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 20 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 11 16
Rank change year-on-year -14 +5 +3
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,882 5,171 7,912
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 6.48% 12.22% 9.25%
As % of the General category 12.12% 17.31% 15.14%
Number of salaries quoted 2,717 2,395 5,204
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £93,778 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £50,967 £45,000
% change year-on-year -9.75% +13.26% -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 40,288 29,868 52,269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 53.45% 70.60% 61.13%
Number of salaries quoted 22,076 15,518 37,584
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +12.15% -10.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,398 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.12% +10.31% -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 20 March 2026.

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 20 March 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 4,334 £52,500 -4.55% 2,249
UK excluding London -19 3,040 £46,000 -9.75% 1,793
Work from Home +1 1,592 £55,000 - 966
London -5 1,537 £67,500 +3.85% 825
North of England -21 824 £45,000 -10.00% 398
South East +3 807 £50,000 -1.90% 619
Midlands -14 582 £45,000 -6.25% 298
North West -19 438 £42,750 -18.57% 226
West Midlands -15 357 £51,300 +2.60% 180
Yorkshire +1 276 £48,445 +7.65% 128
South West -17 272 £45,000 -14.29% 180
East of England -24 260 £42,838 -15.95% 154
East Midlands -3 224 £40,500 -7.43% 118
Scotland -18 190 £40,000 -21.05% 103
North East -7 110 £45,000 +15.09% 51
Wales +9 74 £40,000 -20.20% 64
Northern Ireland -17 50 £52,500 -4.55% 18
Isle of Man -3 1 £62,500 +101.61% 1
Channel Islands -7 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
1 140 (2.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 90 (1.84%) SharePoint
3 82 (1.68%) Confluence
4 62 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
4 62 (1.27%) Apache Spark
5 51 (1.04%) CMS
6 30 (0.61%) Apache
7 18 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
7 18 (0.37%) WordPress
8 16 (0.33%) SAS
9 13 (0.27%) IIS
10 6 (0.12%) nginx
11 4 (0.082%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.061%) Drupal
12 3 (0.061%) govService
13 2 (0.041%) Anypoint
13 2 (0.041%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.041%) Camunda
13 2 (0.041%) MTS
13 2 (0.041%) Tomcat
Applications
1 683 (13.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 292 (5.98%) Microsoft Office
3 219 (4.49%) Chatbot
4 121 (2.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 93 (1.90%) MS Visio
6 36 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
7 28 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
8 25 (0.51%) Maya
9 15 (0.31%) Adobe XD
10 9 (0.18%) AutoCAD
11 8 (0.16%) CATIA
12 4 (0.082%) Trello
13 2 (0.041%) Revit
13 2 (0.041%) Simulink
13 2 (0.041%) Sketch
14 1 (0.020%) Notion
14 1 (0.020%) OrCAD
14 1 (0.020%) SmartSuite
14 1 (0.020%) SOLIDWORKS
14 1 (0.020%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 75 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 44 (0.90%) NetSuite
3 43 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
4 31 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
5 27 (0.55%) SAP CO
6 21 (0.43%) Endur
7 19 (0.39%) SAP FI
8 18 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
9 17 (0.35%) Workday HCM
10 16 (0.33%) SAP MDG
11 13 (0.27%) SAP ERP
12 12 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
13 11 (0.23%) Sage X3
14 10 (0.20%) Maximo
14 10 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
14 10 (0.20%) SAP PM
15 8 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
16 7 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
16 7 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
17 6 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 843 (17.27%) Azure
2 625 (12.80%) Power Platform
3 458 (9.38%) AWS
4 307 (6.29%) Microsoft 365
5 273 (5.59%) SaaS
6 185 (3.79%) GCP
7 152 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
8 124 (2.54%) Dynamics 365
9 96 (1.97%) GitHub
10 92 (1.88%) Entra ID
11 89 (1.82%) Power Automate
12 80 (1.64%) Snowflake
13 70 (1.43%) dbt
14 69 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
15 63 (1.29%) Amazon S3
16 58 (1.19%) Google Analytics
16 58 (1.19%) Serverless
17 56 (1.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 52 (1.07%) PowerApps
19 51 (1.04%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 180 (3.69%) Firewall
2 156 (3.20%) DNS
3 122 (2.50%) DHCP
4 105 (2.15%) VPN
5 81 (1.66%) Wi-Fi
6 74 (1.52%) WAN
7 70 (1.43%) LAN
8 67 (1.37%) TCP/IP
9 65 (1.33%) Wireless
10 60 (1.23%) VLAN
11 50 (1.02%) Broadband
12 48 (0.98%) Network Security
13 37 (0.76%) BGP
13 37 (0.76%) SAN
14 35 (0.72%) Wireshark
15 34 (0.70%) OSPF
16 30 (0.61%) Cisco ASA
16 30 (0.61%) EIGRP
17 27 (0.55%) Remote Desktop
17 27 (0.55%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 562 (11.51%) Power BI
2 415 (8.50%) Tableau
3 212 (4.34%) SQL Server
4 196 (4.01%) Data Mining
5 164 (3.36%) Data Warehouse
6 99 (2.03%) Metadata
7 93 (1.90%) Relational Database
8 89 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
9 77 (1.58%) Data Lake
10 63 (1.29%) Looker
11 59 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
12 58 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 56 (1.15%) MySQL
14 53 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
15 48 (0.98%) NoSQL
16 43 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
17 42 (0.86%) Power Query
18 34 (0.70%) Big Data
19 32 (0.66%) BigQuery
19 32 (0.66%) GIS
Development Applications
1 192 (3.93%) JIRA
2 134 (2.74%) Git
3 50 (1.02%) GitLab
4 42 (0.86%) Selenium
5 38 (0.78%) Jenkins
6 21 (0.43%) MLflow
7 19 (0.39%) Visual Studio
8 15 (0.31%) Balsamiq
8 15 (0.31%) Robot Framework
9 14 (0.29%) Axure RP
9 14 (0.29%) Chocolatey
9 14 (0.29%) ERwin
9 14 (0.29%) Subversion
10 13 (0.27%) IBM UrbanCode
10 13 (0.27%) Snyk
11 12 (0.25%) Bitbucket
12 11 (0.23%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.20%) LabVIEW
13 10 (0.20%) Postman
14 8 (0.16%) webpack
General
1 2,403 (49.22%) Social Skills
2 1,783 (36.52%) Finance
3 436 (8.93%) Marketing
4 340 (6.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 308 (6.31%) Banking
6 275 (5.63%) Legal
7 273 (5.59%) Law
8 272 (5.57%) Organisational Skills
9 255 (5.22%) Public Sector
10 248 (5.08%) Retail
11 207 (4.24%) Presentation Skills
12 163 (3.34%) Manufacturing
13 130 (2.66%) Financial Institution
14 121 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
15 102 (2.09%) Telecoms
16 92 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
17 79 (1.62%) Games
18 72 (1.47%) Advertising
19 60 (1.23%) Electronics
20 46 (0.94%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1,232 (25.24%) Analyst
2 622 (12.74%) Senior
3 377 (7.72%) Data Analyst
4 318 (6.51%) Lead
5 242 (4.96%) Business Analyst
6 234 (4.79%) Developer
7 219 (4.49%) Architect
8 215 (4.40%) Trainer
9 203 (4.16%) Consultant
10 171 (3.50%) Trainee
11 169 (3.46%) Support Analyst
12 162 (3.32%) Trainee Analyst
12 162 (3.32%) Trainee Data Analyst
13 141 (2.89%) IT Support
14 140 (2.87%) Senior Analyst
15 134 (2.74%) Senior Manager
16 117 (2.40%) Systems Engineer
17 116 (2.38%) Financial Analyst
18 105 (2.15%) Support Engineer
19 89 (1.82%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (2.62%) HTML
2 118 (2.42%) CSS
3 89 (1.82%) React
4 86 (1.76%) .NET
5 61 (1.25%) REST
6 53 (1.09%) JSON
7 50 (1.02%) XML
8 49 (1.00%) Middleware
9 46 (0.94%) Node.js
10 42 (0.86%) TensorFlow
11 41 (0.84%) Kafka
12 39 (0.80%) PyTorch
13 32 (0.66%) PySpark
14 28 (0.57%) Spring
15 27 (0.55%) FIX Protocol
15 27 (0.55%) SOAP
16 24 (0.49%) scikit-learn
17 23 (0.47%) EDI
17 23 (0.47%) LangChain
17 23 (0.47%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 484 (9.91%) Analytical Mindset
2 337 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
3 260 (5.33%) Onboarding
4 226 (4.63%) Management Information System
5 187 (3.83%) Product Ownership
6 119 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
7 103 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
8 97 (1.99%) Data Structures
9 96 (1.97%) Data Centre
10 93 (1.90%) Cloud Native
11 77 (1.58%) Driving Licence
12 75 (1.54%) Algorithms
13 57 (1.17%) Social Media
14 56 (1.15%) Security Posture
15 50 (1.02%) Virtual Team
16 48 (0.98%) FMCG
17 47 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
17 47 (0.96%) Low-Code
18 46 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 35 (0.72%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 360 (7.37%) Windows
2 235 (4.81%) Linux
3 146 (2.99%) Windows Server
4 76 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
5 41 (0.84%) Unix
6 27 (0.55%) Mac OS
7 19 (0.39%) Windows 10
8 18 (0.37%) Android
9 13 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 9 (0.18%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.12%) CentOS
12 5 (0.10%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.10%) VMS
13 4 (0.082%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.061%) OpenWrt
15 2 (0.041%) AIX
15 2 (0.041%) Data ONTAP
15 2 (0.041%) Oracle Linux
15 2 (0.041%) Rocky
16 1 (0.020%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,187 (44.80%) Problem-Solving
2 1,129 (23.13%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,105 (22.63%) Analytics
4 941 (19.27%) Decision-Making
5 889 (18.21%) AI
6 868 (17.78%) Agile
7 720 (14.75%) Business Intelligence
8 663 (13.58%) Project Management
9 591 (12.11%) Stakeholder Management
10 569 (11.66%) Data Analysis
11 453 (9.28%) Actionable Insight
12 435 (8.91%) Mentoring
13 416 (8.52%) Analytical Thinking
14 396 (8.11%) Process Improvement
15 390 (7.99%) Roadmaps
16 385 (7.89%) DevOps
17 377 (7.72%) Data Modelling
18 362 (7.41%) Business Analysis
19 359 (7.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 355 (7.27%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1,027 (21.04%) SQL
2 875 (17.92%) Python
3 169 (3.46%) JavaScript
4 148 (3.03%) Java
5 143 (2.93%) PowerShell
6 122 (2.50%) C#
7 75 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 69 (1.41%) R
9 58 (1.19%) Bash
10 45 (0.92%) T-SQL
11 44 (0.90%) C++
12 43 (0.88%) VBA
13 37 (0.76%) TypeScript
14 21 (0.43%) C
15 20 (0.41%) Scala
16 19 (0.39%) MATLAB
17 17 (0.35%) Go
18 13 (0.27%) PL/SQL
19 12 (0.25%) Shell Script
20 11 (0.23%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,276 (26.14%) Degree
2 400 (8.19%) Security Cleared
3 343 (7.03%) Master's Degree
4 280 (5.74%) SC Cleared
5 229 (4.69%) PhD
6 222 (4.55%) ACCA
7 214 (4.38%) CIMA
8 180 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
9 146 (2.99%) CISSP
10 121 (2.48%) DBS Check
11 96 (1.97%) DV Cleared
11 96 (1.97%) PMI Certification
12 85 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
12 85 (1.74%) CISM
12 85 (1.74%) PMP
13 61 (1.25%) Azure Certification
14 60 (1.23%) IRCA
15 58 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
16 57 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
17 50 (1.02%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 370 (7.58%) Data Quality
2 281 (5.76%) GDPR
3 269 (5.51%) QA
4 214 (4.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 172 (3.52%) NIST
6 148 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
7 116 (2.38%) PCI DSS
8 107 (2.19%) Accessibility
9 82 (1.68%) PMO
10 75 (1.54%) ISO 9001
11 68 (1.39%) Actionable Recommendations
12 66 (1.35%) SLA
13 45 (0.92%) GRC
14 40 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 34 (0.70%) IFRS
16 30 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 22 (0.45%) WCAG
18 21 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 21 (0.43%) COBIT
19 19 (0.39%) NCSC
System Software
1 246 (5.04%) Active Directory
2 92 (1.88%) Hyper-V
3 78 (1.60%) Docker
4 72 (1.47%) Terminal Server
5 59 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
6 16 (0.33%) ProxySG
7 13 (0.27%) vSphere
8 11 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.14%) Firmware
9 7 (0.14%) IAG
9 7 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
10 6 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.12%) VMware NSX
11 4 (0.082%) XenApp
12 3 (0.061%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.061%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.041%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.020%) KVM
14 1 (0.020%) NFS
14 1 (0.020%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 139 (2.85%) Terraform
2 80 (1.64%) Kubernetes
3 73 (1.50%) Ansible
4 52 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
5 37 (0.76%) Grafana
6 35 (0.72%) Prometheus
7 26 (0.53%) SCCM
8 24 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
9 17 (0.35%) Nagios
10 7 (0.14%) Control-M
11 6 (0.12%) QRadar
12 5 (0.10%) CASB
12 5 (0.10%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 5 (0.10%) Kubeflow
13 4 (0.082%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.082%) Backup Exec
13 4 (0.082%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.082%) SolarWinds Orion
13 4 (0.082%) vCenter Server
14 3 (0.061%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1,167 (23.90%) Microsoft
2 222 (4.55%) SAP
3 218 (4.47%) PayPal
4 185 (3.79%) Oracle
5 143 (2.93%) Salesforce
6 142 (2.91%) VMware
7 139 (2.85%) Google
8 123 (2.52%) SolarWinds
9 116 (2.38%) ServiceNow
10 107 (2.19%) Splunk
11 79 (1.62%) Veeam
12 77 (1.58%) Cisco
13 75 (1.54%) Databricks
14 73 (1.50%) Brocade
14 73 (1.50%) Tanium
15 72 (1.47%) Nimble Storage
16 65 (1.33%) Workday
17 52 (1.07%) Adobe
18 41 (0.84%) Alteryx
18 41 (0.84%) Dell