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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 8 21
Rank change year-on-year -12 +13 +4
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 286 258 187
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 7.76% 11.89% 6.91%
As % of the General category 14.50% 20.33% 12.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 165 112
10th Percentile £295 £313 £375
25th Percentile £393 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £469 £497
Median % change year-on-year -4.69% -5.54% +2.16%
75th Percentile £541 £581 £553
90th Percentile £600 £700 £613
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 13 21
10th Percentile £24.06 £20.15 £11.77
25th Percentile £25.49 £30.00 £13.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £35.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +97.52% -49.37%
75th Percentile £78.94 £63.40 £43.75
90th Percentile £178.75 £70.68 £62.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £33.88 £19.75
% change year-on-year +4.78% +71.54% -50.63%

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 1,973 1,269 1,471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 53.56% 58.48% 54.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,125 811 876
10th Percentile £275 £296 £283
25th Percentile £393 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £493
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -8.72% -1.40%
75th Percentile £583 £575 £576
90th Percentile £650 £675 £664
England median daily rate £525 £514 £534
% change year-on-year +2.14% -3.70% -2.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 114 184
10th Percentile £16.75 £12.87 £13.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £15.44 £16.05
Median hourly rate £36.00 £29.27 £23.48
Median % change year-on-year +22.99% +24.69% +4.19%
75th Percentile £69.75 £54.12 £43.10
90th Percentile £85.00 £74.25 £51.91
England median hourly rate £33.06 £27.28 £33.93
% change year-on-year +21.19% -19.60% +11.10%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -14 145 £438 -7.89% 149
Cheshire -6 91 £450 -4.66% 49
Lancashire -12 18 £519 +15.37% 41
Cumbria +3 17 £467 +3.83% 5
Merseyside -8 16 £365 -2.67% 22
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 (5.94%) Confluence
2 4 (1.40%) SAS
2 4 (1.40%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.35%) JBoss
3 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.35%) Mule
3 1 (0.35%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.35%) NetWeaver
3 1 (0.35%) WebLogic
Applications
1 25 (8.74%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (8.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (4.20%) MS Visio
4 9 (3.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (2.10%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (5.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (2.80%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (1.75%) Primavera
4 4 (1.40%) SAP MM
5 3 (1.05%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (1.05%) SAP ERP
5 3 (1.05%) SAP HCM
5 3 (1.05%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.70%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.35%) FIS Private Capital Suite
7 1 (0.35%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.35%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 43 (15.03%) Azure
2 30 (10.49%) Power Platform
3 26 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
4 24 (8.39%) AWS
5 8 (2.80%) GCP
6 7 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (2.45%) Entra ID
7 6 (2.10%) Microsoft Copilot
7 6 (2.10%) SaaS
8 5 (1.75%) Akamai
9 4 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.40%) GitHub
10 3 (1.05%) Azure AKS
10 3 (1.05%) OneDrive
10 3 (1.05%) Snowflake
11 2 (0.70%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (0.70%) Copilot Studio
11 2 (0.70%) dbt
11 2 (0.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (0.70%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.20%) Firewall
2 11 (3.85%) DNS
3 8 (2.80%) TCP/IP
4 6 (2.10%) BGP
4 6 (2.10%) VPN
4 6 (2.10%) WAN
5 5 (1.75%) HTTP
5 5 (1.75%) LAN
6 4 (1.40%) Cisco Nexus
6 4 (1.40%) SAN
7 3 (1.05%) Network Security
7 3 (1.05%) OSPF
7 3 (1.05%) VLAN
7 3 (1.05%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.70%) DHCP
8 2 (0.70%) MPLS
8 2 (0.70%) NetScaler
8 2 (0.70%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.70%) SSL
8 2 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (9.44%) Power BI
2 16 (5.59%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (4.55%) SQL Server
4 10 (3.50%) Tableau
5 9 (3.15%) Metadata
6 7 (2.45%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.40%) DataStage
7 4 (1.40%) Db2
7 4 (1.40%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.05%) Data Mining
8 3 (1.05%) Power Query
8 3 (1.05%) SAP HANA
8 3 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.70%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (0.70%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.70%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.70%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.70%) MySQL
10 1 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.35%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 28 (9.79%) JIRA
2 5 (1.75%) JUnit
3 4 (1.40%) Cucumber
3 4 (1.40%) Git
3 4 (1.40%) GitLab
4 3 (1.05%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.05%) Mockito
4 3 (1.05%) Postman
4 3 (1.05%) Ranorex
4 3 (1.05%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.70%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.70%) Gatling
5 2 (0.70%) Gradle
5 2 (0.70%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.70%) REST Assured
5 2 (0.70%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.70%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.35%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.35%) ScriptRunner
General
1 140 (48.95%) Social Skills
2 103 (36.01%) Finance
3 31 (10.84%) Banking
4 24 (8.39%) Manufacturing
5 23 (8.04%) Public Sector
6 18 (6.29%) Influencing Skills
7 17 (5.94%) Legal
8 13 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (4.55%) Telecoms
9 9 (3.15%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.45%) Automotive
10 7 (2.45%) Marketing
10 7 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (2.10%) Local Government
12 5 (1.75%) Law
13 3 (1.05%) Investment Banking
13 3 (1.05%) Publishing
13 3 (1.05%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.70%) Billing
14 2 (0.70%) Environmental Health
Job Titles
1 73 (25.52%) Analyst
2 25 (8.74%) Lead
3 23 (8.04%) Business Analyst
4 22 (7.69%) Senior
5 18 (6.29%) Developer
6 17 (5.94%) Project Manager
7 14 (4.90%) Administrator
8 12 (4.20%) Architect
8 12 (4.20%) Data Analyst
9 11 (3.85%) Consultant
9 11 (3.85%) Security Engineer
10 10 (3.50%) Finance Manager
10 10 (3.50%) Finance Project Manager
10 10 (3.50%) IT Support
10 10 (3.50%) Product Manager
10 10 (3.50%) Support Analyst
11 9 (3.15%) IT Analyst
11 9 (3.15%) Network Engineer
12 8 (2.80%) IT Support Analyst
12 8 (2.80%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.20%) REST
2 8 (2.80%) JSON
3 7 (2.45%) XML
4 6 (2.10%) RESTful
4 6 (2.10%) Swagger
5 5 (1.75%) SOAP
6 3 (1.05%) CSS
6 3 (1.05%) Gherkin
6 3 (1.05%) HTML
6 3 (1.05%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (1.05%) Middleware
6 3 (1.05%) Node.js
6 3 (1.05%) OpenAPI
6 3 (1.05%) Playwright
6 3 (1.05%) PySpark
6 3 (1.05%) SailPoint
6 3 (1.05%) Visualforce
6 3 (1.05%) YAML
7 2 (0.70%) Quarkus
7 2 (0.70%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.79%) Analytical Mindset
2 18 (6.29%) Management Information System
2 18 (6.29%) Onboarding
3 13 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 11 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (3.15%) Cyber Threat
5 9 (3.15%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 4 (1.40%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.40%) Operational Technology
8 4 (1.40%) PKI
8 4 (1.40%) Replication
8 4 (1.40%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.40%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.05%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.05%) Digital Wallet
9 3 (1.05%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 32 (11.19%) Windows
2 11 (3.85%) Windows 10
3 10 (3.50%) Linux
4 7 (2.45%) Unix
5 6 (2.10%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.75%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.75%) Windows Server
7 3 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.70%) AIX
8 2 (0.70%) HPUX
8 2 (0.70%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.70%) Solaris
8 2 (0.70%) SUSE
8 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (57.34%) Problem-Solving
2 69 (24.13%) Stakeholder Management
3 54 (18.88%) Agile
4 48 (16.78%) Continuous Improvement
5 45 (15.73%) Project Management
6 43 (15.03%) Change Management
7 41 (14.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 40 (13.99%) Migration
9 38 (13.29%) ITIL
10 36 (12.59%) Decision-Making
10 36 (12.59%) Workshop Facilitation
11 35 (12.24%) Validation
12 34 (11.89%) Analytics
13 31 (10.84%) ERP
14 29 (10.14%) Data Modelling
15 28 (9.79%) Data Analysis
16 27 (9.44%) Roadmaps
17 26 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
18 25 (8.74%) CI/CD
19 24 (8.39%) AI
Programming Languages
1 41 (14.34%) SQL
2 36 (12.59%) Python
3 19 (6.64%) PowerShell
4 8 (2.80%) Java
5 5 (1.75%) PL/SQL
5 5 (1.75%) Shell Script
6 4 (1.40%) C#
6 4 (1.40%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.05%) ABAP
7 3 (1.05%) Apex Code
7 3 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (1.05%) VBA
8 2 (0.70%) Bash
8 2 (0.70%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.70%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.35%) Ada
9 1 (0.35%) Bicep
9 1 (0.35%) R
9 1 (0.35%) SOQL
9 1 (0.35%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 43 (15.03%) Degree
2 38 (13.29%) Security Cleared
3 31 (10.84%) SC Cleared
4 15 (5.24%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (4.90%) CISSP
6 13 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (4.20%) A+ Certification
7 12 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (4.20%) Network+ Certification
8 9 (3.15%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (2.45%) AWS Certification
9 7 (2.45%) CompTIA Security+
10 6 (2.10%) CCNA
10 6 (2.10%) CISM
11 4 (1.40%) CCNP
11 4 (1.40%) CEH
11 4 (1.40%) MCSE
12 3 (1.05%) CIMA
12 3 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (1.05%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (11.19%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.85%) GRC
3 10 (3.50%) QA
3 10 (3.50%) SLA
4 7 (2.45%) NIST
5 5 (1.75%) GDPR
5 5 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.40%) PMO
7 3 (1.05%) NCSC
7 3 (1.05%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.05%) PSD2
7 3 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.70%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.35%) Def Stans
9 1 (0.35%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.35%) GAAP
9 1 (0.35%) MISRA
System Software
1 23 (8.04%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.75%) Docker
2 5 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.05%) Firmware
3 3 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.05%) vSphere
4 2 (0.70%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 10 (3.50%) Ansible
2 7 (2.45%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.10%) SCCM
3 6 (2.10%) Terraform
4 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.05%) McAfee ePO
5 3 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.70%) Grafana
6 2 (0.70%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.70%) Istio
6 2 (0.70%) WMI
7 1 (0.35%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.35%) Nagios
7 1 (0.35%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 60 (20.98%) Microsoft
2 37 (12.94%) SAP
3 27 (9.44%) ServiceNow
4 13 (4.55%) Oracle
5 12 (4.20%) Splunk
6 9 (3.15%) Cisco
7 8 (2.80%) Remedy
8 7 (2.45%) Teradata
9 6 (2.10%) BeyondTrust
9 6 (2.10%) CrowdStrike
9 6 (2.10%) HP
9 6 (2.10%) VMware
10 5 (1.75%) Databricks
10 5 (1.75%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.75%) F5
10 5 (1.75%) IBM
10 5 (1.75%) SolarWinds
11 4 (1.40%) Atlassian
11 4 (1.40%) Google
11 4 (1.40%) McAfee