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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 8 12
Rank change year-on-year -18 +4 +12
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,564 4,027 5,280
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.75% 11.72% 8.81%
As % of the General category 10.68% 17.52% 16.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,295 1,546 2,431
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,775 £33,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £51,126
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.58% -6.52%

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 33,356 22,983 32,227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.48% 66.88% 53.75%
Number of salaries quoted 20,537 11,287 18,686
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £49,070
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -8.29% -6.53%
75th Percentile £65,640 £63,750 £63,250
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 2 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 2 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 -16 1,024 £47,500 +5.56% 552
South East -9 867 £50,000 -4.76% 666
Midlands -10 635 £48,000 +5.75% 364
North West -17 618 £46,750 -0.53% 305
South West -13 488 £47,500 - 283
West Midlands -17 334 £50,149 +11.44% 216
East Midlands -2 299 £45,000 -2.17% 148
Yorkshire -13 285 £47,500 +5.91% 177
East of England -23 254 £45,000 - 200
North East -21 121 £53,750 +34.38% 75
Wales -14 117 £53,171 -3.33% 48
Scotland -29 114 £42,068 -4.93% 105
Northern Ireland -34 75 £42,500 -22.73% 59
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
1 173 (4.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 114 (3.20%) SharePoint
3 43 (1.21%) Confluence
4 28 (0.79%) Apache
4 28 (0.79%) Apache Spark
5 27 (0.76%) CMS
6 26 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
7 24 (0.67%) IIS
8 9 (0.25%) SAS
8 9 (0.25%) WebLogic
8 9 (0.25%) WebSphere
9 8 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.22%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.22%) OpenStack
9 8 (0.22%) WordPress
10 3 (0.084%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.084%) JBoss
11 2 (0.056%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.028%) Moodle
12 1 (0.028%) Umbraco
Applications
1 439 (12.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 174 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
3 70 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 56 (1.57%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
5 19 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.20%) CATIA
7 4 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 4 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.084%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.084%) EPLAN
8 3 (0.084%) LaTeX
8 3 (0.084%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.084%) Simulink
8 3 (0.084%) Trello
9 2 (0.056%) Lectora
9 2 (0.056%) Siemens NX
9 2 (0.056%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.028%) Mathcad
10 1 (0.028%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 54 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 41 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 35 (0.98%) Dynamics GP
4 26 (0.73%) NetSuite
5 19 (0.53%) SAP PM
6 15 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
7 14 (0.39%) SAP ERP
8 10 (0.28%) Magento
9 7 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
10 6 (0.17%) SAP Business One
10 6 (0.17%) SAP CO
11 5 (0.14%) JDE EnterpriseOne
11 5 (0.14%) SAP FI
11 5 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
11 5 (0.14%) SAP GTS
11 5 (0.14%) SAP PP
12 4 (0.11%) Academy Housing
12 4 (0.11%) Infor M3
12 4 (0.11%) JDE OneWorld
12 4 (0.11%) JDE World
Cloud Services
1 614 (17.23%) Azure
2 445 (12.49%) Power Platform
3 316 (8.87%) AWS
4 312 (8.75%) Microsoft 365
5 156 (4.38%) SaaS
6 137 (3.84%) GCP
7 92 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
8 86 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
9 85 (2.38%) Entra ID
10 63 (1.77%) Google Analytics
11 54 (1.52%) GitHub
12 52 (1.46%) PowerApps
13 51 (1.43%) Power Automate
14 43 (1.21%) Amazon S3
15 40 (1.12%) Microsoft Purview
16 36 (1.01%) Snowflake
17 35 (0.98%) dbt
18 33 (0.93%) Google Ads
19 32 (0.90%) Serverless
