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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 27 35
Rank change year-on-year +1 +8 0
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,494 1,782 1,755
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.64% 6.42% 5.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.00% 7.07% 6.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,288 1,174 1,217
10th Percentile £363 £353 £354
25th Percentile £431 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% -2.61%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £688
90th Percentile £750 £799 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 46 23
10th Percentile £20.00 £15.88 £22.30
25th Percentile £27.40 £30.32 £27.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £34.74 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.12% +12.06% -11.43%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.16 £49.38
90th Percentile £87.08 £79.38 £73.95
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £34.74 £31.00
% change year-on-year +43.93% +12.06% -11.43%

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 38,818 25,195 28,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.84% 90.79% 85.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,932 16,050 18,115
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,599 1,473 1,445
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.87 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.63%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +3.56%

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 31 August 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 31 August 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 31 August 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 1,945 £550 - 2,426
North of England +9 446 £475 +5.44% 439
Midlands +4 387 £493 -4.37% 215
South East +19 354 £513 -2.38% 552
West Midlands +7 313 £492 -5.09% 151
North West +1 229 £515 +8.42% 254
Yorkshire +9 175 £460 -0.54% 134
South West +15 172 £500 +7.53% 252
East of England -6 105 £578 +0.43% 94
East Midlands +1 67 £503 +20.00% 64
North East -3 51 £450 +18.03% 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
1 160 (4.58%) Apache Airflow
2 130 (3.72%) Apache Spark
3 111 (3.18%) SAS
4 97 (2.78%) Apache
5 74 (2.12%) Confluence
6 55 (1.57%) SharePoint
7 51 (1.46%) CMS
8 30 (0.86%) Jupyter
8 30 (0.86%) Palantir Foundry
9 26 (0.74%) Oracle Application Server
10 25 (0.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 15 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
12 10 (0.29%) Apache Superset
12 10 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
13 8 (0.23%) Drupal
13 8 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
14 6 (0.17%) WordPress
15 4 (0.11%) IIS
16 2 (0.057%) ArcGIS
16 2 (0.057%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 152 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (0.60%) Chatbot
5 17 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
6 16 (0.46%) CPLEX
7 12 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
8 11 (0.31%) MS Visio
9 4 (0.11%) Trello
10 3 (0.086%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.086%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.057%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.057%) Sketch
12 1 (0.029%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.029%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.029%) InDesign
12 1 (0.029%) Notion
12 1 (0.029%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.029%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.029%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 66 (1.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
4 16 (0.46%) Workday HCM
5 13 (0.37%) Aladdin
5 13 (0.37%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 10 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
7 9 (0.26%) Shopify
8 8 (0.23%) SAP CO
8 8 (0.23%) SAP ERP
8 8 (0.23%) SAP FI
9 7 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
9 7 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 6 (0.17%) NetSuite
10 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.17%) SAP GRC
11 5 (0.14%) BambooHR
11 5 (0.14%) Infor LN
11 5 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
11 5 (0.14%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 1,032 (29.54%) Azure
2 709 (20.29%) Power Platform
3 614 (17.57%) AWS
4 292 (8.36%) GCP
5 243 (6.95%) Snowflake
6 239 (6.84%) Azure DevOps
7 228 (6.53%) Azure Data Factory
8 192 (5.50%) dbt
9 183 (5.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 159 (4.55%) GitHub
11 148 (4.24%) Serverless
12 137 (3.92%) Azure Monitor
13 128 (3.66%) Amazon S3
14 115 (3.29%) Entra ID
15 108 (3.09%) SaaS
16 98 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
17 90 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
18 84 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
19 72 (2.06%) Azure Databricks
20 62 (1.77%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 61 (1.75%) Firewall
2 49 (1.40%) Network Security
3 38 (1.09%) DNS
4 34 (0.97%) VPN
5 24 (0.69%) WAN
6 22 (0.63%) TCP/IP
7 21 (0.60%) SD-WAN
8 17 (0.49%) BGP
9 16 (0.46%) DHCP
10 12 (0.34%) Broadband
11 9 (0.26%) SMS
11 9 (0.26%) Wireless
12 8 (0.23%) LAN
12 8 (0.23%) OSPF
13 7 (0.20%) Internet
13 7 (0.20%) WLAN
14 6 (0.17%) SSH
15 5 (0.14%) VLAN
15 5 (0.14%) VXLAN
15 5 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 676 (19.35%) Power BI
2 444 (12.71%) Data Warehouse
3 260 (7.44%) Data Lake
4 229 (6.55%) Metadata
5 226 (6.47%) Tableau
6 139 (3.98%) BigQuery
7 93 (2.66%) Delta Lake
8 92 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
9 91 (2.60%) SQL Server
10 86 (2.46%) Big Data
11 84 (2.40%) Relational Database
12 77 (2.20%) Looker
13 71 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
14 67 (1.92%) Snowflake Schema
15 65 (1.86%) Amazon Athena
16 60 (1.72%) Semantic Layer
17 59 (1.69%) NoSQL
18 58 (1.66%) Azure SQL Database
19 56 (1.60%) Star Schema
20 50 (1.43%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 181 (5.18%) Git
2 161 (4.61%) JIRA
3 61 (1.75%) Jenkins
4 49 (1.40%) GitLab
5 14 (0.40%) ERwin
6 10 (0.29%) fastlane
6 10 (0.29%) MLflow
7 8 (0.23%) ER Studio
7 8 (0.23%) RStudio
7 8 (0.23%) Selenium
7 8 (0.23%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.20%) Gradle
8 7 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (0.17%) Android Studio
9 6 (0.17%) Crashlytics
9 6 (0.17%) JUnit
10 5 (0.14%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
10 5 (0.14%) Visual Website Optimizer
10 5 (0.14%) Xcode
General
1 908 (25.99%) Social Skills
2 888 (25.41%) Finance
3 637 (18.23%) Analytical Skills
4 411 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 259 (7.41%) Banking
6 228 (6.53%) Marketing
7 171 (4.89%) Retail
8 99 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
9 93 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 75 (2.15%) Legal
11 69 (1.97%) Manufacturing
12 68 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
13 66 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
14 62 (1.77%) Front Office
15 55 (1.57%) Investment Banking
16 47 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
17 46 (1.32%) Telecoms
18 42 (1.20%) Financial Institution
19 41 (1.17%) Publishing
20 38 (1.09%) Military
Job Titles
1 588 (16.83%) Data Engineer
2 445 (12.74%) Analyst
3 442 (12.65%) Senior
4 441 (12.62%) Architect
5 321 (9.19%) Developer
6 293 (8.39%) Lead
7 201 (5.75%) Data Architect
8 169 (4.84%) Consultant
9 167 (4.78%) Data Analyst
10 122 (3.49%) Solutions Architect
11 108 (3.09%) Senior Data Engineer
12 106 (3.03%) Business Analyst
13 104 (2.98%) Data Scientist
14 103 (2.95%) Azure Engineer
15 78 (2.23%) Data Manager
16 69 (1.97%) Product Manager
17 62 (1.77%) Project Manager
17 62 (1.77%) Senior Manager
18 61 (1.75%) Python Developer
19 57 (1.63%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 264 (7.56%) Terraform
2 216 (6.18%) PySpark
3 131 (3.75%) REST
4 114 (3.26%) Kafka
5 63 (1.80%) Pandas
6 54 (1.55%) HTML
6 54 (1.55%) RESTful
7 50 (1.43%) CSS
7 50 (1.43%) React
8 46 (1.32%) .NET
9 44 (1.26%) JSON
10 42 (1.20%) ARM Templates
11 38 (1.09%) NumPy
11 38 (1.09%) OAuth
12 33 (0.94%) Web Services
13 31 (0.89%) OpenID
13 31 (0.89%) SOAP
14 30 (0.86%) Microsoft Graph
14 30 (0.86%) OAuth2
15 29 (0.83%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 233 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 183 (5.24%) Product Ownership
3 135 (3.86%) Data Structures
4 130 (3.72%) Onboarding
5 114 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
6 72 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
7 64 (1.83%) Management Information System
8 63 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
9 57 (1.63%) AI Agents
10 46 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
11 45 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
12 44 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
12 44 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
13 42 (1.20%) Algorithms
14 41 (1.17%) NHS
15 40 (1.14%) Marketing Technology
16 39 (1.12%) Virtual Team
17 34 (0.97%) Mobile App
18 33 (0.94%) Derivative
19 32 (0.92%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 86 (2.46%) Linux
2 82 (2.35%) Windows
3 38 (1.09%) Unix
4 33 (0.94%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 13 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.29%) Android
7 10 (0.29%) Mac OS
8 9 (0.26%) VMS
9 5 (0.14%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.086%) Solaris
10 3 (0.086%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.057%) AIX
11 2 (0.057%) CentOS
11 2 (0.057%) HPUX
12 1 (0.029%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 913 (26.13%) Data Modelling
2 897 (25.67%) Business Intelligence
3 879 (25.16%) AI
4 800 (22.90%) Agile
5 720 (20.61%) Stakeholder Management
6 696 (19.92%) Data Pipeline
7 687 (19.66%) Data Engineering
8 645 (18.46%) CI/CD
9 628 (17.97%) Decision-Making
10 559 (16.00%) ETL
11 554 (15.86%) Data Governance
12 526 (15.05%) DevOps
13 505 (14.45%) Problem-Solving
14 450 (12.88%) Migration
15 435 (12.45%) Continuous Improvement
16 425 (12.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 407 (11.65%) Machine Learning
18 404 (11.56%) Roadmaps
19 394 (11.28%) Data Science
20 393 (11.25%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1,116 (31.94%) SQL
2 975 (27.90%) Python
3 167 (4.78%) PowerShell
4 106 (3.03%) Java
5 98 (2.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 85 (2.43%) Bicep
7 83 (2.38%) C#
8 81 (2.32%) JavaScript
9 62 (1.77%) R
10 59 (1.69%) Bash
11 36 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
12 35 (1.00%) Scala
13 34 (0.97%) Shell Script
14 32 (0.92%) TypeScript
15 28 (0.80%) T-SQL
16 21 (0.60%) PL/SQL
17 18 (0.52%) C++
18 13 (0.37%) VBA
19 12 (0.34%) Kotlin
20 11 (0.31%) LookML
Qualifications
1 625 (17.89%) Security Cleared
2 493 (14.11%) SC Cleared
3 285 (8.16%) Degree
4 81 (2.32%) Azure Certification
4 81 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 77 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
6 70 (2.00%) DV Cleared
7 52 (1.49%) Master's Degree
8 50 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
9 38 (1.09%) CISSP
10 30 (0.86%) AWS Certification
11 29 (0.83%) PMI Certification
12 23 (0.66%) DBS Check
12 23 (0.66%) PMP
13 21 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
14 12 (0.34%) CISA
15 11 (0.31%) MBA
15 11 (0.31%) PhD
16 10 (0.29%) CCNP
16 10 (0.29%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 690 (19.75%) Data Quality
2 167 (4.78%) GDPR
3 133 (3.81%) Accessibility
4 132 (3.78%) QA
5 48 (1.37%) GRC
6 45 (1.29%) WCAG
7 39 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 33 (0.94%) NIST
9 29 (0.83%) PMO
10 28 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
11 19 (0.54%) SLA
12 13 (0.37%) PCI DSS
12 13 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 13 (0.37%) Solvency II
13 12 (0.34%) PERC
14 10 (0.29%) IFRS
14 10 (0.29%) NCSC
15 7 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
16 6 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 6 (0.17%) PSD2
System Software
1 149 (4.26%) Docker
2 89 (2.55%) Active Directory
3 26 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.23%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.17%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.086%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 2 (0.057%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.057%) vSphere
9 2 (0.057%) XenApp
9 2 (0.057%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.029%) iptables
10 1 (0.029%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.029%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 160 (4.58%) Kubernetes
2 48 (1.37%) Ansible
3 39 (1.12%) Grafana
4 23 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
6 16 (0.46%) Prometheus
7 13 (0.37%) SCCM
8 8 (0.23%) Control-M
8 8 (0.23%) FortiGate
8 8 (0.23%) SCOM
9 7 (0.20%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.11%) Podman
10 4 (0.11%) QRadar
10 4 (0.11%) SysTrack
11 3 (0.086%) Apache Ranger
11 3 (0.086%) CASB
11 3 (0.086%) Kibana
11 3 (0.086%) Thomson Reuters DACS
12 2 (0.057%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.057%) MOM
Vendors
1 641 (18.35%) Microsoft
2 449 (12.85%) Databricks
3 207 (5.92%) Oracle
4 185 (5.29%) SAP
5 179 (5.12%) Google
6 86 (2.46%) ServiceNow
7 84 (2.40%) Adobe
8 82 (2.35%) Salesforce
9 56 (1.60%) Workday
10 44 (1.26%) Foundry
10 44 (1.26%) Splunk
11 41 (1.17%) Dynatrace
11 41 (1.17%) Informatica
12 37 (1.06%) Palantir
13 35 (1.00%) Talend
14 33 (0.94%) Denodo
15 32 (0.92%) Cisco
16 27 (0.77%) VMware
17 24 (0.69%) OpenAI
18 23 (0.66%) Alteryx