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 4 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 27 37
Rank change year-on-year +5 +10 -2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,971 1,646 1,767
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.69% 6.76% 4.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.95% 7.43% 5.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,040 1,111 1,215
10th Percentile £356 £331 £350
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% - -
75th Percentile £625 £679 £688
90th Percentile £750 £813 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 30 54
10th Percentile £29.55 £15.28 £17.19
25th Percentile £44.43 £23.50 £25.00
Median hourly rate £58.90 £31.64 £32.94
Median % change year-on-year +86.14% -3.93% +2.92%
75th Percentile £75.00 £60.25 £50.96
90th Percentile £83.75 £78.93 £71.38
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £33.07 £30.37
% change year-on-year +73.87% +8.89% -5.09%

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 33,191 22,141 32,539
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.96% 90.87% 86.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,296 14,591 21,484
10th Percentile £313 £311 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,024 863 2,161
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £12.92
25th Percentile £19.38 £19.00 £15.89
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -1.71% -11.83%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.70
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.10 £70.66
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £31.52 £33.00
% change year-on-year +14.07% -4.48% -11.53%

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 4 April 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 4 April 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 4 April 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 1,659 £537 -10.50% 896
Midlands +21 355 £492 +3.39% 212
North of England +3 321 £490 +5.95% 331
West Midlands +26 271 £493 -1.60% 110
South East -6 228 £500 - 433
South West +34 185 £500 - 149
North West +4 179 £495 +7.03% 192
Yorkshire +5 119 £500 +2.04% 91
East of England -8 113 £513 -14.58% 103
East Midlands +5 78 £449 +24.07% 102
North East +11 32 £450 +25.70% 52
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
1 150 (5.05%) Apache Spark
2 120 (4.04%) SAS
3 110 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
4 92 (3.10%) Apache
5 68 (2.29%) Confluence
6 52 (1.75%) SharePoint
7 31 (1.04%) CMS
8 19 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
9 17 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 13 (0.44%) Jupyter
11 9 (0.30%) Apache Superset
11 9 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
11 9 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
12 7 (0.24%) ArcGIS
12 7 (0.24%) Oracle Application Server
13 5 (0.17%) WordPress
14 3 (0.10%) IIS
14 3 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.10%) WebLogic
15 2 (0.067%) GeoServer
Applications
1 128 (4.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (0.74%) MS Visio
5 21 (0.71%) Chatbot
6 15 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
8 5 (0.17%) CPLEX
8 5 (0.17%) Trello
9 4 (0.13%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
9 4 (0.13%) Sketch
10 3 (0.10%) Notion
11 2 (0.067%) Autodesk Smoke
12 1 (0.034%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.034%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.034%) CapCut
12 1 (0.034%) InDesign
12 1 (0.034%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.034%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 66 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.30%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 9 (0.30%) SAP MM
4 8 (0.27%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 8 (0.27%) SAP FI
5 7 (0.24%) Maximo
5 7 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.20%) Sage X3
6 6 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.17%) Aladdin
7 5 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 4 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
8 4 (0.13%) iTrent
8 4 (0.13%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
8 4 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.13%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 938 (31.57%) Azure
2 652 (21.95%) Power Platform
3 627 (21.10%) AWS
4 299 (10.06%) GCP
5 227 (7.64%) Azure Data Factory
6 210 (7.07%) Azure DevOps
