Analytical Skills Job Trends

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 cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months leading up to 19 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 12 17
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 +4
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 5,057 5,651 6,758
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 7.40% 11.56% 9.08%
As % of the General category 13.17% 16.94% 14.75%
Number of salaries quoted 2,607 2,332 4,690
10th Percentile £30,370 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,767 £42,500 £36,388
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,058 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £74,014 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,967 £45,000
% change year-on-year -11.71% +13.26% -5.26%

All General Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 38,385 33,359 45,815
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 56.20% 68.23% 61.56%
Number of salaries quoted 20,929 15,287 33,928
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +9.09% -10.10%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £106,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -9.52%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Analytical Skills job vacancy trend in the UK

Analytical Skills
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Analytical Skills.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 19 February 2026.

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 19 February 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
England -7 4,447 £52,500 -4.55% 2,601
UK excluding London -12 3,238 £45,000 -11.71% 1,848
Work from Home +5 1,725 £52,500 -6.25% 1,014
London -4 1,509 £67,500 +3.85% 1,152
South East +11 896 £50,000 - 629
North of England -18 823 £45,000 -14.29% 401
Midlands -12 585 £44,000 -10.66% 323
North West -18 418 £42,500 -19.05% 244
West Midlands -16 336 £52,500 +5.00% 205
South West -7 326 £45,000 -14.29% 200
Yorkshire -3 296 £45,000 -7.69% 119
East of England -20 262 £40,000 -21.52% 175
Scotland -9 257 £40,000 -34.15% 97
East Midlands +6 247 £39,500 -7.06% 118
North East -3 109 £40,000 +0.34% 42
Wales +16 71 £40,000 -18.54% 46
Northern Ireland -14 45 £52,500 -4.55% 22
Isle of Man -4 1 £62,500 +150.00% 2
Channel Islands -8 1 - - 1

