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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 8 13
Rank change year-on-year -19 +5 +10
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,407 4,010 5,658
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.64% 11.73% 8.91%
As % of the General category 10.48% 17.47% 16.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,217 1,523 2,738
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £33,625 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £73,281
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -8.90%

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 32,501 22,953 34,413
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.29% 67.17% 54.19%
Number of salaries quoted 19,974 11,171 20,678
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £76,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,084
% change year-on-year - +1.69% -9.86%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 -19 983 £47,500 +2.15% 454
South East -8 833 £50,000 -4.76% 548
Midlands -11 604 £48,000 +6.21% 290
North West -18 587 £46,750 -0.53% 243
South West -16 467 £47,000 -1.05% 206
West Midlands -18 323 £50,000 +11.11% 157
Yorkshire -11 283 £47,500 +5.56% 148
East Midlands -5 279 £45,872 +0.39% 133
East of England -23 244 £45,000 - 151
North East -25 113 £55,000 +37.50% 67
Wales -12 110 £53,171 -3.33% 31
Scotland -35 109 £43,668 -0.76% 68
Northern Ireland -32 67 £41,250 -25.00% 30
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
1 177 (5.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 104 (3.05%) SharePoint
3 40 (1.17%) Confluence
4 29 (0.85%) Apache Spark
5 27 (0.79%) Apache
5 27 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
6 26 (0.76%) CMS
7 22 (0.65%) IIS
8 9 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 9 (0.26%) SAS
8 9 (0.26%) WebLogic
8 9 (0.26%) WebSphere
9 8 (0.23%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.23%) OpenStack
9 8 (0.23%) WordPress
10 3 (0.088%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.088%) JBoss
11 1 (0.029%) Moodle
11 1 (0.029%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.029%) Tomcat
Applications
1 423 (12.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 168 (4.93%) Microsoft Office
3 64 (1.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 57 (1.67%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
6 15 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
7 9 (0.26%) CATIA
8 4 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.12%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.088%) LaTeX
9 3 (0.088%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.088%) Simulink
9 3 (0.088%) Trello
10 2 (0.059%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.059%) Lectora
10 2 (0.059%) Siemens NX
10 2 (0.059%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.029%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.029%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 53 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 39 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
3 35 (1.03%) Dynamics GP
4 26 (0.76%) NetSuite
5 19 (0.56%) SAP PM
6 16 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
7 14 (0.41%) SAP ERP
8 10 (0.29%) Magento
9 6 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
9 6 (0.18%) SAP Business One
9 6 (0.18%) SAP CO
10 5 (0.15%) JDE EnterpriseOne
10 5 (0.15%) SAP FI
10 5 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
10 5 (0.15%) SAP GTS
10 5 (0.15%) SAP PP
11 4 (0.12%) Academy Housing
11 4 (0.12%) JDE OneWorld
11 4 (0.12%) JDE World
11 4 (0.12%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 599 (17.58%) Azure
2 427 (12.53%) Power Platform
3 314 (9.22%) Microsoft 365
4 295 (8.66%) AWS
5 148 (4.34%) SaaS
6 131 (3.85%) GCP
7 89 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
8 81 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
9 80 (2.35%) Entra ID
10 63 (1.85%) Google Analytics
11 51 (1.50%) GitHub
12 50 (1.47%) PowerApps
13 44 (1.29%) Power Automate
14 40 (1.17%) Amazon S3
14 40 (1.17%) Microsoft Purview
15 34 (1.00%) Snowflake
16 33 (0.97%) dbt
17 31 (0.91%) Azure Data Factory
18 30 (0.88%) Serverless
19 29 (0.85%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 163 (4.78%) DNS
2 131 (3.85%) DHCP
3 105 (3.08%) Firewall
4 85 (2.49%) VPN
5 67 (1.97%) TCP/IP
6 64 (1.88%) WAN
7 56 (1.64%) LAN
8 42 (1.23%) Wireless
9 40 (1.17%) Wi-Fi
10 37 (1.09%) Broadband
11 28 (0.82%) Network Security
12 26 (0.76%) HTTP
13 21 (0.62%) SD-WAN
14 20 (0.59%) BGP
14 20 (0.59%) SAN
14 20 (0.59%) VoIP
15 16 (0.47%) Cisco ASA
15 16 (0.47%) Internet
16 15 (0.44%) SSL
16 15 (0.44%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 381 (11.18%) Power BI
2 188 (5.52%) Tableau
3 114 (3.35%) Amazon RDS
4 111 (3.26%) SQL Server
5 102 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
6 63 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 57 (1.67%) Data Mining
8 52 (1.53%) MySQL
9 49 (1.44%) Power Query
10 45 (1.32%) Relational Database
11 44 (1.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 42 (1.23%) Metadata
13 40 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
14 39 (1.14%) Looker
15 33 (0.97%) Data Lake
16 29 (0.85%) Big Data
17 28 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
18 24 (0.70%) BigQuery
19 18 (0.53%) MongoDB
20 17 (0.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 125 (3.67%) JIRA
2 108 (3.17%) Git
3 40 (1.17%) GitLab
4 36 (1.06%) Rational DOORS
5 30 (0.88%) Jenkins
6 15 (0.44%) Cucumber
6 15 (0.44%) Selenium
7 12 (0.35%) Cypress.io
7 12 (0.35%) Eclipse
7 12 (0.35%) Postman
8 11 (0.32%) MLflow
9 9 (0.26%) Burp Suite
9 9 (0.26%) JMeter
9 9 (0.26%) SonarQube
10 8 (0.23%) LabVIEW
11 7 (0.21%) Bitbucket
11 7 (0.21%) Metasploit
11 7 (0.21%) Moq
11 7 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
11 7 (0.21%) Subversion
General
1 1,652 (48.49%) Social Skills
2 991 (29.09%) Finance
3 291 (8.54%) Marketing
4 225 (6.60%) Retail
5 224 (6.57%) Organisational Skills
6 199 (5.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 199 (5.84%) Legal
7 196 (5.75%) Public Sector
8 182 (5.34%) Manufacturing
9 161 (4.73%) Law
10 155 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
11 108 (3.17%) Telecoms
12 95 (2.79%) Aerospace
13 82 (2.41%) Electronics
14 66 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
15 64 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
16 54 (1.58%) Banking
17 52 (1.53%) Military
18 47 (1.38%) Advertising
19 37 (1.09%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 881 (25.86%) Analyst
2 344 (10.10%) Senior
3 230 (6.75%) Data Analyst
3 230 (6.75%) Lead
4 196 (5.75%) Systems Engineer
5 173 (5.08%) Developer
6 168 (4.93%) Business Analyst
7 114 (3.35%) Support Analyst
8 111 (3.26%) Support Engineer
9 108 (3.17%) Architect
10 100 (2.94%) Consultant
11 95 (2.79%) IT Support
12 94 (2.76%) Senior Analyst
13 91 (2.67%) Data Engineer
14 81 (2.38%) Systems Analyst
15 77 (2.26%) Accountant
16 71 (2.08%) IT Engineer
17 66 (1.94%) Applications Support
17 66 (1.94%) Head of QA
17 66 (1.94%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (2.20%) .NET
2 68 (2.00%) REST
3 67 (1.97%) HTML
4 62 (1.82%) Middleware
5 60 (1.76%) XML
6 59 (1.73%) CSS
7 58 (1.70%) JSON
8 44 (1.29%) React
9 39 (1.14%) SOAP
10 34 (1.00%) RESTful
11 29 (0.85%) Kafka
11 29 (0.85%) PyTorch
12 27 (0.79%) Node.js
13 25 (0.73%) PySpark
14 24 (0.70%) EDI
14 24 (0.70%) TensorFlow
15 21 (0.62%) scikit-learn
16 20 (0.59%) OAuth
17 19 (0.56%) AngularJS
17 19 (0.56%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 393 (11.54%) Analytical Mindset
2 191 (5.61%) Management Information System
3 144 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
4 135 (3.96%) Product Ownership
5 131 (3.85%) Onboarding
6 130 (3.82%) Legacy Systems
7 100 (2.94%) Driving Licence
8 60 (1.76%) Virtual Team
9 59 (1.73%) Cloud Native
10 53 (1.56%) Data Centre
11 52 (1.53%) Cyber Threat
11 52 (1.53%) Social Media
12 48 (1.41%) Marketing Technology
13 45 (1.32%) Security Posture
14 37 (1.09%) Blog
14 37 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
15 34 (1.00%) Algorithms
15 34 (1.00%) Data Structures
16 28 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
17 27 (0.79%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 325 (9.54%) Windows
2 215 (6.31%) Linux
3 193 (5.66%) Windows Server
4 112 (3.29%) Windows Server 2016
5 22 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
6 21 (0.62%) Mac OS
7 20 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 17 (0.50%) Unix
8 17 (0.50%) Windows 10
9 16 (0.47%) Android
10 13 (0.38%) CentOS
11 12 (0.35%) Apple iOS
12 11 (0.32%) Ubuntu
13 8 (0.23%) VMS
14 6 (0.18%) Debian
15 5 (0.15%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.12%) CoreOS
17 1 (0.029%) AIX
17 1 (0.029%) FreeBSD
17 1 (0.029%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,608 (47.20%) Problem-Solving
2 1,004 (29.47%) Continuous Improvement
3 789 (23.16%) Decision-Making
4 694 (20.37%) Analytics
5 494 (14.50%) Agile
6 481 (14.12%) Stakeholder Management
7 435 (12.77%) Business Intelligence
8 429 (12.59%) AI
9 364 (10.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 348 (10.21%) Actionable Insight
11 340 (9.98%) Customer Experience
12 311 (9.13%) Customer Service
12 311 (9.13%) Data Analysis
13 304 (8.92%) ERP
14 302 (8.86%) Project Management
15 282 (8.28%) Validation
16 280 (8.22%) CRM
17 273 (8.01%) Mentoring
18 272 (7.98%) Cybersecurity
19 269 (7.90%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 691 (20.28%) SQL
2 496 (14.56%) Python
3 123 (3.61%) JavaScript
4 104 (3.05%) Java
5 101 (2.96%) C#
6 100 (2.94%) PowerShell
7 59 (1.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 57 (1.67%) C++
9 54 (1.58%) Bash
10 46 (1.35%) T-SQL
11 40 (1.17%) R
12 33 (0.97%) MATLAB
13 25 (0.73%) TypeScript
14 21 (0.62%) C
14 21 (0.62%) PHP
15 19 (0.56%) Go
16 16 (0.47%) VBA
17 14 (0.41%) PL/SQL
18 13 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
18 13 (0.38%) Perl
Qualifications
1 564 (16.55%) Degree
2 383 (11.24%) Security Cleared
3 277 (8.13%) SC Cleared
4 156 (4.58%) ACCA
5 150 (4.40%) CIMA
6 123 (3.61%) DBS Check
7 93 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
8 73 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
9 68 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
10 66 (1.94%) IRCA
11 65 (1.91%) DV Cleared
12 54 (1.58%) CISSP
13 51 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
14 44 (1.29%) CompTIA Security+
15 38 (1.12%) CISM
16 34 (1.00%) CCNA
17 31 (0.91%) Master's Degree
18 27 (0.79%) HNC
19 26 (0.76%) CCNP
20 25 (0.73%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 329 (9.66%) Data Quality
2 241 (7.07%) QA
3 238 (6.99%) GDPR
4 163 (4.78%) Cyber Essentials
5 141 (4.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 132 (3.87%) PCI DSS
7 114 (3.35%) ISO 9001
8 96 (2.82%) SLA
9 80 (2.35%) Accessibility
9 80 (2.35%) NIST
10 44 (1.29%) GRC
11 38 (1.12%) PMO
12 30 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
13 28 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 23 (0.68%) ISO 14001
15 21 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 20 (0.59%) GMP
17 18 (0.53%) Good Clinical Practice
18 17 (0.50%) SOC 2
18 17 (0.50%) TickIT
System Software
1 258 (7.57%) Active Directory
2 112 (3.29%) Hyper-V
3 96 (2.82%) Terminal Server
4 89 (2.61%) Docker
5 32 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
6 14 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (0.29%) Firmware
8 9 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.26%) VMware NSX
9 8 (0.23%) vSphere
10 7 (0.21%) Ceph
11 4 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 4 (0.12%) ProxySG
11 4 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.12%) XenApp
12 3 (0.088%) DFS Replication
12 3 (0.088%) Embedded Firmware
13 2 (0.059%) KVM
14 1 (0.029%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.029%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 65 (1.91%) Kubernetes
1 65 (1.91%) Terraform
2 43 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 39 (1.14%) Ansible
4 27 (0.79%) Grafana
5 20 (0.59%) Prometheus
6 14 (0.41%) Kibana
7 13 (0.38%) QRadar
8 12 (0.35%) Podman
9 7 (0.21%) Argo
9 7 (0.21%) Check_MK
9 7 (0.21%) Istio
9 7 (0.21%) Kubeflow
9 7 (0.21%) logstash
9 7 (0.21%) Nagios
9 7 (0.21%) Nmap
10 6 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.15%) Graylog
11 5 (0.15%) SCCM
Vendors
1 817 (23.98%) Microsoft
2 152 (4.46%) Google
3 137 (4.02%) Splunk
4 136 (3.99%) VMware
5 119 (3.49%) SAP
6 114 (3.35%) SolarWinds
7 105 (3.08%) Veeam
8 97 (2.85%) Brocade
8 97 (2.85%) Nimble Storage
9 96 (2.82%) Tanium
10 84 (2.47%) Salesforce
11 74 (2.17%) Oracle
12 63 (1.85%) Workday
13 58 (1.70%) Cisco
14 56 (1.64%) Databricks
15 49 (1.44%) ServiceNow
16 38 (1.12%) Red Hat
17 37 (1.09%) IBM
18 32 (0.94%) Dell
19 28 (0.82%) Adobe