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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 8 12
Rank change year-on-year -16 +4 +10
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,038 4,135 4,878
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.83% 12.04% 8.82%
As % of the General category 11.01% 18.24% 16.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,426 1,511 1,839
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,500 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £61,188 £60,000 £63,110
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%

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 36,684 22,672 29,467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 43.86% 66.00% 53.30%
Number of salaries quoted 22,615 11,042 14,010
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,250 £28,398
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -1.93%
75th Percentile £66,250 £62,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £55,655
% change year-on-year +1.85% -2.97% -7.24%

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 16 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 16 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 -20 1,101 £47,500 +10.47% 1,212
South East -10 954 £49,536 +0.07% 1,351
Midlands -10 702 £47,500 +5.56% 777
North West -17 673 £46,500 +3.33% 748
South West -11 581 £47,500 +5.56% 658
West Midlands -17 356 £47,994 +6.65% 485
East Midlands -5 343 £45,000 +5.88% 291
Yorkshire -11 300 £47,000 +17.50% 361
East of England -17 260 £47,500 +18.75% 477
Wales -7 197 £45,000 -10.40% 120
Scotland -24 141 £45,000 +12.50% 455
North East -22 128 £50,500 +26.25% 113
Northern Ireland -12 113 £43,750 -20.45% 259
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
1 164 (4.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 139 (3.44%) SharePoint
3 52 (1.29%) Confluence
4 30 (0.74%) IIS
5 28 (0.69%) Apache
6 25 (0.62%) Apache Spark
7 19 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
8 14 (0.35%) CMS
8 14 (0.35%) SAS
9 10 (0.25%) Jupyter
9 10 (0.25%) WordPress
10 9 (0.22%) WebLogic
10 9 (0.22%) WebSphere
11 8 (0.20%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.050%) Anypoint
13 2 (0.050%) Oracle Application Server
13 2 (0.050%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.025%) Apache Superset
14 1 (0.025%) Appian
Applications
1 505 (12.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 239 (5.92%) Microsoft Office
3 77 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 51 (1.26%) MS Visio
5 36 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
6 25 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
7 17 (0.42%) Simulink
8 8 (0.20%) AutoCAD
9 7 (0.17%) SOLIDWORKS
10 6 (0.15%) CATIA
11 5 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 5 (0.12%) EPLAN
11 5 (0.12%) Photoshop
11 5 (0.12%) Siemens NX
12 4 (0.099%) Chatbot
13 3 (0.074%) CANalyzer
13 3 (0.074%) LaTeX
14 2 (0.050%) Adobe XD
14 2 (0.050%) Lectora
14 2 (0.050%) Revit
Business Applications
1 87 (2.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.79%) Dynamics GP
3 30 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
4 26 (0.64%) NetSuite
5 20 (0.50%) Shopify
6 13 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
7 12 (0.30%) Magento
8 10 (0.25%) SAP Business One
9 9 (0.22%) Infor M3
9 9 (0.22%) SAP PM
10 8 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
10 8 (0.20%) SAP ERP
11 7 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
11 7 (0.17%) Workday HCM
12 6 (0.15%) Exchequer
12 6 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
13 5 (0.12%) JDE EnterpriseOne
13 5 (0.12%) Sage 50
14 4 (0.099%) JDE World
14 4 (0.099%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 640 (15.85%) Azure
2 486 (12.04%) Power Platform
3 346 (8.57%) AWS
4 319 (7.90%) Microsoft 365
5 213 (5.27%) SaaS
6 144 (3.57%) GCP
7 108 (2.67%) Entra ID
8 101 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
8 101 (2.50%) Google Ads
9 96 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
10 87 (2.15%) Google Analytics
11 78 (1.93%) Meta Ads
12 65 (1.61%) Power Automate
13 63 (1.56%) PowerApps
14 62 (1.54%) GitHub
15 56 (1.39%) Serverless
16 50 (1.24%) Amazon S3
17 46 (1.14%) Microsoft Purview
18 43 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
18 43 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 163 (4.04%) DNS
