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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 34
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 +3
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,532 1,809 1,784
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.76% 6.55% 5.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.11% 7.21% 6.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,361 1,204 1,272
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £440 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £661 £688
90th Percentile £750 £813 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 46 24
10th Percentile £20.75 £15.27 £21.39
25th Percentile £28.50 £23.50 £27.00
Median hourly rate £54.50 £34.50 £30.69
Median % change year-on-year +57.97% +12.43% -5.00%
75th Percentile £76.25 £71.13 £43.75
90th Percentile £87.16 £80.51 £69.88
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £34.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +52.17% +15.00% -7.12%

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 38,782 25,081 28,761
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.18% 90.77% 85.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,156 16,055 18,761
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £760
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,506 1,391 1,691
10th Percentile £14.94 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £20.31 £17.87 £18.21
Median hourly rate £44.23 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +75.86% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.50 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.63% -5.12%

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 6 August 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 6 August 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 6 August 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 1,946 £550 -2.22% 2,330
North of England +11 437 £492 +9.27% 476
Midlands +7 427 £493 -4.37% 247
South East +8 349 £500 -2.91% 510
West Midlands +6 343 £492 -6.29% 156
North West 0 218 £522 +11.56% 274
South West +11 181 £500 +5.26% 195
Yorkshire +3 176 £461 +1.04% 151
East of England -11 106 £565 -2.59% 127
East Midlands +9 77 £525 +27.27% 91
North East 0 53 £450 +9.09% 54
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 (4.50%) Apache Airflow
2 152 (4.30%) Apache Spark
3 127 (3.60%) SAS
4 97 (2.75%) Apache
5 78 (2.21%) Confluence
6 49 (1.39%) SharePoint
7 46 (1.30%) CMS
8 31 (0.88%) Jupyter
9 30 (0.85%) Palantir Foundry
10 24 (0.68%) Oracle Application Server
11 20 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 11 (0.31%) Apache Superset
12 11 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
13 8 (0.23%) Drupal
13 8 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
14 7 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
14 7 (0.20%) WordPress
15 6 (0.17%) IIS
16 2 (0.057%) ArcGIS
16 2 (0.057%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 161 (4.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 23 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (0.59%) Chatbot
5 19 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
6 15 (0.42%) CPLEX
7 12 (0.34%) MS Visio
8 11 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
9 4 (0.11%) Trello
10 3 (0.085%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.085%) Sketch
11 2 (0.057%) InDesign
11 2 (0.057%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.028%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.028%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.028%) Notion
12 1 (0.028%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.028%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 64 (1.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
4 13 (0.37%) Workday HCM
5 12 (0.34%) Aladdin
6 10 (0.28%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 10 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
7 9 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
7 9 (0.25%) Shopify
8 8 (0.23%) SAP ERP
9 7 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
10 6 (0.17%) NetSuite
10 6 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
10 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.17%) Sage X3
10 6 (0.17%) SAP GRC
11 5 (0.14%) BambooHR
11 5 (0.14%) Infor LN
11 5 (0.14%) SAP BPC
11 5 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,036 (29.33%) Azure
2 725 (20.53%) Power Platform
3 639 (18.09%) AWS
4 315 (8.92%) GCP
5 241 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
6 238 (6.74%) Snowflake
7 220 (6.23%) Azure Data Factory
8 188 (5.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 188 (5.32%) dbt
9 164 (4.64%) GitHub
10 137 (3.88%) Serverless
11 131 (3.71%) Amazon S3
11 131 (3.71%) Azure Monitor
12 110 (3.11%) Entra ID
13 100 (2.83%) SaaS
14 92 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
15 90 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
16 82 (2.32%) Microsoft 365
17 59 (1.67%) Google Analytics
18 53 (1.50%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 59 (1.67%) Firewall
2 45 (1.27%) Network Security
3 36 (1.02%) VPN
4 33 (0.93%) DNS
5 27 (0.76%) WAN
6 24 (0.68%) SD-WAN
7 21 (0.59%) BGP
8 20 (0.57%) TCP/IP
9 13 (0.37%) DHCP
10 12 (0.34%) OSPF
11 10 (0.28%) SMS
11 10 (0.28%) Wireless
12 9 (0.25%) Broadband
13 8 (0.23%) LAN
13 8 (0.23%) VXLAN
14 7 (0.20%) 5G
14 7 (0.20%) HTTP
14 7 (0.20%) Internet
14 7 (0.20%) MPLS
14 7 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 691 (19.56%) Power BI
2 468 (13.25%) Data Warehouse
3 266 (7.53%) Data Lake
4 236 (6.68%) Tableau
5 210 (5.95%) Metadata
6 138 (3.91%) BigQuery
7 101 (2.86%) Big Data
8 100 (2.83%) SQL Server
9 99 (2.80%) Delta Lake
10 93 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
11 89 (2.52%) Relational Database
12 78 (2.21%) NoSQL
13 74 (2.10%) Snowflake Schema
14 73 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
15 72 (2.04%) Looker
16 69 (1.95%) Amazon Athena
17 64 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
18 57 (1.61%) Power Query
18 57 (1.61%) Semantic Layer
19 52 (1.47%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 206 (5.83%) Git
2 173 (4.90%) JIRA
3 79 (2.24%) Jenkins
4 51 (1.44%) GitLab
5 18 (0.51%) ERwin
6 10 (0.28%) ER Studio
6 10 (0.28%) fastlane
6 10 (0.28%) JUnit
6 10 (0.28%) MLflow
7 9 (0.25%) Selenium
7 9 (0.25%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.20%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.20%) Gradle
8 7 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
8 7 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (0.17%) Android Studio
9 6 (0.17%) Crashlytics
9 6 (0.17%) Postman
10 5 (0.14%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.14%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 913 (25.85%) Social Skills
2 889 (25.17%) Finance
3 624 (17.67%) Analytical Skills
4 427 (12.09%) Public Sector
5 255 (7.22%) Banking
6 216 (6.12%) Marketing
7 157 (4.45%) Retail
8 87 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 86 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
10 73 (2.07%) Legal
11 68 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
11 68 (1.93%) Manufacturing
12 63 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
13 56 (1.59%) Front Office
14 55 (1.56%) Investment Banking
15 51 (1.44%) Telecoms
16 44 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
17 40 (1.13%) Financial Institution
18 36 (1.02%) Publishing
19 35 (0.99%) Military
Job Titles
1 629 (17.81%) Data Engineer
2 458 (12.97%) Architect
3 441 (12.49%) Senior
4 433 (12.26%) Analyst
5 351 (9.94%) Developer
6 299 (8.47%) Lead
7 202 (5.72%) Data Architect
8 176 (4.98%) Data Analyst
9 151 (4.28%) Consultant
10 127 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
11 116 (3.28%) Data Scientist
12 109 (3.09%) Azure Engineer
12 109 (3.09%) Business Analyst
13 106 (3.00%) Senior Data Engineer
14 75 (2.12%) Data Manager
15 64 (1.81%) Product Manager
15 64 (1.81%) Python Developer
16 62 (1.76%) Project Manager
17 60 (1.70%) Azure Data Engineer
18 58 (1.64%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 208 (5.89%) PySpark
2 134 (3.79%) REST
3 127 (3.60%) Kafka
4 68 (1.93%) Pandas
5 58 (1.64%) RESTful
6 50 (1.42%) JSON
7 49 (1.39%) .NET
7 49 (1.39%) React
8 47 (1.33%) HTML
9 43 (1.22%) NumPy
10 42 (1.19%) CSS
11 39 (1.10%) ARM Templates
11 39 (1.10%) OAuth
12 35 (0.99%) Oracle Fusion
12 35 (0.99%) Web Services
13 34 (0.96%) SOAP
14 32 (0.91%) PyTorch
14 32 (0.91%) scikit-learn
15 31 (0.88%) OpenID
16 30 (0.85%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 241 (6.82%) Cloud Native
2 185 (5.24%) Product Ownership
3 149 (4.22%) Data Structures
4 127 (3.60%) Legacy Systems
5 116 (3.28%) Onboarding
6 72 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
7 67 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
8 54 (1.53%) Management Information System
9 50 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
10 49 (1.39%) AI Agents
11 47 (1.33%) Algorithms
12 44 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
12 44 (1.25%) NHS
13 43 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
14 39 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
14 39 (1.10%) Virtual Team
15 37 (1.05%) Marketing Technology
15 37 (1.05%) Mobile App
16 29 (0.82%) Derivative
16 29 (0.82%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 87 (2.46%) Linux
2 80 (2.27%) Windows
3 42 (1.19%) Unix
4 24 (0.68%) Windows Server
5 23 (0.65%) Apple iOS
6 13 (0.37%) Android
6 13 (0.37%) Mac OS
7 11 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.20%) VMS
9 4 (0.11%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.085%) Solaris
11 2 (0.057%) AIX
11 2 (0.057%) CentOS
11 2 (0.057%) HPUX
11 2 (0.057%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.028%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 975 (27.60%) Data Modelling
2 925 (26.19%) Business Intelligence
3 841 (23.81%) AI
4 825 (23.36%) Agile
5 743 (21.04%) Data Pipeline
6 701 (19.85%) Data Engineering
7 688 (19.48%) CI/CD
8 646 (18.29%) Stakeholder Management
9 616 (17.44%) Decision-Making
10 605 (17.13%) ETL
11 555 (15.71%) DevOps
12 551 (15.60%) Data Governance
13 517 (14.64%) Problem-Solving
14 441 (12.49%) Migration
15 435 (12.32%) Continuous Improvement
16 426 (12.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 422 (11.95%) Machine Learning
18 414 (11.72%) Data Science
19 407 (11.52%) Validation
20 373 (10.56%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,158 (32.79%) SQL
2 1,012 (28.65%) Python
3 140 (3.96%) PowerShell
4 113 (3.20%) Java
5 103 (2.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 86 (2.43%) C#
7 80 (2.27%) Bicep
8 69 (1.95%) JavaScript
9 65 (1.84%) R
10 45 (1.27%) Bash
11 39 (1.10%) TypeScript
12 38 (1.08%) Shell Script
13 36 (1.02%) Scala
14 34 (0.96%) Kusto Query Language
15 32 (0.91%) T-SQL
16 26 (0.74%) PL/SQL
17 20 (0.57%) C++
17 20 (0.57%) VBA
18 12 (0.34%) Kotlin
19 11 (0.31%) Swift
Qualifications
1 641 (18.15%) Security Cleared
2 508 (14.38%) SC Cleared
3 280 (7.93%) Degree
4 85 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 79 (2.24%) Azure Certification
6 78 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 66 (1.87%) DV Cleared
8 51 (1.44%) Master's Degree
9 40 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
10 35 (0.99%) CISSP
11 29 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
12 28 (0.79%) AWS Certification
13 24 (0.68%) PMI Certification
14 20 (0.57%) DBS Check
14 20 (0.57%) PMP
15 16 (0.45%) CCNP
15 16 (0.45%) PhD
16 15 (0.42%) CCIE
17 11 (0.31%) CISA
18 10 (0.28%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 681 (19.28%) Data Quality
2 167 (4.73%) GDPR
3 140 (3.96%) QA
4 131 (3.71%) Accessibility
5 50 (1.42%) WCAG
6 49 (1.39%) GRC
7 40 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 32 (0.91%) NIST
9 26 (0.74%) PMO
10 24 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
11 16 (0.45%) SLA
12 15 (0.42%) Solvency II
13 12 (0.34%) PCI DSS
13 12 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 11 (0.31%) PERC
15 10 (0.28%) IFRS
15 10 (0.28%) NCSC
16 7 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
17 6 (0.17%) GAAP
18 5 (0.14%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 161 (4.56%) Docker
2 87 (2.46%) Active Directory
3 23 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.17%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.17%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.11%) HDFS
6 4 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.085%) Snort
8 2 (0.057%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.057%) vSphere
9 1 (0.028%) iptables
9 1 (0.028%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.028%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 257 (7.28%) Terraform
2 186 (5.27%) Kubernetes
3 47 (1.33%) Ansible
4 36 (1.02%) Grafana
5 25 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
6 24 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
7 22 (0.62%) Prometheus
8 11 (0.31%) SCCM
9 8 (0.23%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.17%) Control-M
11 4 (0.11%) Podman
11 4 (0.11%) QRadar
12 3 (0.085%) Apache Ranger
12 3 (0.085%) CSIRT
12 3 (0.085%) Kibana
12 3 (0.085%) NetBackup
12 3 (0.085%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.085%) SCOM
13 2 (0.057%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.057%) MOM
Vendors
1 606 (17.16%) Microsoft
2 459 (13.00%) Databricks
3 222 (6.29%) Oracle
4 182 (5.15%) SAP
5 177 (5.01%) Google
6 84 (2.38%) Salesforce
6 84 (2.38%) ServiceNow
7 83 (2.35%) Adobe
8 53 (1.50%) Splunk
9 52 (1.47%) Workday
10 47 (1.33%) Foundry
11 44 (1.25%) Denodo
12 42 (1.19%) Informatica
13 41 (1.16%) Talend
14 40 (1.13%) Dynatrace
15 38 (1.08%) Palantir
16 30 (0.85%) Cisco
17 25 (0.71%) OpenAI
18 23 (0.65%) VMware
19 21 (0.59%) Amplitude