Analytics Contracts in England

Analytics
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytics over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 36 35
Rank change year-on-year +9 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Analytics 1,737 1,913 2,561
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 6.54% 5.14% 5.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.19% 6.00% 5.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,156 1,335 1,821
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £440 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.32% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £788 £813
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 44 62
10th Percentile £14.83 £14.10 £18.50
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £21.05
Median hourly rate £33.28 £30.00 £32.15
Median % change year-on-year +10.92% -6.69% -8.14%
75th Percentile £63.31 £43.75 £52.56
90th Percentile £79.09 £71.38 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £29.00 £32.15
% change year-on-year +18.97% -9.80% -8.14%

All Process and 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 24,147 31,870 43,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.93% 85.64% 89.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,520 20,680 30,282
10th Percentile £300 £305 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £645 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,216 2,288 1,563
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £12.50
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.06 £16.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% -3.62% +54.01%
75th Percentile £54.81 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £72.73 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £38.18
% change year-on-year -32.93% -1.77% +46.83%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Analytics in England

Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analytics in England.

Daily rate trend for Analytics in England

Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytics in England over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytics in England

Analytics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analytics in England.

Hourly rate trend for Analytics in England

Analytics
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytics in England over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

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 6 July 2025. 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 +7 1,044 £575 - 8,785
North of England +6 191 £457 -9.96% 1,553
South East +4 167 £525 - 1,378
Midlands -1 127 £500 +2.56% 845
North West +9 112 £468 -6.40% 909
East of England +60 86 £580 +13.17% 581
West Midlands -13 81 £513 +2.50% 485
Yorkshire +12 71 £457 -9.96% 523
South West +6 70 £475 -12.64% 620
East Midlands +13 44 £411 -7.58% 354
North East +4 10 £413 - 124
Analytics
UK

Analytics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 92 (5.30%) Apache Spark
2 65 (3.74%) Apache Airflow
3 64 (3.68%) Confluence
4 56 (3.22%) Apache
5 39 (2.25%) SAS
6 22 (1.27%) CMS
7 21 (1.21%) SharePoint
8 14 (0.81%) IBM Domino
9 9 (0.52%) JBoss
9 9 (0.52%) WebLogic
10 8 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 7 (0.40%) Jupyter
11 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
11 7 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 4 (0.23%) Headless CMS
12 4 (0.23%) WordPress
13 3 (0.17%) Drupal
14 2 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
14 2 (0.12%) Umbraco
14 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 115 (6.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (1.04%) Oracle Smart View
5 16 (0.92%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.29%) Adobe XD
7 5 (0.29%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.23%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.17%) Sketch
9 3 (0.17%) Trello
10 2 (0.12%) Maple
10 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.058%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.058%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.058%) InDesign
11 1 (0.058%) InVision
11 1 (0.058%) Simulink
11 1 (0.058%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 81 (4.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.32%) Aladdin
3 11 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
4 9 (0.52%) SAP BPC
5 8 (0.46%) Oracle Assets
5 8 (0.46%) Oracle Cash Management
5 8 (0.46%) Oracle General Ledger
5 8 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
6 7 (0.40%) Workday HCM
7 6 (0.35%) Magento
7 6 (0.35%) SAP CO
7 6 (0.35%) SAP FI
7 6 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
7 6 (0.35%) Shopify
8 5 (0.29%) SAP PM
8 5 (0.29%) SAP SD
9 4 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
9 4 (0.23%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 482 (27.75%) Azure
2 363 (20.90%) Power Platform
3 329 (18.94%) AWS
4 173 (9.96%) GCP
5 105 (6.04%) Snowflake
6 90 (5.18%) Azure Data Factory
7 86 (4.95%) Azure DevOps
8 82 (4.72%) dbt
9 80 (4.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 74 (4.26%) GitHub
11 70 (4.03%) SaaS
12 54 (3.11%) Azure Monitor
13 52 (2.99%) Serverless
14 49 (2.82%) Google Analytics
15 36 (2.07%) Amazon S3
15 36 (2.07%) GitHub Actions
15 36 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
16 31 (1.78%) Cloud Computing
16 31 (1.78%) Entra ID
17 27 (1.55%) Adobe Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 41 (2.36%) Firewall
2 33 (1.90%) Network Security
3 20 (1.15%) VPN
4 18 (1.04%) WAN
5 15 (0.86%) DNS
6 14 (0.81%) SD-WAN
7 9 (0.52%) Cisco Nexus
7 9 (0.52%) Ethernet
7 9 (0.52%) HTTP
7 9 (0.52%) Internet
7 9 (0.52%) Intrusion Detection
8 8 (0.46%) SSL
9 5 (0.29%) 5G
9 5 (0.29%) LAN
9 5 (0.29%) Wireless
10 4 (0.23%) 4G
10 4 (0.23%) LTE
10 4 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
11 3 (0.17%) FTP
11 3 (0.17%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 343 (19.75%) Power BI
2 235 (13.53%) Data Warehouse
3 154 (8.87%) Tableau
4 126 (7.25%) Data Lake
5 99 (5.70%) Big Data
6 60 (3.45%) BigQuery
6 60 (3.45%) Metadata
7 59 (3.40%) Relational Database
8 55 (3.17%) Hadoop
9 52 (2.99%) SQL Server
10 45 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
11 41 (2.36%) Azure SQL Database
12 35 (2.01%) Looker
12 35 (2.01%) NoSQL
12 35 (2.01%) Oracle Reports
13 32 (1.84%) Amazon Redshift
13 32 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
14 30 (1.73%) Delta Lake
15 27 (1.55%) Oracle ODI
16 24 (1.38%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 99 (5.70%) JIRA
2 74 (4.26%) Git
3 48 (2.76%) Jenkins
4 17 (0.98%) ERwin
5 14 (0.81%) SonarQube
6 11 (0.63%) Selenium
7 10 (0.58%) TeamCity
8 9 (0.52%) MLflow
9 7 (0.40%) LSMW
9 7 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (0.35%) Bitbucket Server
10 6 (0.35%) CA Release Automation
10 6 (0.35%) GitLab
10 6 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
10 6 (0.35%) Terragrunt
11 5 (0.29%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.29%) ER Studio
11 5 (0.29%) Postman
11 5 (0.29%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.23%) Cypress.io
General
1 613 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 601 (34.60%) Finance
3 362 (20.84%) Analytical Skills
4 205 (11.80%) Banking
5 156 (8.98%) Marketing
6 119 (6.85%) Public Sector
7 103 (5.93%) Front Office
8 69 (3.97%) Investment Banking
9 59 (3.40%) Presentation Skills
10 52 (2.99%) Retail
11 47 (2.71%) Legal
12 39 (2.25%) Pharmaceutical
13 37 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
14 33 (1.90%) Telecoms
15 28 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 27 (1.55%) Manufacturing
17 25 (1.44%) Financial Institution
18 21 (1.21%) Law
19 18 (1.04%) Back Office
19 18 (1.04%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 313 (18.02%) Analyst
2 233 (13.41%) Developer
3 218 (12.55%) Senior
4 195 (11.23%) Architect
5 184 (10.59%) Data Engineer
6 134 (7.71%) Lead
7 121 (6.97%) Business Analyst
8 114 (6.56%) Data Analyst
9 95 (5.47%) Consultant
10 72 (4.15%) Data Architect
11 49 (2.82%) Senior Developer
12 46 (2.65%) Project Manager
13 44 (2.53%) Azure Engineer
14 41 (2.36%) Data Manager
15 39 (2.25%) Senior Data Engineer
16 37 (2.13%) Solutions Architect
17 32 (1.84%) Data Scientist
17 32 (1.84%) SAP Consultant
17 32 (1.84%) Senior Analyst
18 31 (1.78%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (5.41%) Kafka
2 62 (3.57%) React
3 49 (2.82%) AngularJS
3 49 (2.82%) HTML
4 47 (2.71%) PySpark
5 42 (2.42%) CSS
6 39 (2.25%) Pandas
7 36 (2.07%) .NET
8 34 (1.96%) Oracle Fusion
8 34 (1.96%) Web Services
9 32 (1.84%) Redux
10 31 (1.78%) NumPy
11 29 (1.67%) REST
12 28 (1.61%) Vue
13 23 (1.32%) RESTful
13 23 (1.32%) TensorFlow
14 21 (1.21%) PyTorch
14 21 (1.21%) XML
15 20 (1.15%) ARM Templates
15 20 (1.15%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 70 (4.03%) Product Ownership
2 62 (3.57%) Algorithms
3 61 (3.51%) Onboarding
4 60 (3.45%) Cloud Native
5 59 (3.40%) Fixed Income
6 52 (2.99%) Derivative
7 51 (2.94%) Management Information System
8 48 (2.76%) Hedge funds
9 43 (2.48%) Data Structures
10 42 (2.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 41 (2.36%) Market Risk
12 40 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
13 33 (1.90%) Credit Risk
14 31 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
15 30 (1.73%) Equities
15 30 (1.73%) Life Science
16 28 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
17 26 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
18 23 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
19 22 (1.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 52 (2.99%) Linux
2 51 (2.94%) Windows
3 16 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (0.81%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.46%) Unix
6 7 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.23%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.17%) Android
8 3 (0.17%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.12%) VMS
9 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.058%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 439 (25.27%) Agile
2 438 (25.22%) Business Intelligence
3 357 (20.55%) Problem-Solving
4 335 (19.29%) Data Modelling
5 314 (18.08%) Data Analytics
6 276 (15.89%) Decision-Making
7 251 (14.45%) ETL
8 246 (14.16%) Visualisation
9 240 (13.82%) Data Governance
10 238 (13.70%) DevOps
10 238 (13.70%) Stakeholder Management
11 221 (12.72%) CI/CD
12 218 (12.55%) Artificial Intelligence
13 208 (11.97%) Data Pipeline
14 206 (11.86%) Machine Learning
15 194 (11.17%) Data Engineering
16 188 (10.82%) Data Science
16 188 (10.82%) Migration
17 179 (10.31%) Data Analysis
18 164 (9.44%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 576 (33.16%) SQL
2 492 (28.32%) Python
3 108 (6.22%) Java
4 97 (5.58%) JavaScript
5 72 (4.15%) R
6 53 (3.05%) PowerShell
7 51 (2.94%) TypeScript
8 44 (2.53%) C#
9 40 (2.30%) C++
10 34 (1.96%) Bicep
11 32 (1.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 31 (1.78%) Scala
13 26 (1.50%) Bash
14 24 (1.38%) PL/SQL
15 23 (1.32%) T-SQL
16 21 (1.21%) Kusto Query Language
17 10 (0.58%) VBA
18 8 (0.46%) Perl
19 7 (0.40%) Go
19 7 (0.40%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 231 (13.30%) Security Cleared
2 210 (12.09%) Degree
3 185 (10.65%) SC Cleared
4 56 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 50 (2.88%) Master's Degree
6 35 (2.01%) Azure Certification
7 29 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 21 (1.21%) DV Cleared
8 21 (1.21%) PMI Certification
9 19 (1.09%) PMP
10 18 (1.04%) AWS Certification
11 16 (0.92%) PhD
12 14 (0.81%) CBAP
12 14 (0.81%) CISSP
13 13 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
14 12 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 10 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
16 9 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
17 8 (0.46%) CISM
18 5 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 208 (11.97%) Data Quality
2 88 (5.07%) GDPR
3 66 (3.80%) Accessibility
4 60 (3.45%) QA
5 31 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (1.09%) IFRS
7 18 (1.04%) NIST
8 16 (0.92%) IFRS 9
9 13 (0.75%) PMO
9 13 (0.75%) SLA
10 12 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 12 (0.69%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.63%) Basel II
11 11 (0.63%) HIPAA
12 9 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
12 9 (0.52%) MiFID
13 8 (0.46%) Basel III
13 8 (0.46%) Def Stans
13 8 (0.46%) GRC
14 6 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 78 (4.49%) Docker
2 37 (2.13%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
3 17 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.29%) vSphere
5 4 (0.23%) Platform Symphony
6 2 (0.12%) IAG
7 1 (0.058%) Firmware
7 1 (0.058%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.058%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 1 (0.058%) OpenAM
7 1 (0.058%) OpenDJ
7 1 (0.058%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.058%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.058%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.058%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (0.058%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 116 (6.68%) Kubernetes
2 110 (6.33%) Terraform
3 31 (1.78%) Grafana
4 28 (1.61%) Ansible
5 23 (1.32%) Kibana
6 19 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
7 17 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (0.75%) Prometheus
9 10 (0.58%) Progress Chef
10 8 (0.46%) Argo
11 7 (0.40%) Kubeflow
11 7 (0.40%) logstash
11 7 (0.40%) Puppet
11 7 (0.40%) SCCM
12 6 (0.35%) QRadar
13 5 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
14 4 (0.23%) Salt
15 3 (0.17%) CASB
16 2 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 2 (0.12%) Istio
Vendors
1 248 (14.28%) Microsoft
2 156 (8.98%) SAP
3 155 (8.92%) Databricks
4 126 (7.25%) Google
5 102 (5.87%) Oracle
6 62 (3.57%) Adobe
6 62 (3.57%) ServiceNow
7 32 (1.84%) Salesforce
8 29 (1.67%) Splunk
9 25 (1.44%) Workday
10 21 (1.21%) Informatica
11 20 (1.15%) BISAM
11 20 (1.15%) VMware
12 17 (0.98%) Ariba
13 16 (0.92%) IBM
14 15 (0.86%) Alteryx
14 15 (0.86%) Palantir
15 13 (0.75%) Cisco
16 11 (0.63%) Foundry
16 11 (0.63%) Teradata