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 20 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 12 16
Rank change year-on-year -7 +4 +5
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 5,077 5,650 6,812
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 7.40% 11.55% 9.10%
As % of the General category 13.18% 16.90% 14.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2,620 2,337 4,726
10th Percentile £30,370 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,583 £42,500 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,058 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,886 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,967 £45,522
% change year-on-year -11.71% +11.96% -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 general skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 38,515 33,423 46,141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 56.16% 68.34% 61.62%
Number of salaries quoted 21,024 15,319 34,158
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,211 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.31% +9.09% -10.10%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -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 20 February 2026.

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 20 February 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 -7 4,467 £52,500 -4.55% 3,305
UK excluding London -13 3,255 £45,000 -11.71% 2,602
Work from Home +6 1,721 £52,500 -4.55% 1,395
London -4 1,510 £67,500 +3.85% 1,181
South East +11 899 £50,000 - 836
North of England -18 829 £44,000 -16.19% 526
Midlands -12 595 £44,000 -9.28% 428
North West -19 419 £42,500 -19.05% 300
West Midlands -17 343 £52,500 +5.00% 240
South West -5 326 £45,000 -14.29% 314
Yorkshire -1 300 £45,000 -10.00% 171
East of England -17 261 £40,000 -21.52% 308
Scotland -8 257 £40,000 -33.74% 129
East Midlands +3 250 £40,000 -5.88% 185
North East -5 110 £40,000 +0.34% 61
Wales +18 71 £40,000 -18.54% 82
Northern Ireland -13 45 £52,500 -4.55% 41
Isle of Man -4 1 £62,500 +150.00% 3
Channel Islands -8 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
1 171 (3.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 92 (1.81%) Confluence
3 87 (1.71%) SharePoint
4 42 (0.83%) Apache Spark
5 41 (0.81%) CMS
6 34 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
7 19 (0.37%) WordPress
8 18 (0.35%) Apache
9 14 (0.28%) IIS
9 14 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
9 14 (0.28%) SAS
10 6 (0.12%) nginx
11 4 (0.079%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.059%) Drupal
12 3 (0.059%) govService
13 2 (0.039%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.039%) FactoryTalk
13 2 (0.039%) MTS
13 2 (0.039%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 2 (0.039%) WinCC
Applications
1 735 (14.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 338 (6.66%) Chatbot
3 298 (5.87%) Microsoft Office
4 125 (2.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 81 (1.60%) MS Visio
6 43 (0.85%) Maya
7 38 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
8 36 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
9 17 (0.33%) AutoCAD
10 14 (0.28%) Adobe XD
11 10 (0.20%) CATIA
12 8 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
13 3 (0.059%) Oracle Smart View
13 3 (0.059%) Sketch
14 2 (0.039%) Revit
14 2 (0.039%) Simulink
14 2 (0.039%) Trello
15 1 (0.020%) Photoshop
15 1 (0.020%) SmartSuite
15 1 (0.020%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 120 (2.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 53 (1.04%) SAP MDG
3 50 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
4 41 (0.81%) NetSuite
5 32 (0.63%) SAP CO
6 27 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
7 24 (0.47%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 24 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
7 24 (0.47%) SAP FI
8 23 (0.45%) SAP FI/CO
9 22 (0.43%) Endur
9 22 (0.43%) Workday HCM
10 16 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
11 14 (0.28%) Shopify
12 12 (0.24%) Oracle Assets
12 12 (0.24%) Sage X3
12 12 (0.24%) SAP ERP
13 11 (0.22%) SAP IBP
14 10 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
15 9 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 870 (17.14%) Azure
2 641 (12.63%) Power Platform
3 415 (8.17%) AWS
4 330 (6.50%) Microsoft 365
5 259 (5.10%) SaaS
6 160 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
7 159 (3.13%) GCP
8 117 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
9 97 (1.91%) Entra ID
10 92 (1.81%) GitHub
11 79 (1.56%) Power Automate
12 76 (1.50%) Snowflake
13 72 (1.42%) Azure Data Factory
14 60 (1.18%) Google Analytics
15 57 (1.12%) Serverless
16 55 (1.08%) dbt
17 51 (1.00%) Microsoft Purview
18 50 (0.98%) PowerApps
19 47 (0.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 47 (0.93%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 189 (3.72%) DNS
2 178 (3.51%) Firewall
3 155 (3.05%) DHCP
4 97 (1.91%) VPN
5 80 (1.58%) Wi-Fi
6 66 (1.30%) WAN
7 60 (1.18%) LAN
8 58 (1.14%) Wireless
9 56 (1.10%) TCP/IP
10 54 (1.06%) VLAN
11 43 (0.85%) Network Security
12 41 (0.81%) Broadband
13 36 (0.71%) Remote Desktop
14 33 (0.65%) BGP
14 33 (0.65%) Wireshark
15 31 (0.61%) OSPF
16 29 (0.57%) VoIP
17 28 (0.55%) SAN
18 27 (0.53%) EIGRP
19 24 (0.47%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 577 (11.36%) Power BI
2 408 (8.04%) Tableau
3 206 (4.06%) Data Mining
3 206 (4.06%) SQL Server
4 175 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
5 127 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
6 110 (2.17%) Metadata
7 98 (1.93%) Relational Database
8 85 (1.67%) Data Lake
9 63 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 53 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
11 52 (1.02%) Looker
12 51 (1.00%) MySQL
12 51 (1.00%) NoSQL
13 47 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
14 46 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
15 41 (0.81%) Power Query
16 38 (0.75%) Big Data
17 32 (0.63%) GIS
18 29 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 206 (4.06%) JIRA
2 102 (2.01%) Git
3 42 (0.83%) GitLab
3 42 (0.83%) Selenium
4 35 (0.69%) Jenkins
5 15 (0.30%) ERwin
5 15 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
5 15 (0.30%) Robot Framework
5 15 (0.30%) Visual Studio
6 14 (0.28%) Subversion
7 13 (0.26%) Balsamiq
7 13 (0.26%) Postman
7 13 (0.26%) Snyk
8 12 (0.24%) Axure RP
8 12 (0.24%) ER Studio
9 11 (0.22%) Chocolatey
10 10 (0.20%) Bitbucket
10 10 (0.20%) Cypress.io
10 10 (0.20%) LabVIEW
10 10 (0.20%) WebDriver
General
1 2,610 (51.41%) Social Skills
2 1,823 (35.91%) Finance
3 457 (9.00%) Marketing
4 328 (6.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 297 (5.85%) Law
6 287 (5.65%) Retail
7 277 (5.46%) Legal
8 265 (5.22%) Banking
9 264 (5.20%) Organisational Skills
10 247 (4.87%) Public Sector
11 219 (4.31%) Presentation Skills
12 160 (3.15%) Manufacturing
13 136 (2.68%) Financial Institution
14 125 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
15 102 (2.01%) Telecoms
16 95 (1.87%) Games
17 90 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
18 72 (1.42%) Advertising
19 64 (1.26%) Electronics
20 50 (0.98%) German Language
Job Titles
1 1,220 (24.03%) Analyst
2 618 (12.17%) Senior
3 395 (7.78%) Data Analyst
4 357 (7.03%) Lead
5 334 (6.58%) Trainer
6 283 (5.57%) Architect
7 235 (4.63%) Developer
8 233 (4.59%) Business Analyst
9 183 (3.60%) Consultant
10 180 (3.55%) Trainee
11 176 (3.47%) Support Analyst
12 167 (3.29%) Trainee Analyst
12 167 (3.29%) Trainee Data Analyst
13 151 (2.97%) IT Support
14 135 (2.66%) Senior Analyst
15 132 (2.60%) Systems Engineer
16 120 (2.36%) Senior Manager
17 110 (2.17%) Business Manager
18 105 (2.07%) Financial Analyst
19 103 (2.03%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (2.40%) HTML
2 119 (2.34%) CSS
3 85 (1.67%) React
4 73 (1.44%) .NET
5 63 (1.24%) Middleware
5 63 (1.24%) REST
6 50 (0.98%) JSON
7 44 (0.87%) XML
8 40 (0.79%) Node.js
9 31 (0.61%) EDI
9 31 (0.61%) SOAP
10 29 (0.57%) Kafka
10 29 (0.57%) Spring
11 27 (0.53%) AngularJS
11 27 (0.53%) TensorFlow
12 24 (0.47%) PyTorch
13 23 (0.45%) FIX Protocol
13 23 (0.45%) Oracle Fusion
14 21 (0.41%) PySpark
15 18 (0.35%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 493 (9.71%) Analytical Mindset
2 366 (7.21%) Self-Motivation
3 298 (5.87%) Onboarding
4 263 (5.18%) Management Information System
5 196 (3.86%) Product Ownership
6 159 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
7 120 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
8 107 (2.11%) Data Centre
9 90 (1.77%) Data Structures
10 82 (1.62%) Cloud Native
11 80 (1.58%) FMCG
12 77 (1.52%) Driving Licence
13 69 (1.36%) Algorithms
14 53 (1.04%) Robotics
14 53 (1.04%) Virtual Team
15 51 (1.00%) Social Media
16 49 (0.97%) Low-Code
17 47 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
18 46 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 45 (0.89%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 387 (7.62%) Windows
2 261 (5.14%) Linux
3 177 (3.49%) Windows Server
4 116 (2.28%) Windows Server 2016
5 38 (0.75%) Unix
6 28 (0.55%) Mac OS
7 16 (0.32%) Windows 10
8 15 (0.30%) Android
9 9 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 8 (0.16%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.098%) VMS
12 4 (0.079%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.059%) OpenWrt
13 3 (0.059%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.039%) AIX
14 2 (0.039%) CentOS
14 2 (0.039%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (0.039%) Oracle Linux
15 1 (0.020%) FreeBSD
15 1 (0.020%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,270 (44.71%) Problem-Solving
2 1,128 (22.22%) Analytics
3 1,106 (21.78%) Continuous Improvement
4 1,049 (20.66%) AI
5 952 (18.75%) Decision-Making
6 879 (17.31%) Agile
7 812 (15.99%) Project Management
8 750 (14.77%) Business Intelligence
9 631 (12.43%) Stakeholder Management
10 585 (11.52%) Data Analysis
11 428 (8.43%) Actionable Insight
11 428 (8.43%) Mentoring
12 426 (8.39%) Roadmaps
13 418 (8.23%) ERP
14 417 (8.21%) Analytical Thinking
14 417 (8.21%) Risk Management
15 416 (8.19%) Process Improvement
16 402 (7.92%) Migration
17 399 (7.86%) Customer Service
18 390 (7.68%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1,045 (20.58%) SQL
2 828 (16.31%) Python
3 152 (2.99%) JavaScript
4 140 (2.76%) Java
5 139 (2.74%) PowerShell
6 118 (2.32%) C#
7 75 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 66 (1.30%) R
9 50 (0.98%) Bash
9 50 (0.98%) T-SQL
10 46 (0.91%) C++
11 43 (0.85%) VBA
12 30 (0.59%) TypeScript
13 24 (0.47%) Scala
14 23 (0.45%) C
15 19 (0.37%) Go
15 19 (0.37%) MATLAB
16 16 (0.32%) PL/SQL
17 12 (0.24%) Bicep
18 11 (0.22%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,483 (29.21%) Degree
2 478 (9.42%) Master's Degree
3 450 (8.86%) Security Cleared
4 343 (6.76%) PhD
5 342 (6.74%) SC Cleared
6 200 (3.94%) ACCA
7 191 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 189 (3.72%) CIMA
9 142 (2.80%) CISSP
10 99 (1.95%) PMI Certification
11 88 (1.73%) DBS Check
12 84 (1.65%) PMP
13 82 (1.62%) DV Cleared
14 81 (1.60%) CISM
15 76 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
16 69 (1.36%) Azure Certification
17 68 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
18 60 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
19 48 (0.95%) AWS Certification
20 47 (0.93%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 319 (6.28%) Data Quality
2 246 (4.85%) QA
3 209 (4.12%) GDPR
4 208 (4.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 182 (3.58%) Cyber Essentials
6 151 (2.97%) PCI DSS
7 142 (2.80%) NIST
8 109 (2.15%) Accessibility
9 88 (1.73%) PMO
10 68 (1.34%) Actionable Recommendations
11 51 (1.00%) SLA
12 44 (0.87%) GRC
13 36 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 32 (0.63%) IFRS
15 26 (0.51%) ISO 9001
16 22 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 21 (0.41%) WCAG
18 18 (0.35%) NCSC
19 15 (0.30%) COBIT
20 12 (0.24%) MiFID
System Software
1 282 (5.55%) Active Directory
2 140 (2.76%) Hyper-V
3 112 (2.21%) Terminal Server
4 58 (1.14%) Docker
5 54 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
6 15 (0.30%) vSphere
7 13 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (0.24%) ProxySG
9 10 (0.20%) Firmware
10 7 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.12%) IAG
11 6 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.079%) VMware NSX
13 3 (0.059%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.039%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.020%) KVM
15 1 (0.020%) NFS
15 1 (0.020%) Oracle RAC
15 1 (0.020%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 119 (2.34%) Terraform
2 67 (1.32%) Kubernetes
3 66 (1.30%) Ansible
4 50 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
5 29 (0.57%) Grafana
6 28 (0.55%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (0.39%) SCCM
9 11 (0.22%) Nagios
10 6 (0.12%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 6 (0.12%) Control-M
10 6 (0.12%) SCOM
11 5 (0.098%) CASB
12 4 (0.079%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.079%) Backup Exec
12 4 (0.079%) Nessus
12 4 (0.079%) QRadar
12 4 (0.079%) SolarWinds Orion
12 4 (0.079%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.059%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 1,230 (24.23%) Microsoft
2 335 (6.60%) PayPal
3 300 (5.91%) SAP
4 191 (3.76%) Oracle
5 178 (3.51%) VMware
6 162 (3.19%) Salesforce
7 155 (3.05%) SolarWinds
8 141 (2.78%) Splunk
9 135 (2.66%) Google
10 117 (2.30%) Veeam
11 113 (2.23%) Brocade
11 113 (2.23%) Tanium
12 112 (2.21%) Nimble Storage
13 108 (2.13%) ServiceNow
14 84 (1.65%) Cisco
15 68 (1.34%) Databricks
16 60 (1.18%) Adobe
17 43 (0.85%) Alteryx
18 42 (0.83%) Bloomberg
18 42 (0.83%) Workday