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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 6 21
Rank change year-on-year -29 +15 -3
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 943 1,484 1,423
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 4.71% 18.75% 7.98%
As % of the General category 9.79% 25.15% 14.62%
Number of salaries quoted 716 355 1,018
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,750 £48,306 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.15% +7.35% -
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,931
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%

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 9,637 5,900 9,734
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 48.16% 74.55% 54.56%
Number of salaries quoted 5,547 2,550 7,425
10th Percentile £29,000 £25,313 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,000 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% +4.21% -7.90%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £75,901
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -30 551 £46,500 -7.00% 152
Yorkshire -12 297 £50,000 +11.11% 84
North East -28 95 £48,445 +24.86% 51
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 32 (3.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (3.29%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.59%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (0.85%) Apache
6 6 (0.64%) Confluence
6 6 (0.64%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.42%) WordPress
9 3 (0.32%) CMS
9 3 (0.32%) JBoss
10 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 145 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (4.56%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (2.55%) MS Visio
4 14 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 31 (3.29%) Salesforce CRM
2 30 (3.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (1.59%) SAP PM
4 14 (1.48%) SAP ERP
5 9 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
6 7 (0.74%) Workday HCM
7 6 (0.64%) Magento
8 5 (0.53%) SAP PP
9 4 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
10 2 (0.21%) SAP QM
11 1 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
11 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
11 1 (0.11%) ResourceLink
11 1 (0.11%) SAP MDM
11 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 135 (14.32%) Power Platform
2 128 (13.57%) Azure
3 101 (10.71%) AWS
4 64 (6.79%) Microsoft 365
5 40 (4.24%) SaaS
6 39 (4.14%) Entra ID
7 35 (3.71%) Microsoft Purview
8 34 (3.61%) GCP
9 23 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
9 23 (2.44%) PowerApps
10 22 (2.33%) GitHub
11 20 (2.12%) Power Automate
12 19 (2.01%) Boomi
13 15 (1.59%) Amazon S3
14 14 (1.48%) Google Analytics
15 13 (1.38%) Serverless
16 12 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
16 12 (1.27%) OCI
17 11 (1.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 56 (5.94%) Firewall
2 18 (1.91%) Wi-Fi
3 17 (1.80%) Wireless
4 15 (1.59%) Network Security
4 15 (1.59%) VPN
5 13 (1.38%) Wireshark
6 12 (1.27%) Cisco ASA
6 12 (1.27%) Cisco Nexus
6 12 (1.27%) NGFW
6 12 (1.27%) VXLAN
6 12 (1.27%) WAN
7 11 (1.17%) SNMP
8 9 (0.95%) LAN
8 9 (0.95%) VLAN
9 8 (0.85%) BGP
9 8 (0.85%) Cisco Wireless
9 8 (0.85%) EIGRP
9 8 (0.85%) OSPF
9 8 (0.85%) WAAS
9 8 (0.85%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (11.98%) Power BI
2 101 (10.71%) Tableau
3 54 (5.73%) Data Mining
4 27 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
5 25 (2.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 18 (1.91%) Big Data
6 18 (1.91%) SQL Server
7 15 (1.59%) Metadata
8 13 (1.38%) DynamoDB
9 10 (1.06%) BigQuery
9 10 (1.06%) NoSQL
10 9 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (0.74%) Power Query
13 6 (0.64%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.64%) Looker
14 5 (0.53%) Hadoop
14 5 (0.53%) Semantic Layer
15 4 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 31 (3.29%) JIRA
2 11 (1.17%) Git
3 9 (0.95%) GitLab
4 8 (0.85%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.53%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.42%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.42%) Selenium
7 3 (0.32%) Maven
7 3 (0.32%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.21%) MLflow
8 2 (0.21%) Postman
9 1 (0.11%) JMeter
9 1 (0.11%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.11%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.11%) TestRail
General
1 413 (43.80%) Social Skills
2 271 (28.74%) Finance
3 106 (11.24%) Marketing
4 83 (8.80%) Public Sector
5 66 (7.00%) Law
6 46 (4.88%) Legal
7 43 (4.56%) Manufacturing
7 43 (4.56%) Retail
8 40 (4.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 35 (3.71%) Telecoms
10 32 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
11 29 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
12 27 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
13 25 (2.65%) Military
14 21 (2.23%) Back Office
15 14 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
16 13 (1.38%) Banking
17 12 (1.27%) Games
18 10 (1.06%) Advertising
19 8 (0.85%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 271 (28.74%) Analyst
2 117 (12.41%) Data Analyst
3 111 (11.77%) Senior
4 85 (9.01%) Lead
5 53 (5.62%) Business Analyst
6 51 (5.41%) Data Manager
7 50 (5.30%) Trainee
7 50 (5.30%) Trainee Analyst
7 50 (5.30%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 49 (5.20%) Architect
8 49 (5.20%) Systems Analyst
9 48 (5.09%) Developer
10 43 (4.56%) Systems Manager
11 38 (4.03%) CRM Executive
12 31 (3.29%) Salesforce Executive
13 30 (3.18%) Head of QA
13 30 (3.18%) HR Analyst
13 30 (3.18%) HR Data Analyst
13 30 (3.18%) HR Manager
14 27 (2.86%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (2.86%) Middleware
2 24 (2.55%) REST
3 17 (1.80%) .NET
3 17 (1.80%) XML
4 16 (1.70%) HTML
5 15 (1.59%) CSS
5 15 (1.59%) SOAP
6 13 (1.38%) EDI
6 13 (1.38%) JSON
6 13 (1.38%) Node.js
7 12 (1.27%) React
8 9 (0.95%) Flutter
9 8 (0.85%) AngularJS
9 8 (0.85%) SAP Fiori
10 6 (0.64%) scikit-learn
11 4 (0.42%) Entity Framework
11 4 (0.42%) Pandas
11 4 (0.42%) PySpark
11 4 (0.42%) SAP Core Interface
12 3 (0.32%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 97 (10.29%) Analytical Mindset
2 46 (4.88%) Management Information System
3 41 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 34 (3.61%) Onboarding
5 30 (3.18%) Data Centre
6 23 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
7 17 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (1.38%) Cloud Native
8 13 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
9 12 (1.27%) Data Structures
9 12 (1.27%) PKI
10 11 (1.17%) Driving Licence
11 10 (1.06%) Social Media
11 10 (1.06%) Virtual Team
12 9 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
13 8 (0.85%) FMCG
14 7 (0.74%) Credit Risk
14 7 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
14 7 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
14 7 (0.74%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 48 (5.09%) Windows
2 29 (3.08%) Windows Server
3 9 (0.95%) Apple iOS
3 9 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
4 7 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (0.64%) Android
5 6 (0.64%) Linux
6 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 363 (38.49%) Problem-Solving
2 299 (31.71%) Continuous Improvement
3 254 (26.94%) Decision-Making
4 233 (24.71%) Stakeholder Management
5 232 (24.60%) Analytics
6 124 (13.15%) Agile
7 119 (12.62%) Project Management
8 106 (11.24%) Business Intelligence
8 106 (11.24%) CRM
9 105 (11.13%) AI
9 105 (11.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 104 (11.03%) Data Analysis
11 103 (10.92%) Actionable Insight
12 101 (10.71%) Mentoring
13 99 (10.50%) Data Governance
14 86 (9.12%) Data Modelling
15 82 (8.70%) Root Cause Analysis
16 81 (8.59%) Business Analysis
16 81 (8.59%) ERP
17 78 (8.27%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 197 (20.89%) SQL
2 167 (17.71%) Python
3 34 (3.61%) Java
4 31 (3.29%) C#
5 27 (2.86%) JavaScript
6 12 (1.27%) T-SQL
7 11 (1.17%) PowerShell
7 11 (1.17%) R
8 9 (0.95%) Go
9 8 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 8 (0.85%) Scala
10 6 (0.64%) Bash
10 6 (0.64%) C++
11 4 (0.42%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.32%) C
12 3 (0.32%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.32%) PHP
12 3 (0.32%) SOQL
12 3 (0.32%) SOSL
12 3 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 114 (12.09%) Degree
2 75 (7.95%) DBS Check
3 34 (3.61%) Security Cleared
4 30 (3.18%) ACCA
4 30 (3.18%) IRCA
5 26 (2.76%) CIMA
5 26 (2.76%) SC Cleared
6 19 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (1.38%) PMI Certification
9 12 (1.27%) CCNP
9 12 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (1.27%) PMP
10 10 (1.06%) HNC
11 8 (0.85%) CCIE
11 8 (0.85%) CCNA
11 8 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (0.74%) Azure Certification
13 6 (0.64%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (15.59%) Data Quality
2 85 (9.01%) GDPR
3 71 (7.53%) QA
4 37 (3.92%) Cyber Essentials
5 36 (3.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 34 (3.61%) ISO 9001
7 26 (2.76%) NIST
8 19 (2.01%) SLA
9 18 (1.91%) Actionable Recommendations
9 18 (1.91%) PMO
10 17 (1.80%) TickIT
11 12 (1.27%) Accessibility
12 11 (1.17%) GMP
13 9 (0.95%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.42%) GRC
15 4 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 14443
15 4 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 7816
15 4 (0.42%) SOC 2
16 3 (0.32%) IFRS
System Software
1 45 (4.77%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.17%) Docker
3 10 (1.06%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (0.85%) ProxySG
5 3 (0.32%) DFS Replication
5 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.21%) Firmware
7 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (3.08%) Terraform
2 17 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (1.38%) Ansible
4 6 (0.64%) Kubernetes
5 5 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.32%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.11%) Autotask
7 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 255 (27.04%) Microsoft
2 62 (6.57%) Workday
3 59 (6.26%) Salesforce
4 52 (5.51%) SAP
5 25 (2.65%) Google
6 21 (2.23%) ServiceNow
7 16 (1.70%) Aruba
8 14 (1.48%) Cisco
8 14 (1.48%) iManage
9 12 (1.27%) Adobe
9 12 (1.27%) Arista
9 12 (1.27%) Databricks
9 12 (1.27%) NetScout
9 12 (1.27%) Oracle
10 11 (1.17%) SolarWinds
11 10 (1.06%) Anaplan
12 9 (0.95%) Aderant
12 9 (0.95%) IFS
12 9 (0.95%) Intapp
12 9 (0.95%) Verint