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 18 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 8 19
Rank change year-on-year -20 +11 +30
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 280 381 482
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 4.59% 16.77% 8.14%
As % of the General category 10.85% 23.04% 15.18%
Number of salaries quoted 203 164 354
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,500 £27,150
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,406 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -1.05% -5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,063 £58,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £88,375 £75,500
North West median annual salary £46,500 £50,000 £47,250
% change year-on-year -7.00% +5.82% -0.53%

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 general skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 2,581 1,654 3,175
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 42.30% 72.80% 53.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,848 850 2,253
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -11.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £80,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%

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 18 June 2026.

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 18 June 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
Bolton -1 14 £40,000 -20.00% 10
Salford -2 12 £41,250 +19.57% 11
Stockport +3 6 £45,000 +17.65% 1
Wigan +1 6 £38,750 - 2
Altrincham +6 3 - - 1
Oldham +6 2 £74,082 +68.36% 2
Ashton-under-Lyne +1 1 £51,000 - 1
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 5 (1.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 5 (1.79%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.43%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.71%) Apache
Applications
1 33 (11.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 16 (5.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (5.36%) SAP PM
3 13 (4.64%) SAP ERP
4 3 (1.07%) SAP QM
5 2 (0.71%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.36%) Magento
6 1 (0.36%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 35 (12.50%) Azure
2 33 (11.79%) Power Platform
3 28 (10.00%) AWS
4 19 (6.79%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (3.57%) GCP
6 9 (3.21%) Serverless
7 7 (2.50%) Amazon S3
7 7 (2.50%) GitHub
8 5 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.43%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (1.43%) SaaS
9 4 (1.43%) Snowflake
10 3 (1.07%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (1.07%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.07%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.07%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (1.07%) OneDrive
10 3 (1.07%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 3 (1.07%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.14%) Firewall
2 4 (1.43%) Cisco ASA
2 4 (1.43%) Cisco Firepower
2 4 (1.43%) Cisco Nexus
2 4 (1.43%) Network Security
3 2 (0.71%) DHCP
3 2 (0.71%) DNS
3 2 (0.71%) SAN
4 1 (0.36%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (14.29%) Tableau
2 30 (10.71%) Power BI
3 10 (3.57%) Data Mining
4 7 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.14%) Big Data
5 6 (2.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (1.79%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.07%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.71%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.71%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.71%) KNIME
8 2 (0.71%) MS Access
9 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.36%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 1 (0.36%) Db2
9 1 (0.36%) GIS
9 1 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.36%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (3.57%) Git
2 3 (1.07%) JIRA
3 2 (0.71%) Postman
4 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.36%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.36%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.36%) Selenium
General
1 126 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 82 (29.29%) Finance
3 51 (18.21%) Law
4 34 (12.14%) Telecoms
5 30 (10.71%) Military
6 25 (8.93%) Back Office
7 17 (6.07%) Marketing
8 16 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (5.36%) Manufacturing
9 15 (5.36%) Public Sector
10 13 (4.64%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (3.93%) Legal
12 10 (3.57%) Banking
13 9 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (2.14%) Retail
16 4 (1.43%) Local Government
17 3 (1.07%) French Language
17 3 (1.07%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 68 (24.29%) Analyst
2 28 (10.00%) Lead
2 28 (10.00%) Senior
3 17 (6.07%) Data Analyst
3 17 (6.07%) Developer
4 15 (5.36%) Performance Analyst
5 13 (4.64%) Business Manager
5 13 (4.64%) Planning Manager
6 12 (4.29%) SAP Manager
7 11 (3.93%) Business Development Manager
7 11 (3.93%) Development Manager
8 10 (3.57%) Consultant
8 10 (3.57%) Performance Manager
9 9 (3.21%) Data Engineer
10 8 (2.86%) Accountant
10 8 (2.86%) Data Manager
10 8 (2.86%) Systems Accountant
10 8 (2.86%) Trainee
10 8 (2.86%) Trainee Analyst
10 8 (2.86%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.36%) HTML
2 12 (4.29%) CSS
3 7 (2.50%) .NET
4 5 (1.79%) AngularJS
4 5 (1.79%) Node.js
4 5 (1.79%) Web Services
5 4 (1.43%) REST
5 4 (1.43%) scikit-learn
6 3 (1.07%) ASP.NET
6 3 (1.07%) ASP.NET MVC
6 3 (1.07%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (1.07%) Middleware
6 3 (1.07%) NumPy
6 3 (1.07%) Pandas
6 3 (1.07%) SOAP
6 3 (1.07%) Visualforce
7 2 (0.71%) RESTful
7 2 (0.71%) SAP Fiori
7 2 (0.71%) Symfony
7 2 (0.71%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.29%) Analytical Mindset
2 18 (6.43%) Onboarding
3 17 (6.07%) Product Ownership
4 8 (2.86%) Credit Risk
5 7 (2.50%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.14%) FMCG
6 6 (2.14%) Marketing Technology
7 5 (1.79%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.79%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.43%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (1.43%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.07%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.07%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.71%) Cyberattack
10 2 (0.71%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.71%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.07%) Windows
2 8 (2.86%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.07%) Android
3 3 (1.07%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.36%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (36.07%) Problem-Solving
2 66 (23.57%) Decision-Making
3 65 (23.21%) Analytics
4 62 (22.14%) Continuous Improvement
5 51 (18.21%) AI
6 47 (16.79%) Agile
7 46 (16.43%) Stakeholder Management
7 46 (16.43%) Visualisation
8 41 (14.64%) Data Governance
9 40 (14.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 33 (11.79%) Business Intelligence
11 31 (11.07%) Validation
12 30 (10.71%) Data Analysis
12 30 (10.71%) Data Development
13 29 (10.36%) ERP
14 27 (9.64%) Data Modelling
14 27 (9.64%) Roadmaps
15 25 (8.93%) Actionable Insight
15 25 (8.93%) Process Improvement
16 24 (8.57%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 68 (24.29%) SQL
2 59 (21.07%) Python
3 15 (5.36%) JavaScript
4 12 (4.29%) C#
5 10 (3.57%) Java
6 5 (1.79%) PHP
6 5 (1.79%) R
6 5 (1.79%) T-SQL
7 4 (1.43%) Scala
8 3 (1.07%) Apex Code
8 3 (1.07%) SOQL
8 3 (1.07%) SOSL
9 2 (0.71%) Bicep
9 2 (0.71%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 35 (12.50%) Degree
2 12 (4.29%) Security Cleared
3 10 (3.57%) ACCA
3 10 (3.57%) HNC
4 8 (2.86%) CIMA
5 7 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (2.14%) IRCA
6 6 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.79%) DBS Check
8 4 (1.43%) CCNA
8 4 (1.43%) CCNP
8 4 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.43%) SC Cleared
9 3 (1.07%) CCA
9 3 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.07%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.36%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.36%) PMP
10 1 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (9.64%) Data Quality
2 18 (6.43%) QA
3 15 (5.36%) SLA
4 10 (3.57%) GDPR
5 6 (2.14%) ISO 9001
6 5 (1.79%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.79%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.43%) GRC
7 4 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.43%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.36%) IFRS
8 1 (0.36%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (5.71%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.21%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.36%) Docker
4 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (1.07%) Terraform
2 2 (0.71%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.36%) Ansible
3 1 (0.36%) Autotask
Vendors
1 53 (18.93%) Microsoft
2 35 (12.50%) SAP
3 8 (2.86%) Adobe
4 7 (2.50%) Databricks
5 5 (1.79%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.43%) Aruba
6 4 (1.43%) Cisco
6 4 (1.43%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (1.43%) HP
6 4 (1.43%) Oracle
7 3 (1.07%) iManage
7 3 (1.07%) Sage
7 3 (1.07%) VMware
8 2 (0.71%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.71%) Google
8 2 (0.71%) IFS
8 2 (0.71%) New Relic
8 2 (0.71%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.71%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.71%) Splunk