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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 12 17
Rank change year-on-year -18 +5 +3
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,028 2,939 5,149
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 5.66% 10.66% 8.70%
As % of the General category 11.11% 15.64% 14.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,724 1,415 3,400
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,100 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,894 £50,967 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.95% +13.26% -5.26%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
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 27,261 18,791 35,092
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 50.93% 68.14% 59.31%
Number of salaries quoted 14,299 9,194 24,770
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,387 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.10% +10.29% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £76,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +12.15% -10.83%

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 17 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 17 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 -20 814 £45,000 -10.00% 399
South East +5 808 £50,000 -1.90% 604
Midlands -16 579 £46,000 -4.17% 312
North West -18 428 £42,500 -19.05% 233
West Midlands -16 354 £51,300 +2.60% 198
Yorkshire +1 276 £48,445 +7.65% 126
South West -14 274 £45,000 -12.98% 186
East of England -25 256 £42,175 -17.25% 147
East Midlands -3 224 £41,750 -4.02% 114
Scotland -18 191 £40,000 -23.81% 104
North East -7 110 £45,000 +15.09% 44
Wales +12 75 £40,000 -20.20% 53
Northern Ireland -18 50 £52,500 -4.55% 17
Isle of Man -3 1 £62,500 +101.61% 1
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
1 126 (4.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 50 (1.65%) SharePoint
3 47 (1.55%) Confluence
4 33 (1.09%) CMS
5 25 (0.83%) Apache Spark
6 23 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
7 15 (0.50%) 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 (0.099%) govService
12 2 (0.066%) JBoss
13 1 (0.033%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.033%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.033%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.033%) BizTalk Server
13 1 (0.033%) Kinematics
13 1 (0.033%) OpenStack
Applications
1 506 (16.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 213 (7.03%) Microsoft Office
3 185 (6.11%) Chatbot
4 78 (2.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 56 (1.85%) MS Visio
6 23 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
7 22 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
8 8 (0.26%) CATIA
9 5 (0.17%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.13%) 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%) Sketch
12 1 (0.033%) SmartSuite
12 1 (0.033%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 51 (1.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (0.89%) NetSuite
2 27 (0.89%) Salesforce CRM
3 20 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
4 16 (0.53%) SAP CO
5 15 (0.50%) SAP MDG
6 12 (0.40%) Workday HCM
7 10 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
7 10 (0.33%) Sage X3
7 10 (0.33%) SAP ERP
7 10 (0.33%) SAP PM
8 7 (0.23%) SAP FI
8 7 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
9 5 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
9 5 (0.17%) Q-Pulse
9 5 (0.17%) SAP Hybris
10 4 (0.13%) Markit EDM
10 4 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
10 4 (0.13%) Shopify
11 3 (0.099%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 481 (15.89%) Azure
2 361 (11.92%) Power Platform
3 221 (7.30%) Microsoft 365
4 211 (6.97%) AWS
5 133 (4.39%) SaaS
6 124 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
7 72 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
8 65 (2.15%) Entra ID
9 63 (2.08%) GitHub
10 56 (1.85%) GCP
11 52 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
12 43 (1.42%) Snowflake
13 40 (1.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 40 (1.32%) dbt
13 40 (1.32%) Microsoft Purview
14 37 (1.22%) Power Automate
15 32 (1.06%) Amazon S3
16 31 (1.02%) Google Analytics
17 30 (0.99%) Serverless
18 26 (0.86%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 127 (4.19%) DNS
2 104 (3.43%) Firewall
3 103 (3.40%) DHCP
4 56 (1.85%) VPN
5 53 (1.75%) WAN
6 48 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
7 47 (1.55%) LAN
7 47 (1.55%) Wireless
8 39 (1.29%) TCP/IP
9 33 (1.09%) VLAN
10 32 (1.06%) Network Security
10 32 (1.06%) Wireshark
11 27 (0.89%) Remote Desktop
12 25 (0.83%) VoIP
13 24 (0.79%) SD-WAN
14 23 (0.76%) Broadband
15 20 (0.66%) BGP
16 19 (0.63%) Cisco ASA
16 19 (0.63%) SAN
17 18 (0.59%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 329 (10.87%) Power BI
2 260 (8.59%) Tableau
3 165 (5.45%) Data Mining
4 120 (3.96%) SQL Server
5 81 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
6 71 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
7 55 (1.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 49 (1.62%) Metadata
9 46 (1.52%) Relational Database
10 42 (1.39%) Looker
11 38 (1.25%) MySQL
12 37 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
13 35 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
14 29 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
14 29 (0.96%) Power Query
15 28 (0.92%) Data Lake
16 27 (0.89%) GIS
17 23 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 22 (0.73%) NoSQL
19 17 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 119 (3.93%) JIRA
2 73 (2.41%) Git
3 26 (0.86%) GitLab
3 26 (0.86%) Selenium
4 16 (0.53%) Jenkins
5 15 (0.50%) Robot Framework
6 13 (0.43%) Snyk
7 8 (0.26%) ERwin
7 8 (0.26%) LabVIEW
8 7 (0.23%) Cypress.io
8 7 (0.23%) ER Studio
8 7 (0.23%) Postman
8 7 (0.23%) Rational DOORS
9 6 (0.20%) MLflow
9 6 (0.20%) Subversion
9 6 (0.20%) TestRail
10 5 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
10 5 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
11 4 (0.13%) IDA Disassembler
11 4 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,494 (49.34%) Social Skills
2 912 (30.12%) Finance
3 225 (7.43%) Marketing
4 155 (5.12%) Organisational Skills
4 155 (5.12%) Retail
5 136 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 134 (4.43%) Legal
7 131 (4.33%) Public Sector
8 117 (3.86%) Law
9 116 (3.83%) Manufacturing
10 108 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
11 80 (2.64%) Influencing Skills
12 68 (2.25%) Telecoms
13 64 (2.11%) Banking
14 56 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
15 44 (1.45%) Electronics
16 35 (1.16%) Games
17 33 (1.09%) Automotive
18 32 (1.06%) Advertising
19 29 (0.96%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 807 (26.65%) Analyst
2 307 (10.14%) Senior
3 251 (8.29%) Data Analyst
4 196 (6.47%) Lead
5 185 (6.11%) Trainer
6 148 (4.89%) Developer
7 146 (4.82%) Trainee
8 139 (4.59%) Trainee Analyst
8 139 (4.59%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 120 (3.96%) Business Analyst
10 119 (3.93%) Support Analyst
11 114 (3.76%) IT Support
12 103 (3.40%) Architect
13 96 (3.17%) Systems Engineer
14 83 (2.74%) Senior Analyst
15 82 (2.71%) Support Engineer
16 73 (2.41%) Financial Analyst
17 65 (2.15%) Senior Manager
18 61 (2.01%) Consultant
18 61 (2.01%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (2.64%) HTML
2 70 (2.31%) CSS
3 59 (1.95%) React
4 52 (1.72%) .NET
5 37 (1.22%) JSON
6 35 (1.16%) Node.js
7 33 (1.09%) REST
8 28 (0.92%) 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 15 (0.50%) PyTorch
12 15 (0.50%) TensorFlow
13 13 (0.43%) OAuth
14 12 (0.40%) Flash
14 12 (0.40%) RabbitMQ
14 12 (0.40%) SAML
15 11 (0.36%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 321 (10.60%) Analytical Mindset
2 203 (6.70%) Self-Motivation
3 161 (5.32%) Onboarding
4 143 (4.72%) Management Information System
5 103 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
5 103 (3.40%) Product Ownership
6 60 (1.98%) Data Centre
7 54 (1.78%) Driving Licence
8 47 (1.55%) Cloud Native
9 41 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
10 36 (1.19%) Algorithms
10 36 (1.19%) Data Structures
11 34 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
11 34 (1.12%) Social Media
12 31 (1.02%) Low-Code
13 29 (0.96%) Robotics
13 29 (0.96%) Virtual Team
14 28 (0.92%) FMCG
14 28 (0.92%) Security Posture
15 26 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 252 (8.32%) Windows
2 152 (5.02%) Linux
3 133 (4.39%) Windows Server
4 76 (2.51%) Windows Server 2016
5 21 (0.69%) Unix
6 17 (0.56%) Android
7 13 (0.43%) Mac OS
8 9 (0.30%) Apple iOS
9 8 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.17%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.13%) CentOS
11 4 (0.13%) VMS
11 4 (0.13%) Windows 10
12 3 (0.099%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.066%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.033%) Debian
14 1 (0.033%) FreeBSD
14 1 (0.033%) OpenBSD
14 1 (0.033%) OpenWrt
14 1 (0.033%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,332 (43.99%) Problem-Solving
2 789 (26.06%) Continuous Improvement
3 634 (20.94%) Analytics
4 586 (19.35%) Decision-Making
5 535 (17.67%) AI
6 469 (15.49%) Agile
7 431 (14.23%) Project Management
8 413 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
9 348 (11.49%) Data Analysis
10 346 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
11 287 (9.48%) Customer Service
12 271 (8.95%) Customer Experience
13 256 (8.45%) Actionable Insight
14 247 (8.16%) ERP
15 239 (7.89%) Analytical Thinking
15 239 (7.89%) Business Analysis
16 237 (7.83%) Mentoring
17 229 (7.56%) Process Improvement
18 225 (7.43%) Coaching
19 224 (7.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 650 (21.47%) SQL
2 476 (15.72%) Python
3 98 (3.24%) JavaScript
4 83 (2.74%) C#
4 83 (2.74%) PowerShell
5 72 (2.38%) Java
6 64 (2.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 40 (1.32%) T-SQL
8 39 (1.29%) R
9 38 (1.25%) VBA
10 28 (0.92%) Bash
11 24 (0.79%) C++
12 18 (0.59%) MATLAB
13 14 (0.46%) C
14 10 (0.33%) PL/SQL
14 10 (0.33%) TypeScript
15 9 (0.30%) Scala
16 8 (0.26%) Go
16 8 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 757 (25.00%) Degree
2 244 (8.06%) Security Cleared
3 229 (7.56%) Master's Degree
4 190 (6.27%) PhD
5 174 (5.75%) SC Cleared
6 140 (4.62%) ACCA
7 130 (4.29%) CIMA
8 92 (3.04%) DBS Check
9 60 (1.98%) PMI Certification
10 56 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
11 55 (1.82%) IRCA
12 54 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
13 51 (1.68%) PMP
14 48 (1.59%) DV Cleared
15 47 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
15 47 (1.55%) CISSP
16 37 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
17 32 (1.06%) CISM
18 27 (0.89%) AAT
19 25 (0.83%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 217 (7.17%) Data Quality
2 184 (6.08%) GDPR
3 161 (5.32%) QA
4 123 (4.06%) Cyber Essentials
5 119 (3.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 96 (3.17%) PCI DSS
7 92 (3.04%) NIST
8 65 (2.15%) ISO 9001
9 59 (1.95%) PMO
10 37 (1.22%) Accessibility
10 37 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
11 32 (1.06%) SLA
12 22 (0.73%) GRC
13 19 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 17 (0.56%) GMP
15 14 (0.46%) SOC 2
16 13 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 11 (0.36%) NCSC
18 9 (0.30%) IFRS
19 8 (0.26%) COBIT
System Software
1 188 (6.21%) Active Directory
2 86 (2.84%) Hyper-V
3 72 (2.38%) Terminal Server
4 38 (1.25%) Docker
5 25 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (0.33%) vSphere
7 8 (0.26%) ProxySG
8 6 (0.20%) Firmware
8 6 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.13%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.13%) XenApp
10 3 (0.099%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.099%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.099%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.066%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.033%) KVM
Systems Management
1 79 (2.61%) Terraform
2 42 (1.39%) Ansible
3 37 (1.22%) Kubernetes
4 22 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (0.53%) Grafana
6 10 (0.33%) Prometheus
6 10 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.20%) Nagios
8 5 (0.17%) Control-M
8 5 (0.17%) SCCM
9 4 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.13%) Backup Exec
9 4 (0.13%) CASB
9 4 (0.13%) Computer Incident Response Team
9 4 (0.13%) Nessus
9 4 (0.13%) QRadar
9 4 (0.13%) SolarWinds Orion
9 4 (0.13%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.099%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.066%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 772 (25.50%) Microsoft
2 185 (6.11%) PayPal
3 151 (4.99%) SAP
4 108 (3.57%) Oracle
5 100 (3.30%) SolarWinds
6 98 (3.24%) VMware
7 90 (2.97%) Splunk
8 77 (2.54%) Veeam
9 73 (2.41%) Tanium
10 72 (2.38%) Brocade
10 72 (2.38%) Nimble Storage
11 68 (2.25%) Google
11 68 (2.25%) Salesforce
12 58 (1.92%) ServiceNow
13 48 (1.59%) Cisco
13 48 (1.59%) Workday
14 36 (1.19%) Databricks
15 23 (0.76%) Adobe
16 22 (0.73%) Dell
17 20 (0.66%) Red Hat