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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 27 34
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 +3
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,460 1,876 1,727
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.49% 6.68% 5.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.83% 7.35% 6.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,226 1,234 1,163
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £435 £432 £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% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 44 26
10th Percentile £17.88 £17.10 £23.25
25th Percentile £26.25 £22.50 £27.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £37.75 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.09% +16.14% -8.78%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.48 £55.98
90th Percentile £86.83 £79.63 £70.49
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £34.99 £31.75
% change year-on-year +35.75% +10.20% -10.89%

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 39,199 25,531 28,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.82% 90.87% 86.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,678 16,181 17,100
10th Percentile £325 £294 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £419
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% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,975 1,587 1,157
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.36 £17.79 £20.19
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -4.49%
75th Percentile £67.47 £45.00 £66.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £74.92
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -8.31%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +1 1,920 £550 - 7,135
North of England +12 466 £491 +3.37% 1,000
Midlands +2 359 £490 -4.85% 554
South East +13 358 £514 -2.10% 959
West Midlands 0 286 £488 -6.70% 368
North West +1 222 £525 +10.53% 592
Yorkshire +17 179 £475 - 290
South West +27 178 £525 +5.00% 341
East of England -6 105 £600 +8.35% 353
East Midlands -6 72 £490 +8.89% 185
North East +4 71 £450 +9.09% 119
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 (4.68%) Apache Airflow
2 129 (3.73%) Apache Spark
3 105 (3.03%) Apache
4 101 (2.92%) SAS
5 78 (2.25%) Confluence
6 63 (1.82%) CMS
7 49 (1.42%) SharePoint
8 33 (0.95%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 29 (0.84%) Palantir Foundry
10 22 (0.64%) Jupyter
11 20 (0.58%) Oracle Application Server
12 11 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
13 8 (0.23%) Drupal
13 8 (0.23%) nginx
13 8 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
14 7 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
15 6 (0.17%) Apache Superset
16 4 (0.12%) WordPress
17 3 (0.087%) IIS
17 3 (0.087%) SAP Portal
Applications
1 168 (4.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 28 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
4 20 (0.58%) Chatbot
5 16 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
6 15 (0.43%) MS Visio
7 13 (0.38%) CPLEX
7 13 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
8 5 (0.14%) Trello
9 3 (0.087%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.087%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.058%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.058%) LaTeX
10 2 (0.058%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.058%) PlantUML
10 2 (0.058%) 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 (2.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (0.61%) Workday HCM
4 16 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
5 15 (0.43%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 14 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
7 13 (0.38%) Aladdin
7 13 (0.38%) SAP HR
8 12 (0.35%) SAP FI
9 11 (0.32%) SAP CO
9 11 (0.32%) SAP HCM
10 9 (0.26%) SAP MM
10 9 (0.26%) SAP Payroll
10 9 (0.26%) Workfront
11 8 (0.23%) Shopify
12 7 (0.20%) SAP MDG
12 7 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
13 6 (0.17%) Eloqua
13 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
13 6 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 988 (28.55%) Azure
2 695 (20.09%) Power Platform
3 577 (16.68%) AWS
4 308 (8.90%) GCP
5 268 (7.75%) Snowflake
6 243 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
7 217 (6.27%) Azure Data Factory
8 212 (6.13%) dbt
9 161 (4.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 154 (4.45%) GitHub
11 142 (4.10%) Serverless
12 140 (4.05%) Azure Monitor
13 125 (3.61%) Entra ID
14 122 (3.53%) SaaS
15 121 (3.50%) Amazon S3
16 89 (2.57%) AWS Lambda
17 75 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
18 73 (2.11%) GitHub Actions
19 63 (1.82%) Adobe Analytics
20 62 (1.79%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 65 (1.88%) Firewall
2 60 (1.73%) Network Security
3 44 (1.27%) DNS
4 41 (1.18%) VPN
5 26 (0.75%) TCP/IP
6 22 (0.64%) Broadband
7 21 (0.61%) DHCP
8 20 (0.58%) WAN
9 15 (0.43%) BGP
9 15 (0.43%) SD-WAN
10 8 (0.23%) LAN
10 8 (0.23%) SSH
10 8 (0.23%) Wireless
11 7 (0.20%) SMS
12 6 (0.17%) HTTP
12 6 (0.17%) Kerberos
12 6 (0.17%) NGFW
12 6 (0.17%) OSPF
13 5 (0.14%) Internet
13 5 (0.14%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 669 (19.34%) Power BI
2 425 (12.28%) Data Warehouse
3 251 (7.25%) Data Lake
4 246 (7.11%) Metadata
5 212 (6.13%) Tableau
6 153 (4.42%) BigQuery
7 89 (2.57%) Amazon Redshift
8 85 (2.46%) Delta Lake
9 84 (2.43%) SQL Server
10 83 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
11 81 (2.34%) Looker
12 79 (2.28%) Big Data
13 78 (2.25%) Relational Database
14 63 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
15 61 (1.76%) NoSQL
16 59 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
16 59 (1.71%) Semantic Layer
17 52 (1.50%) Power Query
18 48 (1.39%) Snowflake Schema
19 46 (1.33%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 191 (5.52%) Git
2 154 (4.45%) JIRA
3 61 (1.76%) Jenkins
4 59 (1.71%) GitLab
5 11 (0.32%) MLflow
6 9 (0.26%) fastlane
6 9 (0.26%) RStudio
7 8 (0.23%) Gradle
7 8 (0.23%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.20%) Postman
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%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.14%) Android Studio
10 5 (0.14%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.14%) Visual Website Optimizer
10 5 (0.14%) Xcode
General
1 1,000 (28.90%) Social Skills
2 920 (26.59%) Finance
3 654 (18.90%) Analytical Skills
4 416 (12.02%) Public Sector
5 276 (7.98%) Banking
6 243 (7.02%) Marketing
7 177 (5.12%) Retail
8 118 (3.41%) Influencing Skills
9 90 (2.60%) Legal
10 89 (2.57%) Manufacturing
11 86 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 74 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
13 63 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
14 60 (1.73%) Front Office
15 55 (1.59%) Investment Banking
16 50 (1.45%) Publishing
17 44 (1.27%) Military
17 44 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
18 38 (1.10%) Financial Institution
18 38 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 552 (15.95%) Data Engineer
2 480 (13.87%) Senior
3 458 (13.24%) Analyst
4 441 (12.75%) Architect
5 290 (8.38%) Lead
6 289 (8.35%) Developer
7 201 (5.81%) Data Architect
8 184 (5.32%) Consultant
9 169 (4.88%) Data Analyst
10 126 (3.64%) Senior Data Engineer
11 121 (3.50%) Data Scientist
12 115 (3.32%) Solutions Architect
13 111 (3.21%) Business Analyst
14 104 (3.01%) Azure Engineer
15 71 (2.05%) Data Manager
16 68 (1.97%) AWS Engineer
17 66 (1.91%) Product Manager
17 66 (1.91%) Senior Analyst
18 63 (1.82%) Project Manager
19 61 (1.76%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 292 (8.44%) Terraform
2 204 (5.90%) PySpark
3 144 (4.16%) REST
4 105 (3.03%) Kafka
5 59 (1.71%) React
6 56 (1.62%) Pandas
7 51 (1.47%) HTML
7 51 (1.47%) RESTful
8 48 (1.39%) .NET
8 48 (1.39%) OAuth
9 47 (1.36%) ARM Templates
10 46 (1.33%) CSS
11 40 (1.16%) OpenID
12 39 (1.13%) NumPy
13 37 (1.07%) JSON
14 35 (1.01%) OAuth2
15 32 (0.92%) Oracle Fusion
15 32 (0.92%) Web Services
16 28 (0.81%) LDAP
17 27 (0.78%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 244 (7.05%) Cloud Native
2 185 (5.35%) Product Ownership
3 153 (4.42%) Onboarding
4 141 (4.08%) Data Structures
5 101 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
6 92 (2.66%) Management Information System
7 71 (2.05%) AI Agents
8 63 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
9 62 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
10 58 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
11 49 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
12 46 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
13 43 (1.24%) Algorithms
13 43 (1.24%) Marketing Technology
14 38 (1.10%) Social Media
14 38 (1.10%) Virtual Team
15 37 (1.07%) Derivative
15 37 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
15 37 (1.07%) Taxonomies
16 35 (1.01%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 98 (2.83%) Windows
2 94 (2.72%) Linux
