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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 26 33
Rank change year-on-year 0 +7 +3
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,505 1,832 1,718
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.52% 6.58% 5.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.89% 7.25% 6.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,277 1,204 1,176
10th Percentile £363 £359 £356
25th Percentile £435 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £680
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 42 26
10th Percentile £17.55 £18.68 £23.25
25th Percentile £26.25 £27.63 £27.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £37.75 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.09% +16.14% -8.13%
75th Percentile £73.75 £71.13 £52.19
90th Percentile £85.10 £79.88 £70.49
UK median hourly rate £48.75 £37.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year +29.16% +16.14% -8.13%

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 39,443 25,283 28,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.68% 90.86% 86.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,053 16,051 17,283
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,529 1,252
10th Percentile £13.99 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.72 £17.87 £20.09
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.39%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.12 £66.61
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 1,938 £550 - 6,010
North of England +11 471 £490 +4.20% 992
Midlands +2 373 £491 -5.30% 568
South East +19 352 £515 -1.90% 958
West Midlands +2 305 £491 -6.48% 389
North West +4 225 £525 +10.53% 576
Yorkshire +15 190 £473 -0.53% 306
South West +24 177 £525 +10.53% 383
East of England -10 111 £580 +4.98% 300
East Midlands -7 65 £490 +5.95% 179
North East +3 64 £450 +20.00% 114
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
1 169 (4.82%) Apache Airflow
2 135 (3.85%) Apache Spark
3 113 (3.22%) SAS
4 101 (2.88%) Apache
5 82 (2.34%) Confluence
6 58 (1.65%) CMS
7 50 (1.43%) SharePoint
8 34 (0.97%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 29 (0.83%) Jupyter
10 28 (0.80%) Palantir Foundry
11 26 (0.74%) Oracle Application Server
12 10 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
13 9 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
14 8 (0.23%) Apache Superset
14 8 (0.23%) Drupal
14 8 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
15 6 (0.17%) WordPress
16 4 (0.11%) nginx
17 3 (0.086%) IIS
18 2 (0.057%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 167 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 26 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
4 20 (0.57%) Chatbot
5 19 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (0.40%) CPLEX
7 12 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
7 12 (0.34%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.14%) Trello
9 3 (0.086%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.086%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.057%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.057%) Sketch
11 1 (0.029%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.029%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.029%) InDesign
11 1 (0.029%) Notion
11 1 (0.029%) PlantUML
11 1 (0.029%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 75 (2.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.54%) Workday HCM
4 17 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
5 14 (0.40%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 13 (0.37%) Aladdin
6 13 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
7 9 (0.26%) SAP CO
7 9 (0.26%) SAP FI
7 9 (0.26%) SAP HR
7 9 (0.26%) Shopify
8 7 (0.20%) SAP ERP
8 7 (0.20%) SAP HCM
8 7 (0.20%) SAP MDG
8 7 (0.20%) Workfront
9 6 (0.17%) NetSuite
9 6 (0.17%) SAP GRC
9 6 (0.17%) SAP MM
9 6 (0.17%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 6 (0.17%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 1,009 (28.79%) Azure
2 710 (20.26%) Power Platform
3 615 (17.55%) AWS
4 314 (8.96%) GCP
5 267 (7.62%) Snowflake
6 231 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
7 228 (6.50%) Azure Data Factory
8 207 (5.91%) dbt
9 174 (4.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 151 (4.31%) GitHub
11 144 (4.11%) Serverless
12 131 (3.74%) Amazon S3
