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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 12 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 96 86 60
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 6.91% 10.15% 7.89%
As % of the General category 13.99% 16.29% 13.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 70 42
10th Percentile £228 £229 £263
25th Percentile £322 £327 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £375 £394
Median % change year-on-year +31.33% -4.76% -25.00%
75th Percentile £541 £436 £534
90th Percentile £609 £576 £625
England median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -4.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.51 £15.12 £21.25
Median hourly rate £17.74 £17.06 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -24.18% +79.86%
75th Percentile £25.47 £21.25 £23.75
90th Percentile £47.50 £24.40 -
England median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +30.00% -42.77%

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 686 528 448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 49.39% 62.34% 58.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 374 270
10th Percentile £213 £214 £255
25th Percentile £352 £350 £343
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £410 £445
Median % change year-on-year +16.59% -7.87% -9.00%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £536
90th Percentile £675 £620 £619
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 36 23
10th Percentile £12.76 £15.25 £14.72
25th Percentile £13.25 £16.17 £16.05
Median hourly rate £16.46 £21.39 £18.32
Median % change year-on-year -23.05% +16.76% -33.38%
75th Percentile £25.75 £25.15 £42.45
90th Percentile £37.02 £25.83 £55.00
England median hourly rate £28.40 £25.08 £35.00
% change year-on-year +13.24% -28.36% +16.67%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 15 October 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 +4 32 £522 +45.33% 16
Leicestershire +2 20 £284 +123.05% 19
Lincolnshire +1 16 £225 -46.75% 3
Nottinghamshire -10 13 £525 +4.01% 14
Derbyshire -16 8 £563 +21.62% 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 4 (4.17%) Confluence
1 4 (4.17%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (2.08%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.04%) Apache
3 1 (1.04%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.04%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 16 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (11.46%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.08%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (5.21%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 3 (3.13%) iTrent
3 2 (2.08%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (1.04%) ContrOCC
4 1 (1.04%) SAP ERP
4 1 (1.04%) SAP FI
4 1 (1.04%) SAP FI-GL
4 1 (1.04%) SAP HCM
4 1 (1.04%) SAP HR
4 1 (1.04%) SAP IBP
4 1 (1.04%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (1.04%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 28 (29.17%) Power Platform
2 11 (11.46%) AWS
2 11 (11.46%) Azure
3 7 (7.29%) Microsoft Copilot
4 6 (6.25%) GCP
4 6 (6.25%) Power Automate
5 5 (5.21%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (3.13%) PowerApps
7 3 (3.13%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.08%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.08%) GitHub
8 2 (2.08%) OCI
9 1 (1.04%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.04%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (1.04%) Serverless
9 1 (1.04%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.13%) LAN
1 3 (3.13%) WAN
2 1 (1.04%) HTTP
2 1 (1.04%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (28.13%) Power BI
2 11 (11.46%) SQL Server
3 6 (6.25%) MySQL
4 5 (5.21%) Power Query
5 3 (3.13%) Big Data
5 3 (3.13%) Star Schema
6 2 (2.08%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.08%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.04%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.04%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.04%) Flink
7 1 (1.04%) Metadata
7 1 (1.04%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.04%) PowerPivot
7 1 (1.04%) SAP HANA
7 1 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (5.21%) JIRA
2 4 (4.17%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (2.08%) Git
4 1 (1.04%) Claude Code
4 1 (1.04%) GitLab
4 1 (1.04%) Hudson
4 1 (1.04%) MSI
4 1 (1.04%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.04%) Visual Studio
General
1 46 (47.92%) Social Skills
2 22 (22.92%) Finance
3 17 (17.71%) Manufacturing
4 13 (13.54%) Organisational Skills
5 12 (12.50%) Banking
5 12 (12.50%) Retail
6 10 (10.42%) Public Sector
7 5 (5.21%) Billing
