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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 27 37
Rank change year-on-year +3 +10 -2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,975 1,647 1,769
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.26% 6.73% 4.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.58% 7.38% 5.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,038 1,116 1,217
10th Percentile £350 £350 £352
25th Percentile £418 £449 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -
75th Percentile £625 £676 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 31 46
10th Percentile £20.13 £15.25 £14.50
25th Percentile £47.69 £20.25 £25.00
Median hourly rate £60.50 £31.64 £29.19
Median % change year-on-year +91.21% +8.41% -8.80%
75th Percentile £75.00 £36.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.70 £78.70 £70.63
UK median hourly rate £58.50 £31.85 £28.00
% change year-on-year +83.70% +13.73% -12.91%

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 34,677 22,323 31,499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.63% 91.22% 86.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,105 14,603 20,624
10th Percentile £321 £306 £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 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,142 946 2,251
10th Percentile £15.31 £14.41 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £15.97
Median hourly rate £47.00 £29.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.07% -20.55% +0.69%
75th Percentile £67.96 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.18 £36.02
% change year-on-year +50.82% -21.77% +1.04%

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 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 18 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 18 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 1,644 £545 -5.26% 1,068
Midlands +16 341 £492 -3.91% 183
North of England +8 333 £475 +2.70% 356
West Midlands +16 256 £490 -4.33% 95
South East -9 245 £500 +3.95% 407
South West +37 194 £500 +5.26% 138
North West +13 174 £492 +5.13% 210
Yorkshire 0 134 £500 +5.26% 102
East of England -7 116 £525 -12.50% 103
East Midlands +7 79 £525 +46.65% 88
North East +2 36 £450 +25.70% 50
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
1 157 (5.28%) Apache Spark
2 106 (3.56%) Apache Airflow
3 85 (2.86%) SAS
4 80 (2.69%) Apache
5 74 (2.49%) Confluence
6 43 (1.45%) SharePoint
7 25 (0.84%) CMS
8 17 (0.57%) 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 7 (0.24%) WordPress
14 6 (0.20%) ArcGIS
14 6 (0.20%) IIS
15 5 (0.17%) Drupal
16 3 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
17 2 (0.067%) WebSphere
Applications
1 125 (4.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 29 (0.97%) 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 59 (1.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
4 8 (0.27%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 8 (0.27%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
5 7 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.20%) Aladdin
6 6 (0.20%) Sage X3
7 5 (0.17%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.17%) Maximo
8 4 (0.13%) iTrent
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 4 (0.13%) SAP BPC
8 4 (0.13%) Shopify
8 4 (0.13%) Sprinklr
9 3 (0.10%) Adobe Campaign
9 3 (0.10%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 924 (31.06%) Azure
2 655 (22.02%) Power Platform
3 596 (20.03%) AWS
4 282 (9.48%) GCP
5 239 (8.03%) Azure Data Factory
6 202 (6.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 198 (6.66%) Azure DevOps
8 177 (5.95%) Snowflake
9 159 (5.34%) GitHub
10 136 (4.57%) dbt
11 123 (4.13%) Amazon S3
12 120 (4.03%) Serverless
13 104 (3.50%) Azure Monitor
14 88 (2.96%) GitHub Actions
15 82 (2.76%) Microsoft 365
16 81 (2.72%) SaaS
17 75 (2.52%) AWS Lambda
18 72 (2.42%) Entra ID
19 57 (1.92%) Azure Key Vault
20 48 (1.61%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 40 (1.34%) Firewall
2 30 (1.01%) Network Security
3 23 (0.77%) DNS
4 22 (0.74%) VPN
5 15 (0.50%) SMS
