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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 21 28
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 +7
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 9,470 10,064 13,974
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.65% 9.60% 9.07%
As % of the General category 16.12% 13.98% 14.27%
Number of salaries quoted 5,450 5,013 6,560
10th Percentile £28,238 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,166 £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 £70,990
90th Percentile £87,500 £91,200 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £46,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% -2.11% +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 58,747 72,001 97,948
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.84% 68.71% 63.55%
Number of salaries quoted 39,559 38,660 51,043
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £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 £102,000 £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 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
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 Skills within the UK over the 6 months to 26 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 +5 8,654 £50,000 -9.09% 3,909
UK excluding London +4 6,257 £45,000 -3.23% 2,697
Work from Home 0 3,279 £52,500 - 1,404
London +10 2,849 £67,500 +3.85% 1,365
South East +12 1,731 £49,000 +3.16% 614
North of England -4 1,445 £47,500 +11.76% 779
Midlands +3 1,119 £42,500 -15.00% 463
North West +13 787 £47,000 +5.53% 458
South West +5 736 £45,000 -10.00% 375
West Midlands +2 722 £43,500 -13.00% 285
East of England +10 672 £45,000 -5.26% 315
Yorkshire -8 504 £47,500 +11.76% 254
East Midlands +13 398 £42,500 -15.84% 177
Scotland -40 332 £45,000 -10.00% 137
North East +13 154 £40,000 -5.88% 75
Wales -3 154 £45,000 +12.50% 76
Northern Ireland +37 44 £61,900 +32.41% 42
Isle of Man - 27 £45,000 - 4

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
1 258 (2.72%) SharePoint
2 180 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 176 (1.86%) SAS
4 163 (1.72%) Confluence
5 121 (1.28%) Apache Spark
6 77 (0.81%) WebLogic
7 67 (0.71%) Apache
8 66 (0.70%) CMS
9 45 (0.48%) Oracle Service Bus
10 42 (0.44%) IIS
11 38 (0.40%) WordPress
12 23 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
13 15 (0.16%) Tomcat
14 14 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 12 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
16 10 (0.11%) Umbraco
17 8 (0.084%) nginx
18 7 (0.074%) WebSphere
19 6 (0.063%) Jupyter
20 5 (0.053%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 1,551 (16.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 745 (7.87%) Microsoft Office
3 437 (4.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 121 (1.28%) MS Visio
5 73 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
6 61 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
7 39 (0.41%) SPSS
8 34 (0.36%) AutoCAD
9 12 (0.13%) 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
14 6 (0.063%) Simulink
14 6 (0.063%) Sketch
14 6 (0.063%) Stata
14 6 (0.063%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 111 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 63 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 51 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
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 17 (0.18%) NEC Housing
9 15 (0.16%) SAP ERP
10 13 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
11 12 (0.13%) Endur
12 11 (0.12%) SAP MM
13 10 (0.11%) Elite 3E
13 10 (0.11%) Misys Midas
14 9 (0.095%) Sage 200
14 9 (0.095%) SAP BPC
14 9 (0.095%) SAP FI
14 9 (0.095%) SAP IBP
14 9 (0.095%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 1,477 (15.60%) Azure
2 961 (10.15%) Power Platform
3 910 (9.61%) AWS
4 573 (6.05%) Microsoft 365
5 562 (5.93%) GCP
6 316 (3.34%) Entra ID
7 252 (2.66%) SaaS
8 192 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
9 181 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
10 106 (1.12%) PowerApps
11 102 (1.08%) IaaS
12 93 (0.98%) Power Automate
13 92 (0.97%) Cloud Computing
14 90 (0.95%) Serverless
15 84 (0.89%) Google Analytics
16 83 (0.88%) GitHub
17 77 (0.81%) Snowflake
18 76 (0.80%) WhatsApp
19 70 (0.74%) PaaS
20 64 (0.68%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 730 (7.71%) Broadband
2 299 (3.16%) Firewall
3 274 (2.89%) 5G
4 213 (2.25%) DNS
5 212 (2.24%) WAN
6 185 (1.95%) LAN
7 180 (1.90%) TCP/IP
8 160 (1.69%) Network Security
9 130 (1.37%) DHCP
10 114 (1.20%) Internet
10 114 (1.20%) VPN
11 93 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
12 88 (0.93%) Wireless
13 84 (0.89%) SAN
14 67 (0.71%) Intrusion Detection
15 57 (0.60%) VLAN
16 51 (0.54%) SD-WAN
17 50 (0.53%) MPLS
18 38 (0.40%) HTTP
19 34 (0.36%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 861 (9.09%) Power BI
2 484 (5.11%) Tableau
3 438 (4.63%) SQL Server
4 396 (4.18%) Data Warehouse
5 385 (4.07%) Looker
6 380 (4.01%) BigQuery
7 185 (1.95%) Relational Database
8 180 (1.90%) MySQL
9 153 (1.62%) Data Lake
10 135 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
11 115 (1.21%) MongoDB
12 111 (1.17%) Big Data
13 108 (1.14%) Data Mining
14 106 (1.12%) Power Query
15 95 (1.00%) Metadata
16 88 (0.93%) Oracle Database
17 83 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
18 80 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 77 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
20 72 (0.76%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 352 (3.72%) JIRA
2 326 (3.44%) Git
3 121 (1.28%) Jenkins
4 47 (0.50%) Bitbucket
5 45 (0.48%) Visual Studio
6 38 (0.40%) LabVIEW
7 35 (0.37%) Cucumber
8 28 (0.30%) Burp Suite
8 28 (0.30%) Metasploit
9 24 (0.25%) GitLab
9 24 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 23 (0.24%) Selenium
11 22 (0.23%) Cypress.io
12 19 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
13 17 (0.18%) JMeter
14 16 (0.17%) Maven
15 14 (0.15%) SpecFlow
16 13 (0.14%) Gradle
16 13 (0.14%) Toad
17 11 (0.12%) Eclipse
General
1 5,116 (54.02%) Social Skills
2 2,734 (28.87%) Finance
3 1,072 (11.32%) Retail
4 834 (8.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 783 (8.27%) Marketing
6 782 (8.26%) Influencing Skills
7 599 (6.33%) Organisational Skills
8 559 (5.90%) Legal
9 495 (5.23%) Law
9 495 (5.23%) Presentation Skills
10 440 (4.65%) Banking
11 418 (4.41%) Manufacturing
12 351 (3.71%) Public Sector
13 261 (2.76%) German Language
14 245 (2.59%) Telecoms
15 191 (2.02%) Electronics
16 172 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
17 147 (1.55%) Advertising
18 143 (1.51%) Billing
19 134 (1.41%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2,777 (29.32%) Analyst
2 1,550 (16.37%) Senior
3 603 (6.37%) Senior Analyst
4 590 (6.23%) Developer
5 555 (5.86%) Lead
6 521 (5.50%) Architect
7 423 (4.47%) Business Analyst
8 392 (4.14%) Data Analyst
9 343 (3.62%) Graduate
10 320 (3.38%) Project Manager
11 311 (3.28%) Consultant
12 276 (2.91%) Data Engineer
13 231 (2.44%) Financial Analyst
14 214 (2.26%) Technical Specialist
15 212 (2.24%) Linux Specialist
16 207 (2.19%) Support Engineer
17 205 (2.16%) Support Analyst
18 201 (2.12%) Software Engineer
19 194 (2.05%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
20 191 (2.02%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 364 (3.84%) .NET
2 240 (2.53%) HTML
3 198 (2.09%) CSS
4 172 (1.82%) React
5 121 (1.28%) AngularJS
6 102 (1.08%) Kafka
7 93 (0.98%) Spring
8 92 (0.97%) ASP.NET
9 91 (0.96%) JSON
10 90 (0.95%) .NET Framework
11 85 (0.90%) Web Services
12 80 (0.84%) RESTful
13 78 (0.82%) REST
14 73 (0.77%) XML
15 67 (0.71%) Vue
16 63 (0.67%) Node.js
17 55 (0.58%) SOAP
18 53 (0.56%) .NET Core
18 53 (0.56%) Spring Boot
19 51 (0.54%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 1,085 (11.46%) Self-Motivation
2 556 (5.87%) Management Information System
3 449 (4.74%) Analytical Mindset
4 411 (4.34%) Product Ownership
5 314 (3.32%) Social Media
6 305 (3.22%) Driving Licence
7 197 (2.08%) Onboarding
8 182 (1.92%) Algorithms
9 148 (1.56%) Data Centre
10 127 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
11 118 (1.25%) IoT
12 100 (1.06%) Data Structures
13 98 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
14 94 (0.99%) Credit Risk
15 80 (0.84%) Virtual Team
16 77 (0.81%) Security Posture
17 76 (0.80%) Life Science
18 75 (0.79%) Mobile App
19 73 (0.77%) Cloud Native
20 69 (0.73%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 867 (9.16%) Windows
2 684 (7.22%) Linux
3 257 (2.71%) Windows Server
4 225 (2.38%) Windows 10
5 223 (2.35%) Ubuntu
6 166 (1.75%) Unix
7 62 (0.65%) Android
8 59 (0.62%) Mac OS
9 53 (0.56%) Apple iOS
10 46 (0.49%) Solaris
11 45 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
12 33 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
13 32 (0.34%) Windows 7
14 31 (0.33%) Kali Linux
15 28 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
16 24 (0.25%) AIX
16 24 (0.25%) Windows 8
17 23 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 19 (0.20%) CentOS
19 14 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,800 (50.69%) Problem-Solving
2 2,331 (24.61%) Agile
3 1,578 (16.66%) Decision-Making
4 1,340 (14.15%) Mentoring
5 1,299 (13.72%) Project Management
6 1,139 (12.03%) Analytics
7 1,128 (11.91%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,039 (10.97%) Business Intelligence
9 915 (9.66%) Customer Service
10 887 (9.37%) Actionable Insight
11 852 (9.00%) Computer Science
12 801 (8.46%) Data Analysis
13 717 (7.57%) Cybersecurity
14 715 (7.55%) DevOps
15 666 (7.03%) Visualisation
16 651 (6.87%) Mathematics
17 634 (6.69%) Data Modelling
18 625 (6.60%) CRM
19 621 (6.56%) Business Case
20 596 (6.29%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,620 (17.11%) SQL
2 1,041 (10.99%) Python
3 426 (4.50%) C#
4 396 (4.18%) Java
5 376 (3.97%) JavaScript
6 332 (3.51%) Bash
7 226 (2.39%) R
8 214 (2.26%) PowerShell
9 200 (2.11%) C++
10 192 (2.03%) C
11 139 (1.47%) T-SQL
12 112 (1.18%) PL/SQL
13 97 (1.02%) TypeScript
14 81 (0.86%) Scala
15 75 (0.79%) VBA
16 71 (0.75%) MATLAB
17 68 (0.72%) PHP
18 66 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 55 (0.58%) VB
20 54 (0.57%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2,862 (30.22%) Degree
2 482 (5.09%) ACCA
3 465 (4.91%) CIMA
4 445 (4.70%) DBS Check
5 440 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 416 (4.39%) Security Cleared
7 305 (3.22%) Master's Degree
8 255 (2.69%) SC Cleared
9 150 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
10 145 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
11 127 (1.34%) PMI Certification
12 120 (1.27%) CISSP
13 102 (1.08%) Azure Certification
14 94 (0.99%) CCNA
15 85 (0.90%) DV Cleared
16 83 (0.88%) PhD
17 79 (0.83%) HND
18 76 (0.80%) MBA
19 61 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
20 60 (0.63%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 524 (5.53%) QA
2 462 (4.88%) GDPR
3 398 (4.20%) Data Quality
4 328 (3.46%) SLA
5 204 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 119 (1.26%) Accessibility
7 107 (1.13%) NIST
8 89 (0.94%) PMO
9 75 (0.79%) IFRS
10 63 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
11 56 (0.59%) IFRS 9
12 55 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
13 45 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 40 (0.42%) PCI DSS
15 39 (0.41%) ISO 9001
16 35 (0.37%) GMP
17 33 (0.35%) GRC
18 29 (0.31%) GLP
19 20 (0.21%) NIST 800
20 19 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 723 (7.63%) Active Directory
2 188 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 141 (1.49%) Docker
4 93 (0.98%) Hyper-V
5 73 (0.77%) Firmware
6 51 (0.54%) Oracle RAC
7 46 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
7 46 (0.49%) vSphere
8 36 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
9 21 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
10 13 (0.14%) Terminal Services
11 10 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 10 (0.11%) XenApp
12 8 (0.084%) Virtual Desktop
13 5 (0.053%) HDFS
13 5 (0.053%) VMware Workstation
14 4 (0.042%) NFS
14 4 (0.042%) pfSense
14 4 (0.042%) XenDesktop
15 3 (0.032%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 268 (2.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 215 (2.27%) Jamf Pro
3 153 (1.62%) Kubernetes
4 78 (0.82%) Terraform
5 67 (0.71%) SCCM
6 64 (0.68%) Ansible
7 51 (0.54%) Data Guard
8 50 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
9 47 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
10 29 (0.31%) OpenSSO
10 29 (0.31%) Puppet
11 20 (0.21%) vCenter Server
12 19 (0.20%) Grafana
12 19 (0.20%) Progress Chef
13 18 (0.19%) Nagios
14 17 (0.18%) Graphite
15 13 (0.14%) HAProxy
15 13 (0.14%) Microsoft Clustering
16 10 (0.11%) Nessus
17 7 (0.074%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2,351 (24.83%) Microsoft
2 649 (6.85%) Google
3 398 (4.20%) Oracle
4 333 (3.52%) SAP
5 285 (3.01%) VMware
6 228 (2.41%) Salesforce
7 211 (2.23%) CyberArk
8 210 (2.22%) Tanium
9 183 (1.93%) Databricks
10 174 (1.84%) Cisco
11 99 (1.05%) ServiceNow
12 93 (0.98%) Remedy
13 91 (0.96%) IBM
14 90 (0.95%) Alteryx
14 90 (0.95%) Dell
15 76 (0.80%) Adobe
16 68 (0.72%) HP
17 67 (0.71%) Juniper
18 61 (0.64%) Atlassian
19 55 (0.58%) Splunk