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

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 13 18
Rank change year-on-year -3 +5 +4
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 5,222 5,998 4,637
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 8.75% 10.80% 8.96%
As % of the General category 14.66% 16.45% 14.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,539 2,571 3,228
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,925
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -1.65% +1.68%
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.71% +1.93% -

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 35,618 36,467 32,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.71% 65.64% 63.37%
Number of salaries quoted 19,269 17,083 24,091
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -1.78%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,125 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -4.76%

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 28 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 28 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 -5 4,515 £50,000 -9.09% 5,269
UK excluding London -9 3,351 £45,000 -11.71% 4,295
Work from Home +6 1,813 £52,000 -7.14% 2,186
London +2 1,549 £67,500 +3.85% 1,426
South East +5 861 £50,000 - 1,205
North of England -14 791 £42,500 -19.05% 1,017
Midlands -11 609 £43,500 -9.38% 750
North West -13 415 £43,000 -18.10% 568
South West +2 388 £45,000 -14.29% 498
West Midlands -13 363 £52,500 +5.00% 401
Scotland 0 329 £36,000 -40.37% 173
East of England -19 282 £40,000 -21.52% 557
Yorkshire 0 269 £40,000 -21.95% 385
East Midlands +4 244 £37,500 -11.76% 312
North East +12 107 £41,000 -2.38% 69
Wales +12 79 £48,122 -2.00% 120
Northern Ireland -3 44 £52,500 +0.55% 51
Isle of Man -1 1 £62,500 +150.00% 1
Channel Islands -6 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
1 146 (2.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 91 (1.74%) Confluence
3 89 (1.70%) SharePoint
4 48 (0.92%) Apache Spark
5 44 (0.84%) CMS
6 20 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
6 20 (0.38%) SAS
7 18 (0.34%) WordPress
8 16 (0.31%) Apache
8 16 (0.31%) IIS
9 6 (0.11%) nginx
9 6 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.077%) Camunda
10 4 (0.077%) Drupal
10 4 (0.077%) Skype for Business
11 3 (0.057%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.057%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.057%) HCL Notes
12 2 (0.038%) MTS
12 2 (0.038%) WinCC
Applications
1 783 (14.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 420 (8.04%) Chatbot
3 354 (6.78%) Microsoft Office
4 137 (2.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 66 (1.26%) MS Visio
6 59 (1.13%) Maya
7 39 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
8 36 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
9 21 (0.40%) AutoCAD
10 14 (0.27%) Adobe XD
11 8 (0.15%) SOLIDWORKS
12 5 (0.096%) CATIA
13 4 (0.077%) Oracle Smart View
13 4 (0.077%) Photoshop
13 4 (0.077%) PlantUML
13 4 (0.077%) Simulink
13 4 (0.077%) Sketch
14 3 (0.057%) Stata
15 2 (0.038%) Revit
15 2 (0.038%) Trello
Business Applications
1 149 (2.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 67 (1.28%) SAP MDG
3 56 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
4 49 (0.94%) NetSuite
5 39 (0.75%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 36 (0.69%) Shopify
7 32 (0.61%) SAP CO
8 31 (0.59%) Oracle Payables
9 29 (0.56%) SAP FI
10 28 (0.54%) SAP FI/CO
11 23 (0.44%) SAP IBP
12 21 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
13 17 (0.33%) Endur
13 17 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
13 17 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
14 16 (0.31%) Workday HCM
15 13 (0.25%) Sage X3
16 11 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
16 11 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
16 11 (0.21%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 806 (15.43%) Azure
2 611 (11.70%) Power Platform
3 434 (8.31%) AWS
4 270 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
5 242 (4.63%) SaaS
6 158 (3.03%) GCP
7 142 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
8 100 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
9 80 (1.53%) GitHub
10 77 (1.47%) Snowflake
11 72 (1.38%) Entra ID
12 69 (1.32%) Azure Data Factory
13 68 (1.30%) Google Analytics
14 54 (1.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 52 (1.00%) Cloud Computing
15 52 (1.00%) Power Automate
16 49 (0.94%) dbt
16 49 (0.94%) Serverless
17 39 (0.75%) Microsoft Purview
18 37 (0.71%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 166 (3.18%) DNS
2 135 (2.59%) DHCP
3 126 (2.41%) Firewall
4 79 (1.51%) VPN
5 77 (1.47%) Network Security
6 72 (1.38%) Wi-Fi
7 63 (1.21%) LAN
8 62 (1.19%) WAN
9 47 (0.90%) Wireless
10 46 (0.88%) TCP/IP
11 44 (0.84%) Remote Desktop
12 36 (0.69%) VLAN
13 32 (0.61%) SMS
13 32 (0.61%) VoIP
14 25 (0.48%) OSPF
15 22 (0.42%) BGP
15 22 (0.42%) Internet
15 22 (0.42%) SAN
16 21 (0.40%) Broadband
16 21 (0.40%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 561 (10.74%) Power BI
2 359 (6.87%) Tableau
3 186 (3.56%) SQL Server
4 171 (3.27%) Data Warehouse
5 163 (3.12%) Data Mining
6 112 (2.14%) Metadata
7 111 (2.13%) Data Lake
8 107 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
9 101 (1.93%) Relational Database
10 68 (1.30%) NoSQL
11 58 (1.11%) MySQL
12 57 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 54 (1.03%) Looker
14 49 (0.94%) Big Data
15 47 (0.90%) SAP BW
16 43 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
17 42 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
18 41 (0.79%) GIS
18 41 (0.79%) Hadoop
19 39 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 223 (4.27%) JIRA
2 101 (1.93%) Git
3 48 (0.92%) Selenium
4 45 (0.86%) Jenkins
5 42 (0.80%) GitLab
6 19 (0.36%) Bitbucket
7 18 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
8 16 (0.31%) Subversion
9 15 (0.29%) Cypress.io
9 15 (0.29%) Postman
9 15 (0.29%) Robot Framework
9 15 (0.29%) WebDriver
10 14 (0.27%) ERwin
11 13 (0.25%) ER Studio
11 13 (0.25%) Snyk
12 12 (0.23%) Balsamiq
13 11 (0.21%) Axure RP
14 10 (0.19%) Maven
14 10 (0.19%) Visual Studio
14 10 (0.19%) webpack
General
1 2,670 (51.13%) Social Skills
2 1,771 (33.91%) Finance
3 555 (10.63%) Marketing
4 350 (6.70%) Law
5 340 (6.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 309 (5.92%) Retail
7 286 (5.48%) Legal
8 246 (4.71%) Banking
9 243 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
10 240 (4.60%) Public Sector
11 224 (4.29%) Presentation Skills
12 215 (4.12%) Manufacturing
13 136 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
13 136 (2.60%) Telecoms
14 126 (2.41%) Financial Institution
15 123 (2.36%) Games
16 95 (1.82%) Electronics
17 81 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
18 80 (1.53%) Advertising
19 62 (1.19%) German Language
Job Titles
1 1,130 (21.64%) Analyst
2 663 (12.70%) Senior
3 418 (8.00%) Trainer
4 356 (6.82%) Lead
5 332 (6.36%) Data Analyst
6 321 (6.15%) Architect
7 222 (4.25%) Developer
8 208 (3.98%) Consultant
9 198 (3.79%) Business Analyst
10 169 (3.24%) Support Analyst
11 143 (2.74%) Trainee
12 141 (2.70%) Senior Analyst
13 139 (2.66%) IT Support
14 132 (2.53%) Solutions Architect
15 127 (2.43%) Systems Engineer
16 116 (2.22%) Trainee Analyst
16 116 (2.22%) Trainee Data Analyst
17 108 (2.07%) Business Manager
18 107 (2.05%) Senior Manager
19 106 (2.03%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (2.20%) HTML
2 101 (1.93%) CSS
3 85 (1.63%) React
4 76 (1.46%) REST
5 65 (1.24%) .NET
6 56 (1.07%) Middleware
7 41 (0.79%) JSON
8 38 (0.73%) Kafka
9 36 (0.69%) AngularJS
9 36 (0.69%) EDI
10 34 (0.65%) Node.js
11 33 (0.63%) SOAP
11 33 (0.63%) XML
12 29 (0.56%) PySpark
13 28 (0.54%) LangChain
13 28 (0.54%) Spring
14 23 (0.44%) FIX Protocol
14 23 (0.44%) Oracle Fusion
14 23 (0.44%) Web Services
15 21 (0.40%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 527 (10.09%) Analytical Mindset
2 384 (7.35%) Onboarding
2 384 (7.35%) Self-Motivation
3 285 (5.46%) Management Information System
4 206 (3.94%) Product Ownership
5 164 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
6 136 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
7 94 (1.80%) Data Centre
8 83 (1.59%) Driving Licence
9 82 (1.57%) FMCG
10 72 (1.38%) Cloud Native
11 65 (1.24%) Data Structures
12 55 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 53 (1.01%) Algorithms
14 52 (1.00%) Robotics
14 52 (1.00%) Virtual Team
15 49 (0.94%) Social Media
16 48 (0.92%) Security Posture
17 39 (0.75%) NHS
18 38 (0.73%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 345 (6.61%) Windows
2 239 (4.58%) Linux
3 154 (2.95%) Windows Server
4 97 (1.86%) Windows Server 2016
5 33 (0.63%) Unix
6 20 (0.38%) Mac OS
7 11 (0.21%) Windows 10
8 10 (0.19%) Android
9 8 (0.15%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.096%) Mac OS X
11 4 (0.077%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.057%) OpenWrt
12 3 (0.057%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.038%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.019%) AIX
14 1 (0.019%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.019%) OpenVMS
14 1 (0.019%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.019%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.019%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,335 (44.71%) Problem-Solving
2 1,177 (22.54%) AI
3 1,127 (21.58%) Analytics
4 1,109 (21.24%) Continuous Improvement
5 1,018 (19.49%) Decision-Making
6 895 (17.14%) Agile
7 816 (15.63%) Project Management
8 757 (14.50%) Business Intelligence
9 663 (12.70%) Stakeholder Management
10 545 (10.44%) Data Analysis
11 449 (8.60%) Risk Management
12 438 (8.39%) Roadmaps
13 431 (8.25%) ERP
14 427 (8.18%) Chemistry
15 426 (8.16%) Cybersecurity
16 422 (8.08%) Conversational UI
17 420 (8.04%) Business Strategy
18 411 (7.87%) Analytical Thinking
19 410 (7.85%) CRM
20 408 (7.81%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 980 (18.77%) SQL
2 672 (12.87%) Python
3 152 (2.91%) Java
4 137 (2.62%) JavaScript
5 114 (2.18%) C#
6 112 (2.14%) PowerShell
7 70 (1.34%) R
8 57 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 48 (0.92%) C++
10 45 (0.86%) T-SQL
11 42 (0.80%) VBA
12 41 (0.79%) Bash
13 32 (0.61%) TypeScript
14 31 (0.59%) Scala
15 21 (0.40%) C
15 21 (0.40%) PL/SQL
16 20 (0.38%) Go
17 16 (0.31%) Kotlin
18 14 (0.27%) ABAP
18 14 (0.27%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1,716 (32.86%) Degree
2 583 (11.16%) Master's Degree
3 452 (8.66%) Security Cleared
4 430 (8.23%) PhD
5 329 (6.30%) SC Cleared
6 210 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 188 (3.60%) ACCA
8 180 (3.45%) CIMA
9 171 (3.27%) CISSP
10 111 (2.13%) DBS Check
11 99 (1.90%) PMI Certification
12 87 (1.67%) DV Cleared
13 83 (1.59%) CISM
14 81 (1.55%) PMP
15 75 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
16 63 (1.21%) Azure Certification
17 62 (1.19%) CompTIA Security+
18 60 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
19 58 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
20 50 (0.96%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 310 (5.94%) Data Quality
2 262 (5.02%) QA
3 198 (3.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 187 (3.58%) GDPR
5 150 (2.87%) PCI DSS
6 147 (2.82%) Cyber Essentials
7 128 (2.45%) NIST
8 111 (2.13%) Accessibility
9 103 (1.97%) PMO
10 54 (1.03%) SLA
11 49 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
12 38 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 36 (0.69%) GRC
14 25 (0.48%) IFRS
15 18 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 18 (0.34%) WCAG
16 16 (0.31%) ISO 9001
17 15 (0.29%) COBIT
18 13 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
19 12 (0.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 241 (4.62%) Active Directory
2 121 (2.32%) Hyper-V
3 96 (1.84%) Terminal Server
4 55 (1.05%) Docker
5 52 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 19 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
7 16 (0.31%) Firmware
8 11 (0.21%) vSphere
9 9 (0.17%) ProxySG
10 8 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.057%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.038%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.019%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.019%) NFS
13 1 (0.019%) VMware Server
13 1 (0.019%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.019%) zsh
Systems Management
1 87 (1.67%) Terraform
2 64 (1.23%) Kubernetes
3 57 (1.09%) Ansible
4 46 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
6 19 (0.36%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.27%) Grafana
8 13 (0.25%) SCCM
9 6 (0.11%) SCOM
10 5 (0.096%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 5 (0.096%) Nagios
10 5 (0.096%) QRadar
11 4 (0.077%) Nessus
11 4 (0.077%) Rancher
11 4 (0.077%) vRealize
12 3 (0.057%) CASB
12 3 (0.057%) Control-M
12 3 (0.057%) CSIRT
12 3 (0.057%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.038%) Argo
Vendors
1 1,189 (22.77%) Microsoft
2 418 (8.00%) PayPal
3 400 (7.66%) SAP
4 219 (4.19%) Oracle
5 170 (3.26%) Google
6 169 (3.24%) Salesforce
7 159 (3.04%) VMware
8 125 (2.39%) Splunk
9 124 (2.37%) SolarWinds
10 102 (1.95%) ServiceNow
11 97 (1.86%) Brocade
11 97 (1.86%) Tanium
11 97 (1.86%) Veeam
12 96 (1.84%) Nimble Storage
13 94 (1.80%) Databricks
14 83 (1.59%) Cisco
15 66 (1.26%) Adobe
16 53 (1.01%) Workday
17 48 (0.92%) Alteryx
18 43 (0.82%) Bloomberg