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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 36
Rank change year-on-year +2 +9 -2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,297 1,680 1,901
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.53% 6.59% 5.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.83% 7.22% 5.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,235 1,110 1,321
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £539 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% -2.05% -2.22%
75th Percentile £626 £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 79 38 44
10th Percentile £19.25 £14.83 £14.10
25th Percentile £35.00 £19.50 £25.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £33.28 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.29% +10.92% -7.12%
75th Percentile £75.00 £63.31 £43.75
90th Percentile £84.05 £79.09 £71.38
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £34.50 £29.00
% change year-on-year +52.17% +18.97% -10.22%

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 37,351 23,260 31,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.35% 91.20% 85.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,546 14,980 20,587
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
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 £504 £525
% change year-on-year +2.18% -4.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,338 1,158 2,330
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.23 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.32% -33.83% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.38 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £72.93
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 30 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 30 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 30 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 1,801 £550 -4.35% 912
North of England +7 398 £489 +8.49% 261
Midlands +11 395 £492 -1.54% 171
West Midlands +15 304 £492 -4.06% 106
South East +1 298 £500 -2.44% 401
North West +5 202 £511 +7.64% 160
South West +25 192 £500 +5.26% 107
Yorkshire -2 155 £500 +11.11% 63
East of England -3 118 £519 -10.56% 81
East Midlands +2 85 £509 +23.71% 64
North East +3 52 £450 +9.09% 38
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 (4.76%) Apache Spark
2 143 (4.34%) Apache Airflow
3 102 (3.09%) SAS
4 90 (2.73%) Apache
5 71 (2.15%) Confluence
6 44 (1.33%) SharePoint
7 30 (0.91%) CMS
7 30 (0.91%) Jupyter
8 29 (0.88%) Palantir Foundry
9 15 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
9 15 (0.45%) Oracle Application Server
10 14 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 9 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
12 8 (0.24%) Apache Superset
13 6 (0.18%) IIS
13 6 (0.18%) WordPress
14 5 (0.15%) Drupal
15 4 (0.12%) ArcGIS
16 2 (0.061%) OpenROAD
16 2 (0.061%) OpenStack
Applications
1 146 (4.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (0.58%) Chatbot
3 19 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
4 16 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
5 14 (0.42%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.36%) CPLEX
7 10 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
9 3 (0.091%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.091%) Sketch
10 1 (0.030%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.030%) InDesign
10 1 (0.030%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.030%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.030%) Trello
10 1 (0.030%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 69 (2.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 31 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
4 10 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
5 9 (0.27%) Aladdin
6 8 (0.24%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 8 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.24%) Workday HCM
7 7 (0.21%) NetSuite
7 7 (0.21%) SAP ERP
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 (0.091%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 989 (30.00%) Azure
2 710 (21.53%) Power Platform
3 651 (19.75%) AWS
4 290 (8.80%) GCP
5 228 (6.92%) Azure DevOps
6 222 (6.73%) Azure Data Factory
6 222 (6.73%) Snowflake
7 182 (5.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 176 (5.34%) dbt
9 165 (5.00%) GitHub
10 145 (4.40%) Amazon S3
11 140 (4.25%) Serverless
12 114 (3.46%) Azure Monitor
13 94 (2.85%) AWS Lambda
14 92 (2.79%) SaaS
15 91 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
16 86 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
17 83 (2.52%) Entra ID
18 50 (1.52%) PaaS
19 49 (1.49%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 47 (1.43%) Firewall
2 31 (0.94%) Network Security
3 27 (0.82%) VPN
4 24 (0.73%) WAN
5 22 (0.67%) SD-WAN
6 20 (0.61%) DNS
7 17 (0.52%) BGP
8 12 (0.36%) SMS
9 10 (0.30%) OSPF
10 8 (0.24%) TCP/IP
10 8 (0.24%) VXLAN
10 8 (0.24%) Wireless
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%) WLAN
12 6 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 667 (20.23%) Power BI
2 426 (12.92%) Data Warehouse
3 259 (7.86%) Data Lake
4 228 (6.92%) Tableau
5 195 (5.91%) Metadata
6 124 (3.76%) BigQuery
7 107 (3.25%) Delta Lake
8 106 (3.22%) SQL Server
9 97 (2.94%) Big Data
10 91 (2.76%) Amazon Redshift
11 87 (2.64%) Relational Database
12 78 (2.37%) Snowflake Schema
13 75 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
14 73 (2.21%) PostgreSQL
15 68 (2.06%) NoSQL
16 64 (1.94%) Looker
17 63 (1.91%) Azure SQL Database
18 55 (1.67%) Power Query
19 50 (1.52%) Hadoop
19 50 (1.52%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 184 (5.58%) Git
2 165 (5.00%) JIRA
3 76 (2.31%) Jenkins
4 63 (1.91%) GitLab
5 20 (0.61%) ERwin
6 12 (0.36%) MLflow
7 11 (0.33%) JUnit
8 10 (0.30%) ER Studio
8 10 (0.30%) fastlane
8 10 (0.30%) Selenium
9 8 (0.24%) MSI
10 7 (0.21%) Postman
10 7 (0.21%) PowerDesigner
11 6 (0.18%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.18%) Crashlytics
12 5 (0.15%) Android Studio
12 5 (0.15%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.15%) Gradle
12 5 (0.15%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.15%) Xcode
General
1 837 (25.39%) Finance
2 831 (25.20%) Social Skills
3 557 (16.89%) Analytical Skills
4 377 (11.43%) Public Sector
5 233 (7.07%) Banking
6 176 (5.34%) Marketing
7 136 (4.12%) Retail
8 76 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 73 (2.21%) Legal
10 72 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
11 59 (1.79%) Manufacturing
12 57 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
12 57 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
13 54 (1.64%) Investment Banking
14 48 (1.46%) Front Office
15 44 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
16 43 (1.30%) Telecoms
17 39 (1.18%) Financial Institution
18 30 (0.91%) Automotive
19 27 (0.82%) Military
Job Titles
1 629 (19.08%) Data Engineer
2 408 (12.37%) Analyst
3 406 (12.31%) Senior
4 399 (12.10%) Architect
5 334 (10.13%) Developer
6 280 (8.49%) Lead
7 184 (5.58%) Data Architect
8 164 (4.97%) Data Analyst
9 139 (4.22%) Consultant
10 111 (3.37%) Business Analyst
11 109 (3.31%) Data Scientist
11 109 (3.31%) Senior Data Engineer
12 104 (3.15%) Solutions Architect
13 100 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
14 71 (2.15%) Data Manager
15 64 (1.94%) Project Manager
16 60 (1.82%) Designer
17 56 (1.70%) AWS Engineer
17 56 (1.70%) Python Developer
18 55 (1.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (5.91%) PySpark
2 132 (4.00%) Kafka
3 110 (3.34%) REST
4 60 (1.82%) Pandas
5 52 (1.58%) React
6 50 (1.52%) JSON
7 48 (1.46%) RESTful
8 43 (1.30%) .NET
9 41 (1.24%) HTML
9 41 (1.24%) PyTorch
10 39 (1.18%) CSS
11 38 (1.15%) TensorFlow
12 37 (1.12%) Middleware
13 34 (1.03%) NumPy
14 33 (1.00%) scikit-learn
14 33 (1.00%) Web Services
15 32 (0.97%) ARM Templates
15 32 (0.97%) Microsoft Graph
16 31 (0.94%) SOAP
17 27 (0.82%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 230 (6.98%) Cloud Native
2 164 (4.97%) Product Ownership
3 131 (3.97%) Data Structures
4 103 (3.12%) Legacy Systems
5 102 (3.09%) Onboarding
6 66 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
7 61 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
8 47 (1.43%) Algorithms
8 47 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
9 45 (1.36%) AI Agents
10 44 (1.33%) Management Information System
11 41 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
12 40 (1.21%) NHS
13 38 (1.15%) Public Cloud
14 35 (1.06%) Mobile App
15 32 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
16 31 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
16 31 (0.94%) Virtual Team
17 28 (0.85%) Marketing Technology
17 28 (0.85%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 90 (2.73%) Windows
2 76 (2.31%) Linux
3 40 (1.21%) Unix
4 24 (0.73%) Mac OS
5 23 (0.70%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.49%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.33%) Android
8 8 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.15%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.15%) VMS
10 3 (0.091%) CentOS
10 3 (0.091%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.030%) Rocky
11 1 (0.030%) Solaris
11 1 (0.030%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 913 (27.69%) Data Modelling
2 886 (26.87%) Business Intelligence
3 791 (23.99%) AI
4 716 (21.72%) Agile
5 692 (20.99%) Data Pipeline
6 687 (20.84%) Data Engineering
7 665 (20.17%) CI/CD
8 570 (17.29%) ETL
9 540 (16.38%) Decision-Making
10 534 (16.20%) DevOps
11 515 (15.62%) Data Governance
12 514 (15.59%) Stakeholder Management
13 503 (15.26%) Problem-Solving
14 400 (12.13%) Machine Learning
15 399 (12.10%) Data Science
16 395 (11.98%) Migration
17 379 (11.50%) Data Analytics
18 370 (11.22%) Continuous Improvement
19 366 (11.10%) Validation
20 352 (10.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,113 (33.76%) SQL
2 988 (29.97%) Python
3 135 (4.09%) Java
4 113 (3.43%) PowerShell
5 99 (3.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 86 (2.61%) C#
7 70 (2.12%) R
8 65 (1.97%) Bicep
9 59 (1.79%) JavaScript
10 44 (1.33%) Scala
11 43 (1.30%) TypeScript
12 40 (1.21%) T-SQL
13 38 (1.15%) Kusto Query Language
14 35 (1.06%) Bash
14 35 (1.06%) Shell Script
15 25 (0.76%) PL/SQL
16 20 (0.61%) VBA
17 19 (0.58%) C++
18 11 (0.33%) Korn
19 10 (0.30%) Swift
Qualifications
1 554 (16.80%) Security Cleared
2 439 (13.32%) SC Cleared
3 263 (7.98%) Degree
4 81 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 73 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
6 70 (2.12%) Azure Certification
7 53 (1.61%) DV Cleared
8 39 (1.18%) Master's Degree
8 39 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
9 28 (0.85%) CISSP
10 26 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
11 23 (0.70%) AWS Certification
11 23 (0.70%) PMI Certification
12 19 (0.58%) DBS Check
12 19 (0.58%) PMP
13 17 (0.52%) CCNP
14 15 (0.45%) CCIE
15 10 (0.30%) CISA
15 10 (0.30%) SnowPro
16 9 (0.27%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 625 (18.96%) Data Quality
2 166 (5.03%) GDPR
3 125 (3.79%) QA
4 109 (3.31%) Accessibility
5 45 (1.36%) WCAG
6 34 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 30 (0.91%) NIST
8 28 (0.85%) PMO
9 20 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
10 19 (0.58%) GRC
11 16 (0.49%) Solvency II
12 15 (0.45%) SLA
13 12 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 11 (0.33%) IFRS
15 10 (0.30%) NCSC
16 9 (0.27%) PCI DSS
17 7 (0.21%) GAAP
17 7 (0.21%) ISO 20022
17 7 (0.21%) PERC
18 6 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 160 (4.85%) Docker
2 72 (2.18%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.67%) 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 (0.030%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.030%) GPFS
7 1 (0.030%) iptables
7 1 (0.030%) Lustre
7 1 (0.030%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.030%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.030%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 247 (7.49%) Terraform
2 172 (5.22%) Kubernetes
3 33 (1.00%) Ansible
4 32 (0.97%) Grafana
5 31 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
6 28 (0.85%) Prometheus
7 21 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.24%) FortiGate
8 8 (0.24%) SCCM
9 5 (0.15%) Argo
9 5 (0.15%) Control-M
10 4 (0.12%) CSIRT
11 3 (0.091%) Nagios
11 3 (0.091%) Podman
11 3 (0.091%) Puppet
11 3 (0.091%) QRadar
12 2 (0.061%) Apache Ranger
12 2 (0.061%) Nessus
12 2 (0.061%) SCOM
12 2 (0.061%) VxRail
Vendors
1 565 (17.14%) Microsoft
2 440 (13.35%) Databricks
3 170 (5.16%) Oracle
4 168 (5.10%) SAP
5 153 (4.64%) Google
6 74 (2.24%) Salesforce
7 71 (2.15%) ServiceNow
8 64 (1.94%) Adobe
9 54 (1.64%) Informatica
10 53 (1.61%) Splunk
11 49 (1.49%) Foundry
12 44 (1.33%) Talend
12 44 (1.33%) Workday
13 40 (1.21%) OpenAI
14 36 (1.09%) Denodo
14 36 (1.09%) Palantir
15 31 (0.94%) Dynatrace
16 26 (0.79%) Cisco
17 22 (0.67%) VMware
18 18 (0.55%) IBM