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 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 7 7
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 -2
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 292 424 563
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 10.66% 13.99% 13.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.27% 14.74% 14.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 280 357
10th Percentile £205 £199 £158
25th Percentile £313 £350 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% +11.89%
75th Percentile £517 £500 £488
90th Percentile £588 £576 £538
England median daily rate £475 £488 £465
% change year-on-year -2.56% +4.84% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 34 49
10th Percentile - £14.37 £11.36
25th Percentile £10.95 £16.25 £12.59
Median hourly rate £14.83 £22.33 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.59% +44.06% -4.20%
75th Percentile £17.93 £27.29 £21.50
90th Percentile £23.75 £31.75 £26.15
England median hourly rate £16.30 £19.00 £15.52
% change year-on-year -14.21% +22.46% -4.41%

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 2,591 2,877 3,911
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 94.92% 96.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,638 2,039 2,853
10th Percentile £272 £300 £213
25th Percentile £385 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £586 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 299 131 164
10th Percentile £11.13 £14.55 £11.83
25th Percentile £14.06 £18.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £32.90 £30.00 £24.10
Median % change year-on-year +9.65% +24.48% +33.89%
75th Percentile £48.00 £45.62 £52.60
90th Percentile £71.02 £66.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 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 -1 149 £450 +9.09% 108
Cheshire -5 68 £475 +5.56% 43
Merseyside +4 32 £225 -48.57% 27
Cumbria -10 19 £180 -57.65% 9
Lancashire -7 16 £400 -10.37% 38
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 86 (29.45%) Social Skills
2 57 (19.52%) Microsoft
3 53 (18.15%) Customer Service
4 47 (16.10%) Problem-Solving
5 44 (15.07%) Windows
6 42 (14.38%) Requirements Gathering
6 42 (14.38%) SQL
7 40 (13.70%) Stakeholder Management
8 39 (13.36%) Finance
9 37 (12.67%) Public Sector
10 35 (11.99%) Power Platform
10 35 (11.99%) Power BI
11 34 (11.64%) Analytical Skills
11 34 (11.64%) Data Analysis
11 34 (11.64%) Business Analysis
12 33 (11.30%) Microsoft Office
12 33 (11.30%) Business Intelligence
13 30 (10.27%) Active Directory
13 30 (10.27%) Degree
13 30 (10.27%) Windows 10
14 29 (9.93%) Workshop Facilitation
15 28 (9.59%) Agile
15 28 (9.59%) Microsoft Excel
16 27 (9.25%) Pharmaceutical
16 27 (9.25%) Microsoft 365
16 27 (9.25%) Security Cleared
17 25 (8.56%) Data Protection
18 24 (8.22%) Decision-Making
18 24 (8.22%) Migration
18 24 (8.22%) SAP

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 15 (5.14%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.42%) SAS
3 6 (2.05%) Confluence
4 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.34%) LiveLink
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 33 (11.30%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (9.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (4.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.71%) MS Visio
5 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (2.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.34%) SAP PP
2 1 (0.34%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 35 (11.99%) Power Platform
2 27 (9.25%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (7.53%) Azure
4 10 (3.42%) Snowflake
5 9 (3.08%) Google Analytics
6 7 (2.40%) Azure Sentinel
6 7 (2.40%) Collibra
6 7 (2.40%) GCP
7 6 (2.05%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (2.05%) Power Automate
8 5 (1.71%) AWS
8 5 (1.71%) Entra ID
9 4 (1.37%) Google Tag Manager
9 4 (1.37%) SaaS
10 3 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.03%) IaaS
11 2 (0.68%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.68%) BrowserStack
12 1 (0.34%) Azure Data Factory
12 1 (0.34%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.71%) DHCP
1 5 (1.71%) DNS
2 3 (1.03%) Intranet
2 3 (1.03%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.68%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.34%) Internet
4 1 (0.34%) Network Security
4 1 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (11.99%) Power BI
2 11 (3.77%) SQL Server
3 9 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (3.08%) Tableau
4 8 (2.74%) Data Lake
5 6 (2.05%) Ataccama
5 6 (2.05%) BigQuery
5 6 (2.05%) Qlik Sense
6 5 (1.71%) Data Mining
7 3 (1.03%) Data Vault
7 3 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.68%) EDRMS
8 2 (0.68%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.68%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.34%) Big Data
9 1 (0.34%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.34%) Oracle BI EE
9 1 (0.34%) PowerPivot
9 1 (0.34%) Presto
Development Applications
1 14 (4.79%) JIRA
2 6 (2.05%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (0.68%) Postman
3 2 (0.68%) PyCharm
3 2 (0.68%) Selenium
3 2 (0.68%) SoapUI
3 2 (0.68%) Zephyr
4 1 (0.34%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.34%) JMeter
4 1 (0.34%) WebDriver
General
1 86 (29.45%) Social Skills
2 39 (13.36%) Finance
3 37 (12.67%) Public Sector
4 34 (11.64%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (9.25%) Pharmaceutical
6 18 (6.16%) Banking
7 16 (5.48%) Manufacturing
8 10 (3.42%) Retail
9 7 (2.40%) Legal
10 6 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.71%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.37%) Marketing
12 4 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.03%) Billing
13 3 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.03%) Local Government
14 2 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.68%) Law
14 2 (0.68%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.37%) SailPoint
2 2 (0.68%) Middleware
2 2 (0.68%) XML
3 1 (0.34%) .NET
3 1 (0.34%) CSS
3 1 (0.34%) EDI
3 1 (0.34%) HTML
3 1 (0.34%) jQuery
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.34%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (0.34%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
2 7 (2.40%) Data Structures
3 6 (2.05%) Management Information System
4 5 (1.71%) Industry 4.0
4 5 (1.71%) IoT
4 5 (1.71%) NHS
4 5 (1.71%) Robotics
4 5 (1.71%) Virtual Team
5 4 (1.37%) CMDB
6 3 (1.03%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.68%) Derivative
7 2 (0.68%) Driving Licence
7 2 (0.68%) Equities
7 2 (0.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.68%) Life Science
8 1 (0.34%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.34%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.34%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.34%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 44 (15.07%) Windows
2 30 (10.27%) Windows 10
3 3 (1.03%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.68%) Linux
4 2 (0.68%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.34%) Android
5 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (18.15%) Customer Service
2 47 (16.10%) Problem-Solving
3 42 (14.38%) Requirements Gathering
4 40 (13.70%) Stakeholder Management
5 34 (11.64%) Business Analysis
5 34 (11.64%) Data Analysis
6 33 (11.30%) Business Intelligence
7 29 (9.93%) Workshop Facilitation
8 28 (9.59%) Agile
9 25 (8.56%) Data Protection
10 24 (8.22%) Decision-Making
10 24 (8.22%) Migration
11 22 (7.53%) ITIL
12 21 (7.19%) Requirements Workshops
13 20 (6.85%) Cybersecurity
14 19 (6.51%) Roadmaps
14 19 (6.51%) Time Management
15 18 (6.16%) Analytics
15 18 (6.16%) Project Management
16 17 (5.82%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 42 (14.38%) SQL
2 21 (7.19%) Python
3 4 (1.37%) Kusto Query Language
3 4 (1.37%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.03%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.34%) ABAP
6 1 (0.34%) Bash
6 1 (0.34%) Groovy
6 1 (0.34%) Java
6 1 (0.34%) R
6 1 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (10.27%) Degree
2 27 (9.25%) Security Cleared
3 23 (7.88%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.05%) CISSP
4 6 (2.05%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (1.71%) CISM
5 5 (1.71%) CompTIA Security+
5 5 (1.71%) IIBA
6 3 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.03%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (0.68%) CCNA
7 2 (0.68%) CRISC
7 2 (0.68%) MCP
7 2 (0.68%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.34%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.34%) CBAP
8 1 (0.34%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.51%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.48%) Disclosure Scotland
2 16 (5.48%) GDPR
2 16 (5.48%) SLA
3 15 (5.14%) QA
4 10 (3.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (3.08%) NIST
6 6 (2.05%) Good Clinical Practice
6 6 (2.05%) GxP
7 4 (1.37%) PMO
8 3 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.03%) IASME
9 2 (0.68%) GRC
10 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.34%) COREP
10 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (10.27%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.68%) Firmware
5 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (3.77%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (1.71%) ZABBIX
3 4 (1.37%) SCCM
4 3 (1.03%) Thomson Reuters DACS
5 2 (0.68%) Nagios
6 1 (0.34%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.34%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.34%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 57 (19.52%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.22%) SAP
3 23 (7.88%) ServiceNow
4 10 (3.42%) Google
5 8 (2.74%) VMware
6 6 (2.05%) Alteryx
6 6 (2.05%) Ariba
6 6 (2.05%) Citrix
6 6 (2.05%) Dataiku
6 6 (2.05%) Trillium
7 4 (1.37%) CyberArk
7 4 (1.37%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.03%) Bloomberg
8 3 (1.03%) Oracle
8 3 (1.03%) Refinitiv
9 2 (0.68%) Apple
9 2 (0.68%) Cisco
9 2 (0.68%) HP
9 2 (0.68%) Meraki
9 2 (0.68%) Nortel