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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 9 13
Rank change year-on-year -16 +4 +6
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 6,060 6,070 7,569
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.34% 12.24% 9.63%
As % of the General category 11.63% 17.88% 16.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3,642 2,555 3,082
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £88,750
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 52,124 33,945 44,713
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 45.96% 68.42% 56.89%
Number of salaries quoted 32,027 17,747 23,652
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,059
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £97,725
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -2.69%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 5,396 £52,500 - 5,539
UK excluding London -16 4,003 £47,500 +5.56% 3,161
Work from Home -6 2,023 £55,000 +10.00% 3,895
London -12 1,767 £67,500 +3.85% 3,061
North of England -19 1,103 £47,500 +6.15% 660
South East -10 951 £49,536 -0.93% 945
Midlands -10 692 £47,500 +5.56% 496
North West -16 674 £46,500 +3.33% 368
South West -9 575 £47,500 +5.56% 428
West Midlands -17 355 £48,000 +6.67% 287
East Midlands -2 334 £45,000 +3.45% 209
Yorkshire -11 297 £47,000 +17.50% 229
East of England -16 251 £47,750 +19.38% 295
Wales -7 194 £46,250 -7.91% 85
Scotland -21 134 £44,500 +14.10% 218
North East -16 132 £50,500 +26.25% 69
Northern Ireland -8 114 £43,750 -20.45% 105

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
1 184 (3.04%) SharePoint
2 178 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 105 (1.73%) Confluence
4 48 (0.79%) Apache Spark
5 43 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
6 40 (0.66%) CMS
7 37 (0.61%) IIS
8 35 (0.58%) Apache
9 28 (0.46%) SAS
10 11 (0.18%) WordPress
11 10 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 10 (0.17%) Headless CMS
11 10 (0.17%) Jupyter
12 9 (0.15%) WebLogic
12 9 (0.15%) WebSphere
13 8 (0.13%) OpenStack
14 7 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
15 3 (0.050%) Appian
15 3 (0.050%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 2 (0.033%) Tornado
Applications
1 666 (10.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 287 (4.74%) Microsoft Office
3 121 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 69 (1.14%) MS Visio
5 44 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
6 38 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
7 15 (0.25%) Simulink
8 12 (0.20%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.13%) Adobe XD
10 7 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
11 6 (0.099%) CATIA
11 6 (0.099%) Chatbot
12 5 (0.083%) Acrobat
12 5 (0.083%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 5 (0.083%) EPLAN
12 5 (0.083%) Photoshop
12 5 (0.083%) Revit
12 5 (0.083%) Siemens NX
13 3 (0.050%) LaTeX
13 3 (0.050%) Maya
Business Applications
1 107 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 63 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
3 39 (0.64%) NetSuite
4 35 (0.58%) Dynamics GP
5 25 (0.41%) Shopify
6 18 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
7 15 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
7 15 (0.25%) Workday HCM
8 12 (0.20%) Magento
8 12 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
8 12 (0.20%) SAP CO
8 12 (0.20%) SAP FI
9 11 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
10 10 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
10 10 (0.17%) SAP Business One
10 10 (0.17%) SAP PM
11 9 (0.15%) Fidessa
11 9 (0.15%) Sage 200
11 9 (0.15%) SAP ERP
12 8 (0.13%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 995 (16.42%) Azure
2 723 (11.93%) Power Platform
3 628 (10.36%) AWS
4 432 (7.13%) Microsoft 365
5 384 (6.34%) SaaS
6 284 (4.69%) GCP
7 159 (2.62%) Entra ID
8 154 (2.54%) Dynamics 365
9 153 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
10 125 (2.06%) Google Analytics
11 111 (1.83%) Google Ads
12 104 (1.72%) GitHub
13 88 (1.45%) Serverless
14 87 (1.44%) Snowflake
15 84 (1.39%) Meta Ads
16 81 (1.34%) Microsoft Purview
16 81 (1.34%) Power Automate
17 79 (1.30%) dbt
17 79 (1.30%) PowerApps
18 78 (1.29%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 198 (3.27%) DNS
2 154 (2.54%) DHCP
3 153 (2.52%) Firewall
4 132 (2.18%) VPN
5 101 (1.67%) TCP/IP
