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

6 months to
26 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 3,413 3,992 5,716
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.66% 11.71% 8.93%
As % of the General category 10.51% 17.45% 16.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,223 1,512 2,792
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £33,938 £35,408
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
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% -7.99%

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 32,481 22,874 34,772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.39% 67.12% 54.32%
Number of salaries quoted 19,953 11,118 20,966
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £76,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +1.85% -10.00%

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 26 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 26 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 -19 984 £47,500 +2.15% 444
South East -8 840 £50,000 -4.76% 551
Midlands -11 606 £48,250 +6.30% 276
North West -18 588 £46,750 -0.53% 235
South West -15 465 £47,000 -1.05% 201
West Midlands -18 324 £50,000 +11.11% 156
Yorkshire -12 284 £47,500 +5.56% 148
East Midlands -7 280 £46,743 +2.29% 120
East of England -21 241 £45,000 - 151
North East -24 112 £55,000 +37.50% 65
Scotland -33 110 £44,000 - 65
Wales -13 109 £52,440 -4.66% 29
Northern Ireland -30 68 £41,250 -25.00% 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
1 176 (5.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 102 (2.99%) SharePoint
3 40 (1.17%) Confluence
4 29 (0.85%) Apache Spark
5 27 (0.79%) Apache
5 27 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
5 27 (0.79%) CMS
6 23 (0.67%) IIS
7 9 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 9 (0.26%) SAS
7 9 (0.26%) WebLogic
7 9 (0.26%) WebSphere
8 8 (0.23%) Jupyter
8 8 (0.23%) WordPress
9 6 (0.18%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.088%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.088%) JBoss
11 1 (0.029%) Moodle
11 1 (0.029%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.029%) Tomcat
Applications
1 423 (12.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 167 (4.89%) Microsoft Office
3 64 (1.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 56 (1.64%) MS Visio
5 20 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
6 15 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
7 9 (0.26%) CATIA
8 4 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.12%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.088%) LaTeX
9 3 (0.088%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.088%) Simulink
9 3 (0.088%) Trello
10 2 (0.059%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.059%) Lectora
10 2 (0.059%) Siemens NX
10 2 (0.059%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.029%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.029%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 53 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 35 (1.03%) Dynamics GP
4 26 (0.76%) NetSuite
5 19 (0.56%) SAP PM
6 16 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
7 14 (0.41%) SAP ERP
8 10 (0.29%) Magento
9 6 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
9 6 (0.18%) SAP Business One
9 6 (0.18%) SAP CO
10 5 (0.15%) JDE EnterpriseOne
10 5 (0.15%) SAP FI
10 5 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
10 5 (0.15%) SAP GTS
10 5 (0.15%) SAP PP
11 4 (0.12%) Infor M3
11 4 (0.12%) JDE OneWorld
11 4 (0.12%) JDE World
11 4 (0.12%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 601 (17.61%) Azure
2 431 (12.63%) Power Platform
3 313 (9.17%) Microsoft 365
4 296 (8.67%) AWS
5 147 (4.31%) SaaS
6 133 (3.90%) GCP
7 90 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
8 81 (2.37%) Dynamics 365
8 81 (2.37%) Entra ID
9 63 (1.85%) Google Analytics
10 52 (1.52%) GitHub
11 50 (1.46%) PowerApps
12 43 (1.26%) Power Automate
13 42 (1.23%) Microsoft Purview
14 39 (1.14%) Amazon S3
15 34 (1.00%) Snowflake
16 33 (0.97%) dbt
17 32 (0.94%) Azure Data Factory
18 30 (0.88%) Serverless
19 27 (0.79%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 162 (4.75%) DNS
2 130 (3.81%) DHCP
3 107 (3.14%) Firewall
4 84 (2.46%) VPN