13 125 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
14 112 (3.20%) SaaS
15 111 (3.17%) Entra ID
16 92 (2.62%) AWS Lambda
17 82 (2.34%) Microsoft 365
18 74 (2.11%) GitHub Actions
19 67 (1.91%) Adobe Analytics
20 65 (1.85%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 57 (1.63%) Firewall
2 50 (1.43%) Network Security
3 36 (1.03%) DNS
4 33 (0.94%) VPN
5 22 (0.63%) TCP/IP
6 20 (0.57%) Broadband
6 20 (0.57%) WAN
7 16 (0.46%) SD-WAN
8 15 (0.43%) BGP
8 15 (0.43%) DHCP
9 9 (0.26%) SMS
10 8 (0.23%) Wireless
11 7 (0.20%) HTTP
11 7 (0.20%) LAN
12 6 (0.17%) Kerberos
12 6 (0.17%) NGFW
12 6 (0.17%) OSPF
12 6 (0.17%) SSH
12 6 (0.17%) WLAN
13 5 (0.14%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 684 (19.51%) Power BI
2 443 (12.64%) Data Warehouse
3 259 (7.39%) Data Lake
4 241 (6.88%) Metadata
5 223 (6.36%) Tableau
6 152 (4.34%) BigQuery
7 89 (2.54%) Amazon Redshift
8 87 (2.48%) SQL Server
9 86 (2.45%) Big Data
10 84 (2.40%) Delta Lake
11 80 (2.28%) PostgreSQL
12 79 (2.25%) Relational Database
13 76 (2.17%) Looker
14 69 (1.97%) Amazon Athena
15 60 (1.71%) Semantic Layer
16 57 (1.63%) NoSQL
17 54 (1.54%) Snowflake Schema
18 52 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
19 51 (1.46%) Power Query
20 47 (1.34%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 189 (5.39%) Git
2 160 (4.56%) JIRA
3 62 (1.77%) GitLab
4 59 (1.68%) Jenkins
5 12 (0.34%) MLflow
6 10 (0.29%) SonarQube
7 9 (0.26%) RStudio
8 8 (0.23%) ERwin
8 8 (0.23%) fastlane
9 7 (0.20%) ER Studio
9 7 (0.20%) Gradle
9 7 (0.20%) Selenium
9 7 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (0.17%) JUnit
10 6 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
10 6 (0.17%) Postman
11 5 (0.14%) Android Studio
11 5 (0.14%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.14%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.14%) Terragrunt
General
1 980 (27.96%) Social Skills
2 914 (26.08%) Finance
3 660 (18.83%) Analytical Skills
4 418 (11.93%) Public Sector
5 273 (7.79%) Banking
6 232 (6.62%) Marketing
7 182 (5.19%) Retail
8 112 (3.20%) Influencing Skills
9 89 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 84 (2.40%) Legal
11 83 (2.37%) Manufacturing
12 74 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
13 69 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
14 61 (1.74%) Front Office
15 55 (1.57%) Investment Banking
16 49 (1.40%) Publishing
17 43 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
18 41 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
19 40 (1.14%) Military
20 39 (1.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 574 (16.38%) Data Engineer
2 475 (13.55%) Senior
3 458 (13.07%) Analyst
4 454 (12.95%) Architect
5 296 (8.45%) Developer
6 290 (8.27%) Lead
7 211 (6.02%) Data Architect
8 176 (5.02%) Consultant
9 168 (4.79%) Data Analyst
10 121 (3.45%) Senior Data Engineer
10 121 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
11 117 (3.34%) Data Scientist
12 109 (3.11%) Business Analyst
13 99 (2.82%) Azure Engineer
14 73 (2.08%) Data Manager
15 65 (1.85%) Product Manager
15 65 (1.85%) Senior Manager
16 64 (1.83%) Senior Analyst
17 62 (1.77%) AWS Engineer
18 60 (1.71%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 279 (7.96%) Terraform
2 201 (5.73%) PySpark
3 132 (3.77%) REST
4 106 (3.02%) Kafka
5 58 (1.65%) Pandas
6 56 (1.60%) HTML
7 51 (1.46%) CSS
7 51 (1.46%) React
8 49 (1.40%) RESTful
9 44 (1.26%) .NET
10 43 (1.23%) JSON
11 42 (1.20%) OAuth
12 40 (1.14%) ARM Templates
13 38 (1.08%) NumPy
14 35 (1.00%) OpenID
15 32 (0.91%) Web Services
16 31 (0.88%) OAuth2
17 30 (0.86%) SOAP
18 28 (0.80%) Oracle Fusion
19 27 (0.77%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 245 (6.99%) Cloud Native
2 193 (5.51%) Product Ownership
3 141 (4.02%) Onboarding
4 139 (3.97%) Data Structures
5 101 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
6 81 (2.31%) Management Information System
7 68 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
8 67 (1.91%) AI Agents
9 61 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
10 47 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
11 46 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
12 45 (1.28%) Algorithms
13 43 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
14 41 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
15 40 (1.14%) Social Media
16 39 (1.11%) Virtual Team
17 38 (1.08%) NHS
18 37 (1.06%) Marketing Technology
19 35 (1.00%) Derivative
20 33 (0.94%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 91 (2.60%) Windows
2 84 (2.40%) Linux
3 40 (1.14%) Unix
4 35 (1.00%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.29%) Mac OS
8 9 (0.26%) Android
8 9 (0.26%) VMS
9 6 (0.17%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.086%) Solaris
10 3 (0.086%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.057%) AIX
11 2 (0.057%) CentOS
11 2 (0.057%) HPUX
12 1 (0.029%) Rocky
12 1 (0.029%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 950 (27.10%) AI
2 917 (26.16%) Data Modelling
3 884 (25.22%) Business Intelligence
4 812 (23.17%) Agile
4 812 (23.17%) Stakeholder Management
5 710 (20.26%) Data Pipeline
6 685 (19.54%) Decision-Making
7 674 (19.23%) Data Engineering
8 645 (18.40%) CI/CD
9 572 (16.32%) Data Governance
10 548 (15.63%) ETL
11 520 (14.84%) DevOps
12 500 (14.27%) Problem-Solving
13 476 (13.58%) Migration
14 458 (13.07%) Continuous Improvement
15 449 (12.81%) Roadmaps
16 438 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 433 (12.35%) Machine Learning
18 417 (11.90%) Validation
19 414 (11.81%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 1,131 (32.27%) SQL
2 970 (27.67%) Python
3 158 (4.51%) PowerShell
4 105 (3.00%) Java
5 91 (2.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 87 (2.48%) JavaScript
7 78 (2.23%) Bicep
8 72 (2.05%) C#
9 64 (1.83%) R
10 63 (1.80%) Bash
11 40 (1.14%) Scala
12 37 (1.06%) TypeScript
13 31 (0.88%) Shell Script
14 28 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
15 25 (0.71%) T-SQL
16 20 (0.57%) C++
17 18 (0.51%) PL/SQL
18 15 (0.43%) ABAP
19 14 (0.40%) VBA
20 11 (0.31%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 629 (17.95%) Security Cleared
2 502 (14.32%) SC Cleared
3 291 (8.30%) Degree
4 90 (2.57%) Azure Certification
5 84 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
6 75 (2.14%) DV Cleared
7 73 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 55 (1.57%) Master's Degree
9 53 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
10 46 (1.31%) CISSP
11 38 (1.08%) AWS Certification
12 35 (1.00%) PMI Certification
13 29 (0.83%) PMP
14 26 (0.74%) DBS Check
15 20 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
16 12 (0.34%) CISA
17 11 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 11 (0.31%) MBA
17 11 (0.31%) PhD
17 11 (0.31%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 762 (21.74%) Data Quality
2 156 (4.45%) GDPR
3 141 (4.02%) QA
4 130 (3.71%) Accessibility
5 50 (1.43%) GRC
6 42 (1.20%) WCAG
7 40 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 34 (0.97%) NIST
9 33 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
10 32 (0.91%) PMO
11 23 (0.66%) SLA
12 13 (0.37%) NCSC
12 13 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 12 (0.34%) IFRS
14 11 (0.31%) PCI DSS
14 11 (0.31%) PERC
15 10 (0.29%) Solvency II
16 8 (0.23%) GMP
17 7 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
18 6 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 153 (4.37%) Docker
2 94 (2.68%) Active Directory
3 28 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.26%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.11%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 4 (0.11%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.086%) vSphere
8 3 (0.086%) XenApp
9 2 (0.057%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.029%) iptables
10 1 (0.029%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.029%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 162 (4.62%) Kubernetes
2 45 (1.28%) Ansible
3 36 (1.03%) Grafana
4 26 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (0.51%) Prometheus
7 13 (0.37%) SCCM
8 8 (0.23%) FortiGate
8 8 (0.23%) Progress Chef
8 8 (0.23%) SCOM
9 7 (0.20%) Control-M
10 6 (0.17%) Kibana
10 6 (0.17%) Podman
11 4 (0.11%) QRadar
11 4 (0.11%) SysTrack
12 3 (0.086%) CASB
13 2 (0.057%) Argo
13 2 (0.057%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.057%) Nagios
13 2 (0.057%) Puppet
Vendors
1 662 (18.89%) Microsoft
2 459 (13.10%) Databricks
3 205 (5.85%) Oracle
4 196 (5.59%) SAP
5 185 (5.28%) Google
6 99 (2.82%) Adobe
7 89 (2.54%) Salesforce
8 87 (2.48%) ServiceNow
9 59 (1.68%) Workday
10 53 (1.51%) Splunk
11 40 (1.14%) Dynatrace
11 40 (1.14%) Foundry
12 34 (0.97%) Palantir
13 33 (0.94%) Informatica
14 32 (0.91%) Talend
15 31 (0.88%) VMware
16 29 (0.83%) Denodo
17 28 (0.80%) Cisco
18 26 (0.74%) OpenAI
19 24 (0.68%) Amplitude