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 17 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 14 15
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 +6
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 80 58 68
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 9.02% 8.13% 8.48%
As % of the General category 14.49% 13.98% 17.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 41 47
10th Percentile £244 £263 £269
25th Percentile £332 £313 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £378 £418 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% -20.48% +16.67%
75th Percentile £449 £525 £664
90th Percentile £534 £625 £691
England median daily rate £500 £525 £532
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.32% -3.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile - - £10.76
25th Percentile - £21.25 £10.77
Median hourly rate £15.12 £22.50 £12.51
Median % change year-on-year -32.80% +79.86% -60.29%
75th Percentile £20.81 £23.75 £26.94
90th Percentile £24.22 - £49.78
England median hourly rate £34.00 £26.06 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.46% -25.54% -12.50%

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 common skills in the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 552 415 390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 62.23% 58.20% 48.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 381 245 273
10th Percentile £210 £255 £185
25th Percentile £350 £340 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £445 £453
Median % change year-on-year -7.30% -1.77% -4.63%
75th Percentile £500 £530 £588
90th Percentile £623 £629 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 20 33
10th Percentile £15.57 £14.54 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.17 £15.10 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.94 £17.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% -38.18% +66.67%
75th Percentile £25.15 £28.90 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.83 £55.00 £69.00
England median hourly rate £24.34 £31.97 £32.00
% change year-on-year -23.87% -0.09% +24.47%

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 17 November 2025.

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
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 17 November 2025. 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 0 44 £365 -14.18% 35
Nottinghamshire +1 13 £505 +20.90% 58
Derbyshire +9 12 £444 -1.39% 26
Leicestershire -9 7 £127 -58.90% 32
Lincolnshire -11 2 £423 -48.48% 24
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 3 (3.75%) Apache
1 3 (3.75%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (3.75%) Apache Spark
1 3 (3.75%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.75%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.25%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (1.25%) Chatbot
4 1 (1.25%) InDesign
4 1 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.25%) Photoshop
4 1 (1.25%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (7.50%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (3.75%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (2.50%) Sprinklr
4 1 (1.25%) Endur
4 1 (1.25%) SAP MM
4 1 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (1.25%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 13 (16.25%) AWS
2 10 (12.50%) Azure
3 6 (7.50%) GCP
4 4 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (3.75%) Amazon EMR
5 3 (3.75%) Amazon Kinesis
5 3 (3.75%) Amazon S3
5 3 (3.75%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (3.75%) SaaS
5 3 (3.75%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 3 (3.75%) Serverless
6 2 (2.50%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.25%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.25%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.50%) Remote Desktop
1 2 (2.50%) SAN
2 1 (1.25%) DHCP
2 1 (1.25%) DNS
2 1 (1.25%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.00%) NoSQL
1 4 (5.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (3.75%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (3.75%) Apache Hive
2 3 (3.75%) Big Data
2 3 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.75%) Hadoop
2 3 (3.75%) HBase
2 3 (3.75%) Metadata
3 2 (2.50%) Electronic Patient Records
3 2 (2.50%) MySQL
3 2 (2.50%) Power BI
3 2 (2.50%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.25%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.25%) EDMS
4 1 (1.25%) Power Query
4 1 (1.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (7.50%) JIRA
2 4 (5.00%) Git
3 3 (3.75%) Selenium
4 2 (2.50%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.50%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.50%) Postman
5 1 (1.25%) Dreamweaver
5 1 (1.25%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.25%) JMeter
5 1 (1.25%) Maven
5 1 (1.25%) SoapUI
5 1 (1.25%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.25%) TeamCity
General
1 41 (51.25%) Social Skills
2 18 (22.50%) Finance
3 11 (13.75%) Banking
4 5 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (6.25%) Retail
5 4 (5.00%) Marketing
6 2 (2.50%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.50%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.25%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.25%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.25%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.25%) Legal
7 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.25%) Publishing
7 1 (1.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (28.75%) Analyst
2 17 (21.25%) Business Analyst
3 7 (8.75%) Developer
3 7 (8.75%) Product Manager
3 7 (8.75%) Product Owner
4 5 (6.25%) Consultant
4 5 (6.25%) Project Manager
4 5 (6.25%) Salesforce Analyst
4 5 (6.25%) Salesforce Business Analyst
5 4 (5.00%) Desktop Engineer
5 4 (5.00%) Desktop Support
5 4 (5.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 4 (5.00%) Lead
5 4 (5.00%) Support Engineer
5 4 (5.00%) Technical Manager
5 4 (5.00%) Windows Engineer
5 4 (5.00%) Windows Support Engineer
6 3 (3.75%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (3.75%) Finance Business Analyst
6 3 (3.75%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.50%) LDAP
2 5 (6.25%) HTML
3 4 (5.00%) Kafka
3 4 (5.00%) REST
4 3 (3.75%) .NET
4 3 (3.75%) CSS
5 2 (2.50%) .NET Framework
5 2 (2.50%) ASP.NET
5 2 (2.50%) DOM
5 2 (2.50%) FHIR
5 2 (2.50%) FIDO
5 2 (2.50%) jQuery
6 1 (1.25%) OAuth
6 1 (1.25%) pytest
6 1 (1.25%) SailPoint
6 1 (1.25%) SAP ALE
6 1 (1.25%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (1.25%) Spring
6 1 (1.25%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.25%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.75%) Analytical Mindset
2 8 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 7 (8.75%) Management Information System
4 5 (6.25%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.75%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.75%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.50%) PMI
7 1 (1.25%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.25%) Blog
7 1 (1.25%) NHS
7 1 (1.25%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.25%) Windows
2 1 (1.25%) Unix
2 1 (1.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (61.25%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (38.75%) Agile
3 23 (28.75%) Stakeholder Management
4 14 (17.50%) Project Management
5 12 (15.00%) Scrum
5 12 (15.00%) SDLC
6 10 (12.50%) Change Management
6 10 (12.50%) Project Delivery
7 9 (11.25%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (11.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 8 (10.00%) Business Analysis
8 8 (10.00%) Business Strategy
8 8 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
8 8 (10.00%) Data Analysis
8 8 (10.00%) Product Management
8 8 (10.00%) Regulatory Change
8 8 (10.00%) Risk Management
8 8 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
9 7 (8.75%) Decision-Making
9 7 (8.75%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 15 (18.75%) SQL
2 8 (10.00%) Java
3 7 (8.75%) Python
4 4 (5.00%) C#
4 4 (5.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.75%) Scala
6 2 (2.50%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.50%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.25%) PHP
7 1 (1.25%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.25%) R
7 1 (1.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.75%) Degree
3 6 (7.50%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.50%) A+ Certification
6 2 (2.50%) CBAP
6 2 (2.50%) CCNA
6 2 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (2.50%) MCSE
6 2 (2.50%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (2.50%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.25%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.25%) CISA
7 1 (1.25%) CISM
7 1 (1.25%) CISSP
7 1 (1.25%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.00%) QA
2 4 (5.00%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.00%) GDPR
2 4 (5.00%) NIST
2 4 (5.00%) PCI DSS
3 3 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.75%) NIST 800
3 3 (3.75%) PSD2
4 2 (2.50%) ISO 8583
5 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.25%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.25%) COBIT
5 1 (1.25%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.25%) HL7
5 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (1.25%) PMO
5 1 (1.25%) SLA
5 1 (1.25%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 7 (8.75%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.75%) HDFS
3 2 (2.50%) Docker
4 1 (1.25%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (3.75%) Hadoop YARN
1 3 (3.75%) Oozie
2 2 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.25%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.25%) RSA Archer
3 1 (1.25%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 10 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.25%) Salesforce
3 3 (3.75%) Oracle
4 2 (2.50%) Avaya
4 2 (2.50%) Dell
4 2 (2.50%) DocuSign
4 2 (2.50%) Genesys
4 2 (2.50%) SAP
4 2 (2.50%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.50%) VMware
5 1 (1.25%) Adobe
5 1 (1.25%) Databricks
5 1 (1.25%) Facebook
5 1 (1.25%) IBM
5 1 (1.25%) Instagram
5 1 (1.25%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.25%) Siemens
5 1 (1.25%) Workday
5 1 (1.25%) YouTube