6 14 (0.47%) SD-WAN
7 12 (0.40%) HTTP
7 12 (0.40%) WAN
8 8 (0.27%) BGP
8 8 (0.27%) DHCP
8 8 (0.27%) FTP
8 8 (0.27%) OSPF
9 7 (0.24%) MPLS
9 7 (0.24%) SSL
9 7 (0.24%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.20%) 5G
10 6 (0.20%) SMTP
10 6 (0.20%) VXLAN
10 6 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 608 (20.44%) Power BI
2 394 (13.24%) Data Warehouse
3 242 (8.13%) Data Lake
4 214 (7.19%) Tableau
5 175 (5.88%) Metadata
6 117 (3.93%) BigQuery
7 111 (3.73%) Delta Lake
8 107 (3.60%) SQL Server
9 92 (3.09%) Big Data
10 74 (2.49%) Amazon Redshift
10 74 (2.49%) Relational Database
11 67 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
11 67 (2.25%) NoSQL
12 66 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
13 65 (2.18%) Snowflake Schema
14 62 (2.08%) Looker
15 56 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
15 56 (1.88%) Star Schema
16 52 (1.75%) Hadoop
16 52 (1.75%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 175 (5.88%) Git
2 171 (5.75%) JIRA
3 69 (2.32%) 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%) ER Studio
9 7 (0.24%) fastlane
9 7 (0.24%) JUnit
10 6 (0.20%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.20%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.20%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.17%) Gradle
11 5 (0.17%) Postman
11 5 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 5 (0.17%) XCTest
12 4 (0.13%) Crashlytics
General
1 741 (24.91%) Social Skills
2 736 (24.74%) Finance
3 510 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
4 313 (10.52%) Public Sector
5 193 (6.49%) Banking
6 164 (5.51%) Marketing
7 99 (3.33%) Retail
8 76 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
9 54 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 54 (1.82%) Legal
10 49 (1.65%) Investment Banking
11 48 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
12 46 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
13 45 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
13 45 (1.51%) Telecoms
14 40 (1.34%) Manufacturing
15 35 (1.18%) Front Office
16 34 (1.14%) Financial Institution
17 25 (0.84%) Military
18 24 (0.81%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 582 (19.56%) Data Engineer
2 369 (12.40%) Analyst
3 355 (11.93%) Senior
4 348 (11.70%) Architect
5 330 (11.09%) Developer
6 251 (8.44%) Lead
7 161 (5.41%) Data Architect
8 150 (5.04%) Data Analyst
9 121 (4.07%) Consultant
10 109 (3.66%) Azure Engineer
11 105 (3.53%) Business Analyst
12 101 (3.39%) Senior Data Engineer
13 91 (3.06%) Data Scientist
14 86 (2.89%) Solutions Architect
15 65 (2.18%) Project Manager
16 64 (2.15%) Data Manager
17 60 (2.02%) Designer
18 52 (1.75%) Business Intelligence Developer
19 51 (1.71%) AWS Engineer
20 50 (1.68%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (6.12%) PySpark
2 140 (4.71%) Kafka
3 108 (3.63%) REST
4 61 (2.05%) Pandas
5 53 (1.78%) JSON
5 53 (1.78%) React
6 49 (1.65%) PyTorch
7 48 (1.61%) TensorFlow
8 46 (1.55%) HTML
9 44 (1.48%) CSS
10 39 (1.31%) RESTful
11 37 (1.24%) .NET
12 35 (1.18%) Middleware
12 35 (1.18%) scikit-learn
12 35 (1.18%) SOAP
13 33 (1.11%) AngularJS
14 32 (1.08%) NumPy
15 30 (1.01%) Oracle Fusion
16 28 (0.94%) Node.js
16 28 (0.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 193 (6.49%) Cloud Native
2 143 (4.81%) Product Ownership
3 110 (3.70%) Data Structures
4 85 (2.86%) Onboarding
5 75 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
6 64 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
7 52 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
8 45 (1.51%) Algorithms
8 45 (1.51%) Management Information System
9 42 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
10 38 (1.28%) Public Cloud
11 34 (1.14%) AI Agents
11 34 (1.14%) Mobile App
11 34 (1.14%) NHS
11 34 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
12 29 (0.97%) Derivative
12 29 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
12 29 (0.97%) Marketing Technology
13 27 (0.91%) Fixed Income
13 27 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 89 (2.99%) Windows
2 76 (2.55%) Linux
3 33 (1.11%) Mac OS
