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 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 16 59
Rank change year-on-year -7 +43 -2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 117 86 48
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 5.41% 9.10% 2.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.02% 10.26% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 59 35
10th Percentile £400 £396 £350
25th Percentile £463 £500 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +20.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £538
90th Percentile £666 £700 £569
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 1
10th Percentile £46.93 £25.70 -
25th Percentile £51.44 £30.82 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £31.64 £79.17
Median % change year-on-year +105.44% -60.04% +259.86%
75th Percentile £75.00 £56.33 -
90th Percentile £79.38 £81.01 -
England median hourly rate £58.70 £31.64 £30.19
% change year-on-year +85.52% +4.82% -5.67%

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 1,666 838 1,650
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 77.02% 88.68% 86.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 823 431 730
10th Percentile £200 £231 £212
25th Percentile £363 £406 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.90% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 426 179 599
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.17 £17.04 £15.34
Median hourly rate £22.63 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.74% +25.00% +62.47%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £63.13
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £43.61 £30.45 £35.00
% change year-on-year +43.22% -13.00% -6.67%

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

Analytics
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

Analytics
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 26 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Analytics in the East of England

Analytics
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

Analytics
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 26 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytics in the East of England

Analytics
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 26 April 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 42 £505 -15.83% 9
Hertfordshire -25 27 £550 -15.38% 43
Cambridgeshire +16 18 £530 +30.00% 12
Suffolk +11 13 £653 +49.14% 4
Norfolk - 10 £525 - 18
Essex -6 7 £375 +17.85% 12
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 4 (3.42%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.56%) Apache
3 2 (1.71%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (6.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.85%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (5.13%) Sage X3
3 5 (4.27%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 2 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (1.71%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 2 (1.71%) SAP FI
4 2 (1.71%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 28 (23.93%) Azure
1 28 (23.93%) Power Platform
2 14 (11.97%) AWS
3 9 (7.69%) Azure AI
3 9 (7.69%) GCP
4 8 (6.84%) Copilot Studio
4 8 (6.84%) Microsoft Copilot
5 7 (5.98%) SaaS
6 5 (4.27%) Serverless
7 3 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.56%) Azure AKS
7 3 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.71%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (1.71%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (1.71%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (1.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (1.71%) Boomi
8 2 (1.71%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.98%) Network Security
2 5 (4.27%) DNS
2 5 (4.27%) FTP
2 5 (4.27%) HTTP
2 5 (4.27%) SMTP
2 5 (4.27%) SSL
3 1 (0.85%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.85%) Firewall
3 1 (0.85%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (22.22%) Power BI
2 11 (9.40%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (9.40%) Metadata
3 9 (7.69%) NoSQL
4 6 (5.13%) Power Query
4 6 (5.13%) ZAP BI
5 5 (4.27%) Oracle Reports
5 5 (4.27%) Tableau
6 3 (2.56%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.71%) Big Data
7 2 (1.71%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (1.71%) InfluxDB
7 2 (1.71%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.85%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.85%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.85%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.85%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 7 (5.98%) Git
2 3 (2.56%) JIRA
3 1 (0.85%) GitLab
3 1 (0.85%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.85%) MLflow
General
1 45 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 30 (25.64%) Finance
3 13 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.84%) Manufacturing
5 7 (5.98%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (5.13%) Aviation
7 5 (4.27%) Automotive
8 4 (3.42%) Marketing
9 3 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.56%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.71%) Local Government
10 2 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.85%) Advertising
11 1 (0.85%) Banking
11 1 (0.85%) Electronics
11 1 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.85%) Law
11 1 (0.85%) Retail
11 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (17.09%) Architect
2 16 (13.68%) Consultant
3 15 (12.82%) Developer
4 13 (11.11%) Lead
5 9 (7.69%) Analyst
6 8 (6.84%) Data Architect
6 8 (6.84%) Senior
7 7 (5.98%) Lead Consultant
8 6 (5.13%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 6 (5.13%) Head of AI
8 6 (5.13%) Power BI Developer
8 6 (5.13%) Report Developer
8 6 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (5.13%) SQL BI Developer
8 6 (5.13%) SQL Developer
9 5 (4.27%) SOC Analyst
10 4 (3.42%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
10 4 (3.42%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 4 (3.42%) Data Engineer
10 4 (3.42%) Sage Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.26%) REST
2 8 (6.84%) PyTorch
2 8 (6.84%) TensorFlow
3 7 (5.98%) scikit-learn
4 5 (4.27%) JSON
4 5 (4.27%) LDAP
5 4 (3.42%) Kafka
5 4 (3.42%) Node.js
6 2 (1.71%) .NET
6 2 (1.71%) ADO
6 2 (1.71%) React
7 1 (0.85%) CSS
7 1 (0.85%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.85%) HTML
7 1 (0.85%) MERN Stack
7 1 (0.85%) ONVIF
7 1 (0.85%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.85%) SAP Basis
7 1 (0.85%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (0.85%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.13%) Analytical Mindset
1 6 (5.13%) Management Information System
2 5 (4.27%) AI Agents
2 5 (4.27%) CSOC
2 5 (4.27%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (4.27%) Cyberattack
2 5 (4.27%) Onboarding
2 5 (4.27%) Security Operations Centre
3 4 (3.42%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.42%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.42%) Reference Data
4 3 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.71%) Life Science
5 2 (1.71%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (0.85%) IoT
6 1 (0.85%) Robotics
6 1 (0.85%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.85%) Linux
1 1 (0.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (27.35%) Business Intelligence
2 30 (25.64%) AI
3 27 (23.08%) Machine Learning
4 25 (21.37%) Continuous Improvement
5 22 (18.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 20 (17.09%) ETL
6 20 (17.09%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (16.24%) CI/CD
7 19 (16.24%) Data Governance
8 17 (14.53%) Data Analytics
8 17 (14.53%) Data Modelling
8 17 (14.53%) Data Pipeline
8 17 (14.53%) DevOps
8 17 (14.53%) Validation
9 15 (12.82%) Data Engineering
9 15 (12.82%) Data Science
10 13 (11.11%) Microservices
10 13 (11.11%) Roadmaps
11 12 (10.26%) Migration
11 12 (10.26%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (23.08%) Python
2 25 (21.37%) SQL
3 8 (6.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (5.13%) VBA
5 5 (4.27%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.56%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.71%) ABAP
7 2 (1.71%) C#
7 2 (1.71%) Java
7 2 (1.71%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.85%) C
8 1 (0.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (9.40%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.55%) Degree
3 7 (5.98%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (5.13%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.42%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.85%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.85%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.85%) CCNA
7 1 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.85%) MCSA
7 1 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.42%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.42%) QA
3 3 (2.56%) GDPR
4 2 (1.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 11 (9.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (9.40%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.85%) Grafana
2 1 (0.85%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (17.95%) SAP
2 18 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 16 (13.68%) Databricks
4 10 (8.55%) OpenAI
5 9 (7.69%) Foundry
5 9 (7.69%) Google
6 7 (5.98%) Oracle
7 6 (5.13%) Sage
8 5 (4.27%) IBM
8 5 (4.27%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.56%) Adobe
9 3 (2.56%) Informatica
10 2 (1.71%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.71%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.71%) OpenText
10 2 (1.71%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.71%) Talend
11 1 (0.85%) IFS
11 1 (0.85%) Rockwell
11 1 (0.85%) Tealium