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 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 27 34
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 +3
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,484 1,871 1,704
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.48% 6.69% 5.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.83% 7.36% 6.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,244 1,230 1,152
10th Percentile £363 £363 £356
25th Percentile £435 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £530 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 45 26
10th Percentile £18.00 £17.30 £23.25
25th Percentile £25.88 £22.50 £27.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £34.98 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.09% +7.63% -8.62%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.16 £55.98
90th Percentile £86.65 £79.50 £70.49
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £34.50 £31.75
% change year-on-year +37.68% +8.66% -10.73%

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 39,476 25,411 27,744
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.80% 90.93% 86.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,882 16,117 16,935
10th Percentile £325 £295 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £642
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,976 1,567 1,167
10th Percentile £13.81 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £17.87 £20.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.47 £45.75 £67.01
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.35 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £37.87 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +50.56% -39.40% -2.92%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 7 October 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 0 1,939 £550 - 6,851
North of England +12 469 £489 +2.89% 1,077
Midlands +2 363 £490 -4.85% 586
South East +16 357 £513 -1.44% 1,164
West Midlands -2 292 £490 -5.77% 385
North West +3 226 £528 +11.05% 629
Yorkshire +15 181 £469 -1.32% 325
South West +18 176 £525 +10.53% 364
East of England -9 105 £600 +8.60% 372
East Midlands -5 70 £490 +7.40% 201
North East +7 69 £445 +7.88% 124
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
1 164 (4.71%) Apache Airflow
2 130 (3.73%) Apache Spark
3 105 (3.01%) Apache
4 101 (2.90%) SAS
5 80 (2.30%) Confluence
6 65 (1.87%) CMS
7 50 (1.44%) SharePoint
8 33 (0.95%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 29 (0.83%) Palantir Foundry
10 25 (0.72%) Jupyter
11 22 (0.63%) Oracle Application Server
12 11 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
13 10 (0.29%) Drupal
14 8 (0.23%) nginx
14 8 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
15 7 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
16 6 (0.17%) Apache Superset
17 5 (0.14%) WordPress
18 3 (0.086%) IIS
19 2 (0.057%) OpenStack
Applications
1 171 (4.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 30 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (0.60%) Chatbot
5 17 (0.49%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
7 14 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
8 13 (0.37%) CPLEX
9 5 (0.14%) Trello
10 3 (0.086%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.086%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.086%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.057%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.057%) PlantUML
11 2 (0.057%) Sketch
12 1 (0.029%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.029%) InDesign
12 1 (0.029%) LaTeX
12 1 (0.029%) Notion
12 1 (0.029%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 88 (2.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 37 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (0.60%) Workday HCM
4 17 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
5 15 (0.43%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 15 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
6 13 (0.37%) Aladdin
7 12 (0.34%) SAP FI
7 12 (0.34%) SAP HR
8 11 (0.32%) SAP CO
9 10 (0.29%) SAP HCM
10 9 (0.26%) SAP MM
10 9 (0.26%) Shopify
10 9 (0.26%) Workfront
11 8 (0.23%) SAP Payroll
12 7 (0.20%) SAP MDG
12 7 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
13 6 (0.17%) NetSuite
13 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
13 6 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 994 (28.53%) Azure
2 702 (20.15%) Power Platform
3 583 (16.73%) AWS
4 317 (9.10%) GCP
5 269 (7.72%) Snowflake
6 244 (7.00%) Azure DevOps
7 221 (6.34%) Azure Data Factory
8 214 (6.14%) dbt
9 165 (4.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 154 (4.42%) GitHub
11 143 (4.10%) Serverless
12 135 (3.87%) Azure Monitor
13 125 (3.59%) SaaS
14 123 (3.53%) Amazon S3
14 123 (3.53%) Entra ID
15 89 (2.55%) AWS Lambda
16 78 (2.24%) Microsoft 365
17 72 (2.07%) GitHub Actions
18 63 (1.81%) Adobe Analytics
18 63 (1.81%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 61 (1.75%) Firewall
2 60 (1.72%) Network Security
3 41 (1.18%) DNS
4 38 (1.09%) VPN
5 24 (0.69%) TCP/IP
6 22 (0.63%) Broadband
7 20 (0.57%) WAN
8 18 (0.52%) DHCP
9 16 (0.46%) SD-WAN
10 15 (0.43%) BGP
11 9 (0.26%) LAN
11 9 (0.26%) Wireless
12 8 (0.23%) SSH
13 7 (0.20%) SMS
14 6 (0.17%) HTTP
14 6 (0.17%) Internet
14 6 (0.17%) Kerberos
14 6 (0.17%) NGFW
14 6 (0.17%) OSPF
14 6 (0.17%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 676 (19.40%) Power BI
2 427 (12.26%) Data Warehouse
3 253 (7.26%) Data Lake
4 243 (6.97%) Metadata
5 214 (6.14%) Tableau
6 158 (4.54%) BigQuery
7 89 (2.55%) Amazon Redshift
8 88 (2.53%) SQL Server
9 84 (2.41%) Delta Lake
10 83 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
11 82 (2.35%) Looker
12 79 (2.27%) Big Data
12 79 (2.27%) Relational Database
13 62 (1.78%) Amazon Athena
14 60 (1.72%) NoSQL
14 60 (1.72%) Semantic Layer
15 58 (1.66%) Azure SQL Database
16 52 (1.49%) Power Query
17 50 (1.44%) Snowflake Schema
18 45 (1.29%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 192 (5.51%) Git
2 156 (4.48%) JIRA
3 62 (1.78%) Jenkins
4 60 (1.72%) GitLab
5 11 (0.32%) MLflow
6 9 (0.26%) fastlane
6 9 (0.26%) RStudio
7 8 (0.23%) Gradle
7 8 (0.23%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.20%) Postman
8 7 (0.20%) Selenium
8 7 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (0.17%) Crashlytics
9 6 (0.17%) ER Studio
9 6 (0.17%) ERwin
9 6 (0.17%) JUnit
9 6 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
9 6 (0.17%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.14%) Visual Website Optimizer
10 5 (0.14%) Xcode
General
1 1,003 (28.79%) Social Skills
2 927 (26.61%) Finance
3 662 (19.00%) Analytical Skills
4 418 (12.00%) Public Sector
5 281 (8.07%) Banking
6 239 (6.86%) Marketing
7 178 (5.11%) Retail
8 118 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
9 91 (2.61%) Legal
10 89 (2.55%) Manufacturing
11 87 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 72 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
13 61 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
14 60 (1.72%) Front Office
15 56 (1.61%) Investment Banking
16 52 (1.49%) Publishing
17 43 (1.23%) Military
17 43 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
18 41 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
19 39 (1.12%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 556 (15.96%) Data Engineer
2 479 (13.75%) Senior
3 459 (13.17%) Analyst
4 445 (12.77%) Architect
5 293 (8.41%) Developer
6 289 (8.30%) Lead
7 201 (5.77%) Data Architect
8 183 (5.25%) Consultant
9 168 (4.82%) Data Analyst
10 125 (3.59%) Senior Data Engineer
11 120 (3.44%) Data Scientist
12 117 (3.36%) Solutions Architect
13 113 (3.24%) Business Analyst
14 102 (2.93%) Azure Engineer
15 70 (2.01%) Data Manager
16 68 (1.95%) Product Manager
17 67 (1.92%) AWS Engineer
18 65 (1.87%) Senior Analyst
19 64 (1.84%) Project Manager
19 64 (1.84%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 290 (8.32%) Terraform
2 200 (5.74%) PySpark
3 145 (4.16%) REST
4 104 (2.99%) Kafka
5 59 (1.69%) React
6 57 (1.64%) Pandas
7 56 (1.61%) HTML
8 52 (1.49%) RESTful
9 49 (1.41%) CSS
10 48 (1.38%) .NET
10 48 (1.38%) OAuth
11 44 (1.26%) ARM Templates
12 40 (1.15%) OpenID
13 39 (1.12%) JSON
13 39 (1.12%) NumPy
14 35 (1.00%) OAuth2
15 32 (0.92%) Web Services
16 29 (0.83%) SOAP
17 28 (0.80%) LDAP
17 28 (0.80%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 248 (7.12%) Cloud Native
2 188 (5.40%) Product Ownership
3 151 (4.33%) Onboarding
4 140 (4.02%) Data Structures
5 104 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
6 92 (2.64%) Management Information System
7 73 (2.10%) AI Agents
8 63 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
9 62 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
10 57 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
11 47 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
12 45 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
13 43 (1.23%) Algorithms
14 41 (1.18%) Marketing Technology
15 39 (1.12%) Social Media
16 38 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
17 37 (1.06%) Derivative
17 37 (1.06%) Virtual Team
18 36 (1.03%) Taxonomies
19 35 (1.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 97 (2.78%) Windows
