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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 26 35
Rank change year-on-year 0 +9 0
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,504 1,824 1,728
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.59% 6.56% 5.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.96% 7.21% 6.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,281 1,197 1,187
10th Percentile £363 £358 £354
25th Percentile £433 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 42 26
10th Percentile £17.55 £18.68 £23.25
25th Percentile £26.25 £27.63 £27.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £37.75 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.09% +16.14% -7.80%
75th Percentile £73.75 £71.13 £52.19
90th Percentile £85.10 £79.88 £70.49
UK median hourly rate £48.75 £37.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year +29.16% +16.14% -7.80%

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 39,123 25,281 28,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.74% 90.90% 86.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,918 16,062 17,635
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,776 1,509 1,303
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £17.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.55
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -1.91%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 1,942 £550 - 6,362
North of England +11 470 £490 +6.52% 922
Midlands 0 370 £493 -4.37% 548
South East +19 362 £513 -2.38% 1,021
West Midlands +4 303 £493 -5.29% 368
North West +3 229 £525 +10.53% 542
Yorkshire +13 188 £463 -2.63% 268
South West +29 170 £525 +11.70% 348
East of England -9 110 £575 +3.84% 312
East Midlands -6 63 £490 +5.95% 179
North East -4 61 £450 +18.03% 114
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
1 166 (4.74%) Apache Airflow
2 130 (3.71%) Apache Spark
3 113 (3.22%) SAS
4 98 (2.80%) Apache
5 79 (2.25%) Confluence
6 58 (1.66%) CMS
7 50 (1.43%) SharePoint
8 32 (0.91%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 28 (0.80%) Jupyter
9 28 (0.80%) Palantir Foundry
10 26 (0.74%) Oracle Application Server
11 11 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
12 9 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
13 8 (0.23%) Apache Superset
13 8 (0.23%) Drupal
13 8 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
14 6 (0.17%) WordPress
15 4 (0.11%) nginx
16 3 (0.086%) IIS
17 2 (0.057%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 166 (4.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 28 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (0.60%) Chatbot
5 19 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (0.40%) CPLEX
7 12 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
7 12 (0.34%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.14%) Trello
9 3 (0.086%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.086%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.057%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.057%) Sketch
11 1 (0.029%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.029%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.029%) InDesign
11 1 (0.029%) Notion
11 1 (0.029%) PlantUML
11 1 (0.029%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 72 (2.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 37 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
3 17 (0.49%) Workday HCM
4 14 (0.40%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 13 (0.37%) Aladdin
6 11 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
7 10 (0.29%) Shopify
8 9 (0.26%) SAP CO
8 9 (0.26%) SAP FI
9 7 (0.20%) SAP ERP
9 7 (0.20%) SAP HR
9 7 (0.20%) SAP MDG
10 6 (0.17%) NetSuite
10 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
10 6 (0.17%) SAP GRC
10 6 (0.17%) SAP MM
10 6 (0.17%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 6 (0.17%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 1,013 (28.91%) Azure
2 699 (19.95%) Power Platform
3 611 (17.44%) AWS
4 307 (8.76%) GCP
5 259 (7.39%) Snowflake
6 230 (6.56%) Azure DevOps
7 228 (6.51%) Azure Data Factory
8 201 (5.74%) dbt
9 178 (5.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 152 (4.34%) GitHub
11 149 (4.25%) Serverless
12 131 (3.74%) Amazon S3
13 128 (3.65%) Azure Monitor
14 111 (3.17%) Entra ID
14 111 (3.17%) SaaS
15 95 (2.71%) AWS Lambda
