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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 35
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 0
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,498 1,769 1,756
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.66% 6.41% 5.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.03% 7.07% 6.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,286 1,165 1,217
10th Percentile £363 £354 £354
25th Percentile £430 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% -2.61%
75th Percentile £637 £650 £688
90th Percentile £750 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 46 23
10th Percentile £20.15 £15.88 £22.30
25th Percentile £27.60 £30.32 £27.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £34.74 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.12% +12.06% -11.43%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.16 £49.38
90th Percentile £87.06 £79.38 £73.95
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £34.74 £31.00
% change year-on-year +43.93% +12.06% -11.74%

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 38,738 25,035 28,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.83% 90.79% 85.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,882 15,942 18,107
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,595 1,467 1,443
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.87 £18.63
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.09 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +63.39% -40.82% +2.41%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 1 September 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 1,950 £550 - 4,870
North of England +11 445 £475 +5.56% 773
Midlands +4 382 £493 -4.37% 335
South East +14 361 £513 -2.38% 731
West Midlands +4 311 £493 -5.01% 223
North West +2 230 £515 +13.50% 483
Yorkshire +9 172 £463 - 215
South West +18 171 £500 +7.53% 376
East of England -7 105 £578 +4.52% 181
East Midlands 0 65 £500 +19.40% 112
North East -9 52 £445 +16.72% 79
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
1 162 (4.63%) Apache Airflow
2 129 (3.69%) Apache Spark
3 111 (3.17%) SAS
4 98 (2.80%) Apache
5 75 (2.14%) Confluence
6 54 (1.54%) CMS
7 48 (1.37%) SharePoint
8 30 (0.86%) Jupyter
8 30 (0.86%) Palantir Foundry
9 27 (0.77%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 26 (0.74%) Oracle Application Server
11 11 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
12 10 (0.29%) Apache Superset
13 9 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
14 8 (0.23%) Drupal
14 8 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
15 6 (0.17%) WordPress
16 4 (0.11%) IIS
17 2 (0.057%) ArcGIS
17 2 (0.057%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 153 (4.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (0.60%) Chatbot
5 17 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
6 16 (0.46%) CPLEX
7 12 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
8 11 (0.31%) MS Visio
9 4 (0.11%) Trello
10 3 (0.086%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.086%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.057%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.057%) Sketch
12 1 (0.029%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.029%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.029%) InDesign
12 1 (0.029%) Notion
12 1 (0.029%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.029%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.029%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 66 (1.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
4 16 (0.46%) Workday HCM
5 13 (0.37%) Aladdin
5 13 (0.37%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 10 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
7 9 (0.26%) Shopify
8 8 (0.23%) SAP CO
8 8 (0.23%) SAP ERP
8 8 (0.23%) SAP FI
9 7 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
9 7 (0.20%) SAP MDG
9 7 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 6 (0.17%) NetSuite
10 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.17%) SAP GRC
11 5 (0.14%) Infor LN
11 5 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
11 5 (0.14%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 1,029 (29.42%) Azure
2 704 (20.13%) Power Platform
3 613 (17.52%) AWS
4 294 (8.40%) GCP
5 245 (7.00%) Snowflake
6 232 (6.63%) Azure DevOps
7 228 (6.52%) Azure Data Factory
8 194 (5.55%) dbt
9 181 (5.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 152 (4.35%) GitHub
11 150 (4.29%) Serverless
