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 20 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 13 25
Rank change year-on-year -10 +12 -1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 247 206 168
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 7.52% 10.50% 6.31%
As % of the General category 13.66% 18.09% 11.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 131 101
10th Percentile £302 £313 £325
25th Percentile £359 £405 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% +6.74%
75th Percentile £520 £641 £538
90th Percentile £588 £715 £613
England median daily rate £500 £525 £532
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.32% -0.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 13 27
10th Percentile £21.75 £19.05 £11.77
25th Percentile £25.49 £22.98 £13.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.20 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -27.54% +211.51% -49.37%
75th Percentile £77.50 £63.40 £43.75
90th Percentile £178.75 £70.68 £54.00
England median hourly rate £38.25 £30.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year +27.50% +62.16% -53.75%

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 1,808 1,139 1,426
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 55.02% 58.08% 53.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,050 703 869
10th Percentile £220 £269 £300
25th Percentile £364 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £640 £675 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 105 190
10th Percentile £16.48 £13.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £22.68 £17.44 £14.50
Median hourly rate £35.53 £28.75 £17.86
Median % change year-on-year +23.57% +60.97% -31.31%
75th Percentile £64.56 £58.27 £36.95
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.00 £51.91
England median hourly rate £30.58 £27.50 £30.14
% change year-on-year +11.20% -8.76% -6.25%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -7 116 £433 -13.84% 136
Cheshire -4 81 £431 -12.17% 47
Lancashire -5 24 £370 -28.85% 49
Merseyside -18 14 £348 -7.33% 23
Cumbria +4 12 £488 +5.98% 2
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 17 (6.88%) Confluence
2 5 (2.02%) SAS
2 5 (2.02%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (0.81%) JBoss
3 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.40%) Apache
4 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.40%) Mule
4 1 (0.40%) Mule ESB
4 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.40%) WebLogic
Applications
1 19 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (6.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (4.05%) MS Visio
4 7 (2.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (2.43%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (6.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.43%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (1.62%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (1.21%) Primavera
4 3 (1.21%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.81%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.40%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.40%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.40%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.40%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.40%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 32 (12.96%) AWS
1 32 (12.96%) Azure
2 26 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
2 26 (10.53%) Power Platform
3 10 (4.05%) GCP
4 5 (2.02%) Akamai
4 5 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (2.02%) Entra ID
4 5 (2.02%) Microsoft Copilot
4 5 (2.02%) SaaS
5 4 (1.62%) Nutanix
5 4 (1.62%) OneDrive
6 3 (1.21%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (1.21%) Apigee
6 3 (1.21%) GitHub
6 3 (1.21%) Kong
7 2 (0.81%) Amazon S3
7 2 (0.81%) Cloud Functions
7 2 (0.81%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.86%) TCP/IP
2 10 (4.05%) DNS
2 10 (4.05%) Firewall
3 5 (2.02%) DHCP
3 5 (2.02%) HTTP
3 5 (2.02%) SAN
4 4 (1.62%) NetScaler
5 3 (1.21%) BGP
5 3 (1.21%) VPN
6 1 (0.40%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.40%) LAN
6 1 (0.40%) OSPF
6 1 (0.40%) SSL
6 1 (0.40%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (0.40%) WAN
6 1 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.31%) Power BI
2 13 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (3.64%) Metadata
3 9 (3.64%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.24%) Tableau
5 5 (2.02%) BigQuery
5 5 (2.02%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (1.62%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.21%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.21%) Looker
7 3 (1.21%) OLTP
7 3 (1.21%) Power Query
8 2 (0.81%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.81%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.81%) DataStage
8 2 (0.81%) DB2
8 2 (0.81%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.81%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.40%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 27 (10.93%) JIRA
2 6 (2.43%) GitLab
2 6 (2.43%) JUnit
3 4 (1.62%) Postman
4 3 (1.21%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.21%) Mockito
5 2 (0.81%) Git
5 2 (0.81%) Gradle
5 2 (0.81%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.81%) Ranorex
5 2 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.81%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.81%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.40%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.40%) Gatling
6 1 (0.40%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.40%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.40%) ScriptRunner
6 1 (0.40%) SonarQube
General
1 116 (46.96%) Social Skills
2 84 (34.01%) Finance
3 30 (12.15%) Banking
4 24 (9.72%) Public Sector
5 14 (5.67%) Influencing Skills
6 13 (5.26%) Manufacturing
6 13 (5.26%) Telecoms
7 10 (4.05%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (3.24%) Local Government
8 8 (3.24%) Marketing
9 7 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.83%) Retail Banking
10 5 (2.02%) Law
