Analytics Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Analytics
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Analytics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 25 51
Rank change year-on-year -4 +26 -5
Contract jobs citing Analytics 95 75 64
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 5.45% 6.99% 3.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.67% 8.13% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 51 44
10th Percentile £432 £315 £363
25th Percentile £477 £413 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £600 £513
Median % change year-on-year -14.17% +17.07% -6.82%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £553
90th Percentile £660 £700 £592
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 1
10th Percentile £46.93 £20.33 -
25th Percentile £51.44 £21.94 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £25.25 £79.17
Median % change year-on-year +157.43% -68.11% +259.86%
75th Percentile £75.00 £27.94 -
90th Percentile £79.38 £29.18 -
England median hourly rate £54.00 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +54.29% -17.65% +32.81%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

Analytics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,425 923 1,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 81.80% 86.02% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 627 420 820
10th Percentile £200 £242 £250
25th Percentile £350 £363 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £710
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 445 159 438
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
Median hourly rate £20.23 £40.00 £31.80
Median % change year-on-year -49.43% +25.79% +44.55%
75th Percentile £60.75 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.78
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -1.41% +2.66%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Analytics job vacancy trend in the East of England

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Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytics in the East of England over the 6 months to 6 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Analytics in the East of England

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Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytics in the East of England over the 6 months to 6 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytics in the East of England

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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 Analytics within the East of England region over the 6 months to 6 February 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
Bedfordshire -1 43 £505 -15.83% 13
Hertfordshire -17 28 £550 -10.20% 34
Cambridgeshire -2 13 £490 +18.79% 8
Suffolk +14 7 £653 +49.14% 10
Essex -7 2 £505 +58.71% 10
Norfolk -24 2 £400 -44.44% 5
Analytics
England

Analytics
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 3 (3.16%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (3.16%) WordPress
2 2 (2.11%) Apache
3 1 (1.05%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.05%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.05%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 22 (23.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (8.42%) SAP FI
3 7 (7.37%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 7 (7.37%) SAP MM
4 5 (5.26%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 4 (4.21%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (1.05%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (1.05%) SAP CO
6 1 (1.05%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 26 (27.37%) Azure
1 26 (27.37%) Power Platform
2 14 (14.74%) AWS
3 11 (11.58%) Azure AI
3 11 (11.58%) GCP
4 9 (9.47%) Copilot Studio
4 9 (9.47%) Microsoft Copilot
5 5 (5.26%) SaaS
6 4 (4.21%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (4.21%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (3.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (3.16%) PowerApps
7 3 (3.16%) Snowflake
8 2 (2.11%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (2.11%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (2.11%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (2.11%) Serverless
9 1 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.05%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.05%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.37%) Network Security
2 5 (5.26%) DNS
2 5 (5.26%) FTP
2 5 (5.26%) HTTP
2 5 (5.26%) SMTP
2 5 (5.26%) SSL
3 1 (1.05%) DSL
3 1 (1.05%) Modbus
3 1 (1.05%) MQTT
3 1 (1.05%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (25.26%) Power BI
2 12 (12.63%) Metadata
3 11 (11.58%) NoSQL
4 5 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (5.26%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (4.21%) Data Lake
5 4 (4.21%) Tableau
6 3 (3.16%) SAP HANA
7 2 (2.11%) Big Data
8 1 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.05%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.05%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (1.05%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.05%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.05%) MySQL
8 1 (1.05%) Parquet
8 1 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.05%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Git
1 1 (1.05%) GitLab
1 1 (1.05%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.05%) MLflow
General
1 39 (41.05%) Social Skills
2 32 (33.68%) Finance
3 14 (14.74%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.47%) Aviation
4 9 (9.47%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (8.42%) Marketing
6 4 (4.21%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (3.16%) Banking
7 3 (3.16%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.11%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.05%) Advertising
9 1 (1.05%) Agriculture
9 1 (1.05%) Electronics
9 1 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.05%) Retail
9 1 (1.05%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (21.05%) Consultant
2 19 (20.00%) Architect
3 15 (15.79%) Lead
4 9 (9.47%) Analyst
4 9 (9.47%) Data Architect
5 8 (8.42%) SAP Consultant
6 6 (6.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 6 (6.32%) Developer
6 6 (6.32%) Lead Consultant
6 6 (6.32%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
6 6 (6.32%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (5.26%) SOC Analyst
8 4 (4.21%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
9 3 (3.16%) Analytics Consultant
9 3 (3.16%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
9 3 (3.16%) Data Steward
9 3 (3.16%) Marketing Executive
9 3 (3.16%) Senior
10 2 (2.11%) Data Analyst
10 2 (2.11%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.58%) REST
2 10 (10.53%) PyTorch
2 10 (10.53%) TensorFlow
3 9 (9.47%) scikit-learn
4 6 (6.32%) SAP Basis
4 6 (6.32%) SAP Business Workflow
4 6 (6.32%) SAP Fiori
5 5 (5.26%) LDAP
6 3 (3.16%) Node.js
7 2 (2.11%) JSON
7 2 (2.11%) React
8 1 (1.05%) CSS
8 1 (1.05%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (1.05%) Express.js
8 1 (1.05%) Great Expectations
8 1 (1.05%) HTML
8 1 (1.05%) Kafka
8 1 (1.05%) MERN Stack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.37%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (6.32%) Management Information System
3 5 (5.26%) CSOC
3 5 (5.26%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (5.26%) Cyberattack
3 5 (5.26%) Life Science
3 5 (5.26%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.16%) Social Media
5 2 (2.11%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.05%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.05%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.05%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.05%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.05%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.05%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.05%) Linux
1 1 (1.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (27.37%) AI
2 24 (25.26%) Business Intelligence
3 23 (24.21%) Machine Learning
4 18 (18.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 16 (16.84%) DevOps
6 15 (15.79%) Data Science
7 14 (14.74%) CI/CD
8 13 (13.68%) Data Management
8 13 (13.68%) LLM
8 13 (13.68%) Microservices
8 13 (13.68%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (13.68%) Prompt Engineering
9 12 (12.63%) Data Analytics
9 12 (12.63%) Data Governance
9 12 (12.63%) Roadmaps
10 11 (11.58%) MLOps
10 11 (11.58%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 11 (11.58%) Use Case
10 11 (11.58%) Validation
11 10 (10.53%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 20 (21.05%) Python
2 16 (16.84%) SQL
3 7 (7.37%) ABAP
4 6 (6.32%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.11%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.05%) Bash
6 1 (1.05%) Bicep
6 1 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.05%) Java
6 1 (1.05%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (9.47%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.42%) Degree
3 6 (6.32%) DV Cleared
3 6 (6.32%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.16%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.16%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.05%) ACCA
7 1 (1.05%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.05%) CIMA
7 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (14.74%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.16%) GDPR
2 3 (3.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (2.11%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.11%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (2.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (2.11%) GxP
4 1 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.05%) NIST
4 1 (1.05%) PMO
4 1 (1.05%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.05%) Kibana
2 1 (1.05%) logstash
2 1 (1.05%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (30.53%) SAP
2 17 (17.89%) Microsoft
3 12 (12.63%) Google
3 12 (12.63%) OpenAI
4 11 (11.58%) Foundry
5 10 (10.53%) Databricks
6 7 (7.37%) OpenText
6 7 (7.37%) ServiceNow
7 6 (6.32%) Oracle
8 5 (5.26%) IBM
9 4 (4.21%) Adobe
10 1 (1.05%) Ariba
10 1 (1.05%) Cerner
10 1 (1.05%) ForgeRock
10 1 (1.05%) Informatica
10 1 (1.05%) Salesforce
10 1 (1.05%) Siemens
10 1 (1.05%) Talend
10 1 (1.05%) Tealium
10 1 (1.05%) Workday