16 85 (2.43%) Microsoft 365
17 75 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
18 64 (1.83%) Azure Databricks
19 63 (1.80%) Adobe Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 56 (1.60%) Firewall
2 51 (1.46%) Network Security
3 37 (1.06%) DNS
4 32 (0.91%) VPN
5 23 (0.66%) TCP/IP
6 20 (0.57%) Broadband
6 20 (0.57%) WAN
7 16 (0.46%) DHCP
7 16 (0.46%) SD-WAN
8 15 (0.43%) BGP
9 9 (0.26%) SMS
10 8 (0.23%) Wireless
11 7 (0.20%) HTTP
11 7 (0.20%) LAN
12 6 (0.17%) Kerberos
12 6 (0.17%) NGFW
12 6 (0.17%) OSPF
12 6 (0.17%) SSH
12 6 (0.17%) WLAN
13 5 (0.14%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 670 (19.12%) Power BI
2 443 (12.64%) Data Warehouse
3 257 (7.33%) Data Lake
4 236 (6.74%) Metadata
5 218 (6.22%) Tableau
6 148 (4.22%) BigQuery
7 89 (2.54%) SQL Server
8 88 (2.51%) Amazon Redshift
9 86 (2.45%) Delta Lake
10 85 (2.43%) Big Data
11 80 (2.28%) Relational Database
12 79 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
13 76 (2.17%) Looker
14 67 (1.91%) Amazon Athena
15 62 (1.77%) Semantic Layer
16 57 (1.63%) NoSQL
17 56 (1.60%) Snowflake Schema
18 52 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
19 51 (1.46%) Star Schema
20 50 (1.43%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 186 (5.31%) Git
2 159 (4.54%) JIRA
3 61 (1.74%) GitLab
3 61 (1.74%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.34%) MLflow
5 10 (0.29%) fastlane
5 10 (0.29%) SonarQube
6 9 (0.26%) ERwin
6 9 (0.26%) RStudio
7 8 (0.23%) Gradle
8 7 (0.20%) ER Studio
8 7 (0.20%) Selenium
8 7 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (0.17%) Android Studio
9 6 (0.17%) Crashlytics
9 6 (0.17%) JUnit
9 6 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
9 6 (0.17%) Postman
10 5 (0.14%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.14%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 967 (27.60%) Social Skills
2 908 (25.91%) Finance
3 660 (18.84%) Analytical Skills
4 418 (11.93%) Public Sector
5 265 (7.56%) Banking
6 231 (6.59%) Marketing
7 177 (5.05%) Retail
8 110 (3.14%) Influencing Skills
9 89 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 82 (2.34%) Manufacturing
11 80 (2.28%) Legal
12 72 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
13 70 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
14 61 (1.74%) Front Office
15 56 (1.60%) Investment Banking
16 49 (1.40%) Publishing
17 44 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
18 41 (1.17%) Military
18 41 (1.17%) Telecoms
19 39 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 572 (16.32%) Data Engineer
2 469 (13.38%) Senior
3 454 (12.96%) Analyst
4 452 (12.90%) Architect
5 302 (8.62%) Developer
6 292 (8.33%) Lead
7 206 (5.88%) Data Architect
8 176 (5.02%) Consultant
9 167 (4.77%) Data Analyst
10 125 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
11 118 (3.37%) Senior Data Engineer
12 112 (3.20%) Data Scientist
13 107 (3.05%) Business Analyst
14 97 (2.77%) Azure Engineer
15 74 (2.11%) Data Manager
16 69 (1.97%) Senior Manager
17 65 (1.86%) Product Manager
18 61 (1.74%) Project Manager
19 60 (1.71%) AWS Engineer
20 58 (1.66%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 275 (7.85%) Terraform
2 206 (5.88%) PySpark
3 130 (3.71%) REST
4 104 (2.97%) Kafka
5 58 (1.66%) Pandas
6 55 (1.57%) HTML
7 52 (1.48%) RESTful
8 51 (1.46%) React
9 50 (1.43%) CSS
10 45 (1.28%) .NET
11 43 (1.23%) JSON
12 42 (1.20%) OAuth
13 40 (1.14%) ARM Templates
14 37 (1.06%) NumPy
15 35 (1.00%) OpenID
16 32 (0.91%) Web Services
17 31 (0.88%) OAuth2
18 29 (0.83%) Oracle Fusion
18 29 (0.83%) SOAP
19 27 (0.77%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 241 (6.88%) Cloud Native
2 194 (5.54%) Product Ownership
3 141 (4.02%) Onboarding
4 140 (4.00%) Data Structures
5 101 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
6 82 (2.34%) Management Information System
7 69 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
8 66 (1.88%) AI Agents
9 60 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
10 48 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
11 46 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
12 45 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
13 44 (1.26%) Algorithms
14 42 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
15 40 (1.14%) Virtual Team
16 39 (1.11%) Social Media
17 38 (1.08%) NHS
18 37 (1.06%) Marketing Technology
19 35 (1.00%) Derivative
20 33 (0.94%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 91 (2.60%) Windows
2 84 (2.40%) Linux
3 40 (1.14%) Unix
4 35 (1.00%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.29%) Mac OS
8 9 (0.26%) Android
8 9 (0.26%) VMS
9 6 (0.17%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.086%) Solaris
10 3 (0.086%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.057%) AIX
11 2 (0.057%) CentOS
11 2 (0.057%) HPUX
12 1 (0.029%) Rocky
12 1 (0.029%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 945 (26.97%) AI
2 908 (25.91%) Data Modelling
3 873 (24.91%) Business Intelligence
4 817 (23.32%) Agile
5 799 (22.80%) Stakeholder Management
6 705 (20.12%) Data Pipeline
7 672 (19.18%) Data Engineering
8 670 (19.12%) Decision-Making
9 649 (18.52%) CI/CD
10 565 (16.12%) Data Governance
11 545 (15.55%) ETL
12 521 (14.87%) DevOps
13 512 (14.61%) Problem-Solving
14 476 (13.58%) Migration
15 455 (12.99%) Continuous Improvement
16 440 (12.56%) Roadmaps
17 431 (12.30%) Machine Learning
18 429 (12.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 412 (11.76%) Validation
20 407 (11.62%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 1,116 (31.85%) SQL
2 970 (27.68%) Python
3 157 (4.48%) PowerShell
4 108 (3.08%) Java
5 91 (2.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 86 (2.45%) JavaScript
7 78 (2.23%) Bicep
8 74 (2.11%) C#
9 64 (1.83%) R
10 62 (1.77%) Bash
11 39 (1.11%) Scala
12 37 (1.06%) TypeScript
13 31 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
13 31 (0.88%) Shell Script
14 25 (0.71%) T-SQL
15 20 (0.57%) C++
15 20 (0.57%) PL/SQL
16 14 (0.40%) LookML
16 14 (0.40%) VBA
17 13 (0.37%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 624 (17.81%) Security Cleared
2 497 (14.18%) SC Cleared
3 288 (8.22%) Degree
4 88 (2.51%) Azure Certification
5 81 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
6 75 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 74 (2.11%) DV Cleared
8 54 (1.54%) Master's Degree
9 53 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
10 44 (1.26%) CISSP
11 39 (1.11%) AWS Certification
12 35 (1.00%) PMI Certification
13 29 (0.83%) PMP
14 26 (0.74%) DBS Check
15 20 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
16 12 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 12 (0.34%) CISA
17 11 (0.31%) MBA
17 11 (0.31%) SANS
18 10 (0.29%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 745 (21.26%) Data Quality
2 155 (4.42%) GDPR
3 146 (4.17%) QA
4 133 (3.80%) Accessibility
5 48 (1.37%) GRC
6 45 (1.28%) WCAG
7 39 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 35 (1.00%) NIST
9 30 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
9 30 (0.86%) PMO
10 20 (0.57%) SLA
11 13 (0.37%) NCSC
11 13 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 12 (0.34%) IFRS
12 12 (0.34%) PERC
13 11 (0.31%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.29%) Solvency II
15 8 (0.23%) GMP
16 7 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
17 6 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 154 (4.39%) Docker
2 94 (2.68%) Active Directory
3 28 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.26%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.11%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 4 (0.11%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.086%) vSphere
8 3 (0.086%) XenApp
9 2 (0.057%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.029%) iptables
10 1 (0.029%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.029%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 163 (4.65%) Kubernetes
2 45 (1.28%) Ansible
3 35 (1.00%) Grafana
4 28 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (0.51%) 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 6 (0.17%) Podman
10 5 (0.14%) Kibana
11 4 (0.11%) QRadar
11 4 (0.11%) SysTrack
12 3 (0.086%) CASB
13 2 (0.057%) Argo
13 2 (0.057%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.057%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.057%) Puppet
Vendors
1 662 (18.89%) Microsoft
2 455 (12.99%) Databricks
3 213 (6.08%) Oracle
4 198 (5.65%) SAP
5 186 (5.31%) Google
6 94 (2.68%) Adobe
7 89 (2.54%) Salesforce
8 85 (2.43%) ServiceNow
9 58 (1.66%) Workday
10 51 (1.46%) Splunk
11 41 (1.17%) Dynatrace
12 40 (1.14%) Foundry
13 38 (1.08%) Informatica
14 34 (0.97%) Palantir
15 32 (0.91%) Talend
16 31 (0.88%) VMware
17 29 (0.83%) Denodo
18 28 (0.80%) Cisco
19 26 (0.74%) OpenAI
20 24 (0.68%) Amplitude