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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 27 37
Rank change year-on-year +3 +10 -2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,982 1,625 1,762
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.22% 6.78% 4.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.53% 7.42% 5.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,043 1,090 1,214
10th Percentile £350 £350 £351
25th Percentile £425 £449 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £625 £678 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 32 46
10th Percentile £20.25 £15.25 £14.50
25th Percentile £45.25 £20.75 £25.00
Median hourly rate £60.50 £31.64 £29.19
Median % change year-on-year +91.21% +8.41% -8.80%
75th Percentile £75.00 £36.44 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.55 £79.87 £70.63
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £32.05 £28.00
% change year-on-year +79.41% +14.46% -12.91%

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 34,973 21,894 31,367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.68% 91.30% 86.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,266 14,295 20,565
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,148 929 2,246
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.42 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £46.11 £29.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +58.98% -20.55% -0.73%
75th Percentile £68.00 £62.24 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.44 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.18 £36.05
% change year-on-year +50.82% -21.82% +0.13%

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 22 May 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 22 May 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 22 May 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 +3 1,651 £550 -4.35% 1,201
Midlands +13 337 £492 -3.89% 168
North of England +8 334 £476 +2.59% 368
West Midlands +14 254 £492 -4.03% 96
South East -8 245 £500 +5.26% 428
South West +35 198 £500 +2.56% 128
North West +7 172 £495 +4.98% 208
Yorkshire +6 137 £500 +3.63% 108
East of England -8 118 £525 -12.50% 84
East Midlands +10 77 £525 +46.65% 72
North East -5 36 £450 +25.70% 58
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
1 155 (5.20%) Apache Spark
2 111 (3.72%) Apache Airflow
3 84 (2.82%) SAS
4 80 (2.68%) Apache
5 74 (2.48%) Confluence
6 42 (1.41%) SharePoint
7 25 (0.84%) CMS
8 18 (0.60%) Jupyter
9 15 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 15 (0.50%) Oracle Application Server
10 12 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
11 9 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
12 8 (0.27%) Apache Superset
13 7 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
14 6 (0.20%) ArcGIS
14 6 (0.20%) IIS
14 6 (0.20%) WordPress
15 4 (0.13%) Drupal
16 3 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
17 2 (0.067%) GeoServer
Applications
1 123 (4.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 27 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (0.64%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.60%) Chatbot
6 14 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.23%) CPLEX
7 7 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
8 4 (0.13%) Trello
9 3 (0.10%) Notion
10 2 (0.067%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.067%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.067%) Sketch
11 1 (0.034%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.034%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.034%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.034%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.034%) InDesign
11 1 (0.034%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 59 (1.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
4 8 (0.27%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 8 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
5 7 (0.23%) NetSuite
5 7 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.20%) Aladdin
6 6 (0.20%) Sage X3
7 5 (0.17%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.17%) Maximo
8 4 (0.13%) iTrent
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 4 (0.13%) SAP BPC
8 4 (0.13%) Shopify
8 4 (0.13%) Sprinklr
9 3 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
9 3 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 923 (30.95%) Azure
2 654 (21.93%) Power Platform
3 597 (20.02%) AWS
4 281 (9.42%) GCP
5 240 (8.05%) Azure Data Factory
6 203 (6.81%) Azure DevOps
7 202 (6.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 180 (6.04%) Snowflake
9 157 (5.26%) GitHub
10 136 (4.56%) dbt
11 125 (4.19%) Amazon S3
12 124 (4.16%) Serverless
13 103 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
14 86 (2.88%) GitHub Actions
15 82 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
15 82 (2.75%) SaaS
16 78 (2.62%) AWS Lambda
17 71 (2.38%) Entra ID
18 55 (1.84%) Azure Key Vault
19 48 (1.61%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 40 (1.34%) Firewall
2 31 (1.04%) Network Security
3 23 (0.77%) DNS
4 22 (0.74%) VPN
5 15 (0.50%) SD-WAN
5 15 (0.50%) SMS
6 13 (0.44%) WAN
7 12 (0.40%) HTTP
8 8 (0.27%) BGP
8 8 (0.27%) DHCP
8 8 (0.27%) FTP
8 8 (0.27%) OSPF
9 7 (0.23%) MPLS
9 7 (0.23%) SSL
9 7 (0.23%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.20%) LAN
10 6 (0.20%) SMTP
10 6 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (0.20%) Wireless
10 6 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 607 (20.36%) Power BI
2 394 (13.21%) Data Warehouse
3 244 (8.18%) Data Lake
4 217 (7.28%) Tableau
5 179 (6.00%) Metadata
6 118 (3.96%) BigQuery
7 112 (3.76%) Delta Lake
8 108 (3.62%) SQL Server
9 93 (3.12%) Big Data
10 76 (2.55%) Relational Database
11 73 (2.45%) Amazon Redshift
12 67 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
13 66 (2.21%) Amazon Athena
13 66 (2.21%) Snowflake Schema
14 65 (2.18%) NoSQL
15 60 (2.01%) Looker
16 56 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
16 56 (1.88%) Star Schema
17 52 (1.74%) Hadoop
18 51 (1.71%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 172 (5.77%) Git
2 165 (5.53%) JIRA
3 64 (2.15%) Jenkins
4 61 (2.05%) GitLab
5 20 (0.67%) ERwin
6 14 (0.47%) MLflow
7 12 (0.40%) Selenium
8 8 (0.27%) MSI
9 7 (0.23%) ER Studio
9 7 (0.23%) fastlane
9 7 (0.23%) PowerDesigner
10 6 (0.20%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.20%) JUnit
10 6 (0.20%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.17%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.17%) Gradle
11 5 (0.17%) Postman
11 5 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 5 (0.17%) XCTest
12 4 (0.13%) Crashlytics
General
1 736 (24.68%) Finance
2 734 (24.61%) Social Skills
3 515 (17.27%) Analytical Skills
4 312 (10.46%) Public Sector
5 196 (6.57%) Banking
6 162 (5.43%) Marketing
7 101 (3.39%) Retail
8 73 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
9 55 (1.84%) Legal
10 54 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 53 (1.78%) Investment Banking
12 52 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
13 47 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
13 47 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
14 46 (1.54%) Telecoms
15 41 (1.37%) Manufacturing
16 37 (1.24%) Front Office
17 32 (1.07%) Financial Institution
18 26 (0.87%) Military
19 25 (0.84%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 583 (19.55%) Data Engineer
2 371 (12.44%) Analyst
3 352 (11.80%) Architect
3 352 (11.80%) Senior
4 314 (10.53%) Developer
5 255 (8.55%) Lead
6 163 (5.47%) Data Architect
7 151 (5.06%) Data Analyst
8 123 (4.12%) Consultant
9 106 (3.55%) Azure Engineer
9 106 (3.55%) Business Analyst
10 102 (3.42%) Senior Data Engineer
11 93 (3.12%) Data Scientist
12 87 (2.92%) Solutions Architect
13 70 (2.35%) Data Manager
14 65 (2.18%) Project Manager
15 57 (1.91%) Designer
16 51 (1.71%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 49 (1.64%) Azure Data Engineer
18 48 (1.61%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (6.07%) PySpark
2 139 (4.66%) Kafka
3 103 (3.45%) REST
4 60 (2.01%) Pandas
5 53 (1.78%) JSON
6 51 (1.71%) React
7 47 (1.58%) PyTorch
8 46 (1.54%) HTML
8 46 (1.54%) TensorFlow
9 44 (1.48%) CSS
10 38 (1.27%) RESTful
11 36 (1.21%) .NET
12 35 (1.17%) Middleware
13 34 (1.14%) scikit-learn
14 32 (1.07%) SOAP
15 30 (1.01%) AngularJS
15 30 (1.01%) NumPy
15 30 (1.01%) Oracle Fusion
16 28 (0.94%) ARM Templates
17 26 (0.87%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 196 (6.57%) Cloud Native
2 148 (4.96%) Product Ownership
3 109 (3.66%) Data Structures
4 85 (2.85%) Onboarding
5 76 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
6 65 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
7 51 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
8 46 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
8 46 (1.54%) Management Information System
9 45 (1.51%) Algorithms
10 38 (1.27%) Public Cloud
11 35 (1.17%) NHS
11 35 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
12 34 (1.14%) AI Agents
12 34 (1.14%) Mobile App
13 29 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
14 28 (0.94%) Derivative
15 27 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
15 27 (0.91%) Marketing Technology
16 26 (0.87%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 90 (3.02%) Windows
2 74 (2.48%) Linux
3 33 (1.11%) Unix
4 32 (1.07%) Mac OS
5 23 (0.77%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.50%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.37%) Android
8 8 (0.27%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.10%) CentOS
11 2 (0.067%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.067%) VMS
11 2 (0.067%) zOS
12 1 (0.034%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 825 (27.67%) Data Modelling
2 817 (27.40%) Business Intelligence
3 653 (21.90%) AI
4 622 (20.86%) Data Pipeline
5 621 (20.82%) Agile
6 600 (20.12%) Data Engineering
7 591 (19.82%) CI/CD
8 562 (18.85%) ETL
9 501 (16.80%) DevOps
10 494 (16.57%) Data Governance
11 480 (16.10%) Decision-Making
12 471 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
13 396 (13.28%) Stakeholder Management
14 344 (11.54%) Data Science
15 338 (11.33%) Machine Learning
16 333 (11.17%) Migration
17 332 (11.13%) Continuous Improvement
18 331 (11.10%) Data Analytics
19 296 (9.93%) Validation
20 288 (9.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,012 (33.94%) SQL
2 906 (30.38%) Python
3 125 (4.19%) Java
4 118 (3.96%) PowerShell
5 96 (3.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 92 (3.09%) C#
7 80 (2.68%) R
8 70 (2.35%) Bicep
9 60 (2.01%) JavaScript
10 47 (1.58%) T-SQL
11 43 (1.44%) Scala
12 41 (1.37%) Kusto Query Language
13 36 (1.21%) TypeScript
14 35 (1.17%) Bash
15 28 (0.94%) Shell Script
16 25 (0.84%) PL/SQL
17 24 (0.80%) C++
18 14 (0.47%) VBA
19 10 (0.34%) Kotlin
20 9 (0.30%) Swift
Qualifications
1 515 (17.27%) Security Cleared
2 401 (13.45%) SC Cleared
3 229 (7.68%) Degree
4 67 (2.25%) Azure Certification
5 64 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 55 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
7 51 (1.71%) DV Cleared
8 47 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
9 36 (1.21%) Master's Degree
10 25 (0.84%) PMI Certification
11 23 (0.77%) CISSP
12 22 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
13 21 (0.70%) PMP
14 17 (0.57%) AWS Certification
15 16 (0.54%) DBS Check
16 15 (0.50%) CCNP
17 14 (0.47%) PhD
18 13 (0.44%) IIBA
19 11 (0.37%) CCIE
20 9 (0.30%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 568 (19.05%) Data Quality
2 156 (5.23%) GDPR
3 117 (3.92%) QA
4 101 (3.39%) Accessibility
5 37 (1.24%) WCAG
6 36 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 27 (0.91%) NIST
8 22 (0.74%) PMO
9 19 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
10 16 (0.54%) SLA
11 14 (0.47%) GRC
12 13 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 10 (0.34%) PERC
14 9 (0.30%) ISO 20022
14 9 (0.30%) Solvency II
15 8 (0.27%) NCSC
16 7 (0.23%) PCI DSS
17 6 (0.20%) HL7
18 5 (0.17%) GAAP
18 5 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 157 (5.26%) Docker
2 74 (2.48%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.13%) HDFS
6 4 (0.13%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.13%) Snort
6 4 (0.13%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.034%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.034%) GPFS
7 1 (0.034%) iptables
7 1 (0.034%) Lustre
7 1 (0.034%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.034%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.034%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.034%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 229 (7.68%) Terraform
2 167 (5.60%) Kubernetes
3 41 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
4 37 (1.24%) Grafana
5 34 (1.14%) Ansible
6 29 (0.97%) Prometheus
7 19 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (0.50%) SCCM
9 6 (0.20%) Puppet
10 5 (0.17%) Argo
10 5 (0.17%) Control-M
11 4 (0.13%) CSIRT
11 4 (0.13%) Kibana
11 4 (0.13%) WSUS
12 3 (0.10%) Nagios
12 3 (0.10%) QRadar
12 3 (0.10%) SysTrack
13 2 (0.067%) OpenVAS
13 2 (0.067%) Rancher
13 2 (0.067%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 534 (17.91%) Microsoft
2 404 (13.55%) Databricks
3 156 (5.23%) Google
4 146 (4.90%) Oracle
5 144 (4.83%) SAP
6 69 (2.31%) ServiceNow
7 65 (2.18%) Adobe
8 61 (2.05%) Informatica
8 61 (2.05%) Salesforce
9 52 (1.74%) Splunk
10 45 (1.51%) Talend
11 40 (1.34%) OpenAI
12 36 (1.21%) Denodo
13 35 (1.17%) Workday
14 31 (1.04%) Foundry
15 23 (0.77%) Dynatrace
15 23 (0.77%) VMware
16 21 (0.70%) IBM
17 18 (0.60%) Cisco
18 13 (0.44%) Ariba