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

6 months to
29 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 5,349 6,137 8,388
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.26% 12.44% 9.63%
As % of the General category 11.24% 17.93% 16.78%
Number of salaries quoted 3,383 2,639 4,008
10th Percentile £31,738 £30,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £38,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £87,500 £87,063
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500

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 47,580 34,220 49,984
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.78% 69.36% 57.39%
Number of salaries quoted 29,144 17,851 30,919
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £28,817
25th Percentile £39,750 £35,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £48,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -6.25% -8.57%

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 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 29 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 -16 4,848 £54,000 -1.82% 2,758
UK excluding London -19 3,427 £47,500 - 1,855
Work from Home -10 1,707 £55,000 +9.03% 1,069
London -10 1,636 £67,500 +3.85% 1,283
North of England -19 982 £47,500 +4.40% 471
South East -9 839 £50,000 -4.76% 596
Midlands -10 609 £47,500 +3.26% 305
North West -18 590 £46,750 -0.53% 243
South West -15 472 £47,500 - 227
West Midlands -17 324 £50,149 +11.44% 172
East Midlands -6 283 £45,000 -2.17% 132
Yorkshire -11 280 £47,500 +6.26% 167
East of England -24 246 £45,000 -5.26% 160
North East -23 112 £55,000 +37.50% 67
Scotland -27 111 £42,068 -4.39% 74
Wales -13 109 £53,171 -3.33% 44
Northern Ireland -32 68 £41,250 -25.00% 30

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
1 197 (3.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 153 (2.86%) SharePoint
3 75 (1.40%) Confluence
4 69 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
5 68 (1.27%) Apache Spark
6 46 (0.86%) Apache
7 42 (0.79%) CMS
8 25 (0.47%) IIS
9 24 (0.45%) SAS
10 15 (0.28%) WordPress
11 13 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 10 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
13 9 (0.17%) Jupyter
13 9 (0.17%) WebLogic
13 9 (0.17%) WebSphere
14 8 (0.15%) OpenStack
15 3 (0.056%) Anypoint
15 3 (0.056%) Headless CMS
15 3 (0.056%) JBoss
15 3 (0.056%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 585 (10.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 221 (4.13%) Microsoft Office
3 113 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 83 (1.55%) MS Visio
5 31 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
6 28 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.17%) Adobe XD
8 7 (0.13%) CATIA
9 5 (0.093%) Acrobat
9 5 (0.093%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.075%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.075%) Maya
11 3 (0.056%) AutoCAD
11 3 (0.056%) Blender
11 3 (0.056%) LaTeX
11 3 (0.056%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.056%) Simulink
11 3 (0.056%) Trello
12 2 (0.037%) Siemens NX
12 2 (0.037%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 72 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 69 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 37 (0.69%) NetSuite
4 36 (0.67%) Dynamics GP
5 20 (0.37%) SAP PM
6 18 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
7 16 (0.30%) SAP CO
8 15 (0.28%) SAP ERP
8 15 (0.28%) SAP FI
9 14 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
10 13 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
11 10 (0.19%) Magento
12 9 (0.17%) Elite 3E
13 8 (0.15%) Maximo
13 8 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
14 7 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
14 7 (0.13%) Fidessa
14 7 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
14 7 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
14 7 (0.13%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 949 (17.74%) Azure
2 677 (12.66%) Power Platform
3 535 (10.00%) AWS
4 419 (7.83%) Microsoft 365
5 331 (6.19%) SaaS
6 246 (4.60%) GCP
7 135 (2.52%) Dynamics 365
8 131 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
9 124 (2.32%) Entra ID
10 95 (1.78%) Google Analytics
11 92 (1.72%) Snowflake
12 84 (1.57%) GitHub
13 81 (1.51%) dbt
14 77 (1.44%) Power Automate
15 71 (1.33%) Amazon S3
15 71 (1.33%) PowerApps
16 70 (1.31%) Microsoft Purview
17 57 (1.07%) Serverless
18 55 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
19 54 (1.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 204 (3.81%) DNS
2 161 (3.01%) DHCP
3 149 (2.79%) Firewall
4 128 (2.39%) VPN
5 94 (1.76%) TCP/IP
6 77 (1.44%) WAN
7 76 (1.42%) LAN
8 63 (1.18%) Broadband
9 58 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
10 57 (1.07%) Wireless
11 48 (0.90%) Network Security
12 41 (0.77%) Internet
12 41 (0.77%) SAN
12 41 (0.77%) VLAN
13 35 (0.65%) HTTP
14 30 (0.56%) BGP
15 22 (0.41%) SD-WAN
15 22 (0.41%) VoIP
16 21 (0.39%) Cisco ASA
16 21 (0.39%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 599 (11.20%) Power BI
2 282 (5.27%) Tableau
3 210 (3.93%) SQL Server
4 190 (3.55%) Data Warehouse
5 126 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
6 90 (1.68%) Metadata
7 86 (1.61%) Relational Database
8 76 (1.42%) Looker
9 72 (1.35%) Data Lake
9 72 (1.35%) MySQL
10 71 (1.33%) Power Query
11 70 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
12 65 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 59 (1.10%) Data Mining
14 57 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 56 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
16 55 (1.03%) BigQuery
17 42 (0.79%) Big Data
18 40 (0.75%) NoSQL
19 38 (0.71%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 210 (3.93%) JIRA
2 193 (3.61%) Git
3 58 (1.08%) GitLab
4 49 (0.92%) Jenkins
5 34 (0.64%) Rational DOORS
6 32 (0.60%) MLflow
7 28 (0.52%) Selenium
8 22 (0.41%) Cucumber
9 20 (0.37%) Postman
10 17 (0.32%) Eclipse
11 16 (0.30%) Chocolatey
12 15 (0.28%) ERwin
13 14 (0.26%) JMeter
14 13 (0.24%) Bitbucket
14 13 (0.24%) IBM UrbanCode
15 12 (0.22%) Cypress.io
15 12 (0.22%) SonarQube
15 12 (0.22%) Visual Studio
16 10 (0.19%) Visual Studio Code
17 9 (0.17%) Balsamiq
General
1 2,543 (47.54%) Social Skills
2 1,773 (33.15%) Finance
3 469 (8.77%) Marketing
4 419 (7.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 364 (6.81%) Organisational Skills
6 347 (6.49%) Retail
7 322 (6.02%) Public Sector
8 315 (5.89%) Law
9 305 (5.70%) Legal
10 259 (4.84%) Banking
11 228 (4.26%) Influencing Skills
12 217 (4.06%) Manufacturing
13 148 (2.77%) Presentation Skills
14 131 (2.45%) Telecoms
15 111 (2.08%) Aerospace
16 96 (1.79%) Advertising
17 94 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
18 86 (1.61%) Electronics
19 70 (1.31%) Financial Institution
20 60 (1.12%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,313 (24.55%) Analyst
2 681 (12.73%) Senior
3 367 (6.86%) Lead
4 312 (5.83%) Data Analyst
5 279 (5.22%) Business Analyst
6 258 (4.82%) Developer
7 228 (4.26%) Consultant
7 228 (4.26%) Systems Engineer
8 205 (3.83%) Architect
9 167 (3.12%) Senior Analyst
10 155 (2.90%) Data Engineer
11 150 (2.80%) Support Analyst
12 129 (2.41%) Support Engineer
13 122 (2.28%) IT Support
14 110 (2.06%) IT Manager
15 104 (1.94%) Financial Analyst
16 103 (1.93%) Security Analyst
17 100 (1.87%) Systems Analyst
18 94 (1.76%) Senior Manager
19 88 (1.65%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (2.37%) .NET
2 113 (2.11%) HTML
3 111 (2.08%) REST
4 103 (1.93%) CSS
5 91 (1.70%) JSON
6 84 (1.57%) XML
7 78 (1.46%) Middleware
8 76 (1.42%) React
9 71 (1.33%) Kafka
10 63 (1.18%) PyTorch
11 62 (1.16%) RESTful
12 56 (1.05%) TensorFlow
13 53 (0.99%) SOAP
14 49 (0.92%) PySpark
15 43 (0.80%) scikit-learn
16 41 (0.77%) Web Services
17 39 (0.73%) Node.js
18 35 (0.65%) Pandas
19 34 (0.64%) EDI
20 33 (0.62%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 538 (10.06%) Analytical Mindset
2 294 (5.50%) Management Information System
3 248 (4.64%) Onboarding
4 235 (4.39%) Product Ownership
5 231 (4.32%) Self-Motivation
6 165 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
7 124 (2.32%) Cloud Native
8 109 (2.04%) Driving Licence
9 106 (1.98%) Security Posture
10 93 (1.74%) Data Centre
11 90 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
12 89 (1.66%) Virtual Team
13 87 (1.63%) Social Media
14 82 (1.53%) Cyber Threat
15 79 (1.48%) Data Structures
16 75 (1.40%) Blog
17 73 (1.36%) Algorithms
18 59 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
18 59 (1.10%) Marketing Technology
19 56 (1.05%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 449 (8.39%) Windows
2 304 (5.68%) Linux
3 226 (4.23%) Windows Server
4 116 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
5 35 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 30 (0.56%) Unix
7 29 (0.54%) Windows 10
8 27 (0.50%) Mac OS
9 23 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
10 22 (0.41%) Android
11 18 (0.34%) Apple iOS
12 15 (0.28%) CentOS
13 12 (0.22%) Ubuntu
14 7 (0.13%) VMS
15 6 (0.11%) Debian
16 5 (0.093%) OpenVMS
17 4 (0.075%) CoreOS
17 4 (0.075%) Rocky
18 3 (0.056%) AIX
19 2 (0.037%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,485 (46.46%) Problem-Solving
2 1,458 (27.26%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,201 (22.45%) Decision-Making
4 1,176 (21.99%) Analytics
5 930 (17.39%) Agile
6 813 (15.20%) AI
7 801 (14.97%) Stakeholder Management
8 700 (13.09%) Business Intelligence
9 586 (10.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 549 (10.26%) Roadmaps
11 500 (9.35%) Project Management
12 499 (9.33%) Actionable Insight
12 499 (9.33%) Mentoring
13 467 (8.73%) Data Analysis
14 461 (8.62%) Data Modelling
15 452 (8.45%) Customer Experience
16 448 (8.38%) Cybersecurity
17 440 (8.23%) Process Improvement
18 420 (7.85%) Validation
19 415 (7.76%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 1,097 (20.51%) SQL
2 885 (16.55%) Python
3 199 (3.72%) JavaScript
4 188 (3.51%) Java
5 179 (3.35%) PowerShell
6 170 (3.18%) C#
7 93 (1.74%) C++
8 90 (1.68%) Bash
9 85 (1.59%) R
10 76 (1.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 57 (1.07%) TypeScript
12 51 (0.95%) T-SQL
13 43 (0.80%) MATLAB
14 27 (0.50%) C
15 24 (0.45%) PHP
15 24 (0.45%) Scala
16 23 (0.43%) Go
17 22 (0.41%) PL/SQL
18 21 (0.39%) VBA
19 19 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 977 (18.27%) Degree
2 552 (10.32%) Security Cleared
3 395 (7.38%) SC Cleared
4 261 (4.88%) ACCA
5 245 (4.58%) CIMA
6 155 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 153 (2.86%) CISSP
8 145 (2.71%) DBS Check
9 117 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
10 114 (2.13%) CISM
11 111 (2.08%) DV Cleared
12 97 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
13 92 (1.72%) Master's Degree
14 72 (1.35%) IRCA
15 71 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
16 69 (1.29%) CompTIA Security+
17 65 (1.22%) Azure Certification
18 53 (0.99%) PMI Certification
19 46 (0.86%) CRISC
20 44 (0.82%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 514 (9.61%) Data Quality
2 378 (7.07%) GDPR
3 365 (6.82%) QA
4 240 (4.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 191 (3.57%) NIST
6 175 (3.27%) Cyber Essentials
7 155 (2.90%) SLA
8 150 (2.80%) PCI DSS
9 147 (2.75%) Accessibility
10 123 (2.30%) ISO 9001
11 75 (1.40%) GRC
12 64 (1.20%) PMO
13 43 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
14 40 (0.75%) IFRS
14 40 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 39 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 35 (0.65%) COBIT
17 28 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 24 (0.45%) SOC 2
19 23 (0.43%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 330 (6.17%) Active Directory
2 124 (2.32%) Docker
3 117 (2.19%) Hyper-V
4 96 (1.79%) Terminal Server
5 83 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
6 25 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (0.22%) Firmware
9 9 (0.17%) VMware NSX
9 9 (0.17%) vSphere
10 8 (0.15%) IAG
10 8 (0.15%) ProxySG
11 7 (0.13%) Ceph
12 5 (0.093%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.075%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.075%) XenApp
14 3 (0.056%) DFS Replication
14 3 (0.056%) Embedded Firmware
15 2 (0.037%) KVM
15 2 (0.037%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 142 (2.65%) Terraform
2 108 (2.02%) Kubernetes
3 83 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 67 (1.25%) Ansible
5 42 (0.79%) Grafana
6 29 (0.54%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.47%) SCCM
8 24 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
9 22 (0.41%) Nagios
10 16 (0.30%) Kibana
10 16 (0.30%) QRadar
11 12 (0.22%) Podman
12 9 (0.17%) Kubeflow
13 8 (0.15%) logstash
14 7 (0.13%) Argo
14 7 (0.13%) Check_MK
14 7 (0.13%) Istio
14 7 (0.13%) Nmap
14 7 (0.13%) Packer
15 6 (0.11%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 1,188 (22.21%) Microsoft
2 229 (4.28%) Google
3 220 (4.11%) SAP
4 187 (3.50%) VMware
5 178 (3.33%) Oracle
6 159 (2.97%) Splunk
7 136 (2.54%) SolarWinds
8 131 (2.45%) Salesforce
9 130 (2.43%) Databricks
10 112 (2.09%) ServiceNow
11 108 (2.02%) Veeam
12 97 (1.81%) Brocade
12 97 (1.81%) Nimble Storage
13 96 (1.79%) Tanium
14 78 (1.46%) Cisco
15 76 (1.42%) Workday
16 67 (1.25%) Red Hat
17 51 (0.95%) Dell
18 48 (0.90%) Adobe
19 46 (0.86%) IBM