Analytical Thinking Jobs in the North West

Analytical Thinking
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Analytical Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Thinking over the 6 months leading up to 3 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 220 245 252
Rank change year-on-year +25 +7 +41
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Thinking 60 59 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.77% 0.55% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 0.68% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 16 26 25
10th Percentile £33,750 £33,625 £29,300
25th Percentile £36,875 £34,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £44,688 £55,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £67,070
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% -13.79% +10.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Analytical Thinking falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,498 8,635 7,048
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.75% 80.63% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 3,803 6,406 3,853
10th Percentile £25,480 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £60,875 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Analytical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Thinking in the North West

Analytical Thinking
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Analytical Thinking in the North West

Analytical Thinking
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytical Thinking in the North West over the 6 months to 3 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Analytical Thinking in the North West

Analytical Thinking
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 Thinking within the North West region over the 6 months to 3 June 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
Manchester +69 34 £42,500 -5.56% 28
Cheshire +3 13 £40,000 -5.45% 10
Merseyside +32 11 £32,500 -10.96% 2
Lancashire -65 2 £60,000 - 13
Analytical Thinking
England

Analytical Thinking
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 21 (35.00%) IBM Domino
2 1 (1.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 16 (26.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (18.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 3 (5.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (3.33%) AWS
2 2 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.67%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (1.67%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (1.67%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (1.67%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (1.67%) Azure
3 1 (1.67%) GCP
3 1 (1.67%) GitHub
3 1 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (1.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.33%) SSH
2 2 (3.33%) DNS
2 2 (3.33%) Firewall
2 2 (3.33%) HTTP
2 2 (3.33%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (3.33%) SMTP
2 2 (3.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.00%) Power BI
2 2 (3.33%) Looker
3 1 (1.67%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (1.67%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.67%) MySQL
3 1 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.67%) Power Query
3 1 (1.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.67%) JIRA
General
1 60 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 22 (36.67%) Manufacturing
3 15 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
4 13 (21.67%) Finance
5 10 (16.67%) Social Skills
6 7 (11.67%) Marketing
7 4 (6.67%) Arabic Language
7 4 (6.67%) German Language
7 4 (6.67%) Italian Language
8 3 (5.00%) Banking
8 3 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.67%) Games
9 1 (1.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (35.00%) QA Manager
1 21 (35.00%) Quality Manager
2 18 (30.00%) Analyst
3 11 (18.33%) Project Manager
4 5 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
4 5 (8.33%) Linux Support
4 5 (8.33%) Linux Support Engineer
4 5 (8.33%) Senior
4 5 (8.33%) Software Support Engineer
4 5 (8.33%) Support Engineer
5 4 (6.67%) Market Analyst
6 3 (5.00%) Junior
6 3 (5.00%) Junior Analyst
6 3 (5.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 2 (3.33%) Applications Support
7 2 (3.33%) Applications Support Analyst
7 2 (3.33%) Banking Analyst
7 2 (3.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 2 (3.33%) Data Analyst
7 2 (3.33%) Systems Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.67%) .NET
1 1 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (1.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.33%) FMCG
2 4 (6.67%) Social Media
3 2 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (3.33%) Cyberattack
3 2 (3.33%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.33%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.67%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.67%) Derivative
4 1 (1.67%) Equities
4 1 (1.67%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (1.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (35.00%) Innovative Thinking
2 21 (35.00%) Logistics
3 19 (31.67%) Business Intelligence
4 17 (28.33%) Analytics
5 15 (25.00%) Economics
5 15 (25.00%) Market Research
6 13 (21.67%) Data Analysis
7 12 (20.00%) Statistics
8 11 (18.33%) Business Analytics
8 11 (18.33%) Project Management
8 11 (18.33%) Scorecard
8 11 (18.33%) SWOT Analysis
8 11 (18.33%) Thought Leadership
9 8 (13.33%) Actionable Insight
10 7 (11.67%) Decision-Making
10 7 (11.67%) Incident Management
11 5 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (8.33%) Mentoring
11 5 (8.33%) Telematics
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.67%) SQL
2 3 (5.00%) VBA
3 1 (1.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 38 (63.33%) Degree
2 15 (25.00%) Master's Degree
3 11 (18.33%) MBA
4 6 (10.00%) DBS Check
5 2 (3.33%) A+ Certification
5 2 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.33%) CEH
5 2 (3.33%) CISM
5 2 (3.33%) CISSP
5 2 (3.33%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (35.00%) QA
2 11 (18.33%) Data Quality
3 3 (5.00%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.33%) NIST
4 2 (3.33%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (3.33%) Terraform
2 1 (1.67%) Ansible
2 1 (1.67%) Grafana
2 1 (1.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 11 (18.33%) Capita
3 1 (1.67%) Alteryx
3 1 (1.67%) Bloomberg
3 1 (1.67%) Oracle
3 1 (1.67%) SAP