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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 26 34
Rank change year-on-year 0 +8 +2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,499 1,861 1,717
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.52% 6.66% 5.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.88% 7.33% 6.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,272 1,224 1,168
10th Percentile £363 £361 £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 99 43 26
10th Percentile £17.23 £18.85 £23.25
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.90 £27.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +7.69% -8.13%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.81 £52.19
90th Percentile £85.05 £79.75 £70.49
UK median hourly rate £48.75 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +39.29% +7.69% -8.13%

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 39,398 25,390 28,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.63% 90.87% 86.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,997 16,126 17,350
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
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 2,849 1,543 1,244
10th Percentile £13.90 £14.41 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.23% -41.51% -1.94%
75th Percentile £67.70 £47.50 £66.61
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 1,941 £550 - 6,448
North of England +14 471 £481 +1.32% 1,009
Midlands +2 370 £492 -5.11% 576
South East +12 348 £520 -0.95% 1,057
West Midlands +2 302 £492 -6.29% 379
North West +2 226 £525 +10.53% 580
Yorkshire +14 188 £473 -0.53% 312
South West +25 175 £525 +10.53% 410
East of England -14 111 £590 +6.55% 338
East Midlands -7 65 £490 +5.95% 197
North East +4 64 £445 +18.67% 120
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
1 170 (4.86%) Apache Airflow
2 135 (3.86%) Apache Spark
3 113 (3.23%) SAS
4 103 (2.94%) Apache
5 80 (2.29%) Confluence
6 59 (1.69%) CMS
7 50 (1.43%) SharePoint
8 35 (1.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 29 (0.83%) Jupyter
10 28 (0.80%) Palantir Foundry
11 22 (0.63%) Oracle Application Server
12 10 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
13 9 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
14 8 (0.23%) Apache Superset
14 8 (0.23%) Drupal
14 8 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
15 6 (0.17%) WordPress
16 4 (0.11%) nginx
17 3 (0.086%) IIS
18 2 (0.057%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 167 (4.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 27 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
4 22 (0.63%) Chatbot
5 17 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (0.37%) 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%) PlantUML
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%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 76 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 36 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.54%) Workday HCM
4 17 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
5 15 (0.43%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 15 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
6 13 (0.37%) Aladdin
7 10 (0.29%) SAP HR
8 9 (0.26%) SAP CO
8 9 (0.26%) SAP FI
8 9 (0.26%) Shopify
9 7 (0.20%) SAP ERP
9 7 (0.20%) SAP HCM
9 7 (0.20%) SAP MDG
9 7 (0.20%) Workfront
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 Payroll
Cloud Services
1 1,002 (28.64%) Azure
2 707 (20.21%) Power Platform
3 611 (17.46%) AWS
4 313 (8.95%) GCP
5 264 (7.55%) Snowflake
6 232 (6.63%) Azure DevOps
7 229 (6.54%) Azure Data Factory
8 208 (5.94%) dbt
9 175 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 152 (4.34%) GitHub
11 144 (4.12%) Serverless
12 131 (3.74%) Amazon S3
13 125 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
14 113 (3.23%) SaaS
