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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -12 +6 +8
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 286 256 202
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 7.30% 11.91% 8.48%
As % of the General category 14.36% 19.22% 15.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 163 111
10th Percentile £295 £306 £294
25th Percentile £367 £364 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year - -2.70% -4.84%
75th Percentile £550 £537 £538
90th Percentile £638 £650 £585
England median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 17 8
10th Percentile £24.08 £23.81 £15.92
25th Percentile £25.49 £27.80 £23.67
Median hourly rate £45.50 £29.60 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.72% -33.48% +10.04%
75th Percentile £77.50 £35.50 £57.38
90th Percentile £178.75 £63.40 £75.15
England median hourly rate £32.50 £32.41 £22.00
% change year-on-year +0.29% +47.30% -51.11%

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 1,991 1,332 1,317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 50.82% 61.95% 55.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,128 849 756
10th Percentile £240 £270 £276
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.01% -9.10% -
75th Percentile £589 £555 £586
90th Percentile £677 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 111 78
10th Percentile £14.68 £12.82 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.88 £14.35 £18.01
Median hourly rate £35.50 £22.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.87% -35.34% +55.35%
75th Percentile £63.92 £48.56 £44.69
90th Percentile £81.95 £70.00 £54.00
England median hourly rate £31.13 £25.15 £38.50
% change year-on-year +23.77% -34.68% +40.00%

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 September 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 14 September 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 14 September 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 £435 -4.13% 471
Cheshire -6 90 £468 +4.75% 109
Lancashire -15 22 £534 +18.67% 84
Cumbria -13 17 £458 +1.67% 16
Merseyside -4 14 £458 -29.62% 62
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 (4.90%) Confluence
2 6 (2.10%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.40%) 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%) Mule
4 1 (0.35%) Mule ESB
4 1 (0.35%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.35%) WebLogic
Applications
1 26 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (8.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (3.85%) MS Visio
4 9 (3.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (3.85%) Remedy ITSM
2 7 (2.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.40%) SAP ERP
4 3 (1.05%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.70%) Primavera
5 2 (0.70%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.70%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.35%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.35%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.35%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.35%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.35%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.35%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 46 (16.08%) Azure
2 30 (10.49%) Power Platform
3 29 (10.14%) AWS
3 29 (10.14%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (3.50%) Entra ID
5 8 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (2.45%) GCP
6 7 (2.45%) SaaS
7 5 (1.75%) GitHub
7 5 (1.75%) IBM Blueworks
8 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Copilot
8 4 (1.40%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.05%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (1.05%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.05%) OCI
9 3 (1.05%) Snowflake
10 2 (0.70%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (0.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (0.70%) Intacct
10 2 (0.70%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.64%) Firewall
2 17 (5.94%) VPN
3 14 (4.90%) WAN
4 11 (3.85%) Network Security
5 10 (3.50%) LAN
6 9 (3.15%) DNS
7 7 (2.45%) BGP
7 7 (2.45%) SD-WAN
8 5 (1.75%) Cisco Nexus
8 5 (1.75%) SNMP
8 5 (1.75%) VLAN
8 5 (1.75%) Wireless
9 4 (1.40%) OSPF
9 4 (1.40%) TCP/IP
10 3 (1.05%) DHCP
10 3 (1.05%) DMZ
10 3 (1.05%) MPLS
10 3 (1.05%) SAN
10 3 (1.05%) VoIP
10 3 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.09%) Power BI
2 16 (5.59%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (4.20%) SQL Server
4 9 (3.15%) Metadata
5 8 (2.80%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.80%) Tableau
6 6 (2.10%) DataStage
6 6 (2.10%) Db2
7 5 (1.75%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.05%) Power Query
9 2 (0.70%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.70%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.70%) EDRMS
9 2 (0.70%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.70%) MySQL
9 2 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.70%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.35%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.35%) SAP BW
10 1 (0.35%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (7.69%) JIRA
2 8 (2.80%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.45%) Git
4 6 (2.10%) GitLab
5 4 (1.40%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.05%) Ranorex
6 3 (1.05%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (1.05%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.70%) Burp Suite
7 2 (0.70%) Gatling
7 2 (0.70%) Gradle
7 2 (0.70%) Hudson
7 2 (0.70%) JUnit
7 2 (0.70%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.70%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.35%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.35%) NUnit
8 1 (0.35%) Toad
General
1 151 (52.80%) Social Skills
2 86 (30.07%) Finance
3 36 (12.59%) Banking
4 25 (8.74%) Manufacturing
5 16 (5.59%) Legal
6 15 (5.24%) Public Sector
7 13 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (3.85%) Telecoms
9 9 (3.15%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (3.15%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (2.80%) Marketing
11 7 (2.45%) Law
11 7 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (2.10%) Automotive
13 4 (1.40%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.40%) Investment Banking
14 3 (1.05%) Billing
14 3 (1.05%) Local Government
14 3 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (1.05%) Retail
Job Titles
1 68 (23.78%) Analyst
2 22 (7.69%) Lead
3 19 (6.64%) Business Analyst
3 19 (6.64%) Developer
4 18 (6.29%) Consultant
5 15 (5.24%) Architect
6 14 (4.90%) Administrator
6 14 (4.90%) IT Support
6 14 (4.90%) Network Engineer
7 13 (4.55%) Senior
8 12 (4.20%) Data Analyst
9 10 (3.50%) Service Analyst
9 10 (3.50%) Support Analyst
9 10 (3.50%) Support Engineer
10 9 (3.15%) Security Engineer
11 8 (2.80%) IT Analyst
11 8 (2.80%) IT Engineer
11 8 (2.80%) Senior Manager
11 8 (2.80%) Technical Administrator
12 7 (2.45%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.15%) REST
1 9 (3.15%) Terraform
2 7 (2.45%) JSON
3 4 (1.40%) PySpark
3 4 (1.40%) RESTful
3 4 (1.40%) XML
4 3 (1.05%) Gherkin
4 3 (1.05%) HTML
4 3 (1.05%) Kafka
4 3 (1.05%) Node.js
4 3 (1.05%) OAuth
4 3 (1.05%) Playwright
4 3 (1.05%) SailPoint
4 3 (1.05%) Spring
4 3 (1.05%) Spring Boot
5 2 (0.70%) CSS
5 2 (0.70%) ODBC
5 2 (0.70%) PyTorch
5 2 (0.70%) Quarkus
5 2 (0.70%) React
Miscellaneous
1 25 (8.74%) Analytical Mindset
2 23 (8.04%) Onboarding
3 17 (5.94%) Management Information System
4 11 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (3.50%) Cyber Threat
6 9 (3.15%) Data Centre
6 9 (3.15%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (3.15%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.75%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.75%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.75%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.40%) Credit Risk
10 4 (1.40%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.40%) PKI
10 4 (1.40%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.05%) Client/Server
11 3 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 40 (13.99%) Windows
2 13 (4.55%) Linux
3 10 (3.50%) Unix
3 10 (3.50%) Windows 10
4 9 (3.15%) Mac OS
5 6 (2.10%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.75%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.70%) AIX
7 2 (0.70%) HPUX
7 2 (0.70%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.70%) Solaris
7 2 (0.70%) SUSE
8 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (53.50%) Problem-Solving
2 88 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
3 59 (20.63%) Continuous Improvement
4 46 (16.08%) Agile
5 45 (15.73%) ITIL
6 43 (15.03%) Change Management
7 41 (14.34%) Analytics
8 34 (11.89%) Decision-Making
8 34 (11.89%) Project Management
8 34 (11.89%) Validation
9 32 (11.19%) AI
10 31 (10.84%) Data Modelling
11 30 (10.49%) Migration
11 30 (10.49%) Roadmaps
12 29 (10.14%) CI/CD
12 29 (10.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 28 (9.79%) Workshop Facilitation
14 27 (9.44%) Data Analysis
15 26 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
15 26 (9.09%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 47 (16.43%) SQL
2 45 (15.73%) Python
3 21 (7.34%) PowerShell
4 9 (3.15%) Java
5 7 (2.45%) PL/SQL
5 7 (2.45%) Shell Script
6 6 (2.10%) Search Processing Language
7 5 (1.75%) Bash
7 5 (1.75%) C#
8 4 (1.40%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.40%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.70%) ABAP
11 1 (0.35%) Ada
11 1 (0.35%) Assembly Language
11 1 (0.35%) C
11 1 (0.35%) C++
11 1 (0.35%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.35%) Perl
Qualifications
1 40 (13.99%) Degree
1 40 (13.99%) Security Cleared
2 30 (10.49%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.64%) CISSP
4 13 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (4.20%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (3.50%) A+ Certification
6 10 (3.50%) AWS Certification
6 10 (3.50%) Network+ Certification
7 9 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (2.80%) CCNP
9 7 (2.45%) CompTIA Security+
10 6 (2.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 5 (1.75%) CCIE
11 5 (1.75%) CCNA
11 5 (1.75%) CISM
11 5 (1.75%) GCIH
12 4 (1.40%) ACCA
12 4 (1.40%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (12.59%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.24%) SLA
3 14 (4.90%) GRC
4 10 (3.50%) NIST
5 8 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.80%) QA
6 6 (2.10%) PCI DSS
6 6 (2.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (1.75%) GDPR
8 3 (1.05%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.05%) NCSC
8 3 (1.05%) PMO
9 2 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27005
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 30 (10.49%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.75%) Docker
3 5 (1.75%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.05%) Firmware
5 2 (0.70%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (5.59%) Ansible
2 8 (2.80%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.10%) Progress Chef
4 4 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.05%) CASB
5 3 (1.05%) McAfee ePO
5 3 (1.05%) SCCM
6 2 (0.70%) Data Guard
6 2 (0.70%) Grafana
6 2 (0.70%) Istio
6 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.70%) WMI
7 1 (0.35%) Nagios
7 1 (0.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 71 (24.83%) Microsoft
2 32 (11.19%) ServiceNow
3 25 (8.74%) SAP
4 22 (7.69%) Splunk
5 18 (6.29%) Oracle
6 11 (3.85%) Cisco
6 11 (3.85%) Remedy
7 9 (3.15%) Teradata
8 8 (2.80%) VMware
9 7 (2.45%) IBM
10 6 (2.10%) Atlassian
10 6 (2.10%) BeyondTrust
10 6 (2.10%) CrowdStrike
10 6 (2.10%) Databricks
10 6 (2.10%) F5
10 6 (2.10%) Google
11 5 (1.75%) Dynatrace
12 4 (1.40%) AlgoSec
12 4 (1.40%) CyberArk
12 4 (1.40%) Palo Alto