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

6 months to
24 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 5,846 6,111 7,991
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.39% 12.21% 9.58%
As % of the General category 11.67% 17.83% 16.81%
Number of salaries quoted 3,562 2,621 3,576
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £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 £46,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year +3.26% -6.12% -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 50,080 34,283 47,530
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.17% 68.49% 56.96%
Number of salaries quoted 30,717 18,033 27,418
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -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 24 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 24 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 5,235 £52,500 - 2,745
UK excluding London -16 3,788 £47,500 +3.26% 2,171
Work from Home -10 1,895 £55,000 +10.00% 1,135
London -10 1,784 £67,500 +3.85% 996
North of England -19 1,045 £47,500 +5.56% 528
South East -7 903 £50,000 -4.76% 683
Midlands -8 659 £47,500 +5.56% 353
North West -16 646 £46,500 +3.33% 289
South West -8 528 £47,500 +5.56% 341
West Midlands -16 341 £50,000 +11.11% 205
East Midlands -4 315 £46,113 +2.47% 149
Yorkshire -11 280 £47,000 +17.50% 184
East of England -18 257 £47,500 +5.56% 188
Wales -11 153 £51,709 +2.61% 51
Scotland -20 133 £45,000 +10.43% 79
North East -19 119 £55,000 +17.65% 61
Northern Ireland -8 118 £42,500 -22.73% 20

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
1 180 (3.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 172 (2.94%) SharePoint
3 95 (1.63%) Confluence
4 65 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
4 65 (1.11%) Apache Spark
5 46 (0.79%) CMS
6 45 (0.77%) Apache
7 33 (0.56%) IIS
8 26 (0.44%) SAS
9 11 (0.19%) WordPress
10 10 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 10 (0.17%) Jupyter
10 10 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
11 9 (0.15%) Headless CMS
11 9 (0.15%) WebLogic
11 9 (0.15%) WebSphere
12 8 (0.14%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.051%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.051%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.051%) Tomcat
Applications
1 616 (10.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 255 (4.36%) Microsoft Office
3 122 (2.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 81 (1.39%) MS Visio
5 43 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
6 26 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.17%) Adobe XD
7 10 (0.17%) Simulink
8 7 (0.12%) AutoCAD
9 5 (0.086%) Acrobat
9 5 (0.086%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.086%) EPLAN
10 4 (0.068%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.068%) CATIA
10 4 (0.068%) Maya
10 4 (0.068%) Trello
11 3 (0.051%) LaTeX
11 3 (0.051%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.051%) SOLIDWORKS
11 3 (0.051%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 104 (1.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 68 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
3 40 (0.68%) NetSuite
4 34 (0.58%) Dynamics GP
5 21 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
6 20 (0.34%) SAP PM
7 19 (0.33%) Shopify
8 15 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
9 14 (0.24%) SAP ERP
10 13 (0.22%) SAP CO
10 13 (0.22%) SAP FI
10 13 (0.22%) Workday HCM
11 12 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
12 11 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
13 10 (0.17%) Elite 3E
13 10 (0.17%) Magento
13 10 (0.17%) SAP Business One
14 9 (0.15%) Fidessa
14 9 (0.15%) Sage 200
15 8 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 988 (16.90%) Azure
2 701 (11.99%) Power Platform
3 608 (10.40%) AWS
4 417 (7.13%) Microsoft 365
5 370 (6.33%) SaaS
6 290 (4.96%) GCP
7 145 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
8 142 (2.43%) Entra ID
9 140 (2.39%) Dynamics 365
10 117 (2.00%) Google Analytics
11 102 (1.74%) Snowflake
12 100 (1.71%) GitHub
13 91 (1.56%) dbt
14 85 (1.45%) Power Automate
15 79 (1.35%) Amazon S3
16 78 (1.33%) Google Ads
17 77 (1.32%) PowerApps
18 74 (1.27%) Microsoft Purview
19 64 (1.09%) Serverless
20 59 (1.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 199 (3.40%) DNS
2 154 (2.63%) DHCP
3 149 (2.55%) Firewall
4 124 (2.12%) VPN
5 99 (1.69%) TCP/IP
6 76 (1.30%) WAN
7 75 (1.28%) LAN
8 61 (1.04%) Network Security
9 57 (0.98%) Wireless
10 54 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
11 52 (0.89%) Broadband
12 45 (0.77%) Internet
13 44 (0.75%) VLAN
14 42 (0.72%) SAN
15 36 (0.62%) HTTP
16 28 (0.48%) VoIP
17 24 (0.41%) BGP
18 21 (0.36%) SMS
19 20 (0.34%) SD-WAN
20 17 (0.29%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 621 (10.62%) Power BI
2 251 (4.29%) Tableau
3 224 (3.83%) SQL Server
4 193 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
5 118 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
6 103 (1.76%) Relational Database
7 96 (1.64%) Looker
8 95 (1.63%) Metadata
9 83 (1.42%) MySQL
10 79 (1.35%) Data Lake
11 75 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
12 68 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 67 (1.15%) BigQuery
14 63 (1.08%) Power Query
15 60 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 54 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
16 54 (0.92%) Big Data
17 46 (0.79%) NoSQL
18 38 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
19 36 (0.62%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 251 (4.29%) JIRA
2 217 (3.71%) Git
3 49 (0.84%) GitLab
3 49 (0.84%) Jenkins
4 31 (0.53%) Rational DOORS
5 30 (0.51%) MLflow
6 28 (0.48%) Selenium
7 21 (0.36%) Cucumber
7 21 (0.36%) Eclipse
8 20 (0.34%) Postman
9 15 (0.26%) Chocolatey
10 14 (0.24%) Bitbucket
10 14 (0.24%) Claude Code
10 14 (0.24%) JMeter
11 13 (0.22%) Burp Suite
12 12 (0.21%) Cypress.io
12 12 (0.21%) ERwin
12 12 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
13 11 (0.19%) LabVIEW
13 11 (0.19%) Metasploit
General
1 2,828 (48.37%) Social Skills
2 1,911 (32.69%) Finance
3 620 (10.61%) Marketing
4 519 (8.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 419 (7.17%) Organisational Skills
6 394 (6.74%) Law
7 392 (6.71%) Retail
8 359 (6.14%) Public Sector
9 354 (6.06%) Legal
10 288 (4.93%) Manufacturing
11 286 (4.89%) Influencing Skills
12 266 (4.55%) Banking
13 191 (3.27%) Presentation Skills
14 172 (2.94%) Aerospace
15 131 (2.24%) Telecoms
16 114 (1.95%) Electronics
17 108 (1.85%) Advertising
18 94 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
19 71 (1.21%) Financial Institution
20 70 (1.20%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,365 (23.35%) Analyst
2 769 (13.15%) Senior
3 409 (7.00%) Lead
4 301 (5.15%) Business Analyst
5 295 (5.05%) Data Analyst
6 282 (4.82%) Developer
7 231 (3.95%) Architect
8 224 (3.83%) Consultant
9 207 (3.54%) Systems Engineer
10 204 (3.49%) Senior Analyst
11 172 (2.94%) Support Analyst
12 170 (2.91%) Data Engineer
13 129 (2.21%) Support Engineer
14 117 (2.00%) IT Support
15 110 (1.88%) Senior Manager
16 109 (1.86%) IT Manager
17 107 (1.83%) Security Analyst
18 102 (1.74%) Systems Analyst
19 93 (1.59%) Applications Support
19 93 (1.59%) Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (2.57%) .NET
2 148 (2.53%) Terraform
3 128 (2.19%) HTML
4 123 (2.10%) REST
5 119 (2.04%) CSS
6 87 (1.49%) JSON
7 77 (1.32%) Middleware
8 76 (1.30%) Kafka
9 75 (1.28%) XML
10 74 (1.27%) React
11 72 (1.23%) RESTful
12 66 (1.13%) PyTorch
13 59 (1.01%) TensorFlow
14 57 (0.98%) SOAP
15 51 (0.87%) PySpark
16 46 (0.79%) scikit-learn
17 45 (0.77%) Web Services
18 43 (0.74%) EDI
19 42 (0.72%) LDAP
20 38 (0.65%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 517 (8.84%) Analytical Mindset
2 347 (5.94%) Management Information System
3 340 (5.82%) Onboarding
4 277 (4.74%) Self-Motivation
5 276 (4.72%) Product Ownership
6 164 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
7 139 (2.38%) Cloud Native
8 133 (2.28%) Driving Licence
9 124 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
10 119 (2.04%) Blog
10 119 (2.04%) Social Media
11 106 (1.81%) Security Posture
12 104 (1.78%) Data Centre
13 103 (1.76%) Marketing Technology
14 96 (1.64%) Cyber Threat
15 92 (1.57%) Virtual Team
16 83 (1.42%) Data Structures
17 76 (1.30%) Algorithms
18 71 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
19 52 (0.89%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 459 (7.85%) Windows
2 290 (4.96%) Linux
3 221 (3.78%) Windows Server
