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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 4 13
Rank change year-on-year -10 +9 -3
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 87 84 52
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 12.22% 20.34% 10.26%
As % of the General category 19.42% 28.19% 15.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 53 29
10th Percentile £320 £291 £208
25th Percentile £358 £358 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £486 £510
Median % change year-on-year -14.61% -4.71% +4.64%
75th Percentile £526 £588 £560
90th Percentile £588 £695 £582
North West median daily rate £438 £489 £490
% change year-on-year -10.53% -0.25% +10.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 11
10th Percentile £21.75 £19.00 £16.79
25th Percentile £30.38 £20.02 £17.72
Median hourly rate £41.00 £22.09 £26.66
Median % change year-on-year +85.60% -17.14% -8.31%
75th Percentile £64.50 £24.18 £43.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £48.61 -
North West median hourly rate £41.00 £24.38 £17.72
% change year-on-year +68.15% +37.60% -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 448 298 329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 62.92% 72.15% 64.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 171 218
10th Percentile £313 £316 £311
25th Percentile £358 £361 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £582 £550
90th Percentile £644 £685 £618
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 35 27
10th Percentile £20.00 £19.82 £16.33
25th Percentile £21.75 £24.18 £17.72
Median hourly rate £32.23 £32.50 £26.66
Median % change year-on-year -0.85% +21.91% +15.16%
75th Percentile £43.00 £60.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £86.00 £43.75
North West median hourly rate £33.75 £29.80 £19.00
% change year-on-year +13.26% +56.84% -29.24%

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 24 March 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 24 March 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 24 March 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 -9 47 £415 -10.75% 5
Chester -4 14 £780 +11.43% 4
Crewe +3 9 £363 -11.59% 3
Warrington -3 9 £425 -10.53% 5
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 14 (16.09%) Confluence
2 8 (9.20%) SAS
3 1 (1.15%) JBoss
3 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (5.75%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (5.75%) MS Visio
2 4 (4.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (4.60%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (2.30%) SAP HCM
2 2 (2.30%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 24 (27.59%) AWS
2 21 (24.14%) Azure
3 12 (13.79%) GCP
4 8 (9.20%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (9.20%) Power Platform
5 6 (6.90%) Apigee
5 6 (6.90%) Kong
6 4 (4.60%) Akamai
6 4 (4.60%) OpenShift
7 2 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.30%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.30%) SaaS
8 1 (1.15%) AWS CodeBuild
8 1 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.15%) GitHub
8 1 (1.15%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.15%) OCI
8 1 (1.15%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.75%) DNS
1 5 (5.75%) VPN
2 4 (4.60%) Firewall
2 4 (4.60%) HTTP
2 4 (4.60%) LAN
2 4 (4.60%) WAN
3 3 (3.45%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.15%) DMZ
4 1 (1.15%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (1.15%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (1.15%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.15%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.20%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (4.60%) MS Access
3 3 (3.45%) Metadata
3 3 (3.45%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.45%) Power BI
3 3 (3.45%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.30%) SAP HANA
4 2 (2.30%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.15%) Power Query
5 1 (1.15%) Star Schema
5 1 (1.15%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 18 (20.69%) JIRA
2 6 (6.90%) GitLab
3 4 (4.60%) JUnit
3 4 (4.60%) Postman
4 3 (3.45%) Git
4 3 (3.45%) Mockito
5 2 (2.30%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.30%) Zephyr
6 1 (1.15%) Gradle
6 1 (1.15%) Hudson
6 1 (1.15%) Maven
6 1 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 40 (45.98%) Finance
2 35 (40.23%) Social Skills
3 24 (27.59%) Banking
4 8 (9.20%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (8.05%) Retail Banking
6 5 (5.75%) Automotive
6 5 (5.75%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (4.60%) Manufacturing
7 4 (4.60%) Marketing
8 3 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.15%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.15%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.15%) Publishing
9 1 (1.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (40.23%) Analyst
2 19 (21.84%) Business Analyst
3 7 (8.05%) Architect
3 7 (8.05%) Security Engineer
4 6 (6.90%) Technical Analyst
4 6 (6.90%) Technical Business Analyst
5 5 (5.75%) Developer
5 5 (5.75%) Lead
6 4 (4.60%) Data Analyst
6 4 (4.60%) Payments Analyst
6 4 (4.60%) Payments Business Analyst
7 3 (3.45%) Banking Analyst
7 3 (3.45%) Change Manager
7 3 (3.45%) Consultant
7 3 (3.45%) Insight Analyst
7 3 (3.45%) Programme Manager
7 3 (3.45%) Risk Analyst
7 3 (3.45%) Service Desk Engineer
7 3 (3.45%) Technical Manager
7 3 (3.45%) Technical Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (16.09%) REST
1 14 (16.09%) SOAP
2 13 (14.94%) Swagger
3 11 (12.64%) JSON
3 11 (12.64%) XML
4 9 (10.34%) OpenAPI
5 6 (6.90%) JWT
5 6 (6.90%) OAuth
6 3 (3.45%) CSS
6 3 (3.45%) HTML
6 3 (3.45%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (3.45%) Middleware
6 3 (3.45%) RESTful
6 3 (3.45%) Visualforce
6 3 (3.45%) YAML
7 2 (2.30%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.15%) .NET
8 1 (1.15%) Bootstrap
8 1 (1.15%) LDAP
8 1 (1.15%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.49%) Product Ownership
2 8 (9.20%) Credit Risk
2 8 (9.20%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.60%) Digital Wallet
3 4 (4.60%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (3.45%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.30%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.15%) CMDB
6 1 (1.15%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.15%) Learning Management System
6 1 (1.15%) Life Science
6 1 (1.15%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.15%) PKI
6 1 (1.15%) Replication
6 1 (1.15%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.75%) Windows
2 4 (4.60%) Linux
3 3 (3.45%) Windows 10
4 2 (2.30%) Unix
5 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (55.17%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (41.38%) Agile
3 27 (31.03%) Stakeholder Management
4 21 (24.14%) CI/CD
5 18 (20.69%) Analytics
6 16 (18.39%) Requirements Gathering
7 15 (17.24%) Change Management
7 15 (17.24%) Validation
8 14 (16.09%) DevOps
8 14 (16.09%) Integration Patterns
9 13 (14.94%) Computer Science
10 12 (13.79%) Scrum
11 11 (12.64%) Analytical Thinking
11 11 (12.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 11 (12.64%) Translating Business Requirements
11 11 (12.64%) Workshop Facilitation
12 10 (11.49%) Data Analysis
13 9 (10.34%) Incident Response
13 9 (10.34%) User Acceptance Testing
14 8 (9.20%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 16 (18.39%) Python
2 13 (14.94%) SQL
3 5 (5.75%) Java
3 5 (5.75%) R
4 4 (4.60%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.45%) Apex Code
5 3 (3.45%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.30%) ABAP
6 2 (2.30%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.30%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.15%) Bash
7 1 (1.15%) C#
7 1 (1.15%) Korn
7 1 (1.15%) SOQL
7 1 (1.15%) SOSL
7 1 (1.15%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (17.24%) Degree
2 11 (12.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (5.75%) CISSP
5 4 (4.60%) CISM
6 3 (3.45%) AWS Certification
6 3 (3.45%) PMI Certification
6 3 (3.45%) PMP
6 3 (3.45%) Security Cleared
7 2 (2.30%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.30%) CEH
7 2 (2.30%) CISA
7 2 (2.30%) CRISC
7 2 (2.30%) GIAC
7 2 (2.30%) ISTQB
7 2 (2.30%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (2.30%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (2.30%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.15%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (6.90%) NIST
2 5 (5.75%) PSD2
3 4 (4.60%) PCI DSS
4 3 (3.45%) GRC
4 3 (3.45%) ISO 8583
4 3 (3.45%) QA
5 1 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.15%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.15%) GDPR
5 1 (1.15%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 1 (1.15%) PMO
5 1 (1.15%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (5.75%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.15%) Docker
2 1 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (5.75%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.45%) Fluentd
3 2 (2.30%) HP ALM
4 1 (1.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (1.15%) Ansible
4 1 (1.15%) Norton AntiVirus
4 1 (1.15%) SCCM
4 1 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.15%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (25.29%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.05%) SAP
3 6 (6.90%) MuleSoft
3 6 (6.90%) ServiceNow
4 5 (5.75%) Pega
5 3 (3.45%) Cribl.io
5 3 (3.45%) Oracle
5 3 (3.45%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.45%) Snow
5 3 (3.45%) Splunk
5 3 (3.45%) Tanium
5 3 (3.45%) Teradata
5 3 (3.45%) Workday
6 2 (2.30%) HP
7 1 (1.15%) F5
7 1 (1.15%) McAfee
7 1 (1.15%) Sage
7 1 (1.15%) Sybase
7 1 (1.15%) Symantec
7 1 (1.15%) VMware