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

6 months to
15 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 3,998 4,118 4,845
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.79% 12.03% 8.79%
As % of the General category 10.95% 18.24% 16.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,415 1,482 1,868
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,707 £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 £61,250 £60,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £53,772
% change year-on-year - -2.37% -2.23%

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 36,507 22,582 29,242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 43.71% 65.99% 53.05%
Number of salaries quoted 22,510 10,925 14,130
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,000 £28,250
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% -1.96%
75th Percentile £66,250 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -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 15 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 15 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 1,087 £47,500 +6.74% 1,186
South East -11 951 £49,536 -0.93% 1,337
Midlands -10 701 £47,500 +5.56% 734
North West -18 663 £46,500 +3.33% 719
South West -12 574 £47,500 +5.56% 643
West Midlands -18 357 £48,000 +6.67% 460
East Midlands -3 341 £45,242 +4.00% 273
Yorkshire -10 293 £47,000 +17.50% 361
East of England -15 252 £47,500 +13.77% 486
Wales -6 193 £45,000 -10.40% 128
Scotland -24 136 £45,000 +15.38% 455
North East -22 131 £50,500 +26.25% 116
Northern Ireland -9 115 £43,750 -20.45% 292
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
1 164 (4.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 140 (3.50%) SharePoint
3 52 (1.30%) Confluence
4 31 (0.78%) IIS
5 28 (0.70%) Apache
6 25 (0.63%) Apache Spark
7 19 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
8 14 (0.35%) CMS
8 14 (0.35%) SAS
9 10 (0.25%) Jupyter
9 10 (0.25%) WordPress
10 9 (0.23%) WebLogic
10 9 (0.23%) WebSphere
11 8 (0.20%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.050%) Anypoint
13 2 (0.050%) Oracle Application Server
13 2 (0.050%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.025%) CICS
14 1 (0.025%) Umbraco
Applications
1 490 (12.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 234 (5.85%) Microsoft Office
3 78 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 52 (1.30%) MS Visio
5 31 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
6 26 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
7 17 (0.43%) Simulink
8 8 (0.20%) AutoCAD
9 7 (0.18%) SOLIDWORKS
10 6 (0.15%) CATIA
11 5 (0.13%) EPLAN
11 5 (0.13%) Siemens NX
12 4 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 4 (0.10%) Chatbot
12 4 (0.10%) Photoshop
13 3 (0.075%) CANalyzer
13 3 (0.075%) LaTeX
14 2 (0.050%) Adobe XD
14 2 (0.050%) Lectora
14 2 (0.050%) Revit
Business Applications
1 86 (2.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.80%) Dynamics GP
3 30 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
4 25 (0.63%) NetSuite
5 20 (0.50%) Shopify
6 14 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
7 11 (0.28%) Magento
8 10 (0.25%) SAP Business One
9 9 (0.23%) Infor M3
9 9 (0.23%) SAP PM
10 8 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
10 8 (0.20%) SAP ERP
11 7 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
11 7 (0.18%) Workday HCM
12 6 (0.15%) Exchequer
12 6 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
13 5 (0.13%) JDE EnterpriseOne
13 5 (0.13%) Sage 50
13 5 (0.13%) SAP GTS
14 4 (0.10%) JDE World
Cloud Services
1 638 (15.96%) Azure
2 477 (11.93%) Power Platform
3 345 (8.63%) AWS
4 319 (7.98%) Microsoft 365
5 210 (5.25%) SaaS
6 141 (3.53%) GCP
7 107 (2.68%) Entra ID
8 101 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
9 99 (2.48%) Google Ads
10 96 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
11 86 (2.15%) Google Analytics
12 76 (1.90%) Meta Ads
13 65 (1.63%) Power Automate
14 63 (1.58%) PowerApps
15 62 (1.55%) GitHub
16 56 (1.40%) Serverless
17 50 (1.25%) Amazon S3
18 47 (1.18%) Microsoft Purview
19 43 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
19 43 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 162 (4.05%) DNS
2 126 (3.15%) DHCP
3 109 (2.73%) Firewall
4 96 (2.40%) VPN
5 81 (2.03%) TCP/IP
6 67 (1.68%) WAN
7 62 (1.55%) LAN
8 50 (1.25%) Wireless
9 45 (1.13%) Network Security
10 35 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
11 27 (0.68%) HTTP
11 27 (0.68%) VLAN
12 25 (0.63%) VoIP
13 24 (0.60%) Broadband
14 21 (0.53%) SD-WAN
15 20 (0.50%) BGP
15 20 (0.50%) Internet
16 19 (0.48%) SAN
17 18 (0.45%) SMS
18 16 (0.40%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 423 (10.58%) Power BI
2 122 (3.05%) SQL Server
3 119 (2.98%) Data Warehouse
4 109 (2.73%) Tableau
5 98 (2.45%) Amazon RDS
6 75 (1.88%) Relational Database
7 67 (1.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 62 (1.55%) MySQL
9 55 (1.38%) Power Query
10 50 (1.25%) Metadata
11 45 (1.13%) Looker
11 45 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
12 44 (1.10%) Data Lake
12 44 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 33 (0.83%) Big Data
13 33 (0.83%) BigQuery
14 31 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
15 26 (0.65%) NoSQL
16 24 (0.60%) MongoDB
17 20 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 153 (3.83%) JIRA
2 136 (3.40%) Git
3 33 (0.83%) Jenkins
4 31 (0.78%) Rational DOORS
5 27 (0.68%) GitLab
6 20 (0.50%) Eclipse
7 17 (0.43%) LabVIEW
8 16 (0.40%) Cucumber
9 15 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
10 14 (0.35%) Selenium
11 13 (0.33%) Burp Suite
11 13 (0.33%) Claude Code
12 12 (0.30%) Bitbucket
12 12 (0.30%) Postman
13 11 (0.28%) Metasploit
13 11 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
14 10 (0.25%) Cypress.io
15 9 (0.23%) JMeter
16 8 (0.20%) Moq
16 8 (0.20%) SonarQube
General
1 2,018 (50.48%) Social Skills
2 1,157 (28.94%) Finance
3 457 (11.43%) Marketing
4 337 (8.43%) Organisational Skills
5 299 (7.48%) Manufacturing
6 290 (7.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 268 (6.70%) Retail
8 260 (6.50%) Legal
9 224 (5.60%) Public Sector
10 218 (5.45%) Influencing Skills
11 215 (5.38%) Law
12 187 (4.68%) Aerospace
13 141 (3.53%) Electronics
14 114 (2.85%) Presentation Skills
15 112 (2.80%) Telecoms
16 72 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
17 63 (1.58%) Military
18 61 (1.53%) Advertising
19 60 (1.50%) Automotive
20 59 (1.48%) Banking
Job Titles
1 895 (22.39%) Analyst
2 458 (11.46%) Senior
3 266 (6.65%) Lead
4 206 (5.15%) Developer
5 193 (4.83%) Data Analyst
6 177 (4.43%) Business Analyst
7 170 (4.25%) Systems Engineer
8 150 (3.75%) Support Analyst
9 138 (3.45%) Architect
10 119 (2.98%) Data Engineer
11 117 (2.93%) Support Engineer
12 106 (2.65%) Senior Analyst
13 104 (2.60%) Consultant
14 102 (2.55%) IT Support
15 83 (2.08%) Accountant
16 82 (2.05%) Applications Support
16 82 (2.05%) IT Engineer
16 82 (2.05%) Systems Analyst
17 78 (1.95%) Marketing Manager
18 77 (1.93%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (2.58%) .NET
2 81 (2.03%) REST
3 76 (1.90%) HTML
4 72 (1.80%) Terraform
5 69 (1.73%) CSS
6 63 (1.58%) Middleware
7 59 (1.48%) XML
8 56 (1.40%) JSON
9 50 (1.25%) SOAP
10 48 (1.20%) PySpark
11 45 (1.13%) RESTful
12 42 (1.05%) EDI
13 36 (0.90%) LDAP
14 35 (0.88%) React
15 33 (0.83%) Kafka
16 31 (0.78%) ModSecurity
17 28 (0.70%) ASP.NET
18 25 (0.63%) Spring
18 25 (0.63%) Spring Boot
18 25 (0.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 340 (8.50%) Analytical Mindset
2 286 (7.15%) Management Information System
3 232 (5.80%) Onboarding
4 214 (5.35%) Self-Motivation
5 161 (4.03%) Product Ownership
6 139 (3.48%) Driving Licence
7 119 (2.98%) Legacy Systems
8 92 (2.30%) Social Media
9 84 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
10 80 (2.00%) Marketing Technology
11 78 (1.95%) Cloud Native
12 72 (1.80%) Cyber Threat
13 69 (1.73%) Data Centre
14 67 (1.68%) Blog
14 67 (1.68%) Virtual Team
15 47 (1.18%) Security Posture
16 42 (1.05%) Data Structures
17 37 (0.93%) SCADA
18 36 (0.90%) AI Agents
19 34 (0.85%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 338 (8.45%) Windows
2 195 (4.88%) Linux
3 183 (4.58%) Windows Server
4 89 (2.23%) Windows Server 2016
5 29 (0.73%) Mac OS
6 27 (0.68%) Windows 10
7 24 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
8 19 (0.48%) Unix
9 15 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 12 (0.30%) Android
11 11 (0.28%) Apple iOS
12 9 (0.23%) CentOS
13 7 (0.18%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.15%) Debian
