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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 27 34
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 +3
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,469 1,873 1,721
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.50% 6.69% 5.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.84% 7.36% 6.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,233 1,230 1,163
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £435 £438 £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 39,226 25,436 27,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.80% 90.90% 86.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,709 16,124 17,045
10th Percentile £325 £294 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £641
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 2,969 1,568 1,160
10th Percentile £13.70 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.43 £17.87 £20.28
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.69
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.09% -4.07%
75th Percentile £67.25 £45.80 £67.14
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.63% -7.56%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 1,929 £550 - 6,897
North of England +13 467 £490 +3.16% 1,076
South East +16 361 £514 -1.15% 1,144
Midlands +2 356 £490 -4.85% 598
West Midlands -2 285 £490 -6.22% 401
North West -2 224 £528 +11.05% 631
Yorkshire +9 179 £475 - 318
South West +23 178 £525 +5.00% 358
East of England -12 103 £600 +8.35% 359
North East +5 70 £445 +7.88% 128
East Midlands -1 70 £490 +8.89% 197
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
1 164 (4.73%) Apache Airflow
2 129 (3.72%) Apache Spark
3 105 (3.03%) Apache
4 101 (2.91%) SAS
5 78 (2.25%) Confluence
6 63 (1.82%) CMS
7 50 (1.44%) SharePoint
8 33 (0.95%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 29 (0.84%) Palantir Foundry
10 24 (0.69%) Jupyter
11 20 (0.58%) Oracle Application Server
12 11 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
13 9 (0.26%) Drupal
14 8 (0.23%) nginx
14 8 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
15 7 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
16 6 (0.17%) Apache Superset
17 4 (0.12%) WordPress
18 3 (0.086%) IIS
19 2 (0.058%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 168 (4.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 28 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (0.61%) Chatbot
5 17 (0.49%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.37%) CPLEX
7 13 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
8 5 (0.14%) Trello
9 3 (0.086%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.086%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.058%) Adobe Illustrator
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%) LaTeX
11 1 (0.029%) Notion
11 1 (0.029%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 87 (2.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 37 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (0.61%) Workday HCM
4 17 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
5 15 (0.43%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 15 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
6 13 (0.37%) Aladdin
7 12 (0.35%) SAP FI
7 12 (0.35%) SAP HR
8 11 (0.32%) SAP CO
9 10 (0.29%) SAP HCM
10 9 (0.26%) SAP MM
10 9 (0.26%) Workfront
11 8 (0.23%) SAP Payroll
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
1 995 (28.68%) Azure
2 698 (20.12%) Power Platform
3 583 (16.81%) AWS
4 315 (9.08%) GCP
5 269 (7.75%) Snowflake
6 245 (7.06%) Azure DevOps
7 219 (6.31%) Azure Data Factory
8 214 (6.17%) dbt
9 164 (4.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 155 (4.47%) GitHub
11 142 (4.09%) Serverless
12 140 (4.04%) Azure Monitor
13 126 (3.63%) Entra ID
14 122 (3.52%) Amazon S3
14 122 (3.52%) SaaS
15 89 (2.57%) AWS Lambda
16 77 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
17 72 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
18 63 (1.82%) Adobe Analytics
19 62 (1.79%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 65 (1.87%) 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 (0.63%) 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%) NetScaler
13 5 (0.14%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 672 (19.37%) Power BI
2 425 (12.25%) Data Warehouse
3 253 (7.29%) Data Lake
4 247 (7.12%) Metadata
5 212 (6.11%) Tableau
6 158 (4.55%) BigQuery
7 91 (2.62%) Amazon Redshift
8 86 (2.48%) Delta Lake
9 85 (2.45%) SQL Server
10 83 (2.39%) Looker
11 82 (2.36%) PostgreSQL
12 79 (2.28%) Big Data
13 76 (2.19%) Relational Database
14 63 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
15 61 (1.76%) NoSQL
16 60 (1.73%) Semantic Layer
17 59 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
18 51 (1.47%) Power Query
19 50 (1.44%) Snowflake Schema
20 45 (1.30%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 192 (5.53%) Git
2 154 (4.44%) JIRA
3 61 (1.76%) Jenkins
4 60 (1.73%) 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%) ER Studio
9 6 (0.17%) ERwin
9 6 (0.17%) JUnit
9 6 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
9 6 (0.17%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.14%) Terragrunt
10 5 (0.14%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 998 (28.77%) Social Skills
2 925 (26.66%) Finance
3 659 (19.00%) Analytical Skills
4 416 (11.99%) Public Sector
5 277 (7.99%) Banking
6 240 (6.92%) Marketing
7 178 (5.13%) Retail
8 119 (3.43%) Influencing Skills
9 91 (2.62%) Legal
10 89 (2.57%) Manufacturing
11 87 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 74 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
13 61 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
14 60 (1.73%) Front Office
15 55 (1.59%) Investment Banking
16 51 (1.47%) Publishing
17 44 (1.27%) Military
18 43 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
19 38 (1.10%) Financial Institution
19 38 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 557 (16.06%) Data Engineer
2 478 (13.78%) Senior
3 458 (13.20%) Analyst
4 443 (12.77%) Architect
5 289 (8.33%) Lead
6 287 (8.27%) Developer
7 202 (5.82%) Data Architect
8 182 (5.25%) Consultant
9 169 (4.87%) Data Analyst
10 124 (3.57%) Senior Data Engineer
11 121 (3.49%) Data Scientist
12 117 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
13 112 (3.23%) Business Analyst
14 105 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
15 70 (2.02%) Data Manager
16 67 (1.93%) AWS Engineer
17 66 (1.90%) Product Manager
18 65 (1.87%) Senior Analyst
19 64 (1.84%) Project Manager
20 61 (1.76%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 294 (8.48%) Terraform
2 202 (5.82%) PySpark
3 146 (4.21%) REST
4 104 (3.00%) Kafka
5 58 (1.67%) React
6 56 (1.61%) Pandas
7 53 (1.53%) HTML
8 51 (1.47%) RESTful
9 48 (1.38%) .NET
9 48 (1.38%) CSS
9 48 (1.38%) OAuth
10 47 (1.35%) ARM Templates
11 40 (1.15%) OpenID
12 39 (1.12%) JSON
12 39 (1.12%) NumPy
13 35 (1.01%) OAuth2
14 32 (0.92%) Oracle Fusion
14 32 (0.92%) Web Services
15 29 (0.84%) SOAP
16 28 (0.81%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 249 (7.18%) Cloud Native
2 188 (5.42%) Product Ownership
3 153 (4.41%) Onboarding
4 141 (4.06%) Data Structures
5 102 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
6 92 (2.65%) Management Information System
7 74 (2.13%) AI Agents
8 62 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
8 62 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
9 58 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
10 49 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
11 44 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
12 43 (1.24%) Algorithms
12 43 (1.24%) Marketing Technology
13 38 (1.10%) Social Media
14 37 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
14 37 (1.07%) Virtual Team
15 36 (1.04%) Derivative
15 36 (1.04%) Taxonomies
16 35 (1.01%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 100 (2.88%) Windows
2 95 (2.74%) Linux
3 43 (1.24%) Windows Server
4 39 (1.12%) Unix
5 17 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.29%) Android
8 9 (0.26%) VMS
9 7 (0.20%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.20%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.086%) Solaris
10 3 (0.086%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.058%) AIX
11 2 (0.058%) CentOS
11 2 (0.058%) HPUX
12 1 (0.029%) Rocky
12 1 (0.029%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 979 (28.22%) AI
2 904 (26.06%) Data Modelling
3 862 (24.85%) Stakeholder Management
4 859 (24.76%) Business Intelligence
5 828 (23.87%) Agile
6 693 (19.98%) Decision-Making
7 680 (19.60%) Data Pipeline
8 656 (18.91%) Data Engineering
9 651 (18.77%) CI/CD
10 567 (16.34%) Data Governance
11 528 (15.22%) ETL
12 516 (14.87%) DevOps
13 480 (13.84%) Problem-Solving
14 477 (13.75%) Continuous Improvement
15 472 (13.61%) Roadmaps
16 453 (13.06%) Migration
17 440 (12.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 423 (12.19%) Machine Learning
19 419 (12.08%) Validation
20 403 (11.62%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 1,131 (32.60%) SQL
2 960 (27.67%) Python
3 165 (4.76%) PowerShell
4 102 (2.94%) Java
5 93 (2.68%) JavaScript
6 91 (2.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 87 (2.51%) Bicep
8 72 (2.08%) Bash
9 68 (1.96%) C#
10 57 (1.64%) R
11 40 (1.15%) TypeScript
12 37 (1.07%) Scala
13 30 (0.86%) Shell Script
14 29 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
15 18 (0.52%) ABAP
15 18 (0.52%) C++
16 17 (0.49%) PL/SQL
17 16 (0.46%) LookML
17 16 (0.46%) T-SQL
18 14 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 628 (18.10%) Security Cleared
2 499 (14.38%) SC Cleared
3 300 (8.65%) Degree
4 92 (2.65%) Azure Certification
5 89 (2.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 79 (2.28%) DV Cleared
7 78 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
8 57 (1.64%) Master's Degree
9 51 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
10 43 (1.24%) CISSP
11 39 (1.12%) AWS Certification
12 33 (0.95%) PMI Certification
13 28 (0.81%) PMP
14 27 (0.78%) DBS Check
15 19 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
16 14 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
17 13 (0.37%) MBA
18 11 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 11 (0.32%) CISA
18 11 (0.32%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 768 (22.14%) Data Quality
2 154 (4.44%) GDPR
3 135 (3.89%) QA
4 134 (3.86%) Accessibility
5 50 (1.44%) GRC
6 41 (1.18%) WCAG
7 40 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 37 (1.07%) Actionable Recommendations
9 35 (1.01%) PMO
10 34 (0.98%) NIST
11 22 (0.63%) SLA
12 15 (0.43%) NCSC
13 13 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 12 (0.35%) IFRS
14 12 (0.35%) PCI DSS
15 10 (0.29%) Solvency II
16 9 (0.26%) PERC
17 8 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 8 (0.23%) GMP
18 7 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 148 (4.27%) Docker
2 101 (2.91%) 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 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.086%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.086%) vSphere
8 3 (0.086%) XenApp
9 2 (0.058%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.029%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.029%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 153 (4.41%) Kubernetes
2 49 (1.41%) Ansible
3 40 (1.15%) 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 (0.086%) 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 (19.40%) Microsoft
2 440 (12.68%) Databricks
3 201 (5.79%) SAP
4 195 (5.62%) Oracle
5 190 (5.48%) Google
6 99 (2.85%) Adobe
7 92 (2.65%) ServiceNow
8 87 (2.51%) Salesforce
9 58 (1.67%) Workday
10 47 (1.35%) Splunk
11 45 (1.30%) Dynatrace
12 41 (1.18%) Foundry
13 35 (1.01%) Palantir
14 30 (0.86%) Informatica
14 30 (0.86%) VMware
15 29 (0.84%) Cisco
16 27 (0.78%) OpenAI
17 26 (0.75%) Talend
18 24 (0.69%) Alteryx
18 24 (0.69%) IBM