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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 6 21
Rank change year-on-year -28 +15 -3
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 930 1,456 1,421
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 4.73% 18.83% 8.16%
As % of the General category 9.75% 25.12% 14.85%
Number of salaries quoted 700 340 1,022
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,375 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,750 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% +11.11% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61,250 £70,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,710
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%

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 9,538 5,797 9,569
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 48.47% 74.97% 54.94%
Number of salaries quoted 5,454 2,475 7,346
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,313 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -8.65%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £62,999
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 27 May 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 27 May 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 -29 542 £46,500 -7.00% 244
Yorkshire -14 298 £50,000 +11.11% 128
North East -28 90 £48,445 +25.83% 58
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 32 (3.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 30 (3.23%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.40%) Apache Spark
4 9 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.65%) Apache
5 6 (0.65%) Confluence
6 5 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.43%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.43%) WordPress
8 3 (0.32%) CMS
8 3 (0.32%) JBoss
9 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 140 (15.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (4.62%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (2.58%) MS Visio
4 12 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 31 (3.33%) Salesforce CRM
2 30 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (1.61%) SAP PM
4 14 (1.51%) SAP ERP
5 9 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
6 7 (0.75%) Workday HCM
7 6 (0.65%) Magento
8 5 (0.54%) SAP PP
9 4 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
10 2 (0.22%) SAP QM
11 1 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
11 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
11 1 (0.11%) ResourceLink
11 1 (0.11%) SAP MDM
11 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 130 (13.98%) Power Platform
2 125 (13.44%) Azure
3 98 (10.54%) AWS
4 63 (6.77%) Microsoft 365
5 40 (4.30%) SaaS
6 39 (4.19%) Entra ID
7 35 (3.76%) Microsoft Purview
8 32 (3.44%) GCP
9 23 (2.47%) Dynamics 365
10 22 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (2.37%) GitHub
10 22 (2.37%) PowerApps
11 19 (2.04%) Boomi
11 19 (2.04%) Power Automate
12 14 (1.51%) Amazon S3
12 14 (1.51%) Serverless
13 13 (1.40%) Google Analytics
14 12 (1.29%) Azure Data Factory
14 12 (1.29%) OCI
15 11 (1.18%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 56 (6.02%) Firewall
2 18 (1.94%) Wi-Fi
3 17 (1.83%) Wireless
4 16 (1.72%) Network Security
5 15 (1.61%) VPN
6 13 (1.40%) Wireshark
7 12 (1.29%) Cisco ASA
7 12 (1.29%) Cisco Nexus
7 12 (1.29%) NGFW
7 12 (1.29%) VXLAN
7 12 (1.29%) WAN
8 11 (1.18%) SNMP
9 9 (0.97%) LAN
9 9 (0.97%) VLAN
10 8 (0.86%) BGP
10 8 (0.86%) Cisco Wireless
10 8 (0.86%) EIGRP
10 8 (0.86%) OSPF
10 8 (0.86%) WAAS
10 8 (0.86%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (11.61%) Power BI
2 99 (10.65%) Tableau
3 54 (5.81%) Data Mining
4 25 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (2.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 19 (2.04%) SQL Server
6 16 (1.72%) Big Data
7 14 (1.51%) Metadata
8 12 (1.29%) DynamoDB
9 10 (1.08%) BigQuery
10 9 (0.97%) NoSQL
10 9 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (0.75%) Power Query
13 6 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
13 6 (0.65%) Looker
14 5 (0.54%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.54%) Hadoop
14 5 (0.54%) Relational Database
15 4 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 31 (3.33%) JIRA
2 12 (1.29%) Git
3 9 (0.97%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.75%) GitLab
5 5 (0.54%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.43%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.43%) Selenium
7 3 (0.32%) Maven
7 3 (0.32%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.22%) MLflow
8 2 (0.22%) Postman
9 1 (0.11%) JMeter
9 1 (0.11%) JUnit
9 1 (0.11%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.11%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.11%) TestRail
General
1 405 (43.55%) Social Skills
2 267 (28.71%) Finance
3 103 (11.08%) Marketing
4 80 (8.60%) Public Sector
5 64 (6.88%) Law
6 45 (4.84%) Legal
7 42 (4.52%) Retail
8 41 (4.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 41 (4.41%) Manufacturing
9 33 (3.55%) Telecoms
10 32 (3.44%) Organisational Skills
11 29 (3.12%) Influencing Skills
12 26 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
13 25 (2.69%) Military
14 21 (2.26%) Back Office
15 14 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (1.29%) Banking
17 11 (1.18%) Games
18 10 (1.08%) Advertising
19 8 (0.86%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 270 (29.03%) Analyst
2 116 (12.47%) Data Analyst
3 109 (11.72%) Senior
4 84 (9.03%) Lead
5 52 (5.59%) Business Analyst
6 51 (5.48%) Data Manager
7 50 (5.38%) Trainee
7 50 (5.38%) Trainee Analyst
7 50 (5.38%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 48 (5.16%) Architect
8 48 (5.16%) Systems Analyst
9 47 (5.05%) Developer
10 43 (4.62%) Systems Manager
11 38 (4.09%) CRM Executive
12 31 (3.33%) Salesforce Executive
13 30 (3.23%) Head of QA
13 30 (3.23%) HR Analyst
13 30 (3.23%) HR Data Analyst
13 30 (3.23%) HR Manager
14 24 (2.58%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (2.90%) Middleware
2 24 (2.58%) REST
3 17 (1.83%) .NET
3 17 (1.83%) XML
4 15 (1.61%) HTML
4 15 (1.61%) SOAP
5 14 (1.51%) CSS
6 13 (1.40%) EDI
6 13 (1.40%) Node.js
6 13 (1.40%) React
7 12 (1.29%) JSON
8 9 (0.97%) Flutter
9 8 (0.86%) AngularJS
9 8 (0.86%) SAP Fiori
10 6 (0.65%) scikit-learn
11 4 (0.43%) Entity Framework
11 4 (0.43%) Pandas
11 4 (0.43%) SAP Core Interface
11 4 (0.43%) Spring Boot
12 3 (0.32%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 93 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 47 (5.05%) Management Information System
3 39 (4.19%) Product Ownership
4 32 (3.44%) Onboarding
5 30 (3.23%) Data Centre
6 23 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
7 16 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (1.40%) Enterprise Cloud
9 12 (1.29%) PKI
10 11 (1.18%) Cloud Native
10 11 (1.18%) Data Structures
10 11 (1.18%) Driving Licence
11 10 (1.08%) Social Media
11 10 (1.08%) Virtual Team
12 9 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
13 8 (0.86%) FMCG
13 8 (0.86%) Operational Technology
14 7 (0.75%) Credit Risk
14 7 (0.75%) Cyber Threat
14 7 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 48 (5.16%) Windows
2 29 (3.12%) Windows Server
3 9 (0.97%) Apple iOS
3 9 (0.97%) Windows Server 2019
4 7 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (0.65%) Android
5 6 (0.65%) Linux
6 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 352 (37.85%) Problem-Solving
2 294 (31.61%) Continuous Improvement
3 248 (26.67%) Decision-Making
4 231 (24.84%) Stakeholder Management
5 226 (24.30%) Analytics
6 119 (12.80%) Agile
7 117 (12.58%) Project Management
8 104 (11.18%) CRM
9 103 (11.08%) Actionable Insight
9 103 (11.08%) AI
10 101 (10.86%) Data Analysis
10 101 (10.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 100 (10.75%) Business Intelligence
12 97 (10.43%) Mentoring
13 96 (10.32%) Data Governance
14 83 (8.92%) Root Cause Analysis
15 79 (8.49%) Business Analysis
15 79 (8.49%) Data Modelling
16 78 (8.39%) Data Analytics
16 78 (8.39%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 192 (20.65%) SQL
2 162 (17.42%) Python
3 34 (3.66%) Java
4 30 (3.23%) C#
5 27 (2.90%) JavaScript
6 13 (1.40%) T-SQL
7 11 (1.18%) PowerShell
8 10 (1.08%) R
9 9 (0.97%) Go
10 8 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 8 (0.86%) Scala
11 6 (0.65%) C++
12 5 (0.54%) Bash
13 4 (0.43%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.32%) C
14 3 (0.32%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.32%) PHP
14 3 (0.32%) SOQL
14 3 (0.32%) SOSL
14 3 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 112 (12.04%) Degree
2 75 (8.06%) DBS Check
3 30 (3.23%) IRCA
3 30 (3.23%) Security Cleared
4 27 (2.90%) ACCA
5 24 (2.58%) CIMA
6 22 (2.37%) SC Cleared
7 19 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.40%) PMI Certification
10 12 (1.29%) CCNP
10 12 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (1.29%) PMP
11 10 (1.08%) HNC
12 8 (0.86%) CCIE
12 8 (0.86%) CCNA
12 8 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
13 7 (0.75%) Azure Certification
14 6 (0.65%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (15.05%) Data Quality
2 85 (9.14%) GDPR
3 70 (7.53%) QA
4 37 (3.98%) Cyber Essentials
5 36 (3.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 34 (3.66%) ISO 9001
7 27 (2.90%) NIST
8 19 (2.04%) PMO
8 19 (2.04%) SLA
9 18 (1.94%) Actionable Recommendations
10 17 (1.83%) TickIT
11 12 (1.29%) Accessibility
11 12 (1.29%) GMP
12 9 (0.97%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.43%) GRC
14 4 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 14443
14 4 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 7816
14 4 (0.43%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.22%) GAAP
System Software
1 45 (4.84%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.08%) Docker
2 10 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
3 8 (0.86%) ProxySG
4 3 (0.32%) DFS Replication
4 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.22%) Firmware
6 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (2.90%) Terraform
2 17 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (1.40%) Ansible
4 7 (0.75%) Kubernetes
5 5 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.32%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.11%) Autotask
7 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 252 (27.10%) Microsoft
2 62 (6.67%) Workday
3 59 (6.34%) Salesforce
4 52 (5.59%) SAP
5 24 (2.58%) Google
6 21 (2.26%) ServiceNow
7 16 (1.72%) Aruba
8 14 (1.51%) Cisco
8 14 (1.51%) iManage
9 12 (1.29%) Arista
9 12 (1.29%) Databricks
9 12 (1.29%) NetScout
10 11 (1.18%) Adobe
10 11 (1.18%) Oracle
10 11 (1.18%) SolarWinds
11 10 (1.08%) Anaplan
12 9 (0.97%) Aderant
12 9 (0.97%) IFS
12 9 (0.97%) Intapp
12 9 (0.97%) Verint