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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 35
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 0
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,400 1,789 1,921
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.58% 6.56% 5.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.87% 7.23% 6.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,296 1,191 1,353
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% -2.36% -2.22%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 43 39
10th Percentile £19.91 £15.26 £19.70
25th Percentile £35.00 £21.63 £25.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £34.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.42% +15.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.81 £43.75
90th Percentile £88.80 £79.74 £70.25
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £34.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year +52.17% +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 38,320 24,760 31,431
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.46% 90.73% 85.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,128 15,919 20,389
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.81% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,389 1,284 2,227
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.33 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.08 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -5.96%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.81 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £72.20 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -4.70%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 1,860 £550 -4.35% 1,695
Midlands +12 419 £493 -1.50% 200
North of England +8 416 £495 +9.88% 339
West Midlands +14 322 £492 -4.00% 109
South East -3 308 £500 -4.76% 452
North West +3 209 £513 +8.70% 182
South West +20 190 £500 +5.26% 336
Yorkshire 0 165 £494 +8.16% 104
East of England -11 110 £550 -5.17% 97
East Midlands +7 89 £509 +23.33% 91
North East +5 54 £450 +9.09% 53
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
1 154 (4.53%) Apache Spark
2 146 (4.29%) Apache Airflow
3 107 (3.15%) SAS
4 94 (2.76%) Apache
5 64 (1.88%) Confluence
6 43 (1.26%) SharePoint
7 34 (1.00%) CMS
8 30 (0.88%) Jupyter
9 29 (0.85%) Palantir Foundry
10 20 (0.59%) Oracle Application Server
11 14 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 14 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
12 9 (0.26%) Apache Superset
13 7 (0.21%) WordPress
14 6 (0.18%) Drupal
14 6 (0.18%) IIS
14 6 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
15 3 (0.088%) ArcGIS
16 2 (0.059%) Moodle
16 2 (0.059%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 151 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 20 (0.59%) Chatbot
4 19 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
5 18 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
6 14 (0.41%) MS Visio
7 12 (0.35%) CPLEX
8 9 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
10 3 (0.088%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.088%) Sketch
11 2 (0.059%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.029%) InDesign
12 1 (0.029%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.029%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.029%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 68 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
4 10 (0.29%) Aladdin
4 10 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
4 10 (0.29%) Workday HCM
5 8 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.21%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 7 (0.21%) NetSuite
6 7 (0.21%) SAP ERP
7 6 (0.18%) Sage X3
8 5 (0.15%) BambooHR
8 5 (0.15%) Infor LN
8 5 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (0.15%) SAP BPC
8 5 (0.15%) Shopify
8 5 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
9 4 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.12%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 1,011 (29.74%) Azure
2 716 (21.06%) Power Platform
3 654 (19.24%) AWS
4 296 (8.71%) GCP
5 229 (6.74%) Azure DevOps
6 221 (6.50%) Azure Data Factory
6 221 (6.50%) Snowflake
7 188 (5.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 182 (5.35%) dbt
9 165 (4.85%) GitHub
10 143 (4.21%) Amazon S3
11 142 (4.18%) Serverless
12 115 (3.38%) Azure Monitor
13 95 (2.79%) AWS Lambda
14 94 (2.76%) SaaS
15 93 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
16 87 (2.56%) Entra ID
16 87 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
17 49 (1.44%) Power Automate
18 47 (1.38%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 50 (1.47%) Firewall
2 39 (1.15%) Network Security
3 30 (0.88%) VPN
4 25 (0.74%) DNS
4 25 (0.74%) WAN
5 23 (0.68%) SD-WAN
6 21 (0.62%) BGP
7 13 (0.38%) TCP/IP
8 12 (0.35%) OSPF
9 10 (0.29%) SMS
10 9 (0.26%) Wireless
11 8 (0.24%) VXLAN
12 7 (0.21%) 5G
12 7 (0.21%) DHCP
12 7 (0.21%) HTTP
12 7 (0.21%) Internet
12 7 (0.21%) LAN
12 7 (0.21%) MPLS
12 7 (0.21%) WLAN
13 6 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 674 (19.82%) Power BI
2 435 (12.79%) Data Warehouse
3 256 (7.53%) Data Lake
4 233 (6.85%) Tableau
5 198 (5.82%) Metadata
6 130 (3.82%) BigQuery
7 105 (3.09%) Delta Lake
8 98 (2.88%) Big Data
9 97 (2.85%) SQL Server
10 91 (2.68%) Amazon Redshift
11 82 (2.41%) Relational Database
12 81 (2.38%) Snowflake Schema
13 73 (2.15%) Amazon Athena
14 71 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
15 69 (2.03%) Looker
16 68 (2.00%) NoSQL
17 60 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
18 51 (1.50%) Power Query
19 49 (1.44%) Star Schema
20 48 (1.41%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 192 (5.65%) Git
2 159 (4.68%) JIRA
3 78 (2.29%) Jenkins
4 61 (1.79%) GitLab
5 18 (0.53%) ERwin
6 12 (0.35%) JUnit
7 11 (0.32%) MLflow
8 10 (0.29%) ER Studio
8 10 (0.29%) fastlane
8 10 (0.29%) Selenium
9 7 (0.21%) Postman
9 7 (0.21%) PowerDesigner
10 6 (0.18%) Android Studio
10 6 (0.18%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.18%) Crashlytics
10 6 (0.18%) Gradle
11 5 (0.15%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.15%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.15%) Xcode
12 4 (0.12%) XCTest
General
1 861 (25.32%) Finance
2 860 (25.29%) Social Skills
3 576 (16.94%) Analytical Skills
4 398 (11.71%) Public Sector
5 241 (7.09%) Banking
6 192 (5.65%) Marketing
7 141 (4.15%) Retail
8 78 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 76 (2.24%) Legal
10 73 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
11 63 (1.85%) Manufacturing
12 60 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
13 59 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
14 53 (1.56%) Investment Banking
15 52 (1.53%) Front Office
16 46 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
17 45 (1.32%) Telecoms
18 38 (1.12%) Financial Institution
19 29 (0.85%) Automotive
19 29 (0.85%) Military
Job Titles
1 642 (18.88%) Data Engineer
2 426 (12.53%) Analyst
3 417 (12.26%) Architect
3 417 (12.26%) Senior
4 341 (10.03%) Developer
5 294 (8.65%) Lead
6 184 (5.41%) Data Architect
7 176 (5.18%) Data Analyst
8 132 (3.88%) Consultant
9 117 (3.44%) Data Scientist
10 114 (3.35%) Solutions Architect
11 111 (3.26%) Business Analyst
12 105 (3.09%) Azure Engineer
12 105 (3.09%) Senior Data Engineer
13 69 (2.03%) Data Manager
14 64 (1.88%) Project Manager
15 61 (1.79%) Designer
16 59 (1.74%) Python Developer
17 57 (1.68%) Azure Data Engineer
17 57 (1.68%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (5.79%) PySpark
2 132 (3.88%) Kafka
3 115 (3.38%) REST
4 62 (1.82%) Pandas
5 52 (1.53%) JSON
6 51 (1.50%) React
6 51 (1.50%) RESTful
7 44 (1.29%) .NET
8 38 (1.12%) NumPy
9 37 (1.09%) CSS
9 37 (1.09%) HTML
9 37 (1.09%) PyTorch
10 35 (1.03%) Middleware
11 34 (1.00%) TensorFlow
11 34 (1.00%) Web Services
12 32 (0.94%) Microsoft Graph
12 32 (0.94%) scikit-learn
13 31 (0.91%) SOAP
14 26 (0.76%) ARM Templates
14 26 (0.76%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 240 (7.06%) Cloud Native
2 164 (4.82%) Product Ownership
3 133 (3.91%) Data Structures
4 119 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
5 106 (3.12%) Onboarding
6 68 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
7 60 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
8 52 (1.53%) Algorithms
9 49 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
10 45 (1.32%) AI Agents
11 43 (1.26%) NHS
12 42 (1.24%) Management Information System
13 40 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
14 37 (1.09%) Mobile App
14 37 (1.09%) Public Cloud
15 35 (1.03%) Virtual Team
16 32 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
16 32 (0.94%) Marketing Technology
17 31 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
18 30 (0.88%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 90 (2.65%) Windows
2 81 (2.38%) Linux
3 40 (1.18%) Unix
4 24 (0.71%) Mac OS
5 23 (0.68%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.47%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.35%) Android
8 10 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.15%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.15%) VMS
10 3 (0.088%) CentOS
10 3 (0.088%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.029%) Rocky
11 1 (0.029%) Solaris
11 1 (0.029%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 949 (27.91%) Data Modelling
2 889 (26.15%) Business Intelligence
3 811 (23.85%) AI
4 740 (21.76%) Agile
5 721 (21.21%) Data Pipeline
6 700 (20.59%) Data Engineering
7 668 (19.65%) CI/CD
8 577 (16.97%) ETL
9 569 (16.74%) Decision-Making
10 543 (15.97%) Stakeholder Management
11 521 (15.32%) Data Governance
11 521 (15.32%) DevOps
12 509 (14.97%) Problem-Solving
13 423 (12.44%) Machine Learning
14 417 (12.26%) Migration
15 409 (12.03%) Data Science
16 401 (11.79%) Validation
17 399 (11.74%) Continuous Improvement
18 388 (11.41%) Data Analytics
19 364 (10.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,142 (33.59%) SQL
2 1,013 (29.79%) Python
3 136 (4.00%) Java
4 120 (3.53%) PowerShell
5 99 (2.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 85 (2.50%) C#
7 72 (2.12%) R
8 62 (1.82%) Bicep
9 59 (1.74%) JavaScript
10 43 (1.26%) Scala
11 42 (1.24%) TypeScript
12 39 (1.15%) Kusto Query Language
13 36 (1.06%) Bash
14 35 (1.03%) Shell Script
15 34 (1.00%) T-SQL
16 26 (0.76%) PL/SQL
17 22 (0.65%) VBA
18 19 (0.56%) C++
19 10 (0.29%) Korn
19 10 (0.29%) Swift
Qualifications
1 574 (16.88%) Security Cleared
2 454 (13.35%) SC Cleared
3 270 (7.94%) Degree
4 83 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 80 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 69 (2.03%) Azure Certification
7 56 (1.65%) DV Cleared
8 45 (1.32%) Master's Degree
9 35 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
10 29 (0.85%) CISSP
11 28 (0.82%) AWS Certification
12 25 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
13 24 (0.71%) PMI Certification
14 20 (0.59%) DBS Check
14 20 (0.59%) PMP
15 16 (0.47%) CCNP
16 15 (0.44%) CCIE
17 11 (0.32%) CISA
18 10 (0.29%) MBA
18 10 (0.29%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 634 (18.65%) Data Quality
2 169 (4.97%) GDPR
3 132 (3.88%) QA
4 116 (3.41%) Accessibility
5 44 (1.29%) WCAG
6 35 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 28 (0.82%) NIST
8 26 (0.76%) GRC
8 26 (0.76%) PMO
9 20 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
10 16 (0.47%) Solvency II
11 15 (0.44%) SLA
12 11 (0.32%) NCSC
12 11 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 10 (0.29%) IFRS
13 10 (0.29%) PCI DSS
14 7 (0.21%) PERC
15 6 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 6 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.18%) HL7
System Software
1 157 (4.62%) Docker
2 73 (2.15%) Active Directory
3 25 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.21%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.18%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.12%) HDFS
8 4 (0.12%) Snort
9 2 (0.059%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.059%) vSphere
10 1 (0.029%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.029%) GPFS
10 1 (0.029%) iptables
10 1 (0.029%) Lustre
10 1 (0.029%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.029%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.029%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 251 (7.38%) Terraform
2 176 (5.18%) Kubernetes
3 38 (1.12%) Ansible
4 37 (1.09%) Grafana
5 33 (0.97%) Prometheus
6 31 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
7 21 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.24%) FortiGate
8 8 (0.24%) SCCM
9 5 (0.15%) Argo
10 4 (0.12%) Control-M
10 4 (0.12%) CSIRT
10 4 (0.12%) Podman
11 3 (0.088%) Kibana
11 3 (0.088%) Nagios
11 3 (0.088%) QRadar
11 3 (0.088%) Rancher
12 2 (0.059%) Apache Ranger
12 2 (0.059%) OpenVAS
12 2 (0.059%) VxRail
Vendors
1 569 (16.74%) Microsoft
2 446 (13.12%) Databricks
3 182 (5.35%) Oracle
4 167 (4.91%) SAP
5 159 (4.68%) Google
6 75 (2.21%) ServiceNow
7 74 (2.18%) Salesforce
8 67 (1.97%) Adobe
9 52 (1.53%) Informatica
9 52 (1.53%) Splunk
10 48 (1.41%) Foundry
11 45 (1.32%) Workday
12 44 (1.29%) Talend
13 38 (1.12%) OpenAI
14 36 (1.06%) Denodo
14 36 (1.06%) Palantir
15 35 (1.03%) Dynatrace
16 29 (0.85%) Cisco
17 27 (0.79%) VMware
18 16 (0.47%) Alteryx