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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 8 12
Rank change year-on-year -16 +4 +9
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,904 4,003 4,930
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.80% 11.65% 8.77%
As % of the General category 11.03% 17.74% 16.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,393 1,504 2,009
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,800 £32,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £61,250 £60,563 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £76,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - - -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 35,395 22,566 29,715
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 43.54% 65.65% 52.84%
Number of salaries quoted 21,970 11,077 15,188
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,112
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -2.69%
75th Percentile £66,413 £62,500 £64,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -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 5 September 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 5 September 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 -19 1,077 £47,500 +6.74% 862
South East -7 928 £49,536 -5.65% 1,053
Midlands -8 680 £47,988 +6.64% 564
North West -16 663 £46,500 +3.33% 539
South West -9 554 £48,188 +7.08% 547
West Midlands -17 352 £49,000 +8.89% 338
East Midlands -4 325 £45,483 +4.56% 226
Yorkshire -12 285 £47,250 +18.13% 256
East of England -17 250 £47,500 +7.34% 348
Wales -10 174 £47,500 -5.33% 78
Scotland -22 132 £44,000 +11.39% 353
North East -17 129 £50,500 +23.17% 79
Northern Ireland -10 117 £42,500 -22.73% 192
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
1 170 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 135 (3.46%) SharePoint
3 50 (1.28%) Confluence
4 31 (0.79%) IIS
5 27 (0.69%) Apache
6 25 (0.64%) Apache Spark
7 20 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
8 18 (0.46%) CMS
9 14 (0.36%) SAS
10 10 (0.26%) Jupyter
10 10 (0.26%) WordPress
11 9 (0.23%) WebLogic
11 9 (0.23%) WebSphere
12 8 (0.20%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 3 (0.077%) Anypoint
15 2 (0.051%) Oracle Application Server
15 2 (0.051%) Oracle Workflow
16 1 (0.026%) Moodle
16 1 (0.026%) Umbraco
Applications
1 456 (11.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 207 (5.30%) Microsoft Office
3 74 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 51 (1.31%) MS Visio
5 27 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
6 24 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
7 14 (0.36%) Simulink
8 5 (0.13%) CATIA
8 5 (0.13%) EPLAN
9 4 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.10%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.10%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.077%) LaTeX
10 3 (0.077%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.077%) Siemens NX
10 3 (0.077%) SOLIDWORKS
11 2 (0.051%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.051%) CANalyzer
11 2 (0.051%) Lectora
11 2 (0.051%) Trello
Business Applications
1 84 (2.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.82%) Dynamics GP
3 31 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
4 27 (0.69%) NetSuite
5 18 (0.46%) Shopify
6 16 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
7 14 (0.36%) SAP PM
8 11 (0.28%) Magento
9 10 (0.26%) SAP Business One
10 9 (0.23%) SAP ERP
11 8 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
12 7 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
12 7 (0.18%) Infor M3
12 7 (0.18%) Workday HCM
13 6 (0.15%) Exchequer
13 6 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
14 5 (0.13%) JDE EnterpriseOne
14 5 (0.13%) Sage 50
14 5 (0.13%) SAP GTS
15 4 (0.10%) Academy Housing
Cloud Services
1 638 (16.34%) Azure
2 462 (11.83%) Power Platform
3 341 (8.73%) AWS
4 320 (8.20%) Microsoft 365
5 201 (5.15%) SaaS
6 142 (3.64%) GCP
7 104 (2.66%) Entra ID
8 97 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
9 92 (2.36%) Dynamics 365
10 84 (2.15%) Google Analytics
11 81 (2.07%) Google Ads
12 61 (1.56%) GitHub
12 61 (1.56%) Power Automate
13 60 (1.54%) PowerApps
14 59 (1.51%) Meta Ads
15 50 (1.28%) Serverless
16 46 (1.18%) Microsoft Purview
17 45 (1.15%) Amazon S3
