Analytical Thinking Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Analytical Thinking
East of England > Cambridgeshire

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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 - 53
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Analytical Thinking 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.52% - 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% - 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £650
75th Percentile £625 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £600 £570 £675
% change year-on-year +5.26% -15.56% +22.73%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

Analytical Thinking 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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 313 233 407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 80.67% 91.02% 83.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 132 158
10th Percentile £200 £286 £225
25th Percentile £335 £406 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £474 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.26% -0.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £563
90th Percentile £675 £649 £679
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -0.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 40 181
10th Percentile £13.33 £14.98 -
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.00 £14.16
Median hourly rate £16.50 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.66% +8.20% -3.23%
75th Percentile £25.15 £21.46 £21.37
90th Percentile £35.91 £44.00 £39.75
East of England median hourly rate £22.00 £53.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year -58.49% +39.03% +34.94%

Analytical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Analytical Thinking job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Analytical Thinking
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Analytical Thinking
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Analytical Thinking
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 Thinking within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 31 March 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 - 2 £600 - 2
Analytical Thinking
East of England

Analytical Thinking
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 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (50.00%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cutover Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Contingency Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Product Management
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility