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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 26 34
Rank change year-on-year 0 +8 +2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,460 1,846 1,701
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.47% 6.70% 5.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.83% 7.36% 6.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,251 1,217 1,153
10th Percentile £363 £363 £356
25th Percentile £435 £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% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 44 26
10th Percentile £17.23 £17.10 £23.25
25th Percentile £26.25 £24.38 £27.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £34.99 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.03% +7.66% -8.62%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.48 £52.19
90th Percentile £85.08 £79.63 £70.49
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £34.98 £31.75
% change year-on-year +35.79% +10.17% -10.73%

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 39,188 25,068 27,886
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.60% 90.98% 86.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,853 15,921 17,051
10th Percentile £325 £298 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £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 2,855 1,537 1,209
10th Percentile £13.91 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.19
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.00 £67.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.35 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £39.75 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +58.05% -40.82% -1.16%

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 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 29 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 29 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 1,921 £550 - 5,461
North of England +9 468 £490 +3.16% 904
Midlands +3 364 £490 -5.18% 513
South East +15 347 £515 -1.90% 883
West Midlands 0 296 £490 -6.67% 354
North West +3 226 £525 +10.53% 513
Yorkshire +12 184 £465 -2.11% 287
South West +23 175 £525 +10.53% 357
East of England -11 106 £600 +8.35% 305
East Midlands -5 66 £490 +7.40% 159
North East +6 65 £445 +13.02% 107
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
1 169 (4.88%) Apache Airflow
2 129 (3.73%) Apache Spark
3 108 (3.12%) SAS
4 101 (2.92%) Apache
5 80 (2.31%) Confluence
6 59 (1.71%) CMS
7 50 (1.45%) SharePoint
8 36 (1.04%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 28 (0.81%) Jupyter
9 28 (0.81%) Palantir Foundry
10 22 (0.64%) Oracle Application Server
11 9 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
11 9 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
12 8 (0.23%) Apache Superset
12 8 (0.23%) Drupal
12 8 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
13 6 (0.17%) WordPress
14 4 (0.12%) nginx
15 3 (0.087%) IIS
16 2 (0.058%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 166 (4.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 27 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
4 22 (0.64%) Chatbot
5 16 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (0.38%) CPLEX
6 13 (0.38%) MS Visio
7 12 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
8 5 (0.14%) Trello
9 3 (0.087%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.087%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.058%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.058%) PlantUML
10 2 (0.058%) 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%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 78 (2.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.55%) Workday HCM
4 17 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
5 15 (0.43%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 15 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
6 13 (0.38%) Aladdin
7 11 (0.32%) SAP FI
8 10 (0.29%) SAP CO
8 10 (0.29%) SAP HR
9 8 (0.23%) Shopify
10 7 (0.20%) SAP ERP
10 7 (0.20%) SAP HCM
10 7 (0.20%) SAP MDG
10 7 (0.20%) Workfront
11 6 (0.17%) NetSuite
11 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
11 6 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
11 6 (0.17%) SAP GRC
11 6 (0.17%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 989 (28.58%) Azure
2 704 (20.35%) Power Platform
3 597 (17.25%) AWS
4 310 (8.96%) GCP
5 265 (7.66%) Snowflake
6 231 (6.68%) Azure DevOps
7 224 (6.47%) Azure Data Factory
8 213 (6.16%) dbt
9 171 (4.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 149 (4.31%) GitHub
11 143 (4.13%) Serverless
12 128 (3.70%) Amazon S3
13 124 (3.58%) Azure Monitor
14 115 (3.32%) SaaS
15 110 (3.18%) Entra ID
16 91 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
17 82 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
18 74 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
19 64 (1.85%) Adobe Analytics
20 63 (1.82%) Azure Databricks
Communications & Networking
1 57 (1.65%) Firewall
2 51 (1.47%) Network Security
3 37 (1.07%) DNS
4 33 (0.95%) VPN
5 22 (0.64%) TCP/IP
6 21 (0.61%) Broadband
7 19 (0.55%) WAN
8 15 (0.43%) BGP
8 15 (0.43%) DHCP
9 14 (0.40%) SD-WAN
10 9 (0.26%) SMS
11 7 (0.20%) HTTP
11 7 (0.20%) LAN
11 7 (0.20%) Wireless
12 6 (0.17%) Kerberos
12 6 (0.17%) NGFW
12 6 (0.17%) OSPF
12 6 (0.17%) SSH
13 5 (0.14%) Cisco IPT
13 5 (0.14%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 678 (19.60%) Power BI
2 439 (12.69%) Data Warehouse
3 258 (7.46%) Data Lake
4 238 (6.88%) Metadata
5 223 (6.45%) Tableau
6 157 (4.54%) BigQuery
7 89 (2.57%) Amazon Redshift
8 84 (2.43%) SQL Server
9 82 (2.37%) Looker
10 81 (2.34%) Big Data
10 81 (2.34%) Delta Lake
11 78 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
12 75 (2.17%) Relational Database
13 68 (1.97%) Amazon Athena
14 60 (1.73%) Semantic Layer
15 56 (1.62%) NoSQL
16 54 (1.56%) Snowflake Schema
17 53 (1.53%) Power Query
18 51 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
19 44 (1.27%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 190 (5.49%) Git
2 154 (4.45%) JIRA
3 62 (1.79%) GitLab
4 59 (1.71%) Jenkins
5 12 (0.35%) MLflow
6 9 (0.26%) fastlane
6 9 (0.26%) RStudio
6 9 (0.26%) SonarQube
7 8 (0.23%) Gradle
8 7 (0.20%) ER Studio
8 7 (0.20%) ERwin
8 7 (0.20%) Selenium
8 7 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
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%) Android Studio
10 5 (0.14%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.14%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 983 (28.41%) Social Skills
2 902 (26.07%) Finance
3 647 (18.70%) Analytical Skills
4 419 (12.11%) Public Sector
5 270 (7.80%) Banking
6 235 (6.79%) Marketing
7 177 (5.12%) Retail
8 115 (3.32%) Influencing Skills
9 88 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 85 (2.46%) Legal
10 85 (2.46%) Manufacturing
11 72 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
12 66 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
13 61 (1.76%) Front Office
14 55 (1.59%) Investment Banking
15 49 (1.42%) Publishing
16 44 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
17 42 (1.21%) Military
18 40 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
19 37 (1.07%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 562 (16.24%) Data Engineer
2 466 (13.47%) Senior
3 453 (13.09%) Analyst
4 444 (12.83%) Architect
5 294 (8.50%) Developer
6 284 (8.21%) Lead
7 204 (5.90%) Data Architect
8 175 (5.06%) Consultant
9 168 (4.86%) Data Analyst
10 123 (3.55%) Senior Data Engineer
11 120 (3.47%) Data Scientist
12 119 (3.44%) Solutions Architect
13 109 (3.15%) Business Analyst
14 100 (2.89%) Azure Engineer
15 70 (2.02%) Data Manager
16 64 (1.85%) Senior Analyst
17 63 (1.82%) Product Manager
17 63 (1.82%) Senior Manager
18 62 (1.79%) AWS Engineer
19 60 (1.73%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 275 (7.95%) Terraform
2 202 (5.84%) PySpark
3 132 (3.82%) REST
4 101 (2.92%) Kafka
5 60 (1.73%) Pandas
6 56 (1.62%) HTML
7 55 (1.59%) React
8 51 (1.47%) CSS
8 51 (1.47%) RESTful
9 43 (1.24%) OAuth
10 42 (1.21%) .NET
11 40 (1.16%) ARM Templates
12 38 (1.10%) NumPy
13 36 (1.04%) JSON
13 36 (1.04%) OpenID
14 33 (0.95%) Web Services
15 32 (0.92%) OAuth2
16 31 (0.90%) SOAP
17 28 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
18 27 (0.78%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 245 (7.08%) Cloud Native
2 189 (5.46%) Product Ownership
3 145 (4.19%) Onboarding
4 136 (3.93%) Data Structures
5 103 (2.98%) Legacy Systems
6 83 (2.40%) Management Information System
7 69 (1.99%) AI Agents
8 66 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
9 60 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
10 48 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
11 45 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
12 43 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
13 42 (1.21%) Algorithms
14 41 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
15 39 (1.13%) Social Media
16 38 (1.10%) Virtual Team
17 37 (1.07%) NHS
18 36 (1.04%) Derivative
18 36 (1.04%) Marketing Technology
19 34 (0.98%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 90 (2.60%) Windows
2 86 (2.49%) Linux
3 41 (1.18%) Unix
4 35 (1.01%) Windows Server
5 18 (0.52%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.29%) Android
7 10 (0.29%) Mac OS
8 9 (0.26%) VMS
9 6 (0.17%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.087%) Solaris
10 3 (0.087%) 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
1 952 (27.51%) AI
2 908 (26.24%) Data Modelling
3 868 (25.09%) Business Intelligence
4 825 (23.84%) Stakeholder Management
5 811 (23.44%) Agile
6 687 (19.86%) Data Pipeline
7 680 (19.65%) Decision-Making
8 658 (19.02%) Data Engineering
9 643 (18.58%) CI/CD
10 558 (16.13%) Data Governance
11 529 (15.29%) ETL
12 510 (14.74%) DevOps
13 488 (14.10%) Problem-Solving
14 464 (13.41%) Migration
15 458 (13.24%) Continuous Improvement
16 449 (12.98%) Roadmaps
17 438 (12.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 420 (12.14%) Machine Learning
19 410 (11.85%) Data Science
19 410 (11.85%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1,129 (32.63%) SQL
2 965 (27.89%) Python
3 157 (4.54%) PowerShell
4 102 (2.95%) Java
5 92 (2.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 90 (2.60%) JavaScript
7 77 (2.23%) Bicep
8 68 (1.97%) C#
9 63 (1.82%) Bash
10 61 (1.76%) R
11 40 (1.16%) Scala
11 40 (1.16%) TypeScript
12 31 (0.90%) Shell Script
13 28 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
14 23 (0.66%) T-SQL
15 20 (0.58%) C++
16 17 (0.49%) PL/SQL
17 15 (0.43%) ABAP
18 14 (0.40%) LookML
18 14 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 616 (17.80%) Security Cleared
2 494 (14.28%) SC Cleared
3 294 (8.50%) Degree
4 88 (2.54%) Azure Certification
5 87 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
6 77 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 74 (2.14%) DV Cleared
8 55 (1.59%) Master's Degree
9 52 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
10 44 (1.27%) CISSP
11 38 (1.10%) 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 11 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 11 (0.32%) CISA
16 11 (0.32%) MBA
16 11 (0.32%) SANS
17 10 (0.29%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 757 (21.88%) Data Quality
2 155 (4.48%) GDPR
3 139 (4.02%) QA
4 133 (3.84%) Accessibility
5 47 (1.36%) GRC
6 41 (1.18%) WCAG
7 39 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 34 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
9 33 (0.95%) NIST
10 32 (0.92%) PMO
11 24 (0.69%) SLA
12 13 (0.38%) NCSC
12 13 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 12 (0.35%) IFRS
14 11 (0.32%) PCI DSS
14 11 (0.32%) PERC
15 10 (0.29%) Solvency II
16 8 (0.23%) GMP
17 7 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
18 6 (0.17%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 150 (4.34%) Docker
2 93 (2.69%) Active Directory
3 27 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.26%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.12%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 3 (0.087%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.087%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.087%) vSphere
8 3 (0.087%) XenApp
9 2 (0.058%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.029%) iptables
10 1 (0.029%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.029%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 157 (4.54%) Kubernetes
2 45 (1.30%) Ansible
3 34 (0.98%) Grafana
4 25 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (0.49%) Prometheus
7 13 (0.38%) SCCM
8 8 (0.23%) FortiGate
8 8 (0.23%) Progress Chef
8 8 (0.23%) SCOM
9 7 (0.20%) Control-M
10 6 (0.17%) Kibana
10 6 (0.17%) Podman
11 5 (0.14%) QRadar
12 4 (0.12%) SysTrack
13 3 (0.087%) CASB
14 2 (0.058%) Argo
14 2 (0.058%) Docker Swarm
14 2 (0.058%) MOM
14 2 (0.058%) Puppet
Vendors
1 658 (19.02%) Microsoft
2 443 (12.80%) Databricks
3 196 (5.66%) SAP
4 194 (5.61%) Oracle
5 188 (5.43%) Google
6 97 (2.80%) Adobe
7 88 (2.54%) Salesforce
8 85 (2.46%) ServiceNow
9 58 (1.68%) Workday
10 50 (1.45%) Splunk
11 40 (1.16%) Dynatrace
11 40 (1.16%) Foundry
12 34 (0.98%) Palantir
13 31 (0.90%) Informatica
14 30 (0.87%) VMware
15 28 (0.81%) Talend
16 27 (0.78%) Cisco
17 26 (0.75%) Denodo
17 26 (0.75%) OpenAI
18 24 (0.69%) Amplitude