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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 37
Rank change year-on-year +2 +10 -2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,995 1,633 1,755
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.30% 6.73% 4.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.62% 7.38% 5.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,059 1,106 1,210
10th Percentile £350 £348 £352
25th Percentile £418 £449 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £514 £537 £550
% change year-on-year -4.33% -2.32% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 30 46
10th Percentile £20.13 £15.11 £14.50
25th Percentile £47.69 £19.75 £25.00
Median hourly rate £60.50 £31.64 £29.19
Median % change year-on-year +91.21% +8.41% -5.85%
75th Percentile £75.00 £36.13 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.70 £78.93 £70.63
UK median hourly rate £58.50 £31.64 £28.00
% change year-on-year +84.89% +13.00% -12.50%

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 34,754 22,136 31,448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.71% 91.24% 86.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,164 14,481 20,585
10th Percentile £320 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,141 934 2,241
10th Percentile £15.34 £14.41 £12.87
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.41 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £29.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.07% -20.55% -2.14%
75th Percentile £67.84 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.06 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.41 £36.02
% change year-on-year +49.60% -21.13% +0.06%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 16 May 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 1,656 £545 -5.26% 1,048
Midlands +14 347 £492 -2.81% 184
North of England +9 333 £475 +2.70% 350
West Midlands +14 262 £492 -4.00% 99
South East -12 246 £500 +3.73% 415
South West +27 194 £500 +5.26% 133
North West +12 174 £492 +5.13% 204
Yorkshire +4 134 £488 +1.04% 100
East of England -13 115 £525 -12.50% 105
East Midlands +11 79 £525 +46.65% 85
North East +2 36 £450 +25.70% 52
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
1 157 (5.24%) Apache Spark
2 106 (3.54%) Apache Airflow
3 88 (2.94%) SAS
4 80 (2.67%) Apache
5 74 (2.47%) Confluence
6 44 (1.47%) SharePoint
7 25 (0.83%) CMS
8 17 (0.57%) Jupyter
9 15 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 15 (0.50%) Oracle Application Server
10 14 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
11 9 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
12 8 (0.27%) Apache Superset
12 8 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
13 7 (0.23%) WordPress
14 6 (0.20%) ArcGIS
14 6 (0.20%) IIS
15 5 (0.17%) Drupal
16 3 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
17 2 (0.067%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 126 (4.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 29 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
4 20 (0.67%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.53%) Chatbot
6 12 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.23%) CPLEX
7 7 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
8 4 (0.13%) Trello
9 3 (0.10%) Notion
10 2 (0.067%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.067%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.067%) Sketch
11 1 (0.033%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.033%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.033%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.033%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.033%) InDesign
11 1 (0.033%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 59 (1.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
4 8 (0.27%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 8 (0.27%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
5 7 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.20%) Sage X3
7 5 (0.17%) Aladdin
7 5 (0.17%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.17%) Maximo
8 4 (0.13%) iTrent
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 4 (0.13%) SAP BPC
8 4 (0.13%) Shopify
8 4 (0.13%) Sprinklr
9 3 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
9 3 (0.10%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 934 (31.19%) Azure
2 660 (22.04%) Power Platform
3 600 (20.03%) AWS
4 282 (9.42%) GCP
5 241 (8.05%) Azure Data Factory
6 203 (6.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 202 (6.74%) Azure DevOps
8 180 (6.01%) Snowflake
9 163 (5.44%) GitHub
10 137 (4.57%) dbt
11 124 (4.14%) Amazon S3
12 122 (4.07%) Serverless
13 104 (3.47%) Azure Monitor
14 90 (3.01%) GitHub Actions
15 83 (2.77%) Microsoft 365
16 81 (2.70%) SaaS
17 76 (2.54%) AWS Lambda
18 72 (2.40%) Entra ID
19 57 (1.90%) Azure Key Vault
20 49 (1.64%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 40 (1.34%) Firewall
2 30 (1.00%) Network Security
3 23 (0.77%) DNS
4 22 (0.73%) VPN
5 15 (0.50%) SMS
6 14 (0.47%) SD-WAN
7 12 (0.40%) HTTP
7 12 (0.40%) WAN
8 8 (0.27%) BGP
8 8 (0.27%) DHCP
8 8 (0.27%) FTP
8 8 (0.27%) OSPF
9 7 (0.23%) MPLS
9 7 (0.23%) SSL
9 7 (0.23%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.20%) SMTP
10 6 (0.20%) VXLAN
10 6 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (0.20%) Wireless
10 6 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 613 (20.47%) Power BI
2 396 (13.22%) Data Warehouse
3 243 (8.11%) Data Lake
4 214 (7.15%) Tableau
5 177 (5.91%) Metadata
6 117 (3.91%) BigQuery
7 111 (3.71%) Delta Lake
8 107 (3.57%) SQL Server
9 93 (3.11%) Big Data
10 74 (2.47%) Amazon Redshift
10 74 (2.47%) Relational Database
11 67 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
11 67 (2.24%) NoSQL
11 67 (2.24%) Snowflake Schema
12 66 (2.20%) Amazon Athena
13 62 (2.07%) Looker
14 56 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
14 56 (1.87%) Star Schema
15 53 (1.77%) Hadoop
15 53 (1.77%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 178 (5.94%) Git
2 174 (5.81%) JIRA
3 72 (2.40%) Jenkins
4 63 (2.10%) GitLab
5 20 (0.67%) ERwin
6 15 (0.50%) MLflow
7 12 (0.40%) Selenium
8 8 (0.27%) MSI
8 8 (0.27%) PowerDesigner
9 7 (0.23%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.23%) ER Studio
9 7 (0.23%) fastlane
9 7 (0.23%) JUnit
9 7 (0.23%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.20%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.17%) Gradle
11 5 (0.17%) Postman
11 5 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 5 (0.17%) XCTest
12 4 (0.13%) Android Studio
General
1 750 (25.04%) Social Skills
2 744 (24.84%) Finance
3 513 (17.13%) Analytical Skills
4 315 (10.52%) Public Sector
5 198 (6.61%) Banking
6 165 (5.51%) Marketing
7 99 (3.31%) Retail
8 77 (2.57%) Documentation Skills
9 55 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 53 (1.77%) Legal
11 51 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
12 49 (1.64%) Investment Banking
13 46 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
14 45 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
14 45 (1.50%) Telecoms
15 40 (1.34%) Manufacturing
16 36 (1.20%) Front Office
17 35 (1.17%) Financial Institution
18 25 (0.83%) Military
19 24 (0.80%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 588 (19.63%) Data Engineer
2 371 (12.39%) Analyst
3 354 (11.82%) Senior
4 352 (11.75%) Architect
5 332 (11.09%) Developer
6 252 (8.41%) Lead
7 162 (5.41%) Data Architect
8 151 (5.04%) Data Analyst
9 122 (4.07%) Consultant
10 111 (3.71%) Azure Engineer
11 107 (3.57%) Business Analyst
12 100 (3.34%) Senior Data Engineer
13 91 (3.04%) Data Scientist
14 87 (2.90%) Solutions Architect
15 64 (2.14%) Project Manager
16 62 (2.07%) Data Manager
17 60 (2.00%) Designer
18 52 (1.74%) AWS Engineer
18 52 (1.74%) Business Intelligence Developer
19 51 (1.70%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (6.11%) PySpark
2 140 (4.67%) Kafka
3 109 (3.64%) REST
4 62 (2.07%) Pandas
5 53 (1.77%) JSON
5 53 (1.77%) React
6 50 (1.67%) PyTorch
7 49 (1.64%) TensorFlow
8 46 (1.54%) HTML
9 44 (1.47%) CSS
10 39 (1.30%) RESTful
11 37 (1.24%) .NET
12 36 (1.20%) Middleware
13 35 (1.17%) scikit-learn
13 35 (1.17%) SOAP
14 33 (1.10%) AngularJS
14 33 (1.10%) NumPy
15 30 (1.00%) Node.js
15 30 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
16 28 (0.93%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 196 (6.54%) Cloud Native
2 142 (4.74%) Product Ownership
3 110 (3.67%) Data Structures
4 85 (2.84%) Onboarding
5 75 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
6 65 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
7 53 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
8 45 (1.50%) Algorithms
8 45 (1.50%) Management Information System
9 43 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
10 38 (1.27%) Public Cloud
11 35 (1.17%) AI Agents
12 34 (1.14%) Mobile App
12 34 (1.14%) NHS
12 34 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
13 30 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
14 29 (0.97%) Derivative
14 29 (0.97%) Marketing Technology
15 27 (0.90%) Fixed Income
15 27 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 90 (3.01%) Windows
2 76 (2.54%) Linux
3 33 (1.10%) Mac OS
4 32 (1.07%) Unix
5 24 (0.80%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.50%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.40%) Android
8 7 (0.23%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.10%) CentOS
11 2 (0.067%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.067%) VMS
11 2 (0.067%) zOS
12 1 (0.033%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 833 (27.81%) Data Modelling
2 828 (27.65%) Business Intelligence
3 652 (21.77%) AI
4 641 (21.40%) Agile
5 627 (20.93%) Data Pipeline
6 603 (20.13%) Data Engineering
7 597 (19.93%) CI/CD
8 573 (19.13%) ETL
9 506 (16.89%) DevOps
10 494 (16.49%) Data Governance
11 488 (16.29%) Problem-Solving
12 480 (16.03%) Decision-Making
13 390 (13.02%) Stakeholder Management
14 343 (11.45%) Data Science
15 341 (11.39%) Machine Learning
16 338 (11.29%) Data Analytics
17 334 (11.15%) Continuous Improvement
18 332 (11.09%) Migration
19 296 (9.88%) Validation
20 290 (9.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,020 (34.06%) SQL
2 923 (30.82%) Python
3 132 (4.41%) Java
4 120 (4.01%) PowerShell
5 97 (3.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 95 (3.17%) C#
7 82 (2.74%) R
8 69 (2.30%) Bicep
9 62 (2.07%) JavaScript
10 47 (1.57%) T-SQL
11 43 (1.44%) Kusto Query Language
12 42 (1.40%) Scala
12 42 (1.40%) TypeScript
13 37 (1.24%) Bash
14 27 (0.90%) C++
14 27 (0.90%) Shell Script
15 25 (0.83%) PL/SQL
16 17 (0.57%) VBA
17 11 (0.37%) Kotlin
18 9 (0.30%) Swift
Qualifications
1 519 (17.33%) Security Cleared
2 410 (13.69%) SC Cleared
3 226 (7.55%) Degree
4 68 (2.27%) Azure Certification
5 64 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 57 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 47 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 45 (1.50%) DV Cleared
9 39 (1.30%) Master's Degree
10 26 (0.87%) PMI Certification
11 23 (0.77%) CISSP
12 22 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
12 22 (0.73%) PMP
13 17 (0.57%) AWS Certification
14 15 (0.50%) CCNP
14 15 (0.50%) PhD
15 14 (0.47%) DBS Check
16 13 (0.43%) IIBA
17 11 (0.37%) CCIE
18 10 (0.33%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 571 (19.07%) Data Quality
2 160 (5.34%) GDPR
3 123 (4.11%) QA
4 106 (3.54%) Accessibility
5 38 (1.27%) WCAG
6 37 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 28 (0.93%) NIST
8 23 (0.77%) PMO
9 20 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
10 16 (0.53%) SLA
11 14 (0.47%) GRC
12 13 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 11 (0.37%) PERC
13 11 (0.37%) Solvency II
14 9 (0.30%) ISO 20022
15 8 (0.27%) NCSC
15 8 (0.27%) PCI DSS
16 6 (0.20%) HL7
16 6 (0.20%) IFRS
17 5 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 171 (5.71%) Docker
2 74 (2.47%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.13%) HDFS
6 4 (0.13%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.13%) Snort
6 4 (0.13%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.033%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.033%) GPFS
7 1 (0.033%) iptables
7 1 (0.033%) Lustre
7 1 (0.033%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.033%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.033%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.033%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 231 (7.71%) Terraform
2 174 (5.81%) Kubernetes
3 39 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 37 (1.24%) Grafana
5 34 (1.14%) Ansible
6 29 (0.97%) Prometheus
7 19 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (0.50%) SCCM
9 6 (0.20%) Puppet
10 5 (0.17%) Argo
11 4 (0.13%) Control-M
11 4 (0.13%) CSIRT
11 4 (0.13%) Kibana
11 4 (0.13%) WSUS
12 3 (0.10%) Nagios
12 3 (0.10%) QRadar
12 3 (0.10%) SysTrack
13 2 (0.067%) Apache Ranger
13 2 (0.067%) Nessus
13 2 (0.067%) SCOM
Vendors
1 539 (18.00%) Microsoft
2 406 (13.56%) Databricks
3 161 (5.38%) Google
4 154 (5.14%) Oracle
5 146 (4.87%) SAP
6 70 (2.34%) ServiceNow
7 67 (2.24%) Adobe
8 62 (2.07%) Informatica
8 62 (2.07%) Salesforce
9 52 (1.74%) Splunk
10 51 (1.70%) Talend
11 41 (1.37%) Denodo
11 41 (1.37%) OpenAI
12 35 (1.17%) Workday
13 34 (1.14%) Foundry
14 24 (0.80%) Dynatrace
15 23 (0.77%) VMware
16 22 (0.73%) IBM
17 17 (0.57%) Cisco
18 13 (0.43%) Ariba