Analytics Contract Job Trends in the South East

Analytics
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Analytics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 53 45
Rank change year-on-year -6 -8 +5
Contract jobs citing Analytics 149 150 250
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.64% 3.61% 4.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.17% 4.24% 5.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 106 175
10th Percentile £365 £302 £418
25th Percentile £447 £378 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £505 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -8.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £638
90th Percentile £756 £681 £750
England median daily rate £521 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -5.23% -2.65% -1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 16
10th Percentile £18.80 - £21.05
25th Percentile £22.50 £27.00 £28.38
Median hourly rate £30.11 £29.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.83% -27.50% +7.17%
75th Percentile £70.16 £62.39 £66.38
90th Percentile £75.90 £64.73 £79.78
England median hourly rate £45.00 £35.00 £37.19
% change year-on-year +28.57% -5.89% +5.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,577 3,536 4,805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 87.50% 85.10% 89.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,259 2,171 3,124
10th Percentile £222 £260 £217
25th Percentile £400 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -0.96% +1.46%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £615
90th Percentile £675 £688 £690
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 402 162 249
10th Percentile £14.50 £16.03 £16.40
25th Percentile £16.50 £27.00 £25.00
Median hourly rate £21.41 £57.50 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.76% +7.48% +20.25%
75th Percentile £46.78 £70.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.87% -21.42% +26.76%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Analytics job vacancy trend in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Analytics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Analytics

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytics in the South East over the 6 months to 22 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytics in the South East

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Analytics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Analytics

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytics in the South East over the 6 months to 22 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytics in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analytics within the South East region over the 6 months to 22 November 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
Thames Valley -8 85 £525 -4.55% 143
Berkshire -4 66 £550 +4.76% 51
Hampshire +8 32 £500 +21.88% 56
Surrey -2 17 £300 -6.25% 50
Oxfordshire -2 10 £488 - 50
Buckinghamshire +1 9 £475 -18.98% 43
West Sussex -6 7 £515 +22.62% 32
Kent +1 1 - - 40
East Sussex - 1 £488 - 18
Analytics
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (4.03%) GeoServer
1 6 (4.03%) Smallworld
2 4 (2.68%) Confluence
3 3 (2.01%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.34%) CMS
4 2 (1.34%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.67%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.67%) nginx
5 1 (0.67%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (8.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.70%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.34%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.67%) CapCut
4 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.67%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.67%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (2.01%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (2.01%) SAP ERP
1 3 (2.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.34%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (1.34%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (1.34%) SAP GRC
2 2 (1.34%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.67%) iTrent
3 1 (0.67%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.67%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 53 (35.57%) Azure
2 30 (20.13%) Power Platform
3 26 (17.45%) AWS
4 15 (10.07%) GCP
5 13 (8.72%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (8.05%) Entra ID
7 8 (5.37%) Azure Monitor
7 8 (5.37%) GitHub
7 8 (5.37%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (4.70%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (4.70%) Serverless
9 5 (3.36%) SaaS
9 5 (3.36%) Snowflake
10 4 (2.68%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.68%) Azure Functions
10 4 (2.68%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (2.68%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (2.68%) Google Analytics
10 4 (2.68%) Slack
11 3 (2.01%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.01%) Network Security
2 2 (1.34%) 2G
2 2 (1.34%) 5G
2 2 (1.34%) Bluetooth
2 2 (1.34%) LTE
2 2 (1.34%) Mobile Backhaul
2 2 (1.34%) SSL
2 2 (1.34%) Unified Communications
2 2 (1.34%) VoIP
2 2 (1.34%) WebEx
3 1 (0.67%) DNS
3 1 (0.67%) Firewall
3 1 (0.67%) HTTP
3 1 (0.67%) LAN
3 1 (0.67%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.67%) VPN
3 1 (0.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (19.46%) Power BI
2 18 (12.08%) Tableau
3 14 (9.40%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (5.37%) Relational Database
5 7 (4.70%) Data Lake
5 7 (4.70%) GIS
5 7 (4.70%) Metadata
5 7 (4.70%) SQL Server
6 6 (4.03%) Geospatial Data
6 6 (4.03%) QGIS
7 4 (2.68%) Big Data
7 4 (2.68%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.68%) NoSQL
8 3 (2.01%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (2.01%) Electronic Patient Records
8 3 (2.01%) MySQL
8 3 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (2.01%) Qlik Sense
8 3 (2.01%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.34%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 8 (5.37%) JIRA
2 7 (4.70%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.03%) GitLab
4 5 (3.36%) Git
5 4 (2.68%) Android Studio
5 4 (2.68%) Gradle
6 3 (2.01%) Maven
7 2 (1.34%) WiX
8 1 (0.67%) MLflow
8 1 (0.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 70 (46.98%) Social Skills
2 36 (24.16%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (14.09%) Finance
4 13 (8.72%) Public Sector
5 11 (7.38%) Marketing
6 8 (5.37%) Retail
7 7 (4.70%) Telecoms
8 5 (3.36%) Banking
8 5 (3.36%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.68%) Aerospace
9 4 (2.68%) General Ledger
9 4 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.01%) French Language
10 3 (2.01%) German Language
10 3 (2.01%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.34%) Electronics
11 2 (1.34%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 33 (22.15%) Analyst
2 21 (14.09%) Architect
3 18 (12.08%) Data Analyst
4 17 (11.41%) Developer
5 13 (8.72%) Senior
6 11 (7.38%) Lead
6 11 (7.38%) Solutions Architect
7 9 (6.04%) Azure Engineer
8 8 (5.37%) Business Analyst
9 6 (4.03%) Data Engineer
10 5 (3.36%) Consultant
10 5 (3.36%) Data Scientist
10 5 (3.36%) Technical Support
11 4 (2.68%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (2.68%) HR Data Analyst
11 4 (2.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (2.68%) Platform Engineer
11 4 (2.68%) SAP Consultant
11 4 (2.68%) Senior Analyst
11 4 (2.68%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.04%) Kafka
2 7 (4.70%) REST
3 4 (2.68%) .NET
3 4 (2.68%) CSS
3 4 (2.68%) Flask
3 4 (2.68%) OAuth
3 4 (2.68%) React
4 3 (2.01%) .NET Core
4 3 (2.01%) ARM Templates
4 3 (2.01%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (2.01%) GraphQL
4 3 (2.01%) HTML
4 3 (2.01%) OAuth2
4 3 (2.01%) OpenID
4 3 (2.01%) SAML
4 3 (2.01%) SOAP
4 3 (2.01%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.34%) Jest
5 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (1.34%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.05%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (7.38%) Algorithms
3 8 (5.37%) Cloud Native
3 8 (5.37%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.03%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (4.03%) Management Information System
4 6 (4.03%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (3.36%) Social Media
6 4 (2.68%) Blog
6 4 (2.68%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.01%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.01%) Educational Technology
7 3 (2.01%) IoT
7 3 (2.01%) LIMS
7 3 (2.01%) NHS
7 3 (2.01%) PACS
7 3 (2.01%) Replication
7 3 (2.01%) Smart Meter
8 2 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.34%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.38%) Windows
2 10 (6.71%) Linux
3 4 (2.68%) Android
3 4 (2.68%) Mac OS
3 4 (2.68%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.34%) Unix
5 1 (0.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (31.54%) Agile
2 39 (26.17%) Business Intelligence
2 39 (26.17%) DevOps
3 38 (25.50%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (23.49%) AI
5 33 (22.15%) Machine Learning
6 32 (21.48%) Visualisation
7 30 (20.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 28 (18.79%) Data Governance
9 25 (16.78%) Data Science
9 25 (16.78%) Decision-Making
10 24 (16.11%) Data Modelling
11 22 (14.77%) CI/CD
11 22 (14.77%) Data Analytics
11 22 (14.77%) Data Visualisation
11 22 (14.77%) Stakeholder Management
12 21 (14.09%) Validation
13 20 (13.42%) Roadmaps
14 19 (12.75%) Data Analysis
15 18 (12.08%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 41 (27.52%) Python
2 40 (26.85%) SQL
3 17 (11.41%) Java
4 11 (7.38%) PowerShell
4 11 (7.38%) R
5 10 (6.71%) JavaScript
6 8 (5.37%) Bash
7 4 (2.68%) Bicep
7 4 (2.68%) C#
8 3 (2.01%) ABAP
8 3 (2.01%) PHP
8 3 (2.01%) Scala
9 2 (1.34%) C++
9 2 (1.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.34%) Perl
9 2 (1.34%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.34%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 26 (17.45%) Security Cleared
2 23 (15.44%) Degree
3 20 (13.42%) SC Cleared
4 12 (8.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (5.37%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.68%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (2.01%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.34%) CCA
8 2 (1.34%) Citrix Certification
8 2 (1.34%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.67%) ACCA
9 1 (0.67%) CIMA
9 1 (0.67%) CIPFA
9 1 (0.67%) CISSP
9 1 (0.67%) GCFA
9 1 (0.67%) GCIA
9 1 (0.67%) GCIH
9 1 (0.67%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (16.78%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.38%) GDPR
3 7 (4.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (3.36%) QA
5 3 (2.01%) Def Stans
5 3 (2.01%) GRC
5 3 (2.01%) NIST
6 2 (1.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.67%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.67%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.67%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.67%) HL7
7 1 (0.67%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.67%) NCSC
7 1 (0.67%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.67%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (7.38%) Active Directory
2 8 (5.37%) Docker
3 3 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (9.40%) Kubernetes
2 11 (7.38%) Terraform
3 4 (2.68%) Grafana
3 4 (2.68%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (2.68%) SCCM
4 3 (2.01%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.34%) Cisco CUCM
5 2 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.67%) Ansible
6 1 (0.67%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 26 (17.45%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.38%) Oracle
3 10 (6.71%) Databricks
3 10 (6.71%) SAP
4 7 (4.70%) Google
4 7 (4.70%) VMware
5 6 (4.03%) ESRI
5 6 (4.03%) Foundry
5 6 (4.03%) Intergraph
5 6 (4.03%) Palantir
6 5 (3.36%) Workday
7 4 (2.68%) Adobe
7 4 (2.68%) Citrix
7 4 (2.68%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.01%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.34%) Cisco
9 2 (1.34%) Cognos
9 2 (1.34%) Dell
9 2 (1.34%) HubSpot
9 2 (1.34%) Virgin Media