Analytics Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Analytics
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of 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 43 56 62
Rank change year-on-year +13 +6 -2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 245 125 141
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 5.23% 3.48% 3.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.89% 4.01% 3.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 75 103
10th Percentile £325 £357 £350
25th Percentile £375 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £600
90th Percentile £663 £698 £675
England median daily rate £524 £560 £570
% change year-on-year -6.47% -1.75% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 3
10th Percentile £17.85 - -
25th Percentile £34.82 £31.25 £18.50
Median hourly rate £49.72 £32.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.98% +71.05% -9.74%
75th Percentile £69.44 £33.75 £20.75
90th Percentile £70.44 - £21.50
England median hourly rate £46.50 £34.50 £40.47
% change year-on-year +34.78% -14.75% +15.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,159 3,114 4,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.72% 86.69% 88.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,772 1,775 2,737
10th Percentile £215 £263 £290
25th Percentile £363 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £671 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 157 191
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £15.72
25th Percentile £19.42 £17.25 £17.74
Median hourly rate £29.30 £27.50 £28.44
Median % change year-on-year +6.55% -3.31% +27.82%
75th Percentile £51.75 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £69.27 £66.45 £62.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Analytics relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Analytics job vacancy trend in the North of England

Analytics
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Analytics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Analytics

Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytics in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytics in the North of England

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Analytics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Analytics

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytics in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytics in the North of England

Analytics
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
North West +16 155 £475 -4.63% 179
Yorkshire -1 78 £500 -4.76% 99
North East 0 13 £400 -14.26% 48
Analytics
England

Analytics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 19 (7.76%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (5.31%) SharePoint
3 12 (4.90%) SAS
4 10 (4.08%) Apache
5 8 (3.27%) Apache Spark
5 8 (3.27%) CMS
6 3 (1.22%) Confluence
6 3 (1.22%) JBoss
7 1 (0.41%) Drupal
7 1 (0.41%) IIS
7 1 (0.41%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 26 (10.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (4.90%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.04%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.22%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.41%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.41%) Sketch
6 1 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.41%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 19 (7.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (4.08%) SAP EHS
3 4 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.63%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.82%) Magento
4 2 (0.82%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.82%) Shopify
5 1 (0.41%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.41%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.41%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.41%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 69 (28.16%) Azure
2 64 (26.12%) Power Platform
3 48 (19.59%) AWS
4 47 (19.18%) GCP
5 17 (6.94%) Google Analytics
6 15 (6.12%) Google Tag Manager
7 14 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (5.71%) Serverless
8 13 (5.31%) Snowflake
9 12 (4.90%) dbt
9 12 (4.90%) Power Automate
10 9 (3.67%) PowerApps
11 8 (3.27%) Amazon S3
11 8 (3.27%) Azure Data Factory
11 8 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (3.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 8 (3.27%) Figma
12 7 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (2.86%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.45%) Firewall
2 5 (2.04%) DNS
3 4 (1.63%) LAN
3 4 (1.63%) WAN
4 2 (0.82%) Network Security
5 1 (0.41%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.41%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.41%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.41%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.41%) DHCP
5 1 (0.41%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (0.41%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (0.41%) HTTP
5 1 (0.41%) VPN
5 1 (0.41%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (24.90%) Power BI
2 32 (13.06%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (7.76%) BigQuery
4 18 (7.35%) Looker
5 15 (6.12%) Tableau
6 14 (5.71%) Power Query
7 10 (4.08%) Snowflake Schema
8 9 (3.67%) Data Lake
9 8 (3.27%) Hadoop
9 8 (3.27%) Relational Database
10 6 (2.45%) Big Data
10 6 (2.45%) PowerPivot
11 5 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (2.04%) Data Mining
11 5 (2.04%) Delta Lake
11 5 (2.04%) Metadata
12 4 (1.63%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.63%) Apache Hive
12 4 (1.63%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 17 (6.94%) Git
2 10 (4.08%) JIRA
3 8 (3.27%) GitLab
4 6 (2.45%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.63%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.63%) Storybook
6 3 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (1.22%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.82%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (0.82%) CA Release Automation
8 1 (0.41%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.41%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.41%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.41%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.41%) Gradle
8 1 (0.41%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.41%) JMeter
8 1 (0.41%) MLflow
8 1 (0.41%) Selenium
General
1 86 (35.10%) Social Skills
2 62 (25.31%) Finance
3 54 (22.04%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (14.29%) Banking
5 34 (13.88%) Public Sector
6 19 (7.76%) Presentation Skills
7 14 (5.71%) Marketing
8 10 (4.08%) Retail
9 6 (2.45%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.63%) Legal
11 4 (1.63%) Military
11 4 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.22%) Wholesale Banking
13 2 (0.82%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.82%) Law
13 2 (0.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (24.08%) Analyst
2 29 (11.84%) Data Engineer
3 27 (11.02%) Architect
4 21 (8.57%) Developer
4 21 (8.57%) Lead
5 20 (8.16%) Consultant
5 20 (8.16%) Senior
6 18 (7.35%) Data Analyst
7 16 (6.53%) Performance Analyst
8 15 (6.12%) Business Analyst
9 12 (4.90%) SAP Consultant
10 9 (3.67%) Management Consultant
10 9 (3.67%) Senior Analyst
11 7 (2.86%) Data Architect
11 7 (2.86%) Project Manager
12 6 (2.45%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (2.45%) Azure Engineer
12 6 (2.45%) Data Scientist
12 6 (2.45%) Security Engineer
12 6 (2.45%) Strategy Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.49%) PySpark
2 10 (4.08%) SAP Fiori
3 8 (3.27%) HTML
4 7 (2.86%) CSS
4 7 (2.86%) Node.js
4 7 (2.86%) React
5 6 (2.45%) JSON
5 6 (2.45%) Kafka
5 6 (2.45%) Next.js
5 6 (2.45%) REST
6 5 (2.04%) HTML5
6 5 (2.04%) RESTful
6 5 (2.04%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.63%) Anaconda
7 4 (1.63%) Bootstrap
7 4 (1.63%) CSS3
7 4 (1.63%) Express.js
7 4 (1.63%) Middleware
7 4 (1.63%) Redux
7 4 (1.63%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.71%) Onboarding
2 11 (4.49%) Credit Risk
3 10 (4.08%) Data Centre
3 10 (4.08%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.27%) Cloud Native
4 8 (3.27%) Clustering
5 7 (2.86%) Data Structures
5 7 (2.86%) NHS
6 6 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.04%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.63%) IoT
8 4 (1.63%) IVR
8 4 (1.63%) Mainframe
9 3 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.22%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.82%) Data Fabric
10 2 (0.82%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.67%) Windows
2 7 (2.86%) Linux
3 3 (1.22%) Mac OS
3 3 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.22%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.41%) Android
4 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (29.39%) Business Intelligence
2 60 (24.49%) Data Modelling
3 52 (21.22%) Decision-Making
3 52 (21.22%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (20.82%) Agile
5 44 (17.96%) Actionable Insight
6 40 (16.33%) Data Governance
6 40 (16.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 38 (15.51%) Data Analytics
8 35 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 34 (13.88%) Data Engineering
9 34 (13.88%) User Experience
10 32 (13.06%) CI/CD
10 32 (13.06%) Data Analysis
10 32 (13.06%) Data Pipeline
10 32 (13.06%) ETL
11 31 (12.65%) Validation
12 30 (12.24%) Data Science
13 28 (11.43%) AI
14 27 (11.02%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 75 (30.61%) Python
1 75 (30.61%) SQL
2 13 (5.31%) R
3 10 (4.08%) PowerShell
3 10 (4.08%) VBA
4 8 (3.27%) Java
5 6 (2.45%) Kusto Query Language
5 6 (2.45%) PL/SQL
6 5 (2.04%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.04%) Scala
7 4 (1.63%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.22%) Bash
8 3 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (1.22%) Perl
8 3 (1.22%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.22%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.82%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.41%) Bicep
10 1 (0.41%) LookML
10 1 (0.41%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 34 (13.88%) Security Cleared
2 27 (11.02%) SC Cleared
3 21 (8.57%) Degree
4 12 (4.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.04%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.63%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.82%) CISM
8 2 (0.82%) CISSP
8 2 (0.82%) GCIA
8 2 (0.82%) GCIH
8 2 (0.82%) PMP
8 2 (0.82%) Postgraduate
8 2 (0.82%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.41%) CBAP
9 1 (0.41%) CCNP
9 1 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.41%) ISEB
9 1 (0.41%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (18.37%) Data Quality
2 25 (10.20%) Accessibility
3 18 (7.35%) GDPR
4 15 (6.12%) QA
5 7 (2.86%) NIST
6 6 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (2.04%) PMO
8 4 (1.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (1.22%) WCAG
10 2 (0.82%) HL7
10 2 (0.82%) NCSC
11 1 (0.41%) PERC
11 1 (0.41%) PSD2
11 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (5.31%) Docker
2 9 (3.67%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.22%) HDFS
5 1 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.41%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (5.71%) Kubernetes
1 14 (5.71%) Terraform
2 6 (2.45%) Ansible
3 4 (1.63%) Progress Chef
3 4 (1.63%) Puppet
4 3 (1.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (1.22%) Hadoop YARN
4 3 (1.22%) Kibana
4 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.22%) SCCM
5 2 (0.82%) Fluentd
5 2 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.41%) Grafana
Vendors
1 56 (22.86%) Microsoft
2 33 (13.47%) Google
3 20 (8.16%) Databricks
3 20 (8.16%) SAP
4 14 (5.71%) Salesforce
5 7 (2.86%) Pega
5 7 (2.86%) Splunk
6 4 (1.63%) Cloudera
6 4 (1.63%) Cognos
6 4 (1.63%) Genesys
6 4 (1.63%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.63%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.63%) UiPath
6 4 (1.63%) VMware
7 3 (1.22%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.22%) Citrix
7 3 (1.22%) Informatica
7 3 (1.22%) LogRhythm
7 3 (1.22%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.82%) Talend