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 9 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 14 18
Rank change year-on-year 0 +4 +14
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 248 213 218
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 10.11% 9.48% 8.11%
As % of the General category 16.43% 16.31% 14.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 120 135
10th Percentile £313 £294 £263
25th Percentile £369 £322 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £458 £495
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% -7.58% +7.03%
75th Percentile £549 £548 £558
90th Percentile £625 £600 £642
England median daily rate £500 £525 £529
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.76% -3.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 12 18
10th Percentile £20.60 £19.43 £17.18
25th Percentile £27.80 £21.05 £17.72
Median hourly rate £33.50 £24.47 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +36.90% -4.71% -35.80%
75th Percentile £43.00 £58.31 £46.18
90th Percentile £45.20 £68.11 £54.98
England median hourly rate £34.00 £25.00 £31.86
% change year-on-year +36.00% -21.52% -20.36%

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 common skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,509 1,306 1,492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 61.54% 58.12% 55.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 984 699 974
10th Percentile £213 £258 £256
25th Percentile £358 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £478 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.86% -4.40% +3.15%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £670 £700
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 103 108
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.00 £15.74
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.08 £17.07
Median hourly rate £29.60 £27.50 £22.81
Median % change year-on-year +7.64% +20.59% +13.66%
75th Percentile £45.46 £44.75 £45.88
90th Percentile £67.84 £65.00 £57.20
England median hourly rate £23.58 £30.45 £32.50
% change year-on-year -22.58% -6.31% +26.41%

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 9 December 2025.

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 9 December 2025.

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 9 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
Cheshire -3 107 £465 -9.22% 279
Manchester -6 98 £434 +8.44% 547
Lancashire +3 25 £550 +6.28% 232
Cumbria +12 11 £450 -34.69% 11
Merseyside -10 6 £525 +23.53% 196
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 14 (5.65%) Microsoft Exchange
1 14 (5.65%) SharePoint
2 13 (5.24%) Confluence
3 12 (4.84%) SAS
4 7 (2.82%) Exchange Server 2013
4 7 (2.82%) Skype for Business
5 4 (1.61%) Apache
5 4 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.61%) Resin
6 1 (0.40%) JBoss
6 1 (0.40%) Mule
6 1 (0.40%) Mule ESB
6 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.40%) WebLogic
Applications
1 35 (14.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (7.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 15 (6.05%) MS Visio
4 14 (5.65%) Microsoft Office
5 11 (4.44%) Siemens NX
6 4 (1.61%) PTC Creo
7 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.40%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 11 (4.44%) Teamcenter
2 5 (2.02%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.61%) ContrOCC
3 4 (1.61%) SAP EWM
4 3 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.21%) iTrent
5 2 (0.81%) Maximo
6 1 (0.40%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.40%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.40%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.40%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 38 (15.32%) Azure
2 32 (12.90%) Power Platform
3 27 (10.89%) AWS
4 18 (7.26%) GCP
4 18 (7.26%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (4.03%) OneDrive
6 6 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (2.42%) Entra ID
6 6 (2.42%) OpenShift
6 6 (2.42%) SaaS
7 5 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (2.02%) GitHub
8 3 (1.21%) Apigee
8 3 (1.21%) BrowserStack
8 3 (1.21%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.21%) Kong
8 3 (1.21%) PowerApps
9 2 (0.81%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (0.81%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (0.81%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.45%) Firewall
1 16 (6.45%) Network Security
2 8 (3.23%) DNS
3 7 (2.82%) BGP
3 7 (2.82%) Skype
3 7 (2.82%) VLAN
4 6 (2.42%) DMZ
4 6 (2.42%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 6 (2.42%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 6 (2.42%) LAN
4 6 (2.42%) Software-Defined Networking
4 6 (2.42%) VPN
5 5 (2.02%) WAN
6 4 (1.61%) WebEx
7 3 (1.21%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.81%) SAN
9 1 (0.40%) DHCP
9 1 (0.40%) HTTP
9 1 (0.40%) Internet
9 1 (0.40%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (10.08%) Power BI
2 11 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (3.23%) Tableau
4 5 (2.02%) Power Query
5 4 (1.61%) BigQuery
5 4 (1.61%) MS Access
5 4 (1.61%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.21%) Cognos Framework Manager
6 3 (1.21%) Cognos Report Studio
6 3 (1.21%) Cognos Transformer
6 3 (1.21%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.21%) Looker
6 3 (1.21%) OLAP
6 3 (1.21%) OLAP Cube
6 3 (1.21%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (0.81%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.81%) Metadata
7 2 (0.81%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.81%) Redis
7 2 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 27 (10.89%) JIRA
2 10 (4.03%) GitLab
3 9 (3.63%) Git
4 7 (2.82%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.42%) JUnit
6 5 (2.02%) Cucumber
6 5 (2.02%) Selenium
7 3 (1.21%) TestRail
8 1 (0.40%) Ant
8 1 (0.40%) Appium
8 1 (0.40%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.40%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.40%) MLflow
8 1 (0.40%) NUnit
General
1 127 (51.21%) Social Skills
2 75 (30.24%) Finance
3 19 (7.66%) Banking
4 15 (6.05%) Influencing Skills
4 15 (6.05%) Manufacturing
4 15 (6.05%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (4.03%) Aerospace
7 8 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.23%) Legal
8 5 (2.02%) Local Government
8 5 (2.02%) Marketing
9 4 (1.61%) Publishing
10 3 (1.21%) Automotive
10 3 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.81%) Law
11 2 (0.81%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.40%) Military
12 1 (0.40%) Retail
Job Titles
1 69 (27.82%) Analyst
2 22 (8.87%) Business Analyst
3 21 (8.47%) Architect
4 20 (8.06%) Developer
5 14 (5.65%) Consultant
5 14 (5.65%) Support Analyst
6 12 (4.84%) Data Analyst
7 11 (4.44%) Lead
7 11 (4.44%) Platform Engineer
7 11 (4.44%) Senior
8 8 (3.23%) Operations Analyst
9 7 (2.82%) Operational Support Analyst
9 7 (2.82%) Operations Support Analyst
10 6 (2.42%) Administrator
10 6 (2.42%) Change Manager
10 6 (2.42%) Deskside Analyst
10 6 (2.42%) Deskside Support
10 6 (2.42%) Deskside Support Analyst
10 6 (2.42%) Desktop Support
10 6 (2.42%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.45%) REST
2 9 (3.63%) XML
3 8 (3.23%) HTML
3 8 (3.23%) JSON
4 7 (2.82%) SOAP
4 7 (2.82%) Spring
5 6 (2.42%) Kafka
5 6 (2.42%) RESTful
5 6 (2.42%) Spring Boot
6 5 (2.02%) OAuth
6 5 (2.02%) React
6 5 (2.02%) Web Services
7 4 (1.61%) .NET
7 4 (1.61%) AngularJS
7 4 (1.61%) CSS
7 4 (1.61%) JWT
7 4 (1.61%) XMPP
8 3 (1.21%) LDAP
8 3 (1.21%) OpenAPI
8 3 (1.21%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.48%) Analytical Mindset
2 21 (8.47%) Product Ownership
3 10 (4.03%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.42%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.42%) CMDB
4 6 (2.42%) Data Structures
4 6 (2.42%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.02%) Credit Risk
5 5 (2.02%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.61%) 3D Printing
6 4 (1.61%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.61%) FMCG
6 4 (1.61%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.81%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.81%) Clustering
8 2 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.81%) Mainframe
8 2 (0.81%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.87%) Windows
2 14 (5.65%) Linux
3 13 (5.24%) Windows Server
4 10 (4.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.81%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.81%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (56.05%) Problem-Solving
2 55 (22.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 53 (21.37%) Agile
4 44 (17.74%) Analytics
5 35 (14.11%) Change Management
6 32 (12.90%) ITIL
7 31 (12.50%) Decision-Making
7 31 (12.50%) ITSM
8 29 (11.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 26 (10.48%) Project Management
9 26 (10.48%) Service Management
10 25 (10.08%) Business Intelligence
10 25 (10.08%) Computer Science
10 25 (10.08%) Continuous Improvement
10 25 (10.08%) Data Modelling
11 23 (9.27%) CI/CD
11 23 (9.27%) Data Analysis
11 23 (9.27%) Visualisation
12 22 (8.87%) AI
13 21 (8.47%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 41 (16.53%) Python
2 37 (14.92%) SQL
3 19 (7.66%) PowerShell
4 16 (6.45%) Java
5 11 (4.44%) Bash
5 11 (4.44%) JavaScript
6 8 (3.23%) Perl
7 7 (2.82%) R
8 5 (2.02%) C#
9 4 (1.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.21%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.81%) ABAP
11 2 (0.81%) CLIST
11 2 (0.81%) COBOL
11 2 (0.81%) JCL
11 2 (0.81%) REXX
12 1 (0.40%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.40%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 49 (19.76%) Security Cleared
2 45 (18.15%) Degree
3 43 (17.34%) SC Cleared
4 17 (6.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (6.05%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (4.84%) CISSP
7 10 (4.03%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (4.03%) CISM
8 8 (3.23%) CCDP
8 8 (3.23%) CCNA
8 8 (3.23%) CCNP
9 4 (1.61%) CBAP
10 3 (1.21%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.21%) CISA
10 3 (1.21%) GSEC
10 3 (1.21%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.21%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.21%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.24%) QA
2 12 (4.84%) GDPR
3 9 (3.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (3.63%) NIST
4 8 (3.23%) Data Quality
5 5 (2.02%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.61%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.81%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.81%) COBIT
7 2 (0.81%) CRD IV
7 2 (0.81%) FINREP
7 2 (0.81%) IFRS
7 2 (0.81%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.40%) PERC
8 1 (0.40%) SEPA
8 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (7.26%) Active Directory
2 10 (4.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.42%) Docker
4 3 (1.21%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.81%) ACF2
5 2 (0.81%) RACF
5 2 (0.81%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 13 (5.24%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.84%) SCCM
3 10 (4.03%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (2.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 5 (2.02%) Fluentd
5 4 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.21%) HP ALM
6 3 (1.21%) QRadar
7 2 (0.81%) CA Endevor
7 2 (0.81%) Tivoli
7 2 (0.81%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 1 (0.40%) Autotask
8 1 (0.40%) Terraform
8 1 (0.40%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 76 (30.65%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.66%) ServiceNow
3 16 (6.45%) SAP
4 14 (5.65%) VMware
5 10 (4.03%) Red Hat
5 10 (4.03%) Siemens
5 10 (4.03%) Splunk
6 7 (2.82%) Cisco
6 7 (2.82%) Citrix
6 7 (2.82%) F5
6 7 (2.82%) Oracle
6 7 (2.82%) Pega
6 7 (2.82%) Workday
7 5 (2.02%) Cognos
7 5 (2.02%) Cribl.io
8 4 (1.61%) IBM
8 4 (1.61%) Liquidlogic
8 4 (1.61%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.21%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.21%) Snow