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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 35
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 -1
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,191 1,666 1,908
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.40% 6.70% 5.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.69% 7.33% 5.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,163 1,103 1,320
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £630 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £788
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 37 48
10th Percentile £19.25 £14.69 £14.90
25th Percentile £35.00 £19.25 £25.00
Median hourly rate £57.30 £32.05 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +78.78% +6.83% -7.12%
75th Percentile £75.00 £62.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £84.95 £79.22 £69.88
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £34.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +56.52% +15.00% -7.12%

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 36,727 22,725 32,193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.21% 91.37% 85.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,194 14,704 20,811
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -1.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £729 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,299 1,073 2,390
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.13 £37.63
Median % change year-on-year +73.27% -27.91% +5.54%
75th Percentile £68.55 £56.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.40 £37.50
% change year-on-year +73.07% -32.27% +7.05%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 19 June 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 1,746 £550 -4.35% 935
North of England +5 383 £475 +2.70% 298
Midlands +11 371 £493 -2.72% 176
West Midlands +14 291 £492 -4.47% 118
South East -4 284 £500 - 418
South West +32 195 £500 +5.26% 121
North West 0 190 £500 +5.26% 191
Yorkshire -4 151 £500 +7.76% 71
East of England -7 117 £511 -14.88% 69
East Midlands +1 74 £525 +28.05% 57
North East +3 53 £450 +9.09% 38
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
1 160 (5.01%) Apache Spark
2 136 (4.26%) Apache Airflow
3 105 (3.29%) SAS
4 86 (2.70%) Apache
5 74 (2.32%) Confluence
6 47 (1.47%) SharePoint
7 28 (0.88%) CMS
7 28 (0.88%) Jupyter
8 21 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
9 15 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
9 15 (0.47%) Oracle Application Server
10 12 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 9 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
12 8 (0.25%) Apache Superset
13 6 (0.19%) IIS
13 6 (0.19%) WordPress
14 5 (0.16%) ArcGIS
15 4 (0.13%) Drupal
16 2 (0.063%) Smallworld
16 2 (0.063%) WebSphere
Applications
1 143 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (0.60%) Chatbot
3 19 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
4 16 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (0.41%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.38%) CPLEX
7 8 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
9 3 (0.094%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.063%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.063%) Sketch
10 2 (0.063%) Trello
11 1 (0.031%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.031%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.031%) InDesign
11 1 (0.031%) PlantUML
11 1 (0.031%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 68 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
4 10 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.25%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 8 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.22%) Aladdin
6 7 (0.22%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.19%) Sage X3
7 6 (0.19%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.16%) BambooHR
8 5 (0.16%) Maximo
8 5 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 5 (0.16%) Workday HCM
9 4 (0.13%) iTrent
9 4 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 4 (0.13%) SAP BPC
9 4 (0.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 970 (30.40%) Azure
2 715 (22.41%) Power Platform
3 636 (19.93%) AWS
4 281 (8.81%) GCP
5 231 (7.24%) Azure DevOps
6 223 (6.99%) Azure Data Factory
7 208 (6.52%) Snowflake
8 181 (5.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 162 (5.08%) dbt
10 161 (5.05%) GitHub
11 141 (4.42%) Amazon S3
12 140 (4.39%) Serverless
13 113 (3.54%) Azure Monitor
14 95 (2.98%) AWS Lambda
15 88 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
15 88 (2.76%) SaaS
16 83 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
17 76 (2.38%) Entra ID
18 49 (1.54%) Power Automate
19 48 (1.50%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 43 (1.35%) Firewall
2 28 (0.88%) Network Security
3 26 (0.81%) VPN
4 21 (0.66%) WAN
5 19 (0.60%) SD-WAN
6 16 (0.50%) BGP
6 16 (0.50%) DNS
7 13 (0.41%) SMS
8 9 (0.28%) OSPF
9 8 (0.25%) VXLAN
10 7 (0.22%) 5G
10 7 (0.22%) HTTP
10 7 (0.22%) LAN
10 7 (0.22%) MPLS
10 7 (0.22%) Wireless
10 7 (0.22%) WLAN
11 6 (0.19%) DHCP
11 6 (0.19%) Internet
11 6 (0.19%) TCP/IP
11 6 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 671 (21.03%) Power BI
2 414 (12.97%) Data Warehouse
3 253 (7.93%) Data Lake
4 225 (7.05%) Tableau
5 191 (5.99%) Metadata
6 118 (3.70%) BigQuery
7 107 (3.35%) Delta Lake
7 107 (3.35%) SQL Server
8 98 (3.07%) Big Data
9 84 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
9 84 (2.63%) Relational Database
10 75 (2.35%) Amazon Athena
11 70 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
11 70 (2.19%) Snowflake Schema
12 68 (2.13%) NoSQL
13 65 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
14 62 (1.94%) Looker
15 59 (1.85%) Power Query
16 54 (1.69%) Star Schema
17 51 (1.60%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 179 (5.61%) Git
2 165 (5.17%) JIRA
3 75 (2.35%) Jenkins
4 66 (2.07%) GitLab
5 21 (0.66%) ERwin
6 12 (0.38%) MLflow
7 10 (0.31%) ER Studio
7 10 (0.31%) fastlane
7 10 (0.31%) JUnit
7 10 (0.31%) Selenium
8 8 (0.25%) MSI
9 7 (0.22%) Postman
9 7 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
10 6 (0.19%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.16%) Android Studio
11 5 (0.16%) Crashlytics
11 5 (0.16%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.16%) Gradle
11 5 (0.16%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.16%) Xcode
General
1 813 (25.48%) Finance
2 801 (25.10%) Social Skills
3 545 (17.08%) Analytical Skills
4 361 (11.31%) Public Sector
5 221 (6.93%) Banking
6 161 (5.05%) Marketing
7 121 (3.79%) Retail
8 76 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
9 71 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 67 (2.10%) Legal
11 56 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
12 53 (1.66%) Investment Banking
13 51 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
14 49 (1.54%) Manufacturing
15 43 (1.35%) Front Office
15 43 (1.35%) Telecoms
16 41 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
17 35 (1.10%) Financial Institution
18 29 (0.91%) Automotive
19 27 (0.85%) Military
Job Titles
1 614 (19.24%) Data Engineer
2 397 (12.44%) Analyst
3 393 (12.32%) Senior
4 386 (12.10%) Architect
5 328 (10.28%) Developer
6 275 (8.62%) Lead
7 174 (5.45%) Data Architect
8 166 (5.20%) Data Analyst
9 136 (4.26%) Consultant
10 111 (3.48%) Senior Data Engineer
11 108 (3.38%) Business Analyst
12 103 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
13 97 (3.04%) Azure Engineer
13 97 (3.04%) Data Scientist
14 70 (2.19%) Data Manager
15 60 (1.88%) Designer
16 58 (1.82%) Project Manager
17 56 (1.75%) Business Intelligence Developer
18 55 (1.72%) AWS Engineer
19 54 (1.69%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (5.95%) PySpark
2 130 (4.07%) Kafka
3 108 (3.38%) REST
4 58 (1.82%) Pandas
5 55 (1.72%) React
6 47 (1.47%) JSON
7 46 (1.44%) RESTful
8 45 (1.41%) HTML
9 44 (1.38%) PyTorch
10 43 (1.35%) CSS
11 41 (1.28%) .NET
11 41 (1.28%) TensorFlow
12 38 (1.19%) Middleware
13 32 (1.00%) scikit-learn
13 32 (1.00%) Web Services
14 31 (0.97%) ARM Templates
14 31 (0.97%) NumPy
14 31 (0.97%) SOAP
15 29 (0.91%) Microsoft Graph
15 29 (0.91%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 226 (7.08%) Cloud Native
2 166 (5.20%) Product Ownership
3 125 (3.92%) Data Structures
4 98 (3.07%) Onboarding
5 97 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
6 67 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
7 62 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
8 47 (1.47%) Algorithms
8 47 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
9 45 (1.41%) Management Information System
10 41 (1.28%) AI Agents
10 41 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
11 37 (1.16%) Public Cloud
12 35 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
12 35 (1.10%) Mobile App
13 34 (1.07%) NHS
14 33 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
15 29 (0.91%) Virtual Team
16 27 (0.85%) Derivative
16 27 (0.85%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 87 (2.73%) Windows
2 70 (2.19%) Linux
3 38 (1.19%) Unix
4 24 (0.75%) Mac OS
5 23 (0.72%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.50%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.34%) Android
8 5 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.094%) CentOS
9 3 (0.094%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.063%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.063%) VMS
11 1 (0.031%) Rocky
11 1 (0.031%) Solaris
11 1 (0.031%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 893 (27.98%) Business Intelligence
2 883 (27.67%) Data Modelling
3 750 (23.50%) AI
4 677 (21.22%) Agile
5 668 (20.93%) Data Pipeline
6 658 (20.62%) Data Engineering
7 647 (20.28%) CI/CD
8 564 (17.67%) ETL
9 537 (16.83%) DevOps
10 518 (16.23%) Decision-Making
11 498 (15.61%) Data Governance
12 492 (15.42%) Problem-Solving
13 484 (15.17%) Stakeholder Management
14 382 (11.97%) Machine Learning
15 379 (11.88%) Data Science
16 376 (11.78%) Migration
17 367 (11.50%) Continuous Improvement
17 367 (11.50%) Data Analytics
18 347 (10.87%) Validation
19 340 (10.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,074 (33.66%) SQL
2 968 (30.34%) Python
3 132 (4.14%) Java
4 109 (3.42%) PowerShell
5 101 (3.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 85 (2.66%) C#
7 70 (2.19%) R
8 68 (2.13%) Bicep
9 60 (1.88%) JavaScript
10 43 (1.35%) Scala
11 42 (1.32%) TypeScript
12 41 (1.28%) T-SQL
13 38 (1.19%) Kusto Query Language
14 34 (1.07%) Bash
15 33 (1.03%) Shell Script
16 25 (0.78%) PL/SQL
17 20 (0.63%) C++
18 19 (0.60%) VBA
19 11 (0.34%) Korn
20 10 (0.31%) Swift
Qualifications
1 549 (17.20%) Security Cleared
2 437 (13.69%) SC Cleared
3 246 (7.71%) Degree
4 74 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 71 (2.23%) Azure Certification
5 71 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 54 (1.69%) DV Cleared
7 43 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
8 37 (1.16%) Master's Degree
9 26 (0.81%) CISSP
10 24 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
11 23 (0.72%) PMI Certification
12 20 (0.63%) AWS Certification
13 19 (0.60%) DBS Check
13 19 (0.60%) PMP
14 16 (0.50%) CCNP
15 13 (0.41%) CCIE
16 10 (0.31%) IIBA
17 9 (0.28%) PhD
17 9 (0.28%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 610 (19.12%) Data Quality
2 158 (4.95%) GDPR
3 121 (3.79%) QA
4 104 (3.26%) Accessibility
5 44 (1.38%) WCAG
6 36 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 33 (1.03%) NIST
8 30 (0.94%) PMO
9 21 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
10 19 (0.60%) GRC
11 16 (0.50%) SLA
12 15 (0.47%) Solvency II
13 14 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 11 (0.34%) NCSC
15 10 (0.31%) IFRS
16 8 (0.25%) ISO 20022
16 8 (0.25%) PCI DSS
17 7 (0.22%) GAAP
18 5 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
18 5 (0.16%) HL7
System Software
1 155 (4.86%) Docker
2 71 (2.23%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.22%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.13%) HDFS
6 4 (0.13%) Snort
6 4 (0.13%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.031%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.031%) GPFS
7 1 (0.031%) iptables
7 1 (0.031%) Lustre
7 1 (0.031%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.031%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.031%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 246 (7.71%) Terraform
2 167 (5.23%) Kubernetes
3 33 (1.03%) Grafana
4 31 (0.97%) Ansible
4 31 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
5 29 (0.91%) Prometheus
6 22 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.25%) SCCM
8 7 (0.22%) FortiGate
9 6 (0.19%) Control-M
10 5 (0.16%) Argo
11 4 (0.13%) CSIRT
12 3 (0.094%) Nagios
12 3 (0.094%) Puppet
12 3 (0.094%) QRadar
13 2 (0.063%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.063%) Kibana
13 2 (0.063%) Nessus
13 2 (0.063%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.063%) SCOM
Vendors
1 561 (17.58%) Microsoft
2 415 (13.01%) Databricks
3 166 (5.20%) Oracle
4 160 (5.01%) SAP
5 145 (4.54%) Google
6 71 (2.23%) ServiceNow
7 69 (2.16%) Salesforce
8 60 (1.88%) Adobe
9 57 (1.79%) Informatica
10 51 (1.60%) Splunk
11 44 (1.38%) Talend
12 42 (1.32%) Foundry
12 42 (1.32%) OpenAI
12 42 (1.32%) Workday
13 37 (1.16%) Denodo
14 31 (0.97%) Dynatrace
15 25 (0.78%) Palantir
16 22 (0.69%) Cisco
17 21 (0.66%) IBM
17 21 (0.66%) VMware