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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 39 26
Rank change year-on-year +8 -13 +8
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 356 139 270
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 4.69% 5.86% 6.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.16% 6.57% 8.05%
Number of salaries quoted 249 88 122
10th Percentile £31,044 £30,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £51,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.94% -5.91% -11.27%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £74,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £84,000 £100,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -7.60%

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 5,775 2,117 3,352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 76.16% 89.29% 83.34%
Number of salaries quoted 4,383 1,209 1,714
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £40,991
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 £50,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -0.99% -8.18%

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 24 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 24 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 -11 12 £42,500 -5.56% 4
Wigan - 5 £37,500 - 2
Bolton +4 4 £46,250 -15.91% 3
Stockport +2 2 £26,500 - 3
Bury - 2 £43,750 - 1
Ashton-under-Lyne - 2 £42,500 -
Altrincham +9 1 £55,000 - 2
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 (3.09%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.25%) Apache
3 7 (1.97%) Confluence
4 5 (1.40%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.28%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.28%) CMS
6 1 (0.28%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.28%) IIS
6 1 (0.28%) SAS
6 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (5.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.56%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.40%) SAP PM
2 4 (1.12%) Shopify
2 4 (1.12%) Workday HCM
3 3 (0.84%) Magento
4 1 (0.28%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 1 (0.28%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 62 (17.42%) Azure
2 57 (16.01%) Power Platform
3 48 (13.48%) AWS
4 32 (8.99%) SaaS
5 20 (5.62%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (5.06%) Snowflake
7 17 (4.78%) GCP
7 17 (4.78%) GitHub
7 17 (4.78%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (3.93%) Google Analytics
8 14 (3.93%) Serverless
9 11 (3.09%) Amazon S3
10 9 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (2.25%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (1.97%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (1.97%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (1.69%) Entra ID
14 5 (1.40%) Azure Functions
14 5 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (1.40%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.81%) Unified Communications
2 4 (1.12%) DNS
3 2 (0.56%) BGP
3 2 (0.56%) IPFIX
3 2 (0.56%) OSPF
3 2 (0.56%) SNMP
3 2 (0.56%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.56%) VLAN
4 1 (0.28%) 5G
4 1 (0.28%) DHCP
4 1 (0.28%) SAN
4 1 (0.28%) SSL
4 1 (0.28%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (16.01%) Power BI
2 20 (5.62%) SQL Server
3 19 (5.34%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (3.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (2.25%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (2.25%) Big Data
5 8 (2.25%) Tableau
6 7 (1.97%) Data Lake
7 6 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (1.69%) Delta Lake
7 6 (1.69%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.40%) BigQuery
8 5 (1.40%) Looker
9 4 (1.12%) Electronic Patient Records
9 4 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.84%) Power Query
11 2 (0.56%) Metadata
11 2 (0.56%) Mixpanel
11 2 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.56%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (2.53%) JIRA
2 7 (1.97%) Git
3 3 (0.84%) Browser DevTools
3 3 (0.84%) RStudio
4 2 (0.56%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.28%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.28%) Gradle
5 1 (0.28%) MLflow
5 1 (0.28%) Xcode
General
1 95 (26.69%) Analytical Skills
2 89 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 57 (16.01%) Finance
4 41 (11.52%) Marketing
5 29 (8.15%) Law
6 26 (7.30%) Retail
7 23 (6.46%) Public Sector
8 12 (3.37%) Legal
9 11 (3.09%) Telecoms
10 10 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (2.53%) Military
11 9 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.69%) Advertising
12 6 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.12%) Banking
13 4 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.12%) Games
13 4 (1.12%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.84%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 77 (21.63%) Senior
2 58 (16.29%) Data Engineer
3 53 (14.89%) Analyst
4 37 (10.39%) Lead
5 29 (8.15%) Senior Data Engineer
6 21 (5.90%) Sales Manager
7 19 (5.34%) Data Manager
7 19 (5.34%) Developer
8 18 (5.06%) Data Analyst
9 17 (4.78%) Architect
10 13 (3.65%) Data Architect
11 12 (3.37%) Marketing Manager
11 12 (3.37%) Operations Manager
12 11 (3.09%) Platform Engineer
13 10 (2.81%) Analytics Manager
13 10 (2.81%) Consultant
13 10 (2.81%) Sales and Marketing Manager
13 10 (2.81%) Sales Operations Manager
13 10 (2.81%) Senior Analyst
14 9 (2.53%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (5.90%) Terraform
2 15 (4.21%) PySpark
3 5 (1.40%) ARM Templates
3 5 (1.40%) JSON
4 4 (1.12%) Kafka
5 3 (0.84%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.56%) .NET
6 2 (0.56%) Apache Avro
6 2 (0.56%) gRPC
6 2 (0.56%) Next.js
6 2 (0.56%) React
6 2 (0.56%) scikit-learn
6 2 (0.56%) Tailwind CSS
6 2 (0.56%) TanStack
7 1 (0.28%) LangChain
7 1 (0.28%) Model Context Protocol
7 1 (0.28%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.28%) PyTorch
7 1 (0.28%) React Native
7 1 (0.28%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.71%) Onboarding
2 15 (4.21%) Marketing Technology
3 10 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (2.53%) Cloud Native
5 8 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (1.97%) Data Structures
6 7 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.97%) Management Information System
6 7 (1.97%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.69%) NHS
8 5 (1.40%) Hackathon
8 5 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.40%) Learning Management System
8 5 (1.40%) Web Conferencing
9 4 (1.12%) e-Learning
9 4 (1.12%) Video\Live Streaming
10 3 (0.84%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.56%) Cyberattack
11 2 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.84%) Linux
2 2 (0.56%) Windows
2 2 (0.56%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.28%) SUSE
3 1 (0.28%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (28.65%) AI
2 100 (28.09%) Decision-Making
3 89 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 64 (17.98%) Data Engineering
5 59 (16.57%) Problem-Solving
6 55 (15.45%) Continuous Improvement
7 47 (13.20%) Stakeholder Management
8 43 (12.08%) Agile
9 42 (11.80%) Data Analytics
9 42 (11.80%) Data Modelling
10 40 (11.24%) Data Pipeline
11 38 (10.67%) Actionable Insight
12 35 (9.83%) CI/CD
13 34 (9.55%) Machine Learning
14 32 (8.99%) Data Science
14 32 (8.99%) ETL
15 30 (8.43%) Collaborative Culture
15 30 (8.43%) DevOps
16 28 (7.87%) Data Governance
16 28 (7.87%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 107 (30.06%) SQL
2 85 (23.88%) Python
3 15 (4.21%) Bash
4 9 (2.53%) Scala
5 8 (2.25%) PowerShell
5 8 (2.25%) R
6 6 (1.69%) Java
7 5 (1.40%) Bicep
8 4 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.84%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.56%) C#
10 2 (0.56%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.56%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.28%) Ada
11 1 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 31 (8.71%) Degree
2 25 (7.02%) Security Cleared
3 16 (4.49%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (1.69%) DBS Check
6 4 (1.12%) ACCA
6 4 (1.12%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.12%) CIMA
7 2 (0.56%) CIPD
7 2 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.56%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.28%) HP ASE
8 1 (0.28%) VCAP
8 1 (0.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (19.10%) Data Quality
2 29 (8.15%) Accessibility
3 14 (3.93%) QA
4 8 (2.25%) Actionable Recommendations
5 7 (1.97%) GDPR
5 7 (1.97%) WCAG
6 4 (1.12%) NEBOSH
7 2 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.56%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.56%) SLA
8 1 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.28%) GRC
8 1 (0.28%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (1.40%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.40%) Docker
3 3 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.28%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 1 (0.28%) Firmware
4 1 (0.28%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (1.97%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.12%) Grafana
3 3 (0.84%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.56%) Ansible
4 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.56%) Nagios
5 1 (0.28%) Argo
5 1 (0.28%) Istio
5 1 (0.28%) linkerd
5 1 (0.28%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.28%) VxRail
5 1 (0.28%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 54 (15.17%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.58%) Databricks
3 18 (5.06%) Google
4 11 (3.09%) YouTube
5 9 (2.53%) Oracle
6 7 (1.97%) Adobe
6 7 (1.97%) SAP
7 5 (1.40%) Saba
8 4 (1.12%) Alteryx
8 4 (1.12%) Synthesia
8 4 (1.12%) TikTok
8 4 (1.12%) Workday
9 3 (0.84%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.84%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.84%) VMware
10 2 (0.56%) Amplitude
10 2 (0.56%) IBM
10 2 (0.56%) UiPath
11 1 (0.28%) Instagram
11 1 (0.28%) Snapchat