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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 12 17
Rank change year-on-year -17 +5 +3
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,026 2,923 5,155
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 5.65% 10.66% 8.69%
As % of the General category 11.11% 15.63% 14.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,721 1,413 3,401
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,814 £50,967 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% +13.26% -5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%

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 27,233 18,696 35,184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 50.84% 68.15% 59.34%
Number of salaries quoted 14,279 9,165 24,775
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,398 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.12% +10.31% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,525 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £76,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +12.15% -10.83%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 -21 815 £45,000 -10.00% 403
South East +4 803 £50,000 -1.90% 623
Midlands -15 583 £47,250 -1.56% 299
North West -18 431 £42,500 -19.05% 226
West Midlands -17 356 £51,300 +2.60% 187
Yorkshire +1 274 £48,445 +4.74% 134
South West -13 273 £45,000 -14.29% 182
East of England -23 257 £42,175 -17.25% 143
East Midlands -2 226 £41,750 -4.02% 112
Scotland -19 189 £40,000 -23.81% 108
North East -7 110 £45,000 +13.97% 50
Wales +9 75 £40,000 -20.20% 52
Northern Ireland -17 50 £52,500 -4.55% 17
Isle of Man -3 1 £62,500 +101.61% 1
Channel Islands -7 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
1 127 (4.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 51 (1.69%) SharePoint
3 47 (1.55%) Confluence
4 33 (1.09%) CMS
5 24 (0.79%) Apache Spark
6 23 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
7 14 (0.46%) Apache
8 13 (0.43%) IIS
9 10 (0.33%) SAS
9 10 (0.33%) WordPress
10 4 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.13%) nginx
11 3 (0.099%) govService
12 2 (0.066%) JBoss
13 1 (0.033%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.033%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.033%) BizTalk Server
13 1 (0.033%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.033%) Kinematics
13 1 (0.033%) OpenStack
Applications
1 502 (16.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 211 (6.97%) Microsoft Office
3 185 (6.11%) Chatbot
4 77 (2.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 55 (1.82%) MS Visio
6 23 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
7 22 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
8 8 (0.26%) CATIA
9 5 (0.17%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.13%) Trello
11 2 (0.066%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.066%) Revit
11 2 (0.066%) Simulink
12 1 (0.033%) OrCAD
12 1 (0.033%) Sketch
12 1 (0.033%) SmartSuite
12 1 (0.033%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 51 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 28 (0.93%) Salesforce CRM
3 27 (0.89%) NetSuite
4 20 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
5 16 (0.53%) SAP CO
6 15 (0.50%) SAP MDG
7 11 (0.36%) Workday HCM
8 10 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
8 10 (0.33%) Sage X3
8 10 (0.33%) SAP ERP
8 10 (0.33%) SAP PM
9 7 (0.23%) SAP FI
9 7 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
10 5 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
10 5 (0.17%) Q-Pulse
10 5 (0.17%) SAP Hybris
11 4 (0.13%) Markit EDM
11 4 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
11 4 (0.13%) Shopify
12 3 (0.099%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 479 (15.83%) Azure
2 362 (11.96%) Power Platform
3 222 (7.34%) Microsoft 365
4 211 (6.97%) AWS
5 132 (4.36%) SaaS
6 122 (4.03%) Azure DevOps
7 72 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
8 66 (2.18%) Entra ID
9 61 (2.02%) GitHub
10 55 (1.82%) GCP
11 52 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
12 40 (1.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 40 (1.32%) Microsoft Purview
12 40 (1.32%) Snowflake
13 38 (1.26%) dbt
14 37 (1.22%) Power Automate
15 33 (1.09%) Amazon S3
16 31 (1.02%) Google Analytics
17 30 (0.99%) Serverless
18 26 (0.86%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 127 (4.20%) DNS
