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 29 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 8 13
Rank change year-on-year -19 +5 +10
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,427 4,005 5,532
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.65% 11.72% 8.85%
As % of the General category 10.50% 17.46% 16.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2,224 1,527 2,627
10th Percentile £30,325 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £34,000 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £60,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £73,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -8.90%

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 32,649 22,935 33,832
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.28% 67.14% 54.10%
Number of salaries quoted 20,077 11,144 20,122
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -6.25% -8.57%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £84,850 £78,750 £76,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -19 982 £47,500 +4.40% 472
South East -9 839 £50,000 -4.76% 589
Midlands -10 609 £47,500 +3.26% 306
North West -18 590 £46,750 -0.53% 246
South West -15 472 £47,500 - 226
West Midlands -17 324 £50,149 +11.44% 172
East Midlands -6 283 £45,000 -2.17% 133
Yorkshire -11 280 £47,500 +6.26% 166
East of England -24 246 £45,000 -5.26% 160
North East -23 112 £55,000 +37.50% 66
Scotland -27 111 £42,068 -4.39% 74
Wales -13 109 £53,171 -3.33% 44
Northern Ireland -32 68 £41,250 -25.00% 30
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
1 178 (5.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 109 (3.18%) SharePoint
3 40 (1.17%) Confluence
4 27 (0.79%) Apache
4 27 (0.79%) Apache Spark
4 27 (0.79%) CMS
5 26 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
6 22 (0.64%) IIS
7 9 (0.26%) SAS
7 9 (0.26%) WebLogic
7 9 (0.26%) WebSphere
7 9 (0.26%) WordPress
8 8 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.23%) Jupyter
8 8 (0.23%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.088%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.088%) JBoss
10 1 (0.029%) Appian
10 1 (0.029%) Moodle
10 1 (0.029%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 424 (12.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 169 (4.93%) Microsoft Office
3 65 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 57 (1.66%) MS Visio
5 20 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
6 16 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.20%) CATIA
8 4 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.12%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.088%) LaTeX
9 3 (0.088%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.088%) Simulink
9 3 (0.088%) Trello
10 2 (0.058%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.058%) Lectora
10 2 (0.058%) Siemens NX
10 2 (0.058%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.029%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.029%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 53 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 39 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
3 35 (1.02%) Dynamics GP
4 26 (0.76%) NetSuite
5 19 (0.55%) SAP PM
6 15 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
7 14 (0.41%) SAP ERP
8 10 (0.29%) Magento
9 7 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
10 6 (0.18%) SAP Business One
10 6 (0.18%) SAP CO
11 5 (0.15%) JDE EnterpriseOne
11 5 (0.15%) SAP FI
11 5 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
11 5 (0.15%) SAP GTS
11 5 (0.15%) SAP PP
12 4 (0.12%) Infor M3
12 4 (0.12%) JDE OneWorld
12 4 (0.12%) JDE World
12 4 (0.12%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 605 (17.65%) Azure
2 435 (12.69%) Power Platform
3 320 (9.34%) Microsoft 365
4 296 (8.64%) AWS
5 149 (4.35%) SaaS
6 133 (3.88%) GCP
7 92 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
8 84 (2.45%) Dynamics 365
9 83 (2.42%) Entra ID
10 61 (1.78%) Google Analytics
11 53 (1.55%) GitHub
12 50 (1.46%) PowerApps
13 46 (1.34%) Power Automate
14 40 (1.17%) Amazon S3
15 39 (1.14%) Microsoft Purview
16 35 (1.02%) dbt
16 35 (1.02%) Snowflake
17 30 (0.88%) Azure Data Factory
17 30 (0.88%) Serverless
18 29 (0.85%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 164 (4.79%) DNS
2 133 (3.88%) DHCP
3 102 (2.98%) Firewall
4 87 (2.54%) VPN
5 67 (1.96%) TCP/IP
6 63 (1.84%) WAN
7 56 (1.63%) LAN
8 44 (1.28%) Wireless
9 40 (1.17%) Wi-Fi
10 33 (0.96%) Broadband
11 28 (0.82%) Network Security
12 26 (0.76%) HTTP
13 21 (0.61%) VoIP
14 20 (0.58%) BGP
14 20 (0.58%) SAN
14 20 (0.58%) SD-WAN
15 16 (0.47%) Cisco ASA
15 16 (0.47%) Internet
16 15 (0.44%) SSL
16 15 (0.44%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 385 (11.23%) Power BI
2 183 (5.34%) Tableau
3 113 (3.30%) Amazon RDS
4 112 (3.27%) SQL Server
5 104 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
6 62 (1.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 52 (1.52%) MySQL
7 52 (1.52%) Power Query
8 50 (1.46%) Data Mining
9 47 (1.37%) Relational Database
10 43 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 41 (1.20%) Looker
12 39 (1.14%) Metadata
12 39 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
13 32 (0.93%) Data Lake
14 29 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
15 27 (0.79%) Big Data
16 26 (0.76%) BigQuery
17 20 (0.58%) NoSQL
18 19 (0.55%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 126 (3.68%) JIRA
2 113 (3.30%) Git
3 40 (1.17%) GitLab
4 34 (0.99%) Rational DOORS
5 32 (0.93%) Jenkins
6 15 (0.44%) Cucumber
6 15 (0.44%) Selenium
7 14 (0.41%) Postman
8 12 (0.35%) Cypress.io
8 12 (0.35%) Eclipse
9 11 (0.32%) MLflow
10 9 (0.26%) Burp Suite
10 9 (0.26%) JMeter
10 9 (0.26%) SonarQube
11 8 (0.23%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.23%) LabVIEW
12 7 (0.20%) Metasploit
12 7 (0.20%) Moq
12 7 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
12 7 (0.20%) Subversion
General
1 1,671 (48.76%) Social Skills
2 991 (28.92%) Finance
3 292 (8.52%) Marketing
4 231 (6.74%) Organisational Skills
5 224 (6.54%) Retail
6 204 (5.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 199 (5.81%) Legal
8 194 (5.66%) Public Sector
9 184 (5.37%) Manufacturing
10 164 (4.79%) Law
11 161 (4.70%) Influencing Skills
12 108 (3.15%) Telecoms
13 101 (2.95%) Aerospace
14 83 (2.42%) Electronics
15 66 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
16 64 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
17 53 (1.55%) Banking
18 52 (1.52%) Military
19 48 (1.40%) Advertising
20 35 (1.02%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 875 (25.53%) Analyst
2 348 (10.15%) Senior
3 232 (6.77%) Lead
4 226 (6.59%) Data Analyst
5 196 (5.72%) Systems Engineer
6 178 (5.19%) Developer
7 165 (4.81%) Business Analyst
8 114 (3.33%) Support Analyst
8 114 (3.33%) Support Engineer
9 112 (3.27%) Architect
10 99 (2.89%) Consultant
11 98 (2.86%) IT Support
12 95 (2.77%) Senior Analyst
13 91 (2.66%) Data Engineer
14 81 (2.36%) Systems Analyst
15 76 (2.22%) Accountant
16 74 (2.16%) IT Engineer
17 66 (1.93%) Applications Support
17 66 (1.93%) Head of QA
17 66 (1.93%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (2.25%) .NET
2 71 (2.07%) REST
3 67 (1.96%) HTML
4 62 (1.81%) Middleware
5 60 (1.75%) CSS
6 59 (1.72%) XML
7 56 (1.63%) JSON
8 44 (1.28%) React
9 40 (1.17%) SOAP
10 36 (1.05%) RESTful
11 29 (0.85%) Kafka
12 27 (0.79%) Node.js
12 27 (0.79%) PyTorch
13 25 (0.73%) EDI
13 25 (0.73%) PySpark
14 22 (0.64%) OAuth
15 21 (0.61%) scikit-learn
15 21 (0.61%) TensorFlow
16 19 (0.55%) AngularJS
16 19 (0.55%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 396 (11.56%) Analytical Mindset
2 197 (5.75%) Management Information System
3 149 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
4 134 (3.91%) Product Ownership
5 132 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
5 132 (3.85%) Onboarding
6 103 (3.01%) Driving Licence
7 61 (1.78%) Cloud Native
8 60 (1.75%) Virtual Team
9 54 (1.58%) Social Media
10 53 (1.55%) Data Centre
11 51 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
12 49 (1.43%) Marketing Technology
13 45 (1.31%) Security Posture
14 41 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
15 38 (1.11%) Blog
16 32 (0.93%) Data Structures
17 31 (0.90%) Algorithms
18 28 (0.82%) AI Agents
18 28 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 330 (9.63%) Windows
2 216 (6.30%) Linux
3 195 (5.69%) Windows Server
4 112 (3.27%) Windows Server 2016
5 23 (0.67%) Mac OS
5 23 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
6 20 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 18 (0.53%) Windows 10
8 17 (0.50%) Android
8 17 (0.50%) Unix
9 13 (0.38%) Apple iOS
9 13 (0.38%) CentOS
10 11 (0.32%) Ubuntu
11 7 (0.20%) VMS
12 6 (0.18%) Debian
13 5 (0.15%) OpenVMS
14 4 (0.12%) CoreOS
15 2 (0.058%) Solaris
16 1 (0.029%) AIX
16 1 (0.029%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,631 (47.59%) Problem-Solving
2 1,021 (29.79%) Continuous Improvement
3 796 (23.23%) Decision-Making
4 693 (20.22%) Analytics
5 499 (14.56%) Agile
6 492 (14.36%) Stakeholder Management
7 444 (12.96%) Business Intelligence
8 442 (12.90%) AI
9 370 (10.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 345 (10.07%) Actionable Insight
11 339 (9.89%) Customer Experience
12 316 (9.22%) Customer Service
13 310 (9.05%) ERP
14 309 (9.02%) Data Analysis
15 298 (8.70%) Project Management
16 291 (8.49%) Validation
17 280 (8.17%) CRM
18 273 (7.97%) Mentoring
19 271 (7.91%) Cybersecurity
19 271 (7.91%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 693 (20.22%) SQL
2 493 (14.39%) Python
3 128 (3.74%) JavaScript
4 105 (3.06%) Java
5 104 (3.03%) C#
6 100 (2.92%) PowerShell
7 61 (1.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 59 (1.72%) C++
9 55 (1.60%) Bash
10 44 (1.28%) T-SQL
11 39 (1.14%) R
12 32 (0.93%) MATLAB
13 27 (0.79%) TypeScript
14 23 (0.67%) C
15 22 (0.64%) PHP
16 19 (0.55%) Go
17 16 (0.47%) VBA
18 13 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
18 13 (0.38%) Perl
18 13 (0.38%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 570 (16.63%) Degree
2 391 (11.41%) Security Cleared
3 279 (8.14%) SC Cleared
4 157 (4.58%) ACCA
5 151 (4.41%) CIMA
6 123 (3.59%) DBS Check
7 92 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 77 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
9 72 (2.10%) DV Cleared
10 68 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
11 66 (1.93%) IRCA
12 55 (1.60%) CISSP
13 51 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
14 44 (1.28%) CompTIA Security+
15 40 (1.17%) CISM
16 34 (0.99%) CCNA
17 31 (0.90%) Master's Degree
18 28 (0.82%) HNC
19 27 (0.79%) Azure Certification
20 25 (0.73%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 333 (9.72%) Data Quality
2 248 (7.24%) QA
3 239 (6.97%) GDPR
4 163 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
5 138 (4.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 132 (3.85%) PCI DSS
7 114 (3.33%) ISO 9001
8 96 (2.80%) SLA
9 82 (2.39%) Accessibility
10 79 (2.31%) NIST
11 43 (1.25%) GRC
12 39 (1.14%) PMO
13 28 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
13 28 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 23 (0.67%) ISO 14001
15 21 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 20 (0.58%) GMP
17 18 (0.53%) Good Clinical Practice
18 17 (0.50%) SOC 2
18 17 (0.50%) TickIT
System Software
1 262 (7.65%) Active Directory
2 113 (3.30%) Hyper-V
3 96 (2.80%) Terminal Server
4 92 (2.68%) Docker
5 33 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
6 13 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (0.32%) Firmware
8 9 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.26%) VMware NSX
9 7 (0.20%) Ceph
9 7 (0.20%) vSphere
10 4 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 4 (0.12%) ProxySG
10 4 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.12%) XenApp
11 3 (0.088%) DFS Replication
11 3 (0.088%) Embedded Firmware
12 2 (0.058%) KVM
13 1 (0.029%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.029%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 66 (1.93%) Kubernetes
1 66 (1.93%) Terraform
2 44 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
3 38 (1.11%) Ansible
4 27 (0.79%) Grafana
5 20 (0.58%) Prometheus
6 14 (0.41%) Kibana
7 13 (0.38%) QRadar
8 12 (0.35%) Podman
9 8 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.20%) Argo
10 7 (0.20%) Check_MK
10 7 (0.20%) Istio
10 7 (0.20%) logstash
10 7 (0.20%) Nagios
10 7 (0.20%) Nmap
11 6 (0.18%) Kubeflow
12 5 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.15%) Graylog
13 4 (0.12%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 817 (23.84%) Microsoft
2 152 (4.44%) Google
3 137 (4.00%) Splunk
3 137 (4.00%) VMware
4 120 (3.50%) SAP
5 113 (3.30%) SolarWinds
6 105 (3.06%) Veeam
7 97 (2.83%) Brocade
7 97 (2.83%) Nimble Storage
8 96 (2.80%) Tanium
9 80 (2.33%) Salesforce
10 75 (2.19%) Oracle
11 63 (1.84%) Workday
12 58 (1.69%) Cisco
13 55 (1.60%) Databricks
14 51 (1.49%) ServiceNow
15 38 (1.11%) Red Hat
16 35 (1.02%) IBM
17 32 (0.93%) Dell
18 27 (0.79%) Adobe