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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 8 13
Rank change year-on-year -21 +5 +7
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,163 3,852 6,510
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.49% 11.75% 8.65%
As % of the General category 10.04% 17.25% 15.77%
Number of salaries quoted 2,165 1,436 3,549
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,375 £26,750
25th Percentile £37,000 £34,000 £32,760
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £49,352 £45,802
Median % change year-on-year -1.84% +7.75% -3.57%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £72,500
UK median annual salary £54,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.91% +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 31,518 22,325 41,281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.71% 68.08% 54.83%
Number of salaries quoted 19,391 10,511 26,459
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 7 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 7 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 -19 963 £48,175 +1.96% 453
South East -8 812 £50,000 -8.78% 619
Midlands -9 576 £47,750 +0.53% 324
North West -18 566 £47,500 -5.00% 246
South West -25 350 £47,500 -5.00% 229
West Midlands -17 316 £49,500 +4.21% 167
Yorkshire -11 293 £50,000 +11.11% 150
East Midlands -3 259 £46,743 -2.11% 156
East of England -20 242 £45,000 - 209
Scotland -31 106 £40,800 -8.31% 135
North East -31 104 £55,000 +39.06% 64
Wales -12 85 £53,171 -3.33% 57
Northern Ireland -34 40 £41,250 -25.00% 61
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
1 149 (4.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 89 (2.81%) SharePoint
3 39 (1.23%) Confluence
4 28 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
4 28 (0.89%) Apache Spark
4 28 (0.89%) CMS
5 25 (0.79%) Apache
6 20 (0.63%) IIS
7 9 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 9 (0.28%) WordPress
8 8 (0.25%) SAS
8 8 (0.25%) WebLogic
8 8 (0.25%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.16%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.095%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.095%) JBoss
11 1 (0.032%) Appian
11 1 (0.032%) Moodle
11 1 (0.032%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.032%) Umbraco
Applications
1 401 (12.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 154 (4.87%) Microsoft Office
3 60 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 57 (1.80%) MS Visio
5 24 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
6 12 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
7 9 (0.28%) CATIA
8 4 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.095%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.095%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.095%) Simulink
9 3 (0.095%) Trello
10 2 (0.063%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.063%) Lectora
10 2 (0.063%) Siemens NX
10 2 (0.063%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.032%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.032%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 40 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 22 (0.70%) NetSuite
3 22 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
4 15 (0.47%) SAP PM
5 14 (0.44%) SAP ERP
6 9 (0.28%) Dynamics GP
7 7 (0.22%) SAP CO
7 7 (0.22%) Workday HCM
8 6 (0.19%) Magento
9 5 (0.16%) JDE EnterpriseOne
9 5 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.16%) Q-Pulse
9 5 (0.16%) SAP GTS
9 5 (0.16%) SAP PP
10 4 (0.13%) Infor M3
10 4 (0.13%) JDE OneWorld
10 4 (0.13%) JDE World
10 4 (0.13%) SAP FI
10 4 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 553 (17.48%) Azure
2 417 (13.18%) Power Platform
3 277 (8.76%) Microsoft 365
4 272 (8.60%) AWS
5 130 (4.11%) SaaS
6 117 (3.70%) GCP
7 88 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
8 87 (2.75%) Entra ID
9 79 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
10 55 (1.74%) Google Analytics
11 52 (1.64%) GitHub
12 51 (1.61%) Microsoft Purview
13 46 (1.45%) PowerApps
14 42 (1.33%) Power Automate
15 39 (1.23%) Amazon S3
16 32 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
17 31 (0.98%) Serverless
18 30 (0.95%) dbt
19 25 (0.79%) Google Ads
20 24 (0.76%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 139 (4.39%) Firewall
2 130 (4.11%) DNS
3 101 (3.19%) DHCP
4 77 (2.43%) VPN
5 65 (2.06%) WAN
6 55 (1.74%) TCP/IP
7 54 (1.71%) LAN
8 43 (1.36%) Wi-Fi
9 42 (1.33%) Broadband
10 41 (1.30%) Wireless
11 30 (0.95%) Network Security
12 24 (0.76%) BGP
12 24 (0.76%) HTTP
13 23 (0.73%) SD-WAN
14 22 (0.70%) Wireshark
15 21 (0.66%) VLAN
16 20 (0.63%) SAN
17 19 (0.60%) Cisco ASA
18 17 (0.54%) VoIP
19 14 (0.44%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 375 (11.86%) Power BI
2 187 (5.91%) Tableau
3 105 (3.32%) SQL Server
4 90 (2.85%) Data Warehouse
5 86 (2.72%) Amazon RDS
6 64 (2.02%) Data Mining
7 59 (1.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 48 (1.52%) Power Query
9 39 (1.23%) MySQL
9 39 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 37 (1.17%) Looker
11 34 (1.07%) Metadata
11 34 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
12 33 (1.04%) Relational Database
13 30 (0.95%) Data Lake
14 29 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
15 26 (0.82%) Big Data
16 20 (0.63%) BigQuery
17 18 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
18 16 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 108 (3.41%) JIRA
2 75 (2.37%) Git
3 39 (1.23%) GitLab
4 36 (1.14%) Rational DOORS
5 21 (0.66%) Jenkins
6 14 (0.44%) Cucumber
7 12 (0.38%) Cypress.io
7 12 (0.38%) Selenium
8 11 (0.35%) MLflow
9 10 (0.32%) Eclipse
10 9 (0.28%) JMeter
10 9 (0.28%) LabVIEW
10 9 (0.28%) SonarQube
11 8 (0.25%) Postman
12 7 (0.22%) ERwin
12 7 (0.22%) Moq
12 7 (0.22%) Subversion
13 6 (0.19%) Burp Suite
13 6 (0.19%) Toad
14 5 (0.16%) Bitbucket
General
1 1,522 (48.12%) Social Skills
2 942 (29.78%) Finance
3 262 (8.28%) Marketing
4 203 (6.42%) Organisational Skills
5 194 (6.13%) Public Sector
6 178 (5.63%) Retail
7 169 (5.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 167 (5.28%) Manufacturing
9 159 (5.03%) Legal
10 144 (4.55%) Law
11 115 (3.64%) Influencing Skills
12 100 (3.16%) Telecoms
13 76 (2.40%) Aerospace
14 74 (2.34%) Electronics
15 63 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
16 62 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
17 46 (1.45%) Banking
18 43 (1.36%) Military
19 41 (1.30%) Advertising
20 36 (1.14%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 864 (27.32%) Analyst
2 329 (10.40%) Senior
3 229 (7.24%) Lead
4 224 (7.08%) Data Analyst
5 167 (5.28%) Business Analyst
6 166 (5.25%) Systems Engineer
7 160 (5.06%) Developer
8 105 (3.32%) Support Analyst
9 103 (3.26%) Support Engineer
10 97 (3.07%) Architect
11 94 (2.97%) Consultant
12 93 (2.94%) Senior Analyst
13 89 (2.81%) IT Support
14 83 (2.62%) Data Engineer
14 83 (2.62%) Systems Analyst
15 72 (2.28%) Accountant
16 66 (2.09%) Head of QA
16 66 (2.09%) IT Engineer
17 65 (2.06%) Applications Support
17 65 (2.06%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (2.28%) HTML
2 70 (2.21%) .NET
3 65 (2.06%) Middleware
4 64 (2.02%) CSS
5 60 (1.90%) REST
6 58 (1.83%) XML
7 57 (1.80%) JSON
8 48 (1.52%) React
9 34 (1.07%) SOAP
10 33 (1.04%) Node.js
11 30 (0.95%) PyTorch
12 27 (0.85%) RESTful
13 24 (0.76%) TensorFlow
14 23 (0.73%) PySpark
15 21 (0.66%) EDI
15 21 (0.66%) scikit-learn
16 20 (0.63%) Kafka
17 17 (0.54%) Pandas
18 16 (0.51%) OAuth
19 15 (0.47%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 395 (12.49%) Analytical Mindset
2 155 (4.90%) Management Information System
3 124 (3.92%) Onboarding
4 118 (3.73%) Product Ownership
4 118 (3.73%) Self-Motivation
5 100 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
6 86 (2.72%) Driving Licence
7 69 (2.18%) Data Centre
8 54 (1.71%) Cloud Native
9 46 (1.45%) Cyber Threat
10 42 (1.33%) Security Posture
11 36 (1.14%) Algorithms
12 34 (1.07%) Social Media
13 33 (1.04%) Virtual Team
14 32 (1.01%) Data Structures
15 31 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
16 29 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
17 27 (0.85%) Cyber Defence
17 27 (0.85%) FMCG
17 27 (0.85%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 276 (8.73%) Windows
2 164 (5.18%) Windows Server
3 163 (5.15%) Linux
4 86 (2.72%) Windows Server 2016
5 18 (0.57%) Unix
5 18 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
6 17 (0.54%) Android
6 17 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 14 (0.44%) Apple iOS
8 13 (0.41%) Mac OS
8 13 (0.41%) Windows 10
9 11 (0.35%) Ubuntu
10 9 (0.28%) CentOS
11 8 (0.25%) VMS
12 6 (0.19%) Debian
13 5 (0.16%) OpenVMS
14 1 (0.032%) AIX
14 1 (0.032%) FreeBSD
14 1 (0.032%) OpenBSD
14 1 (0.032%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,488 (47.04%) Problem-Solving
2 883 (27.92%) Continuous Improvement
3 735 (23.24%) Decision-Making
4 645 (20.39%) Analytics
5 443 (14.01%) Agile
6 424 (13.40%) Business Intelligence
7 400 (12.65%) Stakeholder Management
8 348 (11.00%) AI
9 338 (10.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 324 (10.24%) Actionable Insight
11 288 (9.11%) Customer Service
12 287 (9.07%) Data Analysis
13 281 (8.88%) Cybersecurity
13 281 (8.88%) ERP
14 270 (8.54%) Project Management
15 261 (8.25%) Mentoring
16 259 (8.19%) Customer Experience
17 252 (7.97%) Roadmaps
18 249 (7.87%) CRM
19 247 (7.81%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 676 (21.37%) SQL
2 495 (15.65%) Python
3 111 (3.51%) JavaScript
4 100 (3.16%) Java
5 99 (3.13%) PowerShell
6 97 (3.07%) C#
7 61 (1.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 49 (1.55%) C++
9 47 (1.49%) T-SQL
10 45 (1.42%) Bash
11 40 (1.26%) R
12 34 (1.07%) MATLAB
13 27 (0.85%) VBA
14 22 (0.70%) TypeScript
15 21 (0.66%) PHP
16 18 (0.57%) C
16 18 (0.57%) Go
17 12 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
17 12 (0.38%) Perl
17 12 (0.38%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 530 (16.76%) Degree
2 315 (9.96%) Security Cleared
3 223 (7.05%) SC Cleared
4 157 (4.96%) ACCA
5 151 (4.77%) CIMA
6 130 (4.11%) DBS Check
7 84 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 67 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
9 66 (2.09%) Cisco Certification
9 66 (2.09%) IRCA
10 52 (1.64%) CISSP
11 49 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
12 48 (1.52%) DV Cleared
13 42 (1.33%) CompTIA Security+
14 37 (1.17%) CISM
15 34 (1.07%) CCNA
16 28 (0.89%) Master's Degree
17 25 (0.79%) Azure Certification
17 25 (0.79%) PMI Certification
18 24 (0.76%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 317 (10.02%) Data Quality
2 246 (7.78%) GDPR
3 214 (6.77%) QA
4 168 (5.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 152 (4.81%) Cyber Essentials
6 113 (3.57%) ISO 9001
7 112 (3.54%) PCI DSS
8 105 (3.32%) NIST
9 88 (2.78%) SLA
10 70 (2.21%) Accessibility
11 46 (1.45%) GRC
12 38 (1.20%) PMO
13 31 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
14 29 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 23 (0.73%) ISO 14001
15 23 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 18 (0.57%) GMP
17 17 (0.54%) SOC 2
17 17 (0.54%) TickIT
18 15 (0.47%) IFRS
System Software
1 213 (6.73%) Active Directory
2 84 (2.66%) Hyper-V
3 72 (2.28%) Terminal Server
4 64 (2.02%) Docker
5 33 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
6 11 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (0.28%) VMware NSX
7 9 (0.28%) vSphere
8 6 (0.19%) ProxySG
9 5 (0.16%) Firmware
10 4 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 4 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.13%) XenApp
11 3 (0.095%) DFS Replication
11 3 (0.095%) Embedded Firmware
12 1 (0.032%) KVM
12 1 (0.032%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.032%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 69 (2.18%) Terraform
2 50 (1.58%) Kubernetes
3 40 (1.26%) Ansible
4 28 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (0.79%) Grafana
6 14 (0.44%) Kibana
6 14 (0.44%) QRadar
7 11 (0.35%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.25%) Kubeflow
8 8 (0.25%) Nagios
9 7 (0.22%) logstash
10 6 (0.19%) Graylog
11 5 (0.16%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.16%) Podman
12 4 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.13%) Backup Exec
12 4 (0.13%) Functional Safety
12 4 (0.13%) Nmap
12 4 (0.13%) Puppet
12 4 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 766 (24.22%) Microsoft
2 135 (4.27%) Google
3 118 (3.73%) SAP
4 111 (3.51%) VMware
5 110 (3.48%) Splunk
6 94 (2.97%) SolarWinds
7 88 (2.78%) Salesforce
8 83 (2.62%) Veeam
9 73 (2.31%) Nimble Storage
10 72 (2.28%) Brocade
10 72 (2.28%) Tanium
11 71 (2.24%) Oracle
12 66 (2.09%) Workday
13 55 (1.74%) Databricks
14 53 (1.68%) Cisco
15 39 (1.23%) ServiceNow
16 37 (1.17%) IBM
17 30 (0.95%) Adobe
18 28 (0.89%) HubSpot
19 26 (0.82%) Dell