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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 12 17
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 +4
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 5,055 5,700 6,715
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 7.54% 11.48% 8.99%
As % of the General category 13.34% 16.91% 14.64%
Number of salaries quoted 2,584 2,337 4,674
10th Percentile £30,370 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,500 £42,500 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,886 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,967 £45,500
% change year-on-year -11.71% +12.02% -4.21%

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 37,892 33,699 45,859
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 56.50% 67.87% 61.43%
Number of salaries quoted 20,619 15,341 34,085
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,688 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.52% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £106,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -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 14 February 2026.

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 14 February 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 -6 4,452 £52,500 -4.55% 1,856
UK excluding London -13 3,223 £45,000 -11.71% 1,606
Work from Home +5 1,702 £52,500 -4.55% 804
London -3 1,526 £67,500 +3.85% 544
South East +9 900 £50,000 - 557
North of England -18 809 £45,000 -14.29% 327
Midlands -13 585 £44,543 -7.20% 302
North West -18 414 £42,500 -19.05% 191
West Midlands -17 342 £52,500 +5.00% 191
South West -5 325 £45,000 -13.46% 195
Yorkshire -3 291 £45,000 -7.69% 104
East of England -16 263 £40,000 -21.52% 146
Scotland -9 255 £40,000 -34.15% 69
East Midlands +3 241 £39,750 -6.47% 111
North East -3 104 £40,000 +0.34% 36
Wales +20 70 £40,000 -18.54% 42
Northern Ireland -14 43 £52,500 -4.55% 16
Isle of Man -3 1 £62,500 +150.00% 1
Channel Islands -8 1 - - 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
1 171 (3.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 94 (1.86%) Confluence
3 88 (1.74%) SharePoint
4 41 (0.81%) Apache Spark
5 40 (0.79%) CMS
6 29 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
7 20 (0.40%) WordPress
8 15 (0.30%) Apache
8 15 (0.30%) SAS
9 14 (0.28%) IIS
10 13 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
11 6 (0.12%) nginx
12 3 (0.059%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.059%) Drupal
12 3 (0.059%) govService
13 2 (0.040%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.040%) FactoryTalk
13 2 (0.040%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.040%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 2 (0.040%) WinCC
Applications
1 737 (14.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 338 (6.69%) Chatbot
3 300 (5.93%) Microsoft Office
4 124 (2.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 78 (1.54%) MS Visio
6 46 (0.91%) Maya
7 39 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
8 35 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
9 17 (0.34%) AutoCAD
10 14 (0.28%) Adobe XD
11 10 (0.20%) CATIA
12 8 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
13 3 (0.059%) Oracle Smart View
13 3 (0.059%) Sketch
14 2 (0.040%) PlantUML
14 2 (0.040%) Revit
14 2 (0.040%) Simulink
14 2 (0.040%) Trello
15 1 (0.020%) Photoshop
15 1 (0.020%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 133 (2.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 67 (1.33%) SAP MDG
3 52 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
4 41 (0.81%) NetSuite
5 38 (0.75%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 31 (0.61%) SAP CO
7 27 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
8 25 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
9 23 (0.45%) Endur
9 23 (0.45%) SAP FI
10 22 (0.44%) SAP FI/CO
10 22 (0.44%) Workday HCM
11 16 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
12 15 (0.30%) Shopify
13 13 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
13 13 (0.26%) Sage X3
13 13 (0.26%) SAP IBP
14 11 (0.22%) SAP ERP
15 10 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
16 9 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 869 (17.19%) Azure
2 655 (12.96%) Power Platform
3 417 (8.25%) AWS
4 323 (6.39%) Microsoft 365
5 252 (4.99%) SaaS
6 158 (3.13%) GCP
7 157 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
8 113 (2.24%) Dynamics 365
9 96 (1.90%) Entra ID
10 91 (1.80%) GitHub
11 74 (1.46%) Power Automate
12 71 (1.40%) Snowflake
13 70 (1.38%) Azure Data Factory
14 58 (1.15%) Google Analytics
15 56 (1.11%) Serverless
16 53 (1.05%) dbt
17 50 (0.99%) Microsoft Purview
18 47 (0.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 47 (0.93%) OCI
18 47 (0.93%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 188 (3.72%) DNS
2 176 (3.48%) Firewall
3 155 (3.07%) DHCP
4 90 (1.78%) VPN
5 77 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
6 63 (1.25%) WAN
7 57 (1.13%) LAN
8 55 (1.09%) TCP/IP
9 54 (1.07%) Wireless
10 50 (0.99%) VLAN
11 43 (0.85%) Network Security
12 36 (0.71%) Remote Desktop
13 34 (0.67%) Broadband
14 32 (0.63%) Wireshark
15 30 (0.59%) BGP
16 29 (0.57%) VoIP
17 28 (0.55%) OSPF
18 27 (0.53%) SAN
19 24 (0.47%) EIGRP
19 24 (0.47%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 592 (11.71%) Power BI
2 392 (7.75%) Tableau
3 205 (4.06%) SQL Server
4 190 (3.76%) Data Mining
5 171 (3.38%) Data Warehouse
6 127 (2.51%) Amazon RDS
7 106 (2.10%) Metadata
8 98 (1.94%) Data Lake
9 96 (1.90%) Relational Database
10 63 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 55 (1.09%) Looker
12 53 (1.05%) NoSQL
12 53 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
13 52 (1.03%) MySQL
14 46 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
15 45 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
16 40 (0.79%) Big Data
17 36 (0.71%) Power Query
18 34 (0.67%) GIS
19 33 (0.65%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 210 (4.15%) JIRA
2 99 (1.96%) Git
3 43 (0.85%) Selenium
4 38 (0.75%) GitLab
5 35 (0.69%) Jenkins
6 15 (0.30%) ERwin
6 15 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
6 15 (0.30%) Robot Framework
7 14 (0.28%) Postman
7 14 (0.28%) Subversion
7 14 (0.28%) Visual Studio
8 13 (0.26%) Balsamiq
8 13 (0.26%) Snyk
9 12 (0.24%) Axure RP
9 12 (0.24%) ER Studio
9 12 (0.24%) WebDriver
10 11 (0.22%) Bitbucket
11 10 (0.20%) Chocolatey
11 10 (0.20%) Cypress.io
11 10 (0.20%) LabVIEW
General
1 2,620 (51.83%) Social Skills
2 1,797 (35.55%) Finance
3 456 (9.02%) Marketing
4 332 (6.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 301 (5.95%) Law
6 288 (5.70%) Legal
7 287 (5.68%) Retail
8 263 (5.20%) Banking
9 261 (5.16%) Organisational Skills
10 244 (4.83%) Public Sector
11 217 (4.29%) Presentation Skills
12 161 (3.18%) Manufacturing
13 141 (2.79%) Financial Institution
14 131 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
15 101 (2.00%) Telecoms
16 100 (1.98%) Games
17 89 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
18 72 (1.42%) Advertising
19 64 (1.27%) Electronics
20 51 (1.01%) German Language
Job Titles
1 1,225 (24.23%) Analyst
2 617 (12.21%) Senior
3 393 (7.77%) Data Analyst
4 357 (7.06%) Lead
5 334 (6.61%) Trainer
6 304 (6.01%) Architect
7 237 (4.69%) Business Analyst
8 233 (4.61%) Developer
9 185 (3.66%) Consultant
10 175 (3.46%) Support Analyst
11 164 (3.24%) Trainee
12 151 (2.99%) Trainee Analyst
12 151 (2.99%) Trainee Data Analyst
13 145 (2.87%) IT Support
14 141 (2.79%) Senior Analyst
15 129 (2.55%) Systems Engineer
16 119 (2.35%) Senior Manager
17 116 (2.29%) Solutions Architect
18 111 (2.20%) Business Manager
19 101 (2.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (2.39%) HTML
2 119 (2.35%) CSS
3 83 (1.64%) React
4 71 (1.40%) .NET
5 67 (1.33%) REST
6 65 (1.29%) Middleware
7 49 (0.97%) JSON
8 42 (0.83%) XML
9 40 (0.79%) Node.js
10 32 (0.63%) SOAP
11 31 (0.61%) EDI
12 27 (0.53%) AngularJS
12 27 (0.53%) Kafka
12 27 (0.53%) Spring
13 24 (0.47%) FIX Protocol
14 22 (0.44%) Oracle Fusion
15 21 (0.42%) PySpark
15 21 (0.42%) TensorFlow
16 18 (0.36%) PyTorch
16 18 (0.36%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 485 (9.59%) Analytical Mindset
2 370 (7.32%) Self-Motivation
3 305 (6.03%) Onboarding
4 264 (5.22%) Management Information System
5 199 (3.94%) Product Ownership
6 163 (3.22%) Legacy Systems
7 125 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
8 106 (2.10%) Data Centre
9 90 (1.78%) Data Structures
10 84 (1.66%) FMCG
11 83 (1.64%) Cloud Native
12 76 (1.50%) Driving Licence
13 66 (1.31%) Algorithms
14 53 (1.05%) Robotics
14 53 (1.05%) Virtual Team
15 50 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
16 48 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 47 (0.93%) Low-Code
17 47 (0.93%) Social Media
18 43 (0.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 386 (7.64%) Windows
2 258 (5.10%) Linux
3 177 (3.50%) Windows Server
4 116 (2.29%) Windows Server 2016
5 39 (0.77%) Unix
6 28 (0.55%) Mac OS
7 16 (0.32%) Android
7 16 (0.32%) Windows 10
8 9 (0.18%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.099%) VMS
11 4 (0.079%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.059%) AIX
12 3 (0.059%) OpenWrt
13 2 (0.040%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.040%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.040%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.020%) CentOS
14 1 (0.020%) Robot Operating System
14 1 (0.020%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,262 (44.75%) Problem-Solving
2 1,102 (21.80%) Analytics
3 1,092 (21.60%) Continuous Improvement
4 1,037 (20.51%) AI
5 963 (19.05%) Decision-Making
6 884 (17.49%) Agile
7 808 (15.98%) Project Management
8 761 (15.05%) Business Intelligence
9 633 (12.52%) Stakeholder Management
10 566 (11.20%) Data Analysis
11 441 (8.72%) Risk Management
12 421 (8.33%) Mentoring
13 418 (8.27%) Actionable Insight
14 417 (8.25%) Roadmaps
15 415 (8.21%) ERP
16 413 (8.17%) Analytical Thinking
17 409 (8.09%) Process Improvement
18 401 (7.93%) Customer Service
18 401 (7.93%) Migration
19 397 (7.85%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1,022 (20.22%) SQL
2 789 (15.61%) Python
3 152 (3.01%) JavaScript
4 136 (2.69%) Java
5 135 (2.67%) PowerShell
6 120 (2.37%) C#
7 74 (1.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 66 (1.31%) R
9 50 (0.99%) T-SQL
10 47 (0.93%) C++
11 46 (0.91%) Bash
12 43 (0.85%) VBA
13 29 (0.57%) TypeScript
14 25 (0.49%) Scala
15 23 (0.45%) C
16 21 (0.42%) MATLAB
17 19 (0.38%) Go
18 16 (0.32%) PL/SQL
19 12 (0.24%) Bicep
20 11 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,512 (29.91%) Degree
2 478 (9.46%) Master's Degree
3 444 (8.78%) Security Cleared
4 343 (6.79%) PhD
5 342 (6.77%) SC Cleared
6 197 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 191 (3.78%) ACCA
8 181 (3.58%) CIMA
9 142 (2.81%) CISSP
10 97 (1.92%) PMI Certification
11 88 (1.74%) DBS Check
12 81 (1.60%) CISM
12 81 (1.60%) PMP
13 78 (1.54%) DV Cleared
14 70 (1.38%) Azure Certification
15 69 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
16 66 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
17 61 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
18 49 (0.97%) CISA
19 47 (0.93%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 326 (6.45%) Data Quality
2 241 (4.77%) QA
3 209 (4.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 196 (3.88%) GDPR
5 181 (3.58%) Cyber Essentials
6 150 (2.97%) PCI DSS
7 142 (2.81%) NIST
8 108 (2.14%) Accessibility
9 88 (1.74%) PMO
10 66 (1.31%) Actionable Recommendations
11 50 (0.99%) SLA
12 43 (0.85%) GRC
13 35 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 30 (0.59%) IFRS
15 21 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 20 (0.40%) WCAG
17 19 (0.38%) NCSC
18 15 (0.30%) COBIT
19 14 (0.28%) ISO 9001
20 12 (0.24%) MiFID
System Software
1 282 (5.58%) Active Directory
2 139 (2.75%) Hyper-V
3 112 (2.22%) Terminal Server
4 53 (1.05%) Docker
5 50 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
6 15 (0.30%) vSphere
7 14 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
8 10 (0.20%) Firmware
8 10 (0.20%) ProxySG
9 6 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.099%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.059%) IAG
11 3 (0.059%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.059%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.040%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.020%) NFS
13 1 (0.020%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 111 (2.20%) Terraform
2 65 (1.29%) Ansible
3 63 (1.25%) Kubernetes
4 48 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
5 27 (0.53%) Grafana
6 26 (0.51%) Prometheus
7 24 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (0.38%) SCCM
9 9 (0.18%) Nagios
10 6 (0.12%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 6 (0.12%) Control-M
10 6 (0.12%) SCOM
11 5 (0.099%) CASB
12 4 (0.079%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.079%) Backup Exec
12 4 (0.079%) Nessus
12 4 (0.079%) QRadar
12 4 (0.079%) SolarWinds Orion
12 4 (0.079%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.059%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1,204 (23.82%) Microsoft
2 334 (6.61%) PayPal
3 333 (6.59%) SAP
4 193 (3.82%) Oracle
5 174 (3.44%) VMware
6 163 (3.22%) Salesforce
7 152 (3.01%) SolarWinds
8 140 (2.77%) Splunk
9 138 (2.73%) Google
10 117 (2.31%) Veeam
11 113 (2.24%) Brocade
11 113 (2.24%) Tanium
12 112 (2.22%) Nimble Storage
13 108 (2.14%) ServiceNow
14 80 (1.58%) Cisco
15 69 (1.36%) Databricks
16 61 (1.21%) Adobe
17 43 (0.85%) Alteryx
17 43 (0.85%) Bloomberg
18 42 (0.83%) Workday