Analytical Thinking Contracts in Cheshire

Analytical Thinking
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Analytical Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Thinking over the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 54 51
Rank change year-on-year -13 -3 -
Contract jobs citing Analytical Thinking 5 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.85% 0.38% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.44% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £340 - £498
25th Percentile £352 £713 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £725 £523
Median % change year-on-year -27.03% +38.76% -
75th Percentile £728 £738 £555
90th Percentile £734 - £567
North West median daily rate £401 £488 £495
% change year-on-year -17.74% -1.52% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81.75 - -
Median hourly rate £83.50 - -
75th Percentile £85.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £83.50 £64.21 -
% change year-on-year +30.04% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Analytical Thinking falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 537 459 420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 91.79% 86.93% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 403 317 260
10th Percentile £313 £311 £288
25th Percentile £358 £390 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £537 £575 £586
90th Percentile £644 £638 £638
North West median daily rate £450 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 26 32
10th Percentile - £12.50 £17.18
25th Percentile £12.82 £17.02 £22.50
Median hourly rate £33.40 £35.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% +14.60% +40.22%
75th Percentile £50.00 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £85.25 £45.63 £39.58
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £27.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year +6.48% -6.90% +17.98%

Analytical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Thinking in Cheshire

Analytical Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Analytical Thinking in Cheshire

Analytical Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Thinking in Cheshire over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Thinking in Cheshire

Analytical Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Thinking in Cheshire

Analytical Thinking
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 Thinking within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 19 July 2025. 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
Chester -4 2 £713 -1.72% 2
Knutsford - 2 £352 - 1
Crewe - 1 - -
Analytical Thinking
North West

Analytical Thinking
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 (40.00%) JBoss
1 2 (40.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (20.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Apache
2 1 (20.00%) CMS
2 1 (20.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) Gradle
2 1 (20.00%) Hudson
2 1 (20.00%) JUnit
2 1 (20.00%) Maven
2 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (20.00%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Billing
3 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Applications Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Payments Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Payments Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Middleware
2 2 (40.00%) REST
2 2 (40.00%) RESTful
2 2 (40.00%) SOAP
2 2 (40.00%) Spring
3 1 (20.00%) Ajax
3 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (20.00%) CSS
3 1 (20.00%) CSS3
3 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (20.00%) HTML
3 1 (20.00%) HTML5
3 1 (20.00%) JAX-WS
3 1 (20.00%) JMS
3 1 (20.00%) jQuery
3 1 (20.00%) JSP
3 1 (20.00%) Servlets
3 1 (20.00%) Spring MVC
3 1 (20.00%) Struts
3 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) SDLC
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Architectural Design
2 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (40.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Backlog Management
4 1 (20.00%) Contingency Planning
4 1 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
4 1 (20.00%) Innovative Thinking
4 1 (20.00%) IT Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Test Assurance
4 1 (20.00%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (20.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe
1 1 (20.00%) HP
1 1 (20.00%) IBM
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle