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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 6 19
Rank change year-on-year -19 +13 +11
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,054 1,506 1,111
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 4.74% 15.62% 7.37%
As % of the General category 11.40% 23.20% 13.53%
Number of salaries quoted 780 367 716
10th Percentile £31,230 £26,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,938 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61,313 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,804 £78,750
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 9,249 6,490 8,209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 41.57% 67.31% 54.46%
Number of salaries quoted 6,190 2,883 4,895
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,300 £27,270
25th Percentile £36,685 £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 £63,250
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 16 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 16 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 -15 639 £47,250 +5.00% 352
Yorkshire -11 292 £47,000 +17.50% 214
North East -21 123 £53,750 +32.72% 66
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 45 (4.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 41 (3.89%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.71%) Confluence
4 14 (1.33%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (0.95%) Apache
7 8 (0.76%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.28%) CMS
9 3 (0.28%) JBoss
9 3 (0.28%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.19%) WordPress
11 1 (0.095%) IIS
11 1 (0.095%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.095%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.095%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.095%) WebSphere
Applications
1 132 (12.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 69 (6.55%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (3.04%) MS Visio
4 20 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.19%) LaTeX
8 1 (0.095%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.095%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 30 (2.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.80%) SAP PM
3 14 (1.33%) Salesforce CRM
3 14 (1.33%) SAP ERP
4 11 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.47%) Magento
5 5 (0.47%) SAP PP
6 3 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.28%) SAP QM
6 3 (0.28%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.19%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.095%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.095%) Odoo
8 1 (0.095%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.095%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.095%) SAP ECC
8 1 (0.095%) SAP MDM
8 1 (0.095%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.095%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 144 (13.66%) Azure
2 137 (13.00%) Power Platform
3 119 (11.29%) AWS
4 72 (6.83%) Microsoft 365
5 57 (5.41%) GCP
6 39 (3.70%) SaaS
7 37 (3.51%) Amazon S3
8 30 (2.85%) Serverless
9 27 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
10 26 (2.47%) Dynamics 365
10 26 (2.47%) PowerApps
11 25 (2.37%) GitHub
12 24 (2.28%) AWS Lambda
13 23 (2.18%) Google Analytics
14 22 (2.09%) Entra ID
15 20 (1.90%) Snowflake
16 19 (1.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 19 (1.80%) Amazon EC2
17 18 (1.71%) Amazon ECS
17 18 (1.71%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.18%) DNS
2 22 (2.09%) DHCP
2 22 (2.09%) Firewall
3 19 (1.80%) VPN
3 19 (1.80%) Wireless
4 14 (1.33%) WAN
5 13 (1.23%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.04%) LAN
7 10 (0.95%) Internet
8 7 (0.66%) Cisco Nexus
8 7 (0.66%) Network Security
9 6 (0.57%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (0.57%) IP Telephony
9 6 (0.57%) SNMP
9 6 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (0.47%) HTTP
10 5 (0.47%) SMS
11 4 (0.38%) ATM
11 4 (0.38%) SSL
11 4 (0.38%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (10.34%) Power BI
2 70 (6.64%) Tableau
3 44 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (2.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 24 (2.28%) BigQuery
6 21 (1.99%) Big Data
6 21 (1.99%) SQL Server
7 18 (1.71%) Data Mining
7 18 (1.71%) Metadata
8 16 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
8 16 (1.52%) Looker
9 14 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
10 9 (0.85%) DynamoDB
10 9 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (0.76%) MongoDB
11 8 (0.76%) MySQL
11 8 (0.76%) Relational Database
12 7 (0.66%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 53 (5.03%) JIRA
2 31 (2.94%) Git
3 11 (1.04%) GitLab
4 10 (0.95%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.47%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.38%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.38%) Selenium
7 3 (0.28%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.28%) Maven
7 3 (0.28%) Postman
7 3 (0.28%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.19%) MLflow
8 2 (0.19%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.095%) JMeter
9 1 (0.095%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.095%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.095%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.095%) Visual Studio
General
1 454 (43.07%) Social Skills
2 299 (28.37%) Finance
3 102 (9.68%) Law
4 92 (8.73%) Marketing
5 84 (7.97%) Public Sector
6 60 (5.69%) Legal
7 56 (5.31%) Organisational Skills
8 55 (5.22%) Retail
9 53 (5.03%) Manufacturing
10 49 (4.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 48 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
12 47 (4.46%) Telecoms
13 37 (3.51%) Military
14 34 (3.23%) Back Office
15 22 (2.09%) Banking
16 16 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
16 16 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
17 14 (1.33%) Games
17 14 (1.33%) Local Government
18 10 (0.95%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 305 (28.94%) Analyst
2 111 (10.53%) Senior
3 93 (8.82%) Data Analyst
4 74 (7.02%) Business Analyst
5 73 (6.93%) Lead
6 61 (5.79%) Developer
7 46 (4.36%) Architect
8 43 (4.08%) Systems Analyst
9 40 (3.80%) Data Manager
9 40 (3.80%) Systems Manager
10 39 (3.70%) Data Engineer
11 31 (2.94%) Senior Analyst
12 30 (2.85%) Head of QA
12 30 (2.85%) HR Manager
13 27 (2.56%) IT Support
14 26 (2.47%) Senior Manager
15 24 (2.28%) HR Analyst
15 24 (2.28%) HR Data Analyst
16 23 (2.18%) Support Engineer
16 23 (2.18%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (2.75%) REST
2 27 (2.56%) Middleware
3 23 (2.18%) .NET
3 23 (2.18%) HTML
4 20 (1.90%) Node.js
5 19 (1.80%) CSS
6 18 (1.71%) EDI
6 18 (1.71%) XML
7 16 (1.52%) SOAP
8 13 (1.23%) JSON
9 9 (0.85%) AngularJS
9 9 (0.85%) React
10 8 (0.76%) Flutter
11 7 (0.66%) PySpark
11 7 (0.66%) scikit-learn
12 6 (0.57%) Kafka
12 6 (0.57%) Web Services
13 5 (0.47%) ASP.NET
13 5 (0.47%) Pandas
14 4 (0.38%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 99 (9.39%) Analytical Mindset
2 50 (4.74%) Product Ownership
3 39 (3.70%) Management Information System
4 38 (3.61%) Onboarding
5 19 (1.80%) Cloud Native
5 19 (1.80%) Driving Licence
5 19 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (1.52%) Social Media
7 14 (1.33%) Data Centre
7 14 (1.33%) Data Structures
7 14 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
8 12 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
9 10 (0.95%) Virtual Team
10 9 (0.85%) Credit Risk
10 9 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (0.85%) Marketing Technology
11 8 (0.76%) Algorithms
11 8 (0.76%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 69 (6.55%) Windows
2 42 (3.98%) Windows Server
3 17 (1.61%) Linux
3 17 (1.61%) Windows Server 2019
4 12 (1.14%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (0.66%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.57%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.38%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.28%) CentOS
8 3 (0.28%) CoreOS
8 3 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.19%) Unix
10 1 (0.095%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 433 (41.08%) Problem-Solving
2 344 (32.64%) Continuous Improvement
3 273 (25.90%) Decision-Making
4 240 (22.77%) Stakeholder Management
5 230 (21.82%) Analytics
6 173 (16.41%) Agile
7 141 (13.38%) AI
8 112 (10.63%) Business Intelligence
9 111 (10.53%) ERP
10 110 (10.44%) Actionable Insight
11 109 (10.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 103 (9.77%) Data Governance
12 103 (9.77%) Mentoring
13 102 (9.68%) Data Modelling
14 99 (9.39%) CRM
14 99 (9.39%) Roadmaps
14 99 (9.39%) Validation
15 92 (8.73%) Data Analysis
16 90 (8.54%) Data-Driven Decision Making
17 84 (7.97%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 212 (20.11%) SQL
2 165 (15.65%) Python
3 39 (3.70%) JavaScript
4 35 (3.32%) Java
5 31 (2.94%) C#
6 21 (1.99%) Bash
7 20 (1.90%) PowerShell
8 11 (1.04%) Scala
9 10 (0.95%) R
10 9 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 8 (0.76%) C++
11 8 (0.76%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.66%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.57%) C
13 6 (0.57%) Go
13 6 (0.57%) PHP
14 4 (0.38%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.28%) Groovy
15 3 (0.28%) SOQL
15 3 (0.28%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 115 (10.91%) Degree
2 72 (6.83%) DBS Check
3 71 (6.74%) Security Cleared
4 49 (4.65%) SC Cleared
5 35 (3.32%) ACCA
6 31 (2.94%) CIMA
6 31 (2.94%) IRCA
7 20 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 17 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (1.23%) HNC
11 12 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
12 10 (0.95%) CCNA
13 9 (0.85%) DV Cleared
14 8 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
14 8 (0.76%) Master's Degree
14 8 (0.76%) PMI Certification
15 7 (0.66%) Azure Certification
15 7 (0.66%) CCNP
16 6 (0.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (15.56%) Data Quality
2 93 (8.82%) QA
3 74 (7.02%) GDPR
4 35 (3.32%) ISO 9001
5 24 (2.28%) SLA
6 18 (1.71%) Accessibility
7 17 (1.61%) TickIT
8 15 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials
9 13 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 12 (1.14%) PMO
11 9 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
11 9 (0.85%) GMP
12 5 (0.47%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.38%) GRC
13 4 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 14443
13 4 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 7816
13 4 (0.38%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.28%) ISO 19650
14 3 (0.28%) NIST
System Software
1 63 (5.98%) Active Directory
2 33 (3.13%) Docker
3 9 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.28%) Ceph
5 3 (0.28%) DFS Replication
5 3 (0.28%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.28%) 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 27 (2.56%) Terraform
2 16 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (0.95%) Kubernetes
4 5 (0.47%) Ansible
5 3 (0.28%) Argo
5 3 (0.28%) Check_MK
5 3 (0.28%) Grafana
5 3 (0.28%) HP Fortify
5 3 (0.28%) Istio
5 3 (0.28%) McAfee ePO
5 3 (0.28%) Podman
5 3 (0.28%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.28%) SCVMM
6 2 (0.19%) Nessus
7 1 (0.095%) Autotask
7 1 (0.095%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.095%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.095%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 247 (23.43%) Microsoft
2 61 (5.79%) SAP
3 60 (5.69%) Workday
4 46 (4.36%) Google
5 32 (3.04%) Salesforce
6 16 (1.52%) Cisco
6 16 (1.52%) Databricks
6 16 (1.52%) iManage
6 16 (1.52%) Oracle
7 15 (1.42%) ServiceNow
8 14 (1.33%) Adobe
9 13 (1.23%) VMware
10 8 (0.76%) Aderant
10 8 (0.76%) HP
10 8 (0.76%) Intapp
11 7 (0.66%) Red Hat
11 7 (0.66%) Veeam
12 6 (0.57%) CheckPoint
12 6 (0.57%) Sage
12 6 (0.57%) SolarWinds