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

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 8 16
Rank change year-on-year -19 +8 +4
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,017 3,713 6,491
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.53% 12.50% 8.52%
As % of the General category 9.96% 17.56% 15.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2,035 1,360 3,612
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,725 £26,275
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £59,750
90th Percentile £77,942 £77,500 £72,500
UK median annual salary £54,150 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.55% +10.00% -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 30,279 21,145 42,100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 45.47% 71.19% 55.26%
Number of salaries quoted 17,726 9,433 27,291
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% +2.11% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,200
90th Percentile £83,840 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,745 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.08% +8.09% -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 8 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 8 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 -19 933 £47,500 -1.67% 385
South East -6 760 £50,000 -4.76% 590
Midlands -11 555 £48,750 +2.63% 248
North West -19 550 £46,500 -7.00% 214
South West -25 312 £47,500 -5.00% 180
West Midlands -18 311 £51,300 +8.00% 136
Yorkshire -12 289 £50,000 +11.11% 122
East Midlands +2 243 £45,000 -5.26% 112
East of England -22 238 £45,000 -11.71% 178
Scotland -29 110 £40,000 -20.71% 89
North East -29 94 £50,000 +27.88% 56
Wales 0 79 £51,709 -5.98% 30
Northern Ireland -21 41 £40,000 -27.27% 41
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
1 137 (4.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 83 (2.75%) SharePoint
3 31 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
4 30 (0.99%) Apache Spark
5 29 (0.96%) Confluence
6 28 (0.93%) CMS
7 24 (0.80%) 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 (0.099%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.099%) govService
13 3 (0.099%) JBoss
14 2 (0.066%) WebLogic
14 2 (0.066%) WebSphere
15 1 (0.033%) Moodle
15 1 (0.033%) Umbraco
Applications
1 397 (13.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 148 (4.91%) Microsoft Office
3 62 (2.06%) MS Visio
4 54 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 20 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
7 10 (0.33%) CATIA
8 4 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.099%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.099%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.099%) 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 (0.46%) 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 (0.099%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 512 (16.97%) Azure
2 404 (13.39%) Power Platform
3 272 (9.02%) AWS
4 261 (8.65%) Microsoft 365
5 124 (4.11%) SaaS
6 97 (3.22%) GCP
7 85 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
8 79 (2.62%) Dynamics 365
8 79 (2.62%) Entra ID
9 55 (1.82%) GitHub
10 51 (1.69%) Microsoft Purview
11 50 (1.66%) Google Analytics
12 47 (1.56%) Power Automate
13 45 (1.49%) PowerApps
14 43 (1.43%) Amazon S3
15 36 (1.19%) Serverless
16 33 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
16 33 (1.09%) dbt
17 32 (1.06%) Snowflake
18 28 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 133 (4.41%) Firewall
2 116 (3.84%) DNS
3 88 (2.92%) DHCP
4 80 (2.65%) VPN
5 61 (2.02%) WAN
6 45 (1.49%) LAN
7 43 (1.43%) TCP/IP
8 40 (1.33%) Wireless
9 38 (1.26%) Wi-Fi
10 36 (1.19%) Broadband
11 29 (0.96%) Network Security
12 26 (0.86%) SD-WAN
12 26 (0.86%) VLAN
13 25 (0.83%) BGP
14 23 (0.76%) Cisco ASA
15 22 (0.73%) SAN
15 22 (0.73%) Wireshark
16 18 (0.60%) HTTP
17 16 (0.53%) OSPF
18 14 (0.46%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 361 (11.97%) Power BI
2 213 (7.06%) Tableau
3 99 (3.28%) SQL Server
4 91 (3.02%) Data Mining
5 78 (2.59%) Amazon RDS
6 73 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
7 57 (1.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 42 (1.39%) 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 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
12 33 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
13 31 (1.03%) Data Lake
14 30 (0.99%) 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 90 (2.98%) JIRA
2 67 (2.22%) Git
3 37 (1.23%) GitLab
4 32 (1.06%) Rational DOORS
5 16 (0.53%) Jenkins
6 12 (0.40%) Selenium
7 11 (0.36%) Cucumber
7 11 (0.36%) MLflow
8 10 (0.33%) Cypress.io
9 7 (0.23%) LabVIEW
9 7 (0.23%) Moq
9 7 (0.23%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.20%) Subversion
10 6 (0.20%) Toad
11 5 (0.17%) ERwin
11 5 (0.17%) JMeter
11 5 (0.17%) Maven
11 5 (0.17%) Postman
12 4 (0.13%) Eclipse
12 4 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
General
1 1,390 (46.07%) Social Skills
2 908 (30.10%) Finance
3 267 (8.85%) Marketing
4 181 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 175 (5.80%) Public Sector
6 153 (5.07%) Organisational Skills
7 151 (5.00%) Retail
8 143 (4.74%) Law
9 142 (4.71%) Manufacturing
10 138 (4.57%) Legal
11 110 (3.65%) Influencing Skills
12 95 (3.15%) Telecoms
13 69 (2.29%) Electronics
14 67 (2.22%) Aerospace
15 65 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
16 64 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
17 42 (1.39%) Banking
17 42 (1.39%) Military
18 31 (1.03%) Automotive
18 31 (1.03%) Games
Job Titles
1 842 (27.91%) Analyst
2 318 (10.54%) Senior
3 233 (7.72%) Data Analyst
4 205 (6.79%) Lead
5 167 (5.54%) Business Analyst
6 159 (5.27%) Developer
7 145 (4.81%) Systems Engineer
8 111 (3.68%) Architect
9 90 (2.98%) Support Analyst
10 84 (2.78%) Consultant
10 84 (2.78%) Senior Analyst
11 83 (2.75%) Support Engineer
12 80 (2.65%) Systems Analyst
13 79 (2.62%) IT Support
14 78 (2.59%) Trainee
14 78 (2.59%) Trainee Analyst
14 78 (2.59%) Trainee Data Analyst
15 72 (2.39%) Data Engineer
16 68 (2.25%) IT Manager
17 66 (2.19%) Head of QA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (2.65%) HTML
2 71 (2.35%) CSS
3 62 (2.06%) .NET
4 61 (2.02%) Middleware
4 61 (2.02%) REST
5 56 (1.86%) JSON
6 54 (1.79%) React
7 53 (1.76%) XML
8 39 (1.29%) SOAP
9 37 (1.23%) Node.js
10 30 (0.99%) 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
1 374 (12.40%) Analytical Mindset
2 145 (4.81%) Management Information System
3 120 (3.98%) Onboarding
4 114 (3.78%) Self-Motivation
5 109 (3.61%) Product Ownership
6 85 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
7 75 (2.49%) Data Centre
8 65 (2.15%) Driving Licence
9 42 (1.39%) Cloud Native
10 36 (1.19%) 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
1 251 (8.32%) Windows
2 150 (4.97%) Windows Server
3 143 (4.74%) 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 (0.46%) Android
8 14 (0.46%) 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 (0.099%) Debian
13 3 (0.099%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.033%) FreeBSD
14 1 (0.033%) OpenBSD
14 1 (0.033%) OpenVMS
14 1 (0.033%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,408 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
2 817 (27.08%) Continuous Improvement
3 657 (21.78%) Decision-Making
4 626 (20.75%) Analytics
5 442 (14.65%) Agile
6 411 (13.62%) Business Intelligence
7 369 (12.23%) Stakeholder Management
8 322 (10.67%) AI
9 307 (10.18%) Actionable Insight
10 304 (10.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 291 (9.65%) Project Management
12 287 (9.51%) Data Analysis
13 269 (8.92%) Customer Service
14 264 (8.75%) ERP
15 247 (8.19%) Cybersecurity
16 245 (8.12%) CRM
17 242 (8.02%) Mentoring
18 241 (7.99%) Customer Experience
19 235 (7.79%) Data Modelling
20 234 (7.76%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 659 (21.84%) SQL
2 505 (16.74%) Python
3 106 (3.51%) JavaScript
4 100 (3.31%) PowerShell
5 99 (3.28%) Java
6 85 (2.82%) C#
7 61 (2.02%) 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 (0.99%) MATLAB
13 19 (0.63%) PHP
14 16 (0.53%) TypeScript
15 15 (0.50%) Go
16 14 (0.46%) PL/SQL
16 14 (0.46%) Scala
17 12 (0.40%) C
18 9 (0.30%) Perl
Qualifications
1 505 (16.74%) Degree
2 273 (9.05%) Security Cleared
3 197 (6.53%) SC Cleared
4 144 (4.77%) ACCA
5 138 (4.57%) CIMA
6 130 (4.31%) DBS Check
7 73 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 70 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
9 67 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
10 66 (2.19%) IRCA
11 50 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
12 46 (1.52%) CISSP
13 45 (1.49%) DV Cleared
14 42 (1.39%) PMI Certification
15 37 (1.23%) CompTIA Security+
16 35 (1.16%) PMP
17 34 (1.13%) CCNA
17 34 (1.13%) CISM
18 26 (0.86%) CCNP
19 25 (0.83%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 304 (10.08%) Data Quality
2 238 (7.89%) GDPR
3 181 (6.00%) QA
4 150 (4.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 127 (4.21%) Cyber Essentials
6 105 (3.48%) NIST
7 102 (3.38%) ISO 9001
8 101 (3.35%) PCI DSS
9 75 (2.49%) SLA
10 53 (1.76%) Accessibility
11 44 (1.46%) GRC
12 39 (1.29%) PMO
13 37 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
14 18 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 17 (0.56%) SOC 2
15 17 (0.56%) TickIT
16 16 (0.53%) GMP
16 16 (0.53%) ISO 14001
16 16 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 13 (0.43%) NCSC
System Software
1 191 (6.33%) Active Directory
2 75 (2.49%) Hyper-V
3 64 (2.12%) Terminal Server
4 54 (1.79%) 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 (0.099%) 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 (1.49%) 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%) Control-M
12 4 (0.13%) Functional Safety
12 4 (0.13%) SolarWinds Orion
12 4 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 734 (24.33%) Microsoft
2 126 (4.18%) SAP
3 115 (3.81%) Google
4 101 (3.35%) VMware
5 98 (3.25%) Salesforce
6 97 (3.22%) Splunk
7 88 (2.92%) SolarWinds
8 81 (2.68%) Oracle
9 75 (2.49%) Veeam
10 66 (2.19%) Workday
11 65 (2.15%) Nimble Storage
12 64 (2.12%) Brocade
12 64 (2.12%) Tanium
13 59 (1.96%) Databricks
14 48 (1.59%) Cisco
15 43 (1.43%) ServiceNow
16 36 (1.19%) IBM
17 29 (0.96%) Dell
18 28 (0.93%) HubSpot
19 27 (0.89%) Adobe