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 14 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 14 17
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 +16
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 235 191 219
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 9.56% 8.81% 8.27%
As % of the General category 15.63% 15.13% 14.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 109 132
10th Percentile £311 £291 £233
25th Percentile £369 £294 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% -9.09% +7.61%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £556
90th Percentile £629 £623 £648
England median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 12 17
10th Percentile £20.60 £19.43 £17.09
25th Percentile £27.80 £21.05 £17.72
Median hourly rate £33.50 £24.47 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.90% -18.43% -25.00%
75th Percentile £43.00 £58.31 £46.18
90th Percentile £45.20 £68.11 £57.91
England median hourly rate £34.27 £25.00 £32.02
% change year-on-year +37.08% -21.91% -17.91%

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 1,504 1,262 1,480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 61.21% 58.21% 55.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 975 686 961
10th Percentile £213 £255 £262
25th Percentile £358 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £703
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 100 108
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.99 £15.42
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.13 £17.14
Median hourly rate £29.60 £27.44 £22.81
Median % change year-on-year +7.86% +20.34% +13.66%
75th Percentile £45.46 £45.30 £45.88
90th Percentile £67.84 £65.25 £57.20
England median hourly rate £23.58 £30.41 £33.00
% change year-on-year -22.48% -7.85% +29.31%

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 14 December 2025.

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 14 December 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 14 December 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
Cheshire -4 96 £469 -5.47% 88
Manchester -6 96 £438 +9.38% 183
Lancashire +3 25 £550 - 103
Cumbria +13 11 £450 -34.69% 8
Merseyside -6 7 £400 -5.88% 56
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 14 (5.96%) Microsoft Exchange
1 14 (5.96%) SharePoint
2 12 (5.11%) SAS
3 11 (4.68%) Confluence
4 7 (2.98%) Exchange Server 2013
4 7 (2.98%) Skype for Business
5 4 (1.70%) Apache
5 4 (1.70%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.70%) Resin
6 1 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.43%) JBoss
6 1 (0.43%) Mule
6 1 (0.43%) Mule ESB
6 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.43%) WebLogic
Applications
1 30 (12.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (7.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (5.53%) MS Visio
4 12 (5.11%) Microsoft Office
5 11 (4.68%) Siemens NX
6 4 (1.70%) PTC Creo
7 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.43%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 11 (4.68%) Teamcenter
2 5 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.70%) ContrOCC
3 4 (1.70%) SAP EWM
4 3 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.28%) iTrent
5 2 (0.85%) Maximo
6 1 (0.43%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.43%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.43%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.43%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 40 (17.02%) Azure
2 31 (13.19%) AWS
3 26 (11.06%) Power Platform
4 18 (7.66%) GCP
4 18 (7.66%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (4.26%) OneDrive
6 6 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (2.55%) Entra ID
6 6 (2.55%) GitHub
6 6 (2.55%) OpenShift
7 5 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (1.70%) SaaS
9 3 (1.28%) Apigee
9 3 (1.28%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (1.28%) Kong
9 3 (1.28%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.28%) Serverless
10 2 (0.85%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (0.85%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (0.85%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.66%) Firewall
2 15 (6.38%) Network Security
3 9 (3.83%) DNS
4 8 (3.40%) BGP
5 7 (2.98%) LAN
5 7 (2.98%) Skype
5 7 (2.98%) VLAN
6 6 (2.55%) DMZ
6 6 (2.55%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 6 (2.55%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 6 (2.55%) Software-Defined Networking
6 6 (2.55%) VPN
6 6 (2.55%) WAN
7 4 (1.70%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.70%) WebEx
8 2 (0.85%) DHCP
8 2 (0.85%) SAN
9 1 (0.43%) Internet
9 1 (0.43%) OSPF
9 1 (0.43%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.09%) Power BI
2 11 (4.68%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (2.13%) Power Query
4 4 (1.70%) BigQuery
4 4 (1.70%) DynamoDB
4 4 (1.70%) MS Access
4 4 (1.70%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.70%) Tableau
5 3 (1.28%) Cognos Framework Manager
5 3 (1.28%) Cognos Report Studio
5 3 (1.28%) Cognos Transformer
5 3 (1.28%) Looker
5 3 (1.28%) OLAP
5 3 (1.28%) OLAP Cube
5 3 (1.28%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (0.85%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.85%) Metadata
6 2 (0.85%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (10.64%) JIRA
2 11 (4.68%) GitLab
3 9 (3.83%) Git
4 7 (2.98%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.55%) JUnit
6 5 (2.13%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.28%) TestRail
8 2 (0.85%) Selenium
9 1 (0.43%) Ant
9 1 (0.43%) Appium
9 1 (0.43%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.43%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.43%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.43%) MLflow
9 1 (0.43%) NUnit
General
1 113 (48.09%) Social Skills
2 71 (30.21%) Finance
3 19 (8.09%) Banking
4 16 (6.81%) Public Sector
5 15 (6.38%) Manufacturing
6 13 (5.53%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (4.26%) Aerospace
8 9 (3.83%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (3.40%) Legal
10 7 (2.98%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (2.13%) Local Government
11 5 (2.13%) Marketing
12 3 (1.28%) Automotive
12 3 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.85%) Law
13 2 (0.85%) Publishing
13 2 (0.85%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.43%) Billing
14 1 (0.43%) Military
Job Titles
1 62 (26.38%) Analyst
2 21 (8.94%) Architect
2 21 (8.94%) Developer
3 20 (8.51%) Business Analyst
4 14 (5.96%) Consultant
4 14 (5.96%) Support Analyst
5 12 (5.11%) Platform Engineer
5 12 (5.11%) Senior
6 9 (3.83%) Data Analyst
7 8 (3.40%) Lead
7 8 (3.40%) Operations Analyst
8 7 (2.98%) Operational Support Analyst
8 7 (2.98%) Operations Support Analyst
9 6 (2.55%) Administrator
9 6 (2.55%) Change Manager
9 6 (2.55%) Deskside Analyst
9 6 (2.55%) Deskside Support
9 6 (2.55%) Deskside Support Analyst
9 6 (2.55%) Desktop Support
9 6 (2.55%) Technology Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.26%) REST
2 9 (3.83%) XML
3 8 (3.40%) Spring
4 7 (2.98%) RESTful
4 7 (2.98%) Spring Boot
5 6 (2.55%) HTML
5 6 (2.55%) Kafka
6 5 (2.13%) JSON
6 5 (2.13%) OAuth
6 5 (2.13%) React
7 4 (1.70%) .NET
7 4 (1.70%) JWT
7 4 (1.70%) SOAP
7 4 (1.70%) XMPP
8 3 (1.28%) OpenAPI
8 3 (1.28%) Swagger
9 2 (0.85%) CSS
9 2 (0.85%) ISPF
9 2 (0.85%) J2EE
9 2 (0.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.06%) Analytical Mindset
2 19 (8.09%) Product Ownership
3 6 (2.55%) Cloud Native
3 6 (2.55%) CMDB
3 6 (2.55%) Data Structures
3 6 (2.55%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.13%) Credit Risk
4 5 (2.13%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.70%) 3D Printing
5 4 (1.70%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.28%) FMCG
6 3 (1.28%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.28%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.85%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.85%) Clustering
7 2 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.85%) Mainframe
7 2 (0.85%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 21 (8.94%) Windows
2 14 (5.96%) Windows Server
3 13 (5.53%) Linux
4 10 (4.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.85%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.85%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.43%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.43%) Unix
6 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (54.89%) Problem-Solving
2 51 (21.70%) Stakeholder Management
3 48 (20.43%) Agile
4 36 (15.32%) Analytics
5 33 (14.04%) Change Management
6 32 (13.62%) Decision-Making
7 29 (12.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 25 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 25 (10.64%) Data Modelling
8 25 (10.64%) ITIL
9 24 (10.21%) ITSM
9 24 (10.21%) Visualisation
10 23 (9.79%) Data Analysis
10 23 (9.79%) Project Management
11 22 (9.36%) AI
11 22 (9.36%) Business Intelligence
12 21 (8.94%) CI/CD
12 21 (8.94%) Data Governance
12 21 (8.94%) Use Case
13 20 (8.51%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 42 (17.87%) Python
2 37 (15.74%) SQL
3 17 (7.23%) PowerShell
4 11 (4.68%) Bash
4 11 (4.68%) Java
5 8 (3.40%) JavaScript
5 8 (3.40%) Perl
6 7 (2.98%) R
7 5 (2.13%) C#
8 4 (1.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.85%) ABAP
9 2 (0.85%) CLIST
9 2 (0.85%) COBOL
9 2 (0.85%) JCL
9 2 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.85%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.85%) REXX
9 2 (0.85%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 49 (20.85%) Security Cleared
2 43 (18.30%) SC Cleared
3 40 (17.02%) Degree
4 15 (6.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (5.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (5.53%) CISSP
7 11 (4.68%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (4.26%) CISM
9 9 (3.83%) CCNA
9 9 (3.83%) CCNP
10 8 (3.40%) CCDP
11 3 (1.28%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.28%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.28%) CISA
11 3 (1.28%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (1.28%) GSEC
11 3 (1.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.28%) PMI Certification
11 3 (1.28%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.11%) GDPR
1 12 (5.11%) QA
2 10 (4.26%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (3.83%) NIST
4 5 (2.13%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.70%) HIPAA
6 3 (1.28%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.85%) CRD IV
7 2 (0.85%) FINREP
7 2 (0.85%) IFRS
7 2 (0.85%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.43%) PERC
8 1 (0.43%) SEPA
8 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (8.09%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (2.98%) Docker
4 4 (1.70%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.85%) ACF2
5 2 (0.85%) RACF
5 2 (0.85%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.43%) ISA Server
6 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (5.96%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.53%) SCCM
3 11 (4.68%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (2.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (2.13%) Fluentd
6 3 (1.28%) HP ALM
6 3 (1.28%) QRadar
7 2 (0.85%) CA Endevor
7 2 (0.85%) Tivoli
7 2 (0.85%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 1 (0.43%) Autotask
8 1 (0.43%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.43%) Terraform
8 1 (0.43%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 69 (29.36%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.81%) SAP
3 15 (6.38%) VMware
4 12 (5.11%) ServiceNow
5 11 (4.68%) Splunk
6 10 (4.26%) Red Hat
6 10 (4.26%) Siemens
7 8 (3.40%) Cisco
7 8 (3.40%) F5
7 8 (3.40%) Oracle
8 7 (2.98%) Citrix
8 7 (2.98%) Pega
8 7 (2.98%) Workday
9 5 (2.13%) Cognos
9 5 (2.13%) Cribl.io
10 4 (1.70%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.70%) IBM
10 4 (1.70%) Liquidlogic
10 4 (1.70%) MuleSoft
11 3 (1.28%) Palo Alto