12 131 (3.74%) Azure Monitor
13 128 (3.66%) Amazon S3
14 110 (3.14%) Entra ID
15 109 (3.12%) SaaS
16 99 (2.83%) AWS Lambda
17 84 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
18 77 (2.20%) GitHub Actions
19 72 (2.06%) Azure Databricks
20 62 (1.77%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 61 (1.74%) Firewall
2 49 (1.40%) Network Security
3 38 (1.09%) DNS
4 33 (0.94%) VPN
5 24 (0.69%) WAN
6 22 (0.63%) TCP/IP
7 20 (0.57%) SD-WAN
8 17 (0.49%) BGP
9 16 (0.46%) DHCP
10 14 (0.40%) Broadband
11 9 (0.26%) SMS
12 8 (0.23%) OSPF
12 8 (0.23%) Wireless
13 7 (0.20%) LAN
14 6 (0.17%) Internet
14 6 (0.17%) SSH
14 6 (0.17%) WLAN
15 5 (0.14%) HTTP
15 5 (0.14%) VLAN
15 5 (0.14%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 671 (19.18%) Power BI
2 443 (12.66%) Data Warehouse
3 257 (7.35%) Data Lake
4 231 (6.60%) Metadata
5 224 (6.40%) Tableau
6 139 (3.97%) BigQuery
7 94 (2.69%) Delta Lake
8 91 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
8 91 (2.60%) SQL Server
9 87 (2.49%) Big Data
10 85 (2.43%) Relational Database
11 76 (2.17%) Looker
12 71 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
13 66 (1.89%) Snowflake Schema
14 64 (1.83%) Amazon Athena
15 62 (1.77%) Semantic Layer
16 59 (1.69%) NoSQL
17 57 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
18 56 (1.60%) Star Schema
19 50 (1.43%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 181 (5.17%) Git
2 162 (4.63%) JIRA
3 60 (1.72%) Jenkins
4 49 (1.40%) GitLab
5 14 (0.40%) ERwin
6 11 (0.31%) MLflow
7 10 (0.29%) fastlane
8 9 (0.26%) RStudio
9 8 (0.23%) ER Studio
9 8 (0.23%) Selenium
9 8 (0.23%) SonarQube
10 7 (0.20%) Gradle
10 7 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
11 6 (0.17%) Android Studio
11 6 (0.17%) Crashlytics
11 6 (0.17%) JUnit
11 6 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
12 5 (0.14%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.14%) Visual Website Optimizer
12 5 (0.14%) Xcode
General
1 920 (26.30%) Social Skills
2 896 (25.61%) Finance
3 643 (18.38%) Analytical Skills
4 410 (11.72%) Public Sector
5 259 (7.40%) Banking
6 227 (6.49%) Marketing
7 173 (4.95%) Retail
8 101 (2.89%) Influencing Skills
9 94 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 76 (2.17%) Legal
11 70 (2.00%) Manufacturing
11 70 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
12 69 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
13 63 (1.80%) Front Office
14 56 (1.60%) Investment Banking
15 47 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
16 46 (1.32%) Telecoms
17 43 (1.23%) Publishing
18 42 (1.20%) Financial Institution
19 39 (1.11%) Military
Job Titles
1 589 (16.84%) Data Engineer
2 447 (12.78%) Analyst
2 447 (12.78%) Senior
3 445 (12.72%) Architect
4 315 (9.01%) Developer
5 293 (8.38%) Lead
6 205 (5.86%) Data Architect
7 169 (4.83%) Consultant
8 167 (4.77%) Data Analyst
9 122 (3.49%) Solutions Architect
10 111 (3.17%) Senior Data Engineer
11 106 (3.03%) Business Analyst
12 104 (2.97%) Azure Engineer
13 103 (2.94%) Data Scientist
14 76 (2.17%) Data Manager
15 68 (1.94%) Product Manager
16 63 (1.80%) Senior Manager
17 61 (1.74%) Project Manager
17 61 (1.74%) Python Developer
18 57 (1.63%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 264 (7.55%) Terraform
2 218 (6.23%) PySpark
3 128 (3.66%) REST
4 112 (3.20%) Kafka
5 64 (1.83%) Pandas
6 56 (1.60%) HTML
7 54 (1.54%) RESTful
8 52 (1.49%) CSS
9 50 (1.43%) React
10 44 (1.26%) JSON
11 41 (1.17%) .NET
11 41 (1.17%) ARM Templates
12 39 (1.11%) NumPy
13 38 (1.09%) OAuth
14 31 (0.89%) OpenID
15 30 (0.86%) OAuth2
16 29 (0.83%) Django
17 28 (0.80%) Oracle Fusion
17 28 (0.80%) Web Services
17 28 (0.80%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 234 (6.69%) Cloud Native
2 185 (5.29%) Product Ownership
3 134 (3.83%) Data Structures
3 134 (3.83%) Onboarding
4 112 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
5 71 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
6 68 (1.94%) Management Information System
7 63 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
8 59 (1.69%) AI Agents
9 48 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
10 45 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
10 45 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
11 44 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
12 42 (1.20%) Algorithms
13 40 (1.14%) Marketing Technology
13 40 (1.14%) NHS
14 39 (1.11%) Virtual Team
15 34 (0.97%) Derivative
15 34 (0.97%) Mobile App
15 34 (0.97%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 87 (2.49%) Linux
2 86 (2.46%) Windows
3 38 (1.09%) Unix
4 35 (1.00%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 14 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.31%) Mac OS
8 10 (0.29%) Android
9 9 (0.26%) VMS
10 5 (0.14%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.086%) Solaris
11 3 (0.086%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.057%) AIX
12 2 (0.057%) CentOS
12 2 (0.057%) HPUX
13 1 (0.029%) Rocky
13 1 (0.029%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 914 (26.13%) Data Modelling
2 891 (25.47%) AI
2 891 (25.47%) Business Intelligence
3 806 (23.04%) Agile
4 723 (20.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 696 (19.90%) Data Pipeline
6 688 (19.67%) Data Engineering
7 648 (18.52%) CI/CD
8 633 (18.10%) Decision-Making
9 558 (15.95%) Data Governance
10 557 (15.92%) ETL
11 519 (14.84%) DevOps
12 510 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
13 450 (12.86%) Migration
14 437 (12.49%) Continuous Improvement
15 422 (12.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 412 (11.78%) Machine Learning
17 410 (11.72%) Roadmaps
18 397 (11.35%) Data Science
19 394 (11.26%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1,119 (31.99%) SQL
2 982 (28.07%) Python
3 160 (4.57%) PowerShell
4 106 (3.03%) Java
5 97 (2.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 84 (2.40%) Bicep
7 83 (2.37%) JavaScript
8 77 (2.20%) C#
9 63 (1.80%) R
10 59 (1.69%) Bash
11 38 (1.09%) Scala
12 34 (0.97%) Shell Script
13 32 (0.91%) TypeScript
14 30 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
15 27 (0.77%) T-SQL
16 21 (0.60%) PL/SQL
17 19 (0.54%) C++
18 13 (0.37%) VBA
19 11 (0.31%) Kotlin
19 11 (0.31%) LookML
Qualifications
1 621 (17.75%) Security Cleared
2 488 (13.95%) SC Cleared
3 287 (8.20%) Degree
4 83 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 80 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 79 (2.26%) Azure Certification
7 70 (2.00%) DV Cleared
8 52 (1.49%) Master's Degree
9 49 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
10 38 (1.09%) CISSP
11 30 (0.86%) AWS Certification
12 29 (0.83%) PMI Certification
13 23 (0.66%) DBS Check
13 23 (0.66%) PMP
14 20 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
15 12 (0.34%) CISA
16 11 (0.31%) MBA
16 11 (0.31%) PhD
17 10 (0.29%) SANS
18 9 (0.26%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 694 (19.84%) Data Quality
2 163 (4.66%) GDPR
3 134 (3.83%) Accessibility
4 132 (3.77%) QA
5 47 (1.34%) GRC
6 46 (1.32%) WCAG
7 39 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 33 (0.94%) NIST
9 29 (0.83%) PMO
10 28 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
11 20 (0.57%) SLA
12 13 (0.37%) PCI DSS
12 13 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 12 (0.34%) PERC
13 12 (0.34%) Solvency II
14 10 (0.29%) IFRS
14 10 (0.29%) NCSC
15 7 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
15 7 (0.20%) GMP
16 6 (0.17%) PSD2
System Software
1 150 (4.29%) Docker
2 88 (2.52%) Active Directory
3 26 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.23%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.17%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.086%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 3 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.086%) vSphere
9 2 (0.057%) XenApp
9 2 (0.057%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.029%) iptables
10 1 (0.029%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.029%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 159 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 49 (1.40%) Ansible
3 39 (1.11%) Grafana
4 24 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (0.49%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.40%) SCCM
8 8 (0.23%) Control-M
8 8 (0.23%) FortiGate
8 8 (0.23%) SCOM
9 7 (0.20%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.14%) Podman
11 4 (0.11%) QRadar
11 4 (0.11%) SysTrack
12 3 (0.086%) Apache Ranger
12 3 (0.086%) CASB
12 3 (0.086%) Kibana
12 3 (0.086%) Thomson Reuters DACS
13 2 (0.057%) Argo
13 2 (0.057%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 637 (18.21%) Microsoft
2 455 (13.01%) Databricks
3 208 (5.95%) Oracle
4 186 (5.32%) SAP
5 179 (5.12%) Google
6 87 (2.49%) ServiceNow
7 86 (2.46%) Adobe
8 82 (2.34%) Salesforce
9 56 (1.60%) Workday
10 45 (1.29%) Foundry
11 44 (1.26%) Splunk
12 41 (1.17%) Dynatrace
12 41 (1.17%) Informatica
13 37 (1.06%) Palantir
14 33 (0.94%) Talend
15 31 (0.89%) Cisco
15 31 (0.89%) Denodo
16 28 (0.80%) VMware
17 25 (0.71%) OpenAI
18 23 (0.66%) Alteryx