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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 9 15
Rank change year-on-year -12 +6 +3
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 6,680 5,835 6,406
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.61% 11.93% 9.09%
As % of the General category 12.07% 17.53% 15.74%
Number of salaries quoted 3,736 2,505 2,597
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,375 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.75% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £91,250
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 55,351 33,282 40,696
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.46% 68.06% 57.73%
Number of salaries quoted 34,013 17,680 20,127
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,995 £33,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -10.26% -2.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £43,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +16.28% -14.00% -1.38%

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 16 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Top 18 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 16 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 -12 5,839 £51,500 +3.00% 1,190
UK excluding London -12 4,566 £47,500 +5.56% 977
Work from Home -5 2,269 £55,000 +10.00% 654
London -12 1,821 £65,000 - 398
North of England -16 1,192 £47,500 +5.56% 221
South East -10 1,037 £48,000 +2.13% 300
Midlands -8 809 £45,000 +3.92% 169
North West -13 700 £46,500 +3.33% 118
South West -6 642 £46,743 +3.87% 162
West Midlands -14 421 £47,500 +5.56% 99
East Midlands -4 386 £42,500 +10.39% 70
Yorkshire -7 334 £47,000 +17.50% 76
East of England -8 304 £47,500 +21.79% 86
Northern Ireland +14 228 £45,000 -14.29% 19
Wales -5 220 £45,000 -8.28% 21
North East -23 167 £52,231 +30.58% 30
Scotland -23 157 £52,960 +56.69% 31
Isle of Man - 1 £42,500 - 1

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
1 201 (3.01%) SharePoint
2 182 (2.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 116 (1.74%) Confluence
4 44 (0.66%) Apache Spark
5 42 (0.63%) CMS
6 38 (0.57%) Apache
7 35 (0.52%) IIS
8 34 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
9 31 (0.46%) SAS
10 18 (0.27%) WordPress
11 15 (0.22%) Jupyter
12 14 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
13 11 (0.16%) Headless CMS
14 10 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 9 (0.13%) WebLogic
15 9 (0.13%) WebSphere
16 8 (0.12%) OpenStack
17 6 (0.090%) nginx
18 4 (0.060%) Office Communications Server
18 4 (0.060%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 828 (12.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 373 (5.58%) Microsoft Office
3 145 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 68 (1.02%) MS Visio
5 63 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
6 46 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
7 20 (0.30%) Simulink
8 18 (0.27%) AutoCAD
9 13 (0.19%) Chatbot
10 10 (0.15%) SOLIDWORKS
11 8 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 8 (0.12%) EPLAN
11 8 (0.12%) Notion
12 7 (0.10%) Adobe XD
13 6 (0.090%) Acrobat
13 6 (0.090%) Photoshop
13 6 (0.090%) Revit
13 6 (0.090%) Siemens NX
14 5 (0.075%) InDesign
15 4 (0.060%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 104 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 59 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 34 (0.51%) Dynamics GP
4 30 (0.45%) Shopify
5 28 (0.42%) NetSuite
6 20 (0.30%) Workday HCM
7 15 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
8 12 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
9 11 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
9 11 (0.16%) Magento
9 11 (0.16%) SAP Business One
9 11 (0.16%) SAP CO
9 11 (0.16%) SAP FI
9 11 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
10 10 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
10 10 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
10 10 (0.15%) Sage 200
11 9 (0.13%) Elite 3E
11 9 (0.13%) Infor M3
11 9 (0.13%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 1,067 (15.97%) Azure
2 775 (11.60%) Power Platform
3 672 (10.06%) AWS
4 477 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
5 417 (6.24%) SaaS
6 315 (4.72%) GCP
7 237 (3.55%) Entra ID
8 160 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
9 144 (2.16%) Google Ads
10 134 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
11 124 (1.86%) Google Analytics
12 108 (1.62%) GitHub
13 101 (1.51%) Meta Ads
14 95 (1.42%) Serverless
15 84 (1.26%) Snowflake
16 81 (1.21%) Microsoft Purview
17 80 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
18 76 (1.14%) Amazon S3
19 75 (1.12%) PowerApps
20 73 (1.09%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 212 (3.17%) DNS
2 166 (2.49%) DHCP
3 153 (2.29%) Firewall
4 136 (2.04%) VPN
5 121 (1.81%) TCP/IP
6 100 (1.50%) Internet
7 78 (1.17%) WAN
8 70 (1.05%) LAN
8 70 (1.05%) Network Security
9 57 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
10 55 (0.82%) Wireless
11 54 (0.81%) VLAN
12 48 (0.72%) Broadband
13 37 (0.55%) HTTP
13 37 (0.55%) SAN
14 31 (0.46%) 5G
14 31 (0.46%) VoIP
15 27 (0.40%) BGP
16 26 (0.39%) SMS
17 25 (0.37%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 698 (10.45%) Power BI
2 209 (3.13%) SQL Server
3 181 (2.71%) Tableau
4 179 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
5 138 (2.07%) Relational Database
6 117 (1.75%) Metadata
7 110 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
8 94 (1.41%) MySQL
9 91 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
10 88 (1.32%) Power Query
11 85 (1.27%) Looker
12 67 (1.00%) Data Lake
13 64 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 61 (0.91%) Big Data
15 52 (0.78%) NoSQL
16 51 (0.76%) BigQuery
16 51 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 41 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
18 39 (0.58%) MongoDB
19 38 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 289 (4.33%) Git
2 272 (4.07%) JIRA
3 64 (0.96%) GitLab
4 58 (0.87%) Jenkins
5 33 (0.49%) Selenium
6 26 (0.39%) Eclipse
7 25 (0.37%) Postman
8 23 (0.34%) Claude Code
8 23 (0.34%) LabVIEW
9 22 (0.33%) Rational DOORS
10 20 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
11 19 (0.28%) Cucumber
12 18 (0.27%) Burp Suite
13 15 (0.22%) Metasploit
13 15 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
14 13 (0.19%) JMeter
15 12 (0.18%) Bitbucket
16 11 (0.16%) Chocolatey
17 10 (0.15%) Cypress.io
17 10 (0.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 3,410 (51.05%) Social Skills
2 2,134 (31.95%) Finance
3 785 (11.75%) Marketing
4 599 (8.97%) Organisational Skills
5 567 (8.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 480 (7.19%) Retail
7 457 (6.84%) Public Sector
8 449 (6.72%) Manufacturing
9 446 (6.68%) Legal
10 415 (6.21%) Law
11 343 (5.13%) Influencing Skills
12 323 (4.84%) Presentation Skills
13 252 (3.77%) Banking
14 217 (3.25%) Aerospace
15 184 (2.75%) Electronics
16 169 (2.53%) Telecoms
17 126 (1.89%) Advertising
18 111 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
19 94 (1.41%) Automotive
20 71 (1.06%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,522 (22.78%) Analyst
2 902 (13.50%) Senior
3 440 (6.59%) Lead
4 326 (4.88%) Developer
5 301 (4.51%) Data Analyst
6 291 (4.36%) Business Analyst
7 273 (4.09%) Senior Analyst
8 253 (3.79%) Consultant
9 240 (3.59%) Support Analyst
10 228 (3.41%) Architect
11 203 (3.04%) Data Engineer
12 154 (2.31%) Systems Engineer
13 124 (1.86%) Support Engineer
14 119 (1.78%) IT Support
15 116 (1.74%) Applications Support
16 113 (1.69%) Administrator
16 113 (1.69%) Marketing Manager
17 107 (1.60%) ITSM Analyst
18 105 (1.57%) Senior Manager
19 101 (1.51%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (2.75%) .NET
2 164 (2.46%) Terraform
3 126 (1.89%) REST
4 114 (1.71%) HTML
5 104 (1.56%) CSS
6 92 (1.38%) RESTful
7 81 (1.21%) React
8 80 (1.20%) PySpark
9 72 (1.08%) JSON
10 70 (1.05%) XML
11 63 (0.94%) Kafka
12 58 (0.87%) Middleware
13 50 (0.75%) SOAP
14 49 (0.73%) Spring Boot
15 48 (0.72%) Spring
16 44 (0.66%) LDAP
17 43 (0.64%) Web Services
18 41 (0.61%) EDI
19 40 (0.60%) AngularJS
19 40 (0.60%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 510 (7.63%) Management Information System
2 434 (6.50%) Onboarding
3 425 (6.36%) Analytical Mindset
4 348 (5.21%) Self-Motivation
5 282 (4.22%) Product Ownership
6 206 (3.08%) Driving Licence
7 170 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
8 153 (2.29%) Cloud Native
9 148 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
10 139 (2.08%) Social Media
11 120 (1.80%) Blog
12 114 (1.71%) Data Centre
13 111 (1.66%) Cyber Threat
14 107 (1.60%) Marketing Technology
15 99 (1.48%) Virtual Team
16 92 (1.38%) Data Structures
16 92 (1.38%) Security Posture
17 81 (1.21%) AI Agents
18 80 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
19 65 (0.97%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 472 (7.07%) Windows
2 331 (4.96%) Linux
3 230 (3.44%) Windows Server
4 95 (1.42%) Windows Server 2016
