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 13 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 9 13
Rank change year-on-year -18 +4 +7
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 5,064 6,231 9,640
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.13% 12.65% 9.54%
As % of the General category 10.86% 18.15% 16.47%
Number of salaries quoted 3,294 2,617 5,094
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,150 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.55% +10.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £67,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £88,750 £86,963
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,350 £48,500 £46,958
% change year-on-year -0.31% +3.28% -1.14%

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 46,638 34,324 58,534
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 47.24% 69.71% 57.90%
Number of salaries quoted 28,629 17,567 38,264
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,336 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £36,250 £36,361
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £46,437 £47,500
% change year-on-year +7.67% -2.24% -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 13 July 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 13 July 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 4,616 £55,000 - 3,291
UK excluding London -21 3,208 £48,350 -0.31% 2,042
Work from Home -10 1,602 £55,000 +4.76% 1,254
London -10 1,565 £70,000 +7.69% 1,758
North of England -19 960 £48,445 +3.07% 453
South East -8 816 £50,000 -5.62% 619
Midlands -10 577 £47,500 - 276
North West -20 564 £47,500 -1.67% 245
South West -21 391 £45,000 -7.22% 406
West Midlands -20 315 £50,000 +5.26% 159
Yorkshire -13 291 £50,000 +11.11% 157
East Midlands -6 261 £45,000 -5.26% 115
East of England -24 237 £45,050 -3.82% 163
Scotland -36 106 £43,335 -2.62% 88
North East -25 105 £55,000 +37.50% 55
Wales -15 91 £53,171 -3.33% 31
Northern Ireland -42 41 £41,250 -25.00% 51

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
1 178 (3.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 134 (2.65%) SharePoint
3 70 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
3 70 (1.38%) Confluence
4 68 (1.34%) Apache Spark
5 45 (0.89%) Apache
6 37 (0.73%) CMS
7 23 (0.45%) IIS
7 23 (0.45%) SAS
8 15 (0.30%) WordPress
9 14 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 13 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
11 8 (0.16%) WebLogic
11 8 (0.16%) WebSphere
12 6 (0.12%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.059%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.059%) JBoss
13 3 (0.059%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.059%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.039%) nginx
Applications
1 551 (10.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 210 (4.15%) Microsoft Office
3 115 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 82 (1.62%) MS Visio
5 32 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
6 27 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
7 9 (0.18%) CATIA
8 6 (0.12%) Adobe XD
9 5 (0.099%) Acrobat
9 5 (0.099%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.079%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.079%) Maya
11 3 (0.059%) Blender
11 3 (0.059%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.059%) Simulink
11 3 (0.059%) Trello
12 2 (0.039%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.039%) Lectora
12 2 (0.039%) Siemens NX
12 2 (0.039%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 74 (1.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 39 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
3 36 (0.71%) NetSuite
4 23 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
5 17 (0.34%) SAP CO
6 16 (0.32%) SAP PM
7 15 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
7 15 (0.30%) SAP ERP
8 14 (0.28%) SAP FI
9 13 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
10 10 (0.20%) Maximo
11 9 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
11 9 (0.18%) Workday HCM
12 8 (0.16%) Magento
12 8 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
13 7 (0.14%) Elite 3E
13 7 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
13 7 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
13 7 (0.14%) Shopify
14 6 (0.12%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 900 (17.77%) Azure
2 652 (12.88%) Power Platform
3 491 (9.70%) AWS
4 387 (7.64%) Microsoft 365
5 315 (6.22%) SaaS
6 218 (4.30%) GCP
7 130 (2.57%) Dynamics 365
8 128 (2.53%) Entra ID
9 120 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
10 87 (1.72%) Microsoft Purview
11 85 (1.68%) Google Analytics
12 75 (1.48%) GitHub
13 74 (1.46%) Snowflake
14 73 (1.44%) Power Automate
15 68 (1.34%) dbt
16 65 (1.28%) Amazon S3
16 65 (1.28%) PowerApps
17 57 (1.13%) Azure Data Factory
18 56 (1.11%) Serverless
19 53 (1.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 193 (3.81%) Firewall
2 179 (3.53%) DNS
3 136 (2.69%) DHCP
4 124 (2.45%) VPN
5 87 (1.72%) TCP/IP
6 77 (1.52%) WAN
7 72 (1.42%) Broadband
7 72 (1.42%) LAN
8 69 (1.36%) Wi-Fi
9 52 (1.03%) Wireless
10 46 (0.91%) Network Security
11 45 (0.89%) VLAN
12 39 (0.77%) SAN
13 36 (0.71%) Internet
14 33 (0.65%) BGP
14 33 (0.65%) HTTP
15 25 (0.49%) SD-WAN
15 25 (0.49%) Wireshark
16 22 (0.43%) Cisco ASA
17 21 (0.41%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 579 (11.43%) Power BI
2 276 (5.45%) Tableau
3 196 (3.87%) SQL Server
4 185 (3.65%) Data Warehouse
5 105 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
6 88 (1.74%) Metadata
7 74 (1.46%) Relational Database
8 70 (1.38%) Data Lake
9 68 (1.34%) Data Mining
10 64 (1.26%) Power Query
11 63 (1.24%) Looker
12 62 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
12 62 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 58 (1.15%) MySQL
14 56 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
15 50 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 49 (0.97%) BigQuery
17 39 (0.77%) Big Data
17 39 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
18 37 (0.73%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 186 (3.67%) JIRA
2 149 (2.94%) Git
3 56 (1.11%) GitLab
4 37 (0.73%) Jenkins
5 36 (0.71%) Rational DOORS
6 30 (0.59%) MLflow
7 22 (0.43%) Selenium
8 21 (0.41%) Cucumber
9 16 (0.32%) Chocolatey
9 16 (0.32%) ERwin
9 16 (0.32%) Postman
10 15 (0.30%) Eclipse
11 13 (0.26%) IBM UrbanCode
11 13 (0.26%) JMeter
11 13 (0.26%) SonarQube
11 13 (0.26%) Visual Studio
12 12 (0.24%) Cypress.io
13 9 (0.18%) Bitbucket
13 9 (0.18%) LabVIEW
13 9 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
General
1 2,399 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 1,706 (33.69%) Finance
3 410 (8.10%) Marketing
4 362 (7.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 334 (6.60%) Organisational Skills
6 316 (6.24%) Public Sector
7 299 (5.90%) Retail
8 269 (5.31%) Law
9 267 (5.27%) Legal
10 236 (4.66%) Banking
11 205 (4.05%) Manufacturing
12 191 (3.77%) Influencing Skills
13 136 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
14 117 (2.31%) Telecoms
15 97 (1.92%) Advertising
16 94 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
17 90 (1.78%) Aerospace
18 80 (1.58%) Electronics
19 73 (1.44%) Financial Institution
20 55 (1.09%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,274 (25.16%) Analyst
2 642 (12.68%) Senior
3 356 (7.03%) Lead
4 298 (5.88%) Data Analyst
5 276 (5.45%) Business Analyst
6 237 (4.68%) Developer
7 229 (4.52%) Consultant
8 206 (4.07%) Systems Engineer
9 195 (3.85%) Architect
10 148 (2.92%) Senior Analyst
11 143 (2.82%) Support Analyst
12 138 (2.73%) Data Engineer
13 124 (2.45%) Support Engineer
14 121 (2.39%) IT Support
15 113 (2.23%) IT Manager
16 103 (2.03%) Senior Manager
17 102 (2.01%) Systems Analyst
18 100 (1.97%) Financial Analyst
18 100 (1.97%) Security Analyst
19 90 (1.78%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (2.27%) .NET
1 115 (2.27%) HTML
2 104 (2.05%) CSS
3 102 (2.01%) REST
4 89 (1.76%) JSON
5 87 (1.72%) Middleware
6 85 (1.68%) XML
7 76 (1.50%) React
8 65 (1.28%) PyTorch
9 61 (1.20%) Kafka
10 59 (1.17%) TensorFlow
11 51 (1.01%) RESTful
12 48 (0.95%) SOAP
13 46 (0.91%) PySpark
14 42 (0.83%) Node.js
15 41 (0.81%) scikit-learn
16 39 (0.77%) Web Services
17 33 (0.65%) Pandas
18 32 (0.63%) LangChain
19 30 (0.59%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 529 (10.45%) Analytical Mindset
2 259 (5.11%) Management Information System
3 220 (4.34%) Onboarding
4 211 (4.17%) Product Ownership
5 192 (3.79%) Self-Motivation
6 140 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
7 114 (2.25%) Cloud Native
8 107 (2.11%) Data Centre
9 102 (2.01%) Security Posture
10 96 (1.90%) Driving Licence
11 82 (1.62%) Data Structures
12 79 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
12 79 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
13 74 (1.46%) Algorithms
14 68 (1.34%) Virtual Team
15 60 (1.18%) Social Media
16 56 (1.11%) Public Cloud
17 53 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
18 45 (0.89%) Cyber Defence
19 44 (0.87%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 411 (8.12%) Windows
2 255 (5.04%) Linux
3 201 (3.97%) Windows Server
4 98 (1.94%) Windows Server 2016
5 30 (0.59%) Unix
