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

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 14 19
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 +1
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 5,443 6,345 4,720
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 10.06% 9.69% 9.26%
As % of the General category 16.38% 15.91% 14.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2,589 2,659 3,393
10th Percentile £29,500 £32,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -3.51% +3.64%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,050 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +4.17%

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 33,221 39,875 33,278
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 61.41% 60.92% 65.28%
Number of salaries quoted 19,086 19,283 24,938
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £30,750
25th Percentile £34,500 £43,227 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.46% +4.00% -4.76%

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 30 November 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 30 November 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 +4 4,714 £50,000 -9.09% 2,509
UK excluding London +3 3,482 £45,000 -10.00% 2,290
Work from Home +5 1,929 £50,000 -9.91% 895
London +3 1,633 £67,500 +3.85% 847
South East +4 883 £47,520 -4.96% 896
North of England +1 829 £45,000 -10.00% 446
Midlands +5 636 £45,000 -6.25% 390
North West -9 416 £45,000 -14.29% 252
South West +7 391 £45,000 -14.29% 225
West Midlands +6 378 £52,500 +5.00% 245
Scotland +2 351 £33,500 -44.17% 83
East of England +3 308 £40,000 -27.27% 214
Yorkshire +2 299 £40,000 -23.81% 136
East Midlands +6 256 £37,500 -11.76% 142
North East +16 114 £42,000 +2.44% 64
Wales +12 76 £48,122 -2.00% 56
Northern Ireland -3 40 £52,500 -28.54% 30
Isle of Man -1 1 £62,500 +150.00%
Channel Islands -5 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
1 135 (2.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 99 (1.82%) Confluence
3 93 (1.71%) SharePoint
4 64 (1.18%) CMS
5 52 (0.96%) Apache Spark
6 21 (0.39%) WordPress
7 20 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
8 18 (0.33%) Apache
9 15 (0.28%) SAS
10 8 (0.15%) Camunda
11 7 (0.13%) IIS
12 6 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 6 (0.11%) Drupal
12 6 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 6 (0.11%) Skype for Business
13 5 (0.092%) Apache Synapse
13 5 (0.092%) nginx
13 5 (0.092%) Oracle Workflow
14 4 (0.073%) ArcGIS
15 3 (0.055%) Moodle
Applications
1 779 (14.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 517 (9.50%) Chatbot
3 378 (6.94%) Microsoft Office
4 138 (2.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 56 (1.03%) Maya
6 53 (0.97%) MS Visio
7 41 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
8 36 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
9 23 (0.42%) AutoCAD
10 14 (0.26%) Adobe XD
11 10 (0.18%) SOLIDWORKS
12 6 (0.11%) Simulink
13 4 (0.073%) CATIA
13 4 (0.073%) Oracle Smart View
13 4 (0.073%) Photoshop
13 4 (0.073%) PlantUML
14 3 (0.055%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 3 (0.055%) Blender
14 3 (0.055%) Sketch
14 3 (0.055%) Stata
Business Applications
1 164 (3.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 68 (1.25%) SAP MDG
3 67 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
4 47 (0.86%) NetSuite
5 39 (0.72%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 39 (0.72%) SAP FI
5 39 (0.72%) Shopify
6 38 (0.70%) SAP CO
6 38 (0.70%) SAP FI/CO
7 29 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
8 24 (0.44%) SAP IBP
9 20 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
10 16 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
11 15 (0.28%) Endur
11 15 (0.28%) Workday HCM
12 13 (0.24%) Sage X3
12 13 (0.24%) SAP FSCM
13 12 (0.22%) Sprinklr
14 11 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
14 11 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 800 (14.70%) Azure
2 610 (11.21%) Power Platform
3 434 (7.97%) AWS
4 268 (4.92%) Microsoft 365
5 254 (4.67%) SaaS
6 156 (2.87%) GCP
7 126 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
8 106 (1.95%) Dynamics 365
9 97 (1.78%) Google Analytics
10 73 (1.34%) Entra ID
11 69 (1.27%) GitHub
12 68 (1.25%) Azure Data Factory
13 67 (1.23%) Snowflake
14 59 (1.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 56 (1.03%) Serverless
16 52 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
16 52 (0.96%) PaaS
17 50 (0.92%) Power Automate
18 44 (0.81%) dbt
19 42 (0.77%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 155 (2.85%) DNS
2 128 (2.35%) DHCP
3 116 (2.13%) Firewall
4 73 (1.34%) Network Security
5 72 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
6 64 (1.18%) VPN
7 62 (1.14%) LAN
8 57 (1.05%) WAN
9 45 (0.83%) TCP/IP
10 41 (0.75%) Remote Desktop
11 36 (0.66%) Wireless
12 33 (0.61%) VoIP
13 32 (0.59%) SMS
14 30 (0.55%) VLAN
15 24 (0.44%) Broadband
15 24 (0.44%) Internet
16 21 (0.39%) SAN
17 18 (0.33%) Intrusion Detection
17 18 (0.33%) OSPF
18 16 (0.29%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 564 (10.36%) Power BI
2 308 (5.66%) Tableau
3 187 (3.44%) SQL Server
4 167 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
5 136 (2.50%) Data Mining
6 118 (2.17%) Metadata
7 116 (2.13%) Data Lake
8 107 (1.97%) Relational Database
9 99 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
10 62 (1.14%) Looker
11 58 (1.07%) NoSQL
12 57 (1.05%) SAP BW
13 55 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 53 (0.97%) MySQL
15 46 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
16 45 (0.83%) Big Data
17 38 (0.70%) GIS
18 37 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
19 35 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
20 33 (0.61%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 232 (4.26%) JIRA
2 105 (1.93%) Git
3 58 (1.07%) Jenkins
4 51 (0.94%) Selenium
5 45 (0.83%) GitLab
6 19 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
7 18 (0.33%) Maven
8 16 (0.29%) Bitbucket
9 15 (0.28%) Postman
10 14 (0.26%) Cypress.io
10 14 (0.26%) WebDriver
11 13 (0.24%) Robot Framework
11 13 (0.24%) Subversion
12 11 (0.20%) Axure RP
12 11 (0.20%) Balsamiq
12 11 (0.20%) ERwin
12 11 (0.20%) JUnit
12 11 (0.20%) Snyk
13 10 (0.18%) ER Studio
13 10 (0.18%) TestRail
General
1 2,802 (51.48%) Social Skills
2 1,809 (33.24%) Finance
3 649 (11.92%) Marketing
4 416 (7.64%) Law
5 355 (6.52%) Retail
6 353 (6.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 320 (5.88%) Legal
8 293 (5.38%) Banking
9 253 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
10 246 (4.52%) Public Sector
11 234 (4.30%) Presentation Skills
12 230 (4.23%) Manufacturing
13 151 (2.77%) Influencing Skills
14 146 (2.68%) Telecoms
15 135 (2.48%) Financial Institution
16 111 (2.04%) Games
17 110 (2.02%) Advertising
18 98 (1.80%) Electronics
19 76 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
20 58 (1.07%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1,128 (20.72%) Analyst
2 681 (12.51%) Senior
3 517 (9.50%) Trainer
4 413 (7.59%) Lead
5 306 (5.62%) Architect
6 301 (5.53%) Data Analyst
7 221 (4.06%) Developer
8 216 (3.97%) Consultant
9 195 (3.58%) Business Analyst
10 179 (3.29%) Support Analyst
11 158 (2.90%) Senior Analyst
12 144 (2.65%) IT Support
13 136 (2.50%) Solutions Architect
14 125 (2.30%) Systems Engineer
15 117 (2.15%) Trainee
16 108 (1.98%) Business Manager
17 107 (1.97%) IT Manager
18 105 (1.93%) Financial Analyst
19 104 (1.91%) Applications Support
20 102 (1.87%) Innovation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (2.43%) HTML
2 106 (1.95%) CSS
3 91 (1.67%) React
4 83 (1.52%) REST
5 63 (1.16%) .NET
6 51 (0.94%) Kafka
7 50 (0.92%) Middleware
8 44 (0.81%) JSON
8 44 (0.81%) Spring
9 38 (0.70%) AngularJS
10 36 (0.66%) XML
11 32 (0.59%) EDI
12 30 (0.55%) SOAP
13 28 (0.51%) Web Services
14 27 (0.50%) Oracle Fusion
15 26 (0.48%) LangChain
15 26 (0.48%) Node.js
15 26 (0.48%) PySpark
16 22 (0.40%) Flash
16 22 (0.40%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 576 (10.58%) Analytical Mindset
2 393 (7.22%) Onboarding
3 392 (7.20%) Self-Motivation
4 286 (5.25%) Management Information System
5 203 (3.73%) Product Ownership
6 167 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
7 133 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
8 104 (1.91%) Driving Licence
9 85 (1.56%) Data Centre
10 84 (1.54%) Algorithms
10 84 (1.54%) FMCG
11 76 (1.40%) Cloud Native
12 65 (1.19%) Data Structures
12 65 (1.19%) Social Media
13 59 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 53 (0.97%) Virtual Team
15 51 (0.94%) Robotics
15 51 (0.94%) Security Posture
16 43 (0.79%) e-Learning
17 35 (0.64%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 320 (5.88%) Windows
2 211 (3.88%) Linux
3 139 (2.55%) Windows Server
4 89 (1.64%) Windows Server 2016
5 30 (0.55%) Unix
6 20 (0.37%) Mac OS
7 12 (0.22%) Android
8 9 (0.17%) Windows 10
9 8 (0.15%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.092%) Mac OS X
10 5 (0.092%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.073%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.055%) OpenWrt
12 3 (0.055%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (0.055%) VMS
12 3 (0.055%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.018%) OpenVMS
13 1 (0.018%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.018%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.018%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,448 (44.98%) Problem-Solving
2 1,285 (23.61%) AI
3 1,167 (21.44%) Analytics
4 1,095 (20.12%) Continuous Improvement
5 1,027 (18.87%) Decision-Making
6 980 (18.00%) Agile
7 839 (15.41%) Project Management
8 770 (14.15%) Business Intelligence
9 648 (11.91%) Stakeholder Management
10 529 (9.72%) Chemistry
11 527 (9.68%) Data Analysis
12 519 (9.54%) Conversational UI
13 477 (8.76%) Risk Management
14 467 (8.58%) ERP
15 458 (8.41%) Roadmaps
16 446 (8.19%) Cybersecurity
17 439 (8.07%) Mentoring
18 436 (8.01%) Customer Service
19 432 (7.94%) CRM
20 418 (7.68%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 978 (17.97%) SQL
2 640 (11.76%) Python
3 166 (3.05%) Java
4 158 (2.90%) JavaScript
5 118 (2.17%) C#
6 89 (1.64%) PowerShell
7 78 (1.43%) R
8 52 (0.96%) C++
9 51 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 44 (0.81%) T-SQL
11 42 (0.77%) Bash
12 39 (0.72%) VBA
13 33 (0.61%) TypeScript
14 28 (0.51%) PL/SQL
15 26 (0.48%) C
16 22 (0.40%) Scala
17 18 (0.33%) Go
17 18 (0.33%) Kotlin
18 15 (0.28%) ABAP
19 12 (0.22%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1,857 (34.12%) Degree
2 694 (12.75%) Master's Degree
3 534 (9.81%) PhD
4 441 (8.10%) Security Cleared
5 317 (5.82%) SC Cleared
6 200 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 178 (3.27%) ACCA
7 178 (3.27%) CISSP
8 171 (3.14%) CIMA
9 103 (1.89%) DBS Check
10 94 (1.73%) DV Cleared
11 84 (1.54%) CISM
12 78 (1.43%) PMI Certification
13 66 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
14 63 (1.16%) PMP
15 61 (1.12%) CompTIA Security+
16 60 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
17 58 (1.07%) Azure Certification
18 57 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
19 50 (0.92%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 286 (5.25%) Data Quality
2 273 (5.02%) QA
3 198 (3.64%) GDPR
4 189 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 143 (2.63%) PCI DSS
6 137 (2.52%) Cyber Essentials
7 114 (2.09%) NIST
8 112 (2.06%) PMO
9 111 (2.04%) Accessibility
10 53 (0.97%) SLA
11 40 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
11 40 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 34 (0.62%) GRC
13 23 (0.42%) IFRS
14 20 (0.37%) ISO 9001
14 20 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 16 (0.29%) WCAG
16 14 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 13 (0.24%) COBIT
18 10 (0.18%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 238 (4.37%) Active Directory
2 116 (2.13%) Hyper-V
3 88 (1.62%) Terminal Server
4 59 (1.08%) Docker
5 45 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
6 27 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (0.31%) Firmware
8 9 (0.17%) vSphere
9 7 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.092%) ProxySG
11 3 (0.055%) HDFS
11 3 (0.055%) zsh
12 1 (0.018%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.018%) Embedded Firmware
12 1 (0.018%) NFS
12 1 (0.018%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.018%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 84 (1.54%) Terraform
2 73 (1.34%) Kubernetes
3 53 (0.97%) Ansible
4 41 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (0.33%) Grafana
6 16 (0.29%) Prometheus
6 16 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.17%) SCCM
8 7 (0.13%) QRadar
9 6 (0.11%) SCOM
10 5 (0.092%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 4 (0.073%) Nessus
11 4 (0.073%) Rancher
11 4 (0.073%) vRealize
12 3 (0.055%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.055%) Nagios
13 2 (0.037%) AssetCenter
13 2 (0.037%) EMC NetWorker
13 2 (0.037%) HAProxy
13 2 (0.037%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1,203 (22.10%) Microsoft
2 515 (9.46%) PayPal
3 422 (7.75%) SAP
4 229 (4.21%) Google
5 218 (4.01%) Oracle
6 168 (3.09%) Salesforce
7 144 (2.65%) VMware
8 121 (2.22%) Splunk
9 111 (2.04%) Databricks
10 107 (1.97%) SolarWinds
11 92 (1.69%) Veeam
12 89 (1.64%) Brocade
12 89 (1.64%) Tanium
13 88 (1.62%) Nimble Storage
14 84 (1.54%) Adobe
15 80 (1.47%) ServiceNow
16 78 (1.43%) Cisco
17 58 (1.07%) Workday
18 51 (0.94%) Alteryx
19 43 (0.79%) Bloomberg