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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 9 15
Rank change year-on-year -28 +6 +5
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 2,939 3,332 6,225
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.51% 12.21% 9.16%
As % of the General category 9.32% 17.74% 15.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,898 1,467 3,603
10th Percentile £30,750 £29,848 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £50,055 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.22% +11.23% -3.60%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
UK median annual salary £53,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.73% +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 31,527 18,786 39,443
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.41% 68.83% 58.04%
Number of salaries quoted 16,229 9,435 26,319
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £34,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.11% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £75,772
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 30 April 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 April 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 -31 854 £46,000 -8.00% 341
South East -5 776 £50,000 -4.96% 473
Midlands -28 558 £47,750 - 281
North West -28 482 £45,000 -10.00% 193
West Midlands -28 333 £50,149 +4.48% 172
Yorkshire -12 285 £50,500 +12.22% 103
East of England -39 254 £45,000 -11.71% 161
South West -25 250 £47,500 -8.58% 163
East Midlands -12 223 £45,000 -2.70% 108
Scotland -32 134 £40,400 -23.05% 55
North East -21 87 £48,445 +27.49% 52
Wales -2 79 £42,500 -15.44% 44
Northern Ireland -26 46 £47,500 -13.64% 33
Isle of Man -2 1 £62,500 +68.92%
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
1 120 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 63 (2.14%) SharePoint
3 35 (1.19%) Confluence
4 30 (1.02%) CMS
5 27 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
6 26 (0.88%) Apache Spark
7 18 (0.61%) IIS
8 14 (0.48%) Apache
9 12 (0.41%) WordPress
10 4 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.14%) nginx
11 3 (0.10%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.10%) govService
11 3 (0.10%) JBoss
11 3 (0.10%) SAS
12 1 (0.034%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.034%) Appian
12 1 (0.034%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.034%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.034%) Umbraco
Applications
1 448 (15.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 202 (6.87%) Microsoft Office
3 64 (2.18%) MS Visio
4 54 (1.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 22 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
6 21 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
7 16 (0.54%) Chatbot
8 10 (0.34%) CATIA
9 4 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.14%) Trello
10 3 (0.10%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.10%) AutoCAD
10 3 (0.10%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.068%) Lectora
11 2 (0.068%) Simulink
12 1 (0.034%) Revit
12 1 (0.034%) Sketch
12 1 (0.034%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 47 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (1.09%) Salesforce CRM
3 25 (0.85%) NetSuite
4 23 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
5 16 (0.54%) SAP CO
6 15 (0.51%) SAP PM
7 14 (0.48%) SAP ERP
8 10 (0.34%) Sage X3
9 7 (0.24%) Magento
9 7 (0.24%) SAP FI
9 7 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
9 7 (0.24%) Workday HCM
10 6 (0.20%) SAP PP
11 5 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
11 5 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
11 5 (0.17%) Q-Pulse
11 5 (0.17%) SAP GTS
12 4 (0.14%) Markit EDM
13 3 (0.10%) Infor M3
13 3 (0.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 476 (16.20%) Azure
2 387 (13.17%) Power Platform
3 242 (8.23%) AWS
4 236 (8.03%) Microsoft 365
5 119 (4.05%) SaaS
6 110 (3.74%) Azure DevOps
7 94 (3.20%) Dynamics 365
8 81 (2.76%) GCP
9 71 (2.42%) Entra ID
10 70 (2.38%) GitHub
11 50 (1.70%) Power Automate
12 48 (1.63%) Google Analytics
13 47 (1.60%) dbt
13 47 (1.60%) Snowflake
14 43 (1.46%) Microsoft Purview
15 36 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
15 36 (1.22%) Serverless
16 35 (1.19%) Amazon S3
16 35 (1.19%) PowerApps
17 28 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 120 (4.08%) Firewall
2 103 (3.50%) DNS
3 77 (2.62%) DHCP
4 72 (2.45%) VPN
5 63 (2.14%) WAN
6 49 (1.67%) Wireless
7 45 (1.53%) LAN
8 40 (1.36%) TCP/IP
9 33 (1.12%) Network Security
10 30 (1.02%) VLAN
11 29 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
12 27 (0.92%) Wireshark
13 25 (0.85%) BGP
14 24 (0.82%) Broadband
14 24 (0.82%) SD-WAN
15 22 (0.75%) SAN
16 19 (0.65%) Cisco ASA
16 19 (0.65%) EIGRP
16 19 (0.65%) OSPF
17 14 (0.48%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 352 (11.98%) Power BI
2 243 (8.27%) Tableau
3 136 (4.63%) Data Mining
4 100 (3.40%) SQL Server
5 71 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
6 59 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
7 49 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 45 (1.53%) Looker
9 44 (1.50%) Relational Database
10 43 (1.46%) Metadata
11 36 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
11 36 (1.22%) MySQL
12 32 (1.09%) Power Query
12 32 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 30 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
14 29 (0.99%) Data Lake
15 24 (0.82%) GIS
15 24 (0.82%) NoSQL
16 18 (0.61%) Big Data
17 17 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 117 (3.98%) JIRA
2 65 (2.21%) Git
3 28 (0.95%) GitLab
4 26 (0.88%) Rational DOORS
5 20 (0.68%) Jenkins
6 15 (0.51%) Selenium
7 11 (0.37%) MLflow
8 10 (0.34%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.31%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.27%) LabVIEW
11 7 (0.24%) Postman
11 7 (0.24%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.20%) Maven
12 6 (0.20%) Subversion
13 5 (0.17%) ERwin
13 5 (0.17%) JMeter
13 5 (0.17%) Moq
13 5 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
13 5 (0.17%) TestRail
14 4 (0.14%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 1,414 (48.11%) Social Skills
2 909 (30.93%) Finance
3 254 (8.64%) Marketing
4 148 (5.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 146 (4.97%) Organisational Skills
5 146 (4.97%) Retail
6 141 (4.80%) Manufacturing
7 136 (4.63%) Public Sector
8 128 (4.36%) Law
9 113 (3.84%) Legal
10 84 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
10 84 (2.86%) Telecoms
11 79 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
12 60 (2.04%) Electronics
13 52 (1.77%) Aerospace
14 51 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
15 46 (1.57%) Banking
16 41 (1.40%) Military
17 37 (1.26%) Automotive
18 35 (1.19%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 883 (30.04%) Analyst
2 333 (11.33%) Senior
3 257 (8.74%) Data Analyst
4 182 (6.19%) Lead
5 165 (5.61%) Business Analyst
6 159 (5.41%) Developer
7 117 (3.98%) Trainee
8 115 (3.91%) Trainee Analyst
8 115 (3.91%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 110 (3.74%) Support Analyst
10 109 (3.71%) Systems Engineer
11 96 (3.27%) Architect
12 82 (2.79%) IT Support
13 80 (2.72%) Senior Analyst
14 78 (2.65%) Support Engineer
15 72 (2.45%) Financial Analyst
15 72 (2.45%) Systems Analyst
16 69 (2.35%) Consultant
16 69 (2.35%) Systems Manager
17 66 (2.25%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (2.93%) HTML
2 74 (2.52%) CSS
3 65 (2.21%) .NET
4 58 (1.97%) React
4 58 (1.97%) REST
5 56 (1.91%) JSON
6 54 (1.84%) Middleware
7 48 (1.63%) XML
8 38 (1.29%) SOAP
9 34 (1.16%) Node.js
10 27 (0.92%) PyTorch
11 22 (0.75%) scikit-learn
12 21 (0.71%) TensorFlow
13 19 (0.65%) Pandas
13 19 (0.65%) React Native
14 18 (0.61%) PySpark
15 17 (0.58%) OAuth
16 16 (0.54%) Bootstrap
16 16 (0.54%) EDI
17 15 (0.51%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 353 (12.01%) Analytical Mindset
2 146 (4.97%) Management Information System
3 138 (4.70%) Self-Motivation
4 128 (4.36%) Onboarding
5 111 (3.78%) Product Ownership
6 74 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
7 65 (2.21%) Data Centre
8 57 (1.94%) Driving Licence
9 49 (1.67%) Cloud Native
10 36 (1.22%) Algorithms
11 33 (1.12%) Low-Code
12 32 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
12 32 (1.09%) Social Media
13 31 (1.05%) Data Structures
14 30 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
14 30 (1.02%) Mobile App
15 29 (0.99%) FMCG
15 29 (0.99%) Security Posture
16 21 (0.71%) Cyber Defence
17 20 (0.68%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 234 (7.96%) Windows
2 126 (4.29%) Windows Server
3 117 (3.98%) Linux
4 54 (1.84%) Windows Server 2016
5 19 (0.65%) Unix
6 18 (0.61%) Android
7 15 (0.51%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.20%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.20%) VMS
10 5 (0.17%) CentOS
10 5 (0.17%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.14%) Windows 10
12 3 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.068%) Debian
13 2 (0.068%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.034%) AIX
14 1 (0.034%) FreeBSD
14 1 (0.034%) OpenBSD
14 1 (0.034%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,310 (44.57%) Problem-Solving
2 803 (27.32%) Continuous Improvement
3 624 (21.23%) Analytics
4 609 (20.72%) Decision-Making
5 450 (15.31%) Agile
6 416 (14.15%) Business Intelligence
7 367 (12.49%) Stakeholder Management
8 346 (11.77%) Project Management
9 335 (11.40%) AI
10 309 (10.51%) Data Analysis
11 275 (9.36%) ERP
12 274 (9.32%) Actionable Insight
13 255 (8.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 241 (8.20%) Customer Service
15 232 (7.89%) Customer Experience
16 231 (7.86%) CRM
17 227 (7.72%) Business Analysis
18 222 (7.55%) Cybersecurity
19 218 (7.42%) Analytical Thinking
19 218 (7.42%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 658 (22.39%) SQL
2 481 (16.37%) Python
3 107 (3.64%) JavaScript
4 95 (3.23%) PowerShell
5 87 (2.96%) Java
6 84 (2.86%) C#
7 51 (1.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 45 (1.53%) T-SQL
9 38 (1.29%) R
10 37 (1.26%) VBA
11 33 (1.12%) Bash
12 30 (1.02%) C++
13 25 (0.85%) MATLAB
14 16 (0.54%) PL/SQL
15 15 (0.51%) Go
16 12 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
16 12 (0.41%) PHP
16 12 (0.41%) TypeScript
17 11 (0.37%) Scala
18 8 (0.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 561 (19.09%) Degree
2 224 (7.62%) Security Cleared
3 166 (5.65%) ACCA
4 160 (5.44%) SC Cleared
5 157 (5.34%) CIMA
6 125 (4.25%) DBS Check
7 71 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 68 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
9 66 (2.25%) IRCA
9 66 (2.25%) PMI Certification
10 56 (1.91%) PMP
11 52 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
12 49 (1.67%) Master's Degree
13 44 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
14 42 (1.43%) CISSP
15 36 (1.22%) DV Cleared
16 31 (1.05%) CISM
17 30 (1.02%) CompTIA Security+
18 27 (0.92%) CCNA
18 27 (0.92%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 276 (9.39%) Data Quality
2 213 (7.25%) GDPR
3 174 (5.92%) QA
4 139 (4.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 101 (3.44%) NIST
6 98 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
7 86 (2.93%) ISO 9001
8 79 (2.69%) PCI DSS
9 56 (1.91%) SLA
10 49 (1.67%) PMO
11 35 (1.19%) Accessibility
11 35 (1.19%) GRC
12 32 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
13 22 (0.75%) SOC 2
14 17 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 17 (0.58%) GMP
14 17 (0.58%) TickIT
15 14 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 13 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 11 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 184 (6.26%) Active Directory
2 59 (2.01%) Hyper-V
3 48 (1.63%) Terminal Server
4 39 (1.33%) Docker
5 34 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
6 11 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.34%) vSphere
8 9 (0.31%) VMware NSX
9 8 (0.27%) ProxySG
10 7 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
11 4 (0.14%) Firmware
11 4 (0.14%) XenApp
12 3 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.068%) VMware ESXi
14 1 (0.034%) Embedded Firmware
14 1 (0.034%) KVM
14 1 (0.034%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.034%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 73 (2.48%) Terraform
2 40 (1.36%) Kubernetes
3 38 (1.29%) Ansible
4 28 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (0.61%) Grafana
6 10 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.31%) Kibana
7 9 (0.31%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.20%) QRadar
9 5 (0.17%) Control-M
9 5 (0.17%) Kubeflow
9 5 (0.17%) logstash
9 5 (0.17%) Nagios
9 5 (0.17%) SCCM
10 4 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.14%) Backup Exec
10 4 (0.14%) CASB
10 4 (0.14%) Graylog
10 4 (0.14%) SolarWinds Orion
10 4 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 786 (26.74%) Microsoft
2 130 (4.42%) SAP
3 103 (3.50%) Google
4 89 (3.03%) Oracle
5 85 (2.89%) Salesforce
6 84 (2.86%) VMware
7 73 (2.48%) SolarWinds
8 71 (2.42%) Splunk
9 68 (2.31%) Workday
10 57 (1.94%) Databricks
11 54 (1.84%) Veeam
12 53 (1.80%) ServiceNow
13 49 (1.67%) Tanium
14 48 (1.63%) Brocade
14 48 (1.63%) Nimble Storage
15 46 (1.57%) Cisco
16 33 (1.12%) IBM
17 28 (0.95%) Dell
18 22 (0.75%) Adobe
19 21 (0.71%) Red Hat