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

 6 months to
17 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 16 64
Rank change year-on-year -9 +48 +8
Contract jobs citing Analytics 116 95 50
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 5.22% 9.72% 2.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.67% 10.78% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 65 35
10th Percentile £381 £405 £350
25th Percentile £463 £500 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +20.00% -
75th Percentile £619 £675 £538
90th Percentile £666 £700 £575
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 1
10th Percentile £52.63 £25.70 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £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 £60.50 £31.64 £29.19
% change year-on-year +91.21% +8.41% -8.80%

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 1,738 881 1,609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.15% 90.17% 85.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 863 467 670
10th Percentile £198 £229 £205
25th Percentile £363 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £686
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 442 177 610
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.12 £16.30 £15.39
Median hourly rate £23.83 £40.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.44% - +81.82%
75th Percentile £65.88 £72.50 £61.88
90th Percentile £71.90 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.07% -20.55% +1.39%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 17 May 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 +2 44 £505 -15.83% 9
Hertfordshire -27 24 £550 -15.38% 43
Cambridgeshire +12 15 £551 +14.99% 20
Suffolk +7 14 £653 +49.14% 8
Norfolk -14 10 £525 +7.64% 12
Essex -7 9 £375 +16.68% 14
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%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (9.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (5.17%) Sage X3
3 5 (4.31%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 25 (21.55%) Azure
2 24 (20.69%) Power Platform
3 12 (10.34%) AWS
4 8 (6.90%) SaaS
5 7 (6.03%) Azure AI
5 7 (6.03%) GCP
6 6 (5.17%) Copilot Studio
6 6 (5.17%) Microsoft Copilot
7 4 (3.45%) Serverless
8 3 (2.59%) Azure AKS
8 3 (2.59%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.72%) Azure Functions
9 2 (1.72%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (1.72%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (1.72%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (1.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (1.72%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.03%) Network Security
2 5 (4.31%) DNS
2 5 (4.31%) FTP
2 5 (4.31%) HTTP
2 5 (4.31%) SMTP
2 5 (4.31%) SSL
3 1 (0.86%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.86%) Firewall
3 1 (0.86%) Modbus
3 1 (0.86%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (18.97%) Power BI
2 11 (9.48%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (8.62%) Metadata
4 6 (5.17%) NoSQL
4 6 (5.17%) Power Query
4 6 (5.17%) ZAP BI
5 5 (4.31%) Oracle Reports
5 5 (4.31%) Tableau
6 4 (3.45%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.72%) Big Data
8 2 (1.72%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (1.72%) InfluxDB
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
9 1 (0.86%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (6.03%) Git
2 3 (2.59%) JIRA
3 1 (0.86%) GitLab
3 1 (0.86%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.86%) MLflow
General
1 41 (35.34%) Social Skills
2 28 (24.14%) Finance
3 13 (11.21%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.90%) Automotive
4 8 (6.90%) Manufacturing
5 6 (5.17%) Aviation
6 5 (4.31%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.59%) Local Government
8 3 (2.59%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.59%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.72%) Marketing
9 2 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.72%) Retail
10 1 (0.86%) Advertising
10 1 (0.86%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.86%) Law
Job Titles
1 19 (16.38%) Architect
2 16 (13.79%) Developer
3 15 (12.93%) Consultant
4 11 (9.48%) Analyst
4 11 (9.48%) Lead
5 9 (7.76%) Data Architect
6 8 (6.90%) Senior
7 7 (6.03%) Lead Consultant
7 7 (6.03%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (5.17%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 6 (5.17%) Head of AI
8 6 (5.17%) Power BI Developer
8 6 (5.17%) Report Developer
8 6 (5.17%) SQL BI Developer
8 6 (5.17%) SQL Developer
9 5 (4.31%) SOC Analyst
10 4 (3.45%) Data Engineer
10 4 (3.45%) Delivery Manager
10 4 (3.45%) Oracle Developer
10 4 (3.45%) Sage Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.76%) REST
2 6 (5.17%) PyTorch
2 6 (5.17%) TensorFlow
3 5 (4.31%) LDAP
3 5 (4.31%) scikit-learn
4 4 (3.45%) JSON
4 4 (3.45%) Kafka
5 2 (1.72%) .NET
5 2 (1.72%) ADO
5 2 (1.72%) Node.js
5 2 (1.72%) ONVIF
6 1 (0.86%) Apache Avro
6 1 (0.86%) CSS
6 1 (0.86%) Express.js
6 1 (0.86%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.86%) HTML
6 1 (0.86%) MERN Stack
6 1 (0.86%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.86%) Protocol Buffers
6 1 (0.86%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.31%) AI Agents
1 5 (4.31%) Analytical Mindset
1 5 (4.31%) CSOC
1 5 (4.31%) Cyber Threat
1 5 (4.31%) Cyberattack
1 5 (4.31%) Management Information System
1 5 (4.31%) Onboarding
1 5 (4.31%) Security Operations Centre
2 4 (3.45%) Cloud Native
2 4 (3.45%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.45%) Reference Data
3 3 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.72%) Life Science
4 2 (1.72%) Marketing Technology
4 2 (1.72%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (0.86%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (0.86%) NHS
5 1 (0.86%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.86%) Linux
1 1 (0.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (24.14%) Business Intelligence
2 26 (22.41%) Continuous Improvement
3 25 (21.55%) AI
4 23 (19.83%) Machine Learning
5 20 (17.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 19 (16.38%) Data Governance
6 19 (16.38%) ETL
7 18 (15.52%) Data Analytics
8 17 (14.66%) CI/CD
8 17 (14.66%) Data Pipeline
8 17 (14.66%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (13.79%) Data Modelling
10 15 (12.93%) Decision-Making
10 15 (12.93%) Validation
11 14 (12.07%) Data Engineering
11 14 (12.07%) DevOps
11 14 (12.07%) Ticket Management
12 13 (11.21%) Data Science
12 13 (11.21%) Migration
12 13 (11.21%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 23 (19.83%) Python
2 22 (18.97%) SQL
3 8 (6.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (5.17%) VBA
5 5 (4.31%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.72%) C#
6 2 (1.72%) Java
6 2 (1.72%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.72%) 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
2 8 (6.90%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.17%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.45%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.59%) Computer Science 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%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.86%) PMP
7 1 (0.86%) SAP Certification
7 1 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (22.41%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.45%) QA
3 3 (2.59%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.59%) GDPR
4 2 (1.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 9 (7.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (7.76%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.86%) Grafana
2 1 (0.86%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (17.24%) SAP
2 16 (13.79%) Databricks
2 16 (13.79%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.90%) OpenAI
3 8 (6.90%) Oracle
4 7 (6.03%) Foundry
4 7 (6.03%) Google
5 6 (5.17%) Sage
6 5 (4.31%) IBM
7 3 (2.59%) Informatica
7 3 (2.59%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.72%) Adobe
8 2 (1.72%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.72%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.72%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.72%) Talend
9 1 (0.86%) Confluent
9 1 (0.86%) IFS
9 1 (0.86%) mParticle
9 1 (0.86%) Rockwell
109 Analytics jobs in the East of England