Analytical Skills Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Analytical Skills
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies in Cheshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 6 6
Rank change year-on-year -7 0 +7
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 83 113 80
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 10.70% 16.52% 14.81%
As % of the General category 18.28% 24.84% 21.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 84 49
10th Percentile £276 £313 £356
25th Percentile £411 £358 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £449 £530
Median % change year-on-year +5.63% -15.33% +6.53%
75th Percentile £543 £537 £575
90th Percentile £610 £663 £590
North West median daily rate £450 £450 £463
% change year-on-year - -2.70% -4.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £43.14 £35.60 £21.36
25th Percentile £56.12 £44.00 £21.83
Median hourly rate £80.50 £59.00 £23.14
Median % change year-on-year +36.44% +155.02% -
75th Percentile £84.63 £73.00 £23.92
90th Percentile £85.45 £80.80 £24.08
North West median hourly rate £42.75 £30.80 £31.25
% change year-on-year +38.80% -1.44% -17.63%

All General Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 454 455 367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 58.51% 66.52% 67.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 322 228
10th Percentile £295 £305 £356
25th Percentile £402 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £447 £509
Median % change year-on-year +10.74% -12.14% +1.75%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £579
90th Percentile £630 £688 £675
North West median daily rate £500 £455 £490
% change year-on-year +9.89% -7.14% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 26 13
10th Percentile £16.00 £12.82 £15.36
25th Percentile £16.63 £13.49 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.05 £18.31 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +91.44% -24.28% -12.07%
75th Percentile £83.75 £37.08 £35.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.25 -
North West median hourly rate £35.00 £22.63 £35.00
% change year-on-year +54.66% -35.34% +57.30%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Analytical Skills relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Analytical Skills job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Analytical Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in Cheshire over the 6 months to 4 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in Cheshire

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Analytical Skills.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Skills in Cheshire over the 6 months to 4 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in Cheshire

Analytical Skills
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 4 October 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
Knutsford 0 29 £446 +1.83% 11
Chester -3 24 £550 -21.43% 36
Warrington +2 19 £463 +5.71% 24
Crewe -8 4 £525 +81.03% 3
Macclesfield +5 3 £500 +21.21% 3
Ellesmere Port - 1 - - 2
Analytical Skills
North West

Analytical Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 8 (9.64%) Confluence
2 3 (3.61%) SAS
3 1 (1.20%) JBoss
3 1 (1.20%) Mule
3 1 (1.20%) Mule ESB
3 1 (1.20%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.20%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (9.64%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (7.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (4.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (4.82%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (9.64%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (2.41%) SAP HCM
2 2 (2.41%) SAP Payroll
2 2 (2.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (15.66%) Azure
2 11 (13.25%) AWS
3 7 (8.43%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (7.23%) Entra ID
5 5 (6.02%) Power Platform
6 4 (4.82%) SaaS
7 3 (3.61%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (2.41%) GCP
8 2 (2.41%) IBM Blueworks
9 1 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.20%) IBM Watson
9 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (1.20%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 11 (13.25%) Firewall
2 10 (12.05%) VPN
2 10 (12.05%) WAN
3 8 (9.64%) Network Security
4 5 (6.02%) LAN
4 5 (6.02%) SD-WAN
4 5 (6.02%) SNMP
4 5 (6.02%) Wireless
5 4 (4.82%) BGP
5 4 (4.82%) DNS
6 3 (3.61%) BIG-IP
6 3 (3.61%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (3.61%) DMZ
6 3 (3.61%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 3 (3.61%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 3 (3.61%) SAN
6 3 (3.61%) Wireshark
7 2 (2.41%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (2.41%) MPLS
7 2 (2.41%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.82%) Metadata
2 3 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.61%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.61%) Power BI
3 2 (2.41%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.41%) SAP HANA
3 2 (2.41%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.20%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (8.43%) JIRA
2 5 (6.02%) GitLab
2 5 (6.02%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.41%) Git
4 1 (1.20%) Claude Code
4 1 (1.20%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.20%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.20%) JUnit
4 1 (1.20%) Maven
4 1 (1.20%) SonarQube
General
1 52 (62.65%) Social Skills
2 27 (32.53%) Finance
3 16 (19.28%) Banking
4 5 (6.02%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (4.82%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (4.82%) Legal
6 3 (3.61%) Automotive
6 3 (3.61%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.61%) Marketing
7 2 (2.41%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.41%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.20%) Aviation
8 1 (1.20%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.20%) Law
8 1 (1.20%) Military
8 1 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.20%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.20%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 21 (25.30%) Analyst
2 11 (13.25%) Network Engineer
3 7 (8.43%) Service Analyst
4 6 (7.23%) Security Engineer
5 5 (6.02%) Consultant
5 5 (6.02%) Developer
5 5 (6.02%) Service Desk Analyst
6 4 (4.82%) Data Analyst
6 4 (4.82%) Delivery Manager
6 4 (4.82%) Lead
6 4 (4.82%) Service Management Analyst
6 4 (4.82%) Splunk Engineer
6 4 (4.82%) Support Engineer
6 4 (4.82%) Technical Delivery Manager
6 4 (4.82%) Technical Manager
7 3 (3.61%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (3.61%) Data Insight Analyst
7 3 (3.61%) Insight Data Analyst
7 3 (3.61%) IT Engineer
7 3 (3.61%) Lead Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.02%) JSON
1 5 (6.02%) REST
1 5 (6.02%) Terraform
2 4 (4.82%) XML
3 2 (2.41%) OAuth
3 2 (2.41%) SailPoint
4 1 (1.20%) HTML
4 1 (1.20%) Jakarta EE
4 1 (1.20%) JPA
4 1 (1.20%) Kafka
4 1 (1.20%) Middleware
4 1 (1.20%) Regular Expression
4 1 (1.20%) RESTful
4 1 (1.20%) Spring
4 1 (1.20%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.20%) Spring MVC
4 1 (1.20%) Spring Security
4 1 (1.20%) Web Services
4 1 (1.20%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.66%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (7.23%) Cyber Threat
2 6 (7.23%) Data Centre
2 6 (7.23%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (6.02%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.82%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.82%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.82%) Security Posture
4 4 (4.82%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.61%) Client/Server
5 3 (3.61%) Credit Risk
5 3 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.61%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.61%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.41%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.41%) Cyberattack
6 2 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.41%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.41%) Operational Technology
6 2 (2.41%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 14 (16.87%) Windows
2 8 (9.64%) Linux
3 6 (7.23%) Mac OS
4 3 (3.61%) Unix
5 2 (2.41%) AIX
5 2 (2.41%) Apple iOS
5 2 (2.41%) HPUX
5 2 (2.41%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (2.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.41%) Solaris
5 2 (2.41%) SUSE
5 2 (2.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (60.24%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (40.96%) Continuous Improvement
3 30 (36.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 21 (25.30%) ITIL
5 16 (19.28%) CI/CD
5 16 (19.28%) Project Management
6 15 (18.07%) Agile
6 15 (18.07%) Cybersecurity
7 14 (16.87%) Change Management
8 13 (15.66%) Analytics
8 13 (15.66%) Migration
9 12 (14.46%) Incident Management
9 12 (14.46%) ITSM
10 11 (13.25%) AI
10 11 (13.25%) Incident Response
10 11 (13.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 11 (13.25%) Risk Management
10 11 (13.25%) Security Operations
11 10 (12.05%) Actionable Insight
11 10 (12.05%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 20 (24.10%) Python
2 15 (18.07%) PowerShell
3 14 (16.87%) SQL
4 6 (7.23%) Search Processing Language
5 4 (4.82%) Bash
5 4 (4.82%) Java
6 3 (3.61%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (2.41%) ABAP
8 1 (1.20%) Assembly Language
8 1 (1.20%) C#
8 1 (1.20%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.20%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (13.25%) Degree
2 10 (12.05%) CISSP
3 7 (8.43%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (7.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 6 (7.23%) Security Cleared
5 4 (4.82%) AWS Certification
5 4 (4.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (4.82%) CompTIA Security+
5 4 (4.82%) GCIH
6 3 (3.61%) A+ Certification
6 3 (3.61%) CCNA
6 3 (3.61%) CCNP
6 3 (3.61%) GCFA
6 3 (3.61%) MCSE
6 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (3.61%) Network+ Certification
6 3 (3.61%) SC Cleared
7 2 (2.41%) CCIE
7 2 (2.41%) CISM
7 2 (2.41%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.84%) SLA
2 7 (8.43%) Data Quality
3 6 (7.23%) NIST
3 6 (7.23%) PCI DSS
4 5 (6.02%) GDPR
4 5 (6.02%) GRC
5 4 (4.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (3.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (2.41%) QA
8 1 (1.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (9.64%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.61%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.41%) Firmware
4 1 (1.20%) Docker
4 1 (1.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (14.46%) Ansible
2 7 (8.43%) Progress Chef
3 3 (3.61%) CASB
4 2 (2.41%) WMI
5 1 (1.20%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 22 (26.51%) Microsoft
2 14 (16.87%) ServiceNow
2 14 (16.87%) Splunk
3 8 (9.64%) Remedy
4 7 (8.43%) Cisco
5 5 (6.02%) F5
6 4 (4.82%) Atlassian
6 4 (4.82%) HP
6 4 (4.82%) Oracle
6 4 (4.82%) SAP
6 4 (4.82%) VMware
7 3 (3.61%) Arista
7 3 (3.61%) BeyondTrust
7 3 (3.61%) Cribl.io
7 3 (3.61%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (3.61%) Dell
7 3 (3.61%) Fortinet
7 3 (3.61%) Juniper
7 3 (3.61%) Teradata
8 2 (2.41%) Okta