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

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 16 23
Rank change year-on-year +11 +7 +1
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,508 1,068 744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.02% 7.56% 8.39%
As % of the General category 24.70% 13.74% 12.81%
Number of salaries quoted 341 558 529
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,500 £26,200
25th Percentile £33,125 £36,800 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £71,400
England median annual salary £52,500 £54,967 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.49% -0.06% -

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 6,105 7,773 5,809
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 64.85% 55.05% 65.48%
Number of salaries quoted 2,675 3,787 4,066
10th Percentile £25,750 £28,000 £27,600
25th Percentile £31,000 £36,250 £37,982
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £51,367
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -2.66% +0.33%
75th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £67,875
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Analytical Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 +13 1,096 £45,000 -10.00% 424
Yorkshire +3 334 £40,000 -23.81% 233
North East +2 78 £40,000 -11.11% 77
Analytical Skills
England

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 23 (1.53%) SharePoint
2 20 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (0.80%) Confluence
4 5 (0.33%) SAS
5 4 (0.27%) Apache
5 4 (0.27%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.27%) Camunda
6 3 (0.20%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.20%) CMS
7 2 (0.13%) FactoryTalk
7 2 (0.13%) HCL Notes
7 2 (0.13%) IIS
7 2 (0.13%) nginx
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.13%) WinCC
8 1 (0.066%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 263 (17.44%) Chatbot
2 103 (6.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 61 (4.05%) Microsoft Office
4 23 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.53%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.40%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.40%) SOLIDWORKS
7 6 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.066%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 15 (0.99%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.60%) Shopify
3 8 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.40%) SAP WM
5 3 (0.20%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.20%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle BPM
6 2 (0.13%) Primavera
6 2 (0.13%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.13%) SAP EWM
6 2 (0.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.066%) C-CURE
7 1 (0.066%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.066%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.066%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.066%) Siebel CRM
7 1 (0.066%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 65 (4.31%) AWS
2 63 (4.18%) Power Platform
3 59 (3.91%) Azure
4 51 (3.38%) Microsoft 365
5 23 (1.53%) SaaS
6 22 (1.46%) Entra ID
7 17 (1.13%) Microsoft Copilot
8 16 (1.06%) GCP
9 15 (0.99%) Google Analytics
10 10 (0.66%) Microsoft Purview
11 8 (0.53%) Facebook Ads
11 8 (0.53%) Google Ads
12 6 (0.40%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (0.40%) GitHub
13 5 (0.33%) OneDrive
13 5 (0.33%) Snowflake
14 4 (0.27%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (0.27%) Google Sheets
15 3 (0.20%) AWS Lambda
15 3 (0.20%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 640 (42.44%) VPN
2 397 (26.33%) DNS
3 251 (16.64%) Cisco IOS
4 21 (1.39%) Firewall
5 9 (0.60%) DHCP
6 8 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (0.40%) LAN
7 6 (0.40%) VLAN
7 6 (0.40%) WAN
8 4 (0.27%) Asterisk PBX
8 4 (0.27%) Internet
8 4 (0.27%) Intranet
8 4 (0.27%) Network Security
8 4 (0.27%) PSTN
8 4 (0.27%) SMS
8 4 (0.27%) SSH
8 4 (0.27%) VoIP
9 3 (0.20%) Broadband
9 3 (0.20%) WPA
10 2 (0.13%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (4.05%) Power BI
2 34 (2.25%) Tableau
3 25 (1.66%) SQL Server
4 18 (1.19%) Data Mining
5 12 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (0.66%) Data Lake
7 9 (0.60%) Relational Database
8 8 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (0.53%) Looker
9 5 (0.33%) BigQuery
9 5 (0.33%) BusinessObjects
9 5 (0.33%) GIS
9 5 (0.33%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.27%) MySQL
10 4 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.20%) Big Data
12 2 (0.13%) Data Mart
12 2 (0.13%) SAP BW
12 2 (0.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 22 (1.46%) JIRA
2 9 (0.60%) Jenkins
3 8 (0.53%) GitLab
4 7 (0.46%) Git
5 5 (0.33%) Bitbucket
5 5 (0.33%) Selenium
5 5 (0.33%) SonarQube
5 5 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.20%) WaveMaker
7 2 (0.13%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.13%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.13%) Postman
8 1 (0.066%) Appium
8 1 (0.066%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.066%) Gatling
8 1 (0.066%) JMeter
8 1 (0.066%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.066%) REST Assured
General
1 665 (44.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 594 (39.39%) Finance
3 371 (24.60%) Social Skills
4 64 (4.24%) Manufacturing
5 59 (3.91%) Organisational Skills
6 52 (3.45%) Retail
7 44 (2.92%) Marketing
8 30 (1.99%) Legal
9 26 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
10 24 (1.59%) Advertising
11 20 (1.33%) Banking
11 20 (1.33%) Public Sector
12 18 (1.19%) Law
13 15 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (0.66%) Telecoms
15 9 (0.60%) Local Government
16 8 (0.53%) Electronics
16 8 (0.53%) General Ledger
16 8 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (0.40%) Police
Job Titles
1 414 (27.45%) Developer
2 398 (26.39%) Software Developer
3 274 (18.17%) Trainer
4 251 (16.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 152 (10.08%) Analyst
6 61 (4.05%) Senior
7 39 (2.59%) PLC Engineer
8 38 (2.52%) Support Engineer
9 36 (2.39%) Lead
10 32 (2.12%) Data Analyst
11 27 (1.79%) Applications Support
12 23 (1.53%) Business Analyst
12 23 (1.53%) Lecturer
12 23 (1.53%) Support Analyst
13 20 (1.33%) IT Support
14 19 (1.26%) Consultant
14 19 (1.26%) Financial Analyst
15 17 (1.13%) QA Manager
15 17 (1.13%) Quality Manager
16 15 (0.99%) Applications Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 252 (16.71%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (0.53%) CSS
2 8 (0.53%) React
3 7 (0.46%) REST
4 6 (0.40%) Software Packaging
4 6 (0.40%) Spring
4 6 (0.40%) Spring Boot
5 5 (0.33%) Flash
5 5 (0.33%) Flutter
6 4 (0.27%) FreeSWITCH
6 4 (0.27%) HTML
6 4 (0.27%) RESTful
6 4 (0.27%) Web Services
7 3 (0.20%) .NET
7 3 (0.20%) JSON
7 3 (0.20%) PySpark
7 3 (0.20%) XML
8 2 (0.13%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (0.13%) jQuery
8 2 (0.13%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 678 (44.96%) Cyberattack
2 58 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
3 43 (2.85%) Renewable Energy
3 43 (2.85%) Self-Motivation
4 34 (2.25%) Social Media
5 31 (2.06%) Onboarding
6 29 (1.92%) Management Information System
7 18 (1.19%) Driving Licence
7 18 (1.19%) Mobile App
8 13 (0.86%) Robotics
9 12 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (0.73%) NHS
11 9 (0.60%) Cloud Native
11 9 (0.60%) SCADA
12 6 (0.40%) Data Structures
12 6 (0.40%) Life Science
13 5 (0.33%) CMDB
13 5 (0.33%) EPoS
13 5 (0.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 5 (0.33%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 653 (43.30%) Linux
2 652 (43.24%) Android
3 306 (20.29%) Windows
4 14 (0.93%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.33%) Mac OS
5 5 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.20%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 660 (43.77%) Mathematics
2 650 (43.10%) Line Management
3 601 (39.85%) Problem-Solving
4 483 (32.03%) Agile
5 389 (25.80%) OO
5 389 (25.80%) OOP
6 388 (25.73%) Android Development
6 388 (25.73%) Design Patterns
7 315 (20.89%) Artificial Intelligence
8 285 (18.90%) Risk Management
9 278 (18.44%) DevOps
10 274 (18.17%) Chemistry
11 270 (17.90%) Task Automation
12 263 (17.44%) Conversational UI
13 257 (17.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 251 (16.64%) Platform Engineering
14 251 (16.64%) Storage Management
15 119 (7.89%) Decision-Making
16 103 (6.83%) Continuous Improvement
17 89 (5.90%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 687 (45.56%) Python
2 407 (26.99%) Java
3 392 (25.99%) Go
4 390 (25.86%) C++
5 263 (17.44%) PowerShell
6 255 (16.91%) Bash
7 98 (6.50%) SQL
8 8 (0.53%) VBA
9 6 (0.40%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.33%) C#
10 5 (0.33%) Scala
10 5 (0.33%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.27%) JavaScript
11 4 (0.27%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.20%) C-shell
12 3 (0.20%) Korn
12 3 (0.20%) PHP
12 3 (0.20%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.20%) R
Qualifications
1 425 (28.18%) Degree
2 393 (26.06%) Security Cleared
3 389 (25.80%) DV Cleared
4 295 (19.56%) Master's Degree
5 264 (17.51%) PhD
6 41 (2.72%) DBS Check
7 40 (2.65%) HND
8 25 (1.66%) ACCA
8 25 (1.66%) CIMA
9 24 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (0.73%) PMI Certification
11 10 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (0.66%) PMP
12 8 (0.53%) Network+ Certification
13 7 (0.46%) CCAB
13 7 (0.46%) CIPFA
13 7 (0.46%) ICAEW
13 7 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
14 5 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (3.32%) QA
2 21 (1.39%) Data Quality
3 19 (1.26%) Accessibility
4 16 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (0.86%) GDPR
6 9 (0.60%) SLA
7 7 (0.46%) PMO
8 6 (0.40%) IEC 61131
8 6 (0.40%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.27%) ISO 14001
9 4 (0.27%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.20%) COBIT
10 3 (0.20%) SEPA
10 3 (0.20%) TARGET2
11 2 (0.13%) GLBA
11 2 (0.13%) ITGC
11 2 (0.13%) P3O
12 1 (0.066%) NIST
12 1 (0.066%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 647 (42.90%) Docker
2 261 (17.31%) Hyper-V
3 251 (16.64%) VMware NSX
3 251 (16.64%) vSphere
4 32 (2.12%) Active Directory
5 6 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 640 (42.44%) Ansible
2 253 (16.78%) Terraform
3 11 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.33%) Grafana
5 4 (0.27%) Kubernetes
6 3 (0.20%) Autotask
6 3 (0.20%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.13%) AssetCenter
7 2 (0.13%) SCCM
8 1 (0.066%) SCOM
8 1 (0.066%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 261 (17.31%) Cisco
1 261 (17.31%) PayPal
2 255 (16.91%) Splunk
3 252 (16.71%) Juniper
4 251 (16.64%) 3PAR
5 152 (10.08%) Microsoft
6 49 (3.25%) Google
7 32 (2.12%) SAP
8 21 (1.39%) ServiceNow
9 16 (1.06%) Oracle
10 15 (0.99%) Adobe
11 14 (0.93%) Databricks
12 13 (0.86%) Facebook
13 11 (0.73%) Zoho
14 10 (0.66%) VMware
15 9 (0.60%) Salesforce
16 6 (0.40%) HP
16 6 (0.40%) HubSpot
16 6 (0.40%) Veeam
16 6 (0.40%) Workday