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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 37
Rank change year-on-year +2 +10 -2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,006 1,606 1,765
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.24% 6.74% 4.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.54% 7.38% 5.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,055 1,077 1,218
10th Percentile £351 £350 £354
25th Percentile £425 £444 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 34 46
10th Percentile £20.54 £14.27 £14.50
25th Percentile £40.32 £19.75 £25.00
Median hourly rate £58.70 £31.64 £29.19
Median % change year-on-year +85.52% +8.41% -8.80%
75th Percentile £75.00 £36.13 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £79.61 £70.63
UK median hourly rate £56.40 £32.05 £28.00
% change year-on-year +75.98% +14.46% -12.91%

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 35,196 21,756 31,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.75% 91.30% 86.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,391 14,220 20,552
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,171 917 2,255
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.41 £12.89
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.20 £15.97
Median hourly rate £45.59 £28.55 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.67% -21.78% -2.67%
75th Percentile £67.84 £60.00 £60.13
90th Percentile £80.20 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £27.97 £36.05
% change year-on-year +51.98% -22.42% -2.58%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 23 May 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 1,667 £550 -4.35% 1,289
North of England +7 340 £475 +1.77% 389
Midlands +15 336 £492 -3.88% 184
West Midlands +10 253 £492 -4.03% 106
South East -11 246 £500 +6.04% 428
South West +34 200 £500 +2.56% 128
North West +9 177 £495 +4.98% 218
Yorkshire -1 137 £500 +3.63% 117
East of England -9 118 £525 -12.50% 87
East Midlands +10 77 £525 +46.65% 78
North East -2 37 £450 +46.94% 59
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
1 156 (5.19%) Apache Spark
2 114 (3.79%) Apache Airflow
3 84 (2.79%) SAS
4 81 (2.69%) Apache
5 74 (2.46%) Confluence
6 44 (1.46%) SharePoint
7 25 (0.83%) CMS
8 20 (0.67%) Jupyter
9 15 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 15 (0.50%) Oracle Application Server
10 12 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
11 9 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
12 8 (0.27%) Apache Superset
12 8 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
13 6 (0.20%) ArcGIS
13 6 (0.20%) IIS
13 6 (0.20%) WordPress
14 4 (0.13%) Drupal
15 3 (0.100%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 2 (0.067%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 125 (4.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 27 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (0.63%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.60%) Chatbot
6 14 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.23%) CPLEX
7 7 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
8 4 (0.13%) Trello
9 3 (0.100%) Notion
10 2 (0.067%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.067%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.067%) Sketch
11 1 (0.033%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.033%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.033%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.033%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.033%) InDesign
11 1 (0.033%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 60 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
4 8 (0.27%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 8 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
5 7 (0.23%) NetSuite
5 7 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.20%) Aladdin
6 6 (0.20%) Sage X3
7 5 (0.17%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.17%) Maximo
8 4 (0.13%) iTrent
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 4 (0.13%) SAP BPC
8 4 (0.13%) Shopify
8 4 (0.13%) Sprinklr
9 3 (0.100%) Distributed Ledger
9 3 (0.100%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 931 (30.97%) Azure
2 660 (21.96%) Power Platform
3 602 (20.03%) AWS
4 281 (9.35%) GCP
5 241 (8.02%) Azure Data Factory
6 206 (6.85%) Azure DevOps
7 203 (6.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 182 (6.05%) Snowflake
