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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 30 38
Rank change year-on-year +6 +8 -1
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,405 1,541 1,809
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.32% 5.79% 4.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.33% 6.48% 5.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,635 990 1,236
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £420 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.73% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 23 80
10th Percentile £20.66 £25.26 £17.58
25th Percentile £31.11 £27.25 £25.00
Median hourly rate £46.50 £35.00 £42.35
Median % change year-on-year +32.86% -17.35% +26.40%
75th Percentile £71.00 £62.25 £67.50
90th Percentile £79.00 £64.73 £78.12
UK median hourly rate £50.25 £35.13 £42.50
% change year-on-year +43.06% -17.35% +21.43%

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 28,878 23,799 32,593
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.87% 89.45% 87.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,472 14,557 21,833
10th Percentile £305 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,785 763 1,818
10th Percentile £15.04 £15.62 £13.99
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £17.02
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.03% -6.85% +4.29%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.96
% change year-on-year -22.62% -9.62% +10.65%

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 29 January 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 29 January 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 29 January 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 +6 1,417 £525 -12.50% 816
Midlands +24 273 £500 +2.25% 283
North of England -3 242 £486 +0.73% 375
West Midlands +27 209 £513 +4.64% 116
South East -10 163 £500 +9.11% 850
North West +5 154 £496 +4.42% 188
South West +43 113 £525 +16.67% 212
East of England +2 93 £525 -8.70% 268
Yorkshire -16 72 £510 +3.03% 134
East Midlands +13 63 £436 -3.65% 163
North East -4 18 £405 -13.18% 56
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
1 109 (4.53%) SAS
2 91 (3.78%) Apache Spark
3 89 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
4 73 (3.04%) Apache
5 63 (2.62%) Confluence
6 47 (1.95%) SharePoint
7 37 (1.54%) CMS
8 23 (0.96%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 10 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
10 9 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
10 9 (0.37%) WebLogic
11 8 (0.33%) GeoServer
11 8 (0.33%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.33%) Smallworld
12 7 (0.29%) Oracle Application Server
13 6 (0.25%) WordPress
14 5 (0.21%) ArcGIS
14 5 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 3 (0.12%) IIS
16 2 (0.083%) WebSphere
Applications
1 118 (4.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (1.16%) MS Visio
5 22 (0.91%) Chatbot
6 14 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.25%) Trello
8 4 (0.17%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.12%) Notion
9 3 (0.12%) Sketch
10 2 (0.083%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.042%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.042%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.042%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.042%) CapCut
11 1 (0.042%) FrameMaker
11 1 (0.042%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.042%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 81 (3.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.58%) SAP EHS
4 11 (0.46%) SAP HR
5 10 (0.42%) SAP FI
6 8 (0.33%) Maximo
6 8 (0.33%) SAP MM
7 7 (0.29%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 7 (0.29%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 7 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 6 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
9 5 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
9 5 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
9 5 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
10 4 (0.17%) Aladdin
10 4 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
10 4 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 4 (0.17%) SAP ERP
10 4 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 784 (32.60%) Azure
2 514 (21.37%) Power Platform
3 504 (20.96%) AWS
4 227 (9.44%) GCP
5 178 (7.40%) Azure Data Factory
6 177 (7.36%) Azure DevOps
7 160 (6.65%) Snowflake
8 156 (6.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 129 (5.36%) GitHub
10 115 (4.78%) Serverless
11 104 (4.32%) Azure Monitor
12 96 (3.99%) SaaS
13 90 (3.74%) Amazon S3
14 88 (3.66%) dbt
15 82 (3.41%) GitHub Actions
16 81 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
17 73 (3.04%) Entra ID
18 57 (2.37%) AWS Lambda
19 56 (2.33%) Power Automate
20 53 (2.20%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 45 (1.87%) Firewall
2 25 (1.04%) VPN
3 22 (0.91%) DNS
4 21 (0.87%) Network Security
5 17 (0.71%) SMS
6 11 (0.46%) SSL
7 9 (0.37%) WAN
8 8 (0.33%) DHCP
9 7 (0.29%) HTTP
9 7 (0.29%) LAN
10 6 (0.25%) 2G
10 6 (0.25%) 5G
10 6 (0.25%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.21%) FTP
11 5 (0.21%) SMTP
12 4 (0.17%) 4G
12 4 (0.17%) Radio Access Network
13 3 (0.12%) Internet
13 3 (0.12%) MPLS
13 3 (0.12%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 475 (19.75%) Power BI
2 248 (10.31%) Data Warehouse
3 175 (7.28%) Data Lake
4 143 (5.95%) Tableau
5 134 (5.57%) Metadata
6 73 (3.04%) SQL Server
7 68 (2.83%) BigQuery
8 67 (2.79%) Big Data
9 62 (2.58%) Delta Lake
10 59 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
11 55 (2.29%) Azure SQL Database
12 54 (2.25%) Snowflake Schema
13 52 (2.16%) Looker
14 51 (2.12%) Relational Database
15 43 (1.79%) Star Schema
16 41 (1.70%) Data Vault
16 41 (1.70%) Hadoop
17 40 (1.66%) Amazon Redshift
17 40 (1.66%) NoSQL
18 39 (1.62%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 181 (7.53%) JIRA
2 166 (6.90%) Git
3 83 (3.45%) Jenkins
4 75 (3.12%) GitLab
5 24 (1.00%) Selenium
6 19 (0.79%) ERwin
7 18 (0.75%) JUnit
8 11 (0.46%) MLflow
8 11 (0.46%) PowerDesigner
9 10 (0.42%) Android Studio
9 10 (0.42%) ER Studio
9 10 (0.42%) Gradle
10 9 (0.37%) Postman
10 9 (0.37%) Visual Website Optimizer
11 8 (0.33%) Xcode
12 6 (0.25%) DBeaver
12 6 (0.25%) MSI
12 6 (0.25%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.25%) Visual Studio
13 5 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
General
1 793 (32.97%) Social Skills
2 652 (27.11%) Finance
3 464 (19.29%) Analytical Skills
4 219 (9.11%) Public Sector
5 193 (8.02%) Banking
6 169 (7.03%) Marketing
7 75 (3.12%) Retail
8 67 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
9 63 (2.62%) Front Office
10 47 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
11 46 (1.91%) Legal
12 43 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 43 (1.79%) Investment Banking
13 41 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
13 41 (1.70%) Manufacturing
14 34 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
15 31 (1.29%) Financial Institution
16 26 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
16 26 (1.08%) Telecoms
17 21 (0.87%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 338 (14.05%) Data Engineer
2 335 (13.93%) Analyst
3 310 (12.89%) Developer
4 270 (11.23%) Senior
5 256 (10.64%) Architect
6 178 (7.40%) Lead
7 133 (5.53%) Consultant
8 122 (5.07%) Business Analyst
9 121 (5.03%) Data Analyst
10 96 (3.99%) Data Architect
11 89 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
12 73 (3.04%) Data Scientist
13 63 (2.62%) Project Manager
14 59 (2.45%) Senior Developer
15 57 (2.37%) Senior Data Engineer
15 57 (2.37%) Solutions Architect
16 46 (1.91%) Snowflake Engineer
17 42 (1.75%) Designer
18 38 (1.58%) DevOps Engineer
18 38 (1.58%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (5.86%) REST
2 111 (4.62%) PySpark
3 102 (4.24%) Kafka
4 59 (2.45%) React
5 55 (2.29%) Pandas
6 52 (2.16%) HTML
7 47 (1.95%) TensorFlow
8 44 (1.83%) NumPy
8 44 (1.83%) scikit-learn
9 43 (1.79%) Node.js
9 43 (1.79%) PyTorch
9 43 (1.79%) SOAP
10 41 (1.70%) CSS
10 41 (1.70%) RESTful
11 40 (1.66%) .NET
12 39 (1.62%) JSON
13 36 (1.50%) AngularJS
14 34 (1.41%) ARM Templates
15 29 (1.21%) OAuth
16 25 (1.04%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 112 (4.66%) Cloud Native
2 102 (4.24%) Product Ownership
3 77 (3.20%) Data Structures
4 67 (2.79%) Onboarding
5 54 (2.25%) Management Information System
6 52 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
7 50 (2.08%) Algorithms
8 46 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
9 44 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
10 42 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
10 42 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 40 (1.66%) Equities
12 38 (1.58%) Derivative
13 35 (1.46%) Mobile App
14 28 (1.16%) Fixed Income
14 28 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
15 27 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
15 27 (1.12%) NHS
15 27 (1.12%) Public Cloud
15 27 (1.12%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 70 (2.91%) Windows
2 68 (2.83%) Linux
3 28 (1.16%) Unix
