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 22 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 8 12
Rank change year-on-year -16 +4 +9
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,234 4,080 4,818
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.97% 11.96% 8.91%
As % of the General category 11.27% 18.14% 16.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,483 1,485 1,798
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £60,750 £60,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £53,000
% change year-on-year - -0.94% -3.64%

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 37,574 22,487 28,990
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.13% 65.90% 53.61%
Number of salaries quoted 23,062 10,958 13,621
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £65,640 £61,969 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £79,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £56,500
% change year-on-year +2.80% -5.31% -5.83%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 1,146 £47,500 +6.74% 1,074
South East -12 983 £49,768 +1.57% 1,271
Midlands -10 741 £47,000 +4.44% 765
North West -14 692 £46,500 +3.33% 626
South West -8 601 £47,500 +5.56% 556
West Midlands -18 382 £47,500 +5.56% 471
East Midlands -5 356 £45,000 +9.09% 293
Yorkshire -6 316 £47,000 +17.50% 342
East of England -14 270 £47,500 +18.75% 419
Wales -6 202 £45,000 -10.40% 137
Northern Ireland +1 158 £43,750 -20.45% 187
Scotland -20 147 £44,500 +11.25% 366
North East -20 141 £50,500 +26.25% 111
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
1 164 (3.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 140 (3.31%) SharePoint
3 54 (1.28%) Confluence
4 31 (0.73%) IIS
5 29 (0.68%) Apache
6 23 (0.54%) Apache Spark
7 17 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
8 15 (0.35%) SAS
9 14 (0.33%) CMS
10 11 (0.26%) Jupyter
10 11 (0.26%) WordPress
11 9 (0.21%) WebLogic
11 9 (0.21%) WebSphere
12 8 (0.19%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.047%) Oracle Application Server
14 2 (0.047%) Oracle Workflow
15 1 (0.024%) Office Communications Server
15 1 (0.024%) Tomcat
15 1 (0.024%) Umbraco
Applications
1 540 (12.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 258 (6.09%) Microsoft Office
3 84 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 54 (1.28%) MS Visio
5 40 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
6 25 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
7 18 (0.43%) Simulink
8 12 (0.28%) AutoCAD
9 9 (0.21%) SOLIDWORKS
10 6 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 6 (0.14%) CATIA
10 6 (0.14%) Photoshop
10 6 (0.14%) Siemens NX
11 5 (0.12%) Chatbot
11 5 (0.12%) EPLAN
12 3 (0.071%) CANalyzer
12 3 (0.071%) LaTeX
13 2 (0.047%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.047%) PTC Creo
13 2 (0.047%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 90 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.76%) Dynamics GP
3 31 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
4 24 (0.57%) NetSuite
5 21 (0.50%) Shopify
6 12 (0.28%) Magento
6 12 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
7 10 (0.24%) Infor M3
7 10 (0.24%) SAP Business One
8 9 (0.21%) SAP PM
9 8 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
9 8 (0.19%) SAP ERP
10 7 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
10 7 (0.17%) Workday HCM
11 6 (0.14%) Exchequer
11 6 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
12 5 (0.12%) JDE EnterpriseOne
12 5 (0.12%) Sage 50
13 4 (0.094%) JDE World
13 4 (0.094%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 671 (15.85%) Azure
2 493 (11.64%) Power Platform
3 372 (8.79%) AWS
4 327 (7.72%) Microsoft 365
5 215 (5.08%) SaaS
6 167 (3.94%) GCP
7 124 (2.93%) Entra ID
8 103 (2.43%) Google Ads
9 100 (2.36%) Dynamics 365
10 97 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
11 88 (2.08%) Google Analytics
12 79 (1.87%) Meta Ads
13 64 (1.51%) GitHub
13 64 (1.51%) Power Automate
14 62 (1.46%) PowerApps
15 56 (1.32%) Serverless
16 49 (1.16%) Amazon S3
17 47 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
17 47 (1.11%) Microsoft Purview
18 42 (0.99%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 164 (3.87%) DNS
2 127 (3.00%) DHCP
3 107 (2.53%) Firewall
4 97 (2.29%) VPN
5 82 (1.94%) TCP/IP
6 67 (1.58%) WAN
7 60 (1.42%) LAN
8 53 (1.25%) Wireless
9 50 (1.18%) Internet
10 43 (1.02%) Network Security
11 35 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
12 28 (0.66%) VLAN
13 27 (0.64%) HTTP
14 25 (0.59%) Broadband
15 23 (0.54%) VoIP
16 22 (0.52%) SD-WAN
17 21 (0.50%) BGP
17 21 (0.50%) SAN
18 18 (0.43%) SMS
19 17 (0.40%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 439 (10.37%) Power BI
2 127 (3.00%) SQL Server
3 121 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
4 107 (2.53%) Tableau
5 98 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
6 77 (1.82%) Relational Database
7 69 (1.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 65 (1.54%) MySQL
9 60 (1.42%) Power Query
10 53 (1.25%) Metadata
11 48 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
12 46 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 45 (1.06%) Looker
14 43 (1.02%) Data Lake
15 33 (0.78%) Big Data
15 33 (0.78%) BigQuery
16 28 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
16 28 (0.66%) NoSQL
17 26 (0.61%) MongoDB
18 22 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 172 (4.06%) Git
2 155 (3.66%) JIRA
3 33 (0.78%) Jenkins
4 32 (0.76%) GitLab
5 29 (0.68%) Rational DOORS
6 21 (0.50%) Eclipse
7 18 (0.43%) LabVIEW
7 18 (0.43%) Selenium
8 16 (0.38%) Cucumber
8 16 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
9 14 (0.33%) Burp Suite
9 14 (0.33%) Claude Code
9 14 (0.33%) Postman
10 12 (0.28%) Bitbucket
10 12 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
11 11 (0.26%) Metasploit
12 10 (0.24%) Cypress.io
12 10 (0.24%) JMeter
13 8 (0.19%) Moq
13 8 (0.19%) SonarQube
General
1 2,164 (51.11%) Social Skills
2 1,215 (28.70%) Finance
3 479 (11.31%) Marketing
4 369 (8.72%) Organisational Skills
5 327 (7.72%) Manufacturing
6 301 (7.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 281 (6.64%) Retail
8 270 (6.38%) Legal
9 254 (6.00%) Public Sector
10 225 (5.31%) Influencing Skills
11 219 (5.17%) Law
12 197 (4.65%) Aerospace
13 156 (3.68%) Presentation Skills
14 147 (3.47%) Electronics
15 122 (2.88%) Telecoms
16 74 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
17 66 (1.56%) Advertising
17 66 (1.56%) Military
18 65 (1.54%) Automotive
18 65 (1.54%) Banking
Job Titles
1 983 (23.22%) Analyst
2 502 (11.86%) Senior
3 271 (6.40%) Lead
4 220 (5.20%) Developer
5 202 (4.77%) Data Analyst
6 189 (4.46%) Business Analyst
7 167 (3.94%) Support Analyst
8 165 (3.90%) Systems Engineer
9 142 (3.35%) Architect
10 141 (3.33%) Senior Analyst
11 123 (2.91%) Data Engineer
12 115 (2.72%) Support Engineer
13 111 (2.62%) Consultant
14 104 (2.46%) IT Support
15 91 (2.15%) Accountant
16 89 (2.10%) Administrator
17 85 (2.01%) Applications Support
17 85 (2.01%) Marketing Manager
18 84 (1.98%) Systems Analyst
19 83 (1.96%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (2.46%) .NET
2 85 (2.01%) REST
3 77 (1.82%) HTML
4 74 (1.75%) Terraform
5 70 (1.65%) CSS
6 63 (1.49%) Middleware
7 61 (1.44%) XML
8 57 (1.35%) JSON
9 52 (1.23%) PySpark
10 51 (1.20%) SOAP
11 48 (1.13%) RESTful
12 43 (1.02%) EDI
13 36 (0.85%) LDAP
13 36 (0.85%) React
14 33 (0.78%) Kafka
15 30 (0.71%) ModSecurity
16 28 (0.66%) ASP.NET
17 27 (0.64%) Spring
17 27 (0.64%) Spring Boot
18 25 (0.59%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 340 (8.03%) Analytical Mindset
2 319 (7.53%) Management Information System
3 241 (5.69%) Onboarding
4 220 (5.20%) Self-Motivation
5 167 (3.94%) Product Ownership
6 147 (3.47%) Driving Licence
7 116 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
8 100 (2.36%) Social Media
9 88 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
10 80 (1.89%) Marketing Technology
11 76 (1.79%) Cloud Native
12 73 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
13 71 (1.68%) Data Centre
14 69 (1.63%) Virtual Team
15 66 (1.56%) Blog
16 47 (1.11%) Security Posture
17 46 (1.09%) Data Structures
18 41 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
19 38 (0.90%) SCADA
20 36 (0.85%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 340 (8.03%) Windows
2 224 (5.29%) Linux
3 185 (4.37%) Windows Server
4 89 (2.10%) Windows Server 2016
5 30 (0.71%) Mac OS
6 29 (0.68%) Windows 10
7 24 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
8 22 (0.52%) Unix
9 15 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 14 (0.33%) Android
11 13 (0.31%) Apple iOS
12 9 (0.21%) CentOS
13 7 (0.17%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.14%) Debian
14 6 (0.14%) VMS
15 5 (0.12%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.094%) CoreOS
17 2 (0.047%) Solaris
18 1 (0.024%) AIX
18 1 (0.024%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,110 (49.83%) Problem-Solving
2 1,368 (32.31%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,062 (25.08%) Decision-Making
4 789 (18.63%) Stakeholder Management
5 743 (17.55%) Analytics
6 672 (15.87%) AI
7 638 (15.07%) Agile
8 567 (13.39%) Business Intelligence
9 463 (10.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 433 (10.23%) Validation
11 417 (9.85%) ERP
12 412 (9.73%) Customer Service
13 398 (9.40%) CRM
14 397 (9.38%) Mentoring
15 393 (9.28%) Actionable Insight
16 383 (9.05%) Data Analysis
17 334 (7.89%) ITIL
18 333 (7.86%) Process Improvement
19 332 (7.84%) Collaborative Working
20 329 (7.77%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 791 (18.68%) SQL
2 448 (10.58%) Python
3 154 (3.64%) JavaScript
4 134 (3.16%) Java
5 119 (2.81%) C#
6 108 (2.55%) PowerShell
7 78 (1.84%) C++
8 66 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 58 (1.37%) Bash
10 45 (1.06%) MATLAB
10 45 (1.06%) TypeScript
11 41 (0.97%) T-SQL
12 34 (0.80%) Shell Script
13 33 (0.78%) C
14 31 (0.73%) R
15 21 (0.50%) PHP
15 21 (0.50%) PL/SQL
16 19 (0.45%) VB.NET
17 17 (0.40%) Scala
18 16 (0.38%) Perl
Qualifications
1 840 (19.84%) Degree
2 516 (12.19%) Security Cleared
3 354 (8.36%) SC Cleared
4 176 (4.16%) ACCA
5 166 (3.92%) CIMA
6 123 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
7 120 (2.83%) DV Cleared
8 110 (2.60%) DBS Check
9 90 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
10 72 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
10 72 (1.70%) HND
11 67 (1.58%) CISSP
12 63 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
13 53 (1.25%) CISM
14 50 (1.18%) HNC
15 47 (1.11%) CompTIA Security+
16 46 (1.09%) Azure Certification
17 41 (0.97%) CCNA
18 38 (0.90%) Master's Degree
19 36 (0.85%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 403 (9.52%) Data Quality
2 272 (6.42%) QA
3 211 (4.98%) GDPR
4 138 (3.26%) Cyber Essentials
5 135 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 119 (2.81%) Accessibility
7 102 (2.41%) PCI DSS
8 88 (2.08%) SLA
9 69 (1.63%) NIST
10 64 (1.51%) ISO 9001
11 38 (0.90%) GRC
12 36 (0.85%) PMO
13 27 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 26 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
14 26 (0.61%) DO-254
15 25 (0.59%) IFRS
16 22 (0.52%) ISO 14001
17 20 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 20000
18 18 (0.43%) Good Clinical Practice
19 17 (0.40%) TickIT
System Software
1 271 (6.40%) Active Directory
2 125 (2.95%) Docker
3 100 (2.36%) Hyper-V
4 72 (1.70%) Terminal Server
5 41 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
6 39 (0.92%) Firmware
7 14 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
9 10 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.17%) Ceph
10 7 (0.17%) VMware NSX
11 5 (0.12%) vSphere
12 4 (0.094%) KVM
12 4 (0.094%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.094%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.071%) DFS Replication
14 1 (0.024%) IAG
14 1 (0.024%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.024%) VirtualBox
14 1 (0.024%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 64 (1.51%) Kubernetes
2 48 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 38 (0.90%) Ansible
4 26 (0.61%) Grafana
5 25 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
6 21 (0.50%) Prometheus
7 16 (0.38%) Kibana
8 15 (0.35%) QRadar
9 11 (0.26%) Nmap
9 11 (0.26%) Podman
10 8 (0.19%) logstash
11 7 (0.17%) Argo
11 7 (0.17%) Check_MK
11 7 (0.17%) Functional Safety
11 7 (0.17%) Istio
12 6 (0.14%) Graylog
13 5 (0.12%) Kubeflow
14 4 (0.094%) Docker Swarm
14 4 (0.094%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.094%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 1,100 (25.98%) Microsoft
2 283 (6.68%) Google
3 141 (3.33%) SAP
4 131 (3.09%) VMware
5 127 (3.00%) Splunk
6 108 (2.55%) Oracle
7 85 (2.01%) SolarWinds
8 84 (1.98%) Salesforce
9 79 (1.87%) Veeam
10 73 (1.72%) Brocade
10 73 (1.72%) Nimble Storage
11 72 (1.70%) Tanium
12 69 (1.63%) ServiceNow
13 64 (1.51%) Cisco
14 58 (1.37%) YouTube
15 56 (1.32%) Databricks
16 40 (0.94%) HubSpot
17 39 (0.92%) Adobe
18 36 (0.85%) Workday
19 32 (0.76%) IBM