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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 6 18
Rank change year-on-year -19 +12 +17
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,049 1,487 1,135
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 4.62% 15.57% 7.43%
As % of the General category 11.30% 23.51% 13.62%
Number of salaries quoted 768 352 690
10th Percentile £31,000 £25,775 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,688 £36,950
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £78,875
England median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - - -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 9,285 6,325 8,334
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 40.87% 66.24% 54.55%
Number of salaries quoted 6,195 2,854 4,772
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,313 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £31,250 £35,244
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -9.09% -3.88%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £63,031
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,925 £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 25 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 25 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 -16 649 £46,500 +3.33% 299
Yorkshire -12 282 £47,000 +17.50% 191
North East -16 118 £55,000 +17.65% 64
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 49 (4.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 47 (4.48%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.72%) Confluence
4 14 (1.33%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.05%) Apache
5 11 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.86%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.38%) CMS
9 3 (0.29%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.19%) WordPress
11 1 (0.095%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.095%) IIS
11 1 (0.095%) JBoss
11 1 (0.095%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.095%) SAS
11 1 (0.095%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.095%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.095%) WebSphere
Applications
1 131 (12.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (6.39%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (3.05%) MS Visio
4 21 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.19%) LaTeX
7 1 (0.095%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.095%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 27 (2.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.81%) SAP PM
3 13 (1.24%) Salesforce CRM
4 12 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (1.14%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.48%) Magento
6 4 (0.38%) SAP PP
6 4 (0.38%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.29%) SAP QM
8 2 (0.19%) Exchequer
8 2 (0.19%) Odoo
8 2 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.19%) Sage 200
9 1 (0.095%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.095%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.095%) SAP CRM
9 1 (0.095%) SAP ECC
9 1 (0.095%) SAP SD
9 1 (0.095%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 144 (13.73%) Azure
2 142 (13.54%) Power Platform
3 116 (11.06%) AWS
4 77 (7.34%) Microsoft 365
5 58 (5.53%) GCP
6 41 (3.91%) SaaS
7 34 (3.24%) Amazon S3
8 29 (2.76%) PowerApps
8 29 (2.76%) Serverless
9 27 (2.57%) Azure DevOps
9 27 (2.57%) Entra ID
10 26 (2.48%) Dynamics 365
11 25 (2.38%) GitHub
11 25 (2.38%) Google Analytics
12 23 (2.19%) AWS Lambda
13 20 (1.91%) Amazon EC2
14 19 (1.81%) Snowflake
15 18 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 18 (1.72%) Boomi
15 18 (1.72%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.48%) DNS
2 25 (2.38%) DHCP
3 22 (2.10%) Firewall
4 21 (2.00%) VPN
4 21 (2.00%) Wireless
5 15 (1.43%) TCP/IP
6 14 (1.33%) WAN
7 12 (1.14%) Internet
8 11 (1.05%) LAN
9 7 (0.67%) Cisco Nexus
9 7 (0.67%) Network Security
10 6 (0.57%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (0.57%) IP Telephony
10 6 (0.57%) SNMP
10 6 (0.57%) VLAN
10 6 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (0.48%) HTTP
11 5 (0.48%) SMS
11 5 (0.48%) Unified Communications
12 4 (0.38%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (10.87%) Power BI
2 59 (5.62%) Tableau
3 45 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (2.38%) BigQuery
4 25 (2.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 21 (2.00%) Big Data
5 21 (2.00%) SQL Server
6 20 (1.91%) Metadata
7 17 (1.62%) Looker
8 16 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
9 15 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (0.86%) Amazon Athena
11 9 (0.86%) MySQL
11 9 (0.86%) Power Query
11 9 (0.86%) Relational Database
11 9 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (0.76%) Data Mining
12 8 (0.76%) MongoDB
13 7 (0.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 55 (5.24%) JIRA
2 30 (2.86%) Git
3 9 (0.86%) GitLab
4 8 (0.76%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.29%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.29%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.29%) Postman
5 3 (0.29%) RStudio
5 3 (0.29%) Selenium
5 3 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.19%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.19%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.095%) JMeter
7 1 (0.095%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.095%) Maven
7 1 (0.095%) MLflow
7 1 (0.095%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.095%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.095%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.095%) Visual Studio
General
1 460 (43.85%) Social Skills
2 285 (27.17%) Finance
3 108 (10.30%) Law
4 96 (9.15%) Marketing
5 82 (7.82%) Public Sector
6 68 (6.48%) Legal
7 62 (5.91%) Organisational Skills
8 58 (5.53%) Retail
9 55 (5.24%) Influencing Skills
10 52 (4.96%) Manufacturing
11 50 (4.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 47 (4.48%) Telecoms
13 37 (3.53%) Military
14 34 (3.24%) Back Office
