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 27 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 8 15
Rank change year-on-year -20 +7 +5
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,010 3,547 6,225
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.48% 12.52% 8.76%
As % of the General category 9.54% 17.43% 15.45%
Number of salaries quoted 2,009 1,283 3,581
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £26,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,500 £72,500
UK median annual salary £54,150 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.55% +10.00% -8.90%

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 31,535 20,347 40,304
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 46.88% 71.85% 56.73%
Number of salaries quoted 17,425 8,884 26,626
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,038 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £81,250 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 27 May 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 27 May 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 -28 930 £47,750 -4.50% 422
South East -3 761 £50,000 -8.26% 510
Midlands -23 560 £48,500 +2.11% 260
North West -29 542 £46,500 -7.00% 241
West Midlands -28 325 £51,250 +7.89% 165
Yorkshire -14 298 £50,000 +11.11% 133
South West -24 296 £50,000 -0.99% 167
East of England -23 237 £45,000 -11.71% 155
East Midlands +1 233 £45,000 -6.25% 95
Scotland -28 118 £40,000 -18.79% 71
North East -28 90 £48,445 +25.83% 58
Wales -3 81 £47,105 -12.36% 37
Northern Ireland -23 40 £46,250 -15.91% 51
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
1 128 (4.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 75 (2.49%) SharePoint
3 29 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (0.96%) Confluence
4 28 (0.93%) Apache Spark
4 28 (0.93%) CMS
5 21 (0.70%) IIS
6 19 (0.63%) Apache
7 9 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 9 (0.30%) WordPress
8 6 (0.20%) SAS
9 4 (0.13%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.13%) nginx
10 3 (0.100%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.100%) govService
10 3 (0.100%) JBoss
11 1 (0.033%) Moodle
11 1 (0.033%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.033%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.033%) Umbraco
Applications
1 408 (13.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 150 (4.98%) Microsoft Office
3 62 (2.06%) MS Visio
4 47 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 20 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
7 10 (0.33%) CATIA
8 4 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.100%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.100%) Trello
10 2 (0.066%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.066%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.066%) Lectora
10 2 (0.066%) Simulink
10 2 (0.066%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.033%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.033%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.033%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 45 (1.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (1.06%) Salesforce CRM
3 22 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 22 (0.73%) NetSuite
4 15 (0.50%) SAP PM
5 14 (0.47%) SAP CO
5 14 (0.47%) SAP ERP
6 7 (0.23%) Dynamics GP
6 7 (0.23%) Magento
6 7 (0.23%) Workday HCM
7 6 (0.20%) SAP PP
8 5 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.17%) Q-Pulse
8 5 (0.17%) SAP FI
8 5 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
8 5 (0.17%) SAP GTS
9 4 (0.13%) Infor M3
9 4 (0.13%) JDE OneWorld
9 4 (0.13%) JDE World
9 4 (0.13%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 498 (16.54%) Azure
2 413 (13.72%) Power Platform
3 264 (8.77%) AWS
4 250 (8.31%) Microsoft 365
5 118 (3.92%) SaaS
6 93 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
7 88 (2.92%) GCP
8 76 (2.52%) Entra ID
9 74 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
10 60 (1.99%) GitHub
11 50 (1.66%) Google Analytics
12 49 (1.63%) Microsoft Purview
13 48 (1.59%) Power Automate
14 42 (1.40%) PowerApps
15 41 (1.36%) Amazon S3
16 38 (1.26%) Azure Data Factory
16 38 (1.26%) Snowflake
17 37 (1.23%) dbt
18 36 (1.20%) Serverless
19 27 (0.90%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 130 (4.32%) Firewall
2 110 (3.65%) DNS
3 82 (2.72%) DHCP
4 77 (2.56%) VPN
