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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 34
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 +2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,411 1,799 1,879
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.60% 6.56% 5.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.91% 7.24% 6.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,293 1,191 1,337
10th Percentile £361 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £440 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% -2.36% -2.22%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 44 35
10th Percentile £20.56 £15.26 £16.60
25th Percentile £35.00 £22.31 £25.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £34.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.42% +15.00% -6.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £71.71 £43.75
90th Percentile £87.73 £80.71 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £53.00 £34.50 £29.00
% change year-on-year +53.62% +18.97% -9.80%

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 38,301 24,864 30,650
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.33% 90.66% 85.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,041 15,953 19,995
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £421 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £735 £745 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,379 1,324 2,046
10th Percentile £15.33 £14.23 £13.22
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £16.90
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -36.33% -7.06%
75th Percentile £69.10 £53.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.39 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -10.31%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 +2 1,863 £550 -4.35% 1,004
North of England +9 426 £494 +6.70% 240
Midlands +12 415 £492 -1.60% 137
West Midlands +12 324 £485 -5.37% 78
South East +2 314 £500 -4.76% 355
North West +4 215 £513 +7.89% 120
South West +15 189 £500 +5.26% 101
Yorkshire +1 168 £475 +2.70% 80
East of England -9 113 £550 -5.13% 62
East Midlands +6 84 £513 +24.24% 59
North East +1 56 £450 +9.09% 40
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
1 152 (4.46%) Apache Spark
2 150 (4.40%) Apache Airflow
3 112 (3.28%) SAS
4 95 (2.79%) Apache
5 69 (2.02%) Confluence
6 45 (1.32%) SharePoint
7 37 (1.08%) CMS
8 30 (0.88%) Jupyter
9 27 (0.79%) Palantir Foundry
10 21 (0.62%) Oracle Application Server
11 16 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 12 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
13 9 (0.26%) Apache Superset
14 7 (0.21%) Drupal
14 7 (0.21%) WordPress
15 6 (0.18%) IIS
15 6 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
16 2 (0.059%) ArcGIS
16 2 (0.059%) Moodle
16 2 (0.059%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 153 (4.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (0.56%) Chatbot
3 19 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
5 13 (0.38%) CPLEX
5 13 (0.38%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.12%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
7 4 (0.12%) Sketch
8 2 (0.059%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.029%) InDesign
9 1 (0.029%) Notion
9 1 (0.029%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.029%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.029%) Trello
9 1 (0.029%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 63 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
4 12 (0.35%) Aladdin
4 12 (0.35%) Workday HCM
5 10 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
6 8 (0.23%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 8 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.21%) SAP ERP
8 6 (0.18%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
8 6 (0.18%) Sage X3
8 6 (0.18%) Shopify
9 5 (0.15%) BambooHR
9 5 (0.15%) Infor LN
9 5 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
9 5 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
9 5 (0.15%) SAP BPC
9 5 (0.15%) SAP GRC
9 5 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,001 (29.35%) Azure
2 710 (20.82%) Power Platform
3 647 (18.97%) AWS
4 300 (8.80%) GCP
5 229 (6.71%) Snowflake
6 223 (6.54%) Azure DevOps
7 218 (6.39%) Azure Data Factory
8 184 (5.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 183 (5.36%) dbt
10 153 (4.49%) GitHub
11 145 (4.25%) Amazon S3
12 142 (4.16%) Serverless
13 122 (3.58%) Azure Monitor
14 98 (2.87%) SaaS
15 96 (2.81%) AWS Lambda
15 96 (2.81%) Entra ID
16 85 (2.49%) GitHub Actions
17 84 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
18 49 (1.44%) Power Automate
19 47 (1.38%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 56 (1.64%) Firewall
2 42 (1.23%) Network Security
3 35 (1.03%) VPN
4 31 (0.91%) DNS
5 25 (0.73%) WAN
6 23 (0.67%) SD-WAN
7 21 (0.62%) BGP
8 18 (0.53%) TCP/IP
9 12 (0.35%) DHCP
9 12 (0.35%) OSPF
10 9 (0.26%) SMS
10 9 (0.26%) Wireless
11 8 (0.23%) VXLAN
12 7 (0.21%) 5G
12 7 (0.21%) HTTP
12 7 (0.21%) Internet
12 7 (0.21%) LAN
12 7 (0.21%) MPLS
12 7 (0.21%) WLAN
13 6 (0.18%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 671 (19.67%) Power BI
2 445 (13.05%) Data Warehouse
3 256 (7.51%) Data Lake
4 237 (6.95%) Tableau
5 201 (5.89%) Metadata
6 131 (3.84%) BigQuery
7 100 (2.93%) Big Data
8 99 (2.90%) Delta Lake
9 94 (2.76%) Amazon Redshift
10 93 (2.73%) SQL Server
11 80 (2.35%) Snowflake Schema
12 79 (2.32%) Relational Database
13 70 (2.05%) Amazon Athena
13 70 (2.05%) Looker
13 70 (2.05%) NoSQL
13 70 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
14 58 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
15 51 (1.50%) Power Query
16 49 (1.44%) Semantic Layer
16 49 (1.44%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 190 (5.57%) Git
2 161 (4.72%) JIRA
3 69 (2.02%) Jenkins
4 53 (1.55%) GitLab
5 18 (0.53%) ERwin
6 12 (0.35%) JUnit
7 10 (0.29%) ER Studio
7 10 (0.29%) fastlane
7 10 (0.29%) MLflow
7 10 (0.29%) Selenium
8 7 (0.21%) Postman
8 7 (0.21%) PowerDesigner
9 6 (0.18%) Android Studio
9 6 (0.18%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.18%) Crashlytics
9 6 (0.18%) Gradle
10 5 (0.15%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.15%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.15%) Xcode
General
1 855 (25.07%) Finance
2 851 (24.95%) Social Skills
3 587 (17.21%) Analytical Skills
4 404 (11.84%) Public Sector
5 243 (7.12%) Banking
6 197 (5.78%) Marketing
7 141 (4.13%) Retail
8 79 (2.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 74 (2.17%) Legal
10 72 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
11 67 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
12 62 (1.82%) Manufacturing
13 57 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
14 53 (1.55%) Front Office
15 52 (1.52%) Investment Banking
16 48 (1.41%) Telecoms
17 42 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
18 36 (1.06%) Financial Institution
18 36 (1.06%) Military
19 30 (0.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 625 (18.32%) Data Engineer
2 430 (12.61%) Analyst
3 427 (12.52%) Architect
4 414 (12.14%) Senior
5 348 (10.20%) Developer
6 291 (8.53%) Lead
7 183 (5.36%) Data Architect
8 180 (5.28%) Data Analyst
9 134 (3.93%) Consultant
10 118 (3.46%) Data Scientist
11 115 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
12 108 (3.17%) Business Analyst
13 107 (3.14%) Azure Engineer
14 101 (2.96%) Senior Data Engineer
15 71 (2.08%) Data Manager
16 62 (1.82%) Project Manager
17 61 (1.79%) Python Developer
18 59 (1.73%) Designer
18 59 (1.73%) Product Manager
19 57 (1.67%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 193 (5.66%) PySpark
2 134 (3.93%) Kafka
3 121 (3.55%) REST
4 60 (1.76%) Pandas
5 53 (1.55%) RESTful
6 52 (1.52%) JSON
7 51 (1.50%) React
8 44 (1.29%) .NET
9 39 (1.14%) CSS
9 39 (1.14%) HTML
10 38 (1.11%) Web Services
11 36 (1.06%) NumPy
12 32 (0.94%) Microsoft Graph
12 32 (0.94%) PyTorch
13 31 (0.91%) SOAP
14 30 (0.88%) ARM Templates
14 30 (0.88%) Middleware
15 29 (0.85%) TensorFlow
16 28 (0.82%) scikit-learn
17 27 (0.79%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 236 (6.92%) Cloud Native
2 174 (5.10%) Product Ownership
3 136 (3.99%) Data Structures
4 122 (3.58%) Legacy Systems
5 106 (3.11%) Onboarding
6 70 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
7 62 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
8 50 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
9 48 (1.41%) Algorithms
10 46 (1.35%) Management Information System
11 43 (1.26%) AI Agents
12 42 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
13 38 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
13 38 (1.11%) Mobile App
13 38 (1.11%) NHS
14 37 (1.08%) Virtual Team
15 34 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
15 34 (1.00%) Marketing Technology
16 30 (0.88%) Taxonomies
17 29 (0.85%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 90 (2.64%) Windows
2 85 (2.49%) Linux
3 40 (1.17%) Unix
4 23 (0.67%) Apple iOS
5 21 (0.62%) Mac OS
