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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 27 35
Rank change year-on-year +1 +8 0
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,515 1,782 1,749
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.66% 6.42% 5.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.02% 7.07% 6.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,305 1,173 1,221
10th Percentile £363 £353 £355
25th Percentile £430 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% -2.61%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £750 £799 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 46 22
10th Percentile £20.82 £15.88 £21.78
25th Percentile £28.06 £30.32 £27.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £34.74 £30.69
Median % change year-on-year +51.12% +13.21% -12.33%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.16 £42.50
90th Percentile £87.08 £79.38 £64.26
UK median hourly rate £51.25 £34.74 £30.69
% change year-on-year +47.51% +13.21% -12.33%

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 38,963 25,189 28,313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.89% 90.78% 85.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,049 16,044 18,122
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £632 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,587 1,471 1,456
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.87 £18.39
Median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.03
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.16% +0.31%

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 29 August 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 29 August 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 29 August 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 1,957 £550 - 4,533
North of England +9 449 £475 +5.44% 698
Midlands +4 395 £500 -2.91% 305
South East +17 352 £513 -2.38% 710
West Midlands +5 317 £493 -5.01% 192
North West 0 232 £517 +8.86% 433
Yorkshire +8 175 £460 -0.54% 185
South West +17 171 £500 +7.53% 348
East of England -9 106 £575 - 162
East Midlands +4 71 £519 +23.88% 113
North East -4 51 £450 +18.03% 84
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
1 161 (4.58%) Apache Airflow
2 130 (3.70%) Apache Spark
3 112 (3.19%) SAS
4 98 (2.79%) Apache
5 74 (2.11%) Confluence
6 55 (1.56%) SharePoint
7 51 (1.45%) CMS
8 30 (0.85%) Jupyter
8 30 (0.85%) Palantir Foundry
9 26 (0.74%) Oracle Application Server
10 25 (0.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 15 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
12 10 (0.28%) Apache Superset
12 10 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
13 8 (0.23%) Drupal
13 8 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
14 6 (0.17%) WordPress
15 4 (0.11%) IIS
16 2 (0.057%) ArcGIS
16 2 (0.057%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 155 (4.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (0.60%) Chatbot
5 17 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
6 16 (0.46%) CPLEX
7 12 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
8 11 (0.31%) MS Visio
9 4 (0.11%) Trello
10 3 (0.085%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.085%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.057%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.057%) Sketch
12 1 (0.028%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.028%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.028%) InDesign
12 1 (0.028%) Notion
12 1 (0.028%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.028%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.028%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 70 (1.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
4 16 (0.46%) Workday HCM
5 13 (0.37%) Aladdin
5 13 (0.37%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 10 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
7 9 (0.26%) Shopify
8 8 (0.23%) SAP CO
8 8 (0.23%) SAP ERP
8 8 (0.23%) SAP FI
9 7 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
9 7 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 6 (0.17%) NetSuite
10 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.17%) SAP GRC
11 5 (0.14%) BambooHR
11 5 (0.14%) Infor LN
11 5 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
11 5 (0.14%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 1,041 (29.62%) Azure
2 710 (20.20%) Power Platform
3 620 (17.64%) AWS
4 294 (8.36%) GCP
5 244 (6.94%) Snowflake
6 240 (6.83%) Azure DevOps
7 231 (6.57%) Azure Data Factory
