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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 26 34
Rank change year-on-year 0 +8 +2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,492 1,842 1,728
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.50% 6.61% 5.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.87% 7.28% 6.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,265 1,216 1,179
10th Percentile £363 £360 £356
25th Percentile £435 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £678
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 43 26
10th Percentile £17.55 £18.85 £23.25
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.90 £27.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +7.69% -8.13%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.81 £52.19
90th Percentile £85.10 £79.75 £70.49
UK median hourly rate £48.75 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +39.29% +7.69% -8.13%

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 39,385 25,311 28,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.63% 90.87% 86.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,009 16,087 17,408
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,837 1,536 1,254
10th Percentile £13.99 £14.41 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.72 £17.87 £20.14
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.05%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.22 £66.61
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 25 September 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 0 1,932 £550 - 6,380
North of England +14 471 £489 +2.89% 996
Midlands +1 372 £492 -4.79% 589
South East +14 348 £520 -0.95% 1,015
West Midlands +2 304 £492 -5.84% 388
North West +2 225 £525 +10.53% 578
Yorkshire +13 189 £473 -0.53% 305
South West +26 174 £525 +10.53% 388
East of England -14 112 £580 +4.74% 332
North East +5 65 £450 +20.00% 117
East Midlands -4 65 £490 +5.95% 201
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
1 170 (4.87%) Apache Airflow
2 135 (3.87%) Apache Spark
3 113 (3.24%) SAS
4 103 (2.95%) Apache
5 82 (2.35%) Confluence
6 59 (1.69%) CMS
7 50 (1.43%) SharePoint
8 35 (1.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 29 (0.83%) Jupyter
10 28 (0.80%) Palantir Foundry
11 22 (0.63%) Oracle Application Server
12 10 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
13 9 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
14 8 (0.23%) Apache Superset
14 8 (0.23%) Drupal
14 8 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
15 6 (0.17%) WordPress
16 4 (0.11%) nginx
17 3 (0.086%) IIS
18 2 (0.057%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 166 (4.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 26 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
4 22 (0.63%) Chatbot
5 17 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (0.40%) CPLEX
7 12 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
7 12 (0.34%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.14%) Trello
9 3 (0.086%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.086%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.057%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.057%) Sketch
11 1 (0.029%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.029%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.029%) InDesign
11 1 (0.029%) Notion
11 1 (0.029%) PlantUML
11 1 (0.029%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 76 (2.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.54%) Workday HCM
4 17 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
5 14 (0.40%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 14 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
6 13 (0.37%) Aladdin
7 9 (0.26%) SAP CO
7 9 (0.26%) SAP FI
7 9 (0.26%) SAP HR
7 9 (0.26%) Shopify
8 7 (0.20%) SAP ERP
8 7 (0.20%) SAP HCM
8 7 (0.20%) SAP MDG
8 7 (0.20%) Workfront
9 6 (0.17%) NetSuite
9 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
9 6 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
9 6 (0.17%) SAP GRC
9 6 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,004 (28.75%) Azure
2 710 (20.33%) Power Platform
3 613 (17.55%) AWS
4 314 (8.99%) GCP
5 266 (7.62%) Snowflake
6 233 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
7 228 (6.53%) Azure Data Factory
8 208 (5.96%) dbt
9 174 (4.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 151 (4.32%) GitHub
11 145 (4.15%) Serverless
