Analytical Skills Jobs

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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 13 23
Rank change year-on-year +4 +10 0
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 6,650 9,692 7,523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.07% 9.40% 8.82%
As % of the General category 16.29% 16.30% 13.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2,670 5,088 4,664
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -8.90% -0.21%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,906 £71,250
90th Percentile £88,278 £87,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £46,979 £47,500
% change year-on-year +6.43% -1.10% -

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 common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 40,821 59,444 56,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 67.95% 57.63% 66.29%
Number of salaries quoted 20,075 38,155 34,553
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,500 £32,157
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,625 £42,631
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,793 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.37% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £80,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £93,750 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,683 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +0.39% -9.52% +5.00%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Analytical Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills.

Salary trend for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Top 19 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 July 2025. 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 +3 5,879 £55,000 +10.00% 6,449
UK excluding London +4 4,252 £50,000 +6.43% 3,459
Work from Home +4 2,502 £52,500 - 2,711
London +3 1,918 £65,000 - 3,526
North of England +12 1,663 £47,500 - 881
North West +11 1,252 £50,000 +5.26% 510
South East -9 810 £55,000 +15.79% 922
Midlands -9 577 £47,500 +10.11% 613
East of England -7 387 £47,500 - 312
Scotland +54 379 £45,635 +1.41% 247
South West +6 361 £50,000 +5.26% 372
West Midlands -7 338 £47,500 +6.97% 376
Yorkshire -3 328 £45,000 -5.26% 289
East Midlands -10 238 £48,000 +12.94% 234
North East +10 81 £40,000 -8.83% 88
Wales -17 49 £55,000 +22.53% 94
Northern Ireland +26 26 £55,000 +0.54% 82
Channel Islands +4 6 £80,000 +18.52%
Isle of Man -3 1 £31,000 -16.22%

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 147 (2.21%) SharePoint
2 91 (1.37%) CMS
3 75 (1.13%) Oracle Application Server
4 74 (1.11%) Confluence
5 72 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
6 60 (0.90%) Apache Spark
7 26 (0.39%) IBM Domino
8 23 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
9 20 (0.30%) Apache
10 19 (0.29%) nginx
11 13 (0.20%) WordPress
12 12 (0.18%) Skype for Business
13 11 (0.17%) SAS
14 10 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
15 9 (0.14%) Moodle
15 9 (0.14%) Tomcat
16 8 (0.12%) ArcGIS
16 8 (0.12%) Camunda
17 7 (0.11%) Luigi
18 6 (0.090%) Kinematics
Applications
1 537 (8.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 380 (5.71%) Chatbot
3 320 (4.81%) Microsoft Office
4 310 (4.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 62 (0.93%) Abaqus
6 47 (0.71%) MS Visio
7 34 (0.51%) Maya
8 31 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
9 30 (0.45%) Mathcad
10 24 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
11 13 (0.20%) AutoCAD
12 10 (0.15%) Simulink
12 10 (0.15%) SOLIDWORKS
13 9 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 9 (0.14%) Adobe XD
14 8 (0.12%) Blender
14 8 (0.12%) Photoshop
14 8 (0.12%) Trello
15 5 (0.075%) Adobe Illustrator
16 4 (0.060%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 86 (1.29%) NetSuite
2 83 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 58 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
4 42 (0.63%) SAP BPC
5 40 (0.60%) Infor LN
5 40 (0.60%) Shopify
6 25 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
7 17 (0.26%) SAP CO
7 17 (0.26%) SAP FI
7 17 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
8 15 (0.23%) SAP IBP
9 14 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
10 12 (0.18%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
10 12 (0.18%) Sprinklr
11 11 (0.17%) Magento
12 9 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
12 9 (0.14%) Maximo
12 9 (0.14%) SAP ERP
13 8 (0.12%) Primavera
14 7 (0.11%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 1,038 (15.61%) Azure
2 796 (11.97%) AWS
3 536 (8.06%) Power Platform
4 426 (6.41%) GCP
5 275 (4.14%) Microsoft 365
6 272 (4.09%) Serverless
7 250 (3.76%) SaaS
8 237 (3.56%) AWS Lambda
9 160 (2.41%) Google Analytics
10 106 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
11 81 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
11 81 (1.22%) PaaS
12 76 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
13 74 (1.11%) Entra ID
14 70 (1.05%) Google Ads
15 64 (0.96%) Amazon EKS
15 64 (0.96%) Snowflake
16 63 (0.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 54 (0.81%) AWS CloudFormation
18 51 (0.77%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 763 (11.47%) VPN
2 476 (7.16%) DNS
3 271 (4.08%) Cisco IOS
4 221 (3.32%) Broadband
5 151 (2.27%) Firewall
6 95 (1.43%) WAN
7 87 (1.31%) TCP/IP
8 79 (1.19%) LAN
9 64 (0.96%) Network Security
10 60 (0.90%) DHCP
11 54 (0.81%) VLAN
12 39 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
13 36 (0.54%) SD-WAN
14 31 (0.47%) Wireless
15 29 (0.44%) Internet
16 28 (0.42%) Intrusion Detection
17 23 (0.35%) VoIP
18 22 (0.33%) 5G
19 21 (0.32%) BGP
20 17 (0.26%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 488 (7.34%) Power BI
2 249 (3.74%) Tableau
3 234 (3.52%) Data Warehouse
4 204 (3.07%) SQL Server
5 133 (2.00%) Data Lake
6 118 (1.77%) Big Data
7 100 (1.50%) Oracle Reports
8 89 (1.34%) Relational Database
9 88 (1.32%) Metadata
10 86 (1.29%) Data Mining
11 82 (1.23%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 67 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
13 61 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 58 (0.87%) NoSQL
15 57 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
16 54 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 40 (0.60%) BigQuery
17 40 (0.60%) Hadoop
18 38 (0.57%) Power Query
19 36 (0.54%) Looker
Development Applications
1 185 (2.78%) JIRA
2 157 (2.36%) Git
3 87 (1.31%) Jenkins
4 46 (0.69%) Selenium
5 44 (0.66%) Oracle Forms
6 36 (0.54%) JUnit
6 36 (0.54%) Maven
7 27 (0.41%) GitLab
8 18 (0.27%) Subversion
8 18 (0.27%) Visual Studio
9 15 (0.23%) JMeter
9 15 (0.23%) Mockito
9 15 (0.23%) Postman
10 14 (0.21%) Cucumber
11 13 (0.20%) Bitbucket
12 12 (0.18%) Bazaar
12 12 (0.18%) SonarQube
13 10 (0.15%) TeamCity
14 9 (0.14%) Balsamiq
14 9 (0.14%) TestNG
General
1 3,086 (46.41%) Social Skills
2 2,385 (35.86%) Finance
3 1,233 (18.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 800 (12.03%) Marketing
5 532 (8.00%) Law
6 526 (7.91%) Banking
7 471 (7.08%) Retail
8 398 (5.98%) Organisational Skills
9 327 (4.92%) Manufacturing
10 282 (4.24%) Legal
11 279 (4.20%) Financial Institution
12 276 (4.15%) Presentation Skills
13 208 (3.13%) French Language
14 206 (3.10%) Electronics
14 206 (3.10%) Public Sector
15 198 (2.98%) German Language
16 196 (2.95%) Advertising
17 154 (2.32%) Influencing Skills
17 154 (2.32%) Telecoms
18 96 (1.44%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,175 (17.67%) Analyst
2 1,131 (17.01%) Senior
3 751 (11.29%) Developer
4 517 (7.77%) Lead
5 468 (7.04%) Software Developer
6 426 (6.41%) Trainer
7 287 (4.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 235 (3.53%) Architect
9 218 (3.28%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 210 (3.16%) Consultant
11 187 (2.81%) Business Analyst
12 174 (2.62%) Research Analyst
13 169 (2.54%) Credit Analyst
14 157 (2.36%) Data Analyst
14 157 (2.36%) Support Analyst
15 144 (2.17%) IT Support
16 134 (2.02%) Senior Manager
16 134 (2.02%) Software Engineer
17 129 (1.94%) Senior Analyst
18 116 (1.74%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 280 (4.21%) Elastic Stack
2 140 (2.11%) HTML
3 130 (1.95%) React
4 123 (1.85%) .NET
5 113 (1.70%) Node.js
6 98 (1.47%) REST
7 89 (1.34%) CSS
8 73 (1.10%) Spring
9 70 (1.05%) Kafka
9 70 (1.05%) RESTful
10 69 (1.04%) Pandas
11 59 (0.89%) Spring Boot
12 58 (0.87%) AngularJS
13 56 (0.84%) JSON
14 47 (0.71%) Middleware
14 47 (0.71%) SOAP
15 38 (0.57%) Web Services
16 30 (0.45%) XML
17 27 (0.41%) Hibernate
17 27 (0.41%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 749 (11.26%) Cyberattack
2 463 (6.96%) Self-Motivation
3 451 (6.78%) Analytical Mindset
4 285 (4.29%) Management Information System
5 228 (3.43%) Credit Risk
6 176 (2.65%) Fixed Income
7 162 (2.44%) Product Ownership
8 158 (2.38%) Algorithms
9 149 (2.24%) Onboarding
10 144 (2.17%) Social Media
11 96 (1.44%) Data Structures
12 91 (1.37%) FMCG
13 90 (1.35%) Driving Licence
14 80 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
15 78 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
16 76 (1.14%) Digital Media
17 70 (1.05%) Marketing Technology
18 66 (0.99%) Data Centre
19 64 (0.96%) Renewable Energy
19 64 (0.96%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 858 (12.90%) Linux
2 747 (11.23%) Android
3 591 (8.89%) Windows
4 87 (1.31%) Windows Server
5 44 (0.66%) Unix
6 41 (0.62%) Windows Vista
7 28 (0.42%) Windows 10
8 22 (0.33%) Mac OS
9 19 (0.29%) Apple iOS
10 16 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 10 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
11 10 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
12 9 (0.14%) Windows 7
13 8 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
14 7 (0.11%) Mac OS X
15 5 (0.075%) VMS
15 5 (0.075%) zOS
16 4 (0.060%) Embedded Linux
16 4 (0.060%) Windows Server 2008
17 2 (0.030%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,204 (48.18%) Problem-Solving
2 1,827 (27.47%) Agile
3 1,141 (17.16%) Analytics
4 1,106 (16.63%) Decision-Making
5 1,020 (15.34%) Artificial Intelligence
6 974 (14.65%) Mathematics
7 882 (13.26%) Risk Management
8 836 (12.57%) Project Management
9 817 (12.29%) Line Management
10 751 (11.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 722 (10.86%) DevOps
12 679 (10.21%) Mentoring
13 661 (9.94%) Business Intelligence
14 613 (9.22%) Stakeholder Management
15 553 (8.32%) Machine Learning
16 549 (8.26%) CI/CD
17 539 (8.11%) Data Science
18 476 (7.16%) OO
19 472 (7.10%) Design Patterns
20 469 (7.05%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 1,545 (23.23%) Python
2 932 (14.02%) SQL
3 683 (10.27%) Java
4 516 (7.76%) C++
5 456 (6.86%) Go
6 337 (5.07%) PowerShell
7 301 (4.53%) Bash
8 278 (4.18%) JavaScript
9 276 (4.15%) TypeScript
10 127 (1.91%) C#
11 98 (1.47%) R
12 57 (0.86%) VBA
13 56 (0.84%) PL/SQL
14 50 (0.75%) Rust
15 46 (0.69%) T-SQL
16 36 (0.54%) C
17 35 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 28 (0.42%) Shell Script
19 24 (0.36%) PHP
20 22 (0.33%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 2,323 (34.93%) Degree
2 961 (14.45%) Master's Degree
3 673 (10.12%) Security Cleared
4 650 (9.77%) PhD
5 518 (7.79%) DV Cleared
6 255 (3.83%) BPSS Clearance
7 198 (2.98%) DBS Check
8 195 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
9 172 (2.59%) CFA
10 149 (2.24%) ACCA
11 145 (2.18%) CIMA
11 145 (2.18%) PMI Certification
12 141 (2.12%) CISSP
13 124 (1.86%) SC Cleared
14 108 (1.62%) HND
15 106 (1.59%) PMP
16 80 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
17 79 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
18 74 (1.11%) CISM
19 68 (1.02%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 303 (4.56%) QA
2 227 (3.41%) Data Quality
3 188 (2.83%) GDPR
4 141 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 104 (1.56%) Accessibility
6 99 (1.49%) NIST
7 65 (0.98%) PMO
8 63 (0.95%) SLA
9 52 (0.78%) PCI DSS
10 48 (0.72%) GAAP
11 47 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
12 46 (0.69%) IFRS
13 39 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
13 39 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 36 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 31 (0.47%) GRC
16 17 (0.26%) SOC 2
17 15 (0.23%) HIPAA
18 11 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
19 10 (0.15%) GxP
System Software
1 805 (12.11%) Docker
2 288 (4.33%) Hyper-V
3 266 (4.00%) vSphere
4 262 (3.94%) VMware NSX
5 186 (2.80%) Active Directory
6 40 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
7 24 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
8 18 (0.27%) Firmware
9 15 (0.23%) HDFS
10 9 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
11 6 (0.090%) Embedded Firmware
12 5 (0.075%) Virtual Desktop
12 5 (0.075%) zsh
13 3 (0.045%) Postfix
13 3 (0.045%) ProxySG
13 3 (0.045%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.030%) RACF
15 1 (0.015%) Veritas Cluster Server
15 1 (0.015%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 743 (11.17%) Ansible
2 376 (5.65%) Terraform
3 169 (2.54%) Kubernetes
4 42 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
5 32 (0.48%) Grafana
6 22 (0.33%) SCCM
7 17 (0.26%) Prometheus
8 13 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (0.15%) Nagios
9 10 (0.15%) SCOM
10 9 (0.14%) Progress Chef
11 8 (0.12%) EMC NetWorker
11 8 (0.12%) Kustomize
11 8 (0.12%) Packer
11 8 (0.12%) QRadar
12 6 (0.090%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (0.075%) vCenter Server
14 4 (0.060%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.060%) HAProxy
14 4 (0.060%) Matomo
Vendors
1 1,052 (15.82%) Microsoft
2 425 (6.39%) Google
3 376 (5.65%) PayPal
4 341 (5.13%) Cisco
5 318 (4.78%) SAP
6 312 (4.69%) Splunk
7 309 (4.65%) Oracle
8 272 (4.09%) Juniper
9 262 (3.94%) 3PAR
10 190 (2.86%) Databricks
11 183 (2.75%) Bloomberg
12 151 (2.27%) Adobe
13 136 (2.05%) Salesforce
14 107 (1.61%) ServiceNow
15 66 (0.99%) Facebook
16 62 (0.93%) VMware
17 56 (0.84%) TikTok
18 52 (0.78%) Cognos
19 51 (0.77%) Infor
20 47 (0.71%) Workday