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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 22 58
Rank change year-on-year -6 +36 +12
Contract jobs citing Analytics 105 87 39
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 4.74% 6.75% 2.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.06% 7.57% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 57 21
10th Percentile £406 £428 £300
25th Percentile £512 £503 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.43% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £575
90th Percentile £738 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £560
% change year-on-year - -6.25% -2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 0
10th Percentile £36.88 - -
25th Percentile £56.00 £31.64 -
Median hourly rate £77.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +71.11% - -
75th Percentile £90.75 £75.00 -
90th Percentile £92.87 £81.81 -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £34.74 £31.00
% change year-on-year +51.12% +12.06% -11.43%

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 1,732 1,149 1,262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.23% 89.14% 82.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 828 506 476
10th Percentile £190 £200 £191
25th Percentile £385 £375 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £591 £579 £550
90th Percentile £675 £675 £638
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 401 297 413
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.82 £14.84
25th Percentile £16.01 £16.55 £15.62
Median hourly rate £42.50 £30.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% -25.00% +101.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.63%

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 31 August 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 31 August 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 31 August 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
Hertfordshire -16 35 £550 - 34
Bedfordshire 0 28 £625 +7.76% 8
Cambridgeshire +14 19 £580 +5.45% 16
Norfolk -6 10 £544 +8.64% 9
Essex -12 7 £443 -12.38% 17
Suffolk - 6 £750 - 5
Analytics
England

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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 2 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.90%) CMS
2 1 (0.95%) Apache
2 1 (0.95%) Confluence
2 1 (0.95%) Mendix
2 1 (0.95%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.95%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.95%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (8.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (6.67%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 3 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (2.86%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.95%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.95%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.95%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 19 (18.10%) Azure
2 16 (15.24%) Power Platform
3 10 (9.52%) AWS
4 7 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (4.76%) Microsoft Copilot
5 5 (4.76%) Serverless
6 4 (3.81%) Azure AKS
6 4 (3.81%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (2.86%) Azure Functions
7 3 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (2.86%) Copilot Studio
7 3 (2.86%) dbt
7 3 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (2.86%) GitHub
7 3 (2.86%) Power Automate
7 3 (2.86%) SaaS
7 3 (2.86%) Snowflake
8 2 (1.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.90%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.90%) DHCP
1 2 (1.90%) DNS
1 2 (1.90%) Firewall
1 2 (1.90%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.90%) VPN
2 1 (0.95%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (13.33%) Power BI
2 8 (7.62%) Metadata
3 3 (2.86%) Data Lake
3 3 (2.86%) InfluxDB
3 3 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.90%) Power Query
4 2 (1.90%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (1.90%) Tableau
5 1 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.95%) Big Data
5 1 (0.95%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
5 1 (0.95%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.95%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.95%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.95%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.95%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (0.95%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.95%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (8.57%) Git
2 5 (4.76%) JIRA
General
1 24 (22.86%) Finance
2 22 (20.95%) Social Skills
3 11 (10.48%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.62%) Automotive
5 5 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (3.81%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (3.81%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.86%) Law
7 3 (2.86%) Marketing
7 3 (2.86%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.90%) Banking
8 2 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.90%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.90%) Local Government
8 2 (1.90%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.90%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.90%) Retail
9 1 (0.95%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.95%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 16 (15.24%) Developer
2 10 (9.52%) Analyst
3 9 (8.57%) Architect
3 9 (8.57%) Oracle Developer
3 9 (8.57%) Senior
4 6 (5.71%) Lead
5 5 (4.76%) Data Engineer
5 5 (4.76%) Data Manager
5 5 (4.76%) Project Manager
5 5 (4.76%) Senior Manager
6 4 (3.81%) Analytics Manager
6 4 (3.81%) Data Analyst
6 4 (3.81%) Data Analytics Manager
6 4 (3.81%) Data Architect
6 4 (3.81%) Delivery Manager
6 4 (3.81%) Head of AI
7 3 (2.86%) Programme Manager
7 3 (2.86%) Report Specialist
7 3 (2.86%) Senior Delivery Manager
7 3 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.76%) REST
2 4 (3.81%) .NET
3 3 (2.86%) JSON
3 3 (2.86%) Kafka
3 3 (2.86%) SAP Fiori
4 2 (1.90%) Node.js
4 2 (1.90%) ONVIF
5 1 (0.95%) ADO
5 1 (0.95%) Apache Avro
5 1 (0.95%) Express.js
5 1 (0.95%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.95%) MERN Stack
5 1 (0.95%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.95%) Protocol Buffers
5 1 (0.95%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.95%) React
5 1 (0.95%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.95%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.95%) Terraform
5 1 (0.95%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.76%) AI Agents
3 4 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.81%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.86%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.86%) Marketing Technology
4 3 (2.86%) Robotics
5 2 (1.90%) Blog
5 2 (1.90%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.90%) Life Science
5 2 (1.90%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.90%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.90%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.90%) Social Media
5 2 (1.90%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.95%) Biopharmaceutical
6 1 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.95%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.90%) Windows
1 2 (1.90%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.95%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (21.90%) Stakeholder Management
2 21 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 20 (19.05%) AI
4 19 (18.10%) Data Analytics
5 18 (17.14%) Agile
5 18 (17.14%) Business Intelligence
6 17 (16.19%) Data Modelling
7 16 (15.24%) CI/CD
7 16 (15.24%) Data Governance
7 16 (15.24%) Data Pipeline
7 16 (15.24%) Decision-Making
7 16 (15.24%) Migration
8 14 (13.33%) Data Engineering
9 13 (12.38%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (10.48%) DevOps
10 11 (10.48%) Validation
11 10 (9.52%) CRM
11 10 (9.52%) Data Science
11 10 (9.52%) ERP
11 10 (9.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 18 (17.14%) SQL
2 17 (16.19%) Python
3 4 (3.81%) C#
4 3 (2.86%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.86%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (1.90%) Java
5 2 (1.90%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.95%) C
Qualifications
1 12 (11.43%) Security Cleared
2 11 (10.48%) Degree
3 7 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.76%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.90%) A+ Certification
6 2 (1.90%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.90%) CCNA
6 2 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.90%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.90%) MCSA
6 2 (1.90%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.90%) PMP
7 1 (0.95%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.95%) IIBA
7 1 (0.95%) PhD
7 1 (0.95%) SAP Certification
7 1 (0.95%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (19.05%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.76%) QA
3 4 (3.81%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.81%) GDPR
4 3 (2.86%) GRC
5 2 (1.90%) PMO
6 1 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.95%) GxP
6 1 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (3.81%) Docker
2 2 (1.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.81%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.90%) SCCM
2 2 (1.90%) SCOM
3 1 (0.95%) Grafana
3 1 (0.95%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.43%) SAP
3 10 (9.52%) Oracle
4 9 (8.57%) Databricks
5 7 (6.67%) IBM
6 5 (4.76%) BT
7 3 (2.86%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.90%) Adobe
8 2 (1.90%) Informatica
8 2 (1.90%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.95%) Ariba
9 1 (0.95%) Braze
9 1 (0.95%) Confluent
9 1 (0.95%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.95%) IFS
9 1 (0.95%) Planon
9 1 (0.95%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.95%) Talend