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 1 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -15 +6 +3
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,777 5,085 8,228
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 6.02% 12.44% 9.19%
As % of the General category 11.38% 17.63% 15.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2,798 2,429 5,319
10th Percentile £31,605 £31,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,005 £93,778 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,445 £50,967 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.95% +13.26% -3.23%

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 41,977 28,840 54,398
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 52.88% 70.58% 60.73%
Number of salaries quoted 22,988 15,605 38,416
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,500 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,900 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,085 £51,058 £47,500
% change year-on-year -7.78% +7.49% -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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -18 4,242 £54,396 -1.10% 2,239
UK excluding London -22 2,941 £48,445 -4.95% 1,762
London -6 1,541 £67,500 +3.85% 833
Work from Home -6 1,429 £55,000 - 981
South East 0 793 £50,000 -1.90% 595
North of England -23 766 £45,497 -9.01% 400
Midlands -18 564 £47,500 -2.06% 298
North West -21 419 £42,500 -16.49% 220
West Midlands -20 348 £51,300 +2.60% 175
South West -24 264 £45,000 -13.46% 178
East of England -29 257 £45,000 -11.71% 161
Yorkshire -7 254 £50,500 +12.22% 136
East Midlands -4 214 £42,500 -4.49% 123
Scotland -18 181 £40,000 -23.81% 92
North East -15 93 £48,445 +25.83% 50
Wales +7 78 £40,000 -20.20% 59
Northern Ireland -21 50 £46,250 -15.91% 22
Isle of Man -2 1 £62,500 +68.92%
Channel Islands -6 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
1 145 (3.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 90 (1.88%) SharePoint
3 79 (1.65%) Confluence
4 73 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
5 72 (1.51%) Apache Spark
6 47 (0.98%) CMS
7 30 (0.63%) Apache
8 18 (0.38%) SAS
9 17 (0.36%) WordPress
10 14 (0.29%) IIS
11 12 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
12 6 (0.13%) nginx
13 4 (0.084%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 3 (0.063%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.063%) Drupal
14 3 (0.063%) govService
14 3 (0.063%) JBoss
15 2 (0.042%) Camunda
15 2 (0.042%) MTS
15 2 (0.042%) Tomcat
Applications
1 693 (14.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 281 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
3 123 (2.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 96 (2.01%) MS Visio
5 36 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
6 29 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
7 24 (0.50%) Chatbot
8 15 (0.31%) Adobe XD
9 14 (0.29%) Maya
10 10 (0.21%) CATIA
11 6 (0.13%) AutoCAD
12 5 (0.10%) Trello
13 2 (0.042%) Revit
13 2 (0.042%) Simulink
13 2 (0.042%) Sketch
14 1 (0.021%) Notion
14 1 (0.021%) OrCAD
14 1 (0.021%) SmartSuite
14 1 (0.021%) SOLIDWORKS
14 1 (0.021%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 61 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 47 (0.98%) NetSuite
3 39 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
4 32 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
5 25 (0.52%) SAP CO
6 20 (0.42%) Endur
7 17 (0.36%) SAP FI
8 16 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
9 15 (0.31%) SAP PM
9 15 (0.31%) Workday HCM
10 12 (0.25%) Maximo
10 12 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
10 12 (0.25%) SAP ERP
11 11 (0.23%) Sage X3
12 10 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
13 8 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
14 7 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
14 7 (0.15%) Elite 3E
15 6 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
15 6 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 865 (18.11%) Azure
2 651 (13.63%) Power Platform
3 468 (9.80%) AWS
4 317 (6.64%) Microsoft 365
5 279 (5.84%) SaaS
6 203 (4.25%) GCP
7 148 (3.10%) Azure DevOps
8 132 (2.76%) Dynamics 365
9 97 (2.03%) Entra ID
10 96 (2.01%) GitHub
11 95 (1.99%) Power Automate
12 91 (1.90%) Snowflake
13 83 (1.74%) dbt
14 75 (1.57%) Azure Data Factory
15 67 (1.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 65 (1.36%) Amazon S3
17 62 (1.30%) Google Analytics
18 59 (1.24%) Serverless
19 55 (1.15%) PowerApps
20 53 (1.11%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 183 (3.83%) Firewall
2 162 (3.39%) DNS
3 128 (2.68%) DHCP
4 114 (2.39%) VPN
5 80 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
6 75 (1.57%) WAN
7 69 (1.44%) LAN
8 68 (1.42%) Wireless
9 66 (1.38%) TCP/IP
10 63 (1.32%) VLAN
11 51 (1.07%) Broadband
12 48 (1.00%) Network Security
13 41 (0.86%) SAN
14 39 (0.82%) BGP
15 34 (0.71%) OSPF
15 34 (0.71%) Wireshark
16 30 (0.63%) Cisco ASA
16 30 (0.63%) EIGRP
17 26 (0.54%) SD-WAN
18 24 (0.50%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 591 (12.37%) Power BI
2 426 (8.92%) Tableau
3 222 (4.65%) SQL Server
4 196 (4.10%) Data Mining
5 173 (3.62%) Data Warehouse
6 96 (2.01%) Metadata
7 94 (1.97%) Relational Database
8 88 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
9 84 (1.76%) Data Lake
10 72 (1.51%) Looker
11 63 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
11 63 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 57 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
13 56 (1.17%) MySQL
14 48 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
15 46 (0.96%) NoSQL
16 45 (0.94%) BigQuery
16 45 (0.94%) Power Query
17 37 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 36 (0.75%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 187 (3.91%) JIRA
2 141 (2.95%) Git
3 49 (1.03%) GitLab
4 43 (0.90%) Selenium
5 38 (0.80%) Jenkins
6 32 (0.67%) MLflow
7 19 (0.40%) Visual Studio
8 18 (0.38%) Chocolatey
9 15 (0.31%) Balsamiq
9 15 (0.31%) Robot Framework
10 14 (0.29%) Axure RP
10 14 (0.29%) Subversion
11 13 (0.27%) Bitbucket
11 13 (0.27%) ERwin
11 13 (0.27%) IBM UrbanCode
11 13 (0.27%) Rational DOORS
11 13 (0.27%) Snyk
12 12 (0.25%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.21%) LabVIEW
13 10 (0.21%) Postman
General
1 2,394 (50.12%) Social Skills
2 1,805 (37.79%) Finance
3 434 (9.09%) Marketing
4 358 (7.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 312 (6.53%) Banking
6 274 (5.74%) Legal
7 269 (5.63%) Law
8 262 (5.48%) Organisational Skills
9 252 (5.28%) Retail
10 249 (5.21%) Public Sector
11 199 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
12 173 (3.62%) Manufacturing
13 130 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
14 127 (2.66%) Financial Institution
15 106 (2.22%) Telecoms
16 87 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
17 72 (1.51%) Advertising
18 67 (1.40%) Games
19 65 (1.36%) Electronics
20 53 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,246 (26.08%) Analyst
2 641 (13.42%) Senior
3 377 (7.89%) Data Analyst
4 309 (6.47%) Lead
5 249 (5.21%) Business Analyst
6 240 (5.02%) Developer
7 215 (4.50%) Architect
8 200 (4.19%) Consultant
9 171 (3.58%) Trainee
10 170 (3.56%) Support Analyst
11 162 (3.39%) Trainee Analyst
11 162 (3.39%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 144 (3.01%) Systems Engineer
13 139 (2.91%) Senior Manager
14 138 (2.89%) Senior Analyst
15 136 (2.85%) IT Support
16 118 (2.47%) Financial Analyst
17 101 (2.11%) Support Engineer
18 100 (2.09%) Data Engineer
19 97 (2.03%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (2.78%) HTML
2 123 (2.57%) CSS
3 87 (1.82%) .NET
3 87 (1.82%) React
4 65 (1.36%) REST
5 56 (1.17%) JSON
6 55 (1.15%) PyTorch
7 54 (1.13%) TensorFlow
8 53 (1.11%) XML
9 49 (1.03%) Kafka
10 47 (0.98%) Middleware
10 47 (0.98%) Node.js
11 39 (0.82%) scikit-learn
12 34 (0.71%) PySpark
13 33 (0.69%) LangChain
14 30 (0.63%) SOAP
15 28 (0.59%) FIX Protocol
15 28 (0.59%) Pandas
16 26 (0.54%) Spring
17 24 (0.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 510 (10.68%) Analytical Mindset
2 314 (6.57%) Self-Motivation
3 246 (5.15%) Onboarding
4 225 (4.71%) Management Information System
5 193 (4.04%) Product Ownership
6 120 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
7 97 (2.03%) Cloud Native
7 97 (2.03%) Data Centre
8 94 (1.97%) Data Structures
9 90 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
10 77 (1.61%) Algorithms
11 74 (1.55%) Driving Licence
12 59 (1.24%) Security Posture
12 59 (1.24%) Social Media
13 54 (1.13%) Virtual Team
14 49 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 49 (1.03%) Public Cloud
15 47 (0.98%) FMCG
15 47 (0.98%) Low-Code
16 44 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 370 (7.75%) Windows
2 235 (4.92%) Linux
3 152 (3.18%) Windows Server
4 76 (1.59%) Windows Server 2016
5 42 (0.88%) Unix
6 27 (0.57%) Mac OS
7 19 (0.40%) Windows 10
8 17 (0.36%) Android
9 14 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 12 (0.25%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.13%) CentOS
12 5 (0.10%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.10%) VMS
13 4 (0.084%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.063%) OpenWrt
15 2 (0.042%) AIX
15 2 (0.042%) Data ONTAP
15 2 (0.042%) Oracle Linux
15 2 (0.042%) Rocky
16 1 (0.021%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,219 (46.45%) Problem-Solving
2 1,158 (24.24%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,148 (24.03%) Analytics
4 964 (20.18%) Decision-Making
5 849 (17.77%) Agile
6 743 (15.55%) Business Intelligence
7 717 (15.01%) AI
8 653 (13.67%) Project Management
9 603 (12.62%) Stakeholder Management
10 576 (12.06%) Data Analysis
11 468 (9.80%) Actionable Insight
12 418 (8.75%) Mentoring
13 416 (8.71%) Process Improvement
14 406 (8.50%) Analytical Thinking
14 406 (8.50%) Data Modelling
15 402 (8.42%) Roadmaps
16 385 (8.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 381 (7.98%) DevOps
18 365 (7.64%) Business Analysis
19 356 (7.45%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,055 (22.08%) SQL
2 896 (18.76%) Python
3 173 (3.62%) JavaScript
4 155 (3.24%) Java
5 154 (3.22%) PowerShell
6 120 (2.51%) C#
7 84 (1.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 67 (1.40%) R
9 56 (1.17%) Bash
10 47 (0.98%) T-SQL
11 46 (0.96%) C++
12 41 (0.86%) VBA
13 38 (0.80%) TypeScript
14 23 (0.48%) MATLAB
15 20 (0.42%) C
15 20 (0.42%) Scala
16 18 (0.38%) Go
17 13 (0.27%) PL/SQL
18 12 (0.25%) PHP
18 12 (0.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,055 (22.08%) Degree
2 405 (8.48%) Security Cleared
3 290 (6.07%) SC Cleared
4 246 (5.15%) ACCA
5 234 (4.90%) CIMA
6 178 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 145 (3.04%) CISSP
8 143 (2.99%) Master's Degree
9 122 (2.55%) DBS Check
10 98 (2.05%) PMI Certification
11 94 (1.97%) DV Cleared
12 90 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
13 86 (1.80%) PMP
14 85 (1.78%) CISM
15 72 (1.51%) IRCA
16 65 (1.36%) Azure Certification
17 63 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
18 58 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
19 50 (1.05%) CISA
20 49 (1.03%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 392 (8.21%) Data Quality
2 317 (6.64%) GDPR
3 274 (5.74%) QA
4 218 (4.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 182 (3.81%) NIST
6 148 (3.10%) Cyber Essentials
7 116 (2.43%) PCI DSS
8 101 (2.11%) Accessibility
9 91 (1.90%) ISO 9001
10 79 (1.65%) PMO
11 77 (1.61%) SLA
12 68 (1.42%) Actionable Recommendations
13 47 (0.98%) GRC
14 41 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 36 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 34 (0.71%) IFRS
17 31 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 24 (0.50%) COBIT
19 21 (0.44%) WCAG
20 18 (0.38%) NCSC
System Software
1 263 (5.51%) Active Directory
2 92 (1.93%) Hyper-V
3 74 (1.55%) Docker
4 72 (1.51%) Terminal Server
5 67 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
6 16 (0.33%) ProxySG
7 15 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
8 12 (0.25%) vSphere
9 8 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
9 8 (0.17%) VMware NSX
10 7 (0.15%) IAG
11 5 (0.10%) Firmware
12 4 (0.084%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.084%) XenApp
13 3 (0.063%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.063%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.042%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.021%) KVM
15 1 (0.021%) Oracle RAC
15 1 (0.021%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 139 (2.91%) Terraform
2 78 (1.63%) Kubernetes
3 74 (1.55%) Ansible
4 58 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
5 36 (0.75%) Grafana
6 32 (0.67%) Prometheus
7 30 (0.63%) SCCM
8 24 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
9 17 (0.36%) Nagios
10 7 (0.15%) Control-M
10 7 (0.15%) Kubeflow
11 6 (0.13%) QRadar
12 5 (0.10%) CASB
12 5 (0.10%) Computer Incident Response Team
13 4 (0.084%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.084%) Backup Exec
13 4 (0.084%) Packer
13 4 (0.084%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.084%) SolarWinds Orion
13 4 (0.084%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,180 (24.70%) Microsoft
2 207 (4.33%) SAP
3 179 (3.75%) Oracle
4 151 (3.16%) Google
5 149 (3.12%) VMware
6 135 (2.83%) Salesforce
7 121 (2.53%) SolarWinds
8 115 (2.41%) ServiceNow
9 109 (2.28%) Splunk
10 100 (2.09%) Databricks
11 79 (1.65%) Veeam
12 77 (1.61%) Cisco
13 73 (1.53%) Brocade
13 73 (1.53%) Tanium
14 72 (1.51%) Nimble Storage
15 62 (1.30%) Workday
16 47 (0.98%) Dell
17 41 (0.86%) Adobe
18 40 (0.84%) Red Hat
19 39 (0.82%) Bloomberg