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 17 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 8 12
Rank change year-on-year -16 +4 +10
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,102 4,135 4,878
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.87% 12.04% 8.82%
As % of the General category 11.07% 18.24% 16.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,451 1,511 1,839
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,500 £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 £60,196 £60,000 £63,110
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%

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 37,047 22,672 29,467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.01% 66.00% 53.30%
Number of salaries quoted 22,781 11,042 14,010
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,250 £28,398
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -1.93%
75th Percentile £66,250 £62,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £55,655
% change year-on-year +1.85% -2.97% -7.24%

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -20 1,119 £47,500 +10.47% 1,244
South East -10 968 £49,536 +0.07% 1,427
Midlands -9 714 £47,500 +5.56% 778
North West -16 684 £46,500 +3.33% 770
South West -11 587 £47,500 +5.56% 660
West Midlands -17 363 £48,000 +6.67% 476
East Midlands -5 348 £45,000 +5.88% 301
Yorkshire -10 303 £47,000 +17.50% 365
East of England -16 266 £47,500 +18.75% 481
Wales -8 198 £45,000 -10.40% 132
Scotland -23 144 £45,000 +12.50% 459
North East -20 132 £50,500 +26.25% 119
Northern Ireland -8 117 £43,750 -20.45% 262
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
1 164 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 140 (3.41%) SharePoint
3 53 (1.29%) Confluence
4 31 (0.76%) IIS
5 28 (0.68%) Apache
6 25 (0.61%) Apache Spark
7 19 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
8 15 (0.37%) CMS
9 14 (0.34%) SAS
10 11 (0.27%) WordPress
11 10 (0.24%) Jupyter
12 9 (0.22%) WebLogic
12 9 (0.22%) WebSphere
13 8 (0.20%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 2 (0.049%) Anypoint
15 2 (0.049%) Oracle Application Server
15 2 (0.049%) Oracle Workflow
16 1 (0.024%) Apache Superset
16 1 (0.024%) Appian
Applications
1 516 (12.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 242 (5.90%) Microsoft Office
3 79 (1.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 51 (1.24%) MS Visio
5 37 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
6 25 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
7 17 (0.41%) Simulink
8 10 (0.24%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.20%) SOLIDWORKS
10 6 (0.15%) CATIA
10 6 (0.15%) Siemens NX
11 5 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 5 (0.12%) Chatbot
11 5 (0.12%) EPLAN
11 5 (0.12%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.073%) CANalyzer
12 3 (0.073%) LaTeX
13 2 (0.049%) Adobe XD
13 2 (0.049%) Lectora
13 2 (0.049%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 89 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.78%) Dynamics GP
3 30 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
4 26 (0.63%) NetSuite
5 20 (0.49%) Shopify
6 13 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
7 12 (0.29%) Magento
8 10 (0.24%) SAP Business One
9 9 (0.22%) Infor M3
9 9 (0.22%) SAP PM
10 8 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
10 8 (0.20%) SAP ERP
11 7 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
11 7 (0.17%) Workday HCM
12 6 (0.15%) Exchequer
12 6 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
13 5 (0.12%) JDE EnterpriseOne
13 5 (0.12%) Sage 50
14 4 (0.098%) JDE World
14 4 (0.098%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 647 (15.77%) Azure
2 493 (12.02%) Power Platform
3 350 (8.53%) AWS
4 325 (7.92%) Microsoft 365
5 215 (5.24%) SaaS
6 149 (3.63%) GCP
7 109 (2.66%) Entra ID
8 104 (2.54%) Google Ads
9 101 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
10 96 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
11 88 (2.15%) Google Analytics
12 79 (1.93%) Meta Ads
13 66 (1.61%) Power Automate
14 63 (1.54%) PowerApps
15 62 (1.51%) GitHub
16 56 (1.37%) Serverless
17 50 (1.22%) Amazon S3
18 46 (1.12%) Microsoft Purview
19 44 (1.07%) Azure Data Factory
20 43 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 163 (3.97%) DNS
2 127 (3.10%) DHCP
3 109 (2.66%) Firewall
4 97 (2.36%) VPN
5 82 (2.00%) TCP/IP
6 68 (1.66%) WAN
7 61 (1.49%) LAN
8 52 (1.27%) Wireless
9 44 (1.07%) Network Security
10 35 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
11 28 (0.68%) Internet
11 28 (0.68%) VLAN
12 27 (0.66%) HTTP
13 25 (0.61%) VoIP
14 24 (0.59%) Broadband
15 23 (0.56%) SD-WAN
16 21 (0.51%) BGP
16 21 (0.51%) SAN
17 18 (0.44%) SMS
18 17 (0.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 439 (10.70%) Power BI
2 123 (3.00%) SQL Server
3 120 (2.93%) Data Warehouse
4 110 (2.68%) Tableau
5 98 (2.39%) Amazon RDS
6 74 (1.80%) Relational Database
7 66 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 64 (1.56%) MySQL
9 57 (1.39%) Power Query
10 51 (1.24%) Metadata
11 50 (1.22%) Looker
12 47 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
13 44 (1.07%) Data Lake
13 44 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 36 (0.88%) BigQuery
15 33 (0.80%) Big Data
16 31 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
17 28 (0.68%) NoSQL
18 26 (0.63%) MongoDB
19 20 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 156 (3.80%) JIRA
2 145 (3.53%) Git
3 33 (0.80%) Jenkins
4 30 (0.73%) Rational DOORS
5 28 (0.68%) GitLab
6 20 (0.49%) Eclipse
7 17 (0.41%) LabVIEW
7 17 (0.41%) Selenium
8 16 (0.39%) Cucumber
8 16 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
9 14 (0.34%) Burp Suite
9 14 (0.34%) Claude Code
9 14 (0.34%) Postman
10 12 (0.29%) Bitbucket
10 12 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
11 11 (0.27%) Metasploit
12 10 (0.24%) Cypress.io
12 10 (0.24%) JMeter
13 8 (0.20%) Moq
13 8 (0.20%) SonarQube
General
1 2,064 (50.32%) Social Skills
2 1,187 (28.94%) Finance
3 477 (11.63%) Marketing
4 355 (8.65%) Organisational Skills
5 310 (7.56%) Manufacturing
6 298 (7.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 275 (6.70%) Retail
8 267 (6.51%) Legal
9 241 (5.88%) Public Sector
10 225 (5.49%) Influencing Skills
11 219 (5.34%) Law
12 189 (4.61%) Aerospace
13 143 (3.49%) Electronics
14 125 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
15 119 (2.90%) Telecoms
16 72 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
17 66 (1.61%) Advertising
18 65 (1.58%) Banking
18 65 (1.58%) Military
19 62 (1.51%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 918 (22.38%) Analyst
2 474 (11.56%) Senior
3 271 (6.61%) Lead
4 214 (5.22%) Developer
5 199 (4.85%) Data Analyst
6 180 (4.39%) Business Analyst
7 170 (4.14%) Systems Engineer
8 152 (3.71%) Support Analyst
9 139 (3.39%) Architect
10 118 (2.88%) Data Engineer
11 116 (2.83%) Support Engineer
12 110 (2.68%) Senior Analyst
13 109 (2.66%) Consultant
14 104 (2.54%) IT Support
15 92 (2.24%) Accountant
16 84 (2.05%) Administrator
16 84 (2.05%) Applications Support
16 84 (2.05%) IT Engineer
16 84 (2.05%) Marketing Manager
16 84 (2.05%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (2.56%) .NET
2 85 (2.07%) REST
3 77 (1.88%) HTML
4 72 (1.76%) Terraform
5 70 (1.71%) CSS
6 63 (1.54%) Middleware
7 61 (1.49%) XML
8 57 (1.39%) JSON
9 51 (1.24%) SOAP
10 49 (1.19%) PySpark
11 48 (1.17%) RESTful
12 43 (1.05%) EDI
13 37 (0.90%) React
14 36 (0.88%) LDAP
15 35 (0.85%) Kafka
16 31 (0.76%) ModSecurity
17 28 (0.68%) ASP.NET
18 27 (0.66%) Spring
18 27 (0.66%) Spring Boot
19 25 (0.61%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 336 (8.19%) Analytical Mindset
2 308 (7.51%) Management Information System
3 239 (5.83%) Onboarding
4 216 (5.27%) Self-Motivation
5 163 (3.97%) Product Ownership
6 144 (3.51%) Driving Licence
7 116 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
8 96 (2.34%) Social Media
9 86 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
10 81 (1.97%) Marketing Technology
11 78 (1.90%) Cloud Native
12 72 (1.76%) Cyber Threat
13 71 (1.73%) Data Centre
14 69 (1.68%) Virtual Team
15 67 (1.63%) Blog
16 47 (1.15%) Security Posture
17 43 (1.05%) Data Structures
18 37 (0.90%) SCADA
19 36 (0.88%) AI Agents
20 33 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 338 (8.24%) Windows
2 202 (4.92%) Linux
3 184 (4.49%) Windows Server
4 89 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
5 30 (0.73%) Mac OS
6 29 (0.71%) Windows 10
7 24 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
8 21 (0.51%) Unix
9 15 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 14 (0.34%) Android
11 13 (0.32%) Apple iOS
12 9 (0.22%) CentOS
13 7 (0.17%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.15%) Debian
