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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 26 35
Rank change year-on-year 0 +9 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,536 1,817 1,711
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.62% 6.54% 5.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.99% 7.20% 6.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,305 1,189 1,176
10th Percentile £363 £355 £351
25th Percentile £433 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £642 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 46 24
10th Percentile £18.13 £17.50 £22.83
25th Percentile £26.25 £30.32 £27.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £34.74 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.12% +6.89% -7.14%
75th Percentile £74.69 £70.16 £56.27
90th Percentile £85.18 £79.38 £72.79
UK median hourly rate £48.75 £34.74 £32.50
% change year-on-year +40.33% +6.89% -7.14%

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 39,349 25,238 28,145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.76% 90.90% 86.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,108 16,041 17,545
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,747 1,497 1,306
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £14.92
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.91%
75th Percentile £68.00 £49.75 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +1 1,958 £550 - 7,689
North of England +10 471 £490 +8.77% 1,153
Midlands +1 371 £493 -4.37% 614
South East +18 368 £513 -2.38% 1,120
West Midlands +2 303 £493 -5.29% 412
North West +2 227 £525 +14.75% 692
Yorkshire +7 191 £475 +1.01% 340
South West +24 172 £525 +10.53% 445
East of England -10 110 £580 +4.74% 372
East Midlands +1 64 £490 +7.40% 202
North East +2 63 £450 +18.03% 127
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 (4.69%) Apache Airflow
2 129 (3.65%) Apache Spark
3 113 (3.20%) SAS
4 98 (2.77%) Apache
5 81 (2.29%) Confluence
6 60 (1.70%) CMS
7 50 (1.41%) SharePoint
8 31 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 29 (0.82%) Palantir Foundry
10 28 (0.79%) Jupyter
11 26 (0.74%) Oracle Application Server
12 11 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
13 9 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
14 8 (0.23%) Apache Superset
14 8 (0.23%) Drupal
14 8 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
15 6 (0.17%) WordPress
16 4 (0.11%) nginx
17 3 (0.085%) IIS
18 2 (0.057%) Moodle
Applications
1 164 (4.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 27 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (0.59%) Chatbot
5 19 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
6 15 (0.42%) CPLEX
7 12 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
7 12 (0.34%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.14%) Trello
9 3 (0.085%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.085%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.057%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.057%) Sketch
11 1 (0.028%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.028%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.028%) InDesign
11 1 (0.028%) Notion
11 1 (0.028%) PlantUML
11 1 (0.028%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 72 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 36 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
3 17 (0.48%) Workday HCM
4 14 (0.40%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 12 (0.34%) Aladdin
6 11 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
7 10 (0.28%) Shopify
8 9 (0.25%) SAP CO
8 9 (0.25%) SAP FI
9 7 (0.20%) SAP ERP
9 7 (0.20%) SAP MDG
10 6 (0.17%) NetSuite
10 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
10 6 (0.17%) SAP GRC
10 6 (0.17%) SAP HR
10 6 (0.17%) SAP MM
10 6 (0.17%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 6 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,023 (28.93%) Azure
2 712 (20.14%) Power Platform
3 614 (17.36%) AWS
4 311 (8.80%) GCP
5 259 (7.32%) Snowflake
6 229 (6.48%) Azure DevOps
7 228 (6.45%) Azure Data Factory
8 201 (5.68%) dbt
9 178 (5.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 150 (4.24%) GitHub
11 148 (4.19%) Serverless
12 131 (3.70%) Amazon S3
13 128 (3.62%) Azure Monitor
14 111 (3.14%) Entra ID
14 111 (3.14%) SaaS
15 95 (2.69%) AWS Lambda
16 88 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
17 76 (2.15%) GitHub Actions
18 65 (1.84%) Google Analytics
19 64 (1.81%) Adobe Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 56 (1.58%) Firewall
2 52 (1.47%) Network Security
3 37 (1.05%) DNS
4 32 (0.90%) VPN
5 23 (0.65%) TCP/IP
6 20 (0.57%) Broadband
6 20 (0.57%) WAN
7 16 (0.45%) DHCP
7 16 (0.45%) SD-WAN
8 15 (0.42%) BGP
9 9 (0.25%) SMS
10 8 (0.23%) Wireless
11 7 (0.20%) HTTP
11 7 (0.20%) LAN
12 6 (0.17%) Kerberos
12 6 (0.17%) NGFW
12 6 (0.17%) OSPF
12 6 (0.17%) SSH
12 6 (0.17%) WLAN
13 5 (0.14%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 683 (19.32%) Power BI
2 443 (12.53%) Data Warehouse
3 259 (7.32%) Data Lake
4 239 (6.76%) Metadata
5 221 (6.25%) Tableau
6 148 (4.19%) BigQuery
7 91 (2.57%) SQL Server
8 87 (2.46%) Amazon Redshift
8 87 (2.46%) Delta Lake
9 86 (2.43%) Big Data
10 82 (2.32%) Relational Database
11 80 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
12 76 (2.15%) Looker
13 67 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
14 62 (1.75%) Semantic Layer
15 58 (1.64%) NoSQL
16 57 (1.61%) Snowflake Schema
17 52 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
18 51 (1.44%) Power Query
18 51 (1.44%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 189 (5.35%) Git
2 163 (4.61%) JIRA
3 62 (1.75%) Jenkins
4 60 (1.70%) GitLab
5 12 (0.34%) MLflow
6 11 (0.31%) ERwin
7 10 (0.28%) fastlane
7 10 (0.28%) SonarQube
8 9 (0.25%) RStudio
9 8 (0.23%) Gradle
10 7 (0.20%) ER Studio
10 7 (0.20%) Selenium
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%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.14%) Visual Website Optimizer
12 5 (0.14%) Xcode
General
1 967 (27.35%) Social Skills
2 917 (25.93%) Finance
3 663 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 422 (11.93%) Public Sector
5 270 (7.64%) Banking
6 233 (6.59%) Marketing
7 177 (5.01%) Retail
8 111 (3.14%) Influencing Skills
9 89 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 81 (2.29%) Legal
11 80 (2.26%) Manufacturing
12 74 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
13 70 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
14 61 (1.73%) Front Office
15 56 (1.58%) Investment Banking
16 49 (1.39%) Publishing
17 45 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
18 41 (1.16%) Military
18 41 (1.16%) Telecoms
19 40 (1.13%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 580 (16.40%) Data Engineer
2 473 (13.38%) Senior
3 461 (13.04%) Analyst
4 453 (12.81%) Architect
5 308 (8.71%) Developer
6 291 (8.23%) Lead
7 207 (5.85%) Data Architect
8 175 (4.95%) Consultant
9 173 (4.89%) Data Analyst
10 125 (3.54%) Solutions Architect
11 118 (3.34%) Senior Data Engineer
12 112 (3.17%) Data Scientist
13 107 (3.03%) Business Analyst
14 99 (2.80%) Azure Engineer
15 77 (2.18%) Data Manager
16 69 (1.95%) Senior Manager
17 67 (1.89%) Product Manager
18 63 (1.78%) Project Manager
19 58 (1.64%) AWS Engineer
19 58 (1.64%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 274 (7.75%) Terraform
2 209 (5.91%) PySpark
3 132 (3.73%) REST
4 103 (2.91%) Kafka
5 59 (1.67%) Pandas
6 56 (1.58%) HTML
7 54 (1.53%) React
8 53 (1.50%) RESTful
9 52 (1.47%) CSS
10 46 (1.30%) JSON
11 45 (1.27%) .NET
12 42 (1.19%) OAuth
13 40 (1.13%) ARM Templates
14 38 (1.07%) NumPy
15 35 (0.99%) OpenID
16 32 (0.90%) Web Services
17 31 (0.88%) OAuth2
18 29 (0.82%) Oracle Fusion
18 29 (0.82%) SOAP
19 27 (0.76%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 239 (6.76%) Cloud Native
2 193 (5.46%) Product Ownership
3 143 (4.04%) Onboarding
4 142 (4.02%) Data Structures
5 103 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
6 80 (2.26%) Management Information System
7 72 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
8 66 (1.87%) AI Agents
9 62 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
10 48 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
10 48 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
11 45 (1.27%) Algorithms
12 44 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
13 43 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
14 42 (1.19%) Virtual Team
15 40 (1.13%) NHS
15 40 (1.13%) Social Media
16 37 (1.05%) Marketing Technology
17 35 (0.99%) Derivative
18 33 (0.93%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 91 (2.57%) Windows
2 87 (2.46%) Linux
3 42 (1.19%) Unix
4 35 (0.99%) Windows Server
5 18 (0.51%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.31%) Mac OS
8 9 (0.25%) Android
8 9 (0.25%) VMS
9 6 (0.17%) 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%) Rocky
12 1 (0.028%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 942 (26.64%) AI
2 924 (26.13%) Data Modelling
3 889 (25.14%) Business Intelligence
4 826 (23.36%) Agile
5 797 (22.54%) Stakeholder Management
6 716 (20.25%) Data Pipeline
7 682 (19.29%) Data Engineering
8 672 (19.00%) Decision-Making
9 651 (18.41%) CI/CD
10 570 (16.12%) Data Governance
11 552 (15.61%) ETL
12 519 (14.68%) DevOps
13 516 (14.59%) Problem-Solving
14 476 (13.46%) Migration
15 456 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
16 443 (12.53%) Roadmaps
17 433 (12.25%) Machine Learning
18 432 (12.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 411 (11.62%) Validation
20 409 (11.57%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 1,127 (31.87%) SQL
2 982 (27.77%) Python
3 159 (4.50%) PowerShell
4 110 (3.11%) Java
5 95 (2.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 86 (2.43%) JavaScript
7 78 (2.21%) Bicep
8 73 (2.06%) C#
9 64 (1.81%) R
10 62 (1.75%) Bash
11 38 (1.07%) Scala
12 37 (1.05%) TypeScript
13 32 (0.90%) Shell Script
14 31 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
15 26 (0.74%) T-SQL
16 20 (0.57%) C++
16 20 (0.57%) PL/SQL
17 14 (0.40%) LookML
17 14 (0.40%) VBA
18 13 (0.37%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 631 (17.85%) Security Cleared
2 502 (14.20%) SC Cleared
3 291 (8.23%) Degree
4 88 (2.49%) Azure Certification
5 81 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 76 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 73 (2.06%) DV Cleared
8 54 (1.53%) Master's Degree
9 53 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
10 44 (1.24%) CISSP
11 38 (1.07%) AWS Certification
12 35 (0.99%) PMI Certification
13 29 (0.82%) PMP
14 25 (0.71%) DBS Check
15 20 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
16 12 (0.34%) CISA
17 11 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 11 (0.31%) MBA
17 11 (0.31%) SANS
18 10 (0.28%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 744 (21.04%) Data Quality
2 153 (4.33%) GDPR
3 149 (4.21%) QA
4 137 (3.87%) Accessibility
5 48 (1.36%) WCAG
6 47 (1.33%) GRC
7 39 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 35 (0.99%) NIST
9 30 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
9 30 (0.85%) PMO
10 20 (0.57%) SLA
11 13 (0.37%) NCSC
11 13 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 12 (0.34%) PERC
13 11 (0.31%) IFRS
13 11 (0.31%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.28%) Solvency II
15 8 (0.23%) GMP
16 7 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
17 6 (0.17%) PSD2
System Software
1 155 (4.38%) Docker
2 94 (2.66%) Active Directory
3 28 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.25%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.11%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 4 (0.11%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.085%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.085%) vSphere
8 3 (0.085%) 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
1 163 (4.61%) Kubernetes
2 45 (1.27%) Ansible
3 36 (1.02%) Grafana
4 28 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (0.51%) 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 6 (0.17%) Podman
10 5 (0.14%) Kibana
10 5 (0.14%) SysTrack
11 4 (0.11%) QRadar
12 3 (0.085%) CASB
13 2 (0.057%) Argo
13 2 (0.057%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.057%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.057%) Nagios
Vendors
1 665 (18.81%) Microsoft
2 457 (12.92%) Databricks
3 212 (6.00%) Oracle
4 198 (5.60%) SAP
5 189 (5.35%) Google
6 94 (2.66%) Adobe
7 89 (2.52%) Salesforce
8 85 (2.40%) ServiceNow
9 57 (1.61%) Workday
10 51 (1.44%) Splunk
11 43 (1.22%) Foundry
12 41 (1.16%) Dynatrace
13 38 (1.07%) Informatica
14 36 (1.02%) Palantir
15 32 (0.90%) Talend
16 31 (0.88%) VMware
17 29 (0.82%) Cisco
17 29 (0.82%) Denodo
18 27 (0.76%) OpenAI
19 26 (0.74%) Alteryx