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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 35
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,407 1,786 1,912
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.61% 6.56% 5.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.91% 7.24% 6.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,294 1,188 1,350
10th Percentile £361 £351 £350
25th Percentile £425 £440 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.28% -2.32% -2.22%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 44 38
10th Percentile £20.56 £15.26 £18.93
25th Percentile £35.00 £22.31 £25.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £34.50 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.42% +16.95% -7.81%
75th Percentile £75.00 £71.71 £43.75
90th Percentile £87.73 £80.71 £71.00
UK median hourly rate £53.00 £34.50 £29.00
% change year-on-year +53.62% +18.97% -9.38%

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 38,249 24,669 31,010
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.41% 90.67% 85.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,059 15,837 20,183
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,360 1,307 2,114
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.26 £13.18
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £16.30
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -8.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £53.75 £63.67
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.33 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -5.88%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 1,867 £550 -4.35% 991
North of England +8 426 £495 +8.43% 237
Midlands +11 412 £492 -1.57% 140
West Midlands +15 322 £488 -4.77% 82
South East +4 308 £500 -4.76% 351
North West +2 215 £513 +8.70% 119
South West +17 191 £500 +5.26% 106
Yorkshire +3 169 £475 +2.70% 79
East of England -8 112 £550 -5.13% 64
East Midlands +4 83 £513 +24.24% 58
North East +3 55 £450 +9.09% 39
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
1 152 (4.46%) Apache Spark
2 147 (4.31%) Apache Airflow
3 109 (3.20%) SAS
4 95 (2.79%) Apache
5 67 (1.97%) Confluence
6 45 (1.32%) SharePoint
7 37 (1.09%) CMS
8 30 (0.88%) Jupyter
9 28 (0.82%) Palantir Foundry
10 21 (0.62%) Oracle Application Server
11 16 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 12 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
13 9 (0.26%) Apache Superset
14 7 (0.21%) Drupal
14 7 (0.21%) WordPress
15 6 (0.18%) IIS
15 6 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
16 3 (0.088%) ArcGIS
17 2 (0.059%) Apache Synapse
17 2 (0.059%) OpenStack
Applications
1 153 (4.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (0.56%) Chatbot
3 19 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
5 13 (0.38%) CPLEX
5 13 (0.38%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.12%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
7 4 (0.12%) Sketch
8 2 (0.059%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.029%) InDesign
9 1 (0.029%) Notion
9 1 (0.029%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.029%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.029%) Trello
9 1 (0.029%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 65 (1.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
4 12 (0.35%) Aladdin
5 11 (0.32%) Workday HCM
6 10 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
7 8 (0.23%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 8 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
8 7 (0.21%) NetSuite
8 7 (0.21%) SAP ERP
9 6 (0.18%) Sage X3
9 6 (0.18%) Shopify
10 5 (0.15%) BambooHR
10 5 (0.15%) Infor LN
10 5 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
10 5 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.15%) SAP BPC
10 5 (0.15%) SAP GRC
10 5 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 4 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 996 (29.23%) Azure
2 714 (20.96%) Power Platform
3 647 (18.99%) AWS
4 298 (8.75%) GCP
5 226 (6.63%) Snowflake
6 222 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
7 217 (6.37%) Azure Data Factory
8 186 (5.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 179 (5.25%) dbt
10 153 (4.49%) GitHub
11 145 (4.26%) Amazon S3
12 142 (4.17%) Serverless
13 116 (3.40%) Azure Monitor
14 98 (2.88%) SaaS
15 95 (2.79%) AWS Lambda
16 89 (2.61%) Entra ID
17 84 (2.47%) GitHub Actions
17 84 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
18 49 (1.44%) Power Automate
19 47 (1.38%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 52 (1.53%) Firewall
2 40 (1.17%) Network Security
3 31 (0.91%) VPN
4 26 (0.76%) DNS
5 25 (0.73%) WAN
6 23 (0.68%) SD-WAN
7 21 (0.62%) BGP
8 14 (0.41%) TCP/IP
9 12 (0.35%) OSPF
10 9 (0.26%) SMS
10 9 (0.26%) Wireless
11 8 (0.23%) DHCP
11 8 (0.23%) VXLAN
12 7 (0.21%) 5G
12 7 (0.21%) HTTP
12 7 (0.21%) Internet
12 7 (0.21%) LAN
12 7 (0.21%) MPLS
12 7 (0.21%) WLAN
13 6 (0.18%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 675 (19.81%) Power BI
2 443 (13.00%) Data Warehouse
3 257 (7.54%) Data Lake
4 235 (6.90%) Tableau
5 201 (5.90%) Metadata
6 130 (3.82%) BigQuery
7 99 (2.91%) Delta Lake
8 98 (2.88%) Big Data
9 94 (2.76%) SQL Server
10 93 (2.73%) Amazon Redshift
11 80 (2.35%) Relational Database
11 80 (2.35%) Snowflake Schema
12 72 (2.11%) Amazon Athena
13 70 (2.05%) NoSQL
13 70 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
14 69 (2.03%) Looker
15 57 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
16 51 (1.50%) Power Query
17 49 (1.44%) Star Schema
18 48 (1.41%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 189 (5.55%) Git
2 159 (4.67%) JIRA
3 69 (2.03%) Jenkins
4 53 (1.56%) GitLab
5 18 (0.53%) ERwin
6 12 (0.35%) JUnit
7 10 (0.29%) ER Studio
7 10 (0.29%) fastlane
7 10 (0.29%) MLflow
7 10 (0.29%) Selenium
8 7 (0.21%) Postman
8 7 (0.21%) PowerDesigner
9 6 (0.18%) Android Studio
9 6 (0.18%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.18%) Crashlytics
9 6 (0.18%) Gradle
10 5 (0.15%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.15%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.15%) Xcode
General
1 856 (25.12%) Finance
2 854 (25.07%) Social Skills
3 588 (17.26%) Analytical Skills
4 405 (11.89%) Public Sector
5 241 (7.07%) Banking
6 197 (5.78%) Marketing
7 142 (4.17%) Retail
8 77 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 74 (2.17%) Legal
10 72 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
11 65 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
12 64 (1.88%) Manufacturing
13 58 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
14 53 (1.56%) Front Office
15 52 (1.53%) Investment Banking
16 47 (1.38%) Telecoms
17 44 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
18 37 (1.09%) Financial Institution
19 34 (1.00%) Military
20 30 (0.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 628 (18.43%) Data Engineer
2 433 (12.71%) Analyst
3 422 (12.39%) Architect
4 410 (12.03%) Senior
5 348 (10.21%) Developer
6 293 (8.60%) Lead
7 183 (5.37%) Data Architect
8 181 (5.31%) Data Analyst
9 135 (3.96%) Consultant
10 119 (3.49%) Data Scientist
11 117 (3.43%) Solutions Architect
12 110 (3.23%) Business Analyst
13 104 (3.05%) Azure Engineer
14 100 (2.94%) Senior Data Engineer
15 71 (2.08%) Data Manager
16 63 (1.85%) Project Manager
17 61 (1.79%) Python Developer
18 59 (1.73%) Designer
19 57 (1.67%) Lead Data Engineer
19 57 (1.67%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (5.69%) PySpark
2 134 (3.93%) Kafka
3 119 (3.49%) REST
4 61 (1.79%) Pandas
5 53 (1.56%) RESTful
6 51 (1.50%) JSON
6 51 (1.50%) React
7 44 (1.29%) .NET
8 39 (1.14%) CSS
8 39 (1.14%) HTML
9 38 (1.12%) Web Services
10 37 (1.09%) NumPy
11 32 (0.94%) Microsoft Graph
11 32 (0.94%) Middleware
11 32 (0.94%) PyTorch
12 31 (0.91%) SOAP
13 29 (0.85%) scikit-learn
13 29 (0.85%) TensorFlow
14 27 (0.79%) OAuth
15 25 (0.73%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 238 (6.99%) Cloud Native
2 173 (5.08%) Product Ownership
3 137 (4.02%) Data Structures
4 121 (3.55%) Legacy Systems
5 104 (3.05%) Onboarding
6 71 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
7 62 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
8 49 (1.44%) Algorithms
8 49 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
9 43 (1.26%) Management Information System
10 42 (1.23%) AI Agents
10 42 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
11 39 (1.14%) NHS
12 38 (1.12%) Mobile App
13 34 (1.00%) Marketing Technology
13 34 (1.00%) Virtual Team
14 33 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
15 32 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
16 30 (0.88%) Fixed Income
17 29 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 85 (2.49%) Windows
2 80 (2.35%) Linux
3 41 (1.20%) Unix
4 23 (0.68%) Apple iOS
5 21 (0.62%) Mac OS
6 16 (0.47%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.35%) Android
8 11 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.18%) VMS
10 5 (0.15%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.088%) CentOS
11 3 (0.088%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.059%) Solaris
12 2 (0.059%) zOS
13 1 (0.029%) AIX
13 1 (0.029%) HPUX
13 1 (0.029%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 946 (27.77%) Data Modelling
2 892 (26.18%) Business Intelligence
3 799 (23.45%) AI
4 756 (22.19%) Agile
5 718 (21.07%) Data Pipeline
6 699 (20.52%) Data Engineering
7 651 (19.11%) CI/CD
8 578 (16.97%) Decision-Making
9 575 (16.88%) ETL
10 563 (16.52%) Stakeholder Management
11 526 (15.44%) Data Governance
12 509 (14.94%) DevOps
13 497 (14.59%) Problem-Solving
14 424 (12.44%) Machine Learning
14 424 (12.44%) Migration
15 408 (11.98%) Data Science
16 403 (11.83%) Validation
17 402 (11.80%) Continuous Improvement
18 379 (11.12%) Data Analytics
19 377 (11.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,132 (33.23%) SQL
2 999 (29.32%) Python
3 125 (3.67%) Java
4 122 (3.58%) PowerShell
5 99 (2.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 85 (2.49%) C#
7 70 (2.05%) R
8 63 (1.85%) JavaScript
9 60 (1.76%) Bicep
10 42 (1.23%) TypeScript
11 40 (1.17%) Scala
12 38 (1.12%) Kusto Query Language
13 35 (1.03%) Shell Script
14 34 (1.00%) Bash
14 34 (1.00%) T-SQL
15 26 (0.76%) PL/SQL
16 23 (0.68%) VBA
17 19 (0.56%) C++
18 10 (0.29%) Korn
18 10 (0.29%) Swift
Qualifications
1 586 (17.20%) Security Cleared
2 464 (13.62%) SC Cleared
3 267 (7.84%) Degree
4 83 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 74 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 69 (2.03%) Azure Certification
7 57 (1.67%) DV Cleared
8 46 (1.35%) Master's Degree
9 34 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
10 30 (0.88%) CISSP
11 28 (0.82%) AWS Certification
11 28 (0.82%) PMI Certification
12 26 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
13 23 (0.68%) PMP
14 20 (0.59%) DBS Check
15 16 (0.47%) CCNP
16 15 (0.44%) CCIE
17 11 (0.32%) CISA
18 10 (0.29%) MBA
18 10 (0.29%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 636 (18.67%) Data Quality
2 171 (5.02%) GDPR
3 132 (3.87%) QA
4 121 (3.55%) Accessibility
5 47 (1.38%) WCAG
6 35 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (0.94%) GRC
8 29 (0.85%) NIST
9 27 (0.79%) PMO
10 21 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
11 16 (0.47%) SLA
11 16 (0.47%) Solvency II
12 11 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 10 (0.29%) IFRS
13 10 (0.29%) NCSC
13 10 (0.29%) PCI DSS
13 10 (0.29%) PERC
14 6 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.15%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 146 (4.29%) Docker
2 72 (2.11%) Active Directory
3 24 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.18%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.18%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.12%) HDFS
7 4 (0.12%) Snort
8 2 (0.059%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.059%) vSphere
9 1 (0.029%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.029%) GPFS
9 1 (0.029%) iptables
9 1 (0.029%) Lustre
9 1 (0.029%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.029%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.029%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 239 (7.01%) Terraform
2 166 (4.87%) Kubernetes
3 38 (1.12%) Grafana
4 37 (1.09%) Ansible
5 30 (0.88%) Prometheus
6 25 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
7 22 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.23%) FortiGate
8 8 (0.23%) SCCM
9 4 (0.12%) Argo
9 4 (0.12%) Control-M
9 4 (0.12%) CSIRT
9 4 (0.12%) Podman
10 3 (0.088%) Apache Ranger
10 3 (0.088%) Kibana
10 3 (0.088%) Nagios
10 3 (0.088%) QRadar
10 3 (0.088%) Rancher
10 3 (0.088%) SCOM
11 2 (0.059%) MOM
Vendors
1 569 (16.70%) Microsoft
2 437 (12.83%) Databricks
3 189 (5.55%) Oracle
4 168 (4.93%) SAP
5 159 (4.67%) Google
6 79 (2.32%) ServiceNow
7 75 (2.20%) Salesforce
8 70 (2.05%) Adobe
9 52 (1.53%) Splunk
10 47 (1.38%) Foundry
10 47 (1.38%) Workday
11 44 (1.29%) Informatica
12 41 (1.20%) Talend
13 36 (1.06%) Palantir
14 35 (1.03%) Dynatrace
15 33 (0.97%) Denodo
15 33 (0.97%) OpenAI
16 29 (0.85%) Cisco
17 25 (0.73%) VMware
18 18 (0.53%) Alteryx