4 21 (0.87%) Mac OS
5 20 (0.83%) Apple iOS
6 19 (0.79%) Android
7 10 (0.42%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.21%) VMS
8 5 (0.21%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.083%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.042%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.042%) CentOS
10 1 (0.042%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.042%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.042%) Rocky
10 1 (0.042%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 650 (27.03%) Business Intelligence
2 589 (24.49%) Agile
3 562 (23.37%) Data Modelling
4 504 (20.96%) Problem-Solving
5 465 (19.33%) CI/CD
6 448 (18.63%) DevOps
7 443 (18.42%) ETL
8 435 (18.09%) AI
9 406 (16.88%) Data Pipeline
10 370 (15.38%) Data Governance
11 343 (14.26%) Decision-Making
12 342 (14.22%) Data Engineering
13 323 (13.43%) Stakeholder Management
14 295 (12.27%) Data Analytics
15 286 (11.89%) Data Science
16 273 (11.35%) Machine Learning
17 268 (11.14%) Visualisation
18 265 (11.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 262 (10.89%) Continuous Improvement
20 240 (9.98%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 810 (33.68%) SQL
2 729 (30.31%) Python
3 146 (6.07%) Java
4 104 (4.32%) JavaScript
5 96 (3.99%) PowerShell
6 74 (3.08%) C#
7 68 (2.83%) R
8 62 (2.58%) Bicep
9 56 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 49 (2.04%) Bash
11 41 (1.70%) TypeScript
12 37 (1.54%) Kusto Query Language
12 37 (1.54%) Scala
13 36 (1.50%) C++
14 34 (1.41%) T-SQL
15 25 (1.04%) VBA
16 22 (0.91%) PL/SQL
17 17 (0.71%) Shell Script
18 14 (0.58%) Kotlin
19 13 (0.54%) Swift
Qualifications
1 407 (16.92%) Security Cleared
2 333 (13.85%) SC Cleared
3 222 (9.23%) Degree
4 68 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 59 (2.45%) Azure Certification
6 49 (2.04%) Master's Degree
7 38 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
8 31 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
9 29 (1.21%) CISSP
10 27 (1.12%) DV Cleared
11 26 (1.08%) PMI Certification
12 24 (1.00%) AWS Certification
13 20 (0.83%) PMP
14 19 (0.79%) CISM
15 13 (0.54%) IIBA
16 9 (0.37%) CBAP
16 9 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
17 8 (0.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
17 8 (0.33%) PhD
18 7 (0.29%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 394 (16.38%) Data Quality
2 142 (5.90%) GDPR
3 93 (3.87%) Accessibility
4 84 (3.49%) QA
5 39 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 31 (1.29%) NIST
7 20 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
8 19 (0.79%) PMO
9 18 (0.75%) WCAG
10 15 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 14 (0.58%) NCSC
12 10 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 10 (0.42%) HIPAA
12 10 (0.42%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.42%) Solvency II
13 9 (0.37%) GRC
13 9 (0.37%) NIST 800
13 9 (0.37%) SLA
14 8 (0.33%) PERC
15 6 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 189 (7.86%) Docker
2 62 (2.58%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.42%) HDFS
6 5 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.21%) zsh
7 2 (0.083%) GPFS
7 2 (0.083%) Lustre
7 2 (0.083%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.083%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.042%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.042%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.042%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.042%) Snort
8 1 (0.042%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.042%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 194 (8.07%) Terraform
2 193 (8.02%) Kubernetes
3 30 (1.25%) Ansible
4 28 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (0.71%) SCCM
7 16 (0.67%) Grafana
8 15 (0.62%) Prometheus
9 14 (0.58%) Puppet
10 8 (0.33%) Kibana
11 7 (0.29%) Hadoop YARN
11 7 (0.29%) logstash
12 5 (0.21%) WSUS
13 3 (0.12%) Fluentd
13 3 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 2 (0.083%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.083%) Argo
14 2 (0.083%) Nessus
14 2 (0.083%) RSA Archer
14 2 (0.083%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 459 (19.09%) Microsoft
2 299 (12.43%) Databricks
3 156 (6.49%) Google
4 150 (6.24%) SAP
5 148 (6.15%) Oracle
6 70 (2.91%) Salesforce
7 67 (2.79%) Adobe
8 64 (2.66%) ServiceNow
9 57 (2.37%) Talend
10 45 (1.87%) Informatica
11 41 (1.70%) Denodo
12 39 (1.62%) Splunk
13 34 (1.41%) OpenAI
14 31 (1.29%) Workday
15 28 (1.16%) Foundry
16 23 (0.96%) IBM
17 20 (0.83%) Dynatrace
18 19 (0.79%) Cisco
19 18 (0.75%) VMware
20 14 (0.58%) Cognos