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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 35
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 +2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,446 1,792 1,850
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.68% 6.55% 5.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.00% 7.23% 6.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,315 1,182 1,326
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £431 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £531 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% -3.41% -2.22%
75th Percentile £626 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 45 30
10th Percentile £20.45 £15.26 £20.48
25th Percentile £35.00 £22.50 £25.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £34.50 £30.19
Median % change year-on-year +59.42% +14.30% -6.55%
75th Percentile £75.00 £71.45 £43.75
90th Percentile £87.73 £80.61 £69.50
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £34.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +52.17% +15.00% -7.12%

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 38,297 24,783 30,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.34% 90.63% 85.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,016 15,884 19,726
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £634 £645
90th Percentile £737 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,362 1,330 1,950
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.29 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.99 £17.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.43%
75th Percentile £69.75 £53.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.23 £71.46 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £39.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -36.33% -7.06%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 23 July 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 1,879 £550 -4.35% 1,588
North of England +9 428 £492 +9.33% 334
Midlands +12 413 £490 -2.00% 186
South East +4 331 £500 -3.61% 407
West Midlands +14 324 £481 -6.13% 116
North West 0 215 £513 +13.89% 181
South West +18 188 £500 +5.26% 132
Yorkshire +4 169 £475 +2.70% 107
East of England -10 112 £564 -2.80% 64
East Midlands +6 82 £513 +24.24% 70
North East 0 55 £450 +9.09% 47
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 (4.50%) Apache Spark
2 148 (4.29%) Apache Airflow
3 111 (3.22%) SAS
4 98 (2.84%) Apache
5 77 (2.23%) Confluence
6 45 (1.31%) SharePoint
7 39 (1.13%) CMS
8 31 (0.90%) Jupyter
9 27 (0.78%) Palantir Foundry
10 21 (0.61%) Oracle Application Server
11 18 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 12 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
13 9 (0.26%) Apache Superset
14 7 (0.20%) Drupal
14 7 (0.20%) WordPress
15 6 (0.17%) IIS
15 6 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
16 4 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
17 3 (0.087%) ArcGIS
18 2 (0.058%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 157 (4.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (0.55%) Chatbot
3 19 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
5 15 (0.44%) CPLEX
6 11 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
6 11 (0.32%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.12%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
7 4 (0.12%) Sketch
8 3 (0.087%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.058%) InDesign
9 2 (0.058%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.058%) Trello
10 1 (0.029%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.029%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.029%) Notion
10 1 (0.029%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.029%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 64 (1.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 36 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
4 12 (0.35%) Aladdin
4 12 (0.35%) Workday HCM
5 10 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
6 9 (0.26%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 9 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.20%) NetSuite
7 7 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
7 7 (0.20%) SAP ERP
7 7 (0.20%) Shopify
8 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
8 6 (0.17%) Sage X3
8 6 (0.17%) SAP GRC
8 6 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 5 (0.15%) BambooHR
9 5 (0.15%) Infor LN
9 5 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
9 5 (0.15%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 1,014 (29.43%) Azure
2 708 (20.55%) Power Platform
3 644 (18.69%) AWS
4 305 (8.85%) GCP
5 232 (6.73%) Azure DevOps
6 229 (6.65%) Snowflake
7 222 (6.44%) Azure Data Factory
8 187 (5.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 185 (5.37%) dbt
10 151 (4.38%) GitHub
11 147 (4.27%) Amazon S3
12 142 (4.12%) Serverless
13 129 (3.74%) Azure Monitor
14 105 (3.05%) Entra ID
15 99 (2.87%) SaaS
16 97 (2.81%) AWS Lambda
17 85 (2.47%) GitHub Actions
18 84 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
19 51 (1.48%) Azure AKS
20 50 (1.45%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 58 (1.68%) Firewall
2 44 (1.28%) Network Security
3 37 (1.07%) VPN
4 34 (0.99%) DNS
5 25 (0.73%) WAN
6 23 (0.67%) SD-WAN
7 21 (0.61%) BGP
8 20 (0.58%) TCP/IP
9 14 (0.41%) DHCP
10 12 (0.35%) OSPF
11 9 (0.26%) SMS
11 9 (0.26%) Wireless
12 8 (0.23%) VXLAN
13 7 (0.20%) 5G
13 7 (0.20%) Broadband
13 7 (0.20%) HTTP
13 7 (0.20%) Internet
13 7 (0.20%) LAN
13 7 (0.20%) MPLS
13 7 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 672 (19.50%) Power BI
2 448 (13.00%) Data Warehouse
3 257 (7.46%) Data Lake
4 238 (6.91%) Tableau
5 200 (5.80%) Metadata
6 137 (3.98%) BigQuery
7 100 (2.90%) Big Data
8 99 (2.87%) Delta Lake
9 96 (2.79%) Amazon Redshift
10 95 (2.76%) SQL Server
11 82 (2.38%) Relational Database
12 78 (2.26%) Snowflake Schema
13 72 (2.09%) Looker
14 71 (2.06%) Amazon Athena
14 71 (2.06%) NoSQL
14 71 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
15 63 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
16 52 (1.51%) Power Query
17 50 (1.45%) Semantic Layer
18 49 (1.42%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 194 (5.63%) Git
2 165 (4.79%) JIRA
3 71 (2.06%) Jenkins
4 51 (1.48%) GitLab
5 19 (0.55%) ERwin
6 12 (0.35%) JUnit
7 11 (0.32%) ER Studio
8 10 (0.29%) fastlane
8 10 (0.29%) MLflow
8 10 (0.29%) Selenium
9 7 (0.20%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.20%) Gradle
9 7 (0.20%) Postman
9 7 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
10 6 (0.17%) Android Studio
10 6 (0.17%) Crashlytics
10 6 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (0.15%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.15%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.15%) Xcode
General
1 871 (25.28%) Finance
2 867 (25.16%) Social Skills
3 600 (17.41%) Analytical Skills
4 407 (11.81%) Public Sector
5 252 (7.31%) Banking
6 201 (5.83%) Marketing
7 142 (4.12%) Retail
8 80 (2.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 74 (2.15%) Legal
10 72 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
11 69 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
12 65 (1.89%) Manufacturing
13 61 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
14 53 (1.54%) Front Office
15 52 (1.51%) Investment Banking
16 49 (1.42%) Telecoms
17 42 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
18 37 (1.07%) Military
19 36 (1.04%) Financial Institution
20 32 (0.93%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 619 (17.96%) Data Engineer
2 438 (12.71%) Architect
3 433 (12.57%) Analyst
4 426 (12.36%) Senior
5 354 (10.27%) Developer
6 291 (8.44%) Lead
7 189 (5.48%) Data Architect
8 183 (5.31%) Data Analyst
9 134 (3.89%) Consultant
10 119 (3.45%) Data Scientist
11 117 (3.40%) Solutions Architect
12 108 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
13 106 (3.08%) Business Analyst
14 102 (2.96%) Senior Data Engineer
15 71 (2.06%) Data Manager
16 64 (1.86%) Python Developer
17 62 (1.80%) Product Manager
18 61 (1.77%) Azure Data Engineer
18 61 (1.77%) Project Manager
19 55 (1.60%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 200 (5.80%) PySpark
2 136 (3.95%) Kafka
3 132 (3.83%) REST
4 63 (1.83%) Pandas
5 57 (1.65%) RESTful
6 54 (1.57%) JSON
7 51 (1.48%) React
8 49 (1.42%) .NET
9 40 (1.16%) HTML
10 39 (1.13%) CSS
11 38 (1.10%) NumPy
11 38 (1.10%) Web Services
12 37 (1.07%) ARM Templates
13 33 (0.96%) OAuth
13 33 (0.96%) PyTorch
14 32 (0.93%) SOAP
15 31 (0.90%) Microsoft Graph
16 30 (0.87%) TensorFlow
17 29 (0.84%) Middleware
17 29 (0.84%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 236 (6.85%) Cloud Native
2 179 (5.19%) Product Ownership
3 144 (4.18%) Data Structures
4 123 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
5 110 (3.19%) Onboarding
6 71 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
7 66 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
8 50 (1.45%) Management Information System
9 49 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
10 48 (1.39%) Algorithms
11 45 (1.31%) AI Agents
12 42 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
12 42 (1.22%) NHS
12 42 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
13 37 (1.07%) Mobile App
13 37 (1.07%) Virtual Team
14 35 (1.02%) Marketing Technology
15 34 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
16 29 (0.84%) Fixed Income
16 29 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 92 (2.67%) Linux
1 92 (2.67%) Windows
2 43 (1.25%) Unix
3 23 (0.67%) Apple iOS
3 23 (0.67%) Windows Server
4 19 (0.55%) Mac OS
5 12 (0.35%) Android
5 12 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.20%) VMS
7 5 (0.15%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.087%) CentOS
8 3 (0.087%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.058%) Solaris
9 2 (0.058%) zOS
10 1 (0.029%) AIX
10 1 (0.029%) HPUX
10 1 (0.029%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 949 (27.54%) Data Modelling
2 889 (25.80%) Business Intelligence
3 802 (23.27%) AI
4 776 (22.52%) Agile
5 723 (20.98%) Data Pipeline
6 704 (20.43%) Data Engineering
7 663 (19.24%) CI/CD
8 585 (16.98%) Decision-Making
9 584 (16.95%) Stakeholder Management
10 579 (16.80%) ETL
11 539 (15.64%) Data Governance
12 529 (15.35%) DevOps
13 497 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
14 427 (12.39%) Migration
15 421 (12.22%) Machine Learning
16 418 (12.13%) Data Science
17 414 (12.01%) Continuous Improvement
18 412 (11.96%) Validation
19 389 (11.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 382 (11.09%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,152 (33.43%) SQL
2 1,013 (29.40%) Python
3 133 (3.86%) PowerShell
4 122 (3.54%) Java
5 98 (2.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 90 (2.61%) C#
7 73 (2.12%) Bicep
8 69 (2.00%) R
9 64 (1.86%) JavaScript
10 42 (1.22%) Bash
11 41 (1.19%) TypeScript
12 38 (1.10%) Shell Script
13 37 (1.07%) Scala
14 36 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
15 32 (0.93%) T-SQL
16 26 (0.75%) PL/SQL
17 22 (0.64%) VBA
18 19 (0.55%) C++
19 11 (0.32%) Cypher
20 10 (0.29%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 598 (17.35%) Security Cleared
2 468 (13.58%) SC Cleared
3 279 (8.10%) Degree
4 88 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 77 (2.23%) Azure Certification
6 75 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 66 (1.92%) DV Cleared
8 51 (1.48%) Master's Degree
9 37 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
10 32 (0.93%) CISSP
11 29 (0.84%) AWS Certification
12 28 (0.81%) PMI Certification
13 27 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
14 24 (0.70%) PMP
15 20 (0.58%) DBS Check
16 16 (0.46%) CCNP
17 15 (0.44%) CCIE
18 13 (0.38%) PhD
19 11 (0.32%) CISA
20 10 (0.29%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 651 (18.89%) Data Quality
2 176 (5.11%) GDPR
3 138 (4.00%) QA
4 122 (3.54%) Accessibility
5 49 (1.42%) WCAG
6 41 (1.19%) GRC
7 36 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 31 (0.90%) NIST
9 27 (0.78%) PMO
10 22 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
11 16 (0.46%) SLA
11 16 (0.46%) Solvency II
12 12 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 11 (0.32%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.29%) IFRS
14 10 (0.29%) NCSC
14 10 (0.29%) PERC
15 7 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
16 6 (0.17%) GAAP
17 5 (0.15%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 150 (4.35%) Docker
2 86 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 25 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.17%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.17%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.12%) HDFS
7 4 (0.12%) Snort
8 2 (0.058%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.058%) vSphere
9 1 (0.029%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.029%) GPFS
9 1 (0.029%) iptables
9 1 (0.029%) Lustre
9 1 (0.029%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.029%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.029%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 251 (7.28%) Terraform
2 172 (4.99%) Kubernetes
3 42 (1.22%) Ansible
4 37 (1.07%) Grafana
5 30 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
6 28 (0.81%) Prometheus
7 23 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (0.41%) SCCM
9 8 (0.23%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.12%) Control-M
10 4 (0.12%) CSIRT
10 4 (0.12%) Podman
10 4 (0.12%) QRadar
11 3 (0.087%) Apache Ranger
11 3 (0.087%) Argo
11 3 (0.087%) Kibana
11 3 (0.087%) Rancher
11 3 (0.087%) SCOM
12 2 (0.058%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.058%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 595 (17.27%) Microsoft
2 444 (12.88%) Databricks
3 201 (5.83%) Oracle
4 169 (4.90%) Google
4 169 (4.90%) SAP
5 81 (2.35%) ServiceNow
6 78 (2.26%) Salesforce
7 75 (2.18%) Adobe
8 54 (1.57%) Splunk
9 48 (1.39%) Workday
10 46 (1.33%) Foundry
11 44 (1.28%) Informatica
12 41 (1.19%) Talend
13 35 (1.02%) Dynatrace
13 35 (1.02%) Palantir
14 33 (0.96%) Denodo
15 32 (0.93%) OpenAI
16 30 (0.87%) Cisco
17 26 (0.75%) VMware
18 18 (0.52%) Alteryx