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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 8 12
Rank change year-on-year -18 +4 +13
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,655 4,025 5,245
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.79% 11.68% 8.83%
As % of the General category 10.74% 17.47% 16.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,343 1,548 2,384
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,900 £33,125 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £61,750 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £75,000
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 34,027 23,038 31,990
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.56% 66.87% 53.88%
Number of salaries quoted 20,969 11,301 18,223
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -9.09% -5.71%
75th Percentile £65,640 £63,749 £63,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 8 August 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 8 August 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 1,044 £47,500 +5.56% 576
South East -9 890 £50,000 -4.76% 712
Midlands -9 643 £47,500 +5.56% 366
North West -17 629 £47,500 +2.15% 318
South West -12 502 £47,500 +4.92% 297
West Midlands -19 334 £50,000 +11.11% 215
East Midlands -2 307 £45,000 - 151
Yorkshire -10 292 £47,000 +5.15% 196
East of England -22 259 £45,050 +0.11% 216
Wales -12 123 £53,171 -1.08% 60
North East -20 123 £55,000 +37.50% 66
Scotland -22 122 £44,000 - 116
Northern Ireland -27 81 £42,500 -22.73% 52
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 (4.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 118 (3.23%) SharePoint
3 45 (1.23%) Confluence
4 29 (0.79%) Apache
4 29 (0.79%) Apache Spark
5 26 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
5 26 (0.71%) CMS
5 26 (0.71%) IIS
6 10 (0.27%) SAS
6 10 (0.27%) WordPress
7 9 (0.25%) WebLogic
7 9 (0.25%) WebSphere
8 8 (0.22%) Jupyter
8 8 (0.22%) OpenStack
9 7 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.082%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.082%) JBoss
11 2 (0.055%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.027%) Moodle
12 1 (0.027%) Umbraco
Applications
1 450 (12.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 191 (5.23%) Microsoft Office
3 73 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 58 (1.59%) MS Visio
5 23 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
6 22 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.19%) CATIA
8 5 (0.14%) EPLAN
8 5 (0.14%) Simulink
9 4 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.11%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.11%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.082%) LaTeX
10 3 (0.082%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.082%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.082%) Trello
11 2 (0.055%) Lectora
11 2 (0.055%) Siemens NX
12 1 (0.027%) Mathcad
12 1 (0.027%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 62 (1.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
3 35 (0.96%) Dynamics GP
4 26 (0.71%) NetSuite
5 20 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
6 19 (0.52%) SAP PM
7 14 (0.38%) SAP ERP
8 10 (0.27%) Magento
9 8 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
9 8 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
9 8 (0.22%) SAP Business One
10 5 (0.14%) JDE EnterpriseOne
10 5 (0.14%) SAP GTS
10 5 (0.14%) SAP PP
10 5 (0.14%) Shopify
10 5 (0.14%) Workday HCM
11 4 (0.11%) Academy Housing
11 4 (0.11%) Infor M3
11 4 (0.11%) JDE World
11 4 (0.11%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 623 (17.05%) Azure
2 445 (12.18%) Power Platform
3 326 (8.92%) AWS
4 308 (8.43%) Microsoft 365
5 166 (4.54%) SaaS
6 143 (3.91%) GCP
7 96 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
8 87 (2.38%) Entra ID
9 84 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
10 67 (1.83%) Google Analytics
11 57 (1.56%) GitHub
12 54 (1.48%) Power Automate
13 53 (1.45%) PowerApps
14 45 (1.23%) Amazon S3
15 42 (1.15%) Google Ads
16 40 (1.09%) Microsoft Purview
17 37 (1.01%) Serverless
17 37 (1.01%) Snowflake
18 35 (0.96%) dbt
19 32 (0.88%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 153 (4.19%) DNS
2 120 (3.28%) DHCP
3 105 (2.87%) Firewall
4 89 (2.44%) VPN
5 70 (1.92%) TCP/IP
6 64 (1.75%) WAN
7 58 (1.59%) LAN
8 47 (1.29%) Wireless
9 37 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
10 34 (0.93%) Broadband
10 34 (0.93%) Network Security
11 27 (0.74%) HTTP
12 23 (0.63%) VoIP
13 21 (0.57%) SAN
14 20 (0.55%) SD-WAN
15 19 (0.52%) BGP
16 17 (0.47%) VLAN
17 16 (0.44%) Internet
17 16 (0.44%) SMS
18 15 (0.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 394 (10.78%) Power BI
2 181 (4.95%) Tableau
3 119 (3.26%) SQL Server
4 113 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
5 100 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
6 63 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 58 (1.59%) Relational Database
8 55 (1.50%) MySQL
9 52 (1.42%) Power Query
10 47 (1.29%) Looker
11 45 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 43 (1.18%) Metadata
13 42 (1.15%) Data Mining
14 41 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
15 37 (1.01%) Data Lake
16 31 (0.85%) BigQuery
17 30 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
17 30 (0.82%) Big Data
18 22 (0.60%) NoSQL
19 20 (0.55%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 143 (3.91%) JIRA
2 130 (3.56%) Git
3 41 (1.12%) GitLab
4 34 (0.93%) Rational DOORS
5 31 (0.85%) Jenkins
6 15 (0.41%) Cucumber
6 15 (0.41%) Selenium
7 14 (0.38%) Postman
8 13 (0.36%) Cypress.io
8 13 (0.36%) Eclipse
9 12 (0.33%) MLflow
10 11 (0.30%) Burp Suite
11 10 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
12 9 (0.25%) JMeter
12 9 (0.25%) Metasploit
12 9 (0.25%) SonarQube
13 8 (0.22%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.22%) Claude Code
13 8 (0.22%) LabVIEW
14 7 (0.19%) Moq
General
1 1,795 (49.11%) Social Skills
2 1,034 (28.29%) Finance
3 343 (9.38%) Marketing
4 267 (7.31%) Organisational Skills
5 240 (6.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 230 (6.29%) Retail
7 229 (6.27%) Manufacturing
8 215 (5.88%) Legal
9 205 (5.61%) Public Sector
10 176 (4.82%) Influencing Skills
11 173 (4.73%) Law
12 134 (3.67%) Aerospace
13 111 (3.04%) Telecoms
14 91 (2.49%) Electronics
15 73 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
16 70 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
17 63 (1.72%) Military
18 60 (1.64%) Banking
19 52 (1.42%) Advertising
20 38 (1.04%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 888 (24.30%) Analyst
2 387 (10.59%) Senior
3 249 (6.81%) Lead
4 221 (6.05%) Data Analyst
5 191 (5.23%) Developer
6 182 (4.98%) Systems Engineer
7 171 (4.68%) Business Analyst
8 126 (3.45%) Architect
9 120 (3.28%) Support Analyst
10 118 (3.23%) Support Engineer
11 100 (2.74%) IT Support
12 99 (2.71%) Consultant
13 98 (2.68%) Data Engineer
13 98 (2.68%) Senior Analyst
14 79 (2.16%) IT Engineer
14 79 (2.16%) Systems Analyst
15 75 (2.05%) Accountant
16 66 (1.81%) Head of QA
16 66 (1.81%) IT Manager
16 66 (1.81%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (2.41%) .NET
2 75 (2.05%) REST
3 73 (2.00%) HTML
4 66 (1.81%) CSS
5 62 (1.70%) Middleware
6 53 (1.45%) XML
7 52 (1.42%) JSON
8 42 (1.15%) React
8 42 (1.15%) SOAP
9 41 (1.12%) RESTful
10 31 (0.85%) Kafka
11 29 (0.79%) EDI
12 28 (0.77%) PyTorch
13 27 (0.74%) PySpark
14 26 (0.71%) Node.js
14 26 (0.71%) OAuth
15 25 (0.68%) LDAP
16 22 (0.60%) ASP.NET
16 22 (0.60%) TensorFlow
17 21 (0.57%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 397 (10.86%) Analytical Mindset
2 211 (5.77%) Management Information System
3 177 (4.84%) Self-Motivation
4 161 (4.40%) Onboarding
5 145 (3.97%) Product Ownership
6 128 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
7 125 (3.42%) Driving Licence
8 71 (1.94%) Social Media
9 67 (1.83%) Cloud Native
10 62 (1.70%) Data Centre
10 62 (1.70%) Virtual Team
11 59 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
12 57 (1.56%) Marketing Technology
13 50 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
14 47 (1.29%) Security Posture
15 43 (1.18%) Blog
16 35 (0.96%) Data Structures
17 31 (0.85%) AI Agents
18 30 (0.82%) Algorithms
18 30 (0.82%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 327 (8.95%) Windows
2 210 (5.75%) Linux
3 184 (5.03%) Windows Server
4 95 (2.60%) Windows Server 2016
5 26 (0.71%) Mac OS
6 23 (0.63%) Windows 10
6 23 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
7 20 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 18 (0.49%) Unix
9 16 (0.44%) Android
10 13 (0.36%) Apple iOS
10 13 (0.36%) CentOS
11 11 (0.30%) Ubuntu
12 7 (0.19%) Debian
13 6 (0.16%) VMS
14 5 (0.14%) OpenVMS
15 4 (0.11%) CoreOS
16 2 (0.055%) Solaris
17 1 (0.027%) AIX
17 1 (0.027%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,771 (48.45%) Problem-Solving
2 1,124 (30.75%) Continuous Improvement
3 855 (23.39%) Decision-Making
4 723 (19.78%) Analytics
5 568 (15.54%) Stakeholder Management
6 549 (15.02%) Agile
7 510 (13.95%) AI
8 465 (12.72%) Business Intelligence
9 397 (10.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 369 (10.10%) Actionable Insight
11 341 (9.33%) Customer Experience
12 336 (9.19%) Validation
13 334 (9.14%) ERP
14 328 (8.97%) Data Analysis
15 315 (8.62%) Project Management
16 308 (8.43%) Customer Service
16 308 (8.43%) Mentoring
17 306 (8.37%) CRM
18 288 (7.88%) Cybersecurity
18 288 (7.88%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 715 (19.56%) SQL
2 499 (13.65%) Python
3 137 (3.75%) JavaScript
4 109 (2.98%) Java
5 108 (2.95%) C#
6 104 (2.85%) PowerShell
7 62 (1.70%) C++
8 60 (1.64%) Bash
9 59 (1.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 41 (1.12%) T-SQL
11 35 (0.96%) MATLAB
11 35 (0.96%) R
12 34 (0.93%) TypeScript
13 24 (0.66%) C
14 23 (0.63%) PHP
15 16 (0.44%) Go
16 15 (0.41%) VBA
17 14 (0.38%) Perl
17 14 (0.38%) Scala
18 13 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 638 (17.46%) Degree
2 426 (11.66%) Security Cleared
3 299 (8.18%) SC Cleared
4 154 (4.21%) ACCA
5 148 (4.05%) CIMA
6 128 (3.50%) DBS Check
7 110 (3.01%) BPSS Clearance
8 102 (2.79%) DV Cleared
9 82 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
10 72 (1.97%) Cisco Certification
11 67 (1.83%) IRCA
12 65 (1.78%) CISSP
13 53 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
14 48 (1.31%) CompTIA Security+
15 47 (1.29%) CISM
16 39 (1.07%) HNC
17 35 (0.96%) CCNA
18 33 (0.90%) HND
19 32 (0.88%) Azure Certification
20 31 (0.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 344 (9.41%) Data Quality
2 280 (7.66%) QA
3 259 (7.09%) GDPR
4 146 (3.99%) Cyber Essentials
5 140 (3.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 119 (3.26%) ISO 9001
7 116 (3.17%) PCI DSS
8 95 (2.60%) SLA
9 92 (2.52%) Accessibility
10 83 (2.27%) NIST
11 43 (1.18%) GRC
12 39 (1.07%) PMO
13 28 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
14 27 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 23 (0.63%) GMP
15 23 (0.63%) ISO 14001
15 23 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 18 (0.49%) Good Clinical Practice
17 17 (0.47%) TickIT
18 16 (0.44%) DO-254
System Software
1 249 (6.81%) Active Directory
2 103 (2.82%) Docker
3 99 (2.71%) Hyper-V
4 80 (2.19%) Terminal Server
5 37 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
6 20 (0.55%) Firmware
7 12 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.25%) VMware NSX
9 7 (0.19%) Ceph
10 6 (0.16%) vSphere
11 5 (0.14%) KVM
12 4 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.11%) ProxySG
12 4 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.11%) XenApp
13 3 (0.082%) DFS Replication
13 3 (0.082%) Embedded Firmware
14 1 (0.027%) IAG
14 1 (0.027%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 73 (2.00%) Terraform
2 72 (1.97%) Kubernetes
3 47 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 42 (1.15%) Ansible
5 28 (0.77%) Grafana
6 21 (0.57%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.38%) Kibana
7 14 (0.38%) QRadar
8 12 (0.33%) Podman
8 12 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (0.25%) Nmap
10 7 (0.19%) Argo
10 7 (0.19%) Check_MK
10 7 (0.19%) Istio
10 7 (0.19%) logstash
10 7 (0.19%) Nagios
11 6 (0.16%) Kubeflow
12 5 (0.14%) Functional Safety
12 5 (0.14%) Graylog
12 5 (0.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 862 (23.58%) Microsoft
2 183 (5.01%) Google
3 132 (3.61%) SAP
4 128 (3.50%) VMware
5 125 (3.42%) Splunk
6 98 (2.68%) SolarWinds
7 94 (2.57%) Oracle
8 87 (2.38%) Veeam
9 83 (2.27%) Salesforce
10 81 (2.22%) Brocade
10 81 (2.22%) Nimble Storage
11 80 (2.19%) Tanium
12 64 (1.75%) Workday
13 62 (1.70%) Cisco
14 60 (1.64%) ServiceNow
15 59 (1.61%) Databricks
16 38 (1.04%) Red Hat
17 35 (0.96%) IBM
18 31 (0.85%) Dell
19 30 (0.82%) Adobe