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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 12 18
Rank change year-on-year -23 +6 +2
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,003 2,797 5,502
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 5.03% 10.82% 8.54%
As % of the General category 10.11% 15.91% 14.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,851 1,423 3,525
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,050 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £33,233
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £50,393 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.87% +11.98% -3.84%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
UK median annual salary £53,200 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.27% +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 29,708 17,579 37,729
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 49.72% 67.99% 58.58%
Number of salaries quoted 15,560 9,263 25,782
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,875 £26,043
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,967 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% +7.30% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £75,772
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -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 8 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 8 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 -24 806 £46,000 -8.00% 400
South East +1 799 £50,000 -1.90% 595
Midlands -18 572 £47,500 -1.04% 298
North West -21 452 £44,500 -11.00% 220
West Midlands -19 349 £51,250 +2.50% 175
South West -25 270 £46,250 -9.69% 178
Yorkshire -6 263 £52,500 +16.67% 136
East of England -34 260 £45,000 -11.71% 161
East Midlands -8 221 £42,500 -2.86% 123
Scotland -17 177 £40,000 -23.81% 92
North East -17 91 £50,000 +29.87% 50
Wales +7 81 £40,500 -19.20% 59
Northern Ireland -21 49 £40,000 -27.27% 22
Isle of Man -2 1 £62,500 +68.92%
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
1 136 (4.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 58 (1.93%) SharePoint
3 44 (1.47%) Confluence
4 32 (1.07%) CMS
5 28 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
5 28 (0.93%) Apache Spark
6 16 (0.53%) IIS
7 14 (0.47%) Apache
8 11 (0.37%) WordPress
9 9 (0.30%) SAS
10 4 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.13%) nginx
11 3 (0.100%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.100%) govService
11 3 (0.100%) JBoss
12 1 (0.033%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.033%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.033%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.033%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.033%) Umbraco
Applications
1 501 (16.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 204 (6.79%) Microsoft Office
3 71 (2.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 62 (2.06%) MS Visio
5 22 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
6 21 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
7 16 (0.53%) Chatbot
8 9 (0.30%) CATIA
9 5 (0.17%) Trello
10 4 (0.13%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.067%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.067%) Revit
11 2 (0.067%) Simulink
12 1 (0.033%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.033%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.033%) Sketch
12 1 (0.033%) SmartSuite
12 1 (0.033%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 39 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 33 (1.10%) NetSuite
3 31 (1.03%) Salesforce CRM
4 25 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
5 16 (0.53%) SAP CO
6 15 (0.50%) SAP PM
7 11 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
8 10 (0.33%) Sage X3
9 9 (0.30%) SAP ERP
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 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
11 5 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
11 5 (0.17%) Q-Pulse
12 4 (0.13%) Markit EDM
12 4 (0.13%) SAP GTS
12 4 (0.13%) Shopify
13 3 (0.100%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 504 (16.78%) Azure
2 403 (13.42%) Power Platform
3 239 (7.96%) AWS
4 238 (7.93%) Microsoft 365
5 132 (4.40%) SaaS
6 118 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
7 87 (2.90%) Dynamics 365
8 72 (2.40%) GCP
9 66 (2.20%) GitHub
10 65 (2.16%) Entra ID
11 61 (2.03%) Azure Data Factory
12 50 (1.67%) Power Automate
13 48 (1.60%) dbt
