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 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 31 34
Rank change year-on-year +19 +3 -18
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 27 14 15
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 8.04% 4.26% 3.54%
As % of the General category 14.59% 7.49% 6.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 8
10th Percentile £419 - £276
25th Percentile £447 £296 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £438 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.31% -20.45% +57.14%
75th Percentile £522 £475 £634
90th Percentile £575 £531 £738
East of England median daily rate £500 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £14.80 - -
25th Percentile £15.00 - -
Median hourly rate £16.00 - -
75th Percentile £20.44 - -
90th Percentile £25.95 - -
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £70.00 £17.99
% change year-on-year -42.86% +289.11% -17.85%

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 185 187 236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 55.06% 56.84% 55.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 87 55
10th Percentile £197 £200 £235
25th Percentile £406 £363 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +8.33% +2.27%
75th Percentile £580 £602 £556
90th Percentile £662 £685 £648
East of England median daily rate £495 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -1.00% +11.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 42 110
10th Percentile £13.45 £13.24 £15.00
25th Percentile - £14.50 £15.62
Median hourly rate £14.22 £16.58 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -14.21% +2.13% +11.93%
75th Percentile £17.75 £22.83 £21.37
90th Percentile £32.00 £31.00 £49.25
East of England median hourly rate £22.68 £41.48 £40.00
% change year-on-year -45.32% +3.69% +125.73%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 16 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in Cambridgeshire

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Skills in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 16 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in Cambridgeshire

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 August 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 +6 17 £509 +45.43% 13
Peterborough +10 2 - - 10
Huntingdon -6 2 - -
Ely - 1 £500 - 1
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 (3.70%) Confluence
1 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (11.11%) Azure
2 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (7.41%) OCI
2 2 (7.41%) Power Platform
2 2 (7.41%) SaaS
3 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.70%) GitHub
3 1 (3.70%) GitHub Copilot
3 1 (3.70%) OneDrive
3 1 (3.70%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (18.52%) VPN
1 5 (18.52%) Wireless
2 1 (3.70%) DHCP
2 1 (3.70%) DNS
2 1 (3.70%) Firewall
2 1 (3.70%) Network Security
2 1 (3.70%) VLAN
2 1 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (14.81%) MySQL
2 4 (14.81%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (14.81%) Relational Database
3 2 (7.41%) Power BI
4 1 (3.70%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Git
1 3 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (3.70%) GitLab
2 1 (3.70%) MSI
2 1 (3.70%) Ranorex
2 1 (3.70%) ScriptRunner
2 1 (3.70%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 16 (59.26%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Finance
2 4 (14.81%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.41%) Local Government
4 2 (7.41%) Manufacturing
4 2 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Retail
5 1 (3.70%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (25.93%) Developer
2 3 (11.11%) Analyst
2 3 (11.11%) Test Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) Business Change Analyst
3 2 (7.41%) Change Analyst
3 2 (7.41%) Consultant
3 2 (7.41%) Data Consultant
3 2 (7.41%) Data Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) Data Migration Consultant
3 2 (7.41%) Data Migration Developer
3 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) Lead
3 2 (7.41%) Migration Consultant
3 2 (7.41%) Oracle Consultant
3 2 (7.41%) Oracle Data Migration Consultant
3 2 (7.41%) Oracle Developer
3 2 (7.41%) Senior
4 1 (3.70%) Cloud Specialist
4 1 (3.70%) Lead Test Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) QA Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) Hibernate
1 4 (14.81%) RESTful
1 4 (14.81%) SQLAlchemy
2 2 (7.41%) ADO
3 1 (3.70%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (3.70%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Life Science
1 4 (14.81%) Management Information System
1 4 (14.81%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.70%) NHS
2 1 (3.70%) PKI
2 1 (3.70%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Windows
2 1 (3.70%) Linux
2 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (29.63%) CI/CD
3 7 (25.93%) ITSM
3 7 (25.93%) Service Management
4 6 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
4 6 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (22.22%) Data Modelling
4 6 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (22.22%) ETL
4 6 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 5 (18.52%) Agile
5 5 (18.52%) Computer Science
5 5 (18.52%) Customer Service
5 5 (18.52%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (18.52%) Incident Management
5 5 (18.52%) Inventory Management
5 5 (18.52%) Migration
5 5 (18.52%) Project Management
5 5 (18.52%) Software Engineering
6 4 (14.81%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (33.33%) Python
2 5 (18.52%) Java
3 2 (7.41%) C#
3 2 (7.41%) PowerShell
3 2 (7.41%) SQL
4 1 (3.70%) Bash
4 1 (3.70%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) Degree
2 4 (14.81%) A+ Certification
2 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (3.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) Data Quality
1 2 (7.41%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) Firmware
2 1 (3.70%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (25.93%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 2 (7.41%) Databricks
3 2 (7.41%) Dynatrace
3 2 (7.41%) Oracle
4 1 (3.70%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.70%) IFS
4 1 (3.70%) Juniper
4 1 (3.70%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.70%) SAP
4 1 (3.70%) VMware