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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 6 21
Rank change year-on-year -18 +15 +1
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 958 1,528 1,492
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 4.74% 18.10% 7.49%
As % of the General category 10.85% 24.42% 14.08%
Number of salaries quoted 748 367 1,048
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,755 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £47,500 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% +3.26% +2.22%
75th Percentile £61,938 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £71,625
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 8,828 6,258 10,600
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 43.69% 74.12% 53.24%
Number of salaries quoted 5,815 2,691 7,650
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -7.90%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £75,772
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 23 June 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 23 June 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 -17 560 £46,500 -7.00% 166
Yorkshire -12 297 £50,000 +11.11% 102
North East -27 101 £55,000 +41.75% 47
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 (3.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (3.03%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.67%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.15%) Apache
4 11 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (0.84%) Confluence
6 5 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 5 (0.52%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.42%) WordPress
8 3 (0.31%) CMS
8 3 (0.31%) JBoss
9 1 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.10%) Umbraco
Applications
1 139 (14.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (5.01%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (2.71%) MS Visio
4 15 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.10%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.10%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 29 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (2.82%) Salesforce CRM
3 15 (1.57%) SAP PM
4 14 (1.46%) SAP ERP
5 9 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
6 7 (0.73%) Workday HCM
7 6 (0.63%) Magento
8 5 (0.52%) SAP PP
9 4 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.31%) SAP QM
11 2 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
12 1 (0.10%) Dynamics GP
12 1 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
12 1 (0.10%) SAP ECC
12 1 (0.10%) SAP MDM
12 1 (0.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 128 (13.36%) Azure
1 128 (13.36%) Power Platform
2 105 (10.96%) AWS
3 58 (6.05%) Microsoft 365
4 38 (3.97%) GCP
5 33 (3.44%) Entra ID
6 32 (3.34%) SaaS
7 31 (3.24%) Microsoft Purview
8 24 (2.51%) Dynamics 365
9 23 (2.40%) GitHub
10 21 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
11 20 (2.09%) PowerApps
12 19 (1.98%) Amazon S3
12 19 (1.98%) Boomi
13 17 (1.77%) Google Analytics
13 17 (1.77%) Serverless
14 16 (1.67%) Power Automate
15 12 (1.25%) Azure Data Factory
15 12 (1.25%) OCI
16 10 (1.04%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 58 (6.05%) Firewall
2 19 (1.98%) Wi-Fi
2 19 (1.98%) Wireless
3 15 (1.57%) VPN
4 14 (1.46%) Wireshark
5 13 (1.36%) WAN
6 12 (1.25%) NGFW
6 12 (1.25%) VXLAN
7 11 (1.15%) Cisco Nexus
8 10 (1.04%) Cisco ASA
8 10 (1.04%) LAN
8 10 (1.04%) Network Security
8 10 (1.04%) SNMP
9 9 (0.94%) DNS
10 8 (0.84%) DHCP
11 6 (0.63%) IP Telephony
11 6 (0.63%) OSPF
11 6 (0.63%) VLAN
11 6 (0.63%) WAAS
11 6 (0.63%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (11.38%) Power BI
2 87 (9.08%) Tableau
3 40 (4.18%) Data Mining
4 34 (3.55%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (2.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 20 (2.09%) Big Data
7 18 (1.88%) Metadata
8 15 (1.57%) DynamoDB
9 14 (1.46%) SQL Server
10 11 (1.15%) BigQuery
10 11 (1.15%) NoSQL
11 9 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (0.84%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (0.73%) Data Lake
13 7 (0.73%) Looker
13 7 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
14 6 (0.63%) MySQL
14 6 (0.63%) Power Query
14 6 (0.63%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 34 (3.55%) JIRA
2 14 (1.46%) Git
3 10 (1.04%) GitLab
4 7 (0.73%) 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)
General
1 423 (44.15%) Social Skills
2 278 (29.02%) Finance
3 104 (10.86%) Marketing
4 96 (10.02%) Public Sector
5 79 (8.25%) Law
6 50 (5.22%) Legal
7 45 (4.70%) Retail
8 43 (4.49%) Manufacturing
8 43 (4.49%) Telecoms
9 37 (3.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 33 (3.44%) Influencing Skills
11 32 (3.34%) Organisational Skills
12 30 (3.13%) Military
13 26 (2.71%) Back Office
14 19 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
15 14 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
16 13 (1.36%) Banking
17 12 (1.25%) Advertising
18 10 (1.04%) Local Government
19 8 (0.84%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 274 (28.60%) Analyst
2 108 (11.27%) Data Analyst
3 99 (10.33%) Senior
4 92 (9.60%) Lead
5 56 (5.85%) Business Analyst
6 54 (5.64%) Developer
7 49 (5.11%) Systems Analyst
8 48 (5.01%) Data Manager
9 45 (4.70%) Architect
10 43 (4.49%) Systems Manager
11 37 (3.86%) Trainee
11 37 (3.86%) Trainee Analyst
11 37 (3.86%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 35 (3.65%) Data Engineer
13 32 (3.34%) CRM Executive
14 30 (3.13%) Head of QA
14 30 (3.13%) HR Analyst
14 30 (3.13%) HR Data Analyst
14 30 (3.13%) HR Manager
15 27 (2.82%) Salesforce Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (2.82%) Middleware
2 26 (2.71%) REST
3 20 (2.09%) .NET
4 19 (1.98%) HTML
5 17 (1.77%) XML
6 16 (1.67%) CSS
6 16 (1.67%) Node.js
7 15 (1.57%) SOAP
8 13 (1.36%) EDI
8 13 (1.36%) JSON
9 12 (1.25%) React
10 9 (0.94%) AngularJS
11 8 (0.84%) Flutter
12 7 (0.73%) scikit-learn
13 6 (0.63%) PySpark
13 6 (0.63%) SAP Fiori
14 5 (0.52%) Pandas
14 5 (0.52%) Web Services
15 4 (0.42%) Entity Framework
15 4 (0.42%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 93 (9.71%) Analytical Mindset
2 46 (4.80%) Product Ownership
3 44 (4.59%) Management Information System
4 35 (3.65%) Onboarding
5 27 (2.82%) Data Centre
6 23 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
7 15 (1.57%) Cloud Native
7 15 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (1.36%) Data Structures
8 13 (1.36%) Driving Licence
8 13 (1.36%) Enterprise Cloud
9 12 (1.25%) PKI
10 10 (1.04%) Credit Risk
10 10 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (1.04%) Social Media
10 10 (1.04%) Virtual Team
11 7 (0.73%) Algorithms
11 7 (0.73%) Marketing Technology
12 6 (0.63%) e-Learning
12 6 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 52 (5.43%) Windows
2 34 (3.55%) Windows Server
3 13 (1.36%) Windows Server 2019
4 9 (0.94%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (0.52%) Android
7 4 (0.42%) Linux
7 4 (0.42%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 363 (37.89%) Problem-Solving
2 303 (31.63%) Continuous Improvement
3 267 (27.87%) Decision-Making
4 239 (24.95%) Analytics
5 223 (23.28%) Stakeholder Management
6 131 (13.67%) Agile
7 111 (11.59%) AI
8 108 (11.27%) CRM
8 108 (11.27%) Mentoring
9 107 (11.17%) Actionable Insight
10 106 (11.06%) Data Governance
11 103 (10.75%) Business Intelligence
12 102 (10.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 100 (10.44%) Data Analysis
14 95 (9.92%) Data Modelling
15 93 (9.71%) Project Management
16 90 (9.39%) ERP
17 81 (8.46%) Roadmaps
18 75 (7.83%) Root Cause Analysis
19 71 (7.41%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 204 (21.29%) SQL
2 162 (16.91%) Python
3 32 (3.34%) C#
3 32 (3.34%) Java
4 29 (3.03%) JavaScript
5 13 (1.36%) R
6 11 (1.15%) PowerShell
7 10 (1.04%) T-SQL
8 9 (0.94%) Scala
9 8 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (0.73%) Go
10 7 (0.73%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.63%) Bash
11 6 (0.63%) C++
12 5 (0.52%) PHP
13 3 (0.31%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.31%) C
13 3 (0.31%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.31%) SOQL
13 3 (0.31%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 108 (11.27%) Degree
2 78 (8.14%) DBS Check
3 42 (4.38%) Security Cleared
4 39 (4.07%) ACCA
5 35 (3.65%) CIMA
6 31 (3.24%) SC Cleared
7 30 (3.13%) IRCA
8 19 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (1.04%) CCNP
11 10 (1.04%) HNC
12 9 (0.94%) CCNA
13 8 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
14 7 (0.73%) Azure Certification
15 6 (0.63%) AWS Certification
15 6 (0.63%) CCIE
15 6 (0.63%) Master's Degree
16 5 (0.52%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (17.01%) Data Quality
2 85 (8.87%) GDPR
3 74 (7.72%) QA
4 39 (4.07%) Cyber Essentials
5 36 (3.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 34 (3.55%) ISO 9001
7 24 (2.51%) NIST
7 24 (2.51%) SLA
8 19 (1.98%) Actionable Recommendations
9 17 (1.77%) TickIT
10 16 (1.67%) Accessibility
11 15 (1.57%) PMO
12 8 (0.84%) GMP
13 6 (0.63%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.42%) GRC
15 4 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 14443
15 4 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 7816
15 4 (0.42%) SOC 2
16 3 (0.31%) IFRS
System Software
1 47 (4.91%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.36%) Docker
3 9 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.63%) ProxySG
5 3 (0.31%) DFS Replication
5 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.21%) vSphere
7 1 (0.10%) Firmware
7 1 (0.10%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 27 (2.82%) Terraform
2 13 (1.36%) Ansible
3 12 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.42%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.31%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.10%) Autotask
6 1 (0.10%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 240 (25.05%) Microsoft
2 62 (6.47%) Workday
3 54 (5.64%) Salesforce
3 54 (5.64%) SAP
4 30 (3.13%) Google
5 17 (1.77%) iManage
6 16 (1.67%) Aruba
6 16 (1.67%) Cisco
7 15 (1.57%) Databricks
8 14 (1.46%) Adobe
9 13 (1.36%) Arista
9 13 (1.36%) NetScout
9 13 (1.36%) Oracle
10 12 (1.25%) ServiceNow
11 10 (1.04%) CheckPoint
12 9 (0.94%) Aderant
12 9 (0.94%) Intapp
12 9 (0.94%) SolarWinds
13 8 (0.84%) HubSpot
13 8 (0.84%) IFS