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 19 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 14 22
Rank change year-on-year +5 +8 -2
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,799 4,110 2,856
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 11.15% 8.38% 8.85%
As % of the General category 17.08% 15.41% 13.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,526 1,528 2,035
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £73,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -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 common skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 22,246 26,665 20,497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 65.27% 54.36% 63.51%
Number of salaries quoted 11,288 11,748 14,706
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,000 £38,000 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,627
UK median annual salary £52,500 £59,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.02% -1.67% -

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 19 October 2025.

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 19 October 2025. 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 +10 1,158 £45,000 -10.00% 723
South East +3 904 £46,250 -7.50% 1,539
North West +7 712 £45,000 -10.00% 455
Midlands +1 646 £42,920 -14.16% 396
South West +9 394 £45,000 -14.29% 278
West Midlands +3 375 £45,000 -10.00% 233
Scotland +2 348 £33,500 -35.81% 147
Yorkshire +9 344 £40,000 -25.58% 198
East of England -7 296 £39,500 -28.18% 294
East Midlands 0 269 £37,500 -16.67% 159
North East +14 102 £40,000 -4.25% 75
Wales +12 68 £48,122 +6.94% 95
Northern Ireland -11 15 £52,500 +16.67% 43
Channel Islands -1 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 89 (2.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 53 (1.40%) SharePoint
3 52 (1.37%) Confluence
4 44 (1.16%) CMS
5 14 (0.37%) Apache Spark
6 12 (0.32%) Camunda
7 11 (0.29%) WordPress
8 9 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
9 8 (0.21%) Apache
10 6 (0.16%) IIS
11 5 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
11 5 (0.13%) SAS
11 5 (0.13%) Skype for Business
12 4 (0.11%) HCL Notes
12 4 (0.11%) Umbraco
13 3 (0.079%) Kentico
13 3 (0.079%) nginx
13 3 (0.079%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 2 (0.053%) FactoryTalk
14 2 (0.053%) WinCC
Applications
1 617 (16.24%) Chatbot
2 464 (12.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 192 (5.05%) Microsoft Office
4 98 (2.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
6 26 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
6 26 (0.68%) MS Visio
7 20 (0.53%) AutoCAD
8 13 (0.34%) SOLIDWORKS
9 6 (0.16%) Simulink
10 5 (0.13%) Photoshop
11 4 (0.11%) CATIA
11 4 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.026%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.026%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.026%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.026%) InVision
12 1 (0.026%) OrCAD
12 1 (0.026%) Siemens NX
12 1 (0.026%) Trello
Business Applications
1 100 (2.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 64 (1.68%) SAP MDG
3 37 (0.97%) NetSuite
3 37 (0.97%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 29 (0.76%) Shopify
5 28 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
6 27 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
7 19 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
8 16 (0.42%) Oracle Assets
9 12 (0.32%) Sprinklr
10 11 (0.29%) SAP CO
10 11 (0.29%) SAP FI
10 11 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
11 9 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
12 8 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
12 8 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
12 8 (0.21%) Workday HCM
13 7 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
13 7 (0.18%) SAP ERP
14 6 (0.16%) JDE EnterpriseOne
Cloud Services
1 422 (11.11%) Azure
2 351 (9.24%) Power Platform
3 173 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
4 161 (4.24%) AWS
5 147 (3.87%) SaaS
6 61 (1.61%) Google Analytics
7 60 (1.58%) Azure DevOps
8 44 (1.16%) GCP
9 39 (1.03%) Entra ID
10 37 (0.97%) Snowflake
11 35 (0.92%) Google Ads
12 31 (0.82%) PaaS
13 30 (0.79%) Dynamics 365
14 26 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
15 25 (0.66%) GitHub
16 21 (0.55%) Microsoft Copilot
16 21 (0.55%) Serverless
