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 27 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 11 14
Rank change year-on-year -12 +3 +7
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 287 243 229
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 7.36% 11.15% 9.51%
As % of the General category 14.44% 18.19% 16.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 156 122
10th Percentile £296 £285 £294
25th Percentile £365 £361 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% -2.70% -4.84%
75th Percentile £550 £537 £543
90th Percentile £657 £650 £587
England median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 18 8
10th Percentile £22.88 £24.53 £15.92
25th Percentile £25.49 £27.80 £23.67
Median hourly rate £40.00 £30.80 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.87% -30.79% -3.01%
75th Percentile £77.25 £40.33 £57.38
90th Percentile £178.75 £63.40 £75.15
England median hourly rate £30.90 £32.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.92% +30.00% -44.44%

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 1,987 1,336 1,367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 50.96% 61.31% 56.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,112 865 754
10th Percentile £230 £268 £294
25th Percentile £400 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £455 £490
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -7.14% -2.00%
75th Percentile £595 £575 £576
90th Percentile £680 £684 £675
England median daily rate £525 £500 £536
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.63% -2.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 108 80
10th Percentile £14.32 £12.82 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.65 £15.50 £18.02
Median hourly rate £35.00 £25.94 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.94% -25.89% +59.09%
75th Percentile £55.00 £47.84 £46.51
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.00 £62.50
England median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £37.75
% change year-on-year +19.28% -33.38% +34.82%

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 27 September 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 27 September 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 27 September 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 -10 143 £440 -2.22% 371
Cheshire -6 87 £474 +5.33% 100
Lancashire -11 25 £550 +22.11% 73
Cumbria -18 17 £420 -6.67% 17
Merseyside -3 15 £550 -15.38% 74
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 11 (3.83%) Confluence
2 5 (1.74%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.39%) SAS
4 2 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.35%) Apache
5 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.35%) JBoss
5 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.35%) Mule
5 1 (0.35%) Mule ESB
5 1 (0.35%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.35%) WebLogic
Applications
1 27 (9.41%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (7.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (4.18%) MS Visio
4 7 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (3.83%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (2.09%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.39%) SAP ERP
4 3 (1.05%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.70%) Primavera
5 2 (0.70%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.70%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.35%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.35%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.35%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.35%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.35%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.35%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 44 (15.33%) Azure
2 31 (10.80%) Power Platform
3 28 (9.76%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (9.41%) AWS
5 12 (4.18%) Entra ID
6 10 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (2.44%) GCP
7 7 (2.44%) SaaS
8 5 (1.74%) GitHub
8 5 (1.74%) IBM Blueworks
9 4 (1.39%) Power Automate
9 4 (1.39%) Snowflake
10 3 (1.05%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (1.05%) dbt
10 3 (1.05%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.05%) OCI
10 3 (1.05%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.70%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (0.70%) Intacct
11 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 21 (7.32%) Firewall
2 20 (6.97%) VPN
3 14 (4.88%) WAN
4 13 (4.53%) Network Security
5 10 (3.48%) LAN
6 9 (3.14%) DNS
7 7 (2.44%) BGP
7 7 (2.44%) SD-WAN
8 5 (1.74%) Cisco Nexus
8 5 (1.74%) SNMP
8 5 (1.74%) VLAN
8 5 (1.74%) Wireless
9 4 (1.39%) OSPF
9 4 (1.39%) TCP/IP
10 3 (1.05%) DHCP
10 3 (1.05%) DMZ
10 3 (1.05%) MPLS
10 3 (1.05%) SAN
10 3 (1.05%) VoIP
10 3 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.06%) Power BI
2 15 (5.23%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (3.48%) SQL Server
4 8 (2.79%) Metadata
4 8 (2.79%) Relational Database
5 7 (2.44%) Tableau
6 6 (2.09%) DataStage
6 6 (2.09%) Db2
7 4 (1.39%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.70%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.70%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.70%) EDRMS
8 2 (0.70%) Power Query
8 2 (0.70%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.35%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.35%) Flink
9 1 (0.35%) Looker
9 1 (0.35%) Parquet
9 1 (0.35%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 17 (5.92%) JIRA
2 8 (2.79%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.44%) Git
4 6 (2.09%) GitLab
5 4 (1.39%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.05%) Ranorex
6 3 (1.05%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (1.05%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.70%) Burp Suite
7 2 (0.70%) Gatling
7 2 (0.70%) Gradle
7 2 (0.70%) JUnit
7 2 (0.70%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.70%) MSTest
7 2 (0.70%) NUnit
7 2 (0.70%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.35%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.35%) Toad
General
1 154 (53.66%) Social Skills
2 85 (29.62%) Finance
3 35 (12.20%) Banking
4 24 (8.36%) Manufacturing
5 17 (5.92%) Legal
6 16 (5.57%) Public Sector
7 13 (4.53%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (4.18%) Telecoms
9 10 (3.48%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (2.79%) Marketing
11 7 (2.44%) Law
11 7 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.74%) Automotive
13 4 (1.39%) Aerospace
14 3 (1.05%) Billing
14 3 (1.05%) Investment Banking
14 3 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (1.05%) Retail
15 2 (0.70%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 65 (22.65%) Analyst
2 23 (8.01%) Lead
3 21 (7.32%) Developer
4 20 (6.97%) Business Analyst
5 18 (6.27%) Consultant
6 16 (5.57%) Network Engineer
7 15 (5.23%) Architect
8 14 (4.88%) Administrator
9 13 (4.53%) Data Analyst
9 13 (4.53%) IT Support
10 12 (4.18%) Senior
11 11 (3.83%) Security Engineer
12 10 (3.48%) Service Analyst
12 10 (3.48%) Support Engineer
13 9 (3.14%) Data Engineer
13 9 (3.14%) Support Analyst
14 8 (2.79%) IT Engineer
15 7 (2.44%) IT Analyst
15 7 (2.44%) Senior Manager
15 7 (2.44%) Technical Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.18%) Terraform
2 10 (3.48%) REST
3 7 (2.44%) JSON
4 6 (2.09%) OAuth
5 5 (1.74%) PySpark
6 4 (1.39%) XML
7 3 (1.05%) Gherkin
7 3 (1.05%) HTML
7 3 (1.05%) Kafka
7 3 (1.05%) Node.js
7 3 (1.05%) Playwright
7 3 (1.05%) RESTful
7 3 (1.05%) SailPoint
7 3 (1.05%) Spring
7 3 (1.05%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.70%) OAuth2
8 2 (0.70%) ODBC
8 2 (0.70%) PyTorch
8 2 (0.70%) Quarkus
8 2 (0.70%) React
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.01%) Onboarding
2 22 (7.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 15 (5.23%) Management Information System
4 12 (4.18%) Product Ownership
5 11 (3.83%) Cyber Threat
5 11 (3.83%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (3.14%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (2.44%) Security Posture
9 6 (2.09%) Cloud Native
9 6 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.39%) Credit Risk
10 4 (1.39%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.39%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.39%) PKI
10 4 (1.39%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.05%) Client/Server
11 3 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 39 (13.59%) Windows
2 12 (4.18%) Linux
3 9 (3.14%) Mac OS
3 9 (3.14%) Unix
3 9 (3.14%) Windows 10
4 6 (2.09%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.74%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.70%) AIX
6 2 (0.70%) HPUX
6 2 (0.70%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.70%) Solaris
6 2 (0.70%) SUSE
7 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (51.92%) Problem-Solving
2 88 (30.66%) Stakeholder Management
3 62 (21.60%) Continuous Improvement
4 46 (16.03%) Agile
4 46 (16.03%) ITIL
5 42 (14.63%) Analytics
6 41 (14.29%) Change Management
7 38 (13.24%) Validation
8 34 (11.85%) Decision-Making
9 32 (11.15%) Project Management
10 31 (10.80%) CI/CD
10 31 (10.80%) Migration
11 30 (10.45%) AI
12 28 (9.76%) Data Modelling
13 27 (9.41%) Business Intelligence
13 27 (9.41%) Customer Service
13 27 (9.41%) Data Analysis
13 27 (9.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 26 (9.06%) ERP
14 26 (9.06%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 50 (17.42%) Python
2 47 (16.38%) SQL
3 23 (8.01%) PowerShell
4 9 (3.14%) Java
5 7 (2.44%) Bash
5 7 (2.44%) PL/SQL
6 6 (2.09%) C#
6 6 (2.09%) Search Processing Language
6 6 (2.09%) Shell Script
7 5 (1.74%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.39%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.70%) ABAP
10 2 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.70%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.35%) Ada
11 1 (0.35%) C
11 1 (0.35%) C++
11 1 (0.35%) Perl
11 1 (0.35%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 42 (14.63%) Security Cleared
2 39 (13.59%) Degree
3 33 (11.50%) SC Cleared
4 18 (6.27%) CISSP
5 13 (4.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (4.18%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (4.18%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (3.14%) A+ Certification
7 9 (3.14%) AWS Certification
7 9 (3.14%) Network+ Certification
8 8 (2.79%) CCNP
8 8 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (2.09%) ACCA
9 6 (2.09%) CIMA
9 6 (2.09%) CompTIA Security+
9 6 (2.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 5 (1.74%) CCIE
10 5 (1.74%) CCNA
10 5 (1.74%) GCIH
11 4 (1.39%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (12.54%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.23%) SLA
3 10 (3.48%) GRC
4 9 (3.14%) NIST
5 8 (2.79%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.79%) QA
6 7 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (2.09%) GDPR
7 6 (2.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (1.05%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.05%) PMO
9 2 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.70%) NCSC
10 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.35%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.35%) DO-178B
10 1 (0.35%) GAAP
10 1 (0.35%) MISRA
System Software
1 29 (10.10%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.74%) Docker
3 5 (1.74%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.05%) Firmware
5 2 (0.70%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (5.92%) Ansible
2 8 (2.79%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.79%) Progress Chef
3 4 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.05%) CASB
4 3 (1.05%) McAfee ePO
4 3 (1.05%) SCCM
5 2 (0.70%) Data Guard
5 2 (0.70%) Grafana
5 2 (0.70%) Istio
5 2 (0.70%) WMI
6 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.35%) Nagios
6 1 (0.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 73 (25.44%) Microsoft
2 31 (10.80%) ServiceNow
3 24 (8.36%) SAP
4 22 (7.67%) Splunk
5 16 (5.57%) Oracle
6 11 (3.83%) Cisco
6 11 (3.83%) Remedy
7 9 (3.14%) Teradata
8 8 (2.79%) VMware
9 7 (2.44%) Databricks
9 7 (2.44%) IBM
10 6 (2.09%) BeyondTrust
10 6 (2.09%) CrowdStrike
10 6 (2.09%) F5
10 6 (2.09%) Google
11 5 (1.74%) Atlassian
11 5 (1.74%) Dynatrace
12 4 (1.39%) AlgoSec
12 4 (1.39%) CyberArk
12 4 (1.39%) Palo Alto