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

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 27 38
Rank change year-on-year +4 +11 -1
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,841 1,631 1,807
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.60% 6.61% 4.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.80% 7.28% 5.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,944 1,100 1,244
10th Percentile £356 £325 £358
25th Percentile £419 £426 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £749 £813 £800
UK median daily rate £513 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 31 61
10th Percentile £23.31 £15.28 £17.64
25th Percentile £39.56 £24.00 £25.00
Median hourly rate £58.00 £31.64 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +83.31% -20.90% +33.33%
75th Percentile £75.00 £59.75 £61.50
90th Percentile £84.28 £77.50 £79.17
UK median hourly rate £55.50 £31.64 £37.13
% change year-on-year +75.41% -14.77% +23.75%

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 32,274 22,410 32,751
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.33% 90.76% 86.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,683 14,625 21,650
10th Percentile £313 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% - -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 1,981 836 2,152
10th Percentile £15.38 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.86 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £33.26 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.25% +2.32% -13.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.69
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.35 £71.87
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -3.08% - -7.14%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 +1 1,602 £530 -11.67% 931
Midlands +25 334 £492 +3.58% 207
North of England +8 298 £495 +6.39% 326
West Midlands +20 252 £494 +3.51% 114
South East -5 225 £500 +6.04% 443
North West +5 177 £495 +5.77% 200
South West +33 170 £505 +1.00% 147
East of England -7 105 £505 -15.83% 99
Yorkshire -8 98 £500 +2.04% 82
East Midlands +4 77 £447 +23.65% 93
North East +10 31 £450 +25.70% 48
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
1 140 (4.93%) Apache Spark
2 108 (3.80%) SAS
3 94 (3.31%) Apache Airflow
4 86 (3.03%) Apache
5 60 (2.11%) Confluence
6 54 (1.90%) SharePoint
7 30 (1.06%) CMS
8 19 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
9 17 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 13 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
11 9 (0.32%) Jupyter
12 8 (0.28%) GeoServer
12 8 (0.28%) Smallworld
13 7 (0.25%) Apache Superset
13 7 (0.25%) ArcGIS
14 6 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
14 6 (0.21%) WordPress
15 5 (0.18%) Oracle Application Server
16 3 (0.11%) IIS
16 3 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 124 (4.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (0.92%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.67%) Chatbot
6 12 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
7 11 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.18%) Trello
9 4 (0.14%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.14%) CPLEX
9 4 (0.14%) Oracle Smart View
9 4 (0.14%) Sketch
10 3 (0.11%) Notion
11 2 (0.070%) Autodesk Smoke
12 1 (0.035%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.035%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.035%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.035%) InDesign
12 1 (0.035%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.035%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 65 (2.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.32%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 8 (0.28%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 8 (0.28%) SAP FI
4 8 (0.28%) SAP MM
5 7 (0.25%) Maximo
5 7 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.21%) Aladdin
6 6 (0.21%) Sage X3
7 5 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.18%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 5 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.18%) SAP HR
8 4 (0.14%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
8 4 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.11%) BambooHR
Cloud Services
1 911 (32.07%) Azure
2 629 (22.14%) Power Platform
3 585 (20.59%) AWS
4 288 (10.14%) GCP
5 223 (7.85%) Azure Data Factory
6 210 (7.39%) Azure DevOps
