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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 34
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 +3
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,552 1,816 1,781
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.78% 6.58% 5.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.14% 7.25% 6.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,379 1,205 1,267
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £428 £440 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £688
90th Percentile £750 £813 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 48 24
10th Percentile £20.60 £15.27 £21.39
25th Percentile £28.50 £24.50 £27.00
Median hourly rate £53.75 £34.74 £30.69
Median % change year-on-year +54.72% +13.21% -5.00%
75th Percentile £76.88 £70.48 £43.75
90th Percentile £87.44 £80.30 £69.88
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £34.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +52.17% +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 38,882 25,041 28,684
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.21% 90.76% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,206 16,026 18,694
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,519 1,388 1,683
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £20.01 £17.88 £18.15
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.27 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.68 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +69.69% -37.63% -5.12%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 7 August 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 1,952 £550 -2.22% 2,350
North of England +12 440 £492 +9.27% 471
Midlands +6 429 £493 -4.37% 245
South East +9 355 £500 -3.85% 522
West Midlands +5 344 £492 -6.29% 156
North West +4 219 £522 +11.56% 263
South West +16 181 £500 +5.26% 194
Yorkshire +6 178 £463 +1.31% 156
East of England -12 109 £565 -2.59% 125
East Midlands +6 78 £525 +27.27% 89
North East -1 53 £450 +9.09% 55
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
1 159 (4.48%) Apache Airflow
2 151 (4.25%) Apache Spark
3 127 (3.58%) SAS
4 96 (2.70%) Apache
5 77 (2.17%) Confluence
6 49 (1.38%) SharePoint
7 47 (1.32%) CMS
8 31 (0.87%) Jupyter
9 30 (0.84%) Palantir Foundry
10 24 (0.68%) Oracle Application Server
11 20 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 11 (0.31%) Apache Superset
12 11 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
13 8 (0.23%) Drupal
13 8 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
13 8 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
14 7 (0.20%) WordPress
15 6 (0.17%) IIS
16 2 (0.056%) ArcGIS
16 2 (0.056%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 162 (4.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 23 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (0.59%) Chatbot
5 18 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (0.39%) CPLEX
7 12 (0.34%) MS Visio
8 11 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
9 4 (0.11%) Trello
10 3 (0.084%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.084%) Sketch
11 2 (0.056%) InDesign
11 2 (0.056%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.028%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.028%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.028%) Notion
12 1 (0.028%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.028%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 65 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
4 13 (0.37%) Workday HCM
5 12 (0.34%) Aladdin
6 11 (0.31%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 10 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
8 9 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
8 9 (0.25%) Shopify
9 8 (0.23%) SAP ERP
10 7 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
11 6 (0.17%) NetSuite
11 6 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
11 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
11 6 (0.17%) Sage X3
11 6 (0.17%) SAP GRC
12 5 (0.14%) BambooHR
12 5 (0.14%) Infor LN
12 5 (0.14%) SAP BPC
12 5 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,045 (29.42%) Azure
2 726 (20.44%) Power Platform
3 641 (18.05%) AWS
4 315 (8.87%) GCP
5 242 (6.81%) Azure DevOps
6 238 (6.70%) Snowflake
7 222 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
8 189 (5.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 188 (5.29%) dbt
10 165 (4.65%) GitHub
11 138 (3.89%) Serverless
12 134 (3.77%) Azure Monitor
13 133 (3.74%) Amazon S3
14 111 (3.13%) Entra ID
15 101 (2.84%) SaaS
16 94 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
17 90 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
18 82 (2.31%) Microsoft 365
19 60 (1.69%) Google Analytics
20 54 (1.52%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 61 (1.72%) Firewall
2 46 (1.30%) Network Security
3 36 (1.01%) VPN
4 33 (0.93%) DNS
5 27 (0.76%) WAN
6 24 (0.68%) SD-WAN
7 21 (0.59%) BGP
8 20 (0.56%) TCP/IP
9 13 (0.37%) DHCP
10 12 (0.34%) OSPF
11 10 (0.28%) SMS
11 10 (0.28%) Wireless
12 9 (0.25%) Broadband
13 8 (0.23%) LAN
13 8 (0.23%) VXLAN
14 7 (0.20%) 5G
14 7 (0.20%) HTTP
14 7 (0.20%) Internet
14 7 (0.20%) MPLS
14 7 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 693 (19.51%) Power BI
2 468 (13.18%) Data Warehouse
3 269 (7.57%) Data Lake
4 236 (6.64%) Tableau
5 214 (6.02%) Metadata
6 139 (3.91%) BigQuery
7 102 (2.87%) Big Data
8 100 (2.82%) SQL Server
9 98 (2.76%) Delta Lake
10 95 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
11 90 (2.53%) Relational Database
12 76 (2.14%) NoSQL
13 73 (2.06%) Looker
13 73 (2.06%) Snowflake Schema
14 72 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
15 69 (1.94%) Amazon Athena
16 65 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
17 60 (1.69%) Semantic Layer
18 56 (1.58%) Power Query
19 53 (1.49%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 207 (5.83%) Git
2 173 (4.87%) JIRA
3 80 (2.25%) Jenkins
4 52 (1.46%) GitLab
5 18 (0.51%) ERwin
6 10 (0.28%) ER Studio
6 10 (0.28%) fastlane
6 10 (0.28%) JUnit
6 10 (0.28%) MLflow
6 10 (0.28%) Selenium
7 9 (0.25%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.20%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.20%) Gradle
8 7 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
8 7 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (0.17%) Android Studio
9 6 (0.17%) Crashlytics
9 6 (0.17%) Postman
10 5 (0.14%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.14%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 917 (25.82%) Social Skills
2 893 (25.14%) Finance
3 635 (17.88%) Analytical Skills
4 430 (12.11%) Public Sector
5 256 (7.21%) Banking
6 214 (6.02%) Marketing
7 157 (4.42%) Retail
8 88 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 86 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
10 72 (2.03%) Legal
11 69 (1.94%) Manufacturing
12 67 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
13 62 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
14 57 (1.60%) Front Office
15 55 (1.55%) Investment Banking
16 51 (1.44%) Telecoms
17 46 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
18 40 (1.13%) Financial Institution
19 36 (1.01%) Publishing
20 35 (0.99%) Military
Job Titles
1 629 (17.71%) Data Engineer
2 462 (13.01%) Architect
3 442 (12.44%) Senior
4 433 (12.19%) Analyst
5 352 (9.91%) Developer
6 305 (8.59%) Lead
7 203 (5.72%) Data Architect
8 176 (4.95%) Data Analyst
9 151 (4.25%) Consultant
10 128 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
11 115 (3.24%) Data Scientist
12 109 (3.07%) Business Analyst
13 108 (3.04%) Azure Engineer
14 106 (2.98%) Senior Data Engineer
15 75 (2.11%) Data Manager
16 64 (1.80%) Product Manager
17 63 (1.77%) Python Developer
18 62 (1.75%) Project Manager
19 60 (1.69%) Azure Data Engineer
20 58 (1.63%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 210 (5.91%) PySpark
2 135 (3.80%) REST
3 125 (3.52%) Kafka
4 67 (1.89%) Pandas
5 58 (1.63%) RESTful
6 50 (1.41%) JSON
6 50 (1.41%) React
7 49 (1.38%) .NET
8 48 (1.35%) HTML
9 43 (1.21%) CSS
10 42 (1.18%) NumPy
11 41 (1.15%) OAuth
12 38 (1.07%) ARM Templates
13 36 (1.01%) Oracle Fusion
14 35 (0.99%) SOAP
14 35 (0.99%) Web Services
15 33 (0.93%) OpenID
16 32 (0.90%) scikit-learn
17 31 (0.87%) OAuth2
17 31 (0.87%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 240 (6.76%) Cloud Native
2 185 (5.21%) Product Ownership
3 149 (4.19%) Data Structures
4 127 (3.58%) Legacy Systems
5 117 (3.29%) Onboarding
6 72 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
7 67 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
8 55 (1.55%) Management Information System
9 50 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
10 49 (1.38%) AI Agents
11 47 (1.32%) Algorithms
11 47 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
12 44 (1.24%) NHS
13 43 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
14 40 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
15 39 (1.10%) Virtual Team
16 37 (1.04%) Marketing Technology