4 99 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
5 34 (0.58%) Windows 10
6 32 (0.55%) Unix
7 30 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 29 (0.50%) Mac OS
9 22 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
10 21 (0.36%) Apple iOS
11 19 (0.33%) Android
12 11 (0.19%) CentOS
13 8 (0.14%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.10%) Debian
14 6 (0.10%) VMS
15 5 (0.086%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.068%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.068%) Rocky
17 2 (0.034%) AIX
17 2 (0.034%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,800 (47.90%) Problem-Solving
2 1,682 (28.77%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,360 (23.26%) Decision-Making
4 1,250 (21.38%) Analytics
5 1,050 (17.96%) Agile
6 1,028 (17.58%) AI
7 1,026 (17.55%) Stakeholder Management
8 752 (12.86%) Business Intelligence
9 639 (10.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 605 (10.35%) Roadmaps
11 559 (9.56%) Actionable Insight
12 551 (9.43%) Mentoring
13 519 (8.88%) Project Management
14 506 (8.66%) Validation
15 501 (8.57%) Data Analysis
16 491 (8.40%) Cybersecurity
17 475 (8.13%) Data Modelling
18 459 (7.85%) Process Improvement
19 445 (7.61%) ERP
20 444 (7.59%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 1,160 (19.84%) SQL
2 894 (15.29%) Python
3 220 (3.76%) JavaScript
4 192 (3.28%) Java
5 190 (3.25%) PowerShell
6 184 (3.15%) C#
7 100 (1.71%) C++
8 92 (1.57%) Bash
9 82 (1.40%) R
10 74 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 65 (1.11%) TypeScript
12 50 (0.86%) T-SQL
13 47 (0.80%) MATLAB
14 34 (0.58%) C
15 28 (0.48%) Scala
16 27 (0.46%) PHP
17 23 (0.39%) PL/SQL
18 22 (0.38%) Go
19 19 (0.33%) Perl
20 18 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,140 (19.50%) Degree
2 647 (11.07%) Security Cleared
3 447 (7.65%) SC Cleared
4 235 (4.02%) ACCA
5 220 (3.76%) CIMA
6 173 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 163 (2.79%) CISSP
8 157 (2.69%) DV Cleared
9 144 (2.46%) DBS Check
10 123 (2.10%) CISM
11 121 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
12 117 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
13 99 (1.69%) Master's Degree
14 80 (1.37%) Azure Certification
15 78 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
16 74 (1.27%) CompTIA Security+
17 63 (1.08%) PMI Certification
18 49 (0.84%) IRCA
19 48 (0.82%) CCNA
20 47 (0.80%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 563 (9.63%) Data Quality
2 388 (6.64%) QA
3 374 (6.40%) GDPR
4 241 (4.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 197 (3.37%) NIST
6 169 (2.89%) Accessibility
7 157 (2.69%) Cyber Essentials
8 154 (2.63%) SLA
9 129 (2.21%) PCI DSS
10 109 (1.86%) ISO 9001
11 70 (1.20%) GRC
12 63 (1.08%) PMO
13 45 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
14 41 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 37 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 36 (0.62%) IFRS
17 35 (0.60%) COBIT
18 28 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
19 27 (0.46%) NCSC
20 24 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 331 (5.66%) Active Directory
2 134 (2.29%) Docker
3 103 (1.76%) Hyper-V
4 89 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 80 (1.37%) Terminal Server
6 31 (0.53%) Firmware
7 21 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
8 19 (0.33%) 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%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 112 (1.92%) Kubernetes
2 84 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
3 75 (1.28%) Ansible
4 40 (0.68%) Grafana
5 35 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
6 26 (0.44%) SCCM
7 21 (0.36%) Prometheus
8 19 (0.33%) QRadar
9 18 (0.31%) Kibana
10 16 (0.27%) 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%) Graylog
Vendors
1 1,282 (21.93%) Microsoft
2 313 (5.35%) Google
3 235 (4.02%) SAP
4 199 (3.40%) Oracle
5 183 (3.13%) VMware
6 149 (2.55%) Splunk
7 144 (2.46%) Databricks
8 131 (2.24%) ServiceNow
9 126 (2.16%) Salesforce
10 111 (1.90%) SolarWinds
11 90 (1.54%) Veeam
12 83 (1.42%) Cisco
13 81 (1.39%) Brocade
13 81 (1.39%) Nimble Storage
14 80 (1.37%) Tanium
15 76 (1.30%) Workday
16 64 (1.09%) Adobe
17 54 (0.92%) Red Hat
18 51 (0.87%) Dell
18 51 (0.87%) HubSpot