Analytics Contract Job Trends

Analytics
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Analytics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 31 38
Rank change year-on-year +3 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,382 2,009 2,324
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 6.70% 5.47% 5.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.45% 6.35% 5.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,562 1,311 1,601
10th Percentile £360 £356 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £681
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £545
% change year-on-year - -8.26% +3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 35 84
10th Percentile £19.39 £22.69 £18.50
25th Percentile £27.60 £27.00 £23.59
Median hourly rate £42.78 £32.50 £39.63
Median % change year-on-year +31.62% -17.98% +13.21%
75th Percentile £70.16 £59.41 £67.50
90th Percentile £79.88 £64.73 £77.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.49 £29.50 £49.28
% change year-on-year +27.08% -40.13% +40.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,960 31,635 41,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.93% 86.21% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,027 19,055 27,781
10th Percentile £295 £310 £308
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,098 1,126 1,593
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.10 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.12 £18.95
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -19.54% +24.29%
75th Percentile £44.40 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £73.53 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £33.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -31.42% -24.83% +48.81%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Analytics relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Analytics job vacancy trend in the UK

Analytics
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Analytics

Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytics over the 6 months to 14 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Analytics

Analytics
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytics over the 6 months to 14 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Top 17 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 14 November 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
England +4 2,103 £525 -5.96% 3,691
London +3 1,224 £540 -10.00% 2,093
UK excluding London +10 891 £500 - 1,872
Work from Home +1 664 £525 -4.55% 1,711
North of England +2 236 £475 -9.52% 413
Midlands +17 235 £515 +5.10% 311
West Midlands +10 181 £519 +3.70% 182
South East +2 154 £513 -1.44% 663
North West +8 146 £475 -5.00% 262
East of England +11 91 £550 - 150
Scotland -10 89 £450 - 100
Yorkshire -6 82 £463 -11.86% 112
South West +16 78 £505 -8.18% 167
East Midlands +14 55 £449 -1.43% 124
Wales -2 15 £550 - 46
North East -6 9 £410 -36.68% 41
Northern Ireland -18 5 £658 +25.24% 43

Analytics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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
1 106 (4.45%) Apache Airflow
2 87 (3.65%) SAS
3 86 (3.61%) Apache Spark
4 81 (3.40%) Apache
5 52 (2.18%) Confluence
6 44 (1.85%) CMS
7 38 (1.60%) SharePoint
8 19 (0.80%) WebLogic
9 16 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 10 (0.42%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.34%) Oracle Application Server
11 8 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 8 (0.34%) WordPress
12 6 (0.25%) GeoServer
12 6 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
12 6 (0.25%) Smallworld
13 5 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
14 4 (0.17%) Apache Superset
14 4 (0.17%) JBoss
15 3 (0.13%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 170 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
3 40 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (1.30%) MS Visio
5 23 (0.97%) Chatbot
6 14 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
7 8 (0.34%) Sketch
8 6 (0.25%) Adobe XD
8 6 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.13%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.084%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.084%) Maple
10 2 (0.084%) Oracle Smart View
10 2 (0.084%) Trello
11 1 (0.042%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.042%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.042%) FrameMaker
11 1 (0.042%) InVision
11 1 (0.042%) Simulink
11 1 (0.042%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 106 (4.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.63%) SAP EHS
3 15 (0.63%) SAP FI
4 11 (0.46%) SAP HR
4 11 (0.46%) Workday HCM
5 9 (0.38%) Aladdin
6 8 (0.34%) SAP CO
6 8 (0.34%) SAP MM
7 7 (0.29%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 7 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
7 7 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
7 7 (0.29%) SAP MDG
8 6 (0.25%) SAP ERP
8 6 (0.25%) SAP IBP
8 6 (0.25%) SAP SD
8 6 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 5 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
9 5 (0.21%) SAP PS
9 5 (0.21%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 719 (30.18%) Azure
2 510 (21.41%) AWS
3 495 (20.78%) Power Platform
4 243 (10.20%) GCP
5 162 (6.80%) Snowflake
6 146 (6.13%) Azure DevOps
7 141 (5.92%) Azure Data Factory
8 129 (5.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 118 (4.95%) Serverless
10 107 (4.49%) Azure Monitor
11 101 (4.24%) GitHub
12 93 (3.90%) SaaS
13 81 (3.40%) Amazon S3
13 81 (3.40%) dbt
14 76 (3.19%) Entra ID
15 68 (2.85%) GitHub Actions
16 66 (2.77%) AWS Lambda
16 66 (2.77%) Microsoft 365
17 63 (2.64%) Google Analytics
18 57 (2.39%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 57 (2.39%) Firewall
2 36 (1.51%) Network Security
3 33 (1.39%) DNS
4 25 (1.05%) VPN
5 18 (0.76%) WAN
6 16 (0.67%) HTTP
7 14 (0.59%) SSL
8 12 (0.50%) SMS
9 10 (0.42%) LAN
9 10 (0.42%) SD-WAN
10 8 (0.34%) 5G
10 8 (0.34%) FTP
10 8 (0.34%) SMTP
10 8 (0.34%) TCP/IP
11 6 (0.25%) 2G
11 6 (0.25%) 4G
11 6 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
12 5 (0.21%) Cisco Nexus
12 5 (0.21%) MPLS
12 5 (0.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 463 (19.44%) Power BI
2 297 (12.47%) Data Warehouse
3 177 (7.43%) Data Lake
4 172 (7.22%) Tableau
5 117 (4.91%) Metadata
6 78 (3.27%) BigQuery
7 77 (3.23%) Relational Database
8 75 (3.15%) PostgreSQL
9 74 (3.11%) Big Data
10 66 (2.77%) SQL Server
11 61 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
12 53 (2.23%) NoSQL
13 51 (2.14%) Power Query
14 49 (2.06%) Hadoop
14 49 (2.06%) Looker
15 47 (1.97%) Amazon Redshift
16 41 (1.72%) Snowflake Schema
17 36 (1.51%) Delta Lake
18 35 (1.47%) Pentaho
19 33 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 167 (7.01%) Git
2 135 (5.67%) JIRA
3 84 (3.53%) Jenkins
4 61 (2.56%) GitLab
5 21 (0.88%) ERwin
5 21 (0.88%) Selenium
6 18 (0.76%) JUnit
7 17 (0.71%) MLflow
8 14 (0.59%) ER Studio
9 10 (0.42%) PowerDesigner
9 10 (0.42%) SonarQube
10 9 (0.38%) Android Studio
10 9 (0.38%) Postman
10 9 (0.38%) Visual Website Optimizer
11 8 (0.34%) DBeaver
11 8 (0.34%) Gradle
11 8 (0.34%) TeamCity
12 7 (0.29%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.29%) PVCS
12 7 (0.29%) Xcode
General
1 871 (36.57%) Social Skills
2 690 (28.97%) Finance
3 507 (21.28%) Analytical Skills
4 244 (10.24%) Banking
5 207 (8.69%) Public Sector
6 181 (7.60%) Marketing
7 85 (3.57%) Retail
8 83 (3.48%) Front Office
9 76 (3.19%) Investment Banking
10 60 (2.52%) Manufacturing
11 57 (2.39%) Documentation Skills
12 55 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
13 53 (2.23%) Legal
14 51 (2.14%) Pharmaceutical
15 43 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
16 37 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 36 (1.51%) Financial Institution
18 34 (1.43%) Telecoms
19 31 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
20 30 (1.26%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 411 (17.25%) Analyst
2 304 (12.76%) Developer
3 265 (11.13%) Senior
4 240 (10.08%) Architect
4 240 (10.08%) Data Engineer
5 173 (7.26%) Data Analyst
6 170 (7.14%) Consultant
7 147 (6.17%) Lead
8 141 (5.92%) Business Analyst
9 86 (3.61%) Data Architect
10 71 (2.98%) Azure Engineer
11 67 (2.81%) Data Scientist
12 64 (2.69%) Senior Developer
13 57 (2.39%) SAP Consultant
14 53 (2.23%) Senior Analyst
15 49 (2.06%) Project Manager
16 43 (1.81%) Solutions Architect
17 38 (1.60%) DevOps Engineer
17 38 (1.60%) Senior Data Engineer
18 37 (1.55%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (4.91%) REST
2 90 (3.78%) Kafka
3 80 (3.36%) PySpark
4 65 (2.73%) React
5 59 (2.48%) Pandas
6 55 (2.31%) HTML
7 49 (2.06%) SOAP
8 47 (1.97%) Node.js
8 47 (1.97%) RESTful
9 45 (1.89%) CSS
10 44 (1.85%) .NET
10 44 (1.85%) NumPy
11 39 (1.64%) AngularJS
12 37 (1.55%) SAP Fiori
13 34 (1.43%) scikit-learn
14 31 (1.30%) TensorFlow
15 30 (1.26%) OAuth
16 28 (1.18%) ARM Templates
17 27 (1.13%) JSON
17 27 (1.13%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 107 (4.49%) Product Ownership
2 90 (3.78%) Cloud Native
3 72 (3.02%) Algorithms
4 71 (2.98%) Data Structures
5 69 (2.90%) Management Information System
6 68 (2.85%) Onboarding
7 63 (2.64%) Analytical Mindset
8 61 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
9 48 (2.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 47 (1.97%) Derivative
11 42 (1.76%) Mobile App
11 42 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
12 41 (1.72%) Equities
13 39 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
13 39 (1.64%) Virtual Team
14 37 (1.55%) Life Science
15 33 (1.39%) Fixed Income
16 31 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
17 29 (1.22%) NHS
17 29 (1.22%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 92 (3.86%) Linux
2 74 (3.11%) Windows
3 47 (1.97%) Unix
4 20 (0.84%) Apple iOS
5 19 (0.80%) Android
6 10 (0.42%) Mac OS
7 9 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.29%) VMS
9 6 (0.25%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.084%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.042%) AIX
11 1 (0.042%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.042%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.042%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 628 (26.36%) Business Intelligence
2 613 (25.73%) Agile
3 548 (23.01%) Problem-Solving
4 528 (22.17%) Data Modelling
5 435 (18.26%) CI/CD
6 403 (16.92%) DevOps
7 372 (15.62%) ETL
8 355 (14.90%) AI
9 354 (14.86%) Data Analytics
10 343 (14.40%) Data Pipeline
11 342 (14.36%) Data Governance
12 336 (14.11%) Visualisation
13 329 (13.81%) Decision-Making
14 320 (13.43%) Stakeholder Management
15 300 (12.59%) Data Science
16 291 (12.22%) Machine Learning
17 266 (11.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 257 (10.79%) Actionable Insight
19 255 (10.71%) Data Engineering
20 250 (10.50%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 816 (34.26%) SQL
2 716 (30.06%) Python
3 143 (6.00%) Java
4 116 (4.87%) JavaScript
5 96 (4.03%) PowerShell
6 71 (2.98%) R
7 55 (2.31%) Bash
8 53 (2.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 53 (2.23%) TypeScript
9 49 (2.06%) C#
10 46 (1.93%) Bicep
11 36 (1.51%) Kusto Query Language
12 32 (1.34%) Scala
13 27 (1.13%) C++
14 25 (1.05%) T-SQL
14 25 (1.05%) VBA
15 23 (0.97%) PL/SQL
16 22 (0.92%) Shell Script
17 20 (0.84%) ABAP
18 14 (0.59%) Swift
Qualifications
1 350 (14.69%) Security Cleared
2 294 (12.34%) SC Cleared
3 262 (11.00%) Degree
4 88 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 69 (2.90%) Master's Degree
6 55 (2.31%) Azure Certification
7 38 (1.60%) AWS Certification
8 32 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
9 30 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
10 26 (1.09%) CISSP
11 19 (0.80%) PMI Certification
12 18 (0.76%) DV Cleared
13 14 (0.59%) CISM
14 11 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 11 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
14 11 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
14 11 (0.46%) PMP
15 10 (0.42%) CBAP
16 7 (0.29%) ACCA
16 7 (0.29%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 343 (14.40%) Data Quality
2 133 (5.58%) GDPR
3 95 (3.99%) Accessibility
4 77 (3.23%) QA
5 40 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 28 (1.18%) NIST
7 18 (0.76%) PMO
8 17 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
9 15 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 15 (0.63%) IFRS
10 14 (0.59%) HIPAA
10 14 (0.59%) SLA
10 14 (0.59%) WCAG
11 13 (0.55%) GRC
12 12 (0.50%) PCI DSS
13 10 (0.42%) GxP
13 10 (0.42%) NCSC
13 10 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 10 (0.42%) Solvency II
14 9 (0.38%) MiFID
System Software
1 156 (6.55%) Docker
2 61 (2.56%) Active Directory
3 23 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.42%) HDFS
6 6 (0.25%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.21%) vSphere
7 5 (0.21%) zsh
8 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.042%) ISA Server
9 1 (0.042%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 172 (7.22%) Kubernetes
2 157 (6.59%) Terraform
3 33 (1.39%) Ansible
4 28 (1.18%) Grafana
5 21 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
6 16 (0.67%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.63%) Kibana
8 14 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
9 13 (0.55%) SCCM
10 11 (0.46%) Kubeflow
11 10 (0.42%) Puppet
12 8 (0.34%) logstash
12 8 (0.34%) Progress Chef
13 7 (0.29%) Hadoop YARN
14 5 (0.21%) Argo
14 5 (0.21%) RSA Archer
15 4 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.17%) Fluentd
15 4 (0.17%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
16 3 (0.13%) QRadar
Vendors
1 443 (18.60%) Microsoft
2 231 (9.70%) Databricks
3 172 (7.22%) SAP
4 166 (6.97%) Google
5 155 (6.51%) Oracle
6 88 (3.69%) ServiceNow
7 77 (3.23%) Salesforce
8 63 (2.64%) Adobe
9 58 (2.43%) Splunk
10 45 (1.89%) Talend
11 38 (1.60%) Cisco
12 36 (1.51%) Workday
13 33 (1.39%) Denodo
14 29 (1.22%) Informatica
15 28 (1.18%) Dynatrace
16 24 (1.01%) Alteryx
16 24 (1.01%) AppDynamics
16 24 (1.01%) OpenAI
17 23 (0.97%) Foundry
18 20 (0.84%) VMware