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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 52 52
Rank change year-on-year +14 0 -12
Contract jobs citing Analytics 348 133 173
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 5.27% 3.79% 3.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.55% 4.26% 4.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 79 112
10th Percentile £333 £308 £313
25th Percentile £455 £419 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% - -3.67%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £619
90th Percentile £700 £765 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 9 5
10th Percentile £16.38 £13.25 -
25th Percentile £33.81 £22.50 £27.00
Median hourly rate £75.00 £30.11 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +149.09% +3.83% -10.22%
75th Percentile £83.27 £32.05 £60.06
90th Percentile £87.14 £70.16 £62.86
England median hourly rate £52.50 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +50.00% +7.69% -8.13%

All Process & 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 5,309 3,125 3,761
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.34% 89.03% 82.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,157 1,952 2,244
10th Percentile £275 £220 £257
25th Percentile £420 £375 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £511
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.07% -1.81%
75th Percentile £616 £588 £625
90th Percentile £713 £650 £688
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 636 306 230
10th Percentile £13.45 £13.38 £16.23
25th Percentile £16.55 £15.91 £30.62
Median hourly rate £50.00 £22.13 £57.43
Median % change year-on-year +125.94% -61.46% +7.34%
75th Percentile £70.00 £50.00 £70.43
90th Percentile £87.83 £69.20 £77.17
England median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.05%

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 25 September 2026.

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 25 September 2026.

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 25 September 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
Thames Valley +14 199 £525 -4.55% 386
Berkshire +7 128 £525 -4.55% 211
Hampshire -14 50 £500 +2.56% 101
Buckinghamshire +3 42 £538 -8.51% 95
Surrey +4 39 £500 +66.67% 120
Oxfordshire -12 29 £525 +15.07% 81
West Sussex -4 25 £456 -11.41% 45
Middlesex - 21 £570 - 3
East Sussex +6 7 £513 +5.13% 52
Kent +1 5 £625 - 24
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 20 (5.75%) Oracle Application Server
2 12 (3.45%) Confluence
3 4 (1.15%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.86%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (0.57%) Apache
5 2 (0.57%) Apache Superset
5 2 (0.57%) CMS
6 1 (0.29%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.29%) SAS
Applications
1 17 (4.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.72%) CPLEX
3 5 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.15%) Chatbot
4 4 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.15%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.29%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.57%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 2 (0.57%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.29%) Cognos Controller
4 1 (0.29%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.29%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.29%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 134 (38.51%) Azure
2 72 (20.69%) Power Platform
3 46 (13.22%) AWS
4 40 (11.49%) GCP
5 32 (9.20%) Entra ID
6 27 (7.76%) Azure Monitor
7 22 (6.32%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (4.31%) Azure Data Factory
9 12 (3.45%) SaaS
10 10 (2.87%) dbt
11 9 (2.59%) Azure Key Vault
11 9 (2.59%) GitHub
12 8 (2.30%) Azure AKS
12 8 (2.30%) Azure Sentinel
12 8 (2.30%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (2.30%) Snowflake
13 7 (2.01%) Azure App Service
13 7 (2.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (2.01%) Microsoft Copilot
14 6 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.60%) Broadband
2 13 (3.74%) DNS
2 13 (3.74%) Network Security
3 9 (2.59%) Firewall
3 9 (2.59%) VPN
4 8 (2.30%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.72%) DHCP
5 6 (1.72%) SSH
6 3 (0.86%) BGP
7 2 (0.57%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.57%) SAN
8 1 (0.29%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.29%) EIGRP
8 1 (0.29%) LAN
8 1 (0.29%) OSPF
8 1 (0.29%) SSL
8 1 (0.29%) VLAN
8 1 (0.29%) VRRP
8 1 (0.29%) WAN
8 1 (0.29%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (20.11%) Power BI
2 49 (14.08%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (5.75%) Oracle ODI
3 20 (5.75%) Oracle Reports
4 17 (4.89%) Tableau
5 16 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (4.60%) Relational Database
6 12 (3.45%) Data Lake
6 12 (3.45%) NoSQL
7 11 (3.16%) Metadata
8 7 (2.01%) BigQuery
9 6 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.72%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (1.15%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (1.15%) Couchbase
10 4 (1.15%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.15%) MySQL
10 4 (1.15%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 23 (6.61%) Git
2 10 (2.87%) JIRA
3 8 (2.30%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.15%) JUnit
5 1 (0.29%) GitLab
5 1 (0.29%) MSI
5 1 (0.29%) RStudio
General
1 113 (32.47%) Social Skills
2 50 (14.37%) Analytical Skills
3 43 (12.36%) Public Sector
4 40 (11.49%) Finance
5 18 (5.17%) Retail
6 16 (4.60%) Marketing
7 13 (3.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (3.16%) Telecoms
10 9 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (2.30%) Aerospace
11 8 (2.30%) Military
11 8 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (2.30%) Publishing
12 7 (2.01%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.72%) Billing
13 6 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (1.44%) Automotive
14 5 (1.44%) Banking
14 5 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (14.94%) Senior
2 47 (13.51%) Analyst
3 40 (11.49%) Developer
4 33 (9.48%) Data Engineer
5 30 (8.62%) Lead
6 29 (8.33%) Architect
7 20 (5.75%) Data Analyst
8 18 (5.17%) Consultant
9 17 (4.89%) Data Scientist
9 17 (4.89%) Oracle Developer
10 16 (4.60%) Solutions Architect
11 14 (4.02%) Technical Leader
12 12 (3.45%) Data Warehouse Developer
13 11 (3.16%) Analytics Manager
13 11 (3.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (3.16%) Oracle Data Warehouse Developer
13 11 (3.16%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 10 (2.87%) Data Architect
14 10 (2.87%) IAM Specialist
14 10 (2.87%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (8.05%) Terraform
2 25 (7.18%) OAuth
3 23 (6.61%) LDAP
4 22 (6.32%) OpenID
5 20 (5.75%) OAuth2
6 19 (5.46%) RESTful
7 18 (5.17%) SAML
8 15 (4.31%) Django
9 14 (4.02%) PySpark
10 13 (3.74%) ARM Templates
10 13 (3.74%) REST
10 13 (3.74%) SailPoint
10 13 (3.74%) Web Services
11 12 (3.45%) HTML
12 11 (3.16%) CSS
13 9 (2.59%) OpenAPI
13 9 (2.59%) Swagger
14 8 (2.30%) React
15 7 (2.01%) pytest
15 7 (2.01%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.03%) Onboarding
2 18 (5.17%) Cloud Native
2 18 (5.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 17 (4.89%) Management Information System
4 16 (4.60%) Social Media
5 14 (4.02%) Product Ownership
6 11 (3.16%) Data Structures
7 9 (2.59%) Algorithms
8 8 (2.30%) AI Agents
9 7 (2.01%) ARM Cortex
9 7 (2.01%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.72%) IVR
11 5 (1.44%) Media Streaming
12 4 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (0.86%) Data Centre
13 3 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
13 3 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (7.18%) Windows
2 17 (4.89%) Linux
3 15 (4.31%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.44%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.15%) Unix
6 2 (0.57%) AIX
6 2 (0.57%) HPUX
6 2 (0.57%) Solaris
7 1 (0.29%) Android
7 1 (0.29%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (24.14%) Agile
1 84 (24.14%) Business Intelligence
2 80 (22.99%) Data Modelling
3 79 (22.70%) Stakeholder Management
4 76 (21.84%) AI
5 72 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
6 68 (19.54%) DevOps
7 59 (16.95%) CI/CD
7 59 (16.95%) Continuous Improvement
8 56 (16.09%) Data Governance
8 56 (16.09%) Decision-Making
9 53 (15.23%) Data Engineering
10 50 (14.37%) Roadmaps
11 47 (13.51%) Data Analytics
12 44 (12.64%) ETL
13 43 (12.36%) Data Pipeline
13 43 (12.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 42 (12.07%) Data Science
15 40 (11.49%) Migration
16 36 (10.34%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 81 (23.28%) SQL
2 76 (21.84%) Python
3 40 (11.49%) PowerShell
4 15 (4.31%) JavaScript
5 14 (4.02%) Bash
6 13 (3.74%) Bicep
7 8 (2.30%) PL/SQL
8 7 (2.01%) C#
9 6 (1.72%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (1.15%) Java
12 2 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.57%) R
12 2 (0.57%) VBA
13 1 (0.29%) Korn
Qualifications
1 102 (29.31%) Security Cleared
2 75 (21.55%) SC Cleared
3 43 (12.36%) Degree
4 19 (5.46%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (3.74%) DV Cleared
6 11 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (2.87%) Azure Certification
7 10 (2.87%) PMI Certification
8 8 (2.30%) Master's Degree
8 8 (2.30%) PMP
9 5 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.15%) DBS Check
10 4 (1.15%) MCITP
11 3 (0.86%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.86%) CISSP
11 3 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.57%) MBA
12 2 (0.57%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 2 (0.57%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (19.83%) Data Quality
2 19 (5.46%) QA
3 12 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (3.45%) NIST
4 10 (2.87%) GDPR
5 9 (2.59%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.72%) Actionable Recommendations
6 6 (1.72%) PMO
7 4 (1.15%) SLA
8 3 (0.86%) GMP
9 2 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.57%) GAAP
9 2 (0.57%) GRC
9 2 (0.57%) IFRS
9 2 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.29%) ITGC
10 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 42 (12.07%) Active Directory
2 18 (5.17%) Docker
3 8 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (7.76%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.45%) Ansible
3 9 (2.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (2.30%) SCCM
5 6 (1.72%) Grafana
5 6 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.44%) SCOM
7 4 (1.15%) QRadar
8 3 (0.86%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.57%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.29%) Check_MK
10 1 (0.29%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.29%) Podman
10 1 (0.29%) Rancher
10 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 102 (29.31%) Microsoft
2 50 (14.37%) Databricks
3 38 (10.92%) Oracle
4 23 (6.61%) SAP
5 16 (4.60%) Google
6 13 (3.74%) CyberArk
7 9 (2.59%) ServiceNow
7 9 (2.59%) VMware
8 8 (2.30%) Salesforce
9 7 (2.01%) CrowdStrike
9 7 (2.01%) Workday
10 6 (1.72%) Adobe
10 6 (1.72%) Ariba
11 5 (1.44%) Baan
12 4 (1.15%) Foundry
12 4 (1.15%) Palantir
13 3 (0.86%) LogRhythm
13 3 (0.86%) Red Hat
13 3 (0.86%) Splunk
13 3 (0.86%) Talend