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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 8 12
Rank change year-on-year -15 +4 +8
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,322 4,144 4,869
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 5.03% 12.04% 8.93%
As % of the General category 11.37% 18.32% 16.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,502 1,501 1,784
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £27,825
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 £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
% 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 38,001 22,616 29,322
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.25% 65.70% 53.77%
Number of salaries quoted 23,349 11,035 13,530
10th Percentile £28,614 £26,250 £28,686
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% -1.93%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £57,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% -6.14% -5.00%

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 25 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 25 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 1,172 £47,500 +6.74% 1,118
South East -11 985 £49,425 +0.87% 1,336
Midlands -11 747 £46,801 +4.00% 792
North West -14 711 £46,500 +3.33% 642
South West -8 614 £47,500 +5.56% 578
West Midlands -19 382 £47,500 +5.56% 487
East Midlands -4 362 £45,000 +12.50% 304
Yorkshire -10 318 £47,000 +17.50% 369
East of England -13 282 £47,500 +18.75% 485
Wales -3 208 £45,000 -10.40% 134
Northern Ireland +3 182 £43,750 -20.45% 223
North East -20 149 £55,000 +37.50% 112
Scotland -18 146 £46,250 +15.63% 397
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
1 162 (3.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 138 (3.19%) SharePoint
3 55 (1.27%) Confluence
4 31 (0.72%) IIS
5 30 (0.69%) Apache
6 23 (0.53%) Apache Spark
7 18 (0.42%) CMS
8 17 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
9 15 (0.35%) SAS
10 14 (0.32%) WordPress
11 12 (0.28%) Jupyter
12 9 (0.21%) WebLogic
12 9 (0.21%) WebSphere
13 8 (0.19%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 2 (0.046%) nginx
15 2 (0.046%) Office Communications Server
15 2 (0.046%) Oracle Application Server
15 2 (0.046%) Oracle Workflow
16 1 (0.023%) CICS
Applications
1 561 (12.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 269 (6.22%) Microsoft Office
3 86 (1.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 53 (1.23%) MS Visio
5 43 (0.99%) Spreadsheet
6 26 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
7 18 (0.42%) Simulink
8 12 (0.28%) AutoCAD
9 9 (0.21%) SOLIDWORKS
10 7 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 6 (0.14%) CATIA
11 6 (0.14%) EPLAN
11 6 (0.14%) Photoshop
11 6 (0.14%) Siemens NX
12 5 (0.12%) Chatbot
13 3 (0.069%) CANalyzer
13 3 (0.069%) LaTeX
14 2 (0.046%) Adobe Illustrator
14 2 (0.046%) Revit
14 2 (0.046%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 92 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.74%) Dynamics GP
3 31 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
4 24 (0.56%) NetSuite
5 21 (0.49%) Shopify
6 13 (0.30%) Magento
7 12 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
8 10 (0.23%) Infor M3
8 10 (0.23%) SAP Business One
9 9 (0.21%) SAP PM
10 8 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
10 8 (0.19%) SAP ERP
11 7 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
11 7 (0.16%) Workday HCM
12 6 (0.14%) Exchequer
12 6 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
13 5 (0.12%) Elite 3E
13 5 (0.12%) JDE EnterpriseOne
13 5 (0.12%) Odoo
13 5 (0.12%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 673 (15.57%) Azure
2 495 (11.45%) Power Platform
3 377 (8.72%) AWS
4 328 (7.59%) Microsoft 365
5 214 (4.95%) SaaS
6 171 (3.96%) GCP
7 137 (3.17%) Entra ID
8 110 (2.55%) Google Ads
9 99 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
9 99 (2.29%) Dynamics 365
10 91 (2.11%) Google Analytics
11 81 (1.87%) Meta Ads
12 64 (1.48%) GitHub
13 63 (1.46%) Power Automate
14 62 (1.43%) PowerApps
15 55 (1.27%) Serverless
16 50 (1.16%) Amazon S3
17 46 (1.06%) Microsoft Purview
18 45 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
18 45 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 163 (3.77%) DNS
2 127 (2.94%) DHCP
3 107 (2.48%) Firewall
4 96 (2.22%) VPN
5 82 (1.90%) TCP/IP
6 68 (1.57%) WAN
7 61 (1.41%) LAN
8 58 (1.34%) Internet
9 51 (1.18%) Wireless
10 43 (0.99%) Network Security
11 35 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
12 28 (0.65%) VLAN
13 27 (0.62%) HTTP
14 25 (0.58%) Broadband
15 23 (0.53%) VoIP
16 22 (0.51%) SD-WAN
17 21 (0.49%) BGP
17 21 (0.49%) SAN
18 18 (0.42%) SMS
19 17 (0.39%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 441 (10.20%) Power BI
2 124 (2.87%) SQL Server
3 119 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
4 103 (2.38%) Tableau
5 98 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
6 76 (1.76%) Relational Database
7 69 (1.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 65 (1.50%) MySQL
9 60 (1.39%) Power Query
10 52 (1.20%) Metadata
11 48 (1.11%) Looker
11 48 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
12 47 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 42 (0.97%) Data Lake
14 32 (0.74%) Big Data
14 32 (0.74%) BigQuery
15 28 (0.65%) NoSQL
16 27 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
17 26 (0.60%) MongoDB
18 22 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 182 (4.21%) Git
2 156 (3.61%) JIRA
3 35 (0.81%) GitLab
4 34 (0.79%) Jenkins
5 29 (0.67%) Rational DOORS
6 21 (0.49%) Eclipse
7 19 (0.44%) Selenium
8 18 (0.42%) LabVIEW
9 16 (0.37%) Cucumber
9 16 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
10 15 (0.35%) Claude Code
10 15 (0.35%) Postman
11 14 (0.32%) Burp Suite
12 12 (0.28%) Bitbucket
12 12 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
13 11 (0.25%) Metasploit
14 10 (0.23%) Cypress.io
15 9 (0.21%) JMeter
16 8 (0.19%) Moq
16 8 (0.19%) SonarQube
General
1 2,231 (51.62%) Social Skills
2 1,224 (28.32%) Finance
3 501 (11.59%) Marketing
4 397 (9.19%) Organisational Skills
5 336 (7.77%) Manufacturing
6 306 (7.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 293 (6.78%) Retail
8 285 (6.59%) Legal
9 263 (6.09%) Public Sector
10 230 (5.32%) Influencing Skills
11 227 (5.25%) Law
12 200 (4.63%) Aerospace
13 182 (4.21%) Presentation Skills
14 149 (3.45%) Electronics
15 125 (2.89%) Telecoms
16 75 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
17 71 (1.64%) Military
18 68 (1.57%) Automotive
19 67 (1.55%) Advertising
20 64 (1.48%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1,013 (23.44%) Analyst
2 521 (12.05%) Senior
3 278 (6.43%) Lead
4 226 (5.23%) Developer
5 201 (4.65%) Data Analyst
6 186 (4.30%) Business Analyst
7 175 (4.05%) Support Analyst
8 164 (3.79%) Systems Engineer
9 158 (3.66%) Senior Analyst
10 142 (3.29%) Architect
11 117 (2.71%) Data Engineer
12 116 (2.68%) Consultant
13 114 (2.64%) Support Engineer
14 103 (2.38%) IT Support
15 92 (2.13%) Accountant
15 92 (2.13%) Administrator
16 89 (2.06%) Marketing Manager
17 88 (2.04%) Applications Support
18 85 (1.97%) Systems Analyst
19 83 (1.92%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (2.45%) .NET
2 86 (1.99%) REST
3 76 (1.76%) HTML
4 75 (1.74%) Terraform
5 70 (1.62%) CSS
6 63 (1.46%) Middleware
7 60 (1.39%) XML
8 57 (1.32%) JSON
9 52 (1.20%) PySpark
10 51 (1.18%) SOAP
11 49 (1.13%) RESTful
12 43 (0.99%) EDI
13 37 (0.86%) React
14 36 (0.83%) LDAP
15 33 (0.76%) Kafka
16 30 (0.69%) ModSecurity
17 28 (0.65%) Spring
17 28 (0.65%) Spring Boot
18 27 (0.62%) ASP.NET
19 24 (0.56%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 340 (7.87%) Management Information System
2 325 (7.52%) Analytical Mindset
3 246 (5.69%) Onboarding
4 223 (5.16%) Self-Motivation
5 167 (3.86%) Product Ownership
6 155 (3.59%) Driving Licence
7 117 (2.71%) Legacy Systems
8 102 (2.36%) Social Media
9 93 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
10 82 (1.90%) Marketing Technology
11 74 (1.71%) Cloud Native
12 73 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
13 71 (1.64%) Data Centre
13 71 (1.64%) Virtual Team
14 68 (1.57%) Blog
15 50 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
16 47 (1.09%) Security Posture
17 45 (1.04%) Data Structures
18 39 (0.90%) SCADA
19 37 (0.86%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 335 (7.75%) Windows
2 233 (5.39%) Linux
3 184 (4.26%) Windows Server
4 89 (2.06%) Windows Server 2016
5 30 (0.69%) Mac OS
6 29 (0.67%) Windows 10
7 24 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
8 22 (0.51%) Unix
9 15 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 14 (0.32%) Android
11 11 (0.25%) Apple iOS
12 9 (0.21%) CentOS
13 7 (0.16%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.14%) Debian
14 6 (0.14%) VMS
15 5 (0.12%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.093%) CoreOS
17 2 (0.046%) Solaris
18 1 (0.023%) Windows Server 2012
18 1 (0.023%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,159 (49.95%) Problem-Solving
2 1,403 (32.46%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,096 (25.36%) Decision-Making
4 828 (19.16%) Stakeholder Management
5 741 (17.14%) Analytics
6 684 (15.83%) AI
7 648 (14.99%) Agile
8 572 (13.23%) Business Intelligence
9 479 (11.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 437 (10.11%) Validation
11 425 (9.83%) Customer Service
12 420 (9.72%) ERP
13 416 (9.63%) CRM
14 412 (9.53%) Mentoring
15 388 (8.98%) Data Analysis
16 385 (8.91%) Actionable Insight
17 350 (8.10%) ITIL
18 346 (8.01%) Collaborative Working
19 344 (7.96%) Project Delivery
20 342 (7.91%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 789 (18.26%) SQL
2 449 (10.39%) Python
3 156 (3.61%) JavaScript
4 134 (3.10%) Java
5 119 (2.75%) C#
6 107 (2.48%) PowerShell
7 77 (1.78%) C++
8 65 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 58 (1.34%) Bash
10 45 (1.04%) MATLAB
10 45 (1.04%) TypeScript
11 42 (0.97%) Shell Script
12 41 (0.95%) T-SQL
13 33 (0.76%) C
14 31 (0.72%) R
15 21 (0.49%) PL/SQL
16 20 (0.46%) PHP
17 19 (0.44%) VB.NET
18 17 (0.39%) Scala
19 16 (0.37%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 873 (20.20%) Degree
2 523 (12.10%) Security Cleared
3 361 (8.35%) SC Cleared
4 174 (4.03%) ACCA
5 166 (3.84%) CIMA
6 125 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
7 118 (2.73%) DV Cleared
8 109 (2.52%) DBS Check
9 93 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
10 74 (1.71%) HND
11 72 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
12 67 (1.55%) CISSP
13 63 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
14 53 (1.23%) HNC
15 52 (1.20%) CISM
16 47 (1.09%) CompTIA Security+
17 46 (1.06%) Azure Certification
18 41 (0.95%) CCNA
19 38 (0.88%) Master's Degree
20 35 (0.81%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 406 (9.39%) Data Quality
2 265 (6.13%) QA
3 205 (4.74%) GDPR
4 137 (3.17%) Cyber Essentials
5 134 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 123 (2.85%) Accessibility
7 102 (2.36%) PCI DSS
8 86 (1.99%) SLA
9 68 (1.57%) NIST
10 52 (1.20%) ISO 9001
11 43 (0.99%) PMO
12 38 (0.88%) GRC
13 26 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
13 26 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 26 (0.60%) DO-254
13 26 (0.60%) IFRS
14 21 (0.49%) ISO 14001
15 19 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 18 (0.42%) Good Clinical Practice
17 17 (0.39%) TickIT
System Software
1 280 (6.48%) Active Directory
2 134 (3.10%) Docker
3 100 (2.31%) Hyper-V
4 72 (1.67%) Terminal Server
5 41 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
6 40 (0.93%) Firmware
7 14 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
9 10 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.16%) Ceph
10 7 (0.16%) VMware NSX
11 5 (0.12%) vSphere
12 4 (0.093%) KVM
12 4 (0.093%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.093%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.069%) DFS Replication
14 1 (0.023%) IAG
14 1 (0.023%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.023%) VirtualBox
14 1 (0.023%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 64 (1.48%) Kubernetes
2 49 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 38 (0.88%) Ansible
4 28 (0.65%) Grafana
5 25 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
6 23 (0.53%) Prometheus
7 16 (0.37%) Kibana
8 15 (0.35%) QRadar
9 11 (0.25%) Nmap
9 11 (0.25%) Podman
10 9 (0.21%) Functional Safety
11 8 (0.19%) logstash
12 7 (0.16%) Argo
12 7 (0.16%) Check_MK
12 7 (0.16%) Istio
13 6 (0.14%) Graylog
14 5 (0.12%) Nagios
15 4 (0.093%) FortiGate
15 4 (0.093%) SCCM
15 4 (0.093%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 1,141 (26.40%) Microsoft
2 301 (6.96%) Google
3 141 (3.26%) SAP
4 131 (3.03%) VMware
5 127 (2.94%) Splunk
6 110 (2.55%) Oracle
7 90 (2.08%) Salesforce
8 85 (1.97%) SolarWinds
9 79 (1.83%) Veeam
10 73 (1.69%) Brocade
10 73 (1.69%) Nimble Storage
11 72 (1.67%) Tanium
12 71 (1.64%) ServiceNow
13 64 (1.48%) Cisco
14 58 (1.34%) YouTube
15 51 (1.18%) Databricks
16 42 (0.97%) HubSpot
17 40 (0.93%) Adobe
18 36 (0.83%) Workday
19 32 (0.74%) IBM