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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 9 13
Rank change year-on-year -16 +4 +7
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 6,095 6,082 7,558
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.37% 12.24% 9.61%
As % of the General category 11.65% 17.90% 16.90%
Number of salaries quoted 3,679 2,561 3,082
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £71,375 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £88,750
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 52,324 33,971 44,712
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.09% 68.39% 56.87%
Number of salaries quoted 32,238 17,749 23,713
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,157
25th Percentile £39,750 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -2.91%

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 11 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 11 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 5,428 £52,500 - 3,999
UK excluding London -16 4,023 £47,500 +5.56% 2,535
Work from Home -6 2,030 £55,000 +10.00% 1,706
London -12 1,780 £67,500 +3.85% 2,034
North of England -18 1,108 £47,500 +6.74% 535
South East -9 964 £49,536 -0.93% 789
Midlands -10 691 £47,500 +5.56% 418
North West -16 676 £46,500 +3.33% 303
South West -9 575 £47,500 +5.56% 358
West Midlands -17 353 £48,000 +6.67% 251
East Midlands -3 335 £45,000 +3.45% 169
Yorkshire -9 299 £47,250 +18.13% 187
East of England -18 252 £48,000 +20.00% 224
Wales -8 192 £45,000 -10.31% 68
Scotland -18 136 £44,500 +14.10% 150
North East -11 133 £50,500 +26.25% 51
Northern Ireland -12 115 £42,500 -22.73% 61

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
1 186 (3.05%) SharePoint
2 179 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 105 (1.72%) Confluence
4 48 (0.79%) Apache Spark
5 44 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
6 41 (0.67%) CMS
7 37 (0.61%) IIS
8 35 (0.57%) Apache
9 28 (0.46%) SAS
10 11 (0.18%) WordPress
11 10 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 10 (0.16%) Headless CMS
11 10 (0.16%) Jupyter
12 9 (0.15%) WebLogic
12 9 (0.15%) WebSphere
13 8 (0.13%) OpenStack
14 7 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
15 3 (0.049%) Anypoint
15 3 (0.049%) Appian
15 3 (0.049%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 672 (11.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 286 (4.69%) Microsoft Office
3 121 (1.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 70 (1.15%) MS Visio
5 45 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
6 38 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
7 15 (0.25%) Simulink
8 12 (0.20%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.13%) Adobe XD
10 7 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
11 6 (0.098%) CATIA
11 6 (0.098%) Chatbot
12 5 (0.082%) Acrobat
12 5 (0.082%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 5 (0.082%) EPLAN
12 5 (0.082%) Photoshop
12 5 (0.082%) Revit
12 5 (0.082%) Siemens NX
13 3 (0.049%) LaTeX
13 3 (0.049%) Maya
Business Applications
1 107 (1.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 64 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
3 39 (0.64%) NetSuite
4 35 (0.57%) Dynamics GP
5 25 (0.41%) Shopify
6 18 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
7 15 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
7 15 (0.25%) Workday HCM
8 12 (0.20%) Magento
8 12 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
8 12 (0.20%) SAP CO
8 12 (0.20%) 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 ERP
10 10 (0.16%) SAP PM
11 9 (0.15%) Elite 3E
11 9 (0.15%) Fidessa
11 9 (0.15%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 1,000 (16.41%) Azure
2 722 (11.85%) Power Platform
3 628 (10.30%) AWS
4 437 (7.17%) Microsoft 365
5 392 (6.43%) SaaS
6 284 (4.66%) GCP
7 160 (2.63%) Entra ID
8 154 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
9 153 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
10 126 (2.07%) Google Analytics
11 108 (1.77%) Google Ads
12 104 (1.71%) GitHub
13 89 (1.46%) Snowflake
14 87 (1.43%) Serverless
15 82 (1.35%) Microsoft Purview
16 81 (1.33%) Meta Ads
16 81 (1.33%) Power Automate
17 80 (1.31%) dbt
18 79 (1.30%) PowerApps
19 77 (1.26%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 199 (3.26%) DNS
2 155 (2.54%) DHCP
3 154 (2.53%) Firewall
4 132 (2.17%) VPN
5 102 (1.67%) TCP/IP
6 77 (1.26%) WAN
7 74 (1.21%) LAN
8 69 (1.13%) Network Security
9 61 (1.00%) Wireless
10 54 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
11 52 (0.85%) Broadband
12 47 (0.77%) Internet
12 47 (0.77%) VLAN
13 39 (0.64%) SAN
14 35 (0.57%) HTTP
15 32 (0.53%) VoIP
16 26 (0.43%) BGP
17 23 (0.38%) SD-WAN
17 23 (0.38%) SMS
18 22 (0.36%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 643 (10.55%) Power BI
2 219 (3.59%) SQL Server
2 219 (3.59%) Tableau
3 188 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
4 112 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
5 108 (1.77%) Relational Database
6 97 (1.59%) Metadata
7 92 (1.51%) Looker
8 85 (1.39%) MySQL
9 76 (1.25%) Data Lake
10 74 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
11 72 (1.18%) Power Query
11 72 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 60 (0.98%) BigQuery
13 59 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 55 (0.90%) Big Data
15 51 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
16 47 (0.77%) NoSQL
17 38 (0.62%) MongoDB
18 35 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 259 (4.25%) JIRA
2 210 (3.45%) Git
3 53 (0.87%) Jenkins
4 48 (0.79%) GitLab
5 32 (0.53%) Rational DOORS
6 29 (0.48%) Selenium
7 24 (0.39%) Cucumber
7 24 (0.39%) Eclipse
8 23 (0.38%) MLflow
9 19 (0.31%) Claude Code
10 18 (0.30%) Postman
11 16 (0.26%) Bitbucket
11 16 (0.26%) LabVIEW
12 15 (0.25%) Chocolatey
12 15 (0.25%) Oracle Forms
13 14 (0.23%) JMeter
14 13 (0.21%) Burp Suite
15 12 (0.20%) Cypress.io
15 12 (0.20%) SonarQube
15 12 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2,980 (48.89%) Social Skills
2 2,003 (32.86%) Finance
3 682 (11.19%) Marketing
4 536 (8.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 483 (7.92%) Organisational Skills
6 418 (6.86%) Retail
7 412 (6.76%) Law
8 387 (6.35%) Public Sector
9 379 (6.22%) Legal
10 337 (5.53%) Manufacturing
11 314 (5.15%) Influencing Skills
12 239 (3.92%) Banking
13 204 (3.35%) Presentation Skills
14 192 (3.15%) Aerospace
15 142 (2.33%) Telecoms
16 139 (2.28%) Electronics
17 112 (1.84%) Advertising
18 95 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
19 70 (1.15%) Financial Institution
20 68 (1.12%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,366 (22.41%) Analyst
2 782 (12.83%) Senior
3 419 (6.87%) Lead
4 307 (5.04%) Data Analyst
5 293 (4.81%) Business Analyst
6 288 (4.73%) Developer
7 235 (3.86%) Consultant
8 233 (3.82%) Architect
9 194 (3.18%) Senior Analyst
10 192 (3.15%) Systems Engineer
11 186 (3.05%) Data Engineer
11 186 (3.05%) Support Analyst
12 129 (2.12%) Support Engineer
13 119 (1.95%) IT Support
14 111 (1.82%) IT Manager
15 110 (1.80%) Applications Support
16 108 (1.77%) Security Analyst
17 107 (1.76%) Senior Manager
18 97 (1.59%) Systems Analyst
19 96 (1.58%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (2.66%) .NET
2 146 (2.40%) Terraform
3 129 (2.12%) REST
4 125 (2.05%) HTML
5 116 (1.90%) CSS
6 91 (1.49%) JSON
7 79 (1.30%) XML
8 78 (1.28%) Middleware
9 77 (1.26%) RESTful
10 72 (1.18%) Kafka
11 66 (1.08%) React
12 65 (1.07%) PySpark
13 63 (1.03%) SOAP
14 57 (0.94%) PyTorch
15 50 (0.82%) TensorFlow
16 47 (0.77%) EDI
17 46 (0.75%) Web Services
18 43 (0.71%) LDAP
19 40 (0.66%) Spring Boot
20 39 (0.64%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 484 (7.94%) Analytical Mindset
2 401 (6.58%) Management Information System
3 381 (6.25%) Onboarding
4 306 (5.02%) Self-Motivation
5 293 (4.81%) Product Ownership
6 155 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
7 144 (2.36%) Driving Licence
8 142 (2.33%) Cloud Native
9 138 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
10 119 (1.95%) Blog
11 118 (1.94%) Social Media
12 108 (1.77%) Cyber Threat
13 104 (1.71%) Data Centre
13 104 (1.71%) Marketing Technology
14 103 (1.69%) Security Posture
15 98 (1.61%) Virtual Team
16 83 (1.36%) Data Structures
17 72 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
18 65 (1.07%) Algorithms
19 59 (0.97%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 466 (7.65%) Windows
2 280 (4.59%) Linux
3 219 (3.59%) Windows Server
4 93 (1.53%) Windows Server 2016
5 40 (0.66%) Windows 10
6 32 (0.53%) Unix
7 31 (0.51%) Mac OS
8 27 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 24 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
10 22 (0.36%) Apple iOS
11 17 (0.28%) Android
12 10 (0.16%) CentOS
13 8 (0.13%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.098%) Debian
14 6 (0.098%) VMS
15 5 (0.082%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.066%) CoreOS
17 3 (0.049%) Rocky
18 2 (0.033%) AIX
18 2 (0.033%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,963 (48.61%) Problem-Solving
2 1,790 (29.37%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,440 (23.63%) Decision-Making
4 1,283 (21.05%) Analytics
5 1,174 (19.26%) Stakeholder Management
6 1,114 (18.28%) AI
7 1,073 (17.60%) Agile
8 804 (13.19%) Business Intelligence
9 631 (10.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 624 (10.24%) Roadmaps
11 578 (9.48%) Mentoring
12 576 (9.45%) Actionable Insight
13 553 (9.07%) Validation
14 536 (8.79%) Project Management
15 533 (8.74%) Data Analysis
16 497 (8.15%) Cybersecurity
17 496 (8.14%) Process Improvement
18 486 (7.97%) ERP
19 484 (7.94%) Data Modelling
20 481 (7.89%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 1,195 (19.61%) SQL
2 869 (14.26%) Python
3 228 (3.74%) JavaScript
4 218 (3.58%) Java
5 195 (3.20%) C#
6 190 (3.12%) PowerShell
7 115 (1.89%) C++
8 90 (1.48%) Bash
9 80 (1.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 80 (1.31%) R
10 69 (1.13%) TypeScript
11 53 (0.87%) MATLAB
12 49 (0.80%) T-SQL
13 39 (0.64%) C
14 29 (0.48%) Scala
15 27 (0.44%) PHP
15 27 (0.44%) PL/SQL
16 22 (0.36%) Perl
17 21 (0.34%) Go
17 21 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1,222 (20.05%) Degree
2 683 (11.21%) Security Cleared
3 470 (7.71%) SC Cleared
4 249 (4.09%) ACCA
5 232 (3.81%) CIMA
6 180 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 159 (2.61%) CISSP
8 158 (2.59%) DV Cleared
9 150 (2.46%) DBS Check
10 127 (2.08%) CISM
11 124 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
12 115 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
13 100 (1.64%) Master's Degree
14 81 (1.33%) Azure Certification
15 79 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
16 70 (1.15%) CompTIA Security+
17 68 (1.12%) HND
18 63 (1.03%) PMI Certification
19 52 (0.85%) HNC
20 50 (0.82%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 600 (9.84%) Data Quality
2 378 (6.20%) QA
3 361 (5.92%) GDPR
4 241 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 195 (3.20%) Accessibility
6 185 (3.04%) NIST
7 152 (2.49%) SLA
8 146 (2.40%) Cyber Essentials
9 120 (1.97%) PCI DSS
10 83 (1.36%) ISO 9001
11 70 (1.15%) GRC
12 59 (0.97%) PMO
13 48 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
14 41 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 39 (0.64%) IFRS
16 33 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 31 (0.51%) COBIT
18 30 (0.49%) NCSC
19 25 (0.41%) DO-254
20 24 (0.39%) GAAP
System Software
1 334 (5.48%) Active Directory
2 133 (2.18%) Docker
3 100 (1.64%) Hyper-V
4 88 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 72 (1.18%) Terminal Server
6 39 (0.64%) Firmware
7 22 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
7 22 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
8 10 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
8 10 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
9 9 (0.15%) vSphere
10 8 (0.13%) VMware NSX
11 7 (0.11%) Ceph
12 4 (0.066%) KVM
12 4 (0.066%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.049%) DFS Replication
14 2 (0.033%) IAG
14 2 (0.033%) ProxySG
14 2 (0.033%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 2 (0.033%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 113 (1.85%) Kubernetes
2 86 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
3 76 (1.25%) Ansible
4 41 (0.67%) Grafana
5 40 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
6 24 (0.39%) SCCM
7 21 (0.34%) Prometheus
8 20 (0.33%) QRadar
9 19 (0.31%) Kibana
10 13 (0.21%) Nagios
11 11 (0.18%) Nmap
11 11 (0.18%) Podman
12 9 (0.15%) Argo
12 9 (0.15%) logstash
13 8 (0.13%) Kubeflow
14 7 (0.11%) Check_MK
14 7 (0.11%) Istio
15 6 (0.098%) Graylog
15 6 (0.098%) Puppet
15 6 (0.098%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 1,391 (22.82%) Microsoft
2 349 (5.73%) Google
3 241 (3.95%) SAP
4 187 (3.07%) Oracle
5 177 (2.90%) VMware
6 150 (2.46%) Splunk
7 144 (2.36%) Databricks
8 133 (2.18%) ServiceNow
9 131 (2.15%) Salesforce
10 98 (1.61%) SolarWinds
11 88 (1.44%) Cisco
12 81 (1.33%) Veeam
13 73 (1.20%) Brocade
13 73 (1.20%) Nimble Storage
14 72 (1.18%) Tanium
15 68 (1.12%) Adobe
16 66 (1.08%) Workday
17 61 (1.00%) YouTube
18 59 (0.97%) HubSpot
19 42 (0.69%) Dell