
4 55 (2.56%) React
5 46 (2.14%) HTML
5 46 (2.14%) Pandas
6 45 (2.10%) RESTful
7 42 (1.96%) Node.js
8 41 (1.91%) SOAP
9 39 (1.82%) .NET
10 36 (1.68%) CSS
10 36 (1.68%) NumPy
11 33 (1.54%) AngularJS
11 33 (1.54%) TensorFlow
12 30 (1.40%) scikit-learn
13 29 (1.35%) OAuth
13 29 (1.35%) PyTorch
14 27 (1.26%) ARM Templates
15 24 (1.12%) pytest
16 23 (1.07%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 105 (4.89%) Product Ownership
2 83 (3.87%) Cloud Native
3 68 (3.17%) Data Structures
4 62 (2.89%) Management Information System
5 61 (2.84%) Onboarding
6 60 (2.79%) Algorithms
7 58 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
8 56 (2.61%) Analytical Mindset
9 47 (2.19%) Derivative
10 45 (2.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 42 (1.96%) Mobile App
12 39 (1.82%) Equities
13 38 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
14 33 (1.54%) Virtual Team
15 31 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
15 31 (1.44%) Fixed Income
16 30 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
17 28 (1.30%) Social Media
18 25 (1.16%) Data Centre
18 25 (1.16%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 70 (3.26%) Windows
2 69 (3.21%) Linux
3 29 (1.35%) Unix
4 20 (0.93%) Apple iOS
5 19 (0.88%) Android
6 11 (0.51%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.28%) VMS
8 6 (0.28%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.093%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.047%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.047%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.047%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 573 (26.69%) Business Intelligence
2 565 (26.32%) Agile
3 494 (23.01%) Problem-Solving
4 482 (22.45%) Data Modelling
5 398 (18.54%) CI/CD
6 371 (17.28%) DevOps
7 351 (16.35%) ETL
8 336 (15.65%) AI
9 320 (14.90%) Decision-Making
10 315 (14.67%) Data Pipeline
11 312 (14.53%) Data Analytics
12 310 (14.44%) Data Governance
13 302 (14.07%) Stakeholder Management
14 277 (12.90%) Data Science
14 277 (12.90%) Visualisation
15 271 (12.62%) Machine Learning
16 245 (11.41%) Data Engineering
17 236 (10.99%) Actionable Insight
18 234 (10.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 229 (10.67%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 727 (33.86%) SQL
2 641 (29.86%) Python
3 132 (6.15%) Java
4 108 (5.03%) JavaScript
5 88 (4.10%) PowerShell
6 60 (2.79%) R
7 52 (2.42%) C#
7 52 (2.42%) TypeScript
8 47 (2.19%) Bash
9 44 (2.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 41 (1.91%) Bicep
11 36 (1.68%) Kusto Query Language
12 29 (1.35%) VBA
13 28 (1.30%) C++
13 28 (1.30%) Scala
14 27 (1.26%) T-SQL
15 17 (0.79%) PL/SQL
16 16 (0.75%) ABAP
17 13 (0.61%) Swift
18 12 (0.56%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 337 (15.70%) Security Cleared
2 285 (13.27%) SC Cleared
3 227 (10.57%) Degree
4 73 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 55 (2.56%) Master's Degree
6 44 (2.05%) Azure Certification
7 27 (1.26%) CISSP
7 27 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (1.21%) AWS Certification
9 25 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
10 19 (0.88%) DV Cleared
10 19 (0.88%) PMI Certification
11 15 (0.70%) CISM
12 14 (0.65%) PMP
13 10 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
14 7 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 7 (0.33%) CBAP
14 7 (0.33%) PhD
15 6 (0.28%) ACCA
16 5 (0.23%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 310 (14.44%) Data Quality
2 115 (5.36%) GDPR
3 78 (3.63%) Accessibility
4 76 (3.54%) QA
5 33 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 26 (1.21%) NIST
7 18 (0.84%) PMO
8 17 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
9 14 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 12 (0.56%) GRC
10 12 (0.56%) HIPAA
11 11 (0.51%) Solvency II
11 11 (0.51%) WCAG
12 10 (0.47%) NCSC
12 10 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (0.37%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.37%) SLA
14 7 (0.33%) GxP
15 6 (0.28%) COBIT
15 6 (0.28%) MiFID
System Software
1 153 (7.13%) Docker
2 54 (2.52%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.47%) HDFS
4 10 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.23%) zsh
6 3 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.093%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.047%) GPFS
8 1 (0.047%) Lustre
8 1 (0.047%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.047%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.047%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.047%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 164 (7.64%) Kubernetes
2 137 (6.38%) Terraform
3 31 (1.44%) Ansible
4 20 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
5 16 (0.75%) Grafana
6 14 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (0.56%) Kibana
7 12 (0.56%) SCCM
8 11 (0.51%) Prometheus
9 10 (0.47%) Puppet
10 9 (0.42%) Kubeflow
11 7 (0.33%) Hadoop YARN
11 7 (0.33%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.28%) logstash
13 4 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.19%) Argo
13 4 (0.19%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.19%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 3 (0.14%) Fluentd
14 3 (0.14%) WSUS
Vendors
1 402 (18.72%) Microsoft
2 224 (10.43%) Databricks
3 157 (7.31%) Google
4 152 (7.08%) Oracle
5 133 (6.19%) SAP
6 67 (3.12%) ServiceNow
7 63 (2.93%) Salesforce
8 52 (2.42%) Adobe
9 49 (2.28%) Talend
10 47 (2.19%) Splunk
11 37 (1.72%) Denodo
12 36 (1.68%) Workday
13 31 (1.44%) Cisco
14 28 (1.30%) Dynatrace
15 27 (1.26%) Informatica
16 24 (1.12%) Foundry
17 23 (1.07%) AppDynamics
17 23 (1.07%) OpenAI
18 20 (0.93%) Alteryx
19 15 (0.70%) Optimizely