16 37 (1.04%) Mobile App
17 30 (0.84%) Derivative
18 29 (0.82%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 89 (2.51%) Linux
2 82 (2.31%) Windows
3 42 (1.18%) Unix
4 27 (0.76%) Windows Server
5 22 (0.62%) Apple iOS
6 13 (0.37%) Mac OS
7 12 (0.34%) Android
7 12 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.20%) VMS
9 4 (0.11%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.084%) Solaris
11 2 (0.056%) AIX
11 2 (0.056%) CentOS
11 2 (0.056%) HPUX
11 2 (0.056%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.028%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 976 (27.48%) Data Modelling
2 930 (26.18%) Business Intelligence
3 845 (23.79%) AI
4 828 (23.31%) Agile
5 748 (21.06%) Data Pipeline
6 706 (19.88%) Data Engineering
7 693 (19.51%) CI/CD
8 652 (18.36%) Stakeholder Management
9 619 (17.43%) Decision-Making
10 609 (17.15%) ETL
11 558 (15.71%) DevOps
12 556 (15.65%) Data Governance
13 523 (14.72%) Problem-Solving
14 443 (12.47%) Migration
15 439 (12.36%) Continuous Improvement
16 428 (12.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 423 (11.91%) Machine Learning
18 416 (11.71%) Data Science
19 409 (11.51%) Validation
20 376 (10.59%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,164 (32.77%) SQL
2 1,015 (28.58%) Python
3 146 (4.11%) PowerShell
4 115 (3.24%) Java
5 104 (2.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 88 (2.48%) C#
7 80 (2.25%) Bicep
8 72 (2.03%) JavaScript
9 65 (1.83%) R
10 46 (1.30%) Bash
11 39 (1.10%) TypeScript
12 38 (1.07%) Shell Script
13 37 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
14 36 (1.01%) Scala
15 32 (0.90%) T-SQL
16 26 (0.73%) PL/SQL
17 20 (0.56%) C++
17 20 (0.56%) VBA
18 12 (0.34%) Kotlin
19 11 (0.31%) Swift
Qualifications
1 647 (18.22%) Security Cleared
2 513 (14.44%) SC Cleared
3 281 (7.91%) Degree
4 85 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
5 82 (2.31%) Azure Certification
6 79 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 70 (1.97%) DV Cleared
8 52 (1.46%) Master's Degree
9 41 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
10 36 (1.01%) CISSP
11 29 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
12 28 (0.79%) AWS Certification
13 25 (0.70%) PMI Certification
14 21 (0.59%) PMP
15 20 (0.56%) DBS Check
16 16 (0.45%) CCNP
17 15 (0.42%) CCIE
17 15 (0.42%) PhD
18 11 (0.31%) CISA
19 10 (0.28%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 687 (19.34%) Data Quality
2 169 (4.76%) GDPR
3 141 (3.97%) QA
4 133 (3.74%) Accessibility
5 50 (1.41%) GRC
5 50 (1.41%) WCAG
6 40 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (0.90%) NIST
8 26 (0.73%) PMO
9 24 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
10 16 (0.45%) SLA
11 15 (0.42%) Solvency II
12 13 (0.37%) PCI DSS
12 13 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 11 (0.31%) PERC
14 10 (0.28%) IFRS
14 10 (0.28%) NCSC
15 7 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
16 6 (0.17%) GAAP
17 5 (0.14%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 162 (4.56%) Docker
2 88 (2.48%) Active Directory
3 25 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.17%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.17%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.11%) HDFS
8 3 (0.084%) Snort
9 2 (0.056%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.056%) vSphere
10 1 (0.028%) iptables
10 1 (0.028%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.028%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 260 (7.32%) Terraform
2 185 (5.21%) Kubernetes
3 49 (1.38%) Ansible
4 36 (1.01%) Grafana
5 26 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
6 24 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
7 22 (0.62%) Prometheus
8 11 (0.31%) SCCM
9 8 (0.23%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.17%) Control-M
10 6 (0.17%) SCOM
11 4 (0.11%) Podman
11 4 (0.11%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.11%) QRadar
12 3 (0.084%) Apache Ranger
12 3 (0.084%) CASB
12 3 (0.084%) CSIRT
12 3 (0.084%) Kibana
12 3 (0.084%) NetBackup
13 2 (0.056%) MOM
Vendors
1 617 (17.37%) Microsoft
2 459 (12.92%) Databricks
3 224 (6.31%) Oracle
4 184 (5.18%) SAP
5 177 (4.98%) Google
6 86 (2.42%) ServiceNow
7 84 (2.36%) Adobe
7 84 (2.36%) Salesforce
8 54 (1.52%) Splunk
9 52 (1.46%) Workday
10 47 (1.32%) Foundry
11 44 (1.24%) Denodo
12 42 (1.18%) Informatica
13 41 (1.15%) Talend
14 40 (1.13%) Dynatrace
15 38 (1.07%) Palantir
16 30 (0.84%) Cisco
17 26 (0.73%) VMware
18 24 (0.68%) OpenAI
19 21 (0.59%) Amplitude