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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 8 13
Rank change year-on-year -19 +5 +8
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,116 3,791 6,571
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.49% 12.04% 8.57%
As % of the General category 10.07% 17.32% 15.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,131 1,389 3,584
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,450 £26,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £34,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.11% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £72,500
UK median annual salary £54,808 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.35% +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 30,940 21,893 42,062
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.57% 69.54% 54.89%
Number of salaries quoted 19,015 10,081 26,990
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £26,000
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 £62,200
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 30 June 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 30 June 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 -19 959 £48,350 +1.79% 315
South East -10 796 £50,000 -8.78% 489
Midlands -10 565 £47,500 - 249
North West -19 559 £47,500 -5.00% 181
South West -25 339 £47,500 +2.40% 162
West Midlands -15 314 £49,000 +3.16% 141
Yorkshire -9 297 £50,000 +11.11% 100
East Midlands -2 250 £45,000 -6.25% 108
East of England -18 241 £45,000 - 132
Scotland -26 105 £40,000 -12.35% 62
North East -24 103 £55,000 +41.75% 43
Wales -13 83 £53,171 -3.33% 29
Northern Ireland -18 39 £40,000 -27.27% 17
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
1 150 (4.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 90 (2.89%) SharePoint
3 38 (1.22%) Confluence
4 29 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
4 29 (0.93%) Apache Spark
5 28 (0.90%) CMS
6 25 (0.80%) Apache
7 20 (0.64%) IIS
8 9 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 9 (0.29%) WordPress
9 8 (0.26%) SAS
9 8 (0.26%) WebLogic
9 8 (0.26%) WebSphere
10 5 (0.16%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.096%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.096%) JBoss
12 2 (0.064%) govService
13 1 (0.032%) Palantir Foundry
13 1 (0.032%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.032%) Umbraco
Applications
1 396 (12.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 146 (4.69%) Microsoft Office
3 57 (1.83%) MS Visio
4 56 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 24 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
7 9 (0.29%) CATIA
8 4 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.096%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.096%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.096%) Simulink
9 3 (0.096%) Trello
10 2 (0.064%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.064%) Lectora
10 2 (0.064%) Siemens NX
10 2 (0.064%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.032%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.032%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 41 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (0.77%) Salesforce CRM
3 22 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
4 21 (0.67%) NetSuite
5 15 (0.48%) SAP PM
6 14 (0.45%) SAP ERP
7 9 (0.29%) SAP CO
8 8 (0.26%) Dynamics GP
9 7 (0.22%) Workday HCM
10 6 (0.19%) Magento
11 5 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
11 5 (0.16%) Q-Pulse
11 5 (0.16%) SAP GTS
11 5 (0.16%) SAP PP
12 4 (0.13%) Infor M3
12 4 (0.13%) JDE EnterpriseOne
12 4 (0.13%) JDE OneWorld
12 4 (0.13%) JDE World
12 4 (0.13%) SAP FI
12 4 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 544 (17.46%) Azure
2 412 (13.22%) Power Platform
3 277 (8.89%) Microsoft 365
4 268 (8.60%) AWS
5 125 (4.01%) SaaS
6 114 (3.66%) GCP
7 85 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
7 85 (2.73%) Entra ID
8 78 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
9 55 (1.77%) Google Analytics
10 54 (1.73%) GitHub
11 49 (1.57%) Microsoft Purview
11 49 (1.57%) PowerApps
12 45 (1.44%) Power Automate
13 40 (1.28%) Amazon S3
14 32 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
14 32 (1.03%) Serverless
15 30 (0.96%) dbt
16 24 (0.77%) AWS Lambda
17 23 (0.74%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 139 (4.46%) Firewall
2 130 (4.17%) DNS
3 101 (3.24%) DHCP
4 74 (2.37%) VPN
5 67 (2.15%) WAN
6 54 (1.73%) LAN
6 54 (1.73%) TCP/IP
7 42 (1.35%) Broadband
8 41 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
8 41 (1.32%) Wireless
9 30 (0.96%) Network Security
10 25 (0.80%) SD-WAN
11 24 (0.77%) BGP
11 24 (0.77%) HTTP
12 22 (0.71%) VLAN
12 22 (0.71%) Wireshark
13 20 (0.64%) SAN
14 19 (0.61%) Cisco ASA
15 17 (0.55%) VoIP
16 14 (0.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 372 (11.94%) Power BI
2 187 (6.00%) Tableau
3 101 (3.24%) SQL Server
4 87 (2.79%) Amazon RDS
4 87 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
5 65 (2.09%) Data Mining
6 55 (1.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 44 (1.41%) Power Query
8 38 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 37 (1.19%) Metadata
9 37 (1.19%) MySQL
10 36 (1.16%) Looker
11 35 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
12 33 (1.06%) Relational Database
13 30 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
13 30 (0.96%) Data Lake
14 27 (0.87%) Big Data
15 19 (0.61%) BigQuery
16 18 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
17 17 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 103 (3.31%) JIRA
2 75 (2.41%) Git
3 39 (1.25%) GitLab
4 36 (1.16%) Rational DOORS
5 21 (0.67%) Jenkins
6 13 (0.42%) Cucumber
7 12 (0.39%) Cypress.io
7 12 (0.39%) Selenium
8 11 (0.35%) MLflow
9 10 (0.32%) Eclipse
10 9 (0.29%) LabVIEW
10 9 (0.29%) SonarQube
11 8 (0.26%) JMeter
11 8 (0.26%) Postman
12 7 (0.22%) Moq
12 7 (0.22%) Subversion
13 6 (0.19%) Toad
14 5 (0.16%) ERwin
14 5 (0.16%) Maven
14 5 (0.16%) TeamCity
General
1 1,484 (47.63%) Social Skills
2 930 (29.85%) Finance
3 258 (8.28%) Marketing
4 193 (6.19%) Public Sector
5 191 (6.13%) Organisational Skills
6 171 (5.49%) Retail
7 168 (5.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 162 (5.20%) Manufacturing
9 157 (5.04%) Legal
10 144 (4.62%) Law
11 116 (3.72%) Influencing Skills
12 98 (3.15%) Telecoms
13 76 (2.44%) Aerospace
14 74 (2.37%) Electronics
15 63 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
16 62 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
17 45 (1.44%) Banking
18 42 (1.35%) Military
19 36 (1.16%) Advertising
20 35 (1.12%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 853 (27.37%) Analyst
2 319 (10.24%) Senior
3 228 (7.32%) Lead
4 224 (7.19%) Data Analyst
5 166 (5.33%) Business Analyst
6 163 (5.23%) Systems Engineer
7 160 (5.13%) Developer
8 100 (3.21%) Architect
9 99 (3.18%) Support Engineer
10 97 (3.11%) Support Analyst
11 93 (2.98%) Consultant
12 89 (2.86%) Senior Analyst
13 88 (2.82%) IT Support
14 86 (2.76%) Systems Analyst
15 82 (2.63%) Data Engineer
16 68 (2.18%) Accountant
17 66 (2.12%) Head of QA
17 66 (2.12%) IT Manager
18 64 (2.05%) IT Engineer
19 61 (1.96%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (2.37%) HTML
2 68 (2.18%) .NET
3 67 (2.15%) Middleware
4 65 (2.09%) CSS
5 61 (1.96%) REST
6 59 (1.89%) JSON
7 57 (1.83%) XML
8 50 (1.60%) React
9 35 (1.12%) SOAP
10 34 (1.09%) Node.js
11 31 (0.99%) PyTorch
12 25 (0.80%) RESTful
12 25 (0.80%) TensorFlow
13 22 (0.71%) PySpark
13 22 (0.71%) scikit-learn
14 21 (0.67%) EDI
15 18 (0.58%) Pandas
16 17 (0.55%) Kafka
17 16 (0.51%) OAuth
18 15 (0.48%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 391 (12.55%) Analytical Mindset
2 153 (4.91%) Management Information System
3 123 (3.95%) Onboarding
4 117 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
5 115 (3.69%) Product Ownership
6 99 (3.18%) Legacy Systems
7 81 (2.60%) Driving Licence
8 68 (2.18%) Data Centre
9 49 (1.57%) Cloud Native
10 44 (1.41%) Cyber Threat
11 40 (1.28%) Security Posture
12 36 (1.16%) Algorithms
13 35 (1.12%) Data Structures
14 34 (1.09%) Social Media
15 32 (1.03%) Virtual Team
16 30 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
17 29 (0.93%) FMCG
18 27 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
18 27 (0.87%) PKI
18 27 (0.87%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 269 (8.63%) Windows
2 163 (5.23%) Windows Server
3 158 (5.07%) Linux
4 86 (2.76%) Windows Server 2016
5 19 (0.61%) Unix
6 18 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
7 17 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 16 (0.51%) Android
9 14 (0.45%) Apple iOS
10 13 (0.42%) Windows 10
11 11 (0.35%) Mac OS
11 11 (0.35%) Ubuntu
12 9 (0.29%) CentOS
13 8 (0.26%) VMS
14 5 (0.16%) Debian
14 5 (0.16%) OpenVMS
15 2 (0.064%) Windows Server 2012
16 1 (0.032%) FreeRTOS
16 1 (0.032%) OpenBSD
16 1 (0.032%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,466 (47.05%) Problem-Solving
2 874 (28.05%) Continuous Improvement
3 719 (23.07%) Decision-Making
4 636 (20.41%) Analytics
5 443 (14.22%) Agile
6 421 (13.51%) Business Intelligence
7 393 (12.61%) Stakeholder Management
8 335 (10.75%) AI
9 330 (10.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 319 (10.24%) Actionable Insight
11 285 (9.15%) Customer Service
12 283 (9.08%) Data Analysis
13 278 (8.92%) ERP
14 273 (8.76%) Cybersecurity
15 271 (8.70%) Project Management
16 257 (8.25%) Mentoring
17 256 (8.22%) Customer Experience
18 249 (7.99%) CRM
19 245 (7.86%) Data Modelling
20 244 (7.83%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 672 (21.57%) SQL
2 490 (15.73%) Python
3 109 (3.50%) JavaScript
4 99 (3.18%) Java
5 96 (3.08%) PowerShell
6 94 (3.02%) C#
7 59 (1.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 48 (1.54%) C++
9 46 (1.48%) T-SQL
10 44 (1.41%) Bash
11 41 (1.32%) R
12 34 (1.09%) MATLAB
13 32 (1.03%) VBA
14 22 (0.71%) TypeScript
15 20 (0.64%) PHP
16 17 (0.55%) Go
17 15 (0.48%) C
18 13 (0.42%) PL/SQL
19 12 (0.39%) Perl
20 11 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 520 (16.69%) Degree
2 313 (10.04%) Security Cleared
3 222 (7.12%) SC Cleared
4 157 (5.04%) ACCA
5 151 (4.85%) CIMA
6 130 (4.17%) DBS Check
7 83 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 66 (2.12%) Cisco Certification
8 66 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 66 (2.12%) IRCA
9 52 (1.67%) CISSP
10 49 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
11 47 (1.51%) DV Cleared
12 42 (1.35%) CompTIA Security+
13 37 (1.19%) CISM
14 34 (1.09%) CCNA
15 27 (0.87%) PMI Certification
16 26 (0.83%) Master's Degree
17 25 (0.80%) Azure Certification
18 24 (0.77%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 314 (10.08%) Data Quality
2 246 (7.89%) GDPR
3 208 (6.68%) QA
4 165 (5.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 149 (4.78%) Cyber Essentials
6 111 (3.56%) ISO 9001
6 111 (3.56%) PCI DSS
7 104 (3.34%) NIST
8 86 (2.76%) SLA
9 70 (2.25%) Accessibility
10 46 (1.48%) GRC
11 38 (1.22%) PMO
12 32 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
13 28 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 23 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 22 (0.71%) ISO 14001
16 18 (0.58%) GMP
17 17 (0.55%) TickIT
18 16 (0.51%) SOC 2
19 15 (0.48%) IFRS
System Software
1 212 (6.80%) Active Directory
2 83 (2.66%) Hyper-V
3 72 (2.31%) Terminal Server
4 61 (1.96%) Docker
5 33 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
6 11 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.32%) vSphere
8 9 (0.29%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.19%) ProxySG
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 (0.096%) DFS Replication
12 2 (0.064%) Embedded Firmware
13 1 (0.032%) KVM
13 1 (0.032%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.032%) VirtualBox
13 1 (0.032%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 67 (2.15%) Terraform
2 46 (1.48%) Kubernetes
3 38 (1.22%) Ansible
4 26 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (0.71%) Grafana
6 14 (0.45%) Kibana
7 13 (0.42%) QRadar
8 10 (0.32%) Prometheus
9 8 (0.26%) Kubeflow
9 8 (0.26%) Nagios
10 7 (0.22%) logstash
11 6 (0.19%) Graylog
12 5 (0.16%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.16%) Podman
13 4 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.13%) Backup Exec
13 4 (0.13%) Functional Safety
13 4 (0.13%) SCCM
13 4 (0.13%) SolarWinds Orion
13 4 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 753 (24.17%) Microsoft
2 132 (4.24%) Google
3 124 (3.98%) SAP
4 111 (3.56%) VMware
5 107 (3.43%) Splunk
6 94 (3.02%) SolarWinds
7 92 (2.95%) Salesforce
8 83 (2.66%) Veeam
9 76 (2.44%) Oracle
10 73 (2.34%) Nimble Storage
11 72 (2.31%) Brocade
11 72 (2.31%) Tanium
12 66 (2.12%) Workday
13 55 (1.77%) Databricks
14 53 (1.70%) Cisco
15 38 (1.22%) IBM
16 37 (1.19%) ServiceNow
17 29 (0.93%) Adobe
18 28 (0.90%) HubSpot
19 26 (0.83%) Dell