14 6 (0.15%) VMS
15 5 (0.12%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.098%) CoreOS
17 2 (0.049%) Solaris
18 1 (0.024%) AIX
18 1 (0.024%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,051 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1,298 (31.64%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,015 (24.74%) Decision-Making
4 766 (18.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 738 (17.99%) Analytics
6 664 (16.19%) AI
7 621 (15.14%) Agile
8 563 (13.73%) Business Intelligence
9 423 (10.31%) Validation
10 422 (10.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 408 (9.95%) ERP
12 405 (9.87%) Customer Service
13 393 (9.58%) Actionable Insight
14 389 (9.48%) CRM
15 373 (9.09%) Data Analysis
15 373 (9.09%) Mentoring
16 324 (7.90%) Collaborative Working
17 323 (7.87%) Project Management
18 317 (7.73%) Process Improvement
19 310 (7.56%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 779 (18.99%) SQL
2 451 (10.99%) Python
3 152 (3.71%) JavaScript
4 135 (3.29%) Java
5 120 (2.93%) C#
6 107 (2.61%) PowerShell
7 78 (1.90%) C++
8 66 (1.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 57 (1.39%) Bash
10 45 (1.10%) TypeScript
11 44 (1.07%) MATLAB
12 40 (0.98%) T-SQL
13 33 (0.80%) C
14 31 (0.76%) R
15 21 (0.51%) PHP
16 20 (0.49%) PL/SQL
17 19 (0.46%) VB.NET
18 17 (0.41%) Scala
19 16 (0.39%) Perl
20 15 (0.37%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 789 (19.23%) Degree
2 509 (12.41%) Security Cleared
3 350 (8.53%) SC Cleared
4 173 (4.22%) ACCA
5 163 (3.97%) CIMA
6 121 (2.95%) BPSS Clearance
7 120 (2.93%) DV Cleared
8 114 (2.78%) DBS Check
9 90 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
10 75 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
11 69 (1.68%) CISSP
12 68 (1.66%) HND
13 63 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
14 55 (1.34%) CISM
15 48 (1.17%) HNC
16 47 (1.15%) Azure Certification
17 46 (1.12%) CompTIA Security+
18 42 (1.02%) CCNA
19 35 (0.85%) Master's Degree
19 35 (0.85%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 395 (9.63%) Data Quality
2 267 (6.51%) QA
3 214 (5.22%) GDPR
4 139 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 138 (3.36%) Cyber Essentials
6 117 (2.85%) Accessibility
7 104 (2.54%) PCI DSS
8 88 (2.15%) SLA
9 73 (1.78%) NIST
10 64 (1.56%) ISO 9001
11 38 (0.93%) GRC
12 36 (0.88%) PMO
13 26 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
13 26 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 25 (0.61%) DO-254
15 24 (0.59%) IFRS
16 21 (0.51%) ISO 14001
17 20 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 20000
18 18 (0.44%) Good Clinical Practice
19 17 (0.41%) TickIT
System Software
1 257 (6.27%) Active Directory
2 103 (2.51%) Docker
3 99 (2.41%) Hyper-V
4 72 (1.76%) Terminal Server
5 42 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
6 37 (0.90%) Firmware
7 15 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
8 11 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.20%) VMware NSX
10 7 (0.17%) Ceph
11 6 (0.15%) vSphere
12 4 (0.098%) KVM
12 4 (0.098%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.098%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.073%) DFS Replication
14 1 (0.024%) IAG
14 1 (0.024%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.024%) VirtualBox
14 1 (0.024%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 65 (1.58%) Kubernetes
2 48 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 39 (0.95%) Ansible
4 25 (0.61%) Grafana
4 25 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
5 20 (0.49%) Prometheus
6 16 (0.39%) Kibana
7 15 (0.37%) QRadar
8 11 (0.27%) Nmap
8 11 (0.27%) Podman
9 8 (0.20%) logstash
10 7 (0.17%) Argo
10 7 (0.17%) Check_MK
10 7 (0.17%) Istio
11 6 (0.15%) Functional Safety
11 6 (0.15%) Graylog
12 5 (0.12%) Kubeflow
12 5 (0.12%) SCCM
13 4 (0.098%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.098%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 1,038 (25.30%) Microsoft
2 264 (6.44%) Google
3 135 (3.29%) SAP
4 131 (3.19%) VMware
5 127 (3.10%) Splunk
6 104 (2.54%) Oracle
7 85 (2.07%) SolarWinds
8 84 (2.05%) Salesforce
9 79 (1.93%) Veeam
10 73 (1.78%) Brocade
10 73 (1.78%) Nimble Storage
11 72 (1.76%) Tanium
12 70 (1.71%) ServiceNow
13 65 (1.58%) Cisco
14 59 (1.44%) Databricks
15 56 (1.37%) YouTube
16 42 (1.02%) Workday
17 39 (0.95%) Adobe
17 39 (0.95%) HubSpot
18 32 (0.78%) IBM