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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 8 12
Rank change year-on-year -19 +4 +12
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,546 4,031 5,305
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.72% 11.71% 8.83%
As % of the General category 10.64% 17.51% 16.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,280 1,549 2,429
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £33,125 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.84%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £74,914
UK median annual salary £52,500 £53,500 £51,250
% change year-on-year -1.87% +4.39% -6.72%

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 33,317 23,023 32,349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.34% 66.90% 53.87%
Number of salaries quoted 20,496 11,292 18,578
10th Percentile £28,750 £25,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £49,274
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -8.67% -6.14%
75th Percentile £65,640 £63,750 £63,082
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 4 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 4 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 -18 1,017 £47,500 +5.56% 570
South East -9 866 £50,000 -4.76% 740
Midlands -10 626 £48,000 +6.67% 395
North West -17 616 £47,000 - 311
South West -15 485 £47,500 - 289
West Midlands -18 327 £50,149 +11.44% 231
East Midlands 0 297 £45,000 -0.43% 164
Yorkshire -11 282 £47,500 +6.26% 192
East of England -24 251 £45,025 +0.06% 212
North East -18 119 £55,000 +37.50% 72
Wales -13 115 £53,171 +1.28% 50
Scotland -33 114 £43,668 -0.76% 122
Northern Ireland -31 81 £42,500 -22.73% 72
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 (4.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 112 (3.16%) SharePoint
3 43 (1.21%) Confluence
4 28 (0.79%) Apache
4 28 (0.79%) Apache Spark
5 26 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
6 25 (0.71%) IIS
7 24 (0.68%) CMS
8 9 (0.25%) SAS
8 9 (0.25%) WebLogic
8 9 (0.25%) WebSphere
9 8 (0.23%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.23%) OpenStack
9 8 (0.23%) WordPress
10 7 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.085%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.085%) JBoss
12 2 (0.056%) Oracle Application Server
13 1 (0.028%) Moodle
13 1 (0.028%) Umbraco
Applications
1 430 (12.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 178 (5.02%) Microsoft Office
3 73 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 57 (1.61%) MS Visio
5 21 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
5 21 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.20%) CATIA
7 4 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 4 (0.11%) AutoCAD
7 4 (0.11%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.11%) EPLAN
8 3 (0.085%) LaTeX
8 3 (0.085%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.085%) Simulink
8 3 (0.085%) SOLIDWORKS
8 3 (0.085%) Trello
9 2 (0.056%) Lectora
9 2 (0.056%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.028%) Mathcad
10 1 (0.028%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 61 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 41 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
3 35 (0.99%) Dynamics GP
4 26 (0.73%) NetSuite
5 19 (0.54%) SAP PM
6 14 (0.39%) SAP ERP
7 13 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
8 10 (0.28%) Magento
9 8 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
10 7 (0.20%) SAP Business One
11 5 (0.14%) JDE EnterpriseOne
11 5 (0.14%) SAP CO
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
1 611 (17.23%) Azure
2 441 (12.44%) Power Platform
3 317 (8.94%) AWS
4 302 (8.52%) Microsoft 365
5 158 (4.46%) SaaS
6 137 (3.86%) GCP
7 93 (2.62%) Azure DevOps
8 84 (2.37%) Dynamics 365
9 83 (2.34%) Entra ID
10 61 (1.72%) Google Analytics
11 55 (1.55%) GitHub
12 51 (1.44%) PowerApps
13 50 (1.41%) Power Automate
14 42 (1.18%) Amazon S3
15 39 (1.10%) Microsoft Purview
16 36 (1.02%) Snowflake
17 34 (0.96%) dbt
18 33 (0.93%) Google Ads
18 33 (0.93%) Serverless
