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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 5 13
Rank change year-on-year -6 +8 -2
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 88 102 60
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 11.86% 19.32% 10.77%
As % of the General category 19.05% 28.02% 17.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 77 32
10th Percentile £298 £315 £312
25th Percentile £360 £358 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £475 £532
Median % change year-on-year -6.26% -10.63% +1.72%
75th Percentile £520 £581 £567
90th Percentile £599 £693 £584
North West median daily rate £443 £475 £493
% change year-on-year -6.84% -3.65% +2.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 8
10th Percentile £39.64 £25.28 £17.44
25th Percentile £47.36 £34.69 £24.43
Median hourly rate £60.91 £51.75 £34.58
Median % change year-on-year +17.70% +49.65% -1.20%
75th Percentile £73.79 £69.19 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.12 £78.83 -
North West median hourly rate £37.91 £59.30 £17.72
% change year-on-year -36.07% +234.65% -49.37%

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 462 364 352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 62.26% 68.94% 63.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 249 230
10th Percentile £313 £321 £313
25th Percentile £381 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% -9.10% -
75th Percentile £573 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £688 £638
North West median daily rate £469 £465 £489
% change year-on-year +0.86% -4.91% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 26 20
10th Percentile £16.01 £12.82 £17.63
25th Percentile £28.75 £21.63 £21.31
Median hourly rate £35.91 £32.95 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.98% -5.86% +19.62%
75th Percentile £83.75 £50.00 £37.25
90th Percentile £85.10 £86.00 £43.75
North West median hourly rate £36.00 £29.27 £22.11
% change year-on-year +22.99% +32.38% -4.49%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -6 47 £412 -7.94% 2
Warrington +1 18 £463 -2.63% 8
Chester -9 12 £550 -22.81% 10
Crewe -2 4 £363 -11.59% 4
Macclesfield +1 2 £500 -9.09% 1
Alderley Edge -1 1 £400 - 3
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 12 (13.64%) Confluence
2 3 (3.41%) SAS
3 1 (1.14%) JBoss
3 1 (1.14%) Mule
3 1 (1.14%) Mule ESB
3 1 (1.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (6.82%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.14%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (4.55%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (3.41%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (3.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.14%) SAP HCM
3 1 (1.14%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 14 (15.91%) AWS
1 14 (15.91%) Azure
2 6 (6.82%) Entra ID
2 6 (6.82%) Power Platform
3 5 (5.68%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (4.55%) Akamai
4 4 (4.55%) GCP
5 3 (3.41%) Apigee
5 3 (3.41%) Kong
5 3 (3.41%) SaaS
6 1 (1.14%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.14%) IBM Blueworks
6 1 (1.14%) IBM Watson
6 1 (1.14%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.68%) DNS
1 5 (5.68%) Firewall
1 5 (5.68%) TCP/IP
2 4 (4.55%) BGP
2 4 (4.55%) HTTP
3 3 (3.41%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (3.41%) SAN
3 3 (3.41%) VPN
3 3 (3.41%) WAN
3 3 (3.41%) Wireshark
4 2 (2.27%) LAN
4 2 (2.27%) MPLS
4 2 (2.27%) OSPF
4 2 (2.27%) SSL
4 2 (2.27%) VLAN
4 2 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.14%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.14%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.14%) SNMP
5 1 (1.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.68%) Power BI
2 3 (3.41%) Metadata
2 3 (3.41%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.41%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.27%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.14%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.14%) SAP HANA
4 1 (1.14%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 13 (14.77%) JIRA
2 4 (4.55%) GitLab
2 4 (4.55%) JUnit
3 3 (3.41%) Mockito
3 3 (3.41%) Postman
4 2 (2.27%) Zephyr
5 1 (1.14%) Claude Code
5 1 (1.14%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.14%) Eclipse
5 1 (1.14%) Git
5 1 (1.14%) Hudson
5 1 (1.14%) Jenkins
General
1 38 (43.18%) Social Skills
2 34 (38.64%) Finance
3 21 (23.86%) Banking
4 7 (7.95%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (6.82%) Retail Banking
6 4 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (4.55%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.55%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.41%) Automotive
7 3 (3.41%) Legal
7 3 (3.41%) Marketing
7 3 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.27%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.27%) Publishing
9 1 (1.14%) Billing
9 1 (1.14%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.14%) Military
9 1 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 32 (36.36%) Analyst
2 15 (17.05%) Business Analyst
3 8 (9.09%) Security Engineer
4 6 (6.82%) Lead
4 6 (6.82%) Network Engineer
5 5 (5.68%) Consultant
5 5 (5.68%) Developer
6 4 (4.55%) Senior
6 4 (4.55%) Service Analyst
7 3 (3.41%) Banking Analyst
7 3 (3.41%) Data Analyst
7 3 (3.41%) Field Engineer
7 3 (3.41%) Field Service Engineer
7 3 (3.41%) Insight Analyst
7 3 (3.41%) Payments Business Analyst
7 3 (3.41%) Risk Analyst
7 3 (3.41%) Service Manager
7 3 (3.41%) Technical Analyst
7 3 (3.41%) Technical Business Analyst
7 3 (3.41%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.64%) REST
2 10 (11.36%) JSON
3 9 (10.23%) Swagger
3 9 (10.23%) XML
4 8 (9.09%) SOAP
5 6 (6.82%) OpenAPI
6 5 (5.68%) OAuth
7 3 (3.41%) JWT
7 3 (3.41%) Lightning Web Components
7 3 (3.41%) Middleware
7 3 (3.41%) RESTful
7 3 (3.41%) Visualforce
7 3 (3.41%) YAML
8 2 (2.27%) CSS
8 2 (2.27%) HTML
8 2 (2.27%) SailPoint
9 1 (1.14%) J2EE
9 1 (1.14%) Jest
9 1 (1.14%) Kafka
9 1 (1.14%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.23%) Analytical Mindset
1 9 (10.23%) Management Information System
1 9 (10.23%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.82%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (4.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (3.41%) Credit Risk
4 3 (3.41%) Digital Wallet
4 3 (3.41%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.27%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.27%) PKI
5 2 (2.27%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.27%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.14%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.14%) Learning Management System
6 1 (1.14%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (12.50%) Windows
2 7 (7.95%) Linux
3 3 (3.41%) Apple iOS
3 3 (3.41%) Mac OS
3 3 (3.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.41%) Unix
4 2 (2.27%) AIX
4 2 (2.27%) HPUX
4 2 (2.27%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (2.27%) Solaris
4 2 (2.27%) SUSE
4 2 (2.27%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (61.36%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (34.09%) Stakeholder Management
3 26 (29.55%) Agile
4 19 (21.59%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (17.05%) Change Management
5 15 (17.05%) CI/CD
6 14 (15.91%) ITIL
7 12 (13.64%) ITSM
7 12 (13.64%) Migration
7 12 (13.64%) Project Management
8 11 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
8 11 (12.50%) Analytics
8 11 (12.50%) Incident Response
9 10 (11.36%) Cybersecurity
9 10 (11.36%) Integration Patterns
9 10 (11.36%) Project Delivery
9 10 (11.36%) Requirements Gathering
9 10 (11.36%) Scrum
9 10 (11.36%) Validation
9 10 (11.36%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 12 (13.64%) Python
2 10 (11.36%) SQL
3 8 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 4 (4.55%) Java
5 3 (3.41%) Apex Code
6 2 (2.27%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.14%) ABAP
7 1 (1.14%) C#
7 1 (1.14%) Korn
7 1 (1.14%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.14%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.14%) SOQL
7 1 (1.14%) SOSL
7 1 (1.14%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (17.05%) Degree
2 9 (10.23%) CISSP
3 6 (6.82%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (6.82%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (6.82%) Security Cleared
4 5 (5.68%) AWS Certification
4 5 (5.68%) CompTIA Security+
4 5 (5.68%) SC Cleared
5 4 (4.55%) CISM
6 3 (3.41%) A+ Certification
6 3 (3.41%) CCNA
6 3 (3.41%) CEH
6 3 (3.41%) CISA
6 3 (3.41%) CRISC
6 3 (3.41%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (3.41%) MCSE
6 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (3.41%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (2.27%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.82%) GRC
1 6 (6.82%) NIST
1 6 (6.82%) SLA
2 4 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.41%) PCI DSS
3 3 (3.41%) PSD2
3 3 (3.41%) QA
4 2 (2.27%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.27%) GDPR
4 2 (2.27%) ISO 8583
4 2 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 1 (1.14%) NCSC
5 1 (1.14%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (7.95%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.27%) Firmware
3 1 (1.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (6.82%) Ansible
2 2 (2.27%) HP ALM
2 2 (2.27%) WMI
3 1 (1.14%) Norton AntiVirus
3 1 (1.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 18 (20.45%) Microsoft
2 11 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 6 (6.82%) Cisco
3 6 (6.82%) HP
4 5 (5.68%) Oracle
4 5 (5.68%) SAP
4 5 (5.68%) Splunk
5 4 (4.55%) BeyondTrust
5 4 (4.55%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (4.55%) Remedy
6 3 (3.41%) Arista
6 3 (3.41%) Dell
6 3 (3.41%) Juniper
6 3 (3.41%) MuleSoft
6 3 (3.41%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.41%) Tanium
6 3 (3.41%) Teradata
7 2 (2.27%) F5
7 2 (2.27%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.27%) Red Hat