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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 8 13
Rank change year-on-year -20 +5 +10
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,396 3,965 5,761
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.65% 11.68% 8.91%
As % of the General category 10.48% 17.42% 16.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,214 1,503 2,830
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,763 £34,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £48,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% +1.05% -
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% -7.85%

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 32,401 22,763 35,176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.41% 67.07% 54.39%
Number of salaries quoted 19,884 11,033 21,279
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £34,750
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 £53,818
% change year-on-year - +2.20% -10.30%

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 25 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 25 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 -19 981 £47,500 +5.56% 447
South East -8 839 £50,000 -4.76% 552
Midlands -10 602 £48,000 +2.67% 279
North West -18 583 £47,275 +0.59% 246
South West -18 459 £45,000 -5.26% 207
West Midlands -19 321 £50,000 +11.11% 149
Yorkshire -11 286 £47,500 +5.56% 146
East Midlands -7 279 £45,872 -3.43% 129
East of England -21 240 £45,000 - 159
North East -22 112 £55,000 +37.50% 59
Scotland -32 110 £44,000 - 62
Wales -12 107 £53,171 -3.33% 30
Northern Ireland -34 68 £41,250 -25.00% 29
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 (5.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 102 (3.00%) SharePoint
3 39 (1.15%) Confluence
4 29 (0.85%) Apache Spark
5 27 (0.80%) Apache
5 27 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
5 27 (0.80%) CMS
6 23 (0.68%) IIS
7 9 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 9 (0.27%) SAS
7 9 (0.27%) WebLogic
7 9 (0.27%) WebSphere
8 8 (0.24%) Jupyter
8 8 (0.24%) WordPress
9 5 (0.15%) 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
1 420 (12.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 162 (4.77%) Microsoft Office
3 64 (1.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 55 (1.62%) MS Visio
5 20 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
6 15 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
7 9 (0.27%) 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 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 35 (1.03%) Dynamics GP
4 26 (0.77%) 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
1 596 (17.55%) Azure
2 429 (12.63%) Power Platform
3 312 (9.19%) Microsoft 365
4 293 (8.63%) AWS
5 144 (4.24%) SaaS
6 132 (3.89%) GCP
7 88 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
8 81 (2.39%) Dynamics 365
8 81 (2.39%) Entra ID
9 63 (1.86%) Google Analytics
10 51 (1.50%) GitHub
11 50 (1.47%) PowerApps
12 44 (1.30%) Microsoft Purview
13 43 (1.27%) Power Automate
14 39 (1.15%) Amazon S3
15 34 (1.00%) Snowflake
16 33 (0.97%) dbt
17 31 (0.91%) Azure Data Factory
18 30 (0.88%) Serverless
19 25 (0.74%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 160 (4.71%) DNS
2 129 (3.80%) DHCP
3 108 (3.18%) Firewall
4 83 (2.44%) VPN
5 63 (1.86%) TCP/IP
5 63 (1.86%) WAN
6 55 (1.62%) LAN
7 42 (1.24%) Wireless
8 40 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
9 37 (1.09%) Broadband
10 27 (0.80%) Network Security
11 26 (0.77%) HTTP
12 21 (0.62%) SAN
12 21 (0.62%) SD-WAN
13 20 (0.59%) BGP
13 20 (0.59%) VoIP
14 16 (0.47%) Cisco ASA
15 15 (0.44%) Internet
15 15 (0.44%) SSL
15 15 (0.44%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 383 (11.28%) Power BI
2 188 (5.54%) Tableau
3 112 (3.30%) Amazon RDS
3 112 (3.30%) SQL Server
4 102 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
5 62 (1.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 57 (1.68%) Data Mining
7 51 (1.50%) MySQL
8 50 (1.47%) Power Query
9 43 (1.27%) Relational Database
9 43 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 42 (1.24%) Metadata
11 40 (1.18%) Looker
12 39 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
13 33 (0.97%) Data Lake
14 29 (0.85%) Big Data
15 28 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
16 24 (0.71%) BigQuery
17 18 (0.53%) MongoDB
17 18 (0.53%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 123 (3.62%) JIRA
2 101 (2.97%) Git
3 41 (1.21%) GitLab
4 36 (1.06%) 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 (0.27%) Burp Suite
9 9 (0.27%) JMeter
9 9 (0.27%) SonarQube
10 8 (0.24%) 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 1,655 (48.73%) Social Skills
2 987 (29.06%) Finance
3 293 (8.63%) Marketing
4 223 (6.57%) Organisational Skills
4 223 (6.57%) Retail
5 198 (5.83%) Legal
6 195 (5.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 195 (5.74%) Public Sector
7 179 (5.27%) Manufacturing
8 160 (4.71%) Law
9 157 (4.62%) Influencing Skills
10 110 (3.24%) Telecoms
11 92 (2.71%) Aerospace
12 82 (2.41%) Electronics
13 65 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
14 64 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
15 53 (1.56%) Banking
16 51 (1.50%) Military
17 47 (1.38%) Advertising
18 37 (1.09%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 879 (25.88%) Analyst
2 344 (10.13%) Senior
3 234 (6.89%) Lead
4 228 (6.71%) Data Analyst
5 196 (5.77%) Systems Engineer
6 169 (4.98%) Developer
7 166 (4.89%) Business Analyst
8 112 (3.30%) Support Analyst
9 108 (3.18%) Architect
9 108 (3.18%) Support Engineer
10 100 (2.94%) Consultant
11 95 (2.80%) Senior Analyst
12 94 (2.77%) IT Support
13 90 (2.65%) Data Engineer
14 79 (2.33%) Systems Analyst
15 76 (2.24%) Accountant
16 70 (2.06%) IT Engineer
17 66 (1.94%) Head of QA
17 66 (1.94%) IT Manager
18 65 (1.91%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (2.18%) .NET
2 67 (1.97%) HTML
2 67 (1.97%) REST
3 61 (1.80%) Middleware
4 59 (1.74%) CSS
4 59 (1.74%) XML
5 56 (1.65%) JSON
6 46 (1.35%) React
7 38 (1.12%) SOAP
8 34 (1.00%) RESTful
9 29 (0.85%) Kafka
9 29 (0.85%) PyTorch
10 28 (0.82%) Node.js
11 24 (0.71%) PySpark
11 24 (0.71%) TensorFlow
12 22 (0.65%) EDI
13 21 (0.62%) scikit-learn
14 20 (0.59%) OAuth
15 19 (0.56%) RabbitMQ
16 18 (0.53%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 393 (11.57%) Analytical Mindset
2 190 (5.59%) Management Information System
3 141 (4.15%) Self-Motivation
4 133 (3.92%) Product Ownership
5 129 (3.80%) Legacy Systems
6 128 (3.77%) Onboarding
7 98 (2.89%) Driving Licence
8 61 (1.80%) Virtual Team
9 59 (1.74%) Cloud Native
10 53 (1.56%) Data Centre
11 52 (1.53%) Cyber Threat
12 49 (1.44%) Marketing Technology
12 49 (1.44%) Social Media
13 45 (1.33%) Security Posture
14 37 (1.09%) Blog
14 37 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
15 34 (1.00%) Data Structures
16 33 (0.97%) Algorithms
17 28 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
18 27 (0.80%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 324 (9.54%) Windows
2 213 (6.27%) Linux
3 191 (5.62%) Windows Server
4 111 (3.27%) Windows Server 2016
5 21 (0.62%) Mac OS
5 21 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
6 20 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 17 (0.50%) Unix
8 16 (0.47%) Android
8 16 (0.47%) Windows 10
9 12 (0.35%) Apple iOS
9 12 (0.35%) CentOS
10 11 (0.32%) Ubuntu
11 7 (0.21%) VMS
12 6 (0.18%) Debian
13 5 (0.15%) OpenVMS
14 3 (0.088%) CoreOS
15 1 (0.029%) FreeBSD
15 1 (0.029%) Oracle Linux
15 1 (0.029%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,600 (47.11%) Problem-Solving
2 1,005 (29.59%) Continuous Improvement
3 801 (23.59%) Decision-Making
4 694 (20.44%) Analytics
5 492 (14.49%) Agile
6 482 (14.19%) Stakeholder Management
7 436 (12.84%) Business Intelligence
8 423 (12.46%) AI
9 364 (10.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 351 (10.34%) Actionable Insight
11 337 (9.92%) Customer Experience
12 311 (9.16%) Customer Service
13 304 (8.95%) Data Analysis
14 301 (8.86%) ERP
14 301 (8.86%) Project Management
15 281 (8.27%) CRM
16 280 (8.24%) Validation
17 276 (8.13%) Cybersecurity
18 271 (7.98%) Mentoring
19 268 (7.89%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 689 (20.29%) SQL
2 495 (14.58%) Python
3 119 (3.50%) JavaScript
4 105 (3.09%) Java
5 100 (2.94%) C#
6 97 (2.86%) PowerShell
7 61 (1.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 57 (1.68%) C++
9 54 (1.59%) Bash
10 44 (1.30%) T-SQL
11 41 (1.21%) R
12 33 (0.97%) MATLAB
13 25 (0.74%) 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
1 561 (16.52%) Degree
2 381 (11.22%) Security Cleared
3 275 (8.10%) SC Cleared
4 159 (4.68%) ACCA
5 153 (4.51%) CIMA
6 123 (3.62%) DBS Check
7 92 (2.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 73 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
9 68 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
10 66 (1.94%) IRCA
11 64 (1.88%) DV Cleared
12 54 (1.59%) CISSP
13 50 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
14 44 (1.30%) CompTIA Security+
15 38 (1.12%) CISM
16 34 (1.00%) CCNA
17 32 (0.94%) Master's Degree
18 26 (0.77%) CCNP
18 26 (0.77%) HNC
19 25 (0.74%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 331 (9.75%) Data Quality
2 244 (7.18%) GDPR
3 240 (7.07%) QA
4 166 (4.89%) Cyber Essentials
5 147 (4.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 132 (3.89%) PCI DSS
7 114 (3.36%) ISO 9001
8 96 (2.83%) SLA
9 84 (2.47%) NIST
10 79 (2.33%) Accessibility
11 44 (1.30%) GRC
12 38 (1.12%) PMO
13 30 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
14 28 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 23 (0.68%) 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
1 255 (7.51%) Active Directory
2 111 (3.27%) Hyper-V
3 96 (2.83%) Terminal Server
4 86 (2.53%) Docker
5 33 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
6 13 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (0.29%) Firmware
8 9 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.27%) VMware NSX
9 8 (0.24%) vSphere
10 4 (0.12%) Ceph
10 4 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 4 (0.12%) ProxySG
10 4 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.12%) XenApp
11 3 (0.088%) DFS Replication
11 3 (0.088%) Embedded Firmware
12 2 (0.059%) KVM
13 1 (0.029%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.029%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 66 (1.94%) Terraform
2 62 (1.83%) Kubernetes
3 41 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
4 37 (1.09%) Ansible
5 29 (0.85%) Grafana
6 17 (0.50%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.41%) Kibana
8 13 (0.38%) QRadar
9 9 (0.27%) Podman
10 8 (0.24%) 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%) Docker Swarm
13 5 (0.15%) SCCM
14 4 (0.12%) Check_MK
14 4 (0.12%) Istio
14 4 (0.12%) Puppet
Vendors
1 813 (23.94%) Microsoft
2 152 (4.48%) Google
3 137 (4.03%) Splunk
3 137 (4.03%) VMware
4 122 (3.59%) SAP
5 114 (3.36%) SolarWinds
6 105 (3.09%) Veeam
7 97 (2.86%) Brocade
7 97 (2.86%) Nimble Storage
8 96 (2.83%) Tanium
9 84 (2.47%) Salesforce
10 76 (2.24%) Oracle
11 63 (1.86%) Workday
12 58 (1.71%) Cisco
13 56 (1.65%) Databricks
14 47 (1.38%) ServiceNow
15 37 (1.09%) IBM
16 34 (1.00%) Red Hat
17 29 (0.85%) Dell
18 28 (0.82%) Adobe