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

6 months to
29 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 5,877 6,081 7,769
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.37% 12.14% 9.56%
As % of the General category 11.65% 17.79% 16.83%
Number of salaries quoted 3,589 2,610 3,419
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £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 £45,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% -8.16% -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 50,454 34,176 46,154
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.09% 68.25% 56.81%
Number of salaries quoted 30,990 18,073 26,107
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,441 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.03% -1.02% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -2.91%

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 29 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 29 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 5,258 £52,500 - 7,140
UK excluding London -16 3,825 £47,500 +5.56% 3,970
Work from Home -7 1,933 £55,000 +10.00% 3,078
London -10 1,779 £67,500 +3.85% 4,139
North of England -18 1,046 £47,500 +5.56% 931
South East -7 922 £49,768 -5.20% 1,068
Midlands -8 661 £47,988 +6.64% 547
North West -16 641 £46,500 +3.33% 548
South West -10 534 £47,500 +5.56% 574
West Midlands -16 340 £49,500 +10.00% 325
East Midlands -3 318 £46,743 +3.87% 223
Yorkshire -14 282 £47,000 +17.50% 293
East of England -18 258 £47,500 +5.56% 341
Wales -13 159 £47,500 -5.58% 90
Scotland -19 135 £44,000 +10.00% 326
North East -15 123 £55,000 +34.15% 100
Northern Ireland -9 118 £42,500 -22.73% 160

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
1 186 (3.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 176 (2.99%) SharePoint
3 97 (1.65%) Confluence
4 55 (0.94%) Apache Spark
5 54 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
6 42 (0.71%) CMS
7 35 (0.60%) Apache
7 35 (0.60%) IIS
8 26 (0.44%) SAS
9 11 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
9 11 (0.19%) WordPress
10 10 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 10 (0.17%) Jupyter
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%) Appian
13 3 (0.051%) Tomcat
Applications
1 613 (10.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 252 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
3 118 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 72 (1.23%) MS Visio
5 44 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
6 28 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.19%) Simulink
8 9 (0.15%) Adobe XD
9 7 (0.12%) AutoCAD
10 5 (0.085%) Acrobat
10 5 (0.085%) CATIA
10 5 (0.085%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.085%) EPLAN
11 4 (0.068%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.068%) Maya
11 4 (0.068%) SOLIDWORKS
11 4 (0.068%) Trello
12 3 (0.051%) Blender
12 3 (0.051%) LaTeX
12 3 (0.051%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 105 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 65 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 40 (0.68%) NetSuite
4 35 (0.60%) Dynamics GP
5 22 (0.37%) Shopify
6 19 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
7 15 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
7 15 (0.26%) SAP PM
8 13 (0.22%) SAP CO
8 13 (0.22%) SAP FI
8 13 (0.22%) Workday HCM
9 12 (0.20%) SAP ERP
9 12 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
10 11 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
11 10 (0.17%) Elite 3E
11 10 (0.17%) Magento
11 10 (0.17%) SAP Business One
12 9 (0.15%) Fidessa
12 9 (0.15%) Sage 200
13 8 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 995 (16.93%) Azure
2 700 (11.91%) Power Platform
3 612 (10.41%) AWS
4 419 (7.13%) Microsoft 365
5 370 (6.30%) SaaS
6 290 (4.93%) GCP
7 149 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
7 149 (2.54%) Entra ID
8 142 (2.42%) Dynamics 365
9 119 (2.02%) Google Analytics
10 103 (1.75%) GitHub
11 99 (1.68%) Snowflake
12 89 (1.51%) dbt
13 82 (1.40%) Power Automate
14 80 (1.36%) Google Ads
15 78 (1.33%) Microsoft Purview
16 77 (1.31%) PowerApps
17 72 (1.23%) Serverless
18 69 (1.17%) Amazon S3
19 59 (1.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 204 (3.47%) DNS
2 159 (2.71%) DHCP
