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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 41 25
Rank change year-on-year +12 -16 +11
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 349 135 278
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 4.76% 5.62% 6.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.30% 6.28% 8.26%
Number of salaries quoted 248 80 134
10th Percentile £31,055 £30,375 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,375 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £48,250 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.35% -15.35% -8.80%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,125 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £82,500 £100,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £51,000 £56,254
% change year-on-year +17.65% -9.34% -6.24%

All Process & 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 5,539 2,151 3,367
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.59% 89.48% 82.50%
Number of salaries quoted 4,265 1,232 1,835
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,050 £30,400
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £41,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £86,250 £83,750
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,309
% change year-on-year +10.00% -0.61% -8.53%

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 12 September 2026.

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 12 September 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 -14 9 £20,000 -48.72% 5
Wigan - 5 £37,500 - 2
Bolton +9 3 £42,500 - 4
Stockport +2 2 £26,500 - 6
Ashton-under-Lyne - 2 £42,500 -
Bury - 1 £32,500 - 3
Sale - 1 £42,500 - 1
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 11 (3.15%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.29%) Apache
3 6 (1.72%) Confluence
4 2 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.57%) CMS
4 2 (0.57%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.57%) WordPress
5 1 (0.29%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.29%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.29%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (5.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.57%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (1.43%) SAP PM
2 4 (1.15%) Workday HCM
3 3 (0.86%) Shopify
4 2 (0.57%) Magento
5 1 (0.29%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Cloud Services
1 59 (16.91%) Azure
2 51 (14.61%) Power Platform
3 47 (13.47%) AWS
4 30 (8.60%) SaaS
5 19 (5.44%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (5.16%) Snowflake
7 16 (4.58%) GitHub
7 16 (4.58%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (4.01%) GCP
8 14 (4.01%) Serverless
9 12 (3.44%) Google Analytics
10 11 (3.15%) Amazon S3
11 9 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (2.01%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (2.01%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (1.43%) Azure Functions
14 5 (1.43%) Azure Logic Apps
14 5 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (1.43%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.87%) Unified Communications
2 3 (0.86%) DNS
3 2 (0.57%) BGP
3 2 (0.57%) IPFIX
3 2 (0.57%) OSPF
3 2 (0.57%) SNMP
3 2 (0.57%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.57%) VLAN
4 1 (0.29%) 5G
4 1 (0.29%) SAN
4 1 (0.29%) SSL
4 1 (0.29%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (14.61%) Power BI
2 20 (5.73%) SQL Server
3 19 (5.44%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (3.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (2.58%) Tableau
6 8 (2.29%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (2.29%) Big Data
7 7 (2.01%) Data Lake
8 6 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (1.72%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.15%) Delta Lake
9 4 (1.15%) Electronic Patient Records
9 4 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.86%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.86%) Looker
10 3 (0.86%) Power Query
11 2 (0.57%) Data Mining
11 2 (0.57%) KNIME
11 2 (0.57%) Mixpanel
11 2 (0.57%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 8 (2.29%) Git
1 8 (2.29%) JIRA
2 4 (1.15%) Browser DevTools
3 3 (0.86%) RStudio
4 2 (0.57%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.29%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.29%) Gradle
5 1 (0.29%) MLflow
5 1 (0.29%) Xcode
General
1 90 (25.79%) Analytical Skills
2 83 (23.78%) Social Skills
3 52 (14.90%) Finance
4 38 (10.89%) Marketing
5 26 (7.45%) Law
6 22 (6.30%) Retail
7 21 (6.02%) Public Sector
8 10 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (2.29%) Advertising
9 8 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.29%) Legal
9 8 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (2.29%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.72%) Military
11 5 (1.43%) Banking
12 4 (1.15%) Games
12 4 (1.15%) Health Technology
12 4 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.86%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 87 (24.93%) Senior
2 55 (15.76%) Data Engineer
3 48 (13.75%) Analyst
4 46 (13.18%) Lead
5 28 (8.02%) Senior Data Engineer
6 21 (6.02%) Sales Manager
7 19 (5.44%) Data Manager
7 19 (5.44%) Developer
8 17 (4.87%) Data Analyst
9 13 (3.72%) Architect
10 12 (3.44%) Marketing Manager
11 11 (3.15%) Data Architect
11 11 (3.15%) Operations Manager
11 11 (3.15%) Platform Engineer
12 10 (2.87%) Consultant
12 10 (2.87%) Sales and Marketing Manager
12 10 (2.87%) Sales Operations Manager
12 10 (2.87%) Senior Analyst
13 9 (2.58%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 9 (2.58%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.73%) Terraform
2 13 (3.72%) PySpark
3 6 (1.72%) JSON
4 4 (1.15%) ARM Templates
4 4 (1.15%) Kafka
5 3 (0.86%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.57%) Apache Avro
6 2 (0.57%) CSS
6 2 (0.57%) gRPC
6 2 (0.57%) HTML
6 2 (0.57%) Next.js
6 2 (0.57%) React
6 2 (0.57%) scikit-learn
6 2 (0.57%) Tailwind CSS
6 2 (0.57%) TanStack
7 1 (0.29%) Framer.js
7 1 (0.29%) Model Context Protocol
7 1 (0.29%) React Native
7 1 (0.29%) TensorFlow
7 1 (0.29%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.45%) Onboarding
2 14 (4.01%) Marketing Technology
3 12 (3.44%) Analytical Mindset
4 10 (2.87%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.58%) Cloud Native
5 9 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.01%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.72%) NHS
8 4 (1.15%) e-Learning
8 4 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.15%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.15%) Video\Live Streaming
9 3 (0.86%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.57%) Cyberattack
10 2 (0.57%) Hackathon
10 2 (0.57%) Learning Management System
10 2 (0.57%) Reference Data
10 2 (0.57%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.57%) Linux
2 1 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
2 1 (0.29%) SUSE
2 1 (0.29%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
2 1 (0.29%) Windows
2 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (28.94%) Decision-Making
2 95 (27.22%) AI
3 82 (23.50%) Business Intelligence
4 64 (18.34%) Data Engineering
5 49 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
6 47 (13.47%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (12.89%) Agile
8 39 (11.17%) Data Modelling
8 39 (11.17%) Data Pipeline
9 38 (10.89%) Stakeholder Management
10 37 (10.60%) Data Analytics
10 37 (10.60%) Data-Driven Decision Making
11 35 (10.03%) CI/CD
12 34 (9.74%) Machine Learning
13 33 (9.46%) Actionable Insight
14 32 (9.17%) Data Science
15 31 (8.88%) ETL
16 29 (8.31%) Collaborative Culture
16 29 (8.31%) DevOps
16 29 (8.31%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 102 (29.23%) SQL
2 85 (24.36%) Python
3 14 (4.01%) Bash
4 9 (2.58%) Scala
5 8 (2.29%) R
6 6 (1.72%) Java
6 6 (1.72%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.15%) Bicep
7 4 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (0.86%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.57%) C#
9 2 (0.57%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.29%) Ada
10 1 (0.29%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 28 (8.02%) Degree
2 23 (6.59%) Security Cleared
3 14 (4.01%) SC Cleared
4 6 (1.72%) DBS Check
5 5 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.15%) ACCA
6 4 (1.15%) CIMA
7 3 (0.86%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.57%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.57%) IRCA
9 1 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.29%) HP ASE
9 1 (0.29%) VCAP
9 1 (0.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (17.77%) Data Quality
2 24 (6.88%) Accessibility
3 18 (5.16%) QA
4 7 (2.01%) GDPR
4 7 (2.01%) WCAG
5 6 (1.72%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.57%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.57%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.57%) SLA
7 1 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.29%) GRC
7 1 (0.29%) NEBOSH
7 1 (0.29%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (2.01%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (1.15%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.15%) Docker
3 3 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.29%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 1 (0.29%) Firmware
4 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (1.72%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.15%) Grafana
3 3 (0.86%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.57%) Nagios
5 1 (0.29%) Ansible
5 1 (0.29%) Argo
5 1 (0.29%) Istio
5 1 (0.29%) linkerd
5 1 (0.29%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.29%) VxRail
5 1 (0.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 48 (13.75%) Microsoft
2 28 (8.02%) Databricks
3 13 (3.72%) Google
4 9 (2.58%) YouTube
5 7 (2.01%) Adobe
5 7 (2.01%) SAP
6 6 (1.72%) Oracle
7 4 (1.15%) Alteryx
7 4 (1.15%) Synthesia
7 4 (1.15%) Workday
8 3 (0.86%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.86%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.86%) VMware
9 2 (0.57%) Amplitude
9 2 (0.57%) Saba
9 2 (0.57%) TikTok
9 2 (0.57%) UiPath
10 1 (0.29%) Pinterest
10 1 (0.29%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.29%) Snapchat