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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 8 14
Rank change year-on-year -18 +6 +5
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,820 5,949 9,624
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.17% 13.55% 9.47%
As % of the General category 10.53% 18.53% 16.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3,082 2,429 5,395
10th Percentile £32,625 £30,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,171 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +10.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £68,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.00% +11.11% -5.26%

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 45,793 32,099 59,657
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 49.09% 73.14% 58.69%
Number of salaries quoted 26,192 15,449 40,084
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £77,424 £78,750 £71,991
90th Percentile £98,750 £103,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £49,795 £47,500
% change year-on-year +0.41% +4.83% -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 1 June 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 1 June 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 4,384 £55,000 - 3,121
UK excluding London -21 3,018 £48,500 -3.00% 1,973
London -9 1,527 £67,500 +3.85% 1,589
Work from Home -11 1,466 £55,000 - 1,565
North of England -29 940 £47,500 -1.67% 446
South East -4 764 £50,000 -4.76% 642
North West -30 551 £46,500 -7.00% 249
Midlands -20 550 £48,250 +1.58% 272
West Midlands -27 317 £51,275 +7.95% 167
South West -27 303 £47,500 -5.00% 213
Yorkshire -14 295 £50,000 +11.11% 140
East of England -21 241 £45,025 -11.66% 199
East Midlands -1 231 £45,000 -5.26% 105
Scotland -33 111 £40,000 -20.00% 129
North East -28 94 £48,445 +24.86% 64
Wales -5 81 £47,105 -14.36% 44
Northern Ireland -23 40 £46,250 -15.91% 81

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
1 144 (2.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 109 (2.26%) SharePoint
3 75 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
4 72 (1.49%) Apache Spark
5 61 (1.27%) Confluence
6 40 (0.83%) Apache
7 39 (0.81%) CMS
8 24 (0.50%) IIS
9 20 (0.41%) SAS
10 16 (0.33%) WordPress
11 13 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 13 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
12 7 (0.15%) Jupyter
13 6 (0.12%) nginx
14 3 (0.062%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.062%) govService
14 3 (0.062%) JBoss
14 3 (0.062%) Tomcat
15 2 (0.041%) Appian
15 2 (0.041%) Camunda
Applications
1 555 (11.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 199 (4.13%) Microsoft Office
3 100 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 94 (1.95%) MS Visio
5 29 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
6 27 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
7 10 (0.21%) Adobe XD
7 10 (0.21%) CATIA
8 8 (0.17%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.083%) Acrobat
9 4 (0.083%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.083%) Maya
10 3 (0.062%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.062%) Trello
11 2 (0.041%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.041%) Blender
11 2 (0.041%) Lectora
11 2 (0.041%) Simulink
11 2 (0.041%) SOLIDWORKS
12 1 (0.021%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 69 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 36 (0.75%) NetSuite
4 33 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
5 19 (0.39%) SAP CO
6 16 (0.33%) SAP PM
7 15 (0.31%) SAP ERP
8 12 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
9 11 (0.23%) Maximo
10 10 (0.21%) SAP FI
11 9 (0.19%) Endur
11 9 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
12 8 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
13 7 (0.15%) Elite 3E
13 7 (0.15%) Fidessa
13 7 (0.15%) Magento
13 7 (0.15%) SAP PP
13 7 (0.15%) Shopify
13 7 (0.15%) Workday HCM
14 6 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 862 (17.88%) Azure
2 664 (13.78%) Power Platform
3 486 (10.08%) AWS
4 346 (7.18%) Microsoft 365
5 290 (6.02%) SaaS
6 206 (4.27%) GCP
7 125 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
7 125 (2.59%) Dynamics 365
8 110 (2.28%) Entra ID
9 89 (1.85%) GitHub
10 83 (1.72%) Power Automate
11 81 (1.68%) Snowflake
12 79 (1.64%) Google Analytics
13 75 (1.56%) Microsoft Purview
14 71 (1.47%) Amazon S3
14 71 (1.47%) dbt
15 66 (1.37%) PowerApps
16 62 (1.29%) Serverless
17 53 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
18 49 (1.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 202 (4.19%) Firewall
2 156 (3.24%) DNS
3 129 (2.68%) VPN
4 111 (2.30%) DHCP
5 82 (1.70%) WAN
6 73 (1.51%) TCP/IP
7 71 (1.47%) LAN
8 65 (1.35%) Broadband
9 61 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
10 59 (1.22%) VLAN
11 58 (1.20%) Wireless
12 48 (1.00%) Network Security
13 46 (0.95%) SAN
14 39 (0.81%) BGP
15 32 (0.66%) Cisco ASA
16 31 (0.64%) OSPF
17 30 (0.62%) SD-WAN
18 28 (0.58%) HTTP
19 26 (0.54%) Wireshark
20 25 (0.52%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 587 (12.18%) Power BI
2 342 (7.10%) Tableau
3 187 (3.88%) SQL Server
4 160 (3.32%) Data Warehouse
5 120 (2.49%) Data Mining
6 88 (1.83%) Metadata
7 78 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
8 74 (1.54%) Data Lake
9 64 (1.33%) Relational Database
10 62 (1.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 61 (1.27%) Looker
12 58 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
13 57 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
14 51 (1.06%) Power Query
15 47 (0.98%) BigQuery
15 47 (0.98%) MySQL
16 44 (0.91%) Big Data
17 42 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 41 (0.85%) NoSQL
19 35 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 155 (3.22%) JIRA
2 136 (2.82%) Git
3 49 (1.02%) GitLab
4 32 (0.66%) MLflow
4 32 (0.66%) Rational DOORS
5 31 (0.64%) Jenkins
6 20 (0.41%) Chocolatey
6 20 (0.41%) Selenium
7 14 (0.29%) Cucumber
8 13 (0.27%) ERwin
8 13 (0.27%) IBM UrbanCode
8 13 (0.27%) Visual Studio
9 11 (0.23%) Balsamiq
9 11 (0.23%) Bitbucket
10 10 (0.21%) Cypress.io
10 10 (0.21%) SonarQube
11 9 (0.19%) Axure RP
11 9 (0.19%) Maven
11 9 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
11 9 (0.19%) Subversion
General
1 2,185 (45.33%) Social Skills
2 1,691 (35.08%) Finance
3 435 (9.02%) Marketing
4 380 (7.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 280 (5.81%) Law
6 274 (5.68%) Public Sector
7 270 (5.60%) Organisational Skills
8 261 (5.41%) Retail
9 260 (5.39%) Legal
10 249 (5.17%) Banking
11 172 (3.57%) Manufacturing
12 164 (3.40%) Influencing Skills
13 155 (3.22%) Presentation Skills
14 111 (2.30%) Telecoms
15 88 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
16 85 (1.76%) Financial Institution
17 79 (1.64%) Advertising
18 77 (1.60%) Electronics
19 74 (1.54%) Aerospace
20 55 (1.14%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,231 (25.54%) Analyst
2 646 (13.40%) Senior
3 320 (6.64%) Lead
4 316 (6.56%) Data Analyst
5 276 (5.73%) Business Analyst
6 249 (5.17%) Developer
7 225 (4.67%) Architect
8 208 (4.32%) Consultant
9 168 (3.49%) Systems Engineer
10 129 (2.68%) Senior Analyst
10 129 (2.68%) Senior Manager
11 123 (2.55%) Data Engineer
12 118 (2.45%) Support Analyst
13 116 (2.41%) IT Manager
14 111 (2.30%) Trainee
15 104 (2.16%) Support Engineer
16 102 (2.12%) IT Support
17 100 (2.07%) Trainee Analyst
17 100 (2.07%) Trainee Data Analyst
18 93 (1.93%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (2.70%) HTML
2 121 (2.51%) CSS
3 100 (2.07%) .NET
4 95 (1.97%) REST
5 85 (1.76%) JSON
6 84 (1.74%) Middleware
6 84 (1.74%) React
7 76 (1.58%) XML
8 67 (1.39%) PyTorch
9 62 (1.29%) TensorFlow
10 51 (1.06%) SOAP
11 50 (1.04%) Kafka
12 49 (1.02%) Node.js
13 42 (0.87%) scikit-learn
14 40 (0.83%) PySpark
15 36 (0.75%) RESTful
16 35 (0.73%) EDI
17 34 (0.71%) Pandas
18 33 (0.68%) LangChain
19 29 (0.60%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 512 (10.62%) Analytical Mindset
2 235 (4.88%) Management Information System
3 208 (4.32%) Onboarding
4 195 (4.05%) Product Ownership
5 188 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
6 114 (2.37%) Data Centre
7 109 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
8 89 (1.85%) Cloud Native
9 88 (1.83%) Data Structures
10 83 (1.72%) Algorithms
10 83 (1.72%) Security Posture
11 72 (1.49%) Driving Licence
12 70 (1.45%) Cyber Threat
13 57 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
14 54 (1.12%) Public Cloud
14 54 (1.12%) Virtual Team
15 50 (1.04%) Social Media
16 49 (1.02%) FMCG
17 46 (0.95%) Cyber Defence
18 41 (0.85%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 355 (7.37%) Windows
2 215 (4.46%) Linux
3 161 (3.34%) Windows Server
4 69 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
5 36 (0.75%) Unix
6 23 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 23 (0.48%) Windows 10
7 18 (0.37%) Mac OS
8 16 (0.33%) Android
9 15 (0.31%) Apple iOS
10 13 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
11 10 (0.21%) CentOS
12 9 (0.19%) Ubuntu
13 8 (0.17%) VMS
14 4 (0.083%) AIX
14 4 (0.083%) Rocky
14 4 (0.083%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.062%) Debian
16 1 (0.021%) OpenBSD
16 1 (0.021%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,150 (44.61%) Problem-Solving
2 1,155 (23.96%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,065 (22.10%) Analytics
4 1,036 (21.49%) Decision-Making
5 838 (17.39%) Agile
6 678 (14.07%) Business Intelligence
7 634 (13.15%) AI
8 617 (12.80%) Stakeholder Management
9 511 (10.60%) Project Management
10 478 (9.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 471 (9.77%) Actionable Insight
12 469 (9.73%) Roadmaps
13 468 (9.71%) Mentoring
14 446 (9.25%) Data Analysis
14 446 (9.25%) Data Modelling
15 433 (8.98%) Cybersecurity
16 383 (7.95%) Data Governance
17 373 (7.74%) Analytical Thinking
18 367 (7.61%) Process Improvement
19 357 (7.41%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1,029 (21.35%) SQL
2 898 (18.63%) Python
3 176 (3.65%) PowerShell
4 175 (3.63%) JavaScript
5 172 (3.57%) Java
6 136 (2.82%) C#
7 79 (1.64%) R
8 71 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 67 (1.39%) C++
10 66 (1.37%) Bash
11 44 (0.91%) T-SQL
11 44 (0.91%) TypeScript
12 40 (0.83%) MATLAB
13 39 (0.81%) VBA
14 24 (0.50%) Scala
15 21 (0.44%) PHP
16 20 (0.41%) Go
17 16 (0.33%) C
17 16 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
17 16 (0.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 924 (19.17%) Degree
2 398 (8.26%) Security Cleared
3 284 (5.89%) SC Cleared
4 229 (4.75%) ACCA
5 214 (4.44%) CIMA
6 159 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 158 (3.28%) DBS Check
8 147 (3.05%) CISSP
9 116 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
10 102 (2.12%) Master's Degree
11 100 (2.07%) CISM
12 91 (1.89%) PMI Certification
13 87 (1.80%) DV Cleared
14 81 (1.68%) PMP
15 74 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
16 72 (1.49%) Azure Certification
16 72 (1.49%) IRCA
17 69 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
18 63 (1.31%) CompTIA Security+
19 53 (1.10%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 452 (9.38%) Data Quality
2 362 (7.51%) GDPR
3 296 (6.14%) QA
4 251 (5.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 221 (4.59%) NIST
6 136 (2.82%) Cyber Essentials
7 126 (2.61%) SLA
8 113 (2.34%) Accessibility
9 111 (2.30%) ISO 9001
10 110 (2.28%) PCI DSS
11 72 (1.49%) GRC
12 58 (1.20%) PMO
13 55 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
14 37 (0.77%) IFRS
15 36 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 34 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 31 (0.64%) COBIT
18 28 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
19 24 (0.50%) NCSC
20 23 (0.48%) ITGC
System Software
1 245 (5.08%) Active Directory
2 78 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 77 (1.60%) Docker
4 73 (1.51%) Hyper-V
5 56 (1.16%) Terminal Server
6 26 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.33%) ProxySG
8 12 (0.25%) vSphere
9 9 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (0.19%) VMware NSX
10 8 (0.17%) IAG
11 5 (0.10%) Firmware
12 4 (0.083%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.083%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.083%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.083%) XenApp
13 3 (0.062%) DFS Replication
14 2 (0.041%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.041%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.021%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 130 (2.70%) Terraform
2 78 (1.62%) Kubernetes
3 68 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 58 (1.20%) Ansible
5 33 (0.68%) Grafana
6 29 (0.60%) SCCM
7 25 (0.52%) Prometheus
8 24 (0.50%) Nagios
9 21 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
10 14 (0.29%) QRadar
11 13 (0.27%) Kibana
12 10 (0.21%) Kubeflow
13 6 (0.12%) Control-M
13 6 (0.12%) logstash
13 6 (0.12%) Packer
14 5 (0.10%) Graylog
15 4 (0.083%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.083%) Backup Exec
15 4 (0.083%) Podman
15 4 (0.083%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 1,093 (22.68%) Microsoft
2 203 (4.21%) SAP
3 184 (3.82%) Google
4 169 (3.51%) Oracle
5 150 (3.11%) Salesforce
6 147 (3.05%) VMware
7 108 (2.24%) Databricks
7 108 (2.24%) ServiceNow
8 107 (2.22%) SolarWinds
9 104 (2.16%) Splunk
10 76 (1.58%) Cisco
11 73 (1.51%) Workday
12 68 (1.41%) Veeam
13 57 (1.18%) Nimble Storage
14 56 (1.16%) Brocade
14 56 (1.16%) Tanium
15 52 (1.08%) IBM
16 46 (0.95%) Red Hat
17 45 (0.93%) Adobe
17 45 (0.93%) Dell