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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 27 38
Rank change year-on-year +4 +11 -2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,990 1,673 1,753
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.63% 6.86% 4.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.92% 7.54% 5.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,054 1,132 1,205
10th Percentile £356 £346 £352
25th Percentile £425 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.82% - -
75th Percentile £625 £681 £688
90th Percentile £750 £825 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 30 51
10th Percentile £26.93 £15.28 £17.00
25th Percentile £45.25 £23.50 £25.00
Median hourly rate £60.25 £31.64 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +90.42% -10.87% +10.94%
75th Percentile £75.00 £38.50 £51.42
90th Percentile £82.40 £78.93 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £58.70 £31.85 £35.50
% change year-on-year +84.32% -10.30% +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 33,504 22,203 32,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.48% 91.02% 86.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,453 14,593 21,161
10th Percentile £313 £313 £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 £613 £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 2,080 880 2,196
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.83 £12.85
25th Percentile £20.07 £18.51 £15.75
Median hourly rate £41.56 £31.76 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.84% -6.59% -9.33%
75th Percentile £66.50 £64.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.28 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £30.78 £33.07
% change year-on-year +20.21% -6.91% -8.79%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 1,660 £538 -10.42% 930
Midlands +25 363 £493 +3.25% 203
North of England +12 324 £476 +2.81% 358
West Midlands +19 278 £493 -1.60% 114
South East -8 234 £500 - 424
South West +28 185 £500 +2.56% 126
North West +4 179 £500 +8.11% 223
Yorkshire +6 123 £475 - 90
East of England -8 116 £520 -13.33% 101
East Midlands +6 79 £450 +22.62% 89
North East +5 32 £450 +25.70% 50
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
1 150 (5.02%) Apache Spark
2 122 (4.08%) SAS
3 115 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
4 87 (2.91%) Apache
5 68 (2.27%) Confluence
6 52 (1.74%) SharePoint
7 30 (1.00%) CMS
8 18 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
9 17 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 16 (0.54%) Jupyter
11 10 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
12 9 (0.30%) Oracle Application Server
12 9 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
13 8 (0.27%) Apache Superset
14 7 (0.23%) ArcGIS
15 6 (0.20%) WordPress
16 4 (0.13%) Drupal
17 3 (0.10%) IIS
17 3 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
18 2 (0.067%) GeoServer
Applications
1 132 (4.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 23 (0.77%) Chatbot
4 22 (0.74%) MS Visio
5 15 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.33%) 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 (0.033%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.033%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.033%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.033%) InDesign
11 1 (0.033%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 64 (2.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (0.67%) 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%) Salesforce CRM
4 8 (0.27%) SAP FI
5 7 (0.23%) Maximo
5 7 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.20%) Sage X3
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%) SAP BPC
8 4 (0.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 927 (31.00%) Azure
2 657 (21.97%) Power Platform
3 624 (20.87%) AWS
4 301 (10.07%) GCP
5 229 (7.66%) Azure Data Factory
6 209 (6.99%) Azure DevOps
7 200 (6.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 180 (6.02%) Snowflake
9 179 (5.99%) GitHub
10 138 (4.62%) Amazon S3
11 135 (4.52%) Serverless
12 131 (4.38%) dbt
13 115 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
14 104 (3.48%) GitHub Actions
15 99 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
