Analytical Thinking Job Trends in London

Analytical Thinking
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Analytical Thinking skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 285 351
Rank change year-on-year +22 +66 +115
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Thinking 135 142 85
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.98% 0.90% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 0.95% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 86 65 62
10th Percentile £30,500 £40,312 £41,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% +8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,688 £110,000 £79,688
90th Percentile £92,500 £119,050 £103,375
England median annual salary £50,000 £67,500 £58,920
% change year-on-year -25.93% +14.56% +6.36%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

Analytical Thinking falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,117 14,907 16,420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 88.36% 94.37% 92.91%
Number of salaries quoted 7,725 8,332 13,201
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,000 £41,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Analytical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Analytical Thinking job vacancy trend in London

Analytical Thinking
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Analytical Thinking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Analytical Thinking

Analytical Thinking
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytical Thinking in London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Analytical Thinking in London

Analytical Thinking
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Analytical Thinking within the London region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
Central London +15 14 £65,500 +0.77% 36
West London +1 2 - - 2
Analytical Thinking
England

Analytical Thinking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 3 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (2.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.48%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.74%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 16 (11.85%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (7.41%) Adobe XD
2 10 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.74%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.74%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.74%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (2.22%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.74%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.74%) Endur
3 1 (0.74%) EuroRunner
3 1 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.74%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 29 (21.48%) Azure
2 20 (14.81%) SaaS
3 17 (12.59%) AWS
4 13 (9.63%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (8.89%) Google Analytics
6 10 (7.41%) Figma
6 10 (7.41%) Power Platform
7 8 (5.93%) Amazon Alexa
8 6 (4.44%) Datadog
8 6 (4.44%) IaaS
8 6 (4.44%) PaaS
9 3 (2.22%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.22%) GCP
9 3 (2.22%) Kong
10 2 (1.48%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.74%) Amazon Kinesis
11 1 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.74%) Azure Machine Learning
11 1 (0.74%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.74%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.37%) Wi-Fi
2 10 (7.41%) DNS
2 10 (7.41%) VPN
3 8 (5.93%) DHCP
4 7 (5.19%) Firewall
5 6 (4.44%) SAN
5 6 (4.44%) VLAN
5 6 (4.44%) WAN
6 5 (3.70%) Network Security
7 4 (2.96%) LAN
7 4 (2.96%) Wireless
8 2 (1.48%) Broadband
8 2 (1.48%) DOCSIS
8 2 (1.48%) DSL
8 2 (1.48%) IPv4
8 2 (1.48%) IPv6
8 2 (1.48%) PPP
8 2 (1.48%) RTP
8 2 (1.48%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.48%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.15%) SQL Server
2 10 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (7.41%) Power BI
3 4 (2.96%) DynamoDB
4 3 (2.22%) Looker
4 3 (2.22%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.22%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.22%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.48%) ClickHouse
5 2 (1.48%) Flink
5 2 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.74%) Big Data
6 1 (0.74%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.74%) DB2
6 1 (0.74%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 9 (6.67%) Axure RP
1 9 (6.67%) Balsamiq
2 6 (4.44%) Chocolatey
3 3 (2.22%) JIRA
4 1 (0.74%) MLflow
4 1 (0.74%) Postman
General
1 135 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 40 (29.63%) Social Skills
3 35 (25.93%) Finance
4 26 (19.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (15.56%) Public Sector
6 20 (14.81%) Law
7 8 (5.93%) Banking
7 8 (5.93%) German Language
7 8 (5.93%) Italian Language
7 8 (5.93%) Legal
8 6 (4.44%) Marketing
9 3 (2.22%) Advertising
9 3 (2.22%) Billing
9 3 (2.22%) Front Office
10 2 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.48%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.48%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.74%) Back Office
11 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (28.15%) Senior
2 22 (16.30%) Analyst
3 13 (9.63%) Architect
4 12 (8.89%) Business Analyst
5 10 (7.41%) Designer
5 10 (7.41%) Lead
6 8 (5.93%) Consultant
6 8 (5.93%) Data Analyst
6 8 (5.93%) IT Engineer
6 8 (5.93%) Security Engineer
6 8 (5.93%) UX Designer
7 7 (5.19%) Data Entry Analyst
8 6 (4.44%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (4.44%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (4.44%) Senior IT Engineer
9 5 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (3.70%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (3.70%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (3.70%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.15%) HTML
2 9 (6.67%) CSS
3 3 (2.22%) .NET
3 3 (2.22%) .NET Framework
3 3 (2.22%) AngularJS
3 3 (2.22%) React
3 3 (2.22%) REST
4 2 (1.48%) Kafka
5 1 (0.74%) LangChain
5 1 (0.74%) Middleware
5 1 (0.74%) OpenAPI
5 1 (0.74%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.74%) RESTful
5 1 (0.74%) Swagger
5 1 (0.74%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.74%) Web Services
5 1 (0.74%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (18.52%) Onboarding
2 20 (14.81%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.93%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (4.44%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (4.44%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (3.70%) Credit Risk
5 5 (3.70%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.96%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 4 (2.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (2.96%) Low-Code
6 4 (2.96%) Virtual Team
6 4 (2.96%) Web3
7 3 (2.22%) PKI
7 3 (2.22%) PropTech
7 3 (2.22%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (1.48%) Blackberry
8 2 (1.48%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.48%) Learning Management System
8 2 (1.48%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 18 (13.33%) Windows
2 4 (2.96%) Linux
3 2 (1.48%) OpenWrt
3 2 (1.48%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.74%) AIX
4 1 (0.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (48.15%) Problem-Solving
2 39 (28.89%) AI
3 35 (25.93%) Analytics
4 29 (21.48%) Agile
5 25 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
6 23 (17.04%) Roadmaps
7 21 (15.56%) Root Cause Analysis
8 20 (14.81%) Generative AI
9 19 (14.07%) Mentoring
9 19 (14.07%) Open Source
10 18 (13.33%) Actionable Insight
10 18 (13.33%) Decision-Making
11 17 (12.59%) Community of Practice
11 17 (12.59%) LLM
12 16 (11.85%) Stakeholder Management
13 15 (11.11%) Computer Science
13 15 (11.11%) Information Security
13 15 (11.11%) User Experience
14 14 (10.37%) Workshop Facilitation
15 13 (9.63%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 17 (12.59%) SQL
2 16 (11.85%) Python
3 14 (10.37%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.22%) C#
4 3 (2.22%) C++
4 3 (2.22%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.48%) C
6 1 (0.74%) Go
6 1 (0.74%) Java
6 1 (0.74%) Rust
6 1 (0.74%) Scala
Qualifications
1 61 (45.19%) Degree
2 24 (17.78%) Security Cleared
3 21 (15.56%) SC Cleared
4 13 (9.63%) CISSP
5 12 (8.89%) Azure Certification
6 10 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (5.93%) CompTIA Security+
8 6 (4.44%) AWS Certification
8 6 (4.44%) Master's Degree
9 5 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (2.96%) CCNP
11 3 (2.22%) APMP
11 3 (2.22%) CISM
11 3 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (1.48%) CISA
12 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.74%) CCAB
13 1 (0.74%) Check Point Certification
13 1 (0.74%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.15%) Accessibility
2 9 (6.67%) WCAG
3 6 (4.44%) GDPR
3 6 (4.44%) NIST
3 6 (4.44%) SLA
4 4 (2.96%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.96%) PMO
5 3 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.22%) NCSC
5 3 (2.22%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.22%) QA
6 1 (0.74%) COBIT
6 1 (0.74%) GRC
System Software
1 9 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.48%) vSphere
2 2 (1.48%) XenDesktop
3 1 (0.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (4.44%) SCCM
3 5 (3.70%) Terraform
4 4 (2.96%) Ansible
5 3 (2.22%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.74%) Grafana
6 1 (0.74%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (39.26%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.89%) Google
3 11 (8.15%) Adobe
4 8 (5.93%) VMware
5 7 (5.19%) Cisco
6 6 (4.44%) AppDynamics
6 6 (4.44%) Dynatrace
6 6 (4.44%) Tenable
7 4 (2.96%) Citrix
8 3 (2.22%) HubSpot
8 3 (2.22%) MuleSoft
8 3 (2.22%) Oracle
8 3 (2.22%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.48%) Apple
9 2 (1.48%) Bloomberg
9 2 (1.48%) Confluent
9 2 (1.48%) Reuters
9 2 (1.48%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.74%) Remedy
10 1 (0.74%) Sage