3 43 (1.24%) Windows Server
4 39 (1.13%) Unix
5 16 (0.46%) Apple iOS
6 14 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.29%) Android
8 9 (0.26%) VMS
9 7 (0.20%) Windows 10
10 6 (0.17%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.087%) Solaris
11 3 (0.087%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.058%) AIX
12 2 (0.058%) HPUX
13 1 (0.029%) CentOS
13 1 (0.029%) Rocky
13 1 (0.029%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 967 (27.95%) AI
2 903 (26.10%) Data Modelling
3 864 (24.97%) Stakeholder Management
4 855 (24.71%) Business Intelligence
5 823 (23.79%) Agile
6 690 (19.94%) Decision-Making
7 677 (19.57%) Data Pipeline
8 655 (18.93%) Data Engineering
9 645 (18.64%) CI/CD
10 566 (16.36%) Data Governance
11 527 (15.23%) ETL
12 513 (14.83%) DevOps
13 475 (13.73%) Continuous Improvement
14 473 (13.67%) Problem-Solving
15 470 (13.58%) Roadmaps
16 450 (13.01%) Migration
17 437 (12.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 416 (12.02%) Machine Learning
18 416 (12.02%) Validation
19 399 (11.53%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 1,124 (32.49%) SQL
2 955 (27.60%) Python
3 165 (4.77%) PowerShell
4 102 (2.95%) Java
5 92 (2.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 91 (2.63%) JavaScript
7 88 (2.54%) Bicep
8 71 (2.05%) Bash
9 68 (1.97%) C#
10 57 (1.65%) R
11 41 (1.18%) TypeScript
12 37 (1.07%) Scala
13 30 (0.87%) Shell Script
14 29 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
15 19 (0.55%) ABAP
16 18 (0.52%) C++
17 17 (0.49%) PL/SQL
18 16 (0.46%) LookML
19 15 (0.43%) T-SQL
20 14 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 628 (18.15%) Security Cleared
2 501 (14.48%) SC Cleared
3 299 (8.64%) Degree
4 92 (2.66%) Azure Certification
5 90 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 79 (2.28%) DV Cleared
7 78 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
8 57 (1.65%) Master's Degree
9 51 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
10 42 (1.21%) CISSP
11 38 (1.10%) AWS Certification
12 33 (0.95%) PMI Certification
13 28 (0.81%) PMP
14 26 (0.75%) DBS Check
15 19 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
16 14 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
17 13 (0.38%) MBA
18 11 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 11 (0.32%) CISA
18 11 (0.32%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 763 (22.05%) Data Quality
2 154 (4.45%) GDPR
3 135 (3.90%) Accessibility
4 134 (3.87%) QA
5 50 (1.45%) GRC
6 40 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 40 (1.16%) WCAG
7 37 (1.07%) Actionable Recommendations
8 35 (1.01%) PMO
9 34 (0.98%) NIST
10 22 (0.64%) SLA
11 15 (0.43%) NCSC
12 13 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 12 (0.35%) IFRS
13 12 (0.35%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.29%) Solvency II
15 9 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 9 (0.26%) PERC
16 8 (0.23%) GMP
17 7 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 147 (4.25%) Docker
2 102 (2.95%) Active Directory
3 27 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.26%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.12%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 3 (0.087%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.087%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.087%) vSphere
8 3 (0.087%) XenApp
9 2 (0.058%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.029%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.029%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 153 (4.42%) Kubernetes
2 48 (1.39%) Ansible
3 41 (1.18%) Grafana
4 29 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (0.52%) Prometheus
5 18 (0.52%) SCCM
6 17 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.26%) Kibana
7 9 (0.26%) Progress Chef
8 8 (0.23%) FortiGate
8 8 (0.23%) SCOM
9 6 (0.17%) Control-M
9 6 (0.17%) Podman
10 5 (0.14%) QRadar
11 4 (0.12%) SysTrack
12 3 (0.087%) CASB
13 2 (0.058%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.058%) MOM
13 2 (0.058%) NetBackup
13 2 (0.058%) Puppet
Vendors
1 673 (19.45%) Microsoft
2 437 (12.63%) Databricks
3 203 (5.87%) SAP
4 196 (5.66%) Oracle
5 192 (5.55%) Google
6 99 (2.86%) Adobe
7 89 (2.57%) ServiceNow
8 88 (2.54%) Salesforce
9 55 (1.59%) Workday
10 46 (1.33%) Splunk
11 45 (1.30%) Dynatrace
12 41 (1.18%) Foundry
13 35 (1.01%) Palantir
14 31 (0.90%) Informatica
15 30 (0.87%) VMware
16 29 (0.84%) Cisco
17 27 (0.78%) Talend
18 26 (0.75%) OpenAI
19 24 (0.69%) Amplitude
19 24 (0.69%) Denodo