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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 8 17
Rank change year-on-year -19 +9 +3
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 2,993 3,681 6,349
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.47% 12.57% 8.53%
As % of the General category 9.72% 17.55% 15.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2,015 1,338 3,582
10th Percentile £31,175 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,063 £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 £62,500 £59,500
90th Percentile £78,545 £77,500 £72,500
UK median annual salary £54,068 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.70% +10.00% -9.09%

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 30,787 20,971 41,497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 46.03% 71.61% 55.74%
Number of salaries quoted 17,611 9,272 27,029
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +2.63% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,200
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,343 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.09% +9.22% -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 5 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 5 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 -21 925 £47,750 -1.15% 465
South East -5 757 £50,000 -4.76% 584
Midlands -20 553 £48,000 +1.05% 272
North West -27 542 £46,500 -7.00% 260
West Midlands -24 311 £51,300 +8.00% 172
South West -25 307 £47,500 -5.00% 204
Yorkshire -12 290 £50,000 +11.11% 150
East Midlands +1 241 £45,000 -5.76% 99
East of England -23 236 £45,000 -11.71% 166
Scotland -29 107 £40,000 -20.71% 105
North East -31 93 £50,000 +27.88% 62
Wales -1 79 £51,709 -3.80% 39
Northern Ireland -24 40 £41,250 -25.00% 80
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
1 138 (4.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 81 (2.71%) SharePoint
3 31 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
4 30 (1.00%) Apache Spark
5 29 (0.97%) Confluence
6 28 (0.94%) CMS
7 23 (0.77%) IIS
8 22 (0.74%) Apache
9 9 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 9 (0.30%) WordPress
10 6 (0.20%) SAS
11 5 (0.17%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.13%) nginx
13 3 (0.10%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.10%) govService
13 3 (0.10%) JBoss
14 1 (0.033%) Appian
14 1 (0.033%) Palantir Foundry
14 1 (0.033%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.033%) WebLogic
Applications
1 397 (13.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 147 (4.91%) Microsoft Office
3 61 (2.04%) MS Visio
4 52 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 20 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
7 10 (0.33%) CATIA
8 4 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.10%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.10%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.10%) Trello
10 2 (0.067%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.067%) Lectora
10 2 (0.067%) Simulink
10 2 (0.067%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.033%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.033%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.033%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 44 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (1.07%) Salesforce CRM
3 22 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
4 19 (0.63%) NetSuite
5 15 (0.50%) SAP PM
6 14 (0.47%) SAP ERP
7 13 (0.43%) SAP CO
8 8 (0.27%) Dynamics GP
9 7 (0.23%) Magento
9 7 (0.23%) Workday HCM
10 5 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
10 5 (0.17%) Q-Pulse
10 5 (0.17%) SAP GTS
10 5 (0.17%) SAP PP
11 4 (0.13%) Infor M3
11 4 (0.13%) JDE OneWorld
11 4 (0.13%) JDE World
11 4 (0.13%) SAP FI
11 4 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
12 3 (0.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 505 (16.87%) Azure
2 401 (13.40%) Power Platform
3 268 (8.95%) AWS
4 263 (8.79%) Microsoft 365
5 123 (4.11%) SaaS
6 95 (3.17%) GCP
7 85 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
8 79 (2.64%) Entra ID
9 76 (2.54%) Dynamics 365
10 55 (1.84%) GitHub
11 50 (1.67%) Google Analytics
12 49 (1.64%) Microsoft Purview
13 47 (1.57%) Power Automate
14 44 (1.47%) PowerApps
15 43 (1.44%) Amazon S3
16 36 (1.20%) Serverless
17 33 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
17 33 (1.10%) dbt
18 32 (1.07%) Snowflake
19 28 (0.94%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 134 (4.48%) Firewall
2 117 (3.91%) DNS
3 89 (2.97%) DHCP
4 80 (2.67%) VPN
5 62 (2.07%) WAN
6 46 (1.54%) LAN
7 44 (1.47%) TCP/IP
8 41 (1.37%) Wireless
9 38 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
10 36 (1.20%) Broadband
11 31 (1.04%) Network Security
12 27 (0.90%) VLAN
13 26 (0.87%) SD-WAN
14 25 (0.84%) BGP
15 23 (0.77%) Cisco ASA
15 23 (0.77%) Wireshark
16 22 (0.74%) SAN
17 18 (0.60%) HTTP
18 17 (0.57%) OSPF
19 15 (0.50%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 359 (11.99%) Power BI
2 209 (6.98%) Tableau
3 98 (3.27%) SQL Server
4 93 (3.11%) Data Mining
5 78 (2.61%) Amazon RDS
6 73 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
7 57 (1.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 42 (1.40%) Power Query
9 39 (1.30%) Metadata
10 35 (1.17%) Looker
10 35 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 33 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
11 33 (1.10%) MySQL
12 32 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
13 31 (1.04%) Data Lake
14 30 (1.00%) Relational Database
15 29 (0.97%) Big Data
16 25 (0.84%) NoSQL
17 17 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
17 17 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 88 (2.94%) JIRA
2 66 (2.21%) Git
3 37 (1.24%) GitLab
4 32 (1.07%) Rational DOORS
5 16 (0.53%) Jenkins
6 11 (0.37%) MLflow
6 11 (0.37%) Selenium
7 10 (0.33%) Cucumber
7 10 (0.33%) Cypress.io
8 7 (0.23%) LabVIEW
8 7 (0.23%) Moq
8 7 (0.23%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.20%) Subversion
9 6 (0.20%) Toad
10 5 (0.17%) JMeter
10 5 (0.17%) Maven
10 5 (0.17%) Postman
11 4 (0.13%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.13%) IBM UrbanCode
11 4 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
General
1 1,374 (45.91%) Social Skills
2 905 (30.24%) Finance
3 266 (8.89%) Marketing
4 179 (5.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 174 (5.81%) Public Sector
6 153 (5.11%) Organisational Skills
7 148 (4.94%) Retail
8 140 (4.68%) Manufacturing
9 138 (4.61%) Law
10 136 (4.54%) Legal
11 110 (3.68%) Influencing Skills
12 89 (2.97%) Telecoms
13 69 (2.31%) Electronics
14 67 (2.24%) Aerospace
15 64 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
16 63 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
17 42 (1.40%) Banking
18 37 (1.24%) Military
19 31 (1.04%) Automotive
19 31 (1.04%) Games
Job Titles
1 834 (27.87%) Analyst
2 318 (10.62%) Senior
3 234 (7.82%) Data Analyst
4 205 (6.85%) Lead
5 164 (5.48%) Business Analyst
6 159 (5.31%) Developer
7 145 (4.84%) Systems Engineer
8 109 (3.64%) Architect
9 88 (2.94%) Support Analyst
10 84 (2.81%) Senior Analyst
11 82 (2.74%) Consultant
11 82 (2.74%) Support Engineer
12 80 (2.67%) IT Support
12 80 (2.67%) Systems Analyst
12 80 (2.67%) Trainee
13 79 (2.64%) Trainee Analyst
13 79 (2.64%) Trainee Data Analyst
14 72 (2.41%) Data Engineer
15 68 (2.27%) IT Manager
16 66 (2.21%) Head of QA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (2.67%) HTML
2 71 (2.37%) CSS
3 62 (2.07%) .NET
4 61 (2.04%) REST
5 60 (2.00%) Middleware
6 56 (1.87%) JSON
7 54 (1.80%) React
8 53 (1.77%) XML
9 39 (1.30%) SOAP
10 37 (1.24%) Node.js
11 30 (1.00%) PyTorch
12 24 (0.80%) TensorFlow
13 21 (0.70%) scikit-learn
14 20 (0.67%) EDI
14 20 (0.67%) PySpark
15 17 (0.57%) OAuth
15 17 (0.57%) Pandas
15 17 (0.57%) RESTful
16 16 (0.53%) RabbitMQ
17 15 (0.50%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 373 (12.46%) Analytical Mindset
2 144 (4.81%) Management Information System
3 119 (3.98%) Onboarding
4 113 (3.78%) Self-Motivation
5 108 (3.61%) Product Ownership
6 85 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
7 74 (2.47%) Data Centre
8 65 (2.17%) Driving Licence
9 42 (1.40%) Cloud Native
10 36 (1.20%) Algorithms
11 34 (1.14%) Data Structures
12 32 (1.07%) Cyber Threat
12 32 (1.07%) FMCG
13 31 (1.04%) Low-Code
13 31 (1.04%) Virtual Team
14 30 (1.00%) Security Posture
15 29 (0.97%) Social Media
16 28 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
17 26 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
17 26 (0.87%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 251 (8.39%) Windows
2 149 (4.98%) Windows Server
3 142 (4.74%) Linux
4 78 (2.61%) Windows Server 2016
5 21 (0.70%) Unix
6 16 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
7 15 (0.50%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.47%) Android
9 13 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 10 (0.33%) Ubuntu
11 9 (0.30%) CentOS
12 8 (0.27%) Mac OS
12 8 (0.27%) VMS
13 7 (0.23%) Windows 10
14 3 (0.10%) Debian
14 3 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.033%) AIX
15 1 (0.033%) OpenBSD
15 1 (0.033%) Solaris
15 1 (0.033%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,399 (46.74%) Problem-Solving
2 809 (27.03%) Continuous Improvement
3 653 (21.82%) Decision-Making
4 625 (20.88%) Analytics
5 439 (14.67%) Agile
6 408 (13.63%) Business Intelligence
7 366 (12.23%) Stakeholder Management
8 323 (10.79%) AI
9 306 (10.22%) Actionable Insight
10 299 (9.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 290 (9.69%) Project Management
12 285 (9.52%) Data Analysis
13 265 (8.85%) Customer Service
14 261 (8.72%) ERP
15 245 (8.19%) Cybersecurity
16 244 (8.15%) CRM
17 242 (8.09%) Mentoring
18 240 (8.02%) Customer Experience
19 233 (7.78%) Roadmaps
20 232 (7.75%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 655 (21.88%) SQL
2 506 (16.91%) Python
3 105 (3.51%) JavaScript
4 100 (3.34%) PowerShell
5 98 (3.27%) Java
6 85 (2.84%) C#
7 61 (2.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 44 (1.47%) R
9 43 (1.44%) T-SQL
10 41 (1.37%) Bash
10 41 (1.37%) C++
11 34 (1.14%) VBA
12 30 (1.00%) MATLAB
13 19 (0.63%) PHP
14 15 (0.50%) Go
14 15 (0.50%) TypeScript
15 14 (0.47%) PL/SQL
15 14 (0.47%) Scala
16 12 (0.40%) C
17 9 (0.30%) Perl
Qualifications
1 500 (16.71%) Degree
2 269 (8.99%) Security Cleared
3 193 (6.45%) SC Cleared
4 143 (4.78%) ACCA
5 137 (4.58%) CIMA
6 130 (4.34%) DBS Check
7 73 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
8 69 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
9 67 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
10 66 (2.21%) IRCA
11 50 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
12 45 (1.50%) DV Cleared
13 44 (1.47%) CISSP
14 42 (1.40%) PMI Certification
15 37 (1.24%) CompTIA Security+
16 35 (1.17%) CCNA
16 35 (1.17%) PMP
17 32 (1.07%) CISM
18 27 (0.90%) CCNP
19 25 (0.84%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 301 (10.06%) Data Quality
2 235 (7.85%) GDPR
3 179 (5.98%) QA
4 148 (4.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 126 (4.21%) Cyber Essentials
6 105 (3.51%) NIST
7 101 (3.37%) ISO 9001
7 101 (3.37%) PCI DSS
8 75 (2.51%) SLA
9 52 (1.74%) Accessibility
10 43 (1.44%) GRC
11 39 (1.30%) PMO
12 37 (1.24%) Actionable Recommendations
13 17 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 17 (0.57%) SOC 2
13 17 (0.57%) TickIT
14 16 (0.53%) GMP
14 16 (0.53%) ISO 14001
14 16 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 13 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 193 (6.45%) Active Directory
2 75 (2.51%) Hyper-V
3 64 (2.14%) Terminal Server
4 53 (1.77%) Docker
5 32 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
6 12 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.33%) vSphere
8 9 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (0.30%) VMware NSX
9 8 (0.27%) ProxySG
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 (0.10%) DFS Replication
12 2 (0.067%) 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 (2.21%) Terraform
2 45 (1.50%) Kubernetes
3 37 (1.24%) Ansible
4 29 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (0.57%) Grafana
6 12 (0.40%) Kibana
6 12 (0.40%) QRadar
7 9 (0.30%) Nagios
8 8 (0.27%) Prometheus
9 7 (0.23%) Kubeflow
10 6 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.17%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.17%) Graylog
11 5 (0.17%) logstash
11 5 (0.17%) Podman
12 4 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.13%) Backup Exec
12 4 (0.13%) Control-M
12 4 (0.13%) Functional Safety
12 4 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 734 (24.52%) Microsoft
2 126 (4.21%) SAP
3 115 (3.84%) Google
4 101 (3.37%) VMware
5 98 (3.27%) Salesforce
6 97 (3.24%) Splunk
7 89 (2.97%) SolarWinds
8 80 (2.67%) Oracle
9 75 (2.51%) Veeam
10 66 (2.21%) Workday
11 65 (2.17%) Nimble Storage
12 64 (2.14%) Brocade
12 64 (2.14%) Tanium
13 58 (1.94%) Databricks
14 50 (1.67%) Cisco
15 43 (1.44%) ServiceNow
16 36 (1.20%) IBM
17 29 (0.97%) Dell
18 28 (0.94%) HubSpot
19 27 (0.90%) Adobe