Analytical Skills Job Trends in Merseyside

Analytical Skills
North West > Merseyside

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in permanent job vacancies in Merseyside. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months leading up to 16 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 22 26
Rank change year-on-year +12 +4 +21
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 75 35 31
As % of all permanent jobs in Merseyside 12.12% 6.78% 5.31%
As % of the General category 21.74% 9.31% 10.26%
Number of salaries quoted 29 13 19
10th Percentile - £30,550 £34,850
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £49,000 £46,066
Median % change year-on-year -13.27% +6.37% +2.37%
75th Percentile £55,000 £66,250 £53,750
90th Percentile £60,750 £68,500 £66,000
North West median annual salary £42,500 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -19.05% +10.53% +5.56%

All General Skills
Merseyside

Analytical Skills falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring general skills in Merseyside.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 345 376 302
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 55.74% 72.87% 51.71%
Number of salaries quoted 210 137 213
10th Percentile - £30,650 £26,350
25th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,750 £42,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.69% -6.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
North West median annual salary £48,000 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.80% +3.00% -4.76%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Analytical Skills relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Merseyside.

Analytical Skills job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Analytical Skills
Salary Trend in Merseyside

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Analytical Skills.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
Salary Histogram in Merseyside

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in Merseyside over the 6 months to 16 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Analytical Skills in Merseyside

Analytical Skills
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Analytical Skills within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 16 January 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
Liverpool +16 74 £42,500 -29.17% 17
Analytical Skills
North West

Analytical Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 1 (1.33%) FactoryTalk
1 1 (1.33%) WinCC
Applications
1 28 (37.33%) Chatbot
2 21 (28.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (16.00%) Power Platform
2 5 (6.67%) AWS
3 4 (5.33%) GCP
3 4 (5.33%) Snowflake
4 2 (2.67%) Azure
4 2 (2.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (2.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (1.33%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.33%) Google Ads
5 1 (1.33%) Google Analytics
5 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Advertising
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.67%) Firewall
2 1 (1.33%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (24.00%) Tableau
2 12 (16.00%) Data Mining
2 12 (16.00%) Power BI
3 4 (5.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (5.33%) BigQuery
3 4 (5.33%) Looker
4 3 (4.00%) SQL Server
4 3 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.67%) Metadata
General
1 29 (38.67%) Finance
2 19 (25.33%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (5.33%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.67%) Games
7 2 (2.67%) Law
8 1 (1.33%) Advertising
8 1 (1.33%) Billing
8 1 (1.33%) Legal
8 1 (1.33%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.33%) Retail
8 1 (1.33%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 30 (40.00%) Analyst
2 28 (37.33%) Trainer
3 20 (26.67%) Data Analyst
4 12 (16.00%) Trainee
4 12 (16.00%) Trainee Analyst
4 12 (16.00%) Trainee Data Analyst
5 8 (10.67%) Senior
6 6 (8.00%) Senior Analyst
7 5 (6.67%) Senior Data Analyst
8 4 (5.33%) Architect
8 4 (5.33%) QC Analyst
9 3 (4.00%) Lead
10 2 (2.67%) Business Analyst
10 2 (2.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (2.67%) Senior Architect
10 2 (2.67%) Senior Manager
10 2 (2.67%) Solutions Architect
11 1 (1.33%) Agile Business Analyst
11 1 (1.33%) Commercial Analyst
11 1 (1.33%) Insight Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.33%) Analytical Mindset
1 4 (5.33%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (4.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (2.67%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.33%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.33%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.33%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.33%) SCADA
4 1 (1.33%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (42.67%) AI
2 28 (37.33%) Chemistry
2 28 (37.33%) Conversational UI
3 22 (29.33%) Project Management
4 19 (25.33%) Data Analysis
4 19 (25.33%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (24.00%) Analytics
6 14 (18.67%) Data Analytics
7 13 (17.33%) Business Analysis
8 12 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
8 12 (16.00%) Decision-Making
9 10 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (10.67%) Visualisation
11 7 (9.33%) Actionable Insight
12 6 (8.00%) Agile
12 6 (8.00%) Dashboard Development
12 6 (8.00%) Data Visualisation
12 6 (8.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 6 (8.00%) Stakeholder Management
13 5 (6.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 23 (30.67%) SQL
2 17 (22.67%) Python
3 2 (2.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.33%) R
Qualifications
1 42 (56.00%) Degree
2 32 (42.67%) Master's Degree
3 28 (37.33%) PhD
4 2 (2.67%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.67%) PMP
5 1 (1.33%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.33%) Data Quality
1 4 (5.33%) GMP
2 3 (4.00%) QA
3 1 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.33%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (1.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (1.33%) AssetCenter
1 1 (1.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 28 (37.33%) PayPal
2 17 (22.67%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.67%) Google
4 4 (5.33%) HubSpot
4 4 (5.33%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.00%) SAP
6 2 (2.67%) Adobe
6 2 (2.67%) Anaplan
6 2 (2.67%) Genesys
6 2 (2.67%) Oracle
6 2 (2.67%) Verint
7 1 (1.33%) Cisco
7 1 (1.33%) Civica
7 1 (1.33%) iManage
7 1 (1.33%) Kepware
7 1 (1.33%) Northgate
7 1 (1.33%) Orchard
7 1 (1.33%) Rockwell
7 1 (1.33%) Siemens
7 1 (1.33%) Workday