Analytical Thinking Contract Job Trends in the North East

Analytical Thinking
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Analytical Thinking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 35 36
Rank change year-on-year -27 +1 -
Contract jobs citing Analytical Thinking 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.30% 0.33% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.41% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £318 - -
25th Percentile £325 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
75th Percentile £375 - -
90th Percentile £383 - -
England median daily rate £480 £514 £550
% change year-on-year -6.57% -6.59% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £11.13
Median hourly rate - - £11.27
75th Percentile - - £11.40
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £17.22 £50.00 £24.65
% change year-on-year -65.56% +102.84% -43.80%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 536 241 263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 80.72% 79.28% 80.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 165 117
10th Percentile £325 £213 £272
25th Percentile £400 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £590
90th Percentile £639 £625 £650
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 15 52
10th Percentile £17.00 - £11.45
25th Percentile £43.96 £11.60 £12.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £17.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +282.35% -12.82% -50.43%
75th Percentile £70.00 £33.40 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £50.70 £68.75
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.55 £37.50
% change year-on-year +66.37% -23.87% +4.17%

Analytical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Analytical Thinking relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Analytical Thinking job vacancy trend in the North East

Analytical Thinking
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Analytical Thinking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Analytical Thinking

Analytical Thinking
Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Analytical Thinking.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Analytical Thinking

Analytical Thinking
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analytical Thinking within the North East region over the 6 months to 8 June 2026. 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
Tyne and Wear -27 2 £350 - 3
Analytical Thinking
England

Analytical Thinking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (50.00%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (50.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Dimensional Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) SFIA
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Java
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform