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 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 18 19
Rank change year-on-year +6 +1 +7
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 909 958 714
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 9.47% 7.84% 9.41%
As % of the General category 15.70% 13.31% 14.39%
Number of salaries quoted 388 423 518
10th Percentile £29,130 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £38,759
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £59,063 £65,000 £67,070
90th Percentile £70,438 £73,750 £72,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +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 common skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 5,789 7,196 4,961
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 60.32% 58.92% 65.36%
Number of salaries quoted 3,042 2,912 3,661
10th Percentile £26,000 £30,000 £27,600
25th Percentile £30,000 £37,574 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,725 £83,750
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 -9 461 £45,000 -14.29% 381
Yorkshire +9 332 £40,000 -27.27% 199
North East +16 116 £45,000 +7.14% 83
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 22 (2.42%) SharePoint
2 21 (2.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (1.65%) Confluence
4 8 (0.88%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.77%) Apache
6 4 (0.44%) Camunda
6 4 (0.44%) CMS
7 3 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.33%) SAS
8 2 (0.22%) FactoryTalk
8 2 (0.22%) HCL Notes
8 2 (0.22%) IIS
8 2 (0.22%) nginx
8 2 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.22%) WinCC
9 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 275 (30.25%) Chatbot
2 142 (15.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 51 (5.61%) Microsoft Office
4 26 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
6 11 (1.21%) AutoCAD
7 9 (0.99%) MS Visio
8 6 (0.66%) SOLIDWORKS
9 5 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.22%) Revit
11 1 (0.11%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 9 (0.99%) Shopify
2 8 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.66%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.66%) SAP WM
4 3 (0.33%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.33%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.22%) Oracle BPM
5 2 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.22%) Primavera
5 2 (0.22%) ResourceLink
5 2 (0.22%) SAP EWM
5 2 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.11%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 85 (9.35%) Power Platform
2 77 (8.47%) Azure
3 57 (6.27%) AWS
4 42 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
5 24 (2.64%) Entra ID
5 24 (2.64%) SaaS
6 18 (1.98%) Microsoft Copilot
7 15 (1.65%) GCP
8 12 (1.32%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (1.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 11 (1.21%) Microsoft Purview
10 8 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (0.88%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (0.77%) GitHub
12 6 (0.66%) Adobe Analytics
12 6 (0.66%) dbt
12 6 (0.66%) Figma
12 6 (0.66%) Serverless
12 6 (0.66%) Snowflake
13 5 (0.55%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 30 (3.30%) Firewall
2 9 (0.99%) LAN
2 9 (0.99%) Network Security
2 9 (0.99%) WAN
3 8 (0.88%) DHCP
3 8 (0.88%) DNS
3 8 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (0.66%) Asterisk PBX
4 6 (0.66%) PSTN
4 6 (0.66%) VoIP
5 5 (0.55%) Internet
5 5 (0.55%) VLAN
6 4 (0.44%) Intranet
6 4 (0.44%) SMS
7 3 (0.33%) Broadband
7 3 (0.33%) WPA
8 2 (0.22%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.22%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (0.22%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (9.02%) Power BI
2 57 (6.27%) Tableau
3 41 (4.51%) Data Mining
4 33 (3.63%) SQL Server
5 15 (1.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 13 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (1.21%) Azure SQL Database
7 11 (1.21%) Data Lake
8 10 (1.10%) Looker
9 8 (0.88%) GIS
9 8 (0.88%) Metadata
10 7 (0.77%) Relational Database
11 5 (0.55%) BigQuery
11 5 (0.55%) Geospatial Data
12 4 (0.44%) BusinessObjects
12 4 (0.44%) MySQL
12 4 (0.44%) Power Query
12 4 (0.44%) Spatial Data
13 3 (0.33%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 18 (1.98%) JIRA
2 8 (0.88%) GitLab
3 7 (0.77%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.66%) Git
5 5 (0.55%) Bitbucket
5 5 (0.55%) SonarQube
5 5 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.33%) WaveMaker
7 2 (0.22%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.22%) Selenium
8 1 (0.11%) Appium
8 1 (0.11%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.11%) Gatling
8 1 (0.11%) JMeter
8 1 (0.11%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.11%) Postman
8 1 (0.11%) REST Assured
General
1 374 (41.14%) Social Skills
2 237 (26.07%) Finance
3 50 (5.50%) Organisational Skills
4 48 (5.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 40 (4.40%) Legal
6 39 (4.29%) Manufacturing
7 33 (3.63%) Presentation Skills
8 32 (3.52%) Marketing
9 31 (3.41%) Public Sector
10 28 (3.08%) Retail
11 24 (2.64%) Banking
11 24 (2.64%) Law
12 23 (2.53%) Telecoms
13 18 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
14 14 (1.54%) Advertising
15 12 (1.32%) Electronics
16 10 (1.10%) Billing
16 10 (1.10%) General Ledger
17 8 (0.88%) Local Government
18 7 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 273 (30.03%) Trainer
2 199 (21.89%) Analyst
3 72 (7.92%) Senior
4 66 (7.26%) Data Analyst
5 39 (4.29%) PLC Engineer
6 36 (3.96%) Trainee
7 34 (3.74%) Trainee Analyst
7 34 (3.74%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 31 (3.41%) Support Engineer
9 28 (3.08%) Business Analyst
10 26 (2.86%) Lead
11 25 (2.75%) Applications Support
12 24 (2.64%) Developer
13 23 (2.53%) Support Analyst
14 22 (2.42%) Architect
14 22 (2.42%) Lecturer
15 20 (2.20%) Senior Analyst
16 19 (2.09%) IT Support
16 19 (2.09%) Solutions Architect
17 18 (1.98%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.43%) CSS
2 9 (0.99%) React
3 8 (0.88%) HTML
4 7 (0.77%) REST
5 6 (0.66%) FreeSWITCH
5 6 (0.66%) Software Packaging
5 6 (0.66%) XML
6 5 (0.55%) Flutter
6 5 (0.55%) JSON
7 4 (0.44%) .NET
7 4 (0.44%) Flash
7 4 (0.44%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (0.44%) Spring
7 4 (0.44%) Spring Boot
8 3 (0.33%) Pandas
8 3 (0.33%) PySpark
8 3 (0.33%) RESTful
8 3 (0.33%) Web Services
9 2 (0.22%) FastAPI
9 2 (0.22%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 72 (7.92%) Analytical Mindset
2 53 (5.83%) Self-Motivation
3 45 (4.95%) Renewable Energy
4 41 (4.51%) Cyberattack
5 38 (4.18%) Management Information System
6 33 (3.63%) Onboarding
7 27 (2.97%) Driving Licence
8 20 (2.20%) Social Media
9 14 (1.54%) Virtual Team
10 11 (1.21%) Cloud Native
10 11 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (1.21%) Mobile App
11 10 (1.10%) Data Structures
11 10 (1.10%) NHS
12 8 (0.88%) Life Science
12 8 (0.88%) Product Ownership
12 8 (0.88%) SCADA
13 6 (0.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 5 (0.55%) CMDB
14 5 (0.55%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 41 (4.51%) Windows
2 11 (1.21%) Windows Server
3 5 (0.55%) Android
3 5 (0.55%) Linux
4 4 (0.44%) Mac OS
4 4 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 338 (37.18%) AI
2 333 (36.63%) Problem-Solving
3 275 (30.25%) Chemistry
3 275 (30.25%) Conversational UI
4 148 (16.28%) Decision-Making
5 132 (14.52%) Continuous Improvement
6 115 (12.65%) Project Management
7 106 (11.66%) Agile
8 104 (11.44%) Analytics
9 94 (10.34%) Business Intelligence
10 89 (9.79%) Data Analysis
11 74 (8.14%) Business Analysis
12 72 (7.92%) Cybersecurity
13 68 (7.48%) Project Delivery
14 66 (7.26%) Actionable Insight
15 65 (7.15%) Stakeholder Management
16 63 (6.93%) Customer Service
17 51 (5.61%) Data Analytics
18 50 (5.50%) Process Improvement
19 49 (5.39%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 143 (15.73%) SQL
2 79 (8.69%) Python
3 18 (1.98%) Java
4 13 (1.43%) PowerShell
5 10 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 10 (1.10%) T-SQL
6 8 (0.88%) VBA
7 7 (0.77%) JavaScript
8 6 (0.66%) Bash
9 5 (0.55%) C#
9 5 (0.55%) R
9 5 (0.55%) Scala
10 4 (0.44%) Go
10 4 (0.44%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.22%) Bicep
11 2 (0.22%) C++
11 2 (0.22%) PHP
Qualifications
1 425 (46.75%) Degree
2 307 (33.77%) Master's Degree
3 273 (30.03%) PhD
4 40 (4.40%) HND
5 27 (2.97%) DBS Check
6 18 (1.98%) ACCA
6 18 (1.98%) CIMA
7 17 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.43%) PMI Certification
10 11 (1.21%) PMP
11 7 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (0.77%) Network+ Certification
12 6 (0.66%) CCNP
12 6 (0.66%) CISSP
12 6 (0.66%) CompTIA Security+
12 6 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (0.55%) CIPD
13 5 (0.55%) Security Cleared
13 5 (0.55%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (3.74%) QA
2 23 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (2.42%) Accessibility
4 18 (1.98%) Data Quality
5 17 (1.87%) GDPR
5 17 (1.87%) PMO
6 7 (0.77%) NIST
6 7 (0.77%) SLA
7 6 (0.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 6 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (0.66%) IEC 61131
8 5 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.55%) GLBA
9 4 (0.44%) ISO 14001
9 4 (0.44%) ISO 9001
9 4 (0.44%) SEPA
9 4 (0.44%) TARGET2
10 3 (0.33%) COBIT
11 2 (0.22%) GAAP
11 2 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 36 (3.96%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.10%) Hyper-V
3 9 (0.99%) Docker
4 5 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (0.77%) Terraform
3 4 (0.44%) Grafana
4 3 (0.33%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.33%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.22%) AssetCenter
5 2 (0.22%) SCCM
6 1 (0.11%) Fluentd
6 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 273 (30.03%) PayPal
2 178 (19.58%) Microsoft
3 30 (3.30%) SAP
4 26 (2.86%) Google
5 16 (1.76%) ServiceNow
6 15 (1.65%) Oracle
7 11 (1.21%) Cisco
8 9 (0.99%) Salesforce
9 8 (0.88%) Adobe
9 8 (0.88%) HubSpot
9 8 (0.88%) VMware
10 7 (0.77%) Workday
11 6 (0.66%) HP
11 6 (0.66%) iManage
11 6 (0.66%) Qualtrics
12 5 (0.55%) Alteryx
12 5 (0.55%) ESRI
12 5 (0.55%) Guidewire
12 5 (0.55%) JDA
12 5 (0.55%) RedPrairie