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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 12 17
Rank change year-on-year -18 +5 +3
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,030 2,993 5,105
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 5.71% 10.69% 8.72%
As % of the General category 11.18% 15.69% 14.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,732 1,398 3,365
10th Percentile £29,775 £31,250 £26,985
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,918 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,967 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.71% +13.26% -5.26%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,433
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%

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 27,106 19,070 34,797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 51.11% 68.13% 59.45%
Number of salaries quoted 14,304 9,075 24,654
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £64,456 £68,568 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £76,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +12.15% -10.83%

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 14 March 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 14 March 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 -21 814 £45,000 -10.00% 401
South East +9 806 £50,000 -1.90% 624
Midlands -16 582 £45,000 -6.25% 320
North West -19 427 £42,500 -19.05% 244
West Midlands -16 352 £52,500 +5.00% 201
Yorkshire -2 278 £48,445 +7.65% 125
South West -15 277 £45,000 -13.88% 192
East of England -21 255 £40,000 -21.52% 158
East Midlands -1 229 £40,000 -8.05% 118
Scotland -18 193 £40,000 -23.81% 91
North East -7 109 £44,000 +12.53% 37
Wales +16 73 £40,000 -19.38% 48
Northern Ireland -18 49 £52,500 -4.55% 16
Isle of Man -5 1 £62,500 +101.61% 4
Channel Islands -7 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 (4.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 49 (1.62%) Confluence
2 49 (1.62%) SharePoint
3 33 (1.09%) CMS
4 25 (0.83%) Apache Spark
5 23 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (0.50%) Apache
7 13 (0.43%) IIS
8 10 (0.33%) SAS
8 10 (0.33%) WordPress
9 4 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.13%) nginx
10 3 (0.099%) govService
11 2 (0.066%) JBoss
12 1 (0.033%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.033%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.033%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.033%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.033%) Kinematics
12 1 (0.033%) OpenStack
Applications
1 518 (17.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 215 (7.10%) Microsoft Office
3 185 (6.11%) Chatbot
4 78 (2.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 55 (1.82%) MS Visio
6 25 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
7 21 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
8 9 (0.30%) CATIA
9 5 (0.17%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.13%) Trello
11 2 (0.066%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.066%) Revit
11 2 (0.066%) Simulink
12 1 (0.033%) OrCAD
12 1 (0.033%) Sketch
12 1 (0.033%) SmartSuite
12 1 (0.033%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 51 (1.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (0.89%) NetSuite
3 25 (0.83%) Salesforce CRM
4 20 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
5 17 (0.56%) SAP CO
6 15 (0.50%) SAP MDG
7 12 (0.40%) SAP ERP
7 12 (0.40%) Workday HCM
8 11 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
9 10 (0.33%) Sage X3
9 10 (0.33%) SAP PM
10 8 (0.26%) SAP FI
10 8 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
11 5 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
11 5 (0.17%) Q-Pulse
11 5 (0.17%) SAP Hybris
12 4 (0.13%) Markit EDM
12 4 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
12 4 (0.13%) Shopify
13 3 (0.099%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 475 (15.68%) Azure
2 365 (12.05%) Power Platform
3 219 (7.23%) Microsoft 365
4 203 (6.70%) AWS
5 136 (4.49%) SaaS
6 121 (3.99%) Azure DevOps
7 72 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
8 65 (2.15%) Entra ID
9 62 (2.05%) GitHub
10 53 (1.75%) Azure Data Factory
11 51 (1.68%) GCP
12 44 (1.45%) Snowflake
13 41 (1.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 39 (1.29%) dbt
14 39 (1.29%) Microsoft Purview
15 37 (1.22%) Power Automate
16 32 (1.06%) Amazon S3
17 31 (1.02%) Google Analytics
18 30 (0.99%) Serverless
19 26 (0.86%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 127 (4.19%) DNS
2 105 (3.47%) Firewall
3 103 (3.40%) DHCP
4 54 (1.78%) VPN
5 52 (1.72%) WAN
6 48 (1.58%) Wi-Fi
7 46 (1.52%) LAN
8 45 (1.49%) Wireless
9 39 (1.29%) TCP/IP
10 33 (1.09%) VLAN
11 32 (1.06%) Wireshark
12 31 (1.02%) Network Security
13 30 (0.99%) Remote Desktop
14 26 (0.86%) VoIP
15 24 (0.79%) SD-WAN
16 19 (0.63%) BGP
16 19 (0.63%) Broadband
16 19 (0.63%) SAN
17 18 (0.59%) Cisco ASA
18 17 (0.56%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 333 (10.99%) Power BI
2 273 (9.01%) Tableau
3 175 (5.78%) Data Mining
4 119 (3.93%) SQL Server
5 81 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
6 72 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
7 55 (1.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 50 (1.65%) Metadata
9 44 (1.45%) Relational Database
10 41 (1.35%) Looker
11 38 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
12 36 (1.19%) MySQL
13 35 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
14 29 (0.96%) Data Lake
14 29 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
15 28 (0.92%) Power Query
16 27 (0.89%) GIS
17 24 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 21 (0.69%) NoSQL
19 17 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 120 (3.96%) JIRA
2 72 (2.38%) Git
3 26 (0.86%) GitLab
3 26 (0.86%) Selenium
4 16 (0.53%) Jenkins
5 15 (0.50%) Robot Framework
6 13 (0.43%) Snyk
7 8 (0.26%) ERwin
7 8 (0.26%) LabVIEW
8 7 (0.23%) Cypress.io
8 7 (0.23%) ER Studio
8 7 (0.23%) Postman
9 6 (0.20%) MLflow
9 6 (0.20%) Rational DOORS
9 6 (0.20%) Subversion
9 6 (0.20%) TestRail
10 5 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
10 5 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
11 4 (0.13%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,500 (49.50%) Social Skills
2 911 (30.07%) Finance
3 224 (7.39%) Marketing
4 161 (5.31%) Retail
5 155 (5.12%) Organisational Skills
6 135 (4.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 133 (4.39%) Legal
8 131 (4.32%) Public Sector
9 118 (3.89%) Manufacturing
10 116 (3.83%) Law
11 108 (3.56%) Presentation Skills
12 80 (2.64%) Influencing Skills
13 68 (2.24%) Telecoms
14 65 (2.15%) Banking
15 56 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
16 44 (1.45%) Electronics
17 35 (1.16%) Games
18 34 (1.12%) Automotive
19 32 (1.06%) Advertising
20 31 (1.02%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 819 (27.03%) Analyst
2 302 (9.97%) Senior
3 262 (8.65%) Data Analyst
4 199 (6.57%) Lead
5 185 (6.11%) Trainer
6 156 (5.15%) Trainee
7 149 (4.92%) Trainee Analyst
7 149 (4.92%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 148 (4.88%) Developer
9 120 (3.96%) Business Analyst
9 120 (3.96%) Support Analyst
10 116 (3.83%) IT Support
11 104 (3.43%) Architect
12 93 (3.07%) Systems Engineer
13 83 (2.74%) Support Engineer
14 82 (2.71%) Senior Analyst
15 72 (2.38%) Financial Analyst
16 64 (2.11%) Senior Manager
16 64 (2.11%) Systems Manager
17 62 (2.05%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (2.61%) HTML
2 69 (2.28%) CSS
3 59 (1.95%) React
4 49 (1.62%) .NET
5 38 (1.25%) JSON
6 34 (1.12%) Node.js
7 33 (1.09%) REST
8 28 (0.92%) XML
9 21 (0.69%) Middleware
10 20 (0.66%) SOAP
11 16 (0.53%) Bootstrap
11 16 (0.53%) PySpark
11 16 (0.53%) React Native
12 15 (0.50%) PyTorch
12 15 (0.50%) TensorFlow
13 13 (0.43%) OAuth
14 12 (0.40%) Flash
14 12 (0.40%) SAML
15 11 (0.36%) Oracle Fusion
15 11 (0.36%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 311 (10.26%) Analytical Mindset
2 203 (6.70%) Self-Motivation
3 164 (5.41%) Onboarding
4 148 (4.88%) Management Information System
5 103 (3.40%) Product Ownership
6 101 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
7 59 (1.95%) Data Centre
8 56 (1.85%) Driving Licence
9 45 (1.49%) Cloud Native
10 41 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
11 37 (1.22%) Algorithms
12 36 (1.19%) Data Structures
13 34 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
13 34 (1.12%) Social Media
14 32 (1.06%) Robotics
15 31 (1.02%) Low-Code
16 30 (0.99%) FMCG
17 29 (0.96%) Virtual Team
18 28 (0.92%) Security Posture
19 27 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 250 (8.25%) Windows
2 153 (5.05%) Linux
3 132 (4.36%) Windows Server
4 76 (2.51%) Windows Server 2016
5 21 (0.69%) Unix
6 17 (0.56%) Android
7 13 (0.43%) Mac OS
8 8 (0.26%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.17%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.13%) CentOS
10 4 (0.13%) VMS
10 4 (0.13%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.099%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.066%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.033%) Debian
13 1 (0.033%) FreeBSD
13 1 (0.033%) OpenBSD
13 1 (0.033%) Robot Operating System
13 1 (0.033%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,337 (44.13%) Problem-Solving
2 775 (25.58%) Continuous Improvement
3 635 (20.96%) Analytics
4 588 (19.41%) Decision-Making
5 531 (17.52%) AI
6 465 (15.35%) Agile
7 449 (14.82%) Project Management
8 416 (13.73%) Business Intelligence
9 366 (12.08%) Data Analysis
10 347 (11.45%) Stakeholder Management
11 295 (9.74%) Customer Service
12 255 (8.42%) Customer Experience
13 253 (8.35%) ERP
14 250 (8.25%) Business Analysis
15 248 (8.18%) Actionable Insight
16 241 (7.95%) Mentoring
17 239 (7.89%) Analytical Thinking
18 233 (7.69%) Data Analytics
19 232 (7.66%) Process Improvement
20 224 (7.39%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 665 (21.95%) SQL
2 481 (15.87%) Python
3 97 (3.20%) JavaScript
4 84 (2.77%) C#
5 81 (2.67%) PowerShell
6 67 (2.21%) Java
7 64 (2.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 40 (1.32%) T-SQL
9 39 (1.29%) R
10 38 (1.25%) VBA
11 27 (0.89%) Bash
12 26 (0.86%) C++
13 18 (0.59%) MATLAB
14 15 (0.50%) C
15 11 (0.36%) TypeScript
16 10 (0.33%) PL/SQL
17 9 (0.30%) Scala
18 8 (0.26%) Go
18 8 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
18 8 (0.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 768 (25.35%) Degree
2 251 (8.28%) Security Cleared
3 234 (7.72%) Master's Degree
4 190 (6.27%) PhD
5 180 (5.94%) SC Cleared
6 138 (4.55%) ACCA
7 128 (4.22%) CIMA
8 91 (3.00%) DBS Check
9 58 (1.91%) PMI Certification
10 56 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
10 56 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
11 49 (1.62%) PMP
12 48 (1.58%) DV Cleared
13 47 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
14 46 (1.52%) CISSP
15 44 (1.45%) IRCA
16 36 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
17 31 (1.02%) CISM
18 27 (0.89%) AAT
19 26 (0.86%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 215 (7.10%) Data Quality
2 173 (5.71%) GDPR
3 154 (5.08%) QA
4 123 (4.06%) Cyber Essentials
5 119 (3.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 96 (3.17%) PCI DSS
7 91 (3.00%) NIST
8 58 (1.91%) PMO
9 55 (1.82%) ISO 9001
10 37 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
11 36 (1.19%) Accessibility
12 30 (0.99%) SLA
13 22 (0.73%) GRC
14 19 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 17 (0.56%) GMP
16 14 (0.46%) SOC 2
17 13 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 11 (0.36%) NCSC
19 9 (0.30%) IFRS
20 8 (0.26%) COBIT
System Software
1 188 (6.20%) Active Directory
2 87 (2.87%) Hyper-V
3 72 (2.38%) Terminal Server
4 35 (1.16%) Docker
5 25 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
6 11 (0.36%) vSphere
7 7 (0.23%) Firmware
7 7 (0.23%) ProxySG
8 6 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.13%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.099%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.099%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.099%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.099%) XenApp
11 2 (0.066%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.033%) KVM
Systems Management
1 77 (2.54%) Terraform
2 41 (1.35%) Ansible
3 34 (1.12%) Kubernetes
4 22 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (0.46%) Grafana
6 11 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.30%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.20%) Nagios
9 5 (0.17%) Control-M
9 5 (0.17%) SCCM
10 4 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.13%) Backup Exec
10 4 (0.13%) CASB
10 4 (0.13%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 4 (0.13%) Nessus
10 4 (0.13%) QRadar
10 4 (0.13%) SolarWinds Orion
10 4 (0.13%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.099%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.066%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 787 (25.97%) Microsoft
2 185 (6.11%) PayPal
3 154 (5.08%) SAP
4 109 (3.60%) Oracle
5 100 (3.30%) SolarWinds
6 98 (3.23%) VMware
7 90 (2.97%) Splunk
8 77 (2.54%) Veeam
9 73 (2.41%) Tanium
10 72 (2.38%) Brocade
10 72 (2.38%) Nimble Storage
11 67 (2.21%) Salesforce
12 64 (2.11%) Google
13 57 (1.88%) ServiceNow
14 49 (1.62%) Cisco
15 48 (1.58%) Workday
16 35 (1.16%) Databricks
17 23 (0.76%) Adobe
18 22 (0.73%) Dell
19 20 (0.66%) Anaplan