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 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 34 50
Rank change year-on-year -3 +16 -2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 256 166 197
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.38% 5.51% 3.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.38% 6.02% 4.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 114 116
10th Percentile £325 £280 £320
25th Percentile £413 £365 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £491 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.83% -10.73% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £613
90th Percentile £635 £659 £706
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 6
10th Percentile £51.25 £14.55 -
25th Percentile £73.40 £18.31 £41.25
Median hourly rate £81.50 £30.03 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year +171.44% -41.98% +60.22%
75th Percentile £82.25 £32.05 £78.71
90th Percentile £84.05 £34.15 £84.45
England median hourly rate £59.45 £31.49 £30.37
% change year-on-year +88.77% +3.70% -5.09%

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 4,756 2,758 4,708
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 81.31% 91.54% 84.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,099 1,757 2,740
10th Percentile £281 £256 £243
25th Percentile £408 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -1.96%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £623
90th Percentile £713 £675 £700
England median daily rate £509 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.05% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 172 435
10th Percentile £15.36 £13.85 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.69 £16.05 £18.26
Median hourly rate £52.50 £28.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% -41.05% -5.00%
75th Percentile £81.05 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £76.86
England median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £35.95
% change year-on-year +50.00% -16.55% -4.13%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 2 May 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 -4 137 £518 -1.43% 84
Berkshire -7 71 £500 +7.07% 43
Hampshire -20 53 £500 -2.44% 32
Buckinghamshire -11 45 £521 -13.13% 20
Surrey -4 31 £413 +13.01% 39
Oxfordshire -10 21 £550 -8.33% 21
West Sussex -9 18 £380 +3.50% 14
Kent -6 7 £250 -67.74% 13
East Sussex -2 3 £530 +11.47% 4
Middlesex - 2 £475 - 12
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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 12 (4.69%) Oracle Application Server
2 9 (3.52%) Confluence
3 7 (2.73%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.17%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.17%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.78%) CMS
5 2 (0.78%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.78%) Smallworld
6 1 (0.39%) Apache
6 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.39%) IIS
6 1 (0.39%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (7.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.56%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.56%) CPLEX
2 4 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.17%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.39%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (2.34%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.17%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.39%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.39%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 78 (30.47%) Azure
2 46 (17.97%) Power Platform
3 30 (11.72%) AWS
4 21 (8.20%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (8.20%) Azure Monitor
5 19 (7.42%) Entra ID
6 16 (6.25%) GCP
7 13 (5.08%) Azure Key Vault
8 12 (4.69%) dbt
9 11 (4.30%) OCI
10 9 (3.52%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (3.52%) IaaS
11 8 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
11 8 (3.13%) GitHub
12 7 (2.73%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (2.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 7 (2.73%) PaaS
13 6 (2.34%) Azure AI
13 6 (2.34%) Azure Machine Learning
13 6 (2.34%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.91%) Network Security
2 9 (3.52%) Firewall
2 9 (3.52%) VPN
3 6 (2.34%) SD-WAN
3 6 (2.34%) WAN
4 2 (0.78%) BGP
4 2 (0.78%) Bluetooth
4 2 (0.78%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.78%) DNS
4 2 (0.78%) Multicast
4 2 (0.78%) OSPF
4 2 (0.78%) VoIP
4 2 (0.78%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.39%) Broadband
5 1 (0.39%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.39%) LAN
5 1 (0.39%) SMS
5 1 (0.39%) SSL
5 1 (0.39%) VRRP
5 1 (0.39%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (16.41%) Power BI
2 36 (14.06%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (8.98%) Oracle Reports
4 21 (8.20%) Tableau
5 17 (6.64%) Metadata
6 12 (4.69%) Oracle ODI
7 9 (3.52%) Big Data
8 8 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (2.73%) SQL Server
10 6 (2.34%) Data Lake
10 6 (2.34%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 5 (1.95%) Metadata Repository
11 5 (1.95%) NoSQL
11 5 (1.95%) Pinecone
11 5 (1.95%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.95%) Star Schema
11 5 (1.95%) Weaviate
12 4 (1.56%) MongoDB
12 4 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (1.17%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 12 (4.69%) Git
2 11 (4.30%) JIRA
3 5 (1.95%) Android Studio
3 5 (1.95%) Gradle
4 3 (1.17%) GitLab
5 2 (0.78%) fastlane
5 2 (0.78%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.78%) WiX
6 1 (0.39%) Crashlytics
6 1 (0.39%) MSI
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.39%) Xcode
General
1 85 (33.20%) Social Skills
2 53 (20.70%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (15.63%) Public Sector
4 32 (12.50%) Finance
5 13 (5.08%) Marketing
6 8 (3.13%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.95%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (1.56%) Legal
10 4 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.56%) Retail
11 3 (1.17%) Automotive
11 3 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.78%) Advertising
12 2 (0.78%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.78%) Banking
12 2 (0.78%) Military
12 2 (0.78%) Publishing
13 1 (0.39%) Billing
Job Titles
1 45 (17.58%) Analyst
2 33 (12.89%) Developer
3 31 (12.11%) Data Engineer
4 27 (10.55%) Data Analyst
5 26 (10.16%) Senior
6 21 (8.20%) Architect
7 17 (6.64%) Lead
8 12 (4.69%) Accountant
9 10 (3.91%) Consultant
9 10 (3.91%) Oracle Developer
9 10 (3.91%) Systems Accountant
10 9 (3.52%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (3.13%) Senior Data Engineer
12 7 (2.73%) Business Analyst
13 6 (2.34%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 6 (2.34%) Data Architect
13 6 (2.34%) Data Manager
13 6 (2.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (2.34%) Oracle Consultant
13 6 (2.34%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.91%) Oracle Fusion
1 10 (3.91%) PySpark
2 8 (3.13%) Flask
3 7 (2.73%) CSS
3 7 (2.73%) OAuth
4 6 (2.34%) ARM Templates
4 6 (2.34%) Node.js
4 6 (2.34%) OpenID
4 6 (2.34%) RESTful
4 6 (2.34%) SailPoint
4 6 (2.34%) SAML
4 6 (2.34%) Web Services
5 5 (1.95%) AngularJS
5 5 (1.95%) Faiss
5 5 (1.95%) HTML
5 5 (1.95%) LDAP
5 5 (1.95%) OAuth2
5 5 (1.95%) React
5 5 (1.95%) REST
5 5 (1.95%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.47%) Cloud Native
1 14 (5.47%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (3.91%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.13%) Algorithms
4 7 (2.73%) Cyber Threat
5 6 (2.34%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.34%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.34%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.78%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.78%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.78%) FMCG
9 2 (0.78%) IoT
9 2 (0.78%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.78%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.08%) Windows
2 6 (2.34%) Android
2 6 (2.34%) Linux
3 4 (1.56%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.78%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.78%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.39%) VMS
5 1 (0.39%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (25.39%) Agile
2 61 (23.83%) Data Modelling
3 58 (22.66%) Business Intelligence
4 48 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (16.80%) ETL
6 42 (16.41%) DevOps
7 41 (16.02%) Data Governance
8 40 (15.63%) AI
9 38 (14.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 36 (14.06%) Decision-Making
10 36 (14.06%) Validation
11 34 (13.28%) Data Pipeline
12 30 (11.72%) Machine Learning
12 30 (11.72%) Migration
13 26 (10.16%) Data Engineering
13 26 (10.16%) Visualisation
14 25 (9.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 25 (9.77%) Stakeholder Management
15 23 (8.98%) CI/CD
15 23 (8.98%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 62 (24.22%) Python
2 59 (23.05%) SQL
3 19 (7.42%) PowerShell
4 11 (4.30%) Bicep
4 11 (4.30%) Java
5 7 (2.73%) R
6 6 (2.34%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (1.56%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (1.17%) Bash
9 3 (1.17%) C#
9 3 (1.17%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.17%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.78%) C++
10 2 (0.78%) Go
11 1 (0.39%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.39%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.39%) Swift
Qualifications
1 82 (32.03%) Security Cleared
2 58 (22.66%) SC Cleared
3 18 (7.03%) Degree
4 13 (5.08%) DV Cleared
5 10 (3.91%) Azure Certification
6 9 (3.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.95%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.95%) PMP
9 4 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.78%) ACCA
10 2 (0.78%) CCNP
10 2 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.78%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.78%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.39%) CCDA
11 1 (0.39%) CCDP
11 1 (0.39%) CCIP
11 1 (0.39%) CCNA
11 1 (0.39%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (17.58%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.47%) QA
3 10 (3.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (3.13%) NIST
5 6 (2.34%) GDPR
6 4 (1.56%) NCSC
7 2 (0.78%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.78%) HL7
7 2 (0.78%) PMO
7 2 (0.78%) WCAG
8 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (5.86%) Docker
2 14 (5.47%) Active Directory
3 11 (4.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (1.56%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.39%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.39%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 19 (7.42%) Terraform
2 13 (5.08%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.34%) Ansible
3 6 (2.34%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.95%) SCCM
5 3 (1.17%) Grafana
5 3 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.78%) Nessus
6 2 (0.78%) OpenVAS
6 2 (0.78%) Puppet
6 2 (0.78%) QRadar
6 2 (0.78%) Rancher
6 2 (0.78%) SCOM
7 1 (0.39%) CASB
7 1 (0.39%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.39%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 54 (21.09%) Microsoft
2 31 (12.11%) Oracle
3 22 (8.59%) Databricks
4 11 (4.30%) VMware
5 9 (3.52%) Google
6 8 (3.13%) OpenAI
7 7 (2.73%) Foundry
7 7 (2.73%) Informatica
7 7 (2.73%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.34%) SAP
9 4 (1.56%) Citrix
9 4 (1.56%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.56%) Palantir
9 4 (1.56%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.56%) Talend
10 3 (1.17%) Adobe
11 2 (0.78%) Ab Initio
11 2 (0.78%) Cisco
11 2 (0.78%) ESRI
11 2 (0.78%) Intergraph