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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 8 12
Rank change year-on-year -16 +4 +11
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,823 4,033 5,139
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.75% 11.54% 8.83%
As % of the General category 10.89% 17.54% 16.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2,364 1,549 2,172
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £27,525
25th Percentile £37,000 £32,500 £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 £60,250 £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 35,103 22,988 31,061
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 43.63% 65.81% 53.35%
Number of salaries quoted 21,721 11,435 16,339
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% -3.05%
75th Percentile £66,250 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,441 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.03% -1.02% -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 31 August 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 31 August 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 1,043 £47,500 +5.56% 580
South East -8 921 £49,536 -5.65% 812
Midlands -8 663 £47,500 +5.56% 399
North West -16 639 £46,500 +3.33% 323
South West -10 533 £47,500 +5.56% 385
West Midlands -17 340 £48,750 +8.33% 232
East Midlands -4 320 £46,113 +2.47% 165
Yorkshire -14 281 £47,000 +17.50% 201
East of England -16 255 £47,500 +5.56% 209
Wales -12 165 £47,500 -5.58% 59
Scotland -21 134 £44,000 +10.00% 134
North East -16 123 £55,000 +34.15% 62
Northern Ireland -12 117 £42,500 -22.73% 54
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
1 170 (4.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 135 (3.53%) SharePoint
3 48 (1.26%) Confluence
4 30 (0.78%) IIS
5 26 (0.68%) Apache
5 26 (0.68%) Apache Spark
6 22 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
7 19 (0.50%) CMS
8 12 (0.31%) SAS
9 10 (0.26%) Jupyter
9 10 (0.26%) WordPress
10 9 (0.24%) WebLogic
10 9 (0.24%) WebSphere
11 8 (0.21%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.078%) Anypoint
14 2 (0.052%) Oracle Application Server
14 2 (0.052%) Oracle Workflow
15 1 (0.026%) Tomcat
15 1 (0.026%) Umbraco
Applications
1 444 (11.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 204 (5.34%) Microsoft Office
3 74 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 53 (1.39%) MS Visio
5 26 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
6 21 (0.55%) 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
9 4 (0.10%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.078%) LaTeX
10 3 (0.078%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.078%) Siemens NX
10 3 (0.078%) Trello
11 2 (0.052%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.052%) Lectora
12 1 (0.026%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 86 (2.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 33 (0.86%) Dynamics GP
2 33 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
3 27 (0.71%) NetSuite
4 17 (0.44%) Shopify
5 16 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
6 14 (0.37%) SAP PM
7 11 (0.29%) SAP ERP
8 10 (0.26%) Magento
8 10 (0.26%) SAP Business One
9 8 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
10 7 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
10 7 (0.18%) Infor M3
10 7 (0.18%) Workday HCM
11 5 (0.13%) JDE EnterpriseOne
11 5 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
11 5 (0.13%) SAP GTS
12 4 (0.10%) Academy Housing
12 4 (0.10%) Exchequer
12 4 (0.10%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 635 (16.61%) Azure
2 448 (11.72%) Power Platform
3 333 (8.71%) AWS
4 319 (8.34%) Microsoft 365
5 194 (5.07%) SaaS
6 145 (3.79%) GCP
7 100 (2.62%) Entra ID
8 95 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
9 90 (2.35%) Dynamics 365
10 83 (2.17%) Google Analytics
11 80 (2.09%) Google Ads
12 61 (1.60%) Power Automate
13 60 (1.57%) GitHub
14 59 (1.54%) PowerApps
15 57 (1.49%) Meta Ads
16 45 (1.18%) Microsoft Purview
17 44 (1.15%) Serverless
18 42 (1.10%) Amazon S3
19 38 (0.99%) Snowflake
20 36 (0.94%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 164 (4.29%) DNS
2 131 (3.43%) DHCP
3 109 (2.85%) Firewall
4 94 (2.46%) VPN
5 79 (2.07%) TCP/IP
6 66 (1.73%) WAN
7 61 (1.60%) LAN
8 50 (1.31%) Wireless
9 43 (1.12%) Network Security
10 37 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
11 28 (0.73%) Broadband
12 27 (0.71%) HTTP
12 27 (0.71%) VoIP
13 25 (0.65%) VLAN
14 20 (0.52%) BGP
14 20 (0.52%) Internet
14 20 (0.52%) SD-WAN
15 19 (0.50%) SAN
16 18 (0.47%) SMS
17 16 (0.42%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 394 (10.31%) Power BI
2 131 (3.43%) Tableau
3 123 (3.22%) SQL Server
4 120 (3.14%) Data Warehouse
5 106 (2.77%) Amazon RDS
6 70 (1.83%) Relational Database
7 65 (1.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 60 (1.57%) MySQL
9 51 (1.33%) Looker
10 49 (1.28%) Power Query
11 44 (1.15%) Metadata
11 44 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 42 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
13 39 (1.02%) Data Lake
14 35 (0.92%) BigQuery
15 32 (0.84%) Big Data
16 29 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
17 25 (0.65%) NoSQL
18 22 (0.58%) MongoDB
19 20 (0.52%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 154 (4.03%) JIRA
2 130 (3.40%) Git
3 31 (0.81%) Jenkins
3 31 (0.81%) Rational DOORS
4 30 (0.78%) GitLab
5 17 (0.44%) Eclipse
6 15 (0.39%) Cucumber
6 15 (0.39%) Selenium
7 14 (0.37%) LabVIEW
7 14 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
7 14 (0.37%) Postman
8 13 (0.34%) Burp Suite
9 12 (0.31%) Claude Code
9 12 (0.31%) Cypress.io
10 11 (0.29%) Metasploit
10 11 (0.29%) MLflow
11 10 (0.26%) Bitbucket
11 10 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
12 9 (0.24%) JMeter
13 7 (0.18%) Moq
General
1 1,910 (49.96%) Social Skills
2 1,067 (27.91%) Finance
3 423 (11.06%) Marketing
4 283 (7.40%) Organisational Skills
5 278 (7.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 257 (6.72%) Manufacturing
7 246 (6.43%) Retail
8 242 (6.33%) Legal
9 212 (5.55%) Public Sector
10 208 (5.44%) Law
11 205 (5.36%) Influencing Skills
12 167 (4.37%) Aerospace
13 117 (3.06%) Electronics
14 107 (2.80%) Telecoms
15 103 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
16 68 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
17 66 (1.73%) Military
18 57 (1.49%) Banking
19 55 (1.44%) Advertising
20 42 (1.10%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 879 (22.99%) Analyst
2 430 (11.25%) Senior
3 259 (6.77%) Lead
4 207 (5.41%) Developer
5 197 (5.15%) Data Analyst
6 181 (4.73%) Systems Engineer
7 173 (4.53%) Business Analyst
8 139 (3.64%) Support Analyst
9 135 (3.53%) Architect
10 115 (3.01%) Support Engineer
11 112 (2.93%) Senior Analyst
12 106 (2.77%) Data Engineer
13 105 (2.75%) Consultant
14 103 (2.69%) IT Support
15 82 (2.14%) IT Engineer
16 81 (2.12%) Systems Analyst
17 78 (2.04%) Accountant
17 78 (2.04%) Marketing Manager
18 70 (1.83%) Applications Support
19 66 (1.73%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (2.62%) .NET
2 79 (2.07%) REST
3 77 (2.01%) HTML
4 72 (1.88%) Terraform
5 70 (1.83%) CSS
6 63 (1.65%) Middleware
7 57 (1.49%) XML
8 52 (1.36%) JSON
9 47 (1.23%) SOAP
10 43 (1.12%) RESTful
11 39 (1.02%) EDI
11 39 (1.02%) React
12 35 (0.92%) LDAP
13 34 (0.89%) Kafka
14 31 (0.81%) PySpark
15 30 (0.78%) ModSecurity
16 28 (0.73%) ASP.NET
17 26 (0.68%) OAuth
17 26 (0.68%) PyTorch
18 25 (0.65%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 359 (9.39%) Analytical Mindset
2 242 (6.33%) Management Information System
3 207 (5.41%) Onboarding
4 197 (5.15%) Self-Motivation
5 154 (4.03%) Product Ownership
6 129 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
7 128 (3.35%) Driving Licence
8 91 (2.38%) Social Media
9 82 (2.14%) Marketing Technology
10 75 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
11 72 (1.88%) Cloud Native
12 68 (1.78%) Cyber Threat
13 67 (1.75%) Blog
13 67 (1.75%) Data Centre
14 65 (1.70%) Virtual Team
15 48 (1.26%) Security Posture
16 39 (1.02%) Data Structures
17 35 (0.92%) AI Agents
17 35 (0.92%) Cyber Defence
17 35 (0.92%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 335 (8.76%) Windows
2 203 (5.31%) Linux
3 186 (4.87%) Windows Server
4 95 (2.48%) Windows Server 2016
5 28 (0.73%) Mac OS
6 25 (0.65%) Windows 10
7 22 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
8 21 (0.55%) Unix
9 15 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 13 (0.34%) Android
10 13 (0.34%) Apple iOS
11 9 (0.24%) CentOS
12 7 (0.18%) Ubuntu
13 6 (0.16%) Debian
13 6 (0.16%) VMS
14 5 (0.13%) OpenVMS
15 4 (0.10%) CoreOS
16 2 (0.052%) Solaris
17 1 (0.026%) AIX
17 1 (0.026%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,889 (49.41%) Problem-Solving
2 1,188 (31.08%) Continuous Improvement
3 932 (24.38%) Decision-Making
4 713 (18.65%) Analytics
5 637 (16.66%) Stakeholder Management
6 595 (15.56%) Agile
7 593 (15.51%) AI
8 492 (12.87%) Business Intelligence
9 404 (10.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 378 (9.89%) Validation
11 372 (9.73%) Actionable Insight
12 359 (9.39%) ERP
13 358 (9.36%) Customer Service
14 344 (9.00%) CRM
15 340 (8.89%) Mentoring
16 326 (8.53%) Data Analysis
17 311 (8.13%) Customer Experience
18 309 (8.08%) Project Management
19 306 (8.00%) Cybersecurity
20 296 (7.74%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 727 (19.02%) SQL
2 457 (11.95%) Python
3 146 (3.82%) JavaScript
4 123 (3.22%) Java
5 117 (3.06%) C#
6 104 (2.72%) PowerShell
7 71 (1.86%) C++
8 58 (1.52%) Bash
8 58 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 42 (1.10%) TypeScript
10 39 (1.02%) MATLAB
11 38 (0.99%) T-SQL
12 31 (0.81%) R
13 29 (0.76%) C
14 23 (0.60%) PHP
15 16 (0.42%) Go
15 16 (0.42%) Perl
15 16 (0.42%) PL/SQL
15 16 (0.42%) Scala
15 16 (0.42%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 706 (18.47%) Degree
2 480 (12.56%) Security Cleared
3 333 (8.71%) SC Cleared
4 142 (3.71%) ACCA
5 135 (3.53%) CIMA
6 119 (3.11%) DV Cleared
7 118 (3.09%) DBS Check
8 112 (2.93%) BPSS Clearance
9 85 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
10 76 (1.99%) CISSP
11 72 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
12 59 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
13 55 (1.44%) CISM
14 50 (1.31%) CompTIA Security+
15 46 (1.20%) HND
16 42 (1.10%) Azure Certification
17 38 (0.99%) CCNA
17 38 (0.99%) HNC
18 37 (0.97%) PMI Certification
19 34 (0.89%) IRCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 350 (9.16%) Data Quality
2 270 (7.06%) QA
3 223 (5.83%) GDPR
4 146 (3.82%) Cyber Essentials
5 144 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 111 (2.90%) PCI DSS
7 99 (2.59%) Accessibility
8 90 (2.35%) ISO 9001
9 89 (2.33%) SLA
10 87 (2.28%) NIST
11 40 (1.05%) GRC
12 35 (0.92%) PMO
13 27 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 23 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
14 23 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 22 (0.58%) ISO 14001
16 20 (0.52%) DO-254
17 19 (0.50%) IFRS
18 18 (0.47%) Good Clinical Practice
19 17 (0.44%) TickIT
System Software
1 260 (6.80%) Active Directory
2 102 (2.67%) Hyper-V
3 98 (2.56%) Docker
4 80 (2.09%) Terminal Server
5 39 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
6 31 (0.81%) Firmware
7 13 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
8 10 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
9 8 (0.21%) VMware NSX
10 7 (0.18%) Ceph
11 5 (0.13%) 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
14 2 (0.052%) XenApp
15 1 (0.026%) NFS
15 1 (0.026%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 65 (1.70%) Kubernetes
2 47 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
3 40 (1.05%) Ansible
4 24 (0.63%) Grafana
4 24 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
5 19 (0.50%) Prometheus
6 15 (0.39%) QRadar
7 14 (0.37%) Kibana
8 11 (0.29%) Nmap
8 11 (0.29%) Podman
9 7 (0.18%) Argo
9 7 (0.18%) Check_MK
9 7 (0.18%) Istio
9 7 (0.18%) logstash
10 6 (0.16%) Functional Safety
10 6 (0.16%) Graylog
10 6 (0.16%) Kubeflow
11 4 (0.10%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (0.10%) McAfee ePO
11 4 (0.10%) Puppet
Vendors
1 922 (24.12%) Microsoft
2 225 (5.89%) Google
3 132 (3.45%) VMware
4 131 (3.43%) SAP
5 126 (3.30%) Splunk
6 100 (2.62%) Oracle
7 95 (2.48%) SolarWinds
8 87 (2.28%) Veeam
9 81 (2.12%) Brocade
9 81 (2.12%) Nimble Storage
10 80 (2.09%) Tanium
11 79 (2.07%) Salesforce
12 65 (1.70%) ServiceNow
13 64 (1.67%) Cisco
14 60 (1.57%) Databricks
15 53 (1.39%) Workday
16 38 (0.99%) YouTube
17 37 (0.97%) Adobe
18 33 (0.86%) HubSpot
19 32 (0.84%) IBM