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 23 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 11 16
Rank change year-on-year -14 +5 +3
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,923 5,204 8,072
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 6.42% 12.25% 9.24%
As % of the General category 12.05% 17.38% 15.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,738 2,414 5,264
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,343 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,655 £93,769 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £50,967 £45,000
% change year-on-year -9.75% +13.26% -5.26%

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 40,858 29,941 53,280
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 53.28% 70.47% 61.02%
Number of salaries quoted 22,334 15,649 38,037
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £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 £75,000 £81,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £51,732 £47,500
% change year-on-year -13.01% +8.91% -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 23 March 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 23 March 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 -15 4,374 £52,500 -4.55% 2,383
UK excluding London -20 3,067 £46,000 -9.75% 1,846
Work from Home +1 1,599 £53,750 -2.27% 1,055
London -5 1,552 £67,500 +3.85% 898
North of England -21 827 £45,000 -10.00% 406
South East -1 816 £50,000 -1.90% 631
Midlands -17 586 £46,000 -4.17% 311
North West -19 441 £42,500 -18.66% 220
West Midlands -15 359 £51,300 +2.60% 182
Yorkshire +1 276 £48,445 +7.65% 143
South West -13 275 £45,000 -14.29% 185
East of England -23 266 £42,175 -17.25% 181
East Midlands -2 226 £40,500 -6.90% 129
Scotland -18 191 £40,000 -22.62% 95
North East -7 110 £45,000 +15.09% 49
Wales +11 75 £40,000 -20.20% 61
Northern Ireland -21 50 £52,500 -4.55% 19
Isle of Man -3 1 £62,500 +101.61%
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
1 142 (2.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 91 (1.85%) SharePoint
3 81 (1.65%) Confluence
4 72 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
4 72 (1.46%) Apache Spark
5 52 (1.06%) CMS
6 30 (0.61%) Apache
7 18 (0.37%) WordPress
8 16 (0.33%) SAS
9 13 (0.26%) IIS
9 13 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.12%) nginx
11 4 (0.081%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.061%) Drupal
12 3 (0.061%) govService
13 2 (0.041%) Anypoint
13 2 (0.041%) Camunda
13 2 (0.041%) JBoss
13 2 (0.041%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.041%) MTS
Applications
1 686 (13.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 292 (5.93%) Microsoft Office
3 219 (4.45%) Chatbot
4 121 (2.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 93 (1.89%) MS Visio
6 36 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
7 28 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
8 25 (0.51%) Maya
9 15 (0.30%) Adobe XD
10 8 (0.16%) AutoCAD
10 8 (0.16%) CATIA
11 5 (0.10%) Trello
12 2 (0.041%) Revit
12 2 (0.041%) Simulink
12 2 (0.041%) Sketch
13 1 (0.020%) Notion
13 1 (0.020%) OrCAD
13 1 (0.020%) SmartSuite
13 1 (0.020%) SOLIDWORKS
13 1 (0.020%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 75 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 45 (0.91%) NetSuite
3 43 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
4 31 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
5 27 (0.55%) SAP CO
6 21 (0.43%) Endur
7 19 (0.39%) SAP FI
8 18 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
9 17 (0.35%) SAP MDG
9 17 (0.35%) Workday HCM
10 13 (0.26%) SAP ERP
11 12 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
12 11 (0.22%) Maximo
12 11 (0.22%) Sage X3
13 10 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
13 10 (0.20%) SAP PM
14 8 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
15 7 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
15 7 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
16 6 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 856 (17.39%) Azure
2 641 (13.02%) Power Platform
3 468 (9.51%) AWS
4 310 (6.30%) Microsoft 365
5 275 (5.59%) SaaS
6 199 (4.04%) GCP
7 152 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
8 126 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
9 96 (1.95%) GitHub
10 94 (1.91%) Entra ID
11 91 (1.85%) Snowflake
12 89 (1.81%) Power Automate
13 80 (1.63%) dbt
14 69 (1.40%) Azure Data Factory
15 66 (1.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 62 (1.26%) Amazon S3
17 59 (1.20%) Google Analytics
18 57 (1.16%) Serverless
19 52 (1.06%) Microsoft Purview
19 52 (1.06%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 182 (3.70%) Firewall
2 157 (3.19%) DNS
3 123 (2.50%) DHCP
4 107 (2.17%) VPN
5 82 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
6 74 (1.50%) WAN
7 71 (1.44%) LAN
8 67 (1.36%) TCP/IP
9 66 (1.34%) Wireless
10 60 (1.22%) VLAN
11 50 (1.02%) Broadband
12 48 (0.98%) Network Security
13 38 (0.77%) BGP
14 37 (0.75%) SAN
15 35 (0.71%) Wireshark
16 34 (0.69%) OSPF
17 30 (0.61%) Cisco ASA
17 30 (0.61%) EIGRP
18 29 (0.59%) VoIP
19 27 (0.55%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 578 (11.74%) Power BI
2 425 (8.63%) Tableau
3 214 (4.35%) SQL Server
4 196 (3.98%) Data Mining
5 174 (3.53%) Data Warehouse
6 98 (1.99%) Metadata
7 93 (1.89%) Relational Database
8 88 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
8 88 (1.79%) Data Lake
9 75 (1.52%) Looker
10 63 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
11 59 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
11 59 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 56 (1.14%) MySQL
13 48 (0.98%) NoSQL
14 44 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
15 43 (0.87%) BigQuery
16 42 (0.85%) Power Query
17 34 (0.69%) Big Data
18 32 (0.65%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 192 (3.90%) JIRA
2 134 (2.72%) Git
3 50 (1.02%) GitLab
4 42 (0.85%) Selenium
5 38 (0.77%) Jenkins
6 32 (0.65%) MLflow
7 19 (0.39%) Visual Studio
8 15 (0.30%) Balsamiq
8 15 (0.30%) Robot Framework
9 14 (0.28%) Axure RP
9 14 (0.28%) Chocolatey
9 14 (0.28%) ERwin
9 14 (0.28%) Subversion
10 13 (0.26%) IBM UrbanCode
10 13 (0.26%) Snyk
11 12 (0.24%) Bitbucket
12 11 (0.22%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.20%) LabVIEW
13 10 (0.20%) Postman
14 8 (0.16%) TestRail
General
1 2,407 (48.89%) Social Skills
2 1,792 (36.40%) Finance
3 440 (8.94%) Marketing
4 344 (6.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 311 (6.32%) Banking
6 277 (5.63%) Law
7 276 (5.61%) Legal
8 272 (5.53%) Organisational Skills
9 254 (5.16%) Retail
10 251 (5.10%) Public Sector
11 209 (4.25%) Presentation Skills
12 165 (3.35%) Manufacturing
13 130 (2.64%) Financial Institution
14 126 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
15 101 (2.05%) Telecoms
16 90 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
17 79 (1.60%) Games
18 72 (1.46%) Advertising
19 62 (1.26%) Electronics
20 48 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,240 (25.19%) Analyst
2 637 (12.94%) Senior
3 376 (7.64%) Data Analyst
4 319 (6.48%) Lead
5 243 (4.94%) Business Analyst
6 235 (4.77%) Developer
7 220 (4.47%) Architect
8 215 (4.37%) Trainer
9 201 (4.08%) Consultant
10 171 (3.47%) Trainee
11 170 (3.45%) Support Analyst
12 162 (3.29%) Trainee Analyst
12 162 (3.29%) Trainee Data Analyst
13 142 (2.88%) IT Support
14 139 (2.82%) Senior Analyst
15 134 (2.72%) Senior Manager
16 130 (2.64%) Systems Engineer
17 116 (2.36%) Financial Analyst
18 105 (2.13%) Support Engineer
19 90 (1.83%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (2.66%) HTML
2 121 (2.46%) CSS
3 89 (1.81%) React
4 87 (1.77%) .NET
5 60 (1.22%) REST
6 53 (1.08%) JSON
6 53 (1.08%) TensorFlow
7 51 (1.04%) Kafka
7 51 (1.04%) PyTorch
8 50 (1.02%) XML
9 47 (0.95%) Middleware
10 46 (0.93%) Node.js
11 35 (0.71%) scikit-learn
12 33 (0.67%) LangChain
13 32 (0.65%) PySpark
14 28 (0.57%) Spring
15 27 (0.55%) FIX Protocol
16 26 (0.53%) SOAP
17 24 (0.49%) LlamaIndex
17 24 (0.49%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 488 (9.91%) Analytical Mindset
2 338 (6.87%) Self-Motivation
3 263 (5.34%) Onboarding
4 227 (4.61%) Management Information System
5 187 (3.80%) Product Ownership
6 120 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
7 104 (2.11%) Cloud Native
8 103 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
9 97 (1.97%) Data Centre
10 94 (1.91%) Data Structures
11 79 (1.60%) Driving Licence
12 75 (1.52%) Algorithms
13 57 (1.16%) Security Posture
13 57 (1.16%) Social Media
14 51 (1.04%) Virtual Team
15 48 (0.98%) FMCG
16 47 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 47 (0.95%) Low-Code
17 46 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
18 45 (0.91%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 362 (7.35%) Windows
2 234 (4.75%) Linux
3 146 (2.97%) Windows Server
4 76 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
5 41 (0.83%) Unix
6 27 (0.55%) Mac OS
7 19 (0.39%) Windows 10
8 18 (0.37%) Android
9 13 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 10 (0.20%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.12%) CentOS
12 5 (0.10%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.10%) VMS
13 4 (0.081%) 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%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,203 (44.75%) Problem-Solving
2 1,131 (22.97%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,120 (22.75%) Analytics
4 945 (19.20%) Decision-Making
5 906 (18.40%) AI
6 867 (17.61%) Agile
7 736 (14.95%) Business Intelligence
8 666 (13.53%) Project Management
9 594 (12.07%) Stakeholder Management
10 568 (11.54%) Data Analysis
11 450 (9.14%) Actionable Insight
12 431 (8.75%) Mentoring
13 418 (8.49%) Analytical Thinking
14 400 (8.13%) Process Improvement
15 393 (7.98%) Roadmaps
16 386 (7.84%) Data Modelling
17 382 (7.76%) DevOps
18 364 (7.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 363 (7.37%) Business Analysis
20 358 (7.27%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1,039 (21.11%) SQL
2 885 (17.98%) Python
3 169 (3.43%) JavaScript
4 150 (3.05%) Java
5 145 (2.95%) PowerShell
6 124 (2.52%) C#
7 76 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 69 (1.40%) R
9 57 (1.16%) Bash
10 45 (0.91%) C++
10 45 (0.91%) T-SQL
11 43 (0.87%) VBA
12 37 (0.75%) TypeScript
13 21 (0.43%) C
14 20 (0.41%) Scala
15 19 (0.39%) MATLAB
16 17 (0.35%) Go
17 13 (0.26%) PL/SQL
18 12 (0.24%) PHP
18 12 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,284 (26.08%) Degree
2 400 (8.13%) Security Cleared
3 344 (6.99%) Master's Degree
4 283 (5.75%) SC Cleared
5 229 (4.65%) PhD
6 227 (4.61%) ACCA
7 219 (4.45%) CIMA
8 181 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
9 146 (2.97%) CISSP
10 121 (2.46%) DBS Check
11 96 (1.95%) PMI Certification
12 94 (1.91%) DV Cleared
13 86 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
13 86 (1.75%) CISM
14 85 (1.73%) PMP
15 61 (1.24%) Azure Certification
16 60 (1.22%) IRCA
17 59 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
17 59 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
18 51 (1.04%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 372 (7.56%) Data Quality
2 295 (5.99%) GDPR
3 269 (5.46%) QA
4 217 (4.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 176 (3.58%) NIST
6 148 (3.01%) Cyber Essentials
7 116 (2.36%) PCI DSS
8 105 (2.13%) Accessibility
9 84 (1.71%) PMO
10 76 (1.54%) ISO 9001
11 68 (1.38%) SLA
12 67 (1.36%) Actionable Recommendations
13 45 (0.91%) GRC
14 40 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 35 (0.71%) IFRS
16 32 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 32 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 22 (0.45%) COBIT
17 22 (0.45%) WCAG
18 19 (0.39%) NCSC
System Software
1 249 (5.06%) Active Directory
2 92 (1.87%) Hyper-V
3 76 (1.54%) Docker
4 72 (1.46%) Terminal Server
5 58 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
6 16 (0.33%) ProxySG
7 13 (0.26%) vSphere
8 11 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.14%) Firmware
9 7 (0.14%) IAG
9 7 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
9 7 (0.14%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.081%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.081%) XenApp
11 3 (0.061%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.061%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.041%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.020%) KVM
13 1 (0.020%) NFS
13 1 (0.020%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 136 (2.76%) Terraform
2 78 (1.58%) Kubernetes
3 71 (1.44%) Ansible
4 54 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
5 37 (0.75%) Grafana
6 33 (0.67%) Prometheus
7 26 (0.53%) SCCM
8 24 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
9 17 (0.35%) Nagios
10 7 (0.14%) Control-M
11 6 (0.12%) Kubeflow
11 6 (0.12%) QRadar
12 5 (0.10%) CASB
12 5 (0.10%) Computer Incident Response Team
13 4 (0.081%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.081%) Backup Exec
13 4 (0.081%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.081%) SolarWinds Orion
13 4 (0.081%) vCenter Server
14 3 (0.061%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1,173 (23.83%) Microsoft
2 223 (4.53%) SAP
3 218 (4.43%) PayPal
4 186 (3.78%) Oracle
5 143 (2.90%) Salesforce
6 142 (2.88%) Google
7 141 (2.86%) VMware
8 123 (2.50%) SolarWinds
9 116 (2.36%) ServiceNow
10 108 (2.19%) Splunk
11 86 (1.75%) Databricks
12 79 (1.60%) Veeam
13 78 (1.58%) Cisco
14 73 (1.48%) Brocade
14 73 (1.48%) Tanium
15 72 (1.46%) Nimble Storage
16 65 (1.32%) Workday
17 53 (1.08%) Adobe
18 51 (1.04%) Dell
19 41 (0.83%) Bloomberg