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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 27 35
Rank change year-on-year +3 +8 -1
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,178 1,658 1,878
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.42% 6.71% 5.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.71% 7.35% 5.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,165 1,095 1,303
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £447 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £788
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 37 47
10th Percentile £19.25 £14.69 £14.70
25th Percentile £35.00 £19.25 £25.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £32.05 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.61% +6.83% -7.12%
75th Percentile £75.00 £62.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £84.95 £79.22 £70.25
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £34.50 £29.00
% change year-on-year +56.52% +18.97% -10.22%

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 36,481 22,561 31,958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.14% 91.35% 85.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,067 14,578 20,676
10th Percentile £325 £302 £300
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.46% -0.98% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +1.28% -3.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,283 1,053 2,381
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.81 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +70.91% -26.67% +7.05%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £26.32 £37.18
% change year-on-year +67.02% -29.21% +6.23%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 1,750 £550 -4.35% 1,387
North of England +5 379 £475 +2.37% 366
Midlands +9 361 £493 -3.81% 204
West Midlands +15 283 £492 -5.37% 126
South East -3 279 £500 - 472
South West +29 198 £500 +2.56% 167
North West +1 188 £498 +4.74% 228
Yorkshire +4 151 £500 +7.76% 96
East of England -10 117 £511 -14.88% 90
East Midlands -1 72 £525 +28.05% 78
North East +4 51 £450 +9.09% 44
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
1 156 (4.91%) Apache Spark
2 130 (4.09%) Apache Airflow
3 104 (3.27%) SAS
4 84 (2.64%) Apache
5 72 (2.27%) Confluence
6 44 (1.38%) SharePoint
7 27 (0.85%) CMS
8 26 (0.82%) Jupyter
9 21 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
10 15 (0.47%) Oracle Application Server
11 14 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 14 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
12 9 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
13 8 (0.25%) Apache Superset
14 6 (0.19%) IIS
14 6 (0.19%) WordPress
15 5 (0.16%) ArcGIS
16 4 (0.13%) Drupal
17 3 (0.094%) Oracle SOA Suite
18 2 (0.063%) OpenStack
Applications
1 139 (4.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (0.60%) Chatbot
4 17 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
5 16 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
6 13 (0.41%) MS Visio
7 10 (0.31%) CPLEX
8 7 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
10 2 (0.063%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.063%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.063%) Sketch
10 2 (0.063%) Trello
11 1 (0.031%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.031%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.031%) InDesign
11 1 (0.031%) PlantUML
11 1 (0.031%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 69 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
4 10 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.25%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 8 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.22%) Aladdin
6 7 (0.22%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.19%) Sage X3
8 5 (0.16%) BambooHR
8 5 (0.16%) Maximo
9 4 (0.13%) Infor LN
9 4 (0.13%) iTrent
9 4 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 4 (0.13%) SAP BPC
9 4 (0.13%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.13%) Shopify
9 4 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 964 (30.33%) Azure
2 703 (22.12%) Power Platform
3 625 (19.67%) AWS
4 271 (8.53%) GCP
5 229 (7.21%) Azure DevOps
6 227 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
7 208 (6.54%) Snowflake
8 185 (5.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 163 (5.13%) GitHub
10 157 (4.94%) dbt
11 140 (4.41%) Amazon S3
