Analyst Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Analyst
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median Analyst daily rate in Cambridgeshire is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 9 2
Rank change year-on-year +5 -7 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 44 44 151
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 11.31% 17.60% 30.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.64% 21.78% 36.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 5 26
10th Percentile £233 £385 £288
25th Percentile £356 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £410
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +3.66% +11.19%
75th Percentile £430 £519 £525
90th Percentile £458 £530 £563
East of England median daily rate £400 £425 £410
% change year-on-year -5.88% +3.66% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 25 115
10th Percentile £14.38 £14.84 £14.00
25th Percentile £15.03 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £15.88 £15.14 £14.80
Median % change year-on-year +4.89% +2.30% -4.52%
75th Percentile £19.01 £21.46 £21.37
90th Percentile £45.15 - £21.46
East of England median hourly rate £18.43 £17.05 £14.80
% change year-on-year +8.06% +15.20% -4.52%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Cambridgeshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Cambridgeshire with a recognized job title 348 202 418
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.46% 80.80% 85.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 112 166
10th Percentile £200 £315 £225
25th Percentile £335 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £478 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.52% +0.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £540 £550 £563
90th Percentile £675 £650 £694
East of England median daily rate £492 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -1.60% +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 36 184
10th Percentile - £14.84 -
25th Percentile £13.33 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £17.12 £16.52 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +3.63% +1.35% +5.16%
75th Percentile £30.24 £21.53 £25.76
90th Percentile £39.50 £51.25 £57.50
East of England median hourly rate £28.00 £55.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -49.09% +27.91% +30.30%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Analyst' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Analyst job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in Cambridgeshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in Cambridgeshire

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analyst in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in Cambridgeshire

Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in Cambridgeshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in Cambridgeshire

Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analyst in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Analyst in Cambridgeshire

Analyst
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 18 April 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
Cambridge +3 17 £420 -10.40% 13
Peterborough +3 17 - - 15
Huntingdon - 7 £360 - 5
Analyst
East of England

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire

For the 6 months to 18 April 2026, Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cambridgeshire region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 7 (15.91%) Customer Experience
1 7 (15.91%) Customer Service
2 6 (13.64%) Active Listening
3 5 (11.36%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (11.36%) Oracle
3 5 (11.36%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 5 (11.36%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (11.36%) Oracle Reports
3 5 (11.36%) Validation
3 5 (11.36%) Workshop Facilitation
4 4 (9.09%) Acceptance Criteria
4 4 (9.09%) Asset Management
4 4 (9.09%) B2B
4 4 (9.09%) CRUD
4 4 (9.09%) Data Migration
4 4 (9.09%) Data Modelling
4 4 (9.09%) Data Quality
4 4 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (9.09%) Migration
4 4 (9.09%) SaaS
4 4 (9.09%) Salesforce
4 4 (9.09%) SAP
4 4 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (9.09%) VBA
5 3 (6.82%) Atlassian
5 3 (6.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (6.82%) Change Management
5 3 (6.82%) Cisco
5 3 (6.82%) Continuous Improvement

Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 2 (4.55%) Apache
1 2 (4.55%) IIS
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 4 (9.09%) SaaS
2 2 (4.55%) Azure
2 2 (4.55%) Entra ID
3 1 (2.27%) AWS
3 1 (2.27%) AWS KMS
3 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.27%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (2.27%) GCP
3 1 (2.27%) Google Workspace
3 1 (2.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.82%) Firewall
2 1 (2.27%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (2.27%) DNS
2 1 (2.27%) Network Security
2 1 (2.27%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.36%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 5 (11.36%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.27%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 3 (6.82%) JIRA
General
1 13 (29.55%) Romanian Language
2 12 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 6 (13.64%) Manufacturing
3 6 (13.64%) Organisational Skills
3 6 (13.64%) Retail
4 5 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (6.82%) Back Office
6 3 (6.82%) Finance
7 2 (4.55%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.27%) Dutch Language
8 1 (2.27%) German Language
8 1 (2.27%) Hungarian Language
8 1 (2.27%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.36%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (2.27%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 3 (6.82%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.27%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.27%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (2.27%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.27%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.27%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.27%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.55%) Windows
1 2 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (15.91%) Customer Experience
1 7 (15.91%) Customer Service
2 6 (13.64%) Active Listening
3 5 (11.36%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (11.36%) Validation
3 5 (11.36%) Workshop Facilitation
4 4 (9.09%) Acceptance Criteria
4 4 (9.09%) Asset Management
4 4 (9.09%) B2B
4 4 (9.09%) CRUD
4 4 (9.09%) Data Migration
4 4 (9.09%) Data Modelling
4 4 (9.09%) Migration
4 4 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (6.82%) Change Management
5 3 (6.82%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (6.82%) Data Cleansing
5 3 (6.82%) Data Conversion
5 3 (6.82%) Data Deduplication
5 3 (6.82%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.09%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (6.82%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.27%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.27%) CCNP
3 1 (2.27%) CCSP
3 1 (2.27%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (2.27%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.27%) GAMP
2 1 (2.27%) GxP
2 1 (2.27%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.27%) NIST
2 1 (2.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (2.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (4.55%) Ansible
2 1 (2.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (11.36%) Oracle
2 4 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.09%) Salesforce
2 4 (9.09%) SAP
3 3 (6.82%) Atlassian
3 3 (6.82%) Cisco
3 3 (6.82%) Palo Alto
4 2 (4.55%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.27%) CheckPoint
5 1 (2.27%) Google
5 1 (2.27%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.27%) Splunk