5 21 (0.62%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.35%) Android
7 11 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.21%) VMS
9 5 (0.15%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.088%) CentOS
10 3 (0.088%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.059%) Solaris
11 2 (0.059%) zOS
12 1 (0.029%) AIX
12 1 (0.029%) HPUX
12 1 (0.029%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 946 (27.73%) Data Modelling
2 888 (26.03%) Business Intelligence
3 800 (23.45%) AI
4 761 (22.31%) Agile
5 718 (21.05%) Data Pipeline
6 697 (20.43%) Data Engineering
7 656 (19.23%) CI/CD
8 580 (17.00%) ETL
9 575 (16.86%) Decision-Making
10 562 (16.48%) Stakeholder Management
11 526 (15.42%) Data Governance
12 516 (15.13%) DevOps
13 498 (14.60%) Problem-Solving
14 422 (12.37%) Machine Learning
14 422 (12.37%) Migration
15 409 (11.99%) Data Science
15 409 (11.99%) Validation
16 401 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
17 379 (11.11%) Data Analytics
18 378 (11.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,130 (33.13%) SQL
2 999 (29.29%) Python
3 126 (3.69%) PowerShell
4 124 (3.64%) Java
5 98 (2.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 84 (2.46%) C#
7 70 (2.05%) R
8 66 (1.93%) Bicep
9 63 (1.85%) JavaScript
10 42 (1.23%) TypeScript
11 41 (1.20%) Bash
12 39 (1.14%) Scala
13 37 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
14 36 (1.06%) Shell Script
15 32 (0.94%) T-SQL
16 26 (0.76%) PL/SQL
17 23 (0.67%) VBA
18 19 (0.56%) C++
19 11 (0.32%) Cypher
20 10 (0.29%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 595 (17.44%) Security Cleared
2 468 (13.72%) SC Cleared
3 270 (7.92%) Degree
4 84 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 76 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 69 (2.02%) Azure Certification
7 62 (1.82%) DV Cleared
8 46 (1.35%) Master's Degree
9 34 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
10 30 (0.88%) CISSP
11 28 (0.82%) AWS Certification
11 28 (0.82%) PMI Certification
12 26 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
13 23 (0.67%) PMP
14 20 (0.59%) DBS Check
15 16 (0.47%) CCNP
16 15 (0.44%) CCIE
17 11 (0.32%) CISA
18 10 (0.29%) MBA
18 10 (0.29%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 638 (18.70%) Data Quality
2 171 (5.01%) GDPR
3 135 (3.96%) QA
4 124 (3.64%) Accessibility
5 48 (1.41%) WCAG
6 37 (1.08%) GRC
7 36 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 30 (0.88%) NIST
9 27 (0.79%) PMO
10 21 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
11 16 (0.47%) SLA
11 16 (0.47%) Solvency II
12 11 (0.32%) PCI DSS
12 11 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 10 (0.29%) NCSC
13 10 (0.29%) PERC
14 9 (0.26%) IFRS
15 7 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
16 5 (0.15%) GAAP
16 5 (0.15%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 148 (4.34%) Docker
2 78 (2.29%) Active Directory
3 24 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.18%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.18%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.12%) HDFS
7 4 (0.12%) Snort
8 2 (0.059%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.059%) vSphere
9 1 (0.029%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.029%) GPFS
9 1 (0.029%) iptables
9 1 (0.029%) Lustre
9 1 (0.029%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.029%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.029%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 245 (7.18%) Terraform
2 169 (4.95%) Kubernetes
3 40 (1.17%) Ansible
4 38 (1.11%) Grafana
5 30 (0.88%) Prometheus
6 29 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
7 23 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (0.35%) SCCM
9 8 (0.23%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.12%) Argo
10 4 (0.12%) Control-M
10 4 (0.12%) CSIRT
10 4 (0.12%) Podman
10 4 (0.12%) QRadar
11 3 (0.088%) Apache Ranger
11 3 (0.088%) Kibana
11 3 (0.088%) Nagios
11 3 (0.088%) Rancher
11 3 (0.088%) SCOM
12 2 (0.059%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 571 (16.74%) Microsoft
2 435 (12.75%) Databricks
3 194 (5.69%) Oracle
4 167 (4.90%) SAP
5 160 (4.69%) Google
6 80 (2.35%) ServiceNow
7 76 (2.23%) Salesforce
8 70 (2.05%) Adobe
9 55 (1.61%) Splunk
10 48 (1.41%) Workday
11 46 (1.35%) Foundry
12 44 (1.29%) Informatica
13 41 (1.20%) Talend
14 35 (1.03%) Dynatrace
14 35 (1.03%) Palantir
15 33 (0.97%) Denodo
15 33 (0.97%) OpenAI
16 29 (0.85%) Cisco
17 25 (0.73%) VMware
18 18 (0.53%) Alteryx