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

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 41 51
Rank change year-on-year -4 +10 +4
Contract jobs citing Analytics 224 156 194
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.14% 5.23% 3.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.00% 5.68% 3.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 110 120
10th Percentile £340 £278 £325
25th Percentile £413 £357 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £472 £575
Median % change year-on-year +6.04% -18.00% +16.16%
75th Percentile £578 £600 £625
90th Percentile £650 £656 £714
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 11
10th Percentile £47.95 £14.41 £41.25
25th Percentile £75.24 £15.25 £45.89
Median hourly rate £82.00 £28.00 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +192.86% -55.56% +108.40%
75th Percentile £84.31 £36.25 £82.11
90th Percentile £84.88 £53.34 £84.45
England median hourly rate £58.00 £31.64 £39.38
% change year-on-year +83.31% -19.64% +31.25%

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 4,481 2,746 4,883
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.90% 92.12% 86.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,939 1,747 2,898
10th Percentile £275 £257 £213
25th Percentile £406 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -0.99%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £615
90th Percentile £700 £675 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 391 150 401
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.16 £18.20
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.75 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.72% -7.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £80.05 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -4.41% +4.62% -13.33%

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 March 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 22 March 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 22 March 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 -3 120 £500 -4.76% 113
Berkshire -9 77 £500 +10.56% 62
Hampshire -21 46 £520 +32.91% 32
Buckinghamshire -14 30 £513 -13.87% 36
Surrey -1 29 £413 +13.01% 21
Oxfordshire -2 13 £550 -21.43% 15
West Sussex -14 12 £415 +12.93% 8
Kent -10 6 £250 -67.74% 22
East Sussex -2 2 £600 +26.32% 9
Middlesex - 2 £475 - 4
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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 8 (3.57%) Confluence
1 8 (3.57%) GeoServer
1 8 (3.57%) Smallworld
2 7 (3.13%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.34%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.34%) ArcGIS
3 3 (1.34%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.89%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.45%) Apache
5 1 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.45%) CMS
5 1 (0.45%) IIS
Applications
1 17 (7.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.79%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.34%) CPLEX
3 3 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.34%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (0.45%) CapCut
4 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.68%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.34%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (0.89%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.45%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.45%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 71 (31.70%) Azure
2 39 (17.41%) Power Platform
3 24 (10.71%) AWS
4 23 (10.27%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (8.93%) Azure Monitor
6 16 (7.14%) GCP
7 15 (6.70%) Entra ID
8 13 (5.80%) OCI
9 12 (5.36%) Azure Key Vault
10 11 (4.91%) GitHub
11 10 (4.46%) dbt
12 9 (4.02%) Azure Sentinel
12 9 (4.02%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (4.02%) IaaS
13 8 (3.57%) Azure Logic Apps
14 7 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (3.13%) Azure Functions
14 7 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
14 7 (3.13%) Serverless
14 7 (3.13%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.57%) Firewall
2 7 (3.13%) Network Security
2 7 (3.13%) VPN
3 4 (1.79%) SD-WAN
3 4 (1.79%) WAN
4 3 (1.34%) VoIP
5 2 (0.89%) 2G
5 2 (0.89%) 5G
5 2 (0.89%) Bluetooth
5 2 (0.89%) DNS
5 2 (0.89%) LTE
5 2 (0.89%) Mobile Backhaul
5 2 (0.89%) SSL
5 2 (0.89%) Unified Communications
5 2 (0.89%) WebEx
6 1 (0.45%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.45%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.45%) Multicast
6 1 (0.45%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.45%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (16.07%) Power BI
2 21 (9.38%) Metadata
3 20 (8.93%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (7.59%) Tableau
5 11 (4.91%) Oracle Reports
6 10 (4.46%) Big Data
7 9 (4.02%) GIS
8 8 (3.57%) Geospatial Data
8 8 (3.57%) QGIS
8 8 (3.57%) Relational Database
8 8 (3.57%) SQL Server
9 7 (3.13%) Data Lake
9 7 (3.13%) MongoDB
9 7 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (2.68%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 5 (2.23%) Metadata Repository
11 5 (2.23%) NoSQL
11 5 (2.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (2.23%) Star Schema
11 5 (2.23%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 11 (4.91%) Git
1 11 (4.91%) JIRA
2 5 (2.23%) Android Studio
2 5 (2.23%) GitLab
2 5 (2.23%) Gradle
2 5 (2.23%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.34%) Maven
4 2 (0.89%) fastlane
4 2 (0.89%) WiX
5 1 (0.45%) Crashlytics
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.45%) Xcode
General
1 89 (39.73%) Social Skills
2 53 (23.66%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (15.63%) Public Sector
4 30 (13.39%) Finance
5 14 (6.25%) Marketing
6 7 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.23%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.79%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.79%) Banking
9 4 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.79%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.34%) Billing
10 3 (1.34%) Legal
10 3 (1.34%) Publishing
11 2 (0.89%) Advertising
11 2 (0.89%) Law
11 2 (0.89%) Mandarin Language
11 2 (0.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (18.30%) Analyst
2 28 (12.50%) Data Analyst
3 27 (12.05%) Architect
4 22 (9.82%) Data Engineer
5 19 (8.48%) Developer
6 18 (8.04%) Senior
7 13 (5.80%) Azure Engineer
8 11 (4.91%) Lead
9 10 (4.46%) Accountant
10 9 (4.02%) Consultant
10 9 (4.02%) Systems Accountant
11 8 (3.57%) Data Scientist
12 7 (3.13%) Data Architect
13 6 (2.68%) Business Analyst
13 6 (2.68%) DevOps Engineer
13 6 (2.68%) Oracle Consultant
13 6 (2.68%) Platform Engineer
14 5 (2.23%) Android Developer
14 5 (2.23%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 5 (2.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.46%) Oracle Fusion
1 10 (4.46%) REST
2 9 (4.02%) ARM Templates
3 7 (3.13%) CSS
3 7 (3.13%) Flask
3 7 (3.13%) PySpark
4 6 (2.68%) Kafka
4 6 (2.68%) Node.js
5 5 (2.23%) AngularJS
5 5 (2.23%) Faiss
5 5 (2.23%) OAuth
5 5 (2.23%) React
5 5 (2.23%) RESTful
6 4 (1.79%) .NET Core
6 4 (1.79%) HTML
6 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Graph
6 4 (1.79%) OpenID
6 4 (1.79%) PyTorch
6 4 (1.79%) SOAP
6 4 (1.79%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.93%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (5.36%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.91%) Product Ownership
4 9 (4.02%) Algorithms
5 8 (3.57%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (1.79%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.79%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.79%) LIMS
6 4 (1.79%) NHS
6 4 (1.79%) PACS
6 4 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.79%) Social Media
7 3 (1.34%) Blog
7 3 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.34%) IoT
7 3 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.34%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.34%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.02%) Windows
2 6 (2.68%) Android
3 4 (1.79%) Linux
3 4 (1.79%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.89%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.89%) VMS
5 1 (0.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (26.79%) Agile
2 52 (23.21%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (22.32%) Business Intelligence
4 48 (21.43%) DevOps
5 45 (20.09%) Data Governance
6 44 (19.64%) AI
7 43 (19.20%) Data Modelling
8 38 (16.96%) Machine Learning
9 37 (16.52%) Decision-Making
10 36 (16.07%) Validation
11 35 (15.63%) Migration
12 33 (14.73%) Continuous Improvement
13 32 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 30 (13.39%) Stakeholder Management
15 28 (12.50%) ETL
15 28 (12.50%) Visualisation
16 27 (12.05%) Data Analysis
17 24 (10.71%) Data Migration
17 24 (10.71%) Data Science
18 23 (10.27%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 56 (25.00%) Python
2 50 (22.32%) SQL
3 16 (7.14%) Java
4 13 (5.80%) PowerShell
5 11 (4.91%) Bicep
6 10 (4.46%) R
7 9 (4.02%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.68%) Bash
9 5 (2.23%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.79%) C#
10 4 (1.79%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (1.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.34%) PHP
11 3 (1.34%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.89%) C++
12 2 (0.89%) Go
13 1 (0.45%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.45%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.45%) Swift
Qualifications
1 65 (29.02%) Security Cleared
2 42 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 22 (9.82%) Degree
4 11 (4.91%) DV Cleared
5 10 (4.46%) Azure Certification
6 8 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.68%) Master's Degree
8 5 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (2.23%) PMI Certification
8 5 (2.23%) PMP
9 4 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.89%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.45%) CCDA
11 1 (0.45%) CCDP
11 1 (0.45%) CCIE
11 1 (0.45%) CCIP
11 1 (0.45%) CCNA
11 1 (0.45%) CCNP
11 1 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.45%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (20.09%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.46%) QA
3 5 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.79%) NCSC
5 3 (1.34%) Def Stans
5 3 (1.34%) GDPR
5 3 (1.34%) NIST
6 2 (0.89%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.89%) HL7
6 2 (0.89%) WCAG
7 1 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.45%) PMO
7 1 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (5.80%) Docker
2 10 (4.46%) Active Directory
3 8 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.34%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.45%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 20 (8.93%) Terraform
2 15 (6.70%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.68%) Ansible
4 5 (2.23%) Grafana
4 5 (2.23%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (2.23%) SCCM
5 3 (1.34%) Cisco CUCM
5 3 (1.34%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.89%) Nessus
6 2 (0.89%) OpenVAS
6 2 (0.89%) Puppet
6 2 (0.89%) Rancher
7 1 (0.45%) CASB
Vendors
1 43 (19.20%) Microsoft
2 19 (8.48%) Databricks
3 17 (7.59%) Oracle
4 11 (4.91%) VMware
5 9 (4.02%) Foundry
5 9 (4.02%) Google
6 8 (3.57%) ESRI
6 8 (3.57%) Intergraph
6 8 (3.57%) OpenAI
6 8 (3.57%) ServiceNow
7 7 (3.13%) Palantir
8 6 (2.68%) Informatica
9 4 (1.79%) Citrix
9 4 (1.79%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.34%) Cisco
10 3 (1.34%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.34%) HubSpot
11 2 (0.89%) Darktrace
11 2 (0.89%) Virgin Media
11 2 (0.89%) Workday