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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 5 16
Rank change year-on-year -20 +11 +8
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,101 1,509 1,052
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 4.67% 16.08% 7.49%
As % of the General category 11.44% 24.78% 13.66%
Number of salaries quoted 776 341 553
10th Percentile £30,750 £26,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,125 £36,950
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £43,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.47% -14.00% +4.38%
75th Percentile £60,459 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £71,461 £78,750
England median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -

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 9,620 6,089 7,701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 40.82% 64.89% 54.85%
Number of salaries quoted 6,297 2,656 3,764
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,750 £27,750
25th Percentile £37,000 £31,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -17 673 £46,500 +3.33% 749
Yorkshire -11 300 £47,000 +17.50% 361
North East -22 128 £50,500 +26.25% 113
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 53 (4.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 49 (4.45%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.54%) Confluence
4 13 (1.18%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.00%) Apache
6 10 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (0.82%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.45%) CMS
9 3 (0.27%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.091%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.091%) CICS
10 1 (0.091%) IIS
10 1 (0.091%) JBoss
10 1 (0.091%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.091%) SAS
10 1 (0.091%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.091%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.091%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.091%) WordPress
Applications
1 154 (13.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 81 (7.36%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (2.82%) MS Visio
4 27 (2.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (1.18%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.27%) SOLIDWORKS
8 2 (0.18%) CATIA
8 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.18%) LaTeX
8 2 (0.18%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.091%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 23 (2.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.82%) SAP PM
4 8 (0.73%) Salesforce CRM
4 8 (0.73%) SAP ERP
5 6 (0.54%) Exchequer
5 6 (0.54%) Magento
6 5 (0.45%) Shopify
7 4 (0.36%) Odoo
7 4 (0.36%) SAP PP
7 4 (0.36%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.27%) SAP QM
9 2 (0.18%) Sage 200
9 2 (0.18%) SAP CRM
10 1 (0.091%) Dynamics NAV
10 1 (0.091%) Oracle EBS
10 1 (0.091%) SAP MDM
10 1 (0.091%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 158 (14.35%) Power Platform
2 153 (13.90%) Azure
3 129 (11.72%) AWS
4 83 (7.54%) Microsoft 365
5 54 (4.90%) GCP
6 43 (3.91%) Serverless
7 40 (3.63%) SaaS
8 39 (3.54%) Amazon S3
9 35 (3.18%) AWS Lambda
10 33 (3.00%) Entra ID
11 32 (2.91%) Dynamics 365
12 30 (2.72%) Amazon EC2
12 30 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
12 30 (2.72%) PowerApps
13 25 (2.27%) GitHub
14 24 (2.18%) Google Analytics
15 22 (2.00%) Microsoft Purview
16 21 (1.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 19 (1.73%) Amazon ECS
17 19 (1.73%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 29 (2.63%) DNS
2 28 (2.54%) DHCP
3 21 (1.91%) Firewall
4 18 (1.63%) VPN
5 17 (1.54%) Wireless
6 14 (1.27%) TCP/IP
7 12 (1.09%) Internet
8 11 (1.00%) WAN
9 8 (0.73%) LAN
10 6 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (0.45%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (0.45%) HTTP
11 5 (0.45%) Network Security
12 4 (0.36%) ATM
12 4 (0.36%) Cisco ASA
12 4 (0.36%) SMS
12 4 (0.36%) SNMP
12 4 (0.36%) SSL
12 4 (0.36%) Unified Communications
12 4 (0.36%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (11.90%) Power BI
2 47 (4.27%) Data Warehouse
3 44 (4.00%) Tableau
4 26 (2.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 25 (2.27%) BigQuery
5 25 (2.27%) Metadata
6 24 (2.18%) SQL Server
7 22 (2.00%) Big Data
8 17 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
8 17 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
9 15 (1.36%) Looker
10 13 (1.18%) Power Query
11 12 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
12 11 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
12 11 (1.00%) Relational Database
13 10 (0.91%) MySQL
13 10 (0.91%) Spark SQL
14 9 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 8 (0.73%) MongoDB
15 8 (0.73%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 53 (4.81%) JIRA
2 33 (3.00%) Git
3 10 (0.91%) GitLab
4 8 (0.73%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.27%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.27%) Postman
5 3 (0.27%) RStudio
5 3 (0.27%) Selenium
5 3 (0.27%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.18%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.18%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.18%) JMeter
6 2 (0.18%) Maven
6 2 (0.18%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.091%) Appium
7 1 (0.091%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.091%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.091%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.091%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.091%) Visual Studio
General
1 485 (44.05%) Social Skills
2 306 (27.79%) Finance
3 112 (10.17%) Law
4 107 (9.72%) Marketing
5 94 (8.54%) Organisational Skills
6 90 (8.17%) Public Sector
7 80 (7.27%) Legal
8 75 (6.81%) Retail
9 66 (5.99%) Manufacturing
10 59 (5.36%) Influencing Skills
11 54 (4.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 42 (3.81%) Telecoms
13 30 (2.72%) Military
14 26 (2.36%) Banking
15 24 (2.18%) Back Office
16 23 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
17 18 (1.63%) Automotive
18 17 (1.54%) Games
19 16 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
20 15 (1.36%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 312 (28.34%) Analyst
2 118 (10.72%) Senior
3 79 (7.18%) Business Analyst
4 75 (6.81%) Data Analyst
5 74 (6.72%) Lead
6 66 (5.99%) Developer
7 52 (4.72%) Architect
8 51 (4.63%) Data Engineer
9 44 (4.00%) Systems Analyst
10 33 (3.00%) Senior Analyst
11 30 (2.72%) Senior Manager
12 29 (2.63%) Junior
13 28 (2.54%) IT Support
13 28 (2.54%) Support Engineer
14 27 (2.45%) Technical Analyst
15 25 (2.27%) Support Analyst
16 24 (2.18%) HR Analyst
16 24 (2.18%) HR Data Analyst
17 23 (2.09%) Administrator
18 22 (2.00%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (3.36%) REST
2 29 (2.63%) .NET
3 28 (2.54%) Terraform
4 27 (2.45%) Middleware
5 25 (2.27%) HTML
6 21 (1.91%) CSS
7 20 (1.82%) EDI
7 20 (1.82%) SOAP
8 19 (1.73%) JSON
8 19 (1.73%) PySpark
8 19 (1.73%) XML
9 18 (1.63%) Node.js
10 9 (0.82%) Web Services
11 7 (0.64%) AngularJS
11 7 (0.64%) Pandas
11 7 (0.64%) React
12 6 (0.54%) Kafka
12 6 (0.54%) scikit-learn
13 5 (0.45%) ASP.NET
14 4 (0.36%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 71 (6.45%) Analytical Mindset
2 56 (5.09%) Onboarding
3 54 (4.90%) Management Information System
4 49 (4.45%) Product Ownership
5 24 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
6 23 (2.09%) Hybrid Cloud
7 22 (2.00%) Driving Licence
7 22 (2.00%) Social Media
8 19 (1.73%) Cloud Native
9 17 (1.54%) Data Structures
10 14 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
11 13 (1.18%) Data Centre
11 13 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
12 12 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
13 11 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
14 10 (0.91%) Credit Risk
14 10 (0.91%) Marketing Technology
14 10 (0.91%) Virtual Team
15 9 (0.82%) Low-Code
16 8 (0.73%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 75 (6.81%) Windows
2 44 (4.00%) Windows Server
3 19 (1.73%) Windows Server 2019
4 18 (1.63%) Linux
5 14 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
6 7 (0.64%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.54%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.36%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.27%) CentOS
9 3 (0.27%) CoreOS
9 3 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.27%) Unix
10 1 (0.091%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 490 (44.50%) Problem-Solving
2 349 (31.70%) Continuous Improvement
3 284 (25.79%) Decision-Making
4 239 (21.71%) Stakeholder Management
5 225 (20.44%) Analytics
6 191 (17.35%) Agile
7 185 (16.80%) AI
8 147 (13.35%) Business Intelligence
9 129 (11.72%) Mentoring
10 126 (11.44%) ERP
11 118 (10.72%) CRM
11 118 (10.72%) Validation
12 105 (9.54%) Data Modelling
13 99 (8.99%) Customer Service
14 98 (8.90%) Actionable Insight
15 97 (8.81%) Data Governance
15 97 (8.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 93 (8.45%) Coaching
17 92 (8.36%) Roadmaps
18 88 (7.99%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 223 (20.25%) SQL
2 154 (13.99%) Python
3 47 (4.27%) JavaScript
4 44 (4.00%) Java
5 36 (3.27%) C#
6 27 (2.45%) PowerShell
7 22 (2.00%) Bash
8 17 (1.54%) C++
9 15 (1.36%) R
10 11 (1.00%) Scala
11 10 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 9 (0.82%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.64%) C
13 7 (0.64%) PHP
14 6 (0.54%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.36%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.36%) COBOL
15 4 (0.36%) Go
15 4 (0.36%) XPath
16 3 (0.27%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 153 (13.90%) Degree
2 79 (7.18%) Security Cleared
3 56 (5.09%) SC Cleared
4 49 (4.45%) ACCA
5 48 (4.36%) DBS Check
6 42 (3.81%) CIMA
7 22 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (1.09%) Master's Degree
11 10 (0.91%) CCNA
11 10 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
12 9 (0.82%) DV Cleared
13 8 (0.73%) HNC
14 7 (0.64%) Azure Certification
14 7 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
14 7 (0.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 6 (0.54%) IRCA
15 6 (0.54%) PMI Certification
16 5 (0.45%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 171 (15.53%) Data Quality
2 73 (6.63%) QA
3 57 (5.18%) GDPR
4 29 (2.63%) Accessibility
5 20 (1.82%) SLA
6 17 (1.54%) TickIT
7 16 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 14 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
9 12 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
9 12 (1.09%) PMO
10 10 (0.91%) ISO 9001
11 9 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.45%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.36%) GRC
13 4 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 14443
13 4 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 7816
13 4 (0.36%) NIST
13 4 (0.36%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.27%) COSO
14 3 (0.27%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 67 (6.09%) Active Directory
2 35 (3.18%) Docker
3 9 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.27%) Ceph
5 3 (0.27%) DFS Replication
5 3 (0.27%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.18%) Firmware
6 2 (0.18%) vSphere
7 1 (0.091%) NFS
7 1 (0.091%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (1.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.45%) Ansible
4 4 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.27%) Argo
5 3 (0.27%) Check_MK
5 3 (0.27%) Grafana
5 3 (0.27%) Istio
5 3 (0.27%) McAfee ePO
5 3 (0.27%) Podman
5 3 (0.27%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.27%) SCVMM
6 2 (0.18%) Nessus
7 1 (0.091%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.091%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.091%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 275 (24.98%) Microsoft
2 53 (4.81%) Google
3 47 (4.27%) SAP
4 37 (3.36%) Workday
5 30 (2.72%) Salesforce
6 29 (2.63%) YouTube
7 17 (1.54%) Databricks
7 17 (1.54%) Oracle
7 17 (1.54%) VMware
8 16 (1.45%) iManage
9 14 (1.27%) Cisco
10 13 (1.18%) Adobe
10 13 (1.18%) ServiceNow
11 9 (0.82%) Aderant
12 8 (0.73%) HP
12 8 (0.73%) Intapp
13 7 (0.64%) HubSpot
13 7 (0.64%) Red Hat
13 7 (0.64%) Sage
13 7 (0.64%) Veeam