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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 36
Rank change year-on-year +2 +9 -2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,398 1,774 1,923
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.60% 6.57% 5.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.89% 7.24% 6.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,297 1,183 1,346
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -2.22%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 38 43
10th Percentile £19.91 £14.83 £13.90
25th Percentile £35.00 £19.50 £25.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £33.28 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.29% +10.92% -6.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £63.31 £43.75
90th Percentile £88.80 £79.09 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £34.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year +52.17% +23.21% -12.91%

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 38,237 24,502 31,943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.52% 90.81% 85.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,096 15,746 20,754
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £733 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,381 1,253 2,276
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.98 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.07%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.01 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.37 £70.16 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -6.25%

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 9 July 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 9 July 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 9 July 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 1,853 £550 -4.35% 1,667
Midlands +12 416 £492 -1.54% 206
North of England +5 415 £492 +7.78% 344
West Midlands +12 322 £492 -4.00% 116
South East +4 312 £500 -4.76% 475
North West +7 208 £513 +8.70% 182
South West +16 191 £500 +5.26% 462
Yorkshire +4 165 £488 +5.41% 107
East of England -8 116 £538 -7.33% 114
East Midlands +7 87 £509 +23.71% 90
North East +5 54 £450 +9.09% 55
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
1 156 (4.59%) Apache Spark
2 145 (4.27%) Apache Airflow
3 104 (3.06%) SAS
4 93 (2.74%) Apache
5 65 (1.91%) Confluence
6 43 (1.27%) SharePoint
7 34 (1.00%) CMS
8 30 (0.88%) Jupyter
9 29 (0.85%) Palantir Foundry
10 20 (0.59%) Oracle Application Server
11 15 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
12 14 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 9 (0.26%) Apache Superset
14 7 (0.21%) WordPress
15 6 (0.18%) Drupal
15 6 (0.18%) IIS
15 6 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
16 3 (0.088%) ArcGIS
17 2 (0.059%) Apache Synapse
17 2 (0.059%) Moodle
Applications
1 151 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 20 (0.59%) Chatbot
4 19 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
5 18 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
6 14 (0.41%) MS Visio
7 12 (0.35%) CPLEX
8 9 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
10 3 (0.088%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.088%) Sketch
11 2 (0.059%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.029%) InDesign
12 1 (0.029%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.029%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.029%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 71 (2.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
4 10 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
4 10 (0.29%) Workday HCM
5 9 (0.26%) Aladdin
6 8 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.21%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 7 (0.21%) NetSuite
7 7 (0.21%) SAP ERP
8 6 (0.18%) Sage X3
9 5 (0.15%) BambooHR
9 5 (0.15%) Infor LN
9 5 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
9 5 (0.15%) SAP BPC
9 5 (0.15%) Shopify
9 5 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 4 (0.12%) iTrent
10 4 (0.12%) SAP GRC
10 4 (0.12%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 1,015 (29.87%) Azure
2 715 (21.04%) Power Platform
3 655 (19.28%) AWS
4 293 (8.62%) GCP
5 229 (6.74%) Azure DevOps
6 225 (6.62%) Snowflake
7 222 (6.53%) Azure Data Factory
8 189 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 182 (5.36%) dbt
10 165 (4.86%) GitHub
11 144 (4.24%) Amazon S3
12 141 (4.15%) Serverless
13 115 (3.38%) Azure Monitor
