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 28 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 17 18
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 +4
Contract jobs citing Analytics 5 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in Leicestershire 3.42% 2.63% 3.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.20% 3.23% 4.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile £301 - -
25th Percentile £433 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 - £588
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.20%
75th Percentile £538 - £703
90th Percentile - - £731
East Midlands median daily rate £525 £411 £450
% change year-on-year +27.66% -8.61% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £19.75 -
East Midlands median hourly rate - £20.50 £21.73
% change year-on-year - -5.66% +55.21%

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 119 93 116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 81.51% 81.58% 75.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 52 86
10th Percentile £131 £134 £198
25th Percentile £313 £250 £278
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £386 £449
Median % change year-on-year +16.50% -13.98% +8.52%
75th Percentile £539 £488 £556
90th Percentile £638 £580 £625
East Midlands median daily rate £475 £410 £444
% change year-on-year +15.85% -7.66% -6.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 4
10th Percentile £16.31 £18.85 £14.45
25th Percentile £17.88 £19.38 £18.50
Median hourly rate £26.70 £20.50 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year +30.24% -9.89% +11.96%
75th Percentile £30.94 £21.03 £25.56
90th Percentile £33.75 £21.19 £27.48
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £18.87 £17.00
% change year-on-year -4.61% +11.00% -35.80%

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 28 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Analytics in Leicestershire

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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 28 June 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 +1 2 £369 - 7
Market Harborough - 2 £525 -
Analytics
East Midlands

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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 1 (20.00%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Power BI
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (20.00%) MySQL
3 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Data Governance Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Data Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Power BI Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Report Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (40.00%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (40.00%) AI
3 2 (40.00%) Coaching
3 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (40.00%) Validation
4 1 (20.00%) Change Management
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (20.00%) Data Validation
4 1 (20.00%) ETL
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks
1 1 (20.00%) Foundry
1 1 (20.00%) Palantir