Analytical Skills Contract Job Trends in the North West

Analytical Skills
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 9 19
Rank change year-on-year -13 +10 +5
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 275 254 191
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 7.65% 12.16% 6.89%
As % of the General category 14.41% 20.75% 12.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 162 113
10th Percentile £291 £313 £375
25th Percentile £393 £366 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £475 £493
Median % change year-on-year -5.89% -3.65% +1.44%
75th Percentile £538 £584 £550
90th Percentile £600 £700 £613
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 13 24
10th Percentile £24.00 £19.09 £11.77
25th Percentile £25.49 £22.98 £13.44
Median hourly rate £35.82 £35.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.34% +99.97% -49.99%
75th Percentile £77.50 £63.40 £43.75
90th Percentile £178.75 £70.68 £54.00
England median hourly rate £31.30 £32.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -3.69% +66.67% -44.68%

All General Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,908 1,224 1,499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 53.10% 58.62% 54.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,074 783 884
10th Percentile £275 £300 £300
25th Percentile £388 £375 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £460 £493
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% -6.65% -1.45%
75th Percentile £582 £575 £576
90th Percentile £650 £675 £663
England median daily rate £525 £519 £535
% change year-on-year +1.25% -2.99% -2.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 111 193
10th Percentile £16.50 £12.82 £13.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £14.55 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.27 £23.45
Median % change year-on-year +21.28% +24.82% -2.60%
75th Percentile £67.42 £58.42 £42.88
90th Percentile £84.25 £76.25 £51.70
England median hourly rate £32.50 £27.25 £32.90
% change year-on-year +19.29% -17.18% +9.65%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Analytical Skills job vacancy trend in the North West

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in the North West over the 6 months to 4 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the North West

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Skills in the North West over the 6 months to 4 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the North West

Analytical Skills
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 Analytical Skills within the North West region over the 6 months to 4 July 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
Manchester -16 137 £440 -7.37% 148
Cheshire -6 87 £450 -5.26% 42
Lancashire -10 19 £519 +15.37% 42
Cumbria +5 17 £467 +1.58% 6
Merseyside -6 15 £365 -2.67% 23
Analytical Skills
England

Analytical Skills
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 16 (5.82%) Confluence
2 4 (1.45%) SAS
2 4 (1.45%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.36%) JBoss
3 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.36%) Mule
3 1 (0.36%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.36%) NetWeaver
3 1 (0.36%) WebLogic
Applications
1 25 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (8.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (4.00%) MS Visio
4 8 (2.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (2.18%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (6.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (2.91%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (1.45%) Primavera
3 4 (1.45%) SAP MM
4 3 (1.09%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.73%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.73%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.36%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.36%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.36%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.36%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.36%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 43 (15.64%) Azure
2 30 (10.91%) Power Platform
3 28 (10.18%) Microsoft 365
4 24 (8.73%) AWS
5 8 (2.91%) GCP
6 7 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (2.55%) Entra ID
7 6 (2.18%) Microsoft Copilot
7 6 (2.18%) SaaS
8 5 (1.82%) Akamai
9 4 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.45%) GitHub
10 3 (1.09%) Azure AKS
10 3 (1.09%) OneDrive
10 3 (1.09%) Snowflake
11 2 (0.73%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (0.73%) Copilot Studio
11 2 (0.73%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (0.73%) Nutanix
11 2 (0.73%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.36%) Firewall
2 10 (3.64%) DNS
3 8 (2.91%) TCP/IP
4 7 (2.55%) VPN
5 6 (2.18%) BGP
6 5 (1.82%) HTTP
6 5 (1.82%) WAN
7 4 (1.45%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (1.45%) LAN
7 4 (1.45%) SAN
8 3 (1.09%) Network Security
8 3 (1.09%) OSPF
8 3 (1.09%) VLAN
8 3 (1.09%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.73%) DHCP
9 2 (0.73%) MPLS
9 2 (0.73%) NetScaler
9 2 (0.73%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.73%) SSL
9 2 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (9.82%) Power BI
2 15 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (4.36%) SQL Server
4 10 (3.64%) Tableau
5 9 (3.27%) Metadata
6 6 (2.18%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.45%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.09%) Data Mining
8 3 (1.09%) DataStage
8 3 (1.09%) Db2
8 3 (1.09%) Power Query
8 3 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.73%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (0.73%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.73%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.73%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.73%) MySQL
10 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.36%) Sybase ASE
10 1 (0.36%) WebFOCUS
Development Applications
1 27 (9.82%) JIRA
2 5 (1.82%) JUnit
3 4 (1.45%) Cucumber
3 4 (1.45%) Git
3 4 (1.45%) GitLab
4 3 (1.09%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.09%) Mockito
4 3 (1.09%) Postman
4 3 (1.09%) Ranorex
4 3 (1.09%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.73%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.73%) Gatling
5 2 (0.73%) Gradle
5 2 (0.73%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.73%) REST Assured
5 2 (0.73%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.73%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.36%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.36%) ScriptRunner
General
1 135 (49.09%) Social Skills
2 100 (36.36%) Finance
3 29 (10.55%) Banking
4 22 (8.00%) Manufacturing
4 22 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 18 (6.55%) Influencing Skills
6 16 (5.82%) Legal
7 14 (5.09%) Telecoms
8 13 (4.73%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.55%) Automotive
10 7 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (2.18%) Local Government
11 6 (2.18%) Marketing
12 5 (1.82%) Law
13 3 (1.09%) Investment Banking
13 3 (1.09%) Publishing
13 3 (1.09%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.73%) Billing
14 2 (0.73%) Environmental Health
Job Titles
1 72 (26.18%) Analyst
2 25 (9.09%) Lead
3 22 (8.00%) Business Analyst
4 20 (7.27%) Senior
5 17 (6.18%) Developer
5 17 (6.18%) Project Manager
6 14 (5.09%) Administrator
7 12 (4.36%) Data Analyst
8 11 (4.00%) Architect
8 11 (4.00%) Finance Manager
8 11 (4.00%) Finance Project Manager
8 11 (4.00%) IT Support
8 11 (4.00%) Security Engineer
8 11 (4.00%) Support Analyst
9 10 (3.64%) IT Analyst
9 10 (3.64%) Product Manager
10 9 (3.27%) Consultant
10 9 (3.27%) IT Support Analyst
10 9 (3.27%) Network Engineer
11 7 (2.55%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.36%) REST
2 8 (2.91%) JSON
3 7 (2.55%) XML
4 6 (2.18%) RESTful
4 6 (2.18%) Swagger
5 5 (1.82%) SOAP
6 3 (1.09%) CSS
6 3 (1.09%) Gherkin
6 3 (1.09%) HTML
6 3 (1.09%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (1.09%) Middleware
6 3 (1.09%) Node.js
6 3 (1.09%) OpenAPI
6 3 (1.09%) Playwright
6 3 (1.09%) PySpark
6 3 (1.09%) SailPoint
6 3 (1.09%) Visualforce
6 3 (1.09%) YAML
7 2 (0.73%) Kafka
7 2 (0.73%) React
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.18%) Analytical Mindset
2 18 (6.55%) Management Information System
2 18 (6.55%) Onboarding
3 13 (4.73%) Product Ownership
4 11 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (3.27%) Cyber Threat
5 9 (3.27%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 5 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.45%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.45%) Operational Technology
8 4 (1.45%) PKI
8 4 (1.45%) Replication
8 4 (1.45%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.45%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.09%) Clustering
9 3 (1.09%) Digital Wallet
9 3 (1.09%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 34 (12.36%) Windows
2 13 (4.73%) Windows 10
3 10 (3.64%) Linux
4 6 (2.18%) Mac OS
4 6 (2.18%) Unix
5 5 (1.82%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.82%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.73%) AIX
7 2 (0.73%) HPUX
7 2 (0.73%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.73%) Solaris
7 2 (0.73%) SUSE
7 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (57.09%) Problem-Solving
2 64 (23.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 51 (18.55%) Agile
4 43 (15.64%) Continuous Improvement
5 42 (15.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 41 (14.91%) Project Management
7 40 (14.55%) Change Management
7 40 (14.55%) Migration
8 38 (13.82%) ITIL
9 36 (13.09%) Decision-Making
9 36 (13.09%) Workshop Facilitation
10 34 (12.36%) Analytics
10 34 (12.36%) Validation
11 31 (11.27%) ERP
12 28 (10.18%) Data Analysis
12 28 (10.18%) Data Modelling
13 26 (9.45%) Business Intelligence
13 26 (9.45%) Roadmaps
14 24 (8.73%) CI/CD
15 23 (8.36%) AI
Programming Languages
1 39 (14.18%) SQL
2 36 (13.09%) Python
3 19 (6.91%) PowerShell
4 8 (2.91%) Java
5 4 (1.45%) C#
5 4 (1.45%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.45%) PL/SQL
5 4 (1.45%) Shell Script
6 3 (1.09%) Apex Code
6 3 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (1.09%) VBA
7 2 (0.73%) Bash
7 2 (0.73%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.73%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.36%) ABAP
8 1 (0.36%) Bicep
8 1 (0.36%) C
8 1 (0.36%) C++
8 1 (0.36%) SOQL
8 1 (0.36%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 44 (16.00%) Degree
2 36 (13.09%) Security Cleared
3 29 (10.55%) SC Cleared
4 16 (5.82%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (5.09%) CISSP
6 13 (4.73%) A+ Certification
6 13 (4.73%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (4.73%) Network+ Certification
7 9 (3.27%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (2.55%) AWS Certification
8 7 (2.55%) CompTIA Security+
9 6 (2.18%) CCNA
9 6 (2.18%) CISM
10 4 (1.45%) CCNP
10 4 (1.45%) CEH
10 4 (1.45%) MCSE
11 3 (1.09%) CIMA
11 3 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.09%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (11.27%) Data Quality
2 10 (3.64%) GRC
2 10 (3.64%) QA
2 10 (3.64%) SLA
3 7 (2.55%) NIST
4 5 (1.82%) GDPR
4 5 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.45%) PMO
6 3 (1.09%) NCSC
6 3 (1.09%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.09%) PSD2
6 3 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.73%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.36%) Def Stans
8 1 (0.36%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.36%) GAAP
8 1 (0.36%) MISRA
System Software
1 25 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.82%) Docker
3 4 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.09%) Firmware
4 3 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (1.09%) vSphere
5 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (3.64%) Ansible
2 7 (2.55%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.18%) SCCM
3 6 (2.18%) Terraform
4 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.09%) McAfee ePO
6 2 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.73%) Grafana
6 2 (0.73%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.73%) Istio
6 2 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.73%) WMI
7 1 (0.36%) Nagios
7 1 (0.36%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 60 (21.82%) Microsoft
2 35 (12.73%) SAP
3 27 (9.82%) ServiceNow
4 12 (4.36%) Splunk
5 11 (4.00%) Oracle
6 9 (3.27%) Cisco
7 8 (2.91%) Remedy
8 6 (2.18%) BeyondTrust
8 6 (2.18%) CrowdStrike
8 6 (2.18%) HP
8 6 (2.18%) Teradata
9 5 (1.82%) Databricks
9 5 (1.82%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.82%) SolarWinds
9 5 (1.82%) VMware
10 4 (1.45%) Dell
10 4 (1.45%) F5
10 4 (1.45%) Juniper
10 4 (1.45%) McAfee
10 4 (1.45%) Salesforce