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 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 15 21
Rank change year-on-year +5 +6 +6
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 6,002 9,462 10,091
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.63% 9.64% 9.60%
As % of the General category 17.28% 16.10% 13.96%
Number of salaries quoted 2,595 5,453 5,020
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -8.90% -0.21%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,650 £87,500 £91,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,967 £45,000 £46,425
% change year-on-year +13.26% -3.07% -2.26%

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 34,738 58,777 72,286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 67.32% 59.87% 68.74%
Number of salaries quoted 18,372 39,592 38,758
10th Percentile £28,013 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.62% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £76,840 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.38% -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 26 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 26 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 +4 5,345 £55,000 +10.00% 8,886
UK excluding London +5 3,650 £50,967 +13.26% 3,760
London +3 2,008 £65,000 -3.70% 5,743
Work from Home +5 1,649 £55,000 +4.76% 3,738
North of England +13 1,422 £50,000 +5.26% 956
North West +14 1,095 £50,890 +8.86% 571
South East -14 609 £54,813 +11.86% 982
Midlands -10 528 £48,000 +12.94% 640
East of England +4 394 £50,967 +13.26% 369
West Midlands -5 354 £48,000 +9.93% 390
Scotland +63 312 £55,000 +22.22% 290
South West +4 299 £52,500 +16.67% 453
Yorkshire -4 233 £45,000 -5.26% 284
East Midlands -9 174 £48,000 +12.94% 236
North East +7 92 £38,000 -5.00% 110
Wales -19 42 £51,447 +14.33% 70
Northern Ireland +27 38 £55,000 -6.46% 94
Channel Islands - 6 £80,000 -
Isle of Man -2 4 £37,000 -17.78% 10

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
1 142 (2.37%) SharePoint
2 75 (1.25%) Oracle Application Server
3 71 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
4 55 (0.92%) Confluence
5 53 (0.88%) CMS
6 44 (0.73%) Apache Spark
7 37 (0.62%) SAS
8 24 (0.40%) IBM Domino
9 23 (0.38%) Apache
10 21 (0.35%) nginx
11 16 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
12 13 (0.22%) Tomcat
13 12 (0.20%) IIS
14 8 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
15 7 (0.12%) Kinematics
15 7 (0.12%) WordPress
16 6 (0.100%) Exchange Server 2010
16 6 (0.100%) Luigi
16 6 (0.100%) Skype for Business
17 5 (0.083%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 556 (9.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 408 (6.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 234 (3.90%) Microsoft Office
4 166 (2.77%) Abaqus
5 134 (2.23%) Mathcad
6 91 (1.52%) Chatbot
7 43 (0.72%) MS Visio
8 38 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
9 36 (0.60%) Maya
10 18 (0.30%) SPSS
11 16 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
11 16 (0.27%) Trello
12 15 (0.25%) AutoCAD
13 10 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 9 (0.15%) Adobe XD
14 9 (0.15%) Photoshop
15 8 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
16 7 (0.12%) Sketch
17 6 (0.100%) InDesign
18 5 (0.083%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 109 (1.82%) NetSuite
2 54 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 54 (0.90%) Shopify
3 42 (0.70%) SAP BPC
4 40 (0.67%) Infor LN
5 36 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
6 22 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
7 21 (0.35%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
8 16 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
9 10 (0.17%) SAP IBP
10 9 (0.15%) Raiser’s Edge
10 9 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
11 8 (0.13%) SAP ERP
12 7 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
12 7 (0.12%) Infor M3
13 6 (0.100%) Magento
14 5 (0.083%) Maximo
14 5 (0.083%) Oracle Applications
15 4 (0.067%) Fidessa
15 4 (0.067%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 770 (12.83%) Azure
2 554 (9.23%) AWS
3 441 (7.35%) Power Platform
4 285 (4.75%) Microsoft 365
5 228 (3.80%) SaaS
6 219 (3.65%) GCP
7 123 (2.05%) Google Analytics
8 111 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
9 76 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
10 75 (1.25%) GitHub
11 71 (1.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 71 (1.18%) Entra ID
12 70 (1.17%) Snowflake
13 69 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
13 69 (1.15%) Google Ads
14 67 (1.12%) AWS CloudFormation
14 67 (1.12%) Cloud Computing
15 57 (0.95%) PaaS
16 52 (0.87%) Amazon EKS
17 51 (0.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 484 (8.06%) VPN
2 471 (7.85%) DNS
3 148 (2.47%) Firewall
4 82 (1.37%) WAN
5 76 (1.27%) TCP/IP
6 58 (0.97%) LAN
7 51 (0.85%) Intrusion Detection
8 50 (0.83%) Network Security
9 48 (0.80%) DHCP
10 45 (0.75%) VLAN
11 35 (0.58%) Wireless
12 34 (0.57%) SD-WAN
13 32 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
14 28 (0.47%) VoIP
15 24 (0.40%) BGP
15 24 (0.40%) HTTP
15 24 (0.40%) Internet
15 24 (0.40%) SAN
16 22 (0.37%) WPA
17 20 (0.33%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 389 (6.48%) Power BI
2 268 (4.47%) Tableau
3 241 (4.02%) Data Warehouse
4 185 (3.08%) SQL Server
5 107 (1.78%) Data Lake
6 106 (1.77%) Relational Database
7 104 (1.73%) Big Data
8 89 (1.48%) Oracle Reports
9 83 (1.38%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 67 (1.12%) Metadata
11 63 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
12 58 (0.97%) Data Mining
13 57 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
14 55 (0.92%) NoSQL
15 52 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 51 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 44 (0.73%) MySQL
18 42 (0.70%) BigQuery
19 34 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
19 34 (0.57%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 167 (2.78%) JIRA
2 163 (2.72%) Git
3 93 (1.55%) Jenkins
4 48 (0.80%) Oracle Forms
5 40 (0.67%) Selenium
6 30 (0.50%) Postman
7 26 (0.43%) JMeter
8 24 (0.40%) JUnit
8 24 (0.40%) Visual Studio
9 23 (0.38%) Cucumber
10 21 (0.35%) GitLab
11 20 (0.33%) Maven
12 15 (0.25%) Artifactory
13 13 (0.22%) Bitbucket
13 13 (0.22%) Cypress.io
13 13 (0.22%) TestNG
14 11 (0.18%) Mockito
15 10 (0.17%) Subversion
16 9 (0.15%) Gradle
17 8 (0.13%) git-flow
General
1 3,243 (54.03%) Social Skills
2 2,478 (41.29%) Finance
3 1,117 (18.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 756 (12.60%) Banking
5 655 (10.91%) Marketing
6 512 (8.53%) Financial Institution
7 455 (7.58%) French Language
8 441 (7.35%) Manufacturing
9 439 (7.31%) German Language
10 415 (6.91%) Law
11 414 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
12 345 (5.75%) Retail
13 285 (4.75%) Presentation Skills
14 227 (3.78%) Legal
15 223 (3.72%) Electronics
16 199 (3.32%) Influencing Skills
17 173 (2.88%) Advertising
18 167 (2.78%) Public Sector
19 113 (1.88%) Telecoms
20 92 (1.53%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,474 (24.56%) Analyst
2 988 (16.46%) Senior
3 708 (11.80%) Developer
4 456 (7.60%) Software Developer
5 450 (7.50%) Lead
6 439 (7.31%) Credit Analyst
7 426 (7.10%) Research Analyst
8 219 (3.65%) Architect
9 199 (3.32%) Consultant
10 187 (3.12%) Business Analyst
11 159 (2.65%) Product Manager
12 148 (2.47%) Data Analyst
12 148 (2.47%) Senior Analyst
13 147 (2.45%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
14 135 (2.25%) Engineering Specialist
15 122 (2.03%) Development Manager
15 122 (2.03%) Senior Manager
16 112 (1.87%) Project Manager
17 111 (1.85%) IT Support
18 110 (1.83%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (2.32%) .NET
2 129 (2.15%) React
3 114 (1.90%) HTML
4 105 (1.75%) Node.js
5 90 (1.50%) REST
6 83 (1.38%) CSS
7 73 (1.22%) Pandas
8 63 (1.05%) AngularJS
9 61 (1.02%) RESTful
10 55 (0.92%) Kafka
11 51 (0.85%) JSON
12 50 (0.83%) Middleware
13 48 (0.80%) SOAP
14 47 (0.78%) Spring Boot
15 42 (0.70%) Web Services
16 36 (0.60%) Spring
17 34 (0.57%) XML
18 29 (0.48%) PySpark
19 24 (0.40%) Oracle Fusion
20 22 (0.37%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 516 (8.60%) Credit Risk
2 450 (7.50%) Cyberattack
3 430 (7.16%) Fixed Income
4 327 (5.45%) Analytical Mindset
5 280 (4.67%) Management Information System
6 221 (3.68%) Self-Motivation
7 166 (2.77%) Product Ownership
8 150 (2.50%) Social Media
9 143 (2.38%) Algorithms
10 134 (2.23%) FMCG
11 82 (1.37%) Onboarding
12 80 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
13 75 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
14 72 (1.20%) Data Structures
15 64 (1.07%) Security Posture
16 62 (1.03%) Digital Media
17 61 (1.02%) Marketing Technology
18 56 (0.93%) Cloud Native
19 55 (0.92%) Mobile App
20 54 (0.90%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 629 (10.48%) Linux
2 482 (8.03%) Android
3 387 (6.45%) Windows
4 98 (1.63%) Windows Server
5 76 (1.27%) Windows Vista
6 63 (1.05%) Unix
7 46 (0.77%) Windows 10
8 24 (0.40%) Apple iOS
9 21 (0.35%) Mac OS
10 20 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 17 (0.28%) Windows 7
12 12 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
13 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
14 8 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
15 7 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
15 7 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
16 5 (0.083%) Mac OS X
16 5 (0.083%) zOS
17 4 (0.067%) VMS
17 4 (0.067%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,673 (44.54%) Problem-Solving
2 1,466 (24.43%) Agile
3 1,188 (19.79%) Decision-Making
4 1,043 (17.38%) Analytics
5 880 (14.66%) Project Management
6 860 (14.33%) Risk Management
7 713 (11.88%) Continuous Improvement
8 678 (11.30%) Mathematics
9 630 (10.50%) Business Strategy
10 571 (9.51%) Collaborative Working
11 564 (9.40%) Stakeholder Management
12 548 (9.13%) Business Intelligence
13 539 (8.98%) Asset Management
13 539 (8.98%) Line Management
14 525 (8.75%) Artificial Intelligence
15 490 (8.16%) OO
16 484 (8.06%) Design Patterns
17 481 (8.01%) OOP
18 476 (7.93%) Financial Modelling
19 462 (7.70%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1,098 (18.29%) Python
2 863 (14.38%) SQL
3 652 (10.86%) Java
4 535 (8.91%) C++
5 457 (7.61%) Go
6 275 (4.58%) JavaScript
7 169 (2.82%) C#
8 95 (1.58%) PowerShell
9 92 (1.53%) R
10 66 (1.10%) T-SQL
11 60 (1.00%) C
12 59 (0.98%) TypeScript
13 49 (0.82%) Rust
14 42 (0.70%) Bash
15 40 (0.67%) PL/SQL
16 37 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 35 (0.58%) MATLAB
18 32 (0.53%) Shell Script
19 30 (0.50%) VBA
20 29 (0.48%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2,192 (36.52%) Degree
2 1,047 (17.44%) Master's Degree
3 644 (10.73%) Security Cleared
4 501 (8.35%) DV Cleared
5 428 (7.13%) CFA
6 337 (5.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 239 (3.98%) DBS Check
8 203 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
9 175 (2.92%) HND
10 172 (2.87%) PhD
11 168 (2.80%) Chartered Engineer
12 154 (2.57%) PMI Certification
13 124 (2.07%) CBAP
14 120 (2.00%) ACCA
14 120 (2.00%) CISSP
15 115 (1.92%) CIMA
16 111 (1.85%) PMP
17 110 (1.83%) SC Cleared
18 81 (1.35%) CISM
19 77 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 382 (6.36%) QA
2 229 (3.82%) Data Quality
3 169 (2.82%) GDPR
4 134 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 106 (1.77%) NIST
6 92 (1.53%) Accessibility
7 82 (1.37%) SLA
8 53 (0.88%) PCI DSS
8 53 (0.88%) PMO
9 48 (0.80%) GAAP
10 47 (0.78%) IFRS
11 46 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 45 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
13 37 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 33 (0.55%) GRC
15 31 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
16 15 (0.25%) GMP
17 13 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 11 (0.18%) GxP
18 11 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 544 (9.06%) Docker
2 190 (3.17%) Active Directory
3 44 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (0.47%) Hyper-V
5 27 (0.45%) Firmware
6 14 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
7 11 (0.18%) HDFS
7 11 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (0.18%) vSphere
8 10 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.083%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.050%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 3 (0.050%) KVM
11 3 (0.050%) RACF
11 3 (0.050%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.033%) BitLocker
12 2 (0.033%) Postfix
12 2 (0.033%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.033%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 495 (8.25%) Ansible
2 154 (2.57%) Kubernetes
3 115 (1.92%) Terraform
4 51 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 33 (0.55%) SCCM
6 23 (0.38%) Grafana
7 14 (0.23%) Prometheus
8 13 (0.22%) SCOM
9 11 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (0.13%) Kustomize
10 8 (0.13%) Nagios
10 8 (0.13%) Packer
11 7 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.12%) CASB
11 7 (0.12%) Microsoft Clustering
11 7 (0.12%) Progress Chef
11 7 (0.12%) vCenter Server
12 6 (0.100%) Dell DRAC
12 6 (0.100%) Oracle RMAN
12 6 (0.100%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 950 (15.83%) Microsoft
2 431 (7.18%) Bloomberg
3 332 (5.53%) Google
4 283 (4.72%) Oracle
5 264 (4.40%) SAP
6 172 (2.87%) Salesforce
7 131 (2.18%) Databricks
8 97 (1.62%) ServiceNow
9 91 (1.52%) Adobe
10 87 (1.45%) PayPal
11 80 (1.33%) VMware
12 76 (1.27%) Cisco
13 60 (1.00%) TikTok
14 53 (0.88%) Infor
15 49 (0.82%) Cognos
16 43 (0.72%) Facebook
17 39 (0.65%) Avaloq
18 38 (0.63%) YouTube
19 31 (0.52%) Dell
20 30 (0.50%) Red Hat