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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 8 11
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 -1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 94 63 69
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 14.46% 14.06% 13.35%
As % of the General category 21.56% 21.14% 19.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 38 38
10th Percentile £313 £291 £191
25th Percentile £356 £356 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.79% -2.20% -4.94%
75th Percentile £538 £545 £550
90th Percentile £634 £591 £582
North West median daily rate £438 £450 £495
% change year-on-year -2.78% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 11
10th Percentile £21.75 £19.00 £16.79
25th Percentile £30.38 £19.51 £17.72
Median hourly rate £41.00 £22.09 £26.66
Median % change year-on-year +85.60% -17.14% +15.16%
75th Percentile £64.50 £23.92 £43.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £24.18 -
North West median hourly rate £41.00 £24.18 £17.72
% change year-on-year +69.56% +36.46% -42.36%

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 436 298 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 67.08% 66.52% 68.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 157 233
10th Percentile £300 £312 £265
25th Percentile £356 £360 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -10.90% -1.96% +7.94%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £560
90th Percentile £645 £685 £615
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 28 33
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.81 £16.59
25th Percentile £17.94 £19.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.85 £24.19 £26.66
Median % change year-on-year -5.52% -9.28% +65.90%
75th Percentile £41.50 £47.88 £37.25
90th Percentile £67.25 £86.00 £43.75
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £27.44 £19.75
% change year-on-year +7.86% +38.95% -16.22%

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 7 February 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 7 February 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 7 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
Knutsford -9 40 £402 -17.79% 3
Chester +4 25 £713 +23.91% 11
Warrington +1 11 £431 +4.55% 8
Crewe +7 10 £363 +24.57% 8
Alderley Edge 0 1 £400 -
Ellesmere Port - 1 £325 -
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 15 (15.96%) Confluence
2 9 (9.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (8.51%) SharePoint
4 7 (7.45%) Exchange Server 2013
4 7 (7.45%) SAS
4 7 (7.45%) Skype for Business
5 1 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.06%) JBoss
5 1 (1.06%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (14.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (13.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (11.70%) MS Visio
4 9 (9.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (4.26%) Payment Gateway
1 4 (4.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (3.19%) SAP EWM
3 2 (2.13%) SAP HCM
3 2 (2.13%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 28 (29.79%) Azure
2 24 (25.53%) AWS
3 16 (17.02%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (13.83%) GCP
5 9 (9.57%) OneDrive
6 7 (7.45%) Power Platform
7 6 (6.38%) Apigee
7 6 (6.38%) Kong
7 6 (6.38%) OpenShift
8 2 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.13%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.06%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.06%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (1.06%) AWS CodeBuild
9 1 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.06%) GitHub
9 1 (1.06%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.06%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.51%) Firewall
2 7 (7.45%) Skype
2 7 (7.45%) VPN
3 6 (6.38%) LAN
4 5 (5.32%) WAN
5 4 (4.26%) DNS
5 4 (4.26%) Network Security
6 3 (3.19%) DMZ
6 3 (3.19%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 3 (3.19%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (2.13%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.06%) BGP
8 1 (1.06%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (1.06%) iSCSI
8 1 (1.06%) Kerberos
8 1 (1.06%) NX-OS
8 1 (1.06%) SAN
8 1 (1.06%) VLAN
8 1 (1.06%) Wireless
8 1 (1.06%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.45%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (4.26%) MS Access
2 4 (4.26%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.13%) Metadata
3 2 (2.13%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.13%) Power BI
3 2 (2.13%) SAP HANA
4 1 (1.06%) Big Data
4 1 (1.06%) Power Query
4 1 (1.06%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.06%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (19.15%) JIRA
2 9 (9.57%) GitLab
3 4 (4.26%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.26%) JUnit
3 4 (4.26%) Postman
4 3 (3.19%) Git
4 3 (3.19%) Mockito
5 1 (1.06%) Appium
5 1 (1.06%) Gradle
5 1 (1.06%) Maven
5 1 (1.06%) MLflow
5 1 (1.06%) Selenium
5 1 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.06%) Zephyr
General
1 51 (54.26%) Social Skills
2 35 (37.23%) Finance
3 18 (19.15%) Banking
4 8 (8.51%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (5.32%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (5.32%) Retail Banking
6 4 (4.26%) Automotive
6 4 (4.26%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (4.26%) Marketing
7 2 (2.13%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.13%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.06%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.06%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 38 (40.43%) Analyst
2 21 (22.34%) Business Analyst
3 8 (8.51%) Architect
4 7 (7.45%) Consultant
4 7 (7.45%) Operational Support Analyst
4 7 (7.45%) Operations Analyst
4 7 (7.45%) Operations Support Analyst
4 7 (7.45%) Support Analyst
5 6 (6.38%) Technical Analyst
5 6 (6.38%) Technical Business Analyst
6 5 (5.32%) Developer
6 5 (5.32%) Security Engineer
7 4 (4.26%) Payments Analyst
7 4 (4.26%) Payments Business Analyst
7 4 (4.26%) SAP Consultant
8 3 (3.19%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (3.19%) Risk Management Specialist
8 3 (3.19%) Senior
8 3 (3.19%) Technical Programme Manager
8 3 (3.19%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.89%) REST
1 14 (14.89%) SOAP
2 13 (13.83%) Swagger
3 11 (11.70%) JSON
3 11 (11.70%) XML
4 9 (9.57%) OpenAPI
5 6 (6.38%) JWT
5 6 (6.38%) OAuth
6 4 (4.26%) HTML
6 4 (4.26%) RESTful
7 3 (3.19%) CSS
7 3 (3.19%) Lightning Web Components
7 3 (3.19%) Middleware
7 3 (3.19%) Visualforce
7 3 (3.19%) YAML
8 2 (2.13%) AngularJS
8 2 (2.13%) Kafka
9 1 (1.06%) .NET
9 1 (1.06%) LDAP
9 1 (1.06%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.57%) Product Ownership
2 7 (7.45%) Credit Risk
3 5 (5.32%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.26%) Digital Wallet
5 3 (3.19%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.19%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.13%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.13%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.06%) CMDB
7 1 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.06%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.06%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.06%) Life Science
7 1 (1.06%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.06%) PKI
7 1 (1.06%) Replication
7 1 (1.06%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.32%) Windows
2 3 (3.19%) Linux
2 3 (3.19%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.06%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.06%) Unix
3 1 (1.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (61.70%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (37.23%) Agile
3 33 (35.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 21 (22.34%) Validation
5 20 (21.28%) CI/CD
6 16 (17.02%) Change Management
7 15 (15.96%) Analytics
7 15 (15.96%) DevOps
7 15 (15.96%) Project Management
7 15 (15.96%) Requirements Gathering
8 14 (14.89%) Integration Patterns
9 13 (13.83%) Computer Science
10 12 (12.77%) ITIL
11 11 (11.70%) Analytical Thinking
11 11 (11.70%) Decision-Making
11 11 (11.70%) Microservices
11 11 (11.70%) Workshop Facilitation
12 10 (10.64%) Business Analysis
12 10 (10.64%) Scrum
12 10 (10.64%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 14 (14.89%) Python
2 11 (11.70%) SQL
3 6 (6.38%) Java
4 5 (5.32%) JavaScript
4 5 (5.32%) R
5 4 (4.26%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.19%) ABAP
6 3 (3.19%) Apex Code
7 2 (2.13%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.06%) Bash
8 1 (1.06%) C#
8 1 (1.06%) Perl
8 1 (1.06%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.06%) SOQL
8 1 (1.06%) SOSL
8 1 (1.06%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.06%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (23.40%) Degree
2 12 (12.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (8.51%) Security Cleared
4 7 (7.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (7.45%) SC Cleared
5 6 (6.38%) CISSP
6 5 (5.32%) CISM
7 3 (3.19%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.13%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.13%) CBAP
8 2 (2.13%) CSPO
8 2 (2.13%) PMI Certification
8 2 (2.13%) PMP
8 2 (2.13%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (1.06%) CCDP
9 1 (1.06%) CCNP
9 1 (1.06%) CEH
9 1 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.06%) ISTQB
9 1 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.38%) PCI DSS
2 5 (5.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (5.32%) NIST
2 5 (5.32%) PSD2
3 4 (4.26%) GDPR
4 3 (3.19%) ISO 20022
4 3 (3.19%) ISO 8583
4 3 (3.19%) QA
5 1 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.06%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.06%) SEPA
5 1 (1.06%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (12.77%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (9.57%) Kubernetes
2 8 (8.51%) SCCM
3 7 (7.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (5.32%) Fluentd
5 1 (1.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.06%) Autotask
5 1 (1.06%) HP ALM
5 1 (1.06%) Norton AntiVirus
5 1 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.06%) Terraform
5 1 (1.06%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 31 (32.98%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.70%) SAP
3 6 (6.38%) MuleSoft
4 5 (5.32%) Cribl.io
4 5 (5.32%) Pega
4 5 (5.32%) Salesforce
4 5 (5.32%) ServiceNow
4 5 (5.32%) Splunk
5 4 (4.26%) F5
5 4 (4.26%) VMware
6 3 (3.19%) Snow
6 3 (3.19%) Workday
7 2 (2.13%) Cisco
7 2 (2.13%) IBM
7 2 (2.13%) IBM Sterling
7 2 (2.13%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.13%) Teradata
8 1 (1.06%) NetApp
8 1 (1.06%) Proofpoint
8 1 (1.06%) Veeam