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 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 41 53
Rank change year-on-year -4 +12 0
Contract jobs citing Analytics 207 154 192
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.92% 5.15% 3.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.73% 5.60% 3.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 110 120
10th Percentile £327 £278 £390
25th Percentile £413 £357 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £569
Median % change year-on-year +7.47% -18.20% +13.75%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £618
90th Percentile £650 £656 £688
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 11
10th Percentile £47.95 £17.70 £41.25
25th Percentile £75.24 £21.38 £45.89
Median hourly rate £82.00 £28.00 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +192.86% -55.56% +91.90%
75th Percentile £84.31 £46.61 £82.11
90th Percentile £84.88 £57.48 £84.45
England median hourly rate £57.30 £31.08 £40.00
% change year-on-year +84.39% -22.31% +29.03%

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 4,372 2,750 4,887
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.79% 91.88% 86.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,855 1,751 2,918
10th Percentile £273 £250 £213
25th Percentile £405 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -0.20%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £611
90th Percentile £700 £675 £688
England median daily rate £504 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.05% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 384 147 384
10th Percentile £15.23 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.46 £20.93 £18.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -5.41% -17.78%
75th Percentile £80.00 £62.50 £62.47
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £75.16
England median hourly rate £30.15 £34.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -11.32% +4.62% -12.16%

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 16 March 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 16 March 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 16 March 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 -9 112 £500 -4.76% 90
Berkshire -11 73 £500 +11.05% 42
Hampshire -19 44 £523 +28.22% 29
Buckinghamshire -12 28 £513 -13.87% 37
Surrey -9 23 £419 +19.64% 59
Oxfordshire -6 11 £550 -21.43% 11
West Sussex -14 11 £420 +9.09% 15
Kent -10 6 £250 -67.74% 49
East Sussex -1 2 £600 +26.32% 10
Middlesex - 2 £475 - 41
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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 8 (3.86%) Confluence
1 8 (3.86%) GeoServer
1 8 (3.86%) Smallworld
2 7 (3.38%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.45%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.45%) ArcGIS
3 3 (1.45%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.97%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.48%) Apache
5 1 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.48%) CMS
5 1 (0.48%) IIS
Applications
1 16 (7.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.93%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.45%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (0.48%) CapCut
4 1 (0.48%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.90%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.45%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (0.97%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.48%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.48%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 67 (32.37%) Azure
2 36 (17.39%) Power Platform
3 25 (12.08%) AWS
4 21 (10.14%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (8.21%) Azure Monitor
5 17 (8.21%) GCP
6 16 (7.73%) Entra ID
7 13 (6.28%) OCI
8 12 (5.80%) Azure Key Vault
9 11 (5.31%) GitHub
10 10 (4.83%) dbt
10 10 (4.83%) IaaS
11 9 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (3.38%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (3.38%) Azure Functions
12 7 (3.38%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (3.38%) PaaS
12 7 (3.38%) Serverless
12 7 (3.38%) Snowflake
13 6 (2.90%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.86%) Firewall
2 6 (2.90%) VPN
3 5 (2.42%) Network Security
4 3 (1.45%) SD-WAN
4 3 (1.45%) VoIP
4 3 (1.45%) WAN
5 2 (0.97%) 2G
5 2 (0.97%) 5G
5 2 (0.97%) Bluetooth
5 2 (0.97%) DNS
5 2 (0.97%) LTE
5 2 (0.97%) Mobile Backhaul
5 2 (0.97%) SSL
5 2 (0.97%) Unified Communications
5 2 (0.97%) WebEx
6 1 (0.48%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.48%) IPsec
6 1 (0.48%) Multicast
6 1 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.48%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (15.94%) Power BI
2 21 (10.14%) Metadata
3 19 (9.18%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (7.73%) Tableau
5 11 (5.31%) Oracle Reports
6 10 (4.83%) Big Data
7 9 (4.35%) GIS
8 8 (3.86%) Geospatial Data
8 8 (3.86%) QGIS
8 8 (3.86%) SQL Server
9 7 (3.38%) Data Lake
10 6 (2.90%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 6 (2.90%) Relational Database
11 5 (2.42%) Metadata Repository
11 5 (2.42%) MongoDB
11 5 (2.42%) Pinecone
11 5 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (2.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (2.42%) Star Schema
11 5 (2.42%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 10 (4.83%) Git
1 10 (4.83%) JIRA
2 5 (2.42%) GitLab
3 4 (1.93%) Android Studio
3 4 (1.93%) Gradle
4 3 (1.45%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.45%) Maven
5 2 (0.97%) WiX
6 1 (0.48%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio
General
1 85 (41.06%) Social Skills
2 52 (25.12%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (14.98%) Public Sector
4 28 (13.53%) Finance
5 14 (6.76%) Marketing
6 5 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.93%) Aerospace
7 4 (1.93%) Banking
7 4 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (1.93%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (1.93%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.45%) Billing
8 3 (1.45%) Legal
8 3 (1.45%) Publishing
9 2 (0.97%) Advertising
9 2 (0.97%) Arabic Language
9 2 (0.97%) Mandarin Language
9 2 (0.97%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (17.87%) Analyst
2 28 (13.53%) Architect
3 27 (13.04%) Data Analyst
4 19 (9.18%) Data Engineer
5 15 (7.25%) Senior
6 14 (6.76%) Developer
7 13 (6.28%) Azure Engineer
8 9 (4.35%) Accountant
8 9 (4.35%) Consultant
8 9 (4.35%) Systems Accountant
9 8 (3.86%) Data Scientist
9 8 (3.86%) Lead
10 7 (3.38%) Data Architect
10 7 (3.38%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (2.90%) Business Analyst
11 6 (2.90%) Data Analytics Engineer
11 6 (2.90%) Oracle Consultant
11 6 (2.90%) Platform Engineer
12 5 (2.42%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 5 (2.42%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.31%) REST
2 10 (4.83%) Oracle Fusion
3 9 (4.35%) ARM Templates
4 8 (3.86%) PySpark
5 7 (3.38%) CSS
6 5 (2.42%) Faiss
6 5 (2.42%) Flask
6 5 (2.42%) Kafka
6 5 (2.42%) Node.js
6 5 (2.42%) OAuth
6 5 (2.42%) React
6 5 (2.42%) SOAP
7 4 (1.93%) .NET
7 4 (1.93%) .NET Core
7 4 (1.93%) AngularJS
7 4 (1.93%) HTML
7 4 (1.93%) Microsoft Graph
7 4 (1.93%) OpenID
7 4 (1.93%) PyTorch
7 4 (1.93%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.66%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (5.31%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.86%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.38%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.93%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.93%) LIMS
6 4 (1.93%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (1.93%) NHS
6 4 (1.93%) PACS
6 4 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.93%) Social Media
7 3 (1.45%) Blog
7 3 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.45%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.45%) IoT
7 3 (1.45%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.45%) Replication
8 2 (0.97%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.35%) Windows
2 5 (2.42%) Android
2 5 (2.42%) Linux
3 4 (1.93%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.97%) VMS
5 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.48%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (26.09%) Agile
2 51 (24.64%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (22.71%) Business Intelligence
3 47 (22.71%) DevOps
4 45 (21.74%) Data Governance
5 44 (21.26%) AI
6 40 (19.32%) Data Modelling
7 39 (18.84%) Machine Learning
8 35 (16.91%) Migration
8 35 (16.91%) Validation
9 34 (16.43%) Decision-Making
10 32 (15.46%) Continuous Improvement
11 31 (14.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 29 (14.01%) ETL
13 28 (13.53%) Stakeholder Management
14 26 (12.56%) Visualisation
15 24 (11.59%) Data Migration
16 23 (11.11%) Data Analysis
16 23 (11.11%) Data Science
17 22 (10.63%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 54 (26.09%) Python
2 46 (22.22%) SQL
3 15 (7.25%) Java
4 14 (6.76%) PowerShell
5 11 (5.31%) Bicep
6 10 (4.83%) R
7 9 (4.35%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.90%) Bash
9 5 (2.42%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.93%) C#
11 3 (1.45%) PHP
11 3 (1.45%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.97%) C++
12 2 (0.97%) Go
13 1 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 60 (28.99%) Security Cleared
2 39 (18.84%) SC Cleared
3 21 (10.14%) Degree
4 10 (4.83%) Azure Certification
4 10 (4.83%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.90%) Master's Degree
7 5 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (2.42%) PMI Certification
7 5 (2.42%) PMP
8 4 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.97%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.48%) CCDA
10 1 (0.48%) CCDP
10 1 (0.48%) CCIE
10 1 (0.48%) CCIP
10 1 (0.48%) CCNA
10 1 (0.48%) CCNP
10 1 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.48%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (21.26%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.86%) QA
3 5 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.93%) GDPR
4 4 (1.93%) NCSC
5 3 (1.45%) Def Stans
5 3 (1.45%) NIST
6 2 (0.97%) HL7
7 1 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.48%) PMO
7 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (6.28%) Docker
2 11 (5.31%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.93%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.97%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.48%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.48%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (9.66%) Terraform
2 15 (7.25%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.42%) Ansible
3 5 (2.42%) Grafana
3 5 (2.42%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (2.42%) SCCM
4 3 (1.45%) Cisco CUCM
4 3 (1.45%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.97%) Nessus
5 2 (0.97%) OpenVAS
5 2 (0.97%) Puppet
5 2 (0.97%) Rancher
6 1 (0.48%) CASB
Vendors
1 40 (19.32%) Microsoft
2 18 (8.70%) Databricks
3 17 (8.21%) Oracle
4 10 (4.83%) VMware
5 9 (4.35%) Foundry
6 8 (3.86%) ESRI
6 8 (3.86%) Google
6 8 (3.86%) Intergraph
6 8 (3.86%) OpenAI
6 8 (3.86%) ServiceNow
7 7 (3.38%) Palantir
8 6 (2.90%) Informatica
9 4 (1.93%) Citrix
9 4 (1.93%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.45%) Cisco
10 3 (1.45%) HubSpot
11 2 (0.97%) PagerDuty
11 2 (0.97%) Qualys
11 2 (0.97%) Rapid7
11 2 (0.97%) Talend