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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 30 38
Rank change year-on-year +6 +8 -3
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,203 1,640 1,866
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.03% 5.65% 4.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.91% 6.39% 5.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,482 1,074 1,304
10th Percentile £360 £356 £381
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £560 £573
Median % change year-on-year -7.28% -2.18% -0.43%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £688
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 28 64
10th Percentile £20.63 £25.26 £17.19
25th Percentile £31.11 £27.38 £22.82
Median hourly rate £46.50 £33.50 £40.47
Median % change year-on-year +38.81% -17.22% +15.63%
75th Percentile £72.25 £59.08 £67.50
90th Percentile £79.95 £64.04 £79.60
UK median hourly rate £46.00 £32.50 £42.85
% change year-on-year +41.54% -24.15% +22.41%

All Process and 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 27,858 25,665 33,182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.92% 88.40% 88.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,750 15,857 22,569
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £406 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £544
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,813 863 1,402
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%
75th Percentile £53.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.34 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.85
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.88% +25.29%

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 16 December 2025.

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 16 December 2025.

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 16 December 2025. 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 +5 1,304 £525 -12.50% 861
North of England +12 244 £475 -4.63% 369
Midlands +22 239 £515 +3.00% 268
West Midlands +18 191 £515 - 145
North West +10 154 £475 -4.26% 207
South East -13 141 £500 -2.44% 520
South West +22 90 £525 -8.70% 167
East of England +1 90 £555 +11.00% 175
Yorkshire -1 80 £495 -5.76% 117
East Midlands +11 50 £447 -1.76% 119
North East -5 11 £380 -18.54% 50
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 96 (4.36%) Apache Airflow
2 92 (4.18%) SAS
3 79 (3.59%) Apache
4 78 (3.54%) Apache Spark
5 46 (2.09%) Confluence
6 43 (1.95%) SharePoint
7 40 (1.82%) CMS
8 18 (0.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 16 (0.73%) WebLogic
10 10 (0.45%) Jupyter
11 9 (0.41%) Oracle Application Server
12 8 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 8 (0.36%) WordPress
13 7 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
14 6 (0.27%) GeoServer
14 6 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
14 6 (0.27%) Smallworld
15 3 (0.14%) Drupal
15 3 (0.14%) IIS
15 3 (0.14%) JBoss
Applications
1 134 (6.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (2.36%) Microsoft Office
3 35 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (1.41%) MS Visio
5 24 (1.09%) Chatbot
6 15 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.18%) Trello
9 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.14%) Notion
9 3 (0.14%) Sketch
10 2 (0.091%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.045%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.045%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.045%) CapCut
11 1 (0.045%) FrameMaker
11 1 (0.045%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 68 (3.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.64%) SAP EHS
4 11 (0.50%) SAP FI
4 11 (0.50%) SAP HR
5 10 (0.45%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.32%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 7 (0.32%) SAP MM
7 6 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 5 (0.23%) Aladdin
8 5 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.23%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
9 4 (0.18%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.18%) SAP IBP
10 3 (0.14%) Maximo
10 3 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.14%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 692 (31.41%) Azure
2 466 (21.15%) AWS
3 458 (20.79%) Power Platform
4 231 (10.49%) GCP
5 149 (6.76%) Snowflake
6 134 (6.08%) Azure Data Factory
6 134 (6.08%) Azure DevOps
7 120 (5.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 103 (4.68%) GitHub
