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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 20 55
Rank change year-on-year -6 +35 -5
Contract jobs citing Analytics 104 89 63
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 5.56% 8.33% 3.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.98% 9.57% 3.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 64 42
10th Percentile £403 £317 £350
25th Percentile £463 £483 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.83% +20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £538
90th Percentile £650 £714 £574
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 1
10th Percentile £46.93 £22.48 -
25th Percentile £51.44 £27.31 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.34 £79.17
Median % change year-on-year +17.46% -30.10% +259.86%
75th Percentile £75.00 £81.01 -
90th Percentile £79.38 - -
England median hourly rate £55.50 £34.50 £35.63
% change year-on-year +60.87% -3.17% +11.34%

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 1,489 930 1,691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 79.58% 87.08% 86.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 659 472 843
10th Percentile £198 £250 £246
25th Percentile £350 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £478
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.60% -4.40%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £580
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 447 161 516
10th Percentile £14.01 £15.62 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.40 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £53.00 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -60.38% +39.03% +8.91%
75th Percentile £64.50 £72.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £29.61 £35.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -15.40% +6.06% -6.46%

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 7 March 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 7 March 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 7 March 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 -4 41 £505 -15.83% 22
Hertfordshire -28 27 £550 -13.73% 78
Cambridgeshire +6 17 £492 +23.05% 22
Suffolk +18 10 £653 +49.14% 6
Essex -2 7 £375 +19.05% 58
Norfolk -28 2 £400 -44.44% 9
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 8 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.96%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.96%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 19 (18.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (6.73%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 7 (6.73%) SAP FI
2 7 (6.73%) SAP MM
3 6 (5.77%) Sage X3
4 5 (4.81%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 4 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.96%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 33 (31.73%) Power Platform
2 26 (25.00%) 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
10 2 (1.92%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (1.92%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (1.92%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.96%) Amazon SageMaker
11 1 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.96%) Google Tag Manager
11 1 (0.96%) Serverless
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 31 (29.81%) Power BI
2 12 (11.54%) Metadata
3 11 (10.58%) NoSQL
4 10 (9.62%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (5.77%) Power Query
5 6 (5.77%) ZAP BI
6 5 (4.81%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (3.85%) Data Lake
7 4 (3.85%) Tableau
8 2 (1.92%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (1.92%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.96%) Big Data
9 1 (0.96%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.96%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.96%) MySQL
9 1 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.96%) SQL Server
9 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 46 (44.23%) Social Skills
2 37 (35.58%) Finance
3 15 (14.42%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.65%) Aviation
4 9 (8.65%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (7.69%) Manufacturing
5 8 (7.69%) Marketing
6 4 (3.85%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.88%) Banking
8 2 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.96%) Advertising
9 1 (0.96%) Electronics
9 1 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.96%) Local Government
9 1 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (19.23%) Consultant
2 18 (17.31%) Architect
3 16 (15.38%) Lead
4 12 (11.54%) Developer
5 9 (8.65%) Analyst
6 8 (7.69%) Data Architect
7 7 (6.73%) Lead Consultant
7 7 (6.73%) SAP Consultant
8 6 (5.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 6 (5.77%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 6 (5.77%) Power BI Developer
8 6 (5.77%) Report Developer
8 6 (5.77%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
8 6 (5.77%) SQL BI Developer
8 6 (5.77%) SQL Developer
9 5 (4.81%) SOC Analyst
9 5 (4.81%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (3.85%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
10 4 (3.85%) Data Engineer
10 4 (3.85%) Sage Developer
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 3 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.88%) Life Science
4 3 (2.88%) Social Media
5 2 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.92%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.92%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.96%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.96%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.96%) IoT
6 1 (0.96%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.96%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.96%) Linux
1 1 (0.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (31.73%) Business Intelligence
2 26 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 25 (24.04%) AI
4 24 (23.08%) Machine Learning
5 22 (21.15%) Validation
6 16 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 16 (15.38%) DevOps
6 16 (15.38%) ETL
7 14 (13.46%) CI/CD
7 14 (13.46%) Data Analytics
7 14 (13.46%) Data Governance
7 14 (13.46%) LLM
7 14 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (12.50%) Prompt Engineering
9 12 (11.54%) Data Management
9 12 (11.54%) Data Modelling
9 12 (11.54%) Data Science
9 12 (11.54%) Microservices
10 11 (10.58%) Customer Engagement
10 11 (10.58%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 24 (23.08%) Python
2 22 (21.15%) SQL
3 8 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (6.73%) ABAP
5 6 (5.77%) PowerShell
5 6 (5.77%) 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%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (21.15%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.88%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.92%) GDPR
4 1 (0.96%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.96%) GxP
4 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.96%) NIST
4 1 (0.96%) PMO
4 1 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
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 27 (25.96%) SAP
2 21 (20.19%) 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
7 6 (5.77%) Sage
8 5 (4.81%) IBM
9 4 (3.85%) Adobe
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%) Informatica
11 1 (0.96%) mParticle
11 1 (0.96%) Siemens
11 1 (0.96%) Talend