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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 11 19
Rank change year-on-year -4 +8 -4
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 98 81 54
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 7.90% 10.63% 7.17%
As % of the General category 16.64% 17.31% 13.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 63 33
10th Percentile £263 £234 £302
25th Percentile £419 £321 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £375 £500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -25.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £539 £460 £600
90th Percentile £638 £585 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 7
10th Percentile - - £12.35
25th Percentile £13.51 £15.12 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.74 £19.00 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.66% +40.74% -55.57%
75th Percentile £24.67 £24.75 £14.76
90th Percentile £47.50 £25.80 £18.65
England median hourly rate £36.00 £32.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +10.77% +51.16% -52.22%

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 589 468 410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 47.50% 61.42% 54.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 321 267
10th Percentile £221 £219 £220
25th Percentile £394 £331 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £402 £450
Median % change year-on-year +24.38% -10.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £480 £575
90th Percentile £675 £588 £626
England median daily rate £525 £508 £538
% change year-on-year +3.45% -5.58% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 37 37
10th Percentile £12.80 £15.77 £12.75
25th Percentile £13.81 £18.38 £14.27
Median hourly rate £18.75 £23.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.48% +27.78% -64.00%
75th Percentile £27.88 £25.15 £50.71
90th Percentile £56.25 £32.99 £53.14
England median hourly rate £32.36 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +28.68% -34.02% +37.42%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 £519 +44.83% 22
Lincolnshire - 19 £262 - 21
Leicestershire 0 17 £476 +80.57% 44
Nottinghamshire -18 15 £513 -5.75% 33
Derbyshire -12 8 £519 +12.16% 30
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 5 (5.10%) Confluence
2 4 (4.08%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.02%) Apache
3 1 (1.02%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.02%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.02%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (9.18%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (4.08%) MS Visio
4 2 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (4.08%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (3.06%) iTrent
3 2 (2.04%) SAP HR
3 2 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (1.02%) ContrOCC
4 1 (1.02%) SAP ERP
4 1 (1.02%) SAP FI
4 1 (1.02%) SAP FI-GL
4 1 (1.02%) SAP HCM
4 1 (1.02%) SAP IBP
4 1 (1.02%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (1.02%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 30 (30.61%) Power Platform
2 15 (15.31%) Azure
3 12 (12.24%) AWS
4 7 (7.14%) GCP
4 7 (7.14%) Microsoft Copilot
5 6 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (5.10%) Power Automate
7 4 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (4.08%) SuccessFactors
8 3 (3.06%) OCI
9 2 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.04%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.04%) Google Sheets
9 2 (2.04%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (1.02%) Serverless
10 1 (1.02%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.06%) LAN
1 3 (3.06%) WAN
2 1 (1.02%) DNS
2 1 (1.02%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (29.59%) Power BI
2 12 (12.24%) SQL Server
3 7 (7.14%) MySQL
4 4 (4.08%) Oracle ODI
5 3 (3.06%) Big Data
5 3 (3.06%) Power Query
5 3 (3.06%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.06%) Star Schema
6 2 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.04%) PowerPivot
7 1 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.02%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.02%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.02%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.02%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.02%) SAP HANA
7 1 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.02%) Tableau
7 1 (1.02%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 7 (7.14%) JIRA
2 4 (4.08%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (1.02%) Git
3 1 (1.02%) Hudson
3 1 (1.02%) MSI
3 1 (1.02%) SonarQube
General
1 44 (44.90%) Social Skills
2 17 (17.35%) Finance
