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 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 26 35
Rank change year-on-year +1 +9 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,505 1,773 1,752
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.66% 6.44% 5.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.03% 7.09% 6.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,298 1,167 1,229
10th Percentile £363 £350 £352
25th Percentile £430 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £551
Median % change year-on-year - -4.72% -4.17%
75th Percentile £636 £650 £688
90th Percentile £750 £798 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 47 22
10th Percentile £20.82 £16.00 £21.78
25th Percentile £28.06 £30.54 £27.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £34.98 £30.69
Median % change year-on-year +50.09% +14.00% -12.33%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.81 £42.50
90th Percentile £87.08 £79.25 £64.26
UK median hourly rate £51.25 £34.98 £30.37
% change year-on-year +46.50% +15.18% -13.23%

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 38,831 25,009 28,459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.83% 90.78% 85.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,961 15,919 18,268
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,587 1,463 1,501
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.68 £17.87 £18.11
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £69.47 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -37.90% -4.71%

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 28 August 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 1,952 £550 - 4,673
North of England +8 448 £475 +3.83% 739
Midlands +5 395 £500 -2.91% 328
South East +15 350 £513 -2.38% 729
West Midlands +5 317 £492 -5.09% 208
North West +5 232 £515 +8.42% 452
Yorkshire +8 173 £460 +0.77% 202
South West +24 169 £500 +7.53% 353
East of England -10 105 £575 - 176
East Midlands +1 71 £519 +23.88% 120
North East -6 51 £450 +18.03% 89
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
1 160 (4.56%) Apache Airflow
2 130 (3.71%) Apache Spark
3 111 (3.17%) SAS
4 97 (2.77%) Apache
5 74 (2.11%) Confluence
6 54 (1.54%) SharePoint
7 50 (1.43%) CMS
8 30 (0.86%) Palantir Foundry
9 29 (0.83%) Jupyter
10 26 (0.74%) Oracle Application Server
11 25 (0.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 15 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
13 10 (0.29%) Apache Superset
14 9 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
15 8 (0.23%) Drupal
15 8 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
16 6 (0.17%) WordPress
17 4 (0.11%) IIS
18 2 (0.057%) ArcGIS
18 2 (0.057%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 154 (4.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
4 20 (0.57%) Chatbot
5 17 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
6 16 (0.46%) CPLEX
7 11 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
7 11 (0.31%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.11%) Trello
9 3 (0.086%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.086%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.057%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.057%) Sketch
11 1 (0.029%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.029%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.029%) InDesign
11 1 (0.029%) Notion
11 1 (0.029%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.029%) PlantUML
11 1 (0.029%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 70 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
4 16 (0.46%) Workday HCM
5 13 (0.37%) Aladdin
5 13 (0.37%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 10 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
7 9 (0.26%) Shopify
8 8 (0.23%) SAP CO
8 8 (0.23%) SAP ERP
8 8 (0.23%) SAP FI
9 7 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
9 7 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 6 (0.17%) NetSuite
10 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.17%) SAP GRC
11 5 (0.14%) Infor LN
11 5 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
11 5 (0.14%) SAP MDG
11 5 (0.14%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 1,039 (29.64%) Azure
2 705 (20.11%) Power Platform
3 619 (17.66%) AWS
4 294 (8.39%) GCP
5 243 (6.93%) Snowflake
6 238 (6.79%) Azure DevOps
7 232 (6.62%) Azure Data Factory
8 192 (5.48%) dbt
9 185 (5.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 160 (4.56%) GitHub
11 148 (4.22%) Serverless
12 136 (3.88%) Azure Monitor
13 127 (3.62%) Amazon S3
14 114 (3.25%) Entra ID
15 106 (3.02%) SaaS
16 98 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
17 89 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
18 83 (2.37%) GitHub Actions
19 62 (1.77%) Google Analytics
20 56 (1.60%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 61 (1.74%) Firewall
2 52 (1.48%) Network Security
3 38 (1.08%) DNS
4 34 (0.97%) VPN
5 24 (0.68%) WAN
6 22 (0.63%) TCP/IP
7 21 (0.60%) SD-WAN
8 18 (0.51%) BGP
9 17 (0.49%) DHCP
10 12 (0.34%) Broadband
11 10 (0.29%) Wireless
12 9 (0.26%) OSPF
12 9 (0.26%) SMS
13 8 (0.23%) LAN
14 7 (0.20%) Internet
14 7 (0.20%) WLAN
15 6 (0.17%) SSH
15 6 (0.17%) VLAN
16 5 (0.14%) 802.11
16 5 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 672 (19.17%) Power BI
2 448 (12.78%) Data Warehouse
3 259 (7.39%) Data Lake
4 229 (6.53%) Metadata
4 229 (6.53%) Tableau
5 140 (3.99%) BigQuery
6 94 (2.68%) Delta Lake
7 93 (2.65%) Amazon Redshift
8 91 (2.60%) SQL Server
9 87 (2.48%) Big Data
10 84 (2.40%) Relational Database
11 77 (2.20%) Looker
12 70 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
13 66 (1.88%) Snowflake Schema
14 65 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
15 62 (1.77%) Azure SQL Database
16 60 (1.71%) Semantic Layer
17 59 (1.68%) NoSQL
18 57 (1.63%) Star Schema
19 53 (1.51%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 183 (5.22%) Git
2 159 (4.54%) JIRA
3 62 (1.77%) Jenkins
4 48 (1.37%) GitLab
5 15 (0.43%) ERwin
6 10 (0.29%) fastlane
6 10 (0.29%) MLflow
7 8 (0.23%) ER Studio
7 8 (0.23%) Selenium
7 8 (0.23%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.20%) Gradle
8 7 (0.20%) RStudio
8 7 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (0.17%) Android Studio
9 6 (0.17%) Crashlytics
9 6 (0.17%) JUnit
10 5 (0.14%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
10 5 (0.14%) Visual Website Optimizer
10 5 (0.14%) Xcode
General
1 911 (25.99%) Social Skills
2 893 (25.48%) Finance
3 637 (18.17%) Analytical Skills
4 416 (11.87%) Public Sector
5 259 (7.39%) Banking
6 226 (6.45%) Marketing
7 172 (4.91%) Retail
8 99 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
9 93 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 76 (2.17%) Legal
11 70 (2.00%) Manufacturing
12 69 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
13 66 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
14 62 (1.77%) Front Office
15 55 (1.57%) Investment Banking
16 47 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
17 46 (1.31%) Telecoms
18 42 (1.20%) Financial Institution
19 41 (1.17%) Publishing
20 39 (1.11%) Military
Job Titles
1 595 (16.98%) Data Engineer
2 446 (12.72%) Architect
3 443 (12.64%) Senior
4 442 (12.61%) Analyst
5 324 (9.24%) Developer
6 295 (8.42%) Lead
7 203 (5.79%) Data Architect
8 170 (4.85%) Consultant
9 166 (4.74%) Data Analyst
10 123 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
11 109 (3.11%) Senior Data Engineer
12 106 (3.02%) Business Analyst
13 105 (3.00%) Data Scientist
14 103 (2.94%) Azure Engineer
15 77 (2.20%) Data Manager
16 68 (1.94%) Product Manager
17 62 (1.77%) Senior Manager
18 61 (1.74%) Python Developer
19 60 (1.71%) Project Manager
20 56 (1.60%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 264 (7.53%) Terraform
2 217 (6.19%) PySpark
3 131 (3.74%) REST
4 114 (3.25%) Kafka
5 64 (1.83%) Pandas
6 54 (1.54%) HTML
6 54 (1.54%) React
6 54 (1.54%) RESTful
7 50 (1.43%) CSS
8 47 (1.34%) .NET
9 43 (1.23%) JSON
10 42 (1.20%) ARM Templates
11 38 (1.08%) NumPy
11 38 (1.08%) OAuth
12 33 (0.94%) Web Services
13 31 (0.88%) OpenID
13 31 (0.88%) SOAP
14 30 (0.86%) Microsoft Graph
14 30 (0.86%) OAuth2
15 29 (0.83%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 236 (6.73%) Cloud Native
2 183 (5.22%) Product Ownership
3 134 (3.82%) Data Structures
4 132 (3.77%) Onboarding
5 116 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
6 73 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
7 63 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
8 62 (1.77%) Management Information System
9 57 (1.63%) AI Agents
10 46 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
11 45 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
12 43 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
12 43 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
13 42 (1.20%) Algorithms
14 41 (1.17%) NHS
15 40 (1.14%) Marketing Technology
16 38 (1.08%) Virtual Team
17 34 (0.97%) Mobile App
18 33 (0.94%) Derivative
19 32 (0.91%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 87 (2.48%) Linux
2 81 (2.31%) Windows
3 37 (1.06%) Unix
4 33 (0.94%) Windows Server
5 16 (0.46%) Apple iOS
6 13 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.31%) Mac OS
8 10 (0.29%) Android
9 9 (0.26%) VMS
10 5 (0.14%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.086%) Solaris
11 3 (0.086%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.057%) AIX
12 2 (0.057%) CentOS
12 2 (0.057%) HPUX
13 1 (0.029%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 918 (26.19%) Data Modelling
2 895 (25.53%) Business Intelligence
3 881 (25.14%) AI
4 798 (22.77%) Agile
5 722 (20.60%) Stakeholder Management
6 701 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
7 688 (19.63%) Data Engineering
8 652 (18.60%) CI/CD
9 632 (18.03%) Decision-Making
10 563 (16.06%) ETL
11 554 (15.81%) Data Governance
12 528 (15.06%) DevOps
13 505 (14.41%) Problem-Solving
14 453 (12.92%) Migration
15 439 (12.52%) Continuous Improvement
16 430 (12.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 409 (11.67%) Machine Learning
18 401 (11.44%) Roadmaps
19 398 (11.36%) Validation
20 397 (11.33%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 1,123 (32.04%) SQL
2 979 (27.93%) Python
3 164 (4.68%) PowerShell
4 106 (3.02%) Java
5 100 (2.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 83 (2.37%) Bicep
6 83 (2.37%) C#
7 82 (2.34%) JavaScript
8 62 (1.77%) R
9 59 (1.68%) Bash
10 36 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
10 36 (1.03%) Scala
11 35 (1.00%) TypeScript
12 34 (0.97%) Shell Script
13 28 (0.80%) T-SQL
14 21 (0.60%) PL/SQL
15 18 (0.51%) C++
16 15 (0.43%) VBA
17 12 (0.34%) Kotlin
18 11 (0.31%) LookML
Qualifications
1 625 (17.83%) Security Cleared
2 495 (14.12%) SC Cleared
3 285 (8.13%) Degree
4 82 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 81 (2.31%) Azure Certification
6 77 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
7 71 (2.03%) DV Cleared
8 52 (1.48%) Master's Degree
9 48 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
10 38 (1.08%) CISSP
11 30 (0.86%) AWS Certification
12 29 (0.83%) PMI Certification
13 23 (0.66%) PMP
14 22 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
14 22 (0.63%) DBS Check
15 12 (0.34%) CISA
16 11 (0.31%) CCNP
16 11 (0.31%) MBA
16 11 (0.31%) PhD
17 10 (0.29%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 693 (19.77%) Data Quality
2 167 (4.76%) GDPR
3 136 (3.88%) QA
4 133 (3.79%) Accessibility
5 50 (1.43%) GRC
6 45 (1.28%) WCAG
7 38 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 32 (0.91%) NIST
9 29 (0.83%) PMO
10 28 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
11 19 (0.54%) SLA
12 14 (0.40%) PCI DSS
13 13 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 13 (0.37%) Solvency II
14 12 (0.34%) PERC
15 10 (0.29%) IFRS
15 10 (0.29%) NCSC
16 7 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
17 6 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 6 (0.17%) PSD2
System Software
1 149 (4.25%) Docker
2 93 (2.65%) Active Directory
3 26 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.23%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.17%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.086%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 2 (0.057%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.057%) vSphere
9 2 (0.057%) XenApp
9 2 (0.057%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.029%) iptables
10 1 (0.029%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.029%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 161 (4.59%) Kubernetes
2 50 (1.43%) Ansible
3 38 (1.08%) Grafana
4 23 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
5 15 (0.43%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.37%) SCCM
7 8 (0.23%) Control-M
7 8 (0.23%) FortiGate
7 8 (0.23%) SCOM
8 7 (0.20%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.11%) Podman
9 4 (0.11%) QRadar
9 4 (0.11%) SysTrack
10 3 (0.086%) Apache Ranger
10 3 (0.086%) CASB
10 3 (0.086%) Kibana
10 3 (0.086%) Thomson Reuters DACS
11 2 (0.057%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.057%) Puppet
Vendors
1 639 (18.23%) Microsoft
2 452 (12.90%) Databricks
3 207 (5.91%) Oracle
4 189 (5.39%) SAP
5 178 (5.08%) Google
6 84 (2.40%) Adobe
6 84 (2.40%) ServiceNow
7 79 (2.25%) Salesforce
8 55 (1.57%) Workday
9 46 (1.31%) Splunk
10 44 (1.26%) Foundry
11 41 (1.17%) Informatica
12 40 (1.14%) Dynatrace
13 37 (1.06%) Palantir
14 35 (1.00%) Talend
15 33 (0.94%) Cisco
15 33 (0.94%) Denodo
16 27 (0.77%) VMware
17 24 (0.68%) OpenAI
18 23 (0.66%) Alteryx