16 81 (2.71%) AWS Lambda
17 77 (2.58%) SaaS
18 76 (2.54%) Entra ID
19 66 (2.21%) Azure Key Vault
20 60 (2.01%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 45 (1.51%) Firewall
2 35 (1.17%) Network Security
3 28 (0.94%) VPN
4 25 (0.84%) DNS
5 15 (0.50%) SD-WAN
6 14 (0.47%) WAN
7 13 (0.43%) SMS
8 11 (0.37%) HTTP
9 10 (0.33%) 5G
9 10 (0.33%) SSL
10 9 (0.30%) MPLS
11 8 (0.27%) BGP
12 7 (0.23%) DHCP
12 7 (0.23%) FTP
12 7 (0.23%) Internet
12 7 (0.23%) OSPF
12 7 (0.23%) TCP/IP
12 7 (0.23%) VXLAN
13 6 (0.20%) SMTP
14 5 (0.17%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 604 (20.20%) Power BI
2 384 (12.84%) Data Warehouse
3 232 (7.76%) Data Lake
4 201 (6.72%) Tableau
5 190 (6.35%) Metadata
6 107 (3.58%) BigQuery
7 104 (3.48%) Delta Lake
8 101 (3.38%) SQL Server
9 91 (3.04%) Big Data
10 77 (2.58%) Amazon Redshift
11 75 (2.51%) Relational Database
11 75 (2.51%) Snowflake Schema
12 70 (2.34%) Azure SQL Database
13 68 (2.27%) NoSQL
14 65 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
15 62 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
16 59 (1.97%) Looker
17 56 (1.87%) Power Query
18 55 (1.84%) Star Schema
19 52 (1.74%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 206 (6.89%) Git
2 175 (5.85%) JIRA
3 101 (3.38%) Jenkins
4 83 (2.78%) GitLab
5 28 (0.94%) Selenium
6 24 (0.80%) JUnit
7 22 (0.74%) ERwin
8 16 (0.54%) MLflow
9 9 (0.30%) PowerDesigner
9 9 (0.30%) SonarQube
10 8 (0.27%) Bitbucket
10 8 (0.27%) Gradle
10 8 (0.27%) MSI
11 7 (0.23%) Android Studio
11 7 (0.23%) ER Studio
12 6 (0.20%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.17%) XCTest
14 4 (0.13%) fastlane
14 4 (0.13%) JMeter
14 4 (0.13%) Postman
General
1 849 (28.39%) Social Skills
2 749 (25.05%) Finance
3 566 (18.93%) Analytical Skills
4 308 (10.30%) Public Sector
5 200 (6.69%) Banking
6 172 (5.75%) Marketing
7 89 (2.98%) Retail
8 80 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
9 52 (1.74%) Front Office
9 52 (1.74%) Legal
10 51 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 51 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
11 48 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
11 48 (1.61%) Telecoms
12 47 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
13 45 (1.51%) Investment Banking
14 40 (1.34%) Manufacturing
15 29 (0.97%) Financial Institution
16 24 (0.80%) Advertising
17 23 (0.77%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 552 (18.46%) Data Engineer
2 354 (11.84%) Architect
3 352 (11.77%) Analyst
4 345 (11.54%) Senior
5 336 (11.24%) Developer
6 262 (8.76%) Lead
7 150 (5.02%) Data Architect
8 145 (4.85%) Data Analyst
9 126 (4.21%) Consultant
10 108 (3.61%) Azure Engineer
11 101 (3.38%) Business Analyst
12 95 (3.18%) Data Scientist
13 88 (2.94%) Senior Data Engineer
14 84 (2.81%) Solutions Architect
15 63 (2.11%) Project Manager
16 59 (1.97%) Designer
17 53 (1.77%) Data Manager
17 53 (1.77%) Snowflake Engineer
18 52 (1.74%) Python Developer
18 52 (1.74%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (5.55%) PySpark
2 155 (5.18%) Kafka
3 154 (5.15%) REST
4 73 (2.44%) Pandas
5 61 (2.04%) React
6 58 (1.94%) PyTorch
6 58 (1.94%) TensorFlow
7 55 (1.84%) JSON
8 50 (1.67%) NumPy
9 49 (1.64%) scikit-learn
10 46 (1.54%) AngularJS
11 45 (1.51%) HTML
12 43 (1.44%) CSS
12 43 (1.44%) Node.js
13 42 (1.40%) .NET
14 40 (1.34%) SOAP
15 36 (1.20%) ARM Templates
15 36 (1.20%) pytest
16 35 (1.17%) Middleware
17 34 (1.14%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 191 (6.39%) Cloud Native
2 127 (4.25%) Product Ownership
3 99 (3.31%) Data Structures
4 80 (2.68%) Onboarding
5 69 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
6 59 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
7 58 (1.94%) Algorithms
8 53 (1.77%) Management Information System
9 52 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
10 49 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
11 39 (1.30%) Public Cloud
12 38 (1.27%) NHS
13 36 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 35 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
15 34 (1.14%) Equities
16 32 (1.07%) AI Agents
16 32 (1.07%) Marketing Technology
17 31 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
18 30 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
