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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 35 39
Rank change year-on-year +6 +4 -6
Contract jobs citing Analytics 1,844 2,110 2,940
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 6.32% 4.92% 5.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.95% 5.75% 5.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,213 1,442 2,060
10th Percentile £347 £356 £356
25th Percentile £431 £438 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £669 £663 £675
90th Percentile £813 £788 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £507 £517
% change year-on-year -2.76% -1.93% +0.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 54 57
10th Percentile £14.97 £15.29 £21.00
25th Percentile £21.13 £25.00 £22.16
Median hourly rate £32.05 £29.19 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +9.82% -9.64% -7.71%
75th Percentile £45.00 £43.75 £63.00
90th Percentile £78.96 £71.38 £78.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.64 £25.00 £28.16
% change year-on-year +26.56% -11.22% -19.54%

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 26,538 36,713 50,320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 91.00% 85.58% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,936 23,592 34,845
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £408 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,114 2,515 1,670
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £27.85 £36.50 £36.77
Median % change year-on-year -23.70% -0.73% +43.19%
75th Percentile £57.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -34.02% +8.91% +75.00%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 31 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
England +10 1,633 £550 - 5,194
London +9 990 £575 - 3,351
UK excluding London +12 662 £493 -2.76% 2,187
Work from Home +5 651 £525 -4.55% 2,551
South East +21 163 £480 -11.11% 462
North of England +3 163 £467 -6.74% 685
Midlands -3 112 £500 -9.05% 342
North West +7 104 £475 -3.06% 400
East of England +43 89 £600 +20.00% 160
West Midlands -10 74 £513 -6.79% 217
Scotland -15 68 £467 -4.89% 195
South West +8 57 £488 -8.24% 204
Yorkshire +3 51 £475 -6.31% 192
East Midlands +13 36 £390 -17.95% 116
Wales +3 18 £250 -54.57% 56
North East +4 10 £413 - 97
Northern Ireland -10 7 £538 +34.38% 50

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 92 (4.99%) Apache Spark
2 77 (4.18%) Confluence
3 59 (3.20%) Apache Airflow
4 57 (3.09%) Apache
5 38 (2.06%) SAS
6 32 (1.74%) CMS
7 24 (1.30%) SharePoint
8 13 (0.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 11 (0.60%) IBM Domino
9 11 (0.60%) WordPress
10 9 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
10 9 (0.49%) WebLogic
11 6 (0.33%) JBoss
11 6 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 5 (0.27%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.22%) Umbraco
14 3 (0.16%) Drupal
14 3 (0.16%) Headless CMS
15 2 (0.11%) Camunda
15 2 (0.11%) EPiServer
Applications
1 117 (6.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (1.03%) MS Visio
4 19 (1.03%) Oracle Smart View
5 10 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.38%) Adobe XD
7 6 (0.33%) Trello
8 5 (0.27%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.27%) Sketch
8 5 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.22%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.11%) Notepad++
11 1 (0.054%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.054%) InDesign
11 1 (0.054%) InVision
11 1 (0.054%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 85 (4.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 28 (1.52%) Aladdin
3 10 (0.54%) Oracle Payables
3 10 (0.54%) SAP BPC
3 10 (0.54%) SAP CO
4 9 (0.49%) Oracle Assets
4 9 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
4 9 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
4 9 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
4 9 (0.49%) SAP FI
4 9 (0.49%) SAP FI/CO
5 8 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.43%) Oracle Cash Management
6 6 (0.33%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.27%) Magento
7 5 (0.27%) SAP IBP
7 5 (0.27%) SAP PM
7 5 (0.27%) Shopify
7 5 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.22%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 477 (25.87%) Azure
2 360 (19.52%) AWS
3 346 (18.76%) Power Platform
4 175 (9.49%) GCP
5 95 (5.15%) Snowflake
6 88 (4.77%) GitHub
7 87 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
8 86 (4.66%) Azure Data Factory
9 77 (4.18%) dbt
