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 25 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 11 16
Rank change year-on-year -10 +5 +5
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 5,078 5,550 6,835
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 7.31% 11.71% 9.08%
As % of the General category 13.07% 17.00% 14.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,632 2,338 4,711
10th Percentile £30,370 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,715 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,375 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.59% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £74,011 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,967 £45,250
% change year-on-year -11.71% +12.63% -4.74%

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 38,864 32,652 46,406
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 55.92% 68.87% 61.67%
Number of salaries quoted 21,155 15,158 34,174
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +9.09% -9.84%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £106,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -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 25 February 2026.

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 25 February 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 -8 4,487 £52,500 -4.55% 1,812
UK excluding London -12 3,264 £45,000 -11.71% 1,557
Work from Home +5 1,715 £52,500 -4.55% 757
London -5 1,504 £67,500 +3.85% 606
South East +15 905 £50,000 - 564
North of England -18 844 £45,000 -14.29% 343
Midlands -12 596 £44,000 -9.28% 274
North West -18 425 £42,500 -19.05% 205
West Midlands -16 345 £52,500 +5.00% 179
South West -6 326 £45,000 -14.29% 155
Yorkshire +1 306 £45,000 -10.00% 104
East of England -19 269 £40,000 -21.52% 139
East Midlands +4 249 £39,750 -6.47% 95
Scotland -11 234 £40,000 -33.33% 61
North East -5 113 £40,000 +3.40% 40
Wales +15 72 £40,000 -18.54% 37
Northern Ireland -17 46 £52,500 -4.55% 17
Isle of Man -4 1 £62,500 +150.00% 4
Channel Islands -8 1 - - 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
1 173 (3.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 90 (1.77%) Confluence
3 85 (1.67%) SharePoint
4 49 (0.96%) Apache Spark
5 43 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
6 41 (0.81%) CMS
7 27 (0.53%) Apache
8 17 (0.33%) WordPress
9 15 (0.30%) SAS
10 14 (0.28%) IIS
10 14 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
11 6 (0.12%) nginx
12 4 (0.079%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.059%) Drupal
13 3 (0.059%) govService
14 2 (0.039%) ArcGIS
14 2 (0.039%) FactoryTalk
14 2 (0.039%) JBoss
14 2 (0.039%) MTS
14 2 (0.039%) WinCC
Applications
1 736 (14.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 338 (6.66%) Chatbot
3 299 (5.89%) Microsoft Office
4 124 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 88 (1.73%) MS Visio
6 39 (0.77%) Maya
7 36 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
8 35 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
9 16 (0.32%) AutoCAD
10 14 (0.28%) Adobe XD
11 10 (0.20%) CATIA
12 7 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
13 3 (0.059%) Sketch
14 2 (0.039%) Oracle Smart View
14 2 (0.039%) Revit
14 2 (0.039%) Simulink
14 2 (0.039%) Trello
15 1 (0.020%) OrCAD
15 1 (0.020%) Siemens NX
15 1 (0.020%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 119 (2.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 52 (1.02%) SAP MDG
3 48 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
4 41 (0.81%) NetSuite
5 31 (0.61%) SAP CO
6 27 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
7 24 (0.47%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 23 (0.45%) SAP FI
9 22 (0.43%) Endur
9 22 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
9 22 (0.43%) SAP FI/CO
10 21 (0.41%) Workday HCM
11 14 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
12 12 (0.24%) SAP ERP
12 12 (0.24%) Shopify
13 11 (0.22%) Sage X3
14 10 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
14 10 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
15 9 (0.18%) SAP IBP
16 8 (0.16%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 871 (17.15%) Azure
2 641 (12.62%) Power Platform
3 422 (8.31%) AWS
4 331 (6.52%) Microsoft 365
5 259 (5.10%) SaaS
6 161 (3.17%) GCP
7 156 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
8 118 (2.32%) Dynamics 365
9 95 (1.87%) Entra ID
10 92 (1.81%) GitHub
11 79 (1.56%) Power Automate
12 74 (1.46%) Snowflake
13 71 (1.40%) Azure Data Factory
14 60 (1.18%) Google Analytics
15 57 (1.12%) Serverless
16 55 (1.08%) Amazon S3
17 54 (1.06%) dbt
18 50 (0.98%) Microsoft Purview
18 50 (0.98%) PowerApps
19 46 (0.91%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 190 (3.74%) DNS
2 181 (3.56%) Firewall
3 156 (3.07%) DHCP
4 99 (1.95%) VPN
5 80 (1.58%) Wi-Fi
6 68 (1.34%) WAN
7 61 (1.20%) LAN
8 59 (1.16%) Wireless
9 58 (1.14%) TCP/IP
10 55 (1.08%) VLAN
11 44 (0.87%) Network Security
12 43 (0.85%) Broadband
13 34 (0.67%) Remote Desktop
14 33 (0.65%) BGP
14 33 (0.65%) Wireshark
15 31 (0.61%) OSPF
16 30 (0.59%) SAN
17 29 (0.57%) VoIP
18 27 (0.53%) EIGRP
19 26 (0.51%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 578 (11.38%) Power BI
2 417 (8.21%) Tableau
3 211 (4.16%) SQL Server
4 206 (4.06%) Data Mining
5 169 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
6 127 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
7 110 (2.17%) Metadata
8 99 (1.95%) Relational Database
9 82 (1.61%) Data Lake
10 63 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 52 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
12 50 (0.98%) MySQL
13 49 (0.96%) Looker
13 49 (0.96%) NoSQL
14 48 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
15 46 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
16 43 (0.85%) Power Query
17 37 (0.73%) Big Data
18 32 (0.63%) GIS
19 30 (0.59%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 201 (3.96%) JIRA
2 115 (2.26%) Git
3 45 (0.89%) GitLab
4 42 (0.83%) Selenium
5 35 (0.69%) Jenkins
6 15 (0.30%) ERwin
6 15 (0.30%) Robot Framework
6 15 (0.30%) Visual Studio
7 14 (0.28%) Subversion
8 13 (0.26%) Balsamiq
8 13 (0.26%) Snyk
9 12 (0.24%) Axure RP
9 12 (0.24%) Chocolatey
9 12 (0.24%) Oracle Forms
9 12 (0.24%) Postman
10 11 (0.22%) Cypress.io
10 11 (0.22%) ER Studio
11 10 (0.20%) Bitbucket
11 10 (0.20%) LabVIEW
12 9 (0.18%) WebDriver
General
1 2,590 (51.00%) Social Skills
2 1,828 (36.00%) Finance
3 453 (8.92%) Marketing
4 332 (6.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 289 (5.69%) Law
6 287 (5.65%) Retail
7 279 (5.49%) Banking
8 277 (5.45%) Legal
9 265 (5.22%) Organisational Skills
10 247 (4.86%) Public Sector
11 217 (4.27%) Presentation Skills
12 159 (3.13%) Manufacturing
13 137 (2.70%) Financial Institution
14 124 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
15 102 (2.01%) Telecoms
16 90 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
16 90 (1.77%) Games
17 71 (1.40%) Advertising
18 62 (1.22%) Electronics
19 51 (1.00%) German Language
Job Titles
1 1,223 (24.08%) Analyst
2 618 (12.17%) Senior
3 395 (7.78%) Data Analyst
4 355 (6.99%) Lead
5 334 (6.58%) Trainer
6 276 (5.44%) Architect
7 240 (4.73%) Developer
8 235 (4.63%) Business Analyst
9 186 (3.66%) Consultant
10 181 (3.56%) Trainee
11 175 (3.45%) Support Analyst
12 168 (3.31%) Trainee Analyst
12 168 (3.31%) Trainee Data Analyst
13 148 (2.91%) IT Support
14 132 (2.60%) Systems Engineer
15 129 (2.54%) Senior Analyst
16 123 (2.42%) Senior Manager
17 109 (2.15%) Business Manager
18 106 (2.09%) Financial Analyst
18 106 (2.09%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (2.42%) HTML
2 119 (2.34%) CSS
3 85 (1.67%) React
4 73 (1.44%) .NET
5 62 (1.22%) REST
6 60 (1.18%) Middleware
7 50 (0.98%) JSON
8 46 (0.91%) XML
9 41 (0.81%) Node.js
10 32 (0.63%) SOAP
11 31 (0.61%) EDI
12 28 (0.55%) Kafka
12 28 (0.55%) PySpark
12 28 (0.55%) Spring
13 27 (0.53%) TensorFlow
14 26 (0.51%) AngularJS
15 24 (0.47%) FIX Protocol
15 24 (0.47%) PyTorch
16 21 (0.41%) Oracle Fusion
17 19 (0.37%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 507 (9.98%) Analytical Mindset
2 365 (7.19%) Self-Motivation
3 293 (5.77%) Onboarding
4 258 (5.08%) Management Information System
5 190 (3.74%) Product Ownership
6 158 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
7 116 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
8 111 (2.19%) Data Centre
9 91 (1.79%) Data Structures
10 81 (1.60%) Cloud Native
11 80 (1.58%) FMCG
12 77 (1.52%) Driving Licence
13 68 (1.34%) Algorithms
14 55 (1.08%) Social Media
15 53 (1.04%) Virtual Team
16 52 (1.02%) Robotics
17 50 (0.98%) Low-Code
18 48 (0.95%) Security Posture
19 47 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
20 46 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 391 (7.70%) Windows
2 264 (5.20%) Linux
3 178 (3.51%) Windows Server
4 116 (2.28%) Windows Server 2016
5 38 (0.75%) Unix
6 27 (0.53%) Mac OS
7 16 (0.32%) Android
8 15 (0.30%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (0.14%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.098%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.098%) VMS
12 4 (0.079%) CentOS
12 4 (0.079%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.059%) OpenWrt
14 2 (0.039%) AIX
14 2 (0.039%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (0.039%) Oracle Linux
15 1 (0.020%) Debian
15 1 (0.020%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,273 (44.76%) Problem-Solving
2 1,127 (22.19%) Analytics
3 1,109 (21.84%) Continuous Improvement
4 1,034 (20.36%) AI
5 944 (18.59%) Decision-Making
6 877 (17.27%) Agile
7 801 (15.77%) Project Management
8 750 (14.77%) Business Intelligence
9 618 (12.17%) Stakeholder Management
10 590 (11.62%) Data Analysis
11 435 (8.57%) Actionable Insight
12 427 (8.41%) Mentoring
13 418 (8.23%) Roadmaps
14 417 (8.21%) Process Improvement
15 413 (8.13%) Analytical Thinking
16 408 (8.03%) ERP
16 408 (8.03%) Risk Management
17 400 (7.88%) Migration
18 394 (7.76%) Customer Service
19 386 (7.60%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,044 (20.56%) SQL
2 835 (16.44%) Python
3 155 (3.05%) JavaScript
4 141 (2.78%) PowerShell
5 140 (2.76%) Java
6 117 (2.30%) C#
7 75 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 65 (1.28%) R
9 55 (1.08%) Bash
10 50 (0.98%) T-SQL
11 47 (0.93%) C++
12 44 (0.87%) VBA
13 33 (0.65%) TypeScript
14 24 (0.47%) Scala
15 23 (0.45%) C
16 19 (0.37%) MATLAB
17 18 (0.35%) Go
18 15 (0.30%) PL/SQL
19 12 (0.24%) Bicep
19 12 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,478 (29.11%) Degree
2 477 (9.39%) Master's Degree
3 456 (8.98%) Security Cleared
4 347 (6.83%) SC Cleared
5 343 (6.75%) PhD
6 208 (4.10%) ACCA
7 197 (3.88%) CIMA
8 191 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
9 145 (2.86%) CISSP
10 99 (1.95%) PMI Certification
11 92 (1.81%) DBS Check
12 85 (1.67%) PMP
13 84 (1.65%) DV Cleared
14 82 (1.61%) CISM
15 78 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
16 68 (1.34%) Azure Certification
16 68 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
17 62 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
18 48 (0.95%) AWS Certification
19 46 (0.91%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 334 (6.58%) Data Quality
2 249 (4.90%) QA
3 221 (4.35%) GDPR
4 204 (4.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 182 (3.58%) Cyber Essentials
6 151 (2.97%) PCI DSS
7 144 (2.84%) NIST
8 107 (2.11%) Accessibility
9 85 (1.67%) PMO
10 69 (1.36%) Actionable Recommendations
11 51 (1.00%) SLA
12 43 (0.85%) GRC
13 37 (0.73%) ISO 9001
14 36 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 31 (0.61%) IFRS
16 23 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 21 (0.41%) WCAG
18 17 (0.33%) NCSC
19 16 (0.32%) COBIT
20 13 (0.26%) GMP
System Software
1 283 (5.57%) Active Directory
2 140 (2.76%) Hyper-V
3 112 (2.21%) Terminal Server
4 64 (1.26%) Docker
5 55 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
6 15 (0.30%) vSphere
7 13 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (0.24%) ProxySG
9 9 (0.18%) Firmware
10 8 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.12%) IAG
11 6 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.079%) VMware NSX
13 3 (0.059%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.039%) XenApp
14 2 (0.039%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.020%) KVM
15 1 (0.020%) NFS
15 1 (0.020%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 124 (2.44%) Terraform
2 70 (1.38%) Kubernetes
3 67 (1.32%) Ansible
4 50 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
5 31 (0.61%) Grafana
6 30 (0.59%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (0.41%) SCCM
9 12 (0.24%) Nagios
10 6 (0.12%) Control-M
10 6 (0.12%) SCOM
11 5 (0.098%) CASB
11 5 (0.098%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 4 (0.079%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.079%) Backup Exec
12 4 (0.079%) Nessus
12 4 (0.079%) QRadar
12 4 (0.079%) SolarWinds Orion
12 4 (0.079%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.059%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 1,233 (24.28%) Microsoft
2 336 (6.62%) PayPal
3 294 (5.79%) SAP
4 197 (3.88%) Oracle
5 179 (3.53%) VMware
6 159 (3.13%) Salesforce
7 156 (3.07%) SolarWinds
8 142 (2.80%) Splunk
9 137 (2.70%) Google
10 117 (2.30%) Veeam
11 113 (2.23%) Brocade
11 113 (2.23%) Tanium
12 112 (2.21%) Nimble Storage
13 108 (2.13%) ServiceNow
14 81 (1.60%) Cisco
15 67 (1.32%) Databricks
16 58 (1.14%) Adobe
17 46 (0.91%) Workday
18 43 (0.85%) Alteryx
19 42 (0.83%) Bloomberg