Analytical Skills Contracts in Manchester

Analytical Skills
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months leading up to 22 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 22 32
Rank change year-on-year +9 +10 +17
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Analytical Skills 110 88 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 10.82% 7.28% 5.44%
As % of the General category 17.89% 14.06% 10.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 52 64
10th Percentile £271 £375 £312
25th Percentile £401 £413 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £458 £488
Median % change year-on-year - -6.15% +14.71%
75th Percentile £602 £556 £588
90th Percentile £778 £649 £718
North West median daily rate £456 £493 £486
% change year-on-year -7.51% +1.44% +9.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 3
10th Percentile £18.11 - £27.17
25th Percentile £26.72 £15.92 £41.73
Median hourly rate £29.60 £25.59 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.69% -61.23% +355.17%
75th Percentile £35.50 £49.50 £70.75
90th Percentile £42.90 £75.60 £73.60
North West median hourly rate £35.00 £44.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -21.35% -3.01% +83.52%

All General Skills
Manchester

Analytical Skills falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in Manchester.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 615 626 879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 60.47% 51.78% 50.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 379 616
10th Percentile £293 £325 £225
25th Percentile £398 £413 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £594
90th Percentile £688 £700 £684
North West median daily rate £469 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.20% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 30 37
10th Percentile - £16.70 £14.39
25th Percentile £13.00 £23.96 £15.75
Median hourly rate £21.32 £34.00 £17.70
Median % change year-on-year -37.31% +92.09% +0.25%
75th Percentile £55.12 £57.50 £20.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £63.23 £64.25
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £32.90 £26.60
% change year-on-year -12.60% +23.67% +32.57%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Analytical Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in Manchester

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Analytical Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in Manchester over the 6 months to 22 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in Manchester

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Analytical Skills.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Skills in Manchester over the 6 months to 22 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in Manchester

Analytical Skills
DemandTrendContract 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 Analytical Skills within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 22 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bolton -3 12 - - 28
Salford +4 6 £758 +63.89% 13
Stockport -1 4 - - 9
Oldham - 4 - - 5
Bury - 3 - - 6
Analytical Skills
North West

Analytical Skills
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 16 (14.55%) IBM Domino
2 4 (3.64%) Resin
2 4 (3.64%) WebSphere
2 4 (3.64%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (1.82%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.82%) Confluence
4 1 (0.91%) SAS
4 1 (0.91%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (3.64%) MS Visio
2 4 (3.64%) PTC Creo
3 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.91%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.91%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (3.64%) ContrOCC
2 3 (2.73%) SAP EWM
2 3 (2.73%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.91%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.91%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.91%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.91%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.91%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 14 (12.73%) Power Platform
2 12 (10.91%) GCP
3 11 (10.00%) AWS
3 11 (10.00%) Azure
4 4 (3.64%) IBM Cloud
4 4 (3.64%) npm
5 3 (2.73%) Lucidchart
5 3 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.73%) SaaS
5 3 (2.73%) SuccessFactors
6 2 (1.82%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (1.82%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.91%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.91%) Asana
7 1 (0.91%) AWS CodeBuild
7 1 (0.91%) BrowserStack
7 1 (0.91%) dbt
7 1 (0.91%) Figma
7 1 (0.91%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.64%) Calico
1 4 (3.64%) DHCP
1 4 (3.64%) DNS
1 4 (3.64%) TCP/IP
1 4 (3.64%) VPN
2 3 (2.73%) Network Security
3 1 (0.91%) tcpdump
3 1 (0.91%) VoIP
3 1 (0.91%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.73%) Power BI
2 10 (9.09%) Tableau
3 2 (1.82%) Big Data
3 2 (1.82%) MySQL
3 2 (1.82%) Power Query
3 2 (1.82%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.91%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.91%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.91%) Data Vault
4 1 (0.91%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.91%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.91%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.91%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.91%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 9 (8.18%) JIRA
2 6 (5.45%) GitLab
2 6 (5.45%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.64%) Git
3 4 (3.64%) Maven
4 1 (0.91%) Ant
4 1 (0.91%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.91%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.91%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.91%) JUnit
4 1 (0.91%) NUnit
4 1 (0.91%) Selenium
General
1 65 (59.09%) Social Skills
2 31 (28.18%) Finance
3 9 (8.18%) Banking
4 8 (7.27%) Manufacturing
5 7 (6.36%) Legal
6 5 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.55%) Retail
7 4 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.64%) French Language
8 3 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.82%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.91%) Games
10 1 (0.91%) Italian Language
10 1 (0.91%) Law
10 1 (0.91%) Local Government
10 1 (0.91%) Marketing
10 1 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.91%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 36 (32.73%) Analyst
2 9 (8.18%) Coordinator
3 8 (7.27%) CRM Coordinator
3 8 (7.27%) Desktop Support
3 8 (7.27%) Support Analyst
3 8 (7.27%) Technical Coordinator
4 7 (6.36%) Architect
4 7 (6.36%) Consultant
4 7 (6.36%) IT Support
4 7 (6.36%) Senior
5 6 (5.45%) Business Analyst
6 5 (4.55%) Deskside Analyst
6 5 (4.55%) Deskside Support
6 5 (4.55%) Deskside Support Analyst
6 5 (4.55%) Lead
6 5 (4.55%) Technology Support Analyst
7 4 (3.64%) Designer
7 4 (3.64%) IT Analyst
7 4 (3.64%) IT Engineer
7 4 (3.64%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.82%) HTML
1 2 (1.82%) Kafka
2 1 (0.91%) .NET
2 1 (0.91%) .NET Core
2 1 (0.91%) ADO.NET
2 1 (0.91%) ASP.NET
2 1 (0.91%) EJB
2 1 (0.91%) J2EE
2 1 (0.91%) JDBC
2 1 (0.91%) JSP
2 1 (0.91%) Matplotlib
2 1 (0.91%) OpenAPI
2 1 (0.91%) Pandas
2 1 (0.91%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (0.91%) React
2 1 (0.91%) REST
2 1 (0.91%) scikit-learn
2 1 (0.91%) Struts
2 1 (0.91%) Swagger
2 1 (0.91%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
2 9 (8.18%) Management Information System
3 6 (5.45%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.64%) 3D Printing
4 4 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.73%) CMDB
5 3 (2.73%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.73%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.82%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.82%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.82%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.82%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.82%) Replication
7 1 (0.91%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.91%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.91%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.91%) MISP
7 1 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.91%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 11 (10.00%) Windows
2 7 (6.36%) Linux
3 4 (3.64%) Android
3 4 (3.64%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.82%) HPUX
4 2 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.82%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (62.73%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (19.09%) Service Management
3 20 (18.18%) Analytics
3 20 (18.18%) Decision-Making
3 20 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 19 (17.27%) ITIL
4 19 (17.27%) ITSM
5 18 (16.36%) Agile
6 16 (14.55%) Project Management
7 15 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
8 14 (12.73%) Change Management
8 14 (12.73%) Data Management
8 14 (12.73%) Service Delivery
9 13 (11.82%) Computer Science
9 13 (11.82%) Customer Service
9 13 (11.82%) Cybersecurity
9 13 (11.82%) Strategic Thinking
10 12 (10.91%) DevOps
11 11 (10.00%) Data Analysis
12 10 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 12 (10.91%) Python
2 7 (6.36%) SQL
3 4 (3.64%) Shell Script
4 3 (2.73%) Java
4 3 (2.73%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (2.73%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.82%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.91%) Bash
6 1 (0.91%) C#
6 1 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.91%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.91%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.91%) R
6 1 (0.91%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (18.18%) Degree
2 16 (14.55%) Security Cleared
3 12 (10.91%) SC Cleared
4 8 (7.27%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (4.55%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (4.55%) PMI Certification
6 5 (4.55%) PMP
7 4 (3.64%) A+ Certification
8 2 (1.82%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.82%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.82%) CISA
8 2 (1.82%) CISM
8 2 (1.82%) CISSP
8 2 (1.82%) GCIA
8 2 (1.82%) GCIH
8 2 (1.82%) GSEC
9 1 (0.91%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.55%) GDPR
1 5 (4.55%) QA
2 3 (2.73%) PCI DSS
2 3 (2.73%) SLA
3 2 (1.82%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.82%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.82%) NIST
4 1 (0.91%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.91%) COBIT
4 1 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (4.55%) Docker
2 2 (1.82%) Firmware
2 2 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (5.45%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.55%) Terraform
3 4 (3.64%) Istio
4 3 (2.73%) QRadar
5 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.82%) SCCM
6 1 (0.91%) Ansible
6 1 (0.91%) Grafana
6 1 (0.91%) Nessus
6 1 (0.91%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 34 (30.91%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.00%) SAP
3 9 (8.18%) ServiceNow
4 7 (6.36%) Google
4 7 (6.36%) IBM
5 4 (3.64%) Liquidlogic
6 3 (2.73%) ArcSight
6 3 (2.73%) Splunk
7 2 (1.82%) Kronos
7 2 (1.82%) Sun
8 1 (0.91%) Ariba
8 1 (0.91%) BMC
8 1 (0.91%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.91%) Genesys
8 1 (0.91%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.91%) Oracle
8 1 (0.91%) Qualys
8 1 (0.91%) Rapid7
8 1 (0.91%) Remedy
8 1 (0.91%) Unisys