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 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 36 48
Rank change year-on-year -4 +12 -5
Contract jobs citing Analytics 284 162 217
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.61% 5.36% 3.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.68% 5.87% 4.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 106 128
10th Percentile £318 £281 £312
25th Percentile £406 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £606 £608
90th Percentile £625 £750 £712
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 7 5
10th Percentile £51.25 £13.25 -
25th Percentile £67.19 £13.55 £41.25
Median hourly rate £81.50 £15.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +425.81% -63.53% +31.58%
75th Percentile £82.63 £32.05 £61.50
90th Percentile £85.10 £33.73 £75.27
England median hourly rate £57.30 £32.05 £30.00
% change year-on-year +78.78% +6.83% -7.12%

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 4,999 2,758 4,760
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 81.09% 91.29% 82.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,159 1,740 2,745
10th Percentile £281 £250 £263
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -0.20% -0.79%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £663 £700
England median daily rate £520 £518 £525
% change year-on-year +0.48% -1.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 489 208 477
10th Percentile £15.08 £13.25 £13.03
25th Percentile £23.00 £15.09 £18.32
Median hourly rate £52.50 £24.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +118.75% -52.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £82.25 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £77.19
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.13 £37.63
% change year-on-year +73.27% -27.91% +5.54%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -3 158 £519 -1.19% 68
Berkshire -3 89 £499 -2.63% 28
Hampshire -25 46 £500 -3.61% 25
Buckinghamshire -14 44 £525 -19.23% 18
Surrey +3 41 £438 +19.05% 31
Oxfordshire -12 25 £550 +33.33% 23
West Sussex -6 21 £438 -4.68% 22
Kent +3 7 £250 -67.74% 12
East Sussex -7 4 £486 -1.62% 7
Middlesex - 4 £475 - 2
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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 14 (4.93%) Oracle Application Server
2 10 (3.52%) Confluence
3 7 (2.46%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.06%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.06%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.70%) CMS
5 2 (0.70%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.70%) Smallworld
6 1 (0.35%) Apache
6 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.35%) IIS
6 1 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.35%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (7.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.17%) CPLEX
3 4 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.06%) Oracle Smart View
5 2 (0.70%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.35%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.11%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.06%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (0.70%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.35%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.35%) Cognos Controller
4 1 (0.35%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 86 (30.28%) Azure
2 54 (19.01%) Power Platform
3 25 (8.80%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (8.10%) AWS
4 23 (8.10%) Entra ID
5 20 (7.04%) Azure Monitor
6 18 (6.34%) GCP
7 14 (4.93%) dbt
8 10 (3.52%) Azure Key Vault
9 9 (3.17%) OCI
10 8 (2.82%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (2.82%) GitHub
11 7 (2.46%) Azure Sentinel
11 7 (2.46%) SaaS
12 6 (2.11%) Azure AI
12 6 (2.11%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (2.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (2.11%) IaaS
12 6 (2.11%) PaaS
13 5 (1.76%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.17%) Firewall
1 9 (3.17%) Network Security
1 9 (3.17%) VPN
2 6 (2.11%) SD-WAN
2 6 (2.11%) WAN
3 2 (0.70%) BGP
3 2 (0.70%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (0.70%) DNS
3 2 (0.70%) Multicast
3 2 (0.70%) OSPF
3 2 (0.70%) VXLAN
4 1 (0.35%) DHCP
4 1 (0.35%) EIGRP
4 1 (0.35%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (0.35%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (0.35%) HSRP
4 1 (0.35%) MPLS
4 1 (0.35%) SNMP
4 1 (0.35%) VRRP
4 1 (0.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (17.61%) Power BI
2 37 (13.03%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (7.75%) Oracle Reports
4 17 (5.99%) Tableau
5 14 (4.93%) Metadata
5 14 (4.93%) Oracle ODI
6 13 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (3.52%) NoSQL
8 9 (3.17%) MongoDB
8 9 (3.17%) Relational Database
9 7 (2.46%) Data Lake
10 6 (2.11%) Big Data
11 5 (1.76%) Metadata Repository
12 4 (1.41%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (1.41%) Couchbase
12 4 (1.41%) MySQL
12 4 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (1.06%) GIS
13 3 (1.06%) SQL Server
13 3 (1.06%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (5.63%) Git
2 12 (4.23%) JIRA
3 6 (2.11%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.41%) JUnit
5 2 (0.70%) fastlane
6 1 (0.35%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.35%) Crashlytics
6 1 (0.35%) GitLab
6 1 (0.35%) Gradle
6 1 (0.35%) MSI
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.35%) Xcode
General
1 84 (29.58%) Social Skills
2 51 (17.96%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (15.49%) Public Sector
4 35 (12.32%) Finance
5 15 (5.28%) Marketing
