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 9 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 9 13
Rank change year-on-year -16 +4 +7
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 6,042 6,070 7,529
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.37% 12.24% 9.61%
As % of the General category 11.67% 17.93% 16.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3,658 2,552 3,050
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,800 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,472 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -

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 51,768 33,851 44,471
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.03% 68.27% 56.75%
Number of salaries quoted 31,878 17,678 23,530
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,388 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,471 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -0.96% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -2.66%

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 9 September 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 9 September 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 5,390 £52,500 - 7,463
UK excluding London -17 3,980 £47,500 +5.56% 3,992
Work from Home -7 2,007 £55,000 +10.00% 3,125
London -12 1,778 £67,500 +3.85% 4,404
North of England -19 1,088 £47,500 +6.74% 862
South East -9 949 £49,536 -0.93% 1,066
Midlands -9 698 £47,500 +5.56% 578
North West -16 667 £46,500 +3.33% 528
South West -9 563 £47,500 +5.56% 538
West Midlands -16 359 £48,000 +6.67% 333
East Midlands -5 336 £45,000 +3.45% 246
Yorkshire -10 290 £47,000 +17.50% 271
East of England -18 254 £47,500 +13.77% 385
Wales -8 186 £46,250 -7.82% 86
Scotland -20 133 £44,500 +12.66% 344
North East -18 131 £50,500 +26.25% 72
Northern Ireland -12 117 £42,500 -22.73% 206

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
1 187 (3.10%) SharePoint
2 178 (2.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 105 (1.74%) Confluence
4 47 (0.78%) Apache Spark
5 44 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
6 41 (0.68%) CMS
7 37 (0.61%) IIS
8 34 (0.56%) Apache
9 28 (0.46%) SAS
10 11 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
10 11 (0.18%) WordPress
11 10 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 10 (0.17%) Headless CMS
11 10 (0.17%) Jupyter
12 9 (0.15%) WebLogic
12 9 (0.15%) WebSphere
13 8 (0.13%) OpenStack
14 3 (0.050%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.050%) Appian
14 3 (0.050%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 655 (10.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 278 (4.60%) Microsoft Office
3 120 (1.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 72 (1.19%) MS Visio
5 46 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
6 34 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
7 15 (0.25%) Simulink
8 9 (0.15%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.13%) Adobe XD
10 6 (0.099%) Chatbot
11 5 (0.083%) Acrobat
11 5 (0.083%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 5 (0.083%) CATIA
11 5 (0.083%) EPLAN
11 5 (0.083%) Photoshop
11 5 (0.083%) Revit
12 4 (0.066%) SOLIDWORKS
13 3 (0.050%) LaTeX
13 3 (0.050%) Siemens NX
13 3 (0.050%) Trello
Business Applications
1 106 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 63 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
3 40 (0.66%) NetSuite
4 35 (0.58%) Dynamics GP
5 23 (0.38%) Shopify
6 18 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
7 15 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
8 14 (0.23%) Workday HCM
9 12 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
9 12 (0.20%) SAP CO
9 12 (0.20%) SAP FI
10 11 (0.18%) Magento
10 11 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
11 10 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
11 10 (0.17%) SAP Business One
11 10 (0.17%) SAP ERP
11 10 (0.17%) SAP PM
12 9 (0.15%) Elite 3E
12 9 (0.15%) Fidessa
12 9 (0.15%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 995 (16.47%) Azure
2 715 (11.83%) Power Platform
3 620 (10.26%) AWS
4 434 (7.18%) Microsoft 365
5 391 (6.47%) SaaS
6 285 (4.72%) GCP
7 158 (2.62%) Entra ID
8 156 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
9 153 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
10 124 (2.05%) Google Analytics
11 106 (1.75%) GitHub
12 100 (1.66%) Google Ads
13 90 (1.49%) Snowflake
14 84 (1.39%) Serverless
15 82 (1.36%) Power Automate
16 81 (1.34%) Microsoft Purview
17 80 (1.32%) dbt
