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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 35
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,496 1,772 1,752
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.65% 6.42% 5.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.02% 7.07% 6.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,298 1,166 1,232
10th Percentile £363 £350 £355
25th Percentile £431 £434 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% -2.61%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £688
90th Percentile £750 £794 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 50 21
10th Percentile £20.82 £15.28 £21.25
25th Percentile £28.06 £25.45 £27.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £34.50 £30.37
Median % change year-on-year +52.17% +13.60% -13.23%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.16 £38.75
90th Percentile £87.08 £78.88 £60.06
UK median hourly rate £51.25 £34.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +48.54% +15.00% -14.29%

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 38,772 25,064 28,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.81% 90.82% 85.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,937 15,945 18,292
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,483 1,510
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.75 £17.87 £18.13
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £69.65 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -37.90% -4.71%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 27 August 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 1,936 £550 - 741
North of England +12 449 £488 +7.38% 256
Midlands +6 402 £500 -2.91% 131
South East +16 350 £513 -1.44% 187
West Midlands +5 321 £492 -5.05% 94
North West +1 233 £522 +9.91% 154
Yorkshire +8 174 £463 +2.66% 73
South West +13 169 £500 +6.38% 210
East of England -9 104 £575 - 52
East Midlands +5 74 £525 +27.27% 37
North East -7 50 £450 +18.03% 30
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 (4.49%) Apache Airflow
2 132 (3.78%) Apache Spark
3 111 (3.18%) SAS
4 97 (2.77%) Apache
5 74 (2.12%) Confluence
6 54 (1.54%) SharePoint
7 49 (1.40%) CMS
8 30 (0.86%) Palantir Foundry
9 29 (0.83%) Jupyter
10 26 (0.74%) Oracle Application Server
11 20 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 17 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
13 10 (0.29%) Apache Superset
13 10 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
14 8 (0.23%) Drupal
14 8 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
15 6 (0.17%) WordPress
16 5 (0.14%) IIS
17 2 (0.057%) ArcGIS
17 2 (0.057%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 153 (4.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
4 20 (0.57%) Chatbot
5 17 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (0.40%) CPLEX
7 11 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
7 11 (0.31%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.11%) Trello
9 3 (0.086%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.086%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.057%) InDesign
10 2 (0.057%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.057%) Sketch
11 1 (0.029%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.029%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.029%) Notion
11 1 (0.029%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.029%) PlantUML
11 1 (0.029%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 72 (2.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
4 16 (0.46%) Workday HCM
5 13 (0.37%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 12 (0.34%) Aladdin
7 10 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
8 9 (0.26%) Shopify
9 8 (0.23%) SAP ERP
10 7 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
10 7 (0.20%) SAP CO
10 7 (0.20%) SAP FI
10 7 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 6 (0.17%) NetSuite
11 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
11 6 (0.17%) SAP GRC
12 5 (0.14%) BambooHR
12 5 (0.14%) Infor LN
12 5 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
13 4 (0.11%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 1,042 (29.81%) Azure
2 704 (20.14%) Power Platform
3 612 (17.51%) AWS
4 297 (8.50%) GCP
5 240 (6.86%) Snowflake
6 238 (6.81%) Azure DevOps
7 232 (6.64%) Azure Data Factory
8 188 (5.38%) dbt
9 187 (5.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 159 (4.55%) GitHub
11 145 (4.15%) Serverless
12 136 (3.89%) Azure Monitor
