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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 9 21
Rank change year-on-year -18 +12 -3
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 835 908 1,069
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.44% 11.80% 8.47%
As % of the General category 10.97% 16.98% 14.36%
Number of salaries quoted 471 389 800
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £26,863
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% +5.95%
75th Percentile £57,239 £67,500 £61,123
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £68,750
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 7,610 5,346 7,445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 58.65% 69.46% 58.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3,837 2,378 5,894
10th Percentile £27,560 £29,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £39,000 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,000 £47,557
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +9.34% -9.42%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £79,880
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 23 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 23 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 -18 420 £42,500 -19.05% 201
Yorkshire -1 305 £45,000 -7.69% 98
North East -4 110 £40,000 +0.34% 39
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 (2.16%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.32%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.08%) Confluence
5 6 (0.72%) Apache
6 5 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.48%) CMS
8 3 (0.36%) WordPress
9 2 (0.24%) FactoryTalk
9 2 (0.24%) JBoss
9 2 (0.24%) nginx
9 2 (0.24%) SAS
9 2 (0.24%) WinCC
10 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 178 (21.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 146 (17.49%) Chatbot
3 24 (2.87%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (2.16%) MS Visio
5 17 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (1.32%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.72%) SOLIDWORKS
8 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.24%) Revit
10 1 (0.12%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 20 (2.40%) Salesforce CRM
2 7 (0.84%) Workday HCM
3 6 (0.72%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.72%) Shopify
4 4 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.36%) ResourceLink
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.24%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.12%) C-CURE
7 1 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.12%) Magento
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.12%) Siebel CRM
7 1 (0.12%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 99 (11.86%) Power Platform
2 86 (10.30%) Azure
3 69 (8.26%) AWS
4 38 (4.55%) Entra ID
5 31 (3.71%) SaaS
6 30 (3.59%) Microsoft 365
7 29 (3.47%) Microsoft Purview
8 17 (2.04%) GCP
9 16 (1.92%) OCI
10 13 (1.56%) Azure Data Factory
10 13 (1.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 12 (1.44%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (1.32%) Power Automate
13 10 (1.20%) Microsoft Copilot
13 10 (1.20%) PowerApps
14 9 (1.08%) OneDrive
14 9 (1.08%) Snowflake
15 8 (0.96%) Adobe Analytics
15 8 (0.96%) dbt
15 8 (0.96%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 57 (6.83%) Firewall
2 16 (1.92%) Network Security
2 16 (1.92%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (1.44%) NGFW
3 12 (1.44%) VXLAN
3 12 (1.44%) Wireshark
4 10 (1.20%) WAN
5 9 (1.08%) LAN
6 8 (0.96%) VPN
7 7 (0.84%) VLAN
8 6 (0.72%) BGP
8 6 (0.72%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (0.72%) EIGRP
8 6 (0.72%) OSPF
8 6 (0.72%) PSTN
8 6 (0.72%) SNMP
8 6 (0.72%) VoIP
8 6 (0.72%) WAAS
8 6 (0.72%) Wireless
8 6 (0.72%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (13.89%) Tableau
2 91 (10.90%) Power BI
3 90 (10.78%) Data Mining
4 37 (4.43%) SQL Server
5 16 (1.92%) Metadata
6 15 (1.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 12 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (1.08%) DynamoDB
9 7 (0.84%) BigQuery
9 7 (0.84%) Data Lake
9 7 (0.84%) Looker
9 7 (0.84%) NoSQL
10 6 (0.72%) GIS
11 5 (0.60%) Geospatial Data
11 5 (0.60%) Power Query
12 3 (0.36%) Data Vault
12 3 (0.36%) QGIS
12 3 (0.36%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 11 (1.32%) JIRA
2 6 (0.72%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.48%) Git
4 3 (0.36%) GitLab
5 2 (0.24%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.24%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.24%) Maven
5 2 (0.24%) Selenium
5 2 (0.24%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.12%) JUnit
6 1 (0.12%) MLflow
6 1 (0.12%) TestRail
General
1 341 (40.84%) Social Skills
2 260 (31.14%) Finance
3 58 (6.95%) Marketing
4 49 (5.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 48 (5.75%) Public Sector
6 45 (5.39%) Organisational Skills
7 40 (4.79%) Presentation Skills
8 36 (4.31%) Legal
9 26 (3.11%) Retail
10 23 (2.75%) Law
11 22 (2.63%) Telecoms
12 21 (2.51%) Manufacturing
13 19 (2.28%) Banking
14 15 (1.80%) Advertising
15 14 (1.68%) Games
16 11 (1.32%) Electronics
17 10 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
18 7 (0.84%) French Language
19 6 (0.72%) Automotive
19 6 (0.72%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 232 (27.78%) Analyst
2 146 (17.49%) Trainer
3 119 (14.25%) Data Analyst
4 90 (10.78%) Senior
5 86 (10.30%) Trainee
6 84 (10.06%) Trainee Analyst
6 84 (10.06%) Trainee Data Analyst
7 49 (5.87%) Lead
8 34 (4.07%) Architect
9 27 (3.23%) CRM Executive
9 27 (3.23%) Support Engineer
10 25 (2.99%) Systems Analyst
11 24 (2.87%) Business Analyst
12 23 (2.75%) IT Support
13 20 (2.40%) Salesforce Executive
13 20 (2.40%) Senior Manager
14 19 (2.28%) Consultant
14 19 (2.28%) Data Manager
14 19 (2.28%) Senior Analyst
14 19 (2.28%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.28%) CSS
2 14 (1.68%) React
3 13 (1.56%) HTML
4 9 (1.08%) .NET
5 7 (0.84%) Flutter
5 7 (0.84%) XML
6 6 (0.72%) FreeSWITCH
7 5 (0.60%) JSON
7 5 (0.60%) Node.js
7 5 (0.60%) REST
8 4 (0.48%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (0.48%) SAP Fiori
9 3 (0.36%) Pandas
9 3 (0.36%) Spring Boot
10 2 (0.24%) Flask
10 2 (0.24%) Gherkin
10 2 (0.24%) Laravel
10 2 (0.24%) scikit-learn
10 2 (0.24%) TensorFlow
10 2 (0.24%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 68 (8.14%) Analytical Mindset
2 49 (5.87%) Management Information System
3 45 (5.39%) Self-Motivation
4 26 (3.11%) Onboarding
5 25 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
6 22 (2.63%) Data Centre
7 20 (2.40%) Social Media
8 18 (2.16%) Driving Licence
9 14 (1.68%) Data Structures
10 13 (1.56%) Product Ownership
11 12 (1.44%) PKI
11 12 (1.44%) Virtual Team
12 11 (1.32%) Cloud Native
13 9 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (0.96%) Algorithms
14 8 (0.96%) Operational Technology
15 6 (0.72%) Life Science
15 6 (0.72%) Mobile App
15 6 (0.72%) SCADA
16 5 (0.60%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 37 (4.43%) Windows
2 9 (1.08%) Windows Server
3 8 (0.96%) Android
4 6 (0.72%) Linux
5 4 (0.48%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 298 (35.69%) Problem-Solving
2 226 (27.07%) AI
3 180 (21.56%) Continuous Improvement
3 180 (21.56%) Decision-Making
4 179 (21.44%) Analytics
5 163 (19.52%) Project Management
6 148 (17.72%) Chemistry
7 146 (17.49%) Conversational UI
8 133 (15.93%) Data Analysis
8 133 (15.93%) Stakeholder Management
9 116 (13.89%) Business Analysis
10 106 (12.69%) Data Analytics
11 105 (12.57%) Agile
11 105 (12.57%) Business Intelligence
12 68 (8.14%) Actionable Insight
13 61 (7.31%) CRM
14 56 (6.71%) Process Improvement
14 56 (6.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 56 (6.71%) Visualisation
15 55 (6.59%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 184 (22.04%) SQL
2 154 (18.44%) Python
3 17 (2.04%) JavaScript
4 15 (1.80%) Java
4 15 (1.80%) T-SQL
5 14 (1.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 10 (1.20%) C#
7 9 (1.08%) R
8 8 (0.96%) Bash
9 7 (0.84%) Go
10 5 (0.60%) PowerShell
10 5 (0.60%) VBA
11 4 (0.48%) Kotlin
11 4 (0.48%) Scala
12 2 (0.24%) Bicep
12 2 (0.24%) Groovy
12 2 (0.24%) PHP
12 2 (0.24%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.12%) C
13 1 (0.12%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 292 (34.97%) Degree
2 167 (20.00%) Master's Degree
3 147 (17.60%) PhD
4 34 (4.07%) DBS Check
5 24 (2.87%) ACCA
5 24 (2.87%) CIMA
6 19 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (1.68%) PMI Certification
9 13 (1.56%) PMP
10 12 (1.44%) CCNP
11 8 (0.96%) CompTIA Security+
12 7 (0.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 6 (0.72%) CCIE
13 6 (0.72%) CIPD
13 6 (0.72%) Network+ Certification
13 6 (0.72%) Security Cleared
14 5 (0.60%) HNC
14 5 (0.60%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (5.99%) Data Quality
2 48 (5.75%) GDPR
3 40 (4.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 33 (3.95%) Cyber Essentials
5 32 (3.83%) NIST
6 28 (3.35%) QA
7 21 (2.51%) PMO
8 16 (1.92%) Actionable Recommendations
9 14 (1.68%) Accessibility
10 8 (0.96%) GMP
11 6 (0.72%) IEC 61131
12 5 (0.60%) ISO 9001
12 5 (0.60%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.48%) GAAP
13 4 (0.48%) GLBA
13 4 (0.48%) IFRS
13 4 (0.48%) SEPA
13 4 (0.48%) TARGET2
System Software
1 26 (3.11%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.20%) Docker
3 6 (0.72%) ProxySG
4 3 (0.36%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.12%) Firmware
6 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (3.47%) Terraform
2 14 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (1.44%) Ansible
4 8 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.84%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.24%) AssetCenter
6 2 (0.24%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.24%) SCCM
7 1 (0.12%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.12%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 217 (25.99%) Microsoft
2 146 (17.49%) PayPal
3 39 (4.67%) Salesforce
4 20 (2.40%) Google
5 19 (2.28%) ServiceNow
6 16 (1.92%) Oracle
7 15 (1.80%) Cisco
7 15 (1.80%) SAP
7 15 (1.80%) Workday
8 12 (1.44%) Arista
8 12 (1.44%) Aruba
8 12 (1.44%) HubSpot
8 12 (1.44%) NetScout
9 11 (1.32%) Anaplan
10 10 (1.20%) Adobe
10 10 (1.20%) Genesys
11 9 (1.08%) Splunk
11 9 (1.08%) Verint
12 8 (0.96%) New Relic
13 7 (0.84%) Qualtrics