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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 11 19
Rank change year-on-year -18 +8 -1
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 841 817 1,233
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 5.94% 11.87% 8.48%
As % of the General category 10.46% 16.40% 14.49%
Number of salaries quoted 490 402 907
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,288 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +6.45%
75th Percentile £57,435 £68,438 £61,123
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £71,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,250
% change year-on-year -4.55% +9.45% -8.64%

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 8,039 4,983 8,508
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 56.82% 72.39% 58.51%
Number of salaries quoted 4,101 2,544 6,690
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,055 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.10% +5.38% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,500 £85,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +10.09% -12.22%

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 March 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 March 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 -17 433 £42,500 -19.05% 236
Yorkshire +3 294 £47,722 +6.05% 131
North East -3 114 £43,000 +8.91% 41
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 19 (2.26%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.31%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.19%) Confluence
5 6 (0.71%) Apache
6 5 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.48%) WordPress
8 3 (0.36%) CMS
9 2 (0.24%) JBoss
9 2 (0.24%) SAS
10 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 166 (19.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 136 (16.17%) Chatbot
3 21 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (1.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (1.55%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.59%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.24%) Revit
8 1 (0.12%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 23 (2.73%) Salesforce CRM
2 13 (1.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (1.19%) SAP PM
4 7 (0.83%) SAP ERP
4 7 (0.83%) Workday HCM
5 6 (0.71%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.36%) ResourceLink
7 2 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.12%) Magento
8 1 (0.12%) SAP PP
8 1 (0.12%) Shopify
8 1 (0.12%) Siebel CRM
8 1 (0.12%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 91 (10.82%) Power Platform
2 82 (9.75%) Azure
3 64 (7.61%) AWS
4 36 (4.28%) Entra ID
5 33 (3.92%) SaaS
6 30 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
7 29 (3.45%) Microsoft Purview
8 15 (1.78%) GCP
8 15 (1.78%) OCI
9 14 (1.66%) Power Automate
10 13 (1.55%) Azure Data Factory
10 13 (1.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 12 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (1.31%) PowerApps
13 10 (1.19%) OneDrive
14 9 (1.07%) Serverless
15 8 (0.95%) Adobe Analytics
15 8 (0.95%) Azure Monitor
15 8 (0.95%) dbt
15 8 (0.95%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 52 (6.18%) Firewall
2 17 (2.02%) Network Security
3 16 (1.90%) Wi-Fi
4 13 (1.55%) Wireshark
5 12 (1.43%) NGFW
5 12 (1.43%) VXLAN
5 12 (1.43%) WAN
6 11 (1.31%) LAN
7 9 (1.07%) VPN
8 8 (0.95%) VLAN
9 7 (0.83%) BGP
9 7 (0.83%) Cisco ASA
9 7 (0.83%) Cisco Nexus
9 7 (0.83%) Cisco Wireless
9 7 (0.83%) EIGRP
9 7 (0.83%) OSPF
9 7 (0.83%) SNMP
9 7 (0.83%) WAAS
9 7 (0.83%) Wireless
9 7 (0.83%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (14.27%) Tableau
2 87 (10.34%) Data Mining
3 82 (9.75%) Power BI
4 34 (4.04%) SQL Server
5 16 (1.90%) Metadata
6 13 (1.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 12 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (1.07%) DynamoDB
9 7 (0.83%) Data Lake
9 7 (0.83%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.59%) GIS
10 5 (0.59%) Power Query
11 4 (0.48%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.48%) Geospatial Data
11 4 (0.48%) Looker
11 4 (0.48%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.36%) Hadoop
12 3 (0.36%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 14 (1.66%) JIRA
2 6 (0.71%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.48%) Git
4 3 (0.36%) GitLab
5 2 (0.24%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.24%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.24%) Maven
5 2 (0.24%) Selenium
5 2 (0.24%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.12%) JUnit
6 1 (0.12%) MLflow
6 1 (0.12%) TestRail
General
1 354 (42.09%) Social Skills
2 261 (31.03%) Finance
3 64 (7.61%) Marketing
4 52 (6.18%) Public Sector
5 46 (5.47%) Organisational Skills
6 45 (5.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 39 (4.64%) Presentation Skills
8 34 (4.04%) Legal
9 29 (3.45%) Law
10 28 (3.33%) Telecoms
11 23 (2.73%) Manufacturing
12 21 (2.50%) Retail
13 16 (1.90%) Banking
14 15 (1.78%) Advertising
15 13 (1.55%) Games
16 12 (1.43%) Military
17 11 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
18 10 (1.19%) Back Office
19 8 (0.95%) Electronics
20 7 (0.83%) French Language
Job Titles
1 225 (26.75%) Analyst
2 136 (16.17%) Trainer
3 119 (14.15%) Data Analyst
4 90 (10.70%) Senior
5 84 (9.99%) Trainee
5 84 (9.99%) Trainee Analyst
5 84 (9.99%) Trainee Data Analyst
6 52 (6.18%) Lead
7 32 (3.80%) Architect
7 32 (3.80%) Data Manager
8 30 (3.57%) CRM Executive
9 27 (3.21%) Systems Analyst
10 23 (2.73%) IT Support
10 23 (2.73%) Salesforce Executive
10 23 (2.73%) Support Engineer
11 22 (2.62%) Business Analyst
11 22 (2.62%) Systems Manager
12 20 (2.38%) Consultant
12 20 (2.38%) Head of QA
12 20 (2.38%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.55%) React
2 11 (1.31%) CSS
2 11 (1.31%) HTML
3 10 (1.19%) .NET
4 7 (0.83%) Flutter
5 6 (0.71%) Node.js
5 6 (0.71%) XML
6 4 (0.48%) JSON
6 4 (0.48%) SAP Fiori
7 3 (0.36%) FreeSWITCH
7 3 (0.36%) MACH
7 3 (0.36%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (0.36%) Pandas
7 3 (0.36%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.24%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.24%) Django
8 2 (0.24%) Drools
8 2 (0.24%) Gherkin
8 2 (0.24%) Jest
8 2 (0.24%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 83 (9.87%) Analytical Mindset
2 51 (6.06%) Management Information System
3 35 (4.16%) Self-Motivation
4 23 (2.73%) Data Centre
5 22 (2.62%) Data Protection Act
6 19 (2.26%) Onboarding
6 19 (2.26%) Social Media
7 17 (2.02%) Driving Licence
8 14 (1.66%) Product Ownership
9 13 (1.55%) Data Structures
10 12 (1.43%) PKI
10 12 (1.43%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.19%) Cloud Native
12 9 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (0.95%) Algorithms
14 6 (0.71%) Operational Technology
15 5 (0.59%) Credit Risk
15 5 (0.59%) Legacy Systems
15 5 (0.59%) Mobile App
15 5 (0.59%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 34 (4.04%) Windows
2 9 (1.07%) Android
2 9 (1.07%) Windows Server
3 6 (0.71%) Linux
4 4 (0.48%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (34.13%) Problem-Solving
2 213 (25.33%) AI
3 209 (24.85%) Continuous Improvement
4 198 (23.54%) Decision-Making
5 192 (22.83%) Analytics
6 157 (18.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 152 (18.07%) Project Management
8 138 (16.41%) Chemistry
9 136 (16.17%) Conversational UI
10 132 (15.70%) Data Analysis
11 113 (13.44%) Business Analysis
12 105 (12.49%) Data Analytics
13 100 (11.89%) Agile
14 95 (11.30%) Business Intelligence
15 81 (9.63%) Actionable Insight
16 75 (8.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 68 (8.09%) Change Management
18 61 (7.25%) CRM
19 59 (7.02%) Coaching
20 56 (6.66%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 169 (20.10%) SQL
2 151 (17.95%) Python
3 17 (2.02%) JavaScript
4 15 (1.78%) Java
5 14 (1.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 13 (1.55%) C#
6 13 (1.55%) T-SQL
7 9 (1.07%) R
8 7 (0.83%) Go
9 6 (0.71%) PowerShell
10 5 (0.59%) Bash
11 4 (0.48%) VBA
12 2 (0.24%) Bicep
12 2 (0.24%) Groovy
12 2 (0.24%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.24%) Scala
12 2 (0.24%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.12%) ABAP
13 1 (0.12%) C
13 1 (0.12%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 260 (30.92%) Degree
2 151 (17.95%) Master's Degree
3 137 (16.29%) PhD
4 45 (5.35%) DBS Check
5 23 (2.73%) ACCA
5 23 (2.73%) CIMA
6 20 (2.38%) IRCA
7 16 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (1.55%) PMI Certification
9 12 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.43%) PMP
10 10 (1.19%) CCNP
10 10 (1.19%) HNC
11 7 (0.83%) CCIE
11 7 (0.83%) Security Cleared
12 6 (0.71%) CIPD
13 5 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 5 (0.59%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (7.61%) Data Quality
2 63 (7.49%) GDPR
3 41 (4.88%) QA
4 37 (4.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 34 (4.04%) Cyber Essentials
6 32 (3.80%) NIST
7 21 (2.50%) PMO
8 20 (2.38%) ISO 9001
9 16 (1.90%) Actionable Recommendations
10 12 (1.43%) GMP
11 11 (1.31%) Accessibility
12 5 (0.59%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.48%) GAAP
13 4 (0.48%) IFRS
14 3 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 3 (0.36%) GLBA
14 3 (0.36%) SLA
15 2 (0.24%) GRC
15 2 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (2.50%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.95%) Docker
3 7 (0.83%) ProxySG
4 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.24%) Firmware
6 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (3.45%) Terraform
2 12 (1.43%) Ansible
3 11 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.83%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.24%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.12%) Autotask
7 1 (0.12%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.12%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 207 (24.61%) Microsoft
2 136 (16.17%) PayPal
3 42 (4.99%) Salesforce
4 31 (3.69%) SAP
5 27 (3.21%) Workday
6 18 (2.14%) ServiceNow
7 15 (1.78%) Google
7 15 (1.78%) Oracle
8 12 (1.43%) Arista
8 12 (1.43%) Aruba
8 12 (1.43%) NetScout
9 11 (1.31%) Anaplan
9 11 (1.31%) Cisco
10 10 (1.19%) Adobe
10 10 (1.19%) Genesys
11 9 (1.07%) HubSpot
11 9 (1.07%) Splunk
11 9 (1.07%) Verint
12 8 (0.95%) New Relic
13 7 (0.83%) F5