4 32 (1.08%) Unix
5 24 (0.81%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.50%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.40%) Android
8 7 (0.24%) 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
1 824 (27.70%) Data Modelling
2 820 (27.56%) Business Intelligence
3 649 (21.82%) AI
4 631 (21.21%) Agile
5 623 (20.94%) Data Pipeline
6 601 (20.20%) Data Engineering
7 590 (19.83%) CI/CD
8 570 (19.16%) ETL
9 497 (16.71%) DevOps
10 489 (16.44%) Data Governance
11 480 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
12 477 (16.03%) Decision-Making
13 387 (13.01%) Stakeholder Management
14 342 (11.50%) Data Science
15 338 (11.36%) Machine Learning
16 335 (11.26%) Data Analytics
17 332 (11.16%) Migration
18 331 (11.13%) Continuous Improvement
19 295 (9.92%) Validation
20 284 (9.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,010 (33.95%) SQL
2 913 (30.69%) Python
3 131 (4.40%) Java
4 120 (4.03%) PowerShell
5 97 (3.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 94 (3.16%) C#
7 81 (2.72%) R
8 69 (2.32%) Bicep
9 60 (2.02%) JavaScript
10 47 (1.58%) T-SQL
11 42 (1.41%) Kusto Query Language
11 42 (1.41%) Scala
12 41 (1.38%) TypeScript
13 36 (1.21%) Bash
14 27 (0.91%) Shell Script
15 26 (0.87%) C++
16 25 (0.84%) PL/SQL
17 15 (0.50%) VBA
18 11 (0.37%) Kotlin
19 9 (0.30%) Swift
Qualifications
1 514 (17.28%) Security Cleared
2 406 (13.65%) SC Cleared
3 225 (7.56%) Degree
4 68 (2.29%) Azure Certification
5 63 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 57 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 47 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
8 45 (1.51%) DV Cleared
9 38 (1.28%) Master's Degree
10 26 (0.87%) PMI Certification
11 23 (0.77%) CISSP
12 22 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
12 22 (0.74%) PMP
13 17 (0.57%) AWS Certification
14 15 (0.50%) CCNP
14 15 (0.50%) PhD
15 13 (0.44%) DBS Check
15 13 (0.44%) IIBA
16 11 (0.37%) CCIE
17 10 (0.34%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 568 (19.09%) Data Quality
2 160 (5.38%) GDPR
3 122 (4.10%) QA
4 105 (3.53%) Accessibility
5 38 (1.28%) WCAG
6 37 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 28 (0.94%) NIST
8 22 (0.74%) PMO
9 20 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
10 16 (0.54%) SLA
11 14 (0.47%) GRC
12 13 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 11 (0.37%) PERC
14 9 (0.30%) ISO 20022
14 9 (0.30%) Solvency II
15 8 (0.27%) NCSC
15 8 (0.27%) PCI DSS
16 6 (0.20%) HL7
17 5 (0.17%) IFRS
17 5 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 164 (5.51%) Docker
2 74 (2.49%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.13%) HDFS
6 4 (0.13%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.13%) Snort
6 4 (0.13%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.034%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.034%) GPFS
7 1 (0.034%) iptables
7 1 (0.034%) Lustre
7 1 (0.034%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.034%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.034%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.034%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 228 (7.66%) Terraform
2 169 (5.68%) Kubernetes
3 39 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
4 37 (1.24%) Grafana
5 34 (1.14%) Ansible
6 29 (0.97%) Prometheus
7 19 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (0.50%) SCCM
9 6 (0.20%) Puppet
10 5 (0.17%) Argo
11 4 (0.13%) Control-M
11 4 (0.13%) CSIRT
11 4 (0.13%) Kibana
11 4 (0.13%) WSUS
12 3 (0.10%) Nagios
12 3 (0.10%) QRadar
12 3 (0.10%) SysTrack
13 2 (0.067%) OpenVAS
13 2 (0.067%) Rancher
13 2 (0.067%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 536 (18.02%) Microsoft
2 404 (13.58%) Databricks
3 161 (5.41%) Google
4 150 (5.04%) Oracle
5 146 (4.91%) SAP
6 70 (2.35%) ServiceNow
7 66 (2.22%) Adobe
8 62 (2.08%) Salesforce
9 61 (2.05%) Informatica
10 51 (1.71%) Splunk
11 48 (1.61%) Talend
12 40 (1.34%) OpenAI
13 38 (1.28%) Denodo
14 35 (1.18%) Workday
15 33 (1.11%) Foundry
16 23 (0.77%) Dynatrace
16 23 (0.77%) VMware
17 22 (0.74%) IBM
18 17 (0.57%) Cisco
19 13 (0.44%) Ariba