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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 27 36
Rank change year-on-year +3 +9 -2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,240 1,663 1,904
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.48% 6.66% 5.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.77% 7.29% 5.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,196 1,103 1,315
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £541 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% -1.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £630 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 37 46
10th Percentile £19.25 £14.69 £14.50
25th Percentile £35.00 £19.25 £25.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £32.05 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.61% +10.52% -10.22%
75th Percentile £75.00 £62.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £84.50 £79.22 £70.63
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £34.50 £26.75
% change year-on-year +52.17% +28.97% -17.18%

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 36,943 22,820 31,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.26% 91.36% 85.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,357 14,745 20,676
10th Percentile £325 £300 £303
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +2.09% -4.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,312 1,098 2,392
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.06 £37.63
Median % change year-on-year +73.67% -28.07% +7.07%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £74.13 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +7.14%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 23 June 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 1,775 £550 -4.35% 1,145
North of England +7 387 £475 +2.70% 295
Midlands +9 380 £493 -2.72% 187
West Midlands +11 297 £492 -4.47% 114
South East 0 289 £500 - 418
South West +24 196 £500 +2.56% 137
North West 0 192 £500 +5.26% 185
Yorkshire +4 153 £500 +7.76% 71
East of England -3 118 £525 -12.50% 91
East Midlands +3 77 £525 +28.05% 72
North East +3 53 £450 +9.09% 40
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
1 159 (4.91%) Apache Spark
2 137 (4.23%) Apache Airflow
3 106 (3.27%) SAS
4 87 (2.69%) Apache
5 72 (2.22%) Confluence
6 45 (1.39%) SharePoint
7 30 (0.93%) Jupyter
8 28 (0.86%) CMS
9 27 (0.83%) Palantir Foundry
10 15 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
10 15 (0.46%) Oracle Application Server
11 12 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 9 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
13 8 (0.25%) Apache Superset
14 6 (0.19%) IIS
14 6 (0.19%) WordPress
15 5 (0.15%) ArcGIS
16 4 (0.12%) Drupal
17 2 (0.062%) Smallworld
17 2 (0.062%) WebSphere
Applications
1 148 (4.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
4 18 (0.56%) Chatbot
5 16 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
6 13 (0.40%) MS Visio
7 12 (0.37%) CPLEX
8 10 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
10 2 (0.062%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.062%) Sketch
11 1 (0.031%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.031%) InDesign
11 1 (0.031%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.031%) PlantUML
11 1 (0.031%) Trello
11 1 (0.031%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 68 (2.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 26 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
4 10 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.25%) Aladdin
5 8 (0.25%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 8 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.22%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.19%) Sage X3
7 6 (0.19%) SAP ERP
7 6 (0.19%) Workday HCM
8 5 (0.15%) BambooHR
8 5 (0.15%) Infor LN
8 5 (0.15%) Maximo
8 5 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.12%) iTrent
9 4 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.12%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 4 (0.12%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 982 (30.31%) Azure
2 725 (22.38%) Power Platform
3 640 (19.75%) AWS
4 283 (8.73%) GCP
5 234 (7.22%) Azure DevOps
6 228 (7.04%) Azure Data Factory
7 211 (6.51%) Snowflake
8 185 (5.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 164 (5.06%) dbt
9 164 (5.06%) GitHub
10 140 (4.32%) Amazon S3
