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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 9 16
Rank change year-on-year -16 +7 +4
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,883 5,129 8,390
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.90% 12.54% 9.21%
As % of the General category 11.29% 17.74% 15.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2,877 2,462 5,344
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,200 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.27% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,546 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,445 £50,393 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.87% +11.98% -3.84%

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 43,259 28,908 55,221
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 52.24% 70.69% 60.64%
Number of salaries quoted 23,622 15,751 38,729
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,967 £47,500
% change year-on-year -6.80% +7.30% -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 8 April 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 8 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 -18 4,340 £55,000 - 2,239
UK excluding London -23 3,003 £48,445 -3.87% 1,762
London -7 1,571 £67,500 +3.85% 833
Work from Home -6 1,449 £55,000 - 981
North of England -24 806 £46,000 -8.00% 400
South East +1 799 £50,000 -1.90% 595
Midlands -18 572 £47,500 -1.04% 298
North West -21 452 £44,500 -11.00% 220
West Midlands -19 349 £51,250 +2.50% 175
South West -25 270 £46,250 -9.69% 178
Yorkshire -6 263 £52,500 +16.67% 136
East of England -34 260 £45,000 -11.71% 161
East Midlands -8 221 £42,500 -2.86% 123
Scotland -17 177 £40,000 -23.81% 92
North East -17 91 £50,000 +29.87% 50
Wales +7 81 £40,500 -19.20% 59
Northern Ireland -21 49 £40,000 -27.27% 22
Isle of Man -2 1 £62,500 +68.92%
Channel Islands -7 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
1 150 (3.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 92 (1.88%) SharePoint
3 79 (1.62%) Confluence
4 73 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
5 72 (1.47%) Apache Spark
6 50 (1.02%) CMS
7 34 (0.70%) Apache
8 19 (0.39%) WordPress
9 17 (0.35%) SAS
10 16 (0.33%) IIS
11 12 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
12 6 (0.12%) nginx
13 4 (0.082%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 3 (0.061%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.061%) Drupal
14 3 (0.061%) govService
14 3 (0.061%) JBoss
15 2 (0.041%) Camunda
15 2 (0.041%) MTS
15 2 (0.041%) Tomcat
Applications
1 688 (14.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 280 (5.73%) Microsoft Office
3 117 (2.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 100 (2.05%) MS Visio
5 34 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
6 29 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
7 24 (0.49%) Chatbot
8 15 (0.31%) Adobe XD
9 12 (0.25%) Maya
10 9 (0.18%) CATIA
11 6 (0.12%) AutoCAD
12 5 (0.10%) Trello
13 2 (0.041%) Revit
13 2 (0.041%) Simulink
13 2 (0.041%) Sketch
14 1 (0.020%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 1 (0.020%) Notion
14 1 (0.020%) Photoshop
14 1 (0.020%) SmartSuite
14 1 (0.020%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 64 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 50 (1.02%) NetSuite
3 44 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
4 34 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
5 26 (0.53%) SAP CO
6 18 (0.37%) SAP FI
7 17 (0.35%) Endur
8 16 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
9 15 (0.31%) SAP PM
9 15 (0.31%) Workday HCM
10 13 (0.27%) Maximo
10 13 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
11 11 (0.23%) Sage X3
11 11 (0.23%) SAP ERP
12 10 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
13 8 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
13 8 (0.16%) Elite 3E
13 8 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
14 7 (0.14%) Magento
14 7 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 872 (17.86%) Azure
2 673 (13.78%) Power Platform
3 479 (9.81%) AWS
4 326 (6.68%) Microsoft 365
5 283 (5.80%) SaaS
6 209 (4.28%) GCP
7 149 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
8 143 (2.93%) Dynamics 365
9 103 (2.11%) GitHub
10 102 (2.09%) Power Automate
11 96 (1.97%) Entra ID
11 96 (1.97%) Snowflake
12 86 (1.76%) dbt
13 77 (1.58%) Azure Data Factory
14 70 (1.43%) Google Analytics
15 68 (1.39%) Amazon S3
15 68 (1.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 60 (1.23%) PowerApps
16 60 (1.23%) Serverless
