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 20 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 16 20
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 +15
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 416 297 336
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 8.78% 8.30% 7.24%
As % of the General category 14.61% 14.49% 13.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 165 198
10th Percentile £312 £291 £212
25th Percentile £369 £325 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £567
90th Percentile £617 £639 £626
England median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 18 22
10th Percentile £18.56 £15.15 £16.25
25th Percentile £27.53 £18.63 £16.77
Median hourly rate £33.50 £23.14 £19.64
Median % change year-on-year +44.80% +17.80% -50.90%
75th Percentile £43.00 £34.38 £46.11
90th Percentile £45.09 £67.70 £46.18
England median hourly rate £34.00 £25.00 £32.32
% change year-on-year +36.00% -22.65% -12.65%

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 common skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,848 2,050 2,581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 60.11% 57.29% 55.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,890 1,116 1,656
10th Percentile £213 £250 £256
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £477 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% -4.60% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £644 £675 £690
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 132 138
10th Percentile £15.16 £15.02 £14.65
25th Percentile £17.36 £17.39 £16.35
Median hourly rate £24.29 £24.54 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% +16.87% +5.00%
75th Percentile £45.46 £37.44 £43.75
90th Percentile £67.84 £60.00 £52.95
England median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -21.67% -9.09% +32.00%

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 20 December 2025.

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 20 December 2025.

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 20 December 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West -3 238 £450 - 376
Yorkshire -3 162 £494 -1.30% 350
North East -11 21 £450 -21.74% 95
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 26 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 23 (5.53%) Confluence
3 19 (4.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (2.88%) SAS
5 7 (1.68%) Apache
5 7 (1.68%) Exchange Server 2013
5 7 (1.68%) Skype for Business
6 5 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.96%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.96%) Resin
8 2 (0.48%) CMS
8 2 (0.48%) JBoss
8 2 (0.48%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.24%) CICS
9 1 (0.24%) IIS
9 1 (0.24%) Mule
9 1 (0.24%) Mule ESB
9 1 (0.24%) WebLogic
Applications
1 56 (13.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 17 (4.09%) MS Visio
4 16 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
5 11 (2.64%) Siemens NX
6 4 (0.96%) PTC Creo
7 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.48%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.24%) InVision
9 1 (0.24%) Sketch
9 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.24%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 11 (2.64%) Teamcenter
2 9 (2.16%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.96%) ContrOCC
4 4 (0.96%) SAP EWM
5 3 (0.72%) Cloudability
5 3 (0.72%) iTrent
6 2 (0.48%) Maximo
6 2 (0.48%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.24%) Advent Geneva
7 1 (0.24%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.24%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.24%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 63 (15.14%) Azure
2 60 (14.42%) AWS
3 55 (13.22%) Power Platform
4 32 (7.69%) GCP
5 27 (6.49%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (2.40%) Entra ID
6 10 (2.40%) OneDrive
6 10 (2.40%) SaaS
7 8 (1.92%) OpenShift
8 6 (1.44%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.20%) Amazon S3
9 5 (1.20%) GitHub
10 4 (0.96%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (0.96%) Apigee
10 4 (0.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (0.96%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (0.96%) Kong
10 4 (0.96%) OCI
10 4 (0.96%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.25%) Firewall
2 18 (4.33%) Network Security
3 13 (3.13%) DNS
4 9 (2.16%) VPN
5 8 (1.92%) BGP
6 7 (1.68%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 7 (1.68%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 7 (1.68%) LAN
6 7 (1.68%) Skype
6 7 (1.68%) TCP/IP
6 7 (1.68%) VLAN
7 6 (1.44%) DMZ
7 6 (1.44%) Software-Defined Networking
7 6 (1.44%) WAN
8 5 (1.20%) DHCP
8 5 (1.20%) WebEx
9 2 (0.48%) HTTP
9 2 (0.48%) Internet
9 2 (0.48%) SAN
9 2 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (11.54%) Power BI
2 18 (4.33%) Power Query
3 16 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (2.40%) Tableau
6 7 (1.68%) SQL Server
7 6 (1.44%) BigQuery
7 6 (1.44%) Data Lake
7 6 (1.44%) MongoDB
7 6 (1.44%) PowerPivot
8 5 (1.20%) NoSQL
8 5 (1.20%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (0.96%) DynamoDB
9 4 (0.96%) MS Access
9 4 (0.96%) OLTP
9 4 (0.96%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.72%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.72%) OLAP
10 3 (0.72%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 49 (11.78%) JIRA
2 15 (3.61%) GitLab
3 11 (2.64%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.16%) Git
5 6 (1.44%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.96%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.96%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (0.96%) TestRail
7 3 (0.72%) JUnit
7 3 (0.72%) Postman
8 2 (0.48%) Selenium
9 1 (0.24%) Ant
9 1 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.24%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.24%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.24%) Maven
9 1 (0.24%) MLflow
9 1 (0.24%) NUnit
9 1 (0.24%) PVCS
9 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio
General
1 212 (50.96%) Social Skills
2 135 (32.45%) Finance
3 45 (10.82%) Banking
4 40 (9.62%) Public Sector
5 22 (5.29%) Legal
6 18 (4.33%) Influencing Skills
6 18 (4.33%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (3.61%) Manufacturing
8 13 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (2.40%) Aerospace
10 9 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (1.92%) Local Government
12 5 (1.20%) Billing
12 5 (1.20%) Marketing
13 4 (0.96%) Law
13 4 (0.96%) Military
13 4 (0.96%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.72%) Automotive
14 3 (0.72%) Publishing
15 2 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 127 (30.53%) Analyst
2 47 (11.30%) Business Analyst
3 31 (7.45%) Architect
3 31 (7.45%) Data Analyst
4 27 (6.49%) Developer
4 27 (6.49%) Senior
5 20 (4.81%) Consultant
6 14 (3.37%) Platform Engineer
6 14 (3.37%) Support Analyst
7 13 (3.13%) Lead
7 13 (3.13%) Senior Analyst
8 12 (2.88%) Operations Analyst
9 11 (2.64%) Data Engineer
9 11 (2.64%) Project Manager
10 10 (2.40%) Product Owner
11 9 (2.16%) Security Analyst
12 8 (1.92%) Incident Manager
13 7 (1.68%) Administrator
13 7 (1.68%) Performance Analyst
13 7 (1.68%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.13%) JSON
1 13 (3.13%) XML
2 10 (2.40%) OpenTelemetry
2 10 (2.40%) REST
3 9 (2.16%) FastAPI
4 6 (1.44%) .NET
4 6 (1.44%) HTML
4 6 (1.44%) Node.js
4 6 (1.44%) SOAP
4 6 (1.44%) Spring
5 5 (1.20%) Kafka
5 5 (1.20%) Middleware
5 5 (1.20%) OAuth
5 5 (1.20%) Playwright
5 5 (1.20%) PySpark
5 5 (1.20%) Swagger
5 5 (1.20%) XMPP
6 4 (0.96%) JWT
6 4 (0.96%) OpenAPI
6 4 (0.96%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 41 (9.86%) Analytical Mindset
2 35 (8.41%) Product Ownership
3 17 (4.09%) Onboarding
4 14 (3.37%) Data Centre
4 14 (3.37%) Data Protection Act
5 11 (2.64%) Cloud Native
6 9 (2.16%) CMDB
6 9 (2.16%) Data Structures
6 9 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.92%) Management Information System
7 8 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.68%) Mainframe
9 5 (1.20%) Credit Risk
9 5 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.20%) NHS
9 5 (1.20%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.96%) 3D Printing
10 4 (0.96%) Security Posture
11 3 (0.72%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (0.72%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 31 (7.45%) Windows
2 19 (4.57%) Linux
3 17 (4.09%) Windows Server
4 11 (2.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.96%) Unix
6 3 (0.72%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.48%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.24%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (54.33%) Problem-Solving
2 122 (29.33%) Agile
3 93 (22.36%) Stakeholder Management
4 68 (16.35%) Decision-Making
5 55 (13.22%) Continuous Improvement
6 54 (12.98%) Analytics
6 54 (12.98%) CI/CD
6 54 (12.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 53 (12.74%) Business Intelligence
8 44 (10.58%) Data Analysis
8 44 (10.58%) Data Modelling
8 44 (10.58%) ITSM
9 42 (10.10%) ITIL
10 40 (9.62%) Change Management
11 39 (9.38%) Data Governance
12 38 (9.13%) Project Management
12 38 (9.13%) Visualisation
13 37 (8.89%) Mentoring
14 36 (8.65%) DevOps
15 33 (7.93%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 81 (19.47%) Python
2 66 (15.87%) SQL
3 21 (5.05%) PowerShell
4 18 (4.33%) Java
5 14 (3.37%) Bash
6 13 (3.13%) JavaScript
6 13 (3.13%) Perl
7 11 (2.64%) VBA
8 10 (2.40%) Shell Script
9 9 (2.16%) R
10 7 (1.68%) C#
10 7 (1.68%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.96%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.72%) ProC
13 2 (0.48%) ABAP
13 2 (0.48%) COBOL
13 2 (0.48%) JCL
13 2 (0.48%) REXX
13 2 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 63 (15.14%) Security Cleared
2 55 (13.22%) Degree
3 53 (12.74%) SC Cleared
4 19 (4.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (4.09%) CISSP
6 15 (3.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (2.88%) CISM
9 10 (2.40%) CCNA
9 10 (2.40%) CCNP
10 9 (2.16%) CCDP
11 7 (1.68%) AWS Certification
11 7 (1.68%) CompTIA Security+
12 6 (1.44%) Azure Certification
12 6 (1.44%) PMI Certification
12 6 (1.44%) PMP
13 5 (1.20%) GCIA
13 5 (1.20%) GCIH
14 4 (0.96%) CISA
14 4 (0.96%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.77%) GDPR
2 23 (5.53%) Data Quality
3 16 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (3.85%) NIST
3 16 (3.85%) QA
4 11 (2.64%) PCI DSS
5 10 (2.40%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.96%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.96%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.96%) PMO
8 3 (0.72%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.72%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.72%) PSD2
9 2 (0.48%) CRD IV
9 2 (0.48%) FINREP
9 2 (0.48%) GRC
9 2 (0.48%) IFRS
9 2 (0.48%) SLA
10 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 24 (5.77%) Active Directory
1 24 (5.77%) Docker
2 14 (3.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.72%) vSphere
5 2 (0.48%) ACF2
5 2 (0.48%) RACF
5 2 (0.48%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.24%) ISA Server
6 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 33 (7.93%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.61%) Grafana
3 14 (3.37%) SCCM
4 13 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (3.13%) Prometheus
5 9 (2.16%) Control-M
5 9 (2.16%) IBM Guardium
5 9 (2.16%) Nessus
6 8 (1.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (1.20%) Fluentd
7 5 (1.20%) Terraform
8 3 (0.72%) EMC NetWorker
8 3 (0.72%) HP ALM
8 3 (0.72%) QRadar
8 3 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.48%) Ansible
9 2 (0.48%) CA Endevor
9 2 (0.48%) CSIRT
9 2 (0.48%) Tivoli
9 2 (0.48%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 91 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.21%) ServiceNow
3 24 (5.77%) Splunk
4 21 (5.05%) SAP
5 19 (4.57%) VMware
6 17 (4.09%) Oracle
7 12 (2.88%) F5
7 12 (2.88%) Red Hat
8 10 (2.40%) Cisco
8 10 (2.40%) Siemens
9 9 (2.16%) Tenable
10 8 (1.92%) Citrix
10 8 (1.92%) Pega
10 8 (1.92%) Workday
11 7 (1.68%) Databricks
12 6 (1.44%) Dynatrace
12 6 (1.44%) Google
13 5 (1.20%) Cognos
13 5 (1.20%) Cribl.io
13 5 (1.20%) IBM