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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 12 17
Rank change year-on-year -4 +5 +8
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 81 53 62
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 8.42% 9.35% 7.94%
As % of the General category 14.09% 13.98% 15.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 40 37
10th Percentile £199 £261 £195
25th Percentile £331 £314 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £414 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.90% -19.22% +20.59%
75th Percentile £475 £531 £664
90th Percentile £541 £599 £715
England median daily rate £500 £525 £529
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.71% -3.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 13
10th Percentile - £14.59 £11.83
25th Percentile £12.95 £17.09 £12.13
Median hourly rate £17.54 £22.50 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.06% +60.71% -40.43%
75th Percentile £25.09 £26.88 £14.27
90th Percentile £29.30 £28.75 £29.65
England median hourly rate £30.11 £26.13 £21.50
% change year-on-year +15.23% +21.51% -44.87%

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 575 379 397
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 59.77% 66.84% 50.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 360 231 280
10th Percentile £199 £250 £160
25th Percentile £348 £333 £251
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £424 £444 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +4.47% -7.86%
75th Percentile £525 £530 £550
90th Percentile £590 £603 £660
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 16 42
10th Percentile £12.95 £14.88 £12.13
25th Percentile £15.97 £17.00 £14.06
Median hourly rate £18.44 £19.75 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.66% +12.86% +12.90%
75th Percentile £24.62 £32.26 £32.13
90th Percentile £26.88 £47.34 £51.50
England median hourly rate £22.54 £30.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -24.88% +15.38% +0.30%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 -8 35 £400 -4.65% 17
Nottinghamshire -12 16 £363 -13.17% 37
Derbyshire +6 13 £469 +4.17% 12
Leicestershire -2 12 £289 -3.75% 26
Lincolnshire -8 3 £423 +108.38% 18
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 9 (11.11%) Confluence
2 6 (7.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.70%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.23%) Apache
4 1 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.23%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 12 (14.81%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (7.41%) MS Visio
3 5 (6.17%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (2.47%) Trello
6 1 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (9.88%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (3.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (2.47%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (1.23%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 8 (9.88%) AWS
2 6 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (7.41%) Power Platform
3 4 (4.94%) Azure
4 3 (3.70%) Entra ID
4 3 (3.70%) GCP
5 2 (2.47%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (2.47%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (2.47%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (2.47%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (2.47%) PowerApps
5 2 (2.47%) Serverless
6 1 (1.23%) Google Sheets
6 1 (1.23%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.23%) Lucidchart
6 1 (1.23%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.70%) SAN
2 2 (2.47%) DHCP
2 2 (2.47%) DNS
3 1 (1.23%) VLAN
3 1 (1.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.41%) Power BI
2 4 (4.94%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.70%) MySQL
3 3 (3.70%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.70%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.70%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.47%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.47%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.47%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (2.47%) Metadata
4 2 (2.47%) Power Query
4 2 (2.47%) Tableau
5 1 (1.23%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.23%) Big Data
5 1 (1.23%) EDMS
5 1 (1.23%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.23%) HBase
5 1 (1.23%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 12 (14.81%) JIRA
2 1 (1.23%) Git
2 1 (1.23%) Postman
2 1 (1.23%) SoapUI
General
1 36 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 22 (27.16%) Finance
3 10 (12.35%) Retail
4 7 (8.64%) Banking
4 7 (8.64%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (4.94%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.70%) Marketing
6 3 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.47%) Law
7 2 (2.47%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.47%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.23%) Automotive
8 1 (1.23%) Bulgarian Language
8 1 (1.23%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.23%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.23%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (34.57%) Analyst
2 17 (20.99%) Business Analyst
3 6 (7.41%) Architect
4 5 (6.17%) Lead
4 5 (6.17%) Project Manager
4 5 (6.17%) Senior
5 4 (4.94%) Deskside Support
5 4 (4.94%) Desktop Support
5 4 (4.94%) IT Support
5 4 (4.94%) Payments Analyst
5 4 (4.94%) Payments Business Analyst
5 4 (4.94%) Product Manager
5 4 (4.94%) Product Owner
6 3 (3.70%) Banking Analyst
6 3 (3.70%) Banking Business Analyst
6 3 (3.70%) Field Engineer
6 3 (3.70%) Field Service Engineer
6 3 (3.70%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (3.70%) Senior Business Analyst
6 3 (3.70%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.47%) CSS
1 2 (2.47%) FHIR
1 2 (2.47%) HTML
2 1 (1.23%) Kafka
2 1 (1.23%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.05%) Analytical Mindset
2 9 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 6 (7.41%) Onboarding
4 5 (6.17%) Management Information System
5 4 (4.94%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.70%) Mobile Payment
7 2 (2.47%) EMV
7 2 (2.47%) PMI
8 1 (1.23%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.23%) NHS
8 1 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.23%) Smartphone
8 1 (1.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.41%) Windows
2 5 (6.17%) Windows 10
3 4 (4.94%) Windows 7
3 4 (4.94%) Windows 8
4 3 (3.70%) Android
5 1 (1.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (40.74%) Stakeholder Management
3 27 (33.33%) Agile
4 16 (19.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 16 (19.75%) Workshop Facilitation
5 15 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (17.28%) Change Management
6 14 (17.28%) Project Delivery
7 10 (12.35%) User Stories
8 9 (11.11%) Logistics
8 9 (11.11%) Project Management
8 9 (11.11%) Roadmaps
8 9 (11.11%) Scrum
9 8 (9.88%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (9.88%) Regulatory Change
9 8 (9.88%) Requirements Gathering
10 7 (8.64%) Data Modelling
10 7 (8.64%) ITIL
10 7 (8.64%) Process Improvement
10 7 (8.64%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (13.58%) SQL
2 6 (7.41%) Python
3 4 (4.94%) Java
4 2 (2.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (2.47%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.47%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.47%) R
5 1 (1.23%) Scala
5 1 (1.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (18.52%) Degree
2 6 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (7.41%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (4.94%) PMI Certification
3 4 (4.94%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.70%) A+ Certification
4 3 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.70%) CCNA
4 3 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (3.70%) MCSE
4 3 (3.70%) Network+ Certification
5 2 (2.47%) CBAP
5 2 (2.47%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.47%) PMP
5 2 (2.47%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.23%) AAT
6 1 (1.23%) ACCA
6 1 (1.23%) CISSP
6 1 (1.23%) IIBA
6 1 (1.23%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.41%) PCI DSS
2 5 (6.17%) GDPR
2 5 (6.17%) PSD2
3 3 (3.70%) QA
4 2 (2.47%) GRC
4 2 (2.47%) ISO 20022
4 2 (2.47%) ISO 8583
4 2 (2.47%) PMO
5 1 (1.23%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.23%) COBIT
5 1 (1.23%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.23%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.23%) HL7
5 1 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (1.23%) NIST
5 1 (1.23%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.23%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (9.88%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.47%) Hyper-V
2 2 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.23%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 5 (6.17%) SCCM
2 1 (1.23%) Hadoop YARN
2 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.23%) Oozie
2 1 (1.23%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 17 (20.99%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.17%) Salesforce
3 4 (4.94%) Google
3 4 (4.94%) HP
3 4 (4.94%) SAP
3 4 (4.94%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.70%) BiZZdesign
4 3 (3.70%) Dell
4 3 (3.70%) Sparx
4 3 (3.70%) VMware
5 2 (2.47%) DocuSign
5 2 (2.47%) MuleSoft
5 2 (2.47%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.23%) Apple
6 1 (1.23%) Rapid7
6 1 (1.23%) Sage
6 1 (1.23%) Siemens
6 1 (1.23%) TSYS
6 1 (1.23%) Workday
6 1 (1.23%) Zoho