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

6 months to
19 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 3,762 4,024 5,237
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.81% 11.59% 8.77%
As % of the General category 10.92% 17.45% 16.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,350 1,541 2,353
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £32,500 £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 34,460 23,058 32,059
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.06% 66.43% 53.71%
Number of salaries quoted 21,271 11,323 17,842
10th Percentile £28,618 £26,000 £27,218
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 £66,250 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,600 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,266 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.35% -1.33% -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 19 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 19 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 -19 1,054 £47,500 +5.56% 844
South East -9 888 £50,000 -4.76% 966
Midlands -8 651 £48,000 +6.67% 461
North West -14 643 £47,000 +4.44% 497
South West -9 522 £47,500 +5.56% 465
West Midlands -17 338 £50,000 +11.11% 267
East Midlands -1 311 £46,743 +3.87% 195
Yorkshire -9 291 £47,000 +17.50% 261
East of England -16 260 £47,500 +5.56% 308
Wales -11 145 £51,709 +2.61% 78
Scotland -24 131 £44,000 +3.53% 281
Northern Ireland -14 120 £42,500 -22.73% 127
North East -16 120 £55,000 +34.15% 95
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
1 165 (4.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 126 (3.35%) SharePoint
3 47 (1.25%) Confluence
4 30 (0.80%) Apache Spark
5 29 (0.77%) Apache
6 28 (0.74%) IIS
7 25 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
8 23 (0.61%) CMS
9 10 (0.27%) SAS
9 10 (0.27%) WordPress
10 9 (0.24%) Jupyter
10 9 (0.24%) WebLogic
10 9 (0.24%) WebSphere
11 8 (0.21%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.080%) Anypoint
14 2 (0.053%) JBoss
14 2 (0.053%) Oracle Application Server
14 2 (0.053%) Oracle Workflow
15 1 (0.027%) Umbraco
Applications
1 439 (11.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 196 (5.21%) Microsoft Office
3 73 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 58 (1.54%) MS Visio
5 26 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
6 19 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.21%) 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 87 (2.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 38 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
3 34 (0.90%) Dynamics GP
4 27 (0.72%) NetSuite
5 19 (0.51%) SAP PM
6 18 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
7 13 (0.35%) SAP ERP
8 12 (0.32%) Shopify
9 10 (0.27%) Magento
9 10 (0.27%) 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%) Infor M3
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%) JDE OneWorld
14 4 (0.11%) JDE World
Cloud Services
1 629 (16.72%) Azure
2 439 (11.67%) Power Platform
3 329 (8.75%) AWS
4 311 (8.27%) Microsoft 365
5 178 (4.73%) SaaS
6 145 (3.85%) GCP
7 95 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
7 95 (2.53%) Entra ID
8 84 (2.23%) Dynamics 365
9 77 (2.05%) Google Analytics
10 63 (1.67%) Google Ads
11 60 (1.59%) GitHub
11 60 (1.59%) Power Automate
12 55 (1.46%) PowerApps
13 49 (1.30%) Amazon S3
14 41 (1.09%) Meta Ads
14 41 (1.09%) Microsoft Purview
15 39 (1.04%) Serverless
15 39 (1.04%) Snowflake
16 33 (0.88%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 160 (4.25%) DNS
2 127 (3.38%) DHCP
3 106 (2.82%) Firewall
4 89 (2.37%) VPN
5 75 (1.99%) TCP/IP
6 64 (1.70%) WAN
7 59 (1.57%) LAN
8 46 (1.22%) Wireless
9 38 (1.01%) Network Security
10 36 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
11 29 (0.77%) Broadband
12 27 (0.72%) HTTP
13 25 (0.66%) VoIP
14 23 (0.61%) SAN
15 19 (0.51%) Internet
15 19 (0.51%) SD-WAN
15 19 (0.51%) VLAN
16 18 (0.48%) BGP
17 16 (0.43%) SMS
18 15 (0.40%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 386 (10.26%) Power BI
2 156 (4.15%) Tableau
3 124 (3.30%) SQL Server
4 113 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
5 104 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
6 66 (1.75%) Relational Database
7 62 (1.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 58 (1.54%) MySQL
9 48 (1.28%) Looker
10 47 (1.25%) Power Query
11 44 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 42 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
13 40 (1.06%) Metadata
14 39 (1.04%) Data Lake
15 34 (0.90%) BigQuery
16 32 (0.85%) Big Data
17 29 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
18 27 (0.72%) Data Mining
19 23 (0.61%) NoSQL
20 20 (0.53%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 152 (4.04%) JIRA
2 135 (3.59%) Git
3 36 (0.96%) GitLab
4 32 (0.85%) Jenkins
5 31 (0.82%) Rational DOORS
6 15 (0.40%) Eclipse
6 15 (0.40%) Selenium
7 14 (0.37%) Cucumber
7 14 (0.37%) Postman
8 13 (0.35%) Burp Suite
8 13 (0.35%) Cypress.io
9 12 (0.32%) MLflow
9 12 (0.32%) Oracle Forms
10 11 (0.29%) LabVIEW
10 11 (0.29%) Metasploit
11 10 (0.27%) Claude Code
12 9 (0.24%) Bitbucket
12 9 (0.24%) JMeter
13 8 (0.21%) SonarQube
13 8 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,878 (49.92%) Social Skills
2 1,048 (27.86%) Finance
3 391 (10.39%) Marketing
4 268 (7.12%) Organisational Skills
5 261 (6.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 245 (6.51%) Manufacturing
7 242 (6.43%) Legal
8 236 (6.27%) Retail
9 207 (5.50%) Public Sector
10 196 (5.21%) Law
11 192 (5.10%) Influencing Skills
12 159 (4.23%) Aerospace
13 111 (2.95%) Telecoms
14 106 (2.82%) Electronics
15 93 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
16 69 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
16 69 (1.83%) Military
17 60 (1.59%) Banking
18 52 (1.38%) Advertising
19 38 (1.01%) Games
Job Titles
1 889 (23.63%) Analyst
2 421 (11.19%) Senior
3 251 (6.67%) Lead
4 204 (5.42%) Data Analyst
5 200 (5.32%) Developer
6 178 (4.73%) Systems Engineer
7 175 (4.65%) Business Analyst
8 138 (3.67%) Support Analyst
9 132 (3.51%) Architect
10 119 (3.16%) Support Engineer
11 114 (3.03%) Senior Analyst
12 103 (2.74%) Consultant
13 101 (2.68%) IT Support
14 99 (2.63%) Data Engineer
15 84 (2.23%) IT Engineer
16 83 (2.21%) Systems Analyst
17 76 (2.02%) Accountant
17 76 (2.02%) Marketing Manager
18 67 (1.78%) Applications Support
19 66 (1.75%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (2.55%) .NET
2 79 (2.10%) HTML
3 78 (2.07%) REST
4 72 (1.91%) CSS
5 62 (1.65%) Middleware
6 54 (1.44%) XML
7 52 (1.38%) JSON
8 44 (1.17%) SOAP
9 43 (1.14%) React
10 42 (1.12%) RESTful
11 34 (0.90%) EDI
12 32 (0.85%) Kafka
13 31 (0.82%) LDAP
14 29 (0.77%) OAuth
15 28 (0.74%) ModSecurity
16 27 (0.72%) Node.js
16 27 (0.72%) PyTorch
17 26 (0.69%) PySpark
18 25 (0.66%) ASP.NET
19 23 (0.61%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 389 (10.34%) Analytical Mindset
2 231 (6.14%) Management Information System
3 187 (4.97%) Self-Motivation
4 179 (4.76%) Onboarding
5 145 (3.85%) Product Ownership
6 129 (3.43%) Legacy Systems
7 127 (3.38%) Driving Licence
8 83 (2.21%) Social Media
9 80 (2.13%) Marketing Technology
10 72 (1.91%) Cloud Native
11 68 (1.81%) Data Centre
12 67 (1.78%) Blog
13 66 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
14 63 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
14 63 (1.67%) Virtual Team
15 48 (1.28%) Security Posture
16 35 (0.93%) Cyber Defence
17 34 (0.90%) AI Agents
17 34 (0.90%) Data Structures
18 31 (0.82%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 334 (8.88%) Windows
2 208 (5.53%) Linux
3 187 (4.97%) Windows Server
4 95 (2.53%) Windows Server 2016
5 27 (0.72%) Mac OS
6 23 (0.61%) Windows 10
7 22 (0.58%) 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%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,837 (48.83%) Problem-Solving
2 1,190 (31.63%) Continuous Improvement
3 917 (24.38%) Decision-Making
4 730 (19.40%) Analytics
5 602 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 571 (15.18%) Agile
7 570 (15.15%) AI
8 469 (12.47%) Business Intelligence
9 415 (11.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 375 (9.97%) Actionable Insight
11 359 (9.54%) Validation
12 341 (9.06%) ERP
13 333 (8.85%) CRM
14 330 (8.77%) Customer Service
15 327 (8.69%) Data Analysis
16 323 (8.59%) Customer Experience
17 321 (8.53%) Mentoring
18 312 (8.29%) Project Management
19 309 (8.21%) Service Delivery
20 295 (7.84%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 715 (19.01%) SQL
2 473 (12.57%) Python
3 143 (3.80%) JavaScript
4 112 (2.98%) C#
5 111 (2.95%) Java
6 104 (2.76%) PowerShell
7 64 (1.70%) C++
8 62 (1.65%) Bash
9 57 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 39 (1.04%) TypeScript
11 38 (1.01%) T-SQL
12 35 (0.93%) MATLAB
13 31 (0.82%) R
14 27 (0.72%) C
15 22 (0.58%) PHP
16 16 (0.43%) Go
16 16 (0.43%) Scala
17 15 (0.40%) Perl
17 15 (0.40%) PL/SQL
18 14 (0.37%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 673 (17.89%) Degree
2 467 (12.41%) Security Cleared
3 324 (8.61%) SC Cleared
4 142 (3.77%) ACCA
5 136 (3.62%) CIMA
6 127 (3.38%) DBS Check
7 117 (3.11%) DV Cleared
8 116 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
9 82 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
10 75 (1.99%) Cisco Certification
11 72 (1.91%) CISSP
12 57 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
13 56 (1.49%) IRCA
14 53 (1.41%) CISM
15 50 (1.33%) CompTIA Security+
16 41 (1.09%) HND
17 40 (1.06%) CCNA
18 38 (1.01%) Azure Certification
19 37 (0.98%) HNC
20 34 (0.90%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 347 (9.22%) Data Quality
2 283 (7.52%) QA
3 243 (6.46%) GDPR
4 147 (3.91%) Cyber Essentials
5 140 (3.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 113 (3.00%) PCI DSS
7 109 (2.90%) ISO 9001
8 95 (2.53%) SLA
9 94 (2.50%) Accessibility
10 86 (2.29%) NIST
11 41 (1.09%) GRC
12 38 (1.01%) PMO
13 28 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 24 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
15 23 (0.61%) ISO 14001
15 23 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 21 (0.56%) GMP
17 20 (0.53%) DO-254
18 18 (0.48%) Good Clinical Practice
18 18 (0.48%) IFRS
System Software
1 258 (6.86%) Active Directory
2 105 (2.79%) Docker
3 99 (2.63%) Hyper-V
4 80 (2.13%) Terminal Server
5 38 (1.01%) 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 74 (1.97%) Terraform
2 69 (1.83%) Kubernetes
3 47 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 41 (1.09%) Ansible
5 25 (0.66%) Grafana
6 20 (0.53%) Prometheus
7 18 (0.48%) 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%) Graylog
12 6 (0.16%) Kubeflow
13 5 (0.13%) Functional Safety
13 5 (0.13%) Puppet
13 5 (0.13%) SCCM
Vendors
1 888 (23.60%) Microsoft
2 204 (5.42%) Google
3 132 (3.51%) VMware
4 130 (3.46%) SAP
5 125 (3.32%) Splunk
6 102 (2.71%) Oracle
7 95 (2.53%) SolarWinds
8 87 (2.31%) Veeam
9 81 (2.15%) Brocade
9 81 (2.15%) Nimble Storage
10 80 (2.13%) Tanium
11 75 (1.99%) Salesforce
12 64 (1.70%) Workday
13 63 (1.67%) ServiceNow
14 62 (1.65%) Cisco
15 59 (1.57%) Databricks
16 34 (0.90%) Red Hat
17 33 (0.88%) Dell
18 32 (0.85%) Adobe
18 32 (0.85%) IBM