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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 35 35
Rank change year-on-year +9 0 0
Contract jobs citing Analytics 1,824 1,728 2,213
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 6.56% 5.24% 5.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.22% 6.09% 5.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,187 1,556
10th Percentile £358 £354 £373
25th Percentile £438 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -1.71%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 26 69
10th Percentile £18.68 £23.25 £18.20
25th Percentile £27.63 £27.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £37.75 £32.50 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +16.14% -7.80% +0.71%
75th Percentile £71.13 £52.19 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.88 £70.49 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £37.75 £32.50 £35.25
% change year-on-year +16.14% -7.80% +0.71%

All Process and 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 25,277 28,358 37,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.89% 86.07% 89.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,059 17,631 26,012
10th Percentile £300 £313 £315
25th Percentile £405 £420 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £645 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,509 1,303 1,436
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.79 £20.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +53.66%
75th Percentile £50.00 £66.55 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.79
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.81% +51.53%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Analytics 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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 2025. 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 +4 1,093 £550 -6.38% 1,773
North of England +7 205 £460 -14.22% 460
Midlands +12 187 £515 +3.00% 239
West Midlands +8 140 £520 -0.95% 135
South East -3 132 £525 - 978
North West +8 119 £475 -9.52% 299
East of England +31 83 £554 +10.75% 122
Yorkshire +3 77 £475 -13.64% 126
South West +18 61 £470 -12.56% 139
East Midlands +12 48 £463 +1.65% 101
North East +4 12 £381 -41.12% 40
Analytics
UK

Analytics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 87 (4.77%) Apache Airflow
2 77 (4.22%) Apache Spark
3 64 (3.51%) Apache
4 62 (3.40%) Confluence
5 53 (2.91%) SAS
6 32 (1.75%) CMS
7 23 (1.26%) SharePoint
8 15 (0.82%) WebLogic
9 11 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 9 (0.49%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 6 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.22%) Headless CMS
13 4 (0.22%) JBoss
13 4 (0.22%) Oracle Application Server
14 3 (0.16%) Apache Superset
14 3 (0.16%) IIS
14 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
14 3 (0.16%) Umbraco
14 3 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 133 (7.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (1.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (1.32%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.66%) Chatbot
6 9 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.16%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.16%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.11%) Maple
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
8 2 (0.11%) Sketch
9 1 (0.055%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.055%) FrameMaker
9 1 (0.055%) InDesign
9 1 (0.055%) Simulink
9 1 (0.055%) Trello
Business Applications
1 86 (4.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.77%) Aladdin
3 13 (0.71%) SAP EHS
4 11 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
5 9 (0.49%) Workday HCM
6 8 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
7 7 (0.38%) SAP IBP
8 6 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
8 6 (0.33%) SAP CO
8 6 (0.33%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.27%) SAP FI
9 5 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
9 5 (0.27%) SAP HR
9 5 (0.27%) SAP PM
9 5 (0.27%) SAP SD
9 5 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
10 4 (0.22%) SAP BPC
10 4 (0.22%) Shopify
10 4 (0.22%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 535 (29.33%) Azure
2 381 (20.89%) AWS
3 369 (20.23%) Power Platform
4 190 (10.42%) GCP
5 115 (6.30%) Snowflake
6 103 (5.65%) Azure DevOps
7 102 (5.59%) Azure Data Factory
8 96 (5.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 82 (4.50%) dbt
10 78 (4.28%) SaaS
11 71 (3.89%) GitHub
12 70 (3.84%) Azure Monitor
12 70 (3.84%) Serverless
13 56 (3.07%) Google Analytics
14 46 (2.52%) Entra ID
15 41 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
15 41 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
16 40 (2.19%) Azure Logic Apps
17 39 (2.14%) PowerApps
18 34 (1.86%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 40 (2.19%) Firewall
2 30 (1.64%) Network Security
3 26 (1.43%) DNS
4 17 (0.93%) WAN
5 15 (0.82%) HTTP
6 14 (0.77%) SD-WAN
6 14 (0.77%) VPN
7 11 (0.60%) SSL
8 10 (0.55%) Ethernet
9 9 (0.49%) Cisco Nexus
10 8 (0.44%) FTP
10 8 (0.44%) SMTP
11 5 (0.27%) 5G
11 5 (0.27%) Intrusion Detection
11 5 (0.27%) Wireless
12 4 (0.22%) 4G
12 4 (0.22%) DHCP
12 4 (0.22%) LAN
12 4 (0.22%) LTE
12 4 (0.22%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 345 (18.91%) Power BI
2 224 (12.28%) Data Warehouse
3 143 (7.84%) Tableau
4 131 (7.18%) Data Lake
5 75 (4.11%) Big Data
6 72 (3.95%) Metadata
7 67 (3.67%) BigQuery
8 56 (3.07%) Hadoop
9 55 (3.02%) SQL Server
10 50 (2.74%) Relational Database
11 49 (2.69%) PostgreSQL
12 48 (2.63%) Looker
13 45 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
14 38 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
15 37 (2.03%) Power Query
16 35 (1.92%) NoSQL
16 35 (1.92%) Snowflake Schema
17 34 (1.86%) Delta Lake
18 30 (1.64%) Data Mining
19 26 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 132 (7.24%) JIRA
2 120 (6.58%) Git
3 57 (3.13%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.71%) ERwin
4 13 (0.71%) GitLab
5 12 (0.66%) MLflow
6 11 (0.60%) Postman
7 10 (0.55%) ER Studio
8 9 (0.49%) Selenium
9 8 (0.44%) TeamCity
10 7 (0.38%) Browser DevTools
10 7 (0.38%) PowerDesigner
10 7 (0.38%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.33%) LSMW
11 6 (0.33%) PVCS
11 6 (0.33%) Terragrunt
11 6 (0.33%) Visual Website Optimizer
12 5 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.27%) Vite
12 5 (0.27%) webpack
General
1 643 (35.25%) Social Skills
2 561 (30.76%) Finance
3 371 (20.34%) Analytical Skills
4 195 (10.69%) Banking
5 169 (9.27%) Marketing
6 129 (7.07%) Public Sector
7 73 (4.00%) Front Office
8 72 (3.95%) Investment Banking
9 65 (3.56%) Retail
10 58 (3.18%) Legal
11 45 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
12 37 (2.03%) Manufacturing
13 35 (1.92%) Financial Institution
13 35 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
14 33 (1.81%) Telecoms
15 30 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
16 29 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
17 25 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 19 (1.04%) Law
18 19 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 353 (19.35%) Analyst
2 227 (12.45%) Developer
3 209 (11.46%) Senior
4 193 (10.58%) Architect
5 184 (10.09%) Data Engineer
6 135 (7.40%) Business Analyst
7 131 (7.18%) Data Analyst
8 114 (6.25%) Lead
9 112 (6.14%) Consultant
10 65 (3.56%) Data Architect
11 53 (2.91%) Senior Developer
12 50 (2.74%) Azure Engineer
13 42 (2.30%) Data Scientist
14 41 (2.25%) SAP Consultant
15 40 (2.19%) Senior Analyst
15 40 (2.19%) Solutions Architect
16 36 (1.97%) Project Manager
17 31 (1.70%) Senior Data Engineer
18 30 (1.64%) Azure Data Engineer
19 29 (1.59%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (3.95%) Kafka
2 57 (3.13%) React
3 52 (2.85%) HTML
4 47 (2.58%) PySpark
5 43 (2.36%) REST
6 40 (2.19%) CSS
7 37 (2.03%) RESTful
8 33 (1.81%) AngularJS
9 29 (1.59%) Redux
10 28 (1.54%) .NET
11 27 (1.48%) Next.js
12 26 (1.43%) Pandas
13 25 (1.37%) SOAP
14 23 (1.26%) Node.js
14 23 (1.26%) SAP Fiori
15 22 (1.21%) TensorFlow
16 20 (1.10%) ARM Templates
17 19 (1.04%) Vue
18 18 (0.99%) PyTorch
19 17 (0.93%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 94 (5.15%) Product Ownership
2 75 (4.11%) Cloud Native
3 61 (3.34%) Data Structures
3 61 (3.34%) Onboarding
4 59 (3.23%) Management Information System
5 56 (3.07%) Algorithms
6 48 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
6 48 (2.63%) Derivative
7 47 (2.58%) Fixed Income
8 43 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
9 41 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
10 35 (1.92%) Market Risk
11 34 (1.86%) Virtual Team
12 33 (1.81%) Mobile App
13 31 (1.70%) Equities
13 31 (1.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 31 (1.70%) Hedge funds
14 30 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
15 29 (1.59%) Life Science
16 25 (1.37%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 67 (3.67%) Linux
2 56 (3.07%) Windows
3 19 (1.04%) Unix
4 11 (0.60%) Apple iOS
5 10 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.38%) Android
6 7 (0.38%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.27%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.22%) VMS
8 4 (0.22%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.055%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.055%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 476 (26.10%) Business Intelligence
2 468 (25.66%) Agile
3 386 (21.16%) Data Modelling
4 366 (20.07%) Problem-Solving
5 308 (16.89%) Data Analytics
6 289 (15.84%) ETL
7 285 (15.63%) CI/CD
8 279 (15.30%) Decision-Making
9 278 (15.24%) DevOps
10 262 (14.36%) Data Governance
11 257 (14.09%) Artificial Intelligence
12 251 (13.76%) Data Pipeline
13 249 (13.65%) Visualisation
14 243 (13.32%) Stakeholder Management
15 211 (11.57%) Machine Learning
16 210 (11.51%) Data Science
17 206 (11.29%) Actionable Insight
18 205 (11.24%) Data Engineering
19 183 (10.03%) Roadmaps
20 182 (9.98%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 630 (34.54%) SQL
2 501 (27.47%) Python
3 101 (5.54%) Java
3 101 (5.54%) JavaScript
4 63 (3.45%) R
5 62 (3.40%) PowerShell
6 50 (2.74%) TypeScript
7 37 (2.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 34 (1.86%) Bicep
9 33 (1.81%) C#
10 31 (1.70%) Bash
11 26 (1.43%) Scala
12 25 (1.37%) Kusto Query Language
13 21 (1.15%) T-SQL
14 15 (0.82%) C++
15 12 (0.66%) ABAP
15 12 (0.66%) VBA
16 9 (0.49%) Perl
16 9 (0.49%) PL/SQL
17 8 (0.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 238 (13.05%) Security Cleared
2 205 (11.24%) Degree
3 196 (10.75%) SC Cleared
4 60 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 53 (2.91%) Master's Degree
6 37 (2.03%) Azure Certification
7 26 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 24 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
9 22 (1.21%) DV Cleared
9 22 (1.21%) PMI Certification
10 20 (1.10%) AWS Certification
11 19 (1.04%) PMP
12 18 (0.99%) CISSP
13 12 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 12 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
14 11 (0.60%) CBAP
14 11 (0.60%) PhD
15 8 (0.44%) CISM
15 8 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
16 6 (0.33%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 251 (13.76%) Data Quality
2 95 (5.21%) GDPR
3 73 (4.00%) Accessibility
4 56 (3.07%) QA
5 31 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (1.26%) NIST
7 15 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
8 14 (0.77%) HIPAA
9 13 (0.71%) IFRS
9 13 (0.71%) PMO
9 13 (0.71%) SLA
10 12 (0.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 11 (0.60%) Basel II
11 11 (0.60%) GRC
12 10 (0.55%) IFRS 9
12 10 (0.55%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (0.49%) Basel III
14 8 (0.44%) GxP
15 7 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 99 (5.43%) Docker
2 43 (2.36%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.55%) HDFS
5 7 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.22%) zsh
7 3 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.11%) vSphere
9 1 (0.055%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 1 (0.055%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 113 (6.20%) Kubernetes
2 106 (5.81%) Terraform
3 27 (1.48%) Ansible
4 20 (1.10%) Grafana
5 16 (0.88%) Kibana
6 14 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (0.66%) SCCM
9 10 (0.55%) Kubeflow
9 10 (0.55%) Prometheus
10 8 (0.44%) Puppet
11 7 (0.38%) Hadoop YARN
11 7 (0.38%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.33%) Argo
12 6 (0.33%) logstash
12 6 (0.33%) QRadar
13 4 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.22%) WSUS
14 3 (0.16%) CASB
14 3 (0.16%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 315 (17.27%) Microsoft
2 172 (9.43%) Databricks
3 149 (8.17%) SAP
4 133 (7.29%) Google
5 111 (6.09%) Oracle
6 55 (3.02%) ServiceNow
7 53 (2.91%) Adobe
8 40 (2.19%) Splunk
9 37 (2.03%) Salesforce
10 30 (1.64%) Workday
11 25 (1.37%) Alteryx
12 24 (1.32%) Cisco
13 23 (1.26%) Talend
14 22 (1.21%) Dynatrace
15 21 (1.15%) Denodo
16 19 (1.04%) Informatica
17 17 (0.93%) AppDynamics
18 14 (0.77%) Amplitude
18 14 (0.77%) OpenAI
19 12 (0.66%) Palantir