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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 10 22
Rank change year-on-year -18 +12 -5
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 832 878 1,117
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.27% 11.78% 8.44%
As % of the General category 10.78% 16.65% 14.36%
Number of salaries quoted 478 396 836
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% +6.35%
75th Percentile £57,239 £68,750 £61,123
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £68,750
England median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -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 7,718 5,274 7,781
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 58.15% 70.75% 58.77%
Number of salaries quoted 3,899 2,407 6,144
10th Percentile £27,750 £29,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,750 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £51,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.77% +8.42% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £78,675
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 1 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 1 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 -17 427 £42,750 -18.57% 263
Yorkshire +3 294 £45,000 -5.26% 171
North East -3 111 £40,000 +2.30% 66
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 (2.28%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.32%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.20%) Confluence
5 6 (0.72%) Apache
6 5 (0.60%) 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%) nginx
10 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 172 (20.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 136 (16.35%) Chatbot
3 23 (2.76%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (1.80%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.96%) AutoCAD
7 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.36%) SOLIDWORKS
9 2 (0.24%) Revit
10 1 (0.12%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 21 (2.52%) Salesforce CRM
2 9 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.84%) Workday HCM
4 6 (0.72%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.60%) SAP PM
6 4 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.48%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.48%) Shopify
7 3 (0.36%) ResourceLink
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.12%) C-CURE
9 1 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.12%) Magento
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.12%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 100 (12.02%) Power Platform
2 85 (10.22%) Azure
3 65 (7.81%) AWS
4 38 (4.57%) Entra ID
5 31 (3.73%) Microsoft 365
6 30 (3.61%) SaaS
7 29 (3.49%) Microsoft Purview
8 16 (1.92%) GCP
8 16 (1.92%) OCI
9 13 (1.56%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (1.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 12 (1.44%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (1.44%) Power Automate
11 10 (1.20%) Microsoft Copilot
11 10 (1.20%) OneDrive
11 10 (1.20%) PowerApps
12 9 (1.08%) Snowflake
13 8 (0.96%) Adobe Analytics
13 8 (0.96%) dbt
13 8 (0.96%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 55 (6.61%) Firewall
2 16 (1.92%) Network Security
2 16 (1.92%) Wi-Fi
3 13 (1.56%) Wireshark
4 12 (1.44%) NGFW
4 12 (1.44%) VXLAN
5 11 (1.32%) WAN
6 10 (1.20%) LAN
7 8 (0.96%) VPN
8 7 (0.84%) VLAN
9 6 (0.72%) BGP
9 6 (0.72%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (0.72%) Cisco Nexus
9 6 (0.72%) Cisco Wireless
9 6 (0.72%) EIGRP
9 6 (0.72%) OSPF
9 6 (0.72%) SNMP
9 6 (0.72%) WAAS
9 6 (0.72%) Wireless
9 6 (0.72%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (13.82%) Tableau
2 92 (11.06%) Power BI
3 85 (10.22%) Data Mining
4 36 (4.33%) SQL Server
5 16 (1.92%) Metadata
6 15 (1.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 12 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
8 11 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (1.08%) DynamoDB
10 7 (0.84%) Data Lake
10 7 (0.84%) NoSQL
11 6 (0.72%) BigQuery
11 6 (0.72%) GIS
11 6 (0.72%) Looker
12 5 (0.60%) Geospatial Data
12 5 (0.60%) Power Query
13 4 (0.48%) Relational Database
14 3 (0.36%) QGIS
14 3 (0.36%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 12 (1.44%) JIRA
2 6 (0.72%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.60%) 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
1 348 (41.83%) Social Skills
2 259 (31.13%) Finance
3 57 (6.85%) Marketing
4 49 (5.89%) Public Sector
5 48 (5.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 46 (5.53%) Organisational Skills
7 40 (4.81%) Presentation Skills
8 37 (4.45%) Legal
9 29 (3.49%) Law
10 27 (3.25%) Telecoms
11 25 (3.00%) Retail
12 22 (2.64%) Manufacturing
13 21 (2.52%) Banking
14 15 (1.80%) Advertising
15 14 (1.68%) Games
16 10 (1.20%) Electronics
16 10 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (1.08%) Military
18 7 (0.84%) French Language
19 6 (0.72%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 227 (27.28%) Analyst
2 136 (16.35%) Trainer
3 115 (13.82%) Data Analyst
4 92 (11.06%) Senior
5 81 (9.74%) Trainee
6 80 (9.62%) Trainee Analyst
6 80 (9.62%) Trainee Data Analyst
7 49 (5.89%) Lead
8 34 (4.09%) Architect
9 28 (3.37%) CRM Executive
10 26 (3.13%) Business Analyst
10 26 (3.13%) Support Engineer
10 26 (3.13%) Systems Analyst
11 25 (3.00%) Data Manager
12 23 (2.76%) IT Support
13 21 (2.52%) Salesforce Executive
14 20 (2.40%) Consultant
14 20 (2.40%) Senior Analyst
14 20 (2.40%) Senior Manager
15 18 (2.16%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.80%) CSS
2 12 (1.44%) HTML
2 12 (1.44%) React
3 10 (1.20%) .NET
4 7 (0.84%) XML
5 6 (0.72%) Flutter
6 5 (0.60%) FreeSWITCH
6 5 (0.60%) JSON
6 5 (0.60%) Node.js
7 4 (0.48%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (0.48%) REST
7 4 (0.48%) SAP Fiori
8 3 (0.36%) Pandas
8 3 (0.36%) Spring Boot
9 2 (0.24%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.24%) Flask
9 2 (0.24%) Gherkin
9 2 (0.24%) scikit-learn
9 2 (0.24%) TensorFlow
9 2 (0.24%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 72 (8.65%) Analytical Mindset
2 50 (6.01%) Management Information System
3 42 (5.05%) Self-Motivation
4 24 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
5 23 (2.76%) Onboarding
6 22 (2.64%) Data Centre
7 18 (2.16%) Driving Licence
7 18 (2.16%) Social Media
8 14 (1.68%) Data Structures
9 13 (1.56%) Product Ownership
10 12 (1.44%) Cloud Native
10 12 (1.44%) PKI
10 12 (1.44%) Virtual Team
11 9 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (0.96%) Algorithms
13 6 (0.72%) Life Science
13 6 (0.72%) Operational Technology
14 5 (0.60%) Credit Risk
14 5 (0.60%) FMCG
14 5 (0.60%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 34 (4.09%) Windows
2 9 (1.08%) Android
2 9 (1.08%) Windows Server
3 6 (0.72%) Linux
4 4 (0.48%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 299 (35.94%) Problem-Solving
2 214 (25.72%) AI
3 192 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
4 187 (22.48%) Decision-Making
5 178 (21.39%) Analytics
6 157 (18.87%) Project Management
7 144 (17.31%) Stakeholder Management
8 138 (16.59%) Chemistry
9 136 (16.35%) Conversational UI
10 129 (15.50%) Data Analysis
11 113 (13.58%) Business Analysis
12 107 (12.86%) Agile
13 106 (12.74%) Business Intelligence
14 102 (12.26%) Data Analytics
15 72 (8.65%) Actionable Insight
16 62 (7.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 61 (7.33%) CRM
18 59 (7.09%) Visualisation
19 58 (6.97%) Change Management
20 56 (6.73%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 174 (20.91%) SQL
2 149 (17.91%) Python
3 16 (1.92%) JavaScript
4 15 (1.80%) T-SQL
5 14 (1.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 13 (1.56%) Java
7 11 (1.32%) C#
8 9 (1.08%) R
9 7 (0.84%) Bash
10 6 (0.72%) PowerShell
11 5 (0.60%) Go
11 5 (0.60%) 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%) PHP
Qualifications
1 275 (33.05%) Degree
2 155 (18.63%) Master's Degree
3 137 (16.47%) PhD
4 40 (4.81%) DBS Check
5 24 (2.88%) ACCA
5 24 (2.88%) CIMA
6 16 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (1.80%) PMI Certification
8 14 (1.68%) PMP
9 13 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
10 11 (1.32%) CCNP
11 10 (1.20%) IRCA
12 7 (0.84%) CompTIA Security+
12 7 (0.84%) HNC
12 7 (0.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 7 (0.84%) Security Cleared
13 6 (0.72%) CCIE
13 6 (0.72%) CIPD
14 5 (0.60%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (6.85%) Data Quality
2 53 (6.37%) GDPR
3 39 (4.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 34 (4.09%) Cyber Essentials
5 33 (3.97%) QA
6 32 (3.85%) NIST
7 21 (2.52%) PMO
8 16 (1.92%) Actionable Recommendations
9 14 (1.68%) Accessibility
10 10 (1.20%) ISO 9001
11 9 (1.08%) GMP
12 5 (0.60%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.48%) GAAP
13 4 (0.48%) GLBA
13 4 (0.48%) IFRS
13 4 (0.48%) SEPA
13 4 (0.48%) TARGET2
14 3 (0.36%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 23 (2.76%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.08%) Docker
3 6 (0.72%) ProxySG
4 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.24%) Firmware
5 2 (0.24%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (3.49%) Terraform
2 13 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (1.44%) Ansible
4 8 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.84%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.24%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.12%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.12%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 210 (25.24%) Microsoft
2 136 (16.35%) PayPal
3 39 (4.69%) Salesforce
4 23 (2.76%) SAP
5 21 (2.52%) Workday
6 17 (2.04%) ServiceNow
7 16 (1.92%) Google
7 16 (1.92%) Oracle
8 12 (1.44%) Arista
8 12 (1.44%) Aruba
8 12 (1.44%) Cisco
8 12 (1.44%) NetScout
9 11 (1.32%) Anaplan
10 10 (1.20%) Adobe
10 10 (1.20%) Genesys
10 10 (1.20%) HubSpot
11 9 (1.08%) Splunk
11 9 (1.08%) Verint
12 8 (0.96%) New Relic
13 7 (0.84%) Qualtrics