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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 12 18
Rank change year-on-year -15 +6 +3
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,198 3,134 4,631
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 6.24% 10.61% 8.63%
As % of the General category 11.95% 15.75% 14.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,719 1,361 3,111
10th Percentile £29,200 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,967 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.71% +13.26% -5.26%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,500 £61,123
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,433
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £51,528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +6.74% -6.31%

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 26,770 19,902 31,991
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 52.21% 67.39% 59.60%
Number of salaries quoted 13,945 8,733 22,777
10th Percentile £27,000 £29,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £63,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £76,250
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -8.71%

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 5 March 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 5 March 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 +12 883 £50,000 - 626
North of England -18 844 £45,000 -14.29% 437
Midlands -16 600 £44,543 -7.20% 339
North West -18 434 £43,000 -18.10% 244
West Midlands -17 353 £51,875 +3.75% 211
South West -11 300 £45,000 -14.29% 211
Yorkshire 0 295 £45,000 -7.69% 152
East of England -20 269 £40,000 -21.52% 220
East Midlands +3 245 £40,000 -5.88% 128
Scotland -17 210 £40,000 -38.46% 92
North East -4 115 £40,000 +2.30% 45
Wales +14 72 £40,000 -18.54% 52
Northern Ireland -19 48 £52,500 -4.55% 17
Isle of Man -4 1 £62,500 +150.00% 5
Channel Islands -8 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
1 133 (4.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 53 (1.66%) Confluence
3 46 (1.44%) SharePoint
4 29 (0.91%) CMS
5 23 (0.72%) Apache Spark
6 21 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
7 15 (0.47%) Apache
8 14 (0.44%) IIS
9 10 (0.31%) SAS
9 10 (0.31%) WordPress
10 5 (0.16%) nginx
11 4 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.094%) govService
13 2 (0.063%) JBoss
14 1 (0.031%) Apache Synapse
14 1 (0.031%) ArcGIS
14 1 (0.031%) BizTalk Server
14 1 (0.031%) Jupyter
14 1 (0.031%) Kinematics
14 1 (0.031%) OpenStack
Applications
1 533 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 274 (8.57%) Chatbot
3 219 (6.85%) Microsoft Office
4 82 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 53 (1.66%) MS Visio
6 28 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
7 20 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
8 10 (0.31%) CATIA
9 8 (0.25%) AutoCAD
10 3 (0.094%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.094%) Trello
11 2 (0.063%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.063%) Revit
11 2 (0.063%) Simulink
12 1 (0.031%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.031%) OrCAD
12 1 (0.031%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.031%) Siemens NX
12 1 (0.031%) Sketch
12 1 (0.031%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 72 (2.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (1.19%) SAP MDG
3 25 (0.78%) NetSuite
4 24 (0.75%) Salesforce CRM
5 21 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
6 17 (0.53%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 17 (0.53%) SAP CO
7 16 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
8 14 (0.44%) Workday HCM
9 10 (0.31%) Sage X3
9 10 (0.31%) SAP ERP
10 8 (0.25%) SAP FI
10 8 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
11 7 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
11 7 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
12 6 (0.19%) Shopify
13 5 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
13 5 (0.16%) Q-Pulse
13 5 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
13 5 (0.16%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 487 (15.23%) Azure
2 389 (12.16%) Power Platform
3 225 (7.04%) Microsoft 365
4 196 (6.13%) AWS
5 134 (4.19%) SaaS
6 122 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
7 72 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
8 68 (2.13%) Entra ID
9 60 (1.88%) GitHub
10 53 (1.66%) Azure Data Factory
11 50 (1.56%) Snowflake
12 48 (1.50%) GCP
13 40 (1.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 38 (1.19%) Microsoft Purview
15 37 (1.16%) dbt
16 35 (1.09%) Power Automate
17 32 (1.00%) Amazon S3
18 31 (0.97%) Google Analytics
18 31 (0.97%) Serverless
19 27 (0.84%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 134 (4.19%) DNS
2 110 (3.44%) DHCP
3 105 (3.28%) Firewall
4 51 (1.59%) VPN
5 50 (1.56%) WAN
6 47 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
7 44 (1.38%) LAN
7 44 (1.38%) Wireless
8 40 (1.25%) TCP/IP
9 33 (1.03%) Remote Desktop
9 33 (1.03%) VLAN
10 32 (1.00%) Wireshark
11 30 (0.94%) Network Security
12 26 (0.81%) VoIP
13 23 (0.72%) SD-WAN
14 19 (0.59%) Broadband
15 18 (0.56%) SAN
16 17 (0.53%) BGP
17 16 (0.50%) EIGRP
17 16 (0.50%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 355 (11.10%) Power BI
2 259 (8.10%) Tableau
3 165 (5.16%) Data Mining
4 121 (3.78%) SQL Server
5 89 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
6 73 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
7 58 (1.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 51 (1.59%) Metadata
9 48 (1.50%) Relational Database
10 38 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
11 37 (1.16%) MySQL
12 36 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
12 36 (1.13%) Looker
13 28 (0.88%) Data Lake
13 28 (0.88%) GIS
13 28 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
13 28 (0.88%) Power Query
14 23 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 21 (0.66%) NoSQL
16 16 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 125 (3.91%) JIRA
2 71 (2.22%) Git
3 25 (0.78%) Selenium
4 22 (0.69%) GitLab
5 15 (0.47%) Robot Framework
6 14 (0.44%) Jenkins
7 13 (0.41%) Snyk
8 10 (0.31%) ERwin
9 9 (0.28%) ER Studio
9 9 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
10 8 (0.25%) LabVIEW
11 6 (0.19%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.19%) Postman
11 6 (0.19%) Rational DOORS
11 6 (0.19%) Subversion
11 6 (0.19%) TestRail
12 5 (0.16%) Oracle APEX
13 4 (0.13%) Cucumber
13 4 (0.13%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.13%) WebDriver
General
1 1,595 (49.87%) Social Skills
2 955 (29.86%) Finance
3 231 (7.22%) Marketing
4 187 (5.85%) Retail
5 156 (4.88%) Organisational Skills
6 141 (4.41%) Legal
7 137 (4.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 126 (3.94%) Public Sector
9 118 (3.69%) Law
10 114 (3.56%) Manufacturing
11 111 (3.47%) Presentation Skills
12 78 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
13 68 (2.13%) Banking
14 64 (2.00%) Telecoms
15 58 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
16 45 (1.41%) Electronics
17 40 (1.25%) Aerospace
18 36 (1.13%) Automotive
18 36 (1.13%) Games
19 34 (1.06%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 827 (25.86%) Analyst
2 323 (10.10%) Senior
3 274 (8.57%) Trainer
4 263 (8.22%) Data Analyst
5 232 (7.25%) Lead
6 153 (4.78%) Developer
7 145 (4.53%) Trainee
8 136 (4.25%) Trainee Analyst
8 136 (4.25%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 130 (4.07%) Architect
10 125 (3.91%) Support Analyst
11 124 (3.88%) Business Analyst
11 124 (3.88%) IT Support
12 96 (3.00%) Systems Engineer
13 86 (2.69%) Support Engineer
14 82 (2.56%) Senior Analyst
15 74 (2.31%) Business Manager
16 73 (2.28%) Financial Analyst
17 66 (2.06%) Applications Support
18 64 (2.00%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (2.53%) HTML
2 73 (2.28%) CSS
3 59 (1.84%) React
4 49 (1.53%) .NET
5 37 (1.16%) JSON
6 33 (1.03%) Node.js
6 33 (1.03%) REST
7 26 (0.81%) XML
8 23 (0.72%) Middleware
9 22 (0.69%) SOAP
10 16 (0.50%) PySpark
11 15 (0.47%) Bootstrap
11 15 (0.47%) React Native
12 14 (0.44%) Oracle Fusion
13 13 (0.41%) Flash
14 12 (0.38%) PyTorch
14 12 (0.38%) TensorFlow
15 11 (0.34%) OAuth
15 11 (0.34%) Pandas
15 11 (0.34%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 342 (10.69%) Analytical Mindset
2 222 (6.94%) Self-Motivation
3 178 (5.57%) Onboarding
4 160 (5.00%) Management Information System
5 108 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
6 106 (3.31%) Product Ownership
7 77 (2.41%) Data Centre
8 58 (1.81%) Driving Licence
9 51 (1.59%) FMCG
10 46 (1.44%) Cloud Native
11 44 (1.38%) Robotics
12 40 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
13 37 (1.16%) Algorithms
13 37 (1.16%) Data Structures
14 35 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
14 35 (1.09%) Social Media
15 32 (1.00%) Low-Code
16 29 (0.91%) Virtual Team
17 28 (0.88%) Security Posture
18 27 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 261 (8.16%) Windows
2 159 (4.97%) Linux
3 139 (4.35%) Windows Server
4 84 (2.63%) Windows Server 2016
5 18 (0.56%) Unix
6 17 (0.53%) Android
7 13 (0.41%) Mac OS
