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 31 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 8 13
Rank change year-on-year -19 +5 +10
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,505 4,006 5,520
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.70% 11.71% 8.83%
As % of the General category 10.60% 17.44% 16.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2,274 1,528 2,623
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,175 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £33,750 £35,960
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £60,125
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £73,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 33,078 22,966 33,870
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.36% 67.11% 54.15%
Number of salaries quoted 20,431 11,172 20,099
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.22% -7.62%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £76,250
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 31 July 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 31 July 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 1,006 £47,500 +5.56% 457
South East -9 857 £50,000 -4.76% 579
Midlands -9 626 £47,500 +5.10% 307
North West -17 608 £47,275 +0.59% 243
South West -13 478 £47,500 - 238
West Midlands -16 329 £50,000 +11.11% 176
East Midlands -1 295 £45,000 -1.52% 131
Yorkshire -10 284 £47,500 +6.26% 153
East of England -22 252 £45,050 -1.90% 167
Wales -12 115 £53,171 -3.33% 42
North East -22 114 £55,000 +37.50% 67
Scotland -33 111 £40,800 -7.27% 61
Northern Ireland -29 70 £42,500 -22.73% 26
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
1 171 (4.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 111 (3.17%) SharePoint
3 40 (1.14%) Confluence
4 28 (0.80%) Apache
4 28 (0.80%) Apache Spark
5 27 (0.77%) CMS
6 26 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
7 23 (0.66%) IIS
8 9 (0.26%) SAS
8 9 (0.26%) WebLogic
8 9 (0.26%) WebSphere
9 8 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.23%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.23%) OpenStack
9 8 (0.23%) WordPress
10 3 (0.086%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.086%) JBoss
11 1 (0.029%) Moodle
11 1 (0.029%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.029%) Tomcat
Applications
1 437 (12.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 174 (4.96%) Microsoft Office
3 69 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 54 (1.54%) MS Visio
5 20 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
6 18 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.20%) CATIA
8 4 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.11%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.086%) EPLAN
9 3 (0.086%) LaTeX
9 3 (0.086%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.086%) Simulink
9 3 (0.086%) Trello
10 2 (0.057%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.057%) Lectora
10 2 (0.057%) Siemens NX
10 2 (0.057%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.029%) Mathcad
11 1 (0.029%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 53 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 41 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 35 (1.00%) Dynamics GP
4 26 (0.74%) NetSuite
5 19 (0.54%) SAP PM
6 15 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
7 14 (0.40%) SAP ERP
8 10 (0.29%) Magento
9 7 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
10 6 (0.17%) SAP Business One
10 6 (0.17%) SAP CO
11 5 (0.14%) JDE EnterpriseOne
11 5 (0.14%) SAP FI
11 5 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
11 5 (0.14%) SAP GTS
11 5 (0.14%) SAP PP
12 4 (0.11%) Academy Housing
12 4 (0.11%) Infor M3
12 4 (0.11%) JDE OneWorld
12 4 (0.11%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 607 (17.32%) Azure
2 442 (12.61%) Power Platform
3 313 (8.93%) Microsoft 365
4 306 (8.73%) AWS
5 154 (4.39%) SaaS
6 135 (3.85%) GCP
7 92 (2.62%) Azure DevOps
8 85 (2.43%) Dynamics 365
9 84 (2.40%) Entra ID
10 62 (1.77%) Google Analytics
11 53 (1.51%) GitHub
12 51 (1.46%) PowerApps
13 48 (1.37%) Power Automate
14 41 (1.17%) Amazon S3
15 40 (1.14%) Microsoft Purview
16 35 (1.00%) dbt
16 35 (1.00%) Snowflake
17 31 (0.88%) Azure Data Factory
17 31 (0.88%) Serverless
18 30 (0.86%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 158 (4.51%) DNS
2 127 (3.62%) DHCP
3 103 (2.94%) Firewall
4 88 (2.51%) VPN
5 68 (1.94%) TCP/IP
6 65 (1.85%) WAN
7 57 (1.63%) LAN
8 46 (1.31%) Wireless
9 40 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
10 33 (0.94%) Broadband
11 31 (0.88%) Network Security
12 26 (0.74%) HTTP
13 21 (0.60%) SAN
13 21 (0.60%) SD-WAN
13 21 (0.60%) VoIP
14 20 (0.57%) BGP
15 16 (0.46%) Cisco ASA
15 16 (0.46%) Internet
15 16 (0.46%) VLAN
16 15 (0.43%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 391 (11.16%) Power BI
2 184 (5.25%) Tableau
3 113 (3.22%) SQL Server
4 107 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
5 106 (3.02%) Amazon RDS
6 62 (1.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 52 (1.48%) MySQL
7 52 (1.48%) Power Query
8 50 (1.43%) Data Mining
9 49 (1.40%) Relational Database
10 44 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 43 (1.23%) Looker
12 38 (1.08%) Metadata
12 38 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
13 33 (0.94%) Data Lake
14 29 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
15 28 (0.80%) Big Data
16 27 (0.77%) BigQuery
17 20 (0.57%) NoSQL
18 19 (0.54%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 129 (3.68%) JIRA
2 115 (3.28%) Git
3 41 (1.17%) GitLab
4 34 (0.97%) Rational DOORS
5 32 (0.91%) Jenkins
6 15 (0.43%) Cucumber
6 15 (0.43%) Selenium
7 13 (0.37%) Eclipse
7 13 (0.37%) Postman
8 12 (0.34%) Cypress.io
9 11 (0.31%) MLflow
10 9 (0.26%) Burp Suite
10 9 (0.26%) JMeter
10 9 (0.26%) SonarQube
11 8 (0.23%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.23%) LabVIEW
11 8 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
12 7 (0.20%) Metasploit
12 7 (0.20%) Moq
12 7 (0.20%) Subversion
General
1 1,703 (48.59%) Social Skills
2 1,007 (28.73%) Finance
3 311 (8.87%) Marketing
4 245 (6.99%) Organisational Skills
5 229 (6.53%) Retail
6 209 (5.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 203 (5.79%) Legal
8 201 (5.73%) Manufacturing
9 194 (5.53%) Public Sector
10 166 (4.74%) Law
11 163 (4.65%) Influencing Skills
12 110 (3.14%) Aerospace
12 110 (3.14%) Telecoms
13 86 (2.45%) Electronics
14 67 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
15 65 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
16 57 (1.63%) Military
17 54 (1.54%) Banking
18 50 (1.43%) Advertising
19 38 (1.08%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 878 (25.05%) Analyst
2 362 (10.33%) Senior
3 238 (6.79%) Lead
4 228 (6.50%) Data Analyst
5 188 (5.36%) Systems Engineer
6 181 (5.16%) Developer
7 164 (4.68%) Business Analyst
8 117 (3.34%) Architect
9 116 (3.31%) Support Engineer
10 114 (3.25%) Support Analyst
11 100 (2.85%) Consultant
12 97 (2.77%) IT Support
13 95 (2.71%) Senior Analyst
14 93 (2.65%) Data Engineer
15 80 (2.28%) Systems Analyst
16 76 (2.17%) Accountant
17 75 (2.14%) IT Engineer
18 66 (1.88%) Applications Support
18 66 (1.88%) Head of QA
19 65 (1.85%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (2.25%) .NET
2 72 (2.05%) REST
3 70 (2.00%) HTML
4 63 (1.80%) CSS
4 63 (1.80%) Middleware
5 57 (1.63%) XML
6 54 (1.54%) JSON
7 44 (1.26%) React
8 40 (1.14%) SOAP
9 37 (1.06%) RESTful
10 29 (0.83%) Kafka
11 27 (0.77%) Node.js
11 27 (0.77%) PyTorch
12 26 (0.74%) EDI
13 25 (0.71%) PySpark
14 23 (0.66%) OAuth
15 22 (0.63%) TensorFlow
16 21 (0.60%) scikit-learn
17 20 (0.57%) LDAP
18 19 (0.54%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 396 (11.30%) Analytical Mindset
2 201 (5.73%) Management Information System
3 160 (4.56%) Self-Motivation
4 140 (3.99%) Onboarding
5 135 (3.85%) Product Ownership
6 128 (3.65%) Legacy Systems
7 110 (3.14%) Driving Licence
8 63 (1.80%) Cloud Native
9 61 (1.74%) Social Media
9 61 (1.74%) Virtual Team
10 56 (1.60%) Data Centre
11 55 (1.57%) Cyber Threat
12 50 (1.43%) Marketing Technology
13 45 (1.28%) Security Posture
14 42 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
15 37 (1.06%) Blog
16 32 (0.91%) Algorithms
16 32 (0.91%) Data Structures
17 29 (0.83%) AI Agents
18 28 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 326 (9.30%) Windows
2 213 (6.08%) Linux
3 188 (5.36%) Windows Server
4 104 (2.97%) Windows Server 2016
5 24 (0.68%) Mac OS
6 23 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
7 20 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 20 (0.57%) Windows 10
8 18 (0.51%) Unix
9 17 (0.49%) Android
10 13 (0.37%) Apple iOS
10 13 (0.37%) CentOS
11 11 (0.31%) Ubuntu
12 7 (0.20%) Debian
12 7 (0.20%) VMS
13 5 (0.14%) OpenVMS
14 4 (0.11%) CoreOS
15 2 (0.057%) Solaris
16 1 (0.029%) AIX
16 1 (0.029%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,670 (47.65%) Problem-Solving
2 1,043 (29.76%) Continuous Improvement
3 814 (23.22%) Decision-Making
4 705 (20.11%) Analytics
5 513 (14.64%) Stakeholder Management
6 506 (14.44%) Agile
7 463 (13.21%) AI
8 457 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
9 377 (10.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 353 (10.07%) Actionable Insight
11 336 (9.59%) Customer Experience
12 318 (9.07%) ERP
13 317 (9.04%) Data Analysis
14 312 (8.90%) Customer Service
15 307 (8.76%) Project Management
16 304 (8.67%) Validation
17 285 (8.13%) CRM
18 281 (8.02%) Mentoring
19 276 (7.87%) Cybersecurity
19 276 (7.87%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 703 (20.06%) SQL
2 498 (14.21%) Python
3 130 (3.71%) JavaScript
4 106 (3.02%) Java
5 103 (2.94%) C#
6 100 (2.85%) PowerShell
7 61 (1.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 60 (1.71%) C++
9 56 (1.60%) Bash
10 43 (1.23%) T-SQL
11 39 (1.11%) R
12 32 (0.91%) MATLAB
13 29 (0.83%) TypeScript
14 25 (0.71%) C
15 23 (0.66%) PHP
16 19 (0.54%) Go
17 16 (0.46%) VBA
18 13 (0.37%) Perl
18 13 (0.37%) PL/SQL
18 13 (0.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 582 (16.60%) Degree
2 398 (11.36%) Security Cleared
3 282 (8.05%) SC Cleared
4 157 (4.48%) ACCA
5 151 (4.31%) CIMA
6 126 (3.59%) DBS Check
7 97 (2.77%) BPSS Clearance
8 82 (2.34%) DV Cleared
9 78 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
10 71 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
11 67 (1.91%) IRCA
12 58 (1.65%) CISSP
13 52 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
14 45 (1.28%) CompTIA Security+
15 41 (1.17%) CISM
16 35 (1.00%) CCNA
17 31 (0.88%) Master's Degree
18 29 (0.83%) Azure Certification
18 29 (0.83%) HNC
19 27 (0.77%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 336 (9.59%) Data Quality
2 255 (7.28%) QA
3 246 (7.02%) GDPR
4 155 (4.42%) Cyber Essentials
5 138 (3.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 125 (3.57%) PCI DSS
7 115 (3.28%) ISO 9001
8 96 (2.74%) SLA
9 85 (2.43%) Accessibility
10 80 (2.28%) NIST
11 43 (1.23%) GRC
12 38 (1.08%) PMO
13 28 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
13 28 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 23 (0.66%) ISO 14001
15 22 (0.63%) GMP
15 22 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 18 (0.51%) Good Clinical Practice
17 17 (0.49%) SOC 2
17 17 (0.49%) TickIT
System Software
1 255 (7.28%) Active Directory
2 106 (3.02%) Hyper-V
3 94 (2.68%) Docker
4 88 (2.51%) Terminal Server
5 36 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
6 13 (0.37%) Firmware
6 13 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (0.26%) VMware NSX
8 7 (0.20%) Ceph
8 7 (0.20%) vSphere
9 4 (0.11%) KVM
9 4 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 4 (0.11%) ProxySG
9 4 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.11%) XenApp
10 3 (0.086%) DFS Replication
10 3 (0.086%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.029%) IAG
11 1 (0.029%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 70 (2.00%) Terraform
2 68 (1.94%) Kubernetes
3 45 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
4 40 (1.14%) Ansible
5 27 (0.77%) Grafana
6 20 (0.57%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.40%) Kibana
8 13 (0.37%) QRadar
9 12 (0.34%) Podman
10 9 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (0.20%) Argo
11 7 (0.20%) Check_MK
11 7 (0.20%) Istio
11 7 (0.20%) logstash
11 7 (0.20%) Nagios
11 7 (0.20%) Nmap
12 6 (0.17%) Kubeflow
13 5 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
13 5 (0.14%) Graylog
13 5 (0.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 830 (23.68%) Microsoft
2 162 (4.62%) Google
3 134 (3.82%) VMware
4 130 (3.71%) SAP
4 130 (3.71%) Splunk
5 107 (3.05%) SolarWinds
6 96 (2.74%) Veeam
7 89 (2.54%) Brocade
7 89 (2.54%) Nimble Storage
8 88 (2.51%) Tanium
9 82 (2.34%) Salesforce
10 79 (2.25%) Oracle
11 63 (1.80%) Workday
12 60 (1.71%) Cisco
13 56 (1.60%) ServiceNow
14 55 (1.57%) Databricks
15 38 (1.08%) Red Hat
16 35 (1.00%) IBM
17 32 (0.91%) Dell
18 29 (0.83%) Adobe