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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 9 15
Rank change year-on-year -20 +6 +5
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 2,903 3,609 6,220
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.36% 12.32% 8.97%
As % of the General category 9.36% 17.22% 15.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,931 1,411 3,593
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £32,600
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +11.11% -4.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £59,875
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
UK median annual salary £53,350 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.00% +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 31,013 20,955 39,938
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 46.58% 71.54% 57.63%
Number of salaries quoted 16,961 9,556 26,447
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £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 £66,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,375 £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 19 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 19 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 -30 889 £47,500 -5.00% 394
South East -4 745 £50,000 -7.37% 526
Midlands -25 536 £48,000 - 255
North West -31 514 £45,037 -9.93% 224
West Midlands -28 318 £50,000 +4.71% 158
Yorkshire -12 291 £52,500 +16.67% 121
South West -28 269 £47,500 -5.00% 159
East of England -21 243 £45,050 -11.61% 188
East Midlands +3 216 £45,000 -7.22% 95
Scotland -29 122 £40,000 -20.71% 95
North East -28 84 £48,445 +25.83% 57
Wales -6 76 £51,709 -1.51% 40
Northern Ireland -27 37 £46,250 -15.91% 26
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
1 121 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 73 (2.51%) SharePoint
3 29 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
4 28 (0.96%) Apache Spark
4 28 (0.96%) CMS
5 26 (0.90%) Confluence
6 18 (0.62%) IIS
7 16 (0.55%) Apache
8 9 (0.31%) WordPress
9 7 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.14%) nginx
10 4 (0.14%) SAS
11 3 (0.10%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.10%) govService
11 3 (0.10%) JBoss
12 2 (0.069%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.034%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.034%) Appian
13 1 (0.034%) Kinematics
13 1 (0.034%) OpenStack
Applications
1 415 (14.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 157 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
3 62 (2.14%) MS Visio
4 44 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 22 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
7 10 (0.34%) CATIA
8 4 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.10%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.10%) Trello
10 2 (0.069%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.069%) Lectora
10 2 (0.069%) Simulink
11 1 (0.034%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.034%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.034%) Sketch
11 1 (0.034%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 46 (1.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (1.10%) Salesforce CRM
3 23 (0.79%) NetSuite
4 22 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
5 15 (0.52%) SAP PM
6 14 (0.48%) SAP CO
6 14 (0.48%) SAP ERP
7 7 (0.24%) Magento
7 7 (0.24%) Workday HCM
8 6 (0.21%) Dynamics GP
8 6 (0.21%) SAP PP
9 5 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.17%) Q-Pulse
9 5 (0.17%) SAP FI
9 5 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
9 5 (0.17%) SAP GTS
10 4 (0.14%) Infor M3
10 4 (0.14%) JDE OneWorld
10 4 (0.14%) JDE World
10 4 (0.14%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 478 (16.47%) Azure
2 409 (14.09%) Power Platform
3 247 (8.51%) AWS
4 240 (8.27%) Microsoft 365
5 112 (3.86%) SaaS
6 96 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
7 84 (2.89%) GCP
8 75 (2.58%) Dynamics 365
9 74 (2.55%) Entra ID
10 62 (2.14%) GitHub
11 50 (1.72%) Power Automate
12 49 (1.69%) Google Analytics
12 49 (1.69%) Microsoft Purview
13 43 (1.48%) Snowflake
14 42 (1.45%) dbt
14 42 (1.45%) PowerApps
15 39 (1.34%) Azure Data Factory
16 36 (1.24%) Amazon S3
17 34 (1.17%) Serverless
18 27 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 123 (4.24%) Firewall
2 99 (3.41%) DNS
3 74 (2.55%) VPN
4 71 (2.45%) DHCP
5 60 (2.07%) WAN
6 44 (1.52%) LAN
7 43 (1.48%) Wireless
8 38 (1.31%) TCP/IP
9 33 (1.14%) Broadband
9 33 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
10 31 (1.07%) Network Security
11 27 (0.93%) VLAN
12 26 (0.90%) SAN
13 25 (0.86%) BGP
13 25 (0.86%) Wireshark
14 23 (0.79%) SD-WAN
15 22 (0.76%) Cisco ASA
16 17 (0.59%) EIGRP
16 17 (0.59%) OSPF
17 15 (0.52%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 368 (12.68%) Power BI
2 233 (8.03%) Tableau
3 115 (3.96%) Data Mining
4 96 (3.31%) SQL Server
5 72 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
6 60 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
7 57 (1.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 38 (1.31%) Looker
9 37 (1.27%) Metadata
9 37 (1.27%) Power Query
10 35 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
10 35 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 33 (1.14%) MySQL
11 33 (1.14%) Relational Database
12 30 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
13 29 (1.00%) Data Lake
14 25 (0.86%) NoSQL
15 20 (0.69%) GIS
16 19 (0.65%) BigQuery
17 18 (0.62%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 96 (3.31%) JIRA
2 69 (2.38%) Git
3 29 (1.00%) GitLab
4 28 (0.96%) Rational DOORS
5 18 (0.62%) Jenkins
6 13 (0.45%) Selenium
7 11 (0.38%) MLflow
8 10 (0.34%) Cucumber
9 8 (0.28%) Cypress.io
9 8 (0.28%) LabVIEW
10 7 (0.24%) Moq
10 7 (0.24%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.21%) Maven
11 6 (0.21%) Subversion
12 5 (0.17%) ERwin
12 5 (0.17%) JMeter
12 5 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
12 5 (0.17%) Postman
12 5 (0.17%) Toad
13 4 (0.14%) ER Studio
General
1 1,320 (45.47%) Social Skills
2 898 (30.93%) Finance
3 248 (8.54%) Marketing
4 175 (6.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 157 (5.41%) Public Sector
6 143 (4.93%) Organisational Skills
6 143 (4.93%) Retail
7 140 (4.82%) Manufacturing
8 132 (4.55%) Law
9 124 (4.27%) Legal
10 94 (3.24%) Influencing Skills
11 87 (3.00%) Telecoms
12 72 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
13 67 (2.31%) Electronics
14 60 (2.07%) Aerospace
15 59 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
16 42 (1.45%) Banking
17 40 (1.38%) Games
17 40 (1.38%) Military
18 33 (1.14%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 834 (28.73%) Analyst
2 327 (11.26%) Senior
3 241 (8.30%) Data Analyst
4 185 (6.37%) Lead
5 161 (5.55%) Business Analyst
5 161 (5.55%) Developer
6 121 (4.17%) Systems Engineer
7 111 (3.82%) Architect
8 96 (3.31%) Trainee
9 94 (3.24%) Trainee Analyst
9 94 (3.24%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 88 (3.03%) Support Analyst
11 80 (2.76%) Senior Analyst
12 78 (2.69%) Support Engineer
13 75 (2.58%) Consultant
13 75 (2.58%) IT Support
14 71 (2.45%) Systems Analyst
15 66 (2.27%) Head of QA
16 65 (2.24%) Senior Manager
17 62 (2.14%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (2.69%) HTML
2 69 (2.38%) CSS
3 62 (2.14%) .NET
4 59 (2.03%) REST
5 58 (2.00%) Middleware
6 54 (1.86%) JSON
7 51 (1.76%) React
7 51 (1.76%) XML
8 40 (1.38%) SOAP
9 34 (1.17%) Node.js
10 28 (0.96%) PyTorch
11 22 (0.76%) TensorFlow
12 20 (0.69%) scikit-learn
13 19 (0.65%) PySpark
14 17 (0.59%) EDI
14 17 (0.59%) OAuth
14 17 (0.59%) Pandas
14 17 (0.59%) React Native
15 16 (0.55%) RabbitMQ
16 14 (0.48%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 361 (12.44%) Analytical Mindset
2 134 (4.62%) Management Information System
3 114 (3.93%) Onboarding
4 113 (3.89%) Product Ownership
4 113 (3.89%) Self-Motivation
5 73 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
6 72 (2.48%) Data Centre
7 64 (2.20%) Driving Licence
8 41 (1.41%) Cloud Native
9 35 (1.21%) Algorithms
10 33 (1.14%) FMCG
10 33 (1.14%) Low-Code
11 31 (1.07%) Virtual Team
12 30 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
13 29 (1.00%) Security Posture
13 29 (1.00%) Social Media
14 28 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
14 28 (0.96%) Data Structures
15 25 (0.86%) Mobile App
16 24 (0.83%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 226 (7.79%) Windows
2 124 (4.27%) Windows Server
3 122 (4.20%) Linux
4 57 (1.96%) Windows Server 2016
5 19 (0.65%) Unix
6 14 (0.48%) Apple iOS
7 13 (0.45%) Android
8 11 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (0.28%) VMS
10 7 (0.24%) CentOS
10 7 (0.24%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.24%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.14%) Windows 10
13 3 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.069%) Debian
15 1 (0.034%) AIX
15 1 (0.034%) OpenBSD
15 1 (0.034%) Solaris
15 1 (0.034%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,321 (45.50%) Problem-Solving
2 774 (26.66%) Continuous Improvement
3 623 (21.46%) Analytics
4 600 (20.67%) Decision-Making
5 436 (15.02%) Agile
6 421 (14.50%) Business Intelligence
7 356 (12.26%) Stakeholder Management
8 324 (11.16%) AI
9 313 (10.78%) Project Management
10 287 (9.89%) Actionable Insight
11 278 (9.58%) Data Analysis
12 264 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 245 (8.44%) ERP
14 236 (8.13%) Cybersecurity
15 235 (8.10%) CRM
16 231 (7.96%) Customer Service
17 229 (7.89%) Mentoring
18 227 (7.82%) Data Modelling
19 215 (7.41%) Customer Experience
20 209 (7.20%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 640 (22.05%) SQL
2 489 (16.84%) Python
3 100 (3.44%) PowerShell
4 99 (3.41%) JavaScript
5 90 (3.10%) Java
6 85 (2.93%) C#
7 57 (1.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 43 (1.48%) R
9 41 (1.41%) T-SQL
10 40 (1.38%) C++
11 37 (1.27%) Bash
12 36 (1.24%) VBA
13 30 (1.03%) MATLAB
14 16 (0.55%) PHP
15 15 (0.52%) Go
16 14 (0.48%) PL/SQL
17 13 (0.45%) Scala
18 12 (0.41%) TypeScript
19 11 (0.38%) C
20 9 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 510 (17.57%) Degree
2 224 (7.72%) Security Cleared
3 155 (5.34%) SC Cleared
4 139 (4.79%) ACCA
5 133 (4.58%) CIMA
6 130 (4.48%) DBS Check
7 71 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
8 70 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 66 (2.27%) IRCA
10 64 (2.20%) Cisco Certification
11 56 (1.93%) PMI Certification
12 50 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
13 48 (1.65%) PMP
14 43 (1.48%) CISSP
14 43 (1.48%) DV Cleared
15 36 (1.24%) CompTIA Security+
16 35 (1.21%) CCNA
17 32 (1.10%) CISM
18 28 (0.96%) CCNP
18 28 (0.96%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 291 (10.02%) Data Quality
2 232 (7.99%) GDPR
3 173 (5.96%) QA
4 141 (4.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 104 (3.58%) Cyber Essentials
6 102 (3.51%) NIST
7 95 (3.27%) ISO 9001
8 86 (2.96%) PCI DSS
9 65 (2.24%) SLA
10 45 (1.55%) Accessibility
11 42 (1.45%) PMO
12 38 (1.31%) GRC
13 33 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
14 19 (0.65%) SOC 2
15 17 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 17 (0.59%) GMP
15 17 (0.59%) TickIT
16 15 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 14 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 13 (0.45%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 172 (5.92%) Active Directory
2 58 (2.00%) Hyper-V
3 48 (1.65%) Terminal Server
4 42 (1.45%) Docker
5 30 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
6 12 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.34%) vSphere
8 9 (0.31%) VMware NSX
9 8 (0.28%) ProxySG
10 7 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
11 4 (0.14%) Firmware
11 4 (0.14%) XenApp
12 3 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.069%) VMware ESXi
14 1 (0.034%) Embedded Firmware
14 1 (0.034%) KVM
14 1 (0.034%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.034%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 65 (2.24%) Terraform
2 40 (1.38%) Kubernetes
3 37 (1.27%) Ansible
4 29 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (0.59%) Grafana
6 10 (0.34%) QRadar
7 9 (0.31%) Kibana
8 8 (0.28%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.24%) Nagios
10 6 (0.21%) Kubeflow
11 5 (0.17%) Graylog
11 5 (0.17%) logstash
12 4 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.14%) Backup Exec
12 4 (0.14%) CASB
12 4 (0.14%) Control-M
12 4 (0.14%) SCCM
12 4 (0.14%) SolarWinds Orion
12 4 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 729 (25.11%) Microsoft
2 133 (4.58%) SAP
3 110 (3.79%) Google
4 94 (3.24%) Salesforce
5 84 (2.89%) Oracle
6 80 (2.76%) VMware
7 75 (2.58%) Splunk
8 70 (2.41%) SolarWinds
9 67 (2.31%) Workday
10 60 (2.07%) Databricks
11 57 (1.96%) Veeam
12 53 (1.83%) ServiceNow
13 49 (1.69%) Tanium
14 48 (1.65%) Brocade
14 48 (1.65%) Nimble Storage
15 45 (1.55%) Cisco
16 34 (1.17%) IBM
17 31 (1.07%) Dell
18 25 (0.86%) Adobe
18 25 (0.86%) HubSpot