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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 50 52
Rank change year-on-year +15 +2 -10
Contract jobs citing Analytics 350 141 178
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 5.28% 3.99% 3.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.56% 4.47% 4.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 85 117
10th Percentile £349 £277 £312
25th Percentile £450 £402 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £650 £753 £713
England median daily rate £525 £525 £551
% change year-on-year - -4.72% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 10 5
10th Percentile £27.68 £13.25 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £14.20 £27.00
Median hourly rate £75.00 £31.08 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +141.31% +7.17% -10.22%
75th Percentile £83.62 £35.20 £60.06
90th Percentile £87.06 £70.16 £62.86
England median hourly rate £52.50 £34.98 £30.69
% change year-on-year +50.09% +14.00% -12.33%

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 5,337 3,153 3,927
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.51% 89.32% 82.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,256 1,962 2,362
10th Percentile £280 £238 £256
25th Percentile £421 £394 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £517
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.34% -0.53%
75th Percentile £619 £600 £638
90th Percentile £713 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 606 307 307
10th Percentile £13.48 £13.71 £15.00
25th Percentile £19.33 £15.50 £26.47
Median hourly rate £52.50 £23.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +128.26% -59.90% +14.70%
75th Percentile £71.32 £53.63 £70.29
90th Percentile £88.00 £69.65 £76.86
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -

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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 28 August 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 28 August 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 28 August 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 +12 193 £525 -4.55% 209
Berkshire +7 116 £500 -9.09% 95
Hampshire -5 58 £500 +11.11% 67
Buckinghamshire -1 47 £525 -10.64% 61
Surrey 0 40 £475 +58.33% 65
Oxfordshire -7 30 £575 +17.95% 54
West Sussex 0 27 £444 -9.72% 24
Middlesex - 15 £570 - 17
East Sussex +7 8 £513 -8.89% 34
Kent +4 6 £625 - 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 24 (6.86%) Oracle Application Server
2 10 (2.86%) Confluence
3 3 (0.86%) Palantir Foundry
3 3 (0.86%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.57%) Apache
4 2 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.57%) Apache Superset
4 2 (0.57%) CMS
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.29%) IIS
5 1 (0.29%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (3.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.29%) CPLEX
3 4 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.57%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.29%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.57%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 2 (0.57%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.29%) Cognos Controller
3 1 (0.29%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.29%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.29%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 140 (40.00%) Azure
2 64 (18.29%) Power Platform
3 47 (13.43%) AWS
4 41 (11.71%) GCP
5 32 (9.14%) Entra ID
6 30 (8.57%) Azure Monitor
7 25 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (3.71%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (3.14%) Azure Sentinel
9 11 (3.14%) SaaS
10 10 (2.86%) GitHub
11 9 (2.57%) Azure AKS
11 9 (2.57%) Azure Key Vault
11 9 (2.57%) dbt
11 9 (2.57%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (2.00%) Azure App Service
13 6 (1.71%) Azure API Management
13 6 (1.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (1.71%) Snowflake
14 4 (1.14%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.29%) Network Security
2 13 (3.71%) DNS
2 13 (3.71%) VPN
3 12 (3.43%) Firewall
4 10 (2.86%) Broadband
5 8 (2.29%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.71%) DHCP
6 6 (1.71%) SSH
7 4 (1.14%) SD-WAN
7 4 (1.14%) WAN
8 3 (0.86%) BGP
9 2 (0.57%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.57%) SAN
10 1 (0.29%) BIG-IP
10 1 (0.29%) EIGRP
10 1 (0.29%) LAN
10 1 (0.29%) OSPF
10 1 (0.29%) VLAN
10 1 (0.29%) VRRP
10 1 (0.29%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (18.00%) Power BI
2 54 (15.43%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (7.14%) Oracle Reports
4 24 (6.86%) Oracle ODI
5 18 (5.14%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (5.14%) Relational Database
5 18 (5.14%) Tableau
6 14 (4.00%) NoSQL
7 11 (3.14%) Data Lake
8 8 (2.29%) Metadata
8 8 (2.29%) MongoDB
9 7 (2.00%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.14%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (1.14%) Couchbase
11 4 (1.14%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.14%) MySQL
11 4 (1.14%) Pentaho
12 3 (0.86%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 27 (7.71%) Git
2 10 (2.86%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.29%) JIRA
4 4 (1.14%) JUnit
5 2 (0.57%) fastlane
6 1 (0.29%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.29%) Crashlytics
6 1 (0.29%) GitLab
6 1 (0.29%) Gradle
6 1 (0.29%) MSI
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.29%) RStudio
6 1 (0.29%) Xcode
General
1 111 (31.71%) Social Skills
2 51 (14.57%) Analytical Skills
3 49 (14.00%) Public Sector
4 35 (10.00%) Finance
5 17 (4.86%) Retail
6 15 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (4.29%) Marketing
7 13 (3.71%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (3.14%) Telecoms
9 9 (2.57%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (2.57%) Military
10 8 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (2.29%) Publishing
11 5 (1.43%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.43%) Billing
11 5 (1.43%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.14%) Banking
12 4 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.86%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 52 (14.86%) Analyst
2 51 (14.57%) Developer
2 51 (14.57%) Senior
3 32 (9.14%) Data Engineer
3 32 (9.14%) Lead
4 27 (7.71%) Architect
5 22 (6.29%) Data Analyst
6 20 (5.71%) Oracle Developer
7 17 (4.86%) Data Scientist
8 15 (4.29%) Consultant
8 15 (4.29%) Solutions Architect
9 12 (3.43%) Data Warehouse Developer
9 12 (3.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (3.43%) Technical Leader
10 11 (3.14%) Oracle Data Warehouse Developer
10 11 (3.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (2.86%) IAM Specialist
11 10 (2.86%) Senior Data Engineer
12 9 (2.57%) Data Architect
12 9 (2.57%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (8.29%) Terraform
2 25 (7.14%) OAuth
3 23 (6.57%) RESTful
4 22 (6.29%) OpenID
5 21 (6.00%) LDAP
6 20 (5.71%) OAuth2
7 18 (5.14%) SAML
8 17 (4.86%) Django
9 14 (4.00%) PySpark
10 13 (3.71%) ARM Templates
10 13 (3.71%) SailPoint
10 13 (3.71%) Web Services
11 12 (3.43%) HTML
11 12 (3.43%) REST
12 11 (3.14%) CSS
12 11 (3.14%) OpenAPI
12 11 (3.14%) Swagger
13 8 (2.29%) Flask
13 8 (2.29%) Pandas
13 8 (2.29%) React
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.14%) Cloud Native
1 18 (5.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 17 (4.86%) Onboarding
3 13 (3.71%) Data Structures
3 13 (3.71%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.43%) Algorithms
4 12 (3.43%) Management Information System
5 10 (2.86%) Social Media
6 9 (2.57%) Cyber Threat
7 7 (2.00%) ARM Cortex
8 6 (1.71%) AI Agents
8 6 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.43%) IVR
9 5 (1.43%) Media Streaming
10 4 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.86%) Credit Risk
11 3 (0.86%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.86%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 21 (6.00%) Windows
2 16 (4.57%) Linux
3 14 (4.00%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.14%) Unix
5 2 (0.57%) AIX
5 2 (0.57%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.57%) HPUX
5 2 (0.57%) Solaris
6 1 (0.29%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (26.57%) Agile
2 80 (22.86%) Data Modelling
3 78 (22.29%) Business Intelligence
4 70 (20.00%) DevOps
5 68 (19.43%) Stakeholder Management
6 66 (18.86%) AI
6 66 (18.86%) Problem-Solving
7 58 (16.57%) CI/CD
8 54 (15.43%) Continuous Improvement
9 51 (14.57%) Decision-Making
10 49 (14.00%) Data Engineering
10 49 (14.00%) Data Governance
10 49 (14.00%) ETL
11 46 (13.14%) Data Pipeline
12 42 (12.00%) Data Science
12 42 (12.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 40 (11.43%) Roadmaps
14 39 (11.14%) Data Analytics
15 36 (10.29%) Migration
16 34 (9.71%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 89 (25.43%) SQL
2 82 (23.43%) Python
3 40 (11.43%) PowerShell
4 15 (4.29%) JavaScript
5 14 (4.00%) Bicep
6 12 (3.43%) Bash
7 9 (2.57%) PL/SQL
8 7 (2.00%) C#
8 7 (2.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (1.71%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.43%) Java
11 4 (1.14%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.86%) R
13 2 (0.57%) VBA
14 1 (0.29%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.29%) Swift
Qualifications
1 110 (31.43%) Security Cleared
2 81 (23.14%) SC Cleared
3 39 (11.14%) Degree
4 19 (5.43%) DV Cleared
5 15 (4.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (2.57%) PMI Certification
8 8 (2.29%) Azure Certification
8 8 (2.29%) Master's Degree
8 8 (2.29%) PMP
9 7 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.57%) ACCA
10 2 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.57%) MBA
10 2 (0.57%) Tableau Certification
10 2 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.29%) CCSP
11 1 (0.29%) CISA
11 1 (0.29%) MCITP
11 1 (0.29%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (17.71%) Data Quality
2 20 (5.71%) QA
3 12 (3.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (3.14%) Accessibility
4 11 (3.14%) NIST
5 9 (2.57%) GDPR
6 5 (1.43%) PMO
7 4 (1.14%) SLA
8 3 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.57%) GAAP
9 2 (0.57%) IFRS
9 2 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.57%) WCAG
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%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.29%) GRC
10 1 (0.29%) ITGC
10 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 41 (11.71%) Active Directory
2 21 (6.00%) Docker
3 11 (3.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.86%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 31 (8.86%) Kubernetes
2 14 (4.00%) Ansible
3 8 (2.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (2.00%) SCCM
4 7 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.43%) Grafana
5 5 (1.43%) SCOM
6 4 (1.14%) QRadar
7 2 (0.57%) NetBackup
7 2 (0.57%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.29%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.29%) Rancher
Vendors
1 89 (25.43%) Microsoft
2 46 (13.14%) Databricks
3 42 (12.00%) Oracle
4 21 (6.00%) SAP
5 17 (4.86%) Google
6 11 (3.14%) CyberArk
6 11 (3.14%) VMware
7 8 (2.29%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.00%) CrowdStrike
9 6 (1.71%) Foundry
9 6 (1.71%) Palantir
9 6 (1.71%) Workday
10 5 (1.43%) Adobe
10 5 (1.43%) Baan
10 5 (1.43%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.14%) Ariba
11 4 (1.14%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.86%) LogRhythm
12 3 (0.86%) MuleSoft
12 3 (0.86%) Splunk