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 16 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 10 21
Rank change year-on-year -18 +11 -3
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 811 921 1,052
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.45% 11.67% 8.41%
As % of the General category 10.97% 17.04% 14.26%
Number of salaries quoted 450 382 782
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £26,763
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,155 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £57,239 £68,438 £61,123
90th Percentile £71,106 £80,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -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 7,393 5,405 7,376
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 58.80% 68.46% 58.96%
Number of salaries quoted 3,684 2,378 5,853
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,500 £40,000 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +8.33% -8.57%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 16 February 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 16 February 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 -18 414 £42,500 -19.05% 192
Yorkshire -2 292 £45,000 -7.69% 104
North East -1 105 £40,000 +0.34% 34
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 18 (2.22%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.48%) Apache Spark
2 12 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.11%) Confluence
4 7 (0.86%) Apache
5 5 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.49%) CMS
7 3 (0.37%) WordPress
8 2 (0.25%) FactoryTalk
8 2 (0.25%) nginx
8 2 (0.25%) SAS
8 2 (0.25%) WinCC
9 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 171 (21.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 146 (18.00%) Chatbot
3 19 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (2.22%) MS Visio
5 17 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (1.36%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.74%) SOLIDWORKS
8 2 (0.25%) Revit
9 1 (0.12%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 19 (2.34%) Salesforce CRM
2 8 (0.99%) Shopify
3 7 (0.86%) Workday HCM
4 6 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.74%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.37%) ResourceLink
8 2 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.12%) C-CURE
9 1 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.12%) Magento
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.12%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.12%) Siebel CRM
9 1 (0.12%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 102 (12.58%) Power Platform
2 85 (10.48%) Azure
3 70 (8.63%) AWS
4 39 (4.81%) Entra ID
5 30 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
5 30 (3.70%) SaaS
6 29 (3.58%) Microsoft Purview
7 17 (2.10%) GCP
8 16 (1.97%) OCI
9 13 (1.60%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (1.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 12 (1.48%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (1.48%) Microsoft Copilot
11 11 (1.36%) Power Automate
12 10 (1.23%) PowerApps
13 9 (1.11%) OneDrive
14 8 (0.99%) Adobe Analytics
14 8 (0.99%) dbt
14 8 (0.99%) Google Ads
14 8 (0.99%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 58 (7.15%) Firewall
2 16 (1.97%) Network Security
2 16 (1.97%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (1.48%) NGFW
3 12 (1.48%) VXLAN
3 12 (1.48%) Wireshark
4 10 (1.23%) WAN
5 9 (1.11%) LAN
6 8 (0.99%) VPN
7 7 (0.86%) VLAN
8 6 (0.74%) Asterisk PBX
8 6 (0.74%) BGP
8 6 (0.74%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (0.74%) EIGRP
8 6 (0.74%) OSPF
8 6 (0.74%) PSTN
8 6 (0.74%) SNMP
8 6 (0.74%) VoIP
8 6 (0.74%) WAAS
8 6 (0.74%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (13.19%) Tableau
2 94 (11.59%) Power BI
3 80 (9.86%) Data Mining
4 37 (4.56%) SQL Server
5 16 (1.97%) Metadata
6 15 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 12 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (0.86%) BigQuery
9 7 (0.86%) Data Lake
9 7 (0.86%) DynamoDB
9 7 (0.86%) GIS
9 7 (0.86%) Looker
9 7 (0.86%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.62%) Geospatial Data
10 5 (0.62%) Power Query
11 3 (0.37%) Data Vault
11 3 (0.37%) QGIS
11 3 (0.37%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 11 (1.36%) JIRA
2 4 (0.49%) Git
2 4 (0.49%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.12%) GitLab
3 1 (0.12%) JUnit
3 1 (0.12%) TestRail
General
1 332 (40.94%) Social Skills
2 248 (30.58%) Finance
3 57 (7.03%) Marketing
4 49 (6.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 47 (5.80%) Public Sector
6 46 (5.67%) Organisational Skills
7 40 (4.93%) Presentation Skills
8 37 (4.56%) Legal
9 24 (2.96%) Law
9 24 (2.96%) Retail
10 23 (2.84%) Telecoms
11 21 (2.59%) Manufacturing
12 19 (2.34%) Banking
13 15 (1.85%) Advertising
14 14 (1.73%) Games
15 11 (1.36%) Electronics
16 10 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (0.86%) French Language
18 6 (0.74%) General Ledger
19 5 (0.62%) Billing
Job Titles
1 220 (27.13%) Analyst
2 146 (18.00%) Trainer
3 106 (13.07%) Data Analyst
4 90 (11.10%) Senior
5 76 (9.37%) Trainee
6 74 (9.12%) Trainee Analyst
6 74 (9.12%) Trainee Data Analyst
7 49 (6.04%) Lead
8 33 (4.07%) Architect
9 27 (3.33%) Support Engineer
10 26 (3.21%) CRM Executive
11 25 (3.08%) Business Analyst
11 25 (3.08%) Systems Analyst
12 23 (2.84%) IT Support
13 20 (2.47%) Senior Analyst
13 20 (2.47%) Senior Manager
14 19 (2.34%) Salesforce Executive
14 19 (2.34%) Support Analyst
15 18 (2.22%) Applications Support
15 18 (2.22%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.34%) CSS
2 13 (1.60%) HTML
2 13 (1.60%) React
3 8 (0.99%) .NET
4 6 (0.74%) Flutter
4 6 (0.74%) FreeSWITCH
5 5 (0.62%) JSON
5 5 (0.62%) REST
5 5 (0.62%) XML
6 4 (0.49%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (0.49%) SAP Fiori
7 3 (0.37%) Node.js
7 3 (0.37%) Pandas
8 2 (0.25%) Django
8 2 (0.25%) FastAPI
8 2 (0.25%) Flask
8 2 (0.25%) jQuery
8 2 (0.25%) Laravel
8 2 (0.25%) PySpark
8 2 (0.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 64 (7.89%) Analytical Mindset
2 47 (5.80%) Self-Motivation
3 45 (5.55%) Management Information System
4 26 (3.21%) Data Protection Act
4 26 (3.21%) Onboarding
5 22 (2.71%) Data Centre
6 20 (2.47%) Social Media
7 19 (2.34%) Driving Licence
8 14 (1.73%) Data Structures
9 12 (1.48%) Cloud Native
9 12 (1.48%) PKI
9 12 (1.48%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.23%) Product Ownership
11 9 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.11%) Operational Technology
12 8 (0.99%) Algorithms
13 7 (0.86%) Life Science
13 7 (0.86%) SCADA
14 6 (0.74%) Mobile App
15 5 (0.62%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 37 (4.56%) Windows
2 9 (1.11%) Windows Server
3 8 (0.99%) Android
4 6 (0.74%) Linux
5 4 (0.49%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.37%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 296 (36.50%) Problem-Solving
2 226 (27.87%) AI
3 174 (21.45%) Decision-Making
4 163 (20.10%) Analytics
5 162 (19.98%) Continuous Improvement
6 156 (19.24%) Project Management
7 148 (18.25%) Chemistry
8 146 (18.00%) Conversational UI
9 121 (14.92%) Stakeholder Management
10 120 (14.80%) Data Analysis
11 108 (13.32%) Business Analysis
12 107 (13.19%) Business Intelligence
13 106 (13.07%) Agile
14 96 (11.84%) Data Analytics
15 63 (7.77%) Actionable Insight
16 61 (7.52%) CRM
17 58 (7.15%) Process Improvement
18 57 (7.03%) Visualisation
19 55 (6.78%) Mentoring
20 54 (6.66%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 178 (21.95%) SQL
2 146 (18.00%) Python
3 15 (1.85%) JavaScript
3 15 (1.85%) T-SQL
4 14 (1.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 13 (1.60%) Java
6 9 (1.11%) C#
6 9 (1.11%) R
7 7 (0.86%) Go
8 6 (0.74%) Bash
9 5 (0.62%) PowerShell
9 5 (0.62%) Scala
9 5 (0.62%) VBA
10 2 (0.25%) Bicep
10 2 (0.25%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.25%) PHP
11 1 (0.12%) C
11 1 (0.12%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 292 (36.00%) Degree
2 167 (20.59%) Master's Degree
3 147 (18.13%) PhD
4 29 (3.58%) DBS Check
5 23 (2.84%) ACCA
5 23 (2.84%) CIMA
6 19 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (1.73%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (1.73%) PMI Certification
9 13 (1.60%) PMP
10 12 (1.48%) CCNP
11 8 (0.99%) CompTIA Security+
12 6 (0.74%) CCIE
12 6 (0.74%) CIPD
12 6 (0.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 6 (0.74%) Network+ Certification
13 5 (0.62%) Security Cleared
13 5 (0.62%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 4 (0.49%) NVQ Level 4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.67%) Data Quality
2 43 (5.30%) GDPR
3 41 (5.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 33 (4.07%) Cyber Essentials
5 32 (3.95%) NIST
6 26 (3.21%) QA
7 21 (2.59%) PMO
8 16 (1.97%) Actionable Recommendations
9 15 (1.85%) Accessibility
10 6 (0.74%) IEC 61131
11 5 (0.62%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.49%) GAAP
12 4 (0.49%) GLBA
12 4 (0.49%) GMP
12 4 (0.49%) IFRS
12 4 (0.49%) SEPA
12 4 (0.49%) SLA
12 4 (0.49%) TARGET2
System Software
1 27 (3.33%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.99%) Docker
3 6 (0.74%) ProxySG
4 4 (0.49%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.12%) Firmware
7 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (3.33%) Terraform
2 15 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (1.48%) Ansible
4 8 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.86%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.25%) AssetCenter
6 2 (0.25%) SCCM
7 1 (0.12%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.12%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 202 (24.91%) Microsoft
2 146 (18.00%) PayPal
3 38 (4.69%) Salesforce
4 20 (2.47%) Google
5 19 (2.34%) ServiceNow
6 16 (1.97%) Oracle
7 15 (1.85%) Cisco
8 14 (1.73%) SAP
9 12 (1.48%) Arista
9 12 (1.48%) Aruba
9 12 (1.48%) HubSpot
9 12 (1.48%) NetScout
10 11 (1.36%) Anaplan
11 10 (1.23%) Adobe
11 10 (1.23%) Genesys
12 9 (1.11%) Splunk
12 9 (1.11%) Verint
12 9 (1.11%) Workday
13 8 (0.99%) New Relic
14 7 (0.86%) Qualtrics