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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 10 19
Rank change year-on-year -28 +9 +31
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 194 299 414
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 4.60% 14.61% 9.13%
As % of the General category 8.85% 20.23% 16.37%
Number of salaries quoted 106 165 310
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,900 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +1.46%
75th Percentile £63,750 £77,500 £61,123
90th Percentile £78,494 £95,000 £72,850
North West median annual salary £42,500 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -19.05% +10.53% +6.35%

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 2,193 1,478 2,529
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 52.00% 72.20% 55.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,260 854 1,991
10th Percentile £28,725 £31,000 £27,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,271 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% +10.34% -7.27%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £80,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -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 26 March 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 26 March 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 -1 9 £41,250 -30.59% 9
Bolton -8 7 £47,500 -5.00% 11
Altrincham - 4 £27,500 - 1
Wigan -2 3 £40,000 -5.88% 2
Bury - 2 - - 1
Stockport +2 1 - - 3
Oldham -3 1 £78,237 +148.37% 5
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 11 (5.67%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.55%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.55%) Confluence
2 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.52%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.52%) SAS
Applications
1 38 (19.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (6.19%) Chatbot
3 6 (3.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (1.03%) AutoCAD
5 2 (1.03%) Revit
Business Applications
1 15 (7.73%) SAP PM
2 11 (5.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (3.09%) SAP ERP
4 5 (2.58%) NetSuite
5 2 (1.03%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (1.03%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (1.03%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (1.03%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.52%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.52%) Siebel CRM
6 1 (0.52%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 31 (15.98%) Power Platform
2 22 (11.34%) Azure
3 19 (9.79%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (7.22%) AWS
4 14 (7.22%) SaaS
5 9 (4.64%) Entra ID
5 9 (4.64%) OneDrive
6 8 (4.12%) Azure Monitor
6 8 (4.12%) Microsoft Purview
7 5 (2.58%) Adobe Analytics
7 5 (2.58%) Figma
8 4 (2.06%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.06%) GCP
9 3 (1.55%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (1.55%) Serverless
10 2 (1.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.03%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.03%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.03%) Firewall
1 2 (1.03%) Network Security
2 1 (0.52%) DHCP
2 1 (0.52%) DNS
2 1 (0.52%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (0.52%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.52%) TCAP
2 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.52%) VLAN
2 1 (0.52%) VPN
2 1 (0.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (14.95%) Tableau
2 23 (11.86%) Power BI
3 17 (8.76%) Data Mining
4 6 (3.09%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.55%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.03%) Big Data
8 1 (0.52%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.52%) DB2
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.52%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.52%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (2.06%) Git
1 4 (2.06%) JIRA
2 1 (0.52%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.52%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.52%) Postman
2 1 (0.52%) REST Assured
2 1 (0.52%) Selenium
General
1 98 (50.52%) Social Skills
2 75 (38.66%) Finance
3 25 (12.89%) Law
4 24 (12.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (8.25%) Telecoms
6 15 (7.73%) Military
7 14 (7.22%) Legal
8 13 (6.70%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (6.19%) Banking
10 10 (5.15%) Back Office
11 9 (4.64%) Manufacturing
12 8 (4.12%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (3.61%) Public Sector
14 5 (2.58%) Retail
15 4 (2.06%) Marketing
15 4 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
16 3 (1.55%) French Language
16 3 (1.55%) Italian Language
16 3 (1.55%) Portuguese Language
16 3 (1.55%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 45 (23.20%) Analyst
2 18 (9.28%) Data Analyst
3 16 (8.25%) Consultant
3 16 (8.25%) Senior
4 15 (7.73%) Trainee
4 15 (7.73%) Trainee Analyst
4 15 (7.73%) Trainee Data Analyst
5 13 (6.70%) Lead
6 12 (6.19%) Trainer
7 10 (5.15%) Performance Manager
8 9 (4.64%) Alliance Manager
9 8 (4.12%) Data Manager
9 8 (4.12%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (3.61%) Architect
10 7 (3.61%) Business Analyst
10 7 (3.61%) Technology Consultant
11 6 (3.09%) Analytics Manager
11 6 (3.09%) Data Analytics Manager
11 6 (3.09%) Head of QA
11 6 (3.09%) Planning Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.09%) .NET
2 4 (2.06%) HTML
2 4 (2.06%) SAP Fiori
3 3 (1.55%) CSS
3 3 (1.55%) Web Services
4 2 (1.03%) ASP.NET
4 2 (1.03%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (1.03%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (1.03%) Pandas
4 2 (1.03%) XML
5 1 (0.52%) ADO
5 1 (0.52%) NumPy
5 1 (0.52%) Playwright
5 1 (0.52%) REST
5 1 (0.52%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 31 (15.98%) Analytical Mindset
2 9 (4.64%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (4.12%) Social Media
4 7 (3.61%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (3.09%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.09%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.58%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.58%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.06%) Credit Risk
7 4 (2.06%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.06%) FMCG
8 3 (1.55%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.03%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.03%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.52%) Cyber Defence
10 1 (0.52%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.52%) Derivative
10 1 (0.52%) Market Risk
10 1 (0.52%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.70%) Windows
2 3 (1.55%) Android
2 3 (1.55%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.52%) Linux
3 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (38.66%) Problem-Solving
2 58 (29.90%) AI
3 53 (27.32%) Analytics
4 46 (23.71%) Stakeholder Management
5 45 (23.20%) Decision-Making
6 44 (22.68%) Continuous Improvement
7 38 (19.59%) Project Management
8 35 (18.04%) Agile
9 31 (15.98%) Visualisation
10 30 (15.46%) Data Analysis
10 30 (15.46%) Data Analytics
11 29 (14.95%) Business Analysis
12 24 (12.37%) Business Intelligence
13 21 (10.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 20 (10.31%) Roadmaps
15 19 (9.79%) Change Management
15 19 (9.79%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 19 (9.79%) Requirements Gathering
16 18 (9.28%) Data Governance
16 18 (9.28%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 38 (19.59%) SQL
2 34 (17.53%) Python
3 6 (3.09%) C#
4 5 (2.58%) Java
5 4 (2.06%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.03%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.03%) R
6 2 (1.03%) Scala
6 2 (1.03%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.52%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.52%) PHP
7 1 (0.52%) VBA
Qualifications
1 47 (24.23%) Degree
2 15 (7.73%) Master's Degree
3 13 (6.70%) PhD
4 12 (6.19%) DBS Check
5 6 (3.09%) ACCA
5 6 (3.09%) CIMA
5 6 (3.09%) HNC
5 6 (3.09%) IRCA
6 4 (2.06%) PMI Certification
6 4 (2.06%) PMP
6 4 (2.06%) Security Cleared
7 3 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.03%) CCA
8 2 (1.03%) Chartered Engineer
8 2 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.52%) CISA
9 1 (0.52%) CISSP
9 1 (0.52%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.22%) QA
2 13 (6.70%) GDPR
3 6 (3.09%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.09%) ISO 9001
4 5 (2.58%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (1.55%) GLBA
6 2 (1.03%) FINRA
6 2 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.03%) SLA
7 1 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.52%) NIST
7 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.52%) SOX 404
System Software
1 11 (5.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.03%) Docker
2 2 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.52%) Firmware
3 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.52%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (5.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (4.64%) Terraform
3 8 (4.12%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.55%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.52%) Ansible
5 1 (0.52%) Autotask
5 1 (0.52%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 45 (23.20%) Microsoft
2 27 (13.92%) SAP
3 12 (6.19%) PayPal
4 8 (4.12%) New Relic
4 8 (4.12%) Splunk
5 5 (2.58%) Adobe
5 5 (2.58%) Guidewire
5 5 (2.58%) Qualtrics
6 4 (2.06%) Oracle
7 3 (1.55%) Databricks
7 3 (1.55%) Genesys
7 3 (1.55%) iManage
8 2 (1.03%) Anaplan
8 2 (1.03%) Apple
8 2 (1.03%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.03%) IFS
8 2 (1.03%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.03%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.03%) Verint
9 1 (0.52%) Duck Creek