Analytical Skills Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Analytical Skills
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies in Cheshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 5 10
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 +2
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 92 112 62
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 11.07% 17.67% 12.45%
As % of the General category 18.70% 25.51% 18.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 87 39
10th Percentile £246 £313 £325
25th Percentile £378 £358 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £447 £533
Median % change year-on-year +3.47% -16.14% +0.33%
75th Percentile £538 £539 £575
90th Percentile £604 £671 £596
North West median daily rate £450 £450 £488
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +0.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £43.14 £35.18 -
25th Percentile £56.12 £42.94 -
Median hourly rate £80.50 £57.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +39.39% - -
75th Percentile £84.63 £72.44 -
90th Percentile £85.45 £80.13 -
North West median hourly rate £40.00 £33.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year +19.40% -24.72% -3.01%

All General Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 492 439 335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 59.21% 69.24% 67.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 312 222
10th Percentile £297 £310 £319
25th Percentile £402 £360 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £447 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.28% -10.60% -6.98%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £576
90th Percentile £626 £650 £686
North West median daily rate £500 £460 £500
% change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 24 9
10th Percentile £16.01 - £14.54
25th Percentile £24.00 £12.82 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.82 £31.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.62% -10.71% +14.60%
75th Percentile £83.75 £37.19 -
90th Percentile £86.00 £62.08 -
North West median hourly rate £35.00 £28.43 £35.00
% change year-on-year +23.11% -18.77% +39.86%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Analytical Skills relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Analytical Skills job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Analytical Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in Cheshire over the 6 months to 29 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in Cheshire

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Analytical Skills.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Skills in Cheshire over the 6 months to 29 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in Cheshire

Analytical Skills
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 29 August 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
Knutsford -3 33 £444 +1.78% 14
Chester -3 24 £550 -21.43% 25
Warrington +4 23 £463 -2.63% 9
Crewe -9 4 £525 +28.05% 4
Macclesfield -2 3 £500 +6.38% 4
Analytical Skills
North West

Analytical Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 6 (6.52%) Confluence
2 3 (3.26%) SAS
3 1 (1.09%) JBoss
3 1 (1.09%) Mule
3 1 (1.09%) Mule ESB
3 1 (1.09%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.09%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (9.78%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (6.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (5.43%) MS Visio
4 4 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (1.09%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (9.78%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (3.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (2.17%) SAP HCM
3 2 (2.17%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 17 (18.48%) Azure
2 14 (15.22%) AWS
3 9 (9.78%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (6.52%) Entra ID
4 6 (6.52%) Power Platform
5 4 (4.35%) SaaS
6 3 (3.26%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (2.17%) GCP
7 2 (2.17%) IBM Blueworks
8 1 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.09%) IBM Watson
8 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.09%) Miro
8 1 (1.09%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.78%) Firewall
1 9 (9.78%) WAN
2 8 (8.70%) VPN
3 6 (6.52%) Network Security
4 5 (5.43%) LAN
5 4 (4.35%) BGP
5 4 (4.35%) DNS
5 4 (4.35%) SD-WAN
5 4 (4.35%) SNMP
5 4 (4.35%) Wireless
6 3 (3.26%) BIG-IP
6 3 (3.26%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (3.26%) DMZ
6 3 (3.26%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 3 (3.26%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 3 (3.26%) SAN
6 3 (3.26%) Wireshark
7 2 (2.17%) MPLS
7 2 (2.17%) OSPF
7 2 (2.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.35%) Metadata
1 4 (4.35%) Power BI
2 3 (3.26%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.26%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.26%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.17%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.17%) SAP HANA
4 1 (1.09%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.09%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 5 (5.43%) GitLab
1 5 (5.43%) Jenkins
1 5 (5.43%) JIRA
2 2 (2.17%) Git
3 1 (1.09%) Claude Code
3 1 (1.09%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.09%) Eclipse
3 1 (1.09%) Hudson
3 1 (1.09%) JUnit
3 1 (1.09%) Maven
3 1 (1.09%) SonarQube
General
1 54 (58.70%) Social Skills
2 28 (30.43%) Finance
3 18 (19.57%) Banking
4 6 (6.52%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (4.35%) Legal
5 4 (4.35%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.26%) Automotive
6 3 (3.26%) Marketing
6 3 (3.26%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.17%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.17%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.09%) Aviation
8 1 (1.09%) Billing
8 1 (1.09%) Law
8 1 (1.09%) Military
8 1 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.09%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.09%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 27 (29.35%) Analyst
2 9 (9.78%) Network Engineer
3 8 (8.70%) Service Analyst
4 6 (6.52%) Consultant
4 6 (6.52%) Lead
5 5 (5.43%) Business Analyst
5 5 (5.43%) Security Engineer
5 5 (5.43%) Service Desk Analyst
6 4 (4.35%) Data Analyst
6 4 (4.35%) Developer
6 4 (4.35%) Service Management Analyst
6 4 (4.35%) Splunk Engineer
6 4 (4.35%) Support Engineer
7 3 (3.26%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (3.26%) Data Insight Analyst
7 3 (3.26%) Insight Data Analyst
7 3 (3.26%) IT Engineer
7 3 (3.26%) LAN Specialist
7 3 (3.26%) SIEM Engineer
7 3 (3.26%) WAN Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.43%) JSON
1 5 (5.43%) REST
2 4 (4.35%) XML
3 2 (2.17%) OAuth
3 2 (2.17%) SailPoint
3 2 (2.17%) Terraform
4 1 (1.09%) HTML
4 1 (1.09%) Jakarta EE
4 1 (1.09%) JPA
4 1 (1.09%) Kafka
4 1 (1.09%) Middleware
4 1 (1.09%) RESTful
4 1 (1.09%) Spring
4 1 (1.09%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.09%) Spring MVC
4 1 (1.09%) Spring Security
4 1 (1.09%) Web Services
4 1 (1.09%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.13%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (6.52%) Data Centre
2 6 (6.52%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (6.52%) Management Information System
3 5 (5.43%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.35%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.26%) Credit Risk
5 3 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.26%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.17%) Client/Server
6 2 (2.17%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.17%) Operational Technology
6 2 (2.17%) PKI
6 2 (2.17%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.17%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.09%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 14 (15.22%) Windows
2 8 (8.70%) Linux
3 6 (6.52%) Mac OS
4 3 (3.26%) Apple iOS
4 3 (3.26%) Unix
5 2 (2.17%) AIX
5 2 (2.17%) HPUX
5 2 (2.17%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.17%) Solaris
5 2 (2.17%) SUSE
5 2 (2.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (59.78%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (31.52%) Continuous Improvement
3 27 (29.35%) Stakeholder Management
4 20 (21.74%) ITIL
5 17 (18.48%) Project Management
6 16 (17.39%) Analytics
7 15 (16.30%) CI/CD
7 15 (16.30%) ITSM
8 14 (15.22%) Change Management
8 14 (15.22%) Cybersecurity
8 14 (15.22%) Migration
9 12 (13.04%) Agile
9 12 (13.04%) Risk Management
10 11 (11.96%) AI
10 11 (11.96%) Customer Service
10 11 (11.96%) Incident Management
11 10 (10.87%) Incident Response
11 10 (10.87%) Project Delivery
11 10 (10.87%) Security Operations
11 10 (10.87%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 19 (20.65%) Python
2 16 (17.39%) SQL
3 14 (15.22%) PowerShell
4 5 (5.43%) Search Processing Language
5 4 (4.35%) Java
6 3 (3.26%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (2.17%) ABAP
7 2 (2.17%) Bash
8 1 (1.09%) Assembly Language
8 1 (1.09%) C#
8 1 (1.09%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.09%) Korn
8 1 (1.09%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (14.13%) CISSP
2 12 (13.04%) Degree
3 9 (9.78%) Security Cleared
4 7 (7.61%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (6.52%) AWS Certification
5 6 (6.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 5 (5.43%) CompTIA Security+
6 5 (5.43%) SC Cleared
7 4 (4.35%) CISM
7 4 (4.35%) GCIH
8 3 (3.26%) A+ Certification
8 3 (3.26%) CCNA
8 3 (3.26%) CCNP
8 3 (3.26%) CEH
8 3 (3.26%) CISA
8 3 (3.26%) CRISC
8 3 (3.26%) GCFA
8 3 (3.26%) MCSE
8 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (3.26%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.87%) SLA
2 9 (9.78%) GRC
3 8 (8.70%) NIST
4 6 (6.52%) Data Quality
4 6 (6.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (5.43%) GDPR
6 4 (4.35%) PCI DSS
7 3 (3.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 2 (2.17%) QA
9 1 (1.09%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (10.87%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.26%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.17%) Firmware
4 1 (1.09%) Docker
4 1 (1.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (11.96%) Ansible
2 5 (5.43%) Progress Chef
3 3 (3.26%) CASB
4 2 (2.17%) WMI
5 1 (1.09%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 25 (27.17%) Microsoft
2 15 (16.30%) ServiceNow
3 13 (14.13%) Splunk
4 9 (9.78%) Remedy
5 7 (7.61%) Cisco
6 6 (6.52%) Oracle
6 6 (6.52%) SAP
7 5 (5.43%) F5
8 4 (4.35%) BeyondTrust
8 4 (4.35%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (4.35%) HP
8 4 (4.35%) VMware
9 3 (3.26%) Arista
9 3 (3.26%) Cribl.io
9 3 (3.26%) Dell
9 3 (3.26%) Fortinet
9 3 (3.26%) Juniper
9 3 (3.26%) Tanium
9 3 (3.26%) Teradata
10 2 (2.17%) Atlassian