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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 8 13
Rank change year-on-year -19 +5 +10
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,418 4,005 5,652
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.64% 11.74% 8.91%
As % of the General category 10.49% 17.47% 16.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2,223 1,522 2,734
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £33,313 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £73,322
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 32,578 22,922 34,347
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.24% 67.17% 54.16%
Number of salaries quoted 20,027 11,145 20,643
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £84,128 £78,750 £76,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,273
% change year-on-year - +1.34% -9.55%

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 28 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 28 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 -19 983 £47,500 +3.26% 467
South East -9 837 £50,000 -4.76% 577
Midlands -10 604 £48,000 +6.67% 306
North West -18 588 £46,500 -1.06% 246
South West -14 473 £47,000 -1.05% 213
West Midlands -17 324 £50,000 +11.11% 170
Yorkshire -11 283 £47,500 +5.56% 160
East Midlands -5 278 £45,000 -1.52% 136
East of England -22 244 £45,000 -2.01% 153
North East -25 112 £55,000 +37.50% 65
Wales -15 110 £53,171 -3.33% 40
Scotland -31 109 £40,800 -7.27% 70
Northern Ireland -32 68 £41,250 -25.00% 27
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
1 178 (5.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 107 (3.13%) SharePoint
3 39 (1.14%) Confluence
4 29 (0.85%) Apache Spark
5 28 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
6 27 (0.79%) Apache
7 26 (0.76%) CMS
8 22 (0.64%) IIS
9 9 (0.26%) SAS
9 9 (0.26%) WebLogic
9 9 (0.26%) WebSphere
10 8 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 8 (0.23%) Jupyter
10 8 (0.23%) OpenStack
10 8 (0.23%) WordPress
11 3 (0.088%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.088%) JBoss
12 1 (0.029%) Moodle
12 1 (0.029%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.029%) Tomcat
Applications
1 423 (12.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 169 (4.94%) Microsoft Office
3 65 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 57 (1.67%) MS Visio
5 20 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
6 16 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
7 9 (0.26%) CATIA
8 4 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.12%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.088%) LaTeX
9 3 (0.088%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.088%) Simulink
9 3 (0.088%) Trello
10 2 (0.059%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.059%) Lectora
10 2 (0.059%) Siemens NX
10 2 (0.059%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.029%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.029%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 54 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 39 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
3 35 (1.02%) Dynamics GP
4 26 (0.76%) NetSuite
5 19 (0.56%) SAP PM
6 15 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
7 14 (0.41%) SAP ERP
8 10 (0.29%) Magento
9 7 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
10 6 (0.18%) SAP Business One
10 6 (0.18%) SAP CO
11 5 (0.15%) JDE EnterpriseOne
11 5 (0.15%) SAP FI
11 5 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
11 5 (0.15%) SAP GTS
11 5 (0.15%) SAP PP
12 4 (0.12%) Academy Housing
12 4 (0.12%) Infor M3
12 4 (0.12%) JDE OneWorld
12 4 (0.12%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 607 (17.76%) Azure
2 432 (12.64%) Power Platform
3 320 (9.36%) Microsoft 365
4 298 (8.72%) AWS
5 148 (4.33%) SaaS
6 133 (3.89%) GCP
7 90 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
8 83 (2.43%) Dynamics 365
8 83 (2.43%) Entra ID
9 62 (1.81%) Google Analytics
10 52 (1.52%) GitHub
11 50 (1.46%) PowerApps
12 44 (1.29%) Power Automate
13 40 (1.17%) Amazon S3
14 39 (1.14%) Microsoft Purview
15 34 (0.99%) dbt
15 34 (0.99%) Snowflake
16 31 (0.91%) Azure Data Factory
17 30 (0.88%) Serverless
18 29 (0.85%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 166 (4.86%) DNS
2 134 (3.92%) DHCP
3 105 (3.07%) Firewall
4 87 (2.55%) VPN
5 68 (1.99%) TCP/IP
6 64 (1.87%) WAN
7 56 (1.64%) LAN
8 43 (1.26%) Wireless
9 41 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
10 36 (1.05%) Broadband
11 29 (0.85%) Network Security
12 26 (0.76%) HTTP
13 21 (0.61%) SD-WAN
13 21 (0.61%) VoIP
14 20 (0.59%) BGP
14 20 (0.59%) SAN
15 16 (0.47%) Cisco ASA
15 16 (0.47%) Internet
15 16 (0.47%) VLAN
16 15 (0.44%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 384 (11.23%) Power BI
2 184 (5.38%) Tableau
3 114 (3.34%) Amazon RDS
4 110 (3.22%) SQL Server
5 104 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
6 62 (1.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 53 (1.55%) Data Mining
8 52 (1.52%) Power Query
9 51 (1.49%) MySQL
10 46 (1.35%) Relational Database
11 44 (1.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 41 (1.20%) Metadata
13 39 (1.14%) Looker
13 39 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
14 33 (0.97%) Data Lake
15 29 (0.85%) Big Data
16 28 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
17 25 (0.73%) BigQuery
18 18 (0.53%) MongoDB
19 17 (0.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 125 (3.66%) JIRA
2 110 (3.22%) Git
3 40 (1.17%) GitLab
4 36 (1.05%) Rational DOORS
5 30 (0.88%) Jenkins
6 15 (0.44%) Cucumber
6 15 (0.44%) Selenium
7 12 (0.35%) Cypress.io
7 12 (0.35%) Eclipse
7 12 (0.35%) Postman
8 11 (0.32%) MLflow
9 9 (0.26%) Burp Suite
9 9 (0.26%) JMeter
9 9 (0.26%) SonarQube
10 8 (0.23%) LabVIEW
11 7 (0.20%) Bitbucket
11 7 (0.20%) Metasploit
11 7 (0.20%) Moq
11 7 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
11 7 (0.20%) Subversion
General
1 1,662 (48.62%) Social Skills
2 993 (29.05%) Finance
3 290 (8.48%) Marketing
4 223 (6.52%) Organisational Skills
5 222 (6.50%) Retail
6 202 (5.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 200 (5.85%) Legal
8 195 (5.71%) Public Sector
9 183 (5.35%) Manufacturing
10 161 (4.71%) Law
11 156 (4.56%) Influencing Skills
12 108 (3.16%) Telecoms
13 98 (2.87%) Aerospace
14 82 (2.40%) Electronics
15 67 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
16 64 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
17 55 (1.61%) Banking
18 53 (1.55%) Military
19 48 (1.40%) Advertising
20 35 (1.02%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 875 (25.60%) Analyst
2 345 (10.09%) Senior
3 231 (6.76%) Lead
4 227 (6.64%) Data Analyst
5 198 (5.79%) Systems Engineer
6 174 (5.09%) Developer
7 166 (4.86%) Business Analyst
8 114 (3.34%) Support Analyst
8 114 (3.34%) Support Engineer
9 111 (3.25%) Architect
10 100 (2.93%) Consultant
11 98 (2.87%) IT Support
12 94 (2.75%) Senior Analyst
13 93 (2.72%) Data Engineer
14 80 (2.34%) Systems Analyst
15 77 (2.25%) Accountant
16 74 (2.17%) IT Engineer
17 66 (1.93%) Applications Support
17 66 (1.93%) Head of QA
17 66 (1.93%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (2.19%) .NET
2 68 (1.99%) REST
3 66 (1.93%) HTML
4 62 (1.81%) Middleware
5 59 (1.73%) CSS
5 59 (1.73%) XML
6 56 (1.64%) JSON
7 44 (1.29%) React
8 39 (1.14%) SOAP
9 34 (0.99%) RESTful
10 29 (0.85%) Kafka
11 28 (0.82%) PyTorch
12 27 (0.79%) Node.js
13 26 (0.76%) PySpark
14 24 (0.70%) EDI
15 23 (0.67%) TensorFlow
16 21 (0.61%) OAuth
16 21 (0.61%) scikit-learn
17 19 (0.56%) AngularJS
17 19 (0.56%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 395 (11.56%) Analytical Mindset
2 194 (5.68%) Management Information System
3 145 (4.24%) Self-Motivation
4 134 (3.92%) Product Ownership
5 132 (3.86%) Legacy Systems
5 132 (3.86%) Onboarding
6 102 (2.98%) Driving Licence
7 60 (1.76%) Cloud Native
7 60 (1.76%) Virtual Team
8 55 (1.61%) Data Centre
8 55 (1.61%) Social Media
9 52 (1.52%) Cyber Threat
10 49 (1.43%) Marketing Technology
11 45 (1.32%) Security Posture
12 39 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
13 38 (1.11%) Blog
14 33 (0.97%) Data Structures
15 32 (0.94%) Algorithms
16 28 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
17 27 (0.79%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 330 (9.65%) Windows
2 215 (6.29%) Linux
3 196 (5.73%) Windows Server
4 113 (3.31%) Windows Server 2016
5 23 (0.67%) Mac OS
5 23 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
6 20 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 18 (0.53%) Windows 10
8 17 (0.50%) Unix
9 16 (0.47%) Android
10 13 (0.38%) CentOS
11 12 (0.35%) Apple iOS
12 11 (0.32%) Ubuntu
13 8 (0.23%) VMS
14 6 (0.18%) Debian
15 5 (0.15%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.12%) CoreOS
17 2 (0.059%) Solaris
18 1 (0.029%) AIX
18 1 (0.029%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,615 (47.25%) Problem-Solving
2 1,009 (29.52%) Continuous Improvement
3 791 (23.14%) Decision-Making
4 696 (20.36%) Analytics
5 494 (14.45%) Agile
6 483 (14.13%) Stakeholder Management
7 440 (12.87%) Business Intelligence
8 435 (12.73%) AI
9 364 (10.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 348 (10.18%) Actionable Insight
11 338 (9.89%) Customer Experience
12 317 (9.27%) Customer Service
13 311 (9.10%) Data Analysis
14 309 (9.04%) ERP
15 297 (8.69%) Project Management
16 287 (8.40%) Validation
17 281 (8.22%) CRM
18 273 (7.99%) Cybersecurity
18 273 (7.99%) Mentoring
19 270 (7.90%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 693 (20.28%) SQL
2 497 (14.54%) Python
3 124 (3.63%) JavaScript
4 103 (3.01%) Java
5 102 (2.98%) C#
6 100 (2.93%) PowerShell
7 62 (1.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 57 (1.67%) C++
9 54 (1.58%) Bash
10 45 (1.32%) T-SQL
11 40 (1.17%) R
12 34 (0.99%) MATLAB
13 25 (0.73%) TypeScript
14 21 (0.61%) C
14 21 (0.61%) PHP
15 19 (0.56%) Go
16 16 (0.47%) VBA
17 13 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
17 13 (0.38%) Perl
17 13 (0.38%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 569 (16.65%) Degree
2 388 (11.35%) Security Cleared
3 279 (8.16%) SC Cleared
4 156 (4.56%) ACCA
5 150 (4.39%) CIMA
6 123 (3.60%) DBS Check
7 95 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 75 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 70 (2.05%) DV Cleared
10 69 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
11 66 (1.93%) IRCA
12 55 (1.61%) CISSP
13 52 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
14 44 (1.29%) CompTIA Security+
15 39 (1.14%) CISM
16 35 (1.02%) CCNA
17 31 (0.91%) Master's Degree
18 27 (0.79%) Azure Certification
18 27 (0.79%) HNC
19 26 (0.76%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 329 (9.63%) Data Quality
2 245 (7.17%) QA
3 237 (6.93%) GDPR
4 163 (4.77%) Cyber Essentials
5 139 (4.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 132 (3.86%) PCI DSS
7 114 (3.34%) ISO 9001
8 97 (2.84%) SLA
9 81 (2.37%) Accessibility
10 79 (2.31%) NIST
11 44 (1.29%) GRC
12 38 (1.11%) PMO
13 29 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
14 28 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 23 (0.67%) ISO 14001
16 21 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 20 (0.59%) GMP
18 18 (0.53%) Good Clinical Practice
19 17 (0.50%) SOC 2
19 17 (0.50%) TickIT
System Software
1 263 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 113 (3.31%) Hyper-V
3 96 (2.81%) Terminal Server
4 90 (2.63%) Docker
5 34 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
6 14 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (0.32%) Firmware
8 9 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.26%) VMware NSX
9 8 (0.23%) vSphere
10 7 (0.20%) Ceph
11 4 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 4 (0.12%) ProxySG
11 4 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.12%) XenApp
12 3 (0.088%) DFS Replication
12 3 (0.088%) Embedded Firmware
13 2 (0.059%) KVM
14 1 (0.029%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.029%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 66 (1.93%) Terraform
2 65 (1.90%) Kubernetes
3 44 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 39 (1.14%) Ansible
5 27 (0.79%) Grafana
6 20 (0.59%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.41%) Kibana
8 13 (0.38%) QRadar
9 12 (0.35%) Podman
10 7 (0.20%) Argo
10 7 (0.20%) Check_MK
10 7 (0.20%) Istio
10 7 (0.20%) logstash
10 7 (0.20%) Nagios
10 7 (0.20%) Nmap
10 7 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.18%) Kubeflow
12 5 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.15%) Graylog
12 5 (0.15%) SCCM
Vendors
1 824 (24.11%) Microsoft
2 153 (4.48%) Google
3 138 (4.04%) VMware
4 137 (4.01%) Splunk
5 120 (3.51%) SAP
6 114 (3.34%) SolarWinds
7 105 (3.07%) Veeam
8 97 (2.84%) Brocade
8 97 (2.84%) Nimble Storage
9 96 (2.81%) Tanium
10 83 (2.43%) Salesforce
11 74 (2.17%) Oracle
12 62 (1.81%) Workday
13 59 (1.73%) Cisco
14 56 (1.64%) Databricks
15 50 (1.46%) ServiceNow
16 38 (1.11%) Red Hat
17 37 (1.08%) IBM
18 32 (0.94%) Dell
19 28 (0.82%) HubSpot