Analytical Skills Job Trends in Manchester

Analytical Skills
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in permanent job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 15 31
Rank change year-on-year -1 +16 +9
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 210 387 179
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 9.10% 11.44% 7.94%
As % of the General category 14.65% 18.42% 13.17%
Number of salaries quoted 93 160 136
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,828 £36,875
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,188 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -16.04% +32.35%
75th Percentile £55,000 £67,500 £67,070
90th Percentile £69,500 £80,375 £73,125
North West median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +11.11%

All General Skills
Manchester

Analytical Skills falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring common skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,433 2,101 1,359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 62.09% 62.09% 60.29%
Number of salaries quoted 843 848 1,045
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -11.85% +8.28%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £86,625 £85,000
North West median annual salary £47,500 £50,055 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.10% -8.99% +4.76%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Analytical Skills relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Analytical Skills job vacancy trend in Manchester

Analytical Skills
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Analytical Skills.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in Manchester over the 6 months to 2 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Analytical Skills in Manchester

Analytical Skills
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Analytical Skills within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 2 December 2025. 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
Salford +6 18 £45,000 -24.28% 6
Stockport +7 6 £77,500 +55.00% 20
Bury 0 4 - - 7
Bolton -9 3 £45,000 +5.88% 18
Oldham +6 1 - - 3
Altrincham - 1 £27,500 - 3
Cheadle - 1 £200,000 - 2
Analytical Skills
North West

Analytical Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 18 (8.57%) SharePoint
2 13 (6.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.38%) Confluence
4 2 (0.95%) CMS
4 2 (0.95%) nginx
5 1 (0.48%) Apache
5 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.48%) FactoryTalk
5 1 (0.48%) SAS
5 1 (0.48%) WinCC
Applications
1 46 (21.90%) Chatbot
2 38 (18.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (7.62%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (4.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.95%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.95%) Revit
6 1 (0.48%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 5 (2.38%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.95%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (0.95%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (0.95%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.95%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.48%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.48%) Siebel CRM
3 1 (0.48%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 31 (14.76%) Power Platform
2 30 (14.29%) Azure
3 25 (11.90%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (10.48%) Entra ID
5 18 (8.57%) AWS
6 13 (6.19%) Microsoft Purview
7 11 (5.24%) SaaS
8 10 (4.76%) Microsoft Copilot
9 6 (2.86%) Adobe Analytics
9 6 (2.86%) Figma
10 5 (2.38%) GCP
11 3 (1.43%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (1.43%) OneDrive
12 2 (0.95%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (0.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (0.95%) Google Docs
12 2 (0.95%) Google Sheets
12 2 (0.95%) Google Workspace
12 2 (0.95%) iPaaS
12 2 (0.95%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.24%) Firewall
2 2 (0.95%) DHCP
2 2 (0.95%) DNS
2 2 (0.95%) Network Security
2 2 (0.95%) VLAN
3 1 (0.48%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.48%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.48%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (13.33%) Power BI
2 14 (6.67%) Tableau
3 11 (5.24%) Data Mining
4 4 (1.90%) BusinessObjects
4 4 (1.90%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.95%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.95%) Looker
5 2 (0.95%) MySQL
5 2 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.48%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.48%) Big Data
6 1 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.48%) Power Query
6 1 (0.48%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (0.48%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (2.38%) JIRA
2 3 (1.43%) Git
3 1 (0.48%) Gatling
3 1 (0.48%) JMeter
3 1 (0.48%) LoadRunner
3 1 (0.48%) WaveMaker
General
1 94 (44.76%) Social Skills
2 78 (37.14%) Finance
3 15 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (6.19%) Banking
5 12 (5.71%) Influencing Skills
5 12 (5.71%) Legal
5 12 (5.71%) Retail
6 10 (4.76%) Law
6 10 (4.76%) Marketing
6 10 (4.76%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.86%) Local Government
8 6 (2.86%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.38%) Police
10 4 (1.90%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.43%) Electronics
12 2 (0.95%) Advertising
12 2 (0.95%) General Ledger
12 2 (0.95%) Military
Job Titles
1 53 (25.24%) Analyst
2 46 (21.90%) Trainer
3 18 (8.57%) Support Engineer
4 17 (8.10%) Financial Analyst
5 15 (7.14%) Data Analyst
6 12 (5.71%) Commercial Analyst
7 11 (5.24%) Senior
8 10 (4.76%) Architect
8 10 (4.76%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 10 (4.76%) Microsoft Engineer
9 9 (4.29%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (3.81%) Lead
10 8 (3.81%) Technical Engineer
10 8 (3.81%) Technical Support
10 8 (3.81%) Technical Support Engineer
11 7 (3.33%) Trainee
11 7 (3.33%) Trainee Analyst
11 7 (3.33%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 6 (2.86%) Azure Architect
12 6 (2.86%) Strategy Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.86%) Software Packaging
2 2 (0.95%) CSS
2 2 (0.95%) HTML
2 2 (0.95%) jQuery
2 2 (0.95%) Laravel
2 2 (0.95%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (0.95%) PySpark
2 2 (0.95%) React
2 2 (0.95%) REST
3 1 (0.48%) RESTful
3 1 (0.48%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (0.48%) Spring
3 1 (0.48%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.48%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 39 (18.57%) Analytical Mindset
2 19 (9.05%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (5.71%) Social Media
4 11 (5.24%) Driving Licence
4 11 (5.24%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.81%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.81%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.38%) NHS
8 4 (1.90%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.95%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.95%) Derivative
9 2 (0.95%) EPoS
9 2 (0.95%) Equities
9 2 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.95%) Operational Technology
9 2 (0.95%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.95%) SCADA
9 2 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.76%) Windows
2 2 (0.95%) Windows Server
2 2 (0.95%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
2 75 (35.71%) AI
3 50 (23.81%) Decision-Making
4 46 (21.90%) Chemistry
4 46 (21.90%) Conversational UI
5 38 (18.10%) Agile
6 34 (16.19%) Continuous Improvement
7 27 (12.86%) Analytics
7 27 (12.86%) Business Intelligence
8 23 (10.95%) Data Analysis
9 22 (10.48%) Stakeholder Management
10 21 (10.00%) Actionable Insight
10 21 (10.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
11 20 (9.52%) Business Analysis
12 19 (9.05%) Business Strategy
12 19 (9.05%) ERP
13 16 (7.62%) Financial Modelling
13 16 (7.62%) Project Management
13 16 (7.62%) Visualisation
14 15 (7.14%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (17.14%) SQL
2 12 (5.71%) PowerShell
2 12 (5.71%) Python
3 4 (1.90%) VBA
4 2 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (0.95%) JavaScript
4 2 (0.95%) PHP
5 1 (0.48%) Java
5 1 (0.48%) R
5 1 (0.48%) Scala
Qualifications
1 86 (40.95%) Degree
2 49 (23.33%) Master's Degree
3 46 (21.90%) PhD
4 14 (6.67%) DBS Check
5 12 (5.71%) ACCA
5 12 (5.71%) CIMA
6 5 (2.38%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.43%) AAT
7 3 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.95%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.95%) Chartered Engineer
8 2 (0.95%) CISA
8 2 (0.95%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.95%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.48%) CISSP
9 1 (0.48%) HND
9 1 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.48%) MBA
9 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.48%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.86%) GDPR
3 6 (2.86%) QA
4 5 (2.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 5 (2.38%) GLBA
5 3 (1.43%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.95%) FINRA
6 2 (0.95%) P3O
7 1 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.48%) COBIT
7 1 (0.48%) ITGC
7 1 (0.48%) NIST
7 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.48%) SOX 404
System Software
1 15 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.81%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.95%) Docker
5 1 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (5.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (1.43%) Terraform
3 1 (0.48%) AssetCenter
3 1 (0.48%) SCCM
Vendors
1 53 (25.24%) Microsoft
2 46 (21.90%) PayPal
3 9 (4.29%) Google
4 8 (3.81%) SAP
5 6 (2.86%) Adobe
5 6 (2.86%) Qualtrics
6 5 (2.38%) Guidewire
6 5 (2.38%) iManage
6 5 (2.38%) Oracle
7 4 (1.90%) Facebook
7 4 (1.90%) Splunk
7 4 (1.90%) VMware
8 3 (1.43%) New Relic
8 3 (1.43%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.95%) Cisco
9 2 (0.95%) MobileIron
9 2 (0.95%) Siemens
9 2 (0.95%) SnapLogic
9 2 (0.95%) UiPath
9 2 (0.95%) Veeam