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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 9 12
Rank change year-on-year -14 +3 +8
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,384 4,268 4,662
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 5.06% 12.30% 8.99%
As % of the General category 11.44% 18.68% 16.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,473 1,512 1,633
10th Percentile £29,800 £27,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,134 £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 38,314 22,847 28,045
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.21% 65.84% 54.08%
Number of salaries quoted 23,609 11,068 12,547
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £43,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.94% -13.00% -1.38%
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 6 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 6 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 1,171 £47,500 +5.56% 1,226
South East -11 996 £48,500 +2.06% 1,416
Midlands -10 768 £45,000 +2.27% 849
North West -16 704 £46,000 +1.13% 655
South West -8 618 £47,500 +5.56% 549
West Midlands -18 389 £47,500 +5.56% 506
East Midlands -6 377 £42,500 +6.47% 343
Yorkshire -7 316 £47,000 +17.50% 442
East of England -12 284 £47,500 +21.79% 516
Northern Ireland +6 215 £43,750 -18.60% 230
Wales -4 207 £45,000 -10.40% 182
North East -20 160 £51,962 +29.91% 135
Scotland -24 148 £48,500 +42.10% 418
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
1 157 (3.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 139 (3.17%) SharePoint
3 54 (1.23%) Confluence
4 33 (0.75%) Apache
5 30 (0.68%) IIS
6 26 (0.59%) Apache Spark
7 17 (0.39%) CMS
8 16 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
8 16 (0.36%) SAS
8 16 (0.36%) WordPress
9 14 (0.32%) Jupyter
10 9 (0.21%) WebLogic
10 9 (0.21%) WebSphere
11 8 (0.18%) OpenStack
12 6 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
13 5 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 3 (0.068%) nginx
15 2 (0.046%) Office Communications Server
15 2 (0.046%) Oracle Application Server
15 2 (0.046%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 574 (13.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 283 (6.46%) Microsoft Office
3 88 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 47 (1.07%) MS Visio
4 47 (1.07%) Spreadsheet
5 26 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
6 19 (0.43%) Simulink
7 11 (0.25%) AutoCAD
8 10 (0.23%) SOLIDWORKS
9 8 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 7 (0.16%) EPLAN
11 6 (0.14%) Siemens NX
12 5 (0.11%) Chatbot
12 5 (0.11%) Notion
12 5 (0.11%) Photoshop
13 3 (0.068%) CANalyzer
13 3 (0.068%) CATIA
13 3 (0.068%) LaTeX
14 2 (0.046%) Revit
14 2 (0.046%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 88 (2.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.73%) Dynamics GP
3 27 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
4 21 (0.48%) NetSuite
4 21 (0.48%) Shopify
5 13 (0.30%) Magento
6 11 (0.25%) Infor M3
7 10 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
8 9 (0.21%) SAP Business One
9 8 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
9 8 (0.18%) SAP ERP
10 7 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
10 7 (0.16%) Workday HCM
11 6 (0.14%) Exchequer
11 6 (0.14%) Odoo
11 6 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
12 5 (0.11%) Elite 3E
12 5 (0.11%) JDE EnterpriseOne
12 5 (0.11%) Sage 50
13 4 (0.091%) JDE World
Cloud Services
1 673 (15.35%) Azure
2 476 (10.86%) Power Platform
3 377 (8.60%) AWS
4 324 (7.39%) Microsoft 365
5 220 (5.02%) SaaS
6 170 (3.88%) GCP
7 153 (3.49%) Entra ID
8 114 (2.60%) Google Ads
9 95 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
10 89 (2.03%) Dynamics 365
11 88 (2.01%) Google Analytics
12 83 (1.89%) Meta Ads
13 61 (1.39%) GitHub
14 57 (1.30%) PowerApps
15 54 (1.23%) Power Automate
15 54 (1.23%) Serverless
16 49 (1.12%) Cloud Computing
17 48 (1.09%) Amazon S3
18 44 (1.00%) Microsoft Purview
19 43 (0.98%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 165 (3.76%) DNS
2 129 (2.94%) DHCP
3 104 (2.37%) Firewall
4 95 (2.17%) VPN
5 83 (1.89%) TCP/IP
6 67 (1.53%) WAN
7 58 (1.32%) LAN
8 56 (1.28%) Internet
9 52 (1.19%) Wireless
