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 7 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 8 15
Rank change year-on-year -15 +7 +4
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 6,512 6,251 7,144
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.51% 12.58% 9.76%
As % of the General category 11.94% 18.42% 16.94%
Number of salaries quoted 3,707 2,501 2,701
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,356 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.71% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £70,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -

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 54,552 33,942 42,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.16% 68.33% 57.61%
Number of salaries quoted 33,414 17,538 20,874
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,250 £34,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,075 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £43,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.94% -13.00% -0.99%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 5,696 £51,500 +3.00% 9,686
UK excluding London -14 4,407 £47,500 +5.56% 5,146
Work from Home -6 2,186 £55,000 +10.00% 3,768
London -12 1,807 £65,000 - 5,150
North of England -19 1,173 £47,500 +5.56% 1,183
South East -12 1,000 £48,500 +2.06% 1,401
Midlands -8 771 £45,000 +2.27% 794
North West -16 705 £46,500 +1.14% 644
South West -9 619 £47,500 +5.56% 536
West Midlands -19 391 £47,500 +5.56% 489
East Midlands -4 378 £42,500 +6.47% 305
Yorkshire -9 317 £47,000 +17.50% 425
East of England -14 288 £47,500 +21.79% 503
Northern Ireland +9 223 £43,750 -18.60% 222
Wales -2 207 £45,000 -10.40% 160
North East -20 160 £51,962 +29.91% 119
Scotland -22 149 £49,250 +44.30% 405

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
1 192 (2.95%) SharePoint
2 178 (2.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 111 (1.70%) Confluence
4 43 (0.66%) CMS
5 42 (0.64%) Apache Spark
6 38 (0.58%) Apache
7 37 (0.57%) IIS
8 32 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
9 28 (0.43%) SAS
10 17 (0.26%) WordPress
11 14 (0.21%) Jupyter
12 13 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
13 11 (0.17%) Headless CMS
14 10 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 9 (0.14%) WebLogic
15 9 (0.14%) WebSphere
16 8 (0.12%) OpenStack
17 5 (0.077%) nginx
18 4 (0.061%) Appian
19 3 (0.046%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 771 (11.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 351 (5.39%) Microsoft Office
3 135 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 67 (1.03%) MS Visio
5 56 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
6 45 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
7 19 (0.29%) Simulink
8 17 (0.26%) AutoCAD
9 10 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 10 (0.15%) Chatbot
9 10 (0.15%) SOLIDWORKS
10 7 (0.11%) Adobe XD
10 7 (0.11%) EPLAN
10 7 (0.11%) Photoshop
11 6 (0.092%) Acrobat
11 6 (0.092%) Siemens NX
12 5 (0.077%) InDesign
12 5 (0.077%) Notion
12 5 (0.077%) Revit
13 4 (0.061%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 105 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 60 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
3 34 (0.52%) Dynamics GP
3 34 (0.52%) NetSuite
4 28 (0.43%) Shopify
5 19 (0.29%) Workday HCM
6 15 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
7 13 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
8 12 (0.18%) Magento
8 12 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
8 12 (0.18%) SAP CO
8 12 (0.18%) SAP FI
9 11 (0.17%) Infor M3
9 11 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
10 10 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
10 10 (0.15%) SAP Business One
11 9 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
11 9 (0.14%) Elite 3E
11 9 (0.14%) Sage 200
11 9 (0.14%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,027 (15.77%) Azure
2 729 (11.19%) Power Platform
3 663 (10.18%) AWS
4 457 (7.02%) Microsoft 365
5 405 (6.22%) SaaS
6 302 (4.64%) GCP
7 224 (3.44%) Entra ID
8 157 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
9 135 (2.07%) Dynamics 365
10 130 (2.00%) Google Ads
11 124 (1.90%) Google Analytics
12 101 (1.55%) GitHub
13 92 (1.41%) Serverless
14 91 (1.40%) Meta Ads
15 82 (1.26%) Microsoft Purview
16 77 (1.18%) Amazon S3
17 75 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
18 74 (1.14%) PowerApps
19 72 (1.11%) Power Automate
20 70 (1.07%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 207 (3.18%) DNS
2 162 (2.49%) DHCP
3 147 (2.26%) Firewall
4 133 (2.04%) VPN
5 118 (1.81%) TCP/IP
6 90 (1.38%) Internet
7 80 (1.23%) WAN
8 73 (1.12%) LAN
9 70 (1.07%) Network Security
10 58 (0.89%) Wireless
11 56 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
12 51 (0.78%) VLAN
13 46 (0.71%) Broadband
14 38 (0.58%) HTTP
15 35 (0.54%) SAN
16 30 (0.46%) VoIP
17 27 (0.41%) BGP
18 26 (0.40%) 5G
19 25 (0.38%) SMS
20 24 (0.37%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 655 (10.06%) Power BI
2 207 (3.18%) SQL Server
3 175 (2.69%) Tableau
4 172 (2.64%) Data Warehouse
5 123 (1.89%) Relational Database
6 113 (1.74%) Metadata
7 111 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
8 90 (1.38%) MySQL
9 85 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
10 81 (1.24%) Looker
10 81 (1.24%) Power Query
11 71 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 64 (0.98%) Data Lake
13 54 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 53 (0.81%) Big Data
15 52 (0.80%) NoSQL
16 44 (0.68%) BigQuery
17 39 (0.60%) MongoDB
18 38 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
19 36 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 273 (4.19%) Git
2 266 (4.08%) JIRA
3 59 (0.91%) GitLab
4 57 (0.88%) Jenkins
5 33 (0.51%) Selenium
6 26 (0.40%) Eclipse
7 23 (0.35%) Claude Code
7 23 (0.35%) Rational DOORS
8 22 (0.34%) LabVIEW
9 21 (0.32%) Cucumber
9 21 (0.32%) Postman
10 20 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
11 15 (0.23%) Burp Suite
11 15 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
12 14 (0.21%) Bitbucket
12 14 (0.21%) JMeter
13 12 (0.18%) Metasploit
14 11 (0.17%) Chocolatey
15 10 (0.15%) Cypress.io
16 9 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 3,329 (51.12%) Social Skills
2 2,089 (32.08%) Finance
3 751 (11.53%) Marketing
4 559 (8.58%) Organisational Skills
5 554 (8.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 463 (7.11%) Retail
7 437 (6.71%) Public Sector
8 434 (6.66%) Legal
9 413 (6.34%) Law
10 404 (6.20%) Manufacturing
11 330 (5.07%) Influencing Skills
12 307 (4.71%) Presentation Skills
13 247 (3.79%) Banking
14 215 (3.30%) Aerospace
15 171 (2.63%) Electronics
16 161 (2.47%) Telecoms
17 118 (1.81%) Advertising
18 105 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
19 87 (1.34%) Automotive
20 70 (1.07%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,508 (23.16%) Analyst
2 865 (13.28%) Senior
3 423 (6.50%) Lead
4 318 (4.88%) Developer
5 299 (4.59%) Data Analyst
6 286 (4.39%) Business Analyst
7 260 (3.99%) Senior Analyst
8 247 (3.79%) Consultant
9 237 (3.64%) Support Analyst
10 231 (3.55%) Architect
11 187 (2.87%) Data Engineer
12 154 (2.36%) Systems Engineer
13 126 (1.93%) Support Engineer
14 117 (1.80%) Applications Support
14 117 (1.80%) IT Support
15 113 (1.74%) Administrator
16 109 (1.67%) Marketing Manager
16 109 (1.67%) Senior Manager
17 107 (1.64%) ITSM Analyst
17 107 (1.64%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (2.64%) .NET
2 160 (2.46%) Terraform
3 131 (2.01%) REST
4 116 (1.78%) HTML
5 106 (1.63%) CSS
6 86 (1.32%) RESTful
7 78 (1.20%) JSON
8 76 (1.17%) PySpark
8 76 (1.17%) React
9 71 (1.09%) XML
10 68 (1.04%) Middleware
11 64 (0.98%) Kafka
12 58 (0.89%) SOAP
13 46 (0.71%) LDAP
14 45 (0.69%) EDI
14 45 (0.69%) Spring Boot
14 45 (0.69%) Web Services
15 44 (0.68%) Spring
16 40 (0.61%) ASP.NET
17 38 (0.58%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 484 (7.43%) Management Information System
2 442 (6.79%) Analytical Mindset
3 414 (6.36%) Onboarding
4 326 (5.01%) Self-Motivation
5 288 (4.42%) Product Ownership
6 185 (2.84%) Driving Licence
7 154 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
8 148 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
9 147 (2.26%) Cloud Native
10 130 (2.00%) Social Media
11 121 (1.86%) Blog
12 114 (1.75%) Data Centre
13 112 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
14 104 (1.60%) Marketing Technology
15 102 (1.57%) Security Posture
16 98 (1.50%) Virtual Team
17 89 (1.37%) Data Structures
18 81 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
19 71 (1.09%) AI Agents
20 63 (0.97%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 464 (7.13%) Windows
2 322 (4.94%) Linux
3 223 (3.42%) Windows Server
4 94 (1.44%) Windows Server 2016
5 47 (0.72%) Windows 10
6 37 (0.57%) Mac OS
7 31 (0.48%) Unix
