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 21 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 9 15
Rank change year-on-year -26 +6 +5
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,038 3,310 6,096
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.77% 12.44% 9.09%
As % of the General category 9.70% 18.17% 15.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,902 1,452 3,591
10th Percentile £30,370 £30,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £50,445 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.86% +12.10% -2.91%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
UK median annual salary £52,750 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.09% +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 31,335 18,217 38,984
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 49.24% 68.47% 58.13%
Number of salaries quoted 16,020 9,397 26,181
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £75,772
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.98% +11.43% -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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -31 850 £45,497 -9.01% 403
South East -4 794 £50,000 -4.76% 533
Midlands -25 576 £48,000 - 329
North West -25 479 £45,000 -10.00% 230
West Midlands -25 347 £51,300 +6.88% 198
Yorkshire -13 279 £51,000 +13.33% 121
South West -24 268 £48,750 -4.34% 185
East of England -37 257 £42,879 -15.87% 173
East Midlands -12 227 £45,000 - 130
Scotland -19 169 £40,000 -23.81% 67
North East -20 92 £48,445 +25.83% 58
Wales +3 85 £42,500 -15.21% 54
Northern Ireland -24 50 £40,000 -27.27% 44
Isle of Man -2 1 £62,500 +68.92%
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
1 132 (4.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 62 (2.04%) SharePoint
3 41 (1.35%) Confluence
4 31 (1.02%) CMS
5 28 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
5 28 (0.92%) Apache Spark
6 18 (0.59%) IIS
7 14 (0.46%) Apache
8 12 (0.39%) WordPress
9 4 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.13%) nginx
9 4 (0.13%) SAS
10 3 (0.099%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.099%) govService
10 3 (0.099%) JBoss
11 1 (0.033%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.033%) Appian
11 1 (0.033%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.033%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.033%) Umbraco
Applications
1 484 (15.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 207 (6.81%) Microsoft Office
3 63 (2.07%) MS Visio
4 59 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 22 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
6 21 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
7 16 (0.53%) Chatbot
8 10 (0.33%) CATIA
9 4 (0.13%) Trello
10 3 (0.099%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.099%) AutoCAD
10 3 (0.099%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.066%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.066%) Simulink
12 1 (0.033%) Lectora
12 1 (0.033%) Revit
12 1 (0.033%) Sketch
12 1 (0.033%) SmartSuite
12 1 (0.033%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 44 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (1.05%) Salesforce CRM
3 27 (0.89%) NetSuite
4 25 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
5 16 (0.53%) SAP CO
6 15 (0.49%) SAP PM
7 13 (0.43%) SAP ERP
8 10 (0.33%) Sage X3
9 9 (0.30%) Workday HCM
10 7 (0.23%) Magento
10 7 (0.23%) SAP FI
10 7 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
11 5 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
11 5 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
11 5 (0.16%) Q-Pulse
11 5 (0.16%) SAP GTS
11 5 (0.16%) SAP PP
12 4 (0.13%) Markit EDM
12 4 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
13 3 (0.099%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 508 (16.72%) Azure
2 413 (13.59%) Power Platform
3 245 (8.06%) AWS
4 242 (7.97%) Microsoft 365
5 123 (4.05%) SaaS
6 117 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
7 92 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
8 77 (2.53%) GCP
9 73 (2.40%) GitHub
10 66 (2.17%) Entra ID
11 61 (2.01%) Azure Data Factory
12 53 (1.74%) Power Automate
13 50 (1.65%) dbt
14 49 (1.61%) Snowflake
15 45 (1.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 44 (1.45%) Google Analytics
17 43 (1.42%) Microsoft Purview
18 36 (1.18%) Amazon S3
18 36 (1.18%) Serverless
19 35 (1.15%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 115 (3.79%) DNS
2 112 (3.69%) Firewall
3 96 (3.16%) DHCP
4 67 (2.21%) VPN
5 61 (2.01%) WAN
6 50 (1.65%) Wireless
7 46 (1.51%) LAN
8 37 (1.22%) TCP/IP
9 34 (1.12%) Network Security
9 34 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
10 30 (0.99%) VLAN
10 30 (0.99%) Wireshark
11 24 (0.79%) BGP
12 23 (0.76%) Broadband
12 23 (0.76%) SAN
12 23 (0.76%) SD-WAN
13 19 (0.63%) Cisco ASA
13 19 (0.63%) EIGRP
13 19 (0.63%) OSPF
14 13 (0.43%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 380 (12.51%) Power BI
2 261 (8.59%) Tableau
3 148 (4.87%) Data Mining
4 123 (4.05%) SQL Server
5 75 (2.47%) Amazon RDS
5 75 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
6 69 (2.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 48 (1.58%) Relational Database
8 45 (1.48%) Looker
8 45 (1.48%) Metadata
9 39 (1.28%) MySQL
10 38 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
11 37 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
12 33 (1.09%) Power Query
13 31 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 30 (0.99%) Data Lake
14 30 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
15 25 (0.82%) GIS
16 23 (0.76%) NoSQL
17 17 (0.56%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 119 (3.92%) JIRA
2 67 (2.21%) Git
3 28 (0.92%) GitLab
4 23 (0.76%) Rational DOORS
5 19 (0.63%) Jenkins
6 17 (0.56%) Selenium
7 11 (0.36%) MLflow
8 9 (0.30%) Cucumber
9 8 (0.26%) Cypress.io
9 8 (0.26%) LabVIEW
10 7 (0.23%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.20%) Postman
11 6 (0.20%) Robot Framework
11 6 (0.20%) Subversion
12 5 (0.16%) ERwin
12 5 (0.16%) LoadRunner
12 5 (0.16%) Maven
12 5 (0.16%) Oracle APEX
12 5 (0.16%) Snyk
12 5 (0.16%) TestRail
General
1 1,508 (49.64%) Social Skills
2 966 (31.80%) Finance
3 254 (8.36%) Marketing
4 158 (5.20%) Retail
5 150 (4.94%) Public Sector
6 147 (4.84%) Organisational Skills
7 141 (4.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 133 (4.38%) Manufacturing
9 125 (4.11%) Law
10 124 (4.08%) Legal
11 107 (3.52%) Presentation Skills
12 85 (2.80%) Telecoms
13 78 (2.57%) Influencing Skills
14 56 (1.84%) Electronics
15 55 (1.81%) Banking
16 48 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
17 45 (1.48%) Aerospace
18 40 (1.32%) Military
19 36 (1.18%) Advertising
20 34 (1.12%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 895 (29.46%) Analyst
2 345 (11.36%) Senior
3 261 (8.59%) Data Analyst
4 181 (5.96%) Lead
5 162 (5.33%) Business Analyst
6 156 (5.13%) Developer
7 129 (4.25%) Trainee
8 126 (4.15%) Trainee Analyst
8 126 (4.15%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 121 (3.98%) Support Analyst
9 121 (3.98%) Systems Engineer
10 110 (3.62%) Architect
11 91 (3.00%) IT Support
12 84 (2.76%) Senior Analyst
13 79 (2.60%) Support Engineer
14 75 (2.47%) Financial Analyst
15 74 (2.44%) Systems Manager
16 71 (2.34%) Consultant
16 71 (2.34%) Senior Manager
17 69 (2.27%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (2.86%) HTML
2 75 (2.47%) CSS
3 60 (1.97%) .NET
3 60 (1.97%) React
4 53 (1.74%) JSON
4 53 (1.74%) REST
5 48 (1.58%) Middleware
6 41 (1.35%) XML
7 35 (1.15%) Node.js
7 35 (1.15%) SOAP
8 26 (0.86%) PyTorch
9 22 (0.72%) scikit-learn
10 20 (0.66%) TensorFlow
11 19 (0.63%) Pandas
12 18 (0.59%) PySpark
12 18 (0.59%) React Native
13 16 (0.53%) Bootstrap
13 16 (0.53%) OAuth
14 14 (0.46%) EDI
14 14 (0.46%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 371 (12.21%) Analytical Mindset
2 168 (5.53%) Self-Motivation
3 146 (4.81%) Management Information System
4 130 (4.28%) Onboarding
5 113 (3.72%) Product Ownership
6 90 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
7 64 (2.11%) Data Centre
8 54 (1.78%) Driving Licence
9 51 (1.68%) Cloud Native
10 36 (1.18%) Algorithms
10 36 (1.18%) Security Posture
11 34 (1.12%) Low-Code
12 33 (1.09%) Data Structures
13 32 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
13 32 (1.05%) Social Media
14 31 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
15 30 (0.99%) Robotics
16 29 (0.95%) Virtual Team
17 28 (0.92%) FMCG
17 28 (0.92%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 247 (8.13%) Windows
2 139 (4.58%) Windows Server
3 131 (4.31%) Linux
4 70 (2.30%) Windows Server 2016
5 18 (0.59%) Android
5 18 (0.59%) Unix
6 15 (0.49%) Apple iOS
7 10 (0.33%) Mac OS
7 10 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.16%) CentOS
8 5 (0.16%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.16%) VMS
9 4 (0.13%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.099%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.066%) Debian
11 2 (0.066%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.033%) OpenBSD
12 1 (0.033%) Robot Operating System
12 1 (0.033%) ThreadX
12 1 (0.033%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,381 (45.46%) Problem-Solving
2 845 (27.81%) Continuous Improvement
3 673 (22.15%) Analytics
4 656 (21.59%) Decision-Making
5 466 (15.34%) Agile
6 454 (14.94%) Business Intelligence
7 395 (13.00%) Project Management
8 390 (12.84%) AI
9 382 (12.57%) Stakeholder Management
10 348 (11.45%) Data Analysis
11 292 (9.61%) Actionable Insight
12 275 (9.05%) ERP
13 263 (8.66%) Customer Experience
14 255 (8.39%) Customer Service
15 245 (8.06%) Process Improvement
16 240 (7.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 238 (7.83%) Business Analysis
18 231 (7.60%) Analytical Thinking
19 228 (7.50%) CRM
20 224 (7.37%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 685 (22.55%) SQL
2 492 (16.19%) Python
3 108 (3.55%) JavaScript
4 94 (3.09%) PowerShell
5 87 (2.86%) Java
6 79 (2.60%) C#
7 76 (2.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 44 (1.45%) T-SQL
9 38 (1.25%) R
9 38 (1.25%) VBA
10 32 (1.05%) Bash
11 25 (0.82%) MATLAB
12 23 (0.76%) C++
13 14 (0.46%) TypeScript
14 13 (0.43%) Go
14 13 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
15 11 (0.36%) PHP
15 11 (0.36%) PL/SQL
16 10 (0.33%) Scala
17 8 (0.26%) C
Qualifications
1 579 (19.06%) Degree
2 245 (8.06%) Security Cleared
3 181 (5.96%) SC Cleared
4 166 (5.46%) ACCA
5 157 (5.17%) CIMA
6 113 (3.72%) DBS Check
7 73 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
8 67 (2.21%) PMI Certification
9 66 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
9 66 (2.17%) IRCA
10 56 (1.84%) Master's Degree
10 56 (1.84%) PMP
11 55 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
12 48 (1.58%) CISSP
13 43 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
14 40 (1.32%) DV Cleared
15 35 (1.15%) CISM
16 28 (0.92%) CCNA
17 27 (0.89%) CCNP
18 24 (0.79%) AAT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 281 (9.25%) Data Quality
2 217 (7.14%) GDPR
3 172 (5.66%) QA
4 138 (4.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 113 (3.72%) Cyber Essentials
6 104 (3.42%) NIST
7 95 (3.13%) PCI DSS
8 83 (2.73%) ISO 9001
9 59 (1.94%) PMO
10 51 (1.68%) SLA
11 43 (1.42%) Actionable Recommendations
12 39 (1.28%) Accessibility
13 34 (1.12%) GRC
14 22 (0.72%) SOC 2
15 17 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 17 (0.56%) GMP
16 15 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 15 (0.49%) TickIT
17 12 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 20000
18 11 (0.36%) COBIT
System Software
1 198 (6.52%) Active Directory
2 76 (2.50%) Hyper-V
3 64 (2.11%) Terminal Server
4 39 (1.28%) Docker
5 34 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (0.33%) vSphere
7 8 (0.26%) ProxySG
7 8 (0.26%) VMware NSX
8 7 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.13%) XenApp
10 3 (0.099%) Firmware
10 3 (0.099%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.099%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.066%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.033%) Embedded Firmware
12 1 (0.033%) KVM
12 1 (0.033%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.033%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 79 (2.60%) Terraform
2 42 (1.38%) Ansible
3 40 (1.32%) Kubernetes
4 25 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (0.59%) Grafana
6 10 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.30%) Prometheus
8 7 (0.23%) QRadar
9 6 (0.20%) Nagios
10 5 (0.16%) Control-M
10 5 (0.16%) Kibana
10 5 (0.16%) SCCM
11 4 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.13%) Backup Exec
11 4 (0.13%) CASB
11 4 (0.13%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 4 (0.13%) Kubeflow
11 4 (0.13%) logstash
11 4 (0.13%) SolarWinds Orion
11 4 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 804 (26.46%) Microsoft
2 137 (4.51%) SAP
3 100 (3.29%) VMware
4 96 (3.16%) Google
5 92 (3.03%) Oracle
6 89 (2.93%) SolarWinds
7 86 (2.83%) Splunk
8 85 (2.80%) Salesforce
9 68 (2.24%) Veeam
10 65 (2.14%) Tanium
11 64 (2.11%) Brocade
11 64 (2.11%) Nimble Storage
11 64 (2.11%) Workday
12 58 (1.91%) ServiceNow
13 57 (1.88%) Databricks
14 44 (1.45%) Cisco
15 31 (1.02%) IBM
16 28 (0.92%) Dell
17 22 (0.72%) Adobe
18 21 (0.69%) Red Hat