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 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 30 38
Rank change year-on-year +7 +8 -3
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,217 1,629 1,857
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.10% 5.62% 4.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.99% 6.35% 5.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,490 1,069 1,299
10th Percentile £360 £350 £381
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £560 £570
Median % change year-on-year -6.47% -1.75% -0.87%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £688
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 27 64
10th Percentile £20.63 £25.26 £17.19
25th Percentile £31.11 £27.25 £22.82
Median hourly rate £46.50 £34.50 £40.47
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -14.75% +15.63%
75th Percentile £72.25 £59.41 £67.50
90th Percentile £79.95 £64.14 £79.60
UK median hourly rate £46.00 £32.50 £42.85
% change year-on-year +41.54% -24.15% +22.41%

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 27,756 25,643 33,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.83% 88.51% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,663 15,859 22,544
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £544
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,804 849 1,407
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £14.68
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.75 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%
75th Percentile £54.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.25 £74.89 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.33
% change year-on-year -22.62% -24.99% +23.80%

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 18 December 2025.

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 18 December 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 18 December 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 +4 1,311 £525 -12.50% 794
North of England +13 245 £475 -5.00% 328
Midlands +25 237 £515 +3.00% 233
West Midlands +18 189 £515 -0.96% 124
North West +16 155 £475 -4.63% 185
South East -14 142 £500 -1.96% 478
East of England +2 93 £555 +11.00% 151
South West +26 92 £525 -8.70% 141
Yorkshire -1 78 £500 -4.76% 99
East Midlands +12 50 £442 -4.54% 108
North East 0 13 £400 -14.26% 48
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 96 (4.33%) Apache Airflow
2 91 (4.10%) SAS
3 80 (3.61%) Apache
4 78 (3.52%) Apache Spark
5 47 (2.12%) Confluence
6 42 (1.89%) SharePoint
7 40 (1.80%) CMS
8 20 (0.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 16 (0.72%) WebLogic
10 9 (0.41%) Jupyter
10 9 (0.41%) Oracle Application Server
11 8 (0.36%) WordPress
12 7 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
12 7 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 6 (0.27%) GeoServer
13 6 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
13 6 (0.27%) Smallworld
14 3 (0.14%) Drupal
14 3 (0.14%) IIS
14 3 (0.14%) JBoss
Applications
1 133 (6.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
3 34 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (1.35%) MS Visio
5 24 (1.08%) Chatbot
6 14 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.18%) Trello
9 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.14%) Notion
9 3 (0.14%) Sketch
10 2 (0.090%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.045%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.045%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.045%) CapCut
11 1 (0.045%) FrameMaker
11 1 (0.045%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 70 (3.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.63%) SAP EHS
4 11 (0.50%) SAP FI
4 11 (0.50%) SAP HR
5 10 (0.45%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.32%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 7 (0.32%) SAP MM
7 6 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 5 (0.23%) Aladdin
8 5 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.23%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
9 4 (0.18%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.18%) SAP IBP
10 3 (0.14%) Maximo
10 3 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.14%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 696 (31.39%) Azure
2 469 (21.15%) AWS
3 458 (20.66%) Power Platform
4 231 (10.42%) GCP
5 149 (6.72%) Snowflake
6 135 (6.09%) Azure Data Factory
7 134 (6.04%) Azure DevOps
8 124 (5.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 106 (4.78%) GitHub
10 104 (4.69%) Serverless
11 100 (4.51%) Azure Monitor
12 88 (3.97%) SaaS
13 76 (3.43%) Amazon S3
14 75 (3.38%) GitHub Actions
15 74 (3.34%) dbt
15 74 (3.34%) Entra ID
15 74 (3.34%) Microsoft 365
16 58 (2.62%) Google Analytics
17 57 (2.57%) Azure Logic Apps
18 52 (2.35%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 46 (2.07%) Firewall
2 36 (1.62%) DNS
3 35 (1.58%) Network Security
4 21 (0.95%) VPN
5 19 (0.86%) SSL
6 17 (0.77%) HTTP
7 13 (0.59%) FTP
7 13 (0.59%) SMTP
8 12 (0.54%) SMS
8 12 (0.54%) WAN
9 8 (0.36%) DHCP
9 8 (0.36%) LAN
9 8 (0.36%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.27%) 2G
10 6 (0.27%) 5G
11 5 (0.23%) SD-WAN
12 4 (0.18%) 4G
12 4 (0.18%) Radio Access Network
12 4 (0.18%) Unified Communications
13 3 (0.14%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 428 (19.31%) Power BI
2 249 (11.23%) Data Warehouse
3 147 (6.63%) Tableau
4 144 (6.50%) Data Lake
5 125 (5.64%) Metadata
6 71 (3.20%) BigQuery
7 64 (2.89%) Big Data
8 59 (2.66%) PostgreSQL
9 53 (2.39%) Relational Database
10 51 (2.30%) SQL Server
11 49 (2.21%) Snowflake Schema
12 46 (2.07%) Looker
13 45 (2.03%) Azure SQL Database
14 43 (1.94%) Power Query
15 42 (1.89%) Delta Lake
16 40 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
17 38 (1.71%) Hadoop
17 38 (1.71%) NoSQL
17 38 (1.71%) Star Schema
18 35 (1.58%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 170 (7.67%) Git
2 156 (7.04%) JIRA
3 82 (3.70%) Jenkins
4 59 (2.66%) GitLab
5 25 (1.13%) Selenium
6 18 (0.81%) JUnit
7 15 (0.68%) ERwin
8 12 (0.54%) MLflow
9 11 (0.50%) PowerDesigner
10 10 (0.45%) Android Studio
10 10 (0.45%) Gradle
10 10 (0.45%) SonarQube
11 9 (0.41%) ER Studio
11 9 (0.41%) Postman
11 9 (0.41%) Visual Website Optimizer
12 8 (0.36%) DBeaver
12 8 (0.36%) TeamCity
12 8 (0.36%) Xcode
13 6 (0.27%) PVCS
13 6 (0.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 788 (35.54%) Social Skills
2 629 (28.37%) Finance
3 471 (21.24%) Analytical Skills
4 210 (9.47%) Banking
5 189 (8.53%) Public Sector
6 176 (7.94%) Marketing
7 77 (3.47%) Retail
8 71 (3.20%) Front Office
9 56 (2.53%) Investment Banking
10 54 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
11 53 (2.39%) Documentation Skills
12 50 (2.26%) Legal
13 45 (2.03%) Manufacturing
14 39 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
15 38 (1.71%) Pharmaceutical
16 37 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 34 (1.53%) Financial Institution
18 30 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
19 28 (1.26%) Telecoms
20 26 (1.17%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 340 (15.34%) Analyst
2 289 (13.04%) Developer
3 244 (11.01%) Data Engineer
4 240 (10.83%) Senior
5 226 (10.19%) Architect
6 143 (6.45%) Lead
7 122 (5.50%) Consultant
8 121 (5.46%) Data Analyst
9 118 (5.32%) Business Analyst
10 81 (3.65%) Data Architect
11 76 (3.43%) Data Scientist
12 70 (3.16%) Azure Engineer
13 63 (2.84%) Senior Developer
14 57 (2.57%) Project Manager
15 39 (1.76%) Senior Analyst
16 38 (1.71%) Python Developer
16 38 (1.71%) Solutions Architect
17 37 (1.67%) Security Engineer
18 33 (1.49%) AWS Engineer
19 32 (1.44%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (5.55%) REST
2 96 (4.33%) Kafka
3 90 (4.06%) PySpark
4 56 (2.53%) Pandas
5 51 (2.30%) React
6 46 (2.07%) RESTful
7 44 (1.98%) Node.js
7 44 (1.98%) NumPy
8 43 (1.94%) SOAP
9 42 (1.89%) .NET
9 42 (1.89%) TensorFlow
10 40 (1.80%) HTML
10 40 (1.80%) scikit-learn
11 36 (1.62%) PyTorch
12 32 (1.44%) JSON
13 31 (1.40%) CSS
14 29 (1.31%) AngularJS
15 28 (1.26%) OAuth
16 24 (1.08%) pytest
17 23 (1.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 101 (4.56%) Product Ownership
2 90 (4.06%) Cloud Native
3 74 (3.34%) Data Structures
4 66 (2.98%) Onboarding
5 61 (2.75%) Analytical Mindset
6 57 (2.57%) Management Information System
7 55 (2.48%) Algorithms
8 54 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
9 45 (2.03%) Derivative
10 43 (1.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 41 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
11 41 (1.85%) Mobile App
12 39 (1.76%) Equities
13 33 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
14 29 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
15 28 (1.26%) Life Science
16 27 (1.22%) Fixed Income
16 27 (1.22%) Social Media
17 25 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
18 24 (1.08%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 75 (3.38%) Windows
2 70 (3.16%) Linux
3 30 (1.35%) Unix
4 21 (0.95%) Apple iOS
5 20 (0.90%) Android
