Analytics Contracts in the South West

Analytics
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytics over the 6 months leading up to 24 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 61 80
Rank change year-on-year +12 +19 -3
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Analytics 73 83 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.75% 3.03% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.17% 3.64% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 63 55
10th Percentile £360 £338 £418
25th Percentile £413 £463 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £605
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% -11.16% +0.83%
75th Percentile £525 £630 £729
90th Percentile £599 £700 £800
England median daily rate £525 £560 £575
% change year-on-year -6.25% -2.61% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 7
10th Percentile £78.83 - £23.85
25th Percentile £79.03 - £50.83
Median hourly rate £79.35 £30.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +164.50% -61.54% +122.86%
75th Percentile £79.68 - -
90th Percentile £79.87 - £80.66
England median hourly rate £34.50 £30.37 £35.00
% change year-on-year +13.60% -13.23% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,749 2,283 2,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 89.88% 83.23% 87.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,022 1,455 2,039
10th Percentile £213 £263 £313
25th Percentile £363 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £539
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.60% +2.67%
75th Percentile £614 £630 £650
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 246 254
10th Percentile £14.98 £13.86 £21.10
25th Percentile £18.51 £39.15 £45.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.74% +3.85% +20.37%
75th Percentile £64.06 £72.50 £77.88
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +56.36%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Analytics in the South West

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Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Analytics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Analytics

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytics in the South West over the 6 months to 24 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytics in the South West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Analytics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Analytics

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DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 24 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bristol +25 37 £450 -16.28% 74
Somerset +3 10 £458 -8.50% 24
Gloucestershire +12 8 £550 -6.38% 57
Wiltshire -11 6 £500 -4.76% 12
Dorset +4 4 £523 -0.48% 8
Devon - 3 £520 - 11
Analytics
England

