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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 42 48
Rank change year-on-year -1 +6 +9
Contract jobs citing Analytics 198 156 199
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.04% 4.97% 3.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.84% 5.46% 4.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 106 130
10th Percentile £322 £281 £410
25th Percentile £413 £363 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £469 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -21.88% +20.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £645
90th Percentile £668 £653 £750
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 11
10th Percentile £22.50 £34.32 £41.25
25th Percentile £47.95 £44.54 £45.89
Median hourly rate £81.50 £63.15 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.06% +0.24% +102.25%
75th Percentile £84.13 £64.73 £82.11
90th Percentile £84.80 - £84.45
England median hourly rate £57.30 £35.00 £39.38
% change year-on-year +63.71% -11.11% +23.05%

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 4,093 2,857 4,785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 83.55% 91.10% 87.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,695 1,772 2,902
10th Percentile £260 £250 £213
25th Percentile £402 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £613 £613
90th Percentile £694 £675 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 354 110 359
10th Percentile £14.50 £17.28 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.02 £24.18 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.69 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -41.09% -5.57% +0.47%
75th Percentile £66.88 £62.50 £62.54
90th Percentile £84.35 £75.05 £76.53
England median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £34.23
% change year-on-year -18.57% +2.25% -2.20%

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 27 February 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 27 February 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 27 February 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 -8 109 £500 - 70
Berkshire -3 75 £500 +11.11% 29
Hampshire -14 43 £514 +18.10% 26
Buckinghamshire -7 24 £500 -15.25% 28
Surrey -3 23 £419 +14.73% 27
Oxfordshire -10 10 £525 -25.00% 15
West Sussex -16 8 £425 +10.39% 6
Kent -6 5 £250 -67.74% 24
Middlesex - 2 £475 - 21
East Sussex -2 1 £600 +37.14% 7
Analytics
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 9 (4.55%) Confluence
2 8 (4.04%) GeoServer
2 8 (4.04%) Smallworld
3 7 (3.54%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.52%) ArcGIS
4 3 (1.52%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (1.01%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.01%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.51%) Apache
6 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.51%) CMS
Applications
1 17 (8.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.02%) Chatbot
3 4 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.01%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.01%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.51%) CapCut
5 1 (0.51%) CPLEX
5 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (2.53%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (2.02%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.51%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.51%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 61 (30.81%) Azure
2 33 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 21 (10.61%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (10.10%) AWS
5 18 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
6 14 (7.07%) Azure Key Vault
6 14 (7.07%) Entra ID
7 13 (6.57%) GCP
8 12 (6.06%) OCI
9 10 (5.05%) dbt
9 10 (5.05%) GitHub
9 10 (5.05%) IaaS
10 8 (4.04%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (3.54%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (3.54%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (3.54%) SaaS
11 7 (3.54%) Snowflake
12 6 (3.03%) Azure Machine Learning
12 6 (3.03%) PaaS
12 6 (3.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.03%) Firewall
2 5 (2.53%) Network Security
3 4 (2.02%) VPN
4 3 (1.52%) VoIP
5 2 (1.01%) 2G
5 2 (1.01%) 5G
5 2 (1.01%) Bluetooth
5 2 (1.01%) DNS
5 2 (1.01%) LTE
5 2 (1.01%) Mobile Backhaul
5 2 (1.01%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.01%) SSL
5 2 (1.01%) Unified Communications
5 2 (1.01%) WAN
5 2 (1.01%) WebEx
6 1 (0.51%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.51%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.51%) Multicast
6 1 (0.51%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.51%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (15.66%) Power BI
2 21 (10.61%) Metadata
3 18 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (7.58%) Tableau
5 10 (5.05%) Oracle Reports
6 9 (4.55%) GIS
7 8 (4.04%) Big Data
7 8 (4.04%) Geospatial Data
7 8 (4.04%) QGIS
7 8 (4.04%) SQL Server
8 7 (3.54%) Data Lake
9 6 (3.03%) Relational Database
10 5 (2.53%) Metadata Repository
10 5 (2.53%) MongoDB
10 5 (2.53%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 5 (2.53%) Pinecone
10 5 (2.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (2.53%) Star Schema
10 5 (2.53%) Weaviate
11 4 (2.02%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 10 (5.05%) JIRA
2 8 (4.04%) Git
3 5 (2.53%) GitLab
4 4 (2.02%) Android Studio
4 4 (2.02%) Gradle
5 3 (1.52%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.52%) Maven
6 2 (1.01%) WiX
7 1 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio
General
1 79 (39.90%) Social Skills
2 46 (23.23%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (13.64%) Public Sector
4 26 (13.13%) Finance
5 16 (8.08%) Marketing
6 5 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.02%) Aerospace
7 4 (2.02%) Banking
7 4 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.02%) Publishing
7 4 (2.02%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.52%) Billing
8 3 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.01%) Arabic Language
9 2 (1.01%) Dutch Language
9 2 (1.01%) French Language
9 2 (1.01%) German Language
9 2 (1.01%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 36 (18.18%) Analyst
2 27 (13.64%) Architect
3 26 (13.13%) Data Analyst
4 18 (9.09%) Data Engineer
5 15 (7.58%) Azure Engineer
5 15 (7.58%) Senior
6 13 (6.57%) Developer
7 9 (4.55%) Consultant
8 8 (4.04%) Business Analyst
8 8 (4.04%) Data Architect
8 8 (4.04%) Lead
9 7 (3.54%) Accountant
9 7 (3.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (3.54%) Systems Accountant
10 6 (3.03%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (3.03%) Data Analytics Engineer
10 6 (3.03%) Data Scientist
10 6 (3.03%) Oracle Consultant
11 5 (2.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 5 (2.53%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.56%) REST
2 10 (5.05%) Oracle Fusion
3 9 (4.55%) ARM Templates
4 8 (4.04%) PySpark
5 7 (3.54%) CSS
6 5 (2.53%) Faiss
6 5 (2.53%) Flask
6 5 (2.53%) Kafka
6 5 (2.53%) SOAP
7 4 (2.02%) .NET
7 4 (2.02%) .NET Core
7 4 (2.02%) HTML
7 4 (2.02%) Node.js
7 4 (2.02%) OAuth
7 4 (2.02%) OpenID
7 4 (2.02%) React
7 4 (2.02%) SAML
7 4 (2.02%) Software Packaging
8 3 (1.52%) .NET Framework
8 3 (1.52%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (4.55%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.04%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.03%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.53%) Social Media
6 4 (2.02%) Blog
6 4 (2.02%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.02%) LIMS
6 4 (2.02%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (2.02%) NHS
6 4 (2.02%) PACS
6 4 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.52%) Educational Technology
7 3 (1.52%) IoT
7 3 (1.52%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.52%) Replication
8 2 (1.01%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.55%) Windows
2 5 (2.53%) Android
2 5 (2.53%) Linux
3 4 (2.02%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.01%) VMS
5 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.51%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (25.76%) Agile
2 49 (24.75%) Problem-Solving
3 45 (22.73%) DevOps
4 44 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
5 43 (21.72%) Data Governance
6 42 (21.21%) AI
7 39 (19.70%) Data Modelling
8 35 (17.68%) Machine Learning
9 33 (16.67%) Decision-Making
9 33 (16.67%) Migration
10 31 (15.66%) Validation
11 30 (15.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 28 (14.14%) Continuous Improvement
12 28 (14.14%) ETL
13 26 (13.13%) Visualisation
14 25 (12.63%) Stakeholder Management
15 23 (11.62%) Data Analysis
16 22 (11.11%) Data Analytics
16 22 (11.11%) Data Migration
17 21 (10.61%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 51 (25.76%) Python
2 44 (22.22%) SQL
3 15 (7.58%) Java
4 13 (6.57%) PowerShell
5 12 (6.06%) Bicep
6 10 (5.05%) R
7 9 (4.55%) JavaScript
8 6 (3.03%) Bash
9 4 (2.02%) C#
9 4 (2.02%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.52%) PHP
10 3 (1.52%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.01%) C++
12 1 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.51%) Go
12 1 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 53 (26.77%) Security Cleared
2 35 (17.68%) SC Cleared
3 21 (10.61%) Degree
4 8 (4.04%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.53%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.53%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.53%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.53%) PMP
7 2 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.01%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.51%) CCDA
8 1 (0.51%) CCDP
8 1 (0.51%) CCIE
8 1 (0.51%) CCIP
8 1 (0.51%) CCNA
8 1 (0.51%) CCNP
8 1 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.51%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (21.21%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.04%) QA
3 4 (2.02%) GDPR
3 4 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.02%) NCSC
4 3 (1.52%) Def Stans
4 3 (1.52%) NIST
5 2 (1.01%) HL7
6 1 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.51%) PMO
6 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (5.56%) Docker
2 9 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.02%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.51%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.51%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.51%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 21 (10.61%) Terraform
2 13 (6.57%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.53%) Grafana
3 5 (2.53%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (2.53%) SCCM
4 3 (1.52%) Ansible
4 3 (1.52%) Cisco CUCM
4 3 (1.52%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.01%) Nessus
5 2 (1.01%) OpenVAS
5 2 (1.01%) Puppet
5 2 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.51%) CASB
6 1 (0.51%) Rancher
Vendors
1 39 (19.70%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.09%) Databricks
3 17 (8.59%) Oracle
4 9 (4.55%) VMware
5 8 (4.04%) ESRI
5 8 (4.04%) Foundry
5 8 (4.04%) Google
5 8 (4.04%) Intergraph
6 7 (3.54%) OpenAI
6 7 (3.54%) ServiceNow
7 6 (3.03%) Informatica
7 6 (3.03%) Palantir
8 4 (2.02%) Citrix
8 4 (2.02%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.52%) Cisco
9 3 (1.52%) HubSpot
10 2 (1.01%) Adobe
10 2 (1.01%) PagerDuty
10 2 (1.01%) Rapid7
10 2 (1.01%) Talend