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

6 months to
24 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 4,293 4,109 4,855
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 5.01% 11.98% 8.94%
As % of the General category 11.30% 18.22% 16.63%
Number of salaries quoted 2,500 1,499 1,774
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £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 £60,625 £60,000 £63,938
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £54,793
% change year-on-year - -4.18% -0.38%

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 37,992 22,558 29,187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.32% 65.79% 53.76%
Number of salaries quoted 23,265 11,025 13,465
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,250 £28,500
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% -2.06%
75th Percentile £65,625 £62,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,700 £57,000
% change year-on-year +2.42% -5.79% -5.00%

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 24 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 24 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 -19 1,165 £47,500 +6.74% 1,123
South East -11 990 £49,480 +0.98% 1,314
Midlands -10 741 £46,901 +4.22% 794
North West -15 707 £46,500 +3.33% 645
South West -8 609 £47,500 +5.56% 578
West Midlands -18 379 £47,500 +5.56% 489
East Midlands -6 359 £45,000 +12.50% 304
Yorkshire -10 317 £47,000 +17.50% 366
East of England -14 274 £47,500 +18.75% 470
Wales -6 204 £45,000 -10.40% 141
Northern Ireland +4 176 £43,750 -20.45% 210
Scotland -20 148 £44,500 +11.25% 392
North East -18 144 £51,500 +28.75% 116
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
1 162 (3.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 137 (3.19%) SharePoint
3 55 (1.28%) Confluence
4 31 (0.72%) IIS
5 29 (0.68%) Apache
6 22 (0.51%) Apache Spark
7 17 (0.40%) CMS
8 16 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
9 15 (0.35%) SAS
10 12 (0.28%) WordPress
11 11 (0.26%) Jupyter
12 9 (0.21%) WebLogic
12 9 (0.21%) WebSphere
13 8 (0.19%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 2 (0.047%) Oracle Application Server
15 2 (0.047%) Oracle Workflow
16 1 (0.023%) CICS
16 1 (0.023%) nginx
16 1 (0.023%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 552 (12.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 263 (6.13%) Microsoft Office
3 85 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 53 (1.23%) MS Visio
5 43 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
6 26 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
7 18 (0.42%) Simulink
8 12 (0.28%) AutoCAD
9 9 (0.21%) SOLIDWORKS
10 6 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 6 (0.14%) CATIA
10 6 (0.14%) Photoshop
10 6 (0.14%) Siemens NX
11 5 (0.12%) Chatbot
11 5 (0.12%) EPLAN
12 3 (0.070%) CANalyzer
12 3 (0.070%) LaTeX
13 2 (0.047%) Adobe XD
13 2 (0.047%) Lectora
13 2 (0.047%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 92 (2.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.75%) Dynamics GP
3 31 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
4 24 (0.56%) NetSuite
5 21 (0.49%) Shopify
6 12 (0.28%) Magento
6 12 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
7 10 (0.23%) Infor M3
7 10 (0.23%) SAP Business One
8 9 (0.21%) SAP PM
9 8 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
9 8 (0.19%) SAP ERP
10 7 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
10 7 (0.16%) Workday HCM
11 6 (0.14%) Exchequer
11 6 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
12 5 (0.12%) Elite 3E
12 5 (0.12%) JDE EnterpriseOne
12 5 (0.12%) Odoo
12 5 (0.12%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 670 (15.61%) Azure
2 490 (11.41%) Power Platform
3 373 (8.69%) AWS
4 328 (7.64%) Microsoft 365
5 215 (5.01%) SaaS
6 168 (3.91%) GCP
7 132 (3.07%) Entra ID
8 110 (2.56%) Google Ads
9 99 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
10 98 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
11 90 (2.10%) Google Analytics
12 81 (1.89%) Meta Ads
13 64 (1.49%) GitHub
14 63 (1.47%) Power Automate
15 62 (1.44%) PowerApps
16 56 (1.30%) Serverless
17 49 (1.14%) Amazon S3
18 47 (1.09%) Microsoft Purview
19 45 (1.05%) Azure Data Factory
20 42 (0.98%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 164 (3.82%) DNS
2 127 (2.96%) DHCP
3 107 (2.49%) Firewall
4 96 (2.24%) VPN
5 82 (1.91%) TCP/IP
6 67 (1.56%) WAN
7 60 (1.40%) LAN
8 55 (1.28%) Internet
9 52 (1.21%) Wireless
10 43 (1.00%) Network Security
11 35 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
12 28 (0.65%) VLAN
13 27 (0.63%) HTTP
14 25 (0.58%) Broadband
15 23 (0.54%) VoIP
16 22 (0.51%) SD-WAN
17 21 (0.49%) BGP
17 21 (0.49%) SAN
18 18 (0.42%) SMS
19 17 (0.40%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 436 (10.16%) Power BI
2 126 (2.94%) SQL Server
3 119 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
4 103 (2.40%) Tableau
5 98 (2.28%) Amazon RDS
6 76 (1.77%) Relational Database
7 68 (1.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 65 (1.51%) MySQL
9 59 (1.37%) Power Query
10 53 (1.23%) Metadata
11 48 (1.12%) Looker
11 48 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
12 46 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 41 (0.96%) Data Lake
14 32 (0.75%) Big Data
14 32 (0.75%) BigQuery
15 28 (0.65%) NoSQL
16 27 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
17 26 (0.61%) MongoDB
18 22 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 179 (4.17%) Git
2 156 (3.63%) JIRA
3 33 (0.77%) Jenkins
4 32 (0.75%) GitLab
5 29 (0.68%) Rational DOORS
6 21 (0.49%) Eclipse
7 19 (0.44%) Selenium
8 18 (0.42%) LabVIEW
9 16 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
10 15 (0.35%) Cucumber
10 15 (0.35%) Postman
11 14 (0.33%) Burp Suite
11 14 (0.33%) Claude Code
12 12 (0.28%) Bitbucket
12 12 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
13 11 (0.26%) Metasploit
14 10 (0.23%) Cypress.io
15 9 (0.21%) JMeter
16 8 (0.19%) Moq
16 8 (0.19%) SonarQube
General
1 2,208 (51.43%) Social Skills
2 1,219 (28.40%) Finance
3 498 (11.60%) Marketing
4 389 (9.06%) Organisational Skills
5 332 (7.73%) Manufacturing
6 304 (7.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 287 (6.69%) Retail
8 284 (6.62%) Legal
9 258 (6.01%) Public Sector
10 227 (5.29%) Influencing Skills
11 226 (5.26%) Law
12 198 (4.61%) Aerospace
13 178 (4.15%) Presentation Skills
14 149 (3.47%) Electronics
15 125 (2.91%) Telecoms
16 74 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
17 70 (1.63%) Military
18 67 (1.56%) Advertising
19 66 (1.54%) Automotive
20 65 (1.51%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1,003 (23.36%) Analyst
2 520 (12.11%) Senior
3 273 (6.36%) Lead
4 223 (5.19%) Developer
5 201 (4.68%) Data Analyst
6 187 (4.36%) Business Analyst
7 174 (4.05%) Support Analyst
8 164 (3.82%) Systems Engineer
9 156 (3.63%) Senior Analyst
10 142 (3.31%) Architect
11 120 (2.80%) Data Engineer
12 115 (2.68%) Support Engineer
13 114 (2.66%) Consultant
14 103 (2.40%) IT Support
15 92 (2.14%) Administrator
16 91 (2.12%) Accountant
17 89 (2.07%) Marketing Manager
18 88 (2.05%) Applications Support
19 84 (1.96%) Systems Analyst
20 83 (1.93%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (2.45%) .NET
2 86 (2.00%) REST
3 75 (1.75%) HTML
4 74 (1.72%) Terraform
5 69 (1.61%) CSS
6 63 (1.47%) Middleware
7 60 (1.40%) XML
8 57 (1.33%) JSON
9 52 (1.21%) PySpark
10 51 (1.19%) SOAP
11 49 (1.14%) RESTful
12 43 (1.00%) EDI
13 37 (0.86%) React
14 36 (0.84%) LDAP
15 32 (0.75%) Kafka
16 30 (0.70%) ModSecurity
17 27 (0.63%) ASP.NET
17 27 (0.63%) Spring
17 27 (0.63%) Spring Boot
18 23 (0.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 334 (7.78%) Management Information System
2 325 (7.57%) Analytical Mindset
3 246 (5.73%) Onboarding
4 221 (5.15%) Self-Motivation
5 166 (3.87%) Product Ownership
6 153 (3.56%) Driving Licence
7 116 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
8 101 (2.35%) Social Media
9 91 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
10 82 (1.91%) Marketing Technology
11 75 (1.75%) Cloud Native
12 73 (1.70%) Cyber Threat
13 71 (1.65%) Data Centre
14 70 (1.63%) Virtual Team
15 67 (1.56%) Blog
16 47 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
16 47 (1.09%) Security Posture
17 46 (1.07%) Data Structures
18 38 (0.89%) SCADA
19 37 (0.86%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 337 (7.85%) Windows
2 230 (5.36%) Linux
3 184 (4.29%) Windows Server
4 89 (2.07%) Windows Server 2016
5 30 (0.70%) Mac OS
6 29 (0.68%) Windows 10
7 24 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
8 22 (0.51%) Unix
9 15 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 14 (0.33%) Android
11 12 (0.28%) Apple iOS
12 9 (0.21%) CentOS
13 7 (0.16%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.14%) Debian
14 6 (0.14%) VMS
15 5 (0.12%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.093%) CoreOS
17 2 (0.047%) Solaris
18 1 (0.023%) Windows Server 2012
18 1 (0.023%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,136 (49.76%) Problem-Solving
2 1,391 (32.40%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,092 (25.44%) Decision-Making
4 817 (19.03%) Stakeholder Management
5 739 (17.21%) Analytics
6 687 (16.00%) AI
7 639 (14.88%) Agile
8 565 (13.16%) Business Intelligence
9 472 (10.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 434 (10.11%) Validation
11 423 (9.85%) Customer Service
12 419 (9.76%) ERP
13 415 (9.67%) CRM
14 407 (9.48%) Mentoring
15 387 (9.01%) Actionable Insight
16 385 (8.97%) Data Analysis
17 351 (8.18%) ITIL
18 343 (7.99%) Collaborative Working
19 341 (7.94%) Project Delivery
20 340 (7.92%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 790 (18.40%) SQL
2 447 (10.41%) Python
3 155 (3.61%) JavaScript
4 133 (3.10%) Java
5 119 (2.77%) C#
6 108 (2.52%) PowerShell
7 77 (1.79%) C++
8 64 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 58 (1.35%) Bash
10 45 (1.05%) MATLAB
10 45 (1.05%) TypeScript
11 41 (0.96%) T-SQL
12 39 (0.91%) Shell Script
13 33 (0.77%) C
14 31 (0.72%) R
15 21 (0.49%) PL/SQL
16 20 (0.47%) PHP
17 19 (0.44%) VB.NET
18 17 (0.40%) Scala
19 16 (0.37%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 867 (20.20%) Degree
2 520 (12.11%) Security Cleared
3 358 (8.34%) SC Cleared
4 179 (4.17%) ACCA
5 169 (3.94%) CIMA
6 124 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
7 119 (2.77%) DV Cleared
8 108 (2.52%) DBS Check
9 93 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
10 73 (1.70%) HND
11 72 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
12 67 (1.56%) CISSP
13 62 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
14 53 (1.23%) CISM
15 52 (1.21%) HNC
16 47 (1.09%) CompTIA Security+
17 46 (1.07%) Azure Certification
18 41 (0.96%) CCNA
19 38 (0.89%) Master's Degree
20 35 (0.82%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 406 (9.46%) Data Quality
2 263 (6.13%) QA
3 204 (4.75%) GDPR
4 138 (3.21%) Cyber Essentials
5 135 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 123 (2.87%) Accessibility
7 103 (2.40%) PCI DSS
8 87 (2.03%) SLA
9 69 (1.61%) NIST
10 53 (1.23%) ISO 9001
11 40 (0.93%) PMO
12 38 (0.89%) GRC
13 27 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
13 27 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 26 (0.61%) DO-254
15 25 (0.58%) IFRS
16 22 (0.51%) ISO 14001
17 20 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 20000
18 18 (0.42%) Good Clinical Practice
19 17 (0.40%) TickIT
System Software
1 278 (6.48%) Active Directory
2 130 (3.03%) Docker
3 100 (2.33%) Hyper-V
4 72 (1.68%) Terminal Server
5 41 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
6 40 (0.93%) Firmware
7 14 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
9 10 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.16%) Ceph
10 7 (0.16%) VMware NSX
11 5 (0.12%) vSphere
12 4 (0.093%) KVM
12 4 (0.093%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.093%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.070%) DFS Replication
14 1 (0.023%) IAG
14 1 (0.023%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.023%) VirtualBox
14 1 (0.023%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 64 (1.49%) Kubernetes
2 48 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
3 38 (0.89%) Ansible
4 27 (0.63%) Grafana
5 25 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
6 22 (0.51%) Prometheus
7 16 (0.37%) Kibana
8 15 (0.35%) QRadar
9 11 (0.26%) Nmap
9 11 (0.26%) Podman
10 8 (0.19%) Functional Safety
10 8 (0.19%) logstash
11 7 (0.16%) Argo
11 7 (0.16%) Check_MK
11 7 (0.16%) Istio
12 6 (0.14%) Graylog
13 5 (0.12%) Nagios
14 4 (0.093%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.093%) McAfee ePO
14 4 (0.093%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1,127 (26.25%) Microsoft
2 299 (6.96%) Google
3 140 (3.26%) SAP
4 131 (3.05%) VMware
5 127 (2.96%) Splunk
6 109 (2.54%) Oracle
7 90 (2.10%) Salesforce
8 85 (1.98%) SolarWinds
9 79 (1.84%) Veeam
10 73 (1.70%) Brocade
10 73 (1.70%) Nimble Storage
11 72 (1.68%) Tanium
12 71 (1.65%) ServiceNow
13 64 (1.49%) Cisco
14 58 (1.35%) YouTube
15 52 (1.21%) Databricks
16 42 (0.98%) HubSpot
17 39 (0.91%) Adobe
18 36 (0.84%) Workday
19 32 (0.75%) IBM