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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 52 48
Rank change year-on-year -13 -4 +5
Contract jobs citing Analytics 143 147 219
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.27% 3.92% 4.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.84% 4.45% 4.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 97 163
10th Percentile £320 £300 £428
25th Percentile £433 £363 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -11.30% +12.75%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £638
90th Percentile £654 £690 £750
England median daily rate £525 £560 £570
% change year-on-year -6.25% -1.75% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 14
10th Percentile £22.50 - £21.11
25th Percentile £24.40 £27.00 £32.32
Median hourly rate £50.14 £29.00 £48.03
Median % change year-on-year +72.88% -39.62% +54.18%
75th Percentile £70.16 £62.39 £77.83
90th Percentile £77.33 £64.73 £83.05
England median hourly rate £50.25 £34.50 £40.47
% change year-on-year +45.65% -14.75% +15.63%

All Process and 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 3,726 3,307 4,517
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 85.28% 88.12% 89.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,436 2,059 2,912
10th Percentile £221 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £523
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £615
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 371 125 234
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.33 £16.60
25th Percentile £17.00 £26.00 £25.43
Median hourly rate £22.50 £47.78 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -52.91% -10.69% +42.67%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.43 £65.71
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.95 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

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 19 December 2025.

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 19 December 2025.

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 19 December 2025. 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 -20 77 £500 -14.16% 215
Berkshire -16 59 £525 -1.87% 106
Hampshire -12 30 £513 +33.03% 121
Surrey 0 18 £300 -17.81% 66
West Sussex -6 10 £475 +35.71% 34
Buckinghamshire -3 9 £438 -25.85% 69
Oxfordshire -10 9 £500 -28.57% 40
East Sussex +5 1 £600 +54.84% 36
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 6 (4.20%) Confluence
1 6 (4.20%) GeoServer
1 6 (4.20%) Smallworld
2 2 (1.40%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.40%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.40%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.70%) CMS
3 1 (0.70%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.70%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.90%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.10%) Chatbot
4 2 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.40%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.70%) CapCut
5 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.10%) SAP ERP
2 2 (1.40%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (1.40%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (1.40%) SAP GRC
2 2 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.40%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.70%) iTrent
3 1 (0.70%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.70%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 52 (36.36%) Azure
2 28 (19.58%) Power Platform
3 20 (13.99%) AWS
4 16 (11.19%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (9.79%) GCP
6 11 (7.69%) Entra ID
7 10 (6.99%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (5.59%) GitHub
8 8 (5.59%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (4.90%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (4.90%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (4.20%) SaaS
11 5 (3.50%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (3.50%) Azure Functions
11 5 (3.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (3.50%) Serverless
11 5 (3.50%) Snowflake
12 4 (2.80%) IaaS
12 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (2.80%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.80%) Network Security
2 2 (1.40%) 2G
2 2 (1.40%) 5G
2 2 (1.40%) Bluetooth
2 2 (1.40%) LTE
2 2 (1.40%) Mobile Backhaul
2 2 (1.40%) SSL
2 2 (1.40%) Unified Communications
2 2 (1.40%) VoIP
2 2 (1.40%) WebEx
3 1 (0.70%) DNS
3 1 (0.70%) Firewall
3 1 (0.70%) HTTP
3 1 (0.70%) LAN
3 1 (0.70%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.70%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.70%) VPN
3 1 (0.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (19.58%) Power BI
2 17 (11.89%) Tableau
3 13 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (6.29%) Data Lake
4 9 (6.29%) Metadata
5 8 (5.59%) SQL Server
6 7 (4.90%) Relational Database
7 6 (4.20%) Geospatial Data
7 6 (4.20%) GIS
7 6 (4.20%) QGIS
8 5 (3.50%) Big Data
9 4 (2.80%) MongoDB
10 3 (2.10%) Electronic Patient Records
10 3 (2.10%) MySQL
10 3 (2.10%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (2.10%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (2.10%) Qlik Sense
10 3 (2.10%) RDBMS
11 2 (1.40%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (6.99%) JIRA
2 6 (4.20%) Git
2 6 (4.20%) GitLab
3 4 (2.80%) Android Studio
3 4 (2.80%) Gradle
3 4 (2.80%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.10%) Maven
5 2 (1.40%) WiX
6 1 (0.70%) MLflow
6 1 (0.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 69 (48.25%) Social Skills
2 32 (22.38%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (15.38%) Finance
4 18 (12.59%) Public Sector
5 10 (6.99%) Marketing
6 8 (5.59%) Retail
7 6 (4.20%) Telecoms
8 5 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.50%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.80%) Aerospace
9 4 (2.80%) General Ledger
9 4 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (2.10%) Banking
10 3 (2.10%) Billing
10 3 (2.10%) French Language
10 3 (2.10%) German Language
10 3 (2.10%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.40%) Electronics
11 2 (1.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 33 (23.08%) Analyst
2 22 (15.38%) Architect
3 20 (13.99%) Data Analyst
4 13 (9.09%) Senior
5 11 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
5 11 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
6 10 (6.99%) Developer
7 9 (6.29%) Consultant
7 9 (6.29%) Lead
8 5 (3.50%) Business Analyst
8 5 (3.50%) Data Architect
8 5 (3.50%) Data Scientist
8 5 (3.50%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (3.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (3.50%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (2.80%) Android Developer
9 4 (2.80%) Data Engineer
9 4 (2.80%) HR Analyst
9 4 (2.80%) Oracle Consultant
9 4 (2.80%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.99%) REST
2 5 (3.50%) Kafka
2 5 (3.50%) SOAP
3 4 (2.80%) Flask
3 4 (2.80%) PySpark
4 3 (2.10%) .NET
4 3 (2.10%) .NET Core
4 3 (2.10%) ARM Templates
4 3 (2.10%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (2.10%) GraphQL
4 3 (2.10%) OAuth
4 3 (2.10%) OAuth2
4 3 (2.10%) OpenID
4 3 (2.10%) SAML
4 3 (2.10%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.40%) ASP.NET
5 2 (1.40%) CSS
5 2 (1.40%) JavaFX
5 2 (1.40%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.40%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.39%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (4.90%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.20%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.20%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (3.50%) Algorithms
4 5 (3.50%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (3.50%) Social Media
5 4 (2.80%) Blog
5 4 (2.80%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (2.80%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.10%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.10%) Educational Technology
6 3 (2.10%) IoT
6 3 (2.10%) LIMS
6 3 (2.10%) NHS
6 3 (2.10%) PACS
6 3 (2.10%) Replication
6 3 (2.10%) Smart Meter
7 2 (1.40%) Podcast
7 2 (1.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.69%) Windows
2 8 (5.59%) Linux
3 4 (2.80%) Android
3 4 (2.80%) Mac OS
3 4 (2.80%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.40%) Unix
5 1 (0.70%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (29.37%) Agile
2 37 (25.87%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (25.17%) Business Intelligence
4 33 (23.08%) DevOps
5 29 (20.28%) AI
6 27 (18.88%) Machine Learning
6 27 (18.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 25 (17.48%) Data Governance
7 25 (17.48%) Decision-Making
8 24 (16.78%) Visualisation
9 21 (14.69%) Data Modelling
10 20 (13.99%) Stakeholder Management
11 19 (13.29%) Data Analysis
11 19 (13.29%) Roadmaps
12 18 (12.59%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (11.89%) Data Analytics
14 16 (11.19%) CI/CD
14 16 (11.19%) Computer Science
14 16 (11.19%) Data Science
14 16 (11.19%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 40 (27.97%) Python
2 38 (26.57%) SQL
3 13 (9.09%) Java
4 12 (8.39%) PowerShell
5 10 (6.99%) Bash
6 9 (6.29%) R
7 8 (5.59%) JavaScript
8 5 (3.50%) Bicep
9 4 (2.80%) PL/SQL
10 3 (2.10%) ABAP
10 3 (2.10%) C#
10 3 (2.10%) PHP
11 2 (1.40%) C++
11 2 (1.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.40%) Perl
11 2 (1.40%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 30 (20.98%) Security Cleared
2 22 (15.38%) Degree
3 21 (14.69%) SC Cleared
4 11 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (5.59%) Master's Degree
6 7 (4.90%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.80%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.40%) CCA
8 2 (1.40%) CISSP
8 2 (1.40%) Citrix Certification
8 2 (1.40%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.70%) CFCE
9 1 (0.70%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.70%) GCFA
9 1 (0.70%) GCIA
9 1 (0.70%) GCIH
9 1 (0.70%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.70%) PMP
9 1 (0.70%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (15.38%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.69%) GDPR
3 7 (4.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (4.20%) QA
5 3 (2.10%) Def Stans
5 3 (2.10%) GRC
5 3 (2.10%) NIST
6 2 (1.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.70%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.70%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.70%) HL7
7 1 (0.70%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.70%) NCSC
7 1 (0.70%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.70%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (6.99%) Active Directory
2 7 (4.90%) Docker
3 3 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (9.79%) Terraform
2 11 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.50%) Grafana
4 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (2.80%) SCCM
5 3 (2.10%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.40%) Ansible
6 2 (1.40%) Cisco CUCM
6 2 (1.40%) Puppet
6 2 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.70%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 28 (19.58%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.09%) Databricks
2 13 (9.09%) Oracle
3 7 (4.90%) Google
3 7 (4.90%) SAP
3 7 (4.90%) VMware
4 6 (4.20%) ESRI
4 6 (4.20%) Foundry
4 6 (4.20%) Intergraph
4 6 (4.20%) Palantir
5 5 (3.50%) Workday
6 4 (2.80%) Adobe
6 4 (2.80%) Citrix
6 4 (2.80%) Informatica
6 4 (2.80%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.10%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.40%) Dell
8 2 (1.40%) HubSpot
8 2 (1.40%) PagerDuty
8 2 (1.40%) Talend