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 27 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 12 20
Rank change year-on-year -23 +8 -3
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 783 741 1,334
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 5.20% 11.75% 8.61%
As % of the General category 9.33% 16.18% 14.97%
Number of salaries quoted 520 396 962
10th Percentile £31,726 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,000 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £57,500 £70,000 £61,123
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,371
England median annual salary £53,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.73% +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 8,393 4,581 8,913
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 55.75% 72.66% 57.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4,336 2,586 6,949
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.11% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,688 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +12.15% -12.55%

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 27 March 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 27 March 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 -20 425 £42,500 -18.27% 220
Yorkshire -3 259 £50,000 +11.11% 136
North East -12 99 £48,445 +23.90% 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 21 (2.68%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (1.53%) Confluence
4 11 (1.40%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.51%) Apache
6 4 (0.51%) WordPress
7 3 (0.38%) CMS
7 3 (0.38%) JBoss
8 2 (0.26%) SAS
9 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 163 (20.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (4.47%) Chatbot
3 21 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (2.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (1.79%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.51%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.26%) Revit
Business Applications
1 27 (3.45%) Salesforce CRM
2 15 (1.92%) SAP PM
3 13 (1.66%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.89%) Workday HCM
5 6 (0.77%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.77%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.38%) Magento
6 3 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.38%) ResourceLink
7 2 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.13%) SAP PP
8 1 (0.13%) Shopify
8 1 (0.13%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 102 (13.03%) Power Platform
2 89 (11.37%) Azure
3 74 (9.45%) AWS
4 41 (5.24%) Microsoft 365
5 36 (4.60%) Entra ID
6 35 (4.47%) SaaS
7 29 (3.70%) Microsoft Purview
8 20 (2.55%) GCP
9 15 (1.92%) OCI
10 14 (1.79%) Azure Data Factory
10 14 (1.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 14 (1.79%) Power Automate
11 12 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (1.53%) Serverless
12 11 (1.40%) PowerApps
13 10 (1.28%) Amazon S3
13 10 (1.28%) dbt
13 10 (1.28%) OneDrive
14 9 (1.15%) Google Analytics
14 9 (1.15%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 50 (6.39%) Firewall
2 18 (2.30%) Network Security
3 16 (2.04%) Wi-Fi
4 14 (1.79%) VPN
5 13 (1.66%) WAN
5 13 (1.66%) Wireshark
6 12 (1.53%) LAN
6 12 (1.53%) NGFW
6 12 (1.53%) VXLAN
6 12 (1.53%) Wireless
7 9 (1.15%) VLAN
8 8 (1.02%) BGP
8 8 (1.02%) Cisco ASA
8 8 (1.02%) Cisco Nexus
8 8 (1.02%) Cisco Wireless
8 8 (1.02%) EIGRP
8 8 (1.02%) OSPF
8 8 (1.02%) SNMP
8 8 (1.02%) WAAS
8 8 (1.02%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (14.81%) Tableau
2 93 (11.88%) Power BI
3 84 (10.73%) Data Mining
4 33 (4.21%) SQL Server
5 16 (2.04%) Metadata
6 15 (1.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 12 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (1.28%) DynamoDB
9 7 (0.89%) NoSQL
10 6 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (0.64%) BigQuery
11 5 (0.64%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.64%) Looker
11 5 (0.64%) Power Query
12 4 (0.51%) Big Data
12 4 (0.51%) Data Vault
12 4 (0.51%) Relational Database
13 3 (0.38%) GIS
13 3 (0.38%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 17 (2.17%) JIRA
2 8 (1.02%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.77%) Git
4 4 (0.51%) Cucumber
4 4 (0.51%) Cypress.io
4 4 (0.51%) GitLab
4 4 (0.51%) Selenium
5 3 (0.38%) Maven
5 3 (0.38%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.26%) MLflow
7 1 (0.13%) JMeter
7 1 (0.13%) JUnit
7 1 (0.13%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.13%) Postman
7 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.13%) TestRail
General
1 369 (47.13%) Social Skills
2 265 (33.84%) Finance
3 72 (9.20%) Marketing
4 57 (7.28%) Public Sector
5 42 (5.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 40 (5.11%) Organisational Skills
7 38 (4.85%) Presentation Skills
8 34 (4.34%) Law
9 32 (4.09%) Legal
10 28 (3.58%) Telecoms
11 24 (3.07%) Manufacturing
12 22 (2.81%) Retail
13 17 (2.17%) Military
14 15 (1.92%) Advertising
15 12 (1.53%) Banking
15 12 (1.53%) Games
16 10 (1.28%) Back Office
16 10 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
17 8 (1.02%) Electronics
18 7 (0.89%) Billing
Job Titles
1 215 (27.46%) Analyst
2 114 (14.56%) Data Analyst
3 91 (11.62%) Senior
4 79 (10.09%) Trainee
4 79 (10.09%) Trainee Analyst
4 79 (10.09%) Trainee Data Analyst
5 61 (7.79%) Lead
6 51 (6.51%) Data Manager
7 35 (4.47%) Systems Manager
7 35 (4.47%) Trainer
8 34 (4.34%) CRM Executive
9 33 (4.21%) Architect
10 30 (3.83%) Head of QA
10 30 (3.83%) HR Manager
11 28 (3.58%) Systems Analyst
12 27 (3.45%) Salesforce Executive
13 26 (3.32%) IT Support
14 22 (2.81%) Support Engineer
15 21 (2.68%) Consultant
15 21 (2.68%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (1.79%) .NET
1 14 (1.79%) React
2 12 (1.53%) HTML
3 11 (1.40%) CSS
4 8 (1.02%) Flutter
4 8 (1.02%) Node.js
5 7 (0.89%) XML
6 5 (0.64%) scikit-learn
7 4 (0.51%) Pandas
7 4 (0.51%) SAP Fiori
7 4 (0.51%) Spring Boot
8 3 (0.38%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.38%) Drools
8 3 (0.38%) Gherkin
8 3 (0.38%) Jest
8 3 (0.38%) MACH
8 3 (0.38%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (0.38%) PyTorch
8 3 (0.38%) TensorFlow
8 3 (0.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 95 (12.13%) Analytical Mindset
2 49 (6.26%) Management Information System
3 33 (4.21%) Self-Motivation
4 24 (3.07%) Data Centre
5 23 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
6 19 (2.43%) Social Media
7 17 (2.17%) Onboarding
7 17 (2.17%) Product Ownership
8 15 (1.92%) Driving Licence
9 12 (1.53%) Data Structures
9 12 (1.53%) PKI
10 11 (1.40%) Cloud Native
10 11 (1.40%) Virtual Team
11 9 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (0.77%) Algorithms
13 6 (0.77%) Mobile App
13 6 (0.77%) Operational Technology
14 5 (0.64%) FMCG
14 5 (0.64%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 43 (5.49%) Windows
2 14 (1.79%) Windows Server
3 9 (1.15%) Android
4 7 (0.89%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.89%) Linux
5 4 (0.51%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (36.65%) Problem-Solving
2 236 (30.14%) Continuous Improvement
3 214 (27.33%) Analytics
3 214 (27.33%) Decision-Making
4 173 (22.09%) Stakeholder Management
5 149 (19.03%) Project Management
6 130 (16.60%) Data Analysis
7 120 (15.33%) AI
8 106 (13.54%) Business Analysis
9 105 (13.41%) Data Analytics
10 104 (13.28%) Business Intelligence
11 99 (12.64%) Agile
12 96 (12.26%) Actionable Insight
13 87 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 78 (9.96%) Change Management
15 65 (8.30%) Data Governance
16 63 (8.05%) CRM
17 61 (7.79%) Visualisation
18 60 (7.66%) Coaching
18 60 (7.66%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 165 (21.07%) SQL
2 155 (19.80%) Python
3 19 (2.43%) JavaScript
4 18 (2.30%) C#
4 18 (2.30%) Java
5 14 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 12 (1.53%) T-SQL
7 8 (1.02%) Go
7 8 (1.02%) R
8 6 (0.77%) PowerShell
9 4 (0.51%) VBA
10 3 (0.38%) Bash
10 3 (0.38%) Groovy
10 3 (0.38%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.38%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.26%) Bicep
11 2 (0.26%) C
11 2 (0.26%) Scala
12 1 (0.13%) C++
12 1 (0.13%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 153 (19.54%) Degree
2 55 (7.02%) DBS Check
3 47 (6.00%) Master's Degree
4 36 (4.60%) PhD
5 30 (3.83%) IRCA
6 24 (3.07%) ACCA
7 23 (2.94%) CIMA
8 16 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
10 14 (1.79%) PMI Certification
11 13 (1.66%) PMP
12 11 (1.40%) Security Cleared
13 10 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
14 9 (1.15%) HNC
15 8 (1.02%) CCIE
15 8 (1.02%) CCNP
16 6 (0.77%) AWS Certification
16 6 (0.77%) CIPD
16 6 (0.77%) SC Cleared
17 5 (0.64%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (10.34%) Data Quality
2 75 (9.58%) GDPR
3 58 (7.41%) QA
4 37 (4.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 35 (4.47%) Cyber Essentials
6 32 (4.09%) NIST
7 30 (3.83%) ISO 9001
8 21 (2.68%) PMO
9 18 (2.30%) Actionable Recommendations
10 12 (1.53%) GMP
11 9 (1.15%) Accessibility
12 8 (1.02%) SLA
13 5 (0.64%) PCI DSS
14 4 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 4 (0.51%) GAAP
14 4 (0.51%) IFRS
15 3 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 2 (0.26%) GLBA
16 2 (0.26%) GRC
16 2 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (3.58%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.15%) Docker
3 8 (1.02%) ProxySG
4 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.26%) Firmware
5 2 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (3.96%) Terraform
2 13 (1.66%) Ansible
3 12 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (1.02%) Kubernetes
4 8 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.38%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.13%) Autotask
6 1 (0.13%) Fluentd
6 1 (0.13%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 213 (27.20%) Microsoft
2 44 (5.62%) Salesforce
3 37 (4.73%) Workday
4 35 (4.47%) PayPal
5 33 (4.21%) SAP
6 19 (2.43%) ServiceNow
7 16 (2.04%) Google
8 13 (1.66%) Oracle
9 12 (1.53%) Arista
9 12 (1.53%) Aruba
9 12 (1.53%) NetScout
10 10 (1.28%) Anaplan
10 10 (1.28%) Genesys
10 10 (1.28%) Splunk
11 9 (1.15%) Adobe
11 9 (1.15%) Cisco
11 9 (1.15%) Databricks
11 9 (1.15%) Verint
12 8 (1.02%) IFS
12 8 (1.02%) New Relic