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 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 36 34
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -7
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 124 201 161
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.23% 5.55% 7.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.18% 6.32% 7.47%
Number of salaries quoted 79 85 132
10th Percentile £33,500 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% -8.80% +10.80%
75th Percentile £69,375 £87,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £91,000 £100,750 £96,539
North West median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £59,556
% change year-on-year -4.55% -7.65% +8.28%

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 2,006 3,182 2,156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 84.53% 87.90% 94.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,284 1,492 1,734
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £33,054
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -7.65% +6.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +3.54%

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 27 November 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 27 November 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 - 4 £47,500 - 1
Stockport +5 1 - - 5
Altrincham - 1 - -
Cheadle - 1 £55,000 -
Oldham - 1 - - 1
Salford - 1 £45,000 - 2
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 8 (6.45%) CMS
2 3 (2.42%) Confluence
2 3 (2.42%) SAS
3 2 (1.61%) Apache
3 2 (1.61%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.61%) Headless CMS
3 2 (1.61%) WordPress
4 1 (0.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 17 (13.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.03%) Chatbot
3 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.81%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.81%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.81%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.81%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.81%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.61%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (1.61%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (1.61%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (1.61%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 24 (19.35%) Azure
2 20 (16.13%) Power Platform
3 12 (9.68%) AWS
4 11 (8.87%) Google Analytics
5 9 (7.26%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (6.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 8 (6.45%) SaaS
7 7 (5.65%) Adobe Analytics
8 6 (4.84%) Figma
8 6 (4.84%) GCP
8 6 (4.84%) Serverless
9 5 (4.03%) Amazon S3
10 4 (3.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (2.42%) Amazon EMR
11 3 (2.42%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (2.42%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (2.42%) GitHub
11 3 (2.42%) OCI
11 3 (2.42%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.81%) DAB
1 1 (0.81%) SMS
1 1 (0.81%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (16.13%) Power BI
2 14 (11.29%) Tableau
3 12 (9.68%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (8.06%) Data Lake
5 8 (6.45%) Data Mining
6 7 (5.65%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (4.84%) SQL Server
8 5 (4.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (3.23%) Big Data
9 4 (3.23%) Mixpanel
9 4 (3.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (2.42%) DynamoDB
10 3 (2.42%) Metadata
10 3 (2.42%) MongoDB
10 3 (2.42%) MySQL
10 3 (2.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (1.61%) Data Vault
11 2 (1.61%) GIS
11 2 (1.61%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (4.84%) JIRA
2 4 (3.23%) Git
3 2 (1.61%) ER Studio
3 2 (1.61%) GitLab
4 1 (0.81%) JUnit
4 1 (0.81%) Maven
4 1 (0.81%) RStudio
4 1 (0.81%) Selenium
General
1 33 (26.61%) Social Skills
2 32 (25.81%) Finance
3 28 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (10.48%) Banking
5 12 (9.68%) Manufacturing
5 12 (9.68%) Marketing
6 9 (7.26%) Retail
7 8 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (5.65%) Legal
9 6 (4.84%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (3.23%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (2.42%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.61%) Advertising
12 2 (1.61%) General Ledger
12 2 (1.61%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.61%) Law
12 2 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.81%) Billing
13 1 (0.81%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 30 (24.19%) Analyst
2 19 (15.32%) Senior
3 15 (12.10%) Data Engineer
4 14 (11.29%) Data Analyst
5 12 (9.68%) Developer
6 8 (6.45%) Senior Manager
7 7 (5.65%) Architect
7 7 (5.65%) Trainee
7 7 (5.65%) Trainee Analyst
7 7 (5.65%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 6 (4.84%) Strategy Manager
9 5 (4.03%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 5 (4.03%) Business Analyst
9 5 (4.03%) Lead
9 5 (4.03%) Project Manager
9 5 (4.03%) Senior Data Engineer
9 5 (4.03%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (3.23%) Automation Engineer
10 4 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (3.23%) Head of Analytics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.23%) CSS
1 4 (3.23%) HTML
1 4 (3.23%) REST
2 3 (2.42%) PySpark
3 2 (1.61%) .NET
3 2 (1.61%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.61%) JSON
3 2 (1.61%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.61%) Pandas
3 2 (1.61%) pytest
3 2 (1.61%) RESTful
3 2 (1.61%) scikit-learn
3 2 (1.61%) TensorFlow
3 2 (1.61%) XGBoost
3 2 (1.61%) XML
4 1 (0.81%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.81%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (0.81%) Entity Framework
4 1 (0.81%) JSR 170
4 1 (0.81%) OSGi
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.65%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (4.84%) Social Media
3 4 (3.23%) AI Agents
3 4 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (3.23%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.23%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.23%) Taxonomies
4 3 (2.42%) Driving Licence
4 3 (2.42%) Semantic Web
5 2 (1.61%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.61%) Life Science
5 2 (1.61%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (1.61%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.81%) Digital Signage
6 1 (0.81%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.81%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.81%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.42%) Windows
2 1 (0.81%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (27.42%) AI
2 31 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 30 (24.19%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (22.58%) Decision-Making
5 25 (20.16%) Data Analytics
6 22 (17.74%) User Experience
7 21 (16.94%) Agile
8 20 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
9 19 (15.32%) Machine Learning
10 18 (14.52%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (13.71%) Data Pipeline
11 17 (13.71%) Mentoring
11 17 (13.71%) Project Management
12 16 (12.90%) Data Engineering
12 16 (12.90%) Data Governance
12 16 (12.90%) Data Modelling
13 15 (12.10%) Visualisation
14 14 (11.29%) Actionable Insight
14 14 (11.29%) Data Science
15 13 (10.48%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 42 (33.87%) SQL
2 30 (24.19%) Python
3 4 (3.23%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (2.42%) Java
5 2 (1.61%) ANSI SQL
5 2 (1.61%) Bicep
5 2 (1.61%) C#
5 2 (1.61%) PHP
5 2 (1.61%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.61%) R
5 2 (1.61%) VBA
6 1 (0.81%) Scala
6 1 (0.81%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (12.90%) Degree
2 4 (3.23%) DBS Check
3 2 (1.61%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.61%) Master's Degree
3 2 (1.61%) Postgraduate
4 1 (0.81%) AAT
4 1 (0.81%) ACCA
4 1 (0.81%) CIMA
4 1 (0.81%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (0.81%) PhD
4 1 (0.81%) SAP Certification
4 1 (0.81%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.81%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.81%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 1 (0.81%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (14.52%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.65%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.23%) SLA
4 2 (1.61%) GDPR
5 1 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.81%) QA
System Software
1 5 (4.03%) Docker
2 2 (1.61%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (4.03%) Terraform
2 3 (2.42%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 28 (22.58%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.68%) Google
3 10 (8.06%) Salesforce
4 8 (6.45%) Adobe
4 8 (6.45%) Cisco
4 8 (6.45%) Databricks
5 6 (4.84%) Hotjar
5 6 (4.84%) Qualtrics
6 5 (4.03%) Oracle
7 4 (3.23%) Genesys
7 4 (3.23%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.61%) Dell
8 2 (1.61%) Informatica
8 2 (1.61%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.61%) SnapLogic
9 1 (0.81%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.81%) Cognos
9 1 (0.81%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.81%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.81%) SAP