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 21 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 13 20
Rank change year-on-year -9 +7 +1
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,405 3,854 2,539
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 8.10% 10.12% 9.07%
As % of the General category 14.05% 16.13% 14.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,605 1,606 1,792
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £33,250 £39,000 £36,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,967 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.71% +1.93% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £66,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £73,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £56,684
% change year-on-year -9.09% -2.97% +3.06%

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 common skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 24,227 23,897 17,852
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 57.61% 62.72% 63.74%
Number of salaries quoted 12,449 10,176 12,866
10th Percentile £26,520 £30,729 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 21 December 2025.

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 21 December 2025. 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
South East +3 872 £50,000 - 782
North of England -12 801 £43,000 -18.10% 819
Midlands -9 622 £44,272 -11.46% 462
North West -12 416 £45,000 -14.29% 378
South West +3 392 £45,000 -14.29% 283
West Midlands -12 371 £52,500 +5.00% 253
Scotland +3 342 £33,500 -44.17% 41
East of England -18 287 £40,000 -21.52% 371
Yorkshire +2 275 £40,000 -20.00% 365
East Midlands +1 249 £37,500 -11.76% 209
North East +13 110 £41,500 +3.75% 87
Wales +9 78 £48,122 -2.00% 74
Northern Ireland -2 44 £52,500 +0.55% 10
Isle of Man -1 1 £62,500 +150.00% 1
Channel Islands -6 1 - - 1
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
1 125 (3.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 59 (1.73%) Confluence
3 48 (1.41%) SharePoint
4 23 (0.68%) CMS
5 15 (0.44%) IIS
5 15 (0.44%) WordPress
6 14 (0.41%) Apache Spark
7 12 (0.35%) SAS
8 11 (0.32%) Apache
9 9 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
10 6 (0.18%) nginx
11 4 (0.12%) Camunda
12 3 (0.088%) HCL Notes
12 3 (0.088%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.088%) Skype for Business
13 2 (0.059%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.059%) FactoryTalk
13 2 (0.059%) WinCC
14 1 (0.029%) Apache Superset
14 1 (0.029%) OpenStack
Applications
1 554 (16.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 395 (11.60%) Chatbot
3 251 (7.37%) Microsoft Office
4 87 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 39 (1.15%) MS Visio
6 32 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
7 27 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
8 17 (0.50%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.23%) SOLIDWORKS
10 5 (0.15%) CATIA
11 4 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
11 4 (0.12%) Photoshop
11 4 (0.12%) Simulink
12 3 (0.088%) Adobe XD
13 2 (0.059%) Revit
13 2 (0.059%) Sketch
13 2 (0.059%) Trello
14 1 (0.029%) OrCAD
14 1 (0.029%) Siemens NX
14 1 (0.029%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 93 (2.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 64 (1.88%) SAP MDG
3 37 (1.09%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 36 (1.06%) NetSuite
5 29 (0.85%) Oracle Payables
6 23 (0.68%) Shopify
7 20 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
8 19 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
9 16 (0.47%) Oracle Assets
10 12 (0.35%) Sage X3
11 10 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
11 10 (0.29%) SAP CO
11 10 (0.29%) Workday HCM
12 8 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
12 8 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
13 7 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
13 7 (0.21%) SAP FI
13 7 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
14 6 (0.18%) JDE EnterpriseOne
14 6 (0.18%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 451 (13.25%) Azure
2 382 (11.22%) Power Platform
3 195 (5.73%) Microsoft 365
4 148 (4.35%) SaaS
5 144 (4.23%) AWS
6 103 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
7 62 (1.82%) Snowflake
8 61 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
9 48 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
10 46 (1.35%) GitHub
11 42 (1.23%) Entra ID
12 37 (1.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 37 (1.09%) GCP
13 36 (1.06%) Google Analytics
14 34 (1.00%) dbt
15 26 (0.76%) GitHub Copilot
16 25 (0.73%) Microsoft Copilot
