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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 8 12
Rank change year-on-year -16 +4 +10
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,143 4,132 4,922
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.90% 12.01% 8.87%
As % of the General category 11.09% 18.22% 16.63%
Number of salaries quoted 2,471 1,511 1,848
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,500 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £61,125 £60,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,750
% change year-on-year - -0.47% -4.09%

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 37,348 22,681 29,606
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.20% 65.94% 53.38%
Number of salaries quoted 22,967 11,073 14,062
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £65,640 £62,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £79,020
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,688 £56,000
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.13% -6.67%

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 18 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 18 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 -20 1,125 £47,500 +6.74% 949
South East -11 977 £50,000 +1.01% 1,171
Midlands -10 723 £47,500 +5.56% 672
North West -15 683 £46,500 +3.33% 573
South West -10 592 £47,500 +5.56% 483
West Midlands -18 370 £48,000 +6.67% 422
East Midlands -5 350 £45,000 +9.09% 250
Yorkshire -9 308 £47,500 +18.75% 274
East of England -14 268 £47,500 +18.75% 362
Wales -5 201 £45,000 -10.31% 102
Scotland -22 144 £45,000 +12.50% 308
North East -23 137 £50,500 +26.25% 107
Northern Ireland -6 125 £43,750 -20.45% 185
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
1 163 (3.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 140 (3.38%) SharePoint
3 53 (1.28%) Confluence
4 31 (0.75%) IIS
5 29 (0.70%) Apache
6 25 (0.60%) Apache Spark
7 19 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
8 15 (0.36%) CMS
8 15 (0.36%) SAS
9 11 (0.27%) Jupyter
9 11 (0.27%) WordPress
10 9 (0.22%) WebLogic
10 9 (0.22%) WebSphere
11 8 (0.19%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.048%) Oracle Application Server
13 2 (0.048%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.024%) Office Communications Server
14 1 (0.024%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.024%) Umbraco
Applications
1 530 (12.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 251 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
3 81 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 53 (1.28%) MS Visio
5 40 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
6 25 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
7 17 (0.41%) Simulink
8 10 (0.24%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.19%) SOLIDWORKS
10 6 (0.14%) CATIA
10 6 (0.14%) Siemens NX
11 5 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 5 (0.12%) Chatbot
11 5 (0.12%) EPLAN
11 5 (0.12%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.072%) CANalyzer
12 3 (0.072%) LaTeX
13 2 (0.048%) PTC Creo
13 2 (0.048%) Revit
13 2 (0.048%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 90 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.77%) Dynamics GP
3 31 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
4 25 (0.60%) NetSuite
5 20 (0.48%) Shopify
6 12 (0.29%) Magento
6 12 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
7 10 (0.24%) SAP Business One
8 9 (0.22%) Infor M3
8 9 (0.22%) SAP PM
9 8 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
9 8 (0.19%) SAP ERP
10 7 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
10 7 (0.17%) Workday HCM
11 6 (0.14%) Exchequer
11 6 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
12 5 (0.12%) JDE EnterpriseOne
12 5 (0.12%) Sage 50
13 4 (0.097%) JDE World
13 4 (0.097%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 650 (15.69%) Azure
2 491 (11.85%) Power Platform
3 351 (8.47%) AWS
4 324 (7.82%) Microsoft 365
5 214 (5.17%) SaaS
6 151 (3.64%) GCP
7 110 (2.66%) Entra ID
8 103 (2.49%) Google Ads
9 101 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
10 96 (2.32%) Azure DevOps
11 89 (2.15%) Google Analytics
12 78 (1.88%) Meta Ads
13 65 (1.57%) Power Automate
14 63 (1.52%) PowerApps
15 62 (1.50%) GitHub
16 55 (1.33%) Serverless
17 49 (1.18%) Amazon S3
18 47 (1.13%) Microsoft Purview
19 46 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
20 42 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 163 (3.93%) DNS
2 127 (3.07%) DHCP
3 108 (2.61%) Firewall
4 97 (2.34%) VPN
5 82 (1.98%) TCP/IP
6 68 (1.64%) WAN
7 61 (1.47%) LAN
8 52 (1.26%) Wireless
9 43 (1.04%) Network Security
10 35 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
11 31 (0.75%) Internet
12 28 (0.68%) VLAN
13 27 (0.65%) HTTP
14 25 (0.60%) VoIP
15 24 (0.58%) Broadband
16 23 (0.56%) SD-WAN
17 21 (0.51%) BGP
17 21 (0.51%) SAN
18 18 (0.43%) SMS
19 17 (0.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 437 (10.55%) Power BI
2 124 (2.99%) SQL Server
3 121 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
4 109 (2.63%) Tableau
5 98 (2.37%) Amazon RDS
6 75 (1.81%) Relational Database
7 68 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 64 (1.54%) MySQL
9 59 (1.42%) Power Query
10 53 (1.28%) Metadata
11 49 (1.18%) Looker
12 47 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
13 45 (1.09%) Data Lake
13 45 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 35 (0.84%) BigQuery
15 33 (0.80%) Big Data
16 30 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
17 28 (0.68%) NoSQL
18 26 (0.63%) MongoDB
19 21 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 155 (3.74%) JIRA
2 150 (3.62%) Git
3 33 (0.80%) Jenkins
4 31 (0.75%) GitLab
5 30 (0.72%) Rational DOORS
6 20 (0.48%) Eclipse
7 17 (0.41%) LabVIEW
7 17 (0.41%) Selenium
8 16 (0.39%) Cucumber
8 16 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
9 14 (0.34%) Burp Suite
9 14 (0.34%) Claude Code
9 14 (0.34%) Postman
10 12 (0.29%) Bitbucket
10 12 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
11 11 (0.27%) Metasploit
12 10 (0.24%) Cypress.io
13 9 (0.22%) JMeter
14 8 (0.19%) Moq
14 8 (0.19%) SonarQube
General
1 2,093 (50.52%) Social Skills
2 1,199 (28.94%) Finance
3 477 (11.51%) Marketing
4 363 (8.76%) Organisational Skills
5 317 (7.65%) Manufacturing
6 299 (7.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 277 (6.69%) Retail
8 269 (6.49%) Legal
9 248 (5.99%) Public Sector
10 229 (5.53%) Influencing Skills
11 219 (5.29%) Law
12 194 (4.68%) Aerospace
13 147 (3.55%) Electronics
14 131 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
15 120 (2.90%) Telecoms
16 73 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
17 66 (1.59%) Military
18 65 (1.57%) Advertising
19 64 (1.54%) Banking
20 63 (1.52%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 933 (22.52%) Analyst
2 479 (11.56%) Senior
3 270 (6.52%) Lead
4 217 (5.24%) Developer
5 200 (4.83%) Data Analyst
6 186 (4.49%) Business Analyst
7 169 (4.08%) Systems Engineer
8 155 (3.74%) Support Analyst
9 140 (3.38%) Architect
10 119 (2.87%) Data Engineer
11 115 (2.78%) Senior Analyst
11 115 (2.78%) Support Engineer
12 110 (2.66%) Consultant
13 103 (2.49%) IT Support
14 92 (2.22%) Accountant
15 86 (2.08%) Administrator
16 83 (2.00%) Applications Support
16 83 (2.00%) IT Engineer
16 83 (2.00%) Marketing Manager
16 83 (2.00%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (2.51%) .NET
2 85 (2.05%) REST
3 78 (1.88%) HTML
4 74 (1.79%) Terraform
5 71 (1.71%) CSS
6 63 (1.52%) Middleware
7 61 (1.47%) XML
8 57 (1.38%) JSON
9 51 (1.23%) SOAP
10 50 (1.21%) PySpark
11 48 (1.16%) RESTful
12 43 (1.04%) EDI
13 36 (0.87%) LDAP
13 36 (0.87%) React
14 35 (0.84%) Kafka
15 31 (0.75%) ModSecurity
16 28 (0.68%) ASP.NET
17 27 (0.65%) Spring
17 27 (0.65%) Spring Boot
18 25 (0.60%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 339 (8.18%) Analytical Mindset
2 313 (7.55%) Management Information System
3 240 (5.79%) Onboarding
4 218 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
5 163 (3.93%) Product Ownership
6 145 (3.50%) Driving Licence
7 116 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
8 97 (2.34%) Social Media
9 86 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
10 81 (1.96%) Marketing Technology
11 76 (1.83%) Cloud Native
12 72 (1.74%) Cyber Threat
13 71 (1.71%) Data Centre
14 69 (1.67%) Virtual Team
15 67 (1.62%) Blog
16 47 (1.13%) Security Posture
17 44 (1.06%) Data Structures
18 37 (0.89%) SCADA
19 36 (0.87%) AI Agents
20 33 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 337 (8.13%) Windows
2 204 (4.92%) Linux
3 183 (4.42%) Windows Server
4 89 (2.15%) Windows Server 2016
5 30 (0.72%) Mac OS
6 29 (0.70%) Windows 10
7 24 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
8 21 (0.51%) Unix
9 15 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 14 (0.34%) Android
11 13 (0.31%) Apple iOS
12 9 (0.22%) CentOS
13 7 (0.17%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.14%) Debian
14 6 (0.14%) VMS
15 5 (0.12%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.097%) CoreOS
17 2 (0.048%) Solaris
18 1 (0.024%) AIX
18 1 (0.024%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,074 (50.06%) Problem-Solving
2 1,323 (31.93%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,031 (24.89%) Decision-Making
4 778 (18.78%) Stakeholder Management
5 739 (17.84%) Analytics
6 670 (16.17%) AI
7 630 (15.21%) Agile
8 561 (13.54%) Business Intelligence
9 432 (10.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 426 (10.28%) Validation
11 410 (9.90%) ERP
12 409 (9.87%) Customer Service
13 394 (9.51%) CRM
14 392 (9.46%) Actionable Insight
15 378 (9.12%) Data Analysis
16 376 (9.08%) Mentoring
17 328 (7.92%) Collaborative Working
18 326 (7.87%) Project Management
19 322 (7.77%) Process Improvement
20 311 (7.51%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 780 (18.83%) SQL
2 450 (10.86%) Python
3 154 (3.72%) JavaScript
4 133 (3.21%) Java
5 119 (2.87%) C#
6 106 (2.56%) PowerShell
7 79 (1.91%) C++
8 67 (1.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 58 (1.40%) Bash
10 45 (1.09%) TypeScript
11 44 (1.06%) MATLAB
12 40 (0.97%) T-SQL
13 33 (0.80%) C
14 31 (0.75%) R
15 21 (0.51%) PHP
16 20 (0.48%) PL/SQL
17 19 (0.46%) VB.NET
18 17 (0.41%) Scala
19 16 (0.39%) Perl
20 15 (0.36%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 805 (19.43%) Degree
2 510 (12.31%) Security Cleared
3 352 (8.50%) SC Cleared
4 177 (4.27%) ACCA
5 167 (4.03%) CIMA
6 122 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 120 (2.90%) DV Cleared
8 117 (2.82%) DBS Check
9 91 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
10 74 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
11 70 (1.69%) HND
12 69 (1.67%) CISSP
13 62 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
14 55 (1.33%) CISM
15 49 (1.18%) HNC
16 46 (1.11%) Azure Certification
16 46 (1.11%) CompTIA Security+
17 41 (0.99%) CCNA
18 37 (0.89%) Master's Degree
19 35 (0.84%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 400 (9.65%) Data Quality
2 270 (6.52%) QA
3 214 (5.17%) GDPR
4 138 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 137 (3.31%) Cyber Essentials
6 118 (2.85%) Accessibility
7 103 (2.49%) PCI DSS
8 89 (2.15%) SLA
9 71 (1.71%) NIST
10 66 (1.59%) ISO 9001
11 39 (0.94%) GRC
12 37 (0.89%) PMO
13 26 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 26 (0.63%) DO-254
14 25 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
14 25 (0.60%) IFRS
15 22 (0.53%) ISO 14001
16 20 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 18 (0.43%) Good Clinical Practice
18 17 (0.41%) TickIT
System Software
1 257 (6.20%) Active Directory
2 107 (2.58%) Docker
3 99 (2.39%) Hyper-V
4 72 (1.74%) Terminal Server
5 41 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
6 38 (0.92%) Firmware
7 14 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
9 10 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.17%) Ceph
10 7 (0.17%) VMware NSX
11 5 (0.12%) vSphere
12 4 (0.097%) KVM
12 4 (0.097%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.097%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.072%) DFS Replication
14 1 (0.024%) IAG
14 1 (0.024%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.024%) VirtualBox
14 1 (0.024%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 64 (1.54%) Kubernetes
2 48 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
3 39 (0.94%) Ansible
4 26 (0.63%) Grafana
5 25 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
6 21 (0.51%) Prometheus
7 16 (0.39%) Kibana
8 15 (0.36%) QRadar
9 11 (0.27%) Nmap
9 11 (0.27%) Podman
10 8 (0.19%) logstash
11 7 (0.17%) Argo
11 7 (0.17%) Check_MK
11 7 (0.17%) Functional Safety
11 7 (0.17%) Istio
12 6 (0.14%) Graylog
13 5 (0.12%) Kubeflow
14 4 (0.097%) Docker Swarm
14 4 (0.097%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.097%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 1,055 (25.46%) Microsoft
2 267 (6.44%) Google
3 136 (3.28%) SAP
4 130 (3.14%) VMware
5 127 (3.07%) Splunk
6 104 (2.51%) Oracle
7 85 (2.05%) SolarWinds
8 82 (1.98%) Salesforce
9 79 (1.91%) Veeam
10 73 (1.76%) Brocade
10 73 (1.76%) Nimble Storage
11 72 (1.74%) Tanium
12 69 (1.67%) ServiceNow
13 64 (1.54%) Cisco
14 60 (1.45%) Databricks
15 56 (1.35%) YouTube
16 42 (1.01%) Workday
17 39 (0.94%) Adobe
17 39 (0.94%) HubSpot
18 32 (0.77%) IBM