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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 13 20
Rank change year-on-year -12 +7 +1
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,231 3,461 4,018
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 7.06% 10.23% 8.26%
As % of the General category 13.04% 15.81% 13.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,592 1,428 2,861
10th Percentile £28,599 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,000 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,967 £46,799
Median % change year-on-year -11.71% +8.91% -6.40%
75th Percentile £60,375 £67,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,433
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -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 24,775 21,889 28,971
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.10% 64.73% 59.55%
Number of salaries quoted 12,813 8,897 21,246
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,900 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -11.29%

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 February 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 February 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
South East +8 894 £50,000 - 598
North of England -18 810 £43,000 -18.10% 372
Midlands -13 593 £44,543 -9.56% 337
North West -16 416 £42,500 -19.05% 230
West Midlands -14 351 £52,500 +5.00% 226
South West -3 335 £45,000 -11.76% 204
Yorkshire +2 291 £45,000 -10.00% 114
Scotland -7 264 £40,000 -38.46% 72
East of England -19 251 £40,000 -21.52% 158
East Midlands +6 240 £38,000 -10.59% 111
North East -3 103 £40,000 - 32
Wales +12 71 £42,500 -13.45% 43
Northern Ireland -7 43 £52,500 -11.66% 12
Isle of Man -2 1 £62,500 +150.00% 1
Channel Islands -7 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
1 146 (4.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 58 (1.80%) Confluence
3 44 (1.36%) SharePoint
4 19 (0.59%) Apache Spark
4 19 (0.59%) CMS
5 15 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (0.43%) IIS
7 12 (0.37%) SAS
8 11 (0.34%) Apache
8 11 (0.34%) WordPress
9 6 (0.19%) nginx
10 3 (0.093%) govService
11 2 (0.062%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.062%) FactoryTalk
11 2 (0.062%) WinCC
12 1 (0.031%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.031%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.031%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.031%) Kinematics
12 1 (0.031%) OpenStack
Applications
1 532 (16.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 334 (10.34%) Chatbot
3 224 (6.93%) Microsoft Office
4 83 (2.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 50 (1.55%) MS Visio
6 30 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
7 27 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
8 16 (0.50%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.25%) SOLIDWORKS
10 7 (0.22%) CATIA
11 4 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
12 2 (0.062%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.062%) Revit
12 2 (0.062%) Trello
13 1 (0.031%) Camtasia
13 1 (0.031%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.031%) Siemens NX
13 1 (0.031%) Simulink
13 1 (0.031%) Sketch
13 1 (0.031%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 93 (2.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 64 (1.98%) SAP MDG
3 37 (1.15%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 27 (0.84%) Oracle Payables
5 25 (0.77%) NetSuite
6 22 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
7 20 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
8 17 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
8 17 (0.53%) Workday HCM
9 16 (0.50%) Oracle Assets
10 14 (0.43%) SAP CO
10 14 (0.43%) Shopify
11 12 (0.37%) Sage X3
12 10 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
13 8 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
13 8 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
14 6 (0.19%) JDE EnterpriseOne
14 6 (0.19%) SAP ERP
15 5 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
15 5 (0.15%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 511 (15.82%) Azure
2 403 (12.47%) Power Platform
3 228 (7.06%) Microsoft 365
4 176 (5.45%) AWS
5 136 (4.21%) SaaS
6 121 (3.74%) Azure DevOps
7 64 (1.98%) Entra ID
8 62 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
9 60 (1.86%) Snowflake
10 55 (1.70%) GitHub
11 52 (1.61%) Azure Data Factory
12 39 (1.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 39 (1.21%) GCP
13 38 (1.18%) Microsoft Purview
14 36 (1.11%) dbt
15 32 (0.99%) Power Automate
16 30 (0.93%) OCI
17 26 (0.80%) GitHub Copilot
17 26 (0.80%) Serverless
18 25 (0.77%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 153 (4.74%) DNS
2 131 (4.05%) DHCP
3 102 (3.16%) Firewall
4 44 (1.36%) WAN
4 44 (1.36%) Wi-Fi
5 43 (1.33%) VPN
6 40 (1.24%) LAN
7 37 (1.15%) Remote Desktop
7 37 (1.15%) Wireless
8 32 (0.99%) TCP/IP
9 30 (0.93%) Network Security
10 29 (0.90%) VLAN
11 28 (0.87%) Wireshark
12 26 (0.80%) VoIP
13 21 (0.65%) SD-WAN
14 16 (0.50%) 5G
14 16 (0.50%) Broadband
15 15 (0.46%) SAN
16 14 (0.43%) NGFW
17 13 (0.40%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 372 (11.51%) Power BI
2 228 (7.06%) Tableau
3 153 (4.74%) Data Mining
4 115 (3.56%) SQL Server
5 112 (3.47%) Amazon RDS
6 79 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
7 55 (1.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 53 (1.64%) Data Lake
9 49 (1.52%) Relational Database
10 48 (1.49%) Metadata
11 37 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
12 35 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
13 34 (1.05%) GIS
13 34 (1.05%) Looker
13 34 (1.05%) MySQL
14 29 (0.90%) SAP BW
15 26 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 24 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
17 22 (0.68%) Power Query
18 20 (0.62%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 136 (4.21%) JIRA
2 54 (1.67%) Git
3 25 (0.77%) Selenium
4 18 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
5 15 (0.46%) Robot Framework
6 13 (0.40%) ERwin
6 13 (0.40%) Snyk
7 12 (0.37%) ER Studio
8 10 (0.31%) Jenkins
9 9 (0.28%) GitLab
10 8 (0.25%) LabVIEW
10 8 (0.25%) Postman
11 6 (0.19%) TestRail
12 5 (0.15%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.15%) Subversion
12 5 (0.15%) WebDriver
13 4 (0.12%) IDA Disassembler
13 4 (0.12%) Visual Studio
14 3 (0.093%) LoadRunner
14 3 (0.093%) Rational DOORS
General
1 1,623 (50.23%) Social Skills
2 915 (28.32%) Finance
3 237 (7.34%) Marketing
4 179 (5.54%) Retail
5 137 (4.24%) Organisational Skills
6 132 (4.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 130 (4.02%) Legal
8 123 (3.81%) Manufacturing
9 118 (3.65%) Public Sector
10 110 (3.40%) Law
10 110 (3.40%) Presentation Skills
11 78 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
12 58 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
13 56 (1.73%) Banking
14 54 (1.67%) Telecoms
15 49 (1.52%) Electronics
16 45 (1.39%) Aerospace
17 36 (1.11%) Advertising
17 36 (1.11%) Aviation
18 31 (0.96%) German Language
Job Titles
1 808 (25.01%) Analyst
2 334 (10.34%) Trainer
3 313 (9.69%) Senior
4 244 (7.55%) Lead
5 229 (7.09%) Data Analyst
6 155 (4.80%) Architect
7 149 (4.61%) Developer
8 128 (3.96%) Trainee
9 126 (3.90%) Support Analyst
10 124 (3.84%) IT Support
11 123 (3.81%) Business Analyst
12 119 (3.68%) Systems Engineer
13 117 (3.62%) Trainee Analyst
13 117 (3.62%) Trainee Data Analyst
14 83 (2.57%) Senior Analyst
15 82 (2.54%) Report Analyst
16 81 (2.51%) Business Manager
16 81 (2.51%) Support Engineer
17 72 (2.23%) Financial Analyst
17 72 (2.23%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (2.29%) HTML
2 69 (2.14%) CSS
3 54 (1.67%) React
4 40 (1.24%) .NET
5 35 (1.08%) JSON
5 35 (1.08%) REST
6 27 (0.84%) Middleware
6 27 (0.84%) SOAP
7 26 (0.80%) Node.js
8 23 (0.71%) XML
9 17 (0.53%) Oracle Fusion
10 14 (0.43%) Bootstrap
10 14 (0.43%) EDI
10 14 (0.43%) React Native
11 13 (0.40%) Flash
11 13 (0.40%) PySpark
12 11 (0.34%) OAuth
12 11 (0.34%) SAML
13 10 (0.31%) Playwright
14 9 (0.28%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 336 (10.40%) Analytical Mindset
2 227 (7.03%) Self-Motivation
3 203 (6.28%) Onboarding
4 168 (5.20%) Management Information System
5 130 (4.02%) Legacy Systems
6 107 (3.31%) Product Ownership
7 80 (2.48%) Data Centre
8 57 (1.76%) FMCG
9 56 (1.73%) Driving Licence
10 52 (1.61%) Robotics
11 42 (1.30%) Cloud Native
11 42 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
12 37 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
13 36 (1.11%) Data Structures
14 32 (0.99%) Social Media
15 29 (0.90%) Algorithms
15 29 (0.90%) Virtual Team
16 28 (0.87%) Low-Code
17 27 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 23 (0.71%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 277 (8.57%) Windows
2 174 (5.39%) Linux
3 155 (4.80%) Windows Server
4 107 (3.31%) Windows Server 2016
5 17 (0.53%) Unix
6 13 (0.40%) Android