14 6 (0.15%) VMS
15 5 (0.13%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.10%) CoreOS
17 2 (0.050%) Solaris
18 1 (0.025%) AIX
18 1 (0.025%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,998 (49.97%) Problem-Solving
2 1,283 (32.09%) Continuous Improvement
3 976 (24.41%) Decision-Making
4 736 (18.41%) Analytics
5 727 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
6 655 (16.38%) AI
7 611 (15.28%) Agile
8 544 (13.61%) Business Intelligence
9 419 (10.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 419 (10.48%) Validation
10 396 (9.90%) Customer Service
11 394 (9.85%) ERP
12 389 (9.73%) Actionable Insight
13 371 (9.28%) CRM
14 361 (9.03%) Data Analysis
14 361 (9.03%) Mentoring
15 319 (7.98%) Collaborative Working
16 309 (7.73%) Project Management
17 307 (7.68%) Cybersecurity
18 305 (7.63%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 768 (19.21%) SQL
2 446 (11.16%) Python
3 150 (3.75%) JavaScript
4 134 (3.35%) Java
5 117 (2.93%) C#
6 107 (2.68%) PowerShell
7 78 (1.95%) C++
8 64 (1.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 59 (1.48%) Bash
10 44 (1.10%) MATLAB
11 43 (1.08%) TypeScript
12 38 (0.95%) T-SQL
13 33 (0.83%) C
14 32 (0.80%) R
15 23 (0.58%) PHP
16 19 (0.48%) PL/SQL
17 17 (0.43%) Scala
17 17 (0.43%) VB.NET
18 16 (0.40%) Perl
19 15 (0.38%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 774 (19.36%) Degree
2 499 (12.48%) Security Cleared
3 344 (8.60%) SC Cleared
4 164 (4.10%) ACCA
5 155 (3.88%) CIMA
6 119 (2.98%) DV Cleared
7 116 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 113 (2.83%) DBS Check
9 87 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
10 73 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
11 70 (1.75%) CISSP
12 65 (1.63%) HND
13 60 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
14 56 (1.40%) CISM
15 47 (1.18%) Azure Certification
15 47 (1.18%) HNC
16 46 (1.15%) CompTIA Security+
17 40 (1.00%) CCNA
18 37 (0.93%) PMI Certification
19 35 (0.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 382 (9.55%) Data Quality
2 271 (6.78%) QA
3 222 (5.55%) GDPR
4 139 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 137 (3.43%) Cyber Essentials
6 117 (2.93%) Accessibility
7 103 (2.58%) PCI DSS
8 88 (2.20%) SLA
9 75 (1.88%) ISO 9001
10 74 (1.85%) NIST
11 38 (0.95%) GRC
12 35 (0.88%) PMO
13 26 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
14 25 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 23 (0.58%) DO-254
16 22 (0.55%) IFRS
17 21 (0.53%) ISO 14001
18 20 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 20000
19 18 (0.45%) Good Clinical Practice
20 17 (0.43%) TickIT
System Software
1 256 (6.40%) Active Directory
2 98 (2.45%) Docker
2 98 (2.45%) Hyper-V
3 72 (1.80%) Terminal Server
4 41 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
5 37 (0.93%) Firmware
6 15 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
7 11 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.20%) VMware NSX
9 7 (0.18%) Ceph
10 6 (0.15%) vSphere
11 4 (0.10%) KVM
11 4 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 4 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.075%) DFS Replication
13 1 (0.025%) IAG
13 1 (0.025%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.025%) VirtualBox
13 1 (0.025%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 66 (1.65%) Kubernetes
2 47 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
3 40 (1.00%) Ansible
4 25 (0.63%) Grafana
4 25 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
5 19 (0.48%) Prometheus
6 16 (0.40%) Kibana
7 15 (0.38%) QRadar
8 11 (0.28%) Nmap
8 11 (0.28%) Podman
9 8 (0.20%) logstash
10 7 (0.18%) Argo
10 7 (0.18%) Check_MK
10 7 (0.18%) Istio
11 6 (0.15%) Functional Safety
11 6 (0.15%) Graylog
12 5 (0.13%) Kubeflow
13 4 (0.10%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.10%) McAfee ePO
13 4 (0.10%) Puppet
Vendors
1 999 (24.99%) Microsoft
2 248 (6.20%) Google
3 131 (3.28%) SAP
4 130 (3.25%) VMware
5 122 (3.05%) Splunk
6 99 (2.48%) Oracle
7 86 (2.15%) SolarWinds
8 79 (1.98%) Salesforce
8 79 (1.98%) Veeam
9 73 (1.83%) Brocade
9 73 (1.83%) Nimble Storage
10 72 (1.80%) Tanium
11 69 (1.73%) ServiceNow
12 65 (1.63%) Cisco
13 59 (1.48%) Databricks
14 56 (1.40%) YouTube
15 42 (1.05%) Workday
16 37 (0.93%) Adobe
17 35 (0.88%) HubSpot
18 33 (0.83%) IBM