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 15 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 9 36
Rank change year-on-year -17 +27 +15
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 200 374 171
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 6.80% 13.99% 6.80%
As % of the General category 11.48% 20.23% 12.27%
Number of salaries quoted 87 153 114
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% -13.04% +21.05%
75th Percentile £61,250 £70,000 £65,750
90th Percentile £80,500 £77,500 £72,500
North West median annual salary £42,500 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -19.05% +10.53% +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 1,742 1,849 1,394
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 59.25% 69.17% 55.45%
Number of salaries quoted 915 769 1,053
10th Percentile £27,850 £31,250 £29,500
25th Percentile £33,125 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,440
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -0.79% +0.80%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £88,250 £87,500 £84,056
North West median annual salary £48,000 £51,238 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.32% +2.48% -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 15 January 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 15 January 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
Salford +1 16 £45,000 -24.28% 11
Stockport +7 4 £77,500 +31.91% 15
Bury - 4 - - 3
Oldham -1 1 - - 1
Bolton -9 1 £47,500 +11.76% 11
Altrincham - 1 £27,500 -
Cheadle - 1 £200,000 - 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 16 (8.00%) SharePoint
2 8 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.00%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.00%) Confluence
4 2 (1.00%) nginx
5 1 (0.50%) Apache
5 1 (0.50%) FactoryTalk
5 1 (0.50%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.50%) SAS
5 1 (0.50%) WinCC
Applications
1 41 (20.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (17.50%) Chatbot
3 8 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (3.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.00%) AutoCAD
5 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.00%) Revit
6 1 (0.50%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 5 (2.50%) NetSuite
2 3 (1.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.00%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (1.00%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (1.00%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.00%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.50%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.50%) Siebel CRM
4 1 (0.50%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 34 (17.00%) Power Platform
2 29 (14.50%) Azure
3 23 (11.50%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (10.50%) Entra ID
5 16 (8.00%) SaaS
6 15 (7.50%) AWS
7 14 (7.00%) Microsoft Purview
8 9 (4.50%) OneDrive
9 8 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (3.00%) Adobe Analytics
10 6 (3.00%) Figma
10 6 (3.00%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (1.00%) GCP
11 2 (1.00%) Google Docs
11 2 (1.00%) Google Sheets
11 2 (1.00%) Google Workspace
11 2 (1.00%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.50%) Firewall
2 2 (1.00%) Network Security
3 1 (0.50%) DHCP
3 1 (0.50%) DNS
3 1 (0.50%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.50%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.50%) SMS
3 1 (0.50%) TCAP
3 1 (0.50%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.50%) VLAN
3 1 (0.50%) VPN
3 1 (0.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (13.00%) Power BI
2 21 (10.50%) Tableau
3 17 (8.50%) Data Mining
4 4 (2.00%) BusinessObjects
4 4 (2.00%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (1.50%) Big Data
5 3 (1.50%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.00%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.00%) Looker
6 2 (1.00%) MySQL
6 2 (1.00%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.50%) DB2
7 1 (0.50%) Power Query
7 1 (0.50%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 4 (2.00%) JIRA
2 3 (1.50%) Git
3 1 (0.50%) Gatling
3 1 (0.50%) JMeter
3 1 (0.50%) LoadRunner
General
1 86 (43.00%) Social Skills
2 76 (38.00%) Finance
3 24 (12.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (6.50%) Banking
4 13 (6.50%) Legal
5 10 (5.00%) Law
5 10 (5.00%) Retail
6 9 (4.50%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (3.50%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (3.50%) Marketing
8 5 (2.50%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.50%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.50%) Electronics
10 3 (1.50%) Games
10 3 (1.50%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.00%) General Ledger
11 2 (1.00%) Local Government
12 1 (0.50%) Billing
12 1 (0.50%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 52 (26.00%) Analyst