13 48 (1.60%) Snowflake
14 45 (1.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 42 (1.40%) Google Analytics
16 41 (1.37%) Microsoft Purview
17 37 (1.23%) Amazon S3
18 35 (1.17%) Serverless
19 33 (1.10%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 127 (4.23%) DNS
2 111 (3.70%) Firewall
3 106 (3.53%) DHCP
4 64 (2.13%) VPN
5 56 (1.86%) WAN
6 51 (1.70%) Wireless
7 45 (1.50%) LAN
8 40 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
9 39 (1.30%) TCP/IP
10 34 (1.13%) Network Security
11 31 (1.03%) VLAN
12 30 (1.00%) Wireshark
13 24 (0.80%) SD-WAN
14 23 (0.77%) BGP
14 23 (0.77%) Broadband
15 22 (0.73%) SAN
16 19 (0.63%) Cisco ASA
16 19 (0.63%) VoIP
17 18 (0.60%) EIGRP
17 18 (0.60%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 371 (12.35%) Power BI
2 264 (8.79%) Tableau
3 156 (5.19%) Data Mining
4 123 (4.10%) SQL Server
5 83 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
6 77 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
7 63 (2.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 48 (1.60%) Looker
8 48 (1.60%) Relational Database
9 46 (1.53%) Metadata
10 40 (1.33%) MySQL
11 39 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
12 37 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
13 32 (1.07%) Power Query
14 31 (1.03%) Data Lake
15 30 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 29 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
17 25 (0.83%) GIS
18 22 (0.73%) NoSQL
19 17 (0.57%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 120 (4.00%) JIRA
2 71 (2.36%) Git
3 28 (0.93%) GitLab
4 23 (0.77%) Selenium
5 18 (0.60%) Jenkins
6 16 (0.53%) Rational DOORS
7 11 (0.37%) MLflow
7 11 (0.37%) Robot Framework
8 9 (0.30%) Cypress.io
8 9 (0.30%) Snyk
9 8 (0.27%) Cucumber
9 8 (0.27%) LabVIEW
10 6 (0.20%) Postman
10 6 (0.20%) Subversion
10 6 (0.20%) TestRail
11 5 (0.17%) ERwin
11 5 (0.17%) LoadRunner
11 5 (0.17%) Maven
11 5 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
11 5 (0.17%) SonarQube
General
1 1,514 (50.42%) Social Skills
2 947 (31.54%) Finance
3 247 (8.23%) Marketing
4 161 (5.36%) Retail
5 145 (4.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 145 (4.83%) Organisational Skills
6 144 (4.80%) Public Sector
7 129 (4.30%) Legal
7 129 (4.30%) Manufacturing
8 128 (4.26%) Law
9 106 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
10 89 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
11 79 (2.63%) Telecoms
12 65 (2.16%) Banking
13 51 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
13 51 (1.70%) Electronics
14 39 (1.30%) Aerospace
15 35 (1.17%) Advertising
16 34 (1.13%) Automotive
17 33 (1.10%) Games
Job Titles
1 855 (28.47%) Analyst
2 332 (11.06%) Senior
3 255 (8.49%) Data Analyst
4 183 (6.09%) Lead
5 152 (5.06%) Developer
6 141 (4.70%) Business Analyst
7 135 (4.50%) Trainee
8 128 (4.26%) Trainee Analyst
8 128 (4.26%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 125 (4.16%) Support Analyst
10 120 (4.00%) Systems Engineer
11 107 (3.56%) Architect
12 101 (3.36%) IT Support
13 84 (2.80%) Senior Analyst
14 82 (2.73%) Support Engineer
15 77 (2.56%) Financial Analyst
16 71 (2.36%) Senior Manager
16 71 (2.36%) Systems Manager
17 68 (2.26%) Consultant
18 66 (2.20%) Head of QA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (2.73%) HTML
2 72 (2.40%) CSS
3 60 (2.00%) React
4 54 (1.80%) .NET
5 44 (1.47%) JSON
6 42 (1.40%) REST
7 36 (1.20%) Node.js
8 35 (1.17%) XML
9 33 (1.10%) Middleware
10 27 (0.90%) SOAP
11 26 (0.87%) PyTorch
12 22 (0.73%) scikit-learn
13 20 (0.67%) TensorFlow
14 19 (0.63%) Pandas
15 18 (0.60%) PySpark
16 16 (0.53%) Bootstrap
16 16 (0.53%) React Native
17 15 (0.50%) OAuth
18 13 (0.43%) RabbitMQ
19 12 (0.40%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 352 (11.72%) Analytical Mindset
2 181 (6.03%) Self-Motivation
3 144 (4.80%) Management Information System
4 142 (4.73%) Onboarding
5 105 (3.50%) Product Ownership
6 98 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
7 63 (2.10%) Data Centre
8 56 (1.86%) Driving Licence
9 50 (1.67%) Cloud Native
10 36 (1.20%) Algorithms
10 36 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
11 35 (1.17%) Social Media
12 34 (1.13%) Data Structures
13 33 (1.10%) Low-Code
13 33 (1.10%) Security Posture
14 31 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
15 30 (1.00%) Robotics
16 29 (0.97%) Virtual Team
17 28 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 27 (0.90%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 259 (8.62%) Windows
2 149 (4.96%) Linux
3 140 (4.66%) Windows Server
4 77 (2.56%) Windows Server 2016
5 22 (0.73%) Unix
6 16 (0.53%) Android
7 13 (0.43%) Apple iOS
8 12 (0.40%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.27%) 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 (0.100%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.067%) 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%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,383 (46.05%) Problem-Solving
2 839 (27.94%) Continuous Improvement
3 687 (22.88%) Analytics
4 638 (21.25%) Decision-Making
5 461 (15.35%) Agile
6 447 (14.89%) Business Intelligence
7 404 (13.45%) Project Management
8 397 (13.22%) AI
9 372 (12.39%) Stakeholder Management
10 353 (11.75%) Data Analysis
11 294 (9.79%) Actionable Insight
12 279 (9.29%) Customer Experience
13 273 (9.09%) ERP
14 266 (8.86%) Customer Service
15 247 (8.23%) Process Improvement
16 243 (8.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 240 (7.99%) Business Analysis
18 225 (7.49%) Analytical Thinking
18 225 (7.49%) Mentoring
19 222 (7.39%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 676 (22.51%) SQL
2 496 (16.52%) Python
3 103 (3.43%) JavaScript
4 90 (3.00%) PowerShell
5 81 (2.70%) Java
6 80 (2.66%) C#
7 73 (2.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 43 (1.43%) T-SQL
9 40 (1.33%) R
10 38 (1.27%) VBA
11 29 (0.97%) Bash
12 27 (0.90%) C++
13 22 (0.73%) MATLAB
14 14 (0.47%) C
15 11 (0.37%) Go
15 11 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
15 11 (0.37%) TypeScript
16 10 (0.33%) PL/SQL
17 9 (0.30%) PHP
17 9 (0.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 580 (19.31%) Degree
2 263 (8.76%) Security Cleared
3 190 (6.33%) SC Cleared
4 167 (5.56%) ACCA
5 155 (5.16%) CIMA
6 108 (3.60%) DBS Check
7 66 (2.20%) IRCA
7 66 (2.20%) PMI Certification
8 65 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
9 63 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
10 57 (1.90%) Master's Degree
11 54 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
11 54 (1.80%) PMP
12 50 (1.67%) DV Cleared
13 49 (1.63%) CISSP
14 41 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
15 36 (1.20%) CISM
16 27 (0.90%) AAT
16 27 (0.90%) CCNA
17 26 (0.87%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 258 (8.59%) Data Quality
2 212 (7.06%) GDPR
3 170 (5.66%) QA
4 131 (4.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 122 (4.06%) Cyber Essentials
6 102 (3.40%) NIST
7 101 (3.36%) PCI DSS
8 82 (2.73%) ISO 9001
9 58 (1.93%) PMO
10 43 (1.43%) SLA
11 42 (1.40%) Accessibility
11 42 (1.40%) Actionable Recommendations
12 26 (0.87%) GRC
13 20 (0.67%) SOC 2
14 18 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 17 (0.57%) GMP
16 15 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 12 (0.40%) NCSC
18 11 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 11 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 201 (6.69%) Active Directory
2 85 (2.83%) Hyper-V
3 72 (2.40%) Terminal Server
4 39 (1.30%) Docker
5 32 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (0.30%) vSphere
7 8 (0.27%) ProxySG
7 8 (0.27%) VMware NSX
8 7 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.13%) Firmware
9 4 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.13%) XenApp
10 3 (0.100%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.100%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.067%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.033%) KVM
12 1 (0.033%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 82 (2.73%) Terraform
2 44 (1.47%) Ansible
3 39 (1.30%) Kubernetes
4 24 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (0.60%) Grafana
6 10 (0.33%) Prometheus
6 10 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.20%) Nagios
7 6 (0.20%) SCCM
8 5 (0.17%) Control-M
8 5 (0.17%) QRadar
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%) Kibana
9 4 (0.13%) Kubeflow
9 4 (0.13%) SolarWinds Orion
9 4 (0.13%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.100%) logstash
Vendors
1 795 (26.47%) Microsoft
2 140 (4.66%) SAP
3 105 (3.50%) VMware
4 104 (3.46%) Oracle
5 98 (3.26%) SolarWinds
6 92 (3.06%) Splunk
7 90 (3.00%) Google
8 77 (2.56%) Veeam
9 73 (2.43%) Salesforce
9 73 (2.43%) Tanium
10 72 (2.40%) Brocade
10 72 (2.40%) Nimble Storage
11 59 (1.96%) Databricks
12 57 (1.90%) ServiceNow
13 54 (1.80%) Workday
14 46 (1.53%) Cisco
15 27 (0.90%) Dell
16 24 (0.80%) IBM
17 22 (0.73%) Adobe
18 20 (0.67%) Red Hat