2 105 (3.47%) Firewall
3 103 (3.40%) DHCP
4 56 (1.85%) VPN
5 53 (1.75%) WAN
6 48 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
7 47 (1.55%) LAN
7 47 (1.55%) Wireless
8 39 (1.29%) TCP/IP
9 33 (1.09%) Network Security
9 33 (1.09%) VLAN
10 32 (1.06%) Wireshark
11 27 (0.89%) Remote Desktop
12 25 (0.83%) VoIP
13 24 (0.79%) SD-WAN
14 23 (0.76%) Broadband
15 20 (0.66%) BGP
16 19 (0.63%) Cisco ASA
16 19 (0.63%) SAN
17 18 (0.59%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 330 (10.91%) Power BI
2 260 (8.59%) Tableau
3 166 (5.49%) Data Mining
4 119 (3.93%) SQL Server
5 81 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
6 69 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
7 55 (1.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 49 (1.62%) Metadata
9 45 (1.49%) Relational Database
10 41 (1.35%) Looker
11 38 (1.26%) MySQL
12 35 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
12 35 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
13 29 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
13 29 (0.96%) Power Query
14 27 (0.89%) Data Lake
14 27 (0.89%) GIS
15 23 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 22 (0.73%) NoSQL
17 17 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 118 (3.90%) JIRA
2 73 (2.41%) Git
3 26 (0.86%) GitLab
3 26 (0.86%) Selenium
4 16 (0.53%) Jenkins
5 15 (0.50%) Robot Framework
6 13 (0.43%) Snyk
7 8 (0.26%) LabVIEW
8 7 (0.23%) Cypress.io
8 7 (0.23%) ERwin
8 7 (0.23%) Rational DOORS
9 6 (0.20%) ER Studio
9 6 (0.20%) MLflow
9 6 (0.20%) Postman
9 6 (0.20%) Subversion
9 6 (0.20%) TestRail
10 5 (0.17%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
11 4 (0.13%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,492 (49.31%) Social Skills
2 909 (30.04%) Finance
3 228 (7.53%) Marketing
4 154 (5.09%) Retail
5 153 (5.06%) Organisational Skills
6 136 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 133 (4.40%) Legal
8 131 (4.33%) Public Sector
9 118 (3.90%) Law
10 117 (3.87%) Manufacturing
11 109 (3.60%) Presentation Skills
12 80 (2.64%) Influencing Skills
13 68 (2.25%) Telecoms
14 65 (2.15%) Banking
15 55 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
16 44 (1.45%) Electronics
17 34 (1.12%) Games
18 33 (1.09%) Advertising
18 33 (1.09%) Automotive
19 29 (0.96%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 805 (26.60%) Analyst
2 307 (10.15%) Senior
3 250 (8.26%) Data Analyst
4 197 (6.51%) Lead
5 185 (6.11%) Trainer
6 148 (4.89%) Developer
7 146 (4.82%) Trainee
8 139 (4.59%) Trainee Analyst
8 139 (4.59%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 119 (3.93%) Business Analyst
9 119 (3.93%) Support Analyst
10 113 (3.73%) IT Support
11 103 (3.40%) Architect
12 96 (3.17%) Systems Engineer
13 83 (2.74%) Support Engineer
14 82 (2.71%) Senior Analyst
15 73 (2.41%) Financial Analyst
16 65 (2.15%) Senior Manager
17 61 (2.02%) Consultant
17 61 (2.02%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (2.64%) HTML
2 70 (2.31%) CSS
3 60 (1.98%) React
4 52 (1.72%) .NET
5 37 (1.22%) JSON
6 35 (1.16%) Node.js
7 33 (1.09%) REST
8 28 (0.93%) XML
9 21 (0.69%) Middleware
10 20 (0.66%) SOAP
11 16 (0.53%) Bootstrap
11 16 (0.53%) PySpark
11 16 (0.53%) React Native
12 15 (0.50%) PyTorch
12 15 (0.50%) TensorFlow
13 13 (0.43%) OAuth
14 12 (0.40%) Flash
14 12 (0.40%) RabbitMQ
14 12 (0.40%) SAML
15 11 (0.36%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 320 (10.58%) Analytical Mindset
2 203 (6.71%) Self-Motivation
3 158 (5.22%) Onboarding
4 142 (4.69%) Management Information System
5 103 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
5 103 (3.40%) Product Ownership
6 59 (1.95%) Data Centre
7 56 (1.85%) Driving Licence
8 46 (1.52%) Cloud Native
9 41 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
10 36 (1.19%) Algorithms
10 36 (1.19%) Data Structures
11 35 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
12 34 (1.12%) Social Media
13 31 (1.02%) Low-Code
14 29 (0.96%) Robotics
15 28 (0.93%) FMCG
15 28 (0.93%) Security Posture
15 28 (0.93%) Virtual Team
16 26 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 252 (8.33%) Windows
2 153 (5.06%) Linux
3 133 (4.40%) Windows Server
4 76 (2.51%) Windows Server 2016
5 21 (0.69%) Unix
6 17 (0.56%) Android
7 13 (0.43%) Mac OS
8 9 (0.30%) Apple iOS
9 8 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.17%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.13%) CentOS
11 4 (0.13%) VMS
11 4 (0.13%) Windows 10
12 3 (0.099%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.066%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.033%) Debian
14 1 (0.033%) FreeBSD
14 1 (0.033%) OpenBSD
14 1 (0.033%) Robot Operating System
14 1 (0.033%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,330 (43.95%) Problem-Solving
2 791 (26.14%) Continuous Improvement
3 637 (21.05%) Analytics
4 585 (19.33%) Decision-Making
5 534 (17.65%) AI
6 466 (15.40%) Agile
7 429 (14.18%) Project Management
8 412 (13.62%) Business Intelligence
9 347 (11.47%) Data Analysis
10 344 (11.37%) Stakeholder Management
11 286 (9.45%) Customer Service
12 271 (8.96%) Customer Experience
13 257 (8.49%) Actionable Insight
14 247 (8.16%) ERP
15 239 (7.90%) Analytical Thinking
16 238 (7.87%) Business Analysis
17 237 (7.83%) Mentoring
18 229 (7.57%) Process Improvement
19 224 (7.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 223 (7.37%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 647 (21.38%) SQL
2 476 (15.73%) Python
3 98 (3.24%) JavaScript
4 83 (2.74%) C#
5 82 (2.71%) PowerShell
6 74 (2.45%) Java
7 64 (2.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 40 (1.32%) T-SQL
9 39 (1.29%) R
10 38 (1.26%) VBA
11 28 (0.93%) Bash
12 24 (0.79%) C++
13 18 (0.59%) MATLAB
14 14 (0.46%) C
15 10 (0.33%) PL/SQL
15 10 (0.33%) TypeScript
16 9 (0.30%) Go
16 9 (0.30%) Scala
17 8 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
17 8 (0.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 755 (24.95%) Degree
2 246 (8.13%) Security Cleared
3 228 (7.53%) Master's Degree
4 190 (6.28%) PhD
5 176 (5.82%) SC Cleared
6 141 (4.66%) ACCA
7 131 (4.33%) CIMA
8 92 (3.04%) DBS Check
9 60 (1.98%) PMI Certification
10 55 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
10 55 (1.82%) IRCA
11 54 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
12 51 (1.69%) PMP
13 48 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
13 48 (1.59%) DV Cleared
14 47 (1.55%) CISSP
15 38 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
16 32 (1.06%) CISM
17 27 (0.89%) AAT
18 26 (0.86%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 217 (7.17%) Data Quality
2 185 (6.11%) GDPR
3 160 (5.29%) QA
4 123 (4.06%) Cyber Essentials
5 120 (3.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 96 (3.17%) PCI DSS
7 93 (3.07%) NIST
8 64 (2.12%) ISO 9001
9 59 (1.95%) PMO
10 37 (1.22%) Accessibility
10 37 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
11 32 (1.06%) SLA
12 22 (0.73%) GRC
13 19 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 17 (0.56%) GMP
15 15 (0.50%) SOC 2
16 14 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 11 (0.36%) NCSC
18 9 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 9 (0.30%) IFRS
System Software
1 189 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 86 (2.84%) Hyper-V
3 72 (2.38%) Terminal Server
4 38 (1.26%) Docker
5 26 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
6 11 (0.36%) vSphere
7 8 (0.26%) ProxySG
8 7 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.20%) Firmware
10 5 (0.17%) VMware NSX
11 4 (0.13%) XenApp
12 3 (0.099%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.099%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.099%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.066%) VMware ESXi
14 1 (0.033%) KVM
Systems Management
1 80 (2.64%) Terraform
2 43 (1.42%) Ansible
3 38 (1.26%) Kubernetes
4 22 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (0.53%) Grafana
6 10 (0.33%) Prometheus
6 10 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.20%) Nagios
8 5 (0.17%) Control-M
8 5 (0.17%) SCCM
9 4 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.13%) Backup Exec
9 4 (0.13%) CASB
9 4 (0.13%) Computer Incident Response Team
9 4 (0.13%) Nessus
9 4 (0.13%) QRadar
9 4 (0.13%) SolarWinds Orion
9 4 (0.13%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.099%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.066%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 771 (25.48%) Microsoft
2 185 (6.11%) PayPal
3 149 (4.92%) SAP
4 106 (3.50%) Oracle
5 100 (3.30%) SolarWinds
6 99 (3.27%) VMware
7 90 (2.97%) Splunk
8 77 (2.54%) Veeam
9 73 (2.41%) Tanium
10 72 (2.38%) Brocade
10 72 (2.38%) Nimble Storage
11 68 (2.25%) Google
11 68 (2.25%) Salesforce
12 58 (1.92%) ServiceNow
13 49 (1.62%) Cisco
14 46 (1.52%) Workday
15 37 (1.22%) Databricks
16 23 (0.76%) Adobe
17 22 (0.73%) Dell
18 20 (0.66%) Red Hat