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 9 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 6 20
Rank change year-on-year -18 +14 -2
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 934 1,502 1,445
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 4.75% 18.74% 7.60%
As % of the General category 10.72% 25.12% 14.13%
Number of salaries quoted 720 359 1,025
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,400 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,750 £48,306 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.15% +3.88% +3.33%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,473
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%

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 8,712 5,980 10,224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 44.27% 74.61% 53.81%
Number of salaries quoted 5,642 2,612 7,534
10th Percentile £29,000 £25,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,592 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.06% +0.19% -7.95%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,751 £75,772
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -18 549 £46,500 -7.00% 207
Yorkshire -13 290 £50,000 +11.11% 123
North East -29 95 £50,500 +29.16% 55
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 33 (3.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (3.32%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.61%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (0.96%) Apache
6 6 (0.64%) Confluence
7 5 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.54%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.43%) WordPress
9 3 (0.32%) CMS
9 3 (0.32%) JBoss
10 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 140 (14.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (4.71%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (2.68%) MS Visio
4 14 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 31 (3.32%) Salesforce CRM
2 29 (3.10%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (1.61%) SAP PM
4 14 (1.50%) SAP ERP
5 9 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
6 7 (0.75%) Workday HCM
7 6 (0.64%) Magento
8 5 (0.54%) SAP PP
9 4 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.32%) SAP QM
11 2 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
12 1 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
12 1 (0.11%) SAP MDM
12 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 130 (13.92%) Power Platform
2 127 (13.60%) Azure
3 102 (10.92%) AWS
4 62 (6.64%) Microsoft 365
5 37 (3.96%) Entra ID
5 37 (3.96%) SaaS
6 36 (3.85%) GCP
7 34 (3.64%) Microsoft Purview
8 24 (2.57%) Dynamics 365
9 22 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (2.36%) GitHub
9 22 (2.36%) PowerApps
10 19 (2.03%) Boomi
11 18 (1.93%) Power Automate
12 16 (1.71%) Amazon S3
13 15 (1.61%) Google Analytics
14 14 (1.50%) Serverless
15 12 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
15 12 (1.28%) OCI
16 11 (1.18%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 56 (6.00%) Firewall
2 19 (2.03%) Wi-Fi
3 17 (1.82%) Wireless
4 14 (1.50%) VPN
5 13 (1.39%) Wireshark
6 12 (1.28%) NGFW
6 12 (1.28%) VXLAN
7 11 (1.18%) Cisco ASA
7 11 (1.18%) Cisco Nexus
7 11 (1.18%) Network Security
7 11 (1.18%) WAN
8 10 (1.07%) SNMP
9 9 (0.96%) LAN
10 7 (0.75%) BGP
10 7 (0.75%) Cisco Wireless
10 7 (0.75%) EIGRP
10 7 (0.75%) OSPF
10 7 (0.75%) VLAN
10 7 (0.75%) WAAS
10 7 (0.75%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (11.56%) Power BI
2 97 (10.39%) Tableau
3 48 (5.14%) Data Mining
4 28 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
5 25 (2.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 18 (1.93%) Big Data
7 17 (1.82%) Metadata
8 15 (1.61%) SQL Server
9 13 (1.39%) DynamoDB
10 11 (1.18%) NoSQL
11 10 (1.07%) BigQuery
12 9 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 8 (0.86%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (0.86%) Power Query
14 6 (0.64%) Data Lake
14 6 (0.64%) Looker
15 5 (0.54%) MongoDB
15 5 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
15 5 (0.54%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 32 (3.43%) JIRA
2 11 (1.18%) Git
3 10 (1.07%) GitLab
4 8 (0.86%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.54%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.43%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.43%) Selenium
7 3 (0.32%) Maven
7 3 (0.32%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.21%) MLflow
8 2 (0.21%) Postman
9 1 (0.11%) JMeter
9 1 (0.11%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.11%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 405 (43.36%) Social Skills
2 266 (28.48%) Finance
3 106 (11.35%) Marketing
4 87 (9.31%) Public Sector
5 72 (7.71%) Law
6 47 (5.03%) Legal
7 41 (4.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 41 (4.39%) Manufacturing
7 41 (4.39%) Retail
8 40 (4.28%) Telecoms
9 31 (3.32%) Organisational Skills
10 30 (3.21%) Influencing Skills
10 30 (3.21%) Military
11 26 (2.78%) Back Office
12 21 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
13 14 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
14 13 (1.39%) Banking
15 10 (1.07%) Advertising
16 8 (0.86%) Local Government
16 8 (0.86%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 271 (29.01%) Analyst
2 113 (12.10%) Data Analyst
3 101 (10.81%) Senior
