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 20 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 9 14
Rank change year-on-year -17 +5 +5
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,691 5,903 9,493
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.08% 13.39% 9.76%
As % of the General category 10.43% 18.37% 16.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2,943 2,476 5,428
10th Percentile £33,125 £31,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +10.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £89,000 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.00% +11.11% -4.26%

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 44,959 32,126 58,439
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 48.73% 72.85% 60.09%
Number of salaries quoted 25,392 15,904 39,644
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £39,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £77,424 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £103,750 £93,158
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -18 4,236 £55,000 - 2,420
UK excluding London -21 2,900 £49,000 -2.00% 1,727
London -7 1,499 £67,500 +3.85% 1,010
Work from Home -9 1,379 £55,000 - 1,134
North of England -30 889 £47,500 -5.00% 410
South East -5 744 £50,000 -8.26% 560
Midlands -25 534 £48,500 +2.11% 261
North West -30 515 £45,519 -8.96% 233
West Midlands -27 316 £50,774 +6.89% 156
Yorkshire -11 289 £52,500 +16.67% 127
South West -30 271 £47,500 -5.00% 180
East of England -24 241 £45,050 -11.61% 215
East Midlands 0 216 £45,000 -7.22% 103
Scotland -22 122 £40,000 -20.71% 84
North East -29 85 £48,445 +25.83% 60
Wales -2 76 £51,709 -1.51% 40
Northern Ireland -27 37 £46,250 -15.91% 27

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
1 136 (2.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 102 (2.17%) SharePoint
3 73 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
4 72 (1.53%) Apache Spark
5 62 (1.32%) Confluence
6 42 (0.90%) CMS
7 35 (0.75%) Apache
8 19 (0.41%) IIS
9 17 (0.36%) SAS
10 16 (0.34%) WordPress
11 13 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
12 10 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 6 (0.13%) nginx
14 3 (0.064%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.064%) govService
14 3 (0.064%) JBoss
14 3 (0.064%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.064%) Tomcat
15 2 (0.043%) Appian
15 2 (0.043%) Camunda
Applications
1 550 (11.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 214 (4.56%) Microsoft Office
3 93 (1.98%) MS Visio
4 87 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 30 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
6 26 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
7 12 (0.26%) Maya
8 11 (0.23%) Adobe XD
9 10 (0.21%) CATIA
10 4 (0.085%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.085%) Chatbot
11 3 (0.064%) Acrobat
11 3 (0.064%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.064%) Trello
12 2 (0.043%) Lectora
12 2 (0.043%) Simulink
13 1 (0.021%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.021%) Sketch
13 1 (0.021%) SPSS
13 1 (0.021%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 68 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 40 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 37 (0.79%) NetSuite
4 32 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
5 19 (0.41%) SAP CO
6 15 (0.32%) SAP PM
7 14 (0.30%) SAP ERP
8 11 (0.23%) Maximo
8 11 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
8 11 (0.23%) SAP FI
9 10 (0.21%) Endur
9 10 (0.21%) Workday HCM
10 9 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
11 7 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
11 7 (0.15%) Elite 3E
11 7 (0.15%) Fidessa
11 7 (0.15%) Magento
11 7 (0.15%) SAP PP
12 6 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
12 6 (0.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 842 (17.95%) Azure
2 646 (13.77%) Power Platform
3 473 (10.08%) AWS
4 330 (7.03%) Microsoft 365
5 275 (5.86%) SaaS
6 204 (4.35%) GCP
7 129 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
8 128 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
9 111 (2.37%) Entra ID
10 95 (2.03%) GitHub
11 89 (1.90%) Power Automate
11 89 (1.90%) Snowflake
12 79 (1.68%) dbt
13 75 (1.60%) Google Analytics
14 73 (1.56%) Microsoft Purview
15 67 (1.43%) Amazon S3
16 64 (1.36%) PowerApps
17 59 (1.26%) Serverless
18 55 (1.17%) Azure Data Factory
19 48 (1.02%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 195 (4.16%) Firewall
2 148 (3.15%) DNS
3 124 (2.64%) VPN
4 103 (2.20%) DHCP
5 77 (1.64%) WAN
6 69 (1.47%) TCP/IP
7 67 (1.43%) LAN
8 59 (1.26%) Broadband
9 58 (1.24%) VLAN
9 58 (1.24%) Wi-Fi
10 56 (1.19%) Wireless
11 51 (1.09%) SAN
12 46 (0.98%) Network Security
13 39 (0.83%) BGP
14 31 (0.66%) Cisco ASA
15 29 (0.62%) OSPF
16 27 (0.58%) SD-WAN
16 27 (0.58%) Wireshark
17 25 (0.53%) HTTP
18 24 (0.51%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 575 (12.26%) Power BI
2 347 (7.40%) Tableau
3 185 (3.94%) SQL Server
4 162 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
5 127 (2.71%) Data Mining
6 84 (1.79%) Metadata
7 73 (1.56%) Data Lake
8 68 (1.45%) Relational Database
9 67 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
10 60 (1.28%) Looker
11 59 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
11 59 (1.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 58 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
13 50 (1.07%) BigQuery
14 47 (1.00%) MySQL
15 46 (0.98%) Power Query
16 42 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 41 (0.87%) NoSQL
18 35 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
19 34 (0.72%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 166 (3.54%) JIRA
2 135 (2.88%) Git
3 46 (0.98%) GitLab
4 37 (0.79%) Jenkins
5 31 (0.66%) MLflow
6 28 (0.60%) Rational DOORS
7 24 (0.51%) Selenium
8 21 (0.45%) Chocolatey
9 16 (0.34%) Visual Studio
10 15 (0.32%) Cucumber
11 14 (0.30%) ERwin
12 13 (0.28%) Bitbucket
12 13 (0.28%) IBM UrbanCode
13 12 (0.26%) Balsamiq
14 10 (0.21%) Axure RP
14 10 (0.21%) Maven
14 10 (0.21%) SonarQube
14 10 (0.21%) Subversion
15 9 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
15 9 (0.19%) Postman
General
1 2,134 (45.49%) Social Skills
2 1,692 (36.07%) Finance
3 422 (9.00%) Marketing
4 374 (7.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 274 (5.84%) Law
6 260 (5.54%) Public Sector
7 259 (5.52%) Banking
8 257 (5.48%) Organisational Skills
9 252 (5.37%) Retail
10 246 (5.24%) Legal
11 165 (3.52%) Manufacturing
12 151 (3.22%) Presentation Skills
13 148 (3.15%) Influencing Skills
14 110 (2.34%) Telecoms
15 88 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
16 87 (1.85%) Financial Institution
17 73 (1.56%) Advertising
17 73 (1.56%) Electronics
18 67 (1.43%) Games
19 65 (1.39%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,217 (25.94%) Analyst
2 652 (13.90%) Senior
3 319 (6.80%) Data Analyst
4 304 (6.48%) Lead
5 269 (5.73%) Business Analyst
6 244 (5.20%) Developer
7 217 (4.63%) Architect
8 204 (4.35%) Consultant
9 150 (3.20%) Systems Engineer
10 132 (2.81%) Senior Analyst
11 131 (2.79%) Senior Manager
12 119 (2.54%) Support Analyst
13 116 (2.47%) Trainee
14 107 (2.28%) Data Engineer
14 107 (2.28%) IT Manager
15 104 (2.22%) Trainee Analyst
15 104 (2.22%) Trainee Data Analyst
16 102 (2.17%) Support Engineer
17 101 (2.15%) IT Support
18 89 (1.90%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (2.69%) HTML
2 116 (2.47%) CSS
3 96 (2.05%) .NET
4 89 (1.90%) REST
5 81 (1.73%) JSON
5 81 (1.73%) Middleware
6 78 (1.66%) React
7 73 (1.56%) XML
8 60 (1.28%) PyTorch
9 55 (1.17%) TensorFlow
10 52 (1.11%) Kafka
10 52 (1.11%) SOAP
11 44 (0.94%) Node.js
12 40 (0.85%) scikit-learn
13 35 (0.75%) PySpark
13 35 (0.75%) RESTful
14 33 (0.70%) Pandas
15 32 (0.68%) LangChain
16 31 (0.66%) EDI
17 26 (0.55%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 495 (10.55%) Analytical Mindset
2 226 (4.82%) Management Information System
3 209 (4.46%) Onboarding
4 193 (4.11%) Product Ownership
5 188 (4.01%) Self-Motivation
6 114 (2.43%) Data Centre
7 101 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
8 89 (1.90%) Cloud Native
9 82 (1.75%) Data Structures
10 79 (1.68%) Security Posture
11 78 (1.66%) Algorithms
12 70 (1.49%) Driving Licence
13 69 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
14 68 (1.45%) Cyber Threat
15 53 (1.13%) Public Cloud
15 53 (1.13%) Virtual Team
16 50 (1.07%) Social Media
17 49 (1.04%) FMCG
18 43 (0.92%) Cyber Defence
19 42 (0.90%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 339 (7.23%) Windows
2 202 (4.31%) Linux
3 146 (3.11%) Windows Server
4 59 (1.26%) Windows Server 2016
5 34 (0.72%) Unix
6 22 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 22 (0.47%) Windows 10
7 18 (0.38%) Mac OS
8 15 (0.32%) Android
9 14 (0.30%) Apple iOS
10 9 (0.19%) CentOS
11 8 (0.17%) VMS
11 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
12 7 (0.15%) Ubuntu
13 4 (0.085%) AIX
13 4 (0.085%) Rocky
13 4 (0.085%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.043%) Debian
15 1 (0.021%) OpenBSD
15 1 (0.021%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,082 (44.38%) Problem-Solving
2 1,102 (23.49%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,048 (22.34%) Analytics
4 976 (20.81%) Decision-Making
5 821 (17.50%) Agile
6 671 (14.30%) Business Intelligence
7 640 (13.64%) AI
8 597 (12.73%) Stakeholder Management
9 514 (10.96%) Project Management
10 463 (9.87%) Actionable Insight
11 458 (9.76%) Mentoring
12 445 (9.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 440 (9.38%) Data Analysis
14 437 (9.32%) Roadmaps
15 435 (9.27%) Data Modelling
16 430 (9.17%) Cybersecurity
17 374 (7.97%) Analytical Thinking
18 373 (7.95%) Data Governance
19 359 (7.65%) Process Improvement
20 358 (7.63%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 985 (21.00%) SQL
2 855 (18.23%) Python
3 174 (3.71%) PowerShell
4 167 (3.56%) Java
5 164 (3.50%) JavaScript
6 127 (2.71%) C#
7 73 (1.56%) R
8 67 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 61 (1.30%) Bash
9 61 (1.30%) C++
10 42 (0.90%) T-SQL
11 40 (0.85%) TypeScript
11 40 (0.85%) VBA
12 35 (0.75%) MATLAB
13 23 (0.49%) Scala
14 20 (0.43%) Go
15 18 (0.38%) PHP
16 16 (0.34%) PL/SQL
17 15 (0.32%) C
18 14 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 933 (19.89%) Degree
2 358 (7.63%) Security Cleared
3 247 (5.27%) SC Cleared
4 231 (4.92%) ACCA
5 219 (4.67%) CIMA
6 166 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 153 (3.26%) DBS Check
8 147 (3.13%) CISSP
9 114 (2.43%) Cisco Certification
10 103 (2.20%) Master's Degree
11 101 (2.15%) CISM
12 94 (2.00%) PMI Certification
13 83 (1.77%) DV Cleared
13 83 (1.77%) PMP
14 73 (1.56%) Azure Certification
15 72 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
15 72 (1.53%) IRCA
16 69 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
17 60 (1.28%) CompTIA Security+
18 54 (1.15%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 439 (9.36%) Data Quality
2 356 (7.59%) GDPR
3 289 (6.16%) QA
4 244 (5.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 211 (4.50%) NIST
6 127 (2.71%) Cyber Essentials
7 119 (2.54%) SLA
8 106 (2.26%) ISO 9001
9 102 (2.17%) Accessibility
10 101 (2.15%) PCI DSS
11 63 (1.34%) GRC
12 60 (1.28%) PMO
13 54 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
14 39 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 37 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 34 (0.72%) IFRS
17 32 (0.68%) COBIT
18 28 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
19 24 (0.51%) NCSC
20 23 (0.49%) ITGC
System Software
1 237 (5.05%) Active Directory
2 77 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 70 (1.49%) Docker
4 63 (1.34%) Hyper-V
5 48 (1.02%) Terminal Server
6 26 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.34%) ProxySG
8 12 (0.26%) vSphere
9 10 (0.21%) VMware NSX
10 8 (0.17%) IAG
10 8 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
11 5 (0.11%) Firmware
12 4 (0.085%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.085%) XenApp
13 3 (0.064%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.064%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.043%) DFS Replication
14 2 (0.043%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.043%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.021%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 124 (2.64%) Terraform
2 77 (1.64%) Kubernetes
3 70 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
4 58 (1.24%) Ansible
5 32 (0.68%) Grafana
6 30 (0.64%) SCCM
7 24 (0.51%) Prometheus
8 23 (0.49%) Nagios
8 23 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (0.28%) QRadar
10 11 (0.23%) Kibana
11 9 (0.19%) Kubeflow
12 6 (0.13%) Control-M
12 6 (0.13%) logstash
12 6 (0.13%) Packer
13 5 (0.11%) CASB
13 5 (0.11%) Graylog
14 4 (0.085%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.085%) RSA Archer
14 4 (0.085%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,087 (23.17%) Microsoft
2 203 (4.33%) SAP
3 177 (3.77%) Google
4 172 (3.67%) Oracle
5 150 (3.20%) Salesforce
6 138 (2.94%) VMware
7 108 (2.30%) Databricks
7 108 (2.30%) ServiceNow
8 97 (2.07%) SolarWinds
9 92 (1.96%) Splunk
10 77 (1.64%) Workday
11 72 (1.53%) Cisco
12 59 (1.26%) Veeam
13 51 (1.09%) IBM
14 50 (1.07%) Dell
15 49 (1.04%) Tanium
16 48 (1.02%) Brocade
16 48 (1.02%) Nimble Storage
17 47 (1.00%) Red Hat
18 43 (0.92%) Adobe