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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 5 17
Rank change year-on-year -18 +12 +2
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,173 1,565 985
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 4.89% 16.44% 7.44%
As % of the General category 11.95% 25.54% 13.05%
Number of salaries quoted 763 337 446
10th Percentile £30,750 £26,000 £28,875
25th Percentile £37,500 £32,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £63,110
90th Percentile £77,250 £73,750 £71,991
England median annual salary £51,375 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.75% -9.09% -3.31%

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 9,814 6,127 7,549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 40.88% 64.35% 57.02%
Number of salaries quoted 6,374 2,648 3,296
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £30,500 £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 £68,750 £61,563 £63,750
90th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £58,726
% change year-on-year +1.85% -8.05% -2.12%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -15 693 £46,500 +3.33% 638
Yorkshire -8 324 £47,000 +17.50% 415
North East -22 165 £51,962 +29.91% 129
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 50 (4.26%) Microsoft Exchange
1 50 (4.26%) SharePoint
2 19 (1.62%) Confluence
3 18 (1.53%) Apache Spark
4 15 (1.28%) Apache
5 13 (1.11%) Jupyter
6 12 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.43%) CMS
7 5 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.26%) nginx
8 3 (0.26%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.17%) IIS
10 1 (0.085%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.085%) CICS
10 1 (0.085%) SAS
10 1 (0.085%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.085%) WebSphere
Applications
1 174 (14.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 93 (7.93%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (2.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (2.22%) MS Visio
5 16 (1.36%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.26%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.26%) SOLIDWORKS
8 2 (0.17%) CATIA
8 2 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.17%) LaTeX
8 2 (0.17%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.085%) OrCAD
9 1 (0.085%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.085%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 18 (1.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.60%) Odoo
2 7 (0.60%) SAP ERP
3 6 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.51%) Exchequer
3 6 (0.51%) Shopify
4 5 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.34%) SAP PM
5 4 (0.34%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.26%) Magento
6 3 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.26%) SAP CRM
6 3 (0.26%) SAP QM
7 2 (0.17%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.17%) iTrent
7 2 (0.17%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.17%) SAP PP
8 1 (0.085%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.085%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 169 (14.41%) Azure
2 141 (12.02%) AWS
3 139 (11.85%) Power Platform
4 84 (7.16%) Microsoft 365
5 67 (5.71%) GCP
6 44 (3.75%) Entra ID
7 43 (3.67%) SaaS
8 40 (3.41%) Serverless
9 38 (3.24%) Amazon S3
10 33 (2.81%) Amazon EC2
11 31 (2.64%) AWS Lambda
12 25 (2.13%) Google Analytics
13 24 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
13 24 (2.05%) PowerApps
14 23 (1.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 22 (1.88%) Amazon ECS
15 22 (1.88%) Microsoft Purview
16 20 (1.71%) Dynamics 365
17 17 (1.45%) Amazon EMR
17 17 (1.45%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 36 (3.07%) DNS
2 35 (2.98%) DHCP
3 26 (2.22%) Internet
4 23 (1.96%) Firewall
5 18 (1.53%) TCP/IP
5 18 (1.53%) VPN
5 18 (1.53%) Wireless
6 15 (1.28%) WAN
7 10 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (0.77%) LAN
9 7 (0.60%) Network Security
9 7 (0.60%) SNMP
9 7 (0.60%) SSL
9 7 (0.60%) VLAN
10 6 (0.51%) SD-WAN
11 5 (0.43%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (0.43%) HTTP
12 4 (0.34%) ATM
12 4 (0.34%) SMS
12 4 (0.34%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (9.63%) Power BI
2 45 (3.84%) Data Warehouse
3 33 (2.81%) Metadata
4 30 (2.56%) Tableau
5 28 (2.39%) BigQuery
6 27 (2.30%) SQL Server
7 20 (1.71%) Big Data
8 17 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
8 17 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
8 17 (1.45%) Power Query
8 17 (1.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 14 (1.19%) Relational Database
10 12 (1.02%) Looker
10 12 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
10 12 (1.02%) Spark SQL
11 11 (0.94%) Amazon Athena
11 11 (0.94%) MySQL
12 10 (0.85%) Data Lake
13 9 (0.77%) Star Schema
14 8 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 51 (4.35%) Git
2 48 (4.09%) JIRA
3 20 (1.71%) GitLab
4 7 (0.60%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.34%) Postman
6 3 (0.26%) Appium
6 3 (0.26%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.26%) RStudio
6 3 (0.26%) Selenium
6 3 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.17%) JMeter
7 2 (0.17%) Ranorex
7 2 (0.17%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.085%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.085%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.085%) Maven
8 1 (0.085%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.085%) Visual Studio
General
1 523 (44.59%) Social Skills
2 319 (27.20%) Finance
3 112 (9.55%) Organisational Skills
4 109 (9.29%) Marketing
5 107 (9.12%) Law
6 105 (8.95%) Public Sector
7 102 (8.70%) Legal
8 82 (6.99%) Manufacturing
9 80 (6.82%) Retail
10 65 (5.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 60 (5.12%) Influencing Skills
12 41 (3.50%) Presentation Skills
13 28 (2.39%) Telecoms
14 24 (2.05%) Banking
15 23 (1.96%) Automotive
16 21 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
17 18 (1.53%) Local Government
18 17 (1.45%) Electronics
18 17 (1.45%) Games
18 17 (1.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 307 (26.17%) Analyst
2 125 (10.66%) Senior
3 70 (5.97%) Business Analyst
4 69 (5.88%) Lead
5 67 (5.71%) Developer
6 64 (5.46%) Data Analyst
7 55 (4.69%) Data Engineer
8 52 (4.43%) Architect
9 41 (3.50%) Senior Analyst
10 32 (2.73%) Junior
10 32 (2.73%) Systems Analyst
11 31 (2.64%) Support Engineer
12 30 (2.56%) IT Support
13 29 (2.47%) Support Analyst
14 28 (2.39%) Senior Manager
15 25 (2.13%) Technical Analyst
16 22 (1.88%) Business Manager
16 22 (1.88%) Consultant
16 22 (1.88%) Development Manager
16 22 (1.88%) Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (3.24%) Terraform
2 28 (2.39%) .NET
2 28 (2.39%) HTML
3 26 (2.22%) REST
4 25 (2.13%) CSS
5 24 (2.05%) PySpark
6 21 (1.79%) Node.js
7 13 (1.11%) Middleware
7 13 (1.11%) SOAP
8 12 (1.02%) EDI
8 12 (1.02%) JSON
9 10 (0.85%) XML
10 9 (0.77%) Kafka
11 7 (0.60%) React
11 7 (0.60%) Web Services
12 6 (0.51%) AngularJS
13 4 (0.34%) Entity Framework
13 4 (0.34%) Pandas
13 4 (0.34%) RESTful
13 4 (0.34%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 74 (6.31%) Management Information System
2 68 (5.80%) Onboarding
3 59 (5.03%) Analytical Mindset
4 47 (4.01%) Product Ownership
5 33 (2.81%) Driving Licence
6 30 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
7 26 (2.22%) Social Media
8 25 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
9 21 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
10 20 (1.71%) Cloud Native
11 18 (1.53%) Data Structures
12 17 (1.45%) Data Centre
13 13 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
14 11 (0.94%) Credit Risk
14 11 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
15 10 (0.85%) Algorithms
15 10 (0.85%) Cyber Threat
15 10 (0.85%) Marketing Technology
15 10 (0.85%) NHS
15 10 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 72 (6.14%) Windows
2 45 (3.84%) Windows Server
3 31 (2.64%) Linux
4 21 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
5 16 (1.36%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (0.68%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.60%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.34%) Unix
9 3 (0.26%) CentOS
9 3 (0.26%) CoreOS
9 3 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.085%) Android
10 1 (0.085%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.085%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 554 (47.23%) Problem-Solving
2 397 (33.84%) Continuous Improvement
3 287 (24.47%) Decision-Making
4 251 (21.40%) Stakeholder Management
5 238 (20.29%) Analytics
6 215 (18.33%) AI
7 201 (17.14%) Agile
8 146 (12.45%) Mentoring
9 140 (11.94%) Business Intelligence
10 126 (10.74%) Validation
11 123 (10.49%) ERP
12 122 (10.40%) CRM
13 120 (10.23%) CI/CD
14 106 (9.04%) Coaching
14 106 (9.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 105 (8.95%) Data Modelling
15 105 (8.95%) Project Delivery
16 102 (8.70%) Customer Service
17 99 (8.44%) Data Analysis
18 95 (8.10%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 221 (18.84%) SQL
2 164 (13.98%) Python
3 51 (4.35%) JavaScript
4 40 (3.41%) Java
5 34 (2.90%) C#
6 32 (2.73%) PowerShell
7 25 (2.13%) Bash
8 18 (1.53%) R
9 16 (1.36%) C++
9 16 (1.36%) Shell Script
10 11 (0.94%) Scala
11 10 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 8 (0.68%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.60%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.51%) C
14 6 (0.51%) PHP
15 4 (0.34%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.34%) COBOL
15 4 (0.34%) XPath
16 3 (0.26%) Go
Qualifications
1 195 (16.62%) Degree
2 102 (8.70%) Security Cleared
3 79 (6.73%) SC Cleared
4 44 (3.75%) ACCA
5 39 (3.32%) CIMA
5 39 (3.32%) DBS Check
6 22 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 21 (1.79%) Master's Degree
8 18 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.28%) HNC
10 10 (0.85%) CCNA
10 10 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (0.77%) Azure Certification
11 9 (0.77%) DV Cleared
11 9 (0.77%) Postgraduate
12 7 (0.60%) HND
12 7 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 6 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
13 6 (0.51%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (14.41%) Data Quality
2 68 (5.80%) QA
3 55 (4.69%) GDPR
4 29 (2.47%) Accessibility
5 17 (1.45%) SLA
6 16 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (1.28%) PMO
8 14 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
9 12 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.68%) ISO 9001
10 8 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.51%) TickIT
12 4 (0.34%) GRC
12 4 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 14443
12 4 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 7816
12 4 (0.34%) NEBOSH
12 4 (0.34%) NIST
12 4 (0.34%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.26%) IFRS
13 3 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 68 (5.80%) Active Directory
2 49 (4.18%) Docker
3 8 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.43%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.34%) DFS Replication
5 4 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.26%) Ceph
6 3 (0.26%) Firmware
6 3 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.085%) NFS
7 1 (0.085%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (0.85%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.60%) Ansible
4 6 (0.51%) Grafana
4 6 (0.51%) Prometheus
4 6 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.26%) Argo
5 3 (0.26%) Autotask
5 3 (0.26%) Check_MK
5 3 (0.26%) Istio
5 3 (0.26%) McAfee ePO
5 3 (0.26%) Podman
5 3 (0.26%) SCVMM
6 2 (0.17%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.17%) Nessus
7 1 (0.085%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.085%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.085%) SCCM
Vendors
1 295 (25.15%) Microsoft
2 68 (5.80%) Google
3 39 (3.32%) SAP
4 38 (3.24%) YouTube
5 29 (2.47%) Salesforce
6 19 (1.62%) Oracle
6 19 (1.62%) VMware
6 19 (1.62%) Workday
7 18 (1.53%) Databricks
8 14 (1.19%) Cisco
8 14 (1.19%) TikTok
9 13 (1.11%) ServiceNow
10 11 (0.94%) iManage
11 10 (0.85%) Adobe
12 8 (0.68%) HP
12 8 (0.68%) HubSpot
12 8 (0.68%) Sage
13 7 (0.60%) Red Hat
13 7 (0.60%) Samsung
13 7 (0.60%) Veeam