Analytical Skills Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Analytical Skills
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 11 16
Rank change year-on-year -12 +5 +6
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 570 439 331
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 7.74% 11.09% 8.00%
As % of the General category 14.72% 18.10% 14.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 291 199
10th Percentile £295 £274 £349
25th Percentile £372 £358 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% -10.00% +2.88%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £581
90th Percentile £588 £656 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 18 17
10th Percentile £20.82 £18.01 £13.40
25th Percentile £25.49 £18.74 £13.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £33.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.87% +76.32% -45.71%
75th Percentile £72.81 £62.38 £54.00
90th Percentile £152.05 £66.13 £68.05
England median hourly rate £38.00 £32.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +16.92% +44.44% -48.19%

All General Skills
North of England

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 general skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 3,873 2,425 2,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 52.62% 61.24% 53.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,290 1,543 1,296
10th Percentile £283 £257 £300
25th Percentile £400 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £469 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -6.20% -2.44%
75th Percentile £579 £574 £588
90th Percentile £669 £650 £675
England median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 398 165 173
10th Percentile £16.01 £12.78 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.33 £15.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £32.23 £22.14 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.55% +5.43% -2.01%
75th Percentile £50.19 £44.09 £40.00
90th Percentile £76.38 £74.50 £51.91
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +29.22% -34.02% +36.24%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Analytical Skills job vacancy trend in the North of England

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Analytical Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in the North of England over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the North of England

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Analytical Skills.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Skills in the North of England over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the North of England

Analytical Skills
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 7 August 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
North West -13 280 £450 -2.44% 304
Yorkshire -7 251 £450 - 193
North East -12 40 £406 -6.61% 67
Analytical Skills
England

Analytical Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 34 (5.96%) Confluence
2 19 (3.33%) Apache Spark
3 13 (2.28%) SharePoint
4 11 (1.93%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.75%) Apache
6 9 (1.58%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.88%) SAS
8 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.35%) CICS
10 1 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.18%) JBoss
10 1 (0.18%) Mule
10 1 (0.18%) Mule ESB
10 1 (0.18%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 47 (8.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (5.44%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (3.16%) MS Visio
4 13 (2.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (1.40%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.18%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 19 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.93%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.53%) Primavera
3 3 (0.53%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.35%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.35%) SAP HCM
4 2 (0.35%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.35%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.18%) Actimize
5 1 (0.18%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 1 (0.18%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.18%) ResourceLink
5 1 (0.18%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.18%) SystmOne
5 1 (0.18%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 85 (14.91%) Azure
2 61 (10.70%) AWS
3 59 (10.35%) Power Platform
4 40 (7.02%) Microsoft 365
5 26 (4.56%) GCP
6 20 (3.51%) Entra ID
7 17 (2.98%) GitHub
8 16 (2.81%) SaaS
9 12 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (1.93%) Microsoft Copilot
11 10 (1.75%) Amazon S3
12 8 (1.40%) OpenShift
13 7 (1.23%) Amazon EMR
13 7 (1.23%) Serverless
13 7 (1.23%) Snowflake
14 6 (1.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (1.05%) Amazon ECR
14 6 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (1.05%) Microsoft Purview
15 5 (0.88%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 24 (4.21%) Firewall
2 18 (3.16%) VPN
3 16 (2.81%) DNS
4 13 (2.28%) Network Security
5 11 (1.93%) WAN
6 10 (1.75%) LAN
6 10 (1.75%) TCP/IP
7 9 (1.58%) BGP
8 7 (1.23%) Cisco Nexus
8 7 (1.23%) SAN
8 7 (1.23%) VLAN
9 6 (1.05%) OSPF
10 5 (0.88%) DHCP
10 5 (0.88%) HTTP
11 4 (0.70%) SD-WAN
11 4 (0.70%) VoIP
11 4 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.70%) Wireless
12 3 (0.53%) MPLS
12 3 (0.53%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (9.47%) Power BI
2 35 (6.14%) Data Warehouse
3 31 (5.44%) SQL Server
4 21 (3.68%) Tableau
5 19 (3.33%) MongoDB
6 18 (3.16%) Metadata
7 13 (2.28%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (2.11%) NoSQL
9 8 (1.40%) Big Data
9 8 (1.40%) BigQuery
9 8 (1.40%) Hadoop
9 8 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (1.23%) Db2
10 7 (1.23%) Relational Database
11 6 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (0.88%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.88%) DataStage
12 5 (0.88%) Looker
Development Applications
1 62 (10.88%) JIRA
2 21 (3.68%) Jenkins
3 20 (3.51%) GitLab
4 19 (3.33%) Git
5 6 (1.05%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.88%) Selenium
7 4 (0.70%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.70%) Flyway
7 4 (0.70%) REST Assured
7 4 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.53%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.53%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.53%) Gatling
8 3 (0.53%) Gradle
8 3 (0.53%) LoadRunner
8 3 (0.53%) Ranorex
8 3 (0.53%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.35%) JUnit
9 2 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.35%) Toad
General
1 274 (48.07%) Social Skills
2 192 (33.68%) Finance
3 71 (12.46%) Banking
4 55 (9.65%) Public Sector
5 32 (5.61%) Organisational Skills
6 31 (5.44%) Legal
7 24 (4.21%) Influencing Skills
7 24 (4.21%) Manufacturing
8 22 (3.86%) Documentation Skills
9 16 (2.81%) Publishing
10 15 (2.63%) Retail
11 12 (2.11%) Telecoms
12 11 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (1.58%) Marketing
14 7 (1.23%) Automotive
14 7 (1.23%) Law
14 7 (1.23%) Local Government
15 5 (0.88%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 4 (0.70%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 148 (25.96%) Analyst
2 65 (11.40%) Lead
3 60 (10.53%) Developer
4 48 (8.42%) Business Analyst
5 37 (6.49%) Senior
6 32 (5.61%) Data Analyst
7 30 (5.26%) Architect
8 21 (3.68%) Administrator
8 21 (3.68%) Data Engineer
9 20 (3.51%) Python Developer
10 18 (3.16%) Consultant
11 15 (2.63%) Network Engineer
11 15 (2.63%) Project Manager
12 13 (2.28%) IT Support
12 13 (2.28%) Risk Analyst
12 13 (2.28%) Service Analyst
13 12 (2.11%) Security Engineer
14 11 (1.93%) Senior Analyst
15 10 (1.75%) Product Manager
15 10 (1.75%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (4.56%) REST
2 18 (3.16%) FastAPI
3 14 (2.46%) OpenTelemetry
4 11 (1.93%) Kafka
4 11 (1.93%) PySpark
4 11 (1.93%) Spring
5 9 (1.58%) HTML
5 9 (1.58%) Node.js
6 8 (1.40%) JSON
6 8 (1.40%) Playwright
6 8 (1.40%) Spring Boot
7 7 (1.23%) SAP Basis
8 6 (1.05%) XML
9 5 (0.88%) Middleware
9 5 (0.88%) React
9 5 (0.88%) SailPoint
10 4 (0.70%) AngularJS
10 4 (0.70%) CSS
10 4 (0.70%) Pandas
10 4 (0.70%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 42 (7.37%) Analytical Mindset
2 30 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 29 (5.09%) Management Information System
4 28 (4.91%) Product Ownership
5 26 (4.56%) Data Protection Act
6 25 (4.39%) Data Structures
7 24 (4.21%) Cloud Native
8 19 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
9 18 (3.16%) Data Centre
10 17 (2.98%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
11 12 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (1.58%) Cyber Threat
12 9 (1.58%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.40%) Mainframe
14 7 (1.23%) AI Agents
14 7 (1.23%) NHS
14 7 (1.23%) PKI
14 7 (1.23%) Taxonomies
15 6 (1.05%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 45 (7.89%) Windows
2 21 (3.68%) Linux
3 11 (1.93%) Unix
3 11 (1.93%) Windows 10
4 9 (1.58%) Apple iOS
4 9 (1.58%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.40%) Mac OS
6 6 (1.05%) Android
7 5 (0.88%) AIX
8 4 (0.70%) VMS
9 2 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
9 2 (0.35%) HPUX
9 2 (0.35%) OpenVMS
9 2 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.35%) Solaris
9 2 (0.35%) SUSE
9 2 (0.35%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (54.21%) Problem-Solving
2 141 (24.74%) Agile
3 127 (22.28%) Stakeholder Management
4 123 (21.58%) Continuous Improvement
5 97 (17.02%) Analytics
6 90 (15.79%) CI/CD
7 80 (14.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 69 (12.11%) Decision-Making
8 69 (12.11%) DevOps
9 68 (11.93%) Migration
10 67 (11.75%) Business Intelligence
11 65 (11.40%) Change Management
12 63 (11.05%) AI
13 60 (10.53%) Project Management
14 59 (10.35%) ITIL
15 57 (10.00%) Data Modelling
15 57 (10.00%) Validation
16 55 (9.65%) Workshop Facilitation
17 54 (9.47%) Data Analysis
18 53 (9.30%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 111 (19.47%) Python
2 108 (18.95%) SQL
3 28 (4.91%) PowerShell
4 26 (4.56%) Java
5 13 (2.28%) JavaScript
6 11 (1.93%) Bash
7 10 (1.75%) Kotlin
8 9 (1.58%) R
8 9 (1.58%) TypeScript
9 8 (1.40%) T-SQL
10 7 (1.23%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.05%) C#
11 6 (1.05%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.53%) COBOL
12 3 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.53%) Scala
12 3 (0.53%) Search Processing Language
13 2 (0.35%) ABAP
13 2 (0.35%) Korn
Qualifications
1 81 (14.21%) Degree
2 71 (12.46%) Security Cleared
3 56 (9.82%) SC Cleared
4 21 (3.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (2.98%) CISSP
6 15 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
6 15 (2.63%) PMP
7 13 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (1.75%) A+ Certification
9 10 (1.75%) Network+ Certification
10 9 (1.58%) AWS Certification
10 9 (1.58%) CompTIA Security+
11 8 (1.40%) PMI Certification
12 7 (1.23%) Azure Certification
12 7 (1.23%) CCNP
12 7 (1.23%) ITIL Certification
13 6 (1.05%) CCNA
13 6 (1.05%) CEH
13 6 (1.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (11.05%) Data Quality
2 26 (4.56%) QA
3 16 (2.81%) GDPR
4 14 (2.46%) PMO
5 13 (2.28%) GRC
5 13 (2.28%) SLA
6 9 (1.58%) Accessibility
7 7 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.23%) NIST
7 7 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (1.05%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.53%) NCSC
9 3 (0.53%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.35%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 2 (0.35%) P3O
11 1 (0.18%) Def Stans
11 1 (0.18%) DO-178B
11 1 (0.18%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.18%) MISRA
System Software
1 33 (5.79%) Active Directory
1 33 (5.79%) Docker
2 9 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.70%) VMware NSX
3 4 (0.70%) vSphere
4 3 (0.53%) Firmware
4 3 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.35%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 2 (0.35%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.35%) NFS
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.35%) SRDF
5 2 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 32 (5.61%) Kubernetes
2 21 (3.68%) Terraform
3 20 (3.51%) Ansible
4 18 (3.16%) Grafana
5 16 (2.81%) Prometheus
6 14 (2.46%) Control-M
7 12 (2.11%) IBM Guardium
7 12 (2.11%) Nessus
8 11 (1.93%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.70%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.53%) Foglight
10 3 (0.53%) Istio
10 3 (0.53%) McAfee ePO
10 3 (0.53%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.53%) SCCM
10 3 (0.53%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.53%) WMI
11 2 (0.35%) Argo
11 2 (0.35%) CASB
Vendors
1 109 (19.12%) Microsoft
2 42 (7.37%) ServiceNow
3 40 (7.02%) SAP
4 26 (4.56%) Splunk
5 25 (4.39%) Oracle
6 18 (3.16%) Databricks
7 16 (2.81%) Cisco
7 16 (2.81%) Google
8 12 (2.11%) Tenable
9 11 (1.93%) Remedy
10 10 (1.75%) Okta
10 10 (1.75%) VMware
10 10 (1.75%) Workday
11 9 (1.58%) IBM
12 8 (1.40%) Juniper
13 7 (1.23%) CrowdStrike
13 7 (1.23%) Dell
13 7 (1.23%) Dynatrace
13 7 (1.23%) F5
13 7 (1.23%) Fortinet