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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 12 19
Rank change year-on-year -1 +7 0
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 98 75 58
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 8.69% 10.79% 6.71%
As % of the General category 17.47% 17.52% 12.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 57 28
10th Percentile £298 £188 £176
25th Percentile £413 £270 £312
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £375 £450
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -16.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £540 £459 £582
90th Percentile £638 £551 £788
England median daily rate £500 £501 £525
% change year-on-year -0.10% -4.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 4 17
10th Percentile £12.95 - £11.75
25th Percentile - £15.12 £12.13
Median hourly rate £13.51 £17.06 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.81% +26.37% -61.60%
75th Percentile £17.74 £20.81 £14.27
90th Percentile £60.71 £23.18 £15.25
England median hourly rate £31.50 £32.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -3.08% +66.67% -48.34%

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 561 428 450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 49.73% 61.58% 52.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 283 279
10th Percentile £263 £214 £184
25th Percentile £400 £319 £259
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £402 £425
Median % change year-on-year +23.13% -5.41% -10.53%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £575
90th Percentile £661 £543 £638
England median daily rate £525 £519 £535
% change year-on-year +1.16% -2.99% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 30 57
10th Percentile £12.95 £15.12 £12.22
25th Percentile £14.65 £18.26 £13.50
Median hourly rate £18.75 £21.39 £16.63
Median % change year-on-year -12.34% +28.62% -38.38%
75th Percentile £25.75 £25.15 £35.00
90th Percentile £60.30 £40.06 £51.91
England median hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 £32.70
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.90% +8.99%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 30 June 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 -12 26 £481 +6.94% 32
Northamptonshire -6 21 £447 +25.92% 15
Lincolnshire 0 15 £475 +89.62% 21
Leicestershire +2 14 £583 +45.63% 24
Derbyshire -8 11 £488 +53.91% 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 6 (6.12%) Confluence
2 5 (5.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.02%) Apache
3 1 (1.02%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.02%) Tomcat
Applications
1 13 (13.27%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (11.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (5.10%) MS Visio
4 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (3.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (4.08%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (3.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (3.06%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (2.04%) SAP HCM
3 2 (2.04%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (1.02%) ContrOCC
4 1 (1.02%) iTrent
4 1 (1.02%) NEC Housing
4 1 (1.02%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (1.02%) SAP ERP
4 1 (1.02%) SAP FI
4 1 (1.02%) SAP FI-GL
4 1 (1.02%) SAP HR
4 1 (1.02%) SAP IBP
4 1 (1.02%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 26 (26.53%) Power Platform
2 17 (17.35%) AWS
3 16 (16.33%) Azure
4 10 (10.20%) GCP
5 8 (8.16%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (5.10%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (4.08%) Entra ID
8 3 (3.06%) Google Sheets
8 3 (3.06%) OCI
9 2 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.04%) PowerApps
9 2 (2.04%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (1.02%) Lucidchart
10 1 (1.02%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.02%) Serverless
10 1 (1.02%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.02%) DNS
1 1 (1.02%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (25.51%) Power BI
2 13 (13.27%) SQL Server
3 10 (10.20%) MySQL
4 5 (5.10%) Power Query
5 4 (4.08%) Oracle ODI
6 3 (3.06%) Big Data
6 3 (3.06%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (3.06%) SAP HANA
6 3 (3.06%) Star Schema
7 2 (2.04%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.04%) PowerPivot
7 2 (2.04%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.02%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.02%) Flink
8 1 (1.02%) Metadata
8 1 (1.02%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 7 (7.14%) JIRA
2 2 (2.04%) Hudson
2 2 (2.04%) MSI
3 1 (1.02%) Chocolatey
3 1 (1.02%) Git
3 1 (1.02%) SonarQube
General
1 38 (38.78%) Social Skills
2 17 (17.35%) Finance
3 14 (14.29%) Retail
4 9 (9.18%) Public Sector
5 8 (8.16%) Manufacturing
5 8 (8.16%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (6.12%) Banking
7 5 (5.10%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (4.08%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (3.06%) General Ledger
9 3 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (2.04%) Automotive
10 2 (2.04%) Local Government
10 2 (2.04%) Police
10 2 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.02%) Aerospace
11 1 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.02%) Marketing
11 1 (1.02%) Retail Banking
11 1 (1.02%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 25 (25.51%) Analyst
2 13 (13.27%) Consultant
3 12 (12.24%) Architect
4 11 (11.22%) Developer
5 10 (10.20%) Business Analyst
6 9 (9.18%) 2nd Line Support
7 7 (7.14%) Senior
8 6 (6.12%) Oracle Developer
9 5 (5.10%) Administrator
9 5 (5.10%) Data Analyst
9 5 (5.10%) Data Architect
9 5 (5.10%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (4.08%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Consultant
10 4 (4.08%) Oracle Consultant
10 4 (4.08%) Oracle Technical Consultant
10 4 (4.08%) PMO Analyst
10 4 (4.08%) SAP Consultant
10 4 (4.08%) Security Consultant
10 4 (4.08%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.12%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (2.04%) Software Packaging
3 1 (1.02%) .NET
3 1 (1.02%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (1.02%) CSS
3 1 (1.02%) HTML
3 1 (1.02%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (1.02%) Kafka
3 1 (1.02%) PySpark
3 1 (1.02%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.18%) Mobile Payment
2 6 (6.12%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.06%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (3.06%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.04%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.04%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.04%) EMV
5 2 (2.04%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.04%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.02%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.02%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.02%) FMCG
6 1 (1.02%) IoT
6 1 (1.02%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 1 (1.02%) Mashup
6 1 (1.02%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.02%) Replication
6 1 (1.02%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.18%) Android
2 7 (7.14%) Windows
3 3 (3.06%) Windows 10
3 3 (3.06%) Windows 7
3 3 (3.06%) Windows 8
4 2 (2.04%) Linux
5 1 (1.02%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (1.02%) OpenVMS
5 1 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.02%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (47.96%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (26.53%) Business Intelligence
3 23 (23.47%) Continuous Improvement
4 22 (22.45%) Decision-Making
5 21 (21.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 20 (20.41%) Stakeholder Management
7 19 (19.39%) Data Modelling
8 17 (17.35%) Validation
9 16 (16.33%) Agile
9 16 (16.33%) Migration
10 15 (15.31%) Workshop Facilitation
11 14 (14.29%) Analytics
11 14 (14.29%) Visualisation
12 13 (13.27%) ERP
13 12 (12.24%) ETL
13 12 (12.24%) Service Delivery
14 11 (11.22%) Data Visualisation
14 11 (11.22%) Project Management
14 11 (11.22%) Roadmaps
15 10 (10.20%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 22 (22.45%) SQL
2 5 (5.10%) PowerShell
2 5 (5.10%) Python
3 4 (4.08%) Kusto Query Language
3 4 (4.08%) PL/SQL
4 3 (3.06%) Java
5 2 (2.04%) ABAP
5 2 (2.04%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.04%) VBA
6 1 (1.02%) C#
6 1 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.02%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (13.27%) Degree
2 11 (11.22%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.10%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.06%) ACCA
5 3 (3.06%) CIMA
5 3 (3.06%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.04%) CISA
6 2 (2.04%) CISSP
6 2 (2.04%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.04%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.02%) AAT
7 1 (1.02%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.02%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.02%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.02%) PMP
7 1 (1.02%) SAP Certification
7 1 (1.02%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 1 (1.02%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.22%) Data Quality
2 9 (9.18%) GDPR
3 5 (5.10%) PMO
3 5 (5.10%) PSD2
4 2 (2.04%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.04%) QA
5 1 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.02%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.02%) HIPAA
System Software
1 8 (8.16%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.08%) SCCM
2 2 (2.04%) Ansible
2 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.02%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.02%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (20.41%) Microsoft
2 17 (17.35%) SAP
3 13 (13.27%) Google
3 13 (13.27%) Oracle
4 4 (4.08%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.06%) BiZZdesign
5 3 (3.06%) HP
5 3 (3.06%) Sparx
6 2 (2.04%) NetApp
6 2 (2.04%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.02%) Apple
7 1 (1.02%) Civica
7 1 (1.02%) JD Edwards
7 1 (1.02%) Liquidlogic
7 1 (1.02%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.02%) Northgate
7 1 (1.02%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.02%) Sage
7 1 (1.02%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (1.02%) TSYS