Analytics Contracts

Analytics
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 36 38
Rank change year-on-year +7 +2 -7
Contract jobs citing Analytics 1,905 2,106 3,242
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 6.52% 4.83% 5.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.17% 5.60% 6.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,274 1,419 2,272
10th Percentile £338 £358 £360
25th Percentile £440 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £813 £788 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.34% +2.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 55 54
10th Percentile £16.89 £15.32 £20.69
25th Percentile £24.50 £25.00 £22.16
Median hourly rate £31.85 £30.37 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.86% -5.09% -8.57%
75th Percentile £45.00 £46.25 £52.56
90th Percentile £78.10 £71.00 £77.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.64 £25.00 £27.25
% change year-on-year +26.56% -8.26% -22.14%

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 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analytics.

Daily rate trend for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytics over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analytics.

Hourly rate trend for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytics over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Top 17 Contract 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 30 April 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 +11 1,680 £550 - 4,362
London +10 1,061 £600 +4.35% 2,775
Work from Home +7 688 £525 -4.55% 2,147
UK excluding London +11 634 £500 -4.76% 1,743
South East +16 169 £482 -12.36% 415
North of England +8 145 £463 -7.50% 513
North West +10 98 £463 -7.50% 344
Midlands -12 88 £500 -14.19% 311
East of England +48 86 £600 +20.00% 142
Scotland -13 71 £475 -5.00% 133
South West +12 61 £475 -7.32% 187
West Midlands -18 59 £512 -10.89% 187
Yorkshire -1 38 £475 -5.00% 126
East Midlands +10 28 £358 -41.55% 116
Wales +4 19 £250 -54.57% 34
North East -1 9 £358 -24.95% 47
Northern Ireland -2 9 £538 +34.38% 34

Analytics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 100 (5.25%) Apache Spark
2 68 (3.57%) Confluence
3 59 (3.10%) Apache Airflow
4 57 (2.99%) Apache
5 39 (2.05%) SAS
6 26 (1.36%) CMS
7 21 (1.10%) SharePoint
8 14 (0.73%) WordPress
9 10 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 10 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
10 8 (0.42%) Drupal
10 8 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 7 (0.37%) WebLogic
12 5 (0.26%) JBoss
12 5 (0.26%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.16%) Umbraco
14 2 (0.10%) EPiServer
14 2 (0.10%) SharePoint Server
14 2 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
14 2 (0.10%) WebSphere
Applications
1 101 (5.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.84%) MS Visio
4 16 (0.84%) Oracle Smart View
5 9 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.37%) Adobe XD
6 7 (0.37%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.37%) Sketch
6 7 (0.37%) Trello
7 5 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.10%) Camtasia
9 2 (0.10%) Notepad++
10 1 (0.052%) InVision
10 1 (0.052%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.052%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 93 (4.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (1.42%) Aladdin
3 13 (0.68%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 10 (0.52%) SAP BPC
5 9 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
6 8 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
6 8 (0.42%) Oracle Assets
6 8 (0.42%) Oracle Cash Management
6 8 (0.42%) Oracle General Ledger
6 8 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
7 7 (0.37%) SAP CO
7 7 (0.37%) Workday HCM
8 6 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
8 6 (0.31%) SAP FI
8 6 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
9 5 (0.26%) Magento
9 5 (0.26%) Maximo
9 5 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
9 5 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.26%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 484 (25.41%) Azure
2 354 (18.58%) AWS
3 334 (17.53%) Power Platform
4 167 (8.77%) GCP
5 100 (5.25%) GitHub
6 97 (5.09%) Snowflake
7 87 (4.57%) Azure DevOps
8 84 (4.41%) Azure Data Factory
9 81 (4.25%) dbt
10 67 (3.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 64 (3.36%) Google Analytics
12 62 (3.25%) SaaS
13 59 (3.10%) Serverless
14 56 (2.94%) Amazon S3
15 45 (2.36%) GitHub Actions
16 41 (2.15%) Azure Monitor
17 38 (1.99%) Adobe Analytics
17 38 (1.99%) Microsoft 365
18 36 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
18 36 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 42 (2.20%) Firewall
2 38 (1.99%) Network Security
3 31 (1.63%) DNS
4 30 (1.57%) VPN
5 14 (0.73%) WAN
6 13 (0.68%) SSL
7 12 (0.63%) Internet
8 10 (0.52%) HTTP
8 10 (0.52%) TCP/IP
9 8 (0.42%) BGP
9 8 (0.42%) OSPF
10 7 (0.37%) FTP
10 7 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
10 7 (0.37%) LAN
10 7 (0.37%) MPLS
10 7 (0.37%) SD-WAN
10 7 (0.37%) SMTP
11 6 (0.31%) DHCP
11 6 (0.31%) IPsec
12 4 (0.21%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 316 (16.59%) Power BI
2 235 (12.34%) Data Warehouse
3 158 (8.29%) Tableau
4 119 (6.25%) Data Lake
5 115 (6.04%) Big Data
6 65 (3.41%) Hadoop
6 65 (3.41%) Metadata
7 63 (3.31%) Relational Database
8 47 (2.47%) Amazon Redshift
8 47 (2.47%) SQL Server
9 45 (2.36%) Oracle Reports
10 44 (2.31%) BigQuery
10 44 (2.31%) PostgreSQL
11 39 (2.05%) Azure SQL Database
12 36 (1.89%) NoSQL
13 32 (1.68%) Looker
14 28 (1.47%) Amazon Athena
14 28 (1.47%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 26 (1.36%) MongoDB
16 24 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 99 (5.20%) JIRA
2 58 (3.04%) Git
3 45 (2.36%) Jenkins
4 23 (1.21%) ERwin
5 15 (0.79%) GitLab
6 12 (0.63%) Selenium
7 11 (0.58%) MLflow
7 11 (0.58%) SonarQube
8 9 (0.47%) Visual Studio
9 7 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
9 7 (0.37%) PowerDesigner
10 6 (0.31%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.31%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.31%) ER Studio
10 6 (0.31%) JUnit
10 6 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (0.31%) TeamCity
11 5 (0.26%) Postman
11 5 (0.26%) Terragrunt
12 4 (0.21%) Gradle
General
1 643 (33.75%) Social Skills
2 627 (32.91%) Finance
3 423 (22.20%) Analytical Skills
4 198 (10.39%) Banking
5 176 (9.24%) Marketing
6 156 (8.19%) Public Sector
7 135 (7.09%) Front Office
8 82 (4.30%) Presentation Skills
9 60 (3.15%) Retail
10 56 (2.94%) Investment Banking
11 40 (2.10%) Legal
12 39 (2.05%) Pharmaceutical
13 37 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
14 35 (1.84%) Manufacturing
15 32 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 31 (1.63%) Telecoms
17 24 (1.26%) Financial Institution
18 20 (1.05%) Back Office
18 20 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
19 16 (0.84%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 315 (16.54%) Analyst
2 250 (13.12%) Developer
3 231 (12.13%) Data Engineer
4 222 (11.65%) Senior
5 212 (11.13%) Architect
6 162 (8.50%) Lead
7 122 (6.40%) Business Analyst
8 117 (6.14%) Data Analyst
9 105 (5.51%) Consultant
10 77 (4.04%) Data Architect
11 53 (2.78%) Data Scientist
12 50 (2.62%) Project Manager
13 48 (2.52%) Data Manager
13 48 (2.52%) Product Manager
14 47 (2.47%) Azure Engineer
15 46 (2.41%) Solutions Architect
16 44 (2.31%) Senior Data Engineer
16 44 (2.31%) Senior Developer
17 42 (2.20%) Business Manager
18 40 (2.10%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (5.30%) Kafka
2 69 (3.62%) PySpark
3 56 (2.94%) Pandas
4 50 (2.62%) React
4 50 (2.62%) Web Services
5 49 (2.57%) .NET
6 48 (2.52%) HTML
7 44 (2.31%) AngularJS
7 44 (2.31%) NumPy
8 40 (2.10%) CSS
9 38 (1.99%) Oracle Fusion
10 33 (1.73%) REST
11 29 (1.52%) .NET Core
12 27 (1.42%) XML
13 26 (1.36%) ASP.NET
14 25 (1.31%) scikit-learn
15 23 (1.21%) TensorFlow
16 22 (1.15%) PyTorch
17 21 (1.10%) Jinja
17 21 (1.10%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 91 (4.78%) Product Ownership
2 75 (3.94%) Derivative
2 75 (3.94%) Fixed Income
3 72 (3.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 67 (3.52%) Onboarding
5 64 (3.36%) Algorithms
6 63 (3.31%) Hedge funds
7 51 (2.68%) Management Information System
8 48 (2.52%) Equities
9 47 (2.47%) Cloud Native
10 41 (2.15%) Data Structures
11 39 (2.05%) Market Risk
12 34 (1.78%) Life Science
12 34 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
13 32 (1.68%) Credit Risk
14 29 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
14 29 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
15 28 (1.47%) Social Media
16 24 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
17 23 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 59 (3.10%) Linux
2 48 (2.52%) Windows
3 23 (1.21%) Apple iOS
4 18 (0.94%) Windows Server
5 15 (0.79%) Unix
6 13 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.21%) Android
9 3 (0.16%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.10%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.052%) CentOS
11 1 (0.052%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.052%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 479 (25.14%) Agile
2 428 (22.47%) Business Intelligence
3 374 (19.63%) Problem-Solving
4 352 (18.48%) Data Modelling
5 344 (18.06%) Data Analytics
6 298 (15.64%) Decision-Making
7 274 (14.38%) Visualisation
8 260 (13.65%) ETL
9 254 (13.33%) DevOps
10 248 (13.02%) Stakeholder Management
11 242 (12.70%) Data Governance
12 235 (12.34%) Machine Learning
13 225 (11.81%) Data Science
14 221 (11.60%) CI/CD
15 220 (11.55%) Data Pipeline
16 212 (11.13%) Artificial Intelligence
16 212 (11.13%) Data Analysis
17 201 (10.55%) Data Engineering
18 187 (9.82%) Migration
19 178 (9.34%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 590 (30.97%) SQL
2 550 (28.87%) Python
3 113 (5.93%) Java
4 102 (5.35%) JavaScript
5 79 (4.15%) R
6 59 (3.10%) C#
7 56 (2.94%) C++
8 49 (2.57%) PowerShell
9 34 (1.78%) PL/SQL
9 34 (1.78%) Scala
10 32 (1.68%) TypeScript
11 27 (1.42%) Bicep
12 24 (1.26%) T-SQL
13 20 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 17 (0.89%) Bash
15 15 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.42%) PHP
16 8 (0.42%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.37%) MATLAB
17 7 (0.37%) Perl
Qualifications
1 266 (13.96%) Degree
2 244 (12.81%) Security Cleared
3 193 (10.13%) SC Cleared
4 70 (3.67%) Master's Degree
5 53 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 37 (1.94%) Azure Certification
7 31 (1.63%) AWS Certification
7 31 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (1.36%) DV Cleared
9 22 (1.15%) PhD
10 21 (1.10%) PMI Certification
11 20 (1.05%) PMP
12 17 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
13 16 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 16 (0.84%) CISSP
14 11 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
15 10 (0.52%) CISM
16 9 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
17 8 (0.42%) CBAP
17 8 (0.42%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 209 (10.97%) Data Quality
2 83 (4.36%) QA
3 75 (3.94%) GDPR
4 65 (3.41%) Accessibility
5 26 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (0.94%) NIST
7 16 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
8 15 (0.79%) IFRS
8 15 (0.79%) WCAG
9 14 (0.73%) PMO
10 13 (0.68%) IFRS 9
11 12 (0.63%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 9 (0.47%) Def Stans
13 8 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
14 7 (0.37%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.31%) MiFID
15 6 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 5 (0.26%) SLA
17 4 (0.21%) Basel II
System Software
1 76 (3.99%) Docker
2 36 (1.89%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.26%) vSphere
6 4 (0.21%) Platform Symphony
6 4 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.10%) BitLocker
7 2 (0.10%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.10%) IAG
7 2 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.052%) Apache Flume
8 1 (0.052%) Firmware
8 1 (0.052%) HDFS
8 1 (0.052%) Job Entry Subsystem
8 1 (0.052%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.052%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.052%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.052%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 120 (6.30%) Kubernetes
2 118 (6.19%) Terraform
3 33 (1.73%) Ansible
4 30 (1.57%) Grafana
5 22 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
6 15 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (0.73%) Kibana
8 13 (0.68%) Prometheus
9 10 (0.52%) Progress Chef
10 9 (0.47%) Puppet
11 8 (0.42%) Argo
12 7 (0.37%) MOM
12 7 (0.37%) SCCM
13 6 (0.31%) logstash
14 5 (0.26%) ITRS Geneos
14 5 (0.26%) QRadar
15 4 (0.21%) FortiGate
15 4 (0.21%) Kubeflow
15 4 (0.21%) Kustomize
15 4 (0.21%) Salt
Vendors
1 216 (11.34%) Microsoft
2 185 (9.71%) Databricks
3 164 (8.61%) SAP
4 142 (7.45%) Google
5 124 (6.51%) Oracle
6 82 (4.30%) Adobe
7 58 (3.04%) ServiceNow
8 48 (2.52%) Salesforce
9 29 (1.52%) Splunk
10 26 (1.36%) Ariba
11 24 (1.26%) Workday
12 22 (1.15%) BISAM
12 22 (1.15%) VMware
13 17 (0.89%) Sparx
14 16 (0.84%) Alteryx
15 15 (0.79%) IBM
16 13 (0.68%) Informatica
17 12 (0.63%) Talend
18 11 (0.58%) Cloudera
19 10 (0.52%) Cisco