17 56 (1.15%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 187 (3.83%) Firewall
2 164 (3.36%) DNS
3 133 (2.72%) DHCP
4 118 (2.42%) VPN
5 76 (1.56%) WAN
6 72 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
7 70 (1.43%) Wireless
8 68 (1.39%) TCP/IP
9 67 (1.37%) LAN
10 61 (1.25%) VLAN
11 50 (1.02%) Network Security
12 48 (0.98%) Broadband
13 45 (0.92%) SAN
14 40 (0.82%) BGP
15 34 (0.70%) OSPF
16 33 (0.68%) Wireshark
17 30 (0.61%) Cisco ASA
17 30 (0.61%) EIGRP
18 26 (0.53%) SD-WAN
19 23 (0.47%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 610 (12.49%) Power BI
2 420 (8.60%) Tableau
3 220 (4.51%) SQL Server
4 183 (3.75%) Data Mining
5 174 (3.56%) Data Warehouse
6 97 (1.99%) Metadata
7 94 (1.93%) Relational Database
8 90 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
9 81 (1.66%) Data Lake
10 72 (1.47%) Looker
11 69 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 63 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
13 55 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
14 54 (1.11%) MySQL
15 49 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
16 47 (0.96%) NoSQL
17 46 (0.94%) BigQuery
17 46 (0.94%) Power Query
18 39 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 37 (0.76%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 190 (3.89%) JIRA
2 139 (2.85%) Git
3 51 (1.04%) GitLab
4 41 (0.84%) Jenkins
5 39 (0.80%) Selenium
6 32 (0.66%) MLflow
7 19 (0.39%) Visual Studio
8 18 (0.37%) Chocolatey
9 16 (0.33%) Rational DOORS
10 15 (0.31%) Balsamiq
11 14 (0.29%) Axure RP
11 14 (0.29%) Bitbucket
11 14 (0.29%) Subversion
12 13 (0.27%) ERwin
12 13 (0.27%) IBM UrbanCode
13 12 (0.25%) Cucumber
13 12 (0.25%) Cypress.io
14 11 (0.23%) Robot Framework
15 10 (0.20%) LabVIEW
15 10 (0.20%) Postman
General
1 2,433 (49.83%) Social Skills
2 1,832 (37.52%) Finance
3 450 (9.22%) Marketing
4 366 (7.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 309 (6.33%) Banking
6 270 (5.53%) Law
6 270 (5.53%) Legal
7 261 (5.35%) Organisational Skills
8 259 (5.30%) Retail
9 251 (5.14%) Public Sector
10 200 (4.10%) Presentation Skills
11 172 (3.52%) Manufacturing
12 139 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
13 121 (2.48%) Financial Institution
14 113 (2.31%) Telecoms
15 87 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
16 76 (1.56%) Advertising
17 66 (1.35%) Electronics
18 62 (1.27%) Games
19 57 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,283 (26.27%) Analyst
2 664 (13.60%) Senior
3 371 (7.60%) Data Analyst
4 312 (6.39%) Lead
5 264 (5.41%) Business Analyst
6 243 (4.98%) Developer
7 219 (4.48%) Architect
8 208 (4.26%) Consultant
9 172 (3.52%) Support Analyst
10 159 (3.26%) Trainee
11 150 (3.07%) Trainee Analyst
11 150 (3.07%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 149 (3.05%) Systems Engineer
13 143 (2.93%) Senior Manager
14 142 (2.91%) Senior Analyst
15 131 (2.68%) IT Support
16 121 (2.48%) Financial Analyst
17 104 (2.13%) Data Engineer
17 104 (2.13%) Support Engineer
18 97 (1.99%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (2.81%) HTML
2 127 (2.60%) CSS
3 88 (1.80%) .NET
4 85 (1.74%) React
5 71 (1.45%) REST
6 67 (1.37%) JSON
7 61 (1.25%) XML
8 58 (1.19%) Middleware
9 57 (1.17%) PyTorch
10 54 (1.11%) TensorFlow
11 53 (1.09%) Kafka
12 48 (0.98%) Node.js
13 42 (0.86%) scikit-learn
14 36 (0.74%) PySpark
14 36 (0.74%) SOAP
15 33 (0.68%) LangChain
16 31 (0.63%) Pandas
17 28 (0.57%) FIX Protocol
18 27 (0.55%) EDI
19 26 (0.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 515 (10.55%) Analytical Mindset
2 298 (6.10%) Self-Motivation
3 247 (5.06%) Onboarding
4 233 (4.77%) Management Information System
5 195 (3.99%) Product Ownership
6 118 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
7 101 (2.07%) Data Centre
8 98 (2.01%) Cloud Native
9 93 (1.90%) Data Structures
10 84 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
11 75 (1.54%) Algorithms
12 72 (1.47%) Driving Licence
13 66 (1.35%) Security Posture
14 62 (1.27%) Social Media
15 55 (1.13%) Virtual Team
16 52 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 49 (1.00%) Public Cloud
18 48 (0.98%) Low-Code
19 47 (0.96%) FMCG
20 43 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 376 (7.70%) Windows
2 233 (4.77%) Linux
3 157 (3.22%) Windows Server
4 77 (1.58%) Windows Server 2016
5 42 (0.86%) Unix
6 26 (0.53%) Mac OS
7 18 (0.37%) Windows 10
8 17 (0.35%) Android
9 14 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 13 (0.27%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.12%) CentOS
12 5 (0.10%) Ubuntu
