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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 27 33
Rank change year-on-year +1 +6 +5
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,507 1,899 1,705
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.49% 6.75% 5.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.81% 7.42% 6.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,255 1,248 1,142
10th Percentile £363 £360 £350
25th Percentile £434 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £530 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 46 28
10th Percentile £18.00 £17.50 £24.06
25th Percentile £25.88 £22.50 £27.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £37.75 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year +39.09% +11.84% -4.77%
75th Percentile £72.63 £71.13 £60.98
90th Percentile £86.65 £82.25 £68.18
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £34.99 £32.50
% change year-on-year +35.75% +7.66% -8.30%

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 39,799 25,590 27,763
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.96% 90.90% 86.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,011 16,250 16,937
10th Percentile £325 £294 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,071 1,598 1,107
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.53 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.87 £20.50
Median hourly rate £38.72 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.96% -40.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £67.25 £44.78 £66.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.50 £74.18
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -10.11%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 0 1,945 £550 - 435
North of England +12 475 £490 +3.16% 177
South East +14 368 £515 +0.24% 249
Midlands +1 360 £486 -5.63% 107
West Midlands +1 287 £479 -7.73% 75
North West -2 229 £525 +10.53% 96
Yorkshire +12 178 £478 +0.53% 55
South West +20 176 £535 +7.00% 115
East of England -7 107 £600 +8.11% 49
North East +11 74 £450 +14.29% 26
East Midlands -1 72 £490 +8.89% 32
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
1 162 (4.62%) Apache Airflow
2 134 (3.82%) Apache Spark
3 109 (3.11%) Apache
4 103 (2.94%) SAS
5 78 (2.22%) Confluence
6 65 (1.85%) CMS
7 48 (1.37%) SharePoint
8 32 (0.91%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 29 (0.83%) Palantir Foundry
10 22 (0.63%) Jupyter
11 19 (0.54%) Oracle Application Server
12 12 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
13 9 (0.26%) Drupal
14 8 (0.23%) nginx
14 8 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
15 7 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
16 6 (0.17%) Apache Superset
17 4 (0.11%) IIS
17 4 (0.11%) WordPress
18 3 (0.086%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 171 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 28 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (0.51%) Chatbot
5 16 (0.46%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
7 12 (0.34%) CPLEX
8 5 (0.14%) Trello
9 3 (0.086%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.086%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.057%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.057%) LaTeX
10 2 (0.057%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.057%) PlantUML
10 2 (0.057%) Sketch
11 1 (0.029%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.029%) InDesign
11 1 (0.029%) Notion
11 1 (0.029%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 88 (2.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 41 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (0.60%) Workday HCM
4 16 (0.46%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 15 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
5 15 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
6 13 (0.37%) Aladdin
6 13 (0.37%) SAP HR
7 12 (0.34%) SAP FI
8 11 (0.31%) SAP CO
8 11 (0.31%) SAP HCM
9 9 (0.26%) SAP MM
9 9 (0.26%) SAP Payroll
9 9 (0.26%) Workfront
10 7 (0.20%) Eloqua
10 7 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
10 7 (0.20%) SAP MDG
10 7 (0.20%) Shopify
10 7 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 6 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 1,015 (28.94%) Azure
2 705 (20.10%) Power Platform
3 586 (16.71%) AWS
4 314 (8.95%) GCP
5 275 (7.84%) Snowflake
6 246 (7.01%) Azure DevOps
7 221 (6.30%) Azure Data Factory
8 210 (5.99%) dbt
9 164 (4.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 160 (4.56%) GitHub
11 143 (4.08%) Azure Monitor
12 140 (3.99%) Serverless
13 127 (3.62%) SaaS
14 126 (3.59%) Entra ID
15 119 (3.39%) Amazon S3
16 88 (2.51%) AWS Lambda
17 77 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
18 75 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
19 65 (1.85%) Azure Databricks
20 62 (1.77%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 67 (1.91%) Firewall
2 61 (1.74%) Network Security
3 45 (1.28%) DNS
4 40 (1.14%) VPN
5 26 (0.74%) TCP/IP
6 24 (0.68%) Broadband
7 21 (0.60%) DHCP
8 19 (0.54%) WAN
9 15 (0.43%) BGP
10 14 (0.40%) SD-WAN
11 8 (0.23%) SSH
11 8 (0.23%) Wireless
12 7 (0.20%) Cisco IPT
12 7 (0.20%) HTTP
12 7 (0.20%) Internet
12 7 (0.20%) LAN
12 7 (0.20%) SMS
13 6 (0.17%) Kerberos
13 6 (0.17%) NGFW
13 6 (0.17%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 679 (19.36%) Power BI
2 421 (12.00%) Data Warehouse
3 256 (7.30%) Data Lake
4 244 (6.96%) Metadata
5 208 (5.93%) Tableau
6 157 (4.48%) BigQuery
7 90 (2.57%) Amazon Redshift
7 90 (2.57%) SQL Server
8 87 (2.48%) Delta Lake
9 83 (2.37%) Looker
9 83 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
10 81 (2.31%) Relational Database
11 80 (2.28%) Big Data
12 62 (1.77%) Semantic Layer
13 60 (1.71%) Amazon Athena
14 59 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
14 59 (1.68%) NoSQL
15 53 (1.51%) Power Query
16 50 (1.43%) Snowflake Schema
17 47 (1.34%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 196 (5.59%) Git
2 156 (4.45%) JIRA
3 60 (1.71%) Jenkins
4 58 (1.65%) GitLab
5 12 (0.34%) MLflow
6 9 (0.26%) fastlane
6 9 (0.26%) RStudio
7 8 (0.23%) Gradle
7 8 (0.23%) Postman
7 8 (0.23%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.20%) REST Assured
8 7 (0.20%) Selenium
8 7 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (0.17%) Crashlytics
9 6 (0.17%) JUnit
9 6 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
9 6 (0.17%) Xcode
10 5 (0.14%) Claude Code
10 5 (0.14%) Terragrunt
10 5 (0.14%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 1,019 (29.06%) Social Skills
2 941 (26.83%) Finance
3 663 (18.91%) Analytical Skills
4 413 (11.78%) Public Sector
5 279 (7.96%) Banking
6 252 (7.19%) Marketing
7 177 (5.05%) Retail
8 119 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
9 93 (2.65%) Legal
10 91 (2.59%) Manufacturing
11 86 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 75 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
13 66 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
14 60 (1.71%) Front Office
15 55 (1.57%) Investment Banking
16 50 (1.43%) Publishing
17 46 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
18 45 (1.28%) Military
19 39 (1.11%) Financial Institution
19 39 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 558 (15.91%) Data Engineer
2 490 (13.97%) Senior
3 474 (13.52%) Analyst
4 437 (12.46%) Architect
5 297 (8.47%) Lead
6 293 (8.35%) Developer
7 193 (5.50%) Data Architect
8 188 (5.36%) Consultant
9 178 (5.08%) Data Analyst
10 129 (3.68%) Senior Data Engineer
11 123 (3.51%) Data Scientist
12 117 (3.34%) Business Analyst
13 115 (3.28%) Solutions Architect
14 104 (2.97%) Azure Engineer
15 70 (2.00%) Data Manager
15 70 (2.00%) Senior Analyst
16 69 (1.97%) AWS Engineer
17 66 (1.88%) Product Manager
18 64 (1.82%) Project Manager
19 59 (1.68%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 297 (8.47%) Terraform
2 206 (5.87%) PySpark
3 151 (4.31%) REST
4 106 (3.02%) Kafka
5 59 (1.68%) React
6 57 (1.63%) Pandas
7 53 (1.51%) RESTful
8 51 (1.45%) .NET
8 51 (1.45%) HTML
9 48 (1.37%) OAuth
10 47 (1.34%) ARM Templates
11 46 (1.31%) CSS
12 40 (1.14%) JSON
12 40 (1.14%) OpenID
13 39 (1.11%) NumPy
14 35 (1.00%) OAuth2
15 32 (0.91%) Web Services
16 31 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
17 29 (0.83%) Middleware
18 28 (0.80%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 247 (7.04%) Cloud Native
2 183 (5.22%) Product Ownership
3 157 (4.48%) Onboarding
4 146 (4.16%) Data Structures
5 103 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
6 94 (2.68%) Management Information System
7 75 (2.14%) AI Agents
8 66 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
9 64 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
10 62 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
11 49 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
12 45 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
12 45 (1.28%) Marketing Technology
13 41 (1.17%) Social Media
14 40 (1.14%) Algorithms
15 39 (1.11%) Taxonomies
16 38 (1.08%) Derivative
16 38 (1.08%) Virtual Team
17 37 (1.06%) Life Science
17 37 (1.06%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 100 (2.85%) Windows
2 96 (2.74%) Linux
3 43 (1.23%) Windows Server
4 40 (1.14%) Unix
5 20 (0.57%) Apple iOS
6 14 (0.40%) Android
6 14 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.26%) VMS
8 7 (0.20%) macOS
8 7 (0.20%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.086%) Solaris
9 3 (0.086%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.057%) AIX
10 2 (0.057%) HPUX
11 1 (0.029%) CentOS
11 1 (0.029%) Rocky
11 1 (0.029%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 983 (28.03%) AI
2 919 (26.20%) Data Modelling
3 888 (25.32%) Stakeholder Management
4 866 (24.69%) Business Intelligence
5 822 (23.44%) Agile
6 703 (20.05%) Decision-Making
7 685 (19.53%) Data Pipeline
8 673 (19.19%) Data Engineering
9 657 (18.73%) CI/CD
10 582 (16.60%) Data Governance
11 532 (15.17%) ETL
12 517 (14.74%) DevOps
13 485 (13.83%) Continuous Improvement
14 478 (13.63%) Problem-Solving
15 473 (13.49%) Roadmaps
16 451 (12.86%) Migration
17 441 (12.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 425 (12.12%) Machine Learning
19 422 (12.03%) Validation
20 399 (11.38%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 1,145 (32.65%) SQL
2 983 (28.03%) Python
3 167 (4.76%) PowerShell
4 102 (2.91%) Java
5 95 (2.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 94 (2.68%) JavaScript
7 90 (2.57%) Bicep
8 73 (2.08%) Bash
9 71 (2.02%) C#
10 58 (1.65%) R
11 39 (1.11%) TypeScript
12 35 (1.00%) Scala
13 31 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
13 31 (0.88%) Shell Script
14 19 (0.54%) ABAP
15 17 (0.48%) C++
15 17 (0.48%) LookML
16 16 (0.46%) PL/SQL
17 15 (0.43%) T-SQL
18 14 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 631 (17.99%) Security Cleared
2 505 (14.40%) SC Cleared
3 303 (8.64%) Degree
4 94 (2.68%) Azure Certification
5 90 (2.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 82 (2.34%) DV Cleared
7 78 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
8 57 (1.63%) Master's Degree
9 51 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
10 42 (1.20%) CISSP
11 39 (1.11%) AWS Certification
12 34 (0.97%) PMI Certification
13 29 (0.83%) PMP
14 26 (0.74%) DBS Check
15 18 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
16 14 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
17 13 (0.37%) MBA
18 11 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 11 (0.31%) CISA
18 11 (0.31%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 781 (22.27%) Data Quality
2 156 (4.45%) GDPR
3 139 (3.96%) Accessibility
3 139 (3.96%) QA
4 50 (1.43%) GRC
5 43 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
6 40 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 40 (1.14%) WCAG
7 37 (1.06%) PMO
8 34 (0.97%) NIST
9 25 (0.71%) SLA
10 15 (0.43%) NCSC
11 12 (0.34%) IFRS
11 12 (0.34%) PCI DSS
11 12 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 11 (0.31%) PERC
13 10 (0.29%) Solvency II
14 9 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 8 (0.23%) GMP
16 7 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 149 (4.25%) Docker
2 103 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 27 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.26%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.11%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 3 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.086%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.086%) vSphere
8 3 (0.086%) XenApp
9 2 (0.057%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.029%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 154 (4.39%) Kubernetes
2 49 (1.40%) Ansible
3 41 (1.17%) Grafana
4 29 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (0.51%) SCCM
6 17 (0.48%) Prometheus
6 17 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.26%) Kibana
7 9 (0.26%) Progress Chef
8 8 (0.23%) SCOM
9 7 (0.20%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.17%) Control-M
10 6 (0.17%) Podman
11 5 (0.14%) QRadar
12 4 (0.11%) SysTrack
13 3 (0.086%) CASB
14 2 (0.057%) Docker Swarm
14 2 (0.057%) MOM
14 2 (0.057%) NetBackup
14 2 (0.057%) Puppet
Vendors
1 687 (19.59%) Microsoft
2 455 (12.97%) Databricks
3 199 (5.67%) SAP
4 198 (5.65%) Oracle
5 196 (5.59%) Google
6 97 (2.77%) Adobe
7 92 (2.62%) ServiceNow
8 91 (2.59%) Salesforce
9 55 (1.57%) Workday
10 47 (1.34%) Splunk
11 45 (1.28%) Dynatrace
12 41 (1.17%) Foundry
13 36 (1.03%) Palantir
14 31 (0.88%) Informatica
15 30 (0.86%) VMware
16 28 (0.80%) Cisco
16 28 (0.80%) OpenAI
17 27 (0.77%) Alteryx
17 27 (0.77%) Talend
18 25 (0.71%) IBM