6 11 (3.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.46%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.76%) Banking
10 4 (1.41%) Legal
10 4 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.41%) Retail
11 3 (1.06%) Automotive
11 3 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.06%) Military
11 3 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.06%) Publishing
12 2 (0.70%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.35%) Law
Job Titles
1 52 (18.31%) Analyst
2 37 (13.03%) Developer
3 36 (12.68%) Data Engineer
4 32 (11.27%) Senior
5 24 (8.45%) Data Analyst
6 20 (7.04%) Architect
7 19 (6.69%) Lead
8 12 (4.23%) Accountant
8 12 (4.23%) Oracle Developer
9 11 (3.87%) Business Analyst
10 10 (3.52%) Senior Data Engineer
10 10 (3.52%) Systems Accountant
11 9 (3.17%) Python Developer
12 8 (2.82%) Data Scientist
13 7 (2.46%) Azure Engineer
13 7 (2.46%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 7 (2.46%) IAM Specialist
14 6 (2.11%) Consultant
14 6 (2.11%) Data Manager
14 6 (2.11%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.23%) PySpark
1 12 (4.23%) RESTful
2 11 (3.87%) CSS
2 11 (3.87%) Django
3 10 (3.52%) OAuth
3 10 (3.52%) SailPoint
3 10 (3.52%) Web Services
4 9 (3.17%) FastAPI
4 9 (3.17%) Flask
4 9 (3.17%) HTML
4 9 (3.17%) Kafka
4 9 (3.17%) NumPy
4 9 (3.17%) OpenAPI
4 9 (3.17%) OpenID
4 9 (3.17%) Pandas
4 9 (3.17%) Swagger
5 8 (2.82%) Oracle Fusion
5 8 (2.82%) pytest
5 8 (2.82%) RabbitMQ
5 8 (2.82%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.63%) Cloud Native
2 13 (4.58%) Algorithms
3 12 (4.23%) Data Structures
3 12 (4.23%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (4.23%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.17%) Management Information System
5 8 (2.82%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.46%) Cyber Threat
7 6 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.41%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.41%) IVR
10 3 (1.06%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.06%) Credit Risk
10 3 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.70%) FMCG
11 2 (0.70%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.87%) Windows
2 4 (1.41%) Mac OS
2 4 (1.41%) Unix
3 3 (1.06%) Linux
4 2 (0.70%) Android
4 2 (0.70%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.70%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.35%) VMS
5 1 (0.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (24.30%) Agile
2 66 (23.24%) Data Modelling
3 63 (22.18%) Business Intelligence
4 50 (17.61%) DevOps
5 49 (17.25%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (16.55%) AI
7 44 (15.49%) Decision-Making
8 41 (14.44%) Continuous Improvement
8 41 (14.44%) ETL
9 39 (13.73%) Data Pipeline
10 38 (13.38%) Data Governance
11 34 (11.97%) Migration
11 34 (11.97%) Stakeholder Management
11 34 (11.97%) Validation
12 32 (11.27%) Data Engineering
13 31 (10.92%) Data Analytics
14 30 (10.56%) Roadmaps
15 27 (9.51%) Data Science
16 26 (9.15%) Machine Learning
17 25 (8.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 65 (22.89%) SQL
2 64 (22.54%) Python
3 20 (7.04%) PowerShell
4 10 (3.52%) Bicep
5 9 (3.17%) Java
6 8 (2.82%) JavaScript
7 6 (2.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (1.76%) PL/SQL
8 5 (1.76%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.41%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (1.41%) R
10 3 (1.06%) C#
11 2 (0.70%) Go
12 1 (0.35%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.35%) Swift
12 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 84 (29.58%) Security Cleared
2 60 (21.13%) SC Cleared
3 24 (8.45%) Degree
4 14 (4.93%) DV Cleared
5 9 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (2.46%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.46%) PMI Certification
6 7 (2.46%) PMP
7 6 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.76%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.70%) ACCA
10 2 (0.70%) CCNP
10 2 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.70%) MBA
11 1 (0.35%) CCDA
11 1 (0.35%) CCDP
11 1 (0.35%) CCIE
11 1 (0.35%) CCIP
11 1 (0.35%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (17.61%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.28%) QA
3 11 (3.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (3.17%) NIST
5 6 (2.11%) GDPR
6 5 (1.76%) PMO
7 4 (1.41%) NCSC
8 3 (1.06%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.70%) SLA
9 2 (0.70%) WCAG
10 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.35%) GAAP
10 1 (0.35%) HL7
10 1 (0.35%) IFRS
System Software
1 18 (6.34%) Active Directory
2 16 (5.63%) Docker
3 11 (3.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.41%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (1.41%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.35%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 16 (5.63%) Kubernetes
2 15 (5.28%) Terraform
3 6 (2.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.76%) SCCM
5 4 (1.41%) Ansible
5 4 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.06%) QRadar
7 2 (0.70%) Nessus
7 2 (0.70%) OpenVAS
7 2 (0.70%) Rancher
7 2 (0.70%) SCOM
8 1 (0.35%) CASB
8 1 (0.35%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.35%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.35%) Grafana
Vendors
1 57 (20.07%) Microsoft
2 34 (11.97%) Oracle
3 27 (9.51%) Databricks
4 11 (3.87%) VMware
5 10 (3.52%) Google
6 8 (2.82%) OpenAI
6 8 (2.82%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.46%) SAP
8 6 (2.11%) Foundry
9 4 (1.41%) Citrix
9 4 (1.41%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.06%) Baan
10 3 (1.06%) Informatica
10 3 (1.06%) LogRhythm
10 3 (1.06%) Palantir
10 3 (1.06%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.70%) F5
11 2 (0.70%) Rapid7
11 2 (0.70%) Splunk
11 2 (0.70%) Talend