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 12 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -10 +1 +9
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 295 241 239
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 7.42% 10.97% 9.85%
As % of the General category 14.51% 17.66% 17.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 151 130
10th Percentile £300 £300 £294
25th Percentile £360 £360 £342
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £456
Median % change year-on-year - -1.37% -6.12%
75th Percentile £570 £531 £538
90th Percentile £640 £650 £589
England median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -4.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 22 13
10th Percentile £18.42 £20.17 £16.95
25th Percentile £25.49 £27.80 £24.18
Median hourly rate £45.50 £33.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.82% -4.29% -23.71%
75th Percentile £77.50 £43.00 £54.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £63.40 £68.04
England median hourly rate £28.40 £32.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -12.63% +30.00% -43.00%

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 2,033 1,365 1,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 51.11% 62.16% 57.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,126 891 772
10th Percentile £263 £255 £268
25th Percentile £400 £375 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £479
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -6.05% -4.20%
75th Percentile £600 £553 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £668
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 112 86
10th Percentile £14.06 £12.84 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £15.50 £18.32
Median hourly rate £35.50 £25.94 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.87% -25.89% +55.45%
75th Percentile £64.09 £47.84 £46.18
90th Percentile £80.00 £65.23 £63.75
England median hourly rate £29.00 £25.08 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.65% -28.36% +16.67%

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 12 October 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 12 October 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 12 October 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 -11 145 £435 -3.33% 184
Cheshire -8 79 £463 +3.06% 47
Lancashire -5 33 £581 +29.11% 25
Cumbria -17 20 £420 -6.67% 4
Merseyside +6 18 £475 -26.92% 35
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 10 (3.39%) Confluence
2 5 (1.69%) SAS
2 5 (1.69%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.34%) Apache
4 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.34%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 25 (8.47%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (8.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (4.07%) MS Visio
4 7 (2.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (3.05%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (2.03%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.36%) SAP ERP
4 3 (1.02%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.68%) Primavera
5 2 (0.68%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.68%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.34%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.34%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.34%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.34%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.34%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.34%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 41 (13.90%) Azure
2 31 (10.51%) Power Platform
3 24 (8.14%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (7.80%) AWS
5 10 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (3.39%) Entra ID
6 7 (2.37%) GCP
6 7 (2.37%) SaaS
7 5 (1.69%) GitHub
7 5 (1.69%) IBM Blueworks
8 4 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (1.36%) Power Automate
8 4 (1.36%) PowerApps
8 4 (1.36%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.02%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (1.02%) dbt
9 3 (1.02%) OCI
10 2 (0.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (0.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (0.68%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.46%) Firewall
1 22 (7.46%) VPN
2 15 (5.08%) WAN
3 13 (4.41%) Network Security
4 10 (3.39%) DNS
4 10 (3.39%) LAN
5 9 (3.05%) BGP
6 8 (2.71%) SD-WAN
7 7 (2.37%) VLAN
8 6 (2.03%) OSPF
8 6 (2.03%) TCP/IP
9 5 (1.69%) Cisco Nexus
9 5 (1.69%) MPLS
9 5 (1.69%) SNMP
9 5 (1.69%) Wireless
10 4 (1.36%) DHCP
11 3 (1.02%) DMZ
11 3 (1.02%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 3 (1.02%) SAN
11 3 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (8.47%) Power BI
2 16 (5.42%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (3.05%) Metadata
3 9 (3.05%) SQL Server
4 8 (2.71%) Relational Database
4 8 (2.71%) Tableau
5 6 (2.03%) DataStage
5 6 (2.03%) Db2
6 4 (1.36%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.02%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.68%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.68%) EDRMS
8 2 (0.68%) Power Query
8 2 (0.68%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.34%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.34%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.34%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (4.75%) JIRA
2 9 (3.05%) Git
3 8 (2.71%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.03%) GitLab
5 3 (1.02%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.02%) Ranorex
5 3 (1.02%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (1.02%) SpecFlow
6 2 (0.68%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.68%) Gatling
6 2 (0.68%) Gradle
6 2 (0.68%) LoadRunner
6 2 (0.68%) MSTest
6 2 (0.68%) NUnit
6 2 (0.68%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.34%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.34%) Maven
7 1 (0.34%) Selenium
General
1 153 (51.86%) Social Skills
2 88 (29.83%) Finance
3 36 (12.20%) Banking
4 25 (8.47%) Manufacturing
5 17 (5.76%) Public Sector
6 16 (5.42%) Legal
