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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 9 13
Rank change year-on-year -18 +4 +6
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 5,085 6,244 9,628
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.15% 12.69% 9.51%
As % of the General category 10.90% 18.19% 16.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3,314 2,617 5,095
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,170 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.51% +10.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £67,750
90th Percentile £88,705 £88,750 £87,300
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,350 £48,500 £46,958
% change year-on-year -0.31% +3.28% -1.14%

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 46,639 34,331 58,593
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 47.27% 69.76% 57.90%
Number of salaries quoted 28,670 17,546 38,335
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,336 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £36,250 £36,365
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £46,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +7.53% -2.11% -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 12 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 12 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 -17 4,636 £55,000 - 2,916
UK excluding London -21 3,218 £48,350 -0.31% 2,020
Work from Home -9 1,605 £55,000 +4.76% 1,127
London -11 1,578 £67,500 +3.85% 1,398
North of England -20 964 £48,445 +3.07% 461
South East -8 816 £50,000 -5.62% 615
Midlands -10 579 £47,500 - 284
North West -19 567 £47,500 -1.67% 248
South West -23 391 £45,000 -7.22% 386
West Midlands -18 317 £50,000 +5.26% 161
Yorkshire -13 292 £50,000 +11.11% 165
East Midlands -6 261 £45,000 -5.26% 122
East of England -21 240 £45,025 -3.88% 160
Scotland -33 107 £42,068 -5.47% 86
North East -28 105 £55,000 +37.50% 54
Wales -13 91 £53,171 -3.33% 32
Northern Ireland -41 41 £41,250 -25.00% 44

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
1 178 (3.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 134 (2.64%) SharePoint
3 71 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
3 71 (1.40%) Confluence
4 69 (1.36%) Apache Spark
5 46 (0.90%) Apache
6 37 (0.73%) CMS
7 23 (0.45%) IIS
7 23 (0.45%) SAS
8 15 (0.29%) WordPress
9 14 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 13 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
11 8 (0.16%) WebLogic
11 8 (0.16%) WebSphere
12 6 (0.12%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.059%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.059%) JBoss
13 3 (0.059%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.059%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.039%) nginx
Applications
1 555 (10.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 210 (4.13%) Microsoft Office
3 115 (2.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 82 (1.61%) MS Visio
5 32 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
6 27 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
7 9 (0.18%) CATIA
8 6 (0.12%) Adobe XD
8 6 (0.12%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.098%) Acrobat
10 4 (0.079%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.079%) Maya
11 3 (0.059%) Blender
11 3 (0.059%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.059%) Simulink
11 3 (0.059%) Trello
12 2 (0.039%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.039%) Lectora
12 2 (0.039%) Siemens NX
12 2 (0.039%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 75 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 39 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
3 36 (0.71%) NetSuite
4 24 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
5 17 (0.33%) SAP CO
6 16 (0.31%) SAP PM
7 15 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
7 15 (0.29%) SAP ERP
8 14 (0.28%) SAP FI
9 13 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
10 10 (0.20%) Maximo
11 9 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
11 9 (0.18%) Workday HCM
12 8 (0.16%) Magento
12 8 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
13 7 (0.14%) Elite 3E
13 7 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
13 7 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
13 7 (0.14%) Shopify
14 6 (0.12%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 907 (17.84%) Azure
2 658 (12.94%) Power Platform
3 494 (9.71%) AWS
4 387 (7.61%) Microsoft 365
5 315 (6.19%) SaaS
6 221 (4.35%) GCP
7 132 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
8 128 (2.52%) Entra ID
9 121 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
10 87 (1.71%) Microsoft Purview
11 85 (1.67%) Google Analytics
12 76 (1.49%) GitHub
13 74 (1.46%) Snowflake
14 73 (1.44%) Power Automate
15 69 (1.36%) dbt
16 65 (1.28%) Amazon S3
16 65 (1.28%) PowerApps
17 58 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
18 56 (1.10%) Serverless
19 54 (1.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 195 (3.83%) Firewall
2 180 (3.54%) DNS
3 137 (2.69%) DHCP
4 125 (2.46%) VPN
5 86 (1.69%) TCP/IP
6 77 (1.51%) WAN
7 72 (1.42%) Broadband
7 72 (1.42%) LAN
8 70 (1.38%) Wi-Fi
9 52 (1.02%) Wireless
10 48 (0.94%) Network Security
11 46 (0.90%) VLAN
12 41 (0.81%) SAN
13 36 (0.71%) Internet
14 33 (0.65%) BGP
14 33 (0.65%) HTTP
15 25 (0.49%) SD-WAN
15 25 (0.49%) Wireshark
16 22 (0.43%) Cisco ASA
17 21 (0.41%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 585 (11.50%) Power BI
2 280 (5.51%) Tableau
3 197 (3.87%) SQL Server
4 186 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
5 105 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
6 89 (1.75%) Metadata
7 74 (1.46%) Relational Database
8 71 (1.40%) Data Lake
9 70 (1.38%) Data Mining
10 64 (1.26%) Power Query
11 63 (1.24%) Looker
12 62 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
12 62 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 58 (1.14%) MySQL
14 57 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
15 50 (0.98%) BigQuery
15 50 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 39 (0.77%) Big Data
16 39 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
17 37 (0.73%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 188 (3.70%) JIRA
2 149 (2.93%) Git
3 56 (1.10%) GitLab
4 37 (0.73%) Jenkins
5 36 (0.71%) Rational DOORS
6 31 (0.61%) MLflow
7 22 (0.43%) Selenium
8 21 (0.41%) Cucumber
9 17 (0.33%) Chocolatey
10 16 (0.31%) ERwin
10 16 (0.31%) Postman
11 15 (0.29%) Eclipse
12 13 (0.26%) IBM UrbanCode
12 13 (0.26%) JMeter
12 13 (0.26%) SonarQube
12 13 (0.26%) Visual Studio
13 12 (0.24%) Cypress.io
14 9 (0.18%) Bitbucket
14 9 (0.18%) LabVIEW
14 9 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
General
1 2,406 (47.32%) Social Skills
2 1,717 (33.77%) Finance
3 410 (8.06%) Marketing
4 363 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 335 (6.59%) Organisational Skills
6 318 (6.25%) Public Sector
7 299 (5.88%) Retail
8 270 (5.31%) Law
9 269 (5.29%) Legal
10 238 (4.68%) Banking
11 205 (4.03%) Manufacturing
12 192 (3.78%) Influencing Skills
13 136 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
14 118 (2.32%) Telecoms
15 97 (1.91%) Advertising
16 93 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
17 90 (1.77%) Aerospace
18 79 (1.55%) Electronics
19 73 (1.44%) Financial Institution
20 55 (1.08%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,284 (25.25%) Analyst
2 650 (12.78%) Senior
3 355 (6.98%) Lead
4 303 (5.96%) Data Analyst
5 279 (5.49%) Business Analyst
6 238 (4.68%) Developer
7 229 (4.50%) Consultant
8 206 (4.05%) Systems Engineer
9 198 (3.89%) Architect
10 151 (2.97%) Senior Analyst
11 143 (2.81%) Support Analyst
12 140 (2.75%) Data Engineer
13 125 (2.46%) Support Engineer
14 122 (2.40%) IT Support
15 113 (2.22%) IT Manager
16 104 (2.05%) Senior Manager
17 102 (2.01%) Financial Analyst
17 102 (2.01%) Systems Analyst
18 101 (1.99%) Security Analyst
19 91 (1.79%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (2.28%) .NET
1 116 (2.28%) HTML
2 105 (2.06%) CSS
3 103 (2.03%) REST
4 90 (1.77%) JSON
5 88 (1.73%) Middleware
6 85 (1.67%) XML
7 77 (1.51%) React
8 66 (1.30%) PyTorch
9 61 (1.20%) Kafka
10 60 (1.18%) TensorFlow
11 51 (1.00%) RESTful
12 49 (0.96%) SOAP
13 46 (0.90%) PySpark
14 42 (0.83%) Node.js
15 41 (0.81%) scikit-learn
16 39 (0.77%) Web Services
17 33 (0.65%) LangChain
17 33 (0.65%) Pandas
18 31 (0.61%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 531 (10.44%) Analytical Mindset
2 259 (5.09%) Management Information System
3 221 (4.35%) Onboarding
4 213 (4.19%) Product Ownership
5 195 (3.83%) Self-Motivation
6 140 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
7 115 (2.26%) Cloud Native
8 109 (2.14%) Data Centre
9 102 (2.01%) Security Posture
10 95 (1.87%) Driving Licence
11 82 (1.61%) Data Structures
12 80 (1.57%) Cyber Threat
13 79 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
14 74 (1.46%) Algorithms
15 68 (1.34%) Virtual Team
16 60 (1.18%) Social Media
17 56 (1.10%) Public Cloud
18 53 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
19 45 (0.88%) Cyber Defence
20 44 (0.87%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 411 (8.08%) Windows
2 254 (5.00%) Linux
3 202 (3.97%) Windows Server
4 98 (1.93%) Windows Server 2016
5 30 (0.59%) Unix
6 29 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 27 (0.53%) Windows 10
8 23 (0.45%) Mac OS
9 19 (0.37%) Android
10 18 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
11 15 (0.29%) Apple iOS
12 11 (0.22%) CentOS
12 11 (0.22%) Ubuntu
13 8 (0.16%) VMS
14 6 (0.12%) Debian
15 5 (0.098%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.079%) AIX
16 4 (0.079%) Rocky
17 2 (0.039%) Windows Server 2012
18 1 (0.020%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,322 (45.66%) Problem-Solving
2 1,305 (25.66%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,135 (22.32%) Decision-Making
4 1,111 (21.85%) Analytics
5 860 (16.91%) Agile
6 702 (13.81%) Stakeholder Management
7 683 (13.43%) AI
8 667 (13.12%) Business Intelligence
9 546 (10.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 527 (10.36%) Roadmaps
11 502 (9.87%) Mentoring
12 485 (9.54%) Actionable Insight
13 472 (9.28%) Project Management
14 471 (9.26%) Cybersecurity
15 457 (8.99%) Data Modelling
16 439 (8.63%) Data Analysis
17 412 (8.10%) Process Improvement
18 410 (8.06%) Data Governance
19 383 (7.53%) Customer Experience
20 381 (7.49%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1,052 (20.69%) SQL
2 870 (17.11%) Python
3 179 (3.52%) Java
3 179 (3.52%) JavaScript
4 171 (3.36%) PowerShell
5 155 (3.05%) C#
6 79 (1.55%) C++
7 78 (1.53%) R
8 76 (1.49%) Bash
9 74 (1.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 53 (1.04%) TypeScript
11 52 (1.02%) T-SQL
12 45 (0.88%) MATLAB
13 24 (0.47%) Go
13 24 (0.47%) PHP
14 23 (0.45%) VBA
15 20 (0.39%) C
15 20 (0.39%) PL/SQL
16 19 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
16 19 (0.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 924 (18.17%) Degree
2 490 (9.64%) Security Cleared
3 350 (6.88%) SC Cleared
4 263 (5.17%) ACCA
5 247 (4.86%) CIMA
6 157 (3.09%) CISSP
7 155 (3.05%) DBS Check
8 142 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
9 113 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
9 113 (2.22%) CISM
10 92 (1.81%) DV Cleared
11 91 (1.79%) Master's Degree
12 89 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
13 74 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
14 72 (1.42%) IRCA
15 69 (1.36%) CompTIA Security+
16 68 (1.34%) Azure Certification
17 54 (1.06%) PMI Certification
18 47 (0.92%) CISA
19 46 (0.90%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 480 (9.44%) Data Quality
2 399 (7.85%) GDPR
3 342 (6.73%) QA
4 277 (5.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 223 (4.39%) NIST
6 180 (3.54%) Cyber Essentials
7 151 (2.97%) SLA
8 140 (2.75%) PCI DSS
9 130 (2.56%) Accessibility
10 124 (2.44%) ISO 9001
11 79 (1.55%) GRC
12 61 (1.20%) PMO
13 45 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
14 43 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 41 (0.81%) IFRS
16 39 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 37 (0.73%) COBIT
18 28 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
19 25 (0.49%) SOC 2
20 24 (0.47%) ITGC
System Software
1 295 (5.80%) Active Directory
2 97 (1.91%) Docker
2 97 (1.91%) Hyper-V
3 80 (1.57%) Terminal Server
4 77 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 25 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
6 14 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (0.20%) VMware NSX
7 10 (0.20%) vSphere
8 8 (0.16%) IAG
8 8 (0.16%) ProxySG
9 7 (0.14%) Firmware
10 5 (0.098%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 5 (0.098%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.079%) XenApp
12 3 (0.059%) DFS Replication
12 3 (0.059%) Embedded Firmware
13 2 (0.039%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.039%) VMware ESXi
14 1 (0.020%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 143 (2.81%) Terraform
2 89 (1.75%) Kubernetes
3 73 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
4 69 (1.36%) Ansible
5 42 (0.83%) Grafana
6 27 (0.53%) SCCM
7 23 (0.45%) Prometheus
8 21 (0.41%) Nagios
9 18 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
10 17 (0.33%) Kibana
10 17 (0.33%) QRadar
11 11 (0.22%) Kubeflow
12 9 (0.18%) logstash
13 7 (0.14%) Packer
14 6 (0.12%) Graylog
15 5 (0.098%) Docker Swarm
15 5 (0.098%) Podman
15 5 (0.098%) Puppet
15 5 (0.098%) Red Hat Satellite
15 5 (0.098%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,147 (22.56%) Microsoft
2 214 (4.21%) SAP
3 206 (4.05%) Google
4 167 (3.28%) Oracle
4 167 (3.28%) VMware
5 137 (2.69%) Salesforce
5 137 (2.69%) Splunk
6 123 (2.42%) Databricks
7 122 (2.40%) SolarWinds
8 102 (2.01%) ServiceNow
9 93 (1.83%) Veeam
10 81 (1.59%) Nimble Storage
11 80 (1.57%) Brocade
11 80 (1.57%) Tanium
12 77 (1.51%) Workday
13 75 (1.47%) Cisco
14 52 (1.02%) Red Hat
15 50 (0.98%) IBM
16 46 (0.90%) Adobe
17 45 (0.88%) HubSpot