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 3 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 8 14
Rank change year-on-year -18 +6 +5
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,806 5,905 9,635
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.16% 13.57% 9.39%
As % of the General category 10.52% 18.55% 16.08%
Number of salaries quoted 3,060 2,396 5,399
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,375 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,350 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £68,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,445 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.11% +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 45,698 31,841 59,932
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 49.04% 73.15% 58.43%
Number of salaries quoted 26,121 15,280 40,241
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,443 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.25% +9.41% -12.50%
75th Percentile £77,424 £78,663 £71,915
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £49,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +2.04% +3.16% -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 3 June 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 3 June 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 4,367 £55,000 - 2,898
UK excluding London -22 3,008 £48,445 -3.11% 1,823
London -9 1,524 £67,500 +3.85% 1,438
Work from Home -10 1,468 £55,000 - 1,563
North of England -30 928 £47,500 -1.67% 450
South East -5 758 £50,000 -4.76% 586
Midlands -21 558 £48,000 +1.05% 264
North West -27 544 £46,500 -7.00% 255
West Midlands -27 314 £51,300 +8.00% 174
South West -28 305 £47,500 -5.00% 193
Yorkshire -15 291 £50,000 +11.11% 144
East Midlands +4 243 £45,000 -5.26% 89
East of England -22 236 £45,000 -11.71% 162
Scotland -31 111 £40,000 -20.71% 98
North East -31 93 £48,445 +24.86% 57
Wales -4 81 £51,709 -5.98% 39
Northern Ireland -22 42 £41,250 -25.00% 83

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
1 153 (3.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 110 (2.29%) SharePoint
3 76 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
4 69 (1.44%) Apache Spark
5 62 (1.29%) Confluence
6 40 (0.83%) Apache
7 39 (0.81%) CMS
8 24 (0.50%) IIS
9 19 (0.40%) SAS
10 16 (0.33%) WordPress
11 14 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 13 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
13 6 (0.12%) Jupyter
13 6 (0.12%) nginx
14 3 (0.062%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.062%) govService
14 3 (0.062%) JBoss
14 3 (0.062%) Tomcat
15 2 (0.042%) Appian
15 2 (0.042%) Camunda
Applications
1 543 (11.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 198 (4.12%) Microsoft Office
3 101 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 92 (1.91%) MS Visio
5 28 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
6 27 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
7 10 (0.21%) CATIA
8 9 (0.19%) Adobe XD
9 7 (0.15%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.10%) Acrobat
10 5 (0.10%) Maya
11 4 (0.083%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.062%) Blender
12 3 (0.062%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.062%) Trello
13 2 (0.042%) AutoCAD
13 2 (0.042%) Lectora
13 2 (0.042%) Simulink
13 2 (0.042%) SOLIDWORKS
14 1 (0.021%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 70 (1.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 34 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
4 32 (0.67%) NetSuite
5 20 (0.42%) SAP CO
6 16 (0.33%) SAP PM
7 15 (0.31%) SAP ERP
8 12 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
9 11 (0.23%) Maximo
9 11 (0.23%) SAP FI
10 10 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
11 8 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
11 8 (0.17%) Endur
12 7 (0.15%) Elite 3E
12 7 (0.15%) Fidessa
12 7 (0.15%) Magento
12 7 (0.15%) SAP PP
12 7 (0.15%) Shopify
12 7 (0.15%) Workday HCM
13 6 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 864 (17.98%) Azure
2 657 (13.67%) Power Platform
3 483 (10.05%) AWS
4 355 (7.39%) Microsoft 365
5 292 (6.08%) SaaS
6 203 (4.22%) GCP
7 126 (2.62%) Dynamics 365
8 122 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
9 111 (2.31%) Entra ID
10 87 (1.81%) GitHub
11 82 (1.71%) Power Automate
12 81 (1.69%) Snowflake
13 77 (1.60%) Google Analytics
14 74 (1.54%) Microsoft Purview
15 71 (1.48%) Amazon S3
15 71 (1.48%) dbt
16 65 (1.35%) PowerApps
17 62 (1.29%) Serverless
