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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 14 17
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 97 78 55
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 8.45% 10.48% 6.71%
As % of the General category 17.38% 17.37% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 58 31
10th Percentile £268 £191 £213
25th Percentile £419 £284 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £371 £450
Median % change year-on-year +34.77% -17.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £539 £450 £576
90th Percentile £638 £549 £788
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 5 12
10th Percentile - - £11.75
25th Percentile £13.51 £15.12 £12.03
Median hourly rate £17.97 £19.00 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +40.74% -33.56%
75th Percentile £47.50 £24.75 £14.52
90th Percentile £84.05 £25.80 £15.25
England median hourly rate £38.72 £33.88 £21.50
% change year-on-year +14.29% +57.58% -39.44%

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 558 449 440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 48.61% 60.35% 53.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 303 288
10th Percentile £234 £213 £197
25th Percentile £395 £322 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £402 £445
Median % change year-on-year +24.38% -9.66% -6.32%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £554
90th Percentile £669 £552 £628
England median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 35 47
10th Percentile £13.51 £15.17 £12.28
25th Percentile £17.50 £18.44 £13.13
Median hourly rate £19.33 £23.00 £16.63
Median % change year-on-year -15.96% +38.30% -54.77%
75th Percentile £30.13 £25.15 £38.63
90th Percentile £60.30 £38.18 £51.91
England median hourly rate £34.00 £26.28 £37.50
% change year-on-year +29.38% -29.92% +24.79%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 24 July 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 22 £500 +39.28% 33
Nottinghamshire -17 19 £513 +13.89% 37
Lincolnshire - 19 £387 - 21
Leicestershire +3 17 £500 +25.00% 29
Derbyshire -12 9 £488 +53.91% 20
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 4 (4.12%) Confluence
2 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.03%) Apache
3 1 (1.03%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.03%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (12.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (10.31%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (4.12%) MS Visio
4 3 (3.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (4.12%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (3.09%) iTrent
2 3 (3.09%) SAP HCM
2 3 (3.09%) SAP Payroll
2 3 (3.09%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (2.06%) SAP HR
4 1 (1.03%) ContrOCC
4 1 (1.03%) NEC Housing
4 1 (1.03%) SAP ERP
4 1 (1.03%) SAP FI
4 1 (1.03%) SAP FI-GL
4 1 (1.03%) SAP IBP
4 1 (1.03%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 26 (26.80%) Power Platform
2 17 (17.53%) Azure
3 12 (12.37%) AWS
4 7 (7.22%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (7.22%) GCP
5 5 (5.15%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (4.12%) SuccessFactors
7 3 (3.09%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (3.09%) OCI
8 2 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.06%) Google Sheets
8 2 (2.06%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.03%) Lucidchart
9 1 (1.03%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.09%) LAN
1 3 (3.09%) WAN
2 1 (1.03%) DNS
2 1 (1.03%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (25.77%) Power BI
2 12 (12.37%) SQL Server
3 7 (7.22%) MySQL
4 5 (5.15%) Power Query
5 4 (4.12%) Oracle ODI
5 4 (4.12%) SAP HANA
6 3 (3.09%) Big Data
6 3 (3.09%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.09%) Star Schema
7 2 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.06%) PowerPivot
8 1 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.03%) Apache Hive
8 1 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.03%) Data Mining
8 1 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.03%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.03%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.03%) Tableau
8 1 (1.03%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 5 (5.15%) JIRA
2 2 (2.06%) Hudson
2 2 (2.06%) MSI
3 1 (1.03%) Chocolatey
3 1 (1.03%) Git
3 1 (1.03%) SonarQube
General
1 40 (41.24%) Social Skills
2 15 (15.46%) Finance
3 13 (13.40%) Manufacturing
4 11 (11.34%) Retail
5 10 (10.31%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (10.31%) Public Sector
6 8 (8.25%) Banking
7 4 (4.12%) Police
8 3 (3.09%) Automotive
8 3 (3.09%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (3.09%) General Ledger
9 2 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.06%) Local Government
10 1 (1.03%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.03%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.03%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 20 (20.62%) Analyst
2 16 (16.49%) Developer
3 14 (14.43%) Consultant
4 9 (9.28%) Business Analyst
5 8 (8.25%) Architect
6 7 (7.22%) Administrator
7 6 (6.19%) 2nd Line Support
7 6 (6.19%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 6 (6.19%) Data Analyst
7 6 (6.19%) Oracle Developer
7 6 (6.19%) Senior
8 5 (5.15%) SAP Consultant
9 4 (4.12%) IT Manager
9 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Consultant
9 4 (4.12%) Oracle Consultant
9 4 (4.12%) Oracle Technical Consultant
9 4 (4.12%) Security Consultant
9 4 (4.12%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (4.12%) Technical Consultant
9 4 (4.12%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.19%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (2.06%) Software Packaging
3 1 (1.03%) .NET
3 1 (1.03%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (1.03%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (1.03%) Kafka
3 1 (1.03%) PySpark
3 1 (1.03%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.22%) Driving Licence
1 7 (7.22%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.19%) Mobile Payment
3 4 (4.12%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (4.12%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.09%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.06%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.06%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.06%) Manufacturing Execution System
5 2 (2.06%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.03%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.03%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.03%) Digital Currency
6 1 (1.03%) FMCG
6 1 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.03%) IoT
6 1 (1.03%) Mashup
6 1 (1.03%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.03%) Replication
6 1 (1.03%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.25%) Windows
2 6 (6.19%) Android
3 2 (2.06%) Linux
4 1 (1.03%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (1.03%) OpenVMS
4 1 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.03%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.03%) Windows 7
4 1 (1.03%) Windows 8
4 1 (1.03%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (52.58%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (28.87%) Continuous Improvement
3 25 (25.77%) Business Intelligence
4 22 (22.68%) Decision-Making
5 21 (21.65%) Validation
6 19 (19.59%) Data Modelling
6 19 (19.59%) Migration
7 17 (17.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 16 (16.49%) Visualisation
9 14 (14.43%) ERP
10 13 (13.40%) Agile
10 13 (13.40%) Data Migration
11 12 (12.37%) Analytics
11 12 (12.37%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (11.34%) Data Visualisation
12 11 (11.34%) Workshop Facilitation
13 10 (10.31%) AI
13 10 (10.31%) DevOps
13 10 (10.31%) ETL
13 10 (10.31%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 22 (22.68%) SQL
2 5 (5.15%) PowerShell
2 5 (5.15%) Python
3 4 (4.12%) Kusto Query Language
3 4 (4.12%) PL/SQL
4 3 (3.09%) ABAP
5 2 (2.06%) VBA
6 1 (1.03%) C#
6 1 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.03%) Java
6 1 (1.03%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.03%) R
Qualifications
1 17 (17.53%) Degree
2 13 (13.40%) Security Cleared
3 6 (6.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.09%) ACCA
4 3 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.09%) CIMA
4 3 (3.09%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.06%) CISA
5 2 (2.06%) CISSP
5 2 (2.06%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (2.06%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 1 (1.03%) AAT
6 1 (1.03%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.03%) IIBA
6 1 (1.03%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.03%) SAP Certification
6 1 (1.03%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (14.43%) Data Quality
2 11 (11.34%) GDPR
3 3 (3.09%) PMO
3 3 (3.09%) PSD2
3 3 (3.09%) QA
4 1 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.03%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 5 (5.15%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.06%) Ansible
1 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (2.06%) SCCM
2 1 (1.03%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (23.71%) Microsoft
2 21 (21.65%) SAP
3 19 (19.59%) Oracle
4 9 (9.28%) Google
5 4 (4.12%) ServiceNow
5 4 (4.12%) Workday
6 3 (3.09%) Apple
6 3 (3.09%) Samsung
7 2 (2.06%) NetApp
7 2 (2.06%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.03%) Civica
8 1 (1.03%) Databricks
8 1 (1.03%) HP
8 1 (1.03%) JD Edwards
8 1 (1.03%) Liquidlogic
8 1 (1.03%) Northgate
8 1 (1.03%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.03%) Sage