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 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 24 49
Rank change year-on-year -4 +25 -1
Contract jobs citing Analytics 104 82 62
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 5.64% 7.73% 3.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.03% 8.91% 3.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 58 43
10th Percentile £413 £315 £353
25th Percentile £463 £427 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.21% +20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £550
90th Percentile £650 £706 £585
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 1
10th Percentile £46.93 £21.40 -
25th Percentile £51.44 £24.63 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £30.00 £79.17
Median % change year-on-year +116.67% -62.11% +259.86%
75th Percentile £75.00 £55.51 -
90th Percentile £79.38 £70.81 -
England median hourly rate £57.30 £32.92 £39.38
% change year-on-year +74.05% -16.39% +23.05%

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 1,479 920 1,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 80.21% 86.71% 86.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 651 464 821
10th Percentile £196 £243 £250
25th Percentile £351 £393 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% +2.51% -2.50%
75th Percentile £591 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £695 £701
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 450 151 500
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.62 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.35 £19.63 £15.00
Median hourly rate £20.72 £50.00 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -58.56% +31.16% +15.69%
75th Percentile £63.11 £71.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £34.77
% change year-on-year -18.57% +0.68% -0.67%

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

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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 28 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 28 February 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 28 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 -17.55% 11
Hertfordshire -24 27 £550 -12.00% 32
Cambridgeshire +10 17 £492 +23.05% 12
Suffolk +14 10 £653 +49.14% 6
Essex -4 5 £375 +19.05% 18
Norfolk -25 2 £400 -44.44% 7
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 (2.88%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (2.88%) WordPress
2 2 (1.92%) Apache
2 2 (1.92%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (6.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.96%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.96%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 21 (20.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (7.69%) SAP FI
3 7 (6.73%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 7 (6.73%) SAP MM
4 5 (4.81%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 4 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (3.85%) Sage X3
6 1 (0.96%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.96%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.96%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 34 (32.69%) Power Platform
2 27 (25.96%) Azure
3 12 (11.54%) AWS
4 11 (10.58%) Azure AI
5 10 (9.62%) GCP
6 9 (8.65%) Copilot Studio
6 9 (8.65%) Microsoft Copilot
7 5 (4.81%) SaaS
8 4 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (2.88%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (2.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (2.88%) PowerApps
9 3 (2.88%) Snowflake
10 2 (1.92%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (1.92%) Azure Machine Learning
11 1 (0.96%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.96%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.96%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.96%) GitHub
11 1 (0.96%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.73%) Network Security
2 5 (4.81%) DNS
2 5 (4.81%) FTP
2 5 (4.81%) HTTP
2 5 (4.81%) SMTP
2 5 (4.81%) SSL
3 1 (0.96%) DSL
3 1 (0.96%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.96%) Firewall
3 1 (0.96%) Modbus
3 1 (0.96%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (30.77%) Power BI
2 12 (11.54%) Metadata
3 11 (10.58%) NoSQL
4 9 (8.65%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (4.81%) Data Lake
5 5 (4.81%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (3.85%) Power Query
6 4 (3.85%) Tableau
6 4 (3.85%) ZAP BI
7 3 (2.88%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.96%) Big Data
8 1 (0.96%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (0.96%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.96%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.96%) MySQL
8 1 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.96%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.96%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (3.85%) Git
2 1 (0.96%) GitLab
2 1 (0.96%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.96%) JIRA
2 1 (0.96%) MLflow
General
1 44 (42.31%) Social Skills
2 36 (34.62%) Finance
3 15 (14.42%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.65%) Aviation
4 9 (8.65%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (7.69%) Marketing
6 7 (6.73%) Manufacturing
7 4 (3.85%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (3.85%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.88%) Banking
9 2 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.96%) Advertising
10 1 (0.96%) Electronics
10 1 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.96%) Local Government
10 1 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.96%) Retail
10 1 (0.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (20.19%) Consultant
2 18 (17.31%) Architect
3 17 (16.35%) Lead
4 10 (9.62%) Developer
5 9 (8.65%) Analyst
6 8 (7.69%) Data Architect
6 8 (7.69%) SAP Consultant
7 7 (6.73%) Lead Consultant
8 6 (5.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 6 (5.77%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
9 5 (4.81%) SOC Analyst
9 5 (4.81%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (3.85%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
10 4 (3.85%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 4 (3.85%) Data Engineer
10 4 (3.85%) Power BI Developer
10 4 (3.85%) Report Developer
10 4 (3.85%) SQL BI Developer
10 4 (3.85%) SQL Developer
11 3 (2.88%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.58%) REST
2 10 (9.62%) PyTorch
2 10 (9.62%) TensorFlow
3 9 (8.65%) scikit-learn
4 6 (5.77%) SAP Basis
4 6 (5.77%) SAP Business Workflow
4 6 (5.77%) SAP Fiori
5 5 (4.81%) LDAP
6 2 (1.92%) JSON
6 2 (1.92%) Node.js
7 1 (0.96%) ADO
7 1 (0.96%) CSS
7 1 (0.96%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.96%) HTML
7 1 (0.96%) Kafka
7 1 (0.96%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.73%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (5.77%) Management Information System
3 5 (4.81%) CSOC
3 5 (4.81%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (4.81%) Cyberattack
3 5 (4.81%) Security Operations Centre
4 4 (3.85%) Life Science
5 3 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.88%) Social Media
6 2 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.92%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.92%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.96%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.96%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.96%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.96%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.96%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.96%) Linux
1 1 (0.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (31.73%) Business Intelligence
2 26 (25.00%) AI
3 24 (23.08%) Machine Learning
3 24 (23.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 20 (19.23%) Validation
5 16 (15.38%) DevOps
6 14 (13.46%) CI/CD
6 14 (13.46%) Data Governance
6 14 (13.46%) ETL
6 14 (13.46%) LLM
6 14 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (12.50%) Data Analytics
7 13 (12.50%) Data Management
7 13 (12.50%) Data Science
7 13 (12.50%) Prompt Engineering
8 12 (11.54%) Data Modelling
8 12 (11.54%) Microservices
9 11 (10.58%) Data Engineering
9 11 (10.58%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 24 (23.08%) Python
2 21 (20.19%) SQL
3 7 (6.73%) ABAP
4 6 (5.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (5.77%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.85%) VBA
6 2 (1.92%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.96%) Bash
7 1 (0.96%) Bicep
7 1 (0.96%) Java
7 1 (0.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (8.65%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.73%) Degree
3 6 (5.77%) DV Cleared
3 6 (5.77%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.92%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.92%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.96%) ACCA
6 1 (0.96%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.96%) CIMA
6 1 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (19.23%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.88%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.92%) GDPR
3 2 (1.92%) GxP
3 2 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.96%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.96%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.96%) NIST
4 1 (0.96%) PMO
4 1 (0.96%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (9.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (9.62%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.96%) Kibana
2 1 (0.96%) logstash
2 1 (0.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (27.88%) SAP
2 20 (19.23%) Microsoft
3 12 (11.54%) Databricks
3 12 (11.54%) Google
3 12 (11.54%) OpenAI
4 11 (10.58%) Foundry
5 8 (7.69%) ServiceNow
6 7 (6.73%) OpenText
7 6 (5.77%) Oracle
8 5 (4.81%) IBM
9 4 (3.85%) Adobe
9 4 (3.85%) Sage
10 2 (1.92%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.96%) Allen-Bradley
11 1 (0.96%) Ariba
11 1 (0.96%) Cerner
11 1 (0.96%) ForgeRock
11 1 (0.96%) Informatica
11 1 (0.96%) Siemens
11 1 (0.96%) Talend