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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 8 14
Rank change year-on-year -17 +6 +5
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,818 5,947 9,676
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.22% 13.54% 9.32%
As % of the General category 10.87% 18.54% 16.01%
Number of salaries quoted 3,082 2,408 5,379
10th Percentile £32,750 £30,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,150 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.55% +10.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,445 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.11% +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 44,323 32,078 60,433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 48.03% 73.02% 58.23%
Number of salaries quoted 26,294 15,454 40,305
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,984 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £71,725
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £48,507 £47,500
% change year-on-year +3.08% +2.12% -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 6 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 6 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 -16 4,385 £55,000 - 2,628
UK excluding London -19 3,010 £48,445 -3.11% 1,745
London -10 1,532 £67,500 +3.85% 1,230
Work from Home -11 1,471 £55,000 - 1,284
North of England -19 932 £47,500 -1.67% 422
South East -6 759 £50,000 -4.76% 584
Midlands -11 554 £48,500 +2.11% 250
North West -18 548 £46,500 -7.00% 242
West Midlands -19 309 £51,300 +8.00% 157
South West -26 308 £47,500 -5.47% 187
Yorkshire -14 290 £50,000 +11.11% 132
East Midlands +1 244 £45,000 -5.76% 93
East of England -19 240 £45,000 -11.71% 161
Scotland -25 109 £40,000 -20.71% 92
North East -30 94 £50,000 +27.88% 55
Wales -2 79 £51,709 -5.98% 38
Northern Ireland -25 40 £41,250 -25.00% 65

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
1 154 (3.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 114 (2.37%) SharePoint
3 76 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
4 70 (1.45%) Apache Spark
5 62 (1.29%) Confluence
6 41 (0.85%) Apache
7 39 (0.81%) CMS
8 25 (0.52%) IIS
9 19 (0.39%) SAS
10 16 (0.33%) WordPress
11 14 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 13 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
13 6 (0.12%) 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 (0.042%) Appian
15 2 (0.042%) WebLogic
Applications
1 541 (11.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 197 (4.09%) Microsoft Office
3 103 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 93 (1.93%) MS Visio
5 28 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
5 28 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.21%) CATIA
7 9 (0.19%) Adobe XD
8 7 (0.15%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.10%) Acrobat
9 5 (0.10%) Maya
10 4 (0.083%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.062%) Blender
11 3 (0.062%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.062%) Trello
12 2 (0.042%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.042%) Lectora
12 2 (0.042%) Simulink
12 2 (0.042%) SOLIDWORKS
13 1 (0.021%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 71 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 34 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
4 31 (0.64%) NetSuite
5 20 (0.42%) 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
9 11 (0.23%) SAP FI
10 10 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
11 9 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
12 8 (0.17%) Endur
13 7 (0.15%) Elite 3E
13 7 (0.15%) Fidessa
13 7 (0.15%) Magento
13 7 (0.15%) Shopify
13 7 (0.15%) Workday HCM
14 6 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
14 6 (0.12%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 865 (17.95%) Azure
2 641 (13.30%) Power Platform
3 489 (10.15%) AWS
4 357 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
5 297 (6.16%) SaaS
6 204 (4.23%) GCP
7 127 (2.64%) Dynamics 365
8 120 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
9 112 (2.32%) Entra ID
10 86 (1.78%) GitHub
11 82 (1.70%) Power Automate
12 79 (1.64%) Snowflake
13 77 (1.60%) Google Analytics
14 76 (1.58%) Microsoft Purview
15 72 (1.49%) Amazon S3
16 70 (1.45%) dbt
17 65 (1.35%) PowerApps
18 63 (1.31%) Serverless
19 50 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
20 47 (0.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 208 (4.32%) Firewall
2 163 (3.38%) DNS
3 132 (2.74%) VPN
4 119 (2.47%) DHCP
5 83 (1.72%) WAN
6 76 (1.58%) TCP/IP
7 73 (1.52%) LAN
8 65 (1.35%) Broadband
9 62 (1.29%) Wi-Fi
10 60 (1.25%) VLAN
11 56 (1.16%) Wireless
12 49 (1.02%) Network Security
13 46 (0.95%) SAN
14 40 (0.83%) BGP
15 32 (0.66%) Cisco ASA
15 32 (0.66%) OSPF
16 29 (0.60%) SD-WAN
17 28 (0.58%) HTTP
18 27 (0.56%) Internet
19 26 (0.54%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 566 (11.75%) Power BI
2 326 (6.77%) Tableau
3 183 (3.80%) SQL Server
4 152 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
5 108 (2.24%) Data Mining
6 89 (1.85%) Metadata
7 86 (1.78%) Amazon RDS
8 72 (1.49%) Data Lake
9 65 (1.35%) Relational Database
10 59 (1.22%) Looker
10 59 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 58 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
12 57 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
13 50 (1.04%) Power Query
14 47 (0.98%) BigQuery
14 47 (0.98%) MySQL
15 42 (0.87%) Big Data
15 42 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 41 (0.85%) NoSQL
17 35 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 152 (3.15%) JIRA
2 134 (2.78%) Git
3 50 (1.04%) GitLab
4 32 (0.66%) Rational DOORS
5 30 (0.62%) Jenkins
5 30 (0.62%) MLflow
6 20 (0.42%) Chocolatey
7 19 (0.39%) Selenium
8 15 (0.31%) Cucumber
9 14 (0.29%) ERwin
10 13 (0.27%) IBM UrbanCode
11 12 (0.25%) Visual Studio
12 10 (0.21%) Balsamiq
12 10 (0.21%) Bitbucket
12 10 (0.21%) Cypress.io
12 10 (0.21%) SonarQube
13 9 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
13 9 (0.19%) Postman
14 8 (0.17%) Maven
14 8 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2,199 (45.64%) Social Skills
2 1,677 (34.81%) Finance
3 429 (8.90%) Marketing
4 381 (7.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 277 (5.75%) Law
6 276 (5.73%) Public Sector
7 272 (5.65%) Organisational Skills
8 263 (5.46%) Retail
9 257 (5.33%) Legal
10 250 (5.19%) Banking
11 169 (3.51%) Manufacturing
12 167 (3.47%) Influencing Skills
13 142 (2.95%) Presentation Skills
14 114 (2.37%) Telecoms
15 89 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
16 83 (1.72%) Advertising
16 83 (1.72%) Financial Institution
17 74 (1.54%) Aerospace
17 74 (1.54%) Electronics
18 52 (1.08%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1,236 (25.65%) Analyst
2 638 (13.24%) Senior
3 324 (6.72%) Lead
4 312 (6.48%) Data Analyst
5 280 (5.81%) Business Analyst
6 244 (5.06%) Developer
7 218 (4.52%) Architect
8 207 (4.30%) Consultant
9 174 (3.61%) Systems Engineer
10 135 (2.80%) Senior Analyst
11 121 (2.51%) Data Engineer
12 119 (2.47%) Senior Manager
13 118 (2.45%) IT Manager
14 116 (2.41%) Support Analyst
15 107 (2.22%) Support Engineer
16 106 (2.20%) IT Support
17 103 (2.14%) Trainee
18 95 (1.97%) Systems Analyst
19 92 (1.91%) Trainee Analyst
19 92 (1.91%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (2.66%) HTML
2 118 (2.45%) CSS
3 101 (2.10%) .NET
4 95 (1.97%) REST
5 85 (1.76%) JSON
5 85 (1.76%) 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%) Kafka
10 51 (1.06%) Node.js
11 50 (1.04%) SOAP
12 41 (0.85%) scikit-learn
13 39 (0.81%) PySpark
14 37 (0.77%) RESTful
15 33 (0.68%) LangChain
15 33 (0.68%) Pandas
16 32 (0.66%) EDI
17 30 (0.62%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 513 (10.65%) Analytical Mindset
2 231 (4.79%) Management Information System
3 210 (4.36%) Onboarding
4 193 (4.01%) Product Ownership
5 187 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
6 118 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
7 115 (2.39%) Data Centre
8 92 (1.91%) Cloud Native
9 87 (1.81%) Data Structures
10 84 (1.74%) Security Posture
11 82 (1.70%) Algorithms
12 72 (1.49%) Driving Licence
13 71 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
14 58 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
15 55 (1.14%) Public Cloud
16 54 (1.12%) Virtual Team
17 51 (1.06%) Social Media
18 46 (0.95%) Cyber Defence
18 46 (0.95%) FMCG
19 40 (0.83%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 366 (7.60%) Windows
2 223 (4.63%) Linux
3 173 (3.59%) Windows Server
4 78 (1.62%) Windows Server 2016
5 36 (0.75%) Unix
6 25 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 25 (0.52%) Windows 10
7 18 (0.37%) Mac OS
8 16 (0.33%) Android
8 16 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
9 15 (0.31%) Apple iOS
10 11 (0.23%) CentOS
11 10 (0.21%) Ubuntu
12 8 (0.17%) VMS
13 4 (0.083%) AIX
13 4 (0.083%) Rocky
13 4 (0.083%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.062%) Debian
15 1 (0.021%) OpenBSD
15 1 (0.021%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,171 (45.06%) Problem-Solving
2 1,150 (23.87%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,060 (22.00%) Analytics
4 1,044 (21.67%) Decision-Making
5 839 (17.41%) Agile
6 651 (13.51%) Business Intelligence
7 631 (13.10%) AI
8 619 (12.85%) Stakeholder Management
9 490 (10.17%) Project Management
10 486 (10.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 481 (9.98%) Roadmaps
12 473 (9.82%) Actionable Insight
12 473 (9.82%) Mentoring
13 449 (9.32%) Data Analysis
14 441 (9.15%) Data Modelling
15 433 (8.99%) Cybersecurity
16 391 (8.12%) Data Governance
17 377 (7.82%) Analytical Thinking
18 368 (7.64%) Process Improvement
19 348 (7.22%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1,017 (21.11%) SQL
2 891 (18.49%) Python
3 175 (3.63%) PowerShell
4 174 (3.61%) JavaScript
5 170 (3.53%) Java
6 136 (2.82%) C#
7 80 (1.66%) R
8 70 (1.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 68 (1.41%) Bash
10 67 (1.39%) C++
11 47 (0.98%) TypeScript
12 45 (0.93%) T-SQL
13 40 (0.83%) MATLAB
14 37 (0.77%) VBA
15 25 (0.52%) Scala
16 22 (0.46%) PHP
17 21 (0.44%) Go
18 17 (0.35%) Julia
18 17 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
19 16 (0.33%) C
Qualifications
1 901 (18.70%) Degree
2 412 (8.55%) Security Cleared
3 298 (6.19%) SC Cleared
4 232 (4.82%) ACCA
5 217 (4.50%) CIMA
6 158 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 156 (3.24%) DBS Check
8 148 (3.07%) CISSP
9 121 (2.51%) Cisco Certification
10 102 (2.12%) CISM
11 95 (1.97%) Master's Degree
12 86 (1.78%) DV Cleared
13 77 (1.60%) PMI Certification
14 75 (1.56%) Azure Certification
15 74 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
16 72 (1.49%) IRCA
16 72 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
17 68 (1.41%) PMP
18 64 (1.33%) CompTIA Security+
19 49 (1.02%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 451 (9.36%) Data Quality
2 365 (7.58%) GDPR
3 298 (6.19%) QA
4 251 (5.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 218 (4.52%) NIST
6 147 (3.05%) Cyber Essentials
7 129 (2.68%) SLA
8 118 (2.45%) PCI DSS
9 115 (2.39%) Accessibility
10 112 (2.32%) ISO 9001
11 70 (1.45%) GRC
12 58 (1.20%) PMO
13 55 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
14 39 (0.81%) IFRS
15 37 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 35 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 32 (0.66%) COBIT
18 28 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
19 24 (0.50%) NCSC
20 23 (0.48%) ITGC
System Software
1 256 (5.31%) Active Directory
2 81 (1.68%) Hyper-V
3 79 (1.64%) Docker
3 79 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (1.33%) Terminal Server
5 27 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
6 16 (0.33%) ProxySG
7 12 (0.25%) vSphere
8 10 (0.21%) 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 (0.042%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.042%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.021%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 132 (2.74%) Terraform
2 80 (1.66%) 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%) Nagios
7 25 (0.52%) Prometheus
8 19 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
9 15 (0.31%) QRadar
10 14 (0.29%) Kibana
11 10 (0.21%) Kubeflow
12 8 (0.17%) Control-M
13 6 (0.12%) logstash
13 6 (0.12%) Packer
14 5 (0.10%) Docker Swarm
14 5 (0.10%) Graylog
14 5 (0.10%) Podman
15 4 (0.083%) RSA Archer
15 4 (0.083%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 1,090 (22.62%) Microsoft
2 202 (4.19%) SAP
3 183 (3.80%) Google
4 164 (3.40%) Oracle
5 155 (3.22%) VMware
6 150 (3.11%) Salesforce
7 117 (2.43%) SolarWinds
8 115 (2.39%) Splunk
9 108 (2.24%) Databricks
10 97 (2.01%) ServiceNow
11 77 (1.60%) Cisco
11 77 (1.60%) Veeam
12 72 (1.49%) Workday
13 65 (1.35%) Nimble Storage
14 64 (1.33%) Brocade
14 64 (1.33%) Tanium
15 51 (1.06%) IBM
16 47 (0.98%) Red Hat
17 45 (0.93%) Adobe
17 45 (0.93%) Dell