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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 27 37
Rank change year-on-year +4 +10 0
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,855 1,612 1,823
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.60% 6.64% 4.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.81% 7.31% 5.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,958 1,097 1,254
10th Percentile £357 £325 £358
25th Percentile £419 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £813 £800
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 30 61
10th Percentile £25.42 £15.28 £17.64
25th Percentile £40.79 £23.50 £25.00
Median hourly rate £58.50 £31.64 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +84.89% -20.90% +33.33%
75th Percentile £75.00 £60.25 £61.50
90th Percentile £84.35 £77.62 £79.17
UK median hourly rate £56.40 £31.64 £37.13
% change year-on-year +78.26% -14.77% +23.75%

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 32,394 22,046 32,724
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.25% 90.85% 86.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,755 14,514 21,646
10th Percentile £313 £313 £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 £614 £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 1,983 845 2,157
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.30 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.55 £32.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -1.52% -12.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.20 £76.25 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £32.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +7.81% -1.54% -9.72%

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 26 March 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 26 March 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 26 March 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 1,613 £535 -10.83% 896
Midlands +29 334 £492 +3.58% 212
North of England +5 298 £495 +7.03% 331
West Midlands +25 252 £493 +1.86% 110
South East -4 228 £500 +4.17% 433
North West +4 175 £495 +7.03% 192
South West +30 172 £503 +0.50% 149
East of England -10 107 £505 -15.83% 103
Yorkshire -1 100 £500 +1.01% 91
East Midlands +5 77 £447 +23.65% 102
North East +13 32 £450 +25.70% 52
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
1 140 (4.90%) Apache Spark
2 108 (3.78%) SAS
3 97 (3.40%) Apache Airflow
4 86 (3.01%) Apache
5 63 (2.21%) Confluence
6 54 (1.89%) SharePoint
7 30 (1.05%) CMS
8 19 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
9 15 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 9 (0.32%) Jupyter
10 9 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
11 8 (0.28%) GeoServer
11 8 (0.28%) Smallworld
12 7 (0.25%) Apache Superset
12 7 (0.25%) ArcGIS
12 7 (0.25%) Oracle Application Server
13 6 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
13 6 (0.21%) WordPress
14 3 (0.11%) IIS
14 3 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 127 (4.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (0.84%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.67%) Chatbot
6 13 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
8 5 (0.18%) CPLEX
8 5 (0.18%) Trello
9 4 (0.14%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.14%) Oracle Smart View
9 4 (0.14%) Sketch
10 3 (0.11%) Notion
11 2 (0.070%) Autodesk Smoke
12 1 (0.035%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.035%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.035%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.035%) InDesign
12 1 (0.035%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.035%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 63 (2.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.32%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 9 (0.32%) SAP MM
4 8 (0.28%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 8 (0.28%) SAP FI
5 7 (0.25%) Maximo
5 7 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.21%) Aladdin
6 6 (0.21%) Sage X3
7 5 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.18%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 5 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.14%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
8 4 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.14%) SAP HR
8 4 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.14%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 911 (31.91%) Azure
2 628 (22.00%) Power Platform
