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 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 30 40
Rank change year-on-year +6 +10 -4
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,329 1,530 1,781
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.32% 5.69% 4.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.30% 6.38% 5.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,578 985 1,233
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £424 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 23 67
10th Percentile £21.03 £25.26 £17.38
25th Percentile £30.96 £28.75 £27.50
Median hourly rate £46.00 £35.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.43% -17.65% +21.43%
75th Percentile £70.16 £60.41 £67.50
90th Percentile £78.95 £64.53 £78.47
UK median hourly rate £45.50 £35.00 £44.78
% change year-on-year +30.00% -21.84% +27.94%

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 28,048 23,994 32,255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.18% 89.29% 87.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,911 14,725 21,701
10th Percentile £304 £310 £305
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £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 1,747 781 1,610
10th Percentile £15.14 £15.62 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.75 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.29 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -18.75% +17.96%

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 18 January 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 18 January 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 18 January 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 +7 1,377 £525 -12.50% 719
Midlands +27 256 £513 +4.64% 290
North of England +9 243 £475 - 398
West Midlands +24 201 £515 +3.00% 118
North West +8 157 £475 - 183
South East -1 157 £488 +6.38% 826
South West +44 102 £525 +16.67% 231
East of England +2 95 £550 +10.00% 285
Yorkshire -6 71 £500 - 155
East Midlands +10 55 £431 -5.38% 166
North East -4 16 £390 -16.40% 63
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
1 103 (4.42%) SAS
2 86 (3.69%) Apache Airflow
3 81 (3.48%) Apache Spark
4 73 (3.13%) Apache
5 60 (2.58%) Confluence
6 48 (2.06%) SharePoint
7 36 (1.55%) CMS
8 20 (0.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 16 (0.69%) WebLogic
10 10 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
11 9 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
12 8 (0.34%) GeoServer
12 8 (0.34%) Jupyter
12 8 (0.34%) Smallworld
13 7 (0.30%) Oracle Application Server
14 6 (0.26%) WordPress
15 5 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 4 (0.17%) ArcGIS
17 3 (0.13%) IIS
18 2 (0.086%) Drupal
Applications
1 124 (5.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (1.20%) MS Visio
5 24 (1.03%) Chatbot
6 14 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.26%) Trello
8 5 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.17%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.13%) Notion
10 3 (0.13%) Sketch
11 2 (0.086%) Autodesk Smoke
12 1 (0.043%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.043%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.043%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.043%) CapCut
12 1 (0.043%) FrameMaker
12 1 (0.043%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.043%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 85 (3.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.60%) SAP EHS
4 11 (0.47%) SAP HR
5 10 (0.43%) SAP FI
6 8 (0.34%) Maximo
7 7 (0.30%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 7 (0.30%) SAP MM
8 6 (0.26%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 6 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
8 6 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 5 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
9 5 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
9 5 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.21%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.21%) Workday HCM
10 4 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
10 4 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 4 (0.17%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 759 (32.59%) Azure
2 502 (21.55%) Power Platform
3 486 (20.87%) AWS
4 225 (9.66%) GCP
5 168 (7.21%) Azure Data Factory
6 167 (7.17%) Azure DevOps
7 151 (6.48%) Snowflake
8 147 (6.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 123 (5.28%) GitHub
