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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 35
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,489 1,795 1,764
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.64% 6.47% 5.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.01% 7.12% 6.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,311 1,187 1,247
10th Percentile £363 £350 £354
25th Percentile £435 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% -2.61%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £688
90th Percentile £750 £793 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 49 21
10th Percentile £19.85 £16.26 £21.25
25th Percentile £27.20 £26.80 £27.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £34.50 £30.37
Median % change year-on-year +52.17% +13.60% -13.23%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.16 £38.75
90th Percentile £87.10 £79.00 £60.06
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £34.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +44.93% +15.00% -14.29%

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 38,743 25,202 28,504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.81% 90.84% 85.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,962 16,051 18,351
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £627 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £751
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,572 1,476 1,524
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.25 £14.05
25th Percentile £19.17 £17.87 £18.08
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +67.00% -38.57% -3.67%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 1,922 £550 - 897
North of England +12 444 £492 +6.38% 340
Midlands +6 409 £500 -2.91% 167
South East +12 355 £513 -0.49% 481
West Midlands +4 328 £492 -5.09% 116
North West +4 228 £525 +10.53% 187
Yorkshire +10 175 £463 +2.66% 108
South West +12 168 £500 +5.26% 152
East of England -7 106 £570 -0.87% 81
East Midlands +9 74 £525 +27.27% 51
North East -7 50 £450 +18.03% 46
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
1 156 (4.47%) Apache Airflow
2 135 (3.87%) Apache Spark
3 116 (3.32%) SAS
4 96 (2.75%) Apache
5 74 (2.12%) Confluence
6 52 (1.49%) SharePoint
7 48 (1.38%) CMS
8 31 (0.89%) Palantir Foundry
9 29 (0.83%) Jupyter
10 26 (0.75%) Oracle Application Server
11 20 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 14 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
13 10 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
14 9 (0.26%) Apache Superset
15 8 (0.23%) Drupal
15 8 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
16 6 (0.17%) IIS
16 6 (0.17%) WordPress
17 2 (0.057%) ArcGIS
17 2 (0.057%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 156 (4.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
4 20 (0.57%) Chatbot
5 16 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
6 15 (0.43%) CPLEX
7 11 (0.32%) MS Visio
8 10 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.11%) Trello
10 3 (0.086%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.086%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.086%) Oracle Smart View
11 2 (0.057%) InDesign
11 2 (0.057%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.057%) Sketch
12 1 (0.029%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.029%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.029%) Notion
12 1 (0.029%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.029%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 68 (1.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
4 15 (0.43%) Workday HCM
5 13 (0.37%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 10 (0.29%) Aladdin
7 9 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
7 9 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
7 9 (0.26%) Shopify
8 8 (0.23%) SAP ERP
9 7 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
9 7 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 6 (0.17%) NetSuite
10 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.17%) SAP CO
10 6 (0.17%) SAP FI
10 6 (0.17%) SAP GRC
11 5 (0.14%) BambooHR
11 5 (0.14%) Infor LN
11 5 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,034 (29.64%) Azure
2 704 (20.18%) Power Platform
3 610 (17.48%) AWS
4 302 (8.66%) GCP
5 238 (6.82%) Snowflake
6 235 (6.74%) Azure DevOps
7 230 (6.59%) Azure Data Factory
8 185 (5.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 185 (5.30%) dbt
9 155 (4.44%) GitHub
10 142 (4.07%) Serverless
11 134 (3.84%) Azure Monitor
12 124 (3.55%) Amazon S3
13 112 (3.21%) Entra ID
14 104 (2.98%) SaaS
15 94 (2.69%) AWS Lambda
16 86 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
17 81 (2.32%) GitHub Actions
18 62 (1.78%) Google Analytics
19 55 (1.58%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.78%) Firewall
2 54 (1.55%) Network Security
3 38 (1.09%) DNS
4 34 (0.97%) VPN
5 26 (0.75%) WAN
6 23 (0.66%) SD-WAN
6 23 (0.66%) TCP/IP
7 20 (0.57%) BGP
8 15 (0.43%) DHCP
9 11 (0.32%) OSPF
10 10 (0.29%) Broadband
11 9 (0.26%) SMS
11 9 (0.26%) Wireless
12 8 (0.23%) LAN
13 7 (0.20%) HTTP
13 7 (0.20%) Internet
13 7 (0.20%) VXLAN
13 7 (0.20%) WLAN
14 6 (0.17%) 5G
14 6 (0.17%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 671 (19.23%) Power BI
2 449 (12.87%) Data Warehouse
3 257 (7.37%) Data Lake
4 227 (6.51%) Metadata
4 227 (6.51%) Tableau
5 141 (4.04%) BigQuery
6 96 (2.75%) SQL Server
7 93 (2.67%) Big Data
8 92 (2.64%) Amazon Redshift
9 88 (2.52%) Delta Lake
10 85 (2.44%) Relational Database
11 75 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
12 71 (2.03%) Looker
13 66 (1.89%) NoSQL
13 66 (1.89%) Snowflake Schema
14 63 (1.81%) Amazon Athena
15 62 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
16 59 (1.69%) Semantic Layer
17 54 (1.55%) Star Schema
18 50 (1.43%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 184 (5.27%) Git
2 163 (4.67%) JIRA
3 65 (1.86%) Jenkins
4 48 (1.38%) GitLab
5 15 (0.43%) ERwin
6 10 (0.29%) fastlane
7 9 (0.26%) MLflow
8 8 (0.23%) ER Studio
8 8 (0.23%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.20%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.20%) Gradle
9 7 (0.20%) Selenium
9 7 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (0.17%) Android Studio
10 6 (0.17%) Crashlytics
10 6 (0.17%) JUnit
10 6 (0.17%) RStudio
11 5 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
11 5 (0.14%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.14%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 903 (25.88%) Social Skills
2 875 (25.08%) Finance
3 634 (18.17%) Analytical Skills
4 418 (11.98%) Public Sector
5 260 (7.45%) Banking
6 220 (6.31%) Marketing
7 170 (4.87%) Retail
8 96 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 92 (2.64%) Influencing Skills
10 77 (2.21%) Legal
11 66 (1.89%) Manufacturing
12 65 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
13 64 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
14 58 (1.66%) Front Office
15 56 (1.61%) Investment Banking
16 46 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
16 46 (1.32%) Telecoms
17 41 (1.18%) Financial Institution
18 40 (1.15%) Publishing
19 36 (1.03%) Military
Job Titles
1 598 (17.14%) Data Engineer
2 458 (13.13%) Architect
3 438 (12.55%) Analyst
4 437 (12.53%) Senior
5 326 (9.34%) Developer
6 296 (8.48%) Lead
7 208 (5.96%) Data Architect
8 169 (4.84%) Data Analyst
9 161 (4.61%) Consultant
10 126 (3.61%) Solutions Architect
11 109 (3.12%) Senior Data Engineer
12 107 (3.07%) Data Scientist
13 105 (3.01%) Azure Engineer
13 105 (3.01%) Business Analyst
14 76 (2.18%) Data Manager
15 63 (1.81%) Product Manager
16 62 (1.78%) Project Manager
17 60 (1.72%) Python Developer
17 60 (1.72%) Senior Manager
18 58 (1.66%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 257 (7.37%) Terraform
2 214 (6.13%) PySpark
3 135 (3.87%) REST
4 112 (3.21%) Kafka
5 63 (1.81%) Pandas
6 54 (1.55%) RESTful
7 51 (1.46%) React
8 49 (1.40%) HTML
9 47 (1.35%) .NET
10 45 (1.29%) CSS
10 45 (1.29%) JSON
11 41 (1.18%) ARM Templates
11 41 (1.18%) OAuth
12 37 (1.06%) NumPy
13 35 (1.00%) SOAP
14 34 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
15 33 (0.95%) OpenID
15 33 (0.95%) Web Services
16 32 (0.92%) OAuth2
17 30 (0.86%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 237 (6.79%) Cloud Native
2 184 (5.27%) Product Ownership
3 135 (3.87%) Data Structures
4 123 (3.53%) Onboarding
5 115 (3.30%) Legacy Systems
6 69 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
7 63 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
8 60 (1.72%) Management Information System
9 54 (1.55%) AI Agents
10 47 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
11 44 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
12 43 (1.23%) Algorithms
12 43 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
13 41 (1.18%) NHS
14 40 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
15 38 (1.09%) Marketing Technology
15 38 (1.09%) Virtual Team
16 34 (0.97%) Mobile App
17 32 (0.92%) Derivative
18 30 (0.86%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 86 (2.46%) Linux
2 81 (2.32%) Windows
3 39 (1.12%) Unix
4 33 (0.95%) Windows Server
5 16 (0.46%) Apple iOS
6 13 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.34%) Mac OS
8 9 (0.26%) Android
8 9 (0.26%) VMS
9 5 (0.14%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.086%) Solaris
10 3 (0.086%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.057%) AIX
11 2 (0.057%) CentOS
11 2 (0.057%) HPUX
12 1 (0.029%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 915 (26.23%) Data Modelling
2 896 (25.68%) Business Intelligence
3 860 (24.65%) AI
4 799 (22.90%) Agile
5 706 (20.24%) Data Pipeline
6 696 (19.95%) Stakeholder Management
7 677 (19.40%) Data Engineering
8 657 (18.83%) CI/CD
9 621 (17.80%) Decision-Making
10 566 (16.22%) ETL
11 553 (15.85%) Data Governance
12 530 (15.19%) DevOps
13 503 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
14 455 (13.04%) Migration
15 425 (12.18%) Continuous Improvement
16 423 (12.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 411 (11.78%) Machine Learning
18 402 (11.52%) Validation
19 393 (11.26%) Data Science
20 383 (10.98%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,115 (31.96%) SQL
2 972 (27.86%) Python
3 160 (4.59%) PowerShell
4 109 (3.12%) Java
5 98 (2.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 85 (2.44%) Bicep
7 83 (2.38%) C#
8 75 (2.15%) JavaScript
9 61 (1.75%) R
10 54 (1.55%) Bash
11 35 (1.00%) Scala
11 35 (1.00%) Shell Script
11 35 (1.00%) TypeScript
12 34 (0.97%) Kusto Query Language
13 30 (0.86%) T-SQL
14 25 (0.72%) PL/SQL
15 19 (0.54%) C++
16 15 (0.43%) VBA
17 12 (0.34%) Kotlin
18 10 (0.29%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 625 (17.91%) Security Cleared
2 494 (14.16%) SC Cleared
3 278 (7.97%) Degree
4 83 (2.38%) Azure Certification
5 77 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 76 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
7 74 (2.12%) DV Cleared
8 53 (1.52%) Master's Degree
9 45 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
10 38 (1.09%) CISSP
11 28 (0.80%) AWS Certification
12 27 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
13 26 (0.75%) PMI Certification
14 22 (0.63%) DBS Check
15 21 (0.60%) PMP
16 15 (0.43%) CCNP
17 14 (0.40%) CCIE
18 12 (0.34%) PhD
19 11 (0.32%) CISA
19 11 (0.32%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 684 (19.60%) Data Quality
2 164 (4.70%) GDPR
3 138 (3.96%) QA
4 130 (3.73%) Accessibility
5 52 (1.49%) GRC
6 45 (1.29%) WCAG
7 38 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 32 (0.92%) NIST
9 26 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
10 24 (0.69%) PMO
11 20 (0.57%) SLA
12 14 (0.40%) PCI DSS
12 14 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 12 (0.34%) PERC
13 12 (0.34%) Solvency II
14 10 (0.29%) IFRS
14 10 (0.29%) NCSC
15 7 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
16 6 (0.17%) GAAP
16 6 (0.17%) PSD2
System Software
1 150 (4.30%) Docker
2 91 (2.61%) Active Directory
3 28 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.23%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.20%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.086%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 2 (0.057%) HDFS
9 2 (0.057%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.057%) vSphere
9 2 (0.057%) XenApp
9 2 (0.057%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.029%) iptables
10 1 (0.029%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.029%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 162 (4.64%) Kubernetes
2 51 (1.46%) Ansible
3 37 (1.06%) Grafana
4 24 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
5 23 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (0.37%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.37%) SCCM
7 8 (0.23%) Control-M
7 8 (0.23%) FortiGate
8 7 (0.20%) SCOM
9 6 (0.17%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.11%) Podman
10 4 (0.11%) QRadar
10 4 (0.11%) SysTrack
11 3 (0.086%) Apache Ranger
11 3 (0.086%) CASB
11 3 (0.086%) NetBackup
11 3 (0.086%) Thomson Reuters DACS
12 2 (0.057%) MOM
12 2 (0.057%) Rancher
Vendors
1 631 (18.09%) Microsoft
2 455 (13.04%) Databricks
3 218 (6.25%) Oracle
4 186 (5.33%) SAP
5 180 (5.16%) Google
6 81 (2.32%) ServiceNow
7 80 (2.29%) Salesforce
8 79 (2.26%) Adobe
9 54 (1.55%) Workday
10 47 (1.35%) Foundry
11 45 (1.29%) Splunk
12 44 (1.26%) Informatica
13 39 (1.12%) Dynatrace
14 38 (1.09%) Palantir
14 38 (1.09%) Talend
15 37 (1.06%) Denodo
16 35 (1.00%) Cisco
17 29 (0.83%) VMware
18 25 (0.72%) OpenAI
19 22 (0.63%) Alteryx