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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 8 12
Rank change year-on-year -17 +4 +12
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,557 4,031 5,265
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.73% 11.71% 8.84%
As % of the General category 10.66% 17.51% 16.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2,289 1,550 2,428
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £33,563 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £74,925
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £51,001
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.84% -7.07%

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 33,363 23,027 32,067
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.40% 66.88% 53.82%
Number of salaries quoted 20,554 11,315 18,578
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £49,070
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -8.29% -6.53%
75th Percentile £65,640 £63,750 £63,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 3 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 3 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 -18 1,020 £47,500 +5.56% 549
South East -9 868 £50,000 -4.76% 666
Midlands -10 631 £48,000 +6.67% 364
North West -17 617 £46,750 -0.53% 297
South West -14 488 £47,500 - 275
West Midlands -17 332 £50,149 +11.44% 213
East Midlands -1 297 £45,000 -0.86% 151
Yorkshire -13 282 £47,500 +5.91% 184
East of England -23 251 £45,000 - 198
North East -20 121 £53,750 +34.38% 74
Wales -12 117 £53,171 -3.33% 50
Scotland -27 116 £43,335 -2.07% 106
Northern Ireland -34 75 £42,500 -22.73% 114
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
1 170 (4.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 112 (3.15%) SharePoint
3 43 (1.21%) Confluence
4 28 (0.79%) Apache
4 28 (0.79%) Apache Spark
5 27 (0.76%) CMS
6 26 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
7 25 (0.70%) IIS
8 9 (0.25%) SAS
8 9 (0.25%) WebLogic
8 9 (0.25%) WebSphere
9 8 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.22%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.22%) OpenStack
9 8 (0.22%) WordPress
10 3 (0.084%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.084%) JBoss
11 2 (0.056%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.028%) Moodle
12 1 (0.028%) Umbraco
Applications
1 436 (12.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 174 (4.89%) Microsoft Office
3 70 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 57 (1.60%) MS Visio
5 20 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
6 19 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.20%) CATIA
8 4 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.11%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.084%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.084%) EPLAN
9 3 (0.084%) LaTeX
9 3 (0.084%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.084%) Simulink
9 3 (0.084%) Trello
10 2 (0.056%) Lectora
10 2 (0.056%) Siemens NX
10 2 (0.056%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.028%) Mathcad
11 1 (0.028%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 55 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 41 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 35 (0.98%) Dynamics GP
4 26 (0.73%) NetSuite
5 19 (0.53%) SAP PM
6 14 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
6 14 (0.39%) SAP ERP
7 10 (0.28%) Magento
8 7 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
8 7 (0.20%) SAP Business One
9 6 (0.17%) SAP CO
10 5 (0.14%) JDE EnterpriseOne
10 5 (0.14%) SAP FI
10 5 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
10 5 (0.14%) SAP GTS
10 5 (0.14%) SAP PP
11 4 (0.11%) Academy Housing
11 4 (0.11%) Infor M3
11 4 (0.11%) JDE OneWorld
11 4 (0.11%) JDE World
Cloud Services
1 612 (17.21%) Azure
2 440 (12.37%) Power Platform
3 314 (8.83%) AWS
4 311 (8.74%) Microsoft 365
5 156 (4.39%) SaaS
6 135 (3.80%) GCP
7 90 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
8 84 (2.36%) Entra ID
9 83 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
10 61 (1.71%) Google Analytics
11 52 (1.46%) GitHub
12 51 (1.43%) PowerApps
13 50 (1.41%) Power Automate
14 42 (1.18%) Amazon S3
15 39 (1.10%) Microsoft Purview
16 36 (1.01%) Snowflake
17 35 (0.98%) dbt
18 33 (0.93%) Google Ads
19 31 (0.87%) Serverless
20 30 (0.84%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 159 (4.47%) DNS
2 127 (3.57%) DHCP
3 106 (2.98%) Firewall
4 89 (2.50%) VPN
5 70 (1.97%) TCP/IP
6 65 (1.83%) WAN
7 58 (1.63%) LAN
8 47 (1.32%) Wireless
9 39 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
10 33 (0.93%) Broadband
10 33 (0.93%) Network Security
11 27 (0.76%) HTTP
12 22 (0.62%) SAN
12 22 (0.62%) VoIP
13 20 (0.56%) BGP
13 20 (0.56%) SD-WAN
14 17 (0.48%) VLAN
15 16 (0.45%) Cisco ASA
15 16 (0.45%) Internet
16 15 (0.42%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 389 (10.94%) Power BI
2 185 (5.20%) Tableau
3 114 (3.20%) SQL Server
4 109 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
5 107 (3.01%) Amazon RDS
6 62 (1.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 54 (1.52%) MySQL
8 53 (1.49%) Power Query
9 52 (1.46%) Relational Database
10 49 (1.38%) Data Mining
11 44 (1.24%) Looker
11 44 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 41 (1.15%) Metadata
13 40 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
14 34 (0.96%) Data Lake
15 29 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
15 29 (0.82%) Big Data
16 28 (0.79%) BigQuery
17 20 (0.56%) NoSQL
18 19 (0.53%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 137 (3.85%) JIRA
2 122 (3.43%) Git
3 41 (1.15%) GitLab
4 34 (0.96%) Rational DOORS
5 31 (0.87%) Jenkins
6 15 (0.42%) Cucumber
6 15 (0.42%) Selenium
7 13 (0.37%) Cypress.io
7 13 (0.37%) Eclipse
7 13 (0.37%) Postman
8 11 (0.31%) Burp Suite
8 11 (0.31%) MLflow
9 10 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
10 9 (0.25%) JMeter
10 9 (0.25%) Metasploit
10 9 (0.25%) SonarQube
11 8 (0.22%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.22%) LabVIEW
12 7 (0.20%) Moq
12 7 (0.20%) Subversion
General
1 1,737 (48.83%) Social Skills
2 1,017 (28.59%) Finance
3 317 (8.91%) Marketing
4 254 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
5 226 (6.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 226 (6.35%) Retail
6 210 (5.90%) Manufacturing
7 206 (5.79%) Legal
8 200 (5.62%) Public Sector
9 174 (4.89%) Law
10 164 (4.61%) Influencing Skills
11 120 (3.37%) Aerospace
12 112 (3.15%) Telecoms
13 86 (2.42%) Electronics
14 70 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
15 66 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
16 60 (1.69%) Military
17 56 (1.57%) Banking
18 52 (1.46%) Advertising
19 37 (1.04%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 883 (24.82%) Analyst
2 367 (10.32%) Senior
3 245 (6.89%) Lead
4 225 (6.33%) Data Analyst
5 189 (5.31%) Systems Engineer
6 185 (5.20%) Developer
7 166 (4.67%) Business Analyst
8 122 (3.43%) Architect
9 120 (3.37%) Support Analyst
10 115 (3.23%) Support Engineer
11 102 (2.87%) Consultant
12 99 (2.78%) IT Support
13 96 (2.70%) Senior Analyst
14 93 (2.61%) Data Engineer
15 81 (2.28%) Systems Analyst
16 77 (2.16%) IT Engineer
17 76 (2.14%) Accountant
18 67 (1.88%) IT Manager
19 66 (1.86%) Head of QA
20 65 (1.83%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (2.31%) .NET
2 73 (2.05%) HTML
3 72 (2.02%) REST
4 66 (1.86%) CSS
5 62 (1.74%) Middleware
6 56 (1.57%) XML
7 55 (1.55%) JSON
8 42 (1.18%) React
9 40 (1.12%) SOAP
10 38 (1.07%) RESTful
11 30 (0.84%) Kafka
12 27 (0.76%) PyTorch
13 26 (0.73%) EDI
13 26 (0.73%) Node.js
13 26 (0.73%) PySpark
14 24 (0.67%) OAuth
15 22 (0.62%) LDAP
15 22 (0.62%) TensorFlow
16 21 (0.59%) AngularJS
16 21 (0.59%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 394 (11.08%) Analytical Mindset
2 204 (5.74%) Management Information System
3 169 (4.75%) Self-Motivation
4 146 (4.10%) Onboarding
5 138 (3.88%) Product Ownership
6 131 (3.68%) Legacy Systems
7 113 (3.18%) Driving Licence
8 65 (1.83%) Social Media
9 64 (1.80%) Cloud Native
10 61 (1.71%) Virtual Team
11 58 (1.63%) Data Centre
12 56 (1.57%) Cyber Threat
13 50 (1.41%) Marketing Technology
14 47 (1.32%) Security Posture
15 44 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
16 37 (1.04%) Blog
17 35 (0.98%) Data Structures
18 30 (0.84%) Algorithms
19 29 (0.82%) AI Agents
20 28 (0.79%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 330 (9.28%) Windows
2 215 (6.04%) Linux
3 190 (5.34%) Windows Server
4 104 (2.92%) Windows Server 2016
5 25 (0.70%) Mac OS
6 23 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
7 21 (0.59%) Windows 10
8 20 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 18 (0.51%) Unix
10 17 (0.48%) Android
11 13 (0.37%) Apple iOS
11 13 (0.37%) CentOS
12 11 (0.31%) Ubuntu
13 7 (0.20%) Debian
13 7 (0.20%) VMS
14 5 (0.14%) OpenVMS
15 4 (0.11%) CoreOS
16 2 (0.056%) Solaris
17 1 (0.028%) AIX
17 1 (0.028%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,709 (48.05%) Problem-Solving
2 1,074 (30.19%) Continuous Improvement
3 825 (23.19%) Decision-Making
4 708 (19.90%) Analytics
5 527 (14.82%) Stakeholder Management
6 522 (14.68%) Agile
7 472 (13.27%) AI
8 453 (12.74%) Business Intelligence
9 385 (10.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 355 (9.98%) Actionable Insight
11 335 (9.42%) Customer Experience
12 320 (9.00%) Data Analysis
13 318 (8.94%) ERP
13 318 (8.94%) Validation
14 314 (8.83%) Project Management
15 312 (8.77%) Customer Service
16 293 (8.24%) Mentoring
17 287 (8.07%) CRM
18 286 (8.04%) Cybersecurity
19 281 (7.90%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 704 (19.79%) SQL
2 501 (14.08%) Python
3 136 (3.82%) JavaScript
4 106 (2.98%) Java
5 105 (2.95%) C#
6 100 (2.81%) PowerShell
7 63 (1.77%) C++
8 60 (1.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 57 (1.60%) Bash
10 42 (1.18%) T-SQL
11 36 (1.01%) R
12 33 (0.93%) TypeScript
13 32 (0.90%) MATLAB
14 25 (0.70%) C
15 23 (0.65%) PHP
16 17 (0.48%) Go
17 15 (0.42%) VBA
18 14 (0.39%) Perl
19 13 (0.37%) PL/SQL
19 13 (0.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 605 (17.01%) Degree
2 418 (11.75%) Security Cleared
3 296 (8.32%) SC Cleared
4 154 (4.33%) ACCA
5 148 (4.16%) CIMA
6 127 (3.57%) DBS Check
7 103 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 91 (2.56%) DV Cleared
9 79 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
10 72 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
11 67 (1.88%) IRCA
12 59 (1.66%) CISSP
13 53 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
14 46 (1.29%) CompTIA Security+
15 42 (1.18%) CISM
16 35 (0.98%) CCNA
17 34 (0.96%) HNC
18 33 (0.93%) Master's Degree
19 30 (0.84%) Azure Certification
20 28 (0.79%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 338 (9.50%) Data Quality
2 261 (7.34%) QA
3 250 (7.03%) GDPR
4 155 (4.36%) Cyber Essentials
5 138 (3.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 125 (3.51%) PCI DSS
7 115 (3.23%) ISO 9001
8 96 (2.70%) SLA
9 88 (2.47%) Accessibility
10 80 (2.25%) NIST
11 43 (1.21%) GRC
12 39 (1.10%) PMO
13 28 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 27 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
15 23 (0.65%) ISO 14001
16 22 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 21 (0.59%) GMP
18 18 (0.51%) Good Clinical Practice
19 17 (0.48%) SOC 2
19 17 (0.48%) TickIT
System Software
1 255 (7.17%) Active Directory
2 107 (3.01%) Hyper-V
3 95 (2.67%) Docker
4 88 (2.47%) Terminal Server
5 37 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
6 15 (0.42%) Firmware
7 13 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.25%) VMware NSX
9 7 (0.20%) Ceph
9 7 (0.20%) vSphere
10 5 (0.14%) KVM
11 4 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 4 (0.11%) ProxySG
11 4 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.11%) XenApp
12 3 (0.084%) DFS Replication
12 3 (0.084%) Embedded Firmware
13 1 (0.028%) IAG
13 1 (0.028%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 69 (1.94%) Kubernetes
1 69 (1.94%) Terraform
2 46 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 41 (1.15%) Ansible
4 27 (0.76%) Grafana
5 20 (0.56%) Prometheus
6 14 (0.39%) Kibana
6 14 (0.39%) QRadar
7 12 (0.34%) Podman
8 9 (0.25%) Nmap
8 9 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.20%) Argo
9 7 (0.20%) Check_MK
9 7 (0.20%) Istio
9 7 (0.20%) logstash
9 7 (0.20%) Nagios
10 6 (0.17%) Kubeflow
11 5 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.14%) Graylog
11 5 (0.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 838 (23.56%) Microsoft
2 165 (4.64%) Google
3 135 (3.80%) VMware
4 131 (3.68%) Splunk
5 130 (3.65%) SAP
6 107 (3.01%) SolarWinds
7 96 (2.70%) Veeam
8 89 (2.50%) Brocade
8 89 (2.50%) Nimble Storage
9 88 (2.47%) Tanium
10 83 (2.33%) Oracle
11 80 (2.25%) Salesforce
12 64 (1.80%) Workday
13 62 (1.74%) Cisco
14 56 (1.57%) Databricks
14 56 (1.57%) ServiceNow
15 38 (1.07%) Red Hat
16 35 (0.98%) IBM
17 32 (0.90%) Dell
18 30 (0.84%) Adobe