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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 8 12
Rank change year-on-year -16 +4 +10
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,003 4,071 4,962
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.82% 11.79% 8.88%
As % of the General category 11.02% 17.90% 16.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,428 1,522 1,917
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £63,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £77,500
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 36,332 22,744 29,703
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 43.72% 65.85% 53.14%
Number of salaries quoted 22,496 11,124 14,453
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -2.69%
75th Percentile £66,250 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -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 12 September 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 12 September 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 1,103 £47,500 +6.15% 680
South East -10 951 £49,536 -0.93% 946
Midlands -10 692 £47,500 +5.56% 501
North West -16 674 £46,500 +3.33% 379
South West -9 575 £47,500 +5.56% 439
West Midlands -17 355 £48,000 +6.67% 287
East Midlands -2 334 £45,000 +3.45% 214
Yorkshire -11 297 £47,000 +17.50% 236
East of England -16 251 £47,750 +19.38% 300
Wales -7 194 £46,250 -7.91% 91
Scotland -21 134 £44,500 +14.10% 220
North East -16 132 £50,500 +26.25% 71
Northern Ireland -8 114 £43,750 -20.45% 105
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 (4.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 136 (3.40%) SharePoint
3 52 (1.30%) Confluence
4 31 (0.77%) IIS
5 28 (0.70%) Apache
6 26 (0.65%) Apache Spark
7 20 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
8 17 (0.42%) CMS
9 14 (0.35%) SAS
10 10 (0.25%) Jupyter
10 10 (0.25%) WordPress
11 9 (0.22%) WebLogic
11 9 (0.22%) WebSphere
12 8 (0.20%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.050%) Anypoint
14 2 (0.050%) Oracle Application Server
14 2 (0.050%) Oracle Workflow
15 1 (0.025%) CICS
15 1 (0.025%) Umbraco
Applications
1 488 (12.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 230 (5.75%) Microsoft Office
3 78 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 51 (1.27%) MS Visio
5 31 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
6 26 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
7 15 (0.37%) Simulink
8 8 (0.20%) AutoCAD
9 7 (0.17%) SOLIDWORKS
10 6 (0.15%) CATIA
11 5 (0.12%) EPLAN
11 5 (0.12%) Siemens NX
12 4 (0.100%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 4 (0.100%) Chatbot
12 4 (0.100%) Photoshop
13 3 (0.075%) CANalyzer
13 3 (0.075%) LaTeX
14 2 (0.050%) Adobe XD
14 2 (0.050%) Lectora
14 2 (0.050%) Trello
Business Applications
1 86 (2.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.80%) Dynamics GP
3 30 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
4 26 (0.65%) NetSuite
5 20 (0.50%) Shopify
6 15 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
7 12 (0.30%) Magento
8 10 (0.25%) SAP Business One
9 9 (0.22%) SAP PM
10 8 (0.20%) Infor M3
10 8 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
10 8 (0.20%) SAP ERP
11 7 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
11 7 (0.17%) Workday HCM
12 6 (0.15%) Exchequer
12 6 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
13 5 (0.12%) JDE EnterpriseOne
13 5 (0.12%) Sage 50
13 5 (0.12%) SAP GTS
14 4 (0.100%) Academy Housing
Cloud Services
1 640 (15.99%) Azure
2 474 (11.84%) Power Platform
3 351 (8.77%) AWS
4 318 (7.94%) Microsoft 365
5 211 (5.27%) SaaS
6 146 (3.65%) GCP
7 106 (2.65%) Entra ID
8 100 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
9 99 (2.47%) Google Ads
10 96 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
11 87 (2.17%) Google Analytics
12 76 (1.90%) Meta Ads
13 62 (1.55%) GitHub
14 61 (1.52%) Power Automate
14 61 (1.52%) PowerApps
15 56 (1.40%) Serverless
16 50 (1.25%) Amazon S3
17 46 (1.15%) Microsoft Purview
18 43 (1.07%) AWS Lambda
19 42 (1.05%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 161 (4.02%) DNS
2 127 (3.17%) DHCP
3 110 (2.75%) Firewall
4 97 (2.42%) VPN
5 80 (2.00%) TCP/IP
6 68 (1.70%) WAN
7 63 (1.57%) LAN
8 52 (1.30%) Wireless
