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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 21 29
Rank change year-on-year +7 +8 +6
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 9,516 9,639 14,314
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.59% 9.49% 9.09%
As % of the General category 16.05% 13.91% 14.19%
Number of salaries quoted 5,433 4,859 6,541
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,748 £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 £68,750 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,000 £48,000
% change year-on-year -4.26% -2.08% +6.67%

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 59,289 69,287 100,887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.78% 68.22% 64.09%
Number of salaries quoted 39,672 37,345 51,003
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,162 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £101,250 £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 8 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 8 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 +7 8,712 £50,000 -9.09% 3,738
UK excluding London +4 6,255 £45,000 -4.26% 2,473
Work from Home 0 3,265 £52,500 - 1,402
London +9 2,896 £67,375 +3.65% 1,383
South East +11 1,730 £49,000 +0.64% 556
North of England -4 1,430 £46,500 +8.14% 673
Midlands +5 1,125 £42,500 -15.00% 486
North West +14 788 £46,500 +3.33% 357
South West +11 766 £45,000 -10.00% 343
West Midlands +2 722 £43,500 -13.00% 291
East of England +10 666 £45,000 -2.70% 263
Yorkshire -10 485 £47,500 +11.76% 244
East Midlands +19 401 £42,500 -15.84% 196
Scotland -41 321 £45,000 -10.00% 130
North East +9 157 £41,774 -1.71% 79
Wales -3 150 £45,000 +12.50% 64
Northern Ireland +37 41 £61,900 +36.04% 33
Isle of Man - 26 £45,000 - 4
Channel Islands - 1 £67,500 - 3

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
1 257 (2.70%) SharePoint
2 183 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 180 (1.89%) SAS
4 148 (1.56%) Confluence
5 112 (1.18%) Apache Spark
6 76 (0.80%) WebLogic
7 68 (0.71%) Apache
8 64 (0.67%) CMS
9 45 (0.47%) Oracle Service Bus
10 39 (0.41%) IIS
11 38 (0.40%) WordPress
12 30 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
13 14 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 12 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
15 9 (0.095%) nginx
15 9 (0.095%) Umbraco
16 8 (0.084%) Tomcat
17 7 (0.074%) SharePoint 2013
17 7 (0.074%) WebSphere
18 6 (0.063%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 1,564 (16.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 743 (7.81%) Microsoft Office
3 447 (4.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 122 (1.28%) MS Visio
5 72 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
6 62 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
7 40 (0.42%) SPSS
8 32 (0.34%) AutoCAD
9 13 (0.14%) OrCAD
10 10 (0.11%) Adobe XD
10 10 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
10 10 (0.11%) Trello
11 9 (0.095%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 8 (0.084%) Adobe Illustrator
12 8 (0.084%) Revit
13 7 (0.074%) Chatbot
13 7 (0.074%) GNU Octave
14 6 (0.063%) Sketch
14 6 (0.063%) Stata
14 6 (0.063%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 107 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 64 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 53 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
4 25 (0.26%) NEC Housing
4 25 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
4 25 (0.26%) Shopify
5 24 (0.25%) NetSuite
6 19 (0.20%) Magento
7 18 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
8 15 (0.16%) SAP ERP
9 14 (0.15%) Misys Midas
10 13 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
11 12 (0.13%) Endur
12 11 (0.12%) SAP MM
13 10 (0.11%) Elite 3E
14 9 (0.095%) Oracle General Ledger
14 9 (0.095%) Sage 200
14 9 (0.095%) SAP BPC
14 9 (0.095%) SAP IBP
14 9 (0.095%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 1,467 (15.42%) Azure
2 959 (10.08%) Power Platform
3 936 (9.84%) AWS
4 570 (5.99%) Microsoft 365
5 552 (5.80%) GCP
6 317 (3.33%) Entra ID
7 250 (2.63%) SaaS
8 195 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
8 195 (2.05%) Dynamics 365
9 107 (1.12%) PowerApps
10 99 (1.04%) Power Automate
11 98 (1.03%) IaaS
12 89 (0.94%) Cloud Computing
13 87 (0.91%) Serverless
14 86 (0.90%) Google Analytics
15 79 (0.83%) GitHub
16 75 (0.79%) Snowflake
17 72 (0.76%) PaaS
