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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 9 18
Rank change year-on-year -19 +9 +22
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 339 376 360
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.08% 14.94% 8.01%
As % of the General category 12.35% 21.92% 14.68%
Number of salaries quoted 241 174 238
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,125 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £50,845
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -11.50% +1.69%
75th Percentile £68,750 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,375 £84,964
North West median annual salary £46,750 £47,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.53% -6.00% +11.11%

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 2,744 1,715 2,452
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 41.12% 68.16% 54.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,952 907 1,525
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,220 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,125 £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 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £99,750 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £47,683 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.86% -4.63% -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 3 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 3 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 16 £40,000 +0.63% 4
Bolton -2 15 £40,000 -20.00% 5
Stockport +2 10 £45,000 +17.65% 5
Wigan +4 9 £37,500 - 3
Altrincham +7 3 - - 1
Oldham +3 2 £74,082 +68.36% 2
Sale +3 1 £42,500 -
Ashton-under-Lyne -1 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 7 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (1.77%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.88%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.59%) Apache
5 2 (0.59%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.29%) WebSphere
Applications
1 43 (12.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (5.01%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (3.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.59%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (5.60%) SAP PM
2 15 (4.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (3.83%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.88%) SAP QM
5 2 (0.59%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.59%) 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 45 (13.27%) Azure
2 42 (12.39%) AWS
3 34 (10.03%) Power Platform
4 20 (5.90%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (4.72%) GCP
6 9 (2.65%) GitHub
6 9 (2.65%) Serverless
7 8 (2.36%) Amazon S3
7 8 (2.36%) Snowflake
8 7 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (1.77%) OpenShift
10 4 (1.18%) Meta Ads
10 4 (1.18%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (0.88%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (0.88%) ChatGPT
11 3 (0.88%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (0.88%) Google Ads
11 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Copilot
11 3 (0.88%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 3 (0.88%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.65%) Internet
2 7 (2.06%) DHCP
2 7 (2.06%) DNS
3 6 (1.77%) Firewall
4 4 (1.18%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (1.18%) Cisco Firepower
4 4 (1.18%) Cisco Nexus
4 4 (1.18%) Network Security
4 4 (1.18%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.88%) LAN
5 3 (0.88%) SAN
5 3 (0.88%) VSAN
5 3 (0.88%) WAN
6 1 (0.29%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.29%) RTP
6 1 (0.29%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.29%) VLAN
6 1 (0.29%) VoIP
6 1 (0.29%) VPN
6 1 (0.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (12.09%) Tableau
2 33 (9.73%) Power BI
3 12 (3.54%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (2.36%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.77%) Data Mining
5 6 (1.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (1.47%) Big Data
7 3 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (0.88%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.88%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.88%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.59%) Data Hub
8 2 (0.59%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.59%) KNIME
8 2 (0.59%) MS Access
8 2 (0.59%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.59%) Power Query
9 1 (0.29%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 23 (6.78%) Git
2 4 (1.18%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.18%) JIRA
3 3 (0.88%) Bitbucket
3 3 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (0.59%) Postman
5 1 (0.29%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.29%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.29%) Selenium
General
1 149 (43.95%) Social Skills
2 101 (29.79%) Finance
3 59 (17.40%) Law
4 38 (11.21%) Telecoms
5 36 (10.62%) Military
6 30 (8.85%) Back Office
7 25 (7.37%) Marketing
8 21 (6.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (5.90%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (5.01%) Manufacturing
10 17 (5.01%) Public Sector
