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 15 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 13 22
Rank change year-on-year -10 +9 -2
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,205 3,644 2,834
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 7.52% 10.13% 8.25%
As % of the General category 13.50% 15.86% 13.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,558 1,506 1,902
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,352
25th Percentile £34,000 £39,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,967 £48,710
Median % change year-on-year -11.71% +4.63% -2.58%
75th Percentile £61,188 £65,994 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £72,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

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 23,742 22,979 20,479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 55.71% 63.87% 59.58%
Number of salaries quoted 12,297 9,433 14,489
10th Percentile £26,825 £31,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +3.45% -6.45%

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 15 January 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 15 January 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
South East +5 854 £50,000 - 775
North of England -16 770 £42,500 -15.00% 437
Midlands -12 589 £42,500 -11.46% 319
North West -14 405 £42,500 -19.05% 218
South West +3 359 £45,000 -11.76% 265
West Midlands -16 345 £52,000 +4.00% 160
Scotland -1 276 £40,000 -34.29% 81
Yorkshire +3 267 £40,000 -20.00% 167
East of England -19 262 £40,000 -21.52% 296
East Midlands +3 242 £37,500 -11.76% 157
North East 0 98 £41,500 -5.68% 61
Wales +15 79 £42,500 -13.45% 91
Northern Ireland -3 44 £52,500 -11.66% 47
Isle of Man -2 1 £62,500 +150.00% 1
Channel Islands -6 1 - -
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
1 133 (4.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 56 (1.75%) Confluence
3 44 (1.37%) SharePoint
4 18 (0.56%) Apache Spark
5 16 (0.50%) CMS
5 16 (0.50%) IIS
6 13 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
6 13 (0.41%) WordPress
7 12 (0.37%) Apache
7 12 (0.37%) SAS
8 6 (0.19%) nginx
9 4 (0.12%) Camunda
10 3 (0.094%) govService
10 3 (0.094%) HCL Notes
10 3 (0.094%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.062%) FactoryTalk
11 2 (0.062%) WinCC
12 1 (0.031%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.031%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.031%) Kinematics
Applications
1 542 (16.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 334 (10.42%) Chatbot
3 231 (7.21%) Microsoft Office
4 79 (2.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 46 (1.44%) MS Visio
6 33 (1.03%) Spreadsheet
7 28 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
8 17 (0.53%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.25%) SOLIDWORKS
10 5 (0.16%) CATIA
11 4 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
12 3 (0.094%) Adobe XD
13 2 (0.062%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.062%) Revit
13 2 (0.062%) Sketch
13 2 (0.062%) Trello
14 1 (0.031%) InVision
14 1 (0.031%) OrCAD
14 1 (0.031%) Siemens NX
14 1 (0.031%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 92 (2.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 64 (2.00%) SAP MDG
3 37 (1.15%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 29 (0.90%) NetSuite
5 28 (0.87%) Oracle Payables
6 19 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
7 18 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
7 18 (0.56%) Shopify
8 16 (0.50%) Oracle Assets
9 15 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
10 12 (0.37%) Sage X3
10 12 (0.37%) SAP CO
11 10 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
11 10 (0.31%) Workday HCM
12 8 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
12 8 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
13 6 (0.19%) JDE EnterpriseOne
13 6 (0.19%) SAP ERP
14 5 (0.16%) SAP FI
14 5 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 466 (14.54%) Azure
2 385 (12.01%) Power Platform
3 206 (6.43%) Microsoft 365
4 164 (5.12%) AWS
5 147 (4.59%) SaaS
6 110 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
7 63 (1.97%) Snowflake
8 60 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
9 53 (1.65%) GitHub
10 49 (1.53%) Azure Data Factory
11 40 (1.25%) Entra ID
12 39 (1.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 37 (1.15%) dbt
14 31 (0.97%) GCP
14 31 (0.97%) Power Automate
15 27 (0.84%) Serverless
16 26 (0.81%) GitHub Copilot
17 24 (0.75%) Google Analytics
17 24 (0.75%) Microsoft Purview
18 23 (0.72%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 138 (4.31%) DNS
2 117 (3.65%) DHCP
3 70 (2.18%) Firewall
4 42 (1.31%) Remote Desktop
4 42 (1.31%) WAN
5 41 (1.28%) LAN
5 41 (1.28%) VPN
6 40 (1.25%) Network Security
7 37 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
8 33 (1.03%) Wireless
9 26 (0.81%) TCP/IP
9 26 (0.81%) VoIP
10 25 (0.78%) SMS
11 24 (0.75%) VLAN
12 18 (0.56%) SD-WAN
12 18 (0.56%) Wireshark
13 15 (0.47%) 5G
14 13 (0.41%) OSPF
14 13 (0.41%) SAN
15 12 (0.37%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 357 (11.14%) Power BI
2 218 (6.80%) Tableau
3 142 (4.43%) Data Mining
4 103 (3.21%) SQL Server
5 102 (3.18%) Amazon RDS
6 77 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
7 54 (1.68%) Data Lake
8 51 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 48 (1.50%) Relational Database
10 45 (1.40%) Metadata
11 37 (1.15%) GIS
12 35 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
12 35 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
13 34 (1.06%) MySQL
14 32 (1.00%) Looker
15 28 (0.87%) SAP BW
16 27 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 22 (0.69%) Power Query
18 21 (0.66%) Geospatial Data
19 20 (0.62%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 135 (4.21%) JIRA
2 55 (1.72%) Git
3 28 (0.87%) Selenium
4 18 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
5 15 (0.47%) Jenkins
5 15 (0.47%) Robot Framework
6 13 (0.41%) Snyk
7 12 (0.37%) ER Studio
7 12 (0.37%) ERwin
8 11 (0.34%) GitLab
9 8 (0.25%) Postman
9 8 (0.25%) TestRail
10 7 (0.22%) Cypress.io
10 7 (0.22%) LabVIEW
10 7 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (0.19%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.16%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.16%) Subversion
12 5 (0.16%) WebDriver
13 4 (0.12%) LoadRunner
General
1 1,586 (49.49%) Social Skills
2 917 (28.61%) Finance
3 251 (7.83%) Marketing
4 182 (5.68%) Retail
5 137 (4.27%) Organisational Skills
6 136 (4.24%) Manufacturing
7 130 (4.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 128 (3.99%) Legal
9 113 (3.53%) Public Sector
10 110 (3.43%) Law
11 107 (3.34%) Presentation Skills
12 70 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
13 59 (1.84%) Telecoms
14 58 (1.81%) Electronics
15 54 (1.68%) Banking
16 52 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
17 46 (1.44%) Aerospace
18 39 (1.22%) Aviation
19 34 (1.06%) Advertising
20 29 (0.90%) German Language
Job Titles
1 779 (24.31%) Analyst
2 334 (10.42%) Senior
2 334 (10.42%) Trainer
3 215 (6.71%) Lead
4 211 (6.58%) Data Analyst
5 158 (4.93%) Architect
6 148 (4.62%) Developer
7 128 (3.99%) Support Analyst
8 120 (3.74%) Systems Engineer
9 117 (3.65%) IT Support
10 116 (3.62%) Trainee
11 113 (3.53%) Business Analyst
12 105 (3.28%) Trainee Analyst
12 105 (3.28%) Trainee Data Analyst
13 85 (2.65%) Support Engineer
14 82 (2.56%) Business Manager
15 80 (2.50%) Senior Analyst
16 77 (2.40%) Report Analyst
17 74 (2.31%) Financial Analyst
18 73 (2.28%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (2.12%) HTML
2 58 (1.81%) CSS
3 52 (1.62%) React
4 43 (1.34%) REST
5 34 (1.06%) JSON
6 33 (1.03%) .NET
7 31 (0.97%) SOAP
8 24 (0.75%) Middleware
9 22 (0.69%) Node.js
10 19 (0.59%) Oracle Fusion
10 19 (0.59%) XML
11 16 (0.50%) OAuth
11 16 (0.50%) SAML
12 15 (0.47%) EDI
12 15 (0.47%) Flash
13 11 (0.34%) BAPI
13 11 (0.34%) Bootstrap
13 11 (0.34%) IBM Integration Bus
13 11 (0.34%) JMS
13 11 (0.34%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 355 (11.08%) Analytical Mindset
2 237 (7.39%) Self-Motivation
3 228 (7.11%) Onboarding
4 168 (5.24%) Management Information System
5 121 (3.78%) Legacy Systems
6 103 (3.21%) Product Ownership
7 64 (2.00%) Data Centre
8 61 (1.90%) Driving Licence
9 58 (1.81%) FMCG
10 52 (1.62%) Robotics
11 44 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
12 37 (1.15%) Cloud Native
13 30 (0.94%) Data Structures
14 28 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 28 (0.87%) Virtual Team
15 25 (0.78%) Social Media
16 24 (0.75%) e-Learning
17 23 (0.72%) Low-Code
18 21 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
18 21 (0.66%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 259 (8.08%) Windows
2 166 (5.18%) Linux
3 144 (4.49%) Windows Server
4 98 (3.06%) Windows Server 2016
5 18 (0.56%) Unix
6 12 (0.37%) Mac OS
7 10 (0.31%) Android
8 6 (0.19%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.16%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.094%) Mac OS X
10 3 (0.094%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.062%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.031%) OpenWrt
12 1 (0.031%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.031%) Robot Operating System
12 1 (0.031%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.031%) VMS
12 1 (0.031%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,384 (43.18%) Problem-Solving
2 746 (23.28%) AI
3 735 (22.93%) Continuous Improvement
4 652 (20.34%) Analytics
5 595 (18.56%) Decision-Making
6 535 (16.69%) Project Management
7 466 (14.54%) Agile
8 440 (13.73%) Business Intelligence
9 356 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
10 341 (10.64%) Customer Service
11 337 (10.51%) Chemistry
12 334 (10.42%) Conversational UI
13 327 (10.20%) Data Analysis
14 300 (9.36%) ERP
15 271 (8.46%) Customer Experience
16 251 (7.83%) Process Improvement
17 246 (7.68%) Analytical Thinking
18 243 (7.58%) CRM
19 231 (7.21%) Migration
20 226 (7.05%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 665 (20.75%) SQL
2 368 (11.48%) Python
3 74 (2.31%) C#
4 69 (2.15%) Java
4 69 (2.15%) JavaScript
5 64 (2.00%) PowerShell
6 50 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 33 (1.03%) T-SQL
7 33 (1.03%) VBA
8 28 (0.87%) C++
9 26 (0.81%) R
10 16 (0.50%) PL/SQL
11 14 (0.44%) C
11 14 (0.44%) Scala
12 13 (0.41%) Bash
13 12 (0.37%) MATLAB
14 8 (0.25%) TypeScript
15 7 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.19%) ABAP
16 6 (0.19%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,018 (31.76%) Degree
2 388 (12.11%) Master's Degree
3 336 (10.48%) PhD
4 304 (9.49%) Security Cleared
5 239 (7.46%) SC Cleared
6 116 (3.62%) ACCA
7 106 (3.31%) CIMA
8 87 (2.71%) DBS Check
9 69 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
10 56 (1.75%) PMI Certification
11 50 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
12 49 (1.53%) DV Cleared
13 48 (1.50%) PMP
14 47 (1.47%) CISSP
15 42 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
16 32 (1.00%) CISM
17 28 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
18 25 (0.78%) CompTIA Security+
19 24 (0.75%) Network+ Certification
20 22 (0.69%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (5.52%) Data Quality
2 138 (4.31%) QA
3 122 (3.81%) PCI DSS
4 120 (3.74%) Cyber Essentials
5 103 (3.21%) GDPR
6 94 (2.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 65 (2.03%) NIST
8 58 (1.81%) PMO
9 48 (1.50%) Accessibility
10 28 (0.87%) SLA
11 24 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
12 13 (0.41%) GRC
13 12 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 11 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 9 (0.28%) ISO 9001
15 9 (0.28%) SOC 2
16 8 (0.25%) IEC 61131
16 8 (0.25%) IFRS
17 7 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 6 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 200 (6.24%) Active Directory
2 112 (3.49%) Hyper-V
3 96 (3.00%) Terminal Server
4 21 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 17 (0.53%) Docker
6 12 (0.37%) Firmware
7 7 (0.22%) vSphere
8 4 (0.12%) ProxySG
8 4 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.094%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.062%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.062%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.031%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.031%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.031%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.031%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 46 (1.44%) Terraform
2 26 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
3 23 (0.72%) Ansible
3 23 (0.72%) Kubernetes
4 13 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.16%) Control-M
6 4 (0.12%) Nessus
6 4 (0.12%) SCCM
7 3 (0.094%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 3 (0.094%) QRadar
8 2 (0.062%) AssetCenter
8 2 (0.062%) CASB
8 2 (0.062%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.062%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.062%) Grafana
8 2 (0.062%) Nagios
8 2 (0.062%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.031%) Argo
9 1 (0.031%) SCOM
9 1 (0.031%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 752 (23.46%) Microsoft
2 334 (10.42%) PayPal
3 264 (8.24%) SAP
4 128 (3.99%) Oracle
5 121 (3.78%) VMware
6 116 (3.62%) SolarWinds
7 111 (3.46%) Splunk
8 97 (3.03%) Tanium
8 97 (3.03%) Veeam
9 96 (3.00%) Brocade
9 96 (3.00%) Nimble Storage
10 89 (2.78%) Salesforce
11 58 (1.81%) ServiceNow
12 53 (1.65%) Cisco
13 51 (1.59%) Google
14 37 (1.15%) OpenText
15 36 (1.12%) Databricks
16 30 (0.94%) Ariba
17 26 (0.81%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
18 25 (0.78%) Workday