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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 35
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,518 1,789 1,770
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.67% 6.48% 5.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.03% 7.14% 6.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,335 1,181 1,258
10th Percentile £363 £350 £355
25th Percentile £433 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.59% -4.30%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £688
90th Percentile £750 £790 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 49 23
10th Percentile £20.00 £16.26 £22.30
25th Percentile £27.40 £26.80 £27.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £34.50 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.17% +11.29% -4.08%
75th Percentile £74.69 £70.16 £43.75
90th Percentile £87.08 £79.00 £59.05
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £34.50 £30.19
% change year-on-year +44.93% +14.30% -6.61%

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 38,969 25,067 28,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.95% 90.85% 85.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,148 15,970 18,420
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £754
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,571 1,462 1,558
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.21 £14.05
25th Percentile £19.03 £17.87 £18.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% +2.41%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.92 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +66.68% -37.90% -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 22 August 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 22 August 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 22 August 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 +2 1,935 £550 - 3,159
North of England +13 447 £490 +5.26% 633
Midlands +5 414 £500 -2.91% 272
South East +13 358 £513 -0.49% 664
West Midlands +2 331 £492 -5.11% 169
North West +3 228 £525 +10.53% 379
Yorkshire +7 178 £460 +2.11% 177
South West +14 170 £500 +5.26% 265
East of England -6 107 £565 -1.74% 158
East Midlands +3 76 £525 +27.27% 103
North East -6 52 £440 +5.07% 80
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
1 158 (4.49%) Apache Airflow
2 137 (3.89%) Apache Spark
3 118 (3.35%) SAS
4 97 (2.76%) Apache
5 76 (2.16%) Confluence
6 52 (1.48%) SharePoint
7 48 (1.36%) CMS
8 31 (0.88%) Palantir Foundry
9 30 (0.85%) Jupyter
10 26 (0.74%) Oracle Application Server
11 20 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 14 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
13 10 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
14 9 (0.26%) Apache Superset
15 8 (0.23%) Drupal
15 8 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
16 6 (0.17%) IIS
16 6 (0.17%) WordPress
17 2 (0.057%) ArcGIS
17 2 (0.057%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 158 (4.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
4 20 (0.57%) Chatbot
5 16 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
6 15 (0.43%) CPLEX
7 11 (0.31%) MS Visio
8 10 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.11%) Trello
10 3 (0.085%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.085%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.085%) Oracle Smart View
11 2 (0.057%) InDesign
11 2 (0.057%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.057%) Sketch
12 1 (0.028%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.028%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.028%) Notion
12 1 (0.028%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.028%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 68 (1.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
4 15 (0.43%) Workday HCM
5 13 (0.37%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 10 (0.28%) Aladdin
7 9 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
7 9 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
7 9 (0.26%) Shopify
8 8 (0.23%) SAP ERP
9 7 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
9 7 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 6 (0.17%) NetSuite
10 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.17%) SAP CO
10 6 (0.17%) SAP FI
10 6 (0.17%) SAP GRC
11 5 (0.14%) BambooHR
11 5 (0.14%) Infor LN
11 5 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,041 (29.59%) Azure
2 710 (20.18%) Power Platform
3 617 (17.54%) AWS
4 306 (8.70%) GCP
5 239 (6.79%) Snowflake
6 237 (6.74%) Azure DevOps
7 234 (6.65%) Azure Data Factory
8 188 (5.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 185 (5.26%) dbt
10 155 (4.41%) GitHub
11 143 (4.06%) Serverless
12 134 (3.81%) Azure Monitor
13 124 (3.52%) Amazon S3
14 112 (3.18%) Entra ID
15 105 (2.98%) SaaS
16 94 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
17 86 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
18 81 (2.30%) GitHub Actions
19 65 (1.85%) Google Analytics
20 55 (1.56%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.76%) Firewall
2 55 (1.56%) Network Security
3 38 (1.08%) DNS
4 34 (0.97%) VPN
5 26 (0.74%) WAN
6 23 (0.65%) SD-WAN
6 23 (0.65%) TCP/IP
7 20 (0.57%) BGP
8 15 (0.43%) DHCP
9 11 (0.31%) OSPF
10 10 (0.28%) Broadband
11 9 (0.26%) SMS
11 9 (0.26%) Wireless
12 8 (0.23%) LAN
13 7 (0.20%) HTTP
13 7 (0.20%) Internet
13 7 (0.20%) VXLAN
13 7 (0.20%) WLAN
14 6 (0.17%) 5G
14 6 (0.17%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 677 (19.24%) Power BI
2 456 (12.96%) Data Warehouse
3 260 (7.39%) Data Lake
4 227 (6.45%) Metadata
4 227 (6.45%) Tableau
5 143 (4.06%) BigQuery
6 99 (2.81%) SQL Server
7 94 (2.67%) Big Data
8 93 (2.64%) Amazon Redshift
9 89 (2.53%) Delta Lake
10 86 (2.44%) Relational Database
11 76 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
12 73 (2.08%) Looker
13 68 (1.93%) Snowflake Schema
14 67 (1.90%) NoSQL
15 63 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
15 63 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
16 60 (1.71%) Semantic Layer
17 54 (1.53%) Star Schema
18 53 (1.51%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 187 (5.32%) Git
2 167 (4.75%) JIRA
3 67 (1.90%) Jenkins
4 49 (1.39%) GitLab
5 15 (0.43%) ERwin
6 10 (0.28%) fastlane
7 9 (0.26%) MLflow
8 8 (0.23%) Bitbucket
8 8 (0.23%) ER Studio
8 8 (0.23%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.20%) Gradle
9 7 (0.20%) Selenium
9 7 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (0.17%) Android Studio
10 6 (0.17%) Crashlytics
10 6 (0.17%) JUnit
10 6 (0.17%) RStudio
11 5 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
11 5 (0.14%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.14%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 917 (26.07%) Social Skills
2 883 (25.10%) Finance
3 637 (18.11%) Analytical Skills
4 424 (12.05%) Public Sector
5 262 (7.45%) Banking
6 220 (6.25%) Marketing
7 170 (4.83%) Retail
8 96 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 92 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
10 77 (2.19%) Legal
11 67 (1.90%) Manufacturing
12 65 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
13 64 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
14 58 (1.65%) Front Office
15 57 (1.62%) Investment Banking
16 46 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
16 46 (1.31%) Telecoms
17 40 (1.14%) Financial Institution
17 40 (1.14%) Publishing
18 37 (1.05%) Military
Job Titles
1 605 (17.20%) Data Engineer
2 461 (13.10%) Architect
3 442 (12.56%) Analyst
4 440 (12.51%) Senior
5 331 (9.41%) Developer
6 299 (8.50%) Lead
7 209 (5.94%) Data Architect
8 170 (4.83%) Data Analyst
9 163 (4.63%) Consultant
10 126 (3.58%) Solutions Architect
11 109 (3.10%) Senior Data Engineer
12 107 (3.04%) Data Scientist
13 106 (3.01%) Business Analyst
14 105 (2.98%) Azure Engineer
15 76 (2.16%) Data Manager
16 64 (1.82%) Product Manager
17 62 (1.76%) Project Manager
18 61 (1.73%) Python Developer
19 60 (1.71%) Senior Manager
20 58 (1.65%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 260 (7.39%) Terraform
2 216 (6.14%) PySpark
3 135 (3.84%) REST
4 112 (3.18%) Kafka
5 64 (1.82%) Pandas
6 55 (1.56%) RESTful
7 51 (1.45%) React
8 49 (1.39%) HTML
9 47 (1.34%) .NET
10 45 (1.28%) CSS
10 45 (1.28%) JSON
11 41 (1.17%) ARM Templates
11 41 (1.17%) OAuth
12 38 (1.08%) NumPy
13 35 (0.99%) Oracle Fusion
13 35 (0.99%) SOAP
14 33 (0.94%) OpenID
14 33 (0.94%) Web Services
15 32 (0.91%) OAuth2
16 30 (0.85%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 240 (6.82%) Cloud Native
2 188 (5.34%) Product Ownership
3 138 (3.92%) Data Structures
4 124 (3.52%) Onboarding
5 119 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
6 70 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
7 63 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
8 61 (1.73%) Management Information System
9 54 (1.53%) AI Agents
10 47 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
11 44 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
12 43 (1.22%) Algorithms
12 43 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
13 41 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
13 41 (1.17%) NHS
14 38 (1.08%) Marketing Technology
14 38 (1.08%) Virtual Team
