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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 11 7
Rank change year-on-year -5 -4 +6
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 46 67 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 9.33% 12.52% 14.89%
As % of the General category 15.08% 21.54% 25.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 39 41
10th Percentile £204 £338 £313
25th Percentile £318 £400 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% -6.32% +10.47%
75th Percentile £582 £610 £538
90th Percentile £596 £680 £630
North West median daily rate £488 £439 £463
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.14% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 6
10th Percentile £16.79 - £12.99
25th Percentile £17.72 £23.15 £16.23
Median hourly rate £26.66 £35.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.83% +66.67% -44.00%
75th Percentile £43.75 - £25.06
90th Percentile - - £25.38
North West median hourly rate £17.72 £35.00 £24.75
% change year-on-year -49.37% +41.41% -34.00%

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 305 311 310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 61.87% 58.13% 59.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 205 181
10th Percentile £276 £227 £205
25th Percentile £390 £363 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.95% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £564 £566 £525
90th Percentile £629 £650 £631
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 21 23
10th Percentile £16.57 £14.75 £10.05
25th Percentile £17.72 £23.15 £11.96
Median hourly rate £24.58 £30.54 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.52% +32.78% +28.49%
75th Percentile £37.25 £35.00 £31.00
90th Percentile £43.75 £40.00 £53.78
North West median hourly rate £17.72 £27.35 £20.07
% change year-on-year -35.21% +36.31% -10.82%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -8 10 £510 +27.50% 7
Chester -2 9 £475 -2.56% 18
Knutsford -4 5 £582 +30.79% 1
Warrington +9 4 - - 18
Wilmslow -1 4 £369 +60.33% 2
Crewe +6 3 £450 - 8
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 (4.35%) IBM Notes
1 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (4.35%) Mule
2 1 (2.17%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (19.57%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (15.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (13.04%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (10.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (10.87%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (23.91%) AWS
2 10 (21.74%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (17.39%) Azure
3 8 (17.39%) Power Platform
4 6 (13.04%) OneDrive
5 4 (8.70%) GCP
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (2.17%) GitHub
6 1 (2.17%) Google Workspace
6 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.87%) VPN
2 4 (8.70%) BGP
2 4 (8.70%) MPLS
2 4 (8.70%) OSPF
2 4 (8.70%) TCP/IP
2 4 (8.70%) Value-Added Service
2 4 (8.70%) VLAN
2 4 (8.70%) Wireshark
3 3 (6.52%) DSL
4 1 (2.17%) DMZ
4 1 (2.17%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.04%) Power BI
2 2 (4.35%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.17%) Power Query
3 1 (2.17%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 7 (15.22%) JIRA
2 5 (10.87%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.35%) Liquibase
3 2 (4.35%) Log4j
3 2 (4.35%) TeamCity
General
1 22 (47.83%) Social Skills
2 16 (34.78%) Finance
3 5 (10.87%) Manufacturing
3 5 (10.87%) Pharmaceutical
3 5 (10.87%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.52%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (6.52%) Legal
4 3 (6.52%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (4.35%) Banking
6 1 (2.17%) Automotive
6 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (19.57%) Support Engineer
2 5 (10.87%) Analyst
2 5 (10.87%) IT Engineer
2 5 (10.87%) Manufacturing Engineer
2 5 (10.87%) Windows Engineer
3 4 (8.70%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 4 (8.70%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
3 4 (8.70%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 4 (8.70%) 2nd Line Support
3 4 (8.70%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 4 (8.70%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 4 (8.70%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
3 4 (8.70%) Network Engineer
3 4 (8.70%) Senior
4 3 (6.52%) Data Manager
4 3 (6.52%) Developer
4 3 (6.52%) IT Support
4 3 (6.52%) IT Support Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.35%) Hibernate
1 2 (4.35%) Kafka
1 2 (4.35%) Middleware
1 2 (4.35%) REST
1 2 (4.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.87%) Life Science
1 5 (10.87%) Management Information System
2 3 (6.52%) Public Cloud
2 3 (6.52%) Virtual Team
3 2 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.35%) Reference Data
3 2 (4.35%) SCADA
4 1 (2.17%) CMDB
4 1 (2.17%) Derivative
4 1 (2.17%) Equities
4 1 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.17%) Insider Threat
4 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.17%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.17%) Social Media
4 1 (2.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (21.74%) Windows
2 6 (13.04%) Apple iOS
2 6 (13.04%) Mac OS
2 6 (13.04%) Windows 10
3 4 (8.70%) Linux
4 3 (6.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (67.39%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (23.91%) Agile
2 11 (23.91%) Project Management
3 8 (17.39%) Customer Service
4 7 (15.22%) Analytics
4 7 (15.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (15.22%) Inventory Management
4 7 (15.22%) Process Improvement
4 7 (15.22%) Service Management
4 7 (15.22%) Software Deployment
5 6 (13.04%) Asset Management
5 6 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (13.04%) Computer Science
5 6 (13.04%) Customer Experience
5 6 (13.04%) Test Scripting
6 5 (10.87%) Change Management
6 5 (10.87%) Data Analytics
6 5 (10.87%) Data Extraction
6 5 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (10.87%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (19.57%) SQL
2 3 (6.52%) Ruby
3 2 (4.35%) Java
3 2 (4.35%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 10 (21.74%) Degree
2 5 (10.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (8.70%) CCIE
3 4 (8.70%) CCNP
3 4 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (8.70%) VCAP
4 2 (4.35%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.17%) CISSP
5 1 (2.17%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.22%) SLA
2 5 (10.87%) GAMP
2 5 (10.87%) GxP
3 3 (6.52%) QA
4 2 (4.35%) Data Quality
4 2 (4.35%) GDPR
4 2 (4.35%) PMO
5 1 (2.17%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (17.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (13.04%) Microsoft Intune
1 6 (13.04%) SCCM
1 6 (13.04%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 3 (6.52%) Ansible
2 3 (6.52%) CFEngine
2 3 (6.52%) PowerBroker
2 3 (6.52%) Progress Chef
2 3 (6.52%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (30.43%) Microsoft
2 7 (15.22%) ServiceNow
3 6 (13.04%) Apple
4 5 (10.87%) SAP
5 4 (8.70%) LogicMonitor
5 4 (8.70%) SolarWinds
6 3 (6.52%) Atlassian
7 2 (4.35%) Lotus
7 2 (4.35%) VMware
8 1 (2.17%) Ariba
8 1 (2.17%) BMC
8 1 (2.17%) Databricks
8 1 (2.17%) Dynatrace
8 1 (2.17%) Google
8 1 (2.17%) Oracle
8 1 (2.17%) Proofpoint
8 1 (2.17%) Salesforce
8 1 (2.17%) Symantec
8 1 (2.17%) Zscaler