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 18 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 13 19
Rank change year-on-year -13 +6 +2
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,216 3,328 4,310
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 6.66% 10.30% 8.59%
As % of the General category 12.46% 15.73% 14.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,651 1,358 2,982
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,250 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,967 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.71% +13.26% -5.26%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,500 £61,218
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,750 £72,433
UK median annual salary £51,058 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.17% +4.76% -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 25,807 21,154 29,923
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 53.43% 65.47% 59.64%
Number of salaries quoted 13,431 8,684 21,722
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -10.10%

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 18 February 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 18 February 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
South East +12 891 £50,000 - 578
North of England -18 812 £45,000 -14.29% 332
Midlands -12 585 £44,000 -8.81% 302
North West -18 414 £42,500 -19.05% 196
West Midlands -18 336 £52,500 +5.00% 188
South West -3 325 £45,000 -14.29% 179
Yorkshire -2 292 £45,000 -7.69% 102
East of England -16 261 £40,000 -21.52% 159
Scotland -10 256 £40,000 -38.46% 75
East Midlands +7 247 £39,500 -7.06% 114
North East -4 106 £40,000 +0.34% 38
Wales +18 70 £40,000 -18.54% 36
Northern Ireland -15 43 £52,500 -4.55% 15
Isle of Man -3 1 £62,500 +150.00% 1
Channel Islands -8 1 - - 1
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
1 159 (4.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 58 (1.80%) Confluence
3 46 (1.43%) SharePoint
4 22 (0.68%) CMS
5 19 (0.59%) Apache Spark
6 16 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
7 14 (0.44%) IIS
8 12 (0.37%) Apache
9 10 (0.31%) SAS
9 10 (0.31%) WordPress
10 6 (0.19%) nginx
11 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.093%) govService
13 2 (0.062%) FactoryTalk
13 2 (0.062%) WinCC
14 1 (0.031%) Apache Synapse
14 1 (0.031%) Jupyter
14 1 (0.031%) Kinematics
14 1 (0.031%) OpenStack
14 1 (0.031%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 534 (16.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 291 (9.05%) Chatbot
3 213 (6.62%) Microsoft Office
4 81 (2.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 52 (1.62%) MS Visio
6 30 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
7 25 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
8 13 (0.40%) AutoCAD
9 10 (0.31%) CATIA
10 8 (0.25%) SOLIDWORKS
11 3 (0.093%) Oracle Smart View
12 2 (0.062%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.062%) Revit
12 2 (0.062%) Simulink
12 2 (0.062%) Trello
13 1 (0.031%) Camtasia
13 1 (0.031%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.031%) Siemens NX
13 1 (0.031%) Sketch
13 1 (0.031%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 78 (2.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 50 (1.55%) SAP MDG
3 25 (0.78%) NetSuite
4 23 (0.72%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 23 (0.72%) Oracle Payables
4 23 (0.72%) Salesforce CRM
5 20 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
6 16 (0.50%) SAP CO
6 16 (0.50%) Workday HCM
7 13 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
8 12 (0.37%) Oracle Assets
8 12 (0.37%) Shopify
9 11 (0.34%) Sage X3
10 8 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
11 7 (0.22%) SAP FI
11 7 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
12 6 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
12 6 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
12 6 (0.19%) SAP ERP
13 5 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 513 (15.95%) Azure
2 395 (12.28%) Power Platform
3 249 (7.74%) Microsoft 365
4 187 (5.81%) AWS
5 137 (4.26%) SaaS
6 126 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
7 68 (2.11%) Dynamics 365
8 67 (2.08%) Entra ID
9 57 (1.77%) GitHub
10 55 (1.71%) Snowflake
11 54 (1.68%) Azure Data Factory
12 42 (1.31%) GCP
13 39 (1.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 38 (1.18%) dbt
15 37 (1.15%) Microsoft Purview
16 34 (1.06%) Power Automate
17 31 (0.96%) Google Analytics
18 29 (0.90%) OCI
18 29 (0.90%) Serverless
19 27 (0.84%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 163 (5.07%) DNS
2 140 (4.35%) DHCP
3 106 (3.30%) Firewall
4 49 (1.52%) VPN
5 48 (1.49%) WAN
6 47 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
7 43 (1.34%) Wireless
8 42 (1.31%) LAN
9 36 (1.12%) Remote Desktop
10 35 (1.09%) TCP/IP
11 33 (1.03%) VLAN
12 30 (0.93%) Network Security
13 29 (0.90%) Wireshark
14 26 (0.81%) VoIP
15 23 (0.72%) SD-WAN
16 18 (0.56%) Broadband
17 17 (0.53%) BGP
18 16 (0.50%) 5G
18 16 (0.50%) OSPF
19 15 (0.47%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 361 (11.23%) Power BI
2 246 (7.65%) Tableau
3 163 (5.07%) Data Mining
4 121 (3.76%) Amazon RDS
5 115 (3.58%) SQL Server
6 79 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
7 58 (1.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 51 (1.59%) Metadata
9 48 (1.49%) Relational Database
10 37 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
10 37 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
10 37 (1.15%) Looker
11 34 (1.06%) MySQL
12 32 (1.00%) Data Lake
13 29 (0.90%) GIS
14 27 (0.84%) Power Query
15 26 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
16 24 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 20 (0.62%) NoSQL
18 17 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 133 (4.14%) JIRA
2 58 (1.80%) Git
3 24 (0.75%) Selenium
4 15 (0.47%) GitLab
4 15 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
4 15 (0.47%) Robot Framework
5 13 (0.40%) Snyk
6 12 (0.37%) ERwin
6 12 (0.37%) Jenkins
7 11 (0.34%) ER Studio
8 8 (0.25%) LabVIEW
8 8 (0.25%) Postman
9 6 (0.19%) Rational DOORS
9 6 (0.19%) Subversion
9 6 (0.19%) TestRail
10 5 (0.16%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.12%) IDA Disassembler
11 4 (0.12%) Oracle APEX
11 4 (0.12%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.12%) WebDriver
General
1 1,635 (50.84%) Social Skills
2 929 (28.89%) Finance
3 235 (7.31%) Marketing
4 184 (5.72%) Retail
5 150 (4.66%) Organisational Skills
6 133 (4.14%) Legal
7 132 (4.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 122 (3.79%) Public Sector
9 116 (3.61%) Law
10 115 (3.58%) Manufacturing
11 110 (3.42%) Presentation Skills
12 76 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
13 61 (1.90%) Banking
13 61 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
14 60 (1.87%) Telecoms
15 49 (1.52%) Electronics
16 43 (1.34%) Aerospace
17 37 (1.15%) Advertising
18 36 (1.12%) Automotive
19 35 (1.09%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 814 (25.31%) Analyst
2 320 (9.95%) Senior
3 291 (9.05%) Trainer
4 250 (7.77%) Data Analyst
5 238 (7.40%) Lead
6 149 (4.63%) Developer
7 142 (4.42%) Architect
7 142 (4.42%) Trainee
8 131 (4.07%) Trainee Analyst
8 131 (4.07%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 126 (3.92%) Support Analyst
9 126 (3.92%) Systems Engineer
10 124 (3.86%) IT Support
11 123 (3.82%) Business Analyst
12 82 (2.55%) Business Manager
12 82 (2.55%) Senior Analyst
13 79 (2.46%) Support Engineer
14 73 (2.27%) Financial Analyst
15 70 (2.18%) Applications Support
16 65 (2.02%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (2.30%) HTML
2 71 (2.21%) CSS
3 53 (1.65%) React
4 42 (1.31%) .NET
5 37 (1.15%) JSON
6 33 (1.03%) REST
7 28 (0.87%) Node.js
8 26 (0.81%) XML
9 25 (0.78%) Middleware
10 24 (0.75%) SOAP
11 17 (0.53%) Oracle Fusion
12 14 (0.44%) Bootstrap
12 14 (0.44%) PySpark
12 14 (0.44%) React Native
13 13 (0.40%) Flash
14 11 (0.34%) EDI
15 10 (0.31%) PyTorch
15 10 (0.31%) TensorFlow
16 9 (0.28%) Playwright
16 9 (0.28%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 324 (10.07%) Analytical Mindset
2 222 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
3 187 (5.81%) Onboarding
4 157 (4.88%) Management Information System
5 140 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
6 109 (3.39%) Product Ownership
7 81 (2.52%) Data Centre
8 55 (1.71%) FMCG
9 54 (1.68%) Driving Licence
10 52 (1.62%) Robotics
11 44 (1.37%) Cloud Native
12 40 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
13 37 (1.15%) Data Structures
14 36 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
15 35 (1.09%) Social Media
16 34 (1.06%) Algorithms
17 33 (1.03%) Low-Code
18 29 (0.90%) Virtual Team
19 27 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
20 23 (0.72%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 288 (8.96%) Windows
2 186 (5.78%) Linux
3 166 (5.16%) Windows Server
4 116 (3.61%) Windows Server 2016
5 17 (0.53%) Unix
6 14 (0.44%) Android
7 13 (0.40%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.22%) Apple iOS
9 6 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.12%) VMS
10 4 (0.12%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.093%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.093%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.062%) CentOS
12 2 (0.062%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.031%) FreeBSD
13 1 (0.031%) OpenWrt
13 1 (0.031%) Robot Operating System
13 1 (0.031%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.031%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,416 (44.03%) Problem-Solving
2 772 (24.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 706 (21.95%) AI
4 649 (20.18%) Analytics
5 600 (18.66%) Decision-Making
6 547 (17.01%) Project Management
7 479 (14.89%) Agile
8 448 (13.93%) Business Intelligence
9 370 (11.50%) Stakeholder Management
10 362 (11.26%) Data Analysis
11 354 (11.01%) Customer Service
12 299 (9.30%) ERP
13 294 (9.14%) Chemistry
14 291 (9.05%) Conversational UI
15 278 (8.64%) Customer Experience
16 264 (8.21%) Process Improvement
17 246 (7.65%) Analytical Thinking
17 246 (7.65%) Migration
18 242 (7.52%) Mentoring
19 233 (7.25%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 696 (21.64%) SQL
2 456 (14.18%) Python
3 84 (2.61%) C#
4 82 (2.55%) JavaScript
5 75 (2.33%) PowerShell
6 64 (1.99%) Java
7 62 (1.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 41 (1.27%) T-SQL
9 36 (1.12%) VBA
10 35 (1.09%) R
11 31 (0.96%) C++
12 23 (0.72%) Bash
13 18 (0.56%) MATLAB
14 17 (0.53%) C
15 12 (0.37%) PL/SQL
15 12 (0.37%) Scala
16 8 (0.25%) Go
16 8 (0.25%) TypeScript
17 7 (0.22%) PHP
17 7 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 932 (28.98%) Degree
2 349 (10.85%) Master's Degree
3 308 (9.58%) Security Cleared
4 294 (9.14%) PhD
5 246 (7.65%) SC Cleared
6 128 (3.98%) ACCA
7 118 (3.67%) CIMA
8 66 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 64 (1.99%) DBS Check
10 59 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
11 56 (1.74%) PMI Certification
12 47 (1.46%) PMP
13 44 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
13 44 (1.37%) DV Cleared
14 37 (1.15%) CISSP
15 32 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
16 30 (0.93%) CISM
17 26 (0.81%) Network+ Certification
18 25 (0.78%) AAT
19 24 (0.75%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (5.50%) Data Quality
2 157 (4.88%) Cyber Essentials
3 133 (4.14%) PCI DSS
4 131 (4.07%) QA
5 118 (3.67%) GDPR
6 114 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 75 (2.33%) NIST
8 58 (1.80%) PMO
9 44 (1.37%) Accessibility
10 36 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
11 21 (0.65%) SLA
12 19 (0.59%) GRC
13 14 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 12 (0.37%) SOC 2
15 11 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 10 (0.31%) NCSC
17 8 (0.25%) GMP
17 8 (0.25%) IEC 61131
17 8 (0.25%) IFRS
17 8 (0.25%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 229 (7.12%) Active Directory
2 131 (4.07%) Hyper-V
3 112 (3.48%) Terminal Server
4 22 (0.68%) Docker
4 22 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.31%) vSphere
6 9 (0.28%) Firmware
7 6 (0.19%) ProxySG
7 6 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.093%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.093%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.093%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.093%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.031%) KVM
10 1 (0.031%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 65 (2.02%) Terraform
2 37 (1.15%) Ansible
3 26 (0.81%) Kubernetes
4 23 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.28%) Grafana
7 5 (0.16%) Control-M
7 5 (0.16%) Nagios
7 5 (0.16%) SCCM
8 4 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.12%) Backup Exec
8 4 (0.12%) CASB
8 4 (0.12%) Computer Incident Response Team
8 4 (0.12%) Nessus
8 4 (0.12%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.12%) QRadar
8 4 (0.12%) SolarWinds Orion
8 4 (0.12%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.062%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.062%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 814 (25.31%) Microsoft
2 291 (9.05%) PayPal
3 205 (6.37%) SAP
4 139 (4.32%) SolarWinds
5 136 (4.23%) VMware
6 129 (4.01%) Splunk
7 117 (3.64%) Oracle
7 117 (3.64%) Veeam
8 113 (3.51%) Tanium
9 112 (3.48%) Brocade
9 112 (3.48%) Nimble Storage
10 81 (2.52%) Salesforce
11 64 (1.99%) Google
12 57 (1.77%) Cisco
13 56 (1.74%) ServiceNow
14 34 (1.06%) Databricks
15 29 (0.90%) Workday
16 28 (0.87%) Ariba
17 23 (0.72%) OpenText
18 22 (0.68%) Adobe