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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 28 37
Rank change year-on-year +5 +9 -1
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,763 1,586 1,851
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.58% 6.44% 4.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.77% 7.10% 5.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,888 1,079 1,277
10th Percentile £356 £327 £361
25th Percentile £424 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.07% - -
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £542 £550
% change year-on-year -5.49% -1.41% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 26 68
10th Percentile £21.21 £19.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £36.13 £25.06 £25.00
Median hourly rate £57.30 £31.08 £35.57
Median % change year-on-year +84.39% -12.62% +14.17%
75th Percentile £75.00 £60.25 £55.97
90th Percentile £83.75 £75.00 £78.88
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £34.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year +59.42% -2.82% +10.94%

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 31,521 22,327 33,048
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.61% 86.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,160 14,432 21,853
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £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 1,961 797 2,159
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.63 £70.53
UK median hourly rate £29.61 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -8.89% - -7.14%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +2 1,572 £530 -11.67% 1,122
Midlands +23 328 £492 +3.58% 225
North of England +5 290 £500 +5.26% 372
West Midlands +19 244 £492 +0.46% 132
South East -4 206 £500 +6.84% 550
North West +8 173 £500 +5.26% 203
South West +32 160 £520 +5.05% 157
East of England -11 104 £505 -15.83% 130
Yorkshire -4 94 £500 - 123
East Midlands +10 81 £450 +24.48% 93
North East +12 29 £450 +25.70% 49
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
1 137 (4.96%) Apache Spark
2 107 (3.87%) SAS
3 90 (3.26%) Apache Airflow
4 82 (2.97%) Apache
5 58 (2.10%) Confluence
6 53 (1.92%) SharePoint
7 27 (0.98%) CMS
8 19 (0.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 19 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
9 12 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
10 8 (0.29%) GeoServer
10 8 (0.29%) Jupyter
10 8 (0.29%) Smallworld
11 7 (0.25%) ArcGIS
12 6 (0.22%) WordPress
13 5 (0.18%) Apache Superset
13 5 (0.18%) Oracle Application Server
13 5 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
14 3 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 126 (4.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (0.94%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.65%) Chatbot
6 13 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
7 10 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.18%) Adobe XD
8 5 (0.18%) Sketch
8 5 (0.18%) Trello
9 4 (0.14%) Oracle Smart View
10 3 (0.11%) Notion
11 2 (0.072%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.072%) CPLEX
12 1 (0.036%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.036%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.036%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.036%) CapCut
12 1 (0.036%) InDesign
12 1 (0.036%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 72 (2.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.40%) SAP HR
4 8 (0.29%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 8 (0.29%) SAP FI
4 8 (0.29%) SAP MM
5 7 (0.25%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.25%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 7 (0.25%) Maximo
5 7 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.22%) Sage X3
7 5 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.18%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 5 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.18%) SAP BPC
7 5 (0.18%) SAP EHS
8 4 (0.14%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
8 4 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 889 (32.18%) Azure
2 613 (22.19%) Power Platform
3 579 (20.96%) AWS
4 281 (10.17%) GCP
5 217 (7.85%) Azure Data Factory
6 208 (7.53%) Azure DevOps
7 183 (6.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 176 (6.37%) GitHub
8 176 (6.37%) Snowflake
9 127 (4.60%) Serverless
10 118 (4.27%) Azure Monitor
11 117 (4.23%) Amazon S3
12 115 (4.16%) dbt
13 106 (3.84%) GitHub Actions
14 94 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
15 91 (3.29%) SaaS
16 90 (3.26%) Entra ID
17 71 (2.57%) AWS Lambda
18 63 (2.28%) Azure Key Vault
19 59 (2.14%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 55 (1.99%) Firewall
2 32 (1.16%) Network Security
3 29 (1.05%) VPN
4 25 (0.90%) DNS
5 17 (0.62%) SMS
6 16 (0.58%) WAN
7 10 (0.36%) 5G
7 10 (0.36%) MPLS
7 10 (0.36%) SD-WAN
8 9 (0.33%) HTTP
8 9 (0.33%) SSL
9 8 (0.29%) DHCP
9 8 (0.29%) LAN
10 7 (0.25%) 4G
10 7 (0.25%) BGP
10 7 (0.25%) TCP/IP
11 6 (0.22%) Internet
11 6 (0.22%) OSPF
11 6 (0.22%) Radio Access Network
11 6 (0.22%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 564 (20.41%) Power BI
2 332 (12.02%) Data Warehouse
3 209 (7.56%) Data Lake
4 173 (6.26%) Tableau
5 169 (6.12%) Metadata
6 91 (3.29%) BigQuery
6 91 (3.29%) Delta Lake
7 89 (3.22%) SQL Server
8 88 (3.18%) Big Data
9 70 (2.53%) Relational Database
10 69 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
11 68 (2.46%) NoSQL
11 68 (2.46%) Snowflake Schema
12 67 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
13 64 (2.32%) Amazon Redshift
14 58 (2.10%) Hadoop
15 55 (1.99%) Looker
16 52 (1.88%) Amazon Athena
17 50 (1.81%) Power Query
18 48 (1.74%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 196 (7.09%) Git
2 157 (5.68%) JIRA
3 91 (3.29%) Jenkins
4 84 (3.04%) GitLab
5 27 (0.98%) Selenium
6 24 (0.87%) JUnit
7 21 (0.76%) ERwin
8 14 (0.51%) MLflow
9 10 (0.36%) Android Studio
9 10 (0.36%) Gradle
9 10 (0.36%) PowerDesigner
10 8 (0.29%) SonarQube
11 7 (0.25%) Bitbucket
11 7 (0.25%) ER Studio
11 7 (0.25%) MSI
11 7 (0.25%) Xcode
12 6 (0.22%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.18%) Maven
13 5 (0.18%) XCTest
14 4 (0.14%) DBeaver
General
1 854 (30.91%) Social Skills
2 714 (25.84%) Finance
3 528 (19.11%) Analytical Skills
4 278 (10.06%) Public Sector
5 209 (7.56%) Banking
6 159 (5.75%) Marketing
7 76 (2.75%) Retail
8 75 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
9 66 (2.39%) Front Office
10 52 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 50 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
12 48 (1.74%) Investment Banking
12 48 (1.74%) Legal
13 44 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
14 41 (1.48%) Manufacturing
15 38 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
16 34 (1.23%) Financial Institution
16 34 (1.23%) Telecoms
17 21 (0.76%) Advertising
17 21 (0.76%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 468 (16.94%) Data Engineer
2 349 (12.63%) Analyst
3 334 (12.09%) Developer
4 322 (11.65%) Architect
5 310 (11.22%) Senior
6 234 (8.47%) Lead
7 138 (4.99%) Data Analyst
8 136 (4.92%) Consultant
9 130 (4.71%) Data Architect
10 109 (3.94%) Business Analyst
11 105 (3.80%) Azure Engineer
12 96 (3.47%) Data Scientist
13 77 (2.79%) Senior Data Engineer
14 67 (2.42%) Solutions Architect
15 65 (2.35%) Project Manager
16 55 (1.99%) Senior Developer
17 54 (1.95%) Designer
18 50 (1.81%) Snowflake Engineer
19 46 (1.66%) AWS Engineer
20 45 (1.63%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (5.50%) PySpark
2 149 (5.39%) Kafka
3 148 (5.36%) REST
4 64 (2.32%) Pandas
5 60 (2.17%) TensorFlow
6 59 (2.14%) React
7 58 (2.10%) PyTorch
8 50 (1.81%) scikit-learn
9 49 (1.77%) .NET
10 48 (1.74%) NumPy
11 47 (1.70%) JSON
12 43 (1.56%) AngularJS
13 42 (1.52%) Node.js
14 41 (1.48%) HTML
14 41 (1.48%) SOAP
15 40 (1.45%) ARM Templates
16 39 (1.41%) CSS
17 38 (1.38%) RESTful
18 32 (1.16%) Middleware
18 32 (1.16%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 159 (5.75%) Cloud Native
2 103 (3.73%) Product Ownership
3 85 (3.08%) Data Structures
4 76 (2.75%) Onboarding
5 72 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
6 57 (2.06%) Algorithms
7 56 (2.03%) Management Information System
8 50 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
9 48 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
10 45 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
11 44 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 41 (1.48%) Equities
13 39 (1.41%) Public Cloud
14 36 (1.30%) Derivative
15 33 (1.19%) Mobile App
16 32 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
16 32 (1.16%) NHS
17 29 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
18 26 (0.94%) Fixed Income
18 26 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 88 (3.18%) Windows
2 71 (2.57%) Linux
3 27 (0.98%) Mac OS
3 27 (0.98%) Unix
4 24 (0.87%) Apple iOS
5 20 (0.72%) Android
6 9 (0.33%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.29%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.14%) VMS
9 3 (0.11%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.072%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.072%) zOS
11 1 (0.036%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.036%) CentOS
11 1 (0.036%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 759 (27.47%) Business Intelligence
2 723 (26.17%) Data Modelling
3 637 (23.05%) Agile
4 576 (20.85%) CI/CD
5 549 (19.87%) Problem-Solving
6 547 (19.80%) ETL
7 538 (19.47%) AI
8 529 (19.15%) DevOps
9 521 (18.86%) Data Pipeline
10 500 (18.10%) Data Engineering
11 457 (16.54%) Data Governance
12 415 (15.02%) Decision-Making
13 367 (13.28%) Stakeholder Management
14 349 (12.63%) Data Science
15 340 (12.31%) Machine Learning
16 329 (11.91%) Data Analytics
17 312 (11.29%) Continuous Improvement
18 291 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 280 (10.13%) Visualisation
20 267 (9.66%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 990 (35.83%) SQL
2 898 (32.50%) Python
3 153 (5.54%) Java
4 109 (3.94%) PowerShell
5 90 (3.26%) C#
6 85 (3.08%) JavaScript
7 84 (3.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 76 (2.75%) R
9 74 (2.68%) Bicep
10 51 (1.85%) Bash
11 48 (1.74%) TypeScript
12 47 (1.70%) Kusto Query Language
13 40 (1.45%) Scala
13 40 (1.45%) T-SQL
14 33 (1.19%) C++
14 33 (1.19%) VBA
15 27 (0.98%) PL/SQL
16 18 (0.65%) Shell Script
17 15 (0.54%) Kotlin
17 15 (0.54%) Swift
Qualifications
1 476 (17.23%) Security Cleared
2 372 (13.46%) SC Cleared
3 248 (8.98%) Degree
4 73 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 69 (2.50%) Azure Certification
6 48 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
6 48 (1.74%) Master's Degree
7 42 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
8 36 (1.30%) DV Cleared
9 25 (0.90%) PMI Certification
10 24 (0.87%) AWS Certification
10 24 (0.87%) CISSP
11 21 (0.76%) PMP
12 20 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
13 16 (0.58%) CISM
14 15 (0.54%) CCNP
15 14 (0.51%) IIBA
16 13 (0.47%) PhD
17 12 (0.43%) CCIE
18 8 (0.29%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 492 (17.81%) Data Quality
2 162 (5.86%) GDPR
3 108 (3.91%) QA
4 96 (3.47%) Accessibility
5 37 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 25 (0.90%) NIST
6 25 (0.90%) WCAG
7 22 (0.80%) PMO
8 20 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
9 15 (0.54%) NCSC
10 14 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 14 (0.51%) Solvency II
11 12 (0.43%) GRC
12 10 (0.36%) SLA
13 9 (0.33%) PERC
14 8 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 8 (0.29%) NIST 800
14 8 (0.29%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.29%) SOC 2
15 7 (0.25%) HIPAA
System Software
1 199 (7.20%) Docker
2 80 (2.90%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.18%) HDFS
7 4 (0.14%) Snort
7 4 (0.14%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.072%) GPFS
8 2 (0.072%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.072%) Lustre
8 2 (0.072%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.072%) zsh
9 1 (0.036%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.036%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.036%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.036%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 247 (8.94%) Terraform
2 218 (7.89%) Kubernetes
3 37 (1.34%) Ansible
4 34 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 29 (1.05%) Prometheus
6 26 (0.94%) Grafana
7 21 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
8 17 (0.62%) SCCM
9 9 (0.33%) Puppet
10 8 (0.29%) Kibana
11 7 (0.25%) logstash
12 4 (0.14%) CSIRT
12 4 (0.14%) WSUS
13 3 (0.11%) Argo
13 3 (0.11%) Cisco CUCM
13 3 (0.11%) Fluentd
14 2 (0.072%) Control-M
14 2 (0.072%) Nessus
14 2 (0.072%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.072%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 528 (19.11%) Microsoft
2 380 (13.75%) Databricks
3 167 (6.04%) Google
4 142 (5.14%) SAP
5 140 (5.07%) Oracle
6 71 (2.57%) Salesforce
7 66 (2.39%) Adobe
7 66 (2.39%) ServiceNow
8 57 (2.06%) Talend
9 55 (1.99%) Informatica
10 53 (1.92%) Splunk
11 45 (1.63%) OpenAI
12 41 (1.48%) Foundry
13 39 (1.41%) Denodo
14 28 (1.01%) Workday
15 23 (0.83%) IBM
15 23 (0.83%) VMware
16 20 (0.72%) Cisco
17 17 (0.62%) Palantir
18 14 (0.51%) Amplitude