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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 12 21
Rank change year-on-year -1 +9 -1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 93 74 57
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 8.33% 10.90% 6.54%
As % of the General category 16.73% 17.33% 12.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 55 28
10th Percentile £311 £183 £176
25th Percentile £422 £273 £312
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £375 £450
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -16.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £540 £464 £582
90th Percentile £638 £555 £788
England median daily rate £500 £507 £525
% change year-on-year -1.38% -3.43% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 5 17
10th Percentile £12.95 - £11.75
25th Percentile - £15.12 £12.13
Median hourly rate £13.51 £19.00 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.89% +40.74% -61.60%
75th Percentile £15.41 £24.75 £14.27
90th Percentile £70.10 £27.90 £15.25
England median hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year - +66.67% -45.07%

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 556 427 447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 49.82% 62.89% 51.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 283 277
10th Percentile £274 £213 £183
25th Percentile £399 £319 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £402 £425
Median % change year-on-year +22.51% -5.41% -10.53%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £575
90th Percentile £656 £538 £633
England median daily rate £520 £520 £535
% change year-on-year - -2.80% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 30 59
10th Percentile £12.97 £15.12 £12.25
25th Percentile £14.65 £18.26 £13.51
Median hourly rate £18.75 £22.20 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.52% +30.56% -32.65%
75th Percentile £25.69 £28.79 £31.88
90th Percentile £62.03 £40.06 £51.91
England median hourly rate £32.50 £28.17 £32.12
% change year-on-year +15.39% -12.30% +14.41%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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
Nottinghamshire -14 26 £481 +6.94% 32
Northamptonshire -6 22 £447 +25.47% 21
Leicestershire 0 13 £583 +45.63% 23
Derbyshire -6 11 £488 +53.91% 14
Lincolnshire -2 10 £625 +149.50% 22
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 7 (7.53%) Confluence
2 5 (5.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.08%) Apache
3 1 (1.08%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.08%) Tomcat
Applications
1 13 (13.98%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (11.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (6.45%) MS Visio
4 4 (4.30%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (4.30%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (3.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (2.15%) SAP HCM
3 2 (2.15%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (1.08%) ContrOCC
4 1 (1.08%) NEC Housing
4 1 (1.08%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (1.08%) SAP FI
4 1 (1.08%) SAP FI-GL
4 1 (1.08%) SAP HR
4 1 (1.08%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 21 (22.58%) Power Platform
2 16 (17.20%) AWS
3 13 (13.98%) Azure
4 10 (10.75%) GCP
5 8 (8.60%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (4.30%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.23%) Google Sheets
7 3 (3.23%) OCI
8 2 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.15%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.08%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.08%) Lucidchart
9 1 (1.08%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.08%) Serverless
9 1 (1.08%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.08%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.08%) DNS
1 1 (1.08%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (21.51%) Power BI
2 11 (11.83%) SQL Server
3 10 (10.75%) MySQL
4 5 (5.38%) Power Query
5 4 (4.30%) Oracle ODI
6 3 (3.23%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.23%) SAP HANA
7 2 (2.15%) Big Data
7 2 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.15%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.15%) PowerPivot
7 2 (2.15%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.08%) Data Mining
8 1 (1.08%) Flink
8 1 (1.08%) Metadata
8 1 (1.08%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (1.08%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.08%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 8 (8.60%) JIRA
2 2 (2.15%) Hudson
2 2 (2.15%) MSI
3 1 (1.08%) Chocolatey
3 1 (1.08%) Git
3 1 (1.08%) SonarQube
General
1 38 (40.86%) Social Skills
2 17 (18.28%) Finance
3 14 (15.05%) Retail
4 8 (8.60%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (7.53%) Banking
6 6 (6.45%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (6.45%) Manufacturing
6 6 (6.45%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.30%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (3.23%) General Ledger
8 3 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.15%) Local Government
9 2 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.15%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.08%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.08%) Automotive
10 1 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.08%) Marketing
10 1 (1.08%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 26 (27.96%) Analyst
2 13 (13.98%) Consultant
3 12 (12.90%) Business Analyst
4 10 (10.75%) Architect
5 9 (9.68%) 2nd Line Support
6 8 (8.60%) Developer
6 8 (8.60%) Senior
7 6 (6.45%) Oracle Developer
7 6 (6.45%) Senior Analyst
8 5 (5.38%) Data Analyst
9 4 (4.30%) Administrator
9 4 (4.30%) Cloud Developer
9 4 (4.30%) Microsoft Consultant
9 4 (4.30%) Oracle Consultant
9 4 (4.30%) Oracle Technical Consultant
9 4 (4.30%) PMO Analyst
9 4 (4.30%) SAP Consultant
9 4 (4.30%) Security Consultant
9 4 (4.30%) Technical Consultant
9 4 (4.30%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.45%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (2.15%) Software Packaging
3 1 (1.08%) .NET
3 1 (1.08%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (1.08%) CSS
3 1 (1.08%) HTML
3 1 (1.08%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (1.08%) Kafka
3 1 (1.08%) PySpark
3 1 (1.08%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.68%) Mobile Payment
2 7 (7.53%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.30%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (3.23%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.15%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.15%) EMV
5 2 (2.15%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.15%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.08%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.08%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.08%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.08%) IoT
6 1 (1.08%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 1 (1.08%) Mashup
6 1 (1.08%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.08%) Replication
6 1 (1.08%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.68%) Android
2 7 (7.53%) Windows
3 3 (3.23%) Windows 10
3 3 (3.23%) Windows 7
3 3 (3.23%) Windows 8
4 2 (2.15%) Linux
5 1 (1.08%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (1.08%) OpenVMS
5 1 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.08%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.08%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (46.24%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (23.66%) Business Intelligence
2 22 (23.66%) Stakeholder Management
3 20 (21.51%) Decision-Making
4 18 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
5 17 (18.28%) Agile
5 17 (18.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 16 (17.20%) Workshop Facilitation
7 15 (16.13%) Validation
8 14 (15.05%) Data Modelling
8 14 (15.05%) Migration
9 13 (13.98%) Analytics
10 12 (12.90%) ERP
10 12 (12.90%) Service Delivery
11 11 (11.83%) ETL
11 11 (11.83%) Project Management
11 11 (11.83%) Roadmaps
12 10 (10.75%) Project Delivery
13 9 (9.68%) Analytical Thinking
13 9 (9.68%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (22.58%) SQL
2 5 (5.38%) PowerShell
2 5 (5.38%) Python
3 4 (4.30%) Kusto Query Language
3 4 (4.30%) PL/SQL
4 2 (2.15%) ABAP
4 2 (2.15%) Java
4 2 (2.15%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.15%) VBA
5 1 (1.08%) C#
5 1 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 10 (10.75%) Degree
2 6 (6.45%) BPSS Clearance
2 6 (6.45%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.23%) ACCA
3 3 (3.23%) CIMA
3 3 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.15%) CISA
4 2 (2.15%) CISSP
4 2 (2.15%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.15%) Oracle Certification
4 2 (2.15%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.08%) AAT
5 1 (1.08%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.08%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.08%) IIBA
5 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.08%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.08%) PMP
5 1 (1.08%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 1 (1.08%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.83%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.53%) GDPR
3 5 (5.38%) PMO
3 5 (5.38%) PSD2
4 2 (2.15%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.15%) QA
5 1 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.08%) HIPAA
System Software
1 8 (8.60%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.30%) SCCM
2 2 (2.15%) Ansible
2 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.08%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (17.20%) Microsoft
2 15 (16.13%) SAP
3 13 (13.98%) Google
4 10 (10.75%) Oracle
5 4 (4.30%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.23%) BiZZdesign
6 3 (3.23%) HP
6 3 (3.23%) Sparx
7 2 (2.15%) NetApp
7 2 (2.15%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.08%) Apple
8 1 (1.08%) Civica
8 1 (1.08%) JD Edwards
8 1 (1.08%) Liquidlogic
8 1 (1.08%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.08%) Northgate
8 1 (1.08%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.08%) Sage
8 1 (1.08%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (1.08%) TSYS