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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 8 12
Rank change year-on-year -16 +4 +9
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,864 4,035 5,083
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.80% 11.63% 8.78%
As % of the General category 11.00% 17.72% 16.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2,375 1,538 2,144
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £32,750 £37,199
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £61,250 £60,188 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £76,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%

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 35,126 22,773 30,803
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 43.61% 65.64% 53.18%
Number of salaries quoted 21,812 11,293 16,145
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £66,250 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,284 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.32% -1.30% -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 3 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 3 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 1,069 £47,500 +6.74% 912
South East -7 922 £49,536 -5.65% 1,054
Midlands -8 666 £47,500 +5.56% 547
North West -15 658 £46,500 +3.33% 562
South West -10 547 £48,938 +8.75% 563
West Midlands -16 345 £48,750 +8.33% 325
East Midlands -5 318 £45,483 +1.07% 222
Yorkshire -13 283 £47,250 +18.13% 268
East of England -17 248 £47,750 +6.11% 379
Wales -12 169 £47,500 -5.58% 79
Scotland -21 132 £44,000 +10.00% 377
North East -16 128 £50,500 +23.17% 92
Northern Ireland -14 117 £42,500 -22.73% 224
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
1 169 (4.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 135 (3.49%) SharePoint
3 50 (1.29%) Confluence
4 31 (0.80%) IIS
5 27 (0.70%) Apache
6 25 (0.65%) Apache Spark
7 20 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
8 18 (0.47%) CMS
9 13 (0.34%) SAS
10 10 (0.26%) Jupyter
10 10 (0.26%) WordPress
11 9 (0.23%) WebLogic
11 9 (0.23%) WebSphere
12 8 (0.21%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 3 (0.078%) Anypoint
15 2 (0.052%) Oracle Application Server
15 2 (0.052%) Oracle Workflow
16 1 (0.026%) Tomcat
16 1 (0.026%) Umbraco
Applications
1 453 (11.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 204 (5.28%) Microsoft Office
3 74 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 51 (1.32%) MS Visio
5 27 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
6 23 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.31%) Simulink
8 5 (0.13%) CATIA
8 5 (0.13%) EPLAN
9 4 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.10%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.10%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.078%) LaTeX
10 3 (0.078%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.078%) Siemens NX
10 3 (0.078%) SOLIDWORKS
11 2 (0.052%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.052%) Lectora
11 2 (0.052%) Trello
12 1 (0.026%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 84 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.83%) Dynamics GP
3 31 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
4 27 (0.70%) NetSuite
5 18 (0.47%) Shopify
6 16 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
7 14 (0.36%) SAP PM
8 11 (0.28%) Magento
9 10 (0.26%) SAP Business One
10 9 (0.23%) SAP ERP
11 8 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
12 7 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
12 7 (0.18%) Infor M3
12 7 (0.18%) Workday HCM
13 6 (0.16%) Exchequer
13 6 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
14 5 (0.13%) JDE EnterpriseOne
14 5 (0.13%) Sage 50
14 5 (0.13%) SAP GTS
15 4 (0.10%) JDE World
Cloud Services
1 631 (16.33%) Azure
2 456 (11.80%) Power Platform
3 338 (8.75%) AWS
4 318 (8.23%) Microsoft 365
5 200 (5.18%) SaaS
6 141 (3.65%) GCP
7 101 (2.61%) Entra ID
8 96 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
9 91 (2.36%) Dynamics 365
10 84 (2.17%) Google Analytics
11 81 (2.10%) Google Ads
12 61 (1.58%) Power Automate
13 60 (1.55%) GitHub
13 60 (1.55%) PowerApps
14 59 (1.53%) Meta Ads
15 49 (1.27%) Serverless
16 46 (1.19%) Microsoft Purview
17 44 (1.14%) Amazon S3
18 37 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
19 36 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 167 (4.32%) DNS
2 133 (3.44%) DHCP
3 109 (2.82%) Firewall
4 96 (2.48%) VPN
5 79 (2.04%) TCP/IP
6 67 (1.73%) WAN
7 62 (1.60%) LAN
8 52 (1.35%) Wireless
9 43 (1.11%) Network Security
10 36 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
11 28 (0.72%) Broadband
12 27 (0.70%) HTTP
12 27 (0.70%) VoIP
13 26 (0.67%) VLAN
14 21 (0.54%) BGP
14 21 (0.54%) SD-WAN
15 20 (0.52%) Internet
16 18 (0.47%) SAN
16 18 (0.47%) SMS
17 16 (0.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 402 (10.40%) Power BI
2 129 (3.34%) Tableau
3 121 (3.13%) SQL Server
4 118 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
5 106 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
6 72 (1.86%) Relational Database
7 65 (1.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 59 (1.53%) MySQL
9 52 (1.35%) Power Query
10 50 (1.29%) Looker
11 46 (1.19%) Metadata
12 44 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 42 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
14 37 (0.96%) Data Lake
15 33 (0.85%) BigQuery
16 32 (0.83%) Big Data
17 27 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
18 24 (0.62%) NoSQL
19 22 (0.57%) MongoDB
20 20 (0.52%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 154 (3.99%) JIRA
2 129 (3.34%) Git
3 33 (0.85%) Jenkins
4 31 (0.80%) GitLab
4 31 (0.80%) Rational DOORS
5 17 (0.44%) Eclipse
6 15 (0.39%) Cucumber
6 15 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
6 15 (0.39%) Selenium
7 14 (0.36%) LabVIEW
7 14 (0.36%) Postman
8 13 (0.34%) Burp Suite
8 13 (0.34%) Claude Code
9 12 (0.31%) Cypress.io
10 11 (0.28%) Metasploit
10 11 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
11 10 (0.26%) Bitbucket
12 9 (0.23%) JMeter
12 9 (0.23%) MLflow
13 7 (0.18%) Moq
General
1 1,925 (49.82%) Social Skills
2 1,093 (28.29%) Finance
3 428 (11.08%) Marketing
4 294 (7.61%) Organisational Skills
5 279 (7.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 257 (6.65%) Manufacturing
7 249 (6.44%) Retail
8 247 (6.39%) Legal
9 220 (5.69%) Public Sector
10 214 (5.54%) Law
11 208 (5.38%) Influencing Skills
12 171 (4.43%) Aerospace
13 119 (3.08%) Electronics
14 107 (2.77%) Telecoms
15 105 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
16 67 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
17 66 (1.71%) Military
18 56 (1.45%) Advertising
18 56 (1.45%) Banking
19 44 (1.14%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 883 (22.85%) Analyst
2 431 (11.15%) Senior
3 259 (6.70%) Lead
4 205 (5.31%) Developer
5 199 (5.15%) Data Analyst
6 179 (4.63%) Systems Engineer
7 172 (4.45%) Business Analyst
8 140 (3.62%) Support Analyst
9 135 (3.49%) Architect
10 114 (2.95%) Support Engineer
11 110 (2.85%) Data Engineer
12 109 (2.82%) Senior Analyst
13 106 (2.74%) Consultant
14 100 (2.59%) IT Support
15 81 (2.10%) IT Engineer
15 81 (2.10%) Systems Analyst
16 80 (2.07%) Accountant
17 79 (2.04%) Marketing Manager
18 73 (1.89%) Applications Support
19 67 (1.73%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (2.67%) .NET
2 79 (2.04%) REST
3 76 (1.97%) HTML
4 73 (1.89%) Terraform
5 69 (1.79%) CSS
6 63 (1.63%) Middleware
7 58 (1.50%) XML
8 51 (1.32%) JSON
9 48 (1.24%) SOAP
10 43 (1.11%) RESTful
11 40 (1.04%) EDI
12 36 (0.93%) PySpark
13 35 (0.91%) LDAP
14 34 (0.88%) React
15 33 (0.85%) Kafka
16 30 (0.78%) ModSecurity
17 29 (0.75%) ASP.NET
18 26 (0.67%) OAuth
19 24 (0.62%) PyTorch
19 24 (0.62%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 358 (9.27%) Analytical Mindset
2 252 (6.52%) Management Information System
3 210 (5.43%) Onboarding
4 199 (5.15%) Self-Motivation
5 157 (4.06%) Product Ownership
6 132 (3.42%) Driving Licence
7 127 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
8 90 (2.33%) Social Media
9 82 (2.12%) Marketing Technology
10 80 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
11 70 (1.81%) Cloud Native
11 70 (1.81%) Cyber Threat
12 68 (1.76%) Data Centre
13 67 (1.73%) Blog
14 65 (1.68%) Virtual Team
15 47 (1.22%) Security Posture
16 39 (1.01%) Data Structures
17 35 (0.91%) AI Agents
17 35 (0.91%) SCADA
18 33 (0.85%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 335 (8.67%) Windows
2 204 (5.28%) Linux
3 188 (4.87%) Windows Server
4 95 (2.46%) Windows Server 2016
5 28 (0.72%) Mac OS
6 25 (0.65%) Windows 10
7 22 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
8 21 (0.54%) Unix
