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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 8 12
Rank change year-on-year -18 +4 +15
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,693 4,040 5,248
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.78% 11.63% 8.78%
As % of the General category 10.81% 17.45% 16.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2,337 1,546 2,394
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £32,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year - -1.04% -4.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £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 34,166 23,153 32,234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.21% 66.64% 53.95%
Number of salaries quoted 21,077 11,333 18,151
10th Percentile £28,750 £25,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,640 £62,500 £63,750
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 14 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 14 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 -19 1,051 £47,500 +5.56% 574
South East -9 887 £50,000 -4.76% 723
Midlands -9 644 £47,500 +5.56% 378
North West -16 635 £47,250 +5.00% 324
South West -11 511 £47,500 +5.56% 316
West Midlands -17 333 £50,000 +11.11% 231
East Midlands -2 309 £45,000 - 148
Yorkshire -8 293 £47,000 +16.05% 190
East of England -18 256 £47,500 +5.56% 209
Wales -11 135 £52,105 +1.28% 56
Scotland -24 134 £44,000 +3.53% 119
North East -20 123 £55,000 +35.80% 65
Northern Ireland -25 83 £42,500 -22.73% 46
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 (4.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 120 (3.25%) SharePoint
3 46 (1.25%) Confluence
4 30 (0.81%) Apache
4 30 (0.81%) Apache Spark
5 27 (0.73%) IIS
6 26 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
7 24 (0.65%) CMS
8 10 (0.27%) SAS
8 10 (0.27%) WordPress
9 9 (0.24%) Jupyter
9 9 (0.24%) WebLogic
9 9 (0.24%) WebSphere
10 8 (0.22%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.081%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.081%) JBoss
13 2 (0.054%) Oracle Application Server
13 2 (0.054%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.027%) Umbraco
Applications
1 441 (11.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 193 (5.23%) Microsoft Office
3 75 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 58 (1.57%) MS Visio
5 24 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
6 20 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.14%) EPLAN
7 5 (0.14%) Simulink
8 4 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.11%) AutoCAD
8 4 (0.11%) CATIA
8 4 (0.11%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.081%) LaTeX
9 3 (0.081%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.081%) SOLIDWORKS
9 3 (0.081%) Trello
10 2 (0.054%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.054%) Lectora
10 2 (0.054%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.027%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 62 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 39 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
3 34 (0.92%) Dynamics GP
4 27 (0.73%) NetSuite
5 19 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
5 19 (0.51%) SAP PM
6 14 (0.38%) SAP ERP
7 10 (0.27%) Magento
8 9 (0.24%) SAP Business One
9 8 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
9 8 (0.22%) Shopify
10 7 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
11 6 (0.16%) Workday HCM
12 5 (0.14%) JDE EnterpriseOne
12 5 (0.14%) SAP GTS
12 5 (0.14%) SAP PP
13 4 (0.11%) Academy Housing
13 4 (0.11%) Infor M3
13 4 (0.11%) JDE OneWorld
13 4 (0.11%) JDE World
Cloud Services
1 626 (16.95%) Azure
2 438 (11.86%) Power Platform
3 325 (8.80%) AWS
4 309 (8.37%) Microsoft 365
5 172 (4.66%) SaaS
6 142 (3.85%) GCP
7 96 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
8 89 (2.41%) Entra ID
9 84 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
10 71 (1.92%) Google Analytics
11 58 (1.57%) GitHub
11 58 (1.57%) Power Automate
12 54 (1.46%) PowerApps
13 52 (1.41%) Google Ads
14 48 (1.30%) Amazon S3
15 40 (1.08%) Microsoft Purview
16 39 (1.06%) Serverless
17 38 (1.03%) Snowflake
18 34 (0.92%) Azure Data Factory
19 33 (0.89%) Meta Ads
Communications & Networking
1 156 (4.22%) DNS
2 123 (3.33%) DHCP
3 102 (2.76%) Firewall
4 89 (2.41%) VPN
5 72 (1.95%) TCP/IP
6 63 (1.71%) WAN
7 57 (1.54%) LAN
8 46 (1.25%) Wireless
9 35 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
10 34 (0.92%) Network Security
11 32 (0.87%) Broadband
12 27 (0.73%) HTTP
13 23 (0.62%) SAN
13 23 (0.62%) VoIP
14 20 (0.54%) SD-WAN
15 18 (0.49%) BGP
16 17 (0.46%) Internet
16 17 (0.46%) VLAN
17 16 (0.43%) SMS
18 15 (0.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 386 (10.45%) Power BI
2 166 (4.49%) Tableau
3 124 (3.36%) SQL Server
4 115 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
5 102 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
6 66 (1.79%) Relational Database
7 62 (1.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 56 (1.52%) MySQL
9 50 (1.35%) Power Query
10 46 (1.25%) Looker
11 45 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 43 (1.16%) Metadata
13 42 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
14 39 (1.06%) Data Lake
15 34 (0.92%) Data Mining
16 32 (0.87%) Big Data
16 32 (0.87%) BigQuery
17 29 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
18 22 (0.60%) NoSQL
19 20 (0.54%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 149 (4.03%) JIRA
2 135 (3.66%) Git
3 39 (1.06%) GitLab
4 32 (0.87%) Jenkins
5 31 (0.84%) Rational DOORS
6 15 (0.41%) Cucumber
6 15 (0.41%) Selenium
7 14 (0.38%) Cypress.io
7 14 (0.38%) Eclipse
7 14 (0.38%) Postman
8 13 (0.35%) Burp Suite
9 12 (0.32%) MLflow
10 11 (0.30%) Metasploit
10 11 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
11 9 (0.24%) Claude Code
11 9 (0.24%) JMeter
11 9 (0.24%) LabVIEW
11 9 (0.24%) SonarQube
12 8 (0.22%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.19%) Moq
General
1 1,820 (49.28%) Social Skills
2 1,032 (27.94%) Finance
3 351 (9.50%) Marketing
4 268 (7.26%) Organisational Skills
5 256 (6.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 236 (6.39%) Manufacturing
7 230 (6.23%) Retail
8 216 (5.85%) Legal
9 207 (5.61%) Public Sector
10 183 (4.96%) Influencing Skills
11 179 (4.85%) Law
12 148 (4.01%) Aerospace
13 110 (2.98%) Telecoms
14 99 (2.68%) Electronics
15 78 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
16 69 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
17 65 (1.76%) Military
18 59 (1.60%) Banking
19 52 (1.41%) Advertising
20 38 (1.03%) Games
Job Titles
1 879 (23.80%) Analyst
2 398 (10.78%) Senior
3 249 (6.74%) Lead
4 210 (5.69%) Data Analyst
5 196 (5.31%) Developer
6 179 (4.85%) Systems Engineer
7 174 (4.71%) Business Analyst
8 128 (3.47%) Architect
9 120 (3.25%) Support Analyst
10 117 (3.17%) Support Engineer
11 101 (2.73%) IT Support
12 100 (2.71%) Data Engineer
13 99 (2.68%) Senior Analyst
14 98 (2.65%) Consultant
15 83 (2.25%) IT Engineer
16 80 (2.17%) Systems Analyst
17 75 (2.03%) Accountant
18 68 (1.84%) IT Manager
19 66 (1.79%) Applications Support
19 66 (1.79%) Head of QA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (2.55%) .NET
2 79 (2.14%) HTML
3 77 (2.09%) REST
4 72 (1.95%) CSS
5 63 (1.71%) Middleware
6 52 (1.41%) XML
7 51 (1.38%) JSON
8 43 (1.16%) React
8 43 (1.16%) SOAP
9 41 (1.11%) RESTful
10 31 (0.84%) EDI
10 31 (0.84%) Kafka
11 29 (0.79%) LDAP
11 29 (0.79%) OAuth
12 28 (0.76%) PyTorch
13 27 (0.73%) Node.js
14 26 (0.70%) PySpark
15 24 (0.65%) AngularJS
15 24 (0.65%) ASP.NET
15 24 (0.65%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 397 (10.75%) Analytical Mindset
2 212 (5.74%) Management Information System
3 183 (4.96%) Self-Motivation
4 166 (4.49%) Onboarding
5 147 (3.98%) Product Ownership
6 128 (3.47%) Legacy Systems
7 127 (3.44%) Driving Licence
8 83 (2.25%) Social Media
9 72 (1.95%) Cloud Native
10 67 (1.81%) Data Centre
11 62 (1.68%) Virtual Team
12 59 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
13 58 (1.57%) Cyber Threat
14 56 (1.52%) Marketing Technology
15 49 (1.33%) Security Posture
16 43 (1.16%) Blog
17 33 (0.89%) AI Agents
17 33 (0.89%) Data Structures
18 30 (0.81%) Cyber Defence
18 30 (0.81%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 332 (8.99%) Windows
2 210 (5.69%) Linux
3 185 (5.01%) Windows Server
4 95 (2.57%) Windows Server 2016
5 26 (0.70%) Mac OS
6 23 (0.62%) Windows 10
7 22 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
8 20 (0.54%) Unix
9 19 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 15 (0.41%) Android
