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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 8 13
Rank change year-on-year -19 +5 +10
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,533 4,020 5,419
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.72% 11.72% 8.79%
As % of the General category 10.63% 17.51% 16.26%
Number of salaries quoted 2,286 1,539 2,541
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £33,625 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £73,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 33,243 22,957 33,330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.45% 66.95% 54.05%
Number of salaries quoted 20,491 11,249 19,594
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.22% -7.62%
75th Percentile £65,625 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 1 August 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 August 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 1,014 £47,500 +5.56% 575
South East -9 866 £50,000 -4.76% 672
Midlands -10 628 £48,000 +6.21% 352
North West -17 612 £47,050 +0.11% 320
South West -15 483 £47,500 - 286
West Midlands -16 333 £50,149 +11.44% 206
East Midlands -2 293 £45,000 -2.17% 146
Yorkshire -12 285 £47,500 +5.91% 184
East of England -21 252 £45,025 +0.06% 206
North East -22 117 £55,000 +37.50% 76
Wales -14 115 £53,171 -3.33% 101
Scotland -29 112 £42,068 -4.39% 98
Northern Ireland -33 73 £42,500 -22.73% 76
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
1 173 (4.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 113 (3.20%) SharePoint
3 41 (1.16%) Confluence
4 28 (0.79%) Apache
4 28 (0.79%) Apache Spark
5 27 (0.76%) CMS
6 26 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
7 23 (0.65%) IIS
8 9 (0.25%) SAS
8 9 (0.25%) WebLogic
8 9 (0.25%) WebSphere
9 8 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.23%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.23%) OpenStack
9 8 (0.23%) WordPress
10 3 (0.085%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.085%) JBoss
11 1 (0.028%) Moodle
11 1 (0.028%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.028%) Tomcat
Applications
1 437 (12.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 173 (4.90%) Microsoft Office
3 69 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 55 (1.56%) MS Visio
5 20 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
6 19 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.20%) CATIA
8 4 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.11%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.085%) EPLAN
9 3 (0.085%) LaTeX
9 3 (0.085%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.085%) Simulink
9 3 (0.085%) Trello
10 2 (0.057%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.057%) Lectora
10 2 (0.057%) Siemens NX
10 2 (0.057%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.028%) Mathcad
11 1 (0.028%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 54 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 41 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
3 35 (0.99%) Dynamics GP
4 26 (0.74%) NetSuite
5 19 (0.54%) SAP PM
6 15 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
7 14 (0.40%) SAP ERP
8 10 (0.28%) Magento
9 7 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
10 6 (0.17%) SAP Business One
10 6 (0.17%) SAP CO
11 5 (0.14%) JDE EnterpriseOne
11 5 (0.14%) SAP FI
11 5 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
11 5 (0.14%) SAP GTS
11 5 (0.14%) SAP PP
12 4 (0.11%) Academy Housing
12 4 (0.11%) Infor M3
12 4 (0.11%) JDE OneWorld
12 4 (0.11%) JDE World
Cloud Services
1 612 (17.32%) Azure
2 445 (12.60%) Power Platform
3 313 (8.86%) AWS
4 312 (8.83%) Microsoft 365
5 154 (4.36%) SaaS
6 136 (3.85%) GCP
7 91 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
8 86 (2.43%) Dynamics 365
9 85 (2.41%) Entra ID
10 63 (1.78%) Google Analytics
11 53 (1.50%) GitHub
12 52 (1.47%) PowerApps
13 49 (1.39%) Power Automate
14 42 (1.19%) Amazon S3
15 40 (1.13%) Microsoft Purview
16 35 (0.99%) dbt
16 35 (0.99%) Snowflake
17 32 (0.91%) Serverless
18 31 (0.88%) Azure Data Factory
19 30 (0.85%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 158 (4.47%) DNS
2 127 (3.59%) DHCP
3 105 (2.97%) Firewall
4 88 (2.49%) VPN
5 69 (1.95%) TCP/IP
6 65 (1.84%) WAN
7 58 (1.64%) LAN
8 47 (1.33%) Wireless
9 39 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
10 33 (0.93%) Broadband
11 32 (0.91%) Network Security
12 27 (0.76%) HTTP
13 22 (0.62%) VoIP
14 21 (0.59%) SAN
15 20 (0.57%) BGP
15 20 (0.57%) SD-WAN
16 17 (0.48%) VLAN
17 16 (0.45%) Cisco ASA
17 16 (0.45%) Internet
18 15 (0.42%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 394 (11.15%) Power BI
2 184 (5.21%) Tableau
3 114 (3.23%) SQL Server
4 109 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
5 106 (3.00%) Amazon RDS
6 63 (1.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 53 (1.50%) MySQL
7 53 (1.50%) Power Query
8 50 (1.42%) Relational Database
9 49 (1.39%) Data Mining
10 45 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 44 (1.25%) Looker
12 39 (1.10%) Metadata
12 39 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
13 33 (0.93%) Data Lake
14 30 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
15 29 (0.82%) Big Data
16 28 (0.79%) BigQuery
17 20 (0.57%) NoSQL
18 19 (0.54%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 131 (3.71%) JIRA
2 118 (3.34%) Git
3 41 (1.16%) GitLab
4 34 (0.96%) Rational DOORS
5 32 (0.91%) Jenkins
6 15 (0.42%) Cucumber
6 15 (0.42%) Selenium
7 13 (0.37%) Eclipse
7 13 (0.37%) Postman
8 12 (0.34%) Cypress.io
9 11 (0.31%) MLflow
10 9 (0.25%) Burp Suite
10 9 (0.25%) JMeter
10 9 (0.25%) SonarQube
11 8 (0.23%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.23%) LabVIEW
11 8 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
12 7 (0.20%) Metasploit
12 7 (0.20%) Moq
12 7 (0.20%) Subversion
General
1 1,726 (48.85%) Social Skills
2 1,011 (28.62%) Finance
3 314 (8.89%) Marketing
4 250 (7.08%) Organisational Skills
5 228 (6.45%) Retail
6 219 (6.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 205 (5.80%) Legal
8 202 (5.72%) Manufacturing
9 199 (5.63%) Public Sector
10 170 (4.81%) Law
11 164 (4.64%) Influencing Skills
12 115 (3.26%) Aerospace
13 111 (3.14%) Telecoms
14 85 (2.41%) Electronics
15 69 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
16 66 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
17 59 (1.67%) Military
18 54 (1.53%) Banking
19 50 (1.42%) Advertising
20 38 (1.08%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 884 (25.02%) Analyst
2 366 (10.36%) Senior
3 245 (6.93%) Lead
4 227 (6.43%) Data Analyst
5 188 (5.32%) Systems Engineer
6 184 (5.21%) Developer
7 166 (4.70%) Business Analyst
8 117 (3.31%) Architect
8 117 (3.31%) Support Engineer
9 116 (3.28%) Support Analyst
10 101 (2.86%) Consultant
11 98 (2.77%) IT Support
12 97 (2.75%) Senior Analyst
13 94 (2.66%) Data Engineer
14 81 (2.29%) Systems Analyst
15 76 (2.15%) Accountant
15 76 (2.15%) IT Engineer
16 66 (1.87%) Head of QA
17 65 (1.84%) Applications Support
17 65 (1.84%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (2.26%) .NET
2 72 (2.04%) HTML
2 72 (2.04%) REST
3 65 (1.84%) CSS
4 62 (1.75%) Middleware
5 57 (1.61%) XML
6 56 (1.59%) JSON
7 45 (1.27%) React
8 40 (1.13%) SOAP
9 37 (1.05%) RESTful
10 30 (0.85%) Kafka
11 28 (0.79%) Node.js
12 27 (0.76%) PyTorch
13 26 (0.74%) EDI
13 26 (0.74%) PySpark
14 23 (0.65%) OAuth
15 22 (0.62%) TensorFlow
16 21 (0.59%) LDAP
16 21 (0.59%) scikit-learn
17 20 (0.57%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 396 (11.21%) Analytical Mindset
2 205 (5.80%) Management Information System
3 164 (4.64%) Self-Motivation
4 142 (4.02%) Onboarding
5 135 (3.82%) Product Ownership
6 130 (3.68%) Legacy Systems
7 111 (3.14%) Driving Licence
8 63 (1.78%) Cloud Native
9 61 (1.73%) Social Media
9 61 (1.73%) Virtual Team
10 58 (1.64%) Data Centre
11 56 (1.59%) Cyber Threat
12 50 (1.42%) Marketing Technology
13 45 (1.27%) Security Posture
14 43 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
15 37 (1.05%) Blog
16 33 (0.93%) Data Structures
17 32 (0.91%) Algorithms
18 29 (0.82%) AI Agents
19 28 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 327 (9.26%) Windows
2 214 (6.06%) Linux
3 189 (5.35%) Windows Server
4 104 (2.94%) Windows Server 2016
5 25 (0.71%) Mac OS
6 23 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
7 21 (0.59%) Windows 10
8 20 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 18 (0.51%) Unix
10 17 (0.48%) Android
11 13 (0.37%) Apple iOS
11 13 (0.37%) CentOS
12 11 (0.31%) Ubuntu
13 7 (0.20%) Debian
13 7 (0.20%) VMS
14 5 (0.14%) OpenVMS
15 4 (0.11%) CoreOS
16 2 (0.057%) Solaris
17 1 (0.028%) AIX
17 1 (0.028%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,689 (47.81%) Problem-Solving
2 1,062 (30.06%) Continuous Improvement
3 820 (23.21%) Decision-Making
4 708 (20.04%) Analytics
5 522 (14.77%) Stakeholder Management
6 520 (14.72%) Agile
7 468 (13.25%) AI
8 460 (13.02%) Business Intelligence
9 384 (10.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 354 (10.02%) Actionable Insight
11 335 (9.48%) Customer Experience
12 318 (9.00%) ERP
13 317 (8.97%) Data Analysis
14 313 (8.86%) Customer Service
15 312 (8.83%) Validation
16 308 (8.72%) Project Management
17 287 (8.12%) Mentoring
18 286 (8.10%) CRM
19 279 (7.90%) Cybersecurity
19 279 (7.90%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 705 (19.95%) SQL
2 503 (14.24%) Python
3 133 (3.76%) JavaScript
4 106 (3.00%) Java
5 105 (2.97%) C#
6 102 (2.89%) PowerShell
7 62 (1.75%) C++
7 62 (1.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 57 (1.61%) Bash
9 43 (1.22%) T-SQL
10 39 (1.10%) R
11 32 (0.91%) MATLAB
12 29 (0.82%) TypeScript
13 25 (0.71%) C
14 23 (0.65%) PHP
15 19 (0.54%) Go
16 16 (0.45%) VBA
17 14 (0.40%) Perl
18 13 (0.37%) PL/SQL
18 13 (0.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 595 (16.84%) Degree
2 410 (11.60%) Security Cleared
3 293 (8.29%) SC Cleared
4 158 (4.47%) ACCA
5 152 (4.30%) CIMA
6 126 (3.57%) DBS Check
7 100 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
8 86 (2.43%) DV Cleared
9 79 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
10 72 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
11 67 (1.90%) IRCA
12 58 (1.64%) CISSP
13 53 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
14 46 (1.30%) CompTIA Security+
15 41 (1.16%) CISM
16 35 (0.99%) CCNA
17 33 (0.93%) Master's Degree
18 29 (0.82%) Azure Certification
18 29 (0.82%) HNC
18 29 (0.82%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 339 (9.60%) Data Quality
2 260 (7.36%) QA
3 249 (7.05%) GDPR
4 155 (4.39%) Cyber Essentials
5 138 (3.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 125 (3.54%) PCI DSS
7 115 (3.26%) ISO 9001
8 97 (2.75%) SLA
9 86 (2.43%) Accessibility
10 80 (2.26%) NIST
11 43 (1.22%) GRC
12 39 (1.10%) PMO
13 28 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
13 28 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 23 (0.65%) ISO 14001
15 22 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 21 (0.59%) GMP
17 18 (0.51%) Good Clinical Practice
18 17 (0.48%) SOC 2
18 17 (0.48%) TickIT
System Software
1 255 (7.22%) Active Directory
2 106 (3.00%) Hyper-V
3 94 (2.66%) Docker
4 88 (2.49%) Terminal Server
5 36 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
6 14 (0.40%) Firmware
7 13 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.25%) VMware NSX
9 7 (0.20%) Ceph
9 7 (0.20%) vSphere
10 4 (0.11%) KVM
10 4 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 4 (0.11%) ProxySG
10 4 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.11%) XenApp
11 3 (0.085%) DFS Replication
11 3 (0.085%) Embedded Firmware
12 1 (0.028%) IAG
12 1 (0.028%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 70 (1.98%) Terraform
2 68 (1.92%) Kubernetes
3 46 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 41 (1.16%) Ansible
5 27 (0.76%) Grafana
6 20 (0.57%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.40%) Kibana
7 14 (0.40%) QRadar
8 12 (0.34%) Podman
9 9 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.20%) Argo
10 7 (0.20%) Check_MK
10 7 (0.20%) Istio
10 7 (0.20%) logstash
10 7 (0.20%) Nagios
10 7 (0.20%) Nmap
11 6 (0.17%) Kubeflow
12 5 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.14%) Graylog
12 5 (0.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 832 (23.55%) Microsoft
2 164 (4.64%) Google
3 134 (3.79%) VMware
4 131 (3.71%) Splunk
5 130 (3.68%) SAP
6 107 (3.03%) SolarWinds
7 96 (2.72%) Veeam
8 89 (2.52%) Brocade
8 89 (2.52%) Nimble Storage
9 88 (2.49%) Tanium
10 81 (2.29%) Salesforce
11 80 (2.26%) Oracle
12 64 (1.81%) Workday
13 62 (1.75%) Cisco
14 57 (1.61%) ServiceNow
15 56 (1.59%) Databricks
16 38 (1.08%) Red Hat
17 35 (0.99%) IBM
18 32 (0.91%) Dell
19 29 (0.82%) Adobe