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 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 34 53
Rank change year-on-year -12 +19 -3
Contract jobs citing Analytics 236 163 196
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.13% 5.45% 3.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.06% 5.94% 4.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 114 121
10th Percentile £345 £281 £325
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 £588 £600 £615
90th Percentile £655 £659 £700
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 7
10th Percentile £77.81 £14.55 -
25th Percentile £80.75 £18.31 £41.25
Median hourly rate £81.50 £30.03 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year +171.44% -50.78% +60.95%
75th Percentile £83.00 £32.05 £82.11
90th Percentile £84.35 £34.15 £84.45
England median hourly rate £60.50 £31.64 £35.50
% change year-on-year +91.21% -10.87% +10.94%

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 4,663 2,742 4,788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 81.56% 91.61% 85.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,039 1,754 2,793
10th Percentile £282 £253 £231
25th Percentile £406 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -0.99%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £619
90th Percentile £713 £675 £699
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 422 168 433
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £16.80 £18.20
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.64% -37.78% -6.41%
75th Percentile £81.00 £62.31 £62.47
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £76.86
England median hourly rate £41.94 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.55% -9.60% -6.67%

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 20 April 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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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 20 April 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 -13 128 £518 -1.43% 72
Berkshire -7 73 £500 +7.07% 35
Hampshire -16 50 £508 +4.10% 39
Buckinghamshire -4 41 £525 -11.76% 16
Surrey -1 26 £413 +13.01% 60
West Sussex -8 14 £398 +8.21% 19
Oxfordshire -11 14 £550 -8.33% 22
Kent -4 7 £250 -67.74% 35
East Sussex -1 2 £600 +26.32% 10
Middlesex - 2 £475 - 30
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 9 (3.81%) Oracle Application Server
2 8 (3.39%) Confluence
3 7 (2.97%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.27%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.27%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.85%) CMS
5 2 (0.85%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.85%) Smallworld
6 1 (0.42%) Apache
6 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.42%) IIS
Applications
1 16 (6.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.69%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.69%) CPLEX
2 4 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.27%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.42%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (2.54%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.27%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.42%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.42%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 67 (28.39%) Azure
2 38 (16.10%) Power Platform
3 26 (11.02%) AWS
4 24 (10.17%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (9.32%) Azure Monitor
6 16 (6.78%) Entra ID
7 14 (5.93%) GCP
8 13 (5.51%) Azure Key Vault
9 12 (5.08%) dbt
10 11 (4.66%) OCI
11 10 (4.24%) GitHub
12 9 (3.81%) Azure Sentinel
12 9 (3.81%) IaaS
12 9 (3.81%) Serverless
13 8 (3.39%) Azure Logic Apps
13 8 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (2.97%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (2.97%) Azure Functions
14 7 (2.97%) PaaS
15 6 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.81%) Firewall
1 9 (3.81%) VPN
2 8 (3.39%) Network Security
3 6 (2.54%) SD-WAN
3 6 (2.54%) WAN
4 3 (1.27%) SSL
5 2 (0.85%) BGP
5 2 (0.85%) Bluetooth
5 2 (0.85%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.85%) DNS
5 2 (0.85%) Multicast
5 2 (0.85%) OSPF
5 2 (0.85%) VoIP
5 2 (0.85%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.42%) 5G
6 1 (0.42%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.42%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (0.42%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (0.42%) HSRP
6 1 (0.42%) Mobile Backhaul
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (14.83%) Power BI
2 30 (12.71%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (8.47%) Oracle Reports
4 19 (8.05%) Tableau
5 17 (7.20%) Metadata
6 9 (3.81%) Big Data
6 9 (3.81%) Oracle ODI
7 8 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (2.97%) SQL Server
9 6 (2.54%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 5 (2.12%) Data Lake
10 5 (2.12%) Metadata Repository
10 5 (2.12%) NoSQL
10 5 (2.12%) Pinecone
10 5 (2.12%) Relational Database
10 5 (2.12%) Star Schema
10 5 (2.12%) Weaviate
11 4 (1.69%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (1.27%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 12 (5.08%) Git
2 10 (4.24%) JIRA
3 5 (2.12%) Android Studio
3 5 (2.12%) Gradle
3 5 (2.12%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.85%) fastlane
4 2 (0.85%) GitLab
4 2 (0.85%) WiX
5 1 (0.42%) Crashlytics
5 1 (0.42%) MSI
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.42%) Xcode
General
1 87 (36.86%) Social Skills
2 54 (22.88%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (13.56%) Public Sector
4 31 (13.14%) Finance
5 13 (5.51%) Marketing
6 7 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (2.97%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.12%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.69%) Legal
8 4 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.69%) Retail
9 3 (1.27%) Billing
9 3 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.85%) Advertising
10 2 (0.85%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.85%) Automotive
10 2 (0.85%) Banking
10 2 (0.85%) Mandarin Language
10 2 (0.85%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 40 (16.95%) Analyst
2 28 (11.86%) Developer
3 26 (11.02%) Data Engineer
4 25 (10.59%) Data Analyst
5 23 (9.75%) Senior
6 22 (9.32%) Architect
7 17 (7.20%) Lead
8 12 (5.08%) Accountant
8 12 (5.08%) Azure Engineer
9 10 (4.24%) Systems Accountant
10 9 (3.81%) Oracle Developer
11 8 (3.39%) Consultant
11 8 (3.39%) DevOps Engineer
12 7 (2.97%) Business Analyst
12 7 (2.97%) Senior Data Engineer
13 6 (2.54%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 6 (2.54%) Data Analytics Engineer
13 6 (2.54%) Data Architect
13 6 (2.54%) Oracle Consultant
14 5 (2.12%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.24%) Oracle Fusion
2 9 (3.81%) ARM Templates
3 8 (3.39%) Flask
3 8 (3.39%) PySpark
3 8 (3.39%) REST
4 7 (2.97%) CSS
5 6 (2.54%) .NET
5 6 (2.54%) Node.js
5 6 (2.54%) RESTful
6 5 (2.12%) AngularJS
6 5 (2.12%) Faiss
6 5 (2.12%) HTML
6 5 (2.12%) OAuth
6 5 (2.12%) React
6 5 (2.12%) Software Packaging
7 4 (1.69%) .NET Core
7 4 (1.69%) FastAPI
7 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Graph
7 4 (1.69%) OpenAPI
7 4 (1.69%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.93%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (5.08%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.24%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.39%) Algorithms
4 8 (3.39%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.12%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (2.12%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.12%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.27%) LIMS
7 3 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.27%) NHS
7 3 (1.27%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.27%) PACS
8 2 (0.85%) Blog
8 2 (0.85%) Clustering
8 2 (0.85%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.85%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.24%) Windows
2 6 (2.54%) Android
3 4 (1.69%) Linux
3 4 (1.69%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.85%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.42%) VMS
5 1 (0.42%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (26.69%) Agile
2 53 (22.46%) Data Modelling
3 51 (21.61%) Business Intelligence
4 48 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (18.22%) Data Governance
6 42 (17.80%) DevOps
7 39 (16.53%) AI
8 37 (15.68%) Validation
9 36 (15.25%) ETL
10 35 (14.83%) Decision-Making
11 34 (14.41%) Continuous Improvement
12 30 (12.71%) Migration
13 28 (11.86%) Machine Learning
14 27 (11.44%) Data Pipeline
14 27 (11.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 27 (11.44%) Stakeholder Management
15 23 (9.75%) Visualisation
16 22 (9.32%) CI/CD
16 22 (9.32%) Data Analysis
16 22 (9.32%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 57 (24.15%) Python
2 52 (22.03%) SQL
3 14 (5.93%) PowerShell
4 13 (5.51%) Java
5 11 (4.66%) Bicep
6 9 (3.81%) JavaScript
7 7 (2.97%) R
8 6 (2.54%) Bash
8 6 (2.54%) C#
9 4 (1.69%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.27%) PHP
10 3 (1.27%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.27%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.85%) C++
11 2 (0.85%) Go
12 1 (0.42%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.42%) Swift
Qualifications
1 71 (30.08%) Security Cleared
2 49 (20.76%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.78%) Degree
4 12 (5.08%) DV Cleared
5 10 (4.24%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.12%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.12%) PMP
7 4 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.85%) ACCA
8 2 (0.85%) CCNP
8 2 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.85%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.85%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.42%) CCDA
9 1 (0.42%) CCDP
9 1 (0.42%) CCIE
9 1 (0.42%) CCIP
9 1 (0.42%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (17.80%) Data Quality
2 13 (5.51%) QA
3 5 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.69%) NCSC
5 3 (1.27%) GDPR
5 3 (1.27%) NIST
6 2 (0.85%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.85%) HL7
6 2 (0.85%) WCAG
7 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.42%) PMO
7 1 (0.42%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (6.36%) Docker
2 10 (4.24%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (1.69%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.42%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.42%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 21 (8.90%) Terraform
2 13 (5.51%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.54%) Ansible
3 6 (2.54%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (2.12%) SCCM
5 2 (0.85%) Cisco CUCM
5 2 (0.85%) Grafana
5 2 (0.85%) Nessus
5 2 (0.85%) OpenVAS
5 2 (0.85%) Puppet
5 2 (0.85%) Rancher
5 2 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.42%) CASB
6 1 (0.42%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 42 (17.80%) Microsoft
2 24 (10.17%) Oracle
3 19 (8.05%) Databricks
4 10 (4.24%) Google
5 9 (3.81%) VMware
6 8 (3.39%) OpenAI
7 6 (2.54%) Foundry
7 6 (2.54%) Informatica
7 6 (2.54%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.69%) Citrix
8 4 (1.69%) Palantir
8 4 (1.69%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.27%) Adobe
9 3 (1.27%) Cisco
9 3 (1.27%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.27%) HubSpot
9 3 (1.27%) Talend
10 2 (0.85%) Darktrace
10 2 (0.85%) F5
10 2 (0.85%) Virgin Media