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 9 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 9 12
Rank change year-on-year -14 +3 +8
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,414 4,273 4,601
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 5.11% 12.27% 8.99%
As % of the General category 11.56% 18.63% 16.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2,452 1,516 1,604
10th Percentile £29,775 £27,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,250 £73,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £51,328 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.66% -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 38,167 22,933 27,756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.18% 65.87% 54.25%
Number of salaries quoted 23,602 11,178 12,364
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £43,095 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.02% -13.81% -0.99%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 1,167 £47,500 +5.56% 1,156
South East -11 1,004 £48,000 +1.05% 1,260
Midlands -8 770 £45,000 +3.45% 734
North West -15 691 £46,500 +3.33% 630
South West -9 624 £46,872 +4.16% 520
West Midlands -17 392 £47,500 +5.56% 454
East Midlands -5 376 £42,500 +8.39% 280
Yorkshire -9 321 £47,000 +17.50% 411
East of England -13 292 £47,500 +21.79% 515
Northern Ireland +10 224 £43,750 -18.60% 225
Wales -4 207 £45,000 -10.20% 149
North East -21 164 £52,231 +30.58% 121
Scotland -18 149 £50,000 +46.50% 413
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
1 159 (3.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 141 (3.19%) SharePoint
3 55 (1.25%) Confluence
4 34 (0.77%) Apache
5 30 (0.68%) IIS
6 27 (0.61%) Apache Spark
7 17 (0.39%) SAS
8 16 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
8 16 (0.36%) CMS
9 15 (0.34%) WordPress
10 14 (0.32%) Jupyter
11 9 (0.20%) WebLogic
11 9 (0.20%) WebSphere
12 8 (0.18%) OpenStack
13 7 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
14 5 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 3 (0.068%) nginx
16 2 (0.045%) Office Communications Server
16 2 (0.045%) Oracle Application Server
16 2 (0.045%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 589 (13.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 296 (6.71%) Microsoft Office
3 88 (1.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 48 (1.09%) MS Visio
5 47 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
6 26 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
7 20 (0.45%) Simulink
8 11 (0.25%) AutoCAD
9 10 (0.23%) SOLIDWORKS
10 8 (0.18%) EPLAN
11 7 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 6 (0.14%) Notion
12 6 (0.14%) Siemens NX
13 5 (0.11%) Chatbot
13 5 (0.11%) Photoshop
14 3 (0.068%) CANalyzer
14 3 (0.068%) CATIA
14 3 (0.068%) LaTeX
15 2 (0.045%) Adobe XD
15 2 (0.045%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 87 (1.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.72%) Dynamics GP
3 25 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
4 20 (0.45%) Shopify
5 18 (0.41%) NetSuite
6 11 (0.25%) Magento
7 10 (0.23%) Infor M3
7 10 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
8 9 (0.20%) SAP Business One
9 8 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
10 7 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
10 7 (0.16%) Odoo
10 7 (0.16%) SAP ERP
10 7 (0.16%) Workday HCM
11 6 (0.14%) Exchequer
11 6 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
12 5 (0.11%) Elite 3E
12 5 (0.11%) JDE EnterpriseOne
12 5 (0.11%) Sage 50
13 4 (0.091%) FastStats
Cloud Services
1 681 (15.43%) Azure
2 479 (10.85%) Power Platform
3 381 (8.63%) AWS
4 331 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
5 221 (5.01%) SaaS
6 173 (3.92%) GCP
7 170 (3.85%) Entra ID
8 115 (2.61%) Google Ads
9 95 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
10 87 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
11 84 (1.90%) Google Analytics
12 82 (1.86%) Meta Ads
13 60 (1.36%) GitHub
14 58 (1.31%) PowerApps
15 55 (1.25%) Serverless
16 54 (1.22%) Power Automate
17 50 (1.13%) Cloud Computing
18 48 (1.09%) Amazon S3
19 43 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
20 42 (0.95%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 170 (3.85%) DNS
2 133 (3.01%) DHCP
3 109 (2.47%) Firewall
4 96 (2.17%) VPN
5 84 (1.90%) TCP/IP
6 67 (1.52%) WAN
7 63 (1.43%) Internet
8 58 (1.31%) LAN
9 51 (1.16%) Wireless
10 46 (1.04%) Network Security
11 37 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
12 30 (0.68%) VLAN
13 26 (0.59%) Broadband
13 26 (0.59%) HTTP
14 23 (0.52%) SAN
15 21 (0.48%) SD-WAN
15 21 (0.48%) VoIP
16 20 (0.45%) BGP
17 19 (0.43%) SSL
18 18 (0.41%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 427 (9.67%) Power BI
2 119 (2.70%) SQL Server
3 115 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
4 96 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
5 90 (2.04%) Tableau
6 84 (1.90%) Relational Database
7 67 (1.52%) MySQL
8 63 (1.43%) Power Query
9 61 (1.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 60 (1.36%) Metadata
11 51 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
12 42 (0.95%) Data Lake
13 41 (0.93%) Looker
14 37 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 33 (0.75%) BigQuery
16 31 (0.70%) Big Data
16 31 (0.70%) NoSQL
17 28 (0.63%) MongoDB
18 26 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
19 25 (0.57%) GIS
Development Applications
1 192 (4.35%) Git
2 152 (3.44%) JIRA
3 41 (0.93%) GitLab
4 36 (0.82%) Jenkins
5 21 (0.48%) Eclipse
5 21 (0.48%) LabVIEW
6 19 (0.43%) Rational DOORS
7 18 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
7 18 (0.41%) Selenium
8 17 (0.39%) Claude Code
9 16 (0.36%) Burp Suite
10 15 (0.34%) Postman
11 14 (0.32%) Cucumber
11 14 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
12 13 (0.29%) Metasploit
13 11 (0.25%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.18%) Cypress.io
14 8 (0.18%) JMeter
14 8 (0.18%) Moq
15 7 (0.16%) ERwin
General
1 2,320 (52.56%) Social Skills
2 1,236 (28.00%) Finance
3 506 (11.46%) Marketing
4 425 (9.63%) Organisational Skills
5 369 (8.36%) Manufacturing
6 329 (7.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 307 (6.96%) Legal
8 296 (6.71%) Retail
9 274 (6.21%) Public Sector
10 235 (5.32%) Influencing Skills
11 228 (5.17%) Presentation Skills
12 219 (4.96%) Law
13 198 (4.49%) Aerospace
14 164 (3.72%) Electronics
15 116 (2.63%) Telecoms
16 81 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
17 74 (1.68%) Automotive
18 70 (1.59%) Advertising
19 63 (1.43%) Banking
20 56 (1.27%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,024 (23.20%) Analyst
2 521 (11.80%) Senior
3 282 (6.39%) Lead
4 231 (5.23%) Developer
5 191 (4.33%) Support Analyst
6 186 (4.21%) Data Analyst
7 174 (3.94%) Business Analyst
8 170 (3.85%) Senior Analyst
9 147 (3.33%) Systems Engineer
10 142 (3.22%) Architect
11 119 (2.70%) Data Engineer
12 113 (2.56%) Support Engineer
13 112 (2.54%) Consultant
14 107 (2.42%) ITSM Analyst
15 100 (2.27%) IT Support
16 94 (2.13%) Administrator
17 91 (2.06%) Applications Support
18 88 (1.99%) Marketing Manager
19 82 (1.86%) IT Engineer
20 81 (1.84%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (2.40%) .NET
2 84 (1.90%) Terraform
3 75 (1.70%) HTML
3 75 (1.70%) REST
4 70 (1.59%) CSS
5 56 (1.27%) XML
6 55 (1.25%) PySpark
7 51 (1.16%) RESTful
8 49 (1.11%) Middleware
9 48 (1.09%) JSON
10 45 (1.02%) SOAP
11 38 (0.86%) React
12 37 (0.84%) EDI
13 36 (0.82%) Kafka
14 35 (0.79%) LDAP
15 33 (0.75%) Spring
16 32 (0.72%) Spring Boot
17 29 (0.66%) ASP.NET
17 29 (0.66%) ModSecurity
18 24 (0.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 363 (8.22%) Management Information System
2 299 (6.77%) Analytical Mindset
3 264 (5.98%) Onboarding
4 234 (5.30%) Self-Motivation
5 172 (3.90%) Driving Licence
6 167 (3.78%) Product Ownership
7 117 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
8 109 (2.47%) Social Media
9 105 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
10 82 (1.86%) Cloud Native
11 78 (1.77%) Data Centre
11 78 (1.77%) Marketing Technology
12 74 (1.68%) Cyber Threat
13 72 (1.63%) Virtual Team
14 68 (1.54%) Blog
15 52 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
16 49 (1.11%) Data Structures
17 47 (1.06%) SCADA
18 44 (1.00%) Security Posture
19 40 (0.91%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 331 (7.50%) Windows
2 239 (5.41%) Linux
3 185 (4.19%) Windows Server
4 90 (2.04%) Windows Server 2016
5 31 (0.70%) Mac OS
6 30 (0.68%) Windows 10
7 27 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
8 21 (0.48%) Unix
9 15 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 13 (0.29%) Android
11 9 (0.20%) CentOS
12 7 (0.16%) Apple iOS
12 7 (0.16%) Ubuntu
13 6 (0.14%) Debian
13 6 (0.14%) VMS
14 5 (0.11%) OpenVMS
15 4 (0.091%) CoreOS
16 2 (0.045%) Solaris
17 1 (0.023%) ThreadX
17 1 (0.023%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,241 (50.77%) Problem-Solving
2 1,465 (33.19%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,117 (25.31%) Decision-Making
4 865 (19.60%) Stakeholder Management
5 731 (16.56%) Analytics
6 730 (16.54%) AI
7 651 (14.75%) Agile
8 569 (12.89%) Business Intelligence
9 509 (11.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 453 (10.26%) Customer Service
10 453 (10.26%) Validation
11 429 (9.72%) CRM
12 421 (9.54%) Mentoring
13 415 (9.40%) ERP
14 384 (8.70%) Data Analysis
15 378 (8.56%) Actionable Insight
16 377 (8.54%) ITIL
17 375 (8.50%) Project Delivery
18 357 (8.09%) Process Improvement
19 355 (8.04%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 780 (17.67%) SQL
2 460 (10.42%) Python
3 154 (3.49%) JavaScript
4 132 (2.99%) Java
5 115 (2.61%) C#
6 107 (2.42%) PowerShell
7 78 (1.77%) C++
8 66 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 59 (1.34%) Bash
10 47 (1.06%) TypeScript
11 43 (0.97%) MATLAB
12 42 (0.95%) Shell Script
13 38 (0.86%) R
14 36 (0.82%) T-SQL
15 34 (0.77%) C
16 21 (0.48%) VB.NET
17 20 (0.45%) PL/SQL
18 19 (0.43%) PHP
19 17 (0.39%) Perl
19 17 (0.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 943 (21.36%) Degree
2 541 (12.26%) Security Cleared
3 376 (8.52%) SC Cleared
4 162 (3.67%) ACCA
5 155 (3.51%) CIMA
6 120 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 117 (2.65%) DV Cleared
8 105 (2.38%) DBS Check
9 91 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
10 80 (1.81%) HND
11 68 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
12 67 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
13 64 (1.45%) CISSP
14 60 (1.36%) HNC
15 56 (1.27%) Master's Degree
16 54 (1.22%) Azure Certification
17 49 (1.11%) CISM
18 43 (0.97%) CompTIA Security+
19 40 (0.91%) CCNA
20 30 (0.68%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 410 (9.29%) Data Quality
2 262 (5.94%) QA
3 202 (4.58%) GDPR
4 138 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
5 129 (2.92%) Accessibility
6 122 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 100 (2.27%) PCI DSS
8 83 (1.88%) SLA
9 62 (1.40%) NIST
10 50 (1.13%) ISO 9001
11 40 (0.91%) PMO
12 35 (0.79%) GRC
13 31 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
14 28 (0.63%) DO-254
15 26 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 25 (0.57%) IFRS
17 20 (0.45%) ISO 14001
18 18 (0.41%) GMP
18 18 (0.41%) Good Clinical Practice
19 15 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 298 (6.75%) Active Directory
2 141 (3.19%) Docker
3 104 (2.36%) Hyper-V
4 72 (1.63%) Terminal Server
5 42 (0.95%) Firmware
6 35 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
7 15 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
9 10 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.16%) Ceph
11 6 (0.14%) VMware NSX
12 5 (0.11%) vSphere
13 4 (0.091%) DFS Replication
13 4 (0.091%) ISA Server
13 4 (0.091%) KVM
13 4 (0.091%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.091%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.023%) IAG
14 1 (0.023%) NFS
14 1 (0.023%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 70 (1.59%) Kubernetes
2 52 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
3 41 (0.93%) Ansible
4 32 (0.72%) Grafana
5 28 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
6 27 (0.61%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.34%) Kibana
8 14 (0.32%) QRadar
9 13 (0.29%) Nmap
10 11 (0.25%) Podman
11 10 (0.23%) Functional Safety
12 8 (0.18%) SCCM
13 7 (0.16%) Argo
13 7 (0.16%) Check_MK
13 7 (0.16%) Istio
13 7 (0.16%) logstash
14 6 (0.14%) FortiGate
14 6 (0.14%) Graylog
14 6 (0.14%) Nagios
14 6 (0.14%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 1,183 (26.80%) Microsoft
2 299 (6.77%) Google
3 132 (2.99%) SAP
4 129 (2.92%) Splunk
5 127 (2.88%) VMware
6 118 (2.67%) Oracle
7 96 (2.17%) Salesforce
8 89 (2.02%) SolarWinds
9 79 (1.79%) Veeam
10 78 (1.77%) ServiceNow
11 73 (1.65%) Brocade
11 73 (1.65%) Nimble Storage
12 72 (1.63%) Tanium
13 67 (1.52%) Cisco
14 66 (1.50%) YouTube
15 44 (1.00%) Databricks
16 41 (0.93%) HubSpot
17 38 (0.86%) Adobe
18 32 (0.72%) TikTok
19 29 (0.66%) Dell