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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 27 34
Rank change year-on-year +3 +7 +3
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,500 1,790 1,823
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.74% 6.51% 5.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.08% 7.17% 6.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,353 1,181 1,308
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £431 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £669 £688
90th Percentile £750 £813 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 45 27
10th Percentile £20.76 £15.26 £21.54
25th Percentile £35.00 £22.50 £27.00
Median hourly rate £54.75 £34.50 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.70% +11.29% -4.02%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.16 £43.75
90th Percentile £87.14 £80.61 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £34.50 £30.19
% change year-on-year +52.17% +14.30% -6.55%

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 38,532 24,959 29,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.26% 90.75% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,105 15,999 19,151
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,365 1,791
10th Percentile £15.05 £14.22 £13.87
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £17.75
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -39.40% -2.35%
75th Percentile £68.75 £51.65 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.10 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -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 30 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 30 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 30 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 1,926 £550 -3.51% 1,532
North of England +6 436 £491 +9.05% 343
Midlands +8 409 £492 -3.88% 187
South East +4 338 £500 -2.44% 426
West Midlands +9 324 £488 -7.04% 125
North West 0 220 £513 +7.89% 191
South West +13 191 £500 +5.26% 146
Yorkshire +4 171 £469 +2.68% 107
East of England -9 108 £563 -3.02% 64
East Midlands +11 78 £525 +27.27% 62
North East -2 56 £450 +9.09% 47
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
1 155 (4.43%) Apache Spark
2 150 (4.29%) Apache Airflow
3 123 (3.51%) SAS
4 100 (2.86%) Apache
5 77 (2.20%) Confluence
6 49 (1.40%) SharePoint
7 40 (1.14%) CMS
8 31 (0.89%) Jupyter
8 31 (0.89%) Palantir Foundry
9 23 (0.66%) Oracle Application Server
10 17 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 12 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
12 9 (0.26%) Apache Superset
13 7 (0.20%) Drupal
13 7 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
13 7 (0.20%) WordPress
14 6 (0.17%) IIS
14 6 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
15 4 (0.11%) ArcGIS
16 2 (0.057%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 161 (4.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 21 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
4 20 (0.57%) Chatbot
5 19 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
6 15 (0.43%) CPLEX
7 12 (0.34%) MS Visio
8 11 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
9 4 (0.11%) Sketch
10 3 (0.086%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.086%) Trello
11 2 (0.057%) InDesign
11 2 (0.057%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.029%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.029%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.029%) Notion
12 1 (0.029%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.029%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 64 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
4 13 (0.37%) Aladdin
4 13 (0.37%) Workday HCM
5 10 (0.29%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 10 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
6 9 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.23%) SAP ERP
7 8 (0.23%) Shopify
8 7 (0.20%) NetSuite
8 7 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
9 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
9 6 (0.17%) Sage X3
9 6 (0.17%) SAP GRC
10 5 (0.14%) BambooHR
10 5 (0.14%) Infor LN
10 5 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
10 5 (0.14%) SAP BPC
10 5 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,028 (29.37%) Azure
2 716 (20.46%) Power Platform
3 639 (18.26%) AWS
4 311 (8.89%) GCP
5 237 (6.77%) Azure DevOps
6 235 (6.71%) Snowflake
7 218 (6.23%) Azure Data Factory
8 186 (5.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 184 (5.26%) dbt
10 159 (4.54%) GitHub
11 140 (4.00%) Serverless
12 138 (3.94%) Amazon S3
13 130 (3.71%) Azure Monitor
14 109 (3.11%) Entra ID
15 100 (2.86%) SaaS
16 94 (2.69%) AWS Lambda
17 89 (2.54%) GitHub Actions
18 84 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
19 54 (1.54%) Google Analytics
20 53 (1.51%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 59 (1.69%) Firewall
2 44 (1.26%) Network Security
3 36 (1.03%) VPN
4 33 (0.94%) DNS
5 26 (0.74%) WAN
6 24 (0.69%) SD-WAN
7 21 (0.60%) BGP
8 20 (0.57%) TCP/IP
9 13 (0.37%) DHCP
10 12 (0.34%) OSPF
11 10 (0.29%) SMS
11 10 (0.29%) Wireless
12 9 (0.26%) Broadband
13 8 (0.23%) VXLAN
14 7 (0.20%) 5G
14 7 (0.20%) HTTP
14 7 (0.20%) Internet
14 7 (0.20%) LAN
14 7 (0.20%) MPLS
14 7 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 682 (19.49%) Power BI
2 465 (13.29%) Data Warehouse
3 263 (7.51%) Data Lake
4 243 (6.94%) Tableau
5 200 (5.71%) Metadata
6 138 (3.94%) BigQuery
7 102 (2.91%) Big Data
8 100 (2.86%) SQL Server
9 97 (2.77%) Delta Lake
10 93 (2.66%) Amazon Redshift
11 86 (2.46%) Relational Database
12 77 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
12 77 (2.20%) Snowflake Schema
13 74 (2.11%) NoSQL
14 73 (2.09%) Looker
15 70 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
16 64 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
17 56 (1.60%) Power Query
18 53 (1.51%) Star Schema
19 52 (1.49%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 198 (5.66%) Git
2 166 (4.74%) JIRA
3 77 (2.20%) Jenkins
4 54 (1.54%) GitLab
5 18 (0.51%) ERwin
6 12 (0.34%) JUnit
7 10 (0.29%) ER Studio
7 10 (0.29%) fastlane
7 10 (0.29%) MLflow
7 10 (0.29%) Selenium
8 7 (0.20%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.20%) Gradle
8 7 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
8 7 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (0.17%) Android Studio
9 6 (0.17%) Crashlytics
9 6 (0.17%) Postman
9 6 (0.17%) REST Assured
9 6 (0.17%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.14%) Xcode
General
1 890 (25.43%) Social Skills
2 884 (25.26%) Finance
3 606 (17.31%) Analytical Skills
4 414 (11.83%) Public Sector
5 262 (7.49%) Banking
6 206 (5.89%) Marketing
7 148 (4.23%) Retail
8 81 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 78 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
10 73 (2.09%) Legal
11 72 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
12 69 (1.97%) Manufacturing
13 63 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
14 55 (1.57%) Front Office
14 55 (1.57%) Investment Banking
15 51 (1.46%) Telecoms
16 44 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
17 38 (1.09%) Financial Institution
17 38 (1.09%) Military
18 34 (0.97%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 626 (17.89%) Data Engineer
2 449 (12.83%) Architect
3 439 (12.54%) Senior
4 436 (12.46%) Analyst
5 359 (10.26%) Developer
6 292 (8.34%) Lead
7 196 (5.60%) Data Architect
8 183 (5.23%) Data Analyst
9 142 (4.06%) Consultant
10 122 (3.49%) Data Scientist
11 119 (3.40%) Solutions Architect
12 111 (3.17%) Azure Engineer
12 111 (3.17%) Business Analyst
13 105 (3.00%) Senior Data Engineer
14 73 (2.09%) Data Manager
15 64 (1.83%) Python Developer
16 63 (1.80%) Product Manager
17 62 (1.77%) Azure Data Engineer
18 60 (1.71%) Project Manager
19 56 (1.60%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 207 (5.91%) PySpark
2 136 (3.89%) REST
3 135 (3.86%) Kafka
4 68 (1.94%) Pandas
5 57 (1.63%) RESTful
6 54 (1.54%) JSON
7 52 (1.49%) .NET
7 52 (1.49%) React
8 44 (1.26%) HTML
9 43 (1.23%) NumPy
10 42 (1.20%) CSS
11 39 (1.11%) Web Services
12 37 (1.06%) ARM Templates
13 36 (1.03%) OAuth
14 34 (0.97%) PyTorch
14 34 (0.97%) SOAP
15 32 (0.91%) Oracle Fusion
16 31 (0.89%) scikit-learn
16 31 (0.89%) TensorFlow
17 29 (0.83%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 238 (6.80%) Cloud Native
2 180 (5.14%) Product Ownership
3 143 (4.09%) Data Structures
4 125 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
5 115 (3.29%) Onboarding
6 70 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
7 69 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
8 54 (1.54%) Management Information System
9 49 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
10 48 (1.37%) Algorithms
11 47 (1.34%) AI Agents
12 44 (1.26%) NHS
13 42 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
13 42 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
14 39 (1.11%) Virtual Team
15 38 (1.09%) Mobile App
16 37 (1.06%) Marketing Technology
17 35 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
18 30 (0.86%) Derivative
18 30 (0.86%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 89 (2.54%) Windows
2 88 (2.51%) Linux
3 41 (1.17%) Unix
4 23 (0.66%) Apple iOS
4 23 (0.66%) Windows Server
5 18 (0.51%) Mac OS
6 13 (0.37%) Android
7 11 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.20%) VMS
9 4 (0.11%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.057%) CentOS
10 2 (0.057%) Solaris
10 2 (0.057%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.057%) zOS
11 1 (0.029%) AIX
11 1 (0.029%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 970 (27.71%) Data Modelling
2 909 (25.97%) Business Intelligence
3 817 (23.34%) AI
4 805 (23.00%) Agile
5 735 (21.00%) Data Pipeline
6 715 (20.43%) Data Engineering
7 683 (19.51%) CI/CD
8 609 (17.40%) Stakeholder Management
9 603 (17.23%) Decision-Making
10 599 (17.11%) ETL
11 547 (15.63%) Data Governance
12 538 (15.37%) DevOps
13 504 (14.40%) Problem-Solving
14 430 (12.29%) Migration
15 425 (12.14%) Data Science
16 422 (12.06%) Machine Learning
17 420 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
18 411 (11.74%) Validation
19 409 (11.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 391 (11.17%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,169 (33.40%) SQL
2 1,024 (29.26%) Python
3 135 (3.86%) PowerShell
4 117 (3.34%) Java
5 102 (2.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 90 (2.57%) C#
7 75 (2.14%) Bicep
8 70 (2.00%) R
9 69 (1.97%) JavaScript
10 42 (1.20%) Bash
11 41 (1.17%) TypeScript
12 37 (1.06%) Shell Script
13 36 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
13 36 (1.03%) Scala
14 32 (0.91%) T-SQL
15 28 (0.80%) PL/SQL
16 22 (0.63%) VBA
17 21 (0.60%) C++
18 12 (0.34%) Kotlin
19 11 (0.31%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 620 (17.71%) Security Cleared
2 489 (13.97%) SC Cleared
3 280 (8.00%) Degree
4 88 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
5 78 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 77 (2.20%) Azure Certification
7 67 (1.91%) DV Cleared
8 53 (1.51%) Master's Degree
9 38 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
10 33 (0.94%) CISSP
11 29 (0.83%) AWS Certification
12 27 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
12 27 (0.77%) PMI Certification
13 23 (0.66%) PMP
14 20 (0.57%) DBS Check
15 16 (0.46%) CCNP
16 15 (0.43%) CCIE
16 15 (0.43%) PhD
17 11 (0.31%) CISA
18 10 (0.29%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 681 (19.46%) Data Quality
2 169 (4.83%) GDPR
3 140 (4.00%) QA
4 126 (3.60%) Accessibility
5 48 (1.37%) GRC
5 48 (1.37%) WCAG
6 36 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (0.91%) NIST
8 26 (0.74%) PMO
9 25 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
10 15 (0.43%) SLA
10 15 (0.43%) Solvency II
11 12 (0.34%) PCI DSS
11 12 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 10 (0.29%) IFRS
12 10 (0.29%) PERC
13 9 (0.26%) NCSC
14 7 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.17%) GAAP
16 5 (0.14%) HL7
System Software
1 156 (4.46%) Docker
2 87 (2.49%) Active Directory
3 25 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.17%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.17%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.11%) HDFS
8 3 (0.086%) Snort
9 2 (0.057%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.057%) vSphere
10 1 (0.029%) iptables
10 1 (0.029%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.029%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 250 (7.14%) Terraform
2 179 (5.11%) Kubernetes
3 43 (1.23%) Ansible
4 37 (1.06%) Grafana
5 29 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
6 26 (0.74%) Prometheus
7 24 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (0.37%) SCCM
9 8 (0.23%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.11%) Control-M
10 4 (0.11%) Podman
10 4 (0.11%) QRadar
11 3 (0.086%) Apache Ranger
11 3 (0.086%) Argo
11 3 (0.086%) CSIRT
11 3 (0.086%) Kibana
11 3 (0.086%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.086%) Rancher
11 3 (0.086%) SCOM
12 2 (0.057%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 600 (17.14%) Microsoft
2 454 (12.97%) Databricks
3 217 (6.20%) Oracle
4 177 (5.06%) SAP
5 173 (4.94%) Google
6 83 (2.37%) ServiceNow
7 80 (2.29%) Salesforce
8 78 (2.23%) Adobe
9 54 (1.54%) Splunk
10 51 (1.46%) Workday
11 48 (1.37%) Foundry
12 41 (1.17%) Informatica
13 40 (1.14%) Talend
14 39 (1.11%) Denodo
14 39 (1.11%) Palantir
15 35 (1.00%) Dynatrace
16 30 (0.86%) Cisco
17 27 (0.77%) OpenAI
18 26 (0.74%) VMware
19 20 (0.57%) Amplitude