7 5 (5.21%) Marketing
8 4 (4.17%) Automotive
8 4 (4.17%) Police
9 3 (3.13%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (3.13%) Local Government
10 2 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.04%) General Ledger
11 1 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.04%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (16.67%) Analyst
2 12 (12.50%) Developer
3 7 (7.29%) Data Analyst
4 6 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support
4 6 (6.25%) Administrator
4 6 (6.25%) Business Analyst
4 6 (6.25%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 6 (6.25%) Consultant
5 5 (5.21%) Architect
5 5 (5.21%) Coordinator
5 5 (5.21%) IT Manager
6 4 (4.17%) Lead
6 4 (4.17%) Senior
7 3 (3.13%) Data Architect
7 3 (3.13%) Data Manager
7 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Consultant
7 3 (3.13%) Principal Engineer
7 3 (3.13%) Security Consultant
7 3 (3.13%) Site Manager
8 2 (2.08%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.17%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (2.08%) Kafka
3 1 (1.04%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (1.04%) EDI
3 1 (1.04%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (1.04%) JSON
3 1 (1.04%) NumPy
3 1 (1.04%) OLE
3 1 (1.04%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (1.04%) Pandas
3 1 (1.04%) PySpark
3 1 (1.04%) pytest
3 1 (1.04%) Software Packaging
3 1 (1.04%) Spring
3 1 (1.04%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.04%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (1.04%) WCF
3 1 (1.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.25%) Driving Licence
1 6 (6.25%) Mobile Payment
2 5 (5.21%) Data Structures
2 5 (5.21%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (4.17%) Digital Currency
3 4 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.13%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.08%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.08%) Manufacturing Execution System
5 2 (2.08%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.04%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.04%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.04%) FMCG
6 1 (1.04%) NHS
6 1 (1.04%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.04%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.25%) Android
1 6 (6.25%) Windows
2 2 (2.08%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.04%) Linux
3 1 (1.04%) OpenVMS
3 1 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.04%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (60.42%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (34.38%) Continuous Improvement
3 27 (28.13%) Business Intelligence
4 26 (27.08%) Decision-Making
5 23 (23.96%) Validation
6 21 (21.88%) Process Improvement
7 19 (19.79%) ERP
8 15 (15.63%) Data Analysis
9 14 (14.58%) Data Modelling
9 14 (14.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 13 (13.54%) Actionable Insight
10 13 (13.54%) Analytics
10 13 (13.54%) Dashboard Development
10 13 (13.54%) Logistics
10 13 (13.54%) Migration
10 13 (13.54%) Project Management
11 12 (12.50%) Customer Service
11 12 (12.50%) Data Management
11 12 (12.50%) Visualisation
12 11 (11.46%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 18 (18.75%) SQL
2 10 (10.42%) Python
3 3 (3.13%) Kusto Query Language
3 3 (3.13%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (2.08%) Java
4 2 (2.08%) R
5 1 (1.04%) ABAP
5 1 (1.04%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.04%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (20.83%) Degree
2 11 (11.46%) Security Cleared
3 6 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.17%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 2 (2.08%) ACCA
5 2 (2.08%) CIMA
5 2 (2.08%) CISA
5 2 (2.08%) CISSP
5 2 (2.08%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.04%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.04%) PMP
6 1 (1.04%) SAP Certification
6 1 (1.04%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (15.63%) Data Quality
2 10 (10.42%) GDPR
3 3 (3.13%) PMO
3 3 (3.13%) PSD2
4 2 (2.08%) QA
5 1 (1.04%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.04%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.04%) ISO 9001
5 1 (1.04%) P3O
System Software
1 3 (3.13%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.08%) SCCM
2 1 (1.04%) Grafana
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.04%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (30.21%) Microsoft
2 15 (15.63%) Oracle
2 15 (15.63%) SAP
3 6 (6.25%) Google
4 5 (5.21%) JD Edwards
4 5 (5.21%) Salesforce
5 4 (4.17%) Workday
6 3 (3.13%) Apple
6 3 (3.13%) Samsung
7 1 (1.04%) Databricks
7 1 (1.04%) Liquidlogic
7 1 (1.04%) NetApp
7 1 (1.04%) Red Hat