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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 27 38
Rank change year-on-year +4 +11 -3
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,984 1,685 1,733
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.53% 6.87% 4.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.83% 7.54% 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,051 1,139 1,193
10th Percentile £356 £342 £351
25th Percentile £424 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -
75th Percentile £625 £683 £688
90th Percentile £750 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 31 48
10th Percentile £26.33 £15.28 £15.50
25th Percentile £44.84 £22.13 £25.00
Median hourly rate £60.25 £31.64 £32.94
Median % change year-on-year +90.42% -3.93% +2.92%
75th Percentile £75.00 £38.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £78.70 £74.38
UK median hourly rate £58.70 £31.64 £30.37
% change year-on-year +85.52% +4.18% -5.54%

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 33,784 22,346 32,054
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.23% 91.09% 86.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,591 14,669 21,080
10th Percentile £315 £310 £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 £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.89% -0.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,113 899 2,221
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.82 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.51 £15.89
Median hourly rate £42.00 £31.64 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.74% -9.60% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67.25 £64.50 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.10 £72.45
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.00% -14.29% -6.67%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 22 April 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 1,661 £540 -10.00% 996
Midlands +19 345 £492 +3.21% 237
North of England +11 331 £475 +2.70% 349
West Midlands +23 254 £493 -2.72% 128
South East -7 239 £500 - 436
South West +25 184 £500 +2.56% 130
North West +5 181 £500 +8.11% 229
Yorkshire +8 129 £475 - 81
East of England -5 117 £525 -12.50% 114
East Midlands +4 85 £450 +26.40% 109
North East +3 31 £450 +25.70% 43
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 (5.26%) Apache Spark
2 115 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
3 94 (3.15%) Apache
4 90 (3.02%) SAS
5 71 (2.38%) Confluence
6 50 (1.68%) SharePoint
7 28 (0.94%) CMS
8 18 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
9 17 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 15 (0.50%) Jupyter
11 11 (0.37%) Oracle Application Server
12 10 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
13 9 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
14 8 (0.27%) Apache Superset
15 6 (0.20%) ArcGIS
16 5 (0.17%) WordPress
17 4 (0.13%) Drupal
18 3 (0.10%) IIS
18 3 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
19 2 (0.067%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 133 (4.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 23 (0.77%) Chatbot
4 21 (0.70%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.20%) CPLEX
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
8 4 (0.13%) Trello
9 3 (0.10%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.10%) Notion
9 3 (0.10%) Sketch
10 2 (0.067%) Autodesk Smoke
10 2 (0.067%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.034%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.034%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.034%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.034%) InDesign
11 1 (0.034%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 65 (2.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.30%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 9 (0.30%) SAP MM
4 8 (0.27%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 8 (0.27%) SAP FI
5 7 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.20%) Maximo
6 6 (0.20%) Sage X3
6 6 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.17%) Aladdin
7 5 (0.17%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.17%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.13%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 932 (31.23%) Azure
2 647 (21.68%) Power Platform
3 620 (20.78%) AWS
4 298 (9.99%) GCP
5 240 (8.04%) Azure Data Factory
6 213 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
7 205 (6.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 180 (6.03%) GitHub
9 179 (6.00%) Snowflake
10 140 (4.69%) Amazon S3
10 140 (4.69%) Serverless
11 128 (4.29%) dbt
12 117 (3.92%) Azure Monitor
13 104 (3.49%) GitHub Actions
14 99 (3.32%) Microsoft 365
15 84 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
16 77 (2.58%) Entra ID
16 77 (2.58%) SaaS
17 66 (2.21%) Azure Key Vault
18 60 (2.01%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 44 (1.47%) Firewall
2 34 (1.14%) Network Security
3 26 (0.87%) VPN
4 25 (0.84%) DNS
5 14 (0.47%) SD-WAN
6 13 (0.44%) WAN
7 12 (0.40%) SMS
8 11 (0.37%) HTTP
9 9 (0.30%) SSL
10 8 (0.27%) MPLS
11 7 (0.23%) 5G
11 7 (0.23%) BGP
11 7 (0.23%) DHCP
11 7 (0.23%) FTP
11 7 (0.23%) OSPF
11 7 (0.23%) TCP/IP
11 7 (0.23%) VXLAN
12 6 (0.20%) Internet
12 6 (0.20%) SMTP
13 5 (0.17%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 593 (19.87%) Power BI
2 385 (12.90%) Data Warehouse
3 238 (7.98%) Data Lake
4 209 (7.00%) Tableau
5 189 (6.33%) Metadata
6 111 (3.72%) Delta Lake
7 109 (3.65%) BigQuery
8 100 (3.35%) SQL Server
9 89 (2.98%) Big Data
10 79 (2.65%) Amazon Redshift
11 73 (2.45%) Snowflake Schema
12 71 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
13 70 (2.35%) Relational Database
14 68 (2.28%) NoSQL
15 65 (2.18%) Amazon Athena
16 61 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
17 58 (1.94%) Looker
18 57 (1.91%) Power Query
18 57 (1.91%) Star Schema
19 52 (1.74%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 177 (5.93%) Git
2 170 (5.70%) JIRA
3 71 (2.38%) Jenkins
4 64 (2.14%) GitLab
5 22 (0.74%) ERwin
6 16 (0.54%) MLflow
7 13 (0.44%) Selenium
8 9 (0.30%) PowerDesigner
9 8 (0.27%) JUnit
9 8 (0.27%) MSI
9 8 (0.27%) SonarQube
10 7 (0.23%) Bitbucket
10 7 (0.23%) ER Studio
10 7 (0.23%) Gradle
11 6 (0.20%) Android Studio
11 6 (0.20%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.17%) Postman
12 5 (0.17%) XCTest
13 4 (0.13%) JMeter
13 4 (0.13%) TeamCity
General
1 820 (27.48%) Social Skills
2 761 (25.50%) Finance
3 557 (18.67%) Analytical Skills
4 309 (10.36%) Public Sector
5 194 (6.50%) Banking
6 171 (5.73%) Marketing
7 86 (2.88%) Retail
8 78 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
9 52 (1.74%) Legal
10 50 (1.68%) Front Office
10 50 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
11 49 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 49 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
11 49 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
12 46 (1.54%) Investment Banking
12 46 (1.54%) Telecoms
13 39 (1.31%) Manufacturing
14 32 (1.07%) Financial Institution
15 24 (0.80%) Advertising
16 22 (0.74%) Military
Job Titles
1 560 (18.77%) Data Engineer
2 353 (11.83%) Analyst
3 352 (11.80%) Architect
4 346 (11.60%) Senior
5 336 (11.26%) Developer
6 260 (8.71%) Lead
7 149 (4.99%) Data Architect
8 143 (4.79%) Data Analyst
9 125 (4.19%) Consultant
10 110 (3.69%) Azure Engineer
11 100 (3.35%) Business Analyst
12 98 (3.28%) Data Scientist
13 90 (3.02%) Senior Data Engineer
14 85 (2.85%) Solutions Architect
15 63 (2.11%) Project Manager
16 59 (1.98%) Designer
17 55 (1.84%) Data Manager
18 51 (1.71%) Snowflake Engineer
19 50 (1.68%) Python Developer
20 49 (1.64%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (5.93%) PySpark
2 152 (5.09%) Kafka
3 130 (4.36%) REST
4 72 (2.41%) Pandas
5 62 (2.08%) React
6 60 (2.01%) PyTorch
6 60 (2.01%) TensorFlow
7 55 (1.84%) JSON
8 47 (1.58%) NumPy
9 46 (1.54%) AngularJS
10 45 (1.51%) .NET
10 45 (1.51%) HTML
10 45 (1.51%) scikit-learn
11 44 (1.47%) Node.js
12 43 (1.44%) CSS
13 41 (1.37%) SOAP
14 35 (1.17%) Middleware
15 34 (1.14%) ARM Templates
15 34 (1.14%) Oracle Fusion
16 32 (1.07%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 193 (6.47%) Cloud Native
2 134 (4.49%) Product Ownership
3 95 (3.18%) Data Structures
4 83 (2.78%) Onboarding
5 72 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
6 60 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
7 55 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
8 54 (1.81%) Algorithms
9 53 (1.78%) Management Information System
10 49 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
11 39 (1.31%) Public Cloud
12 37 (1.24%) NHS
13 36 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
14 34 (1.14%) Equities
15 33 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 32 (1.07%) AI Agents
16 32 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
16 32 (1.07%) Marketing Technology
17 30 (1.01%) Mobile App
18 29 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 85 (2.85%) Windows
2 78 (2.61%) Linux
3 35 (1.17%) Unix
4 32 (1.07%) Mac OS
5 19 (0.64%) Apple iOS
6 14 (0.47%) Android
7 10 (0.34%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.23%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.067%) CentOS
10 2 (0.067%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.067%) zOS
11 1 (0.034%) Rocky
11 1 (0.034%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 815 (27.31%) Business Intelligence
2 806 (27.01%) Data Modelling
3 653 (21.88%) Agile
4 651 (21.82%) AI
5 614 (20.58%) Data Pipeline
6 612 (20.51%) CI/CD
7 595 (19.94%) Data Engineering
8 575 (19.27%) ETL
9 538 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
10 523 (17.53%) DevOps
11 508 (17.02%) Data Governance
12 474 (15.88%) Decision-Making
13 384 (12.87%) Stakeholder Management
14 380 (12.73%) Data Science
15 376 (12.60%) Machine Learning
16 340 (11.39%) Data Analytics
17 333 (11.16%) Continuous Improvement
18 317 (10.62%) Migration
19 300 (10.05%) Validation
20 292 (9.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,028 (34.45%) SQL
2 951 (31.87%) Python
3 146 (4.89%) Java
4 111 (3.72%) PowerShell
5 104 (3.49%) C#
6 93 (3.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 83 (2.78%) R
8 78 (2.61%) JavaScript
9 74 (2.48%) Bicep
10 47 (1.58%) Kusto Query Language
11 46 (1.54%) T-SQL
12 45 (1.51%) Bash
13 44 (1.47%) Scala
14 43 (1.44%) TypeScript
15 28 (0.94%) PL/SQL
15 28 (0.94%) VBA
16 26 (0.87%) C++
17 25 (0.84%) Shell Script
18 10 (0.34%) Kotlin
19 8 (0.27%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 519 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 411 (13.77%) SC Cleared
3 234 (7.84%) Degree
4 72 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 68 (2.28%) Azure Certification
6 52 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
7 39 (1.31%) DV Cleared
8 38 (1.27%) Master's Degree
9 37 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
10 26 (0.87%) CISSP
10 26 (0.87%) PMI Certification
11 23 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
12 21 (0.70%) PMP
13 20 (0.67%) AWS Certification
14 18 (0.60%) CCNP
15 17 (0.57%) CISM
16 15 (0.50%) PhD
17 14 (0.47%) CCIE
17 14 (0.47%) IIBA
18 8 (0.27%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 542 (18.16%) Data Quality
2 160 (5.36%) GDPR
3 116 (3.89%) QA
4 93 (3.12%) Accessibility
5 33 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (1.07%) WCAG
7 27 (0.90%) PMO
8 26 (0.87%) NIST
9 20 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
10 15 (0.50%) SLA
11 14 (0.47%) GRC
11 14 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 14 (0.47%) Solvency II
12 12 (0.40%) PERC
13 10 (0.34%) NCSC
14 9 (0.30%) HL7
15 8 (0.27%) ISO 20022
15 8 (0.27%) PCI DSS
16 7 (0.23%) IFRS
16 7 (0.23%) NIST 800
System Software
1 186 (6.23%) Docker
2 73 (2.45%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.17%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.13%) HDFS
7 4 (0.13%) Snort
8 2 (0.067%) GPFS
8 2 (0.067%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.067%) Lustre
8 2 (0.067%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.034%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.034%) iptables
9 1 (0.034%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.034%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.034%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.034%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 258 (8.65%) Terraform
2 194 (6.50%) Kubernetes
3 44 (1.47%) Ansible
4 36 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
5 35 (1.17%) Grafana
6 31 (1.04%) Prometheus
7 17 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
8 16 (0.54%) SCCM
9 9 (0.30%) Puppet
10 6 (0.20%) Kibana
11 5 (0.17%) Argo
12 4 (0.13%) Control-M
12 4 (0.13%) CSIRT
12 4 (0.13%) logstash
12 4 (0.13%) WSUS
13 3 (0.10%) Fluentd
13 3 (0.10%) Nagios
13 3 (0.10%) SCOM
13 3 (0.10%) SysTrack
14 2 (0.067%) Apache Ranger
Vendors
1 540 (18.10%) Microsoft
2 408 (13.67%) Databricks
3 175 (5.86%) Google
4 148 (4.96%) Oracle
5 147 (4.93%) SAP
6 75 (2.51%) ServiceNow
7 70 (2.35%) Salesforce
8 69 (2.31%) Adobe
9 61 (2.04%) Informatica
10 58 (1.94%) Splunk
11 50 (1.68%) Talend
12 47 (1.58%) OpenAI
13 38 (1.27%) Denodo
13 38 (1.27%) Foundry
14 36 (1.21%) Workday
15 25 (0.84%) IBM
16 21 (0.70%) VMware
17 20 (0.67%) Cisco
18 17 (0.57%) Dynatrace
19 14 (0.47%) Palantir