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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 29 38
Rank change year-on-year +7 +9 -1
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,673 1,595 1,831
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.54% 6.20% 4.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.65% 6.88% 5.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,824 1,058 1,263
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £419 £446 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £505 £541 £550
% change year-on-year -6.61% -1.68% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 26 70
10th Percentile £20.64 £23.13 £17.00
25th Percentile £37.81 £25.82 £25.00
Median hourly rate £57.30 £35.00 £39.38
Median % change year-on-year +63.71% -11.11% +23.05%
75th Percentile £75.00 £63.00 £59.66
90th Percentile £83.83 £71.11 £78.79
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +57.14% -12.50% +19.40%

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 30,906 23,179 32,763
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.22% 90.17% 87.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,822 14,560 21,758
10th Percentile £313 £308 £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 £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 1,906 762 2,042
10th Percentile £15.22 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £34.23
Median % change year-on-year -18.57% +2.25% -2.20%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £59.94
90th Percentile £72.52 £75.23 £72.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £33.07
% change year-on-year -15.38% -1.71% -5.53%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 +3 1,553 £525 -12.50% 564
Midlands +31 289 £492 +3.14% 153
North of England +7 279 £500 +5.26% 203
West Midlands +26 217 £500 +2.04% 98
South East -1 198 £500 +6.67% 286
North West +9 167 £492 +3.58% 112
South West +38 144 £525 +5.53% 100
East of England -5 107 £513 -14.58% 62
Yorkshire -10 92 £525 +7.69% 71
East Midlands +18 71 £447 +6.43% 55
North East +4 25 £450 +25.70% 23
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
1 122 (4.56%) Apache Spark
2 110 (4.12%) SAS
3 90 (3.37%) Apache Airflow
4 76 (2.84%) Apache
5 61 (2.28%) Confluence
6 46 (1.72%) SharePoint
7 29 (1.08%) CMS
8 20 (0.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 11 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
9 11 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
10 8 (0.30%) GeoServer
10 8 (0.30%) Jupyter
10 8 (0.30%) Smallworld
11 7 (0.26%) ArcGIS
11 7 (0.26%) WordPress
12 5 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
12 5 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 5 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.15%) Apache Superset
13 4 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 128 (4.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (1.05%) MS Visio
5 20 (0.75%) Chatbot
6 14 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
7 9 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.19%) Adobe XD
8 5 (0.19%) Sketch
8 5 (0.19%) Trello
9 3 (0.11%) Notion
9 3 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
10 2 (0.075%) Autodesk Smoke
10 2 (0.075%) CPLEX
11 1 (0.037%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.037%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.037%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.037%) FrameMaker
11 1 (0.037%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.037%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 68 (2.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.41%) SAP HR
4 9 (0.34%) SAP FI
5 8 (0.30%) Maximo
5 8 (0.30%) SAP EHS
5 8 (0.30%) SAP MM
6 7 (0.26%) Aladdin
6 7 (0.26%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 7 (0.26%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 6 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 5 (0.19%) SAP BPC
8 5 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
9 4 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.15%) Sage X3
9 4 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 859 (32.14%) Azure
2 598 (22.37%) Power Platform
3 562 (21.03%) AWS
4 271 (10.14%) GCP
5 207 (7.74%) Azure Data Factory
6 192 (7.18%) Azure DevOps
7 178 (6.66%) Snowflake
8 177 (6.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 151 (5.65%) GitHub
10 129 (4.83%) Serverless
11 110 (4.12%) Amazon S3
12 109 (4.08%) Azure Monitor
13 108 (4.04%) dbt
14 100 (3.74%) SaaS
15 93 (3.48%) GitHub Actions
16 86 (3.22%) Microsoft 365
17 76 (2.84%) Entra ID
18 69 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
19 58 (2.17%) Power Automate
20 54 (2.02%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 46 (1.72%) Firewall
2 28 (1.05%) VPN
3 25 (0.94%) Network Security
4 22 (0.82%) DNS
5 17 (0.64%) SMS
6 12 (0.45%) WAN
7 9 (0.34%) SSL
8 8 (0.30%) 5G
8 8 (0.30%) DHCP
9 7 (0.26%) HTTP
9 7 (0.26%) LAN
9 7 (0.26%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.22%) 2G
10 6 (0.22%) 4G
10 6 (0.22%) MPLS
11 5 (0.19%) FTP
11 5 (0.19%) Radio Access Network
11 5 (0.19%) SD-WAN
11 5 (0.19%) SMTP
12 4 (0.15%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 551 (20.61%) Power BI
2 305 (11.41%) Data Warehouse
3 204 (7.63%) Data Lake
4 170 (6.36%) Tableau
5 158 (5.91%) Metadata
6 87 (3.25%) BigQuery
7 84 (3.14%) SQL Server
8 83 (3.11%) Delta Lake
9 82 (3.07%) Big Data
10 70 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
11 69 (2.58%) Snowflake Schema
12 64 (2.39%) Relational Database
13 61 (2.28%) Looker
14 60 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
14 60 (2.24%) NoSQL
15 54 (2.02%) Hadoop
16 52 (1.95%) Amazon Redshift
17 47 (1.76%) Amazon Athena
17 47 (1.76%) Data Vault
18 46 (1.72%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 193 (7.22%) Git
2 164 (6.14%) JIRA
3 95 (3.55%) Jenkins
4 85 (3.18%) GitLab
5 30 (1.12%) Selenium
6 24 (0.90%) JUnit
7 22 (0.82%) ERwin
8 15 (0.56%) MLflow
9 12 (0.45%) PowerDesigner
10 10 (0.37%) Android Studio
10 10 (0.37%) ER Studio
10 10 (0.37%) Gradle
11 8 (0.30%) SonarQube
11 8 (0.30%) Xcode
12 7 (0.26%) Cypress.io
13 6 (0.22%) Bitbucket
13 6 (0.22%) MSI
13 6 (0.22%) Postman
13 6 (0.22%) Visual Website Optimizer
14 5 (0.19%) XCTest
General
1 853 (31.91%) Social Skills
2 709 (26.52%) Finance
3 507 (18.97%) Analytical Skills
4 248 (9.28%) Public Sector
5 213 (7.97%) Banking
6 168 (6.29%) Marketing
7 77 (2.88%) Retail
8 73 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
9 63 (2.36%) Front Office
10 51 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
11 47 (1.76%) Investment Banking
12 46 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
12 46 (1.72%) Legal
12 46 (1.72%) Manufacturing
13 45 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 40 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
15 33 (1.23%) Financial Institution
16 30 (1.12%) Telecoms
17 23 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
18 21 (0.79%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 430 (16.09%) Data Engineer
2 358 (13.39%) Analyst
3 324 (12.12%) Developer
4 307 (11.49%) Senior
5 305 (11.41%) Architect
6 218 (8.16%) Lead
7 143 (5.35%) Data Analyst
8 132 (4.94%) Consultant
9 123 (4.60%) Data Architect
10 116 (4.34%) Business Analyst
11 102 (3.82%) Azure Engineer
12 96 (3.59%) Data Scientist
13 69 (2.58%) Senior Data Engineer
14 67 (2.51%) Project Manager
15 61 (2.28%) Solutions Architect
16 58 (2.17%) Senior Developer
17 52 (1.95%) Designer
18 49 (1.83%) Snowflake Engineer
19 42 (1.57%) Azure Data Engineer
20 41 (1.53%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (5.31%) REST
2 136 (5.09%) PySpark
3 133 (4.98%) Kafka
4 60 (2.24%) Pandas
5 59 (2.21%) React
6 58 (2.17%) TensorFlow
7 55 (2.06%) PyTorch
8 50 (1.87%) scikit-learn
9 49 (1.83%) JSON
9 49 (1.83%) NumPy
10 43 (1.61%) Node.js
11 42 (1.57%) HTML
12 41 (1.53%) .NET
12 41 (1.53%) RESTful
13 39 (1.46%) AngularJS
13 39 (1.46%) ARM Templates
13 39 (1.46%) CSS
14 33 (1.23%) SOAP
15 31 (1.16%) OAuth
15 31 (1.16%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 141 (5.27%) Cloud Native
2 101 (3.78%) Product Ownership
3 87 (3.25%) Data Structures
4 75 (2.81%) Onboarding
5 66 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
6 55 (2.06%) Management Information System
7 54 (2.02%) Algorithms
8 50 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
9 48 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
9 48 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
10 45 (1.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 41 (1.53%) Equities
12 36 (1.35%) Derivative
12 36 (1.35%) Mobile App
13 35 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
14 31 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
14 31 (1.16%) NHS
15 30 (1.12%) Public Cloud
16 26 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
17 25 (0.94%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 85 (3.18%) Windows
2 70 (2.62%) Linux
3 27 (1.01%) Mac OS
4 26 (0.97%) Apple iOS
4 26 (0.97%) Unix
5 20 (0.75%) Android
6 8 (0.30%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.22%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.19%) VMS
9 3 (0.11%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.075%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.075%) zOS
11 1 (0.037%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.037%) CentOS
11 1 (0.037%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 744 (27.83%) Business Intelligence
2 688 (25.74%) Data Modelling
3 638 (23.87%) Agile
4 552 (20.65%) CI/CD
5 543 (20.31%) Problem-Solving
6 518 (19.38%) AI
6 518 (19.38%) ETL
7 497 (18.59%) DevOps
8 496 (18.56%) Data Pipeline
9 459 (17.17%) Data Engineering
10 434 (16.24%) Data Governance
11 396 (14.81%) Decision-Making
12 362 (13.54%) Stakeholder Management
13 349 (13.06%) Data Science
14 326 (12.20%) Machine Learning
15 314 (11.75%) Data Analytics
16 305 (11.41%) Continuous Improvement
17 287 (10.74%) Visualisation
18 275 (10.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 251 (9.39%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 948 (35.47%) SQL
2 863 (32.29%) Python
3 152 (5.69%) Java
4 98 (3.67%) PowerShell
5 92 (3.44%) JavaScript
6 81 (3.03%) C#
7 76 (2.84%) R
8 75 (2.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 70 (2.62%) Bicep
10 49 (1.83%) Bash
11 47 (1.76%) TypeScript
12 39 (1.46%) Kusto Query Language
13 38 (1.42%) T-SQL
14 37 (1.38%) Scala
15 36 (1.35%) C++
16 31 (1.16%) VBA
17 28 (1.05%) PL/SQL
18 16 (0.60%) Swift
19 15 (0.56%) Shell Script
20 14 (0.52%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 444 (16.61%) Security Cleared
2 353 (13.21%) SC Cleared
3 254 (9.50%) Degree
4 73 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 66 (2.47%) Azure Certification
6 52 (1.95%) Master's Degree
7 42 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 39 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 31 (1.16%) DV Cleared
10 28 (1.05%) PMI Certification
11 25 (0.94%) CISSP
12 23 (0.86%) AWS Certification
13 22 (0.82%) PMP
14 18 (0.67%) CISM
15 14 (0.52%) IIBA
16 13 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
16 13 (0.49%) PhD
17 11 (0.41%) CBAP
18 10 (0.37%) CCNP
19 8 (0.30%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 483 (18.07%) Data Quality
2 148 (5.54%) GDPR
3 99 (3.70%) QA
4 95 (3.55%) Accessibility
5 37 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 27 (1.01%) NIST
7 26 (0.97%) WCAG
8 22 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
8 22 (0.82%) PMO
9 16 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 15 (0.56%) NCSC
11 13 (0.49%) Solvency II
12 9 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 9 (0.34%) HIPAA
12 9 (0.34%) NIST 800
13 8 (0.30%) PERC
13 8 (0.30%) SLA
14 7 (0.26%) GRC
14 7 (0.26%) HL7
14 7 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 203 (7.59%) Docker
2 68 (2.54%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.22%) HDFS
5 6 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.15%) Snort
6 4 (0.15%) zsh
7 3 (0.11%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.075%) GPFS
8 2 (0.075%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.075%) Lustre
8 2 (0.075%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.037%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.037%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.037%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.037%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 234 (8.75%) Terraform
2 221 (8.27%) Kubernetes
3 35 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
4 30 (1.12%) Ansible
5 29 (1.08%) Prometheus
6 23 (0.86%) Grafana
7 18 (0.67%) SCCM
8 16 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (0.34%) Kibana
9 9 (0.34%) Puppet
10 7 (0.26%) logstash
11 5 (0.19%) WSUS
12 4 (0.15%) CSIRT
13 3 (0.11%) Argo
13 3 (0.11%) Cisco CUCM
13 3 (0.11%) Fluentd
14 2 (0.075%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.075%) OpenVAS
14 2 (0.075%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.075%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 499 (18.67%) Microsoft
2 362 (13.54%) Databricks
3 166 (6.21%) Google
4 145 (5.42%) Oracle
5 142 (5.31%) SAP
6 71 (2.66%) Salesforce
7 67 (2.51%) Adobe
8 66 (2.47%) ServiceNow
9 58 (2.17%) Talend
10 51 (1.91%) Informatica
11 49 (1.83%) Splunk
12 42 (1.57%) OpenAI
13 40 (1.50%) Denodo
14 38 (1.42%) Foundry
15 27 (1.01%) Workday
16 24 (0.90%) IBM
17 22 (0.82%) VMware
18 19 (0.71%) Amplitude
19 16 (0.60%) Cisco
19 16 (0.60%) Dynatrace