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 17 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 8 16
Rank change year-on-year -19 +8 +5
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,056 3,722 6,620
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.54% 12.51% 8.38%
As % of the General category 10.20% 17.55% 15.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2,069 1,333 3,629
10th Percentile £31,125 £28,050 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,500 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.11% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £59,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £72,500
UK median annual salary £54,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.91% +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 29,964 21,211 43,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.53% 71.27% 54.55%
Number of salaries quoted 18,298 9,564 27,634
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,200
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,565 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.02% +5.84% -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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -19 946 £48,000 +0.20% 415
South East -7 763 £50,000 -9.09% 559
Midlands -9 558 £48,000 +1.05% 282
North West -17 558 £46,500 -7.00% 242
South West -25 333 £47,500 -5.00% 190
West Midlands -13 313 £50,774 +6.89% 151
Yorkshire -15 293 £49,942 +10.98% 115
East Midlands 0 244 £45,000 -5.26% 131
East of England -18 233 £45,025 +0.06% 159
Scotland -26 112 £40,000 -20.71% 100
North East -34 95 £51,000 +31.44% 66
Wales -4 83 £53,171 -3.33% 47
Northern Ireland -20 39 £40,000 -27.27% 74
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
1 154 (5.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 85 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 35 (1.15%) Confluence
4 31 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
4 31 (1.01%) Apache Spark
5 28 (0.92%) CMS
6 23 (0.75%) Apache
7 21 (0.69%) IIS
8 9 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 9 (0.29%) WordPress
9 6 (0.20%) SAS
10 5 (0.16%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.13%) WebLogic
11 4 (0.13%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.098%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.098%) govService
12 3 (0.098%) JBoss
13 1 (0.033%) Appian
13 1 (0.033%) Palantir Foundry
13 1 (0.033%) Tomcat
Applications
1 398 (13.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 137 (4.48%) Microsoft Office
3 61 (2.00%) MS Visio
4 55 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 24 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
7 9 (0.29%) CATIA
8 4 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.098%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.098%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.098%) Trello
10 2 (0.065%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.065%) Lectora
10 2 (0.065%) Siemens NX
10 2 (0.065%) Simulink
10 2 (0.065%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.033%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.033%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 41 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 31 (1.01%) Salesforce CRM
3 21 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
4 19 (0.62%) NetSuite
5 15 (0.49%) SAP PM
6 14 (0.46%) SAP ERP
7 10 (0.33%) SAP CO
8 8 (0.26%) Dynamics GP
9 7 (0.23%) Workday HCM
10 6 (0.20%) Magento
11 5 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
11 5 (0.16%) Q-Pulse
11 5 (0.16%) SAP GTS
11 5 (0.16%) SAP PP
12 4 (0.13%) Infor M3
12 4 (0.13%) JDE OneWorld
12 4 (0.13%) JDE World
12 4 (0.13%) SAP FI
12 4 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
13 3 (0.098%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 539 (17.64%) Azure
2 401 (13.12%) Power Platform
3 281 (9.20%) Microsoft 365
4 270 (8.84%) AWS
5 122 (3.99%) SaaS
6 105 (3.44%) GCP
7 85 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
8 80 (2.62%) Entra ID
9 74 (2.42%) Dynamics 365
10 53 (1.73%) Google Analytics
11 52 (1.70%) GitHub
12 50 (1.64%) Microsoft Purview
13 44 (1.44%) Amazon S3
13 44 (1.44%) PowerApps
14 43 (1.41%) Power Automate
15 37 (1.21%) Serverless
16 33 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
17 32 (1.05%) dbt
18 29 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
19 27 (0.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 135 (4.42%) DNS
2 132 (4.32%) Firewall
3 106 (3.47%) DHCP
4 74 (2.42%) VPN
5 62 (2.03%) WAN
6 49 (1.60%) LAN
6 49 (1.60%) TCP/IP
7 43 (1.41%) Broadband
8 41 (1.34%) Wi-Fi
9 38 (1.24%) Wireless
10 28 (0.92%) Network Security
11 24 (0.79%) BGP
12 23 (0.75%) SD-WAN
12 23 (0.75%) VLAN
13 22 (0.72%) Wireshark
14 21 (0.69%) Cisco ASA
14 21 (0.69%) HTTP
15 20 (0.65%) SAN
16 14 (0.46%) OSPF
16 14 (0.46%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 361 (11.81%) Power BI
2 199 (6.51%) Tableau
3 99 (3.24%) SQL Server
4 95 (3.11%) Amazon RDS
5 79 (2.59%) Data Mining
6 75 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
7 55 (1.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 42 (1.37%) Power Query
9 41 (1.34%) Metadata
10 38 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 35 (1.15%) Looker
12 34 (1.11%) MySQL
12 34 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
13 33 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
13 33 (1.08%) Relational Database
14 29 (0.95%) Big Data
14 29 (0.95%) Data Lake
15 21 (0.69%) NoSQL
16 17 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
16 17 (0.56%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 98 (3.21%) JIRA
2 71 (2.32%) Git
3 37 (1.21%) GitLab
4 33 (1.08%) Rational DOORS
5 17 (0.56%) Jenkins
6 12 (0.39%) Cypress.io
6 12 (0.39%) Selenium
7 11 (0.36%) Cucumber
7 11 (0.36%) MLflow
8 8 (0.26%) JMeter
8 8 (0.26%) Postman
9 7 (0.23%) Moq
9 7 (0.23%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.20%) Eclipse
10 6 (0.20%) ERwin
10 6 (0.20%) Toad
11 5 (0.16%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.16%) LabVIEW
11 5 (0.16%) Maven
11 5 (0.16%) Subversion
General
1 1,427 (46.70%) Social Skills
2 921 (30.14%) Finance
3 265 (8.67%) Marketing
4 183 (5.99%) Public Sector
5 173 (5.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 165 (5.40%) Organisational Skills
7 157 (5.14%) Retail
8 150 (4.91%) Legal
9 148 (4.84%) Manufacturing
10 143 (4.68%) Law
11 113 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
12 96 (3.14%) Telecoms
13 74 (2.42%) Aerospace
14 68 (2.23%) Electronics
15 65 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
16 56 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
17 44 (1.44%) Banking
18 40 (1.31%) Military
19 34 (1.11%) Advertising
20 33 (1.08%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 849 (27.78%) Analyst
2 310 (10.14%) Senior
3 231 (7.56%) Data Analyst
4 221 (7.23%) Lead
5 170 (5.56%) Business Analyst
6 160 (5.24%) Systems Engineer
7 158 (5.17%) Developer
8 105 (3.44%) Architect
9 92 (3.01%) Support Analyst
10 89 (2.91%) Senior Analyst
11 86 (2.81%) Consultant
11 86 (2.81%) Support Engineer
12 83 (2.72%) Systems Analyst
13 79 (2.59%) IT Support
14 73 (2.39%) Data Engineer
15 72 (2.36%) Trainee
15 72 (2.36%) Trainee Analyst
15 72 (2.36%) Trainee Data Analyst
16 66 (2.16%) Head of QA
17 65 (2.13%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (2.49%) HTML
2 68 (2.23%) CSS
3 63 (2.06%) .NET
3 63 (2.06%) Middleware
4 62 (2.03%) REST
5 58 (1.90%) JSON
6 55 (1.80%) React
6 55 (1.80%) XML
7 39 (1.28%) SOAP
8 38 (1.24%) Node.js
9 32 (1.05%) PyTorch
10 26 (0.85%) TensorFlow
11 22 (0.72%) RESTful
11 22 (0.72%) scikit-learn
12 20 (0.65%) EDI
13 19 (0.62%) PySpark
14 17 (0.56%) OAuth
14 17 (0.56%) Pandas
15 15 (0.49%) Kafka
16 14 (0.46%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 385 (12.60%) Analytical Mindset
2 152 (4.97%) Management Information System
3 117 (3.83%) Onboarding
4 114 (3.73%) Self-Motivation
5 111 (3.63%) Product Ownership
6 103 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
7 70 (2.29%) Driving Licence
8 69 (2.26%) Data Centre
9 44 (1.44%) Cloud Native
10 41 (1.34%) Cyber Threat
11 36 (1.18%) Algorithms
11 36 (1.18%) Data Structures
12 35 (1.15%) Social Media
13 34 (1.11%) Security Posture
14 31 (1.01%) Virtual Team
15 30 (0.98%) FMCG
16 29 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
17 28 (0.92%) Low-Code
18 27 (0.88%) Cyber Defence
18 27 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 266 (8.70%) Windows
2 167 (5.46%) Windows Server
3 162 (5.30%) Linux
4 94 (3.08%) Windows Server 2016
5 20 (0.65%) Unix
6 17 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
7 15 (0.49%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.46%) Android
8 14 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 11 (0.36%) Ubuntu
10 9 (0.29%) CentOS
10 9 (0.29%) Windows 10
11 8 (0.26%) Mac OS
11 8 (0.26%) VMS
12 4 (0.13%) Debian
13 3 (0.098%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.065%) OpenVMS
15 1 (0.033%) AIX
15 1 (0.033%) FreeBSD
15 1 (0.033%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,430 (46.79%) Problem-Solving
2 842 (27.55%) Continuous Improvement
3 682 (22.32%) Decision-Making
4 624 (20.42%) Analytics
5 443 (14.50%) Agile
6 410 (13.42%) Business Intelligence
7 374 (12.24%) Stakeholder Management
8 326 (10.67%) AI
9 318 (10.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 310 (10.14%) Actionable Insight
11 288 (9.42%) Data Analysis
12 287 (9.39%) Customer Service
13 278 (9.10%) Project Management
14 268 (8.77%) ERP
15 260 (8.51%) Cybersecurity
16 259 (8.48%) Customer Experience
17 249 (8.15%) CRM
18 247 (8.08%) Mentoring
19 236 (7.72%) Data Modelling
20 231 (7.56%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 660 (21.60%) SQL
2 496 (16.23%) Python
3 106 (3.47%) JavaScript
4 99 (3.24%) Java
5 96 (3.14%) PowerShell
6 87 (2.85%) C#
7 58 (1.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 44 (1.44%) T-SQL
9 43 (1.41%) C++
9 43 (1.41%) R
10 41 (1.34%) Bash
11 33 (1.08%) VBA
12 27 (0.88%) MATLAB
13 19 (0.62%) TypeScript
14 18 (0.59%) PHP
15 15 (0.49%) Go
16 14 (0.46%) PL/SQL
17 13 (0.43%) C
18 12 (0.39%) Scala
19 10 (0.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 503 (16.46%) Degree
2 300 (9.82%) Security Cleared
3 219 (7.17%) SC Cleared
4 151 (4.94%) ACCA
5 145 (4.74%) CIMA
6 129 (4.22%) DBS Check
7 79 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
8 69 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
9 66 (2.16%) IRCA
10 64 (2.09%) Cisco Certification
11 47 (1.54%) CISSP
11 47 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
12 45 (1.47%) DV Cleared
13 40 (1.31%) CompTIA Security+
14 35 (1.15%) CISM
15 33 (1.08%) PMI Certification
16 32 (1.05%) CCNA
17 26 (0.85%) PMP
18 25 (0.82%) Azure Certification
19 24 (0.79%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 305 (9.98%) Data Quality
2 246 (8.05%) GDPR
3 197 (6.45%) QA
4 155 (5.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 149 (4.88%) Cyber Essentials
6 118 (3.86%) PCI DSS
7 107 (3.50%) ISO 9001
8 102 (3.34%) NIST
9 83 (2.72%) SLA
10 68 (2.23%) Accessibility
11 45 (1.47%) GRC
12 37 (1.21%) PMO
13 35 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
14 23 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 20 (0.65%) ISO 14001
15 20 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 17 (0.56%) GMP
16 17 (0.56%) TickIT
17 16 (0.52%) SOC 2
18 13 (0.43%) IFRS
System Software
1 212 (6.94%) Active Directory
2 91 (2.98%) Hyper-V
3 80 (2.62%) Terminal Server
4 56 (1.83%) Docker
5 33 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
6 11 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (0.33%) vSphere
8 9 (0.29%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.20%) ProxySG
10 4 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 4 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.13%) XenApp
11 3 (0.098%) DFS Replication
11 3 (0.098%) Firmware
12 2 (0.065%) 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 64 (2.09%) Terraform
2 44 (1.44%) Kubernetes
3 36 (1.18%) Ansible
4 26 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (0.62%) Grafana
6 13 (0.43%) QRadar
7 12 (0.39%) Kibana
8 9 (0.29%) Prometheus
9 8 (0.26%) Kubeflow
9 8 (0.26%) Nagios
10 6 (0.20%) Graylog
11 5 (0.16%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.16%) logstash
11 5 (0.16%) Podman
12 4 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.13%) Control-M
12 4 (0.13%) Functional Safety
12 4 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.13%) SolarWinds Orion
12 4 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 743 (24.31%) Microsoft
2 124 (4.06%) SAP
3 121 (3.96%) Google
4 118 (3.86%) VMware
5 114 (3.73%) Splunk
6 101 (3.30%) SolarWinds
7 100 (3.27%) Salesforce
8 91 (2.98%) Veeam
9 81 (2.65%) Nimble Storage
10 80 (2.62%) Brocade
10 80 (2.62%) Tanium
11 79 (2.59%) Oracle
12 65 (2.13%) Workday
13 56 (1.83%) Databricks
14 50 (1.64%) Cisco
15 36 (1.18%) IBM
16 31 (1.01%) ServiceNow
17 28 (0.92%) Adobe
17 28 (0.92%) HubSpot
18 27 (0.88%) Dell