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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 8 12
Rank change year-on-year -17 +4 +15
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,755 4,019 5,246
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.79% 11.58% 8.80%
As % of the General category 10.89% 17.50% 16.41%
Number of salaries quoted 2,343 1,541 2,327
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £32,750 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% -4.08% -2.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £61,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%

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 34,467 22,962 31,969
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 43.94% 66.19% 53.60%
Number of salaries quoted 21,287 11,296 17,661
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,441 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.03% -1.02% -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 21 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 21 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 -19 1,041 £47,500 +5.56% 550
South East -9 896 £50,000 -4.76% 715
Midlands -8 646 £47,500 +5.56% 332
North West -16 641 £46,500 +3.33% 299
South West -8 521 £47,500 +5.56% 311
West Midlands -17 333 £50,000 +11.11% 198
East Midlands -3 311 £45,483 +1.07% 134
Yorkshire -12 281 £47,000 +17.50% 191
East of England -20 258 £47,500 +5.56% 187
Wales -14 147 £51,709 +2.61% 47
Scotland -22 134 £45,000 +5.88% 73
Northern Ireland -10 120 £42,500 -22.73% 25
North East -17 119 £55,000 +34.15% 67
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
1 164 (4.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 127 (3.38%) SharePoint
3 48 (1.28%) Confluence
4 30 (0.80%) Apache
4 30 (0.80%) Apache Spark
5 28 (0.75%) IIS
6 26 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
7 21 (0.56%) CMS
8 11 (0.29%) SAS
9 10 (0.27%) Jupyter
9 10 (0.27%) WordPress
10 9 (0.24%) WebLogic
10 9 (0.24%) WebSphere
11 8 (0.21%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.080%) Anypoint
14 2 (0.053%) Oracle Application Server
14 2 (0.053%) Oracle Workflow
15 1 (0.027%) JBoss
15 1 (0.027%) Tomcat
Applications
1 434 (11.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 197 (5.25%) Microsoft Office
3 75 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 58 (1.54%) MS Visio
5 26 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
6 19 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.21%) Simulink
8 5 (0.13%) EPLAN
9 4 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.11%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.11%) CATIA
9 4 (0.11%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.080%) LaTeX
10 3 (0.080%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.080%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.080%) Trello
11 2 (0.053%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.053%) Lectora
11 2 (0.053%) Siemens NX
12 1 (0.027%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 85 (2.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 36 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
3 33 (0.88%) Dynamics GP
4 27 (0.72%) NetSuite
5 19 (0.51%) SAP PM
6 18 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
7 13 (0.35%) SAP ERP
8 12 (0.32%) Shopify
9 10 (0.27%) Magento
9 10 (0.27%) SAP Business One
10 8 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
11 7 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
11 7 (0.19%) Workday HCM
12 5 (0.13%) Infor M3
12 5 (0.13%) JDE EnterpriseOne
12 5 (0.13%) SAP GTS
12 5 (0.13%) SAP PP
13 4 (0.11%) Academy Housing
13 4 (0.11%) JDE OneWorld
13 4 (0.11%) JDE World
Cloud Services
1 628 (16.72%) Azure
2 444 (11.82%) Power Platform
3 324 (8.63%) AWS
4 311 (8.28%) Microsoft 365
5 179 (4.77%) SaaS
6 145 (3.86%) GCP
7 96 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
8 94 (2.50%) Entra ID
9 84 (2.24%) Dynamics 365
10 76 (2.02%) Google Analytics
11 63 (1.68%) Google Ads
12 61 (1.62%) GitHub
12 61 (1.62%) Power Automate
13 57 (1.52%) PowerApps
14 47 (1.25%) Amazon S3
15 41 (1.09%) Meta Ads
15 41 (1.09%) Microsoft Purview
16 39 (1.04%) Snowflake
17 37 (0.99%) Serverless
18 36 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 159 (4.23%) DNS
2 126 (3.36%) DHCP
3 104 (2.77%) Firewall
4 88 (2.34%) VPN
5 74 (1.97%) TCP/IP
6 63 (1.68%) WAN
7 58 (1.54%) LAN
8 46 (1.23%) Wireless
9 37 (0.99%) Network Security
10 35 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
11 29 (0.77%) Broadband
12 27 (0.72%) HTTP
13 25 (0.67%) VoIP
14 22 (0.59%) SAN
15 19 (0.51%) Internet
15 19 (0.51%) SD-WAN
15 19 (0.51%) VLAN
16 17 (0.45%) BGP
17 16 (0.43%) SMS
18 15 (0.40%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 391 (10.41%) Power BI
2 147 (3.91%) Tableau
3 126 (3.36%) SQL Server
4 117 (3.12%) Data Warehouse
5 104 (2.77%) Amazon RDS
6 68 (1.81%) Relational Database
7 63 (1.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 59 (1.57%) MySQL
9 50 (1.33%) Power Query
10 48 (1.28%) Looker
11 44 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 43 (1.15%) Metadata
12 43 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
13 40 (1.07%) Data Lake
14 35 (0.93%) BigQuery
15 32 (0.85%) Big Data
16 29 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
17 23 (0.61%) NoSQL
18 20 (0.53%) Data Mining
18 20 (0.53%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 154 (4.10%) JIRA
2 138 (3.68%) Git
3 34 (0.91%) GitLab
4 31 (0.83%) Jenkins
4 31 (0.83%) Rational DOORS
5 15 (0.40%) Eclipse
6 14 (0.37%) Postman
6 14 (0.37%) Selenium
7 13 (0.35%) Burp Suite
7 13 (0.35%) Cucumber
8 12 (0.32%) Cypress.io
8 12 (0.32%) Oracle Forms
9 11 (0.29%) LabVIEW
9 11 (0.29%) Metasploit
9 11 (0.29%) MLflow
10 10 (0.27%) Claude Code
11 9 (0.24%) Bitbucket
11 9 (0.24%) JMeter
12 8 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
13 7 (0.19%) Moq
General
1 1,887 (50.25%) Social Skills
2 1,042 (27.75%) Finance
3 390 (10.39%) Marketing
4 269 (7.16%) Organisational Skills
5 267 (7.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 244 (6.50%) Manufacturing
7 239 (6.36%) Legal
8 232 (6.18%) Retail
9 208 (5.54%) Public Sector
10 195 (5.19%) Law
11 193 (5.14%) Influencing Skills
12 159 (4.23%) Aerospace
13 110 (2.93%) Telecoms
14 107 (2.85%) Electronics
15 94 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
16 69 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
16 69 (1.84%) Military
17 58 (1.54%) Banking
18 52 (1.38%) Advertising
19 39 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 890 (23.70%) Analyst
2 417 (11.11%) Senior
3 250 (6.66%) Lead
4 203 (5.41%) Developer
5 196 (5.22%) Data Analyst
6 178 (4.74%) Systems Engineer
7 177 (4.71%) Business Analyst
8 136 (3.62%) Support Analyst
9 133 (3.54%) Architect
10 117 (3.12%) Support Engineer
11 115 (3.06%) Senior Analyst
12 102 (2.72%) Consultant
13 101 (2.69%) Data Engineer
14 98 (2.61%) IT Support
15 84 (2.24%) Systems Analyst
16 83 (2.21%) IT Engineer
17 76 (2.02%) Marketing Manager
18 75 (2.00%) Accountant
19 70 (1.86%) Applications Support
20 65 (1.73%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (2.56%) .NET
2 80 (2.13%) HTML
3 78 (2.08%) REST
4 73 (1.94%) CSS
4 73 (1.94%) Terraform
5 62 (1.65%) Middleware
6 53 (1.41%) XML
7 51 (1.36%) JSON
8 45 (1.20%) SOAP
9 42 (1.12%) RESTful
10 41 (1.09%) React
11 37 (0.99%) EDI
12 34 (0.91%) LDAP
13 32 (0.85%) Kafka
14 29 (0.77%) OAuth
14 29 (0.77%) PySpark
15 28 (0.75%) ModSecurity
16 26 (0.69%) ASP.NET
16 26 (0.69%) PyTorch
17 25 (0.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 385 (10.25%) Analytical Mindset
2 229 (6.10%) Management Information System
3 185 (4.93%) Self-Motivation
4 184 (4.90%) Onboarding
5 146 (3.89%) Product Ownership
6 128 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
7 126 (3.36%) Driving Licence
8 86 (2.29%) Social Media
9 80 (2.13%) Marketing Technology
10 72 (1.92%) Cloud Native
11 69 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
12 67 (1.78%) Blog
12 67 (1.78%) Data Centre
13 64 (1.70%) Cyber Threat
14 63 (1.68%) Virtual Team
15 49 (1.30%) Security Posture
16 36 (0.96%) Data Structures
17 35 (0.93%) Cyber Defence
18 34 (0.91%) AI Agents
19 31 (0.83%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 332 (8.84%) Windows
2 206 (5.49%) Linux
3 186 (4.95%) Windows Server
4 95 (2.53%) Windows Server 2016
5 27 (0.72%) Mac OS
6 23 (0.61%) Windows 10
7 22 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
8 20 (0.53%) Unix
9 17 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 14 (0.37%) Android
11 13 (0.35%) Apple iOS
12 10 (0.27%) CentOS
13 8 (0.21%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.16%) Debian
14 6 (0.16%) VMS
15 5 (0.13%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.11%) CoreOS
17 2 (0.053%) Solaris
18 1 (0.027%) FreeRTOS
18 1 (0.027%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,845 (49.13%) Problem-Solving
2 1,190 (31.69%) Continuous Improvement
3 910 (24.23%) Decision-Making
4 722 (19.23%) Analytics
5 598 (15.93%) Stakeholder Management
6 577 (15.37%) Agile
7 571 (15.21%) AI
8 472 (12.57%) Business Intelligence
9 421 (11.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 376 (10.01%) Actionable Insight
11 363 (9.67%) Validation
12 343 (9.13%) ERP
13 333 (8.87%) CRM
13 333 (8.87%) Customer Service
14 323 (8.60%) Customer Experience
15 322 (8.58%) Mentoring
16 319 (8.50%) Data Analysis
17 308 (8.20%) Service Delivery
18 307 (8.18%) Project Management
19 296 (7.88%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 712 (18.96%) SQL
2 468 (12.46%) Python
3 143 (3.81%) JavaScript
4 112 (2.98%) C#
5 111 (2.96%) Java
6 105 (2.80%) PowerShell
7 64 (1.70%) C++
8 60 (1.60%) Bash
9 59 (1.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 40 (1.07%) T-SQL
11 39 (1.04%) TypeScript
12 35 (0.93%) MATLAB
13 32 (0.85%) R
14 27 (0.72%) C
15 23 (0.61%) PHP
16 16 (0.43%) Go
16 16 (0.43%) Scala
17 15 (0.40%) Perl
17 15 (0.40%) PL/SQL
18 14 (0.37%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 675 (17.98%) Degree
2 468 (12.46%) Security Cleared
3 324 (8.63%) SC Cleared
4 140 (3.73%) ACCA
5 134 (3.57%) CIMA
6 121 (3.22%) DBS Check
7 117 (3.12%) DV Cleared
8 116 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
9 81 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
10 72 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
11 71 (1.89%) CISSP
12 59 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
13 56 (1.49%) IRCA
14 52 (1.38%) CISM
15 50 (1.33%) CompTIA Security+
16 43 (1.15%) HND
17 39 (1.04%) CCNA
18 38 (1.01%) Azure Certification
19 37 (0.99%) HNC
20 34 (0.91%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 346 (9.21%) Data Quality
2 284 (7.56%) QA
3 243 (6.47%) GDPR
4 146 (3.89%) Cyber Essentials
5 139 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 112 (2.98%) PCI DSS
7 110 (2.93%) ISO 9001
8 94 (2.50%) Accessibility
8 94 (2.50%) SLA
9 85 (2.26%) NIST
10 41 (1.09%) GRC
11 38 (1.01%) PMO
12 27 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 24 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
14 23 (0.61%) ISO 14001
14 23 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 20 (0.53%) DO-254
16 19 (0.51%) GMP
17 18 (0.48%) Good Clinical Practice
17 18 (0.48%) IFRS
System Software
1 259 (6.90%) Active Directory
2 103 (2.74%) Docker
3 98 (2.61%) Hyper-V
4 80 (2.13%) Terminal Server
5 37 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
6 27 (0.72%) Firmware
7 12 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.21%) VMware NSX
10 7 (0.19%) Ceph
11 6 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
11 6 (0.16%) vSphere
12 4 (0.11%) KVM
12 4 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.080%) DFS Replication
13 3 (0.080%) XenApp
14 2 (0.053%) ProxySG
15 1 (0.027%) IAG
15 1 (0.027%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 68 (1.81%) Kubernetes
2 45 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
3 40 (1.07%) Ansible
4 25 (0.67%) Grafana
5 21 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
6 20 (0.53%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.40%) QRadar
8 14 (0.37%) Kibana
9 11 (0.29%) Nmap
9 11 (0.29%) Podman
10 7 (0.19%) Argo
10 7 (0.19%) Check_MK
10 7 (0.19%) Istio
10 7 (0.19%) logstash
11 6 (0.16%) Functional Safety
11 6 (0.16%) Graylog
11 6 (0.16%) Kubeflow
12 5 (0.13%) Nagios
12 5 (0.13%) SCCM
13 4 (0.11%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 889 (23.68%) Microsoft
2 207 (5.51%) Google
3 131 (3.49%) VMware
4 129 (3.44%) SAP
5 125 (3.33%) Splunk
6 102 (2.72%) Oracle
7 94 (2.50%) SolarWinds
8 87 (2.32%) Veeam
9 81 (2.16%) Brocade
9 81 (2.16%) Nimble Storage
10 80 (2.13%) Tanium
11 75 (2.00%) Salesforce
12 65 (1.73%) ServiceNow
13 61 (1.62%) Cisco
14 60 (1.60%) Databricks
15 59 (1.57%) Workday
16 34 (0.91%) Adobe
17 32 (0.85%) Dell
17 32 (0.85%) IBM
17 32 (0.85%) Red Hat