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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 42 46
Rank change year-on-year +4 +4 -3
Contract jobs citing Analytics 308 165 219
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.72% 4.85% 3.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.81% 5.39% 4.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 102 134
10th Percentile £325 £283 £324
25th Percentile £420 £401 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £621 £608
90th Percentile £642 £774 £712
England median daily rate £525 £537 £550
% change year-on-year -2.28% -2.32% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 8 5
10th Percentile £51.25 £13.25 -
25th Percentile £72.50 £13.70 £27.00
Median hourly rate £81.50 £23.78 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +242.80% -44.06% +31.58%
75th Percentile £84.50 £33.10 £43.75
90th Percentile £87.10 £46.42 £68.17
England median hourly rate £55.00 £34.50 £29.50
% change year-on-year +59.42% +16.95% -7.81%

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 5,304 3,062 4,562
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 81.30% 90.09% 82.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,352 1,906 2,681
10th Percentile £280 £250 £263
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -0.49%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 522 264 406
10th Percentile £15.78 £13.50 £13.13
25th Percentile £25.36 £15.12 £18.35
Median hourly rate £57.25 £23.25 £54.62
Median % change year-on-year +146.24% -57.43% +9.24%
75th Percentile £82.25 £53.56 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £78.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -8.14%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 17 July 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 0 166 £525 -4.55% 62
Berkshire -3 100 £499 -4.95% 30
Hampshire -25 53 £500 -4.76% 27
Surrey +1 39 £463 +28.92% 38
Buckinghamshire -15 37 £538 -14.00% 18
Oxfordshire -8 29 £550 +35.38% 14
West Sussex -7 24 £438 -4.68% 9
Middlesex - 10 £523 - 9
Kent +3 7 £550 -29.03% 12
East Sussex +3 6 £513 -8.89% 14
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 19 (6.17%) Oracle Application Server
2 6 (1.95%) Confluence
3 3 (0.97%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.97%) Palantir Foundry
3 3 (0.97%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.32%) Apache
4 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.32%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.32%) CMS
4 1 (0.32%) IIS
4 1 (0.32%) SAS
Applications
1 22 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.92%) CPLEX
3 5 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.97%) Oracle Smart View
6 2 (0.65%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.32%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.95%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.97%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.65%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.65%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.32%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.32%) Cognos Controller
4 1 (0.32%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.32%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 98 (31.82%) Azure
2 61 (19.81%) Power Platform
3 31 (10.06%) AWS
4 24 (7.79%) GCP
5 23 (7.47%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (7.14%) Entra ID
7 17 (5.52%) Azure Monitor
8 10 (3.25%) dbt
8 10 (3.25%) SaaS
9 9 (2.92%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (2.92%) Azure Key Vault
9 9 (2.92%) GitHub
9 9 (2.92%) OCI
10 8 (2.60%) Azure AI
10 8 (2.60%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (2.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (1.95%) Azure AKS
12 6 (1.95%) Snowflake
13 5 (1.62%) Azure Machine Learning
14 4 (1.30%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.57%) Network Security
1 11 (3.57%) VPN
2 8 (2.60%) Firewall
3 6 (1.95%) DNS
3 6 (1.95%) SD-WAN
3 6 (1.95%) WAN
4 4 (1.30%) BGP
4 4 (1.30%) Broadband
5 2 (0.65%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.65%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (0.65%) Multicast
5 2 (0.65%) OSPF
5 2 (0.65%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.65%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.32%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.32%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (0.32%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (0.32%) HSRP
6 1 (0.32%) VLAN
6 1 (0.32%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (18.51%) Power BI
2 46 (14.94%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (8.77%) Oracle Reports
4 19 (6.17%) Oracle ODI
4 19 (6.17%) Tableau
5 14 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (3.90%) Relational Database
7 10 (3.25%) NoSQL
8 9 (2.92%) Metadata
8 9 (2.92%) MongoDB
9 7 (2.27%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.62%) Big Data
10 5 (1.62%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (1.30%) Couchbase
11 4 (1.30%) MySQL
11 4 (1.30%) Pentaho
11 4 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (1.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (6.17%) Git
2 8 (2.60%) Jenkins
2 8 (2.60%) JIRA
3 4 (1.30%) JUnit
4 2 (0.65%) fastlane
5 1 (0.32%) Android Studio
5 1 (0.32%) Crashlytics
5 1 (0.32%) GitLab
5 1 (0.32%) Gradle
5 1 (0.32%) MSI
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.32%) Xcode
General
1 99 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 47 (15.26%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 32 (10.39%) Finance
5 18 (5.84%) Marketing
6 12 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (3.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.92%) Retail
8 9 (2.92%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.62%) Banking
9 5 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.30%) Military
10 4 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.30%) Publishing
11 3 (0.97%) Automotive