15 35 (0.99%) Mobile App
16 32 (0.91%) Derivative
17 30 (0.85%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 86 (2.44%) Linux
2 81 (2.30%) Windows
3 40 (1.14%) Unix
4 33 (0.94%) Windows Server
5 16 (0.45%) Apple iOS
6 13 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.34%) Mac OS
8 9 (0.26%) Android
8 9 (0.26%) VMS
9 5 (0.14%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.085%) Solaris
10 3 (0.085%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.057%) AIX
11 2 (0.057%) CentOS
11 2 (0.057%) HPUX
12 1 (0.028%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 928 (26.38%) Data Modelling
2 906 (25.75%) Business Intelligence
3 868 (24.67%) AI
4 808 (22.97%) Agile
5 717 (20.38%) Data Pipeline
6 698 (19.84%) Stakeholder Management
7 684 (19.44%) Data Engineering
8 664 (18.87%) CI/CD
9 630 (17.91%) Decision-Making
10 575 (16.34%) ETL
11 557 (15.83%) Data Governance
12 535 (15.21%) DevOps
13 509 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
14 459 (13.05%) Migration
15 432 (12.28%) Continuous Improvement
16 428 (12.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 415 (11.80%) Machine Learning
18 404 (11.48%) Validation
19 399 (11.34%) Data Science
20 388 (11.03%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,133 (32.21%) SQL
2 986 (28.03%) Python
3 160 (4.55%) PowerShell
4 110 (3.13%) Java
5 101 (2.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 85 (2.42%) Bicep
7 83 (2.36%) C#
8 76 (2.16%) JavaScript
9 61 (1.73%) R
10 54 (1.53%) Bash
11 36 (1.02%) Scala
11 36 (1.02%) TypeScript
12 35 (0.99%) Shell Script
13 34 (0.97%) Kusto Query Language
14 30 (0.85%) T-SQL
15 27 (0.77%) PL/SQL
16 19 (0.54%) C++
17 16 (0.45%) VBA
18 12 (0.34%) Kotlin
19 10 (0.28%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 631 (17.94%) Security Cleared
2 498 (14.16%) SC Cleared
3 280 (7.96%) Degree
4 84 (2.39%) Azure Certification
5 78 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 78 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 74 (2.10%) DV Cleared
7 53 (1.51%) Master's Degree
8 45 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
9 38 (1.08%) CISSP
10 28 (0.80%) AWS Certification
11 27 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
12 26 (0.74%) PMI Certification
13 22 (0.63%) DBS Check
14 21 (0.60%) PMP
15 15 (0.43%) CCNP
16 14 (0.40%) CCIE
17 12 (0.34%) PhD
18 11 (0.31%) CISA
18 11 (0.31%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 694 (19.73%) Data Quality
2 165 (4.69%) GDPR
3 139 (3.95%) QA
4 130 (3.70%) Accessibility
5 52 (1.48%) GRC
6 45 (1.28%) WCAG
7 38 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 32 (0.91%) NIST
9 27 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
10 25 (0.71%) PMO
11 20 (0.57%) SLA
12 14 (0.40%) PCI DSS
12 14 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 12 (0.34%) PERC
13 12 (0.34%) Solvency II
14 10 (0.28%) IFRS
14 10 (0.28%) NCSC
15 7 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
16 6 (0.17%) GAAP
16 6 (0.17%) PSD2
System Software
1 152 (4.32%) Docker
2 91 (2.59%) Active Directory
3 28 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.23%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.20%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.085%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 3 (0.085%) HDFS
9 2 (0.057%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.057%) vSphere
9 2 (0.057%) XenApp
9 2 (0.057%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.028%) iptables
10 1 (0.028%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.028%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 164 (4.66%) Kubernetes
2 52 (1.48%) Ansible
3 38 (1.08%) Grafana
4 24 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
5 23 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (0.37%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.37%) SCCM
7 8 (0.23%) Control-M
7 8 (0.23%) FortiGate
8 7 (0.20%) SCOM
9 6 (0.17%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.11%) Podman
10 4 (0.11%) QRadar
10 4 (0.11%) SysTrack
11 3 (0.085%) Apache Ranger
11 3 (0.085%) CASB
11 3 (0.085%) NetBackup
11 3 (0.085%) Thomson Reuters DACS
12 2 (0.057%) MOM
12 2 (0.057%) Rancher
Vendors
1 635 (18.05%) Microsoft
2 460 (13.08%) Databricks
3 222 (6.31%) Oracle
4 185 (5.26%) SAP
5 184 (5.23%) Google
6 81 (2.30%) Adobe
6 81 (2.30%) Salesforce
6 81 (2.30%) ServiceNow
7 54 (1.53%) Workday
8 47 (1.34%) Foundry
9 46 (1.31%) Informatica
9 46 (1.31%) Splunk
10 40 (1.14%) Denodo
10 40 (1.14%) Dynatrace
10 40 (1.14%) Talend
11 38 (1.08%) Palantir
12 35 (0.99%) Cisco
13 29 (0.82%) VMware
14 25 (0.71%) OpenAI
15 22 (0.63%) Alteryx