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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 9 13
Rank change year-on-year -17 +4 +7
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 5,466 6,138 8,378
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.31% 12.42% 9.63%
As % of the General category 11.34% 17.91% 16.76%
Number of salaries quoted 3,452 2,639 4,009
10th Percentile £31,736 £30,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,083 £87,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500

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 48,208 34,277 49,984
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.85% 69.36% 57.44%
Number of salaries quoted 29,627 17,898 30,850
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,178 £35,397 £38,084
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,075 £75,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -7.22% -7.62%

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 31 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 31 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 -15 4,955 £53,500 -2.73% 2,749
UK excluding London -19 3,505 £47,500 - 1,834
Work from Home -10 1,745 £55,000 +9.03% 1,061
London -10 1,672 £67,500 +3.85% 1,266
North of England -19 1,006 £47,500 +5.56% 460
South East -9 857 £50,000 -4.76% 584
Midlands -9 626 £47,500 +5.10% 310
North West -17 608 £47,275 +0.59% 246
South West -13 478 £47,500 - 235
West Midlands -16 329 £50,000 +11.11% 180
East Midlands -1 295 £45,000 -1.52% 130
Yorkshire -10 284 £47,500 +6.26% 154
East of England -22 252 £45,050 -1.90% 165
Wales -12 115 £53,171 -3.33% 42
North East -22 114 £55,000 +37.50% 66
Scotland -33 111 £40,800 -7.27% 59
Northern Ireland -29 70 £42,500 -22.73% 27

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
1 189 (3.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 155 (2.84%) SharePoint
3 76 (1.39%) Confluence
4 69 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
4 69 (1.26%) Apache Spark
5 47 (0.86%) Apache
6 44 (0.80%) CMS
7 26 (0.48%) IIS
8 24 (0.44%) SAS
9 13 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 13 (0.24%) WordPress
10 10 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
11 9 (0.16%) Jupyter
11 9 (0.16%) WebLogic
11 9 (0.16%) WebSphere
12 8 (0.15%) OpenStack
13 4 (0.073%) Headless CMS
14 3 (0.055%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.055%) JBoss
14 3 (0.055%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 604 (11.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 228 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
3 117 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 80 (1.46%) MS Visio
5 33 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
6 29 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.16%) Adobe XD
8 7 (0.13%) CATIA
9 5 (0.091%) Acrobat
9 5 (0.091%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.073%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.073%) Maya
11 3 (0.055%) AutoCAD
11 3 (0.055%) Blender
11 3 (0.055%) EPLAN
11 3 (0.055%) LaTeX
11 3 (0.055%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.055%) Simulink
11 3 (0.055%) Trello
12 2 (0.037%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 74 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 69 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 38 (0.70%) NetSuite
4 36 (0.66%) Dynamics GP
5 20 (0.37%) SAP PM
6 18 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
7 17 (0.31%) SAP CO
8 16 (0.29%) SAP FI
9 15 (0.27%) SAP ERP
9 15 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
10 13 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
11 10 (0.18%) Magento
12 9 (0.16%) Elite 3E
12 9 (0.16%) Maximo
13 8 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
13 8 (0.15%) Sage 200
13 8 (0.15%) Shopify
14 7 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
14 7 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
14 7 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 955 (17.47%) Azure
2 690 (12.62%) Power Platform
3 556 (10.17%) AWS
4 411 (7.52%) Microsoft 365
5 341 (6.24%) SaaS
6 253 (4.63%) GCP
7 137 (2.51%) Dynamics 365
8 131 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
9 125 (2.29%) Entra ID
10 95 (1.74%) Google Analytics
10 95 (1.74%) Snowflake
11 85 (1.56%) GitHub
12 81 (1.48%) dbt
13 80 (1.46%) Power Automate
14 72 (1.32%) Amazon S3
14 72 (1.32%) PowerApps
15 71 (1.30%) Microsoft Purview
16 58 (1.06%) Serverless
17 56 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
