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 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 28 25
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 +14
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 303 210 374
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.26% 9.81% 7.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.33% 10.23% 8.63%
Number of salaries quoted 228 94 275
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,819 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,563 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.63% -2.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £98,250 £90,822 £90,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% - -12.50%

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 4,136 2,052 4,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 71.81% 95.84% 85.41%
Number of salaries quoted 3,032 1,167 3,444
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,450 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +6.48% -6.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,840 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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
Bolton +30 12 £30,000 -25.00% 2
Salford -17 7 £42,500 +28.79% 7
Wigan - 6 £40,000 - 3
Stockport -4 2 - - 2
Ashton-under-Lyne - 2 £42,500 - 2
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 8 (2.64%) WordPress
2 7 (2.31%) CMS
3 5 (1.65%) Confluence
4 4 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.99%) Apache
5 3 (0.99%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.66%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.33%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 21 (6.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.31%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (1.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.66%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.65%) SAP PM
2 2 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.33%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.33%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.33%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 42 (13.86%) Power Platform
2 34 (11.22%) Azure
3 25 (8.25%) AWS
4 19 (6.27%) SaaS
5 12 (3.96%) Google Analytics
5 12 (3.96%) Snowflake
6 11 (3.63%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (2.97%) Amazon S3
7 9 (2.97%) GitHub
7 9 (2.97%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (2.97%) Serverless
8 8 (2.64%) GCP
9 6 (1.98%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (1.65%) Figma
11 4 (1.32%) Amazon Kinesis
11 4 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.32%) Entra ID
12 3 (0.99%) Azure AKS
12 3 (0.99%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.30%) Unified Communications
2 2 (0.66%) BGP
2 2 (0.66%) IPFIX
2 2 (0.66%) OSPF
2 2 (0.66%) SNMP
2 2 (0.66%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.66%) VLAN
3 1 (0.33%) DNS
3 1 (0.33%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (12.54%) Power BI
2 16 (5.28%) Tableau
3 14 (4.62%) Data Mining
3 14 (4.62%) SQL Server
4 10 (3.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (2.97%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (2.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (1.98%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (1.65%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.32%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (1.32%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.99%) Big Data
10 3 (0.99%) Looker
11 2 (0.66%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.66%) Mixpanel
11 2 (0.66%) MySQL
11 2 (0.66%) Power Query
12 1 (0.33%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
12 1 (0.33%) Delta Lake
12 1 (0.33%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 9 (2.97%) Git
2 6 (1.98%) JIRA
3 4 (1.32%) Browser DevTools
4 2 (0.66%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.33%) Terragrunt
General
1 60 (19.80%) Analytical Skills
2 52 (17.16%) Finance
3 47 (15.51%) Social Skills
4 32 (10.56%) Marketing
5 30 (9.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (6.27%) Law
7 17 (5.61%) Retail
8 9 (2.97%) Advertising
9 8 (2.64%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (2.31%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.65%) Banking
11 5 (1.65%) Legal
11 5 (1.65%) Military
11 5 (1.65%) Public Sector
12 3 (0.99%) French Language
12 3 (0.99%) Italian Language
12 3 (0.99%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.99%) Portuguese Language
12 3 (0.99%) Spanish Language
13 2 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 85 (28.05%) Senior
2 63 (20.79%) Lead
3 45 (14.85%) Analyst
4 27 (8.91%) Data Engineer
5 20 (6.60%) Data Analyst
5 20 (6.60%) Developer
6 18 (5.94%) Data Manager
7 14 (4.62%) Senior Data Engineer
8 13 (4.29%) Project Manager
9 12 (3.96%) Marketing Manager
10 11 (3.63%) Operations Manager
10 11 (3.63%) Trainee
10 11 (3.63%) Trainee Analyst
10 11 (3.63%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 10 (3.30%) Sales and Marketing Manager
11 10 (3.30%) Sales Manager
11 10 (3.30%) Sales Operations Manager
12 9 (2.97%) Business Analyst
12 9 (2.97%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 9 (2.97%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.30%) CSS
1 10 (3.30%) HTML
2 6 (1.98%) PySpark
3 5 (1.65%) EDI
3 5 (1.65%) Kafka
3 5 (1.65%) PyTorch
3 5 (1.65%) TensorFlow
4 4 (1.32%) JSON
5 3 (0.99%) .NET
5 3 (0.99%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.66%) ARM Templates
6 2 (0.66%) gRPC
6 2 (0.66%) JWT
6 2 (0.66%) OAuth
6 2 (0.66%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (0.33%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (0.33%) LangChain
7 1 (0.33%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.33%) Pandas
7 1 (0.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 15 (4.95%) Onboarding
2 14 (4.62%) Marketing Technology
3 13 (4.29%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.96%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (2.64%) Cloud Native
6 7 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.32%) Low-Code
7 4 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (0.99%) AI Agents
8 3 (0.99%) Algorithms
8 3 (0.99%) Data Centre
8 3 (0.99%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.99%) Public Cloud
8 3 (0.99%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.66%) Cyberattack
9 2 (0.66%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.66%) e-Learning
9 2 (0.66%) Life Science
9 2 (0.66%) Reinsurance
9 2 (0.66%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.99%) Android
1 3 (0.99%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.66%) Linux
2 2 (0.66%) Windows
3 1 (0.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (26.40%) Decision-Making
2 54 (17.82%) Business Intelligence
3 52 (17.16%) AI
4 47 (15.51%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 44 (14.52%) Data Analytics
6 37 (12.21%) Data Engineering
7 33 (10.89%) Continuous Improvement
8 31 (10.23%) Data Analysis
8 31 (10.23%) Machine Learning
9 30 (9.90%) Mentoring
9 30 (9.90%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (9.24%) Agile
11 27 (8.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 25 (8.25%) ETL
13 23 (7.59%) Actionable Insight
13 23 (7.59%) Data Modelling
13 23 (7.59%) Data Science
13 23 (7.59%) Visualisation
14 22 (7.26%) CI/CD
14 22 (7.26%) DataOps
Programming Languages
1 74 (24.42%) Python
1 74 (24.42%) SQL
2 8 (2.64%) Bash
3 5 (1.65%) Java
3 5 (1.65%) T-SQL
4 3 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (0.99%) JavaScript
4 3 (0.99%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.66%) Bicep
5 2 (0.66%) Scala
5 2 (0.66%) VBA
6 1 (0.33%) Groovy
6 1 (0.33%) MATLAB
6 1 (0.33%) R
6 1 (0.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (6.93%) Degree
2 7 (2.31%) Security Cleared
3 6 (1.98%) ACCA
3 6 (1.98%) CIMA
3 6 (1.98%) IRCA
4 4 (1.32%) DV Cleared
4 4 (1.32%) SC Cleared
5 3 (0.99%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.66%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.33%) CISA
7 1 (0.33%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.33%) MBA
7 1 (0.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (9.24%) Data Quality
2 20 (6.60%) QA
3 9 (2.97%) GDPR
4 8 (2.64%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.98%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.99%) WCAG
7 2 (0.66%) SLA
8 1 (0.33%) GRC
8 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.33%) SOX 404
System Software
1 5 (1.65%) Docker
1 5 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (0.99%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.66%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.66%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (4.29%) Terraform
2 8 (2.64%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.99%) Grafana
4 2 (0.66%) Ansible
4 2 (0.66%) Nagios
4 2 (0.66%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 60 (19.80%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.61%) Cisco
2 17 (5.61%) Salesforce
3 14 (4.62%) Google
4 11 (3.63%) Databricks
5 9 (2.97%) SAP
6 6 (1.98%) Adobe
7 3 (0.99%) VMware
8 2 (0.66%) Amplitude
8 2 (0.66%) HubSpot
8 2 (0.66%) Synthesia
9 1 (0.33%) Hotjar
9 1 (0.33%) Oracle
9 1 (0.33%) Qualtrics
9 1 (0.33%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.33%) TikTok