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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 9 15
Rank change year-on-year -20 +6 +6
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 2,887 3,564 6,213
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.37% 12.30% 9.05%
As % of the General category 9.34% 17.25% 15.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,927 1,419 3,589
10th Percentile £31,125 £29,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £32,600
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +11.11% -3.84%
75th Percentile £62,631 £63,750 £59,998
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% +10.00% -8.90%

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 30,899 20,664 39,742
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 46.79% 71.30% 57.88%
Number of salaries quoted 16,808 9,444 26,334
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £75,600
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 16 May 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 16 May 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 -29 879 £47,500 -5.00% 393
South East -3 747 £50,000 -8.26% 540
Midlands -23 537 £48,000 +0.52% 257
North West -30 507 £45,000 -10.00% 224
West Midlands -28 322 £50,000 +4.71% 159
Yorkshire -10 288 £52,500 +16.67% 121
South West -31 259 £47,500 -5.00% 172
East of England -21 246 £45,000 -11.71% 189
East Midlands 0 213 £45,000 -6.25% 96
Scotland -30 124 £40,000 -20.71% 86
North East -27 84 £48,445 +25.83% 56
Wales -4 75 £51,709 +0.51% 47
Northern Ireland -32 34 £52,500 -4.55% 29
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
1 111 (3.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 72 (2.49%) SharePoint
3 29 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
4 28 (0.97%) Apache Spark
4 28 (0.97%) CMS
5 27 (0.94%) Confluence
6 18 (0.62%) IIS
7 16 (0.55%) Apache
8 9 (0.31%) WordPress
9 7 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.14%) nginx
10 4 (0.14%) SAS
11 3 (0.10%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.10%) govService
11 3 (0.10%) JBoss
12 2 (0.069%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.035%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.035%) Appian
13 1 (0.035%) Kinematics
13 1 (0.035%) OpenStack
Applications
1 410 (14.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 165 (5.72%) Microsoft Office
3 64 (2.22%) MS Visio
4 43 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 22 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
6 12 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
7 10 (0.35%) CATIA
8 4 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.14%) Trello
9 3 (0.10%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.069%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.069%) Lectora
10 2 (0.069%) Simulink
11 1 (0.035%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.035%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.035%) Sketch
11 1 (0.035%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 46 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (1.11%) Salesforce CRM
3 23 (0.80%) NetSuite
4 22 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
5 15 (0.52%) SAP PM
6 14 (0.48%) SAP CO
6 14 (0.48%) SAP ERP
7 7 (0.24%) Magento
7 7 (0.24%) Workday HCM
8 6 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
8 6 (0.21%) SAP PP
9 5 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
9 5 (0.17%) Q-Pulse
9 5 (0.17%) SAP FI
9 5 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
9 5 (0.17%) SAP GTS
10 4 (0.14%) Infor M3
10 4 (0.14%) JDE OneWorld
10 4 (0.14%) JDE World
10 4 (0.14%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 466 (16.14%) Azure
2 401 (13.89%) Power Platform
3 248 (8.59%) AWS
4 232 (8.04%) Microsoft 365
5 112 (3.88%) SaaS
6 97 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
7 85 (2.94%) GCP
8 80 (2.77%) Dynamics 365
9 73 (2.53%) Entra ID
10 62 (2.15%) GitHub
11 50 (1.73%) Microsoft Purview
11 50 (1.73%) Power Automate
12 49 (1.70%) Google Analytics
13 43 (1.49%) Snowflake
14 42 (1.45%) dbt
15 41 (1.42%) PowerApps
16 38 (1.32%) Azure Data Factory
17 36 (1.25%) Amazon S3
18 34 (1.18%) Serverless
19 27 (0.94%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 120 (4.16%) Firewall
2 92 (3.19%) DNS
3 72 (2.49%) VPN
4 63 (2.18%) DHCP
5 59 (2.04%) WAN
6 43 (1.49%) LAN
6 43 (1.49%) Wireless
7 38 (1.32%) TCP/IP
8 31 (1.07%) Network Security
8 31 (1.07%) Wi-Fi
9 30 (1.04%) Broadband
10 27 (0.94%) VLAN
11 26 (0.90%) SAN
12 25 (0.87%) BGP
12 25 (0.87%) Wireshark
13 23 (0.80%) SD-WAN
14 22 (0.76%) Cisco ASA
15 17 (0.59%) EIGRP
15 17 (0.59%) OSPF
16 15 (0.52%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 361 (12.50%) Power BI
2 230 (7.97%) Tableau
3 115 (3.98%) Data Mining
4 97 (3.36%) SQL Server
5 71 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
6 55 (1.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 52 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
8 38 (1.32%) Looker
9 36 (1.25%) Power Query
10 35 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
10 35 (1.21%) Metadata
11 34 (1.18%) MySQL
11 34 (1.18%) Relational Database
11 34 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 30 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
13 28 (0.97%) Data Lake
14 25 (0.87%) NoSQL
15 20 (0.69%) BigQuery
16 19 (0.66%) Big Data
16 19 (0.66%) GIS
Development Applications
1 96 (3.33%) JIRA
2 69 (2.39%) Git
3 29 (1.00%) GitLab
4 28 (0.97%) Rational DOORS
5 19 (0.66%) Jenkins
6 14 (0.48%) Selenium
7 11 (0.38%) MLflow
8 10 (0.35%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.31%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.28%) LabVIEW
11 7 (0.24%) Moq
11 7 (0.24%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.21%) Maven
12 6 (0.21%) Subversion
13 5 (0.17%) ERwin
13 5 (0.17%) JMeter
13 5 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
13 5 (0.17%) Postman
14 4 (0.14%) ER Studio
14 4 (0.14%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 1,317 (45.62%) Social Skills
2 900 (31.17%) Finance
3 247 (8.56%) Marketing
4 173 (5.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 155 (5.37%) Public Sector
6 144 (4.99%) Organisational Skills
7 142 (4.92%) Retail
8 140 (4.85%) Manufacturing
9 130 (4.50%) Law
10 122 (4.23%) Legal
11 90 (3.12%) Influencing Skills
12 87 (3.01%) Telecoms
13 71 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
14 66 (2.29%) Electronics
15 59 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
16 58 (2.01%) Aerospace
17 42 (1.45%) Banking
18 40 (1.39%) Games
18 40 (1.39%) Military
19 33 (1.14%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 840 (29.10%) Analyst
2 332 (11.50%) Senior
3 239 (8.28%) Data Analyst
4 185 (6.41%) Lead
5 163 (5.65%) Business Analyst
6 159 (5.51%) Developer
7 111 (3.84%) Architect
8 110 (3.81%) Systems Engineer
9 96 (3.33%) Trainee
10 94 (3.26%) Trainee Analyst
10 94 (3.26%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 88 (3.05%) Support Analyst
12 81 (2.81%) Senior Analyst
13 77 (2.67%) Support Engineer
14 75 (2.60%) IT Support
15 72 (2.49%) Consultant
16 71 (2.46%) Systems Analyst
17 66 (2.29%) Head of QA
17 66 (2.29%) Senior Manager
18 59 (2.04%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (2.74%) HTML
2 69 (2.39%) CSS
3 62 (2.15%) .NET
4 58 (2.01%) REST
5 57 (1.97%) Middleware
6 55 (1.91%) JSON
7 52 (1.80%) React
8 51 (1.77%) XML
9 39 (1.35%) SOAP
10 35 (1.21%) Node.js
11 25 (0.87%) PyTorch
12 20 (0.69%) scikit-learn
13 19 (0.66%) PySpark
13 19 (0.66%) TensorFlow
14 17 (0.59%) EDI
14 17 (0.59%) OAuth
14 17 (0.59%) Pandas
14 17 (0.59%) React Native
15 16 (0.55%) RabbitMQ
16 14 (0.48%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 357 (12.37%) Analytical Mindset
2 136 (4.71%) Management Information System
3 116 (4.02%) Onboarding
4 114 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
5 113 (3.91%) Product Ownership
6 72 (2.49%) Data Centre
7 65 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
8 63 (2.18%) Driving Licence
9 41 (1.42%) Cloud Native
10 34 (1.18%) Algorithms
11 33 (1.14%) Low-Code
12 31 (1.07%) Virtual Team
13 30 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
13 30 (1.04%) Social Media
14 29 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
14 29 (1.00%) FMCG
14 29 (1.00%) Security Posture
15 28 (0.97%) Data Structures
16 26 (0.90%) Mobile App
17 24 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 218 (7.55%) Windows
2 115 (3.98%) Linux
2 115 (3.98%) Windows Server
3 48 (1.66%) Windows Server 2016
4 19 (0.66%) Unix
5 14 (0.48%) Android
5 14 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.28%) VMS
8 7 (0.24%) CentOS
8 7 (0.24%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.21%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.14%) Windows 10
12 3 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.069%) Debian
14 1 (0.035%) AIX
14 1 (0.035%) OpenBSD
14 1 (0.035%) Solaris
14 1 (0.035%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,304 (45.17%) Problem-Solving
2 776 (26.88%) Continuous Improvement
3 617 (21.37%) Analytics
4 602 (20.85%) Decision-Making
5 437 (15.14%) Agile
6 415 (14.37%) Business Intelligence
7 360 (12.47%) Stakeholder Management
8 321 (11.12%) AI
9 311 (10.77%) Project Management
10 283 (9.80%) Actionable Insight
11 275 (9.53%) Data Analysis
12 261 (9.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 253 (8.76%) ERP
14 234 (8.11%) CRM
15 233 (8.07%) Cybersecurity
16 225 (7.79%) Customer Service
17 223 (7.72%) Data Modelling
17 223 (7.72%) Mentoring
18 208 (7.20%) Data Governance
19 206 (7.14%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 636 (22.03%) SQL
2 482 (16.70%) Python
3 101 (3.50%) JavaScript
4 98 (3.39%) PowerShell
5 92 (3.19%) Java
6 84 (2.91%) C#
7 55 (1.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 41 (1.42%) R
8 41 (1.42%) T-SQL
9 39 (1.35%) C++
10 37 (1.28%) Bash
11 36 (1.25%) VBA
12 28 (0.97%) MATLAB
13 15 (0.52%) Go
13 15 (0.52%) PHP
13 15 (0.52%) PL/SQL
14 13 (0.45%) Scala
15 12 (0.42%) TypeScript
16 10 (0.35%) C
17 9 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 509 (17.63%) Degree
2 213 (7.38%) Security Cleared
3 148 (5.13%) ACCA
4 145 (5.02%) SC Cleared
5 141 (4.88%) CIMA
6 130 (4.50%) DBS Check
7 71 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
8 70 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
9 66 (2.29%) IRCA
10 63 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
11 56 (1.94%) PMI Certification
12 49 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
13 48 (1.66%) PMP
14 42 (1.45%) CISSP
14 42 (1.45%) DV Cleared
15 36 (1.25%) CompTIA Security+
16 34 (1.18%) CCNA
17 31 (1.07%) CISM
18 28 (0.97%) CCNP
18 28 (0.97%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 290 (10.05%) Data Quality
2 229 (7.93%) GDPR
3 175 (6.06%) QA
4 140 (4.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 101 (3.50%) NIST
6 94 (3.26%) Cyber Essentials
6 94 (3.26%) ISO 9001
7 77 (2.67%) PCI DSS
8 63 (2.18%) SLA
9 45 (1.56%) Accessibility
10 44 (1.52%) PMO
11 37 (1.28%) GRC
12 33 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
13 19 (0.66%) SOC 2
14 17 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 17 (0.59%) GMP
14 17 (0.59%) TickIT
15 15 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 14 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 13 (0.45%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 163 (5.65%) Active Directory
2 50 (1.73%) Hyper-V
3 42 (1.45%) Docker
4 40 (1.39%) Terminal Server
5 30 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
6 12 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.35%) vSphere
8 9 (0.31%) VMware NSX
9 8 (0.28%) ProxySG
10 7 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
11 4 (0.14%) Firmware
11 4 (0.14%) XenApp
12 3 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.069%) VMware ESXi
14 1 (0.035%) Embedded Firmware
14 1 (0.035%) KVM
14 1 (0.035%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.035%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 67 (2.32%) Terraform
2 41 (1.42%) Kubernetes
3 37 (1.28%) Ansible
4 29 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (0.59%) Grafana
6 9 (0.31%) Kibana
6 9 (0.31%) QRadar
6 9 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.28%) Prometheus
8 7 (0.24%) Nagios
9 5 (0.17%) Graylog
9 5 (0.17%) Kubeflow
9 5 (0.17%) logstash
10 4 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.14%) Backup Exec
10 4 (0.14%) CASB
10 4 (0.14%) Control-M
10 4 (0.14%) SCCM
10 4 (0.14%) SolarWinds Orion
10 4 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 721 (24.97%) Microsoft
2 129 (4.47%) SAP
3 111 (3.84%) Google
4 93 (3.22%) Salesforce
5 86 (2.98%) Oracle
6 72 (2.49%) VMware
7 67 (2.32%) Splunk
7 67 (2.32%) Workday
8 62 (2.15%) SolarWinds
9 60 (2.08%) Databricks
10 53 (1.84%) ServiceNow
11 48 (1.66%) Veeam
12 45 (1.56%) Cisco
13 41 (1.42%) Tanium
14 40 (1.39%) Brocade
14 40 (1.39%) Nimble Storage
15 34 (1.18%) IBM
16 31 (1.07%) Dell
17 25 (0.87%) Adobe
17 25 (0.87%) HubSpot