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

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 13 22
Rank change year-on-year -9 +9 -2
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,237 3,670 2,770
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 7.68% 10.16% 8.12%
As % of the General category 13.66% 15.94% 13.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,546 1,508 1,871
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £39,000 £36,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,967 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.71% +1.93% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

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 23,702 23,022 20,276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 56.24% 63.72% 59.42%
Number of salaries quoted 12,257 9,490 14,323
10th Percentile £26,750 £30,750 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £63,220 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £59,556
% change year-on-year -12.50% +0.75% -3.55%

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 January 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 January 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
South East +5 848 £50,000 - 782
North of England -15 774 £42,500 -19.05% 444
Midlands -11 597 £42,500 -12.37% 335
North West -13 410 £42,500 -19.05% 216
South West +2 369 £45,000 -12.49% 297
West Midlands -15 351 £50,750 +1.50% 167
Scotland -2 294 £40,000 -33.74% 75
Yorkshire 0 265 £40,000 -20.00% 178
East of England -16 265 £40,000 -21.52% 289
East Midlands +4 244 £37,500 -11.76% 166
North East +5 99 £41,000 -2.38% 59
Wales +14 78 £45,000 -8.36% 89
Northern Ireland -2 44 £52,500 -11.66% 45
Isle of Man -1 1 £62,500 +150.00%
Channel Islands -6 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
1 135 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 56 (1.73%) Confluence
3 47 (1.45%) SharePoint
4 17 (0.53%) Apache Spark
4 17 (0.53%) CMS
5 16 (0.49%) IIS
6 13 (0.40%) WordPress
7 12 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
7 12 (0.37%) SAS
8 11 (0.34%) Apache
9 6 (0.19%) nginx
10 4 (0.12%) Camunda
11 3 (0.093%) govService
11 3 (0.093%) HCL Notes
11 3 (0.093%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.062%) FactoryTalk
12 2 (0.062%) WinCC
13 1 (0.031%) Apache Superset
13 1 (0.031%) Kinematics
13 1 (0.031%) OpenStack
Applications
1 541 (16.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 348 (10.75%) Chatbot
3 233 (7.20%) Microsoft Office
4 81 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 46 (1.42%) MS Visio
6 32 (0.99%) Spreadsheet
7 28 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
8 17 (0.53%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.25%) SOLIDWORKS
10 5 (0.15%) CATIA
11 4 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
12 3 (0.093%) Adobe XD
12 3 (0.093%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.062%) Revit
13 2 (0.062%) Simulink
13 2 (0.062%) Sketch
13 2 (0.062%) Trello
14 1 (0.031%) InVision
14 1 (0.031%) OrCAD
14 1 (0.031%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 91 (2.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 64 (1.98%) SAP MDG
3 37 (1.14%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 31 (0.96%) NetSuite
5 28 (0.86%) Oracle Payables
6 21 (0.65%) Shopify
7 20 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
8 18 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
9 16 (0.49%) Oracle Assets
10 13 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
11 12 (0.37%) Sage X3
12 11 (0.34%) SAP CO
13 10 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
13 10 (0.31%) Workday HCM
14 8 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
14 8 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
15 6 (0.19%) JDE EnterpriseOne
15 6 (0.19%) SAP ERP
16 5 (0.15%) SAP FI
16 5 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 455 (14.06%) Azure
2 380 (11.74%) Power Platform
3 205 (6.33%) Microsoft 365
4 159 (4.91%) AWS
5 147 (4.54%) SaaS
6 106 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
7 63 (1.95%) Snowflake
8 60 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
9 50 (1.54%) GitHub
10 47 (1.45%) Azure Data Factory
11 40 (1.24%) Entra ID
12 37 (1.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 35 (1.08%) dbt
14 32 (0.99%) GCP
15 31 (0.96%) Power Automate
16 27 (0.83%) Google Analytics
17 26 (0.80%) GitHub Copilot
17 26 (0.80%) Serverless
18 25 (0.77%) Microsoft Purview
19 23 (0.71%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 137 (4.23%) DNS
2 117 (3.61%) DHCP
3 66 (2.04%) Firewall
4 45 (1.39%) Network Security
5 43 (1.33%) Remote Desktop
6 41 (1.27%) LAN
7 40 (1.24%) WAN
8 39 (1.20%) VPN
9 36 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
10 31 (0.96%) Wireless
11 26 (0.80%) TCP/IP
11 26 (0.80%) VoIP
12 24 (0.74%) SMS
13 22 (0.68%) VLAN
14 17 (0.53%) SD-WAN
15 14 (0.43%) 5G
15 14 (0.43%) Wireshark
16 12 (0.37%) Internet
16 12 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
16 12 (0.37%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 352 (10.87%) Power BI
2 213 (6.58%) Tableau
3 137 (4.23%) Data Mining
4 102 (3.15%) SQL Server
5 101 (3.12%) Amazon RDS
6 76 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
7 52 (1.61%) Data Lake
8 51 (1.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 49 (1.51%) Relational Database
10 46 (1.42%) Metadata
11 36 (1.11%) GIS
12 35 (1.08%) MySQL
13 33 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
13 33 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
14 32 (0.99%) Looker
15 28 (0.86%) SAP BW
16 26 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 21 (0.65%) Geospatial Data
17 21 (0.65%) NoSQL
17 21 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 136 (4.20%) JIRA
2 55 (1.70%) Git
3 29 (0.90%) Selenium
4 18 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
5 16 (0.49%) Jenkins
6 15 (0.46%) Robot Framework
7 13 (0.40%) Snyk
8 12 (0.37%) ER Studio
8 12 (0.37%) ERwin
8 12 (0.37%) GitLab
9 8 (0.25%) Postman
10 7 (0.22%) Cypress.io
10 7 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (0.22%) TestRail
11 6 (0.19%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.19%) LabVIEW
11 6 (0.19%) WebDriver
12 5 (0.15%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.15%) Subversion
13 4 (0.12%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 1,603 (49.52%) Social Skills
2 918 (28.36%) Finance
3 268 (8.28%) Marketing
4 189 (5.84%) Retail
5 140 (4.32%) Manufacturing
6 137 (4.23%) Organisational Skills
7 131 (4.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 125 (3.86%) Legal
9 110 (3.40%) Law
10 108 (3.34%) Presentation Skills
10 108 (3.34%) Public Sector
11 70 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
12 63 (1.95%) Telecoms
13 60 (1.85%) Electronics
14 56 (1.73%) Banking
15 51 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
16 47 (1.45%) Aerospace
17 40 (1.24%) Aviation
18 36 (1.11%) Advertising
19 29 (0.90%) German Language
Job Titles
1 763 (23.57%) Analyst
2 348 (10.75%) Trainer
3 321 (9.92%) Senior
4 221 (6.83%) Lead
5 203 (6.27%) Data Analyst
6 163 (5.04%) Architect
7 141 (4.36%) Developer
8 127 (3.92%) Support Analyst
9 122 (3.77%) Systems Engineer
10 116 (3.58%) IT Support
11 111 (3.43%) Trainee
12 107 (3.31%) Business Analyst
13 100 (3.09%) Trainee Analyst
13 100 (3.09%) Trainee Data Analyst
14 89 (2.75%) Support Engineer
15 81 (2.50%) Business Manager
16 80 (2.47%) Innovation Manager
17 76 (2.35%) Senior Analyst
18 75 (2.32%) Report Analyst
18 75 (2.32%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (2.07%) HTML
2 54 (1.67%) CSS
3 49 (1.51%) React
4 42 (1.30%) REST
5 33 (1.02%) JSON
6 31 (0.96%) .NET
7 30 (0.93%) SOAP
8 23 (0.71%) Middleware
9 20 (0.62%) Node.js
10 19 (0.59%) Oracle Fusion
11 18 (0.56%) XML
12 17 (0.53%) EDI
13 16 (0.49%) OAuth
13 16 (0.49%) SAML
14 15 (0.46%) Flash
15 11 (0.34%) BAPI
15 11 (0.34%) IBM Integration Bus
15 11 (0.34%) JMS
15 11 (0.34%) Playwright
16 10 (0.31%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 353 (10.91%) Analytical Mindset
2 242 (7.48%) Onboarding
3 235 (7.26%) Self-Motivation
4 172 (5.31%) Management Information System
5 120 (3.71%) Legacy Systems
6 101 (3.12%) Product Ownership
7 62 (1.92%) Driving Licence
8 59 (1.82%) Data Centre
9 55 (1.70%) FMCG
10 52 (1.61%) Robotics
11 44 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
12 37 (1.14%) Cloud Native
13 30 (0.93%) Data Structures
14 28 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 28 (0.86%) Virtual Team
15 26 (0.80%) Social Media
16 25 (0.77%) e-Learning
17 23 (0.71%) Low-Code
18 22 (0.68%) Security Posture
19 21 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 259 (8.00%) Windows
2 167 (5.16%) Linux
3 144 (4.45%) Windows Server
4 97 (3.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 17 (0.53%) Unix
6 12 (0.37%) Mac OS
7 10 (0.31%) Android
8 6 (0.19%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.15%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.093%) Mac OS X
10 3 (0.093%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.093%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.031%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.031%) OpenWrt
11 1 (0.031%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.031%) Robot Operating System
11 1 (0.031%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.031%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,387 (42.85%) Problem-Solving
2 778 (24.03%) AI
3 756 (23.35%) Continuous Improvement
4 657 (20.30%) Analytics
5 606 (18.72%) Decision-Making
6 531 (16.40%) Project Management
7 464 (14.33%) Agile
8 437 (13.50%) Business Intelligence
9 381 (11.77%) Stakeholder Management
10 352 (10.87%) Chemistry
11 348 (10.75%) Conversational UI
12 347 (10.72%) Customer Service
13 327 (10.10%) Data Analysis
14 303 (9.36%) ERP
15 298 (9.21%) Customer Experience
16 258 (7.97%) Process Improvement
17 251 (7.75%) CRM
18 246 (7.60%) Analytical Thinking
19 232 (7.17%) Migration
20 225 (6.95%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 657 (20.30%) SQL
2 356 (11.00%) Python
3 75 (2.32%) C#
4 68 (2.10%) Java
4 68 (2.10%) JavaScript
5 64 (1.98%) PowerShell
6 48 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 33 (1.02%) T-SQL
7 33 (1.02%) VBA
8 30 (0.93%) R
9 29 (0.90%) C++
10 16 (0.49%) PL/SQL
11 15 (0.46%) C
12 14 (0.43%) Bash
12 14 (0.43%) Scala
13 12 (0.37%) MATLAB
14 9 (0.28%) TypeScript
15 7 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.19%) ABAP
16 6 (0.19%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,042 (32.19%) Degree
2 404 (12.48%) Master's Degree
3 350 (10.81%) PhD
4 307 (9.48%) Security Cleared
5 241 (7.45%) SC Cleared
6 117 (3.61%) ACCA
7 107 (3.31%) CIMA
8 86 (2.66%) DBS Check
9 67 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
10 55 (1.70%) PMI Certification
11 50 (1.54%) CISSP
11 50 (1.54%) DV Cleared
12 48 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
13 47 (1.45%) PMP
14 41 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
15 33 (1.02%) CISM
16 29 (0.90%) CompTIA Security+
17 26 (0.80%) CEH
17 26 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
18 22 (0.68%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (5.22%) Data Quality
2 138 (4.26%) QA
3 125 (3.86%) PCI DSS
4 119 (3.68%) Cyber Essentials
5 101 (3.12%) GDPR
6 93 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 65 (2.01%) NIST
8 57 (1.76%) PMO
9 48 (1.48%) Accessibility
10 29 (0.90%) SLA
11 24 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
12 13 (0.40%) GRC
13 12 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 11 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 9 (0.28%) ISO 9001
15 9 (0.28%) SOC 2
16 8 (0.25%) IEC 61131
16 8 (0.25%) IFRS
17 7 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 6 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 197 (6.09%) Active Directory
2 112 (3.46%) Hyper-V
3 96 (2.97%) Terminal Server
4 19 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 18 (0.56%) Docker
6 12 (0.37%) Firmware
7 6 (0.19%) vSphere
8 4 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.093%) ProxySG
9 3 (0.093%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.031%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.031%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.031%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.031%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.031%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.031%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 43 (1.33%) Terraform
2 26 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
3 25 (0.77%) Kubernetes
4 20 (0.62%) Ansible
5 13 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.15%) Control-M
7 4 (0.12%) Nessus
7 4 (0.12%) SCCM
8 3 (0.093%) Computer Incident Response Team
8 3 (0.093%) QRadar
9 2 (0.062%) AssetCenter
9 2 (0.062%) CASB
9 2 (0.062%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.062%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.062%) Grafana
9 2 (0.062%) Nagios
9 2 (0.062%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.031%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.031%) Kibana
10 1 (0.031%) SCOM
Vendors
1 750 (23.17%) Microsoft
2 348 (10.75%) PayPal
3 266 (8.22%) SAP
4 130 (4.02%) Oracle
5 119 (3.68%) VMware
6 113 (3.49%) SolarWinds
7 111 (3.43%) Splunk
8 97 (3.00%) Tanium
8 97 (3.00%) Veeam
9 96 (2.97%) Brocade
9 96 (2.97%) Nimble Storage
10 87 (2.69%) Salesforce
11 58 (1.79%) ServiceNow
12 57 (1.76%) Google
13 50 (1.54%) Cisco
14 37 (1.14%) OpenText
15 34 (1.05%) Databricks
16 30 (0.93%) Ariba
17 28 (0.86%) Workday
18 26 (0.80%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud