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 3 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 15 20
Rank change year-on-year -4 +5 +2
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 92 44 54
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 8.39% 8.21% 6.95%
As % of the General category 16.03% 13.33% 13.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 27 32
10th Percentile £307 £168 £166
25th Percentile £405 £283 £346
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £414 £450
Median % change year-on-year +16.24% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £515 £576
90th Percentile £638 £573 £774
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 18
10th Percentile - £14.59 £11.75
25th Percentile £12.95 £17.11 £12.28
Median hourly rate £22.00 £21.75 £13.75
Median % change year-on-year +1.15% +58.18% -41.49%
75th Percentile £32.98 £26.06 £14.27
90th Percentile £83.65 £28.43 £15.55
England median hourly rate £39.00 £28.15 £18.35
% change year-on-year +38.54% +53.41% -54.13%

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 general skills in the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 574 330 392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 52.37% 61.57% 50.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 213 260
10th Percentile £209 £203 £160
25th Percentile £384 £317 £245
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £438 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% +9.38% -11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £510 £550
90th Percentile £600 £573 £638
England median daily rate £505 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -3.90% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 20 55
10th Percentile £12.95 £14.54 £12.19
25th Percentile £16.25 £15.90 £13.75
Median hourly rate £22.27 £22.75 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% +33.82% -21.55%
75th Percentile £25.56 £30.30 £34.13
90th Percentile £74.00 £35.38 £51.91
England median hourly rate £30.50 £27.50 £30.14
% change year-on-year +10.91% -8.76% -9.72%

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 3 May 2026.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Skills in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 3 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the East Midlands

