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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 34
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 +2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,415 1,784 1,922
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.63% 6.56% 5.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.93% 7.24% 6.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,304 1,186 1,354
10th Percentile £360 £353 £350
25th Percentile £425 £444 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £539 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% -2.05% -2.22%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £796
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 44 39
10th Percentile £20.72 £15.26 £19.70
25th Percentile £35.00 £22.31 £25.00
Median hourly rate £56.15 £34.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +62.75% +15.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £75.00 £71.71 £43.75
90th Percentile £90.00 £80.71 £70.25
UK median hourly rate £53.50 £34.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year +55.07% +23.21% -12.50%

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 38,234 24,648 31,320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.43% 90.68% 85.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,071 15,798 20,362
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £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 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,374 1,309 2,214
10th Percentile £15.57 £14.39 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.98 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -8.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.70 £73.60
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -5.29%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 1,867 £550 -4.35% 1,026
North of England +7 425 £495 +8.43% 248
Midlands +10 416 £492 -1.60% 163
West Midlands +14 320 £488 -4.88% 96
South East +2 308 £500 -4.76% 370
North West +4 214 £513 +8.70% 129
South West +23 192 £500 +5.26% 122
Yorkshire -2 170 £481 +4.05% 77
East of England -10 113 £550 -5.17% 77
East Midlands +8 88 £505 +22.80% 67
North East 0 54 £450 +9.09% 42
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 (4.45%) Apache Spark
2 146 (4.28%) Apache Airflow
3 109 (3.19%) SAS
4 95 (2.78%) Apache
5 66 (1.93%) Confluence
6 44 (1.29%) SharePoint
7 35 (1.02%) CMS
8 30 (0.88%) Jupyter
9 29 (0.85%) Palantir Foundry
10 21 (0.61%) Oracle Application Server
11 16 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 12 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
13 9 (0.26%) Apache Superset
14 7 (0.20%) WordPress
15 6 (0.18%) Drupal
15 6 (0.18%) IIS
15 6 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
16 3 (0.088%) ArcGIS
17 2 (0.059%) Moodle
17 2 (0.059%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 150 (4.39%) 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 9 (0.26%) 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%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.029%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.029%) Trello
9 1 (0.029%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 72 (2.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
4 12 (0.35%) Aladdin
5 11 (0.32%) Workday HCM
6 10 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
7 8 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
8 7 (0.20%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 7 (0.20%) NetSuite
8 7 (0.20%) SAP ERP
9 6 (0.18%) Sage X3
9 6 (0.18%) Shopify
10 5 (0.15%) BambooHR
10 5 (0.15%) Infor LN
10 5 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
10 5 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.15%) SAP BPC
10 5 (0.15%) SAP GRC
10 5 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 4 (0.12%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 993 (29.08%) Azure
2 715 (20.94%) Power Platform
3 652 (19.09%) AWS
4 296 (8.67%) GCP
5 228 (6.68%) Snowflake
6 222 (6.50%) Azure DevOps
7 217 (6.35%) Azure Data Factory
8 185 (5.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 179 (5.24%) dbt
10 155 (4.54%) GitHub
11 145 (4.25%) Amazon S3
12 144 (4.22%) Serverless
13 115 (3.37%) Azure Monitor
14 96 (2.81%) AWS Lambda
15 93 (2.72%) SaaS
16 87 (2.55%) Entra ID
17 86 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
18 85 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
19 49 (1.43%) Power Automate
20 47 (1.38%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 52 (1.52%) Firewall
2 39 (1.14%) Network Security
3 31 (0.91%) VPN
4 26 (0.76%) DNS
5 25 (0.73%) WAN
6 23 (0.67%) SD-WAN
7 21 (0.61%) BGP
8 14 (0.41%) TCP/IP
9 12 (0.35%) OSPF
10 10 (0.29%) SMS
11 9 (0.26%) Wireless
12 8 (0.23%) DHCP
12 8 (0.23%) VXLAN
13 7 (0.20%) 5G
13 7 (0.20%) HTTP
13 7 (0.20%) Internet
13 7 (0.20%) LAN
13 7 (0.20%) MPLS
13 7 (0.20%) WLAN
14 6 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 675 (19.77%) Power BI
2 441 (12.91%) Data Warehouse
3 258 (7.55%) Data Lake
4 234 (6.85%) Tableau
5 198 (5.80%) Metadata
6 130 (3.81%) BigQuery
7 98 (2.87%) Big Data
7 98 (2.87%) Delta Lake
8 94 (2.75%) SQL Server
9 93 (2.72%) Amazon Redshift
10 80 (2.34%) Relational Database
10 80 (2.34%) Snowflake Schema
11 72 (2.11%) Amazon Athena
12 70 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
13 69 (2.02%) Looker
14 68 (1.99%) NoSQL
15 57 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
16 51 (1.49%) Power Query
17 49 (1.43%) Star Schema
18 47 (1.38%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 189 (5.53%) Git
2 157 (4.60%) JIRA
3 72 (2.11%) Jenkins
4 57 (1.67%) 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 (0.20%) Postman
8 7 (0.20%) 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%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.15%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.15%) Xcode
General
1 862 (25.24%) Finance
1 862 (25.24%) Social Skills
2 588 (17.22%) Analytical Skills
3 407 (11.92%) Public Sector
4 242 (7.09%) Banking
5 197 (5.77%) Marketing
6 141 (4.13%) Retail
7 77 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 75 (2.20%) Legal
9 72 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
10 65 (1.90%) Manufacturing
11 64 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
12 59 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
13 52 (1.52%) Investment Banking
14 51 (1.49%) Front Office
15 47 (1.38%) Telecoms
16 44 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
17 38 (1.11%) Financial Institution
18 32 (0.94%) Military
19 29 (0.85%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 632 (18.51%) Data Engineer
2 432 (12.65%) Analyst
3 422 (12.36%) Architect
4 409 (11.98%) Senior
5 349 (10.22%) Developer
6 296 (8.67%) Lead
7 183 (5.36%) Data Architect
8 179 (5.24%) Data Analyst
9 134 (3.92%) Consultant
10 118 (3.46%) Data Scientist
11 116 (3.40%) Solutions Architect
12 110 (3.22%) Business Analyst
13 103 (3.02%) Azure Engineer
14 100 (2.93%) Senior Data Engineer
15 72 (2.11%) Data Manager
16 65 (1.90%) Project Manager
17 61 (1.79%) Python Developer
18 59 (1.73%) Designer
19 57 (1.67%) Lead Data Engineer
20 56 (1.64%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (5.71%) PySpark
2 134 (3.92%) Kafka
3 119 (3.48%) REST
4 62 (1.82%) Pandas
5 53 (1.55%) React
6 52 (1.52%) JSON
6 52 (1.52%) RESTful
7 44 (1.29%) .NET
8 41 (1.20%) CSS
8 41 (1.20%) HTML
9 38 (1.11%) NumPy
10 37 (1.08%) Web Services
11 35 (1.02%) Middleware
11 35 (1.02%) PyTorch
12 32 (0.94%) Microsoft Graph
12 32 (0.94%) TensorFlow
13 31 (0.91%) SOAP
14 30 (0.88%) scikit-learn
15 26 (0.76%) AngularJS
15 26 (0.76%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 238 (6.97%) Cloud Native
2 172 (5.04%) Product Ownership
3 137 (4.01%) Data Structures
4 121 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
5 104 (3.05%) Onboarding
6 71 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
7 64 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
8 51 (1.49%) Algorithms
9 49 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
10 43 (1.26%) Management Information System
11 42 (1.23%) AI Agents
11 42 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
