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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 8 15
Rank change year-on-year -21 +7 +5
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,017 3,598 6,277
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.47% 12.59% 8.76%
As % of the General category 9.52% 17.52% 15.48%
Number of salaries quoted 2,028 1,312 3,582
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £26,275
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 £59,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £78,625 £72,500
UK median annual salary £53,150 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.36% +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 31,691 20,534 40,559
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 46.97% 71.86% 56.58%
Number of salaries quoted 17,536 9,023 26,740
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,100 £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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -28 940 £47,500 -5.00% 358
South East -4 761 £50,000 -5.62% 504
Midlands -21 553 £48,000 +1.05% 237
North West -30 547 £46,500 -7.00% 205
West Midlands -29 320 £51,300 +8.00% 153
South West -27 301 £47,500 -5.00% 161
Yorkshire -13 299 £50,000 +11.11% 101
East of England -21 243 £45,000 -11.71% 133
East Midlands +2 231 £45,000 -5.76% 84
Scotland -33 111 £40,000 -18.79% 72
North East -24 94 £48,445 +24.86% 61
Wales -2 81 £47,105 -12.36% 35
Northern Ireland -25 39 £40,000 -27.27% 48
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 78 (2.59%) SharePoint
3 29 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (0.96%) Confluence
4 28 (0.93%) Apache Spark
4 28 (0.93%) CMS
5 21 (0.70%) IIS
6 19 (0.63%) Apache
7 9 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 9 (0.30%) WordPress
8 7 (0.23%) SAS
9 4 (0.13%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.13%) nginx
10 3 (0.099%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.099%) govService
10 3 (0.099%) JBoss
11 1 (0.033%) Moodle
11 1 (0.033%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.033%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.033%) Umbraco
Applications
1 413 (13.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 150 (4.97%) Microsoft Office
3 61 (2.02%) MS Visio
4 47 (1.56%) 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 45 (1.49%) 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%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 498 (16.51%) Azure
2 419 (13.89%) Power Platform
3 262 (8.68%) AWS
4 252 (8.35%) Microsoft 365
5 120 (3.98%) SaaS
6 92 (3.05%) GCP
7 90 (2.98%) Azure DevOps
8 76 (2.52%) Entra ID
9 73 (2.42%) Dynamics 365
10 57 (1.89%) GitHub
11 50 (1.66%) Google Analytics
11 50 (1.66%) Microsoft Purview
12 48 (1.59%) Power Automate
13 43 (1.43%) PowerApps
14 40 (1.33%) 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
1 130 (4.31%) Firewall
2 110 (3.65%) DNS
3 81 (2.68%) DHCP
4 78 (2.59%) VPN
5 63 (2.09%) WAN
6 46 (1.52%) LAN
7 43 (1.43%) TCP/IP
7 43 (1.43%) Wireless
8 37 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
9 36 (1.19%) Broadband
10 33 (1.09%) 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
1 376 (12.46%) Power BI
2 227 (7.52%) Tableau
3 106 (3.51%) Data Mining
4 100 (3.31%) SQL Server
5 78 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
6 70 (2.32%) Amazon RDS
7 61 (2.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 43 (1.43%) 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%) MySQL
13 32 (1.06%) Data Lake
13 32 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
14 28 (0.93%) Big Data
14 28 (0.93%) Relational Database
15 25 (0.83%) NoSQL
16 17 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
16 17 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 92 (3.05%) JIRA
2 67 (2.22%) Git
3 33 (1.09%) GitLab
4 31 (1.03%) 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%) Oracle APEX
11 5 (0.17%) Postman
12 4 (0.13%) IBM UrbanCode
12 4 (0.13%) Robot Framework
General
1 1,378 (45.67%) Social Skills
2 917 (30.39%) Finance
3 263 (8.72%) Marketing
4 176 (5.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 169 (5.60%) Public Sector
6 154 (5.10%) Organisational Skills
7 147 (4.87%) Retail
8 146 (4.84%) Manufacturing
9 141 (4.67%) Law
10 138 (4.57%) Legal
11 111 (3.68%) Influencing Skills
12 89 (2.95%) Telecoms
13 74 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
14 71 (2.35%) Electronics
15 67 (2.22%) Aerospace
16 65 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
17 41 (1.36%) Banking
17 41 (1.36%) Games
18 40 (1.33%) Military
19 31 (1.03%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 844 (27.97%) Analyst
2 331 (10.97%) Senior
3 237 (7.86%) Data Analyst
4 202 (6.70%) Lead
5 164 (5.44%) Business Analyst
5 164 (5.44%) Developer
6 138 (4.57%) Systems Engineer
7 119 (3.94%) Architect
8 89 (2.95%) Trainee
9 87 (2.88%) Support Analyst
9 87 (2.88%) Trainee Analyst
9 87 (2.88%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 82 (2.72%) Senior Analyst
11 81 (2.68%) Consultant
11 81 (2.68%) Support Engineer
12 79 (2.62%) IT Support
12 79 (2.62%) Systems Analyst
13 71 (2.35%) Data Engineer
14 67 (2.22%) IT Manager
14 67 (2.22%) Senior 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 59 (1.96%) 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 20 (0.66%) EDI
15 19 (0.63%) PySpark
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 (12.40%) Analytical Mindset
2 147 (4.87%) Management Information System
3 118 (3.91%) Onboarding
4 114 (3.78%) 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 40 (1.33%) Cloud Native
10 36 (1.19%) Algorithms
11 34 (1.13%) Low-Code
12 33 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
12 33 (1.09%) Data Structures
12 33 (1.09%) FMCG
13 32 (1.06%) Security Posture
14 31 (1.03%) Virtual Team
15 29 (0.96%) Social Media
16 28 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
17 26 (0.86%) Cyber Defence
17 26 (0.86%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 243 (8.05%) Windows
2 140 (4.64%) Windows Server
3 134 (4.44%) 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%) AIX
15 1 (0.033%) OpenBSD
15 1 (0.033%) Solaris
15 1 (0.033%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,396 (46.27%) Problem-Solving
2 819 (27.15%) Continuous Improvement
3 647 (21.45%) Decision-Making
4 632 (20.95%) Analytics
5 446 (14.78%) Agile
6 429 (14.22%) Business Intelligence
7 374 (12.40%) Stakeholder Management
8 330 (10.94%) AI
9 309 (10.24%) Project Management
10 299 (9.91%) Actionable Insight
11 290 (9.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 282 (9.35%) Data Analysis
13 262 (8.68%) ERP
14 252 (8.35%) Customer Service
15 251 (8.32%) Cybersecurity
16 244 (8.09%) CRM
17 240 (7.95%) Mentoring
18 236 (7.82%) Data Modelling
19 231 (7.66%) Customer Experience
20 227 (7.52%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 662 (21.94%) SQL
2 510 (16.90%) Python
3 106 (3.51%) JavaScript
4 101 (3.35%) PowerShell
5 98 (3.25%) Java
6 89 (2.95%) C#
7 62 (2.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 44 (1.46%) R
9 43 (1.43%) C++
9 43 (1.43%) T-SQL
10 39 (1.29%) Bash
11 36 (1.19%) VBA
12 32 (1.06%) MATLAB
13 18 (0.60%) PHP
14 15 (0.50%) Go
15 14 (0.46%) PL/SQL
15 14 (0.46%) TypeScript
16 13 (0.43%) Scala
17 12 (0.40%) C
18 9 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 519 (17.20%) Degree
2 256 (8.49%) Security Cleared
3 179 (5.93%) SC Cleared
4 142 (4.71%) ACCA
5 136 (4.51%) CIMA
6 132 (4.38%) DBS Check
7 72 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
8 69 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
9 66 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
9 66 (2.19%) IRCA
10 56 (1.86%) PMI Certification
11 49 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
12 48 (1.59%) PMP
13 47 (1.56%) DV Cleared
14 46 (1.52%) CISSP
15 39 (1.29%) CompTIA Security+
16 34 (1.13%) CCNA
16 34 (1.13%) CISM
17 27 (0.89%) CCNP
17 27 (0.89%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 304 (10.08%) Data Quality
2 237 (7.86%) GDPR
3 176 (5.83%) QA
4 150 (4.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 117 (3.88%) Cyber Essentials
6 110 (3.65%) NIST
7 99 (3.28%) ISO 9001
8 96 (3.18%) PCI DSS
9 72 (2.39%) SLA
10 50 (1.66%) Accessibility
11 44 (1.46%) GRC
12 42 (1.39%) PMO
13 36 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
14 19 (0.63%) SOC 2
15 17 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 17 (0.56%) GMP
15 17 (0.56%) TickIT
16 15 (0.50%) ISO 14001
16 15 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 13 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 182 (6.03%) Active Directory
2 67 (2.22%) Hyper-V
3 56 (1.86%) Terminal Server
4 49 (1.62%) 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 64 (2.12%) Terraform
2 43 (1.43%) 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%) Backup Exec
10 4 (0.13%) CASB
10 4 (0.13%) Control-M
10 4 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (0.13%) SCCM
10 4 (0.13%) SolarWinds Orion
10 4 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 739 (24.49%) Microsoft
2 131 (4.34%) SAP
3 114 (3.78%) Google
4 97 (3.22%) 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 50 (1.66%) Cisco
15 36 (1.19%) IBM
16 29 (0.96%) Dell
17 28 (0.93%) HubSpot
18 26 (0.86%) Adobe