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

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 11 14
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 99 81 62
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 7.82% 10.57% 8.29%
As % of the General category 16.50% 17.34% 14.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 64 40
10th Percentile £263 £225 £300
25th Percentile £416 £316 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £375 £450
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -16.67% -3.74%
75th Percentile £538 £455 £596
90th Percentile £625 £584 £731
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 5 7
10th Percentile - - £12.35
25th Percentile £13.51 £15.12 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.50 £19.00 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +40.74% -55.57%
75th Percentile £22.44 £24.75 £14.76
90th Percentile £47.50 £25.80 £18.65
England median hourly rate £36.00 £32.50 £21.75
% change year-on-year +10.77% +49.43% -51.67%

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 600 467 421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 47.39% 60.97% 56.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 321 271
10th Percentile £222 £219 £240
25th Percentile £393 £331 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £402 £450
Median % change year-on-year +24.38% -10.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £485 £575
90th Percentile £669 £588 £627
England median daily rate £525 £501 £538
% change year-on-year +4.90% -6.88% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 36 37
10th Percentile £12.76 £15.71 £12.75
25th Percentile £13.51 £18.34 £14.27
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.95 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.55% +27.47% -48.62%
75th Percentile £26.90 £25.15 £50.71
90th Percentile £56.25 £33.66 £53.14
England median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +25.25% -34.02% +38.62%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 +1 28 £519 +44.83% 31
Lincolnshire - 19 £262 - 15
Leicestershire +1 15 £352 +176.27% 42
Nottinghamshire -19 15 £513 -5.75% 35
Derbyshire -11 9 £500 +8.11% 32
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 5 (5.05%) Confluence
2 4 (4.04%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.01%) Apache
3 1 (1.01%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.01%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.01%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (14.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (4.04%) MS Visio
4 2 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (4.04%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (3.03%) iTrent
3 2 (2.02%) ContrOCC
3 2 (2.02%) SAP HR
3 2 (2.02%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (1.01%) SAP ERP
4 1 (1.01%) SAP FI
4 1 (1.01%) SAP FI-GL
4 1 (1.01%) SAP HCM
4 1 (1.01%) SAP IBP
4 1 (1.01%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (1.01%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 31 (31.31%) Power Platform
2 16 (16.16%) Azure
3 12 (12.12%) AWS
4 7 (7.07%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (7.07%) GCP
4 7 (7.07%) Microsoft Copilot
5 5 (5.05%) Power Automate
6 4 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (4.04%) SuccessFactors
7 3 (3.03%) OCI
8 2 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.02%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.02%) Google Sheets
8 2 (2.02%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.01%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.01%) Lucidchart
9 1 (1.01%) Serverless
9 1 (1.01%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.03%) LAN
1 3 (3.03%) WAN
2 1 (1.01%) DNS
2 1 (1.01%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (30.30%) Power BI
2 12 (12.12%) SQL Server
3 7 (7.07%) MySQL
4 4 (4.04%) Oracle ODI
5 3 (3.03%) Big Data
5 3 (3.03%) Power Query
5 3 (3.03%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.03%) Star Schema
6 2 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.02%) PowerPivot
7 1 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.01%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.01%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.01%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.01%) SAP HANA
7 1 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.01%) Tableau
7 1 (1.01%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 7 (7.07%) JIRA
2 4 (4.04%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (2.02%) Git
4 1 (1.01%) Hudson
4 1 (1.01%) MSI
4 1 (1.01%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.01%) Visual Studio
General
1 45 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 18 (18.18%) Finance
3 15 (15.15%) Organisational Skills
4 14 (14.14%) Retail
5 13 (13.13%) Manufacturing
6 12 (12.12%) Banking
7 8 (8.08%) Public Sector
8 4 (4.04%) Automotive
8 4 (4.04%) Police
9 3 (3.03%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (3.03%) General Ledger
10 2 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (2.02%) Local Government
11 1 (1.01%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (22.22%) Analyst
2 17 (17.17%) Developer
3 12 (12.12%) Consultant
4 9 (9.09%) Business Analyst
4 9 (9.09%) Data Analyst
5 7 (7.07%) Administrator
6 6 (6.06%) 2nd Line Support
6 6 (6.06%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 6 (6.06%) Lead
6 6 (6.06%) Oracle Developer
7 5 (5.05%) Architect
7 5 (5.05%) Senior
8 4 (4.04%) Cloud Developer
8 4 (4.04%) IT Manager
8 4 (4.04%) Microsoft Consultant
8 4 (4.04%) Oracle Consultant
8 4 (4.04%) Oracle Technical Consultant
8 4 (4.04%) Security Consultant
8 4 (4.04%) Technical Consultant
8 4 (4.04%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.10%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.01%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (1.01%) EDI
2 1 (1.01%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (1.01%) JSON
2 1 (1.01%) Kafka
2 1 (1.01%) NumPy
2 1 (1.01%) OLE
2 1 (1.01%) Pandas
2 1 (1.01%) PySpark
2 1 (1.01%) pytest
2 1 (1.01%) Software Packaging
2 1 (1.01%) WCF
2 1 (1.01%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.07%) Driving Licence
2 6 (6.06%) Mobile Payment
2 6 (6.06%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.05%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.04%) Data Structures
4 4 (4.04%) Digital Currency
4 4 (4.04%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (4.04%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (3.03%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.02%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.02%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 1 (1.01%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.01%) FMCG
7 1 (1.01%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.01%) Replication
7 1 (1.01%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.07%) Windows
2 6 (6.06%) Android
3 2 (2.02%) Linux
3 2 (2.02%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.01%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (1.01%) OpenVMS
4 1 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.01%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (31.31%) Continuous Improvement
3 30 (30.30%) Business Intelligence
4 28 (28.28%) Decision-Making
5 24 (24.24%) Validation
6 20 (20.20%) Migration
7 19 (19.19%) ERP
8 17 (17.17%) Data Modelling
8 17 (17.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 16 (16.16%) Data Analysis
10 15 (15.15%) Analytics
10 15 (15.15%) Process Improvement
10 15 (15.15%) Visualisation
11 13 (13.13%) AI
11 13 (13.13%) Dashboard Development
11 13 (13.13%) Data Management
11 13 (13.13%) Data Migration
12 12 (12.12%) Project Management
13 11 (11.11%) ETL
13 11 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (24.24%) SQL
2 7 (7.07%) Python
3 4 (4.04%) Kusto Query Language
3 4 (4.04%) PL/SQL
3 4 (4.04%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.02%) VBA
5 1 (1.01%) ABAP
5 1 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.01%) Java
5 1 (1.01%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.01%) R
Qualifications
1 19 (19.19%) Degree
2 13 (13.13%) Security Cleared
3 6 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (5.05%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 3 (3.03%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.02%) ACCA
6 2 (2.02%) CIMA
6 2 (2.02%) CISA
6 2 (2.02%) CISSP
6 2 (2.02%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.01%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.01%) PMP
7 1 (1.01%) SAP Certification
7 1 (1.01%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (20.20%) Data Quality
2 10 (10.10%) GDPR
3 3 (3.03%) PMO
3 3 (3.03%) PSD2
3 3 (3.03%) QA
4 1 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.01%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 4 (4.04%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.01%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.02%) SCCM
2 1 (1.01%) Ansible
2 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 26 (26.26%) Microsoft
2 23 (23.23%) Oracle
3 17 (17.17%) SAP
4 9 (9.09%) Google
5 5 (5.05%) Salesforce
6 4 (4.04%) Workday
7 3 (3.03%) Apple
7 3 (3.03%) Samsung
7 3 (3.03%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.02%) Liquidlogic
8 2 (2.02%) NetApp
9 1 (1.01%) Databricks
9 1 (1.01%) JD Edwards
9 1 (1.01%) Red Hat