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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 8 12
Rank change year-on-year -14 +4 +9
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,325 4,191 4,851
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 5.02% 12.10% 9.00%
As % of the General category 11.35% 18.42% 16.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,489 1,499 1,749
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £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 £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,276 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.43% -4.95% -

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 38,111 22,756 29,079
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.26% 65.68% 53.96%
Number of salaries quoted 23,490 11,081 13,250
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £44,125 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.31% -11.75% -1.93%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%

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 27 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 27 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 -18 1,165 £47,500 +6.74% 996
South East -11 987 £49,425 +1.38% 1,103
Midlands -11 752 £46,743 +4.94% 671
North West -16 706 £46,500 +3.33% 567
South West -8 613 £47,500 +5.56% 497
West Midlands -19 383 £47,500 +5.56% 412
East Midlands -6 367 £43,707 +9.27% 258
Yorkshire -9 317 £47,000 +17.50% 332
East of England -16 278 £47,500 +21.79% 421
Wales -4 207 £45,000 -10.20% 112
Northern Ireland +5 189 £43,750 -20.45% 209
Scotland -21 152 £48,000 +23.08% 334
North East -20 148 £50,500 +26.25% 101
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
1 162 (3.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 141 (3.26%) SharePoint
3 54 (1.25%) Confluence
4 31 (0.72%) IIS
5 30 (0.69%) Apache
6 22 (0.51%) Apache Spark
7 17 (0.39%) CMS
8 15 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
8 15 (0.35%) SAS
9 14 (0.32%) WordPress
10 12 (0.28%) Jupyter
11 9 (0.21%) WebLogic
11 9 (0.21%) WebSphere
12 8 (0.18%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.046%) nginx
14 2 (0.046%) Office Communications Server
14 2 (0.046%) Oracle Application Server
14 2 (0.046%) Oracle Workflow
15 1 (0.023%) Moodle
Applications
1 557 (12.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 270 (6.24%) Microsoft Office
3 83 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 53 (1.23%) MS Visio
5 43 (0.99%) Spreadsheet
6 27 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
7 18 (0.42%) Simulink
8 12 (0.28%) AutoCAD
9 9 (0.21%) SOLIDWORKS
10 7 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 6 (0.14%) EPLAN
11 6 (0.14%) Photoshop
11 6 (0.14%) Siemens NX
12 5 (0.12%) Chatbot
13 3 (0.069%) CANalyzer
13 3 (0.069%) CATIA
13 3 (0.069%) LaTeX
14 2 (0.046%) Adobe Illustrator
14 2 (0.046%) InDesign
14 2 (0.046%) Revit
Business Applications
1 92 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.74%) Dynamics GP
3 31 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
4 24 (0.55%) NetSuite
5 21 (0.49%) Shopify
6 13 (0.30%) Magento
7 11 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
8 10 (0.23%) Infor M3
9 9 (0.21%) SAP Business One
10 8 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
10 8 (0.18%) SAP ERP
11 7 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
11 7 (0.16%) Workday HCM
12 6 (0.14%) Exchequer
12 6 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
13 5 (0.12%) Elite 3E
13 5 (0.12%) JDE EnterpriseOne
13 5 (0.12%) Odoo
13 5 (0.12%) Sage 50
14 4 (0.092%) JDE World
Cloud Services
1 672 (15.54%) Azure
2 488 (11.28%) Power Platform
3 373 (8.62%) AWS
4 325 (7.51%) Microsoft 365
5 214 (4.95%) SaaS
6 170 (3.93%) GCP
7 140 (3.24%) Entra ID
8 111 (2.57%) Google Ads
9 100 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
10 97 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
11 92 (2.13%) Google Analytics
12 82 (1.90%) Meta Ads
13 64 (1.48%) GitHub
14 63 (1.46%) Power Automate
15 62 (1.43%) PowerApps
16 53 (1.23%) Serverless
17 47 (1.09%) Amazon S3
18 46 (1.06%) Microsoft Purview
19 45 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
20 44 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 163 (3.77%) DNS
2 127 (2.94%) DHCP
3 105 (2.43%) Firewall
4 96 (2.22%) VPN
5 82 (1.90%) TCP/IP
