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 3 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 9 19
Rank change year-on-year -10 +10 +5
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 284 260 180
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 7.58% 11.84% 7.56%
As % of the General category 14.50% 19.79% 14.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 168 109
10th Percentile £294 £313 £375
25th Percentile £398 £395 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £467 £493
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -5.38% +1.54%
75th Percentile £546 £600 £564
90th Percentile £600 £703 £638
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 13 10
10th Percentile £24.30 £20.90 £15.65
25th Percentile £25.49 £30.00 £18.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -21.35% -3.01%
75th Percentile £80.38 £63.40 £64.13
90th Percentile £178.75 £70.68 £71.29
England median hourly rate £38.72 £32.50 £22.25
% change year-on-year +19.14% +46.07% -45.06%

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 1,959 1,314 1,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 52.27% 59.84% 53.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,117 835 774
10th Percentile £250 £269 £300
25th Percentile £400 £384 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% -6.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £580 £585
90th Percentile £650 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 111 110
10th Percentile £16.30 £12.82 -
25th Percentile £25.38 £14.55 £16.06
Median hourly rate £35.82 £28.75 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.59% +0.88% +4.20%
75th Percentile £67.84 £50.00 £43.10
90th Percentile £85.00 £72.50 £57.50
England median hourly rate £33.12 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +31.69% -34.02% +27.07%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 3 August 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 -14 149 £435 -13.00% 161
Cheshire -7 87 £463 -0.27% 68
Cumbria +3 19 £488 +8.33% 10
Merseyside -1 16 £365 - 36
Lancashire -15 15 £519 +15.37% 53
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 15 (5.28%) Confluence
2 6 (2.11%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.06%) SAS
4 2 (0.70%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.35%) Apache
5 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.35%) JBoss
5 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.35%) Mule
5 1 (0.35%) Mule ESB
5 1 (0.35%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.35%) WebLogic
Applications
1 25 (8.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (8.45%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (4.23%) MS Visio
4 8 (2.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (4.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (3.87%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (1.06%) Primavera
3 3 (1.06%) SAP ERP
3 3 (1.06%) SAP HCM
3 3 (1.06%) SAP Payroll
4 2 (0.70%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.70%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.35%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 1 (0.35%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.35%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 43 (15.14%) Azure
2 29 (10.21%) Power Platform
3 28 (9.86%) Microsoft 365
4 24 (8.45%) AWS
5 9 (3.17%) GCP
6 8 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (2.46%) SaaS
8 6 (2.11%) Entra ID
8 6 (2.11%) Microsoft Copilot
9 5 (1.76%) Akamai
9 5 (1.76%) GitHub
10 4 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.41%) Snowflake
11 3 (1.06%) Azure AKS
11 3 (1.06%) OCI
11 3 (1.06%) OneDrive
12 2 (0.70%) Copilot Studio
12 2 (0.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 2 (0.70%) Lucidchart
12 2 (0.70%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.58%) Firewall
2 12 (4.23%) DNS
2 12 (4.23%) VPN
3 9 (3.17%) WAN
4 8 (2.82%) LAN
5 7 (2.46%) BGP
5 7 (2.46%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.76%) Cisco Nexus
6 5 (1.76%) HTTP
6 5 (1.76%) Network Security
6 5 (1.76%) VLAN
7 4 (1.41%) OSPF
7 4 (1.41%) SAN
7 4 (1.41%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.06%) DHCP
8 3 (1.06%) MPLS
8 3 (1.06%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.70%) PABX
9 2 (0.70%) SNMP
9 2 (0.70%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (9.51%) Power BI
2 15 (5.28%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (5.28%) SQL Server
3 11 (3.87%) Tableau
4 8 (2.82%) Metadata
5 5 (1.76%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.41%) DataStage
6 4 (1.41%) Db2
6 4 (1.41%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.06%) Data Mining
7 3 (1.06%) SAP HANA
8 2 (0.70%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.70%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.70%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.70%) MySQL
8 2 (0.70%) Power Query
8 2 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.35%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.35%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (0.35%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 24 (8.45%) JIRA
2 5 (1.76%) Git
2 5 (1.76%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.41%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.06%) GitLab
4 3 (1.06%) Ranorex
4 3 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (1.06%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.70%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.70%) Gatling
5 2 (0.70%) Gradle
5 2 (0.70%) JUnit
5 2 (0.70%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.70%) REST Assured
5 2 (0.70%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.35%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.35%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.35%) Hudson
6 1 (0.35%) Selenium
General
1 141 (49.65%) Social Skills
2 97 (34.15%) Finance
3 29 (10.21%) Banking
4 22 (7.75%) Public Sector
5 21 (7.39%) Manufacturing
6 17 (5.99%) Influencing Skills
6 17 (5.99%) Legal
6 17 (5.99%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (3.52%) Telecoms
8 8 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.46%) Automotive
9 7 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (2.11%) Local Government
10 6 (2.11%) Marketing
11 5 (1.76%) Law
12 3 (1.06%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.06%) Publishing
13 2 (0.70%) Billing
13 2 (0.70%) Retail
13 2 (0.70%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 71 (25.00%) Analyst
2 25 (8.80%) Lead
3 23 (8.10%) Business Analyst
3 23 (8.10%) Senior
4 15 (5.28%) Developer
5 14 (4.93%) Data Analyst
5 14 (4.93%) Project Manager
6 13 (4.58%) Administrator
6 13 (4.58%) Architect
7 12 (4.23%) Consultant
8 11 (3.87%) Network Engineer
8 11 (3.87%) Security Engineer
9 10 (3.52%) IT Support
9 10 (3.52%) Service Analyst
10 8 (2.82%) Senior Manager
10 8 (2.82%) Support Analyst
11 7 (2.46%) Finance Manager
11 7 (2.46%) IT Analyst
11 7 (2.46%) Technical Administrator
12 6 (2.11%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.82%) REST
2 6 (2.11%) JSON
3 4 (1.41%) PySpark
3 4 (1.41%) XML
4 3 (1.06%) Gherkin
4 3 (1.06%) Kafka
4 3 (1.06%) Node.js
4 3 (1.06%) Playwright
4 3 (1.06%) RESTful
4 3 (1.06%) SailPoint
5 2 (0.70%) OAuth
5 2 (0.70%) ODBC
5 2 (0.70%) Pandas
5 2 (0.70%) PyTorch
5 2 (0.70%) Quarkus
5 2 (0.70%) React
5 2 (0.70%) Spring
5 2 (0.70%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.35%) Jest
6 1 (0.35%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 30 (10.56%) Analytical Mindset
2 17 (5.99%) Onboarding
3 16 (5.63%) Management Information System
4 12 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (3.52%) Product Ownership
6 9 (3.17%) Cyber Threat
6 9 (3.17%) Data Centre
7 7 (2.46%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.76%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.41%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.41%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.41%) PKI
9 4 (1.41%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.06%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.06%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.06%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 33 (11.62%) Windows
2 10 (3.52%) Linux
3 9 (3.17%) Windows 10
4 8 (2.82%) Mac OS
4 8 (2.82%) Unix
5 6 (2.11%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.76%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.70%) AIX
7 2 (0.70%) HPUX
7 2 (0.70%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.70%) Solaris
7 2 (0.70%) SUSE
8 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (53.52%) Problem-Solving
2 68 (23.94%) Stakeholder Management
3 55 (19.37%) Continuous Improvement
4 49 (17.25%) Agile
5 41 (14.44%) ITIL
5 41 (14.44%) Project Management
6 40 (14.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 39 (13.73%) Change Management
7 39 (13.73%) Decision-Making
8 38 (13.38%) Analytics
9 36 (12.68%) Migration
10 32 (11.27%) Data Analysis
11 31 (10.92%) Workshop Facilitation
12 29 (10.21%) AI
12 29 (10.21%) ERP
12 29 (10.21%) Validation
13 28 (9.86%) Data Modelling
13 28 (9.86%) Roadmaps
14 26 (9.15%) Business Intelligence
14 26 (9.15%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 47 (16.55%) SQL
2 42 (14.79%) Python
3 17 (5.99%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.76%) Java
4 5 (1.76%) PL/SQL
4 5 (1.76%) Shell Script
5 4 (1.41%) C#
5 4 (1.41%) T-SQL
6 3 (1.06%) ABAP
6 3 (1.06%) Bash
6 3 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.70%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.70%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (0.35%) Ada
8 1 (0.35%) C
8 1 (0.35%) C++
8 1 (0.35%) Korn
8 1 (0.35%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.35%) R
8 1 (0.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 42 (14.79%) Degree
2 38 (13.38%) Security Cleared
3 31 (10.92%) SC Cleared
4 15 (5.28%) CISSP
5 13 (4.58%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (3.52%) A+ Certification
6 10 (3.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (3.52%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (3.52%) Network+ Certification
7 8 (2.82%) AWS Certification
7 8 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.46%) CompTIA Security+
9 6 (2.11%) CCNA
9 6 (2.11%) CISM
10 5 (1.76%) CCNP
10 5 (1.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 4 (1.41%) Azure Certification
11 4 (1.41%) CEH
11 4 (1.41%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (1.41%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (11.27%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.23%) GRC
2 12 (4.23%) SLA
3 9 (3.17%) QA
4 7 (2.46%) NIST
5 6 (2.11%) GDPR
6 5 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.41%) PMO
7 4 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (1.06%) NCSC
9 2 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.35%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.35%) DO-178B
10 1 (0.35%) GAAP
10 1 (0.35%) MISRA
10 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 23 (8.10%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.76%) Docker
3 4 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.06%) Firmware
4 3 (1.06%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.70%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (4.23%) Ansible
2 8 (2.82%) Terraform
3 7 (2.46%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.06%) McAfee ePO
5 3 (1.06%) SCCM
6 2 (0.70%) Data Guard
6 2 (0.70%) Grafana
6 2 (0.70%) Istio
6 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.70%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.70%) WMI
7 1 (0.35%) CASB
7 1 (0.35%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.35%) Nagios
7 1 (0.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 62 (21.83%) Microsoft
2 31 (10.92%) SAP
2 31 (10.92%) ServiceNow
3 16 (5.63%) Oracle
4 14 (4.93%) Splunk
5 11 (3.87%) Remedy
6 10 (3.52%) Cisco
7 7 (2.46%) Databricks
8 6 (2.11%) BeyondTrust
8 6 (2.11%) CrowdStrike
8 6 (2.11%) Teradata
9 5 (1.76%) Atlassian
9 5 (1.76%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.76%) Google
9 5 (1.76%) HP
9 5 (1.76%) IBM
9 5 (1.76%) VMware
10 4 (1.41%) Arista
10 4 (1.41%) CyberArk
10 4 (1.41%) F5