14 94 (2.77%) AWS Lambda
15 93 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
15 93 (2.74%) SaaS
16 88 (2.59%) Entra ID
16 88 (2.59%) Microsoft 365
17 51 (1.50%) Power Automate
18 48 (1.41%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (1.50%) Firewall
2 39 (1.15%) Network Security
3 30 (0.88%) VPN
4 25 (0.74%) WAN
5 24 (0.71%) DNS
6 23 (0.68%) SD-WAN
7 21 (0.62%) BGP
8 13 (0.38%) TCP/IP
9 12 (0.35%) OSPF
10 11 (0.32%) SMS
11 9 (0.26%) Wireless
12 8 (0.24%) VXLAN
13 7 (0.21%) 5G
13 7 (0.21%) DHCP
13 7 (0.21%) HTTP
13 7 (0.21%) Internet
13 7 (0.21%) LAN
13 7 (0.21%) MPLS
13 7 (0.21%) WLAN
14 6 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 673 (19.81%) Power BI
2 435 (12.80%) Data Warehouse
3 256 (7.53%) Data Lake
4 236 (6.95%) Tableau
5 197 (5.80%) Metadata
6 128 (3.77%) BigQuery
7 105 (3.09%) Delta Lake
8 99 (2.91%) SQL Server
9 98 (2.88%) Big Data
10 91 (2.68%) Amazon Redshift
11 83 (2.44%) Relational Database
12 80 (2.35%) Snowflake Schema
13 74 (2.18%) Amazon Athena
14 71 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
15 69 (2.03%) Looker
15 69 (2.03%) NoSQL
16 60 (1.77%) Azure SQL Database
17 52 (1.53%) Power Query
18 50 (1.47%) Star Schema
19 48 (1.41%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 191 (5.62%) Git
2 159 (4.68%) JIRA
3 78 (2.30%) Jenkins
4 62 (1.82%) GitLab
5 18 (0.53%) ERwin
6 12 (0.35%) JUnit
7 11 (0.32%) MLflow
8 10 (0.29%) ER Studio
8 10 (0.29%) fastlane
8 10 (0.29%) Selenium
9 7 (0.21%) Postman
9 7 (0.21%) PowerDesigner
10 6 (0.18%) Android Studio
10 6 (0.18%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.18%) Crashlytics
10 6 (0.18%) Gradle
11 5 (0.15%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.15%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.15%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.15%) Xcode
General
1 858 (25.25%) Finance
2 857 (25.22%) Social Skills
3 578 (17.01%) Analytical Skills
4 398 (11.71%) Public Sector
5 243 (7.15%) Banking
6 189 (5.56%) Marketing
7 138 (4.06%) Retail
8 77 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 77 (2.27%) Legal
9 74 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
10 62 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
10 62 (1.82%) Manufacturing
11 58 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
12 54 (1.59%) Investment Banking
13 51 (1.50%) Front Office
14 46 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
15 45 (1.32%) Telecoms
16 39 (1.15%) Financial Institution
17 30 (0.88%) Military
18 29 (0.85%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 645 (18.98%) Data Engineer
2 426 (12.54%) Analyst
3 414 (12.18%) Senior
4 411 (12.10%) Architect
5 344 (10.12%) Developer
6 289 (8.51%) Lead
7 186 (5.47%) Data Architect
8 174 (5.12%) Data Analyst
9 136 (4.00%) Consultant
10 117 (3.44%) Data Scientist
11 113 (3.33%) Business Analyst
12 111 (3.27%) Solutions Architect
13 107 (3.15%) Senior Data Engineer
14 106 (3.12%) Azure Engineer
15 69 (2.03%) Data Manager
16 64 (1.88%) Project Manager
17 62 (1.82%) Designer
18 59 (1.74%) Python Developer
19 58 (1.71%) Business Intelligence Developer
20 57 (1.68%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (5.80%) PySpark
2 134 (3.94%) Kafka
3 116 (3.41%) REST
4 62 (1.82%) Pandas
5 53 (1.56%) JSON
6 50 (1.47%) React
6 50 (1.47%) RESTful
7 44 (1.29%) .NET
8 38 (1.12%) NumPy
9 37 (1.09%) HTML
9 37 (1.09%) PyTorch
10 36 (1.06%) CSS
11 35 (1.03%) Middleware
12 34 (1.00%) TensorFlow
12 34 (1.00%) Web Services
13 32 (0.94%) Microsoft Graph
13 32 (0.94%) scikit-learn
14 31 (0.91%) SOAP
15 28 (0.82%) ARM Templates
16 26 (0.77%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 243 (7.15%) Cloud Native
2 163 (4.80%) Product Ownership
3 132 (3.88%) Data Structures
4 115 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
5 106 (3.12%) Onboarding
6 69 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
7 61 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
8 52 (1.53%) Algorithms
9 49 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
10 45 (1.32%) AI Agents
11 43 (1.27%) Management Information System
12 42 (1.24%) NHS
13 40 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
14 38 (1.12%) Public Cloud
15 37 (1.09%) Mobile App
16 34 (1.00%) Virtual Team
17 31 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
17 31 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
17 31 (0.91%) Marketing Technology
18 30 (0.88%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 90 (2.65%) Windows
2 80 (2.35%) Linux
3 41 (1.21%) Unix
4 24 (0.71%) Mac OS
5 23 (0.68%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.47%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.35%) Android
8 10 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.15%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.15%) VMS
10 3 (0.088%) CentOS
10 3 (0.088%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.029%) Rocky
11 1 (0.029%) Solaris
11 1 (0.029%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 945 (27.81%) Data Modelling
2 892 (26.25%) Business Intelligence
3 812 (23.90%) AI
4 737 (21.69%) Agile
5 721 (21.22%) Data Pipeline
6 701 (20.63%) Data Engineering
7 672 (19.78%) CI/CD
8 577 (16.98%) ETL
9 566 (16.66%) Decision-Making
10 535 (15.74%) Stakeholder Management
11 524 (15.42%) DevOps
12 523 (15.39%) Data Governance
13 508 (14.95%) Problem-Solving
14 421 (12.39%) Machine Learning
15 410 (12.07%) Migration
16 408 (12.01%) Data Science
17 399 (11.74%) Validation
18 393 (11.57%) Continuous Improvement
19 390 (11.48%) Data Analytics
20 363 (10.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,142 (33.61%) SQL
2 1,013 (29.81%) Python
3 138 (4.06%) Java
4 119 (3.50%) PowerShell
5 100 (2.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 87 (2.56%) C#
7 71 (2.09%) R
8 65 (1.91%) Bicep
9 57 (1.68%) JavaScript
10 44 (1.29%) Scala
11 43 (1.27%) TypeScript
12 39 (1.15%) Kusto Query Language
13 37 (1.09%) Bash
14 36 (1.06%) Shell Script
14 36 (1.06%) T-SQL
15 27 (0.79%) PL/SQL
16 22 (0.65%) VBA
17 20 (0.59%) C++
18 10 (0.29%) Korn
18 10 (0.29%) Swift
Qualifications
1 571 (16.80%) Security Cleared
2 452 (13.30%) SC Cleared
3 269 (7.92%) Degree
4 80 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 80 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 68 (2.00%) Azure Certification
6 57 (1.68%) DV Cleared
7 42 (1.24%) Master's Degree
8 34 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
9 29 (0.85%) CISSP
10 27 (0.79%) AWS Certification
11 25 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
12 23 (0.68%) PMI Certification
13 20 (0.59%) DBS Check
14 19 (0.56%) PMP
15 16 (0.47%) CCNP
16 15 (0.44%) CCIE
17 11 (0.32%) CISA
18 10 (0.29%) PhD
18 10 (0.29%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 639 (18.81%) Data Quality
2 170 (5.00%) GDPR
3 130 (3.83%) QA
4 117 (3.44%) Accessibility
5 45 (1.32%) WCAG
6 35 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 28 (0.82%) NIST
8 26 (0.77%) PMO
9 22 (0.65%) GRC
10 20 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
11 16 (0.47%) SLA
11 16 (0.47%) Solvency II
12 11 (0.32%) NCSC
12 11 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 10 (0.29%) IFRS
13 10 (0.29%) PCI DSS
14 7 (0.21%) PERC
15 6 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 6 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.18%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 161 (4.74%) Docker
2 72 (2.12%) Active Directory
3 25 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.21%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.18%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.12%) HDFS
8 4 (0.12%) Snort
9 2 (0.059%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.059%) vSphere
10 1 (0.029%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.029%) GPFS
10 1 (0.029%) iptables
10 1 (0.029%) Lustre
10 1 (0.029%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.029%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.029%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 253 (7.45%) Terraform
2 177 (5.21%) Kubernetes
3 38 (1.12%) Ansible
4 36 (1.06%) Grafana
5 32 (0.94%) Prometheus
6 31 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
7 21 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.24%) FortiGate
8 8 (0.24%) SCCM
9 5 (0.15%) Argo
10 4 (0.12%) Control-M
10 4 (0.12%) CSIRT
10 4 (0.12%) Podman
11 3 (0.088%) Kibana
11 3 (0.088%) Nagios
11 3 (0.088%) Puppet
11 3 (0.088%) QRadar
11 3 (0.088%) Rancher
12 2 (0.059%) OpenVAS
12 2 (0.059%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 571 (16.80%) Microsoft
2 450 (13.24%) Databricks
3 176 (5.18%) Oracle
4 169 (4.97%) SAP
5 159 (4.68%) Google
6 75 (2.21%) Salesforce
7 72 (2.12%) ServiceNow
8 66 (1.94%) Adobe
9 53 (1.56%) Informatica
9 53 (1.56%) Splunk
10 48 (1.41%) Foundry
11 45 (1.32%) Workday
12 44 (1.29%) Talend
13 38 (1.12%) OpenAI
14 36 (1.06%) Denodo
14 36 (1.06%) Palantir
15 34 (1.00%) Dynatrace
16 29 (0.85%) Cisco
17 27 (0.79%) VMware
18 16 (0.47%) Alteryx