12 132 (3.78%) Amazon S3
13 125 (3.58%) Azure Monitor
14 112 (3.21%) SaaS
15 111 (3.18%) Entra ID
16 93 (2.66%) AWS Lambda
17 82 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
18 75 (2.15%) GitHub Actions
19 64 (1.83%) Adobe Analytics
19 64 (1.83%) Azure Databricks
Communications & Networking
1 57 (1.63%) Firewall
2 50 (1.43%) Network Security
3 36 (1.03%) DNS
4 32 (0.92%) VPN
5 22 (0.63%) TCP/IP
6 20 (0.57%) Broadband
7 19 (0.54%) WAN
8 15 (0.43%) BGP
8 15 (0.43%) DHCP
8 15 (0.43%) SD-WAN
9 9 (0.26%) SMS
10 8 (0.23%) Wireless
11 7 (0.20%) HTTP
11 7 (0.20%) LAN
12 6 (0.17%) Kerberos
12 6 (0.17%) NGFW
12 6 (0.17%) OSPF
12 6 (0.17%) SSH
12 6 (0.17%) WLAN
13 5 (0.14%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 684 (19.59%) Power BI
2 442 (12.66%) Data Warehouse
3 259 (7.42%) Data Lake
4 240 (6.87%) Metadata
5 224 (6.41%) Tableau
6 153 (4.38%) BigQuery
7 89 (2.55%) Amazon Redshift
8 87 (2.49%) Big Data
8 87 (2.49%) SQL Server
9 83 (2.38%) Delta Lake
10 79 (2.26%) Looker
11 78 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
11 78 (2.23%) Relational Database
12 70 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
13 61 (1.75%) Semantic Layer
14 56 (1.60%) NoSQL
15 53 (1.52%) Snowflake Schema
16 52 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
17 51 (1.46%) Power Query
18 45 (1.29%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 190 (5.44%) Git
2 161 (4.61%) JIRA
3 62 (1.78%) GitLab
4 60 (1.72%) Jenkins
5 13 (0.37%) MLflow
6 10 (0.29%) SonarQube
7 9 (0.26%) RStudio
8 8 (0.23%) ERwin
8 8 (0.23%) fastlane
9 7 (0.20%) ER Studio
9 7 (0.20%) Gradle
9 7 (0.20%) Selenium
9 7 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (0.17%) JUnit
10 6 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
10 6 (0.17%) Postman
11 5 (0.14%) Crashlytics
11 5 (0.14%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.14%) Terragrunt
11 5 (0.14%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 981 (28.09%) Social Skills
2 908 (26.00%) Finance
3 656 (18.79%) Analytical Skills
4 417 (11.94%) Public Sector
5 274 (7.85%) Banking
6 229 (6.56%) Marketing
7 180 (5.15%) Retail
8 112 (3.21%) Influencing Skills
9 89 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 84 (2.41%) Manufacturing
11 83 (2.38%) Legal
12 72 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
13 67 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
14 61 (1.75%) Front Office
15 55 (1.58%) Investment Banking
16 50 (1.43%) Publishing
17 42 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
17 42 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
18 40 (1.15%) Military
19 39 (1.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 574 (16.44%) Data Engineer
2 473 (13.55%) Senior
3 456 (13.06%) Analyst
4 450 (12.89%) Architect
5 292 (8.36%) Developer
6 291 (8.33%) Lead
7 208 (5.96%) Data Architect
8 175 (5.01%) Consultant
9 167 (4.78%) Data Analyst
10 122 (3.49%) Senior Data Engineer
11 120 (3.44%) Solutions Architect
12 119 (3.41%) Data Scientist
13 110 (3.15%) Business Analyst
14 99 (2.84%) Azure Engineer
15 73 (2.09%) Data Manager
16 65 (1.86%) Senior Manager
17 64 (1.83%) Product Manager
17 64 (1.83%) Senior Analyst
18 61 (1.75%) AWS Engineer
19 60 (1.72%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 280 (8.02%) Terraform
2 204 (5.84%) PySpark
3 134 (3.84%) REST
4 107 (3.06%) Kafka
5 59 (1.69%) Pandas
6 55 (1.58%) HTML
7 51 (1.46%) React
8 50 (1.43%) CSS
9 49 (1.40%) RESTful
10 44 (1.26%) .NET
11 42 (1.20%) OAuth
12 41 (1.17%) JSON
13 40 (1.15%) ARM Templates
14 38 (1.09%) NumPy
15 35 (1.00%) OpenID
16 32 (0.92%) Web Services
17 31 (0.89%) OAuth2
17 31 (0.89%) SOAP
18 27 (0.77%) Oracle Fusion
18 27 (0.77%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 249 (7.13%) Cloud Native
2 193 (5.53%) Product Ownership
3 143 (4.10%) Onboarding
4 138 (3.95%) Data Structures
5 100 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
6 82 (2.35%) Management Information System
7 68 (1.95%) AI Agents
7 68 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
8 61 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
9 47 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
10 46 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
11 45 (1.29%) Algorithms
12 43 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
13 41 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
14 39 (1.12%) Virtual Team
15 38 (1.09%) NHS
15 38 (1.09%) Social Media
16 37 (1.06%) Marketing Technology
17 35 (1.00%) Derivative
18 33 (0.95%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 91 (2.61%) Windows
2 84 (2.41%) Linux
3 40 (1.15%) Unix
4 35 (1.00%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.29%) Mac OS
8 9 (0.26%) Android
8 9 (0.26%) VMS
9 6 (0.17%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.086%) Solaris
10 3 (0.086%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.057%) AIX
11 2 (0.057%) CentOS
11 2 (0.057%) HPUX
12 1 (0.029%) Rocky
12 1 (0.029%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 950 (27.21%) AI
2 912 (26.12%) Data Modelling
3 883 (25.29%) Business Intelligence
4 817 (23.40%) Stakeholder Management
5 811 (23.22%) Agile
6 712 (20.39%) Data Pipeline
7 684 (19.59%) Decision-Making
8 669 (19.16%) Data Engineering
9 651 (18.64%) CI/CD
10 572 (16.38%) Data Governance
11 544 (15.58%) ETL
12 521 (14.92%) DevOps
13 502 (14.38%) Problem-Solving
14 470 (13.46%) Migration
15 457 (13.09%) Continuous Improvement
16 449 (12.86%) Roadmaps
17 439 (12.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 433 (12.40%) Machine Learning
19 418 (11.97%) Data Science
20 414 (11.86%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1,133 (32.45%) SQL
2 972 (27.84%) Python
3 158 (4.52%) PowerShell
4 104 (2.98%) Java
5 91 (2.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 87 (2.49%) JavaScript
7 78 (2.23%) Bicep
8 72 (2.06%) C#
9 64 (1.83%) R
10 63 (1.80%) Bash
11 39 (1.12%) Scala
12 37 (1.06%) TypeScript
13 31 (0.89%) Shell Script
14 28 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
15 25 (0.72%) T-SQL
16 20 (0.57%) C++
17 18 (0.52%) PL/SQL
18 15 (0.43%) ABAP
19 14 (0.40%) VBA
20 12 (0.34%) LookML
Qualifications
1 620 (17.75%) Security Cleared
2 496 (14.20%) SC Cleared
3 292 (8.36%) Degree
4 89 (2.55%) Azure Certification
5 84 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 75 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 74 (2.12%) DV Cleared
8 56 (1.60%) Master's Degree
9 53 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 46 (1.32%) CISSP
11 38 (1.09%) AWS Certification
12 34 (0.97%) PMI Certification
13 29 (0.83%) PMP
14 26 (0.74%) DBS Check
15 20 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
16 12 (0.34%) CISA
17 11 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 11 (0.32%) MBA
17 11 (0.32%) PhD
17 11 (0.32%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 764 (21.88%) Data Quality
2 154 (4.41%) GDPR
3 140 (4.01%) QA
4 129 (3.69%) Accessibility
5 50 (1.43%) GRC
6 41 (1.17%) WCAG
7 40 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 34 (0.97%) NIST
9 33 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
10 32 (0.92%) PMO
11 23 (0.66%) SLA
12 13 (0.37%) NCSC
12 13 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 12 (0.34%) IFRS
14 11 (0.32%) PCI DSS
14 11 (0.32%) PERC
15 10 (0.29%) Solvency II
16 8 (0.23%) GMP
17 7 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
18 6 (0.17%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 153 (4.38%) Docker
2 94 (2.69%) Active Directory
3 27 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.26%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.11%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 3 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.086%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.086%) vSphere
8 3 (0.086%) XenApp
9 2 (0.057%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.029%) iptables
10 1 (0.029%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.029%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 162 (4.64%) Kubernetes
2 45 (1.29%) Ansible
3 35 (1.00%) Grafana
4 26 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (0.52%) Prometheus
7 13 (0.37%) SCCM
8 8 (0.23%) FortiGate
8 8 (0.23%) Progress Chef
8 8 (0.23%) SCOM
9 7 (0.20%) Control-M
10 6 (0.17%) Kibana
10 6 (0.17%) Podman
11 4 (0.11%) QRadar
11 4 (0.11%) SysTrack
12 3 (0.086%) CASB
13 2 (0.057%) Argo
13 2 (0.057%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.057%) MOM
13 2 (0.057%) Puppet
Vendors
1 662 (18.96%) Microsoft
2 451 (12.92%) Databricks
3 198 (5.67%) Oracle
3 198 (5.67%) SAP
4 187 (5.36%) Google
5 96 (2.75%) Adobe
6 88 (2.52%) ServiceNow
7 86 (2.46%) Salesforce
8 59 (1.69%) Workday
9 53 (1.52%) Splunk
10 40 (1.15%) Dynatrace
10 40 (1.15%) Foundry
11 34 (0.97%) Palantir
12 33 (0.95%) Informatica
13 31 (0.89%) Talend
14 30 (0.86%) VMware
15 28 (0.80%) Cisco
15 28 (0.80%) Denodo
16 26 (0.74%) OpenAI
17 24 (0.69%) Amplitude