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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 6 21
Rank change year-on-year -19 +15 0
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 953 1,539 1,490
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 4.74% 18.56% 7.46%
As % of the General category 10.82% 24.98% 14.05%
Number of salaries quoted 741 362 1,049
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,050 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,816 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £47,500 £45,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% +4.40% +1.11%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £71,500
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 8,810 6,161 10,603
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 43.83% 74.31% 53.09%
Number of salaries quoted 5,787 2,667 7,673
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -7.95%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £75,772
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 June 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 June 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 -17 558 £46,500 -7.00% 180
Yorkshire -15 295 £49,942 +10.98% 99
North East -30 100 £53,750 +38.53% 51
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 37 (3.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (3.04%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.57%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.05%) Apache
6 8 (0.84%) Confluence
7 5 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.52%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.42%) WordPress
9 3 (0.31%) CMS
9 3 (0.31%) JBoss
10 1 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.10%) Umbraco
Applications
1 139 (14.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (5.04%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (2.73%) MS Visio
4 15 (1.57%) 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 (2.94%) Salesforce CRM
1 28 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.57%) SAP PM
3 14 (1.47%) SAP ERP
4 9 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.73%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.63%) Magento
7 5 (0.52%) SAP PP
8 4 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.31%) SAP QM
10 2 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
11 1 (0.10%) Dynamics GP
11 1 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
11 1 (0.10%) SAP MDM
11 1 (0.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 127 (13.33%) Azure
2 126 (13.22%) Power Platform
3 104 (10.91%) AWS
4 58 (6.09%) Microsoft 365
5 38 (3.99%) GCP
6 33 (3.46%) Entra ID
6 33 (3.46%) SaaS
7 31 (3.25%) Microsoft Purview
8 24 (2.52%) Dynamics 365
9 23 (2.41%) GitHub
10 21 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
10 21 (2.20%) PowerApps
11 19 (1.99%) Amazon S3
11 19 (1.99%) Boomi
12 17 (1.78%) Google Analytics
12 17 (1.78%) Power Automate
12 17 (1.78%) Serverless
13 12 (1.26%) Azure Data Factory
13 12 (1.26%) OCI
14 11 (1.15%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 56 (5.88%) Firewall
2 19 (1.99%) Wi-Fi
3 17 (1.78%) Wireless
4 15 (1.57%) VPN
5 13 (1.36%) Wireshark
6 12 (1.26%) NGFW
6 12 (1.26%) VXLAN
6 12 (1.26%) WAN
7 10 (1.05%) Cisco ASA
7 10 (1.05%) Cisco Nexus
7 10 (1.05%) LAN
7 10 (1.05%) Network Security
8 9 (0.94%) SNMP
9 8 (0.84%) DHCP
9 8 (0.84%) DNS
10 6 (0.63%) BGP
10 6 (0.63%) EIGRP
10 6 (0.63%) OSPF
10 6 (0.63%) VLAN
10 6 (0.63%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (11.23%) Power BI
2 87 (9.13%) Tableau
3 40 (4.20%) Data Mining
4 33 (3.46%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (2.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 20 (2.10%) Big Data
7 18 (1.89%) Metadata
8 16 (1.68%) SQL Server
9 15 (1.57%) DynamoDB
10 11 (1.15%) BigQuery
10 11 (1.15%) NoSQL
11 9 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (0.84%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (0.73%) Data Lake
13 7 (0.73%) Looker
13 7 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
13 7 (0.73%) Power Query
14 6 (0.63%) MySQL
15 5 (0.52%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 34 (3.57%) JIRA
2 13 (1.36%) Git
3 10 (1.05%) GitLab
4 7 (0.73%) 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
1 421 (44.18%) Social Skills
2 274 (28.75%) Finance
3 106 (11.12%) Marketing
4 95 (9.97%) Public Sector
5 78 (8.18%) Law
6 50 (5.25%) Legal
7 44 (4.62%) Retail
8 43 (4.51%) Telecoms
9 42 (4.41%) Manufacturing
10 37 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 32 (3.36%) Influencing Skills
11 32 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
12 30 (3.15%) Military
13 26 (2.73%) Back Office
14 18 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
15 14 (1.47%) Banking
15 14 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (1.26%) Advertising
17 10 (1.05%) Local Government
18 8 (0.84%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 272 (28.54%) Analyst
2 107 (11.23%) Data Analyst
3 99 (10.39%) Senior
4 90 (9.44%) Lead
5 56 (5.88%) Business Analyst
6 53 (5.56%) Developer
7 49 (5.14%) Data Manager
7 49 (5.14%) Systems Analyst
8 46 (4.83%) Architect
9 43 (4.51%) Systems Manager
10 37 (3.88%) Trainee
10 37 (3.88%) Trainee Analyst
10 37 (3.88%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 34 (3.57%) CRM Executive
12 33 (3.46%) Data Engineer
13 30 (3.15%) Head of QA
13 30 (3.15%) HR Analyst
13 30 (3.15%) HR Data Analyst
13 30 (3.15%) HR Manager
14 28 (2.94%) Salesforce Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (2.83%) Middleware
2 26 (2.73%) REST
3 20 (2.10%) .NET
4 19 (1.99%) HTML
5 17 (1.78%) XML
6 16 (1.68%) CSS
6 16 (1.68%) Node.js
7 15 (1.57%) SOAP
8 13 (1.36%) EDI
8 13 (1.36%) JSON
9 12 (1.26%) React
10 9 (0.94%) AngularJS
11 8 (0.84%) Flutter
12 6 (0.63%) SAP Fiori
12 6 (0.63%) scikit-learn
13 5 (0.52%) PySpark
13 5 (0.52%) Web Services
14 4 (0.42%) Jest
14 4 (0.42%) Kafka
14 4 (0.42%) SAP Core Interface
Miscellaneous
1 93 (9.76%) Analytical Mindset
2 46 (4.83%) Product Ownership
3 44 (4.62%) Management Information System
4 34 (3.57%) Onboarding
5 27 (2.83%) Data Centre
6 23 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
7 15 (1.57%) Cloud Native
7 15 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (1.36%) Data Structures
8 13 (1.36%) Driving Licence
8 13 (1.36%) Enterprise Cloud
9 12 (1.26%) PKI
10 10 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (1.05%) Social Media
10 10 (1.05%) Virtual Team
11 9 (0.94%) Credit Risk
12 7 (0.73%) Algorithms
12 7 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (0.73%) Marketing Technology
13 6 (0.63%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 51 (5.35%) Windows
2 33 (3.46%) Windows Server
3 12 (1.26%) Windows Server 2019
4 9 (0.94%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (0.52%) Android
7 4 (0.42%) Linux
8 3 (0.31%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 363 (38.09%) Problem-Solving
2 301 (31.58%) Continuous Improvement
3 264 (27.70%) Decision-Making
4 236 (24.76%) Analytics
5 224 (23.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 131 (13.75%) Agile
7 110 (11.54%) AI
8 109 (11.44%) CRM
9 107 (11.23%) Actionable Insight
9 107 (11.23%) Data Governance
10 106 (11.12%) Mentoring
11 101 (10.60%) Business Intelligence
12 100 (10.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 99 (10.39%) Data Analysis
14 94 (9.86%) Data Modelling
14 94 (9.86%) Project Management
15 88 (9.23%) ERP
16 82 (8.60%) Roadmaps
17 75 (7.87%) Root Cause Analysis
18 71 (7.45%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 201 (21.09%) SQL
2 160 (16.79%) Python
3 33 (3.46%) Java
4 32 (3.36%) C#
5 29 (3.04%) JavaScript
6 13 (1.36%) R
7 11 (1.15%) PowerShell
7 11 (1.15%) T-SQL
8 9 (0.94%) Scala
9 8 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (0.73%) Go
10 7 (0.73%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.63%) Bash
11 6 (0.63%) C++
12 5 (0.52%) PHP
13 3 (0.31%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.31%) C
13 3 (0.31%) Groovy
13 3 (0.31%) SOQL
13 3 (0.31%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 107 (11.23%) Degree
2 78 (8.18%) DBS Check
3 42 (4.41%) Security Cleared
4 38 (3.99%) ACCA
5 34 (3.57%) CIMA
6 31 (3.25%) SC Cleared
7 30 (3.15%) IRCA
8 19 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (1.05%) CCNP
11 10 (1.05%) HNC
12 9 (0.94%) CCNA
13 8 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
14 7 (0.73%) Azure Certification
15 6 (0.63%) AWS Certification
15 6 (0.63%) CCIE
15 6 (0.63%) Master's Degree
16 5 (0.52%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (16.89%) Data Quality
2 85 (8.92%) GDPR
3 74 (7.76%) QA
4 38 (3.99%) Cyber Essentials
5 35 (3.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 34 (3.57%) ISO 9001
7 24 (2.52%) NIST
7 24 (2.52%) SLA
8 19 (1.99%) Actionable Recommendations
9 17 (1.78%) TickIT
10 16 (1.68%) Accessibility
11 15 (1.57%) PMO
12 8 (0.84%) GMP
13 7 (0.73%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.42%) GRC
15 4 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 14443
15 4 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 7816
15 4 (0.42%) SOC 2
16 3 (0.31%) IFRS
System Software
1 46 (4.83%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.36%) Docker
3 9 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.63%) ProxySG
5 3 (0.31%) DFS Replication
5 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.10%) Firmware
6 1 (0.10%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (2.83%) Terraform
2 13 (1.36%) Ansible
3 12 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.52%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.31%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.10%) Autotask
6 1 (0.10%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 239 (25.08%) Microsoft
2 62 (6.51%) Workday
3 56 (5.88%) Salesforce
4 53 (5.56%) SAP
5 30 (3.15%) Google
6 16 (1.68%) Aruba
6 16 (1.68%) iManage
7 15 (1.57%) Databricks
8 14 (1.47%) Adobe
8 14 (1.47%) Cisco
8 14 (1.47%) Oracle
9 12 (1.26%) Arista
9 12 (1.26%) NetScout
9 12 (1.26%) ServiceNow
10 9 (0.94%) Aderant
10 9 (0.94%) CheckPoint
10 9 (0.94%) Intapp
10 9 (0.94%) SolarWinds
11 8 (0.84%) HubSpot
11 8 (0.84%) IFS