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

6 months to
12 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 5,721 6,142 8,048
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.40% 12.34% 9.63%
As % of the General category 11.56% 17.84% 16.80%
Number of salaries quoted 3,548 2,626 3,745
10th Percentile £31,425 £29,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £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 £47,500 £48,617
% change year-on-year - -2.30% -2.77%

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 49,504 34,428 47,918
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.69% 69.15% 57.36%
Number of salaries quoted 30,353 18,022 28,433
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £39,818 £35,000 £39,573
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,250 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -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 12 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 12 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 5,167 £52,500 - 6,752
UK excluding London -18 3,662 £47,500 - 3,574
Work from Home -11 1,821 £55,000 +10.00% 2,713
London -10 1,775 £67,500 +3.85% 3,912
North of England -18 1,044 £47,500 +5.56% 873
South East -9 877 £50,000 -4.76% 975
Midlands -8 642 £48,000 +6.67% 485
North West -16 630 £47,000 +4.44% 518
South West -11 507 £47,500 +5.56% 469
West Midlands -16 336 £50,000 +11.11% 289
East Midlands -3 304 £45,000 - 196
Yorkshire -8 293 £46,800 +16.01% 273
East of England -18 258 £45,814 +1.81% 323
Wales -8 134 £51,709 +0.51% 93
Scotland -23 127 £43,668 -0.76% 290
North East -16 121 £55,000 +35.80% 92
Northern Ireland -27 81 £42,500 -22.73% 141

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 (3.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 163 (2.85%) SharePoint
3 82 (1.43%) Confluence
4 72 (1.26%) Apache Spark
5 71 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
6 50 (0.87%) Apache
7 47 (0.82%) CMS
8 31 (0.54%) IIS
9 25 (0.44%) SAS
10 11 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 11 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
10 11 (0.19%) WordPress
11 9 (0.16%) Jupyter
11 9 (0.16%) WebLogic
11 9 (0.16%) WebSphere
12 8 (0.14%) OpenStack
13 7 (0.12%) Headless CMS
14 3 (0.052%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.052%) JBoss
14 3 (0.052%) Tomcat
Applications
1 624 (10.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 248 (4.33%) Microsoft Office
3 123 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 83 (1.45%) MS Visio
5 41 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
6 30 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.16%) Adobe XD
8 7 (0.12%) AutoCAD
9 6 (0.10%) CATIA
10 5 (0.087%) Acrobat
10 5 (0.087%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.087%) EPLAN
10 5 (0.087%) Simulink
11 4 (0.070%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.070%) Maya
11 4 (0.070%) Trello
12 3 (0.052%) Blender
12 3 (0.052%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.052%) Revit
12 3 (0.052%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 78 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 71 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 40 (0.70%) NetSuite
4 36 (0.63%) Dynamics GP
5 22 (0.38%) 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 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
9 13 (0.23%) Shopify
10 12 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
10 12 (0.21%) Workday HCM
11 10 (0.17%) Elite 3E
11 10 (0.17%) Magento
12 9 (0.16%) SAP Business One
13 8 (0.14%) Fidessa
13 8 (0.14%) Maximo
13 8 (0.14%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 989 (17.29%) Azure
2 688 (12.03%) Power Platform
3 600 (10.49%) AWS
4 402 (7.03%) Microsoft 365
5 355 (6.21%) SaaS
6 283 (4.95%) GCP
7 143 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
8 135 (2.36%) Dynamics 365
9 132 (2.31%) Entra ID
10 107 (1.87%) Google Analytics
11 105 (1.84%) Snowflake
12 95 (1.66%) GitHub
13 89 (1.56%) dbt
14 83 (1.45%) Power Automate
15 75 (1.31%) Amazon S3
15 75 (1.31%) PowerApps
16 73 (1.28%) Microsoft Purview
17 63 (1.10%) Serverless
18 59 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
19 58 (1.01%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 195 (3.41%) DNS
2 151 (2.64%) DHCP
3 150 (2.62%) Firewall
4 126 (2.20%) VPN
5 97 (1.70%) TCP/IP
6 76 (1.33%) WAN
7 74 (1.29%) LAN
8 63 (1.10%) Broadband
9 58 (1.01%) Wireless
10 56 (0.98%) Network Security
10 56 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
11 44 (0.77%) SAN
12 42 (0.73%) VLAN
13 41 (0.72%) Internet
14 35 (0.61%) HTTP
15 27 (0.47%) BGP
16 25 (0.44%) VoIP
17 22 (0.38%) SD-WAN
18 20 (0.35%) OSPF
18 20 (0.35%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 609 (10.64%) Power BI
2 280 (4.89%) Tableau
3 225 (3.93%) SQL Server
4 195 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
5 113 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
6 102 (1.78%) Relational Database
7 96 (1.68%) Metadata
8 92 (1.61%) Looker
9 81 (1.42%) MySQL
10 79 (1.38%) Data Lake
11 74 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
12 66 (1.15%) Power Query
12 66 (1.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 62 (1.08%) BigQuery
14 61 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 55 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
16 51 (0.89%) Big Data
17 48 (0.84%) Data Mining
18 46 (0.80%) NoSQL
19 38 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 231 (4.04%) JIRA
2 218 (3.81%) Git
3 56 (0.98%) GitLab
4 50 (0.87%) Jenkins
5 33 (0.58%) MLflow
5 33 (0.58%) Rational DOORS
6 30 (0.52%) Selenium
7 23 (0.40%) Cucumber
8 20 (0.35%) Postman
9 19 (0.33%) Eclipse
10 16 (0.28%) Chocolatey
11 14 (0.24%) ERwin
11 14 (0.24%) JMeter
12 13 (0.23%) Bitbucket
12 13 (0.23%) Burp Suite
12 13 (0.23%) Cypress.io
12 13 (0.23%) IBM UrbanCode
13 12 (0.21%) Claude Code
13 12 (0.21%) SonarQube
14 11 (0.19%) Metasploit
General
1 2,723 (47.60%) Social Skills
2 1,886 (32.97%) Finance
3 563 (9.84%) Marketing
4 498 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 416 (7.27%) Organisational Skills
6 376 (6.57%) Retail
7 360 (6.29%) Law
8 351 (6.14%) Public Sector
9 322 (5.63%) Legal
10 278 (4.86%) Banking
11 267 (4.67%) Manufacturing
12 264 (4.61%) Influencing Skills
13 171 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
14 153 (2.67%) Aerospace
15 136 (2.38%) Telecoms
16 109 (1.91%) Advertising
17 100 (1.75%) Electronics
18 96 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
19 75 (1.31%) Financial Institution
20 65 (1.14%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,338 (23.39%) Analyst
2 745 (13.02%) Senior
3 404 (7.06%) Lead
4 308 (5.38%) Data Analyst
5 292 (5.10%) Business Analyst
6 276 (4.82%) Developer
7 225 (3.93%) Consultant
8 223 (3.90%) Architect
9 211 (3.69%) Systems Engineer
10 181 (3.16%) Senior Analyst
11 170 (2.97%) Data Engineer
12 152 (2.66%) Support Analyst
13 132 (2.31%) Support Engineer
14 122 (2.13%) IT Support
15 113 (1.98%) IT Manager
16 108 (1.89%) Security Analyst
17 107 (1.87%) Senior Manager
18 99 (1.73%) Systems Analyst
19 95 (1.66%) Financial Analyst
20 90 (1.57%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (2.48%) .NET
2 124 (2.17%) HTML
3 122 (2.13%) REST
4 115 (2.01%) CSS
5 90 (1.57%) JSON
6 79 (1.38%) Kafka
7 78 (1.36%) Middleware
8 77 (1.35%) XML
9 75 (1.31%) React
10 70 (1.22%) PyTorch
10 70 (1.22%) RESTful
11 63 (1.10%) TensorFlow
12 56 (0.98%) SOAP
13 50 (0.87%) PySpark
14 47 (0.82%) scikit-learn
15 42 (0.73%) Web Services
16 39 (0.68%) EDI
17 38 (0.66%) OAuth
17 38 (0.66%) Pandas
18 37 (0.65%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 544 (9.51%) Analytical Mindset
2 330 (5.77%) Management Information System
3 309 (5.40%) Onboarding
4 267 (4.67%) Self-Motivation
5 262 (4.58%) Product Ownership
6 163 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
7 135 (2.36%) Cloud Native
8 134 (2.34%) Driving Licence
9 115 (2.01%) Social Media
10 110 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
10 110 (1.92%) Security Posture
11 105 (1.84%) Data Centre
12 92 (1.61%) Blog
12 92 (1.61%) Virtual Team
13 89 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
14 79 (1.38%) Data Structures
15 77 (1.35%) Algorithms
16 74 (1.29%) Marketing Technology
17 66 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
18 57 (1.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 454 (7.94%) Windows
2 294 (5.14%) Linux
3 220 (3.85%) Windows Server
4 99 (1.73%) Windows Server 2016
5 33 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 33 (0.58%) Windows 10
6 31 (0.54%) Unix
7 28 (0.49%) Mac OS
8 22 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
9 21 (0.37%) Android
10 20 (0.35%) Apple iOS
11 14 (0.24%) CentOS
12 11 (0.19%) Ubuntu
13 7 (0.12%) Debian
14 6 (0.10%) VMS
15 5 (0.087%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.070%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.070%) Rocky
17 3 (0.052%) AIX
18 2 (0.035%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,708 (47.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1,602 (28.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,292 (22.58%) Decision-Making
4 1,265 (22.11%) Analytics
5 1,021 (17.85%) Agile
6 960 (16.78%) AI
7 951 (16.62%) Stakeholder Management
8 734 (12.83%) Business Intelligence
9 627 (10.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 599 (10.47%) Roadmaps
11 557 (9.74%) Actionable Insight
12 551 (9.63%) Mentoring
13 545 (9.53%) Project Management
14 508 (8.88%) Data Analysis
15 486 (8.50%) Cybersecurity
16 480 (8.39%) Validation
17 468 (8.18%) Data Modelling
18 463 (8.09%) Customer Experience
19 452 (7.90%) Process Improvement
20 438 (7.66%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 1,154 (20.17%) SQL
2 924 (16.15%) Python
3 215 (3.76%) JavaScript
4 197 (3.44%) Java
5 184 (3.22%) PowerShell
6 181 (3.16%) C#
7 98 (1.71%) C++
8 92 (1.61%) Bash
9 85 (1.49%) R
10 70 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 64 (1.12%) TypeScript
12 46 (0.80%) T-SQL
13 45 (0.79%) MATLAB
14 30 (0.52%) C
15 27 (0.47%) Scala
16 25 (0.44%) PHP
17 22 (0.38%) Go
17 22 (0.38%) PL/SQL
18 20 (0.35%) Julia
18 20 (0.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,096 (19.16%) Degree
2 598 (10.45%) Security Cleared
3 417 (7.29%) SC Cleared
4 247 (4.32%) ACCA
5 232 (4.06%) CIMA
6 174 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 165 (2.88%) CISSP
8 149 (2.60%) DBS Check
9 142 (2.48%) DV Cleared
10 125 (2.18%) CISM
11 123 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
12 120 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
13 102 (1.78%) Master's Degree
14 74 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
15 73 (1.28%) Azure Certification
15 73 (1.28%) IRCA
16 72 (1.26%) CompTIA Security+
17 62 (1.08%) PMI Certification
18 48 (0.84%) CRISC
19 47 (0.82%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 546 (9.54%) Data Quality
2 401 (7.01%) GDPR
3 399 (6.97%) QA
4 244 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 199 (3.48%) NIST
6 166 (2.90%) Accessibility
7 158 (2.76%) Cyber Essentials
7 158 (2.76%) SLA
8 131 (2.29%) PCI DSS
9 129 (2.25%) ISO 9001
10 72 (1.26%) GRC
11 65 (1.14%) PMO
12 46 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
13 41 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 38 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 37 (0.65%) COBIT
15 37 (0.65%) IFRS
16 28 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 24 (0.42%) GMP
17 24 (0.42%) NCSC
System Software
1 323 (5.65%) Active Directory
2 140 (2.45%) Docker
3 104 (1.82%) Hyper-V
4 90 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 80 (1.40%) Terminal Server
6 25 (0.44%) Firmware
7 24 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
8 18 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (0.16%) VMware NSX
10 8 (0.14%) vSphere
11 7 (0.12%) Ceph
12 6 (0.10%) IAG
12 6 (0.10%) ProxySG
12 6 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
13 5 (0.087%) KVM
14 4 (0.070%) Embedded Firmware
14 4 (0.070%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.070%) XenApp
15 3 (0.052%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.052%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 146 (2.55%) Terraform
2 118 (2.06%) Kubernetes
3 85 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
4 74 (1.29%) Ansible
5 42 (0.73%) Grafana
6 29 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
7 25 (0.44%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.44%) SCCM
8 19 (0.33%) Nagios
9 17 (0.30%) Kibana
9 17 (0.30%) QRadar
10 11 (0.19%) Nmap
10 11 (0.19%) Podman
11 9 (0.16%) Argo
11 9 (0.16%) Kubeflow
12 8 (0.14%) logstash
13 7 (0.12%) Check_MK
13 7 (0.12%) Istio
13 7 (0.12%) Packer
13 7 (0.12%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1,258 (21.99%) Microsoft
2 285 (4.98%) Google
3 237 (4.14%) SAP
4 202 (3.53%) Oracle
5 182 (3.18%) VMware
6 147 (2.57%) Splunk
7 142 (2.48%) Databricks
8 125 (2.18%) Salesforce
8 125 (2.18%) ServiceNow
9 117 (2.05%) SolarWinds
10 90 (1.57%) Veeam
11 83 (1.45%) Cisco
11 83 (1.45%) Workday
12 81 (1.42%) Brocade
12 81 (1.42%) Nimble Storage
13 80 (1.40%) Tanium
14 64 (1.12%) Red Hat
15 56 (0.98%) Adobe
16 52 (0.91%) Dell
17 50 (0.87%) HubSpot