12 139 (4.37%) Serverless
13 111 (3.49%) Azure Monitor
14 94 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
15 88 (2.77%) GitHub Actions
16 85 (2.67%) SaaS
17 82 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
18 75 (2.36%) Entra ID
19 50 (1.57%) Azure Key Vault
20 47 (1.48%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 42 (1.32%) Firewall
2 27 (0.85%) Network Security
3 25 (0.79%) VPN
4 20 (0.63%) WAN
5 19 (0.60%) SD-WAN
6 16 (0.50%) DNS
7 15 (0.47%) BGP
7 15 (0.47%) SMS
8 9 (0.28%) OSPF
9 8 (0.25%) VXLAN
10 7 (0.22%) 5G
10 7 (0.22%) HTTP
10 7 (0.22%) LAN
10 7 (0.22%) MPLS
10 7 (0.22%) Wireless
10 7 (0.22%) WLAN
11 6 (0.19%) DHCP
11 6 (0.19%) Internet
11 6 (0.19%) TCP/IP
11 6 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 657 (20.67%) Power BI
2 416 (13.09%) Data Warehouse
3 264 (8.31%) Data Lake
4 219 (6.89%) Tableau
5 192 (6.04%) Metadata
6 116 (3.65%) BigQuery
7 109 (3.43%) Delta Lake
7 109 (3.43%) SQL Server
8 94 (2.96%) Big Data
9 84 (2.64%) Amazon Redshift
10 83 (2.61%) Relational Database
11 79 (2.49%) Amazon Athena
12 70 (2.20%) Snowflake Schema
13 67 (2.11%) NoSQL
14 66 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
15 64 (2.01%) Azure SQL Database
16 57 (1.79%) Looker
16 57 (1.79%) Power Query
17 55 (1.73%) Star Schema
18 49 (1.54%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 179 (5.63%) Git
2 164 (5.16%) JIRA
3 74 (2.33%) Jenkins
4 66 (2.08%) GitLab
5 20 (0.63%) ERwin
6 13 (0.41%) MLflow
7 11 (0.35%) fastlane
7 11 (0.35%) Selenium
8 10 (0.31%) JUnit
9 9 (0.28%) ER Studio
10 8 (0.25%) MSI
11 7 (0.22%) Postman
11 7 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
12 6 (0.19%) Android Studio
12 6 (0.19%) Crashlytics
12 6 (0.19%) Gradle
12 6 (0.19%) Xcode
13 5 (0.16%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.16%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.16%) SonarQube
General
1 799 (25.14%) Finance
2 784 (24.67%) Social Skills
3 539 (16.96%) Analytical Skills
4 354 (11.14%) Public Sector
5 219 (6.89%) Banking
6 162 (5.10%) Marketing
7 117 (3.68%) Retail
8 76 (2.39%) Documentation Skills
9 69 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 67 (2.11%) Legal
11 56 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
12 54 (1.70%) Investment Banking
13 52 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
14 48 (1.51%) Manufacturing
15 43 (1.35%) Front Office
16 41 (1.29%) Telecoms
17 40 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
18 34 (1.07%) Financial Institution
19 28 (0.88%) Automotive
20 26 (0.82%) Military
Job Titles
1 614 (19.32%) Data Engineer
2 391 (12.30%) Analyst
3 386 (12.15%) Senior
4 377 (11.86%) Architect
5 333 (10.48%) Developer
6 274 (8.62%) Lead
7 177 (5.57%) Data Architect
8 164 (5.16%) Data Analyst
9 129 (4.06%) Consultant
10 112 (3.52%) Senior Data Engineer
11 109 (3.43%) Business Analyst
12 98 (3.08%) Azure Engineer
13 96 (3.02%) Data Scientist
14 95 (2.99%) Solutions Architect
15 68 (2.14%) Data Manager
16 61 (1.92%) Designer
17 58 (1.83%) Project Manager
18 55 (1.73%) Business Intelligence Developer
19 54 (1.70%) AWS Engineer
20 51 (1.60%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (5.92%) PySpark
2 128 (4.03%) Kafka
3 108 (3.40%) REST
4 57 (1.79%) Pandas
4 57 (1.79%) React
5 49 (1.54%) JSON
6 48 (1.51%) HTML
7 46 (1.45%) CSS
8 45 (1.42%) RESTful
9 43 (1.35%) PyTorch
10 40 (1.26%) .NET
10 40 (1.26%) TensorFlow
11 37 (1.16%) Middleware
12 32 (1.01%) Web Services
13 31 (0.98%) ARM Templates
13 31 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
13 31 (0.98%) scikit-learn
14 30 (0.94%) AngularJS
14 30 (0.94%) SOAP
15 29 (0.91%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 224 (7.05%) Cloud Native
2 165 (5.19%) Product Ownership
3 122 (3.84%) Data Structures
4 97 (3.05%) Onboarding
5 95 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
6 67 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
7 59 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
8 47 (1.48%) Algorithms
9 44 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
9 44 (1.38%) Management Information System
10 41 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
11 40 (1.26%) AI Agents
12 38 (1.20%) Mobile App
13 37 (1.16%) NHS
13 37 (1.16%) Public Cloud
14 31 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
14 31 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
15 27 (0.85%) Derivative
15 27 (0.85%) Virtual Team
16 26 (0.82%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 86 (2.71%) Windows
2 70 (2.20%) Linux
3 38 (1.20%) Unix
4 24 (0.76%) Apple iOS
4 24 (0.76%) Mac OS
5 16 (0.50%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.38%) Android
7 5 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.094%) CentOS
8 3 (0.094%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.063%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.063%) VMS
10 1 (0.031%) Rocky
10 1 (0.031%) Solaris
10 1 (0.031%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 880 (27.69%) Business Intelligence
2 876 (27.56%) Data Modelling
3 748 (23.54%) AI
4 666 (20.96%) Data Pipeline
5 665 (20.93%) Agile
6 648 (20.39%) CI/CD
6 648 (20.39%) Data Engineering
7 568 (17.87%) ETL
8 534 (16.80%) DevOps
9 505 (15.89%) Decision-Making
10 496 (15.61%) Data Governance
11 487 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
12 468 (14.73%) Stakeholder Management
13 375 (11.80%) Machine Learning
14 374 (11.77%) Data Science
15 372 (11.71%) Migration
16 363 (11.42%) Data Analytics
17 362 (11.39%) Continuous Improvement
18 341 (10.73%) Validation
19 319 (10.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,068 (33.61%) SQL
2 961 (30.24%) Python
3 132 (4.15%) Java
4 110 (3.46%) PowerShell
5 102 (3.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 85 (2.67%) C#
7 71 (2.23%) Bicep
8 69 (2.17%) R
9 62 (1.95%) JavaScript
10 45 (1.42%) T-SQL
11 44 (1.38%) TypeScript
12 42 (1.32%) Scala
13 38 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
14 32 (1.01%) Shell Script
15 31 (0.98%) Bash
16 27 (0.85%) PL/SQL
17 20 (0.63%) C++
18 18 (0.57%) VBA
19 11 (0.35%) Korn
19 11 (0.35%) Swift
Qualifications
1 546 (17.18%) Security Cleared
2 434 (13.66%) SC Cleared
3 244 (7.68%) Degree
4 74 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 71 (2.23%) Azure Certification
6 69 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 53 (1.67%) DV Cleared
8 46 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
9 37 (1.16%) Master's Degree
10 26 (0.82%) CISSP
11 24 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
12 23 (0.72%) PMI Certification
13 19 (0.60%) AWS Certification
13 19 (0.60%) DBS Check
13 19 (0.60%) PMP
14 16 (0.50%) CCNP
15 13 (0.41%) CCIE
16 10 (0.31%) IIBA
17 9 (0.28%) PhD
17 9 (0.28%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 604 (19.01%) Data Quality
2 157 (4.94%) GDPR
3 122 (3.84%) QA
4 103 (3.24%) Accessibility
5 44 (1.38%) WCAG
6 35 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (1.01%) NIST
8 31 (0.98%) PMO
9 20 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
10 19 (0.60%) GRC
11 16 (0.50%) SLA
12 15 (0.47%) Solvency II
13 14 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 11 (0.35%) NCSC
15 10 (0.31%) IFRS
16 9 (0.28%) ISO 20022
17 8 (0.25%) PCI DSS
18 7 (0.22%) GAAP
19 6 (0.19%) HL7
20 5 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 154 (4.85%) Docker
2 70 (2.20%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.22%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.13%) HDFS
7 4 (0.13%) Snort
7 4 (0.13%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.031%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.031%) GPFS
8 1 (0.031%) iptables
8 1 (0.031%) Lustre
8 1 (0.031%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.031%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.031%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 247 (7.77%) Terraform
2 166 (5.22%) Kubernetes
3 33 (1.04%) Grafana
4 31 (0.98%) Ansible
4 31 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
5 29 (0.91%) Prometheus
6 22 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.25%) SCCM
8 6 (0.19%) Control-M
8 6 (0.19%) FortiGate
9 5 (0.16%) Argo
10 4 (0.13%) CSIRT
11 3 (0.094%) Nagios
11 3 (0.094%) Puppet
11 3 (0.094%) QRadar
12 2 (0.063%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.063%) Kibana
12 2 (0.063%) Nessus
12 2 (0.063%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.063%) SCOM
Vendors
1 555 (17.46%) Microsoft
2 420 (13.22%) Databricks
3 165 (5.19%) Oracle
4 157 (4.94%) SAP
5 146 (4.59%) Google
6 70 (2.20%) ServiceNow
7 67 (2.11%) Salesforce
8 61 (1.92%) Adobe
9 57 (1.79%) Informatica
10 52 (1.64%) Splunk
11 43 (1.35%) Talend
12 42 (1.32%) Foundry
13 40 (1.26%) OpenAI
14 39 (1.23%) Workday
15 37 (1.16%) Denodo
16 31 (0.98%) Dynatrace
17 25 (0.79%) Palantir
18 22 (0.69%) Cisco
19 21 (0.66%) IBM
19 21 (0.66%) VMware