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 29 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 9 14
Rank change year-on-year -19 +5 +5
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,801 5,676 9,424
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.35% 13.40% 9.87%
As % of the General category 10.56% 18.81% 16.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2,917 2,518 5,438
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £28,125
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,171 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +10.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,445 £50,445 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.97% +12.10% -3.48%

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 45,450 30,168 57,631
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 50.67% 71.22% 60.37%
Number of salaries quoted 24,450 15,942 39,402
10th Percentile £28,750 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,560 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% +9.64% -12.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £105,225 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,105 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -3.79% +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 29 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Top 18 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 29 April 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 -22 4,295 £54,750 -0.45% 1,771
UK excluding London -27 2,972 £48,445 -3.97% 1,421
London -8 1,521 £67,500 +3.85% 660
Work from Home -10 1,386 £55,000 - 727
North of England -31 858 £46,000 -8.00% 325
South East -4 778 £50,000 -5.72% 463
Midlands -27 558 £48,000 - 267
North West -29 484 £45,000 -10.00% 191
West Midlands -28 334 £50,149 +4.48% 161
Yorkshire -13 286 £50,500 +12.22% 93
South West -26 258 £47,500 -8.58% 143
East of England -37 256 £43,189 -15.26% 140
East Midlands -15 222 £45,000 -5.26% 105
Scotland -26 150 £40,400 -23.47% 50
North East -24 88 £49,222 +29.53% 49
Wales 0 80 £42,500 -15.44% 37
Northern Ireland -21 46 £47,500 -13.64% 33
Isle of Man -2 1 £62,500 +68.92%

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
1 145 (3.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 95 (1.98%) SharePoint
3 74 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
4 73 (1.52%) Apache Spark
5 67 (1.40%) Confluence
6 48 (1.00%) CMS
7 35 (0.73%) Apache
8 19 (0.40%) WordPress
9 17 (0.35%) IIS
10 11 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
10 11 (0.23%) SAS
11 6 (0.12%) nginx
12 4 (0.083%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 4 (0.083%) Drupal
13 3 (0.062%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.062%) govService
13 3 (0.062%) JBoss
14 2 (0.042%) Appian
14 2 (0.042%) Camunda
14 2 (0.042%) Jupyter
Applications
1 611 (12.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 273 (5.69%) Microsoft Office
3 98 (2.04%) MS Visio
4 96 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
6 30 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
7 24 (0.50%) Chatbot
8 14 (0.29%) Adobe XD
9 12 (0.25%) Maya
10 10 (0.21%) CATIA
11 5 (0.10%) AutoCAD
12 4 (0.083%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 4 (0.083%) Trello
13 3 (0.062%) Photoshop
14 2 (0.042%) Lectora
14 2 (0.042%) Simulink
15 1 (0.021%) Revit
15 1 (0.021%) SOLIDWORKS
15 1 (0.021%) SPSS
15 1 (0.021%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 67 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 40 (0.83%) NetSuite
3 38 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
4 34 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
5 22 (0.46%) SAP CO
6 16 (0.33%) SAP ERP
7 15 (0.31%) SAP PM
8 14 (0.29%) SAP FI
9 13 (0.27%) Endur
9 13 (0.27%) Maximo
10 12 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
11 11 (0.23%) Sage X3
11 11 (0.23%) Workday HCM
12 10 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
13 8 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
13 8 (0.17%) Elite 3E
13 8 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
13 8 (0.17%) SAP PP
14 7 (0.15%) Magento
15 6 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 863 (17.98%) Azure
2 645 (13.43%) Power Platform
3 476 (9.91%) AWS
4 343 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
5 265 (5.52%) SaaS
6 215 (4.48%) GCP
7 148 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
8 145 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
9 111 (2.31%) Entra ID
10 104 (2.17%) GitHub
11 96 (2.00%) Power Automate
12 94 (1.96%) Snowflake