5 66 (1.93%) TCP/IP
6 64 (1.88%) WAN
7 56 (1.64%) LAN
8 42 (1.23%) Wireless
9 40 (1.17%) Wi-Fi
10 37 (1.08%) Broadband
11 27 (0.79%) Network Security
12 26 (0.76%) HTTP
13 21 (0.62%) SAN
13 21 (0.62%) SD-WAN
14 20 (0.59%) BGP
14 20 (0.59%) VoIP
15 16 (0.47%) Cisco ASA
15 16 (0.47%) Internet
16 15 (0.44%) SSL
16 15 (0.44%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 385 (11.28%) Power BI
2 189 (5.54%) Tableau
3 113 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
4 112 (3.28%) SQL Server
5 103 (3.02%) Data Warehouse
6 63 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 57 (1.67%) Data Mining
8 51 (1.49%) MySQL
9 50 (1.46%) Power Query
10 45 (1.32%) Relational Database
11 44 (1.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 42 (1.23%) Metadata
13 40 (1.17%) Looker
14 39 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
15 34 (1.00%) Data Lake
16 29 (0.85%) Big Data
17 28 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
18 24 (0.70%) BigQuery
19 18 (0.53%) MongoDB
19 18 (0.53%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 125 (3.66%) JIRA
2 105 (3.08%) Git
3 41 (1.20%) GitLab
4 36 (1.05%) Rational DOORS
5 30 (0.88%) Jenkins
6 15 (0.44%) Cucumber
6 15 (0.44%) Selenium
7 12 (0.35%) Cypress.io
7 12 (0.35%) Eclipse
7 12 (0.35%) Postman
8 11 (0.32%) MLflow
9 9 (0.26%) Burp Suite
9 9 (0.26%) JMeter
9 9 (0.26%) SonarQube
10 8 (0.23%) LabVIEW
11 7 (0.21%) Bitbucket
11 7 (0.21%) Metasploit
11 7 (0.21%) Moq
11 7 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
11 7 (0.21%) Subversion
General
1 1,661 (48.67%) Social Skills
2 994 (29.12%) Finance
3 295 (8.64%) Marketing
4 224 (6.56%) Organisational Skills
4 224 (6.56%) Retail
5 198 (5.80%) Legal
6 197 (5.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 196 (5.74%) Public Sector
8 182 (5.33%) Manufacturing
9 160 (4.69%) Law
10 157 (4.60%) Influencing Skills
11 110 (3.22%) Telecoms
12 95 (2.78%) Aerospace
13 82 (2.40%) Electronics
14 65 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
15 64 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
16 53 (1.55%) Banking
17 52 (1.52%) Military
18 47 (1.38%) Advertising
19 37 (1.08%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 883 (25.87%) Analyst
2 346 (10.14%) Senior
3 233 (6.83%) Lead
4 230 (6.74%) Data Analyst
5 196 (5.74%) Systems Engineer
6 172 (5.04%) Developer
7 167 (4.89%) Business Analyst
8 114 (3.34%) Support Analyst
9 109 (3.19%) Support Engineer
10 108 (3.16%) Architect
11 100 (2.93%) Consultant
12 95 (2.78%) Senior Analyst
13 94 (2.75%) IT Support
14 91 (2.67%) Data Engineer
15 80 (2.34%) Systems Analyst
16 77 (2.26%) Accountant
17 70 (2.05%) IT Engineer
18 66 (1.93%) Applications Support
18 66 (1.93%) Head of QA
18 66 (1.93%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (2.23%) .NET
2 68 (1.99%) REST
3 67 (1.96%) HTML
4 62 (1.82%) Middleware
5 60 (1.76%) XML
6 59 (1.73%) CSS
7 58 (1.70%) JSON
8 46 (1.35%) React
9 39 (1.14%) SOAP
10 34 (1.00%) RESTful
11 29 (0.85%) Kafka
11 29 (0.85%) PyTorch
12 28 (0.82%) Node.js
13 25 (0.73%) PySpark
14 24 (0.70%) TensorFlow
15 23 (0.67%) EDI
16 21 (0.62%) scikit-learn
17 20 (0.59%) OAuth
18 19 (0.56%) AngularJS
18 19 (0.56%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 394 (11.54%) Analytical Mindset
2 192 (5.63%) Management Information System
3 144 (4.22%) Self-Motivation
4 135 (3.96%) Product Ownership
5 130 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
5 130 (3.81%) Onboarding
6 99 (2.90%) Driving Licence
7 61 (1.79%) Virtual Team
8 59 (1.73%) Cloud Native
9 53 (1.55%) Data Centre
10 52 (1.52%) Cyber Threat
11 50 (1.46%) Social Media
12 49 (1.44%) Marketing Technology
13 45 (1.32%) Security Posture
14 37 (1.08%) Blog
14 37 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
15 34 (1.00%) Data Structures
16 33 (0.97%) Algorithms
17 28 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
18 27 (0.79%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 325 (9.52%) Windows
2 215 (6.30%) Linux
3 193 (5.65%) Windows Server
4 112 (3.28%) Windows Server 2016
5 22 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
6 21 (0.62%) Mac OS
6 21 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 17 (0.50%) Unix
8 16 (0.47%) Android
8 16 (0.47%) Windows 10
9 13 (0.38%) CentOS
10 12 (0.35%) Apple iOS
11 11 (0.32%) Ubuntu
12 8 (0.23%) VMS
13 6 (0.18%) Debian
14 5 (0.15%) OpenVMS
15 4 (0.12%) CoreOS
16 1 (0.029%) FreeBSD
16 1 (0.029%) Oracle Linux
16 1 (0.029%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,610 (47.17%) Problem-Solving
2 1,008 (29.53%) Continuous Improvement
3 796 (23.32%) Decision-Making
4 697 (20.42%) Analytics
5 496 (14.53%) Agile
6 483 (14.15%) Stakeholder Management
7 439 (12.86%) Business Intelligence
8 427 (12.51%) AI
9 366 (10.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 351 (10.28%) Actionable Insight
11 339 (9.93%) Customer Experience
12 311 (9.11%) Customer Service
13 310 (9.08%) Data Analysis
14 304 (8.91%) ERP
15 302 (8.85%) Project Management
16 282 (8.26%) CRM
16 282 (8.26%) Validation
17 276 (8.09%) Mentoring
18 274 (8.03%) Cybersecurity
19 269 (7.88%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 695 (20.36%) SQL
2 497 (14.56%) Python
3 122 (3.57%) JavaScript
4 105 (3.08%) Java
5 102 (2.99%) C#
6 101 (2.96%) PowerShell
7 61 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 57 (1.67%) C++
9 55 (1.61%) Bash
10 46 (1.35%) T-SQL
11 40 (1.17%) R
12 33 (0.97%) MATLAB
13 25 (0.73%) TypeScript
14 21 (0.62%) C
14 21 (0.62%) PHP
15 19 (0.56%) Go
16 17 (0.50%) VBA
17 14 (0.41%) PL/SQL
18 13 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
18 13 (0.38%) Perl
Qualifications
1 564 (16.53%) Degree
2 383 (11.22%) Security Cleared
3 277 (8.12%) SC Cleared
4 159 (4.66%) ACCA
5 153 (4.48%) CIMA
6 123 (3.60%) DBS Check
7 93 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 74 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
9 68 (1.99%) Cisco Certification
10 66 (1.93%) IRCA
11 65 (1.90%) DV Cleared
12 54 (1.58%) CISSP
13 50 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
14 44 (1.29%) CompTIA Security+
15 38 (1.11%) CISM
16 34 (1.00%) CCNA
17 32 (0.94%) Master's Degree
18 27 (0.79%) HNC
19 26 (0.76%) CCNP
20 25 (0.73%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 330 (9.67%) Data Quality
2 242 (7.09%) QA
3 241 (7.06%) GDPR
4 165 (4.83%) Cyber Essentials
5 145 (4.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 132 (3.87%) PCI DSS
7 114 (3.34%) ISO 9001
8 96 (2.81%) SLA
9 82 (2.40%) NIST
10 79 (2.31%) Accessibility
11 44 (1.29%) GRC
12 38 (1.11%) PMO
13 30 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
14 28 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 23 (0.67%) ISO 14001
16 21 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 20 (0.59%) GMP
18 18 (0.53%) Good Clinical Practice
19 17 (0.50%) SOC 2
19 17 (0.50%) TickIT
System Software
1 257 (7.53%) Active Directory
2 112 (3.28%) Hyper-V
3 96 (2.81%) Terminal Server
4 87 (2.55%) Docker
5 33 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
6 15 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (0.29%) Firmware
8 9 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.26%) VMware NSX
9 8 (0.23%) vSphere
10 5 (0.15%) Ceph
11 4 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 4 (0.12%) ProxySG
11 4 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.12%) XenApp
12 3 (0.088%) DFS Replication
12 3 (0.088%) Embedded Firmware
13 2 (0.059%) KVM
14 1 (0.029%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.029%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 66 (1.93%) Terraform
2 63 (1.85%) Kubernetes
3 42 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
4 38 (1.11%) Ansible
5 29 (0.85%) Grafana
6 18 (0.53%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.41%) Kibana
8 13 (0.38%) QRadar
9 10 (0.29%) Podman
10 8 (0.23%) Nagios
11 7 (0.21%) Kubeflow
11 7 (0.21%) logstash
11 7 (0.21%) Nmap
12 6 (0.18%) Graylog
12 6 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.15%) Argo
13 5 (0.15%) Check_MK
13 5 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
13 5 (0.15%) Istio
13 5 (0.15%) SCCM
Vendors
1 818 (23.97%) Microsoft
2 154 (4.51%) Google
3 137 (4.01%) Splunk
3 137 (4.01%) VMware
4 122 (3.57%) SAP
5 114 (3.34%) SolarWinds
6 105 (3.08%) Veeam
7 97 (2.84%) Brocade
7 97 (2.84%) Nimble Storage
8 96 (2.81%) Tanium
9 84 (2.46%) Salesforce
10 76 (2.23%) Oracle
11 63 (1.85%) Workday
12 58 (1.70%) Cisco
13 56 (1.64%) Databricks
14 49 (1.44%) ServiceNow
15 37 (1.08%) IBM
16 36 (1.05%) Red Hat
17 30 (0.88%) Dell
18 28 (0.82%) Adobe