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 23 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 5 13
Rank change year-on-year -9 +8 -3
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 84 104 58
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 10.82% 17.84% 11.20%
As % of the General category 18.71% 26.07% 17.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 79 35
10th Percentile £282 £313 £329
25th Percentile £395 £358 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £465 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.54% -13.57% +10.36%
75th Percentile £549 £560 £575
90th Percentile £598 £688 £585
North West median daily rate £450 £468 £493
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.07% +1.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £47.46 £35.18 £16.98
25th Percentile £66.93 £42.94 £17.26
Median hourly rate £83.25 £57.75 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +44.16% +225.90% -49.37%
75th Percentile £86.00 £72.44 £30.76
90th Percentile - £80.13 £38.56
North West median hourly rate £40.00 £35.00 £31.25
% change year-on-year +14.29% +12.00% -10.71%

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 449 399 339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 57.86% 68.44% 65.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 273 233
10th Percentile £315 £315 £319
25th Percentile £404 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £581 £553 £575
90th Percentile £639 £674 £638
North West median daily rate £484 £465 £493
% change year-on-year +4.09% -5.68% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 25 13
10th Percentile £16.01 £12.82 £16.98
25th Percentile £28.75 £26.50 £17.72
Median hourly rate £36.00 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.77% -7.14% +14.60%
75th Percentile £85.00 £48.75 -
90th Percentile £86.30 £62.00 £36.80
North West median hourly rate £35.82 £29.00 £24.10
% change year-on-year +23.52% +20.33% +7.04%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 23 July 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 -4 38 £445 +0.62% 21
Warrington +2 20 £469 -1.32% 11
Chester -6 15 £550 -24.14% 2
Crewe -2 4 £525 +28.05% 5
Macclesfield +1 2 £500 +2.04% 4
Alderley Edge -1 1 £400 -
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 9 (10.71%) Confluence
2 2 (2.38%) SAS
3 1 (1.19%) JBoss
3 1 (1.19%) Mule
3 1 (1.19%) Mule ESB
3 1 (1.19%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.38%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (8.33%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (3.57%) SAP HCM
2 3 (3.57%) SAP Payroll
2 3 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.19%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 15 (17.86%) Azure
2 11 (13.10%) AWS
3 7 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 6 (7.14%) Entra ID
4 6 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (4.76%) Akamai
5 4 (4.76%) GCP
6 3 (3.57%) SaaS
7 1 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.19%) IBM Blueworks
7 1 (1.19%) IBM Watson
7 1 (1.19%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.14%) DNS
2 5 (5.95%) Firewall
2 5 (5.95%) TCP/IP
2 5 (5.95%) VPN
3 4 (4.76%) BGP
3 4 (4.76%) HTTP
3 4 (4.76%) WAN
4 3 (3.57%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (3.57%) LAN
4 3 (3.57%) SAN
4 3 (3.57%) Wireshark
5 2 (2.38%) MPLS
5 2 (2.38%) OSPF
5 2 (2.38%) SSL
5 2 (2.38%) VLAN
5 2 (2.38%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.19%) DMZ
6 1 (1.19%) Kerberos
6 1 (1.19%) SNMP
6 1 (1.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.95%) Power BI
2 3 (3.57%) SAP HANA
3 2 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.38%) Metadata
3 2 (2.38%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.38%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.38%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.19%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.19%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 9 (10.71%) JIRA
2 2 (2.38%) GitLab
2 2 (2.38%) JUnit
3 1 (1.19%) Claude Code
3 1 (1.19%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.19%) Eclipse
3 1 (1.19%) Git
3 1 (1.19%) Hudson
3 1 (1.19%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.19%) Mockito
3 1 (1.19%) Postman
3 1 (1.19%) Zephyr
General
1 40 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 30 (35.71%) Finance
3 16 (19.05%) Banking
4 7 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (4.76%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.57%) Automotive
6 3 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.57%) Legal
6 3 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.57%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.38%) Marketing
7 2 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.38%) Publishing
7 2 (2.38%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.19%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.19%) Billing
8 1 (1.19%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.19%) Military
8 1 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.19%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 25 (29.76%) Analyst
2 8 (9.52%) Security Engineer
3 7 (8.33%) Business Analyst
3 7 (8.33%) Consultant
4 6 (7.14%) Network Engineer
4 6 (7.14%) Service Analyst
5 5 (5.95%) Lead
6 4 (4.76%) Senior
7 3 (3.57%) Data Analyst
7 3 (3.57%) Developer
7 3 (3.57%) Field Engineer
7 3 (3.57%) Field Service Engineer
7 3 (3.57%) Functional Consultant
7 3 (3.57%) IT Engineer
7 3 (3.57%) Risk Analyst
7 3 (3.57%) SAP Consultant
7 3 (3.57%) Service Desk Analyst
7 3 (3.57%) Service Manager
7 3 (3.57%) Service Transition Manager
7 3 (3.57%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.14%) REST
2 5 (5.95%) JSON
3 4 (4.76%) XML
4 2 (2.38%) Middleware
4 2 (2.38%) OAuth
4 2 (2.38%) SailPoint
4 2 (2.38%) SOAP
4 2 (2.38%) Swagger
5 1 (1.19%) CSS
5 1 (1.19%) HTML
5 1 (1.19%) Jakarta EE
5 1 (1.19%) Kafka
5 1 (1.19%) LDAP
5 1 (1.19%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (1.19%) OpenAPI
5 1 (1.19%) RESTful
5 1 (1.19%) Visualforce
5 1 (1.19%) Web Services
5 1 (1.19%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
2 7 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 6 (7.14%) Data Centre
4 5 (5.95%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.76%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (4.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (3.57%) Virtual Team
7 2 (2.38%) Client/Server
7 2 (2.38%) Credit Risk
7 2 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.38%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.38%) Operational Technology
7 2 (2.38%) PKI
7 2 (2.38%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.19%) Learning Management System
8 1 (1.19%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (14.29%) Windows
2 6 (7.14%) Linux
3 5 (5.95%) Mac OS
4 3 (3.57%) Apple iOS
4 3 (3.57%) Unix
5 2 (2.38%) AIX
5 2 (2.38%) HPUX
5 2 (2.38%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.38%) Solaris
5 2 (2.38%) SUSE
5 2 (2.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (61.90%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (30.95%) Continuous Improvement
3 23 (27.38%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (21.43%) Agile
5 17 (20.24%) ITIL
6 16 (19.05%) Project Management
7 15 (17.86%) ITSM
8 14 (16.67%) Change Management
9 13 (15.48%) Cybersecurity
10 12 (14.29%) CI/CD
11 11 (13.10%) Incident Response
11 11 (13.10%) Migration
11 11 (13.10%) Project Delivery
11 11 (13.10%) Risk Management
12 10 (11.90%) Analytics
12 10 (11.90%) SIEM
13 9 (10.71%) AI
13 9 (10.71%) Customer Service
13 9 (10.71%) Waterfall
14 8 (9.52%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 11 (13.10%) Python
2 8 (9.52%) PowerShell
3 6 (7.14%) SQL
4 3 (3.57%) ABAP
5 2 (2.38%) Java
6 1 (1.19%) Apex Code
6 1 (1.19%) C#
6 1 (1.19%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.19%) Korn
6 1 (1.19%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.19%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (13.10%) Degree
2 9 (10.71%) CISSP
3 7 (8.33%) Security Cleared
4 6 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (5.95%) AWS Certification
5 5 (5.95%) CompTIA Security+
6 4 (4.76%) CISM
6 4 (4.76%) SC Cleared
7 3 (3.57%) A+ Certification
7 3 (3.57%) CCNA
7 3 (3.57%) CEH
7 3 (3.57%) CISA
7 3 (3.57%) CRISC
7 3 (3.57%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (3.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (3.57%) MCSE
7 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (3.57%) Network+ Certification
8 2 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (2.38%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.52%) SLA
2 7 (8.33%) GRC
2 7 (8.33%) NIST
3 5 (5.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.57%) QA
5 2 (2.38%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.38%) GDPR
5 2 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (1.19%) NCSC
6 1 (1.19%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.19%) PMO
6 1 (1.19%) PSD2
System Software
1 9 (10.71%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.38%) Firmware
3 1 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.19%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (7.14%) Ansible
2 2 (2.38%) WMI
3 1 (1.19%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 17 (20.24%) Microsoft
2 15 (17.86%) ServiceNow
3 7 (8.33%) Remedy
3 7 (8.33%) SAP
4 6 (7.14%) Cisco
5 5 (5.95%) HP
5 5 (5.95%) Oracle
5 5 (5.95%) Splunk
6 4 (4.76%) BeyondTrust
6 4 (4.76%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (3.57%) Arista
7 3 (3.57%) Dell
7 3 (3.57%) F5
7 3 (3.57%) Juniper
7 3 (3.57%) Tanium
8 2 (2.38%) Atlassian
8 2 (2.38%) Forcepoint
8 2 (2.38%) Fortinet
8 2 (2.38%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.38%) VMware