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 27 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 10 17
Rank change year-on-year -15 +7 +15
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 415 351 367
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.45% 14.76% 9.13%
As % of the General category 13.49% 22.13% 16.16%
Number of salaries quoted 254 136 158
10th Percentile £31,006 £27,875 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £33,125 £40,247
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £63,563
90th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £84,114
North West median annual salary £46,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -10.00% +5.26%

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 3,076 1,586 2,271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 40.42% 66.69% 56.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2,044 803 1,000
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,125 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £82,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -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 27 September 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 27 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
Salford -14 23 £37,500 -5.66% 14
Stockport -2 12 £45,000 -22.25% 13
Bolton -2 11 £37,500 -21.05% 14
Wigan +3 7 £37,500 - 2
Altrincham +6 1 £47,500 -5.00% 5
Sale +2 1 £42,500 - 3
Ashton-under-Lyne -2 1 £51,000 - 1
Oldham -3 1 £69,928 +23.76% 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 17 (4.10%) SharePoint
2 16 (3.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.72%) Apache
4 3 (0.72%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.48%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.48%) Confluence
6 1 (0.24%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.24%) SAS
6 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 46 (11.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (5.54%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (2.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.48%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (1.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.69%) SAP ERP
3 5 (1.20%) Shopify
4 4 (0.96%) Magento
4 4 (0.96%) SAP PM
4 4 (0.96%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.72%) SAP QM
6 2 (0.48%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.24%) Odoo
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.24%) SAP ECC
Cloud Services
1 59 (14.22%) Azure
2 47 (11.33%) AWS
3 43 (10.36%) Power Platform
4 27 (6.51%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (4.10%) Entra ID
5 17 (4.10%) GCP
6 11 (2.65%) Microsoft Copilot
6 11 (2.65%) Microsoft Purview
7 10 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (2.17%) GitHub
8 9 (2.17%) SaaS
8 9 (2.17%) Serverless
9 8 (1.93%) PowerApps
9 8 (1.93%) Snowflake
10 6 (1.45%) Amazon S3
10 6 (1.45%) Azure Logic Apps
10 6 (1.45%) Google Ads
10 6 (1.45%) OpenShift
11 5 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (1.20%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.37%) DHCP
1 14 (3.37%) DNS
2 13 (3.13%) Internet
3 7 (1.69%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.45%) Firewall
5 4 (0.96%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (0.96%) Cisco Firepower
5 4 (0.96%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (0.96%) Network Security
5 4 (0.96%) Unified Communications
5 4 (0.96%) VLAN
5 4 (0.96%) VoIP
5 4 (0.96%) VPN
5 4 (0.96%) Wireless
6 3 (0.72%) LAN
6 3 (0.72%) SAN
6 3 (0.72%) VSAN
6 3 (0.72%) WAN
7 1 (0.24%) 5G
7 1 (0.24%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (9.88%) Power BI
2 25 (6.02%) Tableau
3 14 (3.37%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (2.17%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.45%) Big Data
5 6 (1.45%) Metadata
5 6 (1.45%) Power Query
5 6 (1.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (1.20%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.72%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (0.72%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.72%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.72%) MySQL
7 3 (0.72%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.48%) Data Hub
8 2 (0.48%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.48%) KNIME
8 2 (0.48%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 24 (5.78%) Git
2 11 (2.65%) JIRA
3 4 (0.96%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.72%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.72%) RStudio
4 3 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.24%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.24%) GitLab
5 1 (0.24%) Maven
5 1 (0.24%) Postman
General
1 190 (45.78%) Social Skills
2 124 (29.88%) Finance
3 56 (13.49%) Law
4 51 (12.29%) Marketing
5 40 (9.64%) Organisational Skills
6 31 (7.47%) Legal
7 27 (6.51%) Telecoms
8 25 (6.02%) Military
9 24 (5.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 23 (5.54%) Influencing Skills
10 23 (5.54%) Retail
11 20 (4.82%) Back Office
12 15 (3.61%) Presentation Skills
12 15 (3.61%) Public Sector
13 12 (2.89%) Manufacturing
14 10 (2.41%) Advertising
15 9 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
16 8 (1.93%) Banking
16 8 (1.93%) Local Government
17 7 (1.69%) Billing
Job Titles
1 104 (25.06%) Analyst
2 36 (8.67%) Senior
3 27 (6.51%) Lead
4 23 (5.54%) Data Analyst
5 20 (4.82%) Development Manager
6 18 (4.34%) Business Development Manager
6 18 (4.34%) Business Manager
6 18 (4.34%) Developer
7 15 (3.61%) Architect
7 15 (3.61%) Data Engineer
7 15 (3.61%) Performance Analyst
8 13 (3.13%) Administrator
8 13 (3.13%) Junior
9 12 (2.89%) Business Analyst
10 10 (2.41%) Microsoft Engineer
10 10 (2.41%) Senior Analyst
11 9 (2.17%) Accountant
11 9 (2.17%) Change Analyst
11 9 (2.17%) Systems Accountant
12 8 (1.93%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.89%) HTML
2 9 (2.17%) CSS
3 7 (1.69%) .NET
4 6 (1.45%) REST
5 5 (1.20%) AngularJS
5 5 (1.20%) Kafka
5 5 (1.20%) Node.js
6 4 (0.96%) Lightning Web Components
6 4 (0.96%) Middleware
6 4 (0.96%) SOAP
6 4 (0.96%) Visualforce
7 3 (0.72%) AWS CDK
7 3 (0.72%) LDAP
7 3 (0.72%) Pandas
7 3 (0.72%) PySpark
7 3 (0.72%) scikit-learn
7 3 (0.72%) Spring
7 3 (0.72%) Web Services
8 2 (0.48%) Apache Avro
8 2 (0.48%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 42 (10.12%) Onboarding
2 24 (5.78%) Analytical Mindset
3 21 (5.06%) Management Information System
4 19 (4.58%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (3.86%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.65%) Driving Licence
7 9 (2.17%) Marketing Technology
7 9 (2.17%) Social Media
8 8 (1.93%) Cyber Threat
9 7 (1.69%) Credit Risk
10 6 (1.45%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.45%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.20%) Cloud Native
11 5 (1.20%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (1.20%) NHS
12 4 (0.96%) FMCG
12 4 (0.96%) Taxonomies
12 4 (0.96%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 29 (6.99%) Windows
2 15 (3.61%) Windows Server
3 13 (3.13%) Linux
4 6 (1.45%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.96%) Unix
6 3 (0.72%) CentOS
6 3 (0.72%) CoreOS
6 3 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (38.55%) Problem-Solving
2 114 (27.47%) Continuous Improvement
3 110 (26.51%) Decision-Making
4 99 (23.86%) AI
5 88 (21.20%) Analytics
6 78 (18.80%) Stakeholder Management
7 59 (14.22%) Agile
8 56 (13.49%) Customer Service
9 54 (13.01%) Validation
10 50 (12.05%) Business Intelligence
11 49 (11.81%) Visualisation
12 45 (10.84%) Actionable Insight
12 45 (10.84%) Collaborative Culture
13 44 (10.60%) Coaching
14 43 (10.36%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 43 (10.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 41 (9.88%) Data Governance
16 37 (8.92%) Data Analysis
17 35 (8.43%) Customer Experience
18 34 (8.19%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 78 (18.80%) SQL
2 62 (14.94%) Python
3 18 (4.34%) JavaScript
3 18 (4.34%) PowerShell
4 13 (3.13%) Java
5 11 (2.65%) R
6 8 (1.93%) C#
7 6 (1.45%) PHP
8 4 (0.96%) Apex Code
9 3 (0.72%) Bash
9 3 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.72%) SOQL
9 3 (0.72%) SOSL
9 3 (0.72%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.48%) Bicep
10 2 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.48%) Scala
10 2 (0.48%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.48%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.24%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 60 (14.46%) Degree
2 28 (6.75%) Security Cleared
3 16 (3.86%) ACCA
4 15 (3.61%) SC Cleared
5 13 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (2.65%) CIMA
7 8 (1.93%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 5 (1.20%) CIPD
9 5 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.20%) HNC
9 5 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.96%) CCNA
10 4 (0.96%) CCNP
10 4 (0.96%) CISA
10 4 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.96%) MBA
11 3 (0.72%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (13.49%) Data Quality
2 16 (3.86%) QA
3 14 (3.37%) Accessibility
4 13 (3.13%) SLA
5 5 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.96%) GRC
6 4 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.96%) NEBOSH
6 4 (0.96%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.96%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.72%) COSO
7 3 (0.72%) GDPR
7 3 (0.72%) IFRS
7 3 (0.72%) PMO
8 1 (0.24%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.24%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 25 (6.02%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.93%) Docker
2 8 (1.93%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (0.72%) Ceph
3 3 (0.72%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.48%) Firmware
4 2 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.24%) NFS
Systems Management
1 4 (0.96%) Ansible
1 4 (0.96%) Kubernetes
1 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (0.72%) Argo
2 3 (0.72%) Check_MK
2 3 (0.72%) Istio
2 3 (0.72%) McAfee ePO
2 3 (0.72%) Podman
2 3 (0.72%) Prometheus
2 3 (0.72%) SCVMM
3 2 (0.48%) Nessus
4 1 (0.24%) Grafana
Vendors
1 94 (22.65%) Microsoft
2 27 (6.51%) YouTube
3 21 (5.06%) Google
4 19 (4.58%) SAP
5 15 (3.61%) Salesforce
6 10 (2.41%) Adobe
7 8 (1.93%) Oracle
8 7 (1.69%) Databricks
8 7 (1.69%) VMware
9 6 (1.45%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.20%) Cisco
10 5 (1.20%) HP
10 5 (1.20%) HubSpot
10 5 (1.20%) Sage
10 5 (1.20%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.96%) Alteryx
11 4 (0.96%) Aruba
11 4 (0.96%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (0.96%) OneTrust
11 4 (0.96%) Workday