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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 33 47
Rank change year-on-year -8 +14 +7
Contract jobs citing Analytics 260 166 205
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.35% 5.65% 3.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.38% 6.19% 4.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 109 116
10th Percentile £322 £281 £314
25th Percentile £406 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £482 £545
Median % change year-on-year +3.73% -11.56% +9.00%
75th Percentile £556 £600 £608
90th Percentile £606 £698 £725
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 7 6
10th Percentile £51.25 £13.25 -
25th Percentile £67.19 £13.55 £41.25
Median hourly rate £81.50 £15.50 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year +425.81% -70.05% +62.23%
75th Percentile £82.63 £32.05 £78.71
90th Percentile £85.10 £33.73 £84.45
England median hourly rate £58.90 £31.85 £32.94
% change year-on-year +84.94% -3.31% +1.97%

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 4,833 2,683 4,664
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.81% 91.32% 82.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,083 1,720 2,690
10th Percentile £280 £250 £260
25th Percentile £412 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% -1.96% +0.74%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £657 £700
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 460 181 450
10th Percentile £15.05 £13.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £22.59 £15.00 £18.23
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +108.75% -47.05% -9.52%
75th Percentile £82.25 £58.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £76.87
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +66.67% -24.00% +1.35%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -1 146 £516 +0.63% 93
Berkshire -4 78 £490 -2.00% 55
Hampshire -28 45 £500 +8.11% 37
Buckinghamshire -17 44 £525 -19.23% 21
Surrey +5 37 £438 +21.95% 43
Oxfordshire -10 24 £550 +33.33% 18
West Sussex -10 18 £380 +8.68% 22
Kent -1 7 £250 -67.74% 21
East Sussex -6 2 £459 -5.85% 9
Middlesex - 2 £475 - 7
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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 13 (5.00%) Oracle Application Server
2 10 (3.85%) Confluence
3 8 (3.08%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.15%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.15%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.77%) CMS
5 2 (0.77%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.77%) Smallworld
6 1 (0.38%) Apache
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.38%) IIS
6 1 (0.38%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (6.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.31%) CPLEX
3 4 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.15%) Oracle Smart View
5 2 (0.77%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.38%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (2.31%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.15%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.77%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.38%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 81 (31.15%) Azure
2 48 (18.46%) Power Platform
3 26 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (9.23%) AWS
5 22 (8.46%) Entra ID
6 21 (8.08%) Azure Monitor
7 18 (6.92%) GCP
8 12 (4.62%) dbt
9 11 (4.23%) Azure Key Vault
10 9 (3.46%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (3.46%) OCI
11 8 (3.08%) Azure Sentinel
11 8 (3.08%) GitHub
12 7 (2.69%) IaaS
12 7 (2.69%) PaaS
13 6 (2.31%) Azure AI
13 6 (2.31%) Azure Logic Apps
13 6 (2.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (2.31%) SaaS
14 5 (1.92%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.85%) Network Security
2 9 (3.46%) Firewall
2 9 (3.46%) VPN
3 6 (2.31%) SD-WAN
3 6 (2.31%) WAN
4 2 (0.77%) BGP
4 2 (0.77%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.77%) DNS
4 2 (0.77%) Multicast
4 2 (0.77%) OSPF
4 2 (0.77%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.38%) DHCP
5 1 (0.38%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.38%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (0.38%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (0.38%) HSRP
5 1 (0.38%) MPLS
5 1 (0.38%) SNMP
5 1 (0.38%) SSL
5 1 (0.38%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (16.92%) Power BI
2 34 (13.08%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (8.85%) Oracle Reports
4 17 (6.54%) Tableau
5 14 (5.38%) Metadata
6 13 (5.00%) Oracle ODI
7 10 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (3.46%) Data Lake
9 8 (3.08%) Big Data
10 7 (2.69%) NoSQL
11 6 (2.31%) MongoDB
12 5 (1.92%) Metadata Repository
12 5 (1.92%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 5 (1.92%) Relational Database
12 5 (1.92%) SQL Server
12 5 (1.92%) Star Schema
13 4 (1.54%) Apache Cassandra
13 4 (1.54%) Couchbase
13 4 (1.54%) MySQL
13 4 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (5.77%) Git
2 12 (4.62%) JIRA
3 6 (2.31%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.54%) JUnit
5 2 (0.77%) fastlane
6 1 (0.38%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.38%) Crashlytics
6 1 (0.38%) GitLab
6 1 (0.38%) Gradle
6 1 (0.38%) MSI
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.38%) Xcode
General
1 84 (32.31%) Social Skills
2 50 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (16.92%) Public Sector
4 33 (12.69%) Finance
5 12 (4.62%) Marketing
6 11 (4.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.69%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.92%) Banking
10 4 (1.54%) Legal
10 4 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.15%) Automotive
11 3 (1.15%) Military
11 3 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.15%) Retail
12 2 (0.77%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.77%) Billing
12 2 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.77%) Publishing
13 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (18.85%) Analyst
2 33 (12.69%) Data Engineer
3 32 (12.31%) Developer
4 29 (11.15%) Senior
5 25 (9.62%) Data Analyst
6 20 (7.69%) Architect
7 17 (6.54%) Lead
8 12 (4.62%) Accountant
9 11 (4.23%) Business Analyst
9 11 (4.23%) Oracle Developer
10 10 (3.85%) Systems Accountant
11 9 (3.46%) Senior Data Engineer
12 8 (3.08%) Azure Engineer
12 8 (3.08%) Consultant
12 8 (3.08%) Data Scientist
13 6 (2.31%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 6 (2.31%) Data Architect
13 6 (2.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (2.31%) Python Developer
13 6 (2.31%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.23%) CSS
2 10 (3.85%) Oracle Fusion
2 10 (3.85%) PySpark
3 9 (3.46%) HTML
3 9 (3.46%) OAuth
3 9 (3.46%) RESTful
3 9 (3.46%) SailPoint
3 9 (3.46%) Web Services
4 8 (3.08%) Django
4 8 (3.08%) OpenID
5 7 (2.69%) OAuth2
5 7 (2.69%) SAML
6 6 (2.31%) Flask
6 6 (2.31%) jQuery
6 6 (2.31%) Kafka
6 6 (2.31%) LDAP
6 6 (2.31%) NumPy
6 6 (2.31%) Pandas
6 6 (2.31%) React
6 6 (2.31%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.38%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (3.85%) Algorithms
3 10 (3.85%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.46%) Data Structures
5 8 (3.08%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.69%) Cyber Threat
6 7 (2.69%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.15%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.15%) Credit Risk
8 3 (1.15%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.77%) Clustering
9 2 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.77%) FMCG
9 2 (0.77%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.23%) Windows
2 4 (1.54%) Mac OS
2 4 (1.54%) Unix
3 3 (1.15%) Linux
4 2 (0.77%) Android
4 2 (0.77%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.77%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.38%) VMS
5 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (23.85%) Agile
1 62 (23.85%) Data Modelling
2 59 (22.69%) Business Intelligence
3 47 (18.08%) DevOps
4 44 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (15.38%) ETL
6 38 (14.62%) Decision-Making
7 37 (14.23%) Data Governance
8 36 (13.85%) AI
9 35 (13.46%) Continuous Improvement
10 33 (12.69%) Data Pipeline
10 33 (12.69%) Validation
11 31 (11.92%) Migration
12 28 (10.77%) Data Engineering
12 28 (10.77%) Stakeholder Management
13 26 (10.00%) CI/CD
13 26 (10.00%) Data Science
14 25 (9.62%) Data Analytics
15 24 (9.23%) Machine Learning
16 23 (8.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 61 (23.46%) SQL
2 58 (22.31%) Python
3 19 (7.31%) PowerShell
4 11 (4.23%) Bicep
5 9 (3.46%) Java
6 8 (3.08%) JavaScript
7 7 (2.69%) PL/SQL
8 5 (1.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (1.92%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.54%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (1.54%) R
10 3 (1.15%) C#
10 3 (1.15%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.77%) Go
12 1 (0.38%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.38%) Swift
Qualifications
1 84 (32.31%) Security Cleared
2 59 (22.69%) SC Cleared
3 22 (8.46%) Degree
4 13 (5.00%) DV Cleared
5 10 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (3.46%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.92%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.92%) PMP
9 3 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.15%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.77%) ACCA
10 2 (0.77%) CCNP
10 2 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.77%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.38%) CCDA
11 1 (0.38%) CCDP
11 1 (0.38%) CCIE
11 1 (0.38%) CCIP
11 1 (0.38%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (17.69%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.62%) QA
3 10 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (3.08%) NIST
5 5 (1.92%) GDPR
6 4 (1.54%) NCSC
7 3 (1.15%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.77%) WCAG
9 1 (0.38%) HL7
9 1 (0.38%) PMO
9 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (6.54%) Active Directory
2 16 (6.15%) Docker
3 11 (4.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (1.54%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.38%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.38%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 16 (6.15%) Kubernetes
1 16 (6.15%) Terraform
2 6 (2.31%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (1.92%) SCCM
4 4 (1.54%) Ansible
4 4 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.15%) QRadar
6 2 (0.77%) Nessus
6 2 (0.77%) OpenVAS
6 2 (0.77%) Rancher
6 2 (0.77%) SCOM
7 1 (0.38%) CASB
7 1 (0.38%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.38%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.38%) Grafana
Vendors
1 55 (21.15%) Microsoft
2 33 (12.69%) Oracle
3 23 (8.85%) Databricks
4 11 (4.23%) VMware
5 10 (3.85%) Google
6 8 (3.08%) OpenAI
7 7 (2.69%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.92%) Foundry
8 5 (1.92%) Informatica
8 5 (1.92%) SAP
9 4 (1.54%) Citrix
9 4 (1.54%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.15%) LogRhythm
10 3 (1.15%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.77%) F5
11 2 (0.77%) Palantir
11 2 (0.77%) Qualys
11 2 (0.77%) Rapid7
11 2 (0.77%) Splunk
11 2 (0.77%) Talend