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

6 months to
14 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 5,767 6,153 7,990
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.42% 12.32% 9.59%
As % of the General category 11.62% 17.88% 16.73%
Number of salaries quoted 3,545 2,623 3,702
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,923 £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 £48,000
% change year-on-year - -1.04% -4.00%

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 49,613 34,413 47,756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.66% 68.93% 57.31%
Number of salaries quoted 30,330 17,991 28,309
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £39,912 £35,000 £39,720
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,026 £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 14 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 14 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 5,199 £52,500 - 3,828
UK excluding London -18 3,693 £47,500 - 2,322
Work from Home -10 1,837 £55,000 +10.00% 1,450
London -10 1,788 £67,500 +3.85% 1,927
North of England -19 1,051 £47,500 +5.56% 566
South East -9 887 £50,000 -4.76% 718
Midlands -9 644 £47,500 +5.56% 365
North West -16 635 £47,250 +5.00% 314
South West -11 511 £47,500 +5.56% 310
West Midlands -17 333 £50,000 +11.11% 223
East Midlands -2 309 £45,000 - 143
Yorkshire -8 293 £47,000 +16.05% 192
East of England -18 256 £47,500 +5.56% 212
Wales -11 135 £52,105 +1.28% 57
Scotland -24 134 £44,000 +3.53% 120
North East -20 123 £55,000 +35.80% 65
Northern Ireland -25 83 £42,500 -22.73% 45

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
1 177 (3.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 161 (2.79%) SharePoint
3 86 (1.49%) Confluence
4 71 (1.23%) Apache Spark
5 70 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
6 50 (0.87%) Apache
7 48 (0.83%) CMS
8 31 (0.54%) IIS
9 26 (0.45%) SAS
10 11 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 11 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
10 11 (0.19%) WordPress
11 9 (0.16%) Headless CMS
11 9 (0.16%) Jupyter
11 9 (0.16%) WebLogic
11 9 (0.16%) WebSphere
12 8 (0.14%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.052%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.052%) JBoss
13 3 (0.052%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 618 (10.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 250 (4.34%) Microsoft Office
3 122 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 84 (1.46%) MS Visio
5 42 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
6 28 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.17%) Adobe XD
8 7 (0.12%) AutoCAD
9 5 (0.087%) Acrobat
9 5 (0.087%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.087%) EPLAN
9 5 (0.087%) Simulink
10 4 (0.069%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.069%) CATIA
10 4 (0.069%) Maya
10 4 (0.069%) Trello
11 3 (0.052%) Blender
11 3 (0.052%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.052%) Revit
11 3 (0.052%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 78 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 70 (1.21%) SAP S/4HANA
3 40 (0.69%) NetSuite
4 35 (0.61%) 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 ERP
8 14 (0.24%) SAP CO
8 14 (0.24%) SAP FI
9 13 (0.23%) 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%) Fidessa
12 9 (0.16%) Sage 200
12 9 (0.16%) SAP Business One
13 8 (0.14%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 993 (17.22%) Azure
2 691 (11.98%) Power Platform
3 609 (10.56%) AWS
4 407 (7.06%) Microsoft 365
5 359 (6.23%) SaaS
6 288 (4.99%) GCP
7 142 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
8 137 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
9 132 (2.29%) Entra ID
10 108 (1.87%) Google Analytics
11 107 (1.86%) Snowflake
12 96 (1.66%) GitHub
13 89 (1.54%) dbt
14 86 (1.49%) Power Automate
15 80 (1.39%) Amazon S3
16 76 (1.32%) PowerApps
17 72 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
18 65 (1.13%) Serverless
19 59 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
20 58 (1.01%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 195 (3.38%) DNS
2 151 (2.62%) DHCP
3 149 (2.58%) Firewall
4 125 (2.17%) VPN
5 97 (1.68%) TCP/IP
6 76 (1.32%) WAN
7 74 (1.28%) LAN
8 62 (1.08%) Broadband
9 57 (0.99%) Wireless
10 56 (0.97%) Network Security
11 55 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
12 44 (0.76%) SAN
13 43 (0.75%) Internet
14 42 (0.73%) VLAN
15 36 (0.62%) HTTP
16 27 (0.47%) BGP
17 25 (0.43%) VoIP
18 22 (0.38%) SD-WAN
19 20 (0.35%) OSPF
19 20 (0.35%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 612 (10.61%) Power BI
2 271 (4.70%) Tableau
3 230 (3.99%) SQL Server
4 198 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
5 115 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
6 104 (1.80%) Relational Database
7 98 (1.70%) Metadata
8 91 (1.58%) Looker
9 82 (1.42%) MySQL
10 80 (1.39%) Data Lake
11 76 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
12 67 (1.16%) Power Query
13 66 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 62 (1.08%) BigQuery
14 62 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 55 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
16 54 (0.94%) Big Data
17 46 (0.80%) NoSQL
18 42 (0.73%) Data Mining
19 38 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 240 (4.16%) JIRA
2 222 (3.85%) Git
3 57 (0.99%) GitLab
4 50 (0.87%) Jenkins
5 32 (0.55%) MLflow
6 31 (0.54%) Rational DOORS
7 29 (0.50%) Selenium
8 23 (0.40%) Cucumber
9 20 (0.35%) Postman
10 19 (0.33%) Eclipse
11 16 (0.28%) Chocolatey
12 14 (0.24%) Cypress.io
12 14 (0.24%) JMeter
13 13 (0.23%) Bitbucket
13 13 (0.23%) Burp Suite
13 13 (0.23%) ERwin
13 13 (0.23%) IBM UrbanCode
14 12 (0.21%) Claude Code
14 12 (0.21%) SonarQube
15 11 (0.19%) Metasploit
General
1 2,750 (47.69%) Social Skills
2 1,890 (32.77%) Finance
3 567 (9.83%) Marketing
4 508 (8.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 417 (7.23%) Organisational Skills
6 378 (6.55%) Retail
7 367 (6.36%) Law
8 355 (6.16%) Public Sector
9 326 (5.65%) Legal
10 275 (4.77%) Banking
11 274 (4.75%) Manufacturing
12 273 (4.73%) Influencing Skills
13 171 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
14 158 (2.74%) Aerospace
15 134 (2.32%) Telecoms
16 109 (1.89%) Advertising
17 103 (1.79%) Electronics
18 95 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
19 70 (1.21%) Financial Institution
20 65 (1.13%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,343 (23.29%) Analyst
2 746 (12.94%) Senior
3 407 (7.06%) Lead
4 305 (5.29%) Data Analyst
5 297 (5.15%) Business Analyst
6 278 (4.82%) Developer
7 226 (3.92%) Architect
8 222 (3.85%) Consultant
9 210 (3.64%) Systems Engineer
10 184 (3.19%) Senior Analyst
11 173 (3.00%) Data Engineer
12 152 (2.64%) Support Analyst
13 131 (2.27%) Support Engineer
14 122 (2.12%) IT Support
15 115 (1.99%) IT Manager
16 109 (1.89%) Senior Manager
17 108 (1.87%) Security Analyst
18 98 (1.70%) Systems Analyst
19 94 (1.63%) Financial Analyst
20 91 (1.58%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (2.55%) .NET
2 129 (2.24%) HTML
3 122 (2.12%) REST
4 120 (2.08%) CSS
5 87 (1.51%) JSON
6 78 (1.35%) Kafka
6 78 (1.35%) Middleware
6 78 (1.35%) React
7 74 (1.28%) XML
8 71 (1.23%) PyTorch
9 70 (1.21%) RESTful
10 64 (1.11%) TensorFlow
11 56 (0.97%) SOAP
12 51 (0.88%) PySpark
13 48 (0.83%) scikit-learn
14 42 (0.73%) Web Services
15 41 (0.71%) OAuth
16 39 (0.68%) Node.js
16 39 (0.68%) Pandas
17 38 (0.66%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 547 (9.49%) Analytical Mindset
2 329 (5.70%) Management Information System
3 310 (5.38%) Onboarding
4 270 (4.68%) Product Ownership
5 267 (4.63%) Self-Motivation
6 162 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
7 138 (2.39%) Cloud Native
8 134 (2.32%) Driving Licence
9 119 (2.06%) Social Media
10 112 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
11 110 (1.91%) Security Posture
12 106 (1.84%) Data Centre
13 95 (1.65%) Blog
14 91 (1.58%) Virtual Team
15 90 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
16 78 (1.35%) Algorithms
16 78 (1.35%) Data Structures
17 77 (1.34%) Marketing Technology
18 68 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
19 56 (0.97%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 458 (7.94%) Windows
2 298 (5.17%) Linux
3 220 (3.81%) Windows Server
4 99 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
5 33 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 33 (0.57%) Windows 10
6 32 (0.55%) Unix
7 28 (0.49%) Mac OS
8 22 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
9 21 (0.36%) Apple iOS
10 20 (0.35%) Android
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 (0.069%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.069%) Rocky
17 2 (0.035%) AIX
17 2 (0.035%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,740 (47.51%) Problem-Solving
2 1,635 (28.35%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,307 (22.66%) Decision-Making
4 1,264 (21.92%) Analytics
5 1,034 (17.93%) Agile
6 979 (16.98%) AI
7 968 (16.79%) Stakeholder Management
8 736 (12.76%) Business Intelligence
9 634 (10.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 609 (10.56%) Roadmaps
11 561 (9.73%) Actionable Insight
12 553 (9.59%) Mentoring
13 541 (9.38%) Project Management
14 503 (8.72%) Data Analysis
15 492 (8.53%) Validation
16 487 (8.44%) Cybersecurity
17 474 (8.22%) Data Modelling
18 467 (8.10%) Customer Experience
19 455 (7.89%) Process Improvement
20 443 (7.68%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 1,152 (19.98%) SQL
2 918 (15.92%) Python
3 218 (3.78%) JavaScript
4 197 (3.42%) Java
5 186 (3.23%) PowerShell
6 182 (3.16%) C#
7 98 (1.70%) C++
8 97 (1.68%) Bash
9 79 (1.37%) R
10 73 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 66 (1.14%) TypeScript
12 48 (0.83%) T-SQL
13 42 (0.73%) MATLAB
14 31 (0.54%) C
15 28 (0.49%) Scala
16 25 (0.43%) PHP
17 22 (0.38%) Go
17 22 (0.38%) PL/SQL
18 19 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
18 19 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,098 (19.04%) Degree
2 621 (10.77%) Security Cleared
3 431 (7.47%) SC Cleared
4 244 (4.23%) ACCA
5 230 (3.99%) CIMA
6 174 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 166 (2.88%) CISSP
8 150 (2.60%) DV Cleared
9 149 (2.58%) DBS Check
10 126 (2.18%) CISM
11 123 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
12 119 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
13 102 (1.77%) Master's Degree
14 74 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
15 73 (1.27%) Azure Certification
15 73 (1.27%) CompTIA Security+
15 73 (1.27%) IRCA
16 61 (1.06%) PMI Certification
17 48 (0.83%) CRISC
18 46 (0.80%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 557 (9.66%) Data Quality
2 404 (7.01%) QA
3 401 (6.95%) GDPR
4 243 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 197 (3.42%) NIST
6 169 (2.93%) Accessibility
7 158 (2.74%) Cyber Essentials
8 156 (2.71%) SLA
9 131 (2.27%) PCI DSS
10 129 (2.24%) ISO 9001
11 71 (1.23%) GRC
12 65 (1.13%) PMO
13 47 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
14 41 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 38 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 36 (0.62%) COBIT
16 36 (0.62%) IFRS
17 28 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 25 (0.43%) NCSC
19 24 (0.42%) GMP
System Software
1 324 (5.62%) Active Directory
2 142 (2.46%) Docker
3 104 (1.80%) Hyper-V
4 91 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 80 (1.39%) Terminal Server
6 27 (0.47%) Firmware
7 24 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
8 18 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (0.16%) VMware NSX
9 9 (0.16%) vSphere
10 7 (0.12%) Ceph
11 6 (0.10%) IAG
11 6 (0.10%) ProxySG
11 6 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.087%) KVM
13 4 (0.069%) Embedded Firmware
13 4 (0.069%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.069%) XenApp
14 3 (0.052%) DFS Replication
14 3 (0.052%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 152 (2.64%) Terraform
2 117 (2.03%) Kubernetes
3 85 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 77 (1.34%) Ansible
5 42 (0.73%) Grafana
6 30 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
7 26 (0.45%) SCCM
8 24 (0.42%) Prometheus
9 19 (0.33%) Nagios
10 18 (0.31%) QRadar
11 17 (0.29%) Kibana
12 11 (0.19%) Nmap
12 11 (0.19%) Podman
13 9 (0.16%) Argo
13 9 (0.16%) Kubeflow
14 8 (0.14%) logstash
15 7 (0.12%) Check_MK
15 7 (0.12%) Istio
15 7 (0.12%) Puppet
15 7 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 1,258 (21.81%) Microsoft
2 289 (5.01%) Google
3 234 (4.06%) SAP
4 206 (3.57%) Oracle
5 184 (3.19%) VMware
6 149 (2.58%) Splunk
7 143 (2.48%) Databricks
8 126 (2.18%) Salesforce
9 124 (2.15%) ServiceNow
10 115 (1.99%) SolarWinds
11 90 (1.56%) Veeam
12 84 (1.46%) Cisco
13 82 (1.42%) Workday
14 81 (1.40%) Brocade
14 81 (1.40%) Nimble Storage
15 80 (1.39%) Tanium
16 63 (1.09%) Red Hat
17 59 (1.02%) Adobe
18 52 (0.90%) Dell
19 50 (0.87%) HubSpot