Analytical Thinking
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Analytical Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Analytical Thinking over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 436 396 491
Rank change year-on-year -40 +95 -20
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Thinking 554 826 1,078
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.56% 0.79% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.83% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 349 348 454
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £89,000 £80,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,802 £53,750 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.79% +13.16% -5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Analytical Thinking is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,360 99,485 147,504
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.62% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 59,619 58,411 83,272
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Analytical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Thinking in the UK

Analytical Thinking
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Analytical Thinking in the UK

Analytical Thinking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytical Thinking over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Analytical Thinking in the UK

Analytical Thinking
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Analytical Thinking within the UK over the 6 months to 28 April 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 -25 479 £50,000 -18.70% 186
UK excluding London -92 384 £45,802 -14.79% 110
Work from Home -18 228 £48,013 -8.55% 109
London +73 147 £62,500 -3.85% 92
North of England -68 105 £50,000 +5.26% 32
South East -12 93 £50,000 - 24
South West +21 77 £46,500 +3.33% 16
North West +41 60 £45,000 +20.00% 18
Midlands -26 43 £32,000 -50.77% 10
Yorkshire -17 40 £52,500 -4.55% 12
Scotland -53 29 £42,500 -29.17% 9
West Midlands +10 25 £34,850 -46.38% 9
East Midlands -22 18 £32,000 -50.77% 1
Wales +12 14 £52,101 +34.45% 3
East of England -38 13 £60,000 +1.27% 12
Isle of Man - 8 £49,500 -
North East -33 5 £56,075 +21.12% 4
Northern Ireland +22 2 £54,408 -16.30% 5

Analytical Thinking
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 22 (3.97%) SharePoint
2 19 (3.43%) Confluence
3 6 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.08%) SAS
4 3 (0.54%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.54%) CMS
5 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.18%) Drupal
5 1 (0.18%) IIS
5 1 (0.18%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.18%) Umbraco
Applications
1 59 (10.65%) Microsoft Office
2 52 (9.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (5.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.62%) MS Visio
5 6 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.54%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.36%) Sketch
8 1 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (2.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (1.62%) SAP IBP
4 5 (0.90%) SAP PP
5 3 (0.54%) Q-Pulse
5 3 (0.54%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.54%) Sage 300 ERP
5 3 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.18%) Aareon QL
6 1 (0.18%) Cognos Business Intelligence
6 1 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.18%) MIS ActiveH
6 1 (0.18%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.18%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 63 (11.37%) Azure
2 55 (9.93%) Power Platform
3 46 (8.30%) AWS
4 45 (8.12%) Microsoft 365
5 23 (4.15%) SaaS
6 20 (3.61%) Dynamics 365
7 14 (2.53%) WhatsApp
8 12 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
8 12 (2.17%) PaaS
9 10 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (1.44%) GCP
10 8 (1.44%) PowerApps
11 7 (1.26%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (1.26%) Datadog
12 6 (1.08%) IaaS
12 6 (1.08%) Power Automate
12 6 (1.08%) Serverless
13 5 (0.90%) Entra ID
14 4 (0.72%) iPaaS
14 4 (0.72%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 29 (5.23%) Firewall
2 15 (2.71%) Network Security
3 14 (2.53%) DNS
4 13 (2.35%) DHCP
4 13 (2.35%) VPN
5 10 (1.81%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (1.26%) LAN
6 7 (1.26%) WAN
7 5 (0.90%) SAN
7 5 (0.90%) VLAN
7 5 (0.90%) WebEx
8 4 (0.72%) Broadband
8 4 (0.72%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (0.54%) BGP
9 3 (0.54%) Cisco ISE
9 3 (0.54%) EIGRP
9 3 (0.54%) MPLS
9 3 (0.54%) OSPF
9 3 (0.54%) SSL
9 3 (0.54%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (7.76%) Power BI
2 40 (7.22%) SQL Server
3 29 (5.23%) MySQL
4 23 (4.15%) Relational Database
5 16 (2.89%) RDBMS
6 13 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (2.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 12 (2.17%) Tableau
8 9 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.08%) SAP HANA
10 5 (0.90%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 5 (0.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.72%) Big Data
11 4 (0.72%) Crystal Reports
12 3 (0.54%) Data Mining
12 3 (0.54%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.36%) BigQuery
13 2 (0.36%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 31 (5.60%) JIRA
2 24 (4.33%) Git
3 15 (2.71%) LabVIEW
4 4 (0.72%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (0.54%) GitLab
5 3 (0.54%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.36%) git-flow
7 1 (0.18%) Axure RP
7 1 (0.18%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.18%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.18%) Log4Net
7 1 (0.18%) Moq
7 1 (0.18%) NUnit
7 1 (0.18%) Sourcetree
7 1 (0.18%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 554 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 278 (50.18%) Social Skills
3 171 (30.87%) Finance
4 66 (11.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 45 (8.12%) Legal
6 44 (7.94%) Retail
7 39 (7.04%) Manufacturing
8 33 (5.96%) Banking
9 32 (5.78%) Law
10 29 (5.23%) Organisational Skills
11 28 (5.05%) Public Sector
12 26 (4.69%) Electronics
13 25 (4.51%) Marketing
14 23 (4.15%) Investment Banking
14 23 (4.15%) Pharmaceutical
15 20 (3.61%) Presentation Skills
16 19 (3.43%) Influencing Skills
16 19 (3.43%) Telecoms
17 9 (1.62%) French Language
18 8 (1.44%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 135 (24.37%) Analyst
2 71 (12.82%) Senior
3 54 (9.75%) Developer
4 48 (8.66%) Business Analyst
5 42 (7.58%) Lead
6 35 (6.32%) Project Manager
7 23 (4.15%) Architect
8 22 (3.97%) Consultant
9 20 (3.61%) IT Manager
9 20 (3.61%) Senior Developer
10 15 (2.71%) Electronics Engineer
10 15 (2.71%) Lead Business Analyst
10 15 (2.71%) Manufacturing Engineer
10 15 (2.71%) Software Design Engineer
11 14 (2.53%) Senior Manager
12 13 (2.35%) Cloud Engineer
12 13 (2.35%) IT Analyst
13 12 (2.17%) DBA
13 12 (2.17%) MySQL DBA
13 12 (2.17%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (8.12%) .NET
2 22 (3.97%) HTML
3 21 (3.79%) CSS
4 16 (2.89%) AngularJS
5 13 (2.35%) React
6 10 (1.81%) RESTful
7 9 (1.62%) Vue
8 8 (1.44%) HTML5
8 8 (1.44%) Spring
9 7 (1.26%) .NET Framework
9 7 (1.26%) CSS3
9 7 (1.26%) Hibernate
9 7 (1.26%) HTML5 Canvas
10 6 (1.08%) .NET Core
11 5 (0.90%) ASP.NET
11 5 (0.90%) ASP.NET Core
11 5 (0.90%) ASP.NET MVC
11 5 (0.90%) EDI
11 5 (0.90%) SAP TM
12 4 (0.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (6.86%) Self-Motivation
2 28 (5.05%) Management Information System
3 21 (3.79%) Product Ownership
4 20 (3.61%) Algorithms
4 20 (3.61%) Onboarding
5 15 (2.71%) Driving Licence
5 15 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (2.17%) Virtual Team
7 9 (1.62%) Data Centre
7 9 (1.62%) Market Risk
7 9 (1.62%) Renewable Energy
8 8 (1.44%) Housing Association
8 8 (1.44%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.26%) Cyber Threat
9 7 (1.26%) Life Science
10 6 (1.08%) Credit Risk
10 6 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (1.08%) FMCG
10 6 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.08%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 47 (8.48%) Windows
2 23 (4.15%) Linux
3 12 (2.17%) Unix
3 12 (2.17%) Windows 10
3 12 (2.17%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.81%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.72%) VMS
6 2 (0.36%) CentOS
6 2 (0.36%) Windows Embedded Compact
7 1 (0.18%) HPUX
7 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.18%) Solaris
7 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.18%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (42.96%) Problem-Solving
2 122 (22.02%) Agile
3 108 (19.49%) Decision-Making
4 96 (17.33%) Project Management
5 83 (14.98%) Project Delivery
5 83 (14.98%) Strategic Thinking
6 75 (13.54%) Computer Science
7 72 (13.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 63 (11.37%) Customer Service
9 57 (10.29%) Analytics
10 53 (9.57%) Critical Thinking
10 53 (9.57%) Software Engineering
11 50 (9.03%) Roadmaps
11 50 (9.03%) Service Delivery
11 50 (9.03%) Time Management
12 49 (8.84%) Risk Management
13 48 (8.66%) Business Intelligence
14 44 (7.94%) Stakeholder Management
15 41 (7.40%) Line Management
16 40 (7.22%) Creative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 77 (13.90%) C#
2 55 (9.93%) SQL
3 51 (9.21%) Python
4 49 (8.84%) JavaScript
5 31 (5.60%) Java
6 20 (3.61%) C
6 20 (3.61%) PHP
7 18 (3.25%) C++
8 12 (2.17%) R
9 11 (1.99%) PowerShell
10 8 (1.44%) Bash
10 8 (1.44%) TypeScript
11 7 (1.26%) Perl
12 3 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.36%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.36%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.36%) VBA
14 1 (0.18%) VB
Qualifications
1 182 (32.85%) Degree
2 56 (10.11%) Security Cleared
3 37 (6.68%) SC Cleared
4 24 (4.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (3.43%) Master's Degree
6 16 (2.89%) Azure Certification
7 13 (2.35%) DV Cleared
7 13 (2.35%) PMI Certification
8 12 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.81%) PhD
9 10 (1.81%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 9 (1.62%) CISSP
10 9 (1.62%) DBS Check
11 7 (1.26%) PgMP
12 6 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.90%) Postgraduate
14 4 (0.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 4 (0.72%) SAFe Agilist
14 4 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.54%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (5.42%) QA
2 19 (3.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (2.35%) SLA
4 11 (1.99%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.99%) GDPR
5 7 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (1.26%) ISO 9000
6 4 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.54%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.54%) NIST
7 3 (0.54%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.54%) PMO
8 2 (0.36%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.18%) GxP
9 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (3.25%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.08%) Docker
3 4 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.36%) IAG
5 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (2.71%) Terraform
2 8 (1.44%) Ansible
3 5 (0.90%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.90%) SCCM
3 5 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.36%) Graphite
4 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.36%) Nagios
4 2 (0.36%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 134 (24.19%) Microsoft
2 49 (8.84%) SAP
3 18 (3.25%) Oracle
3 18 (3.25%) Salesforce
3 18 (3.25%) VMware
4 11 (1.99%) Cisco
5 10 (1.81%) Xamarin
6 8 (1.44%) Google
7 7 (1.26%) Juniper
8 6 (1.08%) Alteryx
8 6 (1.08%) Pega
8 6 (1.08%) SolarWinds
8 6 (1.08%) UiPath
9 5 (0.90%) AppDynamics
9 5 (0.90%) Dynatrace
10 4 (0.72%) Aruba
10 4 (0.72%) Citrix
10 4 (0.72%) Computacenter
10 4 (0.72%) Workday
10 4 (0.72%) YouTube