Analyst Contracts in the North West

Analyst
England > North West

The median Analyst daily rate in the North West is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 8 5
Rank change year-on-year -2 -3 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 311 453 565
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 11.26% 14.10% 13.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.93% 14.89% 14.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 298 354
10th Percentile £216 £200 £158
25th Percentile £350 £350 £252
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% +11.97%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £488
90th Percentile £588 £575 £538
England median daily rate £485 £475 £463
% change year-on-year +2.11% +2.70% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 31 60
10th Percentile - £13.50 £11.36
25th Percentile £10.95 £16.22 £11.95
Median hourly rate £14.71 £22.25 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.90% +43.55% -4.50%
75th Percentile £17.59 £27.25 £19.77
90th Percentile £22.63 £32.50 £23.71
England median hourly rate £16.30 £19.44 £15.50
% change year-on-year -16.16% +25.44% -4.56%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North West with a recognized job title 2,607 3,043 3,930
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.35% 94.71% 96.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,702 2,182 2,880
10th Percentile £280 £300 £207
25th Percentile £390 £403 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £470
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +6.38% +10.59%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £563
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 135 174
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.10 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £26.39 £30.54 £20.31
Median % change year-on-year -13.59% +50.37% +10.74%
75th Percentile £46.18 £47.25 £43.50
90th Percentile £64.00 £65.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in the North West

Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analyst in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Analyst in the North West

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analyst in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in the North West

Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analyst in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Analyst in the North West

Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analyst in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analyst in the North West

Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the North West region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Manchester -1 164 £450 +9.09% 99
Cheshire 0 78 £490 +12.64% 30
Merseyside +9 31 £230 -42.50% 24
Cumbria -17 17 £180 -57.65% 2
Lancashire -12 12 £310 -30.54% 21
Analyst
England

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North West region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 101 (32.48%) Social Skills
2 71 (22.83%) Microsoft
3 60 (19.29%) Customer Service
4 53 (17.04%) Problem-Solving
5 52 (16.72%) Microsoft Office
6 48 (15.43%) Stakeholder Management
7 47 (15.11%) Analytical Skills
8 46 (14.79%) Windows
9 42 (13.50%) SQL
10 41 (13.18%) Public Sector
11 39 (12.54%) Requirements Gathering
11 39 (12.54%) Data Analysis
11 39 (12.54%) Degree
12 36 (11.58%) Power BI
12 36 (11.58%) Power Platform
13 35 (11.25%) Business Analysis
13 35 (11.25%) SAP
14 34 (10.93%) ITIL
14 34 (10.93%) Business Intelligence
15 32 (10.29%) Finance
15 32 (10.29%) Pharmaceutical
15 32 (10.29%) Windows 10
16 30 (9.65%) Active Directory
16 30 (9.65%) Workshop Facilitation
17 29 (9.32%) ServiceNow
18 28 (9.00%) Microsoft 365
18 28 (9.00%) Security Cleared
18 28 (9.00%) Decision-Making
18 28 (9.00%) Agile
19 27 (8.68%) Python

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 13 (4.18%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.22%) SAS
3 5 (1.61%) Confluence
4 1 (0.32%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.32%) LiveLink
Applications
1 52 (16.72%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (8.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (4.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (2.57%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.29%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (3.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 36 (11.58%) Power Platform
2 28 (9.00%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (6.75%) Azure
4 11 (3.54%) Snowflake
5 8 (2.57%) Google Analytics
6 7 (2.25%) Azure Sentinel
6 7 (2.25%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (2.25%) Collibra
6 7 (2.25%) GCP
7 6 (1.93%) AWS
7 6 (1.93%) Power Automate
8 5 (1.61%) Entra ID
9 4 (1.29%) Google Tag Manager
10 3 (0.96%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (0.96%) IaaS
10 3 (0.96%) SaaS
11 2 (0.64%) Amazon SageMaker
11 2 (0.64%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.64%) BrowserStack
11 2 (0.64%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.93%) DNS
2 5 (1.61%) DHCP
3 3 (0.96%) Intranet
3 3 (0.96%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.64%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.32%) Broadband
5 1 (0.32%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (11.58%) Power BI
2 10 (3.22%) SQL Server
3 9 (2.89%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (2.89%) Tableau
4 8 (2.57%) Data Lake
5 6 (1.93%) Ataccama
5 6 (1.93%) BigQuery
5 6 (1.93%) Qlik Sense
6 5 (1.61%) Data Mining
7 2 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.64%) EDRMS
7 2 (0.64%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (0.64%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.32%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.32%) Big Data
8 1 (0.32%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.32%) Presto
8 1 (0.32%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 16 (5.14%) JIRA
2 6 (1.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (0.64%) Postman
3 2 (0.64%) PyCharm
3 2 (0.64%) Selenium
3 2 (0.64%) SoapUI
3 2 (0.64%) Zephyr
4 1 (0.32%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.32%) JMeter
4 1 (0.32%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.32%) Rational Software Modeler
4 1 (0.32%) TestDirector
4 1 (0.32%) WebDriver
General
1 101 (32.48%) Social Skills
2 47 (15.11%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (13.18%) Public Sector
4 32 (10.29%) Finance
4 32 (10.29%) Pharmaceutical
5 17 (5.47%) Manufacturing
6 16 (5.14%) Banking
7 8 (2.57%) Retail
8 6 (1.93%) Legal
8 6 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.93%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.61%) Law
10 4 (1.29%) Marketing
11 3 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.96%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.64%) Billing
12 2 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.64%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.29%) SailPoint
2 2 (0.64%) Middleware
3 1 (0.32%) .NET
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.32%) Shiny
3 1 (0.32%) SOAP
3 1 (0.32%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.47%) Data Structures
2 13 (4.18%) Management Information System
3 7 (2.25%) Life Science
4 6 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (1.93%) Virtual Team
5 5 (1.61%) Industry 4.0
5 5 (1.61%) IoT
5 5 (1.61%) Robotics
6 4 (1.29%) CMDB
7 3 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (0.96%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.64%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.64%) NHS
8 2 (0.64%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.64%) Tandem
9 1 (0.32%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.32%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.32%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.32%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.32%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 46 (14.79%) Windows
2 32 (10.29%) Windows 10
3 3 (0.96%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.64%) Android
4 2 (0.64%) Linux
5 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (19.29%) Customer Service
2 53 (17.04%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (15.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 39 (12.54%) Data Analysis
4 39 (12.54%) Requirements Gathering
5 35 (11.25%) Business Analysis
6 34 (10.93%) Business Intelligence
6 34 (10.93%) ITIL
7 30 (9.65%) Workshop Facilitation
8 28 (9.00%) Agile
8 28 (9.00%) Decision-Making
9 24 (7.72%) Data Protection
10 23 (7.40%) Analytics
10 23 (7.40%) Use Case
11 21 (6.75%) Requirements Workshops
11 21 (6.75%) Roadmaps
11 21 (6.75%) Visualisation
12 20 (6.43%) Cybersecurity
13 19 (6.11%) Migration
13 19 (6.11%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (13.50%) SQL
2 27 (8.68%) Python
3 4 (1.29%) Kusto Query Language
3 4 (1.29%) PowerShell
4 3 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (0.96%) R
5 2 (0.64%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.32%) Bash
6 1 (0.32%) Groovy
6 1 (0.32%) Java
6 1 (0.32%) Julia
Qualifications
1 39 (12.54%) Degree
2 28 (9.00%) Security Cleared
3 23 (7.40%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.57%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (1.93%) CISSP
6 5 (1.61%) CISM
6 5 (1.61%) CompTIA Security+
6 5 (1.61%) IIBA
7 4 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.96%) MCP
9 2 (0.64%) CCNA
9 2 (0.64%) CRISC
9 2 (0.64%) ISEB
9 2 (0.64%) MCSE
9 2 (0.64%) MOS
9 2 (0.64%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.32%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.32%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.72%) Data Quality
2 23 (7.40%) QA
3 19 (6.11%) GDPR
4 16 (5.14%) Disclosure Scotland
5 15 (4.82%) SLA
6 9 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (2.89%) NIST
7 6 (1.93%) Good Clinical Practice
7 6 (1.93%) GxP
8 5 (1.61%) PMO
9 3 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.96%) IASME
10 2 (0.64%) COREP
10 2 (0.64%) GRC
11 1 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.32%) FINREP
11 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 30 (9.65%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.64%) Firmware
5 1 (0.32%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 12 (3.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (1.61%) ZABBIX
3 4 (1.29%) SCCM
4 2 (0.64%) Nagios
5 1 (0.32%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.32%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.32%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.32%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 71 (22.83%) Microsoft
2 35 (11.25%) SAP
3 29 (9.32%) ServiceNow
4 11 (3.54%) Google
5 10 (3.22%) Ariba
6 8 (2.57%) VMware
7 6 (1.93%) Alteryx
7 6 (1.93%) Citrix
7 6 (1.93%) Dataiku
7 6 (1.93%) Trillium
8 5 (1.61%) Pega
9 4 (1.29%) CyberArk
9 4 (1.29%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.96%) Oracle
11 2 (0.64%) Apple
11 2 (0.64%) Cisco
11 2 (0.64%) Cognizant
11 2 (0.64%) HP
11 2 (0.64%) Nortel
11 2 (0.64%) Sophos