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 26 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 8 13
Rank change year-on-year -20 +5 +9
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,106 3,787 6,593
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.54% 12.39% 8.55%
As % of the General category 10.17% 17.52% 15.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,127 1,372 3,606
10th Percentile £30,987 £28,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £36,775 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.11% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £54,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.91% +10.00% -8.90%

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 30,531 21,610 42,231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.64% 70.71% 54.79%
Number of salaries quoted 18,747 9,876 27,173
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,705 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 -18 957 £48,000 +1.05% 319
South East -9 788 £50,000 -9.09% 518
Midlands -9 567 £47,500 - 269
North West -18 560 £46,500 -7.00% 176
South West -26 337 £47,500 - 173
West Midlands -16 316 £49,500 +4.21% 155
Yorkshire -12 295 £50,000 +11.11% 104
East Midlands -1 250 £45,000 -5.26% 113
East of England -17 239 £45,050 -3.82% 139
Scotland -25 107 £40,000 -20.00% 72
North East -26 102 £55,000 +41.75% 46
Wales -10 83 £53,171 -3.33% 30
Northern Ireland -22 39 £40,000 -27.27% 19
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
1 149 (4.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 89 (2.87%) SharePoint
3 38 (1.22%) Confluence
4 30 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
5 29 (0.93%) Apache Spark
6 28 (0.90%) CMS
7 25 (0.80%) Apache
8 20 (0.64%) IIS
9 9 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 9 (0.29%) WordPress
10 8 (0.26%) SAS
11 7 (0.23%) WebLogic
11 7 (0.23%) WebSphere
12 5 (0.16%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.097%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.097%) JBoss
14 2 (0.064%) govService
15 1 (0.032%) Appian
15 1 (0.032%) Palantir Foundry
15 1 (0.032%) Umbraco
Applications
1 398 (12.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 143 (4.60%) Microsoft Office
3 58 (1.87%) MS Visio
4 55 (1.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 25 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
7 9 (0.29%) CATIA
8 4 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.097%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.097%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.097%) Simulink
9 3 (0.097%) Trello
10 2 (0.064%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.064%) Lectora
10 2 (0.064%) Siemens NX
10 2 (0.064%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.032%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.032%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 41 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (0.87%) Salesforce CRM
3 22 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
4 21 (0.68%) NetSuite
5 15 (0.48%) SAP PM
6 14 (0.45%) SAP ERP
7 9 (0.29%) SAP CO
8 8 (0.26%) Dynamics GP
9 7 (0.23%) Workday HCM
10 6 (0.19%) Magento
11 5 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
11 5 (0.16%) Q-Pulse
11 5 (0.16%) SAP GTS
11 5 (0.16%) SAP PP
12 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
12 4 (0.13%) Infor M3
12 4 (0.13%) JDE OneWorld
12 4 (0.13%) JDE World
12 4 (0.13%) SAP FI
12 4 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 541 (17.42%) Azure
2 411 (13.23%) Power Platform
3 277 (8.92%) Microsoft 365
4 269 (8.66%) AWS
5 122 (3.93%) SaaS
6 111 (3.57%) GCP
7 84 (2.70%) Entra ID
8 83 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
9 78 (2.51%) Dynamics 365
10 55 (1.77%) Google Analytics
11 52 (1.67%) GitHub
12 49 (1.58%) Microsoft Purview
13 48 (1.55%) PowerApps
14 44 (1.42%) Power Automate
15 43 (1.38%) Amazon S3
16 35 (1.13%) Serverless
17 32 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
18 30 (0.97%) dbt
19 27 (0.87%) AWS Lambda
20 23 (0.74%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 138 (4.44%) Firewall
2 130 (4.19%) DNS
3 101 (3.25%) DHCP
4 74 (2.38%) VPN
5 66 (2.12%) WAN
6 54 (1.74%) TCP/IP
7 53 (1.71%) LAN
8 42 (1.35%) Broadband
9 41 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
10 40 (1.29%) Wireless
11 28 (0.90%) Network Security
12 24 (0.77%) BGP
12 24 (0.77%) HTTP
12 24 (0.77%) SD-WAN
13 22 (0.71%) VLAN
13 22 (0.71%) Wireshark
14 20 (0.64%) SAN
15 19 (0.61%) Cisco ASA
16 17 (0.55%) VoIP
17 14 (0.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 370 (11.91%) Power BI
2 192 (6.18%) Tableau
3 99 (3.19%) SQL Server
4 88 (2.83%) Amazon RDS
5 85 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
6 70 (2.25%) Data Mining
7 54 (1.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 42 (1.35%) Power Query
9 38 (1.22%) Metadata
10 37 (1.19%) MySQL
10 37 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
10 37 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 36 (1.16%) Looker
12 33 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
12 33 (1.06%) Relational Database
13 30 (0.97%) Data Lake
14 26 (0.84%) Big Data
15 19 (0.61%) BigQuery
16 18 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
16 18 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 102 (3.28%) JIRA
2 76 (2.45%) Git
3 39 (1.26%) GitLab
4 35 (1.13%) Rational DOORS
5 19 (0.61%) Jenkins
6 13 (0.42%) Cucumber
7 12 (0.39%) Cypress.io
7 12 (0.39%) Selenium
8 11 (0.35%) MLflow
9 10 (0.32%) Eclipse
10 9 (0.29%) SonarQube
11 8 (0.26%) JMeter
11 8 (0.26%) LabVIEW
11 8 (0.26%) Postman
12 7 (0.23%) Moq
12 7 (0.23%) Subversion
13 6 (0.19%) Toad
14 5 (0.16%) Burp Suite
14 5 (0.16%) ERwin
14 5 (0.16%) Maven
General
1 1,469 (47.30%) Social Skills
2 935 (30.10%) Finance
3 260 (8.37%) Marketing
4 191 (6.15%) Public Sector
5 184 (5.92%) Organisational Skills
6 169 (5.44%) Retail
7 166 (5.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 159 (5.12%) Manufacturing
9 155 (4.99%) Legal
10 143 (4.60%) Law
11 116 (3.73%) Influencing Skills
12 98 (3.16%) Telecoms
13 75 (2.41%) Aerospace
14 72 (2.32%) Electronics
15 64 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
16 60 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
17 45 (1.45%) Banking
18 41 (1.32%) Military
19 36 (1.16%) Advertising
20 35 (1.13%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 858 (27.62%) Analyst
2 317 (10.21%) Senior
3 230 (7.41%) Data Analyst
4 226 (7.28%) Lead
5 167 (5.38%) Business Analyst
6 160 (5.15%) Developer
6 160 (5.15%) Systems Engineer
7 102 (3.28%) Architect
8 97 (3.12%) Support Engineer
9 95 (3.06%) Support Analyst
10 91 (2.93%) Consultant
11 89 (2.87%) Senior Analyst
12 86 (2.77%) IT Support
12 86 (2.77%) Systems Analyst
13 80 (2.58%) Data Engineer
14 68 (2.19%) Accountant
15 66 (2.12%) Head of QA
16 65 (2.09%) Trainee
16 65 (2.09%) Trainee Analyst
16 65 (2.09%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (2.38%) HTML
2 67 (2.16%) .NET
2 67 (2.16%) Middleware
3 65 (2.09%) CSS
4 63 (2.03%) REST
5 60 (1.93%) JSON
6 58 (1.87%) XML
7 53 (1.71%) React
8 37 (1.19%) SOAP
9 36 (1.16%) Node.js
10 31 (1.00%) PyTorch
11 25 (0.80%) RESTful
11 25 (0.80%) TensorFlow
12 22 (0.71%) scikit-learn
13 21 (0.68%) EDI
13 21 (0.68%) PySpark
14 18 (0.58%) Pandas
15 17 (0.55%) Kafka
16 16 (0.52%) OAuth
17 15 (0.48%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 390 (12.56%) Analytical Mindset
2 153 (4.93%) Management Information System
3 123 (3.96%) Onboarding
4 118 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
5 115 (3.70%) Product Ownership
6 98 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
7 80 (2.58%) Driving Licence
8 68 (2.19%) Data Centre
9 46 (1.48%) Cloud Native
10 44 (1.42%) Cyber Threat
11 40 (1.29%) Security Posture
12 36 (1.16%) Algorithms
12 36 (1.16%) Data Structures
13 34 (1.09%) Social Media
14 32 (1.03%) Virtual Team
15 30 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
16 29 (0.93%) FMCG
17 28 (0.90%) PKI
18 27 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
18 27 (0.87%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 268 (8.63%) Windows
2 163 (5.25%) Windows Server
3 157 (5.05%) Linux
4 86 (2.77%) Windows Server 2016
5 20 (0.64%) Unix
6 18 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
7 17 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 15 (0.48%) Android
9 14 (0.45%) Apple iOS
10 13 (0.42%) Windows 10
11 11 (0.35%) Mac OS
11 11 (0.35%) Ubuntu
12 9 (0.29%) CentOS
13 8 (0.26%) VMS
14 5 (0.16%) OpenVMS
15 4 (0.13%) Debian
16 2 (0.064%) Windows Server 2012
17 1 (0.032%) FreeRTOS
17 1 (0.032%) OpenBSD
17 1 (0.032%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,451 (46.72%) Problem-Solving
2 869 (27.98%) Continuous Improvement
3 718 (23.12%) Decision-Making
4 635 (20.44%) Analytics
5 442 (14.23%) Agile
6 420 (13.52%) Business Intelligence
7 392 (12.62%) Stakeholder Management
8 330 (10.62%) AI
9 328 (10.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 318 (10.24%) Actionable Insight
11 285 (9.18%) Data Analysis
12 284 (9.14%) Customer Service
13 279 (8.98%) ERP
14 274 (8.82%) Project Management
15 273 (8.79%) Cybersecurity
16 255 (8.21%) Customer Experience
16 255 (8.21%) Mentoring
17 253 (8.15%) CRM
18 241 (7.76%) Data Modelling
18 241 (7.76%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 672 (21.64%) SQL
2 496 (15.97%) Python
3 109 (3.51%) JavaScript
4 101 (3.25%) Java
5 96 (3.09%) PowerShell
6 93 (2.99%) C#
7 58 (1.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 48 (1.55%) C++
9 44 (1.42%) Bash
9 44 (1.42%) T-SQL
10 41 (1.32%) R
11 33 (1.06%) MATLAB
11 33 (1.06%) VBA
12 22 (0.71%) TypeScript
13 19 (0.61%) PHP
14 15 (0.48%) C
14 15 (0.48%) Go
15 13 (0.42%) PL/SQL
16 12 (0.39%) Perl
17 10 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 520 (16.74%) Degree
2 308 (9.92%) Security Cleared
3 219 (7.05%) SC Cleared
4 162 (5.22%) ACCA
5 156 (5.02%) CIMA
6 130 (4.19%) DBS Check
7 83 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 69 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
9 66 (2.12%) IRCA
10 65 (2.09%) Cisco Certification
11 51 (1.64%) CISSP
12 49 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
13 47 (1.51%) DV Cleared
14 42 (1.35%) CompTIA Security+
15 37 (1.19%) CISM
16 33 (1.06%) CCNA
17 27 (0.87%) PMI Certification
18 26 (0.84%) Azure Certification
19 25 (0.80%) Master's Degree
20 23 (0.74%) AAT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 314 (10.11%) Data Quality
2 248 (7.98%) GDPR
3 205 (6.60%) QA
4 164 (5.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 149 (4.80%) Cyber Essentials
6 111 (3.57%) PCI DSS
7 110 (3.54%) ISO 9001
8 105 (3.38%) NIST
9 85 (2.74%) SLA
10 68 (2.19%) Accessibility
11 46 (1.48%) GRC
12 38 (1.22%) PMO
13 33 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
14 28 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 22 (0.71%) ISO 14001
15 22 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 17 (0.55%) GMP
16 17 (0.55%) TickIT
17 16 (0.52%) IFRS
17 16 (0.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 211 (6.79%) Active Directory
2 83 (2.67%) Hyper-V
3 72 (2.32%) Terminal Server
4 61 (1.96%) Docker
5 32 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
6 11 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.32%) vSphere
8 9 (0.29%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.19%) ProxySG
10 4 (0.13%) Firmware
10 4 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 4 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.13%) XenApp
11 3 (0.097%) DFS Replication
12 2 (0.064%) Embedded Firmware
13 1 (0.032%) KVM
13 1 (0.032%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.032%) VirtualBox
13 1 (0.032%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 64 (2.06%) Terraform
2 44 (1.42%) Kubernetes
3 38 (1.22%) Ansible
4 26 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (0.71%) Grafana
6 14 (0.45%) Kibana
7 13 (0.42%) QRadar
8 10 (0.32%) Prometheus
9 8 (0.26%) Kubeflow
9 8 (0.26%) Nagios
10 7 (0.23%) logstash
11 6 (0.19%) Graylog
12 5 (0.16%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.16%) Podman
13 4 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.13%) Backup Exec
13 4 (0.13%) Functional Safety
13 4 (0.13%) Nmap
13 4 (0.13%) SolarWinds Orion
13 4 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 753 (24.24%) Microsoft
2 130 (4.19%) Google
3 125 (4.02%) SAP
4 110 (3.54%) VMware
5 107 (3.44%) Splunk
6 95 (3.06%) Salesforce
7 94 (3.03%) SolarWinds
8 83 (2.67%) Veeam
9 75 (2.41%) Oracle
10 73 (2.35%) Nimble Storage
11 72 (2.32%) Brocade
11 72 (2.32%) Tanium
12 66 (2.12%) Workday
13 54 (1.74%) Databricks
14 51 (1.64%) Cisco
15 37 (1.19%) IBM
16 35 (1.13%) ServiceNow
17 29 (0.93%) Adobe
18 28 (0.90%) HubSpot
19 26 (0.84%) Dell