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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 30 39
Rank change year-on-year +6 +9 -4
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,319 1,522 1,785
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.32% 5.71% 4.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.31% 6.39% 5.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,573 978 1,233
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £424 £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 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 23 69
10th Percentile £21.03 £25.26 £17.51
25th Percentile £30.96 £28.75 £27.50
Median hourly rate £46.00 £35.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.43% -17.65% +21.43%
75th Percentile £70.16 £60.41 £67.50
90th Percentile £78.95 £64.53 £79.29
UK median hourly rate £45.50 £35.00 £44.78
% change year-on-year +30.00% -21.84% +27.94%

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 27,911 23,801 32,210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.11% 89.29% 87.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,824 14,585 21,671
10th Percentile £304 £310 £304
25th Percentile £409 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £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 1,743 772 1,617
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.94 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.20 £64.50
90th Percentile £69.43 £75.00 £75.84
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £38.85
% change year-on-year -22.62% -16.34% +19.54%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 +7 1,372 £525 -12.50% 758
Midlands +27 255 £513 +4.64% 351
North of England +10 243 £475 - 473
West Midlands +24 200 £515 +3.00% 132
North West +5 157 £475 - 207
South East 0 157 £488 +7.38% 967
South West +40 101 £525 +16.67% 307
East of England +4 94 £550 +10.00% 382
Yorkshire -1 71 £500 - 193
East Midlands +7 55 £431 -5.38% 211
North East -4 16 £390 -16.40% 76
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
1 103 (4.44%) SAS
2 85 (3.67%) Apache Airflow
3 81 (3.49%) Apache Spark
4 72 (3.10%) Apache
5 60 (2.59%) Confluence
6 48 (2.07%) SharePoint
7 36 (1.55%) CMS
8 20 (0.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 16 (0.69%) WebLogic
10 10 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
11 9 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
12 8 (0.34%) GeoServer
12 8 (0.34%) Jupyter
12 8 (0.34%) Smallworld
13 7 (0.30%) Oracle Application Server
14 6 (0.26%) WordPress
15 5 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 4 (0.17%) ArcGIS
17 3 (0.13%) IIS
18 2 (0.086%) WebSphere
Applications
1 124 (5.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (1.21%) MS Visio
5 24 (1.03%) Chatbot
6 14 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.26%) Trello
8 5 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.17%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.13%) Notion
10 3 (0.13%) Sketch
11 2 (0.086%) Autodesk Smoke
12 1 (0.043%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.043%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.043%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.043%) CapCut
12 1 (0.043%) FrameMaker
12 1 (0.043%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.043%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 83 (3.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.60%) SAP EHS
4 11 (0.47%) SAP HR
5 10 (0.43%) SAP FI
6 8 (0.34%) Maximo
7 7 (0.30%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 7 (0.30%) SAP MM
8 6 (0.26%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 6 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
8 6 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 5 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
9 5 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
9 5 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.22%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.22%) Workday HCM
10 4 (0.17%) NetSuite
10 4 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
10 4 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 755 (32.56%) Azure
2 500 (21.56%) Power Platform
3 481 (20.74%) AWS
4 224 (9.66%) GCP
5 167 (7.20%) Azure Data Factory
5 167 (7.20%) Azure DevOps
6 150 (6.47%) Snowflake
7 146 (6.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 123 (5.30%) GitHub
9 110 (4.74%) Serverless
10 106 (4.57%) Azure Monitor
11 91 (3.92%) SaaS
12 82 (3.54%) Amazon S3
12 82 (3.54%) GitHub Actions
13 79 (3.41%) dbt
14 76 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
15 72 (3.10%) Entra ID
16 56 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
17 55 (2.37%) Power Automate
18 53 (2.29%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 43 (1.85%) Firewall
2 24 (1.03%) DNS
2 24 (1.03%) Network Security
2 24 (1.03%) VPN
3 17 (0.73%) SMS
4 12 (0.52%) SSL
5 9 (0.39%) WAN
6 8 (0.34%) DHCP
6 8 (0.34%) HTTP
7 7 (0.30%) LAN
7 7 (0.30%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.26%) 2G
8 6 (0.26%) 5G
8 6 (0.26%) FTP
8 6 (0.26%) SMTP
9 4 (0.17%) 4G
9 4 (0.17%) Radio Access Network
10 3 (0.13%) Internet
10 3 (0.13%) MPLS
10 3 (0.13%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 465 (20.05%) Power BI
2 237 (10.22%) Data Warehouse
3 163 (7.03%) Data Lake
4 139 (5.99%) Tableau
5 130 (5.61%) Metadata
6 75 (3.23%) SQL Server
7 68 (2.93%) BigQuery
8 65 (2.80%) Big Data
9 58 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
10 55 (2.37%) Delta Lake
11 53 (2.29%) Azure SQL Database
11 53 (2.29%) Relational Database
12 50 (2.16%) Looker
13 49 (2.11%) Snowflake Schema
14 42 (1.81%) Hadoop
14 42 (1.81%) Star Schema
15 40 (1.72%) Data Vault
15 40 (1.72%) Power Query
16 39 (1.68%) Pentaho
17 35 (1.51%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 178 (7.68%) JIRA
2 163 (7.03%) Git
3 84 (3.62%) Jenkins
4 74 (3.19%) GitLab
5 24 (1.03%) Selenium
6 18 (0.78%) ERwin
6 18 (0.78%) JUnit
7 14 (0.60%) MLflow
8 11 (0.47%) PowerDesigner
9 10 (0.43%) Android Studio
9 10 (0.43%) Gradle
10 9 (0.39%) ER Studio
10 9 (0.39%) Visual Website Optimizer
11 8 (0.34%) Postman
11 8 (0.34%) Xcode
12 6 (0.26%) DBeaver
12 6 (0.26%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.26%) Visual Studio
13 5 (0.22%) MSI
13 5 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
General
1 789 (34.02%) Social Skills
2 636 (27.43%) Finance
3 453 (19.53%) Analytical Skills
4 202 (8.71%) Public Sector
5 193 (8.32%) Banking
6 172 (7.42%) Marketing
7 75 (3.23%) Retail
8 68 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
9 63 (2.72%) Front Office
10 51 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
11 48 (2.07%) Legal
12 45 (1.94%) Manufacturing
13 44 (1.90%) Investment Banking
14 41 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 41 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
15 35 (1.51%) Pharmaceutical
16 31 (1.34%) Financial Institution
16 31 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
17 25 (1.08%) Telecoms
18 20 (0.86%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 333 (14.36%) Analyst
2 303 (13.07%) Developer
3 302 (13.02%) Data Engineer
4 265 (11.43%) Senior
5 242 (10.44%) Architect
6 167 (7.20%) Lead
7 129 (5.56%) Consultant
8 123 (5.30%) Data Analyst
9 116 (5.00%) Business Analyst
10 91 (3.92%) Data Architect
11 83 (3.58%) Azure Engineer
12 73 (3.15%) Data Scientist
13 59 (2.54%) Project Manager
14 58 (2.50%) Senior Developer
15 55 (2.37%) Senior Data Engineer
16 51 (2.20%) Solutions Architect
17 42 (1.81%) Snowflake Engineer
18 37 (1.60%) Python Developer
18 37 (1.60%) Senior Analyst
19 36 (1.55%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (6.08%) REST
2 107 (4.61%) PySpark
3 99 (4.27%) Kafka
4 56 (2.41%) React
5 55 (2.37%) Pandas
6 53 (2.29%) HTML
7 46 (1.98%) TensorFlow
8 44 (1.90%) Node.js
8 44 (1.90%) SOAP
9 43 (1.85%) NumPy
9 43 (1.85%) scikit-learn
10 42 (1.81%) PyTorch
11 40 (1.72%) .NET
11 40 (1.72%) CSS
12 39 (1.68%) JSON
12 39 (1.68%) RESTful
13 35 (1.51%) AngularJS
14 33 (1.42%) ARM Templates
15 30 (1.29%) OAuth
16 22 (0.95%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 103 (4.44%) Cloud Native
2 99 (4.27%) Product Ownership
3 73 (3.15%) Data Structures
4 63 (2.72%) Onboarding
5 53 (2.29%) Algorithms
6 51 (2.20%) Management Information System
7 49 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
8 47 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
9 43 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
10 40 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
10 40 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 37 (1.60%) Equities
12 36 (1.55%) Derivative
13 35 (1.51%) Mobile App
14 28 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
14 28 (1.21%) Life Science
15 27 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
15 27 (1.16%) NHS
16 26 (1.12%) Fixed Income
16 26 (1.12%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 72 (3.10%) Windows
2 69 (2.98%) Linux
3 30 (1.29%) Unix
4 19 (0.82%) Apple iOS
4 19 (0.82%) Mac OS
5 18 (0.78%) Android
6 9 (0.39%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.22%) VMS
7 5 (0.22%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.043%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.043%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.043%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.043%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 640 (27.60%) Business Intelligence
2 571 (24.62%) Agile
3 523 (22.55%) Data Modelling
4 490 (21.13%) Problem-Solving
5 442 (19.06%) CI/CD
6 427 (18.41%) DevOps
7 412 (17.77%) ETL
8 408 (17.59%) AI
9 381 (16.43%) Data Pipeline
10 352 (15.18%) Data Governance
11 334 (14.40%) Decision-Making
12 316 (13.63%) Data Engineering
13 304 (13.11%) Stakeholder Management
14 297 (12.81%) Data Analytics
15 286 (12.33%) Data Science
16 273 (11.77%) Visualisation
17 265 (11.43%) Machine Learning
18 259 (11.17%) Continuous Improvement
19 253 (10.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 233 (10.05%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 790 (34.07%) SQL
2 713 (30.75%) Python
3 133 (5.74%) Java
4 102 (4.40%) JavaScript
5 93 (4.01%) PowerShell
6 71 (3.06%) C#
6 71 (3.06%) R
7 60 (2.59%) Bicep
8 55 (2.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 48 (2.07%) Bash
10 39 (1.68%) TypeScript
11 36 (1.55%) C++
12 35 (1.51%) Kusto Query Language
13 32 (1.38%) T-SQL
14 31 (1.34%) Scala
15 25 (1.08%) VBA
16 22 (0.95%) PL/SQL
17 16 (0.69%) Shell Script
18 14 (0.60%) Kotlin
19 13 (0.56%) Swift
Qualifications
1 387 (16.69%) Security Cleared
2 317 (13.67%) SC Cleared
3 215 (9.27%) Degree
4 66 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 58 (2.50%) Azure Certification
6 51 (2.20%) Master's Degree
7 38 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
8 29 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
8 29 (1.25%) CISSP
9 28 (1.21%) DV Cleared
10 25 (1.08%) PMI Certification
11 24 (1.03%) AWS Certification
12 20 (0.86%) PMP
13 19 (0.82%) CISM
14 14 (0.60%) IIBA
15 9 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
16 8 (0.34%) CBAP
16 8 (0.34%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 8 (0.34%) PhD
17 7 (0.30%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 376 (16.21%) Data Quality
2 140 (6.04%) GDPR
3 87 (3.75%) Accessibility
4 79 (3.41%) QA
5 37 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 30 (1.29%) NIST
7 21 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
8 18 (0.78%) PMO
9 17 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 14 (0.60%) WCAG
11 13 (0.56%) NCSC
12 11 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 10 (0.43%) PCI DSS
14 9 (0.39%) HIPAA
14 9 (0.39%) NIST 800
15 8 (0.34%) GRC
15 8 (0.34%) PERC
15 8 (0.34%) SLA
15 8 (0.34%) Solvency II
16 7 (0.30%) GxP
System Software
1 183 (7.89%) Docker
2 58 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.43%) HDFS
6 5 (0.22%) zsh
7 4 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.086%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.043%) GPFS
9 1 (0.043%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.043%) Lustre
9 1 (0.043%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.043%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.043%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.043%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 187 (8.06%) Kubernetes
2 181 (7.81%) Terraform
3 30 (1.29%) Ansible
4 27 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (0.73%) SCCM
7 15 (0.65%) Grafana
8 14 (0.60%) Puppet
9 13 (0.56%) Prometheus
10 8 (0.34%) Kibana
11 7 (0.30%) Hadoop YARN
11 7 (0.30%) logstash
12 6 (0.26%) WSUS
13 3 (0.13%) Fluentd
13 3 (0.13%) Kubeflow
13 3 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 2 (0.086%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.086%) Control-M
14 2 (0.086%) RSA Archer
14 2 (0.086%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 437 (18.84%) Microsoft
2 288 (12.42%) Databricks
3 154 (6.64%) Google
4 152 (6.55%) Oracle
5 150 (6.47%) SAP
6 70 (3.02%) Salesforce
7 65 (2.80%) Adobe
8 64 (2.76%) ServiceNow
9 54 (2.33%) Talend
10 42 (1.81%) Informatica
10 42 (1.81%) Splunk
11 41 (1.77%) Denodo
12 33 (1.42%) OpenAI
13 32 (1.38%) Workday
14 27 (1.16%) Dynatrace
15 26 (1.12%) Cisco
15 26 (1.12%) Foundry
16 21 (0.91%) IBM
17 19 (0.82%) AppDynamics
18 18 (0.78%) VMware