10 73 (3.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 73 (3.96%) SaaS
11 58 (3.15%) Google Analytics
12 55 (2.98%) Serverless
13 47 (2.55%) Amazon S3
14 45 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
15 44 (2.39%) GitHub Actions
16 37 (2.01%) Microsoft 365
17 36 (1.95%) OCI
18 33 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
19 32 (1.74%) Adobe Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 46 (2.49%) Firewall
2 33 (1.79%) Network Security
3 30 (1.63%) DNS
4 28 (1.52%) VPN
5 15 (0.81%) WAN
6 14 (0.76%) SSL
7 12 (0.65%) SD-WAN
8 11 (0.60%) HTTP
8 11 (0.60%) Internet
9 9 (0.49%) Intrusion Detection
10 8 (0.43%) TCP/IP
11 7 (0.38%) FTP
11 7 (0.38%) MPLS
11 7 (0.38%) SMTP
12 6 (0.33%) 5G
12 6 (0.33%) BGP
12 6 (0.33%) IPsec
12 6 (0.33%) OSPF
13 5 (0.27%) Cisco Nexus
13 5 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 325 (17.62%) Power BI
2 248 (13.45%) Data Warehouse
3 154 (8.35%) Tableau
4 121 (6.56%) Data Lake
5 106 (5.75%) Big Data
6 62 (3.36%) Relational Database
7 61 (3.31%) Hadoop
7 61 (3.31%) Metadata
8 56 (3.04%) BigQuery
9 54 (2.93%) SQL Server
10 49 (2.66%) PostgreSQL
11 47 (2.55%) Oracle Reports
12 45 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
13 41 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
14 39 (2.11%) NoSQL
15 31 (1.68%) Oracle BI Publisher
16 30 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
16 30 (1.63%) Looker
17 29 (1.57%) Delta Lake
18 27 (1.46%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 104 (5.64%) JIRA
2 67 (3.63%) Git
3 47 (2.55%) Jenkins
4 22 (1.19%) ERwin
5 14 (0.76%) GitLab
6 11 (0.60%) Selenium
7 10 (0.54%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.38%) ER Studio
8 7 (0.38%) JUnit
8 7 (0.38%) MLflow
8 7 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
8 7 (0.38%) TeamCity
9 6 (0.33%) Terragrunt
10 5 (0.27%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.27%) LSMW
10 5 (0.27%) Postman
10 5 (0.27%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.22%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.22%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.22%) Gradle
General
1 617 (33.46%) Social Skills
2 603 (32.70%) Finance
3 401 (21.75%) Analytical Skills
4 204 (11.06%) Banking
5 172 (9.33%) Marketing
6 132 (7.16%) Public Sector
7 112 (6.07%) Front Office
8 67 (3.63%) Presentation Skills
9 64 (3.47%) Investment Banking
10 58 (3.15%) Retail
11 42 (2.28%) Legal
12 37 (2.01%) Pharmaceutical
13 36 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
14 34 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 32 (1.74%) Telecoms
16 31 (1.68%) Manufacturing
17 23 (1.25%) Financial Institution
18 21 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
19 20 (1.08%) Back Office
20 16 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 322 (17.46%) Analyst
2 259 (14.05%) Developer
3 220 (11.93%) Senior
4 214 (11.61%) Architect
5 204 (11.06%) Data Engineer
6 162 (8.79%) Lead
7 122 (6.62%) Business Analyst
7 122 (6.62%) Data Analyst
8 108 (5.86%) Consultant
9 78 (4.23%) Data Architect
10 49 (2.66%) Project Manager
11 46 (2.49%) Solutions Architect
12 45 (2.44%) Senior Developer
13 42 (2.28%) Data Scientist
13 42 (2.28%) Senior Data Engineer
14 41 (2.22%) Azure Engineer
15 40 (2.17%) Data Manager
16 34 (1.84%) Python Developer
17 31 (1.68%) Full-Stack Developer
18 30 (1.63%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (5.31%) Kafka
2 59 (3.20%) React
3 54 (2.93%) AngularJS
4 53 (2.87%) HTML
4 53 (2.87%) PySpark
5 48 (2.60%) Pandas
5 48 (2.60%) Web Services
6 44 (2.39%) .NET
7 40 (2.17%) CSS
7 40 (2.17%) Oracle Fusion
8 35 (1.90%) NumPy
8 35 (1.90%) REST
9 28 (1.52%) RESTful
10 27 (1.46%) XML
11 25 (1.36%) Redux
11 25 (1.36%) Vue
12 24 (1.30%) .NET Core
13 20 (1.08%) ASP.NET
13 20 (1.08%) TensorFlow
14 19 (1.03%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 65 (3.52%) Algorithms
2 61 (3.31%) Onboarding
3 60 (3.25%) Fixed Income
3 60 (3.25%) Product Ownership
4 57 (3.09%) Management Information System
5 52 (2.82%) Cloud Native
6 50 (2.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 50 (2.71%) Hedge funds
7 49 (2.66%) Derivative
8 44 (2.39%) Data Structures
9 39 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
10 37 (2.01%) Life Science
11 36 (1.95%) Market Risk
12 34 (1.84%) Analytical Mindset
13 33 (1.79%) Credit Risk
14 25 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
14 25 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
14 25 (1.36%) Equities
14 25 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
15 23 (1.25%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 58 (3.15%) Linux
2 42 (2.28%) Windows
3 16 (0.87%) Windows Server
4 14 (0.76%) Unix
5 13 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (0.33%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.27%) Android
9 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.054%) AIX
11 1 (0.054%) CentOS
11 1 (0.054%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.054%) VMS
11 1 (0.054%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 447 (24.24%) Agile
1 447 (24.24%) Business Intelligence
2 360 (19.52%) Problem-Solving
3 353 (19.14%) Data Analytics
4 348 (18.87%) Data Modelling
5 278 (15.08%) Decision-Making
6 270 (14.64%) ETL
7 262 (14.21%) Visualisation
8 256 (13.88%) DevOps
9 244 (13.23%) Data Governance
10 243 (13.18%) Stakeholder Management
11 231 (12.53%) Data Pipeline
12 218 (11.82%) CI/CD
13 217 (11.77%) Data Engineering
14 210 (11.39%) Artificial Intelligence
15 201 (10.90%) Machine Learning
16 200 (10.85%) Migration
17 198 (10.74%) Data Science
18 193 (10.47%) Data Analysis
19 163 (8.84%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 605 (32.81%) SQL
2 525 (28.47%) Python
3 112 (6.07%) Java
4 104 (5.64%) JavaScript
5 69 (3.74%) R
6 51 (2.77%) C#
7 49 (2.66%) C++
8 45 (2.44%) PowerShell
9 42 (2.28%) TypeScript
10 35 (1.90%) PL/SQL
11 32 (1.74%) Bicep
12 28 (1.52%) Scala
13 27 (1.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 24 (1.30%) T-SQL
15 22 (1.19%) Bash
16 21 (1.14%) Kusto Query Language
17 9 (0.49%) PHP
18 8 (0.43%) MATLAB
18 8 (0.43%) VBA
19 7 (0.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 247 (13.39%) Degree
2 237 (12.85%) Security Cleared
3 180 (9.76%) SC Cleared
4 63 (3.42%) Master's Degree
5 55 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 41 (2.22%) Azure Certification
7 34 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
8 29 (1.57%) AWS Certification
9 24 (1.30%) DV Cleared
10 23 (1.25%) PMI Certification
11 21 (1.14%) PhD
11 21 (1.14%) PMP
12 17 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
13 15 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 13 (0.70%) CISSP
15 12 (0.65%) CBAP
16 10 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
17 8 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
17 8 (0.43%) CISM
18 6 (0.33%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 213 (11.55%) Data Quality
2 81 (4.39%) GDPR
3 71 (3.85%) Accessibility
4 70 (3.80%) QA
5 26 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (1.25%) IFRS
7 17 (0.92%) IFRS 9
7 17 (0.92%) NIST
8 14 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
8 14 (0.76%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.65%) PMO
10 11 (0.60%) SLA
10 11 (0.60%) WCAG
11 10 (0.54%) Basel II
11 10 (0.54%) MiFID
12 9 (0.49%) Def Stans
12 9 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
12 9 (0.49%) HIPAA
13 8 (0.43%) Basel III
14 7 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 87 (4.72%) Docker
2 35 (1.90%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.27%) vSphere
6 4 (0.22%) Platform Symphony
6 4 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.11%) BitLocker
7 2 (0.11%) IAG
7 2 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.054%) Firmware
8 1 (0.054%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.054%) Job Entry Subsystem
8 1 (0.054%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.054%) OpenDJ
8 1 (0.054%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.054%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.054%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 131 (7.10%) Kubernetes
2 122 (6.62%) Terraform
3 37 (2.01%) Grafana
4 31 (1.68%) Ansible
5 21 (1.14%) Kibana
6 20 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
7 17 (0.92%) Prometheus
8 16 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (0.54%) Argo
10 8 (0.43%) Progress Chef
10 8 (0.43%) SCCM
11 7 (0.38%) logstash
12 5 (0.27%) Istio
12 5 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
12 5 (0.27%) Puppet
12 5 (0.27%) QRadar
13 4 (0.22%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.22%) Kustomize
13 4 (0.22%) Salt
14 3 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 231 (12.53%) Microsoft
2 170 (9.22%) Databricks
3 162 (8.79%) SAP
4 145 (7.86%) Google
5 130 (7.05%) Oracle
6 80 (4.34%) Adobe
7 55 (2.98%) ServiceNow
8 43 (2.33%) Salesforce
9 25 (1.36%) Splunk
9 25 (1.36%) Workday
10 23 (1.25%) BISAM
11 22 (1.19%) Ariba
11 22 (1.19%) VMware
12 17 (0.92%) Alteryx
12 17 (0.92%) IBM
12 17 (0.92%) Informatica
13 12 (0.65%) Cisco
13 12 (0.65%) Palantir
14 10 (0.54%) Cloudera
15 9 (0.49%) Cognos