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

6 months to
12 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 3,662 4,018 5,294
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.76% 11.62% 8.84%
As % of the General category 10.75% 17.37% 16.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2,337 1,544 2,432
10th Percentile £30,250 £27,825 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £32,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £48,617
Median % change year-on-year - -2.30% -2.77%
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 34,064 23,128 32,358
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.24% 66.86% 54.03%
Number of salaries quoted 21,049 11,335 18,232
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 12 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 12 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 -18 1,044 £47,500 +5.56% 922
South East -9 877 £50,000 -4.76% 992
Midlands -8 642 £48,000 +6.67% 497
North West -16 630 £47,000 +4.44% 566
South West -11 507 £47,500 +5.56% 468
West Midlands -16 336 £50,000 +11.11% 296
East Midlands -3 304 £45,000 - 201
Yorkshire -8 293 £46,800 +16.01% 270
East of England -18 258 £45,814 +1.81% 331
Wales -8 134 £51,709 +0.51% 96
Scotland -23 127 £43,668 -0.76% 300
North East -16 121 £55,000 +35.80% 96
Northern Ireland -27 81 £42,500 -22.73% 149
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
1 164 (4.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 121 (3.30%) SharePoint
3 44 (1.20%) Confluence
4 30 (0.82%) Apache
4 30 (0.82%) Apache Spark
5 27 (0.74%) IIS
6 26 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
7 25 (0.68%) CMS
8 10 (0.27%) SAS
8 10 (0.27%) WordPress
9 9 (0.25%) WebLogic
9 9 (0.25%) WebSphere
10 8 (0.22%) Jupyter
10 8 (0.22%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.082%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.082%) JBoss
13 2 (0.055%) Oracle Application Server
13 2 (0.055%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.027%) Umbraco
Applications
1 448 (12.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 191 (5.22%) Microsoft Office
3 74 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 57 (1.56%) MS Visio
5 24 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
6 21 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.16%) CATIA
8 5 (0.14%) EPLAN
8 5 (0.14%) Simulink
9 4 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.11%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.11%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.082%) LaTeX
10 3 (0.082%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.082%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.082%) Trello
11 2 (0.055%) Lectora
11 2 (0.055%) Siemens NX
12 1 (0.027%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.027%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 63 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
3 35 (0.96%) Dynamics GP
4 27 (0.74%) NetSuite
5 19 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
5 19 (0.52%) SAP PM
6 14 (0.38%) SAP ERP
7 10 (0.27%) Magento
8 9 (0.25%) 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%) Infor M3
13 4 (0.11%) JDE World
13 4 (0.11%) SAP FI
13 4 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 624 (17.04%) Azure
2 439 (11.99%) Power Platform
3 322 (8.79%) AWS
4 305 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
5 171 (4.67%) SaaS
6 144 (3.93%) GCP
7 98 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
8 89 (2.43%) Entra ID
9 82 (2.24%) Dynamics 365
10 71 (1.94%) Google Analytics
11 58 (1.58%) GitHub
12 55 (1.50%) Power Automate
13 53 (1.45%) Google Ads
13 53 (1.45%) PowerApps
14 44 (1.20%) Amazon S3
15 40 (1.09%) Microsoft Purview
16 37 (1.01%) Serverless
16 37 (1.01%) Snowflake
17 34 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
17 34 (0.93%) Meta Ads
Communications & Networking
1 156 (4.26%) DNS
2 123 (3.36%) DHCP
3 103 (2.81%) Firewall
4 89 (2.43%) VPN
5 72 (1.97%) TCP/IP
6 63 (1.72%) WAN
7 57 (1.56%) LAN
8 47 (1.28%) Wireless
9 36 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
10 34 (0.93%) Network Security
11 33 (0.90%) Broadband
12 27 (0.74%) HTTP
13 23 (0.63%) SAN
13 23 (0.63%) VoIP
14 20 (0.55%) SD-WAN
15 18 (0.49%) BGP
16 17 (0.46%) VLAN
17 16 (0.44%) Internet
17 16 (0.44%) SMS
18 15 (0.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 388 (10.60%) Power BI
2 175 (4.78%) Tableau
3 120 (3.28%) SQL Server
4 113 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
5 100 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
6 63 (1.72%) Relational Database
7 62 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 56 (1.53%) MySQL
9 49 (1.34%) Power Query
10 47 (1.28%) Looker
11 45 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 42 (1.15%) Metadata
13 41 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
14 40 (1.09%) Data Mining
15 38 (1.04%) Data Lake
16 33 (0.90%) BigQuery
17 31 (0.85%) Big Data
18 29 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
19 22 (0.60%) NoSQL
20 20 (0.55%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 143 (3.90%) JIRA
2 131 (3.58%) Git
3 39 (1.06%) GitLab
4 33 (0.90%) Rational DOORS
5 32 (0.87%) Jenkins
6 15 (0.41%) Cucumber
6 15 (0.41%) Selenium
7 14 (0.38%) Eclipse
7 14 (0.38%) Postman
8 13 (0.35%) Burp Suite
8 13 (0.35%) Cypress.io
9 12 (0.33%) MLflow
10 11 (0.30%) Metasploit
10 11 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
11 9 (0.25%) Claude Code
11 9 (0.25%) JMeter
11 9 (0.25%) LabVIEW
11 9 (0.25%) SonarQube
12 8 (0.22%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,796 (49.04%) Social Skills
2 1,034 (28.24%) Finance
3 350 (9.56%) Marketing
4 268 (7.32%) Organisational Skills
5 252 (6.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 231 (6.31%) Manufacturing
6 231 (6.31%) Retail
7 215 (5.87%) Legal
8 208 (5.68%) Public Sector
9 178 (4.86%) Influencing Skills
10 175 (4.78%) Law
11 143 (3.90%) Aerospace
12 112 (3.06%) Telecoms
13 96 (2.62%) Electronics
14 76 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
15 69 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
16 64 (1.75%) Military
17 59 (1.61%) Banking
18 53 (1.45%) Advertising
19 38 (1.04%) Games
Job Titles
1 881 (24.06%) Analyst
2 397 (10.84%) Senior
3 248 (6.77%) Lead
4 215 (5.87%) Data Analyst
5 194 (5.30%) Developer
6 180 (4.92%) Systems Engineer
7 173 (4.72%) Business Analyst
8 126 (3.44%) Architect
9 120 (3.28%) Support Analyst
10 118 (3.22%) Support Engineer
11 101 (2.76%) IT Support
12 99 (2.70%) Consultant
12 99 (2.70%) Data Engineer
12 99 (2.70%) Senior Analyst
13 82 (2.24%) IT Engineer
14 81 (2.21%) Systems Analyst
15 75 (2.05%) Accountant
16 66 (1.80%) Head of QA
16 66 (1.80%) IT Manager
16 66 (1.80%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (2.46%) .NET
2 76 (2.08%) REST
3 75 (2.05%) HTML
4 68 (1.86%) CSS
5 62 (1.69%) Middleware
6 53 (1.45%) XML
7 52 (1.42%) JSON
8 42 (1.15%) SOAP
9 41 (1.12%) React
9 41 (1.12%) RESTful
10 31 (0.85%) EDI
10 31 (0.85%) Kafka
11 28 (0.76%) PyTorch
12 27 (0.74%) LDAP
13 26 (0.71%) OAuth
14 25 (0.68%) Node.js
14 25 (0.68%) PySpark
15 23 (0.63%) ASP.NET
16 22 (0.60%) ModSecurity
16 22 (0.60%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 395 (10.79%) Analytical Mindset
2 213 (5.82%) Management Information System
3 182 (4.97%) Self-Motivation
4 169 (4.61%) Onboarding
5 145 (3.96%) Product Ownership
6 128 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
7 127 (3.47%) Driving Licence
8 79 (2.16%) Social Media
9 69 (1.88%) Cloud Native
10 66 (1.80%) Data Centre
11 62 (1.69%) Virtual Team
12 58 (1.58%) Cyber Threat
13 56 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
13 56 (1.53%) Marketing Technology
14 49 (1.34%) Security Posture
15 43 (1.17%) Blog
16 34 (0.93%) Data Structures
17 32 (0.87%) AI Agents
18 30 (0.82%) Cyber Defence
18 30 (0.82%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 329 (8.98%) Windows
2 209 (5.71%) Linux
3 185 (5.05%) Windows Server
4 95 (2.59%) Windows Server 2016
5 26 (0.71%) Mac OS
6 23 (0.63%) Windows 10
7 22 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
8 19 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 19 (0.52%) Unix
9 16 (0.44%) Android
