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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 9 21
Rank change year-on-year -18 +12 -3
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 829 917 1,062
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.44% 11.73% 8.49%
As % of the General category 10.94% 17.03% 14.40%
Number of salaries quoted 465 388 793
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £26,895
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £57,239 £67,500 £61,123
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%

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 7,575 5,384 7,377
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 58.83% 68.88% 58.95%
Number of salaries quoted 3,818 2,392 5,844
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,625 £39,000 £33,206
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,000 £47,557
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +9.34% -9.42%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,250 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 20 February 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 20 February 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 -19 419 £42,500 -19.05% 253
Yorkshire -1 300 £45,000 -10.00% 115
North East -5 110 £40,000 +0.34% 43
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 18 (2.17%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.33%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.09%) Confluence
5 6 (0.72%) Apache
6 5 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.48%) CMS
8 3 (0.36%) WordPress
9 2 (0.24%) FactoryTalk
9 2 (0.24%) nginx
9 2 (0.24%) SAS
9 2 (0.24%) WinCC
10 1 (0.12%) JBoss
10 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 178 (21.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 146 (17.61%) Chatbot
3 20 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (2.17%) MS Visio
5 17 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (1.33%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.72%) SOLIDWORKS
8 2 (0.24%) Revit
9 1 (0.12%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 20 (2.41%) Salesforce CRM
2 8 (0.97%) Shopify
3 7 (0.84%) Workday HCM
4 6 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.72%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.36%) ResourceLink
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
7 2 (0.24%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.12%) C-CURE
8 1 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.12%) Magento
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.12%) Siebel CRM
8 1 (0.12%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 101 (12.18%) Power Platform
2 86 (10.37%) Azure
3 69 (8.32%) AWS
4 38 (4.58%) Entra ID
5 31 (3.74%) SaaS
6 30 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
7 29 (3.50%) Microsoft Purview
8 17 (2.05%) GCP
9 16 (1.93%) OCI
10 13 (1.57%) Azure Data Factory
10 13 (1.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 12 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (1.45%) Microsoft Copilot
12 11 (1.33%) Power Automate
13 10 (1.21%) PowerApps
14 9 (1.09%) OneDrive
14 9 (1.09%) Snowflake
15 8 (0.97%) Adobe Analytics
15 8 (0.97%) dbt
15 8 (0.97%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 57 (6.88%) Firewall
2 16 (1.93%) Network Security
2 16 (1.93%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (1.45%) NGFW
3 12 (1.45%) VXLAN
3 12 (1.45%) Wireshark
4 10 (1.21%) WAN
5 9 (1.09%) LAN
6 8 (0.97%) VPN
7 7 (0.84%) VLAN
8 6 (0.72%) Asterisk PBX
8 6 (0.72%) BGP
8 6 (0.72%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (0.72%) Cisco Nexus
8 6 (0.72%) EIGRP
8 6 (0.72%) OSPF
8 6 (0.72%) SNMP
8 6 (0.72%) WAAS
8 6 (0.72%) Wireless
8 6 (0.72%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (13.87%) Tableau
2 93 (11.22%) Power BI
3 89 (10.74%) Data Mining
4 37 (4.46%) SQL Server
5 16 (1.93%) Metadata
6 15 (1.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 12 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (0.97%) DynamoDB
10 7 (0.84%) BigQuery
10 7 (0.84%) Data Lake
10 7 (0.84%) Looker
10 7 (0.84%) NoSQL
11 6 (0.72%) GIS
12 5 (0.60%) Geospatial Data
12 5 (0.60%) Power Query
13 3 (0.36%) Data Vault
13 3 (0.36%) Relational Database
13 3 (0.36%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 11 (1.33%) JIRA
2 5 (0.60%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.48%) Git
4 2 (0.24%) GitLab
5 1 (0.12%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.12%) JUnit
5 1 (0.12%) Maven
5 1 (0.12%) MLflow
5 1 (0.12%) Selenium
5 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.12%) TestRail
General
1 337 (40.65%) Social Skills
2 262 (31.60%) Finance
3 59 (7.12%) Marketing
4 49 (5.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 48 (5.79%) Public Sector
6 45 (5.43%) Organisational Skills
7 40 (4.83%) Presentation Skills
8 37 (4.46%) Legal
9 26 (3.14%) Retail
10 24 (2.90%) Law
11 23 (2.77%) Manufacturing
12 22 (2.65%) Telecoms
13 19 (2.29%) Banking
14 15 (1.81%) Advertising
15 14 (1.69%) Games
16 11 (1.33%) Electronics
17 10 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
18 7 (0.84%) French Language
19 6 (0.72%) Automotive
19 6 (0.72%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 228 (27.50%) Analyst
2 146 (17.61%) Trainer
3 114 (13.75%) Data Analyst
4 92 (11.10%) Senior
5 85 (10.25%) Trainee
6 83 (10.01%) Trainee Analyst
6 83 (10.01%) Trainee Data Analyst
7 49 (5.91%) Lead
8 34 (4.10%) Architect
9 27 (3.26%) CRM Executive
9 27 (3.26%) Support Engineer
10 25 (3.02%) Business Analyst
10 25 (3.02%) Systems Analyst
11 23 (2.77%) IT Support
12 20 (2.41%) Salesforce Executive
12 20 (2.41%) Senior Analyst
12 20 (2.41%) Senior Manager
13 19 (2.29%) Consultant
13 19 (2.29%) Support Analyst
14 18 (2.17%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.29%) CSS
2 14 (1.69%) React
3 13 (1.57%) HTML
4 9 (1.09%) .NET
5 7 (0.84%) Flutter
6 6 (0.72%) FreeSWITCH
6 6 (0.72%) XML
7 5 (0.60%) JSON
7 5 (0.60%) REST
8 4 (0.48%) Node.js
8 4 (0.48%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (0.48%) SAP Fiori
9 3 (0.36%) Pandas
10 2 (0.24%) FastAPI
10 2 (0.24%) MACH
10 2 (0.24%) Model Context Protocol
10 2 (0.24%) PyTorch
10 2 (0.24%) scikit-learn
10 2 (0.24%) TensorFlow
10 2 (0.24%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 68 (8.20%) Analytical Mindset
2 46 (5.55%) Self-Motivation
3 45 (5.43%) Management Information System
4 26 (3.14%) Onboarding
5 25 (3.02%) Data Protection Act
6 22 (2.65%) Data Centre
7 20 (2.41%) Social Media
8 18 (2.17%) Driving Licence
9 14 (1.69%) Data Structures
10 12 (1.45%) PKI
10 12 (1.45%) Product Ownership
10 12 (1.45%) Virtual Team
11 11 (1.33%) Cloud Native
12 9 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (0.97%) Algorithms
13 8 (0.97%) Operational Technology
14 7 (0.84%) Life Science
15 6 (0.72%) Mobile App
15 6 (0.72%) SCADA
16 5 (0.60%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 37 (4.46%) Windows
2 9 (1.09%) Windows Server
3 8 (0.97%) Android
4 6 (0.72%) Linux
5 4 (0.48%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 295 (35.59%) Problem-Solving
2 227 (27.38%) AI
3 179 (21.59%) Analytics
4 174 (20.99%) Decision-Making
5 170 (20.51%) Continuous Improvement
6 165 (19.90%) Project Management
7 148 (17.85%) Chemistry
8 146 (17.61%) Conversational UI
9 128 (15.44%) Data Analysis
10 126 (15.20%) Stakeholder Management
11 116 (13.99%) Business Analysis
12 107 (12.91%) Business Intelligence
13 105 (12.67%) Agile
13 105 (12.67%) Data Analytics
14 68 (8.20%) Actionable Insight
15 63 (7.60%) CRM
16 57 (6.88%) Process Improvement
17 56 (6.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 56 (6.76%) Visualisation
18 54 (6.51%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 184 (22.20%) SQL
2 154 (18.58%) Python
3 16 (1.93%) JavaScript
4 15 (1.81%) T-SQL
5 14 (1.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 14 (1.69%) Java
6 10 (1.21%) C#
7 9 (1.09%) R
8 7 (0.84%) Bash
8 7 (0.84%) Go
9 5 (0.60%) PowerShell
9 5 (0.60%) VBA
10 4 (0.48%) Scala
11 3 (0.36%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.24%) Bicep
12 2 (0.24%) PHP
13 1 (0.12%) C
13 1 (0.12%) Groovy
13 1 (0.12%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.12%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 293 (35.34%) Degree
2 167 (20.14%) Master's Degree
3 147 (17.73%) PhD
4 29 (3.50%) DBS Check
5 23 (2.77%) ACCA
5 23 (2.77%) CIMA
6 19 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (1.69%) PMI Certification
9 13 (1.57%) PMP
10 12 (1.45%) CCNP
11 8 (0.97%) CompTIA Security+
12 7 (0.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 6 (0.72%) CCIE
13 6 (0.72%) CIPD
13 6 (0.72%) Network+ Certification
13 6 (0.72%) Security Cleared
14 5 (0.60%) HNC
14 5 (0.60%) IRCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (5.79%) GDPR
2 45 (5.43%) Data Quality
3 40 (4.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 33 (3.98%) Cyber Essentials
5 32 (3.86%) NIST
6 30 (3.62%) QA
7 21 (2.53%) PMO
8 16 (1.93%) Accessibility
8 16 (1.93%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.72%) IEC 61131
10 5 (0.60%) ISO 9001
10 5 (0.60%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (0.48%) GAAP
11 4 (0.48%) GLBA
11 4 (0.48%) GMP
11 4 (0.48%) IFRS
11 4 (0.48%) SEPA
11 4 (0.48%) SLA
11 4 (0.48%) TARGET2
System Software
1 26 (3.14%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.09%) Docker
3 6 (0.72%) ProxySG
4 3 (0.36%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.12%) Firmware
6 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (3.38%) Terraform
2 14 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (1.45%) Ansible
4 8 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.84%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.24%) AssetCenter
6 2 (0.24%) SCCM
7 1 (0.12%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.12%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.12%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 214 (25.81%) Microsoft
2 146 (17.61%) PayPal
3 39 (4.70%) Salesforce
4 20 (2.41%) Google
5 19 (2.29%) ServiceNow
6 16 (1.93%) Oracle
7 15 (1.81%) Cisco
7 15 (1.81%) SAP
8 12 (1.45%) Arista
8 12 (1.45%) Aruba
8 12 (1.45%) HubSpot
8 12 (1.45%) NetScout
9 11 (1.33%) Anaplan
10 10 (1.21%) Adobe
10 10 (1.21%) Genesys
11 9 (1.09%) Splunk
11 9 (1.09%) Verint
11 9 (1.09%) Workday
12 8 (0.97%) New Relic
13 7 (0.84%) Qualtrics