Analytics Job Trends in Cheshire

Analytics
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Analytics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 71 40
Rank change year-on-year +14 -31 -28
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 37 30 38
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheshire 1.96% 3.96% 3.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.03% 4.44% 4.77%
Number of salaries quoted 33 14 19
10th Percentile £31,920 £28,571 £47,613
25th Percentile £42,500 £30,438 £55,163
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,250 £56,509
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -18.15% +66.20%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,813 £78,457
90th Percentile £81,250 £70,000 £90,822
North West median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,250
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.98% -7.18%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Analytics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,221 676 796
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 64.74% 89.18% 72.10%
Number of salaries quoted 928 317 492
10th Percentile £29,925 £29,750 £27,550
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -1.04%
75th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,250 £77,500 £68,484
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -0.99% -8.18%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Analytics relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Analytics job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Analytics
Salary Trend in Cheshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Analytics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Analytics

Analytics
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytics in Cheshire over the 6 months to 21 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Analytics in Cheshire

Analytics
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Analytics within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 21 September 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Warrington -21 11 £50,000 -11.11% 15
Chester -1 9 £45,000 -25.00% 30
Runcorn -2 8 £57,500 +15.00% 1
Crewe -3 2 £27,500 -54.17% 4
Macclesfield - 2 £70,000 - 3
Nantwich - 1 £56,500 -
Neston - 1 - -
Widnes - 1 £39,602 -
Analytics
North West

Analytics
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 1 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.70%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.70%) CMS
1 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
1 1 (2.70%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Magento
2 1 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (37.84%) Azure
1 14 (37.84%) Power Platform
2 5 (13.51%) SaaS
2 5 (13.51%) Snowflake
3 4 (10.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (8.11%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (8.11%) Google Analytics
5 2 (5.41%) Veeva
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.70%) AWS
6 1 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.70%) Copilot Studio
6 1 (2.70%) GCP
6 1 (2.70%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) Wireless
2 1 (2.70%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.70%) SNMP
2 1 (2.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (37.84%) Power BI
2 10 (27.03%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (13.51%) Data Lake
4 4 (10.81%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (10.81%) SQL Server
4 4 (10.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (8.11%) Looker
5 3 (8.11%) Metadata
6 2 (5.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (2.70%) Big Data
7 1 (2.70%) Data Mart
7 1 (2.70%) Data Vault
7 1 (2.70%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (2.70%) Neo4j
7 1 (2.70%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (2.70%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 12 (32.43%) Marketing
2 7 (18.92%) Manufacturing
3 6 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (16.22%) Finance
3 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
4 5 (13.51%) Retail
5 3 (8.11%) Law
6 2 (5.41%) Billing
7 1 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Military
7 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Publishing
7 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (24.32%) Developer
2 8 (21.62%) Senior
3 5 (13.51%) Analyst
3 5 (13.51%) Architect
3 5 (13.51%) Data Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) Delivery Manager
3 5 (13.51%) Junior
4 4 (10.81%) Analytics Developer
4 4 (10.81%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 4 (10.81%) Senior Developer
5 3 (8.11%) Data Architect
5 3 (8.11%) E-Commerce Specialist
5 3 (8.11%) Senior Architect
5 3 (8.11%) Senior Data Architect
5 3 (8.11%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Business Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) CRM Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) CRM Business Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Data Business Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Data Migration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) PySpark
2 1 (2.70%) CSS
2 1 (2.70%) DOM
2 1 (2.70%) HTML
2 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) Derivative
2 2 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.41%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.70%) Blog
3 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.70%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.70%) Life Science
3 1 (2.70%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (29.73%) ETL
2 10 (27.03%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (27.03%) Data Modelling
3 9 (24.32%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 8 (21.62%) CRM
4 8 (21.62%) Decision-Making
5 7 (18.92%) Migration
5 7 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (16.22%) Data Engineering
7 5 (13.51%) AI
7 5 (13.51%) Data Architecture
7 5 (13.51%) Data Migration
7 5 (13.51%) Mentoring
7 5 (13.51%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (13.51%) Visualisation
8 4 (10.81%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (10.81%) Data Analytics
8 4 (10.81%) Digital Marketing
8 4 (10.81%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (10.81%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 12 (32.43%) SQL
2 4 (10.81%) Python
3 2 (5.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (2.70%) Java
4 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.70%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (2.70%) Scala
4 1 (2.70%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.70%) DBS Check
1 1 (2.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.22%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (2.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (45.95%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.51%) Salesforce
3 4 (10.81%) Databricks
3 4 (10.81%) SAP
4 3 (8.11%) Google
5 2 (5.41%) Adobe
6 1 (2.70%) Optimizely
6 1 (2.70%) Sitecore
6 1 (2.70%) Splunk