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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 10 19
Rank change year-on-year -9 +9 0
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 78 49 51
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 7.56% 9.72% 6.68%
As % of the General category 13.81% 15.31% 13.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 32 31
10th Percentile £272 £169 £166
25th Percentile £398 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £416 £463
Median % change year-on-year +8.24% -10.11% +15.63%
75th Percentile £525 £508 £638
90th Percentile £600 £543 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 16
10th Percentile - £15.19 £11.94
25th Percentile £12.95 £18.59 £12.59
Median hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +75.00% -40.43%
75th Percentile £32.98 £27.38 £14.27
90th Percentile £83.65 £28.95 £15.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £27.75 £19.00
% change year-on-year +35.14% +46.05% -46.48%

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 565 320 376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 54.75% 63.49% 49.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 217 253
10th Percentile £200 £200 £158
25th Percentile £360 £313 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £436 £400
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +8.88% -11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £523 £550
90th Percentile £600 £580 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 15 58
10th Percentile £12.95 £14.10 £12.28
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.54 £24.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.01% +40.00% -9.23%
75th Percentile £25.59 £31.03 £34.56
90th Percentile £58.89 £43.50 £51.50
England median hourly rate £27.50 £29.07 £27.50
% change year-on-year -5.40% +5.71% -21.43%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -10 24 £415 -3.26% 21
Nottinghamshire -17 17 £450 +7.14% 43
Leicestershire +2 15 £500 +36.99% 27
Derbyshire -11 10 £488 +190.18% 16
Lincolnshire -8 7 £611 +144.01% 14
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 7 (8.97%) Confluence
2 6 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.85%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.28%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (8.97%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (7.69%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (7.69%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.28%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (5.13%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (3.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (2.56%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (2.56%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (2.56%) SAP HCM
3 2 (2.56%) SAP Payroll
3 2 (2.56%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (1.28%) ContrOCC
4 1 (1.28%) NEC Housing
4 1 (1.28%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 13 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 9 (11.54%) Azure
3 8 (10.26%) AWS
4 7 (8.97%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (5.13%) GCP
6 3 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.85%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.56%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (2.56%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (2.56%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.56%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.56%) Serverless
8 1 (1.28%) Google Sheets
8 1 (1.28%) Google Workspace
8 1 (1.28%) Lucidchart
8 1 (1.28%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.28%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.56%) DNS
2 1 (1.28%) DHCP
2 1 (1.28%) SAN
2 1 (1.28%) VLAN
2 1 (1.28%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.67%) Power BI
2 6 (7.69%) Power Query
3 4 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (5.13%) MySQL
3 4 (5.13%) Relational Database
3 4 (5.13%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.85%) SAP HANA
5 2 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.56%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.56%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (2.56%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.56%) Oracle ODI
5 2 (2.56%) PowerPivot
5 2 (2.56%) Tableau
6 1 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.28%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.28%) Metadata
6 1 (1.28%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (1.28%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (8.97%) JIRA
2 1 (1.28%) Chocolatey
2 1 (1.28%) Git
2 1 (1.28%) Hudson
2 1 (1.28%) MSI
2 1 (1.28%) SonarQube
General
1 38 (48.72%) Social Skills
2 19 (24.36%) Finance
3 9 (11.54%) Retail
4 7 (8.97%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (7.69%) Banking
5 6 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (5.13%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.85%) Marketing
7 3 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.56%) Law
8 2 (2.56%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.56%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.28%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.28%) Automotive
9 1 (1.28%) Bulgarian Language
9 1 (1.28%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.28%) Local Government
9 1 (1.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (35.90%) Analyst
2 14 (17.95%) Business Analyst
3 8 (10.26%) Architect
3 8 (10.26%) Consultant
4 7 (8.97%) Senior
5 6 (7.69%) Lead
5 6 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (5.13%) Data Analyst
6 4 (5.13%) Deskside Support
6 4 (5.13%) Desktop Support
6 4 (5.13%) IT Support
6 4 (5.13%) Payments Analyst
6 4 (5.13%) Payments Business Analyst
6 4 (5.13%) SAP Consultant
7 3 (3.85%) 2nd Line Support
7 3 (3.85%) Administrator
7 3 (3.85%) Banking Analyst
7 3 (3.85%) Banking Business Analyst
7 3 (3.85%) Developer
7 3 (3.85%) PMO Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.56%) CSS
1 2 (2.56%) FHIR
1 2 (2.56%) HTML
1 2 (2.56%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.28%) .NET
2 1 (1.28%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.54%) Product Ownership
2 6 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (6.41%) Onboarding
4 4 (5.13%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.85%) Mobile Payment
6 2 (2.56%) EMV
6 2 (2.56%) PMI
6 2 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.28%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.28%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.28%) IoT
7 1 (1.28%) Mashup
7 1 (1.28%) NHS
7 1 (1.28%) Replication
7 1 (1.28%) Smartphone
7 1 (1.28%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.97%) Windows
2 5 (6.41%) Windows 10
3 4 (5.13%) Windows 7
3 4 (5.13%) Windows 8
4 3 (3.85%) Android
5 1 (1.28%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (1.28%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (61.54%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (32.05%) Stakeholder Management
3 19 (24.36%) Agile
4 18 (23.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 17 (21.79%) Continuous Improvement
5 17 (21.79%) Workshop Facilitation
6 15 (19.23%) Business Intelligence
7 14 (17.95%) Project Delivery
8 12 (15.38%) Data Modelling
8 12 (15.38%) Decision-Making
9 10 (12.82%) Change Management
9 10 (12.82%) Project Management
10 8 (10.26%) ETL
10 8 (10.26%) Roadmaps
10 8 (10.26%) User Stories
11 7 (8.97%) Analytical Thinking
11 7 (8.97%) ITIL
11 7 (8.97%) Logistics
11 7 (8.97%) Scrum
11 7 (8.97%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (24.36%) SQL
2 6 (7.69%) Python
3 4 (5.13%) Java
3 4 (5.13%) PowerShell
4 3 (3.85%) VBA
5 2 (2.56%) ABAP
5 2 (2.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (2.56%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.56%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.56%) R
6 1 (1.28%) C#
Qualifications
1 13 (16.67%) Degree
2 6 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (6.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.13%) PMI Certification
4 4 (5.13%) Security Cleared
5 3 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.56%) CBAP
6 2 (2.56%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.56%) PMP
6 2 (2.56%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.28%) A+ Certification
7 1 (1.28%) AAT
7 1 (1.28%) ACCA
7 1 (1.28%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.28%) CCNA
7 1 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.28%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.28%) IIBA
7 1 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.28%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.41%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.13%) GDPR
2 4 (5.13%) PCI DSS
2 4 (5.13%) PMO
2 4 (5.13%) PSD2
3 2 (2.56%) GRC
3 2 (2.56%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.56%) ISO 8583
3 2 (2.56%) QA
4 1 (1.28%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.28%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.28%) HL7
System Software
1 8 (10.26%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.28%) Docker
2 1 (1.28%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (6.41%) SCCM
2 2 (2.56%) Ansible
3 1 (1.28%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.28%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 9 (11.54%) SAP
3 5 (6.41%) Google
3 5 (6.41%) ServiceNow
4 4 (5.13%) HP
5 3 (3.85%) BiZZdesign
5 3 (3.85%) Oracle
5 3 (3.85%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.85%) Sparx
6 2 (2.56%) MuleSoft
6 2 (2.56%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (1.28%) Apple
7 1 (1.28%) Civica
7 1 (1.28%) Dell
7 1 (1.28%) Liquidlogic
7 1 (1.28%) NetApp
7 1 (1.28%) Northgate
7 1 (1.28%) Sage
7 1 (1.28%) TSYS
7 1 (1.28%) VMware