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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 11 18
Rank change year-on-year -3 +7 0
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 75 52 53
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 8.34% 9.24% 7.25%
As % of the General category 13.44% 14.40% 14.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 38 36
10th Percentile £243 £263 £227
25th Percentile £346 £313 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £416 £519
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% -19.86% +22.06%
75th Percentile £475 £525 £664
90th Percentile £585 £604 £730
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 5
10th Percentile £15.97 £14.59 £10.76
25th Percentile £20.50 £17.09 £10.77
Median hourly rate £25.00 £22.50 £14.25
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +57.89% -39.36%
75th Percentile £26.50 £26.88 £33.25
90th Percentile £30.39 £28.75 £52.30
England median hourly rate £34.14 £26.13 £24.81
% change year-on-year +30.66% +5.31% -27.04%

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 558 361 354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 62.07% 64.12% 48.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 221 258
10th Percentile £192 £225 £160
25th Percentile £350 £310 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £425 £433
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% -1.73% -8.95%
75th Percentile £515 £530 £550
90th Percentile £613 £625 £675
England median daily rate £500 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 19 31
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.01 £12.00
25th Percentile £16.17 £17.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £22.27 £18.32 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year +21.53% -17.76% +43.71%
75th Percentile £25.11 £30.88 £51.50
90th Percentile £26.50 £42.74 -
England median hourly rate £23.33 £30.00 £30.66
% change year-on-year -22.23% -2.16% +19.26%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 11 January 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 -9 31 £380 -9.42% 36
Derbyshire +6 13 £463 +2.78% 36
Leicestershire -3 13 £128 -68.13% 44
Nottinghamshire -10 13 £545 +30.54% 57
Lincolnshire -9 3 £423 +172.58% 38
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 6 (8.00%) Confluence
2 3 (4.00%) Apache
2 3 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (12.00%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (6.67%) MS Visio
3 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (2.67%) Trello
6 1 (1.33%) Chatbot
6 1 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (1.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (10.67%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (5.33%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (1.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 5 (6.67%) Power Platform
2 4 (5.33%) AWS
3 3 (4.00%) Azure
3 3 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (4.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 2 (2.67%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (2.67%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (2.67%) Amazon S3
4 2 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (2.67%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (2.67%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.67%) PowerApps
4 2 (2.67%) Serverless
5 1 (1.33%) GCP
5 1 (1.33%) Lucidchart
5 1 (1.33%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.00%) SAN
2 2 (2.67%) DHCP
2 2 (2.67%) DNS
3 1 (1.33%) VLAN
3 1 (1.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.67%) Power BI
2 3 (4.00%) Apache Hive
2 3 (4.00%) Big Data
2 3 (4.00%) Hadoop
2 3 (4.00%) HBase
2 3 (4.00%) Metadata
2 3 (4.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (4.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (4.00%) Tableau
3 2 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.67%) Electronic Patient Records
3 2 (2.67%) Power Query
4 1 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.33%) EDMS
4 1 (1.33%) MySQL
4 1 (1.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (12.00%) JIRA
2 3 (4.00%) Git
3 2 (2.67%) Postman
4 1 (1.33%) JMeter
4 1 (1.33%) Selenium
4 1 (1.33%) SoapUI
General
1 35 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 25 (33.33%) Finance
3 9 (12.00%) Banking
4 8 (10.67%) Retail
5 5 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (6.67%) Marketing
6 4 (5.33%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (4.00%) Retail Banking
8 2 (2.67%) Law
8 2 (2.67%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.33%) Automotive
9 1 (1.33%) Bulgarian Language
9 1 (1.33%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.33%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.33%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.33%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (38.67%) Analyst
2 17 (22.67%) Business Analyst
3 6 (8.00%) Senior
4 5 (6.67%) Lead
4 5 (6.67%) Project Manager
4 5 (6.67%) Salesforce Analyst
4 5 (6.67%) Salesforce Business Analyst
4 5 (6.67%) Technical Manager
5 4 (5.33%) Payments Analyst
5 4 (5.33%) Payments Business Analyst
5 4 (5.33%) Product Owner
6 3 (4.00%) Data Analyst
6 3 (4.00%) Field Engineer
6 3 (4.00%) Field Service Engineer
6 3 (4.00%) Finance Business Analyst
6 3 (4.00%) Hadoop Developer
6 3 (4.00%) Product Manager
6 3 (4.00%) Scala Developer
6 3 (4.00%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (4.00%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.00%) Kafka
2 2 (2.67%) FHIR
3 1 (1.33%) .NET
3 1 (1.33%) CSS
3 1 (1.33%) HTML
3 1 (1.33%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 7 (9.33%) Management Information System
2 7 (9.33%) Product Ownership
3 6 (8.00%) Onboarding
4 4 (5.33%) Data Centre
5 3 (4.00%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.67%) PMI
7 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.33%) Mobile Payment
7 1 (1.33%) NHS
7 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.33%) Smartphone
7 1 (1.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.33%) Windows
2 3 (4.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (2.67%) Windows 7
3 2 (2.67%) Windows 8
4 1 (1.33%) Android
4 1 (1.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (65.33%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (33.33%) Agile
2 25 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 12 (16.00%) Change Management
3 12 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 12 (16.00%) Project Management
4 11 (14.67%) Project Delivery
4 11 (14.67%) Workshop Facilitation
5 10 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 9 (12.00%) Business Analysis
6 9 (12.00%) User Stories
7 8 (10.67%) Logistics
7 8 (10.67%) Regulatory Change
7 8 (10.67%) Requirements Gathering
8 7 (9.33%) Collaborative Working
8 7 (9.33%) Data Science
8 7 (9.33%) Process Improvement
8 7 (9.33%) Scrum
9 6 (8.00%) CRM
9 6 (8.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 9 (12.00%) SQL
2 5 (6.67%) Python
3 3 (4.00%) R
3 3 (4.00%) Scala
4 2 (2.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (2.67%) Java
4 2 (2.67%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.33%) C#
5 1 (1.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.33%) PHP
5 1 (1.33%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (16.00%) Degree
2 5 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.00%) A+ Certification
4 3 (4.00%) CCNA
4 3 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (4.00%) MCSE
4 3 (4.00%) Network+ Certification
4 3 (4.00%) PMI Certification
4 3 (4.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.67%) CBAP
5 2 (2.67%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.33%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.33%) CISA
6 1 (1.33%) CISM
6 1 (1.33%) CISSP
6 1 (1.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (1.33%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.33%) MCP
6 1 (1.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.33%) Data Quality
1 4 (5.33%) GDPR
1 4 (5.33%) PCI DSS
1 4 (5.33%) QA
2 3 (4.00%) PMO
2 3 (4.00%) PSD2
3 2 (2.67%) GRC
3 2 (2.67%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.67%) ISO 8583
4 1 (1.33%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.33%) COBIT
4 1 (1.33%) HL7
4 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (1.33%) NIST
4 1 (1.33%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.33%) SLA
4 1 (1.33%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 6 (8.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.00%) HDFS
3 2 (2.67%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (4.00%) Hadoop YARN
1 3 (4.00%) Oozie
1 3 (4.00%) SCCM
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.33%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 13 (17.33%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.33%) Salesforce
3 4 (5.33%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.00%) Dell
4 3 (4.00%) SAP
4 3 (4.00%) VMware
5 2 (2.67%) DocuSign
5 2 (2.67%) HP
6 1 (1.33%) Google
6 1 (1.33%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.33%) Oracle
6 1 (1.33%) Rapid7
6 1 (1.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.33%) Siemens
6 1 (1.33%) Workday
6 1 (1.33%) Zoho