5 43 (0.64%) Windows 10
6 39 (0.58%) macOS
7 28 (0.42%) Unix
7 28 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
8 25 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 20 (0.30%) Apple iOS
10 19 (0.28%) Android
11 9 (0.13%) CentOS
12 8 (0.12%) Ubuntu
13 6 (0.090%) Debian
13 6 (0.090%) VMS
14 5 (0.075%) OpenVMS
15 4 (0.060%) CoreOS
16 2 (0.030%) Rocky
16 2 (0.030%) zOS
17 1 (0.015%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,321 (49.72%) Problem-Solving
2 2,059 (30.82%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,591 (23.82%) Decision-Making
4 1,446 (21.65%) Stakeholder Management
5 1,338 (20.03%) Analytics
6 1,300 (19.46%) AI
7 1,129 (16.90%) Agile
8 888 (13.29%) Business Intelligence
9 718 (10.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 662 (9.91%) Mentoring
11 647 (9.69%) Validation
12 625 (9.36%) Actionable Insight
13 624 (9.34%) Roadmaps
14 604 (9.04%) Process Improvement
15 595 (8.91%) Data Analysis
16 567 (8.49%) CRM
17 565 (8.46%) Customer Service
18 557 (8.34%) Project Management
19 551 (8.25%) CI/CD
20 540 (8.08%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1,288 (19.28%) SQL
2 936 (14.01%) Python
3 229 (3.43%) JavaScript
4 215 (3.22%) C#
5 211 (3.16%) Java
6 201 (3.01%) PowerShell
7 121 (1.81%) C++
8 102 (1.53%) R
9 99 (1.48%) Bash
10 85 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 75 (1.12%) TypeScript
12 54 (0.81%) MATLAB
13 53 (0.79%) T-SQL
14 46 (0.69%) Shell Script
15 43 (0.64%) C
16 32 (0.48%) PL/SQL
17 28 (0.42%) Scala
18 27 (0.40%) Go
19 26 (0.39%) Perl
20 25 (0.37%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,406 (21.05%) Degree
2 765 (11.45%) Security Cleared
3 539 (8.07%) SC Cleared
4 241 (3.61%) ACCA
5 228 (3.41%) CIMA
6 168 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 164 (2.46%) DV Cleared
8 139 (2.08%) DBS Check
9 131 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
10 129 (1.93%) CISSP
11 118 (1.77%) Master's Degree
12 103 (1.54%) CISM
13 102 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
14 91 (1.36%) HND
15 86 (1.29%) Azure Certification
16 83 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
17 70 (1.05%) HNC
18 58 (0.87%) CompTIA Security+
19 55 (0.82%) AWS Certification
19 55 (0.82%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 667 (9.99%) Data Quality
2 396 (5.93%) QA
3 316 (4.73%) GDPR
4 230 (3.44%) Accessibility
5 201 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 145 (2.17%) NIST
7 144 (2.16%) Cyber Essentials
8 133 (1.99%) SLA
9 115 (1.72%) PCI DSS
10 74 (1.11%) Actionable Recommendations
11 65 (0.97%) PMO
12 63 (0.94%) GRC
13 52 (0.78%) ISO 9001
14 39 (0.58%) IFRS
15 32 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 32 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 31 (0.46%) NCSC
17 27 (0.40%) DO-254
18 24 (0.36%) GAAP
19 22 (0.33%) GMP
System Software
1 384 (5.75%) Active Directory
2 194 (2.90%) Docker
3 115 (1.72%) Hyper-V
4 82 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 72 (1.08%) Terminal Server
6 57 (0.85%) Firmware
7 25 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
8 18 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
10 11 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
11 8 (0.12%) vSphere
12 7 (0.10%) Ceph
13 6 (0.090%) VMware NSX
14 5 (0.075%) DFS Replication
14 5 (0.075%) ISA Server
15 4 (0.060%) KVM
15 4 (0.060%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 2 (0.030%) IAG
16 2 (0.030%) Slurm Workload Manager
17 1 (0.015%) zsh
Systems Management
1 132 (1.98%) Kubernetes
2 93 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
3 74 (1.11%) Ansible
4 49 (0.73%) Grafana
5 43 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
6 31 (0.46%) Prometheus
7 26 (0.39%) SCCM
8 21 (0.31%) Kibana
9 19 (0.28%) QRadar
10 15 (0.22%) Nmap
11 14 (0.21%) Nagios
12 11 (0.16%) Podman
13 10 (0.15%) Functional Safety
14 9 (0.13%) Argo
14 9 (0.13%) FortiGate
15 8 (0.12%) EnCase
15 8 (0.12%) FTK
16 7 (0.10%) Check_MK
16 7 (0.10%) Istio
16 7 (0.10%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 1,664 (24.91%) Microsoft
2 432 (6.47%) Google
3 250 (3.74%) SAP
4 205 (3.07%) Oracle
5 175 (2.62%) VMware
6 160 (2.40%) Splunk
7 154 (2.31%) Salesforce
8 148 (2.22%) ServiceNow
9 138 (2.07%) Databricks
10 103 (1.54%) SolarWinds
11 101 (1.51%) Cisco
12 80 (1.20%) Veeam
13 76 (1.14%) YouTube
14 73 (1.09%) Brocade
14 73 (1.09%) Nimble Storage
14 73 (1.09%) Tanium
15 71 (1.06%) HubSpot
16 69 (1.03%) Adobe
17 55 (0.82%) TikTok
18 46 (0.69%) Workday