15 111 (3.17%) Entra ID
16 92 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
17 82 (2.34%) Microsoft 365
18 76 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
19 65 (1.86%) Adobe Analytics
20 64 (1.83%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 57 (1.63%) Firewall
2 50 (1.43%) Network Security
3 36 (1.03%) DNS
4 32 (0.91%) VPN
5 22 (0.63%) TCP/IP
6 20 (0.57%) Broadband
7 19 (0.54%) WAN
8 15 (0.43%) BGP
8 15 (0.43%) DHCP
8 15 (0.43%) SD-WAN
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
1 681 (19.46%) Power BI
2 439 (12.55%) Data Warehouse
3 261 (7.46%) Data Lake
4 240 (6.86%) Metadata
5 221 (6.32%) Tableau
6 155 (4.43%) BigQuery
7 89 (2.54%) Amazon Redshift
8 87 (2.49%) Big Data
9 86 (2.46%) SQL Server
10 84 (2.40%) Delta Lake
11 81 (2.31%) Looker
12 79 (2.26%) Relational Database
13 78 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
14 70 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
15 61 (1.74%) Semantic Layer
16 56 (1.60%) NoSQL
17 53 (1.51%) Snowflake Schema
18 52 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
19 49 (1.40%) Power Query
20 45 (1.29%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 191 (5.46%) Git
2 158 (4.52%) JIRA
3 63 (1.80%) GitLab
4 61 (1.74%) Jenkins
5 13 (0.37%) 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
1 985 (28.15%) Social Skills
2 908 (25.95%) Finance
3 657 (18.78%) Analytical Skills
4 420 (12.00%) Public Sector
5 271 (7.75%) Banking
6 234 (6.69%) Marketing
7 180 (5.14%) Retail
8 113 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
9 88 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 86 (2.46%) Manufacturing
11 84 (2.40%) Legal
12 72 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
13 69 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
14 61 (1.74%) Front Office
15 54 (1.54%) Investment Banking
16 51 (1.46%) Publishing
17 43 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
18 42 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
19 41 (1.17%) Military
20 40 (1.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 575 (16.43%) Data Engineer
2 473 (13.52%) Senior
3 458 (13.09%) Analyst
4 449 (12.83%) Architect
5 291 (8.32%) Developer
6 288 (8.23%) Lead
7 207 (5.92%) Data Architect
8 174 (4.97%) Consultant
9 168 (4.80%) Data Analyst
10 122 (3.49%) Senior Data Engineer
11 121 (3.46%) Solutions Architect
12 118 (3.37%) Data Scientist
13 111 (3.17%) Business Analyst
14 99 (2.83%) Azure Engineer
15 73 (2.09%) Data Manager
16 65 (1.86%) Product Manager
16 65 (1.86%) Senior Analyst
16 65 (1.86%) Senior Manager
17 61 (1.74%) AWS Engineer
18 60 (1.71%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 280 (8.00%) Terraform
2 205 (5.86%) PySpark
3 133 (3.80%) REST
4 105 (3.00%) Kafka
5 59 (1.69%) Pandas
6 55 (1.57%) HTML
7 52 (1.49%) React
8 50 (1.43%) CSS
9 49 (1.40%) RESTful
10 44 (1.26%) .NET
11 43 (1.23%) OAuth
12 40 (1.14%) ARM Templates
13 38 (1.09%) JSON
13 38 (1.09%) NumPy
14 36 (1.03%) OpenID
15 32 (0.91%) OAuth2
15 32 (0.91%) Web Services
16 31 (0.89%) SOAP
17 28 (0.80%) Oracle Fusion
18 27 (0.77%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 249 (7.12%) Cloud Native
2 191 (5.46%) Product Ownership
3 145 (4.14%) Onboarding
4 137 (3.92%) Data Structures
5 101 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
6 82 (2.34%) Management Information System
7 69 (1.97%) AI Agents
8 67 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
9 61 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
10 47 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
10 47 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
11 43 (1.23%) Algorithms
11 43 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
12 42 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
13 40 (1.14%) Virtual Team
14 38 (1.09%) NHS
14 38 (1.09%) Social Media
15 37 (1.06%) Marketing Technology
16 35 (1.00%) Derivative