7 193 (6.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 180 (6.34%) Snowflake
9 176 (6.20%) GitHub
10 131 (4.61%) Serverless
11 121 (4.26%) Azure Monitor
12 120 (4.22%) Amazon S3
13 119 (4.19%) dbt
14 106 (3.73%) GitHub Actions
15 99 (3.48%) Microsoft 365
16 85 (2.99%) SaaS
17 84 (2.96%) Entra ID
18 72 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
19 65 (2.29%) Azure Key Vault
20 62 (2.18%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 53 (1.87%) Firewall
2 34 (1.20%) Network Security
3 30 (1.06%) VPN
4 25 (0.88%) DNS
5 17 (0.60%) WAN
6 15 (0.53%) SMS
7 11 (0.39%) SD-WAN
8 10 (0.35%) 5G
8 10 (0.35%) MPLS
9 9 (0.32%) HTTP
9 9 (0.32%) SSL
10 8 (0.28%) DHCP
10 8 (0.28%) LAN
11 7 (0.25%) 4G
11 7 (0.25%) BGP
11 7 (0.25%) TCP/IP
12 6 (0.21%) Internet
12 6 (0.21%) OSPF
12 6 (0.21%) Radio Access Network
12 6 (0.21%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 577 (20.31%) Power BI
2 349 (12.28%) Data Warehouse
3 218 (7.67%) Data Lake
4 178 (6.27%) Metadata
5 176 (6.20%) Tableau
6 95 (3.34%) Delta Lake
7 92 (3.24%) BigQuery
7 92 (3.24%) SQL Server
8 89 (3.13%) Big Data
9 74 (2.60%) Relational Database
10 71 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
10 71 (2.50%) Snowflake Schema
11 68 (2.39%) NoSQL
11 68 (2.39%) PostgreSQL
12 66 (2.32%) Amazon Redshift
13 57 (2.01%) Hadoop
14 53 (1.87%) Looker
15 52 (1.83%) Amazon Athena
15 52 (1.83%) Power Query
16 49 (1.72%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 200 (7.04%) Git
2 164 (5.77%) JIRA
3 95 (3.34%) Jenkins
4 81 (2.85%) GitLab
5 28 (0.99%) Selenium
6 24 (0.84%) JUnit
7 23 (0.81%) ERwin
8 14 (0.49%) MLflow
9 9 (0.32%) Gradle
10 8 (0.28%) Android Studio
10 8 (0.28%) Bitbucket
10 8 (0.28%) PowerDesigner
11 7 (0.25%) Cypress.io
11 7 (0.25%) MSI
11 7 (0.25%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.18%) ER Studio
12 5 (0.18%) fastlane
12 5 (0.18%) Maven
12 5 (0.18%) Xcode
12 5 (0.18%) XCTest
General
1 851 (29.95%) Social Skills
2 730 (25.70%) Finance
3 539 (18.97%) Analytical Skills
4 292 (10.28%) Public Sector
5 212 (7.46%) Banking
6 167 (5.88%) Marketing
7 77 (2.71%) Retail
8 75 (2.64%) Documentation Skills
9 64 (2.25%) Front Office
10 52 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 50 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
12 48 (1.69%) Investment Banking
13 46 (1.62%) Legal
14 45 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
15 41 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
16 40 (1.41%) Manufacturing
17 35 (1.23%) Telecoms
18 31 (1.09%) Financial Institution
19 24 (0.84%) Advertising
20 22 (0.77%) Military
Job Titles
1 494 (17.39%) Data Engineer
2 347 (12.21%) Analyst
3 332 (11.69%) Developer
4 327 (11.51%) Architect
5 316 (11.12%) Senior
6 245 (8.62%) Lead
7 138 (4.86%) Data Analyst
8 136 (4.79%) Data Architect
9 133 (4.68%) Consultant
10 107 (3.77%) Azure Engineer
11 102 (3.59%) Business Analyst
12 95 (3.34%) Data Scientist
13 77 (2.71%) Senior Data Engineer
14 69 (2.43%) Solutions Architect
15 68 (2.39%) Project Manager
16 56 (1.97%) Designer
16 56 (1.97%) Senior Developer
17 52 (1.83%) Snowflake Engineer
18 48 (1.69%) Python Developer
19 46 (1.62%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (5.46%) Kafka
2 154 (5.42%) REST
3 153 (5.39%) PySpark
4 66 (2.32%) Pandas
5 61 (2.15%) React
6 59 (2.08%) TensorFlow
7 57 (2.01%) PyTorch
8 50 (1.76%) scikit-learn
9 49 (1.72%) NumPy
10 48 (1.69%) JSON
11 45 (1.58%) AngularJS
12 42 (1.48%) .NET
12 42 (1.48%) Node.js
13 41 (1.44%) HTML
14 40 (1.41%) CSS
15 38 (1.34%) ARM Templates
15 38 (1.34%) SOAP
16 34 (1.20%) pytest
17 33 (1.16%) RESTful
18 32 (1.13%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 170 (5.98%) Cloud Native
2 103 (3.63%) Product Ownership
3 88 (3.10%) Data Structures
4 83 (2.92%) Onboarding
5 77 (2.71%) Legacy Systems
6 57 (2.01%) Management Information System
7 55 (1.94%) Algorithms
8 52 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
9 51 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
10 48 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
11 42 (1.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 40 (1.41%) Equities
13 38 (1.34%) Public Cloud
14 34 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
14 34 (1.20%) NHS
15 33 (1.16%) Derivative
15 33 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
16 29 (1.02%) Mobile App
17 28 (0.99%) Marketing Technology
18 25 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 88 (3.10%) Windows
2 75 (2.64%) Linux
3 32 (1.13%) Unix
4 28 (0.99%) Mac OS
5 21 (0.74%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.63%) Android
7 9 (0.32%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.25%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.14%) VMS
10 3 (0.11%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.070%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.070%) zOS
12 1 (0.035%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.035%) CentOS
12 1 (0.035%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 784 (27.60%) Business Intelligence
2 753 (26.50%) Data Modelling
3 650 (22.88%) Agile
4 590 (20.77%) CI/CD
5 573 (20.17%) AI
6 568 (19.99%) ETL
7 552 (19.43%) Problem-Solving
8 540 (19.01%) Data Pipeline
9 538 (18.94%) Data Engineering
10 531 (18.69%) DevOps
11 475 (16.72%) Data Governance
12 431 (15.17%) Decision-Making
13 375 (13.20%) Stakeholder Management
14 352 (12.39%) Data Science
15 348 (12.25%) Machine Learning
16 338 (11.90%) Data Analytics
17 313 (11.02%) Continuous Improvement
18 293 (10.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 280 (9.86%) Visualisation
20 276 (9.71%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 999 (35.16%) SQL
2 923 (32.49%) Python
3 157 (5.53%) Java
4 110 (3.87%) PowerShell
5 90 (3.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 89 (3.13%) C#
7 76 (2.68%) JavaScript
7 76 (2.68%) R
8 75 (2.64%) Bicep
9 51 (1.80%) Kusto Query Language
10 48 (1.69%) Bash
11 44 (1.55%) TypeScript
12 40 (1.41%) Scala
13 38 (1.34%) T-SQL
14 32 (1.13%) VBA
15 31 (1.09%) C++
16 29 (1.02%) PL/SQL
17 22 (0.77%) Shell Script
18 13 (0.46%) Kotlin
19 11 (0.39%) Swift
Qualifications
1 495 (17.42%) Security Cleared
2 388 (13.66%) SC Cleared
3 246 (8.66%) Degree
4 77 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 68 (2.39%) Azure Certification
6 47 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 43 (1.51%) Master's Degree
8 40 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
9 36 (1.27%) DV Cleared
10 26 (0.92%) PMI Certification
11 24 (0.84%) CISSP
12 22 (0.77%) AWS Certification
12 22 (0.77%) PMP
13 20 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
14 17 (0.60%) CISM
15 15 (0.53%) CCNP
16 14 (0.49%) IIBA
17 13 (0.46%) PhD
18 12 (0.42%) CCIE
19 8 (0.28%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 506 (17.81%) Data Quality
2 166 (5.84%) GDPR
3 113 (3.98%) QA
4 101 (3.56%) Accessibility
5 39 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 31 (1.09%) WCAG
7 26 (0.92%) NIST
8 23 (0.81%) PMO
9 20 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
10 15 (0.53%) NCSC
11 14 (0.49%) Solvency II
12 13 (0.46%) GRC
12 13 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 11 (0.39%) PERC
14 10 (0.35%) SLA
15 9 (0.32%) HL7
16 8 (0.28%) NIST 800
16 8 (0.28%) SOC 2
17 7 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 7 (0.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 197 (6.93%) Docker
2 75 (2.64%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.18%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.14%) HDFS
7 4 (0.14%) Snort
8 2 (0.070%) GPFS
8 2 (0.070%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.070%) Lustre
8 2 (0.070%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.035%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.035%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.035%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.035%) vSphere
9 1 (0.035%) zsh
Systems Management
1 247 (8.69%) Terraform
2 216 (7.60%) Kubernetes
3 38 (1.34%) Ansible
4 35 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 29 (1.02%) Grafana
5 29 (1.02%) Prometheus
6 22 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (0.56%) SCCM
8 9 (0.32%) Puppet
9 7 (0.25%) Kibana
10 6 (0.21%) logstash
11 4 (0.14%) CSIRT
11 4 (0.14%) WSUS
12 3 (0.11%) Argo
12 3 (0.11%) Cisco CUCM
12 3 (0.11%) Control-M
12 3 (0.11%) Fluentd
12 3 (0.11%) SysTrack
13 2 (0.070%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.070%) CASB
Vendors
1 537 (18.90%) Microsoft
2 381 (13.41%) Databricks
3 175 (6.16%) Google
4 147 (5.17%) Oracle
5 134 (4.72%) SAP
6 68 (2.39%) Salesforce
7 66 (2.32%) ServiceNow
8 62 (2.18%) Adobe
8 62 (2.18%) Informatica
9 59 (2.08%) Talend
10 51 (1.80%) Splunk
11 46 (1.62%) OpenAI
12 43 (1.51%) Foundry
13 41 (1.44%) Denodo
14 30 (1.06%) Workday
15 25 (0.88%) IBM
16 23 (0.81%) VMware
17 21 (0.74%) Cisco
18 18 (0.63%) Palantir
19 14 (0.49%) Dynatrace