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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 34
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 +3
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,535 1,819 1,776
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.76% 6.54% 5.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.12% 7.20% 6.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,363 1,201 1,274
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £428 £440 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £688
90th Percentile £750 £806 £796
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 48 25
10th Percentile £20.45 £15.27 £21.44
25th Percentile £28.50 £24.50 £27.00
Median hourly rate £53.00 £34.74 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.56% +12.06% -4.05%
75th Percentile £77.50 £70.48 £43.75
90th Percentile £87.73 £80.30 £69.78
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £34.74 £30.19
% change year-on-year +51.12% +15.09% -6.58%

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 38,771 25,264 28,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.11% 90.78% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,101 16,147 18,629
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,535 1,418 1,654
10th Percentile £14.56 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.87 £18.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.19%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.05 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +68.99% -38.57% -3.67%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 10 August 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 1,941 £550 -2.22% 2,655
North of England +13 438 £492 +9.27% 485
Midlands +6 429 £493 -4.37% 248
South East +9 354 £500 -2.91% 546
West Midlands +5 344 £492 -6.29% 165
North West +3 218 £525 +12.18% 277
South West +12 181 £500 +5.26% 198
Yorkshire +8 178 £463 +1.31% 155
East of England -7 108 £565 -2.59% 132
East Midlands +11 78 £519 +25.76% 83
North East -3 52 £450 +9.09% 56
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
1 159 (4.50%) Apache Airflow
2 151 (4.27%) Apache Spark
3 127 (3.59%) SAS
4 98 (2.77%) Apache
5 76 (2.15%) Confluence
6 49 (1.39%) SharePoint
7 48 (1.36%) CMS
8 31 (0.88%) Jupyter
9 30 (0.85%) Palantir Foundry
10 25 (0.71%) Oracle Application Server
11 20 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 11 (0.31%) Apache Superset
12 11 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
13 9 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
14 8 (0.23%) Drupal
14 8 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
15 7 (0.20%) WordPress
16 6 (0.17%) IIS
17 2 (0.057%) ArcGIS
17 2 (0.057%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 161 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 23 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (0.59%) Chatbot
5 18 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (0.40%) CPLEX
7 12 (0.34%) MS Visio
8 11 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
9 4 (0.11%) Trello
10 3 (0.085%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.085%) Sketch
11 2 (0.057%) InDesign
11 2 (0.057%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.028%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.028%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.028%) Notion
12 1 (0.028%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.028%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 64 (1.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
4 13 (0.37%) Workday HCM
5 11 (0.31%) Aladdin
5 11 (0.31%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 10 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
7 9 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
7 9 (0.25%) Shopify
8 8 (0.23%) SAP ERP
9 7 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
10 6 (0.17%) NetSuite
10 6 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
10 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.17%) SAP GRC
11 5 (0.14%) BambooHR
11 5 (0.14%) Infor LN
11 5 (0.14%) Sage X3
11 5 (0.14%) SAP BPC
11 5 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,033 (29.22%) Azure
2 722 (20.42%) Power Platform
3 631 (17.85%) AWS
4 306 (8.66%) GCP
5 238 (6.73%) Azure DevOps
6 237 (6.70%) Snowflake
7 222 (6.28%) Azure Data Factory
8 188 (5.32%) dbt
9 187 (5.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 162 (4.58%) GitHub
11 138 (3.90%) Serverless
12 132 (3.73%) Azure Monitor
