Analytics Job Trends in Manchester

Analytics
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Analytics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 32 32
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 -6
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 140 208 173
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.93% 5.70% 7.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.91% 6.70% 7.53%
Number of salaries quoted 85 76 148
10th Percentile £30,850 £39,042 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -8.80% +10.80%
75th Percentile £70,000 £93,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,462
North West median annual salary £50,000 £56,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% -6.67% +7.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Analytics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,027 3,106 2,298
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 85.82% 85.19% 94.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,243 1,419 1,881
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £55,000 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -7.65% +8.28%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Analytics relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Analytics job vacancy trend in Manchester

Analytics
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Analytics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Analytics

Analytics
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytics in Manchester over the 6 months to 3 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Analytics in Manchester

Analytics
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Analytics within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 3 November 2025. 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 - 4 £47,500 - 16
Salford +16 1 £45,000 +63.64% 3
Stockport +5 1 - - 3
Cheadle - 1 £55,000 -
Oldham - 1 - - 1
Altrincham - 1 - - 4
Analytics
North West

Analytics
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 (6.43%) CMS
2 3 (2.14%) Confluence
2 3 (2.14%) SAS
3 2 (1.43%) Apache
3 2 (1.43%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.43%) Headless CMS
3 2 (1.43%) WordPress
4 1 (0.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 17 (12.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.86%) Chatbot
3 4 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.71%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.71%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.71%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.71%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.71%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.43%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (1.43%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (1.43%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (1.43%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (1.43%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 32 (22.86%) Azure
2 22 (15.71%) Google Analytics
3 20 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 17 (12.14%) AWS
5 11 (7.86%) Azure Data Factory
5 11 (7.86%) SaaS
6 9 (6.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 7 (5.00%) Adobe Analytics
7 7 (5.00%) GCP
8 6 (4.29%) Figma
9 5 (3.57%) Amazon S3
9 5 (3.57%) Serverless
10 4 (2.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (2.86%) Contentsquare
10 4 (2.86%) OCI
11 3 (2.14%) Amazon EMR
11 3 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (2.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.71%) DAB
1 1 (0.71%) DNS
1 1 (0.71%) Firewall
1 1 (0.71%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.71%) SMS
1 1 (0.71%) SSH
1 1 (0.71%) VPN
1 1 (0.71%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (14.29%) Power BI
2 17 (12.14%) Tableau
3 15 (10.71%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (6.43%) Data Lake
5 7 (5.00%) Big Data
6 6 (4.29%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (3.57%) Data Mining
7 5 (3.57%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.86%) GIS
8 4 (2.86%) Mixpanel
8 4 (2.86%) MySQL
8 4 (2.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 4 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (2.14%) DynamoDB
9 3 (2.14%) Looker
9 3 (2.14%) MongoDB
9 3 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (1.43%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.43%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (4.29%) JIRA
2 4 (2.86%) Git
3 2 (1.43%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.71%) GitLab
4 1 (0.71%) JUnit
4 1 (0.71%) Maven
4 1 (0.71%) MLflow
4 1 (0.71%) RStudio
4 1 (0.71%) Selenium
General
1 49 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 34 (24.29%) Finance
3 31 (22.14%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (20.71%) Marketing
5 24 (17.14%) Retail
6 16 (11.43%) Banking
7 13 (9.29%) Manufacturing
8 8 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (5.00%) Legal
10 6 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (4.29%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (3.57%) Advertising
