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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 37
Rank change year-on-year +2 +10 -2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,971 1,628 1,765
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.21% 6.72% 4.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.51% 7.36% 5.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,036 1,097 1,213
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £440 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.43% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 32 46
10th Percentile £20.13 £15.25 £14.50
25th Percentile £47.69 £20.75 £25.00
Median hourly rate £60.50 £31.64 £29.19
Median % change year-on-year +91.21% +8.41% -8.80%
75th Percentile £75.00 £36.44 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.70 £79.87 £70.63
UK median hourly rate £58.00 £32.05 £28.00
% change year-on-year +80.97% +14.46% -12.91%

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 34,902 22,108 31,434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.66% 91.30% 86.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,235 14,434 20,613
10th Percentile £325 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,141 960 2,249
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.42 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.22 £16.00
Median hourly rate £46.80 £28.75 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.78% -21.23% -0.11%
75th Percentile £67.84 £62.24 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.79% -23.29% +1.39%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 21 May 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 1,639 £550 -4.35% 1,043
Midlands +14 339 £492 -3.91% 159
North of England +11 332 £475 +2.70% 346
West Midlands +12 254 £492 -4.00% 89
South East -8 246 £500 +4.71% 427
South West +31 197 £500 +2.56% 115
North West +12 173 £495 +5.77% 192
Yorkshire +5 134 £500 +3.63% 103
East of England -9 117 £525 -12.50% 94
East Midlands +10 79 £525 +46.65% 70
North East 0 36 £450 +25.70% 57
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 (5.28%) Apache Spark
2 108 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
3 84 (2.83%) SAS
4 80 (2.69%) Apache
5 74 (2.49%) Confluence
6 42 (1.41%) SharePoint
7 24 (0.81%) CMS
8 18 (0.61%) Jupyter
9 15 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 15 (0.50%) Oracle Application Server
10 12 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
11 9 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
12 8 (0.27%) Apache Superset
12 8 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
13 7 (0.24%) WordPress
14 6 (0.20%) ArcGIS
14 6 (0.20%) IIS
15 5 (0.17%) Drupal
16 3 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
17 2 (0.067%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 122 (4.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 27 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (0.64%) MS Visio
5 15 (0.50%) Chatbot
6 14 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.24%) CPLEX
7 7 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
8 4 (0.13%) Trello
9 3 (0.10%) Notion
10 2 (0.067%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.067%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.067%) Sketch
11 1 (0.034%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.034%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.034%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.034%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.034%) InDesign
11 1 (0.034%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 59 (1.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
4 8 (0.27%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 8 (0.27%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
5 7 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.20%) Aladdin
6 6 (0.20%) Sage X3
7 5 (0.17%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.17%) Maximo
8 4 (0.13%) iTrent
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 4 (0.13%) SAP BPC
8 4 (0.13%) Shopify
8 4 (0.13%) Sprinklr
9 3 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
9 3 (0.10%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 924 (31.10%) Azure
2 654 (22.01%) Power Platform
3 597 (20.09%) AWS
4 284 (9.56%) GCP
5 240 (8.08%) Azure Data Factory
6 202 (6.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 199 (6.70%) Azure DevOps
8 178 (5.99%) Snowflake
9 157 (5.28%) GitHub
10 135 (4.54%) dbt
11 126 (4.24%) Amazon S3
12 124 (4.17%) Serverless
13 103 (3.47%) Azure Monitor
14 86 (2.89%) GitHub Actions
15 82 (2.76%) Microsoft 365
15 82 (2.76%) SaaS
16 78 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
17 71 (2.39%) Entra ID
18 55 (1.85%) Azure Key Vault
19 48 (1.62%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 40 (1.35%) Firewall
2 30 (1.01%) Network Security
3 23 (0.77%) DNS
4 22 (0.74%) VPN
5 15 (0.50%) SD-WAN
5 15 (0.50%) SMS
6 13 (0.44%) WAN
7 12 (0.40%) HTTP
8 8 (0.27%) BGP
8 8 (0.27%) DHCP
8 8 (0.27%) FTP
8 8 (0.27%) OSPF
9 7 (0.24%) MPLS
9 7 (0.24%) SSL
9 7 (0.24%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.20%) LAN
10 6 (0.20%) SMTP
10 6 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (0.20%) Wireless
10 6 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 607 (20.43%) Power BI
2 390 (13.13%) Data Warehouse
3 244 (8.21%) Data Lake
4 215 (7.24%) Tableau
5 178 (5.99%) Metadata
6 119 (4.01%) BigQuery
7 111 (3.74%) Delta Lake
8 107 (3.60%) SQL Server
9 91 (3.06%) Big Data
10 74 (2.49%) Relational Database
11 73 (2.46%) Amazon Redshift
12 67 (2.26%) Azure SQL Database
13 66 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
13 66 (2.22%) NoSQL
14 65 (2.19%) Snowflake Schema
15 61 (2.05%) Looker
16 56 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
16 56 (1.88%) Star Schema
17 52 (1.75%) Hadoop
18 51 (1.72%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 173 (5.82%) Git
2 166 (5.59%) JIRA
3 67 (2.26%) Jenkins
4 63 (2.12%) GitLab
5 20 (0.67%) ERwin
6 14 (0.47%) MLflow
7 12 (0.40%) Selenium
8 8 (0.27%) MSI
9 7 (0.24%) ER Studio
9 7 (0.24%) fastlane
9 7 (0.24%) PowerDesigner
10 6 (0.20%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.20%) JUnit
10 6 (0.20%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.17%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.17%) Gradle
11 5 (0.17%) Postman
11 5 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 5 (0.17%) XCTest
12 4 (0.13%) Android Studio
General
1 742 (24.97%) Social Skills
2 735 (24.74%) Finance
3 515 (17.33%) Analytical Skills
4 311 (10.47%) Public Sector
5 193 (6.50%) Banking
6 162 (5.45%) Marketing
7 99 (3.33%) Retail
8 73 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
9 54 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 54 (1.82%) Legal
10 51 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
10 51 (1.72%) Investment Banking
11 47 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
12 46 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
12 46 (1.55%) Telecoms
13 40 (1.35%) Manufacturing
14 38 (1.28%) Front Office
15 32 (1.08%) Financial Institution
16 25 (0.84%) Military
17 24 (0.81%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 581 (19.56%) Data Engineer
2 368 (12.39%) Analyst
3 351 (11.81%) Architect
4 349 (11.75%) Senior
5 318 (10.70%) Developer
6 249 (8.38%) Lead
7 162 (5.45%) Data Architect
8 149 (5.02%) Data Analyst
9 122 (4.11%) Consultant
10 107 (3.60%) Azure Engineer
11 106 (3.57%) Business Analyst
12 102 (3.43%) Senior Data Engineer
13 93 (3.13%) Data Scientist
14 87 (2.93%) Solutions Architect
15 69 (2.32%) Data Manager
16 65 (2.19%) Project Manager
17 57 (1.92%) Designer
18 51 (1.72%) AWS Engineer
18 51 (1.72%) Business Intelligence Developer
19 49 (1.65%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (6.13%) PySpark
2 140 (4.71%) Kafka
3 104 (3.50%) REST
4 61 (2.05%) Pandas
5 53 (1.78%) JSON
5 53 (1.78%) React
6 49 (1.65%) PyTorch
7 48 (1.62%) TensorFlow
8 46 (1.55%) HTML
9 44 (1.48%) CSS
10 38 (1.28%) RESTful
11 35 (1.18%) Middleware
11 35 (1.18%) scikit-learn
12 34 (1.14%) .NET
13 32 (1.08%) NumPy
13 32 (1.08%) SOAP
14 30 (1.01%) AngularJS
14 30 (1.01%) Oracle Fusion
15 27 (0.91%) ARM Templates
15 27 (0.91%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 195 (6.56%) Cloud Native
2 147 (4.95%) Product Ownership
3 109 (3.67%) Data Structures
4 85 (2.86%) Onboarding
5 75 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
6 66 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
7 53 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
8 45 (1.51%) Algorithms
8 45 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
8 45 (1.51%) Management Information System
9 38 (1.28%) Public Cloud
10 35 (1.18%) AI Agents
10 35 (1.18%) NHS
10 35 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
11 34 (1.14%) Mobile App
