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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 30 38
Rank change year-on-year +6 +8 -1
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,480 1,536 1,815
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.42% 5.84% 4.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.47% 6.52% 5.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,680 990 1,238
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £415 £444 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £506 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.00% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 22 83
10th Percentile £21.40 £25.26 £17.13
25th Percentile £33.13 £28.13 £25.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £35.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.29% -17.65% +32.81%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £78.90 £64.73 £76.95
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £35.25 £42.50
% change year-on-year +53.19% -17.06% +32.81%

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 29,288 23,559 32,969
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.67% 89.65% 87.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,737 14,462 22,056
10th Percentile £306 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £640 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,829 754 1,953
10th Percentile £15.16 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.88 £21.01 £16.66
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% - +1.21%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £61.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +9.38%

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 5 February 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 5 February 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 5 February 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 +6 1,456 £525 -12.50% 1,011
Midlands +26 272 £500 +2.25% 201
North of England +5 260 £478 +0.53% 278
West Midlands +23 205 £500 +2.04% 103
South East -4 172 £500 +6.67% 492
North West +11 166 £500 +5.26% 158
South West +46 121 £525 +16.67% 110
East of England -2 95 £515 -14.17% 88
Yorkshire -18 74 £510 +3.03% 90
East Midlands +17 66 £440 -2.25% 98
North East +2 22 £425 -8.90% 33
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
1 106 (4.27%) SAS
2 99 (3.99%) Apache Spark
3 91 (3.67%) Apache Airflow
4 76 (3.06%) Apache
5 59 (2.38%) Confluence
6 48 (1.94%) SharePoint
7 36 (1.45%) CMS
8 23 (0.93%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 11 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
10 9 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
11 8 (0.32%) GeoServer
11 8 (0.32%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
11 8 (0.32%) Smallworld
12 7 (0.28%) ArcGIS
12 7 (0.28%) Oracle Application Server
12 7 (0.28%) WebLogic
13 6 (0.24%) WordPress
14 5 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 3 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 126 (5.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (1.13%) MS Visio
5 21 (0.85%) Chatbot
6 13 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.24%) Trello
8 4 (0.16%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.12%) Notion
9 3 (0.12%) Sketch
10 2 (0.081%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.040%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.040%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.040%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.040%) CapCut
11 1 (0.040%) FrameMaker
11 1 (0.040%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.040%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 74 (2.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.56%) SAP EHS
4 11 (0.44%) SAP HR
5 9 (0.36%) SAP FI
6 8 (0.32%) Maximo
6 8 (0.32%) SAP MM
7 7 (0.28%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 7 (0.28%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 7 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 6 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
8 6 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.20%) Aladdin
9 5 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
9 5 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
10 4 (0.16%) NetSuite
10 4 (0.16%) Oracle General Ledger
10 4 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.16%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 4 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 810 (32.66%) Azure
2 524 (21.13%) Power Platform
3 520 (20.97%) AWS
4 235 (9.48%) GCP
5 186 (7.50%) Azure Data Factory
6 182 (7.34%) Azure DevOps
7 165 (6.65%) Snowflake
8 160 (6.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 133 (5.36%) GitHub
10 121 (4.88%) Serverless
11 106 (4.27%) Azure Monitor
12 99 (3.99%) Amazon S3
13 97 (3.91%) SaaS
14 95 (3.83%) dbt
15 85 (3.43%) GitHub Actions
15 85 (3.43%) Microsoft 365
16 76 (3.06%) Entra ID
17 61 (2.46%) AWS Lambda
18 57 (2.30%) Power Automate
19 54 (2.18%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 45 (1.81%) Firewall
2 25 (1.01%) VPN
3 23 (0.93%) Network Security
4 22 (0.89%) DNS
5 16 (0.65%) SMS
6 11 (0.44%) SSL
7 9 (0.36%) WAN
8 8 (0.32%) DHCP
9 7 (0.28%) HTTP
9 7 (0.28%) LAN
10 6 (0.24%) 2G
10 6 (0.24%) 5G
10 6 (0.24%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.20%) FTP
11 5 (0.20%) SMTP
12 4 (0.16%) 4G
12 4 (0.16%) Radio Access Network
13 3 (0.12%) MPLS
13 3 (0.12%) RTP
13 3 (0.12%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 481 (19.40%) Power BI
2 252 (10.16%) Data Warehouse
3 178 (7.18%) Data Lake
4 153 (6.17%) Tableau
5 136 (5.48%) Metadata
6 75 (3.02%) SQL Server
7 71 (2.86%) BigQuery
8 69 (2.78%) Big Data
9 63 (2.54%) Delta Lake
9 63 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
10 57 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
11 55 (2.22%) Relational Database
11 55 (2.22%) Snowflake Schema
12 53 (2.14%) Looker
13 46 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
13 46 (1.85%) Hadoop
14 44 (1.77%) Star Schema
15 41 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
15 41 (1.65%) Data Vault
15 41 (1.65%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 174 (7.02%) JIRA
2 168 (6.77%) Git
3 83 (3.35%) Jenkins
4 78 (3.15%) GitLab
5 25 (1.01%) Selenium
6 20 (0.81%) JUnit
7 19 (0.77%) ERwin
8 12 (0.48%) MLflow
9 11 (0.44%) PowerDesigner
10 10 (0.40%) Android Studio
10 10 (0.40%) ER Studio
10 10 (0.40%) Gradle
11 9 (0.36%) Visual Website Optimizer
12 8 (0.32%) Postman
12 8 (0.32%) Xcode
13 6 (0.24%) DBeaver
13 6 (0.24%) MSI
13 6 (0.24%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.24%) Visual Studio
14 5 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
General
1 810 (32.66%) Social Skills
2 663 (26.73%) Finance
3 481 (19.40%) Analytical Skills
4 227 (9.15%) Public Sector
5 203 (8.19%) Banking
6 165 (6.65%) Marketing
7 76 (3.06%) Retail
8 70 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
9 64 (2.58%) Front Office
10 48 (1.94%) Legal
10 48 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
11 45 (1.81%) Investment Banking
12 44 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 44 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
13 42 (1.69%) Manufacturing
14 36 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
15 32 (1.29%) Financial Institution
16 23 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
16 23 (0.93%) Telecoms
17 21 (0.85%) Military
Job Titles
1 353 (14.23%) Analyst
2 351 (14.15%) Data Engineer
3 313 (12.62%) Developer
4 279 (11.25%) Senior
5 268 (10.81%) Architect
6 181 (7.30%) Lead
7 130 (5.24%) Data Analyst
8 128 (5.16%) Consultant
9 123 (4.96%) Business Analyst
10 102 (4.11%) Data Architect
11 95 (3.83%) Azure Engineer
12 80 (3.23%) Data Scientist
13 63 (2.54%) Project Manager
14 60 (2.42%) Senior Data Engineer
14 60 (2.42%) Senior Developer
14 60 (2.42%) Solutions Architect
15 47 (1.90%) Snowflake Engineer
16 45 (1.81%) Designer
17 39 (1.57%) DevOps Engineer
17 39 (1.57%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (5.89%) REST
2 111 (4.48%) Kafka
2 111 (4.48%) PySpark
3 63 (2.54%) React
4 55 (2.22%) Pandas
5 52 (2.10%) HTML
6 49 (1.98%) TensorFlow
7 47 (1.90%) Node.js
8 46 (1.85%) PyTorch
9 44 (1.77%) CSS
9 44 (1.77%) NumPy
9 44 (1.77%) scikit-learn
10 43 (1.73%) .NET
10 43 (1.73%) JSON
10 43 (1.73%) SOAP
11 41 (1.65%) RESTful
12 38 (1.53%) AngularJS
13 34 (1.37%) ARM Templates
14 29 (1.17%) OAuth
15 27 (1.09%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 119 (4.80%) Cloud Native
2 100 (4.03%) Product Ownership
3 78 (3.15%) Data Structures
4 71 (2.86%) Onboarding
5 58 (2.34%) Management Information System
6 54 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
7 51 (2.06%) Algorithms
8 49 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
9 47 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
10 44 (1.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 43 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
11 43 (1.73%) Equities
12 39 (1.57%) Derivative
13 35 (1.41%) Mobile App
14 30 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
15 29 (1.17%) Fixed Income
16 28 (1.13%) NHS
16 28 (1.13%) Public Cloud
17 27 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
17 27 (1.09%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 79 (3.19%) Windows
2 70 (2.82%) Linux
3 27 (1.09%) Unix
4 26 (1.05%) Mac OS
5 18 (0.73%) Apple iOS
6 17 (0.69%) Android
7 10 (0.40%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.20%) VMS
8 5 (0.20%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.081%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.081%) zOS
10 1 (0.040%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.040%) CentOS
10 1 (0.040%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.040%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.040%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 653 (26.33%) Business Intelligence
2 593 (23.91%) Agile
3 576 (23.23%) Data Modelling
4 514 (20.73%) Problem-Solving
5 482 (19.44%) CI/CD
6 464 (18.71%) AI
7 458 (18.47%) DevOps
8 449 (18.10%) ETL
9 413 (16.65%) Data Pipeline
10 377 (15.20%) Data Governance
11 376 (15.16%) Data Engineering
12 360 (14.52%) Decision-Making
13 339 (13.67%) Stakeholder Management
14 310 (12.50%) Data Analytics
15 308 (12.42%) Data Science
16 291 (11.73%) Machine Learning
17 275 (11.09%) Visualisation
18 270 (10.89%) Continuous Improvement
19 269 (10.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 245 (9.88%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 839 (33.83%) SQL
2 761 (30.69%) Python
3 148 (5.97%) Java
4 105 (4.23%) JavaScript
5 98 (3.95%) PowerShell
6 79 (3.19%) C#
7 69 (2.78%) R
8 64 (2.58%) Bicep
9 57 (2.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 50 (2.02%) Bash
11 44 (1.77%) TypeScript
12 39 (1.57%) Scala
13 38 (1.53%) Kusto Query Language
14 36 (1.45%) C++
15 33 (1.33%) T-SQL
16 27 (1.09%) VBA
17 23 (0.93%) PL/SQL
18 18 (0.73%) Shell Script
19 13 (0.52%) Kotlin
20 12 (0.48%) Swift
Qualifications
1 414 (16.69%) Security Cleared
2 334 (13.47%) SC Cleared
3 233 (9.40%) Degree
4 71 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 64 (2.58%) Azure Certification
6 52 (2.10%) Master's Degree
7 38 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
7 38 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 30 (1.21%) DV Cleared
9 28 (1.13%) CISSP
10 27 (1.09%) PMI Certification
11 25 (1.01%) AWS Certification
12 21 (0.85%) PMP
13 19 (0.77%) CISM
14 14 (0.56%) IIBA
15 10 (0.40%) CBAP
16 8 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
16 8 (0.32%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 8 (0.32%) PhD
17 7 (0.28%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 415 (16.73%) Data Quality
2 148 (5.97%) GDPR
3 93 (3.75%) Accessibility
4 86 (3.47%) QA
5 39 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 31 (1.25%) NIST
7 22 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
8 19 (0.77%) WCAG
9 18 (0.73%) PMO
10 15 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 14 (0.56%) NCSC
12 10 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 10 (0.40%) HIPAA
12 10 (0.40%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.40%) SLA
12 10 (0.40%) Solvency II
13 9 (0.36%) GRC
13 9 (0.36%) NIST 800
14 8 (0.32%) PERC
15 7 (0.28%) HL7
System Software
1 190 (7.66%) Docker
2 65 (2.62%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.40%) HDFS
6 8 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.20%) zsh
8 2 (0.081%) GPFS
8 2 (0.081%) Lustre
8 2 (0.081%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.081%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.040%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.040%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.040%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.040%) Snort
9 1 (0.040%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.040%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 203 (8.19%) Terraform
2 197 (7.94%) Kubernetes
3 33 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 30 (1.21%) Ansible
5 20 (0.81%) SCCM
6 19 (0.77%) Prometheus
7 18 (0.73%) Grafana
8 17 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (0.56%) Puppet
10 8 (0.32%) Kibana
11 7 (0.28%) Hadoop YARN
11 7 (0.28%) logstash
12 5 (0.20%) WSUS
13 3 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.12%) Argo
13 3 (0.12%) Fluentd
13 3 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 2 (0.081%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.081%) RSA Archer
14 2 (0.081%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 480 (19.35%) Microsoft
2 310 (12.50%) Databricks
3 158 (6.37%) Google
4 143 (5.77%) Oracle
5 142 (5.73%) SAP
6 72 (2.90%) Salesforce
7 66 (2.66%) ServiceNow
8 65 (2.62%) Adobe
9 57 (2.30%) Talend
10 45 (1.81%) Informatica
11 41 (1.65%) OpenAI
12 39 (1.57%) Splunk
13 38 (1.53%) Denodo
14 33 (1.33%) Foundry
15 32 (1.29%) Workday
16 24 (0.97%) IBM
17 21 (0.85%) VMware
18 18 (0.73%) Dynatrace
19 17 (0.69%) Cisco
20 14 (0.56%) Cognos