11 139 (4.29%) Serverless
12 112 (3.46%) Azure Monitor
13 94 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
14 89 (2.75%) SaaS
15 88 (2.72%) GitHub Actions
16 82 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
17 76 (2.35%) Entra ID
18 49 (1.51%) Power Automate
19 47 (1.45%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 43 (1.33%) Firewall
2 28 (0.86%) Network Security
3 26 (0.80%) VPN
4 22 (0.68%) WAN
5 20 (0.62%) SD-WAN
6 16 (0.49%) BGP
6 16 (0.49%) DNS
7 13 (0.40%) SMS
8 9 (0.28%) OSPF
9 8 (0.25%) VXLAN
10 7 (0.22%) 5G
10 7 (0.22%) HTTP
10 7 (0.22%) LAN
10 7 (0.22%) MPLS
10 7 (0.22%) Wireless
10 7 (0.22%) WLAN
11 6 (0.19%) DHCP
11 6 (0.19%) Internet
11 6 (0.19%) TCP/IP
11 6 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 681 (21.02%) Power BI
2 419 (12.93%) Data Warehouse
3 255 (7.87%) Data Lake
4 225 (6.94%) Tableau
5 192 (5.93%) Metadata
6 119 (3.67%) BigQuery
7 108 (3.33%) Delta Lake
7 108 (3.33%) SQL Server
8 94 (2.90%) Big Data
9 86 (2.65%) Relational Database
10 84 (2.59%) Amazon Redshift
11 74 (2.28%) Amazon Athena
12 73 (2.25%) Snowflake Schema
13 69 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
14 68 (2.10%) NoSQL
15 66 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
16 62 (1.91%) Looker
17 59 (1.82%) Power Query
18 51 (1.57%) Hadoop
18 51 (1.57%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 180 (5.56%) Git
2 169 (5.22%) JIRA
3 75 (2.31%) Jenkins
4 65 (2.01%) GitLab
5 21 (0.65%) ERwin
6 12 (0.37%) MLflow
7 10 (0.31%) ER Studio
7 10 (0.31%) fastlane
7 10 (0.31%) JUnit
7 10 (0.31%) Selenium
8 8 (0.25%) MSI
9 7 (0.22%) Postman
9 7 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
10 6 (0.19%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.15%) Android Studio
11 5 (0.15%) Crashlytics
11 5 (0.15%) Gradle
11 5 (0.15%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.15%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.15%) Xcode
General
1 821 (25.34%) Finance
2 817 (25.22%) Social Skills
3 554 (17.10%) Analytical Skills
4 370 (11.42%) Public Sector
5 225 (6.94%) Banking
6 167 (5.15%) Marketing
7 122 (3.77%) Retail
8 74 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
8 74 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 72 (2.22%) Legal
10 58 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
11 55 (1.70%) Investment Banking
12 54 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
13 52 (1.60%) Manufacturing
14 45 (1.39%) Front Office
15 43 (1.33%) Telecoms
16 42 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
17 37 (1.14%) Financial Institution
18 30 (0.93%) Automotive
19 28 (0.86%) Military
Job Titles
1 623 (19.23%) Data Engineer
2 403 (12.44%) Analyst
3 400 (12.35%) Senior
4 388 (11.98%) Architect
5 330 (10.19%) Developer
6 277 (8.55%) Lead
7 176 (5.43%) Data Architect
8 166 (5.12%) Data Analyst
9 139 (4.29%) Consultant
10 113 (3.49%) Senior Data Engineer
11 111 (3.43%) Business Analyst
12 105 (3.24%) Data Scientist
13 102 (3.15%) Solutions Architect
14 98 (3.02%) Azure Engineer
15 70 (2.16%) Data Manager
16 60 (1.85%) Project Manager
17 59 (1.82%) Designer
18 56 (1.73%) Business Intelligence Developer
19 55 (1.70%) AWS Engineer
20 53 (1.64%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (5.99%) PySpark
2 130 (4.01%) Kafka
3 108 (3.33%) REST
4 59 (1.82%) Pandas
5 54 (1.67%) React
6 48 (1.48%) JSON
7 46 (1.42%) RESTful
8 44 (1.36%) PyTorch
9 43 (1.33%) HTML
10 41 (1.27%) .NET
10 41 (1.27%) CSS
10 41 (1.27%) TensorFlow
11 38 (1.17%) Middleware
12 33 (1.02%) scikit-learn
13 32 (0.99%) NumPy
13 32 (0.99%) Web Services
14 31 (0.96%) ARM Templates
14 31 (0.96%) SOAP
15 29 (0.90%) Microsoft Graph
15 29 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 223 (6.88%) Cloud Native
2 164 (5.06%) Product Ownership
3 128 (3.95%) Data Structures
4 100 (3.09%) Onboarding
5 97 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
6 66 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
7 62 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
8 47 (1.45%) Algorithms
9 46 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
10 45 (1.39%) Management Information System
11 42 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
12 41 (1.27%) AI Agents
13 38 (1.17%) NHS
14 37 (1.14%) Public Cloud
15 35 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
15 35 (1.08%) Mobile App
16 33 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
