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 cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 16 21
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 +5
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 5,423 8,322 10,598
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.73% 8.98% 9.58%
As % of the General category 15.87% 14.93% 13.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,524 5,345 5,213
10th Percentile £32,000 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £38,787
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,350 £87,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,967 £45,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year +13.26% -3.23% -2.11%

All General Skills
UK

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 common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 34,161 55,731 76,437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 67.59% 60.15% 69.11%
Number of salaries quoted 17,617 38,619 40,825
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £92,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +6.32% -9.52% +5.00%

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 2 April 2025.

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 2 April 2025. 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 +5 4,762 £55,000 +10.00% 8,174
UK excluding London +6 3,115 £50,967 +13.26% 3,716
London +3 1,996 £65,000 -3.35% 5,116
Work from Home +8 1,538 £55,000 +4.76% 3,636
North of England +10 997 £50,000 +5.26% 936
North West +6 715 £50,055 +5.38% 570
South East -8 570 £52,435 +10.39% 1,110
Midlands -8 481 £48,500 +14.12% 546
East of England -1 359 £50,967 +13.26% 380
Scotland +62 354 £55,000 +22.22% 286
West Midlands -6 334 £50,000 +17.65% 343
South West +5 285 £52,500 +16.67% 365
Yorkshire -6 193 £45,000 -5.26% 269
East Midlands -6 147 £45,000 +5.88% 196
North East +7 87 £38,500 -3.75% 102
Wales -23 35 £50,124 +5.52% 98
Northern Ireland +27 34 £55,000 -24.14% 70
Isle of Man -2 4 £37,000 -17.78%
Channel Islands - 3 £78,750 - 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
1 156 (2.88%) SharePoint
2 75 (1.38%) Oracle Application Server
3 67 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
4 58 (1.07%) Confluence
5 47 (0.87%) SAS
6 43 (0.79%) Apache Spark
7 41 (0.76%) CMS
8 26 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
9 24 (0.44%) Apache
10 17 (0.31%) IBM Domino
10 17 (0.31%) IIS
11 14 (0.26%) nginx
12 9 (0.17%) WordPress
13 8 (0.15%) Luigi
13 8 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
13 8 (0.15%) Tomcat
14 7 (0.13%) Kinematics
15 5 (0.092%) Alfresco
15 5 (0.092%) Documentum
16 4 (0.074%) Mule
Applications
1 561 (10.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 426 (7.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 236 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
4 182 (3.36%) Abaqus
5 150 (2.77%) Mathcad
6 44 (0.81%) MS Visio
7 40 (0.74%) Photoshop
8 37 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
9 35 (0.65%) Adobe Illustrator
10 19 (0.35%) Maya
11 18 (0.33%) SPSS
12 17 (0.31%) AutoCAD
12 17 (0.31%) Trello
13 13 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
14 8 (0.15%) Adobe XD
15 7 (0.13%) Sketch
16 6 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
17 5 (0.092%) Chatbot
17 5 (0.092%) InDesign
17 5 (0.092%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 103 (1.90%) NetSuite
2 58 (1.07%) Shopify
3 42 (0.77%) SAP BPC
4 40 (0.74%) Infor LN
5 34 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
6 27 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
7 18 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
8 17 (0.31%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
9 16 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
10 12 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
11 9 (0.17%) Raiser’s Edge
12 7 (0.13%) Adobe Campaign
12 7 (0.13%) Infor M3
13 6 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
14 5 (0.092%) Maximo
14 5 (0.092%) Remedy ITSM
15 4 (0.074%) IBM Planning Analytics
15 4 (0.074%) Magento
15 4 (0.074%) SAP IBP
16 3 (0.055%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 705 (13.00%) Azure
2 492 (9.07%) AWS
3 431 (7.95%) Power Platform
4 275 (5.07%) Microsoft 365
5 222 (4.09%) SaaS
6 206 (3.80%) GCP
7 104 (1.92%) Google Analytics
8 103 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
9 82 (1.51%) GitHub
10 79 (1.46%) Snowflake
11 75 (1.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 73 (1.35%) Azure Data Factory
12 73 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
13 70 (1.29%) Entra ID
14 67 (1.24%) Azure DevOps
14 67 (1.24%) Google Ads
15 55 (1.01%) PaaS
15 55 (1.01%) Serverless
16 41 (0.76%) Power Automate
17 40 (0.74%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 156 (2.88%) Intrusion Detection
2 143 (2.64%) Firewall
3 80 (1.48%) WAN
4 75 (1.38%) VPN
5 72 (1.33%) DNS
6 65 (1.20%) TCP/IP
7 55 (1.01%) LAN
7 55 (1.01%) Network Security
8 52 (0.96%) Broadband
9 43 (0.79%) DHCP
9 43 (0.79%) Wireless
10 41 (0.76%) VLAN
11 37 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
12 32 (0.59%) SD-WAN
12 32 (0.59%) VoIP
13 26 (0.48%) HTTP
13 26 (0.48%) SAN
14 24 (0.44%) Internet
15 23 (0.42%) BGP
16 20 (0.37%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 381 (7.03%) Power BI
2 255 (4.70%) Tableau
3 243 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
4 182 (3.36%) SQL Server
5 109 (2.01%) Relational Database
6 105 (1.94%) Big Data
7 96 (1.77%) Data Lake
8 93 (1.71%) Oracle Reports
9 85 (1.57%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 62 (1.14%) Data Mining
11 59 (1.09%) Metadata
12 57 (1.05%) NoSQL
13 53 (0.98%) MySQL
14 45 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 42 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
15 42 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 41 (0.76%) BigQuery
17 35 (0.65%) Hadoop
18 34 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
19 31 (0.57%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 166 (3.06%) Git
2 160 (2.95%) JIRA
3 85 (1.57%) Jenkins
4 48 (0.89%) Oracle Forms
5 31 (0.57%) Dreamweaver
6 30 (0.55%) Selenium
7 26 (0.48%) Visual Studio
8 23 (0.42%) JMeter
9 22 (0.41%) Postman
10 19 (0.35%) GitLab
11 16 (0.30%) Artifactory
11 16 (0.30%) Cucumber
12 13 (0.24%) Cypress.io
12 13 (0.24%) Maven
13 12 (0.22%) Burp Suite
13 12 (0.22%) JUnit
14 9 (0.17%) Gradle
14 9 (0.17%) Subversion
15 8 (0.15%) git-flow
15 8 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3,210 (59.19%) Social Skills
2 2,106 (38.83%) Finance
3 779 (14.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 736 (13.57%) Banking
5 577 (10.64%) Marketing
6 518 (9.55%) Financial Institution
7 459 (8.46%) French Language
8 448 (8.26%) German Language
9 437 (8.06%) Manufacturing
10 381 (7.03%) Organisational Skills
11 353 (6.51%) Law
12 306 (5.64%) Retail
13 291 (5.37%) Presentation Skills
14 237 (4.37%) Influencing Skills
15 205 (3.78%) Legal
16 201 (3.71%) Telecoms
17 149 (2.75%) Public Sector
18 146 (2.69%) Advertising
19 124 (2.29%) Electronics
20 116 (2.14%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,496 (27.59%) Analyst
2 929 (17.13%) Senior
3 452 (8.33%) Credit Analyst
4 435 (8.02%) Research Analyst
5 420 (7.74%) Lead
6 297 (5.48%) Architect
7 276 (5.09%) Developer
8 208 (3.84%) Business Analyst
9 187 (3.45%) Senior Analyst
10 181 (3.34%) Consultant
11 160 (2.95%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
12 156 (2.88%) Product Manager
13 150 (2.77%) Engineering Specialist
14 141 (2.60%) Data Analyst
15 136 (2.51%) Development Manager
16 125 (2.30%) Security Architect
17 123 (2.27%) Project Manager
18 121 (2.23%) Senior Manager
19 114 (2.10%) Data Engineer
20 102 (1.88%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 242 (4.46%) HTML
2 122 (2.25%) React
3 105 (1.94%) .NET
4 91 (1.68%) CSS
5 88 (1.62%) REST
6 59 (1.09%) AngularJS
7 51 (0.94%) Node.js
8 48 (0.89%) JSON
9 47 (0.87%) RESTful
10 45 (0.83%) Web Services
11 44 (0.81%) Middleware
11 44 (0.81%) SOAP
12 41 (0.76%) Kafka
13 36 (0.66%) Spring Boot
14 32 (0.59%) XML
15 31 (0.57%) PySpark
16 27 (0.50%) .NET Framework
16 27 (0.50%) Spring
17 25 (0.46%) Oracle Fusion
18 23 (0.42%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 527 (9.72%) Credit Risk
2 442 (8.15%) Fixed Income
3 398 (7.34%) Management Information System
4 284 (5.24%) Analytical Mindset
5 213 (3.93%) Self-Motivation
6 165 (3.04%) Product Ownership
7 160 (2.95%) Social Media
8 134 (2.47%) FMCG
9 131 (2.42%) Algorithms
10 112 (2.07%) Cyberattack
11 80 (1.48%) Onboarding
12 70 (1.29%) Security Posture
13 69 (1.27%) Data Structures
13 69 (1.27%) IoT
14 66 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
15 62 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
15 62 (1.14%) Marketing Technology
16 60 (1.11%) Digital Media
17 49 (0.90%) Data Centre
18 48 (0.89%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 364 (6.71%) Windows
2 188 (3.47%) Linux
3 91 (1.68%) Windows Server
4 66 (1.22%) Unix
5 61 (1.12%) Windows Vista
6 54 (1.00%) Windows 10
7 30 (0.55%) Android
8 20 (0.37%) Apple iOS
9 18 (0.33%) Mac OS
10 16 (0.30%) Windows 7
11 12 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 12 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
12 8 (0.15%) Kali Linux
12 8 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
13 6 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
13 6 (0.11%) Mac OS X
13 6 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
14 5 (0.092%) Windows 8
14 5 (0.092%) zOS
15 4 (0.074%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,637 (48.63%) Problem-Solving
2 1,077 (19.86%) Decision-Making
3 984 (18.14%) Agile
4 967 (17.83%) Analytics
5 945 (17.43%) Risk Management
6 837 (15.43%) Project Management
7 696 (12.83%) Continuous Improvement
8 623 (11.49%) Business Strategy
9 556 (10.25%) Stakeholder Management
10 546 (10.07%) Business Intelligence
11 542 (9.99%) Asset Management
12 515 (9.50%) Mentoring
13 494 (9.11%) Collaborative Working
14 489 (9.02%) Financial Modelling
15 483 (8.91%) Artificial Intelligence
16 474 (8.74%) Risk Assessment
17 461 (8.50%) Portfolio Management
18 440 (8.11%) Data Analysis
19 439 (8.10%) Computer Science
20 436 (8.04%) Credit Risk Analysis
Programming Languages
1 872 (16.08%) SQL
2 652 (12.02%) Python
3 261 (4.81%) JavaScript
4 197 (3.63%) Java
5 182 (3.36%) C#
6 101 (1.86%) R
7 94 (1.73%) PowerShell
8 90 (1.66%) C++
9 62 (1.14%) C
9 62 (1.14%) T-SQL
9 62 (1.14%) VB
10 60 (1.11%) TypeScript
11 43 (0.79%) MATLAB
12 38 (0.70%) PHP
13 37 (0.68%) Bash
13 37 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 37 (0.68%) PL/SQL
14 30 (0.55%) VBA
15 28 (0.52%) Shell Script
16 22 (0.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2,010 (37.06%) Degree
2 876 (16.15%) Master's Degree
3 465 (8.57%) CFA
4 303 (5.59%) Security Cleared
5 240 (4.43%) BPSS Clearance
6 215 (3.96%) DBS Check
7 204 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 191 (3.52%) HND
9 182 (3.36%) Chartered Engineer
10 153 (2.82%) DV Cleared
11 136 (2.51%) PMI Certification
12 123 (2.27%) CBAP
12 123 (2.27%) SC Cleared
13 119 (2.19%) CISSP
14 109 (2.01%) ACCA
15 104 (1.92%) PMP
16 102 (1.88%) CIMA
17 87 (1.60%) CISM
18 81 (1.49%) PhD
19 71 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 374 (6.90%) QA
2 203 (3.74%) Data Quality
3 155 (2.86%) GDPR
4 136 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 114 (2.10%) NIST
6 100 (1.84%) SLA
7 90 (1.66%) Accessibility
8 61 (1.12%) PCI DSS
8 61 (1.12%) PMO
9 50 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
10 48 (0.89%) IFRS
10 48 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 41 (0.76%) GAAP
12 39 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 32 (0.59%) GRC
14 23 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
15 11 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 11 (0.20%) ISO 9001
16 10 (0.18%) Def Stans
16 10 (0.18%) GMP
System Software
1 182 (3.36%) Active Directory
2 94 (1.73%) Docker
3 40 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (0.52%) Firmware
5 27 (0.50%) Hyper-V
6 16 (0.30%) vSphere
7 15 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
8 12 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
8 12 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
9 11 (0.20%) HDFS
10 9 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
11 8 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.074%) VMware NSX
13 3 (0.055%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 3 (0.055%) KVM
13 3 (0.055%) RACF
13 3 (0.055%) XenApp
13 3 (0.055%) XenDesktop
14 2 (0.037%) Postfix
14 2 (0.037%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 102 (1.88%) Kubernetes
2 67 (1.24%) Terraform
3 47 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
4 39 (0.72%) Ansible
5 38 (0.70%) SCCM
6 23 (0.42%) Grafana
7 16 (0.30%) Nessus
8 14 (0.26%) Prometheus
9 8 (0.15%) CASB
9 8 (0.15%) Dell DRAC
9 8 (0.15%) Nmap
9 8 (0.15%) SCOM
10 7 (0.13%) Microsoft Clustering
11 6 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.11%) Oracle RMAN
11 6 (0.11%) vCenter Server
12 5 (0.092%) CA Endevor
12 5 (0.092%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.092%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.092%) WMI
Vendors
1 923 (17.02%) Microsoft
2 438 (8.08%) Bloomberg
3 297 (5.48%) Google
4 276 (5.09%) Oracle
5 229 (4.22%) SAP
6 169 (3.12%) Salesforce
7 140 (2.58%) Databricks
8 86 (1.59%) ServiceNow
9 72 (1.33%) VMware
10 70 (1.29%) Cisco
11 63 (1.16%) Adobe
12 59 (1.09%) Citrix
13 54 (1.00%) Infor
14 45 (0.83%) Cognos
15 42 (0.77%) TikTok
16 33 (0.61%) Facebook
17 31 (0.57%) Pinterest
18 30 (0.55%) Dell
19 29 (0.53%) Avaloq
20 26 (0.48%) Informatica