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 12 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 6 19
Rank change year-on-year -29 +13 -1
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 875 1,268 1,427
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 4.75% 16.73% 8.45%
As % of the General category 9.54% 22.44% 15.09%
Number of salaries quoted 646 401 1,023
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £46,066
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +8.54% +7.13%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,232
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 9,175 5,651 9,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 49.78% 74.56% 56.02%
Number of salaries quoted 5,103 2,703 7,289
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,480 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £33,188 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -8.97%
75th Percentile £65,640 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,750 £77,500
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 12 May 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 12 May 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 -30 499 £45,000 -10.00% 219
Yorkshire -11 288 £52,500 +16.67% 111
North East -22 88 £48,445 +27.49% 49
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 29 (3.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (3.20%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.26%) Apache Spark
4 7 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (0.80%) Confluence
5 4 (0.46%) WordPress
6 3 (0.34%) Apache
6 3 (0.34%) CMS
6 3 (0.34%) JBoss
7 2 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 139 (15.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (4.11%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (2.74%) MS Visio
4 10 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.91%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 31 (3.54%) Salesforce CRM
2 30 (3.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (1.71%) SAP PM
4 14 (1.60%) SAP ERP
5 8 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
6 7 (0.80%) Workday HCM
7 6 (0.69%) Magento
8 5 (0.57%) SAP PP
9 4 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
10 2 (0.23%) NetSuite
11 1 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
11 1 (0.11%) ResourceLink
11 1 (0.11%) SAP MDM
11 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 125 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 116 (13.26%) Azure
3 86 (9.83%) AWS
4 62 (7.09%) Microsoft 365
5 40 (4.57%) Entra ID
6 37 (4.23%) SaaS
7 34 (3.89%) Microsoft Purview
8 28 (3.20%) GCP
9 22 (2.51%) Dynamics 365
10 21 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
10 21 (2.40%) Power Automate
11 20 (2.29%) PowerApps
12 19 (2.17%) Boomi
12 19 (2.17%) GitHub
13 12 (1.37%) Google Analytics
13 12 (1.37%) OCI
13 12 (1.37%) Serverless
13 12 (1.37%) Snowflake
14 10 (1.14%) Amazon S3
14 10 (1.14%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 51 (5.83%) Firewall
2 16 (1.83%) Wireless
3 15 (1.71%) Network Security
3 15 (1.71%) VPN
3 15 (1.71%) Wi-Fi
4 13 (1.49%) Wireshark
5 12 (1.37%) NGFW
5 12 (1.37%) VXLAN
6 10 (1.14%) Cisco ASA
6 10 (1.14%) Cisco Nexus
6 10 (1.14%) WAN
7 9 (1.03%) LAN
7 9 (1.03%) VLAN
8 8 (0.91%) BGP
8 8 (0.91%) Cisco Wireless
8 8 (0.91%) EIGRP
8 8 (0.91%) OSPF
8 8 (0.91%) SNMP
8 8 (0.91%) WAAS
8 8 (0.91%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (12.23%) Power BI
2 106 (12.11%) Tableau
3 62 (7.09%) Data Mining
4 23 (2.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 21 (2.40%) SQL Server
6 13 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (1.49%) Metadata
7 10 (1.14%) DynamoDB
8 8 (0.91%) BigQuery
8 8 (0.91%) NoSQL
9 7 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (0.80%) Big Data
9 7 (0.80%) Looker
9 7 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (0.69%) Power Query
11 5 (0.57%) Hadoop
11 5 (0.57%) Relational Database
12 4 (0.46%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.34%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 31 (3.54%) JIRA
2 10 (1.14%) Git
3 8 (0.91%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.46%) Cucumber
4 4 (0.46%) Cypress.io
4 4 (0.46%) Selenium
5 3 (0.34%) GitLab
5 3 (0.34%) Maven
5 3 (0.34%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.23%) MLflow
6 2 (0.23%) Postman
7 1 (0.11%) JMeter
7 1 (0.11%) JUnit
7 1 (0.11%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.11%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.11%) TestRail
General
1 398 (45.49%) Social Skills
2 262 (29.94%) Finance
3 96 (10.97%) Marketing
4 73 (8.34%) Public Sector
5 54 (6.17%) Law
6 41 (4.69%) Retail
7 39 (4.46%) Manufacturing
8 36 (4.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 35 (4.00%) Legal
10 32 (3.66%) Telecoms
11 28 (3.20%) Organisational Skills
12 25 (2.86%) Military
13 22 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
14 21 (2.40%) Back Office
14 21 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
15 11 (1.26%) Advertising
15 11 (1.26%) Banking
15 11 (1.26%) Games
16 9 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