18 79 (1.31%) PowerApps
19 74 (1.22%) Amazon S3
19 74 (1.22%) Meta Ads
Communications & Networking
1 200 (3.31%) DNS
2 156 (2.58%) DHCP
3 152 (2.52%) Firewall
4 131 (2.17%) VPN
5 102 (1.69%) TCP/IP
6 76 (1.26%) WAN
7 73 (1.21%) LAN
8 66 (1.09%) Network Security
9 60 (0.99%) Wireless
10 55 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
11 52 (0.86%) Broadband
12 48 (0.79%) VLAN
13 45 (0.74%) Internet
14 39 (0.65%) SAN
15 35 (0.58%) HTTP
16 32 (0.53%) VoIP
17 26 (0.43%) BGP
18 23 (0.38%) SMS
19 22 (0.36%) SD-WAN
20 19 (0.31%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 636 (10.53%) Power BI
2 222 (3.67%) Tableau
3 220 (3.64%) SQL Server
4 185 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
5 112 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
6 108 (1.79%) Relational Database
7 96 (1.59%) Metadata
8 93 (1.54%) Looker
9 85 (1.41%) MySQL
10 74 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
11 73 (1.21%) Data Lake
12 72 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 71 (1.18%) Power Query
14 60 (0.99%) BigQuery
15 59 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 53 (0.88%) Big Data
17 47 (0.78%) NoSQL
18 46 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
19 38 (0.63%) MongoDB
20 35 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 262 (4.34%) JIRA
2 207 (3.43%) Git
3 52 (0.86%) Jenkins
4 50 (0.83%) GitLab
5 32 (0.53%) Rational DOORS
6 29 (0.48%) Selenium
7 24 (0.40%) Eclipse
8 23 (0.38%) Cucumber
8 23 (0.38%) MLflow
9 20 (0.33%) Postman
10 19 (0.31%) Claude Code
11 16 (0.26%) Bitbucket
11 16 (0.26%) Chocolatey
12 15 (0.25%) LabVIEW
12 15 (0.25%) Oracle Forms
13 14 (0.23%) JMeter
14 13 (0.22%) Burp Suite
14 13 (0.22%) Cypress.io
15 12 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
16 11 (0.18%) Metasploit
General
1 2,953 (48.87%) Social Skills
2 1,982 (32.80%) Finance
3 661 (10.94%) Marketing
4 533 (8.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 470 (7.78%) Organisational Skills
6 408 (6.75%) Retail
7 405 (6.70%) Law
8 387 (6.41%) Public Sector
9 366 (6.06%) Legal
10 317 (5.25%) Manufacturing
11 307 (5.08%) Influencing Skills
12 242 (4.01%) Banking
13 204 (3.38%) Presentation Skills
14 185 (3.06%) Aerospace
15 137 (2.27%) Electronics
16 136 (2.25%) Telecoms
17 109 (1.80%) Advertising
18 95 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
19 71 (1.18%) Financial Institution
20 65 (1.08%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,375 (22.76%) Analyst
2 773 (12.79%) Senior
3 419 (6.93%) Lead
4 311 (5.15%) Data Analyst
5 295 (4.88%) Business Analyst
6 286 (4.73%) Developer
7 235 (3.89%) Consultant
8 231 (3.82%) Architect
9 201 (3.33%) Senior Analyst
10 192 (3.18%) Systems Engineer
11 184 (3.05%) Support Analyst
12 183 (3.03%) Data Engineer
13 129 (2.14%) Support Engineer
14 119 (1.97%) IT Support
15 113 (1.87%) IT Manager
16 108 (1.79%) Security Analyst
17 107 (1.77%) Applications Support
17 107 (1.77%) Senior Manager
18 97 (1.61%) Systems Analyst
19 96 (1.59%) Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (2.66%) .NET
2 146 (2.42%) Terraform
3 129 (2.14%) REST
4 125 (2.07%) HTML
5 116 (1.92%) CSS
6 90 (1.49%) JSON
7 80 (1.32%) XML
8 78 (1.29%) Middleware
9 77 (1.27%) RESTful
10 71 (1.18%) Kafka
11 66 (1.09%) React
12 62 (1.03%) SOAP
13 60 (0.99%) PySpark
14 57 (0.94%) PyTorch
15 50 (0.83%) TensorFlow
16 48 (0.79%) EDI
17 46 (0.76%) Web Services
18 43 (0.71%) LDAP
19 39 (0.65%) ASP.NET
19 39 (0.65%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 497 (8.23%) Analytical Mindset
2 382 (6.32%) Management Information System
3 376 (6.22%) Onboarding
4 300 (4.97%) Self-Motivation
5 297 (4.92%) Product Ownership
6 156 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
7 144 (2.38%) Driving Licence
8 141 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
9 138 (2.28%) Cloud Native
10 118 (1.95%) Blog
11 117 (1.94%) Social Media
12 106 (1.75%) Cyber Threat
13 104 (1.72%) Marketing Technology
14 103 (1.70%) Security Posture
15 102 (1.69%) Data Centre
16 97 (1.61%) Virtual Team
17 86 (1.42%) Data Structures
18 72 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
19 65 (1.08%) Algorithms
20 55 (0.91%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 466 (7.71%) Windows
2 281 (4.65%) Linux
3 220 (3.64%) Windows Server
4 93 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
5 40 (0.66%) Windows 10
6 32 (0.53%) Unix
7 30 (0.50%) Mac OS
8 27 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 24 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
10 21 (0.35%) Apple iOS
11 17 (0.28%) Android
12 10 (0.17%) CentOS
13 8 (0.13%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.099%) Debian
14 6 (0.099%) VMS
15 5 (0.083%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.066%) CoreOS
17 3 (0.050%) Rocky
18 2 (0.033%) AIX
18 2 (0.033%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,932 (48.53%) Problem-Solving
2 1,774 (29.36%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,417 (23.45%) Decision-Making
4 1,280 (21.19%) Analytics
5 1,146 (18.97%) Stakeholder Management
6 1,083 (17.92%) AI
7 1,074 (17.78%) Agile
8 794 (13.14%) Business Intelligence
9 642 (10.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 621 (10.28%) Roadmaps
11 583 (9.65%) Actionable Insight
12 580 (9.60%) Mentoring
13 543 (8.99%) Validation
14 537 (8.89%) Project Management
15 524 (8.67%) Data Analysis
16 496 (8.21%) Cybersecurity
17 488 (8.08%) Process Improvement
18 485 (8.03%) Data Modelling
19 474 (7.85%) ERP
20 470 (7.78%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 1,188 (19.66%) SQL
2 871 (14.42%) Python
3 228 (3.77%) JavaScript
4 215 (3.56%) Java
5 194 (3.21%) C#
6 193 (3.19%) PowerShell
7 114 (1.89%) C++
8 90 (1.49%) Bash
9 81 (1.34%) R
10 80 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 69 (1.14%) TypeScript
12 52 (0.86%) MATLAB
13 48 (0.79%) T-SQL
14 39 (0.65%) C
15 29 (0.48%) Scala
16 27 (0.45%) PHP
17 26 (0.43%) PL/SQL
18 22 (0.36%) Perl
19 21 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
20 20 (0.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,203 (19.91%) Degree
2 674 (11.16%) Security Cleared
3 467 (7.73%) SC Cleared
4 243 (4.02%) ACCA
5 227 (3.76%) CIMA
6 178 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 161 (2.66%) DV Cleared
8 160 (2.65%) CISSP
9 141 (2.33%) DBS Check
10 126 (2.09%) CISM
11 123 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
12 114 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
13 96 (1.59%) Master's Degree
14 81 (1.34%) Azure Certification
15 77 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
16 69 (1.14%) CompTIA Security+
17 65 (1.08%) PMI Certification
18 63 (1.04%) HND
19 50 (0.83%) CRISC
20 49 (0.81%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 591 (9.78%) Data Quality
2 392 (6.49%) QA
3 365 (6.04%) GDPR
4 242 (4.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 188 (3.11%) NIST
6 185 (3.06%) Accessibility
7 152 (2.52%) SLA
8 148 (2.45%) Cyber Essentials
9 121 (2.00%) PCI DSS
10 96 (1.59%) ISO 9001
11 70 (1.16%) GRC
12 60 (0.99%) PMO
13 47 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
14 42 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 38 (0.63%) IFRS
16 35 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 32 (0.53%) COBIT
18 29 (0.48%) NCSC
19 25 (0.41%) DO-254
20 24 (0.40%) GAAP
System Software
1 335 (5.54%) Active Directory
2 136 (2.25%) Docker
3 99 (1.64%) Hyper-V
4 90 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 72 (1.19%) Terminal Server
6 39 (0.65%) Firmware
7 23 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
8 22 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
9 10 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
9 10 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.15%) vSphere
11 8 (0.13%) VMware NSX
12 7 (0.12%) Ceph
13 4 (0.066%) KVM
13 4 (0.066%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.050%) DFS Replication
15 2 (0.033%) IAG
15 2 (0.033%) ProxySG
15 2 (0.033%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 2 (0.033%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 115 (1.90%) Kubernetes
2 87 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
3 75 (1.24%) Ansible
4 42 (0.70%) Grafana
5 40 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
6 25 (0.41%) SCCM
7 23 (0.38%) Prometheus
8 20 (0.33%) QRadar
9 18 (0.30%) Kibana
10 13 (0.22%) Nagios
11 11 (0.18%) Nmap
11 11 (0.18%) Podman
12 9 (0.15%) Argo
13 8 (0.13%) Kubeflow
13 8 (0.13%) logstash
14 7 (0.12%) Check_MK
14 7 (0.12%) Istio
14 7 (0.12%) Packer
15 6 (0.099%) Graylog
15 6 (0.099%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1,369 (22.66%) Microsoft
2 340 (5.63%) Google
3 237 (3.92%) SAP
4 189 (3.13%) Oracle
5 179 (2.96%) VMware
6 149 (2.47%) Splunk
7 140 (2.32%) Databricks
8 135 (2.23%) ServiceNow
9 130 (2.15%) Salesforce
10 98 (1.62%) SolarWinds
11 88 (1.46%) Cisco
12 81 (1.34%) Veeam
13 73 (1.21%) Brocade
13 73 (1.21%) Nimble Storage
14 72 (1.19%) Tanium
15 67 (1.11%) Adobe
16 65 (1.08%) Workday
17 58 (0.96%) HubSpot
17 58 (0.96%) YouTube
18 41 (0.68%) Dell