Analytical Skills Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Analytical Skills
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies in Bedfordshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 8 16
Rank change year-on-year -13 +8 +3
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 16 25 25
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 6.84% 15.34% 9.92%
As % of the General category 10.60% 19.69% 13.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 13
10th Percentile £403 £503 £423
25th Percentile £406 £543 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £563 £500
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +12.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £522 £675 £550
90th Percentile £546 £779 -
East of England median daily rate £550 £513 £425
% change year-on-year +7.32% +20.59% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £20.50 -
East of England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +80.00% +25.00% -39.39%

All General Skills
Bedfordshire

Analytical Skills falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 151 127 191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 64.53% 77.91% 75.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 58 140
10th Percentile £207 £321 £350
25th Percentile £413 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £638 £692 £550
90th Percentile £650 £704 £600
East of England median daily rate £492 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -0.61% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 16 4
10th Percentile £58.88 £23.63 £36.87
25th Percentile £77.63 £29.75 £46.11
Median hourly rate £80.00 £36.31 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +120.32% -32.45% -10.42%
75th Percentile £90.38 £56.43 £55.63
90th Percentile £91.50 £70.00 £56.75
East of England median hourly rate £19.91 £20.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -2.88% +15.69% -14.60%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Analytical Skills relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Analytical Skills job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Analytical Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in Bedfordshire

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Analytical Skills.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analytical Skills within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 27 December 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
Luton -5 11 £413 -25.00% 53
Analytical Skills
East of England

Analytical Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 1 (6.25%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Workday HCM
2 2 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) AWS
2 4 (25.00%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
2 4 (25.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) LAN
1 1 (6.25%) Network Security
1 1 (6.25%) SSL
1 1 (6.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Cognos Framework Manager
1 1 (6.25%) Cognos Report Studio
1 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (6.25%) DataStage
1 1 (6.25%) DB2
1 1 (6.25%) Metadata
1 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Gatling
1 1 (6.25%) Git
1 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.25%) JMeter
1 1 (6.25%) LoadRunner
General
1 13 (81.25%) Social Skills
2 8 (50.00%) Aviation
3 3 (18.75%) Finance
4 2 (12.50%) Legal
4 2 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Aerospace
5 1 (6.25%) Automotive
5 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Architect
1 4 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
1 4 (25.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 4 (25.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Technical Architect
2 3 (18.75%) Workday Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Systems Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Analytics Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Blue Coat Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Cognos Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Help Desk Administrator
4 1 (6.25%) Performance Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Performance Test Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) QA Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Software QA Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Software Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) OpenID
1 4 (25.00%) SAML
2 2 (12.50%) CSS
2 2 (12.50%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
1 1 (6.25%) Credit Risk
1 1 (6.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (31.25%) Collaborative Working
2 5 (31.25%) DevOps
3 4 (25.00%) Analytics
3 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (25.00%) Migration
3 4 (25.00%) Observability
3 4 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (18.75%) Actionable Insight
4 3 (18.75%) Prototyping
5 2 (12.50%) Agile
5 2 (12.50%) CRM
5 2 (12.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 2 (12.50%) Network Design
5 2 (12.50%) People Management
5 2 (12.50%) Test Strategy
5 2 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
6 1 (6.25%) Dashboard Development
6 1 (6.25%) Scenario Testing
6 1 (6.25%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
1 2 (12.50%) SQL
1 2 (12.50%) VB
2 1 (6.25%) Java
2 1 (6.25%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
1 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
1 1 (6.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (6.25%) QA
1 1 (6.25%) SLA
1 1 (6.25%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Grafana
1 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) Cognos
2 3 (18.75%) IBM
2 3 (18.75%) Workday
3 1 (6.25%) Blue Coat
3 1 (6.25%) Informatica
3 1 (6.25%) New Relic
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle