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 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 27 37
Rank change year-on-year +4 +10 -1
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,810 1,611 1,833
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.59% 6.58% 4.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.79% 7.26% 5.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,923 1,091 1,266
10th Percentile £356 £328 £360
25th Percentile £424 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £748 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 31 61
10th Percentile £23.04 £15.28 £17.64
25th Percentile £39.13 £24.00 £25.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £31.64 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +81.73% -20.90% +33.33%
75th Percentile £75.00 £59.75 £61.50
90th Percentile £84.35 £77.50 £79.17
UK median hourly rate £55.25 £31.64 £37.13
% change year-on-year +74.62% -14.77% +16.02%

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 31,979 22,196 32,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.42% 90.71% 86.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,491 14,461 21,766
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,970 819 2,143
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.08 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £31.45 £33.40 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.84% +2.77% -10.41%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.63
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.12
% change year-on-year -7.69% +1.20% -8.24%

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 19 March 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 19 March 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 19 March 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 +1 1,594 £535 -10.83% 1,056
Midlands +20 329 £492 +3.58% 215
North of England +1 293 £500 +5.26% 355
West Midlands +27 249 £492 +1.76% 122
South East -4 214 £500 +6.04% 512
North West +6 173 £498 +4.74% 207
South West +32 168 £513 +2.50% 152
East of England -9 105 £505 -15.83% 126
Yorkshire -1 96 £505 +3.06% 99
East Midlands +2 76 £447 +13.60% 93
North East +19 32 £450 +25.70% 53
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
1 140 (4.98%) Apache Spark
2 108 (3.84%) SAS
3 95 (3.38%) Apache Airflow
4 86 (3.06%) Apache
5 59 (2.10%) Confluence
6 53 (1.89%) SharePoint
7 29 (1.03%) CMS
8 19 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 19 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
9 13 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
10 9 (0.32%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.28%) GeoServer
11 8 (0.28%) Smallworld
12 7 (0.25%) ArcGIS
13 6 (0.21%) Apache Superset
13 6 (0.21%) WordPress
14 5 (0.18%) Oracle Application Server
14 5 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
15 3 (0.11%) IIS
15 3 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 122 (4.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (0.85%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.68%) Chatbot
6 12 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
7 11 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.18%) Trello
9 4 (0.14%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.14%) CPLEX
9 4 (0.14%) Oracle Smart View
9 4 (0.14%) Sketch
10 3 (0.11%) Notion
11 2 (0.071%) Autodesk Smoke
12 1 (0.036%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.036%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.036%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.036%) InDesign
12 1 (0.036%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.036%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 66 (2.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.32%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 8 (0.28%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 8 (0.28%) SAP FI
4 8 (0.28%) SAP MM
5 7 (0.25%) Maximo
5 7 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.25%) SAP HR
6 6 (0.21%) Aladdin
6 6 (0.21%) Sage X3
7 5 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.18%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 5 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.14%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
8 4 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.11%) BambooHR
Cloud Services
1 898 (31.96%) Azure
2 626 (22.28%) Power Platform
3 584 (20.78%) AWS
4 285 (10.14%) GCP
5 222 (7.90%) Azure Data Factory
6 209 (7.44%) Azure DevOps
7 191 (6.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 177 (6.30%) Snowflake
9 174 (6.19%) GitHub
10 130 (4.63%) Serverless
11 120 (4.27%) Amazon S3
12 118 (4.20%) Azure Monitor
12 118 (4.20%) dbt
13 106 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
14 94 (3.35%) Microsoft 365
15 85 (3.02%) SaaS
16 83 (2.95%) Entra ID
17 73 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
18 65 (2.31%) Azure Key Vault
19 60 (2.14%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 53 (1.89%) Firewall
2 33 (1.17%) Network Security
3 30 (1.07%) VPN
4 24 (0.85%) DNS
5 17 (0.60%) WAN
6 16 (0.57%) SMS
7 11 (0.39%) SD-WAN
8 10 (0.36%) 5G
8 10 (0.36%) MPLS
9 9 (0.32%) HTTP
9 9 (0.32%) SSL
10 8 (0.28%) LAN
11 7 (0.25%) 4G
11 7 (0.25%) BGP
11 7 (0.25%) DHCP
12 6 (0.21%) Internet
12 6 (0.21%) OSPF
12 6 (0.21%) Radio Access Network
12 6 (0.21%) SMTP
12 6 (0.21%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 576 (20.50%) Power BI
2 344 (12.24%) Data Warehouse
3 216 (7.69%) Data Lake
4 177 (6.30%) Metadata
5 176 (6.26%) Tableau
6 96 (3.42%) Delta Lake
7 92 (3.27%) BigQuery
7 92 (3.27%) SQL Server
8 89 (3.17%) Big Data
9 74 (2.63%) Relational Database
10 71 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
11 70 (2.49%) Snowflake Schema
12 69 (2.46%) NoSQL
13 68 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
14 65 (2.31%) Amazon Redshift
15 57 (2.03%) Hadoop
16 53 (1.89%) Looker
17 52 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
18 51 (1.81%) Power Query
19 48 (1.71%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 200 (7.12%) Git
2 162 (5.77%) JIRA
3 93 (3.31%) Jenkins
4 82 (2.92%) GitLab
5 28 (1.00%) Selenium
6 24 (0.85%) JUnit
7 23 (0.82%) ERwin
8 14 (0.50%) MLflow
9 10 (0.36%) Gradle
10 9 (0.32%) Android Studio
10 9 (0.32%) PowerDesigner
11 8 (0.28%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.25%) Cypress.io
12 7 (0.25%) MSI
12 7 (0.25%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.21%) ER Studio
13 6 (0.21%) Xcode
14 5 (0.18%) Maven
14 5 (0.18%) XCTest
15 4 (0.14%) JMeter
General
1 849 (30.21%) Social Skills
2 722 (25.69%) Finance
3 537 (19.11%) Analytical Skills
4 286 (10.18%) Public Sector
5 212 (7.54%) Banking
6 163 (5.80%) Marketing
7 75 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
7 75 (2.67%) Retail
8 65 (2.31%) Front Office
9 52 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 52 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
10 47 (1.67%) Investment Banking
10 47 (1.67%) Legal
11 45 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
12 42 (1.49%) Manufacturing
13 39 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
14 35 (1.25%) Telecoms
15 31 (1.10%) Financial Institution
16 23 (0.82%) Advertising
17 22 (0.78%) Military
Job Titles
1 493 (17.54%) Data Engineer
2 343 (12.21%) Analyst
3 337 (11.99%) Developer
4 321 (11.42%) Architect
5 314 (11.17%) Senior
6 240 (8.54%) Lead
7 139 (4.95%) Data Analyst
8 134 (4.77%) Data Architect
9 128 (4.56%) Consultant
10 108 (3.84%) Azure Engineer
11 102 (3.63%) Business Analyst
12 95 (3.38%) Data Scientist
13 78 (2.78%) Senior Data Engineer
14 67 (2.38%) Project Manager
14 67 (2.38%) Solutions Architect
15 56 (1.99%) Designer
16 53 (1.89%) Senior Developer
17 51 (1.81%) Snowflake Engineer
18 47 (1.67%) Python Developer
19 46 (1.64%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (5.48%) Kafka
2 152 (5.41%) PySpark
2 152 (5.41%) REST
3 66 (2.35%) Pandas
4 63 (2.24%) React
5 59 (2.10%) TensorFlow
6 57 (2.03%) PyTorch
7 50 (1.78%) scikit-learn
8 49 (1.74%) NumPy
9 46 (1.64%) JSON
10 45 (1.60%) AngularJS
11 43 (1.53%) .NET
12 42 (1.49%) Node.js
13 41 (1.46%) HTML
14 40 (1.42%) CSS
15 39 (1.39%) SOAP
16 38 (1.35%) ARM Templates
17 35 (1.25%) RESTful
18 34 (1.21%) pytest
19 31 (1.10%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 170 (6.05%) Cloud Native
2 103 (3.67%) Product Ownership
3 86 (3.06%) Data Structures
4 80 (2.85%) Onboarding
5 76 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
6 56 (1.99%) Algorithms
6 56 (1.99%) Management Information System
7 53 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
8 51 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
9 47 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
10 42 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 40 (1.42%) Equities
12 39 (1.39%) Public Cloud
13 36 (1.28%) NHS
14 34 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
15 32 (1.14%) Derivative
16 31 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
16 31 (1.10%) Mobile App
17 26 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
17 26 (0.93%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 87 (3.10%) Windows
2 75 (2.67%) Linux
3 32 (1.14%) Unix
4 27 (0.96%) Mac OS
5 23 (0.82%) Apple iOS
6 20 (0.71%) Android
7 9 (0.32%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.25%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.14%) VMS
10 3 (0.11%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.071%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.071%) zOS
12 1 (0.036%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.036%) CentOS
12 1 (0.036%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 779 (27.72%) Business Intelligence
2 748 (26.62%) Data Modelling
3 643 (22.88%) Agile
4 590 (21.00%) CI/CD
5 563 (20.04%) ETL
6 558 (19.86%) AI
7 550 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
8 536 (19.07%) Data Pipeline
9 533 (18.97%) DevOps
10 530 (18.86%) Data Engineering
11 471 (16.76%) Data Governance
12 425 (15.12%) Decision-Making
13 368 (13.10%) Stakeholder Management
14 351 (12.49%) Data Science
15 344 (12.24%) Machine Learning
16 333 (11.85%) Data Analytics
17 311 (11.07%) Continuous Improvement
18 292 (10.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 278 (9.89%) Visualisation
20 273 (9.72%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 997 (35.48%) SQL
2 919 (32.70%) Python
3 155 (5.52%) Java
4 110 (3.91%) PowerShell
5 90 (3.20%) C#
5 90 (3.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 79 (2.81%) JavaScript
7 76 (2.70%) R
8 75 (2.67%) Bicep
9 48 (1.71%) Bash
10 47 (1.67%) Kusto Query Language
11 45 (1.60%) TypeScript
12 40 (1.42%) Scala
12 40 (1.42%) T-SQL
13 32 (1.14%) VBA
14 31 (1.10%) C++
15 27 (0.96%) PL/SQL
16 22 (0.78%) Shell Script
17 15 (0.53%) Kotlin
18 13 (0.46%) Swift
Qualifications
1 492 (17.51%) Security Cleared
2 384 (13.67%) SC Cleared
3 247 (8.79%) Degree
4 76 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 67 (2.38%) Azure Certification
6 47 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 44 (1.57%) Master's Degree
8 40 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 36 (1.28%) DV Cleared
10 26 (0.93%) PMI Certification
11 23 (0.82%) CISSP
12 22 (0.78%) PMP
13 21 (0.75%) AWS Certification
14 20 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
15 16 (0.57%) CISM
16 15 (0.53%) CCNP
17 14 (0.50%) IIBA
18 13 (0.46%) PhD
19 12 (0.43%) CCIE
20 8 (0.28%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 505 (17.97%) Data Quality
2 165 (5.87%) GDPR
3 110 (3.91%) QA
4 99 (3.52%) Accessibility
5 38 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 28 (1.00%) WCAG
7 25 (0.89%) NIST
8 23 (0.82%) PMO
9 20 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
10 15 (0.53%) NCSC
11 14 (0.50%) Solvency II
12 13 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 12 (0.43%) GRC
14 10 (0.36%) PERC
14 10 (0.36%) SLA
15 9 (0.32%) HL7
16 8 (0.28%) NIST 800
16 8 (0.28%) SOC 2
17 7 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 7 (0.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 197 (7.01%) Docker
2 74 (2.63%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.18%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.14%) HDFS
7 4 (0.14%) Snort
8 2 (0.071%) GPFS
8 2 (0.071%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.071%) Lustre
8 2 (0.071%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.036%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.036%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.036%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.036%) vSphere
9 1 (0.036%) zsh
Systems Management
1 247 (8.79%) Terraform
2 215 (7.65%) Kubernetes
3 38 (1.35%) Ansible
4 32 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 29 (1.03%) Grafana
5 29 (1.03%) Prometheus
6 22 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (0.53%) SCCM
8 9 (0.32%) Puppet
9 7 (0.25%) Kibana
10 6 (0.21%) logstash
11 4 (0.14%) CSIRT
12 3 (0.11%) Argo
12 3 (0.11%) Cisco CUCM
12 3 (0.11%) Fluentd
12 3 (0.11%) SysTrack
12 3 (0.11%) WSUS
13 2 (0.071%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.071%) Apache Ranger
13 2 (0.071%) CASB
Vendors
1 525 (18.68%) Microsoft
2 381 (13.56%) Databricks
3 172 (6.12%) Google
4 141 (5.02%) Oracle
5 133 (4.73%) SAP
6 70 (2.49%) Salesforce
7 67 (2.38%) ServiceNow
8 65 (2.31%) Adobe
9 59 (2.10%) Talend
10 58 (2.06%) Informatica
11 51 (1.81%) Splunk
12 46 (1.64%) OpenAI
13 43 (1.53%) Foundry
14 41 (1.46%) Denodo
15 27 (0.96%) Workday
16 25 (0.89%) IBM
17 23 (0.82%) VMware
18 21 (0.75%) Cisco
19 18 (0.64%) Palantir
20 13 (0.46%) ESRI