4 85 (9.10%) Lead
5 53 (5.67%) Business Analyst
6 51 (5.46%) Data Manager
7 49 (5.25%) Developer
7 49 (5.25%) Systems Analyst
8 47 (5.03%) Architect
9 45 (4.82%) Trainee
9 45 (4.82%) Trainee Analyst
9 45 (4.82%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 43 (4.60%) Systems Manager
11 38 (4.07%) CRM Executive
12 31 (3.32%) Salesforce Executive
13 30 (3.21%) Head of QA
13 30 (3.21%) HR Analyst
13 30 (3.21%) HR Data Analyst
13 30 (3.21%) HR Manager
14 28 (3.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (2.89%) Middleware
2 24 (2.57%) REST
3 17 (1.82%) .NET
3 17 (1.82%) XML
4 16 (1.71%) HTML
5 15 (1.61%) CSS
5 15 (1.61%) SOAP
6 14 (1.50%) Node.js
7 13 (1.39%) EDI
7 13 (1.39%) JSON
8 12 (1.28%) React
9 9 (0.96%) AngularJS
9 9 (0.96%) Flutter
10 7 (0.75%) SAP Fiori
11 6 (0.64%) scikit-learn
12 4 (0.43%) Entity Framework
12 4 (0.43%) Jest
12 4 (0.43%) PySpark
12 4 (0.43%) SAP Core Interface
13 3 (0.32%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 94 (10.06%) Analytical Mindset
2 44 (4.71%) Management Information System
3 41 (4.39%) Product Ownership
4 33 (3.53%) Onboarding
5 29 (3.10%) Data Centre
6 23 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
7 16 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (1.50%) Cloud Native
9 13 (1.39%) Data Structures
9 13 (1.39%) Enterprise Cloud
10 12 (1.28%) PKI
11 11 (1.18%) Driving Licence
12 10 (1.07%) Social Media
12 10 (1.07%) Virtual Team
13 9 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
14 8 (0.86%) Credit Risk
15 7 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
15 7 (0.75%) FMCG
15 7 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
16 5 (0.54%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 46 (4.93%) Windows
2 30 (3.21%) Windows Server
3 11 (1.18%) Windows Server 2019
4 9 (0.96%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (0.54%) Android
7 4 (0.43%) Linux
8 2 (0.21%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 352 (37.69%) Problem-Solving
2 293 (31.37%) Continuous Improvement
3 255 (27.30%) Decision-Making
4 231 (24.73%) Analytics
5 222 (23.77%) Stakeholder Management
6 121 (12.96%) Agile
7 107 (11.46%) CRM
8 106 (11.35%) Project Management
9 105 (11.24%) Data Governance
10 104 (11.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 103 (11.03%) Actionable Insight
11 103 (11.03%) Business Intelligence
12 102 (10.92%) AI
13 101 (10.81%) Data Analysis
14 100 (10.71%) Mentoring
15 88 (9.42%) Data Modelling
16 82 (8.78%) ERP
17 78 (8.35%) Root Cause Analysis
18 76 (8.14%) Business Analysis
19 74 (7.92%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 195 (20.88%) SQL
2 163 (17.45%) Python
3 33 (3.53%) Java
4 31 (3.32%) C#
5 28 (3.00%) JavaScript
6 12 (1.28%) T-SQL
7 11 (1.18%) PowerShell
7 11 (1.18%) R
8 9 (0.96%) Go
8 9 (0.96%) Scala
9 8 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (0.64%) Bash
10 6 (0.64%) C++
11 5 (0.54%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.32%) C
12 3 (0.32%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.32%) PHP
12 3 (0.32%) SOQL
12 3 (0.32%) SOSL
12 3 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 104 (11.13%) Degree
2 76 (8.14%) DBS Check
3 34 (3.64%) Security Cleared
4 33 (3.53%) ACCA
5 30 (3.21%) IRCA
6 29 (3.10%) CIMA
7 26 (2.78%) SC Cleared
8 18 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
9 16 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
10 14 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
11 12 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (1.18%) CCNP
13 10 (1.07%) HNC
14 9 (0.96%) CCNA
15 8 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
16 7 (0.75%) Azure Certification
16 7 (0.75%) CCIE
16 7 (0.75%) PMI Certification
17 6 (0.64%) AWS Certification
17 6 (0.64%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (16.17%) Data Quality
2 84 (8.99%) GDPR
3 70 (7.49%) QA
4 38 (4.07%) Cyber Essentials
5 34 (3.64%) ISO 9001
5 34 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (2.57%) NIST
7 21 (2.25%) SLA
8 19 (2.03%) Actionable Recommendations
9 17 (1.82%) TickIT
10 16 (1.71%) PMO
11 15 (1.61%) Accessibility
12 10 (1.07%) GMP
13 7 (0.75%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.43%) GRC
15 4 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 14443
15 4 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 7816
15 4 (0.43%) SOC 2
16 3 (0.32%) IFRS
System Software
1 45 (4.82%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.18%) Docker
3 9 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.75%) ProxySG
5 3 (0.32%) DFS Replication
5 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.11%) Firmware
6 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (3.10%) Terraform
2 15 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (1.39%) Ansible
4 6 (0.64%) Kubernetes
5 4 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.32%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.11%) Autotask
Vendors
1 245 (26.23%) Microsoft
2 62 (6.64%) Workday
3 58 (6.21%) Salesforce
4 52 (5.57%) SAP
5 27 (2.89%) Google
6 16 (1.71%) Aruba
7 15 (1.61%) iManage
7 15 (1.61%) ServiceNow
8 14 (1.50%) Cisco
9 13 (1.39%) Databricks
10 12 (1.28%) Adobe
10 12 (1.28%) Arista
10 12 (1.28%) NetScout
10 12 (1.28%) Oracle
11 10 (1.07%) SolarWinds
12 9 (0.96%) Aderant
12 9 (0.96%) CheckPoint
12 9 (0.96%) Intapp
13 8 (0.86%) HubSpot
13 8 (0.86%) IFS