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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 8 14
Rank change year-on-year -18 +6 +5
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,785 5,919 9,630
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.14% 13.53% 9.42%
As % of the General category 10.48% 18.49% 16.09%
Number of salaries quoted 3,061 2,410 5,398
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,475 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,200 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.27% +10.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £68,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.00% +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 45,653 32,008 59,843
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 49.03% 73.17% 58.51%
Number of salaries quoted 26,103 15,370 40,191
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £77,424 £78,750 £71,991
90th Percentile £98,750 £103,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £49,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +2.04% +3.16% -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 2 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 2 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 -17 4,352 £55,000 - 3,001
UK excluding London -21 2,998 £48,500 -3.00% 1,932
London -9 1,516 £67,500 +3.85% 1,505
Work from Home -12 1,454 £55,000 - 1,507
North of England -29 932 £48,000 -0.63% 424
South East -4 759 £50,000 -4.76% 632
Midlands -22 549 £48,250 +1.58% 271
North West -30 546 £46,500 -7.00% 240
West Midlands -28 316 £51,275 +7.95% 167
South West -25 298 £47,500 -5.00% 215
Yorkshire -14 293 £50,000 +11.11% 131
East of England -21 239 £45,000 -11.71% 196
East Midlands 0 231 £45,000 -5.26% 104
Scotland -29 112 £40,000 -20.35% 126
North East -27 93 £48,445 +24.86% 60
Wales -2 80 £51,709 -5.98% 42
Northern Ireland -25 40 £46,250 -15.91% 80

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
1 144 (3.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 109 (2.28%) SharePoint
3 75 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
4 70 (1.46%) Apache Spark
5 61 (1.27%) Confluence
6 40 (0.84%) Apache
7 39 (0.82%) CMS
8 24 (0.50%) IIS
9 20 (0.42%) SAS
10 16 (0.33%) WordPress
11 13 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 13 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
12 6 (0.13%) Jupyter
12 6 (0.13%) nginx
13 3 (0.063%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.063%) govService
13 3 (0.063%) JBoss
13 3 (0.063%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.042%) Appian
14 2 (0.042%) Camunda
Applications
1 549 (11.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 198 (4.14%) Microsoft Office
3 100 (2.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 94 (1.96%) MS Visio
5 29 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
6 27 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
7 10 (0.21%) Adobe XD
7 10 (0.21%) CATIA
8 7 (0.15%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.084%) Acrobat
9 4 (0.084%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.084%) Maya
10 3 (0.063%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.063%) Trello
11 2 (0.042%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.042%) Blender
11 2 (0.042%) Lectora
11 2 (0.042%) Simulink
11 2 (0.042%) SOLIDWORKS
12 1 (0.021%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 69 (1.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 35 (0.73%) NetSuite
4 33 (0.69%) Salesforce CRM
5 19 (0.40%) 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
10 10 (0.21%) SAP FI
11 9 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
12 8 (0.17%) 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%) SAP PP
13 7 (0.15%) Shopify
13 7 (0.15%) Workday HCM
14 6 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 853 (17.83%) Azure
2 660 (13.79%) Power Platform
3 482 (10.07%) AWS
4 345 (7.21%) Microsoft 365
5 288 (6.02%) SaaS
6 204 (4.26%) GCP
7 125 (2.61%) Dynamics 365
8 123 (2.57%) Azure DevOps
9 110 (2.30%) Entra ID
10 87 (1.82%) GitHub
11 83 (1.73%) Power Automate
12 81 (1.69%) Snowflake
13 79 (1.65%) Google Analytics
14 74 (1.55%) Microsoft Purview
15 71 (1.48%) Amazon S3
15 71 (1.48%) dbt
16 66 (1.38%) PowerApps
17 62 (1.30%) Serverless
18 53 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
19 49 (1.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 200 (4.18%) Firewall
2 153 (3.20%) DNS
3 128 (2.68%) VPN
4 110 (2.30%) DHCP
5 81 (1.69%) WAN
6 72 (1.50%) TCP/IP
7 71 (1.48%) LAN
8 65 (1.36%) Broadband
9 60 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
10 58 (1.21%) VLAN
11 57 (1.19%) Wireless
12 48 (1.00%) Network Security
13 45 (0.94%) SAN
14 39 (0.82%) BGP
15 32 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
16 31 (0.65%) OSPF
17 29 (0.61%) SD-WAN
18 27 (0.56%) HTTP
19 26 (0.54%) Wireshark
20 25 (0.52%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 584 (12.20%) Power BI
2 336 (7.02%) Tableau
3 184 (3.85%) SQL Server
4 157 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
5 115 (2.40%) Data Mining
6 88 (1.84%) Metadata
7 78 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
8 74 (1.55%) Data Lake
9 62 (1.30%) Relational Database
10 61 (1.27%) Looker
10 61 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 57 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
11 57 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
12 51 (1.07%) Power Query
13 47 (0.98%) BigQuery
14 46 (0.96%) MySQL
15 43 (0.90%) Big Data
16 41 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 40 (0.84%) NoSQL
18 35 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 154 (3.22%) JIRA
2 133 (2.78%) Git
3 49 (1.02%) GitLab
4 32 (0.67%) Rational DOORS
5 31 (0.65%) Jenkins
5 31 (0.65%) MLflow
6 19 (0.40%) Chocolatey
6 19 (0.40%) Selenium
7 14 (0.29%) Cucumber
8 13 (0.27%) ERwin
8 13 (0.27%) IBM UrbanCode
9 12 (0.25%) Visual Studio
10 11 (0.23%) Balsamiq
10 11 (0.23%) Bitbucket
11 10 (0.21%) Cypress.io
11 10 (0.21%) SonarQube
12 9 (0.19%) Axure RP
12 9 (0.19%) Maven
12 9 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
12 9 (0.19%) Subversion
General
1 2,166 (45.27%) Social Skills
2 1,671 (34.92%) Finance
3 433 (9.05%) Marketing
4 377 (7.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 278 (5.81%) Law
6 274 (5.73%) Public Sector
7 268 (5.60%) Organisational Skills
8 260 (5.43%) Retail
9 259 (5.41%) Legal
10 247 (5.16%) Banking
11 170 (3.55%) Manufacturing
12 164 (3.43%) Influencing Skills
13 154 (3.22%) Presentation Skills
14 110 (2.30%) Telecoms
15 88 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
16 84 (1.76%) Financial Institution
17 79 (1.65%) Advertising
18 76 (1.59%) Electronics
19 74 (1.55%) Aerospace
20 55 (1.15%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,223 (25.56%) Analyst
2 643 (13.44%) Senior
3 317 (6.62%) Lead
4 310 (6.48%) Data Analyst
5 276 (5.77%) Business Analyst
6 246 (5.14%) Developer
7 225 (4.70%) Architect
8 207 (4.33%) Consultant
9 168 (3.51%) Systems Engineer
10 129 (2.70%) Senior Analyst
11 128 (2.68%) Senior Manager
12 122 (2.55%) Data Engineer
13 117 (2.45%) Support Analyst
14 116 (2.42%) IT Manager
15 107 (2.24%) Trainee
16 105 (2.19%) Support Engineer
17 103 (2.15%) IT Support
18 96 (2.01%) Trainee Analyst
18 96 (2.01%) Trainee Data Analyst
19 93 (1.94%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (2.70%) HTML
2 120 (2.51%) CSS
3 99 (2.07%) .NET
4 94 (1.96%) REST
5 85 (1.78%) JSON
6 84 (1.76%) Middleware
7 83 (1.73%) React
8 76 (1.59%) XML
9 66 (1.38%) PyTorch
10 61 (1.27%) TensorFlow
11 51 (1.07%) SOAP
12 50 (1.04%) Kafka
13 49 (1.02%) Node.js
14 42 (0.88%) scikit-learn
15 40 (0.84%) PySpark
16 36 (0.75%) RESTful
17 34 (0.71%) EDI
18 33 (0.69%) Pandas
19 32 (0.67%) LangChain
20 29 (0.61%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 509 (10.64%) Analytical Mindset
2 233 (4.87%) Management Information System
3 208 (4.35%) Onboarding
4 192 (4.01%) Product Ownership
5 185 (3.87%) Self-Motivation
6 114 (2.38%) Data Centre
7 109 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
8 89 (1.86%) Cloud Native
9 85 (1.78%) Data Structures
10 83 (1.73%) Algorithms
11 81 (1.69%) Security Posture
12 71 (1.48%) Driving Licence
13 69 (1.44%) Cyber Threat
14 56 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
15 54 (1.13%) Public Cloud
15 54 (1.13%) Virtual Team
16 50 (1.04%) Social Media
17 48 (1.00%) FMCG
18 46 (0.96%) Cyber Defence
19 41 (0.86%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 352 (7.36%) Windows
2 213 (4.45%) Linux
3 161 (3.36%) Windows Server
4 69 (1.44%) Windows Server 2016
5 35 (0.73%) Unix
6 24 (0.50%) Windows 10
7 23 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 19 (0.40%) Mac OS
9 16 (0.33%) Android
10 15 (0.31%) Apple iOS
11 13 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
12 10 (0.21%) CentOS
13 9 (0.19%) Ubuntu
14 8 (0.17%) VMS
15 4 (0.084%) AIX
15 4 (0.084%) Rocky
15 4 (0.084%) Windows Server 2012
16 3 (0.063%) Debian
17 1 (0.021%) OpenBSD
17 1 (0.021%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,130 (44.51%) Problem-Solving
2 1,145 (23.93%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,054 (22.03%) Analytics
4 1,031 (21.55%) Decision-Making
5 830 (17.35%) Agile
6 671 (14.02%) Business Intelligence
7 629 (13.15%) AI
8 614 (12.83%) Stakeholder Management
9 503 (10.51%) Project Management
10 475 (9.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 469 (9.80%) Actionable Insight
12 466 (9.74%) Mentoring
12 466 (9.74%) Roadmaps
13 442 (9.24%) Data Modelling
14 440 (9.20%) Data Analysis
15 429 (8.97%) Cybersecurity
16 382 (7.98%) Data Governance
17 372 (7.77%) Analytical Thinking
18 366 (7.65%) Process Improvement
19 353 (7.38%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1,017 (21.25%) SQL
2 887 (18.54%) Python
3 176 (3.68%) PowerShell
4 175 (3.66%) JavaScript
5 170 (3.55%) Java
6 135 (2.82%) C#
7 78 (1.63%) R
8 70 (1.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 66 (1.38%) Bash
9 66 (1.38%) C++
10 44 (0.92%) T-SQL
10 44 (0.92%) TypeScript
11 39 (0.82%) VBA
12 38 (0.79%) MATLAB
13 24 (0.50%) Scala
14 21 (0.44%) PHP
15 20 (0.42%) Go
16 16 (0.33%) C
16 16 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
17 15 (0.31%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 913 (19.08%) Degree
2 394 (8.23%) Security Cleared
3 282 (5.89%) SC Cleared
4 223 (4.66%) ACCA
5 208 (4.35%) CIMA
6 157 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 157 (3.28%) DBS Check
7 144 (3.01%) CISSP
8 116 (2.42%) Cisco Certification
9 100 (2.09%) Master's Degree
10 97 (2.03%) CISM
11 91 (1.90%) PMI Certification
12 86 (1.80%) DV Cleared
13 81 (1.69%) PMP
14 74 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
15 72 (1.50%) IRCA
16 70 (1.46%) Azure Certification
17 69 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
18 63 (1.32%) CompTIA Security+
19 51 (1.07%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 449 (9.38%) Data Quality
2 360 (7.52%) GDPR
3 293 (6.12%) QA
4 248 (5.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 218 (4.56%) NIST
6 136 (2.84%) Cyber Essentials
7 126 (2.63%) SLA
8 113 (2.36%) Accessibility
9 111 (2.32%) ISO 9001
10 110 (2.30%) PCI DSS
11 71 (1.48%) GRC
12 58 (1.21%) PMO
13 55 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
14 37 (0.77%) IFRS
15 36 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 34 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 31 (0.65%) COBIT
18 28 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
19 24 (0.50%) NCSC
20 23 (0.48%) ITGC
System Software
1 244 (5.10%) Active Directory
2 78 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 76 (1.59%) Docker
4 73 (1.53%) Hyper-V
5 56 (1.17%) Terminal Server
6 26 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.33%) ProxySG
8 12 (0.25%) vSphere
9 9 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (0.19%) VMware NSX
10 8 (0.17%) IAG
11 5 (0.10%) Firmware
12 4 (0.084%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.084%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.084%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.084%) XenApp
13 3 (0.063%) DFS Replication
14 2 (0.042%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.042%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.021%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 128 (2.68%) Terraform
2 77 (1.61%) Kubernetes
3 66 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 57 (1.19%) Ansible
5 33 (0.69%) Grafana
6 28 (0.59%) SCCM
7 25 (0.52%) Prometheus
8 24 (0.50%) Nagios
9 20 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
10 14 (0.29%) QRadar
11 13 (0.27%) Kibana
12 10 (0.21%) Kubeflow
13 6 (0.13%) Control-M
13 6 (0.13%) logstash
13 6 (0.13%) Packer
14 5 (0.10%) Graylog
15 4 (0.084%) Docker Swarm
15 4 (0.084%) RSA Archer
15 4 (0.084%) SolarWinds Orion
15 4 (0.084%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,084 (22.65%) Microsoft
2 202 (4.22%) SAP
3 184 (3.85%) Google
4 167 (3.49%) Oracle
5 149 (3.11%) Salesforce
6 146 (3.05%) VMware
7 108 (2.26%) ServiceNow
8 107 (2.24%) Databricks
8 107 (2.24%) SolarWinds
9 103 (2.15%) Splunk
10 76 (1.59%) Cisco
11 73 (1.53%) Workday
12 68 (1.42%) Veeam
13 57 (1.19%) Nimble Storage
14 56 (1.17%) Brocade
14 56 (1.17%) Tanium
15 52 (1.09%) IBM
16 46 (0.96%) Red Hat
17 45 (0.94%) Adobe
17 45 (0.94%) Dell