3 14 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
3 14 (14.29%) Retail
4 13 (13.27%) Manufacturing
5 12 (12.24%) Banking
6 8 (8.16%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.08%) Automotive
7 4 (4.08%) Police
8 3 (3.06%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (3.06%) General Ledger
9 2 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.02%) Local Government
10 1 (1.02%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (22.45%) Analyst
2 17 (17.35%) Developer
3 12 (12.24%) Consultant
4 9 (9.18%) Business Analyst
4 9 (9.18%) Data Analyst
5 7 (7.14%) Architect
6 6 (6.12%) 2nd Line Support
6 6 (6.12%) Administrator
6 6 (6.12%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 6 (6.12%) Lead
6 6 (6.12%) Oracle Developer
7 5 (5.10%) Senior
8 4 (4.08%) Cloud Consultant
8 4 (4.08%) Cloud Developer
8 4 (4.08%) Data Engineer
8 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Consultant
8 4 (4.08%) Oracle Consultant
8 4 (4.08%) Security Consultant
8 4 (4.08%) Technical Consultant
8 4 (4.08%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.20%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.02%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (1.02%) EDI
2 1 (1.02%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (1.02%) JSON
2 1 (1.02%) Kafka
2 1 (1.02%) NumPy
2 1 (1.02%) OLE
2 1 (1.02%) Pandas
2 1 (1.02%) PySpark
2 1 (1.02%) pytest
2 1 (1.02%) Software Packaging
2 1 (1.02%) WCF
2 1 (1.02%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.14%) Driving Licence
2 6 (6.12%) Mobile Payment
2 6 (6.12%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.08%) Digital Currency
3 4 (4.08%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (4.08%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.08%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.06%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (3.06%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.06%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.04%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.04%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 1 (1.02%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.02%) FMCG
6 1 (1.02%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.02%) Replication
6 1 (1.02%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.12%) Android
1 6 (6.12%) Windows
2 2 (2.04%) Linux
3 1 (1.02%) Data ONTAP
3 1 (1.02%) OpenVMS
3 1 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.02%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (54.08%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (31.63%) Continuous Improvement
3 29 (29.59%) Business Intelligence
4 27 (27.55%) Decision-Making
5 23 (23.47%) Validation
6 19 (19.39%) ERP
6 19 (19.39%) Migration
7 16 (16.33%) Data Analysis
7 16 (16.33%) Data Modelling
8 15 (15.31%) Analytics
8 15 (15.31%) Process Improvement
8 15 (15.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 15 (15.31%) Visualisation
9 13 (13.27%) AI
9 13 (13.27%) Data Management
9 13 (13.27%) Data Migration
10 12 (12.24%) Dashboard Development
10 12 (12.24%) Project Management
11 11 (11.22%) Actionable Insight
11 11 (11.22%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 23 (23.47%) SQL
2 6 (6.12%) Python
3 4 (4.08%) Kusto Query Language
3 4 (4.08%) PL/SQL
4 3 (3.06%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.04%) VBA
6 1 (1.02%) ABAP
6 1 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.02%) Java
6 1 (1.02%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.02%) R
Qualifications
1 19 (19.39%) Degree
2 13 (13.27%) Security Cleared
3 6 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (5.10%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 3 (3.06%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.04%) ACCA
6 2 (2.04%) CIMA
6 2 (2.04%) CISA
6 2 (2.04%) CISSP
6 2 (2.04%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.02%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.02%) PMP
7 1 (1.02%) SAP Certification
7 1 (1.02%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (19.39%) Data Quality
2 10 (10.20%) GDPR
3 3 (3.06%) PMO
3 3 (3.06%) PSD2
3 3 (3.06%) QA
4 1 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.02%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 3 (3.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.02%) Ansible
1 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (1.02%) SCCM
Vendors
1 26 (26.53%) Microsoft
2 23 (23.47%) Oracle
3 17 (17.35%) SAP
4 9 (9.18%) Google
5 5 (5.10%) Salesforce
6 4 (4.08%) Workday
7 3 (3.06%) Apple
7 3 (3.06%) Samsung
7 3 (3.06%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.04%) NetApp
9 1 (1.02%) Databricks
9 1 (1.02%) JD Edwards
9 1 (1.02%) Liquidlogic
9 1 (1.02%) Red Hat