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 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 34 43
Rank change year-on-year -5 +9 +7
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 5 10 7
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.37% 2.46% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 2.99% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile £440 £283 £256
25th Percentile £444 £294 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £438
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -2.86% +34.62%
75th Percentile £481 £574 £447
90th Percentile £500 £617 £449
East of England median daily rate £450 £331 £400
% change year-on-year +35.85% -17.19% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £18.45
25th Percentile - - £21.56
Median hourly rate - - £28.50
75th Percentile - - £32.38
90th Percentile - - £33.65
East of England median hourly rate £65.75 £63.75 £30.75
% change year-on-year +3.14% +107.32% -2.38%

All Process and 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 329 335 465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 89.89% 82.31% 90.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 116 176
10th Percentile £259 £249 £225
25th Percentile £400 £340 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £452 £475
Median % change year-on-year +15.04% -4.84% -
75th Percentile £625 £557 £554
90th Percentile £700 £619 £613
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.17% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 109 199
10th Percentile £13.80 £14.97 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +11.93% -6.45%
75th Percentile £21.50 £18.22 £20.56
90th Percentile £43.75 £52.75 £23.35
East of England median hourly rate £21.64 £29.17 £19.81
% change year-on-year -25.81% +47.25% -5.67%

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
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
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 13 October 2025. 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 3 £450 +50.00% 6
Cambridge -5 2 £475 +11.76% 8
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 (20.00%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) SaaS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MLflow
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Business IT Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Data Scientist
3 1 (20.00%) Financial Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) IT Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) IT Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) IT Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) ITSM Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Junior
3 1 (20.00%) Junior IT Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Procurement Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) NumPy
1 1 (20.00%) Pandas
1 1 (20.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (20.00%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Genomics
1 1 (20.00%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Business Analysis
1 2 (40.00%) ITSM
1 2 (40.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) AI
2 1 (20.00%) Bioinformatics
2 1 (20.00%) Biomedicine
2 1 (20.00%) Biotechnology
2 1 (20.00%) Data Interpretation
2 1 (20.00%) Data Mapping
2 1 (20.00%) Data Science
2 1 (20.00%) Feature Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (20.00%) Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (20.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) ACCA
1 1 (20.00%) CIMA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) Ariba
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) SAP