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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 39 45
Rank change year-on-year 0 +6 -1
Contract jobs citing Analytics 297 165 222
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.70% 5.12% 3.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.78% 5.64% 4.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 103 131
10th Percentile £325 £281 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £616 £608
90th Percentile £636 £773 £711
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 4
10th Percentile £51.25 £13.25 -
25th Percentile £67.19 £13.70 £41.25
Median hourly rate £81.50 £23.78 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +242.80% -44.06% +31.58%
75th Percentile £82.63 £33.10 £53.93
90th Percentile £85.10 £46.42 £72.24
England median hourly rate £54.75 £33.28 £30.00
% change year-on-year +64.54% +10.92% -6.69%

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 5,140 2,928 4,723
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 81.37% 90.79% 82.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,233 1,819 2,746
10th Percentile £280 £250 £260
25th Percentile £413 £391 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -0.49%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £634
90th Percentile £700 £663 £700
England median daily rate £523 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 507 240 451
10th Percentile £15.53 £13.48 £13.00
25th Percentile £22.18 £15.13 £18.32
Median hourly rate £54.00 £24.00 £47.78
Median % change year-on-year +125.00% -49.77% -4.44%
75th Percentile £82.25 £53.75 £67.66
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% +1.65%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +3 156 £525 - 101
Berkshire -2 91 £495 -5.81% 41
Hampshire -26 53 £500 -4.76% 54
Surrey +2 41 £438 +19.05% 63
Buckinghamshire -12 40 £525 -16.00% 24
Oxfordshire -15 25 £550 +35.38% 37
West Sussex -5 23 £409 -10.91% 18
Middlesex - 9 £523 - 7
Kent -1 6 £450 -41.94% 13
East Sussex -2 6 £513 +3.80% 16
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 14 (4.71%) Oracle Application Server
2 6 (2.02%) Confluence
3 3 (1.01%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.01%) Palantir Foundry
3 3 (1.01%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.67%) CMS
5 1 (0.34%) Apache
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.34%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.34%) IIS
5 1 (0.34%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (7.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.03%) CPLEX
3 4 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.01%) Chatbot
4 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.01%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.34%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.02%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.01%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (0.67%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.67%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.34%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.34%) Cognos Controller
4 1 (0.34%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.34%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 85 (28.62%) Azure
2 55 (18.52%) Power Platform
3 25 (8.42%) AWS
4 22 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (7.07%) GCP
6 19 (6.40%) Entra ID
7 16 (5.39%) Azure Monitor
8 15 (5.05%) dbt
9 9 (3.03%) GitHub
9 9 (3.03%) OCI
10 8 (2.69%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (2.69%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (2.36%) Azure AI
11 7 (2.36%) Azure Key Vault
11 7 (2.36%) SaaS
12 6 (2.02%) Azure Machine Learning
12 6 (2.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (2.02%) Snowflake
13 5 (1.68%) Azure Sentinel
14 4 (1.35%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.03%) Network Security
1 9 (3.03%) VPN
2 7 (2.36%) Firewall
3 6 (2.02%) SD-WAN
3 6 (2.02%) WAN
4 3 (1.01%) Broadband
5 2 (0.67%) BGP
5 2 (0.67%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.67%) DNS
5 2 (0.67%) Multicast
5 2 (0.67%) OSPF
5 2 (0.67%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.34%) DHCP
6 1 (0.34%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.34%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.34%) IPv6
6 1 (0.34%) MPLS
6 1 (0.34%) SNMP
6 1 (0.34%) SSL
6 1 (0.34%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (17.17%) Power BI
2 38 (12.79%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (7.41%) Oracle Reports
4 18 (6.06%) Tableau
5 14 (4.71%) Oracle ODI
6 13 (4.38%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (4.04%) Metadata
8 11 (3.70%) Relational Database
9 10 (3.37%) NoSQL
10 9 (3.03%) MongoDB
11 7 (2.36%) Data Lake
12 5 (1.68%) Big Data
13 4 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (1.35%) Apache Cassandra
13 4 (1.35%) Couchbase
13 4 (1.35%) Metadata Repository
13 4 (1.35%) MySQL
14 3 (1.01%) SQL Server
14 3 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (5.39%) Git
2 8 (2.69%) Jenkins
2 8 (2.69%) JIRA
3 4 (1.35%) JUnit
4 2 (0.67%) fastlane
5 1 (0.34%) Android Studio
5 1 (0.34%) Crashlytics
5 1 (0.34%) GitLab
5 1 (0.34%) Gradle
5 1 (0.34%) MSI
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.34%) Xcode
General
1 89 (29.97%) Social Skills
2 51 (17.17%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (15.15%) Public Sector
4 30 (10.10%) Finance
5 17 (5.72%) Marketing
6 11 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.03%) Telecoms
8 8 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.68%) Banking