13 131 (3.71%) Amazon S3
14 111 (3.14%) Entra ID
15 101 (2.86%) SaaS
16 94 (2.66%) AWS Lambda
17 90 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
18 81 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
19 61 (1.73%) Google Analytics
20 55 (1.56%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 60 (1.70%) Firewall
2 46 (1.30%) Network Security
3 35 (0.99%) VPN
4 33 (0.93%) DNS
5 27 (0.76%) WAN
6 24 (0.68%) SD-WAN
7 21 (0.59%) BGP
8 20 (0.57%) TCP/IP
9 13 (0.37%) DHCP
10 12 (0.34%) OSPF
11 10 (0.28%) SMS
11 10 (0.28%) Wireless
12 9 (0.25%) Broadband
13 8 (0.23%) LAN
13 8 (0.23%) VXLAN
14 7 (0.20%) 5G
14 7 (0.20%) HTTP
14 7 (0.20%) Internet
14 7 (0.20%) MPLS
14 7 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 689 (19.49%) Power BI
2 466 (13.18%) Data Warehouse
3 268 (7.58%) Data Lake
4 232 (6.56%) Tableau
5 213 (6.03%) Metadata
6 137 (3.88%) BigQuery
7 102 (2.89%) Big Data
8 99 (2.80%) SQL Server
9 96 (2.72%) Delta Lake
10 95 (2.69%) Amazon Redshift
11 90 (2.55%) Relational Database
12 74 (2.09%) NoSQL
13 73 (2.07%) Snowflake Schema
14 70 (1.98%) Looker
15 69 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
16 67 (1.90%) Amazon Athena
17 65 (1.84%) Azure SQL Database
18 60 (1.70%) Semantic Layer
19 57 (1.61%) Power Query
20 53 (1.50%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 207 (5.86%) Git
2 173 (4.89%) JIRA
3 80 (2.26%) Jenkins
4 53 (1.50%) GitLab
5 16 (0.45%) ERwin
6 10 (0.28%) ER Studio
6 10 (0.28%) fastlane
6 10 (0.28%) JUnit
6 10 (0.28%) MLflow
6 10 (0.28%) Selenium
7 9 (0.25%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.20%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.20%) Gradle
8 7 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (0.17%) Android Studio
9 6 (0.17%) Crashlytics
9 6 (0.17%) Postman
9 6 (0.17%) PowerDesigner
10 5 (0.14%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.14%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 914 (25.86%) Social Skills
2 886 (25.06%) Finance
3 628 (17.77%) Analytical Skills
4 429 (12.14%) Public Sector
5 256 (7.24%) Banking
6 217 (6.14%) Marketing
7 157 (4.44%) Retail
8 88 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 87 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
10 71 (2.01%) Legal
11 67 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
11 67 (1.90%) Manufacturing
12 62 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
13 58 (1.64%) Front Office
14 55 (1.56%) Investment Banking
15 50 (1.41%) Telecoms
16 46 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
17 40 (1.13%) Financial Institution
18 37 (1.05%) Publishing
19 36 (1.02%) Military
Job Titles
1 627 (17.74%) Data Engineer
2 459 (12.98%) Architect
3 440 (12.45%) Senior
4 435 (12.31%) Analyst
5 350 (9.90%) Developer
6 302 (8.54%) Lead
7 203 (5.74%) Data Architect
8 176 (4.98%) Data Analyst
9 153 (4.33%) Consultant
10 128 (3.62%) Solutions Architect
11 111 (3.14%) Data Scientist
12 110 (3.11%) Business Analyst
13 109 (3.08%) Azure Engineer
14 107 (3.03%) Senior Data Engineer
15 75 (2.12%) Data Manager
16 63 (1.78%) Python Developer
17 62 (1.75%) Azure Data Engineer
17 62 (1.75%) Product Manager
17 62 (1.75%) Project Manager
18 58 (1.64%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 206 (5.83%) PySpark
2 134 (3.79%) REST
3 126 (3.56%) Kafka
4 67 (1.90%) Pandas
5 58 (1.64%) RESTful
6 50 (1.41%) JSON
7 48 (1.36%) .NET
7 48 (1.36%) HTML
7 48 (1.36%) React
8 43 (1.22%) CSS
9 42 (1.19%) NumPy
10 41 (1.16%) OAuth
11 37 (1.05%) ARM Templates
11 37 (1.05%) Oracle Fusion
12 35 (0.99%) SOAP
12 35 (0.99%) Web Services
13 33 (0.93%) OpenID
14 32 (0.91%) scikit-learn
15 31 (0.88%) OAuth2
16 29 (0.82%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 238 (6.73%) Cloud Native
2 185 (5.23%) Product Ownership
3 147 (4.16%) Data Structures
4 125 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
5 114 (3.22%) Onboarding
6 71 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
7 65 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
8 54 (1.53%) Management Information System
9 50 (1.41%) AI Agents
10 48 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
11 47 (1.33%) Algorithms
11 47 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
12 44 (1.24%) NHS
13 43 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
14 40 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
15 38 (1.07%) Virtual Team
16 37 (1.05%) Marketing Technology
17 36 (1.02%) Mobile App
18 31 (0.88%) Derivative
19 30 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 89 (2.52%) Linux
2 78 (2.21%) Windows
3 41 (1.16%) Unix
4 27 (0.76%) Windows Server
5 18 (0.51%) Apple iOS
6 13 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.34%) Mac OS
8 10 (0.28%) Android
9 7 (0.20%) VMS
10 4 (0.11%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.085%) Solaris
12 2 (0.057%) AIX
12 2 (0.057%) CentOS
12 2 (0.057%) HPUX
12 2 (0.057%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.028%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 971 (27.47%) Data Modelling
2 923 (26.11%) Business Intelligence
3 844 (23.88%) AI
4 824 (23.31%) Agile
5 745 (21.07%) Data Pipeline
6 706 (19.97%) Data Engineering
7 687 (19.43%) CI/CD
8 648 (18.33%) Stakeholder Management
9 619 (17.51%) Decision-Making
10 607 (17.17%) ETL
11 556 (15.73%) DevOps
12 552 (15.62%) Data Governance
13 517 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
14 443 (12.53%) Migration
15 436 (12.33%) Continuous Improvement
16 425 (12.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 419 (11.85%) Machine Learning
18 410 (11.60%) Data Science
19 408 (11.54%) Validation
20 373 (10.55%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,155 (32.67%) SQL
2 1,007 (28.49%) Python
3 147 (4.16%) PowerShell
4 113 (3.20%) Java
5 105 (2.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 87 (2.46%) C#
7 79 (2.23%) Bicep
8 72 (2.04%) JavaScript
9 61 (1.73%) R
10 48 (1.36%) Bash
11 38 (1.07%) Kusto Query Language
12 37 (1.05%) Shell Script
12 37 (1.05%) TypeScript
13 36 (1.02%) Scala
14 32 (0.91%) T-SQL
15 27 (0.76%) PL/SQL
16 20 (0.57%) C++
16 20 (0.57%) VBA
17 11 (0.31%) Kotlin
18 10 (0.28%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 647 (18.30%) Security Cleared
2 514 (14.54%) SC Cleared
3 277 (7.84%) Degree
4 83 (2.35%) Azure Certification
4 83 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 77 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 70 (1.98%) DV Cleared
7 53 (1.50%) Master's Degree
8 42 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
9 36 (1.02%) CISSP
10 29 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
11 28 (0.79%) AWS Certification
12 25 (0.71%) PMI Certification
13 21 (0.59%) PMP
14 20 (0.57%) DBS Check
15 16 (0.45%) CCNP
16 15 (0.42%) CCIE
17 13 (0.37%) PhD
18 11 (0.31%) CISA
19 10 (0.28%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 683 (19.32%) Data Quality
2 167 (4.72%) GDPR
3 141 (3.99%) QA
4 131 (3.71%) Accessibility
5 51 (1.44%) GRC
6 49 (1.39%) WCAG
7 40 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 32 (0.91%) NIST
9 26 (0.74%) PMO
10 23 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
11 16 (0.45%) SLA
12 14 (0.40%) Solvency II
13 13 (0.37%) PCI DSS
13 13 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 11 (0.31%) PERC
15 10 (0.28%) IFRS
15 10 (0.28%) NCSC
16 7 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
17 6 (0.17%) GAAP
18 5 (0.14%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 162 (4.58%) Docker
2 87 (2.46%) Active Directory
3 25 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.17%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.17%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.11%) HDFS
8 3 (0.085%) Snort
9 2 (0.057%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.057%) vSphere
10 1 (0.028%) iptables
10 1 (0.028%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.028%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 258 (7.30%) Terraform
2 185 (5.23%) Kubernetes
3 49 (1.39%) Ansible
4 37 (1.05%) Grafana
5 24 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 24 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
6 23 (0.65%) Prometheus
7 11 (0.31%) SCCM
8 8 (0.23%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.20%) Control-M
10 6 (0.17%) SCOM
11 4 (0.11%) Podman
11 4 (0.11%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.11%) QRadar
12 3 (0.085%) Apache Ranger
12 3 (0.085%) CASB
12 3 (0.085%) CSIRT
12 3 (0.085%) Kibana
12 3 (0.085%) NetBackup
13 2 (0.057%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 616 (17.43%) Microsoft
2 455 (12.87%) Databricks
3 226 (6.39%) Oracle
4 183 (5.18%) SAP
5 175 (4.95%) Google
6 88 (2.49%) ServiceNow
7 84 (2.38%) Adobe
7 84 (2.38%) Salesforce
8 54 (1.53%) Splunk
9 52 (1.47%) Workday
10 47 (1.33%) Foundry
11 44 (1.24%) Denodo
12 43 (1.22%) Informatica
13 42 (1.19%) Talend
14 40 (1.13%) Dynatrace
15 38 (1.07%) Palantir
16 30 (0.85%) Cisco
17 26 (0.74%) OpenAI
17 26 (0.74%) VMware
18 19 (0.54%) Amplitude