Analytics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.48%) Apache
1 4 (5.48%) Apache Spark
1 4 (5.48%) Oracle Application Server
1 4 (5.48%) SAS
2 1 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.37%) Confluence
2 1 (1.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.37%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.37%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.37%) Simulink
2 1 (1.37%) Sketch
2 1 (1.37%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (4.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.37%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 23 (31.51%) AWS
2 16 (21.92%) Azure
3 13 (17.81%) Power Platform
4 12 (16.44%) Snowflake
5 7 (9.59%) GCP
6 6 (8.22%) Matillion
7 4 (5.48%) Adobe Analytics
8 3 (4.11%) Akamai
9 2 (2.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (2.74%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (2.74%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.74%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.37%) Figma
10 1 (1.37%) Google Ads
10 1 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (1.37%) SaaS
10 1 (1.37%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 1 (1.37%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (23.29%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (17.81%) Power BI
3 5 (6.85%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (5.48%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (5.48%) Hadoop
4 4 (5.48%) Oracle ODI
4 4 (5.48%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (5.48%) Relational Database
4 4 (5.48%) SQL Server
4 4 (5.48%) Star Schema
5 3 (4.11%) Big Data
5 3 (4.11%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (4.11%) GIS
5 3 (4.11%) MySQL
5 3 (4.11%) SAP BW
5 3 (4.11%) SAP HANA
5 3 (4.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.74%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.74%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.74%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (5.48%) DBeaver
2 3 (4.11%) JIRA
3 2 (2.74%) Git
4 1 (1.37%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.37%) Selenium
General
1 19 (26.03%) Social Skills
2 18 (24.66%) Finance
3 13 (17.81%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (13.70%) Marketing
5 8 (10.96%) Banking
5 8 (10.96%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.48%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (5.48%) Legal
6 4 (5.48%) Tech for Good
7 2 (2.74%) Advertising
7 2 (2.74%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.74%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.74%) Local Government
8 1 (1.37%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.37%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.37%) Military
8 1 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.37%) Publishing
8 1 (1.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (24.66%) Data Engineer
2 12 (16.44%) Senior
3 9 (12.33%) Developer
4 8 (10.96%) Analyst
5 7 (9.59%) Senior Data Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) Architect
6 5 (6.85%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 5 (6.85%) Consultant
6 5 (6.85%) Data Analyst
7 4 (5.48%) Analytics Manager
7 4 (5.48%) Data Analytics Manager
7 4 (5.48%) Data Manager
7 4 (5.48%) Insight Manager
7 4 (5.48%) Quality Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Strategy Manager
8 3 (4.11%) Lead
8 3 (4.11%) Power BI Developer
8 3 (4.11%) Snowflake Consultant
8 3 (4.11%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.48%) Apache NiFi
1 4 (5.48%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (5.48%) Kafka
1 4 (5.48%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 3 (4.11%) PostGIS
2 3 (4.11%) SailPoint
3 1 (1.37%) ADO
3 1 (1.37%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.37%) CSS
3 1 (1.37%) Django
3 1 (1.37%) FastAPI
3 1 (1.37%) Flask
3 1 (1.37%) HTML
3 1 (1.37%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (1.37%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.37%) Pandas
3 1 (1.37%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.37%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (1.37%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.37%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.33%) Replication
2 8 (10.96%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.11%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.74%) IoT
4 2 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.74%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.74%) SCADA
5 1 (1.37%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.37%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.37%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.37%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.37%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.37%) Android
1 1 (1.37%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (28.77%) ETL
2 18 (24.66%) Business Intelligence
3 16 (21.92%) Data Modelling
4 15 (20.55%) Agile
4 15 (20.55%) Decision-Making
5 13 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (17.81%) Visualisation
6 11 (15.07%) Migration
7 10 (13.70%) Artificial Intelligence
8 9 (12.33%) CI/CD
8 9 (12.33%) Data Governance
8 9 (12.33%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (10.96%) Data Analytics
9 8 (10.96%) Data Pipeline
9 8 (10.96%) Data Visualisation
10 7 (9.59%) Cybersecurity
10 7 (9.59%) Performance Tuning
11 6 (8.22%) Data Science
11 6 (8.22%) Data Strategy
11 6 (8.22%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 27 (36.99%) SQL
2 24 (32.88%) Python
3 6 (8.22%) R
4 4 (5.48%) PowerShell
5 3 (4.11%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.74%) ABAP
6 2 (2.74%) Bash
6 2 (2.74%) Java
6 2 (2.74%) T-SQL
6 2 (2.74%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.37%) Cypher
7 1 (1.37%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.37%) MATLAB
7 1 (1.37%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 16 (21.92%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.96%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.85%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.74%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.74%) Degree
4 2 (2.74%) MCSE
4 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.33%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.85%) GDPR
3 3 (4.11%) GRC
4 2 (2.74%) Def Stans
4 2 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.74%) QA
5 1 (1.37%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.37%) Basel III
5 1 (1.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.37%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.37%) IFRS
5 1 (1.37%) IFRS 17
5 1 (1.37%) IFRS 9
5 1 (1.37%) NIST
5 1 (1.37%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.37%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 7 (9.59%) Docker
2 1 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (5.48%) Kibana
1 4 (5.48%) logstash
2 3 (4.11%) Grafana
2 3 (4.11%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.11%) Prometheus
2 3 (4.11%) Terraform
3 2 (2.74%) Ansible
3 2 (2.74%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (2.74%) SCCM
4 1 (1.37%) QRadar
Vendors
1 15 (20.55%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.22%) Google
2 6 (8.22%) Oracle
3 5 (6.85%) Adobe
4 4 (5.48%) Databricks
4 4 (5.48%) Teradata
5 3 (4.11%) F5
5 3 (4.11%) SAP
6 2 (2.74%) ESRI
6 2 (2.74%) VMware
7 1 (1.37%) Apple
7 1 (1.37%) Criteo
7 1 (1.37%) Genesys
7 1 (1.37%) Hotjar
7 1 (1.37%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.37%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.37%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.37%) Splunk
7 1 (1.37%) Varonis
7 1 (1.37%) Workday