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

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 26 37
Rank change year-on-year +1 +11 -2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,990 1,678 1,766
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.33% 6.86% 4.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.64% 7.52% 5.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,060 1,140 1,213
10th Percentile £356 £346 £353
25th Percentile £425 £449 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -
75th Percentile £625 £681 £680
90th Percentile £750 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £515 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.20% -1.23% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 31 45
10th Percentile £20.50 £15.28 £14.30
25th Percentile £45.25 £22.13 £25.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £31.64 £30.37
Median % change year-on-year +89.63% +4.18% +1.23%
75th Percentile £75.00 £36.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £78.70 £71.00
UK median hourly rate £58.00 £31.64 £29.19
% change year-on-year +83.31% +8.41% -5.85%

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 34,606 22,325 31,829
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.80% 91.23% 86.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,091 14,613 20,852
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £501 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.75% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,151 936 2,252
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.56 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £46.80 £29.15 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.55% -20.14% -2.14%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.29 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +46.09% -21.23% +1.39%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +1 1,635 £540 -6.09% 1,119
Midlands +11 354 £492 -1.67% 202
North of England +11 331 £475 +2.70% 329
West Midlands +10 265 £492 -4.00% 104
South East -11 249 £500 +3.73% 418
South West +29 196 £500 +5.26% 114
North West +7 175 £495 +6.39% 196
Yorkshire +1 134 £475 -3.06% 85
East of England -5 115 £525 -12.50% 77
East Midlands +8 83 £475 +32.68% 98
North East +3 33 £450 +25.70% 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
1 158 (5.28%) Apache Spark
2 105 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
3 90 (3.01%) SAS
4 82 (2.74%) Apache
5 75 (2.51%) Confluence
6 46 (1.54%) SharePoint
7 26 (0.87%) CMS
8 16 (0.54%) 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 6 (0.20%) ArcGIS
13 6 (0.20%) IIS
13 6 (0.20%) WordPress
14 5 (0.17%) Drupal
15 3 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 2 (0.067%) GeoServer
Applications
1 126 (4.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 28 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (0.70%) MS Visio
5 20 (0.67%) Chatbot
6 14 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.23%) CPLEX
7 7 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
8 4 (0.13%) Trello
9 3 (0.10%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.10%) Notion
9 3 (0.10%) Sketch
10 2 (0.067%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.033%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.033%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.033%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.033%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.033%) InDesign
11 1 (0.033%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 61 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.27%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 7 (0.23%) NetSuite
4 7 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
5 6 (0.20%) Sage X3
6 5 (0.17%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.17%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.17%) Maximo
6 5 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 4 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
7 4 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
7 4 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.13%) SAP BPC
7 4 (0.13%) Shopify
7 4 (0.13%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 948 (31.71%) Azure
2 660 (22.07%) Power Platform
3 612 (20.47%) AWS
4 288 (9.63%) GCP
5 247 (8.26%) Azure Data Factory
6 207 (6.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 203 (6.79%) Azure DevOps
8 176 (5.89%) Snowflake
9 170 (5.69%) GitHub
10 133 (4.45%) dbt
11 130 (4.35%) Amazon S3
12 128 (4.28%) Serverless
13 104 (3.48%) Azure Monitor
14 93 (3.11%) GitHub Actions
15 85 (2.84%) Microsoft 365
16 79 (2.64%) AWS Lambda
17 78 (2.61%) SaaS
18 72 (2.41%) Entra ID
19 62 (2.07%) Azure Key Vault
20 53 (1.77%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 42 (1.40%) Firewall
2 30 (1.00%) Network Security
3 21 (0.70%) VPN
4 19 (0.64%) DNS
5 14 (0.47%) SD-WAN
6 13 (0.43%) WAN
7 12 (0.40%) HTTP
7 12 (0.40%) SMS
8 8 (0.27%) BGP
8 8 (0.27%) FTP
8 8 (0.27%) MPLS
8 8 (0.27%) OSPF
9 7 (0.23%) SSL
9 7 (0.23%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.20%) DHCP
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
1 613 (20.50%) Power BI
2 398 (13.31%) Data Warehouse
3 244 (8.16%) Data Lake
4 209 (6.99%) Tableau
5 182 (6.09%) Metadata
6 111 (3.71%) BigQuery
6 111 (3.71%) Delta Lake
7 107 (3.58%) SQL Server
8 94 (3.14%) Big Data
9 76 (2.54%) Relational Database
10 75 (2.51%) Amazon Redshift
11 72 (2.41%) Azure SQL Database
12 69 (2.31%) NoSQL
13 68 (2.27%) Snowflake Schema
14 66 (2.21%) Amazon Athena
15 59 (1.97%) Looker
16 58 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
17 56 (1.87%) Power Query
17 56 (1.87%) Star Schema
18 54 (1.81%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 179 (5.99%) Git
2 176 (5.89%) JIRA
3 70 (2.34%) Jenkins
4 65 (2.17%) 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 (0.23%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.23%) ER Studio
9 7 (0.23%) JUnit
9 7 (0.23%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.20%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.17%) fastlane
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
1 774 (25.89%) Social Skills
2 746 (24.95%) Finance
3 520 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
4 317 (10.60%) Public Sector
5 195 (6.52%) Banking
6 159 (5.32%) Marketing
7 98 (3.28%) Retail
8 79 (2.64%) Documentation Skills
9 56 (1.87%) Legal
10 53 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 52 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
12 48 (1.61%) Investment Banking
13 46 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
14 45 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
15 44 (1.47%) Telecoms
16 40 (1.34%) Manufacturing
17 37 (1.24%) Front Office
18 36 (1.20%) Financial Institution
19 23 (0.77%) Military
20 22 (0.74%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 579 (19.36%) Data Engineer
2 361 (12.07%) Architect
3 360 (12.04%) Analyst
4 353 (11.81%) Senior
5 328 (10.97%) Developer
6 256 (8.56%) Lead
7 159 (5.32%) Data Architect
8 148 (4.95%) Data Analyst
9 123 (4.11%) Consultant
10 108 (3.61%) Azure Engineer
11 104 (3.48%) Business Analyst
12 98 (3.28%) Senior Data Engineer
13 93 (3.11%) Data Scientist
14 84 (2.81%) Solutions Architect
15 67 (2.24%) Project Manager
16 62 (2.07%) Designer
17 59 (1.97%) Data Manager
18 53 (1.77%) Business Intelligence Developer
19 50 (1.67%) Azure Data Engineer
20 48 (1.61%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (6.09%) PySpark
2 148 (4.95%) Kafka
3 113 (3.78%) REST
4 63 (2.11%) Pandas
5 56 (1.87%) PyTorch
5 56 (1.87%) React
6 55 (1.84%) JSON
6 55 (1.84%) TensorFlow
7 45 (1.51%) HTML
8 43 (1.44%) CSS
9 39 (1.30%) scikit-learn
10 38 (1.27%) .NET
10 38 (1.27%) AngularJS
11 37 (1.24%) RESTful
11 37 (1.24%) SOAP
12 35 (1.17%) Node.js
12 35 (1.17%) NumPy
13 34 (1.14%) Middleware
13 34 (1.14%) Oracle Fusion
14 29 (0.97%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 202 (6.76%) Cloud Native
2 137 (4.58%) Product Ownership
3 104 (3.48%) Data Structures
4 83 (2.78%) Onboarding
5 72 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
6 64 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
7 53 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
8 48 (1.61%) Algorithms
8 48 (1.61%) Management Information System
9 42 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
10 39 (1.30%) Public Cloud
11 36 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
12 35 (1.17%) AI Agents
12 35 (1.17%) Mobile App
12 35 (1.17%) NHS
13 33 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
14 30 (1.00%) Marketing Technology
15 29 (0.97%) Derivative
15 29 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
16 27 (0.90%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 87 (2.91%) Windows
2 79 (2.64%) Linux
3 33 (1.10%) Mac OS
4 32 (1.07%) Unix
5 22 (0.74%) Apple iOS
6 13 (0.43%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.40%) Android
8 6 (0.20%) 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 (0.033%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 834 (27.89%) Business Intelligence
2 826 (27.63%) Data Modelling
3 661 (22.11%) AI
4 654 (21.87%) Agile
5 635 (21.24%) Data Pipeline
6 607 (20.30%) Data Engineering
7 606 (20.27%) CI/CD
8 581 (19.43%) ETL
9 509 (17.02%) DevOps
10 506 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
11 503 (16.82%) Data Governance
12 482 (16.12%) Decision-Making
13 388 (12.98%) Stakeholder Management
14 361 (12.07%) Machine Learning
15 350 (11.71%) Data Science
16 340 (11.37%) Continuous Improvement
17 331 (11.07%) Data Analytics
18 322 (10.77%) Migration
19 298 (9.97%) Validation
20 285 (9.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,022 (34.18%) SQL
2 937 (31.34%) Python
3 139 (4.65%) Java
4 116 (3.88%) PowerShell
5 96 (3.21%) C#
5 96 (3.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 81 (2.71%) R
7 68 (2.27%) Bicep
7 68 (2.27%) JavaScript
8 45 (1.51%) T-SQL
9 44 (1.47%) TypeScript
10 42 (1.40%) Kusto Query Language
10 42 (1.40%) Scala
11 41 (1.37%) Bash
12 27 (0.90%) C++
12 27 (0.90%) Shell Script
13 25 (0.84%) PL/SQL
14 20 (0.67%) VBA
15 11 (0.37%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.27%) Swift
Qualifications
1 520 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 410 (13.71%) SC Cleared
3 225 (7.53%) Degree
4 68 (2.27%) Azure Certification
5 66 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 54 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
7 47 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 43 (1.44%) DV Cleared
9 38 (1.27%) 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 16 (0.54%) AWS Certification
14 15 (0.50%) CCNP
15 14 (0.47%) PhD
16 13 (0.43%) IIBA
17 12 (0.40%) CISM
18 11 (0.37%) CCIE
19 9 (0.30%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 562 (18.80%) Data Quality
2 160 (5.35%) GDPR
3 122 (4.08%) QA
4 105 (3.51%) Accessibility
5 37 (1.24%) WCAG
6 36 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 28 (0.94%) NIST
8 26 (0.87%) PMO
9 21 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
10 14 (0.47%) GRC
10 14 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 14 (0.47%) SLA
11 12 (0.40%) PERC
12 11 (0.37%) Solvency II
13 9 (0.30%) NCSC
14 8 (0.27%) ISO 20022
14 8 (0.27%) PCI DSS
15 7 (0.23%) HL7
16 6 (0.20%) IFRS
16 6 (0.20%) NIST 800
System Software
1 181 (6.05%) Docker
2 74 (2.47%) Active Directory
3 21 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.13%) HDFS
6 4 (0.13%) Snort
6 4 (0.13%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.067%) GPFS
7 2 (0.067%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.067%) Lustre
7 2 (0.067%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.033%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.033%) iptables
8 1 (0.033%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.033%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.033%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 244 (8.16%) Terraform
2 185 (6.19%) Kubernetes
3 40 (1.34%) Ansible
3 40 (1.34%) Grafana
4 37 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
5 31 (1.04%) Prometheus
6 20 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (0.50%) SCCM
8 8 (0.27%) Puppet
9 6 (0.20%) Kibana
10 5 (0.17%) Argo
11 4 (0.13%) Control-M
11 4 (0.13%) CSIRT
11 4 (0.13%) logstash
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%) Rancher
Vendors
1 538 (17.99%) Microsoft
2 405 (13.55%) Databricks
3 162 (5.42%) Google
4 158 (5.28%) Oracle
5 149 (4.98%) SAP
6 70 (2.34%) ServiceNow
7 69 (2.31%) Adobe
8 67 (2.24%) Informatica
9 61 (2.04%) Salesforce
10 55 (1.84%) Splunk
11 54 (1.81%) Talend
12 41 (1.37%) Denodo
12 41 (1.37%) OpenAI
13 35 (1.17%) Workday
14 34 (1.14%) Foundry
15 23 (0.77%) Dynatrace
16 22 (0.74%) IBM
16 22 (0.74%) VMware
17 18 (0.60%) Cisco
18 13 (0.43%) Ariba