Data Analysis Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Data Analysis
East of England > Cambridgeshire

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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 36 35
Rank change year-on-year +6 -1 +12
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 7 6 11
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 2.08% 1.77% 2.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.41% 2.00% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 4
10th Percentile £415 £441 £283
25th Percentile £438 £447 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% +8.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £556 £522 £574
90th Percentile £575 £539 £617
East of England median daily rate £400 £463 £300
% change year-on-year -13.51% +54.17% -32.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £20.13 - -
25th Percentile £24.44 - £26.88
Median hourly rate £32.25 - £29.00
75th Percentile £40.44 - £31.13
90th Percentile £44.98 - -
East of England median hourly rate £53.00 £45.32 £55.00
% change year-on-year +16.95% -17.60% +78.86%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

Data Analysis 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 290 300 338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 86.05% 88.50% 80.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 109 107
10th Percentile £168 £250 £215
25th Percentile £358 £400 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £525 £442
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +18.78% -1.78%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £550
90th Percentile £626 £700 £638
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £425
% change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 85 139
10th Percentile £13.45 £14.38 £14.16
25th Percentile - £14.84 £15.00
Median hourly rate £14.22 £16.00 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -11.13% -1.42% +11.93%
75th Percentile £20.44 £21.50 £21.37
90th Percentile £38.18 £43.75 £48.75
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +41.67% -25.00% +101.92%

Data Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Data Analysis job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Data Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Data Analysis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Data Analysis

Data Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analysis in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 31 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analysis in Cambridgeshire

Data Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Data Analysis.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Data Analysis

Data Analysis
Hourly Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Analysis in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 31 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Analysis in Cambridgeshire

Data Analysis
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 Data Analysis within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 31 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 +2 4 £400 -21.95% 11
Huntingdon - 1 - -
Data Analysis
East of England

Data Analysis
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 (14.29%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) OrCAD
1 1 (14.29%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) ChatGPT
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub Copilot
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) InfiniBand
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 1 (14.29%) Delta Lake
2 1 (14.29%) Metadata
2 1 (14.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) LabVIEW
General
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Electronics
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Data Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Applications Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Power BI Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Python Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) AI Agents
1 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
1 1 (14.29%) Grid Computing
1 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
1 1 (14.29%) Private Cloud
1 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Analytics
1 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
1 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
1 2 (28.57%) DevOps
1 2 (28.57%) Visualisation
2 1 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (14.29%) AI Transformation
2 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
2 1 (14.29%) CRUD
2 1 (14.29%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) C++
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) MATLAB
3 1 (14.29%) Perl
3 1 (14.29%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
2 1 (14.29%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
1 1 (14.29%) GPFS
1 1 (14.29%) Lustre
1 1 (14.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Consul
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Puppet
1 1 (14.29%) Salt
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Databricks
2 1 (14.29%) Cadence
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce
2 1 (14.29%) SAP