Analytical Skills Contract Job Trends in Essex

Analytical Skills
East of England > Essex

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies in Essex. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 11 5
Rank change year-on-year -18 -6 +10
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 8 11 18
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 2.26% 8.80% 13.33%
As % of the General category 4.65% 16.42% 23.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 9
10th Percentile £333 £153 £154
25th Percentile £344 £341 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £583 £300
Median % change year-on-year -37.39% +94.33% -38.78%
75th Percentile £448 £667 £488
90th Percentile £569 £687 £548
East of England median daily rate £475 £528 £450
% change year-on-year -10.04% +17.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £16.38
25th Percentile £25.62 - £16.99
Median hourly rate £27.47 - £17.99
75th Percentile £29.32 - £19.00
90th Percentile - - £19.60
East of England median hourly rate £50.00 £59.00 £17.99
% change year-on-year -15.25% +227.96% -4.61%

All General Skills
Essex

Analytical Skills falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 172 67 78
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 48.59% 53.60% 57.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 33 43
10th Percentile £325 £161 £181
25th Percentile £375 £225 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £400 £350
Median % change year-on-year +27.50% +14.29% -33.33%
75th Percentile £598 £511 £494
90th Percentile £600 £637 £595
East of England median daily rate £478 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -4.40% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 13 8
10th Percentile £14.95 - £18.79
25th Percentile £16.25 £13.25 £21.88
Median hourly rate £17.50 £22.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% -55.45% -9.11%
75th Percentile £22.20 £50.00 £64.25
90th Percentile £40.77 £74.30 £66.95
East of England median hourly rate £31.93 £25.24 £38.12
% change year-on-year +26.51% -33.80% +115.12%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Analytical Skills relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex.

Analytical Skills job vacancy trend in Essex

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Analytical Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in Essex over the 6 months to 18 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in Essex

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Analytical Skills.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analytical Skills within the Essex region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Basildon -9 3 £380 -44.28% 11
Chelmsford - 2 £325 - 11
Harlow - 2 £475 - 4
Analytical Skills
East of England

Analytical Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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 2 (25.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (25.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) OpenShift
1 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) dbt
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub
2 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) BGP
1 2 (25.00%) LAN
1 2 (25.00%) MPLS
1 2 (25.00%) SNMP
1 2 (25.00%) TACACS
1 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (25.00%) WAN
1 2 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (12.50%) Power Query
2 1 (12.50%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (12.50%) Automotive
3 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Local Government
3 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
3 1 (12.50%) Marketing
3 1 (12.50%) Military
3 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Accountant
2 1 (12.50%) Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Data Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IP Network Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Lead Systems Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Network Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Network Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Sales Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Snowflake Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Systems Accountant
2 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) NETCONF
1 2 (25.00%) OpenConfig
1 2 (25.00%) RESTCONF
1 2 (25.00%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (25.00%) Private Cloud
1 2 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Data Analysis
1 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (37.50%) Project Delivery
2 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
2 2 (25.00%) ETL
2 2 (25.00%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Network Design
2 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (12.50%) Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Change Control
3 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
3 1 (12.50%) Data Validation
3 1 (12.50%) ERP
3 1 (12.50%) Project Management
3 1 (12.50%) Risk Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Use Case
3 1 (12.50%) Validation
3 1 (12.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) CCIE
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
1 2 (25.00%) JNCIE
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco
2 2 (25.00%) F5
2 2 (25.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (25.00%) Juniper
2 2 (25.00%) SAP
3 1 (12.50%) Orchard