18 55 (1.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 199 (3.64%) DNS
2 155 (2.84%) DHCP
3 151 (2.76%) Firewall
4 128 (2.34%) VPN
5 95 (1.74%) TCP/IP
6 79 (1.45%) WAN
7 77 (1.41%) LAN
8 63 (1.15%) Broadband
9 59 (1.08%) Wireless
10 58 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
11 52 (0.95%) Network Security
12 42 (0.77%) SAN
12 42 (0.77%) VLAN
13 41 (0.75%) Internet
14 36 (0.66%) HTTP
15 30 (0.55%) BGP
16 23 (0.42%) SD-WAN
17 22 (0.40%) OSPF
17 22 (0.40%) VoIP
18 21 (0.38%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 610 (11.16%) Power BI
2 282 (5.16%) Tableau
3 211 (3.86%) SQL Server
4 193 (3.53%) Data Warehouse
5 119 (2.18%) Amazon RDS
6 89 (1.63%) Metadata
7 88 (1.61%) Relational Database
8 78 (1.43%) Looker
9 73 (1.34%) Data Lake
10 72 (1.32%) MySQL
11 71 (1.30%) Power Query
12 69 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
13 65 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 59 (1.08%) Data Mining
15 58 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 56 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
16 56 (1.02%) BigQuery
17 43 (0.79%) Big Data
18 41 (0.75%) NoSQL
19 38 (0.70%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 216 (3.95%) JIRA
2 197 (3.60%) Git
3 59 (1.08%) GitLab
4 50 (0.91%) Jenkins
5 34 (0.62%) Rational DOORS
6 32 (0.59%) MLflow
7 30 (0.55%) Selenium
8 23 (0.42%) Cucumber
9 20 (0.37%) Postman
10 18 (0.33%) Eclipse
11 16 (0.29%) Chocolatey
12 15 (0.27%) ERwin
13 14 (0.26%) JMeter
14 13 (0.24%) Bitbucket
14 13 (0.24%) IBM UrbanCode
15 12 (0.22%) Cypress.io
15 12 (0.22%) SonarQube
15 12 (0.22%) Visual Studio
16 10 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
17 9 (0.16%) Burp Suite
General
1 2,595 (47.48%) Social Skills
2 1,807 (33.06%) Finance
3 496 (9.07%) Marketing
4 429 (7.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 384 (7.03%) Organisational Skills
6 359 (6.57%) Retail
7 326 (5.96%) Public Sector
8 321 (5.87%) Law
9 310 (5.67%) Legal
10 261 (4.77%) Banking
11 236 (4.32%) Manufacturing
12 235 (4.30%) Influencing Skills
13 155 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
14 133 (2.43%) Telecoms
15 120 (2.20%) Aerospace
16 98 (1.79%) Advertising
17 96 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
18 89 (1.63%) Electronics
19 72 (1.32%) Financial Institution
20 60 (1.10%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,320 (24.15%) Analyst
2 697 (12.75%) Senior
3 378 (6.92%) Lead
4 315 (5.76%) Data Analyst
5 279 (5.10%) Business Analyst
6 263 (4.81%) Developer
7 230 (4.21%) Consultant
8 220 (4.02%) Systems Engineer
9 210 (3.84%) Architect
10 167 (3.06%) Senior Analyst
11 157 (2.87%) Data Engineer
12 150 (2.74%) Support Analyst
13 131 (2.40%) Support Engineer
14 121 (2.21%) IT Support
15 110 (2.01%) IT Manager
16 104 (1.90%) Financial Analyst
16 104 (1.90%) Security Analyst
17 100 (1.83%) Systems Analyst
18 99 (1.81%) Senior Manager
19 88 (1.61%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (2.36%) .NET
2 117 (2.14%) HTML
3 114 (2.09%) REST
4 107 (1.96%) CSS
5 90 (1.65%) JSON
6 83 (1.52%) XML
7 79 (1.45%) Middleware
8 77 (1.41%) React
9 73 (1.34%) Kafka
10 65 (1.19%) RESTful
11 64 (1.17%) PyTorch
12 58 (1.06%) TensorFlow
13 53 (0.97%) SOAP
14 49 (0.90%) PySpark
15 43 (0.79%) scikit-learn
16 41 (0.75%) Web Services
17 40 (0.73%) Node.js
18 35 (0.64%) EDI
18 35 (0.64%) Pandas
19 34 (0.62%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 541 (9.90%) Analytical Mindset
2 305 (5.58%) Management Information System
3 260 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 245 (4.48%) Self-Motivation
5 238 (4.35%) Product Ownership
6 162 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
7 126 (2.31%) Cloud Native
8 116 (2.12%) Driving Licence
9 106 (1.94%) Security Posture
10 98 (1.79%) Data Centre
11 94 (1.72%) Social Media
12 93 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
13 90 (1.65%) Virtual Team
14 86 (1.57%) Cyber Threat
15 80 (1.46%) Data Structures
16 76 (1.39%) Algorithms
16 76 (1.39%) Blog
17 62 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
17 62 (1.13%) Marketing Technology
18 56 (1.02%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 445 (8.14%) Windows
2 303 (5.54%) Linux
3 220 (4.02%) Windows Server
4 108 (1.98%) Windows Server 2016
5 36 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 32 (0.59%) Unix
7 31 (0.57%) Windows 10
8 28 (0.51%) Mac OS
9 23 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
10 22 (0.40%) Android
