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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 13 25
Rank change year-on-year -7 +12 -1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 254 197 166
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 7.76% 10.08% 6.25%
As % of the General category 13.97% 17.50% 11.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 124 100
10th Percentile £304 £304 £324
25th Percentile £357 £404 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £422 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £518 £658 £544
90th Percentile £588 £716 £613
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 12 27
10th Percentile £21.75 £19.03 £11.77
25th Percentile £25.49 £22.05 £13.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £44.66 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +152.00% -49.37%
75th Percentile £77.50 £63.40 £43.75
90th Percentile £178.75 £71.59 £54.00
England median hourly rate £39.00 £29.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year +32.20% +59.46% -53.75%

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 1,818 1,126 1,424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 55.56% 57.60% 53.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,066 696 870
10th Percentile £221 £250 £300
25th Percentile £358 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £576 £588
90th Percentile £639 £675 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 104 190
10th Percentile £16.50 £13.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £22.68 £17.44 £14.50
Median hourly rate £35.25 £28.75 £17.86
Median % change year-on-year +22.61% +60.97% -31.31%
75th Percentile £64.56 £56.51 £36.95
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.13 £51.91
England median hourly rate £30.75 £27.38 £30.16
% change year-on-year +12.33% -9.23% -7.20%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -10 119 £420 -16.33% 128
Cheshire -3 86 £421 -13.96% 46
Lancashire 0 24 £370 -31.00% 41
Merseyside -15 13 £330 -12.00% 24
Cumbria +7 12 £488 +5.98% 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 17 (6.69%) Confluence
2 7 (2.76%) SAS
3 5 (1.97%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.79%) Apache
4 2 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.79%) JBoss
4 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.39%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.39%) Mule
5 1 (0.39%) Mule ESB
5 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.39%) WebLogic
Applications
1 19 (7.48%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (6.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (3.94%) MS Visio
4 7 (2.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (2.36%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (6.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.36%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (1.57%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (1.18%) Primavera
4 3 (1.18%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.79%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.39%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.39%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.39%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.39%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.39%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 35 (13.78%) AWS
2 32 (12.60%) Azure
3 27 (10.63%) Microsoft 365
3 27 (10.63%) Power Platform
4 10 (3.94%) GCP
5 5 (1.97%) Akamai
5 5 (1.97%) Apigee
5 5 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (1.97%) Entra ID
5 5 (1.97%) Kong
5 5 (1.97%) Microsoft Copilot
5 5 (1.97%) SaaS
6 4 (1.57%) Nutanix
6 4 (1.57%) OneDrive
7 3 (1.18%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (1.18%) GitHub
8 2 (0.79%) Azure AKS
8 2 (0.79%) Power Automate
8 2 (0.79%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.72%) TCP/IP
2 10 (3.94%) DNS
2 10 (3.94%) Firewall
3 5 (1.97%) DHCP
3 5 (1.97%) HTTP
3 5 (1.97%) SAN
4 4 (1.57%) NetScaler
4 4 (1.57%) VPN
5 3 (1.18%) BGP
6 1 (0.39%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.39%) LAN
6 1 (0.39%) OSPF
6 1 (0.39%) SSL
6 1 (0.39%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (0.39%) WAN
6 1 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (9.45%) Power BI
2 16 (6.30%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (3.94%) SQL Server
4 9 (3.54%) Metadata
5 8 (3.15%) Tableau
6 6 (2.36%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.97%) BigQuery
7 5 (1.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (1.57%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.57%) Power Query
9 3 (1.18%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.18%) Looker
9 3 (1.18%) OLTP
10 2 (0.79%) BusinessObjects
10 2 (0.79%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.79%) DataStage
10 2 (0.79%) DB2
10 2 (0.79%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.79%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (0.39%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 27 (10.63%) JIRA
2 6 (2.36%) GitLab
2 6 (2.36%) JUnit
3 4 (1.57%) Postman
4 3 (1.18%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.18%) Git
4 3 (1.18%) Mockito
5 2 (0.79%) Gradle
5 2 (0.79%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.79%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.39%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.39%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.39%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.39%) Gatling
6 1 (0.39%) Hudson
6 1 (0.39%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.39%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.39%) ScriptRunner
6 1 (0.39%) SonarQube
General
1 120 (47.24%) Social Skills
2 89 (35.04%) Finance
3 30 (11.81%) Banking
4 25 (9.84%) Public Sector
5 14 (5.51%) Influencing Skills
5 14 (5.51%) Manufacturing
6 13 (5.12%) Telecoms
7 12 (4.72%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (3.15%) Local Government
8 8 (3.15%) Marketing
9 7 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.76%) Retail Banking
10 6 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.97%) Law
11 5 (1.97%) Legal
12 3 (1.18%) Automotive
12 3 (1.18%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.18%) Publishing
13 2 (0.79%) Environmental Health
14 1 (0.39%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 80 (31.50%) Analyst
2 33 (12.99%) Business Analyst
3 24 (9.45%) Developer
3 24 (9.45%) Senior
4 18 (7.09%) Lead
5 15 (5.91%) Project Manager
6 13 (5.12%) Finance Manager
6 13 (5.12%) Finance Project Manager
7 12 (4.72%) Senior Analyst
8 11 (4.33%) Administrator
8 11 (4.33%) IT Analyst
8 11 (4.33%) IT Support
8 11 (4.33%) Security Engineer
9 10 (3.94%) Support Analyst
10 9 (3.54%) Data Analyst
10 9 (3.54%) IT Support Analyst
10 9 (3.54%) Technical Analyst
11 8 (3.15%) Architect
11 8 (3.15%) Product Manager
12 7 (2.76%) Field Service Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.09%) REST
2 12 (4.72%) SOAP
2 12 (4.72%) Swagger
2 12 (4.72%) XML
3 10 (3.94%) JSON
4 8 (3.15%) OpenAPI
5 6 (2.36%) HTML
5 6 (2.36%) OAuth
5 6 (2.36%) RESTful
6 5 (1.97%) JWT
7 4 (1.57%) CSS
7 4 (1.57%) Middleware
7 4 (1.57%) Spring
7 4 (1.57%) Spring Boot
8 3 (1.18%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.18%) Jest
8 3 (1.18%) Node.js
8 3 (1.18%) Playwright
8 3 (1.18%) Visualforce
8 3 (1.18%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.87%) Analytical Mindset
2 17 (6.69%) Product Ownership
3 15 (5.91%) Management Information System
4 14 (5.51%) Onboarding
5 12 (4.72%) Cyber Threat
5 12 (4.72%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.76%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.97%) Clustering
7 5 (1.97%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 5 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.57%) Digital Wallet
8 4 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.57%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.57%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.57%) Replication
9 3 (1.18%) Credit Risk
9 3 (1.18%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.18%) Housing Association
9 3 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (11.42%) Windows
2 13 (5.12%) Windows 10
3 9 (3.54%) Linux
4 8 (3.15%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.36%) Apple iOS
5 6 (2.36%) Mac OS
5 6 (2.36%) Unix
6 4 (1.57%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.57%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.79%) AIX
8 2 (0.79%) HPUX
8 2 (0.79%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.79%) Solaris
8 2 (0.79%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (57.87%) Problem-Solving
2 58 (22.83%) Agile
3 54 (21.26%) Stakeholder Management
4 39 (15.35%) Migration
4 39 (15.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 39 (15.35%) Workshop Facilitation
5 36 (14.17%) Change Management
5 36 (14.17%) Validation
6 34 (13.39%) Project Management
7 31 (12.20%) Data Modelling
8 29 (11.42%) Analytics
9 28 (11.02%) Decision-Making
10 27 (10.63%) CI/CD
11 26 (10.24%) ERP
11 26 (10.24%) ITIL
11 26 (10.24%) Use Case
12 25 (9.84%) Computer Science
13 24 (9.45%) Business Intelligence
13 24 (9.45%) Data Analysis
14 23 (9.06%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 49 (19.29%) SQL
2 34 (13.39%) Python
3 16 (6.30%) PowerShell
4 13 (5.12%) Java
5 7 (2.76%) Shell Script
6 6 (2.36%) PL/SQL
7 5 (1.97%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.57%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.18%) Apex Code
9 3 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.18%) ProC
9 3 (1.18%) VBA
10 2 (0.79%) R
10 2 (0.79%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.39%) ABAP
11 1 (0.39%) Bash
11 1 (0.39%) CLIST
11 1 (0.39%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.39%) SOQL
11 1 (0.39%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 40 (15.75%) Degree
2 24 (9.45%) Security Cleared
3 22 (8.66%) Computer Science Degree
4 18 (7.09%) SC Cleared
5 16 (6.30%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (5.91%) CISSP
7 14 (5.51%) A+ Certification
7 14 (5.51%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (5.51%) Network+ Certification
8 8 (3.15%) AWS Certification
9 7 (2.76%) CompTIA Security+
10 6 (2.36%) CCNA
10 6 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (2.36%) CISM
11 5 (1.97%) MCSE
12 3 (1.18%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.18%) CISA
12 3 (1.18%) CRISC
12 3 (1.18%) PMI Certification
12 3 (1.18%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.06%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.54%) GRC
3 8 (3.15%) SLA
4 6 (2.36%) GDPR
4 6 (2.36%) NIST
4 6 (2.36%) QA
5 5 (1.97%) PSD2
6 4 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.57%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.18%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.18%) ISO 8583
7 3 (1.18%) PMO
8 2 (0.79%) CRD IV
8 2 (0.79%) FINREP
8 2 (0.79%) IFRS
8 2 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 2 (0.79%) NCSC
8 2 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.39%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 26 (10.24%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.36%) Docker
3 5 (1.97%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.57%) vSphere
5 1 (0.39%) ACF2
5 1 (0.39%) ISA Server
5 1 (0.39%) RACF
5 1 (0.39%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 8 (3.15%) SCCM
2 7 (2.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (2.36%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (1.57%) Ansible
5 3 (1.18%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.79%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.79%) Terraform
7 1 (0.39%) CA Endevor
7 1 (0.39%) Istio
7 1 (0.39%) Norton AntiVirus
7 1 (0.39%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.39%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 54 (21.26%) Microsoft
2 31 (12.20%) SAP
3 17 (6.69%) ServiceNow
4 14 (5.51%) Oracle
5 8 (3.15%) Splunk
6 6 (2.36%) BeyondTrust
6 6 (2.36%) CrowdStrike
6 6 (2.36%) Remedy
7 5 (1.97%) Dell
7 5 (1.97%) MuleSoft
7 5 (1.97%) Teradata
8 4 (1.57%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.57%) F5
8 4 (1.57%) Google
8 4 (1.57%) HP
8 4 (1.57%) Veeam
8 4 (1.57%) VMware
9 3 (1.18%) Adobe
9 3 (1.18%) Cognos
9 3 (1.18%) Tanium