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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 18 20
Rank change year-on-year +6 +2 +6
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 935 960 718
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 9.58% 7.73% 9.38%
As % of the General category 15.86% 13.22% 14.32%
Number of salaries quoted 388 426 519
10th Percentile £29,250 £31,250 £26,884
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,125 £38,591
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £72,147 £71,991 £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 5,896 7,260 5,014
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 60.39% 58.48% 65.47%
Number of salaries quoted 3,063 2,984 3,699
10th Percentile £26,058 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £37,625
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 £77,500 £82,888
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 15 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 15 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 -6 474 £45,000 -14.29% 388
Yorkshire +10 343 £40,000 -27.27% 207
North East +14 118 £45,000 +9.76% 79
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 (2.35%) SharePoint
2 21 (2.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (1.82%) Confluence
4 8 (0.86%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.75%) Apache
6 4 (0.43%) Camunda
6 4 (0.43%) CMS
7 3 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.32%) SAS
8 2 (0.21%) FactoryTalk
8 2 (0.21%) HCL Notes
8 2 (0.21%) IIS
8 2 (0.21%) nginx
8 2 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.21%) WinCC
9 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 281 (30.05%) Chatbot
2 144 (15.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 52 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
4 26 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
6 11 (1.18%) AutoCAD
7 9 (0.96%) MS Visio
8 6 (0.64%) SOLIDWORKS
8 6 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.21%) Revit
10 1 (0.11%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 9 (0.96%) Shopify
2 8 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.75%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.64%) SAP WM
5 3 (0.32%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.32%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.21%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.21%) Oracle BPM
6 2 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.21%) Primavera
6 2 (0.21%) ResourceLink
6 2 (0.21%) SAP EWM
6 2 (0.21%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.11%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 84 (8.98%) Power Platform
2 79 (8.45%) Azure
3 60 (6.42%) AWS
4 43 (4.60%) Microsoft 365
5 24 (2.57%) Entra ID
6 23 (2.46%) SaaS
7 18 (1.93%) Microsoft Copilot
8 17 (1.82%) GCP
9 12 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
10 11 (1.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 11 (1.18%) Microsoft Purview
11 9 (0.96%) GitHub
12 8 (0.86%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (0.86%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (0.64%) Adobe Analytics
13 6 (0.64%) dbt
13 6 (0.64%) Figma
13 6 (0.64%) Serverless
13 6 (0.64%) Snowflake
14 5 (0.53%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 30 (3.21%) Firewall
2 9 (0.96%) LAN
2 9 (0.96%) Network Security
2 9 (0.96%) WAN
3 8 (0.86%) DHCP
3 8 (0.86%) DNS
3 8 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (0.64%) Asterisk PBX
4 6 (0.64%) PSTN
4 6 (0.64%) VoIP
5 5 (0.53%) Internet
5 5 (0.53%) VLAN
6 4 (0.43%) Intranet
6 4 (0.43%) SMS
7 3 (0.32%) Broadband
7 3 (0.32%) WPA
8 2 (0.21%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.21%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (0.21%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.21%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (8.66%) Power BI
2 57 (6.10%) Tableau
3 41 (4.39%) Data Mining
4 31 (3.32%) SQL Server
5 15 (1.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 14 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (1.28%) Data Lake
8 11 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (1.07%) Looker
10 9 (0.96%) Relational Database
11 8 (0.86%) GIS
11 8 (0.86%) Metadata
12 5 (0.53%) BigQuery
12 5 (0.53%) Geospatial Data
13 4 (0.43%) BusinessObjects
13 4 (0.43%) MySQL
13 4 (0.43%) Power Query
13 4 (0.43%) Spatial Data
14 3 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (2.14%) JIRA
2 9 (0.96%) GitLab
3 8 (0.86%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.75%) Git
5 5 (0.53%) Bitbucket
5 5 (0.53%) SonarQube
5 5 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.32%) Selenium
6 3 (0.32%) WaveMaker
7 2 (0.21%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.21%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.11%) Appium
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
1 380 (40.64%) Social Skills
2 242 (25.88%) Finance
3 54 (5.78%) Manufacturing
4 49 (5.24%) Organisational Skills
5 48 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 42 (4.49%) Retail
7 41 (4.39%) Legal
8 33 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
9 32 (3.42%) Marketing
9 32 (3.42%) Public Sector
10 25 (2.67%) Banking
10 25 (2.67%) Law
11 23 (2.46%) Telecoms
12 20 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
13 14 (1.50%) Advertising
14 12 (1.28%) Electronics
15 10 (1.07%) Billing
15 10 (1.07%) General Ledger
16 9 (0.96%) Local Government
17 7 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 292 (31.23%) Trainer
2 200 (21.39%) Analyst
3 74 (7.91%) Senior
4 66 (7.06%) Data Analyst
5 39 (4.17%) PLC Engineer
6 36 (3.85%) Trainee
7 34 (3.64%) Trainee Analyst
7 34 (3.64%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 30 (3.21%) Support Engineer
9 29 (3.10%) Business Analyst
10 28 (2.99%) Lead
11 26 (2.78%) Developer
12 24 (2.57%) Applications Support
13 23 (2.46%) Architect
13 23 (2.46%) Support Analyst
14 22 (2.35%) Lecturer
15 20 (2.14%) Senior Analyst
15 20 (2.14%) Solutions Architect
16 18 (1.93%) Financial Analyst
16 18 (1.93%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.39%) CSS
2 9 (0.96%) React
3 8 (0.86%) HTML
4 7 (0.75%) REST
5 6 (0.64%) FreeSWITCH
5 6 (0.64%) Software Packaging
5 6 (0.64%) Spring
5 6 (0.64%) Spring Boot
5 6 (0.64%) XML
6 5 (0.53%) Flutter
6 5 (0.53%) JSON
7 4 (0.43%) .NET
7 4 (0.43%) Flash
7 4 (0.43%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (0.43%) RESTful
7 4 (0.43%) Web Services
8 3 (0.32%) Pandas
8 3 (0.32%) PySpark
9 2 (0.21%) Flask
9 2 (0.21%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 72 (7.70%) Analytical Mindset
2 52 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
3 45 (4.81%) Renewable Energy
4 41 (4.39%) Cyberattack
5 37 (3.96%) Management Information System
6 33 (3.53%) Onboarding
7 27 (2.89%) Driving Licence
8 19 (2.03%) Social Media
9 14 (1.50%) Virtual Team
10 13 (1.39%) Robotics
11 11 (1.18%) Cloud Native
11 11 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (1.07%) Data Structures
12 10 (1.07%) Mobile App
12 10 (1.07%) NHS
13 8 (0.86%) Life Science
13 8 (0.86%) Product Ownership
13 8 (0.86%) SCADA
14 6 (0.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 5 (0.53%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 39 (4.17%) Windows
2 11 (1.18%) Windows Server
3 5 (0.53%) Linux
4 4 (0.43%) Android
4 4 (0.43%) Mac OS
4 4 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 358 (38.29%) AI
2 349 (37.33%) Problem-Solving
3 294 (31.44%) Chemistry
4 281 (30.05%) Conversational UI
5 149 (15.94%) Decision-Making
6 135 (14.44%) Continuous Improvement
7 118 (12.62%) Project Management
8 110 (11.76%) Agile
9 105 (11.23%) Analytics
10 93 (9.95%) Business Intelligence
11 90 (9.63%) Data Analysis
12 74 (7.91%) Business Analysis
13 72 (7.70%) Cybersecurity
14 68 (7.27%) Project Delivery
15 66 (7.06%) Actionable Insight
16 64 (6.84%) Stakeholder Management
17 61 (6.52%) Customer Service
18 51 (5.45%) Data Analytics
18 51 (5.45%) Process Improvement
19 49 (5.24%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 145 (15.51%) SQL
2 80 (8.56%) Python
3 21 (2.25%) Java
4 13 (1.39%) PowerShell
5 10 (1.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 9 (0.96%) T-SQL
7 8 (0.86%) VBA
8 7 (0.75%) JavaScript
9 6 (0.64%) Bash
10 5 (0.53%) C#
10 5 (0.53%) R
10 5 (0.53%) Scala
11 4 (0.43%) Go
11 4 (0.43%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.21%) Bicep
12 2 (0.21%) C++
12 2 (0.21%) PHP
Qualifications
1 445 (47.59%) Degree
2 313 (33.48%) Master's Degree
3 279 (29.84%) PhD
4 40 (4.28%) HND
5 26 (2.78%) DBS Check
6 18 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (1.71%) ACCA
7 16 (1.71%) CIMA
8 14 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.39%) PMI Certification
10 11 (1.18%) PMP
11 7 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (0.75%) Network+ Certification
11 7 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
12 6 (0.64%) CCNP
12 6 (0.64%) CISSP
12 6 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (0.53%) CIPD
13 5 (0.53%) Security Cleared
13 5 (0.53%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (3.64%) QA
2 23 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (2.35%) Accessibility
4 18 (1.93%) Data Quality
5 17 (1.82%) GDPR
5 17 (1.82%) PMO
6 7 (0.75%) NIST
6 7 (0.75%) SLA
7 6 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 6 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (0.64%) IEC 61131
8 5 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.53%) GLBA
9 4 (0.43%) ISO 14001
9 4 (0.43%) ISO 9001
9 4 (0.43%) SEPA
9 4 (0.43%) TARGET2
10 3 (0.32%) COBIT
11 2 (0.21%) P3O
11 2 (0.21%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 36 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.18%) Docker
3 10 (1.07%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 11 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (0.75%) Terraform
3 5 (0.53%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.43%) Grafana
5 3 (0.32%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.21%) AssetCenter
6 2 (0.21%) SCCM
7 1 (0.11%) Ansible
7 1 (0.11%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.11%) SCOM
7 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 279 (29.84%) PayPal
2 180 (19.25%) Microsoft
3 40 (4.28%) Google
4 31 (3.32%) SAP
5 21 (2.25%) Adobe
6 18 (1.93%) Databricks
7 16 (1.71%) ServiceNow
8 15 (1.60%) Oracle
9 12 (1.28%) Cisco
10 9 (0.96%) Salesforce
11 8 (0.86%) HubSpot
11 8 (0.86%) VMware
12 7 (0.75%) HP
12 7 (0.75%) Workday
13 6 (0.64%) iManage
13 6 (0.64%) Qualtrics
13 6 (0.64%) Splunk
14 5 (0.53%) Alteryx
14 5 (0.53%) AppDynamics
14 5 (0.53%) RedPrairie