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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 9 13
Rank change year-on-year -17 +4 +8
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 5,338 6,141 8,542
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.25% 12.46% 9.68%
As % of the General category 11.24% 17.96% 16.88%
Number of salaries quoted 3,384 2,633 4,144
10th Percentile £31,750 £30,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £37,719
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,464 £87,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500

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 47,511 34,201 50,614
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.75% 69.37% 57.38%
Number of salaries quoted 29,110 17,839 31,600
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £39,250 £35,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £54,273
Median % change year-on-year - +1.34% -9.55%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,773 £72,916
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -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 28 July 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 28 July 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 4,840 £54,000 -1.82% 2,580
UK excluding London -19 3,418 £47,500 - 1,795
Work from Home -10 1,704 £55,000 +8.97% 1,001
London -10 1,636 £67,500 +3.85% 1,144
North of England -19 983 £47,500 +3.26% 461
South East -9 837 £50,000 -4.76% 582
Midlands -10 604 £48,000 +6.67% 301
North West -18 588 £46,500 -1.06% 244
South West -14 473 £47,000 -1.05% 209
West Midlands -17 324 £50,000 +11.11% 169
Yorkshire -11 283 £47,500 +5.56% 155
East Midlands -5 278 £45,000 -1.52% 132
East of England -22 244 £45,000 -2.01% 155
North East -25 112 £55,000 +37.50% 67
Wales -15 110 £53,171 -3.33% 40
Scotland -31 109 £40,800 -7.27% 65
Northern Ireland -32 68 £41,250 -25.00% 27

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
1 195 (3.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 151 (2.83%) SharePoint
3 74 (1.39%) Confluence
4 71 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
5 70 (1.31%) Apache Spark
6 46 (0.86%) Apache
7 39 (0.73%) CMS
8 25 (0.47%) IIS
9 24 (0.45%) SAS
10 14 (0.26%) WordPress
11 13 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 10 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
13 9 (0.17%) Jupyter
13 9 (0.17%) WebLogic
13 9 (0.17%) WebSphere
14 8 (0.15%) OpenStack
15 3 (0.056%) Anypoint
15 3 (0.056%) JBoss
15 3 (0.056%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 3 (0.056%) Tomcat
Applications
1 586 (10.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 221 (4.14%) Microsoft Office
3 113 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 84 (1.57%) MS Visio
5 31 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
6 28 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.17%) CATIA
8 7 (0.13%) Adobe XD
9 5 (0.094%) Acrobat
9 5 (0.094%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.075%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.075%) Maya
11 3 (0.056%) AutoCAD
11 3 (0.056%) Blender
11 3 (0.056%) LaTeX
11 3 (0.056%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.056%) Simulink
11 3 (0.056%) Trello
12 2 (0.037%) Siemens NX
12 2 (0.037%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 72 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 70 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 36 (0.67%) Dynamics GP
3 36 (0.67%) NetSuite
4 20 (0.37%) SAP PM
5 18 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
6 16 (0.30%) SAP CO
7 15 (0.28%) SAP ERP
7 15 (0.28%) SAP FI
8 14 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
9 13 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
10 10 (0.19%) Magento
11 9 (0.17%) Maximo
12 8 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
13 7 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
13 7 (0.13%) Elite 3E
13 7 (0.13%) Fidessa
13 7 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
13 7 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
13 7 (0.13%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 954 (17.87%) Azure
2 680 (12.74%) Power Platform
3 539 (10.10%) AWS
4 418 (7.83%) Microsoft 365
5 331 (6.20%) SaaS
6 246 (4.61%) GCP
7 135 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
8 129 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
9 121 (2.27%) Entra ID
10 93 (1.74%) Google Analytics
11 90 (1.69%) Snowflake
12 83 (1.55%) GitHub
13 80 (1.50%) dbt
14 77 (1.44%) Power Automate
15 73 (1.37%) PowerApps
16 71 (1.33%) Amazon S3
17 70 (1.31%) Microsoft Purview
18 60 (1.12%) Serverless
19 57 (1.07%) Azure Data Factory
20 54 (1.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 207 (3.88%) DNS
2 162 (3.03%) DHCP
3 154 (2.88%) Firewall
4 128 (2.40%) VPN
5 96 (1.80%) TCP/IP
6 78 (1.46%) WAN
7 76 (1.42%) LAN
8 68 (1.27%) Broadband
9 59 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
10 55 (1.03%) Wireless
11 49 (0.92%) Network Security
12 42 (0.79%) VLAN
13 41 (0.77%) Internet
13 41 (0.77%) SAN
14 35 (0.66%) HTTP
15 30 (0.56%) BGP
16 23 (0.43%) SD-WAN
17 21 (0.39%) Cisco ASA
17 21 (0.39%) OSPF
17 21 (0.39%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 602 (11.28%) Power BI
2 283 (5.30%) Tableau
3 208 (3.90%) SQL Server
4 193 (3.62%) Data Warehouse
5 127 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
6 95 (1.78%) Metadata
7 85 (1.59%) Relational Database
8 74 (1.39%) Data Lake
9 73 (1.37%) Looker
10 71 (1.33%) MySQL
10 71 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
10 71 (1.33%) Power Query
11 65 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 63 (1.18%) Data Mining
13 58 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 56 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
15 55 (1.03%) BigQuery
16 44 (0.82%) Big Data
17 38 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
17 38 (0.71%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 210 (3.93%) JIRA
2 190 (3.56%) Git
3 58 (1.09%) GitLab
4 46 (0.86%) Jenkins
5 36 (0.67%) Rational DOORS
6 32 (0.60%) MLflow
7 27 (0.51%) Selenium
8 22 (0.41%) Cucumber
9 18 (0.34%) Postman
10 17 (0.32%) Eclipse
11 16 (0.30%) Chocolatey
12 15 (0.28%) ERwin
13 14 (0.26%) JMeter
14 13 (0.24%) IBM UrbanCode
14 13 (0.24%) Visual Studio
15 12 (0.22%) Bitbucket
15 12 (0.22%) Cypress.io
15 12 (0.22%) SonarQube
16 9 (0.17%) Burp Suite
16 9 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2,530 (47.40%) Social Skills
2 1,772 (33.20%) Finance
3 461 (8.64%) Marketing
4 412 (7.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 354 (6.63%) Organisational Skills
6 341 (6.39%) Retail
7 321 (6.01%) Public Sector
8 309 (5.79%) Legal
9 306 (5.73%) Law
10 257 (4.81%) Banking
11 221 (4.14%) Influencing Skills
12 216 (4.05%) Manufacturing
13 143 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
14 131 (2.45%) Telecoms
15 108 (2.02%) Aerospace
16 96 (1.80%) Advertising
16 96 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
17 85 (1.59%) Electronics
18 69 (1.29%) Financial Institution
19 60 (1.12%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,315 (24.63%) Analyst
2 676 (12.66%) Senior
3 366 (6.86%) Lead
4 315 (5.90%) Data Analyst
5 281 (5.26%) Business Analyst
6 256 (4.80%) Developer
7 230 (4.31%) Systems Engineer
8 229 (4.29%) Consultant
9 206 (3.86%) Architect
10 163 (3.05%) Senior Analyst
11 157 (2.94%) Data Engineer
12 153 (2.87%) Support Analyst
13 129 (2.42%) Support Engineer
14 121 (2.27%) IT Support
15 110 (2.06%) IT Manager
16 102 (1.91%) Security Analyst
17 101 (1.89%) Financial Analyst
18 98 (1.84%) Systems Analyst
19 93 (1.74%) Senior Manager
20 91 (1.70%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (2.34%) .NET
2 111 (2.08%) HTML
3 110 (2.06%) REST
4 101 (1.89%) CSS
5 91 (1.70%) JSON
6 84 (1.57%) XML
7 80 (1.50%) Middleware
8 78 (1.46%) React
9 72 (1.35%) Kafka
10 67 (1.26%) PyTorch
11 61 (1.14%) TensorFlow
12 60 (1.12%) RESTful
13 52 (0.97%) SOAP
14 50 (0.94%) PySpark
15 44 (0.82%) scikit-learn
16 41 (0.77%) Web Services
17 40 (0.75%) Node.js
18 36 (0.67%) Pandas
19 33 (0.62%) EDI
20 32 (0.60%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 536 (10.04%) Analytical Mindset
2 291 (5.45%) Management Information System
3 246 (4.61%) Onboarding
4 233 (4.36%) Product Ownership
5 225 (4.22%) Self-Motivation
6 164 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
7 124 (2.32%) Cloud Native
8 108 (2.02%) Driving Licence
9 106 (1.99%) Security Posture
10 95 (1.78%) Data Centre
11 90 (1.69%) Virtual Team
12 87 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
13 86 (1.61%) Social Media
14 83 (1.55%) Cyber Threat
15 80 (1.50%) Data Structures
16 75 (1.41%) Algorithms
17 74 (1.39%) Blog
18 60 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
19 58 (1.09%) Marketing Technology
20 56 (1.05%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 445 (8.34%) Windows
2 301 (5.64%) Linux
3 226 (4.23%) Windows Server
4 117 (2.19%) Windows Server 2016
5 34 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 30 (0.56%) Unix
7 29 (0.54%) Windows 10
8 26 (0.49%) Mac OS
9 23 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
10 20 (0.37%) Android
11 15 (0.28%) Apple iOS
11 15 (0.28%) CentOS
12 12 (0.22%) Ubuntu
13 8 (0.15%) VMS
14 6 (0.11%) Debian
15 5 (0.094%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.075%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.075%) Rocky
17 3 (0.056%) AIX
18 2 (0.037%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,470 (46.27%) Problem-Solving
2 1,447 (27.11%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,198 (22.44%) Decision-Making
4 1,178 (22.07%) Analytics
5 922 (17.27%) Agile
6 807 (15.12%) AI
7 789 (14.78%) Stakeholder Management
8 699 (13.09%) Business Intelligence
9 579 (10.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 552 (10.34%) Roadmaps
11 502 (9.40%) Actionable Insight
12 501 (9.39%) Mentoring
13 500 (9.37%) Project Management
14 470 (8.80%) Data Analysis
15 464 (8.69%) Data Modelling
16 451 (8.45%) Cybersecurity
17 447 (8.37%) Customer Experience
18 439 (8.22%) Process Improvement
19 415 (7.77%) Validation
20 414 (7.76%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 1,098 (20.57%) SQL
2 892 (16.71%) Python
3 195 (3.65%) JavaScript
4 186 (3.48%) Java
5 177 (3.32%) PowerShell
6 168 (3.15%) C#
7 92 (1.72%) C++
8 87 (1.63%) R
9 86 (1.61%) Bash
10 77 (1.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 56 (1.05%) TypeScript
12 52 (0.97%) T-SQL
13 45 (0.84%) MATLAB
14 25 (0.47%) C
15 24 (0.45%) PHP
15 24 (0.45%) Scala
16 23 (0.43%) Go
17 22 (0.41%) PL/SQL
18 21 (0.39%) VBA
19 19 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 974 (18.25%) Degree
2 549 (10.28%) Security Cleared
3 396 (7.42%) SC Cleared
4 258 (4.83%) ACCA
5 242 (4.53%) CIMA
6 154 (2.88%) CISSP
7 153 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 145 (2.72%) DBS Check
9 117 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
10 114 (2.14%) CISM
11 110 (2.06%) DV Cleared
12 100 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
13 93 (1.74%) Master's Degree
14 73 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
15 72 (1.35%) IRCA
16 70 (1.31%) CompTIA Security+
17 66 (1.24%) Azure Certification
18 53 (0.99%) PMI Certification
19 46 (0.86%) CRISC
20 44 (0.82%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 510 (9.55%) Data Quality
2 377 (7.06%) GDPR
3 362 (6.78%) QA
4 243 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 191 (3.58%) NIST
6 175 (3.28%) Cyber Essentials
7 155 (2.90%) SLA
8 149 (2.79%) PCI DSS
9 144 (2.70%) Accessibility
10 123 (2.30%) ISO 9001
11 76 (1.42%) GRC
12 63 (1.18%) PMO
13 44 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
14 41 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 40 (0.75%) IFRS
16 39 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 35 (0.66%) COBIT
18 28 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
19 24 (0.45%) SOC 2
20 23 (0.43%) ITGC
System Software
1 326 (6.11%) Active Directory
2 123 (2.30%) Docker
3 117 (2.19%) Hyper-V
4 96 (1.80%) Terminal Server
5 82 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
6 25 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (0.22%) Firmware
9 9 (0.17%) VMware NSX
9 9 (0.17%) vSphere
10 8 (0.15%) IAG
10 8 (0.15%) ProxySG
11 7 (0.13%) Ceph
12 4 (0.075%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.075%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.075%) XenApp
13 3 (0.056%) DFS Replication
13 3 (0.056%) Embedded Firmware
14 2 (0.037%) KVM
14 2 (0.037%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 141 (2.64%) Terraform
2 107 (2.00%) Kubernetes
3 81 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 67 (1.26%) Ansible
5 43 (0.81%) Grafana
6 30 (0.56%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.47%) SCCM
8 23 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
9 21 (0.39%) Nagios
10 16 (0.30%) Kibana
10 16 (0.30%) QRadar
11 12 (0.22%) Podman
12 9 (0.17%) Kubeflow
13 8 (0.15%) logstash
14 7 (0.13%) Argo
14 7 (0.13%) Check_MK
14 7 (0.13%) Istio
14 7 (0.13%) Nmap
14 7 (0.13%) Packer
15 6 (0.11%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 1,194 (22.37%) Microsoft
2 226 (4.23%) Google
3 220 (4.12%) SAP
4 186 (3.48%) VMware
5 176 (3.30%) Oracle
6 159 (2.98%) Splunk
7 137 (2.57%) SolarWinds
8 135 (2.53%) Salesforce
9 130 (2.44%) Databricks
10 113 (2.12%) ServiceNow
11 108 (2.02%) Veeam
12 97 (1.82%) Brocade
12 97 (1.82%) Nimble Storage
13 96 (1.80%) Tanium
14 79 (1.48%) Cisco
15 75 (1.41%) Workday
16 67 (1.26%) Red Hat
17 50 (0.94%) Dell
18 49 (0.92%) IBM
19 46 (0.86%) HubSpot