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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 30 39
Rank change year-on-year +6 +9 -3
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,259 1,509 1,780
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.21% 5.68% 4.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.17% 6.37% 5.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,526 971 1,237
10th Percentile £356 £356 £381
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £551
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -0.09% -4.26%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £799 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 25 65
10th Percentile £21.03 £25.26 £17.26
25th Percentile £30.96 £27.00 £27.50
Median hourly rate £46.00 £34.50 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -20.69% +24.29%
75th Percentile £70.16 £60.06 £67.50
90th Percentile £78.95 £64.34 £78.70
UK median hourly rate £45.50 £32.92 £46.78
% change year-on-year +38.20% -29.62% +33.65%

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 27,653 23,679 31,971
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.28% 89.08% 87.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,613 14,524 21,598
10th Percentile £304 £310 £305
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £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 1,731 761 1,481
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.50 £14.18
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.03% -20.00% +21.43%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £31.69 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.64% -21.75% +15.71%

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 13 January 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 13 January 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 13 January 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 +6 1,343 £525 -12.50% 723
Midlands +26 239 £513 +2.60% 298
North of England +3 237 £475 -4.26% 410
West Midlands +24 192 £515 +3.00% 117
North West +12 156 £475 - 194
South East -4 147 £500 +10.56% 848
South West +29 102 £525 +16.67% 256
East of England +2 93 £538 +2.38% 316
Yorkshire -7 67 £505 -3.81% 152
East Midlands +10 48 £431 -6.16% 175
North East 0 15 £400 -14.26% 66
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 99 (4.38%) SAS
2 86 (3.81%) Apache Airflow
3 79 (3.50%) Apache Spark
4 71 (3.14%) Apache
5 60 (2.66%) Confluence
6 49 (2.17%) SharePoint
7 36 (1.59%) CMS
8 21 (0.93%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 16 (0.71%) WebLogic
10 9 (0.40%) Jupyter
10 9 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
11 8 (0.35%) GeoServer
11 8 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
11 8 (0.35%) Smallworld
12 7 (0.31%) Oracle Application Server
13 6 (0.27%) WordPress
14 5 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 4 (0.18%) ArcGIS
16 3 (0.13%) IIS
17 2 (0.089%) Drupal
Applications
1 129 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (1.28%) MS Visio
5 24 (1.06%) Chatbot
6 14 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.27%) Trello
8 4 (0.18%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.13%) Notion
9 3 (0.13%) Sketch
10 2 (0.089%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.044%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.044%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.044%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.044%) CapCut
11 1 (0.044%) FrameMaker
11 1 (0.044%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.044%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 77 (3.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.62%) SAP EHS
4 11 (0.49%) SAP HR
5 10 (0.44%) SAP FI
6 8 (0.35%) Maximo
7 7 (0.31%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 7 (0.31%) SAP MM
8 6 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
8 6 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 5 (0.22%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 5 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
9 5 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
9 5 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.22%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.22%) Workday HCM
10 4 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
10 4 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.18%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 4 (0.18%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 732 (32.40%) Azure
2 495 (21.91%) Power Platform
3 467 (20.67%) AWS
4 217 (9.61%) GCP
