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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 43 51
Rank change year-on-year -4 +8 +5
Contract jobs citing Analytics 214 153 193
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.03% 5.19% 3.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.87% 5.64% 3.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 108 121
10th Percentile £341 £280 £390
25th Percentile £413 £358 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £472 £575
Median % change year-on-year +6.04% -18.00% +15.58%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £650 £656 £688
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 £57.50 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +81.73% -20.90% +33.33%

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 4,397 2,713 4,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.81% 91.97% 86.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,876 1,735 2,915
10th Percentile £275 £254 £213
25th Percentile £406 £402 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -0.10%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £613
90th Percentile £700 £675 £688
England median daily rate £504 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.05% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 383 149 387
10th Percentile £15.22 £14.84 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.41 £20.30 £18.10
Median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% -6.67% -16.67%
75th Percentile £80.05 £62.50 £62.47
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £75.16
England median hourly rate £31.45 £33.40 £32.50
% change year-on-year -5.84% +2.77% -10.41%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -11 116 £500 -4.76% 103
Berkshire -4 76 £495 +9.88% 56
Hampshire -18 46 £520 +27.61% 29
Buckinghamshire -15 28 £513 -13.87% 33
Surrey -3 24 £419 +14.73% 42
Oxfordshire -7 12 £550 -21.43% 14
West Sussex -14 11 £420 +14.29% 7
Kent -10 6 £250 -67.74% 37
East Sussex -3 2 £600 +26.32% 6
Middlesex - 2 £475 - 26
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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 (3.74%) Confluence
1 8 (3.74%) GeoServer
1 8 (3.74%) Smallworld
2 7 (3.27%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.40%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.40%) ArcGIS
3 3 (1.40%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.93%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.47%) Apache
5 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.47%) CMS
5 1 (0.47%) IIS
Applications
1 16 (7.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.87%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.40%) CPLEX
3 3 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.40%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (0.47%) CapCut
4 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.80%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.40%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (0.93%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.47%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.47%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 66 (30.84%) Azure
2 38 (17.76%) Power Platform
3 24 (11.21%) AWS
4 21 (9.81%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (7.94%) Azure Monitor
6 16 (7.48%) GCP
7 15 (7.01%) Entra ID
8 13 (6.07%) OCI
9 12 (5.61%) Azure Key Vault
10 10 (4.67%) dbt
10 10 (4.67%) GitHub
11 9 (4.21%) IaaS
12 8 (3.74%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (3.27%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (3.27%) Azure Functions
13 7 (3.27%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (3.27%) PaaS
13 7 (3.27%) Serverless
13 7 (3.27%) Snowflake
14 6 (2.80%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.74%) Firewall
2 7 (3.27%) VPN
3 6 (2.80%) Network Security
4 4 (1.87%) SD-WAN
4 4 (1.87%) WAN
5 3 (1.40%) VoIP
6 2 (0.93%) 2G
6 2 (0.93%) 5G
6 2 (0.93%) Bluetooth
6 2 (0.93%) DNS
6 2 (0.93%) LTE
6 2 (0.93%) Mobile Backhaul
6 2 (0.93%) SSL
6 2 (0.93%) Unified Communications
6 2 (0.93%) WebEx
7 1 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.47%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.47%) Multicast
7 1 (0.47%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (16.36%) Power BI
2 21 (9.81%) Metadata
3 20 (9.35%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (7.94%) Tableau
5 11 (5.14%) Oracle Reports
6 10 (4.67%) Big Data
7 9 (4.21%) GIS
8 8 (3.74%) Geospatial Data
8 8 (3.74%) QGIS
8 8 (3.74%) Relational Database
8 8 (3.74%) SQL Server
9 7 (3.27%) Data Lake
9 7 (3.27%) MongoDB
9 7 (3.27%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (2.80%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 5 (2.34%) Metadata Repository
11 5 (2.34%) NoSQL
11 5 (2.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (2.34%) Star Schema
11 5 (2.34%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 11 (5.14%) Git
1 11 (5.14%) JIRA
2 5 (2.34%) GitLab
3 4 (1.87%) Android Studio
3 4 (1.87%) Gradle
4 3 (1.40%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.40%) Maven
5 2 (0.93%) WiX
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio
General
1 85 (39.72%) Social Skills
2 53 (24.77%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (15.42%) Public Sector
4 28 (13.08%) Finance
5 14 (6.54%) Marketing
6 6 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.34%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (1.87%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.87%) Banking
8 4 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.87%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.40%) Billing
9 3 (1.40%) Legal
9 3 (1.40%) Publishing
10 2 (0.93%) Advertising
10 2 (0.93%) Arabic Language
10 2 (0.93%) Mandarin Language
10 2 (0.93%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (17.76%) Analyst
2 28 (13.08%) Data Analyst
3 27 (12.62%) Architect
4 21 (9.81%) Data Engineer
5 17 (7.94%) Developer
6 16 (7.48%) Senior
7 13 (6.07%) Azure Engineer
8 9 (4.21%) Accountant
8 9 (4.21%) Consultant
8 9 (4.21%) Lead
8 9 (4.21%) Systems Accountant
9 8 (3.74%) Data Scientist
10 7 (3.27%) Data Architect
11 6 (2.80%) Business Analyst
11 6 (2.80%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (2.80%) Oracle Consultant
11 6 (2.80%) Platform Engineer
12 5 (2.34%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 5 (2.34%) GIS Architect
12 5 (2.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.67%) Oracle Fusion
1 10 (4.67%) REST
2 9 (4.21%) ARM Templates
3 7 (3.27%) CSS
3 7 (3.27%) Flask
3 7 (3.27%) PySpark
4 6 (2.80%) Kafka
4 6 (2.80%) Node.js
5 5 (2.34%) AngularJS
5 5 (2.34%) Faiss
5 5 (2.34%) OAuth
5 5 (2.34%) React
6 4 (1.87%) .NET
6 4 (1.87%) .NET Core
6 4 (1.87%) HTML
6 4 (1.87%) Microsoft Graph
6 4 (1.87%) OpenID
6 4 (1.87%) PyTorch
6 4 (1.87%) SOAP
6 4 (1.87%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.35%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (5.61%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.21%) Algorithms
3 9 (4.21%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.74%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.87%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.87%) Data Structures
5 4 (1.87%) LIMS
5 4 (1.87%) NHS
5 4 (1.87%) PACS
5 4 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.87%) Social Media
6 3 (1.40%) Blog
6 3 (1.40%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.40%) IoT
6 3 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.40%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.40%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.21%) Windows
2 5 (2.34%) Android
3 4 (1.87%) Linux
3 4 (1.87%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.93%) VMS
5 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.47%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (26.17%) Agile
2 51 (23.83%) Problem-Solving
3 49 (22.90%) Business Intelligence
4 46 (21.50%) DevOps
5 45 (21.03%) Data Governance
6 44 (20.56%) AI
7 42 (19.63%) Data Modelling
8 38 (17.76%) Machine Learning
9 36 (16.82%) Decision-Making
9 36 (16.82%) Validation
10 35 (16.36%) Migration
11 33 (15.42%) Continuous Improvement
12 32 (14.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 30 (14.02%) Stakeholder Management
14 28 (13.08%) ETL
14 28 (13.08%) Visualisation
15 24 (11.21%) Data Analysis
15 24 (11.21%) Data Migration
16 23 (10.75%) Data Science
17 22 (10.28%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 55 (25.70%) Python
2 49 (22.90%) SQL
3 15 (7.01%) Java
4 13 (6.07%) PowerShell
5 11 (5.14%) Bicep
6 10 (4.67%) R
7 9 (4.21%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.80%) Bash
9 5 (2.34%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.87%) C#
11 3 (1.40%) PHP
11 3 (1.40%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.93%) C++
12 2 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.93%) Go
13 1 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 64 (29.91%) Security Cleared
2 41 (19.16%) SC Cleared
3 22 (10.28%) Degree
4 11 (5.14%) DV Cleared
5 10 (4.67%) Azure Certification
6 8 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.80%) Master's Degree
8 5 (2.34%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (2.34%) PMI Certification
8 5 (2.34%) PMP
9 4 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.93%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.47%) CCDA
11 1 (0.47%) CCDP
11 1 (0.47%) CCIE
11 1 (0.47%) CCIP
11 1 (0.47%) CCNA
11 1 (0.47%) CCNP
11 1 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.47%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (21.03%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.67%) QA
3 5 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.87%) NCSC
5 3 (1.40%) Def Stans
5 3 (1.40%) GDPR
5 3 (1.40%) NIST
6 2 (0.93%) HL7
7 1 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.47%) PMO
7 1 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (6.07%) Docker
2 10 (4.67%) Active Directory
3 8 (3.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.87%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.40%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.47%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.47%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 20 (9.35%) Terraform
2 15 (7.01%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.80%) Ansible
4 5 (2.34%) Grafana
4 5 (2.34%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (2.34%) SCCM
5 3 (1.40%) Cisco CUCM
5 3 (1.40%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.93%) Nessus
6 2 (0.93%) OpenVAS
6 2 (0.93%) Puppet
6 2 (0.93%) Rancher
7 1 (0.47%) CASB
Vendors
1 40 (18.69%) Microsoft
2 18 (8.41%) Databricks
3 17 (7.94%) Oracle
4 11 (5.14%) VMware
5 9 (4.21%) Foundry
6 8 (3.74%) ESRI
6 8 (3.74%) Google
6 8 (3.74%) Intergraph
6 8 (3.74%) OpenAI
6 8 (3.74%) ServiceNow
7 7 (3.27%) Palantir
8 6 (2.80%) Informatica
9 4 (1.87%) Citrix
9 4 (1.87%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.40%) Cisco
10 3 (1.40%) HubSpot
11 2 (0.93%) PagerDuty
11 2 (0.93%) Qualys
11 2 (0.93%) Rapid7
11 2 (0.93%) Talend