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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 30 38
Rank change year-on-year +6 +8 -1
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,364 1,536 1,833
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.33% 5.81% 4.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.34% 6.50% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,606 985 1,255
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £799 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 22 79
10th Percentile £20.66 £25.26 £17.51
25th Percentile £31.11 £27.13 £25.00
Median hourly rate £46.50 £35.00 £42.19
Median % change year-on-year +32.86% -17.04% +25.94%
75th Percentile £71.00 £60.58 £67.50
90th Percentile £79.00 £64.63 £78.23
UK median hourly rate £46.25 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +32.14% -17.65% +21.43%

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 28,352 23,648 32,972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.85% 89.40% 87.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,131 14,458 22,099
10th Percentile £305 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £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 1,777 764 1,811
10th Percentile £15.05 £15.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £17.13
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.06 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.15% -6.70% +7.35%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £36.02
% change year-on-year -22.62% -9.78% +12.89%

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 26 January 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 26 January 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 26 January 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 +6 1,398 £525 -12.50% 806
Midlands +25 262 £507 +3.68% 360
North of England +1 240 £492 -0.83% 484
West Midlands +25 201 £515 +5.10% 142
South East -9 158 £500 +11.05% 1,044
North West +7 153 £500 +5.26% 224
South West +40 110 £525 +16.67% 298
East of England 0 93 £525 -12.50% 396
Yorkshire -4 71 £510 -0.49% 182
East Midlands +12 60 £440 -2.79% 212
North East -4 18 £405 -13.18% 81
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
1 108 (4.57%) SAS
2 88 (3.72%) Apache Airflow
3 87 (3.68%) Apache Spark
4 70 (2.96%) Apache
5 61 (2.58%) Confluence
6 47 (1.99%) SharePoint
7 37 (1.57%) CMS
8 20 (0.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 10 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
10 9 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
10 9 (0.38%) WebLogic
11 8 (0.34%) GeoServer
11 8 (0.34%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.34%) Smallworld
12 7 (0.30%) Oracle Application Server
13 6 (0.25%) WordPress
14 5 (0.21%) ArcGIS
14 5 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 3 (0.13%) IIS
16 2 (0.085%) Drupal
Applications
1 119 (5.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (1.18%) MS Visio
5 22 (0.93%) Chatbot
6 14 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.25%) Trello
8 4 (0.17%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.13%) Notion
9 3 (0.13%) Sketch
10 2 (0.085%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.042%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.042%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.042%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.042%) CapCut
11 1 (0.042%) FrameMaker
11 1 (0.042%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.042%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 83 (3.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.59%) SAP EHS
4 11 (0.47%) SAP HR
5 10 (0.42%) SAP FI
6 8 (0.34%) Maximo
6 8 (0.34%) SAP MM
7 7 (0.30%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 7 (0.30%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 6 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
8 6 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 5 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
9 5 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
9 5 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
10 4 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
10 4 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 4 (0.17%) SAP ERP
10 4 (0.17%) SAP IBP
10 4 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 769 (32.53%) Azure
2 509 (21.53%) Power Platform
3 486 (20.56%) AWS
4 225 (9.52%) GCP
5 175 (7.40%) Azure DevOps
6 173 (7.32%) Azure Data Factory
7 158 (6.68%) Snowflake
8 151 (6.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 126 (5.33%) GitHub
10 112 (4.74%) Serverless
11 101 (4.27%) Azure Monitor
12 95 (4.02%) SaaS
13 83 (3.51%) Amazon S3
13 83 (3.51%) dbt
14 82 (3.47%) GitHub Actions
15 79 (3.34%) Microsoft 365
16 72 (3.05%) Entra ID
17 55 (2.33%) Power Automate
18 54 (2.28%) AWS Lambda
19 52 (2.20%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 44 (1.86%) Firewall
2 24 (1.02%) VPN
3 21 (0.89%) DNS
3 21 (0.89%) Network Security
4 17 (0.72%) SMS
5 11 (0.47%) SSL
6 9 (0.38%) WAN
7 7 (0.30%) DHCP
7 7 (0.30%) HTTP
7 7 (0.30%) LAN
8 6 (0.25%) 2G
8 6 (0.25%) 5G
8 6 (0.25%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.21%) FTP
9 5 (0.21%) SMTP
10 4 (0.17%) 4G
10 4 (0.17%) Radio Access Network
11 3 (0.13%) Internet
11 3 (0.13%) MPLS
11 3 (0.13%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 470 (19.88%) Power BI
2 244 (10.32%) Data Warehouse
3 170 (7.19%) Data Lake
4 140 (5.92%) Tableau
5 130 (5.50%) Metadata
6 74 (3.13%) SQL Server
7 68 (2.88%) BigQuery
8 67 (2.83%) Big Data
9 58 (2.45%) Delta Lake
9 58 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
10 53 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
10 53 (2.24%) Snowflake Schema
11 52 (2.20%) Relational Database
12 51 (2.16%) Looker
13 43 (1.82%) Star Schema
14 41 (1.73%) Hadoop
15 40 (1.69%) Data Vault
15 40 (1.69%) NoSQL
16 39 (1.65%) Pentaho
17 38 (1.61%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 179 (7.57%) JIRA
2 163 (6.90%) Git
3 83 (3.51%) Jenkins
4 75 (3.17%) GitLab
5 24 (1.02%) Selenium
6 18 (0.76%) ERwin
6 18 (0.76%) JUnit
7 14 (0.59%) MLflow
8 11 (0.47%) PowerDesigner
9 10 (0.42%) Android Studio
9 10 (0.42%) Gradle
10 9 (0.38%) ER Studio
10 9 (0.38%) Postman
10 9 (0.38%) Visual Website Optimizer
11 8 (0.34%) Xcode
12 6 (0.25%) DBeaver
12 6 (0.25%) MSI
12 6 (0.25%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.25%) Visual Studio
13 5 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
General
1 782 (33.08%) Social Skills
2 637 (26.95%) Finance
3 457 (19.33%) Analytical Skills
4 214 (9.05%) Public Sector
5 190 (8.04%) Banking
6 170 (7.19%) Marketing
7 73 (3.09%) Retail
8 67 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
9 63 (2.66%) Front Office
10 48 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
11 46 (1.95%) Legal
12 43 (1.82%) Manufacturing
13 42 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 42 (1.78%) Investment Banking
14 41 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
15 34 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
16 30 (1.27%) Financial Institution
17 28 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
18 26 (1.10%) Telecoms
19 20 (0.85%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 329 (13.92%) Analyst
2 327 (13.83%) Data Engineer
3 305 (12.90%) Developer
4 265 (11.21%) Senior
5 248 (10.49%) Architect
6 176 (7.45%) Lead
7 132 (5.58%) Consultant
8 120 (5.08%) Business Analyst
9 118 (4.99%) Data Analyst
10 95 (4.02%) Data Architect
11 89 (3.76%) Azure Engineer
12 74 (3.13%) Data Scientist
13 62 (2.62%) Project Manager
14 58 (2.45%) Senior Developer
15 56 (2.37%) Senior Data Engineer
16 54 (2.28%) Solutions Architect
17 44 (1.86%) Snowflake Engineer
18 40 (1.69%) Designer
19 38 (1.61%) DevOps Engineer
20 36 (1.52%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (5.96%) REST
2 109 (4.61%) PySpark
3 98 (4.15%) Kafka
4 58 (2.45%) React
5 56 (2.37%) Pandas
6 53 (2.24%) HTML
7 47 (1.99%) TensorFlow
8 45 (1.90%) scikit-learn
9 44 (1.86%) NumPy
10 43 (1.82%) Node.js
10 43 (1.82%) PyTorch
10 43 (1.82%) SOAP
11 41 (1.73%) CSS
12 40 (1.69%) .NET
13 39 (1.65%) JSON
14 38 (1.61%) RESTful
15 36 (1.52%) AngularJS
16 34 (1.44%) ARM Templates
17 29 (1.23%) OAuth
18 25 (1.06%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 110 (4.65%) Cloud Native
2 98 (4.15%) Product Ownership
3 74 (3.13%) Data Structures
4 65 (2.75%) Onboarding
5 52 (2.20%) Management Information System
6 51 (2.16%) Algorithms
6 51 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
7 44 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
7 44 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
8 41 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
8 41 (1.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 39 (1.65%) Equities
10 37 (1.57%) Derivative
11 35 (1.48%) Mobile App
12 28 (1.18%) Fixed Income
12 28 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
13 27 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
13 27 (1.14%) NHS
13 27 (1.14%) Public Cloud
13 27 (1.14%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 68 (2.88%) Windows
2 64 (2.71%) Linux
3 25 (1.06%) Unix
4 21 (0.89%) Mac OS
5 20 (0.85%) Apple iOS
6 19 (0.80%) Android
7 9 (0.38%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.21%) VMS
8 5 (0.21%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.085%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.042%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.042%) CentOS
10 1 (0.042%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.042%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.042%) Rocky
10 1 (0.042%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 642 (27.16%) Business Intelligence
2 585 (24.75%) Agile
3 547 (23.14%) Data Modelling
4 502 (21.24%) Problem-Solving
5 460 (19.46%) CI/CD
6 440 (18.61%) DevOps
7 431 (18.23%) ETL
8 427 (18.06%) AI
9 397 (16.79%) Data Pipeline
10 361 (15.27%) Data Governance
11 338 (14.30%) Decision-Making
12 332 (14.04%) Data Engineering
13 315 (13.32%) Stakeholder Management
14 293 (12.39%) Data Analytics
15 287 (12.14%) Data Science
16 274 (11.59%) Machine Learning
17 264 (11.17%) Visualisation
18 260 (11.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 257 (10.87%) Continuous Improvement
20 234 (9.90%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 792 (33.50%) SQL
2 716 (30.29%) Python
3 139 (5.88%) Java
4 104 (4.40%) JavaScript
5 95 (4.02%) PowerShell
6 72 (3.05%) C#
7 67 (2.83%) R
8 62 (2.62%) Bicep
9 56 (2.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 49 (2.07%) Bash
11 40 (1.69%) TypeScript
12 36 (1.52%) C++
12 36 (1.52%) Kusto Query Language
13 35 (1.48%) Scala
14 34 (1.44%) T-SQL
15 25 (1.06%) VBA
16 22 (0.93%) PL/SQL
17 16 (0.68%) Shell Script
18 14 (0.59%) Kotlin
19 13 (0.55%) Swift
Qualifications
1 399 (16.88%) Security Cleared
2 327 (13.83%) SC Cleared
3 219 (9.26%) Degree
4 68 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 59 (2.50%) Azure Certification
6 49 (2.07%) Master's Degree
7 38 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
8 31 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
9 29 (1.23%) CISSP
10 27 (1.14%) DV Cleared
11 26 (1.10%) PMI Certification
12 24 (1.02%) AWS Certification
13 20 (0.85%) PMP
14 19 (0.80%) CISM
15 13 (0.55%) IIBA
16 9 (0.38%) CBAP
16 9 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
17 8 (0.34%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
17 8 (0.34%) PhD
18 7 (0.30%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 384 (16.24%) Data Quality
2 137 (5.80%) GDPR
3 92 (3.89%) Accessibility
4 82 (3.47%) QA
5 38 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 31 (1.31%) NIST
7 20 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
8 18 (0.76%) PMO
9 17 (0.72%) WCAG
10 16 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 14 (0.59%) NCSC
12 10 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 10 (0.42%) HIPAA
12 10 (0.42%) PCI DSS
13 9 (0.38%) NIST 800
13 9 (0.38%) Solvency II
14 8 (0.34%) GRC
14 8 (0.34%) PERC
14 8 (0.34%) SLA
15 6 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 185 (7.83%) Docker
2 61 (2.58%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.42%) HDFS
6 5 (0.21%) zsh
7 4 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.085%) GPFS
8 2 (0.085%) Lustre
8 2 (0.085%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.085%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.042%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.042%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.042%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.042%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 189 (7.99%) Kubernetes
2 187 (7.91%) Terraform
3 30 (1.27%) Ansible
4 27 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
6 16 (0.68%) Grafana
6 16 (0.68%) SCCM
7 15 (0.63%) Prometheus
8 14 (0.59%) Puppet
9 8 (0.34%) Kibana
10 7 (0.30%) Hadoop YARN
10 7 (0.30%) logstash
11 5 (0.21%) WSUS
12 3 (0.13%) Fluentd
12 3 (0.13%) Kubeflow
12 3 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 2 (0.085%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.085%) Argo
13 2 (0.085%) RSA Archer
13 2 (0.085%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 451 (19.08%) Microsoft
2 294 (12.44%) Databricks
3 151 (6.39%) Google
3 151 (6.39%) SAP
4 147 (6.22%) Oracle
5 70 (2.96%) Salesforce
6 64 (2.71%) Adobe
6 64 (2.71%) ServiceNow
7 54 (2.28%) Talend
8 44 (1.86%) Informatica
9 41 (1.73%) Denodo
10 37 (1.57%) Splunk
11 33 (1.40%) OpenAI
12 31 (1.31%) Workday
13 28 (1.18%) Foundry
14 23 (0.97%) IBM
15 20 (0.85%) Dynatrace
16 19 (0.80%) Cisco
17 18 (0.76%) VMware
18 14 (0.59%) Optimizely