Analytics Contracts in the UK excluding London

Analytics
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 47 50
Rank change year-on-year +9 +3 -1
Contract jobs citing Analytics 641 780 1,025
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.02% 3.76% 4.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.55% 4.43% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 415 512 707
10th Percentile £281 £350 £340
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £613
90th Percentile £675 £715 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 33 32
10th Percentile £16.57 £13.50 £18.84
25th Percentile £23.00 £21.64 £21.00
Median hourly rate £31.64 £25.00 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year +26.56% -8.26% -22.14%
75th Percentile £45.00 £43.75 £40.88
90th Percentile £76.22 £58.95 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £31.64 £30.19 £32.00
% change year-on-year +4.82% -5.67% -8.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Analytics in the UK excluding London

Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analytics in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Analytics in the UK excluding London

Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytics in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytics in the UK excluding London

Analytics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analytics in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Analytics in the UK excluding London

Analytics
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytics in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytics in the UK excluding London

Analytics
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analytics within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South East +15 167 £481 -12.55% 991
North of England +7 151 £463 -7.50% 572
North West +14 102 £463 -7.50% 383
Midlands -9 91 £500 -13.00% 341
East of England +50 88 £600 +20.00% 183
Scotland -14 71 £475 -5.00% 148
West Midlands -19 62 £512 -10.89% 191
South West +15 61 £475 -7.32% 226
Yorkshire -6 40 £475 -5.00% 142
East Midlands +10 28 £358 -41.55% 125
Wales 0 19 £250 -54.57% 41
North East +1 11 £358 -24.95% 53
Northern Ireland -2 9 £538 +34.38% 35
Analytics
UK

Analytics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 28 (4.37%) Apache Spark
2 27 (4.21%) Confluence
3 24 (3.74%) SAS
4 16 (2.50%) Apache
5 15 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (2.34%) SharePoint
6 10 (1.56%) CMS
7 9 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.94%) WordPress
9 4 (0.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.47%) JBoss
10 3 (0.47%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.31%) EPiServer
11 2 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
12 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.16%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.16%) IBM Domino
12 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
Applications
1 33 (5.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (2.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.25%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.62%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.47%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.31%) Sketch
8 1 (0.16%) InVision
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.16%) Trello
8 1 (0.16%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 49 (7.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 6 (0.94%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (0.94%) Workday HCM
4 4 (0.62%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.47%) Maximo
5 3 (0.47%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.31%) SAP IBP
6 2 (0.31%) Shopify
7 1 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.16%) FastStats
7 1 (0.16%) FastStats PeopleStage
7 1 (0.16%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 1 (0.16%) iTrent
7 1 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.16%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.16%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 158 (24.65%) Azure
2 117 (18.25%) Power Platform
3 104 (16.22%) AWS
4 46 (7.18%) GCP
5 40 (6.24%) Snowflake
6 29 (4.52%) Azure Data Factory
7 27 (4.21%) GitHub
7 27 (4.21%) Google Analytics
8 24 (3.74%) Adobe Analytics
8 24 (3.74%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (3.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 22 (3.43%) Microsoft 365
10 18 (2.81%) Serverless
11 15 (2.34%) SaaS
12 14 (2.18%) Entra ID
13 13 (2.03%) Amazon S3
13 13 (2.03%) dbt
13 13 (2.03%) PaaS
14 12 (1.87%) OCI
15 10 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 29 (4.52%) Network Security
2 19 (2.96%) Firewall
3 17 (2.65%) DNS
4 11 (1.72%) Internet
5 9 (1.40%) SSL
6 8 (1.25%) VPN
7 7 (1.09%) FTP
7 7 (1.09%) HTTP
7 7 (1.09%) SMTP
7 7 (1.09%) WAN
8 6 (0.94%) Intrusion Detection
8 6 (0.94%) LAN
9 2 (0.31%) 5G
9 2 (0.31%) DHCP
9 2 (0.31%) Intranet
9 2 (0.31%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.31%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.31%) Wireless
10 1 (0.16%) IPFIX
10 1 (0.16%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (17.63%) Power BI
2 84 (13.10%) Data Warehouse
3 61 (9.52%) Tableau
4 36 (5.62%) Big Data
5 26 (4.06%) Metadata
6 25 (3.90%) Data Lake
6 25 (3.90%) Relational Database
7 23 (3.59%) Hadoop
8 19 (2.96%) SQL Server
9 15 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
9 15 (2.34%) Azure SQL Database
9 15 (2.34%) BigQuery
9 15 (2.34%) PostgreSQL
10 14 (2.18%) MongoDB
11 10 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
11 10 (1.56%) NoSQL
11 10 (1.56%) Oracle Reports
12 9 (1.40%) Looker
12 9 (1.40%) Metadata Repository
12 9 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 39 (6.08%) JIRA
2 23 (3.59%) Git
3 14 (2.18%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.56%) ERwin
5 8 (1.25%) Selenium
6 7 (1.09%) PowerDesigner
7 6 (0.94%) GitLab
7 6 (0.94%) SonarQube
7 6 (0.94%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.62%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.62%) Gradle
8 4 (0.62%) HP UFT
8 4 (0.62%) IntelliJ
8 4 (0.62%) JUnit
8 4 (0.62%) Maven
9 3 (0.47%) Bitbucket Server
9 3 (0.47%) CA Release Automation
9 3 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.47%) TeamCity
General
1 217 (33.85%) Social Skills
2 138 (21.53%) Finance
3 132 (20.59%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (10.76%) Public Sector
5 54 (8.42%) Marketing
6 45 (7.02%) Banking
7 28 (4.37%) Pharmaceutical
8 19 (2.96%) Manufacturing
8 19 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
8 19 (2.96%) Telecoms
9 18 (2.81%) Retail
10 14 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (1.72%) Legal
12 8 (1.25%) Aviation
13 7 (1.09%) Automotive
13 7 (1.09%) Law
14 6 (0.94%) Military
15 5 (0.78%) Publishing
16 4 (0.62%) Billing
Job Titles
1 113 (17.63%) Analyst
2 87 (13.57%) Senior
3 76 (11.86%) Data Engineer
4 70 (10.92%) Architect
5 61 (9.52%) Lead
6 53 (8.27%) Developer
7 39 (6.08%) Data Analyst
8 38 (5.93%) Business Analyst
9 37 (5.77%) Consultant
10 24 (3.74%) Data Architect
11 23 (3.59%) Senior Data Engineer
12 18 (2.81%) Data Manager
13 16 (2.50%) Project Manager
14 15 (2.34%) IT Manager
15 14 (2.18%) Data Science Developer
15 14 (2.18%) Senior Developer
16 12 (1.87%) Administrator
16 12 (1.87%) Data Scientist
16 12 (1.87%) Solutions Architect
16 12 (1.87%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (4.68%) Kafka
2 24 (3.74%) Pandas
3 21 (3.28%) NumPy
4 20 (3.12%) PySpark
5 16 (2.50%) scikit-learn
6 15 (2.34%) PyTorch
6 15 (2.34%) TensorFlow
7 14 (2.18%) Matplotlib
7 14 (2.18%) Seaborn
8 13 (2.03%) HTML
8 13 (2.03%) REST
9 12 (1.87%) CSS
9 12 (1.87%) RESTful
10 11 (1.72%) Elastic Stack
10 11 (1.72%) Middleware
10 11 (1.72%) React
11 10 (1.56%) Oracle Fusion
12 9 (1.40%) Apache NiFi
13 8 (1.25%) AngularJS
13 8 (1.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 28 (4.37%) Onboarding
2 26 (4.06%) Life Science
3 23 (3.59%) Product Ownership
4 21 (3.28%) Management Information System
5 20 (3.12%) Algorithms
6 18 (2.81%) Data Structures
7 12 (1.87%) Credit Risk
8 11 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
8 11 (1.72%) Cloud Native
8 11 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
8 11 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (1.56%) Cyberattack
9 10 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (1.40%) Replication
10 9 (1.40%) Social Media
11 8 (1.25%) Public Cloud
11 8 (1.25%) Security Operations Centre
12 7 (1.09%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.74%) Windows
2 19 (2.96%) Linux
3 8 (1.25%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.09%) Unix
5 4 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.47%) Android
6 3 (0.47%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.31%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.31%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.16%) CentOS
8 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (22.93%) Data Analytics
2 131 (20.44%) Business Intelligence
3 129 (20.12%) Problem-Solving
4 121 (18.88%) Data Modelling
5 119 (18.56%) Agile
6 115 (17.94%) Decision-Making
7 109 (17.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 106 (16.54%) ETL
9 101 (15.76%) Visualisation
10 87 (13.57%) Data Analysis
11 83 (12.95%) Data Governance
12 80 (12.48%) Data Pipeline
12 80 (12.48%) DevOps
12 80 (12.48%) Migration
13 78 (12.17%) Artificial Intelligence
14 73 (11.39%) Data Science
15 68 (10.61%) Roadmaps
16 62 (9.67%) Machine Learning
17 61 (9.52%) Data Engineering
18 58 (9.05%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 178 (27.77%) SQL
2 139 (21.68%) Python
3 35 (5.46%) R
4 24 (3.74%) Java
5 19 (2.96%) JavaScript
5 19 (2.96%) PowerShell
6 12 (1.87%) T-SQL
7 9 (1.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 9 (1.40%) PL/SQL
7 9 (1.40%) Scala
8 8 (1.25%) Bash
9 7 (1.09%) C#
9 7 (1.09%) Shell Script
10 5 (0.78%) Bicep
10 5 (0.78%) Perl
10 5 (0.78%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.62%) SPARQL
12 3 (0.47%) Rust
12 3 (0.47%) VB
12 3 (0.47%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 96 (14.98%) Security Cleared
2 88 (13.73%) Degree
3 62 (9.67%) SC Cleared
4 39 (6.08%) Master's Degree
5 24 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
7 20 (3.12%) DV Cleared
8 19 (2.96%) PhD
9 17 (2.65%) Azure Certification
10 15 (2.34%) AWS Certification
11 11 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (1.09%) PMI Certification
12 7 (1.09%) PMP
13 6 (0.94%) CCA
14 5 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (0.78%) CISSP
15 4 (0.62%) MCP
16 3 (0.47%) CTC Cleared
17 2 (0.31%) MCSA
17 2 (0.31%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (14.51%) Data Quality
2 36 (5.62%) QA
3 22 (3.43%) Accessibility
4 20 (3.12%) GDPR
5 11 (1.72%) IFRS
6 10 (1.56%) IFRS 9
7 8 (1.25%) Def Stans
7 8 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.25%) WCAG
8 7 (1.09%) PCI DSS
8 7 (1.09%) PMO
9 6 (0.94%) Disclosure Scotland
10 4 (0.62%) NIST
11 3 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.47%) NCSC
11 3 (0.47%) PERC
12 2 (0.31%) GRC
12 2 (0.31%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.31%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (4.37%) Docker
2 20 (3.12%) Active Directory
3 17 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.78%) vSphere
5 4 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.31%) BitLocker
6 2 (0.31%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.16%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 39 (6.08%) Kubernetes
2 31 (4.84%) Terraform
3 14 (2.18%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (1.56%) Ansible
5 8 (1.25%) Grafana
5 8 (1.25%) Kibana
6 7 (1.09%) Progress Chef
6 7 (1.09%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.94%) MOM
8 5 (0.78%) logstash
8 5 (0.78%) QRadar
9 3 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.47%) Istio
9 3 (0.47%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.47%) SCCM
10 2 (0.31%) CASB
10 2 (0.31%) Puppet
11 1 (0.16%) OpenVAS
11 1 (0.16%) SCOM
11 1 (0.16%) WSUS
Vendors
1 95 (14.82%) Microsoft
2 69 (10.76%) SAP
3 58 (9.05%) Databricks
4 57 (8.89%) Google
5 37 (5.77%) Adobe
6 23 (3.59%) Oracle
7 21 (3.28%) ServiceNow
8 20 (3.12%) VMware
9 18 (2.81%) Splunk
10 13 (2.03%) Ariba
11 9 (1.40%) Workday
12 8 (1.25%) Salesforce
12 8 (1.25%) Sparx
13 7 (1.09%) Alteryx
13 7 (1.09%) Cloudera
13 7 (1.09%) Teradata
14 6 (0.94%) Dynatrace
14 6 (0.94%) Red Hat
14 6 (0.94%) Rockwell
14 6 (0.94%) Siemens