Analytical Skills Contracts in the East of England

Analytical Skills
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 27 22
Rank change year-on-year +19 -5 +8
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 121 115 149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 12.82% 6.02% 7.21%
As % of the General category 20.27% 9.71% 11.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 67 82
10th Percentile £246 £315 £204
25th Percentile £362 £369 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £363
Median % change year-on-year - +37.93% -12.65%
75th Percentile £634 £594 £500
90th Percentile £675 £675 £600
England median daily rate £525 £537 £535
% change year-on-year -2.21% +0.34% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 8
10th Percentile £18.42 £13.09 £22.14
25th Percentile £20.26 £16.63 £22.50
Median hourly rate £74.00 £21.50 £35.75
Median % change year-on-year +244.19% -39.86% +164.81%
75th Percentile £81.35 £21.75 £61.50
90th Percentile £82.16 £25.00 £64.95
England median hourly rate £28.15 £18.50 £37.75
% change year-on-year +52.16% -50.99% +0.67%

All General Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 597 1,184 1,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 63.24% 61.99% 60.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 454 692
10th Percentile £210 £236 £200
25th Percentile £372 £350 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £563 £625
90th Percentile £676 £650 £725
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 456 261
10th Percentile £15.62 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.24 £15.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £38.12 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +81.52% +44.83%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £76.25 £65.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £33.91
% change year-on-year -6.67% -11.53% +57.72%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in the East of England

Analytical Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Analytical Skills in the East of England

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in the East of England over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the East of England

Analytical Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Skills in the East of England

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Skills in the East of England over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the East of England

Analytical Skills
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Hertfordshire +36 56 £563 +40.63% 77
Bedfordshire -6 21 £650 +30.00% 29
Cambridgeshire +12 19 £425 -22.73% 106
Essex +10 16 £318 -36.36% 47
Suffolk -3 8 £225 -64.00% 16
Norfolk +5 1 - - 14
Analytical Skills
England

