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 9 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 13 21
Rank change year-on-year -1 +8 -1
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,454 4,047 2,639
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 8.70% 9.46% 9.08%
As % of the General category 14.88% 15.95% 14.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,597 1,640 1,884
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £33,250 £38,750 £37,265
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £61,250 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £73,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% -3.51% +3.64%

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 common skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 23,213 25,376 18,406
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 58.45% 59.30% 63.33%
Number of salaries quoted 12,275 11,061 13,441
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +4.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 9 December 2025.

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 9 December 2025. 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
South East +4 869 £49,000 -2.00% 2,969
North of England -10 826 £45,000 -12.20% 2,706
Midlands -7 638 £44,772 -8.63% 2,306
North West -11 414 £45,000 -14.29% 1,353
South West +3 391 £45,000 -15.09% 1,340
West Midlands -8 379 £50,750 +1.50% 1,169
Scotland +1 342 £33,500 -44.17% 509
East of England -5 302 £40,000 -27.27% 1,799
Yorkshire -1 298 £40,000 -20.00% 1,154
East Midlands +5 256 £37,500 -11.76% 994
North East +14 114 £41,500 +3.75% 210
Wales +7 77 £48,122 -2.00% 331
Northern Ireland -2 42 £52,500 -28.54% 216
Isle of Man -1 1 £62,500 +150.00% 1
Channel Islands -5 1 - - 1
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
1 122 (3.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 59 (1.71%) Confluence
3 44 (1.27%) SharePoint
4 31 (0.90%) CMS
5 17 (0.49%) Apache Spark
6 16 (0.46%) WordPress
7 11 (0.32%) SAS
8 10 (0.29%) Apache
9 8 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
10 7 (0.20%) IIS
11 6 (0.17%) Camunda
12 3 (0.087%) HCL Notes
12 3 (0.087%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.087%) Skype for Business
13 2 (0.058%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.058%) FactoryTalk
13 2 (0.058%) nginx
13 2 (0.058%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.058%) WinCC
14 1 (0.029%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 548 (15.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 442 (12.80%) Chatbot
3 254 (7.35%) Microsoft Office
4 89 (2.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 33 (0.96%) MS Visio
5 33 (0.96%) Spreadsheet
6 29 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
7 17 (0.49%) AutoCAD
8 8 (0.23%) SOLIDWORKS
9 6 (0.17%) Simulink
10 4 (0.12%) CATIA
10 4 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
10 4 (0.12%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.087%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.058%) Revit
12 2 (0.058%) Trello
13 1 (0.029%) OrCAD
13 1 (0.029%) Siemens NX
13 1 (0.029%) Sketch
13 1 (0.029%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 97 (2.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 64 (1.85%) SAP MDG
3 37 (1.07%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 36 (1.04%) NetSuite
5 29 (0.84%) Oracle Payables
6 22 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
6 22 (0.64%) Shopify
7 19 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
8 16 (0.46%) Oracle Assets
9 13 (0.38%) SAP CO
9 13 (0.38%) SAP FI
9 13 (0.38%) SAP FI/CO
10 12 (0.35%) Sage X3
11 10 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
11 10 (0.29%) Sprinklr
11 10 (0.29%) Workday HCM
12 8 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
12 8 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
13 6 (0.17%) JDE EnterpriseOne
13 6 (0.17%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 456 (13.20%) Azure
2 380 (11.00%) Power Platform
3 197 (5.70%) Microsoft 365
4 152 (4.40%) SaaS
5 140 (4.05%) AWS
6 92 (2.66%) Azure DevOps
7 54 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
7 54 (1.56%) Snowflake
8 44 (1.27%) Google Analytics
9 43 (1.24%) Azure Data Factory
10 42 (1.22%) GitHub
11 41 (1.19%) Entra ID
12 40 (1.16%) GCP
13 34 (0.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 30 (0.87%) dbt
15 27 (0.78%) OCI
16 26 (0.75%) GitHub Copilot
17 25 (0.72%) Microsoft Copilot
18 24 (0.69%) Google Ads
19 22 (0.64%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 134 (3.88%) DNS
2 115 (3.33%) DHCP
3 68 (1.97%) Firewall
4 53 (1.53%) Network Security
5 42 (1.22%) LAN
6 41 (1.19%) Remote Desktop
7 38 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
8 34 (0.98%) WAN
9 31 (0.90%) VPN
10 29 (0.84%) TCP/IP
10 29 (0.84%) VoIP
11 25 (0.72%) SMS
12 23 (0.67%) Wireless
13 22 (0.64%) VLAN
14 16 (0.46%) Wireshark
15 14 (0.41%) Internet
16 13 (0.38%) SD-WAN
17 12 (0.35%) Intranet
17 12 (0.35%) Intrusion Detection
17 12 (0.35%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 353 (10.22%) Power BI
2 188 (5.44%) Tableau
3 124 (3.59%) Data Mining
4 96 (2.78%) SQL Server
5 90 (2.61%) Amazon RDS
6 76 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
7 54 (1.56%) Relational Database
8 50 (1.45%) Data Lake
9 49 (1.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 46 (1.33%) Metadata
11 37 (1.07%) MySQL
12 36 (1.04%) SAP BW
13 35 (1.01%) GIS
14 34 (0.98%) Looker
15 31 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
16 23 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
16 23 (0.67%) Power Query
16 23 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 22 (0.64%) BusinessObjects
18 21 (0.61%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 146 (4.23%) JIRA
2 49 (1.42%) Git
3 28 (0.81%) Selenium
4 21 (0.61%) Jenkins
5 19 (0.55%) Oracle Forms
6 18 (0.52%) GitLab
7 14 (0.41%) Robot Framework
8 12 (0.35%) Snyk
9 11 (0.32%) ERwin
10 10 (0.29%) ER Studio
11 8 (0.23%) Postman
12 7 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
12 7 (0.20%) TestRail
13 6 (0.17%) Bitbucket
13 6 (0.17%) Cypress.io
14 5 (0.14%) Maven
14 5 (0.14%) SonarQube
14 5 (0.14%) WebDriver
15 4 (0.12%) IDA Disassembler
15 4 (0.12%) LoadRunner
General
1 1,710 (49.51%) Social Skills
2 941 (27.24%) Finance
3 335 (9.70%) Marketing
4 236 (6.83%) Retail
5 156 (4.52%) Manufacturing
6 149 (4.31%) Organisational Skills
7 145 (4.20%) Legal
8 138 (4.00%) Law
9 124 (3.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 123 (3.56%) Public Sector
11 109 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
12 83 (2.40%) Telecoms
13 72 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
14 70 (2.03%) Electronics
15 69 (2.00%) Banking
16 52 (1.51%) Aerospace
17 48 (1.39%) Aviation
18 46 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
19 44 (1.27%) Advertising
20 28 (0.81%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 745 (21.57%) Analyst
2 442 (12.80%) Trainer
3 330 (9.55%) Senior
4 256 (7.41%) Lead
5 182 (5.27%) Data Analyst
6 159 (4.60%) Architect
7 129 (3.73%) Support Analyst
8 124 (3.59%) Developer
9 121 (3.50%) Systems Engineer
10 112 (3.24%) IT Support
11 111 (3.21%) Trainee
12 97 (2.81%) Business Analyst
13 96 (2.78%) Innovation Manager
14 83 (2.40%) Business Manager
14 83 (2.40%) Solutions Architect
14 83 (2.40%) Support Engineer
15 80 (2.32%) Trainee Analyst
15 80 (2.32%) Trainee Data Analyst
16 78 (2.26%) Senior Analyst
17 73 (2.11%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (2.08%) HTML
2 55 (1.59%) CSS
3 42 (1.22%) REST
4 40 (1.16%) React
5 35 (1.01%) JSON
6 25 (0.72%) .NET
7 24 (0.69%) SOAP
8 21 (0.61%) XML
9 20 (0.58%) Oracle Fusion
10 19 (0.55%) Middleware
11 18 (0.52%) Flash
12 16 (0.46%) OAuth
12 16 (0.46%) SAML
13 15 (0.43%) EDI
14 14 (0.41%) Spring
15 12 (0.35%) Node.js
15 12 (0.35%) Web Services
16 11 (0.32%) BAPI
16 11 (0.32%) JMS
16 11 (0.32%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 387 (11.20%) Analytical Mindset
2 272 (7.87%) Onboarding
3 236 (6.83%) Self-Motivation
4 178 (5.15%) Management Information System
5 113 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
6 90 (2.61%) Product Ownership
7 79 (2.29%) Driving Licence
8 53 (1.53%) Data Centre
9 52 (1.51%) Robotics
10 51 (1.48%) FMCG
11 42 (1.22%) Algorithms
12 40 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
13 38 (1.10%) Cloud Native
14 37 (1.07%) Social Media
15 31 (0.90%) e-Learning
16 30 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 29 (0.84%) Data Structures
17 29 (0.84%) Security Posture
18 27 (0.78%) Virtual Team
19 26 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 240 (6.95%) Windows
2 154 (4.46%) Linux
3 131 (3.79%) Windows Server
4 89 (2.58%) Windows Server 2016
5 10 (0.29%) Unix
6 9 (0.26%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.23%) Android
8 5 (0.14%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.14%) Mac OS X
9 3 (0.087%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.087%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.058%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.058%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.029%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.029%) OpenWrt
11 1 (0.029%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.029%) Robot Operating System
11 1 (0.029%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,454 (42.10%) Problem-Solving
2 895 (25.91%) AI
3 788 (22.81%) Continuous Improvement
4 682 (19.75%) Analytics
5 633 (18.33%) Decision-Making
6 542 (15.69%) Project Management
7 482 (13.95%) Agile
8 458 (13.26%) Business Intelligence
9 446 (12.91%) Chemistry
10 442 (12.80%) Conversational UI
11 406 (11.75%) Stakeholder Management
12 361 (10.45%) Customer Service
13 334 (9.67%) Customer Experience
13 334 (9.67%) ERP
14 316 (9.15%) Data Analysis
15 267 (7.73%) CRM
16 263 (7.61%) Mentoring
17 262 (7.59%) Process Improvement
18 250 (7.24%) Analytical Thinking
19 245 (7.09%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 640 (18.53%) SQL
2 328 (9.50%) Python
3 71 (2.06%) C#
3 71 (2.06%) JavaScript
4 62 (1.80%) Java
5 58 (1.68%) PowerShell
6 40 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 40 (1.16%) R
7 33 (0.96%) C++
8 32 (0.93%) T-SQL
9 27 (0.78%) VBA
10 20 (0.58%) C
10 20 (0.58%) PL/SQL
11 17 (0.49%) Bash
12 10 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (0.23%) MATLAB
13 8 (0.23%) Scala
14 7 (0.20%) ABAP
14 7 (0.20%) TypeScript
15 5 (0.14%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1,191 (34.48%) Degree
2 532 (15.40%) Master's Degree
3 448 (12.97%) PhD
4 321 (9.29%) Security Cleared
5 238 (6.89%) SC Cleared
6 119 (3.45%) ACCA
7 109 (3.16%) CIMA
8 80 (2.32%) DBS Check
9 69 (2.00%) CISSP
10 61 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
11 60 (1.74%) DV Cleared
12 46 (1.33%) CompTIA Security+
13 45 (1.30%) CEH
14 43 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
14 43 (1.24%) PMI Certification
15 41 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
16 38 (1.10%) CISM
17 37 (1.07%) PMP
18 30 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
19 25 (0.72%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (4.34%) Data Quality
2 141 (4.08%) QA
3 126 (3.65%) PCI DSS
4 109 (3.16%) Cyber Essentials
5 108 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 101 (2.92%) GDPR
7 74 (2.14%) NIST
8 66 (1.91%) PMO
9 51 (1.48%) Accessibility
10 32 (0.93%) SLA
11 17 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
12 12 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 12 (0.35%) GRC
12 12 (0.35%) ISO 9001
12 12 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (0.23%) IEC 61131
13 8 (0.23%) IFRS
13 8 (0.23%) SOC 2
14 7 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 6 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 191 (5.53%) Active Directory
2 107 (3.10%) Hyper-V
3 88 (2.55%) Terminal Server
4 19 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 17 (0.49%) Docker
6 14 (0.41%) Firmware
7 7 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.12%) vSphere
9 2 (0.058%) HDFS
9 2 (0.058%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.029%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.029%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 37 (1.07%) Terraform
2 25 (0.72%) Kubernetes
3 22 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (0.55%) Ansible
5 9 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.17%) QRadar
7 4 (0.12%) Nessus
7 4 (0.12%) SCCM
8 3 (0.087%) Computer Incident Response Team
8 3 (0.087%) Grafana
8 3 (0.087%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.058%) AssetCenter
9 2 (0.058%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.058%) Kibana
10 1 (0.029%) Control-M
10 1 (0.029%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.029%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.029%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.029%) Nagios
10 1 (0.029%) SCOM
Vendors
1 774 (22.41%) Microsoft
2 442 (12.80%) PayPal
3 286 (8.28%) SAP
4 127 (3.68%) Oracle
5 112 (3.24%) VMware
6 106 (3.07%) Splunk
7 104 (3.01%) Google
8 99 (2.87%) SolarWinds
9 91 (2.63%) Veeam
10 89 (2.58%) Tanium
11 88 (2.55%) Brocade
11 88 (2.55%) Nimble Storage
12 76 (2.20%) Salesforce
13 51 (1.48%) ServiceNow
14 50 (1.45%) Cisco
15 40 (1.16%) Databricks
16 37 (1.07%) OpenText
17 35 (1.01%) Workday
18 30 (0.87%) Ariba
19 26 (0.75%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud