Analytical Skills Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Analytical Skills
England > East Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies in the East Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 14 16
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 +2
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 67 53 58
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 7.61% 8.89% 7.91%
As % of the General category 12.64% 14.02% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 40 38
10th Percentile £235 £263 £236
25th Percentile £353 £313 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £416 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.35% -18.88% +13.89%
75th Percentile £462 £525 £664
90th Percentile £592 £599 £718
England median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.57% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 5
10th Percentile £21.40 £13.75 £10.76
25th Percentile £22.75 £15.00 £10.77
Median hourly rate £25.21 £17.71 £14.25
Median % change year-on-year +42.33% +24.28% -54.76%
75th Percentile £28.12 £21.04 £33.25
90th Percentile £31.03 £22.67 £52.30
England median hourly rate £34.27 £25.00 £32.32
% change year-on-year +37.08% -22.65% -18.18%

All General Skills
East Midlands

Analytical Skills falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 530 378 348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 60.23% 63.42% 47.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 232 247
10th Percentile £191 £250 £160
25th Percentile £353 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% -2.72% -5.26%
75th Percentile £524 £535 £572
90th Percentile £617 £654 £675
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 18 28
10th Percentile £15.58 £14.97 £13.58
25th Percentile £16.17 £17.00 £16.31
Median hourly rate £22.27 £17.66 £26.34
Median % change year-on-year +26.08% -32.95% +64.93%
75th Percentile £25.15 £30.15 £51.50
90th Percentile £26.35 £44.28 £55.55
England median hourly rate £23.58 £30.31 £33.00
% change year-on-year -22.21% -8.17% +32.00%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Analytical Skills relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Analytical Skills job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Analytical Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the East Midlands

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Analytical Skills.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
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 Analytical Skills within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 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 -8 29 £375 -9.42% 85
Leicestershire -4 13 £128 -68.13% 116
Derbyshire +6 11 £463 +2.78% 78
Nottinghamshire -7 10 £560 +33.61% 84
Lincolnshire -9 2 £423 +172.58% 55
Analytical Skills
England

Analytical Skills
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 4 (5.97%) Confluence
2 3 (4.48%) Apache
2 3 (4.48%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.48%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.48%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (11.94%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (4.48%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.99%) Trello
4 1 (1.49%) Chatbot
4 1 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.49%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (11.94%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (4.48%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (1.49%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 4 (5.97%) Power Platform
2 3 (4.48%) AWS
2 3 (4.48%) Azure
2 3 (4.48%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 2 (2.99%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (2.99%) Amazon Kinesis
3 2 (2.99%) Amazon S3
3 2 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (2.99%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (2.99%) Entra ID
3 2 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (2.99%) PowerApps
3 2 (2.99%) Serverless
4 1 (1.49%) Lucidchart
4 1 (1.49%) Power Automate
4 1 (1.49%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.48%) SAN
2 2 (2.99%) DHCP
2 2 (2.99%) DNS
3 1 (1.49%) VLAN
3 1 (1.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.97%) Power BI
2 3 (4.48%) Apache Hive
2 3 (4.48%) Big Data
2 3 (4.48%) Hadoop
2 3 (4.48%) HBase
2 3 (4.48%) Metadata
2 3 (4.48%) NoSQL
2 3 (4.48%) Relational Database
2 3 (4.48%) Tableau
3 2 (2.99%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.99%) Electronic Patient Records
3 2 (2.99%) Power Query
4 1 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.49%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 7 (10.45%) JIRA
2 3 (4.48%) Git
3 2 (2.99%) Postman
3 2 (2.99%) Selenium
4 1 (1.49%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.49%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.49%) JMeter
4 1 (1.49%) SoapUI
General
1 31 (46.27%) Social Skills
2 24 (35.82%) Finance
3 8 (11.94%) Banking
4 5 (7.46%) Retail
5 4 (5.97%) Marketing
6 3 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.99%) Law
7 2 (2.99%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.99%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.49%) Automotive
8 1 (1.49%) Bulgarian Language
8 1 (1.49%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.49%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.49%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.49%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (34.33%) Analyst
2 13 (19.40%) Business Analyst
3 5 (7.46%) Lead
3 5 (7.46%) Project Manager
3 5 (7.46%) Salesforce Analyst
3 5 (7.46%) Salesforce Business Analyst
3 5 (7.46%) Technical Manager
4 4 (5.97%) Developer
4 4 (5.97%) Payments Analyst
4 4 (5.97%) Payments Business Analyst
4 4 (5.97%) Product Owner
4 4 (5.97%) Senior
5 3 (4.48%) Consultant
5 3 (4.48%) Data Analyst
5 3 (4.48%) Field Engineer
5 3 (4.48%) Field Service Engineer
5 3 (4.48%) Financial Analyst
5 3 (4.48%) Financial Business Analyst
5 3 (4.48%) Product Manager
5 3 (4.48%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.48%) Kafka
2 2 (2.99%) FHIR
3 1 (1.49%) .NET
3 1 (1.49%) DOM
3 1 (1.49%) HTML
3 1 (1.49%) jQuery
3 1 (1.49%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 13 (19.40%) Analytical Mindset
2 7 (10.45%) Management Information System
3 6 (8.96%) Onboarding
4 5 (7.46%) Product Ownership
5 4 (5.97%) Data Centre
6 3 (4.48%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.99%) PMI
8 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.49%) NHS
8 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.49%) Smartphone
8 1 (1.49%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.48%) Windows
2 2 (2.99%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.49%) Windows 7
3 1 (1.49%) Windows 8
3 1 (1.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (67.16%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (35.82%) Agile
3 20 (29.85%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (14.93%) Change Management
4 10 (14.93%) Project Management
5 9 (13.43%) Business Analysis
5 9 (13.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 8 (11.94%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (11.94%) Project Delivery
6 8 (11.94%) Regulatory Change
6 8 (11.94%) Workshop Facilitation
7 7 (10.45%) Data Science
7 7 (10.45%) Logistics
7 7 (10.45%) User Stories
8 6 (8.96%) Data Analysis
8 6 (8.96%) Fintech
8 6 (8.96%) Mentoring
8 6 (8.96%) Requirements Gathering
8 6 (8.96%) Scrum
8 6 (8.96%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 9 (13.43%) SQL
2 6 (8.96%) Python
3 3 (4.48%) Java
3 3 (4.48%) PowerShell
3 3 (4.48%) R
3 3 (4.48%) Scala
4 2 (2.99%) C#
4 2 (2.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.49%) PHP
5 1 (1.49%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.49%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (16.42%) Degree
2 5 (7.46%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (5.97%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.48%) A+ Certification
4 3 (4.48%) CCNA
4 3 (4.48%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.48%) MCSE
4 3 (4.48%) Network+ Certification
4 3 (4.48%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.99%) CBAP
5 2 (2.99%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.49%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.49%) CISA
6 1 (1.49%) CISM
6 1 (1.49%) CISSP
6 1 (1.49%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (1.49%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.97%) Data Quality
1 4 (5.97%) GDPR
1 4 (5.97%) PCI DSS
1 4 (5.97%) QA
2 3 (4.48%) PSD2
3 2 (2.99%) GRC
3 2 (2.99%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.99%) ISO 8583
4 1 (1.49%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.49%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.49%) COBIT
4 1 (1.49%) HL7
4 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (1.49%) NIST
4 1 (1.49%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.49%) PMO
4 1 (1.49%) SLA
4 1 (1.49%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (7.46%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.48%) HDFS
3 2 (2.99%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (4.48%) Hadoop YARN
1 3 (4.48%) Oozie
2 2 (2.99%) SCCM
3 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.49%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 12 (17.91%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.96%) Salesforce
3 3 (4.48%) Dell
3 3 (4.48%) SAP
3 3 (4.48%) ServiceNow
3 3 (4.48%) VMware
4 2 (2.99%) DocuSign
5 1 (1.49%) HP
5 1 (1.49%) Oracle
5 1 (1.49%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.49%) Siemens
5 1 (1.49%) Workday
5 1 (1.49%) Zoho