Analyst Contracts in Manchester

Analyst
North West > Manchester

The median Analyst daily rate in Manchester is £358, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 12 10
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -2
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 93 145 222
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 10.44% 10.15% 12.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.16% 10.61% 12.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 104 168
10th Percentile £184 £256 £191
25th Percentile £222 £359 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £450 £408
Median % change year-on-year -20.44% +10.18% +8.92%
75th Percentile £477 £524 £500
90th Percentile £527 £600 £566
North West median daily rate £360 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -20.00% +5.88% +10.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 9
10th Percentile £14.18 - £13.70
25th Percentile £15.74 £13.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £22.00 £15.66 £16.85
Median % change year-on-year +40.49% -7.06% +15.10%
75th Percentile £24.75 £26.75 -
90th Percentile £39.08 £27.00 £18.23
North West median hourly rate £24.50 £14.00 £22.46
% change year-on-year +75.00% -37.65% +33.15%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Manchester with a recognized job title 833 1,367 1,727
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.49% 95.66% 96.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 589 952 1,278
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £395 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £551 £586 £594
90th Percentile £669 £693 £675
North West median daily rate £473 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -4.16% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 83 44
10th Percentile - £12.05 £14.97
25th Percentile £13.00 £13.31 £17.50
Median hourly rate £24.50 £27.00 £27.60
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% -2.17% +52.36%
75th Percentile £63.75 £63.75 £52.81
90th Percentile £78.25 £73.75 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £28.99 £27.50 £30.65
% change year-on-year +5.42% -10.27% +27.17%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings that featured Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in Manchester

Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analyst in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Analyst in Manchester

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analyst in Manchester over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in Manchester

Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analyst in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Analyst in Manchester

Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analyst in Manchester over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Analyst in Manchester

Analyst
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 16 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
Bolton -5 4 £180 - 5
Salford -6 2 £400 +56.86% 4
Stockport - 2 £400 - 3
Rochdale +1 1 £325 - 2
Analyst
North West

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Manchester region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 31 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 27 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (27.96%) Microsoft
4 17 (18.28%) Finance
5 15 (16.13%) Change Management
5 15 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (15.05%) Windows
7 13 (13.98%) Agile
7 13 (13.98%) Public Sector
7 13 (13.98%) Customer Service
8 12 (12.90%) Migration
8 12 (12.90%) Azure
9 11 (11.83%) ITIL
10 10 (10.75%) Active Directory
10 10 (10.75%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (9.68%) Data Management
11 9 (9.68%) Microsoft Excel
11 9 (9.68%) Degree
11 9 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (9.68%) Requirements Gathering
12 8 (8.60%) Power Platform
12 8 (8.60%) Project Delivery
12 8 (8.60%) Power BI
12 8 (8.60%) Cybersecurity
12 8 (8.60%) Waterfall
12 8 (8.60%) Data Governance
12 8 (8.60%) Process Improvement
12 8 (8.60%) PowerShell
12 8 (8.60%) SQL
12 8 (8.60%) Telecoms

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (7.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.23%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.15%) SAS
4 1 (1.08%) CICS
4 1 (1.08%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (9.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.30%) MS Visio
3 3 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (1.08%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (3.23%) Unit4 Business World
2 2 (2.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.08%) BambooHR
3 1 (1.08%) Elite 3E
3 1 (1.08%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.08%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 12 (12.90%) Azure
2 9 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (8.60%) Power Platform
4 5 (5.38%) Entra ID
4 5 (5.38%) IaaS
5 2 (2.15%) AWS
5 2 (2.15%) SaaS
6 1 (1.08%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.08%) Boomi
6 1 (1.08%) GCP
6 1 (1.08%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.38%) Firewall
1 5 (5.38%) Intrusion Detection
1 5 (5.38%) Network Security
2 2 (2.15%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (1.08%) DHCP
3 1 (1.08%) DNS
3 1 (1.08%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (1.08%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.60%) Power BI
2 7 (7.53%) SQL Server
3 5 (5.38%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.23%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.23%) Tableau
5 2 (2.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.08%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.08%) EDRMS
6 1 (1.08%) Metadata
6 1 (1.08%) MySQL
6 1 (1.08%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (4.30%) JIRA
2 2 (2.15%) eggPlant
3 1 (1.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (1.08%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.08%) Visual Studio
General
1 31 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 17 (18.28%) Finance
3 15 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (13.98%) Public Sector
5 8 (8.60%) Telecoms
6 6 (6.45%) Banking
7 4 (4.30%) Marketing
8 3 (3.23%) Legal
8 3 (3.23%) Mandarin Language
8 3 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.23%) Retail
9 2 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.15%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.08%) Games
10 1 (1.08%) Law
10 1 (1.08%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.08%) ISPF
1 1 (1.08%) Playwright
1 1 (1.08%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.38%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (2.15%) Management Information System
2 2 (2.15%) NHS
2 2 (2.15%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.08%) CMDB
3 1 (1.08%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.08%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (1.08%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.08%) IVR
3 1 (1.08%) Mainframe
3 1 (1.08%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.08%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.08%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (15.05%) Windows
2 6 (6.45%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.23%) Windows 10
4 2 (2.15%) Linux
5 1 (1.08%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (16.13%) Change Management
3 13 (13.98%) Agile
3 13 (13.98%) Customer Service
4 12 (12.90%) Migration
5 11 (11.83%) ITIL
6 10 (10.75%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (9.68%) Data Management
7 9 (9.68%) Requirements Gathering
8 8 (8.60%) Cybersecurity
8 8 (8.60%) Data Governance
8 8 (8.60%) Process Improvement
8 8 (8.60%) Project Delivery
8 8 (8.60%) Waterfall
9 7 (7.53%) Analytics
9 7 (7.53%) Business Intelligence
10 6 (6.45%) Business Analysis
10 6 (6.45%) Data Protection
10 6 (6.45%) Information Security
10 6 (6.45%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (8.60%) PowerShell
1 8 (8.60%) SQL
2 2 (2.15%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (2.15%) Python
3 1 (1.08%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.08%) JCL
3 1 (1.08%) Uniface
3 1 (1.08%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (9.68%) Degree
2 7 (7.53%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (5.38%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.30%) Security Cleared
5 3 (3.23%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.15%) AAT
7 1 (1.08%) CCNA
7 1 (1.08%) CIPD
7 1 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.08%) ISEB
7 1 (1.08%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.08%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.38%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.30%) QA
3 2 (2.15%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.15%) GDPR
4 1 (1.08%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (10.75%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (5.38%) vSphere
3 1 (1.08%) Firmware
3 1 (1.08%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 7 (7.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.15%) Sysdig
3 1 (1.08%) CA Endevor
3 1 (1.08%) Grafana
3 1 (1.08%) Nagios
3 1 (1.08%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 26 (27.96%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.53%) VMware
3 4 (4.30%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.23%) Oracle
4 3 (3.23%) SAP
4 3 (3.23%) Splunk
5 2 (2.15%) Databricks
5 2 (2.15%) Glassbox
5 2 (2.15%) IBM
5 2 (2.15%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.15%) Veeam
5 2 (2.15%) Verint
6 1 (1.08%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.08%) Informatica
6 1 (1.08%) Intapp
6 1 (1.08%) Ivanti
6 1 (1.08%) Moogsoft
6 1 (1.08%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.08%) Talend
6 1 (1.08%) Workday