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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 8 13
Rank change year-on-year -19 +5 +8
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,114 3,783 6,573
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.47% 11.97% 8.57%
As % of the General category 10.04% 17.29% 15.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,131 1,392 3,585
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,275 £26,500
25th Percentile £36,900 £34,188 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.11% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £72,500
UK median annual salary £54,808 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.35% +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 31,001 21,874 42,075
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.54% 69.22% 54.89%
Number of salaries quoted 19,082 10,139 26,994
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,200
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 1 July 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 July 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 -19 958 £48,350 +1.79% 440
South East -8 795 £50,000 -8.47% 600
Midlands -9 564 £47,500 - 318
North West -19 561 £47,500 -5.00% 257
South West -24 341 £47,500 - 206
West Midlands -18 312 £49,000 +3.16% 178
Yorkshire -10 294 £50,000 +11.11% 138
East Midlands -2 251 £45,000 -6.25% 140
East of England -19 240 £45,000 - 180
Scotland -26 106 £40,000 -12.35% 103
North East -27 103 £55,000 +42.86% 54
Wales -9 82 £53,171 -3.33% 86
Northern Ireland -18 39 £40,000 -27.27% 51
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
1 150 (4.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 89 (2.86%) SharePoint
3 38 (1.22%) Confluence
4 29 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
5 28 (0.90%) Apache Spark
5 28 (0.90%) CMS
6 25 (0.80%) Apache
7 20 (0.64%) IIS
8 9 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 9 (0.29%) WordPress
9 8 (0.26%) SAS
9 8 (0.26%) WebLogic
9 8 (0.26%) WebSphere
10 5 (0.16%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.096%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.096%) JBoss
12 1 (0.032%) Appian
12 1 (0.032%) Moodle
12 1 (0.032%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.032%) Umbraco
Applications
1 397 (12.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 147 (4.72%) Microsoft Office
3 56 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 56 (1.80%) MS Visio
4 24 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
5 12 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.29%) CATIA
7 4 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.096%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.096%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.096%) Simulink
8 3 (0.096%) Trello
9 2 (0.064%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.064%) Lectora
9 2 (0.064%) Siemens NX
9 2 (0.064%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.032%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.032%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 40 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (0.77%) Salesforce CRM
3 23 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
4 21 (0.67%) NetSuite
5 15 (0.48%) SAP PM
6 14 (0.45%) SAP ERP
7 9 (0.29%) Dynamics GP
7 9 (0.29%) SAP CO
8 7 (0.22%) Workday HCM
9 6 (0.19%) Magento
10 5 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
10 5 (0.16%) Q-Pulse
10 5 (0.16%) SAP GTS
10 5 (0.16%) SAP PP
11 4 (0.13%) Infor M3
11 4 (0.13%) JDE EnterpriseOne
11 4 (0.13%) JDE OneWorld
11 4 (0.13%) JDE World
11 4 (0.13%) SAP FI
11 4 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 545 (17.50%) Azure
2 413 (13.26%) Power Platform
3 278 (8.93%) Microsoft 365
4 265 (8.51%) AWS
5 125 (4.01%) SaaS
6 114 (3.66%) GCP
7 86 (2.76%) Entra ID
8 85 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
9 78 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
10 55 (1.77%) Google Analytics
11 52 (1.67%) GitHub
12 49 (1.57%) Microsoft Purview
13 48 (1.54%) PowerApps
14 44 (1.41%) Power Automate
15 40 (1.28%) Amazon S3
16 32 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
16 32 (1.03%) Serverless
17 30 (0.96%) dbt
18 24 (0.77%) AWS Lambda
19 23 (0.74%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 139 (4.46%) Firewall
2 130 (4.17%) DNS
3 101 (3.24%) DHCP
4 75 (2.41%) VPN
5 65 (2.09%) WAN
6 54 (1.73%) LAN
6 54 (1.73%) TCP/IP
7 42 (1.35%) Broadband
7 42 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
8 41 (1.32%) Wireless
9 30 (0.96%) Network Security
10 24 (0.77%) BGP
10 24 (0.77%) HTTP
11 23 (0.74%) SD-WAN
12 22 (0.71%) Wireshark
13 21 (0.67%) VLAN
14 20 (0.64%) SAN
15 19 (0.61%) Cisco ASA
16 17 (0.55%) VoIP
17 14 (0.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 372 (11.95%) Power BI
2 187 (6.01%) Tableau
3 101 (3.24%) SQL Server
4 87 (2.79%) Amazon RDS
4 87 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
5 65 (2.09%) Data Mining
6 55 (1.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 45 (1.45%) Power Query
8 38 (1.22%) MySQL
8 38 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 36 (1.16%) Looker
10 35 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
11 34 (1.09%) Metadata
12 33 (1.06%) Relational Database
13 30 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
13 30 (0.96%) Data Lake
14 26 (0.83%) Big Data
15 19 (0.61%) BigQuery
16 18 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
17 17 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 103 (3.31%) JIRA
2 74 (2.38%) Git
3 39 (1.25%) GitLab
4 36 (1.16%) Rational DOORS
5 21 (0.67%) Jenkins
6 13 (0.42%) Cucumber
7 12 (0.39%) Cypress.io
7 12 (0.39%) Selenium
8 11 (0.35%) MLflow
9 10 (0.32%) Eclipse
10 9 (0.29%) JMeter
10 9 (0.29%) LabVIEW
10 9 (0.29%) SonarQube
11 8 (0.26%) Postman
12 7 (0.22%) Moq
12 7 (0.22%) Subversion
13 6 (0.19%) Burp Suite
13 6 (0.19%) Toad
14 5 (0.16%) Bitbucket
14 5 (0.16%) ERwin
General
1 1,483 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 932 (29.93%) Finance
3 258 (8.29%) Marketing
4 194 (6.23%) Organisational Skills
5 192 (6.17%) Public Sector
6 170 (5.46%) Retail
7 169 (5.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 161 (5.17%) Manufacturing
9 157 (5.04%) Legal
10 143 (4.59%) Law
11 115 (3.69%) Influencing Skills
12 98 (3.15%) Telecoms
13 75 (2.41%) Aerospace
14 72 (2.31%) Electronics
15 64 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
16 61 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
17 45 (1.45%) Banking
18 42 (1.35%) Military
19 38 (1.22%) Advertising
20 35 (1.12%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 857 (27.52%) Analyst
2 320 (10.28%) Senior
3 227 (7.29%) Lead
4 225 (7.23%) Data Analyst
5 166 (5.33%) Business Analyst
6 164 (5.27%) Systems Engineer
7 156 (5.01%) Developer
8 100 (3.21%) Support Analyst
8 100 (3.21%) Support Engineer
9 98 (3.15%) Architect
10 93 (2.99%) Consultant
11 90 (2.89%) Senior Analyst
12 89 (2.86%) IT Support
13 86 (2.76%) Systems Analyst
14 82 (2.63%) Data Engineer
15 69 (2.22%) Accountant
16 66 (2.12%) Head of QA
17 65 (2.09%) IT Engineer
17 65 (2.09%) IT Manager
18 63 (2.02%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (2.28%) HTML
2 68 (2.18%) .NET
3 66 (2.12%) Middleware
4 63 (2.02%) CSS
5 60 (1.93%) REST
6 58 (1.86%) JSON
7 57 (1.83%) XML
8 49 (1.57%) React
9 34 (1.09%) Node.js
9 34 (1.09%) SOAP
10 30 (0.96%) PyTorch
11 26 (0.83%) RESTful
12 24 (0.77%) TensorFlow
13 22 (0.71%) PySpark
14 21 (0.67%) EDI
14 21 (0.67%) scikit-learn
15 18 (0.58%) Kafka
16 17 (0.55%) Pandas
17 15 (0.48%) LDAP
17 15 (0.48%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 391 (12.56%) Analytical Mindset
2 150 (4.82%) Management Information System
3 124 (3.98%) Onboarding
4 115 (3.69%) Product Ownership
4 115 (3.69%) Self-Motivation
5 99 (3.18%) Legacy Systems
6 82 (2.63%) Driving Licence
7 68 (2.18%) Data Centre
8 49 (1.57%) Cloud Native
9 44 (1.41%) Cyber Threat
10 40 (1.28%) Security Posture
11 35 (1.12%) Algorithms
12 34 (1.09%) Social Media
13 32 (1.03%) Data Structures
13 32 (1.03%) Virtual Team
14 30 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
15 29 (0.93%) FMCG
16 27 (0.87%) PKI
16 27 (0.87%) Security Operations Centre
17 26 (0.83%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 269 (8.64%) Windows
2 163 (5.23%) Windows Server
3 158 (5.07%) Linux
4 86 (2.76%) Windows Server 2016
5 18 (0.58%) Unix
5 18 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
6 17 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 16 (0.51%) Android
8 14 (0.45%) Apple iOS
9 13 (0.42%) Windows 10
