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 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 37
Rank change year-on-year +2 +10 -2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,972 1,636 1,757
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.32% 6.78% 4.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.64% 7.44% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,043 1,108 1,208
10th Percentile £355 £345 £350
25th Percentile £420 £443 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -
75th Percentile £625 £675 £676
90th Percentile £750 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.56% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 29 45
10th Percentile £20.00 £15.28 £14.30
25th Percentile £46.88 £21.25 £25.00
Median hourly rate £60.50 £31.64 £30.37
Median % change year-on-year +91.21% +4.18% -5.09%
75th Percentile £75.00 £36.25 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.85 £79.16 £71.00
UK median hourly rate £58.00 £31.85 £29.19
% change year-on-year +82.13% +9.11% -8.80%

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 34,393 22,003 31,618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.67% 91.23% 86.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,924 14,379 20,694
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £516 £525
% change year-on-year -2.13% -1.71% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,131 924 2,243
10th Percentile £15.34 £14.42 £12.88
25th Percentile £20.36 £18.47 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £29.02 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.96% -20.49% -2.25%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.60 £36.50
% change year-on-year +48.60% -21.64% +1.39%

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 14 May 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 14 May 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 14 May 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 1,639 £544 -5.31% 1,051
Midlands +14 348 £492 -1.69% 189
North of England +11 331 £475 +2.37% 346
West Midlands +12 262 £492 -4.00% 103
South East -7 245 £500 +1.83% 421
South West +28 193 £500 +5.26% 122
North West +11 175 £495 +5.77% 195
Yorkshire +5 134 £475 -3.06% 101
East of England -12 113 £525 -12.50% 91
East Midlands +10 80 £525 +46.65% 86
North East +2 33 £450 +25.70% 57
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 (5.25%) Apache Spark
2 107 (3.60%) Apache Airflow
3 89 (2.99%) SAS
4 79 (2.66%) Apache
5 75 (2.52%) Confluence
6 45 (1.51%) SharePoint
7 24 (0.81%) CMS
8 16 (0.54%) Jupyter
9 15 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 15 (0.50%) Oracle Application Server
10 14 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
11 9 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
12 8 (0.27%) Apache Superset
12 8 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
13 6 (0.20%) ArcGIS
13 6 (0.20%) IIS
13 6 (0.20%) WordPress
14 5 (0.17%) Drupal
15 3 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 2 (0.067%) WebSphere
Applications
1 123 (4.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 29 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
4 20 (0.67%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.54%) Chatbot
6 12 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.24%) CPLEX
7 7 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
8 4 (0.13%) Trello
9 3 (0.10%) Notion
10 2 (0.067%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.067%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.067%) Sketch
11 1 (0.034%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.034%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.034%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.034%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.034%) InDesign
11 1 (0.034%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 58 (1.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.27%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 8 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (0.24%) NetSuite
4 7 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.20%) Sage X3
5 6 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.17%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.17%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.17%) Maximo
7 4 (0.13%) iTrent
7 4 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 4 (0.13%) SAP BPC
7 4 (0.13%) Shopify
7 4 (0.13%) Sprinklr
8 3 (0.10%) Adobe Campaign
