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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 30 38
Rank change year-on-year +6 +8 -1
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,474 1,540 1,849
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.41% 5.88% 4.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.46% 6.55% 5.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,678 998 1,268
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £446 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -3.72%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £503 £548 £550
% change year-on-year -8.22% -0.45% -0.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 23 81
10th Percentile £21.21 £25.05 £17.00
25th Percentile £33.75 £26.38 £25.00
Median hourly rate £54.50 £35.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.71% -17.65% +32.81%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.25 £67.50
90th Percentile £78.93 £64.73 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £35.13 £42.50
% change year-on-year +53.74% -17.35% +32.81%

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 29,230 23,495 33,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.56% 89.70% 87.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,709 14,439 22,381
10th Percentile £306 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £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 1,843 743 1,976
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.88 £21.00 £16.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% - -
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.50 £61.78
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +7.69%

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 8 February 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 8 February 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 8 February 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 +6 1,460 £525 -12.50% 748
North of England +3 266 £486 +0.73% 243
Midlands +30 258 £492 +3.14% 171
West Midlands +24 191 £500 +2.04% 96
South East -5 172 £489 +1.82% 437
North West +11 167 £500 +5.26% 142
South West +41 122 £525 +8.25% 116
East of England -2 95 £515 -14.17% 66
Yorkshire -11 78 £510 +3.03% 72
East Midlands +16 66 £440 +4.73% 75
North East +1 23 £438 -6.22% 32
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
1 102 (4.12%) Apache Spark
2 91 (3.68%) SAS
3 89 (3.60%) Apache Airflow
4 81 (3.27%) Apache
5 60 (2.43%) Confluence
6 48 (1.94%) SharePoint
7 36 (1.46%) CMS
8 22 (0.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 11 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
10 9 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
11 8 (0.32%) GeoServer
11 8 (0.32%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.32%) Smallworld
12 7 (0.28%) ArcGIS
12 7 (0.28%) Oracle Application Server
12 7 (0.28%) WebLogic
13 6 (0.24%) WordPress
14 5 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 5 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
15 3 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 126 (5.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 27 (1.09%) MS Visio
5 21 (0.85%) Chatbot
6 13 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.24%) Trello
9 4 (0.16%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.16%) Sketch
10 3 (0.12%) Notion
11 2 (0.081%) Autodesk Smoke
12 1 (0.040%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.040%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.040%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.040%) CapCut
12 1 (0.040%) CPLEX
12 1 (0.040%) FrameMaker
12 1 (0.040%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.040%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 72 (2.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.57%) SAP EHS
4 11 (0.44%) SAP HR
5 9 (0.36%) SAP FI
6 8 (0.32%) Maximo
6 8 (0.32%) SAP MM
7 7 (0.28%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 7 (0.28%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 7 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 6 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
9 5 (0.20%) Aladdin
9 5 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
9 5 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
9 5 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
10 4 (0.16%) NetSuite
10 4 (0.16%) Oracle General Ledger
10 4 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.16%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 3 (0.12%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 811 (32.78%) Azure
2 533 (21.54%) Power Platform
3 522 (21.10%) AWS
4 241 (9.74%) GCP
5 189 (7.64%) Azure Data Factory
6 182 (7.36%) Azure DevOps