10 12 (0.39%) Mac OS
11 11 (0.35%) Ubuntu
12 9 (0.29%) CentOS
13 8 (0.26%) VMS
14 5 (0.16%) Debian
14 5 (0.16%) OpenVMS
15 2 (0.064%) Windows Server 2012
16 1 (0.032%) FreeRTOS
16 1 (0.032%) OpenBSD
16 1 (0.032%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,462 (46.95%) Problem-Solving
2 871 (27.97%) Continuous Improvement
3 721 (23.15%) Decision-Making
4 636 (20.42%) Analytics
5 436 (14.00%) Agile
6 421 (13.52%) Business Intelligence
7 392 (12.59%) Stakeholder Management
8 335 (10.76%) AI
9 329 (10.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 320 (10.28%) Actionable Insight
11 283 (9.09%) Customer Service
12 282 (9.06%) Data Analysis
13 279 (8.96%) ERP
14 274 (8.80%) Cybersecurity
15 269 (8.64%) Project Management
16 256 (8.22%) Customer Experience
17 254 (8.16%) Mentoring
18 252 (8.09%) CRM
19 245 (7.87%) Roadmaps
20 242 (7.77%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 671 (21.55%) SQL
2 490 (15.74%) Python
3 109 (3.50%) JavaScript
4 99 (3.18%) Java
5 97 (3.11%) PowerShell
6 94 (3.02%) C#
7 59 (1.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 48 (1.54%) C++
9 46 (1.48%) T-SQL
10 44 (1.41%) Bash
11 40 (1.28%) R
12 34 (1.09%) MATLAB
13 31 (1.00%) VBA
14 22 (0.71%) TypeScript
15 20 (0.64%) PHP
16 17 (0.55%) Go
17 15 (0.48%) C
18 12 (0.39%) Perl
18 12 (0.39%) PL/SQL
19 11 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 520 (16.70%) Degree
2 311 (9.99%) Security Cleared
3 221 (7.10%) SC Cleared
4 158 (5.07%) ACCA
5 152 (4.88%) CIMA
6 130 (4.17%) DBS Check
7 83 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 66 (2.12%) Cisco Certification
8 66 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 66 (2.12%) IRCA
9 52 (1.67%) CISSP
10 49 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
11 47 (1.51%) DV Cleared
12 42 (1.35%) CompTIA Security+
13 37 (1.19%) CISM
14 34 (1.09%) CCNA
15 26 (0.83%) Master's Degree
16 25 (0.80%) Azure Certification
16 25 (0.80%) PMI Certification
17 24 (0.77%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 311 (9.99%) Data Quality
2 244 (7.84%) GDPR
3 208 (6.68%) QA
4 165 (5.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 150 (4.82%) Cyber Essentials
6 111 (3.56%) ISO 9001
6 111 (3.56%) PCI DSS
7 104 (3.34%) NIST
8 86 (2.76%) SLA
9 69 (2.22%) Accessibility
10 46 (1.48%) GRC
11 38 (1.22%) PMO
12 32 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
13 28 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 22 (0.71%) ISO 14001
14 22 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 18 (0.58%) GMP
16 17 (0.55%) TickIT
17 16 (0.51%) SOC 2
18 15 (0.48%) IFRS
System Software
1 213 (6.84%) Active Directory
2 83 (2.67%) Hyper-V
3 72 (2.31%) Terminal Server
4 61 (1.96%) Docker
5 33 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
6 11 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.32%) vSphere
8 9 (0.29%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.19%) ProxySG
10 4 (0.13%) Firmware
10 4 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 4 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.13%) XenApp
11 3 (0.096%) DFS Replication
12 2 (0.064%) Embedded Firmware
13 1 (0.032%) KVM
13 1 (0.032%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.032%) VirtualBox
13 1 (0.032%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 67 (2.15%) Terraform
2 46 (1.48%) Kubernetes
3 38 (1.22%) Ansible
4 27 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
5 24 (0.77%) Grafana
6 14 (0.45%) Kibana
7 13 (0.42%) QRadar
8 10 (0.32%) Prometheus
9 8 (0.26%) Kubeflow
9 8 (0.26%) Nagios
10 7 (0.22%) logstash
11 6 (0.19%) Graylog
12 5 (0.16%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.16%) Podman
13 4 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.13%) Backup Exec
13 4 (0.13%) Functional Safety
13 4 (0.13%) SCCM
13 4 (0.13%) SolarWinds Orion
13 4 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 755 (24.25%) Microsoft
2 132 (4.24%) Google
3 121 (3.89%) SAP
4 111 (3.56%) VMware
5 107 (3.44%) Splunk
6 93 (2.99%) SolarWinds
7 91 (2.92%) Salesforce
8 83 (2.67%) Veeam
9 73 (2.34%) Nimble Storage
9 73 (2.34%) Oracle
10 72 (2.31%) Brocade
10 72 (2.31%) Tanium
11 66 (2.12%) Workday
12 55 (1.77%) Databricks
13 52 (1.67%) Cisco
14 37 (1.19%) IBM
14 37 (1.19%) ServiceNow
15 30 (0.96%) Adobe
16 28 (0.90%) HubSpot
17 26 (0.83%) Dell