Analyst Contracts in the North West

Analyst
England > North West

The median Analyst daily rate in the North West is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 8 7
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 -1
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 286 435 548
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 10.72% 14.17% 13.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.33% 14.92% 14.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 285 341
10th Percentile £213 £200 £158
25th Percentile £323 £350 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £388
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +9.68% +7.64%
75th Percentile £524 £500 £488
90th Percentile £588 £581 £538
England median daily rate £475 £480 £463
% change year-on-year -1.04% +3.78% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 31 56
10th Percentile - £14.25 £11.36
25th Percentile £10.95 £16.25 £12.38
Median hourly rate £14.00 £22.41 £15.87
Median % change year-on-year -37.53% +41.25% -1.55%
75th Percentile £17.72 £27.28 £20.03
90th Percentile £22.63 £32.50 £24.75
England median hourly rate £16.00 £19.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year -15.79% +22.58% -4.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North West with a recognized job title 2,525 2,915 3,889
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 94.95% 96.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,640 2,070 2,834
10th Percentile £276 £300 £213
25th Percentile £390 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +13.10%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £569
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 124 179
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.58 £11.75
25th Percentile £13.50 £19.22 £15.51
Median hourly rate £27.75 £30.54 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.14% +22.16% +38.45%
75th Percentile £46.91 £48.91 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.70 £66.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.23
% change year-on-year -17.38% +93.72% +5.59%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in the North West

Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analyst in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Analyst in the North West

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analyst in the North West over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in the North West

Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analyst in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Analyst in the North West

Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analyst in the North West over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analyst in the North West

Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the North West region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
Manchester -2 145 £450 +9.76% 86
Cheshire -4 67 £475 +7.65% 45
Merseyside +6 33 £225 -47.06% 21
Cumbria -19 17 £180 -48.57%
Lancashire -10 15 £400 -5.88% 27
Analyst
England

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 16 May 2024, Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North West region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 91 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 63 (22.03%) Microsoft
3 56 (19.58%) Customer Service
4 48 (16.78%) Problem-Solving
5 46 (16.08%) Windows
6 43 (15.03%) SQL
7 41 (14.34%) Requirements Gathering
8 38 (13.29%) Microsoft Office
9 37 (12.94%) Stakeholder Management
9 37 (12.94%) Business Analysis
9 37 (12.94%) Public Sector
10 36 (12.59%) Finance
10 36 (12.59%) Analytical Skills
11 35 (12.24%) Power BI
11 35 (12.24%) Power Platform
12 34 (11.89%) Degree
13 33 (11.54%) Data Analysis
13 33 (11.54%) Business Intelligence
14 32 (11.19%) Windows 10
15 30 (10.49%) Active Directory
16 29 (10.14%) Workshop Facilitation
17 28 (9.79%) Agile
17 28 (9.79%) Security Cleared
18 27 (9.44%) Pharmaceutical
19 25 (8.74%) ITIL
19 25 (8.74%) Data Protection
19 25 (8.74%) ServiceNow
19 25 (8.74%) Microsoft 365
20 24 (8.39%) SC Cleared
20 24 (8.39%) Decision-Making

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (4.55%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.50%) SAS
3 6 (2.10%) Confluence
4 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.35%) LiveLink
Applications
1 38 (13.29%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (8.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (4.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (2.10%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.35%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 35 (12.24%) Power Platform
2 25 (8.74%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (7.34%) Azure
4 10 (3.50%) Snowflake
5 8 (2.80%) Google Analytics
6 7 (2.45%) Azure Sentinel
6 7 (2.45%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (2.45%) Collibra
6 7 (2.45%) GCP
7 6 (2.10%) Power Automate
8 5 (1.75%) Entra ID
9 4 (1.40%) AWS
9 4 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.40%) Google Tag Manager
9 4 (1.40%) SaaS
10 3 (1.05%) IaaS
11 2 (0.70%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.70%) BrowserStack
11 2 (0.70%) Mimecast
12 1 (0.35%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.75%) DHCP
1 5 (1.75%) DNS
2 3 (1.05%) Intranet
2 3 (1.05%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.70%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.35%) Broadband
4 1 (0.35%) Internet
4 1 (0.35%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (12.24%) Power BI
2 11 (3.85%) SQL Server
3 9 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (2.80%) Data Lake
5 7 (2.45%) Tableau
6 6 (2.10%) Ataccama
6 6 (2.10%) BigQuery
6 6 (2.10%) Qlik Sense
7 5 (1.75%) Data Mining
8 3 (1.05%) Data Vault
8 3 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.70%) EDRMS
9 2 (0.70%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.70%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.35%) Big Data
10 1 (0.35%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.35%) Oracle BI EE
10 1 (0.35%) PowerPivot
10 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 14 (4.90%) JIRA
2 6 (2.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (0.70%) Postman
3 2 (0.70%) PyCharm
3 2 (0.70%) Selenium
3 2 (0.70%) SoapUI
3 2 (0.70%) Zephyr
4 1 (0.35%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.35%) JMeter
4 1 (0.35%) Rational Software Modeler
4 1 (0.35%) WebDriver
General
1 91 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 37 (12.94%) Public Sector
3 36 (12.59%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (12.59%) Finance
4 27 (9.44%) Pharmaceutical
5 17 (5.94%) Banking
6 15 (5.24%) Manufacturing
7 9 (3.15%) Retail
8 8 (2.80%) Legal
9 6 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.75%) Marketing
10 5 (1.75%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.40%) Law
12 3 (1.05%) Billing
12 3 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.05%) Local Government
13 2 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.70%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.40%) SailPoint
2 2 (0.70%) Middleware
3 1 (0.35%) .NET
3 1 (0.35%) EDI
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.35%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (0.35%) SOAP
3 1 (0.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
1 8 (2.80%) Data Structures
1 8 (2.80%) Management Information System
2 6 (2.10%) Virtual Team
3 5 (1.75%) Industry 4.0
3 5 (1.75%) IoT
3 5 (1.75%) Robotics
4 4 (1.40%) CMDB
4 4 (1.40%) NHS
5 3 (1.05%) Life Science
5 3 (1.05%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.70%) Driving Licence
6 2 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.70%) Tandem
7 1 (0.35%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.35%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.35%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.35%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 46 (16.08%) Windows
2 32 (11.19%) Windows 10
3 3 (1.05%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.70%) Android
4 2 (0.70%) Linux
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (19.58%) Customer Service
2 48 (16.78%) Problem-Solving
3 41 (14.34%) Requirements Gathering
4 37 (12.94%) Business Analysis
4 37 (12.94%) Stakeholder Management
5 33 (11.54%) Business Intelligence
5 33 (11.54%) Data Analysis
6 29 (10.14%) Workshop Facilitation
7 28 (9.79%) Agile
8 25 (8.74%) Data Protection
8 25 (8.74%) ITIL
9 24 (8.39%) Decision-Making
10 21 (7.34%) Migration
10 21 (7.34%) Requirements Workshops
11 20 (6.99%) Cybersecurity
12 19 (6.64%) Project Management
12 19 (6.64%) Roadmaps
12 19 (6.64%) Time Management
12 19 (6.64%) Use Case
12 19 (6.64%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 43 (15.03%) SQL
2 23 (8.04%) Python
3 4 (1.40%) Kusto Query Language
3 4 (1.40%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (0.70%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.35%) ABAP
6 1 (0.35%) Bash
6 1 (0.35%) Groovy
6 1 (0.35%) Java
6 1 (0.35%) R
6 1 (0.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 34 (11.89%) Degree
2 28 (9.79%) Security Cleared
3 24 (8.39%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.45%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (2.10%) CISSP
6 5 (1.75%) CISM
6 5 (1.75%) CompTIA Security+
6 5 (1.75%) IIBA
7 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.05%) MCP
9 2 (0.70%) CCNA
9 2 (0.70%) CRISC
9 2 (0.70%) ISEB
9 2 (0.70%) MCSE
9 2 (0.70%) MOS
9 2 (0.70%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (0.70%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.35%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.64%) Data Quality
2 17 (5.94%) GDPR
3 16 (5.59%) Disclosure Scotland
3 16 (5.59%) QA
3 16 (5.59%) SLA
4 10 (3.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (3.15%) NIST
6 6 (2.10%) Good Clinical Practice
6 6 (2.10%) GxP
7 3 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.05%) IASME
8 2 (0.70%) COREP
8 2 (0.70%) GRC
8 2 (0.70%) PMO
9 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.35%) FINREP
9 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 30 (10.49%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.70%) Firmware
3 2 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (1.75%) ZABBIX
3 4 (1.40%) SCCM
4 3 (1.05%) Thomson Reuters DACS
5 2 (0.70%) Nagios
6 1 (0.35%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.35%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.35%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 63 (22.03%) Microsoft
2 25 (8.74%) ServiceNow
3 23 (8.04%) SAP
4 9 (3.15%) Google
5 8 (2.80%) VMware
6 6 (2.10%) Alteryx
6 6 (2.10%) Ariba
6 6 (2.10%) Citrix
6 6 (2.10%) Dataiku
6 6 (2.10%) Trillium
7 4 (1.40%) CyberArk
7 4 (1.40%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.05%) Bloomberg
8 3 (1.05%) Oracle
8 3 (1.05%) Refinitiv
9 2 (0.70%) Cisco
9 2 (0.70%) HP
9 2 (0.70%) Nortel
9 2 (0.70%) Sophos
9 2 (0.70%) Workday