Analytical Thinking Contracts in the North West

Analytical Thinking
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Analytical Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Thinking over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 124 153
Rank change year-on-year +17 +29 +12
Contract jobs citing Analytical Thinking 13 13 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.66% 0.47% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.55% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 1
10th Percentile £202 £298 -
25th Percentile £393 £365 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £561 £475 £438
Median % change year-on-year +18.16% +8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £700 £519 £456
90th Percentile £741 £625 -
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £62.55 -
25th Percentile £81.75 £62.62 -
Median hourly rate £83.50 £64.21 -
Median % change year-on-year +30.04% - -
75th Percentile £85.25 £67.29 -
90th Percentile - £68.24 -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £24.65 £43.86
% change year-on-year +143.41% -43.80% +137.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Analytical Thinking falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Analytical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Thinking in the North West

Analytical Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Analytical Thinking in the North West

Analytical Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Thinking in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Thinking in the North West

Analytical Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Thinking in the North West

Analytical Thinking
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 Thinking within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Manchester +12 6 £404 -12.63% 34
Cheshire +3 5 £598 -17.51% 12
Lancashire - 2 £573 - 10
Analytical Thinking
England

Analytical Thinking
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 1 (7.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (7.69%) Apache
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
1 1 (7.69%) CMS
1 1 (7.69%) JBoss
1 1 (7.69%) Tomcat
1 1 (7.69%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (15.38%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (7.69%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) dbt
2 1 (7.69%) GitHub
2 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (7.69%) Big Data
1 1 (7.69%) Data Mining
1 1 (7.69%) Data Vault
1 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
1 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
1 1 (7.69%) MySQL
1 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.69%) Power BI
1 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Hudson
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
1 1 (7.69%) Zephyr
General
1 13 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (76.92%) Social Skills
3 5 (38.46%) Finance
4 3 (23.08%) Banking
5 2 (15.38%) Marketing
6 1 (7.69%) Billing
6 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
6 1 (7.69%) Investment Banking
6 1 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Architect
2 5 (38.46%) Analyst
3 4 (30.77%) Business Analyst
3 4 (30.77%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Programme Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Applications Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Data Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Payments Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Payments Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Software Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Middleware
2 1 (7.69%) .NET
2 1 (7.69%) Ajax
2 1 (7.69%) CSS
2 1 (7.69%) Hibernate
2 1 (7.69%) HTML
2 1 (7.69%) HTML5
2 1 (7.69%) JAX-WS
2 1 (7.69%) JMS
2 1 (7.69%) jQuery
2 1 (7.69%) JSP
2 1 (7.69%) REST
2 1 (7.69%) RESTful
2 1 (7.69%) SailPoint
2 1 (7.69%) Servlets
2 1 (7.69%) SOAP
2 1 (7.69%) Spring
2 1 (7.69%) Spring MVC
2 1 (7.69%) Struts
2 1 (7.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
1 2 (15.38%) Replication
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (7.69%) Life Science
2 1 (7.69%) LIMS
2 1 (7.69%) Mainframe
2 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) Private Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
2 1 (7.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) HPUX
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
1 2 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (15.38%) Solaris
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Agile
2 7 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (30.77%) Enterprise Architecture
3 4 (30.77%) SDLC
3 4 (30.77%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (23.08%) Architectural Design
4 3 (23.08%) Benchmarking
4 3 (23.08%) DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) Project Management
4 3 (23.08%) Waterfall
5 2 (15.38%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 2 (15.38%) Business Case
5 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
5 2 (15.38%) Critical Thinking
5 2 (15.38%) Data Collection
5 2 (15.38%) DevSecOps
5 2 (15.38%) Microservices
5 2 (15.38%) Performance Metrics
5 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Java
1 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
1 1 (7.69%) Python
1 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.69%) ISTQB
2 1 (7.69%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
1 2 (15.38%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.69%) GxP
2 1 (7.69%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) HP ALM
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) IBM
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Sun
3 1 (7.69%) Adobe
3 1 (7.69%) HP
3 1 (7.69%) Ping Identity
3 1 (7.69%) Unisys