3 154 (2.62%) Firewall
4 130 (2.21%) VPN
5 103 (1.75%) TCP/IP
6 77 (1.31%) WAN
7 75 (1.28%) LAN
8 65 (1.11%) Network Security
9 60 (1.02%) Wireless
10 56 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
11 52 (0.88%) Broadband
12 49 (0.83%) VLAN
13 45 (0.77%) Internet
14 41 (0.70%) SAN
15 35 (0.60%) HTTP
16 30 (0.51%) VoIP
17 27 (0.46%) BGP
18 22 (0.37%) SMS
19 21 (0.36%) SD-WAN
20 20 (0.34%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 620 (10.55%) Power BI
2 234 (3.98%) Tableau
3 222 (3.78%) SQL Server
4 194 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
5 120 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
6 102 (1.74%) Relational Database
7 97 (1.65%) Looker
8 93 (1.58%) Metadata
9 87 (1.48%) MySQL
10 78 (1.33%) Data Lake
11 75 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
12 70 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 67 (1.14%) BigQuery
14 65 (1.11%) Power Query
15 59 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 54 (0.92%) Big Data
17 53 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
18 48 (0.82%) NoSQL
19 38 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
20 37 (0.63%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 255 (4.34%) JIRA
2 209 (3.56%) Git
3 49 (0.83%) GitLab
3 49 (0.83%) Jenkins
4 31 (0.53%) MLflow
4 31 (0.53%) Rational DOORS
5 29 (0.49%) Selenium
6 23 (0.39%) Cucumber
7 21 (0.36%) Eclipse
8 20 (0.34%) Postman
9 16 (0.27%) Chocolatey
9 16 (0.27%) Claude Code
10 15 (0.26%) Bitbucket
11 14 (0.24%) JMeter
11 14 (0.24%) Oracle Forms
12 13 (0.22%) Burp Suite
12 13 (0.22%) LabVIEW
13 12 (0.20%) Cypress.io
14 11 (0.19%) Metasploit
14 11 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2,859 (48.65%) Social Skills
2 1,909 (32.48%) Finance
3 619 (10.53%) Marketing
4 526 (8.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 432 (7.35%) Organisational Skills
6 398 (6.77%) Law
7 393 (6.69%) Retail
8 364 (6.19%) Public Sector
9 355 (6.04%) Legal
10 295 (5.02%) Influencing Skills
11 290 (4.93%) Manufacturing
12 254 (4.32%) Banking
13 196 (3.34%) Presentation Skills
14 174 (2.96%) Aerospace
15 131 (2.23%) Telecoms
16 120 (2.04%) Electronics
17 106 (1.80%) Advertising
18 94 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
19 69 (1.17%) Financial Institution
20 67 (1.14%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,348 (22.94%) Analyst
2 765 (13.02%) Senior
3 412 (7.01%) Lead
4 298 (5.07%) Data Analyst
5 294 (5.00%) Business Analyst
6 285 (4.85%) Developer
7 230 (3.91%) Architect
8 227 (3.86%) Consultant
9 208 (3.54%) Systems Engineer
10 202 (3.44%) Senior Analyst
11 175 (2.98%) Data Engineer
12 173 (2.94%) Support Analyst
13 131 (2.23%) Support Engineer
14 117 (1.99%) IT Support
15 110 (1.87%) IT Manager
15 110 (1.87%) Senior Manager
16 107 (1.82%) Security Analyst
17 98 (1.67%) Systems Analyst
18 95 (1.62%) Applications Support
18 95 (1.62%) Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (2.69%) .NET
2 149 (2.54%) Terraform
3 128 (2.18%) HTML
4 125 (2.13%) REST
5 119 (2.02%) CSS
6 87 (1.48%) JSON
7 78 (1.33%) Middleware
8 77 (1.31%) Kafka
8 77 (1.31%) XML
9 73 (1.24%) RESTful
10 71 (1.21%) React
11 66 (1.12%) PyTorch
12 59 (1.00%) SOAP
12 59 (1.00%) TensorFlow
13 49 (0.83%) PySpark
14 46 (0.78%) scikit-learn
15 45 (0.77%) EDI
15 45 (0.77%) Web Services
16 43 (0.73%) LDAP
17 40 (0.68%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 503 (8.56%) Analytical Mindset
2 352 (5.99%) Management Information System
3 348 (5.92%) Onboarding
4 286 (4.87%) Product Ownership
5 283 (4.82%) Self-Motivation
6 165 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
7 139 (2.37%) Cloud Native
8 133 (2.26%) Driving Licence
9 131 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
10 119 (2.02%) Blog
10 119 (2.02%) Social Media
11 106 (1.80%) Security Posture
12 103 (1.75%) Data Centre
12 103 (1.75%) Marketing Technology
13 102 (1.74%) Cyber Threat
14 95 (1.62%) Virtual Team
15 82 (1.40%) Data Structures
16 72 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
17 70 (1.19%) Algorithms
18 54 (0.92%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 459 (7.81%) Windows
2 288 (4.90%) Linux
3 224 (3.81%) Windows Server
4 99 (1.68%) Windows Server 2016
5 35 (0.60%) Windows 10
6 33 (0.56%) Unix
7 30 (0.51%) Mac OS
8 29 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 22 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
10 21 (0.36%) Apple iOS
11 18 (0.31%) Android
12 11 (0.19%) CentOS
13 8 (0.14%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.10%) Debian
14 6 (0.10%) VMS
15 5 (0.085%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.068%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.068%) Rocky
17 2 (0.034%) AIX
17 2 (0.034%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,829 (48.14%) Problem-Solving
2 1,699 (28.91%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,373 (23.36%) Decision-Making
4 1,253 (21.32%) Analytics
5 1,055 (17.95%) Agile
6 1,054 (17.93%) Stakeholder Management
7 1,027 (17.47%) AI
8 756 (12.86%) Business Intelligence
9 642 (10.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 608 (10.35%) Roadmaps
11 573 (9.75%) Mentoring
12 565 (9.61%) Actionable Insight
13 522 (8.88%) Project Management
14 512 (8.71%) Validation
15 495 (8.42%) Cybersecurity
16 493 (8.39%) Data Analysis
17 474 (8.07%) Data Modelling
18 464 (7.90%) Process Improvement
19 448 (7.62%) Customer Experience
20 446 (7.59%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1,149 (19.55%) SQL
2 875 (14.89%) Python
3 229 (3.90%) JavaScript
4 199 (3.39%) Java
5 191 (3.25%) C#
5 191 (3.25%) PowerShell
6 106 (1.80%) C++
7 91 (1.55%) Bash
8 80 (1.36%) R
9 74 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 67 (1.14%) TypeScript
11 49 (0.83%) T-SQL
12 48 (0.82%) MATLAB
13 33 (0.56%) C
14 28 (0.48%) Scala
15 27 (0.46%) PHP
16 24 (0.41%) PL/SQL
17 22 (0.37%) Go
18 20 (0.34%) Perl
19 19 (0.32%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,158 (19.70%) Degree
2 660 (11.23%) Security Cleared
3 456 (7.76%) SC Cleared
4 231 (3.93%) ACCA
5 216 (3.68%) CIMA
6 178 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 166 (2.82%) CISSP
8 160 (2.72%) DV Cleared
9 142 (2.42%) DBS Check
10 125 (2.13%) CISM
11 119 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
12 116 (1.97%) Cisco Certification
13 100 (1.70%) Master's Degree
14 82 (1.40%) Azure Certification
15 78 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
16 74 (1.26%) CompTIA Security+
17 63 (1.07%) PMI Certification
18 49 (0.83%) IRCA
19 48 (0.82%) HND
20 47 (0.80%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 557 (9.48%) Data Quality
2 397 (6.76%) QA
3 373 (6.35%) GDPR
4 245 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 197 (3.35%) NIST
6 171 (2.91%) Accessibility
7 156 (2.65%) Cyber Essentials
8 154 (2.62%) SLA
9 127 (2.16%) PCI DSS
10 109 (1.85%) ISO 9001
11 69 (1.17%) GRC
12 61 (1.04%) PMO
13 46 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
14 41 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 37 (0.63%) IFRS
16 36 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 33 (0.56%) COBIT
18 28 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
19 27 (0.46%) NCSC
20 24 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 333 (5.67%) Active Directory
2 134 (2.28%) Docker
3 106 (1.80%) Hyper-V
4 91 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 80 (1.36%) Terminal Server
6 32 (0.54%) Firmware
7 22 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
8 20 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (0.15%) vSphere
10 8 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.14%) VMware NSX
11 7 (0.12%) Ceph
11 7 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
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 (1.91%) Kubernetes
2 86 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
3 76 (1.29%) Ansible
4 41 (0.70%) Grafana
5 38 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
6 26 (0.44%) SCCM
7 22 (0.37%) Prometheus
8 19 (0.32%) QRadar
9 18 (0.31%) Kibana
10 15 (0.26%) 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%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 1,289 (21.93%) Microsoft
2 311 (5.29%) Google
3 234 (3.98%) SAP
4 189 (3.22%) Oracle
5 185 (3.15%) VMware
6 151 (2.57%) Splunk
7 144 (2.45%) Databricks
8 133 (2.26%) ServiceNow
9 126 (2.14%) Salesforce
10 111 (1.89%) SolarWinds
11 90 (1.53%) Veeam
12 86 (1.46%) Cisco
13 81 (1.38%) Brocade
13 81 (1.38%) Nimble Storage
14 80 (1.36%) Tanium
15 70 (1.19%) Workday
16 66 (1.12%) Adobe
17 54 (0.92%) HubSpot
18 49 (0.83%) Dell
19 45 (0.77%) YouTube