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 19 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -23 +2 +4
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 6 12 28
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 2.33% 12.24% 11.91%
As % of the General category 4.35% 20.00% 21.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 14
10th Percentile - £234 £300
25th Percentile £300 £315 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £318 £488
Median % change year-on-year +6.85% -34.73% +78.90%
75th Percentile £448 £380 £669
90th Percentile £569 £419 £675
East of England median daily rate £525 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £30.00 £10.42
Median % change year-on-year - +187.91% -54.17%
75th Percentile - - £13.20
90th Percentile - - £14.87
East of England median hourly rate £22.50 £80.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -72.05% +274.42% -16.50%

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 138 60 128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 53.70% 61.22% 54.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 33 73
10th Percentile £310 £190 £250
25th Percentile £363 £313 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £330 £413
Median % change year-on-year +42.42% -20.00% -17.50%
75th Percentile £538 £425 £575
90th Percentile £600 £483 £620
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 14 14
10th Percentile £15.25 - £10.42
25th Percentile £16.17 £13.25 £17.61
Median hourly rate £17.73 £21.75 £38.58
Median % change year-on-year -18.51% -43.62% -24.38%
75th Percentile £27.74 £38.94 £64.25
90th Percentile £57.55 £47.96 £83.58
East of England median hourly rate £20.51 £35.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year -41.40% -8.18% +108.82%

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 19 June 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 19 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
Basildon -13 3 £300 -4.76% 1
Harlow - 1 £600 - 3
Chelmsford - 1 - - 2
Witham - 1 - -
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 (33.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (33.33%) Sauce Labs
2 2 (33.33%) TestFlight
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) dbt
3 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (16.67%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Android Studio
1 2 (33.33%) Appium
1 2 (33.33%) Cypress.io
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
1 2 (33.33%) Postman
1 2 (33.33%) Selenium
1 2 (33.33%) Sourcetree
1 2 (33.33%) Xcode
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Accountant
1 1 (16.67%) Administrator
1 1 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Data Administrator
1 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Field Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Field Service Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Field Support Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) IT Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) IT Support
1 1 (16.67%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) QA Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Quality Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Snowflake Data Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Snowflake Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Systems Accountant
1 1 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (16.67%) UAT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) API Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Black-Box Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 2 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (33.33%) ERP
2 2 (33.33%) Fintech
2 2 (33.33%) Manual Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Time Management
2 2 (33.33%) White-Box Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (16.67%) Data Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) A+ Certification
1 1 (16.67%) CCNA
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (16.67%) MCSE
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Network+ Certification
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Grafana
1 2 (33.33%) Kibana
1 2 (33.33%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Atlassian
1 2 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (16.67%) Dell