5 63 (2.09%) WAN
6 46 (1.53%) LAN
7 44 (1.46%) Wireless
8 42 (1.40%) TCP/IP
9 36 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
10 35 (1.16%) Broadband
11 33 (1.10%) Network Security
12 27 (0.90%) VLAN
13 26 (0.86%) SD-WAN
14 25 (0.83%) BGP
15 24 (0.80%) Wireshark
16 23 (0.76%) Cisco ASA
16 23 (0.76%) SAN
17 17 (0.56%) HTTP
17 17 (0.56%) OSPF
18 16 (0.53%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 370 (12.29%) Power BI
2 228 (7.57%) Tableau
3 106 (3.52%) Data Mining
4 98 (3.26%) SQL Server
5 78 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
6 70 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
7 59 (1.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 42 (1.40%) Power Query
9 37 (1.23%) Metadata
10 36 (1.20%) Looker
11 35 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 33 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
13 32 (1.06%) Data Lake
13 32 (1.06%) MySQL
13 32 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
14 29 (0.96%) Relational Database
15 27 (0.90%) Big Data
16 24 (0.80%) NoSQL
17 17 (0.56%) BigQuery
17 17 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 99 (3.29%) JIRA
2 68 (2.26%) Git
3 33 (1.10%) GitLab
4 30 (1.00%) Rational DOORS
5 17 (0.56%) Jenkins
6 13 (0.43%) Selenium
7 12 (0.40%) MLflow
8 10 (0.33%) Cucumber
8 10 (0.33%) Cypress.io
9 8 (0.27%) LabVIEW
10 7 (0.23%) Moq
10 7 (0.23%) SonarQube
10 7 (0.23%) Subversion
11 6 (0.20%) Toad
12 5 (0.17%) ERwin
12 5 (0.17%) JMeter
12 5 (0.17%) Maven
12 5 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
12 5 (0.17%) Postman
13 4 (0.13%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 1,372 (45.58%) Social Skills
2 919 (30.53%) Finance
3 263 (8.74%) Marketing
4 183 (6.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 168 (5.58%) Public Sector
6 152 (5.05%) Organisational Skills
7 146 (4.85%) Retail
8 143 (4.75%) Manufacturing
9 141 (4.68%) Law
10 136 (4.52%) Legal
11 110 (3.65%) Influencing Skills
12 87 (2.89%) Telecoms
13 75 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
14 71 (2.36%) Electronics
15 67 (2.23%) Aerospace
16 66 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
17 41 (1.36%) Banking
18 40 (1.33%) Games
18 40 (1.33%) Military
19 33 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 837 (27.81%) Analyst
2 333 (11.06%) Senior
3 237 (7.87%) Data Analyst
4 202 (6.71%) Lead
5 163 (5.42%) Business Analyst
6 159 (5.28%) Developer
7 137 (4.55%) Systems Engineer
8 119 (3.95%) Architect
9 89 (2.96%) Trainee
10 88 (2.92%) Support Analyst
11 87 (2.89%) Trainee Analyst
11 87 (2.89%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 84 (2.79%) Senior Analyst
13 81 (2.69%) Consultant
13 81 (2.69%) Support Engineer
14 78 (2.59%) IT Support
15 76 (2.52%) Systems Analyst
16 67 (2.23%) Data Engineer
16 67 (2.23%) Senior Manager
17 66 (2.19%) Head of QA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (2.62%) HTML
2 71 (2.36%) CSS
3 62 (2.06%) .NET
3 62 (2.06%) REST
4 60 (1.99%) Middleware
5 55 (1.83%) JSON
6 53 (1.76%) React
6 53 (1.76%) XML
7 40 (1.33%) SOAP
8 37 (1.23%) Node.js
9 30 (1.00%) PyTorch
10 24 (0.80%) TensorFlow
11 22 (0.73%) scikit-learn
12 19 (0.63%) EDI
12 19 (0.63%) PySpark
13 18 (0.60%) Pandas
14 17 (0.56%) OAuth
15 16 (0.53%) RabbitMQ
15 16 (0.53%) React Native
16 15 (0.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 366 (12.16%) Analytical Mindset
2 143 (4.75%) Management Information System
3 115 (3.82%) Onboarding
4 114 (3.79%) Self-Motivation
5 113 (3.75%) Product Ownership
6 77 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
7 74 (2.46%) Data Centre
8 66 (2.19%) Driving Licence
9 44 (1.46%) Cloud Native
10 36 (1.20%) Algorithms
11 35 (1.16%) Low-Code
12 34 (1.13%) FMCG
13 33 (1.10%) Data Structures
14 32 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
14 32 (1.06%) Security Posture
14 32 (1.06%) Virtual Team
15 29 (0.96%) Social Media
16 28 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
17 26 (0.86%) Mobile App
18 25 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 244 (8.11%) Windows
2 141 (4.68%) Windows Server
3 133 (4.42%) Linux
4 69 (2.29%) Windows Server 2016
5 20 (0.66%) Unix
6 15 (0.50%) Apple iOS
7 14 (0.47%) Android
8 13 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
9 12 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 9 (0.30%) Ubuntu
11 8 (0.27%) CentOS
11 8 (0.27%) VMS
12 7 (0.23%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.17%) Windows 10
14 3 (0.100%) Debian
14 3 (0.100%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.033%) AIX
15 1 (0.033%) OpenBSD
15 1 (0.033%) Solaris
15 1 (0.033%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,385 (46.01%) Problem-Solving
2 815 (27.08%) Continuous Improvement
3 641 (21.30%) Decision-Making
4 633 (21.03%) Analytics
5 450 (14.95%) Agile
6 422 (14.02%) Business Intelligence
7 373 (12.39%) Stakeholder Management
8 337 (11.20%) AI
9 310 (10.30%) Project Management
10 298 (9.90%) Actionable Insight
11 284 (9.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 283 (9.40%) Data Analysis
13 256 (8.50%) ERP
14 249 (8.27%) Customer Service
15 248 (8.24%) Cybersecurity
16 243 (8.07%) CRM
17 238 (7.91%) Mentoring
18 234 (7.77%) Data Modelling
19 228 (7.57%) Customer Experience
19 228 (7.57%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 660 (21.93%) SQL
2 509 (16.91%) Python
3 104 (3.46%) JavaScript
4 102 (3.39%) PowerShell
5 96 (3.19%) Java
6 87 (2.89%) C#
7 61 (2.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 44 (1.46%) R
9 43 (1.43%) C++
10 42 (1.40%) T-SQL
11 40 (1.33%) Bash
12 35 (1.16%) VBA
13 32 (1.06%) MATLAB
14 18 (0.60%) PHP
15 15 (0.50%) Go
16 14 (0.47%) PL/SQL
17 13 (0.43%) Scala
17 13 (0.43%) TypeScript
18 12 (0.40%) C
19 9 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 521 (17.31%) Degree
2 255 (8.47%) Security Cleared
3 178 (5.91%) SC Cleared
4 139 (4.62%) ACCA
5 133 (4.42%) CIMA
5 133 (4.42%) DBS Check
6 71 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
7 70 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 66 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
8 66 (2.19%) IRCA
9 56 (1.86%) PMI Certification
10 49 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
11 48 (1.59%) PMP
12 47 (1.56%) DV Cleared
13 46 (1.53%) CISSP
14 38 (1.26%) CompTIA Security+
15 34 (1.13%) CCNA
15 34 (1.13%) CISM
16 28 (0.93%) CCNP
17 27 (0.90%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 298 (9.90%) Data Quality
2 236 (7.84%) GDPR
3 178 (5.91%) QA
4 148 (4.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 116 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
6 109 (3.62%) NIST
7 99 (3.29%) ISO 9001
8 96 (3.19%) PCI DSS
9 71 (2.36%) SLA
10 49 (1.63%) Accessibility
11 42 (1.40%) GRC
11 42 (1.40%) PMO
12 36 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
13 19 (0.63%) SOC 2
14 17 (0.56%) GMP
14 17 (0.56%) TickIT
15 16 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 15 (0.50%) ISO 14001
16 15 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 14 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 184 (6.11%) Active Directory
2 66 (2.19%) Hyper-V
3 56 (1.86%) Terminal Server
4 49 (1.63%) Docker
5 30 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 12 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.33%) vSphere
8 9 (0.30%) VMware NSX
9 8 (0.27%) ProxySG
9 8 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.13%) Firmware
10 4 (0.13%) XenApp
11 3 (0.100%) DFS Replication
11 3 (0.100%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.100%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.066%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.033%) Embedded Firmware
13 1 (0.033%) KVM
13 1 (0.033%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.033%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 64 (2.13%) Terraform
2 43 (1.43%) Kubernetes
3 37 (1.23%) Ansible
4 28 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (0.56%) Grafana
6 11 (0.37%) QRadar
7 10 (0.33%) Kibana
8 8 (0.27%) Nagios
8 8 (0.27%) Prometheus
9 7 (0.23%) Kubeflow
9 7 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.17%) Graylog
10 5 (0.17%) logstash
11 4 (0.13%) Backup Exec
11 4 (0.13%) CASB
11 4 (0.13%) Control-M
11 4 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (0.13%) SCCM
11 4 (0.13%) SolarWinds Orion
11 4 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 736 (24.45%) Microsoft
2 131 (4.35%) SAP
3 114 (3.79%) Google
4 97 (3.22%) Salesforce
5 91 (3.02%) VMware
6 86 (2.86%) Splunk
7 82 (2.72%) Oracle
8 81 (2.69%) SolarWinds
9 66 (2.19%) Veeam
9 66 (2.19%) Workday
10 58 (1.93%) Databricks
11 57 (1.89%) Tanium
12 56 (1.86%) Brocade
12 56 (1.86%) Nimble Storage
13 53 (1.76%) ServiceNow
14 49 (1.63%) Cisco
15 36 (1.20%) IBM
16 29 (0.96%) Dell
17 28 (0.93%) HubSpot
18 26 (0.86%) Adobe