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 10 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 9 12
Rank change year-on-year -14 +3 +9
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,432 4,238 4,589
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 5.12% 12.26% 8.94%
As % of the General category 11.57% 18.60% 16.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,457 1,509 1,597
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £51,356 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.71% -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 38,309 22,785 27,908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.28% 65.90% 54.39%
Number of salaries quoted 23,642 11,142 12,356
10th Percentile £28,618 £26,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,031 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £43,095 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.02% -13.81% -0.99%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 1,173 £47,500 +5.56% 1,132
South East -12 1,001 £48,000 +1.59% 1,229
Midlands -8 777 £45,000 +3.45% 731
North West -15 693 £46,500 +3.33% 606
South West -8 626 £46,743 +3.87% 502
West Midlands -17 395 £47,500 +5.56% 436
East Midlands -4 380 £42,500 +10.39% 295
Yorkshire -8 324 £47,000 +17.50% 406
East of England -12 295 £47,500 +21.79% 483
Northern Ireland +11 224 £43,750 -18.60% 215
Wales -5 210 £45,000 -10.20% 155
North East -22 165 £51,962 +29.91% 127
Scotland -20 149 £50,000 +46.50% 396
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
1 159 (3.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 142 (3.20%) SharePoint
3 55 (1.24%) Confluence
4 34 (0.77%) Apache
5 30 (0.68%) IIS
6 27 (0.61%) Apache Spark
7 17 (0.38%) SAS
8 16 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
8 16 (0.36%) CMS
8 16 (0.36%) WordPress
9 14 (0.32%) Jupyter
10 9 (0.20%) WebLogic
10 9 (0.20%) WebSphere
11 8 (0.18%) OpenStack
12 7 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
13 5 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 3 (0.068%) nginx
14 3 (0.068%) Office Communications Server
15 2 (0.045%) Oracle Application Server
15 2 (0.045%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 592 (13.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 295 (6.66%) Microsoft Office
3 88 (1.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 47 (1.06%) MS Visio
4 47 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
5 25 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
6 20 (0.45%) Simulink
7 11 (0.25%) AutoCAD
8 10 (0.23%) SOLIDWORKS
9 8 (0.18%) EPLAN
10 7 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 7 (0.16%) Notion
11 6 (0.14%) Chatbot
11 6 (0.14%) Siemens NX
12 5 (0.11%) Photoshop
13 3 (0.068%) CANalyzer
13 3 (0.068%) CATIA
13 3 (0.068%) LaTeX
14 2 (0.045%) Adobe XD
14 2 (0.045%) Revit
Business Applications
1 87 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.72%) Dynamics GP
3 24 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
4 21 (0.47%) Shopify
5 16 (0.36%) NetSuite
6 11 (0.25%) Magento
7 10 (0.23%) Infor M3
7 10 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
8 9 (0.20%) SAP Business One
9 8 (0.18%) Odoo
9 8 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
10 7 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
10 7 (0.16%) SAP ERP
10 7 (0.16%) Workday HCM
11 6 (0.14%) Exchequer
11 6 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
12 5 (0.11%) Elite 3E
12 5 (0.11%) JDE EnterpriseOne
12 5 (0.11%) Sage 50
13 4 (0.090%) Academy Housing
Cloud Services
1 685 (15.46%) Azure
2 476 (10.74%) Power Platform
3 380 (8.57%) AWS
4 335 (7.56%) Microsoft 365
5 223 (5.03%) SaaS
6 174 (3.93%) Entra ID
6 174 (3.93%) GCP
7 118 (2.66%) Google Ads
8 93 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
9 87 (1.96%) Google Analytics
10 86 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
11 84 (1.90%) Meta Ads
12 60 (1.35%) GitHub
13 57 (1.29%) PowerApps
14 55 (1.24%) Serverless
15 53 (1.20%) Power Automate
16 51 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
17 48 (1.08%) Amazon S3
18 43 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
19 42 (0.95%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 172 (3.88%) DNS
2 136 (3.07%) DHCP
3 112 (2.53%) Firewall
4 98 (2.21%) VPN
5 85 (1.92%) TCP/IP
6 67 (1.51%) WAN
7 63 (1.42%) Internet
8 58 (1.31%) LAN
9 51 (1.15%) Wireless
10 46 (1.04%) Network Security
11 37 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
12 31 (0.70%) VLAN
13 28 (0.63%) Broadband
14 26 (0.59%) HTTP
15 24 (0.54%) SAN
16 23 (0.52%) VoIP
17 21 (0.47%) SD-WAN
18 20 (0.45%) BGP
18 20 (0.45%) SSL
19 18 (0.41%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 423 (9.54%) Power BI
2 120 (2.71%) SQL Server
3 116 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
4 96 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
5 88 (1.99%) Tableau
6 83 (1.87%) Relational Database
7 68 (1.53%) MySQL
8 64 (1.44%) Power Query
9 60 (1.35%) Metadata
9 60 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 52 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
11 42 (0.95%) Data Lake
12 41 (0.93%) Looker
13 37 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 35 (0.79%) BigQuery
15 32 (0.72%) Big Data
15 32 (0.72%) NoSQL
16 29 (0.65%) MongoDB
17 26 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
17 26 (0.59%) GIS
Development Applications
1 194 (4.38%) Git
2 149 (3.36%) JIRA
3 41 (0.93%) GitLab
4 36 (0.81%) Jenkins
5 22 (0.50%) LabVIEW
6 21 (0.47%) Eclipse
7 18 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
7 18 (0.41%) Rational DOORS
7 18 (0.41%) Selenium
8 17 (0.38%) Claude Code
9 16 (0.36%) Burp Suite
9 16 (0.36%) Postman
10 14 (0.32%) Cucumber
10 14 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
11 13 (0.29%) Metasploit
12 11 (0.25%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.18%) Cypress.io
13 8 (0.18%) JMeter
13 8 (0.18%) Moq
14 7 (0.16%) ERwin
General
1 2,326 (52.48%) Social Skills
2 1,235 (27.87%) Finance
3 509 (11.48%) Marketing
4 432 (9.75%) Organisational Skills
5 375 (8.46%) Manufacturing
6 330 (7.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 306 (6.90%) Legal
8 294 (6.63%) Retail
9 276 (6.23%) Public Sector
10 236 (5.32%) Influencing Skills
11 231 (5.21%) Presentation Skills
12 221 (4.99%) Law
13 198 (4.47%) Aerospace
14 164 (3.70%) Electronics
15 117 (2.64%) Telecoms
16 81 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
17 74 (1.67%) Automotive
18 71 (1.60%) Advertising
19 63 (1.42%) Banking
20 57 (1.29%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,024 (23.10%) Analyst
2 527 (11.89%) Senior
3 284 (6.41%) Lead
4 233 (5.26%) Developer
5 193 (4.35%) Support Analyst
6 185 (4.17%) Data Analyst
7 171 (3.86%) Business Analyst
7 171 (3.86%) Senior Analyst
8 147 (3.32%) Systems Engineer
9 142 (3.20%) Architect
10 121 (2.73%) Data Engineer
11 114 (2.57%) Support Engineer
12 110 (2.48%) Consultant
13 107 (2.41%) ITSM Analyst
14 102 (2.30%) IT Support
15 94 (2.12%) Administrator
16 91 (2.05%) Applications Support
17 89 (2.01%) Marketing Manager
18 83 (1.87%) IT Engineer
19 82 (1.85%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (2.46%) .NET
2 86 (1.94%) Terraform
3 76 (1.71%) HTML
4 74 (1.67%) REST
5 71 (1.60%) CSS
6 55 (1.24%) PySpark
7 54 (1.22%) RESTful
7 54 (1.22%) XML
8 46 (1.04%) JSON
8 46 (1.04%) Middleware
9 43 (0.97%) SOAP
10 38 (0.86%) React
11 37 (0.83%) Kafka
12 35 (0.79%) EDI
12 35 (0.79%) LDAP
13 34 (0.77%) Spring
14 33 (0.74%) Spring Boot
15 29 (0.65%) ASP.NET
15 29 (0.65%) ModSecurity
16 25 (0.56%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 367 (8.28%) Management Information System
2 296 (6.68%) Analytical Mindset
3 264 (5.96%) Onboarding
4 235 (5.30%) Self-Motivation
5 175 (3.95%) Driving Licence
6 166 (3.75%) Product Ownership
7 117 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
8 110 (2.48%) Social Media
9 109 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
10 83 (1.87%) Cloud Native
11 78 (1.76%) Marketing Technology
12 77 (1.74%) Data Centre
13 73 (1.65%) Cyber Threat
13 73 (1.65%) Virtual Team
14 69 (1.56%) Blog
15 52 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
16 49 (1.11%) Data Structures
17 48 (1.08%) SCADA
18 44 (0.99%) Security Posture
19 41 (0.93%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 335 (7.56%) Windows
2 240 (5.42%) Linux
3 189 (4.26%) Windows Server
4 90 (2.03%) Windows Server 2016
5 31 (0.70%) Mac OS
6 30 (0.68%) Windows 10
7 27 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
8 21 (0.47%) Unix
9 15 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 13 (0.29%) Android
11 9 (0.20%) CentOS
12 7 (0.16%) Apple iOS
12 7 (0.16%) Ubuntu
13 6 (0.14%) Debian
13 6 (0.14%) VMS
14 5 (0.11%) OpenVMS
15 4 (0.090%) CoreOS
16 2 (0.045%) Solaris
17 1 (0.023%) AIX
17 1 (0.023%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,253 (50.83%) Problem-Solving
2 1,474 (33.26%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,126 (25.41%) Decision-Making
4 870 (19.63%) Stakeholder Management
5 742 (16.74%) Analytics
6 740 (16.70%) AI
7 652 (14.71%) Agile
8 568 (12.82%) Business Intelligence
9 508 (11.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 459 (10.36%) Validation
11 456 (10.29%) Customer Service
12 429 (9.68%) CRM
13 421 (9.50%) Mentoring
14 415 (9.36%) ERP
15 384 (8.66%) Data Analysis
16 383 (8.64%) Actionable Insight
17 378 (8.53%) ITIL
18 374 (8.44%) Project Delivery
19 360 (8.12%) Process Improvement
20 356 (8.03%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 785 (17.71%) SQL
2 463 (10.45%) Python
3 156 (3.52%) JavaScript
4 133 (3.00%) Java
5 117 (2.64%) C#
6 109 (2.46%) PowerShell
7 78 (1.76%) C++
8 66 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 59 (1.33%) Bash
10 47 (1.06%) TypeScript
11 43 (0.97%) MATLAB
12 42 (0.95%) Shell Script
13 39 (0.88%) R
14 36 (0.81%) T-SQL
15 34 (0.77%) C
16 21 (0.47%) VB.NET
17 20 (0.45%) PL/SQL
18 19 (0.43%) PHP
19 17 (0.38%) Perl
19 17 (0.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 943 (21.28%) Degree
2 548 (12.36%) Security Cleared
3 381 (8.60%) SC Cleared
4 161 (3.63%) ACCA
5 154 (3.47%) CIMA
6 121 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
7 118 (2.66%) DV Cleared
8 106 (2.39%) DBS Check
9 91 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
10 81 (1.83%) HND
11 68 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
11 68 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
12 64 (1.44%) CISSP
13 61 (1.38%) HNC
14 56 (1.26%) Master's Degree
15 54 (1.22%) Azure Certification
16 49 (1.11%) CISM
17 42 (0.95%) CompTIA Security+
18 40 (0.90%) CCNA
19 29 (0.65%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 413 (9.32%) Data Quality
2 265 (5.98%) QA
3 202 (4.56%) GDPR
4 137 (3.09%) Cyber Essentials
5 133 (3.00%) Accessibility
6 121 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 100 (2.26%) PCI DSS
8 83 (1.87%) SLA
9 62 (1.40%) NIST
10 49 (1.11%) ISO 9001
11 42 (0.95%) PMO
12 33 (0.74%) GRC
13 32 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
14 28 (0.63%) DO-254
15 26 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 25 (0.56%) IFRS
17 20 (0.45%) ISO 14001
18 19 (0.43%) GMP
19 18 (0.41%) Good Clinical Practice
20 15 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 302 (6.81%) Active Directory
2 142 (3.20%) Docker
3 105 (2.37%) Hyper-V
4 72 (1.62%) Terminal Server
5 42 (0.95%) Firmware
6 35 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
7 15 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
9 10 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.16%) Ceph
11 6 (0.14%) VMware NSX
12 5 (0.11%) vSphere
13 4 (0.090%) DFS Replication
13 4 (0.090%) ISA Server
13 4 (0.090%) KVM
13 4 (0.090%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.090%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.023%) IAG
14 1 (0.023%) NFS
14 1 (0.023%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 71 (1.60%) Kubernetes
2 54 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 42 (0.95%) Ansible
4 33 (0.74%) Grafana
5 28 (0.63%) Prometheus
5 28 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (0.34%) Kibana
7 14 (0.32%) QRadar
8 13 (0.29%) Nmap
9 11 (0.25%) Podman
10 10 (0.23%) Functional Safety
10 10 (0.23%) SCCM
11 7 (0.16%) Argo
11 7 (0.16%) Check_MK
11 7 (0.16%) Istio
11 7 (0.16%) logstash
11 7 (0.16%) SCVMM
12 6 (0.14%) FortiGate
12 6 (0.14%) Graylog
12 6 (0.14%) Nagios
Vendors
1 1,194 (26.94%) Microsoft
2 306 (6.90%) Google
3 132 (2.98%) SAP
4 130 (2.93%) Splunk
5 127 (2.87%) VMware
6 120 (2.71%) Oracle
7 94 (2.12%) Salesforce
8 90 (2.03%) SolarWinds
9 79 (1.78%) Veeam
10 77 (1.74%) ServiceNow
11 73 (1.65%) Brocade
11 73 (1.65%) Nimble Storage
12 72 (1.62%) Tanium
13 68 (1.53%) Cisco
14 67 (1.51%) YouTube
15 43 (0.97%) Databricks
16 40 (0.90%) HubSpot
17 38 (0.86%) Adobe
18 33 (0.74%) TikTok
19 29 (0.65%) Dell