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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 29 34
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 +4
Contract jobs citing Analytics 3,961 2,107 2,002
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.26% 6.36% 5.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.57% 7.03% 6.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,543 1,376 1,329
10th Percentile £363 £361 £355
25th Percentile £435 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £771 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -6.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 49 32
10th Percentile £19.13 £18.10 £20.12
25th Percentile £25.39 £22.84 £25.26
Median hourly rate £48.75 £35.00 £31.75
Median % change year-on-year +39.29% +10.24% -10.41%
75th Percentile £70.38 £71.45 £47.72
90th Percentile £86.13 £84.60 £64.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.25 £31.31 £29.00
% change year-on-year +66.91% +7.95% -17.14%

All Process & 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 46,195 29,974 32,629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.63% 90.49% 86.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,749 18,609 19,667
10th Percentile £325 £294 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,350 1,884 1,294
10th Percentile £13.54 £14.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.30 £20.03
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.16
Median % change year-on-year +49.11% -37.38% -8.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.00 £73.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £22.27 £41.50
% change year-on-year +68.43% -46.35% -2.35%

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 10 October 2026.

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 10 October 2026.

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 10 October 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
England +1 3,457 £530 +0.95% 11,518
London 0 1,914 £550 - 7,652
UK excluding London +14 1,625 £500 - 4,503
Work from Home +6 1,105 £525 - 4,398
North of England +9 466 £489 +2.89% 1,183
South East +14 360 £515 -2.00% 1,079
Midlands +1 358 £490 -4.85% 627
West Midlands -1 285 £488 -6.70% 415
North West -2 224 £525 +10.53% 713
South West +22 176 £525 +5.00% 414
Yorkshire +15 176 £475 -1.50% 339
Scotland +23 148 £525 +16.15% 476
East of England -10 107 £600 +8.35% 381
North East +6 72 £450 +9.09% 137
East Midlands -2 72 £490 +7.40% 212
Wales +3 24 £450 -11.11% 120
Northern Ireland +22 21 £390 -40.68% 252

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
1 177 (4.47%) Apache Airflow
2 151 (3.81%) Apache Spark
3 121 (3.05%) Apache
4 106 (2.68%) SAS
5 90 (2.27%) Confluence
6 69 (1.74%) CMS
7 53 (1.34%) SharePoint
8 32 (0.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 29 (0.73%) Palantir Foundry
10 26 (0.66%) Jupyter
11 20 (0.50%) Oracle Application Server
12 13 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
13 11 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
14 9 (0.23%) nginx
15 8 (0.20%) Drupal
15 8 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
16 7 (0.18%) IIS
17 6 (0.15%) Apache Superset
17 6 (0.15%) WordPress
18 3 (0.076%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 191 (4.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 30 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (0.53%) Chatbot
5 18 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
6 16 (0.40%) MS Visio
7 13 (0.33%) CPLEX
7 13 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
8 6 (0.15%) Trello
9 4 (0.10%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.076%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.076%) Sketch
11 2 (0.050%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.050%) Adobe Premiere
11 2 (0.050%) LaTeX
11 2 (0.050%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.050%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.025%) InDesign
12 1 (0.025%) Notion
12 1 (0.025%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 116 (2.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 39 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 25 (0.63%) Workday HCM
4 22 (0.56%) SAP GRC
5 19 (0.48%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 18 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
7 15 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
8 14 (0.35%) Aladdin
8 14 (0.35%) SAP FI
9 13 (0.33%) SAP CO
9 13 (0.33%) SAP HR
10 11 (0.28%) SAP HCM
11 9 (0.23%) SAP MM
11 9 (0.23%) SAP Payroll
11 9 (0.23%) Workfront
12 8 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
12 8 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
12 8 (0.20%) SAP MDG
12 8 (0.20%) Shopify
12 8 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,122 (28.33%) Azure
2 824 (20.80%) Power Platform
3 669 (16.89%) AWS
4 354 (8.94%) GCP
5 308 (7.78%) Snowflake
6 270 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
7 244 (6.16%) Azure Data Factory
8 229 (5.78%) dbt
9 187 (4.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 170 (4.29%) GitHub
11 165 (4.17%) Serverless
12 157 (3.96%) Azure Monitor
13 145 (3.66%) Amazon S3
14 141 (3.56%) Entra ID
15 134 (3.38%) SaaS
16 107 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
17 89 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
18 78 (1.97%) GitHub Actions
19 75 (1.89%) Azure Databricks
19 75 (1.89%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 69 (1.74%) Firewall
2 61 (1.54%) Network Security
3 47 (1.19%) DNS
4 43 (1.09%) VPN
5 30 (0.76%) Broadband
6 26 (0.66%) TCP/IP
7 21 (0.53%) DHCP
7 21 (0.53%) WAN
8 16 (0.40%) BGP
9 15 (0.38%) SD-WAN
10 11 (0.28%) HTTP
11 8 (0.20%) Cisco IPT
11 8 (0.20%) LAN
11 8 (0.20%) SSH
11 8 (0.20%) Wireless
12 7 (0.18%) Internet
12 7 (0.18%) SMS
13 6 (0.15%) DMZ
13 6 (0.15%) Kerberos
13 6 (0.15%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 791 (19.97%) Power BI
2 490 (12.37%) Data Warehouse
3 312 (7.88%) Data Lake
4 284 (7.17%) Metadata
5 233 (5.88%) Tableau
6 170 (4.29%) BigQuery
7 113 (2.85%) SQL Server
8 102 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
8 102 (2.58%) Relational Database
9 101 (2.55%) Amazon Redshift
10 93 (2.35%) Big Data
11 91 (2.30%) Delta Lake
12 87 (2.20%) Looker
13 79 (1.99%) Azure SQL Database
14 73 (1.84%) Amazon Athena
15 70 (1.77%) Semantic Layer
16 68 (1.72%) Snowflake Schema
17 67 (1.69%) NoSQL
18 62 (1.57%) Power Query
19 57 (1.44%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 225 (5.68%) Git
2 173 (4.37%) JIRA
3 80 (2.02%) GitLab
4 65 (1.64%) Jenkins
5 14 (0.35%) MLflow
6 13 (0.33%) SonarQube
7 9 (0.23%) fastlane
7 9 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
7 9 (0.23%) RStudio
8 8 (0.20%) Claude Code
8 8 (0.20%) Gradle
8 8 (0.20%) Postman
8 8 (0.20%) Selenium
9 7 (0.18%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (0.15%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.15%) Crashlytics
10 6 (0.15%) JUnit
10 6 (0.15%) REST Assured
10 6 (0.15%) Terragrunt
10 6 (0.15%) Xcode
General
1 1,137 (28.70%) Social Skills
2 1,039 (26.23%) Finance
3 767 (19.36%) Analytical Skills
4 475 (11.99%) Public Sector
5 314 (7.93%) Banking
6 264 (6.66%) Marketing
7 186 (4.70%) Retail
8 123 (3.11%) Influencing Skills
9 105 (2.65%) Legal
10 101 (2.55%) Manufacturing
11 96 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 79 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
13 77 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
14 70 (1.77%) Front Office
15 68 (1.72%) Investment Banking
16 61 (1.54%) Publishing
17 49 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
18 44 (1.11%) Military
19 41 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
20 40 (1.01%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 630 (15.91%) Data Engineer
2 532 (13.43%) Senior
3 528 (13.33%) Analyst
4 516 (13.03%) Architect
5 338 (8.53%) Developer
6 328 (8.28%) Lead
7 235 (5.93%) Data Architect
8 228 (5.76%) Consultant
9 208 (5.25%) Data Analyst
10 137 (3.46%) Senior Data Engineer
10 137 (3.46%) Solutions Architect
11 134 (3.38%) Data Scientist
12 128 (3.23%) Business Analyst
13 121 (3.05%) Azure Engineer
14 82 (2.07%) Data Manager
15 78 (1.97%) Product Manager
16 75 (1.89%) Senior Analyst
17 74 (1.87%) Project Manager
18 69 (1.74%) AWS Engineer
19 61 (1.54%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 323 (8.15%) Terraform
2 222 (5.60%) PySpark
3 168 (4.24%) REST
4 126 (3.18%) Kafka
5 65 (1.64%) .NET
6 63 (1.59%) Pandas
6 63 (1.59%) React
7 53 (1.34%) ARM Templates
7 53 (1.34%) RESTful
8 52 (1.31%) HTML
9 50 (1.26%) OAuth
10 48 (1.21%) CSS
11 41 (1.04%) NumPy
11 41 (1.04%) OpenID
11 41 (1.04%) Oracle Fusion
12 38 (0.96%) JSON
12 38 (0.96%) SAP Fiori
13 36 (0.91%) Middleware
13 36 (0.91%) OAuth2
13 36 (0.91%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 275 (6.94%) Cloud Native
2 206 (5.20%) Product Ownership
3 171 (4.32%) Onboarding
4 169 (4.27%) Data Structures
5 105 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
6 103 (2.60%) Management Information System
7 83 (2.10%) AI Agents
8 77 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
9 75 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
10 71 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
11 51 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
12 48 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
12 48 (1.21%) Marketing Technology
12 48 (1.21%) Social Media
13 47 (1.19%) Algorithms
14 46 (1.16%) NHS
15 42 (1.06%) Taxonomies
16 40 (1.01%) Derivative
16 40 (1.01%) Fixed Income
17 39 (0.98%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 119 (3.00%) Windows
2 110 (2.78%) Linux
3 56 (1.41%) Windows Server
4 52 (1.31%) Unix
5 20 (0.50%) Apple iOS
6 14 (0.35%) Android
6 14 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.25%) VMS
8 7 (0.18%) AIX
8 7 (0.18%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.15%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.076%) Solaris
10 3 (0.076%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.050%) HPUX
12 1 (0.025%) CentOS
12 1 (0.025%) Rocky
12 1 (0.025%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,093 (27.59%) AI
2 1,052 (26.56%) Data Modelling
3 1,012 (25.55%) Business Intelligence
4 989 (24.97%) Stakeholder Management
5 932 (23.53%) Agile
6 775 (19.57%) Data Pipeline
7 773 (19.52%) Decision-Making
8 737 (18.61%) Data Engineering
9 728 (18.38%) CI/CD
10 676 (17.07%) Data Governance
11 610 (15.40%) ETL
12 577 (14.57%) DevOps
13 562 (14.19%) Problem-Solving
14 535 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
15 522 (13.18%) Roadmaps
16 515 (13.00%) Migration
17 495 (12.50%) Validation
18 485 (12.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 476 (12.02%) Machine Learning
20 442 (11.16%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 1,278 (32.26%) SQL
2 1,087 (27.44%) Python
3 184 (4.65%) PowerShell
4 110 (2.78%) Java
5 104 (2.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 103 (2.60%) JavaScript
7 95 (2.40%) Bicep
8 81 (2.04%) C#
9 79 (1.99%) Bash
10 63 (1.59%) R
11 45 (1.14%) TypeScript
12 40 (1.01%) Scala
13 34 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
14 31 (0.78%) Shell Script
15 21 (0.53%) C++
15 21 (0.53%) T-SQL
16 19 (0.48%) ABAP
17 17 (0.43%) LookML
17 17 (0.43%) PL/SQL
18 14 (0.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 733 (18.51%) Security Cleared
2 594 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 321 (8.10%) Degree
4 123 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 103 (2.60%) Azure Certification
6 86 (2.17%) DV Cleared
7 84 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 61 (1.54%) Master's Degree
9 57 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 52 (1.31%) AWS Certification
11 43 (1.09%) CISSP
12 34 (0.86%) PMI Certification
13 28 (0.71%) PMP
14 26 (0.66%) DBS Check
15 20 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
16 16 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 16 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
17 13 (0.33%) MBA
18 11 (0.28%) CISA
18 11 (0.28%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 866 (21.86%) Data Quality
2 168 (4.24%) GDPR
3 164 (4.14%) QA
4 154 (3.89%) Accessibility
5 65 (1.64%) GRC
6 47 (1.19%) WCAG
7 43 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 41 (1.04%) PMO
9 39 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
10 37 (0.93%) NIST
11 24 (0.61%) SLA
12 15 (0.38%) NCSC
13 13 (0.33%) PCI DSS
14 12 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
14 12 (0.30%) IFRS
14 12 (0.30%) PERC
14 12 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 11 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 11 (0.28%) GMP
16 10 (0.25%) Solvency II
System Software
1 161 (4.06%) Docker
2 111 (2.80%) Active Directory
3 31 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.23%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.10%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 3 (0.076%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.076%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.076%) vSphere
8 3 (0.076%) XenApp
9 2 (0.050%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.025%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 170 (4.29%) Kubernetes
2 57 (1.44%) Grafana
3 50 (1.26%) Ansible
4 29 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (0.56%) Prometheus
6 18 (0.45%) SCCM
7 17 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (0.33%) Kibana
9 9 (0.23%) Progress Chef
10 8 (0.20%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.20%) QRadar
10 8 (0.20%) SCOM
11 6 (0.15%) Control-M
11 6 (0.15%) Podman
12 4 (0.10%) SysTrack
13 3 (0.076%) CASB
14 2 (0.050%) Docker Swarm
14 2 (0.050%) MOM
14 2 (0.050%) NetBackup
14 2 (0.050%) Puppet
Vendors
1 762 (19.24%) Microsoft
2 513 (12.95%) Databricks
3 249 (6.29%) Oracle
4 247 (6.24%) SAP
5 226 (5.71%) Google
6 111 (2.80%) Salesforce
7 110 (2.78%) Adobe
8 96 (2.42%) ServiceNow
9 69 (1.74%) Workday
10 55 (1.39%) Splunk
11 50 (1.26%) Dynatrace
12 48 (1.21%) Foundry
13 36 (0.91%) Informatica
14 35 (0.88%) Palantir
15 34 (0.86%) VMware
16 30 (0.76%) OpenAI
17 29 (0.73%) Cisco
17 29 (0.73%) IBM
18 28 (0.71%) Talend
19 27 (0.68%) Ariba