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

6 months to
17 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 10 17
Rank change year-on-year -5 +7 +5
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 78 51 55
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 8.41% 9.14% 7.50%
As % of the General category 13.66% 14.09% 15.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 37 37
10th Percentile £218 £263 £190
25th Percentile £346 £313 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £414 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.93% -19.22% +17.14%
75th Percentile £475 £525 £664
90th Percentile £588 £607 £715
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 6
10th Percentile - £14.59 £10.76
25th Percentile £12.95 £17.09 £11.58
Median hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £14.13
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +59.29% -39.89%
75th Percentile £25.62 £26.88 £28.50
90th Percentile £30.03 £28.75 £49.13
England median hourly rate £30.82 £26.12 £23.50
% change year-on-year +17.98% +11.16% -32.86%

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 571 362 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 61.60% 64.87% 48.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 373 218 258
10th Percentile £199 £227 £160
25th Percentile £352 £314 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £444 £433
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +2.66% -8.95%
75th Percentile £525 £533 £550
90th Percentile £612 £625 £664
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.37% -2.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 19 31
10th Percentile £13.57 £15.01 £12.00
25th Percentile £16.17 £17.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.97 £18.32 £21.52
Median % change year-on-year +19.91% -14.85% +38.81%
75th Percentile £25.08 £30.88 £47.00
90th Percentile £25.96 £42.74 £51.50
England median hourly rate £23.00 £30.00 £29.69
% change year-on-year -23.33% +1.06% +15.46%

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 January 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 January 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 January 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 -10 33 £380 -9.42% 32
Nottinghamshire -5 16 £545 +30.54% 52
Derbyshire +5 12 £463 +2.78% 32
Leicestershire -4 12 £128 -57.50% 39
Lincolnshire -9 3 £423 +172.58% 33
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 8 (10.26%) Confluence
2 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.85%) Apache
3 3 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.85%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (12.82%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (6.41%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (6.41%) MS Visio
3 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (2.56%) Trello
5 1 (1.28%) Chatbot
5 1 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (1.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (10.26%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (6.41%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (1.28%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 7 (8.97%) Power Platform
2 5 (6.41%) AWS
3 4 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (3.85%) Azure
4 3 (3.85%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 2 (2.56%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (2.56%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (2.56%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (2.56%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.56%) GCP
5 2 (2.56%) PowerApps
5 2 (2.56%) Serverless
6 1 (1.28%) Lucidchart
6 1 (1.28%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.28%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.85%) SAN
2 2 (2.56%) DHCP
2 2 (2.56%) DNS
3 1 (1.28%) VLAN
3 1 (1.28%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.97%) Power BI
2 3 (3.85%) Apache Hive
2 3 (3.85%) Big Data
2 3 (3.85%) Hadoop
2 3 (3.85%) HBase
2 3 (3.85%) Metadata
2 3 (3.85%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.85%) Relational Database
2 3 (3.85%) Tableau
3 2 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.56%) Electronic Patient Records
3 2 (2.56%) MySQL
3 2 (2.56%) Power Query
3 2 (2.56%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.28%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 11 (14.10%) JIRA
2 3 (3.85%) Git
3 2 (2.56%) Postman
4 1 (1.28%) JMeter
4 1 (1.28%) Selenium
4 1 (1.28%) SoapUI
General
1 35 (44.87%) Social Skills
2 26 (33.33%) Finance
3 9 (11.54%) Retail
4 8 (10.26%) Banking
5 6 (7.69%) Marketing
6 5 (6.41%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (5.13%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.85%) Retail Banking
9 2 (2.56%) Law
10 1 (1.28%) Automotive
10 1 (1.28%) Bulgarian Language
10 1 (1.28%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (1.28%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.28%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.28%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.28%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (34.62%) Analyst
2 17 (21.79%) Business Analyst
3 6 (7.69%) Project Manager
3 6 (7.69%) Senior
4 5 (6.41%) Lead
4 5 (6.41%) Salesforce Analyst
4 5 (6.41%) Salesforce Business Analyst
4 5 (6.41%) Technical Manager
5 4 (5.13%) Payments Analyst
5 4 (5.13%) Payments Business Analyst
5 4 (5.13%) Product Owner
6 3 (3.85%) Banking Business Analyst
6 3 (3.85%) Deskside Support
6 3 (3.85%) Finance Business Analyst
6 3 (3.85%) Financial Analyst
6 3 (3.85%) Financial Business Analyst
6 3 (3.85%) Hadoop Developer
6 3 (3.85%) IT Support
6 3 (3.85%) Product Manager
6 3 (3.85%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.85%) Kafka
2 2 (2.56%) CSS
2 2 (2.56%) FHIR
2 2 (2.56%) HTML
3 1 (1.28%) .NET
3 1 (1.28%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.38%) Analytical Mindset
2 7 (8.97%) Management Information System
2 7 (8.97%) Product Ownership
3 6 (7.69%) Onboarding
4 4 (5.13%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.85%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (2.56%) EMV
6 2 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.56%) Mobile Payment
6 2 (2.56%) PMI
7 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.28%) NHS
7 1 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.28%) Smartphone
7 1 (1.28%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.41%) Windows
2 4 (5.13%) Windows 10
3 3 (3.85%) Windows 7
3 3 (3.85%) Windows 8
4 2 (2.56%) Android
5 1 (1.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (65.38%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (35.90%) Stakeholder Management
3 27 (34.62%) Agile
4 15 (19.23%) Project Delivery
5 14 (17.95%) Project Management
6 13 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (15.38%) Change Management
7 12 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 12 (15.38%) Workshop Facilitation
8 9 (11.54%) Business Analysis
8 9 (11.54%) User Stories
9 8 (10.26%) Logistics
9 8 (10.26%) Regulatory Change
9 8 (10.26%) Requirements Gathering
10 7 (8.97%) Analytical Thinking
10 7 (8.97%) Collaborative Working
10 7 (8.97%) Data Science
10 7 (8.97%) Decision-Making
10 7 (8.97%) Risk Management
10 7 (8.97%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 10 (12.82%) SQL
2 5 (6.41%) Python
3 3 (3.85%) R
3 3 (3.85%) Scala
4 2 (2.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (2.56%) Java
4 2 (2.56%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.56%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.28%) C#
5 1 (1.28%) PHP
5 1 (1.28%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (16.67%) Degree
2 5 (6.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (6.41%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (5.13%) PMI Certification
4 3 (3.85%) A+ Certification
4 3 (3.85%) CCNA
4 3 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (3.85%) MCSE
4 3 (3.85%) Network+ Certification
4 3 (3.85%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.56%) CBAP
5 2 (2.56%) MCP
5 2 (2.56%) PMP
5 2 (2.56%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.28%) CISA
6 1 (1.28%) CISM
6 1 (1.28%) CISSP
6 1 (1.28%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.69%) PCI DSS
2 5 (6.41%) PSD2
3 4 (5.13%) Data Quality
3 4 (5.13%) GDPR
3 4 (5.13%) QA
4 3 (3.85%) PMO
5 2 (2.56%) GRC
5 2 (2.56%) ISO 20022
5 2 (2.56%) ISO 8583
6 1 (1.28%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.28%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.28%) COBIT
6 1 (1.28%) HL7
6 1 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (1.28%) NIST
6 1 (1.28%) NIST 800
6 1 (1.28%) SLA
6 1 (1.28%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 7 (8.97%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.85%) HDFS
3 2 (2.56%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (5.13%) SCCM
2 3 (3.85%) Hadoop YARN
2 3 (3.85%) Oozie
3 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.28%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 14 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.26%) Salesforce
3 4 (5.13%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.85%) Dell
4 3 (3.85%) HP
4 3 (3.85%) SAP
4 3 (3.85%) VMware
5 2 (2.56%) DocuSign
5 2 (2.56%) Google
5 2 (2.56%) MuleSoft
5 2 (2.56%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.28%) Oracle
6 1 (1.28%) Rapid7
6 1 (1.28%) Siemens
6 1 (1.28%) TSYS
6 1 (1.28%) Workday
6 1 (1.28%) Zoho
188 Analytical Skills jobs in the East Midlands