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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 6 21
Rank change year-on-year -29 +15 -3
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 912 1,449 1,423
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 4.67% 18.77% 8.22%
As % of the General category 9.65% 24.94% 14.88%
Number of salaries quoted 684 347 1,024
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £36,916 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £61,250 £70,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,172
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 9,452 5,809 9,561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 48.35% 75.25% 55.20%
Number of salaries quoted 5,380 2,505 7,350
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,313 £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% -8.65%
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £63,250
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 25 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 25 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 -31 533 £46,500 -7.00% 241
Yorkshire -12 290 £52,500 +16.67% 120
North East -27 89 £48,445 +25.83% 52
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 (3.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (2.96%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.54%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.66%) Apache
5 6 (0.66%) Confluence
6 4 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.44%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.44%) WordPress
7 3 (0.33%) CMS
7 3 (0.33%) JBoss
8 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 139 (15.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (4.50%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (2.63%) MS Visio
4 11 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 31 (3.40%) Salesforce CRM
2 30 (3.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (1.64%) SAP PM
4 14 (1.54%) SAP ERP
5 9 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
6 7 (0.77%) Workday HCM
7 6 (0.66%) Magento
8 5 (0.55%) SAP PP
9 4 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
10 2 (0.22%) SAP QM
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
1 129 (14.14%) Power Platform
2 121 (13.27%) Azure
3 95 (10.42%) AWS
4 59 (6.47%) Microsoft 365
5 38 (4.17%) Entra ID
6 36 (3.95%) SaaS
7 33 (3.62%) Microsoft Purview
8 32 (3.51%) GCP
9 23 (2.52%) Dynamics 365
10 22 (2.41%) PowerApps
11 21 (2.30%) GitHub
11 21 (2.30%) Power Automate
12 20 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
13 19 (2.08%) Boomi
14 14 (1.54%) Amazon S3
15 12 (1.32%) Google Analytics
15 12 (1.32%) OCI
15 12 (1.32%) Serverless
15 12 (1.32%) Snowflake
16 11 (1.21%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 53 (5.81%) Firewall
2 16 (1.75%) Network Security
2 16 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
2 16 (1.75%) Wireless
3 15 (1.64%) VPN
4 13 (1.43%) Wireshark
5 12 (1.32%) Cisco ASA
5 12 (1.32%) Cisco Nexus
5 12 (1.32%) NGFW
5 12 (1.32%) VXLAN
6 11 (1.21%) WAN
7 10 (1.10%) SNMP
8 9 (0.99%) LAN
8 9 (0.99%) VLAN
9 8 (0.88%) BGP
9 8 (0.88%) Cisco Wireless
9 8 (0.88%) EIGRP
9 8 (0.88%) OSPF
9 8 (0.88%) WAAS
9 8 (0.88%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (12.06%) Power BI
2 101 (11.07%) Tableau
3 55 (6.03%) Data Mining
4 25 (2.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 20 (2.19%) SQL Server
6 18 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (1.64%) Metadata
8 12 (1.32%) DynamoDB
9 10 (1.10%) BigQuery
10 9 (0.99%) Big Data
10 9 (0.99%) NoSQL
10 9 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (0.77%) Looker
13 6 (0.66%) Amazon Athena
13 6 (0.66%) Power Query
14 5 (0.55%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.55%) Hadoop
14 5 (0.55%) Relational Database
14 5 (0.55%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 31 (3.40%) JIRA
2 12 (1.32%) Git
3 8 (0.88%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.66%) GitLab
5 4 (0.44%) Cucumber
5 4 (0.44%) Cypress.io
5 4 (0.44%) Selenium
6 3 (0.33%) Maven
6 3 (0.33%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.22%) MLflow
7 2 (0.22%) Postman
8 1 (0.11%) JMeter
8 1 (0.11%) JUnit
8 1 (0.11%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.11%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.11%) TestRail
General
1 403 (44.19%) Social Skills
2 264 (28.95%) Finance
3 102 (11.18%) Marketing
4 80 (8.77%) Public Sector
5 58 (6.36%) Law
6 42 (4.61%) Legal
6 42 (4.61%) Manufacturing
6 42 (4.61%) Retail
7 41 (4.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 33 (3.62%) Telecoms
9 29 (3.18%) Influencing Skills
9 29 (3.18%) Organisational Skills
10 25 (2.74%) Military
10 25 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
11 21 (2.30%) Back Office
12 13 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
13 12 (1.32%) Banking
14 11 (1.21%) Games
15 10 (1.10%) Advertising
16 8 (0.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 267 (29.28%) Analyst
2 116 (12.72%) Data Analyst
3 109 (11.95%) Senior
4 82 (8.99%) Lead
5 52 (5.70%) Business Analyst
6 51 (5.59%) Data Manager
6 51 (5.59%) Trainee
6 51 (5.59%) Trainee Analyst
6 51 (5.59%) Trainee Data Analyst
7 48 (5.26%) Architect
7 48 (5.26%) Systems Analyst
8 46 (5.04%) Developer
9 43 (4.71%) Systems Manager
10 38 (4.17%) CRM Executive
11 31 (3.40%) Salesforce Executive
12 30 (3.29%) Head of QA
12 30 (3.29%) HR Analyst
12 30 (3.29%) HR Data Analyst
12 30 (3.29%) HR Manager
13 24 (2.63%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (2.96%) Middleware
2 23 (2.52%) REST
3 17 (1.86%) .NET
3 17 (1.86%) XML
4 15 (1.64%) SOAP
5 13 (1.43%) EDI
5 13 (1.43%) HTML
5 13 (1.43%) React
6 12 (1.32%) CSS
6 12 (1.32%) JSON
6 12 (1.32%) Node.js
7 9 (0.99%) Flutter
8 8 (0.88%) SAP Fiori
9 7 (0.77%) AngularJS
10 6 (0.66%) scikit-learn
11 4 (0.44%) Entity Framework
11 4 (0.44%) Pandas
11 4 (0.44%) SAP Core Interface
11 4 (0.44%) Spring Boot
12 3 (0.33%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 91 (9.98%) Analytical Mindset
2 46 (5.04%) Management Information System
3 37 (4.06%) Product Ownership
4 32 (3.51%) Onboarding
5 29 (3.18%) Data Centre
6 23 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
7 16 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (1.43%) Enterprise Cloud
9 12 (1.32%) PKI
10 11 (1.21%) Cloud Native
10 11 (1.21%) Driving Licence
11 10 (1.10%) Data Structures
11 10 (1.10%) Social Media
11 10 (1.10%) Virtual Team
12 9 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
13 8 (0.88%) FMCG
13 8 (0.88%) Operational Technology
14 7 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
15 6 (0.66%) Cyber Threat
15 6 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 44 (4.82%) Windows
2 25 (2.74%) Windows Server
3 9 (0.99%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.66%) Android
4 6 (0.66%) Linux
5 5 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 338 (37.06%) Problem-Solving
2 286 (31.36%) Continuous Improvement
3 243 (26.64%) Decision-Making
4 228 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 218 (23.90%) Analytics
6 115 (12.61%) Agile
6 115 (12.61%) Project Management
7 103 (11.29%) Actionable Insight
7 103 (11.29%) Business Intelligence
8 101 (11.07%) CRM
9 100 (10.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 99 (10.86%) Data Analysis
11 98 (10.75%) AI
11 98 (10.75%) Data Governance
12 95 (10.42%) Mentoring
13 83 (9.10%) Root Cause Analysis
14 79 (8.66%) Business Analysis
15 78 (8.55%) Data Analytics
16 77 (8.44%) ERP
17 74 (8.11%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 183 (20.07%) SQL
2 154 (16.89%) Python
3 32 (3.51%) Java
4 30 (3.29%) C#
5 24 (2.63%) JavaScript
6 13 (1.43%) T-SQL
7 10 (1.10%) PowerShell
7 10 (1.10%) R
8 9 (0.99%) Go
9 8 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (0.77%) Scala
11 6 (0.66%) C++
12 5 (0.55%) Bash
13 3 (0.33%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.33%) C
13 3 (0.33%) Groovy
13 3 (0.33%) PHP
13 3 (0.33%) SOQL
13 3 (0.33%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 112 (12.28%) Degree
2 75 (8.22%) DBS Check
3 30 (3.29%) IRCA
4 26 (2.85%) ACCA
4 26 (2.85%) Security Cleared
5 23 (2.52%) CIMA
6 19 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (1.97%) SC Cleared
8 16 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.43%) PMI Certification
10 12 (1.32%) CCNP
10 12 (1.32%) PMP
11 11 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (1.10%) HNC
13 8 (0.88%) CCIE
13 8 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
14 7 (0.77%) CCNA
15 6 (0.66%) AWS Certification
15 6 (0.66%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (14.69%) Data Quality
2 84 (9.21%) GDPR
3 68 (7.46%) QA
4 34 (3.73%) Cyber Essentials
4 34 (3.73%) ISO 9001
5 33 (3.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 26 (2.85%) NIST
7 19 (2.08%) PMO
7 19 (2.08%) SLA
8 18 (1.97%) Actionable Recommendations
9 17 (1.86%) TickIT
10 12 (1.32%) GMP
11 11 (1.21%) Accessibility
12 9 (0.99%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.44%) GRC
14 4 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 14443
14 4 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 7816
14 4 (0.44%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.22%) IFRS
System Software
1 42 (4.61%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.10%) Docker
2 10 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
3 8 (0.88%) ProxySG
4 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (0.33%) 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 27 (2.96%) Terraform
2 16 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (1.43%) Ansible
4 7 (0.77%) Kubernetes
5 5 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.33%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.11%) Autotask
7 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 248 (27.19%) Microsoft
2 62 (6.80%) Workday
3 59 (6.47%) Salesforce
4 52 (5.70%) SAP
5 23 (2.52%) Google
6 21 (2.30%) ServiceNow
7 16 (1.75%) Aruba
8 12 (1.32%) Arista
8 12 (1.32%) Cisco
8 12 (1.32%) Databricks
8 12 (1.32%) iManage
8 12 (1.32%) NetScout
9 11 (1.21%) Oracle
10 10 (1.10%) Adobe
10 10 (1.10%) Anaplan
10 10 (1.10%) SolarWinds
11 9 (0.99%) Aderant
11 9 (0.99%) IFS
11 9 (0.99%) Intapp
11 9 (0.99%) Verint