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 1 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 14 19
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 +1
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 5,400 6,326 4,696
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 9.97% 9.75% 9.26%
As % of the General category 16.34% 15.95% 14.20%
Number of salaries quoted 2,571 2,643 3,373
10th Percentile £29,500 £32,290 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £42,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,250 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +4.38%

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 common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 33,050 39,668 33,073
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 61.04% 61.17% 65.20%
Number of salaries quoted 19,003 19,153 24,831
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £30,750
25th Percentile £34,500 £43,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year -13.46% +2.97% -3.81%

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 1 December 2025.

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 1 December 2025. 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 +4 4,677 £50,000 -9.09% 3,287
UK excluding London +3 3,455 £45,000 -10.00% 2,965
Work from Home +6 1,903 £50,000 -10.20% 2,360
London +3 1,619 £67,500 +3.85% 963
South East +4 879 £47,520 -4.96% 1,096
North of England 0 821 £45,000 -10.00% 639
Midlands +5 629 £45,000 -6.25% 521
North West -10 410 £45,000 -14.29% 316
South West +6 389 £45,000 -14.69% 289
West Midlands +5 373 £52,500 +5.00% 276
Scotland +2 348 £33,500 -44.17% 85
East of England +2 306 £40,000 -27.27% 290
Yorkshire +4 296 £40,000 -23.81% 259
East Midlands +7 254 £37,500 -11.76% 239
North East +16 115 £42,000 +2.44% 70
Wales +11 75 £48,122 -2.00% 72
Northern Ireland -3 40 £52,500 -28.54% 31
Isle of Man -1 1 £62,500 +150.00%
Channel Islands -5 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
1 134 (2.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 99 (1.83%) Confluence
3 91 (1.69%) SharePoint
4 63 (1.17%) CMS
5 52 (0.96%) Apache Spark
6 21 (0.39%) WordPress
7 20 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
8 18 (0.33%) Apache
9 15 (0.28%) SAS
10 8 (0.15%) Camunda
11 7 (0.13%) IIS
12 6 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 6 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 6 (0.11%) Skype for Business
13 5 (0.093%) Apache Synapse
13 5 (0.093%) Drupal
14 4 (0.074%) ArcGIS
14 4 (0.074%) nginx
14 4 (0.074%) Oracle Workflow
15 3 (0.056%) Moodle
Applications
1 777 (14.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 509 (9.43%) Chatbot
3 378 (7.00%) Microsoft Office
4 138 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 56 (1.04%) Maya
6 53 (0.98%) MS Visio
7 41 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
8 36 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
9 22 (0.41%) AutoCAD
10 14 (0.26%) Adobe XD
11 9 (0.17%) SOLIDWORKS
12 6 (0.11%) Simulink
13 4 (0.074%) CATIA
13 4 (0.074%) Oracle Smart View
13 4 (0.074%) Photoshop
13 4 (0.074%) PlantUML
14 3 (0.056%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 3 (0.056%) Blender
14 3 (0.056%) Sketch
14 3 (0.056%) Stata
Business Applications
1 163 (3.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 68 (1.26%) SAP MDG
3 65 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
4 46 (0.85%) NetSuite
5 39 (0.72%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 39 (0.72%) SAP FI
5 39 (0.72%) Shopify
6 38 (0.70%) SAP CO
6 38 (0.70%) SAP FI/CO
7 29 (0.54%) Oracle Payables
8 24 (0.44%) SAP IBP
9 20 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
10 16 (0.30%) Oracle Assets
11 15 (0.28%) Endur
11 15 (0.28%) Workday HCM
12 13 (0.24%) Sage X3
12 13 (0.24%) SAP FSCM
13 12 (0.22%) Sprinklr
14 11 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
14 11 (0.20%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 793 (14.69%) Azure
2 604 (11.19%) Power Platform
3 428 (7.93%) AWS
4 264 (4.89%) Microsoft 365
5 249 (4.61%) SaaS
6 156 (2.89%) GCP
7 126 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
8 103 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
9 95 (1.76%) Google Analytics
10 72 (1.33%) Entra ID
11 68 (1.26%) GitHub
12 67 (1.24%) Azure Data Factory
12 67 (1.24%) Snowflake
13 59 (1.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 56 (1.04%) Serverless
15 52 (0.96%) PaaS
16 51 (0.94%) Cloud Computing
17 49 (0.91%) Power Automate
18 44 (0.81%) dbt
19 40 (0.74%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 155 (2.87%) DNS
2 127 (2.35%) DHCP
3 114 (2.11%) Firewall
4 73 (1.35%) Network Security
5 71 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
6 64 (1.19%) VPN
7 62 (1.15%) LAN
8 57 (1.06%) WAN
9 43 (0.80%) TCP/IP
10 41 (0.76%) Remote Desktop
11 35 (0.65%) Wireless
12 32 (0.59%) SMS
12 32 (0.59%) VoIP
13 29 (0.54%) VLAN
14 23 (0.43%) Broadband
14 23 (0.43%) Internet
15 21 (0.39%) SAN
16 18 (0.33%) OSPF
17 17 (0.31%) Intrusion Detection
18 16 (0.30%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 559 (10.35%) Power BI
2 307 (5.69%) Tableau
3 186 (3.44%) SQL Server
4 164 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
5 135 (2.50%) Data Mining
6 118 (2.19%) Metadata
7 112 (2.07%) Data Lake
8 104 (1.93%) Relational Database
9 99 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
10 62 (1.15%) Looker
11 58 (1.07%) NoSQL
12 57 (1.06%) SAP BW
13 54 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 53 (0.98%) MySQL
15 46 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
16 45 (0.83%) Big Data
17 41 (0.76%) GIS
18 37 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
19 35 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
20 33 (0.61%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 231 (4.28%) JIRA
2 102 (1.89%) Git
3 56 (1.04%) Jenkins
4 51 (0.94%) Selenium
5 45 (0.83%) GitLab
6 19 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
7 16 (0.30%) Bitbucket
7 16 (0.30%) Maven
8 15 (0.28%) Postman
9 14 (0.26%) Cypress.io
9 14 (0.26%) WebDriver
10 13 (0.24%) Robot Framework
11 12 (0.22%) Subversion
12 11 (0.20%) Axure RP
12 11 (0.20%) Balsamiq
12 11 (0.20%) ERwin
12 11 (0.20%) Snyk
13 10 (0.19%) ER Studio
13 10 (0.19%) JUnit
13 10 (0.19%) TestRail
General
1 2,779 (51.46%) Social Skills
2 1,797 (33.28%) Finance
3 644 (11.93%) Marketing
4 410 (7.59%) Law
5 350 (6.48%) Retail
6 347 (6.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 316 (5.85%) Legal
8 289 (5.35%) Banking
9 256 (4.74%) Organisational Skills
10 245 (4.54%) Public Sector
11 229 (4.24%) Presentation Skills
12 228 (4.22%) Manufacturing
13 147 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
14 144 (2.67%) Telecoms
15 135 (2.50%) Financial Institution
16 110 (2.04%) Games
17 109 (2.02%) Advertising
18 98 (1.81%) Electronics
19 76 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
20 59 (1.09%) German Language
Job Titles
1 1,124 (20.81%) Analyst
2 675 (12.50%) Senior
3 509 (9.43%) Trainer
4 411 (7.61%) Lead
5 303 (5.61%) Architect
6 300 (5.56%) Data Analyst
7 215 (3.98%) Consultant
7 215 (3.98%) Developer
8 194 (3.59%) Business Analyst
9 179 (3.31%) Support Analyst
10 156 (2.89%) Senior Analyst
11 143 (2.65%) IT Support
12 133 (2.46%) Solutions Architect
13 124 (2.30%) Systems Engineer
14 117 (2.17%) Trainee
15 108 (2.00%) Business Manager
16 107 (1.98%) IT Manager
17 104 (1.93%) Applications Support
17 104 (1.93%) Financial Analyst
18 102 (1.89%) Innovation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (2.39%) HTML
2 106 (1.96%) CSS
3 88 (1.63%) React
4 82 (1.52%) REST
5 62 (1.15%) .NET
6 50 (0.93%) Kafka
6 50 (0.93%) Middleware
7 43 (0.80%) JSON
8 42 (0.78%) Spring
9 38 (0.70%) AngularJS
10 35 (0.65%) XML
11 31 (0.57%) EDI
12 29 (0.54%) SOAP
13 27 (0.50%) Oracle Fusion
14 26 (0.48%) LangChain
14 26 (0.48%) Node.js
14 26 (0.48%) PySpark
14 26 (0.48%) Web Services
15 22 (0.41%) Flash
15 22 (0.41%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 570 (10.56%) Analytical Mindset
2 390 (7.22%) Onboarding
3 389 (7.20%) Self-Motivation
4 285 (5.28%) Management Information System
5 201 (3.72%) Product Ownership
6 167 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
7 134 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
8 101 (1.87%) Driving Licence
9 86 (1.59%) Data Centre
10 84 (1.56%) Algorithms
10 84 (1.56%) FMCG
11 76 (1.41%) Cloud Native
12 65 (1.20%) Data Structures
13 64 (1.19%) Social Media
14 58 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 53 (0.98%) Virtual Team
16 51 (0.94%) Robotics
17 50 (0.93%) Security Posture
18 41 (0.76%) e-Learning
19 35 (0.65%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 317 (5.87%) Windows
2 211 (3.91%) Linux
3 138 (2.56%) Windows Server
4 89 (1.65%) Windows Server 2016
5 30 (0.56%) Unix
6 20 (0.37%) Mac OS
7 12 (0.22%) Android
8 9 (0.17%) Windows 10
9 8 (0.15%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.093%) Mac OS X
11 4 (0.074%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.074%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.056%) OpenWrt
12 3 (0.056%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (0.056%) VMS
13 2 (0.037%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.019%) AIX
14 1 (0.019%) OpenVMS
14 1 (0.019%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.019%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,422 (44.85%) Problem-Solving
2 1,273 (23.57%) AI
3 1,157 (21.43%) Analytics
4 1,093 (20.24%) Continuous Improvement
5 1,020 (18.89%) Decision-Making
6 967 (17.91%) Agile
7 834 (15.44%) Project Management
8 764 (14.15%) Business Intelligence
9 645 (11.94%) Stakeholder Management
10 525 (9.72%) Data Analysis
11 522 (9.67%) Chemistry
12 511 (9.46%) Conversational UI
13 474 (8.78%) Risk Management
14 463 (8.57%) ERP
15 453 (8.39%) Roadmaps
16 443 (8.20%) Cybersecurity
17 434 (8.04%) Mentoring
18 431 (7.98%) Customer Service
19 425 (7.87%) CRM
20 419 (7.76%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 967 (17.91%) SQL
2 637 (11.80%) Python
3 163 (3.02%) Java
4 154 (2.85%) JavaScript
5 115 (2.13%) C#
6 88 (1.63%) PowerShell
7 78 (1.44%) R
8 51 (0.94%) C++
8 51 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 45 (0.83%) T-SQL
10 42 (0.78%) Bash
11 39 (0.72%) VBA
12 33 (0.61%) TypeScript
13 27 (0.50%) PL/SQL
14 26 (0.48%) C
15 22 (0.41%) Scala
16 18 (0.33%) Go
16 18 (0.33%) Kotlin
17 15 (0.28%) ABAP
18 12 (0.22%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1,840 (34.07%) Degree
2 686 (12.70%) Master's Degree
3 527 (9.76%) PhD
4 441 (8.17%) Security Cleared
5 315 (5.83%) SC Cleared
6 197 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 180 (3.33%) ACCA
8 176 (3.26%) CISSP
9 172 (3.19%) CIMA
10 103 (1.91%) DBS Check
11 93 (1.72%) DV Cleared
12 83 (1.54%) CISM
13 78 (1.44%) PMI Certification
14 64 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
15 63 (1.17%) PMP
16 61 (1.13%) CompTIA Security+
17 59 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
18 58 (1.07%) Azure Certification
19 57 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
20 50 (0.93%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 287 (5.31%) Data Quality
2 273 (5.06%) QA
3 197 (3.65%) GDPR
4 187 (3.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 143 (2.65%) PCI DSS
6 137 (2.54%) Cyber Essentials
7 114 (2.11%) NIST
8 113 (2.09%) PMO
9 111 (2.06%) Accessibility
10 53 (0.98%) SLA
11 40 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
11 40 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 33 (0.61%) GRC
13 23 (0.43%) IFRS
14 20 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 19 (0.35%) ISO 9001
16 16 (0.30%) WCAG
17 14 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 13 (0.24%) COBIT
19 9 (0.17%) MiFID
System Software
1 235 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 115 (2.13%) Hyper-V
3 88 (1.63%) Terminal Server
4 59 (1.09%) Docker
5 45 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
6 27 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (0.31%) Firmware
8 9 (0.17%) vSphere
9 7 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.093%) ProxySG
11 3 (0.056%) HDFS
11 3 (0.056%) zsh
12 1 (0.019%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.019%) Embedded Firmware
12 1 (0.019%) NFS
12 1 (0.019%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.019%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.019%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 84 (1.56%) Terraform
2 73 (1.35%) Kubernetes
3 53 (0.98%) Ansible
4 40 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (0.33%) Grafana
6 16 (0.30%) Prometheus
6 16 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.17%) SCCM
8 7 (0.13%) QRadar
9 6 (0.11%) SCOM
10 5 (0.093%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 4 (0.074%) Nessus
11 4 (0.074%) Rancher
11 4 (0.074%) vRealize
12 3 (0.056%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.056%) Nagios
13 2 (0.037%) EMC NetWorker
13 2 (0.037%) HAProxy
13 2 (0.037%) Kibana
13 2 (0.037%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 1,194 (22.11%) Microsoft
2 508 (9.41%) PayPal
3 421 (7.80%) SAP
4 226 (4.19%) Google
5 214 (3.96%) Oracle
6 166 (3.07%) Salesforce
7 144 (2.67%) VMware
8 119 (2.20%) Splunk
9 111 (2.06%) Databricks
10 107 (1.98%) SolarWinds
11 91 (1.69%) Veeam
12 89 (1.65%) Brocade
12 89 (1.65%) Tanium
13 88 (1.63%) Nimble Storage
14 84 (1.56%) Adobe
15 79 (1.46%) ServiceNow
16 78 (1.44%) Cisco
17 57 (1.06%) Workday
18 51 (0.94%) Alteryx
19 43 (0.80%) Ariba