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

6 months to
18 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 7 17
Rank change year-on-year -4 +10 -6
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 83 76 45
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 12.15% 16.07% 8.72%
As % of the General category 19.76% 23.53% 13.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 51 18
10th Percentile £313 £300 £194
25th Percentile £358 £382 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £489 £400
Median % change year-on-year -13.09% +22.25% -10.11%
75th Percentile £509 £632 £574
90th Percentile £591 £715 £601
North West median daily rate £424 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -15.13% +5.26% +6.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 11
10th Percentile - £25.28 £16.79
25th Percentile £21.75 £34.69 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.50 £51.75 £26.66
Median % change year-on-year -54.59% +94.11% -23.83%
75th Percentile £55.63 £69.19 £43.75
90th Percentile £73.85 £78.83 -
North West median hourly rate £40.00 £44.66 £17.72
% change year-on-year -10.42% +152.00% -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 420 323 323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 61.49% 68.29% 62.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 199 208
10th Percentile £313 £317 £311
25th Percentile £366 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% -3.00% +4.71%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £576
90th Percentile £639 £688 £638
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 27 22
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.73 £16.57
25th Percentile £28.75 £26.36 £17.72
Median hourly rate £35.00 £33.40 £26.66
Median % change year-on-year +4.79% +25.28% -12.70%
75th Percentile £38.25 £77.63 £37.25
90th Percentile £85.10 £86.00 £43.75
North West median hourly rate £35.25 £28.75 £17.86
% change year-on-year +22.61% +60.97% -31.31%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 18 May 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 -1 43 £402 -10.07% 2
Warrington +3 14 £463 +85.00% 12
Chester -4 14 £563 -21.05% 10
Crewe -2 5 £363 -11.59% 3
Alderley Edge 0 1 £400 - 1
Ellesmere Port - 1 £325 - 2
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 11 (13.25%) Confluence
2 3 (3.61%) SAS
3 2 (2.41%) JBoss
4 1 (1.20%) Mule
4 1 (1.20%) Mule ESB
4 1 (1.20%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.20%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.20%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (4.82%) Payment Gateway
1 4 (4.82%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.20%) SAP HCM
2 1 (1.20%) SAP Payroll
2 1 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (20.48%) AWS
2 13 (15.66%) Azure
3 8 (9.64%) Power Platform
4 6 (7.23%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (4.82%) Akamai
5 4 (4.82%) Apigee
5 4 (4.82%) Entra ID
5 4 (4.82%) GCP
5 4 (4.82%) Kong
6 2 (2.41%) SaaS
7 1 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.20%) IBM Blueworks
7 1 (1.20%) OCI
7 1 (1.20%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.82%) DNS
1 4 (4.82%) HTTP
1 4 (4.82%) TCP/IP
2 3 (3.61%) SAN
3 2 (2.41%) VPN
4 1 (1.20%) BGP
4 1 (1.20%) Firewall
4 1 (1.20%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.43%) Power BI
2 3 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.61%) Metadata
2 3 (3.61%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.61%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.41%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.20%) Power Query
4 1 (1.20%) SAP HANA
4 1 (1.20%) Star Schema
4 1 (1.20%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 14 (16.87%) JIRA
2 5 (6.02%) JUnit
3 4 (4.82%) Postman
4 3 (3.61%) GitLab
4 3 (3.61%) Mockito
5 2 (2.41%) Zephyr
6 1 (1.20%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.20%) Eclipse
6 1 (1.20%) Git
6 1 (1.20%) Gradle
6 1 (1.20%) Hudson
6 1 (1.20%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.20%) Maven
6 1 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 39 (46.99%) Social Skills
2 35 (42.17%) Finance
3 23 (27.71%) Banking
4 7 (8.43%) Retail Banking
5 6 (7.23%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (6.02%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (4.82%) Manufacturing
7 4 (4.82%) Marketing
7 4 (4.82%) Telecoms
8 3 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.41%) Automotive
10 1 (1.20%) Billing
10 1 (1.20%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.20%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.20%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 36 (43.37%) Analyst
2 18 (21.69%) Business Analyst
3 8 (9.64%) Security Engineer
4 6 (7.23%) Developer
4 6 (7.23%) Lead
5 4 (4.82%) Data Analyst
5 4 (4.82%) Payments Analyst
5 4 (4.82%) Payments Business Analyst
5 4 (4.82%) Senior
5 4 (4.82%) Service Analyst
5 4 (4.82%) Technical Analyst
5 4 (4.82%) Technical Business Analyst
6 3 (3.61%) Banking Analyst
6 3 (3.61%) Field Engineer
6 3 (3.61%) Field Service Engineer
6 3 (3.61%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (3.61%) Insight Analyst
6 3 (3.61%) IT Engineer
6 3 (3.61%) Risk Analyst
7 2 (2.41%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (15.66%) REST
2 11 (13.25%) SOAP
2 11 (13.25%) Swagger
3 9 (10.84%) JSON
3 9 (10.84%) XML
4 7 (8.43%) OpenAPI
5 4 (4.82%) JWT
5 4 (4.82%) Middleware
5 4 (4.82%) OAuth
6 3 (3.61%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (3.61%) RESTful
6 3 (3.61%) Visualforce
6 3 (3.61%) YAML
7 2 (2.41%) CSS
7 2 (2.41%) HTML
8 1 (1.20%) .NET
8 1 (1.20%) J2EE
8 1 (1.20%) LDAP
8 1 (1.20%) Spring
8 1 (1.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.05%) Product Ownership
2 9 (10.84%) Management Information System
3 7 (8.43%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (6.02%) Data Centre
5 4 (4.82%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (4.82%) Digital Wallet
5 4 (4.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (3.61%) Credit Risk
6 3 (3.61%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.61%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.41%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.20%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.20%) Learning Management System
8 1 (1.20%) Life Science
8 1 (1.20%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.20%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.43%) Windows
2 5 (6.02%) Linux
3 4 (4.82%) Unix
4 3 (3.61%) Apple iOS
4 3 (3.61%) Mac OS
4 3 (3.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.41%) AIX
5 2 (2.41%) HPUX
5 2 (2.41%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (2.41%) Solaris
5 2 (2.41%) SUSE
5 2 (2.41%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (61.45%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (33.73%) Agile
2 28 (33.73%) Stakeholder Management
3 15 (18.07%) CI/CD
4 14 (16.87%) Change Management
4 14 (16.87%) Requirements Gathering
5 12 (14.46%) Analytics
5 12 (14.46%) Integration Patterns
5 12 (14.46%) Validation
6 11 (13.25%) Acceptance Criteria
6 11 (13.25%) Computer Science
6 11 (13.25%) ITIL
6 11 (13.25%) ITSM
6 11 (13.25%) Migration
6 11 (13.25%) Project Management
6 11 (13.25%) Scrum
7 10 (12.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (12.05%) Incident Response
7 10 (12.05%) Workshop Facilitation
8 9 (10.84%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (15.66%) Python
2 12 (14.46%) SQL
3 6 (7.23%) Java
4 5 (6.02%) PowerShell
5 3 (3.61%) Apex Code
5 3 (3.61%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.41%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.41%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.20%) ABAP
7 1 (1.20%) C#
7 1 (1.20%) Korn
7 1 (1.20%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.20%) SOQL
7 1 (1.20%) SOSL
7 1 (1.20%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (15.66%) Degree
2 9 (10.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (9.64%) CISSP
4 6 (7.23%) AWS Certification
4 6 (7.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (6.02%) Security Cleared
6 4 (4.82%) SC Cleared
7 3 (3.61%) A+ Certification
7 3 (3.61%) Azure Certification
7 3 (3.61%) CCNA
7 3 (3.61%) CISA
7 3 (3.61%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (3.61%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (3.61%) CRISC
7 3 (3.61%) MCSE
7 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (3.61%) Network+ Certification
8 2 (2.41%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (2.41%) PMI Certification
8 2 (2.41%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.23%) GRC
1 6 (7.23%) NIST
1 6 (7.23%) SLA
2 5 (6.02%) PSD2
3 4 (4.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.82%) PCI DSS
3 4 (4.82%) QA
4 3 (3.61%) ISO 8583
5 2 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.20%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.20%) GDPR
6 1 (1.20%) ISO 20022
6 1 (1.20%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (7.23%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.41%) Ansible
1 2 (2.41%) HP ALM
2 1 (1.20%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.20%) Norton AntiVirus
2 1 (1.20%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (22.89%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.64%) ServiceNow
3 6 (7.23%) Oracle
3 6 (7.23%) SAP
4 4 (4.82%) BeyondTrust
4 4 (4.82%) CrowdStrike
4 4 (4.82%) HP
4 4 (4.82%) MuleSoft
4 4 (4.82%) Remedy
4 4 (4.82%) Splunk
5 3 (3.61%) Dell
5 3 (3.61%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.61%) Tanium
5 3 (3.61%) Teradata
6 2 (2.41%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.20%) Cisco
7 1 (1.20%) McAfee
7 1 (1.20%) Sage
7 1 (1.20%) Sybase
7 1 (1.20%) Symantec
42 Analytical Skills jobs in Cheshire