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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 13 20
Rank change year-on-year 0 +7 0
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 97 81 51
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 8.27% 10.45% 6.61%
As % of the General category 17.02% 17.31% 12.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 61 30
10th Percentile £263 £200 £274
25th Percentile £422 £308 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £375 £450
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -16.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £544 £469 £577
90th Percentile £639 £588 £788
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 5 8
10th Percentile - - £10.85
25th Percentile £13.51 £15.12 £12.50
Median hourly rate £17.97 £19.00 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +40.74% -33.56%
75th Percentile £47.50 £24.75 £14.52
90th Percentile £84.05 £25.80 £15.55
England median hourly rate £38.36 £32.50 £22.25
% change year-on-year +18.03% +46.07% -44.38%

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 570 468 405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 48.59% 60.39% 52.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 319 268
10th Percentile £218 £212 £200
25th Percentile £393 £324 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £402 £445
Median % change year-on-year +24.38% -9.66% -6.32%
75th Percentile £588 £488 £550
90th Percentile £675 £570 £624
England median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 37 40
10th Percentile £13.14 £15.20 £12.40
25th Percentile £14.65 £18.50 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.75 £24.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.47% +40.00% -60.45%
75th Percentile £30.25 £25.15 £44.67
90th Percentile £57.13 £37.80 £52.01
England median hourly rate £33.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +33.20% -34.02% +32.59%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 +3 23 £509 +41.46% 32
Lincolnshire - 20 £300 - 19
Nottinghamshire -16 18 £525 +5.00% 37
Leicestershire +3 17 £483 +20.63% 34
Derbyshire -11 8 £488 +53.91% 27
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 (3.09%) Confluence
2 1 (1.03%) Apache
2 1 (1.03%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.03%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (1.03%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (14.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (9.28%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.09%) MS Visio
4 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (4.12%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (3.09%) iTrent
2 3 (3.09%) SAP HCM
2 3 (3.09%) SAP Payroll
2 3 (3.09%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (2.06%) SAP HR
4 1 (1.03%) ContrOCC
4 1 (1.03%) NEC Housing
4 1 (1.03%) SAP ERP
4 1 (1.03%) SAP FI
4 1 (1.03%) SAP FI-GL
4 1 (1.03%) SAP IBP
4 1 (1.03%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 28 (28.87%) Power Platform
2 17 (17.53%) Azure
3 12 (12.37%) AWS
4 7 (7.22%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (7.22%) GCP
5 4 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Copilot
5 4 (4.12%) SuccessFactors
6 3 (3.09%) Entra ID
6 3 (3.09%) OCI
7 2 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.06%) Google Sheets
7 2 (2.06%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.06%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.03%) Serverless
8 1 (1.03%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.09%) LAN
1 3 (3.09%) WAN
2 1 (1.03%) DNS
2 1 (1.03%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (27.84%) Power BI
2 12 (12.37%) SQL Server
3 7 (7.22%) MySQL
4 5 (5.15%) Power Query
5 4 (4.12%) Oracle ODI
5 4 (4.12%) SAP HANA
6 3 (3.09%) Big Data
6 3 (3.09%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.09%) Star Schema
7 2 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.06%) PowerPivot
8 1 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.03%) Apache Hive
8 1 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.03%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.03%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.03%) Tableau
8 1 (1.03%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 4 (4.12%) JIRA
2 2 (2.06%) Hudson
2 2 (2.06%) MSI
3 1 (1.03%) Chocolatey
3 1 (1.03%) Git
3 1 (1.03%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (1.03%) SonarQube
General
1 41 (42.27%) Social Skills
2 15 (15.46%) Finance
3 14 (14.43%) Manufacturing
4 12 (12.37%) Retail
5 11 (11.34%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (10.31%) Public Sector
7 9 (9.28%) Banking
8 4 (4.12%) Automotive
8 4 (4.12%) Police
