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 7 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 14 19
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 +1
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 5,400 6,288 4,656
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 9.57% 10.12% 9.23%
As % of the General category 15.57% 16.21% 14.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,590 2,670 3,344
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,495 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -3.51% +3.64%
75th Percentile £71,438 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +4.17%

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 common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 34,690 38,800 32,912
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 61.51% 62.46% 65.21%
Number of salaries quoted 19,111 18,775 24,691
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.46% +4.00% -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 7 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Top 19 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 7 December 2025. 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 +2 4,677 £50,915 -7.43% 5,925
UK excluding London -1 3,454 £45,000 -10.00% 5,602
Work from Home +6 1,912 £50,000 -9.09% 6,458
London +3 1,618 £67,500 +3.85% 1,007
South East +4 869 £49,000 -2.00% 1,497
North of England -10 826 £45,000 -12.20% 1,296
Midlands -7 638 £44,772 -8.63% 1,031
North West -11 414 £45,000 -14.29% 675
South West +3 391 £45,000 -15.09% 629
West Midlands -8 379 £50,750 +1.50% 554
Scotland +1 342 £33,500 -44.17% 219
East of England -5 302 £40,000 -27.27% 787
Yorkshire -1 298 £40,000 -20.00% 512
East Midlands +5 256 £37,500 -11.76% 429
North East +14 114 £41,500 +3.75% 118
Wales +7 77 £48,122 -2.00% 145
Northern Ireland -2 42 £52,500 -28.54% 97
Isle of Man -1 1 £62,500 +150.00% 1
Channel Islands -5 1 - - 1

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
1 134 (2.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 96 (1.78%) Confluence
3 87 (1.61%) SharePoint
4 61 (1.13%) CMS
5 54 (1.00%) Apache Spark
6 21 (0.39%) WordPress
7 20 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
8 18 (0.33%) Apache
9 17 (0.31%) SAS
10 7 (0.13%) IIS
11 6 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 6 (0.11%) Camunda
11 6 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 5 (0.093%) Apache Synapse
12 5 (0.093%) Skype for Business
13 4 (0.074%) ArcGIS
13 4 (0.074%) Drupal
14 3 (0.056%) HCL Notes
14 3 (0.056%) Moodle
14 3 (0.056%) nginx
Applications
1 789 (14.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 498 (9.22%) Chatbot
3 373 (6.91%) Microsoft Office
4 137 (2.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 59 (1.09%) Maya
6 53 (0.98%) MS Visio
7 39 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
8 37 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
9 21 (0.39%) AutoCAD
10 14 (0.26%) Adobe XD
11 8 (0.15%) SOLIDWORKS
12 6 (0.11%) Simulink
13 4 (0.074%) CATIA
13 4 (0.074%) Oracle Smart View
13 4 (0.074%) Photoshop
13 4 (0.074%) PlantUML
14 3 (0.056%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 3 (0.056%) Sketch
14 3 (0.056%) Stata
15 2 (0.037%) Blender
Business Applications
1 163 (3.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 68 (1.26%) SAP MDG
3 62 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
4 51 (0.94%) NetSuite
5 40 (0.74%) SAP FI
6 39 (0.72%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 39 (0.72%) SAP CO
6 39 (0.72%) SAP FI/CO
6 39 (0.72%) Shopify
7 30 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
8 24 (0.44%) SAP IBP
9 20 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
10 16 (0.30%) Endur
10 16 (0.30%) Oracle Assets
10 16 (0.30%) Workday HCM
11 13 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
11 13 (0.24%) Sage X3
11 13 (0.24%) SAP FSCM
12 11 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
12 11 (0.20%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 795 (14.72%) Azure
2 621 (11.50%) Power Platform
3 417 (7.72%) AWS
4 261 (4.83%) Microsoft 365
5 250 (4.63%) SaaS
6 158 (2.93%) GCP
7 130 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
8 100 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
9 92 (1.70%) Google Analytics
10 72 (1.33%) Entra ID
11 71 (1.31%) GitHub
12 69 (1.28%) Snowflake
13 68 (1.26%) Azure Data Factory
14 59 (1.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 52 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
15 52 (0.96%) PaaS
16 51 (0.94%) Serverless
17 48 (0.89%) Power Automate
18 45 (0.83%) dbt
19 42 (0.78%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 155 (2.87%) DNS
2 126 (2.33%) DHCP
3 116 (2.15%) Firewall
4 73 (1.35%) Network Security
5 72 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
6 63 (1.17%) VPN
7 61 (1.13%) LAN
8 56 (1.04%) WAN
9 42 (0.78%) TCP/IP
10 41 (0.76%) Remote Desktop
11 38 (0.70%) Wireless
12 32 (0.59%) SMS
12 32 (0.59%) VoIP
13 30 (0.56%) VLAN
14 22 (0.41%) Broadband
14 22 (0.41%) Internet
14 22 (0.41%) SAN
15 19 (0.35%) Intrusion Detection
16 18 (0.33%) OSPF
17 16 (0.30%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 576 (10.67%) Power BI
2 327 (6.06%) Tableau
3 188 (3.48%) SQL Server
4 170 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
5 147 (2.72%) Data Mining
6 118 (2.19%) Metadata
7 107 (1.98%) Data Lake
7 107 (1.98%) Relational Database
8 98 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
9 61 (1.13%) Looker
10 60 (1.11%) NoSQL
11 56 (1.04%) SAP BW
11 56 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 55 (1.02%) MySQL
13 47 (0.87%) Big Data
14 45 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
15 41 (0.76%) GIS
16 38 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
17 37 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
18 34 (0.63%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 234 (4.33%) JIRA
2 98 (1.81%) Git
3 50 (0.93%) Jenkins
4 48 (0.89%) Selenium
5 44 (0.81%) GitLab
6 19 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
7 17 (0.31%) Bitbucket
8 15 (0.28%) Postman
9 14 (0.26%) Cypress.io
9 14 (0.26%) Robot Framework
9 14 (0.26%) Subversion
9 14 (0.26%) WebDriver
10 13 (0.24%) Maven
11 12 (0.22%) ERwin
11 12 (0.22%) Snyk
12 11 (0.20%) Axure RP
12 11 (0.20%) Balsamiq
12 11 (0.20%) ER Studio
13 10 (0.19%) TestRail
13 10 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 2,770 (51.30%) Social Skills
2 1,806 (33.44%) Finance
3 627 (11.61%) Marketing
4 393 (7.28%) Law
5 348 (6.44%) Retail
6 337 (6.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 310 (5.74%) Legal
8 272 (5.04%) Banking
9 258 (4.78%) Organisational Skills
10 247 (4.57%) Public Sector
11 238 (4.41%) Presentation Skills
12 225 (4.17%) Manufacturing
13 144 (2.67%) Telecoms
14 143 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
15 133 (2.46%) Financial Institution
16 123 (2.28%) Games
17 106 (1.96%) Advertising
18 97 (1.80%) Electronics
19 78 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
20 59 (1.09%) German Language
Job Titles
1 1,134 (21.00%) Analyst
2 679 (12.57%) Senior
3 497 (9.20%) Trainer
4 402 (7.44%) Lead
5 316 (5.85%) Data Analyst
6 315 (5.83%) Architect
7 218 (4.04%) Consultant
8 216 (4.00%) Developer
9 196 (3.63%) Business Analyst
10 177 (3.28%) Support Analyst
11 155 (2.87%) Senior Analyst
12 142 (2.63%) IT Support
13 132 (2.44%) Solutions Architect
14 125 (2.31%) Trainee
15 124 (2.30%) Systems Engineer
16 108 (2.00%) Business Manager
17 104 (1.93%) Financial Analyst
17 104 (1.93%) IT Manager
18 102 (1.89%) Innovation Manager
19 100 (1.85%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (2.31%) HTML
2 105 (1.94%) CSS
3 84 (1.56%) React
4 81 (1.50%) REST
5 61 (1.13%) .NET
6 51 (0.94%) Middleware
7 47 (0.87%) Kafka
8 42 (0.78%) JSON
9 35 (0.65%) AngularJS
9 35 (0.65%) Spring
9 35 (0.65%) XML
10 32 (0.59%) EDI
11 30 (0.56%) SOAP
12 27 (0.50%) LangChain
12 27 (0.50%) Oracle Fusion
12 27 (0.50%) PySpark
13 26 (0.48%) Node.js
14 25 (0.46%) Web Services
15 22 (0.41%) Flash
16 21 (0.39%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 565 (10.46%) Analytical Mindset
2 387 (7.17%) Onboarding
3 386 (7.15%) Self-Motivation
4 287 (5.31%) Management Information System
5 209 (3.87%) Product Ownership
6 161 (2.98%) Legacy Systems
7 134 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
8 101 (1.87%) Driving Licence
9 88 (1.63%) FMCG
10 86 (1.59%) Data Centre
11 80 (1.48%) Algorithms
12 74 (1.37%) Cloud Native
13 65 (1.20%) Data Structures
14 62 (1.15%) Social Media
15 58 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 53 (0.98%) Security Posture
17 52 (0.96%) Robotics
18 51 (0.94%) Virtual Team
19 40 (0.74%) e-Learning
20 38 (0.70%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 319 (5.91%) Windows
2 215 (3.98%) Linux
3 140 (2.59%) Windows Server
4 89 (1.65%) Windows Server 2016
5 29 (0.54%) Unix
6 20 (0.37%) Mac OS
7 12 (0.22%) Android
8 9 (0.17%) Windows 10
9 8 (0.15%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.093%) Mac OS X
11 4 (0.074%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.074%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.056%) OpenWrt
12 3 (0.056%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (0.056%) VMS
13 2 (0.037%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.019%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.019%) OpenVMS
14 1 (0.019%) Robot Operating System
14 1 (0.019%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,396 (44.37%) Problem-Solving
2 1,256 (23.26%) AI
3 1,165 (21.57%) Analytics
4 1,115 (20.65%) Continuous Improvement
5 1,031 (19.09%) Decision-Making
6 951 (17.61%) Agile
7 840 (15.56%) Project Management
8 785 (14.54%) Business Intelligence
9 653 (12.09%) Stakeholder Management
10 532 (9.85%) Data Analysis
11 509 (9.43%) Chemistry
12 500 (9.26%) Conversational UI
13 480 (8.89%) Risk Management
14 464 (8.59%) ERP
15 454 (8.41%) Roadmaps
16 450 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
17 429 (7.94%) Mentoring
18 424 (7.85%) Customer Service
19 423 (7.83%) CRM
20 422 (7.81%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 979 (18.13%) SQL
2 637 (11.80%) Python
3 155 (2.87%) Java
4 146 (2.70%) JavaScript
5 115 (2.13%) C#
6 92 (1.70%) PowerShell
7 77 (1.43%) R
8 51 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 49 (0.91%) C++
10 44 (0.81%) T-SQL
11 41 (0.76%) VBA
12 40 (0.74%) Bash
13 30 (0.56%) TypeScript
14 24 (0.44%) C
14 24 (0.44%) PL/SQL
15 22 (0.41%) Scala
16 17 (0.31%) Go
16 17 (0.31%) Kotlin
17 15 (0.28%) ABAP
18 13 (0.24%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1,833 (33.94%) Degree
2 678 (12.56%) Master's Degree
3 514 (9.52%) PhD
4 448 (8.30%) Security Cleared
5 319 (5.91%) SC Cleared
6 197 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 189 (3.50%) ACCA
8 181 (3.35%) CIMA
9 178 (3.30%) CISSP
10 105 (1.94%) DBS Check
11 95 (1.76%) DV Cleared
12 91 (1.69%) PMI Certification
13 87 (1.61%) CISM
14 74 (1.37%) PMP
15 64 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
16 62 (1.15%) CompTIA Security+
17 58 (1.07%) Azure Certification
17 58 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
18 57 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
19 48 (0.89%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 298 (5.52%) Data Quality
2 269 (4.98%) QA
3 197 (3.65%) GDPR
4 195 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 144 (2.67%) PCI DSS
6 137 (2.54%) Cyber Essentials
7 119 (2.20%) NIST
8 114 (2.11%) PMO
9 110 (2.04%) Accessibility
10 53 (0.98%) SLA
11 40 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
12 39 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 36 (0.67%) GRC
14 23 (0.43%) IFRS
15 20 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 19 (0.35%) ISO 9001
17 16 (0.30%) WCAG
18 15 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
19 14 (0.26%) COBIT
20 10 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 235 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 115 (2.13%) Hyper-V
3 88 (1.63%) Terminal Server
4 55 (1.02%) Docker
5 45 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
6 27 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
7 16 (0.30%) Firmware
8 9 (0.17%) vSphere
9 7 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.093%) ProxySG
11 3 (0.056%) zsh
12 2 (0.037%) HDFS
13 1 (0.019%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.019%) NFS
13 1 (0.019%) Virtual Desktop
13 1 (0.019%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.019%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 82 (1.52%) Terraform
2 63 (1.17%) Kubernetes
3 54 (1.00%) Ansible
4 42 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (0.28%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.26%) Grafana
8 10 (0.19%) SCCM
9 7 (0.13%) QRadar
10 6 (0.11%) SCOM
11 5 (0.093%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 4 (0.074%) Nessus
12 4 (0.074%) Rancher
12 4 (0.074%) vRealize
13 3 (0.056%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.056%) Nagios
14 2 (0.037%) AssetCenter
14 2 (0.037%) EMC NetWorker
14 2 (0.037%) Kibana
14 2 (0.037%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 1,203 (22.28%) Microsoft
2 496 (9.19%) PayPal
3 419 (7.76%) SAP
4 218 (4.04%) Google
4 218 (4.04%) Oracle
5 168 (3.11%) Salesforce
6 145 (2.69%) VMware
7 116 (2.15%) Splunk
8 110 (2.04%) Databricks
9 107 (1.98%) SolarWinds
10 91 (1.69%) Veeam
11 89 (1.65%) Brocade
11 89 (1.65%) Tanium
12 88 (1.63%) Nimble Storage
13 87 (1.61%) ServiceNow
14 83 (1.54%) Adobe
15 78 (1.44%) Cisco
16 57 (1.06%) Workday
17 52 (0.96%) Alteryx
18 43 (0.80%) Ariba