7 168 (6.79%) Snowflake
8 161 (6.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 135 (5.46%) GitHub
10 123 (4.97%) Serverless
11 106 (4.28%) Azure Monitor
12 100 (4.04%) Amazon S3
13 97 (3.92%) SaaS
14 96 (3.88%) dbt
15 86 (3.48%) GitHub Actions
16 82 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
17 75 (3.03%) Entra ID
18 62 (2.51%) AWS Lambda
19 56 (2.26%) Power Automate
20 53 (2.14%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 45 (1.82%) Firewall
2 25 (1.01%) VPN
3 23 (0.93%) Network Security
4 22 (0.89%) DNS
5 16 (0.65%) SMS
6 11 (0.44%) SSL
7 9 (0.36%) WAN
8 8 (0.32%) DHCP
9 7 (0.28%) HTTP
9 7 (0.28%) LAN
10 6 (0.24%) 2G
10 6 (0.24%) 5G
10 6 (0.24%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.20%) FTP
11 5 (0.20%) SMTP
12 4 (0.16%) 4G
12 4 (0.16%) Radio Access Network
13 3 (0.12%) Internet
13 3 (0.12%) MPLS
13 3 (0.12%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 490 (19.81%) Power BI
2 255 (10.31%) Data Warehouse
3 176 (7.11%) Data Lake
4 155 (6.27%) Tableau
5 136 (5.50%) Metadata
6 75 (3.03%) SQL Server
7 74 (2.99%) BigQuery
8 69 (2.79%) Big Data
9 65 (2.63%) Delta Lake
9 65 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
10 61 (2.47%) Snowflake Schema
11 57 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
12 55 (2.22%) Relational Database
13 54 (2.18%) Looker
14 46 (1.86%) Amazon Redshift
14 46 (1.86%) Hadoop
15 45 (1.82%) NoSQL
16 44 (1.78%) Star Schema
17 42 (1.70%) Data Vault
18 41 (1.66%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 163 (6.59%) JIRA
2 160 (6.47%) Git
3 75 (3.03%) GitLab
4 74 (2.99%) Jenkins
5 25 (1.01%) Selenium
6 20 (0.81%) JUnit
7 19 (0.77%) ERwin
8 12 (0.49%) MLflow
9 11 (0.44%) PowerDesigner
10 10 (0.40%) Android Studio
10 10 (0.40%) ER Studio
10 10 (0.40%) Gradle
11 9 (0.36%) Visual Website Optimizer
12 8 (0.32%) Xcode
13 7 (0.28%) Postman
14 6 (0.24%) DBeaver
14 6 (0.24%) MSI
14 6 (0.24%) SonarQube
14 6 (0.24%) Visual Studio
15 5 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
General
1 806 (32.58%) Social Skills
2 667 (26.96%) Finance
3 479 (19.36%) Analytical Skills
4 221 (8.93%) Public Sector
5 206 (8.33%) Banking
6 162 (6.55%) Marketing
7 75 (3.03%) Retail
8 69 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
9 63 (2.55%) Front Office
10 51 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
11 48 (1.94%) Legal
12 46 (1.86%) Investment Banking
13 45 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
14 44 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 41 (1.66%) Manufacturing
16 36 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
17 32 (1.29%) Financial Institution
18 23 (0.93%) Telecoms
19 22 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
20 21 (0.85%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 359 (14.51%) Data Engineer
2 349 (14.11%) Analyst
3 313 (12.65%) Developer
4 280 (11.32%) Senior
5 268 (10.83%) Architect
6 186 (7.52%) Lead
7 130 (5.25%) Consultant
7 130 (5.25%) Data Analyst
8 122 (4.93%) Business Analyst
9 104 (4.20%) Data Architect
10 96 (3.88%) Azure Engineer
11 83 (3.35%) Data Scientist
12 63 (2.55%) Project Manager
13 60 (2.43%) Senior Data Engineer
14 59 (2.38%) Senior Developer
15 58 (2.34%) Solutions Architect
16 49 (1.98%) Snowflake Engineer
17 46 (1.86%) Designer
18 41 (1.66%) Snowflake Data Engineer
19 40 (1.62%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (5.90%) REST
2 118 (4.77%) Kafka
3 114 (4.61%) PySpark
4 64 (2.59%) React
5 57 (2.30%) Pandas
6 51 (2.06%) HTML
6 51 (2.06%) TensorFlow
7 48 (1.94%) PyTorch
8 47 (1.90%) Node.js
9 45 (1.82%) NumPy
10 44 (1.78%) CSS
10 44 (1.78%) scikit-learn
11 43 (1.74%) .NET
11 43 (1.74%) JSON
11 43 (1.74%) RESTful
11 43 (1.74%) SOAP
12 39 (1.58%) AngularJS
13 35 (1.41%) ARM Templates
14 28 (1.13%) OAuth
15 27 (1.09%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 119 (4.81%) Cloud Native
2 97 (3.92%) Product Ownership
3 78 (3.15%) Data Structures
4 70 (2.83%) Onboarding
5 58 (2.34%) Management Information System
6 54 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
7 53 (2.14%) Algorithms
8 49 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
9 46 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
10 44 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
10 44 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 43 (1.74%) Equities
12 39 (1.58%) Derivative
13 35 (1.41%) Mobile App
14 30 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
15 28 (1.13%) Fixed Income
15 28 (1.13%) NHS
15 28 (1.13%) Public Cloud
16 27 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
17 26 (1.05%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 81 (3.27%) Windows
2 71 (2.87%) Linux
3 27 (1.09%) Mac OS
3 27 (1.09%) Unix
4 19 (0.77%) Apple iOS
5 18 (0.73%) Android
6 10 (0.40%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.20%) VMS
7 5 (0.20%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.081%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.081%) zOS
9 1 (0.040%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.040%) CentOS
9 1 (0.040%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.040%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 658 (26.60%) Business Intelligence
2 586 (23.69%) Agile
3 577 (23.32%) Data Modelling
4 511 (20.65%) Problem-Solving
5 478 (19.32%) CI/CD
6 470 (19.00%) AI
7 446 (18.03%) DevOps
8 443 (17.91%) ETL
9 407 (16.45%) Data Pipeline
10 383 (15.48%) Data Engineering
11 380 (15.36%) Data Governance
12 360 (14.55%) Decision-Making
13 341 (13.78%) Stakeholder Management
14 312 (12.61%) Data Science
15 309 (12.49%) Data Analytics
16 294 (11.88%) Machine Learning
17 271 (10.95%) Visualisation
18 266 (10.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 263 (10.63%) Continuous Improvement
20 244 (9.86%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 838 (33.87%) SQL
2 775 (31.33%) Python
3 152 (6.14%) Java
4 104 (4.20%) JavaScript
5 98 (3.96%) PowerShell
6 78 (3.15%) C#
7 69 (2.79%) R
8 65 (2.63%) Bicep
9 61 (2.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 51 (2.06%) Bash
11 43 (1.74%) TypeScript
12 39 (1.58%) Kusto Query Language
13 37 (1.50%) Scala
14 36 (1.46%) C++
15 34 (1.37%) T-SQL
16 27 (1.09%) VBA
17 24 (0.97%) PL/SQL
18 18 (0.73%) Shell Script
19 13 (0.53%) Kotlin
20 12 (0.49%) Swift
Qualifications
1 399 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 321 (12.97%) SC Cleared
3 239 (9.66%) Degree
4 72 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 64 (2.59%) Azure Certification
6 52 (2.10%) Master's Degree
7 39 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
8 38 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
9 30 (1.21%) DV Cleared
10 28 (1.13%) PMI Certification
11 26 (1.05%) CISSP
12 25 (1.01%) AWS Certification
13 22 (0.89%) PMP
14 18 (0.73%) CISM
15 14 (0.57%) IIBA
16 11 (0.44%) CBAP
17 9 (0.36%) PhD
18 8 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
18 8 (0.32%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
19 7 (0.28%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 412 (16.65%) Data Quality
2 149 (6.02%) GDPR
3 92 (3.72%) Accessibility
4 88 (3.56%) QA
5 37 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 29 (1.17%) NIST
7 22 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
8 20 (0.81%) WCAG
9 18 (0.73%) PMO
10 15 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 14 (0.57%) NCSC
12 10 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 10 (0.40%) HIPAA
12 10 (0.40%) SLA
12 10 (0.40%) Solvency II
13 9 (0.36%) NIST 800
13 9 (0.36%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.32%) GRC
14 8 (0.32%) PERC
15 7 (0.28%) HL7
System Software
1 181 (7.32%) Docker
2 64 (2.59%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
3 16 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.40%) HDFS
5 8 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.20%) zsh
7 2 (0.081%) GPFS
7 2 (0.081%) Lustre
7 2 (0.081%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.081%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.040%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.040%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.040%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.040%) Snort
8 1 (0.040%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.040%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 207 (8.37%) Terraform
2 189 (7.64%) Kubernetes
3 33 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 30 (1.21%) Ansible
5 21 (0.85%) Prometheus
6 20 (0.81%) SCCM
7 18 (0.73%) Grafana
8 17 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (0.57%) Puppet
10 8 (0.32%) Kibana
11 7 (0.28%) Hadoop YARN
11 7 (0.28%) logstash
12 5 (0.20%) WSUS
13 3 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.12%) Argo
13 3 (0.12%) Fluentd
13 3 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 2 (0.081%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.081%) RSA Archer
14 2 (0.081%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 476 (19.24%) Microsoft
2 314 (12.69%) Databricks
3 159 (6.43%) Google
4 138 (5.58%) SAP
5 128 (5.17%) Oracle
6 69 (2.79%) Salesforce
7 67 (2.71%) ServiceNow
8 64 (2.59%) Adobe
9 48 (1.94%) Talend
10 45 (1.82%) Informatica
11 42 (1.70%) OpenAI
12 39 (1.58%) Splunk
13 33 (1.33%) Foundry
14 30 (1.21%) Workday
15 29 (1.17%) Denodo
16 25 (1.01%) IBM
17 21 (0.85%) VMware
18 17 (0.69%) Cisco
18 17 (0.69%) Dynatrace
19 15 (0.61%) Amplitude