18 53 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
19 49 (1.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 202 (4.20%) Firewall
2 161 (3.35%) DNS
3 130 (2.70%) VPN
4 118 (2.46%) DHCP
5 83 (1.73%) WAN
6 74 (1.54%) TCP/IP
7 73 (1.52%) LAN
8 65 (1.35%) Broadband
9 61 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
10 58 (1.21%) VLAN
11 57 (1.19%) Wireless
12 49 (1.02%) Network Security
13 45 (0.94%) SAN
14 39 (0.81%) BGP
15 32 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
16 31 (0.65%) OSPF
17 29 (0.60%) SD-WAN
18 27 (0.56%) HTTP
19 26 (0.54%) Internet
19 26 (0.54%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 579 (12.05%) Power BI
2 333 (6.93%) Tableau
3 181 (3.77%) SQL Server
4 155 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
5 111 (2.31%) Data Mining
6 88 (1.83%) Metadata
7 86 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
8 74 (1.54%) Data Lake
9 66 (1.37%) Relational Database
10 60 (1.25%) Looker
11 59 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 57 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
13 56 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
14 51 (1.06%) Power Query
15 47 (0.98%) BigQuery
16 45 (0.94%) MySQL
17 42 (0.87%) Big Data
18 41 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 39 (0.81%) NoSQL
20 35 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 154 (3.20%) JIRA
2 133 (2.77%) Git
3 50 (1.04%) GitLab
4 32 (0.67%) Rational DOORS
5 30 (0.62%) Jenkins
5 30 (0.62%) MLflow
6 19 (0.40%) Chocolatey
6 19 (0.40%) Selenium
7 14 (0.29%) Cucumber
8 13 (0.27%) ERwin
8 13 (0.27%) IBM UrbanCode
9 12 (0.25%) Visual Studio
10 11 (0.23%) Bitbucket
11 10 (0.21%) Balsamiq
11 10 (0.21%) Cypress.io
11 10 (0.21%) SonarQube
12 9 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
12 9 (0.19%) Postman
13 8 (0.17%) Maven
13 8 (0.17%) Subversion
General
1 2,177 (45.30%) Social Skills
2 1,679 (34.94%) Finance
3 436 (9.07%) Marketing
4 381 (7.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 275 (5.72%) Law
6 273 (5.68%) Public Sector
7 269 (5.60%) Organisational Skills
8 260 (5.41%) Retail
9 257 (5.35%) Legal
10 250 (5.20%) Banking
11 169 (3.52%) Manufacturing
12 166 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
13 154 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
14 111 (2.31%) Telecoms
15 90 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
16 84 (1.75%) Financial Institution
17 81 (1.69%) Advertising
18 75 (1.56%) Electronics
19 74 (1.54%) Aerospace
20 55 (1.14%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,224 (25.47%) Analyst
2 646 (13.44%) Senior
3 323 (6.72%) Lead
4 314 (6.53%) Data Analyst
5 273 (5.68%) Business Analyst
6 243 (5.06%) Developer
7 227 (4.72%) Architect
8 207 (4.31%) Consultant
9 175 (3.64%) Systems Engineer
10 133 (2.77%) Senior Analyst
11 129 (2.68%) Senior Manager
12 122 (2.54%) Data Engineer
13 117 (2.43%) IT Manager
13 117 (2.43%) Support Analyst
14 106 (2.21%) Support Engineer
15 104 (2.16%) IT Support
15 104 (2.16%) Trainee
16 93 (1.94%) Systems Analyst
16 93 (1.94%) Trainee Analyst
16 93 (1.94%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (2.66%) HTML
2 119 (2.48%) CSS
3 100 (2.08%) .NET
4 94 (1.96%) REST
5 85 (1.77%) JSON
6 84 (1.75%) Middleware
7 83 (1.73%) React
8 76 (1.58%) XML
9 66 (1.37%) PyTorch
10 61 (1.27%) TensorFlow
11 50 (1.04%) Kafka
11 50 (1.04%) Node.js
11 50 (1.04%) SOAP
12 41 (0.85%) scikit-learn
13 39 (0.81%) PySpark
14 36 (0.75%) RESTful
15 34 (0.71%) EDI
16 33 (0.69%) LangChain
16 33 (0.69%) Pandas
17 29 (0.60%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 507 (10.55%) Analytical Mindset
2 232 (4.83%) Management Information System
3 207 (4.31%) Onboarding
4 189 (3.93%) Product Ownership
5 184 (3.83%) Self-Motivation
6 118 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
7 114 (2.37%) Data Centre
8 90 (1.87%) Cloud Native
9 84 (1.75%) Algorithms
9 84 (1.75%) Data Structures
10 80 (1.66%) Security Posture
11 71 (1.48%) Driving Licence
12 69 (1.44%) Cyber Threat
13 57 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
14 55 (1.14%) Public Cloud
15 54 (1.12%) Virtual Team
16 50 (1.04%) Social Media
17 47 (0.98%) FMCG
18 46 (0.96%) Cyber Defence
19 41 (0.85%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 364 (7.57%) Windows
2 221 (4.60%) Linux
3 172 (3.58%) Windows Server
4 78 (1.62%) Windows Server 2016
5 35 (0.73%) Unix
6 24 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 24 (0.50%) Windows 10
7 19 (0.40%) Mac OS
8 16 (0.33%) Android
9 15 (0.31%) Apple iOS
9 15 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
10 11 (0.23%) CentOS
11 10 (0.21%) Ubuntu
12 8 (0.17%) VMS
13 4 (0.083%) AIX
13 4 (0.083%) Rocky
13 4 (0.083%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.062%) Debian
15 1 (0.021%) OpenBSD
15 1 (0.021%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,157 (44.88%) Problem-Solving
2 1,151 (23.95%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,060 (22.06%) Analytics
4 1,043 (21.70%) Decision-Making
5 832 (17.31%) Agile
6 664 (13.82%) Business Intelligence
7 630 (13.11%) AI
8 620 (12.90%) Stakeholder Management
9 499 (10.38%) Project Management
10 478 (9.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 477 (9.93%) Roadmaps
12 475 (9.88%) Actionable Insight
13 471 (9.80%) Mentoring
14 446 (9.28%) Data Analysis
15 442 (9.20%) Data Modelling
16 430 (8.95%) Cybersecurity
17 387 (8.05%) Data Governance
18 375 (7.80%) Analytical Thinking
19 365 (7.59%) Process Improvement
20 353 (7.34%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1,021 (21.24%) SQL
2 892 (18.56%) Python
3 178 (3.70%) PowerShell
4 175 (3.64%) JavaScript
5 167 (3.47%) Java
6 136 (2.83%) C#
7 78 (1.62%) R
8 70 (1.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 67 (1.39%) Bash
10 65 (1.35%) C++
11 45 (0.94%) TypeScript
12 44 (0.92%) T-SQL
13 38 (0.79%) MATLAB
14 37 (0.77%) VBA
15 24 (0.50%) Scala
16 22 (0.46%) PHP
17 20 (0.42%) Go
18 16 (0.33%) C
18 16 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
19 15 (0.31%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 908 (18.89%) Degree
2 402 (8.36%) Security Cleared
3 289 (6.01%) SC Cleared
4 222 (4.62%) ACCA
5 207 (4.31%) CIMA
6 155 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 155 (3.23%) DBS Check
7 145 (3.02%) CISSP
8 119 (2.48%) Cisco Certification
9 98 (2.04%) CISM
9 98 (2.04%) Master's Degree
10 88 (1.83%) PMI Certification
11 86 (1.79%) DV Cleared
12 79 (1.64%) PMP
13 74 (1.54%) Azure Certification
13 74 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
14 72 (1.50%) IRCA
14 72 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
15 63 (1.31%) CompTIA Security+
16 50 (1.04%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 451 (9.38%) Data Quality
2 361 (7.51%) GDPR
3 293 (6.10%) QA
4 248 (5.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 219 (4.56%) NIST
6 144 (3.00%) Cyber Essentials
7 128 (2.66%) SLA
8 117 (2.43%) PCI DSS
9 113 (2.35%) Accessibility
10 111 (2.31%) ISO 9001
11 70 (1.46%) GRC
12 58 (1.21%) PMO
13 55 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
14 38 (0.79%) IFRS
15 37 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 33 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 32 (0.67%) COBIT
18 28 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
19 23 (0.48%) ITGC
19 23 (0.48%) NCSC
System Software
1 256 (5.33%) Active Directory
2 81 (1.69%) Hyper-V
3 78 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 77 (1.60%) Docker
5 64 (1.33%) Terminal Server
6 26 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.33%) ProxySG
8 12 (0.25%) vSphere
9 9 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (0.19%) VMware NSX
10 8 (0.17%) IAG
11 5 (0.10%) Firmware
12 4 (0.083%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.083%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.083%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.083%) XenApp
13 3 (0.062%) DFS Replication
14 2 (0.042%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.042%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.021%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 129 (2.68%) Terraform
2 78 (1.62%) Kubernetes
3 67 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
4 58 (1.21%) Ansible
5 33 (0.69%) Grafana
6 28 (0.58%) SCCM
7 25 (0.52%) Nagios
7 25 (0.52%) Prometheus
8 20 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
9 15 (0.31%) QRadar
10 13 (0.27%) Kibana
11 10 (0.21%) Kubeflow
12 8 (0.17%) Control-M
13 6 (0.12%) logstash
13 6 (0.12%) Packer
14 5 (0.10%) Docker Swarm
14 5 (0.10%) Graylog
14 5 (0.10%) Podman
15 4 (0.083%) RSA Archer
15 4 (0.083%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,089 (22.66%) Microsoft
2 201 (4.18%) SAP
3 183 (3.81%) Google
4 165 (3.43%) Oracle
5 154 (3.20%) VMware
6 150 (3.12%) Salesforce
7 117 (2.43%) SolarWinds
8 114 (2.37%) Splunk
9 108 (2.25%) ServiceNow
10 107 (2.23%) Databricks
11 77 (1.60%) Veeam
12 76 (1.58%) Cisco
13 72 (1.50%) Workday
14 65 (1.35%) Nimble Storage
15 64 (1.33%) Brocade
15 64 (1.33%) Tanium
16 52 (1.08%) IBM
17 46 (0.96%) Red Hat
18 45 (0.94%) Adobe
18 45 (0.94%) Dell