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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 9 13
Rank change year-on-year -17 +4 +7
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 5,705 6,151 7,969
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.42% 12.39% 9.60%
As % of the General category 11.53% 17.91% 16.77%
Number of salaries quoted 3,553 2,638 3,704
10th Percentile £31,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £39,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,188 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%

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 49,460 34,338 47,533
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 47.00% 69.16% 57.29%
Number of salaries quoted 30,259 18,002 28,512
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £39,565 £35,000 £39,420
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,163 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £49,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -9.09% -5.71%

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 8 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 8 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 5,161 £52,500 -3.23% 3,899
UK excluding London -18 3,655 £47,500 - 2,328
Work from Home -11 1,816 £55,000 +9.73% 1,466
London -10 1,759 £67,500 +3.85% 1,962
North of England -18 1,044 £47,500 +5.56% 578
South East -9 890 £50,000 -4.76% 708
Midlands -9 643 £47,500 +5.56% 360
North West -17 629 £47,500 +2.15% 317
South West -12 502 £47,500 +4.92% 297
West Midlands -19 334 £50,000 +11.11% 219
East Midlands -2 307 £45,000 - 141
Yorkshire -10 292 £47,000 +5.15% 201
East of England -22 259 £45,050 +0.11% 217
Wales -12 123 £53,171 -1.08% 62
North East -20 123 £55,000 +37.50% 64
Scotland -22 122 £44,000 - 114
Northern Ireland -27 81 £42,500 -22.73% 56

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
1 181 (3.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 162 (2.84%) SharePoint
3 83 (1.45%) Confluence
4 70 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
4 70 (1.23%) Apache Spark
5 49 (0.86%) Apache
6 46 (0.81%) CMS
7 29 (0.51%) IIS
8 25 (0.44%) SAS
9 12 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 11 (0.19%) WordPress
11 10 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
12 9 (0.16%) Jupyter
12 9 (0.16%) WebLogic
12 9 (0.16%) WebSphere
13 8 (0.14%) OpenStack
14 6 (0.11%) Headless CMS
15 3 (0.053%) Anypoint
15 3 (0.053%) JBoss
15 3 (0.053%) Tomcat
Applications
1 626 (10.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 249 (4.36%) Microsoft Office
3 123 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 84 (1.47%) MS Visio
5 39 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
6 33 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.16%) Adobe XD
8 7 (0.12%) CATIA
9 6 (0.11%) AutoCAD
10 5 (0.088%) Acrobat
10 5 (0.088%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.088%) EPLAN
10 5 (0.088%) Simulink
11 4 (0.070%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.070%) Maya
11 4 (0.070%) Trello
12 3 (0.053%) LaTeX
12 3 (0.053%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.053%) SOLIDWORKS
12 3 (0.053%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 77 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 73 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 38 (0.67%) NetSuite
4 36 (0.63%) Dynamics GP
5 23 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
6 20 (0.35%) SAP PM
7 15 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
7 15 (0.26%) SAP CO
7 15 (0.26%) SAP ERP
7 15 (0.26%) SAP FI
8 14 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
9 13 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
10 10 (0.18%) Elite 3E
10 10 (0.18%) Magento
10 10 (0.18%) Shopify
10 10 (0.18%) Workday HCM
11 8 (0.14%) Maximo
11 8 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
11 8 (0.14%) Sage 200
11 8 (0.14%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 990 (17.35%) Azure
2 701 (12.29%) Power Platform
3 600 (10.52%) AWS
4 406 (7.12%) Microsoft 365
5 353 (6.19%) SaaS
6 277 (4.86%) GCP
7 141 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
8 138 (2.42%) Dynamics 365
9 131 (2.30%) Entra ID
10 102 (1.79%) Snowflake
11 101 (1.77%) Google Analytics
12 94 (1.65%) GitHub
13 87 (1.52%) dbt
14 85 (1.49%) Power Automate
15 76 (1.33%) Amazon S3
16 75 (1.31%) PowerApps
17 73 (1.28%) Microsoft Purview
18 63 (1.10%) Serverless
19 56 (0.98%) Azure Data Factory
20 55 (0.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 193 (3.38%) DNS
2 153 (2.68%) Firewall
3 149 (2.61%) DHCP
4 128 (2.24%) VPN
5 95 (1.67%) TCP/IP
6 78 (1.37%) WAN
7 76 (1.33%) LAN
8 64 (1.12%) Broadband
9 59 (1.03%) Wireless
10 57 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
11 56 (0.98%) Network Security
12 44 (0.77%) VLAN
13 43 (0.75%) SAN
14 41 (0.72%) Internet
15 35 (0.61%) HTTP
16 29 (0.51%) BGP
17 25 (0.44%) VoIP
18 22 (0.39%) OSPF
18 22 (0.39%) SD-WAN
19 20 (0.35%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 621 (10.89%) Power BI
2 284 (4.98%) Tableau
3 225 (3.94%) SQL Server
4 198 (3.47%) Data Warehouse
5 113 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
6 98 (1.72%) Relational Database
7 95 (1.67%) Metadata
8 88 (1.54%) Looker
9 78 (1.37%) MySQL
10 77 (1.35%) Data Lake
11 74 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
12 69 (1.21%) Power Query
13 67 (1.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 61 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 60 (1.05%) BigQuery
16 56 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
17 50 (0.88%) Data Mining
18 48 (0.84%) Big Data
19 46 (0.81%) NoSQL
20 38 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 233 (4.08%) JIRA
2 218 (3.82%) Git
3 58 (1.02%) GitLab
4 49 (0.86%) Jenkins
5 34 (0.60%) Rational DOORS
6 33 (0.58%) MLflow
7 30 (0.53%) Selenium
8 23 (0.40%) Cucumber
9 21 (0.37%) Postman
10 18 (0.32%) Eclipse
11 17 (0.30%) Chocolatey
12 14 (0.25%) ERwin
12 14 (0.25%) JMeter
13 13 (0.23%) Bitbucket
13 13 (0.23%) Cypress.io
13 13 (0.23%) IBM UrbanCode
14 12 (0.21%) SonarQube
15 11 (0.19%) Burp Suite
15 11 (0.19%) Claude Code
15 11 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 2,725 (47.77%) Social Skills
2 1,881 (32.97%) Finance
3 548 (9.61%) Marketing
4 482 (8.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 415 (7.27%) Organisational Skills
6 373 (6.54%) Retail
7 353 (6.19%) Law
8 346 (6.06%) Public Sector
9 324 (5.68%) Legal
10 278 (4.87%) Banking
11 266 (4.66%) Manufacturing
12 259 (4.54%) Influencing Skills
13 168 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
14 144 (2.52%) Aerospace
15 134 (2.35%) Telecoms
16 104 (1.82%) Advertising
17 98 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
18 95 (1.67%) Electronics
19 73 (1.28%) Financial Institution
20 65 (1.14%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,348 (23.63%) Analyst
2 732 (12.83%) Senior
3 401 (7.03%) Lead
4 312 (5.47%) Data Analyst
5 292 (5.12%) Business Analyst
6 275 (4.82%) Developer
7 226 (3.96%) Consultant
8 222 (3.89%) Architect
9 213 (3.73%) Systems Engineer
10 179 (3.14%) Senior Analyst
11 169 (2.96%) Data Engineer
12 156 (2.73%) Support Analyst
13 133 (2.33%) Support Engineer
14 123 (2.16%) IT Support
15 113 (1.98%) IT Manager
16 108 (1.89%) Security Analyst
17 106 (1.86%) Senior Manager
18 100 (1.75%) Financial Analyst
19 98 (1.72%) Systems Analyst
20 90 (1.58%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (2.45%) .NET
2 122 (2.14%) HTML
3 118 (2.07%) REST
4 113 (1.98%) CSS
5 88 (1.54%) JSON
6 78 (1.37%) Middleware
7 77 (1.35%) Kafka
7 77 (1.35%) XML
8 76 (1.33%) React
9 71 (1.24%) RESTful
10 67 (1.17%) PyTorch
11 60 (1.05%) TensorFlow
12 56 (0.98%) SOAP
13 52 (0.91%) PySpark
14 44 (0.77%) scikit-learn
15 41 (0.72%) Web Services
16 39 (0.68%) Node.js
17 38 (0.67%) EDI
17 38 (0.67%) OAuth
18 36 (0.63%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 549 (9.62%) Analytical Mindset
2 326 (5.71%) Management Information System
3 301 (5.28%) Onboarding
4 263 (4.61%) Self-Motivation
5 259 (4.54%) Product Ownership
6 164 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
7 132 (2.31%) Cloud Native
7 132 (2.31%) Driving Licence
8 108 (1.89%) Security Posture
9 107 (1.88%) Social Media
10 104 (1.82%) Data Centre
11 103 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
12 92 (1.61%) Virtual Team
13 91 (1.60%) Cyber Threat
14 87 (1.52%) Blog
15 83 (1.45%) Data Structures
16 77 (1.35%) Algorithms
17 74 (1.30%) Marketing Technology
18 64 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
19 57 (1.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 451 (7.91%) Windows
2 298 (5.22%) Linux
3 219 (3.84%) Windows Server
4 99 (1.74%) Windows Server 2016
5 34 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 33 (0.58%) Windows 10
7 31 (0.54%) Unix
8 29 (0.51%) Mac OS
9 23 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
10 21 (0.37%) Android
11 19 (0.33%) Apple iOS
12 15 (0.26%) CentOS
13 12 (0.21%) Ubuntu
14 7 (0.12%) Debian
15 6 (0.11%) VMS
16 5 (0.088%) OpenVMS
17 4 (0.070%) CoreOS
17 4 (0.070%) Rocky
18 3 (0.053%) AIX
19 2 (0.035%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,695 (47.24%) Problem-Solving
2 1,603 (28.10%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,286 (22.54%) Decision-Making
4 1,252 (21.95%) Analytics
5 1,020 (17.88%) Agile
6 935 (16.39%) AI
7 927 (16.25%) Stakeholder Management
8 736 (12.90%) Business Intelligence
9 628 (11.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 596 (10.45%) Roadmaps
11 544 (9.54%) Mentoring
12 541 (9.48%) Actionable Insight
13 538 (9.43%) Project Management
14 506 (8.87%) Data Analysis
15 479 (8.40%) Cybersecurity
16 475 (8.33%) Data Modelling
17 473 (8.29%) Validation
18 467 (8.19%) Customer Experience
19 454 (7.96%) Process Improvement
20 438 (7.68%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 1,147 (20.11%) SQL
2 918 (16.09%) Python
3 213 (3.73%) JavaScript
4 195 (3.42%) Java
5 189 (3.31%) PowerShell
6 178 (3.12%) C#
7 98 (1.72%) C++
8 94 (1.65%) Bash
9 84 (1.47%) R
10 73 (1.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 64 (1.12%) TypeScript
12 49 (0.86%) T-SQL
13 46 (0.81%) MATLAB
14 29 (0.51%) C
15 28 (0.49%) Scala
16 25 (0.44%) PHP
17 22 (0.39%) Go
17 22 (0.39%) PL/SQL
18 21 (0.37%) VBA
19 19 (0.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,094 (19.18%) Degree
2 594 (10.41%) Security Cleared
3 417 (7.31%) SC Cleared
4 255 (4.47%) ACCA
5 240 (4.21%) CIMA
6 175 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 166 (2.91%) CISSP
8 149 (2.61%) DBS Check
9 139 (2.44%) DV Cleared
10 125 (2.19%) CISM
11 123 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
12 115 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
13 101 (1.77%) Master's Degree
14 73 (1.28%) IRCA
14 73 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
15 72 (1.26%) Azure Certification
15 72 (1.26%) CompTIA Security+
16 63 (1.10%) PMI Certification
17 48 (0.84%) CRISC
17 48 (0.84%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 544 (9.54%) Data Quality
2 404 (7.08%) GDPR
3 401 (7.03%) QA
4 248 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 200 (3.51%) NIST
6 163 (2.86%) Accessibility
7 158 (2.77%) Cyber Essentials
8 157 (2.75%) SLA
9 134 (2.35%) PCI DSS
10 129 (2.26%) ISO 9001
11 75 (1.31%) GRC
12 66 (1.16%) PMO
13 47 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
14 41 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 39 (0.68%) IFRS
16 38 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 36 (0.63%) COBIT
18 28 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
19 25 (0.44%) GMP
20 24 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 321 (5.63%) Active Directory
2 140 (2.45%) Docker
3 103 (1.81%) Hyper-V
4 89 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 80 (1.40%) Terminal Server
6 25 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
7 22 (0.39%) Firmware
8 18 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (0.16%) IAG
9 9 (0.16%) VMware NSX
10 8 (0.14%) ProxySG
10 8 (0.14%) vSphere
11 7 (0.12%) Ceph
12 6 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
13 5 (0.088%) KVM
14 4 (0.070%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.070%) XenApp
15 3 (0.053%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.053%) Embedded Firmware
15 3 (0.053%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 149 (2.61%) Terraform
2 116 (2.03%) Kubernetes
3 87 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 76 (1.33%) Ansible
5 43 (0.75%) Grafana
6 28 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
7 26 (0.46%) Prometheus
7 26 (0.46%) SCCM
8 20 (0.35%) Nagios
9 17 (0.30%) QRadar
10 16 (0.28%) Kibana
11 12 (0.21%) Podman
12 9 (0.16%) Argo
12 9 (0.16%) Kubeflow
12 9 (0.16%) Nmap
13 8 (0.14%) logstash
14 7 (0.12%) Check_MK
14 7 (0.12%) Packer
14 7 (0.12%) Puppet
14 7 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 1,255 (22.00%) Microsoft
2 271 (4.75%) Google
3 239 (4.19%) SAP
4 199 (3.49%) Oracle
5 180 (3.16%) VMware
6 148 (2.59%) Splunk
7 139 (2.44%) Databricks
8 133 (2.33%) Salesforce
9 123 (2.16%) ServiceNow
10 119 (2.09%) SolarWinds
11 90 (1.58%) Veeam
12 84 (1.47%) Cisco
13 81 (1.42%) Brocade
13 81 (1.42%) Nimble Storage
14 80 (1.40%) Tanium
14 80 (1.40%) Workday
15 65 (1.14%) Red Hat
16 54 (0.95%) Adobe
17 51 (0.89%) HubSpot
18 50 (0.88%) Dell