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 1 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 9 18
Rank change year-on-year -12 +9 +7
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 273 252 188
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 7.62% 12.29% 6.80%
As % of the General category 14.30% 20.86% 12.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 163 113
10th Percentile £296 £313 £375
25th Percentile £393 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £475 £493
Median % change year-on-year -5.89% -3.65% +1.44%
75th Percentile £538 £592 £550
90th Percentile £600 £700 £613
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 12 24
10th Percentile £24.02 £19.40 £11.77
25th Percentile £25.49 £28.25 £13.44
Median hourly rate £37.91 £45.10 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.94% +157.68% -49.99%
75th Percentile £77.50 £63.40 £43.75
90th Percentile £178.75 £71.59 £54.00
England median hourly rate £31.50 £32.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -3.08% +66.67% -45.07%

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 1,909 1,208 1,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 53.31% 58.93% 53.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,070 774 880
10th Percentile £275 £305 £298
25th Percentile £380 £380 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £464 £491
Median % change year-on-year +2.43% -5.60% -1.75%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £575
90th Percentile £650 £675 £656
England median daily rate £525 £518 £535
% change year-on-year +1.28% -3.11% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 108 192
10th Percentile £16.50 £12.82 £13.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £13.90 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.55 £29.54 £22.98
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% +28.55% -0.76%
75th Percentile £67.42 £58.76 £42.88
90th Percentile £84.25 £76.63 £51.79
England median hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 £32.70
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.90% +8.99%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 1 July 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 -15 136 £440 -7.37% 159
Cheshire -6 85 £450 -5.26% 37
Lancashire -6 21 £519 +15.37% 35
Cumbria +4 16 £488 +5.98% 5
Merseyside -10 15 £365 -2.67% 23
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 16 (5.86%) Confluence
2 4 (1.47%) SAS
2 4 (1.47%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.37%) JBoss
3 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.37%) Mule
3 1 (0.37%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.37%) NetWeaver
3 1 (0.37%) WebLogic
Applications
1 25 (9.16%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (8.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (4.03%) MS Visio
4 8 (2.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (2.20%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (6.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.20%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (1.47%) Primavera
3 4 (1.47%) SAP MM
4 3 (1.10%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.73%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.73%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.37%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.37%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.37%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.37%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.37%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 41 (15.02%) Azure
2 29 (10.62%) Power Platform
3 26 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
4 24 (8.79%) AWS
5 7 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (2.56%) Entra ID
5 7 (2.56%) GCP
6 6 (2.20%) Microsoft Copilot
6 6 (2.20%) SaaS
7 5 (1.83%) Akamai
8 4 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (1.47%) GitHub
9 3 (1.10%) Azure AKS
9 3 (1.10%) OneDrive
9 3 (1.10%) Snowflake
10 2 (0.73%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (0.73%) dbt
10 2 (0.73%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (0.73%) Nutanix
10 2 (0.73%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.40%) Firewall
2 10 (3.66%) DNS
3 9 (3.30%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.83%) BGP
4 5 (1.83%) HTTP
5 4 (1.47%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (1.47%) SAN
5 4 (1.47%) VPN
5 4 (1.47%) WAN
6 3 (1.10%) LAN
6 3 (1.10%) Wireshark
7 2 (0.73%) DHCP
7 2 (0.73%) MPLS
7 2 (0.73%) NetScaler
7 2 (0.73%) Network Security
7 2 (0.73%) OSPF
7 2 (0.73%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.73%) SSL
7 2 (0.73%) VLAN
7 2 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (9.89%) Power BI
2 15 (5.49%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (4.40%) SQL Server
4 10 (3.66%) Tableau
5 9 (3.30%) Metadata
6 6 (2.20%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.47%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.10%) Data Mining
8 3 (1.10%) DataStage
8 3 (1.10%) Db2
8 3 (1.10%) Power Query
8 3 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.73%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (0.73%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.73%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.73%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.73%) MySQL
10 1 (0.37%) Big Data
10 1 (0.37%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.37%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 27 (9.89%) JIRA
2 5 (1.83%) JUnit
3 4 (1.47%) Cucumber
3 4 (1.47%) Git
3 4 (1.47%) GitLab
4 3 (1.10%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.10%) Mockito
4 3 (1.10%) Postman
4 3 (1.10%) Ranorex
4 3 (1.10%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.73%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.73%) Gatling
5 2 (0.73%) Gradle
5 2 (0.73%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.73%) REST Assured
5 2 (0.73%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.73%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.37%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.37%) ScriptRunner
General
1 134 (49.08%) Social Skills
2 102 (37.36%) Finance
3 29 (10.62%) Banking
4 22 (8.06%) Manufacturing
4 22 (8.06%) Public Sector
5 18 (6.59%) Influencing Skills
6 15 (5.49%) Legal
7 14 (5.13%) Telecoms
8 13 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.56%) Automotive
10 7 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (2.20%) Local Government
11 6 (2.20%) Marketing
12 5 (1.83%) Law
13 3 (1.10%) Investment Banking
13 3 (1.10%) Publishing
13 3 (1.10%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.73%) Billing
14 2 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 72 (26.37%) Analyst
2 25 (9.16%) Lead
3 23 (8.42%) Business Analyst
4 21 (7.69%) Senior
5 18 (6.59%) Project Manager
6 17 (6.23%) Developer
7 14 (5.13%) Administrator
8 12 (4.40%) Data Analyst
8 12 (4.40%) Finance Manager
8 12 (4.40%) Finance Project Manager
9 11 (4.03%) IT Support
9 11 (4.03%) Security Engineer
9 11 (4.03%) Support Analyst
10 10 (3.66%) Architect
10 10 (3.66%) IT Analyst
10 10 (3.66%) Product Manager
11 9 (3.30%) Consultant
11 9 (3.30%) IT Support Analyst
12 8 (2.93%) Network Engineer
12 8 (2.93%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.76%) REST
2 9 (3.30%) JSON
3 8 (2.93%) XML
4 7 (2.56%) Swagger
5 6 (2.20%) RESTful
5 6 (2.20%) SOAP
6 4 (1.47%) OpenAPI
7 3 (1.10%) CSS
7 3 (1.10%) Gherkin
7 3 (1.10%) HTML
7 3 (1.10%) Lightning Web Components
7 3 (1.10%) Middleware
7 3 (1.10%) Node.js
7 3 (1.10%) OAuth
7 3 (1.10%) Playwright
7 3 (1.10%) PySpark
7 3 (1.10%) SailPoint
7 3 (1.10%) Visualforce
7 3 (1.10%) YAML
8 2 (0.73%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.89%) Analytical Mindset
2 18 (6.59%) Management Information System
2 18 (6.59%) Onboarding
3 13 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 11 (4.03%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (3.66%) Cyber Threat
6 9 (3.30%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.47%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.47%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.47%) PKI
9 4 (1.47%) Replication
9 4 (1.47%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.47%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.10%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.10%) Digital Wallet
10 3 (1.10%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 32 (11.72%) Windows
2 12 (4.40%) Windows 10
3 11 (4.03%) Linux
4 6 (2.20%) Unix
4 6 (2.20%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.83%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.83%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.73%) AIX
7 2 (0.73%) HPUX
7 2 (0.73%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.73%) Solaris
7 2 (0.73%) SUSE
7 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (56.78%) Problem-Solving
2 65 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
3 52 (19.05%) Agile
4 43 (15.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 41 (15.02%) Change Management
5 41 (15.02%) Continuous Improvement
5 41 (15.02%) Migration
5 41 (15.02%) Project Management
6 38 (13.92%) Workshop Facilitation
7 36 (13.19%) Decision-Making
7 36 (13.19%) Validation
8 35 (12.82%) ITIL
9 34 (12.45%) Analytics
10 31 (11.36%) ERP
11 29 (10.62%) Data Modelling
12 28 (10.26%) Data Analysis
13 26 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
13 26 (9.52%) Roadmaps
14 25 (9.16%) CI/CD
15 22 (8.06%) AI
Programming Languages
1 40 (14.65%) SQL
2 36 (13.19%) Python
3 19 (6.96%) PowerShell
4 8 (2.93%) Java
5 4 (1.47%) C#
5 4 (1.47%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.47%) PL/SQL
5 4 (1.47%) Shell Script
6 3 (1.10%) Apex Code
6 3 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (1.10%) VBA
7 2 (0.73%) Bash
7 2 (0.73%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.73%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.37%) ABAP
8 1 (0.37%) Ada
8 1 (0.37%) C
8 1 (0.37%) C++
8 1 (0.37%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.37%) R
Qualifications
1 45 (16.48%) Degree
2 33 (12.09%) Security Cleared
3 28 (10.26%) SC Cleared
4 16 (5.86%) Microsoft Certification
5 15 (5.49%) CISSP
6 14 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (4.76%) A+ Certification
7 13 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (4.76%) Network+ Certification
8 8 (2.93%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (2.93%) CompTIA Security+
9 7 (2.56%) AWS Certification
9 7 (2.56%) CISM
10 5 (1.83%) CCNA
11 4 (1.47%) CEH
11 4 (1.47%) MCSE
12 3 (1.10%) CCNP
12 3 (1.10%) CIMA
12 3 (1.10%) CISA
12 3 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (11.36%) Data Quality
2 10 (3.66%) GRC
2 10 (3.66%) QA
3 8 (2.93%) SLA
4 6 (2.20%) NIST
5 5 (1.83%) GDPR
6 4 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.47%) PMO
7 3 (1.10%) NCSC
7 3 (1.10%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.10%) PSD2
7 3 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.73%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.37%) Def Stans
9 1 (0.37%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.37%) GAAP
9 1 (0.37%) MISRA
System Software
1 23 (8.42%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.83%) Docker
3 4 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.10%) Firmware
4 3 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (1.10%) vSphere
5 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (3.30%) Ansible
2 7 (2.56%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.20%) Terraform
4 5 (1.83%) SCCM
5 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.73%) Grafana
6 2 (0.73%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.73%) Istio
6 2 (0.73%) McAfee ePO
6 2 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.73%) WMI
7 1 (0.37%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 58 (21.25%) Microsoft
2 36 (13.19%) SAP
3 24 (8.79%) ServiceNow
4 12 (4.40%) Splunk
5 11 (4.03%) Oracle
6 8 (2.93%) Cisco
7 6 (2.20%) BeyondTrust
7 6 (2.20%) CrowdStrike
7 6 (2.20%) HP
7 6 (2.20%) Remedy
7 6 (2.20%) Teradata
8 5 (1.83%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.83%) VMware
9 4 (1.47%) Arista
9 4 (1.47%) Databricks
9 4 (1.47%) Dell
9 4 (1.47%) F5
9 4 (1.47%) IBM
9 4 (1.47%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.47%) SolarWinds