9 3 (3.09%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (3.09%) General Ledger
10 2 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.06%) Local Government
11 1 (1.03%) Aerospace
11 1 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.03%) Retail Banking
11 1 (1.03%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 20 (20.62%) Analyst
2 16 (16.49%) Developer
3 14 (14.43%) Consultant
4 8 (8.25%) Architect
4 8 (8.25%) Data Analyst
5 7 (7.22%) Administrator
5 7 (7.22%) Business Analyst
6 6 (6.19%) 2nd Line Support
6 6 (6.19%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 6 (6.19%) Oracle Developer
6 6 (6.19%) Senior
7 5 (5.15%) Lead
7 5 (5.15%) SAP Consultant
8 4 (4.12%) IT Manager
8 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Consultant
8 4 (4.12%) Oracle Consultant
8 4 (4.12%) Oracle Technical Consultant
8 4 (4.12%) Security Consultant
8 4 (4.12%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (4.12%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.22%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (2.06%) Software Packaging
3 1 (1.03%) .NET
3 1 (1.03%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (1.03%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (1.03%) Kafka
3 1 (1.03%) PySpark
3 1 (1.03%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.22%) Driving Licence
2 6 (6.19%) Mobile Payment
3 5 (5.15%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.12%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.09%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (3.09%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.09%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.06%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.06%) Digital Currency
6 2 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.06%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 2 (2.06%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.03%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.03%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.03%) FMCG
7 1 (1.03%) IoT
7 1 (1.03%) Mashup
7 1 (1.03%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.03%) Replication
7 1 (1.03%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.22%) Windows
2 6 (6.19%) Android
3 2 (2.06%) Linux
4 1 (1.03%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (1.03%) OpenVMS
4 1 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.03%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (53.61%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (29.90%) Continuous Improvement
3 27 (27.84%) Business Intelligence
4 23 (23.71%) Decision-Making
5 22 (22.68%) Validation
6 19 (19.59%) Data Modelling
6 19 (19.59%) Migration
7 16 (16.49%) ERP
7 16 (16.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 16 (16.49%) Visualisation
8 13 (13.40%) Analytics
8 13 (13.40%) Data Migration
9 11 (11.34%) Agile
9 11 (11.34%) Data Analysis
9 11 (11.34%) Data Visualisation
10 10 (10.31%) AI
10 10 (10.31%) Data Management
10 10 (10.31%) ETL
10 10 (10.31%) Project Management
10 10 (10.31%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (23.71%) SQL
2 5 (5.15%) PowerShell
2 5 (5.15%) Python
3 4 (4.12%) Kusto Query Language
3 4 (4.12%) PL/SQL
4 3 (3.09%) ABAP
5 2 (2.06%) VBA
6 1 (1.03%) C#
6 1 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.03%) Java
6 1 (1.03%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.03%) R
Qualifications
1 17 (17.53%) Degree
2 13 (13.40%) Security Cleared
3 6 (6.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.09%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.09%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 2 (2.06%) ACCA
5 2 (2.06%) CIMA
5 2 (2.06%) CISA
5 2 (2.06%) CISSP
5 2 (2.06%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.03%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.03%) SAP Certification
6 1 (1.03%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (17.53%) Data Quality
2 11 (11.34%) GDPR
3 3 (3.09%) PMO
3 3 (3.09%) PSD2
3 3 (3.09%) QA
4 1 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.03%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 4 (4.12%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.06%) Ansible
1 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.03%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.03%) SCCM
2 1 (1.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (23.71%) Microsoft
2 20 (20.62%) Oracle
2 20 (20.62%) SAP
3 9 (9.28%) Google
4 4 (4.12%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.12%) Workday
5 3 (3.09%) Apple
5 3 (3.09%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.09%) Samsung
6 2 (2.06%) NetApp
7 1 (1.03%) Civica
7 1 (1.03%) Databricks
7 1 (1.03%) JD Edwards
7 1 (1.03%) Liquidlogic
7 1 (1.03%) Northgate
7 1 (1.03%) Red Hat