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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 36
Rank change year-on-year +2 +9 -2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,255 1,678 1,917
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.50% 6.66% 5.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.79% 7.28% 6.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,205 1,114 1,325
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.22%
75th Percentile £630 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 37 44
10th Percentile £19.25 £14.69 £14.10
25th Percentile £35.00 £19.25 £25.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £34.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.42% +15.00% -6.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £46.25
90th Percentile £84.20 £79.22 £71.38
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £34.50 £29.00
% change year-on-year +52.17% +18.97% -9.80%

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 37,044 23,037 31,936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.35% 91.39% 85.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,386 14,872 20,693
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £417 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £729 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -4.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,321 1,118 2,341
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% +8.48%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £72.90
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +7.14%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 26 June 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 +3 1,779 £550 -4.35% 985
North of England +5 393 £488 +5.41% 281
Midlands +9 385 £493 -1.60% 181
West Midlands +16 298 £492 -4.47% 113
South East +2 293 £500 -1.23% 419
North West +3 198 £500 +5.26% 171
South West +23 193 £500 +5.26% 122
Yorkshire +1 153 £500 +11.11% 71
East of England -7 117 £525 -9.48% 85
East Midlands +7 81 £525 +27.66% 67
North East +7 53 £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
1 158 (4.85%) Apache Spark
2 140 (4.30%) Apache Airflow
3 102 (3.13%) SAS
4 89 (2.73%) Apache
5 71 (2.18%) Confluence
6 44 (1.35%) SharePoint
7 30 (0.92%) Jupyter
8 28 (0.86%) CMS
9 27 (0.83%) Palantir Foundry
10 15 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
10 15 (0.46%) Oracle Application Server
11 13 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 9 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
13 8 (0.25%) Apache Superset
14 6 (0.18%) IIS
14 6 (0.18%) WordPress
15 4 (0.12%) ArcGIS
15 4 (0.12%) Drupal
16 2 (0.061%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 2 (0.061%) WebSphere
Applications
1 146 (4.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (0.58%) Chatbot
3 19 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
4 16 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (0.40%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.37%) CPLEX
7 10 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.061%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.061%) Sketch
10 1 (0.031%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.031%) InDesign
10 1 (0.031%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.031%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.031%) Trello
10 1 (0.031%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 68 (2.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
4 10 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
5 9 (0.28%) Aladdin
6 8 (0.25%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 8 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.22%) NetSuite
7 7 (0.22%) SAP ERP
7 7 (0.22%) Workday HCM
8 6 (0.18%) Sage X3
9 5 (0.15%) BambooHR
9 5 (0.15%) Infor LN
9 5 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 4 (0.12%) iTrent
10 4 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
10 4 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
10 4 (0.12%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 4 (0.12%) SAP BPC
10 4 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 983 (30.20%) Azure
2 714 (21.94%) Power Platform
3 643 (19.75%) AWS
4 288 (8.85%) GCP
5 230 (7.07%) Azure DevOps
6 226 (6.94%) Azure Data Factory
7 221 (6.79%) Snowflake
8 183 (5.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 172 (5.28%) dbt
10 164 (5.04%) GitHub
11 142 (4.36%) Amazon S3
12 139 (4.27%) Serverless
13 111 (3.41%) Azure Monitor
14 94 (2.89%) AWS Lambda
15 93 (2.86%) SaaS
16 90 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
17 85 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
18 80 (2.46%) Entra ID
19 49 (1.51%) PaaS
19 49 (1.51%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 46 (1.41%) Firewall
2 30 (0.92%) Network Security
3 25 (0.77%) VPN
4 23 (0.71%) WAN
5 21 (0.65%) SD-WAN
6 18 (0.55%) DNS
7 17 (0.52%) BGP
8 12 (0.37%) SMS
9 10 (0.31%) OSPF
10 8 (0.25%) VXLAN
11 7 (0.22%) 5G
11 7 (0.22%) DHCP
11 7 (0.22%) HTTP
11 7 (0.22%) Internet
11 7 (0.22%) LAN
11 7 (0.22%) MPLS
11 7 (0.22%) TCP/IP
11 7 (0.22%) Wireless
11 7 (0.22%) WLAN
12 6 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 670 (20.58%) Power BI
2 422 (12.96%) Data Warehouse
3 258 (7.93%) Data Lake
4 226 (6.94%) Tableau
5 192 (5.90%) Metadata
6 122 (3.75%) BigQuery
7 108 (3.32%) Delta Lake
8 104 (3.20%) SQL Server
9 96 (2.95%) Big Data
10 89 (2.73%) Amazon Redshift
11 84 (2.58%) Relational Database
12 77 (2.37%) Snowflake Schema
13 74 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
14 73 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
15 68 (2.09%) NoSQL
16 65 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
16 65 (2.00%) Looker
17 57 (1.75%) Power Query
18 51 (1.57%) Star Schema
19 50 (1.54%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 183 (5.62%) Git
2 168 (5.16%) JIRA
3 76 (2.33%) Jenkins
4 63 (1.94%) GitLab
5 20 (0.61%) ERwin
6 11 (0.34%) JUnit
6 11 (0.34%) MLflow
7 10 (0.31%) ER Studio
7 10 (0.31%) fastlane
7 10 (0.31%) Selenium
8 8 (0.25%) MSI
9 7 (0.22%) Postman
9 7 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
10 6 (0.18%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.15%) Android Studio
11 5 (0.15%) Crashlytics
11 5 (0.15%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.15%) Gradle
11 5 (0.15%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.15%) SonarQube
General
1 825 (25.35%) Finance
2 820 (25.19%) Social Skills
3 553 (16.99%) Analytical Skills
4 371 (11.40%) Public Sector
5 232 (7.13%) Banking
6 170 (5.22%) Marketing
7 132 (4.06%) Retail
8 75 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 74 (2.27%) Legal
10 70 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
11 58 (1.78%) Manufacturing
11 58 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
12 55 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
13 54 (1.66%) Investment Banking
14 46 (1.41%) Front Office
15 43 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
15 43 (1.32%) Telecoms
16 38 (1.17%) Financial Institution
17 30 (0.92%) Automotive
18 27 (0.83%) Military
Job Titles
1 626 (19.23%) Data Engineer
2 402 (12.35%) Analyst
3 401 (12.32%) Senior
4 394 (12.10%) Architect
5 330 (10.14%) Developer
6 280 (8.60%) Lead
7 180 (5.53%) Data Architect
8 165 (5.07%) Data Analyst
9 139 (4.27%) Consultant
10 111 (3.41%) Senior Data Engineer
11 109 (3.35%) Business Analyst
12 106 (3.26%) Data Scientist
13 105 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
14 98 (3.01%) Azure Engineer
15 71 (2.18%) Data Manager
16 62 (1.90%) Project Manager
17 59 (1.81%) Designer
18 56 (1.72%) AWS Engineer
18 56 (1.72%) Business Intelligence Developer
19 55 (1.69%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (6.05%) PySpark
2 131 (4.02%) Kafka
3 110 (3.38%) REST
4 59 (1.81%) Pandas
5 52 (1.60%) React
6 49 (1.51%) JSON
7 48 (1.47%) RESTful
8 42 (1.29%) .NET
9 41 (1.26%) HTML
9 41 (1.26%) PyTorch
10 39 (1.20%) CSS
11 38 (1.17%) Middleware
11 38 (1.17%) TensorFlow
12 33 (1.01%) NumPy
12 33 (1.01%) Web Services
13 31 (0.95%) ARM Templates
13 31 (0.95%) Microsoft Graph
13 31 (0.95%) scikit-learn
13 31 (0.95%) SOAP
14 28 (0.86%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 227 (6.97%) Cloud Native
2 160 (4.92%) Product Ownership
3 128 (3.93%) Data Structures
4 102 (3.13%) Onboarding
5 101 (3.10%) Legacy Systems
6 67 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
7 61 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
8 47 (1.44%) Algorithms
8 47 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
9 45 (1.38%) AI Agents
10 44 (1.35%) Management Information System
11 41 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
12 40 (1.23%) NHS
13 38 (1.17%) Public Cloud
14 35 (1.08%) Mobile App
15 32 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
16 30 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
16 30 (0.92%) Virtual Team
17 27 (0.83%) Derivative
