Analytical Skills Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Analytical Skills
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 36 32
Rank change year-on-year +23 -4 -14
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 29 10 13
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 7.63% 2.72% 3.16%
As % of the General category 13.81% 4.90% 5.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 8
10th Percentile - £369 £276
25th Percentile £413 £438 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +85.19%
75th Percentile £512 £506 £555
90th Percentile £519 £596 £578
East of England median daily rate £450 £528 £425
% change year-on-year -14.77% +24.24% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.00 £30.05 -
Median hourly rate £16.00 £30.11 -
Median % change year-on-year -46.85% - -
75th Percentile £19.10 £30.16 -
90th Percentile £20.44 - -
East of England median hourly rate £24.19 £50.00 £16.46
% change year-on-year -51.62% +203.77% -17.70%

All General Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 general skills in Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 210 204 226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 55.26% 55.43% 54.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 61 61
10th Percentile £185 £213 £225
25th Percentile £270 £379 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £503 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% +0.50% +7.82%
75th Percentile £574 £650 £588
90th Percentile £601 £700 £638
East of England median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 83 89
10th Percentile £13.45 £13.80 £15.00
25th Percentile - £14.38 £15.62
Median hourly rate £14.22 £16.00 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -11.13% -1.42% +11.93%
75th Percentile £17.19 £18.50 £16.85
90th Percentile £34.86 £31.00 £49.75
East of England median hourly rate £27.96 £22.00 £21.37
% change year-on-year +27.09% +2.95% +20.60%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Analytical Skills job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Analytical Skills
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 Analytical Skills within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 16 October 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 +22 17 £425 -10.53% 17
Peterborough +2 3 £425 -5.56% 3
Huntingdon -11 2 - - 1
Ely - 1 £500 -
Analytical Skills
East of England

Analytical Skills
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 1 (3.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Workday HCM
2 1 (3.45%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.24%) Azure
2 3 (10.34%) GitHub
3 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (6.90%) GitHub Copilot
3 2 (6.90%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.45%) AWS
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (3.45%) ChatGPT
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (3.45%) OCI
4 1 (3.45%) Power Automate
4 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) VPN
1 4 (13.79%) Wireless
2 3 (10.34%) Network Security
3 2 (6.90%) DHCP
3 2 (6.90%) DNS
3 2 (6.90%) Firewall
4 1 (3.45%) BGP
4 1 (3.45%) LAN
4 1 (3.45%) MPLS
4 1 (3.45%) OSPF
4 1 (3.45%) SD-WAN
4 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.45%) VLAN
4 1 (3.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.69%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (13.79%) MySQL
2 4 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (13.79%) Relational Database
3 2 (6.90%) Metadata
4 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.45%) Delta Lake
4 1 (3.45%) Power BI
4 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Git
2 1 (3.45%) GitLab
2 1 (3.45%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) Ranorex
2 1 (3.45%) ScriptRunner
2 1 (3.45%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.45%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 15 (51.72%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.69%) Finance
3 4 (13.79%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
4 3 (10.34%) Retail
5 1 (3.45%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Local Government
5 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (20.69%) Developer
2 4 (13.79%) Analyst
2 4 (13.79%) Senior
3 2 (6.90%) Business Change Analyst
3 2 (6.90%) Change Analyst
3 2 (6.90%) Consultant
3 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Test Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Data Analyst
4 1 (3.45%) Migration Consultant
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle Consultant
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (3.45%) QA Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (3.45%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Senior Test Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Software Test Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) Hibernate
1 4 (13.79%) RESTful
1 4 (13.79%) SQLAlchemy
2 1 (3.45%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (3.45%) Playwright
2 1 (3.45%) REST
2 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Life Science
1 4 (13.79%) Management Information System
1 4 (13.79%) Onboarding
2 2 (6.90%) Algorithms
2 2 (6.90%) Genomics
2 2 (6.90%) Omics
3 1 (3.45%) AI Agents
3 1 (3.45%) CMDB
3 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.45%) Taxonomies
3 1 (3.45%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Linux
1 2 (6.90%) Windows
1 2 (6.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (68.97%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (27.59%) CI/CD
2 8 (27.59%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (24.14%) ITSM
3 7 (24.14%) Service Management
4 6 (20.69%) Collaborative Working
4 6 (20.69%) Data Modelling
5 5 (17.24%) Computer Science
5 5 (17.24%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (17.24%) Software Engineering
6 4 (13.79%) Biotechnology
6 4 (13.79%) Change Management
6 4 (13.79%) Data Analysis
6 4 (13.79%) Data Integration
6 4 (13.79%) DevOps
6 4 (13.79%) ETL
6 4 (13.79%) Incident Management
6 4 (13.79%) Informatics
6 4 (13.79%) Process Improvement
6 4 (13.79%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 13 (44.83%) Python
2 5 (17.24%) Java
3 4 (13.79%) PowerShell
4 3 (10.34%) Bash
5 2 (6.90%) C#
5 2 (6.90%) R
5 2 (6.90%) SQL
6 1 (3.45%) Groovy
6 1 (3.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (24.14%) Degree
2 4 (13.79%) A+ Certification
2 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 2 (6.90%) Master's Degree
3 2 (6.90%) PhD
4 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.45%) CCIE
4 1 (3.45%) CCNP
4 1 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) JNCIP
4 1 (3.45%) JNCIS
4 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.90%) QA
3 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.45%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 4 (13.79%) Docker
2 2 (6.90%) Hyper-V
2 2 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (6.90%) vSphere
3 1 (3.45%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) Ansible
1 1 (3.45%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.90%) VMware
2 2 (6.90%) Workday
3 1 (3.45%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.45%) Cisco
3 1 (3.45%) Databricks
3 1 (3.45%) Dynatrace
3 1 (3.45%) Infoblox
3 1 (3.45%) Juniper
3 1 (3.45%) LogicMonitor
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle
3 1 (3.45%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.45%) SAP
3 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.45%) SolarWinds