Analytical Skills Contracts in the North West

Analytical Skills
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 24 29
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 -6
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 165 198 267
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 6.03% 6.53% 6.58%
As % of the General category 11.27% 12.56% 13.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 126 153
10th Percentile £319 £291 £200
25th Percentile £400 £369 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% +4.88%
75th Percentile £525 £547 £525
90th Percentile £613 £650 £630
England median daily rate £525 £536 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% +2.14% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 9 30
10th Percentile £11.77 £23.15 £14.25
25th Percentile £13.50 - £15.92
Median hourly rate £17.72 £35.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -49.37% +37.25% +8.65%
75th Percentile £43.75 £56.40 £50.17
90th Percentile £54.00 £63.60 £52.88
England median hourly rate £19.00 £43.43 £35.50
% change year-on-year -56.25% +22.34% +73.17%

All General Skills
North West

Analytical Skills is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,464 1,576 2,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 53.47% 52.00% 50.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 877 1,088 1,422
10th Percentile £295 £305 £226
25th Percentile £394 £406 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £575
90th Percentile £671 £675 £650
England median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 79 111
10th Percentile £12.50 £14.73 £10.63
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.85 £14.82
Median hourly rate £21.00 £25.00 £23.06
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +8.44% +9.79%
75th Percentile £37.25 £35.02 £50.71
90th Percentile £51.89 £53.73 £65.00
England median hourly rate £30.44 £31.92 £21.50
% change year-on-year -4.65% +48.47% +2.14%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Analytical Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in the North West

Analytical Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Analytical Skills in the North West

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in the North West over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the North West

Analytical Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Skills in the North West

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Skills in the North West over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the North West

Analytical Skills
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 Analytical Skills within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 June 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 +6 79 £451 +1.98% 203
Cheshire -7 43 £400 -18.58% 88
Cumbria -2 28 £493 +1.44% 21
Lancashire -3 10 £400 -13.51% 58
Merseyside +8 3 - - 39
Analytical Skills
England

Analytical Skills
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 5 (3.03%) Confluence
2 2 (1.21%) Apache
2 2 (1.21%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.21%) IBM Notes
2 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.21%) Mule
3 1 (0.61%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.61%) CMS
3 1 (0.61%) JBoss
3 1 (0.61%) nginx
3 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.61%) Smallworld
3 1 (0.61%) Tomcat
Applications
1 21 (12.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (8.48%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (7.27%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (5.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (3.64%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.61%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.61%) Autodesk Inventor
6 1 (0.61%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.61%) SAP EWM
1 1 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.61%) SAP SD
1 1 (0.61%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 27 (16.36%) Power Platform
2 18 (10.91%) AWS
3 16 (9.70%) Azure
4 12 (7.27%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (4.24%) GCP
6 4 (2.42%) OneDrive
7 3 (1.82%) Google Analytics
7 3 (1.82%) Google Tag Manager
7 3 (1.82%) SaaS
7 3 (1.82%) Snowflake
8 2 (1.21%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.21%) IaaS
8 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (1.21%) PaaS
8 2 (1.21%) Serverless
9 1 (0.61%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.61%) BrowserStack
9 1 (0.61%) Cloudflare
9 1 (0.61%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.61%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.45%) TCP/IP
2 6 (3.64%) BGP
2 6 (3.64%) OSPF
3 5 (3.03%) VLAN
4 4 (2.42%) DNS
4 4 (2.42%) MPLS
4 4 (2.42%) Value-Added Service
4 4 (2.42%) VPN
4 4 (2.42%) Wireshark
5 3 (1.82%) DHCP
5 3 (1.82%) Internet
5 3 (1.82%) Skype
6 2 (1.21%) Firewall
7 1 (0.61%) 2G
7 1 (0.61%) 3G
7 1 (0.61%) 5G
7 1 (0.61%) DWDM
7 1 (0.61%) LAN
7 1 (0.61%) MQTT
7 1 (0.61%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (14.55%) Power BI
2 11 (6.67%) Tableau
3 9 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (4.85%) Data Lake
5 7 (4.24%) Relational Database
6 5 (3.03%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.42%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.21%) Big Data
8 2 (1.21%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.21%) MySQL
8 2 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.61%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.61%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.61%) OLAP
9 1 (0.61%) Presto
9 1 (0.61%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.61%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (3.64%) JIRA
2 3 (1.82%) Burp Suite
3 2 (1.21%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.21%) Git
3 2 (1.21%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.21%) Liquibase
3 2 (1.21%) Log4j
3 2 (1.21%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.61%) GoCD
4 1 (0.61%) Pa11y
4 1 (0.61%) PyCharm
4 1 (0.61%) TestCafe
General
1 91 (55.15%) Social Skills
2 31 (18.79%) Finance
3 17 (10.30%) Public Sector
4 11 (6.67%) Banking
5 7 (4.24%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (4.24%) Manufacturing
5 7 (4.24%) Pharmaceutical
6 6 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.42%) Legal
7 4 (2.42%) Police
7 4 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.42%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.82%) Local Government
8 3 (1.82%) Marketing
8 3 (1.82%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.21%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.61%) German Language
10 1 (0.61%) Military
10 1 (0.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (20.61%) Analyst
2 20 (12.12%) Senior
3 14 (8.48%) Capacity Manager
4 12 (7.27%) Availability Manager
4 12 (7.27%) Capacity and Availability Manager
4 12 (7.27%) Developer
5 10 (6.06%) Architect
5 10 (6.06%) Data Analyst
6 8 (4.85%) Business Analyst
6 8 (4.85%) Support Engineer
7 7 (4.24%) Administrator
7 7 (4.24%) Consultant
7 7 (4.24%) IT Engineer
8 6 (3.64%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (3.64%) Software Asset Manager
8 6 (3.64%) Software Manager
8 6 (3.64%) Systems Administrator
9 5 (3.03%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 5 (3.03%) Java Developer
9 5 (3.03%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.42%) Node.js
1 4 (2.42%) React
2 3 (1.82%) Middleware
2 3 (1.82%) React Native
2 3 (1.82%) REST
3 2 (1.21%) Hibernate
3 2 (1.21%) HTML
3 2 (1.21%) Jest
3 2 (1.21%) Kafka
3 2 (1.21%) PySpark
3 2 (1.21%) Spring
3 2 (1.21%) Web Services
4 1 (0.61%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.61%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.61%) Express.js
4 1 (0.61%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.61%) HTML5
4 1 (0.61%) IBM Integration Bus
4 1 (0.61%) koa
4 1 (0.61%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 33 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 12 (7.27%) CMDB
3 10 (6.06%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (4.24%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (4.24%) Virtual Team
5 6 (3.64%) NHS
6 5 (3.03%) Life Science
6 5 (3.03%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 4 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.42%) Derivative
7 4 (2.42%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.42%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.82%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.82%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.21%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.21%) Equities
9 2 (1.21%) SCADA
9 2 (1.21%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (1.21%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.45%) Windows
2 7 (4.24%) Linux
2 7 (4.24%) Windows 10
3 5 (3.03%) Apple iOS
4 4 (2.42%) Mac OS
4 4 (2.42%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.82%) Kali Linux
5 3 (1.82%) Unix
6 1 (0.61%) Android
6 1 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.61%) VMS
6 1 (0.61%) Windows 8
6 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.61%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (58.79%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (18.18%) Mentoring
3 29 (17.58%) Service Management
4 28 (16.97%) Agile
5 25 (15.15%) Statistics
6 24 (14.55%) Quality Management
7 22 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
8 21 (12.73%) Time Management
9 20 (12.12%) Project Management
10 19 (11.52%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (11.52%) Problem Management
11 18 (10.91%) Analytics
11 18 (10.91%) Capacity Management
12 17 (10.30%) Availability Management
13 14 (8.48%) Data Modelling
14 13 (7.88%) Validation
14 13 (7.88%) Visualisation
15 12 (7.27%) Change Management
15 12 (7.27%) Stakeholder Management
16 11 (6.67%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (18.79%) SQL
2 12 (7.27%) Python
3 7 (4.24%) Java
4 6 (3.64%) PowerShell
5 4 (2.42%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.21%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.21%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.61%) C#
8 1 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.61%) R
8 1 (0.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (18.79%) Security Cleared
2 28 (16.97%) Degree
3 25 (15.15%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.85%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.03%) CCNP
6 5 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.42%) CCIE
7 4 (2.42%) CCNA
7 4 (2.42%) VCAP
8 3 (1.82%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (1.82%) OSCP
8 3 (1.82%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.82%) PMP
9 2 (1.21%) ACCA
9 2 (1.21%) CIMA
9 2 (1.21%) CIPFA
9 2 (1.21%) CISSP
9 2 (1.21%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.21%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.88%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.45%) GDPR
3 7 (4.24%) SLA
4 6 (3.64%) GxP
5 5 (3.03%) GAMP
5 5 (3.03%) QA
6 4 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (2.42%) PMO
7 3 (1.82%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.82%) PCI DSS
8 2 (1.21%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.61%) COREP
System Software
1 11 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.61%) Firmware
3 1 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.61%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 6 (3.64%) Microsoft Intune
1 6 (3.64%) SCCM
2 4 (2.42%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 4 (2.42%) Terraform
3 2 (1.21%) Nagios
3 2 (1.21%) ZABBIX
4 1 (0.61%) Ansible
4 1 (0.61%) Grafana
4 1 (0.61%) Kibana
4 1 (0.61%) Nessus
Vendors
1 29 (17.58%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.67%) SAP
3 8 (4.85%) SolarWinds
4 6 (3.64%) ServiceNow
4 6 (3.64%) VMware
5 5 (3.03%) Google
6 4 (2.42%) Apple
6 4 (2.42%) LogicMonitor
6 4 (2.42%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.21%) Databricks
7 2 (1.21%) Lotus
7 2 (1.21%) Oracle
7 2 (1.21%) Splunk
7 2 (1.21%) Symantec
8 1 (0.61%) Ariba
8 1 (0.61%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.61%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.61%) Facebook
8 1 (0.61%) Pega
8 1 (0.61%) Proofpoint