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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 12 22
Rank change year-on-year -1 +10 -3
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 103 74 60
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 8.97% 10.24% 6.95%
As % of the General category 18.10% 16.93% 13.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 57 30
10th Percentile £293 £188 £179
25th Percentile £404 £270 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £375 £450
Median % change year-on-year +32.67% -16.67% -2.70%
75th Percentile £538 £459 £577
90th Percentile £636 £551 £788
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 4 17
10th Percentile £13.23 - £11.75
25th Percentile £13.51 £15.12 £12.13
Median hourly rate £13.99 £17.06 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.98% +26.37% -61.60%
75th Percentile £20.20 £20.81 £14.27
90th Percentile £65.38 £23.18 £15.25
England median hourly rate £35.50 £32.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.67% -51.25%

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 569 437 457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 49.56% 60.44% 52.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 289 286
10th Percentile £263 £213 £185
25th Percentile £399 £320 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £402 £425
Median % change year-on-year +24.38% -5.41% -10.53%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £573
90th Percentile £668 £545 £634
England median daily rate £525 £515 £533
% change year-on-year +1.94% -3.38% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 32 56
10th Percentile £13.01 £15.13 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.65 £18.34 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.75 £21.39 £15.82
Median % change year-on-year -12.34% +35.25% -42.49%
75th Percentile £26.34 £25.15 £35.00
90th Percentile £59.15 £38.77 £51.91
England median hourly rate £33.06 £27.13 £33.00
% change year-on-year +21.88% -17.80% +10.00%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -2 27 £447 +25.92% 21
Nottinghamshire -10 24 £500 +11.11% 36
Leicestershire +4 16 £520 +30.00% 28
Lincolnshire +1 16 £475 +89.62% 22
Derbyshire -11 9 £488 +53.91% 17
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 (5.83%) Confluence
2 4 (3.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.97%) Apache
3 1 (0.97%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.97%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (11.65%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (9.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (3.88%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (3.88%) MS Visio
4 3 (2.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (3.88%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.91%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (1.94%) iTrent
3 2 (1.94%) SAP HCM
3 2 (1.94%) SAP HR
3 2 (1.94%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.97%) ContrOCC
4 1 (0.97%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.97%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.97%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.97%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.97%) SAP FI-GL
4 1 (0.97%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.97%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 26 (25.24%) Power Platform
2 17 (16.50%) Azure
3 16 (15.53%) AWS
4 9 (8.74%) GCP
5 7 (6.80%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (5.83%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (3.88%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.91%) Google Sheets
8 3 (2.91%) OCI
8 3 (2.91%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (1.94%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.97%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.97%) Lucidchart
10 1 (0.97%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.97%) Serverless
10 1 (0.97%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.94%) LAN
1 2 (1.94%) WAN
2 1 (0.97%) DNS
2 1 (0.97%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (24.27%) Power BI
2 13 (12.62%) SQL Server
3 9 (8.74%) MySQL
4 5 (4.85%) Power Query
5 4 (3.88%) Oracle ODI
6 3 (2.91%) Big Data
6 3 (2.91%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.91%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.91%) SAP HANA
6 3 (2.91%) Star Schema
7 2 (1.94%) Metadata
7 2 (1.94%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.94%) PowerPivot
8 1 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.97%) Flink
8 1 (0.97%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (0.97%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (6.80%) JIRA
2 2 (1.94%) Hudson
2 2 (1.94%) MSI
3 1 (0.97%) Chocolatey
3 1 (0.97%) Git
3 1 (0.97%) SonarQube
General
1 41 (39.81%) Social Skills
2 18 (17.48%) Finance
3 14 (13.59%) Retail
4 10 (9.71%) Manufacturing
4 10 (9.71%) Public Sector
5 9 (8.74%) Banking
5 9 (8.74%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (3.88%) Corporate Banking
6 4 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.91%) General Ledger
7 3 (2.91%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.91%) Police
8 2 (1.94%) Automotive
8 2 (1.94%) Local Government
