Analytical Skills Contract Job Trends 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 20 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 7 16
Rank change year-on-year -8 +9 +15
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 129 118 140
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 8.04% 10.39% 8.21%
As % of the General category 13.56% 17.99% 13.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 63 85
10th Percentile £374 £188 £163
25th Percentile £450 £363 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year +7.63% +17.65% -
75th Percentile £686 £600 £550
90th Percentile £765 £675 £715
England median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 8 19
10th Percentile £16.92 £16.86 £16.75
25th Percentile £17.87 £19.28 £17.72
Median hourly rate £45.00 £20.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +119.51% +2.50% -39.39%
75th Percentile £70.00 £25.00 £21.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £38.13 £66.75
England median hourly rate £34.00 £25.00 £32.32
% change year-on-year +36.00% -22.65% -12.65%

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 951 656 1,067
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 59.25% 57.75% 62.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 291 546
10th Percentile £185 £250 £208
25th Percentile £313 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.45% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £655
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 114 288
10th Percentile £13.50 - £14.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £19.91 £20.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% +8.11% -6.61%
75th Percentile £55.00 £54.69 £50.00
90th Percentile £69.25 £66.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -21.67% -9.09% +32.00%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Analytical Skills relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Analytical Skills job vacancy trend in the East of England

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Analytical Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Analytical Skills

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 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the East of England

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Analytical Skills.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Analytical Skills

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 20 December 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 20 December 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 +2 78 £625 +13.64% 99
Bedfordshire -14 16 £431 -23.33% 56
Essex -8 12 £583 +135.56% 54
Norfolk -8 11 £535 +44.59% 72
Cambridgeshire -9 7 £375 -16.67% 141
Suffolk -15 4 £513 +32.26% 36
Analytical Skills
England