16 25 (0.73%) Microsoft Purview
17 23 (0.68%) Power Automate
18 21 (0.62%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 134 (3.94%) DNS
2 114 (3.35%) DHCP
3 71 (2.09%) Firewall
4 57 (1.67%) Network Security
5 45 (1.32%) LAN
5 45 (1.32%) VPN
6 44 (1.29%) Remote Desktop
7 40 (1.17%) WAN
8 39 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
9 31 (0.91%) TCP/IP
9 31 (0.91%) Wireless
10 29 (0.85%) VoIP
11 25 (0.73%) SMS
11 25 (0.73%) VLAN
12 19 (0.56%) Wireshark
13 16 (0.47%) SD-WAN
14 14 (0.41%) Internet
15 12 (0.35%) Intrusion Detection
15 12 (0.35%) SAN
16 11 (0.32%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 353 (10.37%) Power BI
2 210 (6.17%) Tableau
3 133 (3.91%) Data Mining
4 96 (2.82%) SQL Server
5 90 (2.64%) Amazon RDS
6 78 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
7 53 (1.56%) Data Lake
7 53 (1.56%) Relational Database
8 50 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 43 (1.26%) Metadata
10 40 (1.17%) MySQL
11 37 (1.09%) GIS
12 34 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
13 33 (0.97%) Looker
14 30 (0.88%) SAP BW
15 24 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
15 24 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
15 24 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 23 (0.68%) Power Query
17 21 (0.62%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 146 (4.29%) JIRA
2 50 (1.47%) Git
3 29 (0.85%) Selenium
4 18 (0.53%) Jenkins
4 18 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
5 15 (0.44%) Robot Framework
6 14 (0.41%) GitLab
7 13 (0.38%) ERwin
7 13 (0.38%) Snyk
8 12 (0.35%) ER Studio
9 8 (0.23%) Postman
10 7 (0.21%) Cypress.io
10 7 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (0.21%) TestRail
11 6 (0.18%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.18%) WebDriver
12 5 (0.15%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.15%) Subversion
13 4 (0.12%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,662 (48.81%) Social Skills
2 947 (27.81%) Finance
3 318 (9.34%) Marketing
4 209 (6.14%) Retail
5 150 (4.41%) Manufacturing
6 140 (4.11%) Organisational Skills
7 133 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 133 (3.91%) Legal
8 124 (3.64%) Public Sector
9 121 (3.55%) Law
10 109 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
11 81 (2.38%) Telecoms
12 71 (2.09%) Electronics
12 71 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
13 57 (1.67%) Banking
14 51 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
15 50 (1.47%) Aerospace
16 45 (1.32%) Aviation
17 39 (1.15%) Advertising
18 30 (0.88%) German Language
Job Titles
1 763 (22.41%) Analyst
2 395 (11.60%) Trainer
3 333 (9.78%) Senior
4 241 (7.08%) Lead
5 198 (5.81%) Data Analyst
6 158 (4.64%) Architect
7 131 (3.85%) Developer
8 127 (3.73%) Support Analyst
9 126 (3.70%) Trainee
10 120 (3.52%) Systems Engineer
11 113 (3.32%) IT Support
12 103 (3.02%) Business Analyst
13 96 (2.82%) Innovation Manager
14 94 (2.76%) Trainee Analyst
14 94 (2.76%) Trainee Data Analyst
15 88 (2.58%) Support Engineer
16 81 (2.38%) Business Manager
17 80 (2.35%) Senior Analyst
18 79 (2.32%) Solutions Architect
19 73 (2.14%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (2.03%) HTML
2 53 (1.56%) CSS
3 40 (1.17%) React
4 37 (1.09%) REST
5 33 (0.97%) JSON
6 30 (0.88%) .NET
7 25 (0.73%) SOAP
8 21 (0.62%) Middleware
8 21 (0.62%) Oracle Fusion
9 19 (0.56%) XML
10 17 (0.50%) EDI
10 17 (0.50%) Flash
11 16 (0.47%) OAuth
11 16 (0.47%) SAML
12 15 (0.44%) Node.js
13 11 (0.32%) BAPI
13 11 (0.32%) IBM Integration Bus
13 11 (0.32%) JMS
13 11 (0.32%) Playwright
13 11 (0.32%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 376 (11.04%) Analytical Mindset
2 273 (8.02%) Onboarding
3 237 (6.96%) Self-Motivation
4 177 (5.20%) Management Information System
5 112 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
6 100 (2.94%) Product Ownership
7 66 (1.94%) Driving Licence
8 59 (1.73%) Data Centre
9 52 (1.53%) FMCG
9 52 (1.53%) Robotics
10 44 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
11 38 (1.12%) Cloud Native
12 31 (0.91%) Social Media
13 29 (0.85%) e-Learning
13 29 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 28 (0.82%) Security Posture
14 28 (0.82%) Virtual Team
15 24 (0.70%) Algorithms
15 24 (0.70%) Data Structures
16 22 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 252 (7.40%) Windows
2 159 (4.67%) Linux
3 134 (3.94%) Windows Server
4 89 (2.61%) Windows Server 2016
5 11 (0.32%) Mac OS
5 11 (0.32%) Unix
6 9 (0.26%) Android
7 6 (0.18%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.15%) Mac OS X
9 4 (0.12%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.088%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.029%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.029%) OpenWrt
11 1 (0.029%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.029%) Robot Operating System
11 1 (0.029%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.029%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.029%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,426 (41.88%) Problem-Solving
2 855 (25.11%) AI
3 788 (23.14%) Continuous Improvement
4 684 (20.09%) Analytics
5 634 (18.62%) Decision-Making
6 543 (15.95%) Project Management
7 459 (13.48%) Agile
8 452 (13.27%) Business Intelligence
9 414 (12.16%) Stakeholder Management
10 399 (11.72%) Chemistry
11 395 (11.60%) Conversational UI
12 351 (10.31%) Customer Service
13 332 (9.75%) Data Analysis
14 331 (9.72%) Customer Experience
15 316 (9.28%) ERP
16 269 (7.90%) CRM
17 263 (7.72%) Process Improvement
18 257 (7.55%) Analytical Thinking
19 252 (7.40%) Mentoring
20 250 (7.34%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 658 (19.32%) SQL
2 351 (10.31%) Python
3 74 (2.17%) C#
4 68 (2.00%) PowerShell
5 66 (1.94%) JavaScript
6 64 (1.88%) Java
7 45 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 36 (1.06%) R
9 32 (0.94%) C++
9 32 (0.94%) T-SQL
10 27 (0.79%) VBA
11 18 (0.53%) Bash
12 17 (0.50%) C
12 17 (0.50%) PL/SQL
13 13 (0.38%) Scala
14 11 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
15 10 (0.29%) MATLAB
16 8 (0.23%) TypeScript
17 7 (0.21%) ABAP
18 6 (0.18%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,144 (33.60%) Degree
2 478 (14.04%) Master's Degree
3 397 (11.66%) PhD
4 316 (9.28%) Security Cleared
5 235 (6.90%) SC Cleared
6 118 (3.47%) ACCA
7 108 (3.17%) CIMA
8 83 (2.44%) DBS Check
9 65 (1.91%) CISSP
10 61 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
11 55 (1.62%) DV Cleared
12 50 (1.47%) PMI Certification
13 47 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
14 46 (1.35%) CompTIA Security+
15 45 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
16 44 (1.29%) CEH
17 43 (1.26%) PMP
18 36 (1.06%) CISM
19 31 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
20 24 (0.70%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (4.58%) Data Quality
2 140 (4.11%) QA
3 127 (3.73%) PCI DSS
4 110 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials
5 107 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 100 (2.94%) GDPR
7 79 (2.32%) NIST
8 59 (1.73%) PMO
9 51 (1.50%) Accessibility
10 31 (0.91%) SLA
11 21 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
12 13 (0.38%) GRC
13 12 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 11 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 10 (0.29%) ISO 9001
16 9 (0.26%) SOC 2
17 8 (0.23%) IEC 61131
17 8 (0.23%) IFRS
18 7 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
19 6 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 187 (5.49%) Active Directory
2 104 (3.05%) Hyper-V
3 88 (2.58%) Terminal Server
4 19 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 18 (0.53%) Docker
6 15 (0.44%) Firmware
7 4 (0.12%) vSphere
8 2 (0.059%) ProxySG
8 2 (0.059%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.029%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.029%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.029%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.029%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.029%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 43 (1.26%) Terraform
2 25 (0.73%) Kubernetes
2 25 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (0.59%) Ansible
4 12 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (0.18%) QRadar
6 4 (0.12%) Nessus
6 4 (0.12%) SCCM
7 3 (0.088%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 3 (0.088%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.088%) Grafana
7 3 (0.088%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.059%) AssetCenter
8 2 (0.059%) CASB
8 2 (0.059%) Control-M
8 2 (0.059%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.059%) Kibana
8 2 (0.059%) Nagios
9 1 (0.029%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.029%) SCOM
Vendors
1 773 (22.70%) Microsoft
2 395 (11.60%) PayPal
3 280 (8.22%) SAP
4 129 (3.79%) Oracle
5 111 (3.26%) VMware
6 106 (3.11%) Splunk
7 103 (3.02%) SolarWinds
8 89 (2.61%) Tanium
8 89 (2.61%) Veeam
9 88 (2.58%) Brocade
9 88 (2.58%) Nimble Storage
10 81 (2.38%) Google
11 77 (2.26%) Salesforce
12 62 (1.82%) ServiceNow
13 56 (1.64%) Cisco
14 38 (1.12%) Databricks
15 37 (1.09%) OpenText
16 36 (1.06%) Workday
17 30 (0.88%) Ariba
18 26 (0.76%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud