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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 25 33
Rank change year-on-year -17 +8 +10
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 115 193 174
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 4.01% 7.24% 6.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.04% 7.73% 7.55%
Number of salaries quoted 69 75 136
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £42,439
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +9.14% +4.16%
75th Percentile £77,500 £90,822 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,000 £102,000 £90,000
North West median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -

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 2,284 2,498 2,306
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 79.72% 93.66% 90.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,367 1,169 1,842
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,500 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%

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 11 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 11 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 +17 3 £47,500 +18.75% 14
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 3 (2.61%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.61%) CMS
1 3 (2.61%) Confluence
2 2 (1.74%) Apache
2 2 (1.74%) WordPress
3 1 (0.87%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.87%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.87%) SAS
Applications
1 16 (13.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.48%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.87%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.87%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.87%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.87%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.87%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.74%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (1.74%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (1.74%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (1.74%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 23 (20.00%) Azure
2 18 (15.65%) Power Platform
3 11 (9.57%) AWS
4 8 (6.96%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (6.09%) Adobe Analytics
5 7 (6.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 6 (5.22%) Amazon S3
6 6 (5.22%) Figma
6 6 (5.22%) GCP
6 6 (5.22%) SaaS
6 6 (5.22%) Serverless
7 4 (3.48%) GitHub
8 3 (2.61%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (2.61%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (2.61%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.61%) Google Analytics
9 2 (1.74%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.74%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.87%) DAB
1 1 (0.87%) SMS
1 1 (0.87%) SSH
1 1 (0.87%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (13.04%) Power BI
2 13 (11.30%) Tableau
3 12 (10.43%) Data Mining
4 9 (7.83%) Data Lake
4 9 (7.83%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (5.22%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (5.22%) SQL Server
6 5 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (3.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (2.61%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.61%) Metadata
8 3 (2.61%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.61%) MySQL
8 3 (2.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.74%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.74%) Apache Iceberg
9 2 (1.74%) Big Data
9 2 (1.74%) Data Vault
9 2 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (5.22%) JIRA
2 5 (4.35%) Git
3 2 (1.74%) GitLab
4 1 (0.87%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.87%) JUnit
4 1 (0.87%) Maven
4 1 (0.87%) Selenium
General
1 30 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
1 30 (26.09%) Finance
2 23 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 23 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 12 (10.43%) Banking
4 7 (6.09%) Legal
4 7 (6.09%) Retail
5 6 (5.22%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (4.35%) Manufacturing
6 5 (4.35%) Marketing
7 4 (3.48%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.74%) Advertising
8 2 (1.74%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.74%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.74%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.87%) Billing
9 1 (0.87%) Law
9 1 (0.87%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 36 (31.30%) Analyst
2 15 (13.04%) Senior
3 14 (12.17%) Data Analyst
3 14 (12.17%) Data Engineer
4 12 (10.43%) Project Manager
5 11 (9.57%) Business Analyst
5 11 (9.57%) Trainee
5 11 (9.57%) Trainee Analyst
5 11 (9.57%) Trainee Data Analyst
6 9 (7.83%) Developer
7 8 (6.96%) Lead
8 6 (5.22%) Senior Data Engineer
8 6 (5.22%) Strategy Manager
9 5 (4.35%) Architect
10 4 (3.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 4 (3.48%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (3.48%) Solutions Architect
11 3 (2.61%) Head of Analytics
11 3 (2.61%) Ontologist
11 3 (2.61%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.48%) REST
2 3 (2.61%) CSS
2 3 (2.61%) HTML
2 3 (2.61%) PySpark
2 3 (2.61%) PyTorch
2 3 (2.61%) TensorFlow
3 2 (1.74%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.74%) JSON
3 2 (1.74%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.74%) RESTful
3 2 (1.74%) XML
4 1 (0.87%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.87%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (0.87%) Blazor
4 1 (0.87%) Entity Framework
4 1 (0.87%) JWT
4 1 (0.87%) OSGi
4 1 (0.87%) Pandas
4 1 (0.87%) React
4 1 (0.87%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.09%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.48%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.48%) Social Media
3 4 (3.48%) Taxonomies
4 3 (2.61%) AI Agents
4 3 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.61%) Low-Code
4 3 (2.61%) Semantic Web
5 2 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.74%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.74%) Life Science
5 2 (1.74%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (1.74%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.87%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.87%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.87%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.87%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.87%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.87%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.48%) Windows
2 2 (1.74%) Linux
3 1 (0.87%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (26.96%) Mentoring
2 28 (24.35%) AI
3 26 (22.61%) Coaching
4 24 (20.87%) Software Engineering
5 23 (20.00%) Data Analytics
5 23 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (19.13%) Decision-Making
7 21 (18.26%) Business Intelligence
8 20 (17.39%) Agile
9 19 (16.52%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (16.52%) Project Management
9 19 (16.52%) Stakeholder Management
10 18 (15.65%) Machine Learning
11 16 (13.91%) Data Pipeline
12 15 (13.04%) Data Analysis
12 15 (13.04%) Data Governance
13 14 (12.17%) Business Strategy
13 14 (12.17%) Storytelling
14 12 (10.43%) Data Engineering
14 12 (10.43%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 35 (30.43%) SQL
2 31 (26.96%) Python
3 3 (2.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (2.61%) Java
4 2 (1.74%) ANSI SQL
4 2 (1.74%) Bicep
4 2 (1.74%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.74%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.87%) C#
5 1 (0.87%) MATLAB
5 1 (0.87%) PHP
5 1 (0.87%) R
5 1 (0.87%) Scala
5 1 (0.87%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (6.96%) Degree
2 4 (3.48%) DBS Check
3 3 (2.61%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.74%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.74%) PhD
5 1 (0.87%) AAT
5 1 (0.87%) ACCA
5 1 (0.87%) CIMA
5 1 (0.87%) CISA
5 1 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.87%) MBA
5 1 (0.87%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.87%) SAP Certification
5 1 (0.87%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.87%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.87%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 1 (0.87%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.30%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.22%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.74%) GDPR
3 2 (1.74%) SLA
4 1 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.87%) SOX 404
System Software
1 6 (5.22%) Docker
2 2 (1.74%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.87%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.87%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (5.22%) Terraform
2 5 (4.35%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.87%) Ansible
Vendors
1 46 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 24 (20.87%) Salesforce
3 22 (19.13%) Cisco
4 8 (6.96%) Adobe
5 6 (5.22%) Databricks
5 6 (5.22%) Qualtrics
6 4 (3.48%) Google
6 4 (3.48%) Oracle
7 3 (2.61%) Genesys
7 3 (2.61%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.74%) Dell
8 2 (1.74%) Informatica
8 2 (1.74%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.74%) SnapLogic
9 1 (0.87%) Cognos
9 1 (0.87%) Concur
9 1 (0.87%) Hootsuite
9 1 (0.87%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.87%) SAP
9 1 (0.87%) VMware