10 44 (1.00%) Network Security
11 38 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
12 29 (0.66%) VLAN
13 26 (0.59%) Broadband
13 26 (0.59%) HTTP
14 22 (0.50%) SD-WAN
14 22 (0.50%) VoIP
15 20 (0.46%) BGP
15 20 (0.46%) SAN
16 18 (0.41%) SMS
16 18 (0.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 424 (9.67%) Power BI
2 122 (2.78%) SQL Server
3 114 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
4 97 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
5 95 (2.17%) Tableau
6 83 (1.89%) Relational Database
7 67 (1.53%) MySQL
8 64 (1.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 62 (1.41%) Power Query
10 59 (1.35%) Metadata
11 51 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
12 43 (0.98%) Looker
13 42 (0.96%) Data Lake
14 39 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 33 (0.75%) BigQuery
16 32 (0.73%) NoSQL
17 30 (0.68%) Big Data
18 28 (0.64%) MongoDB
19 26 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
20 24 (0.55%) GIS
Development Applications
1 192 (4.38%) Git
2 150 (3.42%) JIRA
3 40 (0.91%) GitLab
4 35 (0.80%) Jenkins
5 21 (0.48%) Eclipse
5 21 (0.48%) Rational DOORS
6 20 (0.46%) LabVIEW
7 18 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
7 18 (0.41%) Selenium
8 17 (0.39%) Claude Code
9 15 (0.34%) Burp Suite
9 15 (0.34%) Postman
10 14 (0.32%) Cucumber
10 14 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
11 12 (0.27%) Metasploit
12 11 (0.25%) Bitbucket
13 9 (0.21%) Cypress.io
13 9 (0.21%) JMeter
14 8 (0.18%) Moq
15 7 (0.16%) ERwin
General
1 2,288 (52.19%) Social Skills
2 1,227 (27.99%) Finance
3 506 (11.54%) Marketing
4 408 (9.31%) Organisational Skills
5 361 (8.23%) Manufacturing
6 321 (7.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 299 (6.82%) Legal
8 292 (6.66%) Retail
9 271 (6.18%) Public Sector
10 231 (5.27%) Influencing Skills
11 220 (5.02%) Presentation Skills
12 219 (5.00%) Law
13 200 (4.56%) Aerospace
14 159 (3.63%) Electronics
15 120 (2.74%) Telecoms
16 78 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
17 72 (1.64%) Advertising
17 72 (1.64%) Automotive
18 64 (1.46%) Banking
19 61 (1.39%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,020 (23.27%) Analyst
2 528 (12.04%) Senior
3 281 (6.41%) Lead
4 234 (5.34%) Developer
5 194 (4.43%) Support Analyst
6 191 (4.36%) Data Analyst
7 171 (3.90%) Business Analyst
7 171 (3.90%) Senior Analyst
8 148 (3.38%) Systems Engineer
9 142 (3.24%) Architect
10 119 (2.71%) Data Engineer
11 114 (2.60%) Support Engineer
12 113 (2.58%) Consultant
13 107 (2.44%) ITSM Analyst
14 101 (2.30%) IT Support
15 96 (2.19%) Administrator
16 91 (2.08%) Applications Support
17 89 (2.03%) Marketing Manager
18 82 (1.87%) Accountant
18 82 (1.87%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (2.49%) .NET
2 82 (1.87%) Terraform
3 78 (1.78%) REST
4 76 (1.73%) HTML
5 70 (1.60%) CSS
6 56 (1.28%) XML
7 54 (1.23%) PySpark
8 51 (1.16%) Middleware
8 51 (1.16%) RESTful
9 50 (1.14%) JSON
10 47 (1.07%) SOAP
11 39 (0.89%) EDI
12 37 (0.84%) Kafka
12 37 (0.84%) React
13 35 (0.80%) LDAP
14 32 (0.73%) Spring
15 31 (0.71%) Spring Boot
16 29 (0.66%) ASP.NET
16 29 (0.66%) ModSecurity
17 24 (0.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 351 (8.01%) Management Information System
2 310 (7.07%) Analytical Mindset
3 260 (5.93%) Onboarding
4 226 (5.16%) Self-Motivation
5 169 (3.85%) Product Ownership
6 164 (3.74%) Driving Licence
7 116 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
8 103 (2.35%) Social Media
9 101 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
10 82 (1.87%) Cloud Native
11 79 (1.80%) Marketing Technology
12 76 (1.73%) Data Centre
13 74 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
14 72 (1.64%) Virtual Team
15 69 (1.57%) Blog
16 52 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
17 49 (1.12%) Data Structures
18 47 (1.07%) Security Posture
19 44 (1.00%) SCADA
20 39 (0.89%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 330 (7.53%) Windows
2 237 (5.41%) Linux
3 182 (4.15%) Windows Server
4 89 (2.03%) Windows Server 2016
5 31 (0.71%) Mac OS
6 30 (0.68%) Windows 10
7 25 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
8 22 (0.50%) Unix
9 15 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 14 (0.32%) Android
11 9 (0.21%) Apple iOS
11 9 (0.21%) CentOS
12 7 (0.16%) Ubuntu
13 6 (0.14%) Debian
13 6 (0.14%) VMS
14 5 (0.11%) OpenVMS
15 4 (0.091%) CoreOS
16 2 (0.046%) Solaris
17 1 (0.023%) AIX
17 1 (0.023%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,206 (50.32%) Problem-Solving
2 1,456 (33.21%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,119 (25.52%) Decision-Making
4 847 (19.32%) Stakeholder Management
5 734 (16.74%) Analytics
6 713 (16.26%) AI
7 650 (14.83%) Agile
8 567 (12.93%) Business Intelligence
9 502 (11.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 446 (10.17%) Validation
11 436 (9.95%) Customer Service
12 428 (9.76%) CRM
13 423 (9.65%) Mentoring
14 418 (9.53%) ERP
15 384 (8.76%) Data Analysis
16 377 (8.60%) Actionable Insight
17 372 (8.49%) ITIL
18 364 (8.30%) Project Delivery
19 349 (7.96%) Process Improvement
20 347 (7.92%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 782 (17.84%) SQL
2 456 (10.40%) Python
3 155 (3.54%) JavaScript
4 133 (3.03%) Java
5 121 (2.76%) C#
6 103 (2.35%) PowerShell
7 76 (1.73%) C++
8 65 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 58 (1.32%) Bash
10 46 (1.05%) TypeScript
11 43 (0.98%) MATLAB
12 42 (0.96%) Shell Script
13 38 (0.87%) T-SQL
14 36 (0.82%) R
15 34 (0.78%) C
16 21 (0.48%) PL/SQL
16 21 (0.48%) VB.NET
17 19 (0.43%) PHP
18 17 (0.39%) Scala
19 16 (0.36%) Perl
Qualifications
1 922 (21.03%) Degree
2 537 (12.25%) Security Cleared
3 376 (8.58%) SC Cleared
4 167 (3.81%) ACCA
5 160 (3.65%) CIMA
6 120 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
7 117 (2.67%) DV Cleared
8 107 (2.44%) DBS Check
9 96 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
10 80 (1.82%) HND
11 69 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
12 64 (1.46%) CISSP
12 64 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
13 60 (1.37%) HNC
14 49 (1.12%) Master's Degree
15 48 (1.09%) Azure Certification
15 48 (1.09%) CISM
16 45 (1.03%) CompTIA Security+
17 39 (0.89%) CCNA
18 30 (0.68%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 412 (9.40%) Data Quality
2 262 (5.98%) QA
3 206 (4.70%) GDPR
4 137 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
5 126 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 122 (2.78%) Accessibility
7 101 (2.30%) PCI DSS
8 83 (1.89%) SLA
9 64 (1.46%) NIST
10 49 (1.12%) ISO 9001
11 37 (0.84%) GRC
12 36 (0.82%) PMO
13 28 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
13 28 (0.64%) DO-254
14 26 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 26 (0.59%) IFRS
15 20 (0.46%) ISO 14001
16 18 (0.41%) Good Clinical Practice
17 17 (0.39%) GMP
18 16 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 287 (6.55%) Active Directory
2 141 (3.22%) Docker
3 99 (2.26%) Hyper-V
4 72 (1.64%) Terminal Server
5 42 (0.96%) Firmware
6 36 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
7 14 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
9 10 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.16%) Ceph
11 6 (0.14%) VMware NSX
12 5 (0.11%) vSphere
13 4 (0.091%) KVM
13 4 (0.091%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.091%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.068%) DFS Replication
14 3 (0.068%) ISA Server
15 1 (0.023%) IAG
15 1 (0.023%) NFS
15 1 (0.023%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 70 (1.60%) Kubernetes
2 49 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
3 41 (0.94%) Ansible
4 32 (0.73%) Grafana
5 27 (0.62%) Prometheus
6 26 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (0.34%) Kibana
8 14 (0.32%) QRadar
9 12 (0.27%) Nmap
10 11 (0.25%) Podman
11 10 (0.23%) Functional Safety
12 7 (0.16%) Argo
12 7 (0.16%) Check_MK
12 7 (0.16%) Istio
12 7 (0.16%) logstash
13 6 (0.14%) Graylog
13 6 (0.14%) Nagios
14 5 (0.11%) SCCM
15 4 (0.091%) FortiGate
15 4 (0.091%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 1,160 (26.46%) Microsoft
2 296 (6.75%) Google
3 131 (2.99%) SAP
4 128 (2.92%) VMware
5 127 (2.90%) Splunk
6 115 (2.62%) Oracle
7 92 (2.10%) Salesforce
8 85 (1.94%) SolarWinds
9 79 (1.80%) Veeam
10 77 (1.76%) ServiceNow
11 73 (1.67%) Brocade
11 73 (1.67%) Nimble Storage
12 72 (1.64%) Tanium
13 64 (1.46%) YouTube
14 63 (1.44%) Cisco
15 45 (1.03%) Databricks
16 42 (0.96%) HubSpot
17 39 (0.89%) Adobe
18 30 (0.68%) Workday
19 28 (0.64%) Dell