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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -10 +1 +8
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 300 244 237
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 7.42% 10.99% 9.79%
As % of the General category 14.51% 17.68% 16.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 154 129
10th Percentile £300 £300 £294
25th Percentile £363 £363 £337
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £453
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% -0.55% -6.89%
75th Percentile £562 £537 £538
90th Percentile £639 £648 £586
England median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -4.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 22 14
10th Percentile £18.27 £20.17 £17.46
25th Percentile £25.49 £27.80 £21.83
Median hourly rate £40.00 £33.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.40% +7.20% -31.89%
75th Percentile £77.00 £43.00 £54.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £63.40 £67.97
England median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +30.00% -42.77%

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 2,067 1,380 1,403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 51.14% 62.13% 57.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,150 902 768
10th Percentile £261 £257 £271
25th Percentile £400 £375 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £479
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -6.05% -4.20%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £575
90th Percentile £691 £678 £664
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 279 112 88
10th Percentile £14.06 £12.84 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £15.50 £18.89
Median hourly rate £35.50 £25.94 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.87% -25.89% +55.35%
75th Percentile £64.09 £47.84 £46.18
90th Percentile £80.00 £65.23 £63.25
England median hourly rate £28.40 £25.08 £35.00
% change year-on-year +13.24% -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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -12 148 £435 -3.33% 87
Cheshire -8 79 £463 +3.06% 18
Lancashire -9 33 £581 +29.11% 19
Merseyside +5 20 £438 -32.62% 6
Cumbria -18 20 £420 -6.67% 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 10 (3.33%) Confluence
2 5 (1.67%) SAS
2 5 (1.67%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.33%) Apache
4 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.33%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.33%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 24 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 24 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (4.00%) MS Visio
3 7 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (3.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.33%) SAP ERP
4 3 (1.00%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.67%) Primavera
5 2 (0.67%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.67%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.33%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.33%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.33%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.33%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.33%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 46 (15.33%) Azure
2 36 (12.00%) Power Platform
3 24 (8.00%) AWS
4 23 (7.67%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (3.33%) Entra ID
7 7 (2.33%) GCP
7 7 (2.33%) SaaS
8 5 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (1.67%) GitHub
8 5 (1.67%) IBM Blueworks
8 5 (1.67%) Power Automate
8 5 (1.67%) PowerApps
9 4 (1.33%) Snowflake
10 3 (1.00%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (1.00%) dbt
10 3 (1.00%) OCI
11 2 (0.67%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (0.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (0.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.33%) Firewall
1 22 (7.33%) VPN
2 15 (5.00%) WAN
3 13 (4.33%) Network Security
4 10 (3.33%) DNS
4 10 (3.33%) LAN
5 9 (3.00%) BGP
6 8 (2.67%) SD-WAN
7 7 (2.33%) VLAN
8 6 (2.00%) OSPF
8 6 (2.00%) TCP/IP
9 5 (1.67%) Cisco Nexus
9 5 (1.67%) MPLS
9 5 (1.67%) SNMP
9 5 (1.67%) Wireless
10 4 (1.33%) DHCP
11 3 (1.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 3 (1.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 3 (1.00%) Software-Defined Networking
11 3 (1.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (9.67%) Power BI
2 17 (5.67%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (3.00%) Metadata
3 9 (3.00%) SQL Server
3 9 (3.00%) Tableau
4 8 (2.67%) Relational Database
5 6 (2.00%) DataStage
5 6 (2.00%) Db2
6 4 (1.33%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.00%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.00%) Semantic Layer
8 2 (0.67%) EDRMS
8 2 (0.67%) Looker
8 2 (0.67%) Power Query
8 2 (0.67%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.33%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.33%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (4.67%) JIRA
2 10 (3.33%) Git
3 8 (2.67%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.00%) GitLab
5 3 (1.00%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.00%) MSTest
5 3 (1.00%) NUnit
5 3 (1.00%) Ranorex
5 3 (1.00%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (1.00%) SpecFlow
6 2 (0.67%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.67%) Gatling
6 2 (0.67%) Gradle
6 2 (0.67%) LoadRunner
6 2 (0.67%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.33%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.33%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 156 (52.00%) Social Skills
2 87 (29.00%) Finance
3 36 (12.00%) Banking
4 26 (8.67%) Manufacturing
5 17 (5.67%) Legal
5 17 (5.67%) Public Sector
6 15 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (3.00%) Aerospace
7 9 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (2.67%) Marketing
