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 28 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 15 22
Rank change year-on-year -5 +7 +4
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 250 192 192
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 8.07% 9.80% 6.82%
As % of the General category 14.08% 16.70% 12.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 127 117
10th Percentile £313 £296 £275
25th Percentile £369 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £489 £488
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +0.31% +9.55%
75th Percentile £547 £625 £550
90th Percentile £588 £708 £626
England median daily rate £500 £525 £537
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.21% -0.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 16 31
10th Percentile £21.52 £19.00 £11.77
25th Percentile £26.16 £20.60 £13.50
Median hourly rate £41.43 £24.38 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +69.91% +37.60% -49.37%
75th Percentile £66.68 £41.56 £43.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £70.34 £46.18
England median hourly rate £35.50 £29.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year +22.41% +48.72% -43.48%

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 1,776 1,150 1,508
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 57.33% 58.67% 53.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,094 699 927
10th Percentile £198 £261 £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 £550 £580 £588
90th Percentile £638 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 110 205
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £21.56 £21.05 £14.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.52 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.28% +55.34% -31.41%
75th Percentile £59.38 £47.72 £37.25
90th Percentile £76.30 £76.38 £48.60
England median hourly rate £25.46 £30.21 £26.00
% change year-on-year -15.72% +16.17% -25.71%

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 28 March 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 28 March 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 28 March 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 -6 109 £433 -13.50% 140
Cheshire -10 86 £415 -14.61% 31
Lancashire +6 33 £550 +5.26% 50
Merseyside -17 14 £330 -17.50% 24
Cumbria +8 7 £488 +5.98% 6
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 21 (8.40%) Confluence
2 13 (5.20%) SAS
3 10 (4.00%) SharePoint
4 7 (2.80%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.20%) Apache
6 2 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.40%) JBoss
7 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (7.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (4.80%) MS Visio
4 9 (3.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (2.80%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.40%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 16 (6.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.60%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.20%) iTrent
3 3 (1.20%) Primavera
3 3 (1.20%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.80%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.80%) SAP HCM
4 2 (0.80%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.40%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.40%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.40%) Maximo
5 1 (0.40%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 44 (17.60%) Azure
2 39 (15.60%) AWS
3 29 (11.60%) Power Platform
4 24 (9.60%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (6.80%) GCP
6 10 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (3.20%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (2.80%) Entra ID
9 6 (2.40%) Apigee
9 6 (2.40%) Kong
10 5 (2.00%) Akamai
10 5 (2.00%) Microsoft Copilot
10 5 (2.00%) OneDrive
10 5 (2.00%) SaaS
11 4 (1.60%) Nutanix
11 4 (1.60%) OpenShift
12 3 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (1.20%) Power Automate
12 3 (1.20%) PowerApps
12 3 (1.20%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.60%) Firewall
2 10 (4.00%) DNS
2 10 (4.00%) TCP/IP
3 7 (2.80%) BGP
4 6 (2.40%) HTTP
4 6 (2.40%) Software-Defined Networking
4 6 (2.40%) VLAN
4 6 (2.40%) VPN
5 5 (2.00%) DHCP
6 4 (1.60%) NetScaler
6 4 (1.60%) Network Security
6 4 (1.60%) WebEx
7 3 (1.20%) LAN
7 3 (1.20%) WAN
8 2 (0.80%) SAN
9 1 (0.40%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.40%) OSPF
9 1 (0.40%) SSL
9 1 (0.40%) Structured Cabling
9 1 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.00%) Power BI
2 18 (7.20%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (4.00%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.20%) Metadata
4 8 (3.20%) Tableau
5 5 (2.00%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.00%) Power Query
5 5 (2.00%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (1.60%) BigQuery
7 3 (1.20%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (1.20%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.20%) Data Mining
7 3 (1.20%) Looker
7 3 (1.20%) OLTP
7 3 (1.20%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.80%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.80%) MS Access
8 2 (0.80%) MySQL
8 2 (0.80%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 30 (12.00%) JIRA
2 9 (3.60%) GitLab
3 6 (2.40%) Git
4 4 (1.60%) JUnit
4 4 (1.60%) Postman
5 3 (1.20%) Mockito
6 2 (0.80%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.80%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.40%) Gradle
7 1 (0.40%) Hudson
7 1 (0.40%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.40%) Maven
7 1 (0.40%) ScriptRunner
7 1 (0.40%) Selenium
7 1 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 116 (46.40%) Social Skills
2 92 (36.80%) Finance
3 28 (11.20%) Banking
4 24 (9.60%) Public Sector
5 14 (5.60%) Influencing Skills
6 10 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (4.00%) Legal
6 10 (4.00%) Local Government
6 10 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (3.60%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (2.80%) Retail Banking
8 7 (2.80%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.40%) Automotive
9 6 (2.40%) Marketing
10 3 (1.20%) Publishing
11 2 (0.80%) Environmental Health
11 2 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.40%) Advertising
12 1 (0.40%) Law
Job Titles
1 78 (31.20%) Analyst
2 31 (12.40%) Business Analyst
3 23 (9.20%) Senior
4 21 (8.40%) Developer
5 20 (8.00%) Lead
6 16 (6.40%) Project Manager
7 14 (5.60%) Platform Engineer
8 13 (5.20%) Finance Manager
8 13 (5.20%) Finance Project Manager
9 12 (4.80%) Architect
9 12 (4.80%) Senior Analyst
10 11 (4.40%) Data Analyst
11 9 (3.60%) Technical Analyst
12 8 (3.20%) Security Engineer
13 7 (2.80%) Administrator
13 7 (2.80%) IT Support
13 7 (2.80%) Product Manager
14 6 (2.40%) Consultant
14 6 (2.40%) Support Analyst
14 6 (2.40%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.80%) REST
2 14 (5.60%) SOAP
2 14 (5.60%) XML
3 13 (5.20%) Swagger
4 11 (4.40%) JSON
5 9 (3.60%) OpenAPI
6 8 (3.20%) OAuth
7 7 (2.80%) JWT
8 6 (2.40%) HTML
8 6 (2.40%) RESTful
9 4 (1.60%) .NET
9 4 (1.60%) CSS
9 4 (1.60%) XMPP
10 3 (1.20%) AngularJS
10 3 (1.20%) Lightning Web Components
10 3 (1.20%) Middleware
10 3 (1.20%) Spring
10 3 (1.20%) Spring Boot
10 3 (1.20%) Visualforce
10 3 (1.20%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.80%) Product Ownership
2 16 (6.40%) Analytical Mindset
3 12 (4.80%) Management Information System
4 10 (4.00%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.20%) Credit Risk
5 8 (3.20%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.40%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.00%) Clustering
7 5 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (2.00%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 4 (1.60%) CMDB
8 4 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.60%) Digital Wallet
8 4 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.60%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.60%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.60%) Replication
9 3 (1.20%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 31 (12.40%) Windows
2 20 (8.00%) Windows Server
3 18 (7.20%) Linux
4 11 (4.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (3.60%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.60%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.60%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.20%) Unix
8 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (59.20%) Problem-Solving
2 67 (26.80%) Agile
3 59 (23.60%) Stakeholder Management
4 50 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 40 (16.00%) Change Management
6 38 (15.20%) Analytics
6 38 (15.20%) Validation
7 36 (14.40%) Project Management
7 36 (14.40%) Workshop Facilitation
8 34 (13.60%) CI/CD
8 34 (13.60%) Decision-Making
9 31 (12.40%) Data Analysis
9 31 (12.40%) Data Modelling
10 30 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 29 (11.60%) Migration
12 27 (10.80%) DevOps
12 27 (10.80%) Requirements Gathering
13 26 (10.40%) Computer Science
13 26 (10.40%) Use Case
14 24 (9.60%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 51 (20.40%) SQL
2 40 (16.00%) Python
3 21 (8.40%) PowerShell
4 11 (4.40%) Bash
5 10 (4.00%) Java
6 7 (2.80%) JavaScript
6 7 (2.80%) Perl
6 7 (2.80%) R
7 5 (2.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 5 (2.00%) Shell Script
7 5 (2.00%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.60%) C#
9 3 (1.20%) Apex Code
9 3 (1.20%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.20%) ProC
9 3 (1.20%) VBA
10 2 (0.80%) COBOL
10 2 (0.80%) JCL
10 2 (0.80%) REXX
10 2 (0.80%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (15.60%) Degree
2 35 (14.00%) Security Cleared
3 27 (10.80%) SC Cleared
4 19 (7.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (6.40%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (4.40%) CISSP
7 10 (4.00%) CCNA
7 10 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (4.00%) CISM
8 8 (3.20%) CCNP
9 7 (2.80%) A+ Certification
9 7 (2.80%) CCDP
9 7 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (2.80%) Network+ Certification
10 5 (2.00%) CompTIA Security+
10 5 (2.00%) PMI Certification
10 5 (2.00%) PMP
11 4 (1.60%) AWS Certification
12 3 (1.20%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.20%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.20%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (3.20%) NIST
3 6 (2.40%) GDPR
3 6 (2.40%) GRC
3 6 (2.40%) QA
4 5 (2.00%) PSD2
5 4 (1.60%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.60%) SLA
6 3 (1.20%) ISO 8583
6 3 (1.20%) PMO
7 2 (0.80%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.80%) CRD IV
7 2 (0.80%) FINREP
7 2 (0.80%) IFRS
7 2 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.40%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.40%) PERC
System Software
1 27 (10.80%) Active Directory
2 10 (4.00%) Docker
3 7 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (1.60%) vSphere
6 2 (0.80%) ACF2
6 2 (0.80%) RACF
6 2 (0.80%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.40%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 13 (5.20%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 8 (3.20%) SCCM
4 7 (2.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.20%) Fluentd
5 3 (1.20%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.80%) CA Endevor
6 2 (0.80%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.80%) Terraform
6 2 (0.80%) Tivoli
6 2 (0.80%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 1 (0.40%) Ansible
7 1 (0.40%) Norton AntiVirus
7 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 57 (22.80%) Microsoft
2 31 (12.40%) SAP
3 12 (4.80%) Oracle
4 11 (4.40%) ServiceNow
4 11 (4.40%) VMware
5 10 (4.00%) Red Hat
6 9 (3.60%) Workday
7 7 (2.80%) Citrix
8 6 (2.40%) MuleSoft
9 5 (2.00%) Cisco
9 5 (2.00%) Pega
9 5 (2.00%) Splunk
10 4 (1.60%) F5
10 4 (1.60%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.60%) Veeam
11 3 (1.20%) Cognos
11 3 (1.20%) Google
11 3 (1.20%) RedGate
11 3 (1.20%) SolarWinds
11 3 (1.20%) Teradata