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 8 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 6 19
Rank change year-on-year -18 +13 +9
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,044 1,513 1,128
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 4.76% 15.79% 7.54%
As % of the General category 11.30% 23.18% 13.88%
Number of salaries quoted 782 376 709
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,125 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -8.16% +6.52%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,381 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,699 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £52,500 £54,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -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 general skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 9,238 6,527 8,127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 42.09% 68.14% 54.32%
Number of salaries quoted 6,171 2,896 4,990
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,284 £27,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,238 £35,023
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -9.09% -5.71%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £63,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

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 8 August 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 8 August 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 -17 629 £47,500 +2.15% 313
Yorkshire -10 292 £47,000 +5.15% 198
North East -20 123 £55,000 +37.50% 65
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 45 (4.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 40 (3.83%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.44%) Confluence
4 14 (1.34%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (0.96%) Apache
7 7 (0.67%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.29%) CMS
9 3 (0.29%) JBoss
9 3 (0.29%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.19%) WordPress
11 1 (0.096%) IIS
11 1 (0.096%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.096%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.096%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.096%) WebSphere
Applications
1 142 (13.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (6.51%) Microsoft Office
3 34 (3.26%) MS Visio
4 20 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.19%) LaTeX
7 1 (0.096%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.096%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 30 (2.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.82%) SAP PM
3 15 (1.44%) Salesforce CRM
4 14 (1.34%) SAP ERP
5 11 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
6 5 (0.48%) Magento
6 5 (0.48%) SAP PP
7 3 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.29%) SAP QM
8 2 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.19%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.096%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.096%) Odoo
9 1 (0.096%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.096%) Sage 200
9 1 (0.096%) SAP CRM
9 1 (0.096%) SAP ECC
9 1 (0.096%) SAP MDM
9 1 (0.096%) SAP SD
9 1 (0.096%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 144 (13.79%) Azure
2 137 (13.12%) Power Platform
3 117 (11.21%) AWS
4 71 (6.80%) Microsoft 365
5 56 (5.36%) GCP
6 39 (3.74%) SaaS
7 33 (3.16%) Amazon S3
8 28 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
8 28 (2.68%) Serverless
9 25 (2.39%) Dynamics 365
9 25 (2.39%) GitHub
9 25 (2.39%) PowerApps
10 22 (2.11%) Entra ID
11 21 (2.01%) AWS Lambda
12 20 (1.92%) Snowflake
13 19 (1.82%) Google Analytics
14 18 (1.72%) Boomi
15 16 (1.53%) Microsoft Purview
15 16 (1.53%) Power Automate
16 15 (1.44%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.30%) Firewall
2 22 (2.11%) DNS
3 21 (2.01%) DHCP
3 21 (2.01%) VPN
3 21 (2.01%) Wireless
4 16 (1.53%) WAN
5 13 (1.25%) LAN
5 13 (1.25%) TCP/IP
6 10 (0.96%) Internet
7 9 (0.86%) Cisco Nexus
7 9 (0.86%) Network Security
8 8 (0.77%) Cisco ASA
8 8 (0.77%) SNMP
9 7 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (0.57%) IP Telephony
10 6 (0.57%) VLAN
11 5 (0.48%) HTTP
11 5 (0.48%) SMS
12 4 (0.38%) ATM
12 4 (0.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (10.63%) Power BI
2 79 (7.57%) Tableau
3 45 (4.31%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (2.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 24 (2.30%) Data Mining
6 23 (2.20%) BigQuery
7 20 (1.92%) Big Data
7 20 (1.92%) SQL Server
8 18 (1.72%) Metadata
9 17 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
10 14 (1.34%) Looker
11 11 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
12 9 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 8 (0.77%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (0.77%) DynamoDB
13 8 (0.77%) MongoDB
13 8 (0.77%) MySQL
14 7 (0.67%) NoSQL
14 7 (0.67%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 48 (4.60%) JIRA
2 30 (2.87%) Git
3 10 (0.96%) GitLab
3 10 (0.96%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.48%) Cypress.io
5 4 (0.38%) Cucumber
5 4 (0.38%) Selenium
6 3 (0.29%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.29%) Maven
6 3 (0.29%) Postman
6 3 (0.29%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.19%) MLflow
7 2 (0.19%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.096%) JMeter
8 1 (0.096%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.096%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.096%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.096%) Visual Studio
General
1 451 (43.20%) Social Skills
2 304 (29.12%) Finance
3 99 (9.48%) Law
4 89 (8.52%) Marketing
5 86 (8.24%) Public Sector
6 60 (5.75%) Legal
7 55 (5.27%) Organisational Skills
8 53 (5.08%) Retail
9 50 (4.79%) Manufacturing
10 48 (4.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 48 (4.60%) Telecoms
11 44 (4.21%) Influencing Skills
12 37 (3.54%) Military
13 33 (3.16%) Back Office
14 19 (1.82%) Banking
15 17 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
16 16 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
17 14 (1.34%) Local Government
18 13 (1.25%) Games
19 10 (0.96%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 306 (29.31%) Analyst
2 117 (11.21%) Senior
3 101 (9.67%) Data Analyst
4 73 (6.99%) Business Analyst
4 73 (6.99%) Lead
5 61 (5.84%) Developer
6 46 (4.41%) Architect
7 42 (4.02%) Systems Analyst
8 41 (3.93%) Data Manager
9 40 (3.83%) Data Engineer
9 40 (3.83%) Systems Manager
10 31 (2.97%) Senior Analyst
11 30 (2.87%) Head of QA
11 30 (2.87%) HR Manager
12 27 (2.59%) IT Support
13 25 (2.39%) Technical Analyst
14 24 (2.30%) HR Analyst
14 24 (2.30%) HR Data Analyst
14 24 (2.30%) Support Engineer
15 23 (2.20%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (2.68%) REST
2 27 (2.59%) Middleware
3 23 (2.20%) .NET
4 21 (2.01%) HTML
5 19 (1.82%) Node.js
6 18 (1.72%) XML
7 17 (1.63%) CSS
7 17 (1.63%) EDI
8 16 (1.53%) SOAP
9 13 (1.25%) JSON
10 10 (0.96%) React
11 9 (0.86%) AngularJS
12 8 (0.77%) Flutter
13 7 (0.67%) scikit-learn
14 6 (0.57%) Kafka
14 6 (0.57%) PySpark
14 6 (0.57%) Web Services
15 5 (0.48%) Pandas
16 4 (0.38%) Entity Framework
16 4 (0.38%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 97 (9.29%) Analytical Mindset
2 50 (4.79%) Product Ownership
3 40 (3.83%) Management Information System
4 37 (3.54%) Onboarding
5 19 (1.82%) Driving Licence
6 18 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
7 17 (1.63%) Cloud Native
8 14 (1.34%) Data Centre
8 14 (1.34%) Data Structures
8 14 (1.34%) Enterprise Cloud
9 11 (1.05%) Social Media
10 10 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (0.96%) Virtual Team
11 9 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (0.86%) Marketing Technology
12 8 (0.77%) Algorithms
12 8 (0.77%) Credit Risk
12 8 (0.77%) Cyber Threat
13 7 (0.67%) EMV
Operating Systems
1 68 (6.51%) Windows
2 42 (4.02%) Windows Server
3 17 (1.63%) Linux
3 17 (1.63%) Windows Server 2019
4 12 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (0.67%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.57%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.38%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.29%) CentOS
