Analytical Thinking Contract Job Trends in the North West

Analytical Thinking
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Analytical Thinking skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 115 133
Rank change year-on-year -8 +18 +48
Contract jobs citing Analytical Thinking 12 5 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.55% 0.21% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.25% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 5
10th Percentile £360 £342 £505
25th Percentile £401 £387 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £474 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.84% -11.81% +7.50%
75th Percentile £715 £560 £556
90th Percentile £764 £605 £568
England median daily rate £500 £500 £531
% change year-on-year - -5.88% +1.19%

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 1,947 1,976 2,471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.82% 83.38% 88.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,284 1,148 1,662
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £595
90th Percentile £675 £677 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 107 163
10th Percentile £13.51 £16.40 £15.80
25th Percentile £17.34 £27.38 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.84% +21.43% +57.30%
75th Percentile £51.63 £57.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £71.45 £70.90 £66.60
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.79
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.81% +51.01%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Analytical Thinking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Analytical Thinking

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 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Thinking in the North West

Analytical Thinking
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Analytical Thinking.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Analytical Thinking

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 17 September 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 +2 6 £434 -8.54% 15
Cheshire - 6 £542 - 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 2 (16.67%) JBoss
1 2 (16.67%) Tomcat
1 2 (16.67%) WebSphere
1 2 (16.67%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (8.33%) Mule
2 1 (8.33%) Mule ESB
2 1 (8.33%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) GCP
3 2 (16.67%) IBM Cloud
3 2 (16.67%) npm
3 2 (16.67%) OpenShift
4 1 (8.33%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Calico
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) Internet
2 1 (8.33%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (8.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Big Data
1 1 (8.33%) Data Mining
1 1 (8.33%) Data Vault
1 1 (8.33%) Hadoop
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Git
1 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (25.00%) Maven
2 2 (16.67%) GitLab
2 2 (16.67%) JUnit
3 1 (8.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (8.33%) Gradle
3 1 (8.33%) JIRA
3 1 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 7 (58.33%) Finance
4 6 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Architect
1 3 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Banking Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Banking Business Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Spring
1 2 (16.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (8.33%) J2EE
2 1 (8.33%) JSON
2 1 (8.33%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) Middleware
2 1 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) RESTful
2 1 (8.33%) SOAP
2 1 (8.33%) Web Services
2 1 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 2 (16.67%) Replication
1 2 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (8.33%) CMDB
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Mainframe
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) Android
2 2 (16.67%) Apple iOS
2 2 (16.67%) HPUX
2 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (16.67%) Solaris
2 2 (16.67%) Windows
3 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (58.33%) Agile
3 6 (50.00%) DevOps
4 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
5 4 (33.33%) Mentoring
5 4 (33.33%) Systems Thinking
6 3 (25.00%) Change Management
6 3 (25.00%) Decision-Making
6 3 (25.00%) Microservices
6 3 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (16.67%) Business Case
7 2 (16.67%) DevSecOps
7 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (16.67%) Feasibility Study
7 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
7 2 (16.67%) Traceability Matrix
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Python
1 3 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (8.33%) PL/SQL
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (8.33%) CCNA CyberOps
3 1 (8.33%) CCSA
3 1 (8.33%) CCSE
3 1 (8.33%) Check Point Certification
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (8.33%) CISSP
3 1 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (8.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (16.67%) Istio
2 2 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) IBM
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) AppDynamics
3 1 (8.33%) CheckPoint
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco
3 1 (8.33%) Dynatrace
3 1 (8.33%) MuleSoft
3 1 (8.33%) Palo Alto
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (8.33%) Splunk
3 1 (8.33%) Unisys
3 1 (8.33%) Zscaler