10 110 (4.72%) Serverless
11 106 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
12 91 (3.91%) SaaS
13 82 (3.52%) Amazon S3
13 82 (3.52%) GitHub Actions
14 79 (3.39%) dbt
15 76 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
16 72 (3.09%) Entra ID
17 56 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
18 55 (2.36%) Power Automate
19 54 (2.32%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 44 (1.89%) Firewall
2 26 (1.12%) Network Security
3 25 (1.07%) DNS
4 24 (1.03%) VPN
5 17 (0.73%) SMS
6 13 (0.56%) SSL
7 9 (0.39%) HTTP
7 9 (0.39%) WAN
8 8 (0.34%) DHCP
9 7 (0.30%) FTP
9 7 (0.30%) LAN
9 7 (0.30%) SMTP
9 7 (0.30%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.26%) 2G
10 6 (0.26%) 5G
11 4 (0.17%) 4G
11 4 (0.17%) Radio Access Network
12 3 (0.13%) Internet
12 3 (0.13%) MPLS
12 3 (0.13%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 467 (20.05%) Power BI
2 241 (10.35%) Data Warehouse
3 164 (7.04%) Data Lake
4 139 (5.97%) Tableau
5 131 (5.62%) Metadata
6 75 (3.22%) SQL Server
7 68 (2.92%) BigQuery
8 65 (2.79%) Big Data
9 59 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
10 55 (2.36%) Delta Lake
11 54 (2.32%) Azure SQL Database
12 53 (2.28%) Relational Database
13 50 (2.15%) Looker
14 49 (2.10%) Snowflake Schema
15 42 (1.80%) Hadoop
15 42 (1.80%) Star Schema
16 40 (1.72%) Data Vault
16 40 (1.72%) Power Query
17 39 (1.67%) Pentaho
18 35 (1.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 178 (7.64%) JIRA
2 164 (7.04%) Git
3 84 (3.61%) Jenkins
4 74 (3.18%) GitLab
5 24 (1.03%) Selenium
6 18 (0.77%) ERwin
6 18 (0.77%) JUnit
7 14 (0.60%) MLflow
8 11 (0.47%) PowerDesigner
9 10 (0.43%) Android Studio
9 10 (0.43%) Gradle
10 9 (0.39%) ER Studio
10 9 (0.39%) Visual Website Optimizer
11 8 (0.34%) Postman
11 8 (0.34%) Xcode
12 6 (0.26%) DBeaver
12 6 (0.26%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.26%) Visual Studio
13 5 (0.21%) MSI
13 5 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
General
1 791 (33.96%) Social Skills
2 637 (27.35%) Finance
3 455 (19.54%) Analytical Skills
4 203 (8.72%) Public Sector
5 195 (8.37%) Banking
6 172 (7.39%) Marketing
7 75 (3.22%) Retail
8 68 (2.92%) Documentation Skills
9 63 (2.71%) Front Office
10 51 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
11 48 (2.06%) Legal
12 45 (1.93%) Investment Banking
13 44 (1.89%) Manufacturing
14 41 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 41 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
15 36 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
16 31 (1.33%) Financial Institution
16 31 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
17 25 (1.07%) Telecoms
18 20 (0.86%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 336 (14.43%) Analyst
2 306 (13.14%) Data Engineer
3 305 (13.10%) Developer
4 267 (11.46%) Senior
5 241 (10.35%) Architect
6 167 (7.17%) Lead
7 130 (5.58%) Consultant
8 125 (5.37%) Data Analyst
9 116 (4.98%) Business Analyst
10 91 (3.91%) Data Architect
11 83 (3.56%) Azure Engineer
12 74 (3.18%) Data Scientist
13 59 (2.53%) Project Manager
13 59 (2.53%) Senior Developer
14 55 (2.36%) Senior Data Engineer
15 50 (2.15%) Solutions Architect
16 43 (1.85%) Snowflake Engineer
17 37 (1.59%) Python Developer
17 37 (1.59%) Senior Analyst
18 36 (1.55%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (6.05%) REST
2 107 (4.59%) PySpark
3 100 (4.29%) Kafka
4 56 (2.40%) React
5 55 (2.36%) Pandas
6 53 (2.28%) HTML
7 46 (1.98%) TensorFlow
8 45 (1.93%) Node.js
9 44 (1.89%) SOAP
10 43 (1.85%) NumPy
10 43 (1.85%) scikit-learn
11 42 (1.80%) PyTorch
12 40 (1.72%) .NET
12 40 (1.72%) CSS
13 39 (1.67%) JSON
13 39 (1.67%) RESTful
14 35 (1.50%) AngularJS
15 33 (1.42%) ARM Templates
16 30 (1.29%) OAuth
17 22 (0.94%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 103 (4.42%) Cloud Native
2 100 (4.29%) Product Ownership
3 74 (3.18%) Data Structures
4 63 (2.71%) Onboarding
5 54 (2.32%) Algorithms
6 53 (2.28%) Management Information System
7 50 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
8 48 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
9 43 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
10 40 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
10 40 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 37 (1.59%) Derivative
11 37 (1.59%) Equities
12 35 (1.50%) Mobile App
13 29 (1.25%) Life Science
14 28 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
15 27 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
15 27 (1.16%) NHS
16 26 (1.12%) Fixed Income
16 26 (1.12%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 72 (3.09%) Windows
2 69 (2.96%) Linux
3 30 (1.29%) Unix
4 19 (0.82%) Apple iOS
4 19 (0.82%) Mac OS
5 18 (0.77%) Android
6 9 (0.39%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.21%) VMS
7 5 (0.21%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.043%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.043%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.043%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.043%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 642 (27.57%) Business Intelligence
2 571 (24.52%) Agile
3 528 (22.67%) Data Modelling
4 493 (21.17%) Problem-Solving
5 443 (19.02%) CI/CD
6 428 (18.38%) DevOps
7 416 (17.86%) ETL
8 410 (17.60%) AI
9 384 (16.49%) Data Pipeline
10 355 (15.24%) Data Governance
11 334 (14.34%) Decision-Making
12 318 (13.65%) Data Engineering
13 305 (13.10%) Stakeholder Management
14 298 (12.80%) Data Analytics
15 287 (12.32%) Data Science
16 274 (11.76%) Visualisation
17 267 (11.46%) Machine Learning
18 261 (11.21%) Continuous Improvement
19 253 (10.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 234 (10.05%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 795 (34.13%) SQL
2 719 (30.87%) Python
3 135 (5.80%) Java
4 103 (4.42%) JavaScript
5 94 (4.04%) PowerShell
6 71 (3.05%) C#
6 71 (3.05%) R
7 60 (2.58%) Bicep
8 55 (2.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 48 (2.06%) Bash
10 40 (1.72%) TypeScript
11 36 (1.55%) C++
11 36 (1.55%) Kusto Query Language
12 32 (1.37%) T-SQL
13 31 (1.33%) Scala
14 25 (1.07%) VBA
15 22 (0.94%) PL/SQL
16 16 (0.69%) Shell Script
17 14 (0.60%) Kotlin
18 13 (0.56%) Swift
Qualifications
1 387 (16.62%) Security Cleared
2 317 (13.61%) SC Cleared
3 216 (9.27%) Degree
4 67 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 58 (2.49%) Azure Certification
6 51 (2.19%) Master's Degree
7 38 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 29 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
8 29 (1.25%) CISSP
9 28 (1.20%) DV Cleared
10 25 (1.07%) PMI Certification
11 24 (1.03%) AWS Certification
12 20 (0.86%) PMP
13 19 (0.82%) CISM
14 14 (0.60%) IIBA
15 9 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
16 8 (0.34%) CBAP
16 8 (0.34%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 8 (0.34%) PhD
17 7 (0.30%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 378 (16.23%) Data Quality
2 142 (6.10%) GDPR
3 88 (3.78%) Accessibility
4 79 (3.39%) QA
5 37 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 30 (1.29%) NIST
7 21 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
8 18 (0.77%) PMO
9 17 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 14 (0.60%) WCAG
11 13 (0.56%) NCSC
12 11 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 10 (0.43%) HIPAA
13 10 (0.43%) PCI DSS
14 9 (0.39%) NIST 800
15 8 (0.34%) GRC
15 8 (0.34%) PERC
15 8 (0.34%) SLA
15 8 (0.34%) Solvency II
16 7 (0.30%) GxP
System Software
1 184 (7.90%) Docker
2 58 (2.49%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.43%) HDFS
6 5 (0.21%) zsh
7 4 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.086%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.043%) GPFS
9 1 (0.043%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.043%) Lustre
9 1 (0.043%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.043%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.043%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.043%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 188 (8.07%) Kubernetes
2 181 (7.77%) Terraform
3 30 (1.29%) Ansible
4 27 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (0.73%) SCCM
7 15 (0.64%) Grafana
8 14 (0.60%) Puppet
9 13 (0.56%) Prometheus
10 8 (0.34%) Kibana
11 7 (0.30%) Hadoop YARN
11 7 (0.30%) logstash
12 6 (0.26%) WSUS
13 3 (0.13%) Fluentd
13 3 (0.13%) Kubeflow
13 3 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 2 (0.086%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.086%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.086%) RSA Archer
14 2 (0.086%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 438 (18.81%) Microsoft
2 290 (12.45%) Databricks
3 154 (6.61%) Google
4 151 (6.48%) Oracle
4 151 (6.48%) SAP
5 70 (3.01%) Salesforce
6 65 (2.79%) Adobe
7 64 (2.75%) ServiceNow
8 54 (2.32%) Talend
9 42 (1.80%) Informatica
9 42 (1.80%) Splunk
10 41 (1.76%) Denodo
11 33 (1.42%) OpenAI
12 31 (1.33%) Workday
13 27 (1.16%) Dynatrace
14 26 (1.12%) Cisco
14 26 (1.12%) Foundry
15 21 (0.90%) IBM
16 19 (0.82%) AppDynamics
17 18 (0.77%) VMware