Analytical Skills Job Trends in England

Analytical Skills
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 9 13
Rank change year-on-year -19 +4 +6
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,350 5,095 8,463
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.59% 13.64% 10.28%
As % of the General category 10.81% 19.33% 17.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2,713 2,259 4,927
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,886 £69,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,756 £87,500
UK median annual salary £52,750 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.09% +10.00% -9.09%

All General Skills
England

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 general skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 40,223 26,354 49,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 51.65% 70.53% 59.66%
Number of salaries quoted 22,121 14,400 35,280
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,913 £27,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -13.22%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.98% +11.43% -12.50%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Analytical Skills relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Analytical Skills job vacancy trend in England

Analytical Skills
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Analytical Skills.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in England over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Analytical Skills in England

Analytical Skills
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Analytical Skills within the England region over the 6 months to 21 April 2026. 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
London -8 1,538 £67,500 +3.85% 879
North of England -31 850 £45,497 -9.01% 400
South East -4 794 £50,000 -4.76% 529
Midlands -25 576 £48,000 - 329
North West -25 479 £45,000 -10.00% 228
West Midlands -25 347 £51,300 +6.88% 198
Yorkshire -13 279 £51,000 +13.33% 119
South West -24 268 £48,750 -4.34% 183
East of England -37 257 £42,879 -15.87% 172
East Midlands -12 227 £45,000 - 130
North East -20 92 £48,445 +25.83% 59
Analytical Skills
UK