2 127 (3.15%) DHCP
3 109 (2.70%) Firewall
4 97 (2.40%) VPN
5 82 (2.03%) TCP/IP
6 66 (1.63%) WAN
7 61 (1.51%) LAN
8 50 (1.24%) Wireless
9 44 (1.09%) Network Security
10 35 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
11 28 (0.69%) VLAN
12 27 (0.67%) HTTP
13 25 (0.62%) VoIP
14 24 (0.59%) Broadband
14 24 (0.59%) Internet
15 21 (0.52%) BGP
15 21 (0.52%) SAN
15 21 (0.52%) SD-WAN
16 18 (0.45%) SMS
17 17 (0.42%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 432 (10.70%) Power BI
2 120 (2.97%) SQL Server
3 119 (2.95%) Data Warehouse
4 110 (2.72%) Tableau
5 98 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
6 73 (1.81%) Relational Database
7 66 (1.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 62 (1.54%) MySQL
9 56 (1.39%) Power Query
10 50 (1.24%) Metadata
11 47 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
12 46 (1.14%) Looker
13 44 (1.09%) Data Lake
13 44 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 35 (0.87%) BigQuery
15 33 (0.82%) Big Data
16 31 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
17 28 (0.69%) NoSQL
18 26 (0.64%) MongoDB
19 20 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 155 (3.84%) JIRA
2 139 (3.44%) Git
3 33 (0.82%) Jenkins
4 30 (0.74%) Rational DOORS
5 28 (0.69%) GitLab
6 20 (0.50%) Eclipse
7 17 (0.42%) LabVIEW
8 16 (0.40%) Cucumber
8 16 (0.40%) Selenium
9 15 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
10 14 (0.35%) Burp Suite
11 13 (0.32%) Claude Code
11 13 (0.32%) Postman
12 12 (0.30%) Bitbucket
13 11 (0.27%) Metasploit
13 11 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
14 10 (0.25%) Cypress.io
14 10 (0.25%) JMeter
15 8 (0.20%) Moq
15 8 (0.20%) SonarQube
General
1 2,033 (50.35%) Social Skills
2 1,171 (29.00%) Finance
3 469 (11.61%) Marketing
4 349 (8.64%) Organisational Skills
5 306 (7.58%) Manufacturing
6 294 (7.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 271 (6.71%) Retail
8 264 (6.54%) Legal
9 233 (5.77%) Public Sector
10 220 (5.45%) Influencing Skills
11 217 (5.37%) Law
12 186 (4.61%) Aerospace
13 141 (3.49%) Electronics
14 119 (2.95%) Presentation Skills
14 119 (2.95%) Telecoms
15 71 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
16 66 (1.63%) Advertising
17 65 (1.61%) Military
18 63 (1.56%) Banking
19 61 (1.51%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 905 (22.41%) Analyst
2 462 (11.44%) Senior
3 266 (6.59%) Lead
4 208 (5.15%) Developer
5 198 (4.90%) Data Analyst
6 179 (4.43%) Business Analyst
7 169 (4.19%) Systems Engineer
8 150 (3.71%) Support Analyst
9 138 (3.42%) Architect
10 118 (2.92%) Data Engineer
11 116 (2.87%) Support Engineer
12 105 (2.60%) Consultant
12 105 (2.60%) Senior Analyst
13 102 (2.53%) IT Support
14 90 (2.23%) Accountant
15 84 (2.08%) Administrator
15 84 (2.08%) IT Engineer
16 83 (2.06%) Applications Support
17 82 (2.03%) Marketing Manager
17 82 (2.03%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (2.50%) .NET
2 84 (2.08%) REST
3 75 (1.86%) HTML
4 72 (1.78%) Terraform
5 68 (1.68%) CSS
6 63 (1.56%) Middleware
7 58 (1.44%) XML
8 56 (1.39%) JSON
9 50 (1.24%) SOAP
10 48 (1.19%) PySpark
11 47 (1.16%) RESTful
12 42 (1.04%) EDI
13 36 (0.89%) LDAP
14 35 (0.87%) Kafka
14 35 (0.87%) React
15 31 (0.77%) ModSecurity
16 27 (0.67%) ASP.NET
16 27 (0.67%) Spring
16 27 (0.67%) Spring Boot
17 24 (0.59%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 333 (8.25%) Analytical Mindset
2 301 (7.45%) Management Information System
3 235 (5.82%) Onboarding
4 215 (5.32%) Self-Motivation
5 163 (4.04%) Product Ownership
6 142 (3.52%) Driving Licence
7 116 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
8 96 (2.38%) Social Media
9 86 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
10 80 (1.98%) Marketing Technology
11 78 (1.93%) Cloud Native
12 72 (1.78%) Cyber Threat
13 71 (1.76%) Data Centre
14 69 (1.71%) Virtual Team
15 67 (1.66%) Blog
16 47 (1.16%) Security Posture
17 43 (1.06%) Data Structures
18 37 (0.92%) SCADA
19 36 (0.89%) AI Agents
20 33 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 336 (8.32%) Windows
2 198 (4.90%) Linux
3 184 (4.56%) Windows Server
4 89 (2.20%) Windows Server 2016
5 29 (0.72%) Mac OS
6 27 (0.67%) Windows 10
7 24 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
8 21 (0.52%) Unix
9 15 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 12 (0.30%) Android
11 11 (0.27%) Apple iOS
12 9 (0.22%) CentOS
13 7 (0.17%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.15%) Debian
14 6 (0.15%) VMS
15 5 (0.12%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.099%) CoreOS
17 2 (0.050%) Solaris
18 1 (0.025%) AIX
18 1 (0.025%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,019 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1,274 (31.55%) Continuous Improvement
3 996 (24.67%) Decision-Making
4 746 (18.47%) Stakeholder Management
5 732 (18.13%) Analytics
6 655 (16.22%) AI
7 614 (15.21%) Agile
8 553 (13.69%) Business Intelligence
9 423 (10.48%) Validation
10 409 (10.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 403 (9.98%) ERP
12 401 (9.93%) Customer Service
13 389 (9.63%) Actionable Insight
14 382 (9.46%) CRM
15 368 (9.11%) Data Analysis
16 363 (8.99%) Mentoring
17 322 (7.97%) Collaborative Working
18 314 (7.78%) Project Management
19 308 (7.63%) Cybersecurity
20 306 (7.58%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 771 (19.09%) SQL
2 445 (11.02%) Python
3 149 (3.69%) JavaScript
4 135 (3.34%) Java
5 116 (2.87%) C#
6 106 (2.63%) PowerShell
7 78 (1.93%) C++
8 65 (1.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 57 (1.41%) Bash
10 44 (1.09%) MATLAB
10 44 (1.09%) TypeScript
11 38 (0.94%) T-SQL
12 33 (0.82%) C
13 31 (0.77%) R
14 21 (0.52%) PHP
15 19 (0.47%) PL/SQL
16 17 (0.42%) Scala
16 17 (0.42%) VB.NET
17 16 (0.40%) Perl
18 15 (0.37%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 779 (19.29%) Degree
2 506 (12.53%) Security Cleared
3 348 (8.62%) SC Cleared
4 172 (4.26%) ACCA
5 162 (4.01%) CIMA
6 119 (2.95%) BPSS Clearance
6 119 (2.95%) DV Cleared
7 113 (2.80%) DBS Check
8 89 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
9 75 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
10 69 (1.71%) CISSP
11 65 (1.61%) HND
12 62 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
13 55 (1.36%) CISM
14 47 (1.16%) Azure Certification
14 47 (1.16%) HNC
15 46 (1.14%) CompTIA Security+
16 42 (1.04%) CCNA
17 35 (0.87%) Master's Degree
17 35 (0.87%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 388 (9.61%) Data Quality
2 263 (6.51%) QA
3 214 (5.30%) GDPR
4 139 (3.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 138 (3.42%) Cyber Essentials
6 116 (2.87%) Accessibility
7 103 (2.55%) PCI DSS
8 87 (2.15%) SLA
9 73 (1.81%) NIST
10 64 (1.58%) ISO 9001
11 38 (0.94%) GRC
12 35 (0.87%) PMO
13 26 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
13 26 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 24 (0.59%) IFRS
15 23 (0.57%) DO-254
16 21 (0.52%) ISO 14001
17 20 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 20000
18 18 (0.45%) Good Clinical Practice
19 17 (0.42%) TickIT
System Software
1 256 (6.34%) Active Directory
2 99 (2.45%) Docker
2 99 (2.45%) Hyper-V
3 72 (1.78%) Terminal Server
4 42 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
5 37 (0.92%) Firmware
6 15 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
7 11 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.20%) VMware NSX
9 7 (0.17%) Ceph
10 6 (0.15%) vSphere
11 4 (0.099%) KVM
11 4 (0.099%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 4 (0.099%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.074%) DFS Replication
13 1 (0.025%) IAG
13 1 (0.025%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.025%) VirtualBox
13 1 (0.025%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 65 (1.61%) Kubernetes
2 47 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
3 39 (0.97%) Ansible
4 25 (0.62%) Grafana
4 25 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
5 20 (0.50%) Prometheus
6 16 (0.40%) Kibana
7 15 (0.37%) QRadar
8 11 (0.27%) Nmap
8 11 (0.27%) Podman
9 8 (0.20%) logstash
10 7 (0.17%) Argo
10 7 (0.17%) Check_MK
10 7 (0.17%) Istio
11 6 (0.15%) Functional Safety
11 6 (0.15%) Graylog
12 5 (0.12%) Kubeflow
13 4 (0.099%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.099%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.099%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 1,015 (25.14%) Microsoft
2 256 (6.34%) Google
3 134 (3.32%) SAP
4 131 (3.24%) VMware
5 125 (3.10%) Splunk
6 100 (2.48%) Oracle
7 85 (2.11%) SolarWinds
8 80 (1.98%) Salesforce
9 79 (1.96%) Veeam
10 73 (1.81%) Brocade
10 73 (1.81%) Nimble Storage
11 72 (1.78%) Tanium
12 68 (1.68%) ServiceNow
13 65 (1.61%) Cisco
14 58 (1.44%) Databricks
15 56 (1.39%) YouTube
16 42 (1.04%) Workday
17 38 (0.94%) Adobe
17 38 (0.94%) HubSpot
18 32 (0.79%) IBM