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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 8 12
Rank change year-on-year -17 +4 +15
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,746 4,049 5,178
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.82% 11.65% 8.72%
As % of the General category 10.90% 17.52% 16.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2,350 1,552 2,373
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £27,550
25th Percentile £36,850 £32,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £48,734
Median % change year-on-year - -2.53% -2.53%
75th Percentile £61,438 £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 34,381 23,109 31,890
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.26% 66.49% 53.70%
Number of salaries quoted 21,209 11,347 17,920
10th Percentile £28,724 £25,875 £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 £66,115 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,850 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,793 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.38% -0.38% -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 16 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 16 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 -19 1,054 £47,500 +5.56% 622
South East -9 897 £50,000 -4.76% 786
Midlands -9 648 £47,500 +5.56% 402
North West -15 639 £47,250 +5.00% 348
South West -12 521 £47,500 +5.56% 317
West Midlands -18 337 £50,000 +11.11% 243
East Midlands 0 309 £45,242 +0.54% 160
Yorkshire -11 292 £47,000 +17.50% 212
East of England -19 259 £47,500 +5.56% 230
Wales -12 142 £51,709 +0.51% 55
Scotland -23 134 £44,000 +3.53% 139
North East -21 123 £53,750 +32.72% 67
Northern Ireland -19 100 £42,500 -22.73% 89
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
1 162 (4.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 124 (3.31%) SharePoint
3 48 (1.28%) Confluence
4 30 (0.80%) Apache
4 30 (0.80%) Apache Spark
5 27 (0.72%) IIS
6 26 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
7 24 (0.64%) CMS
8 10 (0.27%) SAS
8 10 (0.27%) WordPress
9 9 (0.24%) Jupyter
9 9 (0.24%) WebLogic
9 9 (0.24%) WebSphere
10 8 (0.21%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.080%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.080%) JBoss
13 2 (0.053%) Oracle Application Server
13 2 (0.053%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.027%) Umbraco
Applications
1 444 (11.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 198 (5.29%) Microsoft Office
3 75 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 58 (1.55%) MS Visio
5 25 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
6 19 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.16%) Simulink
8 5 (0.13%) EPLAN
9 4 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.11%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.11%) CATIA
9 4 (0.11%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.080%) LaTeX
10 3 (0.080%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.080%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.080%) Trello
11 2 (0.053%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.053%) Lectora
11 2 (0.053%) Siemens NX
12 1 (0.027%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 77 (2.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 39 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
3 34 (0.91%) Dynamics GP
4 27 (0.72%) NetSuite
5 19 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
5 19 (0.51%) SAP PM
6 14 (0.37%) SAP ERP
7 10 (0.27%) Magento
8 9 (0.24%) SAP Business One
8 9 (0.24%) Shopify
9 8 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
10 7 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
11 6 (0.16%) Workday HCM
12 5 (0.13%) JDE EnterpriseOne
12 5 (0.13%) SAP GTS
12 5 (0.13%) SAP PP
13 4 (0.11%) Academy Housing
13 4 (0.11%) JDE OneWorld
13 4 (0.11%) JDE World
13 4 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 632 (16.87%) Azure
2 441 (11.77%) Power Platform
3 327 (8.73%) AWS
4 312 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
5 178 (4.75%) SaaS
6 144 (3.84%) GCP
7 96 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
8 90 (2.40%) Entra ID
9 87 (2.32%) Dynamics 365
10 73 (1.95%) Google Analytics
11 60 (1.60%) GitHub
11 60 (1.60%) Power Automate
12 59 (1.58%) Google Ads
13 56 (1.49%) PowerApps
14 49 (1.31%) Amazon S3
15 40 (1.07%) Microsoft Purview
15 40 (1.07%) Serverless
16 39 (1.04%) Meta Ads
16 39 (1.04%) Snowflake
17 34 (0.91%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 158 (4.22%) DNS
2 125 (3.34%) DHCP
3 105 (2.80%) Firewall
4 90 (2.40%) VPN
5 74 (1.98%) TCP/IP
6 64 (1.71%) WAN
7 59 (1.58%) LAN
8 45 (1.20%) Wireless
9 36 (0.96%) Network Security
9 36 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
10 32 (0.85%) Broadband
11 28 (0.75%) HTTP
12 24 (0.64%) VoIP
13 23 (0.61%) SAN
14 19 (0.51%) SD-WAN
15 18 (0.48%) Internet
15 18 (0.48%) VLAN
16 17 (0.45%) BGP
17 16 (0.43%) SMS
18 15 (0.40%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 388 (10.36%) Power BI
2 165 (4.40%) Tableau
3 124 (3.31%) SQL Server
4 116 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
5 103 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
6 67 (1.79%) Relational Database
7 62 (1.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 57 (1.52%) MySQL
9 48 (1.28%) Power Query
10 46 (1.23%) Looker
11 45 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 43 (1.15%) Metadata
12 43 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
13 39 (1.04%) Data Lake
14 34 (0.91%) Data Mining
15 32 (0.85%) Big Data
15 32 (0.85%) BigQuery
16 29 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
17 23 (0.61%) NoSQL
18 21 (0.56%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 151 (4.03%) JIRA
2 137 (3.66%) Git
3 39 (1.04%) GitLab
4 32 (0.85%) Jenkins
5 31 (0.83%) Rational DOORS
6 15 (0.40%) Cucumber
6 15 (0.40%) Selenium
7 14 (0.37%) Cypress.io
7 14 (0.37%) Eclipse
7 14 (0.37%) Postman
8 13 (0.35%) Burp Suite
9 12 (0.32%) MLflow
10 11 (0.29%) Metasploit
10 11 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
11 9 (0.24%) Claude Code
11 9 (0.24%) JMeter
11 9 (0.24%) LabVIEW
11 9 (0.24%) SonarQube
12 8 (0.21%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,856 (49.55%) Social Skills
2 1,052 (28.08%) Finance
3 380 (10.14%) Marketing
4 267 (7.13%) Organisational Skills
5 260 (6.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 243 (6.49%) Manufacturing
7 233 (6.22%) Retail
8 230 (6.14%) Legal
9 208 (5.55%) Public Sector
10 185 (4.94%) Influencing Skills
10 185 (4.94%) Law
11 153 (4.08%) Aerospace
12 110 (2.94%) Telecoms
13 100 (2.67%) Electronics
14 84 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
15 69 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
16 67 (1.79%) Military
17 60 (1.60%) Banking
18 53 (1.41%) Advertising
19 38 (1.01%) Games
Job Titles
1 883 (23.57%) Analyst
2 409 (10.92%) Senior
3 250 (6.67%) Lead
4 209 (5.58%) Data Analyst
5 200 (5.34%) Developer
6 179 (4.78%) Systems Engineer
7 175 (4.67%) Business Analyst
8 131 (3.50%) Architect
9 125 (3.34%) Support Analyst
10 117 (3.12%) Support Engineer
11 104 (2.78%) Senior Analyst
12 101 (2.70%) Data Engineer
13 100 (2.67%) Consultant
13 100 (2.67%) IT Support
14 83 (2.22%) IT Engineer
15 80 (2.14%) Systems Analyst
16 75 (2.00%) Accountant
17 67 (1.79%) Applications Support
17 67 (1.79%) IT Manager
18 66 (1.76%) Head of QA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (2.48%) .NET
2 79 (2.11%) HTML
3 77 (2.06%) REST
4 72 (1.92%) CSS
5 63 (1.68%) Middleware
6 53 (1.41%) XML
7 51 (1.36%) JSON
8 43 (1.15%) React
8 43 (1.15%) SOAP
9 42 (1.12%) RESTful
10 33 (0.88%) EDI
11 32 (0.85%) Kafka
12 31 (0.83%) LDAP
13 30 (0.80%) OAuth
14 28 (0.75%) PyTorch
15 27 (0.72%) Node.js
16 26 (0.69%) ModSecurity
16 26 (0.69%) PySpark
17 24 (0.64%) AngularJS
17 24 (0.64%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 399 (10.65%) Analytical Mindset
2 219 (5.85%) Management Information System
3 188 (5.02%) Self-Motivation
4 178 (4.75%) Onboarding
5 148 (3.95%) Product Ownership
6 129 (3.44%) Legacy Systems
7 126 (3.36%) Driving Licence
8 84 (2.24%) Social Media
9 74 (1.98%) Cloud Native
10 69 (1.84%) Marketing Technology
11 68 (1.82%) Data Centre
12 63 (1.68%) Virtual Team
13 62 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
14 60 (1.60%) Cyber Threat
15 56 (1.49%) Blog
16 49 (1.31%) Security Posture
17 33 (0.88%) AI Agents
17 33 (0.88%) Data Structures
18 32 (0.85%) Cyber Defence
19 30 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 333 (8.89%) Windows
2 211 (5.63%) Linux
3 186 (4.97%) Windows Server
4 95 (2.54%) Windows Server 2016
5 26 (0.69%) Mac OS
6 23 (0.61%) Windows 10
7 22 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
8 21 (0.56%) Unix
9 19 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 15 (0.40%) Android
11 13 (0.35%) Apple iOS
12 12 (0.32%) CentOS
13 10 (0.27%) Ubuntu
14 7 (0.19%) Debian
15 6 (0.16%) VMS
16 5 (0.13%) OpenVMS
17 4 (0.11%) CoreOS
18 2 (0.053%) Solaris
19 1 (0.027%) AIX
19 1 (0.027%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,825 (48.72%) Problem-Solving
2 1,181 (31.53%) Continuous Improvement
3 891 (23.79%) Decision-Making
4 736 (19.65%) Analytics
5 605 (16.15%) Stakeholder Management
6 568 (15.16%) Agile
7 558 (14.90%) AI
8 471 (12.57%) Business Intelligence
9 411 (10.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 386 (10.30%) Actionable Insight
11 353 (9.42%) Validation
12 339 (9.05%) ERP
13 338 (9.02%) Customer Experience
14 331 (8.84%) Data Analysis
15 323 (8.62%) Customer Service
16 321 (8.57%) CRM
17 319 (8.52%) Mentoring
18 316 (8.44%) Project Management
19 309 (8.25%) Service Delivery
20 296 (7.90%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 722 (19.27%) SQL
2 485 (12.95%) Python
3 143 (3.82%) JavaScript
4 113 (3.02%) Java
5 109 (2.91%) C#
6 103 (2.75%) PowerShell
7 65 (1.74%) Bash
8 63 (1.68%) C++
9 58 (1.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 39 (1.04%) T-SQL
11 37 (0.99%) TypeScript
12 33 (0.88%) MATLAB
13 30 (0.80%) R
14 26 (0.69%) C
15 22 (0.59%) PHP
16 16 (0.43%) Go
16 16 (0.43%) Scala
17 15 (0.40%) Perl
18 14 (0.37%) PL/SQL
19 13 (0.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 652 (17.41%) Degree
2 458 (12.23%) Security Cleared
3 317 (8.46%) SC Cleared
4 144 (3.84%) ACCA
5 138 (3.68%) CIMA
6 128 (3.42%) DBS Check
7 116 (3.10%) DV Cleared
8 115 (3.07%) BPSS Clearance
9 82 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
10 74 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
11 69 (1.84%) CISSP
12 67 (1.79%) IRCA
13 56 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
14 51 (1.36%) CISM
15 50 (1.33%) CompTIA Security+
16 40 (1.07%) CCNA
17 38 (1.01%) HNC
17 38 (1.01%) HND
18 36 (0.96%) Azure Certification
19 33 (0.88%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 347 (9.26%) Data Quality
2 288 (7.69%) QA
3 257 (6.86%) GDPR
4 147 (3.92%) Cyber Essentials
5 137 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 119 (3.18%) ISO 9001
7 113 (3.02%) PCI DSS
8 96 (2.56%) SLA
9 94 (2.51%) Accessibility
10 83 (2.22%) NIST
11 41 (1.09%) GRC
12 37 (0.99%) PMO
13 28 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 26 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
15 23 (0.61%) ISO 14001
15 23 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 22 (0.59%) GMP
17 18 (0.48%) DO-254
17 18 (0.48%) Good Clinical Practice
18 17 (0.45%) IFRS
System Software
1 258 (6.89%) Active Directory
2 108 (2.88%) Docker
3 100 (2.67%) Hyper-V
4 80 (2.14%) Terminal Server
5 39 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
6 25 (0.67%) Firmware
7 12 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.24%) VMware NSX
9 7 (0.19%) Ceph
9 7 (0.19%) vSphere
10 5 (0.13%) KVM
11 4 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
11 4 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 4 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.080%) DFS Replication
12 3 (0.080%) XenApp
13 2 (0.053%) ProxySG
14 1 (0.027%) NFS
14 1 (0.027%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 78 (2.08%) Terraform
2 72 (1.92%) Kubernetes
3 46 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
4 43 (1.15%) Ansible
5 26 (0.69%) Grafana
6 21 (0.56%) Prometheus
7 17 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (0.40%) QRadar
9 14 (0.37%) Kibana
10 11 (0.29%) Nmap
10 11 (0.29%) Podman
11 7 (0.19%) Argo
11 7 (0.19%) Check_MK
11 7 (0.19%) Istio
11 7 (0.19%) logstash
12 6 (0.16%) Kubeflow
12 6 (0.16%) Nagios
13 5 (0.13%) Graylog
13 5 (0.13%) Puppet
13 5 (0.13%) SCCM
Vendors
1 892 (23.81%) Microsoft
2 201 (5.37%) Google
3 132 (3.52%) VMware
4 131 (3.50%) SAP
5 126 (3.36%) Splunk
6 102 (2.72%) Oracle
7 95 (2.54%) SolarWinds
8 87 (2.32%) Veeam
9 81 (2.16%) Brocade
9 81 (2.16%) Nimble Storage
10 80 (2.14%) Tanium
11 77 (2.06%) Salesforce
12 64 (1.71%) Workday
13 63 (1.68%) ServiceNow
14 62 (1.66%) Cisco
15 60 (1.60%) Databricks
16 36 (0.96%) Red Hat
17 33 (0.88%) Adobe
17 33 (0.88%) Dell
18 32 (0.85%) IBM