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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 4 18
Rank change year-on-year -19 +14 +2
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,174 1,586 1,010
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 4.90% 16.54% 7.54%
As % of the General category 12.05% 25.75% 13.24%
Number of salaries quoted 772 343 468
10th Percentile £30,775 £26,000 £27,850
25th Percentile £37,500 £32,938 £37,555
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,292 £73,750
England median annual salary £51,356 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.71% -9.09% -1.21%

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 9,744 6,159 7,628
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 40.69% 64.25% 56.94%
Number of salaries quoted 6,370 2,641 3,376
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £30,500 £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 £68,750 £61,250 £63,156
90th Percentile £86,250 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year - -5.17% -3.33%

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 8 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 8 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 -15 702 £46,500 +1.14% 652
Yorkshire -10 321 £47,000 +17.50% 424
North East -21 160 £51,962 +29.91% 129
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 (4.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 49 (4.17%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.62%) Confluence
4 18 (1.53%) Apache Spark
5 15 (1.28%) Apache
6 13 (1.11%) Jupyter
7 12 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.43%) CMS
8 5 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.26%) nginx
9 3 (0.26%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.17%) IIS
11 1 (0.085%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.085%) CICS
11 1 (0.085%) SAS
11 1 (0.085%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.085%) WebSphere
Applications
1 168 (14.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 90 (7.67%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (2.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 27 (2.30%) MS Visio
4 16 (1.36%) Spreadsheet
5 10 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.26%) AutoCAD
6 3 (0.26%) SOLIDWORKS
7 2 (0.17%) CATIA
7 2 (0.17%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.17%) LaTeX
7 2 (0.17%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.085%) OrCAD
8 1 (0.085%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 21 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.68%) SAP ERP
3 7 (0.60%) Odoo
4 6 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.51%) Exchequer
4 6 (0.51%) Shopify
5 5 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.34%) SAP PM
6 4 (0.34%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.26%) Magento
7 3 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.26%) SAP CRM
7 3 (0.26%) SAP PP
7 3 (0.26%) SAP QM
8 2 (0.17%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.17%) iTrent
8 2 (0.17%) Sage 200
9 1 (0.085%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.085%) SAP ECC
Cloud Services
1 169 (14.40%) Azure
2 140 (11.93%) AWS
3 139 (11.84%) Power Platform
4 84 (7.16%) Microsoft 365
5 67 (5.71%) GCP
6 43 (3.66%) Entra ID
7 42 (3.58%) SaaS
8 39 (3.32%) Serverless
9 38 (3.24%) Amazon S3
10 33 (2.81%) Amazon EC2
11 31 (2.64%) AWS Lambda
12 26 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
13 24 (2.04%) PowerApps
14 23 (1.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 23 (1.96%) Google Analytics
15 22 (1.87%) Amazon ECS
15 22 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
15 22 (1.87%) Microsoft Purview
16 18 (1.53%) GitHub
17 17 (1.45%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 35 (2.98%) DNS
2 34 (2.90%) DHCP
3 26 (2.21%) Internet
4 22 (1.87%) Firewall
5 18 (1.53%) Wireless
6 17 (1.45%) TCP/IP
6 17 (1.45%) VPN
7 15 (1.28%) WAN
8 10 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (0.77%) LAN
10 7 (0.60%) Network Security
10 7 (0.60%) SNMP
11 6 (0.51%) SD-WAN
11 6 (0.51%) SSL
11 6 (0.51%) VLAN
12 5 (0.43%) Cisco Nexus
12 5 (0.43%) HTTP
13 4 (0.34%) Cisco ASA
13 4 (0.34%) SMS
13 4 (0.34%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (9.63%) Power BI
2 43 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
3 34 (2.90%) Tableau
4 32 (2.73%) Metadata
5 27 (2.30%) BigQuery
5 27 (2.30%) SQL Server
6 19 (1.62%) Big Data
6 19 (1.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 17 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
8 15 (1.28%) Power Query
8 15 (1.28%) Relational Database
9 12 (1.02%) Looker
9 12 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (1.02%) Spark SQL
10 11 (0.94%) Amazon Athena
10 11 (0.94%) MySQL
11 10 (0.85%) Data Lake
12 9 (0.77%) Star Schema
13 8 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 52 (4.43%) Git
2 50 (4.26%) JIRA
3 20 (1.70%) GitLab
4 7 (0.60%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.34%) Postman
6 3 (0.26%) Appium
6 3 (0.26%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.26%) RStudio
6 3 (0.26%) Selenium
6 3 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.17%) JMeter
7 2 (0.17%) Ranorex
7 2 (0.17%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.085%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.085%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.085%) Maven
8 1 (0.085%) Visual Studio
General
1 525 (44.72%) Social Skills
2 319 (27.17%) Finance
3 110 (9.37%) Organisational Skills
4 109 (9.28%) Law
4 109 (9.28%) Marketing
5 103 (8.77%) Public Sector
6 100 (8.52%) Legal
7 84 (7.16%) Manufacturing
8 80 (6.81%) Retail
9 64 (5.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 61 (5.20%) Influencing Skills
11 40 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
12 33 (2.81%) Telecoms
13 25 (2.13%) Banking
14 23 (1.96%) Automotive
15 22 (1.87%) Military
16 20 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
17 18 (1.53%) Back Office
18 17 (1.45%) Electronics
18 17 (1.45%) Games
Job Titles
1 315 (26.83%) Analyst
2 123 (10.48%) Senior
3 71 (6.05%) Business Analyst
4 68 (5.79%) Data Analyst
4 68 (5.79%) Lead
5 67 (5.71%) Developer
6 53 (4.51%) Architect
6 53 (4.51%) Data Engineer
7 38 (3.24%) Senior Analyst
8 37 (3.15%) Systems Analyst
9 32 (2.73%) Junior
10 30 (2.56%) Support Analyst
10 30 (2.56%) Support Engineer
11 29 (2.47%) IT Support
11 29 (2.47%) Senior Manager
12 26 (2.21%) Technical Analyst
13 23 (1.96%) Consultant
14 22 (1.87%) Data Architect
14 22 (1.87%) Development Manager
14 22 (1.87%) Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (3.15%) Terraform
2 28 (2.39%) REST
3 27 (2.30%) .NET
3 27 (2.30%) HTML
4 24 (2.04%) CSS
4 24 (2.04%) PySpark
5 20 (1.70%) Node.js
6 16 (1.36%) Middleware
7 15 (1.28%) SOAP
8 14 (1.19%) EDI
8 14 (1.19%) JSON
9 12 (1.02%) XML
10 9 (0.77%) Kafka
11 7 (0.60%) React
11 7 (0.60%) Web Services
12 6 (0.51%) AngularJS
13 4 (0.34%) ASP.NET
13 4 (0.34%) Entity Framework
13 4 (0.34%) Pandas
13 4 (0.34%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 71 (6.05%) Management Information System
2 69 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 60 (5.11%) Analytical Mindset
4 49 (4.17%) Product Ownership
5 31 (2.64%) Driving Licence
6 30 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
7 26 (2.21%) Social Media
8 25 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
9 21 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
10 20 (1.70%) Cloud Native
11 18 (1.53%) Data Structures
12 17 (1.45%) Data Centre
13 13 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
14 11 (0.94%) Credit Risk
15 10 (0.85%) Algorithms
15 10 (0.85%) Cyber Threat
15 10 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
15 10 (0.85%) Marketing Technology
15 10 (0.85%) NHS
15 10 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 72 (6.13%) Windows
2 44 (3.75%) Windows Server
3 31 (2.64%) Linux
4 21 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
5 16 (1.36%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (0.68%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.60%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.34%) Unix
9 3 (0.26%) CentOS
