Analytical Skills Jobs in the North West

Analytical Skills
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in permanent job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 22 35
Rank change year-on-year +14 +13 -3
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,282 798 578
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 16.43% 7.71% 7.61%
As % of the General category 23.35% 14.67% 11.37%
Number of salaries quoted 256 554 348
10th Percentile £31,000 £26,825 £24,700
25th Percentile £40,750 £32,500 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £46,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.64% +3.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £63,815 £57,500 £56,531
90th Percentile £78,750 £71,175 £70,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

All General Skills
North West

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 common skills in the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 5,490 5,440 5,083
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 70.35% 52.58% 66.96%
Number of salaries quoted 2,395 3,982 2,369
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,000 £27,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.38% -9.52% +3.02%
75th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,772 £80,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Analytical Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in the North West

Analytical Skills
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in the North West.

Salary trend for Analytical Skills in the North West

Analytical Skills
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in the North West over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Analytical Skills in the North West

Analytical Skills
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 30 May 2025. 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
Lancashire +12 557 £52,500 +40.00% 193
Manchester +11 372 £50,000 +5.26% 711
Cumbria +11 164 £55,000 +31.74% 17
Cheshire -6 109 £48,306 +1.70% 387
Merseyside +22 77 £57,500 +24.24% 185
Analytical Skills
England

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 25 (1.95%) IBM Domino
1 25 (1.95%) SharePoint
2 15 (1.17%) Oracle Application Server
3 7 (0.55%) Confluence
4 5 (0.39%) SAS
5 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.16%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 109 (8.50%) Abaqus
2 77 (6.01%) Mathcad
3 69 (5.38%) Microsoft Excel
4 45 (3.51%) Chatbot
5 37 (2.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 33 (2.57%) Microsoft Office
7 4 (0.31%) AutoCAD
7 4 (0.31%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.078%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 21 (1.64%) NetSuite
2 18 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.23%) Maximo
3 3 (0.23%) Shopify
4 2 (0.16%) Infor LN
4 2 (0.16%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.078%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.078%) Orchard Housing
5 1 (0.078%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.078%) SAP APO
5 1 (0.078%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.078%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.078%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.078%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.078%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.078%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.078%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.078%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 51 (3.98%) AWS
2 45 (3.51%) Azure
3 36 (2.81%) Power Platform
4 23 (1.79%) GCP
5 17 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (1.01%) Azure Machine Learning
7 11 (0.86%) Google Analytics
8 8 (0.62%) Facebook Ads
9 5 (0.39%) Google Ads
9 5 (0.39%) Google Workspace
10 4 (0.31%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (0.31%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (0.31%) Figma
10 4 (0.31%) GitHub
10 4 (0.31%) Miro
10 4 (0.31%) OneDrive
10 4 (0.31%) Serverless
10 4 (0.31%) Slack
11 3 (0.23%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (0.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 631 (49.22%) VPN
2 389 (30.34%) DNS
3 250 (19.50%) Cisco IOS
4 16 (1.25%) Firewall
5 13 (1.01%) Wireless
6 9 (0.70%) Intrusion Detection
7 8 (0.62%) DHCP
8 5 (0.39%) Software-Defined Radio
8 5 (0.39%) SSH
8 5 (0.39%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.31%) HTTP
9 4 (0.31%) VLAN
10 3 (0.23%) Broadband
10 3 (0.23%) Network Security
10 3 (0.23%) WAN
10 3 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.16%) LAN
11 2 (0.16%) NAS
11 2 (0.16%) SAN
11 2 (0.16%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (2.73%) Power BI
2 25 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (1.48%) Tableau
4 15 (1.17%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 15 (1.17%) Oracle Reports
5 10 (0.78%) Cloud Spanner
5 10 (0.78%) Relational Database
6 7 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (0.47%) SQL Server
8 5 (0.39%) Oracle Database
9 4 (0.31%) MySQL
9 4 (0.31%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.23%) Big Data
10 3 (0.23%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.23%) Looker
10 3 (0.23%) Power Query
11 2 (0.16%) GIS
11 2 (0.16%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.16%) Metadata
11 2 (0.16%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 17 (1.33%) JIRA
2 16 (1.25%) Git
3 11 (0.86%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.39%) Selenium
5 4 (0.31%) Balsamiq
6 3 (0.23%) GitLab
7 2 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.16%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.16%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.16%) JMeter
7 2 (0.16%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.16%) NeoLoad
7 2 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.16%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.16%) WaveMaker
7 2 (0.16%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.078%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.078%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.078%) Postman
General
1 651 (50.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 553 (43.14%) Finance
3 254 (19.81%) Social Skills
4 133 (10.37%) Manufacturing
5 85 (6.63%) Organisational Skills
6 56 (4.37%) Presentation Skills
7 33 (2.57%) Retail
8 32 (2.50%) Agriculture
9 28 (2.18%) Marketing
10 20 (1.56%) Military
11 19 (1.48%) Banking
12 17 (1.33%) Aerospace
13 16 (1.25%) Legal
14 12 (0.94%) Advertising
14 12 (0.94%) Financial Institution
15 10 (0.78%) Electronics
16 8 (0.62%) Aeronautics
16 8 (0.62%) Telecoms
17 7 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
17 7 (0.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 392 (30.58%) Developer
2 380 (29.64%) Software Developer
3 250 (19.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 193 (15.05%) Senior
5 121 (9.44%) Analyst
6 79 (6.16%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 77 (6.01%) Engineering Specialist
8 53 (4.13%) Lead
9 49 (3.82%) Trainer
10 29 (2.26%) Project Manager
11 25 (1.95%) Financial Analyst
12 24 (1.87%) Software Engineer
13 23 (1.79%) Business Analyst
14 21 (1.64%) QA Manager
14 21 (1.64%) Quality Manager
14 21 (1.64%) Senior Software Engineer
15 18 (1.40%) Systems Analyst
16 16 (1.25%) Consultant
16 16 (1.25%) Finance Systems Analyst
16 16 (1.25%) Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 251 (19.58%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (1.09%) Spring Boot
3 13 (1.01%) React
4 12 (0.94%) RESTful
5 10 (0.78%) Node.js
6 6 (0.47%) Kafka
7 4 (0.31%) Spring
8 3 (0.23%) JSON
8 3 (0.23%) Web Services
9 2 (0.16%) .NET
9 2 (0.16%) HTML
9 2 (0.16%) Keras
9 2 (0.16%) NumPy
9 2 (0.16%) Pandas
9 2 (0.16%) Playwright
9 2 (0.16%) PyTorch
9 2 (0.16%) REST
9 2 (0.16%) scikit-learn
9 2 (0.16%) SOAP
9 2 (0.16%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 631 (49.22%) Cyberattack
2 49 (3.82%) Management Information System
3 43 (3.35%) Analytical Mindset
4 40 (3.12%) Social Media
5 26 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
6 21 (1.64%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 16 (1.25%) FMCG
8 14 (1.09%) Security Posture
9 10 (0.78%) Algorithms
9 10 (0.78%) Public Cloud
10 9 (0.70%) Credit Risk
11 8 (0.62%) Onboarding
11 8 (0.62%) Product Ownership
12 7 (0.55%) Manufacturing Execution System
13 6 (0.47%) Device Driver
13 6 (0.47%) Driving Licence
13 6 (0.47%) Life Science
14 5 (0.39%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (0.39%) Embedded Systems
14 5 (0.39%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 659 (51.40%) Linux
2 629 (49.06%) Android
3 299 (23.32%) Windows
4 28 (2.18%) Windows Vista
5 8 (0.62%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.39%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.31%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.078%) Unix
10 1 (0.078%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.078%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 644 (50.23%) Line Management
2 642 (50.08%) Mathematics
3 493 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
4 473 (36.90%) Agile
5 380 (29.64%) OO
5 380 (29.64%) OOP
6 379 (29.56%) Android Development
6 379 (29.56%) Design Patterns
7 293 (22.85%) DevOps
8 287 (22.39%) Risk Management
9 256 (19.97%) Task Automation
10 250 (19.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 250 (19.50%) Platform Engineering
10 250 (19.50%) Storage Management
11 121 (9.44%) Finite Element Analysis
12 109 (8.50%) CAD
13 92 (7.18%) Decision-Making
14 85 (6.63%) Continuous Improvement
15 76 (5.93%) Analytics
16 75 (5.85%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 674 (52.57%) Python
2 402 (31.36%) Java
3 385 (30.03%) C++
4 381 (29.72%) Go
5 256 (19.97%) PowerShell
6 255 (19.89%) Bash
7 49 (3.82%) SQL
8 13 (1.01%) JavaScript
8 13 (1.01%) TypeScript
9 9 (0.70%) Shell Script
10 7 (0.55%) C-shell
10 7 (0.55%) Korn
10 7 (0.55%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.47%) C
12 5 (0.39%) VBA
13 3 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.23%) R
14 2 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.16%) PHP
14 2 (0.16%) Scala
Qualifications
1 392 (30.58%) Security Cleared
2 384 (29.95%) Degree
3 379 (29.56%) DV Cleared
4 207 (16.15%) Master's Degree
5 169 (13.18%) BPSS Clearance
6 109 (8.50%) Chartered Engineer
6 109 (8.50%) HND
7 62 (4.84%) DBS Check
8 55 (4.29%) PhD
9 38 (2.96%) HNC
10 30 (2.34%) ACCA
10 30 (2.34%) CIMA
11 26 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
12 24 (1.87%) Six Sigma Black Belt
12 24 (1.87%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 17 (1.33%) CISM
14 15 (1.17%) CISSP
15 11 (0.86%) CEH
15 11 (0.86%) MBA
16 10 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (3.90%) Data Quality
2 47 (3.67%) QA
3 18 (1.40%) GDPR
4 17 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.09%) NIST
6 8 (0.62%) Accessibility
7 6 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.39%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.39%) SLA
9 3 (0.23%) GRC
9 3 (0.23%) IFRS
10 2 (0.16%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.16%) GAAP
10 2 (0.16%) PMO
11 1 (0.078%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.078%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.078%) GMP
11 1 (0.078%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 649 (50.62%) Docker
2 253 (19.73%) Hyper-V
3 250 (19.50%) VMware NSX
3 250 (19.50%) vSphere
4 5 (0.39%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.078%) Firmware
5 1 (0.078%) KVM
5 1 (0.078%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.078%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.078%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 631 (49.22%) Ansible
2 253 (19.73%) Terraform
3 25 (1.95%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.31%) SCCM
4 4 (0.31%) SCOM
4 4 (0.31%) SCOrch
5 3 (0.23%) Autotask
6 1 (0.078%) Grafana
6 1 (0.078%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.078%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 254 (19.81%) Cisco
2 253 (19.73%) Juniper
3 252 (19.66%) Splunk
4 250 (19.50%) 3PAR
5 84 (6.55%) Microsoft
6 47 (3.67%) Google
7 45 (3.51%) PayPal
8 42 (3.28%) SAP
9 33 (2.57%) Oracle
10 14 (1.09%) ServiceNow
11 11 (0.86%) Capita
12 9 (0.70%) Facebook
13 8 (0.62%) Informatica
13 8 (0.62%) Salesforce
14 7 (0.55%) Avaloq
15 6 (0.47%) Cognos
15 6 (0.47%) VMware
16 5 (0.39%) Databricks
16 5 (0.39%) TikTok
16 5 (0.39%) Xilinx