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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 35
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,424 1,788 1,866
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.64% 6.56% 5.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.95% 7.24% 6.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,300 1,181 1,330
10th Percentile £362 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -2.22%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 44 33
10th Percentile £20.40 £15.26 £21.35
25th Percentile £35.00 £22.31 £25.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £34.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.42% +15.00% -7.12%
75th Percentile £75.00 £71.71 £43.75
90th Percentile £88.01 £80.71 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £52.75 £34.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +52.90% +15.00% -7.12%

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 38,258 24,707 30,336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.32% 90.66% 85.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,997 15,833 19,804
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £421 £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 £745 £751
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,373 1,323 1,986
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.22 £13.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £17.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.43%
75th Percentile £69.50 £53.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.03 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -10.31%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 +1 1,864 £550 -4.35% 1,302
North of England +11 429 £492 +7.78% 280
Midlands +13 420 £491 -1.80% 148
West Midlands +13 329 £485 -5.37% 91
South East +2 320 £500 -3.61% 374
North West +4 216 £513 +7.89% 153
South West +15 190 £500 +5.26% 103
Yorkshire +1 170 £475 +2.70% 83
East of England -11 112 £551 -5.09% 58
East Midlands +8 84 £509 +23.33% 57
North East -2 56 £450 +9.09% 45
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
1 150 (4.38%) Apache Airflow
1 150 (4.38%) Apache Spark
2 113 (3.30%) SAS
3 95 (2.77%) Apache
4 71 (2.07%) Confluence
5 45 (1.31%) SharePoint
6 39 (1.14%) CMS
7 30 (0.88%) Jupyter
8 27 (0.79%) Palantir Foundry
9 21 (0.61%) Oracle Application Server
10 18 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 12 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
12 9 (0.26%) Apache Superset
13 7 (0.20%) Drupal
13 7 (0.20%) WordPress
14 6 (0.18%) IIS
14 6 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
15 4 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
16 3 (0.088%) ArcGIS
17 2 (0.058%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 152 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (0.55%) Chatbot
3 19 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
5 13 (0.38%) CPLEX
6 12 (0.35%) MS Visio
7 10 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.12%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
8 4 (0.12%) Sketch
9 2 (0.058%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.058%) Trello
10 1 (0.029%) InDesign
10 1 (0.029%) Notion
10 1 (0.029%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.029%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.029%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 61 (1.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
4 12 (0.35%) Aladdin
4 12 (0.35%) Workday HCM
5 10 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
6 8 (0.23%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 8 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.20%) SAP ERP
7 7 (0.20%) Shopify
8 6 (0.18%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
8 6 (0.18%) Sage X3
8 6 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 5 (0.15%) BambooHR
9 5 (0.15%) Infor LN
9 5 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
9 5 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
9 5 (0.15%) SAP BPC
9 5 (0.15%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 1,007 (29.41%) Azure
2 711 (20.77%) Power Platform
3 648 (18.93%) AWS
4 302 (8.82%) GCP
5 231 (6.75%) Snowflake
6 225 (6.57%) Azure DevOps
7 219 (6.40%) Azure Data Factory
8 185 (5.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 184 (5.37%) dbt
10 154 (4.50%) GitHub
11 144 (4.21%) Amazon S3
12 140 (4.09%) Serverless
13 125 (3.65%) Azure Monitor
14 100 (2.92%) Entra ID
15 98 (2.86%) SaaS
16 96 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
17 86 (2.51%) GitHub Actions
18 85 (2.48%) Microsoft 365
19 50 (1.46%) Google Analytics
20 49 (1.43%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 58 (1.69%) Firewall
2 44 (1.29%) Network Security
3 37 (1.08%) VPN
4 34 (0.99%) DNS
5 25 (0.73%) WAN
6 23 (0.67%) SD-WAN
7 21 (0.61%) BGP
8 20 (0.58%) TCP/IP
9 14 (0.41%) DHCP
10 12 (0.35%) OSPF
11 9 (0.26%) SMS
11 9 (0.26%) Wireless
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%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 674 (19.68%) Power BI
2 448 (13.08%) Data Warehouse
3 257 (7.51%) Data Lake
4 240 (7.01%) Tableau
5 202 (5.90%) Metadata
6 133 (3.88%) BigQuery
7 100 (2.92%) Big Data
7 100 (2.92%) Delta Lake
8 95 (2.77%) Amazon Redshift
9 94 (2.75%) SQL Server
10 80 (2.34%) Snowflake Schema
11 79 (2.31%) Relational Database
12 71 (2.07%) Looker
12 71 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
13 70 (2.04%) Amazon Athena
13 70 (2.04%) NoSQL
14 58 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
15 51 (1.49%) Power Query
16 49 (1.43%) Semantic Layer
16 49 (1.43%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 190 (5.55%) Git
2 164 (4.79%) JIRA
3 71 (2.07%) Jenkins
4 52 (1.52%) 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
9 6 (0.18%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.15%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.15%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.15%) Xcode
General
1 853 (24.91%) Finance
2 850 (24.82%) Social Skills
3 592 (17.29%) Analytical Skills
4 402 (11.74%) Public Sector
5 245 (7.16%) Banking
6 200 (5.84%) Marketing
7 142 (4.15%) Retail
8 79 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 74 (2.16%) Legal
10 72 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
11 68 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
12 64 (1.87%) Manufacturing
13 57 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
14 53 (1.55%) Front Office
15 52 (1.52%) Investment Banking
16 49 (1.43%) Telecoms
17 42 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
18 36 (1.05%) Financial Institution
18 36 (1.05%) Military
19 31 (0.91%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 627 (18.31%) Data Engineer
2 432 (12.62%) Architect
3 431 (12.59%) Analyst
4 419 (12.24%) Senior
5 350 (10.22%) Developer
6 289 (8.44%) Lead
7 186 (5.43%) Data Architect
8 182 (5.32%) Data Analyst
9 133 (3.88%) Consultant
10 116 (3.39%) Data Scientist
11 115 (3.36%) Solutions Architect
12 107 (3.13%) Business Analyst
13 106 (3.10%) Azure Engineer
14 102 (2.98%) Senior Data Engineer
15 71 (2.07%) Data Manager
16 61 (1.78%) Product Manager
16 61 (1.78%) Python Developer
17 60 (1.75%) Project Manager
18 59 (1.72%) Azure Data Engineer
19 57 (1.66%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (5.67%) PySpark
2 135 (3.94%) Kafka
3 123 (3.59%) REST
4 60 (1.75%) Pandas
5 54 (1.58%) RESTful
6 52 (1.52%) JSON
7 51 (1.49%) React
8 44 (1.29%) .NET
9 40 (1.17%) CSS
9 40 (1.17%) HTML
10 38 (1.11%) Web Services
11 36 (1.05%) NumPy
12 33 (0.96%) ARM Templates
13 32 (0.93%) Microsoft Graph
13 32 (0.93%) PyTorch
13 32 (0.93%) SOAP
14 29 (0.85%) Middleware
14 29 (0.85%) TensorFlow
15 28 (0.82%) OAuth
15 28 (0.82%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 235 (6.86%) Cloud Native
2 176 (5.14%) Product Ownership
3 138 (4.03%) Data Structures
4 120 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
5 106 (3.10%) Onboarding
6 70 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
7 63 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
8 50 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
9 49 (1.43%) Management Information System
10 48 (1.40%) Algorithms
11 44 (1.29%) AI Agents
12 43 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
13 42 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
14 40 (1.17%) NHS
15 38 (1.11%) Mobile App
15 38 (1.11%) Virtual Team
16 34 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
16 34 (0.99%) Marketing Technology
17 30 (0.88%) Taxonomies
18 29 (0.85%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 92 (2.69%) Windows
2 89 (2.60%) Linux
3 41 (1.20%) Unix
4 23 (0.67%) Apple iOS
4 23 (0.67%) Windows Server
5 20 (0.58%) Mac OS
6 12 (0.35%) Android
6 12 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.20%) VMS
8 5 (0.15%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.088%) CentOS
9 3 (0.088%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.058%) Solaris
10 2 (0.058%) zOS
11 1 (0.029%) AIX
11 1 (0.029%) HPUX
11 1 (0.029%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 948 (27.69%) Data Modelling
2 891 (26.02%) Business Intelligence
3 798 (23.31%) AI
4 769 (22.46%) Agile
5 721 (21.06%) Data Pipeline
6 702 (20.50%) Data Engineering
7 661 (19.30%) CI/CD
8 583 (17.03%) ETL
9 576 (16.82%) Decision-Making
10 569 (16.62%) Stakeholder Management
11 530 (15.48%) Data Governance
12 522 (15.25%) DevOps
13 500 (14.60%) Problem-Solving
14 422 (12.32%) Migration
15 420 (12.27%) Machine Learning
16 414 (12.09%) Data Science
17 408 (11.92%) Validation
18 406 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
19 382 (11.16%) Data Analytics
20 379 (11.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,133 (33.09%) SQL
2 999 (29.18%) Python
3 130 (3.80%) PowerShell
4 126 (3.68%) Java
5 98 (2.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 85 (2.48%) C#
7 69 (2.02%) Bicep
7 69 (2.02%) R
8 65 (1.90%) JavaScript
9 42 (1.23%) Bash
9 42 (1.23%) TypeScript
10 38 (1.11%) Scala
11 37 (1.08%) Shell Script
12 36 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
13 32 (0.93%) T-SQL
14 26 (0.76%) PL/SQL
15 23 (0.67%) VBA
16 19 (0.55%) C++
17 11 (0.32%) Cypher
18 10 (0.29%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 597 (17.44%) Security Cleared
2 468 (13.67%) SC Cleared
3 274 (8.00%) Degree
4 84 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 76 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 72 (2.10%) Azure Certification
7 64 (1.87%) DV Cleared
8 47 (1.37%) Master's Degree
9 36 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
10 31 (0.91%) CISSP
11 30 (0.88%) AWS Certification
12 27 (0.79%) PMI Certification
13 26 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
14 23 (0.67%) PMP
15 20 (0.58%) DBS Check
16 16 (0.47%) CCNP
17 15 (0.44%) CCIE
18 11 (0.32%) CISA
19 10 (0.29%) MBA
19 10 (0.29%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 644 (18.81%) Data Quality
2 173 (5.05%) GDPR
3 136 (3.97%) QA
4 122 (3.56%) Accessibility
5 48 (1.40%) WCAG
6 38 (1.11%) GRC
7 36 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 31 (0.91%) NIST
9 27 (0.79%) PMO
10 22 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
11 16 (0.47%) SLA
11 16 (0.47%) Solvency II
12 11 (0.32%) PCI DSS
12 11 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 10 (0.29%) NCSC
13 10 (0.29%) PERC
14 9 (0.26%) IFRS
15 7 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
16 5 (0.15%) GAAP
16 5 (0.15%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 150 (4.38%) Docker
2 82 (2.39%) 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 (0.058%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.058%) 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
1 250 (7.30%) Terraform
2 173 (5.05%) Kubernetes
3 42 (1.23%) Ansible
4 38 (1.11%) Grafana
5 32 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
6 30 (0.88%) Prometheus
7 23 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (0.41%) 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
10 4 (0.12%) QRadar
11 3 (0.088%) Apache Ranger
11 3 (0.088%) Kibana
11 3 (0.088%) Nagios
11 3 (0.088%) Rancher
11 3 (0.088%) SCOM
12 2 (0.058%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 577 (16.85%) Microsoft
2 439 (12.82%) Databricks
3 195 (5.70%) Oracle
4 166 (4.85%) Google
4 166 (4.85%) SAP
5 81 (2.37%) ServiceNow
6 76 (2.22%) Salesforce
7 72 (2.10%) Adobe
8 55 (1.61%) Splunk
9 48 (1.40%) Workday
10 45 (1.31%) Foundry
11 44 (1.29%) Informatica
12 41 (1.20%) Talend
13 35 (1.02%) Dynatrace
13 35 (1.02%) Palantir
14 33 (0.96%) Denodo
15 31 (0.91%) OpenAI
16 30 (0.88%) Cisco
17 26 (0.76%) VMware
18 19 (0.55%) Alteryx