12 29 (0.98%) Derivative
12 29 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
13 27 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
13 27 (0.91%) Marketing Technology
14 26 (0.88%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 90 (3.03%) Windows
2 74 (2.49%) Linux
3 32 (1.08%) Mac OS
3 32 (1.08%) Unix
4 23 (0.77%) Apple iOS
5 15 (0.50%) Windows Server
6 11 (0.37%) Android
7 8 (0.27%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.10%) CentOS
10 2 (0.067%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.067%) VMS
10 2 (0.067%) zOS
11 1 (0.034%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 822 (27.67%) Data Modelling
2 816 (27.47%) Business Intelligence
3 650 (21.88%) AI
4 622 (20.94%) Agile
5 620 (20.87%) Data Pipeline
6 602 (20.26%) Data Engineering
7 587 (19.76%) CI/CD
8 562 (18.92%) ETL
9 496 (16.69%) DevOps
10 494 (16.63%) Data Governance
11 477 (16.06%) Decision-Making
12 473 (15.92%) Problem-Solving
13 391 (13.16%) Stakeholder Management
14 345 (11.61%) Data Science
15 340 (11.44%) Machine Learning
16 333 (11.21%) Data Analytics
17 331 (11.14%) Continuous Improvement
18 329 (11.07%) Migration
19 297 (10.00%) Validation
20 286 (9.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,005 (33.83%) SQL
2 907 (30.53%) Python
3 126 (4.24%) Java
4 118 (3.97%) PowerShell
5 96 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 91 (3.06%) C#
7 80 (2.69%) R
8 69 (2.32%) Bicep
9 60 (2.02%) JavaScript
10 47 (1.58%) T-SQL
11 43 (1.45%) Scala
12 41 (1.38%) Kusto Query Language
13 38 (1.28%) TypeScript
14 35 (1.18%) Bash
15 27 (0.91%) Shell Script
16 25 (0.84%) C++
16 25 (0.84%) PL/SQL
17 14 (0.47%) VBA
18 10 (0.34%) Kotlin
19 9 (0.30%) Swift
Qualifications
1 515 (17.33%) Security Cleared
2 403 (13.56%) SC Cleared
3 229 (7.71%) Degree
4 67 (2.26%) Azure Certification
5 64 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 56 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 49 (1.65%) DV Cleared
8 47 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
9 37 (1.25%) Master's Degree
10 25 (0.84%) PMI Certification
11 23 (0.77%) CISSP
12 22 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
13 21 (0.71%) PMP
14 17 (0.57%) AWS Certification
15 15 (0.50%) CCNP
15 15 (0.50%) PhD
16 14 (0.47%) DBS Check
17 13 (0.44%) IIBA
18 11 (0.37%) CCIE
19 9 (0.30%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 568 (19.12%) Data Quality
2 155 (5.22%) GDPR
3 117 (3.94%) QA
4 102 (3.43%) Accessibility
5 38 (1.28%) WCAG
6 36 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 27 (0.91%) NIST
8 22 (0.74%) PMO
9 20 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
10 16 (0.54%) SLA
11 14 (0.47%) GRC
12 13 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 10 (0.34%) PERC
14 9 (0.30%) ISO 20022
14 9 (0.30%) Solvency II
15 8 (0.27%) NCSC
16 7 (0.24%) PCI DSS
17 6 (0.20%) HL7
18 5 (0.17%) GAAP
18 5 (0.17%) IFRS
System Software
1 160 (5.39%) Docker
2 74 (2.49%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.13%) HDFS
6 4 (0.13%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.13%) Snort
6 4 (0.13%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.034%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.034%) GPFS
7 1 (0.034%) iptables
7 1 (0.034%) Lustre
7 1 (0.034%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.034%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.034%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.034%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 226 (7.61%) Terraform
2 170 (5.72%) Kubernetes
3 41 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 37 (1.25%) Grafana
5 34 (1.14%) Ansible
6 29 (0.98%) Prometheus
7 19 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (0.50%) SCCM
9 6 (0.20%) Puppet
10 5 (0.17%) Argo
11 4 (0.13%) Control-M
11 4 (0.13%) CSIRT
11 4 (0.13%) Kibana
11 4 (0.13%) WSUS
12 3 (0.10%) Nagios
12 3 (0.10%) QRadar
12 3 (0.10%) SysTrack
13 2 (0.067%) Apache Ranger
13 2 (0.067%) Nessus
13 2 (0.067%) SCOM
Vendors
1 536 (18.04%) Microsoft
2 404 (13.60%) Databricks
3 158 (5.32%) Google
4 146 (4.91%) Oracle
5 144 (4.85%) SAP
6 70 (2.36%) ServiceNow
7 65 (2.19%) Adobe
8 62 (2.09%) Informatica
9 61 (2.05%) Salesforce
10 52 (1.75%) Splunk
11 46 (1.55%) Talend
12 41 (1.38%) OpenAI
13 36 (1.21%) Denodo
14 34 (1.14%) Workday
15 33 (1.11%) Foundry
16 23 (0.77%) Dynatrace
16 23 (0.77%) VMware
17 21 (0.71%) IBM
18 18 (0.61%) Cisco
19 13 (0.44%) Ariba