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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 8 12
Rank change year-on-year -16 +4 +9
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,857 4,014 5,127
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.79% 11.55% 8.81%
As % of the General category 10.99% 17.58% 16.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2,373 1,538 2,168
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,675 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £32,563 £37,199
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £61,250 £60,438 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £76,250
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 35,110 22,836 31,003
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 43.63% 65.69% 53.25%
Number of salaries quoted 21,796 11,334 16,314
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £66,250 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,125 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.62% -1.59% -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 2 September 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 2 September 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 1,064 £47,500 +6.74% 930
South East -7 922 £49,480 -5.75% 1,093
Midlands -8 666 £47,500 +5.56% 537
North West -15 653 £46,500 +3.33% 566
South West -10 544 £48,938 +8.75% 567
West Midlands -16 345 £49,000 +8.89% 315
East Midlands -5 318 £45,483 +1.07% 222
Yorkshire -13 284 £47,000 +17.50% 279
East of England -17 249 £47,750 +6.11% 363
Wales -12 169 £47,500 -5.58% 81
Scotland -21 132 £44,000 +10.00% 371
North East -17 127 £51,500 +25.61% 96
Northern Ireland -14 117 £42,500 -22.73% 227
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
1 168 (4.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 134 (3.47%) SharePoint
3 50 (1.30%) Confluence
4 30 (0.78%) IIS
5 27 (0.70%) Apache
6 26 (0.67%) Apache Spark
7 21 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
8 18 (0.47%) CMS
9 13 (0.34%) SAS
10 10 (0.26%) Jupyter
10 10 (0.26%) WordPress
11 9 (0.23%) WebLogic
11 9 (0.23%) WebSphere
12 8 (0.21%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 3 (0.078%) Anypoint
15 2 (0.052%) Oracle Application Server
15 2 (0.052%) Oracle Workflow
16 1 (0.026%) CICS
16 1 (0.026%) Umbraco
Applications
1 450 (11.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 205 (5.32%) Microsoft Office
3 74 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 51 (1.32%) MS Visio
5 26 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
6 22 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.31%) Simulink
8 5 (0.13%) CATIA
8 5 (0.13%) EPLAN
9 4 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.10%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.10%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.10%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.078%) LaTeX
10 3 (0.078%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.078%) Siemens NX
11 2 (0.052%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.052%) Lectora
11 2 (0.052%) Trello
12 1 (0.026%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 85 (2.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.83%) Dynamics GP
2 32 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 27 (0.70%) NetSuite
4 18 (0.47%) Shopify
5 16 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
6 14 (0.36%) SAP PM
7 11 (0.29%) Magento
8 10 (0.26%) SAP Business One
8 10 (0.26%) SAP ERP
9 8 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
10 7 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
10 7 (0.18%) Infor M3
10 7 (0.18%) Workday HCM
11 6 (0.16%) Exchequer
11 6 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
12 5 (0.13%) JDE EnterpriseOne
12 5 (0.13%) Sage 50
12 5 (0.13%) SAP GTS
13 4 (0.10%) JDE World
Cloud Services
1 633 (16.41%) Azure
2 455 (11.80%) Power Platform
3 339 (8.79%) AWS
4 318 (8.24%) Microsoft 365
5 200 (5.19%) SaaS
6 142 (3.68%) GCP
7 100 (2.59%) Entra ID
8 97 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
9 92 (2.39%) Dynamics 365
10 84 (2.18%) Google Analytics
11 81 (2.10%) Google Ads
12 62 (1.61%) Power Automate
13 61 (1.58%) GitHub
14 60 (1.56%) PowerApps
15 59 (1.53%) Meta Ads
16 49 (1.27%) Serverless
17 45 (1.17%) Microsoft Purview
18 44 (1.14%) Amazon S3
19 37 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
20 36 (0.93%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 166 (4.30%) DNS
2 132 (3.42%) DHCP
3 109 (2.83%) Firewall
4 95 (2.46%) VPN
5 78 (2.02%) TCP/IP
6 67 (1.74%) WAN
7 62 (1.61%) LAN
8 51 (1.32%) Wireless
9 43 (1.11%) Network Security
10 36 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
11 28 (0.73%) Broadband
12 27 (0.70%) HTTP
13 26 (0.67%) VoIP
14 25 (0.65%) VLAN
15 21 (0.54%) BGP
15 21 (0.54%) SD-WAN
16 20 (0.52%) Internet
17 18 (0.47%) SAN
17 18 (0.47%) SMS
18 16 (0.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 400 (10.37%) Power BI
2 130 (3.37%) Tableau
3 120 (3.11%) SQL Server
4 118 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
5 106 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
6 71 (1.84%) Relational Database
7 65 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 58 (1.50%) MySQL
9 51 (1.32%) Looker
9 51 (1.32%) Power Query
10 45 (1.17%) Metadata
11 44 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 42 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
13 38 (0.99%) Data Lake
14 34 (0.88%) BigQuery
15 32 (0.83%) Big Data
16 28 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
17 24 (0.62%) NoSQL
18 22 (0.57%) MongoDB
19 20 (0.52%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 154 (3.99%) JIRA
2 129 (3.34%) Git
3 33 (0.86%) Jenkins
4 32 (0.83%) GitLab
5 31 (0.80%) Rational DOORS
6 17 (0.44%) Eclipse
7 15 (0.39%) Cucumber
7 15 (0.39%) Selenium
8 14 (0.36%) LabVIEW
8 14 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
8 14 (0.36%) Postman
9 13 (0.34%) Burp Suite
10 12 (0.31%) Claude Code
10 12 (0.31%) Cypress.io
11 11 (0.29%) Metasploit
12 10 (0.26%) Bitbucket
12 10 (0.26%) MLflow
12 10 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
13 9 (0.23%) JMeter
14 7 (0.18%) Moq
General
1 1,923 (49.86%) Social Skills
2 1,086 (28.16%) Finance
3 428 (11.10%) Marketing
4 289 (7.49%) Organisational Skills
5 279 (7.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 258 (6.69%) Manufacturing
7 248 (6.43%) Retail
8 245 (6.35%) Legal
9 220 (5.70%) Public Sector
10 212 (5.50%) Law
11 208 (5.39%) Influencing Skills
12 168 (4.36%) Aerospace
13 117 (3.03%) Electronics
14 108 (2.80%) Telecoms
15 105 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
16 68 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
17 66 (1.71%) Military
18 56 (1.45%) Banking
19 55 (1.43%) Advertising
20 43 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 882 (22.87%) Analyst
2 431 (11.17%) Senior
3 259 (6.72%) Lead
4 206 (5.34%) Developer
5 198 (5.13%) Data Analyst
6 181 (4.69%) Systems Engineer
7 172 (4.46%) Business Analyst
8 139 (3.60%) Support Analyst
9 133 (3.45%) Architect
10 114 (2.96%) Support Engineer
11 110 (2.85%) Data Engineer
11 110 (2.85%) Senior Analyst
12 106 (2.75%) Consultant
13 100 (2.59%) IT Support
14 81 (2.10%) IT Engineer
14 81 (2.10%) Systems Analyst
15 80 (2.07%) Accountant
16 79 (2.05%) Marketing Manager
17 73 (1.89%) Applications Support
18 67 (1.74%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (2.70%) .NET
2 79 (2.05%) REST
3 76 (1.97%) HTML
4 73 (1.89%) Terraform
5 69 (1.79%) CSS
6 63 (1.63%) Middleware
7 58 (1.50%) XML
8 51 (1.32%) JSON
9 47 (1.22%) SOAP
10 43 (1.11%) RESTful
11 40 (1.04%) EDI
12 36 (0.93%) PySpark
12 36 (0.93%) React
13 35 (0.91%) LDAP
14 34 (0.88%) Kafka
15 30 (0.78%) ModSecurity
16 28 (0.73%) ASP.NET
17 26 (0.67%) OAuth
18 25 (0.65%) PyTorch
19 23 (0.60%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 358 (9.28%) Analytical Mindset
2 249 (6.46%) Management Information System
3 209 (5.42%) Onboarding
4 199 (5.16%) Self-Motivation
5 157 (4.07%) Product Ownership
6 131 (3.40%) Driving Licence
7 127 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
8 90 (2.33%) Social Media
9 82 (2.13%) Marketing Technology
10 80 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
11 71 (1.84%) Cloud Native
12 69 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
13 68 (1.76%) Data Centre
14 67 (1.74%) Blog
15 65 (1.69%) Virtual Team
16 47 (1.22%) Security Posture
17 39 (1.01%) Data Structures
18 35 (0.91%) AI Agents
18 35 (0.91%) SCADA
19 33 (0.86%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 335 (8.69%) Windows
2 204 (5.29%) Linux
3 187 (4.85%) Windows Server
4 95 (2.46%) Windows Server 2016
5 28 (0.73%) Mac OS
6 25 (0.65%) Windows 10
7 22 (0.57%) Unix
7 22 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
8 15 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 13 (0.34%) Apple iOS
10 12 (0.31%) Android
11 9 (0.23%) CentOS
12 7 (0.18%) Ubuntu
13 6 (0.16%) Debian
13 6 (0.16%) VMS
14 5 (0.13%) OpenVMS
15 4 (0.10%) CoreOS
16 2 (0.052%) Solaris
17 1 (0.026%) AIX
17 1 (0.026%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,897 (49.18%) Problem-Solving
2 1,208 (31.32%) Continuous Improvement
3 945 (24.50%) Decision-Making
4 725 (18.80%) Analytics
5 655 (16.98%) Stakeholder Management
6 606 (15.71%) AI
7 602 (15.61%) Agile
8 503 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
9 410 (10.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 383 (9.93%) Validation
11 380 (9.85%) Actionable Insight
12 366 (9.49%) ERP
13 365 (9.46%) Customer Service
14 354 (9.18%) CRM
15 345 (8.94%) Mentoring
16 332 (8.61%) Data Analysis
17 319 (8.27%) Customer Experience
18 311 (8.06%) Project Management
19 304 (7.88%) Cybersecurity
20 300 (7.78%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 737 (19.11%) SQL
2 458 (11.87%) Python
3 151 (3.91%) JavaScript
4 130 (3.37%) Java
5 119 (3.09%) C#
6 104 (2.70%) PowerShell
7 76 (1.97%) C++
8 58 (1.50%) Bash
8 58 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 41 (1.06%) TypeScript
10 39 (1.01%) MATLAB
11 38 (0.99%) T-SQL
12 32 (0.83%) R
13 29 (0.75%) C
14 23 (0.60%) PHP
15 17 (0.44%) PL/SQL
15 17 (0.44%) Scala
16 16 (0.41%) Perl
16 16 (0.41%) VB.NET
17 15 (0.39%) Go
Qualifications
1 708 (18.36%) Degree
2 486 (12.60%) Security Cleared
3 336 (8.71%) SC Cleared
4 144 (3.73%) ACCA
5 137 (3.55%) CIMA
6 120 (3.11%) DV Cleared
7 118 (3.06%) DBS Check
8 111 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
9 83 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
10 75 (1.94%) CISSP
11 72 (1.87%) Cisco Certification
12 57 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
13 56 (1.45%) CISM
14 48 (1.24%) CompTIA Security+
15 47 (1.22%) HND
16 42 (1.09%) Azure Certification
17 37 (0.96%) CCNA
17 37 (0.96%) PMI Certification
18 36 (0.93%) HNC
19 34 (0.88%) IRCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 361 (9.36%) Data Quality
2 274 (7.10%) QA
3 227 (5.89%) GDPR
4 147 (3.81%) Cyber Essentials
5 145 (3.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 111 (2.88%) PCI DSS
7 101 (2.62%) Accessibility
8 91 (2.36%) ISO 9001
9 88 (2.28%) SLA
10 85 (2.20%) NIST
11 39 (1.01%) GRC
12 36 (0.93%) PMO
13 28 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 24 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
15 23 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 22 (0.57%) ISO 14001
17 20 (0.52%) DO-254
17 20 (0.52%) IFRS
18 18 (0.47%) Good Clinical Practice
19 17 (0.44%) TickIT
System Software
1 260 (6.74%) Active Directory
2 102 (2.64%) Hyper-V
3 100 (2.59%) Docker
4 80 (2.07%) Terminal Server
5 39 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
6 32 (0.83%) Firmware
7 13 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
8 10 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
9 8 (0.21%) VMware NSX
10 7 (0.18%) Ceph
11 6 (0.16%) vSphere
12 4 (0.10%) KVM
12 4 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.078%) DFS Replication
14 2 (0.052%) ProxySG
15 1 (0.026%) NFS
15 1 (0.026%) Oracle RAC
15 1 (0.026%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 67 (1.74%) Kubernetes
2 46 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
3 41 (1.06%) Ansible
4 25 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
5 24 (0.62%) Grafana
6 19 (0.49%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.39%) QRadar
8 14 (0.36%) Kibana
9 11 (0.29%) Nmap
9 11 (0.29%) Podman
10 7 (0.18%) Argo
10 7 (0.18%) Check_MK
10 7 (0.18%) Istio
10 7 (0.18%) logstash
11 6 (0.16%) Functional Safety
11 6 (0.16%) Graylog
11 6 (0.16%) Kubeflow
12 5 (0.13%) SCCM
13 4 (0.10%) McAfee ePO
13 4 (0.10%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 931 (24.14%) Microsoft
2 229 (5.94%) Google
3 134 (3.47%) VMware
4 129 (3.34%) SAP
5 126 (3.27%) Splunk
6 99 (2.57%) Oracle
7 95 (2.46%) SolarWinds
8 87 (2.26%) Veeam
9 81 (2.10%) Brocade
9 81 (2.10%) Nimble Storage
10 80 (2.07%) Salesforce
10 80 (2.07%) Tanium
11 66 (1.71%) ServiceNow
12 65 (1.69%) Cisco
13 59 (1.53%) Databricks
14 53 (1.37%) Workday
15 45 (1.17%) YouTube
16 37 (0.96%) Adobe
17 34 (0.88%) HubSpot
18 33 (0.86%) IBM