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 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 15 25
Rank change year-on-year -2 +10 +6
Contract jobs citing Analytics 6 2 6
As % of all contract jobs in Leicestershire 3.92% 2.22% 3.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.69% 2.53% 4.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £273 - £293
25th Percentile £363 - £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £675
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.20%
75th Percentile £447 - £688
90th Percentile £464 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £436 £420 £550
% change year-on-year +3.81% -23.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £20.97 - -
25th Percentile £21.68 - -
Median hourly rate £23.71 - -
75th Percentile £25.09 - -
90th Percentile £25.41 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £25.42 - £21.73
% change year-on-year - - -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 128 79 141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 83.66% 87.78% 82.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 54 105
10th Percentile £131 £211 £181
25th Percentile £360 £275 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £456 £380
Median % change year-on-year -6.85% +20.07% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £558 £575
90th Percentile £638 £703 £654
East Midlands median daily rate £435 £425 £440
% change year-on-year +2.35% -3.41% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 5
10th Percentile £13.84 £22.13 £11.85
25th Percentile £19.25 £23.44 £12.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £26.25 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% +87.50% -31.57%
75th Percentile £28.75 £28.44 £23.75
90th Percentile £30.25 £29.38 £43.10
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.44 £22.05 £17.71
% change year-on-year -16.38% +24.46% +5.24%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Leicestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytics in Leicestershire over the 6 months to 14 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Analytics in Leicestershire

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 14 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
Leicester +2 4 £425 - 14
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 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (16.67%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 2 (33.33%) PowerApps
3 1 (16.67%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Power BI
2 3 (50.00%) Tableau
3 1 (16.67%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Retail
3 1 (16.67%) Marketing
3 1 (16.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Data Scientist
1 2 (33.33%) Product Owner
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce Product Owner
2 1 (16.67%) Report Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Mobile App
1 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Android
1 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (50.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) AI
3 2 (33.33%) Backlog Management
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Data Science
3 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 2 (33.33%) Mathematics
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Product Backlog
3 2 (33.33%) Product Vision
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) User Experience
3 2 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (33.33%) R
4 1 (16.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 2 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Databricks
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft