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

6 months to
4 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 3,881 3,993 4,981
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.81% 11.67% 8.78%
As % of the General category 11.03% 17.77% 16.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,381 1,499 2,056
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £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 £60,375 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £76,375
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 35,178 22,468 30,017
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 43.58% 65.69% 52.93%
Number of salaries quoted 21,837 11,019 15,495
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £66,450 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £77,500
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 4 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 4 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 -18 1,072 £47,500 +6.15% 889
South East -7 924 £49,536 -5.65% 1,081
Midlands -8 675 £47,744 +6.10% 584
North West -16 658 £46,500 +3.33% 554
South West -10 548 £48,938 +8.75% 571
West Midlands -17 349 £49,000 +8.89% 342
East Midlands -3 323 £45,483 +4.56% 242
Yorkshire -13 285 £47,250 +18.13% 261
East of England -15 248 £47,500 +5.56% 396
Wales -11 172 £47,500 -5.33% 85
Scotland -26 132 £44,000 +11.39% 372
North East -15 129 £50,500 +23.17% 85
Northern Ireland -14 117 £42,500 -22.73% 201
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 (4.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 135 (3.48%) SharePoint
3 50 (1.29%) Confluence
4 31 (0.80%) IIS
5 27 (0.70%) Apache
6 25 (0.64%) Apache Spark
7 20 (0.52%) 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 (0.21%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 3 (0.077%) Anypoint
15 2 (0.052%) Oracle Application Server
15 2 (0.052%) Oracle Workflow
16 1 (0.026%) Tomcat
16 1 (0.026%) Umbraco
Applications
1 454 (11.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 205 (5.28%) Microsoft Office
3 74 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 51 (1.31%) MS Visio
5 27 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
6 22 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.33%) 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 (0.052%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.052%) Lectora
11 2 (0.052%) Trello
12 1 (0.026%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 84 (2.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.82%) Dynamics GP
3 31 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
4 27 (0.70%) 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 (0.21%) 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%) JDE World
Cloud Services
1 634 (16.34%) Azure
2 458 (11.80%) Power Platform
3 341 (8.79%) AWS
4 319 (8.22%) Microsoft 365
5 201 (5.18%) SaaS
6 142 (3.66%) GCP
7 103 (2.65%) Entra ID
8 96 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
9 91 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
10 84 (2.16%) Google Analytics
11 81 (2.09%) Google Ads
12 61 (1.57%) Power Automate
13 60 (1.55%) GitHub
13 60 (1.55%) PowerApps
14 59 (1.52%) Meta Ads
15 49 (1.26%) Serverless
16 46 (1.19%) Microsoft Purview
17 45 (1.16%) Amazon S3
18 37 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
19 36 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 168 (4.33%) DNS
2 134 (3.45%) DHCP
3 109 (2.81%) Firewall
4 96 (2.47%) VPN
5 80 (2.06%) TCP/IP
6 67 (1.73%) WAN
7 62 (1.60%) LAN
8 52 (1.34%) Wireless
9 43 (1.11%) Network Security
10 36 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
11 28 (0.72%) Broadband
12 27 (0.70%) HTTP
12 27 (0.70%) VoIP
13 26 (0.67%) VLAN
14 21 (0.54%) BGP
14 21 (0.54%) SD-WAN
15 20 (0.52%) Internet
16 18 (0.46%) SAN
16 18 (0.46%) SMS
17 16 (0.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 404 (10.41%) Power BI
2 130 (3.35%) Tableau
3 121 (3.12%) SQL Server
4 118 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
5 106 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
6 73 (1.88%) Relational Database
7 65 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 59 (1.52%) MySQL
9 52 (1.34%) Power Query
10 50 (1.29%) Looker
11 47 (1.21%) Metadata
12 44 (1.13%) 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 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
18 24 (0.62%) NoSQL
19 22 (0.57%) MongoDB
20 20 (0.52%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 156 (4.02%) JIRA
2 130 (3.35%) Git
3 33 (0.85%) Jenkins
4 31 (0.80%) GitLab
4 31 (0.80%) Rational DOORS
5 18 (0.46%) Eclipse
6 15 (0.39%) Cucumber
6 15 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
6 15 (0.39%) 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%) Moq
General
1 1,933 (49.81%) Social Skills
2 1,094 (28.19%) Finance
3 429 (11.05%) Marketing
4 295 (7.60%) Organisational Skills
5 280 (7.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 261 (6.73%) Manufacturing
7 249 (6.42%) Legal
7 249 (6.42%) Retail
8 221 (5.69%) Public Sector
9 214 (5.51%) Law
10 208 (5.36%) Influencing Skills
11 171 (4.41%) Aerospace
12 122 (3.14%) Electronics
13 108 (2.78%) Telecoms
14 104 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
15 68 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
16 66 (1.70%) Military
17 56 (1.44%) Advertising
18 55 (1.42%) Banking
19 45 (1.16%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 884 (22.78%) Analyst
2 432 (11.13%) Senior
3 261 (6.73%) Lead
4 205 (5.28%) Developer
5 201 (5.18%) Data Analyst
6 179 (4.61%) Systems Engineer
7 170 (4.38%) Business Analyst
8 140 (3.61%) Support Analyst
9 136 (3.50%) Architect
10 115 (2.96%) Support Engineer
11 110 (2.83%) Data Engineer
12 109 (2.81%) Senior Analyst
13 106 (2.73%) Consultant
14 101 (2.60%) IT Support
15 81 (2.09%) IT Engineer
15 81 (2.09%) Systems Analyst
16 80 (2.06%) Accountant
17 79 (2.04%) Marketing Manager
18 74 (1.91%) Applications Support
19 67 (1.73%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (2.65%) .NET
2 80 (2.06%) REST
3 76 (1.96%) HTML
4 73 (1.88%) Terraform
5 69 (1.78%) CSS
6 63 (1.62%) Middleware
7 59 (1.52%) XML
8 51 (1.31%) JSON
9 49 (1.26%) SOAP
10 43 (1.11%) RESTful
11 40 (1.03%) EDI
12 36 (0.93%) PySpark
13 35 (0.90%) LDAP
14 34 (0.88%) React
15 33 (0.85%) Kafka
16 30 (0.77%) ModSecurity
17 29 (0.75%) ASP.NET
18 26 (0.67%) OAuth
19 24 (0.62%) PyTorch
19 24 (0.62%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 358 (9.22%) Analytical Mindset
2 251 (6.47%) Management Information System
3 210 (5.41%) Onboarding
4 200 (5.15%) Self-Motivation
5 157 (4.05%) Product Ownership
6 132 (3.40%) Driving Licence
7 127 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
8 90 (2.32%) Social Media
9 82 (2.11%) Marketing Technology
10 81 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
11 70 (1.80%) Cyber Threat
12 69 (1.78%) Cloud Native
13 68 (1.75%) Data Centre
14 67 (1.73%) Blog
15 65 (1.67%) Virtual Team
16 47 (1.21%) Security Posture
17 39 (1.00%) Data Structures
18 36 (0.93%) SCADA
19 35 (0.90%) AI Agents
20 33 (0.85%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 337 (8.68%) Windows
2 204 (5.26%) Linux
3 190 (4.90%) Windows Server
4 96 (2.47%) Windows Server 2016
5 28 (0.72%) Mac OS
6 25 (0.64%) Windows 10
7 23 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
8 21 (0.54%) Unix
9 15 (0.39%) 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 (0.052%) Solaris
18 1 (0.026%) AIX
18 1 (0.026%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,917 (49.39%) Problem-Solving
2 1,225 (31.56%) Continuous Improvement
3 951 (24.50%) Decision-Making
4 727 (18.73%) Analytics
5 662 (17.06%) Stakeholder Management
6 609 (15.69%) AI
7 601 (15.49%) Agile
8 507 (13.06%) Business Intelligence
9 415 (10.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 389 (10.02%) Validation
11 384 (9.89%) Actionable Insight
12 373 (9.61%) Customer Service
13 366 (9.43%) ERP
14 354 (9.12%) CRM
15 345 (8.89%) Mentoring
16 338 (8.71%) Data Analysis
17 319 (8.22%) Customer Experience
18 310 (7.99%) Project Management
19 304 (7.83%) Cybersecurity
20 303 (7.81%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 739 (19.04%) SQL
2 457 (11.78%) Python
3 150 (3.86%) JavaScript
4 130 (3.35%) Java
5 118 (3.04%) C#
6 106 (2.73%) PowerShell
7 76 (1.96%) C++
8 58 (1.49%) Bash
8 58 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 42 (1.08%) TypeScript
10 40 (1.03%) MATLAB
11 38 (0.98%) T-SQL
12 34 (0.88%) R
13 30 (0.77%) C
14 23 (0.59%) PHP
15 18 (0.46%) PL/SQL
16 17 (0.44%) Scala
16 17 (0.44%) VB.NET
17 16 (0.41%) Perl
18 14 (0.36%) Go
Qualifications
1 715 (18.42%) Degree
2 487 (12.55%) Security Cleared
3 338 (8.71%) SC Cleared
4 146 (3.76%) ACCA
5 139 (3.58%) CIMA
6 120 (3.09%) DV Cleared
7 117 (3.01%) DBS Check
8 113 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
9 83 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
10 73 (1.88%) CISSP
11 72 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
12 58 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
13 56 (1.44%) HND
14 55 (1.42%) CISM
15 48 (1.24%) CompTIA Security+
16 42 (1.08%) Azure Certification
17 41 (1.06%) HNC
18 37 (0.95%) CCNA
18 37 (0.95%) PMI Certification
19 34 (0.88%) IRCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 367 (9.46%) Data Quality
2 275 (7.09%) QA
3 228 (5.87%) GDPR
4 148 (3.81%) Cyber Essentials
5 144 (3.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 111 (2.86%) PCI DSS
7 102 (2.63%) Accessibility
8 89 (2.29%) ISO 9001
8 89 (2.29%) SLA
9 83 (2.14%) NIST
10 39 (1.00%) GRC
11 36 (0.93%) PMO
12 28 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 24 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
14 23 (0.59%) DO-254
14 23 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 22 (0.57%) ISO 14001
16 20 (0.52%) IFRS
17 18 (0.46%) Good Clinical Practice
18 17 (0.44%) TickIT
System Software
1 262 (6.75%) Active Directory
2 104 (2.68%) Hyper-V
3 99 (2.55%) Docker
4 80 (2.06%) Terminal Server
5 40 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
6 33 (0.85%) Firmware
7 15 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
10 8 (0.21%) 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 (0.052%) ProxySG
16 1 (0.026%) NFS
16 1 (0.026%) Oracle RAC
16 1 (0.026%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 66 (1.70%) Kubernetes
2 47 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
3 40 (1.03%) Ansible
4 25 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
5 24 (0.62%) Grafana
6 19 (0.49%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.39%) 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%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.10%) McAfee ePO
12 4 (0.10%) Puppet
Vendors
1 934 (24.07%) Microsoft
2 229 (5.90%) Google
3 136 (3.50%) VMware
4 128 (3.30%) SAP
5 126 (3.25%) Splunk
6 100 (2.58%) Oracle
7 95 (2.45%) SolarWinds
8 87 (2.24%) Veeam
9 81 (2.09%) Brocade
9 81 (2.09%) Nimble Storage
10 80 (2.06%) Salesforce
10 80 (2.06%) Tanium
11 65 (1.67%) ServiceNow
12 64 (1.65%) Cisco
13 59 (1.52%) Databricks
14 53 (1.37%) Workday
15 49 (1.26%) YouTube
16 37 (0.95%) Adobe
17 34 (0.88%) HubSpot
18 33 (0.85%) IBM