2 35 (17.50%) Trainer
3 20 (10.00%) Data Analyst
4 12 (6.00%) Senior
4 12 (6.00%) Trainee
4 12 (6.00%) Trainee Analyst
4 12 (6.00%) Trainee Data Analyst
5 11 (5.50%) Support Engineer
6 10 (5.00%) Consultant
6 10 (5.00%) Financial Analyst
7 9 (4.50%) Alliance Manager
8 8 (4.00%) Architect
8 8 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (3.50%) Commercial Analyst
10 6 (3.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 6 (3.00%) Microsoft Engineer
10 6 (3.00%) Report Analyst
10 6 (3.00%) Senior Manager
10 6 (3.00%) Strategy Manager
11 5 (2.50%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.50%) REST
1 3 (1.50%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (1.00%) CSS
2 2 (1.00%) HTML
2 2 (1.00%) jQuery
2 2 (1.00%) Laravel
2 2 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (1.00%) PySpark
2 2 (1.00%) React
2 2 (1.00%) Software Packaging
3 1 (0.50%) .NET
3 1 (0.50%) Pandas
3 1 (0.50%) RESTful
3 1 (0.50%) Spring
3 1 (0.50%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 36 (18.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 17 (8.50%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (4.50%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (4.00%) Social Media
5 7 (3.50%) Driving Licence
5 7 (3.50%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.00%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.50%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.50%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.50%) FMCG
8 3 (1.50%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.00%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.00%) Credit Risk
9 2 (1.00%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.00%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.00%) SCADA
9 2 (1.00%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.50%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.50%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (39.00%) Problem-Solving
2 76 (38.00%) AI
3 41 (20.50%) Decision-Making
4 38 (19.00%) Agile
5 35 (17.50%) Chemistry
5 35 (17.50%) Conversational UI
6 32 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 31 (15.50%) Analytics
8 28 (14.00%) Business Intelligence
8 28 (14.00%) Data Analysis
8 28 (14.00%) Project Management
8 28 (14.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 25 (12.50%) Business Analysis
10 17 (8.50%) Data Analytics
11 16 (8.00%) Visualisation
12 15 (7.50%) Actionable Insight
12 15 (7.50%) Change Management
13 14 (7.00%) Data Management
13 14 (7.00%) ERP
13 14 (7.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 42 (21.00%) SQL
2 22 (11.00%) Python
3 9 (4.50%) PowerShell
4 5 (2.50%) Java
4 5 (2.50%) VBA
5 3 (1.50%) Scala
6 2 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.00%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.00%) PHP
6 2 (1.00%) R
7 1 (0.50%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 76 (38.00%) Degree
2 39 (19.50%) Master's Degree
3 36 (18.00%) PhD
4 10 (5.00%) DBS Check
5 8 (4.00%) ACCA
5 8 (4.00%) CIMA
6 5 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.50%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.50%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.50%) PMP
8 2 (1.00%) Chartered Engineer
8 2 (1.00%) CISA
8 2 (1.00%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.00%) MBA
8 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.00%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.50%) AAT
9 1 (0.50%) CRISC
9 1 (0.50%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.50%) Accessibility
1 7 (3.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (3.00%) GDPR
3 5 (2.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 5 (2.50%) GLBA
3 5 (2.50%) QA
4 4 (2.00%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.00%) FINRA
5 2 (1.00%) P3O
6 1 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.50%) COBIT
6 1 (0.50%) ITGC
6 1 (0.50%) NIST
6 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.50%) SOX 404
System Software
1 16 (8.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.50%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.50%) Docker
4 1 (0.50%) Firmware
4 1 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (8.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
2 8 (4.00%) Terraform
3 2 (1.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.50%) AssetCenter
4 1 (0.50%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 51 (25.50%) Microsoft
2 35 (17.50%) PayPal
3 9 (4.50%) SAP
3 9 (4.50%) Splunk
4 8 (4.00%) New Relic
5 6 (3.00%) Adobe
5 6 (3.00%) Oracle
5 6 (3.00%) Qualtrics
6 5 (2.50%) Guidewire
6 5 (2.50%) iManage
7 4 (2.00%) Facebook
8 3 (1.50%) Anaplan
8 3 (1.50%) Genesys
8 3 (1.50%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.50%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.00%) Apple
9 2 (1.00%) Cisco
9 2 (1.00%) Google
9 2 (1.00%) Siemens
9 2 (1.00%) VMware