17 29 (0.90%) Virtual Team
18 28 (0.86%) Derivative
19 26 (0.80%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 87 (2.69%) Windows
2 72 (2.22%) Linux
3 39 (1.20%) Unix
4 24 (0.74%) Mac OS
5 23 (0.71%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.49%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.34%) Android
8 5 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.093%) CentOS
9 3 (0.093%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.062%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.062%) VMS
11 1 (0.031%) Rocky
11 1 (0.031%) Solaris
11 1 (0.031%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 899 (27.75%) Business Intelligence
2 898 (27.72%) Data Modelling
3 765 (23.61%) AI
4 698 (21.54%) Agile
5 682 (21.05%) Data Pipeline
6 670 (20.68%) Data Engineering
7 656 (20.25%) CI/CD
8 568 (17.53%) ETL
9 543 (16.76%) DevOps
10 529 (16.33%) Decision-Making
11 505 (15.59%) Data Governance
12 500 (15.43%) Stakeholder Management
13 498 (15.37%) Problem-Solving
14 394 (12.16%) Data Science
15 390 (12.04%) Machine Learning
16 382 (11.79%) Migration
17 372 (11.48%) Data Analytics
18 369 (11.39%) Continuous Improvement
19 360 (11.11%) Validation
20 352 (10.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,092 (33.70%) SQL
2 977 (30.15%) Python
3 132 (4.07%) Java
4 109 (3.36%) PowerShell
5 103 (3.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 84 (2.59%) C#
7 69 (2.13%) R
8 68 (2.10%) Bicep
9 59 (1.82%) JavaScript
10 42 (1.30%) Scala
10 42 (1.30%) T-SQL
11 41 (1.27%) TypeScript
12 38 (1.17%) Kusto Query Language
13 34 (1.05%) Bash
13 34 (1.05%) Shell Script
14 25 (0.77%) PL/SQL
15 20 (0.62%) C++
15 20 (0.62%) VBA
16 11 (0.34%) Korn
17 10 (0.31%) Swift
Qualifications
1 558 (17.22%) Security Cleared
2 444 (13.70%) SC Cleared
3 253 (7.81%) Degree
4 76 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 74 (2.28%) Azure Certification
6 72 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
7 55 (1.70%) DV Cleared
8 44 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 38 (1.17%) Master's Degree
10 29 (0.90%) CISSP
11 26 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
12 24 (0.74%) PMI Certification
13 21 (0.65%) AWS Certification
14 19 (0.59%) DBS Check
14 19 (0.59%) PMP
15 17 (0.52%) CCNP
16 14 (0.43%) CCIE
17 10 (0.31%) CISM
17 10 (0.31%) IIBA
17 10 (0.31%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 626 (19.32%) Data Quality
2 162 (5.00%) GDPR
3 125 (3.86%) QA
4 105 (3.24%) Accessibility
5 44 (1.36%) WCAG
6 37 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 35 (1.08%) NIST
8 30 (0.93%) PMO
9 21 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
10 19 (0.59%) GRC
11 17 (0.52%) SLA
12 16 (0.49%) Solvency II
13 14 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 11 (0.34%) IFRS
14 11 (0.34%) NCSC
15 8 (0.25%) PCI DSS
16 7 (0.22%) GAAP
16 7 (0.22%) ISO 20022
16 7 (0.22%) PERC
17 6 (0.19%) HL7
System Software
1 155 (4.78%) Docker
2 71 (2.19%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.22%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.12%) HDFS
6 4 (0.12%) Snort
6 4 (0.12%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.031%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.031%) GPFS
7 1 (0.031%) iptables
7 1 (0.031%) Lustre
7 1 (0.031%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.031%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.031%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 244 (7.53%) Terraform
2 167 (5.15%) Kubernetes
3 32 (0.99%) Grafana
4 31 (0.96%) Ansible
4 31 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
5 28 (0.86%) Prometheus
6 21 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.25%) SCCM
8 7 (0.22%) FortiGate
9 6 (0.19%) Control-M
10 5 (0.15%) Argo
11 4 (0.12%) CSIRT
12 3 (0.093%) Nagios
12 3 (0.093%) Puppet
12 3 (0.093%) QRadar
13 2 (0.062%) Kibana
13 2 (0.062%) Nessus
13 2 (0.062%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.062%) Rancher
13 2 (0.062%) SCOM
Vendors
1 569 (17.56%) Microsoft
2 425 (13.12%) Databricks
3 168 (5.19%) Oracle
4 163 (5.03%) SAP
5 144 (4.44%) Google
6 72 (2.22%) Salesforce
7 71 (2.19%) ServiceNow
8 59 (1.82%) Adobe
9 56 (1.73%) Informatica
10 51 (1.57%) Splunk
11 48 (1.48%) Foundry
12 45 (1.39%) Talend
13 43 (1.33%) Workday
14 42 (1.30%) OpenAI
15 37 (1.14%) Denodo
16 34 (1.05%) Palantir
17 31 (0.96%) Dynatrace
18 23 (0.71%) Cisco
19 22 (0.68%) VMware
20 21 (0.65%) IBM