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 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 85 111
Rank change year-on-year +9 +26 +27
Contract jobs citing Analytical Thinking 7 8 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.71% 0.59% 0.055%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.68% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile £171 £329 -
25th Percentile £208 £365 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £438
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +2.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £402 £513 £456
90th Percentile £626 £535 -
North West median daily rate £401 £488 £495
% change year-on-year -17.74% -1.52% -1.00%
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 865 1,172 1,630
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.82% 86.62% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 571 761 1,195
10th Percentile £300 £313 £309
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £700 £688 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 71 57
10th Percentile £15.64 £13.25 £14.39
25th Percentile £19.16 £16.43 £16.00
Median hourly rate £23.63 £30.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.25% +53.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £62.81 £62.50 £37.50
90th Percentile £78.13 £72.50 £58.50
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £27.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year +6.48% -6.90% +17.98%

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 19 July 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 2 (28.57%) WebSphere
1 2 (28.57%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (28.57%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
2 2 (28.57%) IBM Cloud
2 2 (28.57%) npm
3 1 (14.29%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Calico
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Big Data
1 1 (14.29%) Data Mining
1 1 (14.29%) Data Vault
1 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) GitLab
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
1 2 (28.57%) Maven
General
1 7 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
3 4 (57.14%) Finance
4 3 (42.86%) Banking
5 2 (28.57%) Marketing
6 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Business Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Programme Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Senior
1 2 (28.57%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
1 2 (28.57%) Replication
2 1 (14.29%) Mainframe
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Android
2 2 (28.57%) Apple iOS
2 2 (28.57%) HPUX
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Solaris
2 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (57.14%) Systems Thinking
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
4 2 (28.57%) Benchmarking
4 2 (28.57%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (28.57%) Change Management
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (28.57%) High Availability
4 2 (28.57%) ITIL
4 2 (28.57%) Lean Six Sigma
4 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (28.57%) PRINCE2
4 2 (28.57%) Process Management
4 2 (28.57%) Six Sigma
4 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Istio
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) IBM
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Sun
3 1 (14.29%) Unisys