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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 25 38
Rank change year-on-year -14 +13 -14
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 136 275 189
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 5.74% 6.77% 6.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.42% 8.17% 7.17%
Number of salaries quoted 82 128 156
10th Percentile £30,750 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £36,313 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,250 £57,000 £61,985
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% -8.04% +7.33%
75th Percentile £69,375 £75,625 £73,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £100,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £52,500 £55,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.83% -7.08% +6.37%

All Process and 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 2,117 3,364 2,637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 89.32% 82.78% 94.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,200 1,787 2,067
10th Percentile £28,975 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,994 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,125 £83,750 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,055 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.11% -8.99% +4.76%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Analytics 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 - 2 £55,000 - 15
Salford +12 1 £45,000 +63.64% 7
Stockport +8 1 - - 5
Altrincham -8 1 - - 1
Oldham - 1 - - 1
Analytics
North West

Analytics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (6.62%) CMS
2 5 (3.68%) Apache
2 5 (3.68%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.47%) Headless CMS
3 2 (1.47%) SAS
3 2 (1.47%) WordPress
4 1 (0.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 13 (9.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.41%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.94%) Chatbot
3 4 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.74%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.74%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.74%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.74%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.74%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.47%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 29 (21.32%) Google Analytics
2 27 (19.85%) Azure
3 21 (15.44%) AWS
4 16 (11.76%) Power Platform
5 10 (7.35%) SaaS
6 7 (5.15%) GCP
6 7 (5.15%) Google Ads
7 6 (4.41%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (3.68%) Facebook Ads
8 5 (3.68%) Serverless
9 4 (2.94%) Amazon EMR
9 4 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (2.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (2.94%) Contentsquare
10 3 (2.21%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.21%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.21%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (2.21%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (2.21%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.74%) DAB
1 1 (0.74%) DNS
1 1 (0.74%) Firewall
1 1 (0.74%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.74%) SMS
1 1 (0.74%) SSH
1 1 (0.74%) VPN
1 1 (0.74%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.76%) Power BI
2 14 (10.29%) Tableau
3 12 (8.82%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (8.09%) Data Lake
5 10 (7.35%) Big Data
6 5 (3.68%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (3.68%) GIS
6 5 (3.68%) MySQL
7 4 (2.94%) Mixpanel
8 3 (2.21%) Data Mining
8 3 (2.21%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.21%) Looker
8 3 (2.21%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.21%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (2.21%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.21%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.47%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (2.21%) Git
2 2 (1.47%) ER Studio
2 2 (1.47%) JIRA
3 1 (0.74%) JUnit
3 1 (0.74%) Maven
3 1 (0.74%) MLflow
3 1 (0.74%) RStudio
3 1 (0.74%) Selenium
General
1 57 (41.91%) Social Skills
2 39 (28.68%) Marketing
3 28 (20.59%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (20.59%) Finance
4 24 (17.65%) Retail
5 12 (8.82%) Manufacturing
6 11 (8.09%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (6.62%) Banking
8 8 (5.88%) Advertising
9 7 (5.15%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (3.68%) Legal
11 4 (2.94%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (2.21%) Health Technology
12 3 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (2.21%) Law
12 3 (2.21%) Private Banking
13 2 (1.47%) Cantonese Language
13 2 (1.47%) Mandarin Language
13 2 (1.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 31 (22.79%) Senior
2 20 (14.71%) Analyst
3 16 (11.76%) Data Engineer
4 13 (9.56%) Developer
5 9 (6.62%) Data Analyst
6 8 (5.88%) Lead
7 7 (5.15%) Senior Manager
8 6 (4.41%) Architect
8 6 (4.41%) Senior Data Engineer
8 6 (4.41%) Senior Developer
9 5 (3.68%) Marketing Manager
10 4 (2.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 4 (2.94%) Automation Engineer
10 4 (2.94%) AWS Data Engineer
10 4 (2.94%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (2.94%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 4 (2.94%) Content Manager
10 4 (2.94%) Product Owner
10 4 (2.94%) Senior Content Manager
10 4 (2.94%) User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.15%) CSS
2 6 (4.41%) HTML
3 5 (3.68%) REST
4 3 (2.21%) RESTful
4 3 (2.21%) TensorFlow
5 2 (1.47%) .NET
5 2 (1.47%) D3.js
5 2 (1.47%) JSON
5 2 (1.47%) Pandas
5 2 (1.47%) pytest
5 2 (1.47%) React
5 2 (1.47%) scikit-learn
5 2 (1.47%) XGBoost
5 2 (1.47%) XML
6 1 (0.74%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.74%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.74%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.74%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (0.74%) JSR 170
6 1 (0.74%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.62%) Social Media
2 6 (4.41%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (3.68%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.68%) Social Network
4 4 (2.94%) AI Agents
4 4 (2.94%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.21%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.21%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.47%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.47%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.47%) Tandem
7 1 (0.74%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.74%) Digital Signage
7 1 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.74%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.74%) Online Banking
7 1 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.21%) Linux
2 1 (0.74%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (25.74%) Artificial Intelligence
2 30 (22.06%) Agile
3 28 (20.59%) Business Intelligence
4 27 (19.85%) Data Analytics
4 27 (19.85%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (18.38%) Decision-Making
6 24 (17.65%) User Experience
7 20 (14.71%) E-Commerce
8 19 (13.97%) SEO
9 18 (13.24%) Data Engineering
9 18 (13.24%) Machine Learning
10 16 (11.76%) Actionable Insight
10 16 (11.76%) Digital Marketing
11 15 (11.03%) Data Modelling
11 15 (11.03%) Data Pipeline
11 15 (11.03%) ETL
11 15 (11.03%) Visualisation
12 14 (10.29%) Data Science
13 13 (9.56%) Roadmaps
14 12 (8.82%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 42 (30.88%) SQL
2 36 (26.47%) Python
3 8 (5.88%) Java
4 6 (4.41%) JavaScript
5 5 (3.68%) C#
6 4 (2.94%) PHP
6 4 (2.94%) Scala
7 3 (2.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (2.21%) R
7 3 (2.21%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.47%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.47%) VBA
9 1 (0.74%) Bash
9 1 (0.74%) Bicep
9 1 (0.74%) Groovy
9 1 (0.74%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.74%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.74%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (20.59%) Degree
2 4 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.21%) DBS Check
3 3 (2.21%) PhD
3 3 (2.21%) Tableau Certification
4 2 (1.47%) ACCA
4 2 (1.47%) CCAB
4 2 (1.47%) CIMA
4 2 (1.47%) CIPFA
4 2 (1.47%) ICAEW
4 2 (1.47%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.47%) Numerate Degree
4 2 (1.47%) Postgraduate
4 2 (1.47%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.47%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.74%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.74%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.29%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.94%) SLA
3 3 (2.21%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.21%) GDPR
4 1 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.74%) ITGC
4 1 (0.74%) QA
System Software
1 5 (3.68%) Docker
2 1 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (4.41%) Terraform
2 4 (2.94%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (22.06%) Google
2 17 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 11 (8.09%) Databricks
4 7 (5.15%) Hotjar
5 6 (4.41%) TikTok
6 5 (3.68%) Facebook
7 4 (2.94%) Genesys
7 4 (2.94%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.21%) Oracle
9 2 (1.47%) Adobe
9 2 (1.47%) Dell
9 2 (1.47%) Informatica
9 2 (1.47%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.47%) SnapLogic
10 1 (0.74%) Concur
10 1 (0.74%) Hootsuite
10 1 (0.74%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.74%) Instagram
10 1 (0.74%) Screaming Frog
10 1 (0.74%) YouTube