5 162 (7.17%) Azure Data Factory
6 158 (6.99%) Azure DevOps
7 147 (6.51%) Snowflake
8 142 (6.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 111 (4.91%) GitHub
10 109 (4.83%) Serverless
11 107 (4.74%) Azure Monitor
12 87 (3.85%) SaaS
13 83 (3.67%) Amazon S3
14 75 (3.32%) dbt
15 74 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
16 71 (3.14%) Entra ID
16 71 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
17 55 (2.43%) AWS Lambda
18 54 (2.39%) Azure Logic Apps
18 54 (2.39%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 46 (2.04%) Firewall
2 26 (1.15%) DNS
2 26 (1.15%) Network Security
3 24 (1.06%) VPN
4 16 (0.71%) SMS
5 13 (0.58%) SSL
6 10 (0.44%) WAN
7 9 (0.40%) HTTP
8 8 (0.35%) DHCP
9 7 (0.31%) FTP
9 7 (0.31%) LAN
9 7 (0.31%) SMTP
9 7 (0.31%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.27%) 2G
10 6 (0.27%) 5G
11 4 (0.18%) 4G
11 4 (0.18%) Radio Access Network
12 3 (0.13%) Internet
12 3 (0.13%) MPLS
12 3 (0.13%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 464 (20.54%) Power BI
2 241 (10.67%) Data Warehouse
3 163 (7.22%) Data Lake
4 139 (6.15%) Tableau
5 130 (5.75%) Metadata
6 70 (3.10%) SQL Server
7 66 (2.92%) BigQuery
8 65 (2.88%) Big Data
9 57 (2.52%) PostgreSQL
10 54 (2.39%) Relational Database
11 53 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
12 48 (2.12%) Delta Lake
12 48 (2.12%) Looker
12 48 (2.12%) Snowflake Schema
13 43 (1.90%) Power Query
14 42 (1.86%) Star Schema
15 39 (1.73%) Hadoop
16 36 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
16 36 (1.59%) Pentaho
16 36 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 173 (7.66%) JIRA
2 161 (7.13%) Git
3 77 (3.41%) Jenkins
4 66 (2.92%) GitLab
5 24 (1.06%) Selenium
6 18 (0.80%) ERwin
6 18 (0.80%) JUnit
7 14 (0.62%) MLflow
8 11 (0.49%) PowerDesigner
9 10 (0.44%) Android Studio
9 10 (0.44%) Gradle
10 9 (0.40%) ER Studio
10 9 (0.40%) Visual Website Optimizer
11 8 (0.35%) Postman
11 8 (0.35%) Xcode
12 6 (0.27%) DBeaver
12 6 (0.27%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.27%) Visual Studio
13 5 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
13 5 (0.22%) TeamCity
General
1 768 (34.00%) Social Skills
2 632 (27.98%) Finance
3 451 (19.96%) Analytical Skills
4 198 (8.76%) Banking
5 186 (8.23%) Public Sector
6 165 (7.30%) Marketing
7 72 (3.19%) Retail
8 65 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
8 65 (2.88%) Front Office
9 48 (2.12%) Investment Banking
9 48 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
10 47 (2.08%) Legal
11 42 (1.86%) Manufacturing
12 41 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
13 39 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 36 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
15 32 (1.42%) Financial Institution
16 29 (1.28%) Telecoms
17 27 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
18 21 (0.93%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 339 (15.01%) Analyst
2 302 (13.37%) Developer
3 280 (12.39%) Data Engineer
4 251 (11.11%) Senior
5 234 (10.36%) Architect
6 155 (6.86%) Lead
7 127 (5.62%) Consultant
8 125 (5.53%) Data Analyst
9 119 (5.27%) Business Analyst
10 90 (3.98%) Data Architect
11 81 (3.59%) Azure Engineer
12 72 (3.19%) Data Scientist
13 60 (2.66%) Senior Developer
14 56 (2.48%) Project Manager
15 49 (2.17%) Senior Data Engineer
16 44 (1.95%) Solutions Architect
17 39 (1.73%) Python Developer
18 37 (1.64%) Snowflake Engineer
19 36 (1.59%) Senior Analyst
20 35 (1.55%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (6.15%) REST
2 100 (4.43%) PySpark
3 96 (4.25%) Kafka
4 55 (2.43%) Pandas
5 53 (2.35%) React
6 50 (2.21%) HTML
7 44 (1.95%) Node.js
7 44 (1.95%) SOAP
7 44 (1.95%) TensorFlow
8 42 (1.86%) .NET
8 42 (1.86%) NumPy
8 42 (1.86%) scikit-learn
9 41 (1.81%) RESTful
10 40 (1.77%) PyTorch
11 37 (1.64%) CSS
11 37 (1.64%) JSON
12 33 (1.46%) AngularJS
13 31 (1.37%) ARM Templates
14 29 (1.28%) OAuth
15 22 (0.97%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 99 (4.38%) Product Ownership
2 96 (4.25%) Cloud Native
3 74 (3.28%) Data Structures
4 58 (2.57%) Onboarding
5 53 (2.35%) Algorithms
5 53 (2.35%) Management Information System
6 51 (2.26%) Analytical Mindset
7 49 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
8 42 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
9 41 (1.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 38 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
11 37 (1.64%) Derivative
11 37 (1.64%) Equities
12 36 (1.59%) Mobile App
13 28 (1.24%) Life Science
14 27 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
