Analytical Skills Job Trends in the South West

Analytical Skills
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in permanent job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months leading up to 7 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 17 41
Rank change year-on-year +3 +24 -15
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 391 421 275
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 8.22% 8.18% 6.38%
As % of the General category 16.26% 15.71% 11.52%
Number of salaries quoted 183 211 211
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,404 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £53,000 £46,899
Median % change year-on-year -15.09% +13.01% +4.22%
75th Percentile £52,500 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £67,660 £88,750 £72,500
England median annual salary £50,915 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.43% -4.35% +4.55%

All General Skills
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,405 2,679 2,388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 50.59% 52.08% 55.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,532 1,350 1,786
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £30,750 £38,313 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £53,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.09% +0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £69,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -0.83%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Analytical Skills job vacancy trend in the South West

Analytical Skills
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Analytical Skills.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in the South West over the 6 months to 7 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Analytical Skills in the South West

Analytical Skills
Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 7 December 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
Bristol -2 131 £50,000 -3.77% 178
Wiltshire +13 84 £37,500 -16.67% 114
Somerset +23 74 £42,500 -10.53% 125
Devon -5 38 £43,875 -37.32% 202
Gloucestershire +17 28 £45,000 -18.18% 231
Dorset +6 26 £55,000 +4.76% 124
Cornwall -16 4 £44,695 +28.62% 2
Analytical Skills
England

Analytical Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 78 (19.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (2.56%) Confluence
3 2 (0.51%) Apache
4 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.26%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.26%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.26%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.26%) SAS
Applications
1 52 (13.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (9.97%) Chatbot
3 20 (5.12%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (1.79%) MS Visio
6 6 (1.53%) Simulink
7 3 (0.77%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.77%) SAP APO
1 3 (0.77%) SAP IBP
2 2 (0.51%) SAP PM
2 2 (0.51%) Shopify
3 1 (0.26%) Primavera
3 1 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 93 (23.79%) Azure
2 83 (21.23%) Microsoft 365
3 42 (10.74%) Power Platform
4 18 (4.60%) AWS
5 11 (2.81%) SaaS
6 6 (1.53%) GCP
7 4 (1.02%) Google Ads
7 4 (1.02%) Serverless
8 3 (0.77%) Amazon S3
8 3 (0.77%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (0.77%) Google Analytics
8 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (0.51%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (0.51%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (0.51%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (0.51%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (0.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (0.51%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.51%) Intacct
9 2 (0.51%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 87 (22.25%) DNS
2 80 (20.46%) DHCP
3 32 (8.18%) Network Security
4 9 (2.30%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.79%) 5G
5 7 (1.79%) Firewall
5 7 (1.79%) SD-WAN
5 7 (1.79%) WAN
5 7 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (1.53%) HTTP
7 5 (1.28%) Software-Defined Radio
7 5 (1.28%) Wireshark
8 4 (1.02%) Ethernet
8 4 (1.02%) SMTP
8 4 (1.02%) VPN
9 2 (0.51%) ICMP
9 2 (0.51%) Internet
9 2 (0.51%) LAN
9 2 (0.51%) SMS
9 2 (0.51%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (19.95%) Amazon RDS
2 41 (10.49%) Power BI
3 23 (5.88%) Tableau
4 16 (4.09%) Power Query
5 8 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (1.79%) Data Mining
6 7 (1.79%) MySQL
7 6 (1.53%) Metadata
7 6 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (1.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (1.28%) BigQuery
8 5 (1.28%) Geospatial Data
8 5 (1.28%) Metadata Repository
8 5 (1.28%) SQL Server
9 3 (0.77%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.51%) OLAP
11 1 (0.26%) GIS
11 1 (0.26%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 17 (4.35%) Git
2 16 (4.09%) JIRA
3 9 (2.30%) GitLab
4 6 (1.53%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.02%) IDA Disassembler
6 3 (0.77%) Locust
6 3 (0.77%) Selenium
7 2 (0.51%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.51%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.51%) Gatling
7 2 (0.51%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.51%) TestRail
7 2 (0.51%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.51%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.26%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.26%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 197 (50.38%) Social Skills
2 113 (28.90%) Finance
3 43 (11.00%) Marketing
4 41 (10.49%) Manufacturing
5 39 (9.97%) Public Sector
6 34 (8.70%) Electronics
7 31 (7.93%) Telecoms
8 21 (5.37%) Retail
9 11 (2.81%) Aerospace
10 9 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (1.79%) Automotive
11 7 (1.79%) Banking
11 7 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.79%) Legal
12 6 (1.53%) Law
12 6 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.51%) Back Office
13 2 (0.51%) Cyber-Physical System
13 2 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 96 (24.55%) Systems Engineer
2 74 (18.93%) Analyst
3 39 (9.97%) Trainer
4 27 (6.91%) Consultant
4 27 (6.91%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 27 (6.91%) Security Consultant
5 18 (4.60%) Senior
6 16 (4.09%) Business Analyst
7 15 (3.84%) Data Analyst
8 13 (3.32%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 13 (3.32%) Financial Analyst
8 13 (3.32%) Power BI Analyst
9 10 (2.56%) IT Support
10 9 (2.30%) Software Engineer
10 9 (2.30%) Support Analyst
11 8 (2.05%) Architect
11 8 (2.05%) Developer
11 8 (2.05%) Sales Executive
11 8 (2.05%) Sales Manager
11 8 (2.05%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.28%) .NET
2 3 (0.77%) .NET Core
2 3 (0.77%) Middleware
2 3 (0.77%) Pandas
2 3 (0.77%) PySpark
3 2 (0.51%) .NET Framework
3 2 (0.51%) Blazor
3 2 (0.51%) EDI
3 2 (0.51%) Flash
3 2 (0.51%) JSON
3 2 (0.51%) ModSecurity
3 2 (0.51%) pytest
3 2 (0.51%) PyTorch
3 2 (0.51%) React
3 2 (0.51%) REST
3 2 (0.51%) Spring
3 2 (0.51%) TensorFlow
3 2 (0.51%) XML
4 1 (0.26%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.26%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 82 (20.97%) Legacy Systems
2 73 (18.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 30 (7.67%) Self-Motivation
4 19 (4.86%) e-Learning
5 11 (2.81%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.30%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.05%) GNSS
8 7 (1.79%) Driving Licence
8 7 (1.79%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.53%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.53%) Reinsurance
10 5 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (1.28%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.28%) Reference Data
10 5 (1.28%) Self-Driving Car
11 4 (1.02%) CMDB
11 4 (1.02%) Cyber Defence
11 4 (1.02%) Freedom of Information
11 4 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.02%) Satnav
Operating Systems
1 98 (25.06%) Windows
2 97 (24.81%) Linux
3 87 (22.25%) Windows Server
4 77 (19.69%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.51%) Android
5 2 (0.51%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.26%) Unix
6 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (56.27%) Problem-Solving
2 95 (24.30%) Customer Service
3 81 (20.72%) Customer Experience
3 81 (20.72%) Kalman Filter
4 80 (20.46%) Web Filtering
5 79 (20.20%) Migration
6 78 (19.95%) Email Filtering
6 78 (19.95%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 77 (19.69%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 75 (19.18%) Business Intelligence
9 62 (15.86%) AI
10 58 (14.83%) Decision-Making
11 51 (13.04%) Analytics
12 46 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
13 43 (11.00%) Continuous Improvement
14 39 (9.97%) Chemistry
14 39 (9.97%) Conversational UI
15 38 (9.72%) Mentoring
16 34 (8.70%) Agile
16 34 (8.70%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 55 (14.07%) SQL
2 51 (13.04%) Python
3 19 (4.86%) C++
4 14 (3.58%) C
5 8 (2.05%) R
6 6 (1.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (1.02%) C#
7 4 (1.02%) Java
7 4 (1.02%) MATLAB
8 3 (0.77%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.77%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.51%) Bash
9 2 (0.51%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.26%) Julia
10 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 150 (38.36%) Security Cleared
2 112 (28.64%) Degree
2 112 (28.64%) SC Cleared
3 44 (11.25%) Master's Degree
4 39 (9.97%) PhD
5 33 (8.44%) DV Cleared
6 29 (7.42%) CEH
7 28 (7.16%) CompTIA Security+
8 27 (6.91%) CISSP
9 14 (3.58%) ACCA
9 14 (3.58%) CIMA
10 7 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (1.53%) A+ Certification
11 6 (1.53%) Network+ Certification
12 5 (1.28%) CCNA
12 5 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (1.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 3 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
14 3 (0.77%) PMI Certification
15 2 (0.51%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (26.34%) PCI DSS
2 78 (19.95%) Cyber Essentials
3 28 (7.16%) NIST
4 27 (6.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (2.81%) GDPR
6 5 (1.28%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.28%) SLA
7 3 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.77%) QA
8 2 (0.51%) GRC
8 2 (0.51%) PMO
8 2 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.26%) COBIT
9 1 (0.26%) DICOM
9 1 (0.26%) HL7
9 1 (0.26%) P3O
9 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 84 (21.48%) Active Directory
2 79 (20.20%) Hyper-V
3 77 (19.69%) Terminal Server
4 3 (0.77%) Docker
4 3 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (1.02%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.51%) Terraform
3 1 (0.26%) CASB
3 1 (0.26%) Computer Incident Response Team
3 1 (0.26%) Data Guard
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.26%) Nagios
3 1 (0.26%) Nessus
3 1 (0.26%) QRadar
3 1 (0.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 138 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 80 (20.46%) VMware
3 78 (19.95%) SolarWinds
3 78 (19.95%) Splunk
4 77 (19.69%) Brocade
4 77 (19.69%) Nimble Storage
4 77 (19.69%) Tanium
4 77 (19.69%) Veeam
5 39 (9.97%) PayPal
6 31 (7.93%) SAP
7 11 (2.81%) Google
8 10 (2.56%) Cisco
8 10 (2.56%) Oracle
9 8 (2.05%) Autodesk
10 7 (1.79%) Databricks
11 6 (1.53%) Alteryx
12 5 (1.28%) ServiceNow
13 3 (0.77%) IBM
13 3 (0.77%) Salesforce
14 2 (0.51%) Sage