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 21 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 11 18
Rank change year-on-year -10 +7 +2
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 288 267 185
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 7.42% 12.05% 7.60%
As % of the General category 14.45% 19.69% 13.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 167 111
10th Percentile £282 £300 £356
25th Percentile £371 £373 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £458 £493
Median % change year-on-year +0.33% -7.20% +1.44%
75th Percentile £550 £592 £564
90th Percentile £622 £701 £638
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 15 8
10th Percentile £24.30 £22.35 £15.92
25th Percentile £25.49 £27.80 £23.67
Median hourly rate £40.00 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -21.35% -3.01%
75th Percentile £77.50 £63.40 £57.38
90th Percentile £178.75 £68.86 £75.15
England median hourly rate £36.00 £32.50 £21.75
% change year-on-year +10.77% +49.43% -51.05%

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 general skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,993 1,356 1,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 51.31% 61.19% 54.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,130 860 792
10th Percentile £240 £270 £300
25th Percentile £400 £380 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.50% -6.10% -
75th Percentile £588 £580 £585
90th Percentile £675 £688 £680
England median daily rate £525 £508 £538
% change year-on-year +3.45% -5.67% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 114 97
10th Percentile £16.01 £12.82 £16.06
25th Percentile £25.03 £14.92 £18.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £28.75 £32.90
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -12.60% +23.67%
75th Percentile £53.81 £50.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £71.80 £57.50
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +29.22% -34.02% +38.62%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 21 August 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 -15 144 £440 -5.63% 164
Cheshire -6 94 £463 +0.87% 52
Lancashire -11 19 £550 +22.11% 71
Merseyside -3 17 £458 -29.62% 44
Cumbria -9 17 £458 +1.67% 12
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 12 (4.17%) Confluence
2 9 (3.13%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.39%) SAS
4 1 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.35%) Apache
4 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.35%) JBoss
4 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.35%) Mule
4 1 (0.35%) Mule ESB
4 1 (0.35%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.35%) WebLogic
Applications
1 28 (9.72%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (4.17%) MS Visio
4 9 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (3.82%) Remedy ITSM
1 11 (3.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.39%) SAP ERP
3 3 (1.04%) Primavera
4 2 (0.69%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.69%) SAP HCM
4 2 (0.69%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.69%) SAP Payroll
4 2 (0.69%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.35%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.35%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 1 (0.35%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.35%) ResourceLink
5 1 (0.35%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 50 (17.36%) Azure
2 32 (11.11%) AWS
2 32 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (10.07%) Power Platform
4 11 (3.82%) GCP
5 9 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (3.13%) SaaS
6 7 (2.43%) Entra ID
7 6 (2.08%) Microsoft Copilot
8 5 (1.74%) Akamai
8 5 (1.74%) GitHub
9 4 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.39%) OCI
9 4 (1.39%) Snowflake
10 3 (1.04%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (1.04%) IBM Blueworks
10 3 (1.04%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (0.69%) Lucidchart
11 2 (0.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.25%) Firewall
2 15 (5.21%) VPN
3 14 (4.86%) DNS
4 10 (3.47%) Network Security
4 10 (3.47%) WAN
5 9 (3.13%) LAN
6 7 (2.43%) BGP
6 7 (2.43%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.74%) Cisco Nexus
7 5 (1.74%) HTTP
7 5 (1.74%) VLAN
8 4 (1.39%) OSPF
8 4 (1.39%) SD-WAN
9 3 (1.04%) BIG-IP
9 3 (1.04%) DHCP
9 3 (1.04%) DMZ
9 3 (1.04%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 3 (1.04%) MPLS
9 3 (1.04%) SAN
9 3 (1.04%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (9.38%) Power BI
2 16 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (5.21%) SQL Server
4 8 (2.78%) Metadata
4 8 (2.78%) Tableau
5 6 (2.08%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.74%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.39%) DataStage
7 4 (1.39%) Db2
8 3 (1.04%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.69%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.69%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.69%) EDRMS
9 2 (0.69%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.69%) MySQL
9 2 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.69%) Power Query
9 2 (0.69%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.35%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.35%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 19 (6.60%) JIRA
2 8 (2.78%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.43%) Git
4 6 (2.08%) GitLab
5 4 (1.39%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.04%) Ranorex
6 3 (1.04%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (1.04%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.69%) Burp Suite
7 2 (0.69%) Gatling
7 2 (0.69%) Gradle
7 2 (0.69%) Hudson
7 2 (0.69%) JUnit
7 2 (0.69%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.69%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.35%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.35%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.35%) Toad
General
1 143 (49.65%) Social Skills
2 93 (32.29%) Finance
3 33 (11.46%) Banking
4 21 (7.29%) Manufacturing
5 20 (6.94%) Public Sector
6 18 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
7 17 (5.90%) Legal
8 11 (3.82%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (3.82%) Telecoms
9 9 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (2.43%) Marketing
12 6 (2.08%) Automotive
12 6 (2.08%) Law
12 6 (2.08%) Local Government
13 3 (1.04%) Aerospace
13 3 (1.04%) Billing
13 3 (1.04%) Investment Banking
13 3 (1.04%) Publishing
13 3 (1.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 69 (23.96%) Analyst
2 27 (9.38%) Lead
3 20 (6.94%) Business Analyst
4 17 (5.90%) Consultant
5 16 (5.56%) Senior
6 15 (5.21%) Architect
7 14 (4.86%) Developer
7 14 (4.86%) Security Engineer
8 13 (4.51%) Data Analyst
8 13 (4.51%) Network Engineer
9 12 (4.17%) IT Support
10 11 (3.82%) Project Manager
11 10 (3.47%) Administrator
11 10 (3.47%) Service Analyst
11 10 (3.47%) Support Analyst
12 8 (2.78%) IT Analyst
12 8 (2.78%) Senior Manager
13 7 (2.43%) Data Engineer
13 7 (2.43%) IT Support Analyst
13 7 (2.43%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.13%) REST
2 8 (2.78%) Terraform
3 7 (2.43%) JSON
4 5 (1.74%) XML
5 4 (1.39%) PySpark
5 4 (1.39%) RESTful
6 3 (1.04%) Gherkin
6 3 (1.04%) Kafka
6 3 (1.04%) Node.js
6 3 (1.04%) Playwright
6 3 (1.04%) SailPoint
6 3 (1.04%) Spring
6 3 (1.04%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.69%) HTML
7 2 (0.69%) OAuth
7 2 (0.69%) ODBC
7 2 (0.69%) PyTorch
7 2 (0.69%) Quarkus
7 2 (0.69%) React
8 1 (0.35%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.38%) Analytical Mindset
2 20 (6.94%) Management Information System
3 18 (6.25%) Onboarding
4 11 (3.82%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (3.13%) Cyber Threat
5 9 (3.13%) Data Centre
6 8 (2.78%) Product Ownership
7 7 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 6 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.74%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.74%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.74%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.74%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.39%) Credit Risk
10 4 (1.39%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.39%) PKI
11 3 (1.04%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 37 (12.85%) Windows
2 12 (4.17%) Linux
3 10 (3.47%) Windows 10
4 8 (2.78%) Mac OS
4 8 (2.78%) Unix
5 6 (2.08%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.74%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.69%) AIX
7 2 (0.69%) HPUX
7 2 (0.69%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.69%) Solaris
7 2 (0.69%) SUSE
8 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (49.31%) Problem-Solving
2 74 (25.69%) Stakeholder Management
3 57 (19.79%) Continuous Improvement
4 45 (15.63%) ITIL
5 44 (15.28%) Agile
6 40 (13.89%) Change Management
7 38 (13.19%) Analytics
8 37 (12.85%) Migration
9 36 (12.50%) Project Management
10 33 (11.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 33 (11.46%) Validation
11 31 (10.76%) AI
11 31 (10.76%) Data Modelling
11 31 (10.76%) Decision-Making
11 31 (10.76%) ERP
12 30 (10.42%) CI/CD
12 30 (10.42%) Workshop Facilitation
13 27 (9.38%) Business Intelligence
13 27 (9.38%) Roadmaps
14 26 (9.03%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 47 (16.32%) SQL
2 45 (15.63%) Python
3 20 (6.94%) PowerShell
4 8 (2.78%) Java
5 5 (1.74%) PL/SQL
5 5 (1.74%) Shell Script
5 5 (1.74%) T-SQL
6 4 (1.39%) Bash
6 4 (1.39%) C#
6 4 (1.39%) Search Processing Language
7 3 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (1.04%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.69%) ABAP
9 1 (0.35%) Ada
9 1 (0.35%) Assembly Language
9 1 (0.35%) C
9 1 (0.35%) C++
9 1 (0.35%) Korn
9 1 (0.35%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 42 (14.58%) Degree
2 38 (13.19%) Security Cleared
3 30 (10.42%) SC Cleared
4 19 (6.60%) CISSP
5 13 (4.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (3.47%) A+ Certification
7 10 (3.47%) AWS Certification
7 10 (3.47%) Network+ Certification
8 9 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (2.78%) CCNP
10 7 (2.43%) CompTIA Security+
11 6 (2.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 5 (1.74%) CCIE
12 5 (1.74%) CCNA
12 5 (1.74%) CISM
12 5 (1.74%) GCIH
13 4 (1.39%) CIMA
13 4 (1.39%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (11.46%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.56%) SLA
3 14 (4.86%) GRC
4 10 (3.47%) NIST
5 8 (2.78%) GDPR
5 8 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.78%) QA
6 6 (2.08%) PCI DSS
6 6 (2.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (1.39%) PMO
8 3 (1.04%) NCSC
9 2 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.35%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.35%) DO-178B
10 1 (0.35%) GAAP
10 1 (0.35%) MISRA
System Software
1 26 (9.03%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.74%) Docker
3 5 (1.74%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.04%) Firmware
5 2 (0.69%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (5.21%) Ansible
2 8 (2.78%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.74%) Progress Chef
4 4 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.04%) CASB
5 3 (1.04%) McAfee ePO
5 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.04%) SCCM
6 2 (0.69%) Data Guard
6 2 (0.69%) Grafana
6 2 (0.69%) Istio
6 2 (0.69%) WMI
7 1 (0.35%) Nagios
7 1 (0.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 72 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 32 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 30 (10.42%) SAP
4 18 (6.25%) Oracle
4 18 (6.25%) Splunk
5 11 (3.82%) Cisco
5 11 (3.82%) Remedy
6 7 (2.43%) Teradata
6 7 (2.43%) VMware
7 6 (2.08%) BeyondTrust
7 6 (2.08%) CrowdStrike
7 6 (2.08%) Databricks
7 6 (2.08%) F5
7 6 (2.08%) Google
8 5 (1.74%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.74%) IBM
9 4 (1.39%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.39%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.39%) HP
9 4 (1.39%) Juniper