9 45 (1.12%) Network Security
10 36 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
11 28 (0.70%) Broadband
12 27 (0.67%) HTTP
12 27 (0.67%) VoIP
13 26 (0.65%) VLAN
14 22 (0.55%) SD-WAN
15 20 (0.50%) BGP
15 20 (0.50%) Internet
16 19 (0.47%) SAN
17 18 (0.45%) SMS
18 16 (0.40%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 420 (10.49%) Power BI
2 121 (3.02%) SQL Server
3 119 (2.97%) Data Warehouse
4 111 (2.77%) Tableau
5 98 (2.45%) Amazon RDS
6 75 (1.87%) Relational Database
7 67 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 61 (1.52%) MySQL
9 54 (1.35%) Power Query
10 50 (1.25%) Looker
11 49 (1.22%) Metadata
12 44 (1.10%) Data Lake
12 44 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
12 44 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 34 (0.85%) BigQuery
14 33 (0.82%) Big Data
15 32 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
16 26 (0.65%) NoSQL
17 24 (0.60%) MongoDB
18 20 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 153 (3.82%) JIRA
2 135 (3.37%) Git
3 34 (0.85%) Jenkins
4 31 (0.77%) Rational DOORS
5 28 (0.70%) GitLab
6 19 (0.47%) Eclipse
7 16 (0.40%) Cucumber
7 16 (0.40%) LabVIEW
8 15 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
8 15 (0.37%) Selenium
9 13 (0.32%) Burp Suite
9 13 (0.32%) Claude Code
10 12 (0.30%) Postman
11 11 (0.27%) Bitbucket
11 11 (0.27%) Cypress.io
11 11 (0.27%) Metasploit
11 11 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
12 9 (0.22%) JMeter
12 9 (0.22%) MLflow
13 8 (0.20%) SonarQube
General
1 2,007 (50.14%) Social Skills
2 1,150 (28.73%) Finance
3 459 (11.47%) Marketing
4 334 (8.34%) Organisational Skills
5 297 (7.42%) Manufacturing
6 290 (7.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 266 (6.65%) Retail
8 262 (6.55%) Legal
9 224 (5.60%) Public Sector
10 216 (5.40%) Influencing Skills
10 216 (5.40%) Law
11 183 (4.57%) Aerospace
12 136 (3.40%) Electronics
13 112 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
13 112 (2.80%) Telecoms
14 70 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
15 63 (1.57%) Military
16 61 (1.52%) Advertising
17 60 (1.50%) Banking
18 57 (1.42%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 885 (22.11%) Analyst
2 453 (11.32%) Senior
3 266 (6.65%) Lead
4 207 (5.17%) Developer
5 193 (4.82%) Data Analyst
6 176 (4.40%) Business Analyst
7 172 (4.30%) Systems Engineer
8 147 (3.67%) Support Analyst
9 139 (3.47%) Architect
10 117 (2.92%) Data Engineer
11 115 (2.87%) Support Engineer
12 105 (2.62%) Consultant
12 105 (2.62%) Senior Analyst
13 103 (2.57%) IT Support
14 85 (2.12%) Accountant
15 82 (2.05%) IT Engineer
16 81 (2.02%) Systems Analyst
17 80 (2.00%) Applications Support
18 78 (1.95%) Marketing Manager
19 77 (1.92%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (2.57%) .NET
2 80 (2.00%) REST
3 76 (1.90%) HTML
4 72 (1.80%) Terraform
5 69 (1.72%) CSS
6 63 (1.57%) Middleware
7 59 (1.47%) XML
8 56 (1.40%) JSON
9 50 (1.25%) SOAP
10 46 (1.15%) PySpark
11 45 (1.12%) RESTful
12 42 (1.05%) EDI
13 36 (0.90%) LDAP
14 35 (0.87%) React
15 34 (0.85%) Kafka
16 32 (0.80%) ModSecurity
17 28 (0.70%) ASP.NET
18 25 (0.62%) Spring
18 25 (0.62%) Spring Boot
18 25 (0.62%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 342 (8.54%) Analytical Mindset
2 284 (7.09%) Management Information System
3 231 (5.77%) Onboarding
4 214 (5.35%) Self-Motivation
5 160 (4.00%) Product Ownership
6 137 (3.42%) Driving Licence
7 120 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
8 92 (2.30%) Social Media
9 82 (2.05%) Marketing Technology
10 81 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
11 78 (1.95%) Cloud Native
12 72 (1.80%) Cyber Threat
13 69 (1.72%) Data Centre
14 67 (1.67%) Blog
14 67 (1.67%) Virtual Team
15 47 (1.17%) Security Posture
16 41 (1.02%) Data Structures
17 37 (0.92%) SCADA
18 36 (0.90%) AI Agents
19 33 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 337 (8.42%) Windows
2 195 (4.87%) Linux
3 183 (4.57%) Windows Server
4 89 (2.22%) Windows Server 2016
5 29 (0.72%) Mac OS
6 27 (0.67%) Windows 10
7 24 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
8 20 (0.50%) Unix
9 15 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 13 (0.32%) Apple iOS
11 12 (0.30%) Android
12 9 (0.22%) CentOS
13 7 (0.17%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.15%) Debian
14 6 (0.15%) VMS
15 5 (0.12%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.100%) CoreOS
17 2 (0.050%) Solaris
18 1 (0.025%) AIX
18 1 (0.025%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,993 (49.79%) Problem-Solving
2 1,278 (31.93%) Continuous Improvement
3 982 (24.53%) Decision-Making
4 737 (18.41%) Analytics
5 731 (18.26%) Stakeholder Management
6 655 (16.36%) AI
7 610 (15.24%) Agile
8 539 (13.46%) Business Intelligence
9 414 (10.34%) Validation
10 411 (10.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 392 (9.79%) ERP
12 389 (9.72%) Actionable Insight
13 388 (9.69%) Customer Service
14 372 (9.29%) CRM
15 360 (8.99%) Data Analysis
16 355 (8.87%) Mentoring
17 314 (7.84%) Collaborative Working
18 309 (7.72%) Customer Experience
19 308 (7.69%) Project Management
20 304 (7.59%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 762 (19.04%) SQL
2 452 (11.29%) Python
3 150 (3.75%) JavaScript
4 138 (3.45%) Java
5 118 (2.95%) C#
6 105 (2.62%) PowerShell
7 78 (1.95%) C++
8 62 (1.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 58 (1.45%) Bash
10 43 (1.07%) MATLAB
10 43 (1.07%) TypeScript
11 38 (0.95%) T-SQL
12 33 (0.82%) R
13 32 (0.80%) C
14 23 (0.57%) PHP
15 18 (0.45%) PL/SQL
16 17 (0.42%) Scala
16 17 (0.42%) VB.NET
17 16 (0.40%) Perl
18 15 (0.37%) Go
Qualifications
1 763 (19.06%) Degree
2 498 (12.44%) Security Cleared
3 343 (8.57%) SC Cleared
4 165 (4.12%) ACCA
5 156 (3.90%) CIMA
6 121 (3.02%) DBS Check
7 120 (3.00%) DV Cleared
8 116 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 86 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
10 74 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
11 71 (1.77%) CISSP
12 65 (1.62%) HND
13 60 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
14 58 (1.45%) CISM
15 47 (1.17%) HNC
16 46 (1.15%) CompTIA Security+
17 45 (1.12%) Azure Certification
18 40 (1.00%) CCNA
19 37 (0.92%) PMI Certification
20 35 (0.87%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 388 (9.69%) Data Quality
2 268 (6.69%) QA
3 225 (5.62%) GDPR
4 141 (3.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 137 (3.42%) Cyber Essentials
6 118 (2.95%) Accessibility
7 103 (2.57%) PCI DSS
8 90 (2.25%) SLA
9 77 (1.92%) NIST
10 76 (1.90%) ISO 9001
11 38 (0.95%) GRC
12 34 (0.85%) PMO
13 26 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
14 25 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 23 (0.57%) DO-254
15 23 (0.57%) IFRS
16 21 (0.52%) ISO 14001
17 20 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 20000
18 18 (0.45%) Good Clinical Practice
19 17 (0.42%) TickIT
System Software
1 259 (6.47%) Active Directory
2 98 (2.45%) Docker
3 97 (2.42%) Hyper-V
4 72 (1.80%) Terminal Server
5 40 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 36 (0.90%) Firmware
7 15 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
9 10 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
10 8 (0.20%) VMware NSX
11 7 (0.17%) Ceph
12 6 (0.15%) vSphere
13 4 (0.100%) KVM
13 4 (0.100%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.100%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.075%) DFS Replication
15 1 (0.025%) IAG
15 1 (0.025%) Oracle RAC
15 1 (0.025%) VMware ESXi
15 1 (0.025%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 66 (1.65%) Kubernetes
2 47 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 41 (1.02%) Ansible
4 25 (0.62%) Grafana
4 25 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
5 19 (0.47%) Prometheus
6 15 (0.37%) Kibana
6 15 (0.37%) QRadar
7 11 (0.27%) Nmap
7 11 (0.27%) Podman
8 8 (0.20%) logstash
9 7 (0.17%) Argo
9 7 (0.17%) Check_MK
9 7 (0.17%) Istio
10 6 (0.15%) Functional Safety
10 6 (0.15%) Graylog
10 6 (0.15%) Kubeflow
11 4 (0.100%) McAfee ePO
11 4 (0.100%) Puppet
11 4 (0.100%) SCCM
Vendors
1 988 (24.68%) Microsoft
2 254 (6.35%) Google
3 129 (3.22%) SAP
3 129 (3.22%) VMware
4 121 (3.02%) Splunk
5 98 (2.45%) Oracle
6 86 (2.15%) SolarWinds
7 80 (2.00%) Salesforce
8 79 (1.97%) Veeam
9 73 (1.82%) Brocade
9 73 (1.82%) Nimble Storage
10 72 (1.80%) Tanium
11 65 (1.62%) Cisco
11 65 (1.62%) ServiceNow
12 59 (1.47%) Databricks
13 55 (1.37%) YouTube
14 47 (1.17%) Workday
15 38 (0.95%) Adobe
16 35 (0.87%) HubSpot
17 33 (0.82%) IBM