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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 6 20
Rank change year-on-year -18 +14 +9
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,017 1,524 1,136
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 4.71% 15.89% 7.54%
As % of the General category 11.19% 23.25% 13.94%
Number of salaries quoted 765 387 717
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% +8.89%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,342 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,545 £78,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £53,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.64% +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 9,091 6,554 8,147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 42.07% 68.32% 54.04%
Number of salaries quoted 6,061 2,913 5,097
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,300 £27,096
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £35,000
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 £63,750
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 4 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 4 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 -17 616 £47,000 - 290
Yorkshire -11 282 £47,500 +6.26% 186
North East -18 119 £55,000 +37.50% 72
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 43 (4.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 38 (3.74%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.38%) Apache Spark
3 14 (1.38%) Confluence
4 11 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (0.98%) Apache
6 7 (0.69%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.29%) JBoss
8 3 (0.29%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.20%) CMS
9 2 (0.20%) WordPress
10 1 (0.098%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.098%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.098%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.098%) WebSphere
Applications
1 140 (13.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 65 (6.39%) Microsoft Office
3 34 (3.34%) MS Visio
4 20 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.20%) LaTeX
7 1 (0.098%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.098%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 30 (2.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.87%) SAP PM
3 14 (1.38%) SAP ERP
4 13 (1.28%) Salesforce CRM
5 11 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
6 5 (0.49%) Magento
6 5 (0.49%) SAP PP
7 3 (0.29%) SAP QM
8 2 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.20%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.098%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.098%) Odoo
9 1 (0.098%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.098%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.098%) Sage 200
9 1 (0.098%) SAP CRM
9 1 (0.098%) SAP ECC
9 1 (0.098%) SAP MDM
9 1 (0.098%) SAP SD
9 1 (0.098%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 141 (13.86%) Azure
2 137 (13.47%) Power Platform
3 113 (11.11%) AWS
4 68 (6.69%) Microsoft 365
5 53 (5.21%) GCP
6 39 (3.83%) SaaS
7 30 (2.95%) Amazon S3
8 27 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (2.56%) GitHub
10 25 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
10 25 (2.46%) PowerApps
10 25 (2.46%) Serverless
11 19 (1.87%) Entra ID
11 19 (1.87%) Snowflake
12 18 (1.77%) AWS Lambda
12 18 (1.77%) Boomi
12 18 (1.77%) Google Analytics
13 16 (1.57%) Power Automate
14 15 (1.47%) Microsoft Purview
15 14 (1.38%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.36%) Firewall
2 20 (1.97%) DNS
2 20 (1.97%) VPN
2 20 (1.97%) Wireless
3 19 (1.87%) DHCP
4 16 (1.57%) WAN
5 13 (1.28%) LAN
6 12 (1.18%) TCP/IP
7 9 (0.88%) Cisco Nexus
7 9 (0.88%) Internet
7 9 (0.88%) Network Security
8 8 (0.79%) Cisco ASA
8 8 (0.79%) SNMP
9 7 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (0.59%) IP Telephony
11 5 (0.49%) HTTP
11 5 (0.49%) SMS
11 5 (0.49%) VLAN
12 4 (0.39%) ATM
12 4 (0.39%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (10.91%) Power BI
2 78 (7.67%) Tableau
3 44 (4.33%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (2.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 24 (2.36%) Data Mining
6 21 (2.06%) BigQuery
7 20 (1.97%) Big Data
8 18 (1.77%) SQL Server
9 16 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
10 15 (1.47%) Metadata
11 12 (1.18%) Looker
12 9 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
12 9 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 8 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (0.79%) DynamoDB
13 8 (0.79%) MongoDB
13 8 (0.79%) MySQL
14 7 (0.69%) NoSQL
14 7 (0.69%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 46 (4.52%) JIRA
2 30 (2.95%) Git
3 11 (1.08%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.98%) GitLab
5 5 (0.49%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.39%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.39%) Selenium
7 3 (0.29%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.29%) Maven
7 3 (0.29%) Postman
7 3 (0.29%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.20%) MLflow
8 2 (0.20%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.098%) JMeter
9 1 (0.098%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.098%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.098%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.098%) Visual Studio
General
1 437 (42.97%) Social Skills
2 300 (29.50%) Finance
3 98 (9.64%) Law
4 88 (8.65%) Marketing
5 85 (8.36%) Public Sector
6 60 (5.90%) Legal
7 50 (4.92%) Manufacturing
7 50 (4.92%) Retail
8 49 (4.82%) Organisational Skills
9 47 (4.62%) Telecoms
10 46 (4.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 41 (4.03%) Influencing Skills
12 37 (3.64%) Military
13 33 (3.24%) Back Office
14 18 (1.77%) Banking
15 17 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
16 16 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
17 14 (1.38%) Local Government
18 11 (1.08%) Advertising
19 10 (0.98%) Games
Job Titles
1 298 (29.30%) Analyst
2 111 (10.91%) Senior
3 98 (9.64%) Data Analyst
4 73 (7.18%) Lead
5 70 (6.88%) Business Analyst
6 61 (6.00%) Developer
7 45 (4.42%) Architect
8 42 (4.13%) Systems Analyst
9 41 (4.03%) Data Manager
10 40 (3.93%) Data Engineer
10 40 (3.93%) Systems Manager
11 30 (2.95%) Head of QA
11 30 (2.95%) HR Manager
11 30 (2.95%) Senior Analyst
12 26 (2.56%) IT Support
12 26 (2.56%) Technical Analyst
13 24 (2.36%) HR Analyst
13 24 (2.36%) HR Data Analyst
14 23 (2.26%) Consultant
15 22 (2.16%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (2.75%) REST
2 27 (2.65%) Middleware
3 23 (2.26%) .NET
4 22 (2.16%) HTML
5 19 (1.87%) Node.js
6 18 (1.77%) CSS
6 18 (1.77%) XML
7 16 (1.57%) EDI
7 16 (1.57%) SOAP
8 13 (1.28%) JSON
9 10 (0.98%) React
10 9 (0.88%) AngularJS
11 8 (0.79%) Flutter
12 7 (0.69%) scikit-learn
13 6 (0.59%) Kafka
13 6 (0.59%) PySpark
13 6 (0.59%) Web Services
14 5 (0.49%) Pandas
15 4 (0.39%) Entity Framework
15 4 (0.39%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 98 (9.64%) Analytical Mindset
2 49 (4.82%) Product Ownership
3 39 (3.83%) Management Information System
4 35 (3.44%) Onboarding
5 21 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
6 18 (1.77%) Cloud Native
7 14 (1.38%) Driving Licence
7 14 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
8 13 (1.28%) Data Centre
8 13 (1.28%) Data Structures
9 11 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (1.08%) Social Media
10 10 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (0.98%) Virtual Team
11 9 (0.88%) Marketing Technology
12 8 (0.79%) Credit Risk
12 8 (0.79%) Cyber Threat
13 7 (0.69%) EMV
13 7 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (0.69%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 65 (6.39%) Windows
2 41 (4.03%) Windows Server
3 17 (1.67%) Linux
3 17 (1.67%) Windows Server 2019
4 12 (1.18%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (0.69%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.59%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.29%) CentOS
7 3 (0.29%) CoreOS
7 3 (0.29%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.098%) Android
8 1 (0.098%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 406 (39.92%) Problem-Solving
2 322 (31.66%) Continuous Improvement
3 261 (25.66%) Decision-Making
4 233 (22.91%) Stakeholder Management
5 229 (22.52%) Analytics
6 162 (15.93%) Agile
7 132 (12.98%) AI
8 113 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
9 107 (10.52%) ERP
9 107 (10.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 106 (10.42%) Actionable Insight
11 103 (10.13%) Mentoring
12 101 (9.93%) Data Governance
13 99 (9.73%) CRM
14 98 (9.64%) Data Modelling
15 97 (9.54%) Roadmaps
16 96 (9.44%) Data Analysis
17 92 (9.05%) Validation
18 87 (8.55%) Project Management
19 83 (8.16%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 220 (21.63%) SQL
2 169 (16.62%) Python
3 38 (3.74%) JavaScript
4 34 (3.34%) Java
5 33 (3.24%) C#
6 18 (1.77%) PowerShell
7 14 (1.38%) Bash
8 13 (1.28%) R
9 10 (0.98%) Scala
10 9 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 8 (0.79%) C++
11 8 (0.79%) T-SQL
11 8 (0.79%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.69%) Go
13 6 (0.59%) PHP
14 5 (0.49%) C
15 4 (0.39%) Apex Code
16 3 (0.29%) Groovy
16 3 (0.29%) SOQL
16 3 (0.29%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 116 (11.41%) Degree
2 71 (6.98%) DBS Check
3 62 (6.10%) Security Cleared
4 44 (4.33%) SC Cleared
5 37 (3.64%) ACCA
6 33 (3.24%) CIMA
7 31 (3.05%) IRCA
8 19 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
9 17 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
10 16 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
11 14 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (1.08%) HNC
13 10 (0.98%) CCNA
14 9 (0.88%) CCNP
15 8 (0.79%) Azure Certification
15 8 (0.79%) DV Cleared
15 8 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
15 8 (0.79%) Master's Degree
16 7 (0.69%) PMI Certification
17 6 (0.59%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (15.83%) Data Quality
2 87 (8.55%) QA
3 71 (6.98%) GDPR
4 35 (3.44%) ISO 9001
5 24 (2.36%) SLA
6 18 (1.77%) Accessibility
7 17 (1.67%) TickIT
8 15 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
9 14 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 14 (1.38%) PMO
10 11 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
11 8 (0.79%) GMP
12 6 (0.59%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.39%) GRC
14 4 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 14443
14 4 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 7816
14 4 (0.39%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.29%) ISO 8583
15 3 (0.29%) NIST
System Software
1 60 (5.90%) Active Directory
2 27 (2.65%) Docker
3 9 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.39%) ProxySG
4 4 (0.39%) 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 (0.20%) Firmware
6 2 (0.20%) vSphere
7 1 (0.098%) NFS
7 1 (0.098%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (2.16%) Terraform
2 15 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (1.08%) Kubernetes
4 5 (0.49%) 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 (0.20%) Nessus
7 1 (0.098%) Autotask
7 1 (0.098%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 242 (23.80%) Microsoft
2 61 (6.00%) SAP
3 59 (5.80%) Workday
4 39 (3.83%) Google
5 32 (3.15%) Salesforce
6 17 (1.67%) Cisco
6 17 (1.67%) iManage
6 17 (1.67%) ServiceNow
7 16 (1.57%) Databricks
8 14 (1.38%) Adobe
8 14 (1.38%) Oracle
9 11 (1.08%) VMware
10 9 (0.88%) Aderant
10 9 (0.88%) Intapp
11 8 (0.79%) CheckPoint
11 8 (0.79%) HP
11 8 (0.79%) SolarWinds
12 7 (0.69%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.69%) Veeam
13 5 (0.49%) Sage