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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 35 51
Rank change year-on-year -3 +16 +3
Contract jobs citing Analytics 255 169 197
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.38% 5.64% 3.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.38% 6.15% 4.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 117 115
10th Percentile £331 £281 £319
25th Percentile £413 £365 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £482 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.73% -12.36% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £610
90th Percentile £649 £658 £695
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 7
10th Percentile £51.25 £14.55 -
25th Percentile £73.40 £18.31 £41.25
Median hourly rate £81.50 £30.03 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year +171.44% -50.78% +88.85%
75th Percentile £82.25 £32.05 £82.11
90th Percentile £84.05 £34.15 £84.45
England median hourly rate £58.90 £31.64 £32.94
% change year-on-year +86.14% -3.93% +6.24%

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 4,738 2,748 4,708
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 81.30% 91.63% 84.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,082 1,752 2,740
10th Percentile £285 £256 £243
25th Percentile £408 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -0.05% -1.53%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £623
90th Percentile £713 £675 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 171 432
10th Percentile £15.62 £13.85 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.29 £16.34 £18.20
Median hourly rate £52.50 £28.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% -41.05% -5.00%
75th Percentile £81.00 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £76.86
England median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £35.68
% change year-on-year +50.00% -15.92% -4.85%

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 30 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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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytics in the South East over the 6 months to 30 April 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 30 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 -4 136 £518 -1.43% 58
Berkshire -13 70 £500 +10.56% 25
Hampshire -16 56 £500 -2.44% 26
Buckinghamshire -11 45 £521 -12.39% 17
Surrey -4 29 £413 +13.01% 36
Oxfordshire -7 21 £550 -8.33% 16
West Sussex -9 17 £398 +8.21% 11
Kent -5 7 £250 -67.74% 19
East Sussex -3 3 £530 +11.47% 3
Middlesex - 2 £475 - 18
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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 12 (4.71%) Oracle Application Server
2 9 (3.53%) Confluence
3 7 (2.75%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.18%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.18%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.78%) CMS
5 2 (0.78%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.78%) Smallworld
6 1 (0.39%) Apache
6 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.39%) IIS
6 1 (0.39%) SAS
Applications
1 17 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.57%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.57%) CPLEX
2 4 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.18%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.39%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (2.35%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.18%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.39%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.39%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 75 (29.41%) Azure
2 42 (16.47%) Power Platform
3 29 (11.37%) AWS
4 21 (8.24%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (8.24%) Azure Monitor
5 19 (7.45%) Entra ID
6 15 (5.88%) GCP
7 13 (5.10%) Azure Key Vault
8 12 (4.71%) dbt
9 11 (4.31%) OCI
10 9 (3.53%) IaaS
11 8 (3.14%) Azure Data Factory
11 8 (3.14%) Azure Sentinel
12 7 (2.75%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (2.75%) GitHub
12 7 (2.75%) PaaS
13 6 (2.35%) Azure Machine Learning
13 6 (2.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (2.35%) Google Analytics
13 6 (2.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.92%) Network Security
2 9 (3.53%) Firewall
2 9 (3.53%) VPN
3 6 (2.35%) SD-WAN
3 6 (2.35%) WAN
4 2 (0.78%) BGP
4 2 (0.78%) Bluetooth
4 2 (0.78%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.78%) DNS
4 2 (0.78%) Multicast
4 2 (0.78%) OSPF
4 2 (0.78%) VoIP
4 2 (0.78%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.39%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.39%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (0.39%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (0.39%) HSRP
5 1 (0.39%) LTE
5 1 (0.39%) MPLS
5 1 (0.39%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (15.29%) Power BI
2 36 (14.12%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (9.02%) Oracle Reports
4 20 (7.84%) Tableau
5 17 (6.67%) Metadata
6 12 (4.71%) Oracle ODI
7 9 (3.53%) Big Data
8 8 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (2.75%) SQL Server
10 6 (2.35%) Data Lake
10 6 (2.35%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 5 (1.96%) Metadata Repository
11 5 (1.96%) NoSQL
11 5 (1.96%) Pinecone
11 5 (1.96%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.96%) Star Schema
11 5 (1.96%) Weaviate
12 4 (1.57%) MongoDB
12 4 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (1.18%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 12 (4.71%) Git
2 11 (4.31%) JIRA
3 5 (1.96%) Android Studio
3 5 (1.96%) Gradle
4 3 (1.18%) GitLab
5 2 (0.78%) fastlane
5 2 (0.78%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.78%) WiX
6 1 (0.39%) Crashlytics
6 1 (0.39%) MSI
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.39%) Xcode
General
1 86 (33.73%) Social Skills
2 54 (21.18%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (15.69%) Public Sector
4 32 (12.55%) Finance
5 13 (5.10%) Marketing
6 7 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (2.75%) Telecoms
7 6 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.57%) Legal
9 4 (1.57%) Retail
10 3 (1.18%) Automotive
11 2 (0.78%) Advertising
11 2 (0.78%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.78%) Banking
11 2 (0.78%) Mandarin Language
11 2 (0.78%) Military
11 2 (0.78%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 44 (17.25%) Analyst
2 33 (12.94%) Developer
3 29 (11.37%) Data Engineer
4 26 (10.20%) Data Analyst
4 26 (10.20%) Senior
5 21 (8.24%) Architect
6 17 (6.67%) Lead
7 12 (4.71%) Accountant
8 10 (3.92%) Oracle Developer
8 10 (3.92%) Systems Accountant
9 9 (3.53%) Azure Engineer
9 9 (3.53%) Consultant
10 8 (3.14%) Senior Data Engineer
11 7 (2.75%) Business Analyst
12 6 (2.35%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 6 (2.35%) Data Architect
12 6 (2.35%) Data Manager
12 6 (2.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (2.35%) Oracle Consultant
12 6 (2.35%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.92%) Oracle Fusion
2 9 (3.53%) PySpark
3 8 (3.14%) Flask
4 7 (2.75%) CSS
4 7 (2.75%) OAuth
5 6 (2.35%) ARM Templates
5 6 (2.35%) Node.js
5 6 (2.35%) OpenID
5 6 (2.35%) RESTful
5 6 (2.35%) SailPoint
5 6 (2.35%) SAML
5 6 (2.35%) Web Services
6 5 (1.96%) AngularJS
6 5 (1.96%) Faiss
6 5 (1.96%) HTML
6 5 (1.96%) LDAP
6 5 (1.96%) OAuth2
6 5 (1.96%) React
6 5 (1.96%) REST
6 5 (1.96%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.49%) Cloud Native
1 14 (5.49%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (3.92%) Product Ownership
3 9 (3.53%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.14%) Algorithms
5 7 (2.75%) Cyber Threat
6 6 (2.35%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.35%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.78%) Blog
10 2 (0.78%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.78%) FMCG
10 2 (0.78%) IoT
10 2 (0.78%) Marketing Technology
10 2 (0.78%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.78%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.10%) Windows
2 6 (2.35%) Android
2 6 (2.35%) Linux
3 4 (1.57%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.78%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.78%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.39%) VMS
5 1 (0.39%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (25.88%) Agile
2 60 (23.53%) Data Modelling
3 55 (21.57%) Business Intelligence
4 48 (18.82%) Problem-Solving
5 44 (17.25%) Data Governance
6 42 (16.47%) ETL
7 41 (16.08%) DevOps
8 40 (15.69%) AI
9 37 (14.51%) Continuous Improvement
9 37 (14.51%) Decision-Making
10 36 (14.12%) Validation
11 32 (12.55%) Data Pipeline
12 30 (11.76%) Migration
13 29 (11.37%) Machine Learning
14 26 (10.20%) Stakeholder Management
15 25 (9.80%) Data Engineering
15 25 (9.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 25 (9.80%) Visualisation
16 23 (9.02%) Data Analytics
17 22 (8.63%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 61 (23.92%) Python
2 56 (21.96%) SQL
3 19 (7.45%) PowerShell
4 11 (4.31%) Bicep
4 11 (4.31%) Java
5 7 (2.75%) R
6 6 (2.35%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (1.57%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (1.18%) Bash
9 3 (1.18%) C#
9 3 (1.18%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.18%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.78%) C++
10 2 (0.78%) Go
11 1 (0.39%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.39%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.39%) Swift
Qualifications
1 85 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 61 (23.92%) SC Cleared
3 21 (8.24%) Degree
4 13 (5.10%) DV Cleared
5 10 (3.92%) Azure Certification
6 9 (3.53%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.96%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.96%) PMP
9 4 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.78%) ACCA
10 2 (0.78%) CCNP
10 2 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.78%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.78%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.39%) CCDA
11 1 (0.39%) CCDP
11 1 (0.39%) CCIP
11 1 (0.39%) CCNA
11 1 (0.39%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (17.25%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.49%) QA
3 10 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (3.14%) NIST
5 6 (2.35%) GDPR
6 4 (1.57%) NCSC
7 2 (0.78%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.78%) HL7
7 2 (0.78%) PMO
7 2 (0.78%) WCAG
8 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (5.88%) Docker
2 14 (5.49%) Active Directory
3 11 (4.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.57%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (1.57%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.39%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.39%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 19 (7.45%) Terraform
2 13 (5.10%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.35%) Ansible
3 6 (2.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.96%) SCCM
5 3 (1.18%) Grafana
5 3 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.78%) Nessus
6 2 (0.78%) OpenVAS
6 2 (0.78%) Puppet
6 2 (0.78%) QRadar
6 2 (0.78%) Rancher
6 2 (0.78%) SCOM
7 1 (0.39%) CASB
7 1 (0.39%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.39%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 52 (20.39%) Microsoft
2 30 (11.76%) Oracle
3 20 (7.84%) Databricks
4 11 (4.31%) VMware
5 10 (3.92%) Google
6 8 (3.14%) OpenAI
7 7 (2.75%) Informatica
7 7 (2.75%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.35%) Foundry
9 5 (1.96%) SAP
10 4 (1.57%) Citrix
10 4 (1.57%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.57%) Palantir
10 4 (1.57%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.57%) Talend
11 3 (1.18%) Adobe
11 3 (1.18%) HubSpot
12 2 (0.78%) Cisco
12 2 (0.78%) ESRI
12 2 (0.78%) Intergraph