7 196 (6.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 181 (6.09%) GitHub
9 180 (6.06%) Snowflake
10 133 (4.48%) Serverless
11 132 (4.44%) Amazon S3
12 128 (4.31%) dbt
13 118 (3.97%) Azure Monitor
14 107 (3.60%) GitHub Actions
15 99 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
16 85 (2.86%) SaaS
17 83 (2.79%) Entra ID
18 78 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
19 67 (2.26%) Azure Key Vault
20 62 (2.09%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 48 (1.62%) Firewall
2 35 (1.18%) Network Security
3 31 (1.04%) VPN
4 26 (0.88%) DNS
5 15 (0.50%) SMS
6 14 (0.47%) WAN
7 13 (0.44%) SD-WAN
8 11 (0.37%) 5G
9 10 (0.34%) HTTP
10 9 (0.30%) MPLS
10 9 (0.30%) SSL
11 8 (0.27%) DHCP
12 7 (0.24%) 4G
12 7 (0.24%) BGP
12 7 (0.24%) FTP
12 7 (0.24%) TCP/IP
13 6 (0.20%) Internet
13 6 (0.20%) OSPF
13 6 (0.20%) Radio Access Network
13 6 (0.20%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 598 (20.13%) Power BI
2 373 (12.55%) Data Warehouse
3 234 (7.88%) Data Lake
4 191 (6.43%) Tableau
5 183 (6.16%) Metadata
6 103 (3.47%) Delta Lake
7 101 (3.40%) BigQuery
8 99 (3.33%) SQL Server
9 96 (3.23%) Big Data
10 77 (2.59%) Snowflake Schema
11 74 (2.49%) Relational Database
12 70 (2.36%) Amazon Redshift
12 70 (2.36%) Azure SQL Database
13 66 (2.22%) NoSQL
14 62 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
15 58 (1.95%) Amazon Athena
16 56 (1.88%) Looker
16 56 (1.88%) Power Query
17 55 (1.85%) Star Schema
18 53 (1.78%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 208 (7.00%) Git
2 174 (5.86%) JIRA
3 99 (3.33%) Jenkins
4 83 (2.79%) GitLab
5 28 (0.94%) Selenium
6 24 (0.81%) JUnit
7 21 (0.71%) ERwin
8 16 (0.54%) MLflow
9 9 (0.30%) SonarQube
10 8 (0.27%) Bitbucket
10 8 (0.27%) Gradle
10 8 (0.27%) MSI
11 7 (0.24%) Android Studio
11 7 (0.24%) PowerDesigner
12 6 (0.20%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.17%) ER Studio
13 5 (0.17%) XCTest
14 4 (0.13%) fastlane
14 4 (0.13%) JMeter
14 4 (0.13%) Postman
General
1 866 (29.15%) Social Skills
2 745 (25.08%) Finance
3 567 (19.08%) Analytical Skills
4 305 (10.27%) Public Sector
5 209 (7.03%) Banking
6 173 (5.82%) Marketing
7 90 (3.03%) Retail
8 83 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
9 60 (2.02%) Front Office
10 52 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 49 (1.65%) Legal
11 49 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
12 48 (1.62%) Investment Banking
13 45 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
13 45 (1.51%) Telecoms
14 44 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
15 39 (1.31%) Manufacturing
16 31 (1.04%) Financial Institution
17 27 (0.91%) Advertising
18 22 (0.74%) Military
Job Titles
1 537 (18.07%) Data Engineer
2 362 (12.18%) Analyst
3 348 (11.71%) Architect
4 340 (11.44%) Senior
5 330 (11.11%) Developer
6 255 (8.58%) Lead
7 147 (4.95%) Data Analyst
8 146 (4.91%) Data Architect
9 130 (4.38%) Consultant
10 107 (3.60%) Azure Engineer
11 103 (3.47%) Business Analyst
12 94 (3.16%) Data Scientist
13 85 (2.86%) Senior Data Engineer
14 82 (2.76%) Solutions Architect
15 64 (2.15%) Project Manager
16 60 (2.02%) Designer
17 54 (1.82%) Senior Developer
18 53 (1.78%) Snowflake Engineer
19 51 (1.72%) Python Developer
20 50 (1.68%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (5.45%) PySpark
2 158 (5.32%) Kafka
3 155 (5.22%) REST
4 74 (2.49%) Pandas
5 60 (2.02%) React
6 59 (1.99%) TensorFlow
7 58 (1.95%) PyTorch
8 54 (1.82%) JSON
9 52 (1.75%) NumPy
10 51 (1.72%) scikit-learn
11 44 (1.48%) .NET
11 44 (1.48%) AngularJS
11 44 (1.48%) Node.js
12 41 (1.38%) CSS
12 41 (1.38%) HTML
13 38 (1.28%) ARM Templates
13 38 (1.28%) SOAP
14 35 (1.18%) pytest
15 34 (1.14%) Middleware
16 33 (1.11%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 182 (6.13%) Cloud Native
2 118 (3.97%) Product Ownership
3 97 (3.26%) Data Structures
4 85 (2.86%) Onboarding
5 66 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
6 57 (1.92%) Algorithms
6 57 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
7 54 (1.82%) Management Information System
8 53 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
9 50 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
10 39 (1.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 38 (1.28%) NHS
11 38 (1.28%) Public Cloud
12 37 (1.25%) Equities
13 33 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
14 32 (1.08%) Marketing Technology
15 31 (1.04%) Derivative
15 31 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
15 31 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
