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 12 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 9 13
Rank change year-on-year -14 +4 +8
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,472 4,161 4,501
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 5.18% 12.09% 8.86%
As % of the General category 11.71% 18.38% 16.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2,467 1,513 1,582
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,009
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,789
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £51,356 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.71% -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 38,202 22,637 27,690
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.24% 65.77% 54.50%
Number of salaries quoted 23,705 11,159 12,214
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £43,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -14.00% -0.99%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%

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 12 October 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 12 October 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 1,180 £47,500 +5.56% 512
South East -12 1,005 £48,000 +1.05% 547
Midlands -9 792 £45,000 +3.92% 311
North West -16 697 £46,500 +3.33% 268
South West -6 634 £46,743 +3.87% 254
West Midlands -16 407 £47,500 +5.56% 196
East Midlands -5 383 £42,500 +11.11% 115
Yorkshire -8 326 £47,000 +17.50% 189
East of England -7 300 £47,500 +21.79% 210
Northern Ireland +15 225 £43,750 -16.67% 115
Wales -4 210 £45,000 -10.00% 69
North East -22 166 £51,962 +29.91% 57
Scotland -22 149 £50,000 +47.93% 167
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
1 161 (3.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 144 (3.22%) SharePoint
3 55 (1.23%) Confluence
4 34 (0.76%) Apache
5 30 (0.67%) IIS
6 28 (0.63%) Apache Spark
7 18 (0.40%) SAS
8 17 (0.38%) WordPress
9 16 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
10 15 (0.34%) CMS
11 14 (0.31%) Jupyter
12 9 (0.20%) WebLogic
12 9 (0.20%) WebSphere
13 8 (0.18%) OpenStack
14 7 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
15 5 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
16 3 (0.067%) nginx
16 3 (0.067%) Office Communications Server
17 2 (0.045%) Oracle Application Server
17 2 (0.045%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 596 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 299 (6.69%) Microsoft Office
3 88 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 47 (1.05%) MS Visio
4 47 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
5 25 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
6 20 (0.45%) Simulink
7 11 (0.25%) AutoCAD
8 10 (0.22%) SOLIDWORKS
9 8 (0.18%) EPLAN
10 7 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 7 (0.16%) Notion
11 6 (0.13%) Chatbot
11 6 (0.13%) Siemens NX
12 5 (0.11%) Photoshop
13 3 (0.067%) CANalyzer
13 3 (0.067%) CATIA
13 3 (0.067%) LaTeX
14 2 (0.045%) Adobe XD
14 2 (0.045%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 87 (1.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.72%) Dynamics GP
3 24 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
4 21 (0.47%) Shopify
5 16 (0.36%) NetSuite
6 11 (0.25%) Magento
7 10 (0.22%) Infor M3
8 9 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
8 9 (0.20%) SAP Business One
9 8 (0.18%) Odoo
9 8 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
10 7 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
10 7 (0.16%) SAP ERP
10 7 (0.16%) Workday HCM
11 6 (0.13%) Exchequer
11 6 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
12 5 (0.11%) Elite 3E
12 5 (0.11%) JDE EnterpriseOne
12 5 (0.11%) Sage 50
13 4 (0.089%) Academy Housing
Cloud Services
1 700 (15.65%) Azure
2 490 (10.96%) Power Platform
3 385 (8.61%) AWS
4 341 (7.63%) Microsoft 365
5 227 (5.08%) SaaS
6 179 (4.00%) GCP
7 178 (3.98%) Entra ID
8 118 (2.64%) Google Ads
9 95 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
10 90 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
11 87 (1.95%) Google Analytics
12 84 (1.88%) Meta Ads
13 62 (1.39%) GitHub
14 59 (1.32%) PowerApps
15 55 (1.23%) Power Automate
15 55 (1.23%) Serverless
16 52 (1.16%) Cloud Computing
17 48 (1.07%) Amazon S3
18 43 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
18 43 (0.96%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 174 (3.89%) DNS
2 137 (3.06%) DHCP
3 113 (2.53%) Firewall
4 99 (2.21%) VPN
5 88 (1.97%) TCP/IP
6 68 (1.52%) WAN
7 63 (1.41%) Internet
8 59 (1.32%) LAN
9 51 (1.14%) Wireless
10 46 (1.03%) Network Security
11 37 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
12 32 (0.72%) VLAN
13 28 (0.63%) Broadband
14 26 (0.58%) HTTP
15 24 (0.54%) SAN
16 23 (0.51%) VoIP
17 21 (0.47%) SD-WAN
18 20 (0.45%) BGP
18 20 (0.45%) SSL
19 18 (0.40%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 436 (9.75%) Power BI
2 123 (2.75%) SQL Server
3 119 (2.66%) Data Warehouse
4 96 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
5 89 (1.99%) Relational Database
5 89 (1.99%) Tableau
6 69 (1.54%) MySQL
7 66 (1.48%) Power Query
8 61 (1.36%) Metadata
9 59 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 53 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
11 44 (0.98%) Data Lake
12 41 (0.92%) Looker
13 37 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 36 (0.81%) BigQuery
15 35 (0.78%) Big Data
16 32 (0.72%) NoSQL
17 29 (0.65%) MongoDB
18 28 (0.63%) GIS
19 26 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 202 (4.52%) Git
2 149 (3.33%) JIRA
3 42 (0.94%) GitLab
4 36 (0.81%) Jenkins
5 22 (0.49%) LabVIEW
6 21 (0.47%) Eclipse
7 19 (0.42%) Rational DOORS
7 19 (0.42%) Selenium
8 18 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
9 17 (0.38%) Claude Code
9 17 (0.38%) Postman
10 16 (0.36%) Burp Suite
11 14 (0.31%) Cucumber
11 14 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
12 13 (0.29%) Metasploit
13 11 (0.25%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.18%) Cypress.io
14 8 (0.18%) JMeter
14 8 (0.18%) Moq
15 7 (0.16%) ERwin
General
1 2,342 (52.37%) Social Skills
2 1,243 (27.80%) Finance
3 508 (11.36%) Marketing
4 431 (9.64%) Organisational Skills
5 382 (8.54%) Manufacturing
6 332 (7.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 307 (6.86%) Legal
8 298 (6.66%) Retail
9 275 (6.15%) Public Sector
10 239 (5.34%) Influencing Skills
11 232 (5.19%) Presentation Skills
12 221 (4.94%) Law
13 199 (4.45%) Aerospace
14 166 (3.71%) Electronics
15 119 (2.66%) Telecoms
16 83 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
17 75 (1.68%) Automotive
18 71 (1.59%) Advertising
19 63 (1.41%) Banking
20 57 (1.27%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,029 (23.01%) Analyst
2 533 (11.92%) Senior
3 289 (6.46%) Lead
4 237 (5.30%) Developer
5 196 (4.38%) Support Analyst
6 187 (4.18%) Data Analyst
7 170 (3.80%) Business Analyst
7 170 (3.80%) Senior Analyst
8 148 (3.31%) Systems Engineer
9 142 (3.18%) Architect
10 128 (2.86%) Data Engineer
11 115 (2.57%) Support Engineer
12 110 (2.46%) Consultant
13 107 (2.39%) ITSM Analyst
14 105 (2.35%) IT Support
15 95 (2.12%) Administrator
16 94 (2.10%) Applications Support
17 89 (1.99%) Marketing Manager
18 85 (1.90%) IT Analyst
19 84 (1.88%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (2.48%) .NET
2 87 (1.95%) Terraform
3 77 (1.72%) HTML
4 75 (1.68%) REST
5 72 (1.61%) CSS
6 56 (1.25%) PySpark
7 55 (1.23%) RESTful
7 55 (1.23%) XML
8 46 (1.03%) JSON
8 46 (1.03%) Middleware
9 42 (0.94%) SOAP
10 38 (0.85%) Kafka
10 38 (0.85%) React
11 35 (0.78%) EDI
11 35 (0.78%) LDAP
12 34 (0.76%) Spring
13 33 (0.74%) Spring Boot
14 29 (0.65%) ASP.NET
14 29 (0.65%) ModSecurity
15 25 (0.56%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 369 (8.25%) Management Information System
2 294 (6.57%) Analytical Mindset
3 266 (5.95%) Onboarding
4 243 (5.43%) Self-Motivation
5 178 (3.98%) Driving Licence
6 167 (3.73%) Product Ownership
7 118 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
8 113 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
9 110 (2.46%) Social Media
10 84 (1.88%) Cloud Native
11 78 (1.74%) Data Centre
12 77 (1.72%) Marketing Technology
13 73 (1.63%) Virtual Team
14 72 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
15 69 (1.54%) Blog
16 53 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
17 50 (1.12%) Data Structures
18 48 (1.07%) SCADA
19 43 (0.96%) FMCG
19 43 (0.96%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 341 (7.63%) Windows
2 244 (5.46%) Linux
3 194 (4.34%) Windows Server
4 91 (2.03%) Windows Server 2016
5 31 (0.69%) macOS
6 30 (0.67%) Windows 10
7 28 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
8 21 (0.47%) Unix
9 15 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 14 (0.31%) Android
11 9 (0.20%) CentOS
12 7 (0.16%) Apple iOS
12 7 (0.16%) Ubuntu
13 6 (0.13%) Debian
13 6 (0.13%) VMS
14 5 (0.11%) OpenVMS
15 4 (0.089%) CoreOS
16 2 (0.045%) Solaris
17 1 (0.022%) AIX
17 1 (0.022%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,281 (51.01%) Problem-Solving
2 1,490 (33.32%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,142 (25.54%) Decision-Making
4 886 (19.81%) Stakeholder Management
5 759 (16.97%) Analytics
6 752 (16.82%) AI
7 657 (14.69%) Agile
8 580 (12.97%) Business Intelligence
9 508 (11.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 466 (10.42%) Validation
11 460 (10.29%) Customer Service
12 429 (9.59%) CRM
12 429 (9.59%) Mentoring
13 415 (9.28%) ERP
14 397 (8.88%) Actionable Insight
15 390 (8.72%) Data Analysis
16 385 (8.61%) ITIL
17 374 (8.36%) Project Delivery
18 365 (8.16%) Process Improvement
19 363 (8.12%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 803 (17.96%) SQL
2 472 (10.55%) Python
3 159 (3.56%) JavaScript
4 132 (2.95%) Java
5 119 (2.66%) C#
6 113 (2.53%) PowerShell
7 78 (1.74%) C++
8 67 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 61 (1.36%) Bash
10 48 (1.07%) TypeScript
11 43 (0.96%) R
12 42 (0.94%) MATLAB
12 42 (0.94%) Shell Script
13 37 (0.83%) T-SQL
14 35 (0.78%) C
15 21 (0.47%) PHP
15 21 (0.47%) VB.NET
16 20 (0.45%) PL/SQL
17 17 (0.38%) Perl
17 17 (0.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 954 (21.33%) Degree
2 550 (12.30%) Security Cleared
3 383 (8.56%) SC Cleared
4 163 (3.64%) ACCA
5 156 (3.49%) CIMA
6 121 (2.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 117 (2.62%) DV Cleared
8 106 (2.37%) DBS Check
9 90 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
10 81 (1.81%) HND
11 69 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
12 68 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
13 63 (1.41%) CISSP
14 61 (1.36%) HNC
15 58 (1.30%) Azure Certification
16 56 (1.25%) Master's Degree
17 49 (1.10%) CISM
18 42 (0.94%) CompTIA Security+
19 40 (0.89%) CCNA
20 32 (0.72%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 422 (9.44%) Data Quality
2 271 (6.06%) QA
3 205 (4.58%) GDPR
4 138 (3.09%) Accessibility
5 137 (3.06%) Cyber Essentials
6 119 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 100 (2.24%) PCI DSS
8 82 (1.83%) SLA
9 61 (1.36%) NIST
10 49 (1.10%) ISO 9001
11 42 (0.94%) PMO
12 36 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
13 31 (0.69%) GRC
14 27 (0.60%) DO-254
15 26 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 25 (0.56%) IFRS
17 20 (0.45%) ISO 14001
18 19 (0.42%) GMP
19 18 (0.40%) Good Clinical Practice
20 15 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 307 (6.86%) Active Directory
2 142 (3.18%) Docker
3 107 (2.39%) Hyper-V
4 72 (1.61%) Terminal Server
5 42 (0.94%) Firmware
6 38 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
7 16 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
9 10 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.16%) Ceph
11 6 (0.13%) VMware NSX
12 5 (0.11%) DFS Replication
12 5 (0.11%) vSphere
13 4 (0.089%) ISA Server
13 4 (0.089%) KVM
13 4 (0.089%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.089%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.022%) IAG
14 1 (0.022%) NFS
14 1 (0.022%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 71 (1.59%) Kubernetes
2 56 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 42 (0.94%) Ansible
4 34 (0.76%) Grafana
5 30 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
6 29 (0.65%) Prometheus
7 16 (0.36%) Kibana
8 14 (0.31%) QRadar
9 13 (0.29%) Nmap
10 11 (0.25%) Podman
10 11 (0.25%) SCCM
11 10 (0.22%) Functional Safety
12 7 (0.16%) Argo
12 7 (0.16%) Check_MK
12 7 (0.16%) FortiGate
12 7 (0.16%) Istio
12 7 (0.16%) logstash
12 7 (0.16%) Nagios
12 7 (0.16%) SCVMM
13 6 (0.13%) Graylog
Vendors
1 1,213 (27.12%) Microsoft
2 309 (6.91%) Google
3 133 (2.97%) SAP
4 131 (2.93%) Splunk
5 130 (2.91%) VMware
6 122 (2.73%) Oracle
7 93 (2.08%) Salesforce
8 91 (2.03%) SolarWinds
9 80 (1.79%) ServiceNow
10 79 (1.77%) Veeam
11 73 (1.63%) Brocade
11 73 (1.63%) Nimble Storage
12 72 (1.61%) Tanium
13 69 (1.54%) Cisco
13 69 (1.54%) YouTube
14 45 (1.01%) Databricks
15 40 (0.89%) HubSpot
16 38 (0.85%) Adobe
17 33 (0.74%) TikTok
18 29 (0.65%) Dell