Analytical Skills Jobs

Analytical Skills
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 20 29
Rank change year-on-year +6 +9 +6
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 9,672 9,124 15,795
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.27% 9.58% 9.38%
As % of the General category 15.89% 14.10% 14.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5,398 4,683 6,711
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,500 £31,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,882 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.90% -0.21% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,000 £72,403 £70,385
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%

All General Skills
UK

Analytical Skills is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 60,861 64,703 109,636
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 58.33% 67.91% 65.08%
Number of salaries quoted 40,150 35,651 51,733
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Analytical Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills.

Salary trend for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Top 19 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 31 May 2024. 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
England +6 8,884 £50,000 -9.09% 4,008
UK excluding London +4 6,385 £45,000 -5.26% 2,631
Work from Home -1 3,296 £52,500 -3.38% 1,405
London +7 2,933 £67,500 +3.85% 1,448
South East +11 1,774 £49,000 +0.64% 595
North of England -5 1,430 £45,000 - 728
Midlands 0 1,215 £42,500 -15.00% 495
North West +12 798 £46,283 +2.28% 428
South West +8 782 £45,000 -10.00% 370
West Midlands -1 755 £42,503 -15.00% 291
East of England +8 659 £45,000 - 287
Yorkshire -14 475 £47,500 +11.76% 228
East Midlands +12 457 £42,000 -16.00% 207
Scotland -42 315 £45,000 -8.16% 145
North East +8 157 £41,774 -1.71% 85
Wales -3 149 £45,000 +12.50% 55
Northern Ireland +37 39 £58,800 +30.67% 45
Isle of Man - 23 £50,000 - 5
Channel Islands - 1 £67,500 - 2

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 251 (2.60%) SharePoint
2 182 (1.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 156 (1.61%) SAS
4 135 (1.40%) Confluence
5 91 (0.94%) Apache Spark
6 73 (0.75%) WebLogic
7 61 (0.63%) CMS
8 55 (0.57%) Apache
9 44 (0.45%) Oracle Service Bus
10 40 (0.41%) IIS
11 38 (0.39%) WordPress
12 25 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
13 12 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
13 12 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
14 11 (0.11%) SharePoint 2010
15 10 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
16 9 (0.093%) Umbraco
17 8 (0.083%) WebSphere
18 7 (0.072%) nginx
18 7 (0.072%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1,686 (17.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 852 (8.81%) Microsoft Office
3 443 (4.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 119 (1.23%) MS Visio
5 76 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
6 62 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
7 39 (0.40%) SPSS
8 33 (0.34%) AutoCAD
9 13 (0.13%) OrCAD
10 10 (0.10%) Adobe XD
10 10 (0.10%) SOLIDWORKS
10 10 (0.10%) Trello
11 9 (0.093%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 9 (0.093%) Revit
12 8 (0.083%) Adobe Illustrator
12 8 (0.083%) Chatbot
12 8 (0.083%) GNU Octave
13 7 (0.072%) Simulink
14 6 (0.062%) Acrobat
14 6 (0.062%) Stata
Business Applications
1 104 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 68 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 55 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
4 28 (0.29%) NEC Housing
5 27 (0.28%) NetSuite
5 27 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
6 26 (0.27%) Shopify
7 19 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
7 19 (0.20%) Magento
8 15 (0.16%) SAP ERP
9 14 (0.14%) Endur
9 14 (0.14%) Misys Midas
10 13 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
11 12 (0.12%) SAP MM
12 10 (0.10%) Elite 3E
13 9 (0.093%) SAP FI
13 9 (0.093%) SAP IBP
13 9 (0.093%) SAP PP
14 8 (0.083%) Dynamics AX
14 8 (0.083%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 1,480 (15.30%) Azure
2 971 (10.04%) Power Platform
3 959 (9.92%) AWS
4 568 (5.87%) Microsoft 365
5 544 (5.62%) GCP
6 320 (3.31%) Entra ID
7 243 (2.51%) SaaS
8 205 (2.12%) Dynamics 365
9 182 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
10 111 (1.15%) PowerApps
11 97 (1.00%) IaaS
11 97 (1.00%) Power Automate
12 90 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
13 88 (0.91%) Serverless
14 82 (0.85%) Google Analytics
15 75 (0.78%) PaaS
16 74 (0.77%) GitHub
17 71 (0.73%) Azure Data Factory
17 71 (0.73%) Snowflake
18 70 (0.72%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 728 (7.53%) Broadband
2 300 (3.10%) Firewall
3 270 (2.79%) 5G
4 204 (2.11%) DNS
5 199 (2.06%) WAN
6 179 (1.85%) LAN
7 167 (1.73%) TCP/IP
8 149 (1.54%) Network Security
9 129 (1.33%) DHCP
10 108 (1.12%) Internet
11 99 (1.02%) VPN
12 89 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
13 81 (0.84%) Wireless
14 80 (0.83%) SAN
15 65 (0.67%) Intrusion Detection
16 49 (0.51%) VLAN
17 45 (0.47%) SD-WAN
18 42 (0.43%) MPLS
19 35 (0.36%) HTTP
19 35 (0.36%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 865 (8.94%) Power BI
2 528 (5.46%) Tableau
3 453 (4.68%) SQL Server
4 420 (4.34%) Data Warehouse
5 378 (3.91%) Looker
6 374 (3.87%) BigQuery
7 185 (1.91%) Relational Database
8 155 (1.60%) MySQL
9 141 (1.46%) Data Lake
10 124 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
11 106 (1.10%) Big Data
11 106 (1.10%) Power Query
12 98 (1.01%) Oracle Database
13 92 (0.95%) MongoDB
14 90 (0.93%) Metadata
15 87 (0.90%) Data Mining
16 76 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 73 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 71 (0.73%) NoSQL
19 66 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 360 (3.72%) Git
2 322 (3.33%) JIRA
3 110 (1.14%) Jenkins
4 44 (0.45%) Visual Studio
5 37 (0.38%) Bitbucket
6 34 (0.35%) Cucumber
7 33 (0.34%) LabVIEW
8 28 (0.29%) Burp Suite
8 28 (0.29%) Metasploit
9 27 (0.28%) GitLab
10 23 (0.24%) Selenium
10 23 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 21 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
12 20 (0.21%) Cypress.io
13 17 (0.18%) Maven
14 16 (0.17%) JMeter
14 16 (0.17%) SpecFlow
15 13 (0.13%) Toad
16 11 (0.11%) Eclipse
16 11 (0.11%) PowerBuilder
General
1 5,237 (54.15%) Social Skills
2 2,795 (28.90%) Finance
3 1,195 (12.36%) Retail
4 924 (9.55%) Marketing
5 893 (9.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 777 (8.03%) Influencing Skills
7 600 (6.20%) Organisational Skills
8 569 (5.88%) Law
9 550 (5.69%) Legal
10 529 (5.47%) Presentation Skills
11 403 (4.17%) Manufacturing
12 392 (4.05%) Banking
13 359 (3.71%) Public Sector
14 264 (2.73%) German Language
15 231 (2.39%) Telecoms
16 204 (2.11%) Pharmaceutical
17 196 (2.03%) Electronics
18 153 (1.58%) Investment Banking
19 143 (1.48%) Advertising
20 137 (1.42%) Billing
Job Titles
1 2,805 (29.00%) Analyst
2 1,568 (16.21%) Senior
3 627 (6.48%) Senior Analyst
4 606 (6.27%) Developer
5 562 (5.81%) Lead
6 514 (5.31%) Architect
7 441 (4.56%) Data Analyst
8 409 (4.23%) Business Analyst
9 334 (3.45%) Graduate
10 320 (3.31%) Consultant
11 313 (3.24%) Project Manager
12 284 (2.94%) Data Engineer
13 233 (2.41%) Financial Analyst
14 215 (2.22%) Technical Specialist
15 211 (2.18%) Linux Specialist
16 208 (2.15%) Support Engineer
17 205 (2.12%) Software Engineer
18 201 (2.08%) Support Analyst
19 200 (2.07%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
20 187 (1.93%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 371 (3.84%) .NET
2 222 (2.30%) HTML
3 184 (1.90%) CSS
4 148 (1.53%) React
5 102 (1.05%) .NET Framework
6 100 (1.03%) AngularJS
7 96 (0.99%) Web Services
8 89 (0.92%) ASP.NET
9 87 (0.90%) Spring
10 84 (0.87%) JSON
10 84 (0.87%) XML
11 83 (0.86%) REST
12 75 (0.78%) Kafka
13 71 (0.73%) RESTful
14 66 (0.68%) Vue
15 55 (0.57%) SOAP
16 51 (0.53%) .NET Core
17 50 (0.52%) Spring Boot
18 49 (0.51%) ASP.NET Web API
19 44 (0.45%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1,095 (11.32%) Self-Motivation
2 562 (5.81%) Management Information System
3 461 (4.77%) Analytical Mindset
4 401 (4.15%) Product Ownership
5 323 (3.34%) Driving Licence
6 318 (3.29%) Social Media
7 199 (2.06%) Algorithms
8 198 (2.05%) Onboarding
9 145 (1.50%) Data Centre
10 122 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
11 114 (1.18%) IoT
12 104 (1.08%) Data Structures
13 103 (1.06%) Life Science
14 95 (0.98%) Cyber Threat
15 84 (0.87%) Virtual Team
16 82 (0.85%) Mobile App
17 81 (0.84%) Credit Risk
18 78 (0.81%) Security Posture
19 71 (0.73%) NHS
19 71 (0.73%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 862 (8.91%) Windows
2 671 (6.94%) Linux
3 267 (2.76%) Windows Server
4 223 (2.31%) Ubuntu
5 214 (2.21%) Windows 10
6 170 (1.76%) Unix
7 68 (0.70%) Android
8 58 (0.60%) Apple iOS
9 53 (0.55%) Mac OS
10 45 (0.47%) Solaris
11 44 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
12 36 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
13 31 (0.32%) Kali Linux
14 28 (0.29%) Windows 7
15 27 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
16 25 (0.26%) AIX
17 21 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 21 (0.22%) Windows 8
18 20 (0.21%) CentOS
19 18 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,900 (50.66%) Problem-Solving
2 2,329 (24.08%) Agile
3 1,563 (16.16%) Decision-Making
4 1,323 (13.68%) Mentoring
5 1,270 (13.13%) Project Management
6 1,184 (12.24%) Analytics
7 1,135 (11.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,021 (10.56%) Business Intelligence
9 933 (9.65%) Customer Service
10 925 (9.56%) Actionable Insight
11 911 (9.42%) Computer Science
12 829 (8.57%) Data Analysis
13 724 (7.49%) Cybersecurity
14 702 (7.26%) Mathematics
15 687 (7.10%) DevOps
15 687 (7.10%) Visualisation
16 644 (6.66%) Data Modelling
17 628 (6.49%) CRM
18 613 (6.34%) Business Case
19 584 (6.04%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,691 (17.48%) SQL
2 1,056 (10.92%) Python
3 436 (4.51%) C#
4 391 (4.04%) Java
5 385 (3.98%) JavaScript
6 326 (3.37%) Bash
7 221 (2.28%) R
8 213 (2.20%) PowerShell
9 202 (2.09%) C++
10 194 (2.01%) C
11 133 (1.38%) T-SQL
12 115 (1.19%) PL/SQL
13 91 (0.94%) TypeScript
14 72 (0.74%) VBA
15 70 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 70 (0.72%) Scala
16 69 (0.71%) MATLAB
17 64 (0.66%) PHP
18 54 (0.56%) VB
19 53 (0.55%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2,926 (30.25%) Degree
2 497 (5.14%) DBS Check
3 488 (5.05%) ACCA
4 466 (4.82%) CIMA
5 459 (4.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 424 (4.38%) Security Cleared
7 305 (3.15%) Master's Degree
8 252 (2.61%) SC Cleared
9 173 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 141 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
11 123 (1.27%) CISSP
12 116 (1.20%) PMI Certification
13 109 (1.13%) Azure Certification
14 101 (1.04%) PhD
15 88 (0.91%) CCNA
16 78 (0.81%) DV Cleared
17 73 (0.75%) HND
18 67 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
18 67 (0.69%) MBA
19 66 (0.68%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 550 (5.69%) QA
2 469 (4.85%) GDPR
3 418 (4.32%) Data Quality
4 326 (3.37%) SLA
5 211 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 131 (1.35%) Accessibility
7 107 (1.11%) NIST
8 79 (0.82%) PMO
9 68 (0.70%) IFRS
10 64 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
11 44 (0.45%) IFRS 9
12 42 (0.43%) GLP
12 42 (0.43%) ISO 9001
13 40 (0.41%) GMP
13 40 (0.41%) PCI DSS
13 40 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 37 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
15 34 (0.35%) GRC
16 20 (0.21%) NIST 800
16 20 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 721 (7.45%) Active Directory
2 181 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 142 (1.47%) Docker
4 97 (1.00%) Hyper-V
5 84 (0.87%) Firmware
6 50 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
7 41 (0.42%) vSphere
8 38 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
9 37 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
10 21 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
11 18 (0.19%) XenApp
12 14 (0.14%) Terminal Services
13 12 (0.12%) XenDesktop
14 8 (0.083%) Virtual Servers
15 7 (0.072%) Virtual Desktop
16 5 (0.052%) HDFS
16 5 (0.052%) VMware Workstation
17 4 (0.041%) NFS
17 4 (0.041%) pfSense
18 2 (0.021%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 276 (2.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 215 (2.22%) Jamf Pro
3 147 (1.52%) Kubernetes
4 82 (0.85%) Terraform
5 65 (0.67%) Ansible
6 59 (0.61%) SCCM
7 50 (0.52%) Data Guard
8 48 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
9 47 (0.49%) Oracle RMAN
10 30 (0.31%) Puppet
11 26 (0.27%) OpenSSO
12 19 (0.20%) Grafana
13 18 (0.19%) Microsoft Clustering
13 18 (0.19%) vCenter Server
14 17 (0.18%) Progress Chef
15 16 (0.17%) Graphite
16 13 (0.13%) Nagios
17 11 (0.11%) HAProxy
18 10 (0.10%) WSUS
19 8 (0.083%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2,503 (25.88%) Microsoft
2 626 (6.47%) Google
3 412 (4.26%) Oracle
4 333 (3.44%) SAP
5 265 (2.74%) VMware
6 237 (2.45%) Salesforce
7 233 (2.41%) Databricks
8 210 (2.17%) CyberArk
8 210 (2.17%) Tanium
9 170 (1.76%) Cisco
10 96 (0.99%) ServiceNow
11 95 (0.98%) IBM
12 93 (0.96%) Remedy
13 91 (0.94%) Alteryx
14 84 (0.87%) Dell
15 73 (0.75%) Adobe
16 72 (0.74%) HP
17 60 (0.62%) Juniper
18 54 (0.56%) Fortinet
19 49 (0.51%) Sun