Analytical Skills Contracts in Cheshire

Analytical Skills
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 12 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 -5 +7
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 50 69 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 9.98% 12.80% 14.31%
As % of the General category 16.08% 22.04% 24.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 39 41
10th Percentile £240 £338 £313
25th Percentile £341 £406 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.61% -6.32% +14.46%
75th Percentile £582 £610 £538
90th Percentile £585 £680 £630
North West median daily rate £475 £438 £463
% change year-on-year +8.57% -5.41% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 4
10th Percentile £16.79 £16.95 £12.06
25th Percentile £17.72 £23.15 £14.15
Median hourly rate £26.66 £29.08 £17.16
Median % change year-on-year -8.31% +69.48% -54.25%
75th Percentile £43.75 £35.00 £20.56
90th Percentile - - £23.38
North West median hourly rate £17.72 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -49.37% +30.84% -30.84%

All General Skills
Cheshire

Analytical Skills is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 311 313 315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 62.08% 58.07% 59.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 207 185
10th Percentile £290 £221 £207
25th Percentile £393 £356 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +0.90%
75th Percentile £565 £568 £538
90th Percentile £628 £650 £631
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 20 21
10th Percentile £16.57 £13.95 £9.90
25th Percentile £17.72 £22.07 £11.21
Median hourly rate £24.58 £29.26 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.99% +39.33% +17.32%
75th Percentile £37.25 £33.42 £31.00
90th Percentile £43.75 £35.50 £58.75
North West median hourly rate £17.72 £26.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -31.85% +30.00% -11.11%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Analytical Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in Cheshire

Analytical Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Analytical Skills in Cheshire

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in Cheshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in Cheshire

Analytical Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Skills in Cheshire

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Skills in Cheshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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
Macclesfield -11 11 £518 +29.38% 8
Knutsford -3 9 £582 +30.79% 3
Chester -4 8 £475 -2.56% 24
Warrington +10 5 - - 20
Wilmslow -1 4 £369 +60.33% 3
Crewe +8 3 £450 - 10
Analytical Skills
North West

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.00%) IBM Notes
1 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (4.00%) Mule
2 1 (2.00%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (18.00%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (14.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (12.00%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (10.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (30.00%) AWS
2 12 (24.00%) Azure
3 10 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (16.00%) Power Platform
5 6 (12.00%) OneDrive
6 3 (6.00%) GCP
7 2 (4.00%) GitHub
8 1 (2.00%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (2.00%) Google Workspace
8 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.00%) DSL
2 5 (10.00%) VPN
3 3 (6.00%) BGP
3 3 (6.00%) MPLS
3 3 (6.00%) OSPF
3 3 (6.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (6.00%) Value-Added Service
3 3 (6.00%) VLAN
3 3 (6.00%) Wireshark
4 2 (4.00%) DMZ
4 2 (4.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.00%) Power BI
2 2 (4.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.00%) Power Query
3 1 (2.00%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 12 (24.00%) JIRA
2 9 (18.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.00%) Liquibase
3 2 (4.00%) Log4j
3 2 (4.00%) TeamCity
General
1 27 (54.00%) Social Skills
2 19 (38.00%) Finance
3 7 (14.00%) Public Sector
4 5 (10.00%) Manufacturing
4 5 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (6.00%) Banking
6 3 (6.00%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (6.00%) Legal
7 1 (2.00%) Automotive
7 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (18.00%) Support Engineer
1 9 (18.00%) Windows Engineer
2 5 (10.00%) IT Engineer
2 5 (10.00%) Manufacturing Engineer
3 4 (8.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 4 (8.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
3 4 (8.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 4 (8.00%) 2nd Line Support
3 4 (8.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 4 (8.00%) Analyst
3 4 (8.00%) Senior
4 3 (6.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (6.00%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
4 3 (6.00%) Data Manager
4 3 (6.00%) Developer
4 3 (6.00%) IT Support
4 3 (6.00%) IT Support Engineer
4 3 (6.00%) Network Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) 1st Line Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (4.00%) Kafka
1 2 (4.00%) Middleware
1 2 (4.00%) REST
1 2 (4.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.00%) Public Cloud
1 7 (14.00%) Virtual Team
2 5 (10.00%) Life Science
2 5 (10.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.00%) Reference Data
3 2 (4.00%) SCADA
4 1 (2.00%) CMDB
4 1 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.00%) Insider Threat
4 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.00%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.00%) Social Media
4 1 (2.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 15 (30.00%) Windows
2 8 (16.00%) Linux
3 7 (14.00%) Unix
4 6 (12.00%) Apple iOS
4 6 (12.00%) Mac OS
4 6 (12.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (24.00%) Agile
2 12 (24.00%) Project Management
3 9 (18.00%) CI/CD
4 8 (16.00%) Customer Service
4 8 (16.00%) Process Improvement
4 8 (16.00%) Project Delivery
4 8 (16.00%) Software Deployment
5 7 (14.00%) Analytics
5 7 (14.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (14.00%) DevOps
5 7 (14.00%) Inventory Management
5 7 (14.00%) Knowledge Transfer
5 7 (14.00%) Platform Engineering
5 7 (14.00%) Server Building
5 7 (14.00%) Service Management
6 6 (12.00%) Asset Management
6 6 (12.00%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (12.00%) Customer Experience
6 6 (12.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 9 (18.00%) SQL
2 7 (14.00%) Ruby
3 2 (4.00%) Java
3 2 (4.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 9 (18.00%) Degree
2 4 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (6.00%) CCIE
3 3 (6.00%) CCNP
3 3 (6.00%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (6.00%) VCAP
4 2 (4.00%) DBS Check
4 2 (4.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.00%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.00%) SLA
2 5 (10.00%) GAMP
2 5 (10.00%) GxP
3 3 (6.00%) QA
4 2 (4.00%) Data Quality
4 2 (4.00%) GDPR
4 2 (4.00%) PMO
5 1 (2.00%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (16.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (14.00%) Ansible
1 7 (14.00%) CFEngine
1 7 (14.00%) PowerBroker
1 7 (14.00%) Progress Chef
1 7 (14.00%) Puppet
2 6 (12.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (12.00%) SCCM
2 6 (12.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 15 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (14.00%) Atlassian
2 7 (14.00%) ServiceNow
3 6 (12.00%) Apple
3 6 (12.00%) SAP
4 3 (6.00%) LogicMonitor
4 3 (6.00%) SolarWinds
5 2 (4.00%) Lotus
5 2 (4.00%) VMware
6 1 (2.00%) Ariba
6 1 (2.00%) BMC
6 1 (2.00%) Databricks
6 1 (2.00%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.00%) Google
6 1 (2.00%) Oracle
6 1 (2.00%) Proofpoint
6 1 (2.00%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.00%) Symantec
6 1 (2.00%) Zscaler