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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 9 15
Rank change year-on-year -16 +6 +4
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,859 5,348 8,780
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.73% 12.98% 9.44%
As % of the General category 11.08% 18.35% 15.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,881 2,490 5,417
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £93,300 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £50,124 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.24% +11.39% -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 43,861 29,152 56,231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 51.72% 70.78% 60.45%
Number of salaries quoted 23,788 15,823 39,176
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £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 £76,250 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,200 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,055 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.10% +5.38% -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 14 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 14 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 -20 4,316 £55,000 - 2,362
UK excluding London -24 3,007 £48,500 -3.24% 1,729
London -8 1,542 £67,500 +3.85% 936
Work from Home -7 1,419 £55,000 - 1,009
North of England -26 819 £45,000 -10.00% 421
South East -1 806 £50,000 -4.76% 537
Midlands -25 563 £48,000 - 325
North West -24 462 £45,000 -10.00% 226
West Midlands -25 341 £51,275 +5.72% 198
South West -22 267 £50,000 -1.40% 188
Yorkshire -13 266 £50,000 +11.11% 141
East of England -31 257 £43,500 -14.65% 161
East Midlands -11 220 £45,000 - 128
Scotland -18 174 £40,000 -23.81% 60
North East -19 91 £49,222 +27.85% 58
Wales +5 83 £42,500 -15.21% 51
Northern Ireland -25 49 £40,000 -27.27% 22
Isle of Man -2 1 £62,500 +68.92%
Channel Islands -7 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 (2.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 93 (1.91%) SharePoint
3 76 (1.56%) Confluence
4 73 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
5 72 (1.48%) Apache Spark
6 50 (1.03%) CMS
7 34 (0.70%) Apache
8 19 (0.39%) WordPress
9 18 (0.37%) IIS
10 17 (0.35%) SAS
11 11 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
12 6 (0.12%) nginx
13 4 (0.082%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 3 (0.062%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.062%) Drupal
14 3 (0.062%) govService
14 3 (0.062%) JBoss
15 2 (0.041%) Appian
15 2 (0.041%) Camunda
15 2 (0.041%) MTS
Applications
1 666 (13.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 274 (5.64%) Microsoft Office
3 107 (2.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 98 (2.02%) MS Visio
5 34 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
6 31 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
7 24 (0.49%) Chatbot
8 15 (0.31%) Adobe XD
9 12 (0.25%) Maya
10 10 (0.21%) CATIA
11 6 (0.12%) AutoCAD
12 5 (0.10%) Trello
13 2 (0.041%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.041%) Revit
13 2 (0.041%) Simulink
13 2 (0.041%) Sketch
14 1 (0.021%) Lectora
14 1 (0.021%) Notion
14 1 (0.021%) SmartSuite
14 1 (0.021%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 65 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 45 (0.93%) NetSuite
3 43 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
4 35 (0.72%) Salesforce CRM
5 25 (0.51%) SAP CO
6 17 (0.35%) Endur
6 17 (0.35%) SAP FI
7 15 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
7 15 (0.31%) SAP PM
7 15 (0.31%) Workday HCM
8 13 (0.27%) Maximo
9 12 (0.25%) SAP ERP
10 11 (0.23%) Sage X3
11 10 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
12 9 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
12 9 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
13 8 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
13 8 (0.16%) Elite 3E
14 7 (0.14%) Magento
14 7 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 869 (17.88%) Azure
2 674 (13.87%) Power Platform
3 476 (9.80%) AWS
4 326 (6.71%) Microsoft 365
5 271 (5.58%) SaaS
6 209 (4.30%) GCP
7 150 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
8 145 (2.98%) Dynamics 365
9 106 (2.18%) GitHub
10 102 (2.10%) Power Automate
11 100 (2.06%) Entra ID
12 94 (1.93%) Snowflake
13 87 (1.79%) dbt
14 77 (1.58%) Azure Data Factory
15 69 (1.42%) Google Analytics
16 68 (1.40%) Amazon S3
16 68 (1.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 60 (1.23%) Microsoft Purview
17 60 (1.23%) PowerApps
17 60 (1.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 182 (3.75%) Firewall
2 158 (3.25%) DNS
3 126 (2.59%) DHCP
4 115 (2.37%) VPN
5 73 (1.50%) WAN
6 68 (1.40%) TCP/IP
7 67 (1.38%) Wireless
8 63 (1.30%) LAN
9 62 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
10 61 (1.26%) VLAN
11 49 (1.01%) Network Security
12 45 (0.93%) SAN
13 43 (0.88%) Broadband
14 38 (0.78%) BGP
15 32 (0.66%) OSPF
15 32 (0.66%) Wireshark
16 28 (0.58%) Cisco ASA
16 28 (0.58%) EIGRP
17 25 (0.51%) SD-WAN
18 24 (0.49%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 611 (12.57%) Power BI
2 409 (8.42%) Tableau
3 225 (4.63%) SQL Server
4 177 (3.64%) Data Mining
5 172 (3.54%) Data Warehouse
6 95 (1.96%) Metadata
7 94 (1.93%) Relational Database
8 83 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
9 80 (1.65%) Data Lake
10 73 (1.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 66 (1.36%) Looker
12 63 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
13 54 (1.11%) MySQL
13 54 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
14 49 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
15 48 (0.99%) NoSQL
16 47 (0.97%) Power Query
17 46 (0.95%) BigQuery
18 41 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 38 (0.78%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 188 (3.87%) JIRA
2 137 (2.82%) Git
3 50 (1.03%) GitLab
4 40 (0.82%) Jenkins
5 38 (0.78%) Selenium
6 32 (0.66%) MLflow
7 21 (0.43%) Rational DOORS
8 19 (0.39%) Visual Studio
9 18 (0.37%) Chocolatey
10 16 (0.33%) Balsamiq
11 14 (0.29%) Axure RP
11 14 (0.29%) Bitbucket
11 14 (0.29%) Subversion
12 13 (0.27%) ERwin
12 13 (0.27%) IBM UrbanCode
13 12 (0.25%) Cucumber
13 12 (0.25%) Cypress.io
14 10 (0.21%) Postman
14 10 (0.21%) Robot Framework
15 9 (0.19%) TestRail
General
1 2,403 (49.45%) Social Skills
2 1,828 (37.62%) Finance
3 436 (8.97%) Marketing
4 360 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 308 (6.34%) Banking
6 264 (5.43%) Law
7 261 (5.37%) Legal
7 261 (5.37%) Organisational Skills
8 256 (5.27%) Retail
9 249 (5.12%) Public Sector
10 200 (4.12%) Presentation Skills
11 171 (3.52%) Manufacturing
12 133 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
13 118 (2.43%) Telecoms
14 116 (2.39%) Financial Institution
15 85 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
16 74 (1.52%) Advertising
17 67 (1.38%) Electronics
18 62 (1.28%) Games
19 57 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,301 (26.78%) Analyst
2 666 (13.71%) Senior
3 372 (7.66%) Data Analyst
4 307 (6.32%) Lead
5 270 (5.56%) Business Analyst
6 246 (5.06%) Developer
7 219 (4.51%) Architect
8 207 (4.26%) Consultant
9 168 (3.46%) Support Analyst
10 160 (3.29%) Trainee
11 148 (3.05%) Systems Engineer
11 148 (3.05%) Trainee Analyst
11 148 (3.05%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 142 (2.92%) Senior Manager
13 140 (2.88%) Senior Analyst
14 124 (2.55%) IT Support
15 119 (2.45%) Financial Analyst
16 106 (2.18%) Support Engineer
17 105 (2.16%) Data Engineer
18 93 (1.91%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (2.92%) HTML
2 130 (2.68%) CSS
3 89 (1.83%) .NET
4 84 (1.73%) React
5 74 (1.52%) REST
6 72 (1.48%) JSON
7 63 (1.30%) XML
8 62 (1.28%) Middleware
9 57 (1.17%) PyTorch
10 53 (1.09%) TensorFlow
11 52 (1.07%) Kafka
12 48 (0.99%) Node.js
13 42 (0.86%) scikit-learn
14 39 (0.80%) SOAP
15 36 (0.74%) PySpark
16 33 (0.68%) LangChain
17 31 (0.64%) Pandas
18 29 (0.60%) FIX Protocol
19 27 (0.56%) EDI
20 26 (0.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 508 (10.45%) Analytical Mindset
2 282 (5.80%) Self-Motivation
3 230 (4.73%) Onboarding
4 229 (4.71%) Management Information System
5 197 (4.05%) Product Ownership
6 108 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
7 100 (2.06%) Data Centre
8 98 (2.02%) Cloud Native
9 91 (1.87%) Data Structures
10 81 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
11 75 (1.54%) Algorithms
12 72 (1.48%) Security Posture
13 63 (1.30%) Driving Licence
14 57 (1.17%) Social Media
15 54 (1.11%) Virtual Team
16 49 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 48 (0.99%) Low-Code
17 48 (0.99%) Public Cloud
18 46 (0.95%) FMCG
19 43 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 358 (7.37%) Windows
2 216 (4.45%) Linux
3 151 (3.11%) Windows Server
4 70 (1.44%) Windows Server 2016
5 38 (0.78%) Unix
6 25 (0.51%) Mac OS
7 19 (0.39%) Android
7 19 (0.39%) Windows 10
8 15 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 14 (0.29%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.12%) CentOS
11 5 (0.10%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.082%) VMS
12 4 (0.082%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.062%) AIX
14 2 (0.041%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (0.041%) OpenWrt
14 2 (0.041%) Oracle Linux
14 2 (0.041%) Rocky
15 1 (0.021%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,239 (46.08%) Problem-Solving
2 1,175 (24.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,145 (23.56%) Analytics
4 1,018 (20.95%) Decision-Making
5 864 (17.78%) Agile
6 756 (15.56%) Business Intelligence
7 722 (14.86%) AI
8 625 (12.86%) Project Management
9 622 (12.80%) Stakeholder Management
10 565 (11.63%) Data Analysis
11 483 (9.94%) Actionable Insight
12 430 (8.85%) Mentoring
13 427 (8.79%) Data Modelling
14 419 (8.62%) Roadmaps
15 416 (8.56%) Analytical Thinking
16 408 (8.40%) Process Improvement
17 394 (8.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 387 (7.96%) DevOps
19 383 (7.88%) Cybersecurity
20 364 (7.49%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1,060 (21.82%) SQL
2 882 (18.15%) Python
3 181 (3.73%) JavaScript
4 169 (3.48%) Java
5 166 (3.42%) PowerShell
6 122 (2.51%) C#
7 91 (1.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 63 (1.30%) R
9 58 (1.19%) Bash
10 49 (1.01%) T-SQL
11 46 (0.95%) C++
12 42 (0.86%) VBA
13 41 (0.84%) TypeScript
14 25 (0.51%) MATLAB
15 20 (0.41%) Scala
16 19 (0.39%) C
16 19 (0.39%) Go
17 15 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
18 14 (0.29%) PHP
18 14 (0.29%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1,029 (21.18%) Degree
2 397 (8.17%) Security Cleared
3 282 (5.80%) SC Cleared
4 248 (5.10%) ACCA
5 238 (4.90%) CIMA
6 181 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 146 (3.00%) CISSP
8 140 (2.88%) Master's Degree
9 128 (2.63%) DBS Check
10 103 (2.12%) PMI Certification
11 93 (1.91%) Cisco Certification
12 90 (1.85%) CISM
12 90 (1.85%) DV Cleared
12 90 (1.85%) PMP
13 72 (1.48%) IRCA
14 71 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
15 66 (1.36%) Azure Certification
16 60 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
17 50 (1.03%) CISA
18 49 (1.01%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 422 (8.68%) Data Quality
2 337 (6.94%) GDPR
3 276 (5.68%) QA
4 230 (4.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 196 (4.03%) NIST
6 140 (2.88%) Cyber Essentials
7 112 (2.31%) PCI DSS
8 99 (2.04%) Accessibility
9 94 (1.93%) ISO 9001
10 92 (1.89%) SLA
11 80 (1.65%) PMO
12 69 (1.42%) Actionable Recommendations
13 55 (1.13%) GRC
14 41 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 35 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 33 (0.68%) IFRS
17 29 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 27 (0.56%) COBIT
19 24 (0.49%) SOC 2
20 21 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 255 (5.25%) Active Directory
2 83 (1.71%) Hyper-V
3 75 (1.54%) Docker
4 72 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 64 (1.32%) Terminal Server
6 16 (0.33%) ProxySG
7 15 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.23%) vSphere
9 9 (0.19%) VMware NSX
10 8 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
11 7 (0.14%) IAG
12 4 (0.082%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.082%) XenApp
13 3 (0.062%) Firmware
13 3 (0.062%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.062%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.041%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.041%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.021%) KVM
15 1 (0.021%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 138 (2.84%) Terraform
2 79 (1.63%) Kubernetes
3 71 (1.46%) Ansible
4 60 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 38 (0.78%) Grafana
6 30 (0.62%) Prometheus
6 30 (0.62%) SCCM
7 27 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
8 17 (0.35%) Nagios
9 7 (0.14%) Control-M
9 7 (0.14%) Kubeflow
9 7 (0.14%) QRadar
10 6 (0.12%) Kibana
11 5 (0.10%) CASB
11 5 (0.10%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 5 (0.10%) RSA Archer
12 4 (0.082%) logstash
12 4 (0.082%) Packer
12 4 (0.082%) SolarWinds Orion
12 4 (0.082%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,187 (24.43%) Microsoft
2 207 (4.26%) SAP
3 180 (3.70%) Oracle
4 163 (3.35%) Google
5 146 (3.00%) VMware
6 139 (2.86%) Salesforce
7 116 (2.39%) ServiceNow
8 111 (2.28%) SolarWinds
9 106 (2.18%) Databricks
10 102 (2.10%) Splunk
11 73 (1.50%) Workday
12 71 (1.46%) Veeam
13 70 (1.44%) Cisco
14 65 (1.34%) Brocade
14 65 (1.34%) Tanium
15 64 (1.32%) Nimble Storage
16 47 (0.97%) Dell
16 47 (0.97%) IBM
17 41 (0.84%) Red Hat
18 40 (0.82%) Adobe