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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 6 20
Rank change year-on-year -19 +14 0
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 960 1,526 1,428
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 4.61% 16.19% 7.82%
As % of the General category 10.65% 23.32% 14.42%
Number of salaries quoted 750 386 988
10th Percentile £34,250 £26,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,563 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £47,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.07% -1.05% +6.06%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £61,063
90th Percentile £78,288 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -8.90%

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 9,010 6,545 9,902
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 43.24% 69.44% 54.23%
Number of salaries quoted 5,978 2,879 6,953
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,300 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -3.16% -7.90%
75th Percentile £68,750 £64,100 £62,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £82,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 13 July 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 13 July 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 -20 564 £47,500 -1.67% 247
Yorkshire -13 291 £50,000 +11.11% 158
North East -25 105 £55,000 +37.50% 55
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 39 (4.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (3.23%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.46%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.04%) Apache
4 10 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (0.94%) 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
1 142 (14.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (5.83%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (2.81%) MS Visio
4 19 (1.98%) 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 28 (2.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.98%) Salesforce CRM
3 15 (1.56%) 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 3 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.31%) SAP QM
10 2 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
11 1 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
11 1 (0.10%) SAP ECC
11 1 (0.10%) SAP MDM
11 1 (0.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 134 (13.96%) Azure
2 130 (13.54%) Power Platform
3 100 (10.42%) AWS
4 60 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
5 41 (4.27%) GCP
6 33 (3.44%) SaaS
7 32 (3.33%) Entra ID
7 32 (3.33%) Microsoft Purview
8 25 (2.60%) GitHub
9 24 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
10 23 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
11 21 (2.19%) PowerApps
12 19 (1.98%) Amazon S3
12 19 (1.98%) Boomi
13 17 (1.77%) Google Analytics
13 17 (1.77%) Serverless
14 14 (1.46%) Power Automate
15 13 (1.35%) Azure Data Factory
15 13 (1.35%) Snowflake
16 12 (1.25%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 56 (5.83%) Firewall
2 19 (1.98%) Wi-Fi
2 19 (1.98%) Wireless
3 16 (1.67%) VPN
4 14 (1.46%) Wireshark
5 12 (1.25%) NGFW
5 12 (1.25%) VXLAN
5 12 (1.25%) WAN
6 10 (1.04%) DNS
7 9 (0.94%) Cisco Nexus
7 9 (0.94%) DHCP
7 9 (0.94%) LAN
7 9 (0.94%) Network Security
8 8 (0.83%) Cisco ASA
8 8 (0.83%) SNMP
9 6 (0.63%) IP Telephony
10 5 (0.52%) SMS
10 5 (0.52%) TCP/IP
11 4 (0.42%) HTTP
11 4 (0.42%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (11.35%) Power BI
2 81 (8.44%) Tableau
3 37 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
4 35 (3.65%) Data Mining
5 25 (2.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 20 (2.08%) Big Data
7 14 (1.46%) SQL Server
8 12 (1.25%) BigQuery
9 11 (1.15%) Metadata
10 10 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
12 8 (0.83%) DynamoDB
13 7 (0.73%) Looker
13 7 (0.73%) MySQL
13 7 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
14 6 (0.63%) Data Lake
14 6 (0.63%) Power Query
14 6 (0.63%) Semantic Layer
15 5 (0.52%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 36 (3.75%) JIRA
2 14 (1.46%) Git
3 10 (1.04%) GitLab
4 9 (0.94%) 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
1 429 (44.69%) Social Skills
2 283 (29.48%) Finance
3 98 (10.21%) Public Sector
4 92 (9.58%) Marketing
5 84 (8.75%) Law
6 54 (5.63%) Legal
7 45 (4.69%) Retail
8 43 (4.48%) Manufacturing
8 43 (4.48%) Telecoms
9 37 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
10 35 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 33 (3.44%) Influencing Skills
12 31 (3.23%) Military
13 26 (2.71%) Back Office
14 18 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
15 14 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
16 13 (1.35%) Banking
17 12 (1.25%) Advertising
17 12 (1.25%) Local Government
18 8 (0.83%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 272 (28.33%) Analyst
2 102 (10.63%) Data Analyst
3 99 (10.31%) Senior
4 94 (9.79%) Lead
5 58 (6.04%) Developer
6 57 (5.94%) Business Analyst
7 48 (5.00%) Data Manager
8 46 (4.79%) Systems Analyst
9 42 (4.38%) Systems Manager
10 40 (4.17%) Architect
11 35 (3.65%) Data Engineer
12 32 (3.33%) Trainee
12 32 (3.33%) Trainee Analyst
12 32 (3.33%) Trainee Data Analyst
13 30 (3.13%) Head of QA
13 30 (3.13%) HR Analyst
13 30 (3.13%) HR Data Analyst
13 30 (3.13%) HR Manager
14 25 (2.60%) IT Support
15 24 (2.50%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (2.81%) Middleware
2 26 (2.71%) REST
3 22 (2.29%) HTML
4 21 (2.19%) .NET
5 18 (1.88%) CSS
5 18 (1.88%) Node.js
5 18 (1.88%) XML
6 15 (1.56%) SOAP
7 14 (1.46%) EDI
8 13 (1.35%) JSON
9 12 (1.25%) React
10 9 (0.94%) AngularJS
11 8 (0.83%) Flutter
12 7 (0.73%) scikit-learn
13 6 (0.63%) PySpark
13 6 (0.63%) Web Services
14 5 (0.52%) Kafka
14 5 (0.52%) Pandas
14 5 (0.52%) SAP Fiori
15 4 (0.42%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 94 (9.79%) Analytical Mindset
2 47 (4.90%) Product Ownership
3 41 (4.27%) Management Information System
4 34 (3.54%) Onboarding
5 25 (2.60%) Data Centre
6 22 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
7 19 (1.98%) Cloud Native
8 14 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
10 12 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (1.25%) Driving Licence
10 12 (1.25%) PKI
11 10 (1.04%) Credit Risk
11 10 (1.04%) Social Media
11 10 (1.04%) Virtual Team
12 8 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (0.83%) Marketing Technology
13 7 (0.73%) Algorithms
14 6 (0.63%) AI Agents
14 6 (0.63%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 54 (5.63%) Windows
2 34 (3.54%) Windows Server
3 13 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
4 9 (0.94%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (0.52%) Linux
6 5 (0.52%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.42%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 373 (38.85%) Problem-Solving
2 307 (31.98%) Continuous Improvement
3 268 (27.92%) Decision-Making
4 237 (24.69%) Analytics
5 222 (23.13%) Stakeholder Management
6 133 (13.85%) Agile
7 117 (12.19%) Mentoring
8 115 (11.98%) AI
9 105 (10.94%) Actionable Insight
10 104 (10.83%) Business Intelligence
11 101 (10.52%) CRM
12 99 (10.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 98 (10.21%) Data Governance
14 96 (10.00%) Data Analysis
15 93 (9.69%) Data Modelling
16 92 (9.58%) ERP
17 91 (9.48%) Project Management
18 86 (8.96%) Roadmaps
19 76 (7.92%) Root Cause Analysis
20 74 (7.71%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 204 (21.25%) SQL
2 162 (16.88%) Python
3 34 (3.54%) Java
3 34 (3.54%) JavaScript
4 32 (3.33%) C#
5 14 (1.46%) R
6 11 (1.15%) PowerShell
7 10 (1.04%) Scala
7 10 (1.04%) T-SQL
8 9 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 9 (0.94%) Go
9 7 (0.73%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.63%) Bash
10 6 (0.63%) C++
10 6 (0.63%) PHP
11 3 (0.31%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.31%) C
11 3 (0.31%) Groovy
11 3 (0.31%) SOQL
11 3 (0.31%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 108 (11.25%) Degree
2 79 (8.23%) DBS Check
3 45 (4.69%) Security Cleared
4 37 (3.85%) ACCA
5 33 (3.44%) CIMA
5 33 (3.44%) SC Cleared
6 30 (3.13%) IRCA
7 15 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (1.04%) CCNA
9 10 (1.04%) HNC
10 9 (0.94%) CCNP
11 8 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (0.73%) Azure Certification
12 7 (0.73%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.52%) SAP Certification
14 4 (0.42%) CCIE
14 4 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (16.25%) Data Quality
2 85 (8.85%) GDPR
3 78 (8.13%) QA
4 36 (3.75%) Cyber Essentials
4 36 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 34 (3.54%) ISO 9001
6 24 (2.50%) SLA
7 23 (2.40%) NIST
8 17 (1.77%) TickIT
9 16 (1.67%) Accessibility
9 16 (1.67%) Actionable Recommendations
10 14 (1.46%) PMO
11 8 (0.83%) GMP
12 7 (0.73%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.42%) GRC
14 4 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 14443
14 4 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 7816
14 4 (0.42%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 50 (5.21%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.35%) Docker
3 9 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.42%) ProxySG
5 3 (0.31%) DFS Replication
5 3 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 2 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.21%) vSphere
7 1 (0.10%) Firmware
7 1 (0.10%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 28 (2.92%) Terraform
2 13 (1.35%) Ansible
3 12 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (0.63%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.31%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.10%) Autotask
6 1 (0.10%) Grafana
Vendors
1 244 (25.42%) Microsoft
2 63 (6.56%) Workday
3 53 (5.52%) SAP
4 42 (4.38%) Salesforce
5 29 (3.02%) Google
6 17 (1.77%) iManage
7 16 (1.67%) Aruba
7 16 (1.67%) Databricks
8 15 (1.56%) Adobe
8 15 (1.56%) Cisco
9 13 (1.35%) Arista
9 13 (1.35%) NetScout
9 13 (1.35%) ServiceNow
10 12 (1.25%) Oracle
11 9 (0.94%) Aderant
11 9 (0.94%) Intapp
12 8 (0.83%) CheckPoint
12 8 (0.83%) HubSpot
13 7 (0.73%) IFS
13 7 (0.73%) VMware