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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 8 16
Rank change year-on-year -22 +8 +4
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,008 3,661 6,352
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.46% 12.59% 8.59%
As % of the General category 9.50% 17.54% 15.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2,018 1,334 3,593
10th Percentile £31,213 £28,750 £26,300
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.11% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £59,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £72,500
UK median annual salary £53,350 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.00% +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 31,661 20,876 41,286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 46.91% 71.79% 55.86%
Number of salaries quoted 17,572 9,193 27,028
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +3.16% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,200
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,443 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.25% +9.41% -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 3 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 3 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 -30 928 £47,500 -1.67% 437
South East -5 758 £50,000 -4.76% 568
Midlands -21 558 £48,000 +1.05% 259
North West -27 544 £46,500 -7.00% 245
West Midlands -27 314 £51,300 +8.00% 170
South West -28 305 £47,500 -5.00% 192
Yorkshire -15 291 £50,000 +11.11% 142
East Midlands +4 243 £45,000 -5.26% 88
East of England -22 236 £45,000 -11.71% 153
Scotland -31 111 £40,000 -20.71% 91
North East -31 93 £48,445 +24.86% 56
Wales -4 81 £51,709 -5.98% 40
Northern Ireland -22 42 £41,250 -25.00% 83
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 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 80 (2.66%) SharePoint
3 31 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
4 29 (0.96%) Apache Spark
4 29 (0.96%) Confluence
5 28 (0.93%) CMS
6 22 (0.73%) IIS
7 21 (0.70%) Apache
8 9 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 9 (0.30%) WordPress
9 6 (0.20%) SAS
10 5 (0.17%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.13%) nginx
12 3 (0.100%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.100%) govService
12 3 (0.100%) JBoss
13 1 (0.033%) Appian
13 1 (0.033%) Kinematics
13 1 (0.033%) Palantir Foundry
13 1 (0.033%) Tomcat
Applications
1 400 (13.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 148 (4.92%) Microsoft Office
3 61 (2.03%) MS Visio
4 52 (1.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 20 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
7 10 (0.33%) CATIA
8 4 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.100%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.100%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.100%) 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 20 (0.66%) NetSuite
5 15 (0.50%) SAP PM
6 14 (0.47%) SAP ERP
7 13 (0.43%) SAP CO
8 7 (0.23%) Dynamics GP
8 7 (0.23%) Magento
8 7 (0.23%) Workday HCM
9 6 (0.20%) SAP PP
10 5 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
10 5 (0.17%) Q-Pulse
10 5 (0.17%) SAP GTS
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 (0.100%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 507 (16.86%) Azure
2 413 (13.73%) Power Platform
3 264 (8.78%) AWS
4 261 (8.68%) Microsoft 365
5 122 (4.06%) SaaS
6 93 (3.09%) GCP
7 88 (2.93%) Azure DevOps
8 77 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
8 77 (2.56%) Entra ID
9 55 (1.83%) GitHub
10 50 (1.66%) Google Analytics
11 49 (1.63%) Microsoft Purview
12 47 (1.56%) Power Automate
13 44 (1.46%) PowerApps
14 42 (1.40%) Amazon S3
15 36 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
16 35 (1.16%) Serverless
17 34 (1.13%) dbt
17 34 (1.13%) Snowflake
18 27 (0.90%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 131 (4.36%) Firewall
2 116 (3.86%) DNS
3 89 (2.96%) DHCP
4 79 (2.63%) VPN
5 62 (2.06%) WAN
6 46 (1.53%) LAN
7 42 (1.40%) TCP/IP
7 42 (1.40%) Wireless
8 38 (1.26%) Wi-Fi
9 36 (1.20%) Broadband
10 32 (1.06%) Network Security
11 27 (0.90%) VLAN
12 26 (0.86%) SD-WAN
13 25 (0.83%) BGP
14 23 (0.76%) Cisco ASA
14 23 (0.76%) Wireshark
15 22 (0.73%) SAN
16 17 (0.57%) HTTP
16 17 (0.57%) OSPF
17 15 (0.50%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 368 (12.23%) Power BI
2 220 (7.31%) Tableau
3 97 (3.22%) SQL Server
4 96 (3.19%) Data Mining
5 78 (2.59%) Amazon RDS
6 76 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
7 57 (1.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 43 (1.43%) Power Query
9 39 (1.30%) Metadata
10 35 (1.16%) Looker
11 34 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 33 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
12 33 (1.10%) Data Lake
12 33 (1.10%) MySQL
13 32 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
14 31 (1.03%) Relational Database
15 29 (0.96%) Big Data
16 25 (0.83%) NoSQL
17 17 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
17 17 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 90 (2.99%) JIRA
2 65 (2.16%) Git
3 36 (1.20%) GitLab
4 32 (1.06%) Rational DOORS
5 16 (0.53%) Jenkins
6 11 (0.37%) MLflow
6 11 (0.37%) Selenium
7 10 (0.33%) Cucumber
7 10 (0.33%) Cypress.io
8 7 (0.23%) LabVIEW
8 7 (0.23%) Moq
8 7 (0.23%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.20%) Subversion
9 6 (0.20%) Toad
10 5 (0.17%) JMeter
10 5 (0.17%) Maven
10 5 (0.17%) Postman
11 4 (0.13%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.13%) IBM UrbanCode
11 4 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
General
1 1,373 (45.64%) Social Skills
2 908 (30.19%) Finance
3 267 (8.88%) Marketing
4 178 (5.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 172 (5.72%) Public Sector
6 152 (5.05%) Organisational Skills
7 148 (4.92%) Retail
8 142 (4.72%) Law
8 142 (4.72%) Manufacturing
9 137 (4.55%) Legal
10 111 (3.69%) Influencing Skills
11 90 (2.99%) Telecoms
12 73 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
13 70 (2.33%) Electronics
14 67 (2.23%) Aerospace
15 65 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
16 42 (1.40%) Banking
17 41 (1.36%) Games
18 39 (1.30%) Military
19 31 (1.03%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 836 (27.79%) Analyst
2 328 (10.90%) Senior
3 235 (7.81%) Data Analyst
4 205 (6.82%) Lead
5 163 (5.42%) Business Analyst
6 159 (5.29%) Developer
7 146 (4.85%) Systems Engineer
8 119 (3.96%) Architect
9 89 (2.96%) Support Analyst
10 84 (2.79%) Senior Analyst
11 82 (2.73%) Consultant
11 82 (2.73%) Support Engineer
12 81 (2.69%) Trainee
13 80 (2.66%) Trainee Analyst
13 80 (2.66%) Trainee Data Analyst
14 79 (2.63%) IT Support
14 79 (2.63%) Systems Analyst
15 73 (2.43%) Data Engineer
16 68 (2.26%) Senior Manager
17 67 (2.23%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (2.66%) HTML
2 71 (2.36%) CSS
3 62 (2.06%) .NET
4 60 (1.99%) Middleware
4 60 (1.99%) REST
5 56 (1.86%) JSON
6 53 (1.76%) React
6 53 (1.76%) XML
7 39 (1.30%) SOAP
8 36 (1.20%) Node.js
9 30 (1.00%) PyTorch
10 24 (0.80%) TensorFlow
11 21 (0.70%) scikit-learn
12 20 (0.66%) EDI
12 20 (0.66%) PySpark
13 17 (0.57%) OAuth
13 17 (0.57%) Pandas
14 16 (0.53%) RabbitMQ
14 16 (0.53%) RESTful
15 15 (0.50%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 370 (12.30%) Analytical Mindset
2 147 (4.89%) Management Information System
3 118 (3.92%) Onboarding
4 112 (3.72%) Self-Motivation
5 108 (3.59%) Product Ownership
6 85 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
7 74 (2.46%) Data Centre
8 65 (2.16%) Driving Licence
9 42 (1.40%) Cloud Native
10 36 (1.20%) Algorithms
11 34 (1.13%) Data Structures
11 34 (1.13%) Low-Code
12 32 (1.06%) FMCG
13 31 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
13 31 (1.03%) Virtual Team
14 30 (1.00%) Security Posture
15 29 (0.96%) Social Media
16 28 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
17 25 (0.83%) Cyber Defence
17 25 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 250 (8.31%) Windows
2 149 (4.95%) Windows Server
3 140 (4.65%) Linux
4 78 (2.59%) Windows Server 2016
5 20 (0.66%) Unix
6 15 (0.50%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
7 14 (0.47%) Android
8 13 (0.43%) 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 6 (0.20%) Windows 10
13 3 (0.100%) Debian
13 3 (0.100%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.033%) AIX
14 1 (0.033%) OpenBSD
14 1 (0.033%) Solaris
14 1 (0.033%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,402 (46.61%) Problem-Solving
2 819 (27.23%) Continuous Improvement
3 657 (21.84%) Decision-Making
4 629 (20.91%) Analytics
5 442 (14.69%) Agile
6 419 (13.93%) Business Intelligence
7 375 (12.47%) Stakeholder Management
8 324 (10.77%) AI
9 304 (10.11%) Actionable Insight
10 300 (9.97%) Project Management
11 296 (9.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 284 (9.44%) Data Analysis
13 265 (8.81%) Customer Service
14 260 (8.64%) ERP
15 246 (8.18%) CRM
15 246 (8.18%) Cybersecurity
16 243 (8.08%) Mentoring
17 239 (7.95%) Customer Experience
18 235 (7.81%) Data Modelling
19 233 (7.75%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 661 (21.97%) SQL
2 510 (16.95%) Python
3 106 (3.52%) JavaScript
4 102 (3.39%) PowerShell
5 97 (3.22%) Java
6 88 (2.93%) C#
7 61 (2.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 44 (1.46%) R
9 42 (1.40%) T-SQL
10 41 (1.36%) Bash
10 41 (1.36%) C++
11 34 (1.13%) VBA
12 30 (1.00%) MATLAB
13 19 (0.63%) PHP
14 15 (0.50%) Go
15 14 (0.47%) PL/SQL
15 14 (0.47%) TypeScript
16 13 (0.43%) Scala
17 12 (0.40%) C
18 9 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 509 (16.92%) Degree
2 266 (8.84%) Security Cleared
3 191 (6.35%) SC Cleared
4 139 (4.62%) ACCA
5 133 (4.42%) CIMA
6 129 (4.29%) DBS Check
7 73 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 68 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
9 67 (2.23%) Cisco Certification
10 66 (2.19%) IRCA
11 53 (1.76%) PMI Certification
12 50 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
13 46 (1.53%) PMP
14 45 (1.50%) DV Cleared
15 43 (1.43%) CISSP
16 37 (1.23%) CompTIA Security+
17 35 (1.16%) CCNA
18 31 (1.03%) CISM
19 27 (0.90%) CCNP
20 25 (0.83%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 303 (10.07%) Data Quality
2 234 (7.78%) GDPR
3 177 (5.88%) QA
4 145 (4.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 124 (4.12%) Cyber Essentials
6 105 (3.49%) NIST
7 100 (3.32%) ISO 9001
7 100 (3.32%) PCI DSS
8 75 (2.49%) SLA
9 51 (1.70%) Accessibility
10 43 (1.43%) GRC
11 39 (1.30%) PMO
12 36 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
13 17 (0.57%) SOC 2
13 17 (0.57%) TickIT
14 16 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 16 (0.53%) GMP
15 15 (0.50%) ISO 14001
15 15 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 13 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 192 (6.38%) Active Directory
2 75 (2.49%) Hyper-V
3 64 (2.13%) Terminal Server
4 51 (1.70%) Docker
5 32 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
6 12 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.33%) vSphere
8 9 (0.30%) VMware NSX
9 8 (0.27%) ProxySG
9 8 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
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 (0.100%) 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 65 (2.16%) Terraform
2 43 (1.43%) Kubernetes
3 37 (1.23%) Ansible
4 29 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (0.57%) Grafana
6 12 (0.40%) QRadar
7 11 (0.37%) Kibana
8 9 (0.30%) Nagios
9 8 (0.27%) Prometheus
10 7 (0.23%) Kubeflow
11 6 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.17%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.17%) Graylog
12 5 (0.17%) logstash
12 5 (0.17%) Podman
13 4 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.13%) Backup Exec
13 4 (0.13%) Control-M
13 4 (0.13%) Functional Safety
13 4 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 736 (24.47%) Microsoft
2 127 (4.22%) SAP
3 115 (3.82%) Google
4 101 (3.36%) VMware
5 97 (3.22%) Salesforce
6 96 (3.19%) Splunk
7 89 (2.96%) SolarWinds
8 83 (2.76%) Oracle
9 75 (2.49%) Veeam
10 66 (2.19%) Workday
11 65 (2.16%) Nimble Storage
12 64 (2.13%) Brocade
12 64 (2.13%) Tanium
13 57 (1.89%) Databricks
14 53 (1.76%) ServiceNow
15 49 (1.63%) Cisco
16 37 (1.23%) IBM
17 29 (0.96%) Dell
18 28 (0.93%) HubSpot
19 27 (0.90%) Adobe