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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 8 13
Rank change year-on-year -17 +5 +6
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 6,029 6,126 7,440
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.31% 12.39% 9.54%
As % of the General category 11.58% 18.09% 16.79%
Number of salaries quoted 3,607 2,528 3,046
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,131 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £53,522
Median % change year-on-year - -1.91% -2.69%
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 52,078 33,863 44,322
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 45.86% 68.48% 56.86%
Number of salaries quoted 31,907 17,632 23,385
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -2.28%

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 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 14 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 5,365 £52,500 - 8,535
UK excluding London -16 3,987 £47,500 +5.56% 4,409
Work from Home -6 2,021 £55,000 +10.00% 4,944
London -10 1,755 £67,500 +3.85% 5,065
North of England -19 1,089 £47,500 +6.74% 969
South East -11 946 £49,480 -1.04% 1,205
Midlands -9 696 £47,500 +5.56% 628
North West -16 665 £46,500 +3.33% 572
South West -12 572 £47,500 +5.56% 587
West Midlands -17 356 £48,000 +6.67% 375
East Midlands -4 337 £45,000 +3.45% 252
Yorkshire -9 293 £47,000 +17.50% 319
East of England -15 253 £47,500 +18.75% 409
Wales -7 193 £45,000 -10.40% 109
Scotland -23 134 £44,500 +14.10% 381
North East -18 131 £50,500 +26.25% 88
Northern Ireland -13 115 £43,750 -20.45% 196

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
1 186 (3.09%) SharePoint
2 178 (2.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 104 (1.72%) Confluence
4 47 (0.78%) Apache Spark
5 42 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
6 37 (0.61%) CMS
6 37 (0.61%) IIS
7 35 (0.58%) Apache
8 28 (0.46%) SAS
9 11 (0.18%) WordPress
10 10 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 10 (0.17%) Headless CMS
10 10 (0.17%) Jupyter
11 9 (0.15%) WebLogic
11 9 (0.15%) WebSphere
12 8 (0.13%) OpenStack
13 7 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
14 3 (0.050%) Appian
14 3 (0.050%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.050%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 668 (11.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 290 (4.81%) Microsoft Office
3 121 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 70 (1.16%) MS Visio
5 44 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
6 38 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
7 16 (0.27%) Simulink
8 12 (0.20%) AutoCAD
9 7 (0.12%) Adobe XD
9 7 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
10 6 (0.100%) CATIA
10 6 (0.100%) Chatbot
11 5 (0.083%) Acrobat
11 5 (0.083%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 5 (0.083%) EPLAN
11 5 (0.083%) Photoshop
11 5 (0.083%) Revit
11 5 (0.083%) Siemens NX
12 3 (0.050%) LaTeX
12 3 (0.050%) Maya
Business Applications
1 106 (1.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 63 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
3 38 (0.63%) 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%) Oracle EBS
8 12 (0.20%) SAP CO
8 12 (0.20%) SAP FI
9 11 (0.18%) Magento
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%) Infor M3
11 9 (0.15%) Sage 200
11 9 (0.15%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 988 (16.39%) Azure
2 721 (11.96%) Power Platform
3 622 (10.32%) AWS
4 435 (7.22%) Microsoft 365
5 382 (6.34%) SaaS
6 279 (4.63%) GCP
7 161 (2.67%) Entra ID
8 153 (2.54%) Dynamics 365
9 152 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
10 123 (2.04%) Google Analytics
11 111 (1.84%) Google Ads
12 103 (1.71%) GitHub
13 88 (1.46%) Serverless
14 86 (1.43%) Snowflake
15 84 (1.39%) Meta Ads
16 82 (1.36%) Microsoft Purview
17 81 (1.34%) Power Automate
18 79 (1.31%) Amazon S3
19 78 (1.29%) PowerApps
20 77 (1.28%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 198 (3.28%) DNS
2 153 (2.54%) DHCP
3 149 (2.47%) Firewall
4 131 (2.17%) VPN
5 102 (1.69%) TCP/IP
6 75 (1.24%) WAN
7 72 (1.19%) LAN
8 69 (1.14%) Network Security
9 59 (0.98%) Wireless
10 54 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
11 50 (0.83%) Broadband
12 49 (0.81%) Internet
13 48 (0.80%) VLAN
14 36 (0.60%) SAN
15 35 (0.58%) HTTP
16 30 (0.50%) VoIP
17 24 (0.40%) 5G
17 24 (0.40%) BGP
18 22 (0.36%) SD-WAN
18 22 (0.36%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 644 (10.68%) Power BI
2 215 (3.57%) SQL Server
3 205 (3.40%) Tableau
4 185 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
5 111 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
6 107 (1.77%) Relational Database
7 98 (1.63%) Metadata
8 86 (1.43%) Looker
9 84 (1.39%) MySQL
10 76 (1.26%) Data Lake
11 73 (1.21%) Power Query
12 72 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
12 72 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 59 (0.98%) BigQuery
14 57 (0.95%) 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 36 (0.60%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 256 (4.25%) JIRA
2 212 (3.52%) Git
3 52 (0.86%) Jenkins
4 45 (0.75%) GitLab
5 32 (0.53%) Rational DOORS
6 28 (0.46%) Selenium
7 25 (0.41%) Eclipse
8 24 (0.40%) Cucumber
9 21 (0.35%) MLflow
10 19 (0.32%) Claude Code
11 18 (0.30%) Postman
12 17 (0.28%) LabVIEW
13 15 (0.25%) Bitbucket
13 15 (0.25%) Chocolatey
13 15 (0.25%) Oracle Forms
14 14 (0.23%) JMeter
15 13 (0.22%) Burp Suite
16 12 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
17 11 (0.18%) Cypress.io
17 11 (0.18%) Metasploit
General
1 2,969 (49.25%) Social Skills
2 1,986 (32.94%) Finance
3 675 (11.20%) Marketing
4 529 (8.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 481 (7.98%) Organisational Skills
6 419 (6.95%) Retail
7 405 (6.72%) Law
8 378 (6.27%) Public Sector
9 376 (6.24%) Legal
10 332 (5.51%) Manufacturing
11 311 (5.16%) Influencing Skills
12 234 (3.88%) Banking
13 205 (3.40%) Presentation Skills
14 193 (3.20%) Aerospace
15 142 (2.36%) Electronics
16 140 (2.32%) Telecoms
17 109 (1.81%) Advertising
18 97 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
19 69 (1.14%) Automotive
19 69 (1.14%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,357 (22.51%) Analyst
2 780 (12.94%) Senior
3 415 (6.88%) Lead
4 296 (4.91%) Business Analyst
5 294 (4.88%) Data Analyst
6 286 (4.74%) Developer
7 233 (3.86%) Architect
8 228 (3.78%) Consultant
9 194 (3.22%) Senior Analyst
10 188 (3.12%) Data Engineer
10 188 (3.12%) Systems Engineer
11 185 (3.07%) Support Analyst
12 129 (2.14%) Support Engineer
13 118 (1.96%) IT Support
14 109 (1.81%) Applications Support
15 108 (1.79%) IT Manager
16 107 (1.77%) Security Analyst
17 102 (1.69%) Senior Manager
18 97 (1.61%) Systems Analyst
19 96 (1.59%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (2.65%) .NET
2 145 (2.41%) Terraform
3 126 (2.09%) REST
4 122 (2.02%) HTML
5 113 (1.87%) CSS
6 91 (1.51%) JSON
7 78 (1.29%) XML
8 77 (1.28%) Middleware
8 77 (1.28%) RESTful
9 70 (1.16%) Kafka
10 69 (1.14%) PySpark
11 66 (1.09%) React
12 62 (1.03%) SOAP
13 55 (0.91%) PyTorch
14 48 (0.80%) TensorFlow
15 47 (0.78%) EDI
16 46 (0.76%) Web Services
17 44 (0.73%) LDAP
18 39 (0.65%) Spring Boot
19 38 (0.63%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 475 (7.88%) Analytical Mindset
2 399 (6.62%) Management Information System
3 380 (6.30%) Onboarding
4 306 (5.08%) Self-Motivation
5 291 (4.83%) Product Ownership
6 152 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
7 146 (2.42%) Driving Licence
8 141 (2.34%) Cloud Native
9 136 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
10 119 (1.97%) Blog
11 115 (1.91%) Social Media
12 109 (1.81%) Cyber Threat
13 103 (1.71%) Security Posture
14 102 (1.69%) Marketing Technology
15 101 (1.68%) Data Centre
16 97 (1.61%) Virtual Team
17 84 (1.39%) Data Structures
18 72 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
19 65 (1.08%) Algorithms
20 60 (1.00%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 466 (7.73%) Windows
2 277 (4.59%) Linux
3 218 (3.62%) Windows Server
4 93 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
5 39 (0.65%) Windows 10
6 32 (0.53%) Mac OS
7 30 (0.50%) Unix
8 27 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 24 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
