Analytics Contracts in England

Analytics
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Analytics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Analytics over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 35 34
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 +2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 1,765 2,622 4,409
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 4.85% 5.41% 6.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.62% 6.01% 6.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,213 1,852 3,100
10th Percentile £350 £350 £402
25th Percentile £438 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +6.98%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 51 62
10th Percentile £14.50 £20.56 £12.50
25th Percentile £25.00 £21.58 £27.94
Median hourly rate £29.19 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.80% -8.57% +31.33%
75th Percentile £43.75 £54.63 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.63 £78.00 £67.29
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £32.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year -12.91% -8.14% +29.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Analytics is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,426 43,648 64,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.34% 90.08% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,611 30,630 45,872
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,247 1,533 1,757
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.13 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytics in England

Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Analytics in England

Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytics in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analytics in England

Analytics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytics in England

Analytics
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytics in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytics in England

Analytics
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analytics within the England region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
London -3 1,032 £575 -4.17% 1,319
South East +3 201 £550 +10.00% 397
North of England -9 169 £501 -7.31% 374
Midlands +5 142 £550 +8.86% 204
West Midlands +8 112 £570 +8.57% 126
North West 0 105 £500 -3.61% 233
South West +22 98 £531 +1.19% 117
Yorkshire -10 61 £507 -6.11% 106
East of England +9 50 £500 - 108
East Midlands +7 30 £475 - 78
North East +7 8 £710 +18.33% 38
Analytics
UK

Analytics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 59 (3.34%) Apache Spark
2 47 (2.66%) SharePoint
3 39 (2.21%) Confluence
4 37 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
5 33 (1.87%) SAS
6 31 (1.76%) Apache
7 30 (1.70%) CMS
8 24 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
9 13 (0.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 6 (0.34%) WordPress
11 5 (0.28%) Headless CMS
12 4 (0.23%) govService
13 3 (0.17%) Drupal
13 3 (0.17%) Umbraco
14 2 (0.11%) ArcGIS
14 2 (0.11%) Jupyter
14 2 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
15 1 (0.057%) CICS
15 1 (0.057%) GeoServer
15 1 (0.057%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 68 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (0.85%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (0.57%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.34%) SPSS
8 5 (0.28%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.17%) Sketch
10 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.11%) Simulink
11 1 (0.057%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.057%) CPLEX
11 1 (0.057%) Stata
11 1 (0.057%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 38 (2.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.51%) Endur
3 9 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.45%) Shopify
5 6 (0.34%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.34%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 6 (0.34%) SAP BPC
5 6 (0.34%) SAP ERP
5 6 (0.34%) SAP FI-AP
6 5 (0.28%) OpenLink RightAngle
7 4 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
7 4 (0.23%) ION MarketView
7 4 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 4 (0.23%) SAP MM
7 4 (0.23%) WebTrends
8 3 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.17%) MIS ActiveH
8 3 (0.17%) NEC Housing
9 2 (0.11%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 448 (25.38%) Azure
2 274 (15.52%) Power Platform
3 256 (14.50%) AWS
4 138 (7.82%) GCP
5 113 (6.40%) Azure Data Factory
6 94 (5.33%) Google Analytics
7 80 (4.53%) Snowflake
8 72 (4.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 59 (3.34%) Serverless
10 57 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
11 53 (3.00%) Azure Monitor
12 41 (2.32%) Microsoft 365
13 33 (1.87%) Adobe Analytics
14 32 (1.81%) dbt
15 30 (1.70%) Amazon S3
16 28 (1.59%) Entra ID
17 26 (1.47%) Azure Functions
18 25 (1.42%) Azure Storage
18 25 (1.42%) GitHub
19 24 (1.36%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 40 (2.27%) Firewall
2 32 (1.81%) DNS
3 27 (1.53%) DHCP
4 26 (1.47%) WAN
5 20 (1.13%) Network Security
6 18 (1.02%) LAN
6 18 (1.02%) VPN
7 16 (0.91%) Intranet
8 15 (0.85%) VoIP
9 11 (0.62%) Internet
10 10 (0.57%) Intrusion Detection
11 9 (0.51%) Cisco ISE
11 9 (0.51%) MPLS
11 9 (0.51%) PBX
11 9 (0.51%) SD-WAN
11 9 (0.51%) WLAN
12 6 (0.34%) Wireless
13 5 (0.28%) Cisco ASA
13 5 (0.28%) Cisco Firepower
14 4 (0.23%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 271 (15.35%) Power BI
2 225 (12.75%) Data Warehouse
3 142 (8.05%) Tableau
4 121 (6.86%) Big Data
5 113 (6.40%) Data Lake
6 74 (4.19%) SQL Server
7 54 (3.06%) BigQuery
8 53 (3.00%) Amazon Redshift
9 45 (2.55%) Azure SQL Database
10 44 (2.49%) NoSQL
11 42 (2.38%) Relational Database
12 41 (2.32%) Looker
13 38 (2.15%) KDB
14 33 (1.87%) Amazon Athena
14 33 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
15 32 (1.81%) MySQL
16 30 (1.70%) Hadoop
17 28 (1.59%) Metadata
18 24 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
18 24 (1.36%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 74 (4.19%) JIRA
2 73 (4.14%) Git
3 48 (2.72%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.74%) Postman
5 11 (0.62%) GitLab
5 11 (0.62%) JMeter
5 11 (0.62%) Subversion
6 10 (0.57%) Visual Studio
7 9 (0.51%) Artifactory
8 8 (0.45%) Cypress.io
8 8 (0.45%) Visual Website Optimizer
9 7 (0.40%) JUnit
10 6 (0.34%) Appium
10 6 (0.34%) ERwin
10 6 (0.34%) MLflow
10 6 (0.34%) Selenium
10 6 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (0.28%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.28%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.28%) Maven
General
1 520 (29.46%) Social Skills
2 453 (25.67%) Finance
3 337 (19.09%) Analytical Skills
4 125 (7.08%) Marketing
5 113 (6.40%) Banking
6 110 (6.23%) Public Sector
7 89 (5.04%) Front Office
8 84 (4.76%) Retail
9 62 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
10 59 (3.34%) Legal
11 48 (2.72%) Telecoms
12 42 (2.38%) Manufacturing
13 40 (2.27%) Investment Banking
14 36 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
15 32 (1.81%) Pharmaceutical
16 26 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 23 (1.30%) Advertising
18 14 (0.79%) Local Government
19 13 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
20 12 (0.68%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 328 (18.58%) Analyst
2 249 (14.11%) Developer
3 219 (12.41%) Architect
4 183 (10.37%) Data Engineer
5 178 (10.08%) Senior
6 131 (7.42%) Data Analyst
7 124 (7.03%) Lead
8 90 (5.10%) Data Architect
9 81 (4.59%) Consultant
10 68 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
11 67 (3.80%) Project Manager
12 59 (3.34%) Business Analyst
13 50 (2.83%) Solutions Architect
14 48 (2.72%) Software Engineer
15 45 (2.55%) Azure Data Engineer
16 43 (2.44%) Senior Analyst
17 41 (2.32%) Analytics Manager
18 38 (2.15%) Product Owner
19 35 (1.98%) Product Manager
20 34 (1.93%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (3.34%) PySpark
2 58 (3.29%) HTML
3 56 (3.17%) .NET
4 46 (2.61%) CSS
5 45 (2.55%) Middleware
6 42 (2.38%) React
7 38 (2.15%) JSON
8 37 (2.10%) Kafka
9 35 (1.98%) Web Services
10 34 (1.93%) REST
11 31 (1.76%) XML
12 29 (1.64%) ARM Templates
12 29 (1.64%) Pandas
13 24 (1.36%) .NET Core
14 23 (1.30%) AngularJS
15 22 (1.25%) gRPC
15 22 (1.25%) NumPy
16 18 (1.02%) Protocol Buffers
17 17 (0.96%) GraphQL
17 17 (0.96%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 92 (5.21%) Product Ownership
2 84 (4.76%) Management Information System
3 64 (3.63%) Fixed Income
4 56 (3.17%) Data Structures
5 54 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
6 52 (2.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 50 (2.83%) Equities
8 48 (2.72%) Derivative
9 46 (2.61%) Algorithms
10 34 (1.93%) Hedge funds
11 33 (1.87%) Credit Risk
12 29 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
12 29 (1.64%) Onboarding
13 28 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
14 25 (1.42%) Cloud Native
14 25 (1.42%) CSOC
14 25 (1.42%) Security Operations Centre
15 24 (1.36%) Social Media
16 20 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
17 19 (1.08%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 105 (5.95%) Windows
2 91 (5.16%) Linux
3 42 (2.38%) Unix
4 37 (2.10%) Windows Server
5 20 (1.13%) Windows Server 2016
6 17 (0.96%) Windows Server 2019
7 13 (0.74%) Android
8 11 (0.62%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (0.40%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.11%) VMS
10 2 (0.11%) zOS
11 1 (0.057%) CentOS
11 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 440 (24.93%) Agile
2 384 (21.76%) Business Intelligence
2 384 (21.76%) Data Analytics
3 332 (18.81%) Data Modelling
4 294 (16.66%) Problem-Solving
5 250 (14.16%) ETL
6 202 (11.44%) Visualisation
7 195 (11.05%) DevOps
8 178 (10.08%) Data Analysis
9 175 (9.92%) Data Science
10 171 (9.69%) Decision-Making
11 163 (9.24%) Data Management
12 158 (8.95%) Data Pipeline
13 151 (8.56%) Data Engineering
14 147 (8.33%) Project Management
15 136 (7.71%) Data Governance
15 136 (7.71%) Machine Learning
16 134 (7.59%) Roadmaps
17 133 (7.54%) Migration
18 132 (7.48%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 513 (29.07%) SQL
2 420 (23.80%) Python
3 126 (7.14%) Java
4 101 (5.72%) JavaScript
5 100 (5.67%) C#
6 63 (3.57%) PowerShell
7 49 (2.78%) Scala
8 43 (2.44%) C++
9 40 (2.27%) TypeScript
10 39 (2.21%) R
11 28 (1.59%) Bicep
12 25 (1.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 24 (1.36%) T-SQL
14 23 (1.30%) Bash
15 19 (1.08%) VB
16 17 (0.96%) VBScript
17 15 (0.85%) ABAP
18 13 (0.74%) Shell Script
19 12 (0.68%) VBA
20 10 (0.57%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 266 (15.07%) Degree
2 223 (12.63%) Security Cleared
3 163 (9.24%) SC Cleared
4 72 (4.08%) DV Cleared
5 66 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 51 (2.89%) Master's Degree
7 26 (1.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 26 (1.47%) SANS
8 21 (1.19%) Azure Certification
9 18 (1.02%) CISSP
10 16 (0.91%) PMI Certification
11 15 (0.85%) PMP
12 13 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
12 13 (0.74%) Numerate Degree
13 11 (0.62%) AWS Certification
13 11 (0.62%) PhD
14 9 (0.51%) CCIE
14 9 (0.51%) CCIE Data Center
14 9 (0.51%) CISM
14 9 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (10.31%) Data Quality
2 80 (4.53%) QA
3 39 (2.21%) GDPR
4 32 (1.81%) Accessibility
5 20 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
6 14 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (0.79%) PMO
6 14 (0.79%) SLA
7 13 (0.74%) IFRS
7 13 (0.74%) NIST
8 12 (0.68%) GxP
9 9 (0.51%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.45%) HIPAA
10 8 (0.45%) IFRS 9
10 8 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.28%) GAMP
12 5 (0.28%) NCSC
13 4 (0.23%) IFRS 17
13 4 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 42 (2.38%) Active Directory
2 29 (1.64%) Docker
3 23 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
4 22 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.23%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.17%) HDFS
7 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.057%) NFS
9 1 (0.057%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 72 (4.08%) Terraform
2 58 (3.29%) Kubernetes
3 26 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (1.30%) Grafana
5 21 (1.19%) Ansible
5 21 (1.19%) SCOM
6 19 (1.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 19 (1.08%) SCCM
6 19 (1.08%) WSUS
7 10 (0.57%) ITRS Geneos
8 9 (0.51%) BladeLogic
9 5 (0.28%) SysTrack
10 4 (0.23%) Nagios
10 4 (0.23%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.23%) Trend Micro Deep Security
11 3 (0.17%) Matomo
11 3 (0.17%) Nessus
11 3 (0.17%) Opsgenie
12 2 (0.11%) CASB
12 2 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 296 (16.77%) Microsoft
2 144 (8.16%) Databricks
3 138 (7.82%) Google
4 104 (5.89%) SAP
5 81 (4.59%) Oracle
6 66 (3.74%) Adobe
7 40 (2.27%) Salesforce
8 34 (1.93%) Alteryx
9 32 (1.81%) Splunk
10 25 (1.42%) ServiceNow
11 24 (1.36%) Talend
12 23 (1.30%) Informatica
13 21 (1.19%) Cisco
13 21 (1.19%) Optimizely
14 18 (1.02%) Denodo
15 15 (0.85%) Citrix
15 15 (0.85%) IFS
16 14 (0.79%) Dynatrace
17 13 (0.74%) Ariba
17 13 (0.74%) Red Hat