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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 8 14
Rank change year-on-year -16 +6 +5
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 6,541 6,221 7,301
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.55% 12.57% 9.76%
As % of the General category 12.00% 18.39% 16.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3,757 2,477 2,775
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £90,000
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 54,526 33,834 43,024
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.23% 68.38% 57.54%
Number of salaries quoted 33,381 17,451 21,468
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,818 £34,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £44,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% -12.00% -1.93%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 5,735 £52,500 +1.45% 8,859
UK excluding London -14 4,407 £47,500 +5.56% 4,942
Work from Home -5 2,196 £55,000 +10.00% 3,608
London -12 1,834 £65,000 - 4,522
North of England -18 1,186 £47,500 +5.56% 1,141
South East -10 998 £49,425 +2.44% 1,264
Midlands -9 767 £46,743 +4.94% 732
North West -15 722 £46,500 +2.23% 643
South West -8 620 £47,500 +5.56% 591
West Midlands -19 391 £47,500 +5.56% 453
East Midlands -4 374 £42,500 +6.25% 279
Yorkshire -7 319 £47,000 +17.50% 391
East of England -14 287 £47,500 +21.79% 498
Northern Ireland +5 211 £43,750 -20.45% 195
Wales -4 207 £45,000 -10.40% 176
North East -19 151 £50,500 +26.25% 113
Scotland -19 150 £47,500 +21.79% 407

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
1 192 (2.94%) SharePoint
2 181 (2.77%) Microsoft Exchange
3 112 (1.71%) Confluence
4 44 (0.67%) CMS
5 41 (0.63%) Apache Spark
6 39 (0.60%) Apache
7 37 (0.57%) IIS
8 30 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
9 28 (0.43%) SAS
10 15 (0.23%) WordPress
11 12 (0.18%) Jupyter
12 11 (0.17%) Headless CMS
12 11 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
13 10 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 9 (0.14%) WebLogic
14 9 (0.14%) WebSphere
15 8 (0.12%) OpenStack
16 4 (0.061%) nginx
17 3 (0.046%) Oracle SOA Suite
17 3 (0.046%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 777 (11.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 343 (5.24%) Microsoft Office
3 138 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 74 (1.13%) MS Visio
5 55 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
6 46 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
7 18 (0.28%) Simulink
8 17 (0.26%) AutoCAD
9 10 (0.15%) Chatbot
10 9 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 9 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
11 8 (0.12%) Photoshop
12 7 (0.11%) Adobe XD
13 6 (0.092%) Acrobat
13 6 (0.092%) EPLAN
13 6 (0.092%) Siemens NX
14 5 (0.076%) InDesign
14 5 (0.076%) Revit
15 4 (0.061%) Adobe Illustrator
15 4 (0.061%) Notion
Business Applications
1 110 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 65 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
3 36 (0.55%) NetSuite
4 34 (0.52%) Dynamics GP
5 28 (0.43%) Shopify
6 19 (0.29%) Workday HCM
7 15 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
8 14 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
9 12 (0.18%) Magento
9 12 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
9 12 (0.18%) SAP CO
9 12 (0.18%) SAP FI
10 11 (0.17%) Infor M3
10 11 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
11 10 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
11 10 (0.15%) Elite 3E
11 10 (0.15%) SAP Business One
12 9 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
12 9 (0.14%) Sage 200
12 9 (0.14%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,038 (15.87%) Azure
2 763 (11.66%) Power Platform
3 662 (10.12%) AWS
4 452 (6.91%) Microsoft 365
5 395 (6.04%) SaaS
6 307 (4.69%) GCP
7 205 (3.13%) Entra ID
8 163 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
9 147 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
10 130 (1.99%) Google Analytics
11 129 (1.97%) Google Ads
12 104 (1.59%) GitHub
13 91 (1.39%) Meta Ads
13 91 (1.39%) Serverless
14 84 (1.28%) Power Automate
15 83 (1.27%) Microsoft Purview
16 82 (1.25%) PowerApps
17 77 (1.18%) Amazon S3
18 74 (1.13%) Snowflake
19 71 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 201 (3.07%) DNS
2 156 (2.38%) DHCP
3 144 (2.20%) Firewall
4 130 (1.99%) VPN
5 112 (1.71%) TCP/IP
6 93 (1.42%) Internet
7 78 (1.19%) WAN
8 71 (1.09%) LAN
9 69 (1.05%) Network Security
10 56 (0.86%) Wireless
11 54 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
12 49 (0.75%) VLAN
13 45 (0.69%) Broadband
14 38 (0.58%) HTTP
15 34 (0.52%) SAN
16 28 (0.43%) VoIP
17 25 (0.38%) 5G
17 25 (0.38%) SMS
18 24 (0.37%) BGP
19 22 (0.34%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 686 (10.49%) Power BI
2 208 (3.18%) SQL Server
3 195 (2.98%) Tableau
4 179 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
5 120 (1.83%) Relational Database
6 112 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
7 109 (1.67%) Metadata
8 89 (1.36%) MySQL
9 84 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
10 82 (1.25%) Looker
10 82 (1.25%) Power Query
11 76 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 65 (0.99%) Data Lake
13 59 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 56 (0.86%) Big Data
15 50 (0.76%) NoSQL
16 46 (0.70%) BigQuery
17 39 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
18 38 (0.58%) MongoDB
19 36 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 275 (4.20%) Git
2 271 (4.14%) JIRA
3 57 (0.87%) Jenkins
4 56 (0.86%) GitLab
5 32 (0.49%) Selenium
6 27 (0.41%) Rational DOORS
7 26 (0.40%) Eclipse
8 23 (0.35%) Cucumber
9 22 (0.34%) Claude Code
10 21 (0.32%) Postman
11 19 (0.29%) LabVIEW
11 19 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
12 15 (0.23%) Bitbucket
12 15 (0.23%) Burp Suite
13 14 (0.21%) JMeter
13 14 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
14 12 (0.18%) Metasploit
15 11 (0.17%) Chocolatey
16 10 (0.15%) Cypress.io
16 10 (0.15%) SonarQube
General
1 3,316 (50.70%) Social Skills
2 2,119 (32.40%) Finance
3 759 (11.60%) Marketing
4 555 (8.48%) Organisational Skills
5 554 (8.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 470 (7.19%) Retail
7 433 (6.62%) Public Sector
8 427 (6.53%) Law
9 420 (6.42%) Legal
10 388 (5.93%) Manufacturing
11 336 (5.14%) Influencing Skills
12 297 (4.54%) Presentation Skills
13 245 (3.75%) Banking
14 213 (3.26%) Aerospace
15 161 (2.46%) Electronics
15 161 (2.46%) Telecoms
16 118 (1.80%) Advertising
17 104 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
18 82 (1.25%) Automotive
19 71 (1.09%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,539 (23.53%) Analyst
2 871 (13.32%) Senior
3 426 (6.51%) Lead
4 316 (4.83%) Developer
5 314 (4.80%) Data Analyst
6 304 (4.65%) Business Analyst
7 262 (4.01%) Senior Analyst
8 250 (3.82%) Consultant
9 237 (3.62%) Support Analyst
10 232 (3.55%) Architect
11 190 (2.90%) Data Engineer
12 161 (2.46%) Systems Engineer
13 126 (1.93%) Support Engineer
14 116 (1.77%) Applications Support
14 116 (1.77%) IT Support
15 115 (1.76%) Administrator
16 110 (1.68%) Security Analyst
17 108 (1.65%) Marketing Manager
17 108 (1.65%) Senior Manager
18 107 (1.64%) ITSM Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (2.60%) .NET
2 156 (2.38%) Terraform
3 139 (2.13%) REST
4 123 (1.88%) HTML
5 112 (1.71%) CSS
6 90 (1.38%) JSON
7 85 (1.30%) RESTful
8 81 (1.24%) Middleware
9 80 (1.22%) XML
10 76 (1.16%) PySpark
11 75 (1.15%) React
12 64 (0.98%) SOAP
13 63 (0.96%) Kafka
14 49 (0.75%) EDI
15 46 (0.70%) LDAP
15 46 (0.70%) Web Services
16 43 (0.66%) Spring Boot
17 42 (0.64%) Spring
18 39 (0.60%) ASP.NET
19 38 (0.58%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 481 (7.35%) Management Information System
2 455 (6.96%) Analytical Mindset
3 399 (6.10%) Onboarding
4 325 (4.97%) Self-Motivation
5 289 (4.42%) Product Ownership
6 178 (2.72%) Driving Licence
7 150 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
8 148 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
9 140 (2.14%) Cloud Native
10 133 (2.03%) Social Media
11 120 (1.83%) Blog
12 112 (1.71%) Cyber Threat
13 107 (1.64%) Data Centre
14 106 (1.62%) Marketing Technology
15 101 (1.54%) Security Posture
16 97 (1.48%) Virtual Team
17 88 (1.35%) Data Structures
18 80 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
19 69 (1.05%) AI Agents
20 64 (0.98%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 462 (7.06%) Windows
2 318 (4.86%) Linux
3 222 (3.39%) Windows Server
4 93 (1.42%) Windows Server 2016
5 44 (0.67%) Windows 10
6 36 (0.55%) Mac OS
7 32 (0.49%) Unix
8 26 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 24 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
10 21 (0.32%) Apple iOS
11 19 (0.29%) Android
12 9 (0.14%) CentOS
13 8 (0.12%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.092%) Debian
14 6 (0.092%) VMS
15 5 (0.076%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.061%) CoreOS
17 2 (0.031%) AIX
17 2 (0.031%) Rocky
17 2 (0.031%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,180 (48.62%) Problem-Solving
2 1,988 (30.39%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,591 (24.32%) Decision-Making
4 1,346 (20.58%) Stakeholder Management
5 1,295 (19.80%) Analytics
6 1,186 (18.13%) AI
7 1,126 (17.21%) Agile
8 855 (13.07%) Business Intelligence
9 723 (11.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 658 (10.06%) Mentoring
11 624 (9.54%) Roadmaps
12 615 (9.40%) Validation
13 600 (9.17%) Actionable Insight
14 573 (8.76%) Process Improvement
15 566 (8.65%) Data Analysis
16 551 (8.42%) CRM
16 551 (8.42%) Project Management
17 545 (8.33%) Risk Management
18 543 (8.30%) Project Delivery
19 533 (8.15%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 1,238 (18.93%) SQL
2 888 (13.58%) Python
3 238 (3.64%) JavaScript
4 214 (3.27%) Java
5 206 (3.15%) C#
6 194 (2.97%) PowerShell
7 119 (1.82%) C++
8 96 (1.47%) Bash
9 88 (1.35%) R
10 85 (1.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 75 (1.15%) TypeScript
12 53 (0.81%) T-SQL
13 52 (0.79%) MATLAB
14 46 (0.70%) Shell Script
15 41 (0.63%) C
16 33 (0.50%) PL/SQL
17 29 (0.44%) Scala
18 27 (0.41%) Go
19 25 (0.38%) Perl
20 24 (0.37%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,352 (20.67%) Degree
2 727 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 500 (7.64%) SC Cleared
4 258 (3.94%) ACCA
5 244 (3.73%) CIMA
6 181 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 161 (2.46%) DV Cleared
8 143 (2.19%) DBS Check
9 141 (2.16%) CISSP
10 131 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
11 112 (1.71%) CISM
12 103 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
13 101 (1.54%) Master's Degree
14 80 (1.22%) HND
15 78 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
16 74 (1.13%) Azure Certification
17 67 (1.02%) CompTIA Security+
18 60 (0.92%) HNC
18 60 (0.92%) PMI Certification
19 50 (0.76%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 651 (9.95%) Data Quality
2 376 (5.75%) QA
3 324 (4.95%) GDPR
4 221 (3.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 208 (3.18%) Accessibility
6 166 (2.54%) NIST
7 146 (2.23%) Cyber Essentials
8 143 (2.19%) SLA
9 119 (1.82%) PCI DSS
10 70 (1.07%) GRC
11 68 (1.04%) PMO
12 61 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
13 54 (0.83%) ISO 9001
14 41 (0.63%) IFRS
15 35 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 34 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 30 (0.46%) NCSC
18 26 (0.40%) COBIT
18 26 (0.40%) DO-254
19 25 (0.38%) GAAP
System Software
1 357 (5.46%) Active Directory
2 184 (2.81%) Docker
3 106 (1.62%) Hyper-V
4 81 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 72 (1.10%) Terminal Server
6 51 (0.78%) Firmware
7 23 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
8 18 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
10 11 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
11 8 (0.12%) vSphere
12 7 (0.11%) Ceph
13 6 (0.092%) VMware NSX
14 4 (0.061%) KVM
14 4 (0.061%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.046%) DFS Replication
16 2 (0.031%) IAG
16 2 (0.031%) Slurm Workload Manager
17 1 (0.015%) HDFS
17 1 (0.015%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 125 (1.91%) Kubernetes
2 84 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
3 71 (1.09%) Ansible
4 48 (0.73%) Grafana
5 41 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
6 26 (0.40%) Prometheus
7 23 (0.35%) Kibana
8 21 (0.32%) QRadar
9 19 (0.29%) SCCM
10 12 (0.18%) Nagios
10 12 (0.18%) Nmap
11 11 (0.17%) Podman
12 9 (0.14%) Argo
12 9 (0.14%) Functional Safety
12 9 (0.14%) logstash
13 7 (0.11%) Check_MK
13 7 (0.11%) Istio
14 6 (0.092%) Graylog
14 6 (0.092%) Nessus
14 6 (0.092%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1,576 (24.09%) Microsoft
2 412 (6.30%) Google
3 249 (3.81%) SAP
4 203 (3.10%) Oracle
5 173 (2.64%) VMware
6 156 (2.38%) Splunk
7 155 (2.37%) Salesforce
8 142 (2.17%) ServiceNow
9 134 (2.05%) Databricks
10 94 (1.44%) SolarWinds
11 87 (1.33%) Cisco
12 80 (1.22%) Veeam
13 73 (1.12%) Brocade
13 73 (1.12%) Nimble Storage
14 72 (1.10%) Tanium
15 71 (1.09%) Adobe
15 71 (1.09%) HubSpot
15 71 (1.09%) YouTube
16 61 (0.93%) Workday
17 43 (0.66%) Sage