18 71 (0.75%) WhatsApp
19 66 (0.69%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 730 (7.67%) Broadband
2 298 (3.13%) Firewall
3 274 (2.88%) 5G
4 208 (2.19%) DNS
4 208 (2.19%) WAN
5 180 (1.89%) LAN
6 177 (1.86%) TCP/IP
7 154 (1.62%) Network Security
8 129 (1.36%) DHCP
9 117 (1.23%) Internet
10 109 (1.15%) VPN
11 89 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
12 86 (0.90%) Wireless
13 83 (0.87%) SAN
14 66 (0.69%) Intrusion Detection
15 55 (0.58%) VLAN
16 51 (0.54%) SD-WAN
17 47 (0.49%) MPLS
18 37 (0.39%) HTTP
19 35 (0.37%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 856 (9.00%) Power BI
2 513 (5.39%) Tableau
3 438 (4.60%) SQL Server
4 408 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
5 380 (3.99%) Looker
6 375 (3.94%) BigQuery
7 181 (1.90%) Relational Database
8 156 (1.64%) MySQL
9 146 (1.53%) Data Lake
10 126 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
11 111 (1.17%) Big Data
12 106 (1.11%) Power Query
13 101 (1.06%) Data Mining
14 99 (1.04%) MongoDB
15 95 (1.00%) Metadata
15 95 (1.00%) Oracle Database
16 77 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
17 75 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 75 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 67 (0.70%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 343 (3.60%) Git
2 333 (3.50%) JIRA
3 114 (1.20%) Jenkins
4 46 (0.48%) Bitbucket
4 46 (0.48%) Visual Studio
5 36 (0.38%) LabVIEW
6 35 (0.37%) Cucumber
7 28 (0.29%) Burp Suite
7 28 (0.29%) Metasploit
8 25 (0.26%) GitLab
9 24 (0.25%) Selenium
9 24 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 22 (0.23%) Cypress.io
11 20 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
12 16 (0.17%) JMeter
12 16 (0.17%) Maven
13 15 (0.16%) SpecFlow
14 13 (0.14%) Gradle
14 13 (0.14%) Toad
15 11 (0.12%) Eclipse
General
1 5,174 (54.37%) Social Skills
2 2,740 (28.79%) Finance
3 1,092 (11.48%) Retail
4 872 (9.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 797 (8.38%) Marketing
6 780 (8.20%) Influencing Skills
7 603 (6.34%) Organisational Skills
8 556 (5.84%) Legal
9 541 (5.69%) Law
10 531 (5.58%) Presentation Skills
11 429 (4.51%) Banking
12 414 (4.35%) Manufacturing
13 357 (3.75%) Public Sector
14 261 (2.74%) German Language
15 238 (2.50%) Telecoms
16 195 (2.05%) Electronics
17 175 (1.84%) Pharmaceutical
18 153 (1.61%) Investment Banking
19 144 (1.51%) Billing
20 140 (1.47%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 2,824 (29.68%) Analyst
2 1,560 (16.39%) Senior
3 630 (6.62%) Senior Analyst
4 585 (6.15%) Developer
5 566 (5.95%) Lead
6 510 (5.36%) Architect
7 421 (4.42%) Business Analyst
8 420 (4.41%) Data Analyst
9 340 (3.57%) Graduate
10 321 (3.37%) Project Manager
11 302 (3.17%) Consultant
12 282 (2.96%) Data Engineer
13 233 (2.45%) Financial Analyst
14 214 (2.25%) Technical Specialist
15 212 (2.23%) Linux Specialist
16 204 (2.14%) Support Analyst
16 204 (2.14%) Support Engineer
17 194 (2.04%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
18 193 (2.03%) Software Engineer
19 187 (1.97%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 362 (3.80%) .NET
2 222 (2.33%) HTML
3 181 (1.90%) CSS
4 152 (1.60%) React
5 104 (1.09%) AngularJS
6 95 (1.00%) .NET Framework
7 93 (0.98%) JSON
7 93 (0.98%) Spring
8 88 (0.92%) ASP.NET
9 87 (0.91%) Kafka
9 87 (0.91%) Web Services
10 78 (0.82%) REST
11 75 (0.79%) XML
12 70 (0.74%) RESTful
13 65 (0.68%) Vue
14 54 (0.57%) SOAP
15 53 (0.56%) Spring Boot
16 52 (0.55%) .NET Core
17 50 (0.53%) ASP.NET Web API
17 50 (0.53%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1,094 (11.50%) Self-Motivation
2 553 (5.81%) Management Information System
3 452 (4.75%) Analytical Mindset
4 415 (4.36%) Product Ownership
5 319 (3.35%) Driving Licence
6 314 (3.30%) Social Media
7 202 (2.12%) Onboarding
8 186 (1.95%) Algorithms
9 148 (1.56%) Data Centre
10 125 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
11 116 (1.22%) IoT
12 101 (1.06%) Data Structures
13 98 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
14 97 (1.02%) Credit Risk
15 81 (0.85%) Virtual Team
16 80 (0.84%) Life Science
17 76 (0.80%) Mobile App
18 73 (0.77%) Security Posture
19 71 (0.75%) Cloud Native
20 69 (0.73%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 856 (9.00%) Windows
2 678 (7.12%) Linux
3 258 (2.71%) Windows Server
4 224 (2.35%) Ubuntu
5 223 (2.34%) Windows 10
6 168 (1.77%) Unix
7 62 (0.65%) Android
8 59 (0.62%) Mac OS
9 53 (0.56%) Apple iOS
10 46 (0.48%) Solaris
11 43 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
12 33 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
13 31 (0.33%) Kali Linux
13 31 (0.33%) Windows 7
14 28 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
15 24 (0.25%) AIX
15 24 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 24 (0.25%) Windows 8
16 20 (0.21%) CentOS
17 16 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,837 (50.83%) Problem-Solving
2 2,288 (24.04%) Agile
3 1,564 (16.44%) Decision-Making
4 1,342 (14.10%) Mentoring
5 1,303 (13.69%) Project Management
6 1,167 (12.26%) Analytics
7 1,114 (11.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,036 (10.89%) Business Intelligence
9 930 (9.77%) Customer Service
10 908 (9.54%) Actionable Insight
11 871 (9.15%) Computer Science
12 836 (8.79%) Data Analysis
13 719 (7.56%) Cybersecurity
14 712 (7.48%) DevOps
15 689 (7.24%) Mathematics
16 670 (7.04%) Visualisation
17 640 (6.73%) Data Modelling
18 623 (6.55%) CRM
19 614 (6.45%) Business Case
20 602 (6.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,659 (17.43%) SQL
2 1,072 (11.27%) Python
3 429 (4.51%) C#
4 403 (4.23%) Java
5 368 (3.87%) JavaScript
6 332 (3.49%) Bash
7 236 (2.48%) R
8 216 (2.27%) PowerShell
9 205 (2.15%) C++
10 199 (2.09%) C
11 136 (1.43%) T-SQL
12 112 (1.18%) PL/SQL
13 96 (1.01%) TypeScript
14 80 (0.84%) Scala
15 75 (0.79%) VBA
16 74 (0.78%) MATLAB
17 68 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 68 (0.71%) PHP
18 56 (0.59%) VB
19 51 (0.54%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2,908 (30.56%) Degree
2 484 (5.09%) ACCA
3 473 (4.97%) DBS Check
4 465 (4.89%) CIMA
5 445 (4.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 423 (4.45%) Security Cleared
7 305 (3.21%) Master's Degree
8 252 (2.65%) SC Cleared
9 159 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
10 146 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
11 128 (1.35%) PMI Certification
12 119 (1.25%) CISSP
13 103 (1.08%) Azure Certification
14 91 (0.96%) CCNA
15 85 (0.89%) PhD
16 81 (0.85%) DV Cleared
17 77 (0.81%) HND
18 74 (0.78%) MBA
19 64 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
20 62 (0.65%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 525 (5.52%) QA
2 460 (4.83%) GDPR
3 412 (4.33%) Data Quality
4 332 (3.49%) SLA
5 206 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 130 (1.37%) Accessibility
7 106 (1.11%) NIST
8 88 (0.92%) PMO
9 77 (0.81%) IFRS
10 61 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
11 56 (0.59%) IFRS 9
12 44 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 40 (0.42%) ISO 9001
14 39 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
14 39 (0.41%) PCI DSS
15 36 (0.38%) GMP
16 34 (0.36%) GRC
17 33 (0.35%) GLP
18 20 (0.21%) NIST 800
18 20 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 717 (7.53%) Active Directory
2 184 (1.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 139 (1.46%) Docker
4 94 (0.99%) Hyper-V
5 80 (0.84%) Firmware
6 51 (0.54%) Oracle RAC
7 44 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
8 43 (0.45%) vSphere
9 33 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
10 23 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
11 13 (0.14%) Terminal Services
12 12 (0.13%) XenApp
13 8 (0.084%) Virtual Desktop
13 8 (0.084%) Virtual Servers
14 6 (0.063%) XenDesktop
15 5 (0.053%) HDFS
15 5 (0.053%) VMware Workstation
16 4 (0.042%) NFS
16 4 (0.042%) pfSense
17 3 (0.032%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 268 (2.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 215 (2.26%) Jamf Pro
3 146 (1.53%) Kubernetes
4 74 (0.78%) Terraform
5 62 (0.65%) Ansible
6 61 (0.64%) SCCM
7 51 (0.54%) Data Guard
7 51 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
8 47 (0.49%) Oracle RMAN
9 30 (0.32%) Puppet
10 29 (0.30%) OpenSSO
11 20 (0.21%) Nagios
11 20 (0.21%) vCenter Server
12 19 (0.20%) Grafana
12 19 (0.20%) Progress Chef
13 18 (0.19%) Graphite
14 14 (0.15%) Microsoft Clustering
15 13 (0.14%) HAProxy
16 8 (0.084%) Icinga
16 8 (0.084%) Nessus
Vendors
1 2,365 (24.85%) Microsoft
2 641 (6.74%) Google
3 410 (4.31%) Oracle
4 335 (3.52%) SAP
5 278 (2.92%) VMware
6 228 (2.40%) Salesforce
7 212 (2.23%) Databricks
8 210 (2.21%) CyberArk
8 210 (2.21%) Tanium
9 172 (1.81%) Cisco
10 100 (1.05%) ServiceNow
11 95 (1.00%) IBM
11 95 (1.00%) Remedy
12 93 (0.98%) Alteryx
13 88 (0.92%) Dell
14 76 (0.80%) Adobe
15 70 (0.74%) HP
16 68 (0.71%) Juniper
17 55 (0.58%) Fortinet
17 55 (0.58%) Splunk