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 21 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 15 24
Rank change year-on-year -5 +9 +4
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 253 185 181
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 7.97% 9.54% 6.61%
As % of the General category 13.96% 16.61% 12.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 118 111
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £369 £405 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -10.90% +2.56% +10.80%
75th Percentile £550 £635 £550
90th Percentile £587 £715 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 11 27
10th Percentile £21.75 £19.00 £11.77
25th Percentile £25.49 £19.13 £13.50
Median hourly rate £41.86 £24.76 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +69.04% +39.73% -49.37%
75th Percentile £76.69 £57.28 £43.75
90th Percentile £178.75 £72.50 £49.31
England median hourly rate £37.50 £28.08 £18.50
% change year-on-year +33.57% +51.76% -47.89%

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 1,812 1,114 1,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 57.11% 57.45% 53.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,089 670 897
10th Percentile £200 £267 £300
25th Percentile £358 £382 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -2.35% -
75th Percentile £570 £585 £588
90th Percentile £638 £688 £693
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 108 191
10th Percentile £18.00 £13.49 £12.24
25th Percentile £22.68 £19.00 £14.50
Median hourly rate £35.53 £28.99 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +22.54% +63.60% -31.85%
75th Percentile £60.00 £50.00 £36.72
90th Percentile £78.13 £76.63 £49.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £28.75 £28.92
% change year-on-year +4.35% -0.59% -17.37%

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 21 April 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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -3 112 £425 -15.00% 118
Cheshire -5 88 £442 -9.71% 49
Lancashire +2 31 £550 +5.26% 65
Merseyside -14 13 £330 -17.50% 18
Cumbria +12 9 £488 +5.98% 8
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 18 (7.11%) Confluence
2 12 (4.74%) SAS
3 9 (3.56%) SharePoint
4 6 (2.37%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.19%) Apache
6 2 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.79%) JBoss
7 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.40%) Mule
7 1 (0.40%) Mule ESB
7 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.40%) WebLogic
Applications
1 18 (7.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (6.72%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (3.95%) MS Visio
4 7 (2.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (2.77%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.40%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 15 (5.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.58%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (1.19%) iTrent
3 3 (1.19%) Primavera
3 3 (1.19%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.79%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.40%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.40%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.40%) Maximo
5 1 (0.40%) ResourceLink
5 1 (0.40%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.40%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 39 (15.42%) Azure
2 38 (15.02%) AWS
3 29 (11.46%) Power Platform
4 27 (10.67%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (6.32%) GCP
6 9 (3.56%) Entra ID
7 6 (2.37%) Apigee
7 6 (2.37%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (2.37%) Kong
8 5 (1.98%) Akamai
8 5 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Copilot
8 5 (1.98%) SaaS
9 4 (1.58%) Nutanix
9 4 (1.58%) OneDrive
9 4 (1.58%) OpenShift
10 3 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (1.19%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.79%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.79%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.51%) Firewall
2 10 (3.95%) DNS
2 10 (3.95%) TCP/IP
3 7 (2.77%) BGP
4 6 (2.37%) HTTP
4 6 (2.37%) Software-Defined Networking
4 6 (2.37%) VLAN
4 6 (2.37%) VPN
5 5 (1.98%) DHCP
6 4 (1.58%) NetScaler
6 4 (1.58%) Network Security
6 4 (1.58%) WebEx
7 3 (1.19%) SAN
8 1 (0.40%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.40%) LAN
8 1 (0.40%) OSPF
8 1 (0.40%) SSL
8 1 (0.40%) Structured Cabling
8 1 (0.40%) WAN
8 1 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.30%) Power BI
2 18 (7.11%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (4.35%) SQL Server
4 9 (3.56%) Metadata
4 9 (3.56%) Tableau
5 5 (1.98%) BigQuery
5 5 (1.98%) NoSQL
5 5 (1.98%) Power Query
5 5 (1.98%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.19%) BusinessObjects
6 3 (1.19%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.19%) Data Mining
6 3 (1.19%) Looker
6 3 (1.19%) OLTP
7 2 (0.79%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.79%) MySQL
7 2 (0.79%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 30 (11.86%) JIRA
2 9 (3.56%) GitLab
3 5 (1.98%) JUnit
4 4 (1.58%) Postman
5 3 (1.19%) Git
5 3 (1.19%) Mockito
6 2 (0.79%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.40%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.40%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.40%) Gradle
7 1 (0.40%) Hudson
7 1 (0.40%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.40%) Maven
7 1 (0.40%) ScriptRunner
7 1 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 116 (45.85%) Social Skills
2 95 (37.55%) Finance
3 29 (11.46%) Banking
4 24 (9.49%) Public Sector
5 15 (5.93%) Influencing Skills
6 13 (5.14%) Manufacturing
7 11 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (4.35%) Telecoms
8 10 (3.95%) Legal
8 10 (3.95%) Local Government
9 7 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.77%) Marketing
9 7 (2.77%) Retail Banking
10 6 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.98%) Law
12 3 (1.19%) Automotive
12 3 (1.19%) Publishing
13 2 (0.79%) Environmental Health
14 1 (0.40%) Advertising
14 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 77 (30.43%) Analyst
2 33 (13.04%) Business Analyst
3 23 (9.09%) Developer
3 23 (9.09%) Senior
4 17 (6.72%) Lead
5 16 (6.32%) Project Manager
6 14 (5.53%) Platform Engineer
7 13 (5.14%) Finance Manager
7 13 (5.14%) Finance Project Manager
8 12 (4.74%) Senior Analyst
9 11 (4.35%) Administrator
9 11 (4.35%) Architect
10 10 (3.95%) Data Analyst
10 10 (3.95%) Security Engineer
11 9 (3.56%) IT Support
11 9 (3.56%) Technical Analyst
12 8 (3.16%) IT Analyst
12 8 (3.16%) Product Manager
12 8 (3.16%) Support Analyst
13 7 (2.77%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.72%) REST
2 14 (5.53%) XML
3 13 (5.14%) SOAP
3 13 (5.14%) Swagger
4 11 (4.35%) JSON
5 9 (3.56%) OpenAPI
6 8 (3.16%) OAuth
7 7 (2.77%) JWT
7 7 (2.77%) RESTful
8 5 (1.98%) HTML
9 4 (1.58%) .NET
9 4 (1.58%) Middleware
9 4 (1.58%) XMPP
10 3 (1.19%) CSS
10 3 (1.19%) Lightning Web Components
10 3 (1.19%) Spring
10 3 (1.19%) Spring Boot
10 3 (1.19%) Visualforce
10 3 (1.19%) YAML
11 2 (0.79%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.67%) Product Ownership
2 19 (7.51%) Analytical Mindset
3 12 (4.74%) Management Information System
3 12 (4.74%) Onboarding
4 10 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (3.16%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.77%) Credit Risk
7 5 (1.98%) Clustering
7 5 (1.98%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.98%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.98%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 5 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.58%) Digital Wallet
8 4 (1.58%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.58%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.58%) Replication
9 3 (1.19%) CMDB
9 3 (1.19%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 33 (13.04%) Windows
2 19 (7.51%) Linux
3 18 (7.11%) Windows Server
4 13 (5.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (4.35%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.98%) Unix
7 4 (1.58%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (1.58%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.19%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.19%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.79%) AIX
9 2 (0.79%) HPUX
9 2 (0.79%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.79%) Solaris
9 2 (0.79%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (59.68%) Problem-Solving
2 61 (24.11%) Agile
3 55 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
4 50 (19.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 39 (15.42%) Change Management
6 37 (14.62%) Workshop Facilitation
7 33 (13.04%) Analytics
7 33 (13.04%) Migration
7 33 (13.04%) Project Management
7 33 (13.04%) Validation
8 32 (12.65%) CI/CD
9 30 (11.86%) Data Modelling
10 29 (11.46%) Continuous Improvement
10 29 (11.46%) Decision-Making
11 28 (11.07%) Data Analysis
11 28 (11.07%) ERP
12 27 (10.67%) Computer Science
12 27 (10.67%) Use Case
13 24 (9.49%) Requirements Gathering
14 22 (8.70%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 51 (20.16%) SQL
2 40 (15.81%) Python
3 22 (8.70%) PowerShell
4 10 (3.95%) Bash
4 10 (3.95%) Java
5 7 (2.77%) Perl
6 6 (2.37%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.37%) R
7 5 (1.98%) Shell Script
7 5 (1.98%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (1.58%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.19%) Apex Code
9 3 (1.19%) C#
9 3 (1.19%) ProC
9 3 (1.19%) VBA
10 2 (0.79%) COBOL
10 2 (0.79%) JCL
10 2 (0.79%) REXX
10 2 (0.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (15.81%) Degree
2 35 (13.83%) Security Cleared
3 29 (11.46%) SC Cleared
4 21 (8.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (5.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (5.53%) CISSP
6 11 (4.35%) CCNA
6 11 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (3.95%) A+ Certification
7 10 (3.95%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (3.95%) Network+ Certification
8 9 (3.56%) CISM
9 8 (3.16%) CCNP
10 7 (2.77%) CCDP
10 7 (2.77%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (1.98%) AWS Certification
11 5 (1.98%) PMI Certification
11 5 (1.98%) PMP
12 3 (1.19%) CISA
12 3 (1.19%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.91%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.56%) GRC
3 7 (2.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.77%) NIST
4 6 (2.37%) GDPR
4 6 (2.37%) QA
4 6 (2.37%) SLA
5 5 (1.98%) PSD2
6 4 (1.58%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.19%) ISO 8583
7 3 (1.19%) PMO
8 2 (0.79%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.79%) CRD IV
8 2 (0.79%) FINREP
8 2 (0.79%) IFRS
8 2 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.40%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.40%) PERC
System Software
1 31 (12.25%) Active Directory
2 10 (3.95%) Docker
3 7 (2.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.98%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (1.58%) vSphere
6 2 (0.79%) ACF2
6 2 (0.79%) RACF
6 2 (0.79%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.40%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 12 (4.74%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 8 (3.16%) SCCM
3 7 (2.77%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.19%) Fluentd
4 3 (1.19%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.79%) CA Endevor
5 2 (0.79%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.79%) Tivoli
5 2 (0.79%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 1 (0.40%) Ansible
6 1 (0.40%) Norton AntiVirus
6 1 (0.40%) Terraform
Vendors
1 57 (22.53%) Microsoft
2 32 (12.65%) SAP
3 14 (5.53%) Oracle
3 14 (5.53%) ServiceNow
4 12 (4.74%) Red Hat
5 11 (4.35%) VMware
6 9 (3.56%) Workday
7 7 (2.77%) Citrix
7 7 (2.77%) Splunk
8 6 (2.37%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.98%) Cisco
10 4 (1.58%) F5
10 4 (1.58%) HP
10 4 (1.58%) Pega
10 4 (1.58%) Veeam
11 3 (1.19%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.19%) Dell
11 3 (1.19%) Google
11 3 (1.19%) RedGate
11 3 (1.19%) SolarWinds