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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 40 49
Rank change year-on-year +2 +9 -5
Contract jobs citing Analytics 337 166 196
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 5.07% 4.80% 3.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.25% 5.31% 4.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 101 123
10th Percentile £325 £281 £311
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +2.94%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £645 £738 £713
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 9 5
10th Percentile £41.95 £13.25 -
25th Percentile £72.50 £13.85 £27.00
Median hourly rate £81.50 £32.05 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +154.29% +10.52% -10.22%
75th Percentile £83.75 £36.25 £43.75
90th Percentile £87.06 £70.16 -
England median hourly rate £54.50 £34.50 £30.69
% change year-on-year +57.97% +12.43% -5.00%

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 5,391 3,124 4,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 81.09% 90.26% 82.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,356 1,948 2,543
10th Percentile £280 £250 £263
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% +0.39%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 565 280 351
10th Percentile £15.11 £13.50 £14.50
25th Percentile £25.24 £15.13 £22.38
Median hourly rate £55.00 £21.99 £56.89
Median % change year-on-year +150.17% -61.35% +13.77%
75th Percentile £81.05 £51.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -39.40% -2.35%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 31 July 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 +5 187 £523 -0.48% 82
Berkshire +12 118 £499 -4.95% 46
Hampshire -18 58 £500 -4.76% 52
Buckinghamshire -14 40 £538 -17.31% 19
Surrey -4 37 £463 +42.31% 47
Oxfordshire -7 29 £538 +32.31% 17
West Sussex -5 25 £409 -10.91% 12
Middlesex - 12 £570 - 7
East Sussex +4 8 £513 -8.89% 18
Kent +7 7 £625 - 11
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 21 (6.23%) Oracle Application Server
2 11 (3.26%) Confluence
3 3 (0.89%) Palantir Foundry
3 3 (0.89%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.59%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.59%) CMS
5 1 (0.30%) Apache
5 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.30%) IIS
5 1 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (6.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.67%) CPLEX
3 5 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.89%) Oracle Smart View
6 2 (0.59%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.30%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (2.08%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.89%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.59%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.30%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.30%) Cognos Controller
4 1 (0.30%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.30%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.30%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 116 (34.42%) Azure
2 62 (18.40%) Power Platform
3 37 (10.98%) AWS
4 34 (10.09%) GCP
5 33 (9.79%) Entra ID
6 28 (8.31%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (8.01%) Azure Monitor
8 12 (3.56%) Azure AKS
8 12 (3.56%) Azure Key Vault
9 11 (3.26%) dbt
9 11 (3.26%) SaaS
10 10 (2.97%) Azure Sentinel
11 9 (2.67%) GitHub
11 9 (2.67%) OCI
12 8 (2.37%) Azure App Service
12 8 (2.37%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
14 6 (1.78%) Azure API Management
14 6 (1.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 6 (1.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.45%) VPN
2 12 (3.56%) Firewall
2 12 (3.56%) Network Security
3 11 (3.26%) DNS
4 7 (2.08%) Broadband
4 7 (2.08%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.78%) SD-WAN
5 6 (1.78%) WAN
6 5 (1.48%) DHCP
6 5 (1.48%) SSH
7 4 (1.19%) BGP
8 2 (0.59%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.59%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (0.59%) Multicast
8 2 (0.59%) OSPF
8 2 (0.59%) VXLAN
9 1 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
9 1 (0.30%) HSRP
9 1 (0.30%) IPsec
9 1 (0.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (17.80%) Power BI
2 52 (15.43%) Data Warehouse
3 29 (8.61%) Oracle Reports
4 22 (6.53%) Tableau
5 21 (6.23%) Oracle ODI
6 17 (5.04%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (4.45%) NoSQL
8 13 (3.86%) Relational Database
9 9 (2.67%) Data Lake
9 9 (2.67%) Metadata
9 9 (2.67%) MongoDB
10 7 (2.08%) BigQuery
11 6 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (1.48%) Big Data
13 4 (1.19%) Apache Cassandra
13 4 (1.19%) Couchbase
13 4 (1.19%) MySQL
13 4 (1.19%) Pentaho
13 4 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 22 (6.53%) Git
2 9 (2.67%) Jenkins
2 9 (2.67%) JIRA
3 4 (1.19%) JUnit
4 2 (0.59%) fastlane
5 1 (0.30%) Android Studio
5 1 (0.30%) Crashlytics
5 1 (0.30%) GitLab
5 1 (0.30%) Gradle
5 1 (0.30%) MSI
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.30%) Xcode
General
1 104 (30.86%) Social Skills
2 49 (14.54%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (13.95%) Public Sector
4 35 (10.39%) Finance
5 20 (5.93%) Marketing
6 13 (3.86%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (3.86%) Retail
6 13 (3.86%) Telecoms
7 11 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.08%) Military
8 7 (2.08%) Publishing
9 6 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.19%) Banking
10 4 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.19%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.89%) Automotive
11 3 (0.89%) Billing
11 3 (0.89%) Legal
Job Titles
1 60 (17.80%) Analyst
2 50 (14.84%) Developer
3 43 (12.76%) Senior
4 33 (9.79%) Data Engineer
5 29 (8.61%) Data Analyst
6 26 (7.72%) Architect
7 22 (6.53%) Lead
8 18 (5.34%) Oracle Developer
9 17 (5.04%) Data Scientist
10 11 (3.26%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (2.97%) Accountant
11 10 (2.97%) Consultant
11 10 (2.97%) Data Architect
11 10 (2.97%) IAM Specialist
12 9 (2.67%) Business Analyst
12 9 (2.67%) Data Warehouse Developer
12 9 (2.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (2.67%) Python Developer
13 8 (2.37%) Oracle Data Warehouse Developer
13 8 (2.37%) Systems Accountant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (6.82%) OAuth
2 20 (5.93%) RESTful
3 19 (5.64%) OpenID
3 19 (5.64%) SAML
4 16 (4.75%) LDAP
4 16 (4.75%) OAuth2
5 14 (4.15%) Django
6 13 (3.86%) SailPoint
6 13 (3.86%) Web Services
7 12 (3.56%) OpenAPI
7 12 (3.56%) Swagger
8 11 (3.26%) ARM Templates
8 11 (3.26%) PySpark
8 11 (3.26%) REST
9 9 (2.67%) FastAPI
9 9 (2.67%) Flask
9 9 (2.67%) Kafka
9 9 (2.67%) NumPy
9 9 (2.67%) Oracle Fusion
9 9 (2.67%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.34%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.45%) Onboarding
3 14 (4.15%) Algorithms
3 14 (4.15%) Management Information System
4 12 (3.56%) Data Structures
5 10 (2.97%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (2.97%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.08%) Cyber Threat
7 6 (1.78%) AI Agents
7 6 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.78%) Social Media
8 5 (1.48%) ARM Cortex
8 5 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.48%) IVR
8 5 (1.48%) Media Streaming
9 4 (1.19%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.89%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.04%) Windows
2 12 (3.56%) Linux
3 8 (2.37%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.19%) Unix
5 3 (0.89%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.59%) Android
6 2 (0.59%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.30%) AIX
7 1 (0.30%) HPUX
7 1 (0.30%) Solaris
7 1 (0.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (26.71%) Agile
2 76 (22.55%) Data Modelling
3 75 (22.26%) Business Intelligence
4 60 (17.80%) DevOps
5 59 (17.51%) AI
5 59 (17.51%) Problem-Solving
6 53 (15.73%) Stakeholder Management
7 51 (15.13%) Decision-Making
8 49 (14.54%) Continuous Improvement
9 46 (13.65%) CI/CD
10 45 (13.35%) ETL
11 43 (12.76%) Data Governance
12 42 (12.46%) Validation
13 41 (12.17%) Data Engineering
13 41 (12.17%) Data Pipeline
13 41 (12.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 39 (11.57%) Data Science
15 36 (10.68%) Migration
16 33 (9.79%) Data Analytics
17 32 (9.50%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 88 (26.11%) SQL
2 79 (23.44%) Python
3 31 (9.20%) PowerShell
4 14 (4.15%) Bicep
5 11 (3.26%) JavaScript
6 8 (2.37%) Bash
6 8 (2.37%) C#
7 7 (2.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 7 (2.08%) PL/SQL
8 6 (1.78%) Java
8 6 (1.78%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.19%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.59%) Go
10 2 (0.59%) R
10 2 (0.59%) VBA
11 1 (0.30%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.30%) Swift
11 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 98 (29.08%) Security Cleared
2 69 (20.47%) SC Cleared
3 35 (10.39%) Degree
4 17 (5.04%) DV Cleared
5 15 (4.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (2.97%) Azure Certification
7 8 (2.37%) PMI Certification
7 8 (2.37%) PMP
8 7 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.78%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.59%) ACCA
11 2 (0.59%) CCNP
11 2 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.59%) MBA
11 2 (0.59%) Tableau Certification
12 1 (0.30%) APMG
12 1 (0.30%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.30%) CCIP
12 1 (0.30%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (15.43%) Data Quality
2 19 (5.64%) QA
3 14 (4.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (3.56%) NIST
5 9 (2.67%) GDPR
6 7 (2.08%) Accessibility
7 5 (1.48%) PMO
8 2 (0.59%) GAAP
8 2 (0.59%) IFRS
8 2 (0.59%) SLA
8 2 (0.59%) WCAG
9 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.30%) GRC
9 1 (0.30%) HL7
9 1 (0.30%) NCSC
9 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 35 (10.39%) Active Directory
2 20 (5.93%) Docker
3 13 (3.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (1.19%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.30%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 26 (7.72%) Kubernetes
2 25 (7.42%) Terraform
3 9 (2.67%) Ansible
3 9 (2.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (2.37%) SCCM
5 7 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (1.19%) QRadar
7 3 (0.89%) Grafana
7 3 (0.89%) Rancher
8 2 (0.59%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.59%) SCOM
9 1 (0.30%) CASB
9 1 (0.30%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.30%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.30%) Nessus
9 1 (0.30%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.30%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 78 (23.15%) Microsoft
2 46 (13.65%) Oracle
3 34 (10.09%) Databricks
4 16 (4.75%) Google
4 16 (4.75%) SAP
5 13 (3.86%) VMware
6 8 (2.37%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.78%) CyberArk
7 6 (1.78%) Foundry
7 6 (1.78%) Palantir
8 5 (1.48%) Adobe
8 5 (1.48%) Baan
8 5 (1.48%) CrowdStrike
8 5 (1.48%) Workday
9 4 (1.19%) Citrix
9 4 (1.19%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.89%) LogRhythm
10 3 (0.89%) MuleSoft
10 3 (0.89%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.89%) Splunk