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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 8 17
Rank change year-on-year -19 +9 +3
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,010 3,689 6,404
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.53% 12.55% 8.54%
As % of the General category 9.97% 17.53% 15.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2,027 1,341 3,592
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.11% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £77,795 £77,500 £72,500
UK median annual salary £54,150 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.55% +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 30,205 21,044 41,728
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 45.48% 71.58% 55.64%
Number of salaries quoted 17,664 9,321 27,091
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,507 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% +2.12% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,200
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.51% +8.57% -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 6 June 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 6 June 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 -19 932 £47,500 -1.67% 420
South East -6 759 £50,000 -4.76% 584
Midlands -11 554 £48,500 +2.11% 252
North West -18 548 £46,500 -7.00% 240
West Midlands -19 309 £51,300 +8.00% 157
South West -26 308 £47,500 -5.47% 187
Yorkshire -14 290 £50,000 +11.11% 132
East Midlands +1 244 £45,000 -5.76% 95
East of England -19 240 £45,000 -11.71% 162
Scotland -25 109 £40,000 -20.71% 93
North East -30 94 £50,000 +27.88% 55
Wales -2 79 £51,709 -5.98% 39
Northern Ireland -25 40 £41,250 -25.00% 64
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
1 138 (4.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 83 (2.76%) SharePoint
3 31 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
4 30 (1.00%) Apache Spark
5 29 (0.96%) Confluence
6 28 (0.93%) CMS
7 23 (0.76%) IIS
8 22 (0.73%) Apache
9 9 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 9 (0.30%) WordPress
10 6 (0.20%) SAS
11 5 (0.17%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.13%) nginx
13 3 (0.100%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.100%) govService
13 3 (0.100%) JBoss
14 2 (0.066%) WebLogic
14 2 (0.066%) WebSphere
15 1 (0.033%) Moodle
15 1 (0.033%) Umbraco
Applications
1 398 (13.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 147 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
3 62 (2.06%) MS Visio
4 53 (1.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 20 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
7 10 (0.33%) CATIA
8 4 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.100%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.100%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.100%) Trello
10 2 (0.066%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.066%) Lectora
10 2 (0.066%) Simulink
10 2 (0.066%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.033%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.033%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.033%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 44 (1.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (1.06%) Salesforce CRM
3 22 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
4 19 (0.63%) NetSuite
5 15 (0.50%) SAP PM
6 14 (0.47%) SAP ERP
7 13 (0.43%) SAP CO
8 8 (0.27%) Dynamics GP
9 7 (0.23%) Magento
9 7 (0.23%) Workday HCM
10 5 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
10 5 (0.17%) Q-Pulse
10 5 (0.17%) SAP GTS
10 5 (0.17%) SAP PP
11 4 (0.13%) Infor M3
11 4 (0.13%) JDE OneWorld
11 4 (0.13%) JDE World
11 4 (0.13%) SAP FI
11 4 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
12 3 (0.100%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 508 (16.88%) Azure
2 402 (13.36%) Power Platform
3 271 (9.00%) AWS
4 263 (8.74%) Microsoft 365
5 123 (4.09%) SaaS
6 95 (3.16%) GCP
7 85 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
8 79 (2.62%) Entra ID
9 77 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
10 55 (1.83%) GitHub
11 51 (1.69%) Microsoft Purview
12 50 (1.66%) Google Analytics
13 47 (1.56%) Power Automate
14 44 (1.46%) PowerApps
15 43 (1.43%) Amazon S3
16 36 (1.20%) Serverless
17 33 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
17 33 (1.10%) dbt
18 32 (1.06%) Snowflake
19 28 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 134 (4.45%) Firewall
2 117 (3.89%) DNS
3 89 (2.96%) DHCP
4 80 (2.66%) VPN
5 62 (2.06%) WAN
6 46 (1.53%) LAN
7 44 (1.46%) TCP/IP
8 41 (1.36%) Wireless
9 38 (1.26%) Wi-Fi
10 36 (1.20%) Broadband
11 31 (1.03%) Network Security
12 27 (0.90%) VLAN
13 26 (0.86%) SD-WAN
14 25 (0.83%) BGP
15 23 (0.76%) Cisco ASA
15 23 (0.76%) Wireshark
16 22 (0.73%) SAN
17 18 (0.60%) HTTP
18 17 (0.56%) OSPF
19 15 (0.50%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 360 (11.96%) Power BI
2 215 (7.14%) Tableau
3 98 (3.26%) SQL Server
4 93 (3.09%) Data Mining
5 78 (2.59%) Amazon RDS
6 73 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
7 57 (1.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 42 (1.40%) Power Query
9 40 (1.33%) Metadata
10 35 (1.16%) Looker
10 35 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 34 (1.13%) MySQL
12 33 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
12 33 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
13 31 (1.03%) Data Lake
14 30 (1.00%) Relational Database
15 29 (0.96%) Big Data
16 26 (0.86%) NoSQL
17 17 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
17 17 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 89 (2.96%) JIRA
2 66 (2.19%) Git
3 37 (1.23%) GitLab
4 32 (1.06%) Rational DOORS
5 16 (0.53%) Jenkins
6 11 (0.37%) MLflow
6 11 (0.37%) Selenium
7 10 (0.33%) Cucumber
7 10 (0.33%) Cypress.io
8 7 (0.23%) LabVIEW
8 7 (0.23%) Moq
8 7 (0.23%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.20%) Subversion
9 6 (0.20%) Toad
10 5 (0.17%) ERwin
10 5 (0.17%) JMeter
10 5 (0.17%) Maven
10 5 (0.17%) Postman
11 4 (0.13%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.13%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 1,388 (46.11%) Social Skills
2 908 (30.17%) Finance
3 266 (8.84%) Marketing
4 180 (5.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 175 (5.81%) Public Sector
6 152 (5.05%) Organisational Skills
7 150 (4.98%) Retail
8 142 (4.72%) Law
9 141 (4.68%) Manufacturing
10 138 (4.58%) Legal
11 110 (3.65%) Influencing Skills
12 94 (3.12%) Telecoms
13 69 (2.29%) Electronics
14 67 (2.23%) Aerospace
15 64 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
15 64 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
16 42 (1.40%) Banking
16 42 (1.40%) Military
17 31 (1.03%) Automotive
17 31 (1.03%) Games
Job Titles
1 841 (27.94%) Analyst
2 318 (10.56%) Senior
3 234 (7.77%) Data Analyst
4 205 (6.81%) Lead
5 167 (5.55%) Business Analyst
6 159 (5.28%) Developer
7 145 (4.82%) Systems Engineer
8 110 (3.65%) Architect
9 87 (2.89%) Support Analyst
10 84 (2.79%) Senior Analyst
11 83 (2.76%) Consultant
11 83 (2.76%) Support Engineer
12 80 (2.66%) IT Support
12 80 (2.66%) Systems Analyst
12 80 (2.66%) Trainee
13 79 (2.62%) Trainee Analyst
13 79 (2.62%) Trainee Data Analyst
14 72 (2.39%) Data Engineer
15 68 (2.26%) IT Manager
16 66 (2.19%) Head of QA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (2.66%) HTML
2 71 (2.36%) CSS
3 62 (2.06%) .NET
4 61 (2.03%) Middleware
4 61 (2.03%) REST
5 56 (1.86%) JSON
6 54 (1.79%) React
7 53 (1.76%) XML
8 39 (1.30%) SOAP
9 37 (1.23%) Node.js
10 30 (1.00%) PyTorch
11 24 (0.80%) TensorFlow
12 21 (0.70%) scikit-learn
13 20 (0.66%) EDI
13 20 (0.66%) PySpark
14 17 (0.56%) OAuth
14 17 (0.56%) Pandas
14 17 (0.56%) RESTful
15 16 (0.53%) RabbitMQ
16 15 (0.50%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 373 (12.39%) Analytical Mindset
2 145 (4.82%) Management Information System
3 120 (3.99%) Onboarding
4 114 (3.79%) Self-Motivation
5 108 (3.59%) Product Ownership
6 85 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
7 74 (2.46%) Data Centre
8 66 (2.19%) Driving Licence
9 42 (1.40%) Cloud Native
10 36 (1.20%) Algorithms
11 35 (1.16%) Data Structures
12 32 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
12 32 (1.06%) Security Posture
13 31 (1.03%) FMCG
13 31 (1.03%) Low-Code
13 31 (1.03%) Virtual Team
14 29 (0.96%) Social Media
15 28 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
16 26 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
16 26 (0.86%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 252 (8.37%) Windows
2 150 (4.98%) Windows Server
3 143 (4.75%) Linux
4 78 (2.59%) Windows Server 2016
5 21 (0.70%) Unix
6 16 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
7 15 (0.50%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.47%) Android
8 14 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 10 (0.33%) Ubuntu
10 9 (0.30%) CentOS
11 8 (0.27%) Mac OS
11 8 (0.27%) VMS
12 7 (0.23%) Windows 10
13 3 (0.100%) Debian
13 3 (0.100%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.033%) AIX
14 1 (0.033%) OpenBSD
14 1 (0.033%) OpenVMS
14 1 (0.033%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,406 (46.71%) Problem-Solving
2 814 (27.04%) Continuous Improvement
3 657 (21.83%) Decision-Making
4 626 (20.80%) Analytics
5 441 (14.65%) Agile
6 410 (13.62%) Business Intelligence
7 369 (12.26%) Stakeholder Management
8 323 (10.73%) AI
9 306 (10.17%) Actionable Insight
10 301 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 291 (9.67%) Project Management
12 287 (9.53%) Data Analysis
13 268 (8.90%) Customer Service
14 262 (8.70%) ERP
15 248 (8.24%) Cybersecurity
16 245 (8.14%) CRM
17 242 (8.04%) Mentoring
18 241 (8.01%) Customer Experience
19 234 (7.77%) Data Modelling
19 234 (7.77%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 657 (21.83%) SQL
2 506 (16.81%) Python
3 105 (3.49%) JavaScript
4 100 (3.32%) PowerShell
5 98 (3.26%) Java
6 85 (2.82%) C#
7 61 (2.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 44 (1.46%) R
9 43 (1.43%) T-SQL
10 41 (1.36%) Bash
10 41 (1.36%) C++
11 34 (1.13%) VBA
12 30 (1.00%) MATLAB
13 19 (0.63%) PHP
14 15 (0.50%) Go
14 15 (0.50%) TypeScript
15 14 (0.47%) PL/SQL
15 14 (0.47%) Scala
16 12 (0.40%) C
17 9 (0.30%) Perl
Qualifications
1 503 (16.71%) Degree
2 272 (9.04%) Security Cleared
3 196 (6.51%) SC Cleared
4 144 (4.78%) ACCA
5 138 (4.58%) CIMA
6 131 (4.35%) DBS Check
7 73 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 69 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
9 68 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
10 66 (2.19%) IRCA
11 50 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
12 46 (1.53%) CISSP
13 45 (1.50%) DV Cleared
14 42 (1.40%) PMI Certification
15 37 (1.23%) CompTIA Security+
16 35 (1.16%) CCNA
16 35 (1.16%) PMP
17 34 (1.13%) CISM
18 27 (0.90%) CCNP
19 25 (0.83%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 304 (10.10%) Data Quality
2 237 (7.87%) GDPR
3 180 (5.98%) QA
4 149 (4.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 127 (4.22%) Cyber Essentials
6 105 (3.49%) NIST
7 101 (3.36%) ISO 9001
7 101 (3.36%) PCI DSS
8 75 (2.49%) SLA
9 53 (1.76%) Accessibility
10 44 (1.46%) GRC
11 39 (1.30%) PMO
12 37 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
13 18 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 17 (0.56%) SOC 2
14 17 (0.56%) TickIT
15 16 (0.53%) GMP
15 16 (0.53%) ISO 14001
15 16 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 13 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 192 (6.38%) Active Directory
2 75 (2.49%) Hyper-V
3 64 (2.13%) Terminal Server
4 53 (1.76%) Docker
5 32 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
6 12 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.33%) vSphere
8 9 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (0.30%) VMware NSX
9 8 (0.27%) ProxySG
10 4 (0.13%) Firmware
10 4 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 4 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.13%) XenApp
11 3 (0.100%) DFS Replication
12 2 (0.066%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.033%) Embedded Firmware
13 1 (0.033%) KVM
13 1 (0.033%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.033%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 66 (2.19%) Terraform
2 45 (1.50%) Kubernetes
3 37 (1.23%) Ansible
4 29 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (0.56%) Grafana
6 12 (0.40%) Kibana
6 12 (0.40%) QRadar
7 9 (0.30%) Nagios
8 8 (0.27%) Prometheus
9 7 (0.23%) Kubeflow
10 6 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.17%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.17%) Graylog
11 5 (0.17%) logstash
11 5 (0.17%) Podman
12 4 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.13%) Backup Exec
12 4 (0.13%) Control-M
12 4 (0.13%) Functional Safety
12 4 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 735 (24.42%) Microsoft
2 126 (4.19%) SAP
3 115 (3.82%) Google
4 101 (3.36%) VMware
5 98 (3.26%) Salesforce
6 97 (3.22%) Splunk
7 89 (2.96%) SolarWinds
8 81 (2.69%) Oracle
9 75 (2.49%) Veeam
10 66 (2.19%) Workday
11 65 (2.16%) Nimble Storage
12 64 (2.13%) Brocade
12 64 (2.13%) Tanium
13 58 (1.93%) Databricks
14 50 (1.66%) Cisco
15 43 (1.43%) ServiceNow
16 36 (1.20%) IBM
17 29 (0.96%) Dell
18 28 (0.93%) HubSpot
19 27 (0.90%) Adobe