9 159 (5.29%) GitHub
10 139 (4.62%) dbt
11 126 (4.19%) Amazon S3
12 123 (4.09%) Serverless
13 104 (3.46%) Azure Monitor
14 87 (2.89%) GitHub Actions
15 85 (2.83%) Microsoft 365
16 82 (2.73%) SaaS
17 78 (2.59%) AWS Lambda
18 72 (2.40%) Entra ID
19 54 (1.80%) Azure Key Vault
20 49 (1.63%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 39 (1.30%) Firewall
2 32 (1.06%) Network Security
3 23 (0.77%) DNS
4 22 (0.73%) VPN
5 15 (0.50%) SD-WAN
5 15 (0.50%) SMS
6 13 (0.43%) WAN
7 12 (0.40%) HTTP
8 8 (0.27%) BGP
8 8 (0.27%) DHCP
8 8 (0.27%) FTP
8 8 (0.27%) OSPF
9 7 (0.23%) MPLS
9 7 (0.23%) SSL
9 7 (0.23%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.20%) LAN
10 6 (0.20%) SMTP
10 6 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (0.20%) Wireless
10 6 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 613 (20.39%) Power BI
2 396 (13.17%) Data Warehouse
3 246 (8.18%) Data Lake
4 217 (7.22%) Tableau
5 181 (6.02%) Metadata
6 118 (3.93%) BigQuery
7 113 (3.76%) Delta Lake
8 108 (3.59%) SQL Server
9 93 (3.09%) Big Data
10 76 (2.53%) Relational Database
11 73 (2.43%) Amazon Redshift
12 67 (2.23%) Amazon Athena
12 67 (2.23%) Azure SQL Database
12 67 (2.23%) Snowflake Schema
13 65 (2.16%) NoSQL
14 60 (2.00%) Looker
15 56 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
15 56 (1.86%) Star Schema
16 53 (1.76%) Power Query
17 52 (1.73%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 172 (5.72%) Git
2 168 (5.59%) JIRA
3 64 (2.13%) Jenkins
4 62 (2.06%) GitLab
5 20 (0.67%) ERwin
6 14 (0.47%) MLflow
7 12 (0.40%) Selenium
8 8 (0.27%) MSI
9 7 (0.23%) ER Studio
9 7 (0.23%) fastlane
9 7 (0.23%) PowerDesigner
10 6 (0.20%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.20%) JUnit
10 6 (0.20%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.17%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.17%) Gradle
11 5 (0.17%) Postman
11 5 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 5 (0.17%) XCTest
12 4 (0.13%) Android Studio
General
1 747 (24.85%) Finance
2 744 (24.75%) Social Skills
3 523 (17.40%) Analytical Skills
4 315 (10.48%) Public Sector
5 201 (6.69%) Banking
6 163 (5.42%) Marketing
7 101 (3.36%) Retail
8 73 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
9 55 (1.83%) Legal
10 54 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 54 (1.80%) Investment Banking
11 52 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
12 47 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
12 47 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
13 46 (1.53%) Telecoms
14 42 (1.40%) Manufacturing
15 37 (1.23%) Front Office
16 32 (1.06%) Financial Institution
17 27 (0.90%) Military
18 25 (0.83%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 589 (19.59%) Data Engineer
2 378 (12.57%) Analyst
3 357 (11.88%) Senior
4 353 (11.74%) Architect
5 315 (10.48%) Developer
6 257 (8.55%) Lead
7 163 (5.42%) Data Architect
8 156 (5.19%) Data Analyst
9 123 (4.09%) Consultant
10 108 (3.59%) Business Analyst
11 106 (3.53%) Azure Engineer
12 104 (3.46%) Senior Data Engineer
13 93 (3.09%) Data Scientist
14 87 (2.89%) Solutions Architect
15 72 (2.40%) Data Manager
16 66 (2.20%) Project Manager
17 58 (1.93%) Designer
18 51 (1.70%) Business Intelligence Developer
19 49 (1.63%) AWS Engineer
19 49 (1.63%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (6.09%) PySpark
2 139 (4.62%) Kafka
3 104 (3.46%) REST
4 60 (2.00%) Pandas
5 53 (1.76%) JSON
6 52 (1.73%) React
7 47 (1.56%) PyTorch
8 46 (1.53%) HTML
8 46 (1.53%) TensorFlow
9 44 (1.46%) CSS
10 38 (1.26%) RESTful
11 37 (1.23%) .NET
12 35 (1.16%) Middleware
13 34 (1.13%) scikit-learn
14 32 (1.06%) SOAP
15 30 (1.00%) AngularJS
15 30 (1.00%) NumPy
15 30 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
16 29 (0.96%) ARM Templates
17 26 (0.86%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 199 (6.62%) Cloud Native
2 150 (4.99%) Product Ownership
3 110 (3.66%) Data Structures
4 86 (2.86%) Onboarding
5 77 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
6 65 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
7 51 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
8 47 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
9 46 (1.53%) Management Information System
10 45 (1.50%) Algorithms
11 38 (1.26%) Public Cloud
12 36 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
13 35 (1.16%) AI Agents
13 35 (1.16%) NHS
14 34 (1.13%) Mobile App
15 29 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
16 28 (0.93%) Derivative
17 27 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
17 27 (0.90%) Marketing Technology
18 26 (0.86%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 91 (3.03%) Windows
2 74 (2.46%) Linux
3 33 (1.10%) Unix
4 32 (1.06%) Mac OS
5 23 (0.77%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.50%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.37%) Android
8 8 (0.27%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.100%) CentOS
11 2 (0.067%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.067%) VMS
11 2 (0.067%) zOS
12 1 (0.033%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 833 (27.71%) Data Modelling
2 825 (27.45%) Business Intelligence
3 662 (22.02%) AI
4 629 (20.92%) Agile
5 626 (20.83%) Data Pipeline
6 606 (20.16%) Data Engineering
7 592 (19.69%) CI/CD
8 563 (18.73%) ETL
9 505 (16.80%) DevOps
10 499 (16.60%) Data Governance
11 481 (16.00%) Decision-Making
12 479 (15.93%) Problem-Solving
13 400 (13.31%) Stakeholder Management
14 347 (11.54%) Data Science
15 342 (11.38%) Machine Learning
16 337 (11.21%) Continuous Improvement
16 337 (11.21%) Data Analytics
17 334 (11.11%) Migration
18 301 (10.01%) Validation
19 293 (9.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,019 (33.90%) SQL
2 915 (30.44%) Python
3 125 (4.16%) Java
4 118 (3.93%) PowerShell
5 97 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 91 (3.03%) C#
7 80 (2.66%) R
8 71 (2.36%) Bicep
9 60 (2.00%) JavaScript
10 47 (1.56%) T-SQL
11 43 (1.43%) Scala
12 41 (1.36%) Kusto Query Language
13 38 (1.26%) TypeScript
14 36 (1.20%) Bash
15 28 (0.93%) Shell Script
16 25 (0.83%) PL/SQL
17 24 (0.80%) C++
18 15 (0.50%) VBA
19 10 (0.33%) Kotlin
20 9 (0.30%) Swift
Qualifications
1 519 (17.27%) Security Cleared
2 403 (13.41%) SC Cleared
3 231 (7.68%) Degree
4 67 (2.23%) Azure Certification
5 65 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 55 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
7 51 (1.70%) DV Cleared
8 47 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 36 (1.20%) Master's Degree
10 25 (0.83%) PMI Certification
11 23 (0.77%) CISSP
12 22 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
13 21 (0.70%) PMP
14 17 (0.57%) AWS Certification
14 17 (0.57%) DBS Check
15 15 (0.50%) CCNP
16 14 (0.47%) PhD
17 13 (0.43%) IIBA
18 11 (0.37%) CCIE
19 9 (0.30%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 574 (19.10%) Data Quality
2 156 (5.19%) GDPR
3 117 (3.89%) QA
4 102 (3.39%) Accessibility
5 38 (1.26%) WCAG
6 36 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 27 (0.90%) NIST
8 22 (0.73%) PMO
9 19 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
10 16 (0.53%) SLA
11 14 (0.47%) GRC
12 13 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 10 (0.33%) PERC
14 9 (0.30%) ISO 20022
14 9 (0.30%) NCSC
14 9 (0.30%) Solvency II
15 7 (0.23%) PCI DSS
16 6 (0.20%) HL7
16 6 (0.20%) IFRS
17 5 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 158 (5.26%) Docker
2 74 (2.46%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.13%) HDFS
6 4 (0.13%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.13%) Snort
6 4 (0.13%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.033%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.033%) GPFS
7 1 (0.033%) iptables
7 1 (0.033%) Lustre
7 1 (0.033%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.033%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.033%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.033%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 231 (7.68%) Terraform
2 167 (5.56%) Kubernetes
3 41 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
4 37 (1.23%) Grafana
5 33 (1.10%) Ansible
6 29 (0.96%) Prometheus
7 19 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (0.50%) SCCM
9 6 (0.20%) Puppet
10 5 (0.17%) Argo
10 5 (0.17%) Control-M
11 4 (0.13%) CSIRT
11 4 (0.13%) Kibana
11 4 (0.13%) WSUS
12 3 (0.100%) Nagios
12 3 (0.100%) QRadar
12 3 (0.100%) SysTrack
13 2 (0.067%) Apache Ranger
13 2 (0.067%) Nessus
13 2 (0.067%) SCOM
Vendors
1 542 (18.03%) Microsoft
2 405 (13.47%) Databricks
3 157 (5.22%) Google
4 146 (4.86%) Oracle
5 145 (4.82%) SAP
6 70 (2.33%) ServiceNow
7 65 (2.16%) Adobe
8 62 (2.06%) Salesforce
9 61 (2.03%) Informatica
10 52 (1.73%) Splunk
11 45 (1.50%) Talend
12 40 (1.33%) OpenAI
13 36 (1.20%) Denodo
14 35 (1.16%) Workday
15 32 (1.06%) Foundry
16 23 (0.77%) Dynatrace
16 23 (0.77%) VMware
17 21 (0.70%) IBM
18 18 (0.60%) Cisco
19 13 (0.43%) Ariba