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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 39 53
Rank change year-on-year -5 +14 -2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 229 156 194
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.11% 5.23% 3.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.01% 5.70% 4.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 109 121
10th Percentile £331 £281 £315
25th Percentile £413 £365 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +13.04%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £650 £657 £713
England median daily rate £518 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.91% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 9
10th Percentile £77.08 £14.27 -
25th Percentile £80.75 £14.90 £41.25
Median hourly rate £82.00 £21.75 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year +277.01% -64.34% +60.95%
75th Percentile £84.31 £30.44 £79.78
90th Percentile £84.88 £33.93 £84.45
England median hourly rate £58.90 £31.64 £32.94
% change year-on-year +86.14% -3.93% +2.92%

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 4,574 2,739 4,842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.07% 91.76% 86.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,979 1,756 2,845
10th Percentile £285 £257 £225
25th Percentile £411 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.59% +0.90% -0.74%
75th Percentile £613 £608 £615
90th Percentile £713 £675 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 412 156 431
10th Percentile £15.62 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.97 £16.95 £18.26
Median hourly rate £40.78 £28.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.08% -36.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £81.00 £62.50 £62.48
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £76.86
England median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +15.38% -1.52% -13.95%

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 6 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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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 6 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 -9 125 £518 -5.05% 106
Berkshire -10 72 £500 +4.17% 58
Hampshire -24 48 £515 +5.64% 25
Buckinghamshire -10 39 £518 -13.03% 35
Surrey +2 26 £406 +11.30% 22
Oxfordshire -7 14 £550 -8.33% 13
West Sussex -12 13 £398 +8.21% 7
Kent -9 6 £250 -67.74% 22
East Sussex -4 2 £600 +26.32% 6
Middlesex - 2 £475 - 5
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 8 (3.49%) Confluence
2 7 (3.06%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.75%) Oracle Application Server
4 3 (1.31%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.31%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.87%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.87%) Smallworld
5 2 (0.87%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.44%) Apache
6 1 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.44%) CMS
6 1 (0.44%) IIS
Applications
1 18 (7.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.75%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.31%) CPLEX
3 3 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.31%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (0.44%) CapCut
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.62%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.31%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.44%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.44%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 67 (29.26%) Azure
2 40 (17.47%) Power Platform
3 26 (11.35%) AWS
4 23 (10.04%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (9.61%) Azure Monitor
6 17 (7.42%) Entra ID
7 15 (6.55%) GCP
8 13 (5.68%) Azure Key Vault
8 13 (5.68%) OCI
9 12 (5.24%) dbt
10 10 (4.37%) GitHub
11 9 (3.93%) Azure Sentinel
11 9 (3.93%) IaaS
11 9 (3.93%) Serverless
12 8 (3.49%) Azure Logic Apps
12 8 (3.49%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (3.06%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (3.06%) Azure Functions
13 7 (3.06%) PaaS
14 6 (2.62%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.49%) Firewall
1 8 (3.49%) Network Security
1 8 (3.49%) VPN
2 5 (2.18%) SD-WAN
2 5 (2.18%) WAN
3 3 (1.31%) VoIP
4 2 (0.87%) 2G
4 2 (0.87%) 5G
4 2 (0.87%) Bluetooth
4 2 (0.87%) DNS
4 2 (0.87%) LTE
4 2 (0.87%) Mobile Backhaul
4 2 (0.87%) SSL
5 1 (0.44%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.44%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.44%) Multicast
5 1 (0.44%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.44%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.44%) WebEx
5 1 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (16.16%) Power BI
2 25 (10.92%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (8.30%) Tableau
4 17 (7.42%) Metadata
5 15 (6.55%) Oracle Reports
6 10 (4.37%) Big Data
7 7 (3.06%) Data Lake
7 7 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (3.06%) Relational Database
7 7 (3.06%) SQL Server
8 6 (2.62%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 6 (2.62%) Oracle ODI
9 5 (2.18%) Metadata Repository
9 5 (2.18%) Pinecone
9 5 (2.18%) Star Schema
9 5 (2.18%) Weaviate
10 4 (1.75%) Electronic Patient Records
10 4 (1.75%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.75%) NoSQL
10 4 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (4.80%) Git
2 10 (4.37%) JIRA
3 5 (2.18%) Android Studio
3 5 (2.18%) Gradle
3 5 (2.18%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.87%) fastlane
4 2 (0.87%) GitLab
4 2 (0.87%) WiX
5 1 (0.44%) Crashlytics
5 1 (0.44%) MSI
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.44%) Xcode
General
1 88 (38.43%) Social Skills
2 55 (24.02%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (14.41%) Public Sector
4 31 (13.54%) Finance
5 13 (5.68%) Marketing
6 7 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.62%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.18%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.75%) Banking
9 4 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.75%) Legal
10 3 (1.31%) Billing
10 3 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.31%) Retail
11 2 (0.87%) Advertising
11 2 (0.87%) Arabic Language
11 2 (0.87%) Automotive
11 2 (0.87%) Mandarin Language
11 2 (0.87%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 40 (17.47%) Analyst
2 26 (11.35%) Data Analyst
2 26 (11.35%) Data Engineer
3 24 (10.48%) Architect
4 23 (10.04%) Senior
5 22 (9.61%) Developer
6 13 (5.68%) Azure Engineer
6 13 (5.68%) Lead
7 11 (4.80%) Accountant
8 9 (3.93%) Systems Accountant
9 8 (3.49%) Consultant
9 8 (3.49%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (3.06%) Data Analytics Engineer
10 7 (3.06%) Data Architect
10 7 (3.06%) Senior Data Engineer
11 6 (2.62%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 6 (2.62%) Business Analyst
11 6 (2.62%) Oracle Consultant
12 5 (2.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 5 (2.18%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.37%) Oracle Fusion
1 10 (4.37%) REST
2 9 (3.93%) ARM Templates
3 8 (3.49%) PySpark
4 7 (3.06%) CSS
4 7 (3.06%) Flask
5 6 (2.62%) .NET
5 6 (2.62%) Node.js
6 5 (2.18%) AngularJS
6 5 (2.18%) Faiss
6 5 (2.18%) OAuth
6 5 (2.18%) React
6 5 (2.18%) RESTful
6 5 (2.18%) Software Packaging
7 4 (1.75%) .NET Core
7 4 (1.75%) HTML
7 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Graph
7 4 (1.75%) PyTorch
7 4 (1.75%) SOAP
7 4 (1.75%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.68%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (5.24%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.80%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.49%) Algorithms
4 8 (3.49%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.18%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (1.75%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.75%) LIMS
6 4 (1.75%) NHS
6 4 (1.75%) PACS
6 4 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.31%) IoT
7 3 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.31%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.31%) Social Media
8 2 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.87%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.37%) Windows
2 6 (2.62%) Android
3 4 (1.75%) Linux
3 4 (1.75%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.87%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.87%) VMS
5 1 (0.44%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (24.89%) Agile
2 52 (22.71%) Business Intelligence
2 52 (22.71%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (20.96%) Data Modelling
4 42 (18.34%) Data Governance
5 40 (17.47%) DevOps
6 38 (16.59%) Decision-Making
7 37 (16.16%) AI
8 34 (14.85%) Continuous Improvement
9 33 (14.41%) ETL
9 33 (14.41%) Validation
10 30 (13.10%) Machine Learning
10 30 (13.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 28 (12.23%) Migration
11 28 (12.23%) Stakeholder Management
12 27 (11.79%) Data Analysis
13 26 (11.35%) Data Pipeline
14 25 (10.92%) Visualisation
15 23 (10.04%) CI/CD
15 23 (10.04%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 59 (25.76%) Python
2 54 (23.58%) SQL
3 14 (6.11%) PowerShell
4 13 (5.68%) Java
5 11 (4.80%) Bicep
6 10 (4.37%) R
7 9 (3.93%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.62%) Bash
8 6 (2.62%) C#
9 5 (2.18%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.75%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (1.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.31%) PHP
11 3 (1.31%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.87%) C++
12 2 (0.87%) Go
13 1 (0.44%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.44%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.44%) Swift
Qualifications
1 65 (28.38%) Security Cleared
2 43 (18.78%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.99%) Degree
4 12 (5.24%) DV Cleared
5 10 (4.37%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.18%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.18%) PMP
7 4 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.87%) ACCA
8 2 (0.87%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.87%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.44%) CCDA
9 1 (0.44%) CCIE
9 1 (0.44%) CCIP
9 1 (0.44%) CCNA
9 1 (0.44%) CCNP
9 1 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.44%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (17.90%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.80%) QA
3 5 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.75%) NCSC
5 3 (1.31%) GDPR
5 3 (1.31%) NIST
6 2 (0.87%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.87%) HL7
6 2 (0.87%) WCAG
7 1 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.44%) PMO
7 1 (0.44%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (6.11%) Docker
2 10 (4.37%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (1.75%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.44%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.44%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 22 (9.61%) Terraform
2 12 (5.24%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.62%) Ansible
3 6 (2.62%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (2.18%) SCCM
5 2 (0.87%) Cisco CUCM
5 2 (0.87%) Grafana
5 2 (0.87%) Nessus
5 2 (0.87%) OpenVAS
5 2 (0.87%) Puppet
5 2 (0.87%) Rancher
5 2 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.44%) CASB
Vendors
1 44 (19.21%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.73%) Oracle
3 19 (8.30%) Databricks
4 9 (3.93%) Google
4 9 (3.93%) VMware
5 8 (3.49%) OpenAI
5 8 (3.49%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.62%) Foundry
6 6 (2.62%) Informatica
7 4 (1.75%) Citrix
7 4 (1.75%) Palantir
8 3 (1.31%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.31%) HubSpot
8 3 (1.31%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.87%) Darktrace
9 2 (0.87%) ESRI
9 2 (0.87%) Instagram
9 2 (0.87%) TikTok
9 2 (0.87%) Virgin Media
9 2 (0.87%) Workday