12 4 (2.86%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (2.14%) Law
13 3 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (2.14%) Private Banking
14 2 (1.43%) Cantonese Language
14 2 (1.43%) Health Technology
14 2 (1.43%) Mandarin Language
14 2 (1.43%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 24 (17.14%) Analyst
1 24 (17.14%) Senior
2 14 (10.00%) Data Engineer
2 14 (10.00%) Developer
3 10 (7.14%) Architect
3 10 (7.14%) Data Analyst
3 10 (7.14%) Senior Manager
4 6 (4.29%) Head of Analytics
4 6 (4.29%) Lead
4 6 (4.29%) Senior Developer
4 6 (4.29%) Strategy Manager
5 5 (3.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 5 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (2.86%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 4 (2.86%) Content Manager
6 4 (2.86%) Oracle Architect
6 4 (2.86%) Senior Content Manager
6 4 (2.86%) Technical Architect
6 4 (2.86%) Trainee
6 4 (2.86%) Trainee Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.86%) CSS
1 4 (2.86%) HTML
1 4 (2.86%) REST
2 3 (2.14%) PySpark
2 3 (2.14%) TensorFlow
3 2 (1.43%) .NET
3 2 (1.43%) JSON
3 2 (1.43%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.43%) Pandas
3 2 (1.43%) pytest
3 2 (1.43%) RESTful
3 2 (1.43%) scikit-learn
3 2 (1.43%) XGBoost
3 2 (1.43%) XML
4 1 (0.71%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.71%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.71%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (0.71%) JSR 170
4 1 (0.71%) OSGi
4 1 (0.71%) React
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.86%) Social Media
2 7 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.86%) AI Agents
4 4 (2.86%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.86%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.14%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.14%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.43%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.43%) Life Science
6 2 (1.43%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.43%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.43%) Tandem
6 2 (1.43%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.71%) Blog
7 1 (0.71%) NHS
7 1 (0.71%) Semantic Web
7 1 (0.71%) Smart Meter
7 1 (0.71%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.14%) Linux
1 3 (2.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (25.71%) AI
2 33 (23.57%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (22.86%) Business Intelligence
3 32 (22.86%) Decision-Making
4 27 (19.29%) Agile
5 24 (17.14%) Data Analytics
5 24 (17.14%) User Experience
6 22 (15.71%) Stakeholder Management
7 19 (13.57%) Data Engineering
7 19 (13.57%) E-Commerce
7 19 (13.57%) Machine Learning
8 18 (12.86%) Visualisation
9 16 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (11.43%) Data Modelling
9 16 (11.43%) SEO
10 15 (10.71%) Actionable Insight
10 15 (10.71%) Collaborative Culture
10 15 (10.71%) Data Pipeline
10 15 (10.71%) Data Science
10 15 (10.71%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (32.86%) SQL
2 34 (24.29%) Python
3 6 (4.29%) JavaScript
4 5 (3.57%) Java
5 4 (2.86%) PHP
6 3 (2.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (2.14%) R
7 2 (1.43%) Bicep
7 2 (1.43%) C#
7 2 (1.43%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.43%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.43%) VBA
8 1 (0.71%) ANSI SQL
8 1 (0.71%) Scala
8 1 (0.71%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (19.29%) Degree
2 5 (3.57%) DBS Check
3 4 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.86%) Master's Degree
3 4 (2.86%) Tableau Certification
4 3 (2.14%) PhD
5 2 (1.43%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.43%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.71%) AAT
6 1 (0.71%) ACCA
6 1 (0.71%) CIMA
6 1 (0.71%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.71%) SAP Certification
6 1 (0.71%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.71%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.71%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (11.43%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.00%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.86%) SLA
4 3 (2.14%) GDPR
5 1 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.71%) QA
System Software
1 5 (3.57%) Docker
2 2 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (3.57%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.86%) Terraform
3 1 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (17.14%) Microsoft
2 23 (16.43%) Google
3 10 (7.14%) Databricks
4 8 (5.71%) Adobe
5 6 (4.29%) Hotjar
5 6 (4.29%) Qualtrics
6 5 (3.57%) Oracle
7 4 (2.86%) Genesys
7 4 (2.86%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.86%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.43%) Cisco
8 2 (1.43%) Dell
8 2 (1.43%) Informatica
8 2 (1.43%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.43%) SnapLogic
8 2 (1.43%) TikTok
9 1 (0.71%) Ahrefs
9 1 (0.71%) Cognos
9 1 (0.71%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (0.71%) SAP