14 27 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
15 26 (1.15%) Fixed Income
16 25 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
16 25 (1.11%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 67 (2.97%) Linux
2 64 (2.83%) Windows
3 31 (1.37%) Unix
4 19 (0.84%) Apple iOS
5 18 (0.80%) Android
6 16 (0.71%) Mac OS
7 9 (0.40%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.22%) VMS
9 4 (0.18%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.044%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.044%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.044%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.044%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.044%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 637 (28.20%) Business Intelligence
2 559 (24.75%) Agile
3 508 (22.49%) Data Modelling
4 475 (21.03%) Problem-Solving
5 422 (18.68%) CI/CD
6 411 (18.19%) DevOps
7 402 (17.80%) ETL
8 388 (17.18%) AI
9 363 (16.07%) Data Pipeline
10 349 (15.45%) Data Governance
11 329 (14.56%) Decision-Making
12 300 (13.28%) Data Engineering
13 291 (12.88%) Stakeholder Management
14 287 (12.70%) Data Analytics
15 277 (12.26%) Data Science
16 265 (11.73%) Visualisation
17 264 (11.69%) Machine Learning
18 252 (11.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 247 (10.93%) Continuous Improvement
20 228 (10.09%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 766 (33.91%) SQL
2 697 (30.85%) Python
3 121 (5.36%) Java
4 102 (4.52%) JavaScript
5 91 (4.03%) PowerShell
6 73 (3.23%) C#
7 70 (3.10%) R
8 56 (2.48%) Bicep
9 54 (2.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 45 (1.99%) Bash
11 40 (1.77%) TypeScript
12 36 (1.59%) C++
12 36 (1.59%) Kusto Query Language
13 33 (1.46%) T-SQL
14 27 (1.20%) Scala
15 26 (1.15%) VBA
16 22 (0.97%) PL/SQL
17 14 (0.62%) Kotlin
17 14 (0.62%) Shell Script
18 13 (0.58%) Swift
Qualifications
1 372 (16.47%) Security Cleared
2 305 (13.50%) SC Cleared
3 215 (9.52%) Degree
4 62 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 56 (2.48%) Azure Certification
6 54 (2.39%) Master's Degree
7 35 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 31 (1.37%) CISSP
9 28 (1.24%) DV Cleared
10 24 (1.06%) PMI Certification
11 22 (0.97%) AWS Certification
11 22 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
12 20 (0.89%) PMP
13 19 (0.84%) CISM
14 14 (0.62%) IIBA
15 10 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
16 9 (0.40%) PhD
17 8 (0.35%) CBAP
17 8 (0.35%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
18 7 (0.31%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 360 (15.94%) Data Quality
2 138 (6.11%) GDPR
3 84 (3.72%) Accessibility
4 80 (3.54%) QA
5 36 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (1.42%) NIST
7 19 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
8 18 (0.80%) PMO
9 17 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 12 (0.53%) WCAG
11 11 (0.49%) NCSC
12 10 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 10 (0.44%) HIPAA
12 10 (0.44%) PCI DSS
13 9 (0.40%) GRC
13 9 (0.40%) NIST 800
14 8 (0.35%) PERC
14 8 (0.35%) SLA
14 8 (0.35%) Solvency II
15 7 (0.31%) GxP
System Software
1 176 (7.79%) Docker
2 52 (2.30%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.44%) HDFS
6 5 (0.22%) zsh
7 4 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.089%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.044%) GPFS
9 1 (0.044%) Lustre
9 1 (0.044%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.044%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.044%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.044%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 178 (7.88%) Kubernetes
2 171 (7.57%) Terraform
3 29 (1.28%) Ansible
4 21 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (0.75%) Grafana
7 16 (0.71%) SCCM
8 12 (0.53%) Puppet
9 11 (0.49%) Prometheus
10 8 (0.35%) Kibana
11 7 (0.31%) Hadoop YARN
11 7 (0.31%) logstash
12 6 (0.27%) WSUS
13 4 (0.18%) Kubeflow
14 3 (0.13%) Fluentd
14 3 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
15 2 (0.089%) CASB
15 2 (0.089%) Cisco CUCM
15 2 (0.089%) Control-M
15 2 (0.089%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 427 (18.90%) Microsoft
2 277 (12.26%) Databricks
3 151 (6.68%) Google
4 148 (6.55%) Oracle
5 142 (6.29%) SAP
6 69 (3.05%) Salesforce
7 66 (2.92%) Adobe
8 64 (2.83%) ServiceNow
9 49 (2.17%) Talend
10 42 (1.86%) Splunk
11 38 (1.68%) Denodo
12 34 (1.51%) Informatica
13 31 (1.37%) Workday
14 29 (1.28%) OpenAI
15 27 (1.20%) Dynatrace
16 26 (1.15%) Cisco
17 24 (1.06%) Foundry
18 20 (0.89%) IBM
19 19 (0.84%) AppDynamics
20 18 (0.80%) Alteryx