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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 6 18
Rank change year-on-year -19 +12 +9
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,089 1,508 1,039
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 4.64% 16.06% 7.37%
As % of the General category 11.42% 24.69% 13.53%
Number of salaries quoted 768 336 565
10th Percentile £30,675 £25,875 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,031 £36,950
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £44,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.74% -11.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,196 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £71,458 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
% 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 9,539 6,107 7,679
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 40.63% 65.04% 54.49%
Number of salaries quoted 6,261 2,673 3,837
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,409 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,849 £31,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%

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 14 September 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 14 September 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 -16 665 £46,500 +3.33% 572
Yorkshire -9 293 £47,000 +17.50% 319
North East -18 131 £50,500 +26.25% 88
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 53 (4.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 50 (4.59%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.56%) Confluence
4 13 (1.19%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.01%) Apache
6 10 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (0.83%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.46%) CMS
9 3 (0.28%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.092%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.092%) CICS
10 1 (0.092%) IIS
10 1 (0.092%) JBoss
10 1 (0.092%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.092%) SAS
10 1 (0.092%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.092%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.092%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.092%) WordPress
Applications
1 148 (13.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 78 (7.16%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (2.94%) MS Visio
4 27 (2.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (1.10%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.28%) SOLIDWORKS
8 2 (0.18%) CATIA
8 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.18%) LaTeX
8 2 (0.18%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.092%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 22 (2.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.92%) Salesforce CRM
4 9 (0.83%) SAP PM
5 8 (0.73%) SAP ERP
6 6 (0.55%) Exchequer
6 6 (0.55%) Magento
7 5 (0.46%) Shopify
8 4 (0.37%) Odoo
8 4 (0.37%) SAP PP
8 4 (0.37%) Workday HCM
9 3 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
9 3 (0.28%) SAP QM
10 2 (0.18%) Sage 200
11 1 (0.092%) Dynamics NAV
11 1 (0.092%) Elite 3E
11 1 (0.092%) SAP CRM
11 1 (0.092%) SAP ECC
11 1 (0.092%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 156 (14.33%) Power Platform
2 155 (14.23%) Azure
3 129 (11.85%) AWS
4 84 (7.71%) Microsoft 365
5 55 (5.05%) GCP
6 43 (3.95%) Serverless
7 39 (3.58%) Amazon S3
7 39 (3.58%) SaaS
8 35 (3.21%) AWS Lambda
9 33 (3.03%) Entra ID
10 32 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
11 30 (2.75%) Amazon EC2
11 30 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
11 30 (2.75%) PowerApps
12 25 (2.30%) GitHub
13 24 (2.20%) Google Analytics
14 22 (2.02%) Microsoft Purview
15 21 (1.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 19 (1.74%) Amazon ECS
16 19 (1.74%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 29 (2.66%) DNS
2 28 (2.57%) DHCP
3 22 (2.02%) Firewall
4 20 (1.84%) VPN
5 19 (1.74%) Wireless
6 14 (1.29%) TCP/IP
7 12 (1.10%) Internet
7 12 (1.10%) WAN
8 9 (0.83%) LAN
9 6 (0.55%) Cisco Nexus
9 6 (0.55%) Network Security
9 6 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (0.46%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (0.46%) HTTP
10 5 (0.46%) IP Telephony
10 5 (0.46%) SNMP
10 5 (0.46%) VLAN
11 4 (0.37%) Cisco Firepower
11 4 (0.37%) SSL
11 4 (0.37%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (11.85%) Power BI
2 47 (4.32%) Data Warehouse
3 44 (4.04%) Tableau
4 27 (2.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 25 (2.30%) Metadata
5 25 (2.30%) SQL Server
6 24 (2.20%) BigQuery
7 22 (2.02%) Big Data
8 17 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
8 17 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
9 15 (1.38%) Looker
10 12 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
10 12 (1.10%) Power Query
11 11 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
11 11 (1.01%) Relational Database
12 10 (0.92%) MySQL
12 10 (0.92%) Spark SQL
13 9 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 8 (0.73%) MongoDB
15 7 (0.64%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 53 (4.87%) JIRA
2 32 (2.94%) Git
3 10 (0.92%) GitLab
4 8 (0.73%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.28%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.28%) RStudio
5 3 (0.28%) Selenium
5 3 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.18%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.18%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.18%) JMeter
6 2 (0.18%) Maven
6 2 (0.18%) Postman
6 2 (0.18%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.092%) Appium
7 1 (0.092%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.092%) Ranorex
7 1 (0.092%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.092%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.092%) Visual Studio
General
1 480 (44.08%) Social Skills
2 300 (27.55%) Finance
3 111 (10.19%) Law
4 105 (9.64%) Marketing
5 89 (8.17%) Organisational Skills
6 87 (7.99%) Public Sector
7 78 (7.16%) Legal
8 72 (6.61%) Retail
9 63 (5.79%) Manufacturing
10 58 (5.33%) Influencing Skills
11 53 (4.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 37 (3.40%) Telecoms
13 29 (2.66%) Military
14 24 (2.20%) Back Office
14 24 (2.20%) Banking
15 20 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
16 17 (1.56%) Automotive
16 17 (1.56%) Games
17 16 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
18 15 (1.38%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 309 (28.37%) Analyst
2 115 (10.56%) Senior
3 78 (7.16%) Business Analyst
4 75 (6.89%) Lead
5 74 (6.80%) Data Analyst
6 65 (5.97%) Developer
7 52 (4.78%) Architect
8 51 (4.68%) Data Engineer
9 44 (4.04%) Systems Analyst
10 33 (3.03%) Senior Analyst
11 29 (2.66%) Junior
11 29 (2.66%) Senior Manager
12 28 (2.57%) IT Support
12 28 (2.57%) Support Engineer
13 27 (2.48%) Technical Analyst
14 25 (2.30%) Support Analyst
15 24 (2.20%) HR Analyst
15 24 (2.20%) HR Data Analyst
16 23 (2.11%) Administrator
17 22 (2.02%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (3.21%) REST
2 30 (2.75%) .NET
3 28 (2.57%) Terraform
4 27 (2.48%) Middleware
5 24 (2.20%) HTML
6 20 (1.84%) CSS
6 20 (1.84%) EDI
6 20 (1.84%) SOAP
6 20 (1.84%) XML
7 19 (1.74%) JSON
7 19 (1.74%) PySpark
8 17 (1.56%) Node.js
9 10 (0.92%) Web Services
10 7 (0.64%) AngularJS
10 7 (0.64%) Pandas
11 6 (0.55%) ASP.NET
11 6 (0.55%) Kafka
11 6 (0.55%) React
11 6 (0.55%) scikit-learn
12 4 (0.37%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 75 (6.89%) Analytical Mindset
2 53 (4.87%) Onboarding
3 50 (4.59%) Management Information System
3 50 (4.59%) Product Ownership
4 24 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
5 23 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
6 22 (2.02%) Driving Licence
7 21 (1.93%) Social Media
8 19 (1.74%) Cloud Native
9 16 (1.47%) Data Structures
10 14 (1.29%) Data Centre
10 14 (1.29%) Enterprise Cloud
11 13 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
12 12 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
13 11 (1.01%) Cyber Threat
14 10 (0.92%) Marketing Technology
14 10 (0.92%) Virtual Team
15 9 (0.83%) Credit Risk
15 9 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
15 9 (0.83%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 76 (6.98%) Windows
2 45 (4.13%) Windows Server
3 19 (1.74%) Windows Server 2019
4 18 (1.65%) Linux
5 14 (1.29%) Windows Server 2016
6 7 (0.64%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.55%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.46%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.28%) CentOS
9 3 (0.28%) CoreOS
9 3 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.28%) Unix
10 1 (0.092%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 481 (44.17%) Problem-Solving
2 351 (32.23%) Continuous Improvement
3 276 (25.34%) Decision-Making
4 232 (21.30%) Stakeholder Management
5 225 (20.66%) Analytics
6 190 (17.45%) Agile
7 184 (16.90%) AI
8 143 (13.13%) Business Intelligence
9 128 (11.75%) Mentoring
10 122 (11.20%) ERP
11 117 (10.74%) Validation
12 116 (10.65%) CRM
13 106 (9.73%) Data Modelling
14 102 (9.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 100 (9.18%) Actionable Insight
16 99 (9.09%) Customer Service
17 96 (8.82%) Data Governance
18 92 (8.45%) Roadmaps
19 90 (8.26%) Coaching
20 88 (8.08%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 221 (20.29%) SQL
2 155 (14.23%) Python
3 47 (4.32%) JavaScript
4 44 (4.04%) Java
5 37 (3.40%) C#
6 27 (2.48%) PowerShell
7 22 (2.02%) Bash
8 17 (1.56%) C++
9 15 (1.38%) R
10 11 (1.01%) Scala
11 10 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 8 (0.73%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.64%) C
13 7 (0.64%) PHP
13 7 (0.64%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.37%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.37%) COBOL
14 4 (0.37%) Go
14 4 (0.37%) XPath
15 3 (0.28%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 148 (13.59%) Degree
2 79 (7.25%) Security Cleared
3 56 (5.14%) SC Cleared
4 48 (4.41%) DBS Check
5 44 (4.04%) ACCA
6 37 (3.40%) CIMA
7 22 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (1.10%) Master's Degree
11 11 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (1.01%) IRCA
12 10 (0.92%) CCNA
13 9 (0.83%) DV Cleared
14 8 (0.73%) HNC
15 7 (0.64%) Azure Certification
15 7 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
15 7 (0.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 6 (0.55%) CCNP
16 6 (0.55%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (15.43%) Data Quality
2 78 (7.16%) QA
3 61 (5.60%) GDPR
4 28 (2.57%) Accessibility
5 21 (1.93%) SLA
6 17 (1.56%) TickIT
7 15 (1.38%) ISO 9001
7 15 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 14 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials
9 12 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
9 12 (1.10%) PMO
10 8 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.46%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.37%) GRC
12 4 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 14443
12 4 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 7816
12 4 (0.37%) NIST
12 4 (0.37%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.28%) COSO
13 3 (0.28%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 68 (6.24%) Active Directory
2 35 (3.21%) Docker
3 9 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.37%) 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 (0.18%) Firmware
6 2 (0.18%) vSphere
7 1 (0.092%) NFS
7 1 (0.092%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.092%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (1.01%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.46%) Ansible
4 4 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.28%) Argo
5 3 (0.28%) Check_MK
5 3 (0.28%) Grafana
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 (0.18%) Nessus
7 1 (0.092%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.092%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.092%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 272 (24.98%) Microsoft
2 51 (4.68%) Google
3 46 (4.22%) SAP
4 37 (3.40%) Workday
5 30 (2.75%) Salesforce
6 29 (2.66%) YouTube
7 17 (1.56%) Databricks
7 17 (1.56%) Oracle
7 17 (1.56%) VMware
8 16 (1.47%) iManage
9 15 (1.38%) Cisco
10 14 (1.29%) ServiceNow
11 13 (1.19%) Adobe
12 9 (0.83%) Aderant
13 8 (0.73%) HP
13 8 (0.73%) Intapp
14 7 (0.64%) Red Hat
14 7 (0.64%) Veeam
15 6 (0.55%) HubSpot
15 6 (0.55%) Sage