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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 9 21
Rank change year-on-year -23 +12 +28
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 197 362 330
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.42% 15.08% 8.92%
As % of the General category 9.83% 21.27% 15.97%
Number of salaries quoted 92 168 243
10th Percentile - £38,750 £28,600
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,500 £52,250 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.83% +10.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £63,938 £77,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £81,125 £95,000 £65,750
North West median annual salary £42,500 £52,500 £45,250
% change year-on-year -19.05% +16.02% +0.56%

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 2,005 1,702 2,067
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 55.19% 70.92% 55.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,101 796 1,639
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,803
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +8.26% -7.63%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £82,500
North West median annual salary £48,979 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -6.71% +10.53% -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 27 February 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 February 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 -3 16 £40,000 -32.69% 7
Stockport +3 3 £77,500 +77.14% 3
Bolton -11 3 £47,500 +1.06% 10
Bury - 3 - -
Oldham - 2 £78,237 - 3
Wigan 0 1 £40,000 -5.88% 4
Altrincham - 1 £27,500 - 1
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 9 (4.57%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.52%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.52%) Confluence
3 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.51%) FactoryTalk
4 1 (0.51%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.51%) nginx
4 1 (0.51%) SAS
4 1 (0.51%) WinCC
Applications
1 38 (19.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (15.74%) Chatbot
3 6 (3.05%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.02%) AutoCAD
5 2 (1.02%) Revit
6 1 (0.51%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 7 (3.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.54%) NetSuite
2 5 (2.54%) SAP PM
3 4 (2.03%) SAP ERP
4 2 (1.02%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (1.02%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (1.02%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.02%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.51%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.51%) Siebel CRM
5 1 (0.51%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.51%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 25 (12.69%) Power Platform
2 24 (12.18%) Azure
3 14 (7.11%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (7.11%) SaaS
4 11 (5.58%) AWS
4 11 (5.58%) Entra ID
5 9 (4.57%) OneDrive
6 8 (4.06%) Azure Monitor
6 8 (4.06%) Microsoft Purview
7 7 (3.55%) Adobe Analytics
7 7 (3.55%) Figma
8 4 (2.03%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.02%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.02%) GCP
9 2 (1.02%) Google Docs
9 2 (1.02%) Google Sheets
9 2 (1.02%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.02%) iPaaS
9 2 (1.02%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.03%) Firewall
2 2 (1.02%) Network Security
3 1 (0.51%) DHCP
3 1 (0.51%) DNS
3 1 (0.51%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.51%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.51%) TCAP
3 1 (0.51%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.51%) VLAN
3 1 (0.51%) VPN
3 1 (0.51%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (14.21%) Tableau
2 19 (9.64%) Data Mining
3 17 (8.63%) Power BI
4 4 (2.03%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (1.52%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.02%) Big Data
6 2 (1.02%) Looker
6 2 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.51%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.51%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.51%) DB2
7 1 (0.51%) MySQL
7 1 (0.51%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (0.51%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (1.52%) Git
1 3 (1.52%) JIRA
General
1 85 (43.15%) Social Skills
2 73 (37.06%) Finance
3 24 (12.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (8.12%) Law
5 15 (7.61%) Banking
5 15 (7.61%) Legal
6 11 (5.58%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (4.06%) Retail
8 7 (3.55%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (3.55%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.55%) Telecoms
9 6 (3.05%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.54%) Back Office
10 5 (2.54%) Military
10 5 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.52%) French Language
11 3 (1.52%) Games
11 3 (1.52%) Italian Language
11 3 (1.52%) Marketing
11 3 (1.52%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 52 (26.40%) Analyst
2 31 (15.74%) Trainer
3 21 (10.66%) Data Analyst
4 17 (8.63%) Trainee
4 17 (8.63%) Trainee Analyst
4 17 (8.63%) Trainee Data Analyst
5 14 (7.11%) Consultant
5 14 (7.11%) Senior
6 9 (4.57%) Alliance Manager
7 8 (4.06%) Architect
7 8 (4.06%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (3.55%) Business Analyst
8 7 (3.55%) Strategy Manager
9 6 (3.05%) Financial Analyst
9 6 (3.05%) Senior Manager
9 6 (3.05%) Systems Analyst
10 5 (2.54%) Business Systems Analyst
10 5 (2.54%) Functional Consultant
10 5 (2.54%) Performance Manager
10 5 (2.54%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.03%) .NET
1 4 (2.03%) CSS
1 4 (2.03%) HTML
1 4 (2.03%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (1.02%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (1.02%) REST
3 1 (0.51%) ADO
3 1 (0.51%) jQuery
3 1 (0.51%) Laravel
3 1 (0.51%) Pandas
3 1 (0.51%) React
Miscellaneous
1 30 (15.23%) Analytical Mindset
2 12 (6.09%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (4.57%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (4.06%) Social Media
5 7 (3.55%) Cloud Native
6 6 (3.05%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.54%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.03%) Credit Risk
8 4 (2.03%) Data Centre
8 4 (2.03%) Driving Licence
8 4 (2.03%) FMCG
8 4 (2.03%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.02%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.02%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.02%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.51%) Cyber Defence
10 1 (0.51%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.51%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.51%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.58%) Windows
2 3 (1.52%) Android
2 3 (1.52%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (40.10%) Problem-Solving
2 76 (38.58%) AI
3 40 (20.30%) Analytics
3 40 (20.30%) Stakeholder Management
4 36 (18.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 36 (18.27%) Decision-Making
5 35 (17.77%) Agile
6 34 (17.26%) Project Management
7 31 (15.74%) Business Analysis
7 31 (15.74%) Chemistry
7 31 (15.74%) Conversational UI
8 28 (14.21%) Data Analysis
9 25 (12.69%) Data Analytics
10 21 (10.66%) Visualisation
11 18 (9.14%) Business Intelligence
12 17 (8.63%) ERP
12 17 (8.63%) Requirements Gathering
12 17 (8.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 16 (8.12%) User Experience
14 15 (7.61%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (19.29%) SQL
2 28 (14.21%) Python
3 4 (2.03%) Java
3 4 (2.03%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.52%) C#
5 2 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (1.02%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.02%) R
5 2 (1.02%) Scala
5 2 (1.02%) VBA
6 1 (0.51%) MATLAB
6 1 (0.51%) PHP
Qualifications
1 69 (35.03%) Degree
2 35 (17.77%) Master's Degree
3 32 (16.24%) PhD
4 12 (6.09%) DBS Check
5 6 (3.05%) ACCA
5 6 (3.05%) CIMA
6 4 (2.03%) PMI Certification
6 4 (2.03%) PMP
7 3 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.52%) HNC
7 3 (1.52%) Security Cleared
8 2 (1.02%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.02%) CCA
8 2 (1.02%) Chartered Engineer
8 2 (1.02%) IRCA
8 2 (1.02%) MBA
9 1 (0.51%) CISA
9 1 (0.51%) CISSP
9 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.06%) Accessibility
1 8 (4.06%) GDPR
2 4 (2.03%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 4 (2.03%) GLBA
2 4 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.03%) QA
3 2 (1.02%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.02%) FINRA
3 2 (1.02%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.51%) NIST
4 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.51%) SOX 404
System Software
1 12 (6.09%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.02%) Docker
2 2 (1.02%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.51%) Firmware
3 1 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (6.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (4.06%) Single Sign-On
2 8 (4.06%) Terraform
3 2 (1.02%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.51%) AssetCenter
4 1 (0.51%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.51%) SCCM
Vendors
1 42 (21.32%) Microsoft
2 31 (15.74%) PayPal
3 17 (8.63%) SAP
4 8 (4.06%) New Relic
4 8 (4.06%) Splunk
5 7 (3.55%) Adobe
5 7 (3.55%) Qualtrics
6 5 (2.54%) Guidewire
6 5 (2.54%) Oracle
7 4 (2.03%) iManage
8 3 (1.52%) Anaplan
8 3 (1.52%) Genesys
8 3 (1.52%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.52%) Workday
9 2 (1.02%) Apple
9 2 (1.02%) Cisco
9 2 (1.02%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.02%) Google
9 2 (1.02%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.02%) Siemens