13 88 (1.83%) dbt
14 75 (1.56%) Google Analytics
15 68 (1.42%) Amazon S3
16 62 (1.29%) Microsoft Purview
17 61 (1.27%) Serverless
18 59 (1.23%) PowerApps
19 52 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
20 47 (0.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 195 (4.06%) Firewall
2 156 (3.25%) DNS
3 125 (2.60%) VPN
4 116 (2.42%) DHCP
5 81 (1.69%) WAN
6 71 (1.48%) TCP/IP
7 67 (1.40%) LAN
8 66 (1.37%) Wireless
9 63 (1.31%) VLAN
10 56 (1.17%) Wi-Fi
11 49 (1.02%) Network Security
12 46 (0.96%) SAN
13 45 (0.94%) Broadband
14 40 (0.83%) BGP
15 33 (0.69%) OSPF
16 30 (0.62%) Wireshark
17 29 (0.60%) EIGRP
18 28 (0.58%) Cisco ASA
19 27 (0.56%) SD-WAN
20 24 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 580 (12.08%) Power BI
2 376 (7.83%) Tableau
3 195 (4.06%) SQL Server
4 168 (3.50%) Data Warehouse
5 158 (3.29%) Data Mining
6 96 (2.00%) Metadata
7 84 (1.75%) Relational Database
8 80 (1.67%) Data Lake
9 75 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
10 68 (1.42%) Looker
11 60 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
12 54 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
13 52 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 47 (0.98%) BigQuery
14 47 (0.98%) MySQL
15 45 (0.94%) Power Query
16 44 (0.92%) NoSQL
17 40 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 37 (0.77%) Big Data
18 37 (0.77%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 180 (3.75%) JIRA
2 133 (2.77%) Git
3 47 (0.98%) GitLab
4 38 (0.79%) Jenkins
5 32 (0.67%) MLflow
6 26 (0.54%) Rational DOORS
6 26 (0.54%) Selenium
7 20 (0.42%) Chocolatey
8 17 (0.35%) Visual Studio
9 15 (0.31%) Balsamiq
10 14 (0.29%) Bitbucket
10 14 (0.29%) Cucumber
10 14 (0.29%) ERwin
11 13 (0.27%) Axure RP
11 13 (0.27%) IBM UrbanCode
11 13 (0.27%) Subversion
12 11 (0.23%) Cypress.io
12 11 (0.23%) Postman
13 10 (0.21%) SonarQube
14 9 (0.19%) Maven
General
1 2,312 (48.16%) Social Skills
2 1,740 (36.24%) Finance
3 435 (9.06%) Marketing
4 358 (7.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 278 (5.79%) Banking
6 274 (5.71%) Law
7 266 (5.54%) Organisational Skills
8 249 (5.19%) Retail
9 245 (5.10%) Legal
10 237 (4.94%) Public Sector
11 176 (3.67%) Manufacturing
12 165 (3.44%) Presentation Skills
13 131 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
14 114 (2.37%) Telecoms
15 102 (2.12%) Financial Institution
16 84 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
17 76 (1.58%) Advertising
18 70 (1.46%) Electronics
19 62 (1.29%) Games
20 56 (1.17%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,292 (26.91%) Analyst
2 657 (13.68%) Senior
3 352 (7.33%) Data Analyst
4 307 (6.39%) Lead
5 283 (5.89%) Business Analyst
6 245 (5.10%) Developer
7 207 (4.31%) Architect
8 200 (4.17%) Consultant
9 150 (3.12%) Support Analyst
10 147 (3.06%) Trainee
11 145 (3.02%) Systems Engineer
12 135 (2.81%) Trainee Analyst
12 135 (2.81%) Trainee Data Analyst
13 133 (2.77%) Senior Analyst
14 130 (2.71%) Senior Manager
15 113 (2.35%) Financial Analyst
16 111 (2.31%) IT Support
17 108 (2.25%) Data Engineer
18 102 (2.12%) Support Engineer
19 100 (2.08%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (2.85%) HTML
2 124 (2.58%) CSS
3 96 (2.00%) .NET
4 90 (1.87%) REST
5 82 (1.71%) React
6 79 (1.65%) JSON
7 77 (1.60%) Middleware
8 71 (1.48%) XML
9 58 (1.21%) PyTorch
10 54 (1.12%) TensorFlow
11 52 (1.08%) Kafka
12 50 (1.04%) SOAP
13 46 (0.96%) Node.js
14 42 (0.87%) scikit-learn
15 37 (0.77%) PySpark
16 35 (0.73%) Pandas
17 33 (0.69%) LangChain
18 30 (0.62%) RESTful
19 29 (0.60%) EDI
20 28 (0.58%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 502 (10.46%) Analytical Mindset
2 240 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 228 (4.75%) Self-Motivation
4 225 (4.69%) Onboarding
5 202 (4.21%) Product Ownership
6 103 (2.15%) Data Centre
7 102 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
8 99 (2.06%) Cloud Native
9 84 (1.75%) Data Structures
10 78 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
11 77 (1.60%) Security Posture
12 73 (1.52%) Algorithms
13 64 (1.33%) Driving Licence
14 56 (1.17%) Social Media
15 52 (1.08%) Public Cloud
16 51 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
17 46 (0.96%) FMCG
18 44 (0.92%) Low-Code
19 42 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
20 40 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 358 (7.46%) Windows
2 204 (4.25%) Linux
3 153 (3.19%) Windows Server
4 62 (1.29%) Windows Server 2016
5 35 (0.73%) Unix
6 22 (0.46%) Windows 10
7 21 (0.44%) Android
8 20 (0.42%) Mac OS
9 17 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 15 (0.31%) Apple iOS
