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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 52 50
Rank change year-on-year -4 -2 +7
Contract jobs citing Analytics 147 132 187
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.38% 3.97% 3.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.02% 4.45% 4.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 88 137
10th Percentile £321 £274 £413
25th Percentile £413 £350 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £452 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.56% -24.63% +19.52%
75th Percentile £578 £593 £638
90th Percentile £688 £661 £750
England median daily rate £515 £550 £551
% change year-on-year -6.36% -0.09% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 12
10th Percentile - - £32.32
25th Percentile £22.50 £27.00 £39.02
Median hourly rate £30.11 £29.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.83% -53.23% +99.04%
75th Percentile £70.16 £62.39 £79.78
90th Percentile £78.76 £64.73 £83.98
England median hourly rate £46.00 £34.50 £43.50
% change year-on-year +33.33% -20.69% +24.29%

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 3,660 2,963 4,452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.25% 89.01% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,403 1,830 2,833
10th Percentile £230 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £517
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -1.35% +2.99%
75th Percentile £600 £620 £615
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 331 112 259
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.37 £17.80
25th Percentile £17.00 £25.56 £26.00
Median hourly rate £23.58 £42.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.53% -22.73% +22.22%
75th Percentile £54.38 £62.50 £66.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £68.63 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -20.00% +21.43%

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 13 January 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 13 January 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 13 January 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 -9 83 £500 -8.26% 227
Berkshire -7 57 £500 +7.07% 153
Hampshire -9 29 £503 +41.15% 71
Buckinghamshire -2 17 £456 -22.67% 42
Surrey -9 16 £375 +2.74% 73
West Sussex -6 10 £475 +35.71% 48
Oxfordshire -11 9 £500 -28.57% 32
East Sussex +3 1 £600 +54.84% 40
Kent -2 1 £250 - 56
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 10 (6.80%) Confluence
2 8 (5.44%) GeoServer
2 8 (5.44%) Smallworld
3 7 (4.76%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.36%) ArcGIS
4 2 (1.36%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.68%) CMS
5 1 (0.68%) Jupyter
Applications
1 10 (6.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (5.44%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.04%) Chatbot
3 3 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.36%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.68%) CapCut
5 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.04%) SAP ERP
2 2 (1.36%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (1.36%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (1.36%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.68%) iTrent
3 1 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.68%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.68%) SAP QM
3 1 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 53 (36.05%) Azure
2 26 (17.69%) Power Platform
3 20 (13.61%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (10.20%) AWS
5 14 (9.52%) Azure Monitor
6 12 (8.16%) Entra ID
7 9 (6.12%) Azure Key Vault
7 9 (6.12%) GCP
7 9 (6.12%) GitHub
8 8 (5.44%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (4.76%) IaaS
10 6 (4.08%) Azure Functions
10 6 (4.08%) SaaS
10 6 (4.08%) Serverless
11 5 (3.40%) Azure Sentinel
12 4 (2.72%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (2.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (2.72%) Power Automate
12 4 (2.72%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.72%) Firewall
2 2 (1.36%) 2G
2 2 (1.36%) 5G
2 2 (1.36%) Bluetooth
2 2 (1.36%) LTE
2 2 (1.36%) Mobile Backhaul
2 2 (1.36%) Network Security
2 2 (1.36%) SSL
2 2 (1.36%) Unified Communications
2 2 (1.36%) VoIP
2 2 (1.36%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (17.69%) Power BI
2 14 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (8.84%) Metadata
3 13 (8.84%) Tableau
4 8 (5.44%) Geospatial Data
4 8 (5.44%) GIS
4 8 (5.44%) QGIS
5 7 (4.76%) Data Lake
6 6 (4.08%) Big Data
6 6 (4.08%) Relational Database
6 6 (4.08%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.72%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.72%) Star Schema
8 3 (2.04%) Electronic Patient Records
8 3 (2.04%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 3 (2.04%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (2.04%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.36%) Data Mining
9 2 (1.36%) MySQL
9 2 (1.36%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 14 (9.52%) JIRA
2 6 (4.08%) GitLab
3 5 (3.40%) Git
4 4 (2.72%) Android Studio
4 4 (2.72%) Gradle
4 4 (2.72%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.04%) Maven
6 2 (1.36%) WiX
7 1 (0.68%) MLflow
7 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio
General
1 64 (43.54%) Social Skills
2 31 (21.09%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (16.33%) Finance
4 20 (13.61%) Public Sector
5 10 (6.80%) Marketing
6 7 (4.76%) Retail
7 5 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.40%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (3.40%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.40%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.72%) General Ledger
8 4 (2.72%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.04%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.04%) Banking
9 3 (2.04%) Billing
9 3 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (2.04%) Publishing
10 2 (1.36%) Arabic Language
10 2 (1.36%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 31 (21.09%) Analyst
2 24 (16.33%) Architect
3 21 (14.29%) Data Analyst
4 14 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
4 14 (9.52%) Senior
5 9 (6.12%) Consultant
5 9 (6.12%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (5.44%) Developer
7 7 (4.76%) Lead
8 6 (4.08%) Business Analyst
8 6 (4.08%) Data Engineer
8 6 (4.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (3.40%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (3.40%) Data Architect
9 5 (3.40%) Data Scientist
9 5 (3.40%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (3.40%) GIS Architect
9 5 (3.40%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (2.72%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 4 (2.72%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.80%) REST
2 7 (4.76%) ARM Templates
3 5 (3.40%) PySpark
3 5 (3.40%) SOAP
4 4 (2.72%) Flask
5 3 (2.04%) .NET
5 3 (2.04%) .NET Core
5 3 (2.04%) ADO
5 3 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (2.04%) GraphQL
5 3 (2.04%) Kafka
5 3 (2.04%) OAuth
5 3 (2.04%) OAuth2
5 3 (2.04%) OpenID
5 3 (2.04%) SAML
5 3 (2.04%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.36%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.36%) JavaFX
6 2 (1.36%) JSON
6 2 (1.36%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.12%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (5.44%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (4.08%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.08%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.40%) Social Media
6 4 (2.72%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.72%) Blog
6 4 (2.72%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.04%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.04%) Educational Technology
7 3 (2.04%) IoT
7 3 (2.04%) LIMS
7 3 (2.04%) NHS
7 3 (2.04%) PACS
7 3 (2.04%) Replication
7 3 (2.04%) Smart Meter
8 2 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.36%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.76%) Windows
2 6 (4.08%) Linux
3 4 (2.72%) Android
4 2 (1.36%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.36%) Unix
4 2 (1.36%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.68%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (29.25%) Agile
2 38 (25.85%) DevOps
3 36 (24.49%) Business Intelligence
3 36 (24.49%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (21.09%) Data Governance
5 30 (20.41%) AI
6 26 (17.69%) Decision-Making
7 25 (17.01%) Machine Learning
8 24 (16.33%) Data Modelling
8 24 (16.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 22 (14.97%) Visualisation
10 20 (13.61%) Data Analysis
11 19 (12.93%) Data Analytics
11 19 (12.93%) Roadmaps
12 18 (12.24%) ETL
13 17 (11.56%) Continuous Improvement
14 16 (10.88%) CI/CD
14 16 (10.88%) Stakeholder Management
15 14 (9.52%) Data Science
15 14 (9.52%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 37 (25.17%) Python
1 37 (25.17%) SQL
2 13 (8.84%) Java
3 11 (7.48%) PowerShell
4 9 (6.12%) R
5 8 (5.44%) Bash
5 8 (5.44%) Bicep
5 8 (5.44%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.72%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.04%) C#
7 3 (2.04%) PHP
8 2 (1.36%) ABAP
8 2 (1.36%) C++
8 2 (1.36%) Perl
8 2 (1.36%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 37 (25.17%) Security Cleared
2 26 (17.69%) SC Cleared
3 19 (12.93%) Degree
4 6 (4.08%) Azure Certification
4 6 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.72%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.04%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.36%) CCA
7 2 (1.36%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.68%) CISSP
8 1 (0.68%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.68%) PMP
8 1 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (19.05%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.08%) GDPR
2 6 (4.08%) QA
3 3 (2.04%) Def Stans
3 3 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.04%) NCSC
4 2 (1.36%) NIST
5 1 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.68%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.68%) HL7
5 1 (0.68%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.68%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (5.44%) Active Directory
1 8 (5.44%) Docker
2 1 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (11.56%) Terraform
2 11 (7.48%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.40%) Grafana
4 3 (2.04%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.36%) Ansible
5 2 (1.36%) Cisco CUCM
5 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.36%) Puppet
5 2 (1.36%) SCCM
5 2 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.68%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 29 (19.73%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.84%) Databricks
3 12 (8.16%) Oracle
4 8 (5.44%) ESRI
4 8 (5.44%) Intergraph
5 6 (4.08%) Foundry
5 6 (4.08%) Palantir
6 5 (3.40%) Google
6 5 (3.40%) SAP
6 5 (3.40%) VMware
6 5 (3.40%) Workday
7 4 (2.72%) Informatica
7 4 (2.72%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.04%) Adobe
8 3 (2.04%) OpenAI
8 3 (2.04%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.36%) HubSpot
9 2 (1.36%) PagerDuty
9 2 (1.36%) TikTok
9 2 (1.36%) YouTube