Analytical Skills Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Analytical Skills
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 8 12
Rank change year-on-year -16 +4 +10
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,013 4,069 4,937
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.85% 11.77% 8.85%
As % of the General category 11.07% 17.91% 16.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2,449 1,523 1,906
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,663 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £61,250 £60,125 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 general skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 36,254 22,720 29,619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 43.82% 65.72% 53.08%
Number of salaries quoted 22,576 11,122 14,454
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -2.66%
75th Percentile £66,250 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -8.33%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Analytical Skills job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Analytical Skills
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Analytical Skills.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London

Analytical Skills
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Analytical Skills within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 September 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
North of England -19 1,099 £47,500 +6.74% 834
South East -10 959 £49,536 -0.93% 1,017
Midlands -10 694 £47,500 +5.56% 545
North West -16 673 £46,500 +3.33% 506
South West -10 574 £47,500 +5.56% 517
West Midlands -17 357 £48,000 +6.67% 321
East Midlands -4 334 £45,000 +3.45% 226
Yorkshire -9 295 £47,000 +17.50% 269
East of England -17 253 £47,500 +13.77% 335
Wales -7 191 £46,250 -7.82% 84
Scotland -22 136 £44,000 +11.39% 330
North East -16 131 £50,500 +26.25% 69
Northern Ireland -13 115 £42,500 -22.73% 160
Analytical Skills
UK

Analytical Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 163 (4.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 139 (3.46%) SharePoint
3 53 (1.32%) Confluence
4 31 (0.77%) IIS
5 28 (0.70%) Apache
6 26 (0.65%) Apache Spark
7 20 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
8 18 (0.45%) CMS
9 14 (0.35%) SAS
10 10 (0.25%) Jupyter
10 10 (0.25%) WordPress
11 9 (0.22%) WebLogic
11 9 (0.22%) WebSphere
12 8 (0.20%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 3 (0.075%) Anypoint
15 2 (0.050%) Oracle Application Server
15 2 (0.050%) Oracle Workflow
16 1 (0.025%) Tomcat
16 1 (0.025%) Umbraco
Applications
1 493 (12.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 228 (5.68%) Microsoft Office
3 76 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 54 (1.35%) MS Visio
5 29 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
6 27 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
7 15 (0.37%) Simulink
8 7 (0.17%) AutoCAD
9 5 (0.12%) CATIA
9 5 (0.12%) EPLAN
10 4 (0.100%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.100%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.100%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.100%) SOLIDWORKS
11 3 (0.075%) CANalyzer
11 3 (0.075%) LaTeX
11 3 (0.075%) Siemens NX
12 2 (0.050%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.050%) Lectora
12 2 (0.050%) Trello
Business Applications
1 86 (2.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.80%) Dynamics GP
3 31 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
4 26 (0.65%) NetSuite
5 18 (0.45%) Shopify
6 15 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
7 11 (0.27%) Magento
8 10 (0.25%) SAP Business One
9 9 (0.22%) SAP ERP
9 9 (0.22%) SAP PM
10 8 (0.20%) Infor M3
10 8 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
11 7 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
11 7 (0.17%) Workday HCM
12 6 (0.15%) Exchequer
12 6 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
13 5 (0.12%) JDE EnterpriseOne
13 5 (0.12%) Sage 50
13 5 (0.12%) SAP GTS
14 4 (0.100%) Academy Housing
Cloud Services
1 642 (16.00%) Azure
2 473 (11.79%) Power Platform
3 349 (8.70%) AWS
4 321 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
5 214 (5.33%) SaaS
6 146 (3.64%) GCP
7 105 (2.62%) Entra ID
8 99 (2.47%) Dynamics 365
9 98 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
10 95 (2.37%) Google Ads
11 87 (2.17%) Google Analytics
12 72 (1.79%) Meta Ads
13 62 (1.54%) Power Automate
14 61 (1.52%) GitHub
14 61 (1.52%) PowerApps
15 54 (1.35%) Serverless
16 48 (1.20%) Amazon S3
17 47 (1.17%) Microsoft Purview
18 41 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
19 40 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 161 (4.01%) DNS
2 127 (3.16%) DHCP
3 111 (2.77%) Firewall
4 97 (2.42%) VPN
5 80 (1.99%) TCP/IP
6 68 (1.69%) WAN
7 63 (1.57%) LAN
8 52 (1.30%) Wireless
9 45 (1.12%) Network Security
10 36 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
11 28 (0.70%) Broadband
12 27 (0.67%) HTTP
12 27 (0.67%) VoIP
13 26 (0.65%) VLAN
14 22 (0.55%) SD-WAN
15 20 (0.50%) BGP
15 20 (0.50%) Internet
15 20 (0.50%) SAN
16 19 (0.47%) SMS
17 16 (0.40%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 419 (10.44%) Power BI
2 125 (3.11%) Tableau
3 123 (3.07%) SQL Server
4 120 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
5 98 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
6 75 (1.87%) Relational Database
7 67 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 61 (1.52%) MySQL
9 54 (1.35%) Power Query
10 51 (1.27%) Looker
11 48 (1.20%) Metadata
12 45 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 43 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
14 42 (1.05%) Data Lake
15 34 (0.85%) BigQuery
16 33 (0.82%) Big Data
17 30 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
18 26 (0.65%) NoSQL
19 24 (0.60%) MongoDB
20 20 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 158 (3.94%) JIRA
2 134 (3.34%) Git
3 35 (0.87%) Jenkins
4 31 (0.77%) Rational DOORS
5 30 (0.75%) GitLab
6 19 (0.47%) Eclipse
7 16 (0.40%) Cucumber
8 15 (0.37%) LabVIEW
8 15 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
8 15 (0.37%) Selenium
9 14 (0.35%) Postman
10 13 (0.32%) Burp Suite
10 13 (0.32%) Claude Code
11 12 (0.30%) Cypress.io
12 11 (0.27%) Bitbucket
12 11 (0.27%) Metasploit
12 11 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
13 9 (0.22%) JMeter
13 9 (0.22%) MLflow
14 8 (0.20%) SonarQube
General
1 2,004 (49.94%) Social Skills
2 1,157 (28.83%) Finance
3 456 (11.36%) Marketing
4 332 (8.27%) Organisational Skills
5 290 (7.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 286 (7.13%) Manufacturing
7 263 (6.55%) Legal
8 261 (6.50%) Retail
9 227 (5.66%) Public Sector
10 217 (5.41%) Law
11 215 (5.36%) Influencing Skills
12 179 (4.46%) Aerospace
13 134 (3.34%) Electronics
14 113 (2.82%) Telecoms
15 111 (2.77%) Presentation Skills
16 70 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
17 63 (1.57%) Military
18 61 (1.52%) Advertising
19 60 (1.50%) Banking
20 55 (1.37%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 896 (22.33%) Analyst
2 450 (11.21%) Senior
3 268 (6.68%) Lead
4 209 (5.21%) Developer
5 206 (5.13%) Data Analyst
6 175 (4.36%) Business Analyst
7 173 (4.31%) Systems Engineer
8 146 (3.64%) Support Analyst
9 138 (3.44%) Architect
10 116 (2.89%) Data Engineer
11 115 (2.87%) Support Engineer
12 108 (2.69%) Consultant
13 106 (2.64%) Senior Analyst
14 104 (2.59%) IT Support
15 85 (2.12%) Accountant
16 83 (2.07%) IT Engineer
17 81 (2.02%) Systems Analyst
18 79 (1.97%) Applications Support
18 79 (1.97%) Marketing Manager
19 76 (1.89%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (2.59%) .NET
2 81 (2.02%) REST
3 76 (1.89%) HTML
4 74 (1.84%) Terraform
5 69 (1.72%) CSS
6 63 (1.57%) Middleware
7 60 (1.50%) XML
8 55 (1.37%) JSON
9 50 (1.25%) SOAP
10 45 (1.12%) RESTful
11 42 (1.05%) EDI
11 42 (1.05%) PySpark
12 35 (0.87%) Kafka
12 35 (0.87%) LDAP
12 35 (0.87%) React
13 32 (0.80%) ModSecurity
14 29 (0.72%) ASP.NET
15 25 (0.62%) Spring
15 25 (0.62%) Spring Boot
15 25 (0.62%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 352 (8.77%) Analytical Mindset
2 282 (7.03%) Management Information System
3 230 (5.73%) Onboarding
4 211 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
5 163 (4.06%) Product Ownership
6 138 (3.44%) Driving Licence
7 121 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
8 92 (2.29%) Social Media
9 84 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
10 82 (2.04%) Marketing Technology
11 75 (1.87%) Cloud Native
12 72 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
13 70 (1.74%) Data Centre
14 67 (1.67%) Blog
14 67 (1.67%) Virtual Team
15 47 (1.17%) Security Posture
16 41 (1.02%) Data Structures
17 37 (0.92%) SCADA
18 36 (0.90%) AI Agents
19 33 (0.82%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 335 (8.35%) Windows
2 196 (4.88%) Linux
3 182 (4.54%) Windows Server
4 89 (2.22%) Windows Server 2016
5 28 (0.70%) Mac OS
6 27 (0.67%) Windows 10
7 24 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
8 21 (0.52%) Unix
9 15 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 13 (0.32%) Apple iOS
11 12 (0.30%) Android
12 9 (0.22%) CentOS
13 7 (0.17%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.15%) Debian
14 6 (0.15%) VMS
15 5 (0.12%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.100%) CoreOS
17 2 (0.050%) Solaris
18 1 (0.025%) AIX
18 1 (0.025%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,988 (49.54%) Problem-Solving
2 1,264 (31.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 985 (24.55%) Decision-Making
4 747 (18.61%) Analytics
5 721 (17.97%) Stakeholder Management
6 652 (16.25%) AI
7 611 (15.23%) Agile
8 535 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
9 410 (10.22%) Validation
10 409 (10.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 391 (9.74%) Customer Service
12 388 (9.67%) Actionable Insight
13 385 (9.59%) ERP
14 371 (9.24%) CRM
15 366 (9.12%) Data Analysis
16 350 (8.72%) Mentoring
17 325 (8.10%) Project Management
18 311 (7.75%) Collaborative Working
19 307 (7.65%) Customer Experience
20 306 (7.63%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 771 (19.21%) SQL
2 465 (11.59%) Python
3 152 (3.79%) JavaScript
4 137 (3.41%) Java
5 119 (2.97%) C#
6 105 (2.62%) PowerShell
7 78 (1.94%) C++
8 62 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 58 (1.45%) Bash
10 43 (1.07%) TypeScript
11 42 (1.05%) MATLAB
12 39 (0.97%) T-SQL
13 34 (0.85%) R
14 32 (0.80%) C
15 23 (0.57%) PHP
16 18 (0.45%) PL/SQL
17 17 (0.42%) Scala
17 17 (0.42%) VB.NET
18 16 (0.40%) Perl
19 15 (0.37%) Go
Qualifications
1 751 (18.71%) Degree
2 491 (12.24%) Security Cleared
3 337 (8.40%) SC Cleared
4 163 (4.06%) ACCA
5 154 (3.84%) CIMA
6 122 (3.04%) DBS Check
7 120 (2.99%) DV Cleared
8 117 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
9 85 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
10 75 (1.87%) Cisco Certification
11 72 (1.79%) CISSP
12 61 (1.52%) HND
13 60 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
14 59 (1.47%) CISM
15 46 (1.15%) HNC
16 45 (1.12%) CompTIA Security+
17 44 (1.10%) Azure Certification
18 41 (1.02%) CCNA
19 38 (0.95%) PMI Certification
20 32 (0.80%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 386 (9.62%) Data Quality
2 269 (6.70%) QA
3 224 (5.58%) GDPR
4 144 (3.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 139 (3.46%) Cyber Essentials
6 115 (2.87%) Accessibility
7 103 (2.57%) PCI DSS
8 92 (2.29%) SLA
9 79 (1.97%) ISO 9001
10 78 (1.94%) NIST
11 38 (0.95%) GRC
12 35 (0.87%) PMO
13 27 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 23 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
14 23 (0.57%) DO-254
14 23 (0.57%) ISO 14001
15 22 (0.55%) IFRS
15 22 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 18 (0.45%) Good Clinical Practice
17 17 (0.42%) TickIT
System Software
1 257 (6.40%) Active Directory
2 98 (2.44%) Docker
3 96 (2.39%) Hyper-V
4 72 (1.79%) Terminal Server
5 40 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 35 (0.87%) Firmware
7 15 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
9 10 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
10 8 (0.20%) VMware NSX
11 7 (0.17%) Ceph
12 6 (0.15%) vSphere
13 4 (0.100%) KVM
13 4 (0.100%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.100%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.075%) DFS Replication
15 1 (0.025%) IAG
15 1 (0.025%) VirtualBox
15 1 (0.025%) VMware ESXi
15 1 (0.025%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 66 (1.64%) Kubernetes
2 47 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 41 (1.02%) Ansible
4 25 (0.62%) Grafana
4 25 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
5 19 (0.47%) Prometheus
6 15 (0.37%) Kibana
6 15 (0.37%) QRadar
7 11 (0.27%) Nmap
7 11 (0.27%) Podman
8 8 (0.20%) logstash
9 7 (0.17%) Argo
9 7 (0.17%) Check_MK
9 7 (0.17%) Istio
10 6 (0.15%) Functional Safety
10 6 (0.15%) Graylog
10 6 (0.15%) Kubeflow
11 4 (0.100%) McAfee ePO
11 4 (0.100%) Puppet
11 4 (0.100%) SCCM
Vendors
1 993 (24.74%) Microsoft
2 249 (6.20%) Google
3 129 (3.21%) SAP
3 129 (3.21%) VMware
4 121 (3.02%) Splunk
5 99 (2.47%) Oracle
6 86 (2.14%) SolarWinds
7 81 (2.02%) Salesforce
8 79 (1.97%) Veeam
9 73 (1.82%) Brocade
9 73 (1.82%) Nimble Storage
10 72 (1.79%) Tanium
11 66 (1.64%) Cisco
12 64 (1.59%) ServiceNow
13 60 (1.50%) Databricks
14 53 (1.32%) YouTube
15 47 (1.17%) Workday
16 38 (0.95%) Adobe
17 36 (0.90%) HubSpot
18 33 (0.82%) IBM