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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 13 22
Rank change year-on-year -11 +9 -1
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,174 3,532 3,655
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 7.14% 10.13% 8.19%
As % of the General category 13.10% 15.68% 13.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,565 1,447 2,581
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,000 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,967 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.71% +7.30% -5.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,250 £62,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,648 £72,433
UK median annual salary £51,058 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -7.17% +1.85% -1.82%

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 24,232 22,520 26,520
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.48% 64.60% 59.42%
Number of salaries quoted 12,497 9,071 19,310
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £48,523
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +8.20% -7.58%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,568 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -11.86%

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 January 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 January 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
South East +7 861 £50,000 - 842
North of England -14 795 £45,000 -14.29% 423
Midlands -13 581 £44,543 -9.56% 385
North West -16 414 £42,500 -19.05% 210
West Midlands -12 349 £52,500 +5.00% 196
South West -3 333 £45,000 -11.76% 298
Yorkshire +4 281 £45,000 -7.69% 162
Scotland -8 261 £40,000 -38.46% 79
East of England -21 253 £40,000 -21.52% 301
East Midlands +7 230 £37,500 -11.76% 187
North East -2 100 £42,000 +5.00% 56
Wales +15 75 £42,500 -13.45% 101
Northern Ireland -6 43 £52,500 -11.66% 37
Isle of Man -2 1 £62,500 +150.00% 1
Channel Islands -8 1 - -
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
1 135 (4.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 59 (1.86%) Confluence
3 44 (1.39%) SharePoint
4 17 (0.54%) Apache Spark
5 16 (0.50%) CMS
6 15 (0.47%) IIS
7 13 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
8 12 (0.38%) SAS
8 12 (0.38%) WordPress
9 11 (0.35%) Apache
10 6 (0.19%) nginx
11 3 (0.095%) govService
12 2 (0.063%) FactoryTalk
12 2 (0.063%) HCL Notes
12 2 (0.063%) WinCC
13 1 (0.032%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.032%) BizTalk Server
13 1 (0.032%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.032%) Kinematics
13 1 (0.032%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 517 (16.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 334 (10.52%) Chatbot
3 228 (7.18%) Microsoft Office
4 82 (2.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 50 (1.58%) MS Visio
6 30 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
7 28 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
8 16 (0.50%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.25%) SOLIDWORKS
10 5 (0.16%) CATIA
11 4 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
12 2 (0.063%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.063%) Revit
12 2 (0.063%) Trello
13 1 (0.032%) Camtasia
13 1 (0.032%) OrCAD
13 1 (0.032%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.032%) Siemens NX
13 1 (0.032%) Sketch
13 1 (0.032%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 95 (2.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 64 (2.02%) SAP MDG
3 37 (1.17%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 27 (0.85%) Oracle Payables
5 25 (0.79%) NetSuite
6 19 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
6 19 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
7 17 (0.54%) Oracle Receivables
8 16 (0.50%) Oracle Assets
8 16 (0.50%) Workday HCM
9 14 (0.44%) Shopify
10 13 (0.41%) SAP CO
11 12 (0.38%) Sage X3
12 10 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
13 8 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
13 8 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
14 6 (0.19%) JDE EnterpriseOne
14 6 (0.19%) SAP ERP
15 5 (0.16%) SAP FI
15 5 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 490 (15.44%) Azure
2 395 (12.44%) Power Platform
3 210 (6.62%) Microsoft 365
4 171 (5.39%) AWS
5 139 (4.38%) SaaS
6 118 (3.72%) Azure DevOps
7 61 (1.92%) Snowflake
8 60 (1.89%) Entra ID
9 59 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
10 53 (1.67%) GitHub
11 50 (1.58%) Azure Data Factory
12 39 (1.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 39 (1.23%) Microsoft Purview
13 35 (1.10%) dbt
13 35 (1.10%) GCP
14 31 (0.98%) Power Automate
15 29 (0.91%) OCI
16 26 (0.82%) GitHub Copilot
16 26 (0.82%) Serverless
17 23 (0.72%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 141 (4.44%) DNS
2 120 (3.78%) DHCP
3 99 (3.12%) Firewall
4 42 (1.32%) WAN
5 41 (1.29%) Wi-Fi
6 40 (1.26%) LAN
6 40 (1.26%) VPN
7 38 (1.20%) Remote Desktop
8 35 (1.10%) Wireless
9 29 (0.91%) Network Security
9 29 (0.91%) TCP/IP
10 27 (0.85%) VLAN
10 27 (0.85%) Wireshark
11 26 (0.82%) VoIP
12 19 (0.60%) SD-WAN
13 16 (0.50%) 5G
14 14 (0.44%) SAN
15 13 (0.41%) Broadband
15 13 (0.41%) OSPF
16 12 (0.38%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 366 (11.53%) Power BI
2 219 (6.90%) Tableau
3 142 (4.47%) Data Mining
4 110 (3.47%) SQL Server
5 103 (3.25%) Amazon RDS
6 77 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
7 53 (1.67%) Data Lake
8 52 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 48 (1.51%) Relational Database
10 45 (1.42%) Metadata
11 37 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
11 37 (1.17%) GIS
12 34 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
13 33 (1.04%) Looker
14 32 (1.01%) MySQL
15 29 (0.91%) SAP BW
16 25 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 22 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
17 22 (0.69%) Power Query
18 21 (0.66%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 138 (4.35%) JIRA
2 54 (1.70%) Git
3 25 (0.79%) Selenium
4 18 (0.57%) Oracle Forms
5 15 (0.47%) Robot Framework
6 13 (0.41%) ERwin
6 13 (0.41%) Snyk
7 12 (0.38%) ER Studio
8 11 (0.35%) GitLab
8 11 (0.35%) Jenkins
9 8 (0.25%) LabVIEW
10 7 (0.22%) Postman
11 6 (0.19%) TestRail
12 5 (0.16%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.16%) Subversion
12 5 (0.16%) WebDriver
13 4 (0.13%) IDA Disassembler
13 4 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
14 3 (0.095%) SonarQube
14 3 (0.095%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,593 (50.19%) Social Skills
2 901 (28.39%) Finance
3 221 (6.96%) Marketing
4 170 (5.36%) Retail
5 136 (4.28%) Organisational Skills
6 130 (4.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 127 (4.00%) Legal
8 123 (3.88%) Manufacturing
9 113 (3.56%) Public Sector
10 109 (3.43%) Law
10 109 (3.43%) Presentation Skills
11 74 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
12 54 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
13 53 (1.67%) Banking
14 52 (1.64%) Telecoms
15 48 (1.51%) Electronics
16 46 (1.45%) Aerospace
17 37 (1.17%) Aviation
18 34 (1.07%) Advertising
19 29 (0.91%) German Language
Job Titles
1 789 (24.86%) Analyst
2 334 (10.52%) Trainer
3 311 (9.80%) Senior
4 239 (7.53%) Lead
5 218 (6.87%) Data Analyst
6 155 (4.88%) Architect
7 147 (4.63%) Developer
8 126 (3.97%) Support Analyst
9 123 (3.88%) IT Support
10 117 (3.69%) Business Analyst
11 116 (3.65%) Trainee
12 112 (3.53%) Systems Engineer
13 105 (3.31%) Trainee Analyst
13 105 (3.31%) Trainee Data Analyst
14 84 (2.65%) Senior Analyst
15 83 (2.61%) Business Manager
15 83 (2.61%) Support Engineer
16 80 (2.52%) Report Analyst
17 73 (2.30%) Financial Analyst
18 72 (2.27%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (2.24%) HTML
2 65 (2.05%) CSS
3 51 (1.61%) React
4 40 (1.26%) .NET
5 38 (1.20%) REST
6 32 (1.01%) JSON
7 29 (0.91%) SOAP
8 28 (0.88%) Middleware
9 24 (0.76%) Node.js
10 19 (0.60%) XML
11 17 (0.54%) Oracle Fusion
12 14 (0.44%) EDI
12 14 (0.44%) OAuth
12 14 (0.44%) SAML
13 13 (0.41%) Bootstrap
13 13 (0.41%) Flash
13 13 (0.41%) React Native
14 12 (0.38%) PySpark
15 11 (0.35%) BAPI
15 11 (0.35%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 340 (10.71%) Analytical Mindset
2 233 (7.34%) Self-Motivation
3 202 (6.36%) Onboarding
4 170 (5.36%) Management Information System
5 122 (3.84%) Legacy Systems
6 107 (3.37%) Product Ownership
7 77 (2.43%) Data Centre
8 59 (1.86%) Driving Licence
8 59 (1.86%) FMCG
9 52 (1.64%) Robotics
10 43 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
11 40 (1.26%) Cloud Native
12 38 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
13 33 (1.04%) Data Structures
14 29 (0.91%) Virtual Team
15 27 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 27 (0.85%) Social Media
16 26 (0.82%) Low-Code
17 23 (0.72%) Mobile App
18 22 (0.69%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 265 (8.35%) Windows
2 168 (5.29%) Linux
3 146 (4.60%) Windows Server
4 98 (3.09%) Windows Server 2016
5 17 (0.54%) Unix
6 13 (0.41%) Android
6 13 (0.41%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.16%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.095%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.095%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.063%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.063%) VMS
11 1 (0.032%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.032%) OpenWrt
11 1 (0.032%) Robot Operating System
11 1 (0.032%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.032%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,392 (43.86%) Problem-Solving
2 738 (23.25%) Continuous Improvement
3 737 (23.22%) AI
4 617 (19.44%) Analytics
5 594 (18.71%) Decision-Making
6 533 (16.79%) Project Management
7 465 (14.65%) Agile
8 441 (13.89%) Business Intelligence
9 361 (11.37%) Stakeholder Management
10 337 (10.62%) Chemistry
11 334 (10.52%) Conversational UI
12 333 (10.49%) Customer Service
13 326 (10.27%) Data Analysis
14 295 (9.29%) ERP
15 254 (8.00%) Customer Experience
16 251 (7.91%) Process Improvement
17 238 (7.50%) Analytical Thinking
17 238 (7.50%) Risk Management
18 234 (7.37%) Migration
19 232 (7.31%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 660 (20.79%) SQL
2 386 (12.16%) Python
3 76 (2.39%) C#
4 72 (2.27%) JavaScript
5 68 (2.14%) PowerShell
6 65 (2.05%) Java
7 54 (1.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 35 (1.10%) VBA
9 34 (1.07%) T-SQL
10 31 (0.98%) C++
11 23 (0.72%) R
12 17 (0.54%) Bash
13 15 (0.47%) C
14 14 (0.44%) Scala
15 13 (0.41%) PL/SQL
16 12 (0.38%) MATLAB
17 7 (0.22%) ABAP
17 7 (0.22%) Go
17 7 (0.22%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1,010 (31.82%) Degree
2 388 (12.22%) Master's Degree
3 335 (10.55%) PhD
4 288 (9.07%) Security Cleared
5 234 (7.37%) SC Cleared
6 116 (3.65%) ACCA
7 106 (3.34%) CIMA
8 73 (2.30%) DBS Check
9 68 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
10 57 (1.80%) PMI Certification
11 50 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
12 49 (1.54%) PMP
13 44 (1.39%) DV Cleared
14 40 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
15 36 (1.13%) CISSP
16 31 (0.98%) CISM
17 27 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
18 25 (0.79%) Network+ Certification
19 23 (0.72%) AAT
20 21 (0.66%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (5.77%) Data Quality
2 140 (4.41%) Cyber Essentials
3 133 (4.19%) QA
4 116 (3.65%) PCI DSS
5 107 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 106 (3.34%) GDPR
7 74 (2.33%) NIST
8 58 (1.83%) PMO
9 47 (1.48%) Accessibility
10 26 (0.82%) SLA
11 25 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
12 14 (0.44%) GRC
13 13 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 11 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 11 (0.35%) SOC 2
15 8 (0.25%) IEC 61131
15 8 (0.25%) IFRS
15 8 (0.25%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.25%) NCSC
16 7 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 203 (6.40%) Active Directory
2 113 (3.56%) Hyper-V
3 96 (3.02%) Terminal Server
4 19 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 17 (0.54%) Docker
6 12 (0.38%) Firmware
7 8 (0.25%) vSphere
8 4 (0.13%) ProxySG
8 4 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.095%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.095%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.095%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.063%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 56 (1.76%) Terraform
2 33 (1.04%) Ansible
3 25 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
4 22 (0.69%) Kubernetes
5 12 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.16%) Control-M
6 5 (0.16%) Grafana
7 4 (0.13%) CASB
7 4 (0.13%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 4 (0.13%) Nessus
7 4 (0.13%) QRadar
7 4 (0.13%) SCCM
8 3 (0.095%) Nagios
9 2 (0.063%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.063%) AssetCenter
9 2 (0.063%) Backup Exec
9 2 (0.063%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.063%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.063%) SolarWinds Orion
9 2 (0.063%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 765 (24.10%) Microsoft
2 334 (10.52%) PayPal
3 251 (7.91%) SAP
4 126 (3.97%) Oracle
5 117 (3.69%) SolarWinds
5 117 (3.69%) VMware
6 112 (3.53%) Splunk
7 99 (3.12%) Veeam
8 97 (3.06%) Tanium
9 96 (3.02%) Brocade
9 96 (3.02%) Nimble Storage
10 69 (2.17%) Salesforce
11 59 (1.86%) ServiceNow
12 54 (1.70%) Cisco
13 46 (1.45%) Google
14 37 (1.17%) OpenText
15 35 (1.10%) Databricks
16 30 (0.95%) Ariba
17 28 (0.88%) Workday
18 20 (0.63%) Anaplan