9 3 (0.26%) CoreOS
9 3 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.085%) Android
10 1 (0.085%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.085%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 547 (46.59%) Problem-Solving
2 397 (33.82%) Continuous Improvement
3 291 (24.79%) Decision-Making
4 255 (21.72%) Stakeholder Management
5 232 (19.76%) Analytics
6 211 (17.97%) AI
7 196 (16.70%) Agile
8 146 (12.44%) Mentoring
9 138 (11.75%) Business Intelligence
10 127 (10.82%) ERP
11 123 (10.48%) CRM
11 123 (10.48%) Validation
12 118 (10.05%) CI/CD
13 107 (9.11%) Data Modelling
14 106 (9.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 104 (8.86%) Coaching
15 104 (8.86%) Customer Service
16 103 (8.77%) Project Delivery
17 97 (8.26%) Data Analysis
17 97 (8.26%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 218 (18.57%) SQL
2 161 (13.71%) Python
3 50 (4.26%) JavaScript
4 40 (3.41%) Java
5 33 (2.81%) C#
6 31 (2.64%) PowerShell
7 25 (2.13%) Bash
8 17 (1.45%) R
9 16 (1.36%) C++
9 16 (1.36%) Shell Script
10 11 (0.94%) Scala
11 9 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 8 (0.68%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.60%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.51%) C
14 6 (0.51%) PHP
15 4 (0.34%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.34%) COBOL
15 4 (0.34%) XPath
16 3 (0.26%) Go
Qualifications
1 189 (16.10%) Degree
2 99 (8.43%) Security Cleared
3 76 (6.47%) SC Cleared
4 44 (3.75%) ACCA
5 43 (3.66%) DBS Check
6 39 (3.32%) CIMA
7 22 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
8 21 (1.79%) Master's Degree
9 18 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
10 15 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
11 14 (1.19%) HNC
12 10 (0.85%) CCNA
12 10 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
13 9 (0.77%) Azure Certification
13 9 (0.77%) DV Cleared
13 9 (0.77%) Postgraduate
14 7 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 6 (0.51%) HND
15 6 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
15 6 (0.51%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (14.65%) Data Quality
2 66 (5.62%) QA
3 56 (4.77%) GDPR
4 27 (2.30%) Accessibility
5 17 (1.45%) SLA
6 16 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
7 13 (1.11%) PMO
8 12 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
9 8 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.68%) TickIT
10 7 (0.60%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.34%) GRC
11 4 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 4 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 4 (0.34%) NEBOSH
11 4 (0.34%) NIST
11 4 (0.34%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.26%) IFRS
12 3 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 68 (5.79%) Active Directory
2 49 (4.17%) Docker
3 8 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.43%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.34%) DFS Replication
5 4 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.26%) Ceph
6 3 (0.26%) Firmware
6 3 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.085%) NFS
7 1 (0.085%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (0.85%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.60%) Ansible
4 6 (0.51%) Grafana
4 6 (0.51%) Prometheus
4 6 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.26%) Argo
5 3 (0.26%) Check_MK
5 3 (0.26%) Istio
5 3 (0.26%) McAfee ePO
5 3 (0.26%) Podman
5 3 (0.26%) SCVMM
6 2 (0.17%) Autotask
6 2 (0.17%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.17%) Nessus
7 1 (0.085%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.085%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.085%) SCCM
Vendors
1 291 (24.79%) Microsoft
2 66 (5.62%) Google
3 41 (3.49%) SAP
4 36 (3.07%) YouTube
5 30 (2.56%) Salesforce
6 25 (2.13%) Workday
7 19 (1.62%) Databricks
7 19 (1.62%) Oracle
7 19 (1.62%) VMware
8 14 (1.19%) Cisco
8 14 (1.19%) ServiceNow
9 13 (1.11%) TikTok
10 12 (1.02%) iManage
11 10 (0.85%) Adobe
12 8 (0.68%) HP
12 8 (0.68%) HubSpot
13 7 (0.60%) Red Hat
13 7 (0.60%) Sage
13 7 (0.60%) Samsung
13 7 (0.60%) Veeam