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 28 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 8 15
Rank change year-on-year -21 +7 +5
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,020 3,570 6,264
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.48% 12.54% 8.78%
As % of the General category 9.54% 17.45% 15.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,021 1,300 3,583
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £26,300
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,885 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £59,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,625 £72,500
UK median annual salary £53,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.73% +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 31,663 20,455 40,432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 46.95% 71.85% 56.69%
Number of salaries quoted 17,513 8,966 26,681
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £81,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -29 936 £47,500 -5.00% 363
South East -4 762 £50,000 -5.62% 490
Midlands -22 555 £48,750 +2.63% 231
North West -30 543 £46,500 -7.00% 214
West Midlands -27 320 £51,275 +7.95% 150
Yorkshire -15 300 £50,000 +11.11% 103
South West -25 300 £47,500 -5.00% 156
East of England -23 241 £45,000 -11.71% 134
East Midlands +5 233 £45,000 -6.25% 81
Scotland -30 119 £40,000 -17.54% 68
North East -28 93 £48,445 +24.86% 55
Wales -2 81 £47,105 -12.36% 34
Northern Ireland -20 39 £40,000 -27.27% 47
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
1 127 (4.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 76 (2.52%) SharePoint
3 29 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (0.96%) Confluence
4 28 (0.93%) Apache Spark
4 28 (0.93%) CMS
5 21 (0.70%) IIS
6 19 (0.63%) Apache
7 9 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 9 (0.30%) WordPress
8 7 (0.23%) SAS
9 4 (0.13%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.13%) nginx
10 3 (0.099%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.099%) govService
10 3 (0.099%) JBoss
11 1 (0.033%) Moodle
11 1 (0.033%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.033%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.033%) Umbraco
Applications
1 410 (13.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 150 (4.97%) Microsoft Office
3 61 (2.02%) MS Visio
4 47 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 21 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
7 10 (0.33%) CATIA
8 4 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.099%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.099%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.099%) Trello
10 2 (0.066%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.066%) Lectora
10 2 (0.066%) Simulink
10 2 (0.066%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.033%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.033%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.033%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 45 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (1.06%) Salesforce CRM
3 22 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 22 (0.73%) NetSuite
4 15 (0.50%) SAP PM
5 14 (0.46%) SAP ERP
6 13 (0.43%) SAP CO
7 7 (0.23%) Dynamics GP
7 7 (0.23%) Magento
7 7 (0.23%) Workday HCM
8 6 (0.20%) SAP PP
9 5 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.17%) Q-Pulse
9 5 (0.17%) SAP GTS
10 4 (0.13%) Infor M3
10 4 (0.13%) JDE OneWorld
10 4 (0.13%) JDE World
10 4 (0.13%) Markit EDM
10 4 (0.13%) SAP FI
10 4 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 502 (16.62%) Azure
2 418 (13.84%) Power Platform
3 263 (8.71%) AWS
4 251 (8.31%) Microsoft 365
5 120 (3.97%) SaaS
6 93 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
7 90 (2.98%) GCP
8 76 (2.52%) Entra ID
9 74 (2.45%) Dynamics 365
10 60 (1.99%) GitHub
11 50 (1.66%) Google Analytics
11 50 (1.66%) Microsoft Purview
12 49 (1.62%) Power Automate
13 43 (1.42%) PowerApps
14 41 (1.36%) Amazon S3
15 38 (1.26%) Azure Data Factory
15 38 (1.26%) Snowflake
16 37 (1.23%) dbt
17 36 (1.19%) Serverless
18 27 (0.89%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 129 (4.27%) Firewall
2 109 (3.61%) DNS
3 81 (2.68%) DHCP
4 76 (2.52%) VPN
5 62 (2.05%) WAN
6 45 (1.49%) LAN
7 43 (1.42%) Wireless
8 41 (1.36%) TCP/IP
9 36 (1.19%) Broadband
9 36 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
10 32 (1.06%) Network Security
11 26 (0.86%) SD-WAN
11 26 (0.86%) VLAN
12 25 (0.83%) BGP
13 23 (0.76%) Cisco ASA
13 23 (0.76%) SAN
13 23 (0.76%) Wireshark
14 17 (0.56%) HTTP
15 16 (0.53%) OSPF
16 15 (0.50%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 375 (12.42%) Power BI
2 227 (7.52%) Tableau
3 106 (3.51%) Data Mining
4 100 (3.31%) SQL Server
5 81 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
6 70 (2.32%) Amazon RDS
7 61 (2.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 42 (1.39%) Power Query
9 39 (1.29%) Metadata
10 36 (1.19%) Looker
11 35 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 33 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
12 33 (1.09%) MySQL
12 33 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
13 32 (1.06%) Data Lake
14 29 (0.96%) Relational Database
15 28 (0.93%) Big Data
16 25 (0.83%) NoSQL
17 17 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
17 17 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 98 (3.25%) JIRA
2 68 (2.25%) Git
3 33 (1.09%) GitLab
4 30 (0.99%) Rational DOORS
5 17 (0.56%) Jenkins
6 12 (0.40%) MLflow
6 12 (0.40%) Selenium
7 10 (0.33%) Cucumber
7 10 (0.33%) Cypress.io
8 8 (0.26%) LabVIEW
8 8 (0.26%) Subversion
9 7 (0.23%) Moq
9 7 (0.23%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.20%) Toad
11 5 (0.17%) ERwin
11 5 (0.17%) JMeter
11 5 (0.17%) Maven
11 5 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
11 5 (0.17%) Postman
12 4 (0.13%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 1,379 (45.66%) Social Skills
2 923 (30.56%) Finance
3 263 (8.71%) Marketing
4 177 (5.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 169 (5.60%) Public Sector
6 153 (5.07%) Organisational Skills
7 148 (4.90%) Retail
8 145 (4.80%) Manufacturing
9 140 (4.64%) Law
10 138 (4.57%) Legal
11 111 (3.68%) Influencing Skills
12 87 (2.88%) Telecoms
13 75 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
14 71 (2.35%) Electronics
15 66 (2.19%) Aerospace
15 66 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
16 41 (1.36%) Banking
16 41 (1.36%) Games
17 40 (1.32%) Military
18 32 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 841 (27.85%) Analyst
2 333 (11.03%) Senior
3 236 (7.81%) Data Analyst
4 202 (6.69%) Lead
5 164 (5.43%) Business Analyst
5 164 (5.43%) Developer
6 138 (4.57%) Systems Engineer
7 119 (3.94%) Architect
8 89 (2.95%) Trainee
9 88 (2.91%) Support Analyst
10 87 (2.88%) Trainee Analyst
10 87 (2.88%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 83 (2.75%) Senior Analyst
12 82 (2.72%) Support Engineer
13 81 (2.68%) Consultant
14 79 (2.62%) IT Support
14 79 (2.62%) Systems Analyst
15 70 (2.32%) Data Engineer
16 67 (2.22%) Senior Manager
17 66 (2.19%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (2.68%) HTML
2 72 (2.38%) CSS
3 63 (2.09%) .NET
4 62 (2.05%) REST
5 59 (1.95%) Middleware
6 55 (1.82%) JSON
6 55 (1.82%) React
7 53 (1.75%) XML
8 40 (1.32%) SOAP
9 37 (1.23%) Node.js
10 31 (1.03%) PyTorch
11 25 (0.83%) TensorFlow
12 22 (0.73%) scikit-learn
13 20 (0.66%) EDI
14 19 (0.63%) PySpark
15 18 (0.60%) Pandas
16 17 (0.56%) OAuth
17 16 (0.53%) RabbitMQ
17 16 (0.53%) React Native
17 16 (0.53%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 371 (12.28%) Analytical Mindset
2 145 (4.80%) Management Information System
3 118 (3.91%) Onboarding
4 115 (3.81%) Self-Motivation
5 110 (3.64%) Product Ownership
6 77 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
7 74 (2.45%) Data Centre
8 65 (2.15%) Driving Licence
9 43 (1.42%) Cloud Native
10 36 (1.19%) Algorithms
11 35 (1.16%) Low-Code
12 33 (1.09%) Data Structures
12 33 (1.09%) FMCG
13 32 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
13 32 (1.06%) Security Posture
14 31 (1.03%) Virtual Team
15 29 (0.96%) Social Media
16 28 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
17 26 (0.86%) Mobile App
18 25 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 244 (8.08%) Windows
2 141 (4.67%) Windows Server
3 133 (4.40%) Linux
4 69 (2.28%) Windows Server 2016
5 21 (0.70%) Unix
6 15 (0.50%) Apple iOS
7 14 (0.46%) Android
8 13 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
9 12 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 9 (0.30%) Ubuntu
11 8 (0.26%) CentOS
11 8 (0.26%) VMS
12 7 (0.23%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.17%) Windows 10
14 3 (0.099%) Debian
14 3 (0.099%) 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 1,396 (46.23%) Problem-Solving
2 822 (27.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 644 (21.32%) Decision-Making
4 635 (21.03%) Analytics
5 453 (15.00%) Agile
6 427 (14.14%) Business Intelligence
7 373 (12.35%) Stakeholder Management
8 333 (11.03%) AI
9 310 (10.26%) Project Management
10 300 (9.93%) Actionable Insight
11 288 (9.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 283 (9.37%) Data Analysis
13 259 (8.58%) ERP
14 252 (8.34%) Customer Service
15 251 (8.31%) Cybersecurity
16 244 (8.08%) CRM
17 241 (7.98%) Mentoring
18 237 (7.85%) Data Modelling
19 231 (7.65%) Customer Experience
20 227 (7.52%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 667 (22.09%) SQL
2 511 (16.92%) Python
3 106 (3.51%) JavaScript
4 103 (3.41%) PowerShell
5 98 (3.25%) Java
6 88 (2.91%) C#
7 62 (2.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 44 (1.46%) R
9 43 (1.42%) C++
9 43 (1.42%) T-SQL
10 39 (1.29%) Bash
11 35 (1.16%) VBA
12 32 (1.06%) MATLAB
13 18 (0.60%) PHP
14 15 (0.50%) Go
15 14 (0.46%) PL/SQL
15 14 (0.46%) TypeScript
16 13 (0.43%) Scala
17 12 (0.40%) C
18 9 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 521 (17.25%) Degree
2 256 (8.48%) Security Cleared
3 179 (5.93%) SC Cleared
4 140 (4.64%) ACCA
5 134 (4.44%) CIMA
6 132 (4.37%) DBS Check
7 71 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
8 69 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
9 66 (2.19%) IRCA
10 65 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
11 56 (1.85%) PMI Certification
12 49 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
13 48 (1.59%) PMP
14 47 (1.56%) DV Cleared
15 46 (1.52%) CISSP
16 39 (1.29%) CompTIA Security+
17 34 (1.13%) CISM
18 33 (1.09%) CCNA
19 27 (0.89%) CCNP
19 27 (0.89%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 302 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 237 (7.85%) GDPR
3 175 (5.79%) QA
4 150 (4.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 117 (3.87%) Cyber Essentials
6 110 (3.64%) NIST
7 99 (3.28%) ISO 9001
8 96 (3.18%) PCI DSS
9 72 (2.38%) SLA
10 50 (1.66%) Accessibility
11 44 (1.46%) GRC
12 42 (1.39%) PMO
13 36 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
14 19 (0.63%) SOC 2
15 17 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 17 (0.56%) GMP
15 17 (0.56%) TickIT
16 15 (0.50%) ISO 14001
16 15 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 14 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 182 (6.03%) Active Directory
2 67 (2.22%) Hyper-V
3 56 (1.85%) Terminal Server
4 49 (1.62%) Docker
5 31 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
6 12 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.33%) vSphere
8 9 (0.30%) VMware NSX
9 8 (0.26%) ProxySG
9 8 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
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 (0.099%) DFS Replication
12 2 (0.066%) 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 64 (2.12%) Terraform
2 43 (1.42%) Kubernetes
3 36 (1.19%) Ansible
4 29 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (0.56%) Grafana
6 11 (0.36%) QRadar
7 10 (0.33%) Kibana
8 8 (0.26%) Nagios
8 8 (0.26%) Prometheus
9 7 (0.23%) Kubeflow
9 7 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.17%) Graylog
10 5 (0.17%) logstash
11 4 (0.13%) Backup Exec
11 4 (0.13%) CASB
11 4 (0.13%) Control-M
11 4 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (0.13%) SCCM
11 4 (0.13%) SolarWinds Orion
11 4 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 739 (24.47%) Microsoft
2 131 (4.34%) SAP
3 114 (3.77%) Google
4 97 (3.21%) Salesforce
5 92 (3.05%) VMware
6 86 (2.85%) Splunk
7 83 (2.75%) Oracle
8 81 (2.68%) SolarWinds
9 66 (2.19%) Veeam
9 66 (2.19%) Workday
10 58 (1.92%) Databricks
11 57 (1.89%) Nimble Storage
11 57 (1.89%) Tanium
12 56 (1.85%) Brocade
13 53 (1.75%) ServiceNow
14 49 (1.62%) Cisco
15 36 (1.19%) IBM
16 29 (0.96%) Dell
17 28 (0.93%) HubSpot
18 26 (0.86%) Adobe