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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 8 13
Rank change year-on-year -21 +5 +7
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,201 3,918 6,506
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.53% 11.69% 8.80%
As % of the General category 10.10% 17.33% 15.94%
Number of salaries quoted 2,162 1,462 3,508
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,025 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £33,750 £33,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,397 £48,500 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.21% +4.30% -2.11%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £72,500
UK median annual salary £54,296 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.28% +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 31,690 22,604 40,807
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.80% 67.45% 55.19%
Number of salaries quoted 19,442 10,683 26,038
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £75,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 10 July 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 10 July 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 -18 960 £48,445 +3.07% 464
South East -9 814 £50,000 -7.37% 614
Midlands -10 576 £47,500 - 287
North West -19 565 £47,500 -1.67% 245
South West -22 385 £45,000 -8.63% 500
West Midlands -17 315 £49,500 +4.21% 162
Yorkshire -11 291 £50,000 +11.11% 165
East Midlands -4 260 £46,743 -1.59% 124
East of England -20 239 £45,000 -2.01% 158
Scotland -33 106 £40,800 -8.31% 89
North East -27 104 £55,000 +37.50% 60
Wales -13 91 £53,171 -3.33% 35
Northern Ireland -43 41 £41,250 -25.00% 49
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
1 160 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 94 (2.94%) SharePoint
3 39 (1.22%) Confluence
4 29 (0.91%) Apache Spark
5 28 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
5 28 (0.87%) CMS
6 26 (0.81%) Apache
7 20 (0.62%) IIS
8 9 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 9 (0.28%) WordPress
9 8 (0.25%) SAS
9 8 (0.25%) WebLogic
9 8 (0.25%) WebSphere
10 5 (0.16%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.094%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.094%) JBoss
12 1 (0.031%) Moodle
12 1 (0.031%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.031%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.031%) Umbraco
Applications
1 404 (12.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 154 (4.81%) Microsoft Office
3 63 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 54 (1.69%) MS Visio
5 23 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
7 9 (0.28%) CATIA
8 4 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.094%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.094%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.094%) Simulink
9 3 (0.094%) Trello
10 2 (0.062%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.062%) Lectora
10 2 (0.062%) Siemens NX
10 2 (0.062%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.031%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.031%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 41 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.72%) NetSuite
3 22 (0.69%) Salesforce CRM
4 15 (0.47%) SAP PM
5 14 (0.44%) SAP ERP
6 8 (0.25%) Dynamics GP
6 8 (0.25%) Magento
6 8 (0.25%) SAP CO
7 7 (0.22%) Workday HCM
8 5 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
8 5 (0.16%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 5 (0.16%) Q-Pulse
8 5 (0.16%) SAP FI
8 5 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
8 5 (0.16%) SAP GTS
8 5 (0.16%) SAP PP
9 4 (0.12%) JDE OneWorld
9 4 (0.12%) JDE World
9 4 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 564 (17.62%) Azure
2 416 (13.00%) Power Platform
3 292 (9.12%) Microsoft 365
4 270 (8.43%) AWS
5 130 (4.06%) SaaS
6 118 (3.69%) GCP
7 91 (2.84%) Entra ID
8 87 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
9 79 (2.47%) Dynamics 365
10 58 (1.81%) Google Analytics
11 54 (1.69%) Microsoft Purview
12 51 (1.59%) GitHub
13 43 (1.34%) PowerApps
14 38 (1.19%) Power Automate
15 35 (1.09%) Amazon S3
16 33 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
17 31 (0.97%) dbt
18 27 (0.84%) Serverless
19 26 (0.81%) Snowflake
20 25 (0.78%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 139 (4.34%) DNS
2 138 (4.31%) Firewall
3 109 (3.41%) DHCP
4 79 (2.47%) VPN
5 62 (1.94%) WAN
6 57 (1.78%) TCP/IP
7 52 (1.62%) LAN
8 48 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
9 40 (1.25%) Broadband
9 40 (1.25%) Wireless
10 29 (0.91%) Network Security
11 24 (0.75%) BGP
11 24 (0.75%) HTTP
12 22 (0.69%) SD-WAN
12 22 (0.69%) Wireshark
13 20 (0.62%) SAN
13 20 (0.62%) VLAN
14 19 (0.59%) VoIP
15 18 (0.56%) Cisco ASA
16 14 (0.44%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 374 (11.68%) Power BI
2 186 (5.81%) Tableau
3 103 (3.22%) SQL Server
4 93 (2.91%) Amazon RDS
5 92 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
6 64 (2.00%) Data Mining
7 60 (1.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 47 (1.47%) Power Query
9 39 (1.22%) MySQL
10 38 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 37 (1.16%) Looker
12 35 (1.09%) Metadata
13 33 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
13 33 (1.03%) Relational Database
14 30 (0.94%) Data Lake
15 27 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
16 26 (0.81%) Big Data
17 21 (0.66%) BigQuery
18 18 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
19 17 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 112 (3.50%) JIRA
2 74 (2.31%) Git
3 40 (1.25%) GitLab
4 36 (1.12%) Rational DOORS
5 23 (0.72%) Jenkins
6 15 (0.47%) Cucumber
7 13 (0.41%) Selenium
8 12 (0.37%) Cypress.io
9 11 (0.34%) MLflow
10 10 (0.31%) Eclipse
10 10 (0.31%) SonarQube
11 9 (0.28%) JMeter
11 9 (0.28%) LabVIEW
11 9 (0.28%) Postman
12 7 (0.22%) ERwin
12 7 (0.22%) Moq
12 7 (0.22%) Subversion
13 6 (0.19%) Burp Suite
13 6 (0.19%) Toad
14 5 (0.16%) Bitbucket
General
1 1,549 (48.39%) Social Skills
2 944 (29.49%) Finance
3 262 (8.18%) Marketing
4 208 (6.50%) Organisational Skills
5 196 (6.12%) Public Sector
6 191 (5.97%) Retail
7 172 (5.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 170 (5.31%) Manufacturing
9 161 (5.03%) Legal
10 145 (4.53%) Law
11 132 (4.12%) Influencing Skills
12 98 (3.06%) Telecoms
13 80 (2.50%) Aerospace
14 76 (2.37%) Electronics
15 63 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
16 60 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
17 46 (1.44%) Banking
18 44 (1.37%) Advertising
18 44 (1.37%) Military
19 35 (1.09%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 853 (26.65%) Analyst
2 333 (10.40%) Senior
3 231 (7.22%) Lead
4 225 (7.03%) Data Analyst
5 176 (5.50%) Systems Engineer
6 163 (5.09%) Business Analyst
7 159 (4.97%) Developer
8 105 (3.28%) Support Engineer
9 103 (3.22%) Support Analyst
10 99 (3.09%) Architect
11 96 (3.00%) Consultant
12 93 (2.91%) IT Support
13 92 (2.87%) Senior Analyst
14 83 (2.59%) Data Engineer
15 81 (2.53%) Systems Analyst
16 75 (2.34%) Accountant
17 68 (2.12%) IT Engineer
18 66 (2.06%) Head of QA
18 66 (2.06%) IT Manager
19 63 (1.97%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (2.22%) .NET
2 70 (2.19%) HTML
3 66 (2.06%) Middleware
4 62 (1.94%) CSS
4 62 (1.94%) REST
5 61 (1.91%) XML
6 58 (1.81%) JSON
7 45 (1.41%) React
8 35 (1.09%) SOAP
9 30 (0.94%) Node.js
9 30 (0.94%) PyTorch
10 27 (0.84%) RESTful
11 24 (0.75%) PySpark
11 24 (0.75%) TensorFlow
12 22 (0.69%) EDI
13 21 (0.66%) Kafka
13 21 (0.66%) scikit-learn
14 17 (0.53%) Pandas
15 16 (0.50%) OAuth
16 15 (0.47%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 390 (12.18%) Analytical Mindset
2 164 (5.12%) Management Information System
3 122 (3.81%) Onboarding
4 121 (3.78%) Product Ownership
5 116 (3.62%) Self-Motivation
6 108 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
7 89 (2.78%) Driving Licence
8 69 (2.16%) Data Centre
9 54 (1.69%) Cloud Native
10 48 (1.50%) Cyber Threat
11 43 (1.34%) Security Posture
12 41 (1.28%) Virtual Team
13 36 (1.12%) Algorithms
14 34 (1.06%) Social Media
15 32 (1.00%) Data Structures
16 31 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
17 30 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
18 27 (0.84%) Cyber Defence
18 27 (0.84%) FMCG
18 27 (0.84%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 290 (9.06%) Windows
2 175 (5.47%) Linux
3 172 (5.37%) Windows Server
4 94 (2.94%) Windows Server 2016
5 18 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
6 17 (0.53%) Android
6 17 (0.53%) Mac OS
6 17 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 17 (0.53%) Unix
7 14 (0.44%) Apple iOS
8 13 (0.41%) Windows 10
9 11 (0.34%) Ubuntu
10 9 (0.28%) CentOS
11 8 (0.25%) VMS
12 6 (0.19%) Debian
13 5 (0.16%) OpenVMS
14 1 (0.031%) OpenBSD
14 1 (0.031%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.031%) ThreadX
14 1 (0.031%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,503 (46.95%) Problem-Solving
2 899 (28.08%) Continuous Improvement
3 739 (23.09%) Decision-Making
4 653 (20.40%) Analytics
5 444 (13.87%) Agile
6 423 (13.21%) Stakeholder Management
7 420 (13.12%) Business Intelligence
8 352 (11.00%) AI
9 339 (10.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 331 (10.34%) Actionable Insight
11 293 (9.15%) Customer Service
12 288 (9.00%) Data Analysis
13 287 (8.97%) ERP
14 286 (8.93%) Cybersecurity
15 284 (8.87%) Customer Experience
16 281 (8.78%) Project Management
17 265 (8.28%) Mentoring
18 256 (8.00%) Roadmaps
19 252 (7.87%) CRM
20 248 (7.75%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 674 (21.06%) SQL
2 497 (15.53%) Python
3 110 (3.44%) JavaScript
4 103 (3.22%) Java
5 97 (3.03%) PowerShell
6 96 (3.00%) C#
7 61 (1.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 51 (1.59%) C++
9 47 (1.47%) Bash
9 47 (1.47%) T-SQL
10 41 (1.28%) R
11 34 (1.06%) MATLAB
12 22 (0.69%) TypeScript
12 22 (0.69%) VBA
13 21 (0.66%) PHP
14 19 (0.59%) Go
15 18 (0.56%) C
16 13 (0.41%) Perl
16 13 (0.41%) PL/SQL
17 12 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 535 (16.71%) Degree
2 331 (10.34%) Security Cleared
3 236 (7.37%) SC Cleared
4 156 (4.87%) ACCA
5 150 (4.69%) CIMA
6 128 (4.00%) DBS Check
7 86 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 66 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 66 (2.06%) IRCA
9 65 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
10 52 (1.62%) CISSP
11 50 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
12 49 (1.53%) DV Cleared
13 43 (1.34%) CompTIA Security+
14 37 (1.16%) CISM
15 34 (1.06%) CCNA
16 29 (0.91%) Master's Degree
17 25 (0.78%) Azure Certification
17 25 (0.78%) HNC
17 25 (0.78%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 318 (9.93%) Data Quality
2 255 (7.97%) GDPR
3 218 (6.81%) QA
4 167 (5.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 163 (5.09%) Cyber Essentials
6 121 (3.78%) PCI DSS
7 114 (3.56%) ISO 9001
8 104 (3.25%) NIST
9 90 (2.81%) SLA
10 72 (2.25%) Accessibility
11 46 (1.44%) GRC
12 38 (1.19%) PMO
13 31 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
14 29 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 23 (0.72%) ISO 14001
15 23 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 19 (0.59%) GMP
17 17 (0.53%) SOC 2
17 17 (0.53%) TickIT
18 16 (0.50%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 229 (7.15%) Active Directory
2 92 (2.87%) Hyper-V
3 80 (2.50%) Terminal Server
4 65 (2.03%) Docker
5 34 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
6 11 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (0.31%) VMware NSX
7 10 (0.31%) vSphere
8 9 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.16%) Firmware
9 5 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 5 (0.16%) ProxySG
9 5 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.12%) XenApp
11 3 (0.094%) DFS Replication
11 3 (0.094%) Embedded Firmware
12 1 (0.031%) KVM
12 1 (0.031%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.031%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 69 (2.16%) Terraform
2 49 (1.53%) Kubernetes
3 41 (1.28%) Ansible
4 34 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
5 26 (0.81%) Grafana
6 15 (0.47%) Kibana
7 14 (0.44%) QRadar
8 11 (0.34%) Prometheus
9 8 (0.25%) Kubeflow
9 8 (0.25%) logstash
9 8 (0.25%) Nagios
10 6 (0.19%) Graylog
11 5 (0.16%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.16%) Podman
11 5 (0.16%) SCCM
11 5 (0.16%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.12%) Functional Safety
12 4 (0.12%) Puppet
12 4 (0.12%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 784 (24.49%) Microsoft
2 139 (4.34%) Google
3 121 (3.78%) VMware
4 120 (3.75%) SAP
5 118 (3.69%) Splunk
6 101 (3.16%) SolarWinds
7 91 (2.84%) Veeam
8 87 (2.72%) Salesforce
9 81 (2.53%) Nimble Storage
10 80 (2.50%) Brocade
10 80 (2.50%) Tanium
11 69 (2.16%) Oracle
12 67 (2.09%) Workday
13 57 (1.78%) Cisco
14 56 (1.75%) Databricks
15 41 (1.28%) ServiceNow
16 37 (1.16%) IBM
17 30 (0.94%) Adobe
18 28 (0.87%) HubSpot
19 27 (0.84%) Dell