8 26 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 26 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
9 20 (0.31%) Apple iOS
10 19 (0.29%) Android
11 9 (0.14%) CentOS
12 8 (0.12%) Ubuntu
13 6 (0.092%) Debian
13 6 (0.092%) VMS
14 5 (0.077%) OpenVMS
15 4 (0.061%) CoreOS
16 2 (0.031%) AIX
16 2 (0.031%) Solaris
16 2 (0.031%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,190 (48.99%) Problem-Solving
2 1,992 (30.59%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,553 (23.85%) Decision-Making
4 1,348 (20.70%) Stakeholder Management
5 1,268 (19.47%) Analytics
6 1,205 (18.50%) AI
7 1,112 (17.08%) Agile
8 831 (12.76%) Business Intelligence
9 711 (10.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 653 (10.03%) Mentoring
11 618 (9.49%) Validation
12 612 (9.40%) Roadmaps
13 579 (8.89%) Actionable Insight
14 566 (8.69%) Process Improvement
15 556 (8.54%) Data Analysis
16 552 (8.48%) CRM
17 546 (8.38%) Project Management
18 545 (8.37%) Risk Management
19 539 (8.28%) Cybersecurity
20 536 (8.23%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 1,214 (18.64%) SQL
2 891 (13.68%) Python
3 229 (3.52%) JavaScript
4 212 (3.26%) Java
5 208 (3.19%) C#
6 195 (2.99%) PowerShell
7 122 (1.87%) C++
8 96 (1.47%) Bash
9 89 (1.37%) R
10 80 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 76 (1.17%) TypeScript
12 53 (0.81%) MATLAB
13 52 (0.80%) T-SQL
14 46 (0.71%) Shell Script
15 42 (0.64%) C
16 33 (0.51%) PL/SQL
17 28 (0.43%) Scala
18 26 (0.40%) Go
18 26 (0.40%) Perl
19 25 (0.38%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,362 (20.92%) Degree
2 736 (11.30%) Security Cleared
3 514 (7.89%) SC Cleared
4 249 (3.82%) ACCA
5 236 (3.62%) CIMA
6 180 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 162 (2.49%) DV Cleared
8 140 (2.15%) CISSP
9 138 (2.12%) DBS Check
10 130 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
11 112 (1.72%) Master's Degree
12 109 (1.67%) CISM
13 105 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
14 86 (1.32%) HND
15 82 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
16 78 (1.20%) Azure Certification
17 66 (1.01%) HNC
18 65 (1.00%) CompTIA Security+
19 56 (0.86%) PMI Certification
20 51 (0.78%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 639 (9.81%) Data Quality
2 377 (5.79%) QA
3 310 (4.76%) GDPR
4 214 (3.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 204 (3.13%) Accessibility
6 161 (2.47%) NIST
7 144 (2.21%) Cyber Essentials
8 136 (2.09%) SLA
9 117 (1.80%) PCI DSS
10 70 (1.07%) GRC
11 62 (0.95%) PMO
12 59 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
13 52 (0.80%) ISO 9001
14 41 (0.63%) IFRS
15 35 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 32 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 30 (0.46%) NCSC
18 28 (0.43%) DO-254
19 25 (0.38%) COBIT
19 25 (0.38%) GAAP
System Software
1 372 (5.71%) Active Directory
2 189 (2.90%) Docker
3 109 (1.67%) Hyper-V
4 81 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 72 (1.11%) Terminal Server
6 54 (0.83%) Firmware
7 24 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
8 18 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
9 12 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.12%) vSphere
11 7 (0.11%) Ceph
12 6 (0.092%) VMware NSX
13 4 (0.061%) DFS Replication
13 4 (0.061%) ISA Server
13 4 (0.061%) KVM
13 4 (0.061%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.031%) IAG
14 2 (0.031%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 1 (0.015%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 128 (1.97%) Kubernetes
2 87 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
3 74 (1.14%) Ansible
4 49 (0.75%) Grafana
5 41 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
6 29 (0.45%) Prometheus
7 21 (0.32%) Kibana
7 21 (0.32%) QRadar
7 21 (0.32%) SCCM
8 13 (0.20%) Nagios
9 12 (0.18%) Nmap
10 11 (0.17%) Podman
11 10 (0.15%) Functional Safety
12 9 (0.14%) Argo
13 7 (0.11%) Check_MK
13 7 (0.11%) EnCase
13 7 (0.11%) FTK
13 7 (0.11%) Istio
13 7 (0.11%) logstash
14 6 (0.092%) Graylog
Vendors
1 1,587 (24.37%) Microsoft
2 402 (6.17%) Google
3 244 (3.75%) SAP
4 203 (3.12%) Oracle
5 174 (2.67%) VMware
6 156 (2.40%) Splunk
7 154 (2.36%) Salesforce
8 145 (2.23%) ServiceNow
9 126 (1.93%) Databricks
10 98 (1.50%) SolarWinds
11 93 (1.43%) Cisco
12 80 (1.23%) Veeam
13 73 (1.12%) Brocade
13 73 (1.12%) Nimble Storage
14 72 (1.11%) Tanium
15 71 (1.09%) YouTube
16 70 (1.07%) Adobe
16 70 (1.07%) HubSpot
17 56 (0.86%) Workday
18 46 (0.71%) TikTok