Analytics Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Analytics
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Analytics skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 21 23
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 +8
Contract jobs citing Analytics 8 7 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 4.40% 3.87% 4.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.82% 4.32% 5.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 5
10th Percentile £373 £458 £390
25th Percentile £379 £469 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +2.50% +12.36%
75th Percentile £625 £563 £525
90th Percentile £710 £585 £546
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £550 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +7.32% +2.50% +17.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridge

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 in Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 166 162 195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 91.21% 89.50% 89.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 75 114
10th Percentile £357 £287 £213
25th Percentile £438 £340 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £647 £568 £538
90th Percentile £700 £638 £584
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £520 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +12.43% +2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 20
10th Percentile £17.95 £19.80 £16.75
25th Percentile £44.91 £24.40 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +196.28% -68.91%
75th Percentile £69.38 £63.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.50 £64.00
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £14.50
% change year-on-year -1.42% +11.93% -

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytics in Cambridge

Analytics
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Analytics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Analytics

Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytics in Cambridge over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytics in Cambridge

Analytics
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Analytics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Analytics

Analytics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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 2 (25.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Electronic Patient Records
1 2 (25.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (25.00%) Power BI
1 2 (25.00%) Text Mining
2 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
2 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) Tableau
General
1 4 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Legal
2 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Information Scientist
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Security Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Data Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Data Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cyber Defence
1 2 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (25.00%) Life Science
2 1 (12.50%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (25.00%) Benchmarking
2 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (25.00%) Case Management
2 2 (25.00%) Cyber Intelligence
2 2 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 2 (25.00%) Data Analytics
2 2 (25.00%) Data Enrichment
2 2 (25.00%) Economics
2 2 (25.00%) Health Informatics
2 2 (25.00%) Informatics
2 2 (25.00%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Ontologies
2 2 (25.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (25.00%) Statistical Analysis
2 2 (25.00%) Visual Analytics
2 2 (25.00%) Visualisation
2 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (25.00%) MATLAB
3 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) PhD
3 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) IFRS
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (25.00%) SAP