Analytical Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 140 (3.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 87 (2.00%) SharePoint
3 73 (1.68%) Apache Spark
4 70 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
5 63 (1.45%) Confluence
6 44 (1.01%) CMS
7 35 (0.80%) Apache
8 20 (0.46%) WordPress
9 18 (0.41%) IIS
10 12 (0.28%) SAS
11 11 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
12 6 (0.14%) nginx
13 4 (0.092%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 3 (0.069%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.069%) govService
14 3 (0.069%) JBoss
15 2 (0.046%) Appian
15 2 (0.046%) Camunda
15 2 (0.046%) Jupyter
15 2 (0.046%) MTS
Applications
1 580 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 254 (5.84%) Microsoft Office
3 90 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 82 (1.89%) MS Visio
5 28 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
6 23 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
7 21 (0.48%) Chatbot
8 15 (0.34%) Adobe XD
9 12 (0.28%) Maya
10 8 (0.18%) CATIA
11 5 (0.11%) AutoCAD
12 4 (0.092%) Trello
13 3 (0.069%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 3 (0.069%) Photoshop
14 2 (0.046%) Simulink
14 2 (0.046%) Sketch
15 1 (0.023%) Lectora
15 1 (0.023%) Notion
15 1 (0.023%) SmartSuite
15 1 (0.023%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 59 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 40 (0.92%) NetSuite
3 35 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 35 (0.80%) Salesforce CRM
4 19 (0.44%) SAP CO
5 15 (0.34%) SAP PM
6 14 (0.32%) Endur
6 14 (0.32%) Maximo
7 13 (0.30%) SAP ERP
8 11 (0.25%) Workday HCM
9 10 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
9 10 (0.23%) SAP FI
9 10 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
10 9 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
11 8 (0.18%) SAP PP
12 7 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
13 6 (0.14%) Magento
13 6 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
14 5 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
14 5 (0.11%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 765 (17.59%) Azure
2 606 (13.93%) Power Platform
3 431 (9.91%) AWS
4 302 (6.94%) Microsoft 365
5 233 (5.36%) SaaS
6 174 (4.00%) GCP
7 140 (3.22%) Dynamics 365
8 127 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
9 89 (2.05%) Entra ID
10 88 (2.02%) Power Automate
11 82 (1.89%) GitHub
12 75 (1.72%) dbt
12 75 (1.72%) Snowflake
13 67 (1.54%) Google Analytics
14 61 (1.40%) Amazon S3
15 60 (1.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 58 (1.33%) Microsoft Purview
17 57 (1.31%) PowerApps
18 56 (1.29%) Azure Data Factory
19 54 (1.24%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 174 (4.00%) Firewall
2 139 (3.20%) DNS
3 111 (2.55%) DHCP
4 110 (2.53%) VPN
5 72 (1.66%) WAN
6 64 (1.47%) TCP/IP
7 60 (1.38%) VLAN
7 60 (1.38%) Wireless
8 58 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
9 55 (1.26%) LAN
10 47 (1.08%) Network Security
11 41 (0.94%) Broadband
12 36 (0.83%) SAN
13 33 (0.76%) BGP
14 32 (0.74%) OSPF
14 32 (0.74%) Wireshark
15 29 (0.67%) EIGRP
16 28 (0.64%) Cisco ASA
17 23 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
18 21 (0.48%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 551 (12.67%) Power BI
2 367 (8.44%) Tableau
3 196 (4.51%) SQL Server
4 156 (3.59%) Data Mining
5 149 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
6 94 (2.16%) Metadata
7 88 (2.02%) Relational Database
8 77 (1.77%) Data Lake
9 69 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
10 64 (1.47%) Looker
11 63 (1.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 58 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
13 49 (1.13%) MySQL
14 47 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
15 46 (1.06%) BigQuery
16 45 (1.03%) Power Query
17 43 (0.99%) NoSQL
18 37 (0.85%) Oracle Database
19 35 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
19 35 (0.80%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 140 (3.22%) JIRA
2 115 (2.64%) Git
3 36 (0.83%) GitLab
4 35 (0.80%) Jenkins
5 32 (0.74%) MLflow
6 28 (0.64%) Selenium
7 21 (0.48%) Rational DOORS
8 18 (0.41%) Chocolatey
9 17 (0.39%) Visual Studio
10 16 (0.37%) Balsamiq
11 14 (0.32%) Axure RP
12 13 (0.30%) Cucumber
12 13 (0.30%) IBM UrbanCode
13 10 (0.23%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.23%) Postman
14 9 (0.21%) ERwin
14 9 (0.21%) SonarQube
15 8 (0.18%) LabVIEW
15 8 (0.18%) Maven
16 6 (0.14%) Oracle APEX
General
1 2,073 (47.66%) Social Skills
2 1,570 (36.09%) Finance
3 404 (9.29%) Marketing
4 316 (7.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 279 (6.41%) Banking
6 248 (5.70%) Law
7 243 (5.59%) Organisational Skills
8 240 (5.52%) Retail
9 218 (5.01%) Legal
10 209 (4.80%) Public Sector
11 149 (3.43%) Presentation Skills
12 140 (3.22%) Manufacturing
13 112 (2.57%) Influencing Skills
14 105 (2.41%) Financial Institution
15 102 (2.34%) Telecoms
16 76 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
17 65 (1.49%) Electronics
18 63 (1.45%) Advertising
19 50 (1.15%) Games
20 49 (1.13%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,216 (27.95%) Analyst
2 583 (13.40%) Senior
3 335 (7.70%) Data Analyst
4 283 (6.51%) Lead
5 249 (5.72%) Business Analyst
6 224 (5.15%) Developer
7 193 (4.44%) Architect
8 169 (3.89%) Consultant
9 158 (3.63%) Support Analyst
10 144 (3.31%) Trainee
11 134 (3.08%) Systems Engineer
12 132 (3.03%) Trainee Analyst
12 132 (3.03%) Trainee Data Analyst
13 121 (2.78%) Senior Analyst
14 118 (2.71%) Senior Manager
15 115 (2.64%) Financial Analyst
16 104 (2.39%) Data Engineer
16 104 (2.39%) IT Support
17 87 (2.00%) Support Engineer
18 84 (1.93%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (3.03%) HTML
2 120 (2.76%) CSS
3 86 (1.98%) .NET
4 77 (1.77%) JSON
5 76 (1.75%) React
6 74 (1.70%) REST
7 73 (1.68%) Middleware
8 62 (1.43%) XML
9 55 (1.26%) PyTorch
10 53 (1.22%) Kafka
11 51 (1.17%) TensorFlow
12 44 (1.01%) Node.js
13 41 (0.94%) scikit-learn
14 38 (0.87%) SOAP
15 36 (0.83%) PySpark
16 33 (0.76%) LangChain
17 32 (0.74%) Pandas
18 29 (0.67%) EDI
18 29 (0.67%) Web Services
19 26 (0.60%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 442 (10.16%) Analytical Mindset
2 227 (5.22%) Self-Motivation
3 213 (4.90%) Onboarding
4 191 (4.39%) Product Ownership
5 180 (4.14%) Management Information System
6 99 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
7 78 (1.79%) Data Structures
8 74 (1.70%) Cloud Native
9 73 (1.68%) Data Centre
10 71 (1.63%) Security Posture
11 70 (1.61%) Algorithms
12 69 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
13 58 (1.33%) Driving Licence
14 52 (1.20%) Social Media
15 48 (1.10%) Public Cloud
16 44 (1.01%) FMCG
17 41 (0.94%) Cyber Threat
17 41 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 40 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
18 40 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 323 (7.43%) Windows
2 186 (4.28%) Linux
3 137 (3.15%) Windows Server
4 62 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
5 30 (0.69%) Unix
6 23 (0.53%) Mac OS
7 21 (0.48%) Android
8 20 (0.46%) Windows 10
9 15 (0.34%) Apple iOS
10 14 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 7 (0.16%) CentOS
12 5 (0.11%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.11%) VMS
13 4 (0.092%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.069%) AIX
15 2 (0.046%) Data ONTAP
15 2 (0.046%) Debian
15 2 (0.046%) OpenWrt
15 2 (0.046%) Rocky
16 1 (0.023%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,939 (44.57%) Problem-Solving
2 994 (22.85%) Continuous Improvement
3 973 (22.37%) Analytics
4 893 (20.53%) Decision-Making
5 757 (17.40%) Agile
6 673 (15.47%) Business Intelligence
7 632 (14.53%) AI
8 570 (13.10%) Stakeholder Management
9 536 (12.32%) Project Management
10 471 (10.83%) Data Analysis
11 414 (9.52%) Actionable Insight
12 412 (9.47%) Mentoring
13 394 (9.06%) Analytical Thinking
14 390 (8.97%) Roadmaps
15 379 (8.71%) Data Modelling
16 373 (8.57%) Process Improvement
17 364 (8.37%) Cybersecurity
18 353 (8.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 329 (7.56%) ERP
20 328 (7.54%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 963 (22.14%) SQL
2 809 (18.60%) Python
3 167 (3.84%) JavaScript
4 165 (3.79%) Java
5 140 (3.22%) PowerShell
6 113 (2.60%) C#
7 79 (1.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 54 (1.24%) Bash
9 50 (1.15%) R
10 45 (1.03%) T-SQL
11 42 (0.97%) C++
11 42 (0.97%) VBA
12 35 (0.80%) TypeScript
13 23 (0.53%) MATLAB
14 22 (0.51%) Scala
15 20 (0.46%) Go
16 15 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
16 15 (0.34%) PHP
17 13 (0.30%) C
17 13 (0.30%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 914 (21.01%) Degree
2 323 (7.43%) Security Cleared
3 240 (5.52%) SC Cleared
4 239 (5.49%) ACCA
5 229 (5.26%) CIMA
6 156 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 139 (3.20%) CISSP
8 137 (3.15%) Master's Degree
9 117 (2.69%) DBS Check
10 83 (1.91%) CISM
11 79 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
12 72 (1.66%) PMI Certification
13 70 (1.61%) DV Cleared
14 64 (1.47%) Azure Certification
15 60 (1.38%) PMP
16 59 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
17 56 (1.29%) CISA
18 53 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
19 50 (1.15%) CompTIA Security+
20 44 (1.01%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 398 (9.15%) Data Quality
2 293 (6.74%) GDPR
3 243 (5.59%) QA
4 208 (4.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 183 (4.21%) NIST
6 126 (2.90%) Cyber Essentials
7 104 (2.39%) PCI DSS
8 90 (2.07%) SLA
9 78 (1.79%) PMO
10 77 (1.77%) Accessibility
11 61 (1.40%) Actionable Recommendations
12 60 (1.38%) ISO 9001
13 56 (1.29%) GRC
14 38 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 36 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 32 (0.74%) IFRS
17 29 (0.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 25 (0.57%) SOC 2
19 24 (0.55%) COBIT
20 21 (0.48%) ITGC
System Software
1 224 (5.15%) Active Directory
2 71 (1.63%) Hyper-V
3 66 (1.52%) Docker
4 58 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 56 (1.29%) Terminal Server
6 17 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.37%) ProxySG
8 12 (0.28%) vSphere
9 7 (0.16%) IAG
9 7 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.092%) Firmware
10 4 (0.092%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.092%) XenApp
11 3 (0.069%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.069%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.046%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.046%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.023%) KVM
13 1 (0.023%) NFS
13 1 (0.023%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 133 (3.06%) Terraform
2 72 (1.66%) Kubernetes
3 63 (1.45%) Ansible
4 55 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
5 32 (0.74%) Grafana
6 27 (0.62%) SCCM
7 26 (0.60%) Prometheus
8 18 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
9 15 (0.34%) Nagios
10 8 (0.18%) QRadar
11 7 (0.16%) Kibana
11 7 (0.16%) Kubeflow
12 5 (0.11%) logstash
13 4 (0.092%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.092%) Backup Exec
13 4 (0.092%) Computer Incident Response Team
13 4 (0.092%) Packer
13 4 (0.092%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.092%) SolarWinds Orion
13 4 (0.092%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,079 (24.80%) Microsoft
2 190 (4.37%) SAP
3 163 (3.75%) Oracle
4 157 (3.61%) Google
5 137 (3.15%) Salesforce
6 125 (2.87%) VMware
7 103 (2.37%) Databricks
8 101 (2.32%) SolarWinds
9 96 (2.21%) ServiceNow
10 93 (2.14%) Splunk
11 70 (1.61%) Workday
12 64 (1.47%) Cisco
13 62 (1.43%) Veeam
14 57 (1.31%) Brocade
14 57 (1.31%) Tanium
15 56 (1.29%) Nimble Storage
16 44 (1.01%) IBM
17 40 (0.92%) Red Hat
18 39 (0.90%) Adobe
18 39 (0.90%) Dell