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

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 9 15
Rank change year-on-year -26 +6 +5
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,026 3,319 6,214
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.67% 12.31% 9.16%
As % of the General category 9.59% 17.97% 15.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,908 1,465 3,603
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,909 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,942 £50,393 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.88% +11.98% -3.23%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,289 £72,500
UK median annual salary £54,150 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.55% +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 31,558 18,474 39,379
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.66% 68.54% 58.04%
Number of salaries quoted 16,195 9,439 26,318
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £75,772
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.17% +10.48% -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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -31 871 £46,500 -7.00% 338
South East -3 790 £50,000 -4.96% 484
Midlands -26 569 £48,500 +1.04% 283
North West -27 492 £45,000 -10.00% 199
West Midlands -26 343 £51,275 +6.82% 163
Yorkshire -13 286 £51,000 +13.33% 95
South West -27 262 £50,000 -2.76% 163
East of England -36 252 £42,879 -15.87% 151
East Midlands -14 224 £45,000 -5.26% 119
Scotland -22 158 £40,000 -24.23% 52
North East -24 93 £49,222 +29.53% 51
Wales +5 84 £42,500 -15.44% 43
Northern Ireland -22 52 £47,500 -13.64% 36
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
1 126 (4.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 65 (2.15%) SharePoint
3 37 (1.22%) Confluence
4 30 (0.99%) CMS
5 27 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
6 25 (0.83%) Apache Spark
7 17 (0.56%) IIS
8 13 (0.43%) Apache
9 12 (0.40%) WordPress
10 4 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.13%) nginx
11 3 (0.099%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.099%) govService
11 3 (0.099%) JBoss
11 3 (0.099%) SAS
12 1 (0.033%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.033%) Appian
12 1 (0.033%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.033%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.033%) Umbraco
Applications
1 474 (15.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 205 (6.77%) Microsoft Office
3 63 (2.08%) MS Visio
4 56 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 21 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
5 21 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
6 16 (0.53%) Chatbot
7 10 (0.33%) CATIA
8 4 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.13%) Trello
9 3 (0.099%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.099%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.066%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.066%) Simulink
11 1 (0.033%) Lectora
11 1 (0.033%) Revit
11 1 (0.033%) Sketch
11 1 (0.033%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 48 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (1.06%) Salesforce CRM
3 28 (0.93%) NetSuite
4 23 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
5 16 (0.53%) SAP CO
6 15 (0.50%) SAP ERP
6 15 (0.50%) SAP PM
7 10 (0.33%) Sage X3
8 8 (0.26%) Workday HCM
9 7 (0.23%) Magento
9 7 (0.23%) SAP FI
9 7 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
10 6 (0.20%) SAP PP
11 5 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
11 5 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
11 5 (0.17%) Q-Pulse
11 5 (0.17%) SAP GTS
12 4 (0.13%) Markit EDM
13 3 (0.099%) Infor M3
13 3 (0.099%) JDE World
Cloud Services
1 507 (16.75%) Azure
2 413 (13.65%) Power Platform
3 244 (8.06%) AWS
4 242 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
5 117 (3.87%) SaaS
6 112 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
7 93 (3.07%) Dynamics 365
8 81 (2.68%) GCP
9 71 (2.35%) Entra ID
10 70 (2.31%) GitHub
11 58 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
12 51 (1.69%) Power Automate
13 48 (1.59%) dbt
13 48 (1.59%) Google Analytics
13 48 (1.59%) Snowflake
14 45 (1.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 43 (1.42%) Microsoft Purview
16 36 (1.19%) Amazon S3
17 35 (1.16%) PowerApps
17 35 (1.16%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 119 (3.93%) Firewall
2 113 (3.73%) DNS
3 87 (2.88%) DHCP
4 71 (2.35%) VPN
5 62 (2.05%) WAN
6 50 (1.65%) Wireless
7 45 (1.49%) LAN
8 39 (1.29%) TCP/IP
9 33 (1.09%) Network Security
10 30 (0.99%) VLAN
11 29 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
12 27 (0.89%) Wireshark
13 25 (0.83%) BGP
14 23 (0.76%) Broadband
14 23 (0.76%) SD-WAN
15 22 (0.73%) SAN
16 19 (0.63%) Cisco ASA
16 19 (0.63%) EIGRP
16 19 (0.63%) OSPF
17 14 (0.46%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 378 (12.49%) Power BI
2 248 (8.20%) Tableau
3 137 (4.53%) Data Mining
4 119 (3.93%) SQL Server
5 71 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
6 70 (2.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 67 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
8 45 (1.49%) Looker
9 44 (1.45%) Relational Database
10 43 (1.42%) Metadata
11 36 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
11 36 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
11 36 (1.19%) MySQL
12 32 (1.06%) Power Query
12 32 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 29 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
14 28 (0.93%) Data Lake
15 24 (0.79%) GIS
15 24 (0.79%) NoSQL
16 17 (0.56%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 116 (3.83%) JIRA
2 66 (2.18%) Git
3 28 (0.93%) GitLab
4 26 (0.86%) Rational DOORS
5 20 (0.66%) Jenkins
6 16 (0.53%) Selenium
7 11 (0.36%) MLflow
8 10 (0.33%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.30%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.26%) LabVIEW
11 7 (0.23%) Postman
11 7 (0.23%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.20%) Maven
12 6 (0.20%) Subversion
13 5 (0.17%) ERwin
13 5 (0.17%) JMeter
13 5 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
13 5 (0.17%) TestRail
14 4 (0.13%) ER Studio
14 4 (0.13%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 1,499 (49.54%) Social Skills
2 965 (31.89%) Finance
3 256 (8.46%) Marketing
4 154 (5.09%) Retail
5 147 (4.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 147 (4.86%) Public Sector
6 146 (4.82%) Organisational Skills
7 140 (4.63%) Manufacturing
8 127 (4.20%) Law
9 124 (4.10%) Legal
10 104 (3.44%) Presentation Skills
11 86 (2.84%) Influencing Skills
12 85 (2.81%) Telecoms
13 59 (1.95%) Electronics
14 55 (1.82%) Banking
15 49 (1.62%) Aerospace
15 49 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
16 41 (1.35%) Military
17 36 (1.19%) Advertising
18 34 (1.12%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 902 (29.81%) Analyst
2 341 (11.27%) Senior
3 261 (8.63%) Data Analyst
4 186 (6.15%) Lead
5 164 (5.42%) Business Analyst
6 155 (5.12%) Developer
7 119 (3.93%) Trainee
8 117 (3.87%) Trainee Analyst
8 117 (3.87%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 116 (3.83%) Systems Engineer
10 112 (3.70%) Support Analyst
11 109 (3.60%) Architect
12 83 (2.74%) Senior Analyst
13 82 (2.71%) IT Support
14 77 (2.54%) Support Engineer
15 74 (2.45%) Financial Analyst
15 74 (2.45%) Systems Analyst
16 73 (2.41%) Consultant
16 73 (2.41%) Systems Manager
17 71 (2.35%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (2.81%) HTML
2 73 (2.41%) CSS
3 61 (2.02%) .NET
4 60 (1.98%) React
5 56 (1.85%) REST
6 54 (1.78%) JSON
7 52 (1.72%) Middleware
8 44 (1.45%) XML
9 37 (1.22%) SOAP
10 35 (1.16%) Node.js
11 26 (0.86%) PyTorch
12 22 (0.73%) scikit-learn
13 20 (0.66%) TensorFlow
14 19 (0.63%) Pandas
14 19 (0.63%) React Native
15 18 (0.59%) PySpark
16 17 (0.56%) OAuth
17 16 (0.53%) Bootstrap
18 15 (0.50%) EDI
18 15 (0.50%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 374 (12.36%) Analytical Mindset
2 160 (5.29%) Self-Motivation
3 149 (4.92%) Management Information System
4 128 (4.23%) Onboarding
5 113 (3.73%) Product Ownership
6 82 (2.71%) Legacy Systems
7 64 (2.12%) Data Centre
8 57 (1.88%) Driving Licence
9 51 (1.69%) Cloud Native
10 35 (1.16%) Algorithms
11 34 (1.12%) Low-Code
12 32 (1.06%) Social Media
13 31 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
13 31 (1.02%) Security Posture
14 29 (0.96%) Data Structures
14 29 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
14 29 (0.96%) FMCG
14 29 (0.96%) Mobile App
14 29 (0.96%) Virtual Team
15 25 (0.83%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 242 (8.00%) Windows
2 133 (4.40%) Windows Server
3 126 (4.16%) Linux
4 62 (2.05%) Windows Server 2016
5 19 (0.63%) Android
5 19 (0.63%) Unix
6 16 (0.53%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.23%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.20%) VMS
10 5 (0.17%) CentOS
10 5 (0.17%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.13%) Windows 10
12 3 (0.099%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.066%) Debian
13 2 (0.066%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.033%) AIX
14 1 (0.033%) OpenBSD
14 1 (0.033%) Solaris
14 1 (0.033%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,367 (45.18%) Problem-Solving
2 861 (28.45%) Continuous Improvement
3 677 (22.37%) Analytics
4 664 (21.94%) Decision-Making
5 457 (15.10%) Agile
6 447 (14.77%) Business Intelligence
7 386 (12.76%) Stakeholder Management
8 382 (12.62%) AI
9 375 (12.39%) Project Management
10 334 (11.04%) Data Analysis
11 296 (9.78%) Actionable Insight
12 281 (9.29%) ERP
13 267 (8.82%) Customer Experience
14 256 (8.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 246 (8.13%) Customer Service
16 239 (7.90%) Process Improvement
17 230 (7.60%) Business Analysis
18 229 (7.57%) CRM
18 229 (7.57%) Cybersecurity
19 226 (7.47%) Analytical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 676 (22.34%) SQL
2 481 (15.90%) Python
3 107 (3.54%) JavaScript
4 97 (3.21%) PowerShell
5 88 (2.91%) Java
6 79 (2.61%) C#
7 73 (2.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 46 (1.52%) T-SQL
9 39 (1.29%) R
10 37 (1.22%) VBA
11 33 (1.09%) Bash
12 26 (0.86%) C++
13 24 (0.79%) MATLAB
14 15 (0.50%) Go
15 14 (0.46%) PL/SQL
15 14 (0.46%) TypeScript
16 12 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
17 11 (0.36%) PHP
18 10 (0.33%) Scala
19 8 (0.26%) C
Qualifications
1 566 (18.70%) Degree
2 236 (7.80%) Security Cleared
3 173 (5.72%) SC Cleared
4 167 (5.52%) ACCA
5 158 (5.22%) CIMA
6 122 (4.03%) DBS Check
7 71 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
8 67 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
9 66 (2.18%) IRCA
9 66 (2.18%) PMI Certification
10 56 (1.85%) PMP
11 53 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
12 51 (1.69%) Master's Degree
13 44 (1.45%) CISSP
14 43 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
15 37 (1.22%) DV Cleared
16 33 (1.09%) CISM
17 31 (1.02%) CompTIA Security+
18 27 (0.89%) CCNA
18 27 (0.89%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 285 (9.42%) Data Quality
2 216 (7.14%) GDPR
3 173 (5.72%) QA
4 139 (4.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 107 (3.54%) Cyber Essentials
6 101 (3.34%) NIST
7 88 (2.91%) PCI DSS
8 86 (2.84%) ISO 9001
9 56 (1.85%) PMO
10 55 (1.82%) SLA
11 43 (1.42%) Actionable Recommendations
12 36 (1.19%) Accessibility
13 35 (1.16%) GRC
14 23 (0.76%) SOC 2
15 18 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 17 (0.56%) GMP
17 16 (0.53%) TickIT
18 14 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 13 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 20000
20 11 (0.36%) COBIT
System Software
1 192 (6.35%) Active Directory
2 67 (2.21%) Hyper-V
3 56 (1.85%) Terminal Server
4 39 (1.29%) Docker
5 35 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (0.33%) vSphere
7 9 (0.30%) VMware NSX
8 8 (0.26%) ProxySG
9 7 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.13%) XenApp
11 3 (0.099%) Firmware
11 3 (0.099%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.099%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.066%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.033%) Embedded Firmware
13 1 (0.033%) KVM
13 1 (0.033%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.033%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 75 (2.48%) Terraform
2 41 (1.35%) Kubernetes
3 39 (1.29%) Ansible
4 28 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (0.59%) Grafana
6 10 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.30%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.26%) Kibana
9 6 (0.20%) QRadar
10 5 (0.17%) Control-M
10 5 (0.17%) logstash
10 5 (0.17%) Nagios
10 5 (0.17%) SCCM
11 4 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.13%) Backup Exec
11 4 (0.13%) CASB
11 4 (0.13%) Graylog
11 4 (0.13%) Kubeflow
11 4 (0.13%) SolarWinds Orion
11 4 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 795 (26.27%) Microsoft
2 137 (4.53%) SAP
3 102 (3.37%) Google
4 93 (3.07%) VMware
5 91 (3.01%) Oracle
6 86 (2.84%) Salesforce
7 81 (2.68%) SolarWinds
8 78 (2.58%) Splunk
9 70 (2.31%) Workday
10 62 (2.05%) Veeam
11 57 (1.88%) Databricks
11 57 (1.88%) Tanium
12 56 (1.85%) Brocade
12 56 (1.85%) Nimble Storage
12 56 (1.85%) ServiceNow
13 45 (1.49%) Cisco
14 33 (1.09%) IBM
15 28 (0.93%) Dell
16 21 (0.69%) Adobe
16 21 (0.69%) Red Hat