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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 6 19
Rank change year-on-year -31 +13 -1
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 853 1,198 1,438
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 4.68% 16.86% 8.64%
As % of the General category 8.86% 22.96% 15.35%
Number of salaries quoted 624 417 1,030
10th Percentile - £28,900 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £32,573
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £60,842
90th Percentile £76,825 £80,000 £73,750
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 9,624 5,217 9,369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 52.75% 73.43% 56.30%
Number of salaries quoted 4,987 2,655 7,251
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,640 £69,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,400 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +13.14% -12.86%

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 1 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 1 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 -29 482 £45,000 -10.00% 223
Yorkshire -12 284 £51,750 +15.00% 125
North East -26 87 £48,445 +25.83% 50
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 29 (3.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.17%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.17%) Confluence
4 6 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.47%) WordPress
6 3 (0.35%) Apache
6 3 (0.35%) CMS
6 3 (0.35%) JBoss
7 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 148 (17.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (3.75%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (2.70%) MS Visio
4 11 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.94%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 31 (3.63%) Salesforce CRM
2 28 (3.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (1.76%) SAP PM
4 12 (1.41%) SAP ERP
5 8 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
6 7 (0.82%) Workday HCM
7 6 (0.70%) Magento
8 5 (0.59%) SAP PP
9 3 (0.35%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.35%) ResourceLink
10 1 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
10 1 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
10 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 115 (13.48%) Power Platform
2 106 (12.43%) Azure
3 83 (9.73%) AWS
4 55 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
5 38 (4.45%) Entra ID
6 36 (4.22%) SaaS
7 30 (3.52%) Microsoft Purview
8 25 (2.93%) GCP
9 22 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
10 21 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
10 21 (2.46%) Power Automate
11 19 (2.23%) Boomi
12 18 (2.11%) GitHub
13 17 (1.99%) PowerApps
14 13 (1.52%) Serverless
15 12 (1.41%) Google Analytics
15 12 (1.41%) OCI
16 11 (1.29%) Amazon S3
16 11 (1.29%) Snowflake
17 10 (1.17%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 52 (6.10%) Firewall
2 16 (1.88%) Wireless
3 15 (1.76%) Network Security
3 15 (1.76%) VPN
4 14 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
5 13 (1.52%) Wireshark
6 12 (1.41%) NGFW
6 12 (1.41%) VXLAN
6 12 (1.41%) WAN
7 11 (1.29%) LAN
8 9 (1.06%) VLAN
9 8 (0.94%) BGP
9 8 (0.94%) Cisco ASA
9 8 (0.94%) Cisco Nexus
9 8 (0.94%) Cisco Wireless
9 8 (0.94%) EIGRP
9 8 (0.94%) OSPF
9 8 (0.94%) SNMP
9 8 (0.94%) WAAS
9 8 (0.94%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (12.54%) Tableau
2 102 (11.96%) Power BI
3 69 (8.09%) Data Mining
4 21 (2.46%) SQL Server
5 19 (2.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 14 (1.64%) Metadata
7 10 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (1.17%) DynamoDB
8 7 (0.82%) Looker
8 7 (0.82%) NoSQL
9 6 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (0.70%) Big Data
9 6 (0.70%) BigQuery
10 5 (0.59%) Power Query
10 5 (0.59%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.47%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.47%) Data Vault
11 4 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.47%) Hadoop
12 3 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 31 (3.63%) JIRA
2 8 (0.94%) Jenkins
3 7 (0.82%) Git
4 4 (0.47%) Cucumber
4 4 (0.47%) Cypress.io
4 4 (0.47%) Selenium
5 3 (0.35%) GitLab
5 3 (0.35%) Maven
5 3 (0.35%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.23%) MLflow
6 2 (0.23%) Postman
7 1 (0.12%) JMeter
7 1 (0.12%) JUnit
7 1 (0.12%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.12%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.12%) TestRail
General
1 402 (47.13%) Social Skills
2 253 (29.66%) Finance
3 93 (10.90%) Marketing
4 62 (7.27%) Public Sector
5 48 (5.63%) Law
6 38 (4.45%) Retail
7 37 (4.34%) Manufacturing
8 32 (3.75%) Organisational Skills
8 32 (3.75%) Telecoms
9 30 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 30 (3.52%) Legal
10 27 (3.17%) Military
11 23 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
12 21 (2.46%) Back Office
13 20 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (1.52%) Advertising
15 11 (1.29%) Games
16 10 (1.17%) Banking
17 7 (0.82%) Aerospace
17 7 (0.82%) French Language
Job Titles
1 269 (31.54%) Analyst
2 125 (14.65%) Data Analyst
3 97 (11.37%) Senior
4 72 (8.44%) Lead
5 65 (7.62%) Trainee
5 65 (7.62%) Trainee Analyst
5 65 (7.62%) Trainee Data Analyst
6 51 (5.98%) Data Manager
7 49 (5.74%) Systems Analyst
8 45 (5.28%) Business Analyst
9 43 (5.04%) Systems Manager
10 38 (4.45%) CRM Executive
11 34 (3.99%) Architect
12 31 (3.63%) Developer
12 31 (3.63%) Salesforce Executive
13 30 (3.52%) Head of QA
13 30 (3.52%) HR Analyst
13 30 (3.52%) HR Data Analyst
13 30 (3.52%) HR Manager
14 22 (2.58%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (2.70%) Middleware
2 20 (2.34%) REST
3 17 (1.99%) .NET
3 17 (1.99%) XML
4 13 (1.52%) EDI
4 13 (1.52%) React
5 12 (1.41%) JSON
5 12 (1.41%) SOAP
6 9 (1.06%) Flutter
7 8 (0.94%) HTML
7 8 (0.94%) Node.js
7 8 (0.94%) SAP Fiori
8 7 (0.82%) CSS
9 6 (0.70%) scikit-learn
10 5 (0.59%) Pandas
11 4 (0.47%) SAP Core Interface
11 4 (0.47%) Spring Boot
12 3 (0.35%) Jest
12 3 (0.35%) PyTorch
12 3 (0.35%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 93 (10.90%) Analytical Mindset
2 50 (5.86%) Management Information System
3 25 (2.93%) Product Ownership
4 24 (2.81%) Data Centre
4 24 (2.81%) Onboarding
5 23 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
5 23 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (1.64%) Social Media
7 13 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
8 12 (1.41%) PKI
9 11 (1.29%) Cloud Native
10 9 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (0.94%) Data Structures
11 8 (0.94%) Driving Licence
11 8 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (0.82%) Cyber Threat
12 7 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
12 7 (0.82%) Operational Technology
13 6 (0.70%) Mobile App
13 6 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 50 (5.86%) Windows
2 23 (2.70%) Windows Server
3 9 (1.06%) Android
3 9 (1.06%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.82%) Linux
5 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 305 (35.76%) Problem-Solving
2 272 (31.89%) Continuous Improvement
3 233 (27.32%) Decision-Making
4 217 (25.44%) Stakeholder Management
5 205 (24.03%) Analytics
6 125 (14.65%) Project Management
7 107 (12.54%) Data Analysis
8 104 (12.19%) Agile
9 99 (11.61%) Actionable Insight
10 98 (11.49%) AI
10 98 (11.49%) Business Intelligence
11 97 (11.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 94 (11.02%) Data Governance
13 92 (10.79%) CRM
14 91 (10.67%) Business Analysis
15 86 (10.08%) Data Analytics
16 75 (8.79%) Mentoring
17 69 (8.09%) Root Cause Analysis
18 68 (7.97%) ERP
18 68 (7.97%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 175 (20.52%) SQL
2 145 (17.00%) Python
3 25 (2.93%) C#
4 20 (2.34%) Java
5 17 (1.99%) JavaScript
6 15 (1.76%) T-SQL
7 9 (1.06%) Go
8 7 (0.82%) PowerShell
9 6 (0.70%) R
10 5 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.47%) Bicep
11 4 (0.47%) Scala
12 3 (0.35%) Bash
12 3 (0.35%) C
12 3 (0.35%) C++
12 3 (0.35%) Groovy
12 3 (0.35%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.35%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.35%) VBA
13 1 (0.12%) PHP
Qualifications
1 112 (13.13%) Degree
2 71 (8.32%) DBS Check
3 30 (3.52%) IRCA
4 28 (3.28%) ACCA
5 25 (2.93%) CIMA
6 18 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (1.76%) Security Cleared
9 14 (1.64%) Master's Degree
10 13 (1.52%) PMI Certification
11 12 (1.41%) PMP
12 10 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
13 9 (1.06%) HNC
13 9 (1.06%) PhD
14 8 (0.94%) CCIE
14 8 (0.94%) CCNP
14 8 (0.94%) SC Cleared
15 7 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
16 6 (0.70%) AWS Certification
16 6 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (13.60%) Data Quality
2 79 (9.26%) GDPR
3 70 (8.21%) QA
4 37 (4.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 35 (4.10%) Cyber Essentials
6 30 (3.52%) ISO 9001
7 29 (3.40%) NIST
8 21 (2.46%) PMO
9 17 (1.99%) TickIT
10 15 (1.76%) Actionable Recommendations
11 14 (1.64%) SLA
12 12 (1.41%) GMP
13 9 (1.06%) Accessibility
13 9 (1.06%) PCI DSS
14 6 (0.70%) GRC
14 6 (0.70%) SOC 2
15 4 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 4 (0.47%) GAAP
15 4 (0.47%) IFRS
15 4 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 43 (5.04%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.06%) Virtual Desktop
3 8 (0.94%) ProxySG
4 7 (0.82%) Docker
5 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.23%) Firmware
7 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (3.40%) Terraform
2 17 (1.99%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (1.52%) Ansible
4 8 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.82%) Kubernetes
6 3 (0.35%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.12%) Autotask
7 1 (0.12%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 241 (28.25%) Microsoft
2 62 (7.27%) Workday
3 54 (6.33%) Salesforce
4 45 (5.28%) SAP
5 22 (2.58%) Google
6 20 (2.34%) ServiceNow
7 12 (1.41%) Arista
7 12 (1.41%) Aruba
7 12 (1.41%) iManage
7 12 (1.41%) NetScout
8 10 (1.17%) Anaplan
9 9 (1.06%) Aderant
9 9 (1.06%) Databricks
9 9 (1.06%) Genesys
9 9 (1.06%) IFS
9 9 (1.06%) Intapp
9 9 (1.06%) Oracle
9 9 (1.06%) Splunk
9 9 (1.06%) Verint
10 8 (0.94%) Cisco