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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 8 14
Rank change year-on-year -18 +6 +6
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,758 5,806 9,491
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.13% 13.55% 9.62%
As % of the General category 10.52% 18.49% 16.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3,008 2,341 5,403
10th Percentile £33,250 £31,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% +10.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £68,114
90th Percentile £89,000 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.00% +11.11% -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 45,228 31,398 58,699
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 48.76% 73.26% 59.52%
Number of salaries quoted 25,707 15,015 39,761
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £98,750 £105,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - +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 25 May 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 25 May 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 4,307 £55,000 - 2,513
UK excluding London -21 2,956 £49,000 -2.00% 1,597
London -9 1,516 £67,500 +3.85% 1,202
Work from Home -11 1,412 £55,000 - 1,251
North of England -29 912 £47,500 -5.00% 404
South East -4 754 £50,000 -8.26% 502
Midlands -24 545 £48,500 +1.04% 254
North West -31 533 £46,500 -7.00% 241
West Midlands -27 321 £51,250 +6.77% 160
Yorkshire -12 290 £52,500 +16.67% 120
South West -28 286 £50,000 -0.99% 166
East of England -22 237 £45,000 -11.71% 150
East Midlands +2 222 £45,000 -7.22% 94
Scotland -31 117 £40,000 -17.54% 74
North East -27 89 £48,445 +25.83% 52
Wales -1 79 £47,105 -10.28% 36
Northern Ireland -25 39 £52,500 -4.55% 49

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
1 135 (2.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 101 (2.12%) SharePoint
3 76 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
4 74 (1.56%) Apache Spark
5 64 (1.35%) Confluence
6 41 (0.86%) CMS
7 39 (0.82%) Apache
8 21 (0.44%) IIS
9 19 (0.40%) SAS
10 16 (0.34%) WordPress
11 13 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
12 11 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 6 (0.13%) nginx
14 5 (0.11%) Jupyter
15 3 (0.063%) Anypoint
15 3 (0.063%) govService
15 3 (0.063%) JBoss
15 3 (0.063%) Tomcat
16 2 (0.042%) Appian
16 2 (0.042%) Umbraco
Applications
1 556 (11.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 201 (4.22%) Microsoft Office
3 95 (2.00%) MS Visio
4 91 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 30 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
6 26 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
7 13 (0.27%) Maya
8 10 (0.21%) Adobe XD
8 10 (0.21%) CATIA
9 6 (0.13%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.084%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.063%) Acrobat
11 3 (0.063%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.063%) Trello
12 2 (0.042%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.042%) Lectora
12 2 (0.042%) Simulink
12 2 (0.042%) SOLIDWORKS
13 1 (0.021%) PlantUML
13 1 (0.021%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 66 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 41 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 37 (0.78%) NetSuite
4 32 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
5 20 (0.42%) SAP CO
6 15 (0.32%) SAP PM
7 14 (0.29%) SAP ERP
8 11 (0.23%) Maximo
8 11 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
8 11 (0.23%) SAP FI
9 10 (0.21%) Endur
9 10 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
10 9 (0.19%) Workday HCM
11 7 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
11 7 (0.15%) Elite 3E
11 7 (0.15%) Fidessa
11 7 (0.15%) Magento
11 7 (0.15%) SAP PP
11 7 (0.15%) Shopify
12 6 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 849 (17.84%) Azure
2 653 (13.72%) Power Platform
3 485 (10.19%) AWS
4 331 (6.96%) Microsoft 365
5 278 (5.84%) SaaS
6 204 (4.29%) GCP
7 128 (2.69%) Dynamics 365
8 126 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
9 108 (2.27%) Entra ID
10 92 (1.93%) GitHub
11 89 (1.87%) Power Automate
12 88 (1.85%) Snowflake
13 76 (1.60%) dbt
13 76 (1.60%) Google Analytics
14 71 (1.49%) Microsoft Purview
15 69 (1.45%) Amazon S3
16 65 (1.37%) PowerApps
17 59 (1.24%) Serverless
18 54 (1.13%) Azure Data Factory
19 49 (1.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 199 (4.18%) Firewall
2 149 (3.13%) DNS
3 127 (2.67%) VPN
4 103 (2.16%) DHCP
5 78 (1.64%) WAN
6 71 (1.49%) TCP/IP
7 68 (1.43%) LAN
8 60 (1.26%) Broadband
9 58 (1.22%) VLAN
9 58 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
10 56 (1.18%) Wireless
11 48 (1.01%) SAN
12 47 (0.99%) Network Security
13 39 (0.82%) BGP
14 32 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
15 29 (0.61%) OSPF
16 27 (0.57%) HTTP
16 27 (0.57%) SD-WAN
16 27 (0.57%) Wireshark
17 24 (0.50%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 581 (12.21%) Power BI
2 347 (7.29%) Tableau
3 187 (3.93%) SQL Server
4 159 (3.34%) Data Warehouse
5 126 (2.65%) Data Mining
6 85 (1.79%) Metadata
7 75 (1.58%) Data Lake
8 68 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
9 66 (1.39%) Relational Database
10 61 (1.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 60 (1.26%) Looker
12 59 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
13 57 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
14 49 (1.03%) BigQuery
15 48 (1.01%) Power Query
16 46 (0.97%) MySQL
17 43 (0.90%) NoSQL
18 42 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 37 (0.78%) Big Data
20 35 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 167 (3.51%) JIRA
2 136 (2.86%) Git
3 47 (0.99%) GitLab
4 36 (0.76%) Jenkins
5 31 (0.65%) MLflow
6 30 (0.63%) Rational DOORS
7 24 (0.50%) Selenium
8 21 (0.44%) Chocolatey
9 15 (0.32%) Cucumber
10 14 (0.29%) ERwin
10 14 (0.29%) Visual Studio
11 13 (0.27%) IBM UrbanCode
12 12 (0.25%) Bitbucket
13 11 (0.23%) Balsamiq
14 10 (0.21%) Maven
14 10 (0.21%) Oracle APEX
14 10 (0.21%) SonarQube
15 9 (0.19%) Axure RP
15 9 (0.19%) Postman
15 9 (0.19%) Subversion
General
1 2,169 (45.59%) Social Skills
2 1,698 (35.69%) Finance
3 432 (9.08%) Marketing
4 385 (8.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 281 (5.91%) Law
6 272 (5.72%) Public Sector
7 263 (5.53%) Organisational Skills
8 256 (5.38%) Retail
9 254 (5.34%) Banking
10 251 (5.28%) Legal
11 169 (3.55%) Manufacturing
12 159 (3.34%) Influencing Skills
13 152 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
14 109 (2.29%) Telecoms
15 92 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
16 85 (1.79%) Financial Institution
17 75 (1.58%) Electronics
18 73 (1.53%) Advertising
19 71 (1.49%) Aerospace
20 67 (1.41%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,223 (25.70%) Analyst
2 651 (13.68%) Senior
3 319 (6.70%) Data Analyst
4 316 (6.64%) Lead
5 272 (5.72%) Business Analyst
6 243 (5.11%) Developer
7 229 (4.81%) Architect
8 209 (4.39%) Consultant
9 156 (3.28%) Systems Engineer
10 132 (2.77%) Senior Analyst
11 131 (2.75%) Senior Manager
12 116 (2.44%) Support Analyst
12 116 (2.44%) Trainee
13 112 (2.35%) IT Manager
14 110 (2.31%) Data Engineer
15 104 (2.19%) Trainee Analyst
15 104 (2.19%) Trainee Data Analyst
16 103 (2.16%) Support Engineer
17 101 (2.12%) IT Support
18 89 (1.87%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (2.69%) HTML
2 119 (2.50%) CSS
3 98 (2.06%) .NET
4 93 (1.95%) REST
5 85 (1.79%) JSON
6 81 (1.70%) Middleware
7 80 (1.68%) React
8 76 (1.60%) XML
9 61 (1.28%) PyTorch
10 56 (1.18%) TensorFlow
11 53 (1.11%) SOAP
12 51 (1.07%) Kafka
13 46 (0.97%) Node.js
14 41 (0.86%) scikit-learn
15 38 (0.80%) PySpark
16 35 (0.74%) RESTful
17 34 (0.71%) EDI
18 33 (0.69%) LangChain
18 33 (0.69%) Pandas
19 26 (0.55%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 500 (10.51%) Analytical Mindset
2 233 (4.90%) Management Information System
3 201 (4.22%) Onboarding
4 194 (4.08%) Product Ownership
5 189 (3.97%) Self-Motivation
6 114 (2.40%) Data Centre
7 100 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
8 93 (1.95%) Cloud Native
9 84 (1.77%) Data Structures
10 82 (1.72%) Security Posture
11 79 (1.66%) Algorithms
12 72 (1.51%) Cyber Threat
12 72 (1.51%) Driving Licence
13 69 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
14 54 (1.13%) Virtual Team
15 53 (1.11%) Public Cloud
16 51 (1.07%) FMCG
17 50 (1.05%) Social Media
18 46 (0.97%) Cyber Defence
19 43 (0.90%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 344 (7.23%) Windows
2 207 (4.35%) Linux
3 149 (3.13%) Windows Server
4 59 (1.24%) Windows Server 2016
5 34 (0.71%) Unix
6 23 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 22 (0.46%) Windows 10
8 18 (0.38%) Mac OS
9 16 (0.34%) Android
10 15 (0.32%) Apple iOS
11 10 (0.21%) CentOS
12 9 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
13 8 (0.17%) Ubuntu
13 8 (0.17%) VMS
14 4 (0.084%) AIX
14 4 (0.084%) Rocky
14 4 (0.084%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.042%) Debian
16 1 (0.021%) OpenBSD
16 1 (0.021%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,097 (44.07%) Problem-Solving
2 1,126 (23.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,053 (22.13%) Analytics
4 1,008 (21.19%) Decision-Making
5 830 (17.44%) Agile
6 675 (14.19%) Business Intelligence
7 635 (13.35%) AI
8 610 (12.82%) Stakeholder Management
9 519 (10.91%) Project Management
10 468 (9.84%) Mentoring
11 467 (9.82%) Actionable Insight
12 463 (9.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 456 (9.58%) Roadmaps
14 444 (9.33%) Data Analysis
15 443 (9.31%) Cybersecurity
16 439 (9.23%) Data Modelling
17 381 (8.01%) Data Governance
18 365 (7.67%) Analytical Thinking
19 363 (7.63%) DevOps
20 355 (7.46%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,001 (21.04%) SQL
2 869 (18.26%) Python
3 178 (3.74%) PowerShell
4 170 (3.57%) Java
5 169 (3.55%) JavaScript
6 130 (2.73%) C#
7 74 (1.56%) R
8 69 (1.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 64 (1.35%) Bash
9 64 (1.35%) C++
10 43 (0.90%) T-SQL
11 41 (0.86%) TypeScript
12 40 (0.84%) VBA
13 37 (0.78%) MATLAB
14 23 (0.48%) Scala
15 20 (0.42%) Go
16 19 (0.40%) PHP
17 17 (0.36%) PL/SQL
18 16 (0.34%) C
19 15 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 939 (19.74%) Degree
2 377 (7.92%) Security Cleared
3 262 (5.51%) SC Cleared
4 228 (4.79%) ACCA
5 215 (4.52%) CIMA
6 166 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 157 (3.30%) DBS Check
8 150 (3.15%) CISSP
9 115 (2.42%) Cisco Certification
10 103 (2.16%) CISM
10 103 (2.16%) Master's Degree
11 94 (1.98%) PMI Certification
12 85 (1.79%) DV Cleared
13 83 (1.74%) PMP
14 72 (1.51%) Azure Certification
14 72 (1.51%) IRCA
15 71 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
16 67 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
17 61 (1.28%) CompTIA Security+
18 54 (1.13%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 440 (9.25%) Data Quality
2 361 (7.59%) GDPR
3 292 (6.14%) QA
4 247 (5.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 218 (4.58%) NIST
6 126 (2.65%) Cyber Essentials
7 122 (2.56%) SLA
8 109 (2.29%) ISO 9001
9 107 (2.25%) Accessibility
10 104 (2.19%) PCI DSS
11 67 (1.41%) GRC
12 61 (1.28%) PMO
13 58 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
14 39 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 36 (0.76%) IFRS
16 35 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 32 (0.67%) COBIT
18 28 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
19 25 (0.53%) NCSC
20 23 (0.48%) ITGC
System Software
1 236 (4.96%) Active Directory
2 78 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 74 (1.56%) Docker
4 64 (1.35%) Hyper-V
5 48 (1.01%) Terminal Server
6 26 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.34%) ProxySG
8 12 (0.25%) vSphere
9 10 (0.21%) VMware NSX
10 8 (0.17%) IAG
10 8 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
11 5 (0.11%) Firmware
12 4 (0.084%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.084%) XenApp
13 3 (0.063%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.063%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.042%) DFS Replication
14 2 (0.042%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.042%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.021%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 127 (2.67%) Terraform
2 78 (1.64%) Kubernetes
3 68 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 59 (1.24%) Ansible
5 32 (0.67%) Grafana
6 30 (0.63%) SCCM
7 24 (0.50%) Nagios
7 24 (0.50%) Prometheus
8 21 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (0.29%) QRadar
10 12 (0.25%) Kibana
11 9 (0.19%) Kubeflow
12 6 (0.13%) Control-M
12 6 (0.13%) logstash
12 6 (0.13%) Packer
13 5 (0.11%) CASB
13 5 (0.11%) Graylog
14 4 (0.084%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.084%) Podman
14 4 (0.084%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 1,084 (22.78%) Microsoft
2 202 (4.25%) SAP
3 180 (3.78%) Google
4 175 (3.68%) Oracle
5 153 (3.22%) Salesforce
6 139 (2.92%) VMware
7 110 (2.31%) Databricks
7 110 (2.31%) ServiceNow
8 98 (2.06%) SolarWinds
9 96 (2.02%) Splunk
10 76 (1.60%) Workday
11 73 (1.53%) Cisco
12 59 (1.24%) Veeam
13 53 (1.11%) IBM
14 49 (1.03%) Tanium
15 48 (1.01%) Brocade
15 48 (1.01%) Nimble Storage
16 47 (0.99%) Dell
16 47 (0.99%) Red Hat
17 44 (0.92%) Adobe