8 8 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (0.22%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.16%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.13%) CentOS
11 4 (0.13%) VMS
11 4 (0.13%) Windows 10
12 3 (0.094%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.063%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.031%) Debian
14 1 (0.031%) FreeBSD
14 1 (0.031%) OpenBSD
14 1 (0.031%) Robot Operating System
14 1 (0.031%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,405 (43.93%) Problem-Solving
2 788 (24.64%) Continuous Improvement
3 650 (20.33%) AI
3 650 (20.33%) Analytics
4 593 (18.54%) Decision-Making
5 515 (16.10%) Project Management
6 475 (14.85%) Agile
7 445 (13.91%) Business Intelligence
8 368 (11.51%) Data Analysis
9 356 (11.13%) Stakeholder Management
10 318 (9.94%) Customer Service
11 287 (8.97%) ERP
12 277 (8.66%) Chemistry
13 274 (8.57%) Conversational UI
14 250 (7.82%) Process Improvement
15 249 (7.79%) Customer Experience
16 245 (7.66%) Actionable Insight
17 242 (7.57%) Analytical Thinking
17 242 (7.57%) Mentoring
18 236 (7.38%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 683 (21.36%) SQL
2 473 (14.79%) Python
3 93 (2.91%) JavaScript
4 88 (2.75%) C#
5 81 (2.53%) PowerShell
6 66 (2.06%) Java
7 64 (2.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 42 (1.31%) T-SQL
9 39 (1.22%) VBA
10 38 (1.19%) R
11 30 (0.94%) C++
12 28 (0.88%) Bash
13 18 (0.56%) MATLAB
14 17 (0.53%) C
15 11 (0.34%) PL/SQL
15 11 (0.34%) TypeScript
16 9 (0.28%) Scala
17 8 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
17 8 (0.25%) Shell Script
18 7 (0.22%) Go
Qualifications
1 901 (28.17%) Degree
2 329 (10.29%) Master's Degree
3 279 (8.72%) PhD
4 278 (8.69%) Security Cleared
5 211 (6.60%) SC Cleared
6 138 (4.32%) ACCA
7 128 (4.00%) CIMA
8 77 (2.41%) DBS Check
9 64 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 64 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
10 57 (1.78%) PMI Certification
11 48 (1.50%) PMP
12 47 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
13 46 (1.44%) DV Cleared
14 40 (1.25%) CISSP
15 37 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
16 33 (1.03%) IRCA
17 30 (0.94%) CISM
18 28 (0.88%) AAT
18 28 (0.88%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 196 (6.13%) Data Quality
2 158 (4.94%) GDPR
3 153 (4.78%) QA
4 128 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 113 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 103 (3.22%) PCI DSS
7 80 (2.50%) NIST
8 60 (1.88%) PMO
9 39 (1.22%) ISO 9001
10 38 (1.19%) Accessibility
11 36 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
12 28 (0.88%) SLA
13 21 (0.66%) GRC
14 16 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 16 (0.50%) GMP
15 13 (0.41%) SOC 2
16 12 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 11 (0.34%) NCSC
18 8 (0.25%) IFRS
19 7 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 200 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 98 (3.06%) Hyper-V
3 80 (2.50%) Terminal Server
4 32 (1.00%) Docker
5 24 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
6 12 (0.38%) vSphere
7 7 (0.22%) Firmware
8 6 (0.19%) ProxySG
8 6 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.094%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.094%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.094%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.094%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.094%) XenApp
10 2 (0.063%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.031%) KVM
Systems Management
1 73 (2.28%) Terraform
2 39 (1.22%) Ansible
3 32 (1.00%) Kubernetes
4 24 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (0.38%) Grafana
6 11 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.22%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.19%) Nagios
9 5 (0.16%) Control-M
10 4 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.13%) Backup Exec
10 4 (0.13%) CASB
10 4 (0.13%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 4 (0.13%) Nessus
10 4 (0.13%) QRadar
10 4 (0.13%) SCCM
10 4 (0.13%) SolarWinds Orion
10 4 (0.13%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.063%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.063%) Kibana
Vendors
1 799 (24.98%) Microsoft
2 274 (8.57%) PayPal
3 187 (5.85%) SAP
4 116 (3.63%) Oracle
5 109 (3.41%) SolarWinds
6 105 (3.28%) VMware
7 98 (3.06%) Splunk
8 85 (2.66%) Veeam
9 81 (2.53%) Tanium
10 80 (2.50%) Brocade
10 80 (2.50%) Nimble Storage
11 74 (2.31%) Salesforce
12 64 (2.00%) Google
13 55 (1.72%) ServiceNow
14 51 (1.59%) Cisco
15 38 (1.19%) Workday
16 33 (1.03%) Databricks
17 22 (0.69%) Adobe
17 22 (0.69%) Ariba
18 20 (0.63%) Anaplan