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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 27 38
Rank change year-on-year +4 +11 -1
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,848 1,611 1,809
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.61% 6.62% 4.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.81% 7.29% 5.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,952 1,090 1,245
10th Percentile £356 £325 £358
25th Percentile £420 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £813 £800
UK median daily rate £513 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.62% -1.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 30 61
10th Percentile £23.31 £15.28 £17.64
25th Percentile £39.56 £23.50 £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 £60.25 £61.50
90th Percentile £84.28 £77.62 £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 32,321 22,086 32,747
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.33% 90.81% 86.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,717 14,513 21,645
10th Percentile £313 £310 £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 £615 £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 1,977 834 2,155
10th Percentile £15.31 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.67 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £33.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.70
90th Percentile £75.40 £77.41 £71.89
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year - - -9.47%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 1,608 £530 -11.67% 904
Midlands +26 334 £492 +3.58% 209
North of England +5 296 £495 +7.03% 316
West Midlands +23 252 £493 +3.25% 111
South East -6 228 £500 +4.71% 443
North West +7 176 £495 +7.03% 195
South West +30 169 £503 +0.50% 150
East of England -12 105 £505 -15.83% 107
Yorkshire -8 97 £505 +3.06% 78
East Midlands +5 77 £447 +23.65% 98
North East +7 31 £450 +25.70% 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
1 140 (4.92%) Apache Spark
2 108 (3.79%) SAS
3 95 (3.34%) Apache Airflow
4 86 (3.02%) Apache
5 61 (2.14%) Confluence
6 54 (1.90%) SharePoint
7 30 (1.05%) 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
1 125 (4.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (0.91%) 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 64 (2.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (0.77%) 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
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%) SAP HR
8 4 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.11%) BambooHR
Cloud Services
1 912 (32.02%) Azure
2 628 (22.05%) Power Platform
3 588 (20.65%) AWS
4 290 (10.18%) GCP
5 223 (7.83%) Azure Data Factory
6 211 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
7 195 (6.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 182 (6.39%) Snowflake
9 177 (6.21%) GitHub
10 134 (4.71%) Serverless
11 123 (4.32%) Amazon S3
12 120 (4.21%) dbt
13 118 (4.14%) Azure Monitor
14 106 (3.72%) GitHub Actions
15 99 (3.48%) Microsoft 365
16 85 (2.98%) SaaS
17 84 (2.95%) Entra ID
18 75 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
19 65 (2.28%) Azure Key Vault
20 62 (2.18%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 51 (1.79%) Firewall
2 34 (1.19%) Network Security
3 30 (1.05%) 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
1 576 (20.22%) Power BI
2 353 (12.39%) Data Warehouse
3 220 (7.72%) Data Lake
4 180 (6.32%) Metadata
5 177 (6.21%) Tableau
6 96 (3.37%) Delta Lake
7 95 (3.34%) BigQuery
8 92 (3.23%) SQL Server
9 88 (3.09%) Big Data
10 74 (2.60%) Relational Database
11 71 (2.49%) Azure SQL Database
11 71 (2.49%) Snowflake Schema
12 68 (2.39%) NoSQL
12 68 (2.39%) PostgreSQL
13 66 (2.32%) Amazon Redshift
14 57 (2.00%) Hadoop
15 56 (1.97%) Looker
16 52 (1.83%) Power Query
16 52 (1.83%) Star Schema
17 51 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 200 (7.02%) Git
2 165 (5.79%) JIRA
3 96 (3.37%) Jenkins
4 82 (2.88%) GitLab
5 28 (0.98%) Selenium
6 24 (0.84%) JUnit
7 22 (0.77%) ERwin
8 14 (0.49%) MLflow
9 8 (0.28%) Bitbucket
9 8 (0.28%) Gradle
9 8 (0.28%) PowerDesigner
10 7 (0.25%) Android Studio
10 7 (0.25%) Cypress.io
10 7 (0.25%) MSI
10 7 (0.25%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.18%) ER Studio
11 5 (0.18%) fastlane
11 5 (0.18%) Maven
11 5 (0.18%) XCTest
12 4 (0.14%) Postman
General
1 854 (29.99%) Social Skills
2 731 (25.67%) Finance
3 544 (19.10%) Analytical Skills
4 290 (10.18%) Public Sector
5 211 (7.41%) Banking
6 170 (5.97%) Marketing
7 76 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
7 76 (2.67%) Retail
8 64 (2.25%) Front Office
9 52 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 50 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
11 48 (1.69%) Investment Banking
12 46 (1.62%) Legal
13 45 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
