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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 30 38
Rank change year-on-year +6 +8 -2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,237 1,530 1,779
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.19% 5.68% 4.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.14% 6.38% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,507 987 1,240
10th Percentile £356 £356 £381
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £799 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 26 63
10th Percentile £21.58 £25.26 £18.21
25th Percentile £31.18 £27.13 £27.50
Median hourly rate £46.25 £33.50 £46.06
Median % change year-on-year +38.06% -27.26% +31.59%
75th Percentile £71.59 £59.73 £67.50
90th Percentile £81.38 £64.24 £78.94
UK median hourly rate £45.75 £32.50 £48.50
% change year-on-year +40.77% -32.99% +38.57%

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 27,490 23,991 31,990
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.32% 89.05% 87.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,508 14,731 21,614
10th Percentile £304 £310 £305
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £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 1,729 768 1,481
10th Percentile £15.16 £15.59 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.50 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.63% -18.24% +21.43%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.99 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +16.41%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 11 January 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 +6 1,330 £525 -12.50% 710
Midlands +26 238 £514 +2.80% 387
North of England +4 234 £475 -4.26% 538
West Midlands +24 191 £515 +3.00% 138
North West +9 155 £475 - 237
South East -2 143 £500 +10.13% 974
South West +34 100 £525 +16.67% 366
East of England -1 94 £550 +4.76% 437
Yorkshire -9 66 £505 -3.81% 216
East Midlands +7 48 £431 -6.16% 238
North East -1 14 £405 -13.18% 86
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 98 (4.38%) SAS
2 85 (3.80%) Apache Airflow
3 77 (3.44%) Apache Spark
4 70 (3.13%) Apache
5 59 (2.64%) Confluence
6 50 (2.24%) SharePoint
7 36 (1.61%) CMS
8 21 (0.94%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 16 (0.72%) WebLogic
10 9 (0.40%) Jupyter
10 9 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
11 8 (0.36%) GeoServer
11 8 (0.36%) Smallworld
12 7 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
12 7 (0.31%) Oracle Application Server
13 6 (0.27%) WordPress
14 5 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 4 (0.18%) ArcGIS
16 3 (0.13%) IIS
17 2 (0.089%) WebSphere
Applications
1 128 (5.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (1.30%) MS Visio
5 24 (1.07%) Chatbot
6 14 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.27%) Trello
8 4 (0.18%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.13%) Notion
9 3 (0.13%) Sketch
10 2 (0.089%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.045%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.045%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.045%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.045%) CapCut
11 1 (0.045%) FrameMaker
11 1 (0.045%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.045%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 75 (3.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.63%) SAP EHS
4 11 (0.49%) SAP HR
5 10 (0.45%) SAP FI
6 8 (0.36%) Maximo
7 7 (0.31%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 7 (0.31%) SAP MM
8 6 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
8 6 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 5 (0.22%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 5 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
9 5 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
9 5 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.22%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.22%) Workday HCM
10 4 (0.18%) Aladdin
10 4 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
10 4 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.18%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 723 (32.32%) Azure
2 493 (22.04%) Power Platform
3 460 (20.56%) AWS
4 215 (9.61%) GCP
5 160 (7.15%) Azure Data Factory
6 156 (6.97%) Azure DevOps
7 142 (6.35%) Snowflake
8 139 (6.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 111 (4.96%) GitHub
10 107 (4.78%) Serverless
11 106 (4.74%) Azure Monitor
12 86 (3.84%) SaaS
13 79 (3.53%) Amazon S3
14 74 (3.31%) GitHub Actions
15 72 (3.22%) dbt
15 72 (3.22%) Microsoft 365
16 70 (3.13%) Entra ID
17 55 (2.46%) Azure Logic Apps
18 53 (2.37%) Power Automate
18 53 (2.37%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 45 (2.01%) Firewall
2 29 (1.30%) DNS
2 29 (1.30%) Network Security
3 24 (1.07%) VPN
4 16 (0.72%) SMS
4 16 (0.72%) SSL
5 12 (0.54%) HTTP
6 10 (0.45%) FTP
6 10 (0.45%) SMTP
6 10 (0.45%) WAN
7 8 (0.36%) DHCP
8 7 (0.31%) LAN
8 7 (0.31%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.27%) 2G
9 6 (0.27%) 5G
10 4 (0.18%) 4G
10 4 (0.18%) Radio Access Network
11 3 (0.13%) Internet
11 3 (0.13%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.13%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 462 (20.65%) Power BI
2 240 (10.73%) Data Warehouse
3 161 (7.20%) Data Lake
4 139 (6.21%) Tableau
5 129 (5.77%) Metadata
6 68 (3.04%) SQL Server
7 65 (2.91%) Big Data
7 65 (2.91%) BigQuery
8 55 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
9 52 (2.32%) Azure SQL Database
9 52 (2.32%) Relational Database
10 48 (2.15%) Delta Lake
10 48 (2.15%) Looker
10 48 (2.15%) Snowflake Schema
11 42 (1.88%) Power Query
12 41 (1.83%) Star Schema
13 39 (1.74%) Hadoop
14 36 (1.61%) Pentaho
15 35 (1.56%) NoSQL
15 35 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 171 (7.64%) JIRA
2 161 (7.20%) Git
3 77 (3.44%) Jenkins
4 65 (2.91%) GitLab
5 24 (1.07%) Selenium
6 18 (0.80%) ERwin
6 18 (0.80%) JUnit
7 14 (0.63%) MLflow
8 11 (0.49%) PowerDesigner
9 10 (0.45%) Android Studio
9 10 (0.45%) Gradle
10 9 (0.40%) ER Studio
10 9 (0.40%) Visual Website Optimizer
11 8 (0.36%) Postman
11 8 (0.36%) Xcode
12 6 (0.27%) DBeaver
12 6 (0.27%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.27%) Visual Studio
13 5 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
13 5 (0.22%) TeamCity
General
1 766 (34.24%) Social Skills
2 622 (27.81%) Finance
3 448 (20.03%) Analytical Skills
4 194 (8.67%) Banking
5 183 (8.18%) Public Sector
6 165 (7.38%) Marketing
7 72 (3.22%) Retail
8 66 (2.95%) Front Office
9 64 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
10 48 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
11 47 (2.10%) Investment Banking
11 47 (2.10%) Legal
12 42 (1.88%) Manufacturing
13 38 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
14 37 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 36 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
16 32 (1.43%) Financial Institution
17 29 (1.30%) Telecoms
18 27 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
19 21 (0.94%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 340 (15.20%) Analyst
2 298 (13.32%) Developer
3 273 (12.20%) Data Engineer
4 248 (11.09%) Senior
5 231 (10.33%) Architect
6 154 (6.88%) Lead
7 125 (5.59%) Consultant
8 124 (5.54%) Data Analyst
9 119 (5.32%) Business Analyst
10 88 (3.93%) Data Architect
11 80 (3.58%) Azure Engineer
12 72 (3.22%) Data Scientist
13 60 (2.68%) Senior Developer
14 55 (2.46%) Project Manager
15 47 (2.10%) Senior Data Engineer
16 43 (1.92%) Solutions Architect
17 39 (1.74%) Python Developer
18 37 (1.65%) Snowflake Engineer
19 36 (1.61%) Senior Analyst
20 33 (1.48%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (6.12%) REST
2 98 (4.38%) PySpark
3 93 (4.16%) Kafka
4 55 (2.46%) Pandas
5 52 (2.32%) React
6 49 (2.19%) HTML
7 45 (2.01%) Node.js
8 44 (1.97%) SOAP
8 44 (1.97%) TensorFlow
9 43 (1.92%) .NET
10 42 (1.88%) NumPy
10 42 (1.88%) scikit-learn
11 41 (1.83%) RESTful
12 40 (1.79%) PyTorch
13 37 (1.65%) CSS
14 36 (1.61%) JSON
15 33 (1.48%) AngularJS
16 30 (1.34%) ARM Templates
17 28 (1.25%) OAuth
18 22 (0.98%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 100 (4.47%) Product Ownership
2 91 (4.07%) Cloud Native
3 75 (3.35%) Data Structures
4 58 (2.59%) Onboarding
5 54 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
5 54 (2.41%) Management Information System
6 53 (2.37%) Algorithms
7 48 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
8 41 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
8 41 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 37 (1.65%) Derivative
9 37 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
10 36 (1.61%) Equities
10 36 (1.61%) Mobile App
11 28 (1.25%) Life Science
12 27 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
12 27 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
13 25 (1.12%) Fixed Income
13 25 (1.12%) Social Media
14 24 (1.07%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 67 (3.00%) Linux
