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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 31 38
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 -1
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,115 1,698 2,007
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.02% 5.53% 5.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.78% 6.37% 5.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,393 1,124 1,397
10th Percentile £360 £356 £375
25th Percentile £431 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £558 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% -0.76% -2.17%
75th Percentile £638 £690 £688
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 28 74
10th Percentile £20.25 £26.48 £17.90
25th Percentile £30.32 £29.38 £22.65
Median hourly rate £45.00 £35.00 £37.19
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -5.89% +5.50%
75th Percentile £71.13 £61.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £79.63 £68.18 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £44.31 £33.75 £40.47
% change year-on-year +31.27% -16.60% +14.00%

All Process and 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 27,183 26,639 35,184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.25% 86.82% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,253 16,245 24,094
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,795 955 1,480
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.10 £14.49
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% -16.67% +28.57%
75th Percentile £47.06 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.94 £74.82 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.45% +25.71%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 +4 1,233 £538 -10.42% 2,037
Midlands +15 242 £515 +5.10% 304
North of England +6 239 £475 -9.52% 389
West Midlands +12 188 £519 +3.70% 174
South East +1 150 £513 - 651
North West +9 148 £475 -5.00% 251
East of England +8 84 £551 +2.56% 158
Yorkshire +2 83 £475 -13.64% 99
South West +20 79 £510 -11.30% 161
East Midlands +11 56 £449 -1.43% 125
North East -2 9 £410 -36.68% 41
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 98 (4.63%) Apache Airflow
2 90 (4.26%) SAS
3 74 (3.50%) Apache
4 73 (3.45%) Apache Spark
5 49 (2.32%) Confluence
6 39 (1.84%) CMS
7 37 (1.75%) SharePoint
8 16 (0.76%) WebLogic
9 15 (0.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 10 (0.47%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.38%) Oracle Application Server
11 8 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 7 (0.33%) WordPress
13 6 (0.28%) GeoServer
13 6 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
13 6 (0.28%) Smallworld
14 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
15 4 (0.19%) JBoss
16 3 (0.14%) IIS
16 3 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 146 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
3 34 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (1.42%) MS Visio
5 22 (1.04%) Chatbot
6 14 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.14%) Sketch
9 2 (0.095%) Maple
9 2 (0.095%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.095%) Trello
10 1 (0.047%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.047%) Autodesk Smoke
10 1 (0.047%) CapCut
10 1 (0.047%) FrameMaker
10 1 (0.047%) InDesign
10 1 (0.047%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.047%) Simulink
10 1 (0.047%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 80 (3.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.66%) SAP EHS
4 11 (0.52%) SAP FI
4 11 (0.52%) SAP HR
5 10 (0.47%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.33%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 7 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
6 7 (0.33%) SAP MM
7 6 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 5 (0.24%) Aladdin
8 5 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
8 5 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.24%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.24%) SAP SD
9 4 (0.19%) Endur
9 4 (0.19%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.19%) SAP IBP
9 4 (0.19%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 654 (30.92%) Azure
2 445 (21.04%) Power Platform
3 443 (20.95%) AWS
4 218 (10.31%) GCP
5 144 (6.81%) Snowflake
6 137 (6.48%) Azure DevOps
7 125 (5.91%) Azure Data Factory