11 18 (0.33%) Apple iOS
12 15 (0.27%) CentOS
13 12 (0.22%) Ubuntu
14 7 (0.13%) Debian
14 7 (0.13%) VMS
15 5 (0.091%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.073%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.073%) Rocky
17 3 (0.055%) AIX
18 2 (0.037%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,545 (46.56%) Problem-Solving
2 1,491 (27.28%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,223 (22.37%) Decision-Making
4 1,201 (21.97%) Analytics
5 946 (17.31%) Agile
6 848 (15.51%) AI
7 834 (15.26%) Stakeholder Management
8 720 (13.17%) Business Intelligence
9 597 (10.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 562 (10.28%) Roadmaps
11 516 (9.44%) Project Management
12 510 (9.33%) Actionable Insight
12 510 (9.33%) Mentoring
13 481 (8.80%) Data Analysis
14 465 (8.51%) Data Modelling
15 459 (8.40%) Cybersecurity
16 451 (8.25%) Customer Experience
17 445 (8.14%) Process Improvement
18 437 (7.99%) Validation
19 421 (7.70%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 1,113 (20.36%) SQL
2 902 (16.50%) Python
3 204 (3.73%) JavaScript
4 192 (3.51%) Java
5 183 (3.35%) PowerShell
6 170 (3.11%) C#
7 95 (1.74%) C++
8 92 (1.68%) Bash
9 85 (1.56%) R
10 76 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 60 (1.10%) TypeScript
12 50 (0.91%) T-SQL
13 43 (0.79%) MATLAB
14 30 (0.55%) C
15 25 (0.46%) PHP
15 25 (0.46%) Scala
16 23 (0.42%) Go
17 22 (0.40%) PL/SQL
18 21 (0.38%) VBA
19 19 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 999 (18.28%) Degree
2 559 (10.23%) Security Cleared
3 398 (7.28%) SC Cleared
4 261 (4.77%) ACCA
5 245 (4.48%) CIMA
6 159 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 157 (2.87%) CISSP
8 148 (2.71%) DBS Check
9 121 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
9 121 (2.21%) DV Cleared
10 117 (2.14%) CISM
11 102 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
12 93 (1.70%) Master's Degree
13 73 (1.34%) IRCA
14 72 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
15 70 (1.28%) CompTIA Security+
16 67 (1.23%) Azure Certification
17 57 (1.04%) PMI Certification
18 46 (0.84%) CRISC
18 46 (0.84%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 523 (9.57%) Data Quality
2 387 (7.08%) GDPR
3 374 (6.84%) QA
4 242 (4.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 194 (3.55%) NIST
6 167 (3.06%) Cyber Essentials
7 155 (2.84%) SLA
8 154 (2.82%) Accessibility
9 143 (2.62%) PCI DSS
10 124 (2.27%) ISO 9001
11 75 (1.37%) GRC
12 64 (1.17%) PMO
13 44 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
14 41 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 40 (0.73%) IFRS
16 39 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 35 (0.64%) COBIT
18 28 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
19 24 (0.44%) NCSC
19 24 (0.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 324 (5.93%) Active Directory
2 128 (2.34%) Docker
3 110 (2.01%) Hyper-V
4 88 (1.61%) Terminal Server
5 87 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
6 25 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
7 19 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
8 14 (0.26%) Firmware
9 9 (0.16%) IAG
9 9 (0.16%) VMware NSX
9 9 (0.16%) vSphere
10 8 (0.15%) ProxySG
11 7 (0.13%) Ceph
12 5 (0.091%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.073%) KVM
13 4 (0.073%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.073%) XenApp
14 3 (0.055%) DFS Replication
14 3 (0.055%) Embedded Firmware
14 3 (0.055%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 147 (2.69%) Terraform
2 111 (2.03%) Kubernetes
3 84 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
4 71 (1.30%) Ansible
5 43 (0.79%) Grafana
6 28 (0.51%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.46%) SCCM
8 24 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
9 22 (0.40%) Nagios
10 16 (0.29%) Kibana
10 16 (0.29%) QRadar
11 12 (0.22%) Podman
12 9 (0.16%) Kubeflow
13 8 (0.15%) logstash
14 7 (0.13%) Argo
14 7 (0.13%) Check_MK
14 7 (0.13%) Istio
14 7 (0.13%) Nmap
14 7 (0.13%) Packer
14 7 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 1,206 (22.06%) Microsoft
2 240 (4.39%) Google
3 234 (4.28%) SAP
4 185 (3.38%) VMware
5 183 (3.35%) Oracle
6 153 (2.80%) Splunk
7 132 (2.41%) Salesforce
8 130 (2.38%) Databricks
8 130 (2.38%) SolarWinds
9 119 (2.18%) ServiceNow
10 99 (1.81%) Veeam
11 89 (1.63%) Brocade
11 89 (1.63%) Nimble Storage
12 88 (1.61%) Tanium
13 81 (1.48%) Cisco
14 76 (1.39%) Workday
15 68 (1.24%) Red Hat
16 51 (0.93%) Adobe
16 51 (0.93%) Dell
17 46 (0.84%) IBM