11 14 (4.13%) Influencing Skills
12 13 (3.83%) Legal
13 9 (2.65%) Banking
13 9 (2.65%) Retail
14 8 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (2.06%) Local Government
15 7 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (1.47%) Advertising
17 4 (1.18%) Games
Job Titles
1 79 (23.30%) Analyst
2 32 (9.44%) Senior
3 28 (8.26%) Lead
4 22 (6.49%) Data Analyst
5 17 (5.01%) Developer
6 16 (4.72%) Development Manager
7 15 (4.42%) Performance Analyst
8 14 (4.13%) Business Development Manager
8 14 (4.13%) Business Manager
8 14 (4.13%) Data Engineer
8 14 (4.13%) Performance Manager
9 13 (3.83%) Planning Manager
10 11 (3.24%) Administrator
10 11 (3.24%) Architect
10 11 (3.24%) Junior
11 10 (2.95%) SAP Manager
12 9 (2.65%) Accountant
12 9 (2.65%) Systems Accountant
13 8 (2.36%) Change Analyst
13 8 (2.36%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.83%) HTML
2 9 (2.65%) CSS
3 7 (2.06%) .NET
4 6 (1.77%) Web Services
5 5 (1.47%) AngularJS
5 5 (1.47%) Node.js
5 5 (1.47%) REST
5 5 (1.47%) scikit-learn
6 4 (1.18%) Kafka
6 4 (1.18%) Lightning Web Components
6 4 (1.18%) Middleware
6 4 (1.18%) Pandas
6 4 (1.18%) SOAP
6 4 (1.18%) Visualforce
7 3 (0.88%) ASP.NET
7 3 (0.88%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (0.88%) AWS CDK
7 3 (0.88%) NumPy
8 2 (0.59%) RESTful
8 2 (0.59%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 20 (5.90%) Onboarding
3 17 (5.01%) Product Ownership
4 13 (3.83%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (2.65%) Marketing Technology
6 7 (2.06%) Credit Risk
6 7 (2.06%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.06%) Social Media
7 6 (1.77%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (1.47%) Driving Licence
8 5 (1.47%) NHS
9 4 (1.18%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.18%) Cyberattack
9 4 (1.18%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.18%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.18%) FMCG
10 3 (0.88%) AI Agents
10 3 (0.88%) Replication
11 2 (0.59%) Clustering
11 2 (0.59%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 23 (6.78%) Windows
2 12 (3.54%) Windows Server
3 10 (2.95%) Linux
4 3 (0.88%) CentOS
4 3 (0.88%) CoreOS
4 3 (0.88%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (34.22%) Problem-Solving
2 83 (24.48%) Decision-Making
3 74 (21.83%) Analytics
3 74 (21.83%) Continuous Improvement
4 57 (16.81%) AI
5 54 (15.93%) Agile
6 53 (15.63%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 52 (15.34%) Stakeholder Management
8 50 (14.75%) Visualisation
9 48 (14.16%) Data Governance
10 41 (12.09%) Validation
11 40 (11.80%) Business Intelligence
12 34 (10.03%) Data Development
12 34 (10.03%) Data Modelling
13 33 (9.73%) ERP
14 32 (9.44%) Actionable Insight
15 31 (9.14%) Data Analysis
16 28 (8.26%) Roadmaps
17 26 (7.67%) Collaborative Culture
17 26 (7.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 76 (22.42%) SQL
2 69 (20.35%) Python
3 17 (5.01%) JavaScript
4 11 (3.24%) C#
5 10 (2.95%) Java
6 7 (2.06%) PowerShell
7 6 (1.77%) PHP
7 6 (1.77%) R
8 5 (1.47%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.18%) Apex Code
10 3 (0.88%) Bash
10 3 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.88%) SOQL
10 3 (0.88%) SOSL
11 2 (0.59%) Bicep
11 2 (0.59%) Scala
12 1 (0.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 40 (11.80%) Degree
2 19 (5.60%) Security Cleared
3 12 (3.54%) ACCA
4 11 (3.24%) HNC
5 10 (2.95%) CIMA
5 10 (2.95%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (2.36%) Master's Degree
6 8 (2.36%) SC Cleared
7 7 (2.06%) IRCA
7 7 (2.06%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.18%) CCNA
10 4 (1.18%) CCNP
10 4 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.18%) MBA
11 3 (0.88%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.59%) CCA
12 2 (0.59%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (9.73%) Data Quality
2 21 (6.19%) QA
3 15 (4.42%) SLA
4 9 (2.65%) GDPR
5 7 (2.06%) Accessibility
5 7 (2.06%) ISO 9001
6 4 (1.18%) GRC
6 4 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.18%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.18%) 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 19 (5.60%) Active Directory
2 9 (2.65%) Virtual Desktop
3 7 (2.06%) Docker
4 3 (0.88%) Ceph
4 3 (0.88%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.88%) 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 (1.47%) Ansible
2 4 (1.18%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.88%) Argo
3 3 (0.88%) Check_MK
3 3 (0.88%) Istio
3 3 (0.88%) McAfee ePO
3 3 (0.88%) Podman
3 3 (0.88%) Prometheus
3 3 (0.88%) SCVMM
4 2 (0.59%) Nessus
4 2 (0.59%) Terraform
5 1 (0.29%) Autotask
5 1 (0.29%) Grafana
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 65 (19.17%) Microsoft
2 39 (11.50%) SAP
3 10 (2.95%) Adobe
4 8 (2.36%) Databricks
5 7 (2.06%) Google
6 6 (1.77%) Red Hat
6 6 (1.77%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.47%) Cisco
7 5 (1.47%) HP
7 5 (1.47%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.18%) Aruba
8 4 (1.18%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (1.18%) Oracle
8 4 (1.18%) Sage
8 4 (1.18%) VMware
9 3 (0.88%) Dell
9 3 (0.88%) iManage
9 3 (0.88%) McAfee
10 2 (0.59%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.59%) Palo Alto