6 19 (0.86%) Mac OS
7 11 (0.50%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.27%) VMS
9 5 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.14%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.045%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.045%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.045%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.045%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 589 (26.57%) Business Intelligence
2 555 (25.03%) Agile
3 489 (22.06%) Data Modelling
4 487 (21.97%) Problem-Solving
5 411 (18.54%) CI/CD
6 378 (17.05%) DevOps
7 369 (16.64%) ETL
8 367 (16.55%) AI
9 345 (15.56%) Data Pipeline
10 334 (15.07%) Data Governance
10 334 (15.07%) Decision-Making
11 298 (13.44%) Stakeholder Management
12 292 (13.17%) Data Analytics
13 285 (12.86%) Data Science
14 273 (12.31%) Machine Learning
15 272 (12.27%) Data Engineering
15 272 (12.27%) Visualisation
16 255 (11.50%) Continuous Improvement
17 246 (11.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 235 (10.60%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 750 (33.83%) SQL
2 685 (30.90%) Python
3 129 (5.82%) Java
4 101 (4.56%) JavaScript
5 97 (4.38%) PowerShell
6 68 (3.07%) R
7 67 (3.02%) C#
8 49 (2.21%) Bash
9 47 (2.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 42 (1.89%) TypeScript
11 41 (1.85%) Bicep
12 40 (1.80%) Kusto Query Language
13 33 (1.49%) C++
14 28 (1.26%) Scala
14 28 (1.26%) VBA
15 24 (1.08%) T-SQL
16 20 (0.90%) PL/SQL
17 15 (0.68%) Kotlin
18 14 (0.63%) ABAP
18 14 (0.63%) Swift
Qualifications
1 361 (16.28%) Security Cleared
2 296 (13.35%) SC Cleared
3 220 (9.92%) Degree
4 66 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 59 (2.66%) Master's Degree
6 42 (1.89%) Azure Certification
7 30 (1.35%) CISSP
8 28 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
9 26 (1.17%) DV Cleared
10 25 (1.13%) AWS Certification
11 21 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
11 21 (0.95%) PMI Certification
12 17 (0.77%) PMP
13 16 (0.72%) CISM
14 10 (0.45%) PhD
15 9 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
16 8 (0.36%) CBAP
17 7 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 6 (0.27%) CCNP
18 6 (0.27%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 334 (15.07%) Data Quality
2 135 (6.09%) GDPR
3 83 (3.74%) Accessibility
4 81 (3.65%) QA
5 40 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 28 (1.26%) NIST
7 20 (0.90%) PMO
8 19 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
9 13 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 13 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 12 (0.54%) HIPAA
10 12 (0.54%) WCAG
11 10 (0.45%) GRC
11 10 (0.45%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.41%) NCSC
13 8 (0.36%) PERC
13 8 (0.36%) Solvency II
14 7 (0.32%) GxP
15 6 (0.27%) NIST 800
16 5 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 168 (7.58%) Docker
2 61 (2.75%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
3 15 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.45%) HDFS
5 5 (0.23%) zsh
6 4 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.090%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.045%) GPFS
8 1 (0.045%) Lustre
8 1 (0.045%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.045%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.045%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.045%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 168 (7.58%) Kubernetes
2 156 (7.04%) Terraform
3 33 (1.49%) Ansible
4 24 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (0.86%) Grafana
5 19 (0.86%) SCCM
6 17 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (0.54%) Kibana
7 12 (0.54%) Puppet
8 11 (0.50%) Prometheus
9 8 (0.36%) logstash
10 7 (0.32%) Hadoop YARN
11 6 (0.27%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.27%) WSUS
12 4 (0.18%) Kubeflow
12 4 (0.18%) RSA Archer
12 4 (0.18%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 3 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.14%) Fluentd
14 2 (0.090%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 407 (18.36%) Microsoft
2 256 (11.55%) Databricks
3 166 (7.49%) Google
4 151 (6.81%) Oracle
5 133 (6.00%) SAP
6 75 (3.38%) Salesforce
7 66 (2.98%) Adobe
8 65 (2.93%) ServiceNow
9 50 (2.26%) Talend
10 46 (2.07%) Splunk
11 37 (1.67%) Denodo
12 32 (1.44%) Informatica
12 32 (1.44%) Workday
13 28 (1.26%) Dynatrace
14 27 (1.22%) Cisco
15 25 (1.13%) OpenAI
16 22 (0.99%) AppDynamics
16 22 (0.99%) Foundry
17 21 (0.95%) Alteryx
18 19 (0.86%) VMware