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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 6 19
Rank change year-on-year -31 +13 -1
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 853 1,196 1,426
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 4.64% 16.63% 8.56%
As % of the General category 8.84% 22.66% 15.24%
Number of salaries quoted 623 415 1,021
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,850 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,250 £38,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £54,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.91% +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 9,648 5,278 9,358
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 52.44% 73.39% 56.20%
Number of salaries quoted 4,989 2,675 7,233
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £34,878 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,640 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.98% +11.43% -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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -31 484 £45,000 -10.00% 232
Yorkshire -12 281 £51,000 +13.33% 131
North East -27 88 £50,000 +28.87% 50
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 27 (3.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (2.81%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.06%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.06%) Confluence
4 6 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.47%) WordPress
6 3 (0.35%) CMS
6 3 (0.35%) JBoss
7 2 (0.23%) Apache
8 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 146 (17.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (3.63%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (2.70%) MS Visio
4 10 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.94%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 31 (3.63%) Salesforce CRM
2 29 (3.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (1.76%) SAP PM
4 13 (1.52%) SAP ERP
5 8 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
6 7 (0.82%) Workday HCM
7 6 (0.70%) Magento
8 5 (0.59%) SAP PP
9 4 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.35%) NetSuite
11 2 (0.23%) ResourceLink
12 1 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
12 1 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
12 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 115 (13.48%) Power Platform
2 106 (12.43%) Azure
3 81 (9.50%) AWS
4 56 (6.57%) Microsoft 365
5 38 (4.45%) Entra ID
6 36 (4.22%) SaaS
7 32 (3.75%) Microsoft Purview
8 25 (2.93%) GCP
9 21 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
9 21 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
9 21 (2.46%) Power Automate
10 19 (2.23%) Boomi
11 18 (2.11%) PowerApps
12 17 (1.99%) GitHub
13 12 (1.41%) Google Analytics
13 12 (1.41%) OCI
13 12 (1.41%) Serverless
14 11 (1.29%) Snowflake
15 10 (1.17%) Amazon S3
15 10 (1.17%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 51 (5.98%) Firewall
2 16 (1.88%) Wireless
3 15 (1.76%) VPN
4 14 (1.64%) Network Security
5 13 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
5 13 (1.52%) Wireshark
6 12 (1.41%) NGFW
6 12 (1.41%) VXLAN
7 11 (1.29%) WAN
8 10 (1.17%) LAN
9 9 (1.06%) VLAN
10 8 (0.94%) BGP
10 8 (0.94%) Cisco ASA
10 8 (0.94%) Cisco Nexus
10 8 (0.94%) Cisco Wireless
10 8 (0.94%) EIGRP
10 8 (0.94%) OSPF
10 8 (0.94%) SNMP
10 8 (0.94%) WAAS
10 8 (0.94%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (12.54%) Tableau
2 101 (11.84%) Power BI
3 69 (8.09%) Data Mining
4 20 (2.34%) SQL Server
5 19 (2.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 13 (1.52%) Metadata
7 10 (1.17%) DynamoDB
8 9 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (0.82%) Looker
9 7 (0.82%) NoSQL
10 6 (0.70%) Big Data
10 6 (0.70%) BigQuery
11 5 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (0.59%) Power Query
11 5 (0.59%) Relational Database
12 4 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (0.47%) Hadoop
13 3 (0.35%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (0.35%) Semantic Layer
13 3 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 30 (3.52%) JIRA
2 8 (0.94%) Jenkins
3 7 (0.82%) Git
4 4 (0.47%) Cucumber
4 4 (0.47%) Cypress.io
4 4 (0.47%) Selenium
5 3 (0.35%) GitLab
5 3 (0.35%) Maven
5 3 (0.35%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.23%) MLflow
6 2 (0.23%) Postman
7 1 (0.12%) JMeter
7 1 (0.12%) JUnit
7 1 (0.12%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.12%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.12%) TestRail
General
1 393 (46.07%) Social Skills
2 256 (30.01%) Finance
3 94 (11.02%) Marketing
4 68 (7.97%) Public Sector
5 49 (5.74%) Law
6 38 (4.45%) Retail
7 37 (4.34%) Manufacturing
8 32 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 31 (3.63%) Telecoms
10 29 (3.40%) Legal
11 28 (3.28%) Organisational Skills
12 27 (3.17%) Military
13 23 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
14 21 (2.46%) Back Office
15 20 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
16 13 (1.52%) Advertising
17 11 (1.29%) Games
18 10 (1.17%) Banking
19 7 (0.82%) French Language
20 6 (0.70%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 269 (31.54%) Analyst
2 127 (14.89%) Data Analyst
3 96 (11.25%) Senior
4 71 (8.32%) Lead
5 65 (7.62%) Trainee
5 65 (7.62%) Trainee Analyst
5 65 (7.62%) Trainee Data Analyst
6 52 (6.10%) Data Manager
7 49 (5.74%) Systems Analyst
8 43 (5.04%) Business Analyst
8 43 (5.04%) Systems Manager
9 39 (4.57%) Architect
10 38 (4.45%) CRM Executive
11 31 (3.63%) Salesforce Executive
12 30 (3.52%) Developer
12 30 (3.52%) Head of QA
12 30 (3.52%) HR Analyst
12 30 (3.52%) HR Data Analyst
12 30 (3.52%) HR Manager
13 23 (2.70%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (2.70%) Middleware
2 20 (2.34%) REST
3 17 (1.99%) .NET
3 17 (1.99%) XML
4 13 (1.52%) EDI
4 13 (1.52%) React
5 12 (1.41%) JSON
5 12 (1.41%) SOAP
6 9 (1.06%) Flutter
7 8 (0.94%) HTML
7 8 (0.94%) Node.js
7 8 (0.94%) SAP Fiori
8 7 (0.82%) CSS
9 6 (0.70%) scikit-learn
10 4 (0.47%) Pandas
10 4 (0.47%) SAP Core Interface
10 4 (0.47%) Spring Boot
11 3 (0.35%) Gherkin
11 3 (0.35%) Jest
11 3 (0.35%) MACH
Miscellaneous
1 92 (10.79%) Analytical Mindset
2 50 (5.86%) Management Information System
3 26 (3.05%) Product Ownership
4 24 (2.81%) Data Centre
4 24 (2.81%) Onboarding
5 23 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
6 21 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (1.64%) Social Media
8 13 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
9 12 (1.41%) PKI
10 11 (1.29%) Cloud Native
11 10 (1.17%) Virtual Team
12 9 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (0.94%) Data Structures
13 8 (0.94%) Driving Licence
13 8 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
14 7 (0.82%) Cyber Threat
14 7 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
14 7 (0.82%) Operational Technology
15 6 (0.70%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 47 (5.51%) Windows
2 22 (2.58%) Windows Server
3 9 (1.06%) Apple iOS
4 8 (0.94%) Android
5 7 (0.82%) Linux
6 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (36.11%) Problem-Solving
2 269 (31.54%) Continuous Improvement
3 232 (27.20%) Decision-Making
4 215 (25.21%) Stakeholder Management
5 212 (24.85%) Analytics
6 129 (15.12%) Project Management
7 106 (12.43%) Data Analysis
8 104 (12.19%) AI
9 101 (11.84%) Actionable Insight
9 101 (11.84%) Agile
10 95 (11.14%) Business Intelligence
10 95 (11.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 94 (11.02%) Data Governance
12 93 (10.90%) CRM
13 90 (10.55%) Business Analysis
14 87 (10.20%) Data Analytics
15 77 (9.03%) Mentoring
16 69 (8.09%) ERP
16 69 (8.09%) Root Cause Analysis
16 69 (8.09%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 173 (20.28%) SQL
2 143 (16.76%) Python
3 25 (2.93%) C#
4 20 (2.34%) Java
5 17 (1.99%) JavaScript
6 15 (1.76%) T-SQL
7 9 (1.06%) Go
8 7 (0.82%) PowerShell
9 6 (0.70%) R
10 5 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.47%) Bicep
11 4 (0.47%) Scala
12 3 (0.35%) Bash
12 3 (0.35%) C
12 3 (0.35%) C++
12 3 (0.35%) Groovy
12 3 (0.35%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.35%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.35%) VBA
13 1 (0.12%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 109 (12.78%) Degree
2 72 (8.44%) DBS Check
3 30 (3.52%) IRCA
4 28 (3.28%) ACCA
5 25 (2.93%) CIMA
6 18 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (1.76%) Security Cleared
9 14 (1.64%) Master's Degree
10 13 (1.52%) PMI Certification
11 12 (1.41%) PMP
12 10 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
13 9 (1.06%) HNC
13 9 (1.06%) PhD
14 8 (0.94%) CCIE
14 8 (0.94%) CCNP
14 8 (0.94%) SC Cleared
15 7 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
16 6 (0.70%) AWS Certification
16 6 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (13.60%) Data Quality
2 80 (9.38%) GDPR
3 67 (7.85%) QA
4 37 (4.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 35 (4.10%) Cyber Essentials
6 30 (3.52%) ISO 9001
7 29 (3.40%) NIST
8 20 (2.34%) PMO
9 17 (1.99%) TickIT
10 16 (1.88%) Actionable Recommendations
11 14 (1.64%) SLA
12 12 (1.41%) GMP
13 10 (1.17%) Accessibility
14 9 (1.06%) PCI DSS
15 6 (0.70%) GRC
15 6 (0.70%) SOC 2
16 4 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 4 (0.47%) GAAP
16 4 (0.47%) IFRS
16 4 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 41 (4.81%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.06%) Virtual Desktop
3 8 (0.94%) ProxySG
4 6 (0.70%) Docker
5 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.23%) Firmware
7 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (3.40%) Terraform
2 17 (1.99%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (1.52%) Ansible
4 8 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.82%) Kubernetes
6 3 (0.35%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.12%) Autotask
7 1 (0.12%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 238 (27.90%) Microsoft
2 62 (7.27%) Workday
3 55 (6.45%) Salesforce
4 46 (5.39%) SAP
5 22 (2.58%) Google
6 19 (2.23%) ServiceNow
7 12 (1.41%) Arista
7 12 (1.41%) Aruba
7 12 (1.41%) iManage
7 12 (1.41%) NetScout
8 10 (1.17%) Anaplan
8 10 (1.17%) Oracle
9 9 (1.06%) Aderant
9 9 (1.06%) Databricks
9 9 (1.06%) Genesys
9 9 (1.06%) IFS
9 9 (1.06%) Intapp
9 9 (1.06%) Splunk
9 9 (1.06%) Verint
10 8 (0.94%) Blue Coat