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 19 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 14 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 +6
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 82 66 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 10.39% 8.25% 9.28%
As % of the General category 17.01% 14.35% 18.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 43 57
10th Percentile £227 £284 £250
25th Percentile £328 £348 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £460 £586 £638
90th Percentile £588 £712 £668
England median daily rate £500 £520 £535
% change year-on-year -3.85% -2.80% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 3
10th Percentile - £12.35 £10.75
25th Percentile £15.12 £12.75 £10.76
Median hourly rate £19.00 £13.50 £10.77
Median % change year-on-year +40.74% +25.35% -65.81%
75th Percentile £24.75 £14.76 £37.89
90th Percentile £25.80 £18.65 £54.15
England median hourly rate £32.50 £22.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +44.44% -50.00% +28.57%

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 482 460 423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 61.09% 57.50% 49.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 334 274 289
10th Percentile £213 £257 £237
25th Percentile £331 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £487 £575 £638
90th Percentile £589 £629 £739
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 36 27
10th Percentile £15.25 £12.75 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.17 £14.56 £15.96
Median hourly rate £21.39 £17.00 £31.76
Median % change year-on-year +25.82% -46.47% +64.99%
75th Percentile £25.15 £44.97 £51.50
90th Percentile £30.30 £53.45 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.50 £29.75
% change year-on-year -34.68% +29.41% +20.01%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Analytical Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 +1 42 £359 -10.25% 57
Derbyshire +13 16 £463 +2.78% 40
Nottinghamshire -1 15 £544 +8.75% 56
Leicestershire -2 8 £127 -60.09% 47
Analytical Skills
England

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (4.88%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.66%) Apache
2 3 (3.66%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.66%) Confluence
3 1 (1.22%) MS Project Server
3 1 (1.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.22%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (1.22%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.22%) InDesign
3 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.22%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.22%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (4.88%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (3.66%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (2.44%) Sprinklr
4 1 (1.22%) Endur
4 1 (1.22%) Primavera
4 1 (1.22%) SAP MDG
4 1 (1.22%) SAP MM
4 1 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (1.22%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 14 (17.07%) AWS
2 10 (12.20%) Azure
3 7 (8.54%) GCP
4 3 (3.66%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (3.66%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.66%) SaaS
4 3 (3.66%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 2 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.22%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (1.22%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.22%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.22%) Azure Batch
6 1 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.22%) GitHub
6 1 (1.22%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.22%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.22%) Serverless
6 1 (1.22%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.44%) Remote Desktop
1 2 (2.44%) SAN
2 1 (1.22%) Firewall
2 1 (1.22%) LAN
2 1 (1.22%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.88%) Hadoop
1 4 (4.88%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.66%) Apache Hive
2 3 (3.66%) Big Data
2 3 (3.66%) HBase
2 3 (3.66%) Metadata
2 3 (3.66%) Power BI
3 2 (2.44%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.44%) MySQL
3 2 (2.44%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.44%) Tableau
4 1 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (9.76%) Jenkins
1 8 (9.76%) Selenium
2 7 (8.54%) Cucumber
3 4 (4.88%) Git
3 4 (4.88%) JIRA
4 2 (2.44%) Postman
5 1 (1.22%) Dreamweaver
5 1 (1.22%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.22%) JMeter
5 1 (1.22%) Maven
5 1 (1.22%) SoapUI
5 1 (1.22%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.22%) TeamCity
General
1 38 (46.34%) Social Skills
2 19 (23.17%) Finance
3 18 (21.95%) Banking
4 6 (7.32%) Manufacturing
5 5 (6.10%) Retail
6 4 (4.88%) Marketing
7 2 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.22%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.22%) Games
8 1 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.22%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.22%) Legal
8 1 (1.22%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.22%) Publishing
8 1 (1.22%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (21.95%) Analyst
2 14 (17.07%) Business Analyst
3 7 (8.54%) Automation Tester
3 7 (8.54%) Developer
3 7 (8.54%) Product Manager
3 7 (8.54%) Tester
4 6 (7.32%) Consultant
4 6 (7.32%) Product Owner
5 5 (6.10%) Junior
5 5 (6.10%) Salesforce Analyst
5 5 (6.10%) Salesforce Business Analyst
5 5 (6.10%) Support Engineer
6 4 (4.88%) Data Analyst
6 4 (4.88%) Desktop Engineer
6 4 (4.88%) Desktop Support
6 4 (4.88%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 4 (4.88%) Project Manager
6 4 (4.88%) Technical Manager
6 4 (4.88%) Windows Engineer
6 4 (4.88%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.98%) HTML
2 7 (8.54%) jQuery
3 6 (7.32%) DOM
3 6 (7.32%) LDAP
4 4 (4.88%) Kafka
4 4 (4.88%) REST
5 3 (3.66%) .NET
5 3 (3.66%) CSS
6 2 (2.44%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.44%) ASP.NET
6 2 (2.44%) FIDO
7 1 (1.22%) BAPI
7 1 (1.22%) Hibernate
7 1 (1.22%) pytest
7 1 (1.22%) RAML
7 1 (1.22%) SAML
7 1 (1.22%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (1.22%) Spring
7 1 (1.22%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.22%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.76%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (6.10%) Management Information System
2 5 (6.10%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.66%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.66%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (2.44%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.44%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.22%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.22%) Blog
5 1 (1.22%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.22%) EPoS
5 1 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.22%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.22%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.88%) Windows
2 1 (1.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (53.66%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (36.59%) Agile
3 20 (24.39%) Stakeholder Management
4 15 (18.29%) Project Management
5 12 (14.63%) SDLC
6 10 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (12.20%) Scrum
7 8 (9.76%) Business Strategy
7 8 (9.76%) Data Analysis
7 8 (9.76%) Product Management
7 8 (9.76%) Risk Management
7 8 (9.76%) Roadmaps
7 8 (9.76%) Test Automation
8 7 (8.54%) Analytics
8 7 (8.54%) Decision-Making
8 7 (8.54%) Digital Identity
8 7 (8.54%) Identity Access Management
8 7 (8.54%) Project Delivery
8 7 (8.54%) Sprint Planning
8 7 (8.54%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 16 (19.51%) SQL
2 13 (15.85%) Java
3 8 (9.76%) Python
4 4 (4.88%) C#
4 4 (4.88%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.66%) Scala
6 2 (2.44%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.44%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.22%) Bash
7 1 (1.22%) Bicep
7 1 (1.22%) PHP
7 1 (1.22%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.22%) R
7 1 (1.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (9.76%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.54%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.10%) Degree
4 3 (3.66%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.66%) CCNA
4 3 (3.66%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.66%) Network+ Certification
5 2 (2.44%) A+ Certification
5 2 (2.44%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (2.44%) MCSE
5 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.22%) CCENT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.20%) QA
2 6 (7.32%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.88%) GDPR
4 3 (3.66%) NIST
5 2 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.44%) NIST 800
5 2 (2.44%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.22%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (1.22%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.22%) PMO
6 1 (1.22%) PSD2
6 1 (1.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 7 (8.54%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.66%) Docker
2 3 (3.66%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (3.66%) Hadoop YARN
1 3 (3.66%) Oozie
2 2 (2.44%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.22%) Terraform
3 1 (1.22%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 10 (12.20%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.10%) Salesforce
3 4 (4.88%) Oracle
4 2 (2.44%) Avaya
4 2 (2.44%) Dell
4 2 (2.44%) DocuSign
4 2 (2.44%) Genesys
4 2 (2.44%) SAP
4 2 (2.44%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.22%) Adobe
5 1 (1.22%) Databricks
5 1 (1.22%) Facebook
5 1 (1.22%) IBM
5 1 (1.22%) Informatica
5 1 (1.22%) Instagram
5 1 (1.22%) Siemens
5 1 (1.22%) Twitter
5 1 (1.22%) VMware
5 1 (1.22%) YouTube