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 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 49 56
Rank change year-on-year -12 +7 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytics 145 142 186
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.30% 4.02% 3.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.92% 4.54% 4.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 96 136
10th Percentile £313 £291 £413
25th Percentile £413 £363 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £580
Median % change year-on-year - -13.79% +14.62%
75th Percentile £581 £614 £641
90th Percentile £688 £690 £750
England median daily rate £519 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -5.73% -1.79% -2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 12
10th Percentile - - £32.32
25th Percentile £22.50 £27.00 £34.33
Median hourly rate £30.11 £29.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.83% -53.23% +132.60%
75th Percentile £70.16 £62.39 £79.78
90th Percentile £78.76 £64.73 £83.98
England median hourly rate £50.25 £32.50 £43.50
% change year-on-year +54.62% -25.29% +24.29%

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 3,702 3,127 4,423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.37% 88.53% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,444 1,941 2,835
10th Percentile £223 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £403 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £518
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -1.54% +1.57%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £615
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 343 119 246
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.84 £18.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £26.13 £27.13
Median hourly rate £22.50 £47.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.38% -14.10% +37.50%
75th Percentile £51.29 £63.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £77.00 £74.89 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.35%

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 2 January 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 2 January 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 2 January 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 -12 82 £500 -9.09% 51
Berkshire -13 59 £500 -0.99% 22
Hampshire -4 27 £503 +34.00% 25
Surrey -13 17 £300 -17.81% 26
Buckinghamshire -1 14 £431 -26.91% 17
West Sussex -7 10 £475 +35.71% 13
Oxfordshire -9 9 £500 -28.57% 13
East Sussex +4 1 £600 +54.84% 10
Kent - 1 £250 - 24
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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 10 (6.90%) Confluence
2 8 (5.52%) GeoServer
2 8 (5.52%) Smallworld
3 6 (4.14%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.38%) ArcGIS
4 2 (1.38%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.69%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.69%) CMS
5 1 (0.69%) Jupyter
Applications
1 11 (7.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.83%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.07%) Chatbot
4 2 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.38%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.69%) CapCut
5 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.07%) SAP ERP
2 2 (1.38%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (1.38%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (1.38%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.69%) iTrent
3 1 (0.69%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.69%) SAP QM
3 1 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 54 (37.24%) Azure
2 29 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 20 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (11.03%) AWS
5 14 (9.66%) Azure Monitor
6 12 (8.28%) Entra ID
7 10 (6.90%) GCP
8 9 (6.21%) Azure Key Vault
8 9 (6.21%) GitHub
9 7 (4.83%) Azure Functions
9 7 (4.83%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (4.83%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (4.83%) Serverless
10 6 (4.14%) IaaS
10 6 (4.14%) SaaS
11 5 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (3.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (2.76%) Azure Sentinel
12 4 (2.76%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.07%) Firewall
1 3 (2.07%) Network Security
2 2 (1.38%) 2G
2 2 (1.38%) 5G
2 2 (1.38%) Bluetooth
2 2 (1.38%) LTE
2 2 (1.38%) Mobile Backhaul
2 2 (1.38%) SSL
2 2 (1.38%) Unified Communications
2 2 (1.38%) VoIP
2 2 (1.38%) WebEx
3 1 (0.69%) DNS
3 1 (0.69%) HTTP
3 1 (0.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (20.00%) Power BI
2 15 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (10.34%) Tableau
3 12 (8.28%) Metadata
4 9 (6.21%) Data Lake
5 8 (5.52%) Geospatial Data
5 8 (5.52%) GIS
5 8 (5.52%) QGIS
6 7 (4.83%) Relational Database
6 7 (4.83%) SQL Server
7 6 (4.14%) Big Data
8 4 (2.76%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.76%) Star Schema
9 3 (2.07%) Electronic Patient Records
9 3 (2.07%) MySQL
9 3 (2.07%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 3 (2.07%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (2.07%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.38%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 14 (9.66%) JIRA
2 6 (4.14%) Git
2 6 (4.14%) GitLab
3 4 (2.76%) Android Studio
3 4 (2.76%) Gradle
3 4 (2.76%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.07%) Maven
5 2 (1.38%) WiX
6 1 (0.69%) MLflow
6 1 (0.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 66 (45.52%) Social Skills
2 32 (22.07%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (17.93%) Finance
4 19 (13.10%) Public Sector
5 10 (6.90%) Marketing
6 8 (5.52%) Retail