8 3 (0.29%) CoreOS
8 3 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.096%) Android
9 1 (0.096%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (40.71%) Problem-Solving
2 333 (31.90%) Continuous Improvement
3 268 (25.67%) Decision-Making
4 241 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
5 232 (22.22%) Analytics
6 167 (16.00%) Agile
7 135 (12.93%) AI
8 113 (10.82%) Business Intelligence
9 110 (10.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 109 (10.44%) ERP
11 107 (10.25%) Actionable Insight
12 106 (10.15%) Data Governance
13 105 (10.06%) Mentoring
14 101 (9.67%) Data Modelling
15 100 (9.58%) Roadmaps
16 99 (9.48%) CRM
16 99 (9.48%) Data Analysis
17 94 (9.00%) Validation
18 89 (8.52%) Project Management
19 85 (8.14%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 219 (20.98%) SQL
2 171 (16.38%) Python
3 37 (3.54%) JavaScript
4 34 (3.26%) Java
5 32 (3.07%) C#
6 20 (1.92%) PowerShell
7 16 (1.53%) Bash
8 13 (1.25%) R
9 10 (0.96%) Scala
10 9 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 8 (0.77%) C++
11 8 (0.77%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.67%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.57%) Go
13 6 (0.57%) PHP
14 5 (0.48%) C
15 4 (0.38%) Apex Code
16 3 (0.29%) Groovy
16 3 (0.29%) SOQL
16 3 (0.29%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 122 (11.69%) Degree
2 72 (6.90%) DBS Check
3 65 (6.23%) Security Cleared
4 45 (4.31%) SC Cleared
5 37 (3.54%) ACCA
6 33 (3.16%) CIMA
7 31 (2.97%) IRCA
8 20 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
9 18 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
10 16 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
11 14 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
12 13 (1.25%) HNC
13 10 (0.96%) CCNA
14 9 (0.86%) CCNP
14 9 (0.86%) DV Cleared
15 8 (0.77%) Azure Certification
15 8 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
15 8 (0.77%) Master's Degree
16 7 (0.67%) PMI Certification
17 6 (0.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (15.71%) Data Quality
2 90 (8.62%) QA
3 73 (6.99%) GDPR
4 35 (3.35%) ISO 9001
5 24 (2.30%) SLA
6 18 (1.72%) Accessibility
7 17 (1.63%) TickIT
8 15 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
9 14 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 14 (1.34%) PMO
10 10 (0.96%) Actionable Recommendations
11 9 (0.86%) GMP
12 6 (0.57%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.38%) GRC
14 4 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 14443
14 4 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 7816
14 4 (0.38%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.29%) ISO 19650
15 3 (0.29%) NIST
System Software
1 62 (5.94%) Active Directory
2 29 (2.78%) Docker
3 9 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.38%) ProxySG
4 4 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.29%) Ceph
5 3 (0.29%) DFS Replication
5 3 (0.29%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.19%) Firmware
6 2 (0.19%) vSphere
7 1 (0.096%) NFS
7 1 (0.096%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 23 (2.20%) Terraform
2 16 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (0.96%) Kubernetes
4 5 (0.48%) Ansible
5 3 (0.29%) Argo
5 3 (0.29%) Check_MK
5 3 (0.29%) Grafana
5 3 (0.29%) HP Fortify
5 3 (0.29%) Istio
5 3 (0.29%) McAfee ePO
5 3 (0.29%) Podman
5 3 (0.29%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.29%) SCVMM
6 2 (0.19%) Nessus
7 1 (0.096%) Autotask
7 1 (0.096%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.096%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 249 (23.85%) Microsoft
2 61 (5.84%) SAP
3 59 (5.65%) Workday
4 43 (4.12%) Google
5 33 (3.16%) Salesforce
6 17 (1.63%) Cisco
6 17 (1.63%) iManage
6 17 (1.63%) ServiceNow
7 16 (1.53%) Databricks
7 16 (1.53%) Oracle
8 14 (1.34%) Adobe
9 12 (1.15%) VMware
10 9 (0.86%) Aderant
10 9 (0.86%) Intapp
11 8 (0.77%) CheckPoint
11 8 (0.77%) HP
11 8 (0.77%) SolarWinds
12 7 (0.67%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.67%) Veeam
13 5 (0.48%) Sage