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 4 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 8 17
Rank change year-on-year -20 +9 +3
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,010 3,669 6,343
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.50% 12.57% 8.56%
As % of the General category 9.73% 17.54% 15.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,020 1,329 3,583
10th Percentile £31,238 £28,700 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.11% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £59,125
90th Percentile £77,574 £77,500 £72,500
UK median annual salary £53,750 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.27% +10.00% -9.09%

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 30,929 20,916 41,346
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 46.23% 71.68% 55.80%
Number of salaries quoted 17,582 9,205 27,006
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,507 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% +2.12% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,200
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.51% +8.57% -12.50%

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 4 June 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 4 June 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 -21 929 £48,000 -0.63% 434
South East -5 757 £50,000 -4.76% 587
Midlands -20 561 £48,000 +1.05% 269
North West -28 544 £46,500 -7.00% 245
West Midlands -25 316 £51,250 +7.89% 173
South West -27 305 £47,500 -5.00% 196
Yorkshire -14 290 £50,000 +11.11% 141
East Midlands +2 244 £45,000 -5.26% 94
East of England -20 236 £45,000 -11.71% 163
Scotland -30 111 £40,000 -20.71% 99
North East -25 95 £50,000 +28.87% 54
Wales 0 80 £51,709 -3.80% 38
Northern Ireland -21 42 £41,250 -25.00% 82
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
1 138 (4.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 81 (2.69%) SharePoint
3 31 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
4 30 (1.00%) Apache Spark
5 29 (0.96%) Confluence
6 28 (0.93%) CMS
7 23 (0.76%) IIS
8 22 (0.73%) Apache
9 9 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 9 (0.30%) WordPress
10 6 (0.20%) SAS
11 5 (0.17%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.13%) nginx
13 3 (0.100%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.100%) govService
13 3 (0.100%) JBoss
14 1 (0.033%) Appian
14 1 (0.033%) Kinematics
14 1 (0.033%) Palantir Foundry
14 1 (0.033%) Tomcat
Applications
1 399 (13.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 148 (4.92%) Microsoft Office
3 61 (2.03%) MS Visio
4 52 (1.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 20 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
7 10 (0.33%) CATIA
8 4 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.100%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.100%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.100%) Trello
10 2 (0.066%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.066%) Lectora
10 2 (0.066%) Simulink
10 2 (0.066%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.033%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.033%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.033%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 44 (1.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (1.06%) Salesforce CRM
3 22 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
4 19 (0.63%) NetSuite
5 15 (0.50%) SAP PM
6 14 (0.47%) SAP ERP
7 13 (0.43%) SAP CO
8 8 (0.27%) Dynamics GP
9 7 (0.23%) Magento
9 7 (0.23%) Workday HCM
10 5 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
10 5 (0.17%) Q-Pulse
10 5 (0.17%) SAP GTS
10 5 (0.17%) SAP PP
11 4 (0.13%) Infor M3
11 4 (0.13%) JDE OneWorld
11 4 (0.13%) JDE World
11 4 (0.13%) SAP FI
11 4 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
12 3 (0.100%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 506 (16.81%) Azure
2 412 (13.69%) Power Platform
3 266 (8.84%) AWS
4 263 (8.74%) Microsoft 365
5 123 (4.09%) SaaS
6 94 (3.12%) GCP
7 86 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
8 79 (2.62%) Entra ID
9 77 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
10 55 (1.83%) GitHub
11 50 (1.66%) Google Analytics
12 49 (1.63%) Microsoft Purview
13 47 (1.56%) Power Automate
14 44 (1.46%) PowerApps
15 43 (1.43%) Amazon S3
16 36 (1.20%) Serverless
17 35 (1.16%) Azure Data Factory
18 34 (1.13%) dbt
18 34 (1.13%) Snowflake
19 28 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 134 (4.45%) Firewall
2 117 (3.89%) DNS
3 89 (2.96%) DHCP
4 80 (2.66%) VPN
5 62 (2.06%) WAN
6 46 (1.53%) LAN
7 44 (1.46%) TCP/IP
8 42 (1.40%) Wireless
9 38 (1.26%) Wi-Fi
10 36 (1.20%) Broadband
11 31 (1.03%) Network Security
12 27 (0.90%) VLAN
13 26 (0.86%) SD-WAN
14 25 (0.83%) BGP
15 23 (0.76%) Cisco ASA
15 23 (0.76%) Wireshark
16 22 (0.73%) SAN
17 18 (0.60%) HTTP
18 17 (0.56%) OSPF
19 15 (0.50%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 369 (12.26%) Power BI
2 220 (7.31%) Tableau
3 98 (3.26%) SQL Server
4 95 (3.16%) Data Mining
5 78 (2.59%) Amazon RDS
6 75 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
7 57 (1.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 43 (1.43%) Power Query
9 39 (1.30%) Metadata
10 35 (1.16%) Looker
11 34 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 33 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
12 33 (1.10%) MySQL
13 32 (1.06%) Data Lake
13 32 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
14 31 (1.03%) Relational Database
15 29 (0.96%) Big Data
16 25 (0.83%) NoSQL
17 17 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
17 17 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 90 (2.99%) JIRA
2 65 (2.16%) Git
3 37 (1.23%) GitLab
4 32 (1.06%) Rational DOORS
5 16 (0.53%) Jenkins
6 11 (0.37%) MLflow
6 11 (0.37%) Selenium
7 10 (0.33%) Cucumber
7 10 (0.33%) Cypress.io
8 7 (0.23%) LabVIEW
8 7 (0.23%) Moq
8 7 (0.23%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.20%) Subversion
9 6 (0.20%) Toad
10 5 (0.17%) JMeter
10 5 (0.17%) Maven
10 5 (0.17%) Postman
11 4 (0.13%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.13%) IBM UrbanCode
11 4 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
General
1 1,376 (45.71%) Social Skills
2 907 (30.13%) Finance
3 267 (8.87%) Marketing
4 179 (5.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 174 (5.78%) Public Sector
6 153 (5.08%) Organisational Skills
7 147 (4.88%) Retail
8 141 (4.68%) Manufacturing
9 140 (4.65%) Law
10 136 (4.52%) Legal
11 110 (3.65%) Influencing Skills
12 90 (2.99%) Telecoms
13 73 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
14 70 (2.33%) Electronics
15 67 (2.23%) Aerospace
16 65 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
17 42 (1.40%) Banking
18 41 (1.36%) Games
19 38 (1.26%) Military
20 31 (1.03%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 836 (27.77%) Analyst
2 328 (10.90%) Senior
3 235 (7.81%) Data Analyst
4 205 (6.81%) Lead
5 163 (5.42%) Business Analyst
6 158 (5.25%) Developer
7 146 (4.85%) Systems Engineer
8 119 (3.95%) Architect
9 91 (3.02%) Support Analyst
10 84 (2.79%) Senior Analyst
11 83 (2.76%) Support Engineer
12 82 (2.72%) Consultant
13 81 (2.69%) Trainee
14 80 (2.66%) IT Support
14 80 (2.66%) Trainee Analyst
14 80 (2.66%) Trainee Data Analyst
15 79 (2.62%) Systems Analyst
16 73 (2.43%) Data Engineer
17 68 (2.26%) Senior Manager
18 67 (2.23%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (2.66%) HTML
2 71 (2.36%) CSS
3 62 (2.06%) .NET
4 61 (2.03%) Middleware
4 61 (2.03%) REST
5 56 (1.86%) JSON
6 53 (1.76%) React
6 53 (1.76%) XML
7 39 (1.30%) SOAP
8 37 (1.23%) Node.js
9 30 (1.00%) PyTorch
10 24 (0.80%) TensorFlow
11 21 (0.70%) scikit-learn
12 20 (0.66%) EDI
12 20 (0.66%) PySpark
13 17 (0.56%) OAuth
13 17 (0.56%) Pandas
14 16 (0.53%) RabbitMQ
14 16 (0.53%) RESTful
15 15 (0.50%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 373 (12.39%) Analytical Mindset
2 146 (4.85%) Management Information System
3 118 (3.92%) Onboarding
4 113 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
5 108 (3.59%) Product Ownership
6 85 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
7 74 (2.46%) Data Centre
8 65 (2.16%) Driving Licence
9 43 (1.43%) Cloud Native
10 36 (1.20%) Algorithms
11 34 (1.13%) Data Structures
12 32 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
12 32 (1.06%) FMCG
12 32 (1.06%) Low-Code
13 31 (1.03%) Virtual Team
14 30 (1.00%) Security Posture
15 29 (0.96%) Social Media
16 28 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
17 26 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
17 26 (0.86%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 253 (8.41%) Windows
2 150 (4.98%) Windows Server
3 141 (4.68%) Linux
4 78 (2.59%) Windows Server 2016
5 20 (0.66%) Unix
6 16 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
7 15 (0.50%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.47%) Android
9 13 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 10 (0.33%) Ubuntu
11 9 (0.30%) CentOS
12 8 (0.27%) Mac OS
12 8 (0.27%) VMS
13 7 (0.23%) Windows 10
14 3 (0.100%) Debian
14 3 (0.100%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.033%) AIX
15 1 (0.033%) OpenBSD
15 1 (0.033%) Solaris
15 1 (0.033%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,401 (46.54%) Problem-Solving
2 819 (27.21%) Continuous Improvement
3 660 (21.93%) Decision-Making
4 629 (20.90%) Analytics
5 443 (14.72%) Agile
6 419 (13.92%) Business Intelligence
7 375 (12.46%) Stakeholder Management
8 324 (10.76%) AI
9 306 (10.17%) Actionable Insight
10 301 (10.00%) Project Management
11 299 (9.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 286 (9.50%) Data Analysis
13 265 (8.80%) Customer Service
14 261 (8.67%) ERP
15 245 (8.14%) CRM
16 244 (8.11%) Cybersecurity
17 243 (8.07%) Mentoring
18 240 (7.97%) Customer Experience
19 235 (7.81%) Data Modelling
20 233 (7.74%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 662 (21.99%) SQL
2 509 (16.91%) Python
3 105 (3.49%) JavaScript
4 102 (3.39%) PowerShell
5 97 (3.22%) Java
6 86 (2.86%) C#
7 61 (2.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 44 (1.46%) R
9 42 (1.40%) T-SQL
10 41 (1.36%) Bash
10 41 (1.36%) C++
11 34 (1.13%) VBA
12 30 (1.00%) MATLAB
13 19 (0.63%) PHP
14 15 (0.50%) Go
14 15 (0.50%) TypeScript
15 14 (0.47%) PL/SQL
15 14 (0.47%) Scala
16 12 (0.40%) C
17 9 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 510 (16.94%) Degree
2 268 (8.90%) Security Cleared
3 192 (6.38%) SC Cleared
4 141 (4.68%) ACCA
5 135 (4.49%) CIMA
6 129 (4.29%) DBS Check
7 73 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 68 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
9 67 (2.23%) Cisco Certification
10 66 (2.19%) IRCA
11 52 (1.73%) PMI Certification
12 50 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
13 45 (1.50%) DV Cleared
13 45 (1.50%) PMP
14 43 (1.43%) CISSP
15 37 (1.23%) CompTIA Security+
16 35 (1.16%) CCNA
17 31 (1.03%) CISM
18 27 (0.90%) CCNP
19 25 (0.83%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 303 (10.07%) Data Quality
2 234 (7.77%) GDPR
3 178 (5.91%) QA
4 147 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 126 (4.19%) Cyber Essentials
6 104 (3.46%) NIST
7 101 (3.36%) ISO 9001
8 100 (3.32%) PCI DSS
9 75 (2.49%) SLA
10 52 (1.73%) Accessibility
11 43 (1.43%) GRC
12 39 (1.30%) PMO
13 37 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
14 17 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 17 (0.56%) SOC 2
14 17 (0.56%) TickIT
15 16 (0.53%) GMP
15 16 (0.53%) ISO 14001
15 16 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 13 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 194 (6.45%) Active Directory
2 75 (2.49%) Hyper-V
3 64 (2.13%) Terminal Server
4 52 (1.73%) Docker
5 32 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
6 12 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.33%) vSphere
8 9 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (0.30%) VMware NSX
9 8 (0.27%) ProxySG
10 4 (0.13%) Firmware
10 4 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 4 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.13%) XenApp
11 3 (0.100%) DFS Replication
12 2 (0.066%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.033%) Embedded Firmware
13 1 (0.033%) KVM
13 1 (0.033%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.033%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 66 (2.19%) Terraform
2 44 (1.46%) Kubernetes
3 37 (1.23%) Ansible
4 29 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (0.56%) Grafana
6 12 (0.40%) Kibana
6 12 (0.40%) QRadar
7 9 (0.30%) Nagios
8 8 (0.27%) Prometheus
9 7 (0.23%) Kubeflow
10 6 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.17%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.17%) Graylog
11 5 (0.17%) logstash
11 5 (0.17%) Podman
12 4 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.13%) Backup Exec
12 4 (0.13%) Control-M
12 4 (0.13%) Functional Safety
12 4 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 738 (24.52%) Microsoft
2 126 (4.19%) SAP
3 115 (3.82%) Google
4 101 (3.36%) VMware
5 97 (3.22%) Salesforce
5 97 (3.22%) Splunk
6 89 (2.96%) SolarWinds
7 82 (2.72%) Oracle
8 75 (2.49%) Veeam
9 66 (2.19%) Workday
10 65 (2.16%) Nimble Storage
11 64 (2.13%) Brocade
11 64 (2.13%) Tanium
12 58 (1.93%) Databricks
13 53 (1.76%) ServiceNow
14 50 (1.66%) Cisco
15 37 (1.23%) IBM
16 29 (0.96%) Dell
17 28 (0.93%) HubSpot
18 27 (0.90%) Adobe