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 28 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 11 24
Rank change year-on-year -12 +13 0
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 251 214 167
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 7.55% 11.04% 6.22%
As % of the General category 13.74% 18.80% 11.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 138 98
10th Percentile £302 £300 £309
25th Percentile £356 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £500 £469
Median % change year-on-year -14.25% +6.67% +4.17%
75th Percentile £520 £635 £523
90th Percentile £588 £715 £613
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 10 28
10th Percentile £21.75 £18.38 £11.77
25th Percentile £25.46 £25.76 £13.50
Median hourly rate £37.78 £59.30 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -36.30% +234.65% -49.37%
75th Percentile £77.50 £63.40 £43.75
90th Percentile £178.75 £73.78 £54.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £31.42 £18.50
% change year-on-year +19.34% +69.85% -54.04%

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 1,827 1,138 1,431
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 54.93% 58.72% 53.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,039 711 869
10th Percentile £238 £278 £287
25th Percentile £370 £385 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £493
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -3.65% -1.40%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £585
90th Percentile £640 £675 £670
England median daily rate £515 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 100 194
10th Percentile £16.25 £13.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £22.68 £17.08 £14.63
Median hourly rate £35.50 £28.75 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year +23.48% +54.65% -28.50%
75th Percentile £62.88 £58.76 £37.18
90th Percentile £83.75 £76.38 £50.73
England median hourly rate £30.78 £27.50 £30.16
% change year-on-year +11.93% -8.82% -5.63%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -11 115 £420 -16.00% 133
Cheshire -4 85 £440 -10.89% 38
Lancashire -3 23 £370 -29.19% 43
Merseyside -14 15 £348 -7.33% 21
Cumbria +4 13 £497 +8.10% 2
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 20 (7.97%) Confluence
2 5 (1.99%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.20%) SAS
4 2 (0.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.80%) JBoss
4 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.40%) Apache
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.40%) Mule
5 1 (0.40%) Mule ESB
5 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.40%) WebLogic
Applications
1 21 (8.37%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (6.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (3.98%) MS Visio
4 7 (2.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (2.39%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (6.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.39%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (1.59%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (1.20%) Primavera
4 3 (1.20%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.80%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.80%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.40%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.40%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.40%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.40%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 35 (13.94%) Azure
2 33 (13.15%) AWS
3 26 (10.36%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (9.16%) Power Platform
5 9 (3.59%) GCP
6 6 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (1.99%) Akamai
7 5 (1.99%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (1.99%) Entra ID
7 5 (1.99%) Microsoft Copilot
7 5 (1.99%) SaaS
8 4 (1.59%) Nutanix
8 4 (1.59%) OneDrive
9 3 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (1.20%) Apigee
9 3 (1.20%) GitHub
9 3 (1.20%) Kong
10 2 (0.80%) Azure AKS
10 2 (0.80%) Copilot Studio
10 2 (0.80%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.78%) TCP/IP
2 10 (3.98%) DNS
2 10 (3.98%) Firewall
3 5 (1.99%) DHCP
3 5 (1.99%) HTTP
3 5 (1.99%) SAN
4 4 (1.59%) NetScaler
5 3 (1.20%) BGP
5 3 (1.20%) VPN
6 1 (0.40%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.40%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.40%) LAN
6 1 (0.40%) OSPF
6 1 (0.40%) SSL
6 1 (0.40%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (0.40%) WAN
6 1 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.97%) Power BI
2 14 (5.58%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (3.59%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.79%) Metadata
5 6 (2.39%) Tableau
6 5 (1.99%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.59%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.20%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.20%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.20%) OLTP
8 3 (1.20%) Power Query
8 3 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.80%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (0.80%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.80%) DataStage
9 2 (0.80%) DB2
9 2 (0.80%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.40%) DTS
10 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.40%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 32 (12.75%) JIRA
2 6 (2.39%) GitLab
2 6 (2.39%) JUnit
3 4 (1.59%) Postman
4 3 (1.20%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.20%) Git
4 3 (1.20%) Mockito
4 3 (1.20%) Ranorex
4 3 (1.20%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.80%) Gradle
5 2 (0.80%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.80%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.40%) Gatling
6 1 (0.40%) Hudson
6 1 (0.40%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.40%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.40%) ScriptRunner
6 1 (0.40%) Selenium
General
1 120 (47.81%) Social Skills
2 90 (35.86%) Finance
3 29 (11.55%) Banking
4 24 (9.56%) Public Sector
5 14 (5.58%) Influencing Skills
5 14 (5.58%) Manufacturing
6 13 (5.18%) Telecoms
7 12 (4.78%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (3.19%) Local Government
9 7 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.79%) Retail Banking
10 6 (2.39%) Marketing
11 5 (1.99%) Law
11 5 (1.99%) Legal
12 4 (1.59%) Automotive
12 4 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.20%) Investment Banking
13 3 (1.20%) Publishing
14 2 (0.80%) Billing
14 2 (0.80%) Environmental Health
Job Titles
1 77 (30.68%) Analyst
2 32 (12.75%) Business Analyst
3 25 (9.96%) Senior
4 23 (9.16%) Lead
5 20 (7.97%) Developer
6 16 (6.37%) Project Manager
7 13 (5.18%) Finance Manager
7 13 (5.18%) Finance Project Manager
8 12 (4.78%) Senior Analyst
9 11 (4.38%) Administrator
9 11 (4.38%) IT Analyst
9 11 (4.38%) IT Support
9 11 (4.38%) Security Engineer
10 9 (3.59%) IT Support Analyst
10 9 (3.59%) Support Analyst
11 8 (3.19%) Consultant
11 8 (3.19%) Product Manager
12 7 (2.79%) Architect
12 7 (2.79%) Data Analyst
12 7 (2.79%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.37%) REST
2 10 (3.98%) SOAP
2 10 (3.98%) Swagger
2 10 (3.98%) XML
3 9 (3.59%) JSON
4 6 (2.39%) OpenAPI
4 6 (2.39%) RESTful
5 5 (1.99%) HTML
6 4 (1.59%) CSS
6 4 (1.59%) Middleware
6 4 (1.59%) OAuth
6 4 (1.59%) Spring
6 4 (1.59%) Spring Boot
7 3 (1.20%) Gherkin
7 3 (1.20%) Jest
7 3 (1.20%) JWT
7 3 (1.20%) Lightning Web Components
7 3 (1.20%) Playwright
7 3 (1.20%) Visualforce
7 3 (1.20%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.37%) Analytical Mindset
2 18 (7.17%) Product Ownership
3 16 (6.37%) Onboarding
4 15 (5.98%) Management Information System
5 13 (5.18%) Cyber Threat
6 12 (4.78%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (2.79%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.99%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.59%) Digital Wallet
9 4 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.59%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.59%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.59%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.59%) Replication
10 3 (1.20%) Clustering
10 3 (1.20%) Credit Risk
10 3 (1.20%) Housing Association
10 3 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 32 (12.75%) Windows
2 13 (5.18%) Linux
3 12 (4.78%) Windows 10
4 8 (3.19%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.39%) Apple iOS
5 6 (2.39%) Mac OS
5 6 (2.39%) Unix
6 4 (1.59%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.59%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.80%) AIX
8 2 (0.80%) HPUX
8 2 (0.80%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.80%) Solaris
8 2 (0.80%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (58.57%) Problem-Solving
2 57 (22.71%) Stakeholder Management
3 51 (20.32%) Agile
4 40 (15.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 38 (15.14%) Migration
5 38 (15.14%) Workshop Facilitation
6 35 (13.94%) Change Management
6 35 (13.94%) Project Management
7 34 (13.55%) Validation
8 29 (11.55%) Continuous Improvement
9 28 (11.16%) ERP
10 26 (10.36%) Decision-Making
10 26 (10.36%) ITIL
11 25 (9.96%) Analytics
11 25 (9.96%) CI/CD
11 25 (9.96%) Data Modelling
12 24 (9.56%) Use Case
13 23 (9.16%) Data Analysis
14 21 (8.37%) Computer Science
15 20 (7.97%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 40 (15.94%) SQL
2 31 (12.35%) Python
3 17 (6.77%) PowerShell
4 13 (5.18%) Java
5 7 (2.79%) Shell Script
6 6 (2.39%) PL/SQL
7 5 (1.99%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.59%) C#
8 4 (1.59%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.20%) Apex Code
9 3 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.20%) ProC
9 3 (1.20%) VBA
10 2 (0.80%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.40%) ABAP
11 1 (0.40%) Bash
11 1 (0.40%) Korn
11 1 (0.40%) R
11 1 (0.40%) SOQL
11 1 (0.40%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 39 (15.54%) Degree
2 25 (9.96%) Security Cleared
3 20 (7.97%) SC Cleared
4 18 (7.17%) CISSP
4 18 (7.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (5.58%) A+ Certification
5 14 (5.58%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (5.58%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (5.58%) Network+ Certification
6 10 (3.98%) CompTIA Security+
7 9 (3.59%) CISM
8 8 (3.19%) AWS Certification
9 6 (2.39%) CCNA
9 6 (2.39%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.99%) CEH
10 5 (1.99%) MCSE
11 3 (1.20%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.20%) CIMA
11 3 (1.20%) CRISC
11 3 (1.20%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.97%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.59%) GRC
3 8 (3.19%) QA
3 8 (3.19%) SLA
4 6 (2.39%) GDPR
4 6 (2.39%) NIST
5 5 (1.99%) PSD2
6 4 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.59%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.20%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.20%) ISO 8583
7 3 (1.20%) NCSC
7 3 (1.20%) PMO
7 3 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.40%) GAAP
9 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.40%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.40%) PERC
System Software
1 25 (9.96%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.39%) Docker
3 5 (1.99%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.59%) vSphere
5 1 (0.40%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 7 (2.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (2.39%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.99%) SCCM
4 4 (1.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (1.59%) Ansible
5 3 (1.20%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.80%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.80%) Terraform
7 1 (0.40%) Istio
7 1 (0.40%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 50 (19.92%) Microsoft
2 32 (12.75%) SAP
3 14 (5.58%) Oracle
3 14 (5.58%) ServiceNow
4 8 (3.19%) Splunk
5 6 (2.39%) BeyondTrust
5 6 (2.39%) CrowdStrike
5 6 (2.39%) Remedy
6 5 (1.99%) Dell
6 5 (1.99%) Dynatrace
6 5 (1.99%) Teradata
7 4 (1.59%) F5
7 4 (1.59%) HP
7 4 (1.59%) Veeam
7 4 (1.59%) VMware
8 3 (1.20%) Databricks
8 3 (1.20%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.20%) RedGate
8 3 (1.20%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.20%) Tanium