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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 22 72
Rank change year-on-year -6 +50 +5
Contract jobs citing Analytics 116 82 41
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 5.20% 7.84% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.59% 8.74% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 58 30
10th Percentile £373 £422 £350
25th Percentile £463 £500 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £600 £498
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +20.60% -0.50%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £575
90th Percentile £675 £708 £639
England median daily rate £525 £541 £550
% change year-on-year -3.05% -1.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 0
10th Percentile £69.40 £25.70 -
25th Percentile £76.00 £30.82 -
Median hourly rate £89.00 £31.64 -
Median % change year-on-year +181.29% - -
75th Percentile £90.50 £56.33 -
90th Percentile £90.80 £81.01 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £32.05 £29.00
% change year-on-year +71.61% +10.52% -10.22%

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 1,759 938 1,664
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.88% 89.67% 83.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 897 472 665
10th Percentile £190 £214 £200
25th Percentile £385 £372 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £442
Median % change year-on-year - +13.12% -9.33%
75th Percentile £594 £580 £575
90th Percentile £688 £656 £652
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 402 191 629
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.60 £16.95 £15.62
Median hourly rate £30.88 £36.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.23% -10.00% +90.48%
75th Percentile £67.79 £72.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £84.00 £74.00
England median hourly rate £47.50 £27.38 £38.00
% change year-on-year +73.52% -27.96% +7.04%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 43 £505 -15.83% 7
Hertfordshire -21 24 £550 -12.00% 22
Cambridgeshire +13 15 £551 +0.09% 13
Suffolk +7 15 £653 +49.14% 6
Essex -11 10 £375 +16.68% 8
Norfolk -15 9 £525 +7.64% 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 (2.59%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.72%) Apache
2 2 (1.72%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.86%) Mendix
3 1 (0.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.86%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.86%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (10.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (5.17%) Sage X3
3 5 (4.31%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 3 (2.59%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (1.72%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 27 (23.28%) Azure
2 22 (18.97%) Power Platform
3 12 (10.34%) AWS
4 8 (6.90%) SaaS
5 7 (6.03%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (5.17%) Copilot Studio
6 6 (5.17%) Microsoft Copilot
7 5 (4.31%) Azure AI
7 5 (4.31%) GCP
7 5 (4.31%) Serverless
8 4 (3.45%) Azure AKS
9 3 (2.59%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (2.59%) Azure Functions
9 3 (2.59%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (2.59%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.72%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (1.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.72%) dbt
10 2 (1.72%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.72%) Network Security
2 1 (0.86%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.86%) Firewall
2 1 (0.86%) Modbus
2 1 (0.86%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (17.24%) Power BI
2 10 (8.62%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (7.76%) Metadata
4 6 (5.17%) Power Query
4 6 (5.17%) ZAP BI
5 5 (4.31%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.59%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.59%) InfluxDB
7 3 (2.59%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.59%) Tableau
8 2 (1.72%) Big Data
8 2 (1.72%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (1.72%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (1.72%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.72%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.86%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.86%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.86%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (6.03%) Git
2 4 (3.45%) JIRA
3 1 (0.86%) GitLab
3 1 (0.86%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.86%) MLflow
General
1 33 (28.45%) Social Skills
2 26 (22.41%) Finance
3 8 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (6.90%) Automotive
3 8 (6.90%) Manufacturing
4 5 (4.31%) Aviation
5 4 (3.45%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.59%) Local Government
6 3 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.59%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.72%) General Ledger
7 2 (1.72%) Law
7 2 (1.72%) Marketing
7 2 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.72%) Retail
8 1 (0.86%) Advertising
8 1 (0.86%) Agriculture
8 1 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (17.24%) Architect
2 16 (13.79%) Consultant
2 16 (13.79%) Developer
3 10 (8.62%) Lead
3 10 (8.62%) Senior
4 9 (7.76%) Data Architect
5 8 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (6.03%) Lead Consultant
7 6 (5.17%) Analyst
7 6 (5.17%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 6 (5.17%) Head of AI
7 6 (5.17%) Power BI Developer
7 6 (5.17%) Report Developer
7 6 (5.17%) SQL BI Developer
7 6 (5.17%) SQL Developer
8 5 (4.31%) Data Engineer
8 5 (4.31%) Senior Manager
9 4 (3.45%) Delivery Manager
9 4 (3.45%) Oracle Developer
9 4 (3.45%) Sage Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.03%) REST
2 4 (3.45%) .NET
2 4 (3.45%) JSON
2 4 (3.45%) Kafka
2 4 (3.45%) PyTorch
2 4 (3.45%) TensorFlow
3 3 (2.59%) scikit-learn
4 2 (1.72%) ADO
4 2 (1.72%) Node.js
4 2 (1.72%) ONVIF
4 2 (1.72%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.86%) CSS
5 1 (0.86%) Express.js
5 1 (0.86%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.86%) HTML
5 1 (0.86%) MERN Stack
5 1 (0.86%) Middleware
5 1 (0.86%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.86%) React
5 1 (0.86%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.17%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.31%) AI Agents
2 5 (4.31%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.45%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.59%) Reference Data
4 3 (2.59%) Robotics
5 2 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.72%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (1.72%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.72%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.86%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (0.86%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.86%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.86%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.86%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.86%) Linux
1 1 (0.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (22.41%) Business Intelligence
2 24 (20.69%) AI
3 23 (19.83%) Continuous Improvement
3 23 (19.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 18 (15.52%) CI/CD
4 18 (15.52%) Data Analytics
4 18 (15.52%) Data Governance
4 18 (15.52%) Data Modelling
4 18 (15.52%) Data Pipeline
4 18 (15.52%) ETL
5 17 (14.66%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (13.79%) Data Engineering
6 16 (13.79%) Machine Learning
7 15 (12.93%) DevOps
7 15 (12.93%) Validation
8 13 (11.21%) Data Science
8 13 (11.21%) Decision-Making
8 13 (11.21%) Roadmaps
8 13 (11.21%) Ticket Management
9 12 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (18.10%) SQL
2 18 (15.52%) Python
3 7 (6.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (5.17%) VBA
5 4 (3.45%) C#
5 4 (3.45%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.59%) Java
6 3 (2.59%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.86%) C
7 1 (0.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (10.34%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.90%) Degree
3 7 (6.03%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.45%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.72%) A+ Certification
6 2 (1.72%) CCNA
6 2 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.72%) MCSA
7 1 (0.86%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.86%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.86%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.86%) PMP
7 1 (0.86%) SAP Certification
7 1 (0.86%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (20.69%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.31%) QA
3 3 (2.59%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.59%) GDPR
4 2 (1.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.72%) GRC
System Software
1 8 (6.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.86%) Grafana
2 1 (0.86%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (18.10%) SAP
2 15 (12.93%) Databricks
2 15 (12.93%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.76%) Oracle
4 6 (5.17%) OpenAI
4 6 (5.17%) Sage
5 5 (4.31%) Foundry
5 5 (4.31%) Google
5 5 (4.31%) IBM
6 3 (2.59%) Adobe
6 3 (2.59%) Informatica
6 3 (2.59%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.72%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.72%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.72%) Talend
8 1 (0.86%) Confluent
8 1 (0.86%) IFS
8 1 (0.86%) Kepware
8 1 (0.86%) mParticle
8 1 (0.86%) Rockwell