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 18 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 8 13
Rank change year-on-year -17 +5 +6
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 6,237 6,125 7,555
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.41% 12.39% 9.67%
As % of the General category 11.68% 18.08% 16.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3,692 2,536 2,982
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,025
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,750
Median % change year-on-year - -0.47% -4.09%
75th Percentile £71,121 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% -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 53,421 33,886 44,613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.35% 68.56% 57.09%
Number of salaries quoted 32,588 17,689 23,080
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,688 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.13% -6.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -1.96%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -16 5,541 £52,500 - 7,904
UK excluding London -16 4,143 £47,500 +5.56% 4,161
Work from Home -6 2,101 £55,000 +10.00% 3,066
London -12 1,804 £67,500 +3.85% 4,422
North of England -20 1,125 £47,500 +6.74% 949
South East -11 977 £50,000 +1.01% 1,171
Midlands -10 723 £47,500 +5.56% 672
North West -15 683 £46,500 +3.33% 573
South West -10 592 £47,500 +5.56% 483
West Midlands -18 370 £48,000 +6.67% 422
East Midlands -5 350 £45,000 +9.09% 250
Yorkshire -9 308 £47,500 +18.75% 274
East of England -14 268 £47,500 +18.75% 362
Wales -5 201 £45,000 -10.31% 102
Scotland -22 144 £45,000 +12.50% 308
North East -23 137 £50,500 +26.25% 107
Northern Ireland -6 125 £43,750 -20.45% 185

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
1 190 (3.05%) SharePoint
2 177 (2.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 108 (1.73%) Confluence
4 45 (0.72%) Apache Spark
5 40 (0.64%) CMS
6 39 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
7 37 (0.59%) IIS
8 36 (0.58%) Apache
9 29 (0.46%) SAS
10 12 (0.19%) WordPress
11 11 (0.18%) Headless CMS
11 11 (0.18%) Jupyter
12 10 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 9 (0.14%) WebLogic
13 9 (0.14%) WebSphere
14 8 (0.13%) OpenStack
15 7 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
16 3 (0.048%) Appian
16 3 (0.048%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 3 (0.048%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 716 (11.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 309 (4.95%) Microsoft Office
3 125 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 71 (1.14%) MS Visio
5 48 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
6 44 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
7 17 (0.27%) Simulink
8 14 (0.22%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.13%) Chatbot
9 8 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
10 7 (0.11%) Adobe XD
11 6 (0.096%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 6 (0.096%) CATIA
11 6 (0.096%) Photoshop
11 6 (0.096%) Siemens NX
12 5 (0.080%) Acrobat
12 5 (0.080%) EPLAN
12 5 (0.080%) Revit
13 3 (0.048%) LaTeX
13 3 (0.048%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 110 (1.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 65 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
3 39 (0.63%) NetSuite
4 35 (0.56%) Dynamics GP
5 26 (0.42%) Shopify
6 16 (0.26%) Workday HCM
7 15 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
7 15 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
8 12 (0.19%) Magento
8 12 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
8 12 (0.19%) SAP CO
8 12 (0.19%) SAP FI
9 11 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
10 10 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
10 10 (0.16%) SAP Business One
10 10 (0.16%) SAP PM
11 9 (0.14%) Elite 3E
11 9 (0.14%) Infor M3
11 9 (0.14%) Sage 200
11 9 (0.14%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,001 (16.05%) Azure
2 744 (11.93%) Power Platform
3 625 (10.02%) AWS
4 445 (7.13%) Microsoft 365
5 391 (6.27%) SaaS
6 285 (4.57%) GCP
7 167 (2.68%) Entra ID
8 156 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
9 154 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
10 128 (2.05%) Google Analytics
11 118 (1.89%) Google Ads
12 103 (1.65%) GitHub
13 91 (1.46%) Serverless
14 87 (1.39%) Meta Ads
15 85 (1.36%) Power Automate
16 84 (1.35%) Microsoft Purview
17 82 (1.31%) PowerApps
17 82 (1.31%) Snowflake
18 78 (1.25%) Amazon S3
19 72 (1.15%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 201 (3.22%) DNS
2 155 (2.49%) DHCP
3 148 (2.37%) Firewall
4 130 (2.08%) VPN
5 105 (1.68%) TCP/IP
6 76 (1.22%) WAN
7 71 (1.14%) LAN
8 67 (1.07%) Network Security
9 62 (0.99%) Internet
10 57 (0.91%) Wireless
11 55 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
12 50 (0.80%) VLAN
13 45 (0.72%) Broadband
14 38 (0.61%) SAN
15 36 (0.58%) HTTP
16 31 (0.50%) VoIP
17 25 (0.40%) 5G
17 25 (0.40%) BGP
18 24 (0.38%) SD-WAN
18 24 (0.38%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 666 (10.68%) Power BI
2 215 (3.45%) SQL Server
3 204 (3.27%) Tableau
4 183 (2.93%) Data Warehouse
5 112 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
6 110 (1.76%) Relational Database
7 102 (1.64%) Metadata
8 90 (1.44%) Looker
9 86 (1.38%) MySQL
10 77 (1.23%) Power Query
11 76 (1.22%) Data Lake
11 76 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
12 73 (1.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 58 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 57 (0.91%) BigQuery
15 55 (0.88%) Big Data
16 49 (0.79%) NoSQL
17 48 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
18 39 (0.63%) MongoDB
19 36 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 263 (4.22%) JIRA
2 229 (3.67%) Git
3 53 (0.85%) Jenkins
4 50 (0.80%) GitLab
5 31 (0.50%) Rational DOORS
5 31 (0.50%) Selenium
6 25 (0.40%) Eclipse
7 24 (0.38%) Cucumber
8 20 (0.32%) Claude Code
8 20 (0.32%) Postman
9 18 (0.29%) MLflow
9 18 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
10 17 (0.27%) LabVIEW
11 15 (0.24%) Bitbucket
11 15 (0.24%) Chocolatey
12 14 (0.22%) Burp Suite
12 14 (0.22%) JMeter
13 13 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
14 11 (0.18%) Cypress.io
14 11 (0.18%) Metasploit
General
1 3,082 (49.41%) Social Skills
2 2,056 (32.96%) Finance
3 710 (11.38%) Marketing
4 542 (8.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 510 (8.18%) Organisational Skills
6 440 (7.05%) Retail
7 413 (6.62%) Law
8 408 (6.54%) Public Sector
9 390 (6.25%) Legal
10 353 (5.66%) Manufacturing
11 332 (5.32%) Influencing Skills
12 243 (3.90%) Banking
13 222 (3.56%) Presentation Skills
14 203 (3.25%) Aerospace
15 153 (2.45%) Electronics
16 152 (2.44%) Telecoms
17 113 (1.81%) Advertising
18 96 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
19 76 (1.22%) Automotive
20 71 (1.14%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,401 (22.46%) Analyst
2 809 (12.97%) Senior
3 423 (6.78%) Lead
4 302 (4.84%) Business Analyst
4 302 (4.84%) Data Analyst
5 299 (4.79%) Developer
6 238 (3.82%) Consultant
7 236 (3.78%) Architect
8 203 (3.25%) Senior Analyst
9 192 (3.08%) Support Analyst
10 188 (3.01%) Data Engineer
11 184 (2.95%) Systems Engineer
12 127 (2.04%) Support Engineer
13 118 (1.89%) IT Support
14 111 (1.78%) Applications Support
15 109 (1.75%) Security Analyst
16 107 (1.72%) IT Manager
17 106 (1.70%) Senior Manager
18 105 (1.68%) Accountant
19 104 (1.67%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (2.63%) .NET
2 147 (2.36%) Terraform
3 133 (2.13%) REST
4 127 (2.04%) HTML
5 116 (1.86%) CSS
6 91 (1.46%) JSON
7 82 (1.31%) RESTful
8 80 (1.28%) XML
9 79 (1.27%) Middleware
10 72 (1.15%) PySpark
11 70 (1.12%) Kafka
11 70 (1.12%) React
12 64 (1.03%) SOAP
13 51 (0.82%) PyTorch
14 48 (0.77%) EDI
14 48 (0.77%) Web Services
15 45 (0.72%) LDAP
16 44 (0.71%) TensorFlow
17 41 (0.66%) Spring Boot
18 39 (0.63%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 474 (7.60%) Analytical Mindset
2 437 (7.01%) Management Information System
3 391 (6.27%) Onboarding
4 313 (5.02%) Self-Motivation
5 291 (4.67%) Product Ownership
6 156 (2.50%) Driving Licence
7 149 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
8 141 (2.26%) Cloud Native
9 140 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
10 122 (1.96%) Social Media
11 119 (1.91%) Blog
12 111 (1.78%) Cyber Threat
13 106 (1.70%) Marketing Technology
14 104 (1.67%) Data Centre
15 103 (1.65%) Security Posture
16 99 (1.59%) Virtual Team
17 84 (1.35%) Data Structures
18 74 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
19 65 (1.04%) Algorithms
20 63 (1.01%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 468 (7.50%) Windows
2 288 (4.62%) Linux
3 220 (3.53%) Windows Server
4 93 (1.49%) Windows Server 2016
5 41 (0.66%) Windows 10
6 35 (0.56%) Mac OS
7 32 (0.51%) Unix
8 27 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 24 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
10 23 (0.37%) Apple iOS
11 19 (0.30%) Android
12 10 (0.16%) CentOS
13 8 (0.13%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.096%) Debian
14 6 (0.096%) VMS
15 5 (0.080%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.064%) CoreOS
17 3 (0.048%) Rocky
18 2 (0.032%) AIX
18 2 (0.032%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,047 (48.85%) Problem-Solving
2 1,848 (29.63%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,482 (23.76%) Decision-Making
4 1,272 (20.39%) Analytics
5 1,249 (20.03%) Stakeholder Management
6 1,140 (18.28%) AI
7 1,093 (17.52%) Agile
8 828 (13.28%) Business Intelligence
9 655 (10.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 630 (10.10%) Roadmaps
11 605 (9.70%) Mentoring
12 588 (9.43%) Actionable Insight
13 575 (9.22%) Validation
14 547 (8.77%) Data Analysis
15 539 (8.64%) Project Management
16 536 (8.59%) Process Improvement
17 507 (8.13%) CRM
18 503 (8.06%) ERP
19 501 (8.03%) Cybersecurity
20 494 (7.92%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 1,202 (19.27%) SQL
2 862 (13.82%) Python
3 234 (3.75%) JavaScript
4 216 (3.46%) Java
5 200 (3.21%) C#
6 193 (3.09%) PowerShell
7 119 (1.91%) C++
8 92 (1.48%) Bash
9 85 (1.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 78 (1.25%) R
11 72 (1.15%) TypeScript
12 54 (0.87%) MATLAB
13 50 (0.80%) T-SQL
14 40 (0.64%) C
15 31 (0.50%) PL/SQL
16 29 (0.46%) Scala
17 24 (0.38%) PHP
18 23 (0.37%) Go
19 22 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
19 22 (0.35%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,254 (20.11%) Degree
2 700 (11.22%) Security Cleared
3 483 (7.74%) SC Cleared
4 261 (4.18%) ACCA
5 243 (3.90%) CIMA
6 180 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 159 (2.55%) DV Cleared
8 153 (2.45%) CISSP
9 149 (2.39%) DBS Check
10 129 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
11 121 (1.94%) CISM
12 112 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
13 101 (1.62%) Master's Degree
14 81 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
15 80 (1.28%) Azure Certification
16 73 (1.17%) HND
17 67 (1.07%) CompTIA Security+
18 62 (0.99%) PMI Certification
19 53 (0.85%) HNC
20 48 (0.77%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 618 (9.91%) Data Quality
2 384 (6.16%) QA
3 339 (5.44%) GDPR
4 234 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 199 (3.19%) Accessibility
6 176 (2.82%) NIST
7 149 (2.39%) SLA
8 146 (2.34%) Cyber Essentials
9 120 (1.92%) PCI DSS
10 71 (1.14%) GRC
10 71 (1.14%) ISO 9001
11 61 (0.98%) PMO
12 51 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
13 41 (0.66%) IFRS
14 40 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 34 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 29 (0.46%) NCSC
17 28 (0.45%) COBIT
18 27 (0.43%) DO-254
19 26 (0.42%) GAAP
System Software
1 331 (5.31%) Active Directory
2 147 (2.36%) Docker
3 103 (1.65%) Hyper-V
4 88 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 72 (1.15%) Terminal Server
6 44 (0.71%) Firmware
7 22 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
8 21 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
9 11 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.13%) vSphere
11 7 (0.11%) Ceph
11 7 (0.11%) VMware NSX
12 4 (0.064%) KVM
12 4 (0.064%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.048%) DFS Replication
14 2 (0.032%) IAG
14 2 (0.032%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 1 (0.016%) VirtualBox
15 1 (0.016%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 116 (1.86%) Kubernetes
2 87 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
3 73 (1.17%) Ansible
4 42 (0.67%) Grafana
5 40 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
6 23 (0.37%) Prometheus
6 23 (0.37%) SCCM
7 21 (0.34%) Kibana
8 19 (0.30%) QRadar
9 12 (0.19%) Nagios
10 11 (0.18%) Nmap
10 11 (0.18%) Podman
11 9 (0.14%) Argo
11 9 (0.14%) logstash
12 7 (0.11%) Check_MK
12 7 (0.11%) Functional Safety
12 7 (0.11%) Istio
12 7 (0.11%) Kubeflow
13 6 (0.096%) Graylog
13 6 (0.096%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1,458 (23.38%) Microsoft
2 369 (5.92%) Google
3 248 (3.98%) SAP
4 193 (3.09%) Oracle
5 177 (2.84%) VMware
6 155 (2.49%) Splunk
7 142 (2.28%) Databricks
8 137 (2.20%) Salesforce
9 136 (2.18%) ServiceNow
10 95 (1.52%) SolarWinds
11 86 (1.38%) Cisco
12 81 (1.30%) Veeam
13 73 (1.17%) Brocade
13 73 (1.17%) Nimble Storage
14 72 (1.15%) Tanium
15 70 (1.12%) Adobe
16 64 (1.03%) HubSpot
17 63 (1.01%) Workday
17 63 (1.01%) YouTube
18 44 (0.71%) Sage