Analytical Thinking Contracts in Manchester

Analytical Thinking
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 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 73 85 116
Rank change year-on-year +12 +31 +21
Contract jobs citing Analytical Thinking 6 11 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.65% 0.73% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.83% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 1
10th Percentile £165 £296 -
25th Percentile £193 £335 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £404 £463 £438
Median % change year-on-year -12.63% +5.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £644 £488 £456
90th Percentile £723 £519 -
North West median daily rate £561 £475 £438
% change year-on-year +18.16% +8.57% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £64.21 -
North West median hourly rate £83.50 £64.21 -
% change year-on-year +30.04% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Analytical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Thinking in Manchester

Analytical Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Analytical Thinking in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Thinking in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Thinking in Manchester

Analytical Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Thinking in Manchester

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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 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (33.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (16.67%) dbt
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (16.67%) Big Data
1 1 (16.67%) Data Mining
1 1 (16.67%) Data Vault
1 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
1 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
General
1 6 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 2 (33.33%) Marketing
4 1 (16.67%) Banking
4 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Business Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Programme Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 2 (33.33%) Replication
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (16.67%) Mainframe
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) HPUX
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Solaris
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Benchmarking
3 2 (33.33%) Business Case
3 2 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (33.33%) Change Management
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (33.33%) High Availability
3 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (33.33%) Lean Six Sigma
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (33.33%) PRINCE2
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Process Management
3 2 (33.33%) Project Management
3 2 (33.33%) Six Sigma
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) IBM
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) Sun
2 1 (16.67%) Unisys