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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 30 38
Rank change year-on-year +8 +8 -1
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,619 1,565 1,850
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.50% 6.05% 4.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.58% 6.72% 5.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,780 1,024 1,270
10th Percentile £350 £338 £363
25th Percentile £416 £439 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -0.23%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £505 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -6.57% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 25 76
10th Percentile £20.64 £22.75 £17.00
25th Percentile £37.81 £25.26 £25.00
Median hourly rate £56.40 £35.00 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year +61.14% -15.15% +17.86%
75th Percentile £75.00 £60.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £83.83 £64.73 £78.38
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +57.14% -17.65% +21.43%

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 30,524 23,282 33,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.36% 90.06% 87.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,511 14,543 22,029
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £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 1,903 748 2,025
10th Percentile £15.22 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.28 £21.25 £16.30
Median hourly rate £26.61 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.99% - -
75th Percentile £63.05 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.08 £73.35
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% -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 21 February 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 February 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 February 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 +5 1,536 £525 -12.50% 865
North of England +9 280 £496 +7.24% 284
Midlands +29 279 £492 +3.14% 207
West Midlands +21 207 £500 +2.04% 123
South East -4 185 £490 +2.08% 560
North West +7 171 £480 +3.17% 156
South West +34 137 £525 +5.53% 140
East of England -3 101 £505 -15.83% 114
Yorkshire -12 86 £525 +13.51% 90
East Midlands +15 71 £441 +4.91% 83
North East +1 25 £450 +25.70% 41
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
1 116 (4.43%) Apache Spark
2 106 (4.05%) SAS
3 88 (3.36%) Apache Airflow
4 77 (2.94%) Apache
5 59 (2.25%) Confluence
6 48 (1.83%) SharePoint
7 30 (1.15%) CMS
8 20 (0.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 11 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
10 10 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
11 8 (0.31%) GeoServer
11 8 (0.31%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.31%) Smallworld
12 7 (0.27%) ArcGIS
12 7 (0.27%) WordPress
13 6 (0.23%) Oracle Application Server
13 6 (0.23%) WebLogic
14 5 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 5 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
15 4 (0.15%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 124 (4.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (1.07%) MS Visio
5 21 (0.80%) Chatbot
6 14 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
7 9 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.19%) Adobe XD
8 5 (0.19%) Sketch
8 5 (0.19%) Trello
9 3 (0.11%) Notion
10 2 (0.076%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.038%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.038%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.038%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.038%) CPLEX
11 1 (0.038%) FrameMaker
11 1 (0.038%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.038%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.038%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 70 (2.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.42%) SAP HR
4 9 (0.34%) SAP EHS
4 9 (0.34%) SAP FI
5 8 (0.31%) Maximo
5 8 (0.31%) SAP MM
6 7 (0.27%) Aladdin
6 7 (0.27%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 7 (0.27%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 6 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 5 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 5 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.19%) SAP BPC
9 4 (0.15%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
9 4 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 850 (32.46%) Azure
2 581 (22.18%) Power Platform
3 559 (21.34%) AWS
4 264 (10.08%) GCP
5 198 (7.56%) Azure Data Factory
6 187 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
7 173 (6.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 173 (6.61%) Snowflake
8 149 (5.69%) GitHub
9 127 (4.85%) Serverless
10 111 (4.24%) Amazon S3
10 111 (4.24%) Azure Monitor
11 107 (4.09%) dbt
12 101 (3.86%) SaaS
13 94 (3.59%) GitHub Actions
14 88 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
15 76 (2.90%) Entra ID
16 69 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
17 59 (2.25%) Power Automate
18 55 (2.10%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 45 (1.72%) Firewall
2 27 (1.03%) VPN
3 24 (0.92%) Network Security
4 22 (0.84%) DNS
5 17 (0.65%) SMS
6 10 (0.38%) WAN
7 9 (0.34%) SSL
8 8 (0.31%) DHCP
9 7 (0.27%) 5G
9 7 (0.27%) HTTP
9 7 (0.27%) LAN
10 6 (0.23%) 2G
10 6 (0.23%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.19%) 4G
11 5 (0.19%) FTP
11 5 (0.19%) SMTP
12 4 (0.15%) Intrusion Detection
12 4 (0.15%) MPLS
12 4 (0.15%) Radio Access Network
13 3 (0.11%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 534 (20.39%) Power BI
2 293 (11.19%) Data Warehouse
3 196 (7.48%) Data Lake
4 168 (6.41%) Tableau
5 150 (5.73%) Metadata
6 83 (3.17%) BigQuery
7 81 (3.09%) Delta Lake
8 77 (2.94%) Big Data
8 77 (2.94%) SQL Server
9 68 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
10 66 (2.52%) Snowflake Schema
11 64 (2.44%) Relational Database
12 61 (2.33%) Looker
13 58 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
14 55 (2.10%) NoSQL
15 51 (1.95%) Amazon Redshift
16 49 (1.87%) Hadoop
17 46 (1.76%) Amazon Athena
17 46 (1.76%) Data Vault
18 43 (1.64%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 183 (6.99%) Git
2 158 (6.03%) JIRA
3 90 (3.44%) Jenkins
4 82 (3.13%) GitLab
5 30 (1.15%) Selenium
6 24 (0.92%) JUnit
7 23 (0.88%) ERwin
8 15 (0.57%) MLflow
9 13 (0.50%) PowerDesigner
10 11 (0.42%) ER Studio
11 10 (0.38%) Android Studio
11 10 (0.38%) Gradle
12 8 (0.31%) SonarQube
12 8 (0.31%) Visual Website Optimizer
12 8 (0.31%) Xcode
13 7 (0.27%) Cypress.io
13 7 (0.27%) Postman
14 6 (0.23%) MSI
15 5 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
15 5 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 835 (31.88%) Social Skills
2 701 (26.77%) Finance
3 498 (19.01%) Analytical Skills
4 243 (9.28%) Public Sector
5 205 (7.83%) Banking
6 166 (6.34%) Marketing
7 75 (2.86%) Retail
8 70 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
9 65 (2.48%) Front Office
10 54 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
11 47 (1.79%) Investment Banking
12 46 (1.76%) Manufacturing
13 45 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
13 45 (1.72%) Legal
14 44 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 41 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
16 34 (1.30%) Financial Institution
17 30 (1.15%) Telecoms
18 24 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
19 21 (0.80%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 411 (15.69%) Data Engineer
2 358 (13.67%) Analyst
3 320 (12.22%) Developer
4 302 (11.53%) Senior
5 294 (11.23%) Architect
6 207 (7.90%) Lead
7 138 (5.27%) Data Analyst
8 127 (4.85%) Consultant
9 122 (4.66%) Business Analyst
10 115 (4.39%) Data Architect
11 99 (3.78%) Azure Engineer
12 94 (3.59%) Data Scientist
13 66 (2.52%) Project Manager
13 66 (2.52%) Senior Data Engineer
14 62 (2.37%) Solutions Architect
15 58 (2.21%) Senior Developer
16 53 (2.02%) Designer
17 48 (1.83%) Snowflake Engineer
18 41 (1.57%) AWS Engineer
19 40 (1.53%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (5.42%) REST
2 133 (5.08%) Kafka
3 131 (5.00%) PySpark
4 61 (2.33%) React
5 60 (2.29%) Pandas
6 57 (2.18%) TensorFlow
7 54 (2.06%) PyTorch
8 49 (1.87%) scikit-learn
9 48 (1.83%) JSON
9 48 (1.83%) NumPy
10 44 (1.68%) HTML
10 44 (1.68%) Node.js
11 41 (1.57%) .NET
12 40 (1.53%) AngularJS
12 40 (1.53%) CSS
12 40 (1.53%) RESTful
13 39 (1.49%) ARM Templates
14 33 (1.26%) SOAP
15 31 (1.18%) pytest
16 30 (1.15%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 131 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 98 (3.74%) Product Ownership
3 87 (3.32%) Data Structures
4 74 (2.83%) Onboarding
5 62 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
6 55 (2.10%) Management Information System
7 53 (2.02%) Algorithms
8 50 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
8 50 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
9 49 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
10 45 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 42 (1.60%) Equities
12 37 (1.41%) Derivative
13 36 (1.37%) Mobile App
14 35 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
15 31 (1.18%) NHS
16 30 (1.15%) Public Cloud
17 29 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
18 27 (1.03%) Fixed Income
19 25 (0.95%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 86 (3.28%) Windows
2 74 (2.83%) Linux
3 26 (0.99%) Apple iOS
3 26 (0.99%) Mac OS
3 26 (0.99%) Unix
4 21 (0.80%) Android
5 8 (0.31%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.19%) VMS
6 5 (0.19%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.11%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.076%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.076%) zOS
9 1 (0.038%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.038%) CentOS
9 1 (0.038%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 721 (27.53%) Business Intelligence
2 663 (25.32%) Data Modelling
3 629 (24.02%) Agile
4 535 (20.43%) Problem-Solving
5 532 (20.31%) CI/CD
6 505 (19.28%) AI
7 497 (18.98%) ETL
8 481 (18.37%) DevOps
9 466 (17.79%) Data Pipeline
10 441 (16.84%) Data Engineering
11 418 (15.96%) Data Governance
12 381 (14.55%) Decision-Making
13 361 (13.78%) Stakeholder Management
14 337 (12.87%) Data Science
15 317 (12.10%) Machine Learning
16 314 (11.99%) Data Analytics
17 294 (11.23%) Continuous Improvement
18 287 (10.96%) Visualisation
19 273 (10.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 248 (9.47%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 923 (35.24%) SQL
2 839 (32.04%) Python
3 150 (5.73%) Java
4 97 (3.70%) PowerShell
5 93 (3.55%) JavaScript
6 81 (3.09%) C#
7 75 (2.86%) R
8 70 (2.67%) Bicep
8 70 (2.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 49 (1.87%) Bash
10 47 (1.79%) TypeScript
11 40 (1.53%) Kusto Query Language
12 37 (1.41%) C++
12 37 (1.41%) T-SQL
13 35 (1.34%) Scala
14 30 (1.15%) VBA
15 23 (0.88%) PL/SQL
16 16 (0.61%) Swift
17 15 (0.57%) Shell Script
18 14 (0.53%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 433 (16.53%) Security Cleared
2 347 (13.25%) SC Cleared
3 253 (9.66%) Degree
4 72 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 64 (2.44%) Azure Certification
6 53 (2.02%) Master's Degree
7 41 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 39 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
9 30 (1.15%) DV Cleared
10 27 (1.03%) PMI Certification
11 24 (0.92%) AWS Certification
11 24 (0.92%) CISSP
12 21 (0.80%) PMP
13 18 (0.69%) CISM
14 14 (0.53%) IIBA
15 12 (0.46%) PhD
16 11 (0.42%) CBAP
17 10 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
18 8 (0.31%) CCNP
18 8 (0.31%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 459 (17.53%) Data Quality
2 148 (5.65%) GDPR
3 98 (3.74%) Accessibility
3 98 (3.74%) QA
4 37 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 27 (1.03%) NIST
5 27 (1.03%) WCAG
6 21 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
7 20 (0.76%) PMO
8 15 (0.57%) NCSC
8 15 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 13 (0.50%) Solvency II
10 9 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 9 (0.34%) HIPAA
10 9 (0.34%) NIST 800
10 9 (0.34%) SLA
11 8 (0.31%) PERC
12 7 (0.27%) GRC
12 7 (0.27%) HL7
12 7 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 199 (7.60%) Docker
2 67 (2.56%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.15%) HDFS
6 4 (0.15%) Snort
6 4 (0.15%) zsh
7 2 (0.076%) GPFS
7 2 (0.076%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.076%) Lustre
7 2 (0.076%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.076%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.038%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.038%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.038%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.038%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 228 (8.71%) Terraform
2 218 (8.32%) Kubernetes
3 34 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 30 (1.15%) Prometheus
5 26 (0.99%) Ansible
6 21 (0.80%) Grafana
7 18 (0.69%) SCCM
8 17 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (0.38%) Puppet
10 9 (0.34%) Kibana
11 7 (0.27%) logstash
12 5 (0.19%) WSUS
13 4 (0.15%) CSIRT
14 3 (0.11%) Argo
14 3 (0.11%) Cisco CUCM
14 3 (0.11%) Fluentd
15 2 (0.076%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 2 (0.076%) OpenVAS
15 2 (0.076%) Progress Chef
15 2 (0.076%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 494 (18.86%) Microsoft
2 353 (13.48%) Databricks
3 165 (6.30%) Google
4 142 (5.42%) SAP
5 132 (5.04%) Oracle
6 71 (2.71%) Salesforce
7 67 (2.56%) Adobe
8 64 (2.44%) ServiceNow
9 53 (2.02%) Talend
10 47 (1.79%) Splunk
11 46 (1.76%) Informatica
12 44 (1.68%) OpenAI
13 35 (1.34%) Foundry
14 33 (1.26%) Denodo
15 26 (0.99%) Workday
16 25 (0.95%) IBM
17 20 (0.76%) VMware
18 19 (0.73%) Amplitude
19 17 (0.65%) Cisco
20 16 (0.61%) Dynatrace