10 5 (2.02%) Legal
10 5 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.21%) Automotive
11 3 (1.21%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.21%) Publishing
12 2 (0.81%) Environmental Health
13 1 (0.40%) Billing
Job Titles
1 78 (31.58%) Analyst
2 31 (12.55%) Business Analyst
3 24 (9.72%) Senior
4 21 (8.50%) Developer
5 20 (8.10%) Lead
6 15 (6.07%) Project Manager
7 13 (5.26%) Finance Manager
7 13 (5.26%) Finance Project Manager
8 12 (4.86%) Senior Analyst
9 11 (4.45%) IT Analyst
9 11 (4.45%) IT Support
9 11 (4.45%) Security Engineer
10 10 (4.05%) Administrator
10 10 (4.05%) Support Analyst
11 9 (3.64%) Data Analyst
11 9 (3.64%) IT Support Analyst
12 8 (3.24%) Architect
12 8 (3.24%) Product Manager
13 7 (2.83%) Field Service Engineer
13 7 (2.83%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.48%) REST
2 10 (4.05%) SOAP
2 10 (4.05%) Swagger
2 10 (4.05%) XML
3 8 (3.24%) JSON
4 6 (2.43%) HTML
4 6 (2.43%) OpenAPI
4 6 (2.43%) RESTful
5 4 (1.62%) CSS
5 4 (1.62%) Middleware
5 4 (1.62%) OAuth
5 4 (1.62%) Spring
5 4 (1.62%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.21%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.21%) Jest
6 3 (1.21%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (1.21%) Node.js
6 3 (1.21%) Playwright
6 3 (1.21%) Visualforce
6 3 (1.21%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.10%) Analytical Mindset
2 17 (6.88%) Product Ownership
3 15 (6.07%) Management Information System
4 14 (5.67%) Onboarding
5 12 (4.86%) Cyber Threat
5 12 (4.86%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.83%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.02%) Clustering
7 5 (2.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 5 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.62%) Digital Wallet
8 4 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.62%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.62%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.62%) Replication
9 3 (1.21%) Housing Association
9 3 (1.21%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.21%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.21%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (11.34%) Windows
2 12 (4.86%) Windows 10
3 9 (3.64%) Linux
4 8 (3.24%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.43%) Apple iOS
5 6 (2.43%) Mac OS
5 6 (2.43%) Unix
6 4 (1.62%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.62%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.81%) AIX
8 2 (0.81%) HPUX
8 2 (0.81%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.81%) Solaris
8 2 (0.81%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (57.89%) Problem-Solving
2 54 (21.86%) Agile
3 50 (20.24%) Stakeholder Management
4 38 (15.38%) Migration
4 38 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 37 (14.98%) Workshop Facilitation
6 35 (14.17%) Change Management
7 34 (13.77%) Project Management
7 34 (13.77%) Validation
8 29 (11.74%) Data Modelling
9 27 (10.93%) Analytics
9 27 (10.93%) Decision-Making
10 25 (10.12%) CI/CD
10 25 (10.12%) ERP
10 25 (10.12%) ITIL
11 24 (9.72%) Data Analysis
12 23 (9.31%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (9.31%) Use Case
13 22 (8.91%) Business Intelligence
14 21 (8.50%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 44 (17.81%) SQL
2 32 (12.96%) Python
3 16 (6.48%) PowerShell
4 13 (5.26%) Java
5 7 (2.83%) Shell Script
6 6 (2.43%) PL/SQL
7 5 (2.02%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.62%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.21%) Apex Code
9 3 (1.21%) C#
9 3 (1.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.21%) ProC
9 3 (1.21%) VBA
10 1 (0.40%) ABAP
10 1 (0.40%) Bash
10 1 (0.40%) Korn
10 1 (0.40%) R
10 1 (0.40%) SOQL
10 1 (0.40%) SOSL
10 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (14.57%) Degree
2 23 (9.31%) Security Cleared
3 18 (7.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (6.88%) SC Cleared
5 15 (6.07%) CISSP
6 14 (5.67%) A+ Certification
6 14 (5.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (5.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (5.67%) Network+ Certification
7 8 (3.24%) AWS Certification
8 7 (2.83%) CompTIA Security+
9 6 (2.43%) CCNA
9 6 (2.43%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (2.43%) CISM
10 5 (2.02%) MCSE
11 3 (1.21%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.21%) CISA
11 3 (1.21%) CRISC
11 3 (1.21%) PMI Certification
11 3 (1.21%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.31%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.64%) GRC
3 8 (3.24%) SLA
4 7 (2.83%) QA
5 6 (2.43%) GDPR
5 6 (2.43%) NIST
6 5 (2.02%) PSD2
7 4 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.62%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.21%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.21%) ISO 8583
8 3 (1.21%) PMO
9 2 (0.81%) CRD IV
9 2 (0.81%) FINREP
9 2 (0.81%) IFRS
9 2 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 2 (0.81%) NCSC
9 2 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.40%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 25 (10.12%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.43%) Docker
3 5 (2.02%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.62%) vSphere
5 1 (0.40%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 8 (3.24%) SCCM
2 7 (2.83%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (2.43%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (1.62%) Ansible
5 3 (1.21%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.81%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.81%) Terraform
7 1 (0.40%) Istio
7 1 (0.40%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 51 (20.65%) Microsoft
2 30 (12.15%) SAP
3 16 (6.48%) ServiceNow
4 14 (5.67%) Oracle
5 8 (3.24%) Splunk
6 6 (2.43%) BeyondTrust
6 6 (2.43%) CrowdStrike
6 6 (2.43%) Remedy
7 5 (2.02%) Dell
7 5 (2.02%) Teradata
8 4 (1.62%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.62%) F5
8 4 (1.62%) Google
8 4 (1.62%) HP
8 4 (1.62%) Veeam
8 4 (1.62%) VMware
9 3 (1.21%) Adobe
9 3 (1.21%) Cisco
9 3 (1.21%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.21%) Tanium