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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 8 18
Rank change year-on-year -30 +10 +31
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 251 369 457
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 4.34% 17.17% 8.90%
As % of the General category 9.50% 23.30% 16.16%
Number of salaries quoted 171 160 340
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,500 £27,450
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,688 £32,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.52%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,717 £58,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £93,778 £76,250
North West median annual salary £46,500 £50,000 £46,066
% change year-on-year -7.00% +8.54% +2.37%

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 2,643 1,584 2,828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 45.65% 73.71% 55.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,701 808 2,159
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% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,840 £66,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £81,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,055 £47,500
% change year-on-year -0.11% +5.38% -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 25 May 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 May 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 +2 13 £41,250 -17.50% 9
Salford - 10 £42,500 - 8
Wigan -1 5 £40,000 -
Stockport -1 4 £45,000 - 4
Altrincham +1 3 - -
Oldham -1 2 £74,082 +68.36% 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 8 (3.19%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.20%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
Applications
1 32 (12.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.79%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 18 (7.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (5.98%) SAP PM
3 13 (5.18%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.80%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.80%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.40%) Magento
5 1 (0.40%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 33 (13.15%) Power Platform
2 31 (12.35%) Azure
3 24 (9.56%) AWS
4 23 (9.16%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (2.79%) Amazon S3
5 7 (2.79%) Microsoft Purview
5 7 (2.79%) Serverless
6 6 (2.39%) Entra ID
6 6 (2.39%) GitHub
6 6 (2.39%) OneDrive
6 6 (2.39%) SaaS
7 5 (1.99%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (1.99%) GCP
8 4 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.59%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.20%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 3 (1.20%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.79%) Firewall
2 5 (1.99%) Network Security
3 4 (1.59%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (1.59%) Cisco Firepower
3 4 (1.59%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (1.20%) DHCP
4 3 (1.20%) DNS
5 2 (0.80%) SAN
6 1 (0.40%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.40%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.40%) TCAP
6 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.40%) VLAN
6 1 (0.40%) VPN
6 1 (0.40%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (14.74%) Tableau
2 27 (10.76%) Power BI
3 14 (5.58%) Data Mining
4 6 (2.39%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (1.20%) Big Data
5 3 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.20%) Hadoop
5 3 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.40%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
6 1 (0.40%) DB2
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.40%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.40%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 10 (3.98%) Git
2 3 (1.20%) JIRA
3 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.40%) Postman
3 1 (0.40%) REST Assured
3 1 (0.40%) Selenium
General
1 115 (45.82%) Social Skills
2 75 (29.88%) Finance
3 35 (13.94%) Law
4 25 (9.96%) Military
4 25 (9.96%) Telecoms
5 24 (9.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (7.97%) Back Office
7 15 (5.98%) Manufacturing
8 12 (4.78%) Public Sector
9 11 (4.38%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (4.38%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (3.98%) Marketing
11 9 (3.59%) Banking
12 8 (3.19%) Legal
12 8 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (2.39%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (2.39%) Retail
14 3 (1.20%) French Language
14 3 (1.20%) Local Government
14 3 (1.20%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 62 (24.70%) Analyst
2 29 (11.55%) Senior
3 26 (10.36%) Lead
4 19 (7.57%) Data Analyst
5 13 (5.18%) Developer
5 13 (5.18%) Planning Manager
5 13 (5.18%) SAP Manager
6 12 (4.78%) Consultant
7 11 (4.38%) Trainee
7 11 (4.38%) Trainee Analyst
7 11 (4.38%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 10 (3.98%) Performance Analyst
8 10 (3.98%) Performance Manager
9 9 (3.59%) Alliance Manager
9 9 (3.59%) Data Manager
10 8 (3.19%) Architect
10 8 (3.19%) Business Analyst
10 8 (3.19%) Business Manager
11 7 (2.79%) Development Manager
11 7 (2.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.98%) HTML
2 9 (3.59%) CSS
3 6 (2.39%) .NET
4 4 (1.59%) AngularJS
4 4 (1.59%) Node.js
4 4 (1.59%) Pandas
4 4 (1.59%) REST
4 4 (1.59%) SAP Fiori
4 4 (1.59%) scikit-learn
5 3 (1.20%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (1.20%) Middleware
5 3 (1.20%) NumPy
5 3 (1.20%) SOAP
5 3 (1.20%) Visualforce
5 3 (1.20%) Web Services
6 2 (0.80%) ASP.NET
6 2 (0.80%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (0.80%) RESTful
6 2 (0.80%) Symfony
6 2 (0.80%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.76%) Analytical Mindset
2 15 (5.98%) Onboarding
3 10 (3.98%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.19%) Data Centre
5 7 (2.79%) FMCG
6 6 (2.39%) Credit Risk
7 5 (1.99%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.99%) Driving Licence
7 5 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.99%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.59%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (1.59%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (1.20%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.80%) Cyberattack
10 2 (0.80%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.80%) Social Media
10 2 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.37%) Windows
2 8 (3.19%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.20%) Android
3 3 (1.20%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.40%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (37.45%) Problem-Solving
2 60 (23.90%) Analytics
3 58 (23.11%) Decision-Making
4 55 (21.91%) Continuous Improvement
5 51 (20.32%) AI
6 45 (17.93%) Stakeholder Management
7 40 (15.94%) Visualisation
8 39 (15.54%) Agile
9 33 (13.15%) Data Governance
9 33 (13.15%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 31 (12.35%) Business Intelligence
10 31 (12.35%) Project Management
11 28 (11.16%) Data Analysis
12 26 (10.36%) Data Analytics
13 25 (9.96%) Data Development
13 25 (9.96%) Roadmaps
14 23 (9.16%) Data Modelling
14 23 (9.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 22 (8.76%) Actionable Insight
15 22 (8.76%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 58 (23.11%) SQL
2 52 (20.72%) Python
3 11 (4.38%) JavaScript
4 10 (3.98%) C#
5 9 (3.59%) Java
6 5 (1.99%) T-SQL
7 3 (1.20%) Apex Code
7 3 (1.20%) PHP
7 3 (1.20%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.20%) R
7 3 (1.20%) SOQL
7 3 (1.20%) SOSL
8 2 (0.80%) Bicep
8 2 (0.80%) Scala
9 1 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.40%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 33 (13.15%) Degree
2 10 (3.98%) HNC
2 10 (3.98%) Security Cleared
3 7 (2.79%) ITIL Certification
3 7 (2.79%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (2.39%) IRCA
5 5 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.99%) DBS Check
6 4 (1.59%) CCNA
6 4 (1.59%) CCNP
6 4 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.59%) PMI Certification
6 4 (1.59%) PMP
6 4 (1.59%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.20%) CCA
7 3 (1.20%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.80%) ACCA
8 2 (0.80%) CISA
8 2 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.40%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.77%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.98%) QA
3 10 (3.98%) GDPR
3 10 (3.98%) SLA
4 6 (2.39%) ISO 9001
5 5 (1.99%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.59%) GRC
6 4 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.59%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.20%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.40%) SOX 404
System Software
1 18 (7.17%) Active Directory
2 10 (3.98%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.80%) Docker
5 1 (0.40%) Firmware
5 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.40%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (2.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (2.39%) Terraform
3 5 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.20%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.40%) Ansible
5 1 (0.40%) Autotask
5 1 (0.40%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 56 (22.31%) Microsoft
2 36 (14.34%) SAP
3 5 (1.99%) Adobe
3 5 (1.99%) Databricks
3 5 (1.99%) New Relic
3 5 (1.99%) Salesforce
3 5 (1.99%) Splunk
4 4 (1.59%) Aruba
4 4 (1.59%) Cisco
4 4 (1.59%) CrowdStrike
4 4 (1.59%) HP
4 4 (1.59%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.20%) iManage
5 3 (1.20%) Oracle
5 3 (1.20%) VMware
6 2 (0.80%) Anaplan
6 2 (0.80%) IFS
6 2 (0.80%) OneLogin
6 2 (0.80%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.80%) Verint