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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 27 35
Rank change year-on-year +1 +8 0
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,482 1,763 1,718
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.63% 6.48% 5.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.99% 7.14% 6.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,279 1,156 1,184
10th Percentile £363 £356 £350
25th Percentile £430 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.59% -4.30%
75th Percentile £637 £650 £688
90th Percentile £750 £799 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 47 22
10th Percentile £19.25 £16.00 £21.78
25th Percentile £27.40 £30.54 £27.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £34.98 £30.69
Median % change year-on-year +50.09% +14.00% -12.33%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.81 £52.19
90th Percentile £87.08 £79.25 £75.10
UK median hourly rate £48.75 £34.98 £30.69
% change year-on-year +39.37% +14.00% -12.33%

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 38,742 24,707 27,973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.90% 90.77% 85.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,892 15,711 17,811
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £636 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £751
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,598 1,453 1,393
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.41
25th Percentile £18.34 £17.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +2.41%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 0 1,945 £550 - 5,204
North of England +9 447 £475 +5.44% 754
Midlands +4 372 £493 -4.37% 374
South East +18 360 £513 -2.38% 757
West Midlands +4 303 £492 -5.11% 229
North West +8 229 £519 +11.35% 473
Yorkshire +8 175 £461 -0.91% 212
South West +22 168 £503 +5.79% 381
East of England -8 106 £580 +4.98% 234
East Midlands -4 63 £495 +13.14% 145
North East -3 51 £450 +18.03% 76
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
1 166 (4.77%) Apache Airflow
2 132 (3.79%) Apache Spark
3 112 (3.22%) SAS
4 99 (2.84%) Apache
5 75 (2.15%) Confluence
6 54 (1.55%) CMS
7 47 (1.35%) SharePoint
8 30 (0.86%) Palantir Foundry
9 29 (0.83%) Jupyter
10 27 (0.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 26 (0.75%) Oracle Application Server
12 11 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
13 10 (0.29%) Apache Superset
14 9 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
15 8 (0.23%) Drupal
15 8 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
16 6 (0.17%) WordPress
17 3 (0.086%) IIS
18 2 (0.057%) ArcGIS
18 2 (0.057%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 154 (4.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 23 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (0.55%) Chatbot
5 16 (0.46%) CPLEX
5 16 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
6 12 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
7 11 (0.32%) 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 67 (1.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 33 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
4 16 (0.46%) Workday HCM
5 13 (0.37%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 12 (0.34%) Aladdin
7 11 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
8 9 (0.26%) Shopify
9 8 (0.23%) SAP CO
9 8 (0.23%) SAP ERP
9 8 (0.23%) SAP FI
10 7 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
10 7 (0.20%) SAP MDG
11 6 (0.17%) NetSuite
11 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
11 6 (0.17%) SAP GRC
11 6 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
12 5 (0.14%) SAP BPC
12 5 (0.14%) SAP MM
12 5 (0.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 1,030 (29.58%) Azure
2 700 (20.10%) Power Platform
3 608 (17.46%) AWS
4 298 (8.56%) GCP
5 250 (7.18%) Snowflake
6 241 (6.92%) Azure DevOps
7 234 (6.72%) Azure Data Factory
8 195 (5.60%) dbt
9 184 (5.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 156 (4.48%) GitHub
11 148 (4.25%) Serverless
12 131 (3.76%) Azure Monitor
13 126 (3.62%) Amazon S3
14 108 (3.10%) SaaS
15 106 (3.04%) Entra ID
16 97 (2.79%) AWS Lambda
17 81 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
17 81 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
18 73 (2.10%) Azure Databricks
