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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 6 21
Rank change year-on-year -19 +15 -2
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 944 1,521 1,478
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 4.74% 18.61% 7.48%
As % of the General category 10.77% 25.02% 14.01%
Number of salaries quoted 735 363 1,040
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,100 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £47,500 £45,250
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% +4.97% +0.56%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £59,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £71,375
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 8,764 6,079 10,549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 43.99% 74.37% 53.37%
Number of salaries quoted 5,740 2,643 7,645
10th Percentile £29,250 £25,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -8.28%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £75,772
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 16 June 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 June 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 -18 558 £46,500 -7.00% 239
Yorkshire -14 292 £49,884 +10.85% 127
North East -33 94 £51,000 +31.44% 60
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 35 (3.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 30 (3.18%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.69%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.06%) Apache
6 7 (0.74%) Confluence
7 5 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.53%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.42%) WordPress
9 3 (0.32%) CMS
9 3 (0.32%) JBoss
10 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 140 (14.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (4.77%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (2.65%) MS Visio
4 15 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 31 (3.28%) Salesforce CRM
2 28 (2.97%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (1.59%) SAP PM
4 14 (1.48%) SAP ERP
5 9 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
6 7 (0.74%) Workday HCM
7 6 (0.64%) Magento
8 5 (0.53%) SAP PP
9 4 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.32%) SAP QM
11 2 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
12 1 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
12 1 (0.11%) SAP MDM
12 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 129 (13.67%) Azure
2 127 (13.45%) Power Platform
3 104 (11.02%) AWS
4 60 (6.36%) Microsoft 365
5 39 (4.13%) GCP
6 35 (3.71%) Entra ID
6 35 (3.71%) SaaS
7 33 (3.50%) Microsoft Purview
8 24 (2.54%) Dynamics 365
9 23 (2.44%) GitHub
10 22 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
11 21 (2.22%) PowerApps
12 19 (2.01%) Boomi
13 17 (1.80%) Amazon S3
13 17 (1.80%) Power Automate
14 16 (1.69%) Google Analytics
15 15 (1.59%) Serverless
16 12 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
16 12 (1.27%) OCI
17 11 (1.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 56 (5.93%) Firewall
2 19 (2.01%) Wi-Fi
3 17 (1.80%) Wireless
4 14 (1.48%) VPN
5 13 (1.38%) Wireshark
6 12 (1.27%) NGFW
6 12 (1.27%) VXLAN
7 11 (1.17%) WAN
8 10 (1.06%) Cisco ASA
8 10 (1.06%) Cisco Nexus
8 10 (1.06%) Network Security
9 9 (0.95%) LAN
9 9 (0.95%) SNMP
10 7 (0.74%) DHCP
10 7 (0.74%) DNS
11 6 (0.64%) BGP
11 6 (0.64%) EIGRP
11 6 (0.64%) OSPF
11 6 (0.64%) VLAN
11 6 (0.64%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (11.23%) Power BI
2 92 (9.75%) Tableau
3 45 (4.77%) Data Mining
4 29 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (2.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 19 (2.01%) Big Data
7 17 (1.80%) Metadata
8 15 (1.59%) SQL Server
9 14 (1.48%) DynamoDB
10 11 (1.17%) NoSQL
11 10 (1.06%) BigQuery
12 9 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 8 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
14 7 (0.74%) Power Query
15 6 (0.64%) Data Lake
15 6 (0.64%) Looker
15 6 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
16 5 (0.53%) MySQL
16 5 (0.53%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 33 (3.50%) JIRA
2 12 (1.27%) Git
3 10 (1.06%) GitLab
4 8 (0.85%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.53%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.42%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.42%) Selenium
7 3 (0.32%) Maven
7 3 (0.32%) Postman
7 3 (0.32%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.21%) MLflow
9 1 (0.11%) JMeter
9 1 (0.11%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.11%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.11%) TeamCity
General
1 414 (43.86%) Social Skills
2 269 (28.50%) Finance
3 110 (11.65%) Marketing
4 89 (9.43%) Public Sector
5 77 (8.16%) Law
6 48 (5.08%) Legal
7 42 (4.45%) Manufacturing
7 42 (4.45%) Telecoms
8 41 (4.34%) Retail
9 38 (4.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 32 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
11 30 (3.18%) Influencing Skills
11 30 (3.18%) Military
12 26 (2.75%) Back Office
13 18 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
14 14 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
15 13 (1.38%) Banking
16 12 (1.27%) Advertising
17 10 (1.06%) Local Government
18 8 (0.85%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 272 (28.81%) Analyst
2 112 (11.86%) Data Analyst
3 99 (10.49%) Senior
4 86 (9.11%) Lead
5 54 (5.72%) Business Analyst
6 51 (5.40%) Developer
7 50 (5.30%) Data Manager
8 49 (5.19%) Systems Analyst
9 45 (4.77%) Architect
10 43 (4.56%) Systems Manager
11 42 (4.45%) Trainee
11 42 (4.45%) Trainee Analyst
11 42 (4.45%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 38 (4.03%) CRM Executive
13 31 (3.28%) Salesforce Executive
14 30 (3.18%) Data Engineer
14 30 (3.18%) Head of QA
14 30 (3.18%) HR Analyst
14 30 (3.18%) HR Data Analyst
14 30 (3.18%) HR Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (2.86%) Middleware
2 25 (2.65%) REST
3 18 (1.91%) .NET
4 17 (1.80%) HTML
4 17 (1.80%) XML
5 15 (1.59%) CSS
5 15 (1.59%) Node.js
5 15 (1.59%) SOAP
6 13 (1.38%) EDI
6 13 (1.38%) JSON
6 13 (1.38%) React
7 9 (0.95%) AngularJS
7 9 (0.95%) Flutter
8 6 (0.64%) SAP Fiori
8 6 (0.64%) scikit-learn
9 4 (0.42%) Entity Framework
9 4 (0.42%) Jest
9 4 (0.42%) PySpark
9 4 (0.42%) SAP Core Interface
9 4 (0.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 96 (10.17%) Analytical Mindset
2 44 (4.66%) Management Information System
2 44 (4.66%) Product Ownership
3 33 (3.50%) Onboarding
4 27 (2.86%) Data Centre
5 23 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
6 15 (1.59%) Cloud Native
6 15 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (1.38%) Data Structures
7 13 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
8 12 (1.27%) Driving Licence
8 12 (1.27%) PKI
9 10 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (1.06%) Social Media
9 10 (1.06%) Virtual Team
10 9 (0.95%) Credit Risk
11 7 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (0.64%) Algorithms
12 6 (0.64%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 49 (5.19%) Windows
2 32 (3.39%) Windows Server
3 12 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
4 9 (0.95%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (0.53%) Android
7 4 (0.42%) Linux
8 3 (0.32%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 355 (37.61%) Problem-Solving
2 292 (30.93%) Continuous Improvement
3 255 (27.01%) Decision-Making
4 230 (24.36%) Analytics
5 218 (23.09%) Stakeholder Management
6 126 (13.35%) Agile
7 111 (11.76%) CRM
8 105 (11.12%) Data Governance
9 104 (11.02%) Actionable Insight
9 104 (11.02%) AI
10 102 (10.81%) Data Analysis
10 102 (10.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 101 (10.70%) Mentoring
12 100 (10.59%) Business Intelligence
13 98 (10.38%) Project Management
14 89 (9.43%) Data Modelling
15 87 (9.22%) ERP
16 76 (8.05%) Roadmaps
17 75 (7.94%) Root Cause Analysis
18 74 (7.84%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 197 (20.87%) SQL
2 161 (17.06%) Python
3 34 (3.60%) Java
4 32 (3.39%) C#
5 29 (3.07%) JavaScript
6 11 (1.17%) PowerShell
6 11 (1.17%) R
6 11 (1.17%) T-SQL
7 10 (1.06%) Scala
8 9 (0.95%) Go
9 7 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (0.64%) Bash
10 6 (0.64%) C++
10 6 (0.64%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.42%) PHP
12 3 (0.32%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.32%) C
12 3 (0.32%) Groovy
12 3 (0.32%) SOQL
12 3 (0.32%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 101 (10.70%) Degree
2 77 (8.16%) DBS Check
3 36 (3.81%) ACCA
3 36 (3.81%) Security Cleared
4 32 (3.39%) CIMA
5 30 (3.18%) IRCA
6 26 (2.75%) SC Cleared
7 18 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
9 14 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (1.06%) CCNP
11 10 (1.06%) HNC
12 9 (0.95%) CCNA
13 8 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
14 7 (0.74%) Azure Certification
15 6 (0.64%) AWS Certification
15 6 (0.64%) CCIE
16 5 (0.53%) Master's Degree
16 5 (0.53%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (16.21%) Data Quality
2 84 (8.90%) GDPR
3 73 (7.73%) QA
4 38 (4.03%) Cyber Essentials
5 34 (3.60%) ISO 9001
5 34 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (2.44%) NIST
7 22 (2.33%) SLA
8 19 (2.01%) Actionable Recommendations
9 17 (1.80%) TickIT
10 15 (1.59%) Accessibility
10 15 (1.59%) PMO
11 8 (0.85%) GMP
12 7 (0.74%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.53%) 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 3 (0.32%) IFRS
System Software
1 46 (4.87%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.27%) Docker
3 9 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.64%) ProxySG
5 3 (0.32%) DFS Replication
5 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.11%) Firmware
6 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (3.07%) Terraform
2 14 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (1.38%) Ansible
4 6 (0.64%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.32%) HP Fortify
5 3 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.11%) Autotask
Vendors
1 243 (25.74%) Microsoft
2 62 (6.57%) Workday
3 59 (6.25%) Salesforce
4 52 (5.51%) SAP
5 29 (3.07%) Google
6 16 (1.69%) Aruba
6 16 (1.69%) iManage
7 14 (1.48%) Cisco
7 14 (1.48%) Databricks
7 14 (1.48%) Oracle
8 13 (1.38%) Adobe
9 12 (1.27%) Arista
9 12 (1.27%) NetScout
10 11 (1.17%) ServiceNow
11 9 (0.95%) Aderant
11 9 (0.95%) CheckPoint
11 9 (0.95%) Intapp
11 9 (0.95%) SolarWinds
12 8 (0.85%) HubSpot
12 8 (0.85%) IFS