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 30 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 8 15
Rank change year-on-year -21 +7 +5
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,026 3,636 6,311
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.49% 12.59% 8.73%
As % of the General category 9.56% 17.53% 15.47%
Number of salaries quoted 2,038 1,334 3,584
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,885 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £59,563
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
UK median annual salary £53,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.73% +10.00% -8.90%

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 31,664 20,747 40,790
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 46.98% 71.81% 56.45%
Number of salaries quoted 17,582 9,137 26,817
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £62,200
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -29 942 £48,000 -4.00% 291
South East -3 765 £50,000 -4.76% 443
Midlands -21 555 £48,250 +1.58% 194
North West -29 549 £46,500 -7.00% 158
West Midlands -28 321 £51,275 +7.95% 123
South West -28 301 £47,500 -5.00% 119
Yorkshire -11 297 £50,000 +11.11% 92
East of England -23 243 £45,000 -11.71% 108
East Midlands +3 232 £45,000 -6.25% 71
Scotland -33 111 £40,000 -20.00% 39
North East -22 96 £48,445 +24.86% 50
Wales -2 81 £47,105 -14.36% 24
Northern Ireland -26 40 £46,250 -15.91% 12
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
1 128 (4.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 79 (2.61%) SharePoint
3 31 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
4 30 (0.99%) Apache Spark
5 29 (0.96%) Confluence
6 28 (0.93%) CMS
7 21 (0.69%) Apache
7 21 (0.69%) IIS
8 9 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 9 (0.30%) WordPress
9 8 (0.26%) SAS
10 6 (0.20%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.13%) nginx
12 3 (0.099%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.099%) govService
12 3 (0.099%) JBoss
13 1 (0.033%) Appian
13 1 (0.033%) Kinematics
13 1 (0.033%) Palantir Foundry
13 1 (0.033%) WebLogic
Applications
1 413 (13.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 151 (4.99%) Microsoft Office
3 61 (2.02%) MS Visio
4 48 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 21 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
7 10 (0.33%) CATIA
8 4 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.099%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.099%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.099%) Trello
10 2 (0.066%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.066%) Lectora
10 2 (0.066%) Simulink
10 2 (0.066%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.033%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.033%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.033%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 45 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (1.06%) Salesforce CRM
3 22 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 22 (0.73%) NetSuite
4 15 (0.50%) SAP PM
5 14 (0.46%) SAP ERP
6 13 (0.43%) SAP CO
7 7 (0.23%) Dynamics GP
7 7 (0.23%) Magento
7 7 (0.23%) Workday HCM
8 6 (0.20%) SAP PP
9 5 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.17%) Q-Pulse
9 5 (0.17%) SAP GTS
10 4 (0.13%) Infor M3
10 4 (0.13%) JDE OneWorld
10 4 (0.13%) JDE World
10 4 (0.13%) SAP FI
10 4 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
11 3 (0.099%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 500 (16.52%) Azure
2 421 (13.91%) Power Platform
3 265 (8.76%) AWS
4 252 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
5 120 (3.97%) SaaS
6 92 (3.04%) GCP
7 90 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
8 76 (2.51%) Entra ID
9 75 (2.48%) Dynamics 365
10 57 (1.88%) GitHub
11 50 (1.65%) Google Analytics
11 50 (1.65%) Microsoft Purview
12 48 (1.59%) Power Automate
13 44 (1.45%) PowerApps
14 42 (1.39%) Amazon S3
15 36 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
16 35 (1.16%) Serverless
17 34 (1.12%) dbt
17 34 (1.12%) Snowflake
18 27 (0.89%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 130 (4.30%) Firewall
2 110 (3.64%) DNS
3 81 (2.68%) DHCP
4 78 (2.58%) VPN
5 63 (2.08%) WAN
6 46 (1.52%) LAN
7 43 (1.42%) TCP/IP
7 43 (1.42%) Wireless
8 37 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
9 36 (1.19%) Broadband
10 32 (1.06%) Network Security
11 27 (0.89%) SD-WAN
11 27 (0.89%) VLAN
12 25 (0.83%) BGP
13 23 (0.76%) Cisco ASA
13 23 (0.76%) Wireshark
14 22 (0.73%) SAN
15 18 (0.59%) HTTP
16 17 (0.56%) OSPF
17 15 (0.50%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 377 (12.46%) Power BI
2 225 (7.44%) Tableau
3 104 (3.44%) Data Mining
4 100 (3.30%) SQL Server
5 78 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
6 70 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
7 61 (2.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 43 (1.42%) Power Query
9 39 (1.29%) Metadata
10 36 (1.19%) Looker
11 35 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 33 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
12 33 (1.09%) Data Lake
12 33 (1.09%) MySQL
13 32 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
14 29 (0.96%) Big Data
15 28 (0.93%) Relational Database
16 25 (0.83%) NoSQL
17 17 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
17 17 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 92 (3.04%) JIRA
2 67 (2.21%) Git
3 35 (1.16%) GitLab
4 31 (1.02%) Rational DOORS
5 16 (0.53%) Jenkins
6 12 (0.40%) MLflow
6 12 (0.40%) Selenium
7 10 (0.33%) Cucumber
7 10 (0.33%) Cypress.io
8 8 (0.26%) LabVIEW
9 7 (0.23%) Moq
9 7 (0.23%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.23%) Subversion
10 6 (0.20%) Toad
11 5 (0.17%) JMeter
11 5 (0.17%) Maven
11 5 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
11 5 (0.17%) Postman
12 4 (0.13%) ERwin
12 4 (0.13%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 1,385 (45.77%) Social Skills
2 918 (30.34%) Finance
3 265 (8.76%) Marketing
4 176 (5.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 173 (5.72%) Public Sector
6 155 (5.12%) Organisational Skills
7 148 (4.89%) Retail
8 146 (4.82%) Manufacturing
9 143 (4.73%) Law
10 139 (4.59%) Legal
11 111 (3.67%) Influencing Skills
12 90 (2.97%) Telecoms
13 75 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
14 71 (2.35%) Electronics
15 67 (2.21%) Aerospace
16 65 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
17 41 (1.35%) Banking
17 41 (1.35%) Games
18 40 (1.32%) Military
19 30 (0.99%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 844 (27.89%) Analyst
2 331 (10.94%) Senior
3 236 (7.80%) Data Analyst
4 203 (6.71%) Lead
5 166 (5.49%) Business Analyst
6 164 (5.42%) Developer
7 138 (4.56%) Systems Engineer
8 119 (3.93%) Architect
9 87 (2.88%) Support Analyst
9 87 (2.88%) Trainee
10 86 (2.84%) Trainee Analyst
10 86 (2.84%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 82 (2.71%) Consultant
11 82 (2.71%) Senior Analyst
12 81 (2.68%) Support Engineer
13 80 (2.64%) Systems Analyst
14 78 (2.58%) IT Support
15 73 (2.41%) Data Engineer
16 68 (2.25%) IT Manager
16 68 (2.25%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (2.68%) HTML
2 72 (2.38%) CSS
3 63 (2.08%) .NET
4 61 (2.02%) REST
5 60 (1.98%) Middleware
6 56 (1.85%) JSON
7 54 (1.78%) React
8 53 (1.75%) XML
9 39 (1.29%) SOAP
10 36 (1.19%) Node.js
11 31 (1.02%) PyTorch
12 25 (0.83%) TensorFlow
13 22 (0.73%) scikit-learn
14 21 (0.69%) PySpark
15 20 (0.66%) EDI
16 18 (0.59%) Pandas
17 17 (0.56%) OAuth
18 16 (0.53%) RabbitMQ
18 16 (0.53%) React Native
18 16 (0.53%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 376 (12.43%) Analytical Mindset
2 149 (4.92%) Management Information System
3 118 (3.90%) Onboarding
4 114 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
5 112 (3.70%) Product Ownership
6 77 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
7 74 (2.45%) Data Centre
8 65 (2.15%) Driving Licence
9 42 (1.39%) Cloud Native
10 36 (1.19%) Algorithms
11 35 (1.16%) Data Structures
12 34 (1.12%) Low-Code
13 33 (1.09%) FMCG
13 33 (1.09%) Security Posture
14 32 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
15 31 (1.02%) Virtual Team
16 29 (0.96%) Social Media
17 28 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
18 26 (0.86%) Mobile App
19 25 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 242 (8.00%) Windows
2 140 (4.63%) Windows Server
3 134 (4.43%) Linux
4 69 (2.28%) Windows Server 2016
5 21 (0.69%) Unix
6 15 (0.50%) Apple iOS
7 14 (0.46%) Android
8 13 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
9 12 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 9 (0.30%) Ubuntu
11 8 (0.26%) CentOS
11 8 (0.26%) VMS
12 7 (0.23%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.17%) Windows 10
14 3 (0.099%) Debian
14 3 (0.099%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.033%) AIX
15 1 (0.033%) FreeBSD
15 1 (0.033%) OpenBSD
15 1 (0.033%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,400 (46.27%) Problem-Solving
2 825 (27.26%) Continuous Improvement
3 653 (21.58%) Decision-Making
4 632 (20.89%) Analytics
5 449 (14.84%) Agile
6 430 (14.21%) Business Intelligence
7 375 (12.39%) Stakeholder Management
8 330 (10.91%) AI
9 309 (10.21%) Project Management
10 299 (9.88%) Actionable Insight
11 293 (9.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 282 (9.32%) Data Analysis
13 263 (8.69%) ERP
14 251 (8.29%) Customer Service
14 251 (8.29%) Cybersecurity
15 244 (8.06%) CRM
16 241 (7.96%) Mentoring
17 239 (7.90%) Data Modelling
18 231 (7.63%) Customer Experience
19 228 (7.53%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 663 (21.91%) SQL
2 510 (16.85%) Python
3 106 (3.50%) JavaScript
4 101 (3.34%) PowerShell
5 99 (3.27%) Java
6 89 (2.94%) C#
7 62 (2.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 44 (1.45%) R
9 43 (1.42%) C++
9 43 (1.42%) T-SQL
10 40 (1.32%) Bash
11 36 (1.19%) VBA
12 32 (1.06%) MATLAB
13 18 (0.59%) PHP
14 15 (0.50%) Go
15 14 (0.46%) PL/SQL
15 14 (0.46%) TypeScript
16 13 (0.43%) Scala
17 12 (0.40%) C
18 9 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 522 (17.25%) Degree
2 261 (8.63%) Security Cleared
3 185 (6.11%) SC Cleared
4 143 (4.73%) ACCA
5 137 (4.53%) CIMA
6 132 (4.36%) DBS Check
7 72 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
8 69 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
9 66 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
9 66 (2.18%) IRCA
10 56 (1.85%) PMI Certification
11 49 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
12 48 (1.59%) PMP
13 47 (1.55%) CISSP
13 47 (1.55%) DV Cleared
14 38 (1.26%) CompTIA Security+
15 35 (1.16%) CISM
16 34 (1.12%) CCNA
17 27 (0.89%) CCNP
17 27 (0.89%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 305 (10.08%) Data Quality
2 238 (7.87%) GDPR
3 178 (5.88%) QA
4 151 (4.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 118 (3.90%) Cyber Essentials
6 109 (3.60%) NIST
7 99 (3.27%) ISO 9001
8 96 (3.17%) PCI DSS
9 72 (2.38%) SLA
10 51 (1.69%) Accessibility
11 45 (1.49%) GRC
12 42 (1.39%) PMO
13 36 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
14 19 (0.63%) SOC 2
15 18 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 17 (0.56%) TickIT
17 16 (0.53%) GMP
18 15 (0.50%) ISO 14001
18 15 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 20000
19 13 (0.43%) NCSC
System Software
1 181 (5.98%) Active Directory
2 67 (2.21%) Hyper-V
3 56 (1.85%) Terminal Server
4 51 (1.69%) Docker
5 32 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
6 12 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.33%) vSphere
8 9 (0.30%) VMware NSX
9 8 (0.26%) ProxySG
9 8 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.13%) Firmware
10 4 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 4 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.13%) XenApp
11 3 (0.099%) DFS Replication
12 2 (0.066%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.033%) Embedded Firmware
13 1 (0.033%) KVM
13 1 (0.033%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.033%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 66 (2.18%) Terraform
2 43 (1.42%) Kubernetes
3 37 (1.22%) Ansible
4 29 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (0.56%) Grafana
6 11 (0.36%) Kibana
6 11 (0.36%) QRadar
7 8 (0.26%) Nagios
7 8 (0.26%) Prometheus
8 7 (0.23%) Kubeflow
8 7 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.17%) Graylog
9 5 (0.17%) logstash
10 4 (0.13%) Backup Exec
10 4 (0.13%) CASB
10 4 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (0.13%) Functional Safety
10 4 (0.13%) SCCM
10 4 (0.13%) SolarWinds Orion
10 4 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 739 (24.42%) Microsoft
2 131 (4.33%) SAP
3 114 (3.77%) Google
4 97 (3.21%) Salesforce
5 93 (3.07%) VMware
6 87 (2.88%) Splunk
7 85 (2.81%) Oracle
8 81 (2.68%) SolarWinds
9 66 (2.18%) Veeam
9 66 (2.18%) Workday
10 58 (1.92%) Databricks
11 57 (1.88%) Nimble Storage
12 56 (1.85%) Brocade
12 56 (1.85%) Tanium
13 53 (1.75%) ServiceNow
14 49 (1.62%) Cisco
15 36 (1.19%) IBM
16 29 (0.96%) Dell
17 28 (0.93%) HubSpot
18 26 (0.86%) Adobe