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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 27 33
Rank change year-on-year -16 +6 +4
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 114 191 159
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 4.12% 6.96% 7.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.10% 7.48% 7.60%
Number of salaries quoted 71 71 123
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £35,200
25th Percentile £40,625 £43,750 £44,528
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - +10.80%
75th Percentile £76,250 £90,822 £81,468
90th Percentile £90,000 £102,500 £96,231
North West median annual salary £46,250 £55,000 £56,250
% change year-on-year -15.91% -2.22% +2.27%

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 2,236 2,555 2,093
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 80.90% 93.15% 92.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,307 1,196 1,664
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £33,815
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £84,964
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -

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 1 January 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 1 January 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 +18 3 £47,500 +18.75% 13
Cheadle - 1 £55,000 -
Altrincham - 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 4 (3.51%) CMS
2 3 (2.63%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.63%) Confluence
3 2 (1.75%) Apache
3 2 (1.75%) WordPress
4 1 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.88%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.88%) SAS
Applications
1 17 (14.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.39%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.88%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.88%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.88%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.88%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.88%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.75%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (1.75%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (1.75%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (1.75%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (18.42%) Azure
2 19 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 11 (9.65%) AWS
4 8 (7.02%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (6.14%) Adobe Analytics
5 7 (6.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 6 (5.26%) Amazon S3
6 6 (5.26%) Figma
6 6 (5.26%) SaaS
6 6 (5.26%) Serverless
7 5 (4.39%) GCP
8 4 (3.51%) Google Analytics
9 3 (2.63%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (2.63%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (2.63%) GitHub
10 2 (1.75%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.75%) Azure Storage
10 2 (1.75%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.88%) DAB
1 1 (0.88%) SMS
1 1 (0.88%) SSH
1 1 (0.88%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (14.91%) Power BI
2 15 (13.16%) Tableau
3 12 (10.53%) Data Mining
4 9 (7.89%) Data Lake
4 9 (7.89%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (5.26%) SQL Server
6 5 (4.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (3.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (2.63%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.63%) Metadata
8 3 (2.63%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.63%) MySQL
8 3 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.75%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.75%) Apache Iceberg
9 2 (1.75%) Big Data
9 2 (1.75%) Data Vault
9 2 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (5.26%) JIRA
2 4 (3.51%) Git
3 2 (1.75%) GitLab
4 1 (0.88%) JUnit
4 1 (0.88%) Maven
4 1 (0.88%) Selenium
General
1 31 (27.19%) Analytical Skills
2 30 (26.32%) Finance
3 24 (21.05%) Social Skills
4 18 (15.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (10.53%) Banking
6 8 (7.02%) Manufacturing
7 7 (6.14%) Legal
8 6 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (5.26%) Marketing
8 6 (5.26%) Retail
9 4 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.75%) Advertising
11 2 (1.75%) General Ledger
11 2 (1.75%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.75%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.88%) Billing
12 1 (0.88%) Law
12 1 (0.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 35 (30.70%) Analyst
2 15 (13.16%) Data Analyst
2 15 (13.16%) Senior
3 14 (12.28%) Data Engineer
4 11 (9.65%) Trainee
4 11 (9.65%) Trainee Analyst
4 11 (9.65%) Trainee Data Analyst
5 10 (8.77%) Project Manager
6 9 (7.89%) Business Analyst
6 9 (7.89%) Developer
7 7 (6.14%) Lead
8 6 (5.26%) Senior Data Engineer
8 6 (5.26%) Strategy Manager
9 5 (4.39%) Architect
9 5 (4.39%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 4 (3.51%) Automation Engineer
10 4 (3.51%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (3.51%) Senior Manager
10 4 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
11 3 (2.63%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.51%) REST
2 3 (2.63%) CSS
2 3 (2.63%) HTML
2 3 (2.63%) PySpark
3 2 (1.75%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.75%) JSON
3 2 (1.75%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.75%) PyTorch
3 2 (1.75%) RESTful
3 2 (1.75%) TensorFlow
3 2 (1.75%) XML
4 1 (0.88%) .NET
4 1 (0.88%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.88%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.88%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.88%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (0.88%) Blazor
4 1 (0.88%) Entity Framework
4 1 (0.88%) JSR 170
4 1 (0.88%) OSGi
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.14%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (3.51%) AI Agents
2 4 (3.51%) Cloud Native
2 4 (3.51%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.51%) Social Media
2 4 (3.51%) Taxonomies
3 3 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.63%) Semantic Web
4 2 (1.75%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.75%) Life Science
4 2 (1.75%) Low-Code
4 2 (1.75%) Marketing Technology
4 2 (1.75%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.88%) Credit Risk
5 1 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.88%) Market Risk
5 1 (0.88%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (0.88%) Smart Energy
5 1 (0.88%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.51%) Windows
2 2 (1.75%) Linux
3 1 (0.88%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (26.32%) AI
2 27 (23.68%) Mentoring
3 24 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
4 23 (20.18%) Data Analytics
4 23 (20.18%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (19.30%) Coaching
5 22 (19.30%) Decision-Making
6 20 (17.54%) Software Engineering
7 19 (16.67%) Agile
7 19 (16.67%) Project Management
7 19 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 18 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (14.91%) Machine Learning
10 16 (14.04%) Data Pipeline
11 15 (13.16%) Data Analysis
11 15 (13.16%) Data Governance
12 13 (11.40%) Storytelling
12 13 (11.40%) User Experience
13 12 (10.53%) Business Strategy
13 12 (10.53%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 37 (32.46%) SQL
2 29 (25.44%) Python
3 3 (2.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (2.63%) Java
4 2 (1.75%) ANSI SQL
4 2 (1.75%) Bicep
4 2 (1.75%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.75%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.88%) C#
5 1 (0.88%) MATLAB
5 1 (0.88%) PHP
5 1 (0.88%) R
5 1 (0.88%) Scala
5 1 (0.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (7.89%) Degree
2 4 (3.51%) DBS Check
3 3 (2.63%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.75%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.75%) PhD
5 1 (0.88%) AAT
5 1 (0.88%) ACCA
5 1 (0.88%) CIMA
5 1 (0.88%) CISA
5 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.88%) MBA
5 1 (0.88%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.88%) SAP Certification
5 1 (0.88%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.88%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.88%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 1 (0.88%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.28%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.63%) SLA
4 2 (1.75%) GDPR
5 1 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.88%) QA
5 1 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.88%) SOX 404
System Software
1 6 (5.26%) Docker
2 2 (1.75%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.88%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (4.39%) Terraform
2 4 (3.51%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.88%) Ansible
Vendors
1 40 (35.09%) Microsoft
2 20 (17.54%) Salesforce
3 18 (15.79%) Cisco
4 8 (7.02%) Adobe
5 6 (5.26%) Databricks
5 6 (5.26%) Qualtrics
6 4 (3.51%) Genesys
6 4 (3.51%) Google
6 4 (3.51%) Oracle
6 4 (3.51%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.75%) Dell
7 2 (1.75%) Informatica
7 2 (1.75%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.75%) SnapLogic
8 1 (0.88%) Ahrefs
8 1 (0.88%) Concur
8 1 (0.88%) Hootsuite
8 1 (0.88%) Hotjar
8 1 (0.88%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.88%) Screaming Frog