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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 22 77
Rank change year-on-year -5 +55 -10
Contract jobs citing Analytics 117 81 37
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 5.25% 7.53% 1.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.66% 8.46% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 58 25
10th Percentile £373 £379 £372
25th Percentile £463 £500 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £580 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% +16.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £575
90th Percentile £688 £708 £645
England median daily rate £525 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -2.55% -2.05% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 0
10th Percentile £69.40 £25.45 -
25th Percentile £76.00 - -
Median hourly rate £89.00 £31.64 -
Median % change year-on-year +181.29% - -
75th Percentile £90.50 £68.67 -
90th Percentile £90.80 £81.01 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £33.28 £30.00
% change year-on-year +65.29% +10.92% -6.69%

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 1,758 958 1,633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.83% 89.12% 84.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 884 480 654
10th Percentile £190 £210 £202
25th Percentile £375 £363 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £439
Median % change year-on-year - +14.03% -11.05%
75th Percentile £591 £575 £573
90th Percentile £688 £650 £650
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 403 196 612
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.64 £16.95 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.00 £31.64 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.14% -20.90% +90.48%
75th Percentile £67.50 £65.81 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.25 £71.13
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.50 £38.12
% change year-on-year +84.31% -33.11% +1.65%

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 June 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 June 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 28 June 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 0 41 £505 -15.83% 8
Hertfordshire -23 25 £550 -12.00% 25
Cambridgeshire +10 16 £558 -7.04% 16
Suffolk - 15 £653 - 10
Essex -9 11 £375 +16.68% 14
Norfolk -18 9 £525 +4.90% 9
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 3 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.71%) Apache
2 2 (1.71%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.85%) Mendix
3 1 (0.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (6.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.85%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.85%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 13 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (5.13%) Sage X3
3 4 (3.42%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 3 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (1.71%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 27 (23.08%) Azure
2 22 (18.80%) Power Platform
3 11 (9.40%) AWS
4 7 (5.98%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (5.98%) SaaS
5 5 (4.27%) Copilot Studio
5 5 (4.27%) Microsoft Copilot
5 5 (4.27%) Serverless
6 4 (3.42%) Azure AI
6 4 (3.42%) Azure AKS
6 4 (3.42%) GCP
7 3 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (2.56%) Azure Functions
7 3 (2.56%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.71%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (1.71%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (1.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (1.71%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.71%) Network Security
2 1 (0.85%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.85%) Firewall
2 1 (0.85%) Modbus
2 1 (0.85%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (17.09%) Power BI
2 10 (8.55%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (7.69%) Metadata
4 6 (5.13%) Power Query
4 6 (5.13%) ZAP BI
5 4 (3.42%) Data Lake
5 4 (3.42%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.56%) InfluxDB
6 3 (2.56%) Tableau
7 2 (1.71%) Big Data
7 2 (1.71%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (1.71%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.71%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (1.71%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.71%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.85%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.85%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.85%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (5.98%) Git
2 4 (3.42%) JIRA
3 1 (0.85%) GitLab
3 1 (0.85%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.85%) MLflow
General
1 31 (26.50%) Social Skills
2 25 (21.37%) Finance
3 9 (7.69%) Manufacturing
4 8 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.84%) Automotive
5 4 (3.42%) Aviation
5 4 (3.42%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.56%) Local Government
6 3 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.56%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.71%) General Ledger
7 2 (1.71%) Law
7 2 (1.71%) Marketing
7 2 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.71%) Retail
8 1 (0.85%) Advertising
8 1 (0.85%) Agriculture
8 1 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (17.09%) Architect
2 16 (13.68%) Developer
3 14 (11.97%) Consultant
4 11 (9.40%) Lead
5 10 (8.55%) Senior
6 9 (7.69%) Data Architect
7 8 (6.84%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (5.98%) Lead Consultant
9 6 (5.13%) Analyst
9 6 (5.13%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 6 (5.13%) Head of AI
9 6 (5.13%) Power BI Developer
9 6 (5.13%) Report Developer
9 6 (5.13%) SQL BI Developer
9 6 (5.13%) SQL Developer
10 5 (4.27%) Data Engineer
10 5 (4.27%) Senior Manager
11 4 (3.42%) Delivery Manager
11 4 (3.42%) Oracle Developer
11 4 (3.42%) Sage Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.13%) REST
2 4 (3.42%) .NET
2 4 (3.42%) JSON
2 4 (3.42%) Kafka
3 3 (2.56%) PyTorch
3 3 (2.56%) TensorFlow
4 2 (1.71%) ADO
4 2 (1.71%) Node.js
4 2 (1.71%) ONVIF
4 2 (1.71%) SAP Fiori
4 2 (1.71%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.85%) Apache Avro
5 1 (0.85%) CSS
5 1 (0.85%) Express.js
5 1 (0.85%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.85%) HTML
5 1 (0.85%) Middleware
5 1 (0.85%) Protocol Buffers
5 1 (0.85%) React
5 1 (0.85%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.13%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.27%) AI Agents
2 5 (4.27%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.42%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.42%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.56%) Reference Data
4 3 (2.56%) Robotics
5 2 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.71%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.71%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (1.71%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.71%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.85%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.85%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.85%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.85%) Linux
1 1 (0.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
2 24 (20.51%) AI
3 23 (19.66%) Continuous Improvement
4 22 (18.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 18 (15.38%) Data Governance
5 18 (15.38%) Data Modelling
5 18 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
5 18 (15.38%) ETL
6 17 (14.53%) CI/CD
6 17 (14.53%) Data Analytics
6 17 (14.53%) Data Engineering
6 17 (14.53%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (13.68%) Validation
8 15 (12.82%) Machine Learning
9 14 (11.97%) DevOps
9 14 (11.97%) Roadmaps
10 13 (11.11%) Agile
10 13 (11.11%) Decision-Making
10 13 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
11 12 (10.26%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 21 (17.95%) SQL
2 17 (14.53%) Python
3 7 (5.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (5.13%) VBA
5 4 (3.42%) C#
5 4 (3.42%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.56%) Java
6 3 (2.56%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.85%) C
7 1 (0.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (10.26%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.84%) Degree
3 7 (5.98%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.42%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.71%) A+ Certification
6 2 (1.71%) CCNA
6 2 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.71%) MCSA
7 1 (0.85%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.85%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.85%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.85%) PMP
7 1 (0.85%) SAP Certification
7 1 (0.85%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (21.37%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.27%) QA
3 4 (3.42%) GDPR
4 3 (2.56%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.71%) GRC
System Software
1 7 (5.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (5.98%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.85%) Grafana
2 1 (0.85%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (18.80%) SAP
2 15 (12.82%) Databricks
2 15 (12.82%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.84%) Oracle
4 6 (5.13%) Sage
5 5 (4.27%) OpenAI
6 4 (3.42%) Foundry
6 4 (3.42%) Google
6 4 (3.42%) IBM
7 3 (2.56%) Adobe
7 3 (2.56%) Informatica
7 3 (2.56%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.71%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.71%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.71%) Talend
9 1 (0.85%) Confluent
9 1 (0.85%) IFS
9 1 (0.85%) Kepware
9 1 (0.85%) mParticle
9 1 (0.85%) Rockwell