6 16 (5.42%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (3.05%) Marketing
7 9 (3.05%) Telecoms
8 8 (2.71%) Aerospace
8 8 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (2.71%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (2.03%) Law
10 5 (1.69%) Automotive
11 3 (1.02%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.02%) Military
11 3 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.02%) Retail
12 2 (0.68%) Police
Job Titles
1 66 (22.37%) Analyst
2 25 (8.47%) Lead
3 22 (7.46%) Business Analyst
3 22 (7.46%) Consultant
4 18 (6.10%) Developer
4 18 (6.10%) Network Engineer
5 15 (5.08%) Architect
5 15 (5.08%) Data Analyst
5 15 (5.08%) Senior
6 12 (4.07%) Administrator
7 11 (3.73%) IT Support
8 10 (3.39%) Data Engineer
8 10 (3.39%) Support Engineer
9 9 (3.05%) Management Consultant
9 9 (3.05%) Security Engineer
10 8 (2.71%) IT Engineer
10 8 (2.71%) Senior Manager
10 8 (2.71%) Service Analyst
10 8 (2.71%) Vulnerability Consultant
10 8 (2.71%) Vulnerability Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.07%) Terraform
2 9 (3.05%) REST
3 8 (2.71%) JSON
4 6 (2.03%) OAuth
5 5 (1.69%) PySpark
6 3 (1.02%) Gherkin
6 3 (1.02%) HTML
6 3 (1.02%) Kafka
6 3 (1.02%) Node.js
6 3 (1.02%) Playwright
6 3 (1.02%) RESTful
6 3 (1.02%) Spring
6 3 (1.02%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.02%) XML
7 2 (0.68%) ADO
7 2 (0.68%) CSS
7 2 (0.68%) OAuth2
7 2 (0.68%) ODBC
7 2 (0.68%) Regular Expression
7 2 (0.68%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.46%) Analytical Mindset
2 21 (7.12%) Onboarding
3 16 (5.42%) Management Information System
4 14 (4.75%) Product Ownership
5 11 (3.73%) Cyber Threat
5 11 (3.73%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (3.05%) Data Centre
6 9 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (2.03%) Cloud Native
8 6 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.69%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.36%) CMDB
10 4 (1.36%) Credit Risk
10 4 (1.36%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.36%) PKI
11 3 (1.02%) Client/Server
11 3 (1.02%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 35 (11.86%) Windows
2 11 (3.73%) Linux
3 9 (3.05%) Unix
4 7 (2.37%) macOS
4 7 (2.37%) Windows 10
5 6 (2.03%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.02%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.34%) AIX
7 1 (0.34%) HPUX
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.34%) Solaris
7 1 (0.34%) SUSE
7 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (49.83%) Problem-Solving
2 98 (33.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 64 (21.69%) Continuous Improvement
4 53 (17.97%) Agile
5 46 (15.59%) Validation
6 44 (14.92%) Analytics
7 42 (14.24%) Change Management
8 41 (13.90%) ITIL
9 36 (12.20%) Decision-Making
10 32 (10.85%) AI
10 32 (10.85%) Data Modelling
11 31 (10.51%) CI/CD
11 31 (10.51%) Project Management
12 30 (10.17%) Migration
12 30 (10.17%) Service Management
13 29 (9.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 28 (9.49%) Data Analysis
14 28 (9.49%) Roadmaps
15 27 (9.15%) Actionable Insight
15 27 (9.15%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 51 (17.29%) Python
1 51 (17.29%) SQL
2 20 (6.78%) PowerShell
3 8 (2.71%) Java
4 7 (2.37%) Bash
5 6 (2.03%) C#
5 6 (2.03%) PL/SQL
5 6 (2.03%) Search Processing Language
5 6 (2.03%) Shell Script
6 5 (1.69%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.36%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.02%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.68%) ABAP
9 2 (0.68%) Assembly Language
9 2 (0.68%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.34%) Ada
10 1 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.34%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.34%) R
10 1 (0.34%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 50 (16.95%) Security Cleared
2 38 (12.88%) SC Cleared
3 37 (12.54%) Degree
4 15 (5.08%) CISSP
5 13 (4.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (4.07%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (3.39%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (2.71%) CCNP
9 7 (2.37%) A+ Certification
9 7 (2.37%) ACCA
9 7 (2.37%) AWS Certification
9 7 (2.37%) CIMA
9 7 (2.37%) Network+ Certification
10 6 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (2.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 5 (1.69%) CCIE
11 5 (1.69%) CCNA
11 5 (1.69%) GCIH
12 4 (1.36%) CISM
12 4 (1.36%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (13.22%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.42%) SLA
3 9 (3.05%) NIST
3 9 (3.05%) QA
4 8 (2.71%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.37%) GDPR
5 7 (2.37%) GRC
5 7 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (2.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (1.36%) PMO
8 3 (1.02%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.02%) Def Stans
9 2 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.68%) NCSC
10 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.34%) DO-178B
10 1 (0.34%) GAAP
10 1 (0.34%) MISRA
System Software
1 25 (8.47%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.69%) Docker
3 5 (1.69%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.02%) Firmware
5 2 (0.68%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (6.44%) Ansible
2 8 (2.71%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.71%) Progress Chef
3 4 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.02%) CASB
4 3 (1.02%) McAfee ePO
4 3 (1.02%) SCCM
5 2 (0.68%) Cisco Prime
5 2 (0.68%) Data Guard
5 2 (0.68%) Grafana
5 2 (0.68%) Istio
5 2 (0.68%) WMI
6 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.34%) Nagios
6 1 (0.34%) Puppet
Vendors
1 68 (23.05%) Microsoft
2 29 (9.83%) ServiceNow
3 22 (7.46%) SAP
3 22 (7.46%) Splunk
4 14 (4.75%) Oracle
5 13 (4.41%) Cisco
6 9 (3.05%) Remedy
6 9 (3.05%) Teradata
7 8 (2.71%) F5
7 8 (2.71%) VMware
8 7 (2.37%) Databricks
8 7 (2.37%) Google
8 7 (2.37%) IBM
9 6 (2.03%) Arista
9 6 (2.03%) Fortinet
9 6 (2.03%) Juniper
9 6 (2.03%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.69%) Dynatrace
11 4 (1.36%) AlgoSec
11 4 (1.36%) Atlassian