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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 27 37
Rank change year-on-year +3 +10 -2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,032 1,592 1,767
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.28% 6.70% 4.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.58% 7.34% 5.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,072 1,063 1,225
10th Percentile £355 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £440 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 33 47
10th Percentile £20.25 £14.13 £14.70
25th Percentile £36.25 £19.25 £25.00
Median hourly rate £58.50 £31.64 £30.37
Median % change year-on-year +84.89% +4.18% -5.09%
75th Percentile £75.00 £36.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £82.55 £79.74 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £55.50 £32.05 £29.19
% change year-on-year +73.17% +9.82% -9.64%

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 35,337 21,704 31,436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.82% 91.29% 85.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,449 14,185 20,585
10th Percentile £325 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £512 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.14% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,203 923 2,285
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £15.95
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.71% -23.29% -2.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £27.45 £36.02
% change year-on-year +52.79% -23.80% -2.64%

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 27 May 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 27 May 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 27 May 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 1,694 £550 -4.35% 1,408
North of England +6 343 £475 +1.77% 377
Midlands +12 339 £492 -3.88% 168
West Midlands +8 254 £492 -4.06% 100
South East -7 244 £500 +6.04% 426
South West +33 197 £500 +5.26% 133
North West +7 177 £492 +4.35% 212
Yorkshire +6 141 £500 +3.63% 116
East of England -5 120 £519 -13.54% 86
East Midlands +9 79 £525 +43.05% 68
North East +1 36 £450 +46.94% 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
1 155 (5.11%) Apache Spark
2 116 (3.83%) Apache Airflow
3 84 (2.77%) SAS
4 81 (2.67%) Apache
5 74 (2.44%) Confluence
6 46 (1.52%) SharePoint
7 27 (0.89%) CMS
8 20 (0.66%) Jupyter
9 16 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 15 (0.49%) Oracle Application Server
11 12 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
12 9 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
12 9 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
13 8 (0.26%) Apache Superset
14 6 (0.20%) ArcGIS
14 6 (0.20%) IIS
14 6 (0.20%) WordPress
15 4 (0.13%) Drupal
16 3 (0.099%) Oracle SOA Suite
17 2 (0.066%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 131 (4.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 24 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (0.63%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.59%) Chatbot
6 15 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.23%) CPLEX
7 7 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
8 4 (0.13%) Trello
9 3 (0.099%) Notion
10 2 (0.066%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.066%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.066%) Sketch
11 1 (0.033%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.033%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.033%) InDesign
11 1 (0.033%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 63 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
4 8 (0.26%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 8 (0.26%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
5 7 (0.23%) Aladdin
6 6 (0.20%) Sage X3
7 5 (0.16%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.16%) Maximo
8 4 (0.13%) iTrent
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 4 (0.13%) SAP BPC
8 4 (0.13%) Shopify
8 4 (0.13%) Sprinklr
9 3 (0.099%) Distributed Ledger
9 3 (0.099%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 944 (31.13%) Azure
2 673 (22.20%) Power Platform
3 608 (20.05%) AWS
4 283 (9.33%) GCP
5 241 (7.95%) Azure Data Factory
6 211 (6.96%) Azure DevOps
7 199 (6.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 191 (6.30%) Snowflake
9 158 (5.21%) GitHub
10 143 (4.72%) dbt
11 126 (4.16%) Amazon S3
12 123 (4.06%) Serverless
13 106 (3.50%) Azure Monitor
14 86 (2.84%) GitHub Actions
14 86 (2.84%) Microsoft 365
15 85 (2.80%) SaaS
16 79 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
17 72 (2.37%) Entra ID
18 52 (1.72%) Azure Key Vault
19 51 (1.68%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 39 (1.29%) Firewall
2 31 (1.02%) Network Security
3 22 (0.73%) DNS
3 22 (0.73%) VPN
4 16 (0.53%) SD-WAN
4 16 (0.53%) SMS
5 14 (0.46%) WAN
6 12 (0.40%) HTTP
7 9 (0.30%) BGP
8 8 (0.26%) FTP
8 8 (0.26%) OSPF
9 7 (0.23%) DHCP
9 7 (0.23%) MPLS
9 7 (0.23%) SSL
9 7 (0.23%) TCP/IP
9 7 (0.23%) VXLAN
10 6 (0.20%) 5G
10 6 (0.20%) LAN
10 6 (0.20%) SMTP
10 6 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 626 (20.65%) Power BI
2 392 (12.93%) Data Warehouse
3 247 (8.15%) Data Lake
4 218 (7.19%) Tableau
5 183 (6.04%) Metadata
6 118 (3.89%) BigQuery
7 113 (3.73%) Delta Lake
8 107 (3.53%) SQL Server
9 91 (3.00%) Big Data
10 77 (2.54%) Relational Database
11 73 (2.41%) Amazon Redshift
12 69 (2.28%) Snowflake Schema
13 67 (2.21%) Amazon Athena
14 66 (2.18%) NoSQL
15 65 (2.14%) Azure SQL Database
16 59 (1.95%) Looker
17 56 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
18 55 (1.81%) Power Query
19 53 (1.75%) Star Schema
20 50 (1.65%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 174 (5.74%) Git
2 169 (5.57%) JIRA
3 66 (2.18%) Jenkins
4 63 (2.08%) GitLab
5 20 (0.66%) ERwin
6 14 (0.46%) MLflow
7 11 (0.36%) Selenium
8 8 (0.26%) MSI
9 7 (0.23%) Cypress.io
9 7 (0.23%) ER Studio
9 7 (0.23%) fastlane
9 7 (0.23%) PowerDesigner
9 7 (0.23%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.20%) JUnit
11 5 (0.16%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.16%) Gradle
11 5 (0.16%) Postman
11 5 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 5 (0.16%) XCTest
12 4 (0.13%) Android Studio
General
1 761 (25.10%) Finance
2 755 (24.90%) Social Skills
3 534 (17.61%) Analytical Skills
4 311 (10.26%) Public Sector
5 208 (6.86%) Banking
6 163 (5.38%) Marketing
7 104 (3.43%) Retail
8 73 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
9 56 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 56 (1.85%) Legal
10 55 (1.81%) Investment Banking
11 54 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
12 48 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
13 46 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
14 43 (1.42%) Telecoms
15 42 (1.39%) Front Office
15 42 (1.39%) Manufacturing
16 34 (1.12%) Financial Institution
17 27 (0.89%) Military
18 25 (0.82%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 594 (19.59%) Data Engineer
2 386 (12.73%) Analyst
3 361 (11.91%) Senior
4 353 (11.64%) Architect
5 317 (10.46%) Developer
6 264 (8.71%) Lead
7 165 (5.44%) Data Architect
8 160 (5.28%) Data Analyst
9 120 (3.96%) Consultant
10 113 (3.73%) Business Analyst
11 106 (3.50%) Senior Data Engineer
12 105 (3.46%) Azure Engineer
13 94 (3.10%) Data Scientist
14 88 (2.90%) Solutions Architect
15 73 (2.41%) Data Manager
16 66 (2.18%) Project Manager
17 58 (1.91%) Designer
18 51 (1.68%) Business Intelligence Developer
19 49 (1.62%) AWS Engineer
20 47 (1.55%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (6.10%) PySpark
2 133 (4.39%) Kafka
3 104 (3.43%) REST
4 63 (2.08%) Pandas
5 52 (1.72%) JSON
5 52 (1.72%) React
6 48 (1.58%) PyTorch
6 48 (1.58%) TensorFlow
7 46 (1.52%) HTML
8 45 (1.48%) CSS
9 39 (1.29%) .NET
9 39 (1.29%) RESTful
10 37 (1.22%) scikit-learn
11 35 (1.15%) Middleware
12 33 (1.09%) NumPy
13 31 (1.02%) SOAP
14 30 (0.99%) ARM Templates
14 30 (0.99%) Oracle Fusion
15 29 (0.96%) AngularJS
16 26 (0.86%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 200 (6.60%) Cloud Native
2 152 (5.01%) Product Ownership
3 112 (3.69%) Data Structures
4 89 (2.94%) Onboarding
5 80 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
6 64 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
7 49 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
7 49 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
8 46 (1.52%) Algorithms
9 45 (1.48%) Management Information System
10 38 (1.25%) Public Cloud
11 36 (1.19%) AI Agents
11 36 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
12 35 (1.15%) NHS
13 34 (1.12%) Mobile App
14 30 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
15 29 (0.96%) Derivative
16 27 (0.89%) Fixed Income
16 27 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
17 26 (0.86%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 91 (3.00%) Windows
2 72 (2.37%) Linux
3 33 (1.09%) Unix
4 31 (1.02%) Mac OS
5 23 (0.76%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.53%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.36%) Android
8 8 (0.26%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.099%) CentOS
11 2 (0.066%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.066%) VMS
11 2 (0.066%) zOS
12 1 (0.033%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 839 (27.67%) Data Modelling
2 831 (27.41%) Business Intelligence
3 673 (22.20%) AI
4 635 (20.94%) Data Pipeline
5 629 (20.75%) Agile
6 619 (20.42%) Data Engineering
7 602 (19.85%) CI/CD
8 561 (18.50%) ETL
9 515 (16.99%) DevOps
10 497 (16.39%) Data Governance
11 487 (16.06%) Decision-Making
12 482 (15.90%) Problem-Solving
13 411 (13.56%) Stakeholder Management
14 359 (11.84%) Data Science
15 353 (11.64%) Machine Learning
16 350 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
17 339 (11.18%) Data Analytics
18 336 (11.08%) Migration
19 313 (10.32%) Validation
20 298 (9.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,029 (33.94%) SQL
2 927 (30.57%) Python
3 128 (4.22%) Java
4 120 (3.96%) PowerShell
5 98 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 90 (2.97%) C#
7 82 (2.70%) R
8 72 (2.37%) Bicep
9 59 (1.95%) JavaScript
10 44 (1.45%) Scala
10 44 (1.45%) T-SQL
11 42 (1.39%) Kusto Query Language
12 38 (1.25%) TypeScript
13 36 (1.19%) Bash
14 28 (0.92%) Shell Script
15 24 (0.79%) C++
16 23 (0.76%) PL/SQL
17 15 (0.49%) VBA
18 10 (0.33%) Kotlin
19 9 (0.30%) Swift
Qualifications
1 526 (17.35%) Security Cleared
2 409 (13.49%) SC Cleared
3 234 (7.72%) Degree
4 69 (2.28%) Azure Certification
5 67 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 55 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
7 51 (1.68%) DV Cleared
8 48 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
9 35 (1.15%) Master's Degree
10 24 (0.79%) CISSP
10 24 (0.79%) PMI Certification
11 23 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
12 21 (0.69%) DBS Check
13 19 (0.63%) PMP
14 17 (0.56%) AWS Certification
15 15 (0.49%) CCNP
16 14 (0.46%) PhD
17 13 (0.43%) IIBA
18 11 (0.36%) CCIE
19 9 (0.30%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 581 (19.16%) Data Quality
2 157 (5.18%) GDPR
3 118 (3.89%) QA
4 103 (3.40%) Accessibility
5 40 (1.32%) WCAG
6 37 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 28 (0.92%) NIST
8 23 (0.76%) PMO
9 19 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
10 16 (0.53%) SLA
11 15 (0.49%) GRC
12 13 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 11 (0.36%) Solvency II
14 9 (0.30%) ISO 20022
14 9 (0.30%) NCSC
14 9 (0.30%) PERC
15 8 (0.26%) IFRS
15 8 (0.26%) PCI DSS
16 6 (0.20%) GAAP
16 6 (0.20%) HL7
System Software
1 155 (5.11%) Docker
2 73 (2.41%) Active Directory
3 23 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.16%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.13%) HDFS
7 4 (0.13%) Snort
7 4 (0.13%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.033%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.033%) GPFS
8 1 (0.033%) iptables
8 1 (0.033%) Lustre
8 1 (0.033%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.033%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.033%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 231 (7.62%) Terraform
2 166 (5.47%) Kubernetes
3 39 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 37 (1.22%) Grafana
5 32 (1.06%) Ansible
6 30 (0.99%) Prometheus
7 20 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (0.46%) SCCM
9 5 (0.16%) Argo
9 5 (0.16%) Control-M
9 5 (0.16%) Puppet
10 4 (0.13%) CSIRT
10 4 (0.13%) Kibana
11 3 (0.099%) Nagios
11 3 (0.099%) QRadar
11 3 (0.099%) WSUS
12 2 (0.066%) logstash
12 2 (0.066%) Nessus
12 2 (0.066%) Rancher
12 2 (0.066%) SCOM
Vendors
1 546 (18.01%) Microsoft
2 414 (13.65%) Databricks
3 151 (4.98%) Google
4 150 (4.95%) SAP
5 146 (4.82%) Oracle
6 69 (2.28%) ServiceNow
7 64 (2.11%) Adobe
8 63 (2.08%) Salesforce
9 61 (2.01%) Informatica
10 52 (1.72%) Splunk
11 44 (1.45%) Talend
12 40 (1.32%) OpenAI
13 36 (1.19%) Denodo
14 35 (1.15%) Workday
15 33 (1.09%) Foundry
16 24 (0.79%) VMware
17 23 (0.76%) Dynatrace
18 21 (0.69%) IBM
19 20 (0.66%) Cisco
20 13 (0.43%) Ariba