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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 11 19
Rank change year-on-year -23 +8 -2
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 827 758 1,395
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 5.01% 11.83% 8.67%
As % of the General category 9.21% 16.45% 15.25%
Number of salaries quoted 580 408 1,014
10th Percentile £32,873 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £32,845
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,497 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.01% +5.26% +6.74%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £61,123
90th Percentile £75,250 £80,000 £72,675
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 8,984 4,608 9,147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 54.43% 71.90% 56.82%
Number of salaries quoted 4,706 2,639 7,133
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,640 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -13.93%

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 April 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 April 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 -20 469 £45,000 -10.10% 220
Yorkshire -10 266 £51,750 +15.00% 136
North East -15 92 £50,000 +29.87% 50
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 21 (2.54%) Microsoft Exchange
1 21 (2.54%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.57%) Confluence
3 11 (1.33%) Apache Spark
4 7 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.48%) Apache
5 4 (0.48%) WordPress
6 3 (0.36%) CMS
6 3 (0.36%) JBoss
7 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.12%) SAS
7 1 (0.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 162 (19.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (2.66%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (2.54%) MS Visio
4 17 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.97%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.36%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.24%) Revit
8 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 29 (3.51%) Salesforce CRM
2 19 (2.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (1.81%) SAP PM
4 7 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.85%) SAP ERP
4 7 (0.85%) Workday HCM
5 6 (0.73%) Magento
5 6 (0.73%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.36%) ResourceLink
6 3 (0.36%) SAP PP
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.12%) Shopify
8 1 (0.12%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 122 (14.75%) Power Platform
2 104 (12.58%) Azure
3 80 (9.67%) AWS
4 44 (5.32%) Microsoft 365
5 36 (4.35%) Entra ID
5 36 (4.35%) SaaS
6 29 (3.51%) Microsoft Purview
7 22 (2.66%) GCP
8 21 (2.54%) Power Automate
9 19 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (2.06%) PowerApps
11 16 (1.93%) Dynamics 365
12 15 (1.81%) Azure Data Factory
12 15 (1.81%) GitHub
12 15 (1.81%) OCI
13 14 (1.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 13 (1.57%) Boomi
14 13 (1.57%) Serverless
15 12 (1.45%) Google Analytics
16 11 (1.33%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 52 (6.29%) Firewall
2 18 (2.18%) Network Security
3 16 (1.93%) VPN
3 16 (1.93%) Wi-Fi
4 14 (1.69%) Wireless
5 13 (1.57%) WAN
5 13 (1.57%) Wireshark
6 12 (1.45%) LAN
6 12 (1.45%) NGFW
6 12 (1.45%) VXLAN
7 9 (1.09%) VLAN
8 8 (0.97%) BGP
8 8 (0.97%) Cisco ASA
8 8 (0.97%) Cisco Nexus
8 8 (0.97%) Cisco Wireless
8 8 (0.97%) EIGRP
8 8 (0.97%) OSPF
8 8 (0.97%) SNMP
8 8 (0.97%) WAAS
8 8 (0.97%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (14.63%) Tableau
2 111 (13.42%) Power BI
3 79 (9.55%) Data Mining
4 33 (3.99%) SQL Server
5 23 (2.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 16 (1.93%) Metadata
7 12 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
8 11 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (1.21%) DynamoDB
10 7 (0.85%) Looker
10 7 (0.85%) NoSQL
11 6 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (0.60%) Big Data
12 5 (0.60%) BigQuery
12 5 (0.60%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.60%) Power Query
12 5 (0.60%) Relational Database
13 4 (0.48%) Data Vault
14 3 (0.36%) Amazon Athena
14 3 (0.36%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 27 (3.26%) JIRA
2 8 (0.97%) Jenkins
3 7 (0.85%) Git
4 4 (0.48%) Cucumber
4 4 (0.48%) Cypress.io
4 4 (0.48%) GitLab
4 4 (0.48%) Selenium
5 3 (0.36%) Maven
5 3 (0.36%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.24%) MLflow
7 1 (0.12%) JMeter
7 1 (0.12%) JUnit
7 1 (0.12%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.12%) Postman
7 1 (0.12%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.12%) TestRail
General
1 399 (48.25%) Social Skills
2 269 (32.53%) Finance
3 88 (10.64%) Marketing
4 62 (7.50%) Public Sector
5 44 (5.32%) Law
6 39 (4.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 37 (4.47%) Telecoms
8 36 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
9 35 (4.23%) Retail
10 33 (3.99%) Organisational Skills
11 31 (3.75%) Legal
12 30 (3.63%) Manufacturing
13 27 (3.26%) Military
14 21 (2.54%) Back Office
15 17 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
16 16 (1.93%) Advertising
17 15 (1.81%) Banking
18 11 (1.33%) Games
19 8 (0.97%) Billing
19 8 (0.97%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 250 (30.23%) Analyst
2 123 (14.87%) Data Analyst
3 101 (12.21%) Senior
4 74 (8.95%) Trainee
4 74 (8.95%) Trainee Analyst
4 74 (8.95%) Trainee Data Analyst
5 65 (7.86%) Lead
6 50 (6.05%) Data Manager
7 41 (4.96%) Systems Analyst
8 38 (4.59%) Architect
8 38 (4.59%) Systems Manager
9 36 (4.35%) CRM Executive
10 34 (4.11%) Business Analyst
11 30 (3.63%) Head of QA
11 30 (3.63%) HR Manager
12 29 (3.51%) Salesforce Executive
13 25 (3.02%) IT Support
14 24 (2.90%) Consultant
14 24 (2.90%) Developer
14 24 (2.90%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (1.93%) .NET
2 15 (1.81%) Middleware
2 15 (1.81%) React
3 14 (1.69%) REST
4 13 (1.57%) XML
5 11 (1.33%) HTML
6 10 (1.21%) CSS
7 9 (1.09%) Flutter
8 8 (0.97%) EDI
8 8 (0.97%) JSON
8 8 (0.97%) Node.js
9 7 (0.85%) SOAP
10 6 (0.73%) SAP Fiori
10 6 (0.73%) scikit-learn
11 5 (0.60%) Pandas
12 4 (0.48%) Spring Boot
13 3 (0.36%) AngularJS
13 3 (0.36%) Gherkin
13 3 (0.36%) NumPy
13 3 (0.36%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 103 (12.45%) Analytical Mindset
2 51 (6.17%) Management Information System
3 32 (3.87%) Self-Motivation
4 24 (2.90%) Data Centre
5 23 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
6 20 (2.42%) Product Ownership
7 19 (2.30%) Onboarding
8 18 (2.18%) Social Media
9 12 (1.45%) Data Structures
9 12 (1.45%) Driving Licence
9 12 (1.45%) PKI
10 11 (1.33%) Cloud Native
10 11 (1.33%) Virtual Team
11 9 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
13 6 (0.73%) Algorithms
13 6 (0.73%) FMCG
13 6 (0.73%) Mobile App
13 6 (0.73%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 47 (5.68%) Windows
2 18 (2.18%) Windows Server
3 9 (1.09%) Android
3 9 (1.09%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.85%) Linux
5 3 (0.36%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 311 (37.61%) Problem-Solving
2 259 (31.32%) Continuous Improvement
3 238 (28.78%) Decision-Making
4 220 (26.60%) Analytics
5 201 (24.30%) Stakeholder Management
6 146 (17.65%) Project Management
7 128 (15.48%) Data Analysis
8 116 (14.03%) Business Intelligence
9 107 (12.94%) Actionable Insight
10 106 (12.82%) Agile
11 104 (12.58%) Business Analysis
12 103 (12.45%) AI
13 101 (12.21%) Data Analytics
14 90 (10.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 86 (10.40%) Data Governance
16 80 (9.67%) CRM
17 76 (9.19%) Change Management
18 73 (8.83%) Mentoring
19 72 (8.71%) Visualisation
20 63 (7.62%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 182 (22.01%) SQL
2 155 (18.74%) Python
3 21 (2.54%) C#
4 20 (2.42%) JavaScript
5 19 (2.30%) Java
6 15 (1.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 13 (1.57%) T-SQL
8 9 (1.09%) Go
9 7 (0.85%) PowerShell
9 7 (0.85%) R
10 4 (0.48%) Bicep
10 4 (0.48%) VBA
11 3 (0.36%) Bash
11 3 (0.36%) C
11 3 (0.36%) Groovy
11 3 (0.36%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.36%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.24%) C++
12 2 (0.24%) Scala
13 1 (0.12%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 120 (14.51%) Degree
2 63 (7.62%) DBS Check
3 30 (3.63%) IRCA
4 26 (3.14%) ACCA
5 24 (2.90%) CIMA
6 19 (2.30%) Master's Degree
7 17 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.57%) PMI Certification
10 12 (1.45%) PMP
11 11 (1.33%) Security Cleared
12 10 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
13 9 (1.09%) PhD
14 8 (0.97%) CCIE
14 8 (0.97%) CCNP
14 8 (0.97%) HNC
15 6 (0.73%) AWS Certification
15 6 (0.73%) CIPD
15 6 (0.73%) SC Cleared
16 5 (0.60%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (12.21%) Data Quality
2 76 (9.19%) GDPR
3 64 (7.74%) QA
4 35 (4.23%) Cyber Essentials
4 35 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 30 (3.63%) ISO 9001
5 30 (3.63%) NIST
6 23 (2.78%) PMO
7 20 (2.42%) Actionable Recommendations
8 12 (1.45%) Accessibility
8 12 (1.45%) GMP
9 11 (1.33%) TickIT
10 10 (1.21%) SLA
11 6 (0.73%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.48%) GAAP
12 4 (0.48%) IFRS
13 3 (0.36%) GRC
13 3 (0.36%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.24%) FINRA
System Software
1 34 (4.11%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.09%) Docker
3 8 (0.97%) ProxySG
4 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.24%) Firmware
5 2 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (3.75%) Terraform
2 14 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (1.57%) Ansible
4 8 (0.97%) Kubernetes
4 8 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.36%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.12%) Autotask
6 1 (0.12%) Fluentd
6 1 (0.12%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 229 (27.69%) Microsoft
2 49 (5.93%) Workday
3 48 (5.80%) Salesforce
4 39 (4.72%) SAP
5 22 (2.66%) Google
6 20 (2.42%) ServiceNow
7 12 (1.45%) Arista
7 12 (1.45%) Aruba
7 12 (1.45%) NetScout
8 11 (1.33%) Databricks
8 11 (1.33%) Oracle
9 10 (1.21%) Anaplan
9 10 (1.21%) Genesys
9 10 (1.21%) Splunk
10 9 (1.09%) Adobe
10 9 (1.09%) Cisco
10 9 (1.09%) IFS
10 9 (1.09%) Verint
11 8 (0.97%) F5
11 8 (0.97%) New Relic