2 64 (2.86%) Windows
3 30 (1.34%) Unix
4 19 (0.85%) Apple iOS
5 18 (0.80%) Android
6 16 (0.72%) Mac OS
7 9 (0.40%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.22%) VMS
9 4 (0.18%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.045%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.045%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.045%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.045%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.045%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 634 (28.34%) Business Intelligence
2 555 (24.81%) Agile
3 503 (22.49%) Data Modelling
4 471 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
5 414 (18.51%) CI/CD
6 405 (18.10%) DevOps
7 397 (17.75%) ETL
8 384 (17.17%) AI
9 360 (16.09%) Data Pipeline
10 342 (15.29%) Data Governance
11 327 (14.62%) Decision-Making
12 294 (13.14%) Data Engineering
13 290 (12.96%) Stakeholder Management
14 283 (12.65%) Data Analytics
15 275 (12.29%) Data Science
16 265 (11.85%) Machine Learning
17 264 (11.80%) Visualisation
18 251 (11.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 250 (11.18%) Continuous Improvement
20 226 (10.10%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 762 (34.06%) SQL
2 693 (30.98%) Python
3 119 (5.32%) Java
4 103 (4.60%) JavaScript
5 94 (4.20%) PowerShell
6 72 (3.22%) C#
7 71 (3.17%) R
8 55 (2.46%) Bicep
9 53 (2.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 44 (1.97%) Bash
11 39 (1.74%) TypeScript
12 36 (1.61%) Kusto Query Language
13 35 (1.56%) C++
14 31 (1.39%) T-SQL
15 26 (1.16%) Scala
15 26 (1.16%) VBA
16 21 (0.94%) PL/SQL
17 14 (0.63%) Kotlin
18 13 (0.58%) ABAP
18 13 (0.58%) Swift
Qualifications
1 368 (16.45%) Security Cleared
2 302 (13.50%) SC Cleared
3 213 (9.52%) Degree
4 61 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 55 (2.46%) Azure Certification
6 54 (2.41%) Master's Degree
7 35 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
8 31 (1.39%) CISSP
9 30 (1.34%) DV Cleared
10 24 (1.07%) PMI Certification
11 23 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
12 22 (0.98%) AWS Certification
13 20 (0.89%) PMP
14 19 (0.85%) CISM
15 13 (0.58%) IIBA
16 10 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
17 9 (0.40%) PhD
18 8 (0.36%) CBAP
18 8 (0.36%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
19 7 (0.31%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 352 (15.74%) Data Quality
2 134 (5.99%) GDPR
3 83 (3.71%) Accessibility
4 80 (3.58%) QA
5 36 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (1.43%) NIST
7 19 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
8 18 (0.80%) PMO
9 17 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 11 (0.49%) WCAG
11 10 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 10 (0.45%) HIPAA
11 10 (0.45%) NCSC
11 10 (0.45%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.40%) GRC
12 9 (0.40%) NIST 800
13 8 (0.36%) PERC
13 8 (0.36%) Solvency II
14 7 (0.31%) GxP
14 7 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 172 (7.69%) Docker
2 52 (2.32%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.45%) HDFS
6 5 (0.22%) zsh
7 4 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.089%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.045%) GPFS
9 1 (0.045%) Lustre
9 1 (0.045%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.045%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.045%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.045%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 175 (7.82%) Kubernetes
2 166 (7.42%) Terraform
3 29 (1.30%) Ansible
4 21 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (0.76%) Grafana
7 16 (0.72%) SCCM
8 11 (0.49%) Prometheus
8 11 (0.49%) Puppet
9 8 (0.36%) Kibana
10 7 (0.31%) Hadoop YARN
10 7 (0.31%) logstash
11 6 (0.27%) WSUS
12 4 (0.18%) Kubeflow
13 3 (0.13%) Fluentd
13 3 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 2 (0.089%) CASB
14 2 (0.089%) Cisco CUCM
14 2 (0.089%) Control-M
14 2 (0.089%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 425 (19.00%) Microsoft
2 270 (12.07%) Databricks
3 150 (6.71%) Google
4 148 (6.62%) Oracle
5 139 (6.21%) SAP
6 68 (3.04%) Salesforce
7 67 (3.00%) Adobe
8 65 (2.91%) ServiceNow
9 49 (2.19%) Talend
10 41 (1.83%) Splunk
11 38 (1.70%) Denodo
12 33 (1.48%) Informatica
13 31 (1.39%) Workday
14 29 (1.30%) OpenAI
15 27 (1.21%) Dynatrace
16 26 (1.16%) Cisco
17 24 (1.07%) Foundry
18 20 (0.89%) IBM
19 19 (0.85%) AppDynamics
20 18 (0.80%) Alteryx