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 5 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 1 7
Rank change year-on-year -10 +6 +7
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 12 23 31
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 10.81% 25.00% 13.66%
As % of the General category 18.18% 51.11% 23.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 18
10th Percentile £280 - £146
25th Percentile £300 £180 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £641 £317 £410
Median % change year-on-year +102.53% -22.80% -3.53%
75th Percentile £672 £341 £614
90th Percentile £689 £531 £675
East of England median daily rate £550 £528 £438
% change year-on-year +4.27% +20.57% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 8
10th Percentile - - £10.42
25th Percentile - - £14.79
Median hourly rate - £30.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year - +62.16% -26.00%
75th Percentile - - £21.50
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £22.50 £25.25 £21.00
% change year-on-year -10.89% +20.24% -48.44%

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 66 45 130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 59.46% 48.91% 57.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 27 78
10th Percentile £185 £180 £179
25th Percentile £250 £281 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £320 £410
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -21.95% -13.68%
75th Percentile £425 £375 £569
90th Percentile £629 £500 £649
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 21
10th Percentile - £30.50 £10.42
25th Percentile £12.75 £31.25 £16.75
Median hourly rate £16.25 £32.50 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% -8.84% +69.76%
75th Percentile £23.50 £33.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £23.53 £34.50 £60.00
East of England median hourly rate £18.50 £26.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year -30.84% +33.75% +0.96%

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 5 February 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 5 February 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 -1 6 £491 +54.65% 2
Brentwood +3 1 - - 3
Witham - 1 - -
Chelmsford - 1 - - 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 4 (33.33%) SAS
2 2 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) AWS
1 2 (16.67%) GitHub
1 2 (16.67%) Sauce Labs
1 2 (16.67%) TestFlight
2 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Android Studio
1 2 (16.67%) Appium
1 2 (16.67%) Cypress.io
1 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
1 2 (16.67%) Postman
1 2 (16.67%) Selenium
1 2 (16.67%) Sourcetree
1 2 (16.67%) Xcode
General
1 8 (66.67%) Finance
2 5 (41.67%) Banking
3 4 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Asset Management Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Data Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Management Accountant
3 1 (8.33%) Python Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Python Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Python Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) QA Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) R Developer
3 1 (8.33%) SAS Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Software Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Systems Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) UAT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Credit Risk
2 3 (25.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (58.33%) Agile
3 4 (33.33%) Analytical Modelling
3 4 (33.33%) Credit Risk Management
3 4 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
3 4 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 4 (33.33%) Scorecard
3 4 (33.33%) System Testing
3 4 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 4 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
4 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Black-Box Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Business Analysis
5 2 (16.67%) High Availability
5 2 (16.67%) Manual Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 2 (16.67%) Scrum
5 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 2 (16.67%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Java
1 6 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (33.33%) R
2 4 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) AAT
2 1 (8.33%) ACCA
2 1 (8.33%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Grafana
1 2 (16.67%) Kibana
1 2 (16.67%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) SAP
2 2 (16.67%) Atlassian
3 1 (8.33%) Orchard