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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 19 29
Rank change year-on-year -14 +10 +6
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 268 210 328
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.25% 10.00% 6.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.17% 10.47% 7.77%
Number of salaries quoted 193 97 266
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £67,188
90th Percentile £97,000 £90,822 £90,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -8.70%

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 3,736 2,005 4,220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.20% 95.43% 86.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2,561 1,275 3,395
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £94,366 £91,250 £82,500
North West median annual salary £52,500 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.18% +9.59% -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 25 April 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 25 April 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 +24 12 £30,000 -25.00% 2
Salford -17 7 £42,500 +28.79% 2
Wigan - 3 £47,500 - 6
Stockport -6 2 - - 3
Ashton-under-Lyne - 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 8 (2.99%) WordPress
2 7 (2.61%) CMS
3 5 (1.87%) Confluence
4 3 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.75%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.37%) Apache
6 1 (0.37%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 26 (9.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.61%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (1.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.75%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (1.87%) SAP PM
2 2 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.37%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.37%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.37%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 35 (13.06%) Power Platform
2 27 (10.07%) Azure
3 17 (6.34%) SaaS
4 14 (5.22%) AWS
5 11 (4.10%) Google Analytics
6 8 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (2.61%) GitHub
7 7 (2.61%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (2.61%) Serverless
7 7 (2.61%) Snowflake
8 6 (2.24%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (1.87%) Azure AKS
9 5 (1.87%) GCP
10 4 (1.49%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.49%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (1.49%) Entra ID
10 4 (1.49%) Figma
11 3 (1.12%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (1.12%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.24%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.37%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (11.57%) Power BI
2 17 (6.34%) Data Mining
3 16 (5.97%) Tableau
4 8 (2.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (2.61%) SQL Server
6 6 (2.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.12%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.12%) Metadata
9 2 (0.75%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.75%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.75%) Mixpanel
9 2 (0.75%) MySQL
9 2 (0.75%) Power Query
10 1 (0.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.37%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.37%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.37%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (3.73%) Git
2 6 (2.24%) JIRA
3 4 (1.49%) Browser DevTools
4 2 (0.75%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.37%) GitLab
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
General
1 55 (20.52%) Analytical Skills
2 54 (20.15%) Finance
3 44 (16.42%) Social Skills
4 33 (12.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 26 (9.70%) Marketing
6 16 (5.97%) Retail
7 14 (5.22%) Law
8 8 (2.99%) Advertising
9 7 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.24%) Banking
10 6 (2.24%) Legal
11 5 (1.87%) Military
11 5 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.87%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.49%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.12%) French Language
13 3 (1.12%) Italian Language
13 3 (1.12%) Portuguese Language
13 3 (1.12%) Public Sector
13 3 (1.12%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 68 (25.37%) Senior
2 60 (22.39%) Lead
3 43 (16.04%) Analyst
4 20 (7.46%) Data Analyst
5 18 (6.72%) Developer
5 18 (6.72%) Project Manager
6 15 (5.60%) Data Engineer
7 14 (5.22%) Data Manager
7 14 (5.22%) Trainee
7 14 (5.22%) Trainee Analyst
7 14 (5.22%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 11 (4.10%) Business Analyst
9 9 (3.36%) Analytics Manager
9 9 (3.36%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 9 (3.36%) Data Analytics Manager
10 8 (2.99%) Marketing Manager
11 7 (2.61%) Coordinator
11 7 (2.61%) Data Scientist
11 7 (2.61%) Engineering Manager
11 7 (2.61%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.73%) CSS
1 10 (3.73%) HTML
2 5 (1.87%) EDI
3 4 (1.49%) JSON
3 4 (1.49%) PyTorch
3 4 (1.49%) TensorFlow
4 3 (1.12%) .NET
4 3 (1.12%) ARM Templates
4 3 (1.12%) PySpark
5 2 (0.75%) JWT
5 2 (0.75%) Kafka
5 2 (0.75%) OAuth
5 2 (0.75%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.37%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.37%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.37%) Pandas
6 1 (0.37%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.22%) Analytical Mindset
2 13 (4.85%) Product Ownership
3 11 (4.10%) Onboarding
4 8 (2.99%) Cloud Native
4 8 (2.99%) Marketing Technology
5 5 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.49%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.12%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.12%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.12%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.12%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.12%) Semantic Web
7 3 (1.12%) Taxonomies
7 3 (1.12%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.75%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.75%) Life Science
8 2 (0.75%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.75%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.12%) Android
1 3 (1.12%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.75%) Linux
2 2 (0.75%) Windows
3 1 (0.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (28.73%) Decision-Making
2 46 (17.16%) AI
3 45 (16.79%) Business Intelligence
3 45 (16.79%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 41 (15.30%) Data Analytics
5 35 (13.06%) Data Analysis
6 32 (11.94%) Mentoring
7 30 (11.19%) Continuous Improvement
8 29 (10.82%) Software Engineering
9 28 (10.45%) Coaching
10 25 (9.33%) Project Management
11 24 (8.96%) Data Engineering
11 24 (8.96%) Problem-Solving
12 23 (8.58%) Actionable Insight
12 23 (8.58%) Agile
12 23 (8.58%) Machine Learning
13 21 (7.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 21 (7.84%) Visualisation
14 19 (7.09%) Data Science
15 18 (6.72%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 61 (22.76%) Python
2 58 (21.64%) SQL
3 5 (1.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (1.49%) Bicep
4 4 (1.49%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.12%) Java
5 3 (1.12%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.12%) T-SQL
6 2 (0.75%) Bash
6 2 (0.75%) VBA
7 1 (0.37%) ANSI SQL
7 1 (0.37%) Groovy
7 1 (0.37%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.37%) R
7 1 (0.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (7.09%) Degree
2 6 (2.24%) ACCA
2 6 (2.24%) CIMA
2 6 (2.24%) IRCA
3 4 (1.49%) Azure Certification
4 3 (1.12%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.12%) Security Cleared
5 2 (0.75%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.75%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.75%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.37%) CISA
6 1 (0.37%) MBA
6 1 (0.37%) PhD
6 1 (0.37%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.21%) Data Quality
2 20 (7.46%) QA
3 6 (2.24%) GDPR
3 6 (2.24%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.75%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.37%) GRC
5 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.37%) SOX 404
5 1 (0.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (2.24%) Docker
2 5 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.49%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.75%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.75%) vSphere
5 1 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (2.99%) Kubernetes
1 8 (2.99%) Terraform
2 2 (0.75%) Ansible
Vendors
1 65 (24.25%) Microsoft
2 25 (9.33%) Cisco
2 25 (9.33%) Salesforce
3 13 (4.85%) Google
4 8 (2.99%) SAP
5 5 (1.87%) Databricks
6 3 (1.12%) Oracle
7 2 (0.75%) Adobe
7 2 (0.75%) Amplitude
7 2 (0.75%) HubSpot
7 2 (0.75%) VMware
8 1 (0.37%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.37%) Hotjar
8 1 (0.37%) Qualtrics
8 1 (0.37%) TikTok