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 3 May 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
Northamptonshire -4 24 £420 +9.23% 11
Nottinghamshire -15 23 £500 +5.26% 50
Leicestershire +2 18 £540 -1.82% 29
Derbyshire -9 11 £488 +5.41% 16
Lincolnshire -4 9 £638 +154.49% 15
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 9 (9.78%) Confluence
2 7 (7.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.26%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.09%) Apache
4 1 (1.09%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.09%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (10.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (7.61%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (6.52%) MS Visio
4 5 (5.43%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (1.09%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (1.09%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (4.35%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (3.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (2.17%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (2.17%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (2.17%) SAP HCM
3 2 (2.17%) SAP Payroll
3 2 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (1.09%) ContrOCC
4 1 (1.09%) NEC Housing
4 1 (1.09%) SAP HR
4 1 (1.09%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 21 (22.83%) Power Platform
2 11 (11.96%) Azure
3 10 (10.87%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (7.61%) AWS
5 4 (4.35%) Entra ID
5 4 (4.35%) GCP
5 4 (4.35%) PowerApps
6 3 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.26%) Google Sheets
7 2 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.17%) Lucidchart
7 2 (2.17%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.09%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.09%) Google Workspace
8 1 (1.09%) OCI
8 1 (1.09%) Serverless
8 1 (1.09%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.09%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.17%) DNS
1 2 (2.17%) SAN
2 1 (1.09%) DHCP
2 1 (1.09%) VLAN
2 1 (1.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (21.74%) Power BI
2 6 (6.52%) Power Query
3 5 (5.43%) SQL Server
4 4 (4.35%) MySQL
4 4 (4.35%) Oracle ODI
5 3 (3.26%) Data Lake
5 3 (3.26%) SAP HANA
5 3 (3.26%) Tableau
6 2 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.17%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.17%) PowerPivot
7 1 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.09%) Big Data
7 1 (1.09%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.09%) Flink
7 1 (1.09%) Metadata
7 1 (1.09%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (1.09%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.09%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 10 (10.87%) JIRA
2 1 (1.09%) Chocolatey
2 1 (1.09%) Git
2 1 (1.09%) Hudson
2 1 (1.09%) MSI
2 1 (1.09%) SonarQube
General
1 42 (45.65%) Social Skills
2 24 (26.09%) Finance
3 11 (11.96%) Retail
4 10 (10.87%) Organisational Skills
5 9 (9.78%) Banking
6 6 (6.52%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (4.35%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.26%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.26%) Marketing
8 3 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.26%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.26%) Retail Banking
9 2 (2.17%) General Ledger
9 2 (2.17%) Law
9 2 (2.17%) Local Government
10 1 (1.09%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.09%) Automotive
10 1 (1.09%) Bulgarian Language
10 1 (1.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (34.78%) Analyst
2 15 (16.30%) Business Analyst
3 12 (13.04%) Consultant
4 10 (10.87%) Architect
5 8 (8.70%) Senior
6 6 (6.52%) Data Analyst
6 6 (6.52%) Developer
6 6 (6.52%) Senior Analyst
7 5 (5.43%) Lead
8 4 (4.35%) Business Support Analyst
8 4 (4.35%) Cloud Consultant
8 4 (4.35%) Desktop Support
8 4 (4.35%) IT Support
8 4 (4.35%) Oracle Consultant
8 4 (4.35%) Oracle Developer
8 4 (4.35%) Oracle Technical Consultant
8 4 (4.35%) Project Manager
8 4 (4.35%) SAP Consultant
8 4 (4.35%) Support Analyst
8 4 (4.35%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.52%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (2.17%) CSS
2 2 (2.17%) HTML
3 1 (1.09%) .NET
3 1 (1.09%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (1.09%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (1.09%) Kafka
3 1 (1.09%) PySpark
3 1 (1.09%) Software Packaging
3 1 (1.09%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.70%) Product Ownership
2 7 (7.61%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (4.35%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.26%) Mobile Payment
4 3 (3.26%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.17%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.17%) EMV
5 2 (2.17%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.09%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.09%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.09%) IoT
6 1 (1.09%) Mashup
6 1 (1.09%) Replication
6 1 (1.09%) Smartphone
6 1 (1.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.70%) Windows
2 5 (5.43%) Windows 10
3 4 (4.35%) Windows 7
3 4 (4.35%) Windows 8
4 3 (3.26%) Android
5 1 (1.09%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (1.09%) Linux
5 1 (1.09%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.09%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (60.87%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (28.26%) Stakeholder Management
3 22 (23.91%) Agile
3 22 (23.91%) Business Intelligence
4 20 (21.74%) Decision-Making
5 19 (20.65%) Continuous Improvement
6 17 (18.48%) Workshop Facilitation
7 14 (15.22%) Data Modelling
7 14 (15.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 13 (14.13%) Project Management
9 12 (13.04%) Project Delivery
10 11 (11.96%) Change Management
10 11 (11.96%) Migration
10 11 (11.96%) Roadmaps
11 10 (10.87%) Analytics
11 10 (10.87%) Validation
12 9 (9.78%) Analytical Thinking
12 9 (9.78%) ERP
12 9 (9.78%) User Stories
12 9 (9.78%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 23 (25.00%) SQL
2 5 (5.43%) PowerShell
2 5 (5.43%) Python
3 4 (4.35%) PL/SQL
4 3 (3.26%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.26%) VBA
5 2 (2.17%) ABAP
5 2 (2.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (2.17%) Java
5 2 (2.17%) R
6 1 (1.09%) C#
6 1 (1.09%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 16 (17.39%) Degree
2 6 (6.52%) BPSS Clearance
2 6 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.35%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.26%) ACCA
4 3 (3.26%) CIMA
4 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.17%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.17%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.17%) PMP
5 2 (2.17%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.09%) A+ Certification
6 1 (1.09%) AAT
6 1 (1.09%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.09%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.09%) IIBA
6 1 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.09%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 1 (1.09%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.78%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.52%) GDPR
3 5 (5.43%) PMO
4 4 (4.35%) PSD2
5 2 (2.17%) GRC
5 2 (2.17%) ISO 20022
5 2 (2.17%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.09%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.09%) QA
System Software
1 9 (9.78%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.09%) Docker
2 1 (1.09%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (6.52%) SCCM
2 2 (2.17%) Ansible
3 1 (1.09%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (16.30%) Microsoft
2 14 (15.22%) SAP
3 8 (8.70%) Oracle
4 7 (7.61%) Google
5 6 (6.52%) ServiceNow
6 4 (4.35%) HP
7 3 (3.26%) BiZZdesign
7 3 (3.26%) Salesforce
7 3 (3.26%) Sparx
8 2 (2.17%) MuleSoft
8 2 (2.17%) NetApp
8 2 (2.17%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (1.09%) Apple
9 1 (1.09%) Civica
9 1 (1.09%) Dell
9 1 (1.09%) JD Edwards
9 1 (1.09%) Northgate
9 1 (1.09%) Sage
9 1 (1.09%) TSYS
9 1 (1.09%) VMware