14 41 (1.44%) Manufacturing
14 41 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
15 38 (1.33%) Telecoms
16 31 (1.09%) Financial Institution
17 24 (0.84%) Advertising
18 22 (0.77%) Military
Job Titles
1 499 (17.52%) Data Engineer
2 351 (12.32%) Analyst
3 331 (11.62%) Developer
4 330 (11.59%) Architect
5 318 (11.17%) Senior
6 246 (8.64%) Lead
7 140 (4.92%) Data Analyst
8 136 (4.78%) Data Architect
9 132 (4.63%) Consultant
10 105 (3.69%) Azure Engineer
11 103 (3.62%) Business Analyst
12 96 (3.37%) Data Scientist
13 78 (2.74%) Senior Data Engineer
14 72 (2.53%) 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 49 (1.72%) Python Developer
19 47 (1.65%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (5.44%) Kafka
1 155 (5.44%) PySpark
2 153 (5.37%) REST
3 67 (2.35%) Pandas
4 61 (2.14%) React
5 60 (2.11%) TensorFlow
6 58 (2.04%) PyTorch
7 50 (1.76%) scikit-learn
8 49 (1.72%) NumPy
9 47 (1.65%) JSON
10 45 (1.58%) AngularJS
11 43 (1.51%) .NET
11 43 (1.51%) Node.js
12 40 (1.40%) HTML
13 39 (1.37%) CSS
14 38 (1.33%) ARM Templates
14 38 (1.33%) SOAP
15 34 (1.19%) pytest
16 32 (1.12%) Middleware
16 32 (1.12%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 172 (6.04%) Cloud Native
2 105 (3.69%) Product Ownership
3 90 (3.16%) Data Structures
4 82 (2.88%) Onboarding
5 77 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
6 57 (2.00%) Management Information System
7 55 (1.93%) Algorithms
8 53 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
9 51 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
10 48 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
11 42 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 40 (1.40%) Equities
13 38 (1.33%) Public Cloud
14 34 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
14 34 (1.19%) NHS
15 33 (1.16%) Derivative
15 33 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
16 28 (0.98%) Marketing Technology
17 27 (0.95%) Mobile App
18 26 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 87 (3.05%) Windows
2 76 (2.67%) Linux
3 33 (1.16%) Unix
4 28 (0.98%) Mac OS
5 20 (0.70%) Apple iOS
6 17 (0.60%) 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 (27.53%) Business Intelligence
2 757 (26.58%) Data Modelling
3 657 (23.07%) Agile
4 592 (20.79%) CI/CD
5 576 (20.22%) AI
6 570 (20.01%) ETL
7 554 (19.45%) Problem-Solving
8 543 (19.07%) Data Engineering
8 543 (19.07%) Data Pipeline
9 532 (18.68%) DevOps
10 477 (16.75%) Data Governance
11 435 (15.27%) Decision-Making
12 380 (13.34%) Stakeholder Management
13 354 (12.43%) Data Science
14 350 (12.29%) Machine Learning
15 340 (11.94%) Data Analytics
16 315 (11.06%) Continuous Improvement
17 292 (10.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 281 (9.87%) Visualisation
19 278 (9.76%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1,004 (35.25%) SQL
2 931 (32.69%) Python
3 159 (5.58%) Java
4 110 (3.86%) PowerShell
5 91 (3.20%) C#
6 90 (3.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 76 (2.67%) JavaScript
7 76 (2.67%) R
8 75 (2.63%) Bicep
9 50 (1.76%) Kusto Query Language
10 48 (1.69%) Bash
11 43 (1.51%) TypeScript
12 40 (1.40%) Scala
13 38 (1.33%) T-SQL
14 32 (1.12%) VBA
15 31 (1.09%) C++
16 29 (1.02%) PL/SQL
17 23 (0.81%) Shell Script
18 12 (0.42%) Kotlin
19 10 (0.35%) Swift
Qualifications
1 495 (17.38%) Security Cleared
2 388 (13.62%) SC Cleared
3 246 (8.64%) Degree
4 77 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 68 (2.39%) Azure Certification
6 47 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 43 (1.51%) Master's Degree
8 40 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
9 36 (1.26%) DV Cleared
10 26 (0.91%) PMI Certification
11 24 (0.84%) CISSP
12 23 (0.81%) AWS Certification
13 22 (0.77%) PMP
14 20 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
15 17 (0.60%) CISM
16 15 (0.53%) CCNP
17 14 (0.49%) IIBA
18 13 (0.46%) PhD
19 12 (0.42%) CCIE
20 8 (0.28%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 508 (17.84%) Data Quality
2 166 (5.83%) GDPR
3 115 (4.04%) QA
4 101 (3.55%) Accessibility
5 39 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 31 (1.09%) WCAG
7 27 (0.95%) 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
1 199 (6.99%) Docker
2 75 (2.63%) 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
1 246 (8.64%) Terraform
2 216 (7.58%) Kubernetes
3 38 (1.33%) 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%) Apache Ranger
13 2 (0.070%) CASB
Vendors
1 537 (18.86%) Microsoft
2 383 (13.45%) Databricks
3 178 (6.25%) Google
4 148 (5.20%) Oracle
5 132 (4.63%) SAP
6 68 (2.39%) Salesforce
7 66 (2.32%) ServiceNow
8 63 (2.21%) Informatica
9 61 (2.14%) Adobe
10 59 (2.07%) Talend
11 50 (1.76%) Splunk
12 46 (1.62%) OpenAI
13 43 (1.51%) Foundry
14 41 (1.44%) Denodo
15 30 (1.05%) Workday
16 25 (0.88%) IBM
17 23 (0.81%) VMware
18 21 (0.74%) Cisco
19 18 (0.63%) Palantir
20 14 (0.49%) Dynatrace