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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 29 39
Rank change year-on-year +5 +10 -5
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,270 1,605 1,778
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.17% 5.67% 4.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.10% 6.39% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,532 1,051 1,245
10th Percentile £360 £356 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% -1.79% -2.61%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £799 £788
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -2.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 27 60
10th Percentile £21.95 £25.26 £17.58
25th Percentile £31.56 £27.25 £27.50
Median hourly rate £50.25 £32.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.62% -24.42% +22.86%
75th Percentile £72.38 £59.41 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.43 £64.14 £79.23
UK median hourly rate £46.25 £32.50 £46.06
% change year-on-year +42.31% -29.43% +31.59%

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 28,039 25,113 31,995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.57% 88.74% 88.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,871 15,476 21,696
10th Percentile £304 £313 £306
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £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 1,770 825 1,406
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £14.38
25th Percentile £17.91 £20.30 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +25.00%
75th Percentile £56.99 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.14% +25.71%

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 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 2025. 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 1,356 £525 -12.50% 1,059
Midlands +29 242 £513 +2.60% 142
North of England +8 241 £475 -3.66% 266
West Midlands +27 196 £515 - 92
North West +14 157 £475 -1.04% 154
South East -13 145 £488 -2.50% 336
South West +40 97 £525 +11.11% 96
East of England 0 89 £578 +12.68% 92
Yorkshire -10 71 £525 +2.44% 88
East Midlands +11 48 £436 -4.96% 49
North East -1 14 £405 -13.18% 27
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 97 (4.27%) SAS
2 92 (4.05%) Apache Airflow
3 80 (3.52%) Apache Spark
4 77 (3.39%) Apache
5 58 (2.56%) Confluence
6 47 (2.07%) SharePoint
7 37 (1.63%) CMS
8 20 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 16 (0.70%) WebLogic
10 9 (0.40%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
12 7 (0.31%) GeoServer
12 7 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
12 7 (0.31%) Oracle Application Server
12 7 (0.31%) Smallworld
12 7 (0.31%) WordPress
13 6 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.13%) Apache Superset
14 3 (0.13%) ArcGIS
14 3 (0.13%) IIS
Applications
1 135 (5.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
3 34 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (1.32%) MS Visio
5 25 (1.10%) Chatbot
6 13 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.22%) Trello
8 4 (0.18%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.13%) Notion
9 3 (0.13%) Sketch
10 2 (0.088%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.044%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.044%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.044%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.044%) CapCut
11 1 (0.044%) FrameMaker
11 1 (0.044%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.044%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 72 (3.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.62%) SAP EHS
4 11 (0.48%) SAP HR
5 10 (0.44%) SAP FI
6 8 (0.35%) Workday HCM
7 7 (0.31%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 7 (0.31%) SAP MM
8 6 (0.26%) Maximo
8 6 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 5 (0.22%) Aladdin
9 5 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
9 5 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
9 5 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.22%) SAP ERP
10 4 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
10 4 (0.18%) SAP IBP
11 3 (0.13%) NetSuite
11 3 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
11 3 (0.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 729 (32.11%) Azure
2 496 (21.85%) Power Platform
3 474 (20.88%) AWS
4 226 (9.96%) GCP
5 154 (6.78%) Azure Data Factory
6 147 (6.48%) Azure DevOps
7 145 (6.39%) Snowflake
8 139 (6.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 109 (4.80%) GitHub
9 109 (4.80%) Serverless
10 106 (4.67%) Azure Monitor
11 88 (3.88%) SaaS
12 80 (3.52%) Amazon S3
13 76 (3.35%) dbt
14 74 (3.26%) GitHub Actions
15 73 (3.22%) Entra ID
16 71 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
17 57 (2.51%) Azure Logic Apps
18 56 (2.47%) Google Analytics
19 55 (2.42%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 46 (2.03%) Firewall
2 36 (1.59%) DNS
3 34 (1.50%) Network Security
4 23 (1.01%) VPN
5 19 (0.84%) SSL
6 17 (0.75%) HTTP
7 14 (0.62%) SMS
8 13 (0.57%) FTP
8 13 (0.57%) SMTP
9 10 (0.44%) WAN
10 8 (0.35%) DHCP
10 8 (0.35%) TCP/IP
11 7 (0.31%) LAN
12 6 (0.26%) 2G
12 6 (0.26%) 5G
13 4 (0.18%) 4G
13 4 (0.18%) Radio Access Network
14 3 (0.13%) Internet
14 3 (0.13%) MPLS
14 3 (0.13%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 465 (20.48%) Power BI
2 252 (11.10%) Data Warehouse
3 161 (7.09%) Data Lake
4 147 (6.48%) Tableau
5 130 (5.73%) Metadata
6 72 (3.17%) BigQuery
7 66 (2.91%) Big Data
8 65 (2.86%) SQL Server
9 58 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
10 54 (2.38%) Relational Database
11 53 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
12 52 (2.29%) Snowflake Schema
13 47 (2.07%) Looker
14 46 (2.03%) Delta Lake
15 44 (1.94%) Power Query
16 41 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
17 40 (1.76%) Star Schema
18 39 (1.72%) NoSQL
19 38 (1.67%) Hadoop
20 36 (1.59%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 169 (7.44%) Git
2 167 (7.36%) JIRA
3 79 (3.48%) Jenkins
4 64 (2.82%) GitLab
5 24 (1.06%) Selenium
6 18 (0.79%) JUnit
7 17 (0.75%) ERwin
8 14 (0.62%) MLflow
9 11 (0.48%) PowerDesigner
10 10 (0.44%) Android Studio
10 10 (0.44%) Gradle
11 9 (0.40%) ER Studio
11 9 (0.40%) Postman
11 9 (0.40%) Visual Website Optimizer
12 8 (0.35%) Xcode
13 7 (0.31%) SonarQube
14 6 (0.26%) Bitbucket
14 6 (0.26%) DBeaver
14 6 (0.26%) TeamCity
14 6 (0.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 800 (35.24%) Social Skills
2 638 (28.11%) Finance
3 476 (20.97%) Analytical Skills
4 210 (9.25%) Banking
5 187 (8.24%) Public Sector
6 167 (7.36%) Marketing
7 76 (3.35%) Retail
8 69 (3.04%) Front Office
9 63 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
10 53 (2.33%) Investment Banking
10 53 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
11 51 (2.25%) Legal
12 44 (1.94%) Manufacturing
13 37 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 37 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
14 36 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
15 33 (1.45%) Financial Institution
16 30 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
17 29 (1.28%) Telecoms
18 22 (0.97%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 356 (15.68%) Analyst
2 302 (13.30%) Developer
3 263 (11.59%) Data Engineer
4 249 (10.97%) Senior
5 227 (10.00%) Architect
6 152 (6.70%) Lead
7 126 (5.55%) Data Analyst
8 124 (5.46%) Business Analyst
9 122 (5.37%) Consultant
10 83 (3.66%) Data Architect
11 76 (3.35%) Azure Engineer
12 75 (3.30%) Data Scientist
13 63 (2.78%) Senior Developer
14 54 (2.38%) Project Manager
15 41 (1.81%) Senior Data Engineer
16 40 (1.76%) Solutions Architect
17 39 (1.72%) Python Developer
18 38 (1.67%) Senior Analyst
19 36 (1.59%) Security Engineer
20 34 (1.50%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (5.81%) REST
2 99 (4.36%) Kafka
3 95 (4.19%) PySpark
4 57 (2.51%) Pandas
5 55 (2.42%) React
6 48 (2.11%) HTML
7 46 (2.03%) Node.js
7 46 (2.03%) RESTful
8 44 (1.94%) .NET
9 43 (1.89%) NumPy
9 43 (1.89%) SOAP
9 43 (1.89%) TensorFlow
10 42 (1.85%) scikit-learn
11 37 (1.63%) CSS
11 37 (1.63%) JSON
11 37 (1.63%) PyTorch
12 33 (1.45%) AngularJS
13 29 (1.28%) OAuth
14 27 (1.19%) ARM Templates
15 25 (1.10%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 101 (4.45%) Product Ownership
2 91 (4.01%) Cloud Native
3 73 (3.22%) Data Structures
4 61 (2.69%) Onboarding
5 59 (2.60%) Management Information System
6 57 (2.51%) Analytical Mindset
7 53 (2.33%) Algorithms
8 51 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
9 44 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
9 44 (1.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 43 (1.89%) Derivative
11 40 (1.76%) Mobile App
12 38 (1.67%) Equities
13 34 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
14 28 (1.23%) Life Science
14 28 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
15 27 (1.19%) Social Media
16 26 (1.15%) Fixed Income
16 26 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