11 7 (0.15%) CentOS
12 6 (0.12%) VMS
13 5 (0.10%) Ubuntu
14 4 (0.083%) AIX
14 4 (0.083%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.042%) Debian
15 2 (0.042%) Oracle Linux
15 2 (0.042%) Rocky
16 1 (0.021%) OpenBSD
16 1 (0.021%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,133 (44.43%) Problem-Solving
2 1,166 (24.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,075 (22.39%) Analytics
4 995 (20.72%) Decision-Making
5 845 (17.60%) Agile
6 699 (14.56%) Business Intelligence
7 679 (14.14%) AI
8 621 (12.93%) Stakeholder Management
9 575 (11.98%) Project Management
10 500 (10.41%) Data Analysis
11 456 (9.50%) Actionable Insight
12 446 (9.29%) Mentoring
13 434 (9.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 428 (8.91%) Data Modelling
15 422 (8.79%) Roadmaps
16 407 (8.48%) Analytical Thinking
17 406 (8.46%) Cybersecurity
18 383 (7.98%) DevOps
19 379 (7.89%) Process Improvement
20 370 (7.71%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1,019 (21.22%) SQL
2 854 (17.79%) Python
3 178 (3.71%) JavaScript
4 171 (3.56%) PowerShell
5 169 (3.52%) Java
6 122 (2.54%) C#
7 63 (1.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 62 (1.29%) R
9 58 (1.21%) Bash
10 49 (1.02%) C++
11 47 (0.98%) T-SQL
12 43 (0.90%) TypeScript
13 41 (0.85%) VBA
14 25 (0.52%) MATLAB
15 23 (0.48%) Scala
16 20 (0.42%) Go
17 19 (0.40%) PL/SQL
18 16 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
19 14 (0.29%) C
20 13 (0.27%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,009 (21.02%) Degree
2 382 (7.96%) Security Cleared
3 268 (5.58%) SC Cleared
4 249 (5.19%) ACCA
5 236 (4.92%) CIMA
6 171 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 151 (3.15%) DBS Check
8 150 (3.12%) CISSP
9 134 (2.79%) Master's Degree
10 103 (2.15%) PMI Certification
11 98 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
12 96 (2.00%) CISM
13 91 (1.90%) PMP
14 80 (1.67%) DV Cleared
15 72 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
15 72 (1.50%) IRCA
16 69 (1.44%) Azure Certification
17 65 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
18 58 (1.21%) CompTIA Security+
19 57 (1.19%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 423 (8.81%) Data Quality
2 331 (6.89%) GDPR
3 287 (5.98%) QA
4 241 (5.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 205 (4.27%) NIST
6 130 (2.71%) Cyber Essentials
7 106 (2.21%) SLA
8 104 (2.17%) PCI DSS
9 96 (2.00%) ISO 9001
10 86 (1.79%) Accessibility
11 72 (1.50%) PMO
12 58 (1.21%) GRC
13 56 (1.17%) Actionable Recommendations
14 38 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 38 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 33 (0.69%) IFRS
16 31 (0.65%) COBIT
17 29 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 25 (0.52%) SOC 2
19 21 (0.44%) ITGC
System Software
1 260 (5.42%) Active Directory
2 77 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 73 (1.52%) Docker
3 73 (1.52%) Hyper-V
4 56 (1.17%) Terminal Server
5 24 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
6 16 (0.33%) ProxySG
7 12 (0.25%) vSphere
8 10 (0.21%) VMware NSX
9 8 (0.17%) IAG
9 8 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
10 5 (0.10%) Firmware
11 4 (0.083%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.083%) XenApp
12 3 (0.062%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.062%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.042%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.042%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.021%) KVM
14 1 (0.021%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 134 (2.79%) Terraform
2 78 (1.62%) Kubernetes
3 68 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 65 (1.35%) Ansible
5 35 (0.73%) Grafana
6 31 (0.65%) SCCM
7 28 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
8 26 (0.54%) Prometheus
9 18 (0.37%) Nagios
10 11 (0.23%) Kibana
11 8 (0.17%) Kubeflow
11 8 (0.17%) QRadar
12 7 (0.15%) Control-M
13 6 (0.12%) logstash
14 5 (0.10%) CASB
14 5 (0.10%) Packer
15 4 (0.083%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.083%) Graylog
15 4 (0.083%) RSA Archer
15 4 (0.083%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,188 (24.74%) Microsoft
2 200 (4.17%) SAP
3 180 (3.75%) Oracle
4 177 (3.69%) Google
5 146 (3.04%) Salesforce
6 144 (3.00%) VMware
7 112 (2.33%) ServiceNow
8 108 (2.25%) Databricks
9 104 (2.17%) SolarWinds
10 95 (1.98%) Splunk
11 79 (1.65%) Workday
12 74 (1.54%) Cisco
13 64 (1.33%) Veeam
14 57 (1.19%) Tanium
15 56 (1.17%) Brocade
15 56 (1.17%) Nimble Storage
16 53 (1.10%) IBM
17 47 (0.98%) Dell
18 43 (0.90%) Red Hat
19 38 (0.79%) Dynatrace