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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 39 50
Rank change year-on-year -9 +11 +5
Contract jobs citing Analytics 203 156 199
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.98% 5.03% 3.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.79% 5.50% 4.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 110 127
10th Percentile £322 £280 £388
25th Percentile £413 £360 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £478 £563
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% -15.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £620
90th Percentile £660 £656 £693
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 11
10th Percentile £22.50 £30.91 £41.25
25th Percentile £47.95 £36.02 £45.89
Median hourly rate £81.50 £45.58 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +78.83% -27.66% +102.25%
75th Percentile £84.13 £55.67 £82.11
90th Percentile £84.80 £61.10 £84.45
England median hourly rate £56.40 £32.92 £35.63
% change year-on-year +71.31% -7.60% +11.34%

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 4,239 2,836 4,829
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 83.13% 91.51% 87.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,776 1,770 2,909
10th Percentile £263 £250 £213
25th Percentile £403 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +0.80% -
75th Percentile £600 £613 £611
90th Percentile £700 £675 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 369 127 368
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £13.23
25th Percentile £17.25 £21.43 £18.56
Median hourly rate £27.88 £45.00 £44.17
Median % change year-on-year -38.04% +1.89% -1.86%
75th Percentile £72.00 £62.50 £62.51
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £29.60 £35.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -15.43% +2.94% -4.23%

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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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -10 112 £500 - 115
Berkshire -1 75 £500 +11.11% 65
Hampshire -20 46 £523 +20.11% 32
Buckinghamshire -8 27 £513 -13.14% 31
Surrey -7 23 £419 +14.73% 77
Oxfordshire -8 10 £525 -25.00% 21
West Sussex -16 8 £425 +10.39% 22
Kent -6 5 £250 -67.74% 50
Middlesex - 2 £475 - 59
East Sussex -4 1 £600 +26.32% 10
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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 9 (4.43%) Confluence
2 8 (3.94%) GeoServer
2 8 (3.94%) Smallworld
3 7 (3.45%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.48%) ArcGIS
4 3 (1.48%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (0.99%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.99%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.49%) Apache
6 1 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.49%) CMS
6 1 (0.49%) IIS
Applications
1 17 (8.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.46%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.97%) Chatbot
3 4 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.99%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.99%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.49%) CapCut
5 1 (0.49%) CPLEX
5 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (2.46%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.97%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.49%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.49%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 63 (31.03%) Azure
2 34 (16.75%) Power Platform
3 22 (10.84%) AWS
4 19 (9.36%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (8.37%) Azure Monitor
6 16 (7.88%) Entra ID
7 15 (7.39%) GCP
8 12 (5.91%) Azure Key Vault
8 12 (5.91%) OCI
9 10 (4.93%) dbt
9 10 (4.93%) GitHub
9 10 (4.93%) IaaS
10 8 (3.94%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (3.45%) Azure Functions
11 7 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (3.45%) PaaS
11 7 (3.45%) SaaS
11 7 (3.45%) Serverless
11 7 (3.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.45%) Firewall
2 6 (2.96%) VPN
3 5 (2.46%) Network Security
4 3 (1.48%) SD-WAN
4 3 (1.48%) VoIP
4 3 (1.48%) WAN
5 2 (0.99%) 2G
5 2 (0.99%) 5G
5 2 (0.99%) Bluetooth
5 2 (0.99%) DNS
5 2 (0.99%) LTE
5 2 (0.99%) Mobile Backhaul
5 2 (0.99%) SSL
5 2 (0.99%) Unified Communications
5 2 (0.99%) WebEx
6 1 (0.49%) Broadband
6 1 (0.49%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.49%) Multicast
6 1 (0.49%) SMS
6 1 (0.49%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (15.27%) Power BI
2 21 (10.34%) Metadata
3 17 (8.37%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (7.39%) Tableau
5 10 (4.93%) Oracle Reports
6 9 (4.43%) Big Data
6 9 (4.43%) GIS
7 8 (3.94%) Geospatial Data
7 8 (3.94%) QGIS
7 8 (3.94%) SQL Server
8 7 (3.45%) Data Lake
9 6 (2.96%) Relational Database
10 5 (2.46%) Metadata Repository
10 5 (2.46%) MongoDB
10 5 (2.46%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 5 (2.46%) Pinecone
10 5 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (2.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (2.46%) Star Schema
10 5 (2.46%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 10 (4.93%) JIRA
2 9 (4.43%) Git
3 5 (2.46%) GitLab
4 4 (1.97%) Android Studio
4 4 (1.97%) Gradle
5 3 (1.48%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.48%) Maven
6 2 (0.99%) WiX
7 1 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 84 (41.38%) Social Skills
2 48 (23.65%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 26 (12.81%) Finance
5 16 (7.88%) Marketing
6 5 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.97%) Aerospace
7 4 (1.97%) Banking
7 4 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (1.97%) Publishing
7 4 (1.97%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.48%) Billing
8 3 (1.48%) Legal
8 3 (1.48%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.99%) Advertising
9 2 (0.99%) Brand Awareness
9 2 (0.99%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.99%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (17.73%) Analyst
2 28 (13.79%) Architect
3 26 (12.81%) Data Analyst
4 19 (9.36%) Data Engineer
5 16 (7.88%) Senior
6 14 (6.90%) Developer
7 13 (6.40%) Azure Engineer
8 9 (4.43%) Consultant
9 8 (3.94%) Accountant
9 8 (3.94%) Business Analyst
9 8 (3.94%) Lead
9 8 (3.94%) Systems Accountant
10 7 (3.45%) Data Architect
10 7 (3.45%) Data Scientist
10 7 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (2.96%) Data Analytics Engineer
11 6 (2.96%) Oracle Consultant
11 6 (2.96%) Platform Engineer
12 5 (2.46%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 5 (2.46%) GIS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.42%) REST
2 10 (4.93%) Oracle Fusion
3 9 (4.43%) ARM Templates
4 8 (3.94%) PySpark
5 7 (3.45%) CSS
6 5 (2.46%) Faiss
6 5 (2.46%) Flask
6 5 (2.46%) Kafka
6 5 (2.46%) Node.js
6 5 (2.46%) OAuth
6 5 (2.46%) React
6 5 (2.46%) SOAP
7 4 (1.97%) .NET
7 4 (1.97%) .NET Core
7 4 (1.97%) AngularJS
7 4 (1.97%) HTML
7 4 (1.97%) Microsoft Graph
7 4 (1.97%) OpenID
7 4 (1.97%) SAML
7 4 (1.97%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.36%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (4.43%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.43%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.94%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.96%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.46%) Social Media
6 4 (1.97%) Blog
6 4 (1.97%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.97%) LIMS
6 4 (1.97%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (1.97%) NHS
6 4 (1.97%) PACS
7 3 (1.48%) Educational Technology
7 3 (1.48%) IoT
7 3 (1.48%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.48%) Replication
7 3 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.99%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.43%) Windows
2 5 (2.46%) Android
2 5 (2.46%) Linux
3 4 (1.97%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.99%) VMS
5 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.49%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (25.62%) Agile
2 50 (24.63%) Problem-Solving
3 45 (22.17%) DevOps
4 44 (21.67%) AI
4 44 (21.67%) Business Intelligence
5 43 (21.18%) Data Governance
6 38 (18.72%) Data Modelling
6 38 (18.72%) Machine Learning
7 34 (16.75%) Decision-Making
7 34 (16.75%) Migration
8 32 (15.76%) Validation
9 30 (14.78%) Continuous Improvement
9 30 (14.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 28 (13.79%) ETL
11 26 (12.81%) Stakeholder Management
11 26 (12.81%) Visualisation
12 24 (11.82%) Data Analysis
13 23 (11.33%) Data Migration
13 23 (11.33%) Data Science
14 21 (10.34%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 53 (26.11%) Python
2 44 (21.67%) SQL
3 15 (7.39%) Java
4 14 (6.90%) PowerShell
5 10 (4.93%) Bicep
5 10 (4.93%) R
6 9 (4.43%) JavaScript
7 6 (2.96%) Bash
8 4 (1.97%) C#
8 4 (1.97%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.48%) PHP
9 3 (1.48%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.99%) C++
10 2 (0.99%) Go
11 1 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 59 (29.06%) Security Cleared
2 38 (18.72%) SC Cleared
3 21 (10.34%) Degree
4 10 (4.93%) Azure Certification
4 10 (4.93%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.46%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.46%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.46%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.46%) PMP
7 2 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.99%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.49%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.49%) CCIE
8 1 (0.49%) CCIP
8 1 (0.49%) CCNA
8 1 (0.49%) CCNP
8 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (20.69%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.94%) QA
3 4 (1.97%) GDPR
3 4 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.97%) NCSC
4 3 (1.48%) Def Stans
4 3 (1.48%) NIST
5 2 (0.99%) HL7
6 1 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.49%) PMO
6 1 (0.49%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (5.42%) Active Directory
1 11 (5.42%) Docker
2 7 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.97%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.99%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.49%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.49%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (9.36%) Terraform
2 13 (6.40%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.46%) Grafana
3 5 (2.46%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (2.46%) SCCM
4 3 (1.48%) Ansible
4 3 (1.48%) Cisco CUCM
4 3 (1.48%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.99%) Nessus
5 2 (0.99%) OpenVAS
5 2 (0.99%) Puppet
5 2 (0.99%) Rancher
5 2 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.49%) CASB
Vendors
1 40 (19.70%) Microsoft
2 18 (8.87%) Databricks
3 17 (8.37%) Oracle
4 10 (4.93%) VMware
5 8 (3.94%) ESRI
5 8 (3.94%) Foundry
5 8 (3.94%) Google
5 8 (3.94%) Intergraph
5 8 (3.94%) OpenAI
5 8 (3.94%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.96%) Informatica
6 6 (2.96%) Palantir
7 4 (1.97%) Citrix
7 4 (1.97%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.48%) Cisco
8 3 (1.48%) HubSpot
9 2 (0.99%) Ab Initio
9 2 (0.99%) Adobe
9 2 (0.99%) Qualys
9 2 (0.99%) Rapid7