6 68 (1.57%) WAN
7 61 (1.41%) LAN
8 57 (1.32%) Internet
9 51 (1.18%) Wireless
10 42 (0.97%) Network Security
11 35 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
12 28 (0.65%) VLAN
13 27 (0.62%) HTTP
14 25 (0.58%) Broadband
15 23 (0.53%) VoIP
16 22 (0.51%) SD-WAN
17 21 (0.49%) BGP
17 21 (0.49%) SAN
18 18 (0.42%) SMS
19 17 (0.39%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 434 (10.03%) Power BI
2 124 (2.87%) SQL Server
3 117 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
4 101 (2.34%) Tableau
5 97 (2.24%) Amazon RDS
6 79 (1.83%) Relational Database
7 69 (1.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 66 (1.53%) MySQL
9 62 (1.43%) Power Query
10 52 (1.20%) Metadata
11 49 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
12 45 (1.04%) Looker
12 45 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 42 (0.97%) Data Lake
14 32 (0.74%) BigQuery
15 31 (0.72%) Big Data
16 29 (0.67%) NoSQL
17 27 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
17 27 (0.62%) MongoDB
18 22 (0.51%) GIS
Development Applications
1 183 (4.23%) Git
2 155 (3.58%) JIRA
3 35 (0.81%) GitLab
4 33 (0.76%) Jenkins
5 26 (0.60%) Rational DOORS
6 21 (0.49%) Eclipse
7 18 (0.42%) LabVIEW
7 18 (0.42%) Selenium
8 17 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
9 16 (0.37%) Claude Code
10 15 (0.35%) Cucumber
10 15 (0.35%) Postman
11 14 (0.32%) Burp Suite
12 13 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
13 12 (0.28%) Bitbucket
14 11 (0.25%) Metasploit
15 9 (0.21%) Cypress.io
15 9 (0.21%) JMeter
16 8 (0.18%) Moq
17 7 (0.16%) SonarQube
General
1 2,239 (51.77%) Social Skills
2 1,226 (28.35%) Finance
3 501 (11.58%) Marketing
4 395 (9.13%) Organisational Skills
5 343 (7.93%) Manufacturing
6 307 (7.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 293 (6.77%) Retail
8 284 (6.57%) Legal
9 263 (6.08%) Public Sector
10 233 (5.39%) Influencing Skills
11 222 (5.13%) Law
12 200 (4.62%) Aerospace
13 188 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
14 153 (3.54%) Electronics
15 122 (2.82%) Telecoms
16 76 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
17 68 (1.57%) Automotive
18 67 (1.55%) Advertising
19 66 (1.53%) Military
20 64 (1.48%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1,019 (23.56%) Analyst
2 521 (12.05%) Senior
3 274 (6.34%) Lead
4 230 (5.32%) Developer
5 200 (4.62%) Data Analyst
6 187 (4.32%) Business Analyst
7 179 (4.14%) Support Analyst
8 160 (3.70%) Senior Analyst
9 158 (3.65%) Systems Engineer
10 145 (3.35%) Architect
11 115 (2.66%) Data Engineer
12 114 (2.64%) Consultant
13 113 (2.61%) Support Engineer
14 101 (2.34%) IT Support
15 95 (2.20%) Administrator
16 89 (2.06%) Accountant
16 89 (2.06%) Marketing Manager
17 88 (2.03%) ITSM Analyst
18 87 (2.01%) Applications Support
19 85 (1.97%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (2.47%) .NET
2 86 (1.99%) REST
3 77 (1.78%) HTML
4 75 (1.73%) Terraform
5 71 (1.64%) CSS
6 63 (1.46%) Middleware
7 59 (1.36%) XML
8 57 (1.32%) JSON
9 51 (1.18%) PySpark
9 51 (1.18%) SOAP
10 49 (1.13%) RESTful
11 43 (0.99%) EDI
12 37 (0.86%) React
13 36 (0.83%) LDAP
14 34 (0.79%) Kafka
15 30 (0.69%) ModSecurity
16 29 (0.67%) Spring
17 28 (0.65%) ASP.NET
17 28 (0.65%) Spring Boot
18 23 (0.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 343 (7.93%) Management Information System
2 325 (7.51%) Analytical Mindset
3 245 (5.66%) Onboarding
4 225 (5.20%) Self-Motivation
5 166 (3.84%) Product Ownership
6 156 (3.61%) Driving Licence
7 116 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
8 102 (2.36%) Social Media
9 94 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
10 81 (1.87%) Marketing Technology
11 76 (1.76%) Cloud Native
12 73 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
13 72 (1.66%) Virtual Team
14 71 (1.64%) Data Centre
15 68 (1.57%) Blog
16 50 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
17 46 (1.06%) Data Structures
17 46 (1.06%) Security Posture
18 39 (0.90%) SCADA
19 38 (0.88%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 332 (7.68%) Windows
2 232 (5.36%) Linux
3 184 (4.25%) Windows Server
4 89 (2.06%) Windows Server 2016
5 30 (0.69%) Mac OS
6 29 (0.67%) Windows 10
7 24 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
8 22 (0.51%) Unix
9 15 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 14 (0.32%) Android
11 11 (0.25%) Apple iOS
12 9 (0.21%) CentOS
13 7 (0.16%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.14%) Debian
14 6 (0.14%) VMS
15 5 (0.12%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.092%) CoreOS
17 2 (0.046%) Solaris
18 1 (0.023%) AIX
18 1 (0.023%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,163 (50.01%) Problem-Solving
2 1,417 (32.76%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,102 (25.48%) Decision-Making
4 838 (19.38%) Stakeholder Management
5 736 (17.02%) Analytics
6 685 (15.84%) AI
7 648 (14.98%) Agile
8 568 (13.13%) Business Intelligence
9 485 (11.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 438 (10.13%) Validation
11 428 (9.90%) Customer Service
12 422 (9.76%) ERP
13 418 (9.66%) CRM
14 415 (9.60%) Mentoring
15 387 (8.95%) Actionable Insight
16 384 (8.88%) Data Analysis
17 356 (8.23%) ITIL
18 349 (8.07%) Project Delivery
19 348 (8.05%) Collaborative Working
20 345 (7.98%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 789 (18.24%) SQL
2 444 (10.27%) Python
3 156 (3.61%) JavaScript
4 134 (3.10%) Java
5 121 (2.80%) C#
6 105 (2.43%) PowerShell
7 76 (1.76%) C++
8 65 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 57 (1.32%) Bash
10 45 (1.04%) TypeScript
11 42 (0.97%) MATLAB
11 42 (0.97%) Shell Script
12 40 (0.92%) T-SQL
13 33 (0.76%) C
14 32 (0.74%) R
15 21 (0.49%) PL/SQL
16 20 (0.46%) PHP
16 20 (0.46%) VB.NET
17 17 (0.39%) Scala
18 16 (0.37%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 882 (20.39%) Degree
2 521 (12.05%) Security Cleared
3 360 (8.32%) SC Cleared
4 175 (4.05%) ACCA
5 167 (3.86%) CIMA
6 123 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
7 118 (2.73%) DV Cleared
8 108 (2.50%) DBS Check
9 94 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
10 75 (1.73%) HND
11 70 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
12 65 (1.50%) CISSP
13 63 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
14 53 (1.23%) HNC
15 50 (1.16%) CISM
16 46 (1.06%) CompTIA Security+
17 45 (1.04%) Azure Certification
18 39 (0.90%) CCNA
19 38 (0.88%) Master's Degree
20 34 (0.79%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 410 (9.48%) Data Quality
2 263 (6.08%) QA
3 209 (4.83%) GDPR
4 137 (3.17%) Cyber Essentials
5 132 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 124 (2.87%) Accessibility
7 102 (2.36%) PCI DSS
8 87 (2.01%) SLA
9 67 (1.55%) NIST
10 52 (1.20%) ISO 9001
11 41 (0.95%) PMO
12 37 (0.86%) GRC
13 28 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
14 27 (0.62%) IFRS
15 26 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 26 (0.60%) DO-254
16 21 (0.49%) ISO 14001
17 19 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 20000
18 18 (0.42%) Good Clinical Practice
19 17 (0.39%) GMP
System Software
1 281 (6.50%) Active Directory
2 135 (3.12%) Docker
3 100 (2.31%) Hyper-V
4 72 (1.66%) Terminal Server
5 41 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
6 40 (0.92%) Firmware
7 14 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
9 10 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.16%) Ceph
10 7 (0.16%) VMware NSX
11 5 (0.12%) vSphere
12 4 (0.092%) KVM
12 4 (0.092%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.092%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.069%) DFS Replication
14 1 (0.023%) IAG
14 1 (0.023%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.023%) VirtualBox
14 1 (0.023%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 66 (1.53%) Kubernetes
2 48 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 39 (0.90%) Ansible
4 29 (0.67%) Grafana
5 25 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
6 24 (0.55%) Prometheus
7 16 (0.37%) Kibana
8 15 (0.35%) QRadar
9 11 (0.25%) Nmap
9 11 (0.25%) Podman
10 9 (0.21%) Functional Safety
11 8 (0.18%) logstash
12 7 (0.16%) Argo
12 7 (0.16%) Check_MK
12 7 (0.16%) Istio
13 6 (0.14%) Graylog
14 5 (0.12%) Nagios
15 4 (0.092%) FortiGate
15 4 (0.092%) SCCM
15 4 (0.092%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 1,143 (26.43%) Microsoft
2 300 (6.94%) Google
3 136 (3.14%) SAP
4 131 (3.03%) VMware
5 127 (2.94%) Splunk
6 114 (2.64%) Oracle
7 91 (2.10%) Salesforce
8 85 (1.97%) SolarWinds
9 79 (1.83%) Veeam
10 73 (1.69%) Brocade
10 73 (1.69%) Nimble Storage
11 72 (1.66%) Tanium
12 71 (1.64%) ServiceNow
13 63 (1.46%) Cisco
14 59 (1.36%) YouTube
15 48 (1.11%) Databricks
16 42 (0.97%) HubSpot
17 40 (0.92%) Adobe
18 36 (0.83%) Workday
19 29 (0.67%) IBM