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 23 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 8 14
Rank change year-on-year -17 +6 +5
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 6,381 6,047 7,304
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.47% 12.35% 9.68%
As % of the General category 11.80% 18.02% 16.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3,728 2,502 2,857
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £54,750
Median % change year-on-year - -4.11% -0.45%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -

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 54,085 33,562 43,136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.35% 68.53% 57.19%
Number of salaries quoted 32,942 17,481 22,095
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £56,988
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -5.24% -5.02%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -1.96%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 5,634 £52,500 - 8,264
UK excluding London -16 4,263 £47,500 +5.56% 4,731
Work from Home -6 2,143 £55,000 +10.00% 3,349
London -12 1,825 £67,500 +3.85% 4,223
North of England -18 1,160 £47,500 +5.56% 1,080
South East -10 985 £50,000 +1.01% 1,268
Midlands -10 742 £46,901 +4.22% 773
North West -15 701 £46,500 +3.33% 626
South West -8 602 £47,500 +5.56% 554
West Midlands -17 381 £47,500 +5.56% 476
East Midlands -6 358 £45,000 +9.09% 296
Yorkshire -8 318 £47,000 +17.50% 349
East of England -10 271 £47,500 +18.75% 419
Wales -6 203 £45,000 -10.40% 134
Northern Ireland +2 166 £43,750 -20.45% 192
Scotland -19 148 £44,500 +11.25% 367
North East -20 144 £52,500 +31.25% 110

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
1 190 (2.98%) SharePoint
2 177 (2.77%) Microsoft Exchange
3 112 (1.76%) Confluence
4 41 (0.64%) CMS
5 37 (0.58%) Apache Spark
5 37 (0.58%) IIS
6 36 (0.56%) Apache
7 29 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
7 29 (0.45%) SAS
8 12 (0.19%) WordPress
9 11 (0.17%) Headless CMS
9 11 (0.17%) Jupyter
10 10 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 9 (0.14%) WebLogic
11 9 (0.14%) WebSphere
12 8 (0.13%) OpenStack
13 7 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
14 3 (0.047%) Appian
14 3 (0.047%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.047%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 738 (11.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 321 (5.03%) Microsoft Office
3 131 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 73 (1.14%) MS Visio
5 51 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
6 44 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
7 18 (0.28%) Simulink
8 17 (0.27%) AutoCAD
9 9 (0.14%) Chatbot
9 9 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
10 8 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 8 (0.13%) Photoshop
11 7 (0.11%) Adobe XD
12 6 (0.094%) Acrobat
12 6 (0.094%) CATIA
12 6 (0.094%) Siemens NX
13 5 (0.078%) EPLAN
13 5 (0.078%) InDesign
13 5 (0.078%) Revit
14 4 (0.063%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 111 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 65 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
3 38 (0.60%) NetSuite
4 35 (0.55%) Dynamics GP
5 27 (0.42%) Shopify
6 18 (0.28%) Workday HCM
7 15 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
7 15 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
8 12 (0.19%) Magento
8 12 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
8 12 (0.19%) SAP CO
8 12 (0.19%) SAP FI
9 11 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
10 10 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
10 10 (0.16%) Elite 3E
10 10 (0.16%) Infor M3
10 10 (0.16%) SAP Business One
10 10 (0.16%) SAP PM
11 9 (0.14%) Sage 200
11 9 (0.14%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,023 (16.03%) Azure
2 748 (11.72%) Power Platform
3 644 (10.09%) AWS
4 450 (7.05%) Microsoft 365
5 397 (6.22%) SaaS
6 294 (4.61%) GCP
7 185 (2.90%) Entra ID
8 159 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
9 155 (2.43%) Dynamics 365
10 129 (2.02%) Google Analytics
11 122 (1.91%) Google Ads
12 106 (1.66%) GitHub
13 93 (1.46%) Serverless
14 88 (1.38%) Meta Ads
15 84 (1.32%) Microsoft Purview
15 84 (1.32%) Power Automate
16 81 (1.27%) PowerApps
17 78 (1.22%) Amazon S3
18 75 (1.18%) Snowflake
19 71 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 202 (3.17%) DNS
2 156 (2.44%) DHCP
