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 1 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 13 21
Rank change year-on-year -9 +8 -1
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,330 3,787 2,652
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 7.94% 10.16% 8.62%
As % of the General category 13.92% 16.10% 14.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,568 1,562 1,812
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £33,529 £39,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,967 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.71% +1.93% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £66,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £72,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% -1.79% +1.82%

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 23,918 23,522 18,839
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 57.02% 63.13% 61.27%
Number of salaries quoted 12,302 9,858 13,390
10th Percentile £26,750 £30,925 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £35,531
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £66,778
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,958 £80,627
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -2.37%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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 +6 857 £50,000 - 626
North of England -14 787 £42,500 -19.05% 524
Midlands -11 612 £43,750 -8.85% 349
North West -11 415 £43,000 -18.10% 321
South West +4 383 £45,000 -14.29% 256
West Midlands -13 362 £52,500 +5.00% 213
Scotland +1 321 £40,000 -33.33% 77
East of England -20 279 £40,000 -21.52% 238
Yorkshire +1 268 £40,000 -20.00% 169
East Midlands +4 248 £37,500 -11.76% 130
North East +7 104 £41,000 -6.82% 39
Wales +13 79 £47,500 -3.27% 64
Northern Ireland -2 44 £52,500 +0.55% 22
Isle of Man -1 1 £62,500 +150.00% 1
Channel Islands -6 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
1 137 (4.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 55 (1.65%) Confluence
3 50 (1.50%) SharePoint
4 19 (0.57%) CMS
5 17 (0.51%) Apache Spark
6 16 (0.48%) IIS
7 14 (0.42%) WordPress
8 12 (0.36%) SAS
9 11 (0.33%) Apache
10 10 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
11 6 (0.18%) nginx
12 4 (0.12%) Camunda
13 3 (0.090%) HCL Notes
13 3 (0.090%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.090%) Skype for Business
14 2 (0.060%) FactoryTalk
14 2 (0.060%) govService
14 2 (0.060%) WinCC
15 1 (0.030%) Apache Superset
15 1 (0.030%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 552 (16.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 367 (11.02%) Chatbot
3 242 (7.27%) Microsoft Office
4 86 (2.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 43 (1.29%) MS Visio
6 32 (0.96%) Spreadsheet
7 30 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
8 17 (0.51%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.24%) SOLIDWORKS
10 5 (0.15%) CATIA
11 4 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
11 4 (0.12%) Photoshop
11 4 (0.12%) Simulink
12 3 (0.090%) Adobe XD
13 2 (0.060%) Revit
13 2 (0.060%) Sketch
13 2 (0.060%) Trello
14 1 (0.030%) OrCAD
14 1 (0.030%) Siemens NX
14 1 (0.030%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 93 (2.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 64 (1.92%) SAP MDG
3 37 (1.11%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 35 (1.05%) NetSuite
5 29 (0.87%) Oracle Payables
6 23 (0.69%) Shopify
7 20 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
8 19 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
9 16 (0.48%) Oracle Assets
10 12 (0.36%) Sage X3
11 11 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
12 10 (0.30%) Oracle General Ledger
12 10 (0.30%) Workday HCM
13 9 (0.27%) SAP CO
14 8 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
14 8 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
15 6 (0.18%) JDE EnterpriseOne
15 6 (0.18%) SAP ERP
16 5 (0.15%) SAP FI
16 5 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 460 (13.81%) Azure
2 379 (11.38%) Power Platform
3 206 (6.19%) Microsoft 365
4 159 (4.77%) AWS
5 146 (4.38%) SaaS
6 105 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
7 63 (1.89%) Snowflake
8 59 (1.77%) Dynamics 365
9 49 (1.47%) GitHub
10 47 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
11 43 (1.29%) Entra ID
12 37 (1.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 35 (1.05%) dbt
13 35 (1.05%) GCP
14 31 (0.93%) Google Analytics
15 28 (0.84%) Power Automate
16 26 (0.78%) GitHub Copilot
16 26 (0.78%) Microsoft Copilot
16 26 (0.78%) Microsoft Purview
17 21 (0.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 141 (4.23%) DNS
2 121 (3.63%) DHCP
3 69 (2.07%) Firewall
4 53 (1.59%) Network Security
5 44 (1.32%) Remote Desktop
6 42 (1.26%) LAN
6 42 (1.26%) VPN
7 40 (1.20%) WAN
8 37 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
9 31 (0.93%) Wireless
10 30 (0.90%) TCP/IP
11 28 (0.84%) VoIP
12 25 (0.75%) VLAN
13 24 (0.72%) SMS
14 18 (0.54%) SD-WAN
14 18 (0.54%) Wireshark
15 13 (0.39%) 5G
15 13 (0.39%) Internet
16 12 (0.36%) Intrusion Detection
16 12 (0.36%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 350 (10.51%) Power BI
2 215 (6.46%) Tableau
3 136 (4.08%) Data Mining
4 100 (3.00%) SQL Server
5 99 (2.97%) Amazon RDS
6 77 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
7 53 (1.59%) Data Lake
8 51 (1.53%) Relational Database
8 51 (1.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 48 (1.44%) Metadata
10 38 (1.14%) MySQL
11 36 (1.08%) GIS
12 33 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
13 32 (0.96%) Looker
14 29 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
15 28 (0.84%) SAP BW
16 25 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
16 25 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 22 (0.66%) Power Query
18 21 (0.63%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 138 (4.14%) JIRA
2 53 (1.59%) Git
3 29 (0.87%) Selenium
4 18 (0.54%) Oracle Forms
5 17 (0.51%) Jenkins
6 15 (0.45%) Robot Framework
7 13 (0.39%) ERwin
7 13 (0.39%) GitLab
7 13 (0.39%) Snyk
8 12 (0.36%) ER Studio
9 8 (0.24%) Postman
10 7 (0.21%) Cypress.io
10 7 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (0.21%) TestRail
11 6 (0.18%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.18%) WebDriver
12 5 (0.15%) LabVIEW
12 5 (0.15%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.15%) Subversion
13 4 (0.12%) LoadRunner
General
1 1,639 (49.22%) Social Skills
2 931 (27.96%) Finance
3 292 (8.77%) Marketing
4 195 (5.86%) Retail
5 150 (4.50%) Manufacturing
6 137 (4.11%) Organisational Skills
7 136 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 127 (3.81%) Legal
9 119 (3.57%) Public Sector
10 113 (3.39%) Law
11 106 (3.18%) Presentation Skills
12 74 (2.22%) Telecoms
13 71 (2.13%) Electronics
14 70 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
15 58 (1.74%) Banking
16 52 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
17 49 (1.47%) Aerospace
18 42 (1.26%) Aviation
19 38 (1.14%) Advertising
20 31 (0.93%) German Language
Job Titles
1 754 (22.64%) Analyst
2 367 (11.02%) Trainer
3 322 (9.67%) Senior
4 227 (6.82%) Lead
5 200 (6.01%) Data Analyst
6 164 (4.92%) Architect
7 141 (4.23%) Developer
8 127 (3.81%) Support Analyst
9 125 (3.75%) Systems Engineer
10 117 (3.51%) Trainee
11 112 (3.36%) IT Support
12 102 (3.06%) Business Analyst
13 99 (2.97%) Trainee Analyst
13 99 (2.97%) Trainee Data Analyst
14 96 (2.88%) Innovation Manager
15 87 (2.61%) Support Engineer
16 80 (2.40%) Business Manager
17 77 (2.31%) Senior Analyst
17 77 (2.31%) Solutions Architect
18 70 (2.10%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (2.04%) HTML
2 53 (1.59%) CSS
3 46 (1.38%) React
4 41 (1.23%) REST
5 34 (1.02%) JSON
6 32 (0.96%) .NET
7 29 (0.87%) SOAP
8 24 (0.72%) Middleware
9 20 (0.60%) Oracle Fusion
10 19 (0.57%) Node.js
10 19 (0.57%) XML
11 18 (0.54%) OAuth
11 18 (0.54%) SAML
12 17 (0.51%) EDI
12 17 (0.51%) Flash
13 13 (0.39%) BAPI
13 13 (0.39%) IBM Integration Bus
13 13 (0.39%) JMS
14 11 (0.33%) Playwright
14 11 (0.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 361 (10.84%) Analytical Mindset
2 258 (7.75%) Onboarding
3 237 (7.12%) Self-Motivation
4 177 (5.32%) Management Information System
5 121 (3.63%) Legacy Systems
6 98 (2.94%) Product Ownership
7 64 (1.92%) Driving Licence
8 59 (1.77%) Data Centre
9 52 (1.56%) FMCG
9 52 (1.56%) Robotics
10 46 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
11 38 (1.14%) Cloud Native
12 31 (0.93%) Data Structures
13 28 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 28 (0.84%) Social Media
13 28 (0.84%) Virtual Team
14 26 (0.78%) e-Learning
15 24 (0.72%) Security Posture
16 21 (0.63%) Algorithms
17 20 (0.60%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 261 (7.84%) Windows
2 169 (5.08%) Linux
3 144 (4.32%) Windows Server
4 97 (2.91%) Windows Server 2016
5 14 (0.42%) Unix
6 11 (0.33%) Mac OS
7 9 (0.27%) Android
8 6 (0.18%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.15%) Mac OS X
10 4 (0.12%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.090%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.090%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.030%) OpenVMS
12 1 (0.030%) OpenWrt
12 1 (0.030%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.030%) Robot Operating System
12 1 (0.030%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.030%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,413 (42.43%) Problem-Solving
2 827 (24.83%) AI
3 775 (23.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 675 (20.27%) Analytics
5 623 (18.71%) Decision-Making
6 540 (16.22%) Project Management
7 462 (13.87%) Agile
8 443 (13.30%) Business Intelligence
9 404 (12.13%) Stakeholder Management
10 371 (11.14%) Chemistry
11 367 (11.02%) Conversational UI
12 343 (10.30%) Customer Service
13 333 (10.00%) Data Analysis
14 321 (9.64%) Customer Experience
15 311 (9.34%) ERP
16 265 (7.96%) Process Improvement
17 256 (7.69%) CRM
18 251 (7.54%) Analytical Thinking
19 242 (7.27%) Mentoring
20 239 (7.18%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 656 (19.70%) SQL
2 355 (10.66%) Python
3 75 (2.25%) C#
4 67 (2.01%) Java
5 65 (1.95%) JavaScript
5 65 (1.95%) PowerShell
6 46 (1.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 36 (1.08%) R
8 33 (0.99%) T-SQL
9 31 (0.93%) C++
9 31 (0.93%) VBA
10 17 (0.51%) PL/SQL
11 16 (0.48%) Bash
11 16 (0.48%) C
12 14 (0.42%) Scala
13 12 (0.36%) MATLAB
14 9 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
15 8 (0.24%) TypeScript
16 7 (0.21%) ABAP
17 6 (0.18%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,088 (32.67%) Degree
2 434 (13.03%) Master's Degree
3 369 (11.08%) PhD
4 320 (9.61%) Security Cleared
5 242 (7.27%) SC Cleared
6 117 (3.51%) ACCA
7 107 (3.21%) CIMA
8 84 (2.52%) DBS Check
9 68 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
10 61 (1.83%) CISSP
11 55 (1.65%) PMI Certification
12 51 (1.53%) DV Cleared
13 47 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
13 47 (1.41%) PMP
14 46 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
15 40 (1.20%) CompTIA Security+
16 38 (1.14%) CEH
17 35 (1.05%) CISM
18 30 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
19 24 (0.72%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (5.05%) Data Quality
2 139 (4.17%) QA
3 134 (4.02%) PCI DSS
4 119 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
5 103 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 102 (3.06%) GDPR
7 75 (2.25%) NIST
8 56 (1.68%) PMO
9 52 (1.56%) Accessibility
10 30 (0.90%) SLA
11 23 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
12 13 (0.39%) GRC
13 12 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 11 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 10 (0.30%) ISO 9001
16 9 (0.27%) IFRS
16 9 (0.27%) SOC 2
17 8 (0.24%) IEC 61131
18 7 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
19 6 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 196 (5.89%) Active Directory
2 112 (3.36%) Hyper-V
3 96 (2.88%) Terminal Server
4 21 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 18 (0.54%) Docker
6 14 (0.42%) Firmware
7 6 (0.18%) vSphere
8 4 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.090%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.060%) ProxySG
11 1 (0.030%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.030%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.030%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.030%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 42 (1.26%) Terraform
2 26 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 25 (0.75%) Kubernetes
4 20 (0.60%) Ansible
5 13 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.12%) Nessus
6 4 (0.12%) QRadar
6 4 (0.12%) SCCM
7 3 (0.090%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 3 (0.090%) Control-M
7 3 (0.090%) Grafana
7 3 (0.090%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.060%) AssetCenter
8 2 (0.060%) CASB
8 2 (0.060%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.060%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.060%) Kibana
8 2 (0.060%) Nagios
9 1 (0.030%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.030%) SCOM
Vendors
1 769 (23.09%) Microsoft
2 367 (11.02%) PayPal
3 279 (8.38%) SAP
4 135 (4.05%) Oracle
5 121 (3.63%) VMware
6 113 (3.39%) Splunk
7 112 (3.36%) SolarWinds
8 97 (2.91%) Tanium
8 97 (2.91%) Veeam
9 96 (2.88%) Brocade
9 96 (2.88%) Nimble Storage
10 83 (2.49%) Salesforce
11 65 (1.95%) Google
12 61 (1.83%) ServiceNow
13 54 (1.62%) Cisco
14 37 (1.11%) OpenText
15 36 (1.08%) Databricks
16 35 (1.05%) Workday
17 30 (0.90%) Ariba
18 26 (0.78%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud