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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 9 12
Rank change year-on-year -14 +3 +8
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,382 4,282 4,703
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 5.06% 12.33% 8.96%
As % of the General category 11.47% 18.71% 16.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,479 1,519 1,661
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,134 £73,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £51,300 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.60% -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 38,215 22,892 28,385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.17% 65.90% 54.06%
Number of salaries quoted 23,559 11,091 12,761
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £43,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.94% -13.00% -0.99%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%

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 October 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 October 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 -18 1,175 £47,500 +5.56% 1,228
South East -12 997 £48,250 +1.54% 1,393
Midlands -9 767 £45,000 +2.27% 830
North West -16 711 £45,144 +0.32% 645
South West -9 614 £47,000 +4.44% 551
West Midlands -18 389 £47,500 +5.56% 500
East Midlands -5 376 £42,500 +6.47% 330
Yorkshire -11 315 £47,000 +17.50% 441
East of England -12 282 £47,500 +21.79% 527
Northern Ireland +8 211 £43,750 -20.45% 297
Wales -3 207 £45,000 -10.40% 253
North East -19 158 £51,231 +28.08% 148
Scotland -23 149 £47,500 +39.17% 579
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
1 157 (3.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 139 (3.17%) SharePoint
3 53 (1.21%) Confluence
4 31 (0.71%) Apache
5 30 (0.68%) IIS
6 25 (0.57%) Apache Spark
7 18 (0.41%) CMS
8 17 (0.39%) WordPress
9 16 (0.37%) SAS
10 15 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
11 13 (0.30%) Jupyter
12 9 (0.21%) WebLogic
12 9 (0.21%) WebSphere
13 8 (0.18%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 4 (0.091%) Palantir Foundry
16 3 (0.068%) nginx
17 2 (0.046%) Office Communications Server
17 2 (0.046%) Oracle Application Server
17 2 (0.046%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 573 (13.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 279 (6.37%) Microsoft Office
3 88 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 49 (1.12%) MS Visio
5 47 (1.07%) Spreadsheet
6 26 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
7 19 (0.43%) Simulink
8 11 (0.25%) AutoCAD
9 10 (0.23%) SOLIDWORKS
10 8 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 6 (0.14%) EPLAN
11 6 (0.14%) Siemens NX
12 5 (0.11%) Chatbot
12 5 (0.11%) Notion
12 5 (0.11%) Photoshop
13 3 (0.068%) CANalyzer
13 3 (0.068%) CATIA
13 3 (0.068%) LaTeX
14 2 (0.046%) Revit
14 2 (0.046%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 88 (2.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.73%) Dynamics GP
3 27 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
4 21 (0.48%) NetSuite
4 21 (0.48%) Shopify
5 13 (0.30%) Magento
6 11 (0.25%) Infor M3
7 10 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
8 9 (0.21%) SAP Business One
9 8 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
9 8 (0.18%) SAP ERP
10 7 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
10 7 (0.16%) Workday HCM
11 6 (0.14%) Exchequer
11 6 (0.14%) Odoo
11 6 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
12 5 (0.11%) Elite 3E
12 5 (0.11%) JDE EnterpriseOne
12 5 (0.11%) Sage 50
13 4 (0.091%) JDE World
Cloud Services
1 673 (15.36%) Azure
2 476 (10.86%) Power Platform
3 374 (8.53%) AWS
4 325 (7.42%) Microsoft 365
5 220 (5.02%) SaaS
6 170 (3.88%) GCP
7 149 (3.40%) Entra ID
8 114 (2.60%) Google Ads
9 96 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
10 89 (2.03%) Dynamics 365
10 89 (2.03%) Google Analytics
11 83 (1.89%) Meta Ads
12 60 (1.37%) GitHub
13 57 (1.30%) PowerApps
14 55 (1.26%) Power Automate
15 54 (1.23%) Serverless
16 48 (1.10%) Amazon S3
16 48 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
17 44 (1.00%) Microsoft Purview
18 42 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 165 (3.77%) DNS
2 129 (2.94%) DHCP
3 104 (2.37%) Firewall
4 95 (2.17%) VPN
5 83 (1.89%) TCP/IP
6 67 (1.53%) WAN
7 58 (1.32%) LAN
8 56 (1.28%) Internet
9 52 (1.19%) Wireless
10 44 (1.00%) Network Security
11 38 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
12 29 (0.66%) VLAN
13 26 (0.59%) Broadband
13 26 (0.59%) HTTP
14 22 (0.50%) SD-WAN
14 22 (0.50%) VoIP
15 20 (0.46%) BGP
15 20 (0.46%) SAN
16 18 (0.41%) SMS
16 18 (0.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 424 (9.68%) Power BI
2 122 (2.78%) SQL Server
3 113 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
4 96 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
5 95 (2.17%) Tableau
6 83 (1.89%) Relational Database
7 67 (1.53%) MySQL
8 64 (1.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 61 (1.39%) Power Query
10 56 (1.28%) Metadata
11 51 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
12 43 (0.98%) Looker
13 42 (0.96%) Data Lake
14 39 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 33 (0.75%) BigQuery
16 31 (0.71%) NoSQL
17 30 (0.68%) Big Data
18 28 (0.64%) MongoDB
19 26 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
20 25 (0.57%) GIS
Development Applications
1 192 (4.38%) Git
2 149 (3.40%) JIRA
3 38 (0.87%) GitLab
4 34 (0.78%) Jenkins
5 24 (0.55%) Rational DOORS
6 21 (0.48%) Eclipse
7 20 (0.46%) LabVIEW
8 18 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
8 18 (0.41%) Selenium
9 17 (0.39%) Claude Code
10 15 (0.34%) Burp Suite
10 15 (0.34%) Postman
11 14 (0.32%) Cucumber
11 14 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
12 12 (0.27%) Metasploit
13 11 (0.25%) Bitbucket
14 9 (0.21%) Cypress.io
14 9 (0.21%) JMeter
15 8 (0.18%) Moq
16 7 (0.16%) ERwin
General
1 2,286 (52.17%) Social Skills
2 1,231 (28.09%) Finance
3 507 (11.57%) Marketing
4 409 (9.33%) Organisational Skills
5 358 (8.17%) Manufacturing
6 322 (7.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 301 (6.87%) Legal
8 292 (6.66%) Retail
9 269 (6.14%) Public Sector
10 231 (5.27%) Influencing Skills
11 220 (5.02%) Law
11 220 (5.02%) Presentation Skills
12 204 (4.66%) Aerospace
13 163 (3.72%) Electronics
14 120 (2.74%) Telecoms
15 77 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
16 71 (1.62%) Advertising
17 70 (1.60%) Automotive
18 63 (1.44%) Banking
19 61 (1.39%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,024 (23.37%) Analyst
2 529 (12.07%) Senior
3 279 (6.37%) Lead
4 233 (5.32%) Developer
5 197 (4.50%) Data Analyst
6 195 (4.45%) Support Analyst
7 173 (3.95%) Business Analyst
8 171 (3.90%) Senior Analyst
9 152 (3.47%) Systems Engineer
10 141 (3.22%) Architect
11 115 (2.62%) Data Engineer
12 114 (2.60%) Support Engineer
13 113 (2.58%) Consultant
14 107 (2.44%) ITSM Analyst
15 101 (2.30%) IT Support
16 96 (2.19%) Administrator
17 92 (2.10%) Applications Support
18 89 (2.03%) Marketing Manager
19 84 (1.92%) Systems Analyst
20 82 (1.87%) Accountant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (2.51%) .NET
2 79 (1.80%) Terraform
3 78 (1.78%) REST
4 76 (1.73%) HTML
5 70 (1.60%) CSS
6 56 (1.28%) XML
7 52 (1.19%) Middleware
7 52 (1.19%) PySpark
8 51 (1.16%) RESTful
9 50 (1.14%) JSON
10 47 (1.07%) SOAP
11 39 (0.89%) EDI
12 37 (0.84%) React
13 36 (0.82%) Kafka
14 35 (0.80%) LDAP
15 32 (0.73%) Spring
16 31 (0.71%) Spring Boot
17 29 (0.66%) ASP.NET
17 29 (0.66%) ModSecurity
18 24 (0.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 353 (8.06%) Management Information System
2 311 (7.10%) Analytical Mindset
3 259 (5.91%) Onboarding
4 226 (5.16%) Self-Motivation
5 168 (3.83%) Product Ownership
6 162 (3.70%) Driving Licence
7 115 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
8 103 (2.35%) Social Media
9 101 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
10 79 (1.80%) Cloud Native
10 79 (1.80%) Marketing Technology
11 74 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
11 74 (1.69%) Data Centre
12 72 (1.64%) Virtual Team
13 69 (1.57%) Blog
14 52 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
15 47 (1.07%) Data Structures
15 47 (1.07%) Security Posture
16 41 (0.94%) SCADA
17 39 (0.89%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 329 (7.51%) Windows
2 236 (5.39%) Linux
3 182 (4.15%) Windows Server
4 89 (2.03%) Windows Server 2016
5 31 (0.71%) Mac OS
6 30 (0.68%) Windows 10
7 25 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
8 22 (0.50%) Unix
9 15 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 14 (0.32%) Android
11 9 (0.21%) Apple iOS
11 9 (0.21%) CentOS
12 7 (0.16%) Ubuntu
13 6 (0.14%) Debian
13 6 (0.14%) VMS
14 5 (0.11%) OpenVMS
15 4 (0.091%) CoreOS
16 2 (0.046%) Solaris
17 1 (0.023%) AIX
17 1 (0.023%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,198 (50.16%) Problem-Solving
2 1,458 (33.27%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,127 (25.72%) Decision-Making
4 850 (19.40%) Stakeholder Management
5 734 (16.75%) Analytics
6 713 (16.27%) AI
7 650 (14.83%) Agile
8 566 (12.92%) Business Intelligence
9 502 (11.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 443 (10.11%) Validation
11 436 (9.95%) Customer Service
12 428 (9.77%) CRM
13 423 (9.65%) Mentoring
14 415 (9.47%) ERP
15 386 (8.81%) Data Analysis
16 380 (8.67%) Actionable Insight
17 373 (8.51%) ITIL
18 366 (8.35%) Project Delivery
19 350 (7.99%) Collaborative Working
19 350 (7.99%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 782 (17.85%) SQL
2 453 (10.34%) Python
3 155 (3.54%) JavaScript
4 133 (3.04%) Java
5 121 (2.76%) C#
6 103 (2.35%) PowerShell
7 77 (1.76%) C++
8 64 (1.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 58 (1.32%) Bash
10 46 (1.05%) TypeScript
11 43 (0.98%) MATLAB
12 42 (0.96%) Shell Script
13 37 (0.84%) T-SQL
14 36 (0.82%) R
15 35 (0.80%) C
16 21 (0.48%) PL/SQL
16 21 (0.48%) VB.NET
17 19 (0.43%) PHP
18 17 (0.39%) Scala
19 16 (0.37%) Perl
Qualifications
1 923 (21.06%) Degree
2 533 (12.16%) Security Cleared
3 372 (8.49%) SC Cleared
4 168 (3.83%) ACCA
5 161 (3.67%) CIMA
6 125 (2.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 117 (2.67%) DV Cleared
8 113 (2.58%) DBS Check
9 97 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
10 80 (1.83%) HND
11 69 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
12 64 (1.46%) CISSP
13 63 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
14 58 (1.32%) HNC
15 49 (1.12%) Master's Degree
16 48 (1.10%) CISM
17 47 (1.07%) Azure Certification
18 45 (1.03%) CompTIA Security+
19 39 (0.89%) CCNA
20 30 (0.68%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 411 (9.38%) Data Quality
2 265 (6.05%) QA
3 206 (4.70%) GDPR
4 137 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
5 127 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 123 (2.81%) Accessibility
7 101 (2.30%) PCI DSS
8 84 (1.92%) SLA
9 64 (1.46%) NIST
10 50 (1.14%) ISO 9001
11 37 (0.84%) GRC
12 36 (0.82%) PMO
13 28 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
13 28 (0.64%) DO-254
14 26 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 26 (0.59%) IFRS
15 20 (0.46%) ISO 14001
16 18 (0.41%) Good Clinical Practice
17 17 (0.39%) GMP
18 16 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 283 (6.46%) Active Directory
2 139 (3.17%) Docker
3 99 (2.26%) Hyper-V
4 72 (1.64%) Terminal Server
5 42 (0.96%) Firmware
6 36 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
7 14 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
9 10 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.16%) Ceph
11 6 (0.14%) VMware NSX
12 5 (0.11%) vSphere
13 4 (0.091%) KVM
13 4 (0.091%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.091%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.068%) DFS Replication
15 2 (0.046%) ISA Server
16 1 (0.023%) IAG
16 1 (0.023%) NFS
16 1 (0.023%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 69 (1.57%) Kubernetes
2 49 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
3 39 (0.89%) Ansible
4 32 (0.73%) Grafana
5 27 (0.62%) Prometheus
6 26 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (0.34%) Kibana
8 14 (0.32%) QRadar
9 12 (0.27%) Nmap
10 11 (0.25%) Podman
11 9 (0.21%) Functional Safety
12 7 (0.16%) Argo
12 7 (0.16%) Check_MK
12 7 (0.16%) Istio
12 7 (0.16%) logstash
13 6 (0.14%) Graylog
13 6 (0.14%) Nagios
14 5 (0.11%) SCCM
15 4 (0.091%) FortiGate
15 4 (0.091%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 1,151 (26.27%) Microsoft
2 297 (6.78%) Google
3 131 (2.99%) SAP
4 128 (2.92%) VMware
5 127 (2.90%) Splunk
6 115 (2.62%) Oracle
7 92 (2.10%) Salesforce
8 85 (1.94%) SolarWinds
9 79 (1.80%) Veeam
10 76 (1.73%) ServiceNow
11 73 (1.67%) Brocade
11 73 (1.67%) Nimble Storage
12 72 (1.64%) Tanium
13 64 (1.46%) YouTube
14 63 (1.44%) Cisco
15 45 (1.03%) Databricks
16 42 (0.96%) HubSpot
17 39 (0.89%) Adobe
18 36 (0.82%) Workday
19 28 (0.64%) IBM