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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 12 18
Rank change year-on-year -16 +6 +2
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,046 3,025 4,987
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 5.90% 10.69% 8.62%
As % of the General category 11.50% 15.73% 14.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,674 1,404 3,354
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,967 £45,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.71% +12.02% -4.21%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £60,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,480
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 26,495 19,230 34,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 51.32% 67.98% 59.55%
Number of salaries quoted 13,850 9,071 24,547
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,716 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,568 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £76,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.38%

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 March 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 March 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 -18 828 £45,000 -10.00% 409
South East +10 802 £50,000 -1.90% 677
Midlands -14 583 £45,000 -6.25% 336
North West -16 428 £43,000 -18.10% 238
West Midlands -16 354 £51,250 +2.50% 198
South West -11 289 £45,000 -12.49% 236
Yorkshire +2 288 £48,445 +7.65% 137
East of England -23 256 £40,000 -21.52% 259
East Midlands +1 228 £40,000 -5.88% 137
Scotland -18 199 £40,000 -27.27% 106
North East -6 112 £43,000 +8.91% 38
Wales +14 71 £40,000 -19.38% 66
Northern Ireland -19 45 £52,500 -4.55% 21
Isle of Man -4 1 £62,500 +123.21% 5
Channel Islands -7 1 - -
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
1 125 (4.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 49 (1.61%) Confluence
3 46 (1.51%) SharePoint
4 29 (0.95%) CMS
5 24 (0.79%) Apache Spark
6 22 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
7 15 (0.49%) Apache
8 14 (0.46%) IIS
9 10 (0.33%) SAS
9 10 (0.33%) WordPress
10 4 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.13%) nginx
11 3 (0.098%) govService
12 2 (0.066%) JBoss
13 1 (0.033%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.033%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.033%) BizTalk Server
13 1 (0.033%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.033%) Kinematics
13 1 (0.033%) OpenStack
Applications
1 503 (16.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 274 (9.00%) Chatbot
3 213 (6.99%) Microsoft Office
4 77 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 51 (1.67%) MS Visio
6 25 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
7 19 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
8 9 (0.30%) CATIA
9 5 (0.16%) AutoCAD
10 3 (0.098%) Trello
11 2 (0.066%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.066%) Revit
11 2 (0.066%) Simulink
12 1 (0.033%) OrCAD
12 1 (0.033%) Siemens NX
12 1 (0.033%) Sketch
12 1 (0.033%) SmartSuite
12 1 (0.033%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 49 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (0.82%) NetSuite
2 25 (0.82%) Salesforce CRM
3 20 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
4 17 (0.56%) SAP CO
5 15 (0.49%) SAP MDG
6 13 (0.43%) Workday HCM
7 11 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
7 11 (0.36%) SAP ERP
8 10 (0.33%) Sage X3
8 10 (0.33%) SAP PM
9 8 (0.26%) SAP FI
9 8 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
10 5 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
10 5 (0.16%) Q-Pulse
10 5 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
11 4 (0.13%) Markit EDM
11 4 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
11 4 (0.13%) Shopify
12 3 (0.098%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 465 (15.27%) Azure
2 361 (11.85%) Power Platform
3 213 (6.99%) Microsoft 365
4 196 (6.43%) AWS
5 130 (4.27%) SaaS
6 118 (3.87%) Azure DevOps
7 72 (2.36%) Dynamics 365
8 65 (2.13%) Entra ID
9 60 (1.97%) GitHub
10 52 (1.71%) Azure Data Factory
11 47 (1.54%) GCP
12 46 (1.51%) Snowflake
13 40 (1.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 38 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
15 37 (1.21%) dbt
16 35 (1.15%) Power Automate
17 32 (1.05%) Amazon S3
18 29 (0.95%) Google Analytics
18 29 (0.95%) Serverless
19 26 (0.85%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 126 (4.14%) DNS
2 102 (3.35%) DHCP
2 102 (3.35%) Firewall
3 52 (1.71%) VPN
4 51 (1.67%) WAN
5 47 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
6 45 (1.48%) LAN
6 45 (1.48%) Wireless
7 40 (1.31%) TCP/IP
8 33 (1.08%) VLAN
9 32 (1.05%) Wireshark
10 31 (1.02%) Network Security
10 31 (1.02%) Remote Desktop
11 24 (0.79%) VoIP
12 23 (0.76%) SD-WAN
13 19 (0.62%) Broadband
14 18 (0.59%) BGP
14 18 (0.59%) SAN
15 17 (0.56%) EIGRP
15 17 (0.56%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 328 (10.77%) Power BI
2 257 (8.44%) Tableau
3 162 (5.32%) Data Mining
4 117 (3.84%) SQL Server
5 81 (2.66%) Amazon RDS
6 70 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
7 55 (1.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 51 (1.67%) Metadata
9 46 (1.51%) Relational Database
10 38 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
11 36 (1.18%) Looker
11 36 (1.18%) MySQL
12 35 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
13 28 (0.92%) Data Lake
13 28 (0.92%) GIS
13 28 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
13 28 (0.92%) Power Query
14 23 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 21 (0.69%) NoSQL
16 16 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 116 (3.81%) JIRA
2 70 (2.30%) Git
3 24 (0.79%) Selenium
4 23 (0.76%) GitLab
5 15 (0.49%) Robot Framework
6 14 (0.46%) Jenkins
7 13 (0.43%) Snyk
8 9 (0.30%) ERwin
9 8 (0.26%) ER Studio
9 8 (0.26%) LabVIEW
10 6 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
10 6 (0.20%) Rational DOORS
10 6 (0.20%) Subversion
10 6 (0.20%) TestRail
11 5 (0.16%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.16%) Oracle APEX
11 5 (0.16%) Postman
12 4 (0.13%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.13%) IDA Disassembler
12 4 (0.13%) MLflow
General
1 1,476 (48.46%) Social Skills
2 880 (28.89%) Finance
3 213 (6.99%) Marketing
4 164 (5.38%) Retail
5 150 (4.92%) Organisational Skills
6 133 (4.37%) Legal
7 132 (4.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 123 (4.04%) Public Sector
9 117 (3.84%) Law
10 112 (3.68%) Manufacturing
11 107 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
12 78 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
13 66 (2.17%) Telecoms
14 64 (2.10%) Banking
15 57 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
16 44 (1.44%) Electronics
17 38 (1.25%) Aerospace
18 34 (1.12%) Automotive
18 34 (1.12%) Games
19 32 (1.05%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 804 (26.40%) Analyst
2 297 (9.75%) Senior
3 274 (9.00%) Trainer
4 251 (8.24%) Data Analyst
5 195 (6.40%) Lead
6 146 (4.79%) Developer
7 143 (4.69%) Trainee
8 136 (4.46%) Trainee Analyst
8 136 (4.46%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 121 (3.97%) Business Analyst
10 119 (3.91%) Support Analyst
11 116 (3.81%) IT Support
12 104 (3.41%) Architect
13 90 (2.95%) Systems Engineer
14 83 (2.72%) Support Engineer
15 82 (2.69%) Senior Analyst
16 72 (2.36%) Financial Analyst
17 67 (2.20%) Business Manager
18 63 (2.07%) Systems Manager
19 62 (2.04%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (2.59%) HTML
2 69 (2.27%) CSS
3 59 (1.94%) React
4 49 (1.61%) .NET
5 37 (1.21%) JSON
6 33 (1.08%) Node.js
7 31 (1.02%) REST
8 27 (0.89%) XML
9 21 (0.69%) Middleware
10 20 (0.66%) SOAP
11 16 (0.53%) Bootstrap
11 16 (0.53%) PySpark
11 16 (0.53%) React Native
12 13 (0.43%) PyTorch
12 13 (0.43%) TensorFlow
13 12 (0.39%) Flash
14 11 (0.36%) Oracle Fusion
14 11 (0.36%) Pandas
15 10 (0.33%) OAuth
15 10 (0.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 289 (9.49%) Analytical Mindset
2 204 (6.70%) Self-Motivation
3 163 (5.35%) Onboarding
4 146 (4.79%) Management Information System
5 102 (3.35%) Product Ownership
6 99 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
7 57 (1.87%) Data Centre
8 54 (1.77%) Driving Licence
9 45 (1.48%) Cloud Native
10 38 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
11 37 (1.21%) Algorithms
11 37 (1.21%) Robotics
12 36 (1.18%) Data Structures
13 34 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
13 34 (1.12%) Social Media
14 31 (1.02%) Low-Code
15 30 (0.98%) FMCG
16 29 (0.95%) Virtual Team
17 28 (0.92%) Security Posture
18 27 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 251 (8.24%) Windows
2 150 (4.92%) Linux
3 131 (4.30%) Windows Server
4 76 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
5 19 (0.62%) Unix
6 17 (0.56%) Android
7 13 (0.43%) Mac OS
8 8 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (0.23%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.16%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.13%) CentOS
11 4 (0.13%) VMS
11 4 (0.13%) Windows 10
12 3 (0.098%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.066%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.033%) Debian
14 1 (0.033%) OpenBSD
14 1 (0.033%) OpenWrt
14 1 (0.033%) Robot Operating System
14 1 (0.033%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,323 (43.43%) Problem-Solving
2 746 (24.49%) Continuous Improvement
3 622 (20.42%) AI
4 599 (19.67%) Analytics
5 569 (18.68%) Decision-Making
6 463 (15.20%) Agile
7 439 (14.41%) Project Management
8 409 (13.43%) Business Intelligence
9 355 (11.65%) Data Analysis
10 334 (10.97%) Stakeholder Management
11 290 (9.52%) Customer Service
12 277 (9.09%) Chemistry
13 274 (9.00%) Conversational UI
14 244 (8.01%) ERP
15 241 (7.91%) Customer Experience
16 238 (7.81%) Analytical Thinking
16 238 (7.81%) Mentoring
17 233 (7.65%) Business Analysis
18 232 (7.62%) Actionable Insight
19 231 (7.58%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 651 (21.37%) SQL
2 465 (15.27%) Python
3 93 (3.05%) JavaScript
4 84 (2.76%) C#
5 80 (2.63%) PowerShell
6 67 (2.20%) Java
7 64 (2.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 39 (1.28%) T-SQL
9 38 (1.25%) R
9 38 (1.25%) VBA
10 28 (0.92%) C++
11 25 (0.82%) Bash
12 18 (0.59%) MATLAB
13 15 (0.49%) C
14 11 (0.36%) TypeScript
15 10 (0.33%) PL/SQL
16 9 (0.30%) Scala
17 8 (0.26%) Go
17 8 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
17 8 (0.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 862 (28.30%) Degree
2 325 (10.67%) Master's Degree
3 279 (9.16%) PhD
4 258 (8.47%) Security Cleared
5 190 (6.24%) SC Cleared
6 134 (4.40%) ACCA
7 124 (4.07%) CIMA
8 84 (2.76%) DBS Check
9 63 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
10 58 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
11 56 (1.84%) PMI Certification
12 47 (1.54%) PMP
13 45 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
13 45 (1.48%) DV Cleared
14 43 (1.41%) CISSP
15 36 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
16 33 (1.08%) IRCA
17 28 (0.92%) CISM
18 26 (0.85%) AAT
18 26 (0.85%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 200 (6.57%) Data Quality
2 157 (5.15%) GDPR
3 143 (4.69%) QA
4 121 (3.97%) Cyber Essentials
5 114 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 95 (3.12%) PCI DSS
7 87 (2.86%) NIST
8 58 (1.90%) PMO
9 40 (1.31%) ISO 9001
10 37 (1.21%) Actionable Recommendations
11 35 (1.15%) Accessibility
12 27 (0.89%) SLA
13 21 (0.69%) GRC
14 17 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 17 (0.56%) GMP
15 13 (0.43%) SOC 2
16 12 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 11 (0.36%) NCSC
18 8 (0.26%) IFRS
19 7 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 188 (6.17%) Active Directory
2 87 (2.86%) Hyper-V
3 72 (2.36%) Terminal Server
4 32 (1.05%) Docker
5 24 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
6 11 (0.36%) vSphere
7 7 (0.23%) Firmware
7 7 (0.23%) ProxySG
8 6 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.098%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.098%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.098%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.098%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.098%) XenApp
10 2 (0.066%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.033%) KVM
Systems Management
1 73 (2.40%) Terraform
2 40 (1.31%) Ansible
3 32 (1.05%) Kubernetes
4 22 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (0.39%) Grafana
6 11 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.23%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.20%) Nagios
9 5 (0.16%) Control-M
9 5 (0.16%) SCCM
10 4 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.13%) Backup Exec
10 4 (0.13%) CASB
10 4 (0.13%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 4 (0.13%) Nessus
10 4 (0.13%) QRadar
10 4 (0.13%) SolarWinds Orion
10 4 (0.13%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.066%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.066%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 768 (25.21%) Microsoft
2 274 (9.00%) PayPal
3 155 (5.09%) SAP
4 108 (3.55%) Oracle
5 100 (3.28%) SolarWinds
6 97 (3.18%) VMware
7 90 (2.95%) Splunk
8 77 (2.53%) Veeam
9 73 (2.40%) Tanium
10 72 (2.36%) Brocade
10 72 (2.36%) Nimble Storage
11 65 (2.13%) Salesforce
12 60 (1.97%) Google
13 56 (1.84%) ServiceNow
14 48 (1.58%) Cisco
15 43 (1.41%) Workday
16 33 (1.08%) Databricks
17 22 (0.72%) Adobe
18 20 (0.66%) Anaplan
18 20 (0.66%) Dell