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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 9 13
Rank change year-on-year -17 +4 +7
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 5,187 6,169 9,031
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.18% 12.54% 9.65%
As % of the General category 11.06% 18.06% 16.72%
Number of salaries quoted 3,341 2,616 4,543
10th Percentile £32,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £37,500
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 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,148 £87,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,000 £48,306 £47,500
% change year-on-year -0.63% +1.70% -

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 46,906 34,155 54,016
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.82% 69.46% 57.71%
Number of salaries quoted 28,884 17,630 34,432
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £28,215
25th Percentile £39,000 £35,854 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,390 £47,500
% change year-on-year +10.16% -4.44% -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 22 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 22 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 -17 4,706 £54,191 -1.47% 2,660
UK excluding London -20 3,335 £48,000 -0.63% 1,685
Work from Home -8 1,663 £55,000 +4.76% 1,047
London -11 1,569 £67,500 +3.85% 1,241
North of England -19 964 £48,000 +6.67% 460
South East -9 828 £50,000 -4.76% 517
Midlands -10 598 £47,500 - 254
North West -19 575 £47,500 +1.06% 256
South West -20 443 £46,000 -8.00% 196
West Midlands -16 322 £50,000 +11.11% 142
Yorkshire -13 282 £48,445 +7.65% 154
East Midlands -6 275 £45,000 -5.26% 110
East of England -21 237 £45,000 -2.01% 162
North East -28 107 £55,000 +37.50% 54
Wales -14 105 £53,171 -3.33% 30
Scotland -33 104 £43,335 -1.51% 75
Northern Ireland -34 66 £41,250 -25.00% 32

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
1 194 (3.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 141 (2.72%) SharePoint
3 71 (1.37%) Confluence
4 69 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
4 69 (1.33%) Apache Spark
5 45 (0.87%) Apache
6 37 (0.71%) CMS
7 24 (0.46%) IIS
7 24 (0.46%) SAS
8 14 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 13 (0.25%) WordPress
10 11 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
11 9 (0.17%) Jupyter
11 9 (0.17%) WebSphere
12 8 (0.15%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.058%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.058%) JBoss
13 3 (0.058%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.058%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.039%) nginx
Applications
1 569 (10.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 212 (4.09%) Microsoft Office
3 114 (2.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 78 (1.50%) MS Visio
5 29 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
6 28 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.17%) CATIA
8 7 (0.13%) Adobe XD
9 5 (0.096%) Acrobat
10 4 (0.077%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.077%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.077%) Maya
11 3 (0.058%) Blender
11 3 (0.058%) LaTeX
11 3 (0.058%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.058%) Simulink
11 3 (0.058%) Trello
12 2 (0.039%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.039%) Lectora
12 2 (0.039%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 74 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 67 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 36 (0.69%) Dynamics GP
3 36 (0.69%) NetSuite
4 20 (0.39%) SAP PM
5 19 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
6 17 (0.33%) SAP CO
7 15 (0.29%) SAP ERP
7 15 (0.29%) SAP FI
8 14 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
8 14 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
9 10 (0.19%) Magento
9 10 (0.19%) Maximo
10 8 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
11 7 (0.13%) Fidessa
11 7 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
11 7 (0.13%) Sage 200
12 6 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
12 6 (0.12%) Elite 3E
12 6 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 919 (17.72%) Azure
2 669 (12.90%) Power Platform
3 504 (9.72%) AWS
4 412 (7.94%) Microsoft 365
5 324 (6.25%) SaaS
6 231 (4.45%) GCP
7 132 (2.54%) Dynamics 365
8 123 (2.37%) Entra ID
9 120 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
10 91 (1.75%) Google Analytics
11 81 (1.56%) Snowflake
12 80 (1.54%) Microsoft Purview
13 76 (1.47%) GitHub
14 74 (1.43%) Power Automate
15 69 (1.33%) Amazon S3
15 69 (1.33%) dbt
15 69 (1.33%) PowerApps
16 58 (1.12%) Serverless
17 57 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
18 55 (1.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 195 (3.76%) DNS
2 171 (3.30%) Firewall
3 152 (2.93%) DHCP
4 120 (2.31%) VPN
5 86 (1.66%) TCP/IP
6 72 (1.39%) WAN
7 70 (1.35%) LAN
8 69 (1.33%) Broadband
9 62 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
10 53 (1.02%) Wireless
11 45 (0.87%) Network Security
12 42 (0.81%) VLAN
13 39 (0.75%) Internet
13 39 (0.75%) SAN
14 33 (0.64%) HTTP
15 30 (0.58%) BGP
16 22 (0.42%) SD-WAN
17 21 (0.40%) Cisco ASA
18 20 (0.39%) OSPF
18 20 (0.39%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 594 (11.45%) Power BI
2 283 (5.46%) Tableau
3 204 (3.93%) SQL Server
4 189 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
5 123 (2.37%) Amazon RDS
6 91 (1.75%) Metadata
7 78 (1.50%) Relational Database
8 73 (1.41%) Data Lake
9 69 (1.33%) Looker
9 69 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
10 68 (1.31%) Data Mining
11 67 (1.29%) MySQL
11 67 (1.29%) Power Query
12 65 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 55 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
13 55 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 52 (1.00%) BigQuery
15 42 (0.81%) Big Data
16 38 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
17 37 (0.71%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 195 (3.76%) JIRA
2 161 (3.10%) Git
3 58 (1.12%) GitLab
4 45 (0.87%) Jenkins
5 36 (0.69%) Rational DOORS
6 30 (0.58%) MLflow
7 25 (0.48%) Selenium
8 22 (0.42%) Cucumber
9 17 (0.33%) Eclipse
9 17 (0.33%) Postman
10 16 (0.31%) Chocolatey
11 15 (0.29%) ERwin
12 14 (0.27%) JMeter
12 14 (0.27%) Visual Studio
13 13 (0.25%) IBM UrbanCode
14 12 (0.23%) Cypress.io
14 12 (0.23%) SonarQube
15 11 (0.21%) Bitbucket
16 9 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
17 8 (0.15%) LabVIEW
General
1 2,456 (47.35%) Social Skills
2 1,726 (33.28%) Finance
3 443 (8.54%) Marketing
4 371 (7.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 345 (6.65%) Organisational Skills
6 323 (6.23%) Retail
7 309 (5.96%) Public Sector
8 299 (5.76%) Legal
9 275 (5.30%) Law
10 241 (4.65%) Banking
11 212 (4.09%) Influencing Skills
12 210 (4.05%) Manufacturing
13 136 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
14 129 (2.49%) Telecoms
15 97 (1.87%) Aerospace
16 95 (1.83%) Advertising
17 94 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
18 84 (1.62%) Electronics
19 72 (1.39%) Financial Institution
20 55 (1.06%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,274 (24.56%) Analyst
2 649 (12.51%) Senior
3 360 (6.94%) Lead
4 301 (5.80%) Data Analyst
5 270 (5.21%) Business Analyst
6 246 (4.74%) Developer
7 229 (4.41%) Consultant
8 224 (4.32%) Systems Engineer
9 195 (3.76%) Architect
10 150 (2.89%) Senior Analyst
11 147 (2.83%) Data Engineer
12 145 (2.80%) Support Analyst
13 125 (2.41%) Support Engineer
14 120 (2.31%) IT Support
15 110 (2.12%) IT Manager
16 103 (1.99%) Security Analyst
17 100 (1.93%) Financial Analyst
18 98 (1.89%) Systems Analyst
19 92 (1.77%) Senior Manager
20 89 (1.72%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (2.29%) .NET
2 110 (2.12%) HTML
3 107 (2.06%) REST
4 99 (1.91%) CSS
5 92 (1.77%) JSON
6 85 (1.64%) XML
7 81 (1.56%) Middleware
8 78 (1.50%) React
9 68 (1.31%) Kafka
10 65 (1.25%) PyTorch
11 60 (1.16%) TensorFlow
12 57 (1.10%) RESTful
13 52 (1.00%) SOAP
14 47 (0.91%) PySpark
15 42 (0.81%) Web Services
16 41 (0.79%) Node.js
16 41 (0.79%) scikit-learn
17 33 (0.64%) Pandas
18 32 (0.62%) LangChain
19 31 (0.60%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 532 (10.26%) Analytical Mindset
2 279 (5.38%) Management Information System
3 231 (4.45%) Onboarding
4 223 (4.30%) Product Ownership
5 207 (3.99%) Self-Motivation
6 157 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
7 117 (2.26%) Cloud Native
8 105 (2.02%) Security Posture
9 100 (1.93%) Driving Licence
10 97 (1.87%) Data Centre
11 89 (1.72%) Virtual Team
12 82 (1.58%) Cyber Threat
12 82 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
13 81 (1.56%) Data Structures
14 71 (1.37%) Algorithms
15 66 (1.27%) Blog
16 62 (1.20%) Social Media
17 57 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
18 56 (1.08%) Public Cloud
19 54 (1.04%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 433 (8.35%) Windows
2 288 (5.55%) Linux
3 216 (4.16%) Windows Server
4 112 (2.16%) Windows Server 2016
5 30 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 29 (0.56%) Unix
7 27 (0.52%) Windows 10
8 25 (0.48%) Mac OS
9 20 (0.39%) Android
10 18 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
11 16 (0.31%) Apple iOS
12 11 (0.21%) CentOS
12 11 (0.21%) Ubuntu
13 7 (0.13%) VMS
14 6 (0.12%) Debian
15 5 (0.096%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.077%) Rocky
17 3 (0.058%) AIX
18 1 (0.019%) Solaris
18 1 (0.019%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,389 (46.06%) Problem-Solving
2 1,392 (26.84%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,168 (22.52%) Decision-Making
4 1,147 (22.11%) Analytics
5 877 (16.91%) Agile
6 748 (14.42%) Stakeholder Management
7 740 (14.27%) AI
8 680 (13.11%) Business Intelligence
9 554 (10.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 532 (10.26%) Roadmaps
11 492 (9.49%) Mentoring
12 491 (9.47%) Actionable Insight
12 491 (9.47%) Project Management
13 454 (8.75%) Cybersecurity
14 449 (8.66%) Data Analysis
15 448 (8.64%) Data Modelling
16 426 (8.21%) Customer Experience
16 426 (8.21%) Process Improvement
17 399 (7.69%) Data Governance
18 390 (7.52%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1,055 (20.34%) SQL
2 864 (16.66%) Python
3 187 (3.61%) Java
3 187 (3.61%) JavaScript
4 171 (3.30%) PowerShell
5 160 (3.08%) C#
6 90 (1.74%) C++
7 80 (1.54%) R
8 79 (1.52%) Bash
9 75 (1.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 55 (1.06%) TypeScript
11 51 (0.98%) T-SQL
12 44 (0.85%) MATLAB
13 24 (0.46%) C
13 24 (0.46%) PHP
14 22 (0.42%) Go
14 22 (0.42%) PL/SQL
14 22 (0.42%) Scala
15 20 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
16 19 (0.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 932 (17.97%) Degree
2 518 (9.99%) Security Cleared
3 375 (7.23%) SC Cleared
4 261 (5.03%) ACCA
5 245 (4.72%) CIMA
6 147 (2.83%) CISSP
7 146 (2.81%) DBS Check
8 143 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
9 113 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
10 108 (2.08%) CISM
11 99 (1.91%) DV Cleared
12 92 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
13 89 (1.72%) Master's Degree
14 72 (1.39%) IRCA
15 71 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
16 70 (1.35%) CompTIA Security+
17 62 (1.20%) Azure Certification
18 52 (1.00%) PMI Certification
19 43 (0.83%) CRISC
19 43 (0.83%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 492 (9.49%) Data Quality
2 391 (7.54%) GDPR
3 349 (6.73%) QA
4 257 (4.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 200 (3.86%) NIST
6 183 (3.53%) Cyber Essentials
7 154 (2.97%) SLA
8 151 (2.91%) PCI DSS
9 134 (2.58%) Accessibility
10 124 (2.39%) ISO 9001
11 75 (1.45%) GRC
12 62 (1.20%) PMO
13 41 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
14 40 (0.77%) IFRS
15 39 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 39 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 34 (0.66%) COBIT
17 28 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 25 (0.48%) SOC 2
19 24 (0.46%) ITGC
System Software
1 314 (6.05%) Active Directory
2 111 (2.14%) Hyper-V
3 109 (2.10%) Docker
4 96 (1.85%) Terminal Server
5 75 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
6 25 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (0.17%) VMware NSX
9 8 (0.15%) Firmware
9 8 (0.15%) IAG
9 8 (0.15%) ProxySG
9 8 (0.15%) vSphere
10 5 (0.096%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 5 (0.096%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.077%) XenApp
12 3 (0.058%) DFS Replication
12 3 (0.058%) Embedded Firmware
13 2 (0.039%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.039%) VMware ESXi
14 1 (0.019%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 139 (2.68%) Terraform
2 94 (1.81%) Kubernetes
3 76 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 64 (1.23%) Ansible
5 42 (0.81%) Grafana
6 25 (0.48%) SCCM
7 22 (0.42%) Prometheus
8 21 (0.40%) Nagios
8 21 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
9 17 (0.33%) QRadar
10 16 (0.31%) Kibana
11 10 (0.19%) Kubeflow
12 8 (0.15%) logstash
13 7 (0.13%) Packer
14 6 (0.12%) Graylog
14 6 (0.12%) Nmap
14 6 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
15 5 (0.096%) Control-M
15 5 (0.096%) Docker Swarm
15 5 (0.096%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1,171 (22.58%) Microsoft
2 220 (4.24%) SAP
3 214 (4.13%) Google
4 180 (3.47%) VMware
5 174 (3.35%) Oracle
6 157 (3.03%) Splunk
7 135 (2.60%) SolarWinds
8 133 (2.56%) Salesforce
9 123 (2.37%) Databricks
10 109 (2.10%) ServiceNow
11 108 (2.08%) Veeam
12 97 (1.87%) Nimble Storage
13 96 (1.85%) Brocade
13 96 (1.85%) Tanium
14 75 (1.45%) Cisco
15 72 (1.39%) Workday
16 53 (1.02%) Red Hat
17 50 (0.96%) IBM
18 48 (0.93%) Adobe
19 46 (0.89%) HubSpot