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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 35
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,408 1,781 1,923
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.62% 6.56% 5.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.92% 7.24% 6.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,302 1,185 1,354
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -2.22%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 44 39
10th Percentile £20.40 £15.26 £19.70
25th Percentile £35.00 £22.31 £25.00
Median hourly rate £56.15 £34.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +62.75% +15.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £75.00 £71.71 £43.75
90th Percentile £90.00 £80.71 £70.25
UK median hourly rate £53.50 £34.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year +55.07% +23.21% -12.50%

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 38,219 24,611 31,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.42% 90.71% 85.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,063 15,813 20,400
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £734 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,375 1,290 2,230
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.39 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.10 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -6.09%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.56 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.60 £72.58
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -4.70%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 15 July 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 1,865 £550 -4.35% 1,091
North of England +10 423 £495 +8.43% 444
Midlands +13 415 £492 -1.59% 258
West Midlands +12 319 £489 -4.52% 125
South East +4 307 £500 -4.76% 513
North West +3 213 £513 +8.70% 218
South West +22 192 £500 +5.26% 162
Yorkshire +1 169 £481 +4.05% 153
East of England -10 112 £550 -5.17% 167
East Midlands +10 88 £503 +21.82% 132
North East 0 54 £450 +9.09% 73
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
1 153 (4.49%) Apache Spark
2 148 (4.34%) Apache Airflow
3 108 (3.17%) SAS
4 95 (2.79%) Apache
5 66 (1.94%) Confluence
6 43 (1.26%) SharePoint
7 36 (1.06%) CMS
8 30 (0.88%) Jupyter
9 29 (0.85%) Palantir Foundry
10 21 (0.62%) Oracle Application Server
11 16 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 13 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
13 9 (0.26%) Apache Superset
14 7 (0.21%) WordPress
15 6 (0.18%) Drupal
15 6 (0.18%) IIS
15 6 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
16 3 (0.088%) ArcGIS
17 2 (0.059%) OpenStack
17 2 (0.059%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 151 (4.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (0.56%) Chatbot
4 18 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
5 13 (0.38%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.35%) CPLEX
7 9 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.12%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
8 4 (0.12%) Sketch
9 2 (0.059%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.029%) InDesign
10 1 (0.029%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.029%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.029%) Trello
10 1 (0.029%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 70 (2.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
4 11 (0.32%) Aladdin
4 11 (0.32%) Workday HCM
5 10 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
6 8 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.21%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 7 (0.21%) NetSuite
7 7 (0.21%) SAP ERP
8 6 (0.18%) Sage X3
8 6 (0.18%) Shopify
9 5 (0.15%) BambooHR
9 5 (0.15%) Infor LN
9 5 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
9 5 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
9 5 (0.15%) SAP BPC
9 5 (0.15%) SAP GRC
9 5 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 4 (0.12%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 997 (29.25%) Azure
2 714 (20.95%) Power Platform
3 654 (19.19%) AWS
4 296 (8.69%) GCP
5 228 (6.69%) Snowflake
6 221 (6.48%) Azure DevOps
7 217 (6.37%) Azure Data Factory
8 182 (5.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 181 (5.31%) dbt
10 158 (4.64%) GitHub
11 145 (4.25%) Amazon S3
12 143 (4.20%) Serverless
13 115 (3.37%) Azure Monitor
14 96 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
