Analyst Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Analyst
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median Analyst daily rate in Cambridgeshire is £364, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 January 2026.

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

 6 months to
7 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 10 3
Rank change year-on-year +7 -7 0
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 62 35 106
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 16.80% 11.18% 24.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 19.02% 13.83% 30.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 17 23
10th Percentile £254 £330 £277
25th Percentile £356 £425 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £364 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -30.71% +23.53% +3.66%
75th Percentile £392 £560 £519
90th Percentile £469 £593 £575
East of England median daily rate £425 £513 £425
% change year-on-year -17.07% +20.59% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 11 76
10th Percentile £13.80 £14.99 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.38 £16.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £14.75 £21.46 £14.16
Median % change year-on-year -31.27% +51.55% -8.65%
75th Percentile £16.00 - £20.56
90th Percentile £18.50 - £21.46
East of England median hourly rate £16.00 £21.46 £14.16
% change year-on-year -25.44% +51.55% -8.65%

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 326 253 346
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.35% 80.83% 80.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 124 147
10th Percentile £197 £300 £166
25th Percentile £335 £359 £283
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £465 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.26% -3.23% +1.05%
75th Percentile £594 £557 £575
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
East of England median daily rate £478 £454 £475
% change year-on-year +5.29% -4.42% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 32 118
10th Percentile £13.33 £15.92 £13.41
25th Percentile £13.80 £21.10 £14.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £22.90 £15.03
Median % change year-on-year -30.12% +52.38% -3.06%
75th Percentile £25.15 £26.19 £20.56
90th Percentile £43.75 £48.75 £35.45
East of England median hourly rate £25.15 £49.28 £40.28
% change year-on-year -48.97% +22.36% +91.79%

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 7 January 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 7 January 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 7 January 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
Peterborough +3 48 - - 14
Cambridge -20 5 £400 -23.81% 9
Huntingdon - 3 £363 -
Wisbech - 1 - -
Analyst
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 7 January 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 30 (48.39%) Customer Service
2 7 (11.29%) ITIL
3 6 (9.68%) Active Listening
3 6 (9.68%) Customer Experience
4 5 (8.06%) Active Directory
4 5 (8.06%) ServiceNow
5 4 (6.45%) Citrix
5 4 (6.45%) Microsoft
5 4 (6.45%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (6.45%) Security Cleared
6 3 (4.84%) A+ Certification
6 3 (4.84%) Cisco
6 3 (4.84%) Firewall
6 3 (4.84%) Incident Management
6 3 (4.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (4.84%) Mathematics
6 3 (4.84%) MCSA
6 3 (4.84%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Excel
6 3 (4.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (4.84%) NIST
6 3 (4.84%) Palo Alto
6 3 (4.84%) SC Cleared
6 3 (4.84%) Security Operations
6 3 (4.84%) Service Delivery
6 3 (4.84%) Validation
6 3 (4.84%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (4.84%) Windows
6 3 (4.84%) Windows Server

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 (3.23%) Apache
1 2 (3.23%) IIS
2 1 (1.61%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (4.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.61%) Oracle SCM
1 1 (1.61%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (4.84%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (3.23%) AWS
2 2 (3.23%) Azure
2 2 (3.23%) Entra ID
3 1 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (1.61%) Amazon S3
3 1 (1.61%) AWS KMS
3 1 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.61%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (1.61%) GCP
3 1 (1.61%) Google Workspace
3 1 (1.61%) Lucidchart
3 1 (1.61%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.61%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.84%) Firewall
1 3 (4.84%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.61%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (1.61%) DNS
2 1 (1.61%) Network Security
2 1 (1.61%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.61%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.61%) Big Data
1 1 (1.61%) Data Lake
1 1 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (1.61%) Pentaho
1 1 (1.61%) Power BI
General
1 39 (62.90%) Social Skills
2 20 (32.26%) Romanian Language
3 12 (19.35%) Polish Language
4 7 (11.29%) Manufacturing
5 6 (9.68%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (9.68%) Retail
6 3 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.84%) Spanish Language
7 1 (1.61%) Finance
7 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.61%) Lithuanian Language
7 1 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.61%) eBPF
1 1 (1.61%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (1.61%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.84%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (3.23%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.61%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.61%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (1.61%) NHS
3 1 (1.61%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.61%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.84%) Windows
1 3 (4.84%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (48.39%) Customer Service
2 7 (11.29%) ITIL
3 6 (9.68%) Active Listening
3 6 (9.68%) Customer Experience
4 4 (6.45%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (4.84%) Incident Management
5 3 (4.84%) Mathematics
5 3 (4.84%) Security Operations
5 3 (4.84%) Service Delivery
5 3 (4.84%) Validation
6 2 (3.23%) Agile
6 2 (3.23%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (3.23%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (3.23%) DevOps
6 2 (3.23%) Incident Response
6 2 (3.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (3.23%) PRINCE2
6 2 (3.23%) Server Building
6 2 (3.23%) SIEM
7 1 (1.61%) Business Enablement
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.61%) Apex Code
1 1 (1.61%) Python
1 1 (1.61%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (6.45%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.84%) A+ Certification
2 3 (4.84%) MCSA
2 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (4.84%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (3.23%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (1.61%) ACCA
4 1 (1.61%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.61%) CCNP
4 1 (1.61%) CCSP
4 1 (1.61%) CEH
4 1 (1.61%) CIMA
4 1 (1.61%) CISSP
4 1 (1.61%) CompTIA CySA+
4 1 (1.61%) Degree
4 1 (1.61%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (4.84%) NIST
2 2 (3.23%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.61%) GAMP
3 1 (1.61%) GRC
3 1 (1.61%) GxP
3 1 (1.61%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.61%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (8.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (3.23%) Ansible
2 1 (1.61%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (8.06%) ServiceNow
2 4 (6.45%) Citrix
2 4 (6.45%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.84%) Cisco
3 3 (4.84%) Palo Alto
4 2 (3.23%) Oracle
4 2 (3.23%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.23%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.61%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.61%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.61%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (1.61%) Databricks
5 1 (1.61%) Google
5 1 (1.61%) SAP
5 1 (1.61%) Splunk
5 1 (1.61%) Tenable
5 1 (1.61%) Vertica
5 1 (1.61%) VMware
53 Analyst jobs in Cambridgeshire