Analytical Skills Job Trends in the North of England

Analytical Skills
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in permanent job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 5 18
Rank change year-on-year -18 +13 +3
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,178 1,539 971
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 4.90% 16.15% 7.39%
As % of the General category 11.98% 25.13% 12.93%
Number of salaries quoted 761 345 442
10th Percentile £30,750 £26,100 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,125 £38,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £63,110
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £71,991
England median annual salary £51,375 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.75% -9.09% -2.65%

All General Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 9,836 6,123 7,510
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 40.95% 64.24% 57.14%
Number of salaries quoted 6,377 2,678 3,266
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,750 £29,347
25th Percentile £37,500 £30,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -2.66%
75th Percentile £68,750 £61,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £53,688 £59,063
% change year-on-year +2.44% -9.10% -1.56%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Analytical Skills job vacancy trend in the North of England

Analytical Skills
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Analytical Skills.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in the North of England over the 6 months to 11 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Analytical Skills in the North of England

Analytical Skills
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Analytical Skills within the North of England region over the 6 months to 11 October 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
North West -15 697 £46,500 +3.33% 588
Yorkshire -9 324 £47,000 +17.50% 386
North East -20 166 £51,962 +29.91% 122
Analytical Skills
England

Analytical Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 50 (4.24%) Microsoft Exchange
1 50 (4.24%) SharePoint
2 19 (1.61%) Apache Spark
2 19 (1.61%) Confluence
3 15 (1.27%) Apache
4 13 (1.10%) Jupyter
5 12 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 5 (0.42%) CMS
6 5 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
7 3 (0.25%) nginx
7 3 (0.25%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.17%) IIS
9 1 (0.085%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.085%) CICS
9 1 (0.085%) SAS
9 1 (0.085%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.085%) WebSphere
Applications
1 175 (14.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 92 (7.81%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (2.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (2.21%) MS Visio
5 16 (1.36%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.25%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.25%) SOLIDWORKS
8 2 (0.17%) CATIA
8 2 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.17%) LaTeX
8 2 (0.17%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.085%) OrCAD
9 1 (0.085%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.085%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 18 (1.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.59%) Odoo
2 7 (0.59%) SAP ERP
3 6 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.51%) Exchequer
3 6 (0.51%) Shopify
4 5 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.34%) SAP PM
5 4 (0.34%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.25%) Magento
6 3 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.25%) SAP CRM
6 3 (0.25%) SAP QM
7 2 (0.17%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.17%) iTrent
7 2 (0.17%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.17%) SAP PP
8 1 (0.085%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.085%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 172 (14.60%) Azure
2 142 (12.05%) AWS
2 142 (12.05%) Power Platform
3 84 (7.13%) Microsoft 365
4 67 (5.69%) GCP
5 44 (3.74%) Entra ID
6 43 (3.65%) SaaS
7 40 (3.40%) Serverless
8 38 (3.23%) Amazon S3
9 33 (2.80%) Amazon EC2
10 31 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
11 25 (2.12%) Google Analytics
12 24 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
12 24 (2.04%) PowerApps
13 23 (1.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 23 (1.95%) Amazon ECS
14 22 (1.87%) Microsoft Purview
15 21 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
16 17 (1.44%) Amazon EMR
16 17 (1.44%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 36 (3.06%) DNS
2 35 (2.97%) DHCP
3 26 (2.21%) Internet
4 23 (1.95%) Firewall
5 18 (1.53%) TCP/IP
5 18 (1.53%) VPN
5 18 (1.53%) Wireless
6 15 (1.27%) WAN
7 10 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (0.76%) LAN
9 7 (0.59%) Network Security
9 7 (0.59%) SNMP
9 7 (0.59%) SSL
9 7 (0.59%) VLAN
10 6 (0.51%) SD-WAN
11 5 (0.42%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (0.42%) HTTP
12 4 (0.34%) Cisco ASA
12 4 (0.34%) Cisco Firepower
12 4 (0.34%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (9.85%) Power BI
2 47 (3.99%) Data Warehouse
3 33 (2.80%) Metadata
4 30 (2.55%) Tableau
5 28 (2.38%) BigQuery
6 27 (2.29%) SQL Server
7 21 (1.78%) Big Data
8 18 (1.53%) Power Query
9 17 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
9 17 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
9 17 (1.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 15 (1.27%) Relational Database
11 12 (1.02%) Looker
11 12 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
11 12 (1.02%) Spark SQL
12 11 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
12 11 (0.93%) Data Lake
12 11 (0.93%) MySQL
13 9 (0.76%) Star Schema
14 8 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 52 (4.41%) Git
2 48 (4.07%) JIRA
3 21 (1.78%) GitLab
4 7 (0.59%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.34%) Postman
6 3 (0.25%) Appium
6 3 (0.25%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.25%) RStudio
6 3 (0.25%) Selenium
6 3 (0.25%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.17%) JMeter
7 2 (0.17%) Ranorex
7 2 (0.17%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.085%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.085%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.085%) Maven
8 1 (0.085%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.085%) Visual Studio
General
1 521 (44.23%) Social Skills
2 322 (27.33%) Finance
3 111 (9.42%) Organisational Skills
4 109 (9.25%) Marketing
5 107 (9.08%) Law
6 104 (8.83%) Public Sector
7 102 (8.66%) Legal
8 85 (7.22%) Manufacturing
9 80 (6.79%) Retail
10 65 (5.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 60 (5.09%) Influencing Skills
12 41 (3.48%) Presentation Skills
13 28 (2.38%) Telecoms
14 24 (2.04%) Banking
15 23 (1.95%) Automotive
16 21 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
17 18 (1.53%) Electronics
17 18 (1.53%) Local Government
18 17 (1.44%) Games
18 17 (1.44%) Military
Job Titles
1 306 (25.98%) Analyst
2 125 (10.61%) Senior
3 69 (5.86%) Business Analyst
3 69 (5.86%) Lead
4 67 (5.69%) Developer
5 65 (5.52%) Data Analyst
6 57 (4.84%) Data Engineer
7 52 (4.41%) Architect
8 41 (3.48%) Senior Analyst
9 33 (2.80%) Junior
10 32 (2.72%) Systems Analyst
11 30 (2.55%) IT Support
11 30 (2.55%) Support Engineer
12 29 (2.46%) Support Analyst
13 28 (2.38%) Senior Manager
14 25 (2.12%) Technical Analyst
15 22 (1.87%) Administrator
15 22 (1.87%) Consultant
15 22 (1.87%) Operations Manager
16 21 (1.78%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (3.31%) Terraform
2 28 (2.38%) .NET
2 28 (2.38%) HTML
3 26 (2.21%) REST
4 25 (2.12%) CSS
4 25 (2.12%) PySpark
5 21 (1.78%) Node.js
6 13 (1.10%) Middleware
6 13 (1.10%) SOAP
7 12 (1.02%) EDI
7 12 (1.02%) JSON
8 10 (0.85%) Kafka
8 10 (0.85%) XML
9 7 (0.59%) React
9 7 (0.59%) Web Services
10 6 (0.51%) AngularJS
11 4 (0.34%) Entity Framework
11 4 (0.34%) RESTful
11 4 (0.34%) Spring
11 4 (0.34%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 74 (6.28%) Management Information System
2 70 (5.94%) Onboarding
3 57 (4.84%) Analytical Mindset
4 48 (4.07%) Product Ownership
5 34 (2.89%) Driving Licence
6 30 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
7 26 (2.21%) Social Media
8 25 (2.12%) Linux Command Line
9 21 (1.78%) Hybrid Cloud
10 20 (1.70%) Cloud Native
11 18 (1.53%) Data Structures
12 17 (1.44%) Data Centre
13 13 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
14 11 (0.93%) Algorithms
14 11 (0.93%) Credit Risk
14 11 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
15 10 (0.85%) Marketing Technology
15 10 (0.85%) NHS
15 10 (0.85%) Virtual Team
16 9 (0.76%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 72 (6.11%) Windows
2 45 (3.82%) Windows Server
3 32 (2.72%) Linux
4 21 (1.78%) Windows Server 2019
5 16 (1.36%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (0.68%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.59%) macOS
8 4 (0.34%) Unix
9 3 (0.25%) CentOS
9 3 (0.25%) CoreOS
9 3 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.085%) Android
10 1 (0.085%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.085%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 561 (47.62%) Problem-Solving
2 402 (34.13%) Continuous Improvement
3 289 (24.53%) Decision-Making
4 251 (21.31%) Stakeholder Management
5 240 (20.37%) Analytics
6 217 (18.42%) AI
7 201 (17.06%) Agile
8 149 (12.65%) Mentoring
9 142 (12.05%) Business Intelligence
10 127 (10.78%) Validation
11 122 (10.36%) CRM
11 122 (10.36%) ERP
12 121 (10.27%) CI/CD
13 107 (9.08%) Coaching
13 107 (9.08%) Data Modelling
14 106 (9.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 104 (8.83%) Customer Service
15 104 (8.83%) Project Delivery
16 102 (8.66%) Data Analysis
17 97 (8.23%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 225 (19.10%) SQL
2 169 (14.35%) Python
3 51 (4.33%) JavaScript
4 40 (3.40%) Java
5 34 (2.89%) C#
6 32 (2.72%) PowerShell
7 26 (2.21%) Bash
8 20 (1.70%) R
9 16 (1.36%) C++
9 16 (1.36%) Shell Script
10 11 (0.93%) Scala
11 10 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 8 (0.68%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.59%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.51%) C
14 6 (0.51%) PHP
15 4 (0.34%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.34%) COBOL
15 4 (0.34%) Go
15 4 (0.34%) XPath
Qualifications
1 197 (16.72%) Degree
2 103 (8.74%) Security Cleared
3 80 (6.79%) SC Cleared
4 44 (3.74%) ACCA
5 39 (3.31%) CIMA
5 39 (3.31%) DBS Check
6 22 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
7 21 (1.78%) Master's Degree
8 18 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.27%) HNC
10 10 (0.85%) CCNA
10 10 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (0.76%) Azure Certification
11 9 (0.76%) DV Cleared
11 9 (0.76%) Postgraduate
12 7 (0.59%) HND
12 7 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 6 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
13 6 (0.51%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (14.43%) Data Quality
2 70 (5.94%) QA
3 55 (4.67%) GDPR
4 30 (2.55%) Accessibility
5 17 (1.44%) SLA
6 15 (1.27%) Actionable Recommendations
6 15 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.27%) PMO
7 12 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (0.68%) ISO 9001
8 8 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (0.51%) TickIT
10 4 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 7816
10 4 (0.34%) NEBOSH
10 4 (0.34%) NIST
11 3 (0.25%) COSO
11 3 (0.25%) GRC
11 3 (0.25%) IFRS
11 3 (0.25%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 68 (5.77%) Active Directory
2 49 (4.16%) Docker
3 8 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.42%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.34%) DFS Replication
5 4 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.25%) Ceph
6 3 (0.25%) Firmware
6 3 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.085%) NFS
7 1 (0.085%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (1.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (0.85%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.59%) Ansible
4 6 (0.51%) Grafana
4 6 (0.51%) Prometheus
4 6 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.25%) Argo
5 3 (0.25%) Autotask
5 3 (0.25%) Check_MK
5 3 (0.25%) Istio
5 3 (0.25%) McAfee ePO
5 3 (0.25%) Podman
5 3 (0.25%) SCVMM
6 2 (0.17%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.17%) Nessus
7 1 (0.085%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.085%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.085%) SCCM
Vendors
1 295 (25.04%) Microsoft
2 68 (5.77%) Google
3 39 (3.31%) SAP
3 39 (3.31%) YouTube
4 29 (2.46%) Salesforce
5 19 (1.61%) Oracle
5 19 (1.61%) VMware
5 19 (1.61%) Workday
6 18 (1.53%) Databricks
7 14 (1.19%) Cisco
7 14 (1.19%) TikTok
8 13 (1.10%) ServiceNow
9 11 (0.93%) iManage
10 10 (0.85%) Adobe
11 8 (0.68%) HP
11 8 (0.68%) HubSpot
11 8 (0.68%) Sage
12 7 (0.59%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.59%) Samsung
12 7 (0.59%) Veeam