16 26 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 72 (3.17%) Windows
2 70 (3.08%) Linux
3 30 (1.32%) Unix
4 21 (0.93%) Apple iOS
5 20 (0.88%) Android
6 16 (0.70%) Mac OS
7 9 (0.40%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.22%) VMS
9 4 (0.18%) Windows Server
10 2 (0.088%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.044%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.044%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.044%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.044%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 637 (28.06%) Business Intelligence
2 565 (24.89%) Agile
3 510 (22.47%) Data Modelling
4 490 (21.59%) Problem-Solving
5 421 (18.55%) CI/CD
6 405 (17.84%) DevOps
7 397 (17.49%) ETL
8 383 (16.87%) AI
9 356 (15.68%) Data Pipeline
10 351 (15.46%) Data Governance
11 339 (14.93%) Decision-Making
12 299 (13.17%) Data Analytics
12 299 (13.17%) Stakeholder Management
13 288 (12.69%) Data Engineering
14 283 (12.47%) Data Science
15 277 (12.20%) Visualisation
16 275 (12.11%) Machine Learning
17 255 (11.23%) Continuous Improvement
18 252 (11.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 245 (10.79%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 776 (34.19%) SQL
2 708 (31.19%) Python
3 124 (5.46%) Java
4 108 (4.76%) JavaScript
5 96 (4.23%) PowerShell
6 73 (3.22%) C#
7 70 (3.08%) R
8 50 (2.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 49 (2.16%) Bicep
10 46 (2.03%) Bash
11 44 (1.94%) TypeScript
12 37 (1.63%) Kusto Query Language
13 35 (1.54%) C++
14 29 (1.28%) T-SQL
14 29 (1.28%) VBA
15 26 (1.15%) Scala
16 21 (0.93%) PL/SQL
17 15 (0.66%) Kotlin
18 14 (0.62%) ABAP
18 14 (0.62%) Swift
Qualifications
1 375 (16.52%) Security Cleared
2 308 (13.57%) SC Cleared
3 217 (9.56%) Degree
4 64 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 57 (2.51%) Master's Degree
6 50 (2.20%) Azure Certification
7 32 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
8 31 (1.37%) CISSP
9 29 (1.28%) DV Cleared
10 24 (1.06%) AWS Certification
10 24 (1.06%) PMI Certification
11 23 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
12 20 (0.88%) PMP
13 17 (0.75%) CISM
14 12 (0.53%) IIBA
15 9 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
15 9 (0.40%) PhD
16 8 (0.35%) CBAP
17 7 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 6 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 354 (15.59%) Data Quality
2 139 (6.12%) GDPR
3 84 (3.70%) Accessibility
4 83 (3.66%) QA
5 37 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 31 (1.37%) NIST
7 21 (0.93%) PMO
8 20 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
9 16 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 12 (0.53%) HIPAA
10 12 (0.53%) WCAG
11 11 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 11 (0.48%) GRC
12 10 (0.44%) PCI DSS
13 9 (0.40%) NCSC
14 8 (0.35%) PERC
14 8 (0.35%) Solvency II
15 7 (0.31%) GxP
15 7 (0.31%) NIST 800
15 7 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 173 (7.62%) Docker
2 57 (2.51%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.44%) HDFS
6 5 (0.22%) zsh
7 4 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.088%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.044%) GPFS
9 1 (0.044%) Lustre
9 1 (0.044%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.044%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.044%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.044%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 174 (7.67%) Kubernetes
2 163 (7.18%) Terraform
3 30 (1.32%) Ansible
4 21 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (0.84%) Grafana
6 18 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (0.70%) SCCM
8 12 (0.53%) Prometheus
9 11 (0.48%) Puppet
10 10 (0.44%) Kibana
11 8 (0.35%) logstash
12 7 (0.31%) Hadoop YARN
13 6 (0.26%) WSUS
14 4 (0.18%) Kubeflow
14 4 (0.18%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
15 3 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 3 (0.13%) Fluentd
15 3 (0.13%) Progress Chef
16 2 (0.088%) Cisco CUCM
16 2 (0.088%) Control-M
Vendors
1 423 (18.63%) Microsoft
2 271 (11.94%) Databricks
3 164 (7.22%) Google
4 149 (6.56%) Oracle
5 135 (5.95%) SAP
6 73 (3.22%) Salesforce
7 68 (3.00%) Adobe
8 66 (2.91%) ServiceNow
9 49 (2.16%) Talend
10 43 (1.89%) Splunk
11 38 (1.67%) Denodo
12 35 (1.54%) Informatica
13 34 (1.50%) Workday
14 27 (1.19%) Dynatrace
14 27 (1.19%) OpenAI
15 26 (1.15%) Cisco
16 23 (1.01%) Foundry
17 20 (0.88%) AppDynamics
18 18 (0.79%) Alteryx
19 16 (0.70%) IBM