7 5 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.45%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.45%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.76%) General Ledger
8 4 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.07%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.07%) Banking
9 3 (2.07%) Billing
9 3 (2.07%) French Language
9 3 (2.07%) German Language
9 3 (2.07%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.38%) Electronics
10 2 (1.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 34 (23.45%) Analyst
2 22 (15.17%) Architect
2 22 (15.17%) Data Analyst
3 14 (9.66%) Azure Engineer
4 13 (8.97%) Senior
5 9 (6.21%) Consultant
5 9 (6.21%) Developer
5 9 (6.21%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (5.52%) Lead
7 6 (4.14%) Business Analyst
7 6 (4.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (3.45%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (3.45%) Data Architect
8 5 (3.45%) Data Engineer
8 5 (3.45%) Data Scientist
8 5 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (3.45%) GIS Architect
9 4 (2.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 4 (2.76%) Data Analytics Engineer
9 4 (2.76%) HR Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.90%) REST
2 6 (4.14%) ARM Templates
3 5 (3.45%) SOAP
4 4 (2.76%) Flask
4 4 (2.76%) Kafka
4 4 (2.76%) PySpark
5 3 (2.07%) .NET
5 3 (2.07%) .NET Core
5 3 (2.07%) ADO
5 3 (2.07%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (2.07%) GraphQL
5 3 (2.07%) OAuth
5 3 (2.07%) OAuth2
5 3 (2.07%) OpenID
5 3 (2.07%) SAML
5 3 (2.07%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.38%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.38%) ASP.NET
6 2 (1.38%) JSON
6 2 (1.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (5.52%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.14%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.14%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (3.45%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.45%) Social Media
5 4 (2.76%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.76%) Blog
5 4 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.76%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.07%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.07%) Educational Technology
6 3 (2.07%) IoT
6 3 (2.07%) LIMS
6 3 (2.07%) NHS
6 3 (2.07%) PACS
6 3 (2.07%) Replication
6 3 (2.07%) Smart Meter
7 2 (1.38%) Podcast
8 1 (0.69%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.21%) Windows
2 8 (5.52%) Linux
3 4 (2.76%) Android
4 2 (1.38%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.38%) Unix
4 2 (1.38%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (28.97%) Agile
2 39 (26.90%) Business Intelligence
3 38 (26.21%) DevOps
4 36 (24.83%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (20.69%) Data Governance
6 29 (20.00%) AI
7 27 (18.62%) Decision-Making
8 25 (17.24%) Data Modelling
8 25 (17.24%) Machine Learning
9 24 (16.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 24 (16.55%) Visualisation
10 21 (14.48%) Data Analysis
11 19 (13.10%) Roadmaps
12 18 (12.41%) Data Analytics
12 18 (12.41%) ETL
13 17 (11.72%) Continuous Improvement
14 16 (11.03%) CI/CD
14 16 (11.03%) Stakeholder Management
15 15 (10.34%) Migration
15 15 (10.34%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 39 (26.90%) Python
1 39 (26.90%) SQL
2 13 (8.97%) Java
3 12 (8.28%) PowerShell
4 9 (6.21%) R
5 8 (5.52%) Bash
5 8 (5.52%) JavaScript
6 7 (4.83%) Bicep
7 4 (2.76%) PL/SQL
8 3 (2.07%) C#
8 3 (2.07%) PHP
9 2 (1.38%) ABAP
9 2 (1.38%) C++
9 2 (1.38%) Perl
9 2 (1.38%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 32 (22.07%) Security Cleared
2 22 (15.17%) SC Cleared
3 18 (12.41%) Degree
4 7 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.45%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.45%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.76%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.38%) CCA
7 2 (1.38%) CISSP
7 2 (1.38%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.69%) CFCE
8 1 (0.69%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.69%) GCFA
8 1 (0.69%) GCIA
8 1 (0.69%) GCIH
8 1 (0.69%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.69%) PMP
8 1 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (19.31%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.83%) GDPR
3 6 (4.14%) QA
4 4 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.07%) Def Stans
5 3 (2.07%) NIST
6 2 (1.38%) NCSC
7 1 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.69%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.69%) GRC
7 1 (0.69%) HL7
7 1 (0.69%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.69%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (6.21%) Active Directory
2 8 (5.52%) Docker
3 1 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (11.03%) Terraform
2 11 (7.59%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.45%) Grafana
4 3 (2.07%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.38%) Ansible
5 2 (1.38%) Cisco CUCM
5 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.38%) Puppet
5 2 (1.38%) SCCM
5 2 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.69%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 29 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.97%) Databricks
3 12 (8.28%) Oracle
4 8 (5.52%) ESRI
4 8 (5.52%) Intergraph
5 6 (4.14%) Foundry
5 6 (4.14%) Google
5 6 (4.14%) Palantir
6 5 (3.45%) SAP
6 5 (3.45%) VMware
6 5 (3.45%) Workday
7 4 (2.76%) Adobe
7 4 (2.76%) Informatica
7 4 (2.76%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.07%) OpenAI
8 3 (2.07%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.38%) HubSpot
9 2 (1.38%) Talend
9 2 (1.38%) TikTok
9 2 (1.38%) YouTube