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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 8 20
Rank change year-on-year -20 +12 +18
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 348 369 356
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.12% 14.74% 8.00%
As % of the General category 12.50% 21.72% 14.55%
Number of salaries quoted 247 167 234
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,375 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% +4.50%
75th Percentile £68,750 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,454 £77,500 £84,964
North West median annual salary £47,500 £45,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.40% -9.00% +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 2,785 1,699 2,447
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 41.01% 67.85% 55.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,979 898 1,491
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £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 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £83,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -7.41%

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 9 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 9 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 -4 17 £40,000 +0.63% 6
Bolton 0 15 £40,000 -20.00% 7
Stockport +3 10 £45,000 +17.65% 5
Wigan +4 9 £37,500 - 2
Altrincham +6 3 - - 3
Oldham +1 2 £74,082 +68.36% 3
Sale +3 1 £42,500 -
Ashton-under-Lyne -2 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 9 (2.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.30%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.86%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.57%) Apache
5 2 (0.57%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.29%) WebSphere
Applications
1 41 (11.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (5.46%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (3.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.57%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (5.46%) SAP PM
2 15 (4.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (3.74%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.86%) SAP QM
5 2 (0.57%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.57%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.29%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.29%) Magento
6 1 (0.29%) Odoo
6 1 (0.29%) SAP ECC
6 1 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 48 (13.79%) Azure
2 43 (12.36%) AWS
3 34 (9.77%) Power Platform
4 22 (6.32%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (4.60%) GCP
6 9 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (2.59%) GitHub
6 9 (2.59%) Serverless
7 8 (2.30%) Amazon S3
7 8 (2.30%) Snowflake
8 6 (1.72%) OpenShift
9 5 (1.44%) Entra ID
9 5 (1.44%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (1.15%) Google Sheets
10 4 (1.15%) Meta Ads
10 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Copilot
11 3 (0.86%) dbt
11 3 (0.86%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (0.86%) Fivetran
11 3 (0.86%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.87%) Internet
2 9 (2.59%) DHCP
2 9 (2.59%) DNS
3 6 (1.72%) Firewall
4 5 (1.44%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.15%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (1.15%) Cisco Firepower
5 4 (1.15%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (1.15%) Network Security
6 3 (0.86%) LAN
6 3 (0.86%) SAN
6 3 (0.86%) VSAN
6 3 (0.86%) WAN
7 2 (0.57%) Unified Communications
7 2 (0.57%) VLAN
7 2 (0.57%) VoIP
7 2 (0.57%) VPN
7 2 (0.57%) Wireless
8 1 (0.29%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (0.29%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (11.49%) Tableau
2 33 (9.48%) Power BI
3 12 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (2.30%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (1.44%) Big Data
6 5 (1.44%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.86%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (0.86%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.86%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.86%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.57%) Data Hub
8 2 (0.57%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.57%) KNIME
8 2 (0.57%) MS Access
8 2 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.57%) Power Query
9 1 (0.29%) GIS
Development Applications
1 23 (6.61%) Git
2 5 (1.44%) JIRA
3 4 (1.15%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.86%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.86%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.57%) Postman
6 1 (0.29%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.29%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.29%) Selenium
General
1 156 (44.83%) Social Skills
2 105 (30.17%) Finance
3 58 (16.67%) Law
4 38 (10.92%) Telecoms
5 36 (10.34%) Military
6 30 (8.62%) Back Office
7 29 (8.33%) Marketing
8 22 (6.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (5.75%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (4.89%) Manufacturing
11 16 (4.60%) Public Sector
12 14 (4.02%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (3.74%) Legal
14 11 (3.16%) Retail
15 9 (2.59%) Banking
16 8 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
17 7 (2.01%) Local Government
18 6 (1.72%) Advertising
18 6 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
19 5 (1.44%) Games
Job Titles
1 82 (23.56%) Analyst
2 32 (9.20%) Senior
3 29 (8.33%) Lead
4 23 (6.61%) Data Analyst
5 17 (4.89%) Developer
6 16 (4.60%) Development Manager
7 15 (4.31%) Performance Analyst
8 14 (4.02%) Business Development Manager
8 14 (4.02%) Business Manager
8 14 (4.02%) Data Engineer
8 14 (4.02%) Performance Manager
9 13 (3.74%) Planning Manager
10 11 (3.16%) Administrator
10 11 (3.16%) Architect
10 11 (3.16%) Junior
11 10 (2.87%) SAP Manager
12 9 (2.59%) Accountant
12 9 (2.59%) Systems Accountant
13 8 (2.30%) Change Analyst
13 8 (2.30%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.74%) HTML
2 9 (2.59%) CSS
3 7 (2.01%) .NET
4 6 (1.72%) Web Services
5 5 (1.44%) AngularJS
5 5 (1.44%) Node.js
5 5 (1.44%) REST
5 5 (1.44%) scikit-learn
6 4 (1.15%) Kafka
6 4 (1.15%) Lightning Web Components
6 4 (1.15%) Middleware
6 4 (1.15%) Pandas
6 4 (1.15%) SOAP
6 4 (1.15%) Visualforce
7 3 (0.86%) ASP.NET
7 3 (0.86%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (0.86%) AWS CDK
7 3 (0.86%) NumPy
8 2 (0.57%) RESTful
8 2 (0.57%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 27 (7.76%) Analytical Mindset
2 22 (6.32%) Onboarding
3 17 (4.89%) Product Ownership
4 13 (3.74%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (2.59%) Marketing Technology
6 8 (2.30%) Driving Licence
7 7 (2.01%) Credit Risk
7 7 (2.01%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.01%) Social Media
8 6 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (1.44%) NHS
10 4 (1.15%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.15%) Cyberattack
10 4 (1.15%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.15%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.15%) FMCG
11 3 (0.86%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.86%) Replication
12 2 (0.57%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 25 (7.18%) Windows
2 13 (3.74%) Windows Server
3 10 (2.87%) Linux
4 4 (1.15%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.86%) CentOS
5 3 (0.86%) CoreOS
5 3 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (34.77%) Problem-Solving
2 87 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 76 (21.84%) Continuous Improvement
4 74 (21.26%) Analytics
5 58 (16.67%) AI
6 55 (15.80%) Agile
7 54 (15.52%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 53 (15.23%) Stakeholder Management
9 50 (14.37%) Visualisation
10 48 (13.79%) Data Governance
11 41 (11.78%) Validation
12 40 (11.49%) Business Intelligence
13 35 (10.06%) ERP
14 34 (9.77%) Data Development
14 34 (9.77%) Data Modelling
15 33 (9.48%) Actionable Insight
16 30 (8.62%) Data Analysis
17 29 (8.33%) Collaborative Culture
17 29 (8.33%) Roadmaps
18 27 (7.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 75 (21.55%) SQL
2 68 (19.54%) Python
3 17 (4.89%) JavaScript
4 10 (2.87%) C#
4 10 (2.87%) Java
5 9 (2.59%) PowerShell
6 6 (1.72%) PHP
6 6 (1.72%) R
7 5 (1.44%) T-SQL
8 4 (1.15%) Apex Code
9 3 (0.86%) Bash
9 3 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.86%) SOQL
9 3 (0.86%) SOSL
10 2 (0.57%) Bicep
10 2 (0.57%) Scala
11 1 (0.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 43 (12.36%) Degree
2 20 (5.75%) Security Cleared
3 12 (3.45%) ACCA
4 11 (3.16%) HNC
4 11 (3.16%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (2.87%) CIMA
6 9 (2.59%) SC Cleared
7 8 (2.30%) Master's Degree
8 7 (2.01%) IRCA
8 7 (2.01%) ITIL Certification
9 6 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.15%) CCNA
11 4 (1.15%) CCNP
11 4 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 4 (1.15%) MBA
12 3 (0.86%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.57%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (9.77%) Data Quality
2 21 (6.03%) QA
3 15 (4.31%) SLA
4 9 (2.59%) GDPR
5 7 (2.01%) Accessibility
5 7 (2.01%) ISO 9001
6 4 (1.15%) GRC
6 4 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.15%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.15%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.29%) IFRS
7 1 (0.29%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.29%) PMO
7 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (6.03%) Active Directory
2 9 (2.59%) Virtual Desktop
3 7 (2.01%) Docker
4 3 (0.86%) Ceph
4 3 (0.86%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.29%) Firmware
5 1 (0.29%) NFS
5 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (1.44%) Ansible
2 4 (1.15%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.86%) Argo
3 3 (0.86%) Check_MK
3 3 (0.86%) Istio
3 3 (0.86%) McAfee ePO
3 3 (0.86%) Podman
3 3 (0.86%) Prometheus
3 3 (0.86%) SCVMM
4 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.57%) Nessus
4 2 (0.57%) Terraform
5 1 (0.29%) Autotask
5 1 (0.29%) Grafana
5 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 69 (19.83%) Microsoft
2 39 (11.21%) SAP
3 10 (2.87%) Adobe
4 8 (2.30%) Databricks
4 8 (2.30%) Google
4 8 (2.30%) Salesforce
5 6 (1.72%) Oracle
5 6 (1.72%) Red Hat
6 5 (1.44%) Cisco
6 5 (1.44%) HP
6 5 (1.44%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.44%) VMware
7 4 (1.15%) Aruba
7 4 (1.15%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (1.15%) Sage
8 3 (0.86%) Dell
8 3 (0.86%) iManage
8 3 (0.86%) McAfee
9 2 (0.57%) IFS
9 2 (0.57%) Palo Alto