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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 19 51
Rank change year-on-year -7 +32 +4
Contract jobs citing Analytics 111 83 61
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 5.63% 8.58% 3.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.18% 9.75% 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 59 39
10th Percentile £413 £384 £350
25th Percentile £463 £500 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.50% +20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £544
90th Percentile £666 £720 £575
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 1
10th Percentile £46.93 £25.70 -
25th Percentile £51.44 £30.82 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £31.64 £79.17
Median % change year-on-year +105.44% -60.04% +259.86%
75th Percentile £75.00 £56.33 -
90th Percentile £79.38 £81.01 -
England median hourly rate £58.70 £31.64 £39.38
% change year-on-year +85.52% -19.64% +31.25%

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 1,547 851 1,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.41% 88.00% 86.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 720 460 791
10th Percentile £200 £250 £237
25th Percentile £356 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% +5.21% -2.81%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
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 423 164 530
10th Percentile £14.15 £15.10 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.69 £20.26 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £54.00 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -59.26% +41.66% +27.07%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 £64.88
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £35.91 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +10.49% -1.52% -12.00%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -1 40 £505 -15.83% 11
Hertfordshire -27 27 £563 -13.46% 38
Cambridgeshire +11 21 £509 +27.25% 24
Suffolk +12 10 £653 +49.14% 4
Norfolk -20 7 £481 -33.16% 16
Essex -3 6 £375 +17.85% 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 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (2.70%) WordPress
2 2 (1.80%) Apache
2 2 (1.80%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (8.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.90%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.90%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (16.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (6.31%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 7 (6.31%) SAP FI
2 7 (6.31%) SAP MM
3 6 (5.41%) Sage X3
4 5 (4.50%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 4 (3.60%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 32 (28.83%) Power Platform
2 26 (23.42%) Azure
3 15 (13.51%) AWS
4 11 (9.91%) Azure AI
4 11 (9.91%) GCP
5 10 (9.01%) Copilot Studio
5 10 (9.01%) Microsoft Copilot
6 6 (5.41%) SaaS
7 4 (3.60%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (2.70%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.80%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.80%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.80%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (1.80%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (1.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (1.80%) Serverless
9 2 (1.80%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.90%) Amazon EventBridge
10 1 (0.90%) Amazon MSK
10 1 (0.90%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.31%) Network Security
2 5 (4.50%) DNS
2 5 (4.50%) FTP
2 5 (4.50%) HTTP
2 5 (4.50%) SMTP
2 5 (4.50%) SSL
3 1 (0.90%) DSL
3 1 (0.90%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.90%) Firewall
3 1 (0.90%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (27.03%) Power BI
2 14 (12.61%) Metadata
3 11 (9.91%) NoSQL
4 10 (9.01%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (5.41%) Power Query
5 6 (5.41%) ZAP BI
6 5 (4.50%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (3.60%) Data Lake
7 4 (3.60%) Tableau
8 2 (1.80%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.90%) Big Data
9 1 (0.90%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.90%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.90%) MySQL
9 1 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.90%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.90%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.90%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (4.50%) Git
2 3 (2.70%) JIRA
3 1 (0.90%) GitLab
3 1 (0.90%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.90%) MLflow
General
1 50 (45.05%) Social Skills
2 39 (35.14%) Finance
3 16 (14.41%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.11%) Aviation
4 9 (8.11%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (7.21%) Manufacturing
6 7 (6.31%) Marketing
7 4 (3.60%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.70%) Banking
8 3 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.80%) Local Government
9 2 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.90%) Advertising
10 1 (0.90%) Electronics
10 1 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.90%) Retail
10 1 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (18.92%) Consultant
2 18 (16.22%) Architect
3 15 (13.51%) Lead
4 14 (12.61%) Developer
5 9 (8.11%) Analyst
6 7 (6.31%) Data Architect
6 7 (6.31%) Lead Consultant
6 7 (6.31%) SAP Consultant
7 6 (5.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 6 (5.41%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 6 (5.41%) Power BI Developer
7 6 (5.41%) Report Developer
7 6 (5.41%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
7 6 (5.41%) SQL BI Developer
7 6 (5.41%) SQL Developer
8 5 (4.50%) Data Engineer
8 5 (4.50%) SOC Analyst
8 5 (4.50%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (3.60%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
9 4 (3.60%) Sage Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.71%) REST
2 10 (9.01%) PyTorch
2 10 (9.01%) TensorFlow
3 9 (8.11%) scikit-learn
4 6 (5.41%) SAP Basis
4 6 (5.41%) SAP Business Workflow
4 6 (5.41%) SAP Fiori
5 5 (4.50%) JSON
5 5 (4.50%) LDAP
6 4 (3.60%) Kafka
7 3 (2.70%) Node.js
8 2 (1.80%) ADO
9 1 (0.90%) .NET
9 1 (0.90%) Apache Avro
9 1 (0.90%) CSS
9 1 (0.90%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (0.90%) GraphQL
9 1 (0.90%) HTML
9 1 (0.90%) Protocol Buffers
9 1 (0.90%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.41%) Analytical Mindset
1 6 (5.41%) Management Information System
2 5 (4.50%) CSOC
2 5 (4.50%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (4.50%) Cyberattack
2 5 (4.50%) Onboarding
2 5 (4.50%) Security Operations Centre
3 4 (3.60%) Reference Data
4 3 (2.70%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.70%) Social Media
5 2 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.80%) Life Science
5 2 (1.80%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (1.80%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.90%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (0.90%) IoT
6 1 (0.90%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.90%) Linux
1 1 (0.90%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (28.83%) Business Intelligence
2 26 (23.42%) AI
2 26 (23.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 25 (22.52%) Validation
4 24 (21.62%) Machine Learning
5 20 (18.02%) ETL
6 17 (15.32%) Continuous Improvement
6 17 (15.32%) Data Governance
6 17 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (14.41%) DevOps
8 15 (13.51%) CI/CD
8 15 (13.51%) Data Modelling
9 14 (12.61%) Data Analytics
9 14 (12.61%) LLM
10 13 (11.71%) Data Management
10 13 (11.71%) Microservices
10 13 (11.71%) Migration
10 13 (11.71%) Prompt Engineering
11 12 (10.81%) Data Science
11 12 (10.81%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 25 (22.52%) Python
2 24 (21.62%) SQL
3 8 (7.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (6.31%) ABAP
5 6 (5.41%) VBA
6 5 (4.50%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.70%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.80%) Java
9 1 (0.90%) C
9 1 (0.90%) C#
9 1 (0.90%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (9.91%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.31%) Degree
3 6 (5.41%) DV Cleared
3 6 (5.41%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.80%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.90%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (22.52%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.60%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.70%) GDPR
4 2 (1.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.90%) PMO
5 1 (0.90%) QA
5 1 (0.90%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (9.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (9.91%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.90%) Grafana
2 1 (0.90%) Kibana
2 1 (0.90%) logstash
2 1 (0.90%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.90%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (23.42%) SAP
2 20 (18.02%) Microsoft
3 13 (11.71%) Databricks
4 12 (10.81%) OpenAI
5 11 (9.91%) Foundry
5 11 (9.91%) Google
6 10 (9.01%) ServiceNow
7 7 (6.31%) OpenText
7 7 (6.31%) Oracle
8 6 (5.41%) Sage
9 5 (4.50%) IBM
10 3 (2.70%) Adobe
11 2 (1.80%) Dynatrace
11 2 (1.80%) Informatica
11 2 (1.80%) Salesforce
11 2 (1.80%) Talend
12 1 (0.90%) IFS
12 1 (0.90%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.90%) Rockwell
12 1 (0.90%) Tealium