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 9 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 12 23
Rank change year-on-year -7 +11 +2
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 233 211 209
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 8.15% 10.33% 7.31%
As % of the General category 13.86% 17.66% 13.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 140 120
10th Percentile £310 £294 £263
25th Percentile £358 £336 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £493
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -3.65% +10.79%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £550
90th Percentile £591 £700 £613
England median daily rate £500 £525 £537
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.21% -2.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 31
10th Percentile £21.75 £19.00 £11.77
25th Percentile £27.98 £20.60 £13.50
Median hourly rate £41.43 £24.38 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +69.91% +37.60% -49.37%
75th Percentile £44.94 £41.56 £43.75
90th Percentile £71.38 £70.34 £46.18
England median hourly rate £30.11 £29.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +3.81% +45.00% -41.18%

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 1,681 1,195 1,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 58.80% 58.52% 54.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,053 704 965
10th Percentile £198 £269 £267
25th Percentile £356 £375 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £560 £580 £582
90th Percentile £638 £675 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 107 204
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £20.31 £22.61 £14.66
Median hourly rate £32.00 £30.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +69.30% -31.34%
75th Percentile £47.85 £49.38 £37.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £72.93 £48.00
England median hourly rate £25.00 £30.41 £26.00
% change year-on-year -17.78% +16.94% -19.38%

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 9 March 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 9 March 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 9 March 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 -10 94 £425 -7.61% 132
Cheshire -10 89 £417 -16.70% 52
Lancashire +3 32 £550 +2.56% 46
Merseyside -23 11 £330 -17.50% 21
Cumbria +11 6 £488 +5.98% 7
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 18 (7.73%) Confluence
2 13 (5.58%) SAS
3 8 (3.43%) SharePoint
4 7 (3.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.72%) Apache
6 3 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.43%) JBoss
7 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.43%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
Applications
1 21 (9.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (5.58%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (5.58%) MS Visio
3 12 (5.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.86%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.43%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 13 (5.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.72%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.29%) iTrent
4 2 (0.86%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.86%) Primavera
4 2 (0.86%) SAP HCM
4 2 (0.86%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.86%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.43%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.43%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.43%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 40 (17.17%) Azure
2 38 (16.31%) AWS
3 26 (11.16%) Power Platform
4 20 (8.58%) GCP
5 19 (8.15%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (3.00%) Entra ID
8 6 (2.58%) Apigee
8 6 (2.58%) Kong
8 6 (2.58%) OpenShift
8 6 (2.58%) SaaS
9 5 (2.15%) Akamai
9 5 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (1.72%) Nutanix
10 4 (1.72%) OneDrive
10 4 (1.72%) Serverless
11 3 (1.29%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.29%) PowerApps
12 2 (0.86%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 22 (9.44%) Firewall
2 11 (4.72%) DNS
2 11 (4.72%) TCP/IP
3 8 (3.43%) VPN
4 7 (3.00%) BGP
5 6 (2.58%) HTTP
5 6 (2.58%) Software-Defined Networking
5 6 (2.58%) VLAN
6 5 (2.15%) DHCP
6 5 (2.15%) LAN
6 5 (2.15%) Network Security
6 5 (2.15%) WAN
7 4 (1.72%) NetScaler
7 4 (1.72%) WebEx
8 2 (0.86%) SAN
9 1 (0.43%) DMZ
9 1 (0.43%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.43%) OSPF
9 1 (0.43%) SSL
9 1 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.30%) Power BI
2 15 (6.44%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (3.00%) Metadata
3 7 (3.00%) Tableau
4 5 (2.15%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.15%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.15%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (1.72%) BigQuery
5 4 (1.72%) MS Access
5 4 (1.72%) Power Query
6 3 (1.29%) BusinessObjects
6 3 (1.29%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.29%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.29%) Looker
6 3 (1.29%) OLTP
6 3 (1.29%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (0.86%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.86%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.43%) Base SAS
Development Applications
1 25 (10.73%) JIRA
2 11 (4.72%) GitLab
3 6 (2.58%) Git
4 4 (1.72%) JUnit
4 4 (1.72%) Postman
5 3 (1.29%) Mockito
6 2 (0.86%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.86%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.43%) Gradle
7 1 (0.43%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.43%) Maven
7 1 (0.43%) ScriptRunner
7 1 (0.43%) Selenium
7 1 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 109 (46.78%) Social Skills
2 85 (36.48%) Finance
3 26 (11.16%) Banking
4 18 (7.73%) Public Sector
5 17 (7.30%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (3.86%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (3.86%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (3.00%) Local Government
7 7 (3.00%) Retail Banking
8 6 (2.58%) Marketing
9 5 (2.15%) Automotive
9 5 (2.15%) Legal
9 5 (2.15%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.15%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.72%) Publishing
11 2 (0.86%) Environmental Health
11 2 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.43%) Billing
Job Titles
1 77 (33.05%) Analyst
2 34 (14.59%) Business Analyst
3 22 (9.44%) Senior
4 21 (9.01%) Developer
5 17 (7.30%) Lead
6 14 (6.01%) Platform Engineer
6 14 (6.01%) Project Manager
7 13 (5.58%) Architect
7 13 (5.58%) Senior Analyst
8 12 (5.15%) Finance Manager
8 12 (5.15%) Finance Project Manager
9 11 (4.72%) Data Analyst
10 10 (4.29%) Security Engineer
10 10 (4.29%) Technical Analyst
11 6 (2.58%) Administrator
11 6 (2.58%) Senior Business Analyst
11 6 (2.58%) Support Analyst
11 6 (2.58%) Technical Business Analyst
12 5 (2.15%) Operations Analyst
12 5 (2.15%) Performance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.30%) REST
2 14 (6.01%) SOAP
3 13 (5.58%) Swagger
3 13 (5.58%) XML
4 11 (4.72%) JSON
5 9 (3.86%) OpenAPI
6 8 (3.43%) OAuth
7 7 (3.00%) JWT
8 6 (2.58%) HTML
9 5 (2.15%) RESTful
10 4 (1.72%) .NET
10 4 (1.72%) CSS
10 4 (1.72%) XMPP
11 3 (1.29%) AngularJS
11 3 (1.29%) Lightning Web Components
11 3 (1.29%) Middleware
11 3 (1.29%) Spring
11 3 (1.29%) Spring Boot
11 3 (1.29%) Visualforce
11 3 (1.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.59%) Product Ownership
2 11 (4.72%) Analytical Mindset
3 10 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (3.43%) Credit Risk
4 8 (3.43%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.00%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.15%) Clustering
6 5 (2.15%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (2.15%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.15%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.15%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 4 (1.72%) CMDB
7 4 (1.72%) Digital Wallet
7 4 (1.72%) Private Cloud
7 4 (1.72%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.29%) FMCG
8 3 (1.29%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.29%) Replication
9 2 (0.86%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 28 (12.02%) Windows
2 20 (8.58%) Windows Server
3 18 (7.73%) Linux
4 11 (4.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (3.00%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.72%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.86%) Unix
8 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.43%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (61.37%) Problem-Solving
2 64 (27.47%) Agile
3 55 (23.61%) Stakeholder Management
4 43 (18.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 41 (17.60%) Change Management
6 37 (15.88%) Analytics
6 37 (15.88%) Validation
7 32 (13.73%) CI/CD
7 32 (13.73%) Decision-Making
8 31 (13.30%) Project Management
9 29 (12.45%) Data Analysis
9 29 (12.45%) DevOps
9 29 (12.45%) Workshop Facilitation
10 27 (11.59%) Continuous Improvement
10 27 (11.59%) Requirements Gathering
11 26 (11.16%) Use Case
12 25 (10.73%) Computer Science
12 25 (10.73%) Data Modelling
13 22 (9.44%) Migration
14 21 (9.01%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 45 (19.31%) SQL
2 42 (18.03%) Python
3 21 (9.01%) PowerShell
4 11 (4.72%) Bash
5 10 (4.29%) Java
6 7 (3.00%) JavaScript
6 7 (3.00%) Perl
6 7 (3.00%) R
7 5 (2.15%) C#
7 5 (2.15%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (1.72%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.29%) ABAP
9 3 (1.29%) Apex Code
9 3 (1.29%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.29%) ProC
9 3 (1.29%) VBA
10 2 (0.86%) COBOL
10 2 (0.86%) JCL
10 2 (0.86%) REXX
Qualifications
1 41 (17.60%) Degree
2 33 (14.16%) Security Cleared
3 28 (12.02%) SC Cleared
4 18 (7.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (5.58%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (5.15%) CISSP
7 11 (4.72%) CISM
8 10 (4.29%) CCNA
8 10 (4.29%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (3.43%) CCNP
10 7 (3.00%) CCDP
11 5 (2.15%) A+ Certification
11 5 (2.15%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (2.15%) Network+ Certification
12 3 (1.29%) AWS Certification
12 3 (1.29%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (1.29%) PMI Certification
12 3 (1.29%) PMP
13 2 (0.86%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.15%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.00%) QA
3 6 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.58%) NIST
4 5 (2.15%) PSD2
5 4 (1.72%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.29%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.29%) GDPR
6 3 (1.29%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.86%) CRD IV
7 2 (0.86%) FINREP
7 2 (0.86%) IFRS
7 2 (0.86%) SLA
8 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.43%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.43%) PERC
8 1 (0.43%) PMO
System Software
1 25 (10.73%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.72%) Docker
3 8 (3.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.15%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (1.72%) vSphere
6 2 (0.86%) ACF2
6 2 (0.86%) RACF
6 2 (0.86%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.43%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 16 (6.87%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 9 (3.86%) SCCM
3 6 (2.58%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (2.15%) Fluentd
5 3 (1.29%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.86%) CA Endevor
6 2 (0.86%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.86%) Terraform
6 2 (0.86%) Tivoli
6 2 (0.86%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 1 (0.43%) Autotask
7 1 (0.43%) Norton AntiVirus
7 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (23.18%) Microsoft
2 27 (11.59%) SAP
3 12 (5.15%) VMware
4 11 (4.72%) ServiceNow
5 10 (4.29%) Red Hat
6 9 (3.86%) Oracle
7 8 (3.43%) Workday
8 7 (3.00%) Citrix
8 7 (3.00%) Splunk
9 6 (2.58%) MuleSoft
9 6 (2.58%) Pega
10 5 (2.15%) Cisco
10 5 (2.15%) Cribl.io
10 5 (2.15%) F5
10 5 (2.15%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.72%) Dynatrace
11 4 (1.72%) Veeam
12 3 (1.29%) Databricks
12 3 (1.29%) Snow
12 3 (1.29%) SolarWinds