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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 6 20
Rank change year-on-year -18 +14 +2
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 971 1,529 1,304
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 4.61% 16.22% 7.75%
As % of the General category 10.84% 23.44% 14.35%
Number of salaries quoted 748 392 876
10th Percentile £33,750 £26,050 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,125 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £46,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -3.16% +5.56%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £54,808 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.35% +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 8,954 6,523 9,087
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 42.55% 69.18% 53.98%
Number of salaries quoted 5,966 2,882 6,201
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,300 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £69,390 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,125
% change year-on-year - +1.62% -9.79%

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 21 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 21 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 -18 580 £47,500 +0.53% 224
Yorkshire -10 285 £48,445 +8.01% 123
North East -24 106 £55,000 +37.50% 50
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 (3.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (3.30%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.44%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.03%) Apache
4 10 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (0.82%) Confluence
6 7 (0.72%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.41%) 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
1 148 (15.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (6.08%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (2.88%) MS Visio
4 19 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.21%) LaTeX
7 1 (0.10%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.10%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 28 (2.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.96%) SAP PM
3 17 (1.75%) Salesforce CRM
4 14 (1.44%) SAP ERP
5 10 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
6 7 (0.72%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.51%) Magento
7 5 (0.51%) SAP PP
8 3 (0.31%) SAP QM
9 2 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
10 1 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.10%) SAP ECC
10 1 (0.10%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 134 (13.80%) Power Platform
2 132 (13.59%) Azure
3 101 (10.40%) AWS
4 61 (6.28%) Microsoft 365
5 45 (4.63%) GCP
6 35 (3.60%) SaaS
7 25 (2.57%) Entra ID
7 25 (2.57%) GitHub
7 25 (2.57%) Microsoft Purview
8 24 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
8 24 (2.47%) Dynamics 365
8 24 (2.47%) PowerApps
9 23 (2.37%) Amazon S3
10 20 (2.06%) Serverless
11 18 (1.85%) Boomi
11 18 (1.85%) Google Analytics
12 16 (1.65%) Snowflake
13 14 (1.44%) Power Automate
14 13 (1.34%) AWS Lambda
14 13 (1.34%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 42 (4.33%) Firewall
2 19 (1.96%) Wireless
3 16 (1.65%) VPN
4 13 (1.34%) Wi-Fi
5 12 (1.24%) WAN
6 10 (1.03%) DNS
7 9 (0.93%) Cisco Nexus
7 9 (0.93%) DHCP
7 9 (0.93%) LAN
7 9 (0.93%) Network Security
8 8 (0.82%) Cisco ASA
8 8 (0.82%) SNMP
8 8 (0.82%) Wireshark
9 7 (0.72%) Internet
10 6 (0.62%) IP Telephony
10 6 (0.62%) NGFW
10 6 (0.62%) VXLAN
11 5 (0.51%) SMS
11 5 (0.51%) TCP/IP
12 4 (0.41%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (11.33%) Power BI
2 86 (8.86%) Tableau
3 40 (4.12%) Data Warehouse
4 35 (3.60%) Data Mining
5 25 (2.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 20 (2.06%) Big Data
7 15 (1.54%) SQL Server
8 14 (1.44%) BigQuery
9 12 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (1.24%) Metadata
10 9 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (0.82%) DynamoDB
11 8 (0.82%) Looker
12 7 (0.72%) MySQL
12 7 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
13 6 (0.62%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.62%) MongoDB
13 6 (0.62%) Power Query
13 6 (0.62%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 35 (3.60%) JIRA
2 15 (1.54%) Git
3 10 (1.03%) GitLab
3 10 (1.03%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.51%) Cypress.io
5 4 (0.41%) Cucumber
5 4 (0.41%) Selenium
6 3 (0.31%) Maven
6 3 (0.31%) Postman
6 3 (0.31%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.21%) MLflow
7 2 (0.21%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.10%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.10%) JMeter
8 1 (0.10%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.10%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.10%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 424 (43.67%) Social Skills
2 298 (30.69%) Finance
3 93 (9.58%) Marketing
4 91 (9.37%) Law
5 90 (9.27%) Public Sector
6 55 (5.66%) Legal
7 47 (4.84%) Telecoms
8 46 (4.74%) Retail
9 45 (4.63%) Manufacturing
10 38 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 38 (3.91%) Organisational Skills
11 35 (3.60%) Influencing Skills
11 35 (3.60%) Military
12 31 (3.19%) Back Office
13 18 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
14 14 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
14 14 (1.44%) Local Government
15 13 (1.34%) Banking
16 12 (1.24%) Advertising
17 8 (0.82%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 277 (28.53%) Analyst
2 105 (10.81%) Data Analyst
3 94 (9.68%) Senior
4 89 (9.17%) Lead
5 59 (6.08%) Developer
6 58 (5.97%) Business Analyst
7 48 (4.94%) Systems Analyst
8 42 (4.33%) Architect
8 42 (4.33%) Data Manager
9 41 (4.22%) Systems Manager
10 36 (3.71%) Data Engineer
11 32 (3.30%) Trainee
11 32 (3.30%) Trainee Analyst
11 32 (3.30%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 30 (3.09%) Head of QA
12 30 (3.09%) HR Analyst
12 30 (3.09%) HR Data Analyst
12 30 (3.09%) HR Manager
13 24 (2.47%) IT Support
14 23 (2.37%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (2.68%) Middleware
1 26 (2.68%) REST
2 22 (2.27%) .NET
3 21 (2.16%) HTML
4 18 (1.85%) Node.js
4 18 (1.85%) XML
5 17 (1.75%) CSS
6 15 (1.54%) EDI
6 15 (1.54%) SOAP
7 13 (1.34%) JSON
8 12 (1.24%) React
9 9 (0.93%) AngularJS
10 8 (0.82%) Flutter
11 7 (0.72%) scikit-learn
12 6 (0.62%) Kafka
12 6 (0.62%) PySpark
12 6 (0.62%) Web Services
13 5 (0.51%) Pandas
13 5 (0.51%) SAP Fiori
14 4 (0.41%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 98 (10.09%) Analytical Mindset
2 48 (4.94%) Product Ownership
3 43 (4.43%) Management Information System
4 32 (3.30%) Onboarding
5 19 (1.96%) Cloud Native
5 19 (1.96%) Data Centre
6 16 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
7 14 (1.44%) Enterprise Cloud
8 12 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (1.13%) Driving Licence
10 10 (1.03%) Credit Risk
10 10 (1.03%) Virtual Team
11 9 (0.93%) Data Structures
11 9 (0.93%) Marketing Technology
11 9 (0.93%) Social Media
12 8 (0.82%) AI Agents
12 8 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
13 7 (0.72%) Algorithms
14 6 (0.62%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 53 (5.46%) Windows
2 34 (3.50%) Windows Server
3 13 (1.34%) Windows Server 2019
4 8 (0.82%) Apple iOS
4 8 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.51%) Linux
5 5 (0.51%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.31%) Android
7 1 (0.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 375 (38.62%) Problem-Solving
2 310 (31.93%) Continuous Improvement
3 266 (27.39%) Decision-Making
4 235 (24.20%) Analytics
5 224 (23.07%) Stakeholder Management
6 138 (14.21%) Agile
7 122 (12.56%) AI
8 108 (11.12%) Business Intelligence
9 107 (11.02%) Actionable Insight
9 107 (11.02%) Mentoring
10 101 (10.40%) CRM
10 101 (10.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 100 (10.30%) Data Analysis
12 96 (9.89%) Data Governance
12 96 (9.89%) Data Modelling
12 96 (9.89%) ERP
13 94 (9.68%) Project Management
14 90 (9.27%) Roadmaps
15 78 (8.03%) Root Cause Analysis
16 76 (7.83%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 214 (22.04%) SQL
2 165 (16.99%) Python
3 35 (3.60%) Java
4 34 (3.50%) JavaScript
5 33 (3.40%) C#
6 14 (1.44%) R
7 12 (1.24%) PowerShell
8 10 (1.03%) Scala
8 10 (1.03%) T-SQL
9 9 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 9 (0.93%) Go
10 8 (0.82%) Bash
11 7 (0.72%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.62%) C++
12 6 (0.62%) PHP
13 3 (0.31%) C
13 3 (0.31%) Groovy
13 3 (0.31%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.31%) SOQL
13 3 (0.31%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 112 (11.53%) Degree
2 78 (8.03%) DBS Check
3 48 (4.94%) Security Cleared
4 39 (4.02%) ACCA
5 35 (3.60%) CIMA
5 35 (3.60%) SC Cleared
6 30 (3.09%) IRCA
7 16 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
9 14 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (1.03%) CCNA
10 10 (1.03%) HNC
11 9 (0.93%) CCNP
12 8 (0.82%) Azure Certification
12 8 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
12 8 (0.82%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.51%) SAP Certification
14 4 (0.41%) CCIE
14 4 (0.41%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (15.65%) Data Quality
2 80 (8.24%) QA
3 78 (8.03%) GDPR
4 34 (3.50%) ISO 9001
5 28 (2.88%) Cyber Essentials
6 26 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 24 (2.47%) SLA
8 17 (1.75%) Accessibility
8 17 (1.75%) TickIT
9 16 (1.65%) Actionable Recommendations
10 15 (1.54%) NIST
11 14 (1.44%) PMO
12 8 (0.82%) GMP
13 6 (0.62%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.41%) GRC
15 4 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 14443
15 4 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 7816
15 4 (0.41%) SOC 2
16 2 (0.21%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 51 (5.25%) Active Directory
2 16 (1.65%) Docker
3 9 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.41%) 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 25 (2.57%) Terraform
2 12 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (0.82%) Ansible
4 7 (0.72%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.31%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.21%) Grafana
7 1 (0.10%) Autotask
Vendors
1 245 (25.23%) Microsoft
2 64 (6.59%) Workday
3 57 (5.87%) SAP
4 40 (4.12%) Salesforce
5 31 (3.19%) Google
6 17 (1.75%) iManage
7 16 (1.65%) Adobe
7 16 (1.65%) Databricks
8 15 (1.54%) Cisco
9 14 (1.44%) ServiceNow
10 13 (1.34%) Oracle
11 10 (1.03%) Aruba
12 9 (0.93%) Aderant
12 9 (0.93%) Intapp
13 8 (0.82%) CheckPoint
13 8 (0.82%) HubSpot
14 7 (0.72%) Arista
14 7 (0.72%) NetScout
14 7 (0.72%) Veeam
14 7 (0.72%) VMware