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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 9 21
Rank change year-on-year -10 +12 +5
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 288 256 190
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 7.85% 11.90% 7.04%
As % of the General category 14.79% 20.22% 12.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 164 114
10th Percentile £296 £313 £375
25th Percentile £394 £384 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £472 £497
Median % change year-on-year -4.87% -4.93% +2.37%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £551
90th Percentile £600 £702 £613
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 12 21
10th Percentile £24.06 £20.50 £11.77
25th Percentile £25.49 £33.08 £13.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £45.10 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -11.31% +154.51% -49.37%
75th Percentile £78.94 £63.40 £43.75
90th Percentile £178.75 £71.59 £62.50
England median hourly rate £36.00 £34.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +5.90% +69.98% -47.02%

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 1,947 1,266 1,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 53.10% 58.83% 54.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,105 809 881
10th Percentile £275 £274 £283
25th Percentile £394 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £455 £493
Median % change year-on-year +5.05% -7.71% -1.40%
75th Percentile £583 £575 £576
90th Percentile £650 £675 £663
England median daily rate £525 £513 £530
% change year-on-year +2.44% -3.30% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 113 184
10th Percentile £17.06 £12.86 £13.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £14.90 £16.05
Median hourly rate £36.00 £28.75 £23.48
Median % change year-on-year +25.22% +22.47% +4.19%
75th Percentile £70.94 £50.00 £43.10
90th Percentile £85.00 £72.03 £51.91
England median hourly rate £34.00 £26.48 £33.75
% change year-on-year +28.42% -21.56% +10.51%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -15 149 £440 -7.37% 107
Cheshire -6 90 £461 -2.41% 41
Cumbria +5 17 £467 +2.69% 6
Lancashire -12 17 £519 +15.37% 45
Merseyside -8 16 £365 -18.66% 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 18 (6.25%) Confluence
2 5 (1.74%) SAS
3 4 (1.39%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
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 24 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 24 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (4.51%) MS Visio
3 9 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (2.78%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (1.74%) Primavera
4 4 (1.39%) SAP MM
5 3 (1.04%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (1.04%) SAP ERP
5 3 (1.04%) SAP HCM
5 3 (1.04%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.69%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.35%) FIS Private Capital Suite
7 1 (0.35%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.35%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 43 (14.93%) Azure
2 31 (10.76%) Power Platform
3 24 (8.33%) AWS
3 24 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (2.78%) GCP
5 7 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (2.43%) Entra ID
6 6 (2.08%) Microsoft Copilot
6 6 (2.08%) SaaS
7 5 (1.74%) Akamai
8 4 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (1.39%) GitHub
9 3 (1.04%) Azure AKS
9 3 (1.04%) OneDrive
9 3 (1.04%) Snowflake
10 2 (0.69%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (0.69%) Copilot Studio
10 2 (0.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (0.69%) Nutanix
10 2 (0.69%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.17%) Firewall
2 11 (3.82%) DNS
3 8 (2.78%) TCP/IP
4 6 (2.08%) BGP
4 6 (2.08%) VPN
4 6 (2.08%) WAN
5 5 (1.74%) HTTP
5 5 (1.74%) LAN
6 4 (1.39%) Cisco Nexus
6 4 (1.39%) SAN
7 3 (1.04%) Network Security
7 3 (1.04%) OSPF
7 3 (1.04%) VLAN
7 3 (1.04%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.69%) DHCP
8 2 (0.69%) MPLS
8 2 (0.69%) NetScaler
8 2 (0.69%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.69%) SSL
8 2 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (9.72%) Power BI
2 17 (5.90%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (4.86%) SQL Server
4 10 (3.47%) Metadata
4 10 (3.47%) Tableau
5 7 (2.43%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.74%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.39%) DataStage
7 4 (1.39%) Db2
8 3 (1.04%) Data Mining
8 3 (1.04%) Power Query
8 3 (1.04%) SAP HANA
8 3 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.69%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (0.69%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.69%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.69%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.69%) MySQL
10 1 (0.35%) SAP BW
10 1 (0.35%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 28 (9.72%) JIRA
2 5 (1.74%) JUnit
3 4 (1.39%) Cucumber
3 4 (1.39%) Git
3 4 (1.39%) GitLab
4 3 (1.04%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.04%) Mockito
4 3 (1.04%) Postman
4 3 (1.04%) Ranorex
4 3 (1.04%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.69%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.69%) Gatling
5 2 (0.69%) Gradle
5 2 (0.69%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.69%) REST Assured
5 2 (0.69%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.35%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.35%) Hudson
6 1 (0.35%) ScriptRunner
General
1 139 (48.26%) Social Skills
2 102 (35.42%) Finance
3 33 (11.46%) Banking
4 23 (7.99%) Manufacturing
5 22 (7.64%) Public Sector
6 17 (5.90%) Influencing Skills
6 17 (5.90%) Legal
7 13 (4.51%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (3.82%) Telecoms
9 9 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (2.78%) Marketing
10 8 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (2.08%) Automotive
11 6 (2.08%) Local Government
12 5 (1.74%) Law
13 3 (1.04%) Investment Banking
13 3 (1.04%) Publishing
13 3 (1.04%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.69%) Billing
14 2 (0.69%) Environmental Health
Job Titles
1 74 (25.69%) Analyst
2 26 (9.03%) Lead
3 25 (8.68%) Business Analyst
4 22 (7.64%) Senior
5 18 (6.25%) Developer
6 16 (5.56%) Project Manager
7 13 (4.51%) Administrator
7 13 (4.51%) Architect
7 13 (4.51%) Data Analyst
8 12 (4.17%) Consultant
9 11 (3.82%) Security Engineer
10 10 (3.47%) Finance Manager
10 10 (3.47%) Product Manager
11 9 (3.13%) Finance Project Manager
11 9 (3.13%) IT Support
11 9 (3.13%) Network Engineer
11 9 (3.13%) Support Analyst
12 8 (2.78%) IT Analyst
13 7 (2.43%) Senior Manager
13 7 (2.43%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.17%) REST
2 8 (2.78%) JSON
3 7 (2.43%) XML
4 6 (2.08%) RESTful
4 6 (2.08%) Swagger
5 5 (1.74%) SOAP
6 4 (1.39%) PySpark
7 3 (1.04%) CSS
7 3 (1.04%) Gherkin
7 3 (1.04%) HTML
7 3 (1.04%) Lightning Web Components
7 3 (1.04%) Middleware
7 3 (1.04%) Node.js
7 3 (1.04%) OpenAPI
7 3 (1.04%) Playwright
7 3 (1.04%) SailPoint
7 3 (1.04%) Visualforce
7 3 (1.04%) YAML
8 2 (0.69%) LDAP
8 2 (0.69%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 29 (10.07%) Analytical Mindset
2 18 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 17 (5.90%) Onboarding
4 14 (4.86%) Product Ownership
5 12 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (3.13%) Cyber Threat
6 9 (3.13%) Data Centre
7 7 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.74%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 5 (1.74%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.39%) Credit Risk
10 4 (1.39%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.39%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.39%) PKI
10 4 (1.39%) Replication
10 4 (1.39%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.04%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.04%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 30 (10.42%) Windows
2 10 (3.47%) Windows 10
3 9 (3.13%) Linux
4 7 (2.43%) Unix
5 6 (2.08%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.74%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.74%) Windows Server
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
7 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (56.60%) Problem-Solving
2 72 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 56 (19.44%) Agile
4 50 (17.36%) Continuous Improvement
5 44 (15.28%) Project Management
6 43 (14.93%) Change Management
7 40 (13.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 38 (13.19%) Migration
9 37 (12.85%) Decision-Making
9 37 (12.85%) ITIL
9 37 (12.85%) Workshop Facilitation
10 36 (12.50%) Analytics
11 35 (12.15%) Validation
12 30 (10.42%) Data Modelling
12 30 (10.42%) ERP
13 28 (9.72%) Data Analysis
13 28 (9.72%) Roadmaps
14 27 (9.38%) Business Intelligence
15 26 (9.03%) CI/CD
16 23 (7.99%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 44 (15.28%) SQL
2 37 (12.85%) Python
3 19 (6.60%) PowerShell
4 8 (2.78%) Java
5 5 (1.74%) PL/SQL
5 5 (1.74%) Shell Script
6 4 (1.39%) C#
6 4 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (1.39%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.04%) ABAP
7 3 (1.04%) Apex Code
7 3 (1.04%) VBA
8 2 (0.69%) Bash
8 2 (0.69%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.69%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.35%) Bicep
9 1 (0.35%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.35%) R
9 1 (0.35%) SOQL
9 1 (0.35%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 43 (14.93%) Degree
2 38 (13.19%) Security Cleared
3 31 (10.76%) SC Cleared
4 14 (4.86%) CISSP
4 14 (4.86%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (4.51%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (3.82%) A+ Certification
6 11 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (3.82%) Network+ Certification
7 9 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (2.43%) AWS Certification
8 7 (2.43%) CompTIA Security+
9 6 (2.08%) CCNA
9 6 (2.08%) CISM
10 4 (1.39%) CCNP
10 4 (1.39%) CEH
10 4 (1.39%) MCSE
11 3 (1.04%) CIMA
11 3 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.04%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.82%) GRC
3 9 (3.13%) QA
3 9 (3.13%) SLA
4 7 (2.43%) NIST
5 5 (1.74%) GDPR
5 5 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.39%) PMO
7 3 (1.04%) NCSC
7 3 (1.04%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.04%) PSD2
7 3 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.69%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.69%) 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 22 (7.64%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.74%) Docker
2 5 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.04%) Firmware
3 3 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.04%) vSphere
4 2 (0.69%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (0.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (3.47%) Ansible
2 7 (2.43%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.08%) Terraform
4 5 (1.74%) SCCM
5 4 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.04%) McAfee ePO
7 2 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.69%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.69%) Grafana
7 2 (0.69%) Istio
7 2 (0.69%) WMI
8 1 (0.35%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.35%) Nagios
Vendors
1 60 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 36 (12.50%) SAP
3 27 (9.38%) ServiceNow
4 14 (4.86%) Oracle
5 12 (4.17%) Splunk
6 9 (3.13%) Cisco
7 8 (2.78%) Remedy
7 8 (2.78%) Teradata
8 6 (2.08%) BeyondTrust
8 6 (2.08%) CrowdStrike
8 6 (2.08%) Databricks
8 6 (2.08%) VMware
9 5 (1.74%) Atlassian
9 5 (1.74%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.74%) F5
9 5 (1.74%) HP
9 5 (1.74%) IBM
9 5 (1.74%) SolarWinds
10 4 (1.39%) Dell
10 4 (1.39%) Juniper