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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 35 21
Rank change year-on-year +10 -14 +5
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 334 176 342
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.12% 7.01% 7.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.94% 7.62% 8.68%
Number of salaries quoted 256 93 216
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 £70,000 £71,438
90th Percentile £100,000 £82,000 £100,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £56,254
% change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% -9.99%

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 4,810 2,310 3,939
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.67% 92.07% 82.39%
Number of salaries quoted 3,791 1,339 2,729
10th Percentile £33,000 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £98,500 £87,550 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,055 £51,000
% change year-on-year +9.88% -1.85% -7.27%

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 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 27 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 -
Salford -14 11 £20,000 -44.83% 1
Wigan - 6 £40,000 - 3
Stockport -2 2 - - 3
Ashton-under-Lyne - 2 £42,500 -
Bury +1 1 £32,500 -
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 (3.29%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.40%) Apache
2 8 (2.40%) CMS
2 8 (2.40%) WordPress
3 5 (1.50%) Confluence
4 4 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.60%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.30%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 18 (5.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.69%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.60%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (1.50%) SAP PM
2 2 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.30%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.30%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.30%) SAP PS
3 1 (0.30%) Shopify
3 1 (0.30%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 48 (14.37%) Azure
2 47 (14.07%) Power Platform
3 41 (12.28%) AWS
4 33 (9.88%) SaaS
5 15 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (4.49%) GCP
6 13 (3.89%) Google Analytics
7 12 (3.59%) GitHub
7 12 (3.59%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (3.59%) Snowflake
8 10 (2.99%) Serverless
9 9 (2.69%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (2.40%) Amazon S3
11 5 (1.50%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (1.50%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (1.50%) Entra ID
12 4 (1.20%) Amazon Kinesis
12 4 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.20%) Azure AKS
12 4 (1.20%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.99%) Unified Communications
2 2 (0.60%) BGP
2 2 (0.60%) DNS
2 2 (0.60%) IPFIX
2 2 (0.60%) OSPF
2 2 (0.60%) SNMP
2 2 (0.60%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.60%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (13.77%) Power BI
2 19 (5.69%) SQL Server
3 16 (4.79%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (3.59%) Tableau
5 11 (3.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (2.10%) Big Data
6 7 (2.10%) Data Mining
6 7 (2.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (1.80%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (1.20%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.20%) Delta Lake
8 4 (1.20%) Electronic Patient Records
9 3 (0.90%) BigQuery
9 3 (0.90%) Looker
10 2 (0.60%) KNIME
10 2 (0.60%) Mixpanel
10 2 (0.60%) MS Access
10 2 (0.60%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (2.10%) JIRA
2 6 (1.80%) Git
3 4 (1.20%) Browser DevTools
4 2 (0.60%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.30%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.30%) Gradle
5 1 (0.30%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.30%) MLflow
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.30%) Xcode
General
1 70 (20.96%) Analytical Skills
2 61 (18.26%) Social Skills
3 52 (15.57%) Finance
4 37 (11.08%) Marketing
5 31 (9.28%) Law
6 19 (5.69%) Public Sector
7 14 (4.19%) Retail
8 10 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (2.69%) Advertising
9 9 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (2.40%) Legal
11 7 (2.10%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.50%) Banking
12 5 (1.50%) Military
13 4 (1.20%) Games
13 4 (1.20%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.90%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.60%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 89 (26.65%) Senior
2 59 (17.66%) Lead
3 44 (13.17%) Data Engineer
4 34 (10.18%) Analyst
5 23 (6.89%) Developer
6 21 (6.29%) Sales Manager
7 19 (5.69%) Data Manager
8 18 (5.39%) Senior Data Engineer
9 17 (5.09%) Data Analyst
10 13 (3.89%) Architect
11 12 (3.59%) Marketing Manager
12 11 (3.29%) Operations Manager
13 10 (2.99%) Consultant
13 10 (2.99%) Sales and Marketing Manager
13 10 (2.99%) Sales Operations Manager
14 9 (2.69%) Analytics Manager
14 9 (2.69%) Data Analytics Manager
14 9 (2.69%) Data Architect
14 9 (2.69%) Engineering Manager
14 9 (2.69%) Head of Engineering
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.40%) PySpark
2 7 (2.10%) CSS
2 7 (2.10%) HTML
3 4 (1.20%) ARM Templates
3 4 (1.20%) JSON
3 4 (1.20%) Kafka
4 3 (0.90%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.60%) gRPC
5 2 (0.60%) Next.js
5 2 (0.60%) PyTorch
5 2 (0.60%) React
5 2 (0.60%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (0.60%) scikit-learn
5 2 (0.60%) Tailwind CSS
5 2 (0.60%) TanStack
5 2 (0.60%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.30%) JWT
6 1 (0.30%) LangChain
6 1 (0.30%) Model Context Protocol
6 1 (0.30%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 25 (7.49%) Onboarding
2 14 (4.19%) Marketing Technology
3 13 (3.89%) Analytical Mindset
4 10 (2.99%) Cloud Native
5 8 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.10%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.80%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.80%) NHS
8 5 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.20%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.90%) AI Agents
10 3 (0.90%) e-Learning
10 3 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.90%) Life Science
10 3 (0.90%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.60%) Cyberattack
11 2 (0.60%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.60%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.60%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.30%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (28.44%) Decision-Making
2 76 (22.75%) AI
3 70 (20.96%) Business Intelligence
4 59 (17.66%) Data Engineering
5 49 (14.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 42 (12.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 42 (12.57%) Problem-Solving
7 37 (11.08%) Data Pipeline
8 35 (10.48%) Agile
8 35 (10.48%) Data Modelling
8 35 (10.48%) Machine Learning
9 32 (9.58%) Data Analytics
10 30 (8.98%) CI/CD
11 29 (8.68%) Collaborative Culture
12 28 (8.38%) ETL
13 27 (8.08%) Data Analysis
14 26 (7.78%) Roadmaps
15 25 (7.49%) DevOps
15 25 (7.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 25 (7.49%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 92 (27.54%) SQL
2 83 (24.85%) Python
3 9 (2.69%) Bash
3 9 (2.69%) Scala
4 5 (1.50%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.50%) T-SQL
5 4 (1.20%) Java
6 3 (0.90%) Bicep
6 3 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (0.90%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.60%) C#
7 2 (0.60%) R
7 2 (0.60%) VBA
8 1 (0.30%) Ada
Qualifications
1 26 (7.78%) Degree
2 13 (3.89%) Security Cleared
3 8 (2.40%) SC Cleared
4 6 (1.80%) ACCA
4 6 (1.80%) CIMA
4 6 (1.80%) IRCA
5 5 (1.50%) DBS Check
5 5 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (0.90%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.60%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (13.47%) Data Quality
2 24 (7.19%) QA
3 17 (5.09%) Accessibility
4 11 (3.29%) GDPR
5 6 (1.80%) ISO 9001
5 6 (1.80%) WCAG
6 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.60%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.60%) SLA
7 1 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.30%) GRC
7 1 (0.30%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (1.20%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.20%) Docker
3 2 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (4.19%) Terraform
2 7 (2.10%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.20%) Grafana
4 3 (0.90%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.60%) Nagios
6 1 (0.30%) Argo
6 1 (0.30%) Istio
6 1 (0.30%) linkerd
6 1 (0.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 49 (14.67%) Microsoft
2 26 (7.78%) Databricks
3 14 (4.19%) Google
4 9 (2.69%) SAP
5 6 (1.80%) Adobe
6 3 (0.90%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.90%) ServiceNow
6 3 (0.90%) Synthesia
7 2 (0.60%) Alteryx
7 2 (0.60%) Amplitude
7 2 (0.60%) HubSpot
7 2 (0.60%) Oracle
7 2 (0.60%) VMware
8 1 (0.30%) Capita
8 1 (0.30%) Cisco
8 1 (0.30%) Hotjar
8 1 (0.30%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.30%) TikTok
8 1 (0.30%) Workday