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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 27 35
Rank change year-on-year +3 +8 -1
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,187 1,659 1,893
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.41% 6.69% 5.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.70% 7.32% 5.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,165 1,100 1,312
10th Percentile £357 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £630 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £788
UK median daily rate £523 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.48% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 37 48
10th Percentile £19.25 £14.69 £14.90
25th Percentile £35.00 £19.25 £25.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £32.05 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.61% +6.83% -7.12%
75th Percentile £75.00 £62.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £84.95 £79.22 £69.88
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £34.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +56.52% +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 36,618 22,657 32,179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.18% 91.33% 85.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,120 14,657 20,816
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.23% -1.00% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £727 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -3.79% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,297 1,070 2,391
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.11 £16.04
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.40 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +71.53% -26.93% +5.19%
75th Percentile £68.00 £57.19 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £26.21 £37.18
% change year-on-year +67.72% -29.51% +6.14%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 18 June 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 +3 1,749 £550 -4.35% 759
North of England +3 381 £475 +2.04% 278
Midlands +14 368 £493 -2.72% 145
West Midlands +17 289 £492 -4.47% 87
South East -2 285 £500 - 405
South West +34 195 £500 +2.56% 124
North West +1 189 £500 +5.26% 172
Yorkshire -5 150 £500 +7.41% 70
East of England -8 114 £509 -15.17% 65
East Midlands +1 73 £525 +28.05% 57
North East +2 53 £450 +9.09% 38
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
1 160 (5.02%) Apache Spark
2 136 (4.27%) Apache Airflow
3 105 (3.29%) SAS
4 86 (2.70%) Apache
5 73 (2.29%) Confluence
6 47 (1.47%) SharePoint
7 28 (0.88%) CMS
7 28 (0.88%) Jupyter
8 21 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
9 15 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
9 15 (0.47%) Oracle Application Server
10 12 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 9 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
12 8 (0.25%) Apache Superset
13 6 (0.19%) IIS
13 6 (0.19%) WordPress
14 5 (0.16%) ArcGIS
15 4 (0.13%) Drupal
16 2 (0.063%) Smallworld
16 2 (0.063%) WebSphere
Applications
1 142 (4.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (0.60%) Chatbot
3 19 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
4 16 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (0.41%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.38%) CPLEX
7 8 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
9 3 (0.094%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.063%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.063%) Sketch
10 2 (0.063%) Trello
11 1 (0.031%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.031%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.031%) InDesign
11 1 (0.031%) PlantUML
11 1 (0.031%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 67 (2.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
4 10 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.25%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 8 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.22%) Aladdin
6 7 (0.22%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.19%) Sage X3
7 6 (0.19%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.16%) BambooHR
8 5 (0.16%) Maximo
8 5 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.13%) iTrent
9 4 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 4 (0.13%) SAP BPC
9 4 (0.13%) Shopify
9 4 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 970 (30.44%) Azure
2 712 (22.34%) Power Platform
3 634 (19.89%) AWS
4 279 (8.75%) GCP
5 232 (7.28%) Azure DevOps
6 225 (7.06%) Azure Data Factory
7 208 (6.53%) Snowflake
8 183 (5.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 162 (5.08%) GitHub
10 160 (5.02%) dbt
11 140 (4.39%) Amazon S3
12 139 (4.36%) Serverless
13 113 (3.55%) Azure Monitor
14 94 (2.95%) AWS Lambda
15 88 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
16 86 (2.70%) SaaS
17 83 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
18 76 (2.38%) Entra ID
19 51 (1.60%) Azure Key Vault
20 49 (1.54%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 42 (1.32%) Firewall
2 28 (0.88%) Network Security
3 26 (0.82%) VPN
4 20 (0.63%) WAN
5 19 (0.60%) SD-WAN
6 16 (0.50%) DNS
7 15 (0.47%) BGP
8 14 (0.44%) SMS
9 9 (0.28%) OSPF
10 8 (0.25%) VXLAN
11 7 (0.22%) 5G
11 7 (0.22%) HTTP
11 7 (0.22%) LAN
11 7 (0.22%) MPLS
11 7 (0.22%) Wireless
11 7 (0.22%) WLAN
12 6 (0.19%) DHCP
12 6 (0.19%) Internet
12 6 (0.19%) TCP/IP
12 6 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 668 (20.96%) Power BI
2 414 (12.99%) Data Warehouse
3 257 (8.06%) Data Lake
4 223 (7.00%) Tableau
5 189 (5.93%) Metadata
6 119 (3.73%) BigQuery
7 110 (3.45%) Delta Lake
7 110 (3.45%) SQL Server
8 97 (3.04%) Big Data
9 84 (2.64%) Amazon Redshift
9 84 (2.64%) Relational Database
10 75 (2.35%) Amazon Athena
11 70 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
11 70 (2.20%) Snowflake Schema
12 68 (2.13%) NoSQL
13 65 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
14 61 (1.91%) Looker
15 59 (1.85%) Power Query
16 53 (1.66%) Star Schema
17 51 (1.60%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 180 (5.65%) Git
2 164 (5.15%) JIRA
3 74 (2.32%) Jenkins
4 67 (2.10%) GitLab
5 21 (0.66%) ERwin
6 12 (0.38%) MLflow
7 10 (0.31%) ER Studio
7 10 (0.31%) fastlane
7 10 (0.31%) JUnit
7 10 (0.31%) Selenium
8 8 (0.25%) MSI
9 7 (0.22%) Postman
9 7 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
10 6 (0.19%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.16%) Android Studio
11 5 (0.16%) Crashlytics
11 5 (0.16%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.16%) Gradle
11 5 (0.16%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.16%) Xcode
General
1 807 (25.32%) Finance
2 794 (24.91%) Social Skills
3 543 (17.04%) Analytical Skills
4 359 (11.26%) Public Sector
5 219 (6.87%) Banking
6 163 (5.11%) Marketing
7 118 (3.70%) Retail
8 76 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
9 69 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 67 (2.10%) Legal
11 56 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
12 53 (1.66%) Investment Banking
13 52 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
14 47 (1.47%) Manufacturing
15 44 (1.38%) Front Office
16 43 (1.35%) Telecoms
17 40 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
18 35 (1.10%) Financial Institution
19 29 (0.91%) Automotive
20 27 (0.85%) Military
Job Titles
1 613 (19.23%) Data Engineer
2 396 (12.43%) Analyst
3 391 (12.27%) Senior
4 387 (12.14%) Architect
5 332 (10.42%) Developer
6 275 (8.63%) Lead
7 178 (5.59%) Data Architect
8 166 (5.21%) Data Analyst
9 136 (4.27%) Consultant
10 112 (3.51%) Senior Data Engineer
11 108 (3.39%) Business Analyst
12 102 (3.20%) Solutions Architect
13 98 (3.07%) Azure Engineer
14 96 (3.01%) Data Scientist
15 68 (2.13%) Data Manager
16 60 (1.88%) Designer
17 58 (1.82%) Project Manager
18 55 (1.73%) AWS Engineer
18 55 (1.73%) Business Intelligence Developer
19 54 (1.69%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (5.93%) PySpark
2 129 (4.05%) Kafka
3 110 (3.45%) REST
4 58 (1.82%) Pandas
5 56 (1.76%) React
6 47 (1.47%) JSON
7 46 (1.44%) RESTful
8 45 (1.41%) HTML
9 43 (1.35%) CSS
9 43 (1.35%) PyTorch
10 41 (1.29%) .NET
11 40 (1.26%) TensorFlow
12 38 (1.19%) Middleware
13 32 (1.00%) Web Services
14 31 (0.97%) ARM Templates
14 31 (0.97%) scikit-learn
15 30 (0.94%) NumPy
15 30 (0.94%) SOAP
16 29 (0.91%) Microsoft Graph
16 29 (0.91%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 224 (7.03%) Cloud Native
2 165 (5.18%) Product Ownership
3 125 (3.92%) Data Structures
4 96 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
4 96 (3.01%) Onboarding
5 68 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
6 62 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
7 48 (1.51%) Algorithms
8 45 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
8 45 (1.41%) Management Information System
9 42 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
10 41 (1.29%) AI Agents
11 37 (1.16%) Public Cloud
12 36 (1.13%) Mobile App
13 34 (1.07%) NHS
14 33 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
14 33 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
15 29 (0.91%) Virtual Team
16 27 (0.85%) Fixed Income
16 27 (0.85%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 86 (2.70%) Windows
2 71 (2.23%) Linux
3 38 (1.19%) Unix
4 24 (0.75%) Mac OS
5 23 (0.72%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.50%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.35%) Android
8 5 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.094%) CentOS
9 3 (0.094%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.063%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.063%) VMS
11 1 (0.031%) Rocky
11 1 (0.031%) Solaris
11 1 (0.031%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 890 (27.93%) Business Intelligence
2 881 (27.64%) Data Modelling
3 747 (23.44%) AI
4 673 (21.12%) Agile
5 669 (20.99%) Data Pipeline
6 657 (20.61%) Data Engineering
7 648 (20.33%) CI/CD
8 564 (17.70%) ETL
9 538 (16.88%) DevOps
10 516 (16.19%) Decision-Making
11 496 (15.56%) Data Governance
12 489 (15.34%) Problem-Solving
13 474 (14.87%) Stakeholder Management
14 381 (11.95%) Machine Learning
15 378 (11.86%) Data Science
16 373 (11.70%) Migration
17 366 (11.48%) Continuous Improvement
17 366 (11.48%) Data Analytics
18 345 (10.83%) Validation
19 335 (10.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,073 (33.67%) SQL
2 970 (30.44%) Python
3 133 (4.17%) Java
4 111 (3.48%) PowerShell
5 101 (3.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 86 (2.70%) C#
7 70 (2.20%) Bicep
7 70 (2.20%) R
8 60 (1.88%) JavaScript
9 44 (1.38%) TypeScript
10 43 (1.35%) Scala
10 43 (1.35%) T-SQL
11 38 (1.19%) Kusto Query Language
12 34 (1.07%) Bash
13 33 (1.04%) Shell Script
14 25 (0.78%) PL/SQL
15 20 (0.63%) C++
16 19 (0.60%) VBA
17 11 (0.35%) Korn
18 10 (0.31%) Swift
Qualifications
1 547 (17.16%) Security Cleared
2 435 (13.65%) SC Cleared
3 244 (7.66%) Degree
4 73 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 72 (2.26%) Azure Certification
6 70 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
7 53 (1.66%) DV Cleared
8 45 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
9 36 (1.13%) Master's Degree
10 26 (0.82%) CISSP
11 24 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
12 23 (0.72%) PMI Certification
13 20 (0.63%) AWS Certification
14 19 (0.60%) DBS Check
14 19 (0.60%) PMP
15 16 (0.50%) CCNP
16 13 (0.41%) CCIE
17 10 (0.31%) IIBA
18 9 (0.28%) PhD
18 9 (0.28%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 610 (19.14%) Data Quality
2 157 (4.93%) GDPR
3 122 (3.83%) QA
4 104 (3.26%) Accessibility
5 44 (1.38%) WCAG
6 36 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 33 (1.04%) NIST
8 30 (0.94%) PMO
9 21 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
10 19 (0.60%) GRC
11 16 (0.50%) SLA
12 15 (0.47%) Solvency II
13 14 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 11 (0.35%) NCSC
15 10 (0.31%) IFRS
16 8 (0.25%) ISO 20022
16 8 (0.25%) PCI DSS
17 7 (0.22%) GAAP
18 5 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
18 5 (0.16%) HL7
System Software
1 157 (4.93%) Docker
2 71 (2.23%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.22%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.13%) HDFS
6 4 (0.13%) Snort
6 4 (0.13%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.031%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.031%) GPFS
7 1 (0.031%) iptables
7 1 (0.031%) Lustre
7 1 (0.031%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.031%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.031%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 246 (7.72%) Terraform
2 168 (5.27%) Kubernetes
3 33 (1.04%) Grafana
4 31 (0.97%) Ansible
4 31 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
5 29 (0.91%) Prometheus
6 22 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.25%) SCCM
8 6 (0.19%) Control-M
8 6 (0.19%) FortiGate
9 5 (0.16%) Argo
10 4 (0.13%) CSIRT
11 3 (0.094%) Nagios
11 3 (0.094%) Puppet
11 3 (0.094%) QRadar
12 2 (0.063%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.063%) Kibana
12 2 (0.063%) Nessus
12 2 (0.063%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.063%) SCOM
Vendors
1 560 (17.57%) Microsoft
2 419 (13.15%) Databricks
3 166 (5.21%) Oracle
4 159 (4.99%) SAP
5 145 (4.55%) Google
6 71 (2.23%) ServiceNow
7 69 (2.17%) Salesforce
8 60 (1.88%) Adobe
9 56 (1.76%) Informatica
10 51 (1.60%) Splunk
11 44 (1.38%) Talend
12 42 (1.32%) Foundry
12 42 (1.32%) OpenAI
13 41 (1.29%) Workday
14 37 (1.16%) Denodo
15 31 (0.97%) Dynatrace
16 25 (0.78%) Palantir
17 22 (0.69%) Cisco
18 21 (0.66%) IBM
18 21 (0.66%) VMware