Data Analysis Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Data Analysis
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Data Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 19 27
Rank change year-on-year -7 +8 +2
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 2 9 3
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 1.03% 5.08% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 5.66% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 2
10th Percentile - - £303
25th Percentile - - £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £296 £425
Median % change year-on-year +35.14% -30.35% -5.56%
75th Percentile - - £494
90th Percentile - £398 £528
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £450 £296 £425
% change year-on-year +52.03% -30.35% -4.23%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridge

Data Analysis 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 179 159 169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 91.79% 89.83% 91.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 86 73
10th Percentile £183 £296 £235
25th Percentile £405 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £508 £420
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +20.83% -6.67%
75th Percentile £536 £625 £550
90th Percentile £625 £700 £638
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £475 £440
% change year-on-year - +7.95% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 9 25
10th Percentile £14.64 £17.34 £22.52
25th Percentile £17.12 £19.00 £25.00
Median hourly rate £27.00 £60.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -55.00% +14.29% +196.28%
75th Percentile £50.00 £67.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £60.00 £77.50 £75.00
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £14.50 £17.80 £16.23
% change year-on-year -18.54% +9.67% +11.93%

Data Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Analysis relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Data Analysis job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Data Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Data Analysis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Data Analysis

Data Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Data Analysis.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Data Analysis

Data Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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 (50.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) InfiniBand
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (50.00%) Grid Computing
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) GPFS
1 1 (50.00%) Lustre
1 1 (50.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Consul
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
1 1 (50.00%) Salt
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform