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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 8 12
Rank change year-on-year -18 +4 +15
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,661 4,022 5,302
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.75% 11.63% 8.85%
As % of the General category 10.71% 17.39% 16.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,334 1,547 2,440
10th Percentile £30,250 £27,900 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £32,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year - -2.06% -3.00%
75th Percentile £61,750 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
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 34,169 23,126 32,366
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.30% 66.88% 54.04%
Number of salaries quoted 21,078 11,342 18,249
10th Percentile £28,750 £25,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,640 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 11 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 11 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 -18 1,044 £47,500 +5.56% 599
South East -8 879 £50,000 -4.76% 730
Midlands -8 646 £48,000 +6.67% 376
North West -16 630 £47,500 +5.56% 335
South West -13 506 £47,500 +4.92% 301
West Midlands -15 338 £50,000 +11.11% 230
East Midlands -2 306 £45,000 - 146
Yorkshire -11 293 £47,000 +16.51% 202
East of England -22 257 £45,814 +1.81% 218
Wales -12 131 £52,835 +2.70% 61
Scotland -23 125 £43,668 -0.76% 121
North East -20 121 £55,000 +37.50% 69
Northern Ireland -29 81 £42,500 -22.73% 47
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
1 163 (4.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 121 (3.31%) SharePoint
3 42 (1.15%) Confluence
4 30 (0.82%) Apache
4 30 (0.82%) Apache Spark
5 27 (0.74%) IIS
6 26 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
6 26 (0.71%) CMS
7 10 (0.27%) SAS
7 10 (0.27%) WordPress
8 9 (0.25%) WebLogic
8 9 (0.25%) WebSphere
9 8 (0.22%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.22%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.082%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.082%) JBoss
12 2 (0.055%) Oracle Application Server
13 1 (0.027%) Moodle
13 1 (0.027%) Umbraco
Applications
1 449 (12.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 193 (5.27%) Microsoft Office
3 74 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 56 (1.53%) MS Visio
5 24 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
6 21 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.19%) CATIA
8 6 (0.16%) Simulink
9 5 (0.14%) EPLAN
10 4 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.11%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.11%) Chatbot
11 3 (0.082%) LaTeX
11 3 (0.082%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.082%) SOLIDWORKS
11 3 (0.082%) Trello
12 2 (0.055%) Lectora
12 2 (0.055%) Siemens NX
13 1 (0.027%) Mathcad
13 1 (0.027%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 63 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
3 35 (0.96%) Dynamics GP
4 27 (0.74%) NetSuite
5 19 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
5 19 (0.52%) SAP PM
6 14 (0.38%) SAP ERP
7 10 (0.27%) Magento
8 8 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
8 8 (0.22%) SAP Business One
8 8 (0.22%) Shopify
9 7 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
10 6 (0.16%) Workday HCM
11 5 (0.14%) JDE EnterpriseOne
11 5 (0.14%) SAP GTS
11 5 (0.14%) SAP PP
12 4 (0.11%) JDE OneWorld
12 4 (0.11%) SAP CO
12 4 (0.11%) SAP FI
12 4 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 622 (16.99%) Azure
2 438 (11.96%) Power Platform
3 324 (8.85%) AWS
4 305 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
5 171 (4.67%) SaaS
6 143 (3.91%) GCP
7 95 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
8 88 (2.40%) Entra ID
9 81 (2.21%) Dynamics 365
10 70 (1.91%) Google Analytics
11 57 (1.56%) GitHub
12 55 (1.50%) Power Automate
13 53 (1.45%) Google Ads
13 53 (1.45%) PowerApps
14 44 (1.20%) Amazon S3
15 40 (1.09%) Microsoft Purview
16 37 (1.01%) Serverless
16 37 (1.01%) Snowflake
17 34 (0.93%) Meta Ads
18 33 (0.90%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 155 (4.23%) DNS
2 122 (3.33%) DHCP
3 103 (2.81%) Firewall
4 88 (2.40%) VPN
5 71 (1.94%) TCP/IP
6 63 (1.72%) WAN
7 57 (1.56%) LAN
8 46 (1.26%) Wireless
9 36 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
10 33 (0.90%) Broadband
10 33 (0.90%) Network Security
11 27 (0.74%) HTTP
12 23 (0.63%) VoIP
13 21 (0.57%) SAN
14 20 (0.55%) SD-WAN
15 18 (0.49%) BGP
16 16 (0.44%) Internet
16 16 (0.44%) SMS
16 16 (0.44%) VLAN
17 15 (0.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 387 (10.57%) Power BI
2 177 (4.83%) Tableau
3 120 (3.28%) SQL Server
4 112 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
5 100 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
6 62 (1.69%) Relational Database
6 62 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 56 (1.53%) MySQL
8 49 (1.34%) Power Query
9 47 (1.28%) Looker
10 45 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 41 (1.12%) Data Mining
11 41 (1.12%) Metadata
11 41 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
12 38 (1.04%) Data Lake
13 32 (0.87%) BigQuery
14 31 (0.85%) Big Data
15 29 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
16 22 (0.60%) NoSQL
17 20 (0.55%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 141 (3.85%) JIRA
2 130 (3.55%) Git
3 39 (1.07%) GitLab
4 34 (0.93%) Rational DOORS
5 31 (0.85%) Jenkins
6 15 (0.41%) Cucumber
6 15 (0.41%) Selenium
7 14 (0.38%) Eclipse
7 14 (0.38%) Postman
8 13 (0.36%) Burp Suite
8 13 (0.36%) Cypress.io
9 12 (0.33%) MLflow
10 11 (0.30%) Metasploit
10 11 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
11 9 (0.25%) Claude Code
11 9 (0.25%) JMeter
11 9 (0.25%) LabVIEW
11 9 (0.25%) SonarQube
12 8 (0.22%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.19%) Moq
General
1 1,797 (49.08%) Social Skills
2 1,035 (28.27%) Finance
3 354 (9.67%) Marketing
4 266 (7.27%) Organisational Skills
5 249 (6.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 231 (6.31%) Retail
7 230 (6.28%) Manufacturing
8 215 (5.87%) Legal
9 206 (5.63%) Public Sector
10 177 (4.83%) Influencing Skills
11 174 (4.75%) Law
12 140 (3.82%) Aerospace
13 114 (3.11%) Telecoms
14 95 (2.59%) Electronics
15 76 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
16 67 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
17 65 (1.78%) Military
18 58 (1.58%) Banking
19 53 (1.45%) Advertising
20 37 (1.01%) Games
Job Titles
1 878 (23.98%) Analyst
2 392 (10.71%) Senior
3 250 (6.83%) Lead
4 216 (5.90%) Data Analyst
5 194 (5.30%) Developer
6 182 (4.97%) Systems Engineer
7 170 (4.64%) Business Analyst
8 127 (3.47%) Architect
9 120 (3.28%) Support Analyst
10 118 (3.22%) Support Engineer
11 100 (2.73%) Consultant
11 100 (2.73%) IT Support
12 98 (2.68%) Data Engineer
12 98 (2.68%) Senior Analyst
13 81 (2.21%) Systems Analyst
14 79 (2.16%) IT Engineer
15 75 (2.05%) Accountant
16 66 (1.80%) Head of QA
17 65 (1.78%) Applications Support
17 65 (1.78%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (2.43%) .NET
2 76 (2.08%) REST
3 75 (2.05%) HTML
4 68 (1.86%) CSS
5 61 (1.67%) Middleware
6 53 (1.45%) XML
7 52 (1.42%) JSON
8 42 (1.15%) SOAP
9 41 (1.12%) React
9 41 (1.12%) RESTful
10 31 (0.85%) EDI
10 31 (0.85%) Kafka
11 28 (0.76%) PyTorch
12 27 (0.74%) LDAP
13 26 (0.71%) OAuth
14 25 (0.68%) Node.js
14 25 (0.68%) PySpark
15 23 (0.63%) ASP.NET
16 22 (0.60%) AngularJS
16 22 (0.60%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 392 (10.71%) Analytical Mindset
2 212 (5.79%) Management Information System
3 181 (4.94%) Self-Motivation
4 169 (4.62%) Onboarding
5 144 (3.93%) Product Ownership
6 129 (3.52%) Legacy Systems
7 126 (3.44%) Driving Licence
8 77 (2.10%) Social Media
9 69 (1.88%) Cloud Native
10 63 (1.72%) Data Centre
11 62 (1.69%) Virtual Team
12 58 (1.58%) Cyber Threat
13 57 (1.56%) Marketing Technology
14 53 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
15 49 (1.34%) Security Posture
16 43 (1.17%) Blog
17 34 (0.93%) Data Structures
18 32 (0.87%) AI Agents
19 30 (0.82%) Cyber Defence
19 30 (0.82%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 328 (8.96%) Windows
2 208 (5.68%) Linux
3 184 (5.03%) Windows Server
4 95 (2.59%) Windows Server 2016
5 26 (0.71%) Mac OS
6 23 (0.63%) Windows 10
7 22 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
8 19 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 18 (0.49%) Unix
10 16 (0.44%) Android
11 13 (0.36%) Apple iOS
12 12 (0.33%) CentOS
13 10 (0.27%) Ubuntu
14 7 (0.19%) Debian
15 6 (0.16%) VMS
16 5 (0.14%) OpenVMS
17 4 (0.11%) CoreOS
18 2 (0.055%) Solaris
19 1 (0.027%) AIX
19 1 (0.027%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,770 (48.35%) Problem-Solving
2 1,121 (30.62%) Continuous Improvement
3 855 (23.35%) Decision-Making
4 725 (19.80%) Analytics
5 578 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
6 546 (14.91%) Agile
7 521 (14.23%) AI
8 466 (12.73%) Business Intelligence
9 396 (10.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 378 (10.33%) Actionable Insight
11 341 (9.31%) Validation
12 336 (9.18%) Customer Experience
13 334 (9.12%) ERP
14 330 (9.01%) Data Analysis
15 319 (8.71%) Project Management
16 311 (8.49%) Mentoring
17 309 (8.44%) Customer Service
18 307 (8.39%) CRM
19 293 (8.00%) Cybersecurity
20 292 (7.98%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 715 (19.53%) SQL
2 492 (13.44%) Python
3 139 (3.80%) JavaScript
4 111 (3.03%) Java
5 109 (2.98%) C#
6 101 (2.76%) PowerShell
7 62 (1.69%) C++
8 58 (1.58%) Bash
9 57 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 39 (1.07%) T-SQL
11 36 (0.98%) MATLAB
12 35 (0.96%) TypeScript
13 34 (0.93%) R
14 25 (0.68%) C
15 22 (0.60%) PHP
16 16 (0.44%) Go
17 15 (0.41%) Scala
18 14 (0.38%) Perl
19 13 (0.36%) PL/SQL
19 13 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 641 (17.51%) Degree
2 433 (11.83%) Security Cleared
3 303 (8.28%) SC Cleared
4 149 (4.07%) ACCA
5 143 (3.91%) CIMA
6 128 (3.50%) DBS Check
7 113 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
8 105 (2.87%) DV Cleared
9 81 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
10 71 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
11 67 (1.83%) IRCA
12 66 (1.80%) CISSP
13 53 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
14 48 (1.31%) CISM
14 48 (1.31%) CompTIA Security+
15 38 (1.04%) HNC
16 36 (0.98%) HND
17 35 (0.96%) CCNA
18 33 (0.90%) Azure Certification
19 32 (0.87%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 341 (9.31%) Data Quality
2 279 (7.62%) QA
3 257 (7.02%) GDPR
4 146 (3.99%) Cyber Essentials
5 138 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 119 (3.25%) ISO 9001
7 115 (3.14%) PCI DSS
8 96 (2.62%) SLA
9 92 (2.51%) Accessibility
10 82 (2.24%) NIST
11 41 (1.12%) GRC
12 38 (1.04%) PMO
13 27 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
13 27 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 23 (0.63%) ISO 14001
14 23 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 22 (0.60%) GMP
16 18 (0.49%) Good Clinical Practice
17 17 (0.46%) DO-254
17 17 (0.46%) TickIT
System Software
1 252 (6.88%) Active Directory
2 103 (2.81%) Docker
3 99 (2.70%) Hyper-V
4 80 (2.19%) Terminal Server
5 38 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
6 22 (0.60%) Firmware
7 12 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.25%) VMware NSX
9 7 (0.19%) Ceph
10 6 (0.16%) vSphere
11 5 (0.14%) KVM
12 4 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
12 4 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.11%) XenApp
13 3 (0.082%) DFS Replication
13 3 (0.082%) ProxySG
14 1 (0.027%) IAG
14 1 (0.027%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 71 (1.94%) Kubernetes
1 71 (1.94%) Terraform
2 47 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
3 41 (1.12%) Ansible
4 26 (0.71%) Grafana
5 20 (0.55%) Prometheus
6 14 (0.38%) Kibana
6 14 (0.38%) QRadar
6 14 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (0.30%) Nmap
7 11 (0.30%) Podman
8 7 (0.19%) Argo
8 7 (0.19%) Check_MK
8 7 (0.19%) Istio
8 7 (0.19%) logstash
9 6 (0.16%) Kubeflow
9 6 (0.16%) Nagios
10 5 (0.14%) Functional Safety
10 5 (0.14%) Graylog
10 5 (0.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 871 (23.79%) Microsoft
2 193 (5.27%) Google
3 132 (3.61%) SAP
4 130 (3.55%) VMware
5 124 (3.39%) Splunk
6 98 (2.68%) Oracle
7 97 (2.65%) SolarWinds
8 87 (2.38%) Veeam
9 81 (2.21%) Brocade
9 81 (2.21%) Nimble Storage
10 80 (2.19%) Tanium
11 78 (2.13%) Salesforce
12 65 (1.78%) Workday
13 61 (1.67%) Cisco
13 61 (1.67%) ServiceNow
14 60 (1.64%) Databricks
15 37 (1.01%) Red Hat
16 35 (0.96%) IBM
17 31 (0.85%) Adobe
17 31 (0.85%) Dell