8 3 (0.10%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 931 (31.33%) Azure
2 656 (22.07%) Power Platform
3 599 (20.15%) AWS
4 282 (9.49%) GCP
5 241 (8.11%) Azure Data Factory
6 205 (6.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 202 (6.80%) Azure DevOps
8 178 (5.99%) Snowflake
9 163 (5.48%) GitHub
10 138 (4.64%) dbt
11 126 (4.24%) Amazon S3
11 126 (4.24%) Serverless
12 103 (3.47%) Azure Monitor
13 90 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
14 82 (2.76%) Microsoft 365
15 80 (2.69%) SaaS
16 78 (2.62%) AWS Lambda
17 70 (2.36%) Entra ID
18 58 (1.95%) Azure Key Vault
19 49 (1.65%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 42 (1.41%) Firewall
2 30 (1.01%) Network Security
3 23 (0.77%) VPN
4 21 (0.71%) DNS
5 14 (0.47%) SD-WAN
6 13 (0.44%) SMS
6 13 (0.44%) WAN
7 11 (0.37%) HTTP
8 8 (0.27%) BGP
8 8 (0.27%) FTP
8 8 (0.27%) MPLS
8 8 (0.27%) OSPF
9 7 (0.24%) SSL
9 7 (0.24%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.20%) DHCP
10 6 (0.20%) LAN
10 6 (0.20%) SMTP
10 6 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (0.20%) Wireless
10 6 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 609 (20.49%) Power BI
2 395 (13.29%) Data Warehouse
3 242 (8.14%) Data Lake
4 209 (7.03%) Tableau
5 178 (5.99%) Metadata
6 116 (3.90%) BigQuery
7 110 (3.70%) Delta Lake
8 106 (3.57%) SQL Server
9 93 (3.13%) Big Data
10 75 (2.52%) Amazon Redshift
11 74 (2.49%) Relational Database
12 69 (2.32%) Azure SQL Database
13 68 (2.29%) Snowflake Schema
14 67 (2.25%) NoSQL
15 66 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
16 60 (2.02%) Looker
17 57 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
18 56 (1.88%) Star Schema
19 54 (1.82%) Power Query
20 53 (1.78%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 180 (6.06%) Git
2 175 (5.89%) JIRA
3 70 (2.36%) Jenkins
4 63 (2.12%) GitLab
5 20 (0.67%) ERwin
6 15 (0.50%) MLflow
7 12 (0.40%) Selenium
8 8 (0.27%) MSI
8 8 (0.27%) PowerDesigner
9 7 (0.24%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.24%) ER Studio
9 7 (0.24%) JUnit
9 7 (0.24%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.20%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.17%) fastlane
11 5 (0.17%) Postman
11 5 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 5 (0.17%) XCTest
12 4 (0.13%) Gradle
12 4 (0.13%) TeamCity
General
1 744 (25.03%) Social Skills
2 735 (24.73%) Finance
3 513 (17.26%) Analytical Skills
4 310 (10.43%) Public Sector
5 195 (6.56%) Banking
6 157 (5.28%) Marketing
7 96 (3.23%) Retail
8 77 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
9 53 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 52 (1.75%) Legal
11 51 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
12 49 (1.65%) Investment Banking
13 45 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
13 45 (1.51%) Telecoms
14 44 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
15 39 (1.31%) Manufacturing
16 36 (1.21%) Financial Institution
16 36 (1.21%) Front Office
17 24 (0.81%) Military
18 22 (0.74%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 585 (19.68%) Data Engineer
2 372 (12.52%) Analyst
3 355 (11.94%) Architect
4 351 (11.81%) Senior
5 324 (10.90%) Developer
6 251 (8.45%) Lead
7 161 (5.42%) Data Architect
8 152 (5.11%) Data Analyst
9 120 (4.04%) Consultant
10 111 (3.73%) Azure Engineer
11 107 (3.60%) Business Analyst
12 99 (3.33%) Senior Data Engineer
13 89 (2.99%) Data Scientist
14 86 (2.89%) Solutions Architect
15 65 (2.19%) Project Manager
16 60 (2.02%) Data Manager
16 60 (2.02%) Designer
17 52 (1.75%) Business Intelligence Developer
18 51 (1.72%) AWS Engineer
19 50 (1.68%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (6.19%) PySpark
2 142 (4.78%) Kafka
3 108 (3.63%) REST
4 62 (2.09%) Pandas
5 53 (1.78%) JSON
5 53 (1.78%) React
6 51 (1.72%) PyTorch
7 50 (1.68%) TensorFlow
8 44 (1.48%) HTML
9 42 (1.41%) CSS
10 37 (1.24%) .NET
10 37 (1.24%) RESTful
11 35 (1.18%) Middleware
11 35 (1.18%) scikit-learn
11 35 (1.18%) SOAP
12 34 (1.14%) Oracle Fusion
13 33 (1.11%) AngularJS
13 33 (1.11%) NumPy
14 30 (1.01%) Node.js
15 29 (0.98%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 197 (6.63%) Cloud Native
2 136 (4.58%) Product Ownership
3 105 (3.53%) Data Structures
4 83 (2.79%) Onboarding
5 72 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
6 63 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
7 53 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
8 46 (1.55%) Management Information System
9 44 (1.48%) Algorithms
10 43 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
11 38 (1.28%) Public Cloud
12 35 (1.18%) AI Agents
13 34 (1.14%) NHS
13 34 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
14 32 (1.08%) Mobile App
15 29 (0.98%) Derivative
15 29 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
15 29 (0.98%) Marketing Technology
16 27 (0.91%) Fixed Income
17 26 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 86 (2.89%) Windows
2 76 (2.56%) Linux
3 33 (1.11%) Mac OS
4 32 (1.08%) Unix
5 23 (0.77%) Apple iOS
6 13 (0.44%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.37%) Android
8 6 (0.20%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.10%) CentOS
11 2 (0.067%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.067%) VMS
11 2 (0.067%) zOS
12 1 (0.034%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 828 (27.86%) Business Intelligence
2 826 (27.79%) Data Modelling
3 649 (21.84%) AI
4 630 (21.20%) Agile
5 622 (20.93%) Data Pipeline
6 602 (20.26%) Data Engineering
7 601 (20.22%) CI/CD
8 574 (19.31%) ETL
9 506 (17.03%) DevOps
10 493 (16.59%) Problem-Solving
11 488 (16.42%) Data Governance
12 478 (16.08%) Decision-Making
13 384 (12.92%) Stakeholder Management
14 344 (11.57%) Machine Learning
15 341 (11.47%) Data Science
16 334 (11.24%) Data Analytics
17 329 (11.07%) Continuous Improvement
18 327 (11.00%) Migration
19 294 (9.89%) Validation
20 289 (9.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,014 (34.12%) SQL
2 919 (30.92%) Python
3 132 (4.44%) Java
4 115 (3.87%) PowerShell
5 97 (3.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 95 (3.20%) C#
7 81 (2.73%) R
8 69 (2.32%) Bicep
9 62 (2.09%) JavaScript
10 47 (1.58%) T-SQL
11 43 (1.45%) Kusto Query Language
12 42 (1.41%) Scala
13 40 (1.35%) TypeScript
14 37 (1.24%) Bash
15 27 (0.91%) Shell Script
16 26 (0.87%) C++
17 25 (0.84%) PL/SQL
18 18 (0.61%) VBA
19 10 (0.34%) Kotlin
20 8 (0.27%) Swift
Qualifications
1 516 (17.36%) Security Cleared
2 407 (13.69%) SC Cleared
3 224 (7.54%) Degree
4 69 (2.32%) Azure Certification
5 64 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 57 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 47 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
8 42 (1.41%) DV Cleared
9 38 (1.28%) Master's Degree
10 25 (0.84%) PMI Certification
11 24 (0.81%) CISSP
12 22 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
13 21 (0.71%) PMP
14 17 (0.57%) AWS Certification
15 15 (0.50%) CCNP
15 15 (0.50%) PhD
16 13 (0.44%) DBS Check
16 13 (0.44%) IIBA
17 11 (0.37%) CCIE
17 11 (0.37%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 564 (18.98%) Data Quality
2 156 (5.25%) GDPR
3 122 (4.10%) QA
4 101 (3.40%) Accessibility
5 36 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 36 (1.21%) WCAG
6 29 (0.98%) NIST
7 24 (0.81%) PMO
8 20 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
9 14 (0.47%) GRC
9 14 (0.47%) SLA
10 13 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 11 (0.37%) PERC
11 11 (0.37%) Solvency II
12 9 (0.30%) NCSC
13 8 (0.27%) ISO 20022
13 8 (0.27%) PCI DSS
14 6 (0.20%) HL7
14 6 (0.20%) IFRS
14 6 (0.20%) NIST 800
System Software
1 172 (5.79%) Docker
2 73 (2.46%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.13%) HDFS
6 4 (0.13%) Snort
6 4 (0.13%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.067%) GPFS
7 2 (0.067%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.067%) Lustre
7 2 (0.067%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.034%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.034%) iptables
8 1 (0.034%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.034%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 238 (8.01%) Terraform
2 177 (5.96%) Kubernetes
3 37 (1.24%) Ansible
3 37 (1.24%) Grafana
3 37 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
4 29 (0.98%) Prometheus
5 19 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (0.50%) SCCM
7 6 (0.20%) Puppet
8 5 (0.17%) Argo
9 4 (0.13%) Control-M
9 4 (0.13%) CSIRT
9 4 (0.13%) Kibana
9 4 (0.13%) WSUS
10 3 (0.10%) Nagios
10 3 (0.10%) QRadar
10 3 (0.10%) SysTrack
11 2 (0.067%) Apache Ranger
11 2 (0.067%) logstash
11 2 (0.067%) Rancher
Vendors
1 538 (18.10%) Microsoft
2 408 (13.73%) Databricks
3 159 (5.35%) Google
4 158 (5.32%) Oracle
5 145 (4.88%) SAP
6 70 (2.36%) ServiceNow
7 67 (2.25%) Adobe
8 61 (2.05%) Informatica
9 56 (1.88%) Salesforce
10 53 (1.78%) Splunk
11 51 (1.72%) Talend
12 41 (1.38%) Denodo
12 41 (1.38%) OpenAI
13 35 (1.18%) Workday
14 34 (1.14%) Foundry
15 22 (0.74%) Dynatrace
15 22 (0.74%) IBM
16 21 (0.71%) VMware
17 17 (0.57%) Cisco
18 13 (0.44%) Ariba