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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 11 22
Rank change year-on-year -15 +11 -3
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 793 949 883
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.92% 10.66% 8.10%
As % of the General category 11.63% 15.64% 13.76%
Number of salaries quoted 408 394 668
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,900 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% +2.60%
75th Percentile £57,239 £66,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £71,125 £77,500 £71,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -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 6,818 6,066 6,419
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 59.53% 68.16% 58.87%
Number of salaries quoted 3,297 2,452 5,080
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £51,238 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.25% +2.48% -4.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £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 26 January 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 26 January 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 -16 414 £42,500 -19.05% 212
Yorkshire +3 278 £45,000 -10.00% 161
North East -3 101 £43,500 +8.75% 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 22 (2.77%) SharePoint
2 16 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.39%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.39%) Confluence
4 6 (0.76%) Apache
5 4 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.38%) CMS
7 2 (0.25%) FactoryTalk
7 2 (0.25%) nginx
7 2 (0.25%) SAS
7 2 (0.25%) WinCC
7 2 (0.25%) WordPress
8 1 (0.13%) Camunda
8 1 (0.13%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.13%) IIS
8 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 171 (21.56%) Chatbot
2 153 (19.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (2.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
5 15 (1.89%) MS Visio
6 11 (1.39%) AutoCAD
7 9 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
8 6 (0.76%) SOLIDWORKS
9 2 (0.25%) Revit
10 1 (0.13%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (1.89%) Salesforce CRM
2 10 (1.26%) Shopify
3 7 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.76%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.76%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.38%) ResourceLink
7 2 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.13%) C-CURE
8 1 (0.13%) Magento
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle BPM
8 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.13%) Siebel CRM
8 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 101 (12.74%) Power Platform
2 82 (10.34%) Azure
3 66 (8.32%) AWS
4 40 (5.04%) Entra ID
5 33 (4.16%) Microsoft 365
6 30 (3.78%) Microsoft Purview
6 30 (3.78%) SaaS
7 17 (2.14%) Microsoft Copilot
8 15 (1.89%) OCI
9 13 (1.64%) GCP
10 12 (1.51%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (1.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 10 (1.26%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (1.26%) Power Automate
12 9 (1.13%) OneDrive
12 9 (1.13%) PowerApps
13 8 (1.01%) Adobe Analytics
13 8 (1.01%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (1.01%) Snowflake
14 7 (0.88%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 53 (6.68%) Firewall
2 14 (1.77%) Network Security
2 14 (1.77%) Wi-Fi
3 11 (1.39%) NGFW
3 11 (1.39%) VXLAN
3 11 (1.39%) Wireshark
4 8 (1.01%) WAN
5 7 (0.88%) LAN
6 6 (0.76%) Asterisk PBX
6 6 (0.76%) Internet
6 6 (0.76%) PSTN
6 6 (0.76%) VoIP
6 6 (0.76%) VPN
7 5 (0.63%) VLAN
8 4 (0.50%) Cisco ASA
8 4 (0.50%) Cisco Nexus
8 4 (0.50%) Cisco Wireless
8 4 (0.50%) WAAS
8 4 (0.50%) Wireless
8 4 (0.50%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (11.73%) Power BI
2 88 (11.10%) Tableau
3 66 (8.32%) Data Mining
4 38 (4.79%) SQL Server
5 17 (2.14%) Metadata
6 16 (2.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 12 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
8 11 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (0.88%) Data Lake
10 7 (0.88%) DynamoDB
10 7 (0.88%) GIS
10 7 (0.88%) Looker
10 7 (0.88%) NoSQL
11 6 (0.76%) BigQuery
12 5 (0.63%) Geospatial Data
13 4 (0.50%) BusinessObjects
13 4 (0.50%) Power Query
13 4 (0.50%) Relational Database
14 3 (0.38%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 14 (1.77%) JIRA
2 5 (0.63%) Git
3 4 (0.50%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.38%) GitLab
5 2 (0.25%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.25%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.13%) Gatling
6 1 (0.13%) JMeter
6 1 (0.13%) JUnit
6 1 (0.13%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.13%) TestRail
General
1 322 (40.61%) Social Skills
2 230 (29.00%) Finance
3 49 (6.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 45 (5.67%) Organisational Skills
5 42 (5.30%) Marketing
6 39 (4.92%) Presentation Skills
6 39 (4.92%) Public Sector
7 35 (4.41%) Legal
8 23 (2.90%) Manufacturing
9 22 (2.77%) Law
9 22 (2.77%) Telecoms
10 20 (2.52%) Banking
10 20 (2.52%) Retail
11 13 (1.64%) Games
12 12 (1.51%) Electronics
13 10 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (1.13%) Advertising
15 5 (0.63%) Billing
15 5 (0.63%) General Ledger
15 5 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 202 (25.47%) Analyst
2 171 (21.56%) Trainer
3 90 (11.35%) Data Analyst
4 81 (10.21%) Senior
5 59 (7.44%) Trainee
6 57 (7.19%) Trainee Analyst
6 57 (7.19%) Trainee Data Analyst
7 40 (5.04%) Lead
8 33 (4.16%) Architect
9 30 (3.78%) Support Engineer
10 26 (3.28%) Business Analyst
11 23 (2.90%) IT Support
12 21 (2.65%) CRM Executive
13 20 (2.52%) Applications Support
13 20 (2.52%) Senior Manager
13 20 (2.52%) Systems Analyst
14 18 (2.27%) Developer
14 18 (2.27%) Senior Analyst
15 17 (2.14%) Support Analyst
16 15 (1.89%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.14%) CSS
2 12 (1.51%) React
3 11 (1.39%) HTML
4 8 (1.01%) .NET
5 6 (0.76%) Flutter
5 6 (0.76%) FreeSWITCH
5 6 (0.76%) REST
6 5 (0.63%) JSON
6 5 (0.63%) XML
7 4 (0.50%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (0.38%) Pandas
8 3 (0.38%) SAP Fiori
9 2 (0.25%) Django
9 2 (0.25%) FastAPI
9 2 (0.25%) jQuery
9 2 (0.25%) Node.js
9 2 (0.25%) PySpark
9 2 (0.25%) Spring
9 2 (0.25%) Spring Boot
9 2 (0.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 65 (8.20%) Analytical Mindset
2 44 (5.55%) Self-Motivation
3 37 (4.67%) Management Information System
4 28 (3.53%) Onboarding
5 24 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
6 20 (2.52%) Driving Licence
7 19 (2.40%) Data Centre
8 17 (2.14%) Data Structures
9 15 (1.89%) Social Media
10 12 (1.51%) Virtual Team
11 11 (1.39%) Cloud Native
11 11 (1.39%) PKI
11 11 (1.39%) Product Ownership
12 9 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (1.13%) Operational Technology
13 7 (0.88%) Algorithms
13 7 (0.88%) Mobile App
14 6 (0.76%) Life Science
14 6 (0.76%) SCADA
15 5 (0.63%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 36 (4.54%) Windows
2 8 (1.01%) Android
2 8 (1.01%) Windows Server
3 5 (0.63%) Linux
4 4 (0.50%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (36.19%) Problem-Solving
2 250 (31.53%) AI
3 173 (21.82%) Chemistry
4 171 (21.56%) Conversational UI
5 163 (20.55%) Decision-Making
6 148 (18.66%) Continuous Improvement
7 136 (17.15%) Project Management
8 133 (16.77%) Analytics
9 106 (13.37%) Business Intelligence
10 105 (13.24%) Agile
10 105 (13.24%) Stakeholder Management
11 104 (13.11%) Data Analysis
12 91 (11.48%) Business Analysis
13 76 (9.58%) Data Analytics
14 55 (6.94%) Actionable Insight
15 54 (6.81%) Visualisation
16 53 (6.68%) Coaching
17 52 (6.56%) Cybersecurity
18 51 (6.43%) Customer Service
18 51 (6.43%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 155 (19.55%) SQL
2 117 (14.75%) Python
3 16 (2.02%) Java
4 14 (1.77%) T-SQL
5 12 (1.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 12 (1.51%) JavaScript
6 9 (1.13%) PowerShell
7 8 (1.01%) VBA
8 7 (0.88%) Scala
9 6 (0.76%) Bash
9 6 (0.76%) Go
10 5 (0.63%) C#
10 5 (0.63%) R
11 4 (0.50%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.25%) Bicep
12 2 (0.25%) PHP
13 1 (0.13%) C++
13 1 (0.13%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 309 (38.97%) Degree
2 193 (24.34%) Master's Degree
3 172 (21.69%) PhD
4 30 (3.78%) DBS Check
5 20 (2.52%) ACCA
5 20 (2.52%) CIMA
6 19 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (1.77%) PMI Certification
9 13 (1.64%) PMP
10 12 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
11 10 (1.26%) CCNP
12 8 (1.01%) CompTIA Security+
13 7 (0.88%) Security Cleared
14 6 (0.76%) CIPD
14 6 (0.76%) Network+ Certification
14 6 (0.76%) SC Cleared
15 5 (0.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 5 (0.63%) Six Sigma Green Belt
16 4 (0.50%) NVQ Level 4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (5.42%) Data Quality
2 39 (4.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 38 (4.79%) GDPR
4 29 (3.66%) Cyber Essentials
4 29 (3.66%) NIST
5 26 (3.28%) QA
6 18 (2.27%) PMO
7 17 (2.14%) Accessibility
8 10 (1.26%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.76%) IEC 61131
10 5 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (0.63%) GLBA
10 5 (0.63%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.63%) SLA
11 4 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (0.50%) GAAP
11 4 (0.50%) GMP
11 4 (0.50%) IFRS
11 4 (0.50%) SEPA
11 4 (0.50%) TARGET2
System Software
1 28 (3.53%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.01%) Docker
3 5 (0.63%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.50%) ProxySG
5 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.13%) Firmware
7 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (3.03%) Terraform
2 16 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (1.39%) Ansible
4 8 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.63%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.25%) AssetCenter
6 2 (0.25%) SCCM
7 1 (0.13%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.13%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 189 (23.83%) Microsoft
2 171 (21.56%) PayPal
3 28 (3.53%) Salesforce
4 18 (2.27%) ServiceNow
5 17 (2.14%) Oracle
6 15 (1.89%) SAP
7 14 (1.77%) Google
8 13 (1.64%) Cisco
9 11 (1.39%) Anaplan
9 11 (1.39%) Arista
9 11 (1.39%) Aruba
9 11 (1.39%) NetScout
10 10 (1.26%) Adobe
10 10 (1.26%) Genesys
10 10 (1.26%) Splunk
11 9 (1.13%) Verint
11 9 (1.13%) Workday
12 8 (1.01%) HubSpot
12 8 (1.01%) New Relic
13 7 (0.88%) Qualtrics