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 7 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 2 6
Rank change year-on-year -13 +4 +2
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 9 24 33
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 7.09% 25.81% 14.22%
As % of the General category 10.98% 50.00% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 18
10th Percentile £260 £180 £146
25th Percentile £275 £315 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £318 £410
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -22.44% +27.13%
75th Percentile - £400 £614
90th Percentile - £524 £675
East of England median daily rate £541 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +8.13% +11.11% +15.83%
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% -20.09%
75th Percentile - - £21.50
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £22.50 £48.75 £21.00
% change year-on-year -53.85% +132.14% -65.00%

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 82 48 132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 64.57% 51.61% 56.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 32 79
10th Percentile £185 £180 £181
25th Percentile £250 £314 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £319 £323 £413
Median % change year-on-year -1.37% -21.65% -13.61%
75th Percentile £388 £400 £588
90th Percentile £475 £497 £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 12 3 21
10th Percentile - £17.87 £10.42
25th Percentile £12.75 £22.42 £16.75
Median hourly rate £16.25 £30.00 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year -45.83% -15.85% -19.89%
75th Percentile £23.50 £32.50 £52.50
90th Percentile £23.60 £34.00 £60.00
East of England median hourly rate £19.50 £40.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -51.25% +60.00% +19.05%

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
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 7 March 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 -3 4 £300 -4.76% 7
Chelmsford - 2 - - 9
Brentwood +1 1 - - 1
Witham - 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 2 (22.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
1 2 (22.22%) GitHub
1 2 (22.22%) Sauce Labs
1 2 (22.22%) TestFlight
2 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Android Studio
1 2 (22.22%) Appium
1 2 (22.22%) Cypress.io
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
1 2 (22.22%) Postman
1 2 (22.22%) Selenium
1 2 (22.22%) Sourcetree
1 2 (22.22%) Xcode
General
1 4 (44.44%) Banking
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Accountant
3 1 (11.11%) Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Asset Management Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Assistant Accountant
3 1 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Data Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Field Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Field Service Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Field Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Management Accountant
3 1 (11.11%) QA Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) UAT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Analytical Thinking
4 2 (22.22%) API Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Black-Box Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Business Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) Customer-Centricity
4 2 (22.22%) Emotional Intelligence
4 2 (22.22%) High Availability
4 2 (22.22%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (22.22%) Manual Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
4 2 (22.22%) People Management
4 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
4 2 (22.22%) Scrum
4 2 (22.22%) SDLC
4 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
4 2 (22.22%) Time Management
4 2 (22.22%) White-Box Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Java
1 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
1 2 (22.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) A+ Certification
2 1 (11.11%) AAT
2 1 (11.11%) ACCA
2 1 (11.11%) CCNA
2 1 (11.11%) CIMA
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (11.11%) MCSE
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Grafana
1 2 (22.22%) Kibana
1 2 (22.22%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) SAP
2 2 (22.22%) Atlassian
3 1 (11.11%) Dell
3 1 (11.11%) Orchard