8 192 (5.46%) dbt
9 186 (5.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 161 (4.58%) GitHub
11 148 (4.21%) Serverless
12 138 (3.93%) Azure Monitor
13 128 (3.64%) Amazon S3
14 116 (3.30%) Entra ID
15 108 (3.07%) SaaS
16 98 (2.79%) AWS Lambda
17 89 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
18 84 (2.39%) GitHub Actions
19 62 (1.76%) Google Analytics
20 56 (1.59%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.76%) Firewall
2 53 (1.51%) Network Security
3 39 (1.11%) DNS
4 34 (0.97%) VPN
5 24 (0.68%) WAN
6 22 (0.63%) TCP/IP
7 21 (0.60%) SD-WAN
8 18 (0.51%) BGP
9 17 (0.48%) DHCP
10 12 (0.34%) Broadband
11 10 (0.28%) Wireless
12 9 (0.26%) OSPF
12 9 (0.26%) SMS
13 8 (0.23%) LAN
14 7 (0.20%) Internet
14 7 (0.20%) WLAN
15 6 (0.17%) SSH
15 6 (0.17%) VLAN
16 5 (0.14%) Cisco Wireless
16 5 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 676 (19.23%) Power BI
2 451 (12.83%) Data Warehouse
3 260 (7.40%) Data Lake
4 231 (6.57%) Metadata
5 230 (6.54%) Tableau
6 140 (3.98%) BigQuery
7 93 (2.65%) Amazon Redshift
7 93 (2.65%) Delta Lake
8 92 (2.62%) SQL Server
9 87 (2.48%) Big Data
10 85 (2.42%) Relational Database
11 77 (2.19%) Looker
12 71 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
13 67 (1.91%) Snowflake Schema
14 65 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
15 60 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
15 60 (1.71%) NoSQL
15 60 (1.71%) Semantic Layer
16 57 (1.62%) Star Schema
17 53 (1.51%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 182 (5.18%) Git
2 161 (4.58%) JIRA
3 62 (1.76%) Jenkins
4 49 (1.39%) GitLab
5 15 (0.43%) ERwin
6 10 (0.28%) fastlane
6 10 (0.28%) MLflow
7 8 (0.23%) ER Studio
7 8 (0.23%) RStudio
7 8 (0.23%) Selenium
7 8 (0.23%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.20%) Gradle
8 7 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (0.17%) Android Studio
9 6 (0.17%) Crashlytics
9 6 (0.17%) JUnit
10 5 (0.14%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
10 5 (0.14%) Visual Website Optimizer
10 5 (0.14%) Xcode
General
1 915 (26.03%) Social Skills
2 894 (25.43%) Finance
3 641 (18.24%) Analytical Skills
4 416 (11.83%) Public Sector
5 260 (7.40%) Banking
6 228 (6.49%) Marketing
7 172 (4.89%) Retail
8 99 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
9 93 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 76 (2.16%) Legal
11 71 (2.02%) Manufacturing
12 69 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
13 66 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
14 62 (1.76%) Front Office
15 55 (1.56%) Investment Banking
16 47 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
17 46 (1.31%) Telecoms
18 42 (1.19%) Financial Institution
19 41 (1.17%) Publishing
20 39 (1.11%) Military
Job Titles
1 594 (16.90%) Data Engineer
2 446 (12.69%) Architect
2 446 (12.69%) Senior
3 444 (12.63%) Analyst
4 324 (9.22%) Developer
5 296 (8.42%) Lead
6 203 (5.78%) Data Architect
7 170 (4.84%) Consultant
8 167 (4.75%) Data Analyst
9 123 (3.50%) Solutions Architect
10 110 (3.13%) Senior Data Engineer
11 106 (3.02%) Business Analyst
12 105 (2.99%) Data Scientist
13 104 (2.96%) Azure Engineer
14 77 (2.19%) Data Manager
15 69 (1.96%) Product Manager
16 62 (1.76%) Senior Manager
17 61 (1.74%) Project Manager
17 61 (1.74%) Python Developer
18 57 (1.62%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 266 (7.57%) Terraform
2 216 (6.15%) PySpark
3 131 (3.73%) REST
4 114 (3.24%) Kafka
5 63 (1.79%) Pandas
6 54 (1.54%) HTML
6 54 (1.54%) React
6 54 (1.54%) RESTful
7 50 (1.42%) CSS
8 47 (1.34%) .NET
9 44 (1.25%) JSON
10 42 (1.19%) ARM Templates
11 38 (1.08%) NumPy
11 38 (1.08%) OAuth
12 33 (0.94%) Web Services
13 31 (0.88%) OpenID
13 31 (0.88%) SOAP
14 30 (0.85%) Microsoft Graph
14 30 (0.85%) OAuth2
15 29 (0.83%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 238 (6.77%) Cloud Native
2 183 (5.21%) Product Ownership
3 136 (3.87%) Data Structures
4 132 (3.76%) Onboarding
5 115 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
6 73 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
7 64 (1.82%) Management Information System
8 63 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
9 58 (1.65%) AI Agents
10 46 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
11 45 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
12 44 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
12 44 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
13 42 (1.19%) Algorithms
14 41 (1.17%) NHS
15 40 (1.14%) Marketing Technology
16 39 (1.11%) Virtual Team
17 34 (0.97%) Mobile App
18 33 (0.94%) Derivative