9 5 (1.68%) Publishing
9 5 (1.68%) Retail
10 4 (1.35%) Legal
10 4 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.01%) Automotive
11 3 (1.01%) Billing
11 3 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.01%) Military
11 3 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.67%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 57 (19.19%) Analyst
2 38 (12.79%) Developer
3 37 (12.46%) Data Engineer
4 35 (11.78%) Senior
5 24 (8.08%) Data Analyst
6 20 (6.73%) Lead
7 16 (5.39%) Architect
8 13 (4.38%) Data Scientist
9 12 (4.04%) Accountant
9 12 (4.04%) Oracle Developer
10 11 (3.70%) Business Analyst
10 11 (3.70%) Senior Data Engineer
11 10 (3.37%) Systems Accountant
12 9 (3.03%) Python Developer
13 7 (2.36%) Consultant
13 7 (2.36%) IAM Specialist
13 7 (2.36%) Product Manager
14 6 (2.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 6 (2.02%) Data Architect
14 6 (2.02%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.71%) RESTful
2 13 (4.38%) PySpark
3 12 (4.04%) OAuth
4 11 (3.70%) CSS
4 11 (3.70%) Django
4 11 (3.70%) OpenAPI
4 11 (3.70%) Swagger
5 10 (3.37%) OAuth2
5 10 (3.37%) SailPoint
5 10 (3.37%) SAML
5 10 (3.37%) Web Services
6 9 (3.03%) FastAPI
6 9 (3.03%) Flask
6 9 (3.03%) HTML
6 9 (3.03%) Kafka
6 9 (3.03%) NumPy
6 9 (3.03%) OpenID
6 9 (3.03%) Pandas
7 8 (2.69%) Oracle Fusion
7 8 (2.69%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.05%) Cloud Native
2 14 (4.71%) Algorithms
3 12 (4.04%) Data Structures
3 12 (4.04%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (3.37%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.03%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.69%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.36%) Cyber Threat
7 7 (2.36%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.68%) IVR
8 5 (1.68%) Media Streaming
9 4 (1.35%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.35%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.01%) Credit Risk
10 3 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.67%) FMCG
11 2 (0.67%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.67%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.70%) Windows
2 4 (1.35%) Mac OS
2 4 (1.35%) Unix
3 3 (1.01%) Linux
4 2 (0.67%) Android
4 2 (0.67%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.67%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.34%) VMS
5 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (26.26%) Agile
2 66 (22.22%) Data Modelling
3 62 (20.88%) Business Intelligence
4 54 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 52 (17.51%) AI
6 47 (15.82%) DevOps
7 44 (14.81%) Decision-Making
8 43 (14.48%) Continuous Improvement
9 42 (14.14%) Data Pipeline
10 40 (13.47%) ETL
11 38 (12.79%) Stakeholder Management
11 38 (12.79%) Validation
12 36 (12.12%) Data Engineering
13 35 (11.78%) Data Governance
14 34 (11.45%) Data Science
15 32 (10.77%) Migration
16 30 (10.10%) Data Analytics
17 29 (9.76%) CI/CD
17 29 (9.76%) Machine Learning
18 28 (9.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 72 (24.24%) SQL
2 69 (23.23%) Python
3 19 (6.40%) PowerShell
4 10 (3.37%) JavaScript
5 9 (3.03%) Java
6 7 (2.36%) Bicep
7 6 (2.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (1.68%) PL/SQL
8 5 (1.68%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.35%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (1.35%) R
10 3 (1.01%) C#
11 2 (0.67%) Go
12 1 (0.34%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.34%) Swift
12 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 85 (28.62%) Security Cleared
2 62 (20.88%) SC Cleared
3 26 (8.75%) Degree
4 14 (4.71%) DV Cleared
5 10 (3.37%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (2.36%) PMI Certification
6 7 (2.36%) PMP
7 6 (2.02%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.68%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.67%) ACCA
10 2 (0.67%) CCNP
10 2 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.67%) MBA
11 1 (0.34%) CCDA
11 1 (0.34%) CCDP
11 1 (0.34%) CCIP
11 1 (0.34%) CCNA
11 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (16.16%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.39%) QA
3 11 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (3.03%) NIST
5 6 (2.02%) GDPR
6 5 (1.68%) PMO
7 3 (1.01%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.01%) SLA
8 2 (0.67%) NCSC
8 2 (0.67%) WCAG
9 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.34%) GAAP
9 1 (0.34%) HL7
9 1 (0.34%) IFRS
System Software
1 17 (5.72%) Docker
2 16 (5.39%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (1.35%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.34%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (5.72%) Kubernetes
2 15 (5.05%) Terraform
3 6 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.68%) SCCM
5 4 (1.35%) Ansible
5 4 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.01%) QRadar
7 2 (0.67%) Nessus
7 2 (0.67%) OpenVAS
7 2 (0.67%) Rancher
7 2 (0.67%) SCOM
8 1 (0.34%) CASB
8 1 (0.34%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.34%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.34%) Grafana
Vendors
1 56 (18.86%) Microsoft
2 35 (11.78%) Oracle
3 32 (10.77%) Databricks
4 13 (4.38%) Google
5 11 (3.70%) VMware
6 9 (3.03%) SAP
7 8 (2.69%) Foundry
7 8 (2.69%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.02%) OpenAI
8 6 (2.02%) Palantir
9 4 (1.35%) Baan
9 4 (1.35%) Citrix
9 4 (1.35%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.01%) Informatica
10 3 (1.01%) LogRhythm
10 3 (1.01%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.01%) Workday
11 2 (0.67%) F5
11 2 (0.67%) Splunk
11 2 (0.67%) Talend