Analyst Contract Job Trends 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 25 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 8 7
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 -2
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 148 69 98
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 16.63% 11.60% 13.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 18.09% 12.59% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 36 68
10th Percentile £132 £181 £160
25th Percentile £324 £244 £298
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £374 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -12.06% +7.59%
75th Percentile £411 £417 £467
90th Percentile £506 £481 £493
England median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 11 10
10th Percentile £16.15 £14.65 £13.80
25th Percentile - £16.05 £15.25
Median hourly rate £16.35 £17.00 £17.61
Median % change year-on-year -3.82% -3.44% +23.13%
75th Percentile £17.87 £17.74 £18.49
90th Percentile £21.83 £23.75 £23.38
England median hourly rate £19.00 £24.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year -22.45% +32.43% +6.44%

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 818 548 686
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.91% 92.10% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 497 339 483
10th Percentile £180 £221 £190
25th Percentile £352 £321 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year - -5.56% -2.17%
75th Percentile £525 £528 £550
90th Percentile £625 £625 £675
England median daily rate £508 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -3.33% -0.47% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 24 49
10th Percentile £16.17 £15.10 £12.93
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £20.67 £22.05 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.26% +10.23% +15.94%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £28.75
90th Percentile £25.29 £33.15 £59.00
England median hourly rate £26.30 £35.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -25.92% -22.62% +41.17%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Analyst' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Analyst job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in the East Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies 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 25 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in the East Midlands

Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in the East Midlands.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies 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 25 December 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 25 December 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 0 56 £358 -10.50% 23
Nottinghamshire +8 36 £388 +82.35% 27
Leicestershire +4 27 £132 -62.22% 31
Derbyshire +8 17 £409 +63.40% 24
Lincolnshire -9 5 £488 +26.62% 10
Analyst
England

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 25 December 2025, Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East Midlands region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 41 (27.70%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (23.65%) Microsoft
3 31 (20.95%) Stakeholder Management
4 27 (18.24%) Agile
5 26 (17.57%) Customer Service
6 23 (15.54%) ITSM
6 23 (15.54%) Security Cleared
7 22 (14.86%) Coaching
7 22 (14.86%) Service Delivery
8 20 (13.51%) Business Analysis
8 20 (13.51%) Requirements Gathering
9 19 (12.84%) SC Cleared
10 17 (11.49%) Change Management
11 16 (10.81%) User Stories
12 15 (10.14%) Customer Experience
12 15 (10.14%) Salesforce
12 15 (10.14%) Scrum
12 15 (10.14%) Windows
12 15 (10.14%) Workshop Facilitation
13 14 (9.46%) JIRA
14 13 (8.78%) Degree
15 12 (8.11%) Acceptance Criteria
16 11 (7.43%) Active Directory
16 11 (7.43%) Continuous Improvement
16 11 (7.43%) ERP
16 11 (7.43%) Pattern Recognition
17 10 (6.76%) Genesys
17 10 (6.76%) Information Security
17 10 (6.76%) KYC
17 10 (6.76%) Stakeholder Engagement

Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 8 (5.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (4.73%) Confluence
3 1 (0.68%) Mule
Applications
1 8 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (2.70%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.35%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.70%) Oracle Assets
1 4 (2.70%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (2.70%) Oracle General Ledger
1 4 (2.70%) Oracle Payables
1 4 (2.70%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (2.03%) Oracle Receivables
2 3 (2.03%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (2.03%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.35%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.68%) Actimize
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.68%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 7 (4.73%) Power Platform
2 6 (4.05%) Azure
3 4 (2.70%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
3 4 (2.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 3 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Purview
4 3 (2.03%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (0.68%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (0.68%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.68%) GCP
5 1 (0.68%) GitHub
5 1 (0.68%) Google Workspace
5 1 (0.68%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.03%) DNS
2 2 (1.35%) Network Security
2 2 (1.35%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.68%) Broadband
3 1 (0.68%) DHCP
3 1 (0.68%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.73%) Power BI
2 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (9.46%) JIRA
2 2 (1.35%) Selenium
3 1 (0.68%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.68%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.68%) JMeter
3 1 (0.68%) Postman
3 1 (0.68%) REST Assured
3 1 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 39 (26.35%) Social Skills
2 33 (22.30%) Finance
3 24 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (10.14%) Banking
5 11 (7.43%) Retail
6 10 (6.76%) Manufacturing
7 9 (6.08%) Marketing
8 7 (4.73%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (4.73%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (4.05%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (3.38%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (2.70%) Aerospace
11 4 (2.70%) General Ledger
11 4 (2.70%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.35%) Legal
12 2 (1.35%) Retail Banking
12 2 (1.35%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.68%) Automotive
13 1 (0.68%) Electronics
13 1 (0.68%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.70%) Oracle Fusion
1 4 (2.70%) VML
2 3 (2.03%) ADO
3 1 (0.68%) .NET
3 1 (0.68%) FHIR
3 1 (0.68%) jQuery
3 1 (0.68%) Middleware
3 1 (0.68%) REST
3 1 (0.68%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.81%) Onboarding
2 13 (8.78%) Management Information System
3 8 (5.41%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.38%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.70%) e-Learning
5 4 (2.70%) Learning Management System
6 2 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.35%) PMI
6 2 (1.35%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.68%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.68%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.68%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.68%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 15 (10.14%) Windows
2 7 (4.73%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (27.70%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (20.95%) Stakeholder Management
3 27 (18.24%) Agile
4 26 (17.57%) Customer Service
5 23 (15.54%) ITSM
6 22 (14.86%) Coaching
6 22 (14.86%) Service Delivery
7 20 (13.51%) Business Analysis
7 20 (13.51%) Requirements Gathering
8 17 (11.49%) Change Management
9 16 (10.81%) User Stories
10 15 (10.14%) Customer Experience
10 15 (10.14%) Scrum
10 15 (10.14%) Workshop Facilitation
11 12 (8.11%) Acceptance Criteria
12 11 (7.43%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (7.43%) ERP
12 11 (7.43%) Pattern Recognition
13 10 (6.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 10 (6.76%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 8 (5.41%) SQL
2 1 (0.68%) C#
2 1 (0.68%) Java
2 1 (0.68%) PHP
2 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
2 1 (0.68%) PowerShell
2 1 (0.68%) Python
2 1 (0.68%) R
Qualifications
1 23 (15.54%) Security Cleared
2 19 (12.84%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.78%) Degree
4 5 (3.38%) A+ Certification
5 4 (2.70%) CSPO
6 2 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.35%) CBAP
6 2 (1.35%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.68%) BC Cleared
7 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.08%) GDPR
2 6 (4.05%) GRC
3 5 (3.38%) QA
4 3 (2.03%) NIST
4 3 (2.03%) PMO
5 2 (1.35%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.35%) ISO 8583
5 2 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.35%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.35%) PSD2
5 2 (1.35%) SLA
6 1 (0.68%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.68%) HL7
6 1 (0.68%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 11 (7.43%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.68%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.68%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.68%) SCCM
Vendors
1 35 (23.65%) Microsoft
2 15 (10.14%) Salesforce
3 10 (6.76%) Genesys
4 7 (4.73%) SAP
5 6 (4.05%) Google
6 5 (3.38%) Oracle
7 3 (2.03%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.35%) Databricks
8 2 (1.35%) DocuSign
8 2 (1.35%) Workday
9 1 (0.68%) Ariba
9 1 (0.68%) Computacenter
9 1 (0.68%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.68%) Remedy
9 1 (0.68%) Sage
9 1 (0.68%) Tenable
9 1 (0.68%) VMware