11 3 (0.97%) Billing
11 3 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.97%) Legal
11 3 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.65%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 58 (18.83%) Analyst
2 42 (13.64%) Developer
3 35 (11.36%) Data Engineer
4 33 (10.71%) Senior
5 26 (8.44%) Data Analyst
6 21 (6.82%) Architect
6 21 (6.82%) Lead
7 16 (5.19%) Oracle Developer
8 14 (4.55%) Data Scientist
9 12 (3.90%) Accountant
10 10 (3.25%) Systems Accountant
11 9 (2.92%) Data Warehouse Developer
11 9 (2.92%) IAM Specialist
11 9 (2.92%) Python Developer
12 8 (2.60%) Business Analyst
12 8 (2.60%) Consultant
12 8 (2.60%) Oracle Data Warehouse Developer
12 8 (2.60%) Senior Data Engineer
12 8 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
13 7 (2.27%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.87%) OAuth
1 15 (4.87%) RESTful
2 13 (4.22%) OAuth2
3 12 (3.90%) Django
3 12 (3.90%) LDAP
3 12 (3.90%) OpenID
3 12 (3.90%) PySpark
3 12 (3.90%) SailPoint
3 12 (3.90%) SAML
3 12 (3.90%) Web Services
4 11 (3.57%) OpenAPI
4 11 (3.57%) Swagger
5 10 (3.25%) CSS
6 9 (2.92%) FastAPI
6 9 (2.92%) Flask
6 9 (2.92%) Kafka
6 9 (2.92%) NumPy
6 9 (2.92%) Pandas
7 8 (2.60%) pytest
7 8 (2.60%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.52%) Cloud Native
2 14 (4.55%) Algorithms
3 12 (3.90%) Data Structures
3 12 (3.90%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (3.25%) Management Information System
4 10 (3.25%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.92%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.27%) Cyber Threat
7 6 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.62%) IVR
8 5 (1.62%) Media Streaming
9 4 (1.30%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.30%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.97%) Credit Risk
10 3 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.97%) Social Media
11 2 (0.65%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.90%) Windows
2 6 (1.95%) Linux
3 4 (1.30%) Unix
4 3 (0.97%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.65%) Android
5 2 (0.65%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.65%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.32%) AIX
6 1 (0.32%) HPUX
6 1 (0.32%) Solaris
6 1 (0.32%) VMS
6 1 (0.32%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (27.27%) Agile
2 70 (22.73%) Data Modelling
3 68 (22.08%) Business Intelligence
4 55 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
5 54 (17.53%) AI
6 51 (16.56%) DevOps
7 46 (14.94%) Decision-Making
8 45 (14.61%) Continuous Improvement
8 45 (14.61%) ETL
9 44 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
10 42 (13.64%) Data Pipeline
11 39 (12.66%) Validation
12 36 (11.69%) Data Engineering
12 36 (11.69%) Data Governance
13 35 (11.36%) CI/CD
13 35 (11.36%) Data Science
14 33 (10.71%) Migration
15 32 (10.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 31 (10.06%) Data Analytics
17 27 (8.77%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 76 (24.68%) SQL
2 70 (22.73%) Python
3 22 (7.14%) PowerShell
4 9 (2.92%) JavaScript
5 7 (2.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 6 (1.95%) Bicep
6 6 (1.95%) Java
6 6 (1.95%) Shell Script
7 5 (1.62%) PL/SQL
8 4 (1.30%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (0.97%) C#
10 2 (0.65%) Bash
10 2 (0.65%) Go
10 2 (0.65%) R
10 2 (0.65%) VBA
11 1 (0.32%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.32%) Swift
11 1 (0.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 88 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 66 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 30 (9.74%) Degree
4 14 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (3.90%) DV Cleared
6 10 (3.25%) PMI Certification
6 10 (3.25%) PMP
7 7 (2.27%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.95%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.65%) ACCA
10 2 (0.65%) CCNP
10 2 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.65%) MBA
11 1 (0.32%) CCDA
11 1 (0.32%) CCDP
11 1 (0.32%) CCIE
11 1 (0.32%) CCIP
11 1 (0.32%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (16.23%) Data Quality
2 18 (5.84%) QA
3 12 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (3.25%) NIST
5 6 (1.95%) GDPR
6 5 (1.62%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.62%) PMO
7 3 (0.97%) SLA
8 2 (0.65%) WCAG
9 1 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.32%) GAAP
9 1 (0.32%) HL7
9 1 (0.32%) IFRS
9 1 (0.32%) NCSC
System Software
1 21 (6.82%) Active Directory
2 18 (5.84%) Docker
3 13 (4.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.62%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (1.30%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.32%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.32%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 22 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.19%) Terraform
3 6 (1.95%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (1.62%) Ansible
4 5 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.30%) SCCM
6 3 (0.97%) Grafana
6 3 (0.97%) QRadar
6 3 (0.97%) Rancher
7 2 (0.65%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.65%) SCOM
8 1 (0.32%) CASB
8 1 (0.32%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.32%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.32%) Nessus
8 1 (0.32%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.32%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 63 (20.45%) Microsoft
2 41 (13.31%) Oracle
3 31 (10.06%) Databricks
4 13 (4.22%) VMware
5 11 (3.57%) Google
6 10 (3.25%) SAP
6 10 (3.25%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.60%) Foundry
8 6 (1.95%) Palantir
9 4 (1.30%) Baan
9 4 (1.30%) Citrix
9 4 (1.30%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.30%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.30%) Workday
10 3 (0.97%) Adobe
10 3 (0.97%) CyberArk
10 3 (0.97%) LogRhythm
10 3 (0.97%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.97%) Talend
11 2 (0.65%) F5