17 20 (0.53%) OCI
18 19 (0.50%) iPaaS
19 18 (0.47%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 297 (7.82%) VPN
2 262 (6.90%) Cisco IOS
3 96 (2.53%) DNS
4 89 (2.34%) DHCP
5 73 (1.92%) Firewall
6 46 (1.21%) Network Security
7 41 (1.08%) LAN
8 34 (0.89%) Remote Desktop
8 34 (0.89%) TCP/IP
9 33 (0.87%) WAN
10 32 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
11 28 (0.74%) VoIP
12 25 (0.66%) SMS
13 23 (0.61%) Internet
14 19 (0.50%) VLAN
15 11 (0.29%) Broadband
16 10 (0.26%) Ethernet
16 10 (0.26%) SD-WAN
17 9 (0.24%) Intrusion Detection
17 9 (0.24%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 330 (8.69%) Power BI
2 144 (3.79%) Tableau
3 89 (2.34%) Data Lake
3 89 (2.34%) Data Mining
4 87 (2.29%) SQL Server
5 66 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
6 64 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
7 47 (1.24%) Metadata
8 41 (1.08%) Relational Database
9 37 (0.97%) SAP BW
10 31 (0.82%) BusinessObjects
10 31 (0.82%) MySQL
11 29 (0.76%) Looker
11 29 (0.76%) Power Query
12 26 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 26 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 21 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
14 19 (0.50%) Geospatial Data
15 18 (0.47%) GIS
16 16 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 110 (2.90%) JIRA
2 60 (1.58%) Git
3 37 (0.97%) Jenkins
4 27 (0.71%) Selenium
5 21 (0.55%) GitLab
5 21 (0.55%) Maven
6 19 (0.50%) JUnit
7 17 (0.45%) Oracle Forms
8 10 (0.26%) SonarQube
9 9 (0.24%) ERwin
10 8 (0.21%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.21%) ER Studio
11 7 (0.18%) Bitbucket
11 7 (0.18%) Locust
11 7 (0.18%) Postman
11 7 (0.18%) Robot Framework
11 7 (0.18%) Snyk
11 7 (0.18%) Subversion
12 6 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (0.16%) WebDriver
General
1 1,657 (43.62%) Social Skills
2 851 (22.40%) Finance
3 407 (10.71%) Marketing
4 403 (10.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 327 (8.61%) Retail
6 217 (5.71%) Law
7 213 (5.61%) Manufacturing
8 164 (4.32%) Legal
9 147 (3.87%) Organisational Skills
10 117 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
11 94 (2.47%) Public Sector
12 89 (2.34%) Banking
13 88 (2.32%) Telecoms
14 79 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
15 65 (1.71%) Electronics
16 59 (1.55%) Aviation
17 57 (1.50%) Aerospace
18 48 (1.26%) Advertising
19 37 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
20 36 (0.95%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 662 (17.43%) Trainer
2 647 (17.03%) Analyst
3 325 (8.55%) Senior
4 264 (6.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 250 (6.58%) Lead
6 159 (4.19%) Developer
7 131 (3.45%) Architect
8 123 (3.24%) Data Analyst
8 123 (3.24%) Support Analyst
9 117 (3.08%) IT Support
10 96 (2.53%) Systems Engineer
11 86 (2.26%) Business Analyst
12 81 (2.13%) Technical Support
13 80 (2.11%) Innovation Manager
14 79 (2.08%) Support Engineer
15 75 (1.97%) Consultant
16 70 (1.84%) IT Analyst
17 69 (1.82%) Applications Support
18 62 (1.63%) Trainee
19 61 (1.61%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 268 (7.05%) Elastic Stack
2 76 (2.00%) HTML
3 59 (1.55%) REST
4 50 (1.32%) CSS
5 42 (1.11%) JSON
5 42 (1.11%) React
6 40 (1.05%) Spring
7 31 (0.82%) SOAP
8 25 (0.66%) Spring Boot
8 25 (0.66%) XML
9 22 (0.58%) .NET
10 21 (0.55%) Middleware
11 19 (0.50%) OAuth
11 19 (0.50%) SAML
11 19 (0.50%) Web Services
12 17 (0.45%) JMS
13 16 (0.42%) EDI
14 14 (0.37%) BAPI
14 14 (0.37%) Hibernate
14 14 (0.37%) IBM Integration Bus
Miscellaneous
1 384 (10.11%) Analytical Mindset
2 301 (7.92%) Cyberattack
3 236 (6.21%) Onboarding
4 196 (5.16%) Self-Motivation
5 184 (4.84%) Management Information System
6 94 (2.47%) Driving Licence
7 88 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
8 72 (1.90%) Robotics
9 62 (1.63%) Product Ownership
10 60 (1.58%) Social Media
11 58 (1.53%) Algorithms
12 53 (1.40%) Data Centre
13 48 (1.26%) Renewable Energy
14 45 (1.18%) FMCG
15 42 (1.11%) Data Structures
16 41 (1.08%) e-Learning
17 28 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
18 27 (0.71%) SCADA
19 24 (0.63%) Security Posture
20 23 (0.61%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 461 (12.13%) Windows
2 377 (9.92%) Linux
3 270 (7.11%) Android
4 94 (2.47%) Windows Server
5 57 (1.50%) Windows Server 2016
6 13 (0.34%) Unix
7 10 (0.26%) Mac OS
8 9 (0.24%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.13%) Mac OS X
12 4 (0.11%) Windows 10
13 3 (0.079%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 2 (0.053%) Windows Server 2003
15 1 (0.026%) OpenVMS
15 1 (0.026%) OpenWrt
15 1 (0.026%) Ubuntu
15 1 (0.026%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,757 (46.25%) Problem-Solving
2 1,030 (27.11%) AI
3 671 (17.66%) Chemistry
4 653 (17.19%) Continuous Improvement
5 626 (16.48%) Analytics
6 617 (16.24%) Conversational UI
7 543 (14.29%) Decision-Making
8 519 (13.66%) Agile
9 496 (13.06%) Risk Management
10 465 (12.24%) Project Management
11 411 (10.82%) DevOps
12 406 (10.69%) Business Intelligence
13 391 (10.29%) Mathematics
14 373 (9.82%) Stakeholder Management
15 347 (9.13%) Customer Service
16 318 (8.37%) ERP
17 297 (7.82%) Line Management
18 296 (7.79%) Task Automation
19 290 (7.63%) Customer Experience
20 286 (7.53%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 581 (15.29%) SQL
2 539 (14.19%) Python
3 300 (7.90%) PowerShell
4 279 (7.34%) Bash
5 93 (2.45%) Java
6 76 (2.00%) JavaScript
7 61 (1.61%) C#
8 49 (1.29%) R
9 46 (1.21%) VBA
10 29 (0.76%) T-SQL
11 28 (0.74%) C++
12 27 (0.71%) PL/SQL
13 21 (0.55%) C
14 18 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 8 (0.21%) TypeScript
16 7 (0.18%) Scala
17 6 (0.16%) ABAP
17 6 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
18 5 (0.13%) Groovy
18 5 (0.13%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1,400 (36.85%) Degree
2 712 (18.74%) Master's Degree
3 628 (16.53%) PhD
4 250 (6.58%) Security Cleared
5 175 (4.61%) SC Cleared
6 86 (2.26%) DBS Check
7 82 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
8 68 (1.79%) ACCA
9 65 (1.71%) CIMA
10 64 (1.68%) CISSP
10 64 (1.68%) DV Cleared
11 46 (1.21%) HND
12 43 (1.13%) CompTIA Security+
13 42 (1.11%) CEH
14 32 (0.84%) CISM
14 32 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
15 27 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
16 24 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
17 20 (0.53%) PMI Certification
18 19 (0.50%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (4.21%) QA
2 119 (3.13%) Data Quality
3 102 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 96 (2.53%) GDPR
5 87 (2.29%) PCI DSS
6 70 (1.84%) Cyber Essentials
7 61 (1.61%) NIST
8 50 (1.32%) Accessibility
9 47 (1.24%) PMO
10 35 (0.92%) SLA
11 17 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 14 (0.37%) ISO 9001
13 12 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
13 12 (0.32%) GRC
14 8 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 8 (0.21%) IEC 61131
15 7 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.16%) IFRS
16 6 (0.16%) ISO 14001
17 5 (0.13%) HIPAA
System Software
1 336 (8.84%) Hyper-V
2 284 (7.48%) Docker
3 264 (6.95%) vSphere
4 260 (6.84%) VMware NSX
5 151 (3.97%) Active Directory
6 56 (1.47%) Terminal Server
7 17 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
8 16 (0.42%) Firmware
9 8 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
10 5 (0.13%) HDFS
11 4 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.079%) Postfix
13 2 (0.053%) Embedded Firmware
14 1 (0.026%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.026%) RACF
14 1 (0.026%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 284 (7.48%) Terraform
2 272 (7.16%) Ansible
3 41 (1.08%) Kubernetes
4 18 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (0.24%) Grafana
6 7 (0.18%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.16%) SCOM
7 6 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.13%) SCCM
9 4 (0.11%) QRadar
10 3 (0.079%) RSA Archer
11 2 (0.053%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.053%) AssetCenter
11 2 (0.053%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.053%) Kibana
11 2 (0.053%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.053%) Puppet
11 2 (0.053%) SCOrch
11 2 (0.053%) SCSM
12 1 (0.026%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 651 (17.14%) Microsoft
2 614 (16.16%) PayPal
3 345 (9.08%) Splunk
4 306 (8.05%) Cisco
5 279 (7.34%) SAP
6 263 (6.92%) Juniper
7 260 (6.84%) 3PAR
8 190 (5.00%) Google
9 131 (3.45%) Oracle
10 89 (2.34%) Databricks
11 86 (2.26%) Salesforce
12 80 (2.11%) VMware
13 72 (1.90%) Adobe
14 63 (1.66%) Veeam
15 62 (1.63%) SolarWinds
16 56 (1.47%) Brocade
16 56 (1.47%) Nimble Storage
16 56 (1.47%) Tanium
17 47 (1.24%) ServiceNow
18 37 (0.97%) OpenText