Analytics Contracts in Cheshire

Analytics
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytics over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 26 34
Rank change year-on-year -1 +8 +4
Contract jobs citing Analytics 32 33 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 7.13% 6.55% 5.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.34% 7.76% 6.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 17 20
10th Percentile £313 £365 £348
25th Percentile £358 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -13.64%
75th Percentile £580 £606 £630
90th Percentile £614 £612 £654
North West median daily rate £463 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
Median hourly rate - £42.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +64.71% +21.43% +89.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Analytics 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 436 425 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 97.10% 84.33% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 285 328
10th Percentile £317 £276 £275
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £575
90th Percentile £638 £635 £660
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 23
10th Percentile £19.00 £13.70 £19.06
25th Percentile £25.94 £16.61 £23.15
Median hourly rate £35.20 £26.66 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +32.03% -12.70% +29.96%
75th Percentile £85.44 £42.31 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £44.13 £39.20
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytics in Cheshire

Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Analytics in Cheshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytics in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytics in Cheshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytics in Cheshire

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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 Analytics within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Knutsford -3 11 £358 -37.05% 1
Macclesfield +8 6 £580 +13.73% 1
Crewe - 5 - - 7
Chester -7 4 £450 - 29
Warrington -2 3 £614 - 34
Analytics
North West

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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 3 (9.38%) JBoss
2 2 (6.25%) Confluence
3 1 (3.13%) ArcGIS
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.13%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (9.38%) MS Visio
4 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (3.13%) Adobe XD
5 1 (3.13%) InVision
5 1 (3.13%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 11 (34.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.13%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (3.13%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (3.13%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 5 (15.63%) Azure
1 5 (15.63%) Power Platform
2 4 (12.50%) AWS
2 4 (12.50%) OpenShift
2 4 (12.50%) Snowflake
3 1 (3.13%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (3.13%) Figma
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.38%) LAN
1 3 (9.38%) WAN
2 1 (3.13%) DNS
2 1 (3.13%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) Power BI
2 4 (12.50%) Data Lake
2 4 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (9.38%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (9.38%) RDBMS
3 3 (9.38%) Relational Database
4 2 (6.25%) Tableau
5 1 (3.13%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 6 (18.75%) JIRA
2 4 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 3 (9.38%) Bitbucket Server
3 3 (9.38%) CA Release Automation
3 3 (9.38%) Git
3 3 (9.38%) SonarQube
3 3 (9.38%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (9.38%) TeamCity
4 1 (3.13%) Axure RP
General
1 16 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (43.75%) Finance
3 10 (31.25%) Manufacturing
4 6 (18.75%) Automotive
4 6 (18.75%) Banking
4 6 (18.75%) Pharmaceutical
5 5 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (9.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (9.38%) Legal
7 2 (6.25%) Marketing
7 2 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
8 1 (3.13%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (3.13%) Financial Institution
8 1 (3.13%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 10 (31.25%) Analyst
2 4 (12.50%) Architect
2 4 (12.50%) Business Analyst
2 4 (12.50%) Data Analytics Specialist
3 3 (9.38%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (9.38%) Network Analyst
3 3 (9.38%) Risk Analyst
3 3 (9.38%) Service Analyst
4 2 (6.25%) Data Analyst
4 2 (6.25%) Data Business Analyst
4 2 (6.25%) SAP Financial Specialist
4 2 (6.25%) Senior
4 2 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.13%) AWS Architect
5 1 (3.13%) Commercial Analyst
5 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365 Architect
5 1 (3.13%) SAP Data Architect
5 1 (3.13%) Splunk Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) User Experience Researcher
5 1 (3.13%) Wintel Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (9.38%) Spring Boot
3 2 (6.25%) CSS
3 2 (6.25%) HTML
4 1 (3.13%) Kafka
4 1 (3.13%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Industry 4.0
1 6 (18.75%) Manufacturing Execution System
2 4 (12.50%) Life Science
3 2 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.13%) Blockchain
4 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.13%) Insider Threat
4 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.13%) NHS
4 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.13%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.13%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.50%) Windows
2 3 (9.38%) Linux
2 3 (9.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (6.25%) Android
3 2 (6.25%) Apple iOS
4 1 (3.13%) Mac OS
4 1 (3.13%) Windows 10
4 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (37.50%) Data Modelling
2 11 (34.38%) Data Analytics
3 10 (31.25%) Agile
3 10 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (25.00%) Quality Management
5 7 (21.88%) API Integration
5 7 (21.88%) Computer Science
5 7 (21.88%) Decision-Making
5 7 (21.88%) ERP
5 7 (21.88%) Project Management
5 7 (21.88%) Roadmaps
5 7 (21.88%) Workshop Facilitation
6 6 (18.75%) Agile Project Management
6 6 (18.75%) Lean Manufacturing
6 6 (18.75%) Mentoring
6 6 (18.75%) Operations Management
6 6 (18.75%) PLM
6 6 (18.75%) Presales
6 6 (18.75%) Product Roadmap
6 6 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.50%) Java
1 4 (12.50%) Python
2 3 (9.38%) Perl
3 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
3 2 (6.25%) SQL
4 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.13%) Search Processing Language
4 1 (3.13%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.13%) VB
4 1 (3.13%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (43.75%) Degree
2 10 (31.25%) Master's Degree
3 6 (18.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (15.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
6 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
6 1 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.13%) CBAP
6 1 (3.13%) MCP
6 1 (3.13%) MCSA
6 1 (3.13%) MCSE
6 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (3.13%) PMI Certification
6 1 (3.13%) PMP
6 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
6 1 (3.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) Accessibility
1 3 (9.38%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.25%) PMO
3 1 (3.13%) GDPR
3 1 (3.13%) NCSC
3 1 (3.13%) PSD2
System Software
1 4 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 4 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) BitLocker
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (3.13%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (18.75%) MOM
2 4 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 3 (9.38%) Kibana
3 3 (9.38%) Progress Chef
4 1 (3.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (3.13%) Ansible
4 1 (3.13%) Grafana
4 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.13%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.13%) SCCM
4 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (34.38%) SAP
2 6 (18.75%) Rockwell
2 6 (18.75%) Siemens
3 5 (15.63%) Ariba
3 5 (15.63%) Microsoft
4 4 (12.50%) Red Hat
4 4 (12.50%) Splunk
5 3 (9.38%) AppDynamics
5 3 (9.38%) Cloudera
6 2 (6.25%) Adobe
6 2 (6.25%) Anaplan
6 2 (6.25%) Hyperion
6 2 (6.25%) VMware
7 1 (3.13%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (3.13%) ESRI
7 1 (3.13%) McAfee
7 1 (3.13%) Ping Identity
7 1 (3.13%) Symantec