Data Analytics Job Trends in the North West

Data Analytics
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Data Analytics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 114 125
Rank change year-on-year -21 +11 -5
Permanent jobs citing Data Analytics 51 95 79
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.80% 1.88% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 2.06% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 38 28 64
10th Percentile - £25,219 £34,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £33,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £44,293
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +1.60% -0.47%
75th Percentile £53,063 £57,500 £61,123
90th Percentile £98,750 £57,854 £84,056
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £61,469
% change year-on-year - -2.39% -9.60%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

Data Analytics 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 5,173 4,612 3,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 81.20% 91.25% 87.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2,546 2,263 3,047
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,114 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,084 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -0.79% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,445 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Analytics relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Data Analytics job vacancy trend in the North West

Data Analytics
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Data Analytics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Data Analytics

Data Analytics
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Analytics in the North West over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Analytics in the North West

Data Analytics
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 Analytics within the North West region over the 6 months to 14 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
Manchester 0 23 £40,000 -11.11% 14
Merseyside +8 19 £40,000 -27.27% 7
Cheshire -17 6 £28,571 -47.58% 8
Lancashire -20 3 £22,000 -40.94% 14
Data Analytics
England

Data Analytics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (1.96%) SAS
Applications
1 26 (50.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (7.84%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (3.92%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (3.92%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (3.92%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 14 (27.45%) Power Platform
2 5 (9.80%) Azure
3 3 (5.88%) SaaS
4 2 (3.92%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (3.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (3.92%) OCI
5 1 (1.96%) AWS
5 1 (1.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (1.96%) GCP
5 1 (1.96%) GitHub
5 1 (1.96%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (1.96%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.84%) VoIP
2 1 (1.96%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (62.75%) Tableau
2 24 (47.06%) Data Mining
3 14 (27.45%) Power BI
4 4 (7.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (3.92%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (3.92%) Data Mart
5 2 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.92%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.96%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.96%) Big Data
6 1 (1.96%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.96%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Git
General
1 33 (64.71%) Analytical Skills
1 33 (64.71%) Finance
2 11 (21.57%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.84%) Marketing
3 4 (7.84%) Retail
4 3 (5.88%) Banking
4 3 (5.88%) Legal
5 2 (3.92%) Billing
5 2 (3.92%) General Ledger
5 2 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.92%) Law
5 2 (3.92%) Military
5 2 (3.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (58.82%) Analyst
2 26 (50.98%) Data Analyst
3 24 (47.06%) Trainee
3 24 (47.06%) Trainee Analyst
3 24 (47.06%) Trainee Data Analyst
4 4 (7.84%) Chief Technology Officer
4 4 (7.84%) Senior
5 3 (5.88%) Architect
5 3 (5.88%) Data Scientist
6 2 (3.92%) Commercial Analyst
6 2 (3.92%) Data Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) Graduate
6 2 (3.92%) Insight Analyst
6 2 (3.92%) Oracle Architect
6 2 (3.92%) Oracle Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.92%) Report Analyst
6 2 (3.92%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 2 (3.92%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.96%) IoT Architect
7 1 (1.96%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.92%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.96%) .NET
2 1 (1.96%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.96%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.96%) ASP.NET
2 1 (1.96%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (1.96%) Blazor
2 1 (1.96%) EDI
2 1 (1.96%) Entity Framework
2 1 (1.96%) React
2 1 (1.96%) REST
2 1 (1.96%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.84%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (3.92%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (3.92%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.96%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.96%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (1.96%) IoT
3 1 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.96%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.96%) SCADA
3 1 (1.96%) Smart Home
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (100.00%) Analytics
2 28 (54.90%) Data Analysis
2 28 (54.90%) Project Management
3 24 (47.06%) Business Analysis
4 14 (27.45%) AI
5 13 (25.49%) Business Intelligence
6 10 (19.61%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (17.65%) Decision-Making
7 9 (17.65%) Visualisation
8 7 (13.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (13.73%) Data Visualisation
9 6 (11.76%) Technology Strategy
9 6 (11.76%) WFM
10 5 (9.80%) IT Strategy
11 4 (7.84%) Actionable Insight
11 4 (7.84%) Conversational UI
11 4 (7.84%) Data Science
11 4 (7.84%) Machine Learning
11 4 (7.84%) Marketing Automation
11 4 (7.84%) Sentiment Analysis
Programming Languages
1 33 (64.71%) SQL
2 30 (58.82%) Python
3 3 (5.88%) R
4 2 (3.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.96%) C#
5 1 (1.96%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (17.65%) Degree
2 2 (3.92%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (3.92%) CISM
2 2 (3.92%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.96%) CISA
3 1 (1.96%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.96%) HNC
3 1 (1.96%) HND
3 1 (1.96%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (17.65%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.92%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (3.92%) Def Stans
2 2 (3.92%) NIST
2 2 (3.92%) NIST 800
3 1 (1.96%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.96%) SOX 404
System Software
1 1 (1.96%) Docker
1 1 (1.96%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (1.96%) Grafana
1 1 (1.96%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 25 (49.02%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.84%) HubSpot
3 2 (3.92%) Oracle
4 1 (1.96%) Databricks
4 1 (1.96%) Google
4 1 (1.96%) Salesforce