Analyst Contracts in the East Midlands

Analyst
England > East Midlands

The median Analyst daily rate in the East Midlands is £358, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 4 9
Rank change year-on-year -4 +5 -4
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 59 107 135
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 11.01% 13.84% 12.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.50% 14.76% 13.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 65 92
10th Percentile £157 £160 £115
25th Percentile £250 £200 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £363 £400
Median % change year-on-year -1.24% -9.38% +6.67%
75th Percentile £440 £410 £491
90th Percentile £500 £482 £549
England median daily rate £475 £486 £475
% change year-on-year -2.26% +2.32% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 15 15
10th Percentile £13.42 £12.55 £10.70
25th Percentile £14.42 £12.75 £11.53
Median hourly rate £18.20 £14.00 £12.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% +12.00% -7.68%
75th Percentile £21.07 £14.61 £15.75
90th Percentile £33.80 £15.98 £21.41
England median hourly rate £22.14 £16.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year +38.38% -17.95% +25.81%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the East Midlands with a recognized job title 472 725 980
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.06% 93.79% 94.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 483 754
10th Percentile £200 £163 £213
25th Percentile £350 £258 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £410 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.02% -8.89% +5.88%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £565
90th Percentile £600 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 79 62
10th Percentile £11.44 £11.81 £11.80
25th Percentile £18.25 £14.00 £15.35
Median hourly rate £23.21 £17.50 £20.36
Median % change year-on-year +32.60% -14.05% +19.03%
75th Percentile £28.79 £26.15 £31.50
90th Percentile £35.38 £51.91 £64.50
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings that featured Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in the East Midlands

Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analyst in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Analyst in the East Midlands

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analyst in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in the East Midlands

Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analyst in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Analyst in the East Midlands

Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analyst in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Analyst in the East Midlands

Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Northamptonshire -5 22 £358 -1.24% 20
Nottinghamshire 0 14 £410 +51.67% 25
Leicestershire -2 7 £132 -64.71% 26
Derbyshire -3 7 £438 +14.75% 18
Lincolnshire +4 5 £251 - 10
Analyst
England

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East Midlands region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 13 (22.03%) Data Analysis
2 12 (20.34%) Social Skills
3 10 (16.95%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (16.95%) Microsoft
4 9 (15.25%) Windows
4 9 (15.25%) Finance
4 9 (15.25%) Analytics
4 9 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (13.56%) Customer Service
5 8 (13.56%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (13.56%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (13.56%) Banking
5 8 (13.56%) Retail
6 7 (11.86%) Agile
6 7 (11.86%) QA
7 6 (10.17%) SQL
7 6 (10.17%) Microsoft Excel
7 6 (10.17%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (10.17%) User Acceptance Testing
7 6 (10.17%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (8.47%) Actionable Insight
8 5 (8.47%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (8.47%) Data Analytics
8 5 (8.47%) Decision-Making
8 5 (8.47%) Business Case
8 5 (8.47%) Customer Experience
8 5 (8.47%) Active Directory
8 5 (8.47%) Microsoft Office
8 5 (8.47%) SAP
9 4 (6.78%) ITIL

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (6.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.39%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.69%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (10.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (8.47%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (6.78%) Chatbot
3 4 (6.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (3.39%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (5.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.39%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.69%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 8 (13.56%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (6.78%) Azure
2 4 (6.78%) OneDrive
3 3 (5.08%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.39%) SaaS
5 1 (1.69%) AWS
5 1 (1.69%) GCP
5 1 (1.69%) Yammer
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.08%) Power BI
2 2 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.39%) Tableau
3 1 (1.69%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.69%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.69%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Cucumber
1 1 (1.69%) JIRA
1 1 (1.69%) PyCharm
1 1 (1.69%) Selenium
General
1 12 (20.34%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.95%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (15.25%) Finance
4 8 (13.56%) Banking
4 8 (13.56%) Retail
5 3 (5.08%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.39%) Local Government
7 1 (1.69%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.69%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.69%) Legal
7 1 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.69%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.69%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (1.69%) EPoS
2 1 (1.69%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.69%) Onboarding
2 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.25%) Windows
2 4 (6.78%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.69%) Android
3 1 (1.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (22.03%) Data Analysis
2 9 (15.25%) Analytics
2 9 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (13.56%) Customer Service
3 8 (13.56%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (11.86%) Agile
5 6 (10.17%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (10.17%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (10.17%) User Acceptance Testing
6 5 (8.47%) Actionable Insight
6 5 (8.47%) Business Case
6 5 (8.47%) Customer Experience
6 5 (8.47%) Data Analytics
6 5 (8.47%) Decision-Making
7 4 (6.78%) Conversational UI
7 4 (6.78%) ITIL
7 4 (6.78%) Migration
7 4 (6.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 3 (5.08%) Logistics
8 3 (5.08%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.17%) SQL
2 3 (5.08%) Python
3 1 (1.69%) Bash
3 1 (1.69%) Java
3 1 (1.69%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.69%) R
3 1 (1.69%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (5.08%) Degree
2 2 (3.39%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.86%) QA
2 3 (5.08%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.39%) COREP
3 2 (3.39%) FINREP
3 2 (3.39%) IFRS
3 2 (3.39%) SLA
4 1 (1.69%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.69%) Basel III
4 1 (1.69%) GAAP
4 1 (1.69%) GRC
4 1 (1.69%) IFRS 9
4 1 (1.69%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (8.47%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.69%) Docker
2 1 (1.69%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (8.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.69%) Podman
2 1 (1.69%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (16.95%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.47%) SAP
3 2 (3.39%) Oracle
4 1 (1.69%) Apple
4 1 (1.69%) Cognos
4 1 (1.69%) Google
4 1 (1.69%) Ivanti
4 1 (1.69%) JDA
4 1 (1.69%) VMware