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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 26 35
Rank change year-on-year 0 +9 0
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,485 1,832 1,739
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.52% 6.60% 5.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.89% 7.26% 6.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,269 1,199 1,196
10th Percentile £363 £358 £354
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 £680
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
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 39,208 25,244 28,362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.66% 90.88% 86.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,936 16,028 17,611
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £626 £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 2,812 1,512 1,298
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.74 £17.77 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.41 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.61% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £68.00 £49.56 £66.50
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 20 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 20 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 20 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 1,930 £550 - 6,108
North of England +12 467 £490 +5.95% 893
Midlands +2 369 £492 -4.40% 524
South East +20 356 £515 -2.00% 948
West Midlands +2 301 £492 -5.36% 347
North West 0 226 £525 +10.53% 535
Yorkshire +12 187 £463 -2.63% 252
South West +24 170 £525 +11.70% 342
East of England -7 111 £578 +4.29% 292
East Midlands -7 64 £490 +5.95% 177
North East -1 62 £450 +20.00% 108
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 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
2 130 (3.73%) Apache Spark
3 113 (3.24%) SAS
4 98 (2.81%) Apache
5 79 (2.27%) Confluence
6 57 (1.64%) CMS
7 49 (1.41%) SharePoint
8 32 (0.92%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 29 (0.83%) Jupyter
10 28 (0.80%) Palantir Foundry
11 26 (0.75%) Oracle Application Server
12 10 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
13 9 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
14 8 (0.23%) Drupal
14 8 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
15 7 (0.20%) Apache Superset
16 6 (0.17%) WordPress
17 4 (0.11%) nginx
18 3 (0.086%) IIS
19 2 (0.057%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 165 (4.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 26 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
4 20 (0.57%) Chatbot
5 19 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (0.40%) CPLEX
7 12 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
8 10 (0.29%) MS Visio
9 5 (0.14%) Trello
10 3 (0.086%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.086%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.057%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.057%) Sketch
12 1 (0.029%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.029%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.029%) InDesign
12 1 (0.029%) Notion
12 1 (0.029%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.029%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 72 (2.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 36 (1.03%) 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
5 13 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
6 9 (0.26%) SAP CO
6 9 (0.26%) SAP FI
6 9 (0.26%) Shopify
7 7 (0.20%) SAP ERP
7 7 (0.20%) SAP HR
7 7 (0.20%) SAP MDG
8 6 (0.17%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
8 6 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
8 6 (0.17%) SAP GRC
8 6 (0.17%) SAP MM
8 6 (0.17%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 6 (0.17%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 1,000 (28.69%) Azure
2 695 (19.94%) Power Platform
3 611 (17.53%) AWS
4 307 (8.81%) GCP
5 258 (7.40%) Snowflake
6 226 (6.48%) Azure DevOps
7 225 (6.46%) Azure Data Factory
8 201 (5.77%) dbt
9 176 (5.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 149 (4.28%) GitHub
11 147 (4.22%) Serverless
12 130 (3.73%) Amazon S3
13 125 (3.59%) Azure Monitor
14 112 (3.21%) SaaS
15 111 (3.19%) Entra ID
16 95 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
17 82 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
18 74 (2.12%) GitHub Actions
19 65 (1.87%) Google Analytics
20 64 (1.84%) Adobe Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 56 (1.61%) Firewall
2 50 (1.43%) Network Security
3 36 (1.03%) DNS
4 33 (0.95%) VPN
5 22 (0.63%) TCP/IP
6 20 (0.57%) Broadband
6 20 (0.57%) WAN
7 16 (0.46%) SD-WAN
8 15 (0.43%) BGP
8 15 (0.43%) DHCP
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
1 669 (19.20%) Power BI
2 440 (12.63%) Data Warehouse
3 256 (7.35%) Data Lake
4 237 (6.80%) Metadata
5 215 (6.17%) Tableau
6 151 (4.33%) BigQuery
7 88 (2.53%) Amazon Redshift
8 87 (2.50%) SQL Server
9 86 (2.47%) Delta Lake
10 85 (2.44%) Big Data
11 80 (2.30%) Relational Database
12 79 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
13 78 (2.24%) Looker
14 67 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
15 61 (1.75%) Semantic Layer
16 57 (1.64%) NoSQL
17 55 (1.58%) Snowflake Schema
18 50 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
18 50 (1.43%) Power Query
19 49 (1.41%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 186 (5.34%) Git
2 154 (4.42%) JIRA
3 61 (1.75%) GitLab
4 60 (1.72%) Jenkins
5 12 (0.34%) MLflow
6 10 (0.29%) SonarQube
7 9 (0.26%) RStudio
8 8 (0.23%) ERwin
8 8 (0.23%) fastlane
9 7 (0.20%) ER Studio
9 7 (0.20%) Gradle
9 7 (0.20%) Selenium
9 7 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (0.17%) JUnit
10 6 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
10 6 (0.17%) Postman
11 5 (0.14%) Android Studio
11 5 (0.14%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.14%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.14%) Terragrunt
General
1 966 (27.72%) Social Skills
2 902 (25.88%) Finance
3 660 (18.94%) Analytical Skills
4 417 (11.97%) Public Sector
5 264 (7.58%) Banking
6 231 (6.63%) Marketing
7 177 (5.08%) Retail
8 111 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
9 88 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 82 (2.35%) Manufacturing
11 80 (2.30%) Legal
12 72 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
13 69 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
14 60 (1.72%) Front Office
15 55 (1.58%) Investment Banking
16 49 (1.41%) Publishing
17 43 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
18 41 (1.18%) Military
18 41 (1.18%) Telecoms
19 39 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 571 (16.38%) Data Engineer
2 469 (13.46%) Senior
3 451 (12.94%) Analyst
4 449 (12.88%) Architect
5 300 (8.61%) Developer
6 294 (8.44%) Lead
7 205 (5.88%) Data Architect
8 173 (4.96%) Consultant
9 168 (4.82%) Data Analyst
10 124 (3.56%) Solutions Architect
11 120 (3.44%) Senior Data Engineer
12 113 (3.24%) Data Scientist
13 105 (3.01%) Business Analyst
14 97 (2.78%) Azure Engineer
15 73 (2.09%) Data Manager
16 68 (1.95%) Senior Manager
17 64 (1.84%) Product Manager
18 62 (1.78%) AWS Engineer
19 60 (1.72%) Project Manager
20 59 (1.69%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 274 (7.86%) Terraform
2 203 (5.82%) PySpark
3 130 (3.73%) REST
4 103 (2.96%) Kafka
5 58 (1.66%) Pandas
6 55 (1.58%) HTML
7 51 (1.46%) React
8 50 (1.43%) CSS
8 50 (1.43%) RESTful
9 45 (1.29%) .NET
10 42 (1.21%) OAuth
11 41 (1.18%) JSON
12 40 (1.15%) ARM Templates
13 37 (1.06%) NumPy
14 35 (1.00%) OpenID
15 32 (0.92%) Web Services
16 31 (0.89%) OAuth2
17 29 (0.83%) Oracle Fusion
17 29 (0.83%) SOAP
18 27 (0.77%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 241 (6.92%) Cloud Native
2 193 (5.54%) Product Ownership
3 142 (4.07%) Onboarding
4 139 (3.99%) Data Structures
5 101 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
6 82 (2.35%) Management Information System
7 69 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
8 67 (1.92%) AI Agents
9 60 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
10 47 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
10 47 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
11 44 (1.26%) Algorithms
11 44 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
12 42 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
13 39 (1.12%) Social Media
13 39 (1.12%) Virtual Team
14 38 (1.09%) NHS
15 37 (1.06%) Marketing Technology
16 34 (0.98%) Derivative
17 33 (0.95%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 92 (2.64%) Windows
2 84 (2.41%) Linux
3 40 (1.15%) Unix
4 35 (1.00%) Windows Server
5 16 (0.46%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.32%) Mac OS
8 9 (0.26%) VMS
9 8 (0.23%) Android
10 6 (0.17%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.086%) Solaris
11 3 (0.086%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.057%) AIX
12 2 (0.057%) CentOS
12 2 (0.057%) HPUX
13 1 (0.029%) Rocky
13 1 (0.029%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 935 (26.83%) AI
2 904 (25.94%) Data Modelling
3 869 (24.94%) Business Intelligence
4 814 (23.36%) Agile
5 800 (22.96%) Stakeholder Management
6 701 (20.11%) Data Pipeline
7 671 (19.25%) Decision-Making
8 669 (19.20%) Data Engineering
9 643 (18.45%) CI/CD
10 566 (16.24%) Data Governance
11 542 (15.55%) ETL
12 514 (14.75%) DevOps
13 506 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
14 476 (13.66%) Migration
15 455 (13.06%) Continuous Improvement
16 441 (12.65%) Roadmaps
17 429 (12.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 425 (12.20%) Machine Learning
19 411 (11.79%) Validation
20 407 (11.68%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 1,111 (31.88%) SQL
2 964 (27.66%) Python
3 157 (4.51%) PowerShell
4 107 (3.07%) Java
5 91 (2.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 87 (2.50%) JavaScript
7 78 (2.24%) Bicep
8 74 (2.12%) C#
9 63 (1.81%) R
10 62 (1.78%) Bash
11 39 (1.12%) Scala
12 37 (1.06%) TypeScript
13 31 (0.89%) Shell Script
14 28 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
15 25 (0.72%) T-SQL
16 20 (0.57%) C++
17 19 (0.55%) PL/SQL
18 14 (0.40%) LookML
18 14 (0.40%) VBA
19 13 (0.37%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 622 (17.85%) Security Cleared
2 495 (14.20%) SC Cleared
3 287 (8.24%) Degree
4 88 (2.53%) Azure Certification
5 81 (2.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 75 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 74 (2.12%) DV Cleared
8 54 (1.55%) Master's Degree
9 53 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 45 (1.29%) CISSP
11 39 (1.12%) AWS Certification
12 35 (1.00%) PMI Certification
13 29 (0.83%) PMP
14 26 (0.75%) DBS Check
15 20 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
16 12 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 12 (0.34%) CISA
17 11 (0.32%) CISM
17 11 (0.32%) MBA
17 11 (0.32%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 745 (21.38%) Data Quality
2 153 (4.39%) GDPR
3 142 (4.07%) QA
4 130 (3.73%) Accessibility
5 49 (1.41%) GRC
6 42 (1.21%) WCAG
7 40 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 36 (1.03%) NIST
9 30 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
10 29 (0.83%) PMO
11 22 (0.63%) SLA
12 13 (0.37%) NCSC
12 13 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 12 (0.34%) IFRS
13 12 (0.34%) PERC
14 11 (0.32%) PCI DSS
15 10 (0.29%) Solvency II
16 8 (0.23%) GMP
17 7 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
18 6 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 154 (4.42%) Docker
2 95 (2.73%) Active Directory
3 28 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.52%) 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 (4.68%) Kubernetes
2 45 (1.29%) Ansible
3 36 (1.03%) Grafana
4 27 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (0.52%) 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 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%) MOM
13 2 (0.057%) Puppet
Vendors
1 654 (18.77%) Microsoft
2 453 (13.00%) Databricks
3 209 (6.00%) Oracle
4 193 (5.54%) SAP
5 187 (5.37%) Google
6 94 (2.70%) Adobe
7 88 (2.53%) Salesforce
8 87 (2.50%) ServiceNow
9 56 (1.61%) Workday
10 51 (1.46%) Splunk
11 40 (1.15%) Foundry
12 39 (1.12%) Dynatrace
13 36 (1.03%) Informatica
14 34 (0.98%) Palantir
15 32 (0.92%) Talend
16 31 (0.89%) VMware
17 29 (0.83%) Denodo
18 28 (0.80%) Cisco
19 26 (0.75%) OpenAI
20 24 (0.69%) Amplitude