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 4 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 15 23
Rank change year-on-year -6 +8 +2
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 248 189 188
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 7.92% 9.75% 6.74%
As % of the General category 13.87% 16.67% 12.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 125 116
10th Percentile £313 £305 £286
25th Percentile £368 £405 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £496 £488
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% +1.77% +9.55%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £550
90th Percentile £588 £715 £628
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -0.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 13 28
10th Percentile £21.75 £19.00 £11.77
25th Percentile £26.94 £19.25 £13.50
Median hourly rate £41.86 £24.59 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +70.25% +38.74% -49.37%
75th Percentile £59.61 £55.25 £43.75
90th Percentile £85.40 £71.64 £46.18
England median hourly rate £36.53 £28.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +30.45% +47.37% -45.71%

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 1,788 1,134 1,486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 57.11% 58.51% 53.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,090 695 915
10th Percentile £200 £266 £293
25th Percentile £358 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £479 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.05% -4.20% -
75th Percentile £552 £583 £588
90th Percentile £638 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 110 199
10th Percentile £17.35 £14.99 £12.45
25th Percentile £21.75 £19.75 £14.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £28.99 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.46% +61.06% -32.96%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.69 £37.25
90th Percentile £76.00 £76.38 £49.20
England median hourly rate £26.47 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -8.94% +7.67% -22.86%

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 4 April 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 4 April 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 4 April 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 -5 109 £429 -14.25% 140
Cheshire -8 84 £415 -14.87% 31
Lancashire +3 33 £550 +5.26% 50
Merseyside -19 14 £330 -22.35% 24
Cumbria +7 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 (8.47%) Confluence
2 12 (4.84%) SAS
3 10 (4.03%) SharePoint
4 7 (2.82%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.21%) Apache
6 2 (0.81%) 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 18 (7.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (6.05%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (4.44%) MS Visio
4 8 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (2.82%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.40%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 16 (6.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.61%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (1.21%) iTrent
3 3 (1.21%) Primavera
3 3 (1.21%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.81%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.40%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.40%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.40%) Maximo
5 1 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.40%) ResourceLink
5 1 (0.40%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.40%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 42 (16.94%) Azure
2 38 (15.32%) AWS
3 30 (12.10%) Power Platform
4 26 (10.48%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (6.45%) GCP
6 9 (3.63%) Entra ID
7 8 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (2.42%) Apigee
9 6 (2.42%) Kong
9 6 (2.42%) Microsoft Copilot
10 5 (2.02%) Akamai
10 5 (2.02%) OneDrive
10 5 (2.02%) SaaS
11 4 (1.61%) Nutanix
11 4 (1.61%) OpenShift
11 4 (1.61%) Power Automate
12 3 (1.21%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (1.21%) Copilot Studio
12 3 (1.21%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.66%) Firewall
2 10 (4.03%) DNS
2 10 (4.03%) TCP/IP
3 7 (2.82%) BGP
4 6 (2.42%) HTTP
4 6 (2.42%) Software-Defined Networking
4 6 (2.42%) VLAN
4 6 (2.42%) VPN
5 5 (2.02%) DHCP
6 4 (1.61%) NetScaler
6 4 (1.61%) Network Security
6 4 (1.61%) WebEx
7 2 (0.81%) LAN
7 2 (0.81%) SAN
7 2 (0.81%) WAN
8 1 (0.40%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.40%) OSPF
8 1 (0.40%) SSL
8 1 (0.40%) Structured Cabling
8 1 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.47%) Power BI
2 18 (7.26%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (4.44%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.23%) Metadata
4 8 (3.23%) Tableau
5 6 (2.42%) Power Query
6 5 (2.02%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.02%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (1.61%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.21%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (1.21%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.21%) Data Mining
8 3 (1.21%) Looker
8 3 (1.21%) OLTP
8 3 (1.21%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (0.81%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.81%) MySQL
10 1 (0.40%) Base SAS
10 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 30 (12.10%) JIRA
2 9 (3.63%) GitLab
3 4 (1.61%) Git
3 4 (1.61%) JUnit
3 4 (1.61%) Postman
4 3 (1.21%) Mockito
5 2 (0.81%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.40%) Gradle
6 1 (0.40%) Hudson
6 1 (0.40%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.40%) Maven
6 1 (0.40%) ScriptRunner
6 1 (0.40%) Selenium
6 1 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 113 (45.56%) Social Skills
2 90 (36.29%) Finance
3 28 (11.29%) Banking
4 24 (9.68%) Public Sector
5 14 (5.65%) Influencing Skills
6 10 (4.03%) Legal
6 10 (4.03%) Local Government
6 10 (4.03%) Manufacturing
6 10 (4.03%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (3.63%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.82%) Retail Banking
8 7 (2.82%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.42%) Marketing
9 6 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (2.02%) Automotive
11 3 (1.21%) Publishing
12 2 (0.81%) Environmental Health
12 2 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.81%) Law
13 1 (0.40%) Billing
Job Titles
1 77 (31.05%) Analyst
2 32 (12.90%) Business Analyst
3 23 (9.27%) Senior
4 21 (8.47%) Developer
5 20 (8.06%) Lead
6 16 (6.45%) Project Manager
7 14 (5.65%) Platform Engineer
8 13 (5.24%) Finance Manager
8 13 (5.24%) Finance Project Manager
9 12 (4.84%) Senior Analyst
10 11 (4.44%) Architect
10 11 (4.44%) Data Analyst
11 9 (3.63%) Security Engineer
11 9 (3.63%) Technical Analyst
12 8 (3.23%) Administrator
13 7 (2.82%) IT Support
13 7 (2.82%) Product Manager
14 6 (2.42%) IT Analyst
14 6 (2.42%) Senior Business Analyst
14 6 (2.42%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.85%) REST
2 13 (5.24%) SOAP
2 13 (5.24%) Swagger
2 13 (5.24%) XML
3 10 (4.03%) JSON
4 9 (3.63%) OpenAPI
5 8 (3.23%) OAuth
6 7 (2.82%) JWT
7 6 (2.42%) RESTful
8 5 (2.02%) HTML
9 4 (1.61%) .NET
9 4 (1.61%) XMPP
10 3 (1.21%) CSS
10 3 (1.21%) Lightning Web Components
10 3 (1.21%) Middleware
10 3 (1.21%) Spring
10 3 (1.21%) Spring Boot
10 3 (1.21%) Visualforce
10 3 (1.21%) YAML
11 2 (0.81%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.89%) Product Ownership
2 16 (6.45%) Analytical Mindset
3 12 (4.84%) Management Information System
4 10 (4.03%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.82%) Credit Risk
7 6 (2.42%) Data Structures
8 5 (2.02%) Clustering
8 5 (2.02%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (2.02%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (2.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (1.61%) Digital Wallet
9 4 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.61%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.61%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.61%) Replication
10 3 (1.21%) Housing Association
10 3 (1.21%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 32 (12.90%) Windows
2 20 (8.06%) Windows Server
3 17 (6.85%) Linux
4 11 (4.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (3.63%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.61%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.61%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.21%) Unix
8 2 (0.81%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.81%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (59.68%) Problem-Solving
2 64 (25.81%) Agile
3 56 (22.58%) Stakeholder Management
4 50 (20.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 39 (15.73%) Change Management
6 37 (14.92%) Validation
7 36 (14.52%) Analytics
7 36 (14.52%) Workshop Facilitation
8 34 (13.71%) Project Management
9 33 (13.31%) CI/CD
10 32 (12.90%) Decision-Making
11 31 (12.50%) Data Modelling
12 30 (12.10%) Continuous Improvement
12 30 (12.10%) Migration
13 29 (11.69%) Data Analysis
14 27 (10.89%) Requirements Gathering
15 26 (10.48%) Computer Science
15 26 (10.48%) Use Case
16 25 (10.08%) DevOps
16 25 (10.08%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 51 (20.56%) SQL
2 39 (15.73%) Python
3 22 (8.87%) PowerShell
4 10 (4.03%) Bash
4 10 (4.03%) Java
5 7 (2.82%) Perl
6 6 (2.42%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.42%) R
7 5 (2.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 5 (2.02%) Shell Script
7 5 (2.02%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.61%) C#
9 3 (1.21%) Apex Code
9 3 (1.21%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.21%) ProC
9 3 (1.21%) VBA
10 2 (0.81%) CLIST
10 2 (0.81%) JCL
10 2 (0.81%) REXX
10 2 (0.81%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (15.73%) Degree
2 35 (14.11%) Security Cleared
3 28 (11.29%) SC Cleared
4 19 (7.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (6.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (4.84%) CISSP
7 10 (4.03%) CCNA
7 10 (4.03%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (4.03%) CISM
8 8 (3.23%) CCNP
9 7 (2.82%) A+ Certification
9 7 (2.82%) CCDP
9 7 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (2.82%) Network+ Certification
10 6 (2.42%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (2.02%) PMI Certification
11 5 (2.02%) PMP
12 4 (1.61%) AWS Certification
13 3 (1.21%) CISA
13 3 (1.21%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.66%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (3.23%) NIST
3 7 (2.82%) GRC
4 6 (2.42%) GDPR
4 6 (2.42%) QA
5 5 (2.02%) PSD2
6 4 (1.61%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.61%) SLA
7 3 (1.21%) ISO 8583
7 3 (1.21%) PMO
8 2 (0.81%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.81%) CRD IV
8 2 (0.81%) FINREP
8 2 (0.81%) IFRS
8 2 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.40%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.40%) NCSC
9 1 (0.40%) PERC
System Software
1 29 (11.69%) Active Directory
2 10 (4.03%) Docker
3 7 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.02%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (1.61%) vSphere
6 2 (0.81%) ACF2
6 2 (0.81%) RACF
6 2 (0.81%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.40%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 12 (4.84%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 8 (3.23%) SCCM
4 7 (2.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.21%) Fluentd
5 3 (1.21%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.81%) CA Endevor
6 2 (0.81%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.81%) Tivoli
6 2 (0.81%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 1 (0.40%) Ansible
7 1 (0.40%) Norton AntiVirus
7 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.40%) Terraform
Vendors
1 56 (22.58%) Microsoft
2 31 (12.50%) SAP
3 13 (5.24%) ServiceNow
4 12 (4.84%) Oracle
5 11 (4.44%) VMware
6 10 (4.03%) Red Hat
7 9 (3.63%) Workday
8 7 (2.82%) Citrix
9 6 (2.42%) MuleSoft
9 6 (2.42%) Splunk
10 5 (2.02%) Cisco
11 4 (1.61%) F5
11 4 (1.61%) Pega
11 4 (1.61%) Veeam
12 3 (1.21%) Atlassian
12 3 (1.21%) Cognos
12 3 (1.21%) Google
12 3 (1.21%) Salesforce
12 3 (1.21%) SolarWinds
12 3 (1.21%) Teradata