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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 8 18
Rank change year-on-year -28 +10 +30
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 257 376 466
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 4.27% 17.04% 8.58%
As % of the General category 9.46% 23.15% 15.68%
Number of salaries quoted 179 161 347
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,500 £27,300
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £59,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £88,750 £76,250
North West median annual salary £46,500 £50,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year -7.00% +7.53% +2.20%

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 2,716 1,624 2,972
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 45.15% 73.58% 54.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,763 818 2,201
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £65,603
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £80,000
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 3 June 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 3 June 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 0 13 £41,250 -17.50% 10
Salford -4 10 £42,500 +23.19% 6
Wigan -1 5 £40,000 -
Stockport -5 4 £45,000 +17.65% 6
Altrincham +5 3 - - 4
Oldham +3 2 £74,082 +68.36% 3
Ashton-under-Lyne 0 1 £51,000 - 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 8 (3.11%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.95%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (0.78%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 31 (12.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 17 (6.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (5.84%) SAP PM
3 13 (5.06%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.78%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.78%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.39%) Magento
5 1 (0.39%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 33 (12.84%) Azure
1 33 (12.84%) Power Platform
2 26 (10.12%) AWS
3 23 (8.95%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (3.50%) Serverless
5 7 (2.72%) Amazon S3
5 7 (2.72%) GitHub
6 6 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (2.33%) GCP
6 6 (2.33%) Microsoft Purview
6 6 (2.33%) OneDrive
7 5 (1.95%) Entra ID
7 5 (1.95%) SaaS
8 4 (1.56%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (1.56%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.17%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (1.17%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.17%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (1.17%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.72%) Firewall
2 5 (1.95%) Network Security
3 4 (1.56%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (1.56%) Cisco Firepower
3 4 (1.56%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (1.17%) DHCP
4 3 (1.17%) DNS
5 2 (0.78%) SAN
6 1 (0.39%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.39%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.39%) VLAN
6 1 (0.39%) VPN
6 1 (0.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (14.01%) Tableau
2 28 (10.89%) Power BI
3 11 (4.28%) Data Mining
4 6 (2.33%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.56%) Big Data
7 3 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.78%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.39%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 1 (0.39%) DB2
9 1 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.39%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.39%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 10 (3.89%) Git
2 3 (1.17%) JIRA
3 1 (0.39%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.39%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.39%) Postman
3 1 (0.39%) REST Assured
3 1 (0.39%) Selenium
General
1 117 (45.53%) Social Skills
2 76 (29.57%) Finance
3 38 (14.79%) Law
4 27 (10.51%) Telecoms
5 25 (9.73%) Military
6 21 (8.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (7.78%) Back Office
8 15 (5.84%) Manufacturing
9 13 (5.06%) Marketing
10 12 (4.67%) Public Sector
11 11 (4.28%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (3.89%) Banking
12 10 (3.89%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (3.11%) Legal
13 8 (3.11%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (2.33%) Retail
16 3 (1.17%) French Language
16 3 (1.17%) Italian Language
16 3 (1.17%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 61 (23.74%) Analyst
2 29 (11.28%) Senior
3 28 (10.89%) Lead
4 17 (6.61%) Data Analyst
5 15 (5.84%) Developer
6 13 (5.06%) Planning Manager
7 12 (4.67%) Consultant
7 12 (4.67%) SAP Manager
8 10 (3.89%) Performance Analyst
8 10 (3.89%) Performance Manager
9 9 (3.50%) Business Manager
9 9 (3.50%) Data Manager
9 9 (3.50%) Trainee
9 9 (3.50%) Trainee Analyst
9 9 (3.50%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 8 (3.11%) Architect
10 8 (3.11%) Development Manager
11 7 (2.72%) Business Analyst
11 7 (2.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (2.72%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.06%) HTML
2 12 (4.67%) CSS
3 7 (2.72%) .NET
4 5 (1.95%) AngularJS
4 5 (1.95%) Node.js
5 4 (1.56%) REST
5 4 (1.56%) scikit-learn
6 3 (1.17%) ASP.NET
6 3 (1.17%) ASP.NET MVC
6 3 (1.17%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (1.17%) Middleware
6 3 (1.17%) NumPy
6 3 (1.17%) Pandas
6 3 (1.17%) SAP Fiori
6 3 (1.17%) SOAP
6 3 (1.17%) Visualforce
6 3 (1.17%) Web Services
7 2 (0.78%) RESTful
7 2 (0.78%) Symfony
7 2 (0.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.12%) Analytical Mindset
2 17 (6.61%) Onboarding
3 12 (4.67%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.11%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.33%) Credit Risk
5 6 (2.33%) FMCG
6 5 (1.95%) Cloud Native
6 5 (1.95%) Driving Licence
6 5 (1.95%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.95%) Marketing Technology
6 5 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.17%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.78%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.78%) Cyberattack
9 2 (0.78%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.23%) Windows
2 8 (3.11%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.17%) Android
3 3 (1.17%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.39%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (37.74%) Problem-Solving
2 62 (24.12%) Decision-Making
3 59 (22.96%) Analytics
3 59 (22.96%) Continuous Improvement
4 48 (18.68%) AI
5 47 (18.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 42 (16.34%) Agile
7 40 (15.56%) Visualisation
8 34 (13.23%) Data Governance
8 34 (13.23%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 32 (12.45%) Business Intelligence
10 29 (11.28%) Project Management
11 26 (10.12%) Data Analysis
12 25 (9.73%) Data Development
12 25 (9.73%) Roadmaps
13 24 (9.34%) Data Analytics
13 24 (9.34%) Data Modelling
13 24 (9.34%) ERP
13 24 (9.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 24 (9.34%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 61 (23.74%) SQL
2 54 (21.01%) Python
3 14 (5.45%) JavaScript
4 12 (4.67%) C#
5 9 (3.50%) Java
6 5 (1.95%) T-SQL
7 3 (1.17%) Apex Code
7 3 (1.17%) PHP
7 3 (1.17%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.17%) R
7 3 (1.17%) SOQL
7 3 (1.17%) SOSL
8 2 (0.78%) Bicep
8 2 (0.78%) Scala
9 1 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 34 (13.23%) Degree
2 10 (3.89%) HNC
2 10 (3.89%) Security Cleared
3 7 (2.72%) ITIL Certification
3 7 (2.72%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (2.33%) ACCA
4 6 (2.33%) IRCA
5 5 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.95%) DBS Check
6 4 (1.56%) CCNA
6 4 (1.56%) CCNP
6 4 (1.56%) CIMA
6 4 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.56%) PMI Certification
6 4 (1.56%) PMP
6 4 (1.56%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.17%) CCA
8 2 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.78%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.39%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.78%) Data Quality
2 16 (6.23%) QA
3 11 (4.28%) SLA
4 10 (3.89%) GDPR
5 6 (2.33%) ISO 9001
6 5 (1.95%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.56%) GRC
7 4 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.56%) SOC 2
8 3 (1.17%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.39%) IFRS
9 1 (0.39%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (6.61%) Active Directory
2 10 (3.89%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.78%) Docker
5 1 (0.39%) Firmware
5 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.39%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (1.95%) Terraform
3 4 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.17%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.39%) Ansible
5 1 (0.39%) Autotask
5 1 (0.39%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 54 (21.01%) Microsoft
2 35 (13.62%) SAP
3 7 (2.72%) Adobe
4 5 (1.95%) Databricks
4 5 (1.95%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.56%) Aruba
5 4 (1.56%) Cisco
5 4 (1.56%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (1.56%) HP
5 4 (1.56%) New Relic
5 4 (1.56%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.56%) Splunk
6 3 (1.17%) iManage
6 3 (1.17%) Oracle
6 3 (1.17%) VMware
7 2 (0.78%) Anaplan
7 2 (0.78%) Genesys
7 2 (0.78%) IFS
7 2 (0.78%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.78%) Verint