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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 6 20
Rank change year-on-year -30 +14 -2
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 889 1,451 1,427
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 4.63% 18.37% 8.37%
As % of the General category 9.50% 24.39% 14.99%
Number of salaries quoted 663 383 1,025
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +4.65%
75th Percentile £61,250 £70,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,650
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 9,358 5,949 9,519
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 48.75% 75.31% 55.84%
Number of salaries quoted 5,274 2,705 7,331
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,480 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -8.97%
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £76,250
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 20 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 20 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 -30 515 £45,519 -8.96% 219
Yorkshire -11 289 £52,500 +16.67% 114
North East -29 85 £48,445 +25.83% 60
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 30 (3.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (3.15%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.35%) Apache Spark
4 8 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.67%) Confluence
6 4 (0.45%) Apache
6 4 (0.45%) WordPress
7 3 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.34%) CMS
7 3 (0.34%) JBoss
8 2 (0.22%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 137 (15.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (4.39%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (2.70%) MS Visio
4 10 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 31 (3.49%) Salesforce CRM
2 30 (3.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (1.69%) SAP PM
4 14 (1.57%) SAP ERP
5 9 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
6 7 (0.79%) Workday HCM
7 6 (0.67%) Magento
8 5 (0.56%) SAP PP
9 4 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
11 1 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
11 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
11 1 (0.11%) ResourceLink
11 1 (0.11%) SAP MDM
11 1 (0.11%) SAP QM
11 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 128 (14.40%) Power Platform
2 120 (13.50%) Azure
3 91 (10.24%) AWS
4 61 (6.86%) Microsoft 365
5 39 (4.39%) Entra ID
6 38 (4.27%) SaaS
7 34 (3.82%) Microsoft Purview
8 31 (3.49%) GCP
9 23 (2.59%) Dynamics 365
10 22 (2.47%) PowerApps
11 21 (2.36%) Power Automate
12 20 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
12 20 (2.25%) GitHub
13 19 (2.14%) Boomi
14 12 (1.35%) Amazon S3
14 12 (1.35%) Google Analytics
14 12 (1.35%) OCI
14 12 (1.35%) Serverless
14 12 (1.35%) Snowflake
15 11 (1.24%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 52 (5.85%) Firewall
2 16 (1.80%) Wi-Fi
2 16 (1.80%) Wireless
3 15 (1.69%) Network Security
3 15 (1.69%) VPN
4 13 (1.46%) Wireshark
5 12 (1.35%) NGFW
5 12 (1.35%) VXLAN
6 11 (1.24%) Cisco ASA
6 11 (1.24%) Cisco Nexus
6 11 (1.24%) WAN
7 10 (1.12%) SNMP
8 9 (1.01%) LAN
8 9 (1.01%) VLAN
9 8 (0.90%) BGP
9 8 (0.90%) Cisco Wireless
9 8 (0.90%) EIGRP
9 8 (0.90%) OSPF
9 8 (0.90%) WAAS
9 8 (0.90%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (12.15%) Power BI
2 101 (11.36%) Tableau
3 55 (6.19%) Data Mining
4 24 (2.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 20 (2.25%) SQL Server
6 16 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (1.69%) Metadata
8 11 (1.24%) DynamoDB
9 10 (1.12%) BigQuery
10 9 (1.01%) NoSQL
11 8 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (0.79%) Big Data
12 7 (0.79%) Looker
13 6 (0.67%) Power Query
14 5 (0.56%) Hadoop
14 5 (0.56%) Relational Database
14 5 (0.56%) Semantic Layer
15 4 (0.45%) Amazon Athena
15 4 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 30 (3.37%) JIRA
2 12 (1.35%) Git
3 8 (0.90%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.45%) Cucumber
4 4 (0.45%) Cypress.io
4 4 (0.45%) GitLab
4 4 (0.45%) Selenium
5 3 (0.34%) Maven
5 3 (0.34%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.22%) MLflow
6 2 (0.22%) Postman
7 1 (0.11%) JMeter
7 1 (0.11%) JUnit
7 1 (0.11%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.11%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.11%) TestRail
General
1 397 (44.66%) Social Skills
2 260 (29.25%) Finance
3 99 (11.14%) Marketing
4 77 (8.66%) Public Sector
5 57 (6.41%) Law
6 41 (4.61%) Legal
6 41 (4.61%) Manufacturing
6 41 (4.61%) Retail
7 38 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 33 (3.71%) Telecoms
9 27 (3.04%) Organisational Skills
10 25 (2.81%) Military
11 24 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
12 23 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
13 21 (2.36%) Back Office
14 12 (1.35%) Banking
14 12 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
15 11 (1.24%) Games
16 10 (1.12%) Advertising
17 8 (0.90%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 263 (29.58%) Analyst
2 114 (12.82%) Data Analyst
3 105 (11.81%) Senior
4 78 (8.77%) Lead
5 51 (5.74%) Business Analyst
5 51 (5.74%) Data Manager
5 51 (5.74%) Trainee
5 51 (5.74%) Trainee Analyst
5 51 (5.74%) Trainee Data Analyst
6 48 (5.40%) Systems Analyst
7 45 (5.06%) Architect
7 45 (5.06%) Developer
8 43 (4.84%) Systems Manager
9 38 (4.27%) CRM Executive
10 31 (3.49%) Salesforce Executive
11 30 (3.37%) Head of QA
11 30 (3.37%) HR Analyst
11 30 (3.37%) HR Data Analyst
11 30 (3.37%) HR Manager
12 24 (2.70%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (3.04%) Middleware
2 23 (2.59%) REST
3 17 (1.91%) .NET
3 17 (1.91%) XML
4 15 (1.69%) SOAP
5 13 (1.46%) EDI
5 13 (1.46%) React
6 12 (1.35%) HTML
6 12 (1.35%) JSON
7 11 (1.24%) CSS
7 11 (1.24%) Node.js
8 9 (1.01%) Flutter
9 8 (0.90%) SAP Fiori
10 6 (0.67%) AngularJS
11 5 (0.56%) scikit-learn
12 4 (0.45%) Pandas
12 4 (0.45%) SAP Core Interface
12 4 (0.45%) Spring Boot
13 3 (0.34%) Gherkin
13 3 (0.34%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 91 (10.24%) Analytical Mindset
2 45 (5.06%) Management Information System
3 36 (4.05%) Product Ownership
4 30 (3.37%) Onboarding
5 28 (3.15%) Data Centre
6 23 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
7 15 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (1.46%) Enterprise Cloud
9 12 (1.35%) PKI
10 10 (1.12%) Driving Licence
10 10 (1.12%) Social Media
10 10 (1.12%) Virtual Team
11 9 (1.01%) Cloud Native
11 9 (1.01%) Data Structures
12 8 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (0.90%) Operational Technology
13 7 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
13 7 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (0.79%) FMCG
14 6 (0.67%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 44 (4.95%) Windows
2 25 (2.81%) Windows Server
3 9 (1.01%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.67%) Android
4 6 (0.67%) Linux
5 5 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 337 (37.91%) Problem-Solving
2 278 (31.27%) Continuous Improvement
3 233 (26.21%) Decision-Making
4 223 (25.08%) Stakeholder Management
5 215 (24.18%) Analytics
6 117 (13.16%) Project Management
7 111 (12.49%) Agile
8 101 (11.36%) Actionable Insight
9 100 (11.25%) Business Intelligence
9 100 (11.25%) CRM
10 98 (11.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 96 (10.80%) Data Analysis
11 96 (10.80%) Data Governance
12 94 (10.57%) AI
13 92 (10.35%) Mentoring
14 79 (8.89%) Root Cause Analysis
15 78 (8.77%) Business Analysis
15 78 (8.77%) Data Analytics
16 75 (8.44%) ERP
17 71 (7.99%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 178 (20.02%) SQL
2 147 (16.54%) Python
3 29 (3.26%) C#
3 29 (3.26%) Java
4 23 (2.59%) JavaScript
5 14 (1.57%) T-SQL
6 10 (1.12%) PowerShell
7 9 (1.01%) Go
7 9 (1.01%) R
8 8 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 7 (0.79%) Scala
10 5 (0.56%) C++
11 4 (0.45%) Bash
12 3 (0.34%) C
12 3 (0.34%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.34%) PHP
12 3 (0.34%) SOQL
12 3 (0.34%) SOSL
12 3 (0.34%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 109 (12.26%) Degree
2 73 (8.21%) DBS Check
3 30 (3.37%) IRCA
4 26 (2.92%) ACCA
5 23 (2.59%) CIMA
6 22 (2.47%) Security Cleared
7 19 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
8 15 (1.69%) SC Cleared
9 14 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (1.46%) PMI Certification
11 12 (1.35%) PMP
12 11 (1.24%) CCNP
12 11 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (1.12%) HNC
14 8 (0.90%) CCIE
14 8 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
15 6 (0.67%) AWS Certification
15 6 (0.67%) CCNA
15 6 (0.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (14.85%) Data Quality
2 84 (9.45%) GDPR
3 68 (7.65%) QA
4 35 (3.94%) Cyber Essentials
5 34 (3.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 33 (3.71%) ISO 9001
7 26 (2.92%) NIST
8 19 (2.14%) PMO
9 18 (2.02%) SLA
10 17 (1.91%) Actionable Recommendations
10 17 (1.91%) TickIT
11 12 (1.35%) GMP
12 11 (1.24%) Accessibility
13 9 (1.01%) PCI DSS
14 6 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.45%) GRC
15 4 (0.45%) SOC 2
16 3 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 14443
16 3 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 7816
17 2 (0.22%) GAAP
System Software
1 43 (4.84%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
3 8 (0.90%) Docker
3 8 (0.90%) ProxySG
4 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.22%) DFS Replication
5 2 (0.22%) Firmware
6 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (2.92%) Terraform
2 17 (1.91%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (1.46%) Ansible
4 7 (0.79%) Kubernetes
5 6 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.34%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.11%) Autotask
7 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 246 (27.67%) Microsoft
2 62 (6.97%) Workday
3 59 (6.64%) Salesforce
4 51 (5.74%) SAP
5 23 (2.59%) Google
6 21 (2.36%) ServiceNow
7 15 (1.69%) Aruba
8 12 (1.35%) Arista
8 12 (1.35%) Databricks
8 12 (1.35%) iManage
8 12 (1.35%) NetScout
9 11 (1.24%) Cisco
9 11 (1.24%) Oracle
10 10 (1.12%) Anaplan
10 10 (1.12%) SolarWinds
11 9 (1.01%) Aderant
11 9 (1.01%) Genesys
11 9 (1.01%) IFS
11 9 (1.01%) Intapp
11 9 (1.01%) Verint