6 13 (0.40%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.15%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.093%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.093%) VMS
9 3 (0.093%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.062%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.031%) OpenWrt
11 1 (0.031%) Robot Operating System
11 1 (0.031%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.031%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,407 (43.55%) Problem-Solving
2 761 (23.55%) Continuous Improvement
3 746 (23.09%) AI
4 642 (19.87%) Analytics
5 595 (18.42%) Decision-Making
6 547 (16.93%) Project Management
7 473 (14.64%) Agile
8 451 (13.96%) Business Intelligence
9 372 (11.51%) Stakeholder Management
10 346 (10.71%) Customer Service
11 344 (10.65%) Data Analysis
12 337 (10.43%) Chemistry
13 334 (10.34%) Conversational UI
14 297 (9.19%) ERP
15 273 (8.45%) Customer Experience
16 252 (7.80%) Process Improvement
17 242 (7.49%) Analytical Thinking
18 241 (7.46%) Migration
19 240 (7.43%) Coaching
20 236 (7.30%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 675 (20.89%) SQL
2 414 (12.81%) Python
3 79 (2.45%) C#
4 77 (2.38%) JavaScript
5 70 (2.17%) PowerShell
6 64 (1.98%) Java
7 58 (1.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 36 (1.11%) T-SQL
8 36 (1.11%) VBA
9 30 (0.93%) C++
10 28 (0.87%) R
11 17 (0.53%) Bash
12 16 (0.50%) C
13 15 (0.46%) MATLAB
14 14 (0.43%) Scala
15 13 (0.40%) PL/SQL
16 9 (0.28%) Go
17 7 (0.22%) ABAP
17 7 (0.22%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1,013 (31.35%) Degree
2 390 (12.07%) Master's Degree
3 335 (10.37%) PhD
4 293 (9.07%) Security Cleared
5 240 (7.43%) SC Cleared
6 119 (3.68%) ACCA
7 109 (3.37%) CIMA
8 70 (2.17%) DBS Check
9 68 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
10 60 (1.86%) PMI Certification
11 54 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
12 51 (1.58%) PMP
13 42 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
14 41 (1.27%) DV Cleared
15 34 (1.05%) CISSP
16 29 (0.90%) CISM
16 29 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
17 27 (0.84%) Network+ Certification
18 24 (0.74%) AAT
19 22 (0.68%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (5.79%) Data Quality
2 149 (4.61%) Cyber Essentials
3 133 (4.12%) QA
4 122 (3.78%) PCI DSS
5 111 (3.44%) GDPR
6 110 (3.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 73 (2.26%) NIST
8 59 (1.83%) PMO
9 47 (1.45%) Accessibility
10 30 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
11 25 (0.77%) SLA
12 15 (0.46%) GRC
13 14 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 12 (0.37%) SOC 2
15 11 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 9 (0.28%) NCSC
17 8 (0.25%) IEC 61131
17 8 (0.25%) IFRS
17 8 (0.25%) ISO 9001
18 7 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 218 (6.75%) Active Directory
2 122 (3.78%) Hyper-V
3 104 (3.22%) Terminal Server
4 19 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 17 (0.53%) Docker
6 12 (0.37%) Firmware
7 9 (0.28%) vSphere
8 5 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.12%) ProxySG
9 4 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.093%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.093%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.093%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.062%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 58 (1.80%) Terraform
2 34 (1.05%) Ansible
3 25 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
4 22 (0.68%) Kubernetes
5 12 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.15%) Control-M
6 5 (0.15%) Grafana
6 5 (0.15%) SCCM
7 4 (0.12%) CASB
7 4 (0.12%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 4 (0.12%) Nessus
7 4 (0.12%) QRadar
8 3 (0.093%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.093%) Backup Exec
8 3 (0.093%) Nagios
8 3 (0.093%) SolarWinds Orion
8 3 (0.093%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.062%) AssetCenter
9 2 (0.062%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.062%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 791 (24.48%) Microsoft
2 334 (10.34%) PayPal
3 250 (7.74%) SAP
4 126 (3.90%) SolarWinds
5 125 (3.87%) VMware
6 124 (3.84%) Oracle
7 120 (3.71%) Splunk
8 108 (3.34%) Veeam
9 105 (3.25%) Tanium
10 104 (3.22%) Brocade
10 104 (3.22%) Nimble Storage
11 75 (2.32%) Salesforce
12 56 (1.73%) Cisco
12 56 (1.73%) ServiceNow
13 54 (1.67%) Google
14 37 (1.15%) OpenText
15 36 (1.11%) Databricks
16 30 (0.93%) Ariba
17 28 (0.87%) Workday
18 20 (0.62%) Anaplan