2 92 (2.64%) Linux
3 40 (1.15%) Unix
4 39 (1.12%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.29%) Android
8 9 (0.26%) VMS
9 8 (0.23%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.20%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.086%) Solaris
11 3 (0.086%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.057%) AIX
12 2 (0.057%) CentOS
12 2 (0.057%) HPUX
13 1 (0.029%) Rocky
13 1 (0.029%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 981 (28.16%) AI
2 906 (26.00%) Data Modelling
3 867 (24.89%) Stakeholder Management
4 864 (24.80%) Business Intelligence
5 832 (23.88%) Agile
6 697 (20.01%) Decision-Making
7 679 (19.49%) Data Pipeline
8 657 (18.86%) Data Engineering
9 649 (18.63%) CI/CD
10 564 (16.19%) Data Governance
11 534 (15.33%) ETL
12 516 (14.81%) DevOps
13 486 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
14 478 (13.72%) Continuous Improvement
15 471 (13.52%) Roadmaps
16 459 (13.17%) Migration
17 442 (12.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 422 (12.11%) Machine Learning
19 421 (12.08%) Validation
20 403 (11.57%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 1,137 (32.63%) SQL
2 963 (27.64%) Python
3 162 (4.65%) PowerShell
4 102 (2.93%) Java
5 94 (2.70%) JavaScript
6 93 (2.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 84 (2.41%) Bicep
8 72 (2.07%) C#
9 68 (1.95%) Bash
10 60 (1.72%) R
11 41 (1.18%) TypeScript
12 38 (1.09%) Scala
13 31 (0.89%) Shell Script
14 29 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
15 19 (0.55%) C++
16 18 (0.52%) ABAP
16 18 (0.52%) T-SQL
17 16 (0.46%) LookML
17 16 (0.46%) PL/SQL
18 14 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 625 (17.94%) Security Cleared
2 498 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 300 (8.61%) Degree
4 92 (2.64%) Azure Certification
5 90 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
6 79 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 76 (2.18%) DV Cleared
8 57 (1.64%) Master's Degree
9 52 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
10 43 (1.23%) CISSP
11 39 (1.12%) AWS Certification
12 33 (0.95%) PMI Certification
13 28 (0.80%) PMP
14 27 (0.77%) DBS Check
15 20 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
16 14 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
17 13 (0.37%) MBA
18 11 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 11 (0.32%) CISA
18 11 (0.32%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 767 (22.01%) Data Quality
2 156 (4.48%) GDPR
3 139 (3.99%) QA
4 136 (3.90%) Accessibility
5 51 (1.46%) GRC
6 41 (1.18%) WCAG
7 39 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 36 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
9 34 (0.98%) NIST
9 34 (0.98%) PMO
10 23 (0.66%) SLA
11 15 (0.43%) NCSC
12 13 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 12 (0.34%) IFRS
13 12 (0.34%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.29%) PERC
14 10 (0.29%) Solvency II
15 8 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 8 (0.23%) GMP
16 7 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 149 (4.28%) Docker
2 99 (2.84%) Active Directory
3 27 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.26%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.11%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 3 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.086%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.086%) vSphere
8 3 (0.086%) XenApp
9 2 (0.057%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.029%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.029%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 153 (4.39%) Kubernetes
2 46 (1.32%) Ansible
3 40 (1.15%) Grafana
4 27 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (0.52%) Prometheus
6 17 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (0.43%) SCCM
8 9 (0.26%) Kibana
8 9 (0.26%) Progress Chef
9 8 (0.23%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.23%) SCOM
10 6 (0.17%) Control-M
10 6 (0.17%) Podman
11 5 (0.14%) QRadar
12 4 (0.11%) SysTrack
13 3 (0.086%) CASB
14 2 (0.057%) Docker Swarm
14 2 (0.057%) MOM
14 2 (0.057%) NetBackup
14 2 (0.057%) Puppet
Vendors
1 671 (19.26%) Microsoft
2 437 (12.54%) Databricks
3 204 (5.86%) SAP
4 194 (5.57%) Google
5 190 (5.45%) Oracle
6 101 (2.90%) Adobe
7 92 (2.64%) ServiceNow
8 87 (2.50%) Salesforce
9 58 (1.66%) Workday
10 47 (1.35%) Splunk
11 45 (1.29%) Dynatrace
12 41 (1.18%) Foundry
13 35 (1.00%) Palantir
14 32 (0.92%) Informatica
15 30 (0.86%) Cisco
15 30 (0.86%) VMware
16 26 (0.75%) OpenAI
16 26 (0.75%) Talend
17 24 (0.69%) Amplitude
17 24 (0.69%) Denodo