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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 15 20
Rank change year-on-year -1 +5 -1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 90 44 49
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 8.58% 8.58% 6.42%
As % of the General category 15.85% 13.71% 12.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 26 28
10th Percentile £307 £168 £166
25th Percentile £405 £266 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £414 £456
Median % change year-on-year +17.75% -9.26% +14.06%
75th Percentile £538 £533 £629
90th Percentile £638 £575 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +0.47%
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 £37.50 £28.08 £18.50
% change year-on-year +33.57% +51.76% -50.34%

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 568 321 382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 54.15% 62.57% 50.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 209 254
10th Percentile £202 £202 £160
25th Percentile £381 £308 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £433 £400
Median % change year-on-year +6.07% +8.13% -11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £519 £550
90th Percentile £600 £578 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 17 60
10th Percentile £12.95 £14.28 £12.27
25th Percentile £15.74 £18.38 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.54 £24.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.01% +40.00% -15.48%
75th Percentile £25.73 £30.30 £33.69
90th Percentile £74.00 £40.25 £51.91
England median hourly rate £30.00 £28.60 £29.00
% change year-on-year +4.90% -1.38% -17.14%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 22 April 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 -8 24 £420 +14.44% 18
Nottinghamshire -10 22 £513 +2.50% 51
Leicestershire +5 18 £540 -1.82% 26
Derbyshire -9 11 £488 +31.22% 17
Lincolnshire -6 8 £638 +154.49% 21
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 (8.89%) Confluence
2 6 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.33%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.11%) Apache
4 1 (1.11%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (6.67%) MS Visio
3 5 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.11%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (4.44%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (3.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (2.22%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (2.22%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (2.22%) SAP HCM
3 2 (2.22%) SAP Payroll
3 2 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (1.11%) ContrOCC
4 1 (1.11%) NEC Housing
4 1 (1.11%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 21 (23.33%) Power Platform
2 11 (12.22%) Azure
3 9 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (7.78%) AWS
5 4 (4.44%) GCP
5 4 (4.44%) PowerApps
6 3 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.33%) Entra ID
6 3 (3.33%) Google Sheets
7 2 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.22%) Lucidchart
7 2 (2.22%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.11%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.11%) Google Workspace
8 1 (1.11%) OCI
8 1 (1.11%) Serverless
8 1 (1.11%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.11%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.22%) DNS
2 1 (1.11%) DHCP
2 1 (1.11%) SAN
2 1 (1.11%) VLAN
2 1 (1.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (22.22%) Power BI
2 7 (7.78%) Power Query
3 4 (4.44%) MySQL
3 4 (4.44%) Oracle ODI
3 4 (4.44%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.33%) Data Lake
4 3 (3.33%) SAP HANA
4 3 (3.33%) Tableau
5 2 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.22%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.22%) PowerPivot
5 2 (2.22%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.11%) Big Data
6 1 (1.11%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.11%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.11%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.11%) Star Schema
6 1 (1.11%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 9 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (1.11%) Chocolatey
2 1 (1.11%) Git
2 1 (1.11%) Hudson
2 1 (1.11%) MSI
2 1 (1.11%) SonarQube
General
1 40 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 23 (25.56%) Finance
3 11 (12.22%) Retail
4 9 (10.00%) Banking
4 9 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.33%) Corporate Banking
6 3 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.33%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.33%) Marketing
6 3 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.33%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.33%) Retail Banking
7 2 (2.22%) General Ledger
7 2 (2.22%) Law
7 2 (2.22%) Local Government
8 1 (1.11%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.11%) Automotive
8 1 (1.11%) Bulgarian Language
8 1 (1.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (34.44%) Analyst
2 15 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 11 (12.22%) Consultant
4 10 (11.11%) Architect
5 8 (8.89%) Senior
6 6 (6.67%) Data Analyst
6 6 (6.67%) Developer
6 6 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
7 5 (5.56%) Lead
8 4 (4.44%) Business Support Analyst
8 4 (4.44%) Cloud Consultant
8 4 (4.44%) Desktop Support
8 4 (4.44%) Oracle Consultant
8 4 (4.44%) Oracle Developer
8 4 (4.44%) Oracle Technical Consultant
8 4 (4.44%) Project Manager
8 4 (4.44%) SAP Consultant
8 4 (4.44%) Support Analyst
8 4 (4.44%) Technical Consultant
8 4 (4.44%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.67%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (2.22%) CSS
2 2 (2.22%) HTML
3 1 (1.11%) .NET
3 1 (1.11%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (1.11%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (1.11%) Kafka
3 1 (1.11%) PySpark
3 1 (1.11%) Software Packaging
3 1 (1.11%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.89%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.33%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.33%) Mobile Payment
3 3 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.22%) EMV
4 2 (2.22%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.11%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.11%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.11%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.11%) IoT
5 1 (1.11%) Mashup
5 1 (1.11%) Replication
5 1 (1.11%) Smartphone
5 1 (1.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.78%) Windows
2 5 (5.56%) Windows 10
3 4 (4.44%) Windows 7
3 4 (4.44%) Windows 8
4 3 (3.33%) Android
5 1 (1.11%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (1.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (28.89%) Stakeholder Management
3 22 (24.44%) Business Intelligence
4 21 (23.33%) Agile
5 19 (21.11%) Decision-Making
6 17 (18.89%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (17.78%) Workshop Facilitation
8 15 (16.67%) Data Modelling
9 14 (15.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 12 (13.33%) Project Delivery
11 11 (12.22%) Project Management
12 10 (11.11%) Analytics
12 10 (11.11%) Change Management
12 10 (11.11%) Migration
12 10 (11.11%) Roadmaps
13 9 (10.00%) Analytical Thinking
13 9 (10.00%) ERP
13 9 (10.00%) Validation
13 9 (10.00%) Visualisation
14 8 (8.89%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 23 (25.56%) SQL
2 5 (5.56%) Python
3 4 (4.44%) PL/SQL
3 4 (4.44%) PowerShell
4 3 (3.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (3.33%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.33%) VBA
5 2 (2.22%) ABAP
5 2 (2.22%) Java
5 2 (2.22%) R
6 1 (1.11%) C#
6 1 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 15 (16.67%) Degree
2 6 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 6 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.44%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.33%) ACCA
4 3 (3.33%) CIMA
4 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.22%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.22%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.22%) PMP
5 2 (2.22%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.11%) A+ Certification
6 1 (1.11%) AAT
6 1 (1.11%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.11%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.11%) IIBA
6 1 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.11%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 1 (1.11%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.67%) GDPR
3 4 (4.44%) PMO
3 4 (4.44%) PSD2
4 2 (2.22%) GRC
4 2 (2.22%) ISO 20022
4 2 (2.22%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.11%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.11%) QA
System Software
1 8 (8.89%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.11%) Docker
2 1 (1.11%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (5.56%) SCCM
2 2 (2.22%) Ansible
3 1 (1.11%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (15.56%) Microsoft
1 14 (15.56%) SAP
2 8 (8.89%) Oracle
3 7 (7.78%) Google
4 6 (6.67%) ServiceNow
5 4 (4.44%) HP
6 3 (3.33%) BiZZdesign
6 3 (3.33%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.33%) Sparx
7 2 (2.22%) MuleSoft
7 2 (2.22%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (1.11%) Apple
8 1 (1.11%) Civica
8 1 (1.11%) Dell
8 1 (1.11%) JD Edwards
8 1 (1.11%) Liquidlogic
8 1 (1.11%) NetApp
8 1 (1.11%) Northgate
8 1 (1.11%) Sage
8 1 (1.11%) VMware