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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 25 37
Rank change year-on-year 0 +12 -3
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,047 1,631 1,804
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.31% 6.77% 4.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.60% 7.42% 5.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,074 1,082 1,253
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £449 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £798
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 36 48
10th Percentile £20.89 £14.55 £14.90
25th Percentile £36.38 £19.12 £25.00
Median hourly rate £58.90 £31.85 £32.94
Median % change year-on-year +84.94% -3.31% +1.97%
75th Percentile £75.00 £36.44 £53.84
90th Percentile £83.75 £79.35 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £57.30 £32.05 £30.37
% change year-on-year +78.78% +5.53% -5.98%

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 35,421 21,987 31,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.00% 91.31% 85.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,454 14,284 20,634
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,213 963 2,325
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.60 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.34% -23.73% +0.43%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £27.99 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.84% -23.32% +0.29%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 +2 1,692 £550 -4.35% 1,666
North of England +7 356 £475 +1.77% 414
Midlands +12 343 £493 -1.60% 215
West Midlands +12 260 £492 -4.06% 128
South East -6 252 £500 +4.17% 487
South West +31 193 £500 +2.56% 154
North West +3 179 £494 +3.89% 248
Yorkshire +4 147 £500 +5.26% 114
East of England -8 119 £513 -14.58% 89
East Midlands +5 77 £525 +34.70% 87
North East 0 41 £450 +9.09% 55
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
1 157 (5.15%) Apache Spark
2 120 (3.94%) Apache Airflow
3 84 (2.76%) Apache
3 84 (2.76%) SAS
4 74 (2.43%) Confluence
5 44 (1.44%) SharePoint
6 27 (0.89%) CMS
7 23 (0.75%) Jupyter
8 17 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 15 (0.49%) Oracle Application Server
10 14 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
11 10 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
12 9 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
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 (0.098%) Oracle SOA Suite
17 2 (0.066%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 132 (4.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (0.59%) Chatbot
4 18 (0.59%) MS Visio
5 15 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.23%) CPLEX
7 6 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
9 3 (0.098%) Trello
10 2 (0.066%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.066%) Notion
10 2 (0.066%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.066%) Sketch
11 1 (0.033%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.033%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.033%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.033%) InDesign
11 1 (0.033%) PlantUML
11 1 (0.033%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 63 (2.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
4 8 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
5 7 (0.23%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.23%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 7 (0.23%) NetSuite
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%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.098%) Distributed Ledger
9 3 (0.098%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 938 (30.78%) Azure
2 674 (22.12%) Power Platform
3 605 (19.86%) AWS
4 280 (9.19%) GCP
5 234 (7.68%) Azure Data Factory
6 216 (7.09%) Azure DevOps
7 194 (6.37%) Snowflake
8 191 (6.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 161 (5.28%) GitHub
10 150 (4.92%) dbt
11 125 (4.10%) Amazon S3
12 124 (4.07%) Serverless
13 106 (3.48%) Azure Monitor
14 90 (2.95%) Microsoft 365
15 88 (2.89%) GitHub Actions
16 83 (2.72%) SaaS
17 80 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
18 74 (2.43%) Entra ID
19 50 (1.64%) Azure Key Vault
20 46 (1.51%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 38 (1.25%) Firewall
2 32 (1.05%) Network Security
3 24 (0.79%) VPN
4 22 (0.72%) DNS
5 17 (0.56%) SD-WAN
6 16 (0.53%) SMS
7 14 (0.46%) WAN
8 12 (0.39%) HTTP
9 9 (0.30%) BGP
10 8 (0.26%) FTP
10 8 (0.26%) OSPF
11 7 (0.23%) DHCP
11 7 (0.23%) LAN
11 7 (0.23%) MPLS
11 7 (0.23%) SSL
11 7 (0.23%) TCP/IP
11 7 (0.23%) VXLAN
11 7 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (0.23%) Wireless
11 7 (0.23%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 627 (20.58%) Power BI
2 391 (12.83%) Data Warehouse
3 246 (8.07%) Data Lake
4 215 (7.06%) Tableau
5 181 (5.94%) Metadata
6 117 (3.84%) BigQuery
7 110 (3.61%) Delta Lake
8 107 (3.51%) SQL Server
9 93 (3.05%) Big Data
10 80 (2.63%) Relational Database
11 71 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
12 69 (2.26%) Amazon Athena
12 69 (2.26%) Snowflake Schema
13 66 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
13 66 (2.17%) NoSQL
14 59 (1.94%) Looker
14 59 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
15 53 (1.74%) Star Schema
16 51 (1.67%) Power Query
17 50 (1.64%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 173 (5.68%) Git
2 170 (5.58%) JIRA
3 66 (2.17%) GitLab
3 66 (2.17%) Jenkins
4 20 (0.66%) ERwin
5 13 (0.43%) MLflow
6 11 (0.36%) Selenium
7 8 (0.26%) fastlane
7 8 (0.26%) MSI
8 7 (0.23%) Cypress.io
8 7 (0.23%) ER Studio
8 7 (0.23%) PowerDesigner
9 6 (0.20%) Gradle
9 6 (0.20%) JUnit
9 6 (0.20%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.16%) Android Studio
10 5 (0.16%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.16%) Crashlytics
10 5 (0.16%) Postman
10 5 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 761 (24.98%) Social Skills
2 759 (24.91%) Finance
3 534 (17.53%) Analytical Skills
4 325 (10.67%) Public Sector
5 208 (6.83%) Banking
6 161 (5.28%) Marketing
7 104 (3.41%) Retail
8 73 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
9 64 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 55 (1.81%) Investment Banking
10 55 (1.81%) Legal
11 53 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
12 50 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
13 44 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
14 43 (1.41%) Manufacturing
14 43 (1.41%) Telecoms
15 41 (1.35%) Front Office
16 32 (1.05%) Financial Institution
17 26 (0.85%) Automotive
17 26 (0.85%) Military
Job Titles
1 596 (19.56%) Data Engineer
2 385 (12.64%) Analyst
3 367 (12.04%) Senior
4 356 (11.68%) Architect
5 317 (10.40%) Developer
6 267 (8.76%) Lead
7 166 (5.45%) Data Architect
8 159 (5.22%) Data Analyst
9 121 (3.97%) Consultant
10 112 (3.68%) Business Analyst
11 110 (3.61%) Senior Data Engineer
12 101 (3.31%) Azure Engineer
13 94 (3.09%) Data Scientist
14 89 (2.92%) Solutions Architect
15 70 (2.30%) Data Manager
16 64 (2.10%) Project Manager
17 60 (1.97%) Designer
18 49 (1.61%) Business Intelligence Developer
19 48 (1.58%) AWS Engineer
20 46 (1.51%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (6.01%) PySpark
2 129 (4.23%) Kafka
3 106 (3.48%) REST
4 60 (1.97%) Pandas
5 56 (1.84%) React
6 51 (1.67%) JSON
7 48 (1.58%) HTML
8 47 (1.54%) CSS
8 47 (1.54%) PyTorch
8 47 (1.54%) TensorFlow
9 41 (1.35%) .NET
10 40 (1.31%) RESTful
11 35 (1.15%) scikit-learn
12 34 (1.12%) Middleware
13 32 (1.05%) AngularJS
14 30 (0.98%) ARM Templates
14 30 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
14 30 (0.98%) SOAP
15 29 (0.95%) NumPy
16 27 (0.89%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 209 (6.86%) Cloud Native
2 150 (4.92%) Product Ownership
3 114 (3.74%) Data Structures
4 89 (2.92%) Onboarding
5 82 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
6 66 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
7 51 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
8 50 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
9 46 (1.51%) Management Information System
10 45 (1.48%) Algorithms
11 39 (1.28%) AI Agents
12 38 (1.25%) Public Cloud
13 37 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
14 35 (1.15%) Mobile App
14 35 (1.15%) NHS
15 30 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
16 29 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
17 28 (0.92%) Derivative
18 26 (0.85%) Fixed Income
19 23 (0.75%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 89 (2.92%) Windows
2 71 (2.33%) Linux
3 34 (1.12%) Unix
4 29 (0.95%) Mac OS
5 23 (0.75%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.53%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.39%) Android
8 8 (0.26%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.098%) CentOS
11 2 (0.066%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.066%) VMS
11 2 (0.066%) zOS
12 1 (0.033%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 847 (27.80%) Data Modelling
2 832 (27.31%) Business Intelligence
3 682 (22.38%) AI
4 638 (20.94%) Agile
5 631 (20.71%) Data Pipeline
6 620 (20.35%) Data Engineering
7 609 (19.99%) CI/CD
8 553 (18.15%) ETL
9 515 (16.90%) DevOps
10 488 (16.02%) Data Governance
11 487 (15.98%) Decision-Making
12 480 (15.75%) Problem-Solving
13 422 (13.85%) Stakeholder Management
14 358 (11.75%) Data Science
15 356 (11.68%) Machine Learning
16 353 (11.59%) Continuous Improvement
17 347 (11.39%) Data Analytics
18 342 (11.22%) Migration
19 309 (10.14%) Validation
20 306 (10.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,034 (33.94%) SQL
2 917 (30.10%) Python
3 130 (4.27%) Java
4 117 (3.84%) PowerShell
5 94 (3.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 87 (2.86%) C#
7 75 (2.46%) R
8 71 (2.33%) Bicep
9 59 (1.94%) JavaScript
10 45 (1.48%) T-SQL
11 42 (1.38%) Scala
12 41 (1.35%) Kusto Query Language
13 39 (1.28%) TypeScript
14 34 (1.12%) Bash
15 28 (0.92%) Shell Script
16 24 (0.79%) PL/SQL
17 22 (0.72%) C++
18 14 (0.46%) VBA
19 11 (0.36%) Kotlin
20 10 (0.33%) Korn
Qualifications
1 530 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 415 (13.62%) SC Cleared
3 234 (7.68%) Degree
4 69 (2.26%) Azure Certification
4 69 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 58 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 50 (1.64%) DV Cleared
7 44 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
8 36 (1.18%) Master's Degree
9 24 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
9 24 (0.79%) PMI Certification
10 23 (0.75%) CISSP
11 21 (0.69%) DBS Check
12 19 (0.62%) AWS Certification
12 19 (0.62%) PMP
13 16 (0.53%) CCNP
14 12 (0.39%) CCIE
14 12 (0.39%) IIBA
14 12 (0.39%) PhD
15 9 (0.30%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 581 (19.07%) Data Quality
2 154 (5.05%) GDPR
3 117 (3.84%) QA
4 107 (3.51%) Accessibility
5 41 (1.35%) WCAG
6 38 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 30 (0.98%) NIST
8 24 (0.79%) PMO
9 19 (0.62%) 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
15 8 (0.26%) IFRS
16 7 (0.23%) PCI DSS
17 6 (0.20%) GAAP
17 6 (0.20%) HL7
17 6 (0.20%) PERC
System Software
1 157 (5.15%) Docker
2 73 (2.40%) Active Directory
3 23 (0.75%) 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
1 229 (7.52%) Terraform
2 166 (5.45%) Kubernetes
3 39 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
4 36 (1.18%) Grafana
5 30 (0.98%) Ansible
5 30 (0.98%) Prometheus
6 20 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (0.46%) SCCM
8 5 (0.16%) Argo
8 5 (0.16%) Control-M
9 4 (0.13%) CSIRT
9 4 (0.13%) Kibana
9 4 (0.13%) Puppet
10 3 (0.098%) Nagios
10 3 (0.098%) QRadar
10 3 (0.098%) WSUS
11 2 (0.066%) logstash
11 2 (0.066%) Nessus
11 2 (0.066%) Rancher
11 2 (0.066%) SCOM
Vendors
1 544 (17.85%) Microsoft
2 413 (13.55%) Databricks
3 150 (4.92%) Google
4 148 (4.86%) SAP
5 147 (4.82%) Oracle
6 67 (2.20%) ServiceNow
7 63 (2.07%) Adobe
7 63 (2.07%) Salesforce
8 57 (1.87%) Informatica
9 52 (1.71%) Splunk
10 43 (1.41%) Talend
11 42 (1.38%) OpenAI
12 37 (1.21%) Denodo
13 35 (1.15%) Workday
14 32 (1.05%) Foundry
15 28 (0.92%) Dynatrace
16 24 (0.79%) VMware
17 21 (0.69%) Cisco
18 20 (0.66%) IBM
19 13 (0.43%) Ariba