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 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 19 19
Rank change year-on-year -23 0 +29
Contract jobs citing Analytics 33 34 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 5.37% 6.95% 7.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.84% 8.13% 8.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 22 28
10th Percentile £268 £390 £362
25th Percentile £317 £416 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £384 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -30.18% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £545 £617 £593
90th Percentile £589 £689 £603
North West median daily rate £475 £528 £511
% change year-on-year -9.95% +3.33% -2.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
North West median hourly rate £70.16 - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - +108.31%

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 565 418 385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 92.02% 85.48% 87.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 428 281 225
10th Percentile £307 £311 £275
25th Percentile £358 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £478 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.95% -4.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £519 £575 £586
90th Percentile £647 £650 £638
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 18 33
10th Percentile - £11.18 £17.16
25th Percentile £12.82 £16.06 £22.53
Median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +14.60% +42.78%
75th Percentile £50.00 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £47.50 £39.15
North West median hourly rate £27.38 £35.00 £30.65
% change year-on-year -21.79% +14.20% +40.71%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -13 22 £358 -37.05% 1
Macclesfield -1 5 £580 +5.45% 1
Chester - 3 £775 - 8
Warrington - 1 - - 22
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 7 (21.21%) JBoss
2 4 (12.12%) Confluence
3 1 (3.03%) Apache
3 1 (3.03%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (6.06%) MS Visio
3 1 (3.03%) Adobe XD
3 1 (3.03%) InVision
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (3.03%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 5 (15.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.03%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (3.03%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 8 (24.24%) AWS
1 8 (24.24%) OpenShift
2 5 (15.15%) Azure
2 5 (15.15%) Power Platform
3 4 (12.12%) Snowflake
4 1 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (3.03%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.03%) Figma
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) Firewall
2 1 (3.03%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.21%) RDBMS
1 7 (21.21%) Relational Database
2 6 (18.18%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (15.15%) Power BI
4 4 (12.12%) Data Lake
4 4 (12.12%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (12.12%) Hadoop
5 3 (9.09%) Impala
6 1 (3.03%) Apache Hive
6 1 (3.03%) Big Data
6 1 (3.03%) MySQL
6 1 (3.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (30.30%) JIRA
2 8 (24.24%) Jenkins
3 7 (21.21%) Git
3 7 (21.21%) SonarQube
3 7 (21.21%) Sonatype Nexus
3 7 (21.21%) TeamCity
4 6 (18.18%) Bitbucket Server
4 6 (18.18%) CA Release Automation
5 1 (3.03%) Axure RP
5 1 (3.03%) Bitbucket
General
1 15 (45.45%) Finance
2 10 (30.30%) Social Skills
3 9 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (15.15%) Banking
4 5 (15.15%) Manufacturing
4 5 (15.15%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (9.09%) Legal
6 1 (3.03%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Marketing
6 1 (3.03%) Military
6 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (30.30%) Analyst
2 6 (18.18%) Business Analyst
3 5 (15.15%) Data Analyst
4 4 (12.12%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (12.12%) Data Analytics Specialist
5 3 (9.09%) DevOps Specialist
6 2 (6.06%) Data Business Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Developer
6 2 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) SAP Financial Specialist
6 2 (6.06%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) SQL Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) SQL Data Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Tester
7 1 (3.03%) Applications Support
7 1 (3.03%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Lead
7 1 (3.03%) Platform Specialist
7 1 (3.03%) Senior
7 1 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (24.24%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (21.21%) Spring Boot
3 5 (15.15%) CSS
3 5 (15.15%) HTML
4 3 (9.09%) AngularJS
4 3 (9.09%) LDAP
4 3 (9.09%) REST
4 3 (9.09%) SOAP
4 3 (9.09%) Web Services
5 1 (3.03%) JSON
5 1 (3.03%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Life Science
1 4 (12.12%) Management Information System
1 4 (12.12%) Virtual Team
2 3 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (6.06%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.03%) Blockchain
4 1 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Insider Threat
4 1 (3.03%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (24.24%) Windows
2 7 (21.21%) Linux
2 7 (21.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.03%) Android
3 1 (3.03%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (42.42%) Data Analytics
2 11 (33.33%) Migration
2 11 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (27.27%) DevOps
4 8 (24.24%) Agile
4 8 (24.24%) Change Management
4 8 (24.24%) Microservices
4 8 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (21.21%) CI/CD
5 7 (21.21%) Code Quality
5 7 (21.21%) Observability
5 7 (21.21%) Runbook
6 6 (18.18%) Build Automation
6 6 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
7 5 (15.15%) Data Modelling
7 5 (15.15%) ITIL
7 5 (15.15%) ITSM
7 5 (15.15%) Scrum
7 5 (15.15%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (36.36%) Python
2 10 (30.30%) Java
3 7 (21.21%) Perl
4 6 (18.18%) SQL
5 5 (15.15%) JavaScript
6 3 (9.09%) R
7 1 (3.03%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.03%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (33.33%) Degree
2 4 (12.12%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (12.12%) Master's Degree
3 3 (9.09%) CBAP
4 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.03%) PMI Certification
4 1 (3.03%) PMP
4 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) Accessibility
1 2 (6.06%) COBIT
1 2 (6.06%) Data Quality
1 2 (6.06%) PMO
2 1 (3.03%) GDPR
2 1 (3.03%) NIST
2 1 (3.03%) PSD2
System Software
1 8 (24.24%) Active Directory
1 8 (24.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (24.24%) Kubernetes
2 7 (21.21%) Kibana
2 7 (21.21%) Progress Chef
3 3 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (3.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (3.03%) Ansible
4 1 (3.03%) Grafana
4 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (24.24%) Cloudera
1 8 (24.24%) Red Hat
1 8 (24.24%) Splunk
2 7 (21.21%) AppDynamics
3 5 (15.15%) SAP
3 5 (15.15%) ServiceNow
4 4 (12.12%) Ariba
5 3 (9.09%) Microsoft
6 2 (6.06%) Anaplan
6 2 (6.06%) Hyperion
7 1 (3.03%) Adobe
7 1 (3.03%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (3.03%) LogRhythm
7 1 (3.03%) VMware