12 40 (1.17%) NHS
13 38 (1.11%) Mobile App
14 35 (1.02%) Virtual Team
15 34 (1.00%) Marketing Technology
16 33 (0.97%) Public Cloud
17 32 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
17 32 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
18 29 (0.85%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 86 (2.52%) Windows
2 80 (2.34%) Linux
3 41 (1.20%) Unix
4 23 (0.67%) Apple iOS
5 22 (0.64%) Mac OS
6 16 (0.47%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.35%) Android
8 11 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.18%) VMS
10 5 (0.15%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.088%) CentOS
11 3 (0.088%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.059%) zOS
13 1 (0.029%) Rocky
13 1 (0.029%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 953 (27.91%) Data Modelling
2 891 (26.09%) Business Intelligence
3 798 (23.37%) AI
4 750 (21.96%) Agile
5 719 (21.05%) Data Pipeline
6 697 (20.41%) Data Engineering
7 651 (19.06%) CI/CD
8 579 (16.95%) Decision-Making
9 577 (16.90%) ETL
10 560 (16.40%) Stakeholder Management
11 528 (15.46%) Data Governance
12 511 (14.96%) DevOps
13 500 (14.64%) Problem-Solving
14 425 (12.45%) Machine Learning
15 422 (12.36%) Migration
16 413 (12.09%) Data Science
17 405 (11.86%) Validation
18 401 (11.74%) Continuous Improvement
19 382 (11.19%) Data Analytics
20 373 (10.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,134 (33.21%) SQL
2 1,004 (29.40%) Python
3 133 (3.89%) Java
4 120 (3.51%) PowerShell
5 99 (2.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 85 (2.49%) C#
7 72 (2.11%) R
8 65 (1.90%) JavaScript
9 59 (1.73%) Bicep
10 42 (1.23%) Scala
10 42 (1.23%) TypeScript
11 38 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
12 34 (1.00%) Bash
12 34 (1.00%) Shell Script
12 34 (1.00%) T-SQL
13 26 (0.76%) PL/SQL
14 22 (0.64%) VBA
15 19 (0.56%) C++
16 10 (0.29%) Korn
16 10 (0.29%) Swift
Qualifications
1 585 (17.13%) Security Cleared
2 464 (13.59%) SC Cleared
3 265 (7.76%) Degree
4 84 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 75 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 69 (2.02%) Azure Certification
7 57 (1.67%) DV Cleared
8 46 (1.35%) Master's Degree
9 33 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
10 30 (0.88%) CISSP
11 28 (0.82%) AWS Certification
12 26 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
12 26 (0.76%) PMI 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%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 638 (18.68%) Data Quality
2 170 (4.98%) GDPR
3 132 (3.87%) QA
4 116 (3.40%) Accessibility
5 44 (1.29%) WCAG
6 34 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 31 (0.91%) GRC
8 28 (0.82%) NIST
9 27 (0.79%) PMO
10 20 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
11 16 (0.47%) SLA
11 16 (0.47%) Solvency II
12 11 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 10 (0.29%) IFRS
13 10 (0.29%) NCSC
13 10 (0.29%) PCI DSS
13 10 (0.29%) PERC
14 6 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 6 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.18%) HL7
System Software
1 148 (4.33%) Docker
2 71 (2.08%) Active Directory
3 25 (0.73%) 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
1 241 (7.06%) Terraform
2 170 (4.98%) Kubernetes
3 38 (1.11%) Grafana
4 36 (1.05%) Ansible
5 31 (0.91%) Prometheus
6 27 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
7 21 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.26%) 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
11 3 (0.088%) Apache Ranger
11 3 (0.088%) Kibana
11 3 (0.088%) Nagios
11 3 (0.088%) QRadar
11 3 (0.088%) Rancher
11 3 (0.088%) SCOM
12 2 (0.059%) MOM
Vendors
1 572 (16.75%) Microsoft
2 438 (12.83%) Databricks
3 187 (5.48%) Oracle
4 175 (5.12%) SAP
5 159 (4.66%) Google
6 79 (2.31%) ServiceNow
7 74 (2.17%) Salesforce
8 70 (2.05%) Adobe
9 52 (1.52%) Splunk
10 48 (1.41%) Foundry
11 46 (1.35%) Informatica
11 46 (1.35%) Workday
12 42 (1.23%) Talend
13 37 (1.08%) Palantir
14 35 (1.02%) Dynatrace
14 35 (1.02%) OpenAI
15 34 (1.00%) Denodo
16 29 (0.85%) Cisco
17 26 (0.76%) VMware
18 18 (0.53%) Alteryx