9 15 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 13 (0.34%) Apple iOS
11 12 (0.31%) Android
12 9 (0.23%) CentOS
13 7 (0.18%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.16%) Debian
14 6 (0.16%) VMS
15 5 (0.13%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.10%) CoreOS
17 2 (0.052%) Solaris
18 1 (0.026%) AIX
18 1 (0.026%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,903 (49.25%) Problem-Solving
2 1,212 (31.37%) Continuous Improvement
3 949 (24.56%) Decision-Making
4 724 (18.74%) Analytics
5 657 (17.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 610 (15.79%) AI
7 599 (15.50%) Agile
8 505 (13.07%) Business Intelligence
9 413 (10.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 383 (9.91%) Actionable Insight
10 383 (9.91%) Validation
11 371 (9.60%) Customer Service
12 366 (9.47%) ERP
13 353 (9.14%) CRM
14 344 (8.90%) Mentoring
15 335 (8.67%) Data Analysis
16 319 (8.26%) Customer Experience
17 311 (8.05%) Project Management
18 304 (7.87%) Cybersecurity
19 301 (7.79%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 736 (19.05%) SQL
2 456 (11.80%) Python
3 150 (3.88%) JavaScript
4 129 (3.34%) Java
5 118 (3.05%) C#
6 105 (2.72%) PowerShell
7 76 (1.97%) C++
8 58 (1.50%) Bash
8 58 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 42 (1.09%) TypeScript
10 39 (1.01%) MATLAB
11 38 (0.98%) T-SQL
12 32 (0.83%) R
13 29 (0.75%) C
14 23 (0.60%) PHP
15 17 (0.44%) PL/SQL
15 17 (0.44%) Scala
15 17 (0.44%) VB.NET
16 16 (0.41%) Perl
17 14 (0.36%) Go
Qualifications
1 711 (18.40%) Degree
2 485 (12.55%) Security Cleared
3 336 (8.70%) SC Cleared
4 145 (3.75%) ACCA
5 138 (3.57%) CIMA
6 120 (3.11%) DV Cleared
7 117 (3.03%) DBS Check
8 113 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
9 83 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
10 74 (1.92%) CISSP
11 72 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
12 57 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
13 56 (1.45%) CISM
14 50 (1.29%) HND
15 47 (1.22%) CompTIA Security+
16 42 (1.09%) Azure Certification
17 37 (0.96%) CCNA
17 37 (0.96%) PMI Certification
18 35 (0.91%) HNC
19 34 (0.88%) IRCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 362 (9.37%) Data Quality
2 275 (7.12%) QA
3 227 (5.87%) GDPR
4 148 (3.83%) Cyber Essentials
5 145 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 111 (2.87%) PCI DSS
7 101 (2.61%) Accessibility
8 91 (2.36%) ISO 9001
9 87 (2.25%) SLA
10 84 (2.17%) NIST
11 39 (1.01%) GRC
12 37 (0.96%) PMO
13 28 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 24 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
15 23 (0.60%) DO-254
15 23 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 22 (0.57%) ISO 14001
17 20 (0.52%) IFRS
18 18 (0.47%) Good Clinical Practice
19 17 (0.44%) TickIT
System Software
1 260 (6.73%) Active Directory
2 103 (2.67%) Hyper-V
3 100 (2.59%) Docker
4 80 (2.07%) Terminal Server
5 40 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
6 32 (0.83%) Firmware
7 14 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
9 8 (0.21%) VMware NSX
10 7 (0.18%) Ceph
11 6 (0.16%) vSphere
12 4 (0.10%) KVM
12 4 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.078%) DFS Replication
14 2 (0.052%) ProxySG
15 1 (0.026%) NFS
15 1 (0.026%) Oracle RAC
15 1 (0.026%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 67 (1.73%) Kubernetes
2 47 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 41 (1.06%) Ansible
4 25 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
5 24 (0.62%) Grafana
6 19 (0.49%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.39%) QRadar
8 14 (0.36%) Kibana
9 11 (0.28%) Nmap
9 11 (0.28%) Podman
10 7 (0.18%) Argo
10 7 (0.18%) Check_MK
10 7 (0.18%) Istio
10 7 (0.18%) logstash
11 6 (0.16%) Functional Safety
11 6 (0.16%) Graylog
11 6 (0.16%) Kubeflow
12 4 (0.10%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.10%) McAfee ePO
12 4 (0.10%) Puppet
Vendors
1 930 (24.07%) Microsoft
2 229 (5.93%) Google
3 135 (3.49%) VMware
4 128 (3.31%) SAP
5 126 (3.26%) Splunk
6 100 (2.59%) Oracle
7 95 (2.46%) SolarWinds
8 87 (2.25%) Veeam
9 81 (2.10%) Brocade
9 81 (2.10%) Nimble Storage
10 80 (2.07%) Salesforce
10 80 (2.07%) Tanium
11 66 (1.71%) ServiceNow
12 64 (1.66%) Cisco
13 58 (1.50%) Databricks
14 53 (1.37%) Workday
15 49 (1.27%) YouTube
16 37 (0.96%) Adobe
17 34 (0.88%) HubSpot
18 33 (0.85%) IBM