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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 35 27
Rank change year-on-year +7 -8 +14
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 337 168 319
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.05% 6.69% 7.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.82% 7.30% 8.61%
Number of salaries quoted 254 90 190
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,813 £36,188 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -12.28% -8.80%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,688 £74,438
90th Percentile £100,000 £80,250 £100,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £56,509
% change year-on-year +14.29% -7.09% -9.59%

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 4,944 2,302 3,705
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 74.03% 91.60% 81.99%
Number of salaries quoted 3,889 1,339 2,460
10th Percentile £33,000 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £83,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -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 4 August 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 4 August 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 -13 12 £20,000 -44.83% 4
Bolton +20 8 £36,250 - 2
Wigan - 5 £37,500 - 3
Stockport -2 2 - - 7
Ashton-under-Lyne - 2 £42,500 - 1
Bury +1 1 £32,500 -
Sale - 1 £42,500 -
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 (3.26%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.37%) Apache
3 5 (1.48%) CMS
3 5 (1.48%) Confluence
3 5 (1.48%) WordPress
4 3 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.59%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.30%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 17 (5.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.78%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.59%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (1.48%) SAP PM
2 2 (0.59%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 48 (14.24%) Azure
2 47 (13.95%) Power Platform
3 41 (12.17%) AWS
4 33 (9.79%) SaaS
5 15 (4.45%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (4.45%) GCP
6 14 (4.15%) Snowflake
7 13 (3.86%) GitHub
7 13 (3.86%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (3.26%) Google Analytics
9 10 (2.97%) Serverless
10 9 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (2.37%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.48%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (1.48%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (1.48%) Entra ID
13 4 (1.19%) Amazon Kinesis
13 4 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (1.19%) IaaS
13 4 (1.19%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.97%) Unified Communications
2 2 (0.59%) BGP
2 2 (0.59%) DNS
2 2 (0.59%) IPFIX
2 2 (0.59%) OSPF
2 2 (0.59%) SNMP
2 2 (0.59%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.59%) VLAN
3 1 (0.30%) SAN
3 1 (0.30%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (13.95%) Power BI
2 19 (5.64%) SQL Server
3 17 (5.04%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (3.26%) Tableau
5 10 (2.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (2.08%) Big Data
7 6 (1.78%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (1.78%) Relational Database
7 6 (1.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (1.48%) Data Mining
9 4 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (1.19%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.19%) Delta Lake
9 4 (1.19%) Electronic Patient Records
9 4 (1.19%) Power Query
10 3 (0.89%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.89%) Looker
11 2 (0.59%) KNIME
11 2 (0.59%) Mixpanel
11 2 (0.59%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 7 (2.08%) JIRA
2 6 (1.78%) Git
3 4 (1.19%) Browser DevTools
4 2 (0.59%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.30%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.30%) Gradle
5 1 (0.30%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.30%) MLflow
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.30%) Xcode
General
1 73 (21.66%) Analytical Skills
2 65 (19.29%) Social Skills
3 49 (14.54%) Finance
4 36 (10.68%) Marketing
5 31 (9.20%) Law
6 19 (5.64%) Public Sector
7 14 (4.15%) Retail
8 9 (2.67%) Advertising
9 8 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.37%) Legal
9 8 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (2.08%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.48%) Banking
11 5 (1.48%) Military
12 4 (1.19%) Games
12 4 (1.19%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.59%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 93 (27.60%) Senior
2 57 (16.91%) Lead
3 45 (13.35%) Data Engineer
4 39 (11.57%) Analyst
5 24 (7.12%) Developer
6 21 (6.23%) Sales Manager
7 20 (5.93%) Senior Data Engineer
8 19 (5.64%) Data Manager
9 18 (5.34%) Data Analyst
10 13 (3.86%) Architect
11 12 (3.56%) Marketing Manager
12 11 (3.26%) Operations Manager
13 10 (2.97%) Data Architect
13 10 (2.97%) Sales and Marketing Manager
13 10 (2.97%) Sales Operations Manager
14 9 (2.67%) Analytics Manager
14 9 (2.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 9 (2.67%) Data Analytics Manager
14 9 (2.67%) Engineering Manager
14 9 (2.67%) Head of Engineering
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.67%) PySpark
2 4 (1.19%) ARM Templates
2 4 (1.19%) CSS
2 4 (1.19%) HTML
2 4 (1.19%) JSON
2 4 (1.19%) Kafka
3 3 (0.89%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.59%) gRPC
4 2 (0.59%) Next.js
4 2 (0.59%) React
4 2 (0.59%) scikit-learn
4 2 (0.59%) Tailwind CSS
4 2 (0.59%) TanStack
5 1 (0.30%) JWT
5 1 (0.30%) LangChain
5 1 (0.30%) Model Context Protocol
5 1 (0.30%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.30%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.30%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.30%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.12%) Onboarding
2 14 (4.15%) Marketing Technology
3 13 (3.86%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (2.37%) Cloud Native
5 7 (2.08%) Data Structures
5 7 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.08%) Product Ownership
6 6 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (1.78%) NHS
7 5 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.19%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.89%) AI Agents
9 3 (0.89%) e-Learning
10 2 (0.59%) Cyberattack
10 2 (0.59%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.59%) Reference Data
10 2 (0.59%) Replication
10 2 (0.59%) Video\Live Streaming
10 2 (0.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.59%) Linux
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
2 1 (0.30%) SUSE
2 1 (0.30%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
2 1 (0.30%) Windows
2 1 (0.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (28.78%) Decision-Making
2 78 (23.15%) AI
3 75 (22.26%) Business Intelligence
4 59 (17.51%) Data Engineering
5 49 (14.54%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 43 (12.76%) Problem-Solving
7 41 (12.17%) Continuous Improvement
8 37 (10.98%) Data Modelling
9 36 (10.68%) Data Pipeline
10 35 (10.39%) Agile
10 35 (10.39%) Machine Learning
11 34 (10.09%) Data Analytics
12 30 (8.90%) CI/CD
13 29 (8.61%) Stakeholder Management
14 28 (8.31%) Actionable Insight
14 28 (8.31%) Collaborative Culture
14 28 (8.31%) ETL
15 27 (8.01%) Data Analysis
15 27 (8.01%) Data Science
16 25 (7.42%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 95 (28.19%) SQL
2 84 (24.93%) Python
3 11 (3.26%) Bash
4 9 (2.67%) Scala
5 6 (1.78%) PowerShell
6 5 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (1.19%) Bicep
7 4 (1.19%) Java
7 4 (1.19%) T-SQL
8 3 (0.89%) R
9 2 (0.59%) C#
9 2 (0.59%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.59%) VBA
10 1 (0.30%) Ada
Qualifications
1 23 (6.82%) Degree
2 13 (3.86%) Security Cleared
3 8 (2.37%) SC Cleared
4 6 (1.78%) ACCA
4 6 (1.78%) CIMA
4 6 (1.78%) IRCA
5 5 (1.48%) DBS Check
5 5 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (0.89%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.59%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.30%) HP ASE
8 1 (0.30%) VCAP
8 1 (0.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (13.95%) Data Quality
2 21 (6.23%) QA
3 17 (5.04%) Accessibility
4 11 (3.26%) GDPR
5 6 (1.78%) ISO 9001
5 6 (1.78%) WCAG
6 2 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.59%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.59%) SLA
7 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.30%) GRC
7 1 (0.30%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (1.19%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.19%) Docker
3 3 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.30%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 1 (0.30%) Firmware
4 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (4.45%) Terraform
2 7 (2.08%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.19%) Grafana
4 3 (0.89%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.59%) Nagios
6 1 (0.30%) Ansible
6 1 (0.30%) Argo
6 1 (0.30%) Istio
6 1 (0.30%) linkerd
6 1 (0.30%) VxRail
6 1 (0.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 44 (13.06%) Microsoft
2 26 (7.72%) Databricks
3 12 (3.56%) Google
4 7 (2.08%) SAP
5 6 (1.78%) Adobe
6 4 (1.19%) Oracle
7 3 (0.89%) ServiceNow
7 3 (0.89%) Synthesia
7 3 (0.89%) VMware
8 2 (0.59%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.59%) Amplitude
8 2 (0.59%) HubSpot
8 2 (0.59%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.59%) TikTok
8 2 (0.59%) Workday
9 1 (0.30%) Capita
9 1 (0.30%) Dell
9 1 (0.30%) Hotjar
9 1 (0.30%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.30%) Veeam