19 60 (1.72%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 57 (1.64%) Firewall
2 50 (1.44%) Network Security
3 37 (1.06%) DNS
4 31 (0.89%) VPN
5 22 (0.63%) TCP/IP
6 21 (0.60%) WAN
7 17 (0.49%) SD-WAN
8 16 (0.46%) DHCP
9 15 (0.43%) BGP
9 15 (0.43%) Broadband
10 9 (0.26%) SMS
11 8 (0.23%) Wireless
12 7 (0.20%) LAN
13 6 (0.17%) OSPF
13 6 (0.17%) SSH
13 6 (0.17%) WLAN
14 5 (0.14%) HTTP
14 5 (0.14%) Internet
14 5 (0.14%) VLAN
15 4 (0.11%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 668 (19.18%) Power BI
2 443 (12.72%) Data Warehouse
3 257 (7.38%) Data Lake
4 228 (6.55%) Metadata
5 219 (6.29%) Tableau
6 139 (3.99%) BigQuery
7 94 (2.70%) Delta Lake
8 92 (2.64%) SQL Server
9 88 (2.53%) Amazon Redshift
9 88 (2.53%) Big Data
10 84 (2.41%) Relational Database
11 74 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
12 73 (2.10%) Looker
13 63 (1.81%) Snowflake Schema
14 62 (1.78%) NoSQL
15 61 (1.75%) Amazon Athena
15 61 (1.75%) Semantic Layer
16 57 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
17 53 (1.52%) Star Schema
18 50 (1.44%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 185 (5.31%) Git
2 163 (4.68%) JIRA
3 60 (1.72%) Jenkins
4 51 (1.46%) GitLab
5 14 (0.40%) ERwin
6 11 (0.32%) MLflow
7 10 (0.29%) fastlane
7 10 (0.29%) SonarQube
8 9 (0.26%) RStudio
9 8 (0.23%) ER Studio
9 8 (0.23%) Selenium
10 7 (0.20%) Gradle
10 7 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
11 6 (0.17%) Android Studio
11 6 (0.17%) Crashlytics
11 6 (0.17%) JUnit
11 6 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
12 5 (0.14%) Terragrunt
12 5 (0.14%) Visual Website Optimizer
12 5 (0.14%) Xcode
General
1 918 (26.36%) Social Skills
2 892 (25.62%) Finance
3 646 (18.55%) Analytical Skills
4 409 (11.75%) Public Sector
5 260 (7.47%) Banking
6 229 (6.58%) Marketing
7 176 (5.05%) Retail
8 102 (2.93%) Influencing Skills
9 91 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 74 (2.13%) Legal
11 73 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
12 72 (2.07%) Manufacturing
13 68 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
14 61 (1.75%) Front Office
15 56 (1.61%) Investment Banking
16 45 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
16 45 (1.29%) Publishing
17 44 (1.26%) Telecoms
18 42 (1.21%) Financial Institution
19 40 (1.15%) Military
Job Titles
1 589 (16.92%) Data Engineer
2 452 (12.98%) Senior
3 447 (12.84%) Analyst
4 439 (12.61%) Architect
5 309 (8.87%) Developer
6 290 (8.33%) Lead
7 202 (5.80%) Data Architect
8 170 (4.88%) Data Analyst
9 167 (4.80%) Consultant
10 123 (3.53%) Solutions Architect
11 111 (3.19%) Senior Data Engineer
12 109 (3.13%) Data Scientist
13 104 (2.99%) Business Analyst
14 102 (2.93%) Azure Engineer
15 79 (2.27%) Data Manager
16 65 (1.87%) Product Manager
17 64 (1.84%) Senior Manager
18 63 (1.81%) Project Manager
19 60 (1.72%) Python Developer
20 56 (1.61%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 264 (7.58%) Terraform
2 213 (6.12%) PySpark
3 131 (3.76%) REST
4 112 (3.22%) Kafka
5 64 (1.84%) Pandas
6 55 (1.58%) HTML
7 54 (1.55%) RESTful
8 51 (1.46%) CSS
9 50 (1.44%) React
10 43 (1.23%) .NET
10 43 (1.23%) JSON
11 41 (1.18%) ARM Templates
12 40 (1.15%) NumPy
13 38 (1.09%) OAuth
14 31 (0.89%) OpenID
15 30 (0.86%) OAuth2
15 30 (0.86%) Oracle Fusion
16 28 (0.80%) Django
16 28 (0.80%) Web Services
17 27 (0.78%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 236 (6.78%) Cloud Native
2 185 (5.31%) Product Ownership
3 138 (3.96%) Data Structures
4 135 (3.88%) Onboarding
5 109 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
6 75 (2.15%) Management Information System
7 69 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
8 64 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
9 56 (1.61%) AI Agents
10 47 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
11 46 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
12 45 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
13 43 (1.23%) Algorithms
13 43 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
14 41 (1.18%) NHS
15 39 (1.12%) Marketing Technology
15 39 (1.12%) Virtual Team
16 34 (0.98%) Mobile App
16 34 (0.98%) Social Media
17 33 (0.95%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 88 (2.53%) Linux
2 84 (2.41%) Windows
3 41 (1.18%) Unix
4 32 (0.92%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.32%) Mac OS
8 10 (0.29%) Android
9 9 (0.26%) VMS
10 5 (0.14%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.086%) Solaris
11 3 (0.086%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.057%) AIX
12 2 (0.057%) CentOS
12 2 (0.057%) HPUX
13 1 (0.029%) Rocky
13 1 (0.029%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 921 (26.45%) Data Modelling
2 899 (25.82%) AI
3 883 (25.36%) Business Intelligence
4 802 (23.03%) Agile
5 740 (21.25%) Stakeholder Management
6 702 (20.16%) Data Pipeline
7 686 (19.70%) Data Engineering
8 650 (18.67%) CI/CD
9 636 (18.27%) Decision-Making
10 564 (16.20%) Data Governance
11 549 (15.77%) ETL
12 523 (15.02%) DevOps
13 507 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
14 458 (13.15%) Migration
15 431 (12.38%) Continuous Improvement
16 423 (12.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 421 (12.09%) Machine Learning
18 411 (11.80%) Roadmaps
19 403 (11.57%) Data Science
20 391 (11.23%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1,108 (31.82%) SQL
2 978 (28.09%) Python
3 157 (4.51%) PowerShell
4 107 (3.07%) Java
5 95 (2.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 83 (2.38%) Bicep
7 81 (2.33%) JavaScript
8 75 (2.15%) C#
9 64 (1.84%) R
10 63 (1.81%) Bash
11 40 (1.15%) Scala
12 34 (0.98%) Shell Script
13 33 (0.95%) TypeScript
14 30 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
15 27 (0.78%) T-SQL
16 20 (0.57%) PL/SQL
17 19 (0.55%) C++
18 13 (0.37%) VBA
19 12 (0.34%) LookML
20 11 (0.32%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 616 (17.69%) Security Cleared
2 486 (13.96%) SC Cleared
3 287 (8.24%) Degree
4 81 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 80 (2.30%) Azure Certification
6 78 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
7 68 (1.95%) DV Cleared
8 53 (1.52%) Master's Degree
9 47 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
10 38 (1.09%) CISSP
11 30 (0.86%) AWS Certification
11 30 (0.86%) PMI Certification
12 23 (0.66%) DBS Check
12 23 (0.66%) PMP
13 17 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
14 12 (0.34%) CISA
15 11 (0.32%) MBA
15 11 (0.32%) PhD
16 10 (0.29%) SANS
17 9 (0.26%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 709 (20.36%) Data Quality
2 161 (4.62%) GDPR
3 134 (3.85%) QA
4 133 (3.82%) Accessibility
5 48 (1.38%) GRC
6 47 (1.35%) WCAG
7 39 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 32 (0.92%) NIST
9 29 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
9 29 (0.83%) PMO
10 20 (0.57%) SLA
11 13 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 12 (0.34%) Solvency II
13 11 (0.32%) NCSC
13 11 (0.32%) PCI DSS
13 11 (0.32%) PERC
14 10 (0.29%) IFRS
15 7 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
15 7 (0.20%) GMP
16 6 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 150 (4.31%) Docker
2 84 (2.41%) Active Directory
3 25 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.23%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.14%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.086%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 3 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.086%) vSphere
8 2 (0.057%) XenApp
8 2 (0.057%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.029%) iptables
9 1 (0.029%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.029%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 162 (4.65%) Kubernetes
2 46 (1.32%) Ansible
3 38 (1.09%) Grafana
4 24 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (0.49%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.40%) SCCM
8 8 (0.23%) Control-M
8 8 (0.23%) FortiGate
8 8 (0.23%) Progress Chef
8 8 (0.23%) SCOM
9 5 (0.14%) Podman
10 4 (0.11%) QRadar
10 4 (0.11%) SysTrack
11 3 (0.086%) Apache Ranger
11 3 (0.086%) CASB
11 3 (0.086%) Kibana
12 2 (0.057%) Argo
12 2 (0.057%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.057%) Puppet
Vendors
1 633 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 452 (12.98%) Databricks
3 210 (6.03%) Oracle
4 193 (5.54%) SAP
5 178 (5.11%) Google
6 85 (2.44%) Adobe
7 84 (2.41%) Salesforce
7 84 (2.41%) ServiceNow
8 54 (1.55%) Workday
9 43 (1.23%) Splunk
10 42 (1.21%) Foundry
11 41 (1.18%) Informatica
12 40 (1.15%) Dynatrace
13 37 (1.06%) Palantir
14 32 (0.92%) Talend
15 30 (0.86%) Denodo
16 29 (0.83%) Cisco
17 28 (0.80%) VMware
18 23 (0.66%) Alteryx
18 23 (0.66%) OpenAI