11 13 (0.35%) Apple iOS
12 12 (0.32%) CentOS
13 10 (0.27%) Ubuntu
14 7 (0.19%) Debian
15 6 (0.16%) VMS
16 5 (0.14%) OpenVMS
17 4 (0.11%) CoreOS
18 2 (0.054%) Solaris
19 1 (0.027%) AIX
19 1 (0.027%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,807 (48.93%) Problem-Solving
2 1,149 (31.11%) Continuous Improvement
3 869 (23.53%) Decision-Making
4 718 (19.44%) Analytics
5 585 (15.84%) Stakeholder Management
6 561 (15.19%) Agile
7 532 (14.41%) AI
8 463 (12.54%) Business Intelligence
9 402 (10.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 382 (10.34%) Actionable Insight
11 352 (9.53%) Validation
12 336 (9.10%) ERP
13 335 (9.07%) Customer Experience
14 323 (8.75%) Data Analysis
15 318 (8.61%) Customer Service
16 315 (8.53%) Project Management
17 314 (8.50%) Mentoring
18 305 (8.26%) CRM
19 295 (7.99%) Service Delivery
20 291 (7.88%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 712 (19.28%) SQL
2 483 (13.08%) Python
3 141 (3.82%) JavaScript
4 113 (3.06%) Java
5 109 (2.95%) C#
6 101 (2.73%) PowerShell
7 63 (1.71%) Bash
8 62 (1.68%) C++
9 58 (1.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 39 (1.06%) T-SQL
11 37 (1.00%) TypeScript
12 32 (0.87%) MATLAB
13 30 (0.81%) R
14 26 (0.70%) C
15 22 (0.60%) PHP
16 16 (0.43%) Go
16 16 (0.43%) Scala
17 14 (0.38%) Perl
17 14 (0.38%) PL/SQL
18 13 (0.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 644 (17.44%) Degree
2 448 (12.13%) Security Cleared
3 313 (8.48%) SC Cleared
4 146 (3.95%) ACCA
5 140 (3.79%) CIMA
6 128 (3.47%) DBS Check
7 115 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
8 110 (2.98%) DV Cleared
9 82 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
10 73 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
11 67 (1.81%) CISSP
11 67 (1.81%) IRCA
12 56 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
13 49 (1.33%) CISM
14 48 (1.30%) CompTIA Security+
15 39 (1.06%) HNC
16 38 (1.03%) CCNA
16 38 (1.03%) HND
17 34 (0.92%) Azure Certification
18 32 (0.87%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 346 (9.37%) Data Quality
2 286 (7.74%) QA
3 256 (6.93%) GDPR
4 147 (3.98%) Cyber Essentials
5 136 (3.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 119 (3.22%) ISO 9001
7 113 (3.06%) PCI DSS
8 95 (2.57%) SLA
9 94 (2.55%) Accessibility
10 80 (2.17%) NIST
11 39 (1.06%) GRC
12 38 (1.03%) PMO
13 28 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 27 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
15 23 (0.62%) ISO 14001
15 23 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 22 (0.60%) GMP
17 18 (0.49%) DO-254
17 18 (0.49%) Good Clinical Practice
18 17 (0.46%) TickIT
System Software
1 255 (6.90%) Active Directory
2 106 (2.87%) Docker
3 100 (2.71%) Hyper-V
4 80 (2.17%) Terminal Server
5 39 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
6 25 (0.68%) Firmware
7 12 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.24%) VMware NSX
9 7 (0.19%) Ceph
9 7 (0.19%) vSphere
10 5 (0.14%) KVM
11 4 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
11 4 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 4 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.11%) XenApp
12 3 (0.081%) DFS Replication
12 3 (0.081%) ProxySG
13 1 (0.027%) IAG
13 1 (0.027%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 75 (2.03%) Terraform
2 71 (1.92%) Kubernetes
3 46 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 42 (1.14%) Ansible
5 25 (0.68%) Grafana
6 20 (0.54%) Prometheus
7 16 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (0.38%) Kibana
8 14 (0.38%) QRadar
9 11 (0.30%) Nmap
9 11 (0.30%) Podman
10 7 (0.19%) Argo
10 7 (0.19%) Check_MK
10 7 (0.19%) Istio
10 7 (0.19%) logstash
11 6 (0.16%) Kubeflow
11 6 (0.16%) Nagios
12 5 (0.14%) Functional Safety
12 5 (0.14%) Graylog
12 5 (0.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 872 (23.61%) Microsoft
2 192 (5.20%) Google
3 132 (3.57%) VMware
4 130 (3.52%) SAP
5 124 (3.36%) Splunk
6 102 (2.76%) Oracle
7 96 (2.60%) SolarWinds
8 87 (2.36%) Veeam
9 81 (2.19%) Brocade
9 81 (2.19%) Nimble Storage
10 80 (2.17%) Tanium
11 78 (2.11%) Salesforce
12 64 (1.73%) Workday
13 62 (1.68%) Cisco
13 62 (1.68%) ServiceNow
14 60 (1.62%) Databricks
15 36 (0.97%) Red Hat
16 33 (0.89%) Dell
17 32 (0.87%) Adobe
17 32 (0.87%) IBM