Analytical Thinking Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Analytical Thinking
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Analytical Thinking skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 98 121
Rank change year-on-year -16 +23 +33
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Thinking 6 4 19
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.32% 0.28% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.31% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 16
10th Percentile £60,500 £47,875 £50,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £59,688 £59,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +1.89% +3.47%
75th Percentile £78,750 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £79,500 - £71,841
Yorkshire median annual salary £30,263 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -55.17% +3.85% +5.48%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,497 1,276 1,870
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 80.27% 88.43% 91.71%
Number of salaries quoted 879 634 1,418
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,400 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,750 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.49% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -2.78%

Analytical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Analytical Thinking relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Analytical Thinking job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Analytical Thinking
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Analytical Thinking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Analytical Thinking

Analytical Thinking
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytical Thinking in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Analytical Thinking in West Yorkshire

Analytical Thinking
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Analytical Thinking within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 15 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
Leeds -13 5 £77,500 +44.19% 3
Bradford -14 1 £60,000 -11.11%
Analytical Thinking
Yorkshire

Analytical Thinking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) dbt
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) DynamoDB
1 3 (50.00%) Metadata
1 3 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (16.67%) BigQuery
2 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (16.67%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) Tableau
General
1 6 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Data Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Incident and Problem Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Incident Manager
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL Manager
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL Problem Manager
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Major Incident Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Problem Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) MACH
1 1 (16.67%) Node.js
1 1 (16.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
1 5 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (66.67%) Data Design
2 4 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 4 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (50.00%) Data Architecture
3 3 (50.00%) Data Integration
3 3 (50.00%) Data Lineage
3 3 (50.00%) Impact Analysis
3 3 (50.00%) Logical Data Model
3 3 (50.00%) Physical Data Model
4 2 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (16.67%) Analytics
5 1 (16.67%) Data Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Google