19 32 (0.91%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 88 (2.50%) Linux
2 82 (2.33%) Windows
3 38 (1.08%) Unix
4 33 (0.94%) Windows Server
5 16 (0.46%) Apple iOS
6 13 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.31%) Mac OS
8 10 (0.28%) Android
9 9 (0.26%) VMS
10 5 (0.14%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.085%) Solaris
11 3 (0.085%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.057%) AIX
12 2 (0.057%) CentOS
12 2 (0.057%) HPUX
13 1 (0.028%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 921 (26.20%) Data Modelling
2 900 (25.60%) Business Intelligence
3 885 (25.18%) AI
4 803 (22.84%) Agile
5 724 (20.60%) Stakeholder Management
6 700 (19.91%) Data Pipeline
7 689 (19.60%) Data Engineering
8 653 (18.58%) CI/CD
9 633 (18.01%) Decision-Making
10 563 (16.02%) ETL
11 556 (15.82%) Data Governance
12 530 (15.08%) DevOps
13 508 (14.45%) Problem-Solving
14 452 (12.86%) Migration
15 442 (12.57%) Continuous Improvement
16 432 (12.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 410 (11.66%) Machine Learning
18 405 (11.52%) Roadmaps
19 399 (11.35%) Validation
20 396 (11.27%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 1,125 (32.01%) SQL
2 981 (27.91%) Python
3 168 (4.78%) PowerShell
4 106 (3.02%) Java
5 101 (2.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 85 (2.42%) Bicep
7 83 (2.36%) C#
8 82 (2.33%) JavaScript
9 63 (1.79%) R
10 61 (1.74%) Bash
11 37 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
12 35 (1.00%) Scala
12 35 (1.00%) TypeScript
13 34 (0.97%) Shell Script
14 28 (0.80%) T-SQL
15 21 (0.60%) PL/SQL
16 18 (0.51%) C++
17 15 (0.43%) VBA
18 12 (0.34%) Kotlin
19 11 (0.31%) LookML
Qualifications
1 628 (17.87%) Security Cleared
2 497 (14.14%) SC Cleared
3 286 (8.14%) Degree
4 82 (2.33%) Azure Certification
4 82 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 77 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
6 71 (2.02%) DV Cleared
7 52 (1.48%) Master's Degree
8 50 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 38 (1.08%) CISSP
10 30 (0.85%) AWS Certification
11 29 (0.83%) PMI Certification
12 23 (0.65%) PMP
13 22 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
13 22 (0.63%) DBS Check
14 12 (0.34%) CISA
15 11 (0.31%) CCNP
15 11 (0.31%) MBA
15 11 (0.31%) PhD
16 10 (0.28%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 693 (19.72%) Data Quality
2 167 (4.75%) GDPR
3 136 (3.87%) QA
4 133 (3.78%) Accessibility
5 50 (1.42%) GRC
6 45 (1.28%) WCAG
7 39 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 33 (0.94%) NIST
9 29 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
9 29 (0.83%) PMO
10 19 (0.54%) SLA
11 14 (0.40%) PCI DSS
12 13 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 13 (0.37%) Solvency II
13 12 (0.34%) PERC
14 10 (0.28%) IFRS
14 10 (0.28%) NCSC
15 7 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
16 6 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 6 (0.17%) PSD2
System Software
1 150 (4.27%) Docker
2 93 (2.65%) Active Directory
3 26 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.23%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.17%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.085%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 2 (0.057%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.057%) vSphere
9 2 (0.057%) XenApp
9 2 (0.057%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.028%) iptables
10 1 (0.028%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.028%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 161 (4.58%) Kubernetes
2 50 (1.42%) Ansible
3 39 (1.11%) Grafana
4 23 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
5 16 (0.46%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.37%) SCCM
7 8 (0.23%) Control-M
7 8 (0.23%) FortiGate
7 8 (0.23%) SCOM
8 7 (0.20%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.11%) Podman
9 4 (0.11%) QRadar
9 4 (0.11%) SysTrack
10 3 (0.085%) Apache Ranger
10 3 (0.085%) CASB
10 3 (0.085%) Kibana
10 3 (0.085%) Thomson Reuters DACS
11 2 (0.057%) Argo
11 2 (0.057%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 645 (18.35%) Microsoft
2 451 (12.83%) Databricks
3 208 (5.92%) Oracle
4 189 (5.38%) SAP
5 179 (5.09%) Google
6 86 (2.45%) ServiceNow
7 84 (2.39%) Adobe
8 81 (2.30%) Salesforce
9 56 (1.59%) Workday
10 46 (1.31%) Splunk
11 44 (1.25%) Foundry
12 41 (1.17%) Dynatrace
12 41 (1.17%) Informatica
13 37 (1.05%) Palantir
14 35 (1.00%) Talend
15 33 (0.94%) Cisco
15 33 (0.94%) Denodo
16 27 (0.77%) VMware
17 25 (0.71%) OpenAI
18 23 (0.65%) Alteryx