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 16 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 6 20
Rank change year-on-year -19 +14 +1
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 960 1,528 1,421
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 4.61% 16.22% 7.79%
As % of the General category 10.72% 23.37% 14.37%
Number of salaries quoted 744 383 984
10th Percentile £34,250 £26,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,188 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £47,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% -1.05% +5.56%
75th Percentile £61,938 £63,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £78,596 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -8.90%

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 8,956 6,537 9,886
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 43.01% 69.40% 54.21%
Number of salaries quoted 5,937 2,872 6,924
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,300 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £34,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -8.48%
75th Percentile £69,390 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £82,450 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 16 July 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 16 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
North West -18 571 £47,500 -1.67% 213
Yorkshire -11 286 £50,000 +11.86% 120
North East -28 103 £55,000 +37.50% 44
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 38 (3.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (3.23%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.46%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.04%) Apache
4 10 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (0.94%) Confluence
6 7 (0.73%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.42%) WordPress
9 3 (0.31%) CMS
9 3 (0.31%) JBoss
10 1 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.10%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.10%) WebSphere
Applications
1 143 (14.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (5.94%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (2.92%) MS Visio
4 19 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.21%) LaTeX
7 1 (0.10%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.10%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 29 (3.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.98%) Salesforce CRM
2 19 (1.98%) SAP PM
3 14 (1.46%) SAP ERP
4 10 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.73%) Workday HCM
6 5 (0.52%) Magento
6 5 (0.52%) SAP PP
7 3 (0.31%) SAP QM
8 2 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.10%) SAP ECC
9 1 (0.10%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 132 (13.75%) Power Platform
2 128 (13.33%) Azure
3 94 (9.79%) AWS
4 60 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
5 41 (4.27%) GCP
6 33 (3.44%) SaaS
7 30 (3.13%) Entra ID
7 30 (3.13%) Microsoft Purview
8 25 (2.60%) GitHub
9 24 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
10 23 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (2.40%) PowerApps
11 19 (1.98%) Amazon S3
11 19 (1.98%) Boomi
12 17 (1.77%) Google Analytics
12 17 (1.77%) Serverless
13 14 (1.46%) Power Automate
13 14 (1.46%) Snowflake
14 13 (1.35%) Azure Data Factory
15 10 (1.04%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 48 (5.00%) Firewall
2 19 (1.98%) Wireless
3 16 (1.67%) VPN
4 13 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
5 12 (1.25%) WAN
6 10 (1.04%) DNS
7 9 (0.94%) Cisco Nexus
7 9 (0.94%) DHCP
7 9 (0.94%) LAN
7 9 (0.94%) Network Security
8 8 (0.83%) Cisco ASA
8 8 (0.83%) SNMP
8 8 (0.83%) Wireshark
9 6 (0.63%) Internet
9 6 (0.63%) IP Telephony
9 6 (0.63%) NGFW
9 6 (0.63%) VXLAN
10 5 (0.52%) SMS
10 5 (0.52%) TCP/IP
11 4 (0.42%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (11.35%) Power BI
2 85 (8.85%) Tableau
3 37 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
4 35 (3.65%) Data Mining
5 25 (2.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 20 (2.08%) Big Data
7 14 (1.46%) SQL Server
8 12 (1.25%) BigQuery
9 11 (1.15%) Metadata
10 10 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
12 8 (0.83%) DynamoDB
13 7 (0.73%) Looker
13 7 (0.73%) MySQL
13 7 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
14 6 (0.63%) Data Lake
14 6 (0.63%) Power Query
14 6 (0.63%) Semantic Layer
15 5 (0.52%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 36 (3.75%) JIRA
2 14 (1.46%) Git
3 10 (1.04%) GitLab
4 9 (0.94%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.52%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.42%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.42%) Selenium
7 3 (0.31%) Maven
7 3 (0.31%) Postman
7 3 (0.31%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.21%) MLflow
8 2 (0.21%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.10%) JMeter
9 1 (0.10%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.10%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.10%) Visual Studio
General
1 426 (44.38%) Social Skills
2 291 (30.31%) Finance
3 93 (9.69%) Marketing
4 89 (9.27%) Law
5 87 (9.06%) Public Sector
6 55 (5.73%) Legal
7 47 (4.90%) Telecoms
8 46 (4.79%) Retail
9 44 (4.58%) Manufacturing
10 38 (3.96%) Organisational Skills
11 36 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 35 (3.65%) Military
13 33 (3.44%) Influencing Skills
14 30 (3.13%) Back Office
15 18 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
16 14 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
17 13 (1.35%) Banking
18 12 (1.25%) Advertising
18 12 (1.25%) Local Government
19 8 (0.83%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 272 (28.33%) Analyst
2 102 (10.63%) Data Analyst
3 95 (9.90%) Senior
4 92 (9.58%) Lead
5 59 (6.15%) Developer
6 57 (5.94%) Business Analyst
7 48 (5.00%) Systems Analyst
8 42 (4.38%) Data Manager
9 41 (4.27%) Systems Manager
10 40 (4.17%) Architect
11 35 (3.65%) Data Engineer
12 32 (3.33%) Trainee
12 32 (3.33%) Trainee Analyst
12 32 (3.33%) Trainee Data Analyst
13 30 (3.13%) Head of QA
13 30 (3.13%) HR Analyst
13 30 (3.13%) HR Data Analyst
13 30 (3.13%) HR Manager
14 24 (2.50%) IT Support
15 22 (2.29%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (2.81%) Middleware
2 26 (2.71%) REST
3 22 (2.29%) .NET
3 22 (2.29%) HTML
4 18 (1.88%) CSS
4 18 (1.88%) Node.js
4 18 (1.88%) XML
5 15 (1.56%) EDI
5 15 (1.56%) SOAP
6 13 (1.35%) JSON
7 12 (1.25%) React
8 9 (0.94%) AngularJS
9 8 (0.83%) Flutter
10 7 (0.73%) scikit-learn
11 6 (0.63%) PySpark
11 6 (0.63%) Web Services
12 5 (0.52%) Kafka
12 5 (0.52%) Pandas
12 5 (0.52%) SAP Fiori
13 4 (0.42%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 95 (9.90%) Analytical Mindset
2 47 (4.90%) Product Ownership
3 41 (4.27%) Management Information System
4 33 (3.44%) Onboarding
5 20 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
6 19 (1.98%) Cloud Native
6 19 (1.98%) Data Centre
7 14 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
9 12 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (1.15%) Driving Licence
11 10 (1.04%) Credit Risk
11 10 (1.04%) Social Media
11 10 (1.04%) Virtual Team
12 8 (0.83%) AI Agents
12 8 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (0.83%) Marketing Technology
13 7 (0.73%) Algorithms
13 7 (0.73%) Data Structures
14 6 (0.63%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 54 (5.63%) Windows
2 34 (3.54%) Windows Server
3 13 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
4 9 (0.94%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (0.52%) Linux
6 5 (0.52%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.42%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 363 (37.81%) Problem-Solving
2 307 (31.98%) Continuous Improvement
3 268 (27.92%) Decision-Making
4 230 (23.96%) Analytics
5 223 (23.23%) Stakeholder Management
6 134 (13.96%) Agile
7 119 (12.40%) AI
8 105 (10.94%) Actionable Insight
8 105 (10.94%) Business Intelligence
8 105 (10.94%) Mentoring
9 101 (10.52%) CRM
10 100 (10.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 96 (10.00%) Data Analysis
11 96 (10.00%) Data Governance
11 96 (10.00%) ERP
12 93 (9.69%) Project Management
13 92 (9.58%) Data Modelling
14 86 (8.96%) Roadmaps
15 76 (7.92%) Root Cause Analysis
16 74 (7.71%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 205 (21.35%) SQL
2 159 (16.56%) Python
3 34 (3.54%) Java
3 34 (3.54%) JavaScript
4 33 (3.44%) C#
5 14 (1.46%) R
6 12 (1.25%) PowerShell
7 10 (1.04%) Scala
7 10 (1.04%) T-SQL
8 9 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 9 (0.94%) Go
9 7 (0.73%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.63%) Bash
10 6 (0.63%) C++
10 6 (0.63%) PHP
11 3 (0.31%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.31%) C
11 3 (0.31%) Groovy
11 3 (0.31%) SOQL
11 3 (0.31%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 110 (11.46%) Degree
2 80 (8.33%) DBS Check
3 46 (4.79%) Security Cleared
4 39 (4.06%) ACCA
5 35 (3.65%) CIMA
6 34 (3.54%) SC Cleared
7 30 (3.13%) IRCA
8 15 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
9 14 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (1.04%) CCNA
10 10 (1.04%) HNC
11 9 (0.94%) CCNP
12 8 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
13 7 (0.73%) Azure Certification
13 7 (0.73%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.52%) SAP Certification
15 4 (0.42%) CCIE
15 4 (0.42%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (15.63%) Data Quality
2 84 (8.75%) GDPR
3 78 (8.13%) QA
4 34 (3.54%) Cyber Essentials
4 34 (3.54%) ISO 9001
5 33 (3.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (2.50%) SLA
7 21 (2.19%) NIST
8 17 (1.77%) TickIT
9 16 (1.67%) Accessibility
9 16 (1.67%) Actionable Recommendations
10 14 (1.46%) PMO
11 8 (0.83%) GMP
12 7 (0.73%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.42%) GRC
14 4 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 14443
14 4 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 7816
14 4 (0.42%) SOC 2
15 1 (0.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 50 (5.21%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.35%) Docker
3 9 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.42%) ProxySG
5 3 (0.31%) DFS Replication
5 3 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.21%) vSphere
7 1 (0.10%) Firmware
7 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.10%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (2.29%) Terraform
2 12 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (0.73%) Ansible
4 6 (0.63%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.31%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.21%) Grafana
7 1 (0.10%) Autotask
Vendors
1 246 (25.63%) Microsoft
2 64 (6.67%) Workday
3 58 (6.04%) SAP
4 42 (4.38%) Salesforce
5 29 (3.02%) Google
6 17 (1.77%) iManage
7 16 (1.67%) Databricks
8 15 (1.56%) Adobe
8 15 (1.56%) Cisco
9 14 (1.46%) ServiceNow
10 12 (1.25%) Oracle
11 10 (1.04%) Aruba
12 9 (0.94%) Aderant
12 9 (0.94%) Intapp
13 8 (0.83%) CheckPoint
13 8 (0.83%) HubSpot
14 7 (0.73%) NetScout
14 7 (0.73%) SolarWinds
14 7 (0.73%) Veeam
14 7 (0.73%) VMware