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 1 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 14 17
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 +9
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 232 196 207
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 9.28% 9.12% 7.81%
As % of the General category 15.25% 15.67% 14.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 116 125
10th Percentile £311 £293 £227
25th Percentile £358 £311 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £548 £545 £550
90th Percentile £630 £625 £626
England median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 12 16
10th Percentile £20.60 £19.43 £17.13
25th Percentile £27.80 £21.05 £17.72
Median hourly rate £35.00 £24.47 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year +43.03% -32.50% +17.92%
75th Percentile £43.00 £58.31 £46.18
90th Percentile £45.20 £68.11 -
England median hourly rate £34.00 £26.12 £30.00
% change year-on-year +30.16% -12.93% -14.29%

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 1,521 1,251 1,457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 60.84% 58.19% 54.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 983 679 950
10th Percentile £200 £250 £262
25th Percentile £350 £360 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £703
England median daily rate £500 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 94 113
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.93 £13.03
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.35 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.60 £26.28 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.64% +19.44% +7.19%
75th Percentile £45.46 £37.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £67.84 £66.75 £52.62
England median hourly rate £23.58 £30.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -21.42% -9.09% +29.36%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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 1 January 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
Cheshire -2 96 £435 -12.32% 41
Manchester -7 93 £438 +9.38% 139
Lancashire +1 24 £550 - 61
Cumbria +12 11 £450 - 5
Merseyside -8 8 £365 -21.08% 16
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 (7.33%) Confluence
2 14 (6.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (6.03%) SharePoint
3 12 (5.17%) SAS
4 7 (3.02%) Exchange Server 2013
4 7 (3.02%) Skype for Business
5 4 (1.72%) Apache
5 4 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.86%) JBoss
6 2 (0.86%) Resin
6 2 (0.86%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.43%) Mule
7 1 (0.43%) Mule ESB
7 1 (0.43%) WebLogic
Applications
1 29 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (6.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (6.03%) MS Visio
4 11 (4.74%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (4.74%) Siemens NX
5 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.86%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.86%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.43%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 11 (4.74%) Teamcenter
2 6 (2.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.72%) ContrOCC
4 3 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.29%) iTrent
4 3 (1.29%) SAP EWM
5 2 (0.86%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.43%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.43%) Maximo
6 1 (0.43%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.43%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.43%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 40 (17.24%) Azure
2 36 (15.52%) AWS
3 25 (10.78%) Power Platform
4 19 (8.19%) GCP
5 18 (7.76%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (4.31%) OneDrive
7 7 (3.02%) OpenShift
8 6 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (2.59%) Entra ID
9 5 (2.16%) Apigee
9 5 (2.16%) Kong
10 4 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.29%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (1.29%) PowerApps
11 3 (1.29%) SaaS
11 3 (1.29%) Serverless
12 2 (0.86%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (0.86%) Amazon S3
12 2 (0.86%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 21 (9.05%) Firewall
2 14 (6.03%) Network Security
3 9 (3.88%) DNS
4 8 (3.45%) BGP
5 7 (3.02%) LAN
5 7 (3.02%) Skype
5 7 (3.02%) TCP/IP
5 7 (3.02%) VLAN
5 7 (3.02%) VPN
6 6 (2.59%) Software-Defined Networking
6 6 (2.59%) WAN
7 5 (2.16%) DMZ
7 5 (2.16%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 5 (2.16%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 4 (1.72%) WebEx
9 3 (1.29%) DHCP
10 2 (0.86%) NetScaler
10 2 (0.86%) SAN
11 1 (0.43%) Cisco IOS
11 1 (0.43%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.76%) Power BI
2 12 (5.17%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (2.16%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.72%) BigQuery
4 4 (1.72%) DynamoDB
4 4 (1.72%) MS Access
4 4 (1.72%) Power Query
4 4 (1.72%) Tableau
5 3 (1.29%) Cognos Framework Manager
5 3 (1.29%) Cognos Report Studio
5 3 (1.29%) Cognos Transformer
5 3 (1.29%) Looker
5 3 (1.29%) OLAP
5 3 (1.29%) OLAP Cube
5 3 (1.29%) OLTP
5 3 (1.29%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (0.86%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.86%) Redis
6 2 (0.86%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 26 (11.21%) JIRA
2 9 (3.88%) GitLab
3 6 (2.59%) Git
4 4 (1.72%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.29%) TestRail
6 2 (0.86%) JUnit
6 2 (0.86%) Selenium
7 1 (0.43%) Appium
7 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.43%) Gradle
7 1 (0.43%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.43%) Maven
7 1 (0.43%) MLflow
7 1 (0.43%) Postman
7 1 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 105 (45.26%) Social Skills
2 72 (31.03%) Finance
3 25 (10.78%) Banking
4 17 (7.33%) Public Sector
5 13 (5.60%) Influencing Skills
5 13 (5.60%) Manufacturing
6 10 (4.31%) Aerospace
7 9 (3.88%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (3.45%) Legal
9 7 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (3.02%) Local Government
10 5 (2.16%) Marketing
11 4 (1.72%) Retail Banking
12 3 (1.29%) Automotive
12 3 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.86%) Publishing
13 2 (0.86%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.43%) Law
14 1 (0.43%) Military
Job Titles
1 68 (29.31%) Analyst
2 27 (11.64%) Business Analyst
3 22 (9.48%) Architect
4 19 (8.19%) Developer
5 14 (6.03%) Senior
5 14 (6.03%) Support Analyst
6 13 (5.60%) Platform Engineer
7 12 (5.17%) Consultant
8 10 (4.31%) Operations Analyst
9 8 (3.45%) Data Analyst
9 8 (3.45%) Lead
9 8 (3.45%) Technical Analyst
10 7 (3.02%) Operational Support Analyst
10 7 (3.02%) Operations Support Analyst
10 7 (3.02%) Senior Analyst
11 6 (2.59%) Administrator
11 6 (2.59%) Deskside Analyst
11 6 (2.59%) Deskside Support
11 6 (2.59%) Deskside Support Analyst
11 6 (2.59%) Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.31%) REST
1 10 (4.31%) XML
2 8 (3.45%) JSON
2 8 (3.45%) SOAP
3 7 (3.02%) OAuth
4 6 (2.59%) JWT
4 6 (2.59%) Swagger
5 5 (2.16%) HTML
5 5 (2.16%) OpenAPI
6 4 (1.72%) .NET
6 4 (1.72%) Spring
6 4 (1.72%) Spring Boot
6 4 (1.72%) XMPP
7 3 (1.29%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.29%) RESTful
8 2 (0.86%) HTML5 Canvas
8 2 (0.86%) ISPF
8 2 (0.86%) Kafka
8 2 (0.86%) Node.js
8 2 (0.86%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.91%) Analytical Mindset
1 23 (9.91%) Product Ownership
2 6 (2.59%) CMDB
2 6 (2.59%) Data Structures
3 5 (2.16%) Credit Risk
3 5 (2.16%) Management Information System
4 4 (1.72%) Cloud Native
4 4 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (1.72%) Data Centre
4 4 (1.72%) Onboarding
4 4 (1.72%) Public Cloud
4 4 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.29%) FMCG
5 3 (1.29%) Legacy Code
5 3 (1.29%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.86%) 3D Printing
6 2 (0.86%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (0.86%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 23 (9.91%) Windows
2 17 (7.33%) Windows Server
3 16 (6.90%) Linux
4 10 (4.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.29%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.86%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.86%) Unix
6 2 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.43%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (54.31%) Problem-Solving
2 57 (24.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 52 (22.41%) Agile
4 36 (15.52%) Change Management
5 34 (14.66%) Analytics
6 29 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 28 (12.07%) Decision-Making
8 26 (11.21%) CI/CD
8 26 (11.21%) Data Modelling
9 25 (10.78%) Project Management
10 24 (10.34%) DevOps
10 24 (10.34%) Use Case
11 23 (9.91%) Data Analysis
11 23 (9.91%) ITIL
11 23 (9.91%) Visualisation
12 22 (9.48%) ITSM
12 22 (9.48%) Validation
13 21 (9.05%) Business Intelligence
13 21 (9.05%) Computer Science
13 21 (9.05%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 39 (16.81%) Python
2 36 (15.52%) SQL
3 16 (6.90%) PowerShell
4 11 (4.74%) Bash
5 9 (3.88%) Java
6 8 (3.45%) Perl
7 7 (3.02%) R
8 6 (2.59%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.16%) C#
10 4 (1.72%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.72%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.29%) ProC
11 3 (1.29%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.86%) ABAP
12 2 (0.86%) CLIST
12 2 (0.86%) COBOL
12 2 (0.86%) JCL
12 2 (0.86%) REXX
13 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 48 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 42 (18.10%) SC Cleared
3 39 (16.81%) Degree
4 15 (6.47%) BPSS Clearance
4 15 (6.47%) CISSP
4 15 (6.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (5.17%) CISM
6 11 (4.74%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (3.88%) CCNA
7 9 (3.88%) CCNP
8 8 (3.45%) CCDP
9 5 (2.16%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (1.72%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.72%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.29%) CISA
11 3 (1.29%) GSEC
11 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.29%) PMI Certification
11 3 (1.29%) PMP
12 2 (0.86%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.31%) GDPR
2 9 (3.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (3.88%) NIST
3 8 (3.45%) Data Quality
4 7 (3.02%) QA
5 6 (2.59%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.72%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.72%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.29%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.86%) CRD IV
8 2 (0.86%) FINREP
8 2 (0.86%) IFRS
8 2 (0.86%) PSD2
9 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.43%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.43%) PERC
9 1 (0.43%) SEPA
9 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (9.91%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.88%) Docker
4 5 (2.16%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.86%) ACF2
5 2 (0.86%) RACF
5 2 (0.86%) Time Sharing Option
5 2 (0.86%) vSphere
6 1 (0.43%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 16 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 14 (6.03%) SCCM
3 12 (5.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (3.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (2.16%) Fluentd
6 3 (1.29%) HP ALM
6 3 (1.29%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.29%) QRadar
7 2 (0.86%) CA Endevor
7 2 (0.86%) Tivoli
7 2 (0.86%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 1 (0.43%) Autotask
8 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.43%) Terraform
8 1 (0.43%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 66 (28.45%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.90%) SAP
3 15 (6.47%) VMware
4 11 (4.74%) Oracle
4 11 (4.74%) Splunk
5 10 (4.31%) Red Hat
5 10 (4.31%) ServiceNow
5 10 (4.31%) Siemens
6 8 (3.45%) Cisco
6 8 (3.45%) F5
6 8 (3.45%) Workday
7 7 (3.02%) Citrix
7 7 (3.02%) Pega
8 6 (2.59%) Dynatrace
8 6 (2.59%) MuleSoft
9 5 (2.16%) Cognos
9 5 (2.16%) Cribl.io
10 4 (1.72%) IBM
10 4 (1.72%) Liquidlogic
11 3 (1.29%) Snow
233 Analytical Skills jobs in the North West