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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 8 16
Rank change year-on-year -19 +8 +4
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,023 3,672 6,543
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.59% 12.47% 8.47%
As % of the General category 10.29% 17.45% 15.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,034 1,315 3,621
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,500 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,885 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £59,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £72,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +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 29,376 21,040 42,548
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.57% 71.45% 55.09%
Number of salaries quoted 17,787 9,410 27,438
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,200
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.65% +7.62% -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 10 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 10 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 -18 936 £48,000 -0.63% 371
South East -6 758 £50,000 -8.78% 526
Midlands -9 551 £49,000 +3.16% 234
North West -18 551 £46,500 -7.00% 198
South West -27 316 £47,500 -5.00% 163
West Midlands -15 308 £51,300 +8.00% 140
Yorkshire -13 289 £50,000 +11.11% 123
East Midlands +4 242 £45,000 -5.26% 94
East of England -9 232 £45,025 +0.06% 135
Scotland -20 118 £40,000 -20.71% 60
North East -30 96 £51,000 +30.43% 56
Wales -3 82 £53,171 -3.33% 25
Northern Ireland -19 41 £40,000 -27.27% 40
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
1 145 (4.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 83 (2.75%) SharePoint
3 31 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
4 30 (0.99%) Apache Spark
4 30 (0.99%) Confluence
5 28 (0.93%) CMS
6 22 (0.73%) Apache
7 21 (0.69%) IIS
8 9 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 9 (0.30%) WordPress
9 6 (0.20%) SAS
10 5 (0.17%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.099%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.099%) govService
11 3 (0.099%) JBoss
12 2 (0.066%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.066%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.033%) Moodle
13 1 (0.033%) nginx
13 1 (0.033%) Umbraco
Applications
1 394 (13.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 142 (4.70%) Microsoft Office
3 62 (2.05%) MS Visio
4 55 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 22 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
7 9 (0.30%) CATIA
8 4 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.099%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.099%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.099%) 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
Business Applications
1 43 (1.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (1.06%) Salesforce CRM
3 22 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
4 19 (0.63%) NetSuite
5 15 (0.50%) SAP PM
6 14 (0.46%) SAP ERP
7 11 (0.36%) SAP CO
8 8 (0.26%) Dynamics GP
9 7 (0.23%) Magento
9 7 (0.23%) Workday HCM
10 5 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
10 5 (0.17%) Q-Pulse
10 5 (0.17%) SAP GTS
10 5 (0.17%) SAP PP
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 (0.099%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 519 (17.17%) Azure
2 399 (13.20%) Power Platform
3 268 (8.87%) Microsoft 365
4 267 (8.83%) AWS
5 122 (4.04%) SaaS
6 98 (3.24%) GCP
7 83 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
8 79 (2.61%) Entra ID
9 76 (2.51%) Dynamics 365
10 54 (1.79%) GitHub
11 52 (1.72%) Google Analytics
12 51 (1.69%) Microsoft Purview
13 45 (1.49%) Power Automate
14 44 (1.46%) Amazon S3
14 44 (1.46%) PowerApps
15 37 (1.22%) Serverless
16 33 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
17 32 (1.06%) dbt
18 31 (1.03%) Snowflake
19 29 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 132 (4.37%) Firewall
2 124 (4.10%) DNS
3 96 (3.18%) DHCP
4 74 (2.45%) VPN
5 61 (2.02%) WAN
6 47 (1.55%) LAN
7 45 (1.49%) TCP/IP
8 42 (1.39%) Broadband
9 39 (1.29%) Wireless
10 38 (1.26%) Wi-Fi
11 28 (0.93%) Network Security
