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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 27 34
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 +4
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,498 1,896 1,701
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.47% 6.74% 5.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.79% 7.41% 6.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,249 1,247 1,141
10th Percentile £363 £362 £350
25th Percentile £435 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% -3.93%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £530 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 46 27
10th Percentile £17.88 £17.50 £23.65
25th Percentile £26.25 £22.50 £27.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £37.75 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.09% +16.14% -8.30%
75th Percentile £73.75 £71.13 £59.41
90th Percentile £86.83 £82.25 £69.34
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £34.99 £31.75
% change year-on-year +35.75% +10.20% -10.41%

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 39,775 25,570 27,639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.94% 90.90% 86.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,015 16,235 16,841
10th Percentile £325 £294 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,044 1,594 1,106
10th Percentile £13.70 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.41 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £67.47 £44.80 £66.90
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -10.11%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 14 October 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 0 1,939 £550 - 4,090
North of England +9 474 £490 +3.16% 627
South East +12 366 £515 +0.15% 536
Midlands +2 357 £490 -4.85% 334
West Midlands +3 283 £488 -6.11% 242
North West -3 230 £525 +10.53% 363
South West +18 178 £525 +5.00% 202
Yorkshire +14 177 £475 - 175
East of England -9 107 £600 +8.35% 225
North East +9 73 £450 +14.29% 89
East Midlands -5 73 £490 +8.89% 92
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
1 163 (4.66%) Apache Airflow
2 133 (3.80%) Apache Spark
3 107 (3.06%) Apache
4 103 (2.94%) SAS
5 78 (2.23%) Confluence
6 64 (1.83%) CMS
7 48 (1.37%) SharePoint
8 32 (0.91%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 29 (0.83%) Palantir Foundry
10 22 (0.63%) Jupyter
11 20 (0.57%) Oracle Application Server
12 12 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
13 8 (0.23%) Drupal
13 8 (0.23%) nginx
13 8 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
14 7 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
15 6 (0.17%) Apache Superset
16 4 (0.11%) IIS
16 4 (0.11%) WordPress
17 3 (0.086%) SAP Portal
Applications
1 168 (4.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 28 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (0.51%) Chatbot
5 16 (0.46%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (0.37%) CPLEX
6 13 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.14%) Trello
8 3 (0.086%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.086%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.057%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.057%) LaTeX
9 2 (0.057%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.057%) PlantUML
9 2 (0.057%) Sketch
10 1 (0.029%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.029%) InDesign
10 1 (0.029%) Notion
10 1 (0.029%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 88 (2.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 39 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (0.60%) Workday HCM
4 16 (0.46%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 15 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
5 15 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
6 13 (0.37%) Aladdin
6 13 (0.37%) SAP HR
7 12 (0.34%) SAP FI
8 11 (0.31%) SAP CO
8 11 (0.31%) SAP HCM
9 9 (0.26%) SAP MM
9 9 (0.26%) SAP Payroll
9 9 (0.26%) Workfront
10 8 (0.23%) Shopify
11 7 (0.20%) Eloqua
11 7 (0.20%) SAP MDG
11 7 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
12 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
12 6 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 1,004 (28.70%) Azure
2 703 (20.10%) Power Platform
3 586 (16.75%) AWS
4 315 (9.01%) GCP
5 275 (7.86%) Snowflake
6 246 (7.03%) Azure DevOps
7 220 (6.29%) Azure Data Factory
8 214 (6.12%) dbt
9 163 (4.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 158 (4.52%) GitHub
11 143 (4.09%) Azure Monitor
12 142 (4.06%) Serverless
13 127 (3.63%) SaaS
14 126 (3.60%) Entra ID
15 120 (3.43%) Amazon S3
16 89 (2.54%) AWS Lambda
17 76 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
18 75 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
19 64 (1.83%) Azure Databricks
20 62 (1.77%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 66 (1.89%) Firewall
2 61 (1.74%) Network Security
3 45 (1.29%) DNS
4 40 (1.14%) VPN
5 26 (0.74%) TCP/IP
6 24 (0.69%) Broadband
7 21 (0.60%) DHCP
8 19 (0.54%) WAN
9 15 (0.43%) BGP
10 14 (0.40%) SD-WAN
11 8 (0.23%) SSH
11 8 (0.23%) Wireless
12 7 (0.20%) Cisco IPT
12 7 (0.20%) HTTP
12 7 (0.20%) Internet
12 7 (0.20%) LAN
12 7 (0.20%) SMS
13 6 (0.17%) Kerberos
13 6 (0.17%) NGFW
13 6 (0.17%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 677 (19.35%) Power BI
2 427 (12.21%) Data Warehouse
3 257 (7.35%) Data Lake
4 247 (7.06%) Metadata
5 212 (6.06%) Tableau
6 160 (4.57%) BigQuery
7 91 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
8 89 (2.54%) SQL Server
9 87 (2.49%) Delta Lake
10 85 (2.43%) PostgreSQL
11 83 (2.37%) Looker
12 81 (2.32%) Relational Database
13 80 (2.29%) Big Data
14 62 (1.77%) Amazon Athena
14 62 (1.77%) NoSQL
15 61 (1.74%) Semantic Layer
16 59 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
17 54 (1.54%) Power Query
18 49 (1.40%) Snowflake Schema
19 47 (1.34%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 196 (5.60%) Git
2 155 (4.43%) JIRA
3 61 (1.74%) Jenkins
4 59 (1.69%) GitLab
5 12 (0.34%) MLflow
6 9 (0.26%) fastlane
6 9 (0.26%) RStudio
7 8 (0.23%) Gradle
7 8 (0.23%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.20%) Postman
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%) REST Assured
9 6 (0.17%) Xcode
10 5 (0.14%) Android Studio
10 5 (0.14%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.14%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 1,012 (28.93%) Social Skills
2 936 (26.76%) Finance
3 662 (18.93%) Analytical Skills
4 413 (11.81%) Public Sector
5 279 (7.98%) Banking
6 251 (7.18%) Marketing
7 177 (5.06%) Retail
8 119 (3.40%) Influencing Skills
9 92 (2.63%) Legal
10 89 (2.54%) Manufacturing
11 85 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 75 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
13 65 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
14 60 (1.72%) Front Office
15 55 (1.57%) Investment Banking
16 50 (1.43%) Publishing
17 44 (1.26%) Military
17 44 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
18 39 (1.11%) Financial Institution
18 39 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 553 (15.81%) Data Engineer
2 491 (14.04%) Senior
3 473 (13.52%) Analyst
4 437 (12.49%) Architect
5 298 (8.52%) Lead
6 295 (8.43%) Developer
7 195 (5.57%) Data Architect
8 190 (5.43%) Consultant
9 177 (5.06%) Data Analyst
10 129 (3.69%) Senior Data Engineer
11 123 (3.52%) Data Scientist
12 117 (3.34%) Business Analyst
13 115 (3.29%) Solutions Architect
14 104 (2.97%) Azure Engineer
15 70 (2.00%) Senior Analyst
16 69 (1.97%) Data Manager
17 68 (1.94%) AWS Engineer
18 65 (1.86%) Product Manager
19 64 (1.83%) Project Manager
20 58 (1.66%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 297 (8.49%) Terraform
2 205 (5.86%) PySpark
3 148 (4.23%) REST
4 107 (3.06%) Kafka
5 59 (1.69%) React
6 58 (1.66%) Pandas
7 52 (1.49%) RESTful
8 51 (1.46%) .NET
8 51 (1.46%) HTML
9 48 (1.37%) OAuth
10 47 (1.34%) ARM Templates
11 46 (1.32%) CSS
12 40 (1.14%) NumPy
12 40 (1.14%) OpenID
13 37 (1.06%) JSON
14 35 (1.00%) OAuth2
15 32 (0.91%) Web Services
16 31 (0.89%) Oracle Fusion
17 29 (0.83%) Middleware
18 28 (0.80%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 247 (7.06%) Cloud Native
2 185 (5.29%) Product Ownership
3 155 (4.43%) Onboarding
4 145 (4.15%) Data Structures
5 104 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
6 94 (2.69%) Management Information System
7 74 (2.12%) AI Agents
8 64 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
9 63 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
10 61 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
11 49 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
12 45 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
12 45 (1.29%) Marketing Technology
13 41 (1.17%) Algorithms
13 41 (1.17%) Social Media
14 38 (1.09%) Derivative
14 38 (1.09%) Virtual Team
15 37 (1.06%) CMDB
15 37 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
15 37 (1.06%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 99 (2.83%) Windows
2 96 (2.74%) Linux
3 43 (1.23%) Windows Server
4 40 (1.14%) Unix
5 20 (0.57%) Apple iOS
6 14 (0.40%) Android
6 14 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.26%) VMS
8 7 (0.20%) macOS
8 7 (0.20%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.086%) Solaris
9 3 (0.086%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.057%) AIX
10 2 (0.057%) HPUX
11 1 (0.029%) CentOS
11 1 (0.029%) Rocky
11 1 (0.029%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 976 (27.90%) AI
2 919 (26.27%) Data Modelling
3 881 (25.19%) Stakeholder Management
4 864 (24.70%) Business Intelligence
5 828 (23.67%) Agile
6 697 (19.93%) Decision-Making
7 683 (19.53%) Data Pipeline
8 670 (19.15%) Data Engineering
9 654 (18.70%) CI/CD
10 577 (16.50%) Data Governance
11 535 (15.29%) ETL
12 517 (14.78%) DevOps
13 480 (13.72%) Continuous Improvement
13 480 (13.72%) Problem-Solving
14 473 (13.52%) Roadmaps
15 456 (13.04%) Migration
16 441 (12.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 423 (12.09%) Machine Learning
18 419 (11.98%) Validation
19 402 (11.49%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 1,142 (32.65%) SQL
2 975 (27.87%) Python
3 167 (4.77%) PowerShell
4 103 (2.94%) Java
5 95 (2.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 93 (2.66%) JavaScript
7 90 (2.57%) Bicep
8 73 (2.09%) Bash
9 70 (2.00%) C#
10 58 (1.66%) R
11 38 (1.09%) TypeScript
12 35 (1.00%) Scala
13 31 (0.89%) Shell Script
14 30 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
15 19 (0.54%) ABAP
16 17 (0.49%) C++
16 17 (0.49%) LookML
16 17 (0.49%) PL/SQL
17 15 (0.43%) T-SQL
18 14 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 633 (18.10%) Security Cleared
2 506 (14.47%) SC Cleared
3 302 (8.63%) Degree
4 94 (2.69%) Azure Certification
5 90 (2.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 81 (2.32%) DV Cleared
7 78 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 57 (1.63%) Master's Degree
9 51 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
10 42 (1.20%) CISSP
11 39 (1.11%) AWS Certification
12 34 (0.97%) PMI Certification
13 29 (0.83%) PMP
14 26 (0.74%) DBS Check
15 18 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
16 14 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
17 13 (0.37%) MBA
18 11 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 11 (0.31%) CISA
18 11 (0.31%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 775 (22.16%) Data Quality
2 156 (4.46%) GDPR
3 140 (4.00%) QA
4 134 (3.83%) Accessibility
5 50 (1.43%) GRC
6 42 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
7 40 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 40 (1.14%) WCAG
8 37 (1.06%) PMO
9 34 (0.97%) NIST
10 23 (0.66%) SLA
11 15 (0.43%) NCSC
12 13 (0.37%) IFRS
13 12 (0.34%) PCI DSS
13 12 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 11 (0.31%) PERC
15 10 (0.29%) Solvency II
16 9 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 8 (0.23%) GMP
18 7 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 149 (4.26%) Docker
2 103 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 27 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.26%) Hyper-V
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%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 155 (4.43%) Kubernetes
2 49 (1.40%) Ansible
3 42 (1.20%) Grafana
4 29 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (0.51%) Prometheus
5 18 (0.51%) SCCM
6 17 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.26%) Kibana
7 9 (0.26%) Progress Chef
8 8 (0.23%) SCOM
9 7 (0.20%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.17%) Control-M
10 6 (0.17%) Podman
11 5 (0.14%) QRadar
12 4 (0.11%) SysTrack
13 3 (0.086%) CASB
14 2 (0.057%) Docker Swarm
14 2 (0.057%) MOM
14 2 (0.057%) NetBackup
14 2 (0.057%) Puppet
Vendors
1 679 (19.41%) Microsoft
2 449 (12.84%) Databricks
3 200 (5.72%) SAP
4 199 (5.69%) Oracle
5 196 (5.60%) Google
6 98 (2.80%) Adobe
7 91 (2.60%) Salesforce
8 90 (2.57%) ServiceNow
9 54 (1.54%) Workday
10 46 (1.32%) Splunk
11 45 (1.29%) Dynatrace
12 41 (1.17%) Foundry
13 35 (1.00%) Palantir
14 31 (0.89%) Informatica
15 30 (0.86%) VMware
16 28 (0.80%) Cisco
16 28 (0.80%) OpenAI
17 27 (0.77%) Talend
18 26 (0.74%) Alteryx
19 25 (0.71%) IBM