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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 6 21
Rank change year-on-year -30 +15 -3
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 884 1,455 1,427
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 4.65% 18.45% 8.38%
As % of the General category 9.50% 24.52% 15.00%
Number of salaries quoted 661 386 1,025
10th Percentile £35,000 £27,625 £27,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,625 £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 £68,438 £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 9,304 5,935 9,511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 48.95% 75.25% 55.87%
Number of salaries quoted 5,239 2,701 7,327
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,480 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,750 £33,679
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.25%
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £76,550
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 18 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 18 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 -31 510 £45,000 -10.00% 222
Yorkshire -13 289 £52,500 +16.67% 122
North East -25 85 £48,445 +25.83% 56
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 29 (3.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (3.05%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.36%) Apache Spark
4 8 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.68%) 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 (0.23%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 139 (15.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (4.41%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (2.71%) MS Visio
4 11 (1.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 31 (3.51%) Salesforce CRM
2 30 (3.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (1.70%) SAP PM
4 14 (1.58%) SAP ERP
5 9 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
6 7 (0.79%) Workday HCM
7 6 (0.68%) Magento
8 5 (0.57%) SAP PP
9 4 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.23%) 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%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 125 (14.14%) Power Platform
2 118 (13.35%) Azure
3 89 (10.07%) AWS
4 62 (7.01%) Microsoft 365
5 38 (4.30%) Entra ID
6 36 (4.07%) SaaS
7 34 (3.85%) Microsoft Purview
8 31 (3.51%) GCP
9 23 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
10 21 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
10 21 (2.38%) Power Automate
10 21 (2.38%) PowerApps
11 20 (2.26%) GitHub
12 19 (2.15%) Boomi
13 12 (1.36%) Google Analytics
13 12 (1.36%) OCI
13 12 (1.36%) Serverless
13 12 (1.36%) Snowflake
14 11 (1.24%) Amazon S3
14 11 (1.24%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 51 (5.77%) Firewall
2 16 (1.81%) Wireless
3 15 (1.70%) Network Security
3 15 (1.70%) VPN
3 15 (1.70%) Wi-Fi
4 13 (1.47%) Wireshark
5 12 (1.36%) NGFW
5 12 (1.36%) VXLAN
6 11 (1.24%) Cisco ASA
6 11 (1.24%) Cisco Nexus
7 10 (1.13%) WAN
8 9 (1.02%) LAN
8 9 (1.02%) 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%) SNMP
9 8 (0.90%) WAAS
9 8 (0.90%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (11.99%) Power BI
2 104 (11.76%) Tableau
3 59 (6.67%) Data Mining
4 24 (2.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 20 (2.26%) SQL Server
6 16 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (1.58%) Metadata
8 11 (1.24%) DynamoDB
9 10 (1.13%) BigQuery
10 8 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (0.90%) NoSQL
10 8 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (0.79%) Big Data
11 7 (0.79%) Looker
12 6 (0.68%) Power Query
13 5 (0.57%) Hadoop
13 5 (0.57%) Relational Database
13 5 (0.57%) Semantic Layer
14 4 (0.45%) Amazon Athena
14 4 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 30 (3.39%) JIRA
2 12 (1.36%) 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 (0.23%) MLflow
6 2 (0.23%) 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
1 395 (44.68%) Social Skills
2 263 (29.75%) Finance
3 98 (11.09%) Marketing
4 75 (8.48%) Public Sector
5 55 (6.22%) Law
6 41 (4.64%) Manufacturing
6 41 (4.64%) Retail
7 38 (4.30%) Legal
8 37 (4.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 33 (3.73%) Telecoms
10 26 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
11 25 (2.83%) Military
12 24 (2.71%) Presentation Skills
13 23 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
14 21 (2.38%) Back Office
15 12 (1.36%) Banking
16 11 (1.24%) Advertising
16 11 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
16 11 (1.24%) Games
17 8 (0.90%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 261 (29.52%) Analyst
2 117 (13.24%) Data Analyst
3 105 (11.88%) Senior
4 78 (8.82%) Lead
5 55 (6.22%) Trainee
5 55 (6.22%) Trainee Analyst
5 55 (6.22%) Trainee Data Analyst
6 52 (5.88%) Data Manager
7 49 (5.54%) Business Analyst
8 48 (5.43%) Systems Analyst
9 44 (4.98%) Architect
9 44 (4.98%) Developer
10 43 (4.86%) Systems Manager
11 38 (4.30%) CRM Executive
12 31 (3.51%) Salesforce Executive
13 30 (3.39%) Head of QA
13 30 (3.39%) HR Analyst
13 30 (3.39%) HR Data Analyst
13 30 (3.39%) HR Manager
14 24 (2.71%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (3.05%) Middleware
2 23 (2.60%) REST
3 17 (1.92%) .NET
3 17 (1.92%) XML
4 15 (1.70%) SOAP
5 13 (1.47%) EDI
5 13 (1.47%) React
6 12 (1.36%) HTML
6 12 (1.36%) JSON
7 11 (1.24%) CSS
7 11 (1.24%) Node.js
8 9 (1.02%) Flutter
9 8 (0.90%) SAP Fiori
10 6 (0.68%) AngularJS
11 5 (0.57%) scikit-learn
12 4 (0.45%) Pandas
12 4 (0.45%) SAP Core Interface
12 4 (0.45%) Spring Boot
13 3 (0.34%) Entity Framework
13 3 (0.34%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 91 (10.29%) Analytical Mindset
2 44 (4.98%) Management Information System
3 35 (3.96%) Product Ownership
4 30 (3.39%) Onboarding
5 27 (3.05%) Data Centre
6 23 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
7 15 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (1.47%) Enterprise Cloud
9 12 (1.36%) PKI
10 11 (1.24%) Driving Licence
11 10 (1.13%) Social Media
11 10 (1.13%) Virtual Team
12 9 (1.02%) Cloud Native
12 9 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.02%) Operational Technology
13 8 (0.90%) Data Structures
14 7 (0.79%) Cyber Threat
14 7 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
14 7 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
15 6 (0.68%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 42 (4.75%) Windows
2 22 (2.49%) Windows Server
3 9 (1.02%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.68%) Android
4 6 (0.68%) Linux
5 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 335 (37.90%) Problem-Solving
2 275 (31.11%) Continuous Improvement
3 231 (26.13%) Decision-Making
4 221 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 218 (24.66%) Analytics
6 119 (13.46%) Project Management
7 112 (12.67%) Agile
8 101 (11.43%) Actionable Insight
9 99 (11.20%) Business Intelligence
10 98 (11.09%) CRM
10 98 (11.09%) Data Analysis
10 98 (11.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 96 (10.86%) Data Governance
12 95 (10.75%) AI
13 91 (10.29%) Mentoring
14 82 (9.28%) Business Analysis
14 82 (9.28%) Data Analytics
15 79 (8.94%) Root Cause Analysis
16 75 (8.48%) ERP
17 70 (7.92%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 181 (20.48%) SQL
2 151 (17.08%) Python
3 29 (3.28%) C#
3 29 (3.28%) Java
4 23 (2.60%) JavaScript
5 14 (1.58%) T-SQL
6 9 (1.02%) Go
6 9 (1.02%) PowerShell
6 9 (1.02%) R
7 8 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 7 (0.79%) Scala
9 5 (0.57%) C++
10 4 (0.45%) Bash
11 3 (0.34%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.34%) C
11 3 (0.34%) Groovy
11 3 (0.34%) PHP
11 3 (0.34%) SOQL
11 3 (0.34%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 108 (12.22%) Degree
2 72 (8.14%) DBS Check
3 30 (3.39%) IRCA
4 26 (2.94%) ACCA
5 23 (2.60%) CIMA
6 22 (2.49%) Security Cleared
7 19 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
8 15 (1.70%) SC Cleared
9 14 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (1.47%) PMI Certification
11 12 (1.36%) PMP
12 11 (1.24%) CCNP
13 10 (1.13%) HNC
13 10 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (0.90%) CCIE
15 7 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
16 6 (0.68%) AWS Certification
16 6 (0.68%) Master's Degree
17 5 (0.57%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (14.93%) Data Quality
2 83 (9.39%) GDPR
3 68 (7.69%) QA
4 34 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
4 34 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 33 (3.73%) ISO 9001
6 26 (2.94%) NIST
7 19 (2.15%) PMO
8 17 (1.92%) Actionable Recommendations
8 17 (1.92%) SLA
8 17 (1.92%) TickIT
9 12 (1.36%) GMP
10 11 (1.24%) Accessibility
11 9 (1.02%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.45%) GRC
13 4 (0.45%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 14443
14 3 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 7816
15 2 (0.23%) GAAP
System Software
1 41 (4.64%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.13%) 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 (0.23%) Firmware
6 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (3.05%) Terraform
2 18 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (1.47%) Ansible
4 7 (0.79%) Kubernetes
4 7 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.34%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.11%) Autotask
6 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 247 (27.94%) Microsoft
2 62 (7.01%) Workday
3 59 (6.67%) Salesforce
4 50 (5.66%) SAP
5 23 (2.60%) Google
6 21 (2.38%) ServiceNow
7 15 (1.70%) Aruba
8 12 (1.36%) Arista
8 12 (1.36%) Databricks
8 12 (1.36%) iManage
8 12 (1.36%) NetScout
9 11 (1.24%) Cisco
10 10 (1.13%) Anaplan
10 10 (1.13%) Oracle
11 9 (1.02%) Aderant
11 9 (1.02%) Adobe
11 9 (1.02%) Genesys
11 9 (1.02%) IFS
11 9 (1.02%) Intapp
11 9 (1.02%) Verint