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

6 months to
18 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 5,142 6,162 9,384
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.18% 12.57% 9.60%
As % of the General category 11.01% 18.08% 16.61%
Number of salaries quoted 3,326 2,603 4,863
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,025 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +10.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £88,645 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,000 £48,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -1.03% +2.11% -

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 46,705 34,086 56,513
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 47.02% 69.52% 57.80%
Number of salaries quoted 28,752 17,545 36,538
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,284 £28,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £36,009 £37,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £46,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +8.70% -3.16% -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 18 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 18 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 -17 4,677 £55,000 - 1,936
UK excluding London -20 3,283 £48,000 -1.03% 1,386
Work from Home -9 1,624 £55,000 +4.76% 729
London -11 1,574 £67,500 +3.85% 824
North of England -18 971 £48,000 +6.67% 361
South East -9 821 £50,000 -5.62% 449
Midlands -9 589 £47,500 - 213
North West -18 579 £47,500 - 198
South West -22 419 £45,000 -8.63% 167
West Midlands -18 319 £49,000 +3.16% 119
Yorkshire -12 287 £48,445 +8.38% 119
East Midlands -3 269 £45,000 -5.26% 92
East of England -22 237 £45,025 -3.88% 135
Scotland -36 106 £44,000 -0.56% 58
North East -26 105 £55,000 +37.50% 48
Wales -15 99 £53,171 -3.33% 24
Northern Ireland -38 52 £41,250 -25.00% 18

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
1 187 (3.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 138 (2.68%) SharePoint
3 74 (1.44%) Confluence
4 69 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
5 68 (1.32%) Apache Spark
6 45 (0.88%) Apache
7 38 (0.74%) CMS
8 24 (0.47%) SAS
9 23 (0.45%) IIS
10 14 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 14 (0.27%) WordPress
11 13 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
12 9 (0.18%) Jupyter
12 9 (0.18%) WebSphere
13 8 (0.16%) WebLogic
14 3 (0.058%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.058%) JBoss
14 3 (0.058%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.058%) Tomcat
15 2 (0.039%) nginx
Applications
1 568 (11.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 212 (4.12%) Microsoft Office
3 113 (2.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 82 (1.59%) MS Visio
5 30 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
6 29 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.18%) CATIA
8 6 (0.12%) Adobe XD
9 5 (0.097%) Acrobat
10 4 (0.078%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.078%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.078%) Maya
11 3 (0.058%) Blender
11 3 (0.058%) LaTeX
11 3 (0.058%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.058%) Simulink
11 3 (0.058%) Trello
12 2 (0.039%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.039%) Lectora
12 2 (0.039%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 75 (1.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 54 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 37 (0.72%) NetSuite
4 22 (0.43%) Dynamics GP
4 22 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
5 20 (0.39%) SAP PM
6 17 (0.33%) SAP CO
7 15 (0.29%) SAP ERP
7 15 (0.29%) SAP FI
8 14 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
8 14 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
9 10 (0.19%) Maximo
10 9 (0.18%) Magento
10 9 (0.18%) Workday HCM
11 8 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
12 7 (0.14%) Elite 3E
12 7 (0.14%) Fidessa
12 7 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
12 7 (0.14%) Sage 200
13 6 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 907 (17.64%) Azure
2 656 (12.76%) Power Platform
3 497 (9.67%) AWS
4 401 (7.80%) Microsoft 365
5 319 (6.20%) SaaS
6 225 (4.38%) GCP
7 131 (2.55%) Dynamics 365
8 127 (2.47%) Entra ID
9 119 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
10 88 (1.71%) Google Analytics
11 82 (1.59%) Microsoft Purview
12 76 (1.48%) Snowflake
13 75 (1.46%) GitHub
14 72 (1.40%) Power Automate
15 68 (1.32%) dbt
16 67 (1.30%) Amazon S3
16 67 (1.30%) PowerApps
17 57 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
18 56 (1.09%) Serverless
19 54 (1.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 188 (3.66%) DNS
2 179 (3.48%) Firewall
3 145 (2.82%) DHCP
4 123 (2.39%) VPN
5 87 (1.69%) TCP/IP
6 75 (1.46%) WAN
7 72 (1.40%) LAN
8 71 (1.38%) Broadband
9 62 (1.21%) Wi-Fi
10 50 (0.97%) Wireless
11 45 (0.88%) Network Security
12 44 (0.86%) VLAN
13 40 (0.78%) SAN
14 39 (0.76%) Internet
15 33 (0.64%) HTTP
16 30 (0.58%) BGP
17 23 (0.45%) SD-WAN
18 21 (0.41%) Cisco ASA
19 20 (0.39%) OSPF
20 19 (0.37%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 583 (11.34%) Power BI
2 282 (5.48%) Tableau
3 203 (3.95%) SQL Server
4 183 (3.56%) Data Warehouse
5 115 (2.24%) Amazon RDS
6 90 (1.75%) Metadata
7 74 (1.44%) Relational Database
8 72 (1.40%) Data Lake
9 68 (1.32%) Data Mining
10 67 (1.30%) Looker
11 66 (1.28%) Power Query
12 65 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
13 64 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 62 (1.21%) MySQL
15 53 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
15 53 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 50 (0.97%) BigQuery
17 41 (0.80%) Big Data
18 38 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
19 37 (0.72%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 197 (3.83%) JIRA
2 156 (3.03%) Git
3 58 (1.13%) GitLab
4 39 (0.76%) Jenkins
5 36 (0.70%) Rational DOORS
6 30 (0.58%) MLflow
7 25 (0.49%) Selenium
8 22 (0.43%) Cucumber
9 17 (0.33%) Chocolatey
9 17 (0.33%) Eclipse
9 17 (0.33%) Postman
10 15 (0.29%) ERwin
11 14 (0.27%) JMeter
11 14 (0.27%) Visual Studio
12 13 (0.25%) IBM UrbanCode
13 12 (0.23%) Cypress.io
13 12 (0.23%) SonarQube
14 9 (0.18%) Bitbucket
14 9 (0.18%) LabVIEW
14 9 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
General
1 2,437 (47.39%) Social Skills
2 1,718 (33.41%) Finance
3 428 (8.32%) Marketing
4 368 (7.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 347 (6.75%) Organisational Skills
6 311 (6.05%) Retail
7 305 (5.93%) Public Sector
8 285 (5.54%) Legal
9 274 (5.33%) Law
10 242 (4.71%) Banking
11 213 (4.14%) Manufacturing
12 207 (4.03%) Influencing Skills
13 138 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
14 128 (2.49%) Telecoms
15 96 (1.87%) Advertising
16 93 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
17 92 (1.79%) Aerospace
18 80 (1.56%) Electronics
19 72 (1.40%) Financial Institution
20 54 (1.05%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,282 (24.93%) Analyst
2 644 (12.52%) Senior
3 363 (7.06%) Lead
4 304 (5.91%) Data Analyst
5 277 (5.39%) Business Analyst
6 240 (4.67%) Developer
7 232 (4.51%) Consultant
8 215 (4.18%) Systems Engineer
9 198 (3.85%) Architect
10 152 (2.96%) Senior Analyst
11 144 (2.80%) Data Engineer
11 144 (2.80%) Support Analyst
12 126 (2.45%) Support Engineer
13 120 (2.33%) IT Support
14 111 (2.16%) IT Manager
15 103 (2.00%) Systems Analyst
16 101 (1.96%) Financial Analyst
17 100 (1.94%) Security Analyst
18 91 (1.77%) Senior Manager
19 90 (1.75%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (2.35%) .NET
2 111 (2.16%) HTML
3 105 (2.04%) REST
4 100 (1.94%) CSS
5 91 (1.77%) JSON
6 86 (1.67%) Middleware
7 85 (1.65%) XML
8 75 (1.46%) React
9 66 (1.28%) Kafka
9 66 (1.28%) PyTorch
10 61 (1.19%) TensorFlow
11 55 (1.07%) RESTful
12 51 (0.99%) SOAP
13 47 (0.91%) PySpark
14 42 (0.82%) Web Services
15 41 (0.80%) Node.js
15 41 (0.80%) scikit-learn
16 33 (0.64%) Pandas
17 32 (0.62%) EDI
17 32 (0.62%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 532 (10.35%) Analytical Mindset
2 271 (5.27%) Management Information System
3 224 (4.36%) Onboarding
4 218 (4.24%) Product Ownership
5 201 (3.91%) Self-Motivation
6 150 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
7 116 (2.26%) Cloud Native
8 104 (2.02%) Security Posture
9 98 (1.91%) Data Centre
9 98 (1.91%) Driving Licence
10 83 (1.61%) Data Structures
11 81 (1.58%) Cyber Threat
11 81 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
11 81 (1.58%) Virtual Team
12 73 (1.42%) Algorithms
13 61 (1.19%) Social Media
14 56 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
14 56 (1.09%) Public Cloud
15 52 (1.01%) Blog
16 44 (0.86%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 423 (8.23%) Windows
2 271 (5.27%) Linux
3 209 (4.06%) Windows Server
4 105 (2.04%) Windows Server 2016
5 30 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 30 (0.58%) Unix
6 27 (0.53%) Windows 10
7 24 (0.47%) Mac OS
8 21 (0.41%) Android
9 18 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
10 17 (0.33%) Apple iOS
11 11 (0.21%) CentOS
11 11 (0.21%) Ubuntu
12 8 (0.16%) VMS
13 6 (0.12%) Debian
14 5 (0.097%) OpenVMS
15 4 (0.078%) AIX
15 4 (0.078%) Rocky
16 1 (0.019%) FreeRTOS
16 1 (0.019%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,361 (45.92%) Problem-Solving
2 1,358 (26.41%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,155 (22.46%) Decision-Making
4 1,122 (21.82%) Analytics
5 879 (17.09%) Agile
6 733 (14.26%) Stakeholder Management
7 718 (13.96%) AI
8 671 (13.05%) Business Intelligence
9 552 (10.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 531 (10.33%) Roadmaps
11 491 (9.55%) Mentoring
12 489 (9.51%) Actionable Insight
13 483 (9.39%) Project Management
14 462 (8.98%) Cybersecurity
15 456 (8.87%) Data Modelling
16 440 (8.56%) Data Analysis
17 419 (8.15%) Process Improvement
18 404 (7.86%) Customer Experience
19 398 (7.74%) Data Governance
20 388 (7.55%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1,050 (20.42%) SQL
2 861 (16.74%) Python
3 184 (3.58%) Java
4 178 (3.46%) JavaScript
5 172 (3.35%) PowerShell
6 161 (3.13%) C#
7 85 (1.65%) C++
8 78 (1.52%) Bash
8 78 (1.52%) R
9 74 (1.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 52 (1.01%) T-SQL
10 52 (1.01%) TypeScript
11 45 (0.88%) MATLAB
12 24 (0.47%) PHP
13 22 (0.43%) Go
13 22 (0.43%) PL/SQL
14 21 (0.41%) C
14 21 (0.41%) Scala
14 21 (0.41%) VBA
15 20 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 933 (18.14%) Degree
2 508 (9.88%) Security Cleared
3 367 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 265 (5.15%) ACCA
5 249 (4.84%) CIMA
6 155 (3.01%) DBS Check
7 151 (2.94%) CISSP
8 142 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
9 112 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
10 111 (2.16%) CISM
11 96 (1.87%) DV Cleared
12 90 (1.75%) Master's Degree
13 88 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
14 72 (1.40%) IRCA
15 71 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
16 69 (1.34%) CompTIA Security+
17 65 (1.26%) Azure Certification
18 52 (1.01%) PMI Certification
19 44 (0.86%) PMP
20 43 (0.84%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 482 (9.37%) Data Quality
2 397 (7.72%) GDPR
3 346 (6.73%) QA
4 265 (5.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 209 (4.06%) NIST
6 182 (3.54%) Cyber Essentials
7 152 (2.96%) SLA
8 147 (2.86%) PCI DSS
9 134 (2.61%) Accessibility
10 124 (2.41%) ISO 9001
11 78 (1.52%) GRC
12 63 (1.23%) PMO
13 43 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
14 40 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 40 (0.78%) IFRS
15 39 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 35 (0.68%) COBIT
17 28 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 25 (0.49%) SOC 2
19 24 (0.47%) ITGC
System Software
1 305 (5.93%) Active Directory
2 103 (2.00%) Docker
2 103 (2.00%) Hyper-V
3 88 (1.71%) Terminal Server
4 76 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 26 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (0.18%) VMware NSX
7 9 (0.18%) vSphere
8 8 (0.16%) IAG
8 8 (0.16%) ProxySG
9 7 (0.14%) Firmware
10 4 (0.078%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 4 (0.078%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.078%) XenApp
11 3 (0.058%) DFS Replication
11 3 (0.058%) Embedded Firmware
12 2 (0.039%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.039%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.019%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 139 (2.70%) Terraform
2 91 (1.77%) Kubernetes
3 76 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
4 63 (1.23%) Ansible
5 42 (0.82%) Grafana
6 26 (0.51%) SCCM
7 22 (0.43%) Prometheus
8 21 (0.41%) Nagios
9 18 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
10 17 (0.33%) QRadar
11 16 (0.31%) Kibana
12 11 (0.21%) Kubeflow
13 8 (0.16%) logstash
14 7 (0.14%) Packer
15 6 (0.12%) Graylog
15 6 (0.12%) Nmap
15 6 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
16 5 (0.097%) Control-M
16 5 (0.097%) Docker Swarm
16 5 (0.097%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1,158 (22.52%) Microsoft
2 222 (4.32%) SAP
3 210 (4.08%) Google
4 173 (3.36%) VMware
5 172 (3.35%) Oracle
6 149 (2.90%) Splunk
7 139 (2.70%) Salesforce
8 128 (2.49%) SolarWinds
9 123 (2.39%) Databricks
10 108 (2.10%) ServiceNow
11 100 (1.94%) Veeam
12 89 (1.73%) Nimble Storage
13 88 (1.71%) Brocade
13 88 (1.71%) Tanium
14 79 (1.54%) Workday
15 73 (1.42%) Cisco
16 53 (1.03%) Red Hat
17 50 (0.97%) IBM
18 47 (0.91%) Adobe
19 44 (0.86%) HubSpot