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 8 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 5 14
Rank change year-on-year -8 +9 -2
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 90 83 58
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 13.55% 19.17% 10.96%
As % of the General category 20.88% 27.04% 16.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 49 31
10th Percentile £313 £291 £225
25th Percentile £356 £360 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £417 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -16.70% +1.01% +0.41%
75th Percentile £539 £588 £550
90th Percentile £624 £703 £582
North West median daily rate £433 £475 £493
% change year-on-year -8.95% -3.65% +10.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 11
10th Percentile £21.75 £19.00 £16.79
25th Percentile £30.38 £20.02 £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 £24.18 £43.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £48.61 -
North West median hourly rate £41.00 £24.38 £17.72
% change year-on-year +68.15% +37.60% -49.37%

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 431 307 352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 64.91% 70.90% 66.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 167 228
10th Percentile £311 £313 £265
25th Percentile £358 £364 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +9.89%
75th Percentile £575 £582 £550
90th Percentile £652 £686 £600
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 35 31
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.82 £16.54
25th Percentile £21.16 £24.18 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.50 £32.50 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year -27.69% +37.65% +25.45%
75th Percentile £39.56 £73.75 £38.63
90th Percentile £64.50 £86.00 £43.75
North West median hourly rate £32.00 £30.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +6.67% +69.30% -31.60%

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 8 March 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 8 March 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 8 March 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 -8 45 £431 -11.86% 9
Chester -3 17 £780 +11.43% 6
Crewe +7 10 £363 +24.57% 3
Warrington -4 10 £425 -10.53% 8
Alderley Edge 0 1 £400 - 1
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 14 (15.56%) Confluence
2 8 (8.89%) SAS
3 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.22%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (2.22%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.22%) Skype for Business
5 1 (1.11%) JBoss
5 1 (1.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (8.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (6.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (4.44%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (2.22%) SAP HCM
2 2 (2.22%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 25 (27.78%) AWS
2 24 (26.67%) Azure
3 15 (16.67%) GCP
4 10 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (8.89%) Power Platform
6 6 (6.67%) Apigee
6 6 (6.67%) Kong
6 6 (6.67%) OpenShift
7 4 (4.44%) Akamai
8 3 (3.33%) OneDrive
8 3 (3.33%) SaaS
9 2 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.22%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.11%) AWS CodeBuild
10 1 (1.11%) GitHub
10 1 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.78%) VPN
2 6 (6.67%) Firewall
3 5 (5.56%) DNS
4 4 (4.44%) HTTP
4 4 (4.44%) LAN
4 4 (4.44%) WAN
5 3 (3.33%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.22%) Skype
7 1 (1.11%) DMZ
7 1 (1.11%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (1.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (1.11%) Kerberos
7 1 (1.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.89%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (4.44%) MS Access
3 3 (3.33%) Metadata
3 3 (3.33%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.33%) Power BI
3 3 (3.33%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.22%) SAP HANA
5 1 (1.11%) Power Query
5 1 (1.11%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.11%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (20.00%) JIRA
2 8 (8.89%) GitLab
3 4 (4.44%) JUnit
3 4 (4.44%) Postman
4 3 (3.33%) Git
4 3 (3.33%) Mockito
5 2 (2.22%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.22%) Zephyr
6 1 (1.11%) Gradle
6 1 (1.11%) Maven
6 1 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 43 (47.78%) Social Skills
2 39 (43.33%) Finance
3 22 (24.44%) Banking
4 8 (8.89%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (7.78%) Retail Banking
6 6 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (5.56%) Automotive
8 4 (4.44%) Marketing
9 3 (3.33%) Manufacturing
10 2 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (2.22%) Publishing
11 1 (1.11%) Public Sector
11 1 (1.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (40.00%) Analyst
2 21 (23.33%) Business Analyst
3 9 (10.00%) Security Engineer
4 8 (8.89%) Architect
5 6 (6.67%) Technical Analyst
5 6 (6.67%) Technical Business Analyst
6 5 (5.56%) Developer
7 4 (4.44%) Data Analyst
7 4 (4.44%) Lead
7 4 (4.44%) Payments Analyst
7 4 (4.44%) Payments Business Analyst
7 4 (4.44%) Senior
8 3 (3.33%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (3.33%) Insight Analyst
8 3 (3.33%) Risk Management Specialist
8 3 (3.33%) SAP Consultant
8 3 (3.33%) Service Desk Engineer
8 3 (3.33%) Service Transition Manager
8 3 (3.33%) Technical Programme Manager
8 3 (3.33%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (15.56%) REST
1 14 (15.56%) SOAP
2 13 (14.44%) Swagger
3 11 (12.22%) JSON
3 11 (12.22%) XML
4 9 (10.00%) OpenAPI
5 6 (6.67%) JWT
5 6 (6.67%) OAuth
6 3 (3.33%) CSS
6 3 (3.33%) HTML
6 3 (3.33%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (3.33%) Middleware
6 3 (3.33%) RESTful
6 3 (3.33%) Visualforce
6 3 (3.33%) YAML
7 2 (2.22%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.11%) .NET
8 1 (1.11%) Bootstrap
8 1 (1.11%) LDAP
8 1 (1.11%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 8 (8.89%) Credit Risk
3 7 (7.78%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.44%) Digital Wallet
4 4 (4.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 4 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.22%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.22%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.11%) CMDB
6 1 (1.11%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.11%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.11%) Learning Management System
6 1 (1.11%) Life Science
6 1 (1.11%) PKI
6 1 (1.11%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.56%) Windows
2 3 (3.33%) Linux
2 3 (3.33%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.11%) Unix
3 1 (1.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (42.22%) Agile
3 29 (32.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 21 (23.33%) CI/CD
5 17 (18.89%) Analytics
5 17 (18.89%) Change Management
5 17 (18.89%) DevOps
5 17 (18.89%) Validation
6 16 (17.78%) Requirements Gathering
7 14 (15.56%) Computer Science
7 14 (15.56%) Integration Patterns
8 13 (14.44%) Analytical Thinking
9 12 (13.33%) Scrum
10 11 (12.22%) Translating Business Requirements
11 10 (11.11%) Waterfall
11 10 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
12 9 (10.00%) Data Analysis
12 9 (10.00%) Decision-Making
12 9 (10.00%) Project Management
12 9 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (16.67%) Python
2 11 (12.22%) SQL
3 5 (5.56%) Java
3 5 (5.56%) R
4 4 (4.44%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.33%) ABAP
5 3 (3.33%) Apex Code
5 3 (3.33%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.22%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.11%) Bash
7 1 (1.11%) C#
7 1 (1.11%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.11%) SOQL
7 1 (1.11%) SOSL
7 1 (1.11%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (21.11%) Degree
2 12 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (6.67%) CISSP
4 5 (5.56%) CISM
5 3 (3.33%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.33%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (3.33%) Security Cleared
6 2 (2.22%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.22%) ISTQB
6 2 (2.22%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 2 (2.22%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.22%) PMP
6 2 (2.22%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.11%) CEH
7 1 (1.11%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (5.56%) NIST
1 5 (5.56%) PSD2
2 4 (4.44%) PCI DSS
3 3 (3.33%) ISO 8583
3 3 (3.33%) QA
4 1 (1.11%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.11%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.11%) GDPR
4 1 (1.11%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.11%) PMO
4 1 (1.11%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (7.78%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.22%) Docker
3 1 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (8.89%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.56%) Fluentd
3 3 (3.33%) SCCM
4 2 (2.22%) HP ALM
4 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.11%) Autotask
5 1 (1.11%) Norton AntiVirus
5 1 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.89%) SAP
3 7 (7.78%) ServiceNow
4 6 (6.67%) MuleSoft
5 5 (5.56%) Cribl.io
5 5 (5.56%) Pega
5 5 (5.56%) Splunk
6 4 (4.44%) Salesforce
7 3 (3.33%) Snow
7 3 (3.33%) Teradata
7 3 (3.33%) Workday
8 2 (2.22%) HP
9 1 (1.11%) F5
9 1 (1.11%) McAfee
9 1 (1.11%) NEC
9 1 (1.11%) Oracle
9 1 (1.11%) Proofpoint
9 1 (1.11%) Sage
9 1 (1.11%) Symantec
9 1 (1.11%) VMware