Analytical Skills Contracts 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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 8 11
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 +35
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 13 27 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 12.38% 12.11% 11.11%
As % of the General category 20.97% 21.95% 18.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 14 15
10th Percentile £153 £300 £137
25th Percentile £275 £405 £224
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £318 £488 £380
Median % change year-on-year -34.73% +28.29% +8.57%
75th Percentile £409 £669 £540
90th Percentile £468 £675 £584
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £400
% change year-on-year +5.26% +18.75% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £10.98 £21.46
25th Percentile - £11.81 £21.69
Median hourly rate - £13.20 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year - -45.40% -
75th Percentile - £14.59 £45.63
90th Percentile - £15.42 £57.25
East of England median hourly rate £80.68 £21.50 £24.59
% change year-on-year +275.23% -12.56% +40.50%

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 common skills in Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 62 123 164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 59.05% 55.16% 58.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 74 110
10th Percentile £167 £250 £224
25th Percentile £230 £300 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £328 £413 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.61% -17.50% +1.01%
75th Percentile £425 £575 £575
90th Percentile £492 £634 £601
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 13 10
10th Percentile - £11.53 £22.01
25th Percentile £13.25 £22.50 £45.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £41.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -49.40% -33.60% +66.22%
75th Percentile £40.25 £64.25 £75.31
90th Percentile £48.64 £85.05 £80.94
East of England median hourly rate £31.64 £38.12 £18.13
% change year-on-year -17.00% +110.29% +16.95%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Job postings citing Analytical Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Essex.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in Essex

Analytical Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in Essex.

Daily rate trend for Analytical Skills in Essex

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in Essex over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in Essex

Analytical Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in Essex.

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Skills in Essex

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 30 June 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
Basildon +7 6 £315 -53.33% 48
Brentwood +5 3 £413 - 2
Colchester - 2 £153 - 40
Analytical Skills
East of England

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 3 (23.08%) Apache
1 3 (23.08%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (15.38%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (7.69%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Power Platform
2 3 (23.08%) dbt
2 3 (23.08%) GCP
2 3 (23.08%) GitHub
2 3 (23.08%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Power BI
2 3 (23.08%) BigQuery
2 3 (23.08%) Looker
2 3 (23.08%) Tableau
3 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (7.69%) Metadata
4 1 (7.69%) Power Query
4 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
4 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) JIRA
1 2 (15.38%) TestRail
2 1 (7.69%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
General
1 9 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Data Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Desktop Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Desktop Migration Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) GCP Data Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) GCP Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Migration Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) QA Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Architect
3 1 (7.69%) C Developer
3 1 (7.69%) DBA
3 1 (7.69%) Firmware Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Senior QA Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) AngularJS
1 3 (23.08%) Kafka
1 3 (23.08%) NumPy
1 3 (23.08%) Pandas
1 3 (23.08%) POSIX
1 3 (23.08%) PySpark
1 3 (23.08%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Cloud Native
1 3 (23.08%) Device Driver
2 1 (7.69%) FPGA
2 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (38.46%) Workflow
2 5 (38.46%) Workflow Management
3 4 (30.77%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (30.77%) Code Quality
3 4 (30.77%) Data Visualisation
3 4 (30.77%) Migration
3 4 (30.77%) User Stories
3 4 (30.77%) Visualisation
4 3 (23.08%) Analytics
4 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
4 3 (23.08%) Data Engineering
4 3 (23.08%) Data Governance
4 3 (23.08%) Data Ingestion
4 3 (23.08%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (23.08%) Data Science
4 3 (23.08%) DataOps
4 3 (23.08%) Open Source
4 3 (23.08%) Regulatory Compliance
4 3 (23.08%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) SQL
2 3 (23.08%) C
2 3 (23.08%) Java
2 3 (23.08%) Python
3 2 (15.38%) Go
4 1 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) QA
2 3 (23.08%) Data Quality
2 3 (23.08%) GDPR
3 1 (7.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) Checkmarx
2 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Sage
2 1 (7.69%) Xilinx