8 112 (5.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 100 (4.73%) Azure Monitor
10 99 (4.68%) Serverless
11 94 (4.44%) GitHub
12 89 (4.21%) SaaS
13 77 (3.64%) dbt
14 69 (3.26%) Entra ID
15 66 (3.12%) Amazon S3
16 63 (2.98%) GitHub Actions
16 63 (2.98%) Microsoft 365
17 59 (2.79%) Google Analytics
18 58 (2.74%) Azure Logic Apps
19 50 (2.36%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 48 (2.27%) Firewall
2 35 (1.65%) Network Security
3 29 (1.37%) DNS
4 20 (0.95%) VPN
5 19 (0.90%) WAN
6 13 (0.61%) HTTP
6 13 (0.61%) SSL
7 10 (0.47%) LAN
7 10 (0.47%) SD-WAN
8 9 (0.43%) SMS
9 8 (0.38%) FTP
9 8 (0.38%) SMTP
10 6 (0.28%) 2G
10 6 (0.28%) 5G
11 5 (0.24%) DHCP
11 5 (0.24%) Ethernet
11 5 (0.24%) Wireless
12 4 (0.19%) 4G
12 4 (0.19%) MPLS
12 4 (0.19%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 414 (19.57%) Power BI
2 250 (11.82%) Data Warehouse
3 153 (7.23%) Tableau
4 143 (6.76%) Data Lake
5 111 (5.25%) Metadata
6 74 (3.50%) BigQuery
7 63 (2.98%) Big Data
8 61 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
9 54 (2.55%) SQL Server
10 53 (2.51%) Relational Database
11 48 (2.27%) Looker
12 47 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
13 46 (2.17%) Power Query
14 45 (2.13%) Hadoop
15 43 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
16 42 (1.99%) Snowflake Schema
17 40 (1.89%) NoSQL
18 36 (1.70%) Pentaho
19 35 (1.65%) Delta Lake
20 30 (1.42%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 161 (7.61%) Git
2 135 (6.38%) JIRA
3 81 (3.83%) Jenkins
4 50 (2.36%) GitLab
5 21 (0.99%) ERwin
5 21 (0.99%) Selenium
6 17 (0.80%) JUnit
7 13 (0.61%) MLflow
8 12 (0.57%) ER Studio
9 10 (0.47%) PowerDesigner
9 10 (0.47%) SonarQube
10 9 (0.43%) Android Studio
10 9 (0.43%) Postman
10 9 (0.43%) Visual Website Optimizer
11 8 (0.38%) DBeaver
11 8 (0.38%) Gradle
11 8 (0.38%) TeamCity
12 7 (0.33%) Xcode
13 6 (0.28%) PVCS
14 5 (0.24%) Visual Studio
General
1 775 (36.64%) Social Skills
2 611 (28.89%) Finance
3 460 (21.75%) Analytical Skills
4 220 (10.40%) Banking
5 173 (8.18%) Marketing
6 171 (8.09%) Public Sector
7 81 (3.83%) Retail
8 77 (3.64%) Front Office
9 67 (3.17%) Investment Banking
10 55 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
11 50 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
11 50 (2.36%) Legal
12 41 (1.94%) Manufacturing
13 39 (1.84%) Pharmaceutical
14 36 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 34 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
16 33 (1.56%) Financial Institution
17 28 (1.32%) Telecoms
18 26 (1.23%) Publishing
19 24 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 370 (17.49%) Analyst
2 273 (12.91%) Developer
3 236 (11.16%) Senior
4 219 (10.35%) Data Engineer
5 212 (10.02%) Architect
6 141 (6.67%) Data Analyst
7 133 (6.29%) Business Analyst
8 127 (6.00%) Lead
9 125 (5.91%) Consultant
10 76 (3.59%) Data Architect
11 67 (3.17%) Azure Engineer
12 60 (2.84%) Senior Developer
13 59 (2.79%) Data Scientist
14 50 (2.36%) Senior Analyst
15 44 (2.08%) Project Manager
16 43 (2.03%) SAP Consultant
17 37 (1.75%) Solutions Architect
18 36 (1.70%) Data Modeller
19 34 (1.61%) Platform Engineer
20 33 (1.56%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (4.87%) REST
2 81 (3.83%) Kafka
3 65 (3.07%) PySpark
4 55 (2.60%) React
5 47 (2.22%) HTML
6 44 (2.08%) Pandas
6 44 (2.08%) RESTful
7 40 (1.89%) Node.js
8 38 (1.80%) SOAP
9 37 (1.75%) CSS
10 36 (1.70%) .NET
11 34 (1.61%) NumPy
12 31 (1.47%) AngularJS
12 31 (1.47%) TensorFlow
13 29 (1.37%) OAuth
13 29 (1.37%) scikit-learn
14 28 (1.32%) ARM Templates
15 27 (1.28%) PyTorch
15 27 (1.28%) SAP Fiori
16 23 (1.09%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 105 (4.96%) Product Ownership
2 82 (3.88%) Cloud Native
3 69 (3.26%) Data Structures
4 62 (2.93%) Algorithms
5 60 (2.84%) Management Information System
6 58 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
6 58 (2.74%) Onboarding
7 56 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
8 46 (2.17%) Derivative
9 45 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 42 (1.99%) Mobile App
11 38 (1.80%) Equities
12 36 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
13 32 (1.51%) Virtual Team
14 30 (1.42%) Fixed Income
14 30 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
15 29 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
16 28 (1.32%) Social Media
17 25 (1.18%) Data Centre
18 24 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 69 (3.26%) Linux
1 69 (3.26%) Windows
2 29 (1.37%) Unix
3 19 (0.90%) Apple iOS
4 18 (0.85%) Android
5 10 (0.47%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.28%) VMS
7 6 (0.28%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.095%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.047%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.047%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.047%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 567 (26.81%) Business Intelligence
2 551 (26.05%) Agile
3 492 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
4 473 (22.36%) Data Modelling
5 386 (18.25%) CI/CD
6 371 (17.54%) DevOps
7 337 (15.93%) ETL
8 321 (15.18%) AI
9 314 (14.85%) Data Analytics
10 308 (14.56%) Data Pipeline
10 308 (14.56%) Decision-Making
11 304 (14.37%) Data Governance
12 298 (14.09%) Stakeholder Management
13 275 (13.00%) Visualisation
14 270 (12.77%) Data Science
15 266 (12.58%) Machine Learning
16 237 (11.21%) Data Engineering
17 232 (10.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 229 (10.83%) Actionable Insight
19 222 (10.50%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 726 (34.33%) SQL
2 624 (29.50%) Python
3 131 (6.19%) Java
4 110 (5.20%) JavaScript
5 82 (3.88%) PowerShell
6 64 (3.03%) R
7 49 (2.32%) TypeScript
8 47 (2.22%) Bash
8 47 (2.22%) C#
9 46 (2.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 43 (2.03%) Bicep
11 34 (1.61%) Kusto Query Language
12 31 (1.47%) Scala
13 28 (1.32%) VBA
14 27 (1.28%) C++
15 24 (1.13%) T-SQL
16 19 (0.90%) ABAP
17 15 (0.71%) PL/SQL
18 13 (0.61%) Swift
19 12 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 326 (15.41%) Security Cleared
2 273 (12.91%) SC Cleared
3 220 (10.40%) Degree
4 74 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 52 (2.46%) Master's Degree
6 44 (2.08%) Azure Certification
7 29 (1.37%) AWS Certification
8 27 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
9 26 (1.23%) CISSP
10 23 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
11 19 (0.90%) DV Cleared
12 18 (0.85%) PMI Certification
13 14 (0.66%) CISM
14 11 (0.52%) PMP
15 10 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 10 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
16 9 (0.43%) CBAP
17 6 (0.28%) ACCA
17 6 (0.28%) PhD
18 5 (0.24%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 305 (14.42%) Data Quality
2 111 (5.25%) GDPR
3 75 (3.55%) Accessibility
4 70 (3.31%) QA
5 32 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 25 (1.18%) NIST
7 17 (0.80%) PMO
8 16 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
9 15 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 12 (0.57%) GRC
10 12 (0.57%) SLA
10 12 (0.57%) Solvency II
11 11 (0.52%) HIPAA
12 10 (0.47%) NCSC
12 10 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 10 (0.47%) WCAG
13 9 (0.43%) IFRS
14 8 (0.38%) MiFID
15 7 (0.33%) GxP
15 7 (0.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 150 (7.09%) Docker
2 55 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.47%) HDFS
4 10 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.24%) zsh
6 3 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.095%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.047%) GPFS
8 1 (0.047%) Lustre
8 1 (0.047%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.047%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.047%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 163 (7.71%) Kubernetes
2 133 (6.29%) Terraform
3 30 (1.42%) Ansible
4 21 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
5 18 (0.85%) Grafana
6 14 (0.66%) Kibana
6 14 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (0.57%) Prometheus
7 12 (0.57%) SCCM
8 10 (0.47%) Puppet
9 9 (0.43%) Kubeflow
10 7 (0.33%) Hadoop YARN
10 7 (0.33%) logstash
10 7 (0.33%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.19%) Argo
11 4 (0.19%) RSA Archer
11 4 (0.19%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 3 (0.14%) Fluentd
12 3 (0.14%) WSUS
Vendors
1 394 (18.63%) Microsoft
2 215 (10.17%) Databricks
3 152 (7.19%) Google
4 151 (7.14%) Oracle
5 137 (6.48%) SAP
6 66 (3.12%) ServiceNow
7 62 (2.93%) Salesforce
8 51 (2.41%) Adobe
9 47 (2.22%) Splunk
10 46 (2.17%) Talend
11 36 (1.70%) Denodo
12 35 (1.65%) Workday
13 31 (1.47%) Cisco
14 28 (1.32%) Dynatrace
15 24 (1.13%) Informatica
16 23 (1.09%) AppDynamics
17 22 (1.04%) Alteryx
17 22 (1.04%) Foundry
17 22 (1.04%) OpenAI
18 15 (0.71%) Amplitude