10 21 (0.35%) Apple iOS
11 17 (0.28%) Android
12 10 (0.17%) CentOS
13 8 (0.13%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.100%) Debian
14 6 (0.100%) 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 2,948 (48.90%) Problem-Solving
2 1,786 (29.62%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,420 (23.55%) Decision-Making
4 1,254 (20.80%) Analytics
5 1,168 (19.37%) Stakeholder Management
6 1,110 (18.41%) AI
7 1,071 (17.76%) Agile
8 807 (13.39%) Business Intelligence
9 634 (10.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 614 (10.18%) Roadmaps
11 579 (9.60%) Mentoring
12 575 (9.54%) Actionable Insight
13 559 (9.27%) Validation
14 527 (8.74%) Data Analysis
15 515 (8.54%) Project Management
16 497 (8.24%) Process Improvement
17 494 (8.19%) Cybersecurity
18 483 (8.01%) ERP
19 482 (7.99%) Data Modelling
20 473 (7.85%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 1,179 (19.56%) SQL
2 852 (14.13%) Python
3 223 (3.70%) JavaScript
4 219 (3.63%) Java
5 192 (3.18%) C#
5 192 (3.18%) PowerShell
6 115 (1.91%) C++
7 92 (1.53%) Bash
8 81 (1.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 79 (1.31%) R
10 70 (1.16%) TypeScript
11 54 (0.90%) MATLAB
12 48 (0.80%) T-SQL
13 40 (0.66%) C
14 29 (0.48%) Scala
15 28 (0.46%) PL/SQL
16 26 (0.43%) PHP
17 23 (0.38%) Go
18 22 (0.36%) Perl
19 21 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1,216 (20.17%) Degree
2 681 (11.30%) Security Cleared
3 471 (7.81%) SC Cleared
4 249 (4.13%) ACCA
5 232 (3.85%) CIMA
6 177 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 156 (2.59%) CISSP
8 155 (2.57%) DV Cleared
9 144 (2.39%) DBS Check
10 123 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
10 123 (2.04%) CISM
11 112 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
12 98 (1.63%) Master's Degree
13 81 (1.34%) Azure Certification
14 78 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
15 68 (1.13%) HND
16 67 (1.11%) CompTIA Security+
17 63 (1.04%) PMI Certification
18 51 (0.85%) HNC
19 50 (0.83%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 596 (9.89%) Data Quality
2 378 (6.27%) QA
3 352 (5.84%) GDPR
4 234 (3.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 198 (3.28%) Accessibility
6 180 (2.99%) NIST
7 148 (2.45%) SLA
8 146 (2.42%) Cyber Essentials
9 121 (2.01%) PCI DSS
10 81 (1.34%) ISO 9001
11 70 (1.16%) GRC
12 59 (0.98%) PMO
13 50 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
14 41 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 38 (0.63%) IFRS
16 33 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 30 (0.50%) NCSC
18 29 (0.48%) COBIT
19 24 (0.40%) DO-254
20 23 (0.38%) GAAP
System Software
1 333 (5.52%) Active Directory
2 134 (2.22%) Docker
3 100 (1.66%) Hyper-V
4 85 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 72 (1.19%) Terminal Server
6 41 (0.68%) Firmware
7 23 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
8 22 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
10 10 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
11 9 (0.15%) vSphere
12 7 (0.12%) Ceph
12 7 (0.12%) VMware NSX
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
16 1 (0.017%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 115 (1.91%) Kubernetes
2 85 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
3 75 (1.24%) Ansible
4 41 (0.68%) Grafana
5 40 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
6 23 (0.38%) SCCM
7 21 (0.35%) Prometheus
8 20 (0.33%) Kibana
9 18 (0.30%) QRadar
10 12 (0.20%) Nagios
11 11 (0.18%) Nmap
11 11 (0.18%) Podman
12 9 (0.15%) Argo
12 9 (0.15%) logstash
13 7 (0.12%) Check_MK
13 7 (0.12%) Istio
13 7 (0.12%) Kubeflow
14 6 (0.100%) Functional Safety
14 6 (0.100%) Graylog
14 6 (0.100%) Packer
Vendors
1 1,382 (22.92%) Microsoft
2 347 (5.76%) Google
3 241 (4.00%) SAP
4 188 (3.12%) Oracle
5 174 (2.89%) VMware
6 147 (2.44%) Splunk
7 142 (2.36%) Databricks
8 136 (2.26%) ServiceNow
9 129 (2.14%) Salesforce
10 97 (1.61%) SolarWinds
11 84 (1.39%) Cisco
12 81 (1.34%) Veeam
13 73 (1.21%) Brocade
13 73 (1.21%) Nimble Storage
14 72 (1.19%) Tanium
15 66 (1.09%) Adobe
16 62 (1.03%) YouTube
17 61 (1.01%) Workday
18 59 (0.98%) HubSpot
19 40 (0.66%) IBM