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 30 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 9 13
Rank change year-on-year -17 +4 +7
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 5,407 6,137 8,388
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.28% 12.44% 9.63%
As % of the General category 11.28% 17.93% 16.78%
Number of salaries quoted 3,415 2,639 4,008
10th Percentile £31,750 £30,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £38,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £87,500 £87,063
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500

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 47,918 34,220 49,984
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.81% 69.36% 57.39%
Number of salaries quoted 29,355 17,851 30,919
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £28,817
25th Percentile £39,846 £35,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £48,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -6.25% -8.57%

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 30 July 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 30 July 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 -16 4,898 £54,000 -1.82% 2,770
UK excluding London -19 3,465 £47,500 - 1,874
Work from Home -10 1,724 £55,000 +9.03% 1,076
London -10 1,656 £67,500 +3.85% 1,281
North of England -19 988 £47,500 +4.40% 479
South East -9 853 £50,000 -4.76% 592
Midlands -10 615 £48,000 +4.35% 311
North West -17 595 £46,500 -1.06% 249
South West -15 475 £47,500 - 228
West Midlands -16 328 £50,149 +11.44% 179
East Midlands -5 285 £45,000 -2.17% 132
Yorkshire -11 280 £47,500 +6.26% 168
East of England -25 247 £45,000 -5.26% 169
Wales -15 115 £53,171 -3.33% 45
North East -23 113 £55,000 +37.50% 68
Scotland -30 112 £42,068 -4.39% 73
Northern Ireland -31 69 £42,500 -22.73% 30

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
1 197 (3.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 153 (2.83%) SharePoint
3 75 (1.39%) Confluence
4 69 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
5 68 (1.26%) Apache Spark
6 46 (0.85%) Apache
7 42 (0.78%) CMS
8 26 (0.48%) IIS
9 24 (0.44%) SAS
10 15 (0.28%) WordPress
11 13 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 10 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
13 9 (0.17%) Jupyter
13 9 (0.17%) WebLogic
13 9 (0.17%) WebSphere
14 8 (0.15%) OpenStack
15 3 (0.055%) Anypoint
15 3 (0.055%) JBoss
15 3 (0.055%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 3 (0.055%) Tomcat
Applications
1 595 (11.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 225 (4.16%) Microsoft Office
3 113 (2.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 83 (1.54%) MS Visio
5 33 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
6 28 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.17%) Adobe XD
8 7 (0.13%) CATIA
9 5 (0.092%) Acrobat
9 5 (0.092%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.074%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.074%) Maya
11 3 (0.055%) AutoCAD
11 3 (0.055%) Blender
11 3 (0.055%) LaTeX
11 3 (0.055%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.055%) Simulink
11 3 (0.055%) Trello
12 2 (0.037%) EPLAN
12 2 (0.037%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 72 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 69 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 38 (0.70%) NetSuite
4 36 (0.67%) Dynamics GP
5 20 (0.37%) SAP PM
6 18 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
7 16 (0.30%) SAP CO
8 15 (0.28%) SAP ERP
8 15 (0.28%) SAP FI
9 14 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
10 13 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
11 10 (0.18%) Magento
12 9 (0.17%) Elite 3E
13 8 (0.15%) Maximo
13 8 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
14 7 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
14 7 (0.13%) Fidessa
14 7 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
14 7 (0.13%) Sage 200
14 7 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 957 (17.70%) Azure
2 686 (12.69%) Power Platform
3 548 (10.14%) AWS
4 421 (7.79%) Microsoft 365
5 339 (6.27%) SaaS
6 251 (4.64%) GCP
7 136 (2.52%) Dynamics 365
8 131 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
9 124 (2.29%) Entra ID
10 97 (1.79%) Google Analytics
11 92 (1.70%) Snowflake
12 85 (1.57%) GitHub
13 81 (1.50%) dbt
14 78 (1.44%) Power Automate
15 72 (1.33%) Amazon S3
16 71 (1.31%) Microsoft Purview
16 71 (1.31%) PowerApps
17 58 (1.07%) Serverless
18 55 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
19 54 (1.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 205 (3.79%) DNS
2 161 (2.98%) DHCP
3 151 (2.79%) Firewall
4 129 (2.39%) VPN
5 94 (1.74%) TCP/IP
6 78 (1.44%) WAN
7 76 (1.41%) LAN
8 63 (1.17%) Broadband
9 58 (1.07%) Wi-Fi
9 58 (1.07%) Wireless
10 51 (0.94%) Network Security
11 42 (0.78%) SAN
12 41 (0.76%) Internet
12 41 (0.76%) VLAN
13 36 (0.67%) HTTP
14 30 (0.55%) BGP
15 23 (0.43%) SD-WAN
16 22 (0.41%) VoIP
17 21 (0.39%) Cisco ASA
17 21 (0.39%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 607 (11.23%) Power BI
2 283 (5.23%) Tableau
3 211 (3.90%) SQL Server
4 190 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
5 127 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
6 90 (1.66%) Metadata
7 87 (1.61%) Relational Database
8 78 (1.44%) Looker
9 73 (1.35%) MySQL
10 72 (1.33%) Data Lake
11 71 (1.31%) Power Query
12 70 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
13 65 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 59 (1.09%) Data Mining
15 57 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 56 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
16 56 (1.04%) BigQuery
17 42 (0.78%) Big Data
18 41 (0.76%) NoSQL
19 38 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 213 (3.94%) JIRA
2 194 (3.59%) Git
3 59 (1.09%) GitLab
4 50 (0.92%) Jenkins
5 34 (0.63%) Rational DOORS
6 32 (0.59%) MLflow
7 28 (0.52%) Selenium
8 22 (0.41%) Cucumber
9 20 (0.37%) Postman
10 18 (0.33%) Eclipse
11 16 (0.30%) Chocolatey
12 15 (0.28%) ERwin
13 14 (0.26%) JMeter
14 13 (0.24%) Bitbucket
14 13 (0.24%) IBM UrbanCode
15 12 (0.22%) Cypress.io
15 12 (0.22%) SonarQube
15 12 (0.22%) Visual Studio
16 10 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
17 9 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
General
1 2,575 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 1,793 (33.16%) Finance
3 481 (8.90%) Marketing
4 423 (7.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 374 (6.92%) Organisational Skills
6 352 (6.51%) Retail
7 324 (5.99%) Public Sector
8 319 (5.90%) Law
9 307 (5.68%) Legal
10 261 (4.83%) Banking
11 230 (4.25%) Influencing Skills
12 224 (4.14%) Manufacturing
13 152 (2.81%) Presentation Skills
14 131 (2.42%) Telecoms
15 116 (2.15%) Aerospace
16 97 (1.79%) Advertising
17 95 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
18 87 (1.61%) Electronics
19 71 (1.31%) Financial Institution
20 60 (1.11%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,318 (24.38%) Analyst
2 691 (12.78%) Senior
3 373 (6.90%) Lead
4 313 (5.79%) Data Analyst
5 281 (5.20%) Business Analyst
6 260 (4.81%) Developer
7 229 (4.24%) Consultant
8 228 (4.22%) Systems Engineer
9 208 (3.85%) Architect
10 167 (3.09%) Senior Analyst
11 155 (2.87%) Data Engineer
12 150 (2.77%) Support Analyst
13 130 (2.40%) Support Engineer
14 122 (2.26%) IT Support
15 111 (2.05%) IT Manager
16 104 (1.92%) Financial Analyst
16 104 (1.92%) Security Analyst
17 100 (1.85%) Systems Analyst
18 96 (1.78%) Senior Manager
19 88 (1.63%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (2.37%) .NET
2 115 (2.13%) HTML
3 112 (2.07%) REST
4 105 (1.94%) CSS
5 91 (1.68%) JSON
6 84 (1.55%) XML
7 78 (1.44%) Middleware
8 77 (1.42%) React
9 72 (1.33%) Kafka
10 64 (1.18%) PyTorch
10 64 (1.18%) RESTful
11 58 (1.07%) TensorFlow
12 53 (0.98%) SOAP
13 49 (0.91%) PySpark
14 43 (0.80%) scikit-learn
15 41 (0.76%) Web Services
16 40 (0.74%) Node.js
17 35 (0.65%) EDI
17 35 (0.65%) Pandas
18 33 (0.61%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 539 (9.97%) Analytical Mindset
2 301 (5.57%) Management Information System
3 258 (4.77%) Onboarding
4 241 (4.46%) Self-Motivation
5 237 (4.38%) Product Ownership
6 170 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
7 125 (2.31%) Cloud Native
8 110 (2.03%) Driving Licence
9 106 (1.96%) Security Posture
10 96 (1.78%) Data Centre
11 91 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
12 90 (1.66%) Virtual Team
13 89 (1.65%) Social Media
14 84 (1.55%) Cyber Threat
15 79 (1.46%) Data Structures
16 75 (1.39%) Blog
17 74 (1.37%) Algorithms
18 60 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
19 59 (1.09%) Marketing Technology
20 56 (1.04%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 452 (8.36%) Windows
2 306 (5.66%) Linux
3 226 (4.18%) Windows Server
4 116 (2.15%) Windows Server 2016
5 35 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 30 (0.55%) Unix
6 30 (0.55%) Windows 10
7 28 (0.52%) Mac OS
8 23 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
9 22 (0.41%) Android
10 18 (0.33%) Apple iOS
11 15 (0.28%) CentOS
12 12 (0.22%) Ubuntu
13 7 (0.13%) VMS
14 6 (0.11%) Debian
15 5 (0.092%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.074%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.074%) Rocky
17 3 (0.055%) AIX
18 2 (0.037%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,516 (46.53%) Problem-Solving
2 1,476 (27.30%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,213 (22.43%) Decision-Making
4 1,188 (21.97%) Analytics
5 939 (17.37%) Agile
6 834 (15.42%) AI
7 819 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
8 713 (13.19%) Business Intelligence
9 592 (10.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 555 (10.26%) Roadmaps
11 510 (9.43%) Project Management
12 507 (9.38%) Actionable Insight
13 503 (9.30%) Mentoring
14 478 (8.84%) Data Analysis
15 463 (8.56%) Data Modelling
16 455 (8.42%) Cybersecurity
17 454 (8.40%) Customer Experience
18 442 (8.17%) Process Improvement
19 430 (7.95%) Validation
20 418 (7.73%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 1,108 (20.49%) SQL
2 893 (16.52%) Python
3 202 (3.74%) JavaScript
4 190 (3.51%) Java
5 181 (3.35%) PowerShell
6 171 (3.16%) C#
7 94 (1.74%) C++
8 91 (1.68%) Bash
9 86 (1.59%) R
10 76 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 59 (1.09%) TypeScript
12 51 (0.94%) T-SQL
13 43 (0.80%) MATLAB
14 27 (0.50%) C
15 24 (0.44%) PHP
15 24 (0.44%) Scala
16 23 (0.43%) Go
17 22 (0.41%) PL/SQL
18 21 (0.39%) VBA
19 19 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 991 (18.33%) Degree
2 558 (10.32%) Security Cleared
3 400 (7.40%) SC Cleared
4 261 (4.83%) ACCA
5 245 (4.53%) CIMA
6 157 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 154 (2.85%) CISSP
8 145 (2.68%) DBS Check
9 118 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
10 116 (2.15%) DV Cleared
11 115 (2.13%) CISM
12 102 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
13 93 (1.72%) Master's Degree
14 72 (1.33%) IRCA
15 71 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
16 70 (1.29%) CompTIA Security+
17 66 (1.22%) Azure Certification
18 56 (1.04%) PMI Certification
19 46 (0.85%) CRISC
20 45 (0.83%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 520 (9.62%) Data Quality
2 382 (7.06%) GDPR
3 368 (6.81%) QA
4 242 (4.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 192 (3.55%) NIST
6 175 (3.24%) Cyber Essentials
7 155 (2.87%) SLA
8 151 (2.79%) Accessibility
9 150 (2.77%) PCI DSS
10 123 (2.27%) ISO 9001
11 75 (1.39%) GRC
12 65 (1.20%) PMO
13 43 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
14 40 (0.74%) IFRS
14 40 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 39 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 35 (0.65%) COBIT
17 28 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 24 (0.44%) SOC 2
19 23 (0.43%) NCSC
System Software
1 330 (6.10%) Active Directory
2 127 (2.35%) Docker
3 118 (2.18%) Hyper-V
4 96 (1.78%) Terminal Server
5 85 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
6 25 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
8 14 (0.26%) Firmware
9 9 (0.17%) IAG
9 9 (0.17%) VMware NSX
9 9 (0.17%) vSphere
10 8 (0.15%) ProxySG
11 7 (0.13%) Ceph
12 5 (0.092%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.074%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.074%) XenApp
14 3 (0.055%) DFS Replication
14 3 (0.055%) Embedded Firmware
14 3 (0.055%) KVM
15 2 (0.037%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 145 (2.68%) Terraform
2 111 (2.05%) Kubernetes
3 83 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
4 69 (1.28%) Ansible
5 44 (0.81%) Grafana
6 29 (0.54%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.46%) SCCM
8 24 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
9 22 (0.41%) Nagios
10 16 (0.30%) Kibana
10 16 (0.30%) QRadar
11 12 (0.22%) Podman
12 9 (0.17%) Kubeflow
13 8 (0.15%) logstash
14 7 (0.13%) Argo
14 7 (0.13%) Check_MK
14 7 (0.13%) Istio
14 7 (0.13%) Nmap
14 7 (0.13%) Packer
15 6 (0.11%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 1,206 (22.30%) Microsoft
2 238 (4.40%) Google
3 227 (4.20%) SAP
4 189 (3.50%) VMware
5 181 (3.35%) Oracle
6 159 (2.94%) Splunk
7 136 (2.52%) SolarWinds
8 132 (2.44%) Salesforce
9 130 (2.40%) Databricks
10 116 (2.15%) ServiceNow
11 108 (2.00%) Veeam
12 97 (1.79%) Brocade
12 97 (1.79%) Nimble Storage
13 96 (1.78%) Tanium
14 79 (1.46%) Cisco
15 76 (1.41%) Workday
16 67 (1.24%) Red Hat
17 51 (0.94%) Dell
18 48 (0.89%) Adobe
19 46 (0.85%) IBM