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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 36
Rank change year-on-year +2 +9 -1
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,269 1,673 1,913
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.52% 6.62% 5.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.81% 7.24% 6.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,213 1,105 1,323
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.22%
75th Percentile £630 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 37 44
10th Percentile £19.25 £14.69 £14.10
25th Percentile £35.00 £19.25 £25.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £34.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.42% +15.00% -6.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £46.25
90th Percentile £84.20 £79.22 £71.38
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £34.50 £29.00
% change year-on-year +52.17% +18.97% -9.80%

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 37,112 23,092 31,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.37% 91.39% 85.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,409 14,893 20,664
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £418 £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 £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,320 1,127 2,324
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.50 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +84.31% -33.11% +1.87%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £73.60
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +4.17%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 1,790 £550 -4.35% 913
North of England +7 394 £491 +8.99% 275
Midlands +8 390 £493 -1.50% 179
West Midlands +14 303 £492 -4.06% 108
South East +1 294 £500 -2.44% 405
North West +2 199 £506 +6.45% 166
South West +20 190 £500 +5.26% 119
Yorkshire +5 153 £500 +11.11% 69
East of England -8 117 £525 -9.48% 83
East Midlands +6 81 £525 +27.66% 70
North East +4 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
1 158 (4.83%) Apache Spark
2 142 (4.34%) Apache Airflow
3 102 (3.12%) SAS
4 90 (2.75%) Apache
5 70 (2.14%) Confluence
6 44 (1.35%) SharePoint
7 30 (0.92%) 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 14 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 9 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
13 8 (0.24%) Apache Superset
14 6 (0.18%) IIS
14 6 (0.18%) WordPress
15 4 (0.12%) ArcGIS
15 4 (0.12%) Drupal
16 2 (0.061%) Apache Synapse
16 2 (0.061%) OpenStack
Applications
1 147 (4.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (0.58%) Chatbot
3 19 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
4 16 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
5 14 (0.43%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.37%) CPLEX
7 10 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.061%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.061%) Sketch
10 1 (0.031%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.031%) InDesign
10 1 (0.031%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.031%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.031%) Trello
10 1 (0.031%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 68 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
4 10 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
5 9 (0.28%) Aladdin
6 8 (0.24%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 8 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.21%) NetSuite
7 7 (0.21%) SAP ERP
7 7 (0.21%) Workday HCM
8 6 (0.18%) Sage X3
9 5 (0.15%) BambooHR
9 5 (0.15%) Infor LN
9 5 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 4 (0.12%) iTrent
10 4 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
10 4 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
10 4 (0.12%) SAP BPC
10 4 (0.12%) Shopify
11 3 (0.092%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 981 (30.01%) Azure
2 708 (21.66%) Power Platform
3 647 (19.79%) AWS
4 289 (8.84%) GCP
5 227 (6.94%) Azure DevOps
6 222 (6.79%) Azure Data Factory
7 221 (6.76%) Snowflake
8 181 (5.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 174 (5.32%) dbt
10 165 (5.05%) GitHub
11 144 (4.41%) Amazon S3
12 139 (4.25%) Serverless
13 112 (3.43%) Azure Monitor
14 94 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
15 92 (2.81%) SaaS
16 91 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
17 85 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
18 81 (2.48%) Entra ID
19 49 (1.50%) PaaS
19 49 (1.50%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 47 (1.44%) Firewall
2 30 (0.92%) Network Security
3 26 (0.80%) VPN
4 23 (0.70%) WAN
5 21 (0.64%) SD-WAN
6 19 (0.58%) DNS
7 17 (0.52%) BGP
8 12 (0.37%) SMS
9 10 (0.31%) OSPF
10 8 (0.24%) VXLAN
11 7 (0.21%) 5G
11 7 (0.21%) DHCP
11 7 (0.21%) HTTP
11 7 (0.21%) Internet
11 7 (0.21%) LAN
11 7 (0.21%) MPLS
11 7 (0.21%) TCP/IP
11 7 (0.21%) Wireless
11 7 (0.21%) WLAN
12 6 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 665 (20.34%) Power BI
2 422 (12.91%) Data Warehouse
3 258 (7.89%) Data Lake
4 227 (6.94%) Tableau
5 193 (5.90%) Metadata
6 123 (3.76%) BigQuery
7 108 (3.30%) Delta Lake
8 103 (3.15%) SQL Server
9 97 (2.97%) Big Data
10 90 (2.75%) Amazon Redshift
11 85 (2.60%) Relational Database
12 77 (2.36%) Snowflake Schema
13 75 (2.29%) Amazon Athena
14 73 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
15 68 (2.08%) NoSQL
16 65 (1.99%) Looker
17 63 (1.93%) Azure SQL Database
18 55 (1.68%) Power Query
19 50 (1.53%) Hadoop
20 49 (1.50%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 184 (5.63%) Git
2 164 (5.02%) JIRA
3 76 (2.32%) Jenkins
4 63 (1.93%) GitLab
5 20 (0.61%) ERwin
6 12 (0.37%) MLflow
7 11 (0.34%) JUnit
8 10 (0.31%) ER Studio
8 10 (0.31%) fastlane
8 10 (0.31%) Selenium
9 8 (0.24%) MSI
10 7 (0.21%) Postman
10 7 (0.21%) PowerDesigner
11 6 (0.18%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.15%) Android Studio
12 5 (0.15%) Crashlytics
12 5 (0.15%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.15%) Gradle
12 5 (0.15%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.15%) SonarQube
General
1 833 (25.48%) Finance
2 823 (25.18%) Social Skills
3 555 (16.98%) Analytical Skills
4 372 (11.38%) Public Sector
5 232 (7.10%) Banking
6 172 (5.26%) Marketing
7 133 (4.07%) Retail
8 76 (2.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 74 (2.26%) Legal
10 71 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
11 58 (1.77%) Manufacturing
12 57 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
13 55 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
14 54 (1.65%) Investment Banking
15 47 (1.44%) Front Office
16 43 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
16 43 (1.32%) Telecoms
17 39 (1.19%) Financial Institution
18 30 (0.92%) Automotive
19 27 (0.83%) Military
Job Titles
1 628 (19.21%) Data Engineer
2 405 (12.39%) Analyst
3 404 (12.36%) Senior
4 398 (12.17%) Architect
5 330 (10.09%) Developer
6 279 (8.53%) Lead
7 182 (5.57%) Data Architect
8 165 (5.05%) Data Analyst
9 139 (4.25%) Consultant
10 111 (3.40%) Senior Data Engineer
11 110 (3.36%) Business Analyst
12 108 (3.30%) Data Scientist
13 105 (3.21%) Solutions Architect
14 98 (3.00%) Azure Engineer
15 71 (2.17%) Data Manager
16 62 (1.90%) Project Manager
17 59 (1.80%) Designer
18 56 (1.71%) AWS Engineer
18 56 (1.71%) Business Intelligence Developer
19 55 (1.68%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 196 (6.00%) PySpark
2 132 (4.04%) Kafka
3 110 (3.36%) REST
4 61 (1.87%) Pandas
5 52 (1.59%) React
6 49 (1.50%) JSON
7 48 (1.47%) RESTful
8 42 (1.28%) .NET
9 41 (1.25%) PyTorch
10 40 (1.22%) HTML
11 39 (1.19%) CSS
12 38 (1.16%) TensorFlow
13 37 (1.13%) Middleware
14 35 (1.07%) NumPy
15 33 (1.01%) scikit-learn
15 33 (1.01%) Web Services
16 31 (0.95%) ARM Templates
16 31 (0.95%) Microsoft Graph
16 31 (0.95%) SOAP
17 27 (0.83%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 230 (7.04%) Cloud Native
2 161 (4.93%) Product Ownership
3 128 (3.92%) Data Structures
4 102 (3.12%) Legacy Systems
4 102 (3.12%) Onboarding
5 66 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
6 61 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
7 47 (1.44%) Algorithms
7 47 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
8 45 (1.38%) AI Agents
9 44 (1.35%) Management Information System
10 41 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
11 40 (1.22%) NHS
12 38 (1.16%) Public Cloud
13 35 (1.07%) Mobile App