16 28 (0.94%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 88 (2.96%) Windows
2 77 (2.59%) Linux
3 34 (1.14%) Unix
4 30 (1.01%) Mac OS
5 19 (0.64%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.54%) Android
7 9 (0.30%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.24%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.13%) VMS
10 3 (0.10%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.067%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.067%) zOS
12 1 (0.034%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.034%) CentOS
12 1 (0.034%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 823 (27.70%) Business Intelligence
2 802 (26.99%) Data Modelling
3 658 (22.15%) Agile
4 627 (21.10%) CI/CD
5 607 (20.43%) AI
6 598 (20.13%) Data Pipeline
7 593 (19.96%) ETL
8 585 (19.69%) Data Engineering
9 565 (19.02%) Problem-Solving
10 544 (18.31%) DevOps
11 506 (17.03%) Data Governance
12 456 (15.35%) Decision-Making
13 392 (13.19%) Stakeholder Management
14 370 (12.45%) Data Science
15 367 (12.35%) Machine Learning
16 354 (11.92%) Data Analytics
17 332 (11.17%) Continuous Improvement
18 305 (10.27%) Migration
19 302 (10.16%) Validation
20 297 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,032 (34.74%) SQL
2 962 (32.38%) Python
3 152 (5.12%) Java
4 113 (3.80%) PowerShell
5 98 (3.30%) C#
6 92 (3.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 79 (2.66%) R
8 78 (2.63%) JavaScript
9 76 (2.56%) Bicep
10 49 (1.65%) Kusto Query Language
11 46 (1.55%) Bash
12 44 (1.48%) T-SQL
13 41 (1.38%) Scala
14 40 (1.35%) TypeScript
15 32 (1.08%) PL/SQL
16 30 (1.01%) VBA
17 28 (0.94%) C++
18 24 (0.81%) Shell Script
19 12 (0.40%) Kotlin
20 9 (0.30%) Swift
Qualifications
1 536 (18.04%) Security Cleared
2 426 (14.34%) SC Cleared
3 234 (7.88%) Degree
4 73 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 68 (2.29%) Azure Certification
6 50 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 39 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
8 38 (1.28%) DV Cleared
9 37 (1.25%) Master's Degree
10 28 (0.94%) PMI Certification
11 27 (0.91%) CISSP
12 23 (0.77%) PMP
13 21 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
14 20 (0.67%) AWS Certification
15 18 (0.61%) CISM
16 16 (0.54%) CCNP
17 14 (0.47%) IIBA
17 14 (0.47%) PhD
18 13 (0.44%) CCIE
19 8 (0.27%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 534 (17.97%) Data Quality
2 168 (5.65%) GDPR
3 118 (3.97%) QA
4 94 (3.16%) Accessibility
5 39 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 31 (1.04%) WCAG
7 27 (0.91%) NIST
8 25 (0.84%) PMO
9 20 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
10 15 (0.50%) GRC
10 15 (0.50%) NCSC
11 13 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 13 (0.44%) SLA
11 13 (0.44%) Solvency II
12 12 (0.40%) PERC
13 10 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 9 (0.30%) HL7
15 8 (0.27%) NIST 800
15 8 (0.27%) SOC 2
16 7 (0.24%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 209 (7.03%) Docker
2 75 (2.52%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.20%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.13%) HDFS
6 4 (0.13%) Snort
7 2 (0.067%) GPFS
7 2 (0.067%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.067%) Lustre
7 2 (0.067%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.034%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.034%) iptables
8 1 (0.034%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.034%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.034%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 257 (8.65%) Terraform
2 226 (7.61%) Kubernetes
3 41 (1.38%) Ansible
4 36 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
5 32 (1.08%) Grafana
6 28 (0.94%) Prometheus
7 24 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
8 16 (0.54%) SCCM
9 9 (0.30%) Puppet
10 7 (0.24%) Kibana
11 6 (0.20%) logstash
12 5 (0.17%) Argo
13 4 (0.13%) Control-M
13 4 (0.13%) CSIRT
13 4 (0.13%) WSUS
14 3 (0.10%) Fluentd
14 3 (0.10%) Nagios
14 3 (0.10%) SysTrack
15 2 (0.067%) CASB
15 2 (0.067%) Rancher
Vendors
1 542 (18.24%) Microsoft
2 404 (13.60%) Databricks
3 179 (6.02%) Google
4 165 (5.55%) Oracle
5 140 (4.71%) SAP
6 71 (2.39%) Salesforce
7 69 (2.32%) ServiceNow
8 68 (2.29%) Adobe
9 64 (2.15%) Talend
10 62 (2.09%) Informatica
11 57 (1.92%) Splunk
12 46 (1.55%) Denodo
12 46 (1.55%) OpenAI
13 39 (1.31%) Foundry
14 30 (1.01%) Workday
15 26 (0.88%) IBM
16 21 (0.71%) Cisco
16 21 (0.71%) VMware
17 15 (0.50%) Dynatrace
18 14 (0.47%) Palantir