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

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 28 37
Rank change year-on-year +6 +9 0
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,740 1,603 1,850
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.58% 6.36% 4.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.73% 7.03% 5.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,873 1,085 1,276
10th Percentile £350 £335 £363
25th Percentile £420 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £541 £550
% change year-on-year -5.22% -1.68% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 28 69
10th Percentile £20.66 £19.10 £17.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £25.19 £25.00
Median hourly rate £55.50 £32.92 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year +68.58% -7.60% +11.34%
75th Percentile £72.50 £59.25 £54.13
90th Percentile £83.75 £74.00 £78.83
UK median hourly rate £54.25 £35.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year +55.00% -1.41% +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 31,372 22,802 33,057
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.81% 90.52% 86.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,079 14,552 21,849
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.19% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £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 1,949 811 2,155
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £13.02
25th Percentile £18.59 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £29.61 £34.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.17% +6.15% -7.29%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.58
90th Percentile £74.26 £76.25 £71.82
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £32.50 £32.12
% change year-on-year -12.31% +1.20% -8.24%

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 8 March 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 8 March 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 8 March 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 +3 1,568 £525 -12.50% 1,010
Midlands +19 320 £496 +4.25% 222
North of England +8 287 £500 +5.26% 366
West Midlands +25 238 £500 +2.04% 136
South East -3 203 £500 +5.26% 543
North West +7 172 £500 +5.26% 195
South West +34 155 £520 +5.05% 161
East of England -11 103 £505 -15.83% 128
Yorkshire -4 94 £510 +2.00% 122
East Midlands +14 80 £450 +22.62% 86
North East +13 27 £450 +25.70% 51
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
1 130 (4.74%) Apache Spark
2 111 (4.05%) SAS
3 92 (3.36%) Apache Airflow
4 80 (2.92%) Apache
5 60 (2.19%) Confluence
6 54 (1.97%) SharePoint
7 27 (0.99%) CMS
8 20 (0.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 19 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
10 11 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
11 8 (0.29%) GeoServer
11 8 (0.29%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.29%) Smallworld
12 7 (0.26%) ArcGIS
12 7 (0.26%) WordPress
13 5 (0.18%) Oracle Application Server
13 5 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
14 4 (0.15%) Apache Superset
15 3 (0.11%) IIS
15 3 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 129 (4.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (1.02%) MS Visio
5 20 (0.73%) Chatbot
6 14 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
7 10 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.18%) Adobe XD
8 5 (0.18%) Sketch
8 5 (0.18%) Trello
9 4 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
10 3 (0.11%) Notion
11 2 (0.073%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.073%) CPLEX
12 1 (0.036%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.036%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.036%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.036%) InDesign
12 1 (0.036%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.036%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 71 (2.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.40%) SAP HR
4 8 (0.29%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 8 (0.29%) SAP FI
4 8 (0.29%) SAP MM
5 7 (0.26%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.26%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 7 (0.26%) Maximo
5 7 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.22%) Sage X3
6 6 (0.22%) SAP EHS
7 5 (0.18%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 5 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.18%) SAP BPC
7 5 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.15%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 880 (32.12%) Azure
2 604 (22.04%) Power Platform
3 571 (20.84%) AWS
4 279 (10.18%) GCP
5 215 (7.85%) Azure Data Factory
6 202 (7.37%) Azure DevOps
7 183 (6.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 180 (6.57%) Snowflake
9 167 (6.09%) GitHub
10 126 (4.60%) Serverless
11 114 (4.16%) Azure Monitor
12 113 (4.12%) Amazon S3
13 112 (4.09%) dbt
14 101 (3.69%) GitHub Actions
15 96 (3.50%) SaaS
16 93 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
17 88 (3.21%) Entra ID
18 70 (2.55%) AWS Lambda
19 61 (2.23%) Azure Key Vault
20 58 (2.12%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 53 (1.93%) Firewall
2 31 (1.13%) Network Security
3 29 (1.06%) VPN
4 23 (0.84%) DNS
5 17 (0.62%) SMS
6 16 (0.58%) WAN
7 10 (0.36%) 5G
7 10 (0.36%) MPLS
7 10 (0.36%) SD-WAN
8 9 (0.33%) HTTP
8 9 (0.33%) SSL
9 8 (0.29%) DHCP
9 8 (0.29%) LAN
10 7 (0.26%) 4G
10 7 (0.26%) BGP
10 7 (0.26%) TCP/IP
11 6 (0.22%) OSPF
11 6 (0.22%) Radio Access Network
11 6 (0.22%) SMTP
11 6 (0.22%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 556 (20.29%) Power BI
2 326 (11.90%) Data Warehouse
3 207 (7.55%) Data Lake
4 175 (6.39%) Tableau
5 164 (5.99%) Metadata
6 91 (3.32%) BigQuery
7 88 (3.21%) Delta Lake
8 87 (3.18%) SQL Server
9 83 (3.03%) Big Data
10 71 (2.59%) Snowflake Schema
11 68 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
12 67 (2.45%) Relational Database
13 65 (2.37%) Azure SQL Database
14 62 (2.26%) Amazon Redshift
14 62 (2.26%) NoSQL
15 59 (2.15%) Looker
16 53 (1.93%) Hadoop
17 51 (1.86%) Amazon Athena
17 51 (1.86%) Power Query
18 47 (1.72%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 201 (7.34%) Git
2 165 (6.02%) JIRA
3 97 (3.54%) Jenkins
4 84 (3.07%) GitLab
5 28 (1.02%) Selenium
6 24 (0.88%) JUnit
7 22 (0.80%) ERwin
8 14 (0.51%) MLflow
9 11 (0.40%) PowerDesigner
10 10 (0.36%) Android Studio
10 10 (0.36%) Gradle
11 9 (0.33%) ER Studio
12 8 (0.29%) SonarQube
12 8 (0.29%) Xcode
13 7 (0.26%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.26%) Cypress.io
13 7 (0.26%) MSI
14 6 (0.22%) Visual Website Optimizer
15 5 (0.18%) Maven
15 5 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
General
1 861 (31.42%) Social Skills
2 713 (26.02%) Finance
3 523 (19.09%) Analytical Skills
4 267 (9.74%) Public Sector
5 209 (7.63%) Banking
6 169 (6.17%) Marketing
7 78 (2.85%) Retail
8 76 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
9 65 (2.37%) Front Office
10 49 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 49 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
11 48 (1.75%) Legal
12 47 (1.72%) Investment Banking
13 46 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
14 43 (1.57%) Manufacturing
15 40 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
16 32 (1.17%) Financial Institution
17 31 (1.13%) Telecoms
18 22 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
19 21 (0.77%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 452 (16.50%) Data Engineer
2 356 (12.99%) Analyst
3 332 (12.12%) Developer
4 320 (11.68%) Architect
5 309 (11.28%) Senior
6 226 (8.25%) Lead
7 140 (5.11%) Data Analyst
8 136 (4.96%) Consultant
9 128 (4.67%) Data Architect
10 114 (4.16%) Business Analyst
11 103 (3.76%) Azure Engineer
12 97 (3.54%) Data Scientist
13 76 (2.77%) Senior Data Engineer
14 66 (2.41%) Project Manager
15 64 (2.34%) Solutions Architect
16 53 (1.93%) Senior Developer
17 50 (1.82%) Designer
17 50 (1.82%) Snowflake Engineer
18 44 (1.61%) Azure Data Engineer
19 43 (1.57%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (5.36%) REST
2 145 (5.29%) PySpark
3 138 (5.04%) Kafka
4 62 (2.26%) React
5 61 (2.23%) Pandas
6 58 (2.12%) TensorFlow
7 56 (2.04%) PyTorch
8 48 (1.75%) .NET
8 48 (1.75%) scikit-learn
9 47 (1.72%) JSON
9 47 (1.72%) NumPy
10 43 (1.57%) Node.js
11 42 (1.53%) AngularJS
11 42 (1.53%) HTML
12 41 (1.50%) SOAP
13 40 (1.46%) CSS
14 39 (1.42%) ARM Templates
15 38 (1.39%) RESTful
16 32 (1.17%) Middleware
17 31 (1.13%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 150 (5.47%) Cloud Native
2 105 (3.83%) Product Ownership
3 84 (3.07%) Data Structures
4 79 (2.88%) Onboarding
5 67 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
6 56 (2.04%) Algorithms
7 53 (1.93%) Management Information System
8 49 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
9 47 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
10 46 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
11 44 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 41 (1.50%) Equities
13 38 (1.39%) Public Cloud
14 36 (1.31%) Derivative
15 35 (1.28%) Mobile App
16 33 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
17 32 (1.17%) NHS
18 29 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
19 27 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
20 25 (0.91%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 87 (3.18%) Windows
2 68 (2.48%) Linux
3 27 (0.99%) Mac OS
4 26 (0.95%) Apple iOS
5 25 (0.91%) Unix
6 20 (0.73%) Android
7 8 (0.29%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.29%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.18%) VMS
9 3 (0.11%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.073%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.073%) zOS
11 1 (0.036%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.036%) CentOS
11 1 (0.036%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 761 (27.77%) Business Intelligence
2 711 (25.95%) Data Modelling
3 642 (23.43%) Agile
4 571 (20.84%) CI/CD
5 547 (19.96%) Problem-Solving
6 543 (19.82%) ETL
7 530 (19.34%) AI
8 522 (19.05%) DevOps
9 513 (18.72%) Data Pipeline
10 479 (17.48%) Data Engineering
11 446 (16.28%) Data Governance
12 414 (15.11%) Decision-Making
13 368 (13.43%) Stakeholder Management
14 347 (12.66%) Data Science
15 334 (12.19%) Machine Learning
16 330 (12.04%) Data Analytics
17 317 (11.57%) Continuous Improvement
18 289 (10.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 277 (10.11%) Visualisation
20 265 (9.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 981 (35.80%) SQL
2 885 (32.30%) Python
3 148 (5.40%) Java
4 106 (3.87%) PowerShell
5 90 (3.28%) JavaScript
6 88 (3.21%) C#
7 84 (3.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 77 (2.81%) R
9 71 (2.59%) Bicep
10 51 (1.86%) TypeScript
11 50 (1.82%) Bash
12 47 (1.72%) Kusto Query Language
13 40 (1.46%) T-SQL
14 39 (1.42%) Scala
15 33 (1.20%) C++
15 33 (1.20%) VBA
16 28 (1.02%) PL/SQL
17 16 (0.58%) Shell Script
17 16 (0.58%) Swift
18 15 (0.55%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 470 (17.15%) Security Cleared
2 369 (13.47%) SC Cleared
3 247 (9.01%) Degree
4 70 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 69 (2.52%) Azure Certification
6 46 (1.68%) Master's Degree
7 42 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
7 42 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 36 (1.31%) DV Cleared
9 25 (0.91%) CISSP
9 25 (0.91%) PMI Certification
10 24 (0.88%) AWS Certification
11 21 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
11 21 (0.77%) PMP
12 16 (0.58%) CCNP
12 16 (0.58%) CISM
13 14 (0.51%) IIBA
14 13 (0.47%) PhD
15 12 (0.44%) CCIE
16 8 (0.29%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 487 (17.77%) Data Quality
2 156 (5.69%) GDPR
3 107 (3.91%) QA
4 93 (3.39%) Accessibility
5 35 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 26 (0.95%) NIST
6 26 (0.95%) WCAG
7 22 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
7 22 (0.80%) PMO
8 15 (0.55%) NCSC
8 15 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 13 (0.47%) Solvency II
10 11 (0.40%) GRC
11 10 (0.36%) SLA
12 9 (0.33%) PERC
13 8 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 8 (0.29%) HIPAA
13 8 (0.29%) NIST 800
13 8 (0.29%) PCI DSS
14 7 (0.26%) HL7
System Software
1 205 (7.48%) Docker
2 79 (2.88%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.18%) HDFS
7 4 (0.15%) Snort
7 4 (0.15%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.073%) GPFS
8 2 (0.073%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.073%) Lustre
8 2 (0.073%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.073%) zsh
9 1 (0.036%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.036%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.036%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.036%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 241 (8.80%) Terraform
2 222 (8.10%) Kubernetes
3 37 (1.35%) Ansible
4 34 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
5 29 (1.06%) Prometheus
6 25 (0.91%) Grafana
7 20 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
8 17 (0.62%) SCCM
9 9 (0.33%) Kibana
9 9 (0.33%) Puppet
10 7 (0.26%) logstash
11 4 (0.15%) CSIRT
11 4 (0.15%) WSUS
12 3 (0.11%) Argo
12 3 (0.11%) Cisco CUCM
12 3 (0.11%) Fluentd
13 2 (0.073%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.073%) CASB
13 2 (0.073%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.073%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 523 (19.09%) Microsoft
2 375 (13.69%) Databricks
3 167 (6.09%) Google
4 142 (5.18%) Oracle
5 141 (5.15%) SAP
6 72 (2.63%) Salesforce
7 68 (2.48%) Adobe
7 68 (2.48%) ServiceNow
8 61 (2.23%) Talend
9 53 (1.93%) Splunk
10 52 (1.90%) Informatica
11 45 (1.64%) OpenAI
12 43 (1.57%) Denodo
13 40 (1.46%) Foundry
14 30 (1.09%) Workday
15 23 (0.84%) IBM
15 23 (0.84%) VMware
16 20 (0.73%) Cisco
17 18 (0.66%) Amplitude
18 16 (0.58%) Palantir