15 21 (2.00%) Banking
16 17 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
17 16 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
18 15 (1.43%) Games
18 15 (1.43%) Local Government
19 11 (1.05%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 300 (28.60%) Analyst
2 108 (10.30%) Senior
3 81 (7.72%) Data Analyst
4 75 (7.15%) Lead
5 72 (6.86%) Business Analyst
6 60 (5.72%) Developer
7 47 (4.48%) Architect
8 45 (4.29%) Systems Analyst
9 39 (3.72%) Data Engineer
10 34 (3.24%) Data Manager
11 33 (3.15%) Systems Manager
12 32 (3.05%) Senior Analyst
13 29 (2.76%) IT Support
14 27 (2.57%) Senior Manager
15 25 (2.38%) HR Manager
16 24 (2.29%) HR Analyst
16 24 (2.29%) HR Data Analyst
16 24 (2.29%) Support Engineer
16 24 (2.29%) Technical Analyst
17 22 (2.10%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (2.86%) REST
2 27 (2.57%) Middleware
3 26 (2.48%) Terraform
4 23 (2.19%) .NET
4 23 (2.19%) HTML
5 19 (1.81%) CSS
5 19 (1.81%) EDI
6 18 (1.72%) Node.js
7 17 (1.62%) SOAP
7 17 (1.62%) XML
8 14 (1.33%) JSON
9 8 (0.76%) React
10 7 (0.67%) AngularJS
10 7 (0.67%) Flutter
10 7 (0.67%) PySpark
10 7 (0.67%) Web Services
11 6 (0.57%) ASP.NET
11 6 (0.57%) Kafka
11 6 (0.57%) Pandas
11 6 (0.57%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 87 (8.29%) Analytical Mindset
2 47 (4.48%) Product Ownership
3 44 (4.19%) Onboarding
4 42 (4.00%) Management Information System
5 21 (2.00%) Driving Licence
6 20 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
7 19 (1.81%) Social Media
8 17 (1.62%) Cloud Native
9 15 (1.43%) Data Structures
10 14 (1.33%) Data Centre
10 14 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
11 13 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
12 12 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
13 11 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
14 10 (0.95%) Marketing Technology
14 10 (0.95%) Virtual Team
15 9 (0.86%) Credit Risk
15 9 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
16 8 (0.76%) Algorithms
16 8 (0.76%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 72 (6.86%) Windows
2 43 (4.10%) Windows Server
3 17 (1.62%) Linux
3 17 (1.62%) Windows Server 2019
4 12 (1.14%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (0.67%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.57%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.57%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.29%) CentOS
7 3 (0.29%) CoreOS
7 3 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.19%) Unix
9 1 (0.095%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 440 (41.94%) Problem-Solving
2 335 (31.94%) Continuous Improvement
3 273 (26.02%) Decision-Making
4 232 (22.12%) Stakeholder Management
5 218 (20.78%) Analytics
6 173 (16.49%) Agile
7 156 (14.87%) AI
8 118 (11.25%) Business Intelligence
9 114 (10.87%) ERP
10 106 (10.10%) Validation
11 104 (9.91%) Actionable Insight
11 104 (9.91%) CRM
11 104 (9.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 103 (9.82%) Data Governance
12 103 (9.82%) Data Modelling
13 102 (9.72%) Mentoring
14 95 (9.06%) Roadmaps
15 94 (8.96%) Data-Driven Decision Making
16 82 (7.82%) Project Delivery
17 80 (7.63%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 206 (19.64%) SQL
2 156 (14.87%) Python
3 38 (3.62%) JavaScript
4 34 (3.24%) Java
5 32 (3.05%) C#
6 24 (2.29%) PowerShell
7 20 (1.91%) Bash
8 14 (1.33%) R
9 11 (1.05%) Scala
10 9 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 8 (0.76%) C++
12 7 (0.67%) PHP
12 7 (0.67%) T-SQL
12 7 (0.67%) TypeScript
13 6 (0.57%) C
13 6 (0.57%) Go
14 4 (0.38%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.29%) COBOL
15 3 (0.29%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.29%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 121 (11.53%) Degree
2 73 (6.96%) Security Cleared
3 66 (6.29%) DBS Check
4 49 (4.67%) SC Cleared
5 36 (3.43%) ACCA
6 31 (2.96%) CIMA
7 22 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 21 (2.00%) IRCA
9 16 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
10 14 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
11 12 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (1.05%) HNC
13 10 (0.95%) CCNA
14 9 (0.86%) DV Cleared
15 8 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
15 8 (0.76%) Master's Degree
15 8 (0.76%) PMI Certification
16 7 (0.67%) Azure Certification
16 7 (0.67%) CCNP
16 7 (0.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 165 (15.73%) Data Quality
2 88 (8.39%) QA
3 66 (6.29%) GDPR
4 25 (2.38%) ISO 9001
5 24 (2.29%) SLA
6 19 (1.81%) Accessibility
7 17 (1.62%) TickIT
8 15 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
9 13 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 12 (1.14%) PMO
11 9 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.48%) GMP
13 5 (0.48%) PCI DSS
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 65 (6.20%) Active Directory
2 32 (3.05%) Docker
3 9 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
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%) ProxySG
6 2 (0.19%) vSphere
7 1 (0.095%) NFS
7 1 (0.095%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (0.95%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.48%) Ansible
4 3 (0.29%) Argo
4 3 (0.29%) Check_MK
4 3 (0.29%) Grafana
4 3 (0.29%) Istio
4 3 (0.29%) McAfee ePO
4 3 (0.29%) Podman
4 3 (0.29%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.29%) SCVMM
5 2 (0.19%) Nessus
5 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.095%) Autotask
6 1 (0.095%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.095%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.095%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 242 (23.07%) Microsoft
2 59 (5.62%) SAP
3 55 (5.24%) Workday
4 48 (4.58%) Google
5 32 (3.05%) Salesforce
6 17 (1.62%) Oracle
6 17 (1.62%) YouTube
7 16 (1.53%) Cisco
7 16 (1.53%) Databricks
7 16 (1.53%) iManage
8 15 (1.43%) ServiceNow
9 14 (1.33%) Adobe
9 14 (1.33%) VMware
10 8 (0.76%) Aderant
10 8 (0.76%) HP
10 8 (0.76%) Intapp
11 7 (0.67%) Red Hat
11 7 (0.67%) Veeam
12 6 (0.57%) CheckPoint
12 6 (0.57%) Sage