12 24 (0.79%) BGP
12 24 (0.79%) SD-WAN
12 24 (0.79%) VLAN
13 22 (0.73%) Cisco ASA
13 22 (0.73%) SAN
13 22 (0.73%) Wireshark
14 19 (0.63%) HTTP
15 15 (0.50%) OSPF
16 13 (0.43%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 357 (11.81%) Power BI
2 206 (6.81%) Tableau
3 97 (3.21%) SQL Server
4 87 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
5 84 (2.78%) Data Mining
6 75 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
7 56 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 43 (1.42%) Power Query
9 42 (1.39%) Metadata
10 35 (1.16%) Looker
11 33 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
11 33 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
11 33 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 32 (1.06%) MySQL
13 29 (0.96%) Big Data
13 29 (0.96%) Data Lake
13 29 (0.96%) Relational Database
14 22 (0.73%) NoSQL
15 17 (0.56%) BigQuery
15 17 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 94 (3.11%) JIRA
2 65 (2.15%) Git
3 37 (1.22%) GitLab
4 32 (1.06%) Rational DOORS
5 16 (0.53%) Jenkins
6 12 (0.40%) Cypress.io
6 12 (0.40%) Selenium
7 11 (0.36%) Cucumber
7 11 (0.36%) MLflow
8 7 (0.23%) JMeter
8 7 (0.23%) Moq
8 7 (0.23%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.20%) LabVIEW
9 6 (0.20%) Postman
9 6 (0.20%) Subversion
9 6 (0.20%) Toad
10 5 (0.17%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.17%) ERwin
10 5 (0.17%) Maven
11 4 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
General
1 1,402 (46.38%) Social Skills
2 908 (30.04%) Finance
3 267 (8.83%) Marketing
4 179 (5.92%) Public Sector
5 177 (5.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 154 (5.09%) Organisational Skills
7 149 (4.93%) Retail
8 145 (4.80%) Law
9 144 (4.76%) Legal
10 139 (4.60%) Manufacturing
11 114 (3.77%) Influencing Skills
12 96 (3.18%) Telecoms
13 73 (2.41%) Aerospace
14 70 (2.32%) Electronics
15 67 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
16 62 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
17 42 (1.39%) Banking
18 41 (1.36%) Military
19 37 (1.22%) Games
20 31 (1.03%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 841 (27.82%) Analyst
2 317 (10.49%) Senior
3 227 (7.51%) Data Analyst
4 208 (6.88%) Lead
5 168 (5.56%) Business Analyst
6 157 (5.19%) Developer
7 153 (5.06%) Systems Engineer
8 114 (3.77%) Architect
9 88 (2.91%) Support Analyst
10 85 (2.81%) Senior Analyst
11 84 (2.78%) Consultant
12 81 (2.68%) Systems Analyst
13 80 (2.65%) Support Engineer
14 76 (2.51%) IT Support
15 73 (2.41%) Trainee
15 73 (2.41%) Trainee Analyst
15 73 (2.41%) Trainee Data Analyst
16 71 (2.35%) Data Engineer
17 68 (2.25%) IT Manager
18 66 (2.18%) Head of QA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (2.65%) HTML
2 70 (2.32%) CSS
3 63 (2.08%) .NET
4 62 (2.05%) REST
5 61 (2.02%) Middleware
6 56 (1.85%) JSON
7 55 (1.82%) React
8 53 (1.75%) XML
9 39 (1.29%) Node.js
9 39 (1.29%) SOAP
10 30 (0.99%) PyTorch
11 24 (0.79%) TensorFlow
12 21 (0.69%) scikit-learn
13 19 (0.63%) EDI
13 19 (0.63%) PySpark
13 19 (0.63%) RESTful
14 17 (0.56%) OAuth
14 17 (0.56%) Pandas
15 14 (0.46%) Kafka
15 14 (0.46%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 372 (12.31%) Analytical Mindset
2 144 (4.76%) Management Information System
3 115 (3.80%) Onboarding
4 112 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
5 107 (3.54%) Product Ownership
6 94 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
7 72 (2.38%) Data Centre
8 67 (2.22%) Driving Licence
9 43 (1.42%) Cloud Native
10 38 (1.26%) Cyber Threat
11 36 (1.19%) Algorithms
12 35 (1.16%) Social Media
13 34 (1.12%) Data Structures
14 32 (1.06%) FMCG
14 32 (1.06%) Security Posture
15 30 (0.99%) Low-Code
15 30 (0.99%) Virtual Team
16 28 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
17 26 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
18 25 (0.83%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 255 (8.44%) Windows
2 156 (5.16%) Windows Server
3 151 (5.00%) Linux
4 86 (2.84%) Windows Server 2016
5 20 (0.66%) Unix
6 16 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
7 15 (0.50%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 13 (0.43%) Android
10 11 (0.36%) Ubuntu
11 9 (0.30%) CentOS
12 8 (0.26%) Mac OS
12 8 (0.26%) VMS
12 8 (0.26%) Windows 10
13 4 (0.13%) Debian
14 3 (0.099%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.066%) OpenVMS
16 1 (0.033%) AIX
16 1 (0.033%) FreeBSD
16 1 (0.033%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,413 (46.74%) Problem-Solving
2 826 (27.32%) Continuous Improvement
3 669 (22.13%) Decision-Making
4 620 (20.51%) Analytics
5 444 (14.69%) Agile
6 408 (13.50%) Business Intelligence
7 373 (12.34%) Stakeholder Management
8 324 (10.72%) AI
9 310 (10.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 308 (10.19%) Actionable Insight
11 286 (9.46%) Project Management
12 281 (9.30%) Data Analysis
13 277 (9.16%) Customer Service
14 265 (8.77%) ERP
15 252 (8.34%) Cybersecurity
16 249 (8.24%) Customer Experience
17 245 (8.10%) CRM
18 242 (8.01%) Mentoring
19 235 (7.77%) Data Modelling
20 230 (7.61%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 650 (21.50%) SQL
2 497 (16.44%) Python
3 106 (3.51%) JavaScript
4 100 (3.31%) Java
4 100 (3.31%) PowerShell
5 85 (2.81%) C#
6 59 (1.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 44 (1.46%) R
8 42 (1.39%) T-SQL
9 41 (1.36%) Bash
10 40 (1.32%) C++
11 34 (1.12%) VBA
12 28 (0.93%) MATLAB
13 18 (0.60%) PHP
14 17 (0.56%) TypeScript
15 15 (0.50%) Go
15 15 (0.50%) PL/SQL
16 13 (0.43%) Scala
17 12 (0.40%) C
18 9 (0.30%) Perl
Qualifications
1 505 (16.71%) Degree
2 281 (9.30%) Security Cleared
3 206 (6.81%) SC Cleared
4 149 (4.93%) ACCA
5 143 (4.73%) CIMA
6 129 (4.27%) DBS Check
7 78 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
8 69 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
9 66 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
9 66 (2.18%) IRCA
10 49 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
11 46 (1.52%) CISSP
12 45 (1.49%) DV Cleared
13 41 (1.36%) PMI Certification
14 38 (1.26%) CompTIA Security+
15 34 (1.12%) CCNA
15 34 (1.12%) CISM
15 34 (1.12%) PMP
16 25 (0.83%) CCNP
16 25 (0.83%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 302 (9.99%) Data Quality
2 244 (8.07%) GDPR
3 186 (6.15%) QA
4 153 (5.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 138 (4.57%) Cyber Essentials
6 109 (3.61%) PCI DSS
7 105 (3.47%) NIST
8 104 (3.44%) ISO 9001
9 79 (2.61%) SLA
10 59 (1.95%) Accessibility
11 44 (1.46%) GRC
12 38 (1.26%) PMO
13 36 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
14 20 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 18 (0.60%) ISO 14001
15 18 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 17 (0.56%) GMP
16 17 (0.56%) SOC 2
16 17 (0.56%) TickIT
17 13 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 201 (6.65%) Active Directory
2 83 (2.75%) Hyper-V
3 72 (2.38%) Terminal Server
4 53 (1.75%) Docker
5 32 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
6 11 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.33%) vSphere
8 9 (0.30%) VMware NSX
9 8 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
10 7 (0.23%) ProxySG
11 4 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 4 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.13%) XenApp
12 3 (0.099%) DFS Replication
12 3 (0.099%) Firmware
13 2 (0.066%) VMware ESXi
14 1 (0.033%) Embedded Firmware
14 1 (0.033%) KVM
14 1 (0.033%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.033%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 66 (2.18%) Terraform
2 42 (1.39%) Kubernetes
3 36 (1.19%) Ansible
4 28 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (0.60%) Grafana
6 12 (0.40%) Kibana
6 12 (0.40%) QRadar
7 8 (0.26%) Nagios
7 8 (0.26%) Prometheus
8 7 (0.23%) Kubeflow
9 6 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.17%) Docker Swarm
10 5 (0.17%) Graylog
10 5 (0.17%) logstash
10 5 (0.17%) Podman
11 4 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.13%) Backup Exec
11 4 (0.13%) Control-M
11 4 (0.13%) Functional Safety
11 4 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 729 (24.12%) Microsoft
2 125 (4.13%) SAP
3 118 (3.90%) Google
4 109 (3.61%) VMware
5 106 (3.51%) Splunk
6 98 (3.24%) Salesforce
7 95 (3.14%) SolarWinds
8 83 (2.75%) Veeam
9 80 (2.65%) Oracle
10 73 (2.41%) Nimble Storage
11 72 (2.38%) Brocade
11 72 (2.38%) Tanium
12 66 (2.18%) Workday
13 57 (1.89%) Databricks
14 47 (1.55%) Cisco
15 42 (1.39%) ServiceNow
16 36 (1.19%) IBM
17 29 (0.96%) Dell
18 28 (0.93%) Adobe
18 28 (0.93%) HubSpot