Analytical Skills Contracts 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 21 27
Rank change year-on-year +6 +6 +3
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 187 191 197
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 9.58% 6.88% 6.17%
As % of the General category 16.68% 12.81% 11.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 116 123
10th Percentile £313 £300 £289
25th Percentile £405 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £438
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +8.57% -5.41%
75th Percentile £632 £550 £531
90th Percentile £715 £613 £650
England median daily rate £525 £537 £535
% change year-on-year -2.21% +0.34% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 29 12
10th Percentile £19.00 £11.77 £14.47
25th Percentile £19.13 £13.50 £23.15
Median hourly rate £24.76 £17.72 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.73% -49.37% +34.62%
75th Percentile £57.28 £43.75 £52.34
90th Percentile £72.50 £54.00 £56.06
England median hourly rate £28.15 £18.50 £37.75
% change year-on-year +52.16% -50.99% +0.67%

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 1,121 1,491 1,657
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 57.43% 53.69% 51.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 684 913 1,141
10th Percentile £264 £300 £305
25th Percentile £380 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £594
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 191 82
10th Percentile £13.00 £12.50 £14.88
25th Percentile £19.00 £14.50 £19.28
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.72 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +62.25% -31.85% +30.00%
75th Percentile £50.00 £36.72 £38.39
90th Percentile £75.75 £51.91 £52.90
England median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £33.91
% change year-on-year -6.67% -11.53% +57.72%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Analytical Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in the North West

Analytical Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Analytical Skills in the North West

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 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the North West

Analytical Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Skills in the North West

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 +3 87 £504 +12.00% 302
Cheshire +5 68 £488 -4.41% 87
Lancashire +10 14 £523 - 147
Merseyside +12 12 £400 - 42
Cumbria -21 3 £460 -6.69% 18
Analytical Skills
England

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (4.81%) Confluence
2 8 (4.28%) IBM Domino
3 5 (2.67%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.67%) WebSphere
4 4 (2.14%) CICS
5 3 (1.60%) CMS
5 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.60%) SAS
6 2 (1.07%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.07%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.53%) Apache
7 1 (0.53%) JBoss
7 1 (0.53%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.53%) Umbraco
Applications
1 12 (6.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (5.35%) MS Visio
3 9 (4.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (3.21%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (1.07%) InVision
5 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.07%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (1.07%) UserZoom
6 1 (0.53%) Trello
6 1 (0.53%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 8 (4.28%) SAP HR
1 8 (4.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (3.74%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (3.74%) SAP Payroll
3 4 (2.14%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (1.07%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.53%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.53%) SAP PS
5 1 (0.53%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.53%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 23 (12.30%) Azure
2 22 (11.76%) AWS
3 19 (10.16%) GCP
4 5 (2.67%) Power Platform
5 4 (2.14%) Anthropic Claude
5 4 (2.14%) Azure AI
5 4 (2.14%) Google Gemini
5 4 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (2.14%) SuccessFactors
6 2 (1.07%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.07%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.07%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.07%) GitHub
6 2 (1.07%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (1.07%) IBM Cloud
6 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (1.07%) OneDrive
6 2 (1.07%) Power Automate
6 2 (1.07%) SaaS
6 2 (1.07%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.88%) VPN
2 7 (3.74%) DNS
2 7 (3.74%) TCP/IP
3 6 (3.21%) Firewall
4 5 (2.67%) DHCP
4 5 (2.67%) Ethernet
4 5 (2.67%) LAN
4 5 (2.67%) WAN
5 3 (1.60%) BGP
5 3 (1.60%) EIGRP
5 3 (1.60%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (1.60%) IPv4
5 3 (1.60%) MPLS
5 3 (1.60%) OSPF
5 3 (1.60%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.07%) Calico
6 2 (1.07%) DWDM
6 2 (1.07%) Intranet
6 2 (1.07%) Network Security
6 2 (1.07%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.21%) Tableau
2 5 (2.67%) MongoDB
2 5 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (2.67%) Power BI
3 4 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (2.14%) Hadoop
3 4 (2.14%) MySQL
3 4 (2.14%) Neo4j
4 3 (1.60%) Big Data
4 3 (1.60%) Data Mining
4 3 (1.60%) DB2
4 3 (1.60%) Metadata
4 3 (1.60%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.60%) SAP HANA
5 2 (1.07%) Essbase
6 1 (0.53%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.53%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.53%) EDRMS
6 1 (0.53%) HBase
6 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (9.63%) JIRA
2 10 (5.35%) Git
2 10 (5.35%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.74%) GitLab
3 7 (3.74%) Selenium
4 4 (2.14%) JMeter
4 4 (2.14%) LoadRunner
5 2 (1.07%) Axure RP
5 2 (1.07%) Maven
5 2 (1.07%) SOAtest
6 1 (0.53%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.53%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.53%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.53%) ERwin
6 1 (0.53%) Hudson
6 1 (0.53%) Zephyr
General
1 120 (64.17%) Social Skills
2 40 (21.39%) Finance
3 23 (12.30%) Legal
4 18 (9.63%) Manufacturing
5 16 (8.56%) Banking
5 16 (8.56%) Pharmaceutical
6 15 (8.02%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (6.42%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (5.88%) Public Sector
8 11 (5.88%) Telecoms
9 7 (3.74%) Automotive
10 5 (2.67%) Marketing
10 5 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.14%) French Language
11 4 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.60%) Billing
13 2 (1.07%) Financial Institution
13 2 (1.07%) General Ledger
13 2 (1.07%) Local Government
13 2 (1.07%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (19.25%) Analyst
2 23 (12.30%) Architect
3 20 (10.70%) Business Analyst
4 15 (8.02%) Senior
5 14 (7.49%) Consultant
5 14 (7.49%) Solutions Architect
6 10 (5.35%) Coordinator
6 10 (5.35%) SAP Consultant
7 9 (4.81%) Support Engineer
8 8 (4.28%) CRM Coordinator
8 8 (4.28%) Migration Engineer
8 8 (4.28%) Technical Coordinator
9 7 (3.74%) Developer
9 7 (3.74%) HR Consultant
9 7 (3.74%) Lead
9 7 (3.74%) Payroll Consultant
9 7 (3.74%) SAP HR Consultant
9 7 (3.74%) SAP HR/Payroll Consultant
9 7 (3.74%) SAP Payroll Consultant
10 6 (3.21%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.28%) TensorFlow
2 7 (3.74%) HTML
2 7 (3.74%) PyTorch
3 6 (3.21%) Middleware
4 5 (2.67%) CSS
5 3 (1.60%) React
5 3 (1.60%) RESTful
5 3 (1.60%) Web Services
5 3 (1.60%) XML
6 2 (1.07%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.07%) CSS3
6 2 (1.07%) HTML5
6 2 (1.07%) J2EE
6 2 (1.07%) jQuery
6 2 (1.07%) JSON
6 2 (1.07%) Kafka
6 2 (1.07%) MDX
6 2 (1.07%) Pandas
6 2 (1.07%) REST
6 2 (1.07%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.56%) Management Information System
2 10 (5.35%) Algorithms
3 9 (4.81%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (4.28%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.74%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.67%) Mainframe
7 4 (2.14%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.14%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.14%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.60%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.60%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.07%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.07%) Mobile Payment
9 2 (1.07%) NHS
9 2 (1.07%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.07%) Replication
9 2 (1.07%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (1.07%) VSAM
10 1 (0.53%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 21 (11.23%) Windows
2 8 (4.28%) Linux
3 5 (2.67%) Android
3 5 (2.67%) Apple iOS
3 5 (2.67%) Windows 10
3 5 (2.67%) Windows 8
3 5 (2.67%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (2.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (2.67%) Windows Server 2012
3 5 (2.67%) Windows Server 2016
3 5 (2.67%) Windows XP
4 3 (1.60%) Unix
5 2 (1.07%) HPUX
5 2 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.07%) Solaris
6 1 (0.53%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (67.91%) Problem-Solving
2 41 (21.93%) Agile
3 28 (14.97%) Decision-Making
4 27 (14.44%) Continuous Improvement
4 27 (14.44%) ITIL
5 26 (13.90%) Stakeholder Management
6 25 (13.37%) DevOps
7 23 (12.30%) CI/CD
7 23 (12.30%) Project Management
8 21 (11.23%) Change Management
8 21 (11.23%) User Acceptance Testing
9 19 (10.16%) Computer Science
10 18 (9.63%) Collaborative Working
10 18 (9.63%) Time Management
10 18 (9.63%) Validation
11 17 (9.09%) Migration
12 16 (8.56%) Business Analysis
12 16 (8.56%) ETL
12 16 (8.56%) Mentoring
12 16 (8.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 23 (12.30%) SQL
2 19 (10.16%) Python
3 7 (3.74%) PL/SQL
4 6 (3.21%) Java
5 5 (2.67%) Bash
5 5 (2.67%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.14%) R
7 3 (1.60%) JCL
7 3 (1.60%) Scala
7 3 (1.60%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.07%) COBOL
8 2 (1.07%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.07%) REXX
8 2 (1.07%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.53%) ABAP
9 1 (0.53%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.53%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 35 (18.72%) Degree
2 20 (10.70%) Security Cleared
3 17 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
4 16 (8.56%) SC Cleared
5 12 (6.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (4.28%) Azure Certification
6 8 (4.28%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (4.28%) ISTQB
7 7 (3.74%) AWS Certification
7 7 (3.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (2.67%) CCNA
8 5 (2.67%) CCNP
8 5 (2.67%) ISEB
9 4 (2.14%) A+ Certification
9 4 (2.14%) IIBA
9 4 (2.14%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (2.14%) PMI Certification
9 4 (2.14%) PMP
10 3 (1.60%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (1.07%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.16%) QA
2 7 (3.74%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.74%) GDPR
3 6 (3.21%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.60%) AUTOSAR
4 3 (1.60%) SLA
5 2 (1.07%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.53%) COBIT
6 1 (0.53%) GxP
6 1 (0.53%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.53%) IEC 61508
6 1 (0.53%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.53%) PSD2
System Software
1 11 (5.88%) Docker
2 9 (4.81%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.53%) Firmware
3 1 (0.53%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 12 (6.42%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.21%) Ansible
3 5 (2.67%) SCCM
3 5 (2.67%) Terraform
4 2 (1.07%) Istio
4 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.53%) CA Endevor
5 1 (0.53%) Grafana
5 1 (0.53%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.53%) Nagios
5 1 (0.53%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 40 (21.39%) Microsoft
2 21 (11.23%) SAP
3 16 (8.56%) Oracle
4 14 (7.49%) ServiceNow
5 12 (6.42%) Google
6 6 (3.21%) IBM
7 5 (2.67%) Canon
7 5 (2.67%) Fortinet
7 5 (2.67%) Infoblox
7 5 (2.67%) Remedy
8 4 (2.14%) BMC
9 3 (1.60%) Cisco
9 3 (1.60%) Concur
9 3 (1.60%) Huawei
9 3 (1.60%) Informatica
9 3 (1.60%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.07%) Ab Initio
10 2 (1.07%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (1.07%) Parasoft
10 2 (1.07%) Splunk