19 31 (0.87%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 152 (4.29%) DNS
2 119 (3.36%) DHCP
3 105 (2.96%) Firewall
4 89 (2.51%) VPN
5 70 (1.97%) TCP/IP
6 65 (1.83%) WAN
7 58 (1.64%) LAN
8 47 (1.33%) Wireless
9 37 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
10 33 (0.93%) Broadband
10 33 (0.93%) Network Security
11 27 (0.76%) HTTP
12 22 (0.62%) VoIP
13 21 (0.59%) SAN
13 21 (0.59%) SD-WAN
14 20 (0.56%) BGP
15 16 (0.45%) VLAN
16 15 (0.42%) Cisco ASA
16 15 (0.42%) Internet
16 15 (0.42%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 390 (11.00%) Power BI
2 178 (5.02%) Tableau
3 114 (3.21%) SQL Server
4 111 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
5 98 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
6 62 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 56 (1.58%) Relational Database
8 54 (1.52%) MySQL
9 53 (1.49%) Power Query
10 44 (1.24%) Looker
10 44 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 41 (1.16%) Data Mining
12 40 (1.13%) Metadata
12 40 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
13 35 (0.99%) Data Lake
14 29 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
14 29 (0.82%) Big Data
14 29 (0.82%) BigQuery
15 20 (0.56%) NoSQL
16 19 (0.54%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 138 (3.89%) JIRA
2 126 (3.55%) Git
3 41 (1.16%) GitLab
4 34 (0.96%) Rational DOORS
5 31 (0.87%) Jenkins
6 15 (0.42%) Cucumber
6 15 (0.42%) Selenium
7 13 (0.37%) Cypress.io
7 13 (0.37%) Eclipse
7 13 (0.37%) Postman
8 12 (0.34%) MLflow
9 11 (0.31%) Burp Suite
10 10 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
11 9 (0.25%) JMeter
11 9 (0.25%) Metasploit
11 9 (0.25%) SonarQube
12 8 (0.23%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.23%) LabVIEW
13 7 (0.20%) Moq
13 7 (0.20%) Subversion
General
1 1,729 (48.76%) Social Skills
2 1,007 (28.40%) Finance
3 316 (8.91%) Marketing
4 256 (7.22%) Organisational Skills
5 227 (6.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 226 (6.37%) Retail
7 214 (6.03%) Legal
8 212 (5.98%) Manufacturing
9 201 (5.67%) Public Sector
10 172 (4.85%) Law
11 166 (4.68%) Influencing Skills
12 124 (3.50%) Aerospace
13 110 (3.10%) Telecoms
14 87 (2.45%) Electronics
15 69 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
16 67 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
17 61 (1.72%) Military
18 56 (1.58%) Banking
19 52 (1.47%) Advertising
20 35 (0.99%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 875 (24.68%) Analyst
2 371 (10.46%) Senior
3 245 (6.91%) Lead
4 218 (6.15%) Data Analyst
5 185 (5.22%) Developer
6 181 (5.10%) Systems Engineer
7 166 (4.68%) Business Analyst
8 122 (3.44%) Architect
9 121 (3.41%) Support Analyst
10 115 (3.24%) Support Engineer
11 102 (2.88%) Consultant
12 98 (2.76%) IT Support
13 97 (2.74%) Senior Analyst
14 95 (2.68%) Data Engineer
15 80 (2.26%) Systems Analyst
16 77 (2.17%) IT Engineer
17 75 (2.12%) Accountant
18 68 (1.92%) IT Manager
19 67 (1.89%) Applications Support
20 66 (1.86%) Head of QA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (2.37%) .NET
2 73 (2.06%) HTML
2 73 (2.06%) REST
3 66 (1.86%) CSS
4 62 (1.75%) Middleware
5 55 (1.55%) JSON
5 55 (1.55%) XML
6 42 (1.18%) React
7 40 (1.13%) SOAP
8 38 (1.07%) RESTful
9 30 (0.85%) Kafka
10 28 (0.79%) PyTorch
11 27 (0.76%) PySpark
12 26 (0.73%) EDI
12 26 (0.73%) Node.js
13 24 (0.68%) OAuth
14 22 (0.62%) LDAP
14 22 (0.62%) TensorFlow
15 21 (0.59%) AngularJS
15 21 (0.59%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 393 (11.08%) Analytical Mindset
2 204 (5.75%) Management Information System
3 169 (4.77%) Self-Motivation
4 148 (4.17%) Onboarding
5 137 (3.86%) Product Ownership
6 125 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
7 114 (3.21%) Driving Licence
8 64 (1.80%) Cloud Native
8 64 (1.80%) Social Media
9 61 (1.72%) Virtual Team
10 60 (1.69%) Data Centre
11 57 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
12 55 (1.55%) Marketing Technology
13 46 (1.30%) Security Posture
14 45 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
15 43 (1.21%) Blog
16 36 (1.02%) Data Structures
17 29 (0.82%) Algorithms
17 29 (0.82%) Cyber Defence
18 28 (0.79%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 320 (9.02%) Windows
2 207 (5.84%) Linux
3 181 (5.10%) Windows Server
4 95 (2.68%) Windows Server 2016
5 25 (0.71%) Mac OS
6 23 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
7 22 (0.62%) Windows 10
8 20 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 18 (0.51%) Unix
10 16 (0.45%) Android
11 13 (0.37%) Apple iOS
11 13 (0.37%) CentOS
12 11 (0.31%) Ubuntu
13 7 (0.20%) Debian
14 6 (0.17%) VMS
15 5 (0.14%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.11%) CoreOS
17 2 (0.056%) Solaris
18 1 (0.028%) AIX
18 1 (0.028%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,703 (48.03%) Problem-Solving
2 1,083 (30.54%) Continuous Improvement
3 826 (23.29%) Decision-Making
4 707 (19.94%) Analytics
5 529 (14.92%) Stakeholder Management
6 526 (14.83%) Agile
7 478 (13.48%) AI
8 455 (12.83%) Business Intelligence
9 385 (10.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 354 (9.98%) Actionable Insight
11 324 (9.14%) Customer Experience
12 323 (9.11%) Validation
13 322 (9.08%) ERP
14 313 (8.83%) Data Analysis
15 308 (8.69%) Project Management
16 299 (8.43%) Customer Service
17 295 (8.32%) Mentoring
18 293 (8.26%) CRM
19 285 (8.04%) Service Delivery
20 283 (7.98%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 703 (19.83%) SQL
2 496 (13.99%) Python
3 137 (3.86%) JavaScript
4 107 (3.02%) C#
5 106 (2.99%) Java
6 101 (2.85%) PowerShell
7 63 (1.78%) C++
8 59 (1.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 57 (1.61%) Bash
10 43 (1.21%) T-SQL
11 36 (1.02%) R
12 33 (0.93%) TypeScript
13 32 (0.90%) MATLAB
14 25 (0.71%) C
15 23 (0.65%) PHP
16 17 (0.48%) Go
17 15 (0.42%) VBA
18 14 (0.39%) Perl
19 13 (0.37%) PL/SQL
19 13 (0.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 608 (17.15%) Degree
2 412 (11.62%) Security Cleared
3 291 (8.21%) SC Cleared
4 153 (4.31%) ACCA
5 147 (4.15%) CIMA
6 127 (3.58%) DBS Check
7 104 (2.93%) BPSS Clearance
8 92 (2.59%) DV Cleared
9 80 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
10 71 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
11 67 (1.89%) IRCA
12 59 (1.66%) CISSP
13 52 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
14 47 (1.33%) CompTIA Security+
15 41 (1.16%) CISM
16 37 (1.04%) HNC
17 34 (0.96%) CCNA
18 32 (0.90%) Master's Degree
19 31 (0.87%) HND
20 29 (0.82%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 337 (9.50%) Data Quality
2 267 (7.53%) QA
3 249 (7.02%) GDPR
4 145 (4.09%) Cyber Essentials
5 136 (3.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 118 (3.33%) ISO 9001
7 116 (3.27%) PCI DSS
8 96 (2.71%) SLA
9 88 (2.48%) Accessibility
10 79 (2.23%) NIST
11 42 (1.18%) GRC
12 39 (1.10%) PMO
13 27 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
13 27 (0.76%) 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%) TickIT
19 16 (0.45%) DO-254
System Software
1 246 (6.94%) Active Directory
2 99 (2.79%) Hyper-V
3 97 (2.74%) Docker
4 80 (2.26%) Terminal Server
5 36 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
6 16 (0.45%) Firmware
7 12 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.25%) VMware NSX
9 7 (0.20%) Ceph
10 6 (0.17%) vSphere
11 5 (0.14%) KVM
12 4 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.11%) ProxySG
12 4 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.11%) XenApp
13 3 (0.085%) DFS Replication
13 3 (0.085%) Embedded Firmware
14 1 (0.028%) IAG
14 1 (0.028%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 70 (1.97%) Terraform
2 69 (1.95%) Kubernetes
3 46 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 42 (1.18%) 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%) Functional Safety
12 5 (0.14%) Graylog
12 5 (0.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 830 (23.41%) Microsoft
2 165 (4.65%) Google
3 130 (3.67%) SAP
4 126 (3.55%) VMware
5 123 (3.47%) Splunk
6 98 (2.76%) SolarWinds
7 88 (2.48%) Veeam
8 85 (2.40%) Oracle
9 81 (2.28%) Brocade
9 81 (2.28%) Nimble Storage
10 80 (2.26%) Tanium
11 78 (2.20%) Salesforce
12 63 (1.78%) Workday
13 62 (1.75%) Cisco
14 59 (1.66%) ServiceNow
15 58 (1.64%) Databricks
16 38 (1.07%) Red Hat
17 35 (0.99%) IBM
18 31 (0.87%) Dell
19 29 (0.82%) Adobe