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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 42 49
Rank change year-on-year +9 +7 -6
Contract jobs citing Analytics 361 164 186
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 5.36% 4.66% 3.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.64% 5.18% 4.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 101 120
10th Percentile £349 £281 £312
25th Percentile £450 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £620
90th Percentile £650 £738 £713
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 9 6
10th Percentile £46.60 £13.25 -
25th Percentile £69.50 £13.85 £27.00
Median hourly rate £81.50 £32.05 £35.75
Median % change year-on-year +154.29% -10.35% +10.68%
75th Percentile £83.68 £36.25 £43.75
90th Percentile £87.03 £70.16 £51.91
England median hourly rate £52.75 £34.98 £31.75
% change year-on-year +50.80% +10.17% -1.70%

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 5,439 3,163 4,070
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.82% 89.86% 82.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,349 1,977 2,484
10th Percentile £280 £250 £255
25th Percentile £419 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% -0.58%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £638
90th Percentile £706 £671 £700
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 598 294 322
10th Percentile £14.21 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £21.35 £15.13 £26.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £21.41 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +156.89% -62.67% +14.70%
75th Percentile £78.75 £50.00 £70.14
90th Percentile £88.00 £70.92 £76.86
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.87%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 14 August 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 +13 202 £525 -2.33% 131
Berkshire +10 124 £500 -6.98% 64
Hampshire -18 64 £500 -4.76% 45
Buckinghamshire -4 45 £538 -17.31% 31
Surrey -2 40 £475 +46.15% 38
Oxfordshire -8 33 £550 +22.22% 37
West Sussex -5 25 £409 -18.21% 20
Middlesex - 13 £570 - 10
East Sussex +6 8 £513 -8.89% 21
Kent +4 6 £625 - 9
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 24 (6.65%) Oracle Application Server
2 11 (3.05%) Confluence
3 3 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.83%) Palantir Foundry
3 3 (0.83%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.55%) Apache
4 2 (0.55%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.55%) CMS
5 1 (0.28%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.28%) IIS
5 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 19 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.22%) CPLEX
3 5 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.83%) Oracle Smart View
6 2 (0.55%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.28%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.94%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.83%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.55%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 2 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.55%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.28%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.28%) Cognos Controller
4 1 (0.28%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.28%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.28%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 134 (37.12%) Azure
2 65 (18.01%) Power Platform
3 45 (12.47%) AWS
4 41 (11.36%) GCP
5 34 (9.42%) Entra ID
6 31 (8.59%) Azure Monitor
7 26 (7.20%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (3.05%) Azure AKS
8 11 (3.05%) Azure Key Vault
8 11 (3.05%) Azure Sentinel
8 11 (3.05%) dbt
9 10 (2.77%) Azure Data Factory
9 10 (2.77%) SaaS
10 9 (2.49%) GitHub
10 9 (2.49%) OCI
11 8 (2.22%) Azure App Service
11 8 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (2.22%) Snowflake
12 6 (1.66%) Azure API Management
12 6 (1.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.16%) Network Security
2 14 (3.88%) VPN
3 13 (3.60%) DNS
4 11 (3.05%) Firewall
5 7 (1.94%) Broadband
5 7 (1.94%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.39%) DHCP
6 5 (1.39%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.39%) SSH
6 5 (1.39%) WAN
7 3 (0.83%) BGP
8 2 (0.55%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (0.55%) SAN
9 1 (0.28%) BIG-IP
9 1 (0.28%) LAN
9 1 (0.28%) OSPF
9 1 (0.28%) SMS
9 1 (0.28%) SSL
9 1 (0.28%) VLAN
9 1 (0.28%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (17.45%) Power BI
2 58 (16.07%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (8.86%) Oracle Reports
4 24 (6.65%) Oracle ODI
5 21 (5.82%) Tableau
6 19 (5.26%) Relational Database
7 18 (4.99%) PostgreSQL
8 15 (4.16%) NoSQL
9 11 (3.05%) Metadata
10 10 (2.77%) Data Lake
11 8 (2.22%) BigQuery
11 8 (2.22%) MongoDB
12 6 (1.66%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (1.39%) Big Data
14 4 (1.11%) Apache Cassandra
14 4 (1.11%) Couchbase
14 4 (1.11%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 4 (1.11%) Pentaho
14 4 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 27 (7.48%) Git
2 9 (2.49%) Jenkins
2 9 (2.49%) JIRA
3 4 (1.11%) JUnit
4 2 (0.55%) fastlane
5 1 (0.28%) Android Studio
5 1 (0.28%) Crashlytics
5 1 (0.28%) GitLab
5 1 (0.28%) Gradle
5 1 (0.28%) MSI
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.28%) Xcode
General
1 112 (31.02%) Social Skills
2 55 (15.24%) Analytical Skills
3 50 (13.85%) Public Sector
4 36 (9.97%) Finance
5 18 (4.99%) Marketing
6 16 (4.43%) Retail
7 14 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (3.05%) Telecoms