Analytical Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (3.88%) SAS
2 3 (2.33%) WordPress
3 2 (1.55%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.78%) Apache
4 1 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.78%) Confluence
4 1 (0.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 18 (13.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (9.30%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.55%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.78%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (6.20%) SAP HCM
1 8 (6.20%) SAP Payroll
2 4 (3.10%) Workday HCM
3 2 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.55%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (1.55%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.55%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.78%) Maximo
4 1 (0.78%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.78%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.78%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (8.53%) Azure
2 9 (6.98%) AWS
3 8 (6.20%) SuccessFactors
4 5 (3.88%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (3.10%) PaaS
5 4 (3.10%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.55%) OCI
6 2 (1.55%) SaaS
7 1 (0.78%) Adobe Analytics
7 1 (0.78%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (0.78%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.78%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.78%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.78%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (0.78%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (0.78%) AWS IoT
7 1 (0.78%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.78%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (0.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.85%) DNS
1 14 (10.85%) Network Security
1 14 (10.85%) SSL
2 13 (10.08%) FTP
2 13 (10.08%) HTTP
2 13 (10.08%) SMTP
3 7 (5.43%) LAN
4 6 (4.65%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.33%) Firewall
6 1 (0.78%) DHCP
6 1 (0.78%) Modbus
6 1 (0.78%) MQTT
6 1 (0.78%) RS-232
6 1 (0.78%) RTP
6 1 (0.78%) WAN
6 1 (0.78%) X.400
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.75%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.88%) Oracle Database
2 5 (3.88%) Tableau
3 4 (3.10%) Power BI
4 3 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.33%) Metadata
4 3 (2.33%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.33%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.55%) Big Data
5 2 (1.55%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.55%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.78%) Cognos Framework Manager
6 1 (0.78%) Cognos Report Studio
6 1 (0.78%) DataStage
6 1 (0.78%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.78%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.78%) Parquet
6 1 (0.78%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.78%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 5 (3.88%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (2.33%) Git
3 2 (1.55%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.55%) JIRA
4 1 (0.78%) Gatling
4 1 (0.78%) JMeter
4 1 (0.78%) LoadRunner
General
1 86 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 24 (18.60%) Finance
3 15 (11.63%) Organisational Skills
4 10 (7.75%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.98%) Legal
6 8 (6.20%) Aviation
6 8 (6.20%) Electronics
7 5 (3.88%) Marketing
7 5 (3.88%) Telecoms
8 4 (3.10%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.33%) Banking
9 3 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.33%) Law
9 3 (2.33%) Retail
10 2 (1.55%) Automotive
10 2 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.78%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.78%) Publishing
11 1 (0.78%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 35 (27.13%) Analyst
2 15 (11.63%) Developer
3 13 (10.08%) SOC Analyst
4 10 (7.75%) Consultant
4 10 (7.75%) Software Engineer
5 8 (6.20%) Architect
5 8 (6.20%) Business Analyst
5 8 (6.20%) Lead
6 7 (5.43%) Administrator
6 7 (5.43%) Security Officer
6 7 (5.43%) Support Analyst
7 6 (4.65%) SAP Consultant
7 6 (4.65%) SAP HCM Consultant
7 6 (4.65%) Technical Analyst
7 6 (4.65%) Technical Support
7 6 (4.65%) Technical Support Analyst
8 5 (3.88%) Ada Engineer
8 5 (3.88%) Ada Software Engineer
8 5 (3.88%) Embedded Engineer
8 5 (3.88%) Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (10.85%) LDAP
2 10 (7.75%) SOAP
3 9 (6.98%) Web Services
4 8 (6.20%) XML
5 5 (3.88%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (3.10%) OpenID
6 4 (3.10%) REST
6 4 (3.10%) SAML
7 3 (2.33%) Matplotlib
7 3 (2.33%) PyTorch
7 3 (2.33%) scikit-learn
7 3 (2.33%) Seaborn
7 3 (2.33%) TensorFlow
8 2 (1.55%) CSS
8 2 (1.55%) HTML
8 2 (1.55%) JSON
8 2 (1.55%) Node.js
8 2 (1.55%) NumPy
8 2 (1.55%) Pandas
8 2 (1.55%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.73%) Analytical Mindset
1 19 (14.73%) Management Information System
2 13 (10.08%) CSOC
2 13 (10.08%) Cyber Threat
2 13 (10.08%) Cyberattack
2 13 (10.08%) Security Operations Centre
3 8 (6.20%) NHS
4 7 (5.43%) Insider Threat
4 7 (5.43%) Replication
5 5 (3.88%) Credit Risk
6 4 (3.10%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.10%) FPGA
6 4 (3.10%) Verilog
6 4 (3.10%) VHDL
7 3 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.33%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.33%) Social Media
8 2 (1.55%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.55%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.55%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.98%) Windows
2 8 (6.20%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.55%) Linux
4 1 (0.78%) CentOS
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (51.94%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (23.26%) Analytics
3 26 (20.16%) Continuous Improvement
4 24 (18.60%) Agile
5 21 (16.28%) Information Security
6 20 (15.50%) AI
6 20 (15.50%) Root Cause Analysis
7 17 (13.18%) Cybersecurity
7 17 (13.18%) Machine Learning
8 16 (12.40%) Data Modelling
8 16 (12.40%) Time Management
9 15 (11.63%) Information Management
10 14 (10.85%) Incident Response
10 14 (10.85%) Security Operations
10 14 (10.85%) SIEM
11 13 (10.08%) Behavioural Analytics
11 13 (10.08%) DevOps
11 13 (10.08%) Network Packet Capture
11 13 (10.08%) Threat Detection
12 12 (9.30%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 23 (17.83%) Python
2 14 (10.85%) SQL
3 13 (10.08%) PowerShell
4 8 (6.20%) R
5 7 (5.43%) ABAP
5 7 (5.43%) Java
6 6 (4.65%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.88%) Ada
8 2 (1.55%) C#
8 2 (1.55%) VB
9 1 (0.78%) Perl
Qualifications
1 30 (23.26%) Security Cleared
2 26 (20.16%) SC Cleared
3 24 (18.60%) Degree
4 19 (14.73%) DV Cleared
5 7 (5.43%) CTC Cleared
6 6 (4.65%) HNC
6 6 (4.65%) HND
6 6 (4.65%) MCP
6 6 (4.65%) MCSE
6 6 (4.65%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.55%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.55%) PhD
8 2 (1.55%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.78%) ACCA
9 1 (0.78%) CIMA
9 1 (0.78%) CISSP
9 1 (0.78%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.78%) PMP
9 1 (0.78%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.98%) QA
2 6 (4.65%) SLA
3 4 (3.10%) GxP
4 3 (2.33%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.33%) PMO
5 2 (1.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.78%) GAMP
6 1 (0.78%) GDPR
6 1 (0.78%) GMP
6 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.78%) NIST
6 1 (0.78%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.78%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (3.88%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.78%) Docker
2 1 (0.78%) Firmware
2 1 (0.78%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 1 (0.78%) Consul
1 1 (0.78%) Grafana
1 1 (0.78%) HAProxy
1 1 (0.78%) Prometheus
1 1 (0.78%) SCOM
Vendors
1 25 (19.38%) Microsoft
2 18 (13.95%) SAP
3 13 (10.08%) ServiceNow
4 12 (9.30%) Oracle
5 6 (4.65%) Citrix
5 6 (4.65%) Dell
5 6 (4.65%) HP
5 6 (4.65%) Workday
6 5 (3.88%) Computacenter
7 4 (3.10%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.33%) Cognos
8 3 (2.33%) IBM
9 2 (1.55%) Adobe
9 2 (1.55%) Intel
9 2 (1.55%) LabWare
9 2 (1.55%) Lattice Semiconductor
9 2 (1.55%) Xilinx
10 1 (0.78%) Amplitude
10 1 (0.78%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (0.78%) Tealium