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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 9 13
Rank change year-on-year -15 +4 +7
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 5,829 6,167 7,902
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.45% 12.33% 9.54%
As % of the General category 11.69% 17.91% 16.70%
Number of salaries quoted 3,564 2,632 3,669
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,444 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £48,734
% change year-on-year - -2.53% -2.53%

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 49,877 34,426 47,324
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.67% 68.83% 57.11%
Number of salaries quoted 30,509 18,040 27,985
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,959 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,793 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% -0.38% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,437 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%

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 16 August 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 16 August 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 -16 5,239 £52,500 - 4,198
UK excluding London -17 3,746 £47,500 - 2,567
Work from Home -10 1,855 £55,000 +10.00% 1,644
London -10 1,800 £67,500 +3.85% 2,109
North of England -19 1,054 £47,500 +5.56% 623
South East -9 897 £50,000 -4.76% 787
Midlands -9 648 £47,500 +5.56% 402
North West -15 639 £47,250 +5.00% 346
South West -12 521 £47,500 +5.56% 315
West Midlands -18 337 £50,000 +11.11% 244
East Midlands 0 309 £45,242 +0.54% 158
Yorkshire -11 292 £47,000 +17.50% 214
East of England -19 259 £47,500 +5.56% 228
Wales -12 142 £51,709 +0.51% 53
Scotland -23 134 £44,000 +3.53% 136
North East -21 123 £53,750 +32.72% 66
Northern Ireland -19 100 £42,500 -22.73% 91

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
1 177 (3.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 166 (2.85%) SharePoint
3 89 (1.53%) Confluence
4 71 (1.22%) Apache Spark
5 70 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
6 50 (0.86%) Apache
7 48 (0.82%) CMS
8 32 (0.55%) IIS
9 26 (0.45%) SAS
10 11 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 11 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
10 11 (0.19%) WordPress
11 9 (0.15%) Headless CMS
11 9 (0.15%) Jupyter
11 9 (0.15%) WebLogic
11 9 (0.15%) WebSphere
12 8 (0.14%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.051%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.051%) JBoss
13 3 (0.051%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 620 (10.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 254 (4.36%) Microsoft Office
3 121 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 83 (1.42%) MS Visio
5 43 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
6 27 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.15%) Adobe XD
8 7 (0.12%) AutoCAD
9 6 (0.10%) Simulink
10 5 (0.086%) Acrobat
10 5 (0.086%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.086%) EPLAN
11 4 (0.069%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.069%) CATIA
11 4 (0.069%) Maya
11 4 (0.069%) Trello
12 3 (0.051%) Blender
12 3 (0.051%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.051%) Revit
12 3 (0.051%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 93 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 70 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 40 (0.69%) NetSuite
4 35 (0.60%) Dynamics GP
5 22 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
6 20 (0.34%) SAP PM
7 15 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
7 15 (0.26%) SAP ERP
8 14 (0.24%) SAP CO
8 14 (0.24%) SAP FI
8 14 (0.24%) Shopify
9 13 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
10 12 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
10 12 (0.21%) Workday HCM
11 10 (0.17%) Elite 3E
11 10 (0.17%) Magento
12 9 (0.15%) Fidessa
12 9 (0.15%) Sage 200
12 9 (0.15%) SAP Business One
13 8 (0.14%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 1,000 (17.16%) Azure
2 695 (11.92%) Power Platform
3 613 (10.52%) AWS
4 409 (7.02%) Microsoft 365
5 367 (6.30%) SaaS
6 290 (4.98%) GCP
7 144 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
8 141 (2.42%) Dynamics 365
9 134 (2.30%) Entra ID
10 108 (1.85%) Google Analytics
10 108 (1.85%) Snowflake
11 99 (1.70%) GitHub
12 90 (1.54%) dbt
13 87 (1.49%) Power Automate
14 82 (1.41%) Amazon S3
15 78 (1.34%) PowerApps
16 72 (1.24%) Microsoft Purview
17 67 (1.15%) Serverless
18 65 (1.12%) Google Ads
19 59 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 197 (3.38%) DNS
2 153 (2.62%) DHCP
3 151 (2.59%) Firewall
4 126 (2.16%) VPN
5 99 (1.70%) TCP/IP
6 76 (1.30%) WAN
7 75 (1.29%) LAN
8 62 (1.06%) Broadband
9 57 (0.98%) Network Security
10 56 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
11 55 (0.94%) Wireless
12 44 (0.75%) Internet
12 44 (0.75%) SAN
13 42 (0.72%) VLAN
14 37 (0.63%) HTTP
15 26 (0.45%) VoIP
16 25 (0.43%) BGP
17 21 (0.36%) SD-WAN
18 20 (0.34%) SMS
19 18 (0.31%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 615 (10.55%) Power BI
2 270 (4.63%) Tableau
3 230 (3.95%) SQL Server
4 199 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
5 117 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
6 105 (1.80%) Relational Database
7 98 (1.68%) Metadata
8 91 (1.56%) Looker
9 83 (1.42%) MySQL
10 80 (1.37%) Data Lake
11 77 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
12 66 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 65 (1.12%) Power Query
14 62 (1.06%) BigQuery
14 62 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 55 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
16 54 (0.93%) Big Data
17 47 (0.81%) NoSQL
18 42 (0.72%) Data Mining
19 39 (0.67%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 243 (4.17%) JIRA
2 225 (3.86%) Git
3 57 (0.98%) GitLab
4 50 (0.86%) Jenkins
5 32 (0.55%) MLflow
6 31 (0.53%) Rational DOORS
7 29 (0.50%) Selenium
8 23 (0.39%) Cucumber
9 20 (0.34%) Postman
10 19 (0.33%) Eclipse
11 16 (0.27%) Chocolatey
12 14 (0.24%) Cypress.io
12 14 (0.24%) JMeter
13 13 (0.22%) Bitbucket
13 13 (0.22%) Burp Suite
13 13 (0.22%) ERwin
13 13 (0.22%) IBM UrbanCode
14 12 (0.21%) Claude Code
14 12 (0.21%) SonarQube
15 11 (0.19%) Metasploit
General
1 2,793 (47.92%) Social Skills
2 1,914 (32.84%) Finance
3 597 (10.24%) Marketing
4 512 (8.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 419 (7.19%) Organisational Skills
6 383 (6.57%) Retail
7 374 (6.42%) Law
8 356 (6.11%) Public Sector
9 339 (5.82%) Legal
10 280 (4.80%) Manufacturing
11 276 (4.73%) Banking
11 276 (4.73%) Influencing Skills
12 178 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
13 163 (2.80%) Aerospace
14 134 (2.30%) Telecoms
15 110 (1.89%) Advertising
16 104 (1.78%) Electronics
17 95 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
18 71 (1.22%) Financial Institution
19 67 (1.15%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,350 (23.16%) Analyst
2 759 (13.02%) Senior
3 407 (6.98%) Lead
4 305 (5.23%) Data Analyst
5 298 (5.11%) Business Analyst
6 284 (4.87%) Developer
7 229 (3.93%) Architect
8 224 (3.84%) Consultant
9 209 (3.59%) Systems Engineer
10 189 (3.24%) Senior Analyst
11 174 (2.99%) Data Engineer
12 159 (2.73%) Support Analyst
13 130 (2.23%) Support Engineer
14 120 (2.06%) IT Support
15 114 (1.96%) IT Manager
16 110 (1.89%) Senior Manager
17 108 (1.85%) Security Analyst
18 99 (1.70%) Systems Analyst
19 91 (1.56%) Applications Support
19 91 (1.56%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (2.54%) .NET
2 128 (2.20%) HTML
3 123 (2.11%) REST
4 120 (2.06%) CSS
5 88 (1.51%) JSON
6 79 (1.36%) Kafka
7 78 (1.34%) Middleware
7 78 (1.34%) React
8 74 (1.27%) XML
9 71 (1.22%) PyTorch
9 71 (1.22%) RESTful
10 64 (1.10%) TensorFlow
11 56 (0.96%) SOAP
12 51 (0.87%) PySpark
13 48 (0.82%) scikit-learn
14 42 (0.72%) OAuth
14 42 (0.72%) Web Services
15 40 (0.69%) EDI
15 40 (0.69%) Node.js
16 39 (0.67%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 550 (9.44%) Analytical Mindset
2 335 (5.75%) Management Information System
3 324 (5.56%) Onboarding
4 274 (4.70%) Self-Motivation
5 271 (4.65%) Product Ownership
6 164 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
7 140 (2.40%) Cloud Native
8 133 (2.28%) Driving Licence
9 120 (2.06%) Social Media
10 117 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
11 110 (1.89%) Security Posture
12 108 (1.85%) Blog
13 106 (1.82%) Data Centre
14 93 (1.60%) Virtual Team
15 92 (1.58%) Cyber Threat
16 90 (1.54%) Marketing Technology
17 79 (1.36%) Data Structures
18 78 (1.34%) Algorithms
19 70 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
20 56 (0.96%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 459 (7.87%) Windows
2 298 (5.11%) Linux
3 221 (3.79%) Windows Server
4 99 (1.70%) Windows Server 2016
5 33 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 33 (0.57%) Unix
5 33 (0.57%) Windows 10
6 28 (0.48%) Mac OS
7 22 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
8 21 (0.36%) Apple iOS
9 20 (0.34%) Android
10 14 (0.24%) CentOS
11 11 (0.19%) Ubuntu
12 7 (0.12%) Debian
13 6 (0.10%) VMS
14 5 (0.086%) OpenVMS
15 4 (0.069%) CoreOS
15 4 (0.069%) Rocky
16 2 (0.034%) AIX
16 2 (0.034%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,765 (47.44%) Problem-Solving
2 1,672 (28.68%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,331 (22.83%) Decision-Making
4 1,284 (22.03%) Analytics
5 1,043 (17.89%) Agile
6 1,008 (17.29%) AI
7 994 (17.05%) Stakeholder Management
8 745 (12.78%) Business Intelligence
9 641 (11.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 614 (10.53%) Roadmaps
11 564 (9.68%) Actionable Insight
12 560 (9.61%) Mentoring
13 540 (9.26%) Project Management
14 511 (8.77%) Data Analysis
15 496 (8.51%) Validation
16 492 (8.44%) Cybersecurity
17 477 (8.18%) Data Modelling
18 470 (8.06%) Customer Experience
19 459 (7.87%) Process Improvement
20 449 (7.70%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 1,164 (19.97%) SQL
2 922 (15.82%) Python
3 221 (3.79%) JavaScript
4 198 (3.40%) Java
5 188 (3.23%) PowerShell
6 183 (3.14%) C#
7 100 (1.72%) Bash
8 99 (1.70%) C++
9 79 (1.36%) R
10 73 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 66 (1.13%) TypeScript
12 48 (0.82%) T-SQL
13 43 (0.74%) MATLAB
14 31 (0.53%) C
15 28 (0.48%) Scala
16 25 (0.43%) PHP
17 22 (0.38%) Go
17 22 (0.38%) PL/SQL
18 19 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
18 19 (0.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,107 (18.99%) Degree
2 631 (10.83%) Security Cleared
3 435 (7.46%) SC Cleared
4 240 (4.12%) ACCA
5 226 (3.88%) CIMA
6 174 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 167 (2.86%) CISSP
8 156 (2.68%) DV Cleared
9 149 (2.56%) DBS Check
10 127 (2.18%) CISM
11 123 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
12 119 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
13 103 (1.77%) Master's Degree
14 75 (1.29%) Azure Certification
14 75 (1.29%) CompTIA Security+
15 74 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
16 73 (1.25%) IRCA
17 62 (1.06%) PMI Certification
18 48 (0.82%) CCNA
18 48 (0.82%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 558 (9.57%) Data Quality
2 406 (6.97%) QA
3 402 (6.90%) GDPR
4 242 (4.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 199 (3.41%) NIST
6 168 (2.88%) Accessibility
7 159 (2.73%) SLA
8 158 (2.71%) Cyber Essentials
9 131 (2.25%) PCI DSS
10 129 (2.21%) ISO 9001
11 72 (1.24%) GRC
12 63 (1.08%) PMO
13 46 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
14 41 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 38 (0.65%) COBIT
15 38 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 37 (0.63%) IFRS
17 28 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 25 (0.43%) NCSC
19 24 (0.41%) GMP
System Software
1 328 (5.63%) Active Directory
2 144 (2.47%) Docker
3 104 (1.78%) Hyper-V
4 91 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 80 (1.37%) Terminal Server
6 27 (0.46%) Firmware
7 24 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
8 19 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (0.15%) VMware NSX
9 9 (0.15%) vSphere
10 7 (0.12%) Ceph
11 6 (0.10%) IAG
11 6 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.086%) KVM
13 4 (0.069%) Embedded Firmware
13 4 (0.069%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.069%) ProxySG
14 3 (0.051%) DFS Replication
14 3 (0.051%) VMware ESXi
14 3 (0.051%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 158 (2.71%) Terraform
2 119 (2.04%) Kubernetes
3 84 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
4 78 (1.34%) Ansible
5 43 (0.74%) Grafana
6 32 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
7 26 (0.45%) SCCM
8 25 (0.43%) Prometheus
9 19 (0.33%) Nagios
9 19 (0.33%) QRadar
10 17 (0.29%) Kibana
11 11 (0.19%) Nmap
11 11 (0.19%) Podman
12 9 (0.15%) Argo
12 9 (0.15%) Kubeflow
13 8 (0.14%) logstash
14 7 (0.12%) Check_MK
14 7 (0.12%) Istio
14 7 (0.12%) Puppet
14 7 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 1,279 (21.94%) Microsoft
2 296 (5.08%) Google
3 236 (4.05%) SAP
4 207 (3.55%) Oracle
5 184 (3.16%) VMware
6 151 (2.59%) Splunk
7 143 (2.45%) Databricks
8 127 (2.18%) ServiceNow
9 125 (2.14%) Salesforce
10 113 (1.94%) SolarWinds
11 90 (1.54%) Veeam
12 83 (1.42%) Cisco
13 82 (1.41%) Workday
14 81 (1.39%) Brocade
14 81 (1.39%) Nimble Storage
15 80 (1.37%) Tanium
16 63 (1.08%) Red Hat
17 59 (1.01%) Adobe
18 52 (0.89%) Dell
19 50 (0.86%) HubSpot