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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 6 18
Rank change year-on-year -19 +12 +12
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,041 1,494 1,119
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 4.64% 15.61% 7.37%
As % of the General category 11.29% 23.39% 13.52%
Number of salaries quoted 767 360 696
10th Percentile £31,012 £25,975 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,688 £36,900
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,764 £78,750
England median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%

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 9,220 6,388 8,275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 41.06% 66.73% 54.49%
Number of salaries quoted 6,140 2,860 4,826
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,313 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £31,250 £35,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -9.09% -5.71%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £63,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

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 August 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 August 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 -16 641 £46,500 +3.33% 295
Yorkshire -12 281 £47,000 +17.50% 195
North East -17 119 £55,000 +34.15% 69
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 48 (4.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 46 (4.42%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.73%) Confluence
4 14 (1.34%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.06%) Apache
5 11 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.86%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.29%) CMS
8 3 (0.29%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.19%) WordPress
10 1 (0.096%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.096%) IIS
10 1 (0.096%) JBoss
10 1 (0.096%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.096%) SAS
10 1 (0.096%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.096%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.096%) WebSphere
Applications
1 128 (12.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (6.44%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (3.07%) MS Visio
4 21 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.19%) LaTeX
8 1 (0.096%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.096%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 29 (2.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.83%) SAP PM
3 13 (1.25%) Salesforce CRM
3 13 (1.25%) SAP ERP
4 12 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.48%) Magento
5 5 (0.48%) SAP PP
6 4 (0.38%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.29%) SAP QM
8 2 (0.19%) Sage 200
9 1 (0.096%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.096%) Odoo
9 1 (0.096%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.096%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.096%) SAP CRM
9 1 (0.096%) SAP ECC
9 1 (0.096%) SAP MDM
9 1 (0.096%) SAP SD
9 1 (0.096%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 144 (13.83%) Azure
2 140 (13.45%) Power Platform
3 118 (11.34%) AWS
4 76 (7.30%) Microsoft 365
5 58 (5.57%) GCP
6 40 (3.84%) SaaS
7 36 (3.46%) Amazon S3
8 29 (2.79%) Serverless
9 28 (2.69%) PowerApps
10 27 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
11 26 (2.50%) Entra ID
12 25 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
12 25 (2.40%) GitHub
13 24 (2.31%) Google Analytics
14 23 (2.21%) AWS Lambda
15 20 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 20 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
16 19 (1.83%) Snowflake
17 18 (1.73%) Microsoft Purview
17 18 (1.73%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.40%) DNS
2 24 (2.31%) DHCP
3 22 (2.11%) Firewall
4 20 (1.92%) VPN
4 20 (1.92%) Wireless
5 14 (1.34%) TCP/IP
5 14 (1.34%) WAN
6 11 (1.06%) Internet
6 11 (1.06%) LAN
7 7 (0.67%) Cisco Nexus
7 7 (0.67%) Network Security
8 6 (0.58%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (0.58%) IP Telephony
8 6 (0.58%) SNMP
8 6 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (0.48%) HTTP
9 5 (0.48%) SMS
9 5 (0.48%) VLAN
10 4 (0.38%) ATM
10 4 (0.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (10.76%) Power BI
2 61 (5.86%) Tableau
3 45 (4.32%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (2.40%) BigQuery
4 25 (2.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 21 (2.02%) Big Data
5 21 (2.02%) SQL Server
6 19 (1.83%) Metadata
7 17 (1.63%) Looker
8 16 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
9 15 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (0.86%) Amazon Athena
11 9 (0.86%) Data Mining
11 9 (0.86%) MySQL
11 9 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (0.77%) MongoDB
12 8 (0.77%) Power Query
12 8 (0.77%) Relational Database
13 7 (0.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 55 (5.28%) JIRA
2 32 (3.07%) Git
3 9 (0.86%) GitLab
4 8 (0.77%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.29%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.29%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.29%) Postman
5 3 (0.29%) Selenium
5 3 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.19%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.19%) RStudio
6 2 (0.19%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.096%) JMeter
7 1 (0.096%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.096%) Maven
7 1 (0.096%) MLflow
7 1 (0.096%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.096%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.096%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.096%) Visual Studio
General
1 457 (43.90%) Social Skills
2 285 (27.38%) Finance
3 104 (9.99%) Law
4 91 (8.74%) Marketing
5 83 (7.97%) Public Sector
6 64 (6.15%) Legal
7 59 (5.67%) Organisational Skills
8 54 (5.19%) Retail
9 52 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
10 51 (4.90%) Manufacturing
11 49 (4.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 47 (4.51%) Telecoms
13 37 (3.55%) Military
14 34 (3.27%) Back Office
15 22 (2.11%) Banking
16 16 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
16 16 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
17 14 (1.34%) Games
17 14 (1.34%) Local Government
18 10 (0.96%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 304 (29.20%) Analyst
2 109 (10.47%) Senior
3 84 (8.07%) Data Analyst
4 75 (7.20%) Lead
5 73 (7.01%) Business Analyst
6 60 (5.76%) Developer
7 46 (4.42%) Architect
8 45 (4.32%) Systems Analyst
9 39 (3.75%) Data Engineer
10 34 (3.27%) Data Manager
11 33 (3.17%) Systems Manager
12 32 (3.07%) Senior Analyst
13 28 (2.69%) IT Support
14 26 (2.50%) Senior Manager
15 25 (2.40%) Head of QA
16 24 (2.31%) HR Analyst
16 24 (2.31%) HR Data Analyst
16 24 (2.31%) HR Manager
16 24 (2.31%) Support Engineer
16 24 (2.31%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (2.88%) REST
2 27 (2.59%) Middleware
3 26 (2.50%) Terraform
4 23 (2.21%) .NET
4 23 (2.21%) HTML
5 19 (1.83%) CSS
5 19 (1.83%) EDI
6 18 (1.73%) Node.js
7 17 (1.63%) SOAP
7 17 (1.63%) XML
8 14 (1.34%) JSON
9 8 (0.77%) React
10 7 (0.67%) AngularJS
10 7 (0.67%) Flutter
10 7 (0.67%) PySpark
10 7 (0.67%) Web Services
11 6 (0.58%) ASP.NET
11 6 (0.58%) Kafka
11 6 (0.58%) Pandas
11 6 (0.58%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 94 (9.03%) Analytical Mindset
2 47 (4.51%) Product Ownership
3 42 (4.03%) Onboarding
4 39 (3.75%) Management Information System
5 20 (1.92%) Driving Licence
6 19 (1.83%) Cloud Native
6 19 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
7 17 (1.63%) Social Media
8 15 (1.44%) Data Structures
9 14 (1.34%) Data Centre
9 14 (1.34%) Enterprise Cloud
10 13 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
11 12 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
12 11 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
13 10 (0.96%) Marketing Technology
13 10 (0.96%) Virtual Team
14 9 (0.86%) Credit Risk
14 9 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
15 8 (0.77%) Algorithms
15 8 (0.77%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 71 (6.82%) Windows
2 43 (4.13%) Windows Server
3 17 (1.63%) Linux
3 17 (1.63%) Windows Server 2019
4 12 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (0.67%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.58%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.48%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.29%) CentOS
8 3 (0.29%) CoreOS
8 3 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.19%) Unix
10 1 (0.096%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 436 (41.88%) Problem-Solving
2 337 (32.37%) Continuous Improvement
3 269 (25.84%) Decision-Making
4 230 (22.09%) Stakeholder Management
5 221 (21.23%) Analytics
6 173 (16.62%) Agile
7 149 (14.31%) AI
8 116 (11.14%) Business Intelligence
9 110 (10.57%) ERP
10 107 (10.28%) Actionable Insight
10 107 (10.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 103 (9.89%) Data Governance
11 103 (9.89%) Data Modelling
11 103 (9.89%) Validation
12 102 (9.80%) Mentoring
13 100 (9.61%) CRM
14 95 (9.13%) Roadmaps
15 92 (8.84%) Data-Driven Decision Making
16 82 (7.88%) Data Analysis
17 80 (7.68%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 206 (19.79%) SQL
2 159 (15.27%) Python
3 38 (3.65%) JavaScript
4 34 (3.27%) Java
5 32 (3.07%) C#
6 23 (2.21%) PowerShell
7 20 (1.92%) Bash
8 13 (1.25%) R
9 11 (1.06%) Scala
10 9 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 8 (0.77%) C++
12 7 (0.67%) PHP
12 7 (0.67%) T-SQL
12 7 (0.67%) TypeScript
13 6 (0.58%) C
13 6 (0.58%) Go
14 4 (0.38%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.29%) COBOL
15 3 (0.29%) SOQL
15 3 (0.29%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 115 (11.05%) Degree
2 72 (6.92%) Security Cleared
3 66 (6.34%) DBS Check
4 49 (4.71%) SC Cleared
5 34 (3.27%) ACCA
6 30 (2.88%) CIMA
7 26 (2.50%) IRCA
8 21 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
9 16 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
10 14 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
11 12 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
11 12 (1.15%) HNC
12 10 (0.96%) CCNA
13 9 (0.86%) DV Cleared
14 8 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
14 8 (0.77%) Master's Degree
14 8 (0.77%) PMI Certification
15 7 (0.67%) Azure Certification
15 7 (0.67%) CCNP
16 6 (0.58%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (15.75%) Data Quality
2 92 (8.84%) QA
3 69 (6.63%) GDPR
4 30 (2.88%) ISO 9001
5 24 (2.31%) SLA
6 18 (1.73%) Accessibility
7 17 (1.63%) TickIT
8 15 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
9 13 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 12 (1.15%) PMO
11 9 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (0.67%) GMP
13 5 (0.48%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.38%) GRC
14 4 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 14443
14 4 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 7816
14 4 (0.38%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.29%) ISO 19650
15 3 (0.29%) NIST
System Software
1 65 (6.24%) Active Directory
2 32 (3.07%) Docker
3 9 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.29%) Ceph
5 3 (0.29%) DFS Replication
5 3 (0.29%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.19%) Firmware
6 2 (0.19%) ProxySG
6 2 (0.19%) vSphere
7 1 (0.096%) NFS
7 1 (0.096%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 17 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (0.96%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.48%) Ansible
4 3 (0.29%) Argo
4 3 (0.29%) Check_MK
4 3 (0.29%) Grafana
4 3 (0.29%) Istio
4 3 (0.29%) McAfee ePO
4 3 (0.29%) Podman
4 3 (0.29%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.29%) SCVMM
5 2 (0.19%) Nessus
5 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.096%) Autotask
6 1 (0.096%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.096%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.096%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 241 (23.15%) Microsoft
2 60 (5.76%) SAP
3 55 (5.28%) Workday
4 47 (4.51%) Google
5 31 (2.98%) Salesforce
6 16 (1.54%) Cisco
6 16 (1.54%) Databricks
6 16 (1.54%) iManage
6 16 (1.54%) Oracle
7 15 (1.44%) ServiceNow
8 14 (1.34%) Adobe
8 14 (1.34%) VMware
9 12 (1.15%) YouTube
10 8 (0.77%) Aderant
10 8 (0.77%) HP
10 8 (0.77%) Intapp
11 7 (0.67%) Red Hat
11 7 (0.67%) Veeam
12 6 (0.58%) Sage
12 6 (0.58%) SolarWinds