Analytical Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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
1 170 (3.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 92 (1.82%) Confluence
3 88 (1.74%) SharePoint
4 41 (0.81%) Apache Spark
5 40 (0.79%) CMS
6 33 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
7 19 (0.38%) WordPress
8 18 (0.36%) Apache
9 14 (0.28%) IIS
9 14 (0.28%) SAS
10 13 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
11 6 (0.12%) nginx
12 4 (0.079%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.059%) Drupal
13 3 (0.059%) govService
14 2 (0.040%) ArcGIS
14 2 (0.040%) FactoryTalk
14 2 (0.040%) Jupyter
14 2 (0.040%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 2 (0.040%) WinCC
Applications
1 729 (14.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 338 (6.68%) Chatbot
3 298 (5.89%) Microsoft Office
4 126 (2.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 81 (1.60%) MS Visio
6 43 (0.85%) Maya
7 38 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
8 36 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
9 17 (0.34%) AutoCAD
10 14 (0.28%) Adobe XD
11 10 (0.20%) CATIA
12 8 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
13 3 (0.059%) Oracle Smart View
13 3 (0.059%) Sketch
14 2 (0.040%) Revit
14 2 (0.040%) Simulink
14 2 (0.040%) Trello
15 1 (0.020%) Photoshop
15 1 (0.020%) SmartSuite
15 1 (0.020%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 118 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 53 (1.05%) SAP MDG
3 49 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
4 41 (0.81%) NetSuite
5 31 (0.61%) SAP CO
6 27 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
7 24 (0.47%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 24 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
8 23 (0.45%) SAP FI
9 22 (0.44%) Endur
9 22 (0.44%) SAP FI/CO
9 22 (0.44%) Workday HCM
10 15 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
11 14 (0.28%) Shopify
12 12 (0.24%) Oracle Assets
12 12 (0.24%) Sage X3
12 12 (0.24%) SAP ERP
13 11 (0.22%) SAP IBP
14 10 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
15 9 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 869 (17.18%) Azure
2 643 (12.72%) Power Platform
3 413 (8.17%) AWS
4 330 (6.53%) Microsoft 365
5 258 (5.10%) SaaS
6 160 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
7 159 (3.14%) GCP
8 115 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
9 97 (1.92%) Entra ID
10 93 (1.84%) GitHub
11 79 (1.56%) Power Automate
12 74 (1.46%) Snowflake
13 73 (1.44%) Azure Data Factory
14 59 (1.17%) Google Analytics
15 57 (1.13%) Serverless
16 55 (1.09%) dbt
17 50 (0.99%) Microsoft Purview
17 50 (0.99%) PowerApps
18 47 (0.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 47 (0.93%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 188 (3.72%) DNS
2 178 (3.52%) Firewall
3 154 (3.05%) DHCP
4 96 (1.90%) VPN
5 79 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
6 65 (1.29%) WAN
7 59 (1.17%) LAN
8 57 (1.13%) Wireless
9 55 (1.09%) TCP/IP
10 54 (1.07%) VLAN
11 43 (0.85%) Network Security
12 41 (0.81%) Broadband
13 36 (0.71%) Remote Desktop
14 32 (0.63%) BGP
14 32 (0.63%) Wireshark
15 30 (0.59%) OSPF
16 29 (0.57%) VoIP
17 28 (0.55%) SAN
18 26 (0.51%) EIGRP
19 24 (0.47%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 579 (11.45%) Power BI
2 402 (7.95%) Tableau
3 208 (4.11%) SQL Server
4 198 (3.92%) Data Mining
5 175 (3.46%) Data Warehouse
6 127 (2.51%) Amazon RDS
7 111 (2.19%) Metadata
8 98 (1.94%) Relational Database
9 86 (1.70%) Data Lake
10 63 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 53 (1.05%) Looker
12 52 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
13 50 (0.99%) MySQL
13 50 (0.99%) NoSQL
14 46 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
14 46 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
15 41 (0.81%) Power Query
16 38 (0.75%) Big Data
17 33 (0.65%) GIS
18 29 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 206 (4.07%) JIRA
2 102 (2.02%) Git
3 43 (0.85%) Selenium
4 41 (0.81%) GitLab
5 35 (0.69%) Jenkins
6 15 (0.30%) ERwin
6 15 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
6 15 (0.30%) Robot Framework
6 15 (0.30%) Visual Studio
7 14 (0.28%) Subversion
8 13 (0.26%) Balsamiq
8 13 (0.26%) Postman
8 13 (0.26%) Snyk
9 12 (0.24%) Axure RP
9 12 (0.24%) ER Studio
10 11 (0.22%) Chocolatey
10 11 (0.22%) Cypress.io
10 11 (0.22%) WebDriver
11 10 (0.20%) Bitbucket
11 10 (0.20%) LabVIEW
General
1 2,607 (51.55%) Social Skills
2 1,806 (35.71%) Finance
3 452 (8.94%) Marketing
4 325 (6.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 296 (5.85%) Law
6 282 (5.58%) Retail
7 275 (5.44%) Legal
8 262 (5.18%) Banking
8 262 (5.18%) Organisational Skills
9 248 (4.90%) Public Sector
10 220 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
11 160 (3.16%) Manufacturing
12 135 (2.67%) Financial Institution
13 127 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
14 101 (2.00%) Telecoms
15 95 (1.88%) Games
16 90 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
17 74 (1.46%) Advertising
18 64 (1.27%) Electronics
19 50 (0.99%) German Language
Job Titles
1 1,215 (24.03%) Analyst
2 613 (12.12%) Senior
3 387 (7.65%) Data Analyst
4 354 (7.00%) Lead
5 334 (6.60%) Trainer
6 282 (5.58%) Architect
7 235 (4.65%) Business Analyst
7 235 (4.65%) Developer
8 181 (3.58%) Consultant
9 176 (3.48%) Support Analyst
10 172 (3.40%) Trainee
11 159 (3.14%) Trainee Analyst
11 159 (3.14%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 149 (2.95%) IT Support
13 134 (2.65%) Senior Analyst
14 132 (2.61%) Systems Engineer
15 120 (2.37%) Senior Manager
16 110 (2.18%) Business Manager
17 104 (2.06%) Financial Analyst
18 102 (2.02%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (2.41%) HTML
2 119 (2.35%) CSS
3 83 (1.64%) React
4 72 (1.42%) .NET
5 63 (1.25%) Middleware
6 62 (1.23%) REST
7 49 (0.97%) JSON
8 43 (0.85%) XML
9 40 (0.79%) Node.js
10 31 (0.61%) SOAP
11 30 (0.59%) EDI
12 28 (0.55%) Spring
13 27 (0.53%) AngularJS
13 27 (0.53%) Kafka
14 25 (0.49%) TensorFlow
15 23 (0.45%) FIX Protocol
16 22 (0.44%) Oracle Fusion
16 22 (0.44%) PySpark
16 22 (0.44%) PyTorch
17 18 (0.36%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 496 (9.81%) Analytical Mindset
2 367 (7.26%) Self-Motivation
3 297 (5.87%) Onboarding
4 260 (5.14%) Management Information System
5 196 (3.88%) Product Ownership
6 158 (3.12%) Legacy Systems
7 120 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
8 108 (2.14%) Data Centre
9 90 (1.78%) Data Structures
10 83 (1.64%) Cloud Native
11 80 (1.58%) FMCG
12 76 (1.50%) Driving Licence
13 69 (1.36%) Algorithms
14 53 (1.05%) Robotics
14 53 (1.05%) Virtual Team
15 51 (1.01%) Social Media
16 49 (0.97%) Low-Code
17 48 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
18 47 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 43 (0.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 386 (7.63%) Windows
2 260 (5.14%) Linux
3 176 (3.48%) Windows Server
4 116 (2.29%) Windows Server 2016
5 37 (0.73%) Unix
6 28 (0.55%) Mac OS
7 16 (0.32%) Windows 10
8 15 (0.30%) Android
9 9 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 8 (0.16%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.099%) VMS
12 4 (0.079%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.059%) OpenWrt
13 3 (0.059%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.040%) AIX
14 2 (0.040%) CentOS
14 2 (0.040%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (0.040%) Oracle Linux
15 1 (0.020%) Robot Operating System
15 1 (0.020%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,275 (44.99%) Problem-Solving
2 1,117 (22.09%) Analytics
3 1,105 (21.85%) Continuous Improvement
4 1,045 (20.66%) AI
5 955 (18.88%) Decision-Making
6 884 (17.48%) Agile
7 803 (15.88%) Project Management
8 750 (14.83%) Business Intelligence
9 628 (12.42%) Stakeholder Management
10 576 (11.39%) Data Analysis
11 430 (8.50%) Actionable Insight
12 424 (8.38%) Mentoring
13 421 (8.33%) Roadmaps
14 416 (8.23%) Risk Management
15 415 (8.21%) Analytical Thinking
15 415 (8.21%) ERP
15 415 (8.21%) Process Improvement
16 401 (7.93%) Migration
17 400 (7.91%) Customer Service
18 389 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1,038 (20.53%) SQL
2 815 (16.12%) Python
3 151 (2.99%) JavaScript
4 140 (2.77%) Java
5 139 (2.75%) PowerShell
6 119 (2.35%) C#
7 75 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 66 (1.31%) R
9 51 (1.01%) T-SQL
10 50 (0.99%) Bash
11 47 (0.93%) C++
12 43 (0.85%) VBA
13 30 (0.59%) TypeScript
14 25 (0.49%) Scala
15 23 (0.45%) C
16 19 (0.38%) Go
16 19 (0.38%) MATLAB
17 16 (0.32%) PL/SQL
18 12 (0.24%) Bicep
19 11 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,484 (29.35%) Degree
2 476 (9.41%) Master's Degree
3 450 (8.90%) Security Cleared
4 343 (6.78%) PhD
4 343 (6.78%) SC Cleared
5 198 (3.92%) ACCA
6 192 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 188 (3.72%) CIMA
8 141 (2.79%) CISSP
9 99 (1.96%) PMI Certification
10 88 (1.74%) DBS Check
11 84 (1.66%) PMP
12 82 (1.62%) DV Cleared
13 79 (1.56%) CISM
14 72 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
15 69 (1.36%) Azure Certification
16 68 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
17 61 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
18 48 (0.95%) AWS Certification
19 47 (0.93%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 319 (6.31%) Data Quality
2 246 (4.86%) QA
3 209 (4.13%) GDPR
4 207 (4.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 181 (3.58%) Cyber Essentials
6 150 (2.97%) PCI DSS
7 140 (2.77%) NIST
8 110 (2.18%) Accessibility
9 89 (1.76%) PMO
10 68 (1.34%) Actionable Recommendations
11 50 (0.99%) SLA
12 45 (0.89%) GRC
13 35 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 29 (0.57%) IFRS
15 26 (0.51%) ISO 9001
16 22 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 21 (0.42%) WCAG
18 18 (0.36%) NCSC
19 15 (0.30%) COBIT
20 12 (0.24%) MiFID
System Software
1 282 (5.58%) Active Directory
2 140 (2.77%) Hyper-V
3 112 (2.21%) Terminal Server
4 57 (1.13%) Docker
5 54 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
6 15 (0.30%) vSphere
7 14 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (0.24%) ProxySG
9 10 (0.20%) Firmware
10 7 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.12%) IAG
11 6 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.079%) VMware NSX
13 3 (0.059%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.040%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.020%) KVM
15 1 (0.020%) NFS
15 1 (0.020%) Oracle RAC
15 1 (0.020%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 118 (2.33%) Terraform
2 66 (1.31%) Ansible
2 66 (1.31%) Kubernetes
3 50 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
4 28 (0.55%) Grafana
5 27 (0.53%) Prometheus
6 25 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (0.40%) SCCM
8 11 (0.22%) Nagios
9 6 (0.12%) Computer Incident Response Team
9 6 (0.12%) Control-M
9 6 (0.12%) SCOM
10 5 (0.099%) CASB
11 4 (0.079%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.079%) Backup Exec
11 4 (0.079%) Nessus
11 4 (0.079%) QRadar
11 4 (0.079%) SolarWinds Orion
11 4 (0.079%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.059%) vRealize
Vendors
1 1,223 (24.18%) Microsoft
2 335 (6.62%) PayPal
3 298 (5.89%) SAP
4 190 (3.76%) Oracle
5 178 (3.52%) VMware
6 161 (3.18%) Salesforce
7 155 (3.07%) SolarWinds
8 141 (2.79%) Splunk
9 136 (2.69%) Google
10 117 (2.31%) Veeam
11 113 (2.23%) Brocade
11 113 (2.23%) Tanium
12 112 (2.21%) Nimble Storage
13 108 (2.14%) ServiceNow
14 82 (1.62%) Cisco
15 69 (1.36%) Databricks
16 60 (1.19%) Adobe
17 43 (0.85%) Alteryx
18 42 (0.83%) Bloomberg
18 42 (0.83%) Workday