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 27 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 14 18
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 +10
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 237 194 210
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 9.35% 8.96% 7.84%
As % of the General category 15.46% 15.40% 14.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 115 127
10th Percentile £313 £292 £228
25th Percentile £363 £310 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year -0.33% -9.09% +10.61%
75th Percentile £550 £542 £550
90th Percentile £629 £624 £626
England median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 12 18
10th Percentile £20.83 £19.43 £17.18
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 £45.15 £68.11 £54.98
England median hourly rate £34.00 £26.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +30.77% -13.33% -24.05%

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 common skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,533 1,260 1,477
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 60.45% 58.20% 55.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 991 689 959
10th Percentile £200 £250 £263
25th Percentile £352 £360 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £639 £681 £704
England median daily rate £500 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 97 119
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.96 £13.61
25th Percentile £18.59 £18.13 £16.42
Median hourly rate £29.60 £27.13 £22.11
Median % change year-on-year +9.12% +22.68% +10.55%
75th Percentile £45.46 £44.50 £45.88
90th Percentile £67.84 £66.00 £55.62
England median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -21.67% -9.09% +32.00%

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 27 December 2025.

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 27 December 2025.

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 27 December 2025. 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 -7 97 £438 +9.38% 307
Cheshire -2 96 £438 -11.82% 129
Lancashire +6 25 £550 - 109
Cumbria +13 11 £450 - 5
Merseyside -9 8 £365 -21.08% 64
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 (6.33%) Confluence
2 14 (5.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (5.91%) SharePoint
3 12 (5.06%) SAS
4 7 (2.95%) Exchange Server 2013
4 7 (2.95%) Skype for Business
5 4 (1.69%) Apache
5 4 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (1.27%) Resin
7 2 (0.84%) JBoss
7 2 (0.84%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.42%) Mule
8 1 (0.42%) Mule ESB
8 1 (0.42%) WebLogic
Applications
1 30 (12.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (7.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (5.91%) MS Visio
4 12 (5.06%) Microsoft Office
5 11 (4.64%) Siemens NX
6 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (1.27%) PTC Creo
7 2 (0.84%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.42%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 11 (4.64%) Teamcenter
2 6 (2.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.69%) ContrOCC
3 4 (1.69%) SAP EWM
4 3 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.27%) iTrent
5 2 (0.84%) Maximo
5 2 (0.84%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.42%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.42%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.42%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.42%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 40 (16.88%) Azure
2 36 (15.19%) AWS
3 26 (10.97%) Power Platform
4 19 (8.02%) GCP
5 18 (7.59%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (4.22%) OneDrive
7 7 (2.95%) OpenShift
8 6 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (2.53%) Entra ID
9 5 (2.11%) Apigee
9 5 (2.11%) Kong
10 4 (1.69%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (1.27%) PowerApps
11 3 (1.27%) SaaS
11 3 (1.27%) Serverless
12 2 (0.84%) Amazon S3
12 2 (0.84%) Amazon SageMaker
12 2 (0.84%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 21 (8.86%) Firewall
2 15 (6.33%) Network Security
3 10 (4.22%) DNS
4 8 (3.38%) BGP
5 7 (2.95%) LAN
5 7 (2.95%) Skype
5 7 (2.95%) TCP/IP
5 7 (2.95%) VLAN
5 7 (2.95%) VPN
6 6 (2.53%) DMZ
6 6 (2.53%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 6 (2.53%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 6 (2.53%) Software-Defined Networking
6 6 (2.53%) WAN
7 4 (1.69%) WebEx
8 3 (1.27%) DHCP
9 2 (0.84%) NetScaler
9 2 (0.84%) SAN
10 1 (0.42%) NX-OS
10 1 (0.42%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.02%) Power BI
2 12 (5.06%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (2.11%) Power Query
3 5 (2.11%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.69%) BigQuery
4 4 (1.69%) DynamoDB
4 4 (1.69%) MS Access
4 4 (1.69%) Tableau
5 3 (1.27%) Cognos Framework Manager
5 3 (1.27%) Cognos Report Studio
5 3 (1.27%) Cognos Transformer
5 3 (1.27%) Looker
5 3 (1.27%) OLAP
5 3 (1.27%) OLAP Cube
5 3 (1.27%) OLTP
5 3 (1.27%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (0.84%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.84%) Redis
6 2 (0.84%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (10.13%) JIRA
2 9 (3.80%) GitLab
3 6 (2.53%) Git
4 4 (1.69%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.27%) JUnit
5 3 (1.27%) TestRail
6 2 (0.84%) Selenium
7 1 (0.42%) Ant
7 1 (0.42%) Appium
7 1 (0.42%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.42%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.42%) Gradle
7 1 (0.42%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.42%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.42%) Maven
7 1 (0.42%) MLflow
7 1 (0.42%) NUnit
7 1 (0.42%) Postman
7 1 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 112 (47.26%) Social Skills
2 72 (30.38%) Finance
3 23 (9.70%) Banking
4 17 (7.17%) Public Sector
5 14 (5.91%) Manufacturing
6 13 (5.49%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (4.22%) Aerospace
8 9 (3.80%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (3.38%) Legal
10 7 (2.95%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.95%) Local Government
11 5 (2.11%) Marketing
12 3 (1.27%) Automotive
12 3 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.84%) Publishing
13 2 (0.84%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.84%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.42%) Billing
14 1 (0.42%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 68 (28.69%) Analyst
2 26 (10.97%) Business Analyst
3 22 (9.28%) Architect
4 20 (8.44%) Developer
5 15 (6.33%) Senior
6 14 (5.91%) Consultant
6 14 (5.91%) Support Analyst
7 13 (5.49%) Platform Engineer
8 10 (4.22%) Operations Analyst
9 9 (3.80%) Data Analyst
10 8 (3.38%) Lead
10 8 (3.38%) Technical Analyst
11 7 (2.95%) Operational Support Analyst
11 7 (2.95%) Operations Support Analyst
11 7 (2.95%) Senior Analyst
12 6 (2.53%) Administrator
12 6 (2.53%) Deskside Analyst
12 6 (2.53%) Deskside Support
12 6 (2.53%) Deskside Support Analyst
12 6 (2.53%) Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.64%) XML
2 10 (4.22%) REST
3 8 (3.38%) JSON
3 8 (3.38%) SOAP
4 7 (2.95%) OAuth
5 6 (2.53%) HTML
5 6 (2.53%) JWT
5 6 (2.53%) Swagger
6 5 (2.11%) .NET
6 5 (2.11%) OpenAPI
6 5 (2.11%) Spring
7 4 (1.69%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.69%) XMPP
8 3 (1.27%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.27%) RESTful
8 3 (1.27%) Web Services
9 2 (0.84%) CSS
9 2 (0.84%) ISPF
9 2 (0.84%) J2EE
9 2 (0.84%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.13%) Analytical Mindset
2 21 (8.86%) Product Ownership
3 6 (2.53%) CMDB
3 6 (2.53%) Data Structures
3 6 (2.53%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.11%) Credit Risk
5 4 (1.69%) Cloud Native
5 4 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (1.69%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.69%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.69%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.27%) 3D Printing
6 3 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.27%) FMCG
6 3 (1.27%) Legacy Code
6 3 (1.27%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.84%) Clustering
7 2 (0.84%) Mainframe
7 2 (0.84%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 24 (10.13%) Windows
2 17 (7.17%) Windows Server
3 16 (6.75%) Linux
4 10 (4.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.27%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.84%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.84%) Unix
6 2 (0.84%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.42%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (53.59%) Problem-Solving
2 55 (23.21%) Stakeholder Management
3 51 (21.52%) Agile
4 35 (14.77%) Change Management
5 34 (14.35%) Analytics
6 30 (12.66%) Decision-Making
6 30 (12.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 27 (11.39%) Data Modelling
8 26 (10.97%) CI/CD
9 25 (10.55%) Project Management
10 24 (10.13%) Data Analysis
10 24 (10.13%) DevOps
10 24 (10.13%) Use Case
10 24 (10.13%) Visualisation
11 23 (9.70%) ITIL
12 22 (9.28%) Business Intelligence
12 22 (9.28%) Computer Science
12 22 (9.28%) ITSM
12 22 (9.28%) Validation
13 21 (8.86%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 39 (16.46%) Python
2 37 (15.61%) SQL
3 16 (6.75%) PowerShell
4 11 (4.64%) Bash
5 10 (4.22%) Java
6 8 (3.38%) Perl
7 7 (2.95%) JavaScript
7 7 (2.95%) R
8 6 (2.53%) C#
9 4 (1.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (1.69%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.69%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.27%) ProC
10 3 (1.27%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.84%) ABAP
11 2 (0.84%) CLIST
11 2 (0.84%) COBOL
11 2 (0.84%) JCL
11 2 (0.84%) REXX
12 1 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (20.68%) Security Cleared
2 43 (18.14%) SC Cleared
3 41 (17.30%) Degree
4 16 (6.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (6.33%) CISSP
6 14 (5.91%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (5.06%) CISM
8 11 (4.64%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (3.80%) CCNA
9 9 (3.80%) CCNP
10 8 (3.38%) CCDP
11 5 (2.11%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (1.69%) AWS Certification
12 4 (1.69%) Azure Certification
13 3 (1.27%) CISA
13 3 (1.27%) GSEC
13 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (1.27%) PMI Certification
13 3 (1.27%) PMP
14 2 (0.84%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.64%) GDPR
2 9 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (3.80%) NIST
3 8 (3.38%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.95%) QA
5 6 (2.53%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.69%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.69%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.27%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.84%) CRD IV
8 2 (0.84%) FINREP
8 2 (0.84%) IFRS
8 2 (0.84%) PSD2
9 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.42%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.42%) PERC
9 1 (0.42%) SEPA
9 1 (0.42%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (9.70%) Active Directory
2 12 (5.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.80%) Docker
4 5 (2.11%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.84%) ACF2
5 2 (0.84%) RACF
5 2 (0.84%) Time Sharing Option
5 2 (0.84%) vSphere
6 1 (0.42%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 16 (6.75%) Kubernetes
2 14 (5.91%) SCCM
3 12 (5.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (2.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (2.11%) Fluentd
6 3 (1.27%) HP ALM
6 3 (1.27%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.27%) QRadar
7 2 (0.84%) CA Endevor
7 2 (0.84%) Tivoli
7 2 (0.84%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 1 (0.42%) Autotask
8 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.42%) Terraform
8 1 (0.42%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 65 (27.43%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.17%) SAP
3 16 (6.75%) VMware
4 11 (4.64%) Oracle
4 11 (4.64%) Splunk
5 10 (4.22%) Red Hat
5 10 (4.22%) ServiceNow
5 10 (4.22%) Siemens
6 9 (3.80%) F5
7 8 (3.38%) Cisco
7 8 (3.38%) Workday
8 7 (2.95%) Citrix
8 7 (2.95%) Pega
9 6 (2.53%) Dynatrace
9 6 (2.53%) MuleSoft
10 5 (2.11%) Cognos
10 5 (2.11%) Cribl.io
11 4 (1.69%) IBM
11 4 (1.69%) Liquidlogic
12 3 (1.27%) Palo Alto