8 2 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.97%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.97%) Marketing
9 1 (0.97%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.97%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 23 (22.33%) Analyst
2 14 (13.59%) Developer
3 13 (12.62%) Consultant
4 12 (11.65%) Architect
5 10 (9.71%) Business Analyst
6 8 (7.77%) 2nd Line Support
7 6 (5.83%) Administrator
7 6 (5.83%) Oracle Developer
7 6 (5.83%) Senior
8 5 (4.85%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 5 (4.85%) Data Analyst
8 5 (4.85%) Data Architect
9 4 (3.88%) Lead
9 4 (3.88%) Microsoft Consultant
9 4 (3.88%) Oracle Consultant
9 4 (3.88%) Oracle Technical Consultant
9 4 (3.88%) SAP Consultant
9 4 (3.88%) Security Consultant
9 4 (3.88%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (3.88%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.83%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (1.94%) Software Packaging
3 1 (0.97%) .NET
3 1 (0.97%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (0.97%) CSS
3 1 (0.97%) HTML
3 1 (0.97%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (0.97%) Kafka
3 1 (0.97%) PySpark
3 1 (0.97%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.77%) Mobile Payment
2 7 (6.80%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.85%) Driving Licence
4 4 (3.88%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.91%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.94%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.94%) EMV
6 2 (1.94%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.94%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 2 (1.94%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.97%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.97%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.97%) FMCG
7 1 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.97%) IoT
7 1 (0.97%) Mashup
7 1 (0.97%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.97%) Replication
7 1 (0.97%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.77%) Android
1 8 (7.77%) Windows
2 2 (1.94%) Linux
2 2 (1.94%) Windows 10
2 2 (1.94%) Windows 7
2 2 (1.94%) Windows 8
3 1 (0.97%) Data ONTAP
3 1 (0.97%) OpenVMS
3 1 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.97%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.97%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (49.51%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (26.21%) Business Intelligence
3 25 (24.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 22 (21.36%) Decision-Making
4 22 (21.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 21 (20.39%) Data Modelling
6 20 (19.42%) Stakeholder Management
7 19 (18.45%) Validation
8 18 (17.48%) Migration
9 17 (16.50%) Agile
10 15 (14.56%) Visualisation
10 15 (14.56%) Workshop Facilitation
11 14 (13.59%) Analytics
12 13 (12.62%) ERP
12 13 (12.62%) ETL
13 12 (11.65%) Data Migration
14 11 (10.68%) Data Visualisation
14 11 (10.68%) Service Delivery
15 10 (9.71%) AI
15 10 (9.71%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (23.30%) SQL
2 7 (6.80%) Python
3 5 (4.85%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.88%) Kusto Query Language
4 4 (3.88%) PL/SQL
5 3 (2.91%) Java
6 2 (1.94%) ABAP
6 2 (1.94%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.94%) VBA
7 1 (0.97%) C#
7 1 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.97%) R
Qualifications
1 18 (17.48%) Degree
2 13 (12.62%) Security Cleared
3 7 (6.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (4.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.91%) ACCA
5 3 (2.91%) CIMA
5 3 (2.91%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.94%) CISA
6 2 (1.94%) CISSP
6 2 (1.94%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.94%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (1.94%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 1 (0.97%) AAT
7 1 (0.97%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.97%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.97%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.97%) PMP
7 1 (0.97%) SAP Certification
7 1 (0.97%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.65%) Data Quality
2 11 (10.68%) GDPR
3 5 (4.85%) PSD2
4 3 (2.91%) PMO
4 3 (2.91%) QA
5 2 (1.94%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.97%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.97%) HIPAA
System Software
1 7 (6.80%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.97%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.91%) SCCM
2 2 (1.94%) Ansible
2 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.97%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.97%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (21.36%) Microsoft
2 19 (18.45%) SAP
3 17 (16.50%) Oracle
4 12 (11.65%) Google
5 4 (3.88%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.91%) Apple
6 3 (2.91%) BiZZdesign
6 3 (2.91%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.91%) Sparx
6 3 (2.91%) Workday
7 2 (1.94%) HP
7 2 (1.94%) NetApp
7 2 (1.94%) Samsung
8 1 (0.97%) Civica
8 1 (0.97%) JD Edwards
8 1 (0.97%) Liquidlogic
8 1 (0.97%) Northgate
8 1 (0.97%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.97%) Sage
8 1 (0.97%) TSYS