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 12 (9.92%) Apache Spark
2 7 (5.79%) Confluence
3 6 (4.96%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.48%) Apache
4 3 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 22 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (8.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (4.13%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (3.31%) SAP ERP
1 4 (3.31%) Workday HCM
2 3 (2.48%) SAP EWM
2 3 (2.48%) SAP GTS
2 3 (2.48%) SAP LE
2 3 (2.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.48%) SAP WM
3 1 (0.83%) iTrent
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.83%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.83%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 17 (14.05%) AWS
2 15 (12.40%) Azure
3 9 (7.44%) Power Platform
4 5 (4.13%) Power Automate
4 5 (4.13%) PowerApps
5 4 (3.31%) GitHub
6 3 (2.48%) dbt
6 3 (2.48%) GCP
6 3 (2.48%) Vertex AI
7 2 (1.65%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.65%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.65%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.83%) Akamai
8 1 (0.83%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.83%) Google Analytics
8 1 (0.83%) SaaS
8 1 (0.83%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (13.22%) DNS
2 14 (11.57%) Network Security
3 11 (9.09%) HTTP
3 11 (9.09%) SSL
4 10 (8.26%) FTP
4 10 (8.26%) SMTP
5 8 (6.61%) Firewall
6 6 (4.96%) VPN
7 5 (4.13%) TCP/IP
8 3 (2.48%) LAN
8 3 (2.48%) Wireless
9 2 (1.65%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (1.65%) Multicast
9 2 (1.65%) OSPF
9 2 (1.65%) SD-WAN
9 2 (1.65%) WAN
9 2 (1.65%) WLAN
10 1 (0.83%) Cisco Wireless
10 1 (0.83%) GLBP
10 1 (0.83%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (14.88%) Tableau
2 12 (9.92%) Big Data
2 12 (9.92%) Hadoop
3 6 (4.96%) Power BI
4 5 (4.13%) Metadata
5 4 (3.31%) Data Mining
6 3 (2.48%) BigQuery
6 3 (2.48%) Looker
6 3 (2.48%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.65%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.83%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.83%) MS Access
8 1 (0.83%) MySQL
8 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (9.09%) JIRA
2 5 (4.13%) Git
3 3 (2.48%) TestRail
4 1 (0.83%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.83%) MagicDraw
4 1 (0.83%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (0.83%) SonarQube
General
1 65 (53.72%) Social Skills
2 15 (12.40%) Finance
3 8 (6.61%) Pharmaceutical
4 5 (4.13%) Law
4 5 (4.13%) Local Government
5 4 (3.31%) Aviation
5 4 (3.31%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.31%) Retail
6 3 (2.48%) Automotive
6 3 (2.48%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.65%) Marketing
8 1 (0.83%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.83%) Banking
8 1 (0.83%) Legal
8 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (23.14%) Analyst
2 20 (16.53%) Developer
3 17 (14.05%) Senior
4 15 (12.40%) Architect
5 12 (9.92%) Data Science Developer
6 11 (9.09%) Senior Developer
7 10 (8.26%) SOC Analyst
8 7 (5.79%) Service Analyst
9 5 (4.13%) Consultant
10 4 (3.31%) Business Analyst
10 4 (3.31%) Data Architect
10 4 (3.31%) Project Manager
10 4 (3.31%) Service Desk Analyst
10 4 (3.31%) Software Engineer
10 4 (3.31%) Support Engineer
11 3 (2.48%) QA Engineer
11 3 (2.48%) Risk Analyst
11 3 (2.48%) SAP Analyst
11 3 (2.48%) Technical Analyst
11 3 (2.48%) Technical Services Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.40%) NumPy
1 15 (12.40%) Pandas
2 12 (9.92%) Matplotlib
2 12 (9.92%) PyTorch
2 12 (9.92%) scikit-learn
2 12 (9.92%) Seaborn
2 12 (9.92%) TensorFlow
3 10 (8.26%) LDAP
4 6 (4.96%) HTML
4 6 (4.96%) SAP PI
5 4 (3.31%) React
6 3 (2.48%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.48%) Kafka
6 3 (2.48%) POSIX
6 3 (2.48%) PySpark
6 3 (2.48%) REST
7 2 (1.65%) 802.1X
7 2 (1.65%) Node.js
7 2 (1.65%) RESTful
7 2 (1.65%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.70%) Analytical Mindset
2 16 (13.22%) Management Information System
3 12 (9.92%) Algorithms
4 10 (8.26%) Cyber Threat
5 9 (7.44%) Cyberattack
6 8 (6.61%) Operational Technology
6 8 (6.61%) Security Operations Centre
7 6 (4.96%) CSOC
8 5 (4.13%) Cloud Native
8 5 (4.13%) Driving Licence
8 5 (4.13%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (4.13%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (3.31%) Reference Data
10 3 (2.48%) Device Driver
10 3 (2.48%) Product Ownership
11 2 (1.65%) Data Centre
11 2 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.65%) FPGA
11 2 (1.65%) Replication
11 2 (1.65%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.44%) Linux
2 7 (5.79%) Apple iOS
2 7 (5.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (49.59%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (20.66%) Analytics
2 25 (20.66%) Data Analysis
3 24 (19.83%) Artificial Intelligence
4 23 (19.01%) Visualisation
5 22 (18.18%) Machine Learning
6 21 (17.36%) Agile
7 20 (16.53%) Decision-Making
8 19 (15.70%) Data Science
9 17 (14.05%) Computer Science
10 16 (13.22%) Data Management
11 15 (12.40%) Cybersecurity
12 14 (11.57%) Data Analytics
12 14 (11.57%) Generative AI
13 13 (10.74%) Project Management
14 12 (9.92%) Feature Engineering
14 12 (9.92%) LLM
14 12 (9.92%) Predictive Analytics
14 12 (9.92%) Reinforcement Learning
14 12 (9.92%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 18 (14.88%) Python
1 18 (14.88%) SQL
2 12 (9.92%) R
3 3 (2.48%) ABAP
3 3 (2.48%) C
3 3 (2.48%) Java
3 3 (2.48%) VBA
4 2 (1.65%) Go
4 2 (1.65%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.65%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.83%) C#
5 1 (0.83%) Perl
Qualifications
1 22 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 21 (17.36%) SC Cleared
3 20 (16.53%) Degree
4 12 (9.92%) Master's Degree
4 12 (9.92%) PhD
5 8 (6.61%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.48%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.65%) CCNP
7 2 (1.65%) CISSP
7 2 (1.65%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.65%) GCIA
8 1 (0.83%) CCDP
8 1 (0.83%) CCIE Data Center
8 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.83%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.83%) JNCIE
8 1 (0.83%) JNCIP
8 1 (0.83%) JNCIS
8 1 (0.83%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.83%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (18.18%) Data Quality
2 9 (7.44%) QA
3 7 (5.79%) GxP
4 6 (4.96%) GDPR
5 5 (4.13%) SLA
6 2 (1.65%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.65%) PMO
7 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (5.79%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.48%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (2.48%) Terraform
2 2 (1.65%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.83%) Ansible
3 1 (0.83%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (0.83%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.83%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.83%) PTC Integrity
Vendors
1 27 (22.31%) Microsoft
2 16 (13.22%) ServiceNow
3 10 (8.26%) SAP
4 4 (3.31%) Cisco
4 4 (3.31%) Oracle
4 4 (3.31%) Workday
5 3 (2.48%) Google
6 2 (1.65%) Apple
6 2 (1.65%) Juniper
6 2 (1.65%) Samsung
6 2 (1.65%) SOTI
6 2 (1.65%) Xilinx
7 1 (0.83%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.83%) Arista
7 1 (0.83%) DataCore
7 1 (0.83%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.83%) F5
7 1 (0.83%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.83%) Twitter
7 1 (0.83%) Zscaler