19 29 (0.97%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 88 (2.94%) Windows
2 76 (2.54%) Linux
3 33 (1.10%) Unix
4 32 (1.07%) Mac OS
5 20 (0.67%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.50%) Android
7 9 (0.30%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.23%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.067%) CentOS
10 2 (0.067%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.067%) zOS
11 1 (0.033%) Rocky
11 1 (0.033%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 833 (27.86%) Business Intelligence
2 809 (27.06%) Data Modelling
3 671 (22.44%) Agile
4 641 (21.44%) AI
5 632 (21.14%) CI/CD
6 614 (20.54%) Data Pipeline
7 590 (19.73%) Data Engineering
8 589 (19.70%) ETL
9 563 (18.83%) Problem-Solving
10 544 (18.19%) DevOps
11 505 (16.89%) Data Governance
12 468 (15.65%) Decision-Making
13 399 (13.34%) Stakeholder Management
14 385 (12.88%) Data Science
15 376 (12.58%) Machine Learning
16 355 (11.87%) Data Analytics
17 337 (11.27%) Continuous Improvement
18 315 (10.54%) Migration
19 305 (10.20%) Validation
20 301 (10.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,036 (34.65%) SQL
2 961 (32.14%) Python
3 151 (5.05%) Java
4 111 (3.71%) PowerShell
5 100 (3.34%) C#
6 93 (3.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 83 (2.78%) R
8 78 (2.61%) JavaScript
9 75 (2.51%) Bicep
10 46 (1.54%) Kusto Query Language
10 46 (1.54%) T-SQL
11 45 (1.51%) Bash
12 43 (1.44%) Scala
12 43 (1.44%) TypeScript
13 29 (0.97%) PL/SQL
13 29 (0.97%) VBA
14 27 (0.90%) C++
15 25 (0.84%) Shell Script
16 12 (0.40%) Kotlin
17 9 (0.30%) Swift
Qualifications
1 542 (18.13%) Security Cleared
2 432 (14.45%) SC Cleared
3 231 (7.73%) Degree
4 71 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 67 (2.24%) Azure Certification
6 52 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
7 37 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 36 (1.20%) DV Cleared
8 36 (1.20%) Master's Degree
9 26 (0.87%) CISSP
9 26 (0.87%) PMI Certification
10 23 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
11 21 (0.70%) PMP
12 20 (0.67%) AWS Certification
13 18 (0.60%) CCNP
13 18 (0.60%) CISM
14 14 (0.47%) CCIE
14 14 (0.47%) IIBA
14 14 (0.47%) PhD
15 8 (0.27%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 543 (18.16%) Data Quality
2 164 (5.48%) GDPR
3 117 (3.91%) QA
4 95 (3.18%) Accessibility
5 33 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 31 (1.04%) WCAG
7 26 (0.87%) NIST
8 25 (0.84%) PMO
9 20 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
10 14 (0.47%) GRC
10 14 (0.47%) SLA
11 13 (0.43%) PERC
11 13 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 13 (0.43%) Solvency II
12 11 (0.37%) NCSC
13 9 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 9 (0.30%) HL7
14 8 (0.27%) NIST 800
15 7 (0.23%) IFRS
15 7 (0.23%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 206 (6.89%) Docker
2 73 (2.44%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.47%) 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 (0.033%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.033%) iptables
9 1 (0.033%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.033%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.033%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.033%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 253 (8.46%) Terraform
2 219 (7.32%) Kubernetes
3 42 (1.40%) Ansible
4 36 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
5 33 (1.10%) Grafana
6 29 (0.97%) Prometheus
7 18 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (0.50%) SCCM
9 9 (0.30%) Puppet
10 6 (0.20%) Kibana
11 5 (0.17%) Argo
11 5 (0.17%) logstash
12 4 (0.13%) Control-M
12 4 (0.13%) CSIRT
12 4 (0.13%) WSUS
13 3 (0.10%) Fluentd
13 3 (0.10%) Nagios
13 3 (0.10%) SysTrack
14 2 (0.067%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.067%) Apache Ranger
Vendors
1 541 (18.09%) Microsoft
2 401 (13.41%) Databricks
3 178 (5.95%) Google
4 159 (5.32%) Oracle
5 142 (4.75%) SAP
6 74 (2.47%) Salesforce
7 71 (2.37%) Adobe
8 70 (2.34%) ServiceNow
9 61 (2.04%) Informatica
10 58 (1.94%) Splunk
10 58 (1.94%) Talend
11 48 (1.61%) Denodo
12 47 (1.57%) OpenAI
13 39 (1.30%) Foundry
14 36 (1.20%) Workday
15 26 (0.87%) IBM
16 22 (0.74%) Cisco
17 19 (0.64%) VMware
18 16 (0.54%) Dynatrace
19 14 (0.47%) Palantir