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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 8 12
Rank change year-on-year -16 +4 +13
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,809 4,063 5,328
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.76% 11.66% 8.89%
As % of the General category 10.91% 17.67% 16.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2,360 1,533 2,284
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £32,500 £36,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,390 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% -7.37% -2.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £61,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £76,190
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 34,918 22,995 31,964
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 43.66% 65.97% 53.33%
Number of salaries quoted 21,622 11,377 17,321
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,000 £27,500
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% -3.85%
75th Percentile £66,250 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -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 28 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 28 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 1,042 £47,500 +5.56% 909
South East -6 912 £49,536 -4.74% 1,068
Midlands -7 660 £47,994 +6.65% 518
North West -17 639 £46,500 +3.33% 531
South West -10 534 £47,500 +5.56% 552
West Midlands -16 338 £50,000 +11.11% 295
East Midlands -3 319 £46,743 +3.87% 224
Yorkshire -12 282 £47,000 +17.50% 287
East of England -19 257 £47,500 +5.56% 337
Wales -14 159 £47,500 -5.58% 85
Scotland -20 135 £44,000 +3.53% 309
North East -13 121 £53,750 +2.38% 101
Northern Ireland -12 118 £42,500 -22.73% 155
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
1 168 (4.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 131 (3.44%) SharePoint
3 48 (1.26%) Confluence
4 30 (0.79%) IIS
5 26 (0.68%) Apache
5 26 (0.68%) Apache Spark
6 22 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
7 20 (0.53%) CMS
8 12 (0.32%) 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 (0.079%) Anypoint
14 2 (0.053%) Oracle Application Server
14 2 (0.053%) Oracle Workflow
15 1 (0.026%) Tomcat
15 1 (0.026%) Umbraco
Applications
1 439 (11.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 200 (5.25%) Microsoft Office
3 75 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 53 (1.39%) MS Visio
5 26 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
6 20 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.29%) Simulink
8 5 (0.13%) EPLAN
9 4 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.11%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.11%) CATIA
9 4 (0.11%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.079%) LaTeX
10 3 (0.079%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.079%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.079%) Trello
11 2 (0.053%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.053%) Lectora
11 2 (0.053%) Siemens NX
12 1 (0.026%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 85 (2.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 34 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
3 33 (0.87%) Dynamics GP
4 27 (0.71%) NetSuite
5 17 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
6 16 (0.42%) Shopify
7 14 (0.37%) SAP PM
8 11 (0.29%) SAP ERP
9 10 (0.26%) Magento
9 10 (0.26%) SAP Business One
10 8 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
11 7 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
11 7 (0.18%) Workday HCM
12 6 (0.16%) Infor M3
13 5 (0.13%) JDE EnterpriseOne
13 5 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
13 5 (0.13%) SAP GTS
14 4 (0.11%) Academy Housing
14 4 (0.11%) JDE OneWorld
14 4 (0.11%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 633 (16.62%) Azure
2 444 (11.66%) Power Platform
3 333 (8.74%) AWS
4 314 (8.24%) Microsoft 365
5 187 (4.91%) SaaS
6 146 (3.83%) GCP
7 98 (2.57%) Entra ID
8 94 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
9 87 (2.28%) Dynamics 365
10 81 (2.13%) Google Analytics
11 73 (1.92%) Google Ads
12 60 (1.58%) GitHub
12 60 (1.58%) Power Automate
13 58 (1.52%) PowerApps
14 50 (1.31%) Meta Ads
15 44 (1.16%) Microsoft Purview
15 44 (1.16%) Serverless
16 42 (1.10%) Amazon S3
17 38 (1.00%) Snowflake
18 36 (0.95%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 164 (4.31%) DNS
2 130 (3.41%) DHCP
3 108 (2.84%) Firewall
4 93 (2.44%) VPN
5 78 (2.05%) TCP/IP
6 65 (1.71%) WAN
7 60 (1.58%) LAN
8 49 (1.29%) Wireless
9 42 (1.10%) Network Security
10 36 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
11 28 (0.74%) Broadband
12 27 (0.71%) HTTP
12 27 (0.71%) VoIP
13 24 (0.63%) VLAN
14 20 (0.53%) BGP
14 20 (0.53%) Internet
14 20 (0.53%) SAN
14 20 (0.53%) SD-WAN
15 17 (0.45%) SMS
16 16 (0.42%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 390 (10.24%) Power BI
2 131 (3.44%) Tableau
3 126 (3.31%) SQL Server
4 120 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
5 106 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
6 70 (1.84%) Relational Database
7 65 (1.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 61 (1.60%) MySQL
9 49 (1.29%) Looker
9 49 (1.29%) Power Query
10 44 (1.16%) Metadata
10 44 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
10 44 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 39 (1.02%) Data Lake
12 35 (0.92%) BigQuery
13 32 (0.84%) Big Data
14 29 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
15 25 (0.66%) NoSQL
16 22 (0.58%) MongoDB
17 20 (0.53%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 154 (4.04%) JIRA
2 132 (3.47%) Git
3 31 (0.81%) GitLab
3 31 (0.81%) Jenkins
3 31 (0.81%) Rational DOORS
4 16 (0.42%) Eclipse
5 15 (0.39%) Cucumber
5 15 (0.39%) Selenium
6 14 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
6 14 (0.37%) Postman
7 13 (0.34%) Burp Suite
7 13 (0.34%) LabVIEW
8 12 (0.32%) Claude Code
8 12 (0.32%) Cypress.io
9 11 (0.29%) Metasploit
9 11 (0.29%) MLflow
10 10 (0.26%) Bitbucket
10 10 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
11 9 (0.24%) JMeter
12 7 (0.18%) Moq
General
1 1,910 (50.14%) Social Skills
2 1,062 (27.88%) Finance
3 409 (10.74%) Marketing
4 279 (7.32%) Organisational Skills
5 276 (7.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 252 (6.62%) Manufacturing
7 243 (6.38%) Legal
8 240 (6.30%) Retail
9 212 (5.57%) Public Sector
10 204 (5.36%) Law
11 203 (5.33%) Influencing Skills
12 166 (4.36%) Aerospace
13 115 (3.02%) Electronics
14 106 (2.78%) Telecoms
15 100 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
16 68 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
17 67 (1.76%) Military
18 57 (1.50%) Banking
19 54 (1.42%) Advertising
20 41 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 878 (23.05%) Analyst
2 426 (11.18%) Senior
3 254 (6.67%) Lead
4 207 (5.43%) Developer
5 198 (5.20%) Data Analyst
6 180 (4.73%) Systems Engineer
7 172 (4.52%) Business Analyst
8 138 (3.62%) Support Analyst
9 135 (3.54%) Architect
10 117 (3.07%) Support Engineer
11 112 (2.94%) Senior Analyst
12 107 (2.81%) Consultant
13 106 (2.78%) Data Engineer
14 101 (2.65%) IT Support
15 82 (2.15%) IT Engineer
15 82 (2.15%) Systems Analyst
16 77 (2.02%) Accountant
16 77 (2.02%) Marketing Manager
17 68 (1.79%) Applications Support
18 66 (1.73%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (2.65%) .NET
2 80 (2.10%) REST
3 79 (2.07%) HTML
4 74 (1.94%) Terraform
5 72 (1.89%) CSS
6 63 (1.65%) Middleware
7 56 (1.47%) XML
8 52 (1.37%) JSON
9 47 (1.23%) SOAP
10 43 (1.13%) RESTful
11 39 (1.02%) EDI
11 39 (1.02%) React
12 35 (0.92%) LDAP
13 34 (0.89%) Kafka
14 30 (0.79%) ModSecurity
14 30 (0.79%) PySpark
15 28 (0.74%) ASP.NET
16 27 (0.71%) OAuth
17 26 (0.68%) PyTorch
18 25 (0.66%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 370 (9.71%) Analytical Mindset
2 237 (6.22%) Management Information System
3 199 (5.22%) Onboarding
4 196 (5.15%) Self-Motivation
5 154 (4.04%) Product Ownership
6 130 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
7 126 (3.31%) Driving Licence
8 89 (2.34%) Social Media
9 81 (2.13%) Marketing Technology
10 74 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
11 71 (1.86%) Cloud Native
12 68 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
13 67 (1.76%) Blog
13 67 (1.76%) Data Centre
14 65 (1.71%) Virtual Team
15 49 (1.29%) Security Posture
16 37 (0.97%) Data Structures
17 36 (0.95%) Cyber Defence
18 35 (0.92%) AI Agents
19 33 (0.87%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 333 (8.74%) Windows
2 206 (5.41%) Linux
3 187 (4.91%) Windows Server
4 95 (2.49%) Windows Server 2016
5 28 (0.74%) Mac OS
6 24 (0.63%) Windows 10
7 22 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
8 21 (0.55%) Unix
9 16 (0.42%) 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 (0.11%) CoreOS
16 2 (0.053%) Solaris
17 1 (0.026%) AIX
17 1 (0.026%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,879 (49.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1,191 (31.27%) Continuous Improvement
3 925 (24.28%) Decision-Making
4 720 (18.90%) Analytics
5 626 (16.43%) Stakeholder Management
6 591 (15.52%) Agile
7 587 (15.41%) AI
8 483 (12.68%) Business Intelligence
9 414 (10.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 377 (9.90%) Actionable Insight
11 376 (9.87%) Validation
12 353 (9.27%) ERP
13 351 (9.22%) Customer Service
14 338 (8.87%) CRM
14 338 (8.87%) Mentoring
15 322 (8.45%) Data Analysis
16 319 (8.37%) Customer Experience
17 305 (8.01%) Project Management
18 304 (7.98%) Cybersecurity
19 302 (7.93%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 718 (18.85%) SQL
2 458 (12.02%) Python
3 149 (3.91%) JavaScript
4 122 (3.20%) Java
5 118 (3.10%) C#
6 104 (2.73%) PowerShell
7 71 (1.86%) C++
8 59 (1.55%) Bash
9 58 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 42 (1.10%) TypeScript
11 38 (1.00%) MATLAB
11 38 (1.00%) T-SQL
12 32 (0.84%) R
13 28 (0.74%) 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
1 699 (18.35%) Degree
2 481 (12.63%) Security Cleared
3 333 (8.74%) SC Cleared
4 142 (3.73%) ACCA
5 135 (3.54%) CIMA
6 121 (3.18%) DV Cleared
7 118 (3.10%) DBS Check
8 114 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
9 84 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
10 76 (2.00%) CISSP
11 72 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
12 58 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
13 55 (1.44%) CISM
14 50 (1.31%) CompTIA Security+
15 45 (1.18%) HND
15 45 (1.18%) IRCA
16 41 (1.08%) Azure Certification
17 38 (1.00%) CCNA
18 36 (0.95%) HNC
18 36 (0.95%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 344 (9.03%) Data Quality
2 282 (7.40%) QA
3 235 (6.17%) GDPR
4 146 (3.83%) Cyber Essentials
5 144 (3.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 111 (2.91%) PCI DSS
7 101 (2.65%) ISO 9001
8 99 (2.60%) Accessibility
9 91 (2.39%) SLA
10 87 (2.28%) NIST
11 40 (1.05%) GRC
12 36 (0.95%) 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 (0.53%) DO-254
17 19 (0.50%) IFRS
18 18 (0.47%) Good Clinical Practice
19 17 (0.45%) TickIT
System Software
1 259 (6.80%) Active Directory
2 101 (2.65%) Docker
2 101 (2.65%) Hyper-V
3 80 (2.10%) Terminal Server
4 38 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 30 (0.79%) Firmware
6 13 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.21%) VMware NSX
9 7 (0.18%) Ceph
9 7 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
10 6 (0.16%) vSphere
11 4 (0.11%) KVM
11 4 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 4 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.079%) DFS Replication
13 2 (0.053%) ProxySG
13 2 (0.053%) XenApp
14 1 (0.026%) NFS
14 1 (0.026%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 66 (1.73%) Kubernetes
2 46 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
3 40 (1.05%) Ansible
4 25 (0.66%) Grafana
5 24 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
6 20 (0.53%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.39%) QRadar
8 14 (0.37%) Kibana
9 11 (0.29%) Nmap
9 11 (0.29%) Podman
10 7 (0.18%) Argo
10 7 (0.18%) Check_MK
10 7 (0.18%) Istio
10 7 (0.18%) logstash
11 6 (0.16%) Functional Safety
11 6 (0.16%) Graylog
11 6 (0.16%) Kubeflow
12 4 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.11%) McAfee ePO
12 4 (0.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 908 (23.84%) Microsoft
2 218 (5.72%) Google
3 132 (3.47%) VMware
4 128 (3.36%) SAP
5 126 (3.31%) Splunk
6 101 (2.65%) Oracle
7 95 (2.49%) SolarWinds
8 87 (2.28%) Veeam
9 81 (2.13%) Brocade
9 81 (2.13%) Nimble Storage
10 80 (2.10%) Tanium
11 77 (2.02%) Salesforce
12 66 (1.73%) ServiceNow
13 63 (1.65%) Cisco
14 60 (1.58%) Databricks
15 53 (1.39%) Workday
16 38 (1.00%) YouTube
17 36 (0.95%) Adobe
18 32 (0.84%) IBM
19 31 (0.81%) HubSpot