18 37 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
19 36 (0.92%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 169 (4.33%) DNS
2 135 (3.46%) DHCP
3 109 (2.79%) Firewall
4 96 (2.46%) VPN
5 80 (2.05%) TCP/IP
6 67 (1.72%) WAN
7 62 (1.59%) LAN
8 52 (1.33%) Wireless
9 43 (1.10%) Network Security
10 36 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
11 28 (0.72%) Broadband
12 27 (0.69%) HTTP
12 27 (0.69%) VoIP
13 26 (0.67%) VLAN
14 21 (0.54%) BGP
14 21 (0.54%) SD-WAN
15 20 (0.51%) Internet
16 19 (0.49%) SAN
17 18 (0.46%) SMS
18 16 (0.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 408 (10.45%) Power BI
2 130 (3.33%) Tableau
3 122 (3.13%) SQL Server
4 119 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
5 106 (2.72%) Amazon RDS
6 74 (1.90%) Relational Database
7 67 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 59 (1.51%) MySQL
9 53 (1.36%) Power Query
10 50 (1.28%) Looker
11 47 (1.20%) Metadata
12 45 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 42 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
14 37 (0.95%) Data Lake
15 33 (0.85%) BigQuery
16 32 (0.82%) Big Data
17 27 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
18 24 (0.61%) NoSQL
19 22 (0.56%) MongoDB
20 20 (0.51%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 156 (4.00%) JIRA
2 131 (3.36%) Git
3 33 (0.85%) Jenkins
4 31 (0.79%) GitLab
4 31 (0.79%) Rational DOORS
5 18 (0.46%) Eclipse
6 15 (0.38%) Cucumber
6 15 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
6 15 (0.38%) Selenium
7 14 (0.36%) LabVIEW
7 14 (0.36%) Postman
8 13 (0.33%) Burp Suite
8 13 (0.33%) Claude Code
9 12 (0.31%) Cypress.io
10 11 (0.28%) Bitbucket
10 11 (0.28%) Metasploit
10 11 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
11 9 (0.23%) JMeter
11 9 (0.23%) MLflow
12 7 (0.18%) SonarQube
General
1 1,948 (49.90%) Social Skills
2 1,101 (28.20%) Finance
3 432 (11.07%) Marketing
4 299 (7.66%) Organisational Skills
5 282 (7.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 265 (6.79%) Manufacturing
7 251 (6.43%) Legal
8 250 (6.40%) Retail
9 226 (5.79%) Public Sector
10 215 (5.51%) Law
11 209 (5.35%) Influencing Skills
12 172 (4.41%) Aerospace
13 124 (3.18%) Electronics
14 108 (2.77%) Telecoms
15 106 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
16 68 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
17 66 (1.69%) Military
18 56 (1.43%) Advertising
18 56 (1.43%) Banking
19 47 (1.20%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 888 (22.75%) Analyst
2 433 (11.09%) Senior
3 262 (6.71%) Lead
4 205 (5.25%) Developer
5 203 (5.20%) Data Analyst
6 179 (4.59%) Systems Engineer
7 171 (4.38%) Business Analyst
8 140 (3.59%) Support Analyst
9 136 (3.48%) Architect
10 115 (2.95%) Support Engineer
11 111 (2.84%) Data Engineer
12 110 (2.82%) Senior Analyst
13 107 (2.74%) Consultant
14 101 (2.59%) IT Support
15 82 (2.10%) IT Engineer
16 81 (2.07%) Systems Analyst
17 80 (2.05%) Accountant
18 79 (2.02%) Marketing Manager
19 75 (1.92%) Applications Support
20 67 (1.72%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (2.64%) .NET
2 80 (2.05%) REST
3 76 (1.95%) HTML
4 73 (1.87%) Terraform
5 69 (1.77%) CSS
6 63 (1.61%) Middleware
7 59 (1.51%) XML
8 51 (1.31%) JSON
9 49 (1.26%) SOAP
10 43 (1.10%) RESTful
11 40 (1.02%) EDI
12 37 (0.95%) PySpark
13 35 (0.90%) LDAP
14 34 (0.87%) React
15 33 (0.85%) Kafka
16 30 (0.77%) ModSecurity
17 29 (0.74%) ASP.NET
18 26 (0.67%) OAuth
19 24 (0.61%) PyTorch
19 24 (0.61%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 360 (9.22%) Analytical Mindset
2 252 (6.45%) Management Information System
3 210 (5.38%) Onboarding
4 202 (5.17%) Self-Motivation
5 159 (4.07%) Product Ownership
6 133 (3.41%) Driving Licence
7 128 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
8 90 (2.31%) Social Media
9 82 (2.10%) Marketing Technology
10 81 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
11 70 (1.79%) Cloud Native
11 70 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
12 69 (1.77%) Data Centre
13 67 (1.72%) Blog
14 65 (1.66%) Virtual Team
15 47 (1.20%) Security Posture
16 39 (1.00%) Data Structures
17 36 (0.92%) SCADA
18 35 (0.90%) AI Agents
19 33 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 338 (8.66%) Windows
2 204 (5.23%) Linux
3 191 (4.89%) Windows Server
4 97 (2.48%) Windows Server 2016
5 28 (0.72%) Mac OS
6 25 (0.64%) Windows 10
7 24 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
8 21 (0.54%) Unix
9 15 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 13 (0.33%) Apple iOS
11 12 (0.31%) Android
12 9 (0.23%) CentOS
13 7 (0.18%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.15%) Debian
14 6 (0.15%) VMS
15 5 (0.13%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.10%) CoreOS
17 2 (0.051%) Solaris
18 1 (0.026%) FreeRTOS
18 1 (0.026%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,927 (49.36%) Problem-Solving
2 1,235 (31.63%) Continuous Improvement
3 958 (24.54%) Decision-Making
4 734 (18.80%) Analytics
5 668 (17.11%) Stakeholder Management
6 614 (15.73%) AI
7 604 (15.47%) Agile
8 512 (13.11%) Business Intelligence
9 416 (10.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 395 (10.12%) Validation
11 384 (9.84%) Actionable Insight
12 375 (9.61%) Customer Service
13 369 (9.45%) ERP
14 356 (9.12%) CRM
15 346 (8.86%) Mentoring
16 340 (8.71%) Data Analysis
17 320 (8.20%) Customer Experience
18 311 (7.97%) Project Management
19 307 (7.86%) Collaborative Working
20 304 (7.79%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 744 (19.06%) SQL
2 461 (11.81%) Python
3 150 (3.84%) JavaScript
4 130 (3.33%) Java
5 118 (3.02%) C#
6 106 (2.72%) PowerShell
7 76 (1.95%) C++
8 61 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 58 (1.49%) Bash
10 42 (1.08%) TypeScript
11 41 (1.05%) MATLAB
12 38 (0.97%) T-SQL
13 34 (0.87%) R
14 30 (0.77%) C
15 23 (0.59%) PHP
16 18 (0.46%) PL/SQL
17 17 (0.44%) Scala
17 17 (0.44%) VB.NET
18 16 (0.41%) Perl
19 14 (0.36%) Go
Qualifications
1 722 (18.49%) Degree
2 489 (12.53%) Security Cleared
3 339 (8.68%) SC Cleared
4 148 (3.79%) ACCA
5 140 (3.59%) CIMA
6 120 (3.07%) DV Cleared
7 117 (3.00%) DBS Check
8 116 (2.97%) BPSS Clearance
9 83 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
10 73 (1.87%) Cisco Certification
10 73 (1.87%) CISSP
11 59 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
12 56 (1.43%) HND
13 55 (1.41%) CISM
14 48 (1.23%) CompTIA Security+
15 42 (1.08%) Azure Certification
16 41 (1.05%) HNC
17 38 (0.97%) CCNA
18 37 (0.95%) PMI Certification
19 34 (0.87%) IRCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 373 (9.55%) Data Quality
2 276 (7.07%) QA
3 231 (5.92%) GDPR
4 148 (3.79%) Cyber Essentials
5 144 (3.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 111 (2.84%) PCI DSS
7 103 (2.64%) Accessibility
8 89 (2.28%) ISO 9001
8 89 (2.28%) SLA
9 83 (2.13%) NIST
10 39 (1.00%) GRC
11 36 (0.92%) PMO
12 28 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 24 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
14 23 (0.59%) DO-254
14 23 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 22 (0.56%) ISO 14001
16 20 (0.51%) IFRS
17 18 (0.46%) Good Clinical Practice
18 17 (0.44%) TickIT
System Software
1 263 (6.74%) Active Directory
2 104 (2.66%) Hyper-V
3 99 (2.54%) Docker
4 80 (2.05%) Terminal Server
5 40 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
6 33 (0.85%) Firmware
7 15 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
10 8 (0.20%) VMware NSX
11 7 (0.18%) Ceph
12 6 (0.15%) vSphere
13 4 (0.10%) KVM
13 4 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.077%) DFS Replication
15 2 (0.051%) ProxySG
16 1 (0.026%) NFS
16 1 (0.026%) Oracle RAC
16 1 (0.026%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 66 (1.69%) Kubernetes
2 47 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
3 40 (1.02%) Ansible
4 25 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
5 24 (0.61%) Grafana
6 19 (0.49%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.38%) QRadar
8 14 (0.36%) Kibana
9 11 (0.28%) Nmap
9 11 (0.28%) Podman
10 7 (0.18%) Argo
10 7 (0.18%) Check_MK
10 7 (0.18%) Istio
10 7 (0.18%) logstash
11 6 (0.15%) Functional Safety
11 6 (0.15%) Graylog
11 6 (0.15%) Kubeflow
12 4 (0.10%) McAfee ePO
12 4 (0.10%) Puppet
12 4 (0.10%) SCCM
Vendors
1 941 (24.10%) Microsoft
2 229 (5.87%) Google
3 137 (3.51%) VMware
4 130 (3.33%) SAP
5 126 (3.23%) Splunk
6 100 (2.56%) Oracle
7 95 (2.43%) SolarWinds
8 87 (2.23%) Veeam
9 81 (2.07%) Brocade
9 81 (2.07%) Nimble Storage
10 80 (2.05%) Salesforce
10 80 (2.05%) Tanium
11 65 (1.66%) ServiceNow
12 64 (1.64%) Cisco
13 59 (1.51%) Databricks
14 53 (1.36%) Workday
15 49 (1.26%) YouTube
16 37 (0.95%) Adobe
17 34 (0.87%) HubSpot
18 33 (0.85%) IBM