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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 43 26
Rank change year-on-year +12 -17 +8
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 351 134 280
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 4.82% 5.58% 6.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.38% 6.22% 8.35%
Number of salaries quoted 250 81 135
10th Percentile £31,230 £30,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,500 £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 £68,114 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £82,500 £100,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £56,254
% change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% -6.24%

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 5,501 2,153 3,352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.56% 89.60% 82.30%
Number of salaries quoted 4,247 1,235 1,837
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,000 £31,150
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £41,250
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 £86,700 £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 9 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 9 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 -12 8 £20,000 -48.72% 9
Bolton +17 5 £42,500 - 6
Wigan - 5 £37,500 - 1
Ashton-under-Lyne - 2 £42,500 -
Stockport +3 1 £26,500 - 5
Bury - 1 £32,500 - 2
Sale - 1 £42,500 - 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 11 (3.13%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.28%) Apache
3 6 (1.71%) Confluence
4 4 (1.14%) WordPress
5 3 (0.85%) CMS
6 2 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.57%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.57%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.28%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.14%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.57%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (1.42%) SAP PM
2 4 (1.14%) Workday HCM
3 2 (0.57%) Shopify
4 1 (0.28%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 57 (16.24%) Azure
2 53 (15.10%) Power Platform
3 46 (13.11%) AWS
4 32 (9.12%) SaaS
5 19 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (5.13%) Snowflake
7 16 (4.56%) GitHub
7 16 (4.56%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (3.99%) GCP
8 14 (3.99%) Google Analytics
9 13 (3.70%) Serverless
10 9 (2.56%) Amazon S3
10 9 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (1.71%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (1.71%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (1.42%) Entra ID
13 4 (1.14%) IaaS
13 4 (1.14%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.85%) Unified Communications
2 3 (0.85%) DNS
3 2 (0.57%) BGP
3 2 (0.57%) IPFIX
3 2 (0.57%) OSPF
3 2 (0.57%) SNMP
3 2 (0.57%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.57%) VLAN
4 1 (0.28%) SAN
4 1 (0.28%) SSL
4 1 (0.28%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (15.10%) Power BI
2 20 (5.70%) SQL Server
3 18 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (2.56%) Tableau
6 7 (1.99%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (1.99%) Big Data
7 6 (1.71%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.42%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (1.42%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (1.14%) Delta Lake
9 4 (1.14%) Electronic Patient Records
9 4 (1.14%) Power Query
10 3 (0.85%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.85%) Looker
11 2 (0.57%) Data Mining
11 2 (0.57%) KNIME
11 2 (0.57%) Mixpanel
11 2 (0.57%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 8 (2.28%) JIRA
2 7 (1.99%) Git
3 4 (1.14%) Browser DevTools
4 3 (0.85%) RStudio
5 2 (0.57%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.28%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.28%) Gradle
6 1 (0.28%) MLflow
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.28%) Xcode
General
1 89 (25.36%) Analytical Skills
2 83 (23.65%) Social Skills
3 55 (15.67%) Finance
4 40 (11.40%) Marketing
5 27 (7.69%) Law
6 20 (5.70%) Public Sector
6 20 (5.70%) Retail
7 10 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (2.28%) Advertising
8 8 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.28%) Legal
8 8 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (2.28%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.71%) Military
10 5 (1.42%) Banking
11 4 (1.14%) Games
11 4 (1.14%) Health Technology
11 4 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.85%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 88 (25.07%) Senior
2 51 (14.53%) Data Engineer
3 49 (13.96%) Lead
4 48 (13.68%) Analyst
5 26 (7.41%) Senior Data Engineer
6 21 (5.98%) Sales Manager
7 19 (5.41%) Data Manager
7 19 (5.41%) Developer
8 17 (4.84%) Data Analyst
9 13 (3.70%) Architect
9 13 (3.70%) Marketing Manager
10 11 (3.13%) Data Architect
10 11 (3.13%) Operations Manager
10 11 (3.13%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (2.85%) Consultant
11 10 (2.85%) Sales and Marketing Manager
11 10 (2.85%) Sales Operations Manager
11 10 (2.85%) Senior Analyst
12 9 (2.56%) Engineering Manager
12 9 (2.56%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (5.41%) Terraform
2 12 (3.42%) PySpark
3 5 (1.42%) JSON
4 4 (1.14%) ARM Templates
4 4 (1.14%) Kafka
5 3 (0.85%) AngularJS
5 3 (0.85%) CSS
5 3 (0.85%) HTML
6 2 (0.57%) gRPC
6 2 (0.57%) Next.js
6 2 (0.57%) React
6 2 (0.57%) scikit-learn
6 2 (0.57%) Tailwind CSS
6 2 (0.57%) TanStack
7 1 (0.28%) Framer.js
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%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.98%) Onboarding
2 14 (3.99%) Marketing Technology
3 12 (3.42%) Analytical Mindset
4 10 (2.85%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (1.99%) Cloud Native
6 7 (1.99%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.71%) NHS
8 4 (1.14%) e-Learning
8 4 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.14%) Video\Live Streaming
9 3 (0.85%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.57%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.57%) Cyberattack
10 2 (0.57%) Hackathon
10 2 (0.57%) Learning Management System
10 2 (0.57%) Reference Data
10 2 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.57%) Linux
2 1 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
2 1 (0.28%) SUSE
2 1 (0.28%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
2 1 (0.28%) Windows
2 1 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (29.91%) Decision-Making
2 94 (26.78%) AI
3 84 (23.93%) Business Intelligence
4 63 (17.95%) Data Engineering
5 50 (14.25%) Continuous Improvement
6 47 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (12.25%) Agile
8 41 (11.68%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 39 (11.11%) Data Modelling
10 38 (10.83%) Data Pipeline
11 37 (10.54%) Stakeholder Management
12 36 (10.26%) Data Analytics
13 34 (9.69%) Actionable Insight
13 34 (9.69%) CI/CD
14 32 (9.12%) Machine Learning
15 31 (8.83%) Data Science
16 30 (8.55%) Collaborative Culture
16 30 (8.55%) ETL
17 28 (7.98%) Data Analysis
18 27 (7.69%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 105 (29.91%) SQL
2 85 (24.22%) Python
3 14 (3.99%) Bash
4 9 (2.56%) Scala
5 8 (2.28%) R
6 6 (1.71%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.42%) Java
8 4 (1.14%) Bicep
8 4 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.85%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.57%) C#
10 2 (0.57%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.57%) VBA
11 1 (0.28%) Ada
11 1 (0.28%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 28 (7.98%) Degree
2 20 (5.70%) Security Cleared
3 11 (3.13%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.42%) DBS Check
4 5 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (1.14%) ACCA
5 4 (1.14%) CIMA
6 3 (0.85%) Azure Certification
6 3 (0.85%) IRCA
7 2 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.57%) 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 60 (17.09%) Data Quality
2 22 (6.27%) Accessibility
3 20 (5.70%) QA
4 8 (2.28%) GDPR
5 7 (1.99%) WCAG
6 5 (1.42%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.85%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.57%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.57%) SLA
9 1 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.28%) GRC
9 1 (0.28%) NEBOSH
9 1 (0.28%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (1.99%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (1.14%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.14%) Docker
3 3 (0.85%) 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 6 (1.71%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.14%) Grafana
3 3 (0.85%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.57%) Nagios
5 1 (0.28%) Ansible
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 48 (13.68%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.69%) Databricks
3 15 (4.27%) Google
4 8 (2.28%) YouTube
5 7 (1.99%) Adobe
5 7 (1.99%) Oracle
5 7 (1.99%) SAP
6 4 (1.14%) Alteryx
6 4 (1.14%) Synthesia
6 4 (1.14%) Workday
7 3 (0.85%) Salesforce
7 3 (0.85%) ServiceNow
7 3 (0.85%) VMware
8 2 (0.57%) Amplitude
8 2 (0.57%) HubSpot
8 2 (0.57%) Saba
8 2 (0.57%) TikTok
8 2 (0.57%) UiPath
9 1 (0.28%) Pinterest
9 1 (0.28%) Snapchat