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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 7 18
Rank change year-on-year -16 +11 +5
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,192 1,237 924
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 4.96% 13.56% 7.17%
As % of the General category 12.16% 21.61% 12.49%
Number of salaries quoted 769 341 421
10th Percentile £31,000 £26,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,125 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £71,991
England median annual salary £51,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.00% -9.09% -4.35%

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 9,806 5,723 7,395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 40.79% 62.73% 57.37%
Number of salaries quoted 6,443 2,690 3,166
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £30,500 £36,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £69,390 £62,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £78,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £53,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.77% -11.67% -

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 October 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 October 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 -13 700 £46,500 +3.33% 118
Yorkshire -7 334 £47,000 +17.50% 76
North East -23 167 £52,231 +30.58% 30
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 50 (4.19%) Microsoft Exchange
1 50 (4.19%) SharePoint
2 19 (1.59%) Apache Spark
2 19 (1.59%) Confluence
3 15 (1.26%) Apache
4 13 (1.09%) Jupyter
5 12 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 5 (0.42%) CMS
6 5 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
7 3 (0.25%) nginx
7 3 (0.25%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.17%) IIS
9 1 (0.084%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.084%) CICS
9 1 (0.084%) SAS
9 1 (0.084%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.084%) WebSphere
Applications
1 177 (14.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 93 (7.80%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (2.18%) MS Visio
5 16 (1.34%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.34%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.25%) SOLIDWORKS
9 2 (0.17%) CATIA
9 2 (0.17%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.17%) LaTeX
9 2 (0.17%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.084%) OrCAD
10 1 (0.084%) ProjectWise
10 1 (0.084%) Revit
10 1 (0.084%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 18 (1.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.59%) Odoo
2 7 (0.59%) SAP ERP
3 6 (0.50%) Exchequer
3 6 (0.50%) Shopify
4 5 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.34%) SAP PM
5 4 (0.34%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.25%) Magento
6 3 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.25%) SAP CRM
6 3 (0.25%) SAP QM
7 2 (0.17%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.17%) iTrent
7 2 (0.17%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.17%) SAP PP
8 1 (0.084%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.084%) SAP ECC
Cloud Services
1 179 (15.02%) Azure
2 145 (12.16%) Power Platform
3 141 (11.83%) AWS
4 88 (7.38%) Microsoft 365
5 67 (5.62%) GCP
6 47 (3.94%) Entra ID
7 44 (3.69%) SaaS
8 40 (3.36%) Serverless
9 38 (3.19%) Amazon S3
10 33 (2.77%) Amazon EC2
11 31 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
12 25 (2.10%) Google Analytics
13 23 (1.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 23 (1.93%) Amazon ECS
13 23 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
13 23 (1.93%) Microsoft Purview
13 23 (1.93%) PowerApps
14 19 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
14 19 (1.59%) GitHub
15 17 (1.43%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 38 (3.19%) DNS
2 37 (3.10%) DHCP
3 26 (2.18%) Internet
4 23 (1.93%) Firewall
5 18 (1.51%) TCP/IP
5 18 (1.51%) VPN
5 18 (1.51%) Wireless
6 15 (1.26%) WAN
7 10 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (0.76%) LAN
9 8 (0.67%) SNMP
10 7 (0.59%) Network Security
10 7 (0.59%) SSL
10 7 (0.59%) VLAN
11 6 (0.50%) SD-WAN
12 5 (0.42%) Cisco Nexus
12 5 (0.42%) HTTP
12 5 (0.42%) Remote Desktop
13 4 (0.34%) SMS
13 4 (0.34%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (9.90%) Power BI
2 49 (4.11%) Data Warehouse
3 34 (2.85%) Metadata
4 33 (2.77%) Tableau
5 29 (2.43%) SQL Server
6 28 (2.35%) BigQuery
7 21 (1.76%) Big Data
8 19 (1.59%) Power Query
9 17 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
9 17 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
9 17 (1.43%) Relational Database
10 16 (1.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 14 (1.17%) Looker
12 12 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
12 12 (1.01%) Spark SQL
13 11 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
13 11 (0.92%) Data Lake
13 11 (0.92%) MySQL
14 10 (0.84%) Star Schema
15 8 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 52 (4.36%) Git
2 47 (3.94%) JIRA
3 21 (1.76%) GitLab
4 7 (0.59%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.34%) Postman
6 3 (0.25%) Appium
6 3 (0.25%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.25%) RStudio
6 3 (0.25%) Selenium
6 3 (0.25%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.17%) JMeter
7 2 (0.17%) Ranorex
7 2 (0.17%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.084%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.084%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.084%) Maven
8 1 (0.084%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.084%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.084%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 534 (44.80%) Social Skills
2 323 (27.10%) Finance
3 111 (9.31%) Organisational Skills
4 109 (9.14%) Public Sector
5 108 (9.06%) Law
6 107 (8.98%) Legal
6 107 (8.98%) Marketing
7 87 (7.30%) Manufacturing
8 79 (6.63%) Retail
9 66 (5.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 59 (4.95%) Influencing Skills
11 42 (3.52%) Presentation Skills
12 28 (2.35%) Telecoms
13 24 (2.01%) Banking
14 23 (1.93%) Automotive
15 21 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
16 19 (1.59%) Electronics
17 18 (1.51%) Local Government
18 17 (1.43%) Games
18 17 (1.43%) Military
Job Titles
1 301 (25.25%) Analyst
2 129 (10.82%) Senior
3 71 (5.96%) Lead
4 70 (5.87%) Developer
5 69 (5.79%) Business Analyst
6 61 (5.12%) Data Analyst
7 57 (4.78%) Data Engineer
8 55 (4.61%) Architect
9 41 (3.44%) Senior Analyst
10 33 (2.77%) Junior
11 31 (2.60%) IT Support
11 31 (2.60%) Support Engineer
12 29 (2.43%) Support Analyst
13 28 (2.35%) Senior Manager
14 26 (2.18%) Systems Analyst
15 25 (2.10%) Technical Analyst
16 22 (1.85%) Administrator
16 22 (1.85%) Consultant
16 22 (1.85%) Data Architect
16 22 (1.85%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (3.27%) Terraform
2 32 (2.68%) .NET
3 30 (2.52%) HTML
4 27 (2.27%) CSS
5 25 (2.10%) PySpark
5 25 (2.10%) REST
6 21 (1.76%) Node.js
7 12 (1.01%) EDI
7 12 (1.01%) SOAP
8 11 (0.92%) JSON
8 11 (0.92%) Middleware
9 10 (0.84%) Kafka
10 9 (0.76%) XML
11 8 (0.67%) React
12 7 (0.59%) AngularJS
12 7 (0.59%) Web Services
13 6 (0.50%) RESTful
14 5 (0.42%) SAML
15 4 (0.34%) ASP.NET
15 4 (0.34%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 72 (6.04%) Management Information System
2 71 (5.96%) Onboarding
3 59 (4.95%) Analytical Mindset
4 48 (4.03%) Product Ownership
5 36 (3.02%) Driving Licence
6 33 (2.77%) Self-Motivation
7 26 (2.18%) Social Media
8 25 (2.10%) Linux Command Line
9 21 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
10 20 (1.68%) Cloud Native
11 18 (1.51%) Data Centre
11 18 (1.51%) Data Structures
12 14 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
13 13 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
14 12 (1.01%) Algorithms
15 11 (0.92%) Credit Risk
16 10 (0.84%) Cyber Threat
16 10 (0.84%) NHS
16 10 (0.84%) Taxonomies
16 10 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 74 (6.21%) Windows
2 47 (3.94%) Windows Server
3 32 (2.68%) Linux
4 22 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
5 17 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (0.67%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.59%) macOS
8 4 (0.34%) Unix
9 3 (0.25%) CentOS
9 3 (0.25%) CoreOS
9 3 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.084%) Android
10 1 (0.084%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.084%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 577 (48.41%) Problem-Solving
2 404 (33.89%) Continuous Improvement
3 287 (24.08%) Decision-Making
4 254 (21.31%) Stakeholder Management
5 246 (20.64%) Analytics
6 222 (18.62%) AI
7 205 (17.20%) Agile
8 150 (12.58%) Mentoring
9 147 (12.33%) Business Intelligence
10 128 (10.74%) Validation
11 125 (10.49%) CI/CD
12 121 (10.15%) ERP
13 117 (9.82%) CRM
14 113 (9.48%) Data Modelling
15 108 (9.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 106 (8.89%) Coaching
16 106 (8.89%) Project Delivery
17 105 (8.81%) Customer Service
17 105 (8.81%) Data Analysis
18 99 (8.31%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 233 (19.55%) SQL
2 175 (14.68%) Python
3 54 (4.53%) JavaScript
4 40 (3.36%) Java
5 38 (3.19%) C#
6 34 (2.85%) PowerShell
7 26 (2.18%) Bash
8 21 (1.76%) R
9 16 (1.34%) C++
9 16 (1.34%) Shell Script
10 11 (0.92%) Scala
11 10 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 10 (0.84%) T-SQL
12 8 (0.67%) TypeScript
13 6 (0.50%) C
13 6 (0.50%) PHP
14 4 (0.34%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.34%) COBOL
14 4 (0.34%) Go
14 4 (0.34%) XPath
Qualifications
1 199 (16.69%) Degree
2 107 (8.98%) Security Cleared
3 84 (7.05%) SC Cleared
4 43 (3.61%) ACCA
5 38 (3.19%) CIMA
6 34 (2.85%) DBS Check
7 23 (1.93%) Microsoft Certification
8 21 (1.76%) Master's Degree
9 18 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
10 16 (1.34%) HNC
11 14 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
12 11 (0.92%) Azure Certification
13 10 (0.84%) CCNA
13 10 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
14 9 (0.76%) DV Cleared
14 9 (0.76%) HND
14 9 (0.76%) Postgraduate
15 7 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 6 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
16 6 (0.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (14.01%) Data Quality
2 73 (6.12%) QA
3 56 (4.70%) GDPR
4 31 (2.60%) Accessibility
5 17 (1.43%) SLA
6 16 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (1.26%) Actionable Recommendations
8 14 (1.17%) PMO
9 13 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.67%) ISO 9001
10 8 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.42%) NIST
12 4 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 14443
12 4 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 7816
12 4 (0.34%) NEBOSH
12 4 (0.34%) TickIT
13 3 (0.25%) COSO
13 3 (0.25%) GRC
13 3 (0.25%) ISO 8583
13 3 (0.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 72 (6.04%) Active Directory
2 49 (4.11%) Docker
3 8 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.59%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.42%) DFS Replication
5 5 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.34%) Firmware
7 3 (0.25%) Ceph
8 1 (0.084%) NFS
8 1 (0.084%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (1.93%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (0.84%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (0.59%) Ansible
5 6 (0.50%) Grafana
5 6 (0.50%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.34%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.25%) Argo
7 3 (0.25%) Autotask
7 3 (0.25%) Check_MK
7 3 (0.25%) Istio
7 3 (0.25%) McAfee ePO
7 3 (0.25%) Podman
7 3 (0.25%) SCVMM
8 2 (0.17%) Nessus
8 2 (0.17%) SCCM
9 1 (0.084%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.084%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 305 (25.59%) Microsoft
2 68 (5.70%) Google
3 40 (3.36%) SAP
4 39 (3.27%) YouTube
5 26 (2.18%) Salesforce
6 21 (1.76%) Databricks
6 21 (1.76%) VMware
7 19 (1.59%) Oracle
8 14 (1.17%) Cisco
8 14 (1.17%) TikTok
9 13 (1.09%) ServiceNow
9 13 (1.09%) Workday
10 11 (0.92%) iManage
11 10 (0.84%) Adobe
12 8 (0.67%) Aruba
12 8 (0.67%) HP
12 8 (0.67%) HubSpot
12 8 (0.67%) Sage
13 7 (0.59%) Red Hat
13 7 (0.59%) Veeam