8 8 (2.67%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.33%) Law
9 7 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.67%) Automotive
11 3 (1.00%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.00%) Military
11 3 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.00%) Retail
12 2 (0.67%) Police
Job Titles
1 68 (22.67%) Analyst
2 25 (8.33%) Lead
3 23 (7.67%) Business Analyst
4 22 (7.33%) Consultant
5 20 (6.67%) Developer
6 18 (6.00%) Network Engineer
7 17 (5.67%) Data Analyst
8 16 (5.33%) Senior
9 15 (5.00%) Architect
10 12 (4.00%) Administrator
11 11 (3.67%) Data Engineer
12 10 (3.33%) IT Support
12 10 (3.33%) Support Engineer
13 9 (3.00%) Management Consultant
13 9 (3.00%) Security Engineer
14 8 (2.67%) Senior Manager
14 8 (2.67%) Service Analyst
14 8 (2.67%) Vulnerability Consultant
14 8 (2.67%) Vulnerability Management Consultant
15 7 (2.33%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.00%) Terraform
2 11 (3.67%) REST
3 8 (2.67%) JSON
4 7 (2.33%) OAuth
5 5 (1.67%) PySpark
6 3 (1.00%) Gherkin
6 3 (1.00%) HTML
6 3 (1.00%) Kafka
6 3 (1.00%) Node.js
6 3 (1.00%) Playwright
6 3 (1.00%) RESTful
6 3 (1.00%) Spring
6 3 (1.00%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.00%) XML
7 2 (0.67%) ADO
7 2 (0.67%) CSS
7 2 (0.67%) OAuth2
7 2 (0.67%) ODBC
7 2 (0.67%) Regular Expression
7 2 (0.67%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 20 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 16 (5.33%) Management Information System
4 15 (5.00%) Product Ownership
5 12 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (3.67%) Cyber Threat
7 9 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.67%) Data Centre
9 7 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (2.00%) Cloud Native
10 6 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.67%) Security Posture
12 4 (1.33%) CMDB
12 4 (1.33%) Credit Risk
12 4 (1.33%) Driving Licence
12 4 (1.33%) Operational Technology
12 4 (1.33%) PKI
13 3 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
13 3 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (11.33%) Windows
2 11 (3.67%) Linux
3 9 (3.00%) Unix
4 7 (2.33%) macOS
5 6 (2.00%) Windows 10
5 6 (2.00%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.00%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.33%) AIX
7 1 (0.33%) HPUX
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.33%) Solaris
7 1 (0.33%) SUSE
7 1 (0.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 101 (33.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 65 (21.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 56 (18.67%) Agile
5 48 (16.00%) Validation
6 47 (15.67%) Analytics
7 42 (14.00%) Change Management
8 40 (13.33%) ITIL
9 38 (12.67%) Data Modelling
9 38 (12.67%) Decision-Making
10 33 (11.00%) CI/CD
11 32 (10.67%) AI
12 31 (10.33%) Migration
12 31 (10.33%) Project Management
12 31 (10.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 30 (10.00%) Data Analysis
14 29 (9.67%) Business Intelligence
14 29 (9.67%) Service Management
15 28 (9.33%) Cybersecurity
15 28 (9.33%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 54 (18.00%) SQL
2 52 (17.33%) Python
3 20 (6.67%) PowerShell
4 8 (2.67%) Java
5 7 (2.33%) Bash
5 7 (2.33%) C#
6 6 (2.00%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.00%) PL/SQL
6 6 (2.00%) Search Processing Language
6 6 (2.00%) Shell Script
7 4 (1.33%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.00%) Assembly Language
8 3 (1.00%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (1.00%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.67%) ABAP
9 2 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.33%) Ada
10 1 (0.33%) C++
10 1 (0.33%) Perl
10 1 (0.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 51 (17.00%) Security Cleared
2 39 (13.00%) SC Cleared
3 36 (12.00%) Degree
4 15 (5.00%) CISSP
5 13 (4.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (3.67%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (2.67%) CCNP
7 8 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (2.33%) ACCA
8 7 (2.33%) AWS Certification
8 7 (2.33%) CIMA
9 6 (2.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 5 (1.67%) A+ Certification
10 5 (1.67%) CCIE
10 5 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.67%) GCIH
10 5 (1.67%) Network+ Certification
11 4 (1.33%) CCNA
11 4 (1.33%) CISM
11 4 (1.33%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (14.33%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.33%) SLA
3 10 (3.33%) QA
4 9 (3.00%) NIST
5 8 (2.67%) PCI DSS
6 7 (2.33%) GDPR
6 7 (2.33%) GRC
6 7 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (2.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (1.33%) PMO
9 3 (1.00%) Accessibility
9 3 (1.00%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.67%) NCSC
11 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.33%) DO-178B
11 1 (0.33%) GAAP
11 1 (0.33%) MISRA
System Software
1 24 (8.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.67%) Docker
3 5 (1.67%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.00%) Firmware
5 2 (0.67%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (6.33%) Ansible
2 8 (2.67%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.67%) Progress Chef
3 4 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.00%) CASB
4 3 (1.00%) McAfee ePO
4 3 (1.00%) SCCM
5 2 (0.67%) Cisco Prime
5 2 (0.67%) Data Guard
5 2 (0.67%) Grafana
5 2 (0.67%) Istio
5 2 (0.67%) WMI
6 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.33%) Nagios
6 1 (0.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 71 (23.67%) Microsoft
2 29 (9.67%) ServiceNow
3 22 (7.33%) SAP
3 22 (7.33%) Splunk
4 14 (4.67%) Oracle
5 13 (4.33%) Cisco
6 9 (3.00%) Remedy
6 9 (3.00%) Teradata
7 8 (2.67%) Databricks
7 8 (2.67%) F5
7 8 (2.67%) VMware
8 7 (2.33%) Google
8 7 (2.33%) IBM
9 6 (2.00%) Arista
9 6 (2.00%) Fortinet
9 6 (2.00%) Juniper
9 6 (2.00%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.67%) Dynatrace
11 4 (1.33%) BeyondTrust
11 4 (1.33%) Workday