Analytical Skills Contracts 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 advertised in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 24 32
Rank change year-on-year +1 +8 -6
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 172 203 271
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 6.38% 6.43% 6.72%
As % of the General category 11.87% 12.39% 13.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 132 161
10th Percentile £325 £288 £200
25th Percentile £397 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £439 £463
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.14% +2.78%
75th Percentile £550 £528 £513
90th Percentile £613 £650 £625
England median daily rate £538 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +2.38% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 10 42
10th Percentile £11.77 £23.15 £14.25
25th Percentile £13.50 £29.75 £16.48
Median hourly rate £17.72 £35.00 £24.75
Median % change year-on-year -49.37% +41.41% -34.00%
75th Percentile £43.75 £52.77 £48.70
90th Percentile £54.00 £57.36 £51.72
England median hourly rate £18.35 £40.00 £38.16
% change year-on-year -54.13% +4.84% +82.56%

All General Skills
North West

Analytical Skills is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,449 1,639 2,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 53.71% 51.93% 49.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 889 1,134 1,410
10th Percentile £300 £305 £225
25th Percentile £400 £405 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.34%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 80 116
10th Percentile £12.50 £16.17 £11.21
25th Percentile £14.50 £19.14 £15.00
Median hourly rate £17.72 £27.35 £20.07
Median % change year-on-year -35.21% +36.31% -10.82%
75th Percentile £36.95 £38.75 £44.03
90th Percentile £51.91 £53.02 £54.41
England median hourly rate £30.16 £32.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -7.20% +51.16% -4.44%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Analytical Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in the North West

Analytical Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Analytical Skills in the North West

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 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the North West

Analytical Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Skills in the North West

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 May 2024. 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 +9 86 £464 +9.12% 215
Cheshire -5 46 £400 -10.11% 71
Cumbria -2 28 £493 +1.44% 12
Lancashire -4 6 - - 32
Merseyside +6 3 - - 30
Analytical Skills
England

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (2.91%) Confluence
2 2 (1.16%) Apache
2 2 (1.16%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.16%) IBM Notes
2 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.16%) Mule
2 2 (1.16%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.58%) CMS
3 1 (0.58%) IIS
3 1 (0.58%) JBoss
3 1 (0.58%) nginx
3 1 (0.58%) SharePoint
Applications
1 24 (13.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (13.37%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (7.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (7.56%) Microsoft Project
4 11 (6.40%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.58%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.58%) SAP EWM
1 1 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.58%) SAP SD
1 1 (0.58%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 23 (13.37%) Power Platform
2 22 (12.79%) AWS
3 21 (12.21%) Azure
4 16 (9.30%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (4.65%) OneDrive
6 7 (4.07%) GCP
7 5 (2.91%) SaaS
8 3 (1.74%) Google Analytics
8 3 (1.74%) Google Tag Manager
8 3 (1.74%) IaaS
8 3 (1.74%) PaaS
8 3 (1.74%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.16%) Serverless
10 1 (0.58%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.58%) BrowserStack
10 1 (0.58%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.58%) GitHub
10 1 (0.58%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.65%) TCP/IP
2 7 (4.07%) VPN
3 6 (3.49%) BGP
3 6 (3.49%) OSPF
4 4 (2.33%) MPLS
4 4 (2.33%) Value-Added Service
4 4 (2.33%) VLAN
4 4 (2.33%) Wireshark
5 3 (1.74%) DSL
5 3 (1.74%) Firewall
5 3 (1.74%) Skype
6 2 (1.16%) 2G
6 2 (1.16%) 3G
6 2 (1.16%) 4G
6 2 (1.16%) 5G
6 2 (1.16%) DNS
7 1 (0.58%) DHCP
7 1 (0.58%) HTTP
7 1 (0.58%) MQTT
7 1 (0.58%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (12.21%) Power BI
2 10 (5.81%) Tableau
3 9 (5.23%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (5.23%) Relational Database
4 6 (3.49%) Data Lake
5 4 (2.33%) RDBMS
5 4 (2.33%) Snowflake Schema
6 3 (1.74%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.16%) Big Data
7 2 (1.16%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.16%) Metadata
8 1 (0.58%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.58%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.58%) MySQL
8 1 (0.58%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.58%) Power Query
8 1 (0.58%) Presto
8 1 (0.58%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 14 (8.14%) JIRA
2 5 (2.91%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.74%) Burp Suite
4 2 (1.16%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.16%) Git
4 2 (1.16%) Liquibase
4 2 (1.16%) Log4j
4 2 (1.16%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.58%) GoCD
5 1 (0.58%) Pa11y
5 1 (0.58%) PyCharm
5 1 (0.58%) TestCafe
General
1 102 (59.30%) Social Skills
2 35 (20.35%) Finance
3 25 (14.53%) Public Sector
4 11 (6.40%) Banking
5 8 (4.65%) Legal
6 7 (4.07%) Manufacturing
7 6 (3.49%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (3.49%) Pharmaceutical
7 6 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.91%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.33%) Police
10 3 (1.74%) Local Government
10 3 (1.74%) Marketing
10 3 (1.74%) Retail Banking
11 2 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.16%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.58%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.58%) Digital Healthcare
12 1 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 38 (22.09%) Analyst
2 17 (9.88%) Business Analyst
2 17 (9.88%) Senior
3 14 (8.14%) Architect
3 14 (8.14%) Capacity Manager
4 12 (6.98%) Availability Manager
4 12 (6.98%) Capacity and Availability Manager
4 12 (6.98%) Data Analyst
5 11 (6.40%) Support Engineer
6 10 (5.81%) Developer
7 7 (4.07%) IT Engineer
8 6 (3.49%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 6 (3.49%) Administrator
8 6 (3.49%) Data Architect
8 6 (3.49%) Software Asset Manager
8 6 (3.49%) Software Manager
8 6 (3.49%) Systems Administrator
8 6 (3.49%) Test Engineer
9 5 (2.91%) 2nd Line Support
9 5 (2.91%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.74%) Middleware
1 3 (1.74%) Node.js
1 3 (1.74%) React
1 3 (1.74%) React Native
1 3 (1.74%) REST
2 2 (1.16%) Hibernate
2 2 (1.16%) Jest
2 2 (1.16%) Kafka
2 2 (1.16%) PySpark
2 2 (1.16%) Spring
2 2 (1.16%) Web Services
3 1 (0.58%) AWS CDK
3 1 (0.58%) Express.js
3 1 (0.58%) GraphQL
3 1 (0.58%) HTML
3 1 (0.58%) HTML5
3 1 (0.58%) IBM Integration Bus
3 1 (0.58%) koa
3 1 (0.58%) Sass
3 1 (0.58%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 34 (19.77%) Management Information System
2 13 (7.56%) CMDB
3 11 (6.40%) Virtual Team
4 10 (5.81%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (3.49%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (2.91%) Life Science
7 3 (1.74%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.74%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (1.74%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.74%) Derivative
7 3 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.74%) NHS
7 3 (1.74%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.16%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.16%) SCADA
8 2 (1.16%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (1.16%) Tandem
8 2 (1.16%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (10.47%) Windows
2 11 (6.40%) Linux
2 11 (6.40%) Windows 10
3 6 (3.49%) Apple iOS
3 6 (3.49%) Mac OS
3 6 (3.49%) Unix
4 3 (1.74%) Kali Linux
4 3 (1.74%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.58%) Windows 8
6 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.58%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (60.47%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (18.60%) Agile
3 31 (18.02%) Mentoring
3 31 (18.02%) Service Management
4 27 (15.70%) Statistics
5 24 (13.95%) Quality Management
6 23 (13.37%) Project Management
7 22 (12.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (11.63%) Business Intelligence
8 20 (11.63%) Time Management
9 19 (11.05%) Analytics
10 18 (10.47%) Capacity Management
10 18 (10.47%) Problem Management
11 17 (9.88%) Availability Management
12 14 (8.14%) Process Improvement
13 13 (7.56%) Asset Management
13 13 (7.56%) Customer Service
14 12 (6.98%) Change Management
14 12 (6.98%) Customer Experience
14 12 (6.98%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 24 (13.95%) SQL
2 11 (6.40%) Python
3 6 (3.49%) Java
4 4 (2.33%) PowerShell
4 4 (2.33%) TypeScript
5 3 (1.74%) Ruby
6 2 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.16%) R
7 1 (0.58%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.58%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (19.77%) Security Cleared
2 27 (15.70%) SC Cleared
3 26 (15.12%) Degree
4 7 (4.07%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (2.91%) CCNP
5 5 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.91%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.33%) CCIE
6 4 (2.33%) VCAP
7 3 (1.74%) CCNA
7 3 (1.74%) OSCP
7 3 (1.74%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.74%) PMP
8 2 (1.16%) ACCA
8 2 (1.16%) CIMA
8 2 (1.16%) CIPFA
8 2 (1.16%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.16%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.56%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.40%) QA
3 9 (5.23%) SLA
4 8 (4.65%) GDPR
5 6 (3.49%) GxP
6 5 (2.91%) GAMP
7 4 (2.33%) Accessibility
7 4 (2.33%) PMO
8 3 (1.74%) PCI DSS
9 2 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (1.16%) COREP
10 1 (0.58%) FINREP
10 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (5.81%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.58%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 8 (4.65%) Microsoft Intune
1 8 (4.65%) SCCM
2 6 (3.49%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 4 (2.33%) Ansible
3 4 (2.33%) Terraform
4 3 (1.74%) CFEngine
4 3 (1.74%) PowerBroker
4 3 (1.74%) Progress Chef
4 3 (1.74%) Puppet
5 1 (0.58%) Grafana
5 1 (0.58%) Kibana
5 1 (0.58%) Nagios
5 1 (0.58%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 39 (22.67%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.40%) ServiceNow
3 9 (5.23%) SAP
4 7 (4.07%) SolarWinds
5 6 (3.49%) Apple
5 6 (3.49%) Google
6 5 (2.91%) Pega
7 4 (2.33%) LogicMonitor
7 4 (2.33%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.33%) VMware
8 3 (1.74%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.74%) Databricks
9 2 (1.16%) Cognizant
9 2 (1.16%) Lotus
9 2 (1.16%) Oracle
9 2 (1.16%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.16%) Splunk
9 2 (1.16%) Symantec
10 1 (0.58%) Ariba
10 1 (0.58%) BMC