14 32 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
15 31 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
15 31 (0.95%) Virtual Team
16 28 (0.86%) Taxonomies
17 27 (0.83%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 87 (2.66%) Windows
2 75 (2.29%) Linux
3 39 (1.19%) Unix
4 24 (0.73%) Mac OS
5 23 (0.70%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.46%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.34%) Android
8 8 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.15%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.12%) VMS
11 3 (0.092%) CentOS
11 3 (0.092%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.031%) Rocky
12 1 (0.031%) Solaris
12 1 (0.031%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 906 (27.71%) Data Modelling
2 886 (27.10%) Business Intelligence
3 784 (23.98%) AI
4 707 (21.63%) Agile
5 689 (21.08%) Data Pipeline
6 679 (20.77%) Data Engineering
7 661 (20.22%) CI/CD
8 566 (17.31%) ETL
9 533 (16.30%) DevOps
10 531 (16.24%) Decision-Making
11 509 (15.57%) Data Governance
12 507 (15.51%) Stakeholder Management
13 502 (15.36%) Problem-Solving
14 398 (12.17%) Machine Learning
15 397 (12.14%) Data Science
16 391 (11.96%) Migration
17 379 (11.59%) Data Analytics
18 368 (11.26%) Continuous Improvement
19 362 (11.07%) Validation
20 348 (10.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,103 (33.74%) SQL
2 984 (30.10%) Python
3 133 (4.07%) Java
4 112 (3.43%) PowerShell
5 99 (3.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 84 (2.57%) C#
7 69 (2.11%) R
8 64 (1.96%) Bicep
9 58 (1.77%) JavaScript
10 44 (1.35%) Scala
11 42 (1.28%) TypeScript
12 40 (1.22%) T-SQL
13 38 (1.16%) Kusto Query Language
14 35 (1.07%) Bash
14 35 (1.07%) Shell Script
15 25 (0.76%) PL/SQL
16 20 (0.61%) VBA
17 19 (0.58%) C++
18 11 (0.34%) Korn
19 10 (0.31%) Swift
Qualifications
1 551 (16.86%) Security Cleared
2 438 (13.40%) SC Cleared
3 257 (7.86%) Degree
4 77 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 72 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
6 69 (2.11%) Azure Certification
7 53 (1.62%) DV Cleared
8 39 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
9 38 (1.16%) Master's Degree
10 28 (0.86%) CISSP
11 26 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
12 23 (0.70%) AWS Certification
13 22 (0.67%) PMI Certification
14 19 (0.58%) DBS Check
15 18 (0.55%) PMP
16 17 (0.52%) CCNP
17 15 (0.46%) CCIE
18 10 (0.31%) CISA
18 10 (0.31%) SnowPro
19 9 (0.28%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 622 (19.03%) Data Quality
2 161 (4.93%) GDPR
3 125 (3.82%) QA
4 105 (3.21%) Accessibility
5 44 (1.35%) WCAG
6 34 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 30 (0.92%) NIST
8 28 (0.86%) PMO
9 21 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
10 19 (0.58%) GRC
11 16 (0.49%) Solvency II
12 15 (0.46%) SLA
13 12 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 11 (0.34%) IFRS
15 10 (0.31%) NCSC
16 9 (0.28%) PCI DSS
17 7 (0.21%) GAAP
17 7 (0.21%) ISO 20022
17 7 (0.21%) PERC
18 6 (0.18%) HL7
System Software
1 160 (4.89%) Docker
2 72 (2.20%) Active Directory
3 21 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.21%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.21%) 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
1 245 (7.49%) Terraform
2 172 (5.26%) Kubernetes
3 32 (0.98%) Ansible
3 32 (0.98%) Grafana
4 31 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
5 28 (0.86%) Prometheus
6 21 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.24%) FortiGate
7 8 (0.24%) SCCM
8 5 (0.15%) Argo
8 5 (0.15%) Control-M
9 4 (0.12%) CSIRT
10 3 (0.092%) Nagios
10 3 (0.092%) Podman
10 3 (0.092%) Puppet
10 3 (0.092%) QRadar
11 2 (0.061%) Kibana
11 2 (0.061%) OpenVAS
11 2 (0.061%) SCOM
11 2 (0.061%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 564 (17.25%) Microsoft
2 441 (13.49%) Databricks
3 170 (5.20%) Oracle
4 164 (5.02%) SAP
5 149 (4.56%) Google
6 73 (2.23%) Salesforce
7 69 (2.11%) ServiceNow
8 61 (1.87%) Adobe
9 54 (1.65%) Informatica
10 52 (1.59%) Splunk
11 47 (1.44%) Foundry
12 45 (1.38%) Talend
13 43 (1.32%) Workday
14 40 (1.22%) OpenAI
15 37 (1.13%) Denodo
16 34 (1.04%) Palantir
17 31 (0.95%) Dynatrace
18 24 (0.73%) Cisco
19 22 (0.67%) VMware
20 17 (0.52%) IBM