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 9 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 6 20
Rank change year-on-year -19 +14 +1
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 959 1,540 1,450
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 4.65% 16.50% 7.81%
As % of the General category 10.72% 23.54% 14.34%
Number of salaries quoted 750 388 1,022
10th Percentile £34,925 £26,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,504 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,397 £47,250 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.43% -0.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £60,188
90th Percentile £78,288 £80,000 £73,710
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -8.90%

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 8,947 6,542 10,113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 43.34% 70.11% 54.47%
Number of salaries quoted 5,927 2,866 7,162
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,300 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,660 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.16% -1.77% -7.90%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £82,500 £76,225
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 9 July 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 9 July 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 -19 566 £47,500 -5.00% 236
Yorkshire -11 290 £50,000 +11.11% 160
North East -24 103 £55,000 +37.50% 59
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 38 (3.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (3.02%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.56%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.15%) Apache
4 11 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (0.94%) Confluence
6 5 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 5 (0.52%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.42%) WordPress
8 3 (0.31%) CMS
8 3 (0.31%) JBoss
9 1 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.10%) Umbraco
Applications
1 143 (14.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (5.63%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (2.82%) MS Visio
4 19 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.10%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.10%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 29 (3.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (2.19%) Salesforce CRM
3 15 (1.56%) SAP PM
4 14 (1.46%) SAP ERP
5 9 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
6 7 (0.73%) Workday HCM
7 6 (0.63%) Magento
8 5 (0.52%) SAP PP
9 3 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.31%) SAP QM
10 2 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
11 1 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
11 1 (0.10%) SAP ECC
11 1 (0.10%) SAP MDM
11 1 (0.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 133 (13.87%) Azure
2 131 (13.66%) Power Platform
3 100 (10.43%) AWS
4 58 (6.05%) Microsoft 365
5 41 (4.28%) GCP
6 32 (3.34%) SaaS
7 31 (3.23%) Entra ID
7 31 (3.23%) Microsoft Purview
8 25 (2.61%) GitHub
9 24 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
10 23 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
11 20 (2.09%) PowerApps
12 19 (1.98%) Amazon S3
12 19 (1.98%) Boomi
13 17 (1.77%) Google Analytics
13 17 (1.77%) Serverless
14 14 (1.46%) Power Automate
15 13 (1.36%) Azure Data Factory
15 13 (1.36%) Snowflake
16 12 (1.25%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 57 (5.94%) Firewall
2 20 (2.09%) Wireless
3 19 (1.98%) Wi-Fi
4 15 (1.56%) VPN
5 14 (1.46%) Wireshark
6 13 (1.36%) WAN
7 12 (1.25%) NGFW
7 12 (1.25%) VXLAN
8 10 (1.04%) Cisco Nexus
8 10 (1.04%) LAN
8 10 (1.04%) Network Security
9 9 (0.94%) Cisco ASA
9 9 (0.94%) DNS
9 9 (0.94%) SNMP
10 8 (0.83%) DHCP
11 6 (0.63%) IP Telephony
12 5 (0.52%) OSPF
12 5 (0.52%) SMS
12 5 (0.52%) VLAN
12 5 (0.52%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (11.57%) Power BI
2 84 (8.76%) Tableau
3 37 (3.86%) Data Mining
3 37 (3.86%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (2.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 20 (2.09%) Big Data
6 14 (1.46%) SQL Server
7 12 (1.25%) BigQuery
8 11 (1.15%) Metadata
9 10 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (0.83%) DynamoDB
12 7 (0.73%) Data Lake
12 7 (0.73%) Looker
12 7 (0.73%) MySQL
12 7 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
13 6 (0.63%) Power Query
13 6 (0.63%) Semantic Layer
14 5 (0.52%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 36 (3.75%) JIRA
2 14 (1.46%) Git
3 10 (1.04%) GitLab
4 9 (0.94%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.52%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.42%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.42%) Selenium
7 3 (0.31%) Maven
7 3 (0.31%) Postman
7 3 (0.31%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.21%) MLflow
8 2 (0.21%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.10%) JMeter
9 1 (0.10%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.10%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 429 (44.73%) Social Skills
2 283 (29.51%) Finance
3 97 (10.11%) Public Sector
4 94 (9.80%) Marketing
5 83 (8.65%) Law
6 53 (5.53%) Legal
7 45 (4.69%) Retail
8 43 (4.48%) Manufacturing
8 43 (4.48%) Telecoms
9 37 (3.86%) Organisational Skills
10 35 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 33 (3.44%) Influencing Skills
12 31 (3.23%) Military
13 26 (2.71%) Back Office
14 18 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
15 14 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
16 13 (1.36%) Banking
17 12 (1.25%) Advertising
17 12 (1.25%) Local Government
18 8 (0.83%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 274 (28.57%) Analyst
2 105 (10.95%) Data Analyst
3 100 (10.43%) Senior
4 93 (9.70%) Lead
5 57 (5.94%) Business Analyst
5 57 (5.94%) Developer
6 48 (5.01%) Data Manager
7 46 (4.80%) Systems Analyst
8 43 (4.48%) Systems Manager
9 40 (4.17%) Architect
10 36 (3.75%) Data Engineer
11 34 (3.55%) Trainee
11 34 (3.55%) Trainee Analyst
11 34 (3.55%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 30 (3.13%) Head of QA
12 30 (3.13%) HR Analyst
12 30 (3.13%) HR Data Analyst
12 30 (3.13%) HR Manager
13 23 (2.40%) IT Support
14 22 (2.29%) CRM Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (2.82%) Middleware
2 26 (2.71%) REST
3 21 (2.19%) .NET
3 21 (2.19%) HTML
4 17 (1.77%) CSS
4 17 (1.77%) Node.js
4 17 (1.77%) XML
5 15 (1.56%) SOAP
6 14 (1.46%) EDI
7 13 (1.36%) JSON
8 12 (1.25%) React
9 9 (0.94%) AngularJS
10 8 (0.83%) Flutter
11 7 (0.73%) scikit-learn
12 6 (0.63%) PySpark
12 6 (0.63%) SAP Fiori
12 6 (0.63%) Web Services
13 5 (0.52%) Kafka
13 5 (0.52%) Pandas
14 4 (0.42%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 93 (9.70%) Analytical Mindset
2 46 (4.80%) Product Ownership
3 41 (4.28%) Management Information System
4 34 (3.55%) Onboarding
5 26 (2.71%) Data Centre
6 22 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
7 19 (1.98%) Cloud Native
8 14 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (1.36%) Enterprise Cloud
10 12 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (1.25%) Driving Licence
10 12 (1.25%) PKI
11 10 (1.04%) Credit Risk
11 10 (1.04%) Social Media
11 10 (1.04%) Virtual Team
12 8 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (0.83%) Marketing Technology
13 7 (0.73%) Algorithms
14 6 (0.63%) Data Structures
14 6 (0.63%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 52 (5.42%) Windows
2 34 (3.55%) Windows Server
3 13 (1.36%) Windows Server 2019
4 9 (0.94%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.42%) Android
6 4 (0.42%) Linux
6 4 (0.42%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (38.58%) Problem-Solving
2 305 (31.80%) Continuous Improvement
3 270 (28.15%) Decision-Making
4 240 (25.03%) Analytics
5 220 (22.94%) Stakeholder Management
6 129 (13.45%) Agile
7 115 (11.99%) AI
7 115 (11.99%) Mentoring
8 107 (11.16%) Actionable Insight
9 106 (11.05%) Business Intelligence
10 102 (10.64%) CRM
11 100 (10.43%) Data Governance
11 100 (10.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 98 (10.22%) Data Analysis
13 92 (9.59%) Data Modelling
13 92 (9.59%) ERP
13 92 (9.59%) Project Management
14 84 (8.76%) Roadmaps
15 76 (7.92%) Root Cause Analysis
16 73 (7.61%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 205 (21.38%) SQL
2 164 (17.10%) Python
3 33 (3.44%) Java
3 33 (3.44%) JavaScript
4 32 (3.34%) C#
5 14 (1.46%) R
6 11 (1.15%) PowerShell
7 10 (1.04%) T-SQL
8 9 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 9 (0.94%) Go
8 9 (0.94%) Scala
9 7 (0.73%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.63%) Bash
10 6 (0.63%) C++
10 6 (0.63%) PHP
11 3 (0.31%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.31%) C
11 3 (0.31%) Groovy
11 3 (0.31%) SOQL
11 3 (0.31%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 108 (11.26%) Degree
2 80 (8.34%) DBS Check
3 43 (4.48%) Security Cleared
4 37 (3.86%) ACCA
5 33 (3.44%) CIMA
6 31 (3.23%) SC Cleared
7 30 (3.13%) IRCA
8 16 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (1.04%) CCNA
11 10 (1.04%) CCNP
11 10 (1.04%) HNC
12 8 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
13 7 (0.73%) Azure Certification
13 7 (0.73%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.52%) CCIE
14 5 (0.52%) SAP Certification
15 4 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (16.37%) Data Quality
2 85 (8.86%) GDPR
3 77 (8.03%) QA
4 36 (3.75%) Cyber Essentials
4 36 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 34 (3.55%) ISO 9001
6 24 (2.50%) SLA
7 23 (2.40%) NIST
8 17 (1.77%) Actionable Recommendations
8 17 (1.77%) TickIT
9 16 (1.67%) Accessibility
10 15 (1.56%) PMO
11 8 (0.83%) GMP
12 6 (0.63%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.42%) GRC
14 4 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 14443
14 4 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 7816
14 4 (0.42%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 48 (5.01%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.36%) Docker
3 9 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.52%) ProxySG
5 3 (0.31%) DFS Replication
5 3 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 2 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.21%) vSphere
7 1 (0.10%) Firmware
7 1 (0.10%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 28 (2.92%) Terraform
2 13 (1.36%) Ansible
3 11 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (0.63%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.31%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.10%) Autotask
6 1 (0.10%) Grafana
Vendors
1 242 (25.23%) Microsoft
2 63 (6.57%) Workday
3 54 (5.63%) SAP
4 45 (4.69%) Salesforce
5 30 (3.13%) Google
6 17 (1.77%) iManage
7 16 (1.67%) Aruba
7 16 (1.67%) Cisco
7 16 (1.67%) Databricks
8 15 (1.56%) Adobe
9 14 (1.46%) ServiceNow
10 13 (1.36%) Arista
10 13 (1.36%) NetScout
11 12 (1.25%) Oracle
12 9 (0.94%) Aderant
12 9 (0.94%) CheckPoint
12 9 (0.94%) Intapp
13 8 (0.83%) HubSpot
13 8 (0.83%) SolarWinds
14 7 (0.73%) Veeam