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

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -17 +6 +17
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 375 357 351
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.27% 14.38% 8.17%
As % of the General category 13.03% 21.53% 14.97%
Number of salaries quoted 247 154 199
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £33,125 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £44,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.74% -15.24% +4.50%
75th Percentile £66,625 £57,500 £64,375
90th Percentile £75,454 £68,375 £84,964
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 2,877 1,658 2,345
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 40.46% 66.77% 54.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,006 885 1,293
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -9.48%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £86,700 £84,921
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 30 August 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 30 August 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 -6 21 £37,500 -5.66% 7
Bolton +3 13 £40,000 -20.00% 11
Stockport +2 10 £45,000 +17.65% 4
Wigan +5 8 £37,500 - 2
Altrincham +10 4 £47,500 -5.00% 3
Sale +2 1 £42,500 - 1
Oldham -1 1 £69,928 +58.92% 1
Ashton-under-Lyne -2 1 £51,000 - 7
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 (4.53%) SharePoint
2 15 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.80%) Apache
4 3 (0.80%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.53%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.27%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.27%) Confluence
6 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.27%) SAS
6 1 (0.27%) WebSphere
Applications
1 45 (12.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (5.33%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (3.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.53%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (3.73%) SAP PM
2 12 (3.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (2.67%) SAP ERP
4 4 (1.07%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.80%) SAP QM
6 2 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.27%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.27%) Magento
7 1 (0.27%) Odoo
7 1 (0.27%) SAP ECC
7 1 (0.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 54 (14.40%) Azure
2 44 (11.73%) AWS
3 40 (10.67%) Power Platform
4 31 (8.27%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (4.27%) GCP
6 13 (3.47%) Entra ID
7 10 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (2.67%) Serverless
8 9 (2.40%) GitHub
8 9 (2.40%) Microsoft Copilot
8 9 (2.40%) Microsoft Purview
9 8 (2.13%) Snowflake
10 7 (1.87%) SaaS
11 6 (1.60%) Amazon S3
11 6 (1.60%) OpenShift
11 6 (1.60%) PowerApps
12 5 (1.33%) OneDrive
13 4 (1.07%) Google Ads
13 4 (1.07%) Google Sheets
13 4 (1.07%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.47%) DHCP
1 13 (3.47%) DNS
2 12 (3.20%) Internet
3 7 (1.87%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.60%) Firewall
5 4 (1.07%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (1.07%) Cisco Firepower
5 4 (1.07%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (1.07%) Network Security
5 4 (1.07%) Unified Communications
5 4 (1.07%) VLAN
5 4 (1.07%) VoIP
5 4 (1.07%) VPN
5 4 (1.07%) Wireless
6 3 (0.80%) LAN
6 3 (0.80%) SAN
6 3 (0.80%) VSAN
6 3 (0.80%) WAN
7 1 (0.27%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.27%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (10.13%) Power BI
2 32 (8.53%) Tableau
3 14 (3.73%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (2.40%) SQL Server
5 7 (1.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (1.33%) Big Data
7 4 (1.07%) Power Query
8 3 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.80%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.80%) Metadata
8 3 (0.80%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.80%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.53%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.53%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.53%) MS Access
9 2 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.53%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 22 (5.87%) Git
2 11 (2.93%) JIRA
3 4 (1.07%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.80%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.80%) RStudio
4 3 (0.80%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.53%) Postman
6 1 (0.27%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.27%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.27%) Selenium
General
1 175 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 108 (28.80%) Finance
3 57 (15.20%) Law
4 39 (10.40%) Marketing
5 33 (8.80%) Telecoms
6 31 (8.27%) Military
7 25 (6.67%) Back Office
8 23 (6.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (6.13%) Influencing Skills
8 23 (6.13%) Organisational Skills
9 19 (5.07%) Legal
10 14 (3.73%) Manufacturing
10 14 (3.73%) Public Sector
11 12 (3.20%) Retail
12 8 (2.13%) Banking
12 8 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.87%) Local Government
14 6 (1.60%) Advertising
15 5 (1.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 89 (23.73%) Analyst
2 34 (9.07%) Lead
3 31 (8.27%) Senior
4 22 (5.87%) Data Analyst
5 18 (4.80%) Developer
6 17 (4.53%) Development Manager
7 15 (4.00%) Business Development Manager
7 15 (4.00%) Business Manager
7 15 (4.00%) Performance Analyst
8 14 (3.73%) Data Engineer
9 13 (3.47%) Architect
10 11 (2.93%) Administrator
10 11 (2.93%) Junior
11 10 (2.67%) Planning Manager
12 9 (2.40%) Accountant
12 9 (2.40%) Performance Manager
12 9 (2.40%) Systems Accountant
13 8 (2.13%) Change Analyst
13 8 (2.13%) Data Manager
13 8 (2.13%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.47%) HTML
2 9 (2.40%) CSS
3 8 (2.13%) .NET
4 6 (1.60%) Web Services
5 5 (1.33%) AngularJS
5 5 (1.33%) Node.js
5 5 (1.33%) Pandas
5 5 (1.33%) REST
5 5 (1.33%) scikit-learn
6 4 (1.07%) ASP.NET
6 4 (1.07%) Kafka
6 4 (1.07%) Lightning Web Components
6 4 (1.07%) Middleware
6 4 (1.07%) NumPy
6 4 (1.07%) SOAP
6 4 (1.07%) Visualforce
7 3 (0.80%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (0.80%) AWS CDK
7 3 (0.80%) LDAP
8 2 (0.53%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.00%) Onboarding
2 26 (6.93%) Analytical Mindset
3 16 (4.27%) Product Ownership
4 14 (3.73%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (2.93%) Management Information System
6 10 (2.67%) Driving Licence
7 9 (2.40%) Marketing Technology
8 7 (1.87%) Credit Risk
8 7 (1.87%) Social Media
9 6 (1.60%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (1.33%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.33%) NHS
11 4 (1.07%) Cyberattack
11 4 (1.07%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.07%) FMCG
11 4 (1.07%) Video\Live Streaming
12 3 (0.80%) AI Agents
12 3 (0.80%) Replication
12 3 (0.80%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 30 (8.00%) Windows
2 15 (4.00%) Windows Server
3 11 (2.93%) Linux
4 6 (1.60%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.80%) CentOS
5 3 (0.80%) CoreOS
5 3 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (35.47%) Problem-Solving
2 97 (25.87%) Decision-Making
3 91 (24.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 81 (21.60%) Analytics
5 76 (20.27%) AI
6 58 (15.47%) Stakeholder Management
7 57 (15.20%) Agile
8 51 (13.60%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 48 (12.80%) Validation
9 48 (12.80%) Visualisation
10 46 (12.27%) Business Intelligence
11 44 (11.73%) Data Governance
12 38 (10.13%) Customer Service
13 37 (9.87%) Actionable Insight
14 36 (9.60%) Collaborative Culture
15 35 (9.33%) Data Modelling
16 33 (8.80%) ERP
17 32 (8.53%) Data Analysis
18 31 (8.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 29 (7.73%) Data Development
Programming Languages
1 75 (20.00%) SQL
2 67 (17.87%) Python
3 18 (4.80%) JavaScript
4 15 (4.00%) PowerShell
5 11 (2.93%) Java
5 11 (2.93%) R
6 10 (2.67%) C#
7 7 (1.87%) PHP
8 5 (1.33%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.07%) Apex Code
10 3 (0.80%) Bash
10 3 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.80%) SOQL
10 3 (0.80%) SOSL
11 2 (0.53%) Bicep
11 2 (0.53%) Scala
12 1 (0.27%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 49 (13.07%) Degree
2 23 (6.13%) Security Cleared
3 14 (3.73%) ACCA
3 14 (3.73%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (2.93%) CIMA
5 10 (2.67%) SC Cleared
6 8 (2.13%) HNC
6 8 (2.13%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.87%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (1.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 5 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.33%) IRCA
10 4 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.07%) CCNA
10 4 (1.07%) CCNP
10 4 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.07%) MBA
11 3 (0.80%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.53%) CIPD
12 2 (0.53%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (11.47%) Data Quality
2 24 (6.40%) QA
3 15 (4.00%) SLA
4 9 (2.40%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.87%) GDPR
6 5 (1.33%) ISO 9001
7 4 (1.07%) GRC
7 4 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.07%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.07%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.27%) COSO
9 1 (0.27%) IFRS
9 1 (0.27%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.27%) PMO
System Software
1 25 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 9 (2.40%) Virtual Desktop
3 7 (1.87%) Docker
4 3 (0.80%) Ceph
4 3 (0.80%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.27%) Firmware
5 1 (0.27%) NFS
5 1 (0.27%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (1.33%) Ansible
2 4 (1.07%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.80%) Argo
3 3 (0.80%) Check_MK
3 3 (0.80%) Istio
3 3 (0.80%) McAfee ePO
3 3 (0.80%) Podman
3 3 (0.80%) Prometheus
3 3 (0.80%) SCVMM
3 3 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.53%) Nessus
5 1 (0.27%) Autotask
5 1 (0.27%) Grafana
Vendors
1 82 (21.87%) Microsoft
2 32 (8.53%) SAP
3 15 (4.00%) YouTube
4 11 (2.93%) Salesforce
5 10 (2.67%) Adobe
6 9 (2.40%) Google
7 8 (2.13%) Databricks
8 7 (1.87%) VMware
9 6 (1.60%) Oracle
9 6 (1.60%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.33%) Cisco
10 5 (1.33%) HP
10 5 (1.33%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.07%) Aruba
11 4 (1.07%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (1.07%) Sage
11 4 (1.07%) Workday
12 3 (0.80%) Dell
12 3 (0.80%) iManage
12 3 (0.80%) McAfee