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 15 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 9 15
Rank change year-on-year -13 +6 +3
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 6,654 6,049 6,442
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.60% 12.30% 9.08%
As % of the General category 12.08% 18.01% 15.74%
Number of salaries quoted 3,731 2,500 2,612
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,356 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.71% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £91,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.44% -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 55,087 33,591 40,936
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.38% 68.28% 57.69%
Number of salaries quoted 33,909 17,650 20,286
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £33,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -9.48% -3.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £79,600
90th Percentile £96,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £43,085 £50,000
% change year-on-year +16.05% -13.83% -0.99%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -13 5,823 £51,375 +2.75% 4,977
UK excluding London -13 4,542 £47,000 +4.44% 2,496
Work from Home -5 2,259 £55,000 +10.00% 2,531
London -12 1,813 £65,000 - 2,729
North of England -18 1,193 £47,500 +5.56% 589
South East -11 1,024 £48,000 +1.05% 662
Midlands -9 809 £45,000 +4.85% 368
North West -15 702 £46,500 +3.33% 321
South West -6 642 £46,743 +3.87% 289
West Midlands -14 420 £47,500 +5.56% 230
East Midlands -5 387 £42,500 +10.39% 138
Yorkshire -7 334 £47,000 +17.50% 206
East of England -10 303 £47,500 +21.79% 250
Northern Ireland +14 226 £43,750 -16.67% 103
Wales -4 218 £45,000 -10.00% 76
North East -20 166 £51,962 +29.91% 65
Scotland -23 151 £50,000 +47.93% 197

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
1 201 (3.02%) SharePoint
2 184 (2.77%) Microsoft Exchange
3 114 (1.71%) Confluence
4 42 (0.63%) Apache Spark
4 42 (0.63%) CMS
5 38 (0.57%) Apache
6 35 (0.53%) IIS
7 32 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
8 31 (0.47%) SAS
9 19 (0.29%) WordPress
10 15 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
11 14 (0.21%) Jupyter
12 11 (0.17%) Headless CMS
13 10 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 9 (0.14%) WebLogic
14 9 (0.14%) WebSphere
15 8 (0.12%) OpenStack
16 6 (0.090%) nginx
17 4 (0.060%) Office Communications Server
17 4 (0.060%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 810 (12.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 372 (5.59%) Microsoft Office
3 145 (2.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 67 (1.01%) MS Visio
5 61 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
6 46 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
7 20 (0.30%) Simulink
8 18 (0.27%) AutoCAD
9 13 (0.20%) Chatbot
10 10 (0.15%) SOLIDWORKS
11 9 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 8 (0.12%) EPLAN
12 8 (0.12%) Notion
13 7 (0.11%) Adobe XD
14 6 (0.090%) Acrobat
14 6 (0.090%) Photoshop
14 6 (0.090%) Revit
14 6 (0.090%) Siemens NX
15 5 (0.075%) InDesign
16 4 (0.060%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 104 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 58 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 34 (0.51%) Dynamics GP
4 30 (0.45%) NetSuite
5 29 (0.44%) Shopify
6 20 (0.30%) Workday HCM
7 15 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
8 12 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
9 11 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
9 11 (0.17%) Magento
9 11 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
9 11 (0.17%) SAP CO
9 11 (0.17%) SAP FI
9 11 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
10 10 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
10 10 (0.15%) Infor M3
10 10 (0.15%) Sage 200
10 10 (0.15%) SAP Business One
11 9 (0.14%) Elite 3E
11 9 (0.14%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 1,059 (15.92%) Azure
2 769 (11.56%) Power Platform
3 672 (10.10%) AWS
4 478 (7.18%) Microsoft 365
5 413 (6.21%) SaaS
6 312 (4.69%) GCP
7 239 (3.59%) Entra ID
8 159 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
9 138 (2.07%) Google Ads
10 137 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
11 126 (1.89%) Google Analytics
12 100 (1.50%) GitHub
13 95 (1.43%) Meta Ads
14 94 (1.41%) Serverless
15 82 (1.23%) Snowflake
16 81 (1.22%) Microsoft Purview
17 79 (1.19%) Cloud Computing
18 77 (1.16%) Amazon S3
19 76 (1.14%) PowerApps
20 73 (1.10%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 211 (3.17%) DNS
2 165 (2.48%) DHCP
3 153 (2.30%) Firewall
4 137 (2.06%) VPN
5 122 (1.83%) TCP/IP
6 100 (1.50%) Internet
7 80 (1.20%) WAN
8 72 (1.08%) LAN
9 69 (1.04%) Network Security
10 58 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
11 56 (0.84%) Wireless
12 54 (0.81%) VLAN
13 48 (0.72%) Broadband
14 39 (0.59%) HTTP
15 36 (0.54%) SAN
16 31 (0.47%) VoIP
17 29 (0.44%) 5G
18 28 (0.42%) BGP
19 25 (0.38%) SMS
20 24 (0.36%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 692 (10.40%) Power BI
2 207 (3.11%) SQL Server
3 179 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
3 179 (2.69%) Tableau
4 134 (2.01%) Relational Database
5 117 (1.76%) Metadata
6 111 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
7 93 (1.40%) MySQL
8 89 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
9 87 (1.31%) Power Query
10 85 (1.28%) Looker
11 66 (0.99%) Data Lake
11 66 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 59 (0.89%) Big Data
13 52 (0.78%) NoSQL
13 52 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 47 (0.71%) BigQuery
15 39 (0.59%) MongoDB
16 38 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
17 37 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 287 (4.31%) Git
2 270 (4.06%) JIRA
3 63 (0.95%) GitLab
4 58 (0.87%) Jenkins
5 33 (0.50%) Selenium
6 26 (0.39%) Eclipse
7 25 (0.38%) Postman
8 23 (0.35%) Claude Code
8 23 (0.35%) LabVIEW
8 23 (0.35%) Rational DOORS
9 20 (0.30%) Cucumber
9 20 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
10 18 (0.27%) Burp Suite
11 15 (0.23%) Metasploit
11 15 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
12 13 (0.20%) JMeter
13 12 (0.18%) Bitbucket
14 11 (0.17%) Chocolatey
15 10 (0.15%) Cypress.io
15 10 (0.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 3,397 (51.05%) Social Skills
2 2,123 (31.91%) Finance
3 775 (11.65%) Marketing
4 593 (8.91%) Organisational Skills
5 570 (8.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 482 (7.24%) Retail
7 451 (6.78%) Public Sector
8 446 (6.70%) Legal
9 441 (6.63%) Manufacturing
10 419 (6.30%) Law
11 342 (5.14%) Influencing Skills
12 324 (4.87%) Presentation Skills
13 252 (3.79%) Banking
14 219 (3.29%) Aerospace
15 182 (2.74%) Electronics
16 167 (2.51%) Telecoms
17 124 (1.86%) Advertising
18 111 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
19 93 (1.40%) Automotive
20 72 (1.08%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,517 (22.80%) Analyst
2 886 (13.32%) Senior
3 437 (6.57%) Lead
4 323 (4.85%) Developer
5 303 (4.55%) Data Analyst
6 287 (4.31%) Business Analyst
7 264 (3.97%) Senior Analyst
8 252 (3.79%) Consultant
9 240 (3.61%) Support Analyst
10 228 (3.43%) Architect
11 202 (3.04%) Data Engineer
12 154 (2.31%) Systems Engineer
13 124 (1.86%) Support Engineer
14 119 (1.79%) IT Support
15 117 (1.76%) Applications Support
16 115 (1.73%) Administrator
17 113 (1.70%) Marketing Manager
18 107 (1.61%) ITSM Analyst
19 106 (1.59%) Senior Manager
20 101 (1.52%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (2.68%) .NET
2 164 (2.46%) Terraform
3 128 (1.92%) REST
4 114 (1.71%) HTML
5 105 (1.58%) CSS
6 89 (1.34%) RESTful
7 80 (1.20%) React
8 79 (1.19%) PySpark
9 73 (1.10%) JSON
10 71 (1.07%) XML
11 63 (0.95%) Kafka
12 60 (0.90%) Middleware
13 51 (0.77%) SOAP
14 48 (0.72%) Spring Boot
15 47 (0.71%) Spring
16 46 (0.69%) LDAP
17 44 (0.66%) Web Services
18 42 (0.63%) EDI
19 40 (0.60%) ASP.NET
20 39 (0.59%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 506 (7.60%) Management Information System
2 432 (6.49%) Analytical Mindset
3 430 (6.46%) Onboarding
4 348 (5.23%) Self-Motivation
5 283 (4.25%) Product Ownership
6 204 (3.07%) Driving Licence
7 164 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
8 152 (2.28%) Cloud Native
9 149 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
10 138 (2.07%) Social Media
11 122 (1.83%) Blog
12 115 (1.73%) Data Centre
13 111 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
14 105 (1.58%) Marketing Technology
15 99 (1.49%) Virtual Team
16 93 (1.40%) Security Posture
17 92 (1.38%) Data Structures
18 80 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
19 79 (1.19%) AI Agents
20 65 (0.98%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 471 (7.08%) Windows
2 329 (4.94%) Linux
3 230 (3.46%) Windows Server
4 95 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
5 44 (0.66%) Windows 10
6 39 (0.59%) macOS
7 28 (0.42%) Unix
7 28 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
8 25 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 20 (0.30%) Apple iOS
10 19 (0.29%) Android
11 9 (0.14%) CentOS
12 8 (0.12%) Ubuntu
13 6 (0.090%) Debian
13 6 (0.090%) VMS
14 5 (0.075%) OpenVMS
15 4 (0.060%) CoreOS
16 2 (0.030%) Rocky
16 2 (0.030%) zOS
17 1 (0.015%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,301 (49.61%) Problem-Solving
2 2,053 (30.85%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,593 (23.94%) Decision-Making
4 1,429 (21.48%) Stakeholder Management
5 1,329 (19.97%) Analytics
6 1,279 (19.22%) AI
7 1,122 (16.86%) Agile
8 874 (13.13%) Business Intelligence
9 714 (10.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 665 (9.99%) Mentoring
11 646 (9.71%) Validation
12 620 (9.32%) Actionable Insight
12 620 (9.32%) Roadmaps
13 600 (9.02%) Process Improvement
14 585 (8.79%) Data Analysis
15 565 (8.49%) CRM
16 564 (8.48%) Customer Service
17 559 (8.40%) Project Management
18 545 (8.19%) CI/CD
19 543 (8.16%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1,270 (19.09%) SQL
2 929 (13.96%) Python
3 229 (3.44%) JavaScript
4 210 (3.16%) Java
5 209 (3.14%) C#
6 199 (2.99%) PowerShell
7 122 (1.83%) C++
8 101 (1.52%) R
9 99 (1.49%) Bash
10 84 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 77 (1.16%) TypeScript
12 54 (0.81%) MATLAB
13 52 (0.78%) T-SQL
14 46 (0.69%) Shell Script
15 42 (0.63%) C
16 33 (0.50%) PL/SQL
17 28 (0.42%) Go
17 28 (0.42%) Scala
18 27 (0.41%) Perl
19 25 (0.38%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,406 (21.13%) Degree
2 758 (11.39%) Security Cleared
3 527 (7.92%) SC Cleared
4 243 (3.65%) ACCA
5 230 (3.46%) CIMA
6 169 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 165 (2.48%) DV Cleared
8 142 (2.13%) DBS Check
9 132 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
10 129 (1.94%) CISSP
11 119 (1.79%) Master's Degree
12 103 (1.55%) CISM
13 102 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
14 91 (1.37%) HND
15 86 (1.29%) Azure Certification
16 84 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
17 70 (1.05%) HNC
18 59 (0.89%) CompTIA Security+
19 56 (0.84%) AWS Certification
20 54 (0.81%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 665 (9.99%) Data Quality
2 396 (5.95%) QA
3 311 (4.67%) GDPR
4 227 (3.41%) Accessibility
5 203 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 147 (2.21%) NIST
7 145 (2.18%) Cyber Essentials
8 133 (2.00%) SLA
9 115 (1.73%) PCI DSS
10 74 (1.11%) Actionable Recommendations
11 66 (0.99%) PMO
12 63 (0.95%) GRC
13 52 (0.78%) ISO 9001
14 40 (0.60%) IFRS
15 33 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 32 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 31 (0.47%) NCSC
18 27 (0.41%) DO-254
19 25 (0.38%) GAAP
20 22 (0.33%) GMP
System Software
1 386 (5.80%) Active Directory
2 193 (2.90%) Docker
3 115 (1.73%) Hyper-V
4 82 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 72 (1.08%) Terminal Server
6 55 (0.83%) Firmware
7 25 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
8 18 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
10 11 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
11 8 (0.12%) vSphere
12 7 (0.11%) Ceph
13 6 (0.090%) VMware NSX
14 5 (0.075%) DFS Replication
14 5 (0.075%) ISA Server
15 4 (0.060%) KVM
15 4 (0.060%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 2 (0.030%) IAG
16 2 (0.030%) Slurm Workload Manager
17 1 (0.015%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 131 (1.97%) Kubernetes
2 94 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
3 75 (1.13%) Ansible
4 50 (0.75%) Grafana
5 44 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
6 31 (0.47%) Prometheus
7 26 (0.39%) SCCM
8 22 (0.33%) Kibana
9 21 (0.32%) QRadar
10 15 (0.23%) Nmap
11 14 (0.21%) Nagios
12 11 (0.17%) Podman
13 10 (0.15%) Functional Safety
14 9 (0.14%) Argo
14 9 (0.14%) FortiGate
15 8 (0.12%) EnCase
15 8 (0.12%) FTK
16 7 (0.11%) Check_MK
16 7 (0.11%) Istio
16 7 (0.11%) logstash
Vendors
1 1,644 (24.71%) Microsoft
2 425 (6.39%) Google
3 246 (3.70%) SAP
4 205 (3.08%) Oracle
5 175 (2.63%) VMware
6 161 (2.42%) Splunk
7 155 (2.33%) Salesforce
8 150 (2.25%) ServiceNow
9 134 (2.01%) Databricks
10 103 (1.55%) SolarWinds
11 100 (1.50%) Cisco
12 80 (1.20%) Veeam
13 76 (1.14%) YouTube
14 73 (1.10%) Brocade
14 73 (1.10%) Nimble Storage
14 73 (1.10%) Tanium
15 71 (1.07%) HubSpot
16 69 (1.04%) Adobe
17 54 (0.81%) TikTok
18 52 (0.78%) Workday