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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 48 40
Rank change year-on-year -6 -8 +7
Contract jobs citing Analytics 131 181 285
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.76% 3.91% 5.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.21% 4.74% 5.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 118 193
10th Percentile £300 £291 £353
25th Percentile £413 £388 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year - -3.67% +3.81%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £623
90th Percentile £768 £712 £750
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 17
10th Percentile £13.25 - £19.40
25th Percentile £13.85 £27.00 £21.05
Median hourly rate £30.11 £29.00 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +3.83% -10.22% -15.17%
75th Percentile £32.05 £60.06 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.16 £62.86 £66.30
England median hourly rate £37.75 £32.50 £35.25
% change year-on-year +16.14% -7.80% +0.71%

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 3,108 3,819 4,956
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 89.11% 82.59% 89.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,937 2,283 3,316
10th Percentile £220 £255 £250
25th Percentile £375 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £518
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +1.45%
75th Percentile £598 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 304 254 252
10th Percentile £13.33 £16.08 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £31.44 £23.06
Median hourly rate £21.00 £57.35 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -63.38% +9.24% +64.53%
75th Percentile £50.00 £71.86 £66.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £78.75 £75.67
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -41.51% -2.05% +51.38%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Analytics 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +2 78 £538 -6.52% 259
Berkshire -6 59 £550 - 206
Hampshire +4 29 £450 -18.18% 72
Surrey -4 15 £300 -40.00% 56
Oxfordshire 0 13 £488 +387.50% 25
Buckinghamshire +3 6 £525 -12.50% 32
West Sussex -1 5 £515 +37.33% 15
Kent -4 1 - - 30
East Sussex - 1 £488 - 25
Analytics
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (3.82%) CMS
2 4 (3.05%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.05%) Confluence
2 4 (3.05%) SAS
3 3 (2.29%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.53%) Camunda
5 1 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.76%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.76%) nginx
Applications
1 15 (11.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (6.87%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (4.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.53%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.53%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (5.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (3.05%) SAP IBP
3 3 (2.29%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (2.29%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (2.29%) SAP ERP
4 2 (1.53%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.53%) SAP GRC
4 2 (1.53%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.76%) iTrent
5 1 (0.76%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.76%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.76%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 39 (29.77%) Azure
2 25 (19.08%) Power Platform
3 22 (16.79%) AWS
4 9 (6.87%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (6.87%) Entra ID
4 9 (6.87%) GCP
5 6 (4.58%) Adobe Analytics
5 6 (4.58%) Azure Monitor
5 6 (4.58%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (3.82%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (3.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (3.82%) Snowflake
7 4 (3.05%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (3.05%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (3.05%) Serverless
8 3 (2.29%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (2.29%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (2.29%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.29%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.29%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.05%) Network Security
2 3 (2.29%) DNS
3 2 (1.53%) 4G
3 2 (1.53%) 5G
3 2 (1.53%) DOCSIS
3 2 (1.53%) Firewall
3 2 (1.53%) GPON
3 2 (1.53%) HTTP
3 2 (1.53%) LTE
3 2 (1.53%) MPLS
3 2 (1.53%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (1.53%) VoIP
3 2 (1.53%) xDSL
4 1 (0.76%) Converged Networks
4 1 (0.76%) DHCP
4 1 (0.76%) IPFIX
4 1 (0.76%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.76%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.76%) VPN
4 1 (0.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (18.32%) Power BI
2 15 (11.45%) Tableau
3 10 (7.63%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (6.11%) Data Lake
5 7 (5.34%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.05%) Metadata
6 4 (3.05%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.29%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (2.29%) Big Data
7 3 (2.29%) MySQL
7 3 (2.29%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.29%) Qlik Sense
8 2 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.53%) Data Mart
8 2 (1.53%) GIS
8 2 (1.53%) Looker
8 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 2 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.53%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.53%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 7 (5.34%) JIRA
2 6 (4.58%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.29%) Git
4 1 (0.76%) GitLab
4 1 (0.76%) MLflow
General
1 52 (39.69%) Social Skills
2 26 (19.85%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (18.32%) Finance
4 14 (10.69%) Marketing
5 10 (7.63%) Telecoms
6 7 (5.34%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.34%) Retail
7 6 (4.58%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.05%) General Ledger
8 4 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.29%) Banking
10 2 (1.53%) Automotive
10 2 (1.53%) Electronics
10 2 (1.53%) French Language
10 2 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.76%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.76%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.76%) Legal
11 1 (0.76%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 39 (29.77%) Analyst
2 21 (16.03%) Architect
3 13 (9.92%) Business Analyst
3 13 (9.92%) Lead
4 12 (9.16%) Data Analyst
5 11 (8.40%) Developer
6 10 (7.63%) Senior
7 9 (6.87%) Consultant
8 8 (6.11%) SAP Consultant
8 8 (6.11%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (5.34%) IT Support
10 6 (4.58%) Systems Analyst
10 6 (4.58%) Technical Support
11 5 (3.82%) Business IT Analyst
11 5 (3.82%) Business Systems Analyst
11 5 (3.82%) IT Support Analyst
11 5 (3.82%) Senior Analyst
11 5 (3.82%) Support Analyst
11 5 (3.82%) Support Engineer
11 5 (3.82%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.58%) Kafka
2 4 (3.05%) CSS
2 4 (3.05%) HTML
2 4 (3.05%) React
3 2 (1.53%) .NET
3 2 (1.53%) Jest
3 2 (1.53%) MDX
3 2 (1.53%) Sass
4 1 (0.76%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.76%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.76%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (0.76%) Celery
4 1 (0.76%) Django
4 1 (0.76%) LDAP
4 1 (0.76%) Next.js
4 1 (0.76%) OAuth
4 1 (0.76%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.76%) REST
4 1 (0.76%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.87%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (6.11%) Algorithms
2 8 (6.11%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.34%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.34%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (4.58%) Smart Meter
5 5 (3.82%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (3.05%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (2.29%) IoT
7 3 (2.29%) Life Science
7 3 (2.29%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.53%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.53%) Learning Management System
8 2 (1.53%) Robotics
8 2 (1.53%) TM Forum
8 2 (1.53%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.76%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.40%) Windows
2 9 (6.87%) Linux
3 4 (3.05%) Mac OS
3 4 (3.05%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.53%) Unix
5 1 (0.76%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (27.48%) Business Intelligence
2 31 (23.66%) Agile
3 26 (19.85%) DevOps
4 25 (19.08%) Data Modelling
5 24 (18.32%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (16.03%) Stakeholder Management
7 20 (15.27%) Data Analytics
8 19 (14.50%) Artificial Intelligence
9 18 (13.74%) Data Integration
9 18 (13.74%) Roadmaps
9 18 (13.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 18 (13.74%) Visualisation
10 17 (12.98%) CI/CD
10 17 (12.98%) Data Visualisation
10 17 (12.98%) Decision-Making
11 16 (12.21%) Actionable Insight
11 16 (12.21%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (12.21%) Data Analysis
11 16 (12.21%) Data Governance
11 16 (12.21%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 42 (32.06%) SQL
2 23 (17.56%) Python
3 8 (6.11%) R
4 7 (5.34%) PowerShell
5 6 (4.58%) Java
6 5 (3.82%) Bicep
7 4 (3.05%) Bash
7 4 (3.05%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.29%) ABAP
8 3 (2.29%) Scala
9 2 (1.53%) C#
9 2 (1.53%) Perl
9 2 (1.53%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.76%) VB
10 1 (0.76%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 17 (12.98%) Degree
2 11 (8.40%) Security Cleared
3 8 (6.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (5.34%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.58%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.29%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.29%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.53%) CCA
7 2 (1.53%) CISSP
7 2 (1.53%) Citrix Certification
7 2 (1.53%) GCIA
7 2 (1.53%) GCIH
7 2 (1.53%) SAP Certification
7 2 (1.53%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.76%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.76%) GCFA
8 1 (0.76%) GIAC
8 1 (0.76%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (16.03%) Data Quality
2 13 (9.92%) GDPR
3 8 (6.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.05%) Accessibility
4 4 (3.05%) QA
5 3 (2.29%) GRC
5 3 (2.29%) NIST
6 2 (1.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.53%) IFRS
6 2 (1.53%) IFRS 9
6 2 (1.53%) OASIS TOSCA
6 2 (1.53%) PMO
7 1 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.76%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.76%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.76%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.76%) NCSC
7 1 (0.76%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.76%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (6.87%) Active Directory
2 7 (5.34%) Docker
3 3 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (10.69%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.34%) Terraform
3 5 (3.82%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (3.82%) SCCM
4 3 (2.29%) Ansible
5 2 (1.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.53%) Amdocs OSS
5 2 (1.53%) QRadar
6 1 (0.76%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.76%) SCOM
6 1 (0.76%) WSUS
Vendors
1 20 (15.27%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.69%) SAP
3 10 (7.63%) Adobe
3 10 (7.63%) Oracle
4 5 (3.82%) Databricks
4 5 (3.82%) Google
4 5 (3.82%) Liquidlogic
4 5 (3.82%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.05%) Citrix
5 4 (3.05%) Splunk
5 4 (3.05%) Virgin Media
5 4 (3.05%) VMware
6 3 (2.29%) Workday
7 2 (1.53%) Amdocs
7 2 (1.53%) Dell
7 2 (1.53%) Ericsson
7 2 (1.53%) Hotjar
7 2 (1.53%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (1.53%) Nokia
7 2 (1.53%) Salesforce