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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 27 35
Rank change year-on-year +1 +8 0
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,481 1,763 1,737
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.63% 6.44% 5.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.99% 7.10% 6.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,281 1,159 1,198
10th Percentile £363 £355 £352
25th Percentile £430 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £688
90th Percentile £750 £801 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 47 22
10th Percentile £19.25 £16.00 £21.78
25th Percentile £27.40 £30.54 £27.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £34.98 £30.69
Median % change year-on-year +50.09% +14.00% -12.33%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.81 £52.19
90th Percentile £87.08 £80.41 £75.10
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £34.98 £30.69
% change year-on-year +42.94% +14.00% -12.64%

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 38,735 24,846 28,143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.90% 90.77% 85.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,900 15,805 17,939
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £634 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £751
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,596 1,469 1,428
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.38 £17.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.01
90th Percentile £80.00 £69.65 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +2.41%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +1 1,940 £550 - 5,173
North of England +12 447 £475 +5.56% 768
Midlands +4 376 £493 -4.37% 361
South East +17 361 £513 -2.38% 756
West Midlands +3 306 £492 -5.11% 221
North West +1 231 £515 +13.50% 481
Yorkshire +10 172 £463 -0.32% 211
South West +19 169 £500 +6.38% 381
East of England -8 105 £578 +4.52% 222
East Midlands -5 64 £500 +17.65% 140
North East -6 52 £450 +18.03% 81
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
1 161 (4.63%) Apache Airflow
2 131 (3.76%) Apache Spark
3 112 (3.22%) SAS
4 99 (2.84%) Apache
5 76 (2.18%) Confluence
6 53 (1.52%) CMS
7 48 (1.38%) SharePoint
8 30 (0.86%) Palantir Foundry
9 29 (0.83%) Jupyter
10 27 (0.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 26 (0.75%) Oracle Application Server
12 11 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
13 10 (0.29%) Apache Superset
14 9 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
15 8 (0.23%) Drupal
15 8 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
16 6 (0.17%) WordPress
17 3 (0.086%) IIS
18 2 (0.057%) ArcGIS
18 2 (0.057%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 154 (4.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 23 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
4 20 (0.57%) Chatbot
5 17 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
6 16 (0.46%) CPLEX
7 12 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
8 11 (0.32%) MS Visio
9 5 (0.14%) Trello
10 3 (0.086%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.086%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.057%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.057%) Sketch
12 1 (0.029%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.029%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.029%) InDesign
12 1 (0.029%) Notion
12 1 (0.029%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.029%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.029%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 67 (1.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
4 16 (0.46%) Workday HCM
5 13 (0.37%) Aladdin
5 13 (0.37%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 11 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
7 9 (0.26%) Shopify
8 8 (0.23%) SAP CO
8 8 (0.23%) SAP ERP
8 8 (0.23%) SAP FI
9 7 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
9 7 (0.20%) SAP MDG
10 6 (0.17%) NetSuite
10 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.17%) SAP GRC
10 6 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 5 (0.14%) Infor LN
11 5 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
11 5 (0.14%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 1,026 (29.47%) Azure
2 699 (20.08%) Power Platform
3 608 (17.47%) AWS
4 299 (8.59%) GCP
5 247 (7.10%) Snowflake
6 236 (6.78%) Azure DevOps
7 230 (6.61%) Azure Data Factory
8 191 (5.49%) dbt