6 29 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 27 (0.53%) Windows 10
8 23 (0.45%) Mac OS
9 19 (0.38%) Android
10 18 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
11 15 (0.30%) Apple iOS
12 11 (0.22%) CentOS
12 11 (0.22%) Ubuntu
13 8 (0.16%) VMS
14 6 (0.12%) Debian
15 5 (0.099%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.079%) AIX
16 4 (0.079%) Rocky
17 2 (0.039%) Windows Server 2012
18 1 (0.020%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,311 (45.64%) Problem-Solving
2 1,303 (25.73%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,131 (22.33%) Decision-Making
4 1,103 (21.78%) Analytics
5 858 (16.94%) Agile
6 699 (13.80%) Stakeholder Management
7 681 (13.45%) AI
8 661 (13.05%) Business Intelligence
9 545 (10.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 525 (10.37%) Roadmaps
11 503 (9.93%) Mentoring
12 482 (9.52%) Actionable Insight
13 469 (9.26%) Project Management
14 468 (9.24%) Cybersecurity
15 454 (8.97%) Data Modelling
16 435 (8.59%) Data Analysis
17 412 (8.14%) Process Improvement
18 406 (8.02%) Data Governance
19 383 (7.56%) Customer Experience
20 379 (7.48%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1,044 (20.62%) SQL
2 866 (17.10%) Python
3 179 (3.53%) JavaScript
4 177 (3.50%) Java
5 171 (3.38%) PowerShell
6 155 (3.06%) C#
7 79 (1.56%) C++
8 78 (1.54%) R
9 76 (1.50%) Bash
10 74 (1.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 53 (1.05%) TypeScript
12 52 (1.03%) T-SQL
13 45 (0.89%) MATLAB
14 24 (0.47%) PHP
15 23 (0.45%) Go
15 23 (0.45%) VBA
16 20 (0.39%) C
16 20 (0.39%) PL/SQL
17 19 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
17 19 (0.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 919 (18.15%) Degree
2 489 (9.66%) Security Cleared
3 350 (6.91%) SC Cleared
4 263 (5.19%) ACCA
5 247 (4.88%) CIMA
6 155 (3.06%) CISSP
6 155 (3.06%) DBS Check
7 139 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 112 (2.21%) CISM
9 111 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
10 92 (1.82%) DV Cleared
11 90 (1.78%) Master's Degree
12 88 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
13 72 (1.42%) IRCA
13 72 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
14 69 (1.36%) CompTIA Security+
15 66 (1.30%) Azure Certification
16 53 (1.05%) PMI Certification
17 46 (0.91%) CISA
18 45 (0.89%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 477 (9.42%) Data Quality
2 397 (7.84%) GDPR
3 339 (6.69%) QA
4 275 (5.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 221 (4.36%) NIST
6 178 (3.52%) Cyber Essentials
7 151 (2.98%) SLA
8 139 (2.74%) PCI DSS
9 129 (2.55%) Accessibility
10 124 (2.45%) ISO 9001
11 79 (1.56%) GRC
12 61 (1.20%) PMO
13 45 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
14 41 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 40 (0.79%) IFRS
16 38 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 37 (0.73%) COBIT
18 28 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
19 25 (0.49%) SOC 2
20 24 (0.47%) ITGC
System Software
1 293 (5.79%) Active Directory
2 97 (1.92%) Hyper-V
3 96 (1.90%) Docker
4 80 (1.58%) Terminal Server
5 76 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
6 25 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
8 10 (0.20%) VMware NSX
8 10 (0.20%) vSphere
9 8 (0.16%) IAG
9 8 (0.16%) ProxySG
10 7 (0.14%) Firmware
11 5 (0.099%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 5 (0.099%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.079%) XenApp
13 3 (0.059%) DFS Replication
13 3 (0.059%) Embedded Firmware
14 2 (0.039%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.039%) VMware ESXi
15 1 (0.020%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 142 (2.80%) Terraform
2 88 (1.74%) Kubernetes
3 72 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 69 (1.36%) Ansible
5 41 (0.81%) Grafana
6 26 (0.51%) SCCM
7 22 (0.43%) Prometheus
8 21 (0.41%) Nagios
9 18 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
10 17 (0.34%) Kibana
10 17 (0.34%) QRadar
11 11 (0.22%) Kubeflow
12 9 (0.18%) logstash
13 7 (0.14%) Packer
14 6 (0.12%) Graylog
15 5 (0.099%) Control-M
15 5 (0.099%) Docker Swarm
15 5 (0.099%) Puppet
15 5 (0.099%) Red Hat Satellite
15 5 (0.099%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,142 (22.55%) Microsoft
2 213 (4.21%) SAP
3 205 (4.05%) Google
4 167 (3.30%) Oracle
5 165 (3.26%) VMware
6 137 (2.71%) Splunk
7 136 (2.69%) Salesforce
8 122 (2.41%) SolarWinds
9 121 (2.39%) Databricks
10 103 (2.03%) ServiceNow
11 93 (1.84%) Veeam
12 81 (1.60%) Nimble Storage
13 80 (1.58%) Brocade
13 80 (1.58%) Tanium
14 77 (1.52%) Workday
15 75 (1.48%) Cisco
16 52 (1.03%) Red Hat
17 50 (0.99%) IBM
18 46 (0.91%) Adobe
19 45 (0.89%) HubSpot