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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 8 15
Rank change year-on-year -21 +7 +5
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,018 3,679 6,345
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.47% 12.57% 8.67%
As % of the General category 9.51% 17.52% 15.45%
Number of salaries quoted 2,038 1,350 3,589
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £59,500
90th Percentile £78,391 £77,500 £72,500
UK median annual salary £53,171 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +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 31,720 20,994 41,066
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 46.96% 71.75% 56.14%
Number of salaries quoted 17,622 9,270 26,906
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,812 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,795 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.41% +4.83% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,750 £62,200
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 1 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 1 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 -29 940 £47,500 -1.67% 355
South East -4 764 £50,000 -4.76% 564
North West -30 551 £46,500 -7.00% 203
Midlands -20 550 £48,250 +1.58% 225
West Midlands -27 317 £51,275 +7.95% 145
South West -27 303 £47,500 -5.00% 184
Yorkshire -14 295 £50,000 +11.11% 103
East of England -21 241 £45,025 -11.66% 171
East Midlands -1 231 £45,000 -5.26% 80
Scotland -33 111 £40,000 -20.00% 108
North East -28 94 £48,445 +24.86% 58
Wales -5 81 £47,105 -14.36% 37
Northern Ireland -23 40 £46,250 -15.91% 76
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
1 128 (4.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 79 (2.62%) SharePoint
3 31 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
4 30 (0.99%) Apache Spark
5 28 (0.93%) CMS
5 28 (0.93%) Confluence
6 22 (0.73%) IIS
7 21 (0.70%) Apache
8 9 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 9 (0.30%) WordPress
9 7 (0.23%) SAS
10 6 (0.20%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.13%) nginx
12 3 (0.099%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.099%) govService
12 3 (0.099%) JBoss
13 1 (0.033%) Appian
13 1 (0.033%) Palantir Foundry
13 1 (0.033%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.033%) WebLogic
Applications
1 410 (13.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 148 (4.90%) Microsoft Office
3 61 (2.02%) MS Visio
4 51 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 21 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
7 10 (0.33%) CATIA
8 4 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.099%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.099%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.099%) Trello
10 2 (0.066%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.066%) Lectora
10 2 (0.066%) Simulink
10 2 (0.066%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.033%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.033%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.033%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 44 (1.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (1.06%) Salesforce CRM
3 22 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 22 (0.73%) NetSuite
4 15 (0.50%) SAP PM
5 14 (0.46%) SAP ERP
6 13 (0.43%) SAP CO
7 7 (0.23%) Dynamics GP
7 7 (0.23%) Magento
7 7 (0.23%) Workday HCM
8 6 (0.20%) SAP PP
9 5 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.17%) Q-Pulse
9 5 (0.17%) SAP GTS
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
11 3 (0.099%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 500 (16.57%) Azure
2 420 (13.92%) Power Platform
3 265 (8.78%) AWS
4 252 (8.35%) Microsoft 365
5 121 (4.01%) SaaS
6 93 (3.08%) GCP
7 90 (2.98%) Azure DevOps
8 76 (2.52%) Dynamics 365
8 76 (2.52%) Entra ID
9 57 (1.89%) GitHub
10 51 (1.69%) Google Analytics
11 50 (1.66%) Microsoft Purview
12 48 (1.59%) Power Automate
13 45 (1.49%) PowerApps
14 42 (1.39%) Amazon S3
15 36 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
16 35 (1.16%) Serverless
17 34 (1.13%) dbt
17 34 (1.13%) Snowflake
18 27 (0.89%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 129 (4.27%) Firewall
2 110 (3.64%) DNS
3 81 (2.68%) DHCP
4 79 (2.62%) VPN
5 63 (2.09%) WAN
6 46 (1.52%) LAN
7 43 (1.42%) TCP/IP
7 43 (1.42%) Wireless
8 37 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
9 36 (1.19%) Broadband
10 32 (1.06%) Network Security
11 27 (0.89%) SD-WAN
11 27 (0.89%) VLAN
12 25 (0.83%) BGP
13 23 (0.76%) Cisco ASA
13 23 (0.76%) Wireshark
14 22 (0.73%) SAN
15 18 (0.60%) HTTP
16 17 (0.56%) OSPF
17 15 (0.50%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 375 (12.43%) Power BI
2 226 (7.49%) Tableau
3 104 (3.45%) Data Mining
4 100 (3.31%) SQL Server
5 78 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
6 70 (2.32%) Amazon RDS
7 60 (1.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 43 (1.42%) Power Query
9 39 (1.29%) Metadata
10 36 (1.19%) Looker
11 35 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 33 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
12 33 (1.09%) Data Lake
12 33 (1.09%) MySQL
13 32 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
14 29 (0.96%) Big Data
15 27 (0.89%) Relational Database
16 25 (0.83%) NoSQL
17 17 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
17 17 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 90 (2.98%) JIRA
2 67 (2.22%) Git
3 35 (1.16%) GitLab
4 32 (1.06%) Rational DOORS
5 16 (0.53%) Jenkins
6 12 (0.40%) MLflow
6 12 (0.40%) Selenium
7 10 (0.33%) Cucumber
7 10 (0.33%) Cypress.io
8 8 (0.27%) LabVIEW
9 7 (0.23%) Moq
9 7 (0.23%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.23%) Subversion
10 6 (0.20%) Toad
11 5 (0.17%) JMeter
11 5 (0.17%) Maven
11 5 (0.17%) Postman
12 4 (0.13%) ERwin
12 4 (0.13%) IBM UrbanCode
12 4 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
General
1 1,376 (45.59%) Social Skills
2 917 (30.38%) Finance
3 266 (8.81%) Marketing
4 174 (5.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 172 (5.70%) Public Sector
6 152 (5.04%) Organisational Skills
7 149 (4.94%) Retail
8 145 (4.80%) Manufacturing
9 143 (4.74%) Law
10 139 (4.61%) Legal
11 110 (3.64%) Influencing Skills
12 90 (2.98%) Telecoms
13 75 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
14 72 (2.39%) Electronics
15 67 (2.22%) Aerospace
16 64 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
17 42 (1.39%) Banking
18 41 (1.36%) Games
19 40 (1.33%) Military
20 30 (0.99%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 841 (27.87%) Analyst
2 328 (10.87%) Senior
3 235 (7.79%) Data Analyst
4 202 (6.69%) Lead
5 165 (5.47%) Business Analyst
6 163 (5.40%) Developer
7 139 (4.61%) Systems Engineer
8 119 (3.94%) Architect
9 89 (2.95%) Support Analyst
10 87 (2.88%) Trainee
11 86 (2.85%) Trainee Analyst
11 86 (2.85%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 82 (2.72%) Consultant
13 81 (2.68%) Senior Analyst
14 80 (2.65%) Support Engineer
15 79 (2.62%) Systems Analyst
16 77 (2.55%) IT Support
17 73 (2.42%) Data Engineer
18 68 (2.25%) Senior Manager
19 67 (2.22%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (2.68%) HTML
2 72 (2.39%) CSS
3 63 (2.09%) .NET
4 61 (2.02%) REST
5 60 (1.99%) Middleware
6 56 (1.86%) JSON
7 54 (1.79%) React
8 53 (1.76%) XML
9 39 (1.29%) SOAP
10 36 (1.19%) Node.js
11 31 (1.03%) PyTorch
12 25 (0.83%) TensorFlow
13 22 (0.73%) scikit-learn
14 21 (0.70%) PySpark
15 20 (0.66%) EDI
16 18 (0.60%) Pandas
17 17 (0.56%) OAuth
18 16 (0.53%) RabbitMQ
18 16 (0.53%) React Native
18 16 (0.53%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 374 (12.39%) Analytical Mindset
2 147 (4.87%) Management Information System
3 118 (3.91%) Onboarding
4 115 (3.81%) Self-Motivation
5 111 (3.68%) Product Ownership
6 77 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
7 74 (2.45%) Data Centre
8 65 (2.15%) Driving Licence
9 42 (1.39%) Cloud Native
10 36 (1.19%) Algorithms
11 35 (1.16%) Data Structures
12 34 (1.13%) Low-Code
13 33 (1.09%) FMCG
13 33 (1.09%) Security Posture
14 31 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
14 31 (1.03%) Virtual Team
15 29 (0.96%) Social Media
16 28 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
17 26 (0.86%) Mobile App
18 25 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 242 (8.02%) Windows
2 140 (4.64%) Windows Server
3 133 (4.41%) Linux
4 69 (2.29%) Windows Server 2016
5 21 (0.70%) Unix
6 15 (0.50%) Apple iOS
7 14 (0.46%) Android
8 13 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
9 12 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 9 (0.30%) Ubuntu
11 8 (0.27%) CentOS
11 8 (0.27%) VMS
12 7 (0.23%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.17%) Windows 10
14 3 (0.099%) Debian
14 3 (0.099%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.033%) OpenBSD
15 1 (0.033%) Robot Operating System
15 1 (0.033%) ThreadX
15 1 (0.033%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,396 (46.26%) Problem-Solving
2 821 (27.20%) Continuous Improvement
3 652 (21.60%) Decision-Making
4 631 (20.91%) Analytics
5 447 (14.81%) Agile
6 428 (14.18%) Business Intelligence
7 374 (12.39%) Stakeholder Management
8 328 (10.87%) AI
9 309 (10.24%) Project Management
10 297 (9.84%) Actionable Insight
11 294 (9.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 281 (9.31%) Data Analysis
13 263 (8.71%) ERP
14 256 (8.48%) Customer Service
15 248 (8.22%) Cybersecurity
16 246 (8.15%) CRM
17 239 (7.92%) Data Modelling
17 239 (7.92%) Mentoring
18 231 (7.65%) Customer Experience
19 226 (7.49%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 664 (22.00%) SQL
2 511 (16.93%) Python
3 106 (3.51%) JavaScript
4 100 (3.31%) PowerShell
5 99 (3.28%) Java
6 89 (2.95%) C#
7 62 (2.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 45 (1.49%) R
9 43 (1.42%) C++
10 42 (1.39%) T-SQL
11 40 (1.33%) Bash
12 36 (1.19%) VBA
13 32 (1.06%) MATLAB
14 18 (0.60%) PHP
15 15 (0.50%) Go
16 14 (0.46%) PL/SQL
16 14 (0.46%) TypeScript
17 13 (0.43%) Scala
18 12 (0.40%) C
19 9 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 518 (17.16%) Degree
2 259 (8.58%) Security Cleared
3 184 (6.10%) SC Cleared
4 142 (4.71%) ACCA
5 136 (4.51%) CIMA
6 132 (4.37%) DBS Check
7 73 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 69 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
9 66 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
9 66 (2.19%) IRCA
10 55 (1.82%) PMI Certification
11 49 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
12 48 (1.59%) PMP
13 47 (1.56%) CISSP
14 46 (1.52%) DV Cleared
15 37 (1.23%) CompTIA Security+
16 35 (1.16%) CISM
17 34 (1.13%) CCNA
18 27 (0.89%) CCNP
19 26 (0.86%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 305 (10.11%) Data Quality
2 236 (7.82%) GDPR
3 179 (5.93%) QA
4 150 (4.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 116 (3.84%) Cyber Essentials
6 109 (3.61%) NIST
7 100 (3.31%) ISO 9001
8 94 (3.11%) PCI DSS
9 74 (2.45%) SLA
10 51 (1.69%) Accessibility
11 45 (1.49%) GRC
12 39 (1.29%) PMO
13 36 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
14 18 (0.60%) SOC 2
15 17 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 17 (0.56%) TickIT
16 16 (0.53%) GMP
17 15 (0.50%) ISO 14001
17 15 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 20000
18 13 (0.43%) NCSC
System Software
1 182 (6.03%) Active Directory
2 67 (2.22%) Hyper-V
3 56 (1.86%) Terminal Server
4 51 (1.69%) Docker
5 32 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
6 12 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.33%) vSphere
8 9 (0.30%) VMware NSX
9 8 (0.27%) ProxySG
9 8 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
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 (0.099%) DFS Replication
12 2 (0.066%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.033%) Embedded Firmware
13 1 (0.033%) KVM
13 1 (0.033%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.033%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 66 (2.19%) Terraform
2 43 (1.42%) Kubernetes
3 37 (1.23%) Ansible
4 29 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (0.56%) Grafana
6 11 (0.36%) Kibana
6 11 (0.36%) QRadar
7 8 (0.27%) Nagios
7 8 (0.27%) Prometheus
8 7 (0.23%) Kubeflow
8 7 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.17%) Graylog
9 5 (0.17%) logstash
10 4 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (0.13%) Functional Safety
10 4 (0.13%) Podman
10 4 (0.13%) SCCM
10 4 (0.13%) SolarWinds Orion
10 4 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 736 (24.39%) Microsoft
2 130 (4.31%) SAP
3 115 (3.81%) Google
4 97 (3.21%) Salesforce
5 93 (3.08%) VMware
6 87 (2.88%) Splunk
7 84 (2.78%) Oracle
8 81 (2.68%) SolarWinds
9 66 (2.19%) Veeam
9 66 (2.19%) Workday
10 58 (1.92%) Databricks
11 57 (1.89%) Nimble Storage
12 56 (1.86%) Brocade
12 56 (1.86%) Tanium
13 53 (1.76%) ServiceNow
14 49 (1.62%) Cisco
15 37 (1.23%) IBM
16 29 (0.96%) Dell
17 28 (0.93%) HubSpot
18 27 (0.89%) Adobe