9 181 (5.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 152 (4.37%) GitHub
11 148 (4.25%) Serverless
12 129 (3.71%) Azure Monitor
13 126 (3.62%) Amazon S3
14 109 (3.13%) SaaS
15 107 (3.07%) Entra ID
16 97 (2.79%) AWS Lambda
17 82 (2.36%) Microsoft 365
18 76 (2.18%) GitHub Actions
19 74 (2.13%) Azure Databricks
20 60 (1.72%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 58 (1.67%) Firewall
2 50 (1.44%) Network Security
3 37 (1.06%) DNS
4 31 (0.89%) VPN
5 22 (0.63%) TCP/IP
5 22 (0.63%) WAN
6 18 (0.52%) SD-WAN
7 16 (0.46%) BGP
7 16 (0.46%) DHCP
8 14 (0.40%) Broadband
9 9 (0.26%) SMS
10 8 (0.23%) Wireless
11 7 (0.20%) LAN
11 7 (0.20%) OSPF
12 6 (0.17%) SSH
12 6 (0.17%) WLAN
13 5 (0.14%) HTTP
13 5 (0.14%) Internet
13 5 (0.14%) VLAN
14 4 (0.11%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 667 (19.16%) Power BI
2 440 (12.64%) Data Warehouse
3 255 (7.33%) Data Lake
4 227 (6.52%) Metadata
5 222 (6.38%) Tableau
6 140 (4.02%) BigQuery
7 93 (2.67%) SQL Server
8 92 (2.64%) Delta Lake
9 87 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
9 87 (2.50%) Big Data
10 84 (2.41%) Relational Database
11 74 (2.13%) Looker
11 74 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
12 63 (1.81%) Snowflake Schema
13 62 (1.78%) Semantic Layer
14 61 (1.75%) Amazon Athena
14 61 (1.75%) NoSQL
15 57 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
16 54 (1.55%) Star Schema
17 49 (1.41%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 184 (5.29%) Git
2 166 (4.77%) JIRA
3 60 (1.72%) Jenkins
4 50 (1.44%) GitLab
5 14 (0.40%) ERwin
6 11 (0.32%) MLflow
7 10 (0.29%) fastlane
8 9 (0.26%) RStudio
9 8 (0.23%) ER Studio
9 8 (0.23%) Selenium
9 8 (0.23%) SonarQube
10 7 (0.20%) Gradle
10 7 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
11 6 (0.17%) Android Studio
11 6 (0.17%) Crashlytics
11 6 (0.17%) JUnit
11 6 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
12 5 (0.14%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.14%) Visual Website Optimizer
12 5 (0.14%) Xcode
General
1 918 (26.37%) Social Skills
2 891 (25.60%) Finance
3 648 (18.62%) Analytical Skills
4 408 (11.72%) Public Sector
5 261 (7.50%) Banking
6 228 (6.55%) Marketing
7 175 (5.03%) Retail
8 103 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
9 92 (2.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 72 (2.07%) Legal
10 72 (2.07%) Manufacturing
10 72 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
11 70 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
12 60 (1.72%) Front Office
13 56 (1.61%) Investment Banking
14 45 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
14 45 (1.29%) Publishing
15 43 (1.24%) Telecoms
16 42 (1.21%) Financial Institution
17 39 (1.12%) Military
Job Titles
1 585 (16.81%) Data Engineer
2 446 (12.81%) Senior
3 445 (12.78%) Analyst
4 441 (12.67%) Architect
5 313 (8.99%) Developer
6 290 (8.33%) Lead
7 202 (5.80%) Data Architect
8 170 (4.88%) Data Analyst
9 169 (4.85%) Consultant
10 123 (3.53%) Solutions Architect
11 109 (3.13%) Data Scientist
12 108 (3.10%) Senior Data Engineer
13 104 (2.99%) Business Analyst
14 100 (2.87%) Azure Engineer
15 77 (2.21%) Data Manager
16 65 (1.87%) Product Manager
17 63 (1.81%) Project Manager
17 63 (1.81%) Senior Manager
18 61 (1.75%) Python Developer
19 55 (1.58%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 261 (7.50%) Terraform
2 213 (6.12%) PySpark
3 129 (3.71%) REST
4 112 (3.22%) Kafka
5 64 (1.84%) Pandas
6 56 (1.61%) HTML
7 54 (1.55%) RESTful
8 52 (1.49%) CSS
9 50 (1.44%) React
10 43 (1.24%) .NET
10 43 (1.24%) JSON
11 41 (1.18%) ARM Templates
12 39 (1.12%) NumPy
13 38 (1.09%) OAuth
14 31 (0.89%) OpenID
15 30 (0.86%) OAuth2
16 29 (0.83%) Django
17 28 (0.80%) Oracle Fusion
17 28 (0.80%) Web Services
18 27 (0.78%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 234 (6.72%) Cloud Native
2 183 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 137 (3.94%) Data Structures
4 135 (3.88%) Onboarding
5 110 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
6 72 (2.07%) Management Information System
7 69 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
8 63 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
9 56 (1.61%) AI Agents
10 48 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
11 46 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
11 46 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
12 43 (1.24%) Algorithms
12 43 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
13 40 (1.15%) NHS
14 39 (1.12%) Marketing Technology
14 39 (1.12%) Virtual Team
15 34 (0.98%) Mobile App
16 33 (0.95%) Derivative
16 33 (0.95%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 87 (2.50%) Linux
2 83 (2.38%) Windows
3 39 (1.12%) Unix
4 32 (0.92%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.32%) Mac OS
8 10 (0.29%) Android
9 9 (0.26%) VMS
10 5 (0.14%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.086%) Solaris
11 3 (0.086%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.057%) AIX
12 2 (0.057%) CentOS
12 2 (0.057%) HPUX
13 1 (0.029%) Rocky
13 1 (0.029%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 915 (26.29%) Data Modelling
2 896 (25.74%) AI
3 881 (25.31%) Business Intelligence
4 805 (23.13%) Agile
5 736 (21.14%) Stakeholder Management
6 698 (20.05%) Data Pipeline
7 680 (19.53%) Data Engineering
8 649 (18.64%) CI/CD
9 630 (18.10%) Decision-Making
10 560 (16.09%) Data Governance
11 551 (15.83%) ETL
12 521 (14.97%) DevOps
13 504 (14.48%) Problem-Solving
14 456 (13.10%) Migration
15 432 (12.41%) Continuous Improvement
16 421 (12.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 416 (11.95%) Machine Learning
18 410 (11.78%) Roadmaps
19 402 (11.55%) Data Science
20 396 (11.38%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1,107 (31.80%) SQL
2 980 (28.15%) Python
3 157 (4.51%) PowerShell
4 107 (3.07%) Java
5 96 (2.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 82 (2.36%) Bicep
6 82 (2.36%) JavaScript
7 76 (2.18%) C#
8 64 (1.84%) R
9 61 (1.75%) Bash
10 40 (1.15%) Scala
11 34 (0.98%) Shell Script
12 33 (0.95%) TypeScript
13 29 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
14 28 (0.80%) T-SQL
15 21 (0.60%) PL/SQL
16 19 (0.55%) C++
17 13 (0.37%) VBA
18 12 (0.34%) LookML
19 11 (0.32%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 618 (17.75%) Security Cleared
2 487 (13.99%) SC Cleared
3 290 (8.33%) Degree
4 83 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 79 (2.27%) Azure Certification
6 78 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
7 68 (1.95%) DV Cleared
8 53 (1.52%) Master's Degree
9 47 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
10 38 (1.09%) CISSP
11 30 (0.86%) AWS Certification
11 30 (0.86%) PMI Certification
12 23 (0.66%) DBS Check
12 23 (0.66%) PMP
13 18 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
14 12 (0.34%) CISA
15 11 (0.32%) MBA
15 11 (0.32%) PhD
16 10 (0.29%) SANS
17 9 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 703 (20.20%) Data Quality
2 163 (4.68%) GDPR
3 135 (3.88%) QA
4 133 (3.82%) Accessibility
5 48 (1.38%) GRC
6 46 (1.32%) WCAG
7 39 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 32 (0.92%) NIST
9 29 (0.83%) PMO
10 28 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
11 21 (0.60%) SLA
12 13 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 12 (0.34%) PCI DSS
13 12 (0.34%) PERC
13 12 (0.34%) Solvency II
14 11 (0.32%) NCSC
15 10 (0.29%) IFRS
16 7 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
16 7 (0.20%) GMP
17 6 (0.17%) PSD2
System Software
1 150 (4.31%) Docker
2 84 (2.41%) Active Directory
3 25 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.23%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.14%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.086%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 3 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.086%) vSphere
8 2 (0.057%) XenApp
8 2 (0.057%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.029%) iptables
9 1 (0.029%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.029%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 160 (4.60%) Kubernetes
2 48 (1.38%) Ansible
3 39 (1.12%) Grafana
4 24 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (0.49%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.40%) SCCM
8 8 (0.23%) Control-M
8 8 (0.23%) FortiGate
8 8 (0.23%) Progress Chef
8 8 (0.23%) SCOM
9 5 (0.14%) Podman
10 4 (0.11%) QRadar
10 4 (0.11%) SysTrack
11 3 (0.086%) Apache Ranger
11 3 (0.086%) CASB
11 3 (0.086%) Kibana
12 2 (0.057%) Argo
12 2 (0.057%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.057%) Puppet
Vendors
1 635 (18.24%) Microsoft
2 452 (12.98%) Databricks
3 209 (6.00%) Oracle
4 191 (5.49%) SAP
5 180 (5.17%) Google
6 85 (2.44%) Adobe
6 85 (2.44%) ServiceNow
7 84 (2.41%) Salesforce
8 54 (1.55%) Workday
9 43 (1.24%) Foundry
9 43 (1.24%) Splunk
10 41 (1.18%) Dynatrace
10 41 (1.18%) Informatica
11 38 (1.09%) Palantir
12 33 (0.95%) Talend
13 31 (0.89%) Denodo
14 30 (0.86%) Cisco
15 28 (0.80%) VMware
16 23 (0.66%) Alteryx
16 23 (0.66%) OpenAI