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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 13 20
Rank change year-on-year -1 +7 +3
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 98 52 53
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 8.82% 9.09% 6.88%
As % of the General category 17.01% 14.61% 13.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 34 31
10th Percentile £307 £178 £166
25th Percentile £407 £259 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £406 £450
Median % change year-on-year +20.53% -9.89% +5.88%
75th Percentile £538 £494 £576
90th Percentile £638 £571 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £531
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.13% +0.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 18
10th Percentile £12.95 £14.59 £11.75
25th Percentile £13.23 £17.11 £12.28
Median hourly rate £14.48 £21.75 £13.75
Median % change year-on-year -33.45% +58.18% -41.49%
75th Percentile £29.30 £26.06 £14.27
90th Percentile £83.25 £28.43 £15.55
England median hourly rate £39.00 £29.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year +32.20% +59.46% -47.52%

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 576 356 404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 51.85% 62.24% 52.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 232 273
10th Percentile £232 £207 £167
25th Percentile £390 £313 £254
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £423 £400
Median % change year-on-year +11.24% +5.63% -12.81%
75th Percentile £545 £500 £550
90th Percentile £615 £562 £635
England median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 23 55
10th Percentile £13.17 £14.75 £12.19
25th Percentile £15.17 £17.25 £13.75
Median hourly rate £18.38 £23.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.11% +35.29% -23.63%
75th Percentile £25.50 £31.03 £34.13
90th Percentile £70.93 £38.57 £51.91
England median hourly rate £30.58 £27.50 £30.16
% change year-on-year +11.20% -8.82% -6.63%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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
Nottinghamshire -8 26 £481 +1.32% 35
Northamptonshire -4 25 £423 +33.28% 14
Leicestershire +2 17 £583 +22.63% 21
Derbyshire -9 12 £488 +5.41% 15
Lincolnshire -3 9 £638 +154.49% 8
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 (9.18%) Confluence
2 7 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.06%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.02%) Apache
4 1 (1.02%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.02%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (11.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (10.20%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (6.12%) MS Visio
4 5 (5.10%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (1.02%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (4.08%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (3.06%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (2.04%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (2.04%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (2.04%) SAP HCM
3 2 (2.04%) SAP Payroll
3 2 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (1.02%) ContrOCC
4 1 (1.02%) NEC Housing
4 1 (1.02%) SAP HR
4 1 (1.02%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 21 (21.43%) Power Platform
2 11 (11.22%) Azure
3 10 (10.20%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (9.18%) AWS
5 6 (6.12%) GCP
6 4 (4.08%) Entra ID
6 4 (4.08%) PowerApps
7 3 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.06%) Google Sheets
8 2 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.04%) Lucidchart
8 2 (2.04%) OCI
8 2 (2.04%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.02%) Google Workspace
9 1 (1.02%) Serverless
9 1 (1.02%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.02%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.04%) DNS
1 2 (2.04%) SAN
2 1 (1.02%) DHCP
2 1 (1.02%) VLAN
2 1 (1.02%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (20.41%) Power BI
2 7 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 6 (6.12%) MySQL
3 6 (6.12%) Power Query
4 4 (4.08%) Oracle ODI
5 3 (3.06%) Data Lake
5 3 (3.06%) SAP HANA
5 3 (3.06%) Tableau
6 2 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.04%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.04%) PowerPivot
7 1 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.02%) Big Data
7 1 (1.02%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.02%) Flink
7 1 (1.02%) Metadata
7 1 (1.02%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (1.02%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.02%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 10 (10.20%) JIRA
2 1 (1.02%) Chocolatey
2 1 (1.02%) Git
2 1 (1.02%) Hudson
2 1 (1.02%) MSI
2 1 (1.02%) SonarQube
General
1 43 (43.88%) Social Skills
2 24 (24.49%) Finance
3 12 (12.24%) Retail
4 10 (10.20%) Banking
4 10 (10.20%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (6.12%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (4.08%) Corporate Banking
6 4 (4.08%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.08%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.06%) Marketing
7 3 (3.06%) Retail Banking
8 2 (2.04%) General Ledger
8 2 (2.04%) Law
8 2 (2.04%) Local Government
8 2 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.02%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.02%) Automotive
9 1 (1.02%) Bulgarian Language
9 1 (1.02%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (31.63%) Analyst
2 14 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 13 (13.27%) Consultant
4 10 (10.20%) Architect
5 9 (9.18%) Senior
6 7 (7.14%) Developer
7 6 (6.12%) Data Analyst
7 6 (6.12%) Senior Analyst
8 5 (5.10%) 2nd Line Support
8 5 (5.10%) Oracle Developer
9 4 (4.08%) Cloud Developer
9 4 (4.08%) Desktop Support
9 4 (4.08%) IT Support
9 4 (4.08%) Oracle Consultant
9 4 (4.08%) PMO Analyst
9 4 (4.08%) Project Manager
9 4 (4.08%) SAP Consultant
9 4 (4.08%) Support Analyst
9 4 (4.08%) Technical Consultant
9 4 (4.08%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.12%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (2.04%) CSS
2 2 (2.04%) HTML
3 1 (1.02%) .NET
3 1 (1.02%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (1.02%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (1.02%) Kafka
3 1 (1.02%) PySpark
3 1 (1.02%) Software Packaging
3 1 (1.02%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.16%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.12%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (5.10%) Mobile Payment
4 4 (4.08%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.06%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.06%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.04%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.04%) EMV
7 1 (1.02%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.02%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.02%) IoT
7 1 (1.02%) Mashup
7 1 (1.02%) Replication
7 1 (1.02%) Smartphone
7 1 (1.02%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.16%) Windows
2 5 (5.10%) Android
2 5 (5.10%) Windows 10
3 4 (4.08%) Windows 7
3 4 (4.08%) Windows 8
4 1 (1.02%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (1.02%) Linux
4 1 (1.02%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (56.12%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (27.55%) Stakeholder Management
3 22 (22.45%) Agile
3 22 (22.45%) Business Intelligence
4 21 (21.43%) Decision-Making
5 19 (19.39%) Continuous Improvement
6 17 (17.35%) Workshop Facilitation
7 14 (14.29%) Data Modelling
7 14 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 13 (13.27%) Migration
8 13 (13.27%) Project Management
9 12 (12.24%) Project Delivery
9 12 (12.24%) Roadmaps
10 11 (11.22%) Analytics
10 11 (11.22%) Validation
11 10 (10.20%) Analytical Thinking
11 10 (10.20%) ERP
12 9 (9.18%) ETL
12 9 (9.18%) Service Delivery
12 9 (9.18%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 23 (23.47%) SQL
2 5 (5.10%) PowerShell
2 5 (5.10%) Python
3 4 (4.08%) PL/SQL
4 3 (3.06%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.06%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (3.06%) VBA
5 2 (2.04%) ABAP
5 2 (2.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (2.04%) Java
5 2 (2.04%) R
6 1 (1.02%) C#
Qualifications
1 17 (17.35%) Degree
2 6 (6.12%) BPSS Clearance
2 6 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.08%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.06%) ACCA
4 3 (3.06%) CIMA
4 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.04%) CISA
5 2 (2.04%) CISSP
5 2 (2.04%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.04%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.04%) PMP
5 2 (2.04%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.02%) AAT
6 1 (1.02%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.02%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.02%) IIBA
6 1 (1.02%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 1 (1.02%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.18%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.14%) GDPR
3 5 (5.10%) PMO
3 5 (5.10%) PSD2
4 2 (2.04%) GRC
4 2 (2.04%) ISO 20022
4 2 (2.04%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.02%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.02%) QA
System Software
1 9 (9.18%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.02%) Docker
2 1 (1.02%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (6.12%) SCCM
2 2 (2.04%) Ansible
3 1 (1.02%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.02%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (18.37%) Microsoft
2 14 (14.29%) SAP
3 9 (9.18%) Google
3 9 (9.18%) Oracle
4 6 (6.12%) ServiceNow
5 4 (4.08%) HP
6 3 (3.06%) BiZZdesign
6 3 (3.06%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.06%) Sparx
7 2 (2.04%) MuleSoft
7 2 (2.04%) NetApp
7 2 (2.04%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (1.02%) Apple
8 1 (1.02%) Civica
8 1 (1.02%) Dell
8 1 (1.02%) JD Edwards
8 1 (1.02%) Northgate
8 1 (1.02%) Sage
8 1 (1.02%) TSYS
8 1 (1.02%) VMware