6 77 (1.27%) WAN
7 74 (1.22%) LAN
8 69 (1.14%) Network Security
9 61 (1.01%) Wireless
10 54 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
11 52 (0.86%) Broadband
12 47 (0.78%) Internet
12 47 (0.78%) VLAN
13 38 (0.63%) SAN
14 35 (0.58%) HTTP
15 32 (0.53%) VoIP
16 26 (0.43%) BGP
17 23 (0.38%) SD-WAN
18 22 (0.36%) 5G
18 22 (0.36%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 644 (10.63%) Power BI
2 216 (3.56%) SQL Server
3 206 (3.40%) Tableau
4 187 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
5 112 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
6 107 (1.77%) Relational Database
7 97 (1.60%) Metadata
8 91 (1.50%) Looker
9 84 (1.39%) MySQL
10 77 (1.27%) Data Lake
11 73 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
12 72 (1.19%) Power Query
12 72 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 60 (0.99%) BigQuery
14 58 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 55 (0.91%) Big Data
16 52 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
17 46 (0.76%) NoSQL
18 37 (0.61%) MongoDB
19 35 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 257 (4.24%) JIRA
2 210 (3.47%) Git
3 53 (0.87%) Jenkins
4 46 (0.76%) GitLab
5 32 (0.53%) Rational DOORS
6 29 (0.48%) Selenium
7 24 (0.40%) Cucumber
7 24 (0.40%) Eclipse
8 23 (0.38%) MLflow
9 19 (0.31%) Claude Code
10 18 (0.30%) Postman
11 16 (0.26%) LabVIEW
12 15 (0.25%) Bitbucket
12 15 (0.25%) Chocolatey
12 15 (0.25%) Oracle Forms
13 14 (0.23%) JMeter
14 13 (0.21%) Burp Suite
15 12 (0.20%) Cypress.io
15 12 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
16 11 (0.18%) SonarQube
General
1 2,974 (49.08%) Social Skills
2 1,989 (32.82%) Finance
3 678 (11.19%) Marketing
4 534 (8.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 481 (7.94%) Organisational Skills
6 420 (6.93%) Retail
7 411 (6.78%) Law
8 383 (6.32%) Public Sector
9 377 (6.22%) Legal
10 335 (5.53%) Manufacturing
11 312 (5.15%) Influencing Skills
12 239 (3.94%) Banking
13 203 (3.35%) Presentation Skills
14 191 (3.15%) Aerospace
15 141 (2.33%) Telecoms
16 139 (2.29%) Electronics
17 109 (1.80%) Advertising
18 95 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
19 70 (1.16%) Financial Institution
20 69 (1.14%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,355 (22.36%) Analyst
2 781 (12.89%) Senior
3 416 (6.86%) Lead
4 296 (4.88%) Business Analyst
5 294 (4.85%) Data Analyst
6 286 (4.72%) Developer
7 234 (3.86%) Architect
8 231 (3.81%) Consultant
9 194 (3.20%) Senior Analyst
10 191 (3.15%) Systems Engineer
11 186 (3.07%) Data Engineer
12 184 (3.04%) Support Analyst
13 128 (2.11%) Support Engineer
14 118 (1.95%) IT Support
15 109 (1.80%) IT Manager
16 108 (1.78%) Applications Support
16 108 (1.78%) Security Analyst
17 104 (1.72%) Senior Manager
18 97 (1.60%) Accountant
18 97 (1.60%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (2.66%) .NET
2 144 (2.38%) Terraform
3 127 (2.10%) REST
4 124 (2.05%) HTML
5 115 (1.90%) CSS
6 91 (1.50%) JSON
7 78 (1.29%) Middleware
7 78 (1.29%) XML
8 76 (1.25%) RESTful
9 71 (1.17%) Kafka
10 67 (1.11%) PySpark
11 65 (1.07%) React
12 62 (1.02%) SOAP
13 57 (0.94%) PyTorch
14 50 (0.83%) TensorFlow
15 47 (0.78%) EDI
16 46 (0.76%) Web Services
17 44 (0.73%) LDAP
18 39 (0.64%) Spring Boot
19 38 (0.63%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 477 (7.87%) Analytical Mindset
2 400 (6.60%) Management Information System
3 381 (6.29%) Onboarding
4 306 (5.05%) Self-Motivation
5 291 (4.80%) Product Ownership
6 155 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
7 144 (2.38%) Driving Licence
8 143 (2.36%) Cloud Native
9 136 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
10 119 (1.96%) Blog
11 116 (1.91%) Social Media
12 108 (1.78%) Cyber Threat
13 104 (1.72%) Marketing Technology
14 103 (1.70%) Security Posture
15 102 (1.68%) Data Centre
16 98 (1.62%) Virtual Team
17 83 (1.37%) Data Structures
18 72 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
19 65 (1.07%) Algorithms
20 59 (0.97%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 466 (7.69%) Windows
2 279 (4.60%) Linux
3 219 (3.61%) Windows Server
4 93 (1.53%) Windows Server 2016
5 39 (0.64%) Windows 10
6 32 (0.53%) Mac OS
7 31 (0.51%) Unix
8 27 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 24 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
10 22 (0.36%) Apple iOS
11 17 (0.28%) Android
12 10 (0.17%) CentOS
13 8 (0.13%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.099%) Debian
14 6 (0.099%) VMS
15 5 (0.083%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.066%) CoreOS
17 3 (0.050%) Rocky
18 2 (0.033%) AIX
18 2 (0.033%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,958 (48.81%) Problem-Solving
2 1,790 (29.54%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,428 (23.56%) Decision-Making
4 1,266 (20.89%) Analytics
5 1,181 (19.49%) Stakeholder Management
6 1,117 (18.43%) AI
7 1,071 (17.67%) Agile
8 806 (13.30%) Business Intelligence
9 633 (10.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 622 (10.26%) Roadmaps
11 581 (9.59%) Mentoring
12 577 (9.52%) Actionable Insight
13 555 (9.16%) Validation
14 526 (8.68%) Data Analysis
15 520 (8.58%) Project Management
16 497 (8.20%) Process Improvement
17 495 (8.17%) Cybersecurity
18 483 (7.97%) Data Modelling
18 483 (7.97%) ERP
19 476 (7.85%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 1,180 (19.47%) SQL
2 856 (14.13%) Python
3 226 (3.73%) JavaScript
4 219 (3.61%) Java
5 194 (3.20%) C#
6 190 (3.14%) PowerShell
7 115 (1.90%) C++
8 91 (1.50%) Bash
9 80 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 80 (1.32%) R
10 69 (1.14%) TypeScript
11 53 (0.87%) MATLAB
12 48 (0.79%) T-SQL
13 39 (0.64%) C
14 29 (0.48%) Scala
15 27 (0.45%) PHP
15 27 (0.45%) PL/SQL
16 22 (0.36%) Go
16 22 (0.36%) Perl
17 21 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1,221 (20.15%) Degree
2 682 (11.25%) Security Cleared
3 471 (7.77%) SC Cleared
4 250 (4.13%) ACCA
5 233 (3.84%) CIMA
6 180 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 158 (2.61%) CISSP
8 157 (2.59%) DV Cleared
9 150 (2.48%) DBS Check
10 126 (2.08%) CISM
11 123 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
12 114 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
13 100 (1.65%) Master's Degree
14 82 (1.35%) Azure Certification
15 78 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
16 70 (1.16%) CompTIA Security+
17 68 (1.12%) HND
18 63 (1.04%) PMI Certification
19 51 (0.84%) HNC
20 50 (0.83%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 602 (9.93%) Data Quality
2 378 (6.24%) QA
3 362 (5.97%) GDPR
4 239 (3.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 197 (3.25%) Accessibility
6 185 (3.05%) NIST
7 150 (2.48%) SLA
8 146 (2.41%) Cyber Essentials
9 121 (2.00%) PCI DSS
10 82 (1.35%) ISO 9001
11 70 (1.16%) GRC
12 58 (0.96%) PMO
13 50 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
14 41 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 39 (0.64%) IFRS
16 33 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 30 (0.50%) COBIT
17 30 (0.50%) NCSC
18 24 (0.40%) DO-254
18 24 (0.40%) GAAP
System Software
1 334 (5.51%) Active Directory
2 132 (2.18%) Docker
3 100 (1.65%) Hyper-V
4 88 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 72 (1.19%) Terminal Server
6 40 (0.66%) Firmware
7 23 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
8 22 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
9 10 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
9 10 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.15%) vSphere
11 8 (0.13%) VMware NSX
12 7 (0.12%) Ceph
13 4 (0.066%) KVM
13 4 (0.066%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.050%) DFS Replication
15 2 (0.033%) IAG
15 2 (0.033%) ProxySG
15 2 (0.033%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 2 (0.033%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 113 (1.86%) Kubernetes
2 85 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
3 76 (1.25%) Ansible
4 41 (0.68%) Grafana
5 40 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
6 24 (0.40%) SCCM
7 21 (0.35%) Prometheus
8 20 (0.33%) QRadar
9 19 (0.31%) Kibana
10 13 (0.21%) Nagios
11 11 (0.18%) Nmap
11 11 (0.18%) Podman
12 9 (0.15%) Argo
12 9 (0.15%) logstash
13 8 (0.13%) Kubeflow
14 7 (0.12%) Check_MK
14 7 (0.12%) Istio
15 6 (0.099%) Functional Safety
15 6 (0.099%) Graylog
15 6 (0.099%) Packer
Vendors
1 1,380 (22.77%) Microsoft
2 352 (5.81%) Google
3 240 (3.96%) SAP
4 186 (3.07%) Oracle
5 177 (2.92%) VMware
6 150 (2.48%) Splunk
7 143 (2.36%) Databricks
8 134 (2.21%) ServiceNow
9 131 (2.16%) Salesforce
10 98 (1.62%) SolarWinds
11 87 (1.44%) Cisco
12 81 (1.34%) Veeam
13 73 (1.20%) Brocade
13 73 (1.20%) Nimble Storage
14 72 (1.19%) Tanium
15 68 (1.12%) Adobe
16 67 (1.11%) Workday
17 62 (1.02%) YouTube
18 59 (0.97%) HubSpot
19 41 (0.68%) Dell