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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 8 13
Rank change year-on-year -20 +5 +8
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,120 3,795 6,569
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.47% 11.92% 8.56%
As % of the General category 10.03% 17.27% 15.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,136 1,397 3,581
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,400 £26,750
25th Percentile £37,000 £34,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £50,000 £45,096
Median % change year-on-year -3.11% +10.87% -5.06%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,850 £72,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +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 31,101 21,980 42,079
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.58% 69.02% 54.85%
Number of salaries quoted 19,116 10,218 27,003
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 2 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 2 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 -18 959 £48,350 +1.79% 433
South East -8 796 £50,000 -8.78% 605
Midlands -10 566 £47,750 +0.53% 315
North West -19 562 £47,500 -5.00% 255
South West -24 342 £47,500 - 201
West Midlands -17 312 £50,000 +5.26% 174
Yorkshire -10 294 £50,000 +11.11% 133
East Midlands 0 253 £45,872 -4.43% 140
East of England -17 241 £45,000 - 177
Scotland -31 105 £40,000 -12.35% 101
North East -30 103 £55,000 +42.86% 54
Wales -11 82 £53,171 -3.33% 35
Northern Ireland -30 40 £41,250 -25.00% 48
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
1 149 (4.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 89 (2.85%) SharePoint
3 38 (1.22%) Confluence
4 29 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
5 28 (0.90%) Apache Spark
5 28 (0.90%) CMS
6 25 (0.80%) Apache
7 20 (0.64%) IIS
8 9 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 9 (0.29%) WordPress
9 8 (0.26%) SAS
9 8 (0.26%) WebLogic
9 8 (0.26%) WebSphere
10 5 (0.16%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.096%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.096%) JBoss
12 1 (0.032%) Appian
12 1 (0.032%) govService
12 1 (0.032%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.032%) Tomcat
Applications
1 397 (12.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 147 (4.71%) Microsoft Office
3 57 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 56 (1.79%) MS Visio
5 24 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
6 12 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
7 9 (0.29%) CATIA
8 4 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.096%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.096%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.096%) Simulink
9 3 (0.096%) Trello
10 2 (0.064%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.064%) Lectora
10 2 (0.064%) Siemens NX
10 2 (0.064%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.032%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.032%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 40 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (0.77%) Salesforce CRM
3 23 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
4 22 (0.71%) NetSuite
5 15 (0.48%) SAP PM
6 14 (0.45%) SAP ERP
7 9 (0.29%) Dynamics GP
7 9 (0.29%) SAP CO
8 7 (0.22%) Workday HCM
9 6 (0.19%) Magento
10 5 (0.16%) JDE EnterpriseOne
10 5 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
10 5 (0.16%) Q-Pulse
10 5 (0.16%) SAP GTS
10 5 (0.16%) SAP PP
11 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
11 4 (0.13%) Infor M3
11 4 (0.13%) JDE World
11 4 (0.13%) SAP FI
11 4 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 548 (17.56%) Azure
2 415 (13.30%) Power Platform
3 277 (8.88%) Microsoft 365
4 267 (8.56%) AWS
5 125 (4.01%) SaaS
6 114 (3.65%) GCP
7 86 (2.76%) Entra ID
8 85 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
9 78 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
10 55 (1.76%) Google Analytics
11 52 (1.67%) GitHub
12 49 (1.57%) Microsoft Purview
13 45 (1.44%) PowerApps
14 41 (1.31%) Power Automate
15 40 (1.28%) Amazon S3
16 32 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
16 32 (1.03%) Serverless
17 30 (0.96%) dbt
18 24 (0.77%) AWS Lambda
19 23 (0.74%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 139 (4.46%) Firewall
2 130 (4.17%) DNS
3 101 (3.24%) DHCP
4 75 (2.40%) VPN
5 65 (2.08%) WAN
6 54 (1.73%) LAN
6 54 (1.73%) TCP/IP
7 42 (1.35%) Broadband
7 42 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
8 41 (1.31%) Wireless
9 30 (0.96%) Network Security
10 24 (0.77%) BGP
10 24 (0.77%) HTTP
11 23 (0.74%) SD-WAN
12 22 (0.71%) Wireshark
13 21 (0.67%) VLAN
14 20 (0.64%) SAN
15 19 (0.61%) Cisco ASA
16 17 (0.54%) VoIP
17 14 (0.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 374 (11.99%) Power BI
2 188 (6.03%) Tableau
3 103 (3.30%) SQL Server
4 88 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
5 87 (2.79%) Amazon RDS
6 65 (2.08%) Data Mining
7 57 (1.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 45 (1.44%) Power Query
9 38 (1.22%) MySQL
9 38 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 36 (1.15%) Looker
11 35 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
12 34 (1.09%) Metadata
13 33 (1.06%) Relational Database
14 30 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
14 30 (0.96%) Data Lake
15 26 (0.83%) Big Data
16 19 (0.61%) BigQuery
17 18 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
18 17 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 103 (3.30%) JIRA
2 74 (2.37%) Git
3 39 (1.25%) GitLab
4 36 (1.15%) Rational DOORS
5 21 (0.67%) Jenkins
6 13 (0.42%) Cucumber
7 12 (0.38%) Cypress.io
7 12 (0.38%) Selenium
8 11 (0.35%) MLflow
9 10 (0.32%) Eclipse
10 9 (0.29%) JMeter
10 9 (0.29%) LabVIEW
10 9 (0.29%) SonarQube
11 8 (0.26%) Postman
12 7 (0.22%) Moq
12 7 (0.22%) Subversion
13 6 (0.19%) Burp Suite
13 6 (0.19%) Toad
14 5 (0.16%) Bitbucket
14 5 (0.16%) ERwin
General
1 1,494 (47.88%) Social Skills
2 936 (30.00%) Finance
3 258 (8.27%) Marketing
4 195 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
5 192 (6.15%) Public Sector
6 170 (5.45%) Retail
7 168 (5.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 163 (5.22%) Manufacturing
9 156 (5.00%) Legal
10 142 (4.55%) Law
11 115 (3.69%) Influencing Skills
12 98 (3.14%) Telecoms
13 75 (2.40%) Aerospace
14 72 (2.31%) Electronics
15 64 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
16 61 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
17 45 (1.44%) Banking
18 42 (1.35%) Military
19 38 (1.22%) Advertising
20 35 (1.12%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 855 (27.40%) Analyst
2 322 (10.32%) Senior
3 227 (7.28%) Lead
4 225 (7.21%) Data Analyst
5 166 (5.32%) Business Analyst
6 164 (5.26%) Systems Engineer
7 158 (5.06%) Developer
8 100 (3.21%) Support Analyst
8 100 (3.21%) Support Engineer
9 98 (3.14%) Architect
10 95 (3.04%) Consultant
11 92 (2.95%) Senior Analyst
12 89 (2.85%) IT Support
13 83 (2.66%) Systems Analyst
14 82 (2.63%) Data Engineer
15 71 (2.28%) Accountant
16 66 (2.12%) Head of QA
16 66 (2.12%) IT Engineer
17 65 (2.08%) IT Manager
18 63 (2.02%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (2.28%) HTML
2 68 (2.18%) .NET
3 66 (2.12%) Middleware
4 63 (2.02%) CSS
5 60 (1.92%) REST
6 58 (1.86%) JSON
7 57 (1.83%) XML
8 49 (1.57%) React
9 34 (1.09%) Node.js
9 34 (1.09%) SOAP
10 30 (0.96%) PyTorch
11 26 (0.83%) RESTful
12 24 (0.77%) TensorFlow
13 22 (0.71%) PySpark
14 21 (0.67%) EDI
14 21 (0.67%) scikit-learn
15 18 (0.58%) Kafka
16 17 (0.54%) Pandas
17 15 (0.48%) LDAP
17 15 (0.48%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 392 (12.56%) Analytical Mindset
2 153 (4.90%) Management Information System
3 124 (3.97%) Onboarding
4 115 (3.69%) Self-Motivation
5 114 (3.65%) Product Ownership
6 99 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
7 82 (2.63%) Driving Licence
8 68 (2.18%) Data Centre
9 50 (1.60%) Cloud Native
10 44 (1.41%) Cyber Threat
11 40 (1.28%) Security Posture
12 35 (1.12%) Algorithms
13 34 (1.09%) Social Media
14 32 (1.03%) Data Structures
14 32 (1.03%) Virtual Team
15 30 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
16 29 (0.93%) FMCG
17 27 (0.87%) PKI
17 27 (0.87%) Security Operations Centre
18 26 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 269 (8.62%) Windows
2 162 (5.19%) Windows Server
3 158 (5.06%) Linux
4 86 (2.76%) Windows Server 2016
5 18 (0.58%) Unix
5 18 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
6 17 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 16 (0.51%) Android
8 14 (0.45%) Apple iOS
9 13 (0.42%) Windows 10
10 12 (0.38%) Mac OS
11 11 (0.35%) Ubuntu
12 9 (0.29%) CentOS
13 8 (0.26%) VMS
14 5 (0.16%) Debian
14 5 (0.16%) OpenVMS
15 1 (0.032%) FreeRTOS
15 1 (0.032%) OpenBSD
15 1 (0.032%) Oracle Linux
15 1 (0.032%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,467 (47.02%) Problem-Solving
2 871 (27.92%) Continuous Improvement
3 724 (23.21%) Decision-Making
4 636 (20.38%) Analytics
5 435 (13.94%) Agile
6 423 (13.56%) Business Intelligence
7 392 (12.56%) Stakeholder Management
8 337 (10.80%) AI
9 330 (10.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 321 (10.29%) Actionable Insight
11 283 (9.07%) Customer Service
12 282 (9.04%) Data Analysis
13 280 (8.97%) ERP
14 275 (8.81%) Cybersecurity
15 269 (8.62%) Project Management
16 256 (8.21%) Customer Experience
16 256 (8.21%) Mentoring
17 252 (8.08%) CRM
18 246 (7.88%) Roadmaps
19 245 (7.85%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 670 (21.47%) SQL
2 491 (15.74%) Python
3 109 (3.49%) JavaScript
4 99 (3.17%) Java
5 97 (3.11%) PowerShell
6 94 (3.01%) C#
7 61 (1.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 48 (1.54%) C++
9 46 (1.47%) T-SQL
10 44 (1.41%) Bash
11 40 (1.28%) R
12 34 (1.09%) MATLAB
13 28 (0.90%) VBA
14 22 (0.71%) TypeScript
15 20 (0.64%) PHP
16 17 (0.54%) Go
17 15 (0.48%) C
18 12 (0.38%) Perl
18 12 (0.38%) PL/SQL
19 11 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 520 (16.67%) Degree
2 312 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 221 (7.08%) SC Cleared
4 160 (5.13%) ACCA
5 154 (4.94%) CIMA
6 130 (4.17%) DBS Check
7 83 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 66 (2.12%) Cisco Certification
8 66 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 66 (2.12%) IRCA
9 52 (1.67%) CISSP
10 49 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
11 47 (1.51%) DV Cleared
12 42 (1.35%) CompTIA Security+
13 37 (1.19%) CISM
14 34 (1.09%) CCNA
15 26 (0.83%) Azure Certification
15 26 (0.83%) Master's Degree
16 24 (0.77%) AAT
16 24 (0.77%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 313 (10.03%) Data Quality
2 244 (7.82%) GDPR
3 208 (6.67%) QA
4 165 (5.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 150 (4.81%) Cyber Essentials
6 111 (3.56%) ISO 9001
6 111 (3.56%) PCI DSS
7 104 (3.33%) NIST
8 86 (2.76%) SLA
9 69 (2.21%) Accessibility
10 46 (1.47%) GRC
11 38 (1.22%) PMO
12 32 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
13 28 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 22 (0.71%) ISO 14001
14 22 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 18 (0.58%) GMP
16 17 (0.54%) TickIT
17 16 (0.51%) IFRS
17 16 (0.51%) SOC 2
System Software
1 213 (6.83%) Active Directory
2 83 (2.66%) Hyper-V
3 72 (2.31%) Terminal Server
4 62 (1.99%) Docker
5 32 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
6 11 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (0.29%) VMware NSX
7 9 (0.29%) vSphere
8 6 (0.19%) ProxySG
9 4 (0.13%) Firmware
9 4 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 4 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.13%) XenApp
10 3 (0.096%) DFS Replication
11 2 (0.064%) Embedded Firmware
12 1 (0.032%) KVM
12 1 (0.032%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.032%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 67 (2.15%) Terraform
2 47 (1.51%) Kubernetes
3 39 (1.25%) Ansible
4 27 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
5 24 (0.77%) Grafana
6 14 (0.45%) Kibana
6 14 (0.45%) QRadar
7 10 (0.32%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.26%) Kubeflow
8 8 (0.26%) Nagios
9 7 (0.22%) logstash
10 6 (0.19%) Graylog
11 5 (0.16%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.16%) Podman
12 4 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.13%) Backup Exec
12 4 (0.13%) Functional Safety
12 4 (0.13%) SCCM
12 4 (0.13%) SolarWinds Orion
12 4 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 756 (24.23%) Microsoft
2 132 (4.23%) Google
3 121 (3.88%) SAP
4 110 (3.53%) VMware
5 108 (3.46%) Splunk
6 93 (2.98%) SolarWinds
7 91 (2.92%) Salesforce
8 83 (2.66%) Veeam
9 73 (2.34%) Nimble Storage
10 72 (2.31%) Brocade
10 72 (2.31%) Oracle
10 72 (2.31%) Tanium
11 66 (2.12%) Workday
12 55 (1.76%) Databricks
13 52 (1.67%) Cisco
14 37 (1.19%) IBM
14 37 (1.19%) ServiceNow
15 30 (0.96%) Adobe
16 28 (0.90%) HubSpot
17 26 (0.83%) Dell