17 7 (0.80%) French Language
Job Titles
1 265 (30.29%) Analyst
2 120 (13.71%) Data Analyst
3 102 (11.66%) Senior
4 75 (8.57%) Lead
5 58 (6.63%) Trainee
5 58 (6.63%) Trainee Analyst
5 58 (6.63%) Trainee Data Analyst
6 52 (5.94%) Data Manager
7 48 (5.49%) Business Analyst
8 47 (5.37%) Systems Analyst
9 43 (4.91%) Architect
9 43 (4.91%) Systems Manager
10 38 (4.34%) CRM Executive
10 38 (4.34%) Developer
11 31 (3.54%) Salesforce Executive
12 30 (3.43%) Head of QA
12 30 (3.43%) HR Analyst
12 30 (3.43%) HR Data Analyst
12 30 (3.43%) HR Manager
13 23 (2.63%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (2.97%) Middleware
2 22 (2.51%) REST
3 17 (1.94%) .NET
3 17 (1.94%) XML
4 14 (1.60%) SOAP
5 13 (1.49%) EDI
5 13 (1.49%) React
6 12 (1.37%) JSON
7 10 (1.14%) HTML
7 10 (1.14%) Node.js
8 9 (1.03%) CSS
8 9 (1.03%) Flutter
9 8 (0.91%) SAP Fiori
10 5 (0.57%) AngularJS
10 5 (0.57%) scikit-learn
11 4 (0.46%) Pandas
11 4 (0.46%) SAP Core Interface
11 4 (0.46%) Spring Boot
12 3 (0.34%) Jest
12 3 (0.34%) MACH
Miscellaneous
1 91 (10.40%) Analytical Mindset
2 48 (5.49%) Management Information System
3 31 (3.54%) Product Ownership
4 26 (2.97%) Data Centre
4 26 (2.97%) Onboarding
5 23 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
6 16 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
8 12 (1.37%) PKI
8 12 (1.37%) Social Media
9 10 (1.14%) Cloud Native
9 10 (1.14%) Driving Licence
9 10 (1.14%) Virtual Team
10 9 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (0.91%) Data Structures
11 8 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (0.80%) Cyber Threat
12 7 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
12 7 (0.80%) Operational Technology
13 6 (0.69%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 45 (5.14%) Windows
2 22 (2.51%) Windows Server
3 9 (1.03%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.80%) Android
5 6 (0.69%) Linux
6 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 324 (37.03%) Problem-Solving
2 271 (30.97%) Continuous Improvement
3 228 (26.06%) Decision-Making
4 221 (25.26%) Stakeholder Management
5 216 (24.69%) Analytics
6 122 (13.94%) Project Management
7 108 (12.34%) Agile
8 104 (11.89%) AI
9 101 (11.54%) Actionable Insight
10 100 (11.43%) Data Analysis
11 99 (11.31%) Business Intelligence
12 96 (10.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 95 (10.86%) CRM
13 95 (10.86%) Data Governance
14 84 (9.60%) Business Analysis
14 84 (9.60%) Data Analytics
14 84 (9.60%) Mentoring
15 76 (8.69%) Root Cause Analysis
16 74 (8.46%) ERP
17 69 (7.89%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 176 (20.11%) SQL
2 146 (16.69%) Python
3 26 (2.97%) C#
4 25 (2.86%) Java
5 20 (2.29%) JavaScript
6 15 (1.71%) T-SQL
7 9 (1.03%) Go
7 9 (1.03%) PowerShell
8 8 (0.91%) R
9 7 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (0.69%) Scala
11 4 (0.46%) C++
12 3 (0.34%) Bash
12 3 (0.34%) Bicep
12 3 (0.34%) C
12 3 (0.34%) Groovy
12 3 (0.34%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.34%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.34%) VBA
13 2 (0.23%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 113 (12.91%) Degree
2 73 (8.34%) DBS Check
3 30 (3.43%) IRCA
4 27 (3.09%) ACCA
5 24 (2.74%) CIMA
6 19 (2.17%) Security Cleared
7 18 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (1.60%) Master's Degree
9 13 (1.49%) PMI Certification
10 12 (1.37%) PMP
10 12 (1.37%) SC Cleared
11 10 (1.14%) CCNP
11 10 (1.14%) HNC
11 10 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (1.03%) PhD
13 8 (0.91%) CCIE
14 7 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
15 6 (0.69%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 82 (9.37%) GDPR
3 67 (7.66%) QA
4 35 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
4 35 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 32 (3.66%) ISO 9001
6 27 (3.09%) NIST
7 20 (2.29%) PMO
8 17 (1.94%) TickIT
9 16 (1.83%) Actionable Recommendations
9 16 (1.83%) SLA
10 12 (1.37%) GMP
11 10 (1.14%) Accessibility
12 9 (1.03%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.57%) GRC
13 5 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.57%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.34%) GAAP
14 3 (0.34%) IFRS
System Software
1 42 (4.80%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
3 8 (0.91%) ProxySG
4 7 (0.80%) Docker
5 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.23%) Firmware
7 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (3.20%) Terraform
2 19 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (1.49%) Ansible
4 8 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.80%) Kubernetes
6 3 (0.34%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.11%) Autotask
7 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 245 (28.00%) Microsoft
2 62 (7.09%) Workday
3 58 (6.63%) Salesforce
4 49 (5.60%) SAP
5 22 (2.51%) Google
6 20 (2.29%) ServiceNow
7 14 (1.60%) Aruba
8 12 (1.37%) Arista
8 12 (1.37%) iManage
8 12 (1.37%) NetScout
8 12 (1.37%) Oracle
9 11 (1.26%) Databricks
10 10 (1.14%) Anaplan
10 10 (1.14%) Cisco
11 9 (1.03%) Aderant
11 9 (1.03%) Genesys
11 9 (1.03%) IFS
11 9 (1.03%) Intapp
11 9 (1.03%) Splunk
11 9 (1.03%) Verint