15 92 (2.70%) SaaS
16 88 (2.58%) GitHub Actions
17 86 (2.52%) Entra ID
18 85 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
19 49 (1.44%) Power Automate
20 47 (1.38%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 52 (1.53%) Firewall
2 39 (1.14%) Network Security
3 31 (0.91%) VPN
4 26 (0.76%) DNS
5 25 (0.73%) WAN
6 23 (0.67%) SD-WAN
7 21 (0.62%) BGP
8 14 (0.41%) TCP/IP
9 12 (0.35%) OSPF
10 10 (0.29%) SMS
11 9 (0.26%) Wireless
12 8 (0.23%) DHCP
12 8 (0.23%) VXLAN
13 7 (0.21%) 5G
13 7 (0.21%) HTTP
13 7 (0.21%) Internet
13 7 (0.21%) LAN
13 7 (0.21%) MPLS
13 7 (0.21%) WLAN
14 6 (0.18%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 674 (19.78%) Power BI
2 441 (12.94%) Data Warehouse
3 256 (7.51%) Data Lake
4 233 (6.84%) Tableau
5 202 (5.93%) Metadata
6 130 (3.81%) BigQuery
7 101 (2.96%) Delta Lake
8 99 (2.90%) Big Data
9 96 (2.82%) SQL Server
10 93 (2.73%) Amazon Redshift
11 81 (2.38%) Relational Database
12 80 (2.35%) Snowflake Schema
13 73 (2.14%) Amazon Athena
14 71 (2.08%) Looker
14 71 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
15 69 (2.02%) NoSQL
16 57 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
17 52 (1.53%) Power Query
18 49 (1.44%) Star Schema
19 47 (1.38%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 190 (5.58%) Git
2 158 (4.64%) JIRA
3 74 (2.17%) Jenkins
4 57 (1.67%) GitLab
5 18 (0.53%) ERwin
6 12 (0.35%) JUnit
7 10 (0.29%) ER Studio
7 10 (0.29%) fastlane
7 10 (0.29%) MLflow
7 10 (0.29%) Selenium
8 7 (0.21%) Postman
8 7 (0.21%) PowerDesigner
9 6 (0.18%) Android Studio
9 6 (0.18%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.18%) Crashlytics
9 6 (0.18%) Gradle
10 5 (0.15%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.15%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.15%) Xcode
General
1 860 (25.23%) Social Skills
2 859 (25.21%) Finance
3 583 (17.11%) Analytical Skills
4 404 (11.85%) Public Sector
5 242 (7.10%) Banking
6 199 (5.84%) Marketing
7 140 (4.11%) Retail
8 76 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 75 (2.20%) Legal
10 71 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
11 64 (1.88%) Manufacturing
12 63 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
13 60 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
14 52 (1.53%) Front Office
14 52 (1.53%) Investment Banking
15 46 (1.35%) Telecoms
16 45 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
17 38 (1.12%) Financial Institution
18 30 (0.88%) Military
19 29 (0.85%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 636 (18.66%) Data Engineer
2 429 (12.59%) Analyst
3 420 (12.32%) Architect
4 412 (12.09%) Senior
5 348 (10.21%) Developer
6 294 (8.63%) Lead
7 185 (5.43%) Data Architect
8 178 (5.22%) Data Analyst
9 133 (3.90%) Consultant
10 117 (3.43%) Data Scientist
11 114 (3.35%) Solutions Architect
12 108 (3.17%) Business Analyst
13 103 (3.02%) Senior Data Engineer
14 102 (2.99%) Azure Engineer
15 71 (2.08%) Data Manager
16 65 (1.91%) Project Manager
17 60 (1.76%) Python Developer
18 59 (1.73%) Designer
19 56 (1.64%) Business Intelligence Developer
19 56 (1.64%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (5.72%) PySpark
2 134 (3.93%) Kafka
3 116 (3.40%) REST
4 62 (1.82%) Pandas
5 53 (1.56%) JSON
6 52 (1.53%) React
6 52 (1.53%) RESTful
7 44 (1.29%) .NET
8 40 (1.17%) CSS
8 40 (1.17%) HTML
9 38 (1.12%) NumPy
10 36 (1.06%) Web Services
11 35 (1.03%) Middleware
11 35 (1.03%) PyTorch
12 32 (0.94%) Microsoft Graph
12 32 (0.94%) TensorFlow
13 31 (0.91%) SOAP
14 30 (0.88%) scikit-learn
15 26 (0.76%) OAuth
16 25 (0.73%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 238 (6.98%) Cloud Native
2 169 (4.96%) Product Ownership
3 135 (3.96%) Data Structures
4 120 (3.52%) Legacy Systems
5 103 (3.02%) Onboarding
6 69 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
7 63 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
8 51 (1.50%) Algorithms
9 49 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
10 42 (1.23%) AI Agents
11 41 (1.20%) Management Information System
11 41 (1.20%) NHS
11 41 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
12 38 (1.12%) Mobile App
13 35 (1.03%) Public Cloud
13 35 (1.03%) Virtual Team
14 33 (0.97%) Marketing Technology
15 32 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
16 31 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
17 29 (0.85%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 87 (2.55%) Windows
2 79 (2.32%) Linux
3 40 (1.17%) Unix
4 23 (0.67%) Apple iOS
5 22 (0.65%) Mac OS
6 16 (0.47%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.35%) Android
8 11 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.18%) VMS
10 5 (0.15%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.088%) CentOS
11 3 (0.088%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.059%) zOS
13 1 (0.029%) Rocky
13 1 (0.029%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 955 (28.02%) Data Modelling
2 890 (26.12%) Business Intelligence
3 799 (23.44%) AI
4 746 (21.89%) Agile
5 720 (21.13%) Data Pipeline
6 694 (20.36%) Data Engineering
7 655 (19.22%) CI/CD
8 575 (16.87%) Decision-Making
8 575 (16.87%) ETL
9 551 (16.17%) Stakeholder Management
10 531 (15.58%) Data Governance
11 512 (15.02%) DevOps
12 502 (14.73%) Problem-Solving
13 423 (12.41%) Machine Learning
13 423 (12.41%) Migration
14 410 (12.03%) Data Science
15 405 (11.88%) Continuous Improvement
16 404 (11.85%) Validation
17 384 (11.27%) Data Analytics
18 372 (10.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,135 (33.30%) SQL
2 1,007 (29.55%) Python
3 136 (3.99%) Java
4 119 (3.49%) PowerShell
5 99 (2.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 85 (2.49%) C#
7 72 (2.11%) R
8 64 (1.88%) JavaScript
9 59 (1.73%) Bicep
10 42 (1.23%) Scala
10 42 (1.23%) TypeScript
11 38 (1.12%) Kusto Query Language
12 35 (1.03%) Shell Script
13 34 (1.00%) Bash
13 34 (1.00%) T-SQL
14 26 (0.76%) PL/SQL
15 22 (0.65%) VBA
16 19 (0.56%) C++
17 10 (0.29%) Korn
17 10 (0.29%) Swift
Qualifications
1 581 (17.05%) Security Cleared
2 461 (13.53%) SC Cleared
3 266 (7.81%) Degree
4 85 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 76 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 69 (2.02%) Azure Certification
7 57 (1.67%) DV Cleared
8 46 (1.35%) Master's Degree
9 32 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
10 30 (0.88%) CISSP
11 28 (0.82%) AWS Certification
12 26 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
13 25 (0.73%) PMI Certification
14 22 (0.65%) PMP
15 20 (0.59%) DBS Check
16 16 (0.47%) CCNP
17 15 (0.44%) CCIE
18 11 (0.32%) CISA
19 10 (0.29%) PhD
19 10 (0.29%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 638 (18.72%) Data Quality
2 171 (5.02%) GDPR
3 132 (3.87%) QA
4 117 (3.43%) Accessibility
5 45 (1.32%) WCAG
6 34 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 29 (0.85%) GRC
8 28 (0.82%) NIST
9 27 (0.79%) PMO
10 19 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
11 16 (0.47%) Solvency II
12 15 (0.44%) SLA
13 11 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 10 (0.29%) IFRS
14 10 (0.29%) NCSC
14 10 (0.29%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.29%) PERC
15 6 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 6 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.18%) HL7
System Software
1 150 (4.40%) Docker
2 70 (2.05%) Active Directory
3 25 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.18%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.18%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.12%) HDFS
7 4 (0.12%) Snort
8 2 (0.059%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.059%) vSphere
9 1 (0.029%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.029%) GPFS
9 1 (0.029%) iptables
9 1 (0.029%) Lustre
9 1 (0.029%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.029%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.029%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 244 (7.16%) Terraform
2 172 (5.05%) Kubernetes
3 38 (1.12%) Grafana
4 36 (1.06%) Ansible
5 31 (0.91%) Prometheus
6 28 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
7 20 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.26%) SCCM
9 8 (0.23%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.12%) Argo
10 4 (0.12%) Control-M
10 4 (0.12%) CSIRT
10 4 (0.12%) Podman
11 3 (0.088%) Apache Ranger
11 3 (0.088%) Kibana
11 3 (0.088%) Nagios
11 3 (0.088%) QRadar
11 3 (0.088%) Rancher
11 3 (0.088%) SCOM
12 2 (0.059%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 566 (16.61%) Microsoft
2 440 (12.91%) Databricks
3 185 (5.43%) Oracle
4 173 (5.08%) SAP
5 160 (4.69%) Google
6 77 (2.26%) ServiceNow
7 73 (2.14%) Salesforce
8 69 (2.02%) Adobe
9 52 (1.53%) Splunk
10 49 (1.44%) Informatica
11 47 (1.38%) Foundry
12 46 (1.35%) Workday
13 43 (1.26%) Talend
14 36 (1.06%) Palantir
15 35 (1.03%) Denodo
15 35 (1.03%) Dynatrace
15 35 (1.03%) OpenAI
16 29 (0.85%) Cisco
17 26 (0.76%) VMware
18 18 (0.53%) Alteryx