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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 5 10
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 -1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 91 117 57
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 11.26% 19.02% 11.59%
As % of the General category 19.00% 27.27% 17.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 90 35
10th Percentile £247 £313 £325
25th Percentile £387 £358 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £449 £538
Median % change year-on-year +3.06% -16.59% +11.79%
75th Percentile £546 £544 £576
90th Percentile £601 £688 £617
North West median daily rate £450 £458 £493
% change year-on-year -1.64% -7.20% +1.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £43.14 £35.18 -
25th Percentile £56.12 £42.94 -
Median hourly rate £80.50 £57.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +39.39% - -
75th Percentile £84.63 £72.44 -
90th Percentile £85.45 £80.13 -
North West median hourly rate £40.00 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year +14.29% -21.35% -3.01%

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 479 429 326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 59.28% 69.76% 66.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 300 220
10th Percentile £308 £312 £320
25th Percentile £408 £362 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £447 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.07% -10.60% -
75th Percentile £575 £551 £575
90th Percentile £628 £676 £688
North West median daily rate £500 £469 £500
% change year-on-year +6.61% -6.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 25 7
10th Percentile £16.01 £12.82 £14.10
25th Percentile £25.19 £26.50 £25.50
Median hourly rate £35.91 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.49% -7.14% +14.60%
75th Percentile £83.75 £48.75 -
90th Percentile £85.90 £67.25 -
North West median hourly rate £35.00 £28.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year +21.74% -11.54% +22.18%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -3 37 £446 +1.83% 22
Warrington +2 23 £463 -2.63% 7
Chester -5 19 £550 -24.14% 21
Crewe -6 4 £525 +28.05% 7
Macclesfield -2 3 £500 +6.38% 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 6 (6.59%) Confluence
2 2 (2.20%) SAS
3 1 (1.10%) JBoss
3 1 (1.10%) Mule
3 1 (1.10%) Mule ESB
3 1 (1.10%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (9.89%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (4.40%) MS Visio
4 3 (3.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (1.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (9.89%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (3.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (2.20%) SAP HCM
3 2 (2.20%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 18 (19.78%) Azure
2 15 (16.48%) AWS
3 8 (8.79%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (6.59%) Power Platform
5 5 (5.49%) Entra ID
5 5 (5.49%) GCP
5 5 (5.49%) SaaS
6 4 (4.40%) Akamai
7 2 (2.20%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.10%) IBM Blueworks
8 1 (1.10%) IBM Watson
8 1 (1.10%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.79%) DNS
1 8 (8.79%) VPN
2 7 (7.69%) Firewall
2 7 (7.69%) WAN
3 5 (5.49%) LAN
3 5 (5.49%) TCP/IP
4 4 (4.40%) BGP
4 4 (4.40%) HTTP
4 4 (4.40%) Network Security
5 3 (3.30%) BIG-IP
5 3 (3.30%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (3.30%) DMZ
5 3 (3.30%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 3 (3.30%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (3.30%) SAN
5 3 (3.30%) Wireshark
6 2 (2.20%) MPLS
6 2 (2.20%) OSPF
6 2 (2.20%) SNMP
6 2 (2.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.49%) Power BI
2 3 (3.30%) Metadata
2 3 (3.30%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.20%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.20%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.20%) SAP HANA
4 1 (1.10%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.10%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 5 (5.49%) JIRA
2 4 (4.40%) GitLab
2 4 (4.40%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.20%) Git
4 1 (1.10%) Claude Code
4 1 (1.10%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.10%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.10%) Hudson
4 1 (1.10%) JUnit
4 1 (1.10%) Maven
4 1 (1.10%) SonarQube
General
1 48 (52.75%) Social Skills
2 34 (37.36%) Finance
3 16 (17.58%) Banking
4 8 (8.79%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (4.40%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.30%) Automotive
6 3 (3.30%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.30%) Legal
6 3 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.30%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.20%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.20%) Marketing
7 2 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.20%) Publishing
8 1 (1.10%) Billing
8 1 (1.10%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.10%) Law
8 1 (1.10%) Military
8 1 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.10%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 26 (28.57%) Analyst
2 9 (9.89%) Security Engineer
3 8 (8.79%) Network Engineer
3 8 (8.79%) Service Analyst
4 6 (6.59%) Consultant
5 5 (5.49%) Lead
5 5 (5.49%) Service Desk Analyst
6 4 (4.40%) Business Analyst
6 4 (4.40%) Data Analyst
6 4 (4.40%) Senior
6 4 (4.40%) Service Management Analyst
7 3 (3.30%) Compliance Specialist
7 3 (3.30%) IT Engineer
7 3 (3.30%) LAN Specialist
7 3 (3.30%) Network Specialist
7 3 (3.30%) Risk Analyst
7 3 (3.30%) Service Transition Manager
7 3 (3.30%) Transition Manager
7 3 (3.30%) VMware Engineer
7 3 (3.30%) WAN Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.49%) JSON
1 5 (5.49%) REST
2 4 (4.40%) XML
3 2 (2.20%) OAuth
3 2 (2.20%) SailPoint
4 1 (1.10%) HTML
4 1 (1.10%) Jakarta EE
4 1 (1.10%) JPA
4 1 (1.10%) Kafka
4 1 (1.10%) Middleware
4 1 (1.10%) RESTful
4 1 (1.10%) Spring
4 1 (1.10%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.10%) Spring MVC
4 1 (1.10%) Spring Security
4 1 (1.10%) Web Services
4 1 (1.10%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
2 7 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 6 (6.59%) Data Centre
3 6 (6.59%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (5.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 4 (4.40%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (3.30%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.30%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (3.30%) Virtual Team
7 2 (2.20%) Client/Server
7 2 (2.20%) Credit Risk
7 2 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.20%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.20%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.20%) Operational Technology
7 2 (2.20%) PKI
7 2 (2.20%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.10%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 14 (15.38%) Windows
2 6 (6.59%) Linux
2 6 (6.59%) Mac OS
3 3 (3.30%) Apple iOS
3 3 (3.30%) Unix
4 2 (2.20%) AIX
4 2 (2.20%) HPUX
4 2 (2.20%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.20%) Solaris
4 2 (2.20%) SUSE
4 2 (2.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (59.34%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (32.97%) Continuous Improvement
3 24 (26.37%) Stakeholder Management
4 21 (23.08%) ITIL
5 17 (18.68%) ITSM
6 16 (17.58%) Project Management
7 15 (16.48%) CI/CD
8 14 (15.38%) Agile
8 14 (15.38%) Change Management
8 14 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
9 13 (14.29%) Analytics
9 13 (14.29%) Incident Response
9 13 (14.29%) Migration
10 12 (13.19%) Risk Management
10 12 (13.19%) SIEM
11 11 (12.09%) Customer Service
11 11 (12.09%) Project Delivery
12 10 (10.99%) Waterfall
13 9 (9.89%) AI
13 9 (9.89%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 15 (16.48%) Python
2 10 (10.99%) PowerShell
2 10 (10.99%) SQL
3 3 (3.30%) Search Processing Language
4 2 (2.20%) ABAP
4 2 (2.20%) Java
4 2 (2.20%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.10%) Assembly Language
5 1 (1.10%) Bash
5 1 (1.10%) C#
5 1 (1.10%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.10%) Korn
5 1 (1.10%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.10%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (13.19%) CISSP
1 12 (13.19%) Degree
2 8 (8.79%) Security Cleared
3 7 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (6.59%) AWS Certification
4 6 (6.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 5 (5.49%) CompTIA Security+
6 4 (4.40%) CISM
6 4 (4.40%) SC Cleared
7 3 (3.30%) A+ Certification
7 3 (3.30%) CCNA
7 3 (3.30%) CCNP
7 3 (3.30%) CEH
7 3 (3.30%) CISA
7 3 (3.30%) CRISC
7 3 (3.30%) GCIH
7 3 (3.30%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (3.30%) MCSE
7 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (3.30%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.99%) SLA
2 9 (9.89%) GRC
3 8 (8.79%) NIST
4 6 (6.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (4.40%) Data Quality
5 4 (4.40%) GDPR
6 3 (3.30%) PCI DSS
7 2 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 2 (2.20%) QA
7 2 (2.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (1.10%) NCSC
8 1 (1.10%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (10.99%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.30%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.20%) Firmware
4 1 (1.10%) Docker
4 1 (1.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (9.89%) Ansible
2 3 (3.30%) Progress Chef
3 2 (2.20%) CASB
3 2 (2.20%) WMI
4 1 (1.10%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.10%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (24.18%) Microsoft
2 17 (18.68%) ServiceNow
3 9 (9.89%) Remedy
4 8 (8.79%) Splunk
5 7 (7.69%) Cisco
6 6 (6.59%) Oracle
6 6 (6.59%) SAP
7 5 (5.49%) F5
8 4 (4.40%) BeyondTrust
8 4 (4.40%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (4.40%) HP
8 4 (4.40%) VMware
9 3 (3.30%) Arista
9 3 (3.30%) Dell
9 3 (3.30%) Fortinet
9 3 (3.30%) Juniper
9 3 (3.30%) Tanium
10 2 (2.20%) Atlassian
10 2 (2.20%) Okta
10 2 (2.20%) Red Hat