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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 8 12
Rank change year-on-year -17 +4 +15
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,745 4,067 5,174
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.80% 11.66% 8.72%
As % of the General category 10.87% 17.53% 16.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2,351 1,553 2,356
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,775 £32,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.06% -2.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - - -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 34,444 23,206 31,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.17% 66.52% 53.65%
Number of salaries quoted 21,251 11,384 17,863
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,000 £27,117
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £66,076 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,675 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -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 17 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 17 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 -20 1,056 £47,500 +5.56% 849
South East -9 895 £50,000 -4.76% 936
Midlands -9 649 £47,750 +6.11% 461
North West -16 640 £47,000 +4.44% 503
South West -12 519 £47,500 +5.56% 444
West Midlands -15 337 £50,000 +11.11% 273
East Midlands -1 310 £45,483 +1.07% 188
Yorkshire -9 294 £47,000 +17.50% 261
East of England -19 259 £47,500 +5.56% 317
Wales -13 143 £52,105 +3.40% 77
Scotland -23 133 £44,000 +3.53% 257
North East -20 122 £53,750 +32.72% 95
Northern Ireland -23 100 £42,500 -22.73% 120
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
1 164 (4.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 124 (3.31%) SharePoint
3 47 (1.26%) Confluence
4 30 (0.80%) Apache
4 30 (0.80%) Apache Spark
5 28 (0.75%) IIS
6 26 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
7 24 (0.64%) CMS
8 10 (0.27%) SAS
8 10 (0.27%) WordPress
9 9 (0.24%) Jupyter
9 9 (0.24%) WebLogic
9 9 (0.24%) WebSphere
10 8 (0.21%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.080%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.080%) JBoss
13 2 (0.053%) Oracle Application Server
13 2 (0.053%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.027%) Umbraco
Applications
1 444 (11.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 196 (5.23%) Microsoft Office
3 74 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 58 (1.55%) MS Visio
5 25 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
6 19 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.19%) Simulink
8 5 (0.13%) EPLAN
9 4 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.11%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.11%) CATIA
9 4 (0.11%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.080%) LaTeX
10 3 (0.080%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.080%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.080%) Trello
11 2 (0.053%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.053%) Lectora
11 2 (0.053%) Siemens NX
12 1 (0.027%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 76 (2.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 39 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
3 34 (0.91%) Dynamics GP
4 27 (0.72%) NetSuite
5 19 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
5 19 (0.51%) SAP PM
6 14 (0.37%) SAP ERP
7 12 (0.32%) Shopify
8 10 (0.27%) Magento
9 9 (0.24%) SAP Business One
10 8 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
11 7 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
12 6 (0.16%) Workday HCM
13 5 (0.13%) JDE EnterpriseOne
13 5 (0.13%) SAP GTS
13 5 (0.13%) SAP PP
14 4 (0.11%) Academy Housing
14 4 (0.11%) Infor M3
14 4 (0.11%) JDE World
14 4 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 626 (16.72%) Azure
2 441 (11.78%) Power Platform
3 326 (8.70%) AWS
4 311 (8.30%) Microsoft 365
5 178 (4.75%) SaaS
6 145 (3.87%) GCP
7 95 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
8 91 (2.43%) Entra ID
9 87 (2.32%) Dynamics 365
10 76 (2.03%) Google Analytics
11 62 (1.66%) Google Ads
12 60 (1.60%) Power Automate
13 59 (1.58%) GitHub
14 56 (1.50%) PowerApps
15 50 (1.34%) Amazon S3
16 41 (1.09%) Microsoft Purview
16 41 (1.09%) Serverless
17 40 (1.07%) Meta Ads
18 39 (1.04%) Snowflake
19 34 (0.91%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 157 (4.19%) DNS
2 125 (3.34%) DHCP
3 104 (2.78%) Firewall
4 88 (2.35%) VPN
5 74 (1.98%) TCP/IP
6 64 (1.71%) WAN
7 59 (1.58%) LAN
8 45 (1.20%) Wireless
9 36 (0.96%) Network Security
9 36 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
10 30 (0.80%) Broadband
11 27 (0.72%) HTTP
12 24 (0.64%) VoIP
13 23 (0.61%) SAN
14 19 (0.51%) SD-WAN
15 18 (0.48%) Internet
16 17 (0.45%) BGP
16 17 (0.45%) VLAN
17 16 (0.43%) SMS
18 14 (0.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 388 (10.36%) Power BI
2 165 (4.41%) Tableau
3 125 (3.34%) SQL Server
4 116 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
5 104 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
6 68 (1.82%) Relational Database
7 62 (1.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 58 (1.55%) MySQL
9 48 (1.28%) Power Query
10 47 (1.26%) Looker
11 45 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 43 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
13 41 (1.09%) Metadata
14 39 (1.04%) Data Lake
15 34 (0.91%) Data Mining
16 33 (0.88%) BigQuery
17 32 (0.85%) Big Data
18 29 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
19 23 (0.61%) NoSQL
20 20 (0.53%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 149 (3.98%) JIRA
2 134 (3.58%) Git
3 37 (0.99%) GitLab
4 32 (0.85%) Jenkins
5 31 (0.83%) Rational DOORS
6 15 (0.40%) Cucumber
6 15 (0.40%) Eclipse
6 15 (0.40%) Selenium
7 14 (0.37%) Cypress.io
7 14 (0.37%) Postman
8 13 (0.35%) Burp Suite
9 12 (0.32%) MLflow
9 12 (0.32%) Oracle Forms
10 11 (0.29%) Metasploit
11 10 (0.27%) Claude Code
11 10 (0.27%) LabVIEW
12 9 (0.24%) JMeter
12 9 (0.24%) SonarQube
13 8 (0.21%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,853 (49.48%) Social Skills
2 1,051 (28.06%) Finance
3 383 (10.23%) Marketing
4 266 (7.10%) Organisational Skills
5 259 (6.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 243 (6.49%) Manufacturing
7 237 (6.33%) Retail
8 229 (6.11%) Legal
9 208 (5.55%) Public Sector
10 186 (4.97%) Influencing Skills
11 185 (4.94%) Law
12 154 (4.11%) Aerospace
13 111 (2.96%) Telecoms
14 102 (2.72%) Electronics
15 84 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
16 68 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
17 67 (1.79%) Military
18 60 (1.60%) Banking
19 52 (1.39%) Advertising
20 37 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 884 (23.60%) Analyst
2 411 (10.97%) Senior
3 249 (6.65%) Lead
4 211 (5.63%) Data Analyst
5 201 (5.37%) Developer
6 179 (4.78%) Systems Engineer
7 174 (4.65%) Business Analyst
8 131 (3.50%) Architect
9 125 (3.34%) Support Analyst
10 119 (3.18%) Support Engineer
11 104 (2.78%) Senior Analyst
12 101 (2.70%) Data Engineer
12 101 (2.70%) IT Support
13 100 (2.67%) Consultant
14 84 (2.24%) IT Engineer
15 81 (2.16%) Systems Analyst
16 76 (2.03%) Accountant
17 67 (1.79%) Applications Support
17 67 (1.79%) IT Manager
18 66 (1.76%) Head of QA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (2.51%) .NET
2 79 (2.11%) HTML
3 77 (2.06%) REST
4 72 (1.92%) CSS
5 63 (1.68%) Middleware
6 53 (1.42%) XML
7 51 (1.36%) JSON
8 43 (1.15%) React
8 43 (1.15%) SOAP
9 42 (1.12%) RESTful
10 34 (0.91%) EDI
11 32 (0.85%) Kafka
12 31 (0.83%) LDAP
13 29 (0.77%) OAuth
14 27 (0.72%) Node.js
14 27 (0.72%) PyTorch
15 26 (0.69%) ModSecurity
15 26 (0.69%) PySpark
16 25 (0.67%) ASP.NET
17 24 (0.64%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 400 (10.68%) Analytical Mindset
2 219 (5.85%) Management Information System
3 187 (4.99%) Self-Motivation
4 179 (4.78%) Onboarding
5 146 (3.90%) Product Ownership
6 129 (3.44%) Legacy Systems
7 126 (3.36%) Driving Licence
8 82 (2.19%) Social Media
9 74 (1.98%) Cloud Native
10 69 (1.84%) Marketing Technology
11 67 (1.79%) Data Centre
12 63 (1.68%) Virtual Team
13 62 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
14 61 (1.63%) Cyber Threat
15 56 (1.50%) Blog
16 48 (1.28%) Security Posture
17 33 (0.88%) AI Agents
17 33 (0.88%) Data Structures
18 32 (0.85%) Cyber Defence
19 31 (0.83%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 331 (8.84%) Windows
2 208 (5.55%) Linux
3 186 (4.97%) Windows Server
4 95 (2.54%) Windows Server 2016
5 26 (0.69%) Mac OS
6 23 (0.61%) Windows 10
7 22 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
8 21 (0.56%) Unix
9 17 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 15 (0.40%) Android
11 13 (0.35%) Apple iOS
12 11 (0.29%) CentOS
13 9 (0.24%) Ubuntu
14 7 (0.19%) Debian
15 6 (0.16%) VMS
16 5 (0.13%) OpenVMS
17 4 (0.11%) CoreOS
18 2 (0.053%) Solaris
19 1 (0.027%) AIX
19 1 (0.027%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,827 (48.79%) Problem-Solving
2 1,173 (31.32%) Continuous Improvement
3 891 (23.79%) Decision-Making
4 737 (19.68%) Analytics
5 604 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
6 564 (15.06%) Agile
7 557 (14.87%) AI
8 472 (12.60%) Business Intelligence
9 409 (10.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 384 (10.25%) Actionable Insight
11 355 (9.48%) Validation
12 340 (9.08%) ERP
13 337 (9.00%) Customer Experience
14 332 (8.87%) Data Analysis
15 324 (8.65%) Customer Service
16 323 (8.62%) CRM
17 318 (8.49%) Project Management
18 316 (8.44%) Mentoring
19 307 (8.20%) Service Delivery
20 297 (7.93%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 723 (19.31%) SQL
2 484 (12.92%) Python
3 144 (3.85%) JavaScript
4 113 (3.02%) Java
5 109 (2.91%) C#
6 101 (2.70%) PowerShell
7 63 (1.68%) Bash
7 63 (1.68%) C++
8 58 (1.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 39 (1.04%) T-SQL
10 38 (1.01%) TypeScript
11 34 (0.91%) MATLAB
12 30 (0.80%) R
13 27 (0.72%) C
14 22 (0.59%) PHP
15 16 (0.43%) Go
15 16 (0.43%) Scala
16 15 (0.40%) Perl
17 14 (0.37%) PL/SQL
17 14 (0.37%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 651 (17.38%) Degree
2 458 (12.23%) Security Cleared
3 318 (8.49%) SC Cleared
4 144 (3.85%) ACCA
5 138 (3.68%) CIMA
6 128 (3.42%) DBS Check
7 115 (3.07%) BPSS Clearance
7 115 (3.07%) DV Cleared
8 82 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 75 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
10 70 (1.87%) CISSP
11 67 (1.79%) IRCA
12 56 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
13 51 (1.36%) CISM
14 50 (1.34%) CompTIA Security+
15 40 (1.07%) CCNA
16 38 (1.01%) HND
17 37 (0.99%) HNC
18 36 (0.96%) Azure Certification
19 33 (0.88%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 346 (9.24%) Data Quality
2 287 (7.66%) QA
3 255 (6.81%) GDPR
4 147 (3.93%) Cyber Essentials
5 137 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 119 (3.18%) ISO 9001
7 113 (3.02%) PCI DSS
8 95 (2.54%) SLA
9 94 (2.51%) Accessibility
10 84 (2.24%) NIST
11 41 (1.09%) GRC
12 37 (0.99%) PMO
13 28 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 25 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
15 23 (0.61%) ISO 14001
15 23 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 22 (0.59%) GMP
17 18 (0.48%) DO-254
17 18 (0.48%) Good Clinical Practice
17 18 (0.48%) IFRS
System Software
1 257 (6.86%) Active Directory
2 107 (2.86%) Docker
3 99 (2.64%) Hyper-V
4 80 (2.14%) Terminal Server
5 37 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
6 26 (0.69%) Firmware
7 12 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.21%) VMware NSX
10 7 (0.19%) Ceph
10 7 (0.19%) vSphere
11 5 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
12 4 (0.11%) KVM
12 4 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.080%) DFS Replication
13 3 (0.080%) XenApp
14 2 (0.053%) ProxySG
15 1 (0.027%) NFS
15 1 (0.027%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 76 (2.03%) Terraform
2 70 (1.87%) Kubernetes
3 46 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
4 41 (1.09%) Ansible
5 25 (0.67%) Grafana
6 20 (0.53%) Prometheus
7 17 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (0.40%) QRadar
9 14 (0.37%) Kibana
10 11 (0.29%) Nmap
10 11 (0.29%) Podman
11 7 (0.19%) Argo
11 7 (0.19%) Check_MK
11 7 (0.19%) Istio
11 7 (0.19%) logstash
12 6 (0.16%) Kubeflow
13 5 (0.13%) Functional Safety
13 5 (0.13%) Graylog
13 5 (0.13%) Nagios
13 5 (0.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 894 (23.87%) Microsoft
2 204 (5.45%) Google
3 131 (3.50%) SAP
4 130 (3.47%) VMware
5 125 (3.34%) Splunk
6 102 (2.72%) Oracle
7 95 (2.54%) SolarWinds
8 87 (2.32%) Veeam
9 81 (2.16%) Brocade
9 81 (2.16%) Nimble Storage
10 80 (2.14%) Tanium
11 77 (2.06%) Salesforce
12 64 (1.71%) Workday
13 63 (1.68%) ServiceNow
14 62 (1.66%) Cisco
15 60 (1.60%) Databricks
16 34 (0.91%) Red Hat
17 33 (0.88%) Adobe
17 33 (0.88%) Dell
18 32 (0.85%) IBM