17 34 (0.97%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 91 (2.60%) Windows
2 85 (2.43%) Linux
3 41 (1.17%) Unix
4 35 (1.00%) Windows Server
5 18 (0.51%) 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 (0.086%) 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
1 954 (27.26%) AI
2 918 (26.24%) Data Modelling
3 876 (25.04%) Business Intelligence
4 823 (23.52%) Stakeholder Management
5 812 (23.21%) Agile
6 707 (20.21%) Data Pipeline
7 682 (19.49%) Decision-Making
8 667 (19.06%) Data Engineering
9 652 (18.63%) CI/CD
10 569 (16.26%) Data Governance
11 539 (15.40%) ETL
12 520 (14.86%) DevOps
13 498 (14.23%) Problem-Solving
14 470 (13.43%) Migration
15 461 (13.18%) Continuous Improvement
16 449 (12.83%) Roadmaps
17 440 (12.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 431 (12.32%) Machine Learning
19 417 (11.92%) Validation
20 415 (11.86%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 1,138 (32.52%) SQL
2 973 (27.81%) Python
3 158 (4.52%) PowerShell
4 103 (2.94%) Java
5 89 (2.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 88 (2.52%) JavaScript
7 78 (2.23%) Bicep
8 71 (2.03%) C#
9 63 (1.80%) Bash
9 63 (1.80%) R
10 39 (1.11%) Scala
11 38 (1.09%) TypeScript
12 31 (0.89%) Shell Script
13 28 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
14 25 (0.71%) T-SQL
15 20 (0.57%) C++
16 18 (0.51%) PL/SQL
17 15 (0.43%) ABAP
18 14 (0.40%) VBA
19 13 (0.37%) LookML
Qualifications
1 621 (17.75%) Security Cleared
2 499 (14.26%) SC Cleared
3 292 (8.35%) Degree
4 88 (2.52%) Azure Certification
5 87 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 75 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 74 (2.11%) DV Cleared
8 55 (1.57%) Master's Degree
9 53 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
10 44 (1.26%) CISSP
11 37 (1.06%) AWS Certification
12 33 (0.94%) PMI Certification
13 28 (0.80%) PMP
14 27 (0.77%) DBS Check
15 20 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
16 11 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 11 (0.31%) CISA
16 11 (0.31%) MBA
16 11 (0.31%) SANS
17 10 (0.29%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 764 (21.83%) Data Quality
2 157 (4.49%) GDPR
3 140 (4.00%) QA
4 130 (3.72%) Accessibility
5 47 (1.34%) GRC
6 41 (1.17%) WCAG
7 39 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 33 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
8 33 (0.94%) NIST
9 32 (0.91%) PMO
10 24 (0.69%) SLA
11 13 (0.37%) NCSC
11 13 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 12 (0.34%) IFRS
13 11 (0.31%) PCI DSS
13 11 (0.31%) PERC
14 10 (0.29%) Solvency II
15 8 (0.23%) GMP
16 7 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
17 6 (0.17%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 152 (4.34%) Docker
2 94 (2.69%) Active Directory
3 27 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.26%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.11%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 3 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.086%) VMware NSX
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
1 162 (4.63%) Kubernetes
2 45 (1.29%) Ansible
3 34 (0.97%) Grafana
4 26 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (0.49%) Prometheus
7 13 (0.37%) 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 (0.11%) SysTrack
13 3 (0.086%) CASB
14 2 (0.057%) Argo
14 2 (0.057%) Docker Swarm
14 2 (0.057%) Nagios
14 2 (0.057%) Puppet
Vendors
1 667 (19.06%) Microsoft
2 450 (12.86%) Databricks
3 200 (5.72%) Oracle
4 197 (5.63%) SAP
5 190 (5.43%) Google
6 97 (2.77%) Adobe
7 87 (2.49%) Salesforce
7 87 (2.49%) ServiceNow
8 58 (1.66%) Workday
9 53 (1.51%) Splunk
10 41 (1.17%) Dynatrace
11 40 (1.14%) Foundry
12 34 (0.97%) Palantir
13 33 (0.94%) Informatica
14 31 (0.89%) Talend
15 30 (0.86%) VMware
16 28 (0.80%) Cisco
16 28 (0.80%) Denodo
17 26 (0.74%) OpenAI
18 24 (0.69%) Amplitude