Data Analysis Jobs in the North West

Data Analysis
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Data Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 104 100
Rank change year-on-year -35 -4 +63
Permanent jobs citing Data Analysis 182 223 255
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.34% 2.17% 3.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.44% 2.67% 3.53%
Number of salaries quoted 101 173 81
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,315 -
25th Percentile £41,000 £37,500 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £60,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.58% +71.43% -17.74%
75th Percentile £53,750 £85,000 £50,000
90th Percentile £59,081 £90,000 £57,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Data Analysis 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 7,450 8,352 7,232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.92% 81.31% 95.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3,764 6,302 3,849
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £31,225
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 £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,840 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Data Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analysis in the North West

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Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Analysis in the North West.

Salary trend for Data Analysis in the North West

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Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Analysis in the North West over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Analysis in the North West

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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 Data Analysis within the North West region over the 6 months to 29 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
Manchester +47 91 £43,000 -23.21% 93
Lancashire -24 75 £50,055 -18.28% 63
Cheshire -2 13 £40,000 -17.95% 25
Cumbria -71 2 £43,250 +9.49% 3
Merseyside -22 1 £52,500 -34.38% 17
Data Analysis
England

Data Analysis
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 3 (1.65%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.10%) Confluence
Applications
1 57 (31.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.65%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.55%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 4 (2.20%) SAP BPC
2 3 (1.65%) Maximo
2 3 (1.65%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 44 (24.18%) Power Platform
2 18 (9.89%) AWS
3 9 (4.95%) Azure
4 4 (2.20%) Snowflake
5 3 (1.65%) GCP
5 3 (1.65%) Google Analytics
6 2 (1.10%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (1.10%) AWS IoT
6 2 (1.10%) Google Sheets
7 1 (0.55%) Google Drive
7 1 (0.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.20%) Intranet
1 4 (2.20%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (24.18%) Power BI
2 8 (4.40%) Tableau
3 4 (2.20%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (1.65%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 2 (1.10%) GIS
5 2 (1.10%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.10%) TimescaleDB
6 1 (0.55%) Big Data
6 1 (0.55%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.55%) Cloud Spanner
6 1 (0.55%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.55%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.55%) Looker
6 1 (0.55%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.55%) MySQL
6 1 (0.55%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.55%) Power Query
6 1 (0.55%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.55%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.55%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 53 (29.12%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (1.10%) Git
2 2 (1.10%) JIRA
3 1 (0.55%) LabVIEW
3 1 (0.55%) WaveMaker
General
1 78 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 65 (35.71%) Finance
3 42 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (10.44%) Presentation Skills
5 12 (6.59%) Retail
6 11 (6.04%) Manufacturing
7 9 (4.95%) Banking
8 8 (4.40%) Legal
9 6 (3.30%) Marketing
10 4 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.65%) Military
12 2 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.10%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.55%) Advertising
13 1 (0.55%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 68 (37.36%) Analyst
1 68 (37.36%) Systems Engineer
2 53 (29.12%) Electronics Engineer
3 37 (20.33%) Data Analyst
4 26 (14.29%) Procurement Analyst
5 17 (9.34%) Lead
6 15 (8.24%) Lead Systems Engineer
7 13 (7.14%) Business Analyst
7 13 (7.14%) Senior
8 11 (6.04%) Financial Analyst
8 11 (6.04%) Project Manager
9 9 (4.95%) Data Engineer
10 8 (4.40%) Finance Systems Analyst
10 8 (4.40%) Senior Analyst
10 8 (4.40%) Systems Analyst
11 4 (2.20%) Insight Analyst
11 4 (2.20%) Operations Analyst
11 4 (2.20%) Software Engineer
12 3 (1.65%) Data Administrator
12 3 (1.65%) Senior Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.20%) NestJS
1 4 (2.20%) React
1 4 (2.20%) RESTful
2 3 (1.65%) CSS
2 3 (1.65%) HTML
2 3 (1.65%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.10%) Node.js
3 2 (1.10%) PySpark
3 2 (1.10%) React Native
4 1 (0.55%) Hugging Face
4 1 (0.55%) Keras
4 1 (0.55%) NLTK
4 1 (0.55%) OpenCV
4 1 (0.55%) Pandas
4 1 (0.55%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.55%) Regular Expression
4 1 (0.55%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.55%) Seaborn
4 1 (0.55%) SpaCy
4 1 (0.55%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 45 (24.73%) Management Information System
2 11 (6.04%) FMCG
3 9 (4.95%) Social Media
4 4 (2.20%) IoT
4 4 (2.20%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (1.65%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.10%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.10%) Life Science
6 2 (1.10%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.55%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.55%) Blog
7 1 (0.55%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.55%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.55%) Digital Signage
7 1 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.55%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.55%) New Media
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.30%) Windows
2 5 (2.75%) Windows Vista
3 1 (0.55%) Linux
3 1 (0.55%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (37.36%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
1 68 (37.36%) Systems Engineering
2 65 (35.71%) Requirements Gathering
3 57 (31.32%) Validation
4 54 (29.67%) Analytics
5 53 (29.12%) Requirements Management
6 44 (24.18%) Visualisation
7 37 (20.33%) Economics
8 34 (18.68%) Business Strategy
9 32 (17.58%) Process Improvement
10 31 (17.03%) Business Intelligence
10 31 (17.03%) Data Management
11 30 (16.48%) Agile
11 30 (16.48%) ERP
12 29 (15.93%) Data Analytics
13 26 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
13 26 (14.29%) Indirect Procurement
13 26 (14.29%) Source to Pay
14 23 (12.64%) Project Management
15 22 (12.09%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 21 (11.54%) SQL
2 16 (8.79%) Java
3 15 (8.24%) C
4 9 (4.95%) Python
5 5 (2.75%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.20%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.65%) R
7 3 (1.65%) VBA
8 2 (1.10%) PHP
9 1 (0.55%) C#
9 1 (0.55%) C++
9 1 (0.55%) Julia
9 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.55%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.55%) VB
Qualifications
1 128 (70.33%) Degree
2 68 (37.36%) HND
3 53 (29.12%) HNC
4 29 (15.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (8.24%) DBS Check
5 15 (8.24%) Master's Degree
6 11 (6.04%) MBA
7 3 (1.65%) ACCA
7 3 (1.65%) CIMA
8 2 (1.10%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (30.22%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.95%) QA
3 7 (3.85%) SLA
4 4 (2.20%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.10%) GDPR
6 1 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 15 (8.24%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (2.75%) Docker
Vendors
1 32 (17.58%) SAP
2 19 (10.44%) Microsoft
3 11 (6.04%) Capita
4 10 (5.49%) Oracle
5 6 (3.30%) Informatica
6 5 (2.75%) Google
7 4 (2.20%) Hyperion
7 4 (2.20%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.65%) Concur
8 3 (1.65%) IBM
8 3 (1.65%) Sage
9 1 (0.55%) Facebook