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 25 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 10 17
Rank change year-on-year -19 +7 +23
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 313 374 407
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 4.83% 14.98% 8.34%
As % of the General category 11.73% 21.86% 15.28%
Number of salaries quoted 224 169 282
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,175 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.06% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,750 £81,125
North West median annual salary £47,275 £47,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +0.59% -1.05% +5.56%

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 2,668 1,711 2,664
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 41.16% 68.55% 54.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,908 897 1,746
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,920 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £38,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £66,067
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £81,625
North West median annual salary £50,000 £48,068 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.02% -3.86% -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 25 July 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 25 July 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 15 £40,000 -20.00% 5
Salford -2 15 £40,000 +0.63% 4
Stockport +1 9 £45,000 +17.65% 4
Wigan +3 8 £38,750 - 5
Altrincham +6 3 - -
Oldham +4 2 £74,082 +68.36%
Ashton-under-Lyne -1 1 £51,000 -
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 (1.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.96%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.64%) Apache
4 2 (0.64%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.64%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.32%) WebSphere
Applications
1 41 (13.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (4.47%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (3.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.64%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (6.07%) SAP PM
2 16 (5.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (4.15%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.96%) SAP QM
5 2 (0.64%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.64%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.32%) Magento
6 1 (0.32%) SAP ECC
Cloud Services
1 40 (12.78%) Azure
2 36 (11.50%) AWS
3 33 (10.54%) Power Platform
4 18 (5.75%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (4.15%) GCP
6 9 (2.88%) Serverless
7 8 (2.56%) Amazon S3
8 7 (2.24%) GitHub
8 7 (2.24%) Snowflake
9 6 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.28%) OpenShift
11 3 (0.96%) Amazon SageMaker
11 3 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (0.96%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (0.96%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 3 (0.96%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 2 (0.64%) dbt
12 2 (0.64%) Meta Ads
12 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.24%) Internet
2 6 (1.92%) Firewall
3 4 (1.28%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (1.28%) Cisco Firepower
3 4 (1.28%) Cisco Nexus
3 4 (1.28%) DHCP
3 4 (1.28%) DNS
3 4 (1.28%) Network Security
4 3 (0.96%) SAN
5 2 (0.64%) LAN
5 2 (0.64%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.64%) VSAN
5 2 (0.64%) WAN
6 1 (0.32%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.32%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.32%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.32%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (13.42%) Tableau
2 32 (10.22%) Power BI
3 11 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (2.24%) Data Mining
4 7 (2.24%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (1.60%) Big Data
7 3 (0.96%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.64%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.64%) Data Hub
8 2 (0.64%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.64%) KNIME
8 2 (0.64%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.64%) MS Access
8 2 (0.64%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.64%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.32%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.32%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 17 (5.43%) Git
2 4 (1.28%) JIRA
3 3 (0.96%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.64%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.64%) Postman
4 2 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.32%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.32%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.32%) Selenium
General
1 139 (44.41%) Social Skills
2 96 (30.67%) Finance
3 56 (17.89%) Law
4 38 (12.14%) Telecoms
5 34 (10.86%) Military
6 30 (9.58%) Back Office
7 20 (6.39%) Marketing
8 18 (5.75%) Public Sector
9 16 (5.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (4.79%) Manufacturing
11 14 (4.47%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (4.47%) Organisational Skills
12 11 (3.51%) Legal
13 9 (2.88%) Banking
14 8 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (2.24%) Local Government
16 6 (1.92%) Retail
17 3 (0.96%) Publishing
18 2 (0.64%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 73 (23.32%) Analyst
2 31 (9.90%) Senior
3 29 (9.27%) Lead
4 19 (6.07%) Data Analyst
5 17 (5.43%) Developer
6 16 (5.11%) Development Manager
7 15 (4.79%) Business Manager
7 15 (4.79%) Performance Analyst
8 14 (4.47%) Business Development Manager
8 14 (4.47%) Performance Manager
9 13 (4.15%) Data Engineer
9 13 (4.15%) Planning Manager
10 11 (3.51%) Architect
10 11 (3.51%) SAP Manager
11 9 (2.88%) Accountant
11 9 (2.88%) Systems Accountant
12 8 (2.56%) Consultant
12 8 (2.56%) Data Manager
13 7 (2.24%) Administrator
13 7 (2.24%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.15%) HTML
2 9 (2.88%) CSS
3 7 (2.24%) .NET
4 6 (1.92%) Web Services
5 5 (1.60%) AngularJS
5 5 (1.60%) Node.js
5 5 (1.60%) scikit-learn
6 4 (1.28%) Kafka
6 4 (1.28%) Pandas
6 4 (1.28%) REST
7 3 (0.96%) ASP.NET
7 3 (0.96%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (0.96%) Lightning Web Components
7 3 (0.96%) Middleware
7 3 (0.96%) NumPy
7 3 (0.96%) SOAP
7 3 (0.96%) Visualforce
8 2 (0.64%) AWS CDK
8 2 (0.64%) Spring
8 2 (0.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (7.99%) Analytical Mindset
2 17 (5.43%) Onboarding
2 17 (5.43%) Product Ownership
3 9 (2.88%) Marketing Technology
4 8 (2.56%) Credit Risk
4 8 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (1.92%) Management Information System
5 6 (1.92%) Social Media
6 5 (1.60%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (1.60%) FMCG
7 4 (1.28%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.28%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.28%) Driving Licence
7 4 (1.28%) NHS
8 3 (0.96%) AI Agents
8 3 (0.96%) Cyberattack
8 3 (0.96%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.64%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.64%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.64%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 20 (6.39%) Windows
2 10 (3.19%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.24%) Linux
4 2 (0.64%) CentOS
4 2 (0.64%) CoreOS
4 2 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.32%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (33.55%) Problem-Solving
2 78 (24.92%) Decision-Making
3 70 (22.36%) Analytics
4 69 (22.04%) Continuous Improvement
5 53 (16.93%) AI
6 51 (16.29%) Agile
6 51 (16.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 50 (15.97%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 48 (15.34%) Data Governance
8 48 (15.34%) Visualisation
9 37 (11.82%) Business Intelligence
10 34 (10.86%) Data Development
10 34 (10.86%) Validation
11 31 (9.90%) Data Modelling
11 31 (9.90%) ERP
12 29 (9.27%) Actionable Insight
12 29 (9.27%) Data Analysis
13 28 (8.95%) Roadmaps
14 27 (8.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 25 (7.99%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 70 (22.36%) SQL
2 64 (20.45%) Python
3 15 (4.79%) JavaScript
4 12 (3.83%) C#
5 10 (3.19%) Java
6 6 (1.92%) PHP
6 6 (1.92%) R
7 5 (1.60%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.60%) T-SQL
8 3 (0.96%) Apex Code
8 3 (0.96%) SOQL
8 3 (0.96%) SOSL
9 2 (0.64%) Bash
9 2 (0.64%) Bicep
9 2 (0.64%) Scala
10 1 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.32%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 36 (11.50%) Degree
2 15 (4.79%) Security Cleared
3 11 (3.51%) ACCA
4 10 (3.19%) HNC
5 9 (2.88%) CIMA
6 8 (2.56%) Master's Degree
7 7 (2.24%) ITIL Certification
7 7 (2.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.92%) IRCA
9 5 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.60%) SC Cleared
10 4 (1.28%) CCNA
10 4 (1.28%) CCNP
10 4 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.28%) MBA
11 2 (0.64%) CCA
12 1 (0.32%) CISA
12 1 (0.32%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.32%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.58%) Data Quality
2 18 (5.75%) QA
3 15 (4.79%) SLA
4 9 (2.88%) GDPR
5 6 (1.92%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.92%) ISO 9001
6 4 (1.28%) GRC
6 4 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.28%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.28%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.32%) IFRS
7 1 (0.32%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.32%) PMO
7 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (5.43%) Active Directory
2 9 (2.88%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (1.60%) Docker
4 3 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.64%) Ceph
5 2 (0.64%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.32%) Firmware
6 1 (0.32%) NFS
6 1 (0.32%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (1.28%) Ansible
2 3 (0.96%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.64%) Argo
3 2 (0.64%) Check_MK
3 2 (0.64%) Istio
3 2 (0.64%) McAfee ePO
3 2 (0.64%) Podman
3 2 (0.64%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.64%) SCVMM
3 2 (0.64%) Terraform
4 1 (0.32%) Autotask
4 1 (0.32%) Grafana
4 1 (0.32%) Nessus
Vendors
1 58 (18.53%) Microsoft
2 39 (12.46%) SAP
3 10 (3.19%) Adobe
4 8 (2.56%) Databricks
5 5 (1.60%) Cisco
5 5 (1.60%) HP
5 5 (1.60%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.28%) Aruba
6 4 (1.28%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (1.28%) Oracle
6 4 (1.28%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.28%) Sage
7 3 (0.96%) iManage
7 3 (0.96%) ServiceNow
7 3 (0.96%) VMware
8 2 (0.64%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.64%) Dell
8 2 (0.64%) Google
8 2 (0.64%) IFS
8 2 (0.64%) McAfee