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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 27 34
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 +4
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,457 1,878 1,724
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.47% 6.69% 5.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.81% 7.37% 6.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,226 1,234 1,161
10th Percentile £363 £363 £353
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 103 45 27
10th Percentile £18.00 £17.30 £23.65
25th Percentile £26.25 £22.50 £27.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £40.49 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.66% +24.58% -8.30%
75th Percentile £73.75 £71.45 £59.41
90th Percentile £86.65 £82.70 £69.34
UK median hourly rate £48.75 £35.00 £31.75
% change year-on-year +39.29% +10.24% -10.41%

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 39,257 25,497 27,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.86% 90.90% 86.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,690 16,157 17,059
10th Percentile £325 £293 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £416
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 2,996 1,590 1,150
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.54 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.33 £17.87 £20.30
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 £67.38
90th Percentile £78.88 £67.28 £74.88
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.16
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.38% -8.38%

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 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 10 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 10 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 0 1,914 £550 - 7,077
North of England +9 466 £489 +2.89% 1,021
South East +14 360 £515 -2.00% 987
Midlands +1 358 £490 -4.85% 567
West Midlands -1 285 £488 -6.70% 369
North West -2 224 £525 +10.53% 605
South West +22 176 £525 +5.00% 349
Yorkshire +15 176 £475 -1.50% 287
East of England -10 107 £600 +8.35% 381
North East +6 72 £450 +9.09% 131
East Midlands -2 72 £490 +7.40% 198
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 (4.69%) Apache Airflow
2 131 (3.79%) Apache Spark
3 106 (3.07%) Apache
4 101 (2.92%) SAS
5 78 (2.26%) Confluence
6 63 (1.82%) CMS
7 48 (1.39%) SharePoint
8 32 (0.93%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 29 (0.84%) Palantir Foundry
10 22 (0.64%) Jupyter
11 20 (0.58%) Oracle Application Server
12 12 (0.35%) 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
1 169 (4.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 28 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (0.52%) 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 (2.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (0.61%) Workday HCM
4 16 (0.46%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 15 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
5 15 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
6 13 (0.38%) Aladdin
6 13 (0.38%) SAP HR
7 12 (0.35%) SAP FI
8 11 (0.32%) SAP CO
8 11 (0.32%) SAP HCM
9 9 (0.26%) SAP MM
9 9 (0.26%) SAP Payroll
9 9 (0.26%) Workfront
10 8 (0.23%) Shopify
11 7 (0.20%) SAP MDG
11 7 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
12 6 (0.17%) Eloqua
12 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
12 6 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 991 (28.67%) Azure
2 697 (20.16%) Power Platform
3 576 (16.66%) AWS
4 311 (9.00%) GCP
5 271 (7.84%) Snowflake
6 242 (7.00%) Azure DevOps
7 219 (6.33%) Azure Data Factory
8 211 (6.10%) dbt
9 161 (4.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 154 (4.45%) GitHub
11 141 (4.08%) Azure Monitor
12 140 (4.05%) Serverless
13 126 (3.64%) Entra ID
14 124 (3.59%) SaaS
15 118 (3.41%) Amazon S3
16 87 (2.52%) AWS Lambda
17 76 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
18 73 (2.11%) GitHub Actions
19 63 (1.82%) Azure Databricks
20 62 (1.79%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 64 (1.85%) Firewall
2 61 (1.76%) Network Security
3 45 (1.30%) DNS
4 40 (1.16%) VPN
5 26 (0.75%) TCP/IP
6 22 (0.64%) Broadband
7 21 (0.61%) DHCP
8 19 (0.55%) WAN
9 15 (0.43%) BGP
10 14 (0.40%) SD-WAN
11 8 (0.23%) HTTP
11 8 (0.23%) SSH
11 8 (0.23%) Wireless
12 7 (0.20%) Cisco IPT
12 7 (0.20%) Internet
12 7 (0.20%) LAN
12 7 (0.20%) SMS
13 6 (0.17%) Kerberos
13 6 (0.17%) NGFW
13 6 (0.17%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 671 (19.41%) Power BI
2 423 (12.24%) Data Warehouse
3 253 (7.32%) Data Lake
4 246 (7.12%) Metadata
5 212 (6.13%) Tableau
6 157 (4.54%) BigQuery
7 87 (2.52%) Amazon Redshift
8 86 (2.49%) SQL Server
9 85 (2.46%) Delta Lake
10 84 (2.43%) PostgreSQL
11 82 (2.37%) Looker
12 79 (2.29%) Big Data
12 79 (2.29%) Relational Database
13 62 (1.79%) NoSQL
14 60 (1.74%) Amazon Athena
15 59 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
15 59 (1.71%) Semantic Layer
16 54 (1.56%) Power Query
17 48 (1.39%) Snowflake Schema
18 47 (1.36%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 193 (5.58%) 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
9 6 (0.17%) Xcode
10 5 (0.14%) Android Studio
10 5 (0.14%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.14%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 1,000 (28.93%) Social Skills
2 924 (26.73%) Finance
3 653 (18.89%) Analytical Skills
4 413 (11.95%) Public Sector
5 277 (8.01%) Banking
6 244 (7.06%) Marketing
7 175 (5.06%) Retail
8 118 (3.41%) Influencing Skills
9 92 (2.66%) Legal
10 89 (2.57%) Manufacturing
11 84 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 74 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
13 64 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
14 60 (1.74%) Front Office
15 55 (1.59%) Investment Banking
16 50 (1.45%) Publishing
17 44 (1.27%) Military
17 44 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
18 39 (1.13%) Financial Institution
19 38 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 549 (15.88%) Data Engineer
2 482 (13.94%) Senior
3 461 (13.34%) Analyst
4 434 (12.55%) Architect
5 291 (8.42%) Developer
5 291 (8.42%) Lead
6 195 (5.64%) Data Architect
7 187 (5.41%) Consultant
8 170 (4.92%) Data Analyst
9 127 (3.67%) Senior Data Engineer
10 121 (3.50%) Data Scientist
11 115 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
12 112 (3.24%) Business Analyst
13 103 (2.98%) Azure Engineer
14 72 (2.08%) Data Manager
15 67 (1.94%) Senior Analyst
16 66 (1.91%) AWS Engineer
17 64 (1.85%) Product Manager
17 64 (1.85%) Project Manager
18 60 (1.74%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 293 (8.48%) Terraform
2 203 (5.87%) PySpark
3 145 (4.19%) REST
4 107 (3.10%) Kafka
5 57 (1.65%) Pandas
5 57 (1.65%) React
6 51 (1.48%) HTML
6 51 (1.48%) RESTful
7 48 (1.39%) .NET
7 48 (1.39%) OAuth
8 47 (1.36%) ARM Templates
9 46 (1.33%) CSS
10 40 (1.16%) OpenID
11 39 (1.13%) NumPy
12 37 (1.07%) JSON
13 35 (1.01%) OAuth2
14 32 (0.93%) Web Services
15 31 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
16 28 (0.81%) LDAP
17 27 (0.78%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 243 (7.03%) Cloud Native
2 184 (5.32%) Product Ownership
3 152 (4.40%) Onboarding
4 142 (4.11%) Data Structures
5 102 (2.95%) Legacy Systems
6 93 (2.69%) Management Information System
7 70 (2.02%) AI Agents
8 63 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
9 62 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
10 60 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
11 49 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
12 45 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
12 45 (1.30%) Marketing Technology
13 42 (1.21%) Algorithms
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 36 (1.04%) 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 19 (0.55%) Apple iOS
6 14 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 13 (0.38%) 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
1 965 (27.91%) AI
2 904 (26.15%) Data Modelling
3 866 (25.05%) Stakeholder Management
4 855 (24.73%) Business Intelligence
5 818 (23.66%) Agile
6 690 (19.96%) Decision-Making
7 679 (19.64%) Data Pipeline
8 657 (19.00%) Data Engineering
9 644 (18.63%) CI/CD
10 568 (16.43%) Data Governance
11 529 (15.30%) ETL
12 511 (14.78%) DevOps
13 475 (13.74%) Continuous Improvement
13 475 (13.74%) Problem-Solving
14 467 (13.51%) Roadmaps
15 451 (13.05%) Migration
16 436 (12.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 418 (12.09%) Machine Learning
18 414 (11.98%) Validation
19 400 (11.57%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 1,126 (32.57%) SQL
2 960 (27.77%) Python
3 166 (4.80%) PowerShell
4 101 (2.92%) Java
5 93 (2.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 93 (2.69%) JavaScript
6 88 (2.55%) Bicep
7 71 (2.05%) Bash
8 68 (1.97%) C#
9 57 (1.65%) R
10 39 (1.13%) TypeScript
11 35 (1.01%) Scala
12 30 (0.87%) Shell Script
13 29 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
14 19 (0.55%) ABAP
15 18 (0.52%) C++
16 17 (0.49%) PL/SQL
17 16 (0.46%) LookML
18 15 (0.43%) T-SQL
19 14 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 628 (18.17%) Security Cleared
2 501 (14.49%) SC Cleared
3 300 (8.68%) Degree
4 92 (2.66%) Azure Certification
5 89 (2.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 81 (2.34%) DV Cleared
7 78 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 57 (1.65%) Master's Degree
9 51 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
10 42 (1.21%) CISSP
11 39 (1.13%) AWS Certification
12 33 (0.95%) PMI Certification
13 28 (0.81%) PMP
14 26 (0.75%) DBS Check
15 18 (0.52%) 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
1 764 (22.10%) Data Quality
2 155 (4.48%) GDPR
3 138 (3.99%) QA
4 133 (3.85%) Accessibility
5 50 (1.45%) GRC
6 40 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 40 (1.16%) WCAG
7 39 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
8 36 (1.04%) PMO
9 34 (0.98%) NIST
10 23 (0.67%) SLA
11 15 (0.43%) NCSC
12 12 (0.35%) IFRS
12 12 (0.35%) PCI DSS
12 12 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 11 (0.32%) PERC
14 10 (0.29%) Solvency II
15 9 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 8 (0.23%) GMP
17 7 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 148 (4.28%) 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%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 154 (4.45%) Kubernetes
2 49 (1.42%) Ansible
3 41 (1.19%) 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%) SCOM
9 7 (0.20%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.17%) Control-M
10 6 (0.17%) Podman
11 5 (0.14%) QRadar
12 4 (0.12%) SysTrack
13 3 (0.087%) CASB
14 2 (0.058%) Docker Swarm
14 2 (0.058%) MOM
14 2 (0.058%) NetBackup
14 2 (0.058%) Puppet
Vendors
1 673 (19.47%) Microsoft
2 440 (12.73%) Databricks
3 202 (5.84%) SAP
4 197 (5.70%) Oracle
5 192 (5.55%) Google
6 98 (2.83%) Adobe
7 89 (2.57%) Salesforce
7 89 (2.57%) ServiceNow
8 54 (1.56%) Workday
9 45 (1.30%) Dynatrace
9 45 (1.30%) Splunk
10 41 (1.19%) Foundry
11 35 (1.01%) Palantir
12 31 (0.90%) Informatica
13 30 (0.87%) VMware
14 28 (0.81%) Cisco
15 27 (0.78%) Talend
16 26 (0.75%) OpenAI
17 25 (0.72%) IBM
18 24 (0.69%) Alteryx