3 587 (20.56%) AWS
4 297 (10.40%) GCP
5 218 (7.64%) Azure Data Factory
6 210 (7.36%) Azure DevOps
7 191 (6.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 180 (6.30%) Snowflake
9 176 (6.16%) GitHub
10 133 (4.66%) Serverless
11 123 (4.31%) Amazon S3
11 123 (4.31%) dbt
12 117 (4.10%) Azure Monitor
13 105 (3.68%) GitHub Actions
14 98 (3.43%) Microsoft 365
15 84 (2.94%) SaaS
16 83 (2.91%) Entra ID
17 75 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
18 65 (2.28%) Azure Key Vault
19 64 (2.24%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 49 (1.72%) Firewall
2 34 (1.19%) Network Security
3 31 (1.09%) VPN
4 25 (0.88%) DNS
5 16 (0.56%) WAN
6 14 (0.49%) SMS
7 12 (0.42%) SD-WAN
8 10 (0.35%) 5G
8 10 (0.35%) MPLS
9 9 (0.32%) HTTP
9 9 (0.32%) SSL
10 8 (0.28%) DHCP
11 7 (0.25%) 4G
11 7 (0.25%) BGP
11 7 (0.25%) TCP/IP
12 6 (0.21%) Internet
12 6 (0.21%) OSPF
12 6 (0.21%) Radio Access Network
12 6 (0.21%) SMTP
12 6 (0.21%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 576 (20.18%) Power BI
2 356 (12.47%) Data Warehouse
3 220 (7.71%) Data Lake
4 181 (6.34%) Metadata
5 180 (6.30%) Tableau
6 99 (3.47%) BigQuery
7 97 (3.40%) Delta Lake
8 92 (3.22%) SQL Server
9 87 (3.05%) Big Data
10 72 (2.52%) Relational Database
10 72 (2.52%) Snowflake Schema
11 71 (2.49%) Azure SQL Database
12 69 (2.42%) NoSQL
13 65 (2.28%) Amazon Redshift
13 65 (2.28%) PostgreSQL
14 56 (1.96%) Hadoop
15 55 (1.93%) Looker
15 55 (1.93%) Power Query
16 53 (1.86%) Star Schema
17 51 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 197 (6.90%) Git
2 167 (5.85%) JIRA
3 96 (3.36%) Jenkins
4 81 (2.84%) GitLab
5 28 (0.98%) Selenium
6 24 (0.84%) JUnit
7 21 (0.74%) ERwin
8 14 (0.49%) MLflow
9 8 (0.28%) Bitbucket
9 8 (0.28%) Gradle
9 8 (0.28%) PowerDesigner
9 8 (0.28%) SonarQube
10 7 (0.25%) Android Studio
10 7 (0.25%) Cypress.io
10 7 (0.25%) MSI
11 5 (0.18%) ER Studio
11 5 (0.18%) fastlane
11 5 (0.18%) Maven
11 5 (0.18%) XCTest
12 4 (0.14%) Postman
General
1 850 (29.77%) Social Skills
2 734 (25.71%) Finance
3 550 (19.26%) Analytical Skills
4 289 (10.12%) Public Sector
5 210 (7.36%) Banking
6 172 (6.02%) Marketing
7 81 (2.84%) Retail
8 77 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
9 62 (2.17%) Front Office
10 53 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 50 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
12 47 (1.65%) Legal
13 46 (1.61%) Investment Banking
14 44 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
15 42 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
16 39 (1.37%) Manufacturing
17 38 (1.33%) Telecoms
18 30 (1.05%) Financial Institution
19 26 (0.91%) Advertising
20 22 (0.77%) Military
Job Titles
1 498 (17.44%) Data Engineer
2 354 (12.40%) Analyst
3 335 (11.73%) Developer
4 333 (11.66%) Architect
5 314 (11.00%) Senior
6 249 (8.72%) Lead
7 144 (5.04%) Data Analyst
8 140 (4.90%) Data Architect
9 130 (4.55%) Consultant
10 104 (3.64%) Azure Engineer
11 102 (3.57%) Business Analyst
12 92 (3.22%) Data Scientist
13 77 (2.70%) Senior Data Engineer
14 72 (2.52%) Solutions Architect
15 66 (2.31%) Project Manager
16 59 (2.07%) Designer
17 54 (1.89%) Senior Developer
18 51 (1.79%) Snowflake Engineer
19 49 (1.72%) Python Developer
20 48 (1.68%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (5.46%) Kafka
2 154 (5.39%) PySpark
2 154 (5.39%) REST
3 66 (2.31%) Pandas
4 60 (2.10%) React
4 60 (2.10%) TensorFlow
5 57 (2.00%) PyTorch
6 51 (1.79%) JSON
7 50 (1.75%) scikit-learn
8 49 (1.72%) NumPy
9 44 (1.54%) AngularJS
10 43 (1.51%) Node.js
11 42 (1.47%) .NET
12 41 (1.44%) HTML
13 40 (1.40%) CSS
14 38 (1.33%) ARM Templates
14 38 (1.33%) SOAP
15 34 (1.19%) pytest
16 33 (1.16%) Oracle Fusion
17 32 (1.12%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 172 (6.02%) Cloud Native
2 108 (3.78%) Product Ownership
3 94 (3.29%) Data Structures
4 82 (2.87%) Onboarding
5 78 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
6 57 (2.00%) Algorithms
6 57 (2.00%) Management Information System
7 54 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
8 51 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
9 47 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
10 40 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 39 (1.37%) Equities
12 38 (1.33%) Public Cloud
13 33 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
13 33 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
13 33 (1.16%) NHS
14 30 (1.05%) Derivative
15 29 (1.02%) Marketing Technology
16 27 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
17 26 (0.91%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 86 (3.01%) Windows
2 75 (2.63%) Linux
3 32 (1.12%) Unix
4 28 (0.98%) Mac OS
5 19 (0.67%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.56%) Android
7 9 (0.32%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.25%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.14%) VMS
10 3 (0.11%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.070%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.070%) zOS
12 1 (0.035%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.035%) CentOS
12 1 (0.035%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 792 (27.74%) Business Intelligence
2 764 (26.76%) Data Modelling
3 651 (22.80%) Agile
4 592 (20.74%) CI/CD
5 585 (20.49%) AI
6 574 (20.11%) ETL
7 556 (19.47%) Problem-Solving
8 551 (19.30%) Data Engineering
9 545 (19.09%) Data Pipeline
10 528 (18.49%) DevOps
11 485 (16.99%) Data Governance
12 438 (15.34%) Decision-Making
13 382 (13.38%) Stakeholder Management
14 352 (12.33%) Machine Learning
15 351 (12.29%) Data Science
16 342 (11.98%) Data Analytics
17 316 (11.07%) Continuous Improvement
18 289 (10.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 286 (10.02%) Migration
20 284 (9.95%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1,005 (35.20%) SQL
2 927 (32.47%) Python
3 156 (5.46%) Java
4 109 (3.82%) PowerShell
5 92 (3.22%) C#
6 91 (3.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 77 (2.70%) JavaScript
8 75 (2.63%) R
9 74 (2.59%) Bicep
10 50 (1.75%) Kusto Query Language
11 46 (1.61%) Bash
12 41 (1.44%) TypeScript
13 40 (1.40%) Scala
14 38 (1.33%) T-SQL
15 31 (1.09%) VBA
16 30 (1.05%) C++
17 29 (1.02%) PL/SQL
18 22 (0.77%) Shell Script
19 11 (0.39%) Kotlin
20 10 (0.35%) Swift
Qualifications
1 508 (17.79%) Security Cleared
2 395 (13.84%) SC Cleared
3 242 (8.48%) Degree
4 77 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 67 (2.35%) Azure Certification
6 48 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 43 (1.51%) Master's Degree
8 38 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 37 (1.30%) DV Cleared
10 28 (0.98%) PMI Certification
11 26 (0.91%) CISSP
12 23 (0.81%) AWS Certification
12 23 (0.81%) PMP
13 20 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
14 18 (0.63%) CISM
15 15 (0.53%) CCNP
16 14 (0.49%) IIBA
16 14 (0.49%) PhD
17 12 (0.42%) CCIE
18 8 (0.28%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 513 (17.97%) Data Quality
2 166 (5.81%) GDPR
3 116 (4.06%) QA
4 102 (3.57%) Accessibility
5 39 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (1.12%) WCAG
7 27 (0.95%) NIST
8 23 (0.81%) PMO
9 20 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
10 15 (0.53%) GRC
10 15 (0.53%) NCSC
11 14 (0.49%) Solvency II
12 13 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 11 (0.39%) PERC
13 11 (0.39%) SLA
14 9 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 9 (0.32%) HL7
15 8 (0.28%) NIST 800
15 8 (0.28%) SOC 2
16 7 (0.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 199 (6.97%) Docker
2 73 (2.56%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.21%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.14%) HDFS
6 4 (0.14%) Snort
7 2 (0.070%) GPFS
7 2 (0.070%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.070%) Lustre
7 2 (0.070%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.035%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.035%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.035%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.035%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 247 (8.65%) Terraform
2 216 (7.57%) Kubernetes
3 38 (1.33%) Ansible
4 35 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 31 (1.09%) Grafana
6 30 (1.05%) Prometheus
7 21 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
8 16 (0.56%) SCCM
9 9 (0.32%) Puppet
10 7 (0.25%) Kibana
11 6 (0.21%) logstash
12 4 (0.14%) CSIRT
12 4 (0.14%) WSUS
13 3 (0.11%) Argo
13 3 (0.11%) Control-M
13 3 (0.11%) Fluentd
13 3 (0.11%) SysTrack
14 2 (0.070%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.070%) Apache Ranger
14 2 (0.070%) CASB
Vendors
1 525 (18.39%) Microsoft
2 387 (13.56%) Databricks
3 180 (6.30%) Google
4 151 (5.29%) Oracle
5 133 (4.66%) SAP
6 70 (2.45%) Salesforce
7 69 (2.42%) ServiceNow
8 63 (2.21%) Adobe
8 63 (2.21%) Informatica
9 60 (2.10%) Talend
10 50 (1.75%) Splunk
11 46 (1.61%) OpenAI
12 42 (1.47%) Denodo
13 39 (1.37%) Foundry
14 32 (1.12%) Workday
15 25 (0.88%) IBM
16 24 (0.84%) VMware
17 20 (0.70%) Cisco
18 14 (0.49%) Dynatrace
18 14 (0.49%) Palantir