Analytical Skills Contracts 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 1 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 14 11
Rank change year-on-year +10 -3 -3
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 73 50 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 17.85% 9.73% 14.11%
As % of the General category 25.00% 15.06% 23.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 27 47
10th Percentile £280 £270 £350
25th Percentile £357 £381 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £510 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +4.62% +2.63%
75th Percentile £584 £571 £629
90th Percentile £708 £582 £681
North West median daily rate £490 £488 £445
% change year-on-year +0.51% +9.55% -3.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 11 6
10th Percentile - £16.79 £16.95
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.72 £23.15
Median hourly rate £22.09 £26.66 £29.08
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% -8.31% +89.91%
75th Percentile £24.18 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £60.82 - -
North West median hourly rate £24.67 £17.72 £35.00
% change year-on-year +39.24% -49.37% +32.08%

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 common skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 292 332 342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 71.39% 64.59% 60.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 217 234
10th Percentile £316 £311 £227
25th Percentile £363 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.89%
75th Percentile £580 £550 £565
90th Percentile £686 £622 £679
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 26 16
10th Percentile £19.41 £16.67 £12.75
25th Percentile £24.19 £17.72 £17.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £26.66 £25.57
Median % change year-on-year +21.91% +4.28% +34.55%
75th Percentile £70.00 £40.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £43.75 £41.13
North West median hourly rate £29.80 £19.50 £26.85
% change year-on-year +52.82% -27.37% +34.25%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Analytical Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in Cheshire

Analytical Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Analytical Skills in Cheshire

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in Cheshire

Analytical Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Skills in Cheshire

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Skills in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 April 2025.

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 1 April 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
Knutsford +3 20 £477 -9.14% 22
Warrington +2 12 £363 - 17
Chester -3 12 £700 +47.37% 16
Macclesfield +17 11 £550 +6.28% 3
Crewe -1 8 £410 -8.89% 1
Alderley Edge - 2 - -
Analytical Skills
North West

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 9 (12.33%) Confluence
2 2 (2.74%) CMS
2 2 (2.74%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.37%) Apache
3 1 (1.37%) CICS
3 1 (1.37%) JBoss
3 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.37%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.37%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (8.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (8.22%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.74%) InVision
2 2 (2.74%) UserZoom
3 1 (1.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (9.59%) SAP HR
1 7 (9.59%) SAP Payroll
2 4 (5.48%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (1.37%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (12.33%) AWS
1 9 (12.33%) Azure
2 5 (6.85%) GCP
3 4 (5.48%) Anthropic Claude
3 4 (5.48%) Azure AI
3 4 (5.48%) Google Gemini
3 4 (5.48%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.74%) OneDrive
4 2 (2.74%) SaaS
4 2 (2.74%) Salesforce Einstein
5 1 (1.37%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (1.37%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.37%) Azure Functions
5 1 (1.37%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.37%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.37%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.37%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.22%) Firewall
2 4 (5.48%) BGP
2 4 (5.48%) EIGRP
2 4 (5.48%) OSPF
3 3 (4.11%) DNS
3 3 (4.11%) IPv4
3 3 (4.11%) MPLS
3 3 (4.11%) SD-WAN
3 3 (4.11%) WAN
4 2 (2.74%) Ethernet
4 2 (2.74%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (2.74%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.74%) VPN
5 1 (1.37%) BIG-IP
5 1 (1.37%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (1.37%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (1.37%) Intranet
5 1 (1.37%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (1.37%) SAN
5 1 (1.37%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.85%) Tableau
2 4 (5.48%) Neo4j
2 4 (5.48%) Power BI
3 2 (2.74%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.37%) DB2
4 1 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.37%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.37%) MySQL
4 1 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (13.70%) JIRA
2 6 (8.22%) Git
3 4 (5.48%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.11%) GitLab
5 2 (2.74%) Axure RP
6 1 (1.37%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.37%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.37%) Hudson
6 1 (1.37%) Selenium
6 1 (1.37%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.37%) Zephyr
General
1 41 (56.16%) Social Skills
2 22 (30.14%) Finance
3 11 (15.07%) Pharmaceutical
4 8 (10.96%) Automotive
4 8 (10.96%) Banking
5 6 (8.22%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (8.22%) Legal
5 6 (8.22%) Manufacturing
6 4 (5.48%) Marketing
6 4 (5.48%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.11%) Billing
7 3 (4.11%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (4.11%) Financial Institution
7 3 (4.11%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (4.11%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.74%) Italian Language
8 2 (2.74%) Retail
8 2 (2.74%) Spanish Language
9 1 (1.37%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.37%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (27.40%) Analyst
2 9 (12.33%) Senior
3 8 (10.96%) Business Analyst
4 7 (9.59%) Consultant
4 7 (9.59%) HR Consultant
4 7 (9.59%) Payroll Consultant
4 7 (9.59%) SAP Consultant
4 7 (9.59%) SAP HR Consultant
4 7 (9.59%) SAP HR/Payroll Consultant
4 7 (9.59%) SAP Payroll Consultant
5 4 (5.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 4 (5.48%) Service Analyst
5 4 (5.48%) Service Desk Analyst
6 3 (4.11%) Architect
6 3 (4.11%) Change Manager
6 3 (4.11%) Developer
6 3 (4.11%) IP Engineer
6 3 (4.11%) Security Engineer
6 3 (4.11%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (2.74%) Transmission Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.85%) HTML
1 5 (6.85%) PyTorch
1 5 (6.85%) TensorFlow
2 4 (5.48%) CSS
3 3 (4.11%) Middleware
4 2 (2.74%) ADO
4 2 (2.74%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.74%) CSS3
4 2 (2.74%) HTML5
4 2 (2.74%) jQuery
4 2 (2.74%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (2.74%) REST
4 2 (2.74%) RESTful
4 2 (2.74%) SailPoint
5 1 (1.37%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.37%) LangChain
5 1 (1.37%) Pandas
5 1 (1.37%) RAML
5 1 (1.37%) React
5 1 (1.37%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.59%) Algorithms
2 5 (6.85%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (5.48%) Security Posture
4 3 (4.11%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.74%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.74%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.37%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.37%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.37%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.37%) NHS
6 1 (1.37%) PKI
6 1 (1.37%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.37%) Social Media
6 1 (1.37%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.96%) Windows
2 4 (5.48%) Apple iOS
2 4 (5.48%) Linux
3 3 (4.11%) Windows 10
4 2 (2.74%) Android
4 2 (2.74%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (61.64%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (35.62%) Agile
3 13 (17.81%) Change Management
3 13 (17.81%) CI/CD
3 13 (17.81%) Continuous Improvement
3 13 (17.81%) Decision-Making
4 10 (13.70%) Business Analysis
4 10 (13.70%) Cybersecurity
5 9 (12.33%) Collaborative Working
5 9 (12.33%) DevOps
5 9 (12.33%) SDLC
5 9 (12.33%) Waterfall
6 8 (10.96%) Analytics
6 8 (10.96%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (10.96%) Configuration Management
6 8 (10.96%) ITIL
6 8 (10.96%) Time Management
7 7 (9.59%) Computer Science
7 7 (9.59%) Risk Management
7 7 (9.59%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (19.18%) Python
2 8 (10.96%) SQL
3 6 (8.22%) Bash
4 4 (5.48%) Java
4 4 (5.48%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.11%) PowerShell
5 3 (4.11%) Scala
6 2 (2.74%) R
7 1 (1.37%) Ruby
7 1 (1.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (17.81%) Degree
2 7 (9.59%) CCNP
2 7 (9.59%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (6.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (6.85%) Security Cleared
4 4 (5.48%) IIBA
4 4 (5.48%) ISEB
5 3 (4.11%) CCNA
5 3 (4.11%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.74%) CISSP
7 1 (1.37%) CBAP
7 1 (1.37%) CCIE
7 1 (1.37%) CCIE Routing and Switching
7 1 (1.37%) CISM
7 1 (1.37%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.37%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.37%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.37%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.37%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.85%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.48%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.48%) GDPR
2 4 (5.48%) SLA
3 2 (2.74%) AUTOSAR
3 2 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.74%) PSD2
3 2 (2.74%) QA
4 1 (1.37%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (8.22%) Docker
2 3 (4.11%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.37%) Firmware
4 1 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.37%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (12.33%) Kubernetes
2 6 (8.22%) Ansible
3 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.74%) SCCM
3 2 (2.74%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (1.37%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.37%) HP ALM
4 1 (1.37%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.37%) Terraform
4 1 (1.37%) vCenter Server
4 1 (1.37%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (13.70%) Microsoft
2 9 (12.33%) ServiceNow
3 8 (10.96%) SAP
4 6 (8.22%) Fortinet
5 5 (6.85%) Infoblox
5 5 (6.85%) Remedy
6 4 (5.48%) BMC
6 4 (5.48%) Cisco
7 3 (4.11%) Huawei
8 2 (2.74%) Apple
8 2 (2.74%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (2.74%) Google
8 2 (2.74%) Oracle
8 2 (2.74%) Ping Identity
8 2 (2.74%) Salesforce
8 2 (2.74%) Splunk
8 2 (2.74%) VMware
9 1 (1.37%) Ariba
9 1 (1.37%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.37%) CyberArk