Text Analytics Contract Job Trends

Text Analytics
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Text Analytics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 583 - 590
Rank change year-on-year - - +165
Contract jobs citing Text Analytics 10 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.026% - 0.009%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.030% - 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile - - £377
25th Percentile - - £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -29.63%
75th Percentile £588 - £494
90th Percentile £640 - £498
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £355

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Text 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 33,753 27,550 39,300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.16% 89.25% 87.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,385 16,677 25,860
10th Percentile £306 £306 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £498 £500
% change year-on-year -3.66% -0.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,027 862 2,114
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £16.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +8.53%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £61.13
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £31.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year -20.63% -11.27% +22.41%

Text Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Text Analytics job vacancy trend in the UK

Text Analytics
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Text Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Text Analytics over the 6 months to 3 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Text Analytics in the UK

Text Analytics
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Text Analytics within the UK over the 6 months to 3 February 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 - 10 £500 - 8
London - 9 £500 - 4
Work from Home - 4 £650 - 6
UK excluding London - 1 - - 4
South East - 1 - - 4

Text 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:

Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Azure Machine Learning
3 3 (30.00%) Azure AI
3 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Cognitive Search
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Functions
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (20.00%) Serverless
5 1 (10.00%) AWS
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 1 (10.00%) Figma
5 1 (10.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Publishing
3 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Marketing
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Data Scientist
2 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Manager
3 1 (10.00%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Node.js
2 2 (20.00%) JSON
2 2 (20.00%) REST
3 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (10.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Algorithms
1 4 (40.00%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Analytics
2 9 (90.00%) Machine Learning
3 8 (80.00%) Natural Language Processing
4 7 (70.00%) Data Science
5 6 (60.00%) AI
5 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (50.00%) Data Engineering
7 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
7 4 (40.00%) ETL
7 4 (40.00%) Generative AI
7 4 (40.00%) Recommender Systems
7 4 (40.00%) Statistics
8 3 (30.00%) Conversational UI
8 3 (30.00%) LLM
9 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
9 2 (20.00%) Data Encryption
9 2 (20.00%) Data Governance
9 2 (20.00%) Pricing Analytics
9 2 (20.00%) Prompt Engineering
9 2 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Rancher
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (30.00%) OpenAI
2 2 (20.00%) Foundry