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 2 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 15 16
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 +12
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 824 1,004 678
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 8.81% 8.78% 9.49%
As % of the General category 14.62% 14.20% 14.58%
Number of salaries quoted 373 458 507
10th Percentile £29,250 £31,250 £26,990
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £38,689
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,250 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% -0.49% +10.75%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £67,070
90th Percentile £74,750 £77,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £50,987 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.30% -4.35% +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 common skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 5,637 7,068 4,649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 60.24% 61.83% 65.06%
Number of salaries quoted 2,973 2,929 3,538
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £69,136
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £84,056
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 2 December 2025.

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 2 December 2025. 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 -10 411 £45,000 -14.29% 416
Yorkshire +2 298 £40,500 -22.86% 313
North East +15 115 £42,000 +5.00% 71
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 23 (2.79%) SharePoint
2 19 (2.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (1.46%) Confluence
4 9 (1.09%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.85%) Apache
6 4 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.49%) Camunda
6 4 (0.49%) CMS
7 2 (0.24%) FactoryTalk
7 2 (0.24%) HCL Notes
7 2 (0.24%) IIS
7 2 (0.24%) nginx
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.24%) SAS
7 2 (0.24%) WinCC
8 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 235 (28.52%) Chatbot
2 140 (16.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 44 (5.34%) Microsoft Office
4 27 (3.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (1.46%) Microsoft Project
6 11 (1.33%) AutoCAD
7 10 (1.21%) MS Visio
8 6 (0.73%) SOLIDWORKS
9 4 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.24%) Revit
11 1 (0.12%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 9 (1.09%) Shopify
2 7 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.73%) SAP WM
4 5 (0.61%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle BPM
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.24%) Primavera
6 2 (0.24%) ResourceLink
6 2 (0.24%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.24%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.12%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.12%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 87 (10.56%) Power Platform
2 75 (9.10%) Azure
3 52 (6.31%) AWS
4 40 (4.85%) Microsoft 365
5 26 (3.16%) Entra ID
6 24 (2.91%) SaaS
7 19 (2.31%) Microsoft Copilot
8 15 (1.82%) GCP
9 13 (1.58%) Microsoft Purview
10 12 (1.46%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (1.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 9 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (0.85%) dbt
12 7 (0.85%) Serverless
12 7 (0.85%) Snowflake
13 6 (0.73%) Adobe Analytics
13 6 (0.73%) Figma
13 6 (0.73%) GitHub
14 5 (0.61%) AWS CloudFormation
15 4 (0.49%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.03%) Firewall
2 9 (1.09%) Network Security
3 8 (0.97%) LAN
3 8 (0.97%) WAN
3 8 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (0.73%) Asterisk PBX
4 6 (0.73%) PSTN
4 6 (0.73%) VoIP
5 5 (0.61%) DHCP
5 5 (0.61%) DNS
5 5 (0.61%) Internet
6 4 (0.49%) SMS
7 3 (0.36%) Broadband
7 3 (0.36%) Intranet
7 3 (0.36%) WPA
8 2 (0.24%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.24%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (0.24%) VLAN
9 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.12%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (9.95%) Power BI
2 61 (7.40%) Tableau
3 46 (5.58%) Data Mining
4 31 (3.76%) SQL Server
5 15 (1.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 12 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (1.09%) Data Lake
9 9 (1.09%) Metadata
10 8 (0.97%) GIS
10 8 (0.97%) Looker
11 6 (0.73%) BigQuery
12 5 (0.61%) Geospatial Data
12 5 (0.61%) Relational Database
13 4 (0.49%) BusinessObjects
13 4 (0.49%) Data Vault
13 4 (0.49%) Spatial Data
14 3 (0.36%) Power Query
14 3 (0.36%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 14 (1.70%) JIRA
2 8 (0.97%) Jenkins
3 7 (0.85%) GitLab
4 5 (0.61%) Bitbucket
4 5 (0.61%) Git
4 5 (0.61%) SonarQube
4 5 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.12%) Appium
5 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.12%) Gatling
5 1 (0.12%) JMeter
5 1 (0.12%) JUnit
5 1 (0.12%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.12%) Postman
5 1 (0.12%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.12%) Selenium
5 1 (0.12%) WaveMaker
General
1 336 (40.78%) Social Skills
2 231 (28.03%) Finance
3 48 (5.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 43 (5.22%) Organisational Skills
5 36 (4.37%) Legal
6 31 (3.76%) Presentation Skills
7 28 (3.40%) Marketing
7 28 (3.40%) Public Sector
8 27 (3.28%) Manufacturing
9 24 (2.91%) Law
10 23 (2.79%) Banking
10 23 (2.79%) Retail
10 23 (2.79%) Telecoms
11 17 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
12 13 (1.58%) Advertising
12 13 (1.58%) Electronics
13 9 (1.09%) General Ledger
14 7 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (0.73%) Billing
15 6 (0.73%) Military
Job Titles
1 235 (28.52%) Trainer
2 187 (22.69%) Analyst
3 72 (8.74%) Senior
4 67 (8.13%) Data Analyst
5 41 (4.98%) Trainee
6 39 (4.73%) Trainee Analyst
6 39 (4.73%) Trainee Data Analyst
7 29 (3.52%) Support Engineer
8 26 (3.16%) Lead
9 25 (3.03%) Business Analyst
10 22 (2.67%) Support Analyst
11 21 (2.55%) Applications Support
11 21 (2.55%) Architect
11 21 (2.55%) Developer
12 20 (2.43%) Senior Analyst
13 18 (2.18%) Lecturer
13 18 (2.18%) PLC Engineer
13 18 (2.18%) Solutions Architect
14 17 (2.06%) Financial Analyst
14 17 (2.06%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.58%) CSS
2 10 (1.21%) React
3 8 (0.97%) HTML
3 8 (0.97%) REST
4 6 (0.73%) FreeSWITCH
4 6 (0.73%) Software Packaging
4 6 (0.73%) XML
5 5 (0.61%) .NET
5 5 (0.61%) Flutter
5 5 (0.61%) JSON
6 4 (0.49%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (0.36%) Flash
7 3 (0.36%) Pandas
8 2 (0.24%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.24%) FastAPI
8 2 (0.24%) Flask
8 2 (0.24%) Laravel
8 2 (0.24%) PySpark
8 2 (0.24%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.24%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 71 (8.62%) Analytical Mindset
2 45 (5.46%) Self-Motivation
3 37 (4.49%) Management Information System
4 35 (4.25%) Onboarding
5 24 (2.91%) Driving Licence
6 23 (2.79%) Renewable Energy
7 20 (2.43%) Cyberattack
7 20 (2.43%) Social Media
8 13 (1.58%) Virtual Team
9 10 (1.21%) Cloud Native
9 10 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.21%) Data Structures
9 10 (1.21%) NHS
10 8 (0.97%) Operational Technology
10 8 (0.97%) SCADA
11 7 (0.85%) Life Science
11 7 (0.85%) Product Ownership
12 6 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (0.73%) Mobile App
13 5 (0.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 34 (4.13%) Windows
2 9 (1.09%) Windows Server
3 4 (0.49%) Linux
4 3 (0.36%) Android
4 3 (0.36%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 300 (36.41%) AI
2 292 (35.44%) Problem-Solving
3 237 (28.76%) Chemistry
4 235 (28.52%) Conversational UI
5 144 (17.48%) Decision-Making
6 130 (15.78%) Continuous Improvement
7 119 (14.44%) Project Management
8 105 (12.74%) Analytics
9 104 (12.62%) Agile
10 95 (11.53%) Business Intelligence
11 87 (10.56%) Data Analysis
12 80 (9.71%) Business Analysis
13 65 (7.89%) Stakeholder Management
14 61 (7.40%) Customer Service
15 56 (6.80%) Actionable Insight
16 54 (6.55%) Data Analytics
17 52 (6.31%) Cybersecurity
18 51 (6.19%) Project Delivery
19 50 (6.07%) Process Improvement
20 47 (5.70%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 138 (16.75%) SQL
2 81 (9.83%) Python
3 15 (1.82%) Java
4 13 (1.58%) PowerShell
5 12 (1.46%) T-SQL
6 10 (1.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 8 (0.97%) JavaScript
8 6 (0.73%) Bash
8 6 (0.73%) C#
9 5 (0.61%) R
9 5 (0.61%) Scala
9 5 (0.61%) VBA
10 4 (0.49%) Go
10 4 (0.49%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.24%) Bicep
11 2 (0.24%) C++
11 2 (0.24%) PHP
Qualifications
1 374 (45.39%) Degree
2 267 (32.40%) Master's Degree
3 235 (28.52%) PhD
4 27 (3.28%) DBS Check
5 20 (2.43%) ACCA
5 20 (2.43%) CIMA
6 19 (2.31%) HND
7 15 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (1.46%) PMI Certification
10 10 (1.21%) PMP
11 8 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (0.97%) CompTIA Security+
12 6 (0.73%) CCNP
12 6 (0.73%) CISSP
12 6 (0.73%) Network+ Certification
13 5 (0.61%) CIPD
13 5 (0.61%) Security Cleared
13 5 (0.61%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 5 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (3.16%) QA
2 24 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (2.55%) Data Quality
4 19 (2.31%) Accessibility
4 19 (2.31%) GDPR
5 18 (2.18%) PMO
6 8 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (0.97%) NIST
7 7 (0.85%) SLA
8 6 (0.73%) IEC 61131
9 5 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 5 (0.61%) GLBA
10 4 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (0.49%) SEPA
10 4 (0.49%) TARGET2
11 3 (0.36%) COBIT
11 3 (0.36%) ISO 14001
11 3 (0.36%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.36%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 33 (4.00%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.09%) Docker
3 8 (0.97%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (1.09%) Terraform
3 3 (0.36%) Grafana
3 3 (0.36%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.24%) AssetCenter
4 2 (0.24%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.24%) SCCM
5 1 (0.12%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 235 (28.52%) PayPal
2 174 (21.12%) Microsoft
3 25 (3.03%) SAP
4 23 (2.79%) Google
5 13 (1.58%) Oracle
6 11 (1.33%) ServiceNow
7 10 (1.21%) Cisco
8 8 (0.97%) Adobe
8 8 (0.97%) Salesforce
9 7 (0.85%) HubSpot
9 7 (0.85%) Workday
10 6 (0.73%) HP
10 6 (0.73%) iManage
10 6 (0.73%) Qualtrics
11 5 (0.61%) ESRI
11 5 (0.61%) Guidewire
11 5 (0.61%) JDA
11 5 (0.61%) RedPrairie
11 5 (0.61%) Splunk
11 5 (0.61%) VMware