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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 35 24
Rank change year-on-year +10 -11 +1
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 343 189 396
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.38% 7.57% 7.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.36% 8.14% 8.70%
Number of salaries quoted 265 97 264
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £84,500 £90,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -2.78% -13.60%

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 4,662 2,321 4,554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.16% 92.91% 82.95%
Number of salaries quoted 3,696 1,337 3,315
10th Percentile £33,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +2.80% -9.32%
75th Percentile £78,802 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £88,750 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,055 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.88% +0.11% -9.09%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 +22 12 £30,000 - 3
Salford -17 10 £31,250 -13.79% 8
Wigan - 6 £40,000 - 4
Stockport 0 2 - - 4
Ashton-under-Lyne - 2 £42,500 -
Bury +1 1 £32,500 - 4
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 (3.21%) Apache Spark
2 9 (2.62%) Apache
3 8 (2.33%) CMS
3 8 (2.33%) WordPress
4 5 (1.46%) Confluence
5 4 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.58%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.29%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 18 (5.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.62%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.58%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (1.46%) SAP PM
2 2 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.29%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.29%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.29%) SAP PS
3 1 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 52 (15.16%) Azure
2 47 (13.70%) Power Platform
3 42 (12.24%) AWS
4 33 (9.62%) SaaS
5 15 (4.37%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (4.37%) GCP
6 13 (3.79%) Google Analytics
7 12 (3.50%) GitHub
7 12 (3.50%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (3.50%) Snowflake
8 10 (2.92%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (2.92%) Serverless
9 9 (2.62%) Amazon S3
10 5 (1.46%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (1.46%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (1.46%) Entra ID
10 5 (1.46%) Figma
11 4 (1.17%) Amazon Kinesis
11 4 (1.17%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.17%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.92%) Unified Communications
2 2 (0.58%) BGP
2 2 (0.58%) DNS
2 2 (0.58%) IPFIX
2 2 (0.58%) OSPF
2 2 (0.58%) SNMP
2 2 (0.58%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.58%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (13.41%) Power BI
2 19 (5.54%) SQL Server
3 16 (4.66%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (3.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 11 (3.21%) Tableau
5 7 (2.04%) Big Data
5 7 (2.04%) Data Mining
5 7 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (1.75%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (1.17%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.17%) Delta Lake
7 4 (1.17%) Electronic Patient Records
8 3 (0.87%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.87%) Looker
9 2 (0.58%) Mixpanel
9 2 (0.58%) MS Access
9 2 (0.58%) MySQL
9 2 (0.58%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 10 (2.92%) Git
2 7 (2.04%) JIRA
3 4 (1.17%) Browser DevTools
4 2 (0.58%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.29%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.29%) Gradle
5 1 (0.29%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.29%) MLflow
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.29%) Xcode
General
1 69 (20.12%) Analytical Skills
2 62 (18.08%) Social Skills
3 52 (15.16%) Finance
4 37 (10.79%) Marketing
5 32 (9.33%) Law
6 19 (5.54%) Public Sector
7 18 (5.25%) Retail
8 15 (4.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (2.92%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (2.62%) Advertising
11 8 (2.33%) Legal
12 7 (2.04%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.75%) Banking
14 5 (1.46%) Military
15 4 (1.17%) Games
15 4 (1.17%) Health Technology
16 3 (0.87%) French Language
16 3 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.87%) Italian Language
16 3 (0.87%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 91 (26.53%) Senior
2 62 (18.08%) Lead
3 44 (12.83%) Data Engineer
4 31 (9.04%) Analyst
5 23 (6.71%) Developer
6 21 (6.12%) Sales Manager
7 19 (5.54%) Data Manager
8 16 (4.66%) Senior Data Engineer
9 15 (4.37%) Data Analyst
10 13 (3.79%) Architect
11 12 (3.50%) Marketing Manager
12 11 (3.21%) Operations Manager
13 10 (2.92%) Sales and Marketing Manager
13 10 (2.92%) Sales Operations Manager
14 9 (2.62%) Analytics Manager
14 9 (2.62%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 9 (2.62%) Consultant
14 9 (2.62%) Data Analytics Manager
14 9 (2.62%) Data Architect
14 9 (2.62%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.92%) CSS
1 10 (2.92%) HTML
2 8 (2.33%) PySpark
3 5 (1.46%) Kafka
4 4 (1.17%) .NET
4 4 (1.17%) ARM Templates
4 4 (1.17%) EDI
4 4 (1.17%) JSON
5 3 (0.87%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.58%) gRPC
6 2 (0.58%) Next.js
6 2 (0.58%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.58%) React
6 2 (0.58%) SAP Fiori
6 2 (0.58%) scikit-learn
6 2 (0.58%) Tailwind CSS
6 2 (0.58%) TanStack
6 2 (0.58%) TensorFlow
7 1 (0.29%) Model Context Protocol
7 1 (0.29%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 28 (8.16%) Onboarding
2 14 (4.08%) Marketing Technology
3 13 (3.79%) Cloud Native
4 12 (3.50%) Analytical Mindset
4 12 (3.50%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.75%) NHS
8 5 (1.46%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.87%) AI Agents
9 3 (0.87%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.87%) Data Centre
9 3 (0.87%) e-Learning
9 3 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.87%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.87%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.87%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.58%) Life Science
10 2 (0.58%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.87%) Android
1 3 (0.87%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.58%) Linux
3 1 (0.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (27.41%) Decision-Making
2 80 (23.32%) AI
3 68 (19.83%) Business Intelligence
4 58 (16.91%) Data Engineering
5 48 (13.99%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 47 (13.70%) Problem-Solving
7 41 (11.95%) Continuous Improvement
7 41 (11.95%) Machine Learning
8 39 (11.37%) Agile
8 39 (11.37%) Data Analytics
8 39 (11.37%) Data Pipeline
9 36 (10.50%) Data Modelling
10 34 (9.91%) CI/CD
11 30 (8.75%) Data Analysis
12 29 (8.45%) ETL
12 29 (8.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 28 (8.16%) Collaborative Culture
14 27 (7.87%) Data Science
15 26 (7.58%) DevOps
16 24 (7.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 95 (27.70%) SQL
2 90 (26.24%) Python
3 9 (2.62%) Bash
3 9 (2.62%) Scala
4 5 (1.46%) Java
4 5 (1.46%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.46%) T-SQL
5 3 (0.87%) Bicep
5 3 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (0.87%) JavaScript
5 3 (0.87%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.58%) C#
6 2 (0.58%) R
6 2 (0.58%) VBA
7 1 (0.29%) Ada
7 1 (0.29%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 26 (7.58%) Degree
2 16 (4.66%) Security Cleared
3 10 (2.92%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.33%) DBS Check
5 6 (1.75%) ACCA
5 6 (1.75%) CIMA
5 6 (1.75%) IRCA
6 5 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.17%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.87%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (12.54%) Data Quality
2 24 (7.00%) QA
3 19 (5.54%) Accessibility
4 11 (3.21%) GDPR
5 7 (2.04%) WCAG
6 6 (1.75%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.58%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.58%) SLA
8 1 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.29%) GRC
8 1 (0.29%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (1.46%) Docker
3 4 (1.17%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (4.37%) Terraform
2 8 (2.33%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.17%) Grafana
4 3 (0.87%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.58%) Nagios
6 1 (0.29%) Ansible
6 1 (0.29%) Argo
6 1 (0.29%) Istio
6 1 (0.29%) linkerd
6 1 (0.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 55 (16.03%) Microsoft
2 26 (7.58%) Databricks
3 14 (4.08%) Google
4 9 (2.62%) SAP
5 7 (2.04%) Adobe
6 5 (1.46%) Salesforce
7 3 (0.87%) Cisco
7 3 (0.87%) ServiceNow
7 3 (0.87%) Synthesia
7 3 (0.87%) VMware
8 2 (0.58%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.58%) Amplitude
8 2 (0.58%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.29%) Capita
9 1 (0.29%) Hotjar
9 1 (0.29%) Oracle
9 1 (0.29%) Qualtrics
9 1 (0.29%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.29%) TikTok