13 4 (0.082%) VMS
13 4 (0.082%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.061%) OpenWrt
15 2 (0.041%) AIX
15 2 (0.041%) Data ONTAP
15 2 (0.041%) Oracle Linux
15 2 (0.041%) Rocky
16 1 (0.020%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,264 (46.36%) Problem-Solving
2 1,185 (24.27%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,167 (23.90%) Analytics
4 1,003 (20.54%) Decision-Making
5 862 (17.65%) Agile
6 757 (15.50%) Business Intelligence
7 733 (15.01%) AI
8 643 (13.17%) Project Management
9 628 (12.86%) Stakeholder Management
10 570 (11.67%) Data Analysis
11 489 (10.01%) Actionable Insight
12 428 (8.77%) Mentoring
13 421 (8.62%) Data Modelling
14 419 (8.58%) Process Improvement
15 417 (8.54%) Roadmaps
16 413 (8.46%) Analytical Thinking
17 400 (8.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 384 (7.86%) DevOps
19 371 (7.60%) Cybersecurity
20 366 (7.50%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1,065 (21.81%) SQL
2 893 (18.29%) Python
3 179 (3.67%) JavaScript
4 166 (3.40%) Java
5 160 (3.28%) PowerShell
6 124 (2.54%) C#
7 89 (1.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 66 (1.35%) R
9 57 (1.17%) Bash
10 48 (0.98%) C++
11 47 (0.96%) T-SQL
12 42 (0.86%) VBA
13 40 (0.82%) TypeScript
14 23 (0.47%) MATLAB
15 21 (0.43%) C
16 20 (0.41%) Scala
17 18 (0.37%) Go
18 15 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
19 14 (0.29%) PL/SQL
20 13 (0.27%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,044 (21.38%) Degree
2 408 (8.36%) Security Cleared
3 292 (5.98%) SC Cleared
4 251 (5.14%) ACCA
5 240 (4.92%) CIMA
6 179 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 146 (2.99%) CISSP
8 141 (2.89%) Master's Degree
9 130 (2.66%) DBS Check
10 101 (2.07%) PMI Certification
11 93 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
12 90 (1.84%) DV Cleared
13 88 (1.80%) CISM
14 87 (1.78%) PMP
15 72 (1.47%) IRCA
16 67 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
17 66 (1.35%) Azure Certification
18 59 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
19 51 (1.04%) CISA
20 48 (0.98%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 413 (8.46%) Data Quality
2 330 (6.76%) GDPR
3 276 (5.65%) QA
4 226 (4.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 189 (3.87%) NIST
6 148 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
7 120 (2.46%) PCI DSS
8 102 (2.09%) Accessibility
9 94 (1.93%) ISO 9001
10 86 (1.76%) SLA
11 82 (1.68%) PMO
12 69 (1.41%) Actionable Recommendations
13 50 (1.02%) GRC
14 41 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 38 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 34 (0.70%) IFRS
17 29 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 26 (0.53%) COBIT
19 21 (0.43%) SOC 2
19 21 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 263 (5.39%) Active Directory
2 91 (1.86%) Hyper-V
3 76 (1.56%) Docker
4 72 (1.47%) Terminal Server
5 70 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
6 16 (0.33%) ProxySG
7 15 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.23%) vSphere
9 9 (0.18%) VMware NSX
10 8 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
11 7 (0.14%) IAG
12 5 (0.10%) Firmware
13 4 (0.082%) VMware ESXi
13 4 (0.082%) XenApp
14 3 (0.061%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.061%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.041%) XenDesktop
16 1 (0.020%) KVM
16 1 (0.020%) Oracle RAC
16 1 (0.020%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 140 (2.87%) Terraform
2 80 (1.64%) Kubernetes
3 73 (1.49%) Ansible
4 58 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
5 39 (0.80%) Grafana
6 31 (0.63%) Prometheus
7 30 (0.61%) SCCM
8 26 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
9 17 (0.35%) Nagios
10 7 (0.14%) Control-M
10 7 (0.14%) Kubeflow
10 7 (0.14%) QRadar
11 6 (0.12%) Kibana
12 5 (0.10%) CASB
12 5 (0.10%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 5 (0.10%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.082%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.082%) logstash
13 4 (0.082%) Packer
13 4 (0.082%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,198 (24.53%) Microsoft
2 212 (4.34%) SAP
3 182 (3.73%) Oracle
4 163 (3.34%) Google
5 152 (3.11%) VMware
6 140 (2.87%) Salesforce
7 121 (2.48%) SolarWinds
8 117 (2.40%) ServiceNow
9 111 (2.27%) Splunk
10 106 (2.17%) Databricks
11 79 (1.62%) Veeam
12 76 (1.56%) Cisco
13 73 (1.49%) Brocade
13 73 (1.49%) Tanium
14 72 (1.47%) Nimble Storage
15 67 (1.37%) Workday
16 47 (0.96%) Dell
17 42 (0.86%) Adobe
18 41 (0.84%) IBM
19 40 (0.82%) Red Hat