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 5 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 8 14
Rank change year-on-year -17 +6 +5
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,795 5,938 9,617
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.17% 13.56% 9.32%
As % of the General category 10.69% 18.56% 15.99%
Number of salaries quoted 3,063 2,404 5,368
10th Percentile £32,611 £30,325 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,068 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.70% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,000 £67,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,445 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.11% +11.11% -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 44,861 32,002 60,145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 48.41% 73.06% 58.31%
Number of salaries quoted 26,200 15,388 40,214
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,343 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% +9.22% -12.50%
75th Percentile £77,424 £78,534 £71,725
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £48,750 £47,500
% change year-on-year +2.56% +2.63% -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 5 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Top 17 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 5 June 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 -16 4,366 £55,000 - 2,958
UK excluding London -19 2,993 £48,445 -3.11% 1,864
London -9 1,528 £67,500 +3.85% 1,453
Work from Home -11 1,462 £55,000 - 1,513
North of England -21 925 £47,750 -1.15% 463
South East -5 757 £50,000 -4.76% 587
Midlands -20 553 £48,000 +1.05% 274
North West -27 542 £46,500 -7.00% 259
West Midlands -24 311 £51,300 +8.00% 174
South West -25 307 £47,500 -5.00% 204
Yorkshire -12 290 £50,000 +11.11% 150
East Midlands +1 241 £45,000 -5.76% 99
East of England -23 236 £45,000 -11.71% 167
Scotland -29 107 £40,000 -20.71% 106
North East -31 93 £50,000 +27.88% 61
Wales -1 79 £51,709 -3.80% 38
Northern Ireland -24 40 £41,250 -25.00% 80

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
1 154 (3.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 112 (2.34%) SharePoint
3 76 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
4 70 (1.46%) Apache Spark
5 62 (1.29%) Confluence
6 41 (0.86%) Apache
7 39 (0.81%) CMS
8 25 (0.52%) IIS
9 19 (0.40%) SAS
10 16 (0.33%) WordPress
11 14 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 13 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
13 6 (0.13%) Jupyter
13 6 (0.13%) nginx
14 3 (0.063%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.063%) govService
14 3 (0.063%) JBoss
14 3 (0.063%) Tomcat
15 2 (0.042%) Appian
15 2 (0.042%) Camunda
Applications
1 538 (11.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 197 (4.11%) Microsoft Office
3 100 (2.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 92 (1.92%) MS Visio
5 28 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
5 28 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.21%) CATIA
7 9 (0.19%) Adobe XD
8 7 (0.15%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.10%) Acrobat
9 5 (0.10%) Maya
10 4 (0.083%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.063%) Blender
11 3 (0.063%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.063%) Trello
12 2 (0.042%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.042%) Lectora
12 2 (0.042%) Simulink
12 2 (0.042%) SOLIDWORKS
13 1 (0.021%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 71 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 34 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
4 31 (0.65%) NetSuite
5 20 (0.42%) SAP CO
6 16 (0.33%) SAP PM
7 15 (0.31%) SAP ERP
8 12 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
9 11 (0.23%) Maximo
9 11 (0.23%) SAP FI
10 10 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
11 9 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
12 8 (0.17%) Endur
13 7 (0.15%) Elite 3E
13 7 (0.15%) Fidessa
13 7 (0.15%) Magento
13 7 (0.15%) Shopify
13 7 (0.15%) Workday HCM
14 6 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
14 6 (0.13%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 861 (17.96%) Azure
2 639 (13.33%) Power Platform
3 485 (10.11%) AWS
4 357 (7.45%) Microsoft 365
5 297 (6.19%) SaaS
6 204 (4.25%) GCP
7 126 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
8 120 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
9 112 (2.34%) Entra ID
10 86 (1.79%) GitHub
11 82 (1.71%) Power Automate
12 79 (1.65%) Snowflake
13 77 (1.61%) Google Analytics
14 74 (1.54%) Microsoft Purview
15 72 (1.50%) Amazon S3
16 70 (1.46%) dbt
17 65 (1.36%) PowerApps
18 63 (1.31%) Serverless
19 50 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
20 47 (0.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 208 (4.34%) Firewall
2 163 (3.40%) DNS
3 132 (2.75%) VPN
4 119 (2.48%) DHCP
5 83 (1.73%) WAN
6 76 (1.58%) TCP/IP
7 73 (1.52%) LAN
8 65 (1.36%) Broadband
9 62 (1.29%) Wi-Fi
10 60 (1.25%) VLAN
11 56 (1.17%) Wireless
12 49 (1.02%) Network Security
13 46 (0.96%) SAN
14 40 (0.83%) BGP
15 32 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
15 32 (0.67%) OSPF
16 29 (0.60%) SD-WAN
17 28 (0.58%) HTTP
18 27 (0.56%) Internet
19 26 (0.54%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 564 (11.76%) Power BI
2 319 (6.65%) Tableau
3 183 (3.82%) SQL Server
4 152 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
5 108 (2.25%) Data Mining
6 87 (1.81%) Metadata
7 86 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
8 72 (1.50%) Data Lake
9 65 (1.36%) Relational Database
10 59 (1.23%) Looker
10 59 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 57 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
12 56 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
13 50 (1.04%) Power Query
14 47 (0.98%) BigQuery
15 45 (0.94%) MySQL
16 42 (0.88%) Big Data
16 42 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 39 (0.81%) NoSQL
18 35 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 151 (3.15%) JIRA
2 134 (2.79%) Git
3 50 (1.04%) GitLab
4 32 (0.67%) Rational DOORS
5 30 (0.63%) Jenkins
5 30 (0.63%) MLflow
6 20 (0.42%) Chocolatey
7 19 (0.40%) Selenium
8 15 (0.31%) Cucumber
9 13 (0.27%) IBM UrbanCode
10 12 (0.25%) ERwin
10 12 (0.25%) Visual Studio
11 10 (0.21%) Balsamiq
11 10 (0.21%) Bitbucket
11 10 (0.21%) Cypress.io
11 10 (0.21%) SonarQube
12 9 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
12 9 (0.19%) Postman
13 8 (0.17%) Axure RP
13 8 (0.17%) Maven
General
1 2,179 (45.44%) Social Skills
2 1,675 (34.93%) Finance
3 431 (8.99%) Marketing
4 380 (7.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 273 (5.69%) Law
5 273 (5.69%) Organisational Skills
5 273 (5.69%) Public Sector
6 259 (5.40%) Retail
7 254 (5.30%) Legal
8 250 (5.21%) Banking
9 168 (3.50%) Manufacturing
10 165 (3.44%) Influencing Skills
11 141 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
12 109 (2.27%) Telecoms
13 89 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
14 83 (1.73%) Advertising
14 83 (1.73%) Financial Institution
15 74 (1.54%) Aerospace
15 74 (1.54%) Electronics
16 52 (1.08%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,227 (25.59%) Analyst
2 638 (13.31%) Senior
3 322 (6.72%) Lead
4 312 (6.51%) Data Analyst
5 276 (5.76%) Business Analyst
6 244 (5.09%) Developer
7 214 (4.46%) Architect
8 205 (4.28%) Consultant
9 174 (3.63%) Systems Engineer
10 135 (2.82%) Senior Analyst
11 121 (2.52%) Data Engineer
12 119 (2.48%) Senior Manager
13 118 (2.46%) IT Manager
14 117 (2.44%) Support Analyst
15 106 (2.21%) IT Support
15 106 (2.21%) Support Engineer
16 103 (2.15%) Trainee
17 95 (1.98%) Systems Analyst
18 92 (1.92%) Trainee Analyst
18 92 (1.92%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (2.67%) HTML
2 118 (2.46%) CSS
3 101 (2.11%) .NET
4 95 (1.98%) REST
5 85 (1.77%) JSON
6 84 (1.75%) Middleware
6 84 (1.75%) React
7 76 (1.58%) XML
8 66 (1.38%) PyTorch
9 61 (1.27%) TensorFlow
10 51 (1.06%) Kafka
10 51 (1.06%) Node.js
11 50 (1.04%) SOAP
12 41 (0.86%) scikit-learn
13 39 (0.81%) PySpark
14 37 (0.77%) RESTful
15 33 (0.69%) LangChain
15 33 (0.69%) Pandas
16 32 (0.67%) EDI
17 30 (0.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 512 (10.68%) Analytical Mindset
2 228 (4.75%) Management Information System
3 209 (4.36%) Onboarding
4 192 (4.00%) Product Ownership
5 185 (3.86%) Self-Motivation
6 118 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
7 115 (2.40%) Data Centre
8 92 (1.92%) Cloud Native
9 86 (1.79%) Data Structures
10 82 (1.71%) Algorithms
11 81 (1.69%) Security Posture
12 71 (1.48%) Cyber Threat
12 71 (1.48%) Driving Licence
13 58 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
14 55 (1.15%) Public Cloud
15 54 (1.13%) Virtual Team
16 51 (1.06%) Social Media
17 47 (0.98%) FMCG
18 46 (0.96%) Cyber Defence
19 40 (0.83%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 365 (7.61%) Windows
2 222 (4.63%) Linux
3 172 (3.59%) Windows Server
4 78 (1.63%) Windows Server 2016
5 36 (0.75%) Unix
6 25 (0.52%) Windows 10
7 24 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 18 (0.38%) Mac OS
9 16 (0.33%) Android
9 16 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
10 15 (0.31%) Apple iOS
11 11 (0.23%) CentOS
12 10 (0.21%) Ubuntu
13 8 (0.17%) VMS
14 4 (0.083%) AIX
14 4 (0.083%) Rocky
14 4 (0.083%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.063%) Debian
16 1 (0.021%) OpenBSD
16 1 (0.021%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,160 (45.05%) Problem-Solving
2 1,142 (23.82%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,058 (22.06%) Analytics
4 1,040 (21.69%) Decision-Making
5 833 (17.37%) Agile
6 648 (13.51%) Business Intelligence
7 629 (13.12%) AI
8 610 (12.72%) Stakeholder Management
9 489 (10.20%) Project Management
10 484 (10.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 475 (9.91%) Roadmaps
12 473 (9.86%) Actionable Insight
13 472 (9.84%) Mentoring
14 447 (9.32%) Data Analysis
15 438 (9.13%) Data Modelling
16 429 (8.95%) Cybersecurity
17 382 (7.97%) Data Governance
18 376 (7.84%) Analytical Thinking
19 368 (7.67%) Process Improvement
20 348 (7.26%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1,014 (21.15%) SQL
2 890 (18.56%) Python
3 175 (3.65%) PowerShell
4 174 (3.63%) JavaScript
5 170 (3.55%) Java
6 136 (2.84%) C#
7 80 (1.67%) R
8 70 (1.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 68 (1.42%) Bash
10 67 (1.40%) C++
11 47 (0.98%) TypeScript
12 45 (0.94%) T-SQL
13 40 (0.83%) MATLAB
14 37 (0.77%) VBA
15 25 (0.52%) Scala
16 22 (0.46%) PHP
17 21 (0.44%) Go
18 17 (0.35%) Julia
19 16 (0.33%) C
19 16 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 898 (18.73%) Degree
2 407 (8.49%) Security Cleared
3 293 (6.11%) SC Cleared
4 231 (4.82%) ACCA
5 216 (4.50%) CIMA
6 158 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 155 (3.23%) DBS Check
8 146 (3.04%) CISSP
9 120 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
10 100 (2.09%) CISM
11 96 (2.00%) Master's Degree
12 86 (1.79%) DV Cleared
13 77 (1.61%) PMI Certification
14 75 (1.56%) Azure Certification
15 74 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
16 72 (1.50%) IRCA
16 72 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
17 68 (1.42%) PMP
18 64 (1.33%) CompTIA Security+
19 49 (1.02%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 447 (9.32%) Data Quality
2 363 (7.57%) GDPR
3 296 (6.17%) QA
4 250 (5.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 218 (4.55%) NIST
6 146 (3.04%) Cyber Essentials
7 129 (2.69%) SLA
8 118 (2.46%) PCI DSS
9 114 (2.38%) Accessibility
10 112 (2.34%) ISO 9001
11 69 (1.44%) GRC
12 58 (1.21%) PMO
13 55 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
14 39 (0.81%) IFRS
15 37 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 34 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 32 (0.67%) COBIT
18 28 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
19 24 (0.50%) NCSC
20 23 (0.48%) ITGC
System Software
1 257 (5.36%) Active Directory
2 81 (1.69%) Hyper-V
3 79 (1.65%) Docker
3 79 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (1.33%) Terminal Server
5 27 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
6 16 (0.33%) ProxySG
7 12 (0.25%) vSphere
8 10 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (0.19%) VMware NSX
10 8 (0.17%) IAG
11 5 (0.10%) Firmware
12 4 (0.083%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.083%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.083%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.083%) XenApp
13 3 (0.063%) DFS Replication
14 2 (0.042%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.042%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.021%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 132 (2.75%) Terraform
2 80 (1.67%) Kubernetes
3 68 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 58 (1.21%) Ansible
5 33 (0.69%) Grafana
6 29 (0.60%) SCCM
7 25 (0.52%) Nagios
7 25 (0.52%) Prometheus
8 19 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
9 15 (0.31%) QRadar
10 14 (0.29%) Kibana
11 10 (0.21%) Kubeflow
12 8 (0.17%) Control-M
13 6 (0.13%) logstash
13 6 (0.13%) Packer
14 5 (0.10%) Docker Swarm
14 5 (0.10%) Graylog
14 5 (0.10%) Podman
15 4 (0.083%) CASB
15 4 (0.083%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 1,088 (22.69%) Microsoft
2 202 (4.21%) SAP
3 183 (3.82%) Google
4 162 (3.38%) Oracle
5 155 (3.23%) VMware
6 150 (3.13%) Salesforce
7 117 (2.44%) SolarWinds
8 115 (2.40%) Splunk
9 108 (2.25%) Databricks
10 97 (2.02%) ServiceNow
11 77 (1.61%) Cisco
11 77 (1.61%) Veeam
12 72 (1.50%) Workday
13 65 (1.36%) Nimble Storage
14 64 (1.33%) Brocade
14 64 (1.33%) Tanium
15 51 (1.06%) IBM
16 46 (0.96%) Red Hat
17 45 (0.94%) Adobe
17 45 (0.94%) Dell