10 13 (0.35%) Apple iOS
11 12 (0.33%) CentOS
12 10 (0.27%) Ubuntu
13 7 (0.19%) Debian
14 6 (0.16%) VMS
15 5 (0.14%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.11%) CoreOS
17 2 (0.055%) Solaris
18 1 (0.027%) FreeRTOS
18 1 (0.027%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,779 (48.58%) Problem-Solving
2 1,122 (30.64%) Continuous Improvement
3 856 (23.38%) Decision-Making
4 722 (19.72%) Analytics
5 579 (15.81%) Stakeholder Management
6 550 (15.02%) Agile
7 520 (14.20%) AI
8 466 (12.73%) Business Intelligence
9 399 (10.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 379 (10.35%) Actionable Insight
11 341 (9.31%) Validation
12 335 (9.15%) ERP
13 334 (9.12%) Customer Experience
14 330 (9.01%) Data Analysis
15 320 (8.74%) Project Management
16 312 (8.52%) Customer Service
16 312 (8.52%) Mentoring
17 306 (8.36%) CRM
18 292 (7.97%) Cybersecurity
18 292 (7.97%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 716 (19.55%) SQL
2 490 (13.38%) Python
3 139 (3.80%) JavaScript
4 112 (3.06%) Java
5 109 (2.98%) C#
6 101 (2.76%) PowerShell
7 62 (1.69%) C++
8 58 (1.58%) Bash
9 56 (1.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 38 (1.04%) T-SQL
11 35 (0.96%) TypeScript
12 34 (0.93%) MATLAB
12 34 (0.93%) R
13 25 (0.68%) C
14 22 (0.60%) PHP
15 16 (0.44%) Go
16 15 (0.41%) Scala
17 14 (0.38%) Perl
17 14 (0.38%) PL/SQL
18 13 (0.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 642 (17.53%) Degree
2 434 (11.85%) Security Cleared
3 305 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 149 (4.07%) ACCA
5 143 (3.90%) CIMA
6 128 (3.50%) DBS Check
7 115 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
8 105 (2.87%) DV Cleared
9 82 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
10 73 (1.99%) Cisco Certification
11 67 (1.83%) IRCA
12 65 (1.77%) CISSP
13 56 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
14 48 (1.31%) CompTIA Security+
15 47 (1.28%) CISM
16 38 (1.04%) CCNA
16 38 (1.04%) HNC
17 37 (1.01%) HND
18 33 (0.90%) Azure Certification
19 32 (0.87%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 340 (9.28%) Data Quality
2 279 (7.62%) QA
3 255 (6.96%) GDPR
4 147 (4.01%) Cyber Essentials
5 137 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 119 (3.25%) ISO 9001
7 113 (3.09%) PCI DSS
8 96 (2.62%) SLA
9 92 (2.51%) Accessibility
10 81 (2.21%) NIST
11 40 (1.09%) GRC
12 38 (1.04%) PMO
13 28 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 27 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
15 23 (0.63%) ISO 14001
15 23 (0.63%) 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
1 253 (6.91%) Active Directory
2 103 (2.81%) Docker
3 100 (2.73%) Hyper-V
4 80 (2.18%) Terminal Server
5 39 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
6 23 (0.63%) Firmware
7 12 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.25%) VMware NSX
9 7 (0.19%) Ceph
10 6 (0.16%) vSphere
11 5 (0.14%) KVM
12 4 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
12 4 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.11%) XenApp
13 3 (0.082%) DFS Replication
13 3 (0.082%) ProxySG
14 1 (0.027%) NFS
14 1 (0.027%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 71 (1.94%) Kubernetes
1 71 (1.94%) Terraform
2 47 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
3 41 (1.12%) Ansible
4 26 (0.71%) Grafana
5 20 (0.55%) Prometheus
6 14 (0.38%) Kibana
6 14 (0.38%) QRadar
6 14 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (0.30%) Nmap
7 11 (0.30%) Podman
8 7 (0.19%) Argo
8 7 (0.19%) Check_MK
8 7 (0.19%) Istio
8 7 (0.19%) logstash
9 6 (0.16%) Kubeflow
9 6 (0.16%) Nagios
10 5 (0.14%) Functional Safety
10 5 (0.14%) Graylog
10 5 (0.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 871 (23.78%) Microsoft
2 193 (5.27%) Google
3 132 (3.60%) SAP
4 131 (3.58%) VMware
5 124 (3.39%) Splunk
6 99 (2.70%) Oracle
7 97 (2.65%) SolarWinds
8 87 (2.38%) Veeam
9 81 (2.21%) Brocade
9 81 (2.21%) Nimble Storage
10 80 (2.18%) Tanium
11 78 (2.13%) Salesforce
12 64 (1.75%) Workday
13 62 (1.69%) Cisco
14 61 (1.67%) ServiceNow
15 60 (1.64%) Databricks
16 37 (1.01%) Red Hat
17 34 (0.93%) IBM
18 33 (0.90%) Dell
19 31 (0.85%) Adobe