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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 5 13
Rank change year-on-year -7 +8 -1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 88 102 60
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 11.81% 19.43% 10.79%
As % of the General category 18.97% 28.02% 17.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 77 32
10th Percentile £308 £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 -6.79% -3.65% +3.79%
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 464 364 349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 62.28% 69.33% 62.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 249 230
10th Percentile £313 £321 £313
25th Percentile £381 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 £497
Median % change year-on-year +2.29% -9.50% -3.26%
75th Percentile £574 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £688 £638
North West median daily rate £468 £465 £491
% change year-on-year +0.65% -5.34% -1.75%
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% +25.09%
75th Percentile £83.75 £50.00 £37.25
90th Percentile £85.10 £86.00 £43.75
North West median hourly rate £36.00 £29.54 £21.50
% change year-on-year +21.89% +37.37% -7.13%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -5 48 £408 -8.72% 2
Warrington 0 18 £463 -2.63% 11
Chester -11 11 £563 -21.05% 9
Crewe -2 4 £363 -11.59% 4
Macclesfield +1 2 £500 -9.09% 1
Alderley Edge -1 1 £400 - 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 13 (14.77%) 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%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.68%) TCP/IP
2 4 (4.55%) BGP
2 4 (4.55%) DNS
2 4 (4.55%) Firewall
2 4 (4.55%) HTTP
3 3 (3.41%) SAN
3 3 (3.41%) VPN
4 2 (2.27%) Cisco Nexus
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%) WAN
4 2 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (2.27%) Wireshark
5 1 (1.14%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.14%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.14%) Network Security
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 14 (15.91%) 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 37 (42.05%) Social Skills
2 34 (38.64%) Finance
3 22 (25.00%) Banking
4 7 (7.95%) Influencing Skills
4 7 (7.95%) Retail Banking
5 4 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (4.55%) Manufacturing
5 4 (4.55%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.41%) Automotive
6 3 (3.41%) Legal
6 3 (3.41%) Marketing
6 3 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.27%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.27%) Publishing
8 1 (1.14%) Billing
8 1 (1.14%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.14%) Military
8 1 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 33 (37.50%) Analyst
2 16 (18.18%) Business Analyst
3 8 (9.09%) Security Engineer
4 6 (6.82%) Lead
5 5 (5.68%) Consultant
5 5 (5.68%) Developer
5 5 (5.68%) Network Engineer
6 4 (4.55%) Senior
6 4 (4.55%) Service Analyst
7 3 (3.41%) Data Analyst
7 3 (3.41%) Field Engineer
7 3 (3.41%) Field Service Engineer
7 3 (3.41%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (3.41%) IT Engineer
7 3 (3.41%) Payments Analyst
7 3 (3.41%) Payments Business Analyst
7 3 (3.41%) Risk Analyst
7 3 (3.41%) Service Manager
7 3 (3.41%) Service Transition Manager
7 3 (3.41%) Technical Analyst
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%) Kafka
9 1 (1.14%) LDAP
9 1 (1.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.36%) Product Ownership
2 9 (10.23%) Analytical Mindset
2 9 (10.23%) Management Information System
3 6 (6.82%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (4.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (3.41%) Credit Risk
5 3 (3.41%) Digital Wallet
5 3 (3.41%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.27%) Operational Technology
6 2 (2.27%) PKI
6 2 (2.27%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.27%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.14%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.14%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (1.14%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.14%) Data Structures
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 55 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (35.23%) Stakeholder Management
3 27 (30.68%) Agile
4 19 (21.59%) Continuous Improvement
5 16 (18.18%) Change Management
6 15 (17.05%) CI/CD
7 14 (15.91%) ITIL
8 12 (13.64%) Acceptance Criteria
8 12 (13.64%) ITSM
8 12 (13.64%) Migration
8 12 (13.64%) Project Management
9 11 (12.50%) Analytics
9 11 (12.50%) Incident Response
9 11 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
9 11 (12.50%) Scrum
10 10 (11.36%) Cybersecurity
10 10 (11.36%) Integration Patterns
10 10 (11.36%) Project Delivery
10 10 (11.36%) Risk Management
10 10 (11.36%) Validation
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%) OSCP
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%) GDPR
4 2 (2.27%) ISO 8583
4 2 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 1 (1.14%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.14%) NCSC
5 1 (1.14%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (7.95%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.27%) Firmware
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%) HP
4 5 (5.68%) Cisco
4 5 (5.68%) Oracle
4 5 (5.68%) SAP
5 4 (4.55%) BeyondTrust
5 4 (4.55%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (4.55%) Remedy
5 4 (4.55%) Splunk
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%) Forcepoint
7 2 (2.27%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.27%) Red Hat