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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 9 13
Rank change year-on-year -16 +4 +7
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 5,869 6,077 8,013
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.39% 12.16% 9.60%
As % of the General category 11.67% 17.77% 16.87%
Number of salaries quoted 3,566 2,598 3,575
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% -8.16% -2.00%

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 50,289 34,196 47,504
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.15% 68.42% 56.90%
Number of salaries quoted 30,817 18,011 27,386
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -3.85%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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 -15 5,252 £52,500 - 5,011
UK excluding London -16 3,807 £47,500 +5.56% 2,842
Work from Home -9 1,921 £55,000 +10.00% 2,194
London -10 1,785 £67,500 +3.85% 2,716
North of England -19 1,048 £47,500 +5.56% 704
South East -7 909 £49,536 -5.65% 618
Midlands -7 667 £48,000 +6.67% 386
North West -16 644 £46,500 +3.33% 405
South West -9 528 £47,500 +5.56% 493
West Midlands -16 345 £50,000 +11.11% 219
East Midlands -4 319 £46,743 +3.87% 168
Yorkshire -11 284 £47,000 +17.50% 231
East of England -19 256 £47,500 +5.56% 257
Wales -9 157 £50,000 -0.78% 64
Scotland -22 132 £45,788 +7.74% 248
North East -18 120 £55,000 +17.65% 76
Northern Ireland -10 118 £42,500 -22.73% 143

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
1 183 (3.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 173 (2.95%) SharePoint
3 96 (1.64%) Confluence
4 57 (0.97%) Apache Spark
5 56 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
6 47 (0.80%) CMS
7 36 (0.61%) Apache
8 34 (0.58%) IIS
9 26 (0.44%) SAS
10 11 (0.19%) WordPress
11 10 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 10 (0.17%) Jupyter
11 10 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
12 9 (0.15%) Headless CMS
12 9 (0.15%) WebLogic
12 9 (0.15%) WebSphere
13 8 (0.14%) OpenStack
14 3 (0.051%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.051%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.051%) Tomcat
Applications
1 619 (10.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 258 (4.40%) Microsoft Office
3 123 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 73 (1.24%) MS Visio
5 43 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
6 27 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.17%) Simulink
8 9 (0.15%) Adobe XD
9 7 (0.12%) AutoCAD
10 5 (0.085%) Acrobat
10 5 (0.085%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.085%) EPLAN
11 4 (0.068%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.068%) CATIA
11 4 (0.068%) Maya
11 4 (0.068%) Trello
12 3 (0.051%) LaTeX
12 3 (0.051%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.051%) SOLIDWORKS
12 3 (0.051%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 105 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 64 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
3 40 (0.68%) NetSuite
4 35 (0.60%) Dynamics GP
5 21 (0.36%) Shopify
6 20 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
7 15 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
7 15 (0.26%) SAP PM
8 13 (0.22%) SAP CO
8 13 (0.22%) SAP FI
8 13 (0.22%) Workday HCM
9 12 (0.20%) SAP ERP
9 12 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
10 11 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
11 10 (0.17%) Elite 3E
11 10 (0.17%) Magento
11 10 (0.17%) SAP Business One
12 9 (0.15%) Fidessa
12 9 (0.15%) Sage 200
13 8 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 985 (16.78%) Azure
2 695 (11.84%) Power Platform
3 605 (10.31%) AWS
4 417 (7.11%) Microsoft 365
5 371 (6.32%) SaaS
6 291 (4.96%) GCP
7 147 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
8 144 (2.45%) Entra ID
9 140 (2.39%) Dynamics 365
10 118 (2.01%) Google Analytics
11 102 (1.74%) GitHub
11 102 (1.74%) Snowflake
12 90 (1.53%) dbt
13 81 (1.38%) Power Automate
14 79 (1.35%) Google Ads
15 77 (1.31%) PowerApps
16 76 (1.29%) Microsoft Purview
17 70 (1.19%) Serverless
18 68 (1.16%) Amazon S3
19 59 (1.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 201 (3.42%) DNS
2 157 (2.68%) DHCP
3 150 (2.56%) Firewall
4 127 (2.16%) VPN
5 101 (1.72%) TCP/IP
6 76 (1.29%) WAN
7 74 (1.26%) LAN
8 62 (1.06%) Network Security
9 57 (0.97%) Wireless
10 55 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
11 52 (0.89%) Broadband
12 47 (0.80%) VLAN
13 46 (0.78%) Internet
14 41 (0.70%) SAN
15 35 (0.60%) HTTP
16 29 (0.49%) VoIP
17 26 (0.44%) BGP
18 21 (0.36%) SMS
19 20 (0.34%) SD-WAN
20 19 (0.32%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 615 (10.48%) Power BI
2 235 (4.00%) Tableau
3 223 (3.80%) SQL Server
4 192 (3.27%) Data Warehouse
5 118 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
6 104 (1.77%) Relational Database
7 96 (1.64%) Looker
8 95 (1.62%) Metadata
9 86 (1.47%) MySQL
10 78 (1.33%) Data Lake
11 76 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
12 67 (1.14%) BigQuery
12 67 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 64 (1.09%) Power Query
14 59 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 54 (0.92%) Big Data
16 53 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
17 48 (0.82%) NoSQL
18 38 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
18 38 (0.65%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 253 (4.31%) JIRA
2 209 (3.56%) Git
3 50 (0.85%) GitLab
3 50 (0.85%) Jenkins
4 31 (0.53%) MLflow
4 31 (0.53%) Rational DOORS
5 29 (0.49%) Selenium
6 23 (0.39%) Cucumber
7 21 (0.36%) Eclipse
8 20 (0.34%) Postman
9 16 (0.27%) Chocolatey
10 15 (0.26%) Bitbucket
10 15 (0.26%) Claude Code
11 14 (0.24%) JMeter
12 13 (0.22%) Burp Suite
12 13 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
13 12 (0.20%) Cypress.io
13 12 (0.20%) ERwin
13 12 (0.20%) LabVIEW
14 11 (0.19%) Metasploit
General
1 2,849 (48.54%) Social Skills
2 1,910 (32.54%) Finance
3 621 (10.58%) Marketing
4 525 (8.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 428 (7.29%) Organisational Skills
6 398 (6.78%) Retail
7 393 (6.70%) Law
8 362 (6.17%) Public Sector
9 360 (6.13%) Legal
10 293 (4.99%) Influencing Skills
11 285 (4.86%) Manufacturing
12 260 (4.43%) Banking
13 194 (3.31%) Presentation Skills
14 172 (2.93%) Aerospace
15 130 (2.22%) Telecoms
16 117 (1.99%) Electronics
17 106 (1.81%) Advertising
18 95 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
19 72 (1.23%) Financial Institution
20 65 (1.11%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,351 (23.02%) Analyst
2 770 (13.12%) Senior
3 413 (7.04%) Lead
4 294 (5.01%) Data Analyst
5 293 (4.99%) Business Analyst
6 285 (4.86%) Developer
7 229 (3.90%) Architect
8 226 (3.85%) Consultant
9 206 (3.51%) Systems Engineer
10 204 (3.48%) Senior Analyst
11 174 (2.96%) Data Engineer
12 172 (2.93%) Support Analyst
13 131 (2.23%) Support Engineer
14 116 (1.98%) IT Support
15 112 (1.91%) IT Manager
16 109 (1.86%) Senior Manager
17 107 (1.82%) Security Analyst
18 100 (1.70%) Systems Analyst
19 94 (1.60%) Applications Support
19 94 (1.60%) Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (2.71%) .NET
2 149 (2.54%) Terraform
3 128 (2.18%) HTML
4 124 (2.11%) REST
5 119 (2.03%) CSS
6 88 (1.50%) JSON
7 78 (1.33%) Kafka
7 78 (1.33%) Middleware
7 78 (1.33%) XML
8 74 (1.26%) React
8 74 (1.26%) RESTful
9 66 (1.12%) PyTorch
10 59 (1.01%) TensorFlow
11 58 (0.99%) SOAP
12 49 (0.83%) PySpark
13 46 (0.78%) scikit-learn
13 46 (0.78%) Web Services
14 45 (0.77%) EDI
15 42 (0.72%) LDAP
16 39 (0.66%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 511 (8.71%) Analytical Mindset
2 349 (5.95%) Management Information System
3 343 (5.84%) Onboarding
4 283 (4.82%) Product Ownership
5 282 (4.80%) Self-Motivation
6 164 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
7 138 (2.35%) Cloud Native
8 132 (2.25%) Driving Licence
9 129 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
10 119 (2.03%) Blog
10 119 (2.03%) Social Media
11 106 (1.81%) Security Posture
12 103 (1.75%) Marketing Technology
13 101 (1.72%) Data Centre
14 99 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
15 95 (1.62%) Virtual Team
16 83 (1.41%) Data Structures
17 76 (1.29%) Algorithms
18 72 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
19 53 (0.90%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 457 (7.79%) Windows
2 288 (4.91%) Linux
3 221 (3.77%) Windows Server
4 99 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
5 35 (0.60%) Windows 10
6 33 (0.56%) Unix
7 30 (0.51%) Mac OS
8 29 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 22 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
10 21 (0.36%) Apple iOS
11 19 (0.32%) Android
12 11 (0.19%) CentOS
13 8 (0.14%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.10%) Debian
14 6 (0.10%) VMS
15 5 (0.085%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.068%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.068%) Rocky
17 2 (0.034%) AIX
17 2 (0.034%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,817 (48.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1,692 (28.83%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,372 (23.38%) Decision-Making
4 1,254 (21.37%) Analytics
5 1,056 (17.99%) Agile
6 1,045 (17.81%) Stakeholder Management
7 1,029 (17.53%) AI
8 751 (12.80%) Business Intelligence
9 641 (10.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 611 (10.41%) Roadmaps
11 565 (9.63%) Mentoring
12 562 (9.58%) Actionable Insight
13 523 (8.91%) Project Management
14 505 (8.60%) Validation
15 493 (8.40%) Cybersecurity
15 493 (8.40%) Data Analysis
16 472 (8.04%) Data Modelling
17 459 (7.82%) Process Improvement
18 448 (7.63%) Customer Experience
19 447 (7.62%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 1,151 (19.61%) SQL
2 883 (15.05%) Python
3 228 (3.88%) JavaScript
4 200 (3.41%) Java
5 192 (3.27%) C#
6 190 (3.24%) PowerShell
7 106 (1.81%) C++
8 89 (1.52%) Bash
9 82 (1.40%) R
10 73 (1.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 67 (1.14%) TypeScript
12 50 (0.85%) T-SQL
13 47 (0.80%) MATLAB
14 34 (0.58%) C
15 28 (0.48%) Scala
16 27 (0.46%) PHP
17 24 (0.41%) PL/SQL
18 22 (0.37%) Go
19 20 (0.34%) Perl
20 19 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1,151 (19.61%) Degree
2 655 (11.16%) Security Cleared
3 455 (7.75%) SC Cleared
4 233 (3.97%) ACCA
5 218 (3.71%) CIMA
6 175 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 164 (2.79%) CISSP
8 159 (2.71%) DV Cleared
9 146 (2.49%) DBS Check
10 124 (2.11%) CISM
11 119 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
12 115 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
13 100 (1.70%) Master's Degree
14 79 (1.35%) Azure Certification
15 76 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
16 73 (1.24%) CompTIA Security+
17 63 (1.07%) PMI Certification
18 49 (0.83%) IRCA
19 48 (0.82%) CRISC
20 46 (0.78%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 559 (9.52%) Data Quality
2 396 (6.75%) QA
3 376 (6.41%) GDPR
4 240 (4.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 196 (3.34%) NIST
6 171 (2.91%) Accessibility
7 157 (2.68%) Cyber Essentials
8 156 (2.66%) SLA
9 128 (2.18%) PCI DSS
10 110 (1.87%) ISO 9001
11 70 (1.19%) GRC
12 63 (1.07%) PMO
13 45 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
14 42 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 37 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 37 (0.63%) IFRS
16 34 (0.58%) COBIT
17 28 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 27 (0.46%) NCSC
19 24 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 330 (5.62%) Active Directory
2 135 (2.30%) Docker
3 103 (1.75%) Hyper-V
4 88 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 80 (1.36%) Terminal Server
6 31 (0.53%) Firmware
7 21 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
8 19 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (0.15%) vSphere
10 8 (0.14%) VMware NSX
11 7 (0.12%) Ceph
11 7 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
11 7 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.068%) KVM
12 4 (0.068%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.068%) ProxySG
13 3 (0.051%) DFS Replication
13 3 (0.051%) IAG
13 3 (0.051%) VMware ESXi
14 2 (0.034%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 113 (1.93%) Kubernetes
2 83 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
3 75 (1.28%) Ansible
4 42 (0.72%) Grafana
5 36 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
6 27 (0.46%) SCCM
7 23 (0.39%) Prometheus
8 19 (0.32%) QRadar
9 18 (0.31%) Kibana
10 15 (0.26%) Nagios
11 11 (0.19%) Nmap
11 11 (0.19%) Podman
12 9 (0.15%) Argo
12 9 (0.15%) Kubeflow
13 8 (0.14%) logstash
14 7 (0.12%) Check_MK
14 7 (0.12%) Istio
14 7 (0.12%) Packer
14 7 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
15 6 (0.10%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1,286 (21.91%) Microsoft
2 314 (5.35%) Google
3 228 (3.88%) SAP
4 193 (3.29%) Oracle
5 182 (3.10%) VMware
6 151 (2.57%) Splunk
7 144 (2.45%) Databricks
8 132 (2.25%) ServiceNow
9 126 (2.15%) Salesforce
10 110 (1.87%) SolarWinds
11 90 (1.53%) Veeam
12 83 (1.41%) Cisco
13 81 (1.38%) Brocade
13 81 (1.38%) Nimble Storage
14 80 (1.36%) Tanium
15 76 (1.29%) Workday
16 64 (1.09%) Adobe
17 53 (0.90%) HubSpot
18 49 (0.83%) Dell
19 45 (0.77%) Red Hat