13 125 (3.58%) Amazon S3
14 115 (3.29%) Entra ID
15 106 (3.03%) SaaS
16 95 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
17 89 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
18 81 (2.32%) GitHub Actions
19 63 (1.80%) Google Analytics
20 57 (1.63%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.77%) Firewall
2 54 (1.54%) Network Security
3 39 (1.12%) DNS
4 34 (0.97%) VPN
5 25 (0.72%) WAN
6 23 (0.66%) TCP/IP
7 22 (0.63%) SD-WAN
8 19 (0.54%) BGP
9 17 (0.49%) DHCP
10 11 (0.31%) Broadband
11 10 (0.29%) OSPF
11 10 (0.29%) Wireless
12 9 (0.26%) SMS
13 8 (0.23%) LAN
14 7 (0.20%) Internet
14 7 (0.20%) WLAN
15 6 (0.17%) HTTP
15 6 (0.17%) SSH
15 6 (0.17%) VLAN
15 6 (0.17%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 671 (19.19%) Power BI
2 448 (12.81%) Data Warehouse
3 257 (7.35%) Data Lake
4 228 (6.52%) Tableau
5 224 (6.41%) Metadata
6 139 (3.98%) BigQuery
7 93 (2.66%) Amazon Redshift
7 93 (2.66%) SQL Server
8 89 (2.55%) Delta Lake
9 88 (2.52%) Big Data
10 85 (2.43%) Relational Database
11 75 (2.15%) Looker
12 73 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
13 65 (1.86%) Snowflake Schema
14 63 (1.80%) Amazon Athena
14 63 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
15 61 (1.74%) NoSQL
16 60 (1.72%) Semantic Layer
17 54 (1.54%) Star Schema
18 51 (1.46%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 179 (5.12%) Git
2 161 (4.61%) JIRA
3 61 (1.74%) Jenkins
4 48 (1.37%) GitLab
5 15 (0.43%) ERwin
6 10 (0.29%) fastlane
6 10 (0.29%) MLflow
7 8 (0.23%) ER Studio
7 8 (0.23%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.20%) Gradle
8 7 (0.20%) RStudio
8 7 (0.20%) Selenium
8 7 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (0.17%) Android Studio
9 6 (0.17%) Crashlytics
9 6 (0.17%) JUnit
10 5 (0.14%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
10 5 (0.14%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.14%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 903 (25.83%) Social Skills
2 888 (25.40%) Finance
3 632 (18.08%) Analytical Skills
4 421 (12.04%) Public Sector
5 258 (7.38%) Banking
6 220 (6.29%) Marketing
7 169 (4.83%) Retail
8 98 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
9 94 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 76 (2.17%) Legal
11 68 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
12 66 (1.89%) Manufacturing
13 62 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
14 60 (1.72%) Front Office
15 55 (1.57%) Investment Banking
16 46 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
16 46 (1.32%) Telecoms
17 42 (1.20%) Financial Institution
18 41 (1.17%) Publishing
19 37 (1.06%) Military
Job Titles
1 588 (16.82%) Data Engineer
2 450 (12.87%) Architect
3 441 (12.61%) Senior
4 439 (12.56%) Analyst
5 325 (9.30%) Developer
6 294 (8.41%) Lead
7 203 (5.81%) Data Architect
8 169 (4.83%) Consultant
9 164 (4.69%) Data Analyst
10 125 (3.58%) Solutions Architect
11 108 (3.09%) Senior Data Engineer
12 106 (3.03%) Business Analyst
13 104 (2.97%) Data Scientist
14 103 (2.95%) Azure Engineer
15 76 (2.17%) Data Manager
16 66 (1.89%) Product Manager
17 61 (1.74%) Python Developer
17 61 (1.74%) Senior Manager
18 60 (1.72%) Project Manager
19 55 (1.57%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 260 (7.44%) Terraform
2 211 (6.04%) PySpark
3 135 (3.86%) REST
4 114 (3.26%) Kafka
5 64 (1.83%) Pandas
6 54 (1.54%) RESTful
7 53 (1.52%) React
8 49 (1.40%) .NET
8 49 (1.40%) HTML
9 45 (1.29%) CSS
10 44 (1.26%) JSON
11 41 (1.17%) ARM Templates
12 40 (1.14%) OAuth
13 38 (1.09%) NumPy
14 34 (0.97%) SOAP
15 33 (0.94%) Web Services
16 32 (0.92%) OpenID
17 31 (0.89%) Microsoft Graph
17 31 (0.89%) OAuth2
18 28 (0.80%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 236 (6.75%) Cloud Native
2 185 (5.29%) Product Ownership
3 134 (3.83%) Data Structures
4 130 (3.72%) Onboarding
5 114 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
6 73 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
7 63 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
8 61 (1.74%) Management Information System
9 56 (1.60%) AI Agents
10 45 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
10 45 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
11 43 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
12 42 (1.20%) Algorithms
12 42 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
13 41 (1.17%) NHS
14 39 (1.12%) Marketing Technology
15 38 (1.09%) Virtual Team
16 34 (0.97%) Mobile App
17 33 (0.94%) Derivative
18 31 (0.89%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 88 (2.52%) Linux
2 82 (2.35%) Windows
3 37 (1.06%) Unix
4 33 (0.94%) Windows Server
5 16 (0.46%) Apple iOS
6 13 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.31%) Mac OS
8 10 (0.29%) Android
9 9 (0.26%) VMS
10 5 (0.14%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.086%) Solaris
11 3 (0.086%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.057%) AIX
12 2 (0.057%) CentOS
12 2 (0.057%) HPUX
13 1 (0.029%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 911 (26.06%) Data Modelling
2 893 (25.54%) Business Intelligence
3 869 (24.86%) AI
4 797 (22.80%) Agile
5 720 (20.59%) Stakeholder Management
6 697 (19.94%) Data Pipeline
7 680 (19.45%) Data Engineering
8 652 (18.65%) CI/CD
9 629 (17.99%) Decision-Making
10 562 (16.08%) ETL
11 549 (15.70%) Data Governance
12 531 (15.19%) DevOps
13 503 (14.39%) Problem-Solving
14 454 (12.99%) Migration
15 437 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
16 427 (12.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 410 (11.73%) Machine Learning
18 396 (11.33%) Validation
19 395 (11.30%) Data Science
20 394 (11.27%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,111 (31.78%) SQL
2 968 (27.69%) Python
3 164 (4.69%) PowerShell
4 107 (3.06%) Java
5 98 (2.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 85 (2.43%) Bicep
6 85 (2.43%) C#
7 76 (2.17%) JavaScript
8 62 (1.77%) R
9 56 (1.60%) Bash
10 37 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
11 36 (1.03%) Scala
11 36 (1.03%) TypeScript
12 34 (0.97%) Shell Script
13 29 (0.83%) T-SQL
14 22 (0.63%) PL/SQL
15 19 (0.54%) C++
16 15 (0.43%) VBA
17 12 (0.34%) Kotlin
18 11 (0.31%) LookML
Qualifications
1 628 (17.96%) Security Cleared
2 496 (14.19%) SC Cleared
3 279 (7.98%) Degree
4 83 (2.37%) Azure Certification
5 77 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 77 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 73 (2.09%) DV Cleared
7 52 (1.49%) Master's Degree
8 47 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
9 38 (1.09%) CISSP
10 29 (0.83%) AWS Certification
10 29 (0.83%) PMI Certification
11 24 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
12 23 (0.66%) PMP
13 22 (0.63%) DBS Check
14 13 (0.37%) CCNP
15 12 (0.34%) CCIE
15 12 (0.34%) CISA
16 11 (0.31%) MBA
16 11 (0.31%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 683 (19.54%) Data Quality
2 166 (4.75%) GDPR
3 137 (3.92%) QA
4 133 (3.80%) Accessibility
5 52 (1.49%) GRC
6 45 (1.29%) WCAG
7 38 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 32 (0.92%) NIST
9 29 (0.83%) PMO
10 27 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
11 20 (0.57%) SLA
12 15 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 14 (0.40%) PCI DSS
14 12 (0.34%) PERC
14 12 (0.34%) Solvency II
15 10 (0.29%) IFRS
15 10 (0.29%) NCSC
16 7 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
17 6 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 6 (0.17%) PSD2
System Software
1 150 (4.29%) Docker
2 94 (2.69%) Active Directory
3 26 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.23%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.17%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.086%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 2 (0.057%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.057%) vSphere
9 2 (0.057%) XenApp
9 2 (0.057%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.029%) iptables
10 1 (0.029%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.029%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 163 (4.66%) Kubernetes
2 50 (1.43%) Ansible
3 38 (1.09%) Grafana
4 24 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
5 23 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
6 15 (0.43%) Prometheus
7 13 (0.37%) SCCM
8 8 (0.23%) Control-M
8 8 (0.23%) FortiGate
8 8 (0.23%) SCOM
9 7 (0.20%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.11%) Podman
10 4 (0.11%) QRadar
10 4 (0.11%) SysTrack
11 3 (0.086%) Apache Ranger
11 3 (0.086%) CASB
11 3 (0.086%) Kibana
11 3 (0.086%) NetBackup
11 3 (0.086%) Thomson Reuters DACS
12 2 (0.057%) MOM
Vendors
1 636 (18.19%) Microsoft
2 452 (12.93%) Databricks
3 209 (5.98%) Oracle
4 191 (5.46%) SAP
5 179 (5.12%) Google
6 86 (2.46%) ServiceNow
7 79 (2.26%) Adobe
8 78 (2.23%) Salesforce
9 55 (1.57%) Workday
10 47 (1.34%) Splunk
11 45 (1.29%) Foundry
12 41 (1.17%) Informatica
13 40 (1.14%) Dynatrace
14 37 (1.06%) Palantir
15 35 (1.00%) Talend
16 34 (0.97%) Cisco
17 33 (0.94%) Denodo
18 27 (0.77%) VMware
19 26 (0.74%) OpenAI
20 23 (0.66%) Alteryx