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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 6 21
Rank change year-on-year -19 +15 +2
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 958 1,522 1,464
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 4.67% 17.19% 7.63%
As % of the General category 10.75% 23.83% 14.14%
Number of salaries quoted 752 373 1,034
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,755 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,350 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,172
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -8.90%

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 8,914 6,388 10,352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 43.42% 72.14% 53.94%
Number of salaries quoted 5,902 2,765 7,405
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,257 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -7.90%
75th Percentile £68,625 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,922 £82,500 £75,772
England median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.65% +7.62% -12.50%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 -19 561 £47,500 -5.00% 258
Yorkshire -10 294 £50,000 +11.11% 137
North East -27 103 £55,000 +42.86% 55
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 39 (4.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (3.03%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.57%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.15%) Apache
4 11 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (0.94%) Confluence
6 5 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 5 (0.52%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.42%) WordPress
8 3 (0.31%) CMS
8 3 (0.31%) JBoss
9 1 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.10%) Umbraco
Applications
1 141 (14.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (5.32%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (2.82%) MS Visio
4 17 (1.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.10%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.10%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 29 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (2.40%) Salesforce CRM
3 15 (1.57%) SAP PM
4 14 (1.46%) SAP ERP
5 9 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
6 7 (0.73%) Workday HCM
7 6 (0.63%) Magento
8 5 (0.52%) SAP PP
9 4 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.31%) SAP QM
11 2 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
12 1 (0.10%) Dynamics GP
12 1 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
12 1 (0.10%) SAP ECC
12 1 (0.10%) SAP MDM
12 1 (0.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 133 (13.88%) Azure
2 129 (13.47%) Power Platform
3 102 (10.65%) AWS
4 58 (6.05%) Microsoft 365
5 41 (4.28%) GCP
6 32 (3.34%) Entra ID
6 32 (3.34%) SaaS
7 31 (3.24%) Microsoft Purview
8 25 (2.61%) GitHub
9 24 (2.51%) Dynamics 365
10 23 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
11 21 (2.19%) PowerApps
12 19 (1.98%) Amazon S3
12 19 (1.98%) Boomi
13 17 (1.77%) Google Analytics
13 17 (1.77%) Serverless
14 16 (1.67%) Power Automate
15 13 (1.36%) Azure Data Factory
16 12 (1.25%) OCI
17 10 (1.04%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 59 (6.16%) Firewall
2 20 (2.09%) Wireless
3 19 (1.98%) Wi-Fi
4 15 (1.57%) VPN
5 14 (1.46%) WAN
5 14 (1.46%) Wireshark
6 12 (1.25%) NGFW
6 12 (1.25%) VXLAN
7 11 (1.15%) Cisco Nexus
7 11 (1.15%) LAN
7 11 (1.15%) Network Security
8 10 (1.04%) Cisco ASA
8 10 (1.04%) SNMP
9 9 (0.94%) DNS
10 8 (0.84%) DHCP
11 6 (0.63%) BGP
11 6 (0.63%) EIGRP
11 6 (0.63%) OSPF
11 6 (0.63%) VLAN
11 6 (0.63%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (11.48%) Power BI
2 84 (8.77%) Tableau
3 37 (3.86%) Data Mining
4 36 (3.76%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (2.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 20 (2.09%) Big Data
7 15 (1.57%) SQL Server
8 12 (1.25%) BigQuery
9 11 (1.15%) Metadata
10 10 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (0.84%) Amazon Athena
12 8 (0.84%) DynamoDB
13 7 (0.73%) Data Lake
13 7 (0.73%) Looker
13 7 (0.73%) MySQL
13 7 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
14 6 (0.63%) Power Query
14 6 (0.63%) Semantic Layer
15 5 (0.52%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 36 (3.76%) JIRA
2 14 (1.46%) Git
3 10 (1.04%) GitLab
4 9 (0.94%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.52%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.42%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.42%) Selenium
7 3 (0.31%) Maven
7 3 (0.31%) Postman
7 3 (0.31%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.21%) MLflow
8 2 (0.21%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.10%) JMeter
9 1 (0.10%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.10%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 423 (44.15%) Social Skills
2 278 (29.02%) Finance
3 98 (10.23%) Marketing
4 97 (10.13%) Public Sector
5 81 (8.46%) Law
6 52 (5.43%) Legal
7 45 (4.70%) Retail
8 43 (4.49%) Manufacturing
8 43 (4.49%) Telecoms
9 36 (3.76%) Organisational Skills
10 35 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 33 (3.44%) Influencing Skills
12 30 (3.13%) Military
13 26 (2.71%) Back Office
14 19 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
15 14 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
16 13 (1.36%) Banking
17 12 (1.25%) Advertising
18 11 (1.15%) Local Government
19 8 (0.84%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 275 (28.71%) Analyst
2 105 (10.96%) Data Analyst
3 99 (10.33%) Senior
4 94 (9.81%) Lead
5 57 (5.95%) Business Analyst
6 56 (5.85%) Developer
7 48 (5.01%) Data Manager
7 48 (5.01%) Systems Analyst
8 43 (4.49%) Systems Manager
9 40 (4.18%) Architect
10 36 (3.76%) Data Engineer
11 34 (3.55%) Trainee
11 34 (3.55%) Trainee Analyst
11 34 (3.55%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 30 (3.13%) Head of QA
12 30 (3.13%) HR Analyst
12 30 (3.13%) HR Data Analyst
12 30 (3.13%) HR Manager
13 26 (2.71%) CRM Executive
14 24 (2.51%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (2.82%) Middleware
2 26 (2.71%) REST
3 21 (2.19%) .NET
3 21 (2.19%) HTML
4 17 (1.77%) CSS
4 17 (1.77%) Node.js
4 17 (1.77%) XML
5 15 (1.57%) SOAP
6 13 (1.36%) EDI
6 13 (1.36%) JSON
7 12 (1.25%) React
8 9 (0.94%) AngularJS
9 8 (0.84%) Flutter
10 7 (0.73%) scikit-learn
11 6 (0.63%) PySpark
11 6 (0.63%) SAP Fiori
11 6 (0.63%) Web Services
12 5 (0.52%) Kafka
12 5 (0.52%) Pandas
13 4 (0.42%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 96 (10.02%) Analytical Mindset
2 45 (4.70%) Product Ownership
3 41 (4.28%) Management Information System
4 35 (3.65%) Onboarding
5 27 (2.82%) Data Centre
6 23 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
7 17 (1.77%) Cloud Native
8 15 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (1.36%) Driving Licence
9 13 (1.36%) Enterprise Cloud
10 12 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (1.25%) PKI
11 10 (1.04%) Credit Risk
11 10 (1.04%) Social Media
11 10 (1.04%) Virtual Team
12 8 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (0.84%) Marketing Technology
13 7 (0.73%) Algorithms
14 6 (0.63%) Data Structures
14 6 (0.63%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 53 (5.53%) Windows
2 34 (3.55%) Windows Server
3 13 (1.36%) Windows Server 2019
4 9 (0.94%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (0.52%) Android
7 4 (0.42%) Linux
7 4 (0.42%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (38.31%) Problem-Solving
2 305 (31.84%) Continuous Improvement
3 266 (27.77%) Decision-Making
4 239 (24.95%) Analytics
5 220 (22.96%) Stakeholder Management
6 127 (13.26%) Agile
7 113 (11.80%) AI
8 112 (11.69%) Mentoring
9 106 (11.06%) Actionable Insight
9 106 (11.06%) CRM
10 104 (10.86%) Business Intelligence
11 100 (10.44%) Data Governance
12 99 (10.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 98 (10.23%) Data Analysis
14 91 (9.50%) Data Modelling
14 91 (9.50%) Project Management
15 90 (9.39%) ERP
16 83 (8.66%) Roadmaps
17 77 (8.04%) Root Cause Analysis
18 72 (7.52%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 205 (21.40%) SQL
2 163 (17.01%) Python
3 33 (3.44%) Java
3 33 (3.44%) JavaScript
4 32 (3.34%) C#
5 13 (1.36%) R
6 12 (1.25%) PowerShell
7 10 (1.04%) T-SQL
8 9 (0.94%) Go
8 9 (0.94%) Scala
9 8 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (0.73%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.63%) Bash
11 6 (0.63%) C++
11 6 (0.63%) PHP
12 3 (0.31%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.31%) C
12 3 (0.31%) Groovy
12 3 (0.31%) SOQL
12 3 (0.31%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 108 (11.27%) Degree
2 80 (8.35%) DBS Check
3 43 (4.49%) Security Cleared
4 38 (3.97%) ACCA
5 34 (3.55%) CIMA
6 31 (3.24%) SC Cleared
7 30 (3.13%) IRCA
8 17 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
9 16 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
10 15 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
11 13 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (1.15%) CCNP
13 10 (1.04%) CCNA
13 10 (1.04%) HNC
14 8 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
15 7 (0.73%) Azure Certification
16 6 (0.63%) CCIE
17 5 (0.52%) Master's Degree
17 5 (0.52%) SAP Certification
18 4 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (16.39%) Data Quality
2 85 (8.87%) GDPR
3 76 (7.93%) QA
4 38 (3.97%) Cyber Essentials
5 37 (3.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 34 (3.55%) ISO 9001
7 24 (2.51%) NIST
7 24 (2.51%) SLA
8 18 (1.88%) Actionable Recommendations
9 17 (1.77%) TickIT
10 16 (1.67%) Accessibility
10 16 (1.67%) PMO
11 8 (0.84%) GMP
12 6 (0.63%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.42%) GRC
14 4 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 14443
14 4 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 7816
14 4 (0.42%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 47 (4.91%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.36%) Docker
3 9 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.63%) ProxySG
5 3 (0.31%) DFS Replication
5 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.21%) vSphere
7 1 (0.10%) Firmware
7 1 (0.10%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 28 (2.92%) Terraform
2 13 (1.36%) Ansible
3 11 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (0.63%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.31%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.10%) Autotask
6 1 (0.10%) Grafana
Vendors
1 241 (25.16%) Microsoft
2 62 (6.47%) Workday
3 54 (5.64%) SAP
4 49 (5.11%) Salesforce
5 30 (3.13%) Google
6 17 (1.77%) Cisco
6 17 (1.77%) iManage
7 16 (1.67%) Aruba
7 16 (1.67%) Databricks
8 15 (1.57%) Adobe
8 15 (1.57%) ServiceNow
9 13 (1.36%) Arista
9 13 (1.36%) NetScout
9 13 (1.36%) Oracle
10 10 (1.04%) CheckPoint
11 9 (0.94%) Aderant
11 9 (0.94%) Intapp
11 9 (0.94%) SolarWinds
12 8 (0.84%) HubSpot
12 8 (0.84%) IFS