10 7 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (1.94%) Military
10 7 (1.94%) Publishing
11 6 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.39%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.39%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.11%) Banking
13 4 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.83%) Automotive
14 3 (0.83%) Billing
14 3 (0.83%) Legal
Job Titles
1 59 (16.34%) Analyst
2 53 (14.68%) Developer
3 49 (13.57%) Senior
4 35 (9.70%) Data Engineer
5 29 (8.03%) Architect
5 29 (8.03%) Data Analyst
5 29 (8.03%) Lead
6 21 (5.82%) Oracle Developer
7 19 (5.26%) Data Scientist
8 15 (4.16%) Consultant
9 14 (3.88%) Solutions Architect
10 12 (3.32%) Data Warehouse Developer
11 11 (3.05%) Data Architect
11 11 (3.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (3.05%) Oracle Data Warehouse Developer
12 10 (2.77%) IAM Specialist
12 10 (2.77%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (2.49%) Business Analyst
13 9 (2.49%) Senior Data Engineer
13 9 (2.49%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (7.20%) OAuth
2 22 (6.09%) OpenID
2 22 (6.09%) RESTful
3 19 (5.26%) LDAP
3 19 (5.26%) OAuth2
3 19 (5.26%) SAML
4 16 (4.43%) Django
5 13 (3.60%) SailPoint
5 13 (3.60%) Web Services
6 12 (3.32%) ARM Templates
6 12 (3.32%) HTML
6 12 (3.32%) PySpark
6 12 (3.32%) REST
7 11 (3.05%) CSS
7 11 (3.05%) OpenAPI
7 11 (3.05%) Swagger
8 9 (2.49%) Oracle Fusion
8 9 (2.49%) React
9 8 (2.22%) Flask
9 8 (2.22%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 18 (4.99%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.43%) Hybrid Cloud
2 16 (4.43%) Onboarding
3 13 (3.60%) Algorithms
3 13 (3.60%) Data Structures
4 12 (3.32%) Management Information System
5 11 (3.05%) Product Ownership
6 10 (2.77%) Cyber Threat
7 8 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.94%) ARM Cortex
8 7 (1.94%) Social Media
9 6 (1.66%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.39%) IVR
10 5 (1.39%) Media Streaming
11 3 (0.83%) Credit Risk
11 3 (0.83%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.26%) Windows
2 15 (4.16%) Linux
3 13 (3.60%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.11%) Unix
5 2 (0.55%) AIX
5 2 (0.55%) Android
5 2 (0.55%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.55%) HPUX
5 2 (0.55%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (26.04%) Agile
2 85 (23.55%) Data Modelling
3 81 (22.44%) Business Intelligence
4 71 (19.67%) DevOps
5 66 (18.28%) Problem-Solving
6 63 (17.45%) AI
7 62 (17.17%) Stakeholder Management
8 56 (15.51%) CI/CD
9 54 (14.96%) Continuous Improvement
10 53 (14.68%) ETL
11 49 (13.57%) Data Engineering
11 49 (13.57%) Decision-Making
12 48 (13.30%) Data Governance
13 47 (13.02%) Data Pipeline
14 45 (12.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 42 (11.63%) Data Science
15 42 (11.63%) Migration
16 39 (10.80%) Validation
17 36 (9.97%) Data Analytics
18 35 (9.70%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 96 (26.59%) SQL
2 85 (23.55%) Python
3 38 (10.53%) PowerShell
4 15 (4.16%) Bicep
4 15 (4.16%) JavaScript
5 10 (2.77%) Bash
6 9 (2.49%) PL/SQL
7 8 (2.22%) C#
8 7 (1.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 7 (1.94%) Shell Script
9 6 (1.66%) Java
10 4 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.83%) R
12 2 (0.55%) VBA
13 1 (0.28%) Go
13 1 (0.28%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.28%) Swift
13 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 117 (32.41%) Security Cleared
2 86 (23.82%) SC Cleared
3 39 (10.80%) Degree
4 20 (5.54%) DV Cleared
5 14 (3.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (3.05%) Azure Certification
7 9 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (2.22%) Master's Degree
8 8 (2.22%) PMI Certification
8 8 (2.22%) PMP
9 7 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.55%) ACCA
10 2 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.55%) MBA
10 2 (0.55%) Tableau Certification
10 2 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.28%) CCNP
11 1 (0.28%) CCSP
11 1 (0.28%) CISSP
11 1 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (17.17%) Data Quality
2 22 (6.09%) QA
3 12 (3.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (3.05%) NIST
5 10 (2.77%) Accessibility
6 9 (2.49%) GDPR
7 5 (1.39%) PMO
8 3 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.83%) SLA
9 2 (0.55%) GAAP
9 2 (0.55%) IFRS
9 2 (0.55%) WCAG
10 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.28%) GRC
10 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 39 (10.80%) Active Directory
2 21 (5.82%) Docker
3 12 (3.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.11%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 30 (8.31%) Kubernetes
2 28 (7.76%) Terraform
3 12 (3.32%) Ansible
4 8 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (1.94%) SCCM
5 7 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.39%) SCOM
7 4 (1.11%) Grafana
7 4 (1.11%) QRadar
8 2 (0.55%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.55%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.55%) Rancher
9 1 (0.28%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 87 (24.10%) Microsoft
2 50 (13.85%) Oracle
3 41 (11.36%) Databricks
4 18 (4.99%) SAP
5 17 (4.71%) Google
6 12 (3.32%) VMware
7 9 (2.49%) CyberArk
7 9 (2.49%) ServiceNow
8 7 (1.94%) CrowdStrike
9 6 (1.66%) Foundry
9 6 (1.66%) Palantir
9 6 (1.66%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.66%) Workday
10 5 (1.39%) Adobe
10 5 (1.39%) Baan
11 4 (1.11%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.83%) LogRhythm
12 3 (0.83%) MuleSoft
12 3 (0.83%) Splunk
12 3 (0.83%) Talend