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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 13 19
Rank change year-on-year -13 +6 +2
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,255 3,308 4,322
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 6.66% 10.32% 8.58%
As % of the General category 12.49% 15.72% 14.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,679 1,366 3,002
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,967 £45,522
Median % change year-on-year -11.71% +11.96% -4.17%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,433
UK median annual salary £51,058 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.17% +4.76% -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 26,069 21,040 30,097
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 53.36% 65.62% 59.73%
Number of salaries quoted 13,635 8,758 21,811
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,568 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £53,211 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.31% +9.09% -10.10%

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 20 February 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 20 February 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 +11 899 £50,000 - 844
North of England -18 829 £44,000 -16.19% 523
Midlands -12 595 £44,000 -9.28% 429
North West -19 419 £42,500 -19.05% 302
West Midlands -17 343 £52,500 +5.00% 243
South West -5 326 £45,000 -14.29% 311
Yorkshire -1 300 £45,000 -10.00% 167
East of England -17 261 £40,000 -21.52% 305
Scotland -8 257 £40,000 -33.74% 129
East Midlands +3 250 £40,000 -5.88% 183
North East -5 110 £40,000 +0.34% 60
Wales +18 71 £40,000 -18.54% 83
Northern Ireland -13 45 £52,500 -4.55% 41
Isle of Man -4 1 £62,500 +150.00% 3
Channel Islands -8 1 - - 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
1 160 (4.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 58 (1.78%) Confluence
3 45 (1.38%) SharePoint
4 24 (0.74%) CMS
5 18 (0.55%) Apache Spark
6 16 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
7 14 (0.43%) IIS
8 11 (0.34%) Apache
9 10 (0.31%) SAS
9 10 (0.31%) WordPress
10 6 (0.18%) nginx
11 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.092%) govService
13 2 (0.061%) FactoryTalk
13 2 (0.061%) WinCC
14 1 (0.031%) Apache Synapse
14 1 (0.031%) Jupyter
14 1 (0.031%) Kinematics
14 1 (0.031%) OpenStack
14 1 (0.031%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 548 (16.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 291 (8.94%) Chatbot
3 215 (6.61%) Microsoft Office
4 82 (2.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 52 (1.60%) MS Visio
6 30 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
7 25 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
8 13 (0.40%) AutoCAD
9 10 (0.31%) CATIA
10 8 (0.25%) SOLIDWORKS
11 3 (0.092%) Oracle Smart View
12 2 (0.061%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.061%) Revit
12 2 (0.061%) Simulink
12 2 (0.061%) Trello
13 1 (0.031%) OrCAD
13 1 (0.031%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.031%) Siemens NX
13 1 (0.031%) Sketch
13 1 (0.031%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 81 (2.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 50 (1.54%) SAP MDG
3 25 (0.77%) NetSuite
4 23 (0.71%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 22 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
5 22 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
6 21 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
7 17 (0.52%) SAP CO
8 16 (0.49%) Workday HCM
9 12 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
9 12 (0.37%) Shopify
10 11 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
10 11 (0.34%) Sage X3
11 8 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
11 8 (0.25%) SAP FI
11 8 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
12 7 (0.22%) SAP ERP
13 6 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
13 6 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
14 5 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 518 (15.91%) Azure
2 395 (12.14%) Power Platform
3 251 (7.71%) Microsoft 365
4 188 (5.78%) AWS
5 139 (4.27%) SaaS
6 126 (3.87%) Azure DevOps
7 70 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
8 67 (2.06%) Entra ID
9 57 (1.75%) GitHub
10 56 (1.72%) Snowflake
11 54 (1.66%) Azure Data Factory
12 43 (1.32%) GCP
13 39 (1.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 38 (1.17%) dbt
14 38 (1.17%) Microsoft Purview
15 34 (1.04%) Power Automate
16 32 (0.98%) Google Analytics
17 29 (0.89%) OCI
17 29 (0.89%) Serverless
18 27 (0.83%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 164 (5.04%) DNS
2 141 (4.33%) DHCP
3 105 (3.23%) Firewall
4 50 (1.54%) VPN
5 48 (1.47%) WAN
5 48 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
6 44 (1.35%) Wireless
7 43 (1.32%) LAN
8 36 (1.11%) Remote Desktop
8 36 (1.11%) TCP/IP
9 33 (1.01%) VLAN
10 30 (0.92%) Wireshark
11 29 (0.89%) Network Security
12 26 (0.80%) VoIP
13 22 (0.68%) SD-WAN
14 19 (0.58%) Broadband
15 17 (0.52%) BGP
16 16 (0.49%) 5G
16 16 (0.49%) EIGRP
16 16 (0.49%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 361 (11.09%) Power BI
2 260 (7.99%) Tableau
3 176 (5.41%) Data Mining
4 121 (3.72%) Amazon RDS
5 115 (3.53%) SQL Server
6 79 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
7 58 (1.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 51 (1.57%) Metadata
9 48 (1.47%) Relational Database
10 38 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
11 37 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
11 37 (1.14%) Looker
12 34 (1.04%) MySQL
13 32 (0.98%) Data Lake
14 28 (0.86%) GIS
15 27 (0.83%) Power Query
16 26 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
17 24 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 20 (0.61%) NoSQL
19 17 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 133 (4.09%) JIRA
2 58 (1.78%) Git
3 24 (0.74%) Selenium
4 16 (0.49%) GitLab
5 15 (0.46%) Oracle Forms
5 15 (0.46%) Robot Framework
6 13 (0.40%) Snyk
7 12 (0.37%) ERwin
7 12 (0.37%) Jenkins
8 11 (0.34%) ER Studio
9 8 (0.25%) LabVIEW
9 8 (0.25%) Postman
10 6 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
10 6 (0.18%) Subversion
10 6 (0.18%) TestRail
11 5 (0.15%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.12%) IDA Disassembler
12 4 (0.12%) Oracle APEX
12 4 (0.12%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.12%) WebDriver
General
1 1,652 (50.75%) Social Skills
2 956 (29.37%) Finance
3 239 (7.34%) Marketing
4 186 (5.71%) Retail
5 152 (4.67%) Organisational Skills
6 135 (4.15%) Legal
7 134 (4.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 124 (3.81%) Public Sector
9 118 (3.63%) Law
10 113 (3.47%) Manufacturing
11 111 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
12 75 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
13 62 (1.90%) Banking
14 60 (1.84%) Telecoms
15 59 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
16 49 (1.51%) Electronics
17 42 (1.29%) Aerospace
18 37 (1.14%) Advertising
18 37 (1.14%) Automotive
19 35 (1.08%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 827 (25.41%) Analyst
2 327 (10.05%) Senior
3 291 (8.94%) Trainer
4 263 (8.08%) Data Analyst
5 239 (7.34%) Lead
6 155 (4.76%) Trainee
7 150 (4.61%) Developer
8 144 (4.42%) Trainee Analyst
8 144 (4.42%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 142 (4.36%) Architect
10 127 (3.90%) IT Support
10 127 (3.90%) Support Analyst
10 127 (3.90%) Systems Engineer
11 120 (3.69%) Business Analyst
12 82 (2.52%) Business Manager
13 81 (2.49%) Senior Analyst
14 80 (2.46%) Support Engineer
15 73 (2.24%) Financial Analyst
16 69 (2.12%) Applications Support
17 66 (2.03%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (2.30%) HTML
2 72 (2.21%) CSS
3 56 (1.72%) React
4 43 (1.32%) .NET
5 38 (1.17%) JSON
6 34 (1.04%) REST
7 29 (0.89%) Node.js
8 27 (0.83%) XML
9 25 (0.77%) Middleware
10 24 (0.74%) SOAP
11 17 (0.52%) Oracle Fusion
12 14 (0.43%) Bootstrap
12 14 (0.43%) React Native
13 13 (0.40%) Flash
13 13 (0.40%) PySpark
14 11 (0.34%) PyTorch
14 11 (0.34%) TensorFlow
15 10 (0.31%) EDI
16 9 (0.28%) OAuth
16 9 (0.28%) SAP CO-PA
Miscellaneous
1 332 (10.20%) Analytical Mindset
2 222 (6.82%) Self-Motivation
3 188 (5.78%) Onboarding
4 159 (4.88%) Management Information System
5 141 (4.33%) Legacy Systems
6 109 (3.35%) Product Ownership
7 80 (2.46%) Data Centre
8 55 (1.69%) Driving Licence
9 54 (1.66%) FMCG
10 52 (1.60%) Robotics
11 44 (1.35%) Cloud Native
12 40 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
13 37 (1.14%) Data Structures
14 35 (1.08%) Algorithms
14 35 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
14 35 (1.08%) Social Media
15 33 (1.01%) Low-Code
16 29 (0.89%) Virtual Team
17 27 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 23 (0.71%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 289 (8.88%) Windows
2 187 (5.75%) Linux
3 167 (5.13%) Windows Server
4 116 (3.56%) Windows Server 2016
5 18 (0.55%) Unix
6 14 (0.43%) Android
7 13 (0.40%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.22%) Apple iOS
9 6 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.12%) VMS
10 4 (0.12%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.092%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.092%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.061%) CentOS
12 2 (0.061%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.031%) OpenBSD
13 1 (0.031%) OpenWrt
13 1 (0.031%) Robot Operating System
13 1 (0.031%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.031%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,421 (43.66%) Problem-Solving
2 784 (24.09%) Continuous Improvement
3 710 (21.81%) AI
4 677 (20.80%) Analytics
5 601 (18.46%) Decision-Making
6 560 (17.20%) Project Management
7 477 (14.65%) Agile
8 451 (13.86%) Business Intelligence
9 376 (11.55%) Stakeholder Management
10 375 (11.52%) Data Analysis
11 354 (10.88%) Customer Service
12 303 (9.31%) ERP
13 294 (9.03%) Chemistry
14 291 (8.94%) Conversational UI
14 291 (8.94%) Customer Experience
15 262 (8.05%) Process Improvement
16 247 (7.59%) Analytical Thinking
17 246 (7.56%) Migration
18 243 (7.47%) Mentoring
19 240 (7.37%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 706 (21.69%) SQL
2 473 (14.53%) Python
3 85 (2.61%) C#
3 85 (2.61%) JavaScript
4 75 (2.30%) PowerShell
5 66 (2.03%) Java
6 62 (1.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 41 (1.26%) T-SQL
8 36 (1.11%) VBA
9 35 (1.08%) R
10 31 (0.95%) C++
11 23 (0.71%) Bash
12 18 (0.55%) MATLAB
13 17 (0.52%) C
14 12 (0.37%) PL/SQL
15 11 (0.34%) Scala
16 8 (0.25%) Go
16 8 (0.25%) TypeScript
17 7 (0.22%) PHP
17 7 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 933 (28.66%) Degree
2 349 (10.72%) Master's Degree
3 309 (9.49%) Security Cleared
4 294 (9.03%) PhD
5 246 (7.56%) SC Cleared
6 130 (3.99%) ACCA
7 120 (3.69%) CIMA
8 67 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
9 65 (2.00%) DBS Check
10 60 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
11 56 (1.72%) PMI Certification
12 47 (1.44%) PMP
13 45 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
14 43 (1.32%) DV Cleared
15 38 (1.17%) CISSP
16 32 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
17 31 (0.95%) CISM
18 26 (0.80%) AAT
18 26 (0.80%) Network+ Certification
19 24 (0.74%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (5.47%) Data Quality
2 158 (4.85%) Cyber Essentials
3 142 (4.36%) QA
4 134 (4.12%) PCI DSS
5 131 (4.02%) GDPR
6 115 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 76 (2.33%) NIST
8 58 (1.78%) PMO
9 45 (1.38%) Accessibility
10 36 (1.11%) Actionable Recommendations
11 22 (0.68%) SLA
12 19 (0.58%) GRC
12 19 (0.58%) ISO 9001
13 15 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 12 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 12 (0.37%) SOC 2
15 10 (0.31%) NCSC
16 8 (0.25%) GMP
16 8 (0.25%) IEC 61131
16 8 (0.25%) IFRS
System Software
1 229 (7.04%) Active Directory
2 131 (4.02%) Hyper-V
3 112 (3.44%) Terminal Server
4 23 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 22 (0.68%) Docker
6 11 (0.34%) vSphere
7 9 (0.28%) Firmware
8 6 (0.18%) ProxySG
8 6 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.092%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.092%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.092%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.092%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.031%) KVM
11 1 (0.031%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 65 (2.00%) Terraform
2 36 (1.11%) Ansible
3 26 (0.80%) Kubernetes
4 23 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.28%) Grafana
7 5 (0.15%) Control-M
7 5 (0.15%) Nagios
7 5 (0.15%) SCCM
8 4 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.12%) Backup Exec
8 4 (0.12%) CASB
8 4 (0.12%) Computer Incident Response Team
8 4 (0.12%) Nessus
8 4 (0.12%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.12%) QRadar
8 4 (0.12%) SolarWinds Orion
8 4 (0.12%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.061%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.061%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 833 (25.59%) Microsoft
2 291 (8.94%) PayPal
3 208 (6.39%) SAP
4 139 (4.27%) SolarWinds
5 137 (4.21%) VMware
6 129 (3.96%) Splunk
7 117 (3.59%) Oracle
7 117 (3.59%) Veeam
8 113 (3.47%) Tanium
9 112 (3.44%) Brocade
9 112 (3.44%) Nimble Storage
10 80 (2.46%) Salesforce
11 64 (1.97%) Google
12 58 (1.78%) Cisco
13 56 (1.72%) ServiceNow
14 34 (1.04%) Databricks
15 29 (0.89%) Workday
16 28 (0.86%) Ariba
17 23 (0.71%) OpenText
18 22 (0.68%) Adobe