20 31 (0.87%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 158 (4.43%) DNS
2 127 (3.56%) DHCP
3 105 (2.95%) Firewall
4 88 (2.47%) VPN
5 69 (1.94%) TCP/IP
6 65 (1.82%) WAN
7 58 (1.63%) LAN
8 47 (1.32%) Wireless
9 39 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
10 33 (0.93%) Broadband
11 32 (0.90%) Network Security
12 27 (0.76%) HTTP
13 22 (0.62%) VoIP
14 21 (0.59%) SAN
15 20 (0.56%) BGP
15 20 (0.56%) SD-WAN
16 17 (0.48%) VLAN
17 16 (0.45%) Cisco ASA
17 16 (0.45%) Internet
18 15 (0.42%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 393 (11.03%) Power BI
2 185 (5.19%) Tableau
3 116 (3.25%) SQL Server
4 109 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
5 107 (3.00%) Amazon RDS
6 63 (1.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 55 (1.54%) MySQL
8 53 (1.49%) Power Query
9 52 (1.46%) Relational Database
10 49 (1.37%) Data Mining
11 45 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 44 (1.23%) Looker
13 41 (1.15%) Metadata
13 41 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
14 34 (0.95%) Data Lake
15 30 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
16 29 (0.81%) Big Data
17 28 (0.79%) BigQuery
18 20 (0.56%) NoSQL
19 19 (0.53%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 135 (3.79%) JIRA
2 122 (3.42%) Git
3 41 (1.15%) GitLab
4 34 (0.95%) Rational DOORS
5 32 (0.90%) Jenkins
6 15 (0.42%) Cucumber
6 15 (0.42%) Selenium
7 13 (0.36%) Cypress.io
7 13 (0.36%) Eclipse
7 13 (0.36%) Postman
8 11 (0.31%) Burp Suite
8 11 (0.31%) MLflow
9 9 (0.25%) JMeter
9 9 (0.25%) Metasploit
9 9 (0.25%) Oracle Forms
9 9 (0.25%) SonarQube
10 8 (0.22%) Bitbucket
10 8 (0.22%) LabVIEW
11 7 (0.20%) Moq
11 7 (0.20%) Subversion
General
1 1,743 (48.91%) Social Skills
2 1,017 (28.54%) Finance
3 319 (8.95%) Marketing
4 254 (7.13%) Organisational Skills
5 228 (6.40%) Retail
6 226 (6.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 208 (5.84%) Manufacturing
8 206 (5.78%) Legal
9 200 (5.61%) Public Sector
10 172 (4.83%) Law
11 164 (4.60%) Influencing Skills
12 118 (3.31%) Aerospace
13 112 (3.14%) Telecoms
14 86 (2.41%) Electronics
15 70 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
16 66 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
17 60 (1.68%) Military
18 56 (1.57%) Banking
19 51 (1.43%) Advertising
20 38 (1.07%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 888 (24.92%) Analyst
2 372 (10.44%) Senior
3 246 (6.90%) Lead
4 228 (6.40%) Data Analyst
5 189 (5.30%) Systems Engineer
6 187 (5.25%) Developer
7 169 (4.74%) Business Analyst
8 119 (3.34%) Architect
8 119 (3.34%) Support Analyst
9 116 (3.25%) Support Engineer
10 102 (2.86%) Consultant
11 98 (2.75%) IT Support
11 98 (2.75%) Senior Analyst
12 94 (2.64%) Data Engineer
13 81 (2.27%) Systems Analyst
14 77 (2.16%) IT Engineer
15 76 (2.13%) Accountant
16 66 (1.85%) Head of QA
17 65 (1.82%) Applications Support
17 65 (1.82%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (2.33%) .NET
2 75 (2.10%) HTML
3 72 (2.02%) REST
4 68 (1.91%) CSS
5 62 (1.74%) Middleware
6 57 (1.60%) XML
7 56 (1.57%) JSON
8 46 (1.29%) React
9 40 (1.12%) SOAP
10 38 (1.07%) RESTful
11 30 (0.84%) Kafka
12 28 (0.79%) Node.js
13 27 (0.76%) PyTorch
14 26 (0.73%) EDI
14 26 (0.73%) PySpark
15 23 (0.65%) OAuth
16 22 (0.62%) TensorFlow
17 21 (0.59%) AngularJS
17 21 (0.59%) LDAP
17 21 (0.59%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 397 (11.14%) Analytical Mindset
2 206 (5.78%) Management Information System
3 167 (4.69%) Self-Motivation
4 145 (4.07%) Onboarding
5 138 (3.87%) Product Ownership
6 130 (3.65%) Legacy Systems
7 112 (3.14%) Driving Licence
8 65 (1.82%) Cloud Native
9 62 (1.74%) Social Media
10 61 (1.71%) Virtual Team
11 58 (1.63%) Data Centre
12 56 (1.57%) Cyber Threat
13 50 (1.40%) Marketing Technology
14 47 (1.32%) Security Posture
15 44 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
16 37 (1.04%) Blog
17 35 (0.98%) Data Structures
18 32 (0.90%) Algorithms
19 30 (0.84%) AI Agents
20 28 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 327 (9.18%) Windows
2 214 (6.00%) Linux
3 189 (5.30%) Windows Server
4 104 (2.92%) Windows Server 2016
5 25 (0.70%) Mac OS
6 23 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
7 21 (0.59%) Windows 10
8 20 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 18 (0.51%) Unix
10 17 (0.48%) Android
11 13 (0.36%) Apple iOS
11 13 (0.36%) CentOS
12 11 (0.31%) Ubuntu
13 7 (0.20%) Debian
13 7 (0.20%) VMS
14 5 (0.14%) OpenVMS
15 4 (0.11%) CoreOS
16 2 (0.056%) Solaris
17 1 (0.028%) AIX
17 1 (0.028%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,713 (48.06%) Problem-Solving
2 1,075 (30.16%) Continuous Improvement
3 822 (23.06%) Decision-Making
4 711 (19.95%) Analytics
5 527 (14.79%) Agile
5 527 (14.79%) Stakeholder Management
6 476 (13.36%) AI
7 460 (12.91%) Business Intelligence
8 388 (10.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 356 (9.99%) Actionable Insight
10 337 (9.46%) Customer Experience
11 323 (9.06%) Data Analysis
12 317 (8.89%) Validation
13 316 (8.87%) ERP
14 313 (8.78%) Customer Service
14 313 (8.78%) Project Management
15 292 (8.19%) Mentoring
16 287 (8.05%) CRM
17 285 (8.00%) Cybersecurity
18 279 (7.83%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 710 (19.92%) SQL
2 507 (14.23%) Python
3 139 (3.90%) JavaScript
4 107 (3.00%) C#
4 107 (3.00%) Java
5 102 (2.86%) PowerShell
6 62 (1.74%) C++
6 62 (1.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 57 (1.60%) Bash
8 43 (1.21%) T-SQL
9 39 (1.09%) R
10 32 (0.90%) MATLAB
10 32 (0.90%) TypeScript
11 25 (0.70%) C
12 23 (0.65%) PHP
13 19 (0.53%) Go
14 15 (0.42%) VBA
15 14 (0.39%) Perl
16 13 (0.36%) PL/SQL
16 13 (0.36%) Scala
Qualifications
1 608 (17.06%) Degree
2 416 (11.67%) Security Cleared
3 296 (8.31%) SC Cleared
4 154 (4.32%) ACCA
5 148 (4.15%) CIMA
6 126 (3.54%) DBS Check
7 102 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
8 88 (2.47%) DV Cleared
9 80 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
10 72 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
11 67 (1.88%) IRCA
12 58 (1.63%) CISSP
13 53 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
14 46 (1.29%) CompTIA Security+
15 41 (1.15%) CISM
16 35 (0.98%) CCNA
17 34 (0.95%) HNC
17 34 (0.95%) Master's Degree
18 29 (0.81%) Azure Certification
18 29 (0.81%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 339 (9.51%) Data Quality
2 263 (7.38%) QA
3 249 (6.99%) GDPR
4 155 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
5 139 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 125 (3.51%) PCI DSS
7 115 (3.23%) ISO 9001
8 97 (2.72%) SLA
9 88 (2.47%) Accessibility
10 80 (2.24%) NIST
11 43 (1.21%) GRC
12 39 (1.09%) PMO
13 28 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
13 28 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 23 (0.65%) ISO 14001
15 22 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 21 (0.59%) GMP
17 18 (0.51%) Good Clinical Practice
18 17 (0.48%) SOC 2
18 17 (0.48%) TickIT
System Software
1 255 (7.15%) Active Directory
2 106 (2.97%) Hyper-V
3 95 (2.67%) Docker
4 88 (2.47%) Terminal Server
5 36 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
6 15 (0.42%) Firmware
7 13 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.25%) VMware NSX
9 7 (0.20%) Ceph
9 7 (0.20%) vSphere
10 4 (0.11%) KVM
10 4 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 4 (0.11%) ProxySG
10 4 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.11%) XenApp
11 3 (0.084%) DFS Replication
11 3 (0.084%) Embedded Firmware
12 1 (0.028%) IAG
12 1 (0.028%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 70 (1.96%) Terraform
2 69 (1.94%) Kubernetes
3 46 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 41 (1.15%) Ansible
5 27 (0.76%) Grafana
6 20 (0.56%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.39%) Kibana
7 14 (0.39%) QRadar
8 12 (0.34%) Podman
9 9 (0.25%) Nmap
9 9 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.20%) Argo
10 7 (0.20%) Check_MK
10 7 (0.20%) Istio
10 7 (0.20%) logstash
10 7 (0.20%) Nagios
11 6 (0.17%) Kubeflow
12 5 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.14%) Graylog
12 5 (0.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 837 (23.48%) Microsoft
2 168 (4.71%) Google
3 134 (3.76%) VMware
4 131 (3.68%) Splunk
5 129 (3.62%) SAP
6 107 (3.00%) SolarWinds
7 96 (2.69%) Veeam
8 89 (2.50%) Brocade
8 89 (2.50%) Nimble Storage
9 88 (2.47%) Tanium
10 82 (2.30%) Oracle
10 82 (2.30%) Salesforce
11 64 (1.80%) Workday
12 62 (1.74%) Cisco
13 57 (1.60%) Databricks
13 57 (1.60%) ServiceNow
14 38 (1.07%) Red Hat
15 35 (0.98%) IBM
16 32 (0.90%) Dell
17 30 (0.84%) Adobe