9 101 (4.58%) Azure Monitor
9 101 (4.58%) Serverless
10 89 (4.04%) SaaS
11 74 (3.36%) Entra ID
11 74 (3.36%) GitHub Actions
12 73 (3.31%) Amazon S3
12 73 (3.31%) dbt
12 73 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
13 59 (2.68%) Google Analytics
14 58 (2.63%) Azure Logic Apps
15 51 (2.32%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.27%) Firewall
2 37 (1.68%) DNS
3 36 (1.63%) Network Security
4 21 (0.95%) VPN
5 18 (0.82%) HTTP
5 18 (0.82%) SSL
6 16 (0.73%) WAN
7 13 (0.59%) FTP
7 13 (0.59%) SMTP
8 11 (0.50%) SMS
9 9 (0.41%) SD-WAN
10 8 (0.36%) DHCP
10 8 (0.36%) LAN
10 8 (0.36%) TCP/IP
11 6 (0.27%) 2G
11 6 (0.27%) 5G
12 5 (0.23%) Ethernet
12 5 (0.23%) Wireless
13 4 (0.18%) 4G
13 4 (0.18%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 430 (19.52%) Power BI
2 245 (11.12%) Data Warehouse
3 150 (6.81%) Tableau
4 137 (6.22%) Data Lake
5 119 (5.40%) Metadata
6 72 (3.27%) BigQuery
7 65 (2.95%) Big Data
8 58 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
9 54 (2.45%) Relational Database
10 50 (2.27%) Looker
10 50 (2.27%) SQL Server
11 48 (2.18%) Snowflake Schema
12 45 (2.04%) Power Query
13 44 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
14 41 (1.86%) Delta Lake
15 39 (1.77%) Amazon Redshift
15 39 (1.77%) Hadoop
16 37 (1.68%) NoSQL
17 36 (1.63%) Star Schema
18 35 (1.59%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 171 (7.76%) Git
2 153 (6.95%) JIRA
3 83 (3.77%) Jenkins
4 58 (2.63%) GitLab
5 24 (1.09%) Selenium
6 18 (0.82%) JUnit
7 15 (0.68%) ERwin
8 11 (0.50%) MLflow
8 11 (0.50%) PowerDesigner
9 10 (0.45%) SonarQube
10 9 (0.41%) Android Studio
10 9 (0.41%) ER Studio
10 9 (0.41%) Gradle
10 9 (0.41%) Postman
10 9 (0.41%) Visual Website Optimizer
11 8 (0.36%) DBeaver
11 8 (0.36%) TeamCity
12 7 (0.32%) Xcode
13 6 (0.27%) PVCS
13 6 (0.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 781 (35.45%) Social Skills
2 630 (28.60%) Finance
3 468 (21.24%) Analytical Skills
4 214 (9.71%) Banking
5 186 (8.44%) Public Sector
6 175 (7.94%) Marketing
7 75 (3.40%) Retail
8 74 (3.36%) Front Office
9 59 (2.68%) Investment Banking
10 52 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
11 51 (2.32%) Documentation Skills
11 51 (2.32%) Legal
12 44 (2.00%) Manufacturing
13 38 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
13 38 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
14 37 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 35 (1.59%) Financial Institution
16 30 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
17 29 (1.32%) Telecoms
18 27 (1.23%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 346 (15.71%) Analyst
2 288 (13.07%) Developer
3 241 (10.94%) Senior
4 238 (10.80%) Data Engineer
5 222 (10.08%) Architect
6 139 (6.31%) Lead
7 128 (5.81%) Data Analyst
8 122 (5.54%) Consultant
9 118 (5.36%) Business Analyst
10 75 (3.40%) Data Architect
11 74 (3.36%) Data Scientist
12 71 (3.22%) Azure Engineer
13 66 (3.00%) Senior Developer
14 56 (2.54%) Project Manager
15 40 (1.82%) Python Developer
15 40 (1.82%) Senior Analyst
15 40 (1.82%) Solutions Architect
16 37 (1.68%) Security Engineer
17 33 (1.50%) AWS Engineer
17 33 (1.50%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (5.40%) REST
2 94 (4.27%) Kafka
3 87 (3.95%) PySpark
4 56 (2.54%) Pandas
5 50 (2.27%) React
6 46 (2.09%) RESTful
7 44 (2.00%) Node.js
7 44 (2.00%) NumPy
8 42 (1.91%) .NET
8 42 (1.91%) SOAP
9 41 (1.86%) TensorFlow
10 39 (1.77%) scikit-learn
11 37 (1.68%) HTML
12 35 (1.59%) PyTorch
13 29 (1.32%) JSON
14 28 (1.27%) AngularJS
14 28 (1.27%) CSS
15 27 (1.23%) OAuth
16 25 (1.13%) pytest
17 23 (1.04%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 100 (4.54%) Product Ownership
2 86 (3.90%) Cloud Native
3 73 (3.31%) Data Structures
4 66 (3.00%) Onboarding
5 61 (2.77%) Analytical Mindset
6 57 (2.59%) Management Information System
7 56 (2.54%) Algorithms
8 53 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
9 48 (2.18%) Derivative
10 44 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 41 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
11 41 (1.86%) Equities
12 40 (1.82%) Mobile App
13 33 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
14 30 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
15 29 (1.32%) Fixed Income
16 26 (1.18%) Social Media
17 25 (1.13%) Life Science
18 24 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
18 24 (1.09%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 76 (3.45%) Windows
2 70 (3.18%) Linux
3 30 (1.36%) Unix
4 21 (0.95%) Apple iOS
5 20 (0.91%) Android
6 19 (0.86%) Mac OS
7 11 (0.50%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.27%) VMS
9 5 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.14%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.045%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.045%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.045%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.045%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 588 (26.69%) Business Intelligence
2 555 (25.19%) Agile
3 486 (22.06%) Data Modelling
4 482 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
5 405 (18.38%) CI/CD
6 375 (17.02%) DevOps
7 362 (16.43%) ETL
8 355 (16.11%) AI
9 342 (15.52%) Data Pipeline
10 335 (15.21%) Decision-Making
11 329 (14.93%) Data Governance
12 294 (13.35%) Stakeholder Management
13 293 (13.30%) Data Analytics
14 283 (12.85%) Data Science
15 277 (12.57%) Visualisation
16 274 (12.44%) Machine Learning
17 269 (12.21%) Data Engineering
18 253 (11.48%) Continuous Improvement
19 248 (11.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 237 (10.76%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 744 (33.77%) SQL
2 684 (31.05%) Python
3 131 (5.95%) Java
4 100 (4.54%) JavaScript
5 99 (4.49%) PowerShell
6 71 (3.22%) R
7 66 (3.00%) C#
8 50 (2.27%) Bash
9 46 (2.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 44 (2.00%) TypeScript
11 41 (1.86%) Bicep
12 40 (1.82%) Kusto Query Language
13 33 (1.50%) C++
14 29 (1.32%) Scala
15 28 (1.27%) VBA
16 22 (1.00%) T-SQL
17 18 (0.82%) PL/SQL
18 14 (0.64%) ABAP
18 14 (0.64%) Kotlin
19 13 (0.59%) Swift
Qualifications
1 360 (16.34%) Security Cleared
2 299 (13.57%) SC Cleared
3 221 (10.03%) Degree
4 66 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 58 (2.63%) Master's Degree
6 42 (1.91%) Azure Certification
7 30 (1.36%) CISSP
8 27 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
9 25 (1.13%) AWS Certification
9 25 (1.13%) DV Cleared
10 22 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
11 21 (0.95%) PMI Certification
12 17 (0.77%) PMP
13 16 (0.73%) CISM
14 12 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
15 10 (0.45%) PhD
16 8 (0.36%) CBAP
17 7 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 6 (0.27%) CCNP
18 6 (0.27%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 332 (15.07%) Data Quality
2 131 (5.95%) GDPR
3 81 (3.68%) Accessibility
4 80 (3.63%) QA
5 40 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 28 (1.27%) NIST
7 19 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
7 19 (0.86%) PMO
8 13 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 13 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 12 (0.54%) HIPAA
9 12 (0.54%) WCAG
10 10 (0.45%) GRC
10 10 (0.45%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.41%) NCSC
12 8 (0.36%) PERC
12 8 (0.36%) Solvency II
13 7 (0.32%) GxP
14 6 (0.27%) NIST 800
15 5 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 167 (7.58%) Docker
2 61 (2.77%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
3 15 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.45%) HDFS
5 5 (0.23%) zsh
6 3 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.091%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.045%) GPFS
8 1 (0.045%) Lustre
8 1 (0.045%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.045%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.045%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.045%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 167 (7.58%) Kubernetes
2 151 (6.85%) Terraform
3 34 (1.54%) Ansible
4 24 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (0.86%) Grafana
5 19 (0.86%) SCCM
6 17 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (0.59%) Puppet
8 12 (0.54%) Kibana
9 11 (0.50%) Prometheus
10 8 (0.36%) logstash
11 7 (0.32%) Hadoop YARN
12 6 (0.27%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.27%) WSUS
13 4 (0.18%) Kubeflow
13 4 (0.18%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.18%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 3 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.14%) Fluentd
14 3 (0.14%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 412 (18.70%) Microsoft
2 253 (11.48%) Databricks
3 166 (7.54%) Google
4 152 (6.90%) Oracle
5 130 (5.90%) SAP
6 74 (3.36%) Salesforce
7 68 (3.09%) ServiceNow
8 63 (2.86%) Adobe
9 50 (2.27%) Talend
10 45 (2.04%) Splunk
11 37 (1.68%) Denodo
12 32 (1.45%) Workday
13 31 (1.41%) Cisco
14 30 (1.36%) Informatica
15 28 (1.27%) Dynatrace
16 25 (1.13%) OpenAI
17 22 (1.00%) AppDynamics
17 22 (1.00%) Foundry
18 21 (0.95%) Alteryx
19 19 (0.86%) VMware