Analyst Contract Job Trends in the North West

Analyst
England > North West

The median Analyst daily rate in the North West is £390, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 11 8
Rank change year-on-year -2 -3 +3
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 263 227 360
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 10.48% 10.54% 13.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.47% 11.36% 14.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 141 251
10th Percentile £192 £210 £205
25th Percentile £300 £331 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £413 £435
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -5.17% +5.45%
75th Percentile £475 £500 £525
90th Percentile £525 £575 £575
England median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 20 37
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.77 £15.33
25th Percentile £21.75 £16.19 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.60 £18.75 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.87% +4.17% +2.51%
75th Percentile £41.94 £28.99 £20.58
90th Percentile £65.00 £30.15 £22.40
England median hourly rate £20.00 £24.50 £18.72
% change year-on-year -18.39% +30.91% +7.68%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 2,292 1,999 2,433
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.31% 92.80% 92.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,490 1,126 1,683
10th Percentile £213 £250 £303
25th Percentile £358 £380 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £663 £654 £682
England median daily rate £508 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -3.24% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 116 167
10th Percentile £17.30 £15.42 £15.90
25th Percentile £20.58 £17.86 £17.75
Median hourly rate £30.99 £27.13 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.25% -22.50% +60.92%
75th Percentile £55.00 £46.18 £46.88
90th Percentile £69.39 £66.25 £64.25
England median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -24.86% -22.22% +40.63%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Analyst' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Analyst job vacancy trend in the North West

Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in the North West.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies 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 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in the North West

Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in the North West.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies 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 20 December 2025.

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 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
Manchester -4 127 £388 -3.13% 83
Cheshire -4 88 £390 -2.50% 38
Merseyside -10 22 £300 -27.27% 25
Lancashire 0 16 £410 -23.72% 56
Cumbria +3 5 £400 -26.94% 6
Analyst
England

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 20 December 2025, Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North West region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 73 (27.76%) Microsoft
2 56 (21.29%) Agile
3 52 (19.77%) Problem-Solving
4 50 (19.01%) Stakeholder Management
5 48 (18.25%) ITIL
6 38 (14.45%) Windows
7 36 (13.69%) JIRA
8 35 (13.31%) Azure
9 33 (12.55%) Analytics
9 33 (12.55%) Degree
9 33 (12.55%) Requirements Gathering
9 33 (12.55%) Validation
10 32 (12.17%) Data Analysis
10 32 (12.17%) Incident Response
11 31 (11.79%) Continuous Improvement
11 31 (11.79%) Security Cleared
12 30 (11.41%) Microsoft 365
13 29 (11.03%) Business Analysis
13 29 (11.03%) Microsoft Office
14 27 (10.27%) Decision-Making
14 27 (10.27%) Information Security
14 27 (10.27%) SharePoint
15 26 (9.89%) Customer Service
16 25 (9.51%) Change Management
16 25 (9.51%) Migration
17 24 (9.13%) Project Management
17 24 (9.13%) SQL
17 24 (9.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 23 (8.75%) Actionable Insight
18 23 (8.75%) Business Intelligence

Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 27 (10.27%) SharePoint
2 23 (8.75%) Confluence
3 7 (2.66%) Exchange Server 2013
3 7 (2.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.66%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.38%) CMS
4 1 (0.38%) SAS
Applications
1 29 (11.03%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (6.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (4.56%) MS Visio
4 11 (4.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.14%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.76%) Trello
7 1 (0.38%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 10 (3.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.76%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.38%) Maximo
4 1 (0.38%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.38%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.38%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 35 (13.31%) Azure
2 30 (11.41%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (7.60%) Power Platform
4 13 (4.94%) GCP
5 12 (4.56%) Google Analytics
5 12 (4.56%) Google Tag Manager
6 11 (4.18%) AWS
7 9 (3.42%) OneDrive
8 6 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.90%) Entra ID
9 5 (1.90%) SaaS
9 5 (1.90%) SuccessFactors
10 4 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.14%) Apigee
11 3 (1.14%) Figma
11 3 (1.14%) Kong
12 2 (0.76%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (0.76%) Azure Sentinel
12 2 (0.76%) Cloud Functions
12 2 (0.76%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.94%) SSH
2 7 (2.66%) Skype
3 4 (1.52%) LAN
3 4 (1.52%) WAN
4 3 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.76%) Firewall
5 2 (0.76%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.76%) VLAN
5 2 (0.76%) Wireless
5 2 (0.76%) Wireshark
5 2 (0.76%) X.25
6 1 (0.38%) Network Security
6 1 (0.38%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.22%) Power BI
2 13 (4.94%) Looker
3 10 (3.80%) BigQuery
4 4 (1.52%) Tableau
5 3 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.14%) Hadoop
5 3 (1.14%) Impala
5 3 (1.14%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (0.76%) Power Query
7 1 (0.38%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.38%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.38%) DTS
7 1 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.38%) GIS
7 1 (0.38%) MS Access
7 1 (0.38%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.38%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (0.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 36 (13.69%) JIRA
2 8 (3.04%) Postman
3 2 (0.76%) Fiddler
3 2 (0.76%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.76%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.38%) Appium
4 1 (0.38%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.38%) Git
4 1 (0.38%) HP UFT
4 1 (0.38%) Selenium
General
1 99 (37.64%) Social Skills
2 66 (25.10%) Analytical Skills
3 54 (20.53%) Finance
4 48 (18.25%) Public Sector
5 16 (6.08%) Banking
6 14 (5.32%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (4.56%) Telecoms
8 8 (3.04%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.66%) Legal
10 6 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.28%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.90%) Local Government
12 4 (1.52%) Electronics
12 4 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.52%) Marketing
13 3 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.76%) French Language
14 2 (0.76%) Games
14 2 (0.76%) Military
14 2 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.42%) XML
2 6 (2.28%) JSON
2 6 (2.28%) REST
2 6 (2.28%) SOAP
3 5 (1.90%) Swagger
4 4 (1.52%) OAuth
5 3 (1.14%) HTML
5 3 (1.14%) JWT
5 3 (1.14%) OpenAPI
5 3 (1.14%) SailPoint
6 2 (0.76%) Kafka
7 1 (0.38%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.38%) Bootstrap
7 1 (0.38%) CSS
7 1 (0.38%) LDAP
7 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (0.38%) PySpark
7 1 (0.38%) SAML
7 1 (0.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.37%) Onboarding
2 11 (4.18%) Tandem
3 9 (3.42%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (3.42%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.90%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.90%) Data Structures
5 5 (1.90%) NHS
6 4 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.52%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (1.52%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.52%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.14%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (0.76%) Clustering
8 2 (0.76%) CMDB
8 2 (0.76%) Digital Wallet
9 1 (0.38%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (0.38%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.38%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 38 (14.45%) Windows
2 11 (4.18%) Unix
3 10 (3.80%) Windows 10
4 7 (2.66%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.90%) Linux
6 3 (1.14%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.14%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.38%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (21.29%) Agile
2 52 (19.77%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (19.01%) Stakeholder Management
4 48 (18.25%) ITIL
5 33 (12.55%) Analytics
5 33 (12.55%) Requirements Gathering
5 33 (12.55%) Validation
6 32 (12.17%) Data Analysis
6 32 (12.17%) Incident Response
7 31 (11.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 29 (11.03%) Business Analysis
9 27 (10.27%) Decision-Making
9 27 (10.27%) Information Security
10 26 (9.89%) Customer Service
11 25 (9.51%) Change Management
11 25 (9.51%) Migration
12 24 (9.13%) Project Management
12 24 (9.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 23 (8.75%) Business Intelligence
13 23 (8.75%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 24 (9.13%) SQL
2 23 (8.75%) Python
3 5 (1.90%) JavaScript
3 5 (1.90%) PowerShell
4 4 (1.52%) R
5 3 (1.14%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (0.76%) Java
7 1 (0.38%) C#
7 1 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 33 (12.55%) Degree
2 31 (11.79%) Security Cleared
3 22 (8.37%) SC Cleared
4 17 (6.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (2.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 5 (1.90%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.52%) CBAP
8 4 (1.52%) CISSP
9 3 (1.14%) A+ Certification
9 3 (1.14%) CISM
9 3 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.76%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.76%) CSPO
10 2 (0.76%) GCIA
10 2 (0.76%) GCIH
10 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.76%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.38%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.08%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.70%) QA
3 11 (4.18%) SLA
4 10 (3.80%) Accessibility
5 9 (3.42%) NIST
6 8 (3.04%) GDPR
7 5 (1.90%) PSD2
8 4 (1.52%) PCI DSS
9 3 (1.14%) PMO
10 2 (0.76%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.38%) GRC
11 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.38%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.38%) PERC
11 1 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.38%) SEPA
System Software
1 21 (7.98%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (4.94%) SCCM
2 10 (3.80%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.76%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (0.38%) Autotask
4 1 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.38%) QRadar
4 1 (0.38%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 73 (27.76%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.46%) ServiceNow
3 16 (6.08%) SAP
4 15 (5.70%) Google
5 14 (5.32%) IBM
6 8 (3.04%) Gemalto
6 8 (3.04%) Thales
7 7 (2.66%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.14%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.76%) Apple
9 2 (0.76%) CyberArk
9 2 (0.76%) Databricks
9 2 (0.76%) IBM Sterling
9 2 (0.76%) Oracle
9 2 (0.76%) Splunk
9 2 (0.76%) Workday
10 1 (0.38%) Ariba
10 1 (0.38%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.38%) OpenText
10 1 (0.38%) Sophos