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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 9 14
Rank change year-on-year -19 +5 +5
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,762 5,687 9,452
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.29% 13.44% 9.86%
As % of the General category 10.47% 18.88% 16.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,905 2,529 5,450
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £28,086
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,171 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +10.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,445 £50,055 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.22% +11.23% -3.60%

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 45,494 30,125 57,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 50.58% 71.22% 60.39%
Number of salaries quoted 24,491 15,941 39,557
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £76,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £105,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,445 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -3.11% +5.26% -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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -22 4,271 £55,000 - 2,193
UK excluding London -28 2,943 £48,445 -3.22% 1,657
London -8 1,514 £67,500 +3.85% 869
Work from Home -10 1,389 £55,000 - 1,015
North of England -31 853 £46,500 -7.00% 372
South East -4 780 £50,000 -7.48% 532
Midlands -27 555 £47,500 - 298
North West -29 482 £45,000 -10.00% 214
West Midlands -28 332 £50,000 +4.17% 183
Yorkshire -12 284 £51,750 +15.00% 113
East of England -38 255 £45,000 -11.71% 163
South West -28 248 £47,500 -5.47% 167
East Midlands -12 221 £45,000 - 115
Scotland -29 140 £40,400 -23.47% 117
North East -26 87 £48,445 +25.83% 51
Wales -2 80 £42,500 -15.44% 43
Northern Ireland -26 45 £47,500 -13.64% 20
Isle of Man -2 1 £62,500 +68.92%

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
1 137 (2.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 94 (1.97%) SharePoint
3 74 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
4 73 (1.53%) Apache Spark
5 64 (1.34%) Confluence
6 49 (1.03%) CMS
7 36 (0.76%) Apache
8 20 (0.42%) WordPress
9 18 (0.38%) IIS
10 11 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
10 11 (0.23%) SAS
11 6 (0.13%) nginx
12 4 (0.084%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 4 (0.084%) Drupal
13 3 (0.063%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.063%) govService
13 3 (0.063%) JBoss
13 3 (0.063%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.042%) Appian
14 2 (0.042%) Jupyter
Applications
1 602 (12.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 273 (5.73%) Microsoft Office
3 98 (2.06%) MS Visio
4 96 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
6 30 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
7 24 (0.50%) Chatbot
8 14 (0.29%) Adobe XD
9 12 (0.25%) Maya
10 10 (0.21%) CATIA
11 4 (0.084%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.084%) AutoCAD
11 4 (0.084%) Trello
12 3 (0.063%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.042%) Lectora
13 2 (0.042%) Simulink
14 1 (0.021%) Sketch
14 1 (0.021%) SOLIDWORKS
14 1 (0.021%) SPSS
14 1 (0.021%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 67 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 39 (0.82%) NetSuite
3 36 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
4 33 (0.69%) Salesforce CRM
5 21 (0.44%) SAP CO
6 15 (0.31%) SAP ERP
6 15 (0.31%) SAP PM
7 13 (0.27%) Endur
7 13 (0.27%) SAP FI
8 12 (0.25%) Maximo
9 11 (0.23%) Sage X3
9 11 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
9 11 (0.23%) Workday HCM
10 10 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
11 8 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
11 8 (0.17%) Elite 3E
11 8 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
11 8 (0.17%) SAP PP
12 7 (0.15%) Magento
13 6 (0.13%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 844 (17.72%) Azure
2 643 (13.50%) Power Platform
3 470 (9.87%) AWS
4 334 (7.01%) Microsoft 365
5 260 (5.46%) SaaS
6 213 (4.47%) GCP
7 149 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
8 145 (3.04%) Azure DevOps
9 110 (2.31%) Entra ID
10 103 (2.16%) GitHub
11 95 (1.99%) Power Automate
12 94 (1.97%) Snowflake
13 88 (1.85%) dbt
14 76 (1.60%) Google Analytics
15 68 (1.43%) Amazon S3
16 67 (1.41%) Microsoft Purview
17 62 (1.30%) Serverless
18 58 (1.22%) PowerApps
19 52 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
20 47 (0.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 193 (4.05%) Firewall
2 147 (3.09%) DNS
3 123 (2.58%) VPN
4 108 (2.27%) DHCP
5 81 (1.70%) WAN
6 71 (1.49%) TCP/IP
7 67 (1.41%) LAN
8 65 (1.36%) Wireless
9 62 (1.30%) VLAN
10 55 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
11 50 (1.05%) Broadband
12 48 (1.01%) Network Security
13 46 (0.97%) SAN
14 39 (0.82%) BGP
15 32 (0.67%) OSPF
16 30 (0.63%) Wireshark
17 28 (0.59%) Cisco ASA
17 28 (0.59%) EIGRP
18 27 (0.57%) SD-WAN
19 24 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 578 (12.14%) Power BI
2 371 (7.79%) Tableau
3 193 (4.05%) SQL Server
4 169 (3.55%) Data Warehouse
5 154 (3.23%) Data Mining
6 94 (1.97%) Metadata
7 83 (1.74%) Relational Database
8 78 (1.64%) Data Lake
9 68 (1.43%) Looker
10 67 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
11 61 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
12 55 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
13 51 (1.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 48 (1.01%) MySQL
15 47 (0.99%) BigQuery
16 44 (0.92%) Power Query
17 43 (0.90%) NoSQL
18 39 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 37 (0.78%) Big Data
20 36 (0.76%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 178 (3.74%) JIRA
2 132 (2.77%) Git
3 44 (0.92%) GitLab
4 38 (0.80%) Jenkins
5 32 (0.67%) MLflow
6 26 (0.55%) Rational DOORS
7 24 (0.50%) Selenium
8 20 (0.42%) Chocolatey
9 17 (0.36%) Visual Studio
10 15 (0.31%) Balsamiq
11 14 (0.29%) Bitbucket
11 14 (0.29%) Cucumber
11 14 (0.29%) ERwin
12 13 (0.27%) Axure RP
12 13 (0.27%) IBM UrbanCode
13 12 (0.25%) Subversion
14 11 (0.23%) Cypress.io
15 10 (0.21%) SonarQube
16 9 (0.19%) Maven
16 9 (0.19%) Postman
General
1 2,260 (47.46%) Social Skills
2 1,730 (36.33%) Finance
3 436 (9.16%) Marketing
4 361 (7.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 276 (5.80%) Banking
6 274 (5.75%) Law
7 264 (5.54%) Organisational Skills
8 248 (5.21%) Retail
9 246 (5.17%) Legal
10 231 (4.85%) Public Sector
11 175 (3.67%) Manufacturing
12 163 (3.42%) Presentation Skills
13 132 (2.77%) Influencing Skills
14 112 (2.35%) Telecoms
15 102 (2.14%) Financial Institution
16 85 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
17 76 (1.60%) Advertising
18 72 (1.51%) Electronics
19 68 (1.43%) Games
20 59 (1.24%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,289 (27.07%) Analyst
2 655 (13.75%) Senior
3 343 (7.20%) Data Analyst
4 306 (6.43%) Lead
5 282 (5.92%) Business Analyst
6 245 (5.14%) Developer
7 204 (4.28%) Architect
8 197 (4.14%) Consultant
9 149 (3.13%) Support Analyst
10 142 (2.98%) Trainee
11 139 (2.92%) Systems Engineer
12 133 (2.79%) Senior Analyst
13 131 (2.75%) Senior Manager
14 130 (2.73%) Trainee Analyst
14 130 (2.73%) Trainee Data Analyst
15 113 (2.37%) Financial Analyst
16 110 (2.31%) IT Support
17 107 (2.25%) Data Engineer
18 102 (2.14%) Support Engineer
19 99 (2.08%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (2.88%) HTML
2 124 (2.60%) CSS
3 96 (2.02%) .NET
4 91 (1.91%) REST
5 81 (1.70%) JSON
5 81 (1.70%) React
6 78 (1.64%) Middleware
7 72 (1.51%) XML
8 58 (1.22%) PyTorch
9 54 (1.13%) TensorFlow
10 52 (1.09%) Kafka
11 50 (1.05%) SOAP
12 46 (0.97%) Node.js
13 42 (0.88%) scikit-learn
14 37 (0.78%) PySpark
15 35 (0.73%) Pandas
16 33 (0.69%) LangChain
17 29 (0.61%) EDI
17 29 (0.61%) RESTful
18 28 (0.59%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 500 (10.50%) Analytical Mindset
2 241 (5.06%) Management Information System
3 230 (4.83%) Self-Motivation
4 224 (4.70%) Onboarding
5 201 (4.22%) Product Ownership
6 103 (2.16%) Data Centre
7 99 (2.08%) Cloud Native
8 94 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
9 82 (1.72%) Data Structures
10 79 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
11 75 (1.57%) Security Posture
12 73 (1.53%) Algorithms
13 64 (1.34%) Driving Licence
14 57 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
15 56 (1.18%) Social Media
16 52 (1.09%) Public Cloud
17 46 (0.97%) FMCG
18 44 (0.92%) Low-Code
19 43 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
20 40 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 349 (7.33%) Windows
2 195 (4.09%) Linux
3 146 (3.07%) Windows Server
4 54 (1.13%) Windows Server 2016
5 34 (0.71%) Unix
6 22 (0.46%) Windows 10
7 20 (0.42%) Mac OS
8 19 (0.40%) Android
9 17 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 15 (0.31%) Apple iOS
11 7 (0.15%) CentOS
12 6 (0.13%) VMS
13 5 (0.10%) Ubuntu
14 4 (0.084%) AIX
14 4 (0.084%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.042%) Debian
15 2 (0.042%) Oracle Linux
15 2 (0.042%) Rocky
16 1 (0.021%) OpenBSD
16 1 (0.021%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,115 (44.41%) Problem-Solving
2 1,139 (23.92%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,047 (21.99%) Analytics
4 982 (20.62%) Decision-Making
5 840 (17.64%) Agile
6 695 (14.59%) Business Intelligence
7 664 (13.94%) AI
8 599 (12.58%) Stakeholder Management
9 569 (11.95%) Project Management
10 491 (10.31%) Data Analysis
11 453 (9.51%) Actionable Insight
12 443 (9.30%) Mentoring
13 432 (9.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 427 (8.97%) Data Modelling
15 417 (8.76%) Roadmaps
16 411 (8.63%) Cybersecurity
17 408 (8.57%) Analytical Thinking
18 378 (7.94%) DevOps
19 376 (7.90%) Process Improvement
20 367 (7.71%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1,011 (21.23%) SQL
2 847 (17.79%) Python
3 174 (3.65%) JavaScript
4 170 (3.57%) PowerShell
5 168 (3.53%) Java
6 124 (2.60%) C#
7 63 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 62 (1.30%) R
9 57 (1.20%) Bash
10 51 (1.07%) C++
11 46 (0.97%) T-SQL
12 42 (0.88%) TypeScript
13 41 (0.86%) VBA
14 27 (0.57%) MATLAB
15 23 (0.48%) Scala
16 20 (0.42%) Go
17 19 (0.40%) PL/SQL
18 16 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
19 14 (0.29%) C
19 14 (0.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 999 (20.98%) Degree
2 362 (7.60%) Security Cleared
3 250 (5.25%) SC Cleared
4 249 (5.23%) ACCA
5 236 (4.96%) CIMA
6 170 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 151 (3.17%) DBS Check
8 147 (3.09%) CISSP
9 133 (2.79%) Master's Degree
10 103 (2.16%) PMI Certification
11 96 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
12 94 (1.97%) CISM
13 90 (1.89%) PMP
14 77 (1.62%) DV Cleared
15 72 (1.51%) IRCA
16 70 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
17 69 (1.45%) Azure Certification
18 62 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
19 58 (1.22%) CompTIA Security+
20 57 (1.20%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 427 (8.97%) Data Quality
2 337 (7.08%) GDPR
3 285 (5.98%) QA
4 239 (5.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 203 (4.26%) NIST
6 124 (2.60%) Cyber Essentials
7 108 (2.27%) SLA
8 98 (2.06%) PCI DSS
9 96 (2.02%) ISO 9001
10 91 (1.91%) Accessibility
11 69 (1.45%) PMO
12 58 (1.22%) GRC
13 55 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
14 39 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 38 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 33 (0.69%) IFRS
17 30 (0.63%) COBIT
18 29 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
19 25 (0.52%) SOC 2
20 21 (0.44%) ITGC
System Software
1 251 (5.27%) Active Directory
2 77 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 71 (1.49%) Docker
4 66 (1.39%) Hyper-V
5 48 (1.01%) Terminal Server
6 24 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.34%) ProxySG
8 12 (0.25%) vSphere
9 10 (0.21%) VMware NSX
10 8 (0.17%) IAG
10 8 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
11 5 (0.10%) Firmware
12 4 (0.084%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.084%) XenApp
13 3 (0.063%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.063%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.042%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.042%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.021%) KVM
15 1 (0.021%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 132 (2.77%) Terraform
2 77 (1.62%) Kubernetes
3 68 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 62 (1.30%) Ansible
5 34 (0.71%) Grafana
6 30 (0.63%) SCCM
7 27 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
8 25 (0.52%) Prometheus
9 18 (0.38%) Nagios
10 11 (0.23%) Kibana
11 8 (0.17%) Kubeflow
11 8 (0.17%) QRadar
12 7 (0.15%) Control-M
13 6 (0.13%) logstash
14 5 (0.10%) CASB
14 5 (0.10%) Packer
15 4 (0.084%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.084%) Graylog
15 4 (0.084%) RSA Archer
15 4 (0.084%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,172 (24.61%) Microsoft
2 200 (4.20%) SAP
3 179 (3.76%) Google
4 177 (3.72%) Oracle
5 145 (3.04%) Salesforce
6 136 (2.86%) VMware
7 111 (2.33%) ServiceNow
8 107 (2.25%) Databricks
9 96 (2.02%) SolarWinds
10 85 (1.78%) Splunk
11 80 (1.68%) Workday
12 71 (1.49%) Cisco
13 56 (1.18%) Veeam
14 52 (1.09%) IBM
15 49 (1.03%) Tanium
16 48 (1.01%) Brocade
16 48 (1.01%) Nimble Storage
17 47 (0.99%) Dell
18 43 (0.90%) Red Hat
19 38 (0.80%) Dynatrace