Data Analytics Contracts in the East of England

Data Analytics
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Data Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Analytics over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 105 104
Rank change year-on-year +32 -1 +8
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 16 7 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.47% 0.36% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 0.43% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 11
10th Percentile £315 £303 £415
25th Percentile £525 £303 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £420 £550
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -23.64% +28.96%
75th Percentile £675 £500 £595
90th Percentile - £650 £600
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £13.30
25th Percentile £19.25 - £13.56
Median hourly rate £20.50 - £15.00
75th Percentile £21.75 - £52.72
90th Percentile - - £74.75
England median hourly rate £34.50 £32.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +7.81% -58.97% +122.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

Data 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 971 1,625 1,735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.16% 84.46% 87.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 651 1,015
10th Percentile £211 £200 £229
25th Percentile £363 £313 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.77% -12.10% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £574 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 609 348
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £31.64 £40.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.90% +90.48% +7.69%
75th Percentile £66.13 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.65 £70.00 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +46.03%

Data Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Data Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analytics in the East of England

Data Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Analytics in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Data Analytics in the East of England

Data Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analytics in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analytics in the East of England

Data Analytics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Analytics in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Analytics in the East of England

Data Analytics
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 Data Analytics within the East of England region over the 6 months to 1 July 2025. 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
Hertfordshire +35 12 £650 +54.76% 41
Cambridgeshire - 2 £550 - 53
Essex - 2 £315 - 36
Data Analytics
England

Data Analytics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (56.25%) Apache Spark
2 2 (12.50%) Apache
2 2 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) AWS
1 9 (56.25%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) GitHub
2 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
3 2 (12.50%) dbt
3 2 (12.50%) GCP
3 2 (12.50%) Vertex AI
4 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (81.25%) Tableau
2 9 (56.25%) Big Data
2 9 (56.25%) Hadoop
3 3 (18.75%) Power BI
4 2 (12.50%) BigQuery
4 2 (12.50%) Looker
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 11 (68.75%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Data Science Developer
1 11 (68.75%) Developer
2 5 (31.25%) Senior
2 5 (31.25%) Senior Developer
3 4 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) GCP Data Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Data Analytics Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Data Business Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Lead
5 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (81.25%) NumPy
1 13 (81.25%) Pandas
2 11 (68.75%) Matplotlib
2 11 (68.75%) PyTorch
2 11 (68.75%) scikit-learn
2 11 (68.75%) Seaborn
2 11 (68.75%) TensorFlow
3 2 (12.50%) AngularJS
3 2 (12.50%) Kafka
3 2 (12.50%) PySpark
3 2 (12.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 11 (68.75%) Algorithms
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Analytics
2 13 (81.25%) Data Science
2 13 (81.25%) Visualisation
3 12 (75.00%) Data Analysis
4 11 (68.75%) Artificial Intelligence
4 11 (68.75%) Data Munging
4 11 (68.75%) Decision-Making
4 11 (68.75%) Generative AI
4 11 (68.75%) LLM
4 11 (68.75%) Machine Learning
4 11 (68.75%) Predictive Analytics
4 11 (68.75%) Statistical Modelling
4 11 (68.75%) Time Series Forecasting
5 9 (56.25%) Computer Science
5 9 (56.25%) Feature Engineering
5 9 (56.25%) Reinforcement Learning
6 3 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (18.75%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (12.50%) DataOps
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) Python
2 11 (68.75%) R
3 2 (12.50%) Java
3 2 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (56.25%) Degree
1 9 (56.25%) Master's Degree
1 9 (56.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (81.25%) Data Quality
2 2 (12.50%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (6.25%) Alteryx
2 1 (6.25%) OpenAI
2 1 (6.25%) SAP