Analytics Contract Job Trends in Leicestershire

Analytics
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leicestershire requiring Analytics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 17 22
Rank change year-on-year -3 +5 +9
Contract jobs citing Analytics 4 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in Leicestershire 2.70% 2.04% 2.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.28% 2.44% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £213 - £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 - £675
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.39%
75th Percentile £238 - £719
90th Percentile - - £738
East Midlands median daily rate £473 £356 £613
% change year-on-year +32.72% -41.88% +28.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £20.97 - -
25th Percentile £21.68 £18.50 -
Median hourly rate £23.71 £19.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +24.78% - -
75th Percentile £25.09 £19.50 -
90th Percentile £25.41 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £25.42 £21.00 £21.73
% change year-on-year +21.02% -3.36% -23.08%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leicestershire

Analytics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Leicestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 122 82 121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 82.43% 83.67% 76.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 51 94
10th Percentile £131 £225 £193
25th Percentile £358 £263 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £463 £375
Median % change year-on-year -9.73% +23.33% -5.06%
75th Percentile £545 £544 £556
90th Percentile £618 £651 £634
East Midlands median daily rate £450 £447 £418
% change year-on-year +0.67% +6.94% -7.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 3
10th Percentile £17.11 £19.05 £13.55
25th Percentile £20.50 £19.88 £16.25
Median hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +4.65% +4.37%
75th Percentile £27.25 £26.88 £25.50
90th Percentile £30.60 £28.75 £27.45
East Midlands median hourly rate £22.00 £18.87 £17.00
% change year-on-year +16.59% +11.00% -8.39%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Analytics relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire.

Analytics job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

Analytics
Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Analytics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Analytics

Analytics
Hourly Rate Trend in Leicestershire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Analytics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Analytics

Analytics
Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analytics within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Leicester +2 1 £225 - 8
Analytics
East Midlands

Analytics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (50.00%) Power Automate
2 2 (50.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Power BI
2 3 (75.00%) Tableau
3 1 (25.00%) MySQL
3 1 (25.00%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Report Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Data Science
2 2 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
2 2 (50.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Data Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Storytelling
3 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) R
4 1 (25.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks