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 6 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 9 15
Rank change year-on-year -28 +6 +5
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 2,926 3,330 6,219
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.42% 11.75% 9.13%
As % of the General category 9.20% 16.83% 15.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1,907 1,464 3,589
10th Percentile £31,125 £29,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,438 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £50,124 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.24% +11.39% -3.84%
75th Percentile £62,631 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
UK median annual salary £54,396 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.10% +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 31,800 19,784 39,506
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.04% 69.81% 58.02%
Number of salaries quoted 16,462 9,481 26,311
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £33,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,050 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £75,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 6 May 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 6 May 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 -30 867 £46,750 -6.50% 428
South East -3 762 £50,000 -8.47% 597
Midlands -28 553 £48,000 +1.05% 317
North West -30 491 £45,000 -10.00% 247
West Midlands -28 336 £50,000 +4.71% 195
Yorkshire -12 285 £52,500 +16.67% 132
East of England -29 254 £45,000 -11.71% 184
South West -28 253 £47,500 -5.94% 188
East Midlands -4 215 £45,000 -5.26% 122
Scotland -28 137 £40,000 -23.81% 82
North East -24 91 £50,000 +29.87% 55
Wales -3 79 £42,500 -15.44% 54
Northern Ireland -31 34 £55,000 - 31
Isle of Man -2 1 £62,500 +68.92%
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
1 119 (4.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 65 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 31 (1.06%) Confluence
4 30 (1.03%) CMS
5 27 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
6 26 (0.89%) Apache Spark
7 18 (0.62%) IIS
8 14 (0.48%) Apache
9 11 (0.38%) WordPress
10 5 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.14%) nginx
12 3 (0.10%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.10%) govService
12 3 (0.10%) JBoss
12 3 (0.10%) SAS
13 1 (0.034%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.034%) Appian
13 1 (0.034%) Palantir Foundry
13 1 (0.034%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.034%) Umbraco
Applications
1 432 (14.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 181 (6.19%) Microsoft Office
3 63 (2.15%) MS Visio
4 46 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 22 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
6 16 (0.55%) Chatbot
7 13 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
8 10 (0.34%) CATIA
9 4 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.14%) Trello
10 3 (0.10%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.10%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.068%) Lectora
11 2 (0.068%) Simulink
12 1 (0.034%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.034%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.034%) Sketch
12 1 (0.034%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 46 (1.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (1.09%) Salesforce CRM
3 26 (0.89%) NetSuite
4 21 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
5 15 (0.51%) SAP PM
6 14 (0.48%) SAP CO
7 13 (0.44%) SAP ERP
8 7 (0.24%) Magento
8 7 (0.24%) Workday HCM
9 6 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
9 6 (0.21%) SAP PP
10 5 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
10 5 (0.17%) Q-Pulse
10 5 (0.17%) SAP FI
10 5 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
10 5 (0.17%) SAP GTS
11 4 (0.14%) Infor M3
11 4 (0.14%) JDE OneWorld
11 4 (0.14%) JDE World
11 4 (0.14%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 471 (16.10%) Azure
2 394 (13.47%) Power Platform
3 240 (8.20%) AWS
4 238 (8.13%) Microsoft 365
5 111 (3.79%) SaaS
6 110 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
7 89 (3.04%) Dynamics 365
8 80 (2.73%) GCP
9 71 (2.43%) Entra ID
10 68 (2.32%) GitHub
11 51 (1.74%) Power Automate
12 49 (1.67%) Microsoft Purview
13 48 (1.64%) Snowflake
14 47 (1.61%) Google Analytics
15 46 (1.57%) dbt
16 37 (1.26%) Azure Data Factory
16 37 (1.26%) PowerApps
17 35 (1.20%) Amazon S3
18 34 (1.16%) Serverless
19 27 (0.92%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 119 (4.07%) Firewall
2 103 (3.52%) DNS
3 75 (2.56%) DHCP
4 71 (2.43%) VPN
5 61 (2.08%) WAN
6 47 (1.61%) Wireless
7 43 (1.47%) LAN
8 40 (1.37%) TCP/IP
9 32 (1.09%) Network Security
10 30 (1.03%) Broadband
10 30 (1.03%) VLAN
11 28 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
12 27 (0.92%) Wireshark
13 25 (0.85%) BGP
14 24 (0.82%) SAN
14 24 (0.82%) SD-WAN
15 19 (0.65%) Cisco ASA
15 19 (0.65%) EIGRP
15 19 (0.65%) OSPF
16 14 (0.48%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 358 (12.24%) Power BI
2 244 (8.34%) Tableau
3 133 (4.55%) Data Mining
4 99 (3.38%) SQL Server
5 71 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
6 60 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
7 50 (1.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 44 (1.50%) Looker
9 38 (1.30%) Relational Database
10 37 (1.26%) Metadata
11 35 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
11 35 (1.20%) MySQL
12 32 (1.09%) Power Query
12 32 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 30 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
14 28 (0.96%) Data Lake
15 24 (0.82%) NoSQL
16 20 (0.68%) GIS
17 19 (0.65%) Big Data
18 17 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 106 (3.62%) JIRA
2 68 (2.32%) Git
3 28 (0.96%) GitLab
4 26 (0.89%) Rational DOORS
5 20 (0.68%) Jenkins
6 14 (0.48%) Selenium
7 11 (0.38%) MLflow
8 10 (0.34%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.31%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.27%) LabVIEW
11 7 (0.24%) Moq
11 7 (0.24%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.21%) Maven
12 6 (0.21%) Postman
12 6 (0.21%) Subversion
13 5 (0.17%) ERwin
13 5 (0.17%) JMeter
13 5 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
13 5 (0.17%) TestRail
14 4 (0.14%) Balsamiq
General
1 1,364 (46.62%) Social Skills
2 920 (31.44%) Finance
3 254 (8.68%) Marketing
4 160 (5.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 157 (5.37%) Public Sector
6 142 (4.85%) Organisational Skills
7 141 (4.82%) Manufacturing
8 138 (4.72%) Retail
9 124 (4.24%) Law
10 112 (3.83%) Legal
11 86 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
12 85 (2.90%) Telecoms
13 79 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
14 63 (2.15%) Electronics
15 54 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
16 53 (1.81%) Aerospace
17 41 (1.40%) Military
18 40 (1.37%) Banking
19 39 (1.33%) Games
20 36 (1.23%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 869 (29.70%) Analyst
2 335 (11.45%) Senior
3 255 (8.71%) Data Analyst
4 182 (6.22%) Lead
5 158 (5.40%) Developer
6 155 (5.30%) Business Analyst
7 117 (4.00%) Architect
8 114 (3.90%) Trainee
9 112 (3.83%) Trainee Analyst
9 112 (3.83%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 111 (3.79%) Systems Engineer
11 101 (3.45%) Support Analyst
12 83 (2.84%) Senior Analyst
13 76 (2.60%) IT Support
14 75 (2.56%) Support Engineer
15 73 (2.49%) Systems Analyst
16 70 (2.39%) Consultant
17 67 (2.29%) Financial Analyst
18 66 (2.26%) Head of QA
18 66 (2.26%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (2.80%) HTML
2 70 (2.39%) CSS
3 66 (2.26%) .NET
4 57 (1.95%) JSON
4 57 (1.95%) REST
5 56 (1.91%) Middleware
6 55 (1.88%) React
7 51 (1.74%) XML
8 38 (1.30%) SOAP
9 34 (1.16%) Node.js
10 26 (0.89%) PyTorch
11 21 (0.72%) scikit-learn
12 20 (0.68%) TensorFlow
13 18 (0.62%) OAuth
13 18 (0.62%) PySpark
13 18 (0.62%) React Native
14 17 (0.58%) EDI
14 17 (0.58%) Pandas
15 16 (0.55%) RabbitMQ
16 15 (0.51%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 350 (11.96%) Analytical Mindset
2 138 (4.72%) Management Information System
3 134 (4.58%) Self-Motivation
4 129 (4.41%) Onboarding
5 111 (3.79%) Product Ownership
6 74 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
7 67 (2.29%) Data Centre
8 58 (1.98%) Driving Licence
9 48 (1.64%) Cloud Native
10 39 (1.33%) Virtual Team
11 34 (1.16%) Algorithms
12 33 (1.13%) Low-Code
13 32 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
13 32 (1.09%) Social Media
14 29 (0.99%) Data Structures
14 29 (0.99%) FMCG
14 29 (0.99%) Security Posture
15 28 (0.96%) Mobile App
16 27 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
17 26 (0.89%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 230 (7.86%) Windows
2 126 (4.31%) Windows Server
3 120 (4.10%) Linux
4 54 (1.85%) Windows Server 2016
5 19 (0.65%) Unix
6 16 (0.55%) Android
7 15 (0.51%) Apple iOS
8 10 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (0.24%) VMS
10 6 (0.21%) CentOS
10 6 (0.21%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.21%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.14%) Windows 10
12 3 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.068%) Debian
13 2 (0.068%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.034%) FreeRTOS
14 1 (0.034%) OpenBSD
14 1 (0.034%) Robot Operating System
14 1 (0.034%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,305 (44.60%) Problem-Solving
2 786 (26.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 641 (21.91%) Analytics
4 613 (20.95%) Decision-Making
5 440 (15.04%) Agile
6 414 (14.15%) Business Intelligence
7 359 (12.27%) Stakeholder Management
8 357 (12.20%) AI
9 348 (11.89%) Project Management
10 293 (10.01%) Data Analysis
11 279 (9.54%) Actionable Insight
12 263 (8.99%) ERP
13 256 (8.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 232 (7.93%) Customer Experience
15 230 (7.86%) CRM
15 230 (7.86%) Customer Service
16 228 (7.79%) Cybersecurity
17 222 (7.59%) Business Analysis
18 218 (7.45%) Data Modelling
19 216 (7.38%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 648 (22.15%) SQL
2 480 (16.40%) Python
3 103 (3.52%) JavaScript
4 93 (3.18%) PowerShell
5 87 (2.97%) Java
6 81 (2.77%) C#
7 51 (1.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 46 (1.57%) T-SQL
9 38 (1.30%) R
10 36 (1.23%) VBA
11 34 (1.16%) Bash
12 32 (1.09%) C++
13 25 (0.85%) MATLAB
14 17 (0.58%) PL/SQL
15 15 (0.51%) Go
16 13 (0.44%) PHP
16 13 (0.44%) Scala
17 12 (0.41%) TypeScript
18 10 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
19 8 (0.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 531 (18.15%) Degree
2 213 (7.28%) Security Cleared
3 163 (5.57%) ACCA
4 155 (5.30%) CIMA
5 149 (5.09%) SC Cleared
6 129 (4.41%) DBS Check
7 69 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
8 68 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
9 66 (2.26%) IRCA
10 57 (1.95%) PMI Certification
11 53 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
12 48 (1.64%) PMP
13 45 (1.54%) Master's Degree
14 44 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
15 40 (1.37%) CISSP
16 36 (1.23%) DV Cleared
17 32 (1.09%) CompTIA Security+
18 30 (1.03%) CISM
19 28 (0.96%) CCNA
20 27 (0.92%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 283 (9.67%) Data Quality
2 221 (7.55%) GDPR
3 169 (5.78%) QA
4 140 (4.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 100 (3.42%) Cyber Essentials
5 100 (3.42%) NIST
6 89 (3.04%) ISO 9001
7 81 (2.77%) PCI DSS
8 57 (1.95%) SLA
9 48 (1.64%) PMO
10 40 (1.37%) Accessibility
11 36 (1.23%) GRC
12 33 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
13 22 (0.75%) SOC 2
14 18 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 17 (0.58%) GMP
15 17 (0.58%) TickIT
16 14 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 13 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 11 (0.38%) COBIT
System Software
1 178 (6.08%) Active Directory
2 59 (2.02%) Hyper-V
3 48 (1.64%) Terminal Server
4 40 (1.37%) Docker
5 33 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 11 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.34%) vSphere
8 9 (0.31%) VMware NSX
9 8 (0.27%) ProxySG
10 7 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
11 4 (0.14%) Firmware
11 4 (0.14%) XenApp
12 3 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.068%) VMware ESXi
14 1 (0.034%) Embedded Firmware
14 1 (0.034%) KVM
14 1 (0.034%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.034%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 71 (2.43%) Terraform
2 41 (1.40%) Kubernetes
3 37 (1.26%) Ansible
4 28 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (0.62%) Grafana
6 10 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.31%) Kibana
7 9 (0.31%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.21%) Nagios
8 6 (0.21%) QRadar
9 5 (0.17%) Kubeflow
9 5 (0.17%) logstash
9 5 (0.17%) SCCM
10 4 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.14%) Backup Exec
10 4 (0.14%) CASB
10 4 (0.14%) Control-M
10 4 (0.14%) Graylog
10 4 (0.14%) SolarWinds Orion
10 4 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 757 (25.87%) Microsoft
2 129 (4.41%) SAP
3 103 (3.52%) Google
4 90 (3.08%) Oracle
5 88 (3.01%) Salesforce
6 83 (2.84%) VMware
7 73 (2.49%) SolarWinds
8 72 (2.46%) Splunk
9 67 (2.29%) Workday
10 59 (2.02%) Databricks
11 54 (1.85%) Veeam
12 51 (1.74%) ServiceNow
13 49 (1.67%) Tanium
14 48 (1.64%) Brocade
14 48 (1.64%) Nimble Storage
15 44 (1.50%) Cisco
16 33 (1.13%) IBM
17 30 (1.03%) Dell
18 24 (0.82%) Adobe
19 22 (0.75%) HubSpot