17 27 (0.83%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 88 (2.70%) Windows
2 76 (2.33%) Linux
3 39 (1.20%) Unix
4 24 (0.74%) Mac OS
5 23 (0.71%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.49%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.34%) Android
8 8 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.15%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.092%) CentOS
10 3 (0.092%) VMS
10 3 (0.092%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.031%) Rocky
11 1 (0.031%) Solaris
11 1 (0.031%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 907 (27.86%) Data Modelling
2 893 (27.43%) Business Intelligence
3 782 (24.02%) AI
4 709 (21.78%) Agile
5 687 (21.11%) Data Pipeline
6 675 (20.74%) Data Engineering
7 663 (20.37%) CI/CD
8 568 (17.45%) ETL
9 536 (16.47%) DevOps
10 530 (16.28%) Decision-Making
11 506 (15.55%) Stakeholder Management
12 504 (15.48%) Data Governance
13 501 (15.39%) Problem-Solving
14 396 (12.17%) Machine Learning
15 393 (12.07%) Data Science
16 384 (11.80%) Migration
17 376 (11.55%) Data Analytics
18 371 (11.40%) Continuous Improvement
19 358 (11.00%) Validation
20 348 (10.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,102 (33.86%) SQL
2 981 (30.14%) Python
3 133 (4.09%) Java
4 112 (3.44%) PowerShell
5 102 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 84 (2.58%) C#
7 67 (2.06%) R
8 63 (1.94%) Bicep
9 58 (1.78%) JavaScript
10 44 (1.35%) Scala
11 42 (1.29%) T-SQL
11 42 (1.29%) TypeScript
12 38 (1.17%) Kusto Query Language
13 35 (1.08%) Bash
13 35 (1.08%) Shell Script
14 26 (0.80%) PL/SQL
15 19 (0.58%) C++
15 19 (0.58%) VBA
16 10 (0.31%) Korn
16 10 (0.31%) Swift
Qualifications
1 552 (16.96%) Security Cleared
2 438 (13.46%) SC Cleared
3 255 (7.83%) Degree
4 77 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 73 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
6 68 (2.09%) Azure Certification
7 53 (1.63%) DV Cleared
8 38 (1.17%) Master's Degree
8 38 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
9 27 (0.83%) CISSP
10 26 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
11 24 (0.74%) PMI Certification
12 22 (0.68%) AWS Certification
13 20 (0.61%) PMP
14 19 (0.58%) DBS Check
15 17 (0.52%) CCNP
16 15 (0.46%) CCIE
17 10 (0.31%) SnowPro
18 9 (0.28%) CISA
18 9 (0.28%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 622 (19.11%) Data Quality
2 159 (4.88%) GDPR
3 127 (3.90%) QA
4 104 (3.20%) Accessibility
5 44 (1.35%) WCAG
6 34 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (0.98%) NIST
8 29 (0.89%) PMO
9 21 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
10 20 (0.61%) GRC
11 16 (0.49%) Solvency II
12 15 (0.46%) SLA
13 13 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 12 (0.37%) IFRS
15 10 (0.31%) NCSC
16 9 (0.28%) PCI DSS
17 8 (0.25%) GAAP
18 7 (0.22%) ISO 20022
18 7 (0.22%) PERC
19 6 (0.18%) HL7
System Software
1 160 (4.92%) Docker
2 72 (2.21%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
3 20 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.22%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.12%) HDFS
5 4 (0.12%) Snort
5 4 (0.12%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.031%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.031%) GPFS
6 1 (0.031%) iptables
6 1 (0.031%) Lustre
6 1 (0.031%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.031%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.031%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 244 (7.50%) Terraform
2 172 (5.28%) Kubernetes
3 32 (0.98%) Ansible
3 32 (0.98%) Grafana
4 31 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
5 28 (0.86%) Prometheus
6 21 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.25%) FortiGate
7 8 (0.25%) SCCM
8 6 (0.18%) Control-M
9 5 (0.15%) Argo
10 4 (0.12%) CSIRT
11 3 (0.092%) Nagios
11 3 (0.092%) Puppet
11 3 (0.092%) QRadar
12 2 (0.061%) Kibana
12 2 (0.061%) Nessus
12 2 (0.061%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.061%) Rancher
12 2 (0.061%) SCOM
Vendors
1 566 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 439 (13.49%) Databricks
3 171 (5.25%) Oracle
4 164 (5.04%) SAP
5 149 (4.58%) Google
6 73 (2.24%) Salesforce
7 69 (2.12%) ServiceNow
8 60 (1.84%) Adobe
9 55 (1.69%) Informatica
10 52 (1.60%) Splunk
11 47 (1.44%) Foundry
12 45 (1.38%) Talend
13 44 (1.35%) Workday
14 40 (1.23%) OpenAI
15 37 (1.14%) Denodo
16 34 (1.04%) Palantir
17 31 (0.95%) Dynatrace
18 24 (0.74%) Cisco
19 22 (0.68%) VMware
20 18 (0.55%) IBM