3 148 (2.32%) Firewall
4 130 (2.04%) VPN
5 107 (1.68%) TCP/IP
6 84 (1.32%) Internet
7 76 (1.19%) WAN
8 71 (1.11%) LAN
9 68 (1.07%) Network Security
10 57 (0.89%) Wireless
11 55 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
12 50 (0.78%) VLAN
13 46 (0.72%) Broadband
14 38 (0.60%) SAN
15 37 (0.58%) HTTP
16 29 (0.45%) VoIP
17 25 (0.39%) 5G
17 25 (0.39%) BGP
18 24 (0.38%) SMS
19 23 (0.36%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 670 (10.50%) Power BI
2 218 (3.42%) SQL Server
3 196 (3.07%) Tableau
4 175 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
5 114 (1.79%) Relational Database
6 112 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
7 106 (1.66%) Metadata
8 86 (1.35%) MySQL
9 79 (1.24%) Looker
10 78 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
10 78 (1.22%) Power Query
11 74 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 65 (1.02%) Data Lake
13 59 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 58 (0.91%) Big Data
15 49 (0.77%) NoSQL
16 46 (0.72%) BigQuery
17 39 (0.61%) MongoDB
18 38 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
18 38 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 266 (4.17%) JIRA
2 254 (3.98%) Git
3 54 (0.85%) Jenkins
4 51 (0.80%) GitLab
5 32 (0.50%) Selenium
6 30 (0.47%) Rational DOORS
7 26 (0.41%) Eclipse
8 24 (0.38%) Cucumber
9 20 (0.31%) Claude Code
9 20 (0.31%) Postman
10 18 (0.28%) LabVIEW
10 18 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
11 15 (0.24%) Bitbucket
11 15 (0.24%) Chocolatey
11 15 (0.24%) JMeter
12 14 (0.22%) Burp Suite
13 13 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
14 11 (0.17%) Cypress.io
14 11 (0.17%) Metasploit
14 11 (0.17%) SonarQube
General
1 3,192 (50.02%) Social Skills
2 2,087 (32.71%) Finance
3 725 (11.36%) Marketing
4 542 (8.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 528 (8.27%) Organisational Skills
6 446 (6.99%) Retail
7 417 (6.54%) Law
7 417 (6.54%) Public Sector
8 401 (6.28%) Legal
9 366 (5.74%) Manufacturing
10 327 (5.12%) Influencing Skills
11 251 (3.93%) Presentation Skills
12 246 (3.86%) Banking
13 207 (3.24%) Aerospace
14 157 (2.46%) Telecoms
15 155 (2.43%) Electronics
16 115 (1.80%) Advertising
17 100 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
18 78 (1.22%) Automotive
19 71 (1.11%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,473 (23.08%) Analyst
2 839 (13.15%) Senior
3 423 (6.63%) Lead
4 308 (4.83%) Data Analyst
5 307 (4.81%) Business Analyst
6 306 (4.80%) Developer
7 241 (3.78%) Consultant
8 239 (3.75%) Senior Analyst
9 238 (3.73%) Architect
10 210 (3.29%) Support Analyst
11 194 (3.04%) Data Engineer
12 172 (2.70%) Systems Engineer
13 127 (1.99%) Support Engineer
14 118 (1.85%) IT Support
15 114 (1.79%) Applications Support
16 111 (1.74%) Security Analyst
17 110 (1.72%) Senior Manager
18 109 (1.71%) IT Manager
19 108 (1.69%) Administrator
20 105 (1.65%) Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (2.57%) .NET
2 150 (2.35%) Terraform
3 135 (2.12%) REST
4 122 (1.91%) HTML
5 112 (1.76%) CSS
6 91 (1.43%) JSON
7 83 (1.30%) RESTful
8 81 (1.27%) Middleware
9 80 (1.25%) XML
10 74 (1.16%) PySpark
11 71 (1.11%) React
12 64 (1.00%) SOAP
13 60 (0.94%) Kafka
14 48 (0.75%) EDI
15 46 (0.72%) LDAP
15 46 (0.72%) Web Services
16 41 (0.64%) Spring Boot
17 39 (0.61%) ASP.NET
17 39 (0.61%) PyTorch
17 39 (0.61%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 474 (7.43%) Analytical Mindset
2 456 (7.15%) Management Information System
3 392 (6.14%) Onboarding
4 316 (4.95%) Self-Motivation
5 293 (4.59%) Product Ownership
6 162 (2.54%) Driving Licence
7 149 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
8 144 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
9 134 (2.10%) Cloud Native
10 128 (2.01%) Social Media
11 119 (1.86%) Blog
12 113 (1.77%) Cyber Threat
13 105 (1.65%) Marketing Technology
14 103 (1.61%) Data Centre
14 103 (1.61%) Security Posture
15 99 (1.55%) Virtual Team
16 89 (1.39%) Data Structures
17 76 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
18 66 (1.03%) AI Agents
19 65 (1.02%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 467 (7.32%) Windows
2 308 (4.83%) Linux
3 221 (3.46%) Windows Server
4 93 (1.46%) Windows Server 2016
5 42 (0.66%) Windows 10
6 36 (0.56%) Mac OS
7 33 (0.52%) Unix
8 27 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 24 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
10 23 (0.36%) Apple iOS
11 19 (0.30%) Android
12 9 (0.14%) CentOS
13 8 (0.13%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.094%) Debian
14 6 (0.094%) VMS
15 5 (0.078%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.063%) CoreOS
17 2 (0.031%) AIX
17 2 (0.031%) Rocky
17 2 (0.031%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,100 (48.58%) Problem-Solving
2 1,916 (30.03%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,533 (24.02%) Decision-Making
4 1,290 (20.22%) Analytics
5 1,280 (20.06%) Stakeholder Management
6 1,147 (17.98%) AI
7 1,108 (17.36%) Agile
8 836 (13.10%) Business Intelligence
9 696 (10.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 634 (9.94%) Mentoring
11 631 (9.89%) Roadmaps
12 599 (9.39%) Actionable Insight
13 590 (9.25%) Validation
14 554 (8.68%) Data Analysis
15 552 (8.65%) Process Improvement
16 543 (8.51%) Project Management
17 522 (8.18%) CRM
18 520 (8.15%) Cybersecurity
19 513 (8.04%) ERP
20 503 (7.88%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 1,219 (19.10%) SQL
2 865 (13.56%) Python
3 234 (3.67%) JavaScript
4 217 (3.40%) Java
5 199 (3.12%) C#
6 198 (3.10%) PowerShell
7 118 (1.85%) C++
8 94 (1.47%) Bash
9 84 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 83 (1.30%) R
11 73 (1.14%) TypeScript
12 55 (0.86%) MATLAB
13 52 (0.81%) T-SQL
14 40 (0.63%) C
15 38 (0.60%) Shell Script
16 32 (0.50%) PL/SQL
17 29 (0.45%) Scala
18 26 (0.41%) Go
19 23 (0.36%) Perl
19 23 (0.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,292 (20.25%) Degree
2 709 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 487 (7.63%) SC Cleared
4 261 (4.09%) ACCA
5 244 (3.82%) CIMA
6 179 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 158 (2.48%) DV Cleared
8 150 (2.35%) CISSP
9 142 (2.23%) DBS Check
10 131 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
11 118 (1.85%) CISM
12 110 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
13 100 (1.57%) Master's Degree
14 81 (1.27%) Azure Certification
14 81 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
15 77 (1.21%) HND
16 68 (1.07%) CompTIA Security+
17 63 (0.99%) PMI Certification
18 57 (0.89%) HNC
19 49 (0.77%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 635 (9.95%) Data Quality
2 387 (6.06%) QA
3 333 (5.22%) GDPR
4 230 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 201 (3.15%) Accessibility
6 173 (2.71%) NIST
7 147 (2.30%) Cyber Essentials
7 147 (2.30%) SLA
8 120 (1.88%) PCI DSS
9 71 (1.11%) GRC
10 69 (1.08%) ISO 9001
11 61 (0.96%) PMO
12 57 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
13 41 (0.64%) IFRS
14 39 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 35 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 29 (0.45%) NCSC
17 27 (0.42%) COBIT
18 26 (0.41%) DO-254
19 25 (0.39%) GAAP
System Software
1 348 (5.45%) Active Directory
2 168 (2.63%) Docker
3 105 (1.65%) Hyper-V
4 88 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 72 (1.13%) Terminal Server
6 46 (0.72%) Firmware
7 23 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
8 21 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
10 11 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
11 8 (0.13%) vSphere
12 7 (0.11%) Ceph
12 7 (0.11%) VMware NSX
13 4 (0.063%) KVM
13 4 (0.063%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.047%) DFS Replication
15 2 (0.031%) IAG
15 2 (0.031%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 1 (0.016%) HDFS
16 1 (0.016%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 120 (1.88%) Kubernetes
2 85 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 71 (1.11%) Ansible
4 43 (0.67%) Grafana
5 40 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
6 23 (0.36%) Prometheus
6 23 (0.36%) SCCM
7 21 (0.33%) Kibana
8 20 (0.31%) QRadar
9 11 (0.17%) Nagios
9 11 (0.17%) Nmap
9 11 (0.17%) Podman
10 9 (0.14%) Argo
10 9 (0.14%) logstash
11 8 (0.13%) Functional Safety
12 7 (0.11%) Check_MK
12 7 (0.11%) Istio
13 6 (0.094%) Graylog
13 6 (0.094%) Nessus
13 6 (0.094%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1,524 (23.88%) Microsoft
2 395 (6.19%) Google
3 256 (4.01%) SAP
4 201 (3.15%) Oracle
5 178 (2.79%) VMware
6 156 (2.44%) Splunk
7 143 (2.24%) Salesforce
8 138 (2.16%) ServiceNow
9 135 (2.12%) Databricks
10 94 (1.47%) SolarWinds
11 87 (1.36%) Cisco
12 80 (1.25%) Veeam
13 73 (1.14%) Brocade
13 73 (1.14%) Nimble Storage
14 72 (1.13%) Tanium
15 71 (1.11%) Adobe
16 68 (1.07%) HubSpot
17 65 (1.02%) YouTube
18 59 (0.92%) Workday
19 44 (0.69%) Sage