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 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 27 37
Rank change year-on-year +4 +10 -2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,795 1,601 1,836
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.59% 6.52% 4.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.78% 7.19% 5.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,912 1,088 1,269
10th Percentile £356 £331 £362
25th Percentile £420 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £808 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 28 61
10th Percentile £21.21 £17.70 £17.64
25th Percentile £37.81 £24.50 £25.00
Median hourly rate £57.40 £31.08 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +84.71% -22.31% +33.33%
75th Percentile £75.00 £61.50 £61.50
90th Percentile £84.28 £77.86 £79.17
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £34.50 £37.13
% change year-on-year +59.42% -7.07% +16.02%

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 31,848 22,266 32,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.46% 90.63% 86.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,386 14,474 21,796
10th Percentile £313 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £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 1,978 815 2,152
10th Percentile £15.29 £15.18 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.79 £34.11 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.73% +4.95% -12.87%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%

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 17 March 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 17 March 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 17 March 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 0 1,592 £530 -11.67% 1,065
Midlands +23 332 £492 +3.58% 233
North of England +6 289 £498 +4.74% 368
West Midlands +23 252 £492 +0.51% 125
South East -3 209 £500 +5.26% 594
North West +6 173 £500 +5.26% 197
South West +33 167 £513 +2.50% 175
East of England -9 103 £505 -15.83% 181
Yorkshire -5 92 £500 -2.44% 122
East Midlands +3 76 £447 +13.60% 108
North East +14 30 £450 +25.70% 52
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
1 140 (5.01%) Apache Spark
2 108 (3.86%) SAS
3 96 (3.43%) Apache Airflow
4 87 (3.11%) Apache
5 57 (2.04%) Confluence
6 53 (1.90%) SharePoint
7 27 (0.97%) CMS
8 19 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 19 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
9 12 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
10 9 (0.32%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.29%) GeoServer
11 8 (0.29%) Smallworld
12 7 (0.25%) ArcGIS
13 6 (0.21%) Apache Superset
13 6 (0.21%) WordPress
14 5 (0.18%) Oracle Application Server
14 5 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
15 3 (0.11%) IIS
15 3 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 127 (4.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (0.93%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.68%) Chatbot
6 13 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
7 11 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.18%) Adobe XD
8 5 (0.18%) Sketch
8 5 (0.18%) Trello
9 4 (0.14%) Oracle Smart View
10 3 (0.11%) CPLEX
10 3 (0.11%) Notion
11 2 (0.072%) Autodesk Smoke
12 1 (0.036%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.036%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.036%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.036%) InDesign
12 1 (0.036%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.036%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 69 (2.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.39%) SAP HR
4 8 (0.29%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 8 (0.29%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 8 (0.29%) SAP FI
4 8 (0.29%) SAP MM
5 7 (0.25%) Maximo
5 7 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.21%) Aladdin
6 6 (0.21%) Sage X3
7 5 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.18%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 5 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.18%) SAP BPC
8 4 (0.14%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
8 4 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 900 (32.20%) Azure
2 623 (22.29%) Power Platform
3 584 (20.89%) AWS
4 285 (10.20%) GCP
5 222 (7.94%) Azure Data Factory
6 212 (7.58%) Azure DevOps
7 192 (6.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 178 (6.37%) GitHub
9 177 (6.33%) Snowflake
10 133 (4.76%) Serverless
11 122 (4.36%) Azure Monitor
12 120 (4.29%) Amazon S3
13 118 (4.22%) dbt
14 108 (3.86%) GitHub Actions
15 92 (3.29%) Microsoft 365
16 87 (3.11%) Entra ID
16 87 (3.11%) SaaS
17 74 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
18 66 (2.36%) Azure Key Vault
19 59 (2.11%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 54 (1.93%) Firewall
2 32 (1.14%) Network Security
3 30 (1.07%) VPN
4 24 (0.86%) DNS
5 17 (0.61%) WAN
6 16 (0.57%) SMS
7 11 (0.39%) SD-WAN
8 10 (0.36%) 5G
8 10 (0.36%) MPLS
9 9 (0.32%) HTTP
9 9 (0.32%) SSL
10 8 (0.29%) LAN
11 7 (0.25%) 4G
11 7 (0.25%) BGP
11 7 (0.25%) DHCP
12 6 (0.21%) Internet
12 6 (0.21%) OSPF
12 6 (0.21%) Radio Access Network
12 6 (0.21%) SMTP
12 6 (0.21%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 571 (20.43%) Power BI
2 343 (12.27%) Data Warehouse
3 214 (7.66%) Data Lake
4 178 (6.37%) Tableau
5 173 (6.19%) Metadata
6 95 (3.40%) Delta Lake
7 93 (3.33%) BigQuery
8 92 (3.29%) SQL Server
9 87 (3.11%) Big Data
10 73 (2.61%) Relational Database
11 72 (2.58%) Azure SQL Database
12 70 (2.50%) NoSQL
13 69 (2.47%) Snowflake Schema
14 68 (2.43%) PostgreSQL
15 66 (2.36%) Amazon Redshift
16 57 (2.04%) Hadoop
17 55 (1.97%) Looker
18 53 (1.90%) Amazon Athena
19 51 (1.82%) Power Query
20 47 (1.68%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 204 (7.30%) Git
2 157 (5.62%) JIRA
3 92 (3.29%) Jenkins
4 84 (3.01%) GitLab
5 28 (1.00%) Selenium
6 24 (0.86%) JUnit
7 21 (0.75%) ERwin
8 14 (0.50%) MLflow
9 10 (0.36%) Gradle
10 9 (0.32%) Android Studio
10 9 (0.32%) PowerDesigner
11 8 (0.29%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.25%) Cypress.io
12 7 (0.25%) MSI
12 7 (0.25%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.21%) ER Studio
13 6 (0.21%) Xcode
14 5 (0.18%) Maven
14 5 (0.18%) XCTest
15 4 (0.14%) JMeter
General
1 858 (30.70%) Social Skills
2 718 (25.69%) Finance
3 541 (19.36%) Analytical Skills
4 281 (10.05%) Public Sector
5 207 (7.41%) Banking
6 162 (5.80%) Marketing
7 75 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
7 75 (2.68%) Retail
8 68 (2.43%) Front Office
9 52 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 50 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
11 48 (1.72%) Legal
12 47 (1.68%) Investment Banking
13 44 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
14 42 (1.50%) Manufacturing
15 39 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
16 35 (1.25%) Telecoms
17 30 (1.07%) Financial Institution
18 22 (0.79%) Advertising
18 22 (0.79%) Military
Job Titles
1 486 (17.39%) Data Engineer
2 340 (12.16%) Analyst
3 337 (12.06%) Developer
4 321 (11.48%) Architect
5 309 (11.06%) Senior
6 240 (8.59%) Lead
7 136 (4.87%) Data Analyst
8 135 (4.83%) Consultant
9 133 (4.76%) Data Architect
10 107 (3.83%) Azure Engineer
11 100 (3.58%) Business Analyst
12 95 (3.40%) Data Scientist
13 78 (2.79%) Senior Data Engineer
14 68 (2.43%) Solutions Architect
15 65 (2.33%) Project Manager
16 55 (1.97%) Designer
17 52 (1.86%) Senior Developer
17 52 (1.86%) Snowflake Engineer
18 47 (1.68%) Python Developer
19 46 (1.65%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (5.51%) Kafka
2 153 (5.47%) REST
3 152 (5.44%) PySpark
4 67 (2.40%) Pandas
5 60 (2.15%) React
5 60 (2.15%) TensorFlow
6 58 (2.08%) PyTorch
7 50 (1.79%) NumPy
7 50 (1.79%) scikit-learn
8 46 (1.65%) .NET
9 45 (1.61%) JSON
10 44 (1.57%) AngularJS
11 42 (1.50%) Node.js
12 41 (1.47%) HTML
12 41 (1.47%) SOAP
13 39 (1.40%) ARM Templates
13 39 (1.40%) CSS
14 37 (1.32%) RESTful
15 34 (1.22%) pytest
16 32 (1.14%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 172 (6.15%) Cloud Native
2 103 (3.69%) Product Ownership
3 86 (3.08%) Data Structures
4 76 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
4 76 (2.72%) Onboarding
5 56 (2.00%) Management Information System
6 55 (1.97%) Algorithms
7 51 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
8 50 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
9 45 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
10 43 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 41 (1.47%) Equities
12 39 (1.40%) Public Cloud
13 34 (1.22%) NHS
14 33 (1.18%) Derivative
14 33 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
14 33 (1.18%) Mobile App
15 31 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
16 27 (0.97%) Marketing Technology
17 26 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 87 (3.11%) Windows
2 73 (2.61%) Linux
3 30 (1.07%) Unix
4 26 (0.93%) Mac OS
5 23 (0.82%) Apple iOS
6 20 (0.72%) Android
7 9 (0.32%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.25%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.14%) VMS
10 3 (0.11%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.072%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.072%) zOS
12 1 (0.036%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.036%) CentOS
12 1 (0.036%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 773 (27.66%) Business Intelligence
2 738 (26.40%) Data Modelling
3 638 (22.83%) Agile
4 589 (21.07%) CI/CD
5 561 (20.07%) ETL
6 553 (19.79%) AI
7 552 (19.75%) Problem-Solving
8 537 (19.21%) DevOps
9 528 (18.89%) Data Pipeline
10 517 (18.50%) Data Engineering
11 464 (16.60%) Data Governance
12 423 (15.13%) Decision-Making
13 367 (13.13%) Stakeholder Management
14 352 (12.59%) Data Science
15 340 (12.16%) Machine Learning
16 330 (11.81%) Data Analytics
17 312 (11.16%) Continuous Improvement
18 292 (10.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 280 (10.02%) Visualisation
20 272 (9.73%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1,003 (35.89%) SQL
2 914 (32.70%) Python
3 153 (5.47%) Java
4 109 (3.90%) PowerShell
5 91 (3.26%) C#
6 86 (3.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 83 (2.97%) JavaScript
8 77 (2.75%) Bicep
8 77 (2.75%) R
9 49 (1.75%) Bash
10 47 (1.68%) Kusto Query Language
11 45 (1.61%) TypeScript
12 41 (1.47%) T-SQL
13 40 (1.43%) Scala
14 33 (1.18%) VBA
15 32 (1.14%) C++
16 27 (0.97%) PL/SQL
17 21 (0.75%) Shell Script
18 15 (0.54%) Kotlin
19 14 (0.50%) Swift
Qualifications
1 487 (17.42%) Security Cleared
2 381 (13.63%) SC Cleared
3 249 (8.91%) Degree
4 77 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 68 (2.43%) Azure Certification
6 48 (1.72%) Master's Degree
7 46 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 41 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
9 37 (1.32%) DV Cleared
10 26 (0.93%) PMI Certification
11 23 (0.82%) CISSP
12 22 (0.79%) AWS Certification
12 22 (0.79%) PMP
13 20 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
14 16 (0.57%) CISM
15 15 (0.54%) CCNP
16 14 (0.50%) IIBA
16 14 (0.50%) PhD
17 12 (0.43%) CCIE
18 8 (0.29%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 503 (18.00%) Data Quality
2 167 (5.97%) GDPR
3 108 (3.86%) QA
4 95 (3.40%) Accessibility
5 38 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 26 (0.93%) WCAG
7 25 (0.89%) NIST
8 23 (0.82%) PMO
9 21 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
10 15 (0.54%) NCSC
11 14 (0.50%) Solvency II
12 13 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 12 (0.43%) GRC
14 10 (0.36%) PERC
14 10 (0.36%) SLA
15 9 (0.32%) HL7
16 8 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 8 (0.29%) NIST 800
16 8 (0.29%) PCI DSS
16 8 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 200 (7.16%) Docker
2 77 (2.75%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.18%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.14%) HDFS
7 4 (0.14%) Snort
8 2 (0.072%) GPFS
8 2 (0.072%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.072%) Lustre
8 2 (0.072%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.072%) zsh
9 1 (0.036%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.036%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.036%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.036%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 251 (8.98%) Terraform
2 217 (7.76%) Kubernetes
3 38 (1.36%) Ansible
4 32 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 29 (1.04%) Prometheus
6 28 (1.00%) Grafana
7 22 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (0.54%) SCCM
9 9 (0.32%) Puppet
10 8 (0.29%) Kibana
11 7 (0.25%) logstash
12 4 (0.14%) CSIRT
13 3 (0.11%) Argo
13 3 (0.11%) Cisco CUCM
13 3 (0.11%) Fluentd
13 3 (0.11%) WSUS
14 2 (0.072%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.072%) Apache Ranger
14 2 (0.072%) CASB
14 2 (0.072%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 524 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 380 (13.60%) Databricks
3 169 (6.05%) Google
4 142 (5.08%) Oracle
5 141 (5.04%) SAP
6 70 (2.50%) Salesforce
7 67 (2.40%) Adobe
7 67 (2.40%) ServiceNow
8 59 (2.11%) Talend
9 58 (2.08%) Informatica
10 52 (1.86%) Splunk
11 45 (1.61%) OpenAI
12 41 (1.47%) Denodo
12 41 (1.47